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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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The seuent sacrament and þe last ys. Matrimony.
þat ys a lawful fastnynge be-twyx man and womman
at here bothe assent. for to lyue to-gydyr
whyle here boþe lyuys wyl laste withoute eny partynge
in remedy of synne and getynge of grace ;
yf hit be taken of good entent ; and clennesse of lyfe.