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Passus secundus de visione vbi prius
ANdC thenne y kneled vppon my knees / and cried to here of grace
And sayde mercy ma-dame : for mary loue of heuene
That bar þat blessid barnn / barn P / þat bouhte vs on þe rode
Kenne me by sum craft / to knowe þe false
Loke vppon thy left half / and loo where he standeth
Fals and fauel / and fikel tonge lyare
And mony mo of here maners / of men and of wymmen
Y lokede vppon my luft half / as þe lady me tauhte
And a womman as hit were / wonderly yclothed
She was purfiled in pelure / non puyrere on erthe
And crouned with a croune / þe kyng haþ non bettre
On alle here fyue fyngeres / ful richeliche yrynged
And thereon rede rubies and othere riche stones
Here robynge was rychere / þen y rede couthe
For to telle of here atyer / no tyme haue y nouthe
Here aray with here rychesse / raueschede my herte
Heos / H[oe]s LG wyf a LX were / and what was here name
Leue lady quod y tho / layn nou{h}ht P yf ȝe knowen
That is mede þe mayde {þe ma} / hath niyed me ful ofte
And y-low on my lemman þat leute is hoten
And lakketh hym to lordes / þat lawes han to kepe
In kyngescourt / kynges court in comune court / contraieth / contra[r]ieth my techynge
In þe popes palays / he LX is pryue C as my-sulue
Ac sothnesse wolde nat so / for she is a bastard
Oon fauel was here T fader / þat hath a fykel tonge
And selde soth sayth / bote yf he souche gyle
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And mede is manered aftur hym / as men of kynde carpeth
Talis pater talis filia & cetera
For shal neuer breere bere / berye as a vine
Ne on acroked / a croked kene thorn / kynde fyge wexe
Bona arbor bonum fructum facit
Y ouhte ben herrore then he / y com of abettere / a bettere
The fader þat me forth brouhte / filius dei he hoteth
That neuere lyede ne lauhede / in al his lyf-tyme
And y am his dere doughter / ducchesse of heuene
That what man me louyeth / and my wille foleweth
Shal haue grace to good ynow / and a good ende
And what man T mede loueth C my lyf y dar wedde
He shal lese for here loue / a{nd} T lippe of trewe charite
That helpeth man moste to heuene T mede most letteth
Y do hit vppon dauyd / the doumbe wil noȝt lyen
domine quis habitabit in tabernaculo tuo & cetera
And dauyd vndoth hymself / as þe doumbe sheweth
Et super Innocentem munera non accepit
To-morwe worth mede y-maried / to amansed / a mansed wrecche
To oon fals faythlesse / of þe fendes kynne
Fauel thorw his flaterynge speche / hath mede foule enchaunted
And al is lyares ledynge / this lady is thus y-wedded
Soffre and thow shalt see suche as ben apayed
That mede is thus y-maried / to-morwe þou shalt aspye
Knowe hem wel yf þou kanst / and kepe the fro hem alle
That loueth here lordschipe / lasse other more
Lacke hem nat but lat hem worthe / til leutee be Iustice
And haue power to pynschen hem / thenne pot forth thy resoun
For y bykenne the crist quod she / and his clene moder
And acombre thow neuere thy Consience / for coueityse of mede
Thus leste / le[f]te me that lady / lyggynge as a-slepe
And y say how mede was maried / metyng as it were C
Al þe riche retenaunce / þat rotheth / ro[t]eth T hem o fals lyuynge
Were beden to þe Bridale / abothe / a bothe half þe contre
Of many manere men / þat of mede kynne were
Of knyghtes of clerkes / of other comune peple
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As sysores sompnores / shyryues and here clerkes
Bydels and bailifs / and brokeres of chaffares
Vorgoers and vitalers / and voketes of the Arches
Y kan nouȝt rykene þe route / þat ran aboute mede
Ac simonye and syuile / and sysores of contrees
Were most pryue with mede / of eny men me thoghte
Ac Fauel was þe furste / þat fette here out of chambre
And abrokor / a brokor brouhte here forth / to be ioyned to þe false
When simonye and syuile / y-seyth þer bothe wille
Thei assentede hit were so / at sylueres prayere
Thenne lup lyare forth / and saide loo here a Chartre
That Gyle hath gyue to falsnesse / and grauntid also mede
And preyeth Syuile to se hit / and Symionye / Sy[m]onye P to rede hit
Thenne Simonye and Syuyle / Standeth forth bothe
And vnfoldeth the feffament / þat fals hath y-maked
Thenne saide sy{uyl}monye / þat syuyle it herde
A{nd}l {l}þat loueth and byleueth / vp lykyng of mede
Leueth hit leuly / le[l]ly T / this worth here laste m{o}ede
That foleweth falsnesse / Fauel and lyare
Mede and suche men / þat aftur mede wayten
Sciant presentes & futuri & cetera
Wyten and witnessen / þat wonyen on erthe
That mede is maried / more for here richesse
Then for holynesse oþer hendenesse / oþer for hey kynde
Falsnesse is fayn of here / for he wot here ryche
