himselfe, with misc[h]aunce!
Go now forth, and frayne youre clerkes,
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And grounde you in goddes lawe, and geve Jack answere.
And whan ye han assoiled me that I have said, sadly in treuth,
I shall soill thee of thyn order, and save thee to heven!
If freres cunne not or mow not excuse hem of these questions
asked of hem, it semeth that they be horrible gilty against god
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and hir even-Christen; for which gyltes and defautes it were