And for to stir men to devotión Then show I forth my longë crystal stones, Y-crammed fall of cloutës 3510 and of bones; Relics they be, as weenë they 3511 each one. Then have I in latoun 3512 a shoulder-bone Which that was of a holy Jewë’s sheep. “Good men,” say I, “take of my wordës keep; 3513 If that this bone be wash’d in any well, If cow, or calf, or sheep, or oxë swell, That any worm hath eat, or worm y-stung, Take water of that well, and wash his tongue, And it is whole anon; and farthermore Of pockës, and of scab, and every sore Shall every sheep be whole, that of this well Drinketh a draught; take keep 3514 of that I tell.

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