be leffel to hem to goo out of þis ordre vp [upon W.] þe comaundement of þe lord þe pope, for aftir þe holy gospel no man sendynge his hond to þe plowȝ and lokenge a-ȝen is able to þe kyngdom of god. & haue þei þat han bihiȝt obedience cotis or kirtlis [coote or kirtel W.] wiþ an hood and an oþer wiþouten [wiþ an out X. and AA.] hood; þei þat wilen haue schon & be nedid þer-to may bere hem. ¶ And be alle freris cloþid wiþ foule cloþis, & þei may pese hem aȝen or cloute hem of sacchis & oþere pecis wiþ þe blissyng of god. And I moneste & stire þes freris þat þei dispise not and deme not þo men whom þei seen cloþid wiþ softe cloþis & colourid, & vse delicat metis & drynkis, but more eche of hem deme & dispise him self.
Of goddis seruyce & fastyngys, & hou freris schullen go bi þe world.
4Capitulum 3m.4 [4_4 capm. ijm. W.; omitted X.]
Do clerkis deuyn officis [office W.] after þe ordre of þo [omitted X. and AA.] holy chirche of rome, out taken þe sautir, of wheche þei may have breuyaries, þat is smale sauteris or abreggid; but late lewid freris seie four & twenti pater nostris for matynes, for laudis fyue, for prime, tierce, vndren, noon, for eche of hem seuene pater nostris, & for euensong twelue, & for compleyn seuene. ¶ And preie þei for dede men. and faste þei [page 31] fro þe feste of all hawen [halowe W.] til þe natyuyte of crist, & þo [omitted X. and AA.] holy lenten þat bygynneþ fro þe twelþe day of cristemasse to þe fulle fourti daies, þe whiche lenten oure lord halwid wiþ þis holy fast, be þei blissed of þe lord þat [& X.] fasten wilfully þis lenten; & be þei not constreyned þat wilen not, but faste þei anoþer lenten til þe resurreccioun of þe lord. but in oþere tymes ben þei not holden to faste but on þe friday; but in tyme of opyn nede ben þe freris not bounden to bodily fast. but I conseile, amoneste, and stire my freris in oure lord ihū crist þat [þan X.] whanne þei gon bi þe world þat þei chide not and stryue not bi wordis, & þat þei iuge not oþere men, but þat þei ben mylde, peisble and manerly, homly & meke, spekynge of al þingis as it is semely. & þat þei schullen not ride but ȝif þei ben nedid for opyn nede or siknesse. ¶ In|to what euere hous þei schullen entre seie þei first, pees be to þis hous, & aftir þe holy gospel be it lefful to hem to ete of alle metis þat ben sett to hem, as I haue seid.
