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OF BEHAVIOR IN CHURCH, by                    
First Line: Yet thou moste teach them mare
Last Line: "grant me the bliss withouten end. Amen."
Subject(s): Public Worship; Church Attendance


Yet thou moste teach them mare
That when they doth to churche fare,
Then bid them leave their many wordes
Their idle speech and nice bordes,
And put away all vanitye
And say their Pater noster and their Ave.
Ne none in churche stonde shall,
Ne lean to pillar ne to wall,
But faire on knees they shall them set,
Kneeling down upon the flet,
And pray to God with herte meke
To give them grace and mercy eke.
Suffer them to make no bere
But aye to be in their prayere,
And when the Gospel read be shall
Teach them then to stand up all,
And bless them faire as they con
When Gloria tibi is begon;
And when the Gospel is i-done,
Teach them eft to kneel down sone;
And when they hear the belle ring
To that holy sakering,
Teach them kneel both young and old
And both their handes up to hold,
And say thenne in this manere,
Fair and softly, without bere,
"Jesu, Lord, welcome thou be
In form of bread as I thee see;
Jesu! for thy holy name,
Shield me to-day fro sin and shame,
Shrift and housel, Lord, thou grant me bo,
Ere that I shall hennes go
And vray contrition of my sin
That I, Lord, ne'er die therein;
And, as thou were of a maid i-bore,
Suffer me ne'er to be forlore,
But when that I shall hennes wend
Grant me the bliss withouten end. Amen."





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