Another prologe on Mark [This prologue is from y.] .
This gospeler Mark, the which was the disciple of Petir the apostil, and he siȝ not Crist in bodi, but he that herde the prechinge of his maistir, wroot the gospel in Italie, in tyme of Claudius the emperour. And the cause was this, for he was preied of the disciplis of Peter, at whose axing he wroot the gospel, the which Peter confirmed after, as Clemens seith. And this book hath three parties. The first part lastith vnto the tenth chapitre, in the which parti he passith schortli to the thritti ȝeer of Crist; and ther is conteyned xiiij. benefitis or myraclis, that he dide on the peple, to conferme that he was verry God and man. In the secunde partie ben putt xiiij. thingis, that parteyne to the . . . . . of the citee of Jerusalem; and this part lastith for the tenth chapitre vnto the xv. co. In the third part is maad mynde of the passioun of Crist, and of his resurreccioun.
