3. See Note 3 to the Sompnour’s Tale.

4. Just before, the Parson had cited the words of Job to God

(Job x. 20-22), “Suffer, Lord, that I may a while bewail and

weep, ere I go without returning to the dark land, covered with

the darkness of death; to the land of misease and of darkness,

where as is the shadow of death; where as is no order nor

ordinance, but grisly dread that ever shall last.”

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