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Pope siluester / þenne seide he.
Of peter and poul / and of me
Þei schal be clene / of synne and pyn.
As crist clanset / þe of þyn.
And as þe fulþe / fel fro þe.
So clene of sunne / schal þei be.

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Of alle maner clansyng of synne.
Þat non schal dwellen / heore soule with-inne
Pope Bonefas / telleþ þis tale
Ȝif men wuste / grete and smale
Þe pardoun þat is / at grete Rome.
Þei wolde tellen / In heore dome.
Hit were no neod / to mon in cristiante
To passe in to þe holy lond / ouer þe séé.
To Jerusalem / ne to kateryne.
To bringe monnes soule / out of pyne
For pardoun þer is / with-outen ende.
Wel is him / þat þider may wende
Rerikes þer beo / monyon
In worschupe of crist / and seynt Ion.
In þe Rof / ouer þe popes se.
A saluatour / þer may þou se
Neuer I.-peynted / with hond of Mon.
As men I. Roome / tellen con.
Whon Seluestre halwed þat place.
Hit apeered þer / þorw godes grace.
Anoþer chapel is / in þat hous.
Þer-Inne beoþ Relikes / precious.
Þe Table / þer men may se.
Þat crist made / on his maunde
On scherþorsday / whon he brak bred.
Bi-fore þe tyme / þat he was ded.
Eteþ of þis / hit doþ ȝow good.
Hit is my flesch / and my blod.
Whon ȝe schul me / here not fynde.
Hit schal ȝou kepen / from þe feende.

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A-bouen an Auter / is maked of tre.
Is a table I. telle þe
Vnder þat auter / In a whucche is done.
Wiþ holy Relikes / monione.
Two tables þer is .I. vnderstonde.
Þat crist wrott on / with his honde.
And tok þe lawe / to Moyses.
His folk to kepen / in godes pes.
Þe ȝerde of AAron / þat was good.
Hit turned watur / in-to blod.
And from blod / to water a-ȝen
To schewe / þat þei weore gode men.
Angel mete / men seiþ þer is.
And of the bones / and þe fisch.
Þat crist fedde / fiue þousend men.
And Relef lafte / aftur hem.
Þer beoþ cloþes / of Ihesu crist.
And askes / of seint Ion þe Babtist.
And þe cloþ / þat crist gon wiþ him lede
On scherþorsday / his disciples with to fede.
And þe cloþ / þat crist was wounden Inne
Whon he was child / for monnes sinne.
Of Blod / and Watur / þer is also.
Þat out of cristes sydes / gan go.
And of his Flesch / þat circumcise
Men hit holden / in gret a prise.
And oþer Relikes moni on.
In worschupe of crist / and seint Ion.