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Latin French German January 2008 GYD, HND, Christine Schott, Gabriel Haley, James Coleman i IN a Somer sesoun ; whanne softe was þe SunneC2.P.1:   No title appears on this leaf. In the top center margin the notation Fol. 1 appears written loosely and carelessly in a modern hand, and in the top right margin Passus 1, apparently in the same hand, followed by a few illegible strokes in a different one. I schope me in schroudes ; as I a scheep were In habyt as an heremyte ; vn-holy of werkis wente wyde in þis world ; wondris to here And on a may mornynge C2.P.5:An otiose tilde appears above the <y> in mornynge. ; on Maluerne hilles Me be-ffelle a fferly ; of ffayre me be-thouȝt me thoȝt I was wery ffor-wandrid ; and me[wente] me wente me to reste Vndir a brode bank ; be a bornes syde And as I lay and lened ; and lokede in þe waters I slumbrede in a slepinge ; it sweyued so merie Than gan I to meten ; a merveilous sweuene þat I was in wyldernesse ; wiste I neuer where as I be-helde in-to þe est ; on hie to þe Sunne A Tower on a tofte I Sauȝt seiȝ see a toure on a tofte ; reallecle trieliche trikanlie y-makyd A Dongion in a Dale A depe dale beneþe ; a dongioun ........Ther-Inne with depe dichis & derke ; and dredffull of Syȝth A ffaire ffelde bitwynne A ffaire ffeld ffull of ffolk ; ffonde I þer bitwynne Of alle manere of men ; þe mene and þe riche worchinge & wandringe ; as þe world askith Summe putte hem to þe plow ; pleyed ffull seeld In settynge and Sowynge ; swonkyn ffull hard And wonnien wonnen þat wastouris ; in gloteney distroyen And Summe putten hem to pride ; apparayleden hem þer-after In Contenaunce of cloþing ; Comen disgysyd In preire and in pennaunce ; putten hem many Al ffor loue of oure lord ; lyuende lyueden ffull streite In hope ffor to haue ; heuene-riche blisse as ancres & hermytis ; þat holden hem in her Sellis And Coueyten not in cuntre ; to CarienC2.P.29:The MED notes that cairen is partly confused with carien, which seems to be the case in this instance. The scribe uses carieth for caireth at 4.24, but also uses the form kaires at 5.311. abouȝte For no likerouse lyfflode ; her lykyng likame to plese And Summe schosyn schaffare ; þei schosyn cheueden þe better as it semeþ to oure Syȝt ; that swyche þryuen And summe myrthis to make ; as mynstrallis kunnen C2.P.34: A triangle composed of dots, with a wavy line ascending from the uppermost dot, appears in the left margin. See Introd. I.6.And getten gold with her gle ; not Synnelez I leue as Iapers & Iangeleris ; Iudas ChildrinC2.P.35: A lower-case letter <a>, in a modern hand, appears in the extreme bottom right margin of this leaf. That ffeynen hem ffantasies ; & ffoles hem makyn And han her witte at her wille ; to werche if þei shulden Qui non laborat non manducet That poul prechiþ of hem ; I nyle not preue it here Qui turpiloquium loquitur ; is lucifers knaue hyne hyne bidders and beggers ; ffaste abouȝte ȝedyn with her bely & her baggis; of bred ffull I-crammyd Faydend Faited<en> ffor her ffode ; ffauȝten at nale In glotonye god it woot ; gonne þei to beed And risyn with rebauȝdie ; þe robers knaues Sleep and sory slauȝthe ; Suen hem euere Pylgrymes Pylgrymes & palmers ; ..........pleyȝteden hem to-gydirs To seke Seint Iames ; and Seintis in rome þey wenten fforth in her wey ; with many wyse talisC2.P.48:A triangle composed of three dots, with a wavy line ascending from the uppermost dot, appears in the left margin. See Introd. I.6. And haddyn leue ffor to ley ; all her lyue after I seye summe þat sayden ; þei haden Souȝt Seyntis To yche a tale þat þei tolden ; her tunge was temperid to lie Heremytes More þan sey soth ; it semed be here speche hermytes on an heep ; with hoked staues Wenten to Walsingham ; & her wenchis after Grette lobys & long ; þat loþe were to swynke Clothed hem in Copis ; to be knowin ffrom oþer and schopen hem hermytez ; here ese to haue Freers I ffonde þer ffreris ; alle ffoure þe foure ordris C2.P.58-59: Lines 58 and 59 are joined by a bracket in the left margin. prechid þe pepill ; ffor profitte of hem-seluen Glosed þe gospell ; as hem good lykid For Coueitise of Copis ; constreued it as þei woldyn Many of þese maister ffreris ; mowe cloþin hem at likyng For her mony & marchandisis ; marchinmarchenmeten to-gedris For siþe Carite Charite Charite haþ be Chapman ; & chef to schryue lordis Many fferlies han I-ffallen fallen ; in a ffewe ȝeris but holy Chirche and þei ; holde better to-gedris The most myschef on erthe ; is montynge vp wel ffastC2.P.67 The preceding two lines are joined at the left by a bracket. pardonere There preched a pardoner ; as he a prest were brouȝte fforth a bulle ; with busshopis Seelis And said þat him-self myȝth ; assoylyn hem all Of ffalsed of ffastinge ; and of vowes y-broken lewde men leued him well ; and lykyd his wordis Comyn vp knelynge ; to kyssyn his bullez he touuchid bonched hem with his breuet ; and blered her eien And rauȝte with his ragman ; ryngis and brochis þus þey ȝyuen here gold ; glotones to kepe And louen swiche losellis ; þat lecchorie haunten where þe bischoppe y-blessid ; & worthe boþe his eeris his Seel shuld not be sent ; to disceyue þe peple And it is not be by by C2.P.80: The correcting scribe in forty instances substitutes <y> for <e> by over-writing and twelve times changes be to by. þe bischope ; þat þe boy prechiþ For the parishe preste & þe pardoner ; parten þe siluer þat þe pore paraile poraille of þe parishe ; shulde haue if þei ne were Curatis Parsonnez and parishe prestis ; pleyned hem to þe bischope Curati non residentes þat her parishez were pore ; Sithe þe pestelens tyme To haue a lycens & leue ; at london to dwelle And syng þer ffor Symonye ; ffor Siluer is swete Bischopis and bacheleris ; boþe maistres & doctouris þat han Cure vndir Crist ; and Crownes crounyng in tokene And signe þat þei shulden ; schryven her parisheneris Prechen and pray ffor hem ; and þe pore ffede liggen at london ; in lenten and ellis Summe seruen þe kyng ; and his siluer tellen In cheker and in Chauncerie ; Calengen chalangen his dettis Of wardis of wardemotis ; of weyues of stryuesstr[e]yues streyues streyues And summe seruen as seriauntis ; lordis and ladies And in stede of stiwardis ; Sytten and demen her messe & her matynys ; and many of her ouris ar don vndeuouteliche C2.P.98:An otiose tilde appears above the second <u> in vndeuouteliche. ; dred is at þe last leste Crist in consistorie ; Curse ffull many I parceyued of þe power ; þat petir had to kepe To bynde & to vnbynde ; as þe book telleþ how he it self C2.P.102:C2 alone have it self; all other manuscripts have either left it or it lefte. with loue ; as oure lord hyȝte Among ffoure vertuez ; þe beste of alle wertues þat Cardenalis ben cleped ; and closyng ȝatis Ther Crist is in kyngdom ; to close and to schitte And to openet opene it to hem ; and heuene blisse schewe Cardinales And of þe Cardenals at court ; þat Cauȝten of þat name And power presumed in hem ; a pope to make To haue þat power þat petir had ; Impugne it I nyle For in loue and letterure ; þe eleccioun bilongiþ For-þi I can & I can not ; of Court speke more þann Cam þer a kyng ; knyȝhod him ladde Myȝth of þe Comunes ; made him to regne And þann Came kynd witte ; and Clerkis he made For For to Conceile þe kyng ; and þe Comune saue The kyng & knyȝthod ; and clergie bothe Casten þat þe Comune ; shulden hem-self ffynden The Comune contreued ; of kynde witte Crafftis And ffor proffitte of alle þe pepill ; plowmen ordeyned To tillie and trauaile ; as trewe lyffe asketh The kyng and þe Comune ; and kynde witte þe thred schope lawe lawe and leute iche man ; to knowe his owen Thann loked vp a lunatik ; a lene þing with-all And knelinge to þe kyng ; clerigialy clergealy he sayd Criste kepe þe Sir kyng ; and þi kyng-riche And lene þe to lede þi lond ; so leute þe louye And ffor þi riteffull rewling ; be rewardid in heuene And sithen in þe eyr on hiȝe ; an aungell on of heuene loued to speke in latyn ; ffor lewde men ne Couuden Iangle ne Iugge ; þat Iustice hem shulde but sufre and seruen ; ffor-þi said þe angell Cum Sum rex cum sum princeps ; neutrum fortasse deinceps O qui iura regis ; Christi specialia regis Hoc quod agas mesius melius ; iustus es . esto pius Nudum ius a te ; vestiri vult pietate Qualia vis metere ; talia grana Sere Si ius nudatur ; nudo de iure metatur Si Seritur pietas ; de pietate metas þan greued him a goliardeis ; a glotoun of wordis And to the aungell on hiȝ ; answeride after Cum rex a regere ; dicatur nomen habere Nomen habet Sine re ; nisi studet iura tenere Thann gan alle þe Comunes ; Crie in vers of latyn To þe kyngis Counceill ; construe who-so wolde Precepta regis ; sunt nobis vincula legis with þat ran þer a rouuteC2.P.146:An otiose tilde appears above the first <u> in rouute ; of ratones at ones and smale myce with hem ; mo þan a þouusand And Comen to a counceyll ; ffor her Comune proffitt For a catt of a court ; Cam whan him liked And ouere-leepe hem lyȝtely ; and lauȝte hem at his wille And pleyed with hem perelousliche ; & possed hem abouȝte For douȝte of diuerese dedis ; we durre not well loke And if we grucchen of his gamez gamen ; he wulle greue vs alle Cracche us and clawe us ; and in his clochis holde That us lotheþ þe lyffe ; or he lete us passe Myȝtten we with ony witte ; his wille with-stonde we myȝthen be lordis alofte ; oandC2.P.157: The original scribe does not elsewhere write ond for and. leuen at oure ese A raton of renoun ; moste renable of tunge Seyd ffor a souereyne help ; to him-seluen I haue Seyn segges quod he ; in þe Cete of london beren byes ffull briȝth ; abouȝten her neckis And Summe colers of Crafti werkis werk ; vncoupled þei wenden Boþe in wayreyn and in waste ; where hem leffee leue C2.P.163:The form leffee is not attested by the MED, nor does it appear elsewhere in this manuscript. This scribe's usual form is leef. likith And oþer-while þai arn ellis-where ; as I here telle where þer a belle on her breste beiȝe ; be Ihesu as me þinkith Men myȝte witten where þei wenten ; and away renne And rith so quod þe raton ; reson me sheweth To bye a belle of brasse ; or of briȝth siluer And knytte on a koler ; ffor oure Comune proffit And hange it on þe Cattis hals ; þan here we mowne where he ritte or resteth ; or renneth to pley And if him liste ffor to laike ; þan loke we mowne And peren in his presens ; þe while hym pleye likith And if him wratheþ be war ; & his wey esshewe shonye Al þis rouuteC2.P.175:An otiose tilde appears above the first <u> in rouute of ratonis ; to þis reson assentid And þoo þe belle was y-bouȝte ; and on þe bie hangid þer ne was raton in alle þe rouȝte ; ffor alle þe rewme of ffraunce That duste haue bounde þe belle ; abouȝte þe Cattis necke Ne hangid hangen it abouȝte þe cattis hals ; alle Englond to wynne And helden hem vnhardy ; and her Conceill ffeble And letten her laboure lost ; and her long stodie A mouse þat moche good couthe ; as me þouȝte Stroke fforth sterly sternely C2.P.183:The MED attests no such form, but notes that forms with -o(u) [which also lack <n>] may reflect the influence of OE store. This scribe does not elsewhere use the word, but at 15.249 writes "loketh vp sterne." ; and stode bi-fforn hem alle And to þe ratonys ; rehersid þese wordis Thouȝ we kylled had<den> killed þe cat ; ȝet shuld þer come anoþer To cache us and alle oure kynde ; þouȝ we cropen vndir benchis For-þi I conceill alle þe Comune ; to late þe cat worthe And be we neuer so bolde ; þe belle him to shewe For I herde my sir seyne ; is vijseuene ȝere passid Ther þe cat is a keton ; þe court is ffull elengeaylynge That wittenessiþ holy writte ; who-so wolle it rede ve ve Ve terre ; vbi puer est rex & cetera For may no renke þer rest haue ; ffor ratonis be nyȝth The while he catcheth konnyngez ; he coueytiþ not oure Careyne but ffedeth him with venyson ; deffame we him neuer C2.P.196:A triangle composed of three dots, with a wavy line ascending from the uppermost dot, appears in the left margin. See Introd. I.6.For better is a litill losse ; þan a long Sorowe The mase amongis us alle ; þouȝ we mysse a schrewe For many mannys malte ; we myse wolde distroie And also þe rouute of ratonys ; rende mennys cloþis Nere þat cat of þe court ; þat can ȝou ouere-lepe For hadde ȝe rattis ȝoure wille ; ȝe couȝde not rewle ȝoure-seluen I sey ffor me quod þe mous ; I se so mekill after Schalle neuer þe cat ne keton ; by my conceyll be greued Ne carpinge C2.P.204:An otiose tilde appears above the <n> in carpinge. of þis Coler ; þat Costed me neuer And þouȝ it had Coste me Catell ; bi-knowe it I nolde But suffre as him-self wold ; to do as him likith Couplid & vncouplid ; to cacche what þei mowen For-þi iche a wyse man ; I warne witte well owne his owene what þese metellis be-ment bemeneþ ; ȝe men þat ben merie Deuyne ȝe ffor I ne dar ; by dere god in heuene Ȝett ho Ȝett houede þer an hundrid ; in hooves of silke Sergeauntes at Law . Serjauntes C2.P.212:An otiose tilde appears above the <a> in Serjauntes. it semed ; þat seruedyn at þe barre pleded ffor penyez & poundes þe lawe And not ffor þe loue ; of oure lord on-lose here lippis onys þou myȝtest better mete þe myȝste ; on maluerne hillez þan gette a mumme of her mouþ ; but mony be schewed barouns and burgeys ; and bonde-men also I seie in þis asemble ; as ȝe shulle here after baxters and brewers Brewesteres ; and bocheris many wullen websters ; and weuers of lynnen Taylouris and tynkers ; and tollers in markettis Masouns and mynours ; and many oþer Craftis Of alle-kyn leuynge ; laboreris . lopen fforþ after somme As dikers and deluers ; þat don her dedis ille And dryuen fforth þe long day ; with dieu vous saue dame Emme kokis and her knaues ; Cried hote pyes hote good gees & greysse ; go we dyne go we Tauerneris vn-tille hem ; tolden þe same whyȝte wyn of oseye ; & reed wyn of gascoyne of þe ryne & of þe rochell ; þe roste to deffie Alle this sawe I slepinge ; and Seuene Sythez more w Wwhat þis monteyne be-meneth C2.1.1:   An otiose bar appears through the ascender of the <h> in be-meneth. For details of this scribe's use of barred <h>, see the Introduction under Hand. ; and þe merk dale And þe ffeld ffull of ffolk ; I shall ȝou ffare shewe A louely lady of lere ; in lynnen I-cloþid Come doun ffrom a castell ; & Called me ffaire And sayd sone slepeste þou ; seest þou þis pepill How besy þey ben ; abouȝte þe mase The moste partie of þis pepill ; þat passen on þis erthe Haue þei wurschippe of in þis world ; þei wullen no better Of oþer heuene þan here ; holden þei no tale I was afferde of hire fface ; þouȝ sche ffaire were Truthe And said mercy ma-dame ; what is þis to mene The toure vp þe toft quod sche ; truþe is þer-inne And wolde þat ȝe wrouȝten ; as his word techiþ For he is ffader of ffeith ; fformede ȝou alle Boþe with ffelle & with fface ; & ȝaf ȝou ffyve wittis For to wurshepe him þer-with ; þe while ȝe ben here And þer-ffore he hyȝte þe erthe ; to helpe ȝou ichon Of wollen of lynnen ; of lyflode at nede In mesurable maner ; to make ȝou at ese And Commaunde comaunded C2.1.20:An otiose tilde appears above the <a> in Commaunde. ȝou on his curteyse ; in Comune þre þingis Arn non nedffull but þoo ; nempne hem I þinke and rekene hem be roson reson ; reherse ȝe hem after þat on is clothinge vesture ; ffrom colde the to saue And mete at mele ; ffor mysese of þi-selue And drynk whan þou dryeste ; & do not out of reson þat þou worthe þe werse ; whan þou worche shuldest Loth For loth in his lijf-daies ; ffor lykyng of drynk C2.1.27:An otiose tilde appears above the <y> in drynk. Dyde by his douȝtres ; þat þe deuell lykyd delytid him in drynk C2.1.29:An otiose tilde appears above the <y> in drynk. ; as þe dyuell wolde And leccherie hym lauȝte ; & lay be hem bothe Inebriemus eum vino dormiamus-que cum eo vt seruare possimus de patre nostro Semen þoruȝ wyn & þoru wommen ; þer was loth acombred And þer he gatte in glotonie ; gerlys þat were cherlis For-thy drede delectable drynk ; & þou shalt do þe better Mesure is medecyne ; þouȝ þou moche ȝerne It is not alle good ffor þe goost ; þat þe gutte asketh Ne lijflode to þi lykham ; þat leue is to þis soule leeue þou not þi lykham ; ffor a lyer him techeth That is a wrechid world ; worlde þe betraye For þe ffende and þi ffleshe ; ffolowen þe to-gedir This and þat seiþ þi soule ; & seiþ in þin herte And ffor þou shuldeste be war ; I wisse þe better Ma-dame mercy quod I ; me lykyth well ȝoure wordis And þe mony of þis molde ; þat men so ffaste holdyn Telle me to whom ma-dame ; that tresoure appendeth Go to þe gospell quod sche ; þat god seyd him-seluen To þe pepill þat him aposede ; with a peny in þe temple wheder þey shulden þer-with ; worshepe þe kyng Cesar And god asked of hem ; of whom spake þe letter And þe ymage ylyke ; þat þer-inne stondeth CeesarisC2.1.51: The second <e> was added above the line, and the original <e> overwritten as well, apparently because it was not clearly formed. þei seiden ; we seen him well ichon Reddite Cesari quod god ; þat Ceesari be-ffalleth Et que sunt dei deo ; or ellis ȝe don euell For ritffull reson ; shulde rewle ȝou alle And kynde witte be wardeyn ; ȝoure welthe to kepe And tutour of ȝoure tresore ; & take it ȝou at nede and hosbondrie & þei ; holdyn to-gedir Than I ffrayned hir ffaire ; ffor him þat hir made That dongeon in þe dale ; þat dredffull is of syȝth what may it be-mene ; ma-dame I ȝou be-seche The Castell of Care That is þe Castell of care ; who-so cometh þer-inne May banne þat he born was ; to body and to soule Wronnge Ther-inne woneth a wyȝtt ; þat wrong is I-hite yhote Fader of ffalsed ; and ffoundid it him-selue Adam and Eue ; he conceylid egged to ille Counceillid Caym ; to kyllyn his brother Iudas he Iapid ; with Iuwes siluer And sithen on an eller ; hangid him after He is letter of loue ; and lyeth hem alle þat trosten on his tresore ; bitrayeth hem he <hem;gt; sunneste þan had I wondir of in my witte ; what wommen womman it were þat swiche wyse wordis ; of holy wrytte schewed And asked hir in þe hie name ; er sche þens ȝede what sche were witterly ; þat wissed me so ffaire Sancta Ecclesia Holy chirche I am quod sche ; þou auȝteste me to knowe I vndirffonge þe ffriste ; and þe ffeith tauȝte and þou browȝteste me borewes ; my biddinge to ffulfille And to loue me truely lelly ; þe while þi lijf durith þan I courbed on my kneys ; & cried hir of grace And prayed hir pitously ; pray ffor my synnes And also kenne me kyndely ; on crist to beleue That I myȝth worche his wille ; þat wrouȝt me to man Teche me to no tresore ; but telle me þis ilke how I may saue my soule ; þat seint art I-holden Veritas whan alle tresores ben I-tried ; treuthe is þe beste I do it on deus Caritas ; to deme þe sothe It is as derworþi a druerie ; as dere god him-self who-so is trewe of his tunge ; and telleth non oþer And þe werkis þer-with ; and wilneþ no man ille he is a god by þe gospell ; on ground & on lofte And like to oure lord ; by seint lukas wordis The clerkis þat knowen þis ; shulde kenne it abouȝte For cristen & vncristen ; cleymen it ichoun Kyngys and knyȝtis ; shulde kepe it be resoun Riden and rappen adoun ; in rewmes abouȝte The professionof a knyghte And take transgressouris C2.1.96:An otiose tilde appears above the <u> in transgressouris. ; and tien hem ffast Til truthe had I-termyned ; her trespas to þe ende And þat is þe profession apertly ; þat appendith to knyȝtis And not to ffasten a ffriday ; in ffyue score wynter But holdyn with him and with hir ; þat wolden all truþe And neuer leue hem ffor loue ; ne ffor lackynge of syluer For dauid in his daiez ; dubbid knyȝttis And dede hem swere on her swerde ; to serue truthe euere And who-so passid þe poynt ; is apostata in þe ordre But Crist knyȝted kyngene kyng ; knyȝted ten Cherubyn and Saraphyn ; Swyche Seuene & anoþer And ȝaff hem myȝth in in his mageste ; þe meriere hem þouȝt And ouere his mene meny ; made hem archaungelis Tauȝte hem bi þe trinite ; truþe to knowe To be buxum at his biddinge ; he bad hem nouȝt ellis luciffer with legiounes ; lerned it in heuene But ffor he brake buxumnesse ; his blis gan he tyne And ffelle ffro þat ffellawschepe ; in a ffendis likenesse In-to a depe derk helle ; to dwelle þer ffor euere And mo þouusandis with him ; þan man couude nounbre Loopen out with lucyffer ; lotheliche in lothelich lotheliche in or of fforme For þey leued vp-on him ; þat lyed in þis manere Ponam pedem meum in aquilone et similis ero altissimo And alle þat hoped it myȝth be so ; non heuene myȝth hem holde But ffellen out in ffendis likenesse ; nyne daiez to-gedere Tyll god of his goodnesse ; gan stable and stynte And garte þe heuene stekþe heuene to stekie ; & stondyn in quiete whan þese wiked wente out ; wondirwise þei ffellen Summe in þe erthe summe in þe eire ; & summe in helle depe And lucyffer lowest ; lythe of hem alle For pride þat he putted out ; his peyne hath non ende And alle þat werchen with wrong ; wende þei shulle After her deþe-day ; and dwelle with þat schrewe And þoo þat worchen well ; as holy chirche writ telleth And endyn as I erst said ; & in truthe þat is beste Mowyn be siker þat her soule ; shall wende to heuene Ther truthe is in trinite ; & troneþ hem alle For-þi I seie as I seyd eere ; bi siȝth of þese textis Lereþ it þese lewde men ; ffor lettred men it knowyn þat truthe is tresore ; þe trieste on ertheC2.1.135:C2O alone here omit the line numbered 1.135 by Kane and Donaldson. Ȝit haue I no kynde knowynge quod I ; ȝit muste ȝe kenne me better by what crafte in my cors ; it Comsiþ and where þou dodid doted daff quod sche ; dulle are þi wittis To litill latyn þou lerdiste lernedest ; lewde leode in þi ȝougþe Heu michi quod sterilem ; duxi vitam Iuuenilem It is a kynde knowinge quod sche ; þat kenneþ in þin herte For to loue þi lord ; leuere þan þi-selue No dedly synne to do ; dey þouȝ þou shuldest þis I trowe be truthe ; who can teche þe better Loke þou suffre him to seye ; and sithe lerne it after For þus wittenessiþ his word ; worche þou þer-after For truthe tellith to þat loue ; is triachle in heuene May no synne be on him sen ; þat vsiþ þat spice And alle his werkis he wrouȝt ; with loue as him liste And lerne lered it moyses ffor leuest þing ; & most like in heuene And also þe plente of pees ; most precious of vertus For heuene myȝth not holde it ; it was so heuy of him-self Till it had of þe erthe ; eten his ffille And whan it had of þe ffolde ; ffleishe and blood was neuer leef vp-on lende ; lyȝter þer-after And portatyf & persaunt ; as þe poynt of a nedell That myȝth non armewre it lette ; ne non hie wallis For-þi his is loue leder ; of þe lordis ffolk of heuene And a mene as þe meyre is ; bitwixe þe kyng & þe Comouns Rith Right so is loue a leder ; and þe lawe schapiþ Vppon man ffor his mysdedis ; þe mercyment he taxiþ And ffor to knowe it kyndely ; it comsiþ be myȝth And In þe herte þer is þe heed ; and þe hie welle For in kynde knowinge in herte ; þer a myȝth bygynneþ And þat ffalliþ to þe ffader ; þat fformed vs alle loked on vs with loue ; & lete his sone die Mekely ffor here oure myssedis mysdedes ; to amende us alle And ȝit wolde he hem no woo ; þat wrouȝten him þat peyne but mekeliche be mouþ ; mercy he be-souȝte To haue pepe pete on þat peple ; þat peyned him to deþ Here myȝtest þou se ensamplis ; in him-seluen on That he was myȝtffull & meke ; & mercy gan graunte To hem þat hongyn him on hie ; and his herte þirlid For-þi I rede ȝou riche ; haue rewthe on þe pore þouȝ ȝe ben myȝtffull to mote ; beþe meke in ȝoure werkis For þe same mesiris þat ȝe metyn ; amys oþer ellis Ȝe shulle be weyen þer-with ; whan ȝe wendyn henns Eadem mensura qua mensi fueritis remecietur vobis For þouȝ ȝe be trewe of ȝoure tunge ; and truliche wynnen And as schast as a child ; þat in chirche wepiþ but if ȝe loue lelleche ; and lene þe pore Swiche good as god ȝou sente ; goodliche partiþ ȝe ne han no more merite ; in messe ne in ouris þan malkyn of hir maydinhod ; þat no man desirith For Iames þe gentill ; iugged in his bokis þat ffeyth with-outyn þe ffeyte ; is rith no-þing worthy And as deed as durtre ; but if þe dedis ffollwen Fides sine operibus ; mortua est For-þi Chastite without Charite ; worþe cheyned in helle It is as lewed as a lawpe lampe ; þat no lyȝt is Inne Many Chapeleyns arn chast ; & charite is aweye arn no men auorousere þan þei ; whan þeiy ben auaunced Vnkynde to her kyn ; and to alle Cristen And schewen Chewen her Charite ; & chiden after more Swyche schastite without charite ; worth scheyned in helle Many curatouris kepen hem ; chlene of her bodies They ben acombred with Coueitise ; þei con not do it ffrom hem So harde haþe Auarice ; I-hasped hem to-gedere And þat is in truthe of þe trinite ; but treccherie of helle And lernynge C2.1.200:An otiose tilde appears above the <y> in lernynge. to lewde men ; þe latter ffor to dele For Forþi þise wordis ; ben wretten in þe gospell Date et dabitur vobis ; ffor I dele ȝou alle And þat is þe lokke of loue ; & latiþ out my grace To comforte þe Careffull ; acombrid with synne loue is leche of lyff ; & next oure lord seluen And also þe grette graiþe gate ; þat goþe in-to heuene For-þi I sey as I sayd erste ; bi þe truwe tixtis whan alle tresoris ben Itried ; truþe is þe beste Now haue I tolde þe what truþe is ; þat no tresore is better I may no lenger lengþe lenge þe with ; now loke þe oure lord Ȝ Ȝit I Courbede on my knees ; & cried hir of grace And sayd mercy ma-dame ; ffor marie loue of heuene That bare þat blessed blisful barn ; þat bouȝte vs on þe rode kenne me by sum craft ; ffor to knowe the ffalse loke vp-on þi lifte half ; & lo where sche standiþ Bothe ffals & ffauel ; & her fferes many I loked on my lifte half ; as þe lady me tauȝte And was war of a womman ; worþily I-cloþed purfilid with pelure ; þe ffynest vpon erthe Crouned with a croune ; þe kyng haþe non better Fetisslich hir ffyngris wern ; fetrid with gold whire And þer-on reed rebens Rubies ; as reed as ony glede And deamauntes of derrest price ; & double manere sapheris Orientalis & ewagis ; envenemes to distroie hir robe was of ful riche ; of reed scharlet engreyned with rebans of reed gold ; & of riche stones hir aray me raueschid ; swiche richesse saw I neuer I had wondir what sche was ; & whos wyf sche were what is þis womman quod I ; so worþily atired That is mede þe mayden quod sche ; hath noyed me ffull ofte And Ilackid my lemman ; þat leute is hoton And bilowen hir to lordis ; þat lawis har han to kepe In þe popis paleys she is ; preuy as my-self But sothenes wolde not so ; ffor sche is a bastard For ffals was hir ffader ; þat had a ffekill tunge And neuer sothe said ; Sithe he Come to erthe And mede is manered after him ; rith as kynde askeþ Qualis pater talis filius Bona arbor bonum fructum facit I auȝte ben hiere þan sche ; I cam of a better My ffader þe grett god is ; & ground of alle grace o god with-outyn bigynnynge ; & I his good douȝter And hath ȝyuen me mercy ; to marie with my-selue And what man be mercyffull ; & lelly me loueþ shall be my lord & I his leef ; in þe hie heuene And what man takiþ mede ; my lyff dar I ley þat he shall lese ffor his hire loue ; a lappe of Caritas Caritatis how construeþ dauid þe kyng ; of men þat taken mede And men of þis mold ; þat menteynyn truthe And how ȝe shulle saue ȝou-seluen ; þe sauter berith wittenesse Domine quis habitabit in tabernaculo tuo & cetera . And now worþ þis mede I-maried ; al to to a cursid mansed To on ffals fekell tunge ; a ffendis biȝete Fauell þoru his ffaire speche ; hath þese ffolk enchaunted And alle is lyers ledynge ; þat she is þus I-weddid To-morwe shall be made ; þe maydenes bridale And þer myȝteste þou witte if þou wilte ; whiche þei ben alle That longen to þat lordschepe ; þe lesse & þe more knowe hem þer if þou canste ; and kepe well þi tunge And lacke hem not but late hem worþe ; tille leute be iustice And haue power to ponyshe hem ; þan put fforth þi reson Now I be-kenne þe crist quod she ; & his clene moder And late no concience acomber þe ; ffor coueytise of mede Thus lafte me þat lady ; liginge aslepe And how mede was I-maried ; in metels me þouȝt And al þe riche retenaunce ; þat regneþ with ffalse weren boden to þe bridale ; on boþe two sidis Of alle maner of men ; þe mene & þe riche To marie þis mayden ; was many man asembled As of knyȝtis & clerkis ; & oþer Comune peple as sisouris & sumpnours ; schreues & her clerkis Bedellis & balifs ; and brokouris of schaffare Forgoers & vitayleris ; & vocatis of þe archis I can not rekene þe rouȝte ; þat ran abouȝte mede And Symonye & Syuyle ; & Sisouris of courtis were most preuy with mede ; of ony men me þouȝte And ffauell was þe ffriste ; þat ffette hir out of boure whan Symonye & Seuyle ; saw her boþer wille They asentid ffor siluer ; to sey as boþe wolden þan lepe lyer fforth ; and sayde lo here a chartre þat gyle with his grette oþes ; gaff hem to-gederis And preyed Cyuyle to se ; & Symonye to rede it Than Symonye & Ceuyle ; stondyn fforth boþ AndC2.2.73: The capital <A> in And has an ascender two lines in height decorated with a geometric design. vnffoldyn þe ffeffement ; þat ffals haþe made And þus bygonnen bigynnen þese gomes ; to greden ffull hie Sciant presentes et futuri & cetera . wyteþ and wyttenessiþ ; þat wonneþ vpon þis erthe That mede is maried ; more ffor his hire goodis þan ffor ony vertue of ffayrenesse ; or ffor ony ffre kynde Falsnesse is ffayn of hir ; ffor he wotte hir riche And ffauell with his ffekill ffellawe ; feffeþ be þis chartre To be pryncesse in pride ; & pouerte to dispice To bacbyte & to boste ; & bere ffals wittenesse To scorne & to scolde ; & slaundre to make Vnbuxum and bolde ; to breke þe ten heestis And þe erldom of envie ; & wrathe to-gedris with þe Chastilet of Cheest ; & Chateringe C2.2.86:An otiose tilde appears above the <n> in Chateringe. out of reson The Comitte of Coueytise ; & alle þe Costis abouȝte That is vsurie & auarice ; alle I hem graunte In bargeyns & in brocages ; with alle þe boruȝ of þeft And alle þe lordschepe of leccherie ; in lengþe & in brede As in werkis and in wordis ; & waytyngis with eien And in wedis & wysshingis ; & with ydell þouȝtis Ther as wille wolde ; werkmanshipe ffaylith Glotonye he gaff hem eke ; & grett oþes to-gydris And al day to drink C2.2.95:An otiose tilde appears above the <i> in drink. ; at dyuerse tauernys And þer to Iangle & to Iape ; & iugge here euene-Cristen And in ffastinge-daiez to ffrete ; er ffull tyme where And þan to sitte & to soupe ; till slepe hem asayle And bredyn as boruȝ swyn ; beddyn and bedde<n> hem esily Tyll sleuthe & slepe ; slikis his sidis And þan wanope to awake him so ; with no wille to amende For he leueth he be loste ; þis is her laste ende And þei to haue & to holde ; & her eieris after A dwellinge with þe deuell ; & dampned be ffor euere with alle þe purtenaunce of purgatorie ; in-to þe pyne of helle ȝeldinge ffor þis þing ; at on ȝeris ende her soulis to sathan ; to suffre with him peynes And with hym to wony / in wo ; while god is in heven In witnesse of wheche þing ; wronge was þe firstC2.2.109: The preceding two lines, although they may have been written by Hand 1, exhibit several letter forms which include flourishes seen nowhere else in the manuscript, as well as spellings not used by Hand 1. See the general introduction under Hand. And pers þe pardoner ; of paulynys doctrine Bette þe bedell ; of bokyngham-schire Reynold þe reue ; Ruteland of Ruteland (rokeland RF) sokene Munde þe myluere ; & many mo oþer In þe date of þe deuyll ; þis dede we I asele By syȝt of Syr Symonye ; and Seuylis leue Than tened him theologie ; whan he þis tale herd And sayd to Ceuyle ; now sorowe mote þou haue Swyche weddinge to worche ; to wrathe with truþe And er þis weddinge be wrouȝt ; woo þe bityde For mede is muliere ; of amendis engendrid And god graunted to gyff ; mede to truþe And þou hast gyue hir to a gylour ; now god gyue þe sorowe Thi tixt telliþ þe not so ; truthe wotte þe sothe For dignus est eoperariusoperariusoperarius C2.2.124:Hand2 here overwrites the <e> in eperarius, perhaps with the intention of changing it to <o>, and inserts the second <a>. his hire to haue And þou hast ffeste hir to ffals ; ffy on þi lawe For al by lesingis þou leueste ; & leccherous werkis Symonye & þi-self ; schenden holy chirche The Notories & ȝe ; Noyen þe peple ȝe shulle abye it bothe ; be god þat me made C2.2.129:A double solidus over each of the last two words in this line indicates transposition of original made me. welle ȝe witten wernardis ; but if ȝoure witte ffayle þat ffals is ffeitheles ; & ffekill in his werkis And was a bastard I-born ; of belsabuckis Belsabubbes kyn And mede mueliere ; a mayde of goode And myȝth kysse þe kyng ; ffor Cosyn & sche wold For-thy worchiþ be wisdam ; & by witti also And ledeth hir to london ; þer lawe is I-schewed If ony lawe wolle loke ; þei ligge to-gedris And þouȝ iustices iuggen hir ; to be ioyned with ffals Ȝit be war of weddinge ; ffor witty is trutheC2.2.139: A lower-case letter <v>, perhaps in the main scribal hand, appears in the top right margin of this leaf. And conciencee is of his conceyle ; & knowith ȝou ichon And if he ffynde ȝou in deffaute ; & with þe ffals holde It shall be-sitte ȝoure soulis ; ffull soure at þe laste here-to asentiþ Cyuyle ; & Symonie ne wolde Tille he had siluere ffor his seruyse ; & also þe Notaries Than ffette ffauell fforth ; fflorens I-now And bad gyle go gyue ; gold al abouȝte And namely to þe Notories ; þat hem non ffaile And ffeffe ffals wittenesse ; with fflorens I-nowe For þei may mede maistrie ; & maken at my wille þoo þis gold was gyue ; grett was þe þanking To ffals & to ffauell ; ffor her ffaire ȝiftis And Comen to comfforte ; ffrom care þe ffals And seid certis sire ; cesse shall we neuer Tylle mede bi be weddid þi wyff ; þoruȝ wittis of vs alle For we han mede amaystried ; with oure mery speche That she graunteth to gon ; with a good wille To london to l?keloke ; if þat þe lawe wolle Iugge ȝou Ioyntly ; in Ioy ffor euere Than was ffalsnesse ffayn ; & ffauell as blithe And lete Sumpne alle Segges ; in schiris abouȝte And bade hem alle be bon ; beggers and oþer To wende with hem to westmynster ; to wittenesse þis dede And þeyn þey cared cared þei ffor caples ; to carie hem þedir And ffauell ffette fforth þan ; ffolys y-nowe And sette mede vpon a schreve ; schod al new And ffals satte on a sisoure ; þat softeliche trottid And ffauel on a fflaterere ; ffetissliche atired þan had notaries non ; anoyed þei wern For Symonye & Ceuyle ; schulde on her ffeet gange And þan swore Symonye ; & Ceuyle bothe That sumpnours C2.2.171:An otiose tilde appears above the <o> in sumpnours. shulden be sadled ; & serue hem ichon And late appairele þese prouysouris ; in palffreis wyse Syr Symonye him-seluen ; shal sitte vpon her backis Denes & sudenes ; drawe ȝou to-gedris Erchedekenes & officialis ; & alle ȝoure registreris late sadil hem with siluer ; oure synne to suffre As avoutrie & devoces ; and derne vsurie To bere bisshoppis abouȝte ; abrood in in vesitinge Paulynys preues ; ffor pleyntis in þe consistorie shulle serue my-seluen ; þat Ceuyle is named And cartesadill oure comissarie ; oure cart shall he lede And ffecchin vs vetaillis ; at ffornicatores And make of lyer a long cart ; to lede alle þese oþer as ffreris & ffaytouris ; þat on her ffeet rennen And þus ffals & ffauell ; ffareth fforþ to-gedris And mede in þe myddis ; & alle þese oþer after I haue no tome to telle ; þe taile þat hem ffolwith Of many maner men ; þat on þis molde lyueth And gyle was ffor-goer ; & guyde hem alle Sothenesse saw hem welle ; & said but a litill And prikid his palffrey ; & passed hem alle And come to þe kyngis court ; & concience it tolde And concience to þe kyng ; carped it after Now bi crist quod þe kynge ; & I cacche myȝth Fals or ffauell ; or ony of his fferis I wolde be wroken of þo wrecchis ; þat worchyn so ille And do hem hang bi þe hals ; & alle þat hem menteyne schalle neuer man on molde ; meynprice þe leste but rith as þe lawe wulle loke ; late ffalle on hem alle And commaundid C2.2.200:An otiose tilde appears above the <u> in commaundid. a constable ; þat come at þe ffrist To atache þo terauntis ; ffor ony-þing I hote And ffeteriþ ffast ffalsnesse ; ffor ony-kyns ȝiftis And gyrde of gylis hed ; & late him go no fforþer And if ȝe lacche lyer ; late him not scape Or he be put on þe pyllery ; ffor ony preire I hote And bringiþ mede to me ; Magrye hem alle Drede at þe dure stode ; & þe dom herde And how þe kyng Comaunded C2.2.208:An otiose tilde appears above the <u> in Comaunded. ; constablis & serjauntes Falsenesse and his ffellawshepe ; to ffeteryn & to byndyn Than drede wente wyȝtliche ; & warned þe ffals And bad hem ffle ffor ffeere ; & his ffelawis alle Falsnesse ffor ffere þan ; ffled to þe ffreris And gyle doþe him to go ; agast ffor to die And marchauntis mettyn him with ; & madyn him abyde And settyn him in her schop ; to schewen her ware And apparailid him as a prentise ; þe peple to serue lyȝtely lyer ; lepe away þann lorkynge þoruȝ lanes ; to-lugged of many he was no-where welcome ; ffor his many talis Ouere-all I-howted ; & I-hote trusse Tyll pardonneris hadden pete ; & pullen pulled<en> hym in-to house þey wasshed him & wypid hym ; & woundyn hym in cloutis And sente him with seelis ; on sundais to chirche And gaf pardon ffor pens ; poundmele abouȝte Than lowrid leches ; & lettres þei senten That he shuld wonne with hem ; watris to loken Spiceris spokyn with hym ; to aspien here ware For he koude of her crafte ; & knewe many gomesgommes And mynstrallis & massageris ; mettyn with him ones And hyldyn him an half ȝere ; & Eleuene dais Freris with ffaire speche ; ffettyn him þens And ffor knownis knowynge C2.2.232: Although the MED attests this form, this scribe does not elsewhere use it. He writes knowinge nine times and knowynge once. of comers ; koped him as a ffrere And he haþe leue to lepe out ; as ofte as him likiþ And is wellcome whan he wulle ; & wonneþ with hem ofte Alle ffleddyn ffor ffere ; & fflowyn in-to hirnes Saue mede þe maydyn ; no mo durste abyde And truly to telle ; sche trembled ffor drede And eke wepe wepte & wrong ; whan she was attached n Now is mede þe mayde ; & no mo of alle with bedellis & baylis ; brouȝt be-ffor þe kyng The kyng called a clerk ; can I not his name To take mede þe maydyn ; and make hir at ese I shall asay hir my-self ; & sotheliche apose what man on þis molde ; þat here where leuest And if sche werche bi my witte ; and my wille ffollowe I wolle ffor-gyue hir þis gilte ; so me god helpe Curteysliche þe clerk þan ; as þe kyng hyȝte Toke mede be þe medill ; & brouȝte hir in chambre And þer was myrthe ; & mynstralcie . mede to plese þei þat wonnen in westmynster ; wurschepen hir alle Ientiliche with Ioy ; þe iustices Comen Busked hem to þe boure ; þer þe bred burde dwellid To komforte hir kyndely ; by clergise leue And said morne þou not mede ; ne make þou no sorou For we wisshenC2.3.17:Although the MED attests this form of wissen, this scribe does not elsewhere use it, and it is perhaps written in error. þe kynge ; & þey wey schapen To be weddid at þi wille ; & where þe leue likiþ For al concience caste ; or crafte as I trowe Mildeliche þann mede ; mercyed hem alle Of her grette goodnesse ; & gaff he hem ichon Coupis of clene gold ; & cupus cuppes of siluer Ryngis with rubies ; & richesses many þe leste man of hir meny ; a moton of gold þan toke þey leue ; þese lordis at mede with þat Comen clerkis ; to comforte hir þe same And bodyn beden hir be blyþe ; ffor we ben þin owen For to wirche þi wille ; þe while þou myȝth leste hendeliche she þan ; by-hiȝte hem þe same To loue hem lelli ; and lordis to make In þe consistorie at court ; do calle ȝoure name shall no lewdenesse lette ; þe lede þat I loue That he ne worth ffrist auaunced ; ffor I am biknowyn Ther kunnynge clekis clerkis ; shulle kloke bi-hynde Than Come þer a conffessour ; Copid as a ffrere To mede þe maydyn ; he medelid þese wordis And said ffull softeliche ; in schrefte as it where þouȝ lewde men & lered men ; had leyne be þe boþe And ffalsenes had I-ffoulid þe ; al þis fifti wynter I shal asoyle þe my-selue ; ffor a sem of whete And also be þi bedeman ; & bere well þi massage Amongis knyȝtis & klerkis ; concience to turne þan mede ffor hir myssededis ; to þat man knelid And schroue hir of his schrewnesse hire sherewednesse ; schameles I trowe Tolde him a tale ; & toke him a nobill For to be hir bedeman ; & hir brocoure als þan he asoylid hir sone ; & sithen he said we haue a wyndow in wirchinge ; wulle sittyn vs ffull hie woldeste þou glase þat gable ; and graue þer-inne þi name Sikir shuld þi soule be ; heuene to hauene haue C2.3.50:This scribe does not elsewhere use the infinitive with terminal <e>, nor is it attested by the MED. He writes haue 265 times and hauen twice. wiste I þat quod þat womman I wolld not spare For to be ȝoure ffrende ffrere ; & ffaile ȝow neuer while ȝe louen lordis ; þat leccherie hauȝten haunten C2.3.53:The form hauȝten is probably written in error, since this scribe does not use the form elsewhere but twice writes haunten. No form without <n> is attested by the MED. And lacken not ladies ; þat louen well þe same It is a ffrelete of þe fflesshe ; ȝe ffynde it in bokis And a cours of kynde ; wher-of we comen alle who-so may schape scape þe slaundyre ; þe scathe is sone amendid It is synne of þe Seuene ; is sonneste relessed haue mercy quod mede ; of men þat it haunten And I shalle kouere ȝoure kyrke ; & ȝoure kloyster do make wallis do whiȝten ; wyndowis glasen Do purtreye & peynten ; & pay ffor þe makinge That euery man shall sey ; I am sister of ȝoure hous And god to alle good ffolk ; siche gravinge deffendiþ To writtyn in wyndowis ; of here wille wel C2.3.65: Although the MED attests this form, this scribe does not elsewhere use it to mean "well"; he writes well 216 times, and wel five times. dedis On auenture pride be peynted þer ; & pompe of þe world For crist knowith þi concience ; & þi kynde wylle And þi cost & þi coueytise ; & hoo þe catell auȝte For-þi I leren lere ȝou lordis ; leueþ swyche werkis To writyn in wyndowis ; of ȝoure well dedis Or to greden after goddis men ; whan ȝe delen dolis On auenture ȝe han ȝoure hire here ; & ȝoure heuene als Nesciat sinistra quid faciat dextra late not þi lifte half ; late ne raþe witte what þou worchest ; with þi rith side And þus bitte þe gospell ; good men do here almesse Meyrs and maystres ; menes þat mene<s> be bi-twyne The kynge & þe Comunes ; to kepe well þe lawes To punnysshen on pyleries ; & pynynge stolis brousters & bakers Brewesters and Baksters ; bocheris and cokis For þese arn men on þis molde ; þat moste harm worchen To þe pore peple ; þat parcell-mele biggen For þei punnyshen þe peple preuyliche & ofte þei richen þoruȝ regraterie ; & rentes hem biggin with þat þe pore peple ; shuld put in here wombe For toke þei on truly ; þei tymbred not so hie Ne bouȝte non burgages ; be þeȝe ffull Certeyne And mede þe maydyn ; þe meire hath be-souȝt Of alle swyche sellers ; Syluer to take Or presentes with-out pens ; as pecis of siluer Ryngis or oþer richesse ; þe regrateris to meynteyn For my loue quod þat lady ; loue hem ichon And suffre hem to selle ; Sumdell aȝeyn reson Saloman the sage ; A cermoun he made For to amende meyris ; & men þat kepen lawes And tolde hem þis tyme teme ; þat I telle þenk Ignis deuorbit tabernaculam eorum qui libenter accipiunt munera & cetera . That is ffiere shall ffalle & brenne ; al to blo asshes The housis and þe homes ; of hem þat desiren Ȝiftis or resseyues ȝeres<yeues><gyues> ; bi cause of her offices The kyng ffro conceyll cam ; and callid after mede and after sente ofsente hir als swyþe ; with sergauntes many That brouten hir to boure ; with blisse & with Ioy Curteysliche þe kyng þan ; comsed to telle To mede þe mayde ; mellyþ þese wordis Vnwittily womman ; wrouȝt hast þou ofte And wers wrout þou neuer ; þan þoo þou ffals toke but I ffor-gyff þe þis gylte ; and graunte þe my grace henns to þi deþ-day ; do so no more I haue a knyȝth concience ; cam late ffrom bi-ȝonde if he willneþ þe to wyff ; wylt þou him haue Ȝee lord quod þat lady ; lord ffor-bede ellis but I be hooly at ȝoure heeste ; late hang me sone And þan was concience callid ; to come & apere by-ffor þe kyng & his Conceill ; as clerkis & oþer knelynge concience ; to þe kyng lowted To witte what his wille wore were ; & what he do shulde wylte þou wedde þis womman ; quod þe kyng . if I wolle asente For she is ffayn of þi ffellawschepe ; ffor to be þi make Quod concience to þe kynge ; crist it me ffor-bede Er I wedde swyche a wyff ; woo me be-tyde For she is ffrele of hir ffeiþ ; ffikell of hir ffeithspeche And makiþ men mysdo ; many score tymes Trust of hir tresore ; betraieþ ffull many wyues and wedowes ; wantownesse sche techeþ And lereth hem leccherie ; þat louen hir ȝiftis Ȝoure ffader ffelde ; þoru ffaste false be-heest And haþe appoysond popis ; & peyrid holy chirche Is not a better bawde ; bi him þat me made bytwynne heuene & helle ; in erþe þouȝ men souȝtyn For she is fekilltikel of hir tayl ; tale-wyse of hir tunge as Comune as a carte-wey ; to iche a knaue þat walkiþ To monkys to mynstrallis ; to myssels in heggis Sysouris & Sumpnours ; swiche men hir preiseþ Shireues of Schyres ; where schent if sche nere For she doþe men lese here lond ; & here lyff boþe she letteþ passe presouneris ; & payeþ ffor hem ofte And gyueþ þe Iayleris gold ; & grotis to-gedris To vnffetere þe ffals ; ffle where him likith And takiþ þe true by þe top ; & tieþe him ffaste And hangyth him ffor haterid ; þat harme dede neuer To be cursid in consistorie ; sche counttiþ not a rysshe For she copiþ þe comyssarie ; & coteþ his clerkis She is asoylid as sone ; as hir-self lykiþ And may ny as moche do ; in a moneþ ones as oure secret seel ; in Sixe Score daiez For she is preuy with þe pope ; prouysoursC2.3.147:An otiose tilde appears above the <y> in prouysours it knowen For Sir Symonye & hir-silf ; seleth her bullis she blessiþ þese bisschopis ; þouȝ þei be lewde Prouendrith parsounes ; & prestis menteyneþ To haue lemmanis & lotebies ; alle here lyf-daiez And bryngen fforþ barnes ; aȝeyn ffor-bodyn lawes Ther she is well with þe kyng ; woo is þe rewme For she is ffauerable to þe ffals ; & ffouliþ truþe ofte bi Ihesu with hir Iuellis ; ȝoure iustices she shendeþ and lyeþ aȝeyn þe lawe ; & lettiþ him þe gate þat ffeiþ may not haue his fforþe ; hir ffloreyns go so þinkke she ledeþ þe lawe as hir liste ; & loue-daiez makiþ And doþe men lese þoru hir loue ; þat lo lawe myȝth wynne The mase ffor a mene man ; þouȝ he mute here euere lawe is so lordliche ; and loth to make an ende with-out presentes or pens ; she plesiþ well ffewe baronys and burgeyses ; she bryngith in-to sorowe And alle þe Comunes in-to care ; þat coueyten to leuen in truþe For clergie & couetyse ; she copleþ to-gedris This is þe lyff of þat lady ; now lord gyue hir sorowe And alle þat menteyn hir men ; mysshaunce hem by-tyde For pore men mowen haue no power ; to pleyne hem þouȝ þey smertyn Swyche a mayster is mede ; amongis men of good þan morned mede ; and meued hir to þe kynge To haue space to speke ; spede if she myȝth The kyng graunted hir grace ; with a good wylle Excuse þe if þou canst ; I can no more seye For concience accuseþ þe ; to conge þe ffor euere Nay lord quod þat lady ; leueþ him þe werse whan ȝe witten witterly ; where þe wrong lyth Ther þat myschef is grette ; mede may helpe And þou knowist concience ; I cam not to schide Ne depraue þi persoune ; with a proude herte welle þou woste wernard ; but if þou wilte gabbe þou hast hangid on myn half ; Eleuene tymes And also gryped my gold ; geue it where þe likid And why þou wraþist þe now ; wondir me þinkiþ Ȝit I may as I myȝthe ; menske þe with ȝiftis And menteyne þi manhod ; more þan þou knowest And þou astC2.3.186:Although the MED attests this form of the auxiliary, this scribe does not elsewhere use it; he writes hast thirteen times and haste five times. ffamed me ffoule ; by-ffore þe kyng here For kyllid I neuer no kyng ; ne conceyled þer-after Ne dede as þou demest ; I do it on þe kynge In Normaundie was he not ; noyed ffor my sake And þou þi-self sothely ; schamedist him ofte Crope in-to a capan Cabane ; ffor colde of þi naylis Wenyst Wendest þat wynter ; wolde haue durid euere And dredest to be deed ; ffor a dyme cloude And hyedest þe homward ; ffor hunger of þi wombe with-oute pite piloure ; pore men þou robbist And bare here bras at þi bak ; to Caleys to selle Ther I lefte with my lord ; his lyf ffor to saue I made his men mery ; & mornynge C2.3.198:An otiose tilde appears above the <y> in mornynge. letted And I battered hem on þe bac ; & boldid her hertis And dede hem hope hoppe ffor hope ; to haue me at wille had I be marchall of men ; by marie of heuene I durst haue leyd my lyff ; & no lesse weed he shuld haue be lord of þat lond ; a lengþe & on brede And also kyng of þat kyþþe ; his kyn ffor to helpe The leest brolle of his blode ; a barons pere Cowardeliche þou concience ; conceylistdist conseiledest him þan To leue his lordschepe ; ffor a litil siluer That is þe richeste rewme ; þat reyn ouere-houeþ It bicomeþ to a kyng ; þat kepeþ þe rewme To ȝeue mede to men ; þat myldeliche him seruen To Alyens AndC2.3.211: The <A> in And has a decorated ascender two lines in height. to alleC2.3.211: The <l>s in alle have decorated ascenders three lines in height. men ; to honoure hem with ȝifftis Mede makyþ him to be loued <be> loued ; & ffor a man holdyn Emperours & erlis ; & alle manere lordis For ȝifftis han ȝong men ; to renne & to ride The pope & alle prelatis ; presentes vndirffongen And meden men hem-seluen ; to menteyn here lawis Sergauntes ffor her Seruyse ; we seen welle þe sothe Taken mede of her maister ; as þey moun acordyn beggers ffor her biddinge ; biddyn men mede Mynstrallis ffor her myrthe ; mede þey asken The kyng haþ mede of his mene ; to make pees in lond Men þat techen childrin ; crauen of hem mede prestis þat prechin þe peple ; to good asked asken mede And masse-pens & her mete ; at þe male tymes alle-kyns crafti men ; crauen mede ....ffor her prentises Marchauntis C2.3.226:An otiose tilde appears above the <u> in Marchauntis. & mede ; mote nede go to-gedris No wiȝtt as I wene ; without mede may leffe Quod þe kyng to concience ; bi crist as me þinkiþ Mede is wel worthi ; þe maystrie to haue Nay quod concience to þe kyng ; & knelyd to þe .....Erthe Ther ar ijtwo maner of medes þer ar two maner of medes ; my lord with ȝoure leue þat on god of his grace ; graunteþ in his blisse To þo þat well werchin ; while þei ben here þe prophete precheþ þer-of ; & puttiþ it in þe sauter Domine quis habitabit in tabernaculo tuo & cetera lord who shall wonye in þi wonys & with þin holi seyntis Or resten in þin holy hillis ; þis askiþ dauid And dauid asoyliþ it him-self ; as þe sauter telliþ Qui ingreditur sine maculla & operatur iusticiam þoo þat entrin of o coloure ; & of on wille And han wrouȝt werkis ; with rith & with reson And he þat ne vseþ not ; þe lijf of vsurie And enfformeþ pore men ; & pursueþ truþe Qui peccuniam suam non dedit ad vsuram & munera set innocenter & cetera And alle þat helpen þe innocent ; & halt with þe rithffull wyth-oute mede dooþ hem good ; & truþe helpeþ Swyche maner of men my lord ; schull haue þe ffrist mede Of god at grett nede ; whan þei gon henns þer is anoþer mede mesureles ; þat maystris desiren To meynteyn mysdoers ; mede þei taken And þer-of saiþ þe sauter ; in a salmes ende In quorum manibus iniquitates sunt dextra eorum repleta est muneribus and he þat gripeþ her gold ; so me god helpe shall abie it bitterly ; or þe book lieþ prestis & parsones ; þat plesinge desiren That takyn mede & mony ; ffor messis þat þei syngyn Takyn here mede hire ; as here as mathew vs telliþ Amen Amen receperunt mercedem suam That laboris laborers and lewde ffordelk ; Taken of her maistris It is no maner mede ; but a mesurable hire In marchaundise is no mede ; I may it well