that the same ȝeuyng be doon. This reule is open bi experience. Also in Holi Writt the colour of this present vije. reule is ensaumplid and vsid. Forwhi, Iames the ve. chapiter, it is seid thus: If eny of ȝou is sijk, lede he in preestis of the chirche, and preie thei for him, and anointe thei in the name of the Lord: and the preier of feith schal saue the sijk man. Lo how Holi Writt seith that the preier schal saue the sijk man, not withstonding that in very trouthe of propre speche neither the preier neither he that preieth dooth thilk deede of sauyng, but God aloone doith [doith is interlineated in a later (?) hand.] thilk deede of sauyng; and the preier wirchith oonli as a meene in prouoking ther to, and the man preiying wirchith also oonli as a meene pro|uoking in to the saaf sauyng. Thus it is open that the vije. reule is witnessid bi Holi Scripture to be trewe.
And if this reule be trewe, certis thanne folewith ther of that the viije. reule or supposicioun is trewe, which is this: It is allowable that y seie thus: "I preie Iohun forto ȝeue to me the seid fee;" and it is allowable that y seie thus: "I preie the seid preier of Iohun to be maad to the King, that thilk preier ȝeue to me the same fee of xxti. pound." For whi, if this speche is alloweable: "Iohun ȝeuyth [ȝeuyth and ȝeuith (as well as prouid below) are not forms used in the body of the MS.: they occur in the midst of words written on erasures, which are very extensive throughout this paragraph, two|thirds of which have been re-written in a very similar style, but not by the same hand as the rest. The y, which the original scribe dots, is here undotted.] "to me the seid fee of xxti. pound;" and if this speche be alloweable: "The seid preier of Iohun ȝeuith [ȝeuyth and ȝeuith (as well as prouid below) are not forms used in the body of the MS.: they occur in the midst of words written on erasures, which are very extensive throughout this paragraph, two|thirds of which have been re-written in a very similar style, but not by the same hand as the rest. The y, which the original scribe dots, is here undotted.] to me the seid xxti, pound;" certis thanne it is alloweable that I seie thus: "I preie bothe to
