A Select Collection of Old English Plays
Chapter 166 : PARDONER. Which late by fire was destroyed and marred-- FRIAR. In Scripture eke but I

PARDONER.

Which late by fire was destroyed and marred--

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In Scripture eke but I say, sirs, how--

PARDONER.

Ay, by the ma.s.s, one cannot hear--

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What a babbling maketh yonder fellow!

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For the babbling of yonder foolish frere--

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In Scripture eke is there many a place--

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And also, masters, as I was about to tell--

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Which showeth that many a man so far-forth lacketh grace--

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Pope Julius the Sixth hath granted fair and well--

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That when to them G.o.d hath abundance sent--

PARDONER.

And doth twelve thousand years of pardon to them send--

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They would distribute none to the indigent--

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That ought to this holy chapel lend--

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Whereat G.o.d having great indignation--

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Pope Boniface the Ninth also--

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Punished these men after a divers fas.h.i.+on--

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Pope Julius, Pope Innocent, with divers popes mo--

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As the gospel full n.o.bly doth declare--

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Hath granted to the sustaining of the same--

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How dives Epulus reigning in welfare--