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Instructions for Parish Priests

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

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De sacramento extreme vnccionis.

Hyt ys not gode to be helut,
How a wyȝt schal be an-elet,
When þat he ys so ouer-dryue,
Þat he may no lengur lyue,
Þenne he schale an-elet be,
And non er, I warne the,
But þaȝ he be an-elet ones,
Ȝet he may eftsones,
But he þat ys in hys wyt,
And be so temptut despyseþ hyt,
Haue he in herte non oþer mynne,
He schale be dampned for þat synne,
But he þat schale be an-oynt,
Aske hym þus euery poynt: