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THOU THAT SELLEST THE WORDE OF GOD


Thou That Sellest the Worde of God
Edited by James M. Dean
Originally Published in Medieval English Political Writings
Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications, 1996


[The Layman's Complaint]

(St. John's College Cambridge MS 195 fol. 1v)

       
       
       
       
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15       
       
       
       
Thou that sellest the Worde of God,
Be thou berfot, be thou schod,
   Cum nomore here.
In principio erat Verbum                                   
Is the Worde of God, all and sum,
   That thou sellest, lewed frere.
   
Hit is cursed symonie
Ether to selle or to bye
   Ony gostly thinge.
Therfore, frere, go as thou come,
And hold the in thi hows at home
   Til we the almis brynge.
   
Goddis lawe ye reverson,
And mennes howsis ye persen,
   As Poul berith wittnes.
As mydday develis goynge abowte,
For money lowlé ye lowte
   Flaterynge boythe more and lesse.
(see note)
barefoot; shod; (see note)
Come; (see note)
In the beginning was the Word; (see note)
some
ignorant friar
   
It
Either; buy
Any spiritual
   
thee; thy house
bring thee alms
   
God's; reverse
penetrate; (see note)
bears witness
devils going; (see note)
you bow low; (see note)
both
   


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