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Happy are those servauntes which the Lorde when he cometh shall fynde wakynge. Verely I saye vnto you he will gerdde him selfe about and make them sit doune to meate and walke by and minister vnto them.
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And yf he come in the seconde watche ye if he come in the thyrde watche and shall fynde them soo happy are those servauntes.
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This vnderstonde that yf the good man of the housse knewe what houre ye these wolde come he wolde suerly watche: and not suffer his housse to be broken vp.
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Be ye prepared therfore: for the sonne of man will come at an houre when ye thinke not.
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Then Peter sayde vnto him: Master tellest thou this similitude vnto vs or to all men?
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And the Lorde sayde: If there be any faith full servaut and wise whom his Lorde shall make ruler over his housholde to geve them their duetie of meate at due season:
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happy is that servaunt whom his master when he cometh shall finde soo doinge.
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Of a trueth I saye vnto you: that he will make him ruler over all that he hath.
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But and yf the evyll servaunt shall saye in his hert: My master wyll differre his cominge and shall beginne to smyte the servauntes and maydens and to eate and drinke and to be dronken:
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the Lorde of that servaunt will come in a daye when he thinketh not and at an houre when he is not ware and will devyde him and will geve him his rewarde with the vnbelevers.
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The servaut that knewe his masters will and prepared not him selfe nether dyd accordinge to his will shalbe bete with many strypes.