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The kalender of shepherdes

the edition of Paris 1503 in photographic facsimile: a faithful reprint of R. Pynson's edition of London 1506. Edited with a critical introduction and glossary by H. Oskar Sommer

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Here after foloweth the x. comaūdemētes in the table that god gaue vnto Moyses in the moūte of Synay.

One god thou shalt honoure
and loue him perfetly
god ī vayne thou shalt nat swere
nor by nothinge that he made
thy sondaye thou shalt kepe
saruynge god deuoutly
fader & moder thou shalt Worship
and thou shalt longe lyue
thou shalt kyll no man
nor blode dystroye Wylfully
thou shalt do no lechery in dede
ne therto consent
thou shalt be no thefe
ne no mānes gode Witholde
bere no fals Wytnes
ageyn no mā: nor by lye ī no Wyse
the lust of the flesshe desyre nat.
but in mariage only.
the goodes of other couyt nat
to haue it vnrightfully.