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FRIAR.
We friars be they that should your alms take--
PARDONER.
Nigh unto our foresaid holy place--
FRIAR.
Which for your soul's health do both watch and wake--
PARDONER.
Ye shall there tarry for a month's s.p.a.ce--
FRIAR.
We friars pray, G.o.d wot, when ye do sleep--
PARDONER.
And be there found of the place's cost--[175]
FRIAR.
We for your sins do both sob and weep--
PARDONER.
Wherefore now, in the name of the Holy Ghost--
FRIAR.
To pray to G.o.d for mercy and for grace--
PARDONER.
I advise you all, that now here be--
FRIAR.
And thus do we daily with all our whole place--
PARDONER.
For to be of our fraternity--
FRIAR.
Wherefore distribute of your temporal wealth--
PARDONER.
Fie on covetise! stick not for a penny:--
FRIAR.
By which ye may preserve your souls' health--
PARDONER.
For which ye may have benefits so many--
FRIAR.
I say, wilt thou not yet stint thy clap?
Pull me down the Pardoner with an evil hap!
PARDONER.
Master Friar, I hold it best To keep your tongue, while ye be in rest--
FRIAR.
I say, one pull the knave off his stool!
PARDONER.
Nay, one pull the friar down like a fool!