avowe It is a permutacioun apertely ; a peny-worþe ffor anoþer and reddist þou neuer Regum ; þou recreyd mede why þe venjaunce C2.3.264:An otiose tilde appears above the <a> in venjaunce. ffelle on saul ; & on his childrin god sente to saul be samuell þe prophete þat agag of amalek ; & all his peple after shulden die ffor a dede ; þat don had her eldris For-þi said samuell to saul ; god him-self hotiþ þe to be buxum at his bidding ; & his wille to ffullfille Wynde Weend to amelek with þin oste ; & what þou ffyndiste þer sle it bernes & bestis ; brenne hem to dede wydowez & wyues ; wommen & childrin Mebles & vnmebles ; & al þat þou myȝth ffynde brenne it bere it not away ; be it neuer so riche For mede ne ffor mony ; loke þou distroye it spille it & spare it not ; þou shalt spede þe better and ffor he coueytid here catel ; & þe kyng sparid For-bare him & his bestis ; boþe as þe bible wittenessiþe Oþer-wise þan he was ; warned of þe proffeet god seyde to samuel ; þat saul shulde die And all his seed ffor þat synne ; schenffulliche ende Swiche a mysscheff mede made ; saul þe kyng to haue þat god hated him ffor euere ; & al his eires after þe culorum of þis caas ; kepe I not to schewe On auenture it noyede men ; non ende wolde I make For so is þis world went ; with hem þat han powere That who-so seiþ sothes ; is sonneste I-blamed I concience knowe þis ; ffor kynde witte me tauȝte it That reson shall regne ; & rewmes gouerne And rith as agag had ; happe shull summe Samuel shall sle him ; & saul shall be blamed And dauid shall be deademed ; & daunted daunten hem alle And on Cristen kyng ; kepen hem alle shall no na moore mede be maister ; as she is nowȝ & loue & lownesse ; and lewte to-gedris þese shull be maistris on mold ; truþe to saue And who-so trespassiþ aȝeyn truþe ; or takiþ aȝeyn his wille lewte shall do him lawe ; & no lijf ellis shall no seriauntes ffor her seruyse ; where a silken howe Ne no pelure in his cloke ; ffor pledinge at þe barre Mede of myssedoers ; makiþ many lordis and ouer londis lawes ; rulyþ þe rewmes and kynde loue shall come ȝitt ; & concience to-gedris And make of lawe a loborere laborer ; swiche loue shall arise And a swiche swich a pees among þe peple ; & a profitte parfit truþe þat Iues shulle wene in her witte ; & wax wondir glad þat moyses or messye ; by comyn be come in-to þis erthe and haue wondire in here hertis ; þat men ben so truwe alle þat beren baslard ; brode swerde or launce ax oþer hachett or ony wepene ellis shall be demed to þe deþ ; but if it he do it smythe 1b In-to sekill or to sithe ; to schare or to cultere Confflabunt gladios suos in vomeres Iche man to pley with a plow ; pikeis or spade spynne or spred dung ; or spille him-self with sleuþe Prestis & parsones ; with placebo to hunte and dyng vppon dauid ; Iche day till euen huntynge C2.3.318:An otiose tilde appears above the <y> in huntynge. or haukynge C2.3.318:An otiose tilde appears above the <y> in haukynge. ; if ony of hem vse his boste of his benefice ; worþe by-nome him after shall neiþer kyng ne knyȝth ; cunstable ne meire Ouere-lede þe Comune ; ne to þe court sompne Ne putte hem in panell ; to do hem pliȝte her truþe But after þe dede is don ; oo dom shall rewarde Mercy or no mercy ; as truþe wolle acorde kyngis Couȝt court & comune court ; consistorie & chapitle all shall be but on court ; & o baroun be iustisce þan wexe worþ trwe tunge a tydi man ; þat tened me neuer bataylis shulle non be ; ne man bere wepen and what smyte smyth þat any smyteþ ; be smyten þer-with to deþe Non leuabit gens contra gentem gladium And er þis ffortune ffalle ; ffynde men shull þe werst By sixe sunnes & a schippe ; & half a scheffe of arwes and þe myddill of a mone ; shall make þe Iues to turne and sarasynys ffor þat syȝt ; shall synge gloria in excelsis For machometh & mede ; mysse-happe shulle þat tyme For melius est bonum nomen ; quam diuicie multe Als so wroth as þe wynd ; wex mede in a whyle I can no latyn quod sche ; clerkis wotton þe sothe See what salomon seiþ ; in sapience bokis þat he þat ȝeueþ ȝiftis ; þe victorie wynneþ and moche wurschepe had þer-with ; as holy writte telliþ honorem adquiret ; qui dat munera & cetera I leue well lady quod concience ; þat þi latyn be trewe And þou arte like a lady ; þat redde a lesson ones was omnia probate ; & þat plesid hir herte For þat lyne was lenger ; at þe lynes leues ende had she loked þat oþer half ; and þe leef turned she shulde haue ffounde ffele wordis ; ffolwynge þer-after Quod bonum est tenete ; truthe þat text made And so fferde ȝe madame ; ȝe couude no more ffynde þouȝ ȝe loked on sapience ; syttynge in ȝoure stodie This tixte þat ȝe han tolde ; were good ffor lordis and ȝou ffaylid a kunnynge clerk ; þat cowde þe leef haue turned And if ȝe seke sapience eft ; ffynde shulle ȝe þat ffolwith C2.3.354:   An otiose bar appears through the ascender of the <h> in ffolwith. For details of this scribe's use of barred <h>, see the Introduction under Hand. a ffull tenffull text ; to hem þat takyn mede and þat is animam autem auffert accipiencium & cetera . and þat is þe tayl of þe texte ; of þat þat ȝe schewed þat þouȝ we wynne worschipe ; & with mede haue victorie þe soule þat þe soude takeþ ; by so moche is boundyn c Ceceþ seiþ þe kynge ; I suffre ȝou no lenger Ȝe shulle sauȝtle ffor-sothe ; and serue me boþe kysse hir quod þe kyng ; concience I hote Nay by criste quod concience ; cungeye me raþer but reson rede me þer-to ; raþer wolle I die And I commaunde þe quod þe kyng ; to concience þan Rape þe to ride ; and reson þou ffette Commaunde him þat he come ; my conceill to here For he shall riyll rewle my Rewme ; & rede me þe beste Of mede & of mo oþer ; & what man shall hir wedde ; Acounte And acounte with þe concience ; so me crist helpe how þou lerneste þe peple ; þe lered & þe lewde I am ffayn of þat fforward ; said þe ffreike þan And riȝth ryt riȝt to reson ; and rowneþ in his eere and said as þe kyng bad ; & sithen toke his leue I shall aray me to ride quod reson ; reste þe awhile and callid catton his knaue ; curteys of speche and also thome trewe tunge ; telle me no talis Ne lesingis to lawe at ; ffor I loued hem neuer And sette my sadell vppon suffre ; tyll I se my tyme & lete werrok it well ; with witty wordis gerthes 2b And hang on hym þe heuy bridell ; to holde his heed lowe And For wille he he wol wehee ; and wynche twies or he come þer þan concience vppon his capell ; carieth fforþ ffast and reson with him rith C2.4.25:   An otiose bar appears through the ascender of the <h> in rith. For details of this scribe's use of barred <h>, see the Introduction under Hand. ; rownynge to-gedris whiche maistris mede ; makiþ on þis erthe On waryn wisdam ; & witti his ffere Folwed hem ffaste ; ffor þey haddyn to don In þe cheker & in þe chauncerrie ; to be dischargid of þingis And riden ffaste ffor reson ; shulde rede beste For to saue hem ffor syluer ; ffrom shame & ffrom harmes and concience knewe hem well ; þei loued coueytise and bad reson ride ffast ; & recche of her neiþer þey ar wyyly in her wordis and with mede þe þei dwellyn Ther-as wraþe & wraglinge wranglynge is ; þer wynnen þei siluere and þer is loue & lewte þey wulle not come þer Contricion et infelicitas in vijs eorum & cetera . They ne gyuen nouȝt of god ; o gosse wynge Non est tymor domini ante oculos eorum & cetera . For god woot þei wolde do more ; ffor a doseyne scheconys Or as many Caponys ; or ffor a seem of Otis þan ffor loue of oure lord ; or all his leue seintis For-þi reson late hem ride ; þo riche be hem-selue For concience knoweþ hem nouȝt ; ne Crist as I trowe and þan reson rode ffaste ; þe rith hie gate as concience him kenned ; tille he come to þe kyng Curteysliche þe kyng þan ; come aȝeyn reson and bitwynne him-self & his sone ; sette him on benche and worden wordeden well wysily ; a grett while to-gedris and þan Come pees in-to þe parlement ; & putteþ fforþe a bille Wronnge how wrong aȝeins his wille ; had his wyff taken and how he ravisshed rose ; Reynoldus loue And margrete of hir maydenhed ; maugry hir chekis boþe my gees & my grys gryses his geddelinges ffecchyn I dar not ffor ffer of him ; ffyȝte ne chide . He borewed of me bayard ; he brouȝte him home neuerC2.4.56: The <H> in He, the <b> in bayard, and the <b> in brouȝte all have decorated ascenders reaching almost to the top edge of the leaf. Ne no fferþinge ffor him ; ffor ouȝte þat I couude plede he menteyneþ his men ; to Murþeren myn hewen Forstalleþ my ffeires ; and ffytith in my schepinge and brekeþ vp my berne doris ; & bereth away my whete and takeþ me but a tayle ; ffor ten quartris of otys and ȝite he bette me þer-to ; and lay lyþ be my mayde I am not hardy ffor him ; vnneþe to loke þe kyng knewe he said soþe ; ffor concience him tolde þat wrong was a wyckyd schrewe luft ; & wrouȝte moche sorowe wrong was afferde þan ; & wisdam he souȝte To make pees with his pens ; & propherid him many and said had I loue of my lord kyng ; litill wolde I recche þouȝ pees & his power ; pleyned him euere þoo wente wisdom ; and Sire watkyn waryn þe witty For þat wrong hadde I-wrouȝte ; so wickid a dede and warned wrong þoo ; with swiche swich a wyse tale who-so werchiþ by my wylle ; wrathe makeþ ofte I seye it by þi-self ; þou shalte it well ffynde But But if mede it make ; þi myssheff is vppe For boþe þi lyffe and þi lond ; lyth in his grace þan wowed wrong ; wysdam ffull ȝerne To make his pees with pens ; handy-dandi paied wisdam & witte þan ; wenten to-gedris and toke mede with hem ; mercy to wynne Pees putt fforth his heed ; and his panne blody with-ouȝtyn gylte god it woot ; gate I þis skaþe Concience & þe Comune ; knowen þe soþe and wisdam and witte ; weren aboute ffaste To ouerecome þe kyng ; with catell if þei myȝten The kyng swore bi crist ; and bey his croune boþe þat wrong ffor his werkis ; shulde wo þole and commaunde C2.4.88:An otiose tilde appears above the <a> in commaunde. a Constable ; to caste him in Irnes And late him not þis Seuene ȝere ; seen his ffeet ones 3b God wotte quod wisdam ; þat where not þe besteC2.4.90: The top stroke of the <G> in God has a horizontal decoration eight characters in length. The <h> in where and the <b> in beste have decorated ascenders three lines in height. and he amendis mowe make ; late meyneprise him haue and be boruȝ ffor his bale ; and biggen him bote and so amende þat is myssedon ; & euere-more þe better witte acordid þer-with ; and seide þe same Better is þat botte ; bale doun brynge Than bale be Ibete ; and bote neuer þe better And þan gan mede to mengen C2.4.97:An otiose tilde appears above the <e> in mengen. hir ; and mercy she besouȝte and profered pees a present ; al of pure gold haue þis man of me quod she ; to amende þi scaþe For I wolle wage ffor wrong ; he woll do so nomore Petously pees þanne ; preied to þe kyng To haue mercy on þat man ; þat mysdede him so ofte For he hath wagid me well ; as wisdam him tauȝte And I ffor-gyue him þat gilte ; with a good wille So þat þe kyng assente ; I can seye no better For mede hath made me amendis ; I may no more aske Nay quod þe kyng þo ; so me criste helpe wronge wendiþ not so awey ; erst wulle I witte more For lope he so lyȝtely ; lauȝwen he wolde and efte þe balder be ; to bete myn hewen But reson haue rewthe on him ; he shall reste in my stokkis and þat as long as he lyueþ ; but lownesse him borwe Summe men reddyn reson þo ; to haue rewth on þat schrewe and ffor to conceile þe kynge ; & concience after þat mede muste be maynpernoure ; reson þei besouȝten Rede me not quod reson ; no rewthe to haue Till lordis & ladies ; louen alle truewthe and haten alle harelotrie ; to here it or to mowþen it Tille pernelis purfile ; be put in hir hucche And childrin scherishinge ; be schastisinge with ȝerdis and harlottis holynesse ; be holde ffor vnhynde an hyne Tyll clerkis coueytise be ; to cloþe þe pore & to ffede And relegeous romers ; recordare in her cloystris As seint benet hem bade ; bernard and ffraunceysC2.4.124:   The <b>s in benet and in bernard have decorated ascenders three lines in height. And till prechouris prechingeC2.4.125:   An otiose curl appears above the <r> in prechinge. ; be proued on hem-selue Tyll þe kyngis conceill ; be þe Comune proffiȝte Tyll bischoppis bayardis ; be beggers chaumbris her haukis & her houndis ; helpe to pore religious pilgrimage and tille seynt Iames be souȝte ; þer I shall asigne þat no man go to galis ; but if he go ffor euere and alle rome-renners ; ffor robbers of biȝonde bere no syluer ouere see ; þat signe of kyng shewith Neiþer grauen ne vngrauen ; gold neþer siluer Vppon fforfeture of þat ffee ; who-so ffynde him at douere But if he be marchand or his man ; or messager with lettris prouysoure or preste ; or penaunte ffor his synnes and ȝit quod reson be þe rode ; I shall no rewthe haue while mede haþe þe maistrie ; in þis mote-halle and I may schewe ensaunplis ; as I see oþer-while I seie it be my-self quod he ; & it so where That I were kyng with croun ; to kepe a rewme shuld neuer wrong in þis .....world ; þat I witte myȝte ben vnpunyshid C2.4.97:An otiose tilde appears above the <u> in vnpunyshid. in my powere ; ffor perell of my soule Ne gete my grace ffor ȝiftis ; so me god saue Ne ffor no mede haue mercy ; but mekenesse it make For nullum malum bonum þe man ; mette with impunitum and bad nullum bonum be irremuneratum late ȝoure conffessoure Sir kyng ; construe þis englosid vnglosed and if ȝe werken it in werk ; I wedde boþe myn eris That lawe shall be a laborere ; and lede affelde dunge and loue shall lede þi lond ; as þe leef likith Clerkis þat were confessouris ; cowpled hem to-gedris alle to construe þis clause ; ffor þe kyngis proffite and not ffor comforte of þe Comune ; ne ffor þe kyngis soule For I seȝ mede in þe mote-halle ; on men of lawe wynkyn and þei lawȝwinge lopen to here ; & many lefte reson lefte Reson manye Wa Warn wisdam ; wynked vppon mede And said madame I am ȝoure man ; what so my mouþ Iangleþ 4b I ffalle in ffloreyns quod ffreke þat freke ; and ffayle speche ofteC2.4.159:   The <k> in ffreke and the <l> in ffayle have decorated ascenders three lines in height. alle ryȝtffull recorden ; þat reson truþe tolde and witt acordyd þer-with ; and commaundid his wordis and þe most peple in þe halle ; and many of þe grette i-cursid lete mekenesse a maister ; & mede a mansid schrewe Loue lete of hir lyȝth ; and lewte ȝit lesse and seid it so hie ; þat all þe halle it herde who-so wilneþ hir to wyffe ; ffor welþe of hir goodis but he be knowen ffor a cokwold ; cutte of my nose Mede morned þo ; and made heuy chere For þe moste comune of þat courte ; callid hir an hore And a sisoure & a sumpnoure ; sued hir ffaste and . a schireues clerk ; beschrewed alle þe rouȝte For ofte haue I quod he ; holpen ȝou at þe barre and ȝit ȝeue ȝe me neuer ; þe worthe of a russhe þe kyng called concience ; and afterward reson and recordid þat reson ; had riȝtffulliche schewed and modiliche vppon mede ; with myȝte þe kyng loked and gan wax wroth with lawe ; ffor mede al-moste had shente it And sayd þoruȝ ȝoure lawe as I leue ; I lese many chetis Mede ouere-maistrieþ lawe ; & moche truþe lettiþ and reson shall rekene with ȝou ; if I regne ony while and deme ȝou on a day ; as ȝe han diserued Mede shall not meynprise ȝou ; be þe marie of heuene I wolle haue lewte in lawe ; & late be ȝoure Ianglynge and as most wittenesse wolle wel ; wronge shall be demed Quod concience to þe kyng ; but þe Comune wolle assente It is ffull hard be myn hed ; her-to . to bringe it alle ȝoure lege lordis ; to lede þus euene By him þat rauȝte on þe rode ; quod reson to þe kyng But if I rewle þus ȝoure Rewme ; rende ouȝt my guttis If ȝe biddyn buxumnesse ; be of myn assent and I assent quod þe kyng ; bi seint marie my lady Be my conceill comen ; of clerkis & of erlis and redili reson ; þou shalt not ride ffro me For as long as I leue ; lete þe I nylle I am aredy quod reson ; to reste with ȝou euere So concience be of ȝoure conceill ; I kepe no better And I graunte quod þe kyng ; godis fforbode it ffaile as longe as oure lijf lasteþ ; leue we to-gedris t The kynge and his knyȝtis ; to þe kyrke wente to here mateynes of þe day ; and þe masse after þanne wakide I of my wynkynge ; and woo was I with-all þat I ne had slepede sadder ; and I-seiȝ more and er I had ffaren a ffurlonge ; a ffeyntise me hente þat I ne myȝte fforþer a ffote ; ffor deffauȝte of slepinge and satte softely adoun ; and said my beleue and so I bablid of my bedis ; þei brouȝten me aslepe Why pestelence and þan sawȝ I moche more ; þan I be-ffore tolde how For I sawȝ þe ffeeld ffull of folk ; þat I beffore of seide and how reson gan arayn him ; al þe rewme to preche and a crosse be-ffor þe kyng ; comsid þus to teche he preueþ þat þese pestelences ; was ffor pure synne and þe souȝþweste wynde ; on saturday at euen was pertliche ffor pure pride ; and ffor no poynte ellis Piries & plumtres ; were puffed to þe erthe In ensaumple ȝe segges ; ȝe shull do þe better Beches and brode okys ; were blowyn to þe ground Turned vppeward here taylis ; in tokenynge of drede þat dedly synne or domes-day ; schall ffor-do hem alle of þis mater I myȝte mamell ; ffull longe and I shall seie as I saw ; so me god helpe A sermon of Reson how pertliche be-ffor þe peple ; reson gan to preche he bad wastoure go wirche ; what he beste couude and wynnen his wastinge ; with summe maner crafte and preied peronelle hir purfile to lete and kepe it in hir coffur ; ffor catell at hir nede Thome stowe he tauȝte ; to take two staves and ffecche ffelice home ; ffrom þe wyuen pyne and warned watte ; his wife was to blame þat hir hed was worþe half a mark ; his hood not worþe a grotte 5b And bade bette kutte ; a bouȝ oþer tweyneC2.5.32: The <b> in bade and the <k> in kutte have decorated ascenders three lines in height. and bete beton þerwith ; but if she wulle werche and þan he charged schapmen ; to schastisen here childrin late no wynnynge hem fforwenye ; while þei be ȝonge Ne ffor no pouste of pestelence ; plese hem not ouȝte of reson My Sir said to me ; and so dede my dame That þe leuere childe ; þe more lore bihoueþ and salomon seid þe same ; þat sapience made Qui parcit virge ; Odit filium The englissche of þis latyn ; is who-so wolle it knowe who-so spariþ þe sprynge ; spilliþ his childrin and sithen he preyed prelatis ; & prestis to-gedris That ȝe prechyn to þe peple ; preue it on ȝoure-seluen and doþe it in dede ; it shall drawe ȝou to good if ȝe leuen as ȝe lerne vs ; we shulle leue ȝou þe better And sithen he redde religion ; her rewle to holde leste þe kyng and his conceill ; ȝoure Comunes apeyre and ben stywardis of ȝoure stedis ; tille ȝe ben rewlid better and sythen he conceilid þe kyng ; þe Comunes to loue It is þi tresore if treson ne were ; and triacle at þi nede And sithen he preyed þe pope ; haue pete on holy chirche and er he gyue ony grace ; gouerne ffriste him-seluen and ȝe þat han lawes to kepe ; late truþe be ȝoure coueitise More þan gold & oþer gyfftis ; if he wolle god plese For who-so contrarieþ truthe ; he telliþ in þe gospell That god knoweþ him not ; ne no seint of heuene Amen dico vobis ; nescio vos ; And ȝe þat seken seint Iames ; and seintis of rome Seketh seint truwthe ; ffor he may saue ȝou alle Qui cum patre et filio ; þat ffaire hem be-ffalle Amen That suen my sermon ; and þus said reson Than ran repentaunce ; rehered reherced his tyme and garte wille to wepe water with his eiȝen Superbia Pernelle proude herte ; platte hir to þe erthe and lay long or she lokede ; and lord mercy cried and bi-hiȝte on-to him ; þat vs alle made she shuld vnsuen hir serk ; and sette þer an haire To affaytin hir ffleissheC2.5.69:The <h> in ffleisshe has an otiose bar. ; þat ffers was to synne shall neuer hie herte me hente ; but holde me lowe and suffre to be mysseyd ; and so dede I neuer But now wulle I meke me ; and mercy biseche For alle þis I haue hatid ; in myn herte luxuria Than lecchoure seid alas ; and on oure lady cried To make mercy ffor his misdedis ; bitwynne god & his soule with þat he shulde þe saturday ; seuene ȝere þer-after Drinke C2.5.77:An otiose tilde appears above the <i> in Drinke. but with þe doke ; and dyne but ones Envie Envie with heuy herte ; askede after schryfte and careffulliche mea culpa ; he comsede to schewe he was as pale as a pelet ; in palsie he semed and cloþid in a cawrimawry ; I couude it not discriue In kirtell & courtbi ; and a knyf bi his side Of a ffreris ffrokke ; were þe ffor-sleues and as a leek had I-ley ; long in þe sonne So loked he with lere schekis ; lowringe ffowle his body was to-bolne ffor wrathe ; þat he bote his lippis And wrykngynge he ȝede with his ffiste ; to wreke him-self he þouȝt with werkis or with wordis ; whan he saw his tyme Iche a word þat he warpe ; was of an eddris tunge Of chidinge of chalanginge ; was his scheff lyfflode with bacbytinge and bismere ; and beringe of ffals wittenesse This was alle his Curteysie ; where þat euere he schewid him I wolde be schreven quod þis schrewe ; and I ffor shame durste I wolde be glader be god ; þat gibbe had mysschaunceC2.5.94:An otiose tilde appears above the <n> in mysschaunce. þan þouȝ I had þis woke I-wonnen ; a weye of Esex chese I haue a neybore nyȝe me ; I haue enviedC2.5.96:C2 alone has the form envied; variants include anoyed, noyȝed, ennuyed, and enuyed him ofte and lowen on him to lordis ; to do him lese his siluere and made his ffrendis be his ffon ; þoruȝ my ffals tunge .................His grace and his good happis ; greved me ffull sore 6b Bitwynne many & many ; I make debate ofte That boþe lijf and lym ; is lost þoruȝ my speche and whan I mette him in market ; þat I most hated I halse him hendeliche ; as I his ffrende where For he is douȝtiere þan I ; I dar do non oþer and I hade hadde I maistrie & myȝth ; god wotte my wille and whan I come to þe kyrke ; & shulde knele to-ffore þe rode and preie ffor þe peple ; as þe prest techeþ For pylgrimes and ffor palmers ; ffor alle þe peple after ...And þan I creed Thanne I crye on my knees ; þat crist ȝeue hem sorowe That baren awey my bolle ; and my brokyn schete Away ffro þe auuter ; þan turned turne I my eiȝen And be-helde how Eleyn ; hath a newe cote I wisshed þan it were myn ; and alle þe webbe after and of mennys leesingez I lawȝe ; þat myn herte aketh And ffor her wynnynge I wepe ; and whayle þe tyme And deme þat þei don ille ; þer I do well wers . who-so vndirnemeþ me here-of ; I hate him dedly after and I wolde þat Iche a wiȝte ; where myn owen knaue For who-so hath more þan I ; That angreth me sore and þus I leue loueles ; like a lether dogge That all my body bolneþ ; ffor bitter of my galle I myȝte not ete many ȝeris ; as a man auȝte For envie and euell wille ; is euell to deffie May no sugre ne switte þing ; aswage my swellinge Ne non diapenidion ; dryue it ffro myn herte Ne neiþer schrefte ne schame ; but who-so schrape my mawe ȝis rede radde I quod repentaunce ; and rede him to þe beste Sorouȝ of Synnes ; is sauacioun of soulis I am sory quod þat segge ; I am but selden oþer and þat makiþ me þus megre ; ffor I ne may me avenge Amongis burgeicis haue I ben ; dwellinge at london and garte bacbytinge be a brokoure ; to blame menis ware whanne he solde and I not ; þan was I redy To lye and to lowre on my neibore ; and lakked lakke his schaffareC2.5.134: The <l>s in lye, lowre, and lakked have decorated ascenders three lines in height. I wolle amende þis if I may ; be myȝth of god almyȝti Ira Now awakiþ wrathe ; with two whiȝte eiȝen ffreris And snevelinge with þe nose ; and his nek hangynge I am wrath quod he ; I was sumtyme a ffrere and couentis gardener ; ffor to gryffyn Impis On lemytouris & legistreris ; lesingis I Impid Tille þei bere leues of lowe speche ; lordis to plese and sithen þei blosmeden abrode ; in boure to here schreftes ☞ And now is ffallyn þer-of a ffructe ; þat ffolk han well leuere Schewen here schrefftis to hem ; þan schreve hem to her parsons and now han parsons parceiued ; þat ffreris partin with hem These possessouris prechin ; and deprauen ffreris And ffreris ffynden hem in deffaute ; as ffolk berin wittenesse That whan þei prechin þe peple ; in many places abouȝte I wrathe walke with hem ; & wisse hem of my bokys Thus þei speken of spiritualte ; þat eiþer dispiciþ oþer Till þei ben boþe beggers ; and be my spiritualte leuen Or ellis alle riche ; and riden abouȝte I wraþe reste neuer ; þat I ne muste ffolowe These wiked ffolk ; ffor swiche is my grace I haue an aunte to nunne & an abbesse boþe hir were leuere suowne or swelte ; or suffre ony peyne I haue ben cook in hir kechon ; and þe couente serued Many monþes with hem ; and with monkis boþe I was þe preoresse potagere ; and oþer pore ladies and made hem Ioutes with Iangelinge ; þat dame Ione was a bastard and dame Clarice a knyȝtis douȝter ; & a cokwolde was hir Syre and dame pernell a prestis ffile ; prioresse worthe sche neuer For she had Child in cherre tyme ; alle oure chapitre it wiste Of wicked wordis I wrathe ; her wortes I made Tyll þou lyxt & þou lyxt ; loupen out at ones and eiþer hitte oþer ; vndir þe cheke had þei had knyues bi crist ; eiþer had kyllyd oþer Seynt gregori was a good pope ; & had a good ffor-witte 7b That no prioresse were preste ; ffor thatC2.5.169:The <h> in that has a decorated ascender two lines in height. he ordeyned Thei hade þan ben infamis ; þei kun so euell holde conceyll Among monkys I myȝte be ; and many tyme I schone For þey ben many ffelle ffreekis ; my ffreris feeris to aspie Boþe prioure and subprioure ; & ȝoure oure pater abbas and if I telle ony talis ; þey takyn hem to-gedris and do me ffaste ffridais ; to brede & to water and am chalengid in þe Champitre Chapitre hous ; as I a childe were and baleysid on þe bare ers ; and no breche bitwynne I ete þer vnhende ffisshe ; & ffeble ale drink C2.5.178:An otiose tilde appears above the <n> in drink. and oþerwhile whan wyn Comeþ ; & I drink C2.5.179:An otiose tilde appears above the <n> in drink. it at euen I haue a fflyx of a ffoule mouþe ; well ffyve daies after alle þe wikkednesse þat I woot ; by ony of oure bretheren I make knowe it couþe it in oure cloyster ; þat alle þe couent wott it Now repente the quod repentaunce ; and reherce þou neuer Conceyll þat þou knowiste ; bi contenaunce C2.5.184:An otiose tilde appears above the <a> in contenaunce. ne be syȝt And drinke C2.5.185:An otiose tilde appears above the <i> in drinke. not ouere-delicatly ; ne to depe neiþer þat þi wille be cause þer-of ; to wrathe myȝte turne Esto sobrius he said ; & asoylid me after and bade me wilne to wepe ; my wikkednesse to amende Auaricia And þan cam coueitise ; I can him not discriue So hungryly and holowe ; Syr heruy him lokede he was bytilbrowed ; and babirlipped also with two blered eien ; as a blynde hagge and as a letheren purs lolled his chekis well synder sidder þan his chyn ; þey cheveled ffor elde and as a bonde-man of his bakon ; his berd was be-drauelid with an hood on his hed ; a lowsy hatte aboue And in a tawny taberde ; of twelue wynter of age All to-torne and baudy ; and ffull of lyse Crepinge but if þat a lowse couude ; haue lopen þe better she shuld sholde noȝt haue walkid þer-on ; so was it þred-bare I haue ben coueitous quod þis caytif ; I be-knowe it here For Sumtyme I seruedsynnne Symme at þe style and was his printyse pliȝte ; his prophete to wayte Friste I lerned to lye ; a leef oþer tweyne wyckidliche to weye ; was my ffriste lesson To wye & to wynchester ; I wente to þe ffaire with many maner marchaundes marchaundise ; as my maister me hiȝte Ne had þe grace of gyle ; goo amonge my schaffare It had ben vnsolde þis Seuene ȝere ; so me god helpe Than drowȝ I me among drapers ; my donet to lerne To drawe þe lesere alonge ; þe lenger it semed Amonge þe riche rayes ; I rendrid a lesson To broche hem with a paknedill ; and playted hem to-gedris and put hem in a presse ; and pynned hem þer-inne Tille ten ȝerdis or twelue ; had tolde out þrettene My wyff was a webber webbe ; and wullen cloþe made he she spake to spynsters ; to spynne it oute and þe pounde þat she payd by ; weyed a quartron more þan myn owen owen owene aunser ; who-so weyed truþe I bouȝte hir barly malte ; sche brewe it to selle peny ale & puddinge ale ; sche pouride to-gedris For laboreris & lowe ffolk ; þat lay be hem-seluen The beste ale lay in my boure ; or in my bed chaunbre And who-so bummed þer-of ; he bouȝte it þer-after a galon ffor a grote ; god woote no lesse and ȝit it come in cuppe-melle ; þis crafte my wyff vside Rose þe regrater ; was hir rith name Sche hath holdyn hukrie ; all hir lyue-tyme and I swere now . so þe ek thee ik ; þat synne wolle I lette and neuer wickidliche weie ; ne wikkid schaffare vse But wenden to walsingham ; and my wyf als And bidde þe rode of bromholme ; bringe me out of dette Repentiste þou euere quod repentaunce C2.5.233:An otiose tilde appears above the <u> in repentaunce. ; or restitucion madiste Ȝis onys I was herbowride quod he ; with an hepe of schapmen I rosse whan þey were areste ; and riffled her malis That was no restitucion quod repentaunce ; but a robbers þeffte þou haddiste ben better worthi ; to be hanged þerfforeC2.5.237: The <b> in better and the <h> in hanged have decorated ascenders three lines in height. þan ffor all þat þou hast ; here now schewed I wende reffelinge were restitucion quod he ; I lernede neuer on book And I can no ffrensheC2.5.240:The <h> in ffrenshe has an otiose bar. in ffeiþ ; but of þe fferþeste ende of northffolk Vsisideste þou Vsidestow euere vsurie quod repentaunce ; in all þi lyf-tyme Nay sothely he said ; saue in my ȝouthe I lernede amongis lumbardis ; and Iues a lesson To wey pens with a peise ; and pare þe heuyeste And lene it ffor loue of þe crosse ; to legge a wed & lese it swiche dedis I dede writte ; if he his day broke I haue mo maners þoruȝ rerages ; þan þoruȝ miseretur et comodat I haue lent lordis ; and ladies my schaffare and ben her brokoure after ; and bouȝte it my-self Eschaunges and cheuysaunces ; with swiche schaffare I dele and lene ffolk þat lese wolle ; a lippe at euery noble and with lumbardis lettres ; I ledde gold to rome and toke it be tayle here ; and tolde þer lesse lenteste þou euere lordis ; ffor loue of here meyntenaunce ȝe I haue lente lordis ; þat louede me neuer after and haue mad many knyȝt ; boþe mercer and draper þat payd neuer ffor his prentisod ; not a peire gloues haste þou pite on pore men ; þat mote nedis borwȝe I haue as moche pite on hem ; as pedler hath on cattis That wolde kylle hem if he myȝt ; ffor coueytise of her skynnes arte þou manliche among þi neiboris ; of mete and of drink C2.5.261:An otiose tilde appears above the <i> in drink. I am holdyn as hende quod he ; as hound is in kechen amonge my neiȝboris nameliche ; swiche a name I haue God lene neuer quod repentaunce ; but þou repente þe raþer The grace on þis ground ; þi good wille to be-sette Ne þin eiris after þe ; haue Ioy of þat þou wynneste Ne þin exsecutores bisette þi siluer ; þat þou hem louest leuest and þat was wonnen with wronge ; with wickyde men be disspendid nota For where I a ffrere ffrere of þat hous ; þer good feiþ & charite is I nolde cope vs with þi tatell catel ; ne oure kirke amende Ne haue a peny to my pitaunce ; of þin . bi myn soule hele For þe best book in oure hous ; þouȝ brente gold were þe leues and I wiste wittirly þou were ; swiche as þou telleste Or ellis þat I couude knowe it ; by ony-skynnes wise Seruus es alterius cum fercula pinguia queris Pane tuo pocius . vescere liber eris Thou arte an on-kynde creature ; I can þe not assoile Tyll þou make restitucion ; and rekene with hem alle and sithen þat reson rolle it ; in þe register of heuene þat þou haste made iche maden good I may þe not asoile Non deimittitur . peccatum ; donec restituatur ablatum & cetera For alle þat han of þi good ; haue god my truþe Ben holden at þe hie dom ; to helpe þe to restitue and who-so leuveþ not þis be sothe ; loke in þe sauȝter glose In miserere mei deus ; wher I mene truþe Ecce enim veritatem dilexisti et cetera . schall neuer werkeman in þis world ; þreiffe with þat þou wynnest Cum sancto sanctus eris & cetera construe me þat on Englisshe Than wex þat schrewe in wanhope ; and wolde haue hangid him-self Ne had repentaunce þe rather ; reconffortide him in þis manere haue mercy in þi mynde ; and with þi mouþ be-seche it For goddis mercy is more ; þan alle his oþer werkis Misericordia eius super omnia opera eius and alle wikkidnesse of þis world ; þat man myȝth do or þenk Nis no more to þe mercy of god ; þan in þe see a glede Omnis iniquitas quantum ad misericordiam dei ; est quasi Sintilla in medio maris For-þi haue mercy in þi mynde ; and marchaundise leue it For þou hast no good ground ; to gette þe with a wastell But if it where with þi tinge tonge C2.5.299:An otiose tilde appears above the <n> in tinge. ; or ellis with þi two handis For þe good þat þou haste getten ; by-gan alle with ffalshed and as longe as þou leueste þer-with ; þou ȝeldiste not but boruȝwest Restytucion and if þou woste neuer to whiche ; ne whom to restitue Bere it to þe bisshope ; and bid him of his grace by-sette it him-self ; as best is ffor þi soule For he shall answere ffor þe ; at þe hie dom For the and many moo ; that man schall ȝeue a rekenyngeC2.5.306: The <t> in that and the <h> in schall have decorated ascenders three lines in height. what he lerned ȝou in lentton ; leue ȝe non oþer And what he lente ȝou of his good ; to witte ȝou ffro synne For he shulde helpe ȝou ; of oure lordis good Gula Now bygynneth gloton ; ffor to go to schrifte and kaires him to kirkeward ; his coupe to schewe and beton þe browster ; bade him good morwe and axede of him with þat ; whedirwarde he wolde To holi kyrke quod he ; ffor to here masse And sithen I wolle be schreven ; and synne no more I haue good ale gossipe quod sche ; glotton wulte þou asay haste þou auȝte in þin purs ; ony hoot spices I haue peper & piones quod ...sche ; & a pound of garlek and a fferþingworthe of ffenell seed ; ffor ffastinge daiez Than gooþ glotton in ; and grette oþes after Cesse þe Souteresse ; satte vn on þe benche watte þe warner ; and his wyff after Thome þe tynker ; and tweyn of his prentise hyke þe haykeney man ; and hue þe nedeler Clarice of Cokkislane ; & þe clerk of þe chirche Dawe þe diker ; and a doseyn oþer Syr pers of pride ; and pernell of fflaundris A ribiboure & a ratonere ; and a raker of þe schepe a roper a ridyngkyng ; and rose þe dischere Godffrey of garlichiþe ; and gefferon Griffyn þe walsche & vpholsters vpholderes of cornhillC2.5.331:C2 alone includes the phrase of cornhill. A similar reference occurs in the C-text at 13.218 in Skeat's edition, which reads Vp-holderes on the hul ; shullen haue hit (i.e. the miser's hoard) to selle. In his note on this line, Skeat glosses vpholderes as dealers in second-hand articles and the hul as Cornhill, where many of their shops were located an heppe ; erly be þe morwe Gouen Geuen C2.5.332:Although the MED attests the form gouen, this scribe does not elsewhere use it; his usual form is ȝeuen. gloton with good chere ; good ale to ansall Clement þe coblere ; caste of his cloke And at þe new ffeire ; he nempnede it to selle Hikke þe hakeyney man ; hitte his hood after And bade bette þe boccher ; ben on his side Ther weren schapmen schosyn ; þis schaffare to preise who-so had þe hood ; shulde haue amendis of þe cloke Two risen vp in rape ; and rounded rouned to-gedris And preysed þese penneworþis ; a partie apart be herself hemselue C2.5.340: The <l> in herself has a decorated ascender three lines in height. Thei couþen not bi her concience ; acordyn in truþe Tyll Robyn þe roper ; aros be þe souþe And nempned him ffor a nounper ; þat no debate nere For to trie þis chaffare ; bitwixen hem þre Hikke þe hosteler ; had þe cloke In couenaunteC2.5.346: An otiose tilde appears above the <o> in couenaunte, and a superfluous minim appears after the first <u>. þat Clemente ; shulde þe cuppe ffille And haue hikkis hood hosteler ; and holde him serued And who þat repentiþ raþer ; shulde arise after And grete well Sir glotton ; with a galon ale Ther was lauȝwinge and lowȝringe ; and late go þe cuppe And so satten seten so tyll euensongtyme; and sungen oþer-while Tyll glotton had globbed ; a galon & a gille His guttus bigunne gotheli to grulle godly C2.5.353:On godly as an allowable form of this verb, see the note on this line in the editions of MSS L and R. ; as two gredi sowes He pissed a potell ; in a pater noster while And blewe his round reuet ruwet ; at his rigge-bonys ende That alle þat herdyn þat horn ; helde her nose after And wischede it had be waxed with a wispe of ffirris firses He myȝte neiþer stepe ne stonde ; er he his staff had And þan gan he to goo ; like a glewmanis bicche Sum-tyme aside ; and sum-tyme arere And As who-so leythe lynes ; ffor to lacche ffouulis And whan he drow to þe durre ; þan dymmed his eiȝen He stumbled on þe þreschold ; and þrew to þe erthe Clemente þe cobler ; cauȝte him be þe myddill For to lyfte him alofte ; and leyde him on his knees And gloton was a grette cherl ; and grymme in lyftinge And cowed vp a cawdell ; in clementis lappe Is non so hungry an hound hound ; in hertford-schyre Durste haue lapped lape of þat leuynges C2.5.369:An otiose tilde appears above the <y> in leuynges. ; so vnloueliche þei smackyd with alle þe woo of þis world ; his wyf and his wenche Barin him home to his bed ; and brouȝten him þer-inne and after al his acsses ; he had an accidie þat he sleppte saturday & sunday ; till sonne wente to reste þan wakyd he of his wynkynge ; & wyped his eiȝen Frist word þat he warvp warp C2.5.375:Although the MED does not attest the form warvp, it was perhaps influenced by wurpan, an attested alternative form of the infinitive. was ; where is þe bolle hys witte gan edwitte him þoo ; how wyckidliche he leuedC2.5.376: The <H> in Hys, the <h> in how, the <k> in wyckidliche, and the<h> in wyckidliche have decorated ascenders three lines in height. and repentaunce C2.5.377:An otiose tilde appears above the <u> in repentaunce. rith þoo ; so Rebukede him þat tyme as þou with wordis & werkis ; hast wrouȝte ille in þi lyff schreve þe and be aschamed þer-of ; and schewe it with mouþe I gloton quod þe gome ; gilti me .ȝilde þat I haue tresspassid with my tunge ; I can not telle how ofte Sworyn godis soule ; & so god meC2.5.382:A double punctus appears above the <e> in me. It may indicate intent to delete, but deletion here would spoil the sense. helpe and holy-dome Ther no nede ne was ; nyne hundrid tymes and ouere-sey me at sopere ; and sum-tyme at nones þat I gloton gyrde vp ; er I had gon a myle and spilte þat myȝte a be be spared ; and spendid on sum hungry Ouere-delicatly on ffastinge-daies ; dronken and eten bothen And satte sum-tyme so long þer ; þat I slepte and ete at ones For loue of talis in tauernes ; to drynk þe more I dynede and hied to þe mete or nonne ; whene ffastinge-daiez werin This schewinge schrefte ; quod repentaunce . shall be merite to þe and þan gan glotton grette ; and grett doell made For his leþer lyff þat he leued had ; and vowed to ffaste And vowed to ffaste ; ffor hunger or ffor þreste Shall neuer ffisshe on ffriday ; diffien in my wombe Tyll abstinaunce my aunte ; haue ȝeuen me leue and ȝit haue I hated hir ; all my lyff-tyme accidia Than cam slouthe all beslabrede ; with two glemy slymy eiȝen I muste sitte said þe segge ; or ellis I shulde nappe I may not stonde ne stowpe ; ne with-ouȝtyn a stoll knele where I brouȝte abedde ; but if my tail-ende it made shulde no ringynge do me rise ; or I were ripe to dyne he be-gan benedicite with a bolk ; and his breste knokkid and roxede & roride ; and rutte at þe laste awake renk quod repentaunce C2.5.405:An otiose tilde appears above the <u> in repentaunce. ; and rape the to schrefte if I shulde die be þis day ; me liste not to loke I can not parffiȝtly my pater-noster ; as þe preste siggeþ syngeþ but I can rimes of robyn hood ; & randolf of chester and neiþer of oure lord ne of oure lady ; þe leste þat is made I haue made vowes ffyfty ; and ffor-ȝeten forȝeten hem on þe morwenC2.5.410: The <h> in haue has a decorated ascender three lines in height. I parfformed neuer pennaunce ; as þe prest me hiȝte Ne riȝth sori ffor my synnes ; ȝit was I neuer And if I bidde ony bedis ; but if it be in wrathe That I telle it telle with my tunge ; is two myle ffro myn herte I am occupied iche day ; haly day and oþer with ydell talis at þe ale ; and oþer-while in chirches godis peyne and his passion ; ffull seldom þenk I on I vesite visited neuer ffeble men ; ne ffetrid ffolk in pittis I haue leuere here an harlotrie ; or somer game of souters or lesingez to lawehe at ; and be-lye my neȝboris Than all þat euere mark made ; matwe Mathew Iohan & lucas and vigelis and ffastinge-daies ; alle þese late I passe and ligge abed in lenton ; and my lemman in myn armes Tyll matynys & messe be don ; and go to þe ffreris Come I to Ite missa est ; I holde me serued I am not schreuen sum-tyme ; but sekenesse it make Not twyes in two ȝere ; and þan vp gesse I schryue me I haue be prest and parson ; passinge þretti ȝere ȝit can I neiþer solfe ne synge ; ne seyntis lyues rede but I can ffynde in a ffelde ; or in a ffurlonge an hare better þan a in beatus vir ; or in beati omnes Construe o clause well ; and lerne kenne it to þi parishenes I can holde loue-daiez ; and holde here a reues rekenynge C2.5.433:An otiose tilde appears above the <y> in rekenynge. and in canon ne decretalis ; I can not rede a lyne If I bigge & boruȝ it ; but if it be taylid I ffor-ȝete it as sone ; & if men me it axe Syx sithes or seuene ; I ffor-sake it with othes and þus tene I trewe men ; ten hundrid tymes and my seriauntis sum-tyme ; her salarie is be-hynde Reuþe is to here þe rekenynge ; whan we shulle rede acountis So with wykkid wille & wrathe ; my werk-men I paye if ony man do me a beneffette ; or helpe me at nede I am vnhynde vnkynde aȝens his curteisie ; and can not vndirstonde it For I haue and haue had ; sum-dell haukis manerez I am not lered with loue ; but if ouȝt lye vndir þe þumbe The kyndenesse þat myn euen-Cristen ; kydden me fferne-ȝere Syxti sithes I slauȝthe ; haue ffor-ȝeten it sithe In speche and in sparinge ; I spynte yspilt many tyme Bothe ffleisshe and ffisshe ; butter mylk and schese Boþe bred and ale ; and many oþer vetailis For slewþenesse Forsleuþed in my seruyse ; till it myȝth serue no man I ran abouȝte in ȝouþe ; and ȝaf me not to lerne and euere sythe haue I ben begger ; ffor my ffoule sleuþe heu michi quod sterilem ; vitam duxi iuuenilem repentiste þou not quod repentaunce C2.5.455: An otiose tilde appears above the <u> in repentaunce. ; and riȝt with þat he swowned Tyll vigilate þe veill ; ffette water at his eien and fflatte it on his fface ; and ffaste on him cried and sayd whare þe ffor whanope ; wolde þe betraye I am sori ffor my synnes ; seie to þy-selue and bete þi-self on þe brest ; and bid him of grace For is no gylt here so grett ; þat his goodnese is more þan satte sleuthe vp ; and seyned him swythe and made avow to-ffor god ; ffor his ffoule sleuþe shall no sunday be þis seuene ȝere ; but sekenesse it lette þat I ne shall do me er day ; to þe dere chirche and here matynis and messe ; as I a monk were shall non ale after mete ; holde me þennes Tyll I haue euensong herd ; I be-hote to þe rode and ȝit wolle I ȝelde aȝeyne ; if if I so moche haue al þat I wickidly wan ; sythen I witte hadde and þouȝ my lyflode lake ; leten I nylle That iche man shall haue his ; er I henns wende and with þe resedue & þe remenaunte ; be þe rode of chestre I shall seke truþe erst ; er I se rome Robert þe rober ; on reddite lokede and ffor þer was nout where-of ; he wepte swithe and ȝit þe synffull schrewe ; said to him-selue Crist þat on þe Caluerie ; vppon þe croise deiedist Thoo dismas my brother ; by-souȝte ȝou of grace And haddiste mercy on þat man ; ffor memento sake So Rewe on this robber ; that reddere he ne ne hathe C2.5.481: The <h> in this, the <h> in that, and the <h> in hathe have decorated ascenders two lines in height. ne neuer wene to wynne ; with crafte þat I owe But ffor þi mekill mercy ; mytigacioun biseche Ne dampne me not ; at domusday ; ffor þat I dede ille what be-ffelle of þis schrewe ; I can not ffaire schewe well I wotte he wepte ffaste ; water with C2.5.486:An otiose mark appears before boþe.boþe his yen and knowlichid his gilt to crist ; ȝit after-sones eftsones That petitenciapenitencia his pijk ; he shulld pulsshe newe and lepe with him ouer lond ; al his lijf-tyme For he had loyn leyen be latro ; lucifers aunte and þan had repentaunce C2.5.491:An otiose tilde appears above the <u> in repentaunce. reuþe . and redde hem alle to knele For I shall beseche ffor ale synffull ; oure saueoure of grace To amende us of oure myssdedis ; and do mercy to us alle Now god quod he of þi goodnesse ; that gunne þe worlde make And of nouȝt madeste ouȝte ; and man moste lyke to þi-selue And sithen suffreste ffor synne ; a sekenesse to vs alle And all ffor þe best as I beleue ; whateuere þe book telliþ O felix culpa o necessarium ade peccatum et cetera . For þoruȝ þat synne þi sonne ; sent was to þis erthe and bi-cam man of a mayde ; mankynde to saue and madiste þi-self with þi sonn ; and vs synneful yliche Faciamus hominem ad ymaginem et Similitudinem nostram Et alibi qui manet in Caritate in deo manet & cetera . and sithe with þi self sonne ; in oure sute deieste deidest On good ffriday ffor mannys sake ; at ffull tyme of þe day There þi-self ne þi sonne ; no sorowe in deþe ffelediste But in oure Secte was þe Sorwe ; and þi sonne it ladde Captiuam duxit Captiuitatem et cetera . loste The sunne ffor sorwe þer-of ; lees his liȝt ffor a tyme Abouȝte mydday whan moste liȝt is ; and meel-tyme of Seyntis Feddiste with þi ffresshe blood ; oure fforfadris in derkenesse Populus qui ambulabat in tenebris vidit lucem magnam And thorw þe liȝte that leepe of the ; luciffer was blenteC2.5.513: The <h> in thorw, the <h> in that, the <h> in the, and the <b> in blente have decorated ascenders two lines in height. and blewe alle thi blessid ; in-to þe blisse of paradice The þred day after ; ȝildiste in oure Sute and Synffull marie þe Seiȝ ; er Seint marie þi dame and to solace synffull ; þou suffridist it so were Non veni vocare iustos set peccatores ad penytenciamC2.5.518:The <c> in peccatores is subpuncted. and al þat mark haþe I-made ; Matheu Iohan & lucas Of þi douȝti dedis ; whern don in oure armes Verbum caro factum est ; et habitauit in nobis and bi so moche me semeþ ; þe sekerere we mowe Bidde and bisiche ; if it be þi wille þat arnt art oure ffader ; & oure broþer ; bibe mercyable til vs And haue reuþe on þese ribauudis ; þat repenten hem here sore That euere þei wraþeden þe in þis world ; in word þouȝt or dede Than hente hope an horn ; of deus tu conuersus viuificabis And blewe it with bieati quorum ; remisse sunt iniquitates That .Alle seyntis in heuene ; Sungen at ones Homines & Iumenta saluabis quemadmodum multiplicasti misericordiam tuam deus & cetera A þouusand of men þoo ; þrungen to-gedris Crieden vpward to crist ; and to his clene moder To haue grace to go with hem ; truþe to seke and þer was wyȝt non so wyse ; þe wey þedir couþe but blustred fforþ as bestis ; ouere bankis and hillis Tyl late was and longe ; þat þei a lede metten Apparaylide as a paynym ; in pilgrimes wise he bare a burdon y-boundyn ; with a blod broodbrode liste In a swyþe wyndis wyse ; y-wounden abouȝte A bolle and a bagge ; he bare bi his side an hundrid of ampullus ; on his hatte sette Signes of Synay ; and schellis of galis and many a crouche on his croke cloke ; and keyes of rome and þe vernycle beffore ; ffor men shulden knowe and se be his signes ; whom he souȝt hadde These ffolk ffreyned ffriste ; ffrom wennes he come Fro Synay he seide ; and ffro oure lordis SepulcreC2.5.547: The <l> in lordis has a decorated ascender three lines in height. In bedelem and in babiloyne ; I haue ben in boþe In Ermonye in Alisaundre ; in many oþer places Ȝe mowe se be my signes ; þat sitten on myn hatte þat I haue walkid ffulle wyde ; in wete & in driȝe and souȝte good seyntis ; ffor my soulis helþe knowiste þou auȝte a corseynte ; þat men callyn ntruþe Canste þou wissen vs þe weye ; where þat he dwelliþ Nay so me god helpe ; sayd þe gom þan I seiȝ neuer palmer with pijk ; ne with scrippe wende axen after him ; er now in þis place Petir quod a plowman ; and put fforþe his hed I knowe him as kyndely ; as clerk doþe his book Concience and kynde witte ; kenned me to his place and dede me swere sikirly ; to serue him ffor euere Boþe to Sowe & to sette ; þe while I swynke myȝte I haue ben his ffolwer ; al þis fifti wynter Boþe sowe his seed ; and ffedde his bestis with-inne & with-ouȝtyn waytyd his prophete I dyke and I delue ; and do þat truþe hotiþ Sum-tyme I sowe ; and sum-tyme I þresshe In taylouris crafte ; & tykers tynkeris crafte ; what truþe deuyse can kan deuyse I weue & I wynde ; and do what truþe hoteþ For þouȝ I seie it my-self ; I serue him to pay Ich haue myn hyre well ; and oþer-whilis more he is þe presteste paiere ; þat pore men knowen he with-halte non hewe his hire ; þat he ne haþe it at euen he is as lowe as a lomb ; and loueliche of speche and if ȝe wilneþ to witte ; where þat he dwelliþ I shall wisse ȝou witterly ; þe wey to his place Ȝhe leue pers quod þese pilgrimes ; and prophered him hire For to wende with hem ; to truþis dwellinge place Nay bi my soule quod peers ; & gan ffor to swere I nolde ffonge a fferþing ; ffor Seynt thomas schryne Truþe wolde loue me þe lesse ; long tyme after nota how þou shalt goon pilgrimage And if ȝe wylneþe to wende well ; this is þe wey thedereC2.5.582: The <l> in wylneþe, the <h> in this, and the <h> in thedere have decorated ascenders two lines in height. þat I shall seye to ȝou ; and sette ȝou in þe sothe Ȝe motton goo þoruȝ mekenesse ; boþe men & wyues ten comamdementescoma[n]dementesC2.5.585.m.1: An otiose tilde appears above the <a> in comamdementes. Tyll ȝe come to concience ; þat crist witte þe sothe þat ȝe loue þeoure lord god ; leueste of alle þingis and þan ȝoure neȝboris nexte ; in non wise apaire Oþer-wyse þan þou woldest ; he wrouȝte to þi-selue And so ...boweþ fforþe be a brok ; beþe buxum of speche Tyll þe ffynde a fforþe ; ȝoure ffadris ȝe honoure honora patrem et matrem et cetera . wadeþ in water ; and wasshe ȝou well þere and ȝe shulle lepe þe lyȝtelyer ; al ȝoure lijf-tyme and so shalt þou swere not ; but if it be ffor nede and nameliche in ydell ; þe name of god almyȝti Than shalt þou come be a crofte ; but come not þer-inne That crofte hatte coueitise ; not menis catell ne her wyues Ne non of her seruauntis ; þat noyen hem myȝte loke ȝe breke no bowes þer ; but if it be ȝoure owen Two stokkis þer stondyn ; and stynte ȝe not þere þey hatten stele not ne slee not ; strike fforth be-ffore and leue hem on þi lifte half ; and loke not þer-after and holde well þin halyday ; hie till euene Than shalt þou blenche at a berueȝ bergh ; bere no ffals wittenesse he is ffrendid fryþed with ffloreyns ; and oþer ffoos many loke þou plukke no plante þer ; ffor perell of þi soulle Than shulle ȝe se seie soþe ; so it be do don In no maner ellis not ; ffor no manny mannes biddinge Than shalt þou come to a courte ; as cler as þe sunne The moot þe is of mercy ; þe maner abouȝte C2.5.610: An otiose tilde appears above the <u> in abouȝte. alle þe wallis ben of witte ; to holde wille ouȝte and kylrnelid with Cristendom ; mankynde to Saue Botraced with beleue so ; or þou best not saued alle þe housis ben hiled ; halles and Chaumbris with no leed but with loue ; & lowe speche as breþeren The brigge is of bidde well ; þe bette may þou spedeC2.5.616: The <h> in The and the <b> in bette have decorated ascenders three lines in height. Iche piler is of penaunce C2.5.617:An otiose tilde appears above the <u> in penaunce. ; of preiere to Seyntis of almes-dedis arn þe hokis ; þe gatis hongyn on Grace hatte þe gateward ; a good man ffor-sothe his man