“If that the goodman, that the beastës oweth, 3515 Will every week, ere that the cock him croweth, Fasting, y-drinken of this well a draught, As thilkë holy Jew our elders taught, His beastës and his store shall multiply. And, Sirs, also it healeth jealousy; For though a man be fall’n in jealous rage, Let make with this water his pottáge, And never shall he more his wife mistrist, 3516 Though he the sooth of her defaultë wist; All 3517 had she taken priestës two or three. Here is a mittain 3518 eke, that ye may see; He that his hand will put in this mittáin, He shall have multiplying of his grain, When he hath sowen, be it wheat or oats, So that he offer pence, or ellës groats. And, men and women, one thing warn I you; If any wight be in this churchë now

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