ye ben goddes felowes, and that he may not do without youre
assent, than be ye blasphemers to god.
50. What betokeneth that ye have ordeined, that when such
oon as ye have mad youre brother or sister, and hath a letter of
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your sele, that letter †mot be brought in youre holy chapter and
there be red; or els ye will not praye for him? But and ye willen
not praye specially for all other that weren not mad youre brethren
or sistren, than were ye not in right charitè; for that ought to be
commune, and namely in goostly thinges.