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Have ye none acquaintance with our brother Charity? We marvel that ye have not spoken of him in all this time; for, and he were joined with us twain, your message should be more acceptably heard many fold.

Certainly I have but little dealed with him. I was never conversant with him. That me repenteth now, for I feel by you twain that he may do much in the High Court. I have more dealed with vengeance than I have with charity. For I would have been avenged upon every man by my will. When the people had slain my children, my kin, my friends, and robbed and spoiled myself; and certainly I would have been a-wroke right fain, and I had had power to my will. But though my power were little, certainly I have hated them, and willed them to have been done to as they have done to me. And well I wot that is not the order of charity. But now heartily I cry God mercy, and our Blessed Lady, and you, holy Charity; and here, afore God, Our Blessed Lady, and you three, I forgive them all —and all mine enemies — that they have done against me, and will not be avenged though I might. And I pray you holy Charity, though it were long or I