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ND there approched Publicans and sinners unto him for to heare him. And the Pharisees and the Scribes murmured saying: That this man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them. And he spake to them this parable, saying: * What man of you having an hundred sheepe: and if he hath lost one of them, doth he not leave the ninetie nine in the desert, and goeth after that which was lost until he find it? And when he hath found it, layeth it upon his shoulders rejoycing: and comming home calleth together his freindes and neighbours, saying to them: Rejoyce with me, because I have found my sheepe that was lost? I say to you, that even so there shal be joy in heaven upon one sinner that doth penance, ″ then upon ninetie nine just that neede not penance. Or what woman having ten grotes: if she leese one grote, doth she not light a candle, and sweepe the house, and seeke diligently, until she finde? And when she hath found, calleth together her friendes and neighbours, saying: Rejoyce with me, because I have found the grote which I had lost? So I say to you, there shal be joy ″ before the Angels of God upon one sinner that doth penance.✠

And he said: A certaine man had two sonnes; and the yonger of them said to his father: Father, give me the portion of substance that belongeth to me. And he devided unto them the substance. And not many dayes after the yonger sonne gathering al his things together went from home into a farre countrie: and there he wasted his substance, living riotously. And after he had spent al, there fel a sore famine in that countrie, and he began to be in neede. And he went, and cleaved to one of the citizens of that countrie. And he sent him into his farme to feed swine. And he would faine have filled his bellie of the huskes that the swine did eate; and no bodie gave unto him. And returning to him self he said: How many of my fathers hirelings have aboundance of bread, and I here perish for famine? I wil arise, and wil goe to my father, and say to him: Father, I have sinned against Heaven and before thee: I am not now worthie to be called thy sonne: make me as one of thy hirelings. And rising up he came to his father. And when he was yet farre off, his father saw him, and was moved with mercie, and running to him fel upon his necke, and kissed him. And his sonne said to him: Father, I have sinned against Heaven and before thee, I am not now worthie to be called thy sonne. And the father Rh