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PR 2209 B82s Ref
Vol. 2 p. 153 quire (choir)

Of the claterynge + bablynge of prestis + clerkes in the quere

Of folys yet: many we great number se
In the holy guerys of chirches small + great
Whose commanycacyon is voyde of honestye
But on vayne talys theyr myndes clene ar set
That goddes seruyce is oft hyndred + let
By suche impres _ dedys of fare and here
Which they as Folys recount within the quere.

I have before touchyed the great enormyte
The foly, + disorder, without all reuerence
Whiche in the chirche daryly we may se
Amonge lay folys, which better were be thems
But nowe shall I touche another, lyke offence
And that is of Folys which in the quere habounde
Nat saynge the seruyce of god as they are bounde
(not)

But dyuers Toyes + Iapis varyable
They spread abrode, encombrynyge the seruyer
And namely with theyr tunge (tongue) where with they bable
Eache one to other, as if they take aduyse
And counsell togyden theyr cartis to deuyse
Unto our shyppes theyr company to cary
For loth they be to longe (long) fre (from) them to tary.

O goddes Temple, O godly ordynaunce
Be holy faders (fathers) ordeyned to gyde the same
None labours you to support nor auraunce
But to decay they suffer, unto theyr shame
The godly costomes as tourned unto game
The Sermonyes sometyme kept stedfastly
An nowe defyled by Iestis of uylany.

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