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PARDONER.
Which late by fire was destroyed and marred--
FRIAR.
In Scripture eke but I say, sirs, how--
PARDONER.
Ay, by the ma.s.s, one cannot hear--
FRIAR.
What a babbling maketh yonder fellow!
PARDONER.
For the babbling of yonder foolish frere--
FRIAR.
In Scripture eke is there many a place--
PARDONER.
And also, masters, as I was about to tell--
FRIAR.
Which showeth that many a man so far-forth lacketh grace--
PARDONER.
Pope Julius the Sixth hath granted fair and well--
FRIAR.
That when to them G.o.d hath abundance sent--
PARDONER.
And doth twelve thousand years of pardon to them send--
FRIAR.
They would distribute none to the indigent--
PARDONER.
That ought to this holy chapel lend--
FRIAR.
Whereat G.o.d having great indignation--
PARDONER
Pope Boniface the Ninth also--
FRIAR.
Punished these men after a divers fas.h.i.+on--
PARDONER.
Pope Julius, Pope Innocent, with divers popes mo--
FRIAR.
As the gospel full n.o.bly doth declare--
PARDONER.
Hath granted to the sustaining of the same--
FRIAR.
How dives Epulus reigning in welfare--
