[This prologue and the version next following of the epistle to the Laodiceans are only found in mopqrst uwx, and are printed from o.] Here bigynneth a prolog on the pistil to Laodicensis [The prolog to Laodicensis. q. Heere bigynneth the prolog to Laodicenses. t. No initial rubric in mprsuwx.] .
LAODICENSIS ben also Colocenses, as tweye townes and oo peple in maners. These ben of Asie, and among hem hadden be false apostlis, and disceyuede manye. Therfore the postle [apostle mpqrstuwx.] bringith hem to mynde of his conuersacion and trewe preching of the gospel, and excitith hem [Om. m.] to be stidfast in the trewe witt and loue of Crist [Crist Jhesu x.] , and to be of oo wil. `But this pistil [epistle mqstuw.] is not in comyn Latyn bookis, and therfor it was but late translatid into Englisch tunge [This paragraph is omitted in p.] .
Thus endith the prolog, and biginneth the pistil to Laodicensis [Jerom in his prologe on this epistle seith thus. m. Jerom in his prolog seith this. sw. Here endith the prolog, and bigynneth the pistle. u. No final rubric in pqrtx.] .