And fauel þat hath a fals speche / Feffeth hem by þis lettre
To ben prunyse / pr[yn]se P in pruyde / and pouert to dispice
To bacbite and to boste / and bere fals witnesse
To skorne and to {l}skolde / and sklaundre to make
Vnbuxum and bold / to breke þe ten hestes
The Erldom of enuye / and yre he hem graunteth
With the chastel of cheste / and chaterynge out of resoun
The{r} counteth / coun[te] P of coueytise / and consenteth to hem bothe
With vsurye and Auaryce / and other fals sleythus
In bargaynes and Brocages / with the borw of cheste
With al the lordschip of leccherye / in lenghe and in Brede
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As in werkes and in wordes / and in waytynges of yes
In woldes and in weschynges / and with ydel thouhtes
There þat wille wolde / and ne T wermanschip / wer[k]manschip faileth
Glotonye a LX gyueth hem / and grete othes to-gederes
Alday to drynke / at diuerse tauernes
And there to iangele and to iape / and iuge here Emcristene
And fastyngdayes to frete / byfore noone and drynke
With spiserye speke ydelnesse / in vayne speke and spene
And sue forth suche felawschipe / til they ben falle in Slewthe
And a-wake with wanhope / and no wille to amende
For a LX leueth be lost / when he his lyf leteth
This lyf to folowe falsnesse / and folk þat on hym leueth
After here deth {..}þay dwellen day / with-outen ende
In lordschip with lucifer / as this lettre sheweth
With alle þe appurtinaunces of purgatorye / and þe peyne of helle
In wittenesse o{t}f þis P thyng / wrong was the furste
And Peres þe Pardoner / of paulinesqueste / paulines queste
Butte þe Bedel of Bannebury sokene
Raynald þe reue / and redyngkynges manye
Munde þe mullere / and monye mo othere
In þe date of the deuel / this dede is aseled
By syhte of sire Simonye / and syuyles leue
Thenne tened hym teologie / when he this tales herde
And sayde to Symonye / now sorwe mot thow haue
Suche a weddyng to wurche / þat wrathe myhte treuthe
And ar this weddyng be wrouhte / wo to al ȝoure consayle
For mede is moilere / amendes was here dame
Al-thow fals were here fader / and fikeltonge / fikel tonge her belsyre
Amendes was here moder / by trewe menne lokynge
And with-outen here moder amendes / mede may be wedded
For treuthe plyhte here treuthe / to wedde on of here douhteres
And god graunte hit were so / so no gyle were
And thow haste gyue here / as gyle tauhte now god ȝeue þe sorwe
For syuyle and thi-sylue / selde fulfulleth
That god wolde were y-do / with-oute som deseyte
Y Theogie / Theo[lo]gie þe tixt knowe / yf trewe doom wittenesseth
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That laurence the leuyte / that lay on þe gred{e}yre
Lokede vp to oure lord / and alowed sayde
God of thy grace · / heuene gates opene
For y man of thy mercy / mede haue diserued
And seche / se[t]he man may an heye / mede of god diserue
Hit semeth sothly riȝt so on erthe /
That mede may be wedded / to noman / no man bot treuthe
And thow hast feffed here with fals / fy on suche lawe
For by lesynges ȝe lacchen / largeliche mede
That ȝe nymeth the notaries / to nauhte gynneth brynge
Holy churche and charite / ȝe cheweth and deuoureth
Ȝe shal abyggen hit bothe / but ȝe amende þe sonner
For wel ȝe wyte wernardus / as holy writ telleth
That fals is faythles / the fende is his syre
And as abastard / a bastard ybore / byȝete was he neuere
And mede is moylore / and mayden of gode
Amyhte / A myhte LX kusse the kyng / as for his kyne womman
For-thy worcheth by wisdom / and by witt also
And ledeth here to londone / there lawe may declare
Where matrymonye may be / of mede and of falshede
And thow Iustices enioynen hem / thorw Ieroures T othes
Ȝut beth y-war of þe weddynge / for witty is treuthe
And Consience is of his consayl / and knoweth ȝow alle
And yf he fynde ȝow in defaute / and with the fals holde
Hit schal sitte ȝoure soules / ful sore at þe laste
Here-to assenteth syuyle / Ac symonye ne wolde
Til he hadde seluer for the seel / and signes of notaries
Tho fette fauel forth / floreynes y-nowe
And bade gyle to gyue / gold al aboute
And manliche the notaries / þat noon of hem fayle
And feffe fals witnesse / with floreynes y-nowe
For he may mede amaystrye / with his merye speche
Tho this gold was y-gyue / grete was the thonkynge
That fauel and fals hadde / for here fayre ȝeftes
And comen ful courteysly / to conforte the false
And sayde softly / sese shal we neuere
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Til mede be thy wedded wyf / wolle we nat stunte
For we haue mede amaystred thorw oure mery tonge
That he graunteþ to go / with a goode wille
To londone and to loke / yf lawe wille iugge
To be maried for mone / med hath assented
Thenne was fauel fayn / and falsnesse blythe
