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communication with God, and never-the-less fills your kind with adultry and fornications and service of Mawmettis and false gods, and many other wicked deeds: [that a day?] this ye do. Wise ye praise, and therefore when ye are dead shall suffer torments outside [?]. Ye doubt that God will be mercyable onto you because that ye offer him blood and flesh of diverse beasts. But we on the contrary wise praise cleanness bath of body and soul, so that we now have after this life joy that never shall have end.
Ye serve not a God that reigns in heaven, but ye do service to many false gods. For all so many members, all ye have on your bodies, all many gods ye worship and serve. For ye call a man the [lesser?] world, and right as a man here has many [?], so ye say there are many gods in heaven. Ye say Juno is god of the heart, because he was wonder angry; and Mars ye say is god of the breast, because he was prince of battles. Mercury ye call god of the tounge, because he was wonder eloquent in speaking. Hercules ye trust be god of the arms, because he did twelve past deeds of arms. Ye trust Bacus be god of the [trot? throat?], for he find first drunkenness. Couetise, ye say, is god of the liar, for he was the first lecher that ever was. And ye say that he has in his hand a [burning?] firebrandwith which he stirs the lust of lechery. Cereris ye call god of the womb, because she was the first finder of wheat. And Venus, because she was mother of lechery, ye say is god of the [perverse?] members of man and woman. Mynerus, because she was finder of many works, ye say wisdom rests in her, and therefore ye call her god of the [herd?]. And on this wise all the body of many [divide?] in gods, and nay party thereof ye leave in your own power. No ye trust not that a god that is in heaven made your bodies of nothing. False gods ye worship that shall bring you to slavery and shame and sinship, and to them ye make sacrafice and tribute pay. Onto Mars ye offer a bear. To Bacus ye offer a [goat?]; To Juno a peacock; to Jupiter a bull; to Apollo a swane; to Venus a dove; to Minerva an owl; to Cereris flour; to Mercury honey. And Hercules ye honor with flowers and green branches of trees. We temple

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their own kind with foul sins and adultry. When they die they shall suffer endless pain and their slain beasts avail them nought.
The Greeks serve not one God but many. They have for every human member a god.
The account of all the Greek gods and their evil doings.
Thus they give all their body over to numberless gods, not worshipping the one Creator, but rather false gods that bring them into *Leaf 35 slavery. The sacrifices
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¹ Bottom of leaf 34 swanne, top of leaf 35 swane.

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