"epistil" meaning in Middle English

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        {
          "english": "For, as ever I read scripture, I have a wife to be afraid of: She's as sharp as a thistle and a rough as a brier; she is broad like a bristle, with a sour, hidden cheerefulness, once she wets her whistle she can sing her Pater noster quite clearely. She is a great as a whale, she has a gallon of gall. By Him that died for us all, I wish I had run till I had lost her.",
          "ref": "15th c., “Alia eorundem [Shepherds' Play II]”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: […] Oxford University Press, 1897, →OCLC, page 119, lines 100–108:",
          "text": "ffor, as euer red I pystyll / I haue oone [wife] to my fere, / As sharp as a thystyll / as rugh as a brere; / She is browyd lyke a brystyll / with a sowre loten chere / had She oones Wett Hyr Whystyle / She couth Syng full clere / Her pater noster. / She is as greatt as a whall, / She has a galon of gall: / By hym that dyed for vs all, / I wald I had ryn to I had lost hir.",
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        "An epistle."
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          "english": "For, as ever I read scripture, I have a wife to be afraid of: She's as sharp as a thistle and a rough as a brier; she is broad like a bristle, with a sour, hidden cheerefulness, once she wets her whistle she can sing her Pater noster quite clearely. She is a great as a whale, she has a gallon of gall. By Him that died for us all, I wish I had run till I had lost her.",
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          "text": "ffor, as euer red I pystyll / I haue oone [wife] to my fere, / As sharp as a thystyll / as rugh as a brere; / She is browyd lyke a brystyll / with a sowre loten chere / had She oones Wett Hyr Whystyle / She couth Syng full clere / Her pater noster. / She is as greatt as a whall, / She has a galon of gall: / By hym that dyed for vs all, / I wald I had ryn to I had lost hir.",
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