And leten somne alle his seggus · / in vche syde aboute
And bade hem alle be bowen / beggares and othere
To wende with hym to westminstre / his weddyng to honoure
Ac hakeneys hadde thei none / bote hakeneys to huyre
Thenne gan gyle to borwen hors / at many gret maystres
And shop þat ashereue / a shereue / sholde bere mede
Softliche in schaunbre T / fram syse to syse
And fals and fauel fecche forth sysores
And ryde on hem and on reues / righte faste by mede
Symonye and syuyle / seyden and sworen
That prestis and prouisores / sholden prelates serue
And y my-sulue syuyle / and symonye my felawe
Wol Ryde vppon Rectores / and ryche men deuoutours LX
And notaries on parsones / þat permuten ofte
And on pore prouisores / and on appeles in þe Arches
Sommnours and sodones / sod[e]nes / supersedias taketh
On hem þat loueth leccherye / lyppeth vp and rydeth
On secatours and such men / cometh softly aftur
And lat cope þe commissarie / oure cart shal he drawe
And fecchen oure vitailes / and fornicatores
And maketh of lyare alangcart / a lang cart / to lede al this othere
As fobbes LX and faytours / þat on here feet rennen
Thenne fals and fauel / ryde forth to-gederes
And mede in þe myddes / and al this men aftur
Y haue no tome to telle / the tayl þat hem folewede
Of many maner men / for mede sake sende aftur
Ac gyle was forgoere / to gyen al this peple
For to wisse hem þe way / and with mede abyde
Sothnesse seyh hem alle / and sayde but lytel
And prykede forth on pacience / and passed hem alle
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And kam to þe kynges Court / and Consience tolde
And Consience to þe kyng / carpede hit aftur
Now by crist quod þe kyng / and y cacche myhte
Fals or fauel / or here felawe lyare
Y wolde be awreke in tho wreches / and on here werkes alle
And do hem hange by þe halse / and alle þat hem maynteyneth
Shal neuere man on þis molde / maynpryse þe leste
But riht as þe lawe loketh / lat falle on hem alle
And comaundede a Constable / that cam at þe furste
Go a-tache tho tyrauntes / for eny tresor y hote
Lat fetere falsnesse faste / for eny skynes ȝeftes
And gurdeth of gyles heed / lat hym goo no wyddore
And bryngeth mede to me / maugrey hem alle
And yf ȝe lacchen lyare / lat hym nat a-skape
Ar he be put on þe pylorye / for eny preyere ich hote
drede stod at þe dore / and dene herde
What was þe kynges wille / and wyghtliche wente
And bad falsnesse to fle / and his feres alle
Falsnesse for fere tho / fleyh to þe freres
And gyle doth hym to gone / agaste forto / for to deye
And marchauntes mette with hym / and made hym abyde
And by-schytten hym in here shoppe / to shewen here ware
And paraylede hym lyke here prentys / the peple to serue
Lyhtliche lyare / lep awey thenne
Lorkyng thorw lanes / to-logged of moneye
He was nawher welcome / for his many tales
Oueral y-honted / and y-hote trusse
Tyl Pardoners hadde spye{ce}s T on hym / and polleden hym in-to house
Thei woschen hym and wypeden hym / and wonden hym in cloutes
And senten hym on sonendayes / with seeles to churche
And gaf pardon for pans / pound-mele a-boute
Thenne lourede leches / and lettre thei sente
That lyare sholde wonye with hem / watres to loke
Spysours speken to hym / to aspye here ware
For a LX can on here craft / and knoweth manye gommes
Ac mynstrals and mesagers / mette with lyare ones
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And of-helden hym half ȝere / and eleue dayes
Ac Freres thorw fayre speche / fetten hym thennes
And for knowyng of countreys / they copeden hym as a frere
Ac he hath leue to lep out / as ofte as hym liketh
And is welcome when he cometh / and woneth with hem ofte
Symonye and syuile / senten to Rome
And putte hem thorw appeles / in þe popes grace
Ac Consience to þe kyng / accused hem bothe
And sayde syre kyng / by crist but clerkes amende
{.......}Thy kynedom thorw here Coueytise / wolout / wol out of kynde wende
And holy churche thorw hem / worth harmed for euere
Alle fledde for fere / and flowen in-to hernes
Saue mede þe mayde / noma / no ma durste abyde
Ac treuliche to telle / atremblede / a tremblede LX for fere
And bothe wepte and wrang / when she was attached
passus
Holicherche / Holi cherche
corrigitur
de
passus
// Witnessis of þe
feffement a fayre
hep P
// Hyer teologi chidde
ciuile & symonye
de
passus
de
passus
corrigitur C
// heyre prayde
will he moste
fals knawe
☜ rayede C
2us
// be-hold þe
houshold of mede
visione
// the feffement
a-tuxe LX mede
& falsnesse
· 2us ·
That laurence the leuyte
corrigitur C
visione
2us
// Red hyer a blissed
companye per contrarium T
visione
// for drede falsnesse
fleyȝ to þe freris
· 2us
// Ȝit freris fette hom
lyere wyt hem to dwelle
2 C
· 2 ·