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For ye seien, Where is the hows of the prince? and where ben the tabernaclis of wickid men?

and not for thi ful myche malice, and thi wickidnessis with out noumbre, `these peynes bifelden iustli to thee?

For thou hast take awei with out cause the wed of thi britheren; and hast spuylid nakid men of clothis.

He schal yyue a flynt for erthe, and goldun strondis for a flynt.

For he that is mekid, schal be in glorie; and he that bowith doun hise iyen, schal be saued.

For he is aloone, and no man may turne awei hise thouytis; and what euer thing he wolde, his wille dide this thing.

And therfor Y am disturblid of his face, and Y biholdynge hym am anguyschid for drede.

For Y perischide not for derknessis neiyynge; nethir myist hilide my face.

Thei driueden awei the asse of fadirlesse children, and token awei the cow of a widewe for a wed.

For he fedde the bareyn, and hir that childith not, and he dide not wel to the widewe.

God yaf to hym place of penaunce, and he mysusith that in to pride; for the iyen of God ben in the weies of that man.

For as long as breeth is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nose thirlis,

Y schal not forsake my iustifiyng, which Y bigan to holde; for myn herte repreueth me not in al my lijf.

For what is the hope of an ypocrite, if he rauyschith gredili, and God delyuerith not his soule?

Gold ful cleene schal not be youun for wisdom, nether siluer schal be weied in the chaungyng therof.

and hiye and fer apperynge vessels of gold schulen not be chaungid for wisdom, nether schulen be had in mynde in comparisoun therof. Forsothe wisdom is drawun of pryuy thingis;

For he biholdith the endis of the world, and biholdith alle thingis that ben vndur heuene.

for Y hadde delyueride a pore man criynge, and a fadirles child, that hadde noon helpere.

Of whiche men the vertu of hondis was for nouyt to me, and thei weren gessid vnworthi to that lijf.

Thei weren bareyn for nedynesse and hungur; that gnawiden in wildirnesse, and weren pale for pouert and wretchidnesse;