hatte Amende ȝou ; ffor mAny men him knowen Telliþ him þis tokene ; þat truþe witte þe soþe I parfformede þe penaunce C2.5.622:An otiose tilde appears above the <u> in penaunce. ; þe prest me enioynede and am ffull sori ffor my synnes ; and so I shall euere whan I þenke þer-on ; þouȝ I were a pope Biddiþ amende ȝou meke him ; to his maister ones To wayue vp þe wekette ; þat þe womman schette þoo adam and eue eten applis vn-rosted Per euam cuntis clausa est ; & per mariam virginem patefacta est & cetera For he haþe þe key and þe clykette ; þouȝ þe kynge slepe and if grace graunte þee ; to goo in þis wyse þou shall se in þi-self ; truþe sette in þin herte In a cheyne of Charite ; as þou a childe where To suffre him and segge nouȝt ; aȝeine þi siris wille and be warre þan of wraþe ; þat is a wickide schrewe he haþe Envie till him ; þat in þin herte sittiþ and powkiþ fforþe pride ; to preisyn þi-seluen The boldenesse of þi benefetis ; maken þe blynde þan and worþest þou dryuen out as dew ; and þe dore closid keyed and cliketid ; to kepe þe with-ouȝten happely an hundrid wynter ; er þou efte entre Thus myȝtiste þou lesen his loue ; to lete well be þi-selluen and neuer happely efte entre ; tyll grace þou haue and þer ben seuene sistrin ; þat seruen truþe euere and ben porters of þe posternes ; þat to þe place longen That on hatte abstynence ; and humylite anoþerC2.5.645:In the left margin of this line appears a device about two vertical lines in length consisting of two dots with a vertical wavy line above them. Charite and Chastite ; ben his scheff maydynys pacience and pees ; moche peple þei helpen largenesse þe lady ; she lete out ffull many she haþe holpen a þouusande ; out of þe deuyllis pynffolde and who-so is sibbe to þese seuene ; so me god helpe he is wondirliche wondirlicwelcome ; and ffaire vndirffongenC2.5.651: The <H> in He has a decorated ascender three lines in height. and but if ȝe be sibbe ; to Summe of þese seuene It is ffull hard by myn heed ; quod pers ; ffor ony of ȝou alle To gete ingoynge at þe gate þer ; but grace be þe more a cutpurs Now bi crist quod cutpurs ; I haue no kyn þere Nen Nor I quod an apeward ; be out þat I knowe Wow to Wite god quod a wafferere ; wiste I þis ffor soþe sschuld I neuer fforþer a ffoote ; ffor no ffreris prechinge Ȝis quod peers þe plowman ; and poukide all to good mercy is a maydin þer ; haþe myȝth ouere alle and sche is sibbe to alle synneffull ; and hir sonne also and þoruȝ þe help of hem ....Twoo ; hope þou non oþer þou myȝtest gette grace þer ; by so þou go bi tyme a pardoner By seint poul quod a pardouner ; parauenture I be not knowe þere I woll fecche my box with my breuettis ; and a bulle with bisschoppis lettres a comunewomman By crist quod a Comune womman ; þi Companye wolle I ffolwe Thou shallt saie I am þi sister ; I ne woot were þey be-comen t This were a wicked wey ; but who-so had a guyde þat wolde ffolwe us Iche a ffoot ; þus þese ffolk hem mened Quod perkyn þe plouman C2.6.3: An otiose tilde appears above the <u> in plouman. ; bi seint petir of rome I haue an half acrie acre ; to erie ; bi þe hie wey Had I eried þis half acre ; and sowe it after I wolde wende with ȝou ; and þe weie teche This where a long lettinge ; quod a lady in a sleyre what shulden we wommen ; werche þe whilis Summe shulle sowe þe sakke quod peers ; ffor scheddinge of þe whete And ȝe louely ladies ; with ȝoure long ffyngris That ȝe haue silke and sendell ; to Sewe whan tyme is Chesiplis ffor Chapeleyns ; Chirchis to honore wyues and wedowes ; wolle and fflex spynneþ nota Makeþ cloþe I conceill ȝou ; and kenne so ȝoure douȝtrez The nedi and þe nakid ; take hede how þei liggen and casteþ hem cloþis ; ffor so biddiþ truþe For I shall lene hem lijflode ; but if þe lond ffaile Fleisshe and bred boþe ; to riche and to poreC2.6.18:The <h> in riche has a decorated ascender three lines in height. as longe as I leue ; ffor oure lordis loue of heuene and alle maner of men ; þat þoruȝ mete and drink C2.6.20:An otiose tilde appears above the <i> in drink. leuen helpeþ him to werk wiȝtliche ; þat wynneþ ȝoure ffode By crist quod a knyȝt þoo ; he kenneþ us þe beste and on þe teem truely ; tauȝte was I neuer and kenne me quod þe knyȝth ; and wolle I wolle asaie By seynt poul perkyn quod Perkyn ; ȝe propherin ȝou so fairin faire þat I shall swynke and swete ; and sow ffor vs boþe þe leuynge oftrue knyȝtis And oþer labouris do ffor þi loue ; all my lijf-tyme In couenaunteC2.6.28:The first <u> in couenaunte has a superfluous minim. þat þou kepe ; holi kirke and my-selue Fro wastouris and wicked men ; þat þis world stroyen and go hunte hardili ; to hares and to ffoxis To boris and to brokkis ; þat brekyn adoun myn heggis And goo affayte þi ffauconys ; wilde bestis to kylle For swiche comen to my crofte ; and croppyn my whete Curteisliche þe kynȝte þan ; comside his wordis Be my power peers quod he ; I pliȝte þe my truþe To ffulfille þis fforward ; þouȝ I ffyȝte shulde As long as I leue ; I shall þe menteyne Ȝhe & ȝit a poynt quod peers ; I prey ȝou of more loke ȝe tene no tenaunte C2.6.39:An otiose tilde appears above the <a> in tenaunte. ; but truþe wulle asente and þouȝ ȝe mowe amercy hem ; late mercy be taxoure and mekenesse þi maister ; mawgry medis schekis and þouȝ pore men propheren ȝou ; presentis and ȝiftis Nyme it nouȝt in auenture ; ȝe mowe it nouȝt deserue For þou shalte ȝelde it a-ȝeyne ; at on ȝeris ende Purgatory In a ffull perlous place ; purgatorie it hatte Misbede not þi bonnde-men ; þe better may þou spede þouȝ he be þin vndirlinge here ; well may happe in heuene þat he worþiere sitte ; and with more blisse Amice ascende superius þan þou but þou do better ; and leue as þou shuldist For in Charnell and in Chirche ; Cherlis ben euell to knowe Or a knyȝt ffrom a knaue ; know þis in þin herte C1 And be true of thy tunge ; and loke þou talis hateC2.6.53:The <b> in be, the <h> in thy, and the <l> in loke have decorated ascenders three lines in height. But if it be of wisdam or witte ; thi werkmen to schastice Holde with non harlottis ; ne here not here talys And nameliche at mete ; swich men eschewe For it ben þe deuyll disouris ; I do þe to vndirstond I assente be Seyn Iames ; þe kynȝt knyȝt said þanne For to werche bi þi wordis ; þe while my lijf duriþ how peers gooþeon pilgrimage I shall aparaile me quod perkyn ; in pilgrimes wyse and wende ȝou with wiþ yow I wolle ; Tyll we ffynde truþe and caste on my cloþis ; yclouted and hole My cokers and my coffus ; ffor cold of my nailis id est a seed leep" And hange myn hoper ; at myn hals ; in stede of a scrippe a busshell of bred-corn ; bringe me þer-inne For I wolle sowe it myn self ; and sithen woll I wende To pilgrimage as palmers don ; pardon to haue And who-so helpeþ me to erie ; or sowe er I wende shall haue leue be oure lord ; to lacche hire in heruest And make mery þer-myd ; mawgry who-so grucchiþ And all-kyn crafti men ; þat kunne leue in trouþe I shall ffynde hem ffode ; þat ffeiþeffulliche leuen Saffe Iakke þe Iogeloure ; and Ienett of þe stues And danyell þe dyse-pleeyere ; and Emot þe bawde And þe ffrere ffaytoure ; and ffolk of his ordre And Robyn þe rybaudoure ; ffor his rusti wordis Truþe tolde me ones ; and bad me telle it after Deleantur de libro viuencium ; I shuld not dele with hem For holi Chirche is hoton ; of hem no tyþe to take Quia cum iustis non scribantur Thei ben ascaped good auenture ; but god hem amende peers plowmanC2.6.82.m.1:A tilde above the <n> in plowman may represent the possessive <s>.wyfes name dame worche whan tyme is ; peers wijf hiȝte His douȝter hiȝte do riȝt so ; or þi dame shall þe bette His sonne hyȝte suffre ; þi souereynes haue her wille Deme hem not ffor if thou do ; þou schalte fful dere abieC2.6.85:The <h> in hem, the <h> in thou, the <l> in schalte, and the <b> in abie have decorated ascenders three lines in height. late god worþe with all ; ffor his worde techiþ For now I am olde & hore ; & haue of myn owen To penaunce C2.6.88:An otiose tilde appears above the <a> in penaunce. & pilgrimage ; I wolle passe with þese oþer For I wolle or I wende ; do writte my biqueste Testementum petriplowman In dei nomine amen ; I make it my-selue he shall haue myn soule ; þat beste haþe deserued it And ffro þe ffende it deffende ; ffor so I beleue Tyll I come to his acountis ; as my credeC2.6.93:An otiose tilde appears above the <r> in crede. me telliþ To haue a reles & remission ; on þat rentall I leue The kyrke shall haue my Careyn ; and kepe my bonys For of my corn & catell ; he crauede þe tyþe I paid it him prestely ; ffor perell of my soule For-þi is he be-holdyn holden I hope ; to haue me in his messe and megyn mengen in his memorie ; Amonge alle cristen My wijff schal haue of þat I wan ; with truþe & no more and dele amonge my douȝtres ; and my dere childrin For þouȝ I die to-day ; my dettis ar quyte I bare home þat I borwed ; er I to bedde ȝede and with þe residue & þe remenaunte ; bi þe rode of lukes I wolle wurschepe þerwith ; truþe be my lyue and be his pilgrime at þe plow ; ffor pore mennys mennes sake My plowffoot schall be my pikestaff ; and picche atwo þe rotus and helpe my culter to kerue ; & clense þe fforwis Now is perkyn & his pilgrymes ; to þe plow ffaren To erie þis half acre ; holpyn him many Dikers and deluers ; diggeden vp þe balkis Ther-with was perkyn apaid ; & preised hem ffaste Oþer werkemen þer weren ; þat wrouȝten ffull ȝerne Iche man in his maner ; made him-self to done and summe to plese perkyn ; pikide vp þe wedis at hie prime peers ; lete þe plow stande To ouere-seen hem him-self ; & who-so beste wrouȝte he shulde be hired þer-after ; whan heruest-tyme come C2 And than setten summe ; & Sungen at the aleC2.6.119: The <h> in than and the <h> in the have decorated ascenders three lines in height. And holpen erie his half acre ; with hey trolly llolly Now be þe perel of my soule quod peers ; all in pure tene but ȝe arise þe raþer ; and rape ȝou to werche schall no greyn þat groweþ ; glade ȝou at nede And þouȝ ȝe die ffor doel ; þe deuel haue þat reccheþ þo werin ffaytouris afferde ; & ffeyned hem blynde Summe leyden her legges aliry ; as swiche losellis kunne and mane made her mone to peers ; and preied him of grace For we haue no lymmes to laboure with ; lord ygracied be ȝe and we preied preie ffor ȝou peers ; & ȝoure plow boþe That god of his grace ; ȝoure greyne multiplie And ȝelde ȝou of almes ; þat ȝe ȝeuen us here of ydell beggers For we mowe not swynke ne swete ; swiche sekenesse us eyliþ If þis be soþe quod peers ; I schall it sone aspie ȝe ben wastouris I wotte well ; & truþe woot þe soþe and I am his olde hyne ; & hiȝte him to warne whiche þei weren in þis werld ; his werkmen appayred ȝe wasten þat men wynnen ; with traueile and tene And truþe shall teche ȝou ; his tem to dryue or ȝe shulle ete barli brede ; and of þe broke drink C2.6.139:An otiose tilde appears above the <n> in drink. But if he be blynde or broken-leeggid C2.6.140: An otiose tilde appears above the <o> in broken. ; or bolted with Irnes he shalte shal ete swete bred ; and drinkC2.6.141:An otiose tilde appears above the <n> in drink. with my-self Till god of his goodnesse ; amendment him sende and ȝe myȝte trauaile as truþe wolde ; & take mete and hire To kepe kyne in þe ffeelde ; þe corn ffro þe bestis Dyken or deluen ; or dyngen vppon scheues Or helpe make morter ; or bere muke affelde In leccherie and losengerie ; ȝe leuen & in sleuþe and all is þoruȝ sufferaunce ; þat veniaunce C2.6.148:An otiose tilde appears above the <a> in veniaunce. ȝou ne take Of heremytes Of Ac ancres & hermytes ; þat eten not but at ones And no more er morwe ; myn almesse shulle þe þei haue And catell to cope hem with ; þat han cloistris and chirchis And Robert renne abouȝte ; shalle no noȝt haue of mynC2.6.152:The <b> in Robert, the <b> in abouȝte, and the <h> in haue have decorated ascenders three lines in height. In addition, a horizontal geometric design fifteen characters in length is appended to the ascender of the <f> in of. Ne postelus but if but þei preche kunne ; and haue power of þe bishope They shall haue payn & potage ; and make hem at ese For it is an vnresounable religion ; þat haþe no þing in certeyn þan gan a wastoure to wraþe him ; and wolde haue I-ffouȝten And to peers plowman ; profered his gloue a bretoner a bragger ; abostede peers als and bade him go pisse him with his plow ; ffor-pyned schrew wilte þou or nylt þou ; we wolle haue oure wille Off þi ffloure and of þi fflesshe ; ffecche whan vs likiþ And make us merie þer-with ; maugry þi chekis þan peers plowman ; pleynede him to þe knyȝt To kepe him as couenaunt was ; ffro cursid schrewis and ffro þese wastours wolf-skynnes ; þat makeþ þe world dere For þo wasten & wynnen noȝt noȝt and ; þat ilke while worþe neuer plente amonge þe peple ; þe while my plow liggeþ Milez Curteisliche þe knyȝt þanne ; as his kynde wolde warnede wastoure ; and wissed him þe better Or þou shallt abigge be þe lawe ; bi þe ordre þat I bere wastoure I nas not wonte to werche quod wastoure ; & now I nyl bigynne and lete lyȝt of þe lawe and lesse of þe knyȝt . and sette peers at a pese ; and his plow boþe and manacede peers & his men ; if þei mette eft-sones Now be þe perell of my soule quod peers ; I shall appeire ȝou alle And houpyde after hunger ; þat herde him at þe ffrist Awreke me of þese wastouris quod he ; þat þis world schenden hunger in haste þoo ; hente wastoure bi þe mawe and wronge him so bi þe wombe ; þat boþe his yen wattred He buffe...teddin buffetted þe britoner ; abouȝte þe schekis þat he lokede lyke a lanterne ; all his lijf after he bette hem so boþe ; he brast nere her guttus Ne had peers with a peise loffe ; preid hunger to sesse þei haden ben doluen boþe ; ne deme þou non oþer C3 suffre hem leue he sayde ; and late hem ete with hoggysC2.6.185:The <h> in hem, the <h> in he, the <l> in late, and the <h> in with have decorated ascenders three lines in height. Or ellis benes and bren ; & bakon ybaken to-gedris Or ellis mylk & meny mene ale ; þus preied peers ffor hem Faytouris ffor ffer þer-of ; fflowen in-to bernes and fflappyd on with ffleyles ; fro morwyn tyll euen That hunger was not so hardy ; on hem ffor to loke For a potffull of pesen ; þat peers had ymakyd an heepe of hermytis ; hentyn hem spades and kyttyn here copis ; and curtbies hem made how beggers andwastouris ben schasticed And wenten as werkmen ; with spades & schouelis and doluyn and dykenden dikeden ; to dryue away hunger blynde and bedrede ; where botened a þouusand That sytten to begge siluer ; sone where þei helid For þat was bakon ffor bayard ; was bote ffor many hungry and many begger ffor benes ; buxum was to swynk and iche a pore man wel payd ; to haue pesyn ffor her hire And what peers preyed hem to do ; as prest as a sperark Sperhauk And þer-of was peers proude ; and put hem to werk And ȝaff hem mete as he myȝth afforþe ; and resonable hire Than had peers pete ; & preied hunger to wende Home in-to his owen erthe ; and holdyn him þere For I am well awrokyn now ; of wastouris þoruȝ þi myȝt And I preye þe or þou passe ; quod peers to hunger Of beggers of bidders ; what best be to don For I woot well be þou went ; þei wull do fful ille For myscheff it makiþ ; þei be so meke now and for deffauȝte of her ffode ; þese ffolk is at my wille and ȝit þey arn my blody brereren breþeren quod peers ; ffor god bouȝte vs alle Truþe tauȝte me ones ; to loue hem ichon and to helpe hem of alle þing ; ay as hem nediþ And now wolde I witte of þe ; what were þe beste And how I myȝte amaister hem ; and make hem to werche Bolde beggers Here now quod hunger ; and holde it ffor a wisdam Bolde beggers and bigge ; þat mowe her bred be-swynke with houndis brede and hors bred ; holde vp her hertisC2.6.219:The <h> in with, the <b> in brede, the <h> in hors, the <h> in holde, and the <h> in her have decorated ascenders three lines in height. abate hem with benes ; ffor bolnynge of heher wombe and if þei grucche þanne ; bydde hem to swynke and he shall soupe swetter ; whanne he it haþe deserued And if þou ffynde ony ffreik ; þat ffortune haþe appeyrid ofr ony manere ffawti man ; ffonde þou swiche to knowe Comfforte hem with þi catell ; ffor cristis loue of heuene loue hem and lene hem ; ffor so þe lawe techeþ Alter alterius onera portate et cetera . And alle manere of men ; þou myȝtist aspie That nedi ben and nouȝti ; helpe hem with þi goodes loue hem and lacke hem not ; late god take þe veniaunce þouȝ þei don yuell ; late god worthe Michi vindictam et ego retribuam And if þou wilte be gracious to go ; do as þe gospell techeþ And biloue þe amongis lowmen ; so schalte þou lacche grace Facite vobis Amicos de mammona iniquitatis I wolde not greue god quod peers ; ffor all þe good on grounde Miȝte I Synneles do as þou seist ; seid peers þanne ȝhe I behote þe quod hunger ; or ellis þe bible lieþe Go to genesis þe geaunt ; þe engendroure of vs all In sudore and in swynk ; þou shalt þi mete tillie and laboure ffor þi lijflode ; and so oure lord hiȝte and sapience seiþ þe same ; I seiȝ it in þe bible Piger pro frigore ; no ffeeld nolde tilie And þer-ffore shall he begge & bide bidde ; and no man bete his hunger Mathu with mannys fface ; mouþed þese wordis þat seruus nequam had a nam ; & ffor he nolde not schaffare he had maugry of his maister ; ffor euere-more after and be-nam him his nam ; ffor he ne wolde worche and ȝaff þat nam to him ; þat ten nammes hadde and with þat he said ; þat holi chirche it herde he þat haþe shall haue ; & helpe þer it nedeþ And he þat nouȝt haþe . shall not haue ; and man no man hym helpe C4 And that he weneth well to haue I wolle it him beren bireue C2.6.253:The <h> in that, the <h> in weneth, the <h> in haue, and the <h> in him have decorated ascenders three lines in height. kynde witt wolde þat iche a wiȝte wrouȝte Or in dykinge or in deluynge C2.6.255:An otiose tilde appears above the <y> in deluynge. ; or traueilinge in prayeris Contemplatijf lijf or actijf ; crist wolde þei wrouten C2.6.256:The preceding two lines are linked at the right by a bracket. The sauȝter seiþ in þe salme ; of beati omnes The ffreek þat ffediþ him-self ; with his ffeiþffull laboure labores manuum tuarum et cetera . he is blessid be þe book ; in bodi and in souleC2.6.260:C2 alone transposes ll. 259 and 260. Ȝit I praie ȝou quod peers ; pur charite & ȝe kunne leche-craft ony leef of leche-crafte ; lere it me my dere For summe of my seruantes & my-self ; ben seke oþer-whyle Of alle þe weke worchen not ; so oure wombe akeþ I woot well quod hunger ; what seeknesse ȝou eiliþ Ȝe han manged to moche ; & þat makiþ ȝou to grone And I hote þe quod hunger ; as þou þin hele wilneste þat þou drinke C2.6.268:An otiose tilde appears above the <n> in drinke. no day ; er þou dyne sum-what Ete not I hote þe ; er hunger þe take C2.6.269:The preceding two lines are linked at the left by a bracket. and sende þe of his sauce ; to sauere with þi lipis and kepe sum to soper tyme ; and sitte not to longe and rise vp er appetijt ; haue eten his ffille late not Sir Surffayt ; Sitten at þi borde leue him not ffor he is leccherus ; and lekerous of his tunge And after many maner metis ; his mawe is afygred afyngred And if þou diete þe þus ; I dar ley myn eres þat phesik shall his ffurrid hood ; ffor his ffode selle and his cloke of calabre ; with alle þe knoppis of golde And be ffayne C2.6.279:An otiose tilde appears above the <y> in ffayne. be my ffeiþ ; his phesik to lete And lere to laboure with lond ; ffor lijfelode is swete Leches ar murderers For murþerers ar many leches ; lord hem amende They don men dye þoruȝ her drynkis ; er his tyme destynee wolde C2.6.282:The preceding two lines are linked at the left by a bracket. By Seynt poul quod peers ; þese arn prophetable wordis wende now hunger whan þou wylte ; þat well be þe euere For this is a louely lessoun ; lord it the ffor-ȝeldeC2.6.285:The <h> in this, the <l> in louely, the <l> in lord, and the <h> in the have decorated ascenders three lines in height. Bihote god quod hunger ; henns wulle I not wende Tyll I haue dyned bi þis day ; and I-drunke C2.6.287:An otiose tilde appears above the <u> in I-drunke. boþe I haue no peny quod peers ; polettis ffor to bigge Ne neiþer goos ne gryis ; but two grene schesis A ffewe cruddis and crem creme and ; an hauer cake and two loues of benes & bran ; y-baken ffor my ffauntis And ȝit I sey be my soule ; I haue no salt bakon Ne no cokeneye by crist ; coloppis to make And I haue percelly & porettis ; & many cole plantis And eke a cow & a calf ; and a carte mare To drawe affelde my dunge ; þe while þe wedir is drie And bi þis lijflode we motten leuen ; till heruest-tyme come And bi þat I hope to haue ; herueste in my crofte And þanne may I dyȝte þi dyner ; as me dere likeþ Al þe pore peple ; þo pesscoddis ffetchyn benes and bakon apples ; þei brouȝten in her lappis Chibollis and cheruellis ; & ripe cheries many To make peers a present ; to plese with his hunger Al hunger eete in haste ; and askede after more Thanne pore ffolk ffor ffeere ; ffeddyn hunger ȝerne with grene porettis & pesyn ; to poysyn hunger þei þouȝten Bi þat neyȝhede it herueste ; new corn come to chepinge Thanne was ffolk ffayne C2.6.308:An otiose tilde appears above the <y> in ffayne. ; and ffedde hem of þe beste with good ale as glotton tauȝte ; and gerte hunger to slepe and þo wolde wastoure not werche ; but wandrid abouȝte Ne no begger ete brede ; þat benes in werren But of coket or clere-matyn ; or ellis of clene whete Ne non halpeny ale ; in no wyse drink C2.6.313:An otiose tilde appears above the <n> in drink. But of þe beste & þe brouneste ; þat in boruȝ is to selle laboreres þat had no londe ; but leue with her handis C5 wolden ete no nyȝth-olde wortis ; ne drynke no peny-AleC2.6.316:The <l> in Wolden, the <h> in nyȝth, the <k> in drynke, and the <l> in ale have decorated ascenders two lines in height. But ffresche fflesshe oþer ffisshe ; ffried oþer bakon And þat chaude or plus chaud ; ffor chillinge of her mawe And but he be hie hiride ; ellis wolle he chide aȝeins catonsC2.6.230:An otiose tilde appears above the <n> in catons. conceyll ; comseþ he to Iangle Paupertatis onus ; pacientur fferre memento he greueþ him aȝein god ; and grucchiþ aȝeyn .....reson and he cursiþ þe kyng ; and alle his conceill after Swyche lawe lawes to loke ; laboreris to greue And whilis hunger was her maister ; wolde þei not chide Ne stryue aȝens his statute ; so sterliche sterneliche he lokede And I warne ȝou weerkemen ; wynneþ while ȝe mowen For hunger hidirward ; hastiþ him ffaste he shall awake with water ; wastouris to chastice Er ffyue ȝere be ffulffild ; swyche ffamyn shall arise þoruȝ fflodez & ffoule werdis ; ffructus fruytes schall ffaile And so sayde Saturne ; and sente ȝou to warne ☞ whanne ȝe seen þe sunne amys ; & two monkes heedis And a mayde haue þe maistrie ; & multiplie be eyȝte þanne shall deþe with-drawe ; & derthe be iustice And dawe þe dyker ; deye ffor hunger But if god of his goodenesse ; granȝte graunte vs a trwe Passus octauus[septimus]de Visione .   This passus heading actually appears in the right margin of the penultimate line of Passus 6. written in hand2, it wrongly identifies the passus which follows, Passus 7. t Truþe herd telle her-of ; and to peers sente to taken his teem ; and tilie þe erthe And purchase purchaced him a pardon ; a pena & a culpa For him & ffor his eyres ; ffor euere-more after and bade him holde him at home ; and erien his leyes and alle þat holpen him to erie ; to sette or to sowe Or ony oþer myster ; þat myȝte peers auayle pardon with peers plowman ; truþe haþe i-graunted kyngis and knyȝtis ; þat kepen holy chirche and ryȝtffully in rewmes ; rulen þe peple han pardon thoruȝ purgatorie ; to passe ffull lyȝtC2.7.11:   The <h> in Han, the <h> in thorn, and the <l> in lyȝt have decorated ascenders three lines in height. with patriarkis & prophetis ; in paradice to be ffelawe Bisschoppis y-blesside ; if þei ben as þey shulden legistres of boþe þe lawez ; þe lewide þer-with to preche In as moche as þei mown ; amende alle synffull arne pyres with þe appostelis ; þis pardon peers schewyth And at þe day of dom ; at þe hie deys to sitte Marchundis Marchauntes in þe margyne ; hadden many ȝeris And non a pena & a culpa ; þe pope nolde hem graunte For þei holden not her halydaies ; as holi chirche techeþ And ffor þei sweryn be her soule ; and so god muste hem helpe aȝeins clene concience ; her catell to selle and vndir her secrett seel ; truþe sente hem a lettre That þei shulde bigge boldely ; þat hem likid beste And sythen selle it aȝeyn ; and saue þe wynnynge how þou shalt doþin almes And amende mesondeux þer-myd ; and mysseyse ffolk helpe And wikked weyes ; wyȝtlyche hem amende And do bote to brigges ; þat to-broken weren Marien maydenes ; or maken hem Nunnes pore peple and presoneris ; ffynde hem her lijflode And sette scolers to scole ; or to summe oþer craftis Releue religion ; and rente hem better C2.7.32:   the preceding two lines are linked at the left by a bracket. And I shall sende ȝou my-self ; Seynt myhel myn archaungell Tha.t no deuyl shall ȝou dere ; ne fferre ȝou in ȝoure doynge And wite ȝou ffro wanhope ; if ȝe wulle þus worche And sende ȝoure soulis in-to sauyte ; to my Seyntis in Ioye þenne were marchaundis merie ; and weppeten ffor Ioye And preysed peers þe plowman ; þat purchaced þis bulle men of Law Men of lawe leest pardon had ; þat pleseden pleteden ffor mede For þe sauȝter saueþ hem not ; swyche as takyn ȝiftis And namely of Innocentes ; þat non yuel kunnen Super Innocentem munera non accipies Pledours shulle pyne hem ; to plete ffor swiche & helpe Prynces and prelatis ; shulde paye ffor her trauaile C6 A regibus et princibus principibus erit merces eorumC2.7.45:   The initial <A> and the <b> in principibus have decorated ascenders two and three lines in height respectively. And many Iustices and Iuroure many a Iustice and Iurour ; wolden ffor Ion do more þanne pro dei pietate ; leue þou non oþer And he þat spendiþ his speche ; and spekiþ ffor þe pore That is Innocente and nedy ; and no man appaireþ Comfortiþ him in þat caas ; with-ouȝtyn coueytise of ȝiftis And schewiþ lawe ffor oure lordis loue ; as he it haþe lerned schal no deuyl at his deþe-day ; deren him a myte þat he ne worþ saue his and his soule ; þe sauuter bereþ wittenesse Domine quis habitabit in tabernaculo tuo and to bigge water ne wijnd ; ne witt ne fiere ne þe ferþe These ffoure þe ffader of heuene ; made to his ffolde in comune These ben truþis tresore tresores ; true ffolk to helpe That neuer shall waxe ne wanye ; with god him-selue whan þey drawyn vn-to þe deþ deþ and ; Indulgences wolden haue his pardon is ffull pitit ; at her partinge hens þat ony mede of mene men ; ffor his motinge takiþ ȝe legistres and lawyers ; holdyn þis ffor truþe That if þat I lye ; matheu is to blame For he bade me take ȝou þis ; and þis prouerbe me tolde Quodcumque vultis vt faciant vobis homines facite eis Alle leuynge C2.7.66:An otiose tilde appears above the <y> in leuynge. laboreris ; þat leuen with her handis That trueliche taken ; and trueliche wynnen And leuen in loue and in lawe ; ffor her lowe hertis Han þe same obsolucion ; þat sent was to peers Beggers andBydders . Beggers ne bidders ; ne ben not in þe bulle But if þe suggestion be soþe ; þat schapeþ hem to begge For he þat beggiþ or bit ; but if he haue nede he is ffals with þe ffende ; and deffraudiþ þe nedy And also be-gyliþ also he bigilyþ þe gyuer ; aȝeynys his wille For if he wiste he were not nedy ; he wolde it gyue anoþer þat were more nedy þan he ; so þe nedyeste shulde be holpyn Caton kenneþ me þus ; and þe clerk of stories Caton ofalmes dedis Cui des videto ; is catonnys techingeC2.7.78:   The <h> in techinge has a decorated ascender three lines in height. and in þe stories he techiþ ; to be-stowe þis þyn almes Sit Elemosina tua in manu tua donec studeas cui des And gregori was a good man ; and bad vs ȝeuen alle .That asken ffor his loue ; þat vs alle leneþ Non eligas cui miserearis ne fforte pretereas illum qui meretur accipere Quia in-sertum est pro quo deum magis placeas For ȝe woten neuer who is worþi ; and god wott who haþe nede In him þat takiþ is þe trecherie ; if ony treson walke For he þat ȝeueþ ȝeldeþ ; and ȝarkiþ him to reste And he þat biddiþ borwiþ ; and bringiþ him-self in dette For beggers borwyn euere-mo ; and her boruȝ is god almyȝty To ȝelden hem þat ȝeuen hem ; and ȝit vsure more Quare non dedisti pecuniam meam ad mensam vt ege veniens cum vsuris exigere & cetera For-þi bidde not ȝe beggers ; but if ȝe haue nede ffalse beggers For so whoso may bigge him bred ; þe book beriþ wittenesse he þat haþ ynouȝ þat haþe bred I-now ; þouȝ he haue not ellis Satis dyues est qui non ; indiget pane late vsage be ȝoure solace ; of seyntis lyues redinge þe book banneþ beggerie ; & blameþ in þis manere Iunior fui etenim senui & non vidi iustum derelictum nec semen eius querens panem & cetera . For ȝe leuen in no loue ; ne no lawe holdyn Many of ȝou ne weddyn nouȝt ; þe wymmenC2.7.100An optiose tilde appears above the <y> in wymmen. ȝe with delyn but as whilde bestis with we-he ; & worþ vp & worchen and bringen fforþe barnes ; þat bastardis men callen Or þe bak or summe ban ; he brekiþ in his ȝouþe and sithen gon ffaiten with her fauntis ; ffor euere-more after þer is mo mysshapped peple ; amongis þese beggers þan of alle manere men ; þat on þis molde walken and þei þat leuen þus her lyf ; mown loþe þe tyme That euere he was man wrouȝt ; whanne he shall hens ffare Right Beggers and olde men and hore ; þat helples ben of strengþe and wymmen with child ; þat worche ne mown Blynde and beddrede ; and broken her membris C7 That taken þese mysheues ; mekeliche as messellis & oþerC2.7.112:   The <h> in mysheues has a decorated ascender three lines in height. han a pleyn pardon ; as þe plowman him-seluen For loue of here lowe hertis ; oure lord haþe hem graunted Her penaunce C2.7.115:An otiose tilde appears above the <u> in penaunce. & her purgatorie ; here on þis erthe peers quod a preste þo ; þi pardon muste I rede For I wolle construe iche a clause ; and kenne it þe on Englishe and peers at his preiere ; þe pardon vnffoldyn vnfoldeþ and I behynde hem boþe ; be-helde all þe bulle alle in two lynes it lay ; & not a leef more Trew par isdo-well And was wrettyn ryȝth þus ; in wittenesse of truþe Et qui bona egerunt ibunt in vitam eternam qui vero mala in ignem eternum Peter quod þe prest þo ; I can no pardon ffynde but do well and haue well ; and god shall haue þi soule and do yuell and haue yuell ; hope þou non oþerC2.7.125:   The preceding two lines are joined by a bracket at the left. But after þi deþ-day ; þe deuell shall haue þi soule and peers ffor pure tene ; pullide it atwynne and sayd si ambulauero in medio vmbre mortis non timebo quoniam tu mecum es I shall sesse of my sowynge quod peers ; & swynke not so harde Ne be abouȝte my beli Ioy ; so besili no more of preieris & penaunce C2.7.131:An otiose tilde appears above the <u> in penaunce. my plow ; shall be her-after and wepe whan I shulde slepe ; þouȝ whete bred me ffaile þe prophete his payn hete ; in penaunce & in sorowe By þat þe sauter seiþ ; so deden many oþer That loueþ god lelli ; his lijflode is ffull esy Fuerunt michi lacrime mee panes die ac nocte and but if luke lye ; he lereþ vs be ffoulis we shulde not be to besy ; abouȝte þe worldis blis Ne soliciti sitis ; he seiþ in þe gospell and scheweþ us be ensaunplis ; oure-seluen to wisse The ffoulis in þe ffeeld ; who ffynte hem mete at wynter haue þey no gerner to go to ; but god ffynde fynt hem alle what quod þe prest to perkyn ; peter as me þinkeþ Thou art lettered a litill ; who lernede the on bokeC2.7.144:   The <h> in Thou, the <l> in litill, the <h> in who, and the <h> in the have decorated ascenders two lines in height. Abstinence þe abbesse quod peers ; myn abc me tauȝte and concience come afterwarde ; & kende me moche more where þou a preste peers quod he ; þou myȝteste preche where þou shuldeste as dyu.ynoure in dyuynite ; with dixit in-sipiens to þi teme lewde lorell quod peers ; litill lokiste þou on þi bibill Or on salomones sawes ; selden þou be-holdist Eice derisores & iurga iurgia cum eis ne crescant & cetera The preste & perkyn ; apposede eiþer oþer And I þoruȝ her wordis ; awoke and wayted abouȝte and seie þe sunne in þe souþe ; satte þat tyme metteles & monyles ; on maluerne hillis mvsinge on þese metellis ; and my wey I ȝede Many tyme þese Metellis ; han made me studie of þat I seie slepinge ; if it so be myȝte and also ffor peers þe plowman ; ffull pensif in herte and whiche a pardon peers hadde ; all þe peple to comforte And how the prest impugnede it ; with two propre wordis And I haue no sauoure ; in sompnewarie . ffor I see it ofte ffaile Cato & canonystres ; conceilyn vs to leue To sette sadenesse in sompnewarie ; ffor Sompnia ne cures and ffor þe book of þe bible ; beritth wittenesse how danyell dyuyned ; þe dremes of a kynge That was Nabugodonosor ; nemed of clerkis Danyel seyd sir kyng ; þi dremys be-tokyn þat vnkouþe knyȝtis shull come ; þi kyngdam to cleue Amongis lower lordis ; þi lond shall be departid And as danyell dyuyned ; in dede it ffelle after The kynge lees his lordshipe lordschipe ; and lower men it had and Ioseph mette merveilousliche ; how þe mone & Sunne And þe eleuene sterris ; haylesed hem alle þanne Iocob iugged ; iosphs Iosephes sweuene Bew fitz quod his ffader ; ffor de-ffaute C2.7.176: An otiose tilde appears above the <a> in de-ffaute. we shulen I my-self and my sones ; seche þe ffor nede It be-ffelle as his ffader saide ; in pharaones Pharaoes tymeC2.7.178: The <I> in It is decorated and contains a flourish. The <b> in be-ffelle and the <h> in his have decorated ascenders three lines in height. þat Ioseph was iustice ; egypt to loken it be-ffelle as his ffader tolde ; his ffrendis þer him souȝteC2.7.180:The first minim of the <u> in souȝte has faded or been erased. and alle þis makiþ me ; on þese metellis to þenke and how þe prest preiede preuedpraysed ; no pardon to do-well and demed þat do-well ; indulcences indulgences passed By-ennalis & tryennalis ; and bisshoppis lettres and how do-well at þe day of dom dome is ; digneliche vndirffonged and passiþ alle þe pardon ; of Seint petrus chirche For-þi I rede ȝou renkis ; þat riche ben on þis erthe vppon triuste of ȝoure tresore ; triennalis to haue Be ȝe neuer þe balder ; to breke þe ten hestis and nameliche ȝe maistris ; meyris & iugges C2.7.190:   The preceding four lines are linked at the left by a bracket. That han þe welþe of þis world ; and wise men ben holden To purchace ȝou pardon ; at þe papis bullis at þe dredffull dom ; whanne deed shall arise And come al be-ffor criste ; acountes to ȝelde how þou leddiste þi lyff here ; and his lawes kepteste and how þou dedist day be day ; þe dom woll reherce of pardon A poke ffull of pardon þer ; ne prouyncialis lettris þouȝ ȝe be ffounde in þe ffraternite ; of alle þe ffoure ordris and haue indulgences double-ffolde ; but if do-well ȝou helpe I sette ȝoure patentes & ȝoure pardon ; at a pies hele For-þi I conceille alle cristen ; to crie god mercy and marie his moder ; be oure mene bitwynne þat god ȝeue vs grace here ; er we gon hens Swiche werkis to werche ; while we ben here þat after oure deþ-day ; do-well reherce At þe day of dom ; we deden as he hyȝte Explicit visio Willelmi de petroplowman . Et sequitur vita de dowellDobett et Do-beste secundum Wytt & reson Passusoctauus t Thus arobid yrobed in russete ; I romede abouȝte al a somer seson ; ffor to seke do-well And ffrayned ffull ofte ; of ffolk þat I mette If ony wiȝte wiste were ; do-well was at Inne And what man he myȝt be ; of many men I axedC2.8.5:   The <h> in what and the <b> in be have decorated ascenders two lines in height. was neuer whiȝt as I wente ; þat me wisse kouþe Tille it be-ffelle on a ffryday ; two ffreris I mette Maistris of þe menours ; men of grett witte I haylesed hem hyndeliche ; as I had lerned and preied hem pur charite ; er þei passed fforþer If þey knewen ony cuntre ; or costis as þei wenten where þat do-well dwelliþ ; doþe me to witte For þei beþ men of þis molde ; þat moste wyde walkyn And knowen cunttres and courtis ; & many kyns places boþe princes paleycisC2.8.15:The supralinear <a> seems to have been added because the letter on the line was spoiled by an inkblot. ; & pore mennys cotis and do-well & do-yuell ; where þei dwellyn boþe Amongis vs quod þe menours C2.8.17: An otiose tilde appears above the <o> in menours. ; þat man is dwellinge and euere haþe as I hope ; & euere shall here-after Contra Contra quod I as a clerk ; & comside to dispute and said hem soþely ; Sepcies in die cadit iustus Septies in diecadit iustus Seuene sithes seiþ þe book ; synneþ þe riȝtfull And who-so synneþ he said ; doþe yuell as me þinkeþ Ergo he is not alwey ; amongis ȝou ffreris he is oþer-while ellis-where ; to wisse þe peple I shall seye þe my sone ; sayd þe ffrere þanne how Seuene sythes þe sadmansad man ; on a day synneþ similitudo by By a ensample quod þe ffrere ; I shall þe ffaire schewe latte bringe a man in a boot ; amydis þe brode water þe wynd and þe water ; & þe boot wagginge makiþ a man many tyme ; to ffalle & to stumble For stonde he neuer so styffe ; he stumbleþ if he moueþ and ȝit is he saff and sound ; and so him be-houeþ For if he ne arise þe raþer ; and rauȝte to þe sterne þe wynde wolde with þe water ; þe boot ouere-þrowe And þanne where his lyfe loste ; þoruȝ lacchesse of him-selue And thus it ffalliþ ; quod þe ffrere ; by ffolk here on ertheC2.8.36:   The <h> in thus and the <b> in by have decorated ascenders three lines in height. þe water is likened to þe world ; þat wanyeþ and waxeþ þe goodis of þis grounde ar lijk ; to þe grette wawes þat as wyndes and wedders ; walken abouȝte þe boot is likened to oure body ; þat brotell is of kynde þat þoruȝ þe ffende and þe ffleisshe ; and þe ffrell world Synneþ þe sadman ; a day Seuene siþes and dedly synne doþe he not ; ffor do-well him kepeþ and þat is charite þe champioun ; cheff helpe aȝens synne For he strenþen strengþeþ man to stonde ; and steriþ mannys soule and þouȝ þey body bowe ; as boot doþe in þe water ay is þi soule saff ; but if þi-self wolle Do Do a dedly synne ; and drenche þi soule god wolle suffre well þi slouþe ; if þi-self likeþ For he ȝaf þee to ȝeresȝyue ; to ȝeme well þi-self and þat is witte and ffre wille ; to euery wiȝtt a porcion To ffleynge ffoulis to ffisshis ; & also to bestis And man haþe moste þer-of ; and moste is to blame But if he werche well þer-with ; as do-well him techeþ I haue no kynde knowinge quod I ; to conseyue alle ȝoure wordis and if I may leyue and loke ; I shall go lerne better I be-kenne þee crist ; þat on þe croise deied and I sayd þe same ; saue ȝou ffro myschaunce and ȝeue ȝou grace ; on þis grounde C2.8.59:An otiose tilde appears above the <u> in grounde. . good men to worþe and þus I wente wyde-where ; walkinge myn oone By a wylde wildirnesse ; and be a wodis side Blise of þe bridis ; brouȝte me aslepe And vndir a lynde vppon a launde ; lened I a stounde To lyþe þe layes ; þoo louely ffoulis maden Mirþe of her mouþes ; made me þer to slepe The meruouslousest meteles ; mette I me þanne That euere dremed wyȝt ; in world as I weneC2.8.67:   The <h> in that and the <l> in world have decorated ascenders two lines in height. A moche man as me þouȝt ; and like to my-seluen Come and callid me ; bi my kynde name what arte þou quod I þoo ; þat þou my name knowest That þou woste welle quod he ; & no man better woot I what þou art ; þouȝt seide he þanne Thoughte I haue sued þe þis Seuene ȝere ; seiȝ þou me no raþer arte þou þouȝt quod I þoo ; þou koudist me wisse where þat do-well dwelliþ ; & do me þat to knowe Do-Well Do-Well and do-bette & do-best ; þredde quod he Arn þre ffaire vertues ; and ben not ffeer to ffynde who-so is trewe of his tunge ; and of his two handis And þoruȝ his laboure or his londes ; his lijflode wynneþ And is tristi of taylinge ; takiþ but his owen And is not drunklew ne dedeynous ; do-well him ffollwiþ Do . bett Do-bette doþ riȝt þus ; & he doþ moche more He is as lowe as a lombe ; & loueliche of speche And helpeþ alle men ; after þat hem nediþ The baggis & þe bigirdeles ; he haþe to-broke hem alle That þe erle auerous ; helde & his eyris And þus with mammonaes moneye ; he haþ mad him ffrendis And is runne to Religion ; and haþe rendrid þe bible and prechide to þe peple ; Seint poulis wordis Libenter suffertis insipientes cum sitis ipsi sapientes And suffren þe vnwise ; with ȝou ffor to leyue And with glad wille don hem good ; ffor so god ȝou hotiþ Do . beste . Do-beste is aboue hem boþe ; & beriþ a bisshoppis croos is hoked on þat oon ende ; to hale men ffro helle A pike is on þe potente ; to pilte adoune þe wikked þat waytyn ony wikkidnesse ; do-well to tene And do-well & do-bette ; Amongis hem ordeyned To croune oon to be kyng ; to rewlen hem boþe And þat That if do-well or do-bette ; doþe aȝens do-beste þanne shall þe kyng Come ; & casten hem in Irnes And but if do-best bidde ffor hem ; þei be þer ffor euere þus do-well & do-bette ; and do-beste þe þredde Crowned oon to be kynge ; to kepen hem alle And to reule þi rewme ; bi her þre wittis And non oþer-wise ; but as þei þre assented I þankid þouȝt þo ; þat he me þus tauȝte And ȝit sauerith me not þi seggenge ; I coueyte to lerne how do-well do-bette & do-beste ; don Amongis þe peple But witt kun wisse þee quod þouȝte ; where þoo þre dwellyn Ellis woot I non þat can ; þat now is alyue þouȝt and I þus ; þre daies ȝeden Disputinge vppon do-well ; day after oþer Wytt And er we were ware ; with witte gonne I mete he was longe and lene ; liche lik to non oþer was no pride on his apparaile ; ne pouerte neiþer Sad of his semblaunt ; & of softe chere I durste meue no matere ; to make him to Iangle But as I bad þouȝte þoo ; be mene bitwynne and put fforþe sum purpos ; to prouen his wittis what was do-well ffro do-bette ; & do-best ffrom hem boþe þanne þouȝte in þat tyme ; Sayde þese wordis where do-well do-bette & do-best ; ben in londe Here is wille wolld witte ; if witte kouþe teche hym And wheþer he be man or womman ; þis man wolde aspie And worche as þei þre wolden ; þis is his entent Passusnonus s Syre do-well dwelliþ with quod witte ; not a day hens In a castell þat kynde made ; of ffoure kyns þingis Of erthe & eyre it is made ; medelid to-gederis with wynde and with water ; witteli enioy...ned kynde haþe closid þer-Inne ; craftili with-alle A lemman þat he loueþ ; like to him-selue Anima sche hatte ; & envie shir hatiþ A proude prikere of ffraunce ; princeps huius mundi And wolde wynne hir away ; with wylis & he myȝth And kynde knoweþ þis well ; and kepiþ hir þe betterC2.9.10:   The <k> in knoweþ has a decorated ascender three lines in length. And haþe don hir with Sir do-well ; duke of þis marches Do-bette is hir damysel ; Sir do-wellis douȝter To serue þis lady lelli ; boþe late & raþe Do-best is aboue boþe ; a bisschoppis pere þat he biddiþ mote be don ; he rewliþ hem alle Anima þat lady ; is ledde bi his lernynge C2.9.16:An otiose tilde appears above the <y> in lernynge. And þe cunstable of þat Castell ; þat kepeþ alle þe wecche InwytteSee-WellSaye-WellHere-WellWerke-WellGoo-Well Is a wise knyȝte with-all ; sir Inwitte he hatteC2.9.18:   The word Inwytte appears to be the heading, under which the five words following are listed as divisions. Those five are linked by a bracket at the right. And haþe ffyue ffayre sones ; bi his ffrist wijf Sire se-well & seie-well ; & here-well þe ende Sire werche-well-with-þin-hand ; a wyȝte man of strenþe And sir godffrey go-well ; grette lordis ffor soþe What is kynde . þese ffyue ben sett ; to saue þis lady anima Tyll .....kynde Come or sende ; to sauen hir ffor euere what þing is kynde quod I ; canste þou me telle natura naturans kynde quod witte is a creature creatour creatoure ; of alkyns þingis Fadere & fformere of alle ; þat euere was makyd And þat is þe grette god ; þat gynnynge had neuer lord of lijf & of lyȝt ; of lisse and of peyne AungellisC2.9.30:Hand 2 has overwritten the first <l> in Aungellis, and may have added the second. and al þing ; arn at his wille And man is him moste lijke ; of mark & of schafte shafte schape For þoruȝ þe word þat he spake ; wexen fforþ bestis Dixit& facta sunt &cetera and made man likkeste ; to him-seluen one And eue of his ribbe-bon ; with-ouȝten ony mene For he was singulere him-selue ; and seid ffaciamus As who seiþ more mut þer-to ; þan my word oone My myȝt muste helpe now ; with my speche Similitudo Riȝte as a lord shuld make lettres ; & him lackyd parchemyn þouȝ he kouþe writte neuer so well ; if he had no penne þe lettres ffor all þe lordschepe ; I leue whe re neuer I-maked And so it semeþ bi hym ; as þe book telliþ Ther he seiþ ; dixit et facta suntC2.9.43:   The <h> in Ther has a decorated ascender three lines in height. he muste werche with his word ; and his witte schewe And in þis manere was man made ; þoruȝ myȝte of god almyȝty with his word ; & werkmanschepe ; & with lijf to laste And þus god ȝaff him a goste ; of þe godhede of heuene And of his grette grace ; graunted him blisse And þat is lijf þat ay shall laste ; to alle lynagis after And þat is þe Castell þat kynde made ; caro it hatte And þat is as moche to mene ; as man with a soule And þat he wroute with werk ; & with word boþe þoruȝ myȝt of his þe mageste ; man was y-maked In-witt & all wittis ; closed ben þer-Inne anima For loue of þe lady anima ; þat lijf is ynempned Ouere-alle in mannys body ; he walkiþ & wandriþ And in þe herte is hir home ; & hir moste reste And inwitte is in þe heed ; & to þe herte he lokeþ what anima is leffe & looþ ; he latte hir at his wille For after þe grace of god ; þe grettesste is in-witte Moche woo worþe þat man ; þat mysseruliþ his inwitt And þat ben glotouns glubbers ; her god is her wombe Quorum deusventer est For þei seruen sathan ; her soulis shall he haue That lyuen synneffull lijf here ; here soule is lyke þe deuellis and alle þat leyuen good lijf ; ar like to god al-myȝti Qui manet in caritatein deo manet & cetera Alas þat drynk C2.9.68:An otiose tilde appears above the <y> in drynk. shall ffor-do ; þat god dere bouȝte and dooþ god fforsaken hem ; þat he scoppe shoop shope to his likenesse Amen dico vobis nescio vos / & alibi & dimisi eos secundum desideria eorum & cetera Foolys þat ffauten In-witt ; I ffynde þat holy chirche shulde ffynde hem þat hem ffauteþ ; & ffadirles childrin and wedowes þat han not were-with ; to wynne hem here ffode Madde men & maydenes ; þat helples weren alle þese lakken in-witte ; & lore bihoueþ Of þis matere I myȝt ; make a longe tale And ffynde ffele wittenesse ; amongis þe ffoure doctouris And þat I lye not of þat I lere þee ; luke bereth wittenesse Godffader & godmoder ; that seen her godchildrinC2.9.79:   The <h> in that has a decorated ascender three lines in height. at myssese & myschef ; & mown hem amende shull haue penaunce in purgatorie ; but if þei hem helpe For more bilongeþ to þe litill barn ; er he þe lawe knowe Thanne nempnynge C2.9.83:An otiose tilde appears above the <y> in nempnynge. of a name ; & he neuer þe wyser . nota. shulde no cristen creature ; crie at þe ȝate Ne ffayle payn ne potage ; & prelatis deden as þei shuldenC2.9.85:   The preceding two lines are linked by a bracket at the right. A Iu wolde not seen a Iu ; go Iangelinge ffor deffauȝte For alle þe mebles ; on þis molde . & he amende it myȝt Alas þat a cristen creature ; schall be so vnkynde to anoþer Siþen Iues þat we Iuggen ; Iudas ffellawes Eyþer of hem helpeþ oþer ; of þat þat him nediþ why nyle we cristen ; of cristis good be as kynde As Iues þat ben oure lorismen ; schame to vs alle þe Comune ffor her vnkyndenesse ; I drede me shall abie bisschoppis shulle be blamed ; ffor beggerez sake he is wers þan Iudas ; þat ȝeueþ Iapers Siluere And biddiþ þe begger goo ; ffor his brokyn cloþis Proditor est prelatus cum Iuda ; qui patrimonium Christi minus distribuit Et alibi perniciosus dispensator ; qui res pauperum invtiliter consumit he dooþ not well þat dooþ þus ; ne drediþ not god al-myȝty Ne loueþ not salomonys sawes ; þat sapience tauȝte Inicium sapiencie tymordomini Drede god ffor loue & þou doste well ; but not ffor veniaunce & þou dost beet Thou dost beste if þou with-drawe ; by day & be nyȝt To spylle ony speche ; or ony space of tyme Qui offendit in vno ; est in omnibus reus Lesynge of tyme lesynge of tyme ; truþe woot þe soþe Is moste hatid vppon erthe ; of hem þat ben in heuene Spyllynge of speche . And siþe to spille speche ; þat spire is of grace And godis gleman ; & a game of heuene wolde neuer þe ffeiþeffull ffader ; his ffeþele were vntempred Ne his gleman a gedelynge ; a goere to tauernes To alle trwe tydymen ; þat trauaile desiren Oure lord loueþ & lent ; llouuȝde eiþer stille Grace to goo to hem ; & agoon her lijfflodeC2.9.114:   The <G> in Grace is decorated with a horizontal vinet fifteen characters in length, and the <h> in hem, and the <l> in lyȝt with an elaborate spray four lines in height which extends to the end of the line. Trewe weddyd leuynge ffolk ; in þis world is do-well Inquirentes . autem . dominumnon minuentur omni bono For þei musten werche & wynne ; & þe world susteyne For of her kynde þey comen ; þat conffessouris ben nemepned kyngis and knyȝtes ; kayseris and cheerlis Maydenys & martiris ; out of oo man comen The wijf was made þe weye ; ffor to helpe werche And þus was wedloke y-wroute ; with a mene persone Frist bi þe ffadris wille ; and þe ffrendis .....Conceyll And siþe bi þe assent of hem-selue ; as þei two myȝte acorde And þus was wadelok wedlok y-wrouȝt ; & god him-selue it made Þe In erþe in þe heuene is ; him-selue was þe wittenesse and ffals ffolk ffeyþeles ; þeues and lyeris wastouris and wrecchis ; out of wedlok I trowe Conceyued in euell tyme ; as Caym was of eue Of swiche synneffull schrewes ; þe sauȝter makiþ mynde Concepit in dolore et peperit iniquitatem & cetera And alle þat come of þat Caym ; come to yuell ende God For God sente to Sem ; and said bi an aungell þin issu in þin issu ; I wolle þat þei be Ioyned And not þi kynde with Caymys ; y-couupled ne spouȝsed ȝit summe aȝeins þe sonde ; of oure saueoure of heuene kaymes kynde and his kynde ; ycoupledC2.9.137:A superfluous minim appears with the <u> in ycoupled. to-gedris Tylle god wraþen wraþed with her werkis ; & swiche a word said That I makede man ; now me it aþenkiþ Penitet me fecisse hominem And come to noe anon ; & bade him not lette Swyþe go schape a schipe ; of schidis & of bordis Thi-selue and þi þre sones ; & siþen ȝoure wyues Buske ȝou to þat boot ; and byde ȝe þer-Inne Tyll ffourty daiez be ffullfillid ; þat fflode haue y-wasshyn al euen Clene away þe cursid blood ; þat Caym haþe ymakid Beestis þat now ben ; shulle banne þe tyme þat euere þat cursid Caym ; come on þis erthe Alle shulle die ffor his dedis ; bey dallis & be hillis And ffouulis þe foweles þat ffleyn ; fforþ with oþer bestisC2.9.150:   The <A> in And is decorated with an elaborate curling vinet two lines in height. Excepte oneliche of iche ; a kynde & a couple þat in þi schyngled schipe ; shull ben y-saued ffilius portauitiniquitatem patris here bouȝte þe barn ; þe bellesiris geltis And all ffor here fforffadris ; þey fferden þe wers The gospell is here-aȝeyn ; in o degre I ffynde Filius non portabit iniquitatem patris et pater non portabit & cetera And I ffynde if þe ffader ; be ffals & a schrewe þat summedell þe sonne ; shall haue þe Sires tacches Impe on an ellerne ; & if þin appill be swete Moche merueile me þinkiþ ; & more of a schrewe That bryngyþ fforþe ony barn ; but if he be þe same And haue a sauoure after þe sire ; Seldom seste þou oþer Numquam colligimus de spinis vuas nec de tribulis ficus And þus þoruȝ cursid Caym ; cam care vpon erthe And all ffor þey wrouten wedlok ; aȝeins goddis wille nota . of wedlok For-þi haue þei maugre ; þat so marien her childrin For summe as I se now ; soþe ffor to telle For coueitise of catell ; vnkyndeliche