Who will shrive these poor fellows, then, if you have turned your back upon them? |
For they shrive them and housel them evermore once or twice in the week. |
If he have the condition of a saint and the complexion of a devil, I had rather he should shrive me than wive me. |
In the week immediately before lent everyone shall go to his confessor and confess his deeds and the confessor shall so shrive him and make pancakes. |
I pray you let me go upon my way, for there are those whom I would shrive and housel. |
It's hardly irrelevant that shrive is a Middle English word meaning to prescribe penance. |