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Instructions for Parish Priests

By John Myrc [i.e. Mirk]. Edited from Cotton MS. Claudius A. II, by Edward Peacock

Mirk, John

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Et dicat confitens.

“God, I crye þe mercy,
And þy moder seynt mary,
And alle þe seyntus of heuen bryȝt,
I crye mercy wyth alle my myȝt,
Of alle þe synnus I haue wroȝt,
In werke and worde, & sory þoȝt,
Wyth euery lyme of my body,
Wyth sore herte I aske god mercy,
And þe, fader, in goddes place,
A-soyle me þow of my trespace,
Ȝeue me penaunce also to,
For goddes loue þat þow so do.”

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The prose explication of the form of absolution has been omitted.