ben weddyd And careffull concepcion ; comeþ of swiche mariagis As be-ffelle of þe ffolk ; þat I be-ffore of tolde For good shulde wedde good ; þouȝ þey no good hadde I am via & veritas ; I may auaunce alle It is an vncomeli coupleC2.9.173:A superfluous minim appears with the <u> in couple. ; bi crist as me þinkiþ To ȝeue a ȝong wenche ; to an olde ffeble Or weddyd wedden ony wedow ; ffor welþe of hir goodis That neuere shall barn bere ; but if it be in armes Many a peire siþe þe pestelence ; han plyȝte hem to-gedris The ffructe þat þey brngen brynge fforþe ; ar ffoule wordis In ielousye ioyles ; & Ianglynge on bedde haue þey no childrin but chest ; & choppinge hem bitwynne Dunmowe bacoun And þouȝ þei do hem to donmowe ; but if þe deuyl helpe To ffolwyn after þe fflicche ; ffecche þei it neuere And but þey boþe be fforsworin ; þat bacon þey tynen For-þi I conceyll alle cristen ; coueyte not be weddyn wedded For coueytyse of catell ; ne of kynred richeC2.9.185:   The double <f> in For is decorated with a spray four lines in height. And maydenes and maydenes ; macche ȝou to-gedris wedowes and wedowers ; wircheþ þe same For no londis but ffor loue ; loke ȝe be weddid And þenne gette ȝe þe grace of god ; & good ynow to leue with And euery manere seculer ; þat may not conteyne wisely go wedde ; and war him ffro synne For leccherie in lokynge ; is lyme-ȝerd of helle whilis þou art ȝong ; and þi wepen kene werke þee with wyuuynge ; if þou wilte ben excusid Cum sis vir ffortis ne des tua robora scortis Scribitur in portis ; meretrix est ianua mortis whanne ȝe han wyved be war ; and wirchiþ in tyme Not as adam & eue whanne Caym was engendrid For in vntyme truly ; bitwynne man and womman Ne shulde no bourde on bedde be ; but if þei boþe were clene Boþe of lijf & of soule ; and in parffiȝtte charite þat ilke derne dede do ; no man ne shulde And if þey leddyn þus here lijf ; it likiþ god almyȝty For he made wedlok ffrist ; and him-selue it saide Bonum est vt vnusquisque vxorem suam habeat propter ffornicacionem And þei þat oþer-gates ben getten ; ffor geddellinges ben holden As ffals ffolk ffondelinges ; ffaytours and lyeris vngracious to gette good ; or loue of þe peple wandrin and wasten ; what þey cacche mown aȝeins do-well þei don yuell ; and þe deuyll seruyn And after her deþ-day ; shull dwelle with þe same But god gyue hem grace here ; hem-selue to amende Do-WellDo . betteDo-beste Do-well my ffrende . is to do ; as þe lawe techeþ To loue þi ffrende & þi ffoo ; leue me þat is do-bette To ȝyuen & to ȝymen ; boþe ȝong and olde To helen and to helpen ; is do-best of alle And do-well is to drede god ; and do-bette is to suffre And so comeþ do-best of boþe ; & bryngyþ adoun þe mody And that is wikkid wille ; þat many werk schendiþC2.9.219:   The ascenders of the <h> in that and the <k> in werk are decorated with an elaborate geometric design five lines in height, each trailing downward to the right and ending in a scroll. And dryueþ awey do-well ; þoruȝ dedly synne Passus decimus t Thanne had witte a wyff ; & was was hoton dame stodie þat lene was of leree lere ; and of liche boþe The wyfe of Wytty she was wondirliche wroþe ; þat witt me þus tauȝte And all staringe dame studie ; sterliche sterneliche said well art þou wijs quod sche to witt ; ony wisdams to telle To fflaterisflatereris or to ffolis ; þat ffrentik ben of wittis And blamed him & banned him ; & bad him be stille with swiche wise wordis ; to wisse ony sottis And sayde noli mittere man ; margerie perles Amongis hoggis þat han ; hawis at wille They don but drauelen þeron ; draf were hem leuere Thanne alle þe precious perre ; þat in paradice waxith I seie it be swiche quod sche ; þat schewen be her werkis þat hem were leuere lond ; & lorschipe lordshipe on erthe Or Richesse or rentis ; and rest at her wille þan alle þe soþe sawes ; þat salomon said euere wisdom and witt now ; is not worþe a kerse But if it be cartid carded with coueytise ; as cloþers kyembyn wolle Who is nowadaiescalled to counsaille who-so can contreyue deceytis ; & conspire wrongis And lede fforþ a loueday ; to lette with truþe he þat swiche craftis can ; to counceyl is clepid They leden lordis with lesingis ; & bilieþ truþe Iob þe gentell in his gestis ; gretteli wittenessiþ þat wikked men wielden ; þe welþe of þis worlde And þat þei ben lordis of iche londe ; þat out of lawe leyuen quare impij viuunt bene est hominibus qui preuaricantur & inique agunt The sauȝter seiþ þe same ; bi swiche þat don ille Ecce ipsi peccatores & habundantes in seculo obtinuerunt diuicias lo seiþ þe holi letture ; whiche lordis ben þese schrewis þilk þat god most good ȝeueþ ; leeste good þei delen And most vnkynde to þe Comune ; þat moste catell welden Que perfecisti destruxerunt ; Iustus autem & cetera . harlottis ffor her harlottrie ; mown haue of her goodes And Iapers and Ie ogelouris ; & Iangeleris of gestis nota . how goodcarpinge is not loued And he þat haþe holi writt ; ay in his mouþe C2.10.35:   The ascender of the <h> in he is decorated with an elaborate geometric design five lines in height which trails downward to the right and ends in a vinet. And can telle of tobie ; & of þe twelue appostelis Or prechen of pennaunce ; þat pilate wrouȝt To Ihesu þe ientell ; þat Iewes to-drowen Litil is he loued ; þat swiche a lessoun schewiþ Or dauntid or drawyn fforþ ; I do it on god him-selue Of mynystrallis Butt þoo þat ffeynen hem ffolis ; & with ffaytinge leyuen Aȝeyn þe lawe of oure lord ; & lyen on hem-selue Spitten & spewen ; and spekyn ffoule wordis Drynken & drauelyn ; & don men ffor to gape Liken men and lyen on hem ; þat lenen hem no giftis They kunne no more mynstralcie ; ne musik men to glade þanne munde þe myluere ; of multaC2.10.47:An otiose tilde appears above the <u> in multa. fecit deus Ne where here vile harlottrie ; haue god my truþe shuld neuer kyng ne knyȝt ; ne schanonC2.10.49:hand 2 has partially erased the <s> in schanon and overwritten the <ch>. of seint poulis ȝeue hem to here ȝeresȝeue ; þe value of a grote And myrþe & mynstralcye ; amongis men of is nouþe Leccherie & losengerie ; and losellis talis Glotonye and gret oþus ; þese myrþis þei louen And if þey carpyn of crist ; þese clerkis & þese lewde At mete in myrþis ; whanne mynstrallis ben stille þanne telle þei of þe trinyte ; a tale oþer tweyn And bryngen a ballen balled reson ; and taken bernard to wittenesse And putten fforþe a presumpcioun ; to preue þe soþe Thus þey dreuelen at her dees ; þe deyte to knowe And gnawen god with þe goorge ; whanne her guttus ben ffull And þe careffull may crie ; and carpyn at þe ȝate Boþe an-hungrid & a-þreste ; & ffor chele quake Is non to nymen hem neer ; his noye to amende But howen on him as an hound ; and hoton him go þens Riche men hatheLitle mercy Litill loueþ he þat lord ; þat lente him all þat blisse That þus partyn with þe pore ; a parcell whanne hem nedeþ Ne were mercy in mene men ; more þan in riche Mendynauntes meteles ; myȝten go to bedde god is moch God is moche in þe goorde gorge ; of the grette maystrisC2.10.69:   The <G> in God is decorated with a horizontal design nine characters in length. And Amongis mene men ; his mercy and his werkis and so seiþ þe sauter ; I haue seyn it ofte Ecce audiuimus eam in effrata inuenimus eam in campis silue Clerkis and oþer-kyns men ; carpen of god ffaste And han him moche in þe mouþ ; & mene men in herte Freris and ffaytours ; han ffoundyn swiche questiouns To plese with prouude men ; siþe þe pestelence tyme And prechen at seint poulis ; ffor pure envie of clerkis þat ffolk ben not ffermed in þe ffeiþ ; ne ffre of her goodis Ne sory ffor her synnes ; so is pride waxen In religioun & in al þe rewme ; amongis riche and pore þat praieris han no power ; þe pestelence to lette And ȝit þe wrecchis of þis world ; is non war be oþer Ne ffor drede of þe deþ ; withdrawen not her pride Ne ben plenti..-ouse to þe pore ; as pure charite wolde But in gaynesse & glotonye ; ffor-glutten her good hem-selue And breken not to þe begger ; as þe book techeþ ffrange esurienti panem tuum And þe more he wynneþ & weltweldeth ; welþis & richessis And lordiþ in londis ; þe lesse good he deliþ C2.10.89:The preceding two lines are linked by brackets at left and right. Tobie telliþ ȝou not so ; take heede ȝe riche how þe book of þe bible ; of him berith C2.10.91:   An otiose bar appears through the ascender of the <h> in berith. For details of this scribe's use of barred <h>, see the Introduction under Hand. wittenesse Si tibi copia sit ; habundanter tribue ; si autem exiguum ; impertire stude libenter who-so haþe moche spende moche ; so meneþ tobie And who-so litill weldiþ ; rule him þer-after For we han no letter of oure lijf ; how long it shall dure Swyche lessouns lordis ; shulden loue to here And how he myȝte moste ; meyne manliche ffynde ffeffydeler And not to ffare as a ffeþeler or a ffrere ; ffor to seke ffestis homeliche at oþer mennys housis ; & haten her owen wo-begoun ElengeElengeeylenge is þe halle ; iche day in þe weke þer þe lord & þe lady ; liken not to sitte Now haþ iche riche a rule ; to ete bi him-selue In a preuy parloure ; ffor pore menys sake Or in a chaunbre with a chymeney ; & leue þe cheef halle That was ffor melis ; men to eten Inne And to spare to spille ; þat spende shall anoþer d1 I haue herde hie men ; etynge at þe tableC2.10.107:   The ascender of the <h> in herde is decorated with a geometric design four lines in height terminating in a horizontal vinet. Carpyn as þey clerkis weren ; of crist & of his myȝtis and leyden ffautes on þe ffader ; þat fformede vs alle and carpyn aȝeyn clerkis ; crabbid wordis why wolde oure saueoure suffre ; swyche a worme in his blisse þat bygylide þe womman ; And þe man after þoruȝ whiche whilezwileswyles & wordis þei wenten to helle And alle her seed ffor her synne ; þe same deþe suffred Here liþe ȝoure lore ; þat þese lordis gynne dispute Of þat ȝe klerkis vs kennen ; of crist be þe gospell Filius non portabit iniquitatem patris & cetera why shulde we þat now ben ; ffor þe werkis of adam Be Botton and renten ; reson wolde it neuer vnusquisque portabit onus suum & cetera Swyche motyues þei meuen ; þese maistris in her glorie And maken men in mysbylyeue ; þat musen moche on her wordis ymagynatyf her-afterward ; schall answere to ȝoure purpose Austyn to swyche Argueris ; telliþ his tyme teme Non plus sapere quam oportet et cetera . wilneþ neuer witte ; why þat god wolde Suffre sathan ; his seed to bigyle and bileueþ lelly ; in lore of holi chirche and preye him of pardon ; & penaunce C2.10.129:An otiose tilde appears above the <u> in penaunce. in þi lyff And ffor his moche mercy ; to amende ȝou here For alle þat wilnen to witte ; þe wheyes of god almyȝti I wolde his eiȝe where in his ers ; and his ffynger after C2.10.132:The preceding two lines are linked at the right by a bracket. þat euere wilneþ to witte ; whi þat god wolde Suffre sathan ; his seed to bigyle Or Iudas to þe Iues ; Ihesus betraie All was as þou woldest lord ; wurscheped be þou And all worþe as þou wilte ; what so we disputen And þo þat vsyn þese hauylounes ; to blynde mennys wittis what is do-well ffro do-bette ; now deef mote he worþe Sythe he wylneþ to witte ; whiche þey ben boþe But if he lyue in þe lijf ; þat longeþ to do-well For I dar be his bolde boruȝ ; þat do bette wolle he neuer þouȝ do-best drawe on him ; day after oþer and whan þat witte was y-war ; what dame studie tolde he bycome so confuse ; he couþe not loke And as dombe as deþdeeþa dore nayle; and drow him arerearereasyde and ffor no carpinge I couude after ; ne knelinge to þe ground I myȝte gete no greyne ; of his grette wittis But al lauȝhynge he louȝted ; & loked vppon studie In signe þat I shulde ; bi-seche hir of grace And whanne I was war of his wille ; to his wijf gan I louȝte And sayd mercy madame ; ȝoure man schall I worþe as longe as I lyue ; boþe late and raþe For to wirche ȝoure wille ; þe while my lijf dureþ with þat ȝe kenne me kyndely ; to knowe what is do-well For þi mekenesse man quod sche ; & ffor þi mylde speche Clergie I shall kenne þe to my Cosyn ; þat clergie is hotton ScriptureC2.10.158.m.1:   The preceding two marginal additions are linked at the right by a bracket. he haþe weddid a wijf ; with-Inne þis sex moneþes Is sibbe to þe seuene artis ; scripture is hir name þey two as I hope ; after my techingetechyngbysekynge shull wisse þe to do-well ; I dar it vndertake þanne was I also ffayn ; as ffoul of ffaire morwe And glader þanne þe gleman ; þat gold haþe to ȝifte nota to lerneholi wriȝte And axed hir þe heie weye ; where þat clergie dwelled And telle me summe tokene quod I ; ffor tyme is þat I wende axe þe hie wey quod studie ; henns to suffre Suffre is þe highewaye to Clergie boþe well and woo ; if þat þou wilte lerne And ride fforþe bey richesse ; but reste not þer-inne For if þou coupliste þe þer-with ; to clergie comeste þou neuerC2.10.169:   The preceding two lines are linked at the right by a bracket. and also þe leykorouse launde ; þat leccherie hatte leue it on þi liftehalflifte half ; a large myle & more Tylle þou come to a courte ; kepe well þi tunge d2 Fro lesingez and leþer speche and leykorous drinkis C2.10.173:An otiose tilde appears above the <n> in drinkis. þanne shi shalte þu se sobreete ; and symplicite of speche þat iche wiȝtt be in wille ; his witte þe to schewe and þus schalte þou come to clergie ; þat can many þingis Seie him þis signe ; I sette him to scole and þat I grette well his wijf ; ffor I wrotte hir many bokis and sette hir to sapience ; and to þe sauȝter glose logyk I lerned hir ; and many oþer lawes and alle þe mesours Musons of musyk ; I made hir to knowe plato þe poete ; I put him ffrist to boke aristotle and oþer mo ; to argue I tauȝte Gramer ffor gerles ; I garte ffrist wriȝte and bette hem with a baleys ; but if þei wuld lerne Of al-kyns craftis ; I contreyued tooles Of carpentrie of keruers ; & compassid masouns I kenned hem leuell & lyne ; þouȝ I loke dymme Theologie haþe tened me ; ten score tymez þe more I muse þer-Inne ; þe mystier it semeþ and þe depere I deyuyne ; þe derker me it þinkiþ It is no science ffor-soþe ; ffor to sutille Inne And ffull leþy þinge it where ; if þat loue nere And ffor it lett best be loue ; I loue it þe better For þer þat loue is ledere ; ne lakkeþ no grace Loke þou loue lelly ; if þe likiþ do-well And do-bett and do-beste ; ben of loues kyn In oþer science it seiþ ; I seiȝ it in caton Qui simulat verbis ; nec corde est fidus amicus Tu quoque fac simile ; cum ars d.eluditur arte who-so gloseþ as gilours don ; do hem þe same And And so shalte þou ffalse ffolke ; & ffeiþles bigyle þis is catonsC2.10.203:An otiose tilde appears above the <n> in catons. kennynge ; to clerkis þat he lereþ and theologie techeþ not so ; who-so takiþ ȝem and kenneþ vs þe contrarie ; aȝeins catonsC2.10.205:An otiose tilde appears above the <n> in catons. wordis For he biddiþ vs ; be as breþeren ; and bidde ffor oure enemyes And loue hem þat lyen von vs ; and lene hem whanne hem nediþ and do good aȝeins yuell ; god him-selue it hotiþ Dum tempus habemus operemur bonum ad omnes maxime autem . ad domesticos fidei poule preched þe peple ; þat parffiȝtenesse loued To do good ffor goddis loue ; and gyue men þat asken and nameliche to swiche ; þat suen oure bileue and all þat lakkiþ us & lieþ vs ; god techeþ vs to loue And not to greue hem þat greuen vs ; god þat ffor-bediþ Michi vindictam et ego retribuam For-þi loke þou loue ; as long as þou dureste For is no concience vndir sone ; so souereyn ffor þe soule And astronomye is an hard þing ; & euell ffor to knowe Geometrie & geomesieGeomesiegeomancie ; is synfull of speche who-so þinkiþ wirche with þo two ; þryueþ ffull late For sorcerie is þe souereyn book ; þat to þe science longeþ Ȝit arn þer ffybicchis in fforceris ; of ffele mennys makynge Ars Alcumistica Experimentis of alkenemye ; þe peple to disceyue if þou þenke to do well ; dele þer-with neuer alle þese science I my-self ; sutiled & ordeyned And ffoundede hem fformeste ; ffolk to disceyue Telle clergie þese tokenes ; and Scripture after I counceyll þe kyndely ; to knowe what is do-well I said graunt mercy madame ; and mekely hir grette and wente wyȝtliche away ; with-out more lettinge And tille I come to clergie ; I couȝde neuer stynte And grette þe good man well ; as studie me tauȝte And afterwardis þe wijf ; and wurscheped hem boþe And tolde hem þe tokenes ; þat me tauȝte weren was neuer gom vppon þis ground ; siþe god made þis world Fairer vndir-fongen ; ne ffrendeleker at ese þanne my-self soþely ; sone so he wyste þat I was of wittis hous ; & with his wijf dame studie I said to him soþely ; þat sente was I þedere Do-well & do-bette ; & do-beste to lerne d3 Do-Well It is a commune lijf quod clergie ; on holi cherche to bileue with alle þe articules of þe ffeiþ ; þat ffallen to be knowen and þat is to bileue lelli ; boþe lered & lewde On þe grette god ; þat gynnynge had neuere And on þe sotheffaste sone ; þat sauede mankynde Fro þe dedly deþe ; and þe deuylldeuelesdeuylls power þoruȝ þe helpe of þe holi gost ; þe whiche gost is of boþe þre persones ; & not in plurel nounber For al is but o god ; & iche is god him-selue Deus pater deus filius deus spiritus sanctus God þe ffader god þe sone ; god holi gost of bothe Maker of mankynde ; & of bestis boþe Austyn þe olde ; her-of made bokis And him-selue ordeyned ; to sad vs in bileue who was his autoure ; all þe ffoure euangelistis and crist cleped him-selue so ; þe euangelist bereþ wittenesse Ego in patre & pater in me est ; & qui videt me ; videt & patrem meum alle þe clerkis vndir crist ; ne couude þis asoile But þus it longiþ to bileue ; to men þat wollen do well For had neuer ffreik ffyne witte ; þe ffeiþ to dispute For man had no merite ; myȝte it ben yproued Fides non habet meritum ; vbi humana racio prebet experimentum Do . bette C2.10.263:   A cross composed of four dots appears in the margin to the left of this line.þanne is do-bette to suffre ; ffor þi soulis sake al þat þe book bidiþbitbiddiþ power ; bi holi chirche techynge and þat is man by þi myȝt ; ffor mercys sake loke þou wirche it in werk ; þat þi word schewiþ Swyche as þou semeste in syȝt ; be in asay ffoundyn Appare quod es vel estoquod appares and late no body be ; by þi beringe bigylid But swiche in þi soule ; as þou semest with-out Do-beste C2.10.271:   A cross composed of four dots appears in the margin to the left of this line.þanne is do-beste to be bolde ; to blame þe gylty Syþen þou seest þi-self ; as in soule clene And blame þou neuer body ; & þou be blame-worþi DeSiSi culpare velis vel culpabilis esse cauebis Dogma tuum sordet cum te tua culpa remordetC2.10.275:   The preceding two lines are linked at the right by a bracket. God in þe gospell ; grymly reproueþ alle þat lacken ony lijf ; & lakkes han hem-self Quid consideras festucam in oculo fratris tui trabem & cetera. why meuest þou þi mode ffor a mote ; in þi broþers eye Siþen a bem in þin owen ; blindeþ þi-selue Eice primo trabem de oculo tuo & cetera whiche lettiþ þe to loke ; lesse oþer more I rede iche a blynde bosard ; do bett to him-selue De officio sacerdotum For abbottis and priours ; and alle manere of prelatis as parsones & parishe prestis ; þat preche shulden & teche alle manere of men ; to amende bi her myȝt This tixt was tolde ȝou ; to be war er ȝe tauȝten þat ȝe were swiche as ȝe saiden ; to salue with oþer For godis word wolde not be loste ; ffor þat worchiþ euere If it availe not þe comune ; it myȝt availe ȝour-seluen And it semeþ now soþely ; to þe worldis syȝt þat goddis word werchiþ not ; on lered ne on lewde But in swiche manere as mark ; meneþ in þe gospell Dum cecus ducit cecumambo in foueam cadunt lewde men mown liken ȝou ; þat þe bem lithe in ȝoure eyen and þe ffestu is ffallen ; ffor ȝoure deffauȝte In al manere men ; þoruȝ mansed prestes þe bible bereþ wittenesse ; þat all þe ffolk of israel Bitter bouȝte þe gyltis ; of two badde .prestis Offynny and ffynees ; ffor her coueitise archa dei mys-happed ; & eli brake his nekke For-þi corectouris claweþ her-on ; & corectiþ ffrist ȝoure-seluen And þanne mowe ȝe saffely seie ; as dauiþ made þe sauȝter Existimasti inique quod ero tui similis arguam te & statuam contra faciem tuam þanne shalle borelle clerkis be abasshed ; to blame ȝou or to greue and carpe not as þey don now ; & calle ȝou dombe houndis Canes non valenteslatrare and drede to wraþe ȝou in ony word ; ȝoure werkmanschipe to lette and be prestiere at ȝoure preiere ; þanne ffor a pound of noblis And al ffor ȝoure holynesse ; haue ȝe þis in herte In scole þer is a scoren ; but if a clerk wolle lerne And grett loue and likynge ; ffor iche of hem loueþ oþer d4 The Abusionsof þe Religious And now is Religion a ridere ; a romere be stretes A leder of louedaies ; a loond biggere A priker on a palffrey ; ffro maner to manere An heep of houndis at his ers ; as he a lord where And but if his knave knele ; þat shall him þe cuppe bringe he loureþ on him & axeþ ; who. tauȝte him curteysie litill haddyn lordis to do ; to ȝeue lond ffro here eyrisC2.10.319:   The preceding three lines are linked by a bracket at the left. To relegiouse þat han no reuþe ; þouȝ it reyne on her auters In many places þer þei persounes ben ; be hem-selue at ese Of pore han þei no pete ; & þat is here charite and þey leten hem as lordis ; her londe lyþe so brode A prophecy . agaynsteþe Relygyouse C2.10.324:   A design composed of three dots, with a vertical line radiating from the uppermost dot, appears in the margin to the left of this line.And þer shall come a kyng ; & confesse ȝou religiouse and bette ȝou as þe bible telliþ ; ffor brekynge of ȝoure rule And amende monyalis ; monkis and schannonys And putt hem to her penaunce C2.10.327:An otiose tilde appears above the <u> in penaunce. ; ad pristinum statum ire And barouns & erlis bete hem ; þoruȝ beatus uir techinge þat her barnes cleymen ; and blamen ȝou ffoule hij in curribus & hij in equis ipsi obligati sunt And þanne ffreris in her ffreitoure ; schull ffynde a keye Of constantynys tresore ; in whiche is þe catell þat gregories god-childrin ; han euell dispendid ☞ And þanne shall þe abbotte of abyngdon ; & al his issu ffor euere haue a knok of a kyng ; & in-curable þe wounde þat þis worþe soþe seke. ȝe ; þat ofte ouere-seen þe bible Quomodo cessauit exactor quieuit tribictum contriuit dominus baculum impiorum Et virgam dominancium cedencium plaga infanibili insanibili And er þat kyng come ; Caym shall awake And do-well shall dyng him adoun ; & distrueye his myȝt þanne is do-well & do-bette quod I ; dominus and knyȝthode I nyll not scorne quod scripture ; but if schreueneris lie kynghood & knyȝthood ; bi nouȝt I can awayte Helpeþ not to heueneward ; on heris ende Ne richesse riȝt nouȝt ; ne rialte of lordis poule preueþ impossible ; riche men to haue heuene Salomon seiþ also ; þat siluer is werste to loue Nichil iniquius quam amarepecuniam And Caton kenneþ vs to coueyte ; not but as it nediþ Dilige denarium setparce dilige fformam And patriarkes and prophetis ; and poetis boþe wreten to wissen vs ; to wilne no richesse and preiseden pouerte with pacience ; þe apostelis beretth wittenesse þat þey han eritage in heuene ; & bi true riȝt þer riche men no riȝte mown cleyme ; but of ruþe & grace Contra quod I be crist ; þat can I repreue and preue it bi peter ; and bi poule boþe þat ben baptizid ben sauyd ; be þei riche or pore That is in extremis quod scripture ; amongis sarazens & Iues They mown be saued so ; and þat is oure beleue þat arn vncristen in þat caas ; may cristen an heþenC2.10.361:   The underlining ends in a device consisting of a triangle composed of dots, with a wavy line ascending from the uppermost dot. See Introd. I.6. and ffor his lelle bileue ; whanne he þe liif tyneþ haue the eritage of heuene ; as ony man cristen And cristen men with-outyn more ; mown not come to heuene For þat crist ffor cristen men deyed ; and conffermed þe lawe þat who-so wolde and wilneþ ; with .Crist to arise Si cum Christo surrexistis & cetera . he shulld loue & lene & þe lawe ffullfille þat is loue þi lord god ; leuest aboue al þinge and after alle cristen creaturis ; in comune iche man oþer and þus bilongiþ to loue ; þat leueþ to be saued and but we do þus in dede ; er þe day of dome It shall be-sittyn vs ffull soure ; þe syluere þat we kepen And oure bakkisbakkesbakkggis þat moþ-etenmoþeeten molteeten ben ; and sene beggers go nakid Or delite us in wyn & wildffoule ; & wotten ony in deffaute For euery cristen creature ; shulld be kynde til oþer and sithen heþen to helpe ; in hope of amendement God hotiþ boþe hie & lowe ; þat no man hurte oþer And seiþ sleyesleesleyþe ; not þat sembleable is ; to myn owenlikenesse But if I sende þe summe token ; and seiþ non necabis I sley not but suffre ; and al ffor þe beste For I shall punysshe hem in purgatorie ; or in þe pitte of helle Iche a Ech man ffor his myssdedis ; but mercy it lette þis is a long lesson quod I ; & litill am I þe wyser where do-well is or do-bette ; derkeliche ȝe shewyn d5 Many talis ȝe tellyn ; þat theologie lerneþ predestynacioun And þat I man made was ; & my name y-entrid prescience In þe legende of seyntis ; longe er I were Or ellis wrettyn ffor wickidnesse ; as holi writte wittenessiþ Nemo ascendit in celum ; nisi qui descendit de celo I leue well be oure lord quod I ; & on no letture better For salaman þe sage ; þat sapience tauȝte god ȝaff him grace of witt ; & all his goodis after he demede demed wel & wisely ; as holy writte telliþ aristotle and he ; who wissed men better Maystris þat of goddis mercy ; techen men & prechen Salamon andAristotle . bedamned . of her wordis þey wissin us ; ffor whiseste as in her tyme and alle holy chirche ; holt hem boþe y-dampned and if I shulde werche bey her werkis ; to wynne me heuene þat ffor her werkis and witt ; now wonneþ in peyne þan wrouȝte I vnwisely ; what-so-euere ȝe prechen and fole fele witti in ffeiþ ; litill fferli I haue þouȝ her gost be vngracious ; god ffor to plese For many men on þis molde ; more setten her hertez In good þanne in god ; ffor-þi hem grace ffailiþ and þe moste myssecheff is ; whanne þey shull liif lete as salomon dede and swiche oþer ; þat shewyd grette wittis and her werkys as holy writt ; seiþ was euere þe contrarie For-þi wise witted men ; & well lettrid clerkis as þey seyn hem-self ; seldon don þer-afterC2.10.410:   The preceding two lines are linked at the left by a bracket. super cathedram Moysy Moysi & cetera and I wene it worþe of many ; as was in noies tyme þo he schope þat schipe ; of schidis and bordis was neuer wriyt sauede þat wrouȝte þer-on ; ne oþer werkman ellis But byrdis & bestis ; & þe blesside noie and his wyff with his sones ; & also her wyues God lene it ffare not so be ffolk ; þat þe ffeiþ techen Of holi chirche þat herberwe is ; and goddis hous to saue and shilde us ffrom shame þer-inne ; as noies schipe dede bestis And men þat maden it ; amydde þe fflode adreynten The culorum of þis cause ; curatouris is to mene þat ben carpenteris of holye ......chyrche ; to make ffor cristis owen bestis Homines et iumenta saluabis domine & cetera . on good ffryday I ffynde ; a ffelon was saued þat had leyued al his lyff ; with lesingis & with þefte and ffor he be-knewe on þe crosse ; & to crist schrowe him he was sonnere saued ; þanne seint Iohan baptiste and er adam & or ysaie ; or ony of þe prophetis þat had y-leyn with lucyffer ; many long ȝeris a robber was I-raumsomed C2.10.430:An otiose tilde appears above the <o> in -raumsomed. ; raþer þan þei alle with-out ony penaunce C2.10.431:An otiose tilde appears above the <u> in penaunce. of purgatorie ; to perpetuall blisse and marie magdalene what womman deydde wers Or who wers þan dauiþ ; þat vries deþ conspired Or poule þe apostele ; þat no peyte hadde moche cristen kynde to kille to deþ and now ben þese as souereynes ; & seyntis in heuene þo þat wroutyn wikedest ; in world þo þei weren and þoo þat wisili werchedid wordeden ; & writyn many bokis of witt and of wisdomys ; with dampned soulis wonnen þat salomon seiþ I trowe be soþe ; and certeyn of us alle Siue iusti atque sapientes et opera eorum in manu dei sunt þat ar witti and welleuynge ; & her werkis ben hid Ine þe hondis of all-myȝti god ; & he woot þe soþe where ffor loue a man worþ alowid ; þer in and his lele werkis Or ellis ffor his yuell will ; & envie of herte and be alowed as he leued þere ; as liþer men knowyn good and where-by wetten men whiche is whyte ; if al þing blac were And wo were a good man ; but if þer where summe schrewe For-þi lyue we fforþ with lyþer men ; I leue ffewe goode For quant oportet comeþ in place ; il nad que pati And he þat may all amende ; haue mercy of vs alle For soþeste word þat euere god seyde ; was þo he said Nemo bonus Clergie of cristis mouþ ; commendid was litill For he seid to seint petir ; & to swiche as he loued Dum steteritis ante reges &presides & cetera . d6 þouȝ ȝe come bi-ffor kyngis ; and clerkis of þe lawe beþe not abasshed ffor I shall ; be in ȝoure mouþes and ȝeue ȝou witte & will ; & kunnynge to conclude hem all . þat aȝens ȝou ; of cristendom disputen Dauiþ makiþ mencioun ; he spake amongis kyngis and myȝt no kynge ouere-come him ; as be cunnynge of speche But witt ne wisdom ; wan neuere þe maystrie whanne man was at myscheff ; with-oute þe more grace Augustinus þe douȝtiest doctoure ; & dyuynoure of þe trinite was austyn þe olde ; and heiest of þe ffoure saide þus in a sermon ; I seiȝ it wretten ones Ecce ipsi ydeote rapiunt celum ; vbi sapientes in inferno mergimur and is to mene on englisshe ; to more and to lesse arn non oþer raþer rauysshed ; ffro þe riȝt bileue þanne arn þese kunnynge clerkis ; þat kunne many bokis Ne non sonere saued ; ne saddere of bileue þan plowmen & pastouris ; & oþer comune laboreris Souters & scheepherdis ; and swiche lewde Iottis percyn with a pater noster ; þe paleys of heuene and passyn purgatorie ; penaunceles ; at here hens partynge In-to þe blesse of paradice ; ffor her pure bileue þat imparfiȝtly here ; knewen & eke leueden Ȝe men knowen clerkis ; þat han cursid þe tyme þat euere þey couden on þe book ; more þanne credo in deum and principali her pater noster ; many a parsone haþe wisshed Exemplum bonum I se ensamplis many my-selue ; & so mown oþer þat seruauntis þat seruen lordis ; selde ffalle in eragis arerage But þo þat kepen þe lordis catell ; clerkis & reues Riȝt so lewde men ; and of litill knowinge Selde ffalle þey so ffoule ; & so fferre in synne as clerkis of holi kyrke ; þat kepen cristis tresore þe whiche is mannys soule to saue ; as god seiþ in þe gospell Ite vos in vineam meam Passus xj(us)undecimus The passus heading actually appears in the right margin opposite the second line of text. t Thanne scripture scornede me ; and a skille tolde and lakked me in latyn ; & liȝt be me sette and saide multi multa sciunt ; et seipsos nesciunt þo wepte I ffor woo ; & wraþe of hir speche and in a wyndinge wraþe ; wex I aslepe a merueylouse sweuene ; mette I me þanne þat I was rauysshid riȝt þere ; & ffortune me ffette and in-to þe lond of longinge ; alone sche me brouȝte In a myroure þat hyȝte mydillerd ; sche made made me to be-holde Siþen sche seide vn-to me ; here myȝt þou se wondris and knowe þat þou coueytiste ; & come þer-to parauntere þanne had ffortune ffolwinge hir ; two ffaire damysellis Omne quod est in mundo aut estconcupiscentia carnis . Con-cupiscentia oculorum aut superbia vite Concupiscencia carnis ; men callid þe elder mayde And coueytise of eyn ; callid was þat oþer pride of parffiȝt leyuynge C2.11.15:An otiose tilde appears above the second <y> in leyuynge. ; pursued hem boþe and bad me ffor ony contenaunce ; acounte clergie liȝt Concupiscencia carnis ; culled colled me abouȝte þe necke and saydC2.11.18:Either the <d> in sayd is spoiled by an inkblot, or hand 2 has linedThrough it. þou art ȝong & ȝeep ; & hast ȝeris ynow For to leyue longe ; and ladies to loue and in þis myroure þou myȝtist see ; myrþis ffull many þat lede þe wolle to likynge ; all þi lijf-tyme þe secound said þe same ; I shall sue þi will Till þou be a lord & haue lond ; lete þe I nylle þat I ne shall ffolowe þi ffellawschepe ; if ffortune it like he shall ffynde me his ffrende ; quod ffortune þer-after þe ffrek þat ffolwid my wille ; ffailid neuere blisse id est age þanne was þer on hiȝte elde ; þat heuy was of chere Man quod he if I mete with þe ; be marie of heuene þou shalte ffynde ffortune þe ffaile ; at þi moste nede and concupiscencia carnis ; clene þe fforsake Bitterliche schalt þou banne þanne ; boþe daiez & nyȝtis Coueitise of þeeiȝethe eighe at euere þou it knewe ; and pride of parffiȝte ......lyuynge ; to moche perell þe bringe d7 ȝe recche þe neuer quod recchelesnesse ; stode fforþe in raggyde cloþis Followe fforþe þat ffortune wole ; þou hast well ffare to elde a man may stoupe tyme ynow ; whane he shall tyne þe croune homo proponit quod a poete ; & plato he hiȝte and deus disponit quod he ; latte god do his wille if truþe woll wittenesse it be well do ; ffortune to ffolowe Concupiscencia carnis ; ne coueytise of eyn Ne schall non not greue þe grettli ; ne bigyle þe but if þou wilte Ȝe ffare well pheppe quod ffauntelte ; & fforþ gan me drawe Till conpiscencia concupiscencia carnis ; acordid all my werkis Allas þeo quod elde ; and holynesse boþe þat witt shall turne to wrechednesse ; ffor wylle to haue his likynge Coueytise of eyn ; conffortid me sone after and ffolwyd me ffourti wynter ; or fifti or more þat of do-well ne do-bett ; no deynte me þouȝte I had no likynge ne luste ; of hem ouȝt to knowe Coueytise of eyn ; cam ofter in my mynde þanne do-well or do-bette ; amongis my dedis alle Coueytise of eyn ; conffortide me ofte and saide haue no concience ; how þou come to good ffreris Go conffesse þe to sum ffrere ; & schewe him þi synnes For whylis ffortune is þi ffrende ; ffreris woll þe loue and ffecche þe to her ffraternte fraternitee ; & ffor þe beseche To her prioure prouynciall ; a pardon ffor to haue and prey ffor þe poll be pol ; if þou be pecuniosus ; Set pena peccuniarianon sufficit pro spiritualibus delictis By wissinge of þis wenche I wrouȝte ; her wordis wer so swete Tyll I fforȝate ȝowþe ; & ȝerne in-to elde and þanne was ffortune my ffo ; ffor al hir ffayre biheste and pouerte pursued me ; & put me lowe ffrere and þo ffonde I þe ffrere afferde ; and fflyttinge boþe aȝens oure ffrist fforwarde ; ffor I saide I nolde B.e beried at her hous ; but at my parisheC2.11.66:An otiose tilde appears above the <e> in parishe. chirche For I herde ones ; how concience it tolde Agaynste buryenge e-mongeste ffreres . þat þer a man were cristened ; be kynde he shuld be beried Or where he were parishen ; riȝth þer he shuld be grauen and ffor I said þus to ffreris ; a ffolle þei me helden and loued me þe lesse ; ffor my lele speche and ȝit I cried on my conffessoure ; þat helde him-selue so kunnynge Be my ffeiþ ffrere quod I ; ȝe ffaren like þese wowers Þat weddyn no wedewis ; but ffor to welde her goodisC2.11.74:   The two preceding lines are linked at the right by a bracket. Ryȝt so be þe rode ; rouȝten ȝe neuere where my body were I-beried ; bi so ȝe had þe siluere I haue moche merueile of ȝou ; and so haþe many oþer why ȝoure couent coueytiþ ; to conffesse & to berie raþer þanne to baptise barnes ; þat ben cathecumynys Baptisinge & biringeC2.11.80:A superfluous minim appears within the collocation <in> in the word biringe. ; boþe ben ffull nedffull and moche more merytorie ; me þinkyþ is to baptise For a baptisid man may ; as maystris tellyn þoruȝ contriccion come ; to þe hye heuene sola contricio delet pecatum and a berenbarnebarn C2.11.85:Because the words a and beren are run together, Hand 2 has placed a virgule between them. with-ouȝten baptem ; may not be saued Nisi quis renatus fuerit ex aqua fuerit loke ȝe lettred men ; whedir I lie or not and lewte loked on me ; & I louride after where-ffor louriste þou quod lewte ; and loked on me hard If I durste quod I amongis men ; þese metelis awoue Ȝe be peter & bi poul quod he ; & toke boþe to wittenesse Non oderis fratres secrete in corde tuo set puplice argue illos þei They wole alegge also quod I ; and be þe gospell preue Nolite iudicare quemquam and where-of serueþ lawe quod lewte ; if no lyf vndirtoke Falsenesse ne ffaytrie ; ffor sum-what þe apostele said Non oderis ffratrem and in þe sauter also ; seiþ dauiþ þe prophete Existimasti inique quod ero tui similis & cetera It is leffull ffor lewde men ; to seie þe soþe If hem likiþ or liste ; iche a lawe it graunteþ Exsept persouns & prestis ; & prelatis of holi chirche It ffalliþ not ffor þat ffolk ; no talis to telle þouȝ þe tale were trewe ; and it touuchid synne þing þat alle þe world woot ; werffore wherfore shuldeste þou spare and reden reden it in rethorik ; to arate dedly synne and be neuere-more þe ffriste ; þe deffauȝte to blame þouȝ þou se yuell . seie it not ffrist ; be sory it nere amendid and þinge þat is preuy ; puplice þou it neuer Neiþer ffor loue laude it not ; ne lacke it not ffor non ne envie parumParumParce lauda vitupera parcius he seiþ soþe quod scripture þoo ; & skipped on hie & preched and þe matere þat he meued ; if lewde men it knewe þe lesse as I leue ; louen it þey wolden þis was her teme ; & her tixt I toke ffull good heede multi to a mangerie ; and to þe mete were sompned and whanne þe peple was plenere comen ; þe porter vnpynned þe gate and plukkid in pauci priuyliche ; and lete þe remenaunte go rome alle ffor tene of her tyxt ; trembled myn herte and in a weer gan I waxe ; & with my-self dispite dispute wheþer I were chosyn or not ; on holi chirche I þouȝt þat vndirffenge me at þe ffounte ; ffor one of godis chosyn For crist cleped vs alle ; Come if we wolden sarazens & stismatikes scismatikes ; and so he dede þe Iues O vos omnes scicientes venite & cetera And bad hem souke ffor synne ; saueli at his breste And drink C2.11.126:An otiose tilde appears above the <n> in drink. bote ffor bale ; broke it so whoso myȝte þanne mown all cristen comen quod I ; & cleyme þer entre By þe blode þat he bouȝte us with ; and þoruȝ baptisme after qui crediderit & baptizatus fuerit For þouȝ a cristen man coueyted ; his cristendom to renyeC2.11.130:   The two preceding lines are linked at the left by a bracket. Riȝtffuliche to renye ; no reson it wolde For may no cherl chartre make ; ne his catell selle with-outyn leue of his lord ; no lawe wolle it graunte and he may renne in arerage ; & rome so ffrom home and as a reneyed Caytif ; rechelesly aboute And reson shall rekene with him ; and caste him uin arerage and put him after in prison ; in purgatorie to brenne purgatorie For his arerage rewarde him þer ; to þe day of dom But if contricioun wolle come ; & crie bi his lyue Mercy ffor his mysdedis ; with mouþ or with herte þat is soþe quod scripture ; may no synne lette Mercy al to amende ; and mekenesse hir ffelawe For þei ben as oure bokis tellyn ; aboue godis werkis Misericordia super omnia opera eius ȝe bawe ffor bokis quod one was brokyn out of helle Troaianus hiȝte troaianus had ben a trewe knyȝt ; toke wittenesse at þe pope how he was deed & damnped ; to dwellyn in peyne For an vncristen creature ; clerkis witten þe soþe þat all þe clergie vndir crist ; myȝte me cracche ffro helle But oneliche loue & lewte ; and my laweffull domes Gregori wiste þis well ; & wilneþ to my soule salvacioun ffor soþenesse ; þat he seyȝ in my werkis and after þat he wepte ; & wilned me were graunted notaþe ground oftrentalis Grace with-out ony bede biddinge ; his bone was vndir-ffongen And I saued as ȝe mown se ; with-out syngynge of messis By loue and be lernynge C2.11.156:An otiose tilde appears above the <y> in lernynge. ; & of of my leyuynge C2.11.156:An otiose tilde appears above the <y> in leyuynge. in truþe Brouȝte me ffro bitter peyne ; þer no biddinge myȝte lo ȝe lordis what lewte dede ; bi an emperoure of rome þat was an vncristen creature ; as clerkis ffyndyn in bokis Not þoruȝ preiere of a pope ; but ffor his pure truþe was þat sarazyn saued ; as seint gregori bereþ wittenesse well auȝten ȝe lordis þat lawis kepen ; þis lesson haue in mynde Law . and knoleage withoutLoue . availeth no thinge And on troaianus truþe to þenke ; & do truþe to þe peple lawe with-ouȝtyn loue quod troaianus ; ley þer a bene Exemplum bonum Or ony science vndir sonne ; þe Seuene artis and all But þei be lerned ffor oure lordeys loue ; lost is all þe tymeC2.11.166:   The two preceding lines are linked at the right by a bracket. For no cause to cacche siluere ; þerbi ; ne to be callid a mayster But all ffor þe for loue of oure lord ; & þe bette to loue þe peple For Seynt Iohan saide it ; & soþe arn his wordis Qui non diligit manetin morte who-so loueþ not leue me ; he leyueþ in deþ deynge and þat alle manere men ; enemyes and ffrendis loue here eiþer oþer ; & lene hem as hem-seluen who-so leneþ not noȝt; he loueþ not ; god wott þe soþe and commaundede C2.11.175:An otiose tilde appears above the <a> in commaundede. iche creature ; to confforme hym to loue and souereynli pore peple ; & her enemyes after For hem þat haten vs ; is oure merite to loue and pore peple to plese ; her preyris mown us helpe For oure Ioy & oure hele ; Ihesu crist of heuene In a pore mannys aparaile ; pursueþ us euere and lokeþ on vs in here likenesse ; and þat with loueli chere To knowe us bey oure kynde herte ; & castinge of oure eye wheþer we louen þe lordis heere ; be-ffor oure lord of bleysse and exciteþ vs bey þe euangelie ; þat whanne we maken ffestis we shulde not calle oure kyn þer-to ; ne no kyn riche Cum facitis conuiuianolite inuitare amicos and Callyþ þe careffull þer-to ; þe croked & þe pore For ȝoure ffrendis wolle ffede ȝou ; & ffonde ȝou to quyte Ȝoure ffestinge and ȝoure ffaire ȝiftis ; iche ffrende quyteþ so oþer and ffor þe pore I shall pay ; & pure well quyte here trauaile þat ȝeueþ hem mete or mony ; & loueþ hem ffor my sake For þe beste ben summe riche ; & summe beggers & pore For alle ar we cristis creaturis ; & of his coferis riche and breþeren as of blood ; as beggers and erlis For on caluerie of cristis blood ; cristendom gan springe and blody breþeren we be-come ; þer of o body wonne as quasi modo geniti ; & gentell men ichone Ne begger ne boye amonge us ; but if it synne made Qui facit peccatum seruus est peccati In þe olde lawe ; as holi lettre telliþ Mennys sonnes ; men callid us ichon Of adamys issu & eue ; ay till god-man deied and after his resureccioun ; redemptor was his name and we his breþeren þoruȝ him bouȝte ; boþe riche & pore and ffor-þi Forþi / leoue we ; as leue breþeren shuld shal . & iche man lauȝhe on oþer For if þat iche man may fforbere ; amende þer it nedeþ and euery man helpe oþer ffor hens shull we alle Alter alterius onera porter portate & cetera and be we not vnkynde of oure catell ; ne of oure kunnynge neiþer For not no man how it is ; to be ynome ffro boþe For-þi / lakke no lyff oþer ; þouȝ he more latyn knowe Ne vndirnyme not ffoule ; ffor is non with-outyn deffauȝte For what-euere clerkis carpyn ; of cristendom or ellis Crist Crist to a comune womman saide ; in comune at a ffeste þat ffides sua shulde sauen hir ; & saluen hir of synnes þanne is bileue a .lele helpe ; aboue logyk or lawe Logick and Law Of logyk ne of lawe ; in legenda sanctorum Is lytill alowaunce C2.11.218:An otiose tilde appears above the <u> in alowaunce. made ; but if bileue hem helpe For it is ouerlonge er logyk ; ony lessoun assoyle And lawe is loþe to loue ; but if he lacche syluere But logyk and lawe ; þat louen not to lye I counceyll alle cristen men ; cleue not þer-on to sore For summe wordis I ffynde wretten ; þat were of ffeiþes techinge þat saued synffull man men ; as seint Iohan beriþ wittenesse Eadem mensura qua mensi ffueritis ; remecietur vobis For-þi lerne we þe lawe of loue ; as oure lord tauȝte and as seint gregory said ; ffor mennys soule helþe Melius est scrutari stelera scelera nostraquam naturas rerum why I meue þis mater ; is moste ffor þe pore For in his klikenesse oure lord ; ofte haþe ben y-knowe wittenesse in þe paske weke ; whanne he ȝede to Emaus Cleophas knewe him not ; þat he crist were For his pore apparayle ; and pilgrimes wedis Tyll he blesside & brak þe bred þat þey eten So be his werkis þey wisten ; þat he was Ihesus and be cloþing þey knewe him not ; ne be carpinge of tunge and alle was in ensammple ; to vs synffull here þat we shulden be lowe ; and loueliche of speche and apparale us not prouudly ; ffor pilgrimes ar we all and in þe apparaile of a pore man ; & pilgrimes likenesse Many tyme god haþe be mett ; amonge nedy peple þat neuere segge him seiȝ ; in secte of þe riche Seint Iohan and oþer seintis ; were seyn in pore cloþinge And as pore pilgrimes ; preyed mennys goodis Ihesu crist on a Iues douȝter alyȝt ; gentill womman þouȝ sche were was a pure pore mayde ; and to a pore man weddid Martha on marie magdalene ; an huge pleynt sche made and to oure saueoure self ; seide þese wordis Domine non Est tibi cure quod . soror mea reliquit me solam & cetera and hasteli god answeryd ; & eyþeris wille ffollwid Boþe in marthas & in maries ; as matheu bereþ wittenesse and pouerte god putte beffore ; & preisid it þe better maria optimampartem elegit que non auferetur ab ea and alle þe wyse þat euere weren ; bi ought I can aspie preysen pouerte ffor best lijf ; if pacience it ffollowe and boþe better and blessidere ; bi many ffollde þanne richesse and þouȝ it be soure to suffre ; þer comeþ swete after Similitudo as a on a walnote withoutyn ; is a bitter barke pouertie and after þat bitter bark ; be þe schelle aweye is a kyrnell of comfforte ; kynde to restore so is after pouerte . or pacience ; pacientliche ytake For it makeþ man haue mynde in god ; & a grett wille To wepe & to well bidde ; were-of wexiþ mercy and well sekerere he slepiþ ; þe man þat is pore and lesse he drediþ deþ ; and in derk to be robbid þan he þat is ryȝt riche ; reson bereth wittenesse Pauper ego ludo ; dum tu diues meditaris and þouȝ saloman said ; as ffolk seen in þe bible Diuicias nec paupertate & cetera . perfeccioun of pouertie wyser þan saloman was ; beriþ wittenesse & tauȝte þat parffyȝt pouerte was ; no posession to haue and lijf most likynge to god ; as luke bereþ wittenesse Si vis perfectus esse vade et vende & cetera and is to mene to men ; þat on þis molde leyuen War munkes &Channonys who-so wolle be pure parffiȝt ; mote possesion fforsake Or selle it as seiþ þe book ; and þe siluer dele To beggers þat gon & beggen ; and biddin good ffor godis loue For ffailede neuer man mete ; þat myȝtfull god serued Non vidi iustum derelictum nec semen eius querens panem . as dauiþ in seiþ in þe sauter ; to swiche þat ben in wille To serue god goodliche ; ne greueþ him no penaunce C2.11.281:An otiose tilde appears above the <u> in penaunce. Nichil inpossibile volenti Ne lakkiþ neuer lijflode ; lynnen ne wollen In-quirentes autem dominum non minuentur omni bono If prestis were parffiȝt ; þei wollde no siluer take Agaynste takynge of monayfor Masses For masses ne ffor matynys ; not her mete of vsureris Ne neiþer kyrtill ne kote ; þouȝ þei ffor colde shuld deye and þey her deuer ded as dauid ; seiþ in þe sauȝter Iudica me deus & deserne discerne causam & cetera spera in deo & cetera . spekeþ of prestis ; þat han no spendinge syluere þat if þei trauaile truliche ; & triste in god almyȝti hem shulde lakke no lijflode ; neiþer wollen ne lynnen and þe title þei take ordre by ; telliþ ȝe ben auaunced þanne nediþ not ȝou take syluer ; ffor massis þat ȝe syngen For he þat toke ȝou ȝoure title ; shulde take ȝou ȝoure wages Of þe bisshope þat blessiþ ȝou ; if þat ȝe ben worþi For made neuer kynge no knyȝt ; but he had catell to spende As be-ffelle ffor a knyȝt ; or ffound him ffor his strenkþe It is a careffull knyȝt ; & of caytijf kyngis makynge þat haþe no lond ne leynage riche ; ne good loos of his handis þe same I seie ffor-soþe ; bi alle swiche prestis þat han neiþer kunnynge ne kyn ; but a croun one And a title a tale of nouȝt ; to his lijflode at myscheff he haþe more bileue as I leue ; to lacche þoruȝ his croune Cure . þan ffor kunnynge or knowinge ; ffor clene of beringe I haue worndir and why ; & wherffore þe bisshope Makeþ swiche prestis ; þat lewde men be-traien A chartre is chalengable ; biffore a .....Cheef Iustice If ffals latyn be in þat letter ; þe lawe it impugneþ Or peyntid par-interlynarie ; parcellis ouere-skippid þe gome þat gloseþ so Charters ; ffor a goky is holdyn so it is a goky be god ; þat in his gospell ffailiþ Or in messe or matyns ; makiþ ony deffauȝte Qui offendit in vno in omnibus est reus And also in þe sauȝter seiþ ; dauiþ to ouerskippers Psallite deo nostro psallite ; quoniam rex terre deus israel psallite sapienter þe bisshop shall be blamed ; be-ffore god as I leue þat swiche goddis knyȝtis ; þat kunne not sapienter Synge ne psalme rede ; ne Segge a messe of þe day and neuer neiþer is blameles ; þe bischope ne þe chapeleyn For euere eiþer is enditid ; & þat of ignorancia Non excusat episcopos ; nec ydiotes prestis þis lokynge of lewde prestis ; haþe don me lepe ffro pouerte whiche I preise þer pacience is ; more parffiȝt þan richesse and moche more in metinge þus ; with me gan on dispute and slepinge I seiȝ al þis ; & siþen cam kynde and nem.pnede me be name ; and bade me nymme heed and þoruȝ þe wondris of þis world ; witt ffor to take And on a mounteyn þat mydelerd hiȝte ; as me þo þouȝt I was ffett fforþe ; be ensaunplis to knowe þoruȝ iche a creature & kynde ; my creatoure to loue I seyȝ þe sunne & þe sehe ; & þe sonde after and where þat briddis and bestis ; bi her make ȝeden wylde wormes in wodes ; & wondirffull ffoulis with fflekked ffeþeres ; and of ffeleC2.11.335:A virgule appears between the words of and ffele. colouris Man had his make ; I myȝte boþe by-holde pouerte & plente ; boþe pees & werre Blisse & bale ; boþe I seiȝ at ones and men token mede ; & mercy reffusid Reson I seiȝ soþely ; suen alle bestis In etynge & drinkinge ; & in engendringe of kynde and after cours of concepcioun ; non toke kepe to of oþer and whanne þey haddyn reden a in rotey-tyme ; anon-riȝt þer-after Males drowen hem to males ; on morwnynge C2.11.344:An otiose tilde appears above the <y> in morwnynge. bi hem-selue In euenynge euenynges C2.11.345:An otiose tilde appears above the <n> in euenynge. also ; þe males ffro þe ffemelis þer was kow ne kowkynde ; þat conseyued hade þat wolde belue after boles bulles ; ne bore after sowe Boþe hors and houndis ; and all oþer bestis medeleden not with her makes ; þat with ffole weren Briddis I be-helde ; þat in buskis made nestis had neuere wye witte ; to werche þe leste I had wondir at whom ; and where þe pie lerned To legge þe stykkisC2.11.384:The second <k> in stykkis has been altered so that it is no longer clearly legible. ; in which he leiþ & bredyþ þer nys wyȝt as I wene ; shulde werche hir neste to paye if ony mason made a molde þer-to ; moche wondir it were and ȝit me merueilid more ; how many oþer briddis hidden and hileden ; her eyren ffull derne In mareys & moris ; ffor men shulde hem not ffynde and hiddyn her eggis ; whanne þei þer-ffro wenten For ffere of oþer ffoulis ; & ffor wylde bestis and summe troden here makis ; & on tres bridden bredden And brouȝten fforþe here bridis so ; al aboue þe ground and summe briddis at þe bille ; þoruȝ bredinge conceyued And summe kakeleden I toke keep ; how pekoccis breddyn Moche merueilid me ; what mayster þey haddyn And who tauȝte hem on trees ; to tymbre so hie þer neiþer barn ne beste ; may her briddis reche and siþen I lokede on þe see ; & so on þe sterris Many selkouþis I seiȝ ; be not to seie nouþe I seiȝ fflouris in þe ffriþe ; & her ffaire colouris and how amonge þe grene gresse ; grew so many hewes and summe soure & summe swete ; selcouþe me þouȝte Of her kynde & her coloure ; to carpe it were to longe and þat moste meved me ; and my mode Chaungid Reason Rewleth all beastessave man and his make . þat reson rewardyde ; and rewlide alle bestis saue man and his make ; many tyme and ofte No reson hem ffolwyd ; & þanne I rebukede Reson and riȝt to him-selue saide I haue wonndre of þe quod I ; þat witti art holdyn why þou ne sueste man & his make ; þat no mysfayte him ffolowe and reson aratede me ; and said recche þe neuere why I suffre or not suffre ; þi-selue hast not to done Amende þou if þou myȝte ; ffor my tyme is to abide Sufferaunce is souereyne vertu ; & of swift veniaunce C2.11.384:An otiose tilde appears above the <a> in veniaunce. who suffrede more þan god quod he ; no gome as I leue He myȝte amende in a menute while ; al þat mystondiþ and he suffred ffor summe mannys good ; & so is oure better þe wise and þe witti ; wrotte þus in þe bible De re que te non molestat noli certare For be a man ffaire or ffoule ; it ffalleþ not to lakke þe schappe ne ne þe schafte ; þat god schope him-selue For all þat he dede was well do ; as holi writte wittenessiþ Et vidit deus cuncta que fecerat et erant valde bona and bad euery creature ; in his kynde encrece all to myrþe with man ; þat most wo þoliþ In ffondinge of þe ffleisshe ; & of þe ffende boþe For man was made of swiche a mater ; he may not well asterte That ne sum tyme him betid ; to ffolowe his kynde Caton acordiþ her-with ; nemo sine crimine viuit þo cauȝte I coloure anon ; & comsede to be aschamed and I awakid þer-with ; woo was me þanne þat I in metels ne myȝte ; more haue I-knowen þanne said I to my-self ; and chidde þat tyme Now I wott what do-well ; is quod I . be dere god as me þinkiþ and as I caste vp myn eyn ; one loked on me & axed Of me what þing it were ; I-wisse sire I saide . Do-Well Go To se moche and suffre more ; certis quod I is do-well haddist þou suffred he said ; slepinge þo þou were þou shuldest haue yknowe ; þat clergie can . and conceyued more þoruȝ reson For reson wolde haue rehersid þe ; riȝt as clergie said and ffor þin entermetinge here ; art þou fforsaken Philosophus esses si tacuisses Adam whilis he spake nouȝt ; had paradice at his wille and whanne he mamelede abouȝte mete ; & entermete him to knowe þe wisdam of þe witte of god ; he was put ffro bleysse and riȝth so fferde reson bey þe ; þou with rude speche lakkedest & losedest þing ; þat longed not to don þo had he no likynge ; ffor to lerne þe more Pride now & presumpsioun ; paraunter wolle þe apele þat clergie þi companye ; ne kepeþ not to sue Schal neuere schalenginge ne chidinge ; chastice a man son son.e As schame & schenden him ; & schape him to amende For late a drunken daff ; in a diche ffalle latte him ligge loke not on him ; tille him list to rise For þouȝ reson rebukede him þanne ; it were .but pure synne and whanne nede nymeþ him vp ; ffor douȝte leste he sterue and schame schrapeþ his cloþis ; & his schyns wassheþ þanne woteþ þe drunken daff ; whereffore he is to blame ȝe seggen soþe quod I . iche haue yseyn it hofte þer smyte no þing so smerte ; ne smelliþ so soure as schame þer he schewiþ him ; ffor euery man him schonyeþ why ȝe wissen me þus quod I was ; ffor I rebuked reson Certis quod he þat is soþe ; and schope him ffor to walke And I aros vp riȝt with þat ; & ffolwide him after And preyd him of his curteysie ; to telle me his name Passusduodecimus I am ymagynatif quod he ; ydel was I neuer þouȝ I sitte bey my-selue ; in sekenesse & in helþe I haue ffollwid þe in ffeiþ ; þis ffyue ; & ffourti wynter and many tymes haue meued þe ; to þenke on þin ende and how ffele fferneȝeris ar ffaren ; & so ffewe.. to come and of þi wilde wantownesse ; þo þou ȝong were To amende it in þi mydill age ; lest myȝte þe ffaile In þin olde elde ; þat yuell can suffre pouerte or penaunce C2.12.9:An otiose tilde appears above the <a> in penaunce. ; or preyeris bidde Si non in prima vigilia nec in secunda amende þe while þou myȝte ; þou hast ben warned ofte with pouste of pestelences ; with pouerte & with angres and with þese bitter baleises ; god betiþ his dere childrin Quem diligo castigo and dauiþ in þe sauter seiþ ; of swiche þat louen Ihesus Virga tua & baculus tuuus ipsa me consolata sunt all-þouȝ þou strike me with þi staf ; with stikek oþer ȝerde It is but myrþe as ffor me ; to amende my soule and þou medelest þe with maystries ; & myȝtist go saye þi sauȝter and bidde ffor hem þat ȝeuen þe bred ; ffor þer ben bokis To telle me what do-well is ; do-bett & do-best boþe and prechouris to preue what it is ; of many a peyre ffreris I seiȝ well he said me soþe ; & sum-what me to excuse saide caton comforted his sone ; þat clerk þouȝ he were To solacen him sumtyme ; as I do whane I make Interpone tuis interdum gaudiacuris And of holi men I herde quod I ; how þei oþer-while pleyeden þe parfiter ; to be in many places and if þer were ony wiȝt ; þat wolde me telle what were do-well & do-bett ; & do-best at þe laste wolde I neuer do werk ; but wende to holy chirche And þer bidde my bedis ; but whane I ete or slepe poule in his pistyll . quod he ; preueþ what is do-well Fides spes . caritas et maior horum & cetera . Feiþe hope and charite ; and alle ben good And saued sauen men sundri tymes ; & non so sone as charite For he doþe well withouȝtyn douȝte ; þat doþe as lewte techiþ þat is if þou be man maried ; þi make þou loue and leue fforþe as lawe woll ; while ȝe leuen here pilgrimage C2.12.40:   A triangle composed of dots, with a wavy line ascending from the uppermost dot, appears in the left margin. See Introd. I.6. Riȝt so if þou be religious ; renne þou neuere fferþer To rome ne to rochemadoure ; but as þi rule techeþ and holde þe vndir obedience ; þat hie wey is to heuene and if þou be maydyn to marien ; and myȝte well entene conteyne seke þou neuere seint fferþer ; ffor no soule helþe For what made luciffere ; to lese his hie heuene Or salomon his sapience ; or sampson his strenþe Iob þe Iue his ioie ; dere it he abouȝte Aristotle & oþer mo ; ypocras & virgile Alexandre þat all wan ; elengeli endid Catell and kynde witte ; was combraunce to hem all . Felice hir ffairenesse ; ffelle hir all to slandre Rosamonde and rosamound riȝt so ; ruffulli bisette þe bewte of hir body ; in badennesse sche dispendiþ it despended Of many swiche I myȝte rede ; of men & womman Þat wise wordis kun seie ; & wirche þe contrarie sunt homines nequam de virtute beneloquentes and riche renkes riȝt so ; gaderen & sparen and þo men þat þey most haten ; mynystrin it at þe laste and ffor þey suffred & suffren and seen ; so many nedy fforlkis and louen hem not as god bidiþ ; lesen here soulisC2.12.60:   The preceding two lines are linked at the left by a bracket. and richesse riȝt so ; but if þe rote be trewe Date & dabitur vobiz and grace is a grasse þer-of ; þe greuaunce to abate Grace And grace ne groweþ not ; but amonge þe lowe pacience Pacience & pouerte ; þe place is þer it growiþ Pouertie and in lele leyuynge men . & in lijf holi And þoruȝ þe gifte of þe holi goste ; as þe gospell telliþ Spiritus vbi vult spirat Clergiekynde Wytt . Clergie & kynde witt ; comeþ of siȝt & techinge as þe boke bereþ wittenesse ; to barnes þat kun rede Quod scimus loquimur quod vidimus testamur Of quod scimus comeþ clergie ; & kunnynge C2.12.72:An otiose tilde appears above the <y> in kunnynge. of heuene Of quod vidimus comeþ kynde witt ; of siȝt of diuerse peple and grace is a gifte of god ; and of grett loue springiþ knoweþ Knew neuere klerk how it comeþ fforþe ; þe kynde witt þe weyez Nescit aliquis vnde venit aut quo vadit & cetera . and ȝit is clergie to commende ; & kynde witte boþe and namely clergie ffor cristis loue ; þat of clerigie clergie is rote For moyses wittenessiþ þat god wrotte ; ffor to wisse þe peple In þe olde lawe as þe letter telliþ ; þat was þe lawe of Iues þat what womman were in auouuȝtrie taken ; riche oþer pore with stones men shulld hir strike ; and stonye hir to deþe a womman as we ffyndyn ; was gilti of þat dede and crist of his curteisie ; þoruȝ clergie hir saued For þoruȝ carectis þat crist wrouȝt ; þe Iues knewen hem-selue Giltiere as affore god ; and in gretter synne þanne þe womman þat þer was ; & wente away ffor schame þe clergie þat þer was ; comfortede þe womman holi kyrke knoweþ þis ; þat cristis writtinge saued so clergie is comforte ; to creaturis þat repenten and to manseed men ; mysshef at erC2.12.91:It seems likely that C2 alone has this form; Kane and Donaldson record it only for C, probably in error for C2. The form is attested as a variant of hire by the MED, but this scribe does not elsewhere use it; since he uses the form her 306 times, it is most probable that the <h> is here omitted in error. ende For godis body myȝt not be ; of bred without clergie Chrieste his bodyin Sacramento þe whiche body is boþe ; bote to þe riȝtffull and deþ & dampnacioun ; to hem þat dien yuellC2.12.94:The preceding three lines are linked at the right by a bracket. as cristis carectes comfortedid confortede ; & boþe coupled & coupable schewid þe womman þat þe Iues brouȝten ; þat Ihesus þouȝt to saue Nolite iudicare et non iudicabimini Riȝt so goddis body breþeren ; but if it be wurþeli taken Dampneþ us at þe day of dom ; as þe carettis dede þe Iues For-þe Forþi I conceill þe ffor cristis sake ; clergie to loue For kynde witte is of his kyn ; & nyȝ cosyns boþe To oure lord leue me ; ffor-þi loue hem I rede For boþe ben as myrrours ; to amende oure deffautis and leders ffor lewde men ; & ffor lettrid boþe For-þi lakke þou neuere logik ; lawe ne his customes Ne contirplede clerkis ; I counceile þe ffor euere For as a man may not se ; þat mysseþ his eyn No more can a clerk but if he cacche it ; ffrist þoruȝ bokis al-þouȝ men maden bokis ; god was þe maister and seint spirit his saumplarie ; & saide what man shulde writte Similitudo and riȝt as siȝt serueþ a man ; to se þe hie strete Riȝt so lediþ lettrature ; lewde men to resounC2.12.112:   The preceding two lines are linked by a bracket at the left, outside which the <S> of Hand 2 appears. and as a blindC2.12.113: An otiose tilde appears above the <n> in blind. man in bataile ; bereþ wepene to ffyȝte and haþ non happe with his ax ; his enemyes to hitte No more can a blynde kynde witted man ; but if clerkis him teche Come ffor all his kynde witt ; to cristendom & be sauedC2.12.116:   The preceding two lines are linked by a bracket at the left. whiche is þe cofre of cristis tresore ; & clerkis kepen þe keyes To vnlokyn it at her likinge ; & to þe lewde peple ȝeue mercy ffor her myssdedis ; if men it woll aske Buxumliche & benyngliche ; & biddyn it of grace Clergie Archa dei ; in þe olde lawe ; leuytes it kepten had neuere lewde man leue ; to ley honde on þe cheste But he were preste ; or prestis sone ; patriark or prophete For clergie is keper ; vndir crist of heuene Was þer neuere no kynge no ; but knyȝt but clergie him made how kynde wyttis engendred and kynde witte comeþ ; of all-kyns siȝtis Of briddis of bestis of taastis ; of truþe & of disceytis lyuyers to-fforn vs ; vseden to marke þe selcouþe þat þei seyn ; her sones ffor to teche and helde it an hie science ; her wittis to knowe and þoruȝ here science soþeli ; was neuere soule saued Ne brouȝt bi her bokis ; to blesse ne to Ioie ffor all her For alle her kynde knowinge ; come but of deuerse siȝtis Patriarikis & prophetis ; repreued her science and seiden her wordis ; ne her wisdomys nas but a ffolie Sapiencia huius mundi stultitia apud domini As to þe clergie of crist ; counted but a trifuleC2.12.137:C2 alone transposes lines 136 and 137. For þe hie holi gost ; heuene shall to-cleue and loue shall lepe out after ; in-to his lowe erthe and clennesse shall cacche it ; & clerkis shull ffynde it ffynde Pastores loquebantur ad in-vicem He spekiþ þer of riche men nouȝt ; ne of riȝt witti Ne of lordis þat weren lewde men ; but of þe heyest letterd out I-bant magy ab oriente C2.12.145:   A cross composed of dots appears in the left margin, with a flourish ascending from the uppermost dot.If ony ffrere were ffoundyn þer ; I ȝeue þe ffyue schillingis Ne in no beggers cote ; was þat barn born but in a burgeis place ; of bedelem þe beste set non erat locus in diuersorio & pauper non habet diuersorium To pastouris and to poietis ; apperede þe aungell and bad hem go to bedelem ; godis birþe to honoure and songen a songe of solace ; gloria in excelsis deo clerkis knew it well ; & comen with her presentes and dedyn here homage honorabli ; to him þat was almyȝti and godis sonne þat sittiþ in heuene ; and shall saue us all why I haue told þe al þis ; I toke ffull good hede how þou contrariest clerigie clergie ; with crabide wordis how þat lewde men liȝtliere ; þan lettrid were sauedC2.12.157:   The preceding two lines are linked at the left by a bracket, which originally included only ll. 155 and 156 but has been extended to include l. 157. þan clerkis or kynde witti witted men ; of cristen pepleC2.12.158:   The preceding three lines are linked at the right by a bracket. and þou seidest soþe of summe ; & se ȝit in what manere Similitudo Take two strong men ; and in tamise hem caste And boþe naked as a nedill ; ar non sekerere þan oþer That on haþe kunnynge ; & kan swymme & dyue þat oþer is lewde of þat laboure ; lerned neuere to swymme whichet trowist þou of þe two ; in tamise is in moste drede he þat neuere ne dyued ; ne nouȝt can of swymmynge or þe swymmer þat is saaf ; be so him-self likeC2.12.166:   A penciled swirl, perhaps the number <4>, appears in the extreme right bottom margin. e1 Ther his ffellaw fflette fforþe ; as þe fflode likeþ and is in drede to drinche ; þat neuere dede swymme þat swymme can not I saide ; It semeþ to my wittis Riȝt so quod þe renke ; reson it schewiþ þat he þat knoweþ clergie ; can sonnere arise Out of synne and be safe ; þouȝ he synne ofte If him likiþ and liste ; þanne ony lewde leli For if þe clerk be kunnynge ; he knowiþ what is synne Contricioun WithouteConfession and how contriscion with-oute confession ; comfortiþ þe soule and þou sest in þi sauȝter ; in salmes on or tweyn how contricioun is commendid ; ffor it cachiþ away synne Beati quorum remisse sunt iniquitates & quorum tecta & cetera and þis comforteþ iche a clerk ; and keuereþ him ffro wanhope In whiche fflode þe ffende ; ffondeþ a man hardest þere þe lewde liþe stille ; and lokeþ after lenten and haþe no contricioun er he come to schrefte ; & þanne can he litill telle and as his lores-man lereþ him ; beleueþ & trowiþ And þat is after parson or parisshepreste ; & parauuenture he Vnkunnynge to lere lewde men ; as luke bereþ wittenesse Dum cecus ducit cecum ambo in foueam & cetera . woo was him markid þat ; wade mote with þe lewde Clergie and Lettera-ture . hathe savedmany a man from hanging well may þe baren blisse ; þat him to boke sette þat leuynge after letterature ; saued him lijf & soule Dominus pars hereditatis mee & cetera ; is a merie versett þat haþe taken ffro tyburne ; twenti score stronge þeues þer lewde þeues ben lolled vp ; loke how þei ben saued þe þeef þat had grace of god ; on good ffriday as ȝe speken was ffor he ȝalte him creaunt ; to crist ; on crosse & knewe him gilti and grace axed of god ; and he is euere redy þat buxumli biddiþ it ; and ben in wille to amende hem Difference of blysse &Ioye in heven and þouȝ þat þeef had heuene ; he had non hie blisse As seint Iohan and oþer seyntis ; þat deserued had betterC2.12.198:   The preceding two lines are linked at the right by a bracket. Similitudo Riȝt as summe men ȝeuen me mete ; & setten me amyd þe fflore I haue mete more þanne I-nowe ; & not so moche wurschepe As þoo þat sitten at þe table ; or with souereyns of þe halle But sitte as beggers bordles ; bi my-self on þe ground so it ffareþ be þat ffelon ; þat on good ffryday was saued he sitteþ neiþer be seint Iohan ; Symond ne Iude Ne with maydenys ne martires ; conffessouris ne weydowes But bey him-self as a soleyn ; & serued on þe erþe For he þat is onys a ȝþeef ; is euere-more in daunger And as lawe likiþ ; to leyue or to die De peccato propiciato noli est sine metu and ffor to serue a seynt ; & swiche a þeef to-gedris It were neiþer resoun ne riȝt ; to rewarde hem boþe in liche yliche and riȝt as troaianus þe true knyȝt tilte not depe in helle þat oure lord ne had him liȝtlyche ouȝt ; so leue I . þe þeef be in heuene For he is in þe loweste heuene ; if oure bileue be true and well loseliche he lolliþ þer ; bey þe lawe of holi chirche Quia redditur vnicuique iuxta opera sua And why þat oo þeef on þe crosse ; creaunt him ȝelte Raþer þanne þat oþer þeef ; þouȝ þou wolde apose alle þe clerkis avndir crist ; ne couþe þe skylle asoile Quare placuit ; quia volunt and so I seie bey þe ; þat sekest after þe weyes and aresondest a resoun Reson ; a rebuke rebukynge as it were and of þe fflouris in þe ffriȝþe ; and of her ffaire heuwes where-of þey cacchen her colouris ; so cler & so briȝt and willes of briddis & beestis ; & of her bredinge knowe why summeC2.12.226:The collocation <um> in the word summe lacks a minim. ben alowe ; & summe aloft ; þi likinge it were and of þe stones & of þe sterres ; þou studiest as I leue how euery best or bride ; haþe so breme wittis Clergie ne kynde witte ; ne knewe neuere þe cause and kynde knowiþ þe cause him-self ; & no creature ellis he is þe pies patron ; and putteþ in hir ere þat þer þe þornȝ þorn C2.12.232:It is impossible to be certain whether this word reads þoruȝ or þornz. is þikkest ; to bilden & brede and kynde kenneþ þe potok pecok C2.12.233: The scribe must have found this form in his exemplar. It results from the common confusion of c and t, but its repetition at C2.12.244 and C2.12.251 suggests that confusion was not owed to the immediate scribe. ; to kauken in swiche a kynde and kenned adam to knowe ; his preuy menbris and tauȝte him & eue ; to hillen hem with leues lewide men many tymes ; maistris apposen why adam hillid not ffrist his mouþ ; þat ete þe appillC2.12.237:   The preceding two lines are linked at the left by a bracket. e2 Raþer þanne his likham alow ; lewde axen þus clerkis kynde knowiþ why he dede so ; & no clerk ellis and of briddis & of bestis ; men be olde tyme Tokenes ofRiche men Ennsaunplis token & termes ; as tellen þe poyetis And þat þe ffayrest ffoule ; ffoulest engendriþ And febleste ffoule of ffliȝt is ; þat ffleyeþ or swymmeþ And þat is þe potok pecok & pohenne ; prouude riche men þey be-tokene For þe pocok & men pursuen him ; may not fflie hie For þe traylinge of his tayl ; ouere-takyn is he sone and his ffleissheC2.12.247:Illegible marks appear below <leiss> in the word ffleisshe. is ffoule ffleissh ; & his ffeet boþe And vnloueliche on ledne ; & layþ fforto here Riȝt so þe riche ; if he his richesse kepe and deliþ it not till his deþ-day ; þe tayl of alle sorwe Riȝt as þe pennes of þe potok pecok ; peyneþ him in his ffliȝt so is possession peyne ; of pens & of noblisC2.12.252:   The preceding two lines are linked at the right by a bracket. To alle hem þat it holdyn ; till here tayl be pluked and þouȝ þe riche repente him þanne ; & be-rewe þe tyme þat euere he gaderid so grette ; & gaf þer-of so litill þouȝ he crie to crist þanne ; with kene wille I leue his ledene ledene be in oure lordis ere ; is yliche a pies and whanne his Careyn schall come ; in caue to be beried I leue it fflawme ffull ffoule ; þe ffolde al abouȝte and alle þe erþe lereþer there it liþe ; enuenemeþ þoruȝ his attire Be þe poo ffeet is vndirstandin ; as I lernede in auynetAuynetnight C2.12.261:A virgule appears after the <a> in the word auynet. Exsecutores ffals ffrendis ; þat ffulfillen not his wille þat was wrettyn and þei wittenesse ; to werche as it wolde þus þe poete proueþ þe pocok ; ffor his ffeþeris is reuerencid Riȝt so is þe riche ; be reson of his goodis þe lark þat is a lesse ffoule ; is more loueliche of leddene and wel way awey of weenge ; swyftere þanne þe pocok and of ffleisshe be ffelefeleffyve ffolde ; ffattere & swetter To lowe leuynge C2.12.269:An otiose tilde appears above the <n> in leuynge. men ; þe lark is resembled aristotle þe grett clerk ; swiche talis telliþ Thus he likeneþ in his logyk ; þe leste ffoule oute and wher he be saf or not ; þe soþe wott þe clergie SortesSalomon sortesSortesSocrates ne saloman ; no scripture can telle and god is so good I hope ; þat siþe he gaf hem wittis To wissen vs wey weyes þer-with ; þat wissen vs to be saued and þe better ffor her bokis ; to biddin we ben holdyn þat god of his grace ; gyue her soulis reste For lettrid men were lewde ȝit ; ner lore of her bokis alle þese clerkis quod I þo ; þat on crist leuen Seggen in her sermouns ; þat no sarasens ne Iues Ne no creature of cristis likenesse ; withouȝtyn cristendom worþe to be saued Contra quod ymagynatif þo ; and Comsid ffor to loure and saide saluabitur vix iustus ; in die iudicij Ergo saluabitur quod he ; & said no more latyn TraianusC2.12.285:A portion of the <r>, as well as the original <o> in Troianus has been erased, probably by hand 2, which substituted <a> above the line. was a trewe knyȝt ; & toke neuere cristendom and he seiþ saaf as seiþ þe boke ; & his soule in heuene Baptismus Triplex For þer is ffullinge in ffounte ; & ffullinge in blood scheddinge and þoruȝ ffier is ffullinge ; þat is fferme bileue aduenitC2.12.289:An otiose tilde appears above the <i> in the word aduenit. ignus diuinus non conburens set illuminans . and trewþe þat trespassid neuere ; ne trauessid trauersed aȝens his lawe But lyueþ as his lawe techeþ ; & leueþ þer be no better And if þer where he wolde amende amende and ; in swiche wille deieþ Ne wolde neuere trewe god ; but trewþe were alowide And where it worþe or not ; þe bileue is grette of trueþe And an hope hangynge þer-inne ; to haue mede ffor his truþe Quia deus dicitur quasi dans vitamEternam suis hoc est fidelibus ; Et alibi / Si ambulauero in medio vmbre mortis & cetera þe glose graunteþ vppon þat vers ; a grette mede to truþe And witte & wisdam quod þat wie ; was summe tyme tresore To kepe with a comune ; no catell was holdyn better And moche myrthe & manhood ; & riȝt wiþ þat he wanyschede Passusterciodecimus a And I wakede þerwith ; witteles nyre-hande and as a ffreke þat ffre were ; fforþe gan I walke in manere of a mendynaunte ; many ȝere after and of þis metinge many tyme ; moche had I þouȝte þouȝt I hadde C2.13.4:   A double solidus above þouȝte and had indicates transposition of original had I þouȝte. e3 Friste how ffortune me ffailide ; at my moste nede And how þat elde manacede me ; we myȝte neuere mete ffreris and how þat ffreris ffolloweden ; ffolk þat weren riche and ffolke þat weren pore ; at litill price þei setten and no cors in her kyrk-ȝerd ; ne in here kyrk was beried But quyk he be-queþe hem ought ; or shuld helpe quyte here dettis Curatis vnlerned And how coueytise ouerecome ; clerkis and prestis And how þat lewde men ben ledde ; but oure lord hem helpe þoruȝ vnkynnynge C2.13.13:An otiose tilde appears above the <n> in vnkynnynge. curatouris ; to in-curable peynes and how þat ymagynatyf ; in dremeles me tolde Of kynde & of kunnynge C2.13.15:An otiose tilde appears above the <y> in kunnynge. ; & how curteise he is to bestis and how louynge he is to bestis ; on lond & on water leneþ he no lijf ; lasse ne more þe creatouris creatures þat crepen ; of kynde ben engendrid and how ymagynatif saide ; vix saluabitur Iustus and whanne he had saide so ; how sodeyneliche he passide I lay doun long in þis þouȝt ; and at þe last I slepte Conscience and as crist wolde þer come conscience ; to comforte me þat tyme Clergie and bad come to his courte ; with clergie shulde I dyne And ffor conscience of clergie spake ; I Come well þe raþer and þer I seiȝ a mayster ; what man he was I nyste þat lowe lowted ; and loueliche to scripture Conscience knewe him well ; and welcomede him ffayre þey wassheden and wypeden ; & wente to dyner pacience and pacience in þe paleys ; stede stood in pilgrimes cloþis and preyed mete por for charite ; ffor a pore hermyte Concience callide him Inne ; and curteysliche saide welcome wie go & wasshe ; þou shalt sitte sone þis maister was made sitte ; & ffor þe moste worþi þanne clergie and conscience ; & pacience cam after Pacience and I ; weren put to be macchis and sitte be oure-selue ; at a side borde Scripture Conscience callide after mete ; & þanne cam scripture and serued hem þus sone ; of sondri metis many Of austyn of ambrose ; of alle þe ffoure euangelistis at þe tabil Edentes et bibentes que apud eos sunt and þis mayster ne his man ; no manere fflessh eten and þei eten mete of more coste ; mortrewes & potages Of þat men myswonnen ; þei maden hem well at ese and her sauce was euere soure ; & vnsauery y-groundyn In a mortir post mortem ; of many bitter peynes But if þei synge ffor þe soulis ; & wepte wepe salte teris Vos qui peccata hountun ho[minum] C2.13.47:Kane and Donaldson describe this word as untranscribable. It appears (quite clearly) as hou˜tu˜. All other manuscripts have hominum. comeditis nisi pro eis lacrimas & oraciones effuderitis ea que in delicijs comeditis in tormentis euometis Conscience curteisliche þo ; comaundedistcommaundedcomaunded C2.13.49:An otiose tilde appears above the <a> in comaunded. scripture By-ffore pacience bred to bringe ; & me þat was his make he sette a soure loof to-ffore vs ; & saide agite penitenciam and syþen he droewe us drynk C2.13.52:An otiose tilde appears above the <n> in drynk. ; diu perseuerans as longe quod he as I leyue ; and likam may dure here is propre seruyse quod pacience ; þer ffareþ no prince better and þanne he brouȝte fforþe oþer mete ; of miserre miserere mei deus and of beat beati quorum ; of beatus vir makynge Et quorum tecta sunt ; peccata in a dische Of derne schrifte dixi ; and confitebor tibi Brynge pacience sum petaunce ; quod conscience and þanne come to pacience ; a petaunce brouȝt Of pro hac orabit ad te omnis sanctus in tempore oportuno and conscience comfortide us ; & carpid us merie wordis Cor contritum & humiliatum deus non despicies pacience was proud ; of þat propre seruyse and made him myrþe with his mete : & I mornyd euere For þis doctoure on þe hie deis ; drank wyn so ffaste Ve vobis qui potentes estis ad bibendum vinum He ete many sundri metis ; mortrewis & puddinges wombe clouutes & wilde brawin ; & eggis ffried with grece þanne saide I to my-self ; so pacience it herde ffreris It is not ffoure daies þat þis ffreik ; be-ffor þe deen of poulis Prechede of penaunces ; þat poule þe apostle suffred In ffame & frigore ; & fflappis of schorgis Ter cesus sum & a iudeis quinquies quatragenas e4 And o word þei ouere-hippen ; at iche tyme þat þei prechen þat poule in his pistle ; to þe peple tolde Periculum est in ffalsis fratribus nota holi writt bidiþ men be war ; I wole not write it here On Englisshe an auntere it shulde ; be rehercid to ofte and greue þer-with þat good ben ; & gramariens shull rede Vnusquisque a fratre se CustodiatC2.13.81:   A double solidus above Custodiat and se indicates transposition of original Custodiat se. quia vt dicitur periculum est in ffalsis fratribus nota ☞ and I wiste neuer ffreik ; þat as a ffrere ȝede . be-ffor men on Englisshe Take it ffor her tyme ; & telle it with-oute glosinge þei prechen þat pennaunce C2.13.84:An otiose tilde appears above the <u> in pennaunce. is ; profitable to þe soule &C2.13.85:Although it is in Hand 1, the ampersand appears to the left of the usual margin, and may have been added later. What mescheff or malese ; crist ffor man þolede and þis goddis gloton ; quod I ; with his grette chekis haþe no pete on vs pore men ; he parfornmeþ yuell þat he precheþ he preueþ not ; to pacience I tolde and wisshede wittirly ; with wille ffulle egre þat disshes and doubleris ; be-ffor þis ilke doctoure were molton leed in his mawe ; & mahon amyddis I shall Iangle to þis Iurdon ; with his Iutte wombe To telle men what penaunce C2.13.93:An otiose tilde appears above the <u> in penaunce. is ; of whiche he preched raþer Pacience parceyued what I þouȝt ; & wynkid on me to be stille And saide . þou shalt se þus sone ; whanne he may no more he shall haue a penaunce C2.13.96:An otiose tilde appears above the <u> in penaunce. in his paunche ; & puffe at iche a word and þanne shalle hise guttis groþele ; & he shall galpen after Doctouris of ffreris For now he haþe drunken so depe ; he wolle dyuyne sone and preue it be her pocalipis ; & passion of seint auereys þat neiþer bakon ne brawn ; blankmanger ne mortrewes Is neiþer ffisshe ne ffleishe ; but ffode ffor a penaunte and þanne shall he testifie . of a trinite ; & take his ffelawes to wittenesse what he ffonde in a ffrayll ; after ffreris leuynge C2.13.103:An otiose tilde appears above the <u> in leuynge. and but if þe ffrst first leef be lesinge ; leue me neuer afterC2.13.104:   The preceding six lines are linked at the left by a vertical line. and þanne is tyme to talke ; & appose þis doctoure Of do-well . & do-bette . & if do-best ; be ony pennaunte penaunce and I satte stille as pacience saide ; & þus sone þis doctoure as rody as a rose ; rubbede his chekis Cowede and carpede ; & concience him herde And tolde him of a trinite ; & towarde us he lokede what is do-well ; sir doctour quod I ; is do-well ony penaunte penaunce Do-well quod þis doctour ; and toke þe cupe & drank C2.13.112:An otiose tilde appears above the <a> in drank. Do non yuel to þin euen-cristen ; not be þi powere By þis sir doctour quod I þanne ; be ȝe not in do-well For ȝe harmed us two ; in þat ȝe ete þe puddinge Mortrewis & oþer mete ; & we no mussell ..hadden and if ȝe ffaren so in ȝoure ffermorie ; fferli me þinkiþ But cheste þer charite shulde be ; and shuyldrin dursten pleyn I wolde permitte my penaunte C2.13.119:An otiose tilde appears above the <a> in penaunte. with ȝoure ; ffor I am in poynt to do well þanne concience curteisliche ; a contenaunce C2.13.120:An otiose tilde appears above the <u> in contenaunce. made and preynte vppon pacience ; to preye me be stille and saide him-selue sire doctour ; & it be ȝoure wille what is do-well & do-bette ; ȝe dyuynouris knowen Do-Well Do-well quod þis doctour ; do as clerkis techen Do-Bett and do-bett is he þat techeþ ; & trauailiþ to teche þoþer and do-beste doþe him-self so ; as he seiþ & precheþ Do-Beste Qui ffecerit et docuerit magnus vocabitur in regus regno celorum Now þou clergie ; quod concience . carpeste what is do-well I haue seuene sonnes he said ; seruen at a castell þer þe lord of lyf wonneþ ; to lerne what is do-well Tyll I se þo seuene ; & my-self acordyn I am vnhardy quod he ; to ony wyȝte to preue it For on peers þe plowman ; haþe impugned vs alle and sette alle science at a soppe ; saue loue one and no tixte ne takiþ ; to meynteyne his cause But dilige deum ; & domine quis habitabit & cetera And seiþ do-well . & do-bette ; ar two inffinitis whiche in-ffenites with a ffeiþ ; ffyndyn out do-best whiche shall saue manys soule ; þus seiþ peers plowman I can not here-on quod concience ; & I knowe peers he wolle not aȝeine holi writte speke ; I dare vnder-take þanne passe we ouere tyll peers Come ; & preue þis in dede pacience haþe ben in many placis ; & parauuenture knoweþ e5 That no clerk knoweþ ; as crist bereþ wittenesse Pacientes vincunt At ȝoure preire quod paciens þo ; so no man displese him Disce quod he & doce ; & dilige inimicos Disce and do well ; doce and do bette a lemman þat I loued ; loue was hir name with wordis and werkis quod sche ; & wille of þin herte þou loue lelli þi soule ; all þi lijf-tyme and so þou lerne þe to loue ; ffor þe lordis loue of heuene þin enemye in all wyse ; euene-fforþe with þi-selue Caste colis on his heed ; & all kynde speche Boþe with werk & word ; ffonde his loue to wynne And leye on him þus with loue ; till he lawȝhe on þee and but he bowe ffor þis betinge ; blynde mote he worþe And ffor to ffare þus with þi ffrynde ; ffolie it were For he þat loueþ þe lelli ; litill of þin coueytiþ kynde loue coueitiþ not ; no catell but speche with half a laumpe lyne ; in latyn ex vi transgressionis I bere þer-Inne a bewte ; ffaste y-bounde do-well In a signe of þe saterday ; þat sett ffrist þe kalendir In alle þe witte of þe weddenysday ; of þe nexte weke after þe mydill of þe mone ; is þe myȝt of boþe And here-with am I welcome ; þer I haue it with me Vndo it latte þis doctour deme ; if do-well be þer-inne For be him þat me made ; myȝte neuere pouerte Missese ne myschell meschief ; ne man with his tunge Colde ne care ; ne companye of þeues Ne neiþer hete ne hail ; ne non helle pouke Ne neiþer ffiere ne fflode ; ne ffere of þin enemyes Tene þe ony tyme ; & þou take it with þe Caritas nichil timet It is but a dido quod þis doctour ; a disouris tale all þe witt of þis world ; and with mennys strengþe Can not conformenconformenconfyrmen a pees ; bitwynne þe pope & his enemyes Ne bytwynne two cristen kyngis ; kan no wyȝt pees make Proffitable to eiþer peple ; & put þe table ffro him And toke clergie & conscience ; to conceill as it were þat pacience þo muste passe ; ffor pilgrimes kun well lie and concience carped loude C2.13.182: An otiose tilde appears above the <o> in loude. ; and curteysliche said Frendes ffareþ well ; & ffaire spake to clergie For I wolle go with þis gom ; if god wolle gyue me grace and be pilgrime with pacience ; till I haue proued more what quod clergie to concience ; & ar ..ȝe coueytous nouþe after ȝerisȝeues and ȝiftis ; or ȝernen to rede redels I shall bring ȝou a bible ; a book of þe olde lawe and lere ȝou if ȝou like ; þe best poynt to knowe þat pacience þe pilgrime ; parffiȝtly knewe neuere Nay by crist quod concience ; to clergie god þe ffor-ȝelde For all þat pacience me profreþ ; proud am I ffull litill and þe wille of þe wie ; and ȝe wull of ffolk here haþe moued my mod ; to morne ffor my synnes Goode Will þe good wille of þe a wiȝt was ; neuer bouȝt to þe ffull For þer is no tresore þer-to ; to a trewe wille had not magdaleyn more ; ffor a box of salue þanne zacheus ffor he saide dimidium bonorum meorum do pauperibus and þe pore wedowe ; ffor a peire of myȝtis þanne alle þo þat offreden ; in-to gazophilacium þus curteisliche concience ; congeyed þe ffrere and siþen softeliche he said ; in clergies ere Me were leuere be oure lord ; and I leue shulde haue pacience parffiȝtli ; þan half þi bak of bokis Clergie to concience ; no congie wolde take But said ffull soburliche ; þou shalt se þe tyme Concience . Clergy . andPacience . be able to makepees betwixte all kyngis whanne þou art wery ffor-walked ; wilne me to conceill þat is soþe quod concience ; so me god helpe if pacience be oure partinge ffelawe ; & preuy with us boþe þer is no wo in þis world ; þat we ne shulde amende and conformen kyng kynges to pees ; & all-kyns londis Sarasens & surri ; so and so fforþ all þe Iues e6 Turne in-to þe true ffeiþ ; and in-till on bileue þat is soþe quod clergie ; I se what þou menest I shall dwelle as I do ; my deuyr to schewe and Confermen ffauntkyns ; and oþer ffolk ylered Tyll pacience haue serued þe ; & parffiȝt þe made maked Concience þo with pacience passid ; pilgrimes as it were þanne had pacience as pilgrimes han ; in his poke vetailis Sobrete & symple speche ; & soþeffaste bileue To comfforte him in and concience ; if þei comen in place þer vnkyndenesse & coueytise is ; hungry contres boþe and as þey wenten be þe wey ; of do-well þe þei carpenden þey metten with a mynstrall ; as me þo þouȝt pacience aposede him þo ; & preyed he shuld him telle To concience what craft he couude ; and to what contre he wolde Activa vita I am a mynstrall quod þat man ; my name is actiua vita and alle ydell I hate ; ffor actijf is my name a waferere wolle ȝe witte ; & serue many lordis and ffewe robis I ffonge ; or ffurred gounes kouþe I lye to do men lawȝe ; þanne lacchen I shuldne shuld Oþer metell mantel or mony ; amongis lordis mynstrallis and ffor I can neiþer taboure ne trompe ; ne telle no gestis Farten ne ffeþelen ; at ffestis ne harpin Iape ne Iogele ; ne Ientiliche pipe Ne neiþer saile ne sauȝte ; ne synge with þe gyterne I haue no good gyftis ; of þese grette lordis For no bred þat I bringeC2.13.238:An otiose tilde appears above the <n> in bringe. fforþ ; saue a beneson on þe sonday whane þe preste preyeþ þe peple ; her pater noster to bidde For peers þe plowman ; & þat him profiȝt wayteþ and þat I am actiif ; þat ydilnesse hateþ For alle trewe trauelouris ; & tillers of erthe Fro myhelmesse to myhelmesse ; I ffynde hem waffris Beggers and bidders ; of my bred crauen Faytouris and ffreris ; & ffolk with brode crounes pope I ffynde payn ffor þe pope & prouendre ffor his palfrey and I had neuere of him ; haue god my trewþe Neiþer prouendre ne parsonage ȝit ; of þe popis ȝifte Saue a pardon with wiþ a peise of leed ; & two pollis amydis had iche a clerk þat couþe wriȝte ; I wolde caste him a bille þat he sente me vndir his seel ; a salue ffor þe pestelence and þat þat his blessinge and his bullis ; myȝte bochis distroie In nomine meo demonia eicient & super egros manus imponent & bene habebunt and þanne wolde I be prest ; to þe peple . past ffor to make and buxum and besi ; abouȝte bred and drink C2.13.255:An otiose tilde appears above the <i> in drink. For him & all his ; ffonde I þat his pardon Miȝte lechen a man ; as I bileue shulde For sithe he haþe þe powere ; þat peter him-selue hadde he haþe þe potte with þe salue ; soþeli as me þinkeþ Argentum & aurumnon est michi quod autem habeo hoc tibi do ; Surge et ambulaC2.13.260: This line begins in the right margin following line 259 and wraps around to occupy the next full line space. And if myȝt of myracle him ffaile ; it is ffor men ben not worþi To haue þe grace of god ; & no gilte of þe pope For may no blessinge don vs bote ; but if we wollen amende Ne mannys masse make pees ; amongis cristen peple Till pride be puriliche ffor-do ; & þat þoruȝ peyne deffauȝte For er I haue breed of mele ; erste mote I swete And er þe comune haue corn y-now ; many colde mornynge C2.13.267:An otiose tilde appears above the <y> in mornynge. So er my waffres be wrouȝt ; moche woo I þole þole al london I leue ; likeþ well my wafres and louryn when þey lakkyn it ; is not long passid nota þer was a careffull Comune ; whanne no carte come to toune with bred ffro stratfford ; þo gonnen beggers wepe and werkmen were agast a litill ; þis wolle be þouȝt longe In þe date of oure dryȝte ; in a drieC2.13.274:Although the indefinite article is written together with the word drie, as is the scribe's custom, a virgule appears between the two words. aprill 1350 Anno regni regis Edwarditercij 24 . / . 25o A þouusand and thre hundrid ; twyes twenti & ten My wafres weren gesen ; whanne chichestre was meire I toke good kepe bi crist ; and concience boþe of aukyn þe actijf man ; & how he was cloþid He hade a coke cote of cristendom ; as holi chirche bileueþ e7 And it was molede in many places ; with many sondry plottis Of pride here a plotte & þer a plott ; of vnbuxum speche Of scornynge & of scoffinge ; & of vn-skylfull beringe As in aparayle & in porte ; proud amongis þe peple Oþer-wise þanne ..he haþe with herte ; or ye schewinge him wyllynge þat al men wenden ; he were þat he is not For-why he bostiþ & braggeþ ; with many bolde oþes And inobedient to be vndirnome ; of ony lyf leuynge And so synguler bi him-self ; ne non so poppe-holi Religion ofHeremytes In habite as an hermyte ; an ordre by him-selue Religion saunz rule ; and resounable obedience lakkinge lettride men ; & lewde men boþe In likenynge of lele lijf ; and a liere in soule with in-witte & wiþ out-witte ; ymagynen & studien as best ffor his body be ; to haue a badde name and entermete him ouere all ; þer he haþe not to don wylnynge þat men wende ; his witte were þe best and if he gyue out to pore gomes ; telleþ what he deleþ Pore of possesion in purs ; and in coffres boþe and as a leon on to loke ; and lordliche of speche Baldeste of beggers ; a boster þat nouȝt haþe In toune and in tauernes ; talis to telle and segge þinge þat he neuere seiȝ ; & ffor soþe sweren it Of dedis þat he neuere dede ; demen & bosten and of werkis þat he well dede ; wittenesse & sege loo if þou leue me not ; or þat I lie wene Axeþ at him or at him ; & he ȝou can telle what I suffred & seiȝ ; & summe tymes hadde and what I kouþe & knewe ; and what kyn I come of all he wolde þat men wisten ; of werkis & of wordis whiche myȝt plese þe peple ; & preysen hem-seluen Si hominibus placerem christi seruus non essem & alibi nemo potest duobus dominis seruire & cetera . By crist quod concience þoo ; þi beste cote haukyn haþe many molis & spottis ; it must ben y-wasshid ȝee who-so toke heed ; quod haukyn . bi-hynde & be-ffore what on bakke & on body ; & be þe twey sidis Men shulden ffynde many ffrounces ; & many ffoule plottis and he turned him as tite ; & þenne toke I hede It was ffouler be ffele ffolde ; þanne it ffrist semede It was be-droppid with wraþe ; & wikkide wille with envie & yuell wikked speche ; entycinge to ffiȝt liynge & lawȝhinge ; and leef tunge to chide all þat he wiste wikked ; be ony wiȝt tellyn it and blame men bihynde her bak ; and bidde hem myschaunce and þat he wiste bi wille ; telle it to watte And þat watte wiste ; wille wiste it after And made of ffrendis ffoos ; þoruȝ a ffals tunge Or with myȝte of mouþe ; or þoruȝ mannys strenþe Auenge me ffele tymes ; ouþer ffrete my-selue with-Inne as a schepsters schere ; I schrewed men & cursid Cuius malediccione os plenumest & amaritudine sub linguam eius & cetera ; & alibi filij hominum dentes eorum arma & sagitte & ceteraC2.13.330:   This line begins in the right margin following line 329 and wraps around to occupy the next full line space. þer is no lyf þat I loue ; lastinge ony while For talis þat I telle ; no man tristeþ to me and whane I may not haue þe maistrie ; with malancolie I take þat I cacche þe crappe crampe ; þe cardiacle summe tyme Or an ague in swiche an angre ; and summe tyme a ffeuere That takiþ me al a twelue-moneþ ; till þat I dispice leche-crafte of oure lorde ; & leue on a wycche and seggiþ þat no clerk ne can ; ne crist as I leue Bilefe in Wytches To þe Souȝter of Souþwerk ; & of sordiche dame Emme and seggiþ þat no goodis goddes word ; gaff me neuer bote But þoruȝ a charme had I Chaunce ; & my chef hele Besyloker I wayted besiloker ; & þanne was it suylid with likinge of leccherie ; and be lokynge of his ye For yche a maydyn þat he mette ; he made hir a signe Semynge to synnewarde ; and summe tyme he gan taste Abouȝte þe mouþe or beneþe ; bigynneþ to grope Till eiþer wille waxet wexeþ kene ; and to þe werk ȝeden as well in ffastinge-daies ; as ffridaies & fforboden nyȝtis and as well in lente ; as outȝ of lente . al tymes Iliche Swyche werkis with hem ; were neuere ouȝt of seson . Tille þey myȝten no more ; & þanne hade meri talis And how þat leccherous leuen louyen ; lawȝen and Iapen And of her herlotrie & horedom ; in here elde tellen þanne pacience parceiued ; of poyntis of his cote was colmy þoruȝ coueitise ; & vnkynde desiringe More to good þanne to god ; þe gom his loue caste and ymaginede how ; he it myȝt haue with ffalse mesure & met ; & with ffalse wittenesse Lonede Lened it ffor loue of þe wed ; & loþe to do trueþe and I awaytide ; þoruȝ wiche weye to bigyle And mengid his marchaundise ; & made a good mustre þe wers with-Inne was ; grett witt I lete it And my neiȝbore had ony hyne ; or ony beste ellis More prophetable þanne myn ; many sleiȝtis I made how I myȝte haue it ; al my witt I caste and but I had be oþer wey ; at þe laste I stale it Or preuyliche his purs scoke ; vnpikide his lokkis Or be nyȝt or be day ; abouȝte was I neuereeuereever þoruȝ gyle to gaderen ; þe good þat I haue If I ȝede to þe plow ; I pynched so narwe þat a ffote lond or a fforuȝ ; fecchyn I wolde Of my next neibore ; nymen of his erthe And if I repe ouere-reche ; & ȝaue hem reed þat rope And seise to me with my sykill ; þat I sewe neuere And who-so borwiþ of me ; abouȝt þe tyme with presentis preuyliche ; or payd summe certeyn So wolde he or he nolde ; wynnen I wolde And boþe to kyþe & to kyn ; vnkynde of þat I hadde And who-so chepede of my my chaffare ; chiden I wolde But he propherid me to paye ; a peny or tweyne More þanne it was worþ ; & ȝit wolde I swere þat it coste me moche more ; & swore many oþes In halidaies in holi chirche ; whanne I here messe hadde I neuere wille wotte god ; wittirli to becseche Mercy ffor my mysdedis ; þat I ne mornyd more For losse of good leue me ; þanne ffor my ffoule likam<es> gyltis As if I had dedli synne don ; I drede not þat so sore ; as whanne I lenede . leuede it loste ; or longe or it were paid So if I kidde ony kendenesse ; myn euen-cristen to helpe vppon cruell coueytyse ; myn herte gan hang . And I sente ouere see ; my seruantis to bruggis Or in-to pruselond my prentice ; my proffiȝt to wa.ytyn To marchaunten with mony ; & make her eschaunges Miȝte neuere me comfforte ; in þe mene tyme Neiþer messe ne matyns ; ne no manere siȝtis Ne neuer penaunce C2.13.396:An otiose tilde appears above the <a> in penaunce. parfformed ; ne pater noster said þat my mynde ne was more ; on my good in douȝte þanne in þe grace of god ; & his grette helpis vbi thesaurus tuus ibi & cor tuum The braunches þat brin-geth a man to slouthe whiche ben þe branchis ; þat bringen a man to sluþe Is whanne a man mornyþ not ffor his dedis ; ne makiþ no sorowe and penaunce þat þe prest enjoyneþ parfformeþ yuell Doþe non almes-dede ; drediþ him of no synne lyueþ aȝeyn þe bileue ; & no lawe holdiþ Iche day is an haliday ; and an hieȝ fferie and if he out wolle here ; it is an harlottis tunge and whanne men carpen of crist ; or clennesse of soule he waxiþ wroþe and woll not here ; but wordis of myrþe Penaunce and pore men ; and passion of seyntis he hatiþ to here þer-of ; and alle þat it telliþ These ben þe braunchis ; be war ; þat bringen a man to wanope Ȝe lordis and ladies ; and legatis of holy chirche þat ffynden fedeþ ffoles sage ; fflateriris & lieris and han likynge to lyþen hem ; to do ȝou to lawghe ve uobis qui ridetis & cetera and ȝeuen hem mete and mede ; and pore men reffusen In ȝoure deþ deynge ; I drede me full sore ; fflaterersffooleslyers Lest þe þre manere men ; to moche sorwe ȝou bringe Consencientes & agentes ; pari pena punientur Patriarkes & prophetis ; & prechouris of godis wordis Sauen þoru her sarmon ; mannys soule ffrom helle Riȝt so fflateriris and foolis ; and þe ffendis disciplis To entise men þoruȝ her talis ; to synne & harlotrie as clerkis þat knowyn holi write ; shulden kenne lordis what dauiþ seiþ of swiche men ; as the sauter telliþC2.13.425:   The ascender of the <h> in the is deocrated with a geometric design five lines in length. In addition, the <s> in sauter is elongated horizontally ten characters in length. Non habitabit in medio domus mee qui facit superbiam & qui loquitur iniqua shulde non harlot haue audience ; in halle ne in chambris lo lordis& prelatis þer wyse men weren ; wittenesse godis wordis Ne non mysproude man ; amongis lordis be alowed And fflaterris and ffolis ; þoruȝ her ffoule wordis leden þo þat louen hem ; to luciffers ffestis feste with turpiloquio a layC2.13.432:Hand 1 has written the indefinite article together with the word lay as is his custom, and Hand 2 has added a virgule between the two words. of sorouȝ ; and luciffers ffeþele þus haukyn þe actijf man ; had ysueuled soyled his cote Tyll concience acoupede him þer-of ; in a curteys manere why he ne hadde wasshen it ; or wipid with a brusshe Passus quarto-decimus I haue but an hool hoololde hater quod haukyn ; I am þe lesse to blame þouȝ it be suyledsoyled & ffoule ; I slepe þer-inne on nyȝtis And also I haue a wyff ; huen and childrin vxorem duxi & ideo non possumvenire þat wolden be-molen it many tyme ; mawgri my clekis chekis It haþe be laued in lenten ; and out of lenten boþe with þe sope of sekenesse ; þat sekeþ wondir dede depe and with þe losse of catell ; loþe ffor to agylte God or ony good man ; bi out þat I wiste and was schreven of þe preste ; þat gaffe me ffor my synnes To penaunce pacience ; and pore men to ffede al ffor coueitise of my cristendom ; in clennesse to kepe kepe it and kouþe I neuere be crist ; kepe it clene an oure þat I ne suylede soyled it with siȝt ; or summe yuellydel speche Or þoruȝ werk or word ; or wille of myn herte But I ne ffloboure it ffoule ; ffro morwyn till euen and I shall kenne þe quod conscience ; of contricion to make Cordis contricio & cetera. þat shall clawe þi cote ; of all-kyns synnes . Do-well shall wasshen it ; and wringin it þoruȝ a wise conffessour Oris conffessio & cetera Do-bette shall beten it & boukyn it ; as briȝt as ony scharlet And engreyn it with good wille ; and godis grace to amende þe and siþen sende þe satisfaccion ; ffor to sewe after Satisfaccio & cetera Do-best shall neuere myst be-molen it ; ne moþþe after bite it Ne ffende ne ffals man ; deffouȝlen it in þi lyue schall non heraud ne harpoure ; haue a ffairere garnement Thanne haukyn þe actijf man ; and þou do be my techinge Ne no mynystrall be more worþe ; amongis pore and riche þanne haukyns wyff ; þe wafferere ; with his actiua vita And I shall purueie þe past quod pacience ; þouȝ no plow erie and ffloure to ffede ffolk with ; as best be ffor þi soule þouȝ neuere greyn growed ; ne grape vp-on vyne alle þat leuen and loken ; lijflode wolde I ffynde and þat I-now shal non ffaile ; o of þing þat hem nedeþ we shulden not be to besi ; abouȝten oure lijflode Ne solliciti sitis & cetera volucres celi deus pascit & cetera Pacientes vincunt & cetera þanne lowȝ haukyn a litill ; and liȝtli gan swere who-so loueþ ȝou be oure lord ; I leue not he be blessid No quod pacience paciently ; and out of his poke hent vetailis of grett vertues ; ffor alle manere bestis and said lo here liiflode ynow ; if oure bileue be trewe For lent neuere was lyff ; but liiflode were schapen wher-of or where-ffore ; and where-bi to leue Frist þe wylde worme ; vndir whete erthe Fisshe to lyue in þe fflode ; and in þe ffiere þe criket The Curlew þe curlu be kynde of þe eyre ; most clenneste ffleishe of briddis and bestis be gresse & greyne ; and be grene rotus In menynge þat all men ; myȝten do þe same leue þoruȝ lele bileue ; and loue as god wittenessiþ Quodcumque pecieritis a patre in nomine meo et cetera . non Et alibi Non in solo pane viuit homo set in omni verbo qui procedit de ore dei but I loked what liiflode it was ; þat pacience so presid C2.14.53:An otiose curl appears above the <p> in presid. and .þanne was it a pece of þe pater noster ; fiat voluntas tua haue haukyn quod pacience ; and ete þis whane þe hungriþ Or whanne þou clomseste ffor cold ; or chillist ffor drie shulde neuere gomes þe greue ; ne grett lordis wraþe prison ne peyne ; ffor pacience pacientes vincunt be so þat þou be sobre ; of siȝt and of tunge In etinge and in handelinge ; and all þi ffyue wittis þarst þou neuere care ffor corn ; ne lynnen cloþe ne wollen Ne ffor drink C2.14.62:An otiose tilde appears above the <n> in drink. ne deþ drede ; but deye as god likiþ Or þoruȝ hungre or þoruȝ hete ; at his wille be it For if þou leuest after his lore ; þe scorter lyf þe better Si quis amat christum mundum non diligit istum For þoruȝ his breþ bestis wexen ; and abrode ȝeden Dixit & facta sunt Ergo þoruȝ his breþe ; mown men & bestis leue as holi writte wittenessiþ ; whan men songon in seye her gracis Aperis tu manum tuam & imples omne animal benediccione ffilij Israel .in deserto It is ffounden þat ffourti wynter ; ffolk leueden with-out tyllynge and out of þe fflynte spronge þe ffloode ; þat ffolk and bestis dronken and in elies tyme ; heuene was y-closede þat no reyn ne roon ; þus reden men in bokis þat many wyntris men leueden ; and no mete ne tilieden Seuene slepten as seiþ þe boke ; Seuene hundrid wynter and leueden withoutyn loflode liflode ; and at þe last þey woken and if men leueden as mesure wold ; shulde neuer be deffaute amongis cristen creaturis ; if cristis wordis be trewe and vnkyndenesse Caristia makeþ ; amongis criisten peple and ouere plente maakyþ pride ; amonge pore and ri..che and mesure is so moche worþe ; it may not be to dere Somdom & gomor For þe .Mysscheff & myssc.haunce ; amonge men of sodom wexe þoruȝ plente of payn ; and of pure sluþe Ociositas & habundancia panis ; peccatum turpissimum incrituit nutriuit C2.14.85:The last word of this line is clearly legible but unintelligible. For þey mesurid not hem-self ; of þat þei eten & drunkyn C2.14.86:An otiose tilde appears above the <u> in drunkyn. Dedyn deedli synne ; þat þe dyuel liked So veniaunce C2.14.88:An otiose tilde appears above the <a> in veniaunce. ffelle vpon hem ; ffor her vile synnes þei sunken in-to helle ; þe citees ichon For-þi mesure wy we vs well ; and make oure ffeiþ oure scheltrom Contricionis christus and þoruȝ ffeiþ comeþ contricion ; concience wot it well whiche dryueþ away dedly synne ; and doþe it to be venyall and þouȝ a man myȝte not speke ; contricion myȝte him saue and bringe his soule to blisse ; so þat ffeiþ here wittenesse þat whiles he leuede he beleuede ; þe lore of holi chirche Ergo contricion ffeiþ and concience ; is kyndeli do-well and Surgien ffor dedli synnes ; whan schrefte of mouþe ffailide confessio oris And schrifte of mouþe more worthy is ; if man be ilich contrite For schrefte of mouþe sleþe synne ; be it neuere so dedly per conffessionem to a prest ; peccata occiduntur þer contricion dooþ . but dryueþ it doun ; in-to a venyall synne and dauiþ seiþ in þe sauȝter ; & quorum tecta sunt peccata Satisfaccionis christus and satisfaccion sekeþ out þe rote rote and ; boþe sleeþ & voidiþ and as it neuere hadde be to nouȝt ; bryngeþ dedly synne þat it is neuere efte sene ne sore ; but semeþ a wounde heled where woneþ charite ; quod haukyn ; I wiste neuere in my lyff Man þat with him spake ; as wyde as I haue passid þer parffiȝt trueþe and pore herte is ; & þanne pacience of tunge þer is charite þe cheff chamberere ; ffor god him-selue Of the Riche and þe pooreman . whether is more plesingeto our Saviour wheþer pacience pouerte quod haukyn ; be more plesaunte to oure saueoure driȜte þanne richesse riȝtffulli wonnen ; and resonabliche spendid Ȝe quis est ille quod pacience ; quik laudabimus eum þouȝ men reddyn of richesse ; riȝt to þe worldis ende I wiste neuere renke þat riche was ; þat whanne he rekene shulde whanne he drowȝ to his deþ-day ; þat he ne drede him sore and þat at þe rekenynge C2.14.116:An otiose tilde appears above the <y> in rekenynge. in arerage ffell ; raþer þanne out of dette þer þe pore dar plede ; and preue be pure reson To haue aloauȝce allowaunce of his lord ; be þe lawe he it cleymeþ Ioye þat neuer Ioy hadde ; of riȝtffull Iuge he axeþ and seiþ lo briddis and bestis ; þat no blisse ne kouþe and wilde wormes in wodis ; þoruȝ wyntres þou hem greuest and makist hem wel-ny meke ; & mylde ffor deffaute and after þou sendest hem somer ; þat is her souereyne Ioie and blesse to alle þat ben ; boþe wilde and tame þanne may beggers & breddis beestis ; after bote waytyn þat alle her lijf han lyued ; in langour and in deffauȝte But god sente hem summe tyme ; summe manere Ioie Oþer here or ellis-where ; kynde ; wolde it neuere For to .ouere-moche woo ; was he wrouȝt . þat neuer was ioie schaped aungellis þat in helle now ben ; haden ioie summe tyme And dyues in deyntes lyuede ; and in douce vie Riȝt so reson scheweþ ; þat þo men þat weren riche and her makes also ; leued here lyff in myrþe and god is of a wondir wille ; bi þat kynde witt schewiþ C2.14.135: A triangle composed of dots, with a wavy line ascending from the uppermost dot, appears in the left margin. See Introd.I.6. To ȝeue many men his mercymonye ; er he it haue deserued Riȝt so ffareþ god be summe riche ; ruþe me it þinkiþ For þei han her hyre here ; and heuene as it were and eke grett likynge to lyue ; with-out labour of body And whane he deyeþ be disalowed ; as dauid seiþ in þe sauter Dormierunt & nichil in-uenerunt And in anoþer stede also velut sompnium surgencium domine in ciuitate tua ad nichil nichil in nichilum redigez Allas þat richesse shall reue ; & robbe manys soule From þe loue of oure lord ; at his laste ende hyndes huen þat han here hyre affore ; arn euere-more redy nedy and seldom dieþ he out of dette ; þat dyneþ er he deserue it And till he haue don hir his deuyr ; and his daies Iorne For whanne a werkeman haþe wrouȝt ; þenne mown men se þe soþe what he were worþi ffor his werk ; & what he haþe deserued and not to ffonge be-ffore ; ffor drede of disalowinge so I say be ȝou riche ; it semeþ not þat ȝe shull haue heuene in ȝoure here byinge heer beyng ; & heuene hereafter nota ☞ Riȝt as a seruant takiþ his salerie ; be-ffore . & siþe wolde cleyme more as he þat non hadde ; and haþe hyre at þe laste It may not be ȝe riche men ; or mathew on god lieþ De delicijs ad delicias difficile est transire and if ȝe riche men haue ruþe ; and rewarde well þe pore and leuen as lawe techeþ ; don lewte to hem all Crist of his curteise shall ; comfforte ȝou at þe laste and rewarde alle double richesse ; þat rewffull hertis haddyn habbeþ Similitudo And as an hyne hade ; his hire er he bigunne and whane he haþe don hi.s deuer well ; men don him oþer bounte Ȝeuen him a cote abouen his couenauntC2.14.162:An otiose tilde appears above the <o> in couenaunt, and a superfluous minim appears after the first <u>. ; riȝt so crist ȝeueþ heuene boþe to riche & to not riche ; þat rueffulliche lyuen And all þat don her deuer well ; haue double hyre ffor here trauaile her fforȝeuenesse of her synnes ; and heuene blisse after Riche Men seldom saved and it nys but seldom seen ; as bi holi seintis lyues þat god rewardid double reste ; to ony riche gome wye For moche myrthe is amonge riche ; as in mete and cloþinge and moche myrþe in may is ; amonge wilde bestis and so fforþe while somer lastiþ ; her solace duriþ and beggers abouȝte mydsomer ; bredles þei soupen and ȝit is wynter ffor hem wers ; ffor weete-schode þei gangin Aþreste sore & affyngrid ; and ffouliche rebuked and arated of riche ; þat ruþe is to here Now lord sende hem somer ; and summe som maner Ioie heuene after her hens goynge ; þat here han swiche deffaute For alle myȝtist þou haue made ; non menere þan oþer and ylike witti and wise ; if þi wille hade likid and haue ruþe of þese riche men ; þat rewardyn not þi presouneris of þe good þat þou hem gyueste ; vnkynde ben many and god of þi goodenesse ; gyue us grace to amende For may no derþe hem dere ; drie droghte ne weete Ne neiþer hete ne hayle ; haue þey here hele Of þat þei welnen and wolden ; wanteþ hem not here and pore peple þi presouneris ; lord in þi pete put of myscheff Comforte þo creaturis ; þat moche care suffrin þoruȝ derþe and drouþe ; alle here daies here woo in wynter tymes ; ffor wantinge of cloþis and in somer-tyme seldom ; soupen to þe ffull Comfforte þi careffull ; crist in þi riche For how þou comfortist alle creaturis ; clerkis beren wittenesse Conuerteminiad me & salui eritis þus in genere of gentrice ; Ihesu crist saide To robbers and to reuers ; to riche and to pore þou tauȝtiste hem in þe trinite ; to take baptisme and be clene þoruȝ þat cristynynge ; of alle-kyns synnes and us ffelle þoruȝ fforly ; to ffalle in synne after Confession & knowlechinge ; and crauynge C2.14.198:An otiose tilde appears above the <y> in crauynge. þi mercy shulde amende us as many siþes ; as man wolde desire And if þe pope wolld plede here-aȝeyn ; and punyshe vs in concience he shulde take þe aquytaunce C2.14.201:An otiose tilde appears above the <u> in aquytaunce. as quik ; & to þe quede schewe it pateat & ceteraper passionem domini& cetera and putten of þe pouke ; and preuen vs vnder borwe And þe parchemynt of þis patent ; of pouerte be muste And of pure pacience ; and parffiȝt bileue Of pompe and of pride ; þe parchemyn decorreþ paupertas Spiritus and principali of alle peple ; but þei be pore of herte Ellis is all on ydell ; all þat euere we written Pater noster and penaunce ; & pilgrimage to rome But oure spences & spen..dynge ; springe of a trew wille Ellis is all oure laboure lost ; lo how men writtyn writeþ In ffenestris at þe ffreris ; if ffalse be þe ffoundement For-þi cristen shulde in Comune riche ; non coueyte ffor hym-selue For seuene synnes þer ben ; assaylyn þe euere þe ffende ffollowiþ hem alle ; and ffondiþ hem to helpe and with richesse þat ribaudie ; raþeste men bigyliþ For þer þat richesse regneþ ; reuerence ffolowiþ and þat is plesaunt to pride ; in pore and in riche And þe riche is reuerencid ; be reson of his richesse Þer þe pore is put him put by-hynde ; & paraunter can more Of witt & of wisdam ; þat ffer away is better þanne richesse or riallte ; & þraþer herd in heuene For þe riche haþe moche to rekene ; & riȝt softe walkyþ þe wey heiȝe wey to heuene-ward ; often richesse letteþ Ita possibile diuiti et cetera . þer þe pore preseþ bifforn þe riche ; with a pak at his rigge Opera enim illorum sequuntur sequntur C2.14.227:C2 here has the correct reading against all other manuscripts. illos & cetera Batauntliche as beggers don ; and boldeliche he craueþ For his pouerte and pacience ; a perppetuall blisse Beati pauperes quoniam ipsorum est regnum celorum and pride in richesse regneþ ; raþer þanne in pouerte arst in þe maister þanne in þe man ; sum mansion he haþe And in pouerte þer pacience is ; pride haþe no myȝte Ne non of þe seuene synnes ; sitte ne mown þer long pouertie with pacience Ne haue powere in pouerte ; if pacience it ffollowe For þe pore is ay preste ; to plese þe riche and buxum at his biddinge ; ffor his brokyn loues And buxumnesse and bost ; are euere-more at werre And ayþer hatheþ hateþ oþer ; in all manere werkis If wraþe wrastill with þe pore ; he haþe hþe wers ende For if þey boþe pleyne ; þe pore is but ffeble And if he chide or chatre ; him cheueþ þe wers and if coueytyse cacche þe pore ; þey mown not come to-gedris and be þe nekke namely ; here non may hente oþer For men knowyn þat coueytise ; is of a kene wille and haþe honndis and armes ; of a longe lengþe And pouerte is but petitt þinge C2.14.247:An otiose tilde appears above the <g> in þinge. ; appereþ not to his nauell and loueliche layk was neuere ; bitwynne þe long & þe scorte and þouȝ auarice wolde angre þe pore ; he haþe but litil myȝt For pouerte haþe but pokis ; to puttyn in his goodis þer auerice haþe almaries ; & yren-bounden coffres and whedir be liȝter to breke ; lesse boste it makyþ A beggers bagge ; þanne an yren-boundyn coffre leccherie loueþ him not ; ffor he ȝeueþ but litil siluer Ne doþe him not dyne delicatli ; ne drinke C2.14.255:An otiose tilde appears above the <n> in drinke. wyn ofte A strawe ffor þe stewes ; it stode not I trowe hadde þei no þinge but pore men ; her housis stoden vnhillid And þouȝ sleuþe sue pouerte ; & serue not god to paye Myssheff is his maister ; and makeþ him to þenke þat god is his gretteste helpe ; & no man ellis and his seruante he as he seiþ ; and of his sute boþe and wheder he be or be not ; he bereþ þe signe of pouerte And in þat secte oure saueour ; saued all man-kynde For-þi all pouerte þat pacient is ; may cleymen & asken After here endinge here ; heuene-riche blisse Mechell hardier may he axen ; þat here myȝte haue his wille In lond and in lordshepe ; and lackinge likynge of body and ffor godis loue leueþ all ; and leueþ as a begger and as a mayde ffor manys loue ; hir modir fforsakiþ and ffader and all hir ffrendis ; and ffollowiþ hir make Moche is swiche a mayde to loue ; of him þat swiche on takiþ More þanne a mayde is a maiden is ; þat is maried þoruȝ brocage and bi asent of sundri parties ; & siluere to bote More ffor coueytyse of good ; þanne kynde loue of boþe So it ffareþ bi iche a person ; þat possession ffor-sakeþ and puttiþ him to be paciente ; & pouerte weddiþ þe whiche is sibbe to god him-self ; and so to his seintis haue god my trouþe quod haukyn ; ȝe preisyn ffaste pouerte what is pouerte with pacience ; propirli to mene Paupertas quod pacience estOdibile bonum remocio curarum pessessio possessio sine calumpnia . donum dei . sanitatis . mater.absque solitudine semita sapiencie temperatrix . negocium sine dampno . in-certa ffortuna . absque sollicitudinefelicitasC2.14.280:  This line begins in the right margin of l. 279, wraps around to occupy the next two full line spaces, and ends in the right margin of l. 281. I can not construe þis quod haukyn ; ȝe muste seie it on englisshe In englisshe quod pacience ; it is well hard . well to expoune and summe-dell I shall seie it ; be so ȝe vndirstonde pouerte is þe ffriste poynte ; þat pride moste hateþ þanne is it good be good skylle ; all þat agasteþ pride Riȝt as contricion is comfortable þinge ; concience it woot well and a sorow of him-self ; & solace to þe soule So pouerte propreliche ; penaunce and Ioye Is to þe body ; pure perpetuall helþe Ergo paupertas est odibile bonum and contricion comfforte ; & cura animarum þe secounde Silde sitte pouerte ; þe soþe to declare Or as iustice to iugge men ; enioyned is no pore Ne to be meire aboue men ; ne menystre vndir kyng Seldom is ony pore put ; to punnysshe ony peple Remocio curarum Ergo pouerte and pore men ; parfformen þe comaundementis C2.14.297:An otiose tilde appears above the <a> in comaundementis. Nolite iudicare quemquam . þe þrede Seldom is ony pore riche ; but of riȝtfull eritage wynneþ not with wyȝttis ffalse ; ne vnsellide vnseyled mesuris Ne borwiþ of his neiboris ; but þat he may well paye Possessio sine calumpnia þe fferþe is a ffortune ; þat fflorissheþ þe soule with sobrite ffrom alle synnes ; & also ȝite more It affaytiþ þe ffleshe ; ffrom ffolies ffull many A collaterall . connfort ; cristis owyn ȝiftis ȝifte Donum dei The ffifte is moder of helþe ; a ffrende in all ffondingis and ffor þe lewde euere a leche ; a lemman of all clennese Sanitatis mater The þe The sixte is a paþþe of pees ; ȝe þoruȝ þe pace of aulton Pouerte myȝte passe ; without perell of robbinge For-þi þer þat pouerte passiþ ; pees ffollwiþ after And euere þe lesse he bereþ ; þe harderhardierhardyer he is of herte For-þi seiþ seneca ; paupertas est absque solitudine semita And an hardy man of herte ; amonge an heep of þeues Cantabit pauper coram latrone viator The seuenete is welle of wissdom ; and ffewe wordis schewiþ For lordis alowen him litill ; or listenen to his resoun He temperiþ þe tunge to trueþewarde ; and no tresore coueitiþ Sapiencie temperatrix þe eyte eighteþe is a lele labour ; and loþe to take more ; þanne he may well deserue ; in somer or in wynter And if he schaffare . he chargiþ no losse ; mowe he charite wynne Negocium sine dampno þe nynte is swite ffor þe soule ; no sugre swetter For pacience is payne ; ffor pouerte him-selue and sobrite swyte drink C2.14.327:An otiose tilde appears above the <i> in drink. ; and good leche in sekenesse þus lerede me a lettred man ; ffor oure lordis loue Seynt Augustyn Austyn a blessid lijf ; with-out besinesse C2.14.331:A circle--perhaps the letter <o>--appears in the left margin opposite this line. The hand cannot be determined.For body and soule Absque solicitudine ffelicitas Now god þat al good gyueþ ; graunte his soule reste þat þus ffrist wrotte to wissen men ; what pouerte was to mene Allas quod haukyn þe actijf man þoo ; þat after my cristendom I ne had be deed and doluen ; ffor do-wellis sake So harde it is quod haukyn ; to leue & to do synne Synne sueþ us euere ; quod he ; & sori gan waxe and wepte water with his eyn ; and waylid þe tyme That euere he deed dede ; þat dere god displesiden displesed Swowened and sobbyd ; and sekede ffull ofte For alle her kynde knowinge ; come but of diuerse siȝtis That euere he hadde londe or larde ; lesse oþer more Or maistrie ouere ony man ; mo þan of him-selue I were not worthi quod haukyn ; to were ony cloþis Ne neiþer schirte ne schoune ; saue ffor shame one To coueren my Careyn quod he ; and criede ffast mercy And wepte and weylide ; and þer-wiþ I awakyd Passusquinto decimus a And after my wakynge ; it was wondir longe Er I kouude kyndeli knowe ; wat what was do-well And so my witte wexe & wanyede ; till I a ffool were And sum lakked my lijf ; a..lowed it ffewe And leten ffor a lorell ; and loþe to reuerencen lordis and ladies ; or ony lijf ellis as persounes in pilure ; and with pendauntes of siluere To sergeauntes ne to swiche ; said not ones God loke ȝou lordis ; ne loutede ffaire Anima þat ffolk helden me a ffooll ; and In þat ffolie I reued raued Till reson hadde ruþe ; on me ; & rokkede me aslepe Tyll I seyȝ as it sorcery were ; and sotill þing with-all Oon with-outyn tunge and teeþ ; tolde me whedir I shulde and where-of I cam ; and what kynde ; I coniurede him at þe laste If he were cristis creature ; ffor cristis loue me to telle I am cristis creature quod he ; & cristen in many a place In cristis courte I-knowe well ; & of his kyn a partie Is neiþer peter þe portere ; ne poule with his ffauchon þat wolle deffende me þe dore ; dynge I neuer so late at mydnyȝth at mydday ; my voice so is knowyn þat iche a creature of his courte ; welcomeþ me ffaire what ar ȝe callide in þat courte quod I ; amongis cristis peple AnimaAnimusMensMemoriaRacioSensusConscientia þe whilis I quyk was in þe cors quod he ; callid am I anima and whanne I wylne or wolde Animus iche hatte And ffor þat I can and knowe ; callid am I mens And whane I make mone to god ; memoria is my name and whanne I deme domes ; & do as trewþe techeþ þanne is racio my riȝt name ; & reson on englisshe & whane I ffele þat ffolk And whanne I ffele þat ffolk telliþ ; my ffrist name is sensus And þat is witt and wisdam ; þe welle of alle craftis And whane chalange or chalange not ; clepe or reffuse þanne am I concience callid ; godis clerk and his notorie and whanne I loue lelli ; oure lord and all oþer þanne is lele loue my name ; & in laytn amor and whane I ffle ffro þe ffleisshe ; & fforsake þe careyne þanne am I spirit specheles ; spiritus þanne iche hatte Austyn & ysidorus ; eiþer of hem boþe Nempenede me þus to name ; now þou myȝtist chese how þou coueitiste to calle me ; now knowest þow knowest alle my names Anima pro diuersis accionibus diuersanomina sortitur dum viuificat corpus ; anima est dum vult animus est / dum scit ; mens est / dum recolit . memoria estdum iudicat racio est dum sentit . sensus est / dum amat / amor est / dum negat vt consentit ; consciencia est / dum spirat spiritus est/ C2.15.39:   This line begins in the right margin of l.39 and wraps around to occupy the next two line spaces. ȝe ben as a bischop quod I ; al bourdynge þat tyme For bisshopis I-blesside ; beren many names presull & pontiffex and metropolitanus and oþer names an heep ; episcopus & pastor þat is soþe saide he ; now I se þi wille þou woldeste knowe and kunne ; þe cause of alle here names and of myn if þou myȝtiste ; me þinkiþ be þi speche ȝe sir I said be so ; no man were agreued alle þe science vndir sunne ; and all þe sutill craftis I wolde knowe and kunne ; kyndely in myn herte þanne art þou vnparffiȝt quod he ; and on of pridis knyȝtis For swiche a lust and likinge ; luciffer ffell ffrom heuene Ponam pedem meum in aquilone & similis ero altissimo It were aȝeins kynde quod he he and ; al-kyns resoun þat ony creature shulde kunne al ; excepte crist one Aȝens swiche saloman spekiþ ; & dispisiþ her wittis and seiþ sicut qui melcomedit multum non est ei bonum ; set qui scrutator est magestatis opprimitur a gloria C2.15.57:   This line begins in the right margin of l. 56 and wraps around to occupy the next full line space. C2 alone divides the line after mel. To englisshe men þis is to mene ; þat mown speke & here þat The man þat moche hony etiþ ; his mawe it engleymeþ and þe more þat a man ; of good mater hereþ but he do þer-after ; it doþe him double scaþe Beatus est seiþ seynt bernarde ; qui scripturas legit Et verba vertit in opera ; ffuliche to his power Coueitise to kunne ; & to knowe science 1f Pullede ouȝt of paradice ; adam and eue Sciencie appetitus hominem immortalitatis gloriam spoliauit and riȝt as hony is euell to deffie defie and ; engleymeþ þe mawe Ryȝt so þat þoruȝ resoun ; wolde þe rote knowe Of god and his myȝtis ; his grace it letteþ For in þe likinge lyþe a pride ; & a likinge licames coueytise aȝeins cristis conceill ; & all clerkis techinge þat is non plus sapere quam oportet sapere ☞ Freris and ffele oþer maistris ; þat to lewde men prechen Meuen maters immesurablez ; to tellyn of þe trinite And ofte tymes þe lewde peple ; of her bileue douȝten douȝten Better to bileue were many ; doctouris swyche techynge And telle men of þe ten commaundementis ; & touche þe seuene synnys And of þe braunchis þat borjounen of hem ; and bringen men to helle And how þat ffolk in ffolies ; myspendyn here ffyue wyttis pride of ffreris as well ffreris as oþer ffolk ; ffoliche þei spendyn In howsinge in hateringe ; & hie clergie schewinge More ffor pompe þan ffor pure charite ; þe peple wotte þe soþe þat I ne lye not loo ; ffor lordys ȝe plesyn and reuerencen þe Riche ; þe raþer ffor her goodis Confundantur omnes qui adorant sculptilia & cetera . & alibi vt quid diligitis vanitatem & queritis mendacium ffreris Go to þe glose of þe vers ; ȝe grette clerkis If I lye on ȝou to my lewde witt ; ledyth me to brennynge For as it semeþ ȝe ffor-saken ; no mannys almes Of vsureris of horis ; & of auarouse Chapmen And louten to þese lordis ; þat mown lene ȝou noblis Aȝeyn ȝoure reule & religion ; I take recorde of Ihesus þat saide to his deciplis ; ne sitis personarum acceptores Of þis matere I myȝte ; make a longe bible Curatours And of curatouris of cristen peple ; as clerkis beren wittenesse I shall telle it ffor truþis sake ; take hede who-so likeþ As holynesse & honeste ; out of holi chirche sprediþ þoruȝ lele leuynge C2.15.97:An otiose tilde appears above the <y> in leuynge. men ; þat godis lawe techen Riȝt so out of holi chirche ; all yuellis spredyn þer imparffiȝte presthode is ; precheris & techers and se it be ensaunple ; in somer-tyme on tres Similitudo þer summe bowes ben leued ; & summe beren non þer is a myscheff in þe moore ; of swiche manere bowis Ryȝt so parsons & prestis ; and prechouris of holi chirche þat arn rote of þe riȝt ffeiþ ; to reule þe peple and þer þe rote is roten ; reson wotte þe soþe shall neuere ffloure ne ffruȝte ; ne ffaire leef be grene Lechery of clothingein preestys For-þi wolde ȝe lettrid men leue ; þe leccherie of cloþing And be kynde as ffell ffor clerkis ; & curteis of cristis goodis Trewe of ȝoure tunge ; and of ȝoure tayl boþe And hate to here harlotrie ; & not to vndirffonge Tyþes of vntrwe þing ; ytilid or schaffared loþe were lewde men ; but þey ȝoure lore ffolleweden and amende hem þat myssedon ; more ffor ȝoure ensaunplis ypocrysy is lykonedto a dongehill þanne ffor to preche or preuen it not ; ypocrise it semeþ For ypocrise in latyn ; is lykened to a donghill þat were be-snewid with snow ; & snakis with-Inne Or to a wall þat were wiȝte-lymed ; with-ouȝt & ffoule with-Inne Ryȝt so many prestis ; precherous and prelatis Arn enblaunched with bell paroeles ; & with cloþis also and ȝoure werkis & wordis þer-vndir ; ar fful vnloueliche Iohan Crisostomus ; of klerkis spekiþ & prestis sicut de templo omne bonum egreditur ; sic de templo omni malum procedit / / Si sacerdocium integrum fuerit ; in peccatis totus populusC2.15.122:The deleted words are marked through both in red and in black. tota floreret ecclesiaSi autem corruptum fuerit ; omnium fides marcida est // Si sacerdocium fuerit in pecatis ; totuspopulis conuertitur ad pecandum / Sicut cum videris arborem . marcidam & pallidam ; intelligisquod vicium habet in radice / Ita cum videris populum indisciplinatum & irreligiosum sinedubio sacerdocium eius non est sanumC2.15.122:This line begins in the right margin of l. 121 and wraps around to occupy the next five line spaces. If lewde men wisten ; what þis latyn meneþ and who was myn autoure ; moche wondir me þinkiþ But if many a prest here ; ffor her basalardis & her brochis 2f shulden go synge seruyseles ; with sir phelip þe sparweC2.15.126:MSS O and C2 alone include this line, substituting it for some variant of [And beere] bedes in hir hand and a book vndir hir arme. See Skeat's note at B.XV.118 (Vol. II, 218), which glosses this line and the preceding one unless many priests here, instead of (having) their baselards and their brooches, should go and sing, where there is no service, along with Sir Philip the sparrow. Skeat explains that Philip was a name commonly given to pet sparrows, perhaps because its sound resembles the bird's song. Syr Iohan and Syr gefferey ; han gyrdlis of syluer prestis nota a baslard and a ballok-knyf ; and barres ouere-gylte and a portos þat shulde be his plow ; placebo to segge Hadde he neuer seruyse to saue siluer þerto ; ffor spending at ale Alas ȝe lewde men ; moche lesen ȝe on prestis And þing þat wikkidliche is wonnen ; & with ffalse sleyȝtis wolde neuer of witty god þe witt ; but wicked men it had þe whiche ar prestis imparffiȝte ; & prechouris after syluere Sectouris & Suddenes ; somonours & her lemmans þis þat with gyle was geten ; vngraciousli is spendyd So harlottis & horis ; arn holpen þoruȝ swiche goodes And godis ffolk ffor deffaute þer-of ; fforffaren & spillen Curatouris of holi chirche ; as clerkis þat ben auarouse lyȝtliche þat þei leuen ; lossellis it hauen Or dyen intestat ; and þanne þe bisschop entriþ and makiþ myrthe þer-with ; & his men boþe and seyn he was a nygard ; þat no good myȝte spare To ffrende ne to ffrende fremmed ; þe þe fend haue his soule For a wrechid hous he helde ; al his lyf-tyme And þat he spared & bisperde ; spende we in myrþe be þey lered be þey lewde ; þat loþe is to spende þus gon her goodis ; be þe gost ffaren And ffor good men god wott ; grett doel men makyn And bymeneþ good mete ; ȝeueris & in mynde hauen In preyeris and in penaunce ; & in parffiȝte charite Nisi efficiamini sicutparuuli non intrabitis & cetera what is charite quod I þo ; a childishe þing he saide with-outyn ffaunte or ffolie ; a ffre leberall will where shulde men ffynde swyche a ffrende ; with so ffre an herte Longe Will I haue lyued In lond quod I ; my name is longe wille and ffornde I neuere ffull charrtecharite ; beffore ne be-hynde Men ben mercyable to mendynauntis ; & to þe pore and wolle lene þer þei leuen ; lelli to be payd and charite þat poule precheþ best ; & most plesiþ oure saueour As non inflatur . non est ambiciosa . non querit que sua sunt I seiȝ neuer swyche a man ; so me god helpe þat he ne wolde aske after his ; & oþer-while coueyte þing þat nedeþ him not ; & nyme it if he myȝte Clerkis tellyn me ; þat crist is in al his alle places And I seiȝ him soþeli ; but as my-self in a myroure Ita in enigmate tuncffacie ad faciem & so I trowe truly ; be þat men tellyn of charite It is not champiouns fiȝt ; ne chaffare as I trowe Charite quod he ne chaffareþ not ; ne chalengeþ ne craueþ as proude of a peny ; as of a pound of gold And is as glad of a gowne ; of a grey russet As of a tunycle of tarse ; or of tried scarlet he is glad with alle glade ; & good to all wikkid And leneþ & loueþ alle ; þat oure lord made Cursiþ he no creature ; ne can bere no wraþe Ne no likynge haþe to lye ; ne lawȝhe men to scorn Al þat men seyn . he late it soþe ; & in solace takiþ And alle manere mescheues ; in myldenesse he suffreþ Coueytiþ he non erþeli good ; but heuene-riche blisse haþe he ony rentis or richesse ; or ony riche ffrendis Of rentis ne of richesse ; reckeþ he neuere For a ffrende þat ffyndiþ him ; ffaylid him neuer at nede Fiat voluntas tua ; ffyndiþ him euere-more And if he soupe C2.15.185:An otiose tilde appears above the <o> in soupe. he etiþ but a soppe ; of spera in deo he can portreye þe wel þe pater noster ; & peynte it with aues And oþer ouþerwhile he is wone ; to wende on pilgrimage þer pore men & prisouners ben ; her pardon to haue þouȝ he bere hem no bred ; he bereþ hem swettere loueþ hem as oure lord biddiþ ; & lokeþ how þei ffaren And whane he is wery of þat werk ; þanne wolle he sum tyme labouren in lauendrie ; þe lenþe of a myle And ȝerne in-to ȝouþe ; and ȝepli speke pride with al þe apurtenaunce ; & pakken hem to-gedris And bowken hem at his brest ; & beten hem clene f3 And leggen on longe ; with laboraui in gemitu meo And with warme water at his eyn ; wasshen hem after And þanne he syngeþ whane he doþe so ; & sum tyme seiþ wepynge cor contritum & humiliatumnon despicies By crist I wolde þat I knewe hym ; no creature leuere with-ouȝtyn helpe of peers plowman quod he ; his persone seest þou neuere wher clerkis knowyn him quod I ; þat kepen holi chirche Clerkis han no knowinge quod he ; but be werkis & wordis And peers þe plowman ; parceyued more depper Cogitaciones eorumEt vidit deus where is þe wille & wherffore ; þat many a wyȝte suffreþ For þer arn ffull proude proude herted men ; paciente of tunge And buxum as of beringe ; to burgeys & to lordis And to pore peple ; han peper in þe nose And as a leyon he lokeþ ; þer men lackyn his werkis For þer arn beggers and bidders ; bedemen as þei were loken as lambron ; & semen lijf-holy And it is more to haue her mete ; in swyche esy manere þanne ffor penaunce or parffiȝtenesse ; þe pouerte þat swiche taken þerffore be coloure ne be clergie ; knowe shalte þou him neuere Neiþer þoruȝ wordis ne werkis ; but þoruȝ wille one And þat knoweþ no clerk ; ne creature in erþe C2.15.218:A triangle composed of dots, with a wavy line ascending from the uppermost dot, appears in the left margin. See Introd. I.6. But peers þe plowman ; petrus id est Christus For he is not in losellis ; ne in land-lepers hermytis Ankres Ne in ankres þer a box hangeþ ; alle swiche þei ffaytyn Fy on ffaytouris ; and in ffautores suos cheritie For charite is goddis Champion ; & as a good childe hende and þe meriest of mouþe ; at mete where he sitteþ þe loue þat lyþe in his herte ; makyþ him liȝt of speche and is companyable & comffortatyff ; as crist bydiþ bit hym-self Nolite fieri sicutypocrite tristes For I haue seen him in sylk ; and sum tyme in russete boþe in greye and in griys ; & in gylt harneys And as gladeliche he it gaaf ; to gomes þat it nedede Edmund & Edwarde ; eyþer were kyngis and seyntes I-sette ; till charite hem ffolwyd I haue seen charite also ; Syngen and reden Ryden & rennen ; in raggyd wedis and biddynge as beggers ; bihelde I him neuere and in riche robes ; raþest he walkyþ y-callid y-crymaylid ; & his croune schauen and clenliche y-cloþid ; in cipres & in tartaryen and in a ffreris ffroke ; he was ffounden ones and it is ffer ago ; in seynt ffraunceys tyme and in þat secte syþe ; to selden haþe be knowen Ryche men he recomaundiþ C2.15.241:An otiose tilde appears above the <a> in recomaundiþ. ; & of her robes takiþ þat with-ouȝtyn wylis ; leden her lyues Beatus est diues qui & cetera In kyngys court he comeþ often ; þer þe conceill is trwe and if coueytise be of þe conceill ; he woll not come þer-inne In courte amonge Iapers ; he comeþ not but selde For braulynge and bacbytynge ; & beringe of ffals wittenesse In þe consistorie beffor þe comyssarie ; he comeþ not fful ofte For her lawe duriþ ouer-long ; but if þey lacchyn siluere and matrimoyne ffor money ; maken & vn-maken and þat concience and crist ; haþe y-knyte ffaste þey vndon it vnworþily ; þo doctouris of lawe and I ne lake no lyff ; but lord amende us alle and geue us grace good god ; charite to ffolowe For who-so myȝte mete with hym ; swyche maneres him eyliþ Neiþer he banneþ ne blameþ ; bosteþ ne preysiþ Craueþ ne coueitiþ ; ne crieþ after more lakkeþ ne loseþ ; ne lokeþ vp sterne In pace in idipsum dormiam & cetera. Love in goddys passion þe moste lyflode he lyueþ by ; is loue in godis passion Neiþer he biddiþ ne beggeþ ; ne borwiþ to ȝelde Mysdoþe he no man ; ne with his mouþe greueþ amongis cristen men ; þis myldenesse shulde laste In all manere angres ; haue þis at herte þat þouȝ þey suffreden al þis ; god suffred ffor vs more In ensaumple we shuld do so ; & take no veniaunce C2.15.266:An otiose tilde appears above the <a> in veniaunce. 4f Of oure ffoos þat don us ffalsnesse ; þat is ffadris wille For well may euery man witte ; if god had wolde hym-selue shulde neuere iudas ne Iew ; haue Ihesu don on rode Ne haue martirid petir ne poule ; ne in prison holden and he suffred in ensaunple ; & þat þat we shulden suffre also and saide to swiche þat suffre wolden ; þat pacientes vincunt verbi gratia quod he ; and verri ensaunplis many In legenda sanctorum ; þe lyff of holy seyntis what penaunce and pouerte ; & passion þei suffredyn In hungre & in hete ; & alle manere angres AntonyC2.15.277:One minim is lacking in the second <n> of the word Antony & egidie ; & oþer holi ffadris wonden in wildirnesse ; amonge wilde bestis Monkis & mendynauntis ; men bi hem-seluen In spekis & spelonkis ; seldon speken to-gedris and neiþer antony ne egydie ; ne hermyte þat tyme Of lyones ne of lepardis ; no lyflode ne token But of ffoulis þat fflien ; þus ffyndyn men in bokis Except þat egidie ; after an hynde criede and þoruȝ þe mylk of þat mylde beste ; þe man was susteyned and day be day had he hir not ; hungre his hungre ffor to slake But seldon and sundri tymes ; as seiþ þe book and techiþ Antony adaies ; abouȝte þe none C2.15.288:An otiose tilde appears above the <o> in none. tyme hadde bred a brid þat brouȝte him brede ; þat he bi leued and þouȝ þe gom had a gest ; god ffonde hem boþe poule primus heremyta ; had parroked him-selue þat no man myȝt him se ; ffor mosse & ffor leues Foulis him ffeddyn ; ffele wyntris with-alle Tylle he ffoundyd ffreris ; of austyn Austynes ordre Anoþer poule after his prechinge ; panyeris he made and wan with his handis ; þat his wombe neded peter ffischede ffor his ffode ; and his ffelawe andrew Summe þey solden & summe þei soþen ; & so þey leueden boþe And also marie magdaleyn ; bi moores leued & dewes and most þoruȝ deuocion ; and mynde of god al-myȝti I shulde not þis seuene daies ; seggen hem alle þat leued þus ffor oure lordis loue ; many longe ȝeris and þer ne was lyoun ne leparde ; þat on laundes wenten Neiþer bere ne boor ; ne oþer best wilde þat ne ffelle to her ffeet ; & ffauned with þe tailis And if þey co..wde haue I-carpid ; bi crist as I trowe þey wolde haue yffed þo þat ffolk ; be-ffore wylde ffoulis and god sente hem ffode be ffoulis ; & be no ffers bestis In mevinge menynge þat meke þinge ; mylde þing shulde ffede as who seiþ religiouse ; riȝtffull men shulde ffynde and laweffull men to lyf-holy men ; lyuelode bringe and þanne wolde lordis and ladies ; be loþe to a-gulte and to take of her tanauntis ; more þan trewþe wolde Founden þei þat ffreris wolden ; ffor-saken her almesse and biddyn hem bere it ; þer it was I-borwid Dyetinge ofreligious For we ben godis ffoulis ; and abide away Tyll briddis bringe us mete ; þat we shulden leue by For haue ȝe potage & payn ; & peny-ale to drinke C2.15.318:An otiose tilde appears above the <n> in drinke. and a messe þer-wiþ ; of ony manere kynde ȝe han ryȝt ynow ȝe religious ; & so ȝoure rule me tolde Numquam dicit iobrugiet onager cum herbam habuerit / aut mugiet bos ; cum ante plenum presepe steterit / /Brutorum animalium natura te condempnat ; cum eis pabulum comune sufficiat . ex adipeprodijt iniquitas tua C2.15.320:   This line begins in the right margin of l. 320 and wraps around to occupy the next three line spaces. ☞ If lewde men knewe þis latyn ; þey wolden loke whom þei gyuen and avise hem beffore ; ffyue daies or sixe Of ȝiftis in-toreligious Er þey mortyseden to monkis ; or chanouns her rentis Alas lordis and ladies ; lewde conceill han ȝe To ȝeue ffrom ȝoure eyris ; þat ȝoure elders ȝou lesten leften nota and ȝeuen to bide ffor ȝou ; to swiche þat ben riche and ben ..ffoundyn & ffeffed eke ; to bidde ffor oþer f5 who parfformeþ þe prophecie ; of peple þat now leueþ Dispersit dedit pauperibus If ony peple parfforme þis tixt ; it arn þe pore ffreris For þat þey beggen abouȝte ; in beldinge þey spendyn and on hem-self sum ; and swyche as ben her laboreris and of hem þat han þey taken ; & ȝeuen hem þat ne han and clerkis & knytis ; & comuneris þat ben riche Similitudo Feel of ȝou ffaren ; as if I a fforest hadde þat were ffull of ffaire tres ; & I ffo.unded & caste how I myȝte mo þer-Inne ; amonges hem sette Ryȝt so ȝe riche ; ȝe robben þat ben riche and helpen hem þat helpen ȝou ; & ȝeuen þer no nede is as who-so ffylled a tunne ; of a ffresshe ryuere and wente fforþe with þat water ; to wooke with þe tamyse Quid est dare impijs Ryȝt so ȝe riche ; ȝe robben and ffeden hem þat han as ȝe han ; hem ȝe maken at ese of munkes and religious þat riche ben ; shulden raþer ffeste beggers þan burgeys þat riche ben ; as þe book telliþ Quia sacrilegium est respauperum ; non pauperibus dare / / Item peccatoribus dare ; est demonibus immolare / Item monachesi indiges & accipis pocius das quam accipis / / si autem non eges & accipis ; rapis / / porronon indiget monachus . si habeat quod nature sufficit C2.15.347:   This line begins in the right margin of l. 346 and wraps around to occupy the next three line spaces. For-þi I conceill alle cristen ; to confforme hem to charite For charite with-outen chalenginge ; vnchargiþ þe soule and many a preson prison prisoner ffro purgatorie ; þoruȝ his preiris deliuereþ and þer is a deffauȝte in þe ffolk ; þat þe ffeiþ kepen wherffore ffolk ben þe ffebeler ; & not fferme of bileue And in luschburues is a liþer alay ; & ȝit lokeþ he like a sterlinge þe merk of þat mony is good ; & þe metall is ffebell and so it ffareþ be summe ffolk ; now þey han a ffaire speche Croune & cristendom ; þe kyngis merk of heuene and þe metall þat is mannys soule ; with synne is ffull alayed Boþe lettrid & lewde ben ; now alayed with synne þat no lyff loueþ oþer ; ne oure lord as I leue For þoruȝ werre & wicked werkis ; & wedris vnresounable wedir-wyse schipmen ; and clerkis also han no beleue to þe clyfte lifte ; ne to þe lore of philosophres astromyns alday ; in her arte ffaylen þat wylom warned beffore ; what shulld ffall after Schipmen & herdis . þat with schip & scheep wenten wisten be þe welken ; what shulde be-tyde as of wedris & wyndis ; þey warned men often Tyliers þat tiliden þe erþe ; tolden her maistris By þe seed þat þei sewen ; what þey selle myȝten and what to leue & what to lyue by ; þe lond was so trewe Now ffaylyn þe ffolk of fflode ; & of of þe lond boþe ; Schepherdis & schipmen ; and so don þese tilieris Neyþer þei kunne ne knowe ; oo cours be-ffor anoþer Astromyens also ; arn at her wittis ende of þat was calculed of þe elementis ; þe contrarie þei ffyndyn Gramer þe grounde of all ; bigiliþ now childrin For is non of þese new clerkis ; who-so nymeþ hede þat can versiffie ffaire ; ne fformeliche enditen Is not on amongis an hundrid ; þat an auctoure can construe Ne rede a letter in any langage ; but latyn & englishe Go now to ony degre ; & but if gyle be maister and fflaterere his ffelaw ; vndir him to fformen Moche wondir me þinkiþ ; amongis us alle Doctours of decres ; & of diuitinnite maistris þat shulden kunne & knowe ; al-kyns clergie and answere to argumentis ; & also to a quodlibet I dar not segge it ffor shame ; if swiche werin aposide þey shulden ffayle of her philosophie philosophie and ; in her phesik boþe wher-ffor I am afferde ; of ffolk of holi chirche lest þei ouere-hippe as oþer don ; in offices & in houris and if þei ouerehippen as I hope not ; oure bileue sufficiþ as clerkis in corpus christi ffeste ; Syngen and reden 6f þat sola ffides sufficit ; to saue with lewde peple and so mown sarasens be saued ; scribes & Iues allas þanne . but oure lores-men ; leuen as þei leren us and ffor her lyuynge C2.15.396:An otiose tilde appears above the second <y> in lyuynge. þat lewde men ; be þe loþer god to gulten agulten For sarasens han sumwhat ; semynge C2.15.397:An otiose tilde appears above the <y> in semynge. to oure beleue For þey be-louen loue & bileuen ; in oo persone almyȝty And we lered & lewde ; in oo god bileuen And on makomede ; a man of mysbileue Brouȝte sarasens of surre ; & se in what manere makomede withhis dowue þis makomede was cristen ; & ffor he muste not be a pope In-to surre he souȝte ; & þoruȝ his sotille wittis Dauntede a dowue dove ; & day & nyȝt hir ffedde The corn þat she croppyde ; he caste it in his ere and if he amonge þe peple prechede ; or in place come þanne wolde þe coluer come ; in-to þe clerkis ere Menynge as after mete ; þus machomede hir enchauntede and dede ffolk þanne ffalle on knees ; ffor he swore in his prechinge þat þe culuer þat come so ; come ffro god in of heuene as messager to makomede ; men ffor to teche and þus þoruȝ wylis of his witt ; & a whyte dowue Makomede in myfblieue mysbileue ; men & wommen brouȝte þat lered & lewde ; ȝit leuen on his lawes And siþen oure saueour suffrede ; þe sarasenes so bigylide þoruȝ a cristen clerk ; acursid in his soule nota and ffor dreþe drede of þe deþe ; I dar not telle truþe Covetyse of clerkis How englisshe clerkis a culuer ffeden ; þat coueityse hatte and ben manered after makomede ; þat no man vsiþ truþe ancres and hermytes ; & monkis & ffreris peren to apostelus ; þoruȝ her parfiȝt leuynge C2.15.420:An otiose tilde appears above the <y> in leuynge. wolde neuer þe ffeiþeffull ffader ; þat his mynystris shulden Of terauntis þat tenen trewe men ; take ony almesse But do as domynyk dede ; antony & ffraunceys Benet & bernarde ; þe whiche hem ffrist tauȝte To lyue bi litill in lowe housis ; be lelle mennys almesse Grace shulde growe & be grene ; þoruȝ here good leuynge C2.15.426:An otiose tilde appears above the <y> in leuynge. C2.15.426:   The top stroke of the <G> in grace is decorated and extended horizontally the length of eight characters. and ffolkis shulde ffynde ; þat ben in dyuerse sekenesse þe better ffor her biddinges ; in body & in soule here preyeris & her penaunces C2.15.429:An otiose tilde appears above the <u> in penaunces. ; to pees shulde bringe alle þat ben at debate ; & bedemen were trewe Petite & accipietis & cetera salt saueþ catell ; seggen þese wyues vos estis sal terre & cetera þe bedis heuedes of holy chirche ; & þei holy weren Crist calliþ hem salt ; ffor cristen soulis Et si sal euanuerit ; in quo salietur and ffresche fflesche oþer ffische ; whanne it salt ffailiþ Is vnsauery ffor soþe ; soþe soden or ybake So is mannys soule soþely ; þat seeþ no good ensaunpill Of hem of holi chirche ; þat þe hye weye shulde teche And bi guyde & go be-ffore ; as a good baneoure And hardie hem þat ben be-hynde ; & ȝeue hem good euydence Eleuene holi men ; all þe world turnede In-to lele bileue ; þe lyȝtlyere me þinkiþ shulden al manere men ; we han so many maistris Prestis & prechouris ; & a pope aboue þat godis salt shulde be ; to saue mannys soule all was heþenesse sum tyme ; Englond & Walis Tyll gregori gerte clerkis ; to go & to preche austyn at Cauntirbiry ; Cristenede þe kynge and þoruȝ myracles as men mown reden ; all þat marche he turned To crist & to cristendom ; & crosse to honoure and ffulled ffolk ffaste ; and þe ffeiþe tauȝte More þoruȝ miracles ; þanne þoruȝ moche prechinge as well þoruȝ his werkis ; as with his holi wordis and saide hem ; whatt ffullynge & ffeiþ was to mene Cloþe þat comeþ ffro þe weuynge ; is not comly to were Tille it be ffullid vndir ffote ; or in ffullynge stokkis wasshen well with water ; & with tacellis cracched ytoukid & yteyntid ; and vndir tailours hand and so it ffareþ be a baron barn ; þat born is of wombe Tyll it be cristenede in cristes name ; & conffermede of þe bischoppe f7 It is heþene as to heuenewarde ; and helples to þe soule heþen is to mene after heþ ; and vntilid erthe as in wylde wildirnesse ; waxyn wylde bestis Rude and vnresounable ; rennynge with-out crepres Ȝe menen well how mathew said ; how a man made a feste he ffedde hem with no venyson ; ne ffesauntis y-bake but with ffoulis þat ffrom him nolde ; but ffollewid his whystelyng Ecce altiliamea & omnia parata sunt & cetera with calues fflesshe ffedde he fedde ; þe ffolk þat he loued þe calue betokeneþ clennesse ; in hem þat kepen lawis For as þe cow þoruȝ kynde mylk ; þe calue nurschiþ to an oxe So loue and lewte ; lele men susteyneþ and maydenes and mylde men ; mercy desirin Ryȝt so þe cow calf ; coueytiþ swete mylk So don riȝtffull men ; mercy and trewþe and who ben þat excusen hem ; þat arn parsonys & prestis þat hedis of holy chirche ben ; þat han here wille here with-out trauayle þe tiþe dell ; þat trewe men be-swykyn þei wull be wroþe ffor I write þus ; & wittenesse I take Boþe mathew & mark ; & memento domine dauid what pope or prelat now ; parfformeþ þat crist hiȝte Ite in vniuersum mundum & predicate allas þat þat men so long . on makomede shulden bileue so many prelatis to preche ; as þe pope makeþ Of nazareþ of Nynyue ; of neptalym & damask þat þey ne wente as crist wisseþ ; syþe þey wull haue name To be pastouris & preche ; þe passion of Ihesus and as him-self said ; so to lyue & deye Bonus pastor animam suam ponit & cetera and said it in salvacion ; of sarasens & oþer For cristen and vncristen ; crist said to prechouris Ite vos in veneam meam & cetera and siþe þat þese sarasens ; scribes and Iues han lippe a lippe of oure bileue ; þe lyȝtliere me þinkiþ þey shulden turne who-so trauaile wolde ; to teche hem of þe trinite querite & inuenietis & cetera It is ruþe to rede how ; riȝtwise men leueden how þey deffouled C2.15.500:An otiose tilde appears above the <o> in deffouled. here ffleisshe ; ffor-soken her owen wille Fer fro kyþ & fro kynne ; yuell ycloþed ȝeden badely y-beddid ; no book but concience Ne no richesse but þe rode ; to rejoycen hem Inne absit michi gloriari nisi in cruce domini nostri & cetera and þo was plente & pees ; amongis pore & riche and now is reuþe to rede ; how þe reed noble Is reuerencid er þe rode ; receyued ffor þe worþiere þanne cristis crosse þat ouer-cam ; deþe and dedli synne and now is werre & woo ; & who-so why askeþ For coueityse after crosse ; þe croune stant in gold boþe riche and religious ; þat rode þey honoren þat in grotus is grauen ; and in golden noblis For coueitise of þat crosse ; men of holi chirche Templarij prophetia de possessionibusClericorumC2.15.514.m.1:   The word Templarij appears at left center of the other two lines, which are linked at the left by a bracket. shull turne as tem.pleris diden ; þe tyme approcheþ ffaste wyte ȝe not wise men ; how þo men honouredenC2.15.515:the <u> in the word honoureden lacks a minim. More tresore þanne truþe ; I dar not telle þe soþe Roson Reson and riȝtffull dom ; þo religious demeden Riȝt so ȝe clerkis ffor ȝoure ; coueitise er longe shull þei deme dos ecclesie ; & ȝoure pride depose Deposuit potentes de sede & cetera If knyȝhode knyȝthode & kynde witt ; & comune concience ☞ To-gedris loue leli ; leueþ it well ȝe bisshopis Þe lordschipe of londis ; ffor euere ȝe shull lese and leue as leuetici ; as oure lord ȝou techeþ per primicias & decimas & cetera whanne Constantyn of curteysie ; holi chirche dowede with londis & leedis ; lordschipis and rentis an aungell men herdyn ; on hie at rome crie hodie venenum est effusum in ecclesia dei Dos ecclesie þis day ; haþe dronkyn venem and þo þat han petrus power ; arn apoysond alle A medecyne muste þer-to ; þat may amende prelatis þat shulden prey ffor þe pees ; possession hem letteþ Takeþ her londis ȝe lordis ; and late hem leue be dymes If possession be poyson ; and imparffiȝte hem make Good were to dischargyn hem ; ffor holi chirches sake And purgen hem of poyson ; or more perell ffalle If presthode were parffiȝt ; þe peple shulde amende þat contrarien cristis lawe ; and cristendom dispisen For alle paynemys preyen ; and parffiȝtly bileuen In þe holi grett god ; and his grace þe þei axen and maken her mone to makomede ; her massage to schewe þus in ffeiþ leuen þat ffolk ; & in a ffals mene and þat is ruþe ffor ryȝtffull men ; þat in þe rewme wonnen and in perell to þe pope ; and prelatis þat he makiþ and beryn bisschoppis names ; of bedelem & of babiloyne þat hippen abouȝte Englond ; to halewyn mennys auters and cropen crepe amongis curatouris ; conffession aȝeins þe lawe Nolite mittere falcemin messem alienum Many man ffor cristis loue ; was martirid in romayne Er þan ony cristendom was knowen þere ; or ony crosse honoured Euery bisshoppe þat beriþ crosse ; bi þat he is holdyn þoruȝ his prouynce to passe ; and to his peple schewe him Telle hem and teche hem ; of þe trinite to bileue and ffede hem with gostly ffode ; & gyue þer it nedeþ In domo mea non est panis nec vestimentum & ideo nolite constituere me in regem Inferte omnes decimas in orreum meum vt sit cibus in domo & ceteraC2.15.557:C2 alone transposes ll. 557 and 558. Osias seiþ ffor swiche ; þat seek ben and ffeble and we cristen creaturis ; þat on þe crosse bileuen ar fferme as in þe ffeiþ ; godis fforbode ellis and han clerkus to kepe us þer-inne ; & þam þat shull come after and Iues leuen in lele lawe ; oure lord wrote him-self In ston ffor it stedeffaste is ; and stonde shall euere Dilige deum & proximum tuum ; is parffiȝt Iues lawe and toke it moyses to teche ; men till messie come and þat lawe þey leuen ȝitt ; & leten it þe beste and ȝit knowen þei crist ; þat cristendom tauȝte For a parffiȝt proffiȝt ; þat moche peple sauede Of selcouþe sores ; þei seiȝen it ofte Boþe of miracles & merueylis ; & how he men ffestid with two ffisshis and ffyue loues ; ffyue þouusande peple and be þat mangerie men myȝte se ; þat messie he semede and whanne he lifte vp lazar ; þat leyd was in graue and vnder ston deed & stanke ; with stiffe voice he callid lazare veni fforas dede him rise and rome ; riȝt be-ffore þe Iues and þey seyden and sworen ; with sorcerie he wrouȝte and studied to stroye him ; & struydend struyden hem-self and þoruȝ his pacience ; her power ; to pure nouȝt he brouȝte pacientes vincunt Danyell of her vndoynge ; deuyned and saide Cum sanctus sanctorum and ȝit wenen þo wrecchis ; þat he were pseudo C2.15.584:An otiose bar appears on the descender of the <p> in pseudo propheta veniat . cessabit vnccio vestra and þat is lore be lesingis ; and lakken it alle and hopen þat he be to comen ; þat shall hem releue Moyses est or messie ; her maistris ȝit deuyneþ and sarasens & pharisees ; scribes & grekis arn ffolk of oo ffeiþ ; þe ffader god þey honouren and siþen þat þe sarasens ; & also þe Iues kun þe ffrist clause of oure bileue Credo in deum patrem & cetera Prelates of cristen prouynces ; shulden preue if þei myȝten lere hem litlum & litlum ; & in Ihesum christum filium eius & cetera Tille þei couþen speke & spelle ; & in spiritum sanctum and rede it & recorde it ; with remissionem peccatorum / Carnis resurreccionem & vitam eternam amen Passusxvjussextus decimus n Now ffaire ffalle ȝou quod I þoo ; ffor ȝoure ffaire schewinge For hakyns loue þe actiff man ; euere I shall ȝou loue and ȝit I am am in a weer ; what charite is to mene It is a ffull tried tre quod he ; trewliche to telle Mercy is þe more þer-of ; þe myddill stokke is ruþe þe leues ben lele wordis ; þe lawe of holi chirche þe blosmes ben buxum speche ; & benynge lokinge pacience haþe þe pure tre ; and pure symple of herte and so þoruȝ god & good men ; greweþ þe ffructe charite I wolde trauaile quod I ; þis tre to se . twenti hundrid myle and to haue my ffille of þat ffructe ; fforsake al oþer saule lord quod I if ony wyȝt witte ; whidir out it groweþ It groweþ in a gardeyne quod he ; þat god made him-selue amyddis mannys body ; þe more is of þat stokke herte hatte þe herber ; þat it in growiþ and liberum arbitrium ; haþe þe lond to fferme Vndir peers þe plowman ; to piken it and weden it Peers þe plowman quod I þo ; & al ffor pure Ioie þat I herde nempne his name ; anon I swowned after and lay longe in a loue-drem ; & at þe last me þouȝte þat peers þe plowman ; al þe place me schewid and bade me toten on þe tre ; on toppe & on rote with þre pilis was it vndir-piȝt ; I parceyuede it sone peers quod I I pray þe ; whi stondiþ þese pilis here For wydis wyndis wilte þou witte ; quod he . to witten it ffrom ffalling Cum ceciderit iustus non collidetur quia dominus supponit manum suam and in blowinge tyme abite þe fflouris ; but if þese piles helpe þe werld is a wykkid wynde ; to hem þat wilneþ truþe Coueytyse comeþ of þat wynde ; & crepeþ amonge þe leues and ffor-ffreteþ nyȝ þe ffruyt ; þoruȝ many ffaire siȝtis þanne with þe ffrist pile I pulle him doun ; þat is potencia dei patris þe fflesshe is a ffelle wynde ; & in þe in fflouringe tyme þoruȝ likynge of lustus ; so lowde he gynneþ to blowe þat it norshiþ nyce siȝtis ; & sum tyme wordis . and wikkid werkis þer-of ; worme wormes of synne and fforbiteþ þe blosmes ; riȝt to þe bare leues þanne sette I to þe secunde pile ; sapiencia dei patris þat is þe passion & þe power ; of oure prynce Ihesus þoruȝ preieris & penaunce ; & godis passion in mynde C2.16.39:An otiose tilde appears above the <y> in mynde. I saue it till I se it ripe ; and sumdill yffruytid and þane ffondiþ þe ffende ; my ffruyte to distroie with all þe wylis þat he can ; and wagged þe rote and casteþ vp to þe croppe ; vnkynde neiboris Bacbiters breke-cheste ; brawlers and chiders and leiþ a ledder þer-to ; of lesingis ; arn þe ronges and ffeccheþ away my fflouris sum tyme ; affore boþe myn eyn and liberum arbitrium ; lettiþ him sum tyme þat is letenaunte to loken it well ; bi leue of my-selue videatis qui peccat inspiritum sanctum numquam remittetur & cetera hoc est id qui peccat per liberum arbitrium non repugnatC2.16.49:   This line begins in the right margin of line 48, then wraps around to occupy the next full line space. and whanne þe ffende and þe fflesshe ; fforþe with þe world Manacen be-hynde me ; my ffruyte ffor to ffecche þanne liberum arbitrium ; lacchiþ þe ffrist plante and pulliþ palleþ adoun þe pouke ; puriliche þoruȝ grace and helpe of þe holy goste ; and þus haue I þe maistrie Now ffaire ffalle ȝou peers quod I ; so ffaire ȝe discryuen þe power of þese postis ; and her propre myȝte and I haue þouȝtes a þreue ; of þese þre piles In what wode þei waxen ; & where þat þei growded growed For all yliche ben þei longe ; non lasse þan oþer and to my mynde as me þinkiþ ; on oo more þei growen and of oo grettenesse & grene ; of oo greyne þei semen þat is soþe quod peers ; so it myȝte ffalle bifalle I shall telle þe as tite ; what þis tre hatte þe grounde þer it groweþ ; goodenesse it hiȝte and I haue tolde þe what hiȝte þe tre ; þe trinite it meneþ and egriliche he lokede on me ; and þer-ffore I spared To axen him ony more þer-of ; and bade him ffull ffaire To discriue þe ffruyte ; þat so ffaire hangeþ here now beneþe quod he þo ; if I nede hade Matrimoyne I may nyme ; a moist ffruyte withall þat contynence is ner þe crope ; as a calaway bastard þanne bereþ þe crop kynde ffruyte ; & clenneste of all Maydenhed aungels peeris ; and rapest wolde be ripe and swete with-outen .swellinge ; soure worþ it neuere I preyed peers to pulle doun ; an appell and he wolde and suffre me to asay ; what sauour it hadde and peers cast to þe crop ; & þanne comsede comsed it to crie and wagged wedowehod ; and it wepte after and whanne it meuen meued matrimouyne ; it made a ffoule noyce þat I had ruþe whanne peers roggede ; it gradde so ruffulliche For euere as þey dropped adoun ; þe deuellC2.16.81:A virgule, partially erased, appears after the word deuell. was redy and gadrid hem all to-gedris ; boþe grette and smale adam and eue ; and ysaac þe prophete Sampson and samuel ; and seint Iohan þe baptist bar hem fforþe boldeli ; no body hem letted and made of holi his hoord ; in lymbo inferni þer is derkenesse and drede ; & þe deuell maister and peers ffor pure tene ; þat oo pile he lauȝte and hitte after him ; happe how he myȝte Filius be þe ffader wille ; and ffrenesse of spritus sancti To go robbe þat raggeman ; and reue þe ffruyte ffrom him and þanne spake spiritus sanctus ; in gabrielis mouþe To a maydyn þat hiȝte marie ; a meke þing with-all þat on Ihesus a iustises sone ; muste Iouke in hir chaunbre Till plenitudo temporis ; ffulli come were þat peers ffruyt fflouride & ffelle to be ripe Annis quingentes decies rursum quis ducentes Vnus defueruat cum deus ortus erat and þan shall Ihesus iuste þer-ffor ; bi iugement of armes whedir shulde ffonge þe ffruyte ; þe ffende or him-selue þe mayden myldeliche þo ; þe masager graunted and said hendeliche to him ; lo me his hand maydyn For to werchyn his wille ; withouȝtyn ony synne Ecce ancilla domini fiat michi & cetera and in þat wombe of þat wenche ; was he ffourti wokis Till he wex a ffaunt ; þoruȝ his ffleisshe . & of ffytinge couþe To haue ffouuten with þe ffende ; er ffull tyme come and peers þe plowman ; parceyuede plener tyme and lered him lechecrafft ; his lyff ffor to saue þat þouȝ he were woundid ; with his enemye ; to warische him-selue and dede him asaie his surgerie ; on hem þat seek weren Tyll he was parffiȝte practisoure ; if ony perell ffell And souȝte out þe seke ; and synffull . boþe blynde & crokede and comune wommen conuertide ; and to god goode turnedeC2.16.114:C2 alone lacks what in other B manuscripts constitutes the a-verse of a line between ll.110 and 111: And saluede sike and synfulle. Non est sanus sanis opus medico set infirmis & cetera boþe messellis and mute ; & in þe menyson blody ofte he helede swiche ; he helde it ffor no maistrie saue þo he lechede lazar ; þat had loyn yleye in graue Quatriduanis Quatriduanus quelt ; quyk dede him walke ; and as he made þe maistrie ; mestus cepit esse and wepte water with his yen ; þer seyen it many Summe þat þe siȝte seyne ; saydyn þat tyme þat he was leche of lyff ; and lord of hie heuene Iues Iangelyd þer-aȝeins ; & iuggede lawes and saide he wrouȝte with his þoruȝ whichecrafte ; & with þe deuell myȝte Demonium habes & cetera þanne ar ȝe clerkis quod iche ; and ȝoure childrin boþe and sathan ȝoure saueoure ; ȝoure-self now wittenessyn For I haue saued ȝoure-self saiþe crist ; and ȝoure sones after ȝoure bodies ȝoure bestis ; and blynde men holpen and ffedde ȝou with ffisches ; & with ffyue loues and lafte baskettis ffull of brede broke mete ; and caste adoun her stallisC2.16.132: C2 alone conflates Kane and Donaldson's ll. 126 and 128b, and omits their l. 127 as well as 128a. þat in chirche chaffaredyn ; or chaungid ony mony and seid in syȝt of hem all ; so þat all herden I shall ouere-turne þis temple ; and adoun þrowe and in þre daies after ; ediffien it newe and maken it as moche oþer more ; in all manere poyntis as euere it was & as whyde ; wherffore I hote ȝou of preyeris and parffiȝtenesse ; þis place þat ȝe calle Domus mea domus oracionis vocabitur Enuye and yuell wille ; was in þe Iues þey casteden and contreueden ; to kylle him whane þey myȝten Iche day after oþer ; tyme þey awaytide Tyll it be-ffell on a ffriday ; a litil be-ffore paske þe þursday be-ffore ; þer he made his mawnde Sittynge at þe soper ; he saide þese wordis I am sold þoruȝ on of ȝou ; he shall þe tyme rue þat euere he his saueour solde ; ffor siluer or ellis Iudas Iangeled þer-aȝeins ; and Ihesus him tolde It was him-selue soþely ; and said tu dicis þanne wente fforþe þat wicked man ; and with þe Iues mette and tolde hem a tokene ; how to knowe with Ihesus C2.16.153:   A triangle composed of dots appears in the left margin, with a wavy line ascending from the uppermost dot. See Introd. I.6.and whiche tokene to þis day ; is to moche vsid þat is kyssynge and ffaire contenance C2.16.154:An otiose tilde appears above the <a> in contenance. ; & vnkynde wille and so was with Iuedas ; þo he Ihesus betraied Aue rabi rquod þat ribaude ; and riȝt to him .he ȝede and kiste him to be cauȝt þer-bi ; and kylled of þe Iues þanne Ihesus to Iudas ; and to þe Iues saide Falsenesse I ffynde ; in þi ffaire speche and gyle in þi glad chere ; and galle in þi lawȝhinge þou shalt be a meroure ; to many men to disceyue and þe wers & þe wykednesse ; shall worþe on ..þi-selue Necesse est vt veniantscandala ve homini illi per quem þouȝ I be treson be takon ; at ȝoure owyn wille suffriþ myn apostelis in pais ; and in pees gange On a þorusday in þe þesternesse ; þus was he takyn þoruȝ Iudas and Iues ; Ihesus was his name þat on þe ffryday ffolwinge ; ffor mankyndes sake Iustede in Ierusalem ; a Ioy to vs alle on crosse vppon caluerie ; crist toke þe bataile aȝens þe deþ and þe deuell ; distroied here boþer myȝtis Diede & deþ ffordide ; and day of nyȝt made and I awakid þer-with ; and wyped myn eyn and after peers plowman ; priede & stared Estward and westwarde ; I waytide after ffaste and ȝede fforþe as an idiot in cuntre to aspie and þanne mette I with a man ; on mydlente sonday As hoor as an hawe-þorn ; and habram he hiȝte I ffreyned him ffriste ; ffrom whens he come and of whens he were ; & whedir he þouȝte I am ffeiþ quod þis ffreik ; it falliþ not to lie and of abrahamis hous ; an heroude of armes I seke after a segge ; þat I seiȝ ones A ffull bolde bacheler ; I knowe him be his blasen what bereþ þat barn quod I þo ; so blisse ȝe þee be-tyde þre leodes on oo lyȝth ; non lenger þan oþer of oo mechell & oo mageste ; in mesure and in lengþe þat on doþe all doþe ; and iche doþe be his one þe ffrist haþe myȝte and mageste ; maker of all þing pater is his name ; a persone bi him-selue þe secounde is of þat sire ; soþeffaste Sothfastnesse ffilius wardeyn of all þat witt haþe ; was euere with-outyn gynnyge þe þred hatte þe holi gost ; a persone by him-selue þe lyȝt of al þat lyue haþe a londe & on water Comffortour of creatouris ; of him comeþ al blise so þre belongeþ ffor oo lord ; þat lordschipe cleymeþ Myȝt and mene ; to knowe his owen myȝte of him and of his seruaunt ; and what þei suffred suffre boþe so god þat bigynnynge had neuere ; but þo him good þouȝt sente fforþe his sone ; as ffor seruant þat tyme To ocupien him here ; till issu were sprongyn þat is childrin of charite ; and holi chirche þe moder patriarkis and prophetis ; and apostilis were þe childrin and crist and cristendom ; & cristen holi chirche I In menynge þat man muste ; on oo god be-leue and þer him likede and lo...uede ; in þre persones him schewide wedelook and wedowhod ; and virgynite ynempned and In tokenynge of þe trinite ; was takyn out of a man adam oure alþer ffader ; eue was of him-selue and þe issu þat he hade ; it was of hem boþe and eiþer is oþer Ioye ; in þre sundri persones and in heuene and in erþe ; on synguler name and þus is mankynde or mankhede ; of matrimoyne sprongyn Miȝte is matrimoyn ; þat multiplieþ þe erþe and bitoneþ bitokneþ truely ; telle it if I durste he þat ffrist fformed all ; þe ffader of heuene The sone is if I durste seiȝ ; resemblant to þe wedowe Deus meus deus meus vt quiddereliquisti me & cetera . þat is creatoure wex creatoure creature ; to knowe wat was boþe as ..wedow with-outyn wedlok ; was neuer ȝit I-seiȝ No more god myȝte god be man ; but If he moder hadde so wedo..we with-outyn wedlok ; may not well stonde Ne matrimoyne with with-out withouten muliere ; is not moche to preise maledictus homo qui nonreliquit semen in israel þus in þre persones ; is parffiȝtliche manhod þat is man and his make ; & muliere childrin and is not but gendre of generacion ; be-ffore Ihesu crist in heuene So is þe ffader fforþe with þe sone ; and ffre wille of boþe spiritus procedens & patre & filius whiche is þe goste of all ; & all is but oo god þus in somer I him seiȝe ; as I satte in my porche I aros and vp and reuerencede him ; & riȝt ffayre him grette þre men to my syȝte ; I made well at ese wesshe her ffeet and wipede hem ; & afterwardis þei eten Calues fflesshe and cake-bred ; & knowen knewe what I þouȝt Full trewe tokenes bitwynne us ben ; to telle whane me likyþ Frist he ffounded C2.16.237: The <u> in ffounded has been altered and is unclear. ; me if I loued better him or ysaac myn eiere ; þe whiche he hiȝte me kylle he wiste my wille be him ; he wolle me it alowe I am ffull seker in soule þer-of ; & my sone boþe I circumciside my sone ; siþ ffor his sake My-self and my meyne ; & al þat male weren bleden blode ffor þat lordis sake ; and hopen to blisse þe tyme Myn affiaunce & my ffeiþ ; is fferme in þis bileue For him-self be-hiȝte to me ; and to my issu boþe lond and lordschipe ; and lyff with-outyn ende To me and to myn issu ; more moore yet he me graunted mercy ffor oure myssdedis ; as many tyme as we axe Quam olim abrahe promisisti& semini eius and siþe he sente me to sey ; I shulde do sacrifice and do him werschepe with bred ; & with wyn boþe And callid me fforþe of his ffeiþ ; his ffolke ffor to saue and deffended hem ffro þe ffende ; ffolk þat onto me leueden þus haue I ben his heroude ; here & in helle and comfforted many careffull ; þat after his comynge C2.16.154:An otiose tilde appears above the <y> in comynge. waytyn and þus I seke him he said ; ffor I herde sayn late . of a barm barn þat baptisid him ; Iohn baptiste was his name þat to patriarkis & prophetis ; & oþer peple in derkenesse saide þat he seiȝ him ; þat shulld saue vs all Ecce agnus dei & cetera I had wondir of his wordis ; & of his wyde cloþis For in his bosum he bare a þing ; þat he blessid euere and I loked on his lappe ; a lazare lay þer-inne amongis patriarkis and prophetis ; pleynge to-gedris what waytist þou quod he þo ; & what woldest þou haue I wolde witte quod I þo ; what is þis in ȝoure lappe loo quod he and lete me se ; lord mercy I saide þis is a presente of moche price ; what prynce shall it haue It is a preciouse presente quod he ; and þe pouke it haþe atached and me þer-myd quod þat man ; may no wede us quyte Ne no barn be oure boruȝ ; ne bringe us ffrom his daunger out of þe poukis pynffolde ; ne no menprice us ffecche Tyll he come þat I carpe of ; crist is his name þat shall deliuere us out ; of þe deuellis powere and better wedde ffor us legge ; þanne we ben all worþi þat is lyff ffor lyff ; or ligge þus euere lollynge in my lappe ; till swiche a lord us ffecche allas I saide þat synne ; so longe shall lette þe myȝte of godis mercy ; þat myȝte us all amende I wepte ffor his wordis ; with þat sawȝ I anoþer Rapeliche renne fforþe ; þe riȝt weye he wente I ffreynede him ffrist ; ffrom whens he come and what he hiȝte ; and whedir he wolde . and whiȝtliche he tolde Passusxvijusseptimus decimus i I am spes quod he a spie ; & spere after a knyȝth þat toke me a maundement ; vppon þe mount of synay To rule al rewmes wiþ ; I bere it wrettyn here It is aselled I said ; may men se þe lettris Nay he said . I seke him ; þat haþe þe sell to kepe and þat is crosse and cristendom ; & crist þer-on to hange and whane it is asellede so ; I wotte well þe soþe þat lucyffers lordshipe ; laste shall no lenger late se þi lettris quod I ; we myȝte þe lawe knowe þanne pluked he ffurþe a patente ; a pece of an hard roche where-one where wrettyn two wordis ; on þis wise glosid Dilige deum & proximum et cetera þis was þe tixt truli ; I toke ffull good ȝeme þe glose was gloriousli wrettyn ; with a gilte penne / In hijs duobus mandatistota lex pendet & prophete & cetera Ben here alle þi lordis lawis quod I ; ȝe leue me wel he said whoso werchiþ after þis writt ; I woll vndirtake shall neuere dyuell him dere ; ne dette in soule greue For þouȝ I saie it my-self ; I haue saued with þis charme of men & of wommen ; many score þouusandis he seiþ soþ seiþ þe heroud ; I haue ffounden it ofte lo here in my lappe ; þat leuede on þat charme Iosue & iudith ; and Iudas machabeus ȝe and sixti þouusande bi-side fforþe ; þat ben not sen here ȝoure wordis ben wondirfful quod I ; whiche of ȝou is trewest and lellest to leue on ; ffor lyff & ffor soule Abraham seiþ þat he seiȝ ; holly þe trinite þre persones in parcellis ; departable ffrom oþer and all þre but oo god ; þus abraham me tauȝte and haþe saued þat bileue so ; & sori ffor her synne I can not segge þe summe ; & summe arn in my lappe what nediþ þe þan ; a newe lawe to bigynne siþe þe ffrist sufficit suffiseþ ; to sauacion & to blisse and now bigynneþ spes & spekiþ ; þat haþe aspied þe lawe and telliþ not of þe trinite ; þat toke him his lettris To bileue and loue ; in oo lord almyȝty And siþ riȝt as my-self ; so loue alle peple þe gom þat goþe with a staffe ; he semeþ in gret heþle þanne he þat goþe with two staues ; to siȝt of vs all and riȝt so be þe rode ; reson me schewiþ It is liȝter to lewde men ; a lesson to knowe þanne ffor to techen hem two ; & to harde to lere þe leste It is ffull harde ffor ony man ; on habraham bileue and wellaway wers ȝit ; ffor to loue a schrewe It is liȝtter to leue ; in þre loueli persones þan ffor to loue & lene ; as well lorellis as lelles Go þi gate quod I spes ; so me god helpe þo þat leren þi lawe ; litill while vsen it and as we wentyn þus in þe weye ; wordinge to-gedris þane seie we a samarithan ; sittinge on a mule Ridinge ffull rapeli ; þe riȝt weye he we ȝede yeden Comynge C2.17.52:An otiose tilde appears above the <y> in comynge. ffrom a cuntre ; þat men callin Ierico To a iustus in Ierusalem ; he chasede away ffaste Boþe þe heraud & hope ; & he mette at ones where a man was woundyd ; and taken with þeues he myȝte neiþer stepe ne stonde ; ne stere ffeet ne handis Ne halpe him-self soþeli ; ffor semyuyf he semede and as naked as a nedell ; & non hellp aboute him Feiþ had ffrist siȝt of him ; and he ffleiȝ on side and nolde not nyȝ him ; by nyne landis lengþe hope cam hippinge after ; & had so ybostid how he with moyses maundement ; had many men I-holpyn and whanne he had siȝt of þat seege ; aside he gan him drawe Dredeffulli be þis day ; as doke doþe ffrom þe ffauuken and so sone so þe samaritan ; had siȝt of þis liode he liȝt adoun of liard ; and ladde him in his hand and to þe weye he wente ; his woundis to beholde And parceyued be his pouce ; he was in perell to die and but if had he had recouere þe raþer ; þat rise shuld he neuer with wynene wyn and wyn & with oile ; his woundis he wasshed Enbaumed him and bond his hed ; & in his lappe him leyde and ladde him so fforþe on lyarde ; to lex christi a graunge well sex myle or Seuene ; bi-side þe new market herborwide him at an hostrie ; & to þe hosteler callid and said haue kepe þis man ; till I come ffro þe Iustus and lo hire siluer he saide ; ffor salue to his woundis and he toke him two pens ; to lyflode as it were and saide wat he spendiþ more ; I make þe good here-after For I may not quod þat liode ; & harde he be-strode and rapede him to Ierusalem-ward ; þe riȝt wey to ride Feiþe ffolowede after ffaste ; and ffounded to mete with him and spes sparliche spakliche him spedde ; spede if he myȝte To ouer-take him & talke til him ; er þei to toune come and whanne I sawȝ þis I soiournede not ; but schope me to renne and suede þat samaritan ; þat was so ffull of pete and graunted him to be his grom ; graunt mercy he said and þi ffrende and þi ffellew ; þou ffyndist me at nede and I þankide him þo ; & siþ I him tolte How þat ffeiþe ffleiȝ away ; and spes his ffelaw boþe For siȝt of þe sorwffull man ; þat robbed was with þeues . Haue hem excused quod he ; her helpe may litill auaile may no medecyne on molde ; þe man to hele bringeC2.17.92:An otiose tilde appears above the <n> in bringe. Neiþer ffeiþe ne ffyne hope ; so ffestride ben his woundis with-ouȝtyn þe bloode of a barn ; born of a maydynC2.17.94:   The preceding two lines are linked by a bracket in the left margin; outside the bracket is a triangle composed of dots, with a wavy line ascending from the uppermost dot. See Introd. I.6. and he be baþed in þat blood ; baptisid as it were and þanne plaistred with penaunce ; & passion of þat babi C2.17.97:   A crosshatch mark appears in the left margin.he shulde stonde and steppe ; and stalworþe worþe he neuere til he haue eten al þe ba--& his blod drunken Till he haue eten al þe barn ; & his blood drunkyn C2.17.98:An otiose tilde appears above the <u> in drunkyn. For wente neuere wye In þis world ; þoruȝ þat wildirnesse þat he ne was robbed or riffled ; rode he þer or ȝede saue ffeiþ & his ffelaw ; spes & my-selue and þi-self now & swiche ; þat suen oure werkis For out-lawes in þe wode ; and vndir bank lotien and mowen iche man se ; & good merke take who is be-hynde & who beffore ; & who ben on hors For he halte him hardiere on hors ; þan he þat is on ffote For he seiþ me þat am samaritan ; suen ffeiþ & his ffelawe On my caple þat hate highte caro ; of mankynde I toke it he was vnhardi þat harlot ; and hydde him in inferno and er þis day þre daies ; I dar vnder-take þat he worþe ffeterid þat ffelon ; ffaste with cheynes and neuere efte greue gome ; þat goþe þis ilke gate and þanne shall ffeiþ be fforster heer ; & in þis ffriþe walke and kenne comune men ; þat knowen not þe cuntre whiche is þe weie þat iche wente ; & wherfforþe to ierusalem and hope þe hosteleris man shall be ; þer þe man liþe to helinge and al þat ffeble & ffeynte ben ; þat ffeiþ may not teche hope schall lede hem forþe with loue ; as his lettre telliþ and hostel hem & hele ; þoruȝ holi chirche bileue Tyll I haue salue ffor al seke ; & þane shall I retorne And come aȝeyne be þis cuntre ; & comfforte all seke þat craueþ craueþ it or coueitiþ it ; and crieþ þer-after For þe barn was born in bedelem ; of a clene maydyn þat shall with with his blode saue ; alle þat leuen in truþe Feiþ and ffollewen þe techinge ; of hope þat is his ffellaw A swete sire I said þo ; where schall I beleue as ffeiþ & his ffelaw ; enfformen me boþe and In þre persones departable ; þat perpetuel weren euere and alle þre but oo god ; þus abraham me tauȝte and hope afterwarde ; he bade me to loueC2.17.130:C2 alone lacks the line numbered by Kane and Donaldson l. 132. loue hem like my-selue ; & oure lord aboue alle g1 After abraham quod he ; þat heraud of armes sette ffaste þi ffeiþe ; and fferme bileue and as hope hiȝte þe ; I hote þat þou loue þin euen-cristen euere-more ; euen-fforþe with þi-selue and if concience carpe þer-aȝeyne ; or kynde witte eiþer Or heretikis with argumentis ; þin hand þou him shewe For god is after an hande ; I here now & knowe it þe ffader was ffriste a ffiste ; with oo ffynger ffoldynge Till him loued & liste ; to vnlose his ffynger and prophere it fforþe as with a pawme ; to what place it shulde þe pawme is puriliche þe hand ; and propheriþ fforþe þe ffyngris To mynystre and to make ; þat myȝt of hand knoweþ And bitokeneþ truly ; telle who-so likeþ þe holi gost of heuene ; is he is as þe pawme þe ffyngris þat ffre ben ; to ffolde & to serue Betokeneþ soþeli þe sone ; þat sent was to erthe þat touuchid & tastede ; at þe techinge of þe pawmeC2.17.148:The <a> above the line was added apparently because the letter on the line is spoiled by an inkblot. Seynt marie a mayde ; & mankynde lauȝte Qui conceptus est de spiritu sancto þe ffader is þane as a ffyste ; with ffynger to touche Quia omnia traham ad me ipsum & cetera All þat þe pawme parceyueþ ; prophetable to ffele þus arn þey all but on ; as it an hand were and þre sundry siȝtis ; in on schewingeC2.17.155:   The preceding two lines are linked at the left by a bracket. þe pawme ffor he puttiþ fforþ ffyngris ; & þe ffiste boþe Riȝt so redili ; reson it shwewiþ how he þat is holi gost ; Sere & sonne preueþ and as þe hand halt harde ; & all þing ffaste þoruȝ ffoure ffyngris & a þombe ; fforþ with þe pawme Riȝt so þe ffader and þe sonne ; & seint spirit þe þrede halte all þe wide worlde ; with-Inne hem þre Boþe welkene & þe wynde ; water & erþe heuene & helle ; & all þat þer-inne is þus it is is . it nedeþ no man ; to trowe non oþer þat þre þingis bi-longen ; in oure lord of heuene And arn sereples by hem-self ; asundre were þey neuere No more þan myn hand may moue ; with-outyn my ffyngris and as my ffiste is fful hande ; yffolden to-gedris So is þe ffader a fful god ; fformour & schappere Tu fabricator omnium & cetera al þe myȝt myd him is ; in makynge of all þingis þe ffyngris fformen a ffull hand ; to portreie or to peynte Keruynge and compassinge ; as crafte of þe ffyngris Ryȝt so is þe sonne ; þe science of þe ffader and fful god as is þe ffader ; no ffeblere ne no better þe plawme pawme is puriliche þe hande and haþe power be him-selue oþer-wyse þanne þe wreþin ffiste ; or werkmanschipe of ffyngris For þe pawme haþe power ; to put out all þe Ioyntis and to vnffoldyn þe ffoldyn ffiste ; at þe ffyngris wille so is þe holi gost god ; neiþer gretter ne lesse þanne is þe sire & þe sone ; & in þe same myȝte And all ar þey but oo god ; as myn hand & my ffyngris vnffolden or ffolden ; my ffyst & my pawme al is but on hand ; euene in þe myddis For þe ffyngris þat ffolde shulden ; & þe ffyst make For peyne of þe pawme ; power hem ffayliþ To cluche & or to clawe ; to clippe or to holde where þe mydill of myn hande ; y-maymed or perished I shulde receyue riȝt nouȝt ; of þat I reche myȝte and þouȝ my þombe & my ffyngris ; boþe weren to-schullen and þe myddil of myn hand ; with-oute male-ese In many kyns maners ; I myȝte my-self helpe boþe moue & amende ; þouȝ all my ffyngris oken be þis skylle me þinkiþ ; I se an euydence þat who-so synneþ in seint spirit ; asoilid worþe he neuere Neiþer here ne ellis-where ; as I here telle Qui peccat / in spiritum sanctum & cetera For he prikiþ god in þe pawme ; þat peccat / in spiritu sancto For god þe ffader is as a ffist ; þe sone is as þe ffynger Þe holy gost . of heuene is ; as it were pawme þe pawme C2.17.201:   The preceding two lines are linked at the left by a bracket. g2 So who synneth in seint sperite it semeþ þat he greveth God þat he grypeth with and wolde his grace quenche The Trinytie is ly-koned to a torcheor a tapor And to a torche or a tapir þe trinite is lykened As wex and a weike were twynned to-gedrisC2.17.205:   The preceding two lines are linked at the left by a bracket. And þan a ffire fflaumynge fforth out of bothe And as wex and weike and hote ffire to-gedris Fostre fforth a fflambe and a ffaire light So doth þe Seyre and þe sone and also spiritus sanctus Fostren fforth amongis ffolk loue and loiale bileue Alkynne That alle kynne Cristen clensith of synnes And as þou seest sum tyme sodeynliche a torche The blace þer-of blowe yblowe out . ȝet brennyth þe weike with-out leye or lyght þat þe smacche swellith So is þe holy holy goost god and grace with-out mercy To alle vnkynde creaturis þat coueite to distroie leele loue oþer lyf þat oure lord ȝaf and as a glowynge glede ne gladeth nouȝt þese werkmen That werchin and wakyn in wyntris nyghtis as doth a kyse kex or a kandell þat kauȝth hath ffire & blaseth No more doth Sire ne sone ne seint sperit to-gedris Grante no grace ne fforȝeuenesse of synnes Tlyll þe holy gost gynne to glowe & to blase So doþ þat þe holy gost glowith but as a glede Tille þat lele loue lygge on him and blowe And þan fflammeth he as ffire on pater & on filius And melteth her myȝht to mercy as men may se in wynter Isekellis in euesyngis þoru hete of þe sonne Melltith in a meynute while to myste and to water So grace of þe holy gost ; þe grette myȝth of þe trinite Melltith to mercy to merciable and to non oþer And as wex with-out more on a warme glede .wolle brennyn and blasyn be þey to-gedris And solacyn hem þat mow se þat sytten in dirkenesse So wulle þe þe fader ffor-ȝeue ffolk of mylde hertis That rewffullich repentyn and restitucion make In as moche as þey mown amendyn and payn and if it suffice not ffor a sethassetȝfaithe þat in swich will deien Mercy ffor his mekenesse wull make good þe remenant and as þe weike and ffire wolle make a warme fflambe For to myrthe men with þat in merke sytten So wull Crist of his Curteyse and men cry him mercy bothe ffor-ȝeue and fforȝeue foryete and ȝit bidde ffor us To þe ffader of heuene ffor-ȝeuenesse to haue but hewe ffire at a fflynte ffoure hundride wynter but þou haue tow to take it with tonder or broches all þi laboure is lost and all þi long trauaile For may no ffire fflambe make ffaile it his kynde So is þe holy gost god and grace with-outen mercy To all vnkynde creaturis Crist him-self wittenessiþ Amen dico vobis nescio vos & cetera . be vnkynde to þin euen-cristen and all þou þat þow canst biddyn delen or do pennaunce day and nyght euere and purschace all þe pardon of pampilon & rome and indulgencis ynowȝ and be in-gratus to þi kyndeC2.17.255:   The preceding two lines are linked at the left by a bracket. The holy gost hereth þe nouȝt ne helpe may þe be reson For vnkyndenesse quenchith him þat he can nouȝt shyne ne brenne ne blace clere ffor blowinge of vnkyndenesse poule þe apostele proueth where I lye Si linguis hominum loquare & cetera. For-thi be war ȝe wyse men þat with þe world delyn That riche ben and reson knowen rewlith well ȝoure-self beth nouȝth vnkynde I conceill ȝou to ȝoure euen-Cristen For many of ȝou riche men by my soule men tellyn ȝe brenne but ȝe blase nouȝt þat is a blynde bekne Non omnis qui dicit domine domine & cetera. dyues died dampned ffor his vnkyndenesse of his mete and of his mony to men þat it neded g3 Iche a riche I rede reward at him take and ȝeueth ȝoure good to þat god þat grace of arisith For þey þat beth vnkynde to his hope I non oþer but þey shull dwelle þer diues Is daiez with-outyn ende Thus is vnkyndenesse þe contrarie þat quenchiþ ats it were The grace of þe holy gost godis owen kynde For þat kynd doth vnkynde ffordoth as þese cursid theues Vnkynde Cristen men ffor coueitise of Enuye sleth a man ffor his moebles with mouþe or with handis For þat þe holy gost hath to kepe þe harlottis distroien þe wyche is lyf and loue þe leþe leye of mannys body For euery manere good man may be likned to a torche Or ellis to a taper to reuerence þe trinite and who-so mothereth a good man me thynkyth be myn Inwitte he ffor-doth þe leuest lyght þat oure lord loueth but ȝet in many mo manerez men offende þe holy gost but þis is þe werste wyse þat ony wyghte myghte Synnen aȝeyn seint sperit assenten to distroie For Coueytise of ony-þing þat Crist dere bouȝte That wickydliche and wullfulliche wolde mercy anientice Innocence is next god and nyght and day it crieth Veniaunce veniaunce C2.17.290:An otiose tilde appears above the <u> in each instance of venaiunce. ffor-ȝeue be it neuere þat shent us and schede oure blode fforschapte us as it were Vindica sanguinem Iustorum & cetera Thus vengeaunce vengeaunce verri charite asketh and sith holy chirche and Charite chargyn þis so sore leue I neuere þat oure lord wull loue þat Charite lacketh ne haue pete ffor ony preiere þer þat he pleyneth I sopose I had synned so and shuld nouȝth die and now am sory þat I so þeC2.17.298:An excrescent mark appears above the thorn in þe. seint sperit agulte Conffesse me and crie his mercy grace god þat all made and myldeliche his grace mercy axe myȝty myghte I nouȝt be saued ȝis said þe samaritan so well þou myȝte repente That rithwynesse rightwisnesse þoru repentaunce to rewthe myȝth turne but ȝet Ac it is but seldom seie þer sothenesse bereth wittenesse Ony creature þat is coupable affore a kyngis Iustice be ranceomed ffor his repentaunce þer all reson him dampneth For þer þat partie pursueth þe peple is so huge þat þe kyng may do no mercy till boþe men acordeC2.17.307:   The preceding two lines are linked at the left by a bracket. and eiþer haue equite as holy writte tellyth Numquam dimittitur peccatum & cetera . Thus it ffareth by swiche ffolk þat ffalsly al here lyuez I wull Yuele leuen and lete nouȝt till lyff hem fforsake Good hope þat helpe shulde to wanhope turneth Nouȝt of þe nounpower of god þat he ne is myȝtffull To amende all þat amys is and his mercy gretter Thanne Than alle oure wikkid werkis as holy wrtte writ tellith misericordia eius super omnia opera Eius But er his rithffullnesse to reuthe turne sum restitucion behoueth C2.17.317:   An otiose bar appears through the ascender of the <h> in behoueth. For details of this scribe's use of barred <h>, see the Introduction under Hand. his sorwe is satisffacion ffor him þat may not paie Thre þingis þer beth þat doon a man be strengthe C2.17.319: A triangle composed of dots. with a wavy line ascending from the uppermost dot, appears in the left margin. See Introd. I.6. Flen his owen hous as holy writt scheweth þat on is a wikkid wyff þat woll not be schastisid here ffiere ffleth ffro hir ffor ffere of hir tonge and if his hous be vnhillid and reyne on his bedde he seketh all abouȝte till he liggith slepe drie and whan smoke or smoldere smytte in his sith It doth him worsse þan his wyff or wete to slepe For smoke and smolder smyteth in his eyen Till he be blere-eyed or blynde and hos in þe þrote Than Cougheth he Cogheþ and cursith þat crist ȝeue him sorow þat shulde bringe in better wode or blowe it till it brenne These þre þat I telle of be þus to vndirstond þe wyff is oure wykked fflesshe þat wolle not be schastisid For kynde cleueth on him euere to constrarie þe soule and þough it ffalle it ffynt skyllis þat ffreelte is made and þat is lyghtliche ffor-ȝeuen and ffor-ȝeten bothe To man þat mercy asketh and to amende thanketh þenkeþ The reyne þat reyneth þer we rest shuld ben sekenesse and sorowes þat we suffren ofte as poule þe apostle to þe peple tauȝte g4 virtus in infirmitate perficitur & cetera . and þouȝ þat men make moche doell in her angre and impaciente in her penaunce C2.17.342:An otiose tilde appears above the <u> in penaunce. pure reson knowith þat þey haue cause to contrarie by kynde of here sekenesse and lyghtliche oure lord at here lyues ende hath mercy on swiche men þat so euell may suffre C2.17.346:   A crosshatch mark appears in the left margin.But þe smoke and þe smolder þat smytte in oure eyne ys coueytise and vnkyndenesse þat quenchiþ godis mercy For vnkyndenesse is þe contrarie of all-kynnes reson For þer nys sike ne sory ne non so moche wrecche That he ne may loue and him like and lene of his herte good will and good word both wisshen and willen alle manere men mercy and ffor-ȝeuenesse and loue hem like him-self and his lyff amende I may no lenger lette quod he and hard priked I and wente away as þe wynde and þer-with I awakid passus xviijduodevicesimus w Wolleward and wette-schod wente I fforth after and as a reccheles renke þat of no wo reccheth and ȝede fforth like a lorell all my lif-tyme Tille I wex wery of þe world and wilned efte to slepe and lened me to a lenten and long tyme I slepte and of cristis passion and penaunce þe peple þat of taughte reste me þer and rutte ffaste till ramys palmarum of gerlees and of gloria laus grettely me dremed and how Ozanna by orgonye olde ffolk songen on semblable to þe samaritan and sum-dell to petrus Piers plowman barfott and on an asse bak boteles gan prike without spores oþer spere ineliche spakliche C2.18.12:C2 alone has ineliche (transcribed meliche by Kane and Donaldson); most B manuscripts have spakliche. Although the MED does not attest the form, perhaps the scribe understood it to mean inwardly, in the sense of meditative. he loked as is þe kynde of a knyȝth þat cometh to be doubed To geten him gilte sporis and gallochis y-couped Than was ffeith in a ffennestre and cried a fili dauid as doth an heraud of armes whan aunterous comyn to Iustis Olde Iewes of Ierusalem ffor yoie þei songen Benedictus qui venit in nomine domini & cetera Than I ffreyned at ffeith what all þat ffare be-ment and who sholde Iuste in Ierusalem Ihesus he saide and ffecche þat þe ffende cleymeth petrus Piers ffrute þe plowman is petris Piers in þis place quod I . and he preynte on me This Ihesu of his gentris woll Iuste in pieris armes In his helme and in his haubergon humana natura That crist be not y-knowe here ffor consummatum est In pieris palcot paltok þe plowman þis priker shall ride For no dynte shall him dere as in deitate patris he shall Iuste with Ihesu quod I . Iuwes or scribes Nay quod he þe ffoule ffende and ffals dom & deth deth seith he shall ffor-do and doun brynge al þat leueth or loketh in lond or in water lyf seith þat he lieth and leythe his lif to wedde þat ffor all þat deth can do with-inne þre daiez To walke and ffecche ffro þe ffende pieris ffructe þe plowman and to And legge it þer him liketh and luciffer bynde and ffor to bete and adoun brynge bale and deth ffor euere O mors ero mors tua & cetera Than cam pilatus with peple sedens pro tribunali To se how douthliche deth shuld do & deme hir brethers rith The Iewes and þe Iustice aȝeins Ihesus þey were and all þe court on him cried crucifige scharpe Tho put him fforth a pilour biffore pilat and saide This Ihesus of oure Iewes temple Iaped and dispisid To ffor-don it on a day and in thre daiez after Edifie it efte newe here he stant þat said it and ȝet maken it as moche in all manere poyntis both as long and as large by lofte and by grounde Crucifige quod a cacchepoll I warante him wicche a wicche Tolle tolle quod anoþer and toke of kene thornys and bigane C2.18.50:An otiose tilde appears above the <a> in bigane. of kene thorne a gerlande to make g5 and sett it sore on his heed and said in Enuye Aue rabi quod þat rebauude and þrewe redis at him nailid him with þre nailis naked on þe rode and poison on a pole þey puttyn vp to his lippis and bede him drynk C2.18.55:An otiose tilde appears above the <y> in drynk. his deth euell his daiez where don and if þat þou subtille be helpe now þi-seluen if þou be crist and kyngis sone come doun of þe rode þan shull we leue þat liff þe loueth & woll not lete þe deie Consummatum est quod crist & bigan comsed ffor to swoune petousliche and pale as a presoner þat deieth þe lord of lyff and of lyght þo leide his eien to-gedris The day ffor drede with-drowe and derk bicam þe sonne þe wall waggid and cleff and al þe world quaued dede men ffor þat dyn come out of depe graues and tolde whi þat tempest so longe tyme durid For a bitter bataile þe dede body saide lyff and deth in þis derkenesse hir on ffor-doth hir oþer shall no wyghte witte witterly who shall haue þe maistrie Er sonday abouȝte sonne risinge and sank with þat to erthe Summe said þat he was goddis sonne þat so ffaire deied vere filius dei erat iste & cetera and sum said he was a wiche good is þat we asaye wheder he be deed or nouȝt deed / doun er he be takyn Two þeffes also tholed deth þat tyme vppon a croisse biside crist so was þe comune lawe A cacchepoll cam fforth and crakid boþe here leegis and her armes after of eiþer of þe þeeffes but was no boy so bolde godis body to touuche For he was knyth and kyngis sone kynde ffor-ȝaf þat tyme That non harlot where so hardy to lay hand vppon him but þer Cam fforth a kynyght with a kene spere y-grounde hyghte longeus as þe letter tellith & long had lore his syȝte by-ffore pilate and oþer peple in þe place he houed magry his many tethe he was made þat tyme to take þe spere in his honde and Iuste with Ihesus For alle þey were vnhardy þat houed on hors & stode To touuchin him or tastin him or takyn him doun of rode but þis blynde bacheler þan bare him þoru þe herte þe blode spronge doun be þe spere & vnspeared his eyen þan ffelle þe knyght vppon his kneys & cried him mercy aȝeyne my will it was lord to wounde ȝow so sore he seighed and saide sore it me athenketh For þe dede þat I haue don I do me in ȝoure grace haue on me reuthe rythffull Ihesu & right with þat he wepte þan gan ffeith ffelly þe ffals Iewis dispise Called hem caytiues acursid ffor euere For þis ffoule velony vengeaunce to ȝou ffalle to do þe blynde bete hym ybounde it was a bois conceill Cursid caytyff knyȝghthode was it neuere to myssedo a deed body by day or be nyȝth þe gre ȝett hath he gettyn ffor all his grett wound For ȝoure Champion Chiualer chief knyght of ȝou all yelte him recreaunt rennynge right at Ihesus wille For be þis derkenesse y-do his deth worth avengid & þe ye lurdeyns han y-lost ffor lyff shall haue þe maistrie & ȝoure ffraunchise þat ffre was ffallyn is in-to in þraldom & þe ye cherlis & ȝoure childrin cheue shull ȝe neuere ne haue lordschepe in honde ne no lond til..ye but all bareyne be and vserie vsyn whiche is lyf þat oure lord in alle lawes acursith now ȝoure good daiez ar don as danyell prophecied whan crist come here kyngdom & croune shulld cesse Cum venieat sanctus sanctorum cessabit vnxio vestra what ffor fferre of þis fferly & of þe ffalse Iewes I drowe me in þat derkenesse to descendit ad inferna g6 And þer I sawe sothely secundum scripturas out of þe west cost a wenche as me thought Cam walkynge in þe way to helleward sche loked Misericordia mercy highte þat maide a meke þinge with-all a f..full benigne burde & buxum of speche Hir suster as it semed cam sothely walkynge Euen out of þe est and west-ward sche loked Veritas A ffull comly creature trewthe she highte For þe vertue þat hir ffolwid afferde was she neuere whanne these maydenes mette mercy and trewþe eiþer axed oþer of þis grette wonder of þe dyn & þe derknesse and how þe day rowed and wyche a lyght and a leeme lay be-ffor helle I haue fferli of þis ffare in ffeithe saide trewþe and am wyndinge to witte what þis wondir meneth haue no merueile quod mercy myrthe it betokeneth a maide þat hatte marie and moder without ffelinge of ony-kynnes creature conseiued þoru speche And grace of þe holy gost wex grett with childe Wit-oute wemme of man in-to þis world she brouȝt him and þat my tale be trewe I take god to wittenesse sith þis barn was born ben xxxthritty wynter passid wyche deyed & deth tholed this day abouȝte mydday and þat is cause of þis clipse þat closeth now þe sonne In menynge þat man shall ffro merkenesse be drawe þe while this lyȝth & þis leeme shall lucyffere ablende For patriarkis and prophetis han prechen preched here-of often þat man shall man saue þoru a maydens helpe and þat was tynt þoru tre ; tree shall it wynne and þat deth doun brouth / deth shall releue That þou tellyst quod trewþe it is but a tale of waltrot For Adam and eue and Abraham with oþer PtriarkysP[a]triarkys Patriarkes and prophetis þat in peyne liggen leue þou neuere þat þou yon lyght alofte shall bringe ne haue hem out of helle / holde þi tonge mercy It is but a treffle þat þou telliste I treuþe wotte þe sothe For þat is onys in helle out cometh he neuere Iob þe prophete patriarke reproueth þi sawes Quia in in-fferno nulla est redempcio Than mercy ffull myldely mowthed þese wordis Thoru experience quod sche I hope þey shull be saued For venym ffor-doth venym & þat I preue be reson For of all venemes ffowlest is þe scorpion may no medecyne helpe þe place þer he styngyth till he be deed and do þer-to þe euell he distroieth þe ffrist venemeth venymouste þorugh venem of him-self so shall þis deth ffor-do I dar my lyff legge all þat deth dede ffrist þorugh þe deuyllis entisinge and rith as thorugh gyle man was bigylid so shal grace þat all bigan bigan make a good ende Ars ut artem ffalleret Now suffre we saide trewthe / I se as me thenketh Out of þe nyppe of þe North . nouȝt ffull ffer hens Iusticia Ryghtwysenesse come rennynge . reste we þe while For he wotte more þan we . he was or we boþe That is sothe said mercy . and I se here by southe C2.18.171:An otiose tilde appears above the <o> in southe. Pax where pees cometh pleynge . in pacience clothid loue hath coueytid hir long . leue I non oþer but he sent hir sum lettre . what þis lyght bement bymeneþ þat houer-houeth helle þus . she us shall telle whan pees in pacience clothed . approched nyȝ hem tweyne RyghwysseneseRigh[t]wisnesse Rightwisnesse hym hire reuerencyd . ffor hir riche cloþinge and preied pees to telle hir . to what place she wolde and in hir gay garnementis . whom sche grette þouȝte My will is to wynde wende quod sche . & wellcome hem alle g7 That mayny a day myght I not se . ffor merkenesse of synne adam and Eue and oþer mo in helle Moyses and many mo . mercy shull haue I shall daunce þer-to ; do þou so syster Ad vesperum demorabitur ffletus et ad matutinum leticia loue þat is my lemman . swiche lettres me sente þat mercy my sister & I . mankynde shulde saue and þat god hath fforȝeuen . & granted me pees & mercy To be mannys maynpernour . ffor euere-more after lo here þe patent quod pees . in pace in idipsum And þat þis dede shall dure . dormiam et requiescam what rauestow quod rightwisenesse . or þou art riȝth dronke C2.18.192:An otiose tilde appears above the <o> in dronke. leuest þou yonde liȝt . vnlowke myght helle and saue manys soule . suster wene it neuere At At þe bygynnynge god ȝaff þe dome him-self þat adam and Eue . and all þat hem sued shuld die doun-right . and dwelle in peyne after ȝif þat þey touuchid a tree . and þe ffructe eten adam afterwarde . aȝeins his deffense Freted of þat ffrute . and fforsok as it where The loue of oure lord . and his lore boþe and ffollowed þat þe ffende taughte . & his ffellawis wyll aȝeins reson and rightewynesse rightwisnesse . recorde þus with treuthe þat her peyne be perpetuell . and no preiere hem helpe For-þi late hem chewe as þey chose . and chyde we not suster For it is boteles bale . þe bite þat þey eten and I shall preue quod pees . her peyne mote haue an ende and wo in-to well mowe wedde wende . at þe laste For had þey wuste of no wo . well had þey nouȝt knowen For no wyght wott what well ys / þat neuere wo suffred Ne what is hoot hunger . þat had neuere deffauȝte ȝif no nythe ne were . no man as I leue sholde witte witterly . what day is to mene shulde neuer rith riche man . þat leueth in rest ese and ese witte what wo is . ne were þe deth of kynde So god þat began all . of his good wille by-cam man of a mayde . mankynde to saue and suffred to be sold . to se þe sorowe of dyeynge the whiche vnkynttyth vnknyttith all care . & bigynnynge comsynge is of reste For till modicum mete with us . I may it well avowe wotte no wyght as I wene . what is ynowȝ to mene For-thy god of his godnesse . þe ffrist gome adam sette him in solace . and in souereyne murthe and sithe sithe he suffrid him synne . sorowe to ffele and witte what well was . kyndeliche knowe it and after god graunted heym-self . & toke adamys kynde To witte what he hath suffrid . in þre sondry places bothe in heuene and in erthe . and now to helle he thenkyth To witte what all woo is . þat wotte of all ioye so it shall ffare be þis ffolk . þat her hir ffoly & her synne shall lere hem what langour ys . and lisse with-outyn ende woote no wight what werre ys . þer þat pees regneth Ne what is witterly well ; till wellawey him teche Than was þer a wyght ; with two brode eyne book hiȝte þat beawpere . a bolde man of speche by my ffethe goddes body quod þis book . I wolle bere wittenesse þat þo þis barn was born . þer blased a sterre þat alle þe wise of þis world . in oo witt acordyn þat swyche a barn was born . in bedlem Cete and þat That mannys soule shuld saue / and synne distroie and alle þe Elementis quod þe book / here-of bere beren wittenesse þat he was god þat all wrouȝth / þe walkyn ffrist schewyn Tho þat weren in heuene / token stella comata and tentedyn hire as a torche / to reuerence his burthe The lyght ffollowid þe lord / in-to þe lowe erthe That þe water wittenessith / þat he was god . ffor he wente on it peet.er þe apostle parceyued his gate and as he wente on þe water / well knewe him hym knew & said Iube me venire ad te super aquas / lo And lo how þe sonne gan louke / hir lygh light in hir-self whan sche seie him suffre / þat sonne & see made The erthe ffor heuynesse / þat he wolde suffre quakyd as quyk þinge / & al be-squate biquasshed þe roche lo helle myght not holde / but opened þer god þolid and lete out Simondis sones to seen him hange on rode and now shall luciffer leue it / þouȝ him loth thynke For gigas þe geaunt / with a gynne engyned To breke and to bete adoun / þat ben aȝeins Ihesus and I book wolle be brente / but Ihesus rise to leue In alle myghtis of man / and his moder gladen and comfort all his kyn / and out of care brynge and all þe Iewen Ioye / vnloken and vnbyndyn and but þey reuerence his rode / and his resurrexion and leuen on a newe lawe / be lost lyf and soule al þis I book wittenesse / and ȝet moche more Suffre we said trewþe / I here and se boþe how a sperit spekyth to helle / & bitt vnspere þe yatis Attollite portas et cetera A voise loude in þat lyght / to lucyffer crieth prynces of þis place / vnbyndeth vnpynneþ and vnlokketh For here cometh with croune / þat kyng is of glorie Than siked sathan / and said to hem alle swyche a lyȝt aȝeins oure leue / lazar it ffette Care and comberaunce / is Come to us alle if þis kynge Come in / mankynde wolle he ffecche and lede it þer him likyth / and lyghliche us bynden patriarkis and prophetis / har han parled here-of longe That swiche a lord and lyȝth / shulde lede hem all hens lysteneth quod lucyffere / ffor I þis lord knowe bothe þis lord and þis lyȝth / is longe ago I knewe him May no deth him dere ; ne no deuyllis quentise and where he wolle is his wey / but whare him of þe perellis if he reueth me my rith / he robbith me be maistrie by rith and reson / þo renkis þat ben here body and soule be myne / boþ good and ille if adam ete þe appull / all shull die And dwelle with us deuyllis / þis þretinge he made and he þat sothenesse ys / said þis wordis and sithen is seised / "vij"seuen hundrid wynter I leue þat þat lawe nyl nouȝt / leten him þe leste That is sothe said sathan / but I me sore drede id est adam For þou gete him with gyle / and his gardeyne breke and in semblant of a serpent / sat on þe appilltre and eggedest him to ete / Eue by hir-self and toldist hir a tale / of treson were þe wordis and so þou haddist hem out / and hidir at þe last It is not trewly graiþly getten / þer gile is þe rote For god wolle not be bigilid / quod gobelyn ne be-Iapyd we haue no trewe title to hem / ffor þoru treson were þei dampned Certis I drede me quod þis deuyll / lest treuþe woll hem ffecche Out of oure poweste / and leden hem hens Thys xxxtithritty wynter as I wene / hath he gon and preched I haue asailid him with synne / and sum tyme asked where he were god or godis sone / he ȝaf me scorte answere and þus hath he trollid fforth / this two & wynter and whan I seigh it was so / slepinge I wente To warne pilatus wyff / what doynge done man was Ihesus For Iewes hateden him / and han don him to deth I wolde haue lenged his lif / ffor I leued if he deied þat his soule wolde suffre / no synne in his sight For þeC2.18.311:A virgule appears between the words For and þe, apparently to separate them. body while it on bones ȝede / abouȝte was euere To saue men ffrom synne / ȝef hem-self wolde and now I se where a soule Cometh / hidirwarde sailinge with glorie and with grett lyghe light / god it is I wotte well I rede we ffle quod he / ffast all hens For us where better nouȝt be / þan byden his sight For þi lesingis luciffer / lost is all oure pray Frist þoru þe we ffellyn / ffro heuene so high For we leued þi lesyngis / lore we haue adam and all oure lordschip I leue / a lond and on water Nunc princeps huius mundi eicieture fforas Efte þe lygh light bad vnlouke / and lucyffer answerid what lord art þou quod luciffere quis est iste Rex glorie þe lygh light sonne sone saide and lord of myȝht & of mayn / and all maner vertues dominus vertutum virtutum dukis of þis dyme place / anon vndo þese yatis þat Crist may Come in / þe kyngis sone of heuene and with þat breth helle brak / with belliall barres For ony wey wye or warde / wyde opene þe yatis patriarkis and prophetis populus in tenebris Songen seint Iohans songe Ecce agnus dei luciffer lokene ne myght / so lyght him ablente and þo þat oure lord loued / in-to his lyght he lauȝte and said to satan / lo here my soule to amende For all synffull soulis / to saue þo þat beth worthi myne þei be & of me / I may þe better hem cleyme al-þouȝ reson record / and riȝth of my-self þat if þei ete þe appull / all shuld deie I be-hiȝte hem nouȝt here / helle ffor euere For þe dede þat þey dede / þi desceite it made with gile þou hem gette / aȝein all reson For in my palayce paradice / in likenesse of an eddere Falsely þou fettist þer / þinge þat I loued Thus ylike a lusard / with a lady visage Theffliche þou me robbedest / þe olde lawe graunteth That gylours bigilid be bigilid / and þat is good reson Dentem pro dente et oculum pro oculo Ergo soule shal soule quite / and synne to synne wende and all þat man hath myssedo / I man wolle amende Membre ffor membre / be þe olde lawe was amendis and lyf ffor lyf also / and be þat lawe I cleyme it Adam and alle his issue / at my wille here-after and þat deth in hem ffor-dede / my deth shall releue and boþe quike and quite / þat queynt was þoru synne and þat grace gile distroie / good ffeith it asketh So leue I nouȝt luciffer / aȝeine þe lawe I fecche hem but be reson and ryth / rampson my liegges Non veni soluere legem set adimplere þou ffettist myn in my place / aȝeins all reson Falseliche and ffouliche felonliche / good ffeith it me taughte To recouere hem þoru rampson / and be no reson ellis so þat þoru gyle þou gette / þoru grace it is wonne þou luciffer in likenesse / of a lether edder Gettisdest Gettidest bi gile / þo þat god loued and in likenesse of a liode / þat lord am of heuene Graciously þi gile haue quit / go gyle aȝeins gile and as adam and all / þoru a tre deied adam and al þoru a tre / shul turne aȝeine to lyue and gile is be-gilid / and in his gile ffallen Et cecidit in foueam quam fecit Now bigynneth þi gyle / aȝein þe to turne and my grace to growe / ay gretter and wyddere þe bitternesse þou browe / browke it þi-self þat art doctour of deth / drynke C2.18.375:An otiose tilde appears above the <y> in drynke. þat þou madist For I þat am lord of lyf / loue is my drynk and ffor þat drynk C2.18.377:An otiose tilde appears above the <y> in drynk. to-day / I deied vppon erthe I ffaunte fauȝt so me þrestith ȝett / ffor mannys soulis sake may no drynke C2.18.379:An otiose tilde appears above the <y> in drynke. me moiste / ne my þreste slake Till þe vyntage ffalle / in þe vale of Iosaphath Iudicium generale That I drynk C2.18.381:An otiose tilde appears above the <y> in drynk. rith ripe muste / resureccio mortuorum and þan shall I come as a kyng / crouned with angellus and haue out of helle / all manys soulis Fendis and ffendekynnes / be-ffor me shull stande and be at my biddinge / wher-so-euere me likith and to be merciable to man / þan my kynde it asketh For we be bretheren of blood / but nouȝt in baptisme all but all þat ben myne hole bretheren / in blode and in baptisme Caue shull nouȝt be dampned to þe deth / þat is with-outyn endeC2.18.389:   The preceding two lines are linked at both right and left by brackets. Tibi soli peccam & cetera It is not vsid in erthe / to hangyn a ffelon ofter þan onys / þouȝ he were a traitour and if þe kyng of þat kyngdom / come in þat tyme þer þe ffelon þole shuld deth / or oþer Iuwise lawe wolde he ȝaf him lyf / ȝif he loked vppon him and I þat am kyng of kyngis / shall come swiche a tyme wher dome to þe deth / dampneth all wicked and if lawe wull I loke on hem / it lithe in my grace whedir þey deye or deye nouȝt / ffor þat þei dedyn ille be it-ony þing þe boldenesse / of her synnes I do mercy þoruȝ rithwysnesse / & all my wordis ben trewe and þouȝ holy writte wolle ; þat I be wroke of hem þat dedyn ille Nullum malum impunitum & cetera þei shull be clensid clereliche / and wasshen of here synnes The prison ofpurgatory In my prison purgatorie / till parce it hote and my mercy shall be schewid / to many of my bretheren For bloode may suffre blode / boþe hunger and colde but blode may not se blode blede / but him rewe Audiui archana verba que non licet homini loqui & cetera . but my rithwysnesse and riȝth / shall rewlen all helle and mercy all mankynde / be-ffor me in heuene For I were an .vnkynde kyng / but I my kynde holpe and nameliche at swiche a nede / þer nedes help bihoueth Non intres in iudicum cum seruo tuo Thus be lawe quod oure lord / lede I woll ffrom hens þo þat me loued / and leeued in my Comynge C2.18.375:An otiose tilde appears above the <y> in Comynge. For And for þi lesyngis lucyffer / þat þou leighe to Eue þou shalt abie it bitter / and bonde him with cheynes Astrott and all þe rouȝte / hidden hem in hirnes þey durst not loke on oure lord / þe boldest of hem all but lete him lede fforth / what him likyd . and lete what him liste many hundride of angellus / harped and songen Culpat Caro purgat caro . regnat deus dei caro Than piped pees / of poisie a note Clarior est solito post maxima nebula phebus post inimicicias clarior est et Amor after scharpe schouris quod pees / most schene is þe sone is no whedir warmer / þan after watrye cloudis C2.18.428:An otiose tilde appears above the <o> in cloudis. Ne no loue leuer / ne leuer ffrendis Than after werre and wo ; whan loue and pees be maistris was neuer werre in þis world / ne wykkednesse so kene þat ne loue and him lyst / to laughynge ne brouȝte and pees þoru pacience / all perellis stopped Trewez quod treuþe / þou tellist us soth be Ihesus Cleppe we in comenant couenant / and iche of us kysse oþer and lete no peple quod pees / parceyue þat we chide For inpossible is no þinge / to him þat is all-myȝthy þou seist sothe quod rithwynesse rightwisnesse / and reuerenly hyr kyste pees and pees here / per secula seculorum Misericordia & veritas obuiauerunt sibi Iusticia & pax osculate sunt & cetera Treuþe tromped þo / & songe te deum laudamus & cetera and þan lutid loue / in a lowde note Ecce quam bonum et quam Iocundum & cetera Till þe day dawned / þese damysellis daunced That men rungen to þe resurexion / & riȝth with þat I waked and callid kytte my wyff / and kalotte my doughtere arisith and reuerencyth / godis resurexion and crepeth to þe crosse on kneis / & kissith it ffor a Iewell For godis blessid body it bare / ffor oure bote and it affereth þe ffende / ffor swiche is þe myȝth may no gresly gost / glyde þer it schadwith passus xixundevicesimus t Thus I awakid and wrotte / what I had dremyd and diȝte me derely / and dede me to chirche To here holy þe masse / þo men ȝede to offringe þat peris þe plowman / was peyntid all blody and come in with crosse a cros / be-ffore comune þe comune peple and rith like in all lymes / to oure lord Ihesu Than callid I conscience / to kenne me þe sothe is þis Ihesus þe Iuster quod I . þat Iewes dede to deth or is it piers þe plowman / ho peynted him so rede quod conscience and knelid þo / þese arn piers armes his colours and his cote armure / but he þat comeþ so blody is crist with his crosse / conquerour of cristene why calle ȝe him crist quod I / sith Iewes calle him Ihesus patriarkis and prophetis ; prophicied biffore þat all-kynne creaturis / sholde knelyn and bowyn Anon as men nemepned / þe name of god Ihesu Ergo is no name / to þe name of Ihesus ne non so nedeffull to nempne / be nyȝth ne be day For all derk dyuyllis / arn adred to here it and synffull ar solaced / and saued be þat name and ȝe callyn him crist / ffor what cause telliþ me is crist more of myȝth / and more worthi name þan Ihesu or Ihesus / þat all oure Ioie come of þou knowest well quod conscience / and þou konne reson That knyght kyng conquerour / may be oo persone To be callid a knyȝth is ffaire / ffor men shull knele to him To be callid a kynge is ffairere / ffor he may knyttiskny[ȝ]ttis knyȝttis make and to be conquerour callid / þat cometh of speciall grace and of hardenesse hardynesse of herte / and of hendenesse To make lordis of laddis / of londe þat he wynneth and ffre men ffoule þrallis / þat ffolwyn not his lawis The Iewes þat were gentell men / Ihesus þey dispisid boþe his lore and his lawe / now ar þei lowe cherlis as wyde as þe world is / woneth þer non but vndir tribit tribut and taillage / as tikes and cherlis and þo þat bicome cristene / bi conceill of þe baptisme arn ffrankleyns ffre men / þoru ffullynge þat þey toke and gentell men with Ihesu / for Ihesu was ffullid & vppon Caluarie on croisse / crouned kyng of Iewis It becometh to a kynge / to kepe & to deffende and conquerour of conquest / his lawes and his large and so dede Ihesus þe Iuwes he Iustified / and tauȝt hem þe lawe of lyff / þat laste shall euere and ffende it ffrom ffoule euellis / ffeuerez and ffluxus and ffro ffendis þat in hem were / and ffalse bileue þo was was he Ihesus of Iewes / callid gentell prophete and kyng of her kyngdom / and croune bare of thornes and þo conquered he on crosse / as conquerour noble myȝte no deth him ffor-do / ne adoun brynge þat he ne aros and regned / and rauisshed helle And þo was he conquerour callid / quike of quyke and of deed For he ȝaf adam and Eue / and oþer mo blisse þat long had leyne be-ffor / as lucyffers Cherlis and sith he ȝaf largely / all his trewe lele liegis placis in pardadice / at here partinge hens he may well be callid a conqueroure / and þat is crist to mene but þe cause þat he cometh þus / with crosse of passion Is to wissen us þer-with / þat whan þat we be tempted þer-with to ffyȝte fiȝte and ffenden us / ffro ffallynge in-to synne and se be his sorowe / þat ho loueth Ioie to penaunce C2.19.61:An otiose tilde appears above the <a> in penaunce. and to pouerte / he muste pustte him-self and moche wo in þis world / willen and suffren / but to carpe more of crist / and how he come .to þat name Feithely ffor to speke / his ffrist name was Ihesus Tho he was born in bedlem / as þe book tellyth and come to take mankynde / kyngis & angellus Reuerencyd him ffaire / with richesse of erthe angellus out of heuene / cam knelynge and songe Gloria in excelsis deo & cetera kyngis comyn after / knelid and offrid Mirre and moche gold / with-out mercy askynge Or ony-kynnes catell / but knolechinge him ffor hym souereyne boþe of sonde sonne and see / and sithen þey wente In-to here kyngeliche kyngene kiþ / by conceille of angellus and þer was þat word ffulffilled / þe whiche þou of speke Omnia celestia terrestria fflectantur in hoc nomine Ihesu For all þe angellus of heuene / at his burthe knelid and all þe witte of þe world / was in þo þre kyngis Reson and rithwysenesse / and reuthe þey offrede where-ffore and why / wyse men þat tyme maistres and lettred men / magi hem callid þat oo kyng cam with reson / couered vndir sence The secunde kynge eke / sotheliche offride Rythwysnesse vndir rede gold / resons ffelawe gold is likenede to leaute / þat laste shall euere And reson to riche gold / to rith and to trewe The þrede kynge þo cam / knelynge to Ihesu and presentid him with pete / apperinge be mirre For mirre is mercy to mene / and mylde speche of tonge þre yliche honeste þingis / were offrid þus at onys þoru þre kyn kyngis / knelinge to Ihesu but ffor all þese precious presentis / oure lord prince Ihesus was neiþer kynge ne conquerour / till he gan to wexe in þe manere of a man / and þat be moche sleiȝhte as it becometh a conquerour / to konne many sleightis and many wylis & witte / þat woll be a leder and so dede Ihesus in his daiez / who-so had tyme to telle it some-tyme he suffred / and some-tyme he hidd him and some-tyme he ffast ffauȝte fauȝt faste / and ffleigh oþer-while and some-tyme he ȝaff good / and graunted hele boþe lyf and lyme / as him lyste he wrouȝte as kynde is of a conquerour / and so be-gan comsede Ihesu Tille he had all hem / þat he ffor blede bledde In his Innocence þis Ihesus / at Iewene ffeste water in-to wyne he turned / as holy writte tellith and þer bygan god / of his grace to do well For wyne is lykenede to lawe / and lyff of holynesse and ...lawe lackid þo / ffor men loued not her enemyesC2.19.108:C2 alone lacks the two lines which follow l. C2.19.108, numbered by Kane and Donaldson ll. 113 and 114. So at þe ffeste ffrist / as I beffore tolde bygan god of his grace / and goodenesse to do well and þo was he clepid and callid / nouȝt holy crist but Ihesus A ffaunt ffyn ffull of witt / ffilius marie For be-ffor his moder marie / made he þat wondir þat she ffrist and fformeste / fferme shulde bileue þat he þoru grace was gette / and no gome ellis He wrouȝte þat be no witt / but þoru word on after þe kynde þat he cam of / þer bigan he to do well and whan he was wexen more / in his moders abscence he made lame to lepe / and ȝaff lyȝth to blynde and ffedde with two ffisshis / and with ffyue loffes Sore affyngrid ffolk / mo þan ffyue thousande þus he comfforted carefull / and cauȝte a gretter name þe wyche was do-bett / where þat he wente For deef þoru his doyngis to here / & dombe speke he made and all he heled and halpe / þat him of grace asked and þo was he callid in contre / of þe comune peple For þe dedis þat he dede / Ihesu ffili dauid For dauid was douȝtiest / of dedis in his tyme breddis The burdes þan þo songe / saul interffecit mille & dauid decem millia For-þi þe contre þer Ihesu come / callid him fili dauid and nempned him of nazareth and no man so worthi To be kaiser or kynge / of þe kyngdom of Iuda ne ouere Iewes Iustice / as Ihesus was hem thouȝghte where-of Caiphas had Enuye / and oþer of þe Iewes and ffor to don him to deth / day and nyȝth þey castid casten kyllid him on crosse-wyse / at caluerie on a ffriday and sithe buried his body / and beden þat men sholde kepen it ffro nyth-comers / with kynyȝtis y-armed For no ffrendis shulde him ffecche / ffor prophetus hem tolde þat þat bl.esside body / of buriels shulde rise and gon in-to Gallilee / and gladyn his apostlis and his moder marie / þus men be-ffore demed þe knȝtes knyȝtes þat kepten him / biknewe it hem-self þat angellus and archangelus / er þe day speronge Come knelinge to þe corps / and songen Christus resurgens verry man be-ffor hem all / and fforth with hem he ȝede þe Iewes preied hem pees / and besouȝte þe knyghtes Telle þe comune þat þer cam / a company of his apostlis had And biwicched hem or as þey woke / and awey stole it but marie magdalene / mette him be þe wey Goynge towarde Gallilee / in manhede & godhide godhede and manhede and aleue and lokynge / and she alowde cried In iche a company þer she cam Christus resurgens þus cam it out / þat crist ouere-cam recouered and leued Sic oportet Christum pati et in-trare & cetera For þat þat women wetten / may not well be counceyll peter parceiued all þis / and pursued after bothe Iames and Iohan Ihesu ffor to seke Thaddie and ten mo with thomas of ynde and as all þese wyse weies weren to-gedris In an hous all be-sette be-settebishet and her dore spered ybarred Crist cam in all cloþid closid / bothe dore and yatus To peter and his apostelis / and said pax vobis and toke thomas be þe honde / and taughte him to groppe and ffele with his ffyngris / his fflesshly herte Thomas touuchid it / and with his tonge saide deus meus et dominus meus Thow art my lord / I beleue god lord Ihesu þou deydest and deth tholedist / and deme shalt us alle and now art leuynge and lokynge / and lest shalt euere Crist carpid þanne / and curteisliche said Thomas ffor þou trowist þis and trewliche bileuest it blessid mote þou be / and be shalt ffor euere and blesside mote þei be / in body and in soule That neuere shull se me in syghte / as þou dost now and trewlich lelliche bileue al þis / I loue hem and blesse hem Beati qui non viderunt et crediderunt & cetera and whan þis dede whas don / do-best he tauȝte and ȝaff piers powere ; and pardon he graunted To all manere men / mercy and fforȝeuenesse his myȝth mowe Myght man asoile / all of alle manere synnes In couenaunt þei come / and knoweliche to paie To piers pardon þe plowman / Redde quod debes Thus hath piers powere / bi his pardon paied To bynde and to vnbynde / boþe here and ellis-where and assoyle men of all synnes / saue of dette on Anon after on hie vp to þe heuene he wente and woneth þer / and woll come at þe last and rewarde him rith well / þat reddit quod debet and paieth parffittly / as pure trouth wolde and what persone paieth it nouȝt / punnysshen he thenkyght and demyn hem a domys-day / boþe quike and deed þe good to þe godhede / and to þe grett Ioye and wikkid to wonnen wonye in wo with-outyn ende Thus conscience of crist / and of þe crosse carped and conceillid me to knele þer / and þan cam me thought On spiritus paraclitus to piers / and to his ffellawis In likenesse of a lightnynge C2.19.198:An otiose tilde appears above the <y> in lightnynge. / he lighte on hem all and made hem konne and knowe / alkyn langagis I wondrid what þat was / and waggid conscience and was afferde of þat liȝth / ffor in ffires likenesse Spiritus paraclitus ouere-sprad hem all quod concience and knelid / þis is cristis massanger and cometh ffro þe grette god / and grace is his name knele now quod conscience / and ȝif þou canst synge welcome him & worschepe him / with veni creatur creator spiritus Than songe I þat songe / and so dede many hundrid and cried with conscience / helpe us god of grace and þo bigan grace to go / with piers plowman and conseilled him and conscience / þe comune to sompne For I wolde wole dele to-day / and deuide grace To all-kynne creaturis / þat han her ffyue wittis Tresore to lyue by / to her lyuez ende and wepene to ffighte with / whan antecrist yow asaylith and ȝaf iche man a grace / to go with him-self þat ydilnesse encombre him nouȝt / Enuye ne pride diuisiones graciarum sunt & cetera Some he ȝaff witt / with wordis to schewe witte to wynne her lifflode with / as þe world asketh as prechouris and prestis / and prentice of lawe They trewly lelly to leue / by laboure of her tonge and by witt to wissen oþer / as grace hem wolde teche and somme he kenned crafftis / and konnynge of sighte with sellynge and beynge / her bileue to wynne And some he lered laboure / a lele lif and trewe and somme he tauȝte to tilie / to diche and to hegge / To wynne with her lif-lode / bi lore of his techinge and some to deuine and deuide / nounbris to kenne and some to compas crafteli / and colours to make and some to se & some to seie / what shulde be-ffalle boþe of weell and of woo / telle it or it ffelle as astronomyes þoru astronomye / and phelisophres wyse and some to ride & some to recouere / þat vnriȝthffulli was wonne he wissed hem wynne it aȝeine / þoru rithwyssnese wightnesse of handis and ffecchin it ffro ffalse men / with ffoluyles lawes and some he lered to leue / in longynge to ben hens In pouerte and in penaunce C2.19.237:An otiose tilde appears above the <u> in penaunce. / to preie ffor all Cristene and all he lered to be trewe lele / and ich a crafte loue oþer and fforbade hem all debate / þat non were amonge hem þouȝ some be clenner þan some / ȝe se well quod grace þat he þat vsith þe ffaireste crafte / to þe ffoulest I kowde haue put hym loke þat non lakke oþer / but loueth all as bretherin and þo who þat moste maistris konne / be myldeste of beringe and crouneth Conscience kynge / & makith crafte ȝoure stiward and after craftis conceill / cloþe ȝou and ffede For I make piers þe plowman / my procuratour & my reue and register to resseiue / Redde quod debes my purveour and my plowman / pers shall be on erthe and ffor to tilie truþe / a teme shall he haue peris plowȝ Grace ȝaf piers a teme / ffoure grete oxen þat on was luke a large best / and a loue lowe cherid and mark and matthew / þe þrede myȝthy bestis boþe and Ioyned to hem on Iohan / þe moste gentill of alle The pris neet of piers plow / passinge all oþer and grace ȝaf piers / of his goodenesse ffoure stottis all þat his oxen eried / þey to harewe after On highte austyn and ambrose anoþer Gregori þe greett clerk / and Ierom þe goode þese ffoure þe ffeith to teche / ffolwyn piers teme And harewen in an handewhile / al holy scripture with two harewis þat þei had with two harewis þat þey hadde / an olde and a newe vetus testamentum et nouum and grace ȝaf greynes / þe cardinallis vertues and sewe hem in mannys soule / and sithen tolde her names spiritus prudencie þe ffrist seed highte Prudencia and who-so ete þat / ymagyne he shulde Er he dede ony dede / devise well þe ende and lerneth lerned men a ladil bigge / with a longe stele That cast ffor to kepe a crokke / to saue þe ffatte aboue C2.19.270:   A crosshatch mark appears in the left margin.þe secunde heed seed highte spiritus temperancie Temperancia he þat ete of þat seed / it had hadde swiche a kynde shulde neuer mete ne moche drynnnk / make him to swelle Ne shuld no scorner ne skolde / out of skylle him brynge wast word of ydilnesse / ne wikkid speche move shulde no curious cloþe / comen on his rigge Ne no mete in his mouþe / þat maister Iohan spiced Fortitudo The þred seed þat piers sew / was spiritus ffortitudinis and ho-so ete of þat seed / hardi was euere To suffre all þat god sent / sekenesse and angris myghte no lesingis ne liere / ne losse of worldly catell makyn him ffor ony murnynge / þat he nas mery in soule and bolde and abidynge / bismers to suffre and pleyeth al with pacience / and parce in domine and coueren him vnder conceill / of caton þe wise Esto forti animo cum sis dampnatus inique Iusticia The fferth seed þat piers sew / was spiritus Iusticie and he þat ete of þat seed / sholde be euere trewe with god and nouȝt agast / but of gyle on For gyle goth so preuyly / þat good ffeith oþer-while may not be aspied / ffor spiritus Iusticie spiritus Iusticie sparith nouȝt to spille hem þat ben giltie / and ffor to corecte The kyng if he ffalle in gilte / or in ony tresspas For counteth he no kyngis wrath / whan he in court sittith To demen as a domes-man / adred was he neuere Neiþer of duk ne of deth / þat he ne dede lawe h1 For present or ffor preire / or ony princes lettrez he dede equite to all / euen-fforth his power These ffoure seedis piers sewe / and sith he dede hem harewe with olde lawe and newe lawe / þat loue myȝte wexe amonge þe ffoure vertues / and vicis distroie For comuneliche in contris / Cammokis and wedis Foulith þe ffrute in þe ffellde / þer þei growe to-gedris and so don vices / vertues worthy quod piers harwen all / þat konne kyndeli witt / be conceill of þese doctours and tillieþ after þis hir techinge / þe Cardinal vertues aȝeins þi greynes quod grace to piers / bigynneth ffor to ripe Ordeyne þe an hous / to hereborwe in þi corn by god grace quod piers / ȝe mote ȝeue tymber and ordeyne þat hous / er ȝe hens wende and grace ȝaf him þe crosse / with þe croune of thornes þat crist vppon Caluarie / ffor mankynde on pyned and of his baptesme and blode / þat he blede on rode he made a manere mortir / and mercy it highte and þer-with grace bigan to make / a good ffoundement and watled it and wallid it / with his peynes & his passion and of of al holy writte / he made a roof after Vnitie holyChurche and callid þat hous vnite / holy chirche in Englysshe and whan þis dede was don / grace anon deuysed a carte high highte Cristendom / to carie piers scheues and ȝaf him caples to his carte / contricion & conffession and made presthode hayward / þe while him-self wente as wide as þe worlde is / with piers to tilie treuþe now is piers to þe plowgh / and pride it aspied and gaderid him a grett hoste / to greuen him he thenketh blowe hem doun and breke hem / and bitte atwo þe mores and sent fforth surquidous / his sergaunt of armes and his spie spille loue / on speke yuell by-hinde These two come to conscience / and to cristene peple and tolde hem tidingis / þat tene tyne þei shulde þe seedis þat piers þer had sowyn / þe Cardinall vertues and piers berne worthe brokyn / and þey þat ben in vnite shull come out and conscience / and ȝoure two caples Confession and contriccion / and ȝoure cart þe bileue shall be colourid so queintely / and couered vnder oure sophistrie That conscience shall not knowe by contricion ne be conffession / ho is cristene or hethen ne no manere marchaunte / þat with mony deleth where he wynne with riȝth / with wronge or with vsurie with swiche colours / and quentise cometh pride armed with þe lord þat leueth / after þe lust of his body To wasten on wellfare / and wikkid kepinge al þe world in a while / þoru oure witt quod pride quod Conscience to all cristene þo / my conceill is to wende hastilich in-to vnite / and holde us well þer and preie we þat a pees where / in piers berne þe plowman For witterly I wott well / we be not of strenthe C2.19.348:   A crosshatch symbol appears in the margin to the left of this line; this is the point at which the Oriel manuscript resumes, and perhaps that is the reason for the mark. However, the close relationship between O and C2, lost after the break in O in the seventeenth passus, does not resume after this point.To gon agayne pride / but grace where with us þan come kynde witte / conscience to teche and cried and comaundid C2.19.350:An otiose tilde appears above the <u> in comaundid. / all cristen peple For to deluen and diche depe / abouȝte vnite / That holy chirche stonde stode in vnite / as it a pile were Conscience comaundid C2.19.353:An otiose tilde appears above the <u> in comaundid. þo / all cristene to delue and make a moche mott / þat myȝth be a strenthe To helpe holy chirche / and hem þat it kepyn þat alkynne cristen creaturis cristene / saue comune wommen Repenteden and reffuseden synne / saue þei on and ffalse men fflatterrs / vsurerers and theues lyers and questmongers / þat were ffor-swore ofte wyttingly and wulfully / with þe ffalse helden and ffor siluer were ffor-swore / sothely þei wiste it Ther nas no cristen creature / þat kynde witte hadde saue þo Saue schrewis one / swiche as I spake of þat he ne halpe a quantite / holynesse to wexe Some þoru bedis biddinge / and some þoru pilgrimage and oþer preuy penaunce / and somme þoru penaunce C2.19.366:An otiose tilde appears above the <u> in both instances of penaunce. delinge and þan walkyd wellede water / ffor wikkede werkis / h2 Egriliche rennynge / out of menys of menys of mennes eien Clennesse of þe Comune / and clerkis clene leuynge made vnite holi chirche / in holynesse to stonde I care nouȝt quod conscience / though pride come nouthe The lord of lust shall be letted / al þis lente I hope Cometh quod conscience / ȝe cristen and dyneth þat han labourid trewly lelly / all þis lente tyme here is bredde I-blessid / and godis body þer-vnder Grace þoru godis word / ȝaff piers power myȝtis to makyn it / and men to ete it after In helpe of her hele / ones in a monthe Or as ofte as þei had nede / þo þat had ypayed To piers pardon þe plouman / Redde quod debes how quod al þe comune / þou counseilis conseillest us to yelde all þat we owen ony wyght / er we go to houusell That is my conseill quod conscience / and Cardinall vertues That iche man ffor-ȝeue oþer / and þat woll þe pater noster Et dimitte nobis debita nostra & cetera and so to ben asoilid / and sithen to ben housled ȝe how quod a brewer / I woll wol noȝt be reulid by Ihesu ffor all ȝoure Ianglynge / with spiritus Iusticie Ne after conscience be crist / while I can selle boþe dreggis and draff / and drawe it at an hole Thikke ale and thynne ale / ffor þat is my kynde and nouȝt hakke after holynesse / holde þi tonge conscience Of spiritus Iusticie þou spekist moche an ydell Caytif quod conscience / cursid wrecche vnblessid art þou brewer / but if þe god helpe and but þou leue be lore / of spiritus Iusticie The scheff seed þat piers sewe / saued wors-þou neuere and But Conscience be þe comune ffode / and Cardinall vertues leue it well þey be lost / boþe lyff and soule Than is many a man y-lost / quod a lewde vicorie I am a curatour of holy chirche / and come neuere in my tyme Man to me þat Couude telle / of Cardinall vertues Or þat countted conscience / at a kokkis ffether or an hennes I knewe neuere Cardinall / þat he ne come ffro þe pope Cardinales and we clerkis whan þey come / ffor her comunes payden paieþ C2.19.405:A long dash appears in the left margin. For her pellure and her palffreis met / & pilours þat hem ffolwyn The comine clamat Cotidie eche a man to oþer ☞ The contre is þe cursider / þat cardinalis come in and þer þei ligge and lengen / moste leccherie þer regneth For-thi quod þis vicorie / be verri god I wolde That no cardinall come / amonge þe comine peple but in her holynesse / helden hem stille at avisionavinion amonge þe Iewis Cum sancto sanctus eris Or in rome as her rewle wull / þe relekis to kepe and þou Conscience in kyngis court / & shuldest neuere come þens and grace þat þou gredist so of / gwyoure of all clerkis and piers with his new plowȝ / and eke with his olde Emperoure of all þe world / that all men were cristen Inparfit is þat pope ..That all þe peple shulde helpe and sendith hem / þat sleth swiche / as he shulde saue C2.19.420:   The preceding two lines are linked at the left by a bracket. and well worth piers plowman / þat pursueth god in doynge qui pluit super Iustos et in-iustos at ones and sente is þe sonne to saue / a cursid manys tilthe as bright as to þe best man / and to þe best womman Rith so piers þe plowman / peyneth him to tillie as well ffor a wastoure / and wenchis of þe stewes as ffor him-self and his seruauntis / saue he is ffrist serued and traueiliþ and tillieth / ffor a traitour al-so sore as ffor a trewe tidy man / alle tymes yliche and wurscheped be he þat all wrouȝte / boþe good & ylle and suffreth þat synffull be / till some-tyme þat þey repente Contra papam and god amende þe pope / þat pileth holy chirche and claymeth be-ffore þe kynge / to be keper ouere cristenC2.19.433:The preceding two lines are joined by a bracket at the left. and Counttith nouȝt / þouȝ Cristen be kylled or robbid and ffynte ffolk to ffyghte / and cristen blode to spille aȝeins þe olde lawe & newe lawe / as luke þer-of wittenessith Non occides & cetera . michi vindictam & cetera h3 It semeth be so / him-self had his will That he ne recchith rith nouȝt / of all þe remenaunt C2.19.439:An otiose tilde appears above the <u> in remenaunt. and crist of his curteisie / þe Cardinalis saue and turne her wytt to wisdom / and to well of soule For þe Comune quod þis curatour / counten ffull litill The conceill of consience / or cardinall vertues but if þei seiȝ as be sighte / some-what to wynnynge C2.19.444:An otiose tilde appears above the second <y> in wynnynge. of gyle ne of gabbinge / ȝeue þei no tale For spiritus prudencie amonge þe peple is gyle and alle þe ffaire vertues / as vices þey semed Eche man subtiliche subtileþ / a sleght / synne ffor to hide and coloure coloureþ it with konnynge C2.19.449:An otiose tilde appears above the <y> in konnynge. / and a clene leuynge C2.19.449:An otiose tilde appears above the <y> in leuynge. Than lowȝ þer a lord / and be þis lygh light said I holde it rith and reson / of my reve to take al þat myn endentour Auditour / or ellis my stiward Conseille me be her acounpte / and be my clerkis writtinge with spiritus intellectus to seke þe reves rollis and with spiritus ffortitudinis ffecche it I wolle and þan come þer a kyng / and be his croune said I am kynge with Croune / þe comune to rewle and holi chirche and clergie / ffro cursid men to deffende and ȝif me lakke to leue by / þe .lawe wull þat I I take it þer I may hastlokest it haue / ffor I am heed of lawe For ȝe ben but membris / and I aboue all and sith I am ȝoure alder aller hed / I am ȝoure alder aller hele and holy chirche cheff helpe / and cheffteyne of þe comine and what I take of ȝou two / I take it at þe techinge Of spiritus Iusticie ffor I Iuge ȝou all So I may boldly be housled / ffor I borowed it borwe neuere ne craue of my comune / but as my kynde asketh In condiccion quod conscience / þat þou konne deffende and rewle þi reawme in reson / rith well and in trewthe Take þou may in reson / as þi lawe asketh Omnia tua sunt ad defendendum set non ad deprehendamdendumC2.19.471:It is unclear whether the intended alteration is to depredendum or deprehendendum. The viker had ffer home / and ffaire toke his leue And I awakide þerwith ; and wrotte as me mette passus xxusvicemus & primus t Thane as I wente be þe weye / whan I was þus awakid heuy chered I ȝede / and elenge in herte I ne wiste were to ete / ne in what place and it nyed nere þe non / and with nede I mette That affrountid me well ffoule / and ffaytour me callid kans þou not excuse þe / as dede þe kyng and oþer That þou toke to þi bileue / to clothis & to sustenaunce and be techinge and tellinge ; of spiritus temperance temperancie C2.20.8:An otiose tilde appears above the <a> in temperance. and þou nome no more / þan nede þe tauȝth Nede hathe no Lawe and nede hath no lawe / ne neuere shall ffalle in dette For þre þingis he takiþ / his lyff ffor to saue That is mete whan men him warneth / & he no mony weldeth Ne wyght non wolle be his borowe / ne wedde hath non to legge and he be cauȝte in þat cas / and come þer-to be sleighte he synneth nouȝt sotheliche / þat so wynneth his ffode and þouȝe he come so to a cloþe / and can no better cheuisaunce Nede anon-rith / nymeth him vnder maynprise and if him list to lape / þe lawe of kynde wolde That he dronke at iche a diche / er he ffor þrest deied So nede at grete nede / may nemen as ffor his owen with-outyn conceill of conscience / or cardinall vertues so þat he sewe and saue / spiritus temperanncie temperancie C2.20.22:An otiose tilde appears above the <p> in temperanncie. For is no vertue be ffer to spiritus temperancie Neiþer spiritus Iusticie ne spiritus ffortitudinis For spiritus ffortitudinis fforffeteth ffull ofte he shall do more þan mesure / many tyme and ofte and bette men ouere- bittre / and some of hem to litill and greue men gretter / þan good ffeyth wolde and spiritus Iusticie shall Iuge / woll he or nylle he after þe kyngis conceill / and þe comune like and spiritus prudencie / in many a pointe shall ffaile of þat he weneth wolde ffalle / ȝif his witt ne were wenynge is no wisdom / ne wise ymaginacion homo proponit & deus disponit and gouerneth all good vertuez but Ac nede is next him / ffor anon he meketh h4 And as lowe as a lombe / ffor lakke of þat him nedeth wyse men fforsoken welthe / ffor þei wolde be nedi and woned in wildernesse / and wolde not be riche and god alle his grett Ioies / gostely he left and cam and toke mankynde / and be-cam nedy so nedy he was as saith þe book / in many sondri placis That he said in his sorowe / on þe selue rode bothe ffox and ffoule may ffle / to hoole and crepe and þe ffisshe hath ffynne / to fflete with to reste Where Ther nede hath ynome me / þat I mote nede abide and suffre sorowe sorwes full sowre / þat shull to Ioie turne For-thi be not abasshid / to bide and to be nedy Sith he þat wrouȝte all þe world / was wullfulli nedy Ne neuere non so nedy / ne pouerere deied whan nede had vndir-nome me þus / anon I ffell aslepe and mette ffull merueilousliche / þat in manys fforme Antechristus Antecrist come þan / and all þe croppe of trewthe Turned it vp-so-doun / and ouer-tilte þe rote and ffals spronge and spredde / and spedde mennys nedis In iche a contre þer he cam / he kytte away treuþe and dede gerte gyle growe þer / as he a god where Freris ffollowed þat ffende / ffor he ȝaf hem Copis and religious reuerencid him / and rongen her bellis and alle þe couent fforth cam / to welcome þat tiraunt and alle his as well as him / saue onliche ffoolis which ffooles were well leuer / to die þan to leue lenger þan lenten / to be so rebuked / and a ffals ffrende antecrist / ouere all ffolk regned and þo þat þat were mylde men / & holy / þat no myssheff dereden deffied alle ffalsnesse / and ffolk þat it vsid and what kyng þat hem comfortid / knowinge hem ony while They curside and her conceill / were it clerk or lewed antecrist had þus sone / hundriste hundredes at his banere and pride it bare / boldely abouȝte with a lorde þat leueth / after likynge of his body That cam aȝein conscience / þat keper was and guyour Ouere kynde cristene / and cardinall vertues I conceill quod conscience / þo / cometh with me ȝe ffoles In-to vnite holy chirche / and holde we us þer and crie we to kynde / þat he come and deffende us Foles ffro þe ffendis lymes / ffor piers loue þe plowman and crie we to all þe comune / þat þei come to vnite and þer abide and bekere / aȝeins belliales childrin kynde conscience þo herde / and come out of þe planetis and sente fforth his fforreiours / ffeuerez and ffluxes Cowghes and cardiacles / cramppis and totheaches Rewmes and redgoundes / and runyous scabbis biles and bocchis / and brennynge anguyshis Agues Frensies and ffoule euellis / fforragers of kynde had y-prikid and proued prayed / polles of þe peple þat largely a legion / loren her lyffis sone þer was herrow and helpe / here cometh kynde with deth þat is dredffull to vn-don us all þe lord þat leued after lust / þo alowde cried after comfort a knyȝth to come / and bere his banere alarme alarme quod þat lord / iche lif kepe his owen and þan mette þese men / er myntrallis mynstrallis myȝte pipe and er heroudis of armes / had discriued lordis kynde cam after / with many kene sores as pokkis and pestilence / and moche peple schente So kynde þoru corrumpcioun corrupcions / kyllid full many deth cam after dryuynge dryuynge after C2.20.97:An otiose tilde appears above the second <y> in dryuynge. / and all dust to duste passhed kyngis and knyȝthis / kaisers and popis lered ne lewde / he lette no man stonde þat he ne hitte euen / þat stered neuere after many a louely lady / and lemmanys C2.20.101:An otiose tilde appears above the <a> in lemmanys. of knyȝthis swowned and sweltid / ffor sorowe of detthis dyntis Conscience of his curteisie / to kynde besouȝte he bisouȝte To cesse and suffre / and se where þei wolde leue pride preuyli / and be parffitte cristen And kynde cessid þo / to se þe peple amende h5 Fortune gan fflatern þan / to þo ffewe þat were aleue and bihighte hem long lyf / and leccherie he sente amongis all manere men / weddid and vnweddid and gaderid a grett host / al ageyn conscience þis leccherie leide on / with a laughinge chere and with preuy speche / and peynted wordis and armed hem in ydelnesse / and in hie berynge he bare a bowe in his honde / and many blody arwys Feþerid with ffaire speche / and many a ffals trouþe with his vntidy tales / he tened ffull ofte Conscience and his companye / of holy chirche þe techers þan come coueityse / and cast how he myȝthe Ouer-come conscience / and cardinall grace vertues / and armed him in avarice / and hungrylich he leued his wepene was all whilis / to wynnen and to hiden with glosyngis and gabbyngis / he gilid þe peple Symonye him sente / to assaile conscience and prechid to þe peple / and prelatus þei hem madyn To holdyn with antecrist / her temperalitees to saue and come to þe kyngys conceill / as a kene baren and knelide to conscience / in courte affore hem all and dede garte good ffeith ffle / and ffals to abyde and boldeliche bare adoun / with many briȝth noble moche of þe witt and wisdom / of westmynstre halle he Iugged till a Iustice / and Iustid in his ere and ouere-tilte al his trewþe / with take þis vp amendement and to þe arches in haste / he ȝede anon after and turned Ciuile to Symonie / and sith he toke þe officiall For a mentellC2.20.135:A virgule appears between a and mentell, which are written together in the usual manner of this scribe. of menyuer / he made trewe lele matrimoyne departed or deth cam / and devorsse schapte Alas quod Conscience and cried þo / wolde crist of his grace That coueytise where cristene / þat is so kene a ffyghtere and bolde and bidinge C2.20.139:An otiose tilde appears above the <n> in bidinge. / while his bagge lastith and þan lough lyf / and lete dagge his cloþis and armed him in hast / in harlottis wordis and helde holynesse a Iape / and hendenesse a wastour and lete leaute a cherle / and lyere a ffre man / Conscience and conceill / he comptid it ffolie Thus reuellid relyede lyff long lif / ffor a litill ffortune and prikid fforth with pride / preisith he no vertue he careth nouȝt how kynde slowe / and shall come at þe last and kylle alle erthely creaturis / saue conscience on lyf lepe aside / and laughte him lemman a lemman hele and I quod he / and heighnesse of herte shall do þe nouȝt drede / neiþer deth ne elde and to ffor-ȝete sorowe / and ȝeue nouȝt of synne This likid lyff / and his lemman ffortune and getten in hir glorie / a gedelinge at þe last on þat moche wo wrouȝte / slewthe was his name Sleuthe wex wonder yerne / and sone was of age and weddid on wanhope / a wenche of þe stiwes hir sir was a sisoure / þat neuere swore trewþe On thom two tounge / ateint at ich a queste This sleuþe wex ware of werre / and a slynge made and þrew drede of dispeiere a doseyne myle abouȝte For care conscience þo / cried vppon elde and bad him ffonde to ffyȝthe and affor afere wanhope and elde hente good hope and hastyly he schiffte him and wayued away / wanhope / and with lyf he ffyghted lyf And lif ffleþe ffor ffer / to phesyk after helpe and besouȝte him of socoure / and of his salue hadde and ȝaff him gold good wone þat gladdyd his herte and þey ȝeuen him aȝein / a glasen howue lyf leeued þat lechecraff / lette shulde elde and dryuen away deth / with dias and draggis and elde auntred him on lyff / and at þe laste he hitte a phesicien with a ffurred hode / þat he felle in þe palsie and þer deyed þat doctour / er þre daiez after now I se said lyf / þat Surgiens ne phesik / may not a myte availe / to medle aȝeins elde and I in hope of his hele / good herte he hente h6 and rode so to reuell / to a riche place and a murie merie C2.20.178:A virgule appears between a and murie, which are written together in the usual manner of this scribe. That was þe companye of court men / cleped sum-tyme and elde anon after me / and ouere myn hede ȝede and made me balled beffore / and bare on þe croune So harde he ȝede ouere myn heed / it woll be sen euere Syr euell ytauȝte elde quod I /C2.20.183:The virgule is written over a raised point. vnhende go with þe Sith whane was þi wey / ouere mennys heedis haddisthou ben hende quod I /C2.20.185:The virgule is written over a raised point. þou woldest haue asked leue ȝe leue lordeyne quod he / and leide on me with age and hitte me vnder þe eere / vnneþe may I here he buffettid me abouȝte þe mouthe / and bette me on þe teethe and gyed me in gowtis / I may not go at large and of þe wo þat I was in / my wyff had reuthe and wisshen wisshed ffull witterly / þat I where in heueneC2.20.191:   The preceding two lines are linked at the left by a bracket. For þe lyme þat she loued me ffore / and leef was to ffele On nyȝtis nameli / whan we naked were / I ne myȝth in no manere / makyn it at hir will So elde and she sothely / haddyn it ffor-betten and as I satte in þis sorowe / I seie how kynde passid and deth drow nyȝ me / ffor dred gan I quake and cried to kynde / out of care me brynge lo olde elde þe hore / hathe me be-seie awreke me if ȝoure will be / ffor I wolde ben hens ȝif þou wolte ben y-wroke / wende in-to vnite and holde þe þer euere / till I sende ffor þe and loke þou konne sum crafte / or þou come hens þennes Conseile me kynde quod I . what craft is best to lerne lerne to loue quod kynde / and leue of / all oþer how shall I come to Catell so / to cloþe me and to ffede and þou loue trewly lelly quod he / lakke shall þe neuere mete ne worldly wede / while þi lyff lasteth and þer be conceill of kynde / I began comsed to rome Thoru contriccion and conffession till I come to vnite and þer was conscience constable / Cristen to saue and biseged sothely / with seuene grett Ieauntes That with antecrist helden / harde aȝeins conscience Sleuthe with his slynge / an harde sauȝte made / Proude prestis come with him / mo þan a thousand In paltokes and pikid schoes / and gipseris long knyues Comen aȝein conscience / with coueityse þey hilden by marie quod a mansyd prest / of þe marche of Irlonde I counte no more conscience / be so I cacche siluer Than I do to drynk C2.20.220:An otiose tilde appears above the <y> in drynk. / a drauȝte of good ale and so saide sexty / of þe same contre and schottyn aȝein with schotte / many a scheff of othes and brode hokyd Arwes / godis hert and his naylis and haddyn al-most vnite / and holynesse adoun Conscience cried helpe clergie / or ellis I ffalle þoru inparfit prestis / and prelatus of holy chirche Freris herdyn him crie / and comen him to helpe and ffor þey coude C2.20.228:An otiose tilde appears above the <o> in coude. not well her crafte / conscience fforsoke hem Nede nyighed þo nere / and conscience he tolde ffreres be fflaterers That þey come ffor coueytise / to haue cure of soulis and ffor þei ar pouere parauenture / ffor patrimoyne hem ffaileth þey woll fflatere to ffare well / ffolk þat ben riche and sayn þey chosen schele / and caitiff pouerte late hem schewe as þey chosen / and charge hem with no cure For lowder lomere he lyeth / þat liflode mote begge Than he þat laboureth ffor lyflode / and leneth it beggers and sithen ffreris fforsoke / þe ffelicite of erthe late hem be as beggers / or leue be angellus ffode Conscience of þis conseill / þo be-gan comsede to laughe and curteisliche comffortid hem / and callid in all ffreris and said siris sotheliche / wellcome be ȝe all To vnite and holy chirche / but oo þinge I ȝou preye holdeth ȝou in vnite / and haueth non enuye To lered ne to lewed / but leueth after ȝoure reule and I wolle be ȝoure borwe / ȝe shull haue brede and cloþis and oþer nessesaries ynowe / ȝou shall no þinge ffaile with þat ȝe leue logike / and lerneth ffor to loue h7 For loue þei lefte lordschipe / boþe lowde and stille lond and scole Frere ffraunceys and domynyk / ffor loue to ben holy and if ȝe coueityn cure / kynde witt woll ȝou teche þat in mesure god made / all manere þingis and sett it in a serteyn / and at a seker nounbre and nempned names newe / & nounbred þe prestes sterrez sterres qui numerat multitudinem stellarum et omnibus eis nomina & cetera kyngis and knyȝtis þat kepen and deffendyn han officers vndir hem / and ich of hen hem serteyne and if þey wagen men to werre / þey writte hem in nounbre woll no tresoure wages hem paie hem paie / taille trauaille þey neuere so sore but he kunne rekene ariȝt / her names in his rollisC2.20.259:C2 alone includes this line. alle oþer in bataille / ben yholde bribours pilours and pikharneys / in eche a place acursid monkes and moniales / and all men of relegion here ordre and here rewle wolle / to han a seyteyn certein nounbre of lewed and of lered / þe lawe wull and axeth A serteyne ffor a serteyne / saue onliche of ffreris For-thi quod conscience by crist / kynde witt me tellithC2.20.266:   The preceding two lines are linked at the left by a bracket. It is wikkid to wage ȝou / ȝe wexin out of nounbre heuene hath euene nounbre / and helle is outyn wiþ-oute nounbre For-thi I wolde witterly / þat ȝe were in þe registre and ȝoure nounbre vndir nottories signe / and neiþer mo ne lesse Enuye herde þis / and heet freris go to scole and lerne logik and lawe / and eke contemplacion and preche men of plato / and preue it be Seneca That all þingis vndir heuene / outten to be in comune and ȝet he lyeth as I leue / þat to þe lewed so precheth For god made to men a lawe / and moyses it taughte Non concupisces rem proximi tui and euyll is þis I holde / in parisshes in Engelond For parsones and parisshe prestis / þat shulld þe peple schryue ben curatours callid / to knowe and to hele alle þat ben her parisshenes / penaunce to enioyne and shulde be ashamed in her schriff schrift / but shame maketh hem wende And fflen to þe ffreris / as ffals ffolk to westmynystre That borwen and bere þeder / and þanne bidden ffrendis ȝerne ȝerne of fforȝeuenesse / or lenger ȝeres loone but while he is in westmynstre / he woll be biffore and makyn him murie / with oþer mennys goodis and so it ffareth with moche ffolk / þat to þe ffreris schryuen as Sisours and executores / þey wolle ȝeue þe ffreris a parcell to preie ffor hem / and make hem-self mery with þe resedue and þe remenaunt / þat oþer men biswonke and suffre þe deed in dette / to þe day of dome Enuye hereffore / hated conscience and ffreris to phelosophie / he ffonde hem to scoleC2.20.294:   The preceding two lines are linked at the left by a bracket. The while coueitise and vnkyndenesse / conscience assailid In vnite holy chirche / conscience hylde him and made pees porter / to vnpynne þe yatis of alle tale-tellers / and titereris in ydell ypocrisie and he / an harde assauȝte þei made ypocrise at þe yate / harde gan ffighte and woundid well ...wikkydly / many wyse techers That with conscience acordid / and cardinall vertues Conscience callid a leche / þat well kouude schreyue To salue þo þat seke ben / þoru synne ywoundid schrifte schope scharpe salue / and made men to do do penaunce C2.20.305:An otiose tilde appears above the <a> in penaunce. For here myssedis mysdedes / þat þei wrouȝte haddyn and þat piers were paide / redde quod debes Som liked nouȝt þis leche / and lettrez þei senten Ȝif ony Surgien were þe Segge / þat soft koude C2.20.309:An otiose tilde appears above the <o> in koude. plaister Syr leef to leue in lecherie / lay þer and groned For ffastynge of a ffriday / he fferde as he wolde deie Ther is a surgien in þis sege / þat softe can handle ffrere fflaterer and more of phesik / be-ffore bi fer / and ffairere he plaistereth On ffrere fflaterere / is phesiscien and Surgien quod contricion to conffession / do him come to vnite For here is many man hurte / þoru ypocrisie we han no nede quod conscience / I wotte no better leche Than parson or pariche preste / penytauncer or bisschoppe Saue piers þe plowman / þat hath power ouere hem all and indulgence may do / but if dette lette it I may well suffre said conscience / sith ȝe desiren That ffrere fflaterere be ffett / and phesik ȝou seke þe ffrere here-of herde / and hied him ffaste To a lord ffor a letter / leue to haue cure and as a curatour he were / he cam with his lettrez Iboldely to þe bisschoppe / and his breff hadd In contres þer he come in / conffessions to here and come þer conscience was / and knokkid at þe yate pees oppened vnpynned it / was portir of vnite and in hast askede / what his will were In ffeith quod þis ffrere / ffor proffitt and ffor helthe Carpe I wolde with contriscion / and þer-ffor I cam hedir he is seke saide pees / and so ar many oþer ypocrise hath hurte him / ffull harde is if he keuere I am a Surgien saide þe Segge / and salues can make Conscience knoweth me well / and what I can do bothe I preie þe quod pees þo / er þou passe fforther what hattest þou I prey þe / hele nouȝt þi name Certis he said ffellawe / sir penetrans domos ȝe go þi gate quod pees / bi god ffor all þi phesik but þou konne sum craft / þou comest not here-inne I knewe swiche on onys / nouȝt eight wynter passid Come in þus ycoped at a court þer I dede dwelle dwelde and was my ladies leche / and my lordis boþe and at þe laste þis lemytour / þo my lord was out he salued so oure womman / till some were with childe hiende speche heet pees / opene þe yatis late in þe ffrere and his ffellawe / and make hem ffaire chere he may se and here / so it may be-ffall T.hat lyf þoru his lore / shall leue coueitise and be adrad of detth / and withdrawe him ffro pride and acorde with conscience / and kysse eiþer oþer Thus þoru hiende speche / entrid þe ffrere and cam in to conscience / and curteislich him grette þou art welcome quod conscience / kanst þou hele þe seke Here is contriccion quod conscience / my Cosyn ywounded Comfforte him quod conscience / and take kepe to his sores The plaistris of þe parson / and po.wrdris biten so sore he lat hem ligge ouere-longe / and lothe is to chaunge hem Fro lenten to lenten / he late his plaistris bite That is ouere longe quod þis lymetour / I leue I shall amende it an goth and gropeþ contriccion / and ȝaff him a plaister Of of a preuy paiement / and I shall preye ffor ȝouC2.20.363:   The preceding two lines are linked at the left by a bracket. and ffor all þat ȝe ben holde to / all my lyf-tyme and make ȝou my lady / in messe and in matynys as ffreris of oure ffraternite / ffor a litill syluer Thus he goth and gaderith / and glosith þer he shryueth Tyll contricion / had clene ffor-getten to crie / and to wepe and wake ffor his wikkid werkis / as he was wonte to don For comffort of his conffessour / contricion he lefte That is þe souereynest salue / ffor all-kynne synnes Sl.ewthe seithe seigh þat / and so dede pride and cam with a kene will / conscience to asaile ConscienceC2.20.374:The second <n> in Conscience lacks a minim. criede efte / and bad clergie helpe and also contriction contricion / ffor to kepe þe yate he lythe and dremeth saide pees / and so do many oþer The ffrere with his phesik / þese ffolk hath enchaunted and plaistred it hem so esily / þey drede no synneC2.20.378:   The preceding two lines are linked at the left by a bracket. by crist quod conscience þo / I woll by-come a pilgrime and walkyn as wyde / as all þe world lasteth To seke piers þe plowman / þat pride may distroye and þat ffreris had a ffyndynge / þat ffor nede fflateren and contrepleden me conscience / now kynde me avengeC2.20.384:   The preceding two lines are linked at the left by a bracket. and sende me happe and hele / till I haue piers þe plowman and sithe he grede after grace / till I gan awake Explicit hic / Dialaogus Petri Plowman