Mannis Sone came not to be serued but to serue, and to ȝeue his lijf redempcioun for manye. Lijk processe thoruȝ out is write Mark the xe. capitulum. Out of this processe semeth to folewe, that preestis ouȝten not haue ouerte among hem silf, oon of hem vpon an other of hem; neither eny preest ouȝte haue ouerte upon eny lay persoon of hise neiȝboris. And if this be trewe, than schulde no preest haue immou|able godis in lordschip. Forwhi thanne he muste nedis comaunde and regne upon hise tenauntis, and thei muste needis obeie and do sewtis and seruicis to him. But certis if this processe be weel in seen and thoruȝ seen, he gothe [This and the six words pre|ceding are written on an erasure, in seen being added in the margin, in a later hand. The orthography is against the common usage of this MS.; though occurring in others. See Maundevile's Travels, p. 111. (Lond. 1839).] not for this purpos. For|whi in two maners ouerers mowen holde and vse her ouerte vpon her vndirlingis.
Oon maner is bi tiranrie, which is forto in alle deedis of ouerte awaite and performe her owne profit oonli, and not the profit of her vndirlingis; and in this maner kingis and princis of hethen folk helden her ouerte in the daies of Crist. And of this ouerte spekith Crist in the now bifore alleggid processe, which maner of ouerte Crist wolde not to be bitwixe preestis and her vndirlingis, neithir bitwixe oon per|soon of hem and another of hem. And more than this can not be proued and schewid the seid processe to [to is added in the margin by a later (?) hand.] bere in him; and therfore this processe makith not sufficientli aȝens the seid iije. gouernaunce of preestis endewing. And that this is trewe, lo, the processe, which Luk writith in his xxije. chapiter, sumwhat declarith. Forwhi Luk there [there is interlineated by a later (?) hand.] storieth Crist to haue seid thus: Kingis of hethen men ben lