1 rat5 a te utique facere iudicium et iusticiam et sollicite ambula=
2 re cum domino deo tuo. ich chulle schawe ðe mon seið the holi
3 michee godes prophete ich chulle scheawe ðe soðliche hwat
4 is god. and hwuch is religiun and hwuch ordre. and hwuch ho=
5 linesse god askeð of ðe. loke ðis. vnderstond hit. do wel.
6 and dem ðe suluen euer woc. and mid dred and mid luue; go mid
7 god ði louerd. þerase þeos ðincges beoð. þer is riht religi-
8 un and þer is riht ordre. and don al þet oþer and leten þis; nis
9 bute a trukunge and a fals gile. al þet gode reli<u>giuse
10 doð oþer werieð efter þe vttre riwle\;/ al togedere is he-
11 reuore\./ al nis bute ase a\se/6 dole\;/ to timbrin hertouward.
12 al nis bute ase a schelchine\;/ to seruien þe leafdi\;/ to riwlen
13 ðe heorte.7
14 [8] Nu mine leoue sustren þeos boc ich todele on eihte dis=
15 tinctiuns þet 3e cleopieð dolen. and euerich dole wiðvte
16 moncglunge spekeð al bi him sulf of sunderliche þinc-
17 ges. and tauh euchon valleth riht efter oþer. and is ðe latere euer
18 iteied to ðe vorme.
19 þe vorme dole spekeð al of ower seruise. þe oþer is. hu 3e
20 schulen þuruh ower vif wittes witen ower he\o/rte. þet ordre and
21 religiun and soule lif is inne. i þisse distinctiun beoð fif
22 cheapitres. alse viv stucchenes efter þe vif wittes þet wi-
23 teð ðe heorte. alse wakemen hwarse heo beoð treowe. and
24 spekeð of eueriche wit sunderliche areauwe.
25 þe thridde dole is of ones kunnes fuweles þet dauið i þe
26 sauter efneð him sulf to. alse he were ancre. and hu þeo
27 kunde of ðeo ilke fuweles beoð ancren iliche.
28 þe veorthe dole is of fleschsliche vondunges and of gostli=
29 che boðe and kunfort a3eines ham. and of hore saluen.
30 þe viste 8 dole is of schrift þe sixte dole is of penitence.