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of confessour, for winning of worldly goodes, and to be holden grete
by colour of suche goostly offices? This seemeth rather pryde
of freres than charitè of god.
59. Frere, what charitè is this—to sayn that who-so liveth
after youre order, liveth most parfitly, and next foloweth the
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state of aposteles in povertè and penaunce; and yet the wysest
and gretest clerkes of you wende, or sende, or procure to the
court of Rome to be mad cardinales or bishoppes or the popes