penitency
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Comineus, when he addressed the Christian princes after the overthrow of Charles of Burgundy, bade them “first pray with all submission and penitency, confess their sins, and then take physic.”
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
But when that we come to the whitt Our Darbies to behold, And for to take our penitency, And boose the water cold.
From The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare's Youth Awdeley's 'Fraternitye of vacabondes' and Harman's 'Caveat' by Awdeley, John
