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And the other came sayinge: Lorde thy poude hath encreased fyve pounde.
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And to ye same he sayde: and be thou also ruler ouer fyve cities.
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And the thyrde came and sayde: Lorde beholde here thy pounde which I have kepte in a napkyn
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for I feared the because thou arte a strayte man: thou takest vp that thou laydest not doune and repest that thou dyddest not sowe.
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And he sayde vnto him: Of thine awne mouth iudge I the thou evyll servaunt. knewest thou that I am a strayte man takinge vp that I layde not doune and repinge that I dyd not sowe?
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Wherfore then gavest not thou my money into the banke that at my cominge I might have required myne awne with vauntage?
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And he sayde to them that stode by: take fro him that pounde and geve it him that hath ten poude.
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And they sayd vnto him: Lorde he hath ten pounde.
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I saye vnto you that vnto all the that have it shalbe geve: and from him yt hath not eve that he hath shalbe taken from him.
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Moreover those myne enemys which wolde not that I shuld raigne over them bringe hidder and slee them before me.
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And when he had thus spoken he proceded forthe before a ssendinge vp to Ierusalem.