For it cacheth awey synne.

[Beati quorum remissæ sunt iniquitates,]

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[et quorum tecta sunt, etc.]

"And this conforteth ech a clerk,

And covereth hym fro wanhope.

In which flood the fend

Fondeth a man hardest.

Ther the lewed lith stille,

And loketh after lente,