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WHAN prestis faylin in her sawes,
And lordis turnin Goddis lawes
Ageynis ryt;

And lecherie is holden as privy solas,
And robberie as fre purchas,

Bewar than of ille.

Than schall the lond of Albion

Turnin to confusion,

As sumtyme it befelle.

1 Alleviation.

GO FORTH, KING.

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Ora pro Anglia, Sancta Maria, quod Thomas

Cantuaria.

Sweete Jhesu, heven-king,
Fayr and beste of all thyng,
You bring us owt of this morning
To come to the at owre ending.

GO FORTH, KING.

Go forth, King, rule thee by sapience;
Bishop, be able to minister doctrine;
Lorde, to true counsaile geve audience;
Womanhode, to chastity ever incline;
Knight, let thy deedes worship determine;
Be righteous, Judge, in saving of thy name;
Riche, do almose, lest thou lese bliss with
shame.

People, obey your king and the law;

Age, be ruled by good religion;

True Servaunt, be dredful and keep thee under

law;

And, thou Poore, fie on presumpcion ! Inobedience to Youth is utter destruction ; Remember you how God hath set you, lo, And doe your part as ye be ordained to.

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INDEX.

IN MAKING REFERENCE TO THE PAGES OF THE FIRST VOLUME THE
NUMBER OF THE VOLUME IS NOT INDICATED.]

Aaron, and his fasting, 493.

Abbeys cursed, iii. 519.

Abigail and Nabal, 559.

Absalom, iii. 88.

Absolon, the parish clerk, 124.

Absolon's ornamented shoes, 125.

Absolution, the, of the Friar, 9.

Abstinence a remedy against gluttony, ii. 233.

'Accidie," negligence arising from discontent, ii. 212.
Accoutrements of Emetrius, 83.

Acerbas, called Sichæus, iii. 19, 119.

Achilles, iii. 15.

Achilles and Hector, ii. 294.

Actæon, 79.

Adam and Eve, 557.

Adam, Chaucer's scrivener, ii. 691.

Adam driven out of Paradise for eating, 402.

Adam, his fall the source of sin, ii. 164.

Adam in the field of Damascus, 328.

Adam the father of all, ii. 190.

Adolphus, the fables of, 590.

Adornment of the temple of Mars, 76.

Adrastus, one of the Seven who went against Thebes,

36; ii. 370.

Adultery and its perils, ii. 239.

Adultery, the sin of, ii. 235.

Advocate, an, advises Melibeus, 255.

Advocates and physicians labor for lucre, iii. 406.

Advocato et Diabolo, a story like the Friar's Tale, 469.

Emilian road, the, 510.

Eneas, his flight from Troy, iii. 7.

Eneas in "paradise," ii. 122.

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