The Lay Folks' Catechism, or the English and Latin versions of Archbishop Thoresby's Instruction for the People Together with a Wycliffite adaptation of the same, and the corresponding canons of the council of Lambeth. With introduction, notes, glossary, and index, by the late Thomas Frederick Simmons ... and Henry Edward Nolloth |
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whan þey come to schryft yf þey know and cunne þese sex thyngys.
And yf it be found þat þey cun hem not:
þat þey charge hem on godys behalue
and of peyne of penaunce for to cun hem.
And for non schuld excuse hym
of vnkunys for to cun hem ;
oure fadyr þe archebyschop
haþ ordeynyd and biddis þat þey be schewid
opunly on englysch tonge among þe pepyl.
And yf it be found þat þey cun hem not:
þat þey charge hem on godys behalue
and of peyne of penaunce for to cun hem.
And for non schuld excuse hym
of vnkunys for to cun hem ;
oure fadyr þe archebyschop
haþ ordeynyd and biddis þat þey be schewid
opunly on englysch tonge among þe pepyl.
| The Lay Folks' Catechism, or the English and Latin versions of Archbishop Thoresby's Instruction for the People | |