1 and hat hire don in obedience ðe cnoweð hire manere
2 and hire strencðe. he mai ðe vttre riwle chaungen efter
3 wisdom alse he isihð þet te inre mai beon best iholden. [6]
4 Non ancre bi mine rede ne schal makien professiun.
5 þet is. bihoten ase hest. bute þreo þinges. þet beoð. o-
6 bedience. chastete. and studestaþeluestnesse. þet heo ne schal
7 þene stude neuer more chaungen; bute vor neod one.
8 alse strengðe and deaþes dred. obedience of hire bischope;
9 oþer of hire herre. vor whoa se nimeð þing an hond and bi-
10 hat hit god alse heste to donne. heo bint hire þerto. and su-
11 negeð deadliche i ðe bruche; 3if heo hit brekeð willes and wol=
12 des. 3if heo hit ne bihat nout. heo hit mai don þauh; and le-
13 ten hwon heo wel wule. alse of mete. and of drunch. fleschs for=
14 gon; oþer uisch. and alle oðer swuche þinges. of weriunge.
15 of liggunge. of vres. of beoden; sigge so monie and o hwu-
16 che wise; se heo euer wule. þeos and swuche oþre beoð alle ine
17 freo wille te donne. oþer to leten hwon me euer wule;
18 bute heo beon bihoten. auh cherite. þet is luue. and edmodnes-
19 se. and þolomodnesse. treowechipe. and holdung of ðe tene olde
20 hesten. schrift and penitence. þeos and swuche oþre þet beoð sum-
21 me of þe olde lawe. summe of ðe neowe; ne beoð nout monnes
22 fundles. ne riwle þet mon stolde. ah beoð godes hesten. and for=
23 þi eurihc mon ham mot nede holden. and 3e ouer alle þing.
24 vor þeos riwleð þe horte. and of hire riwlunge is al mest þet ich
25 riwle. bute i þe frumðe of þis boc; and i ðe laste ende. þe þinges þet
26 ich write her of ðe vttre riwle 3e ham holdeð alse mine leo-
27 ue sustren. vre louerd beo iþoncked. and schulen þuruh his grace se leng-
28 re se betere. and þauh nullich nout þet 3e bihoten ham ase heste;
29 to holden. for alse ofte alse 3e þerefter breken eni of ham.
30 hit wolde to swuþe hurten ower heorte and makien ou so of-
31 fered þet 3e muhten sone uallen þet god forbeode ou; in desper-