soules, as ye make children to begge that might have been riche

heyres?

42. Why make ye not your festes to poore men, and yeveth

hem yeftes, as ye don to the riche; sith poore men han more

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nede than the riche?

43. What betokeneth that ye go tweyne and tweyne †togeder?

If ye be out of charitè, ye accorden not in soule.

44. Why begge ye, and take salaries therto, more than other

prestes; sith he that moost taketh, most charge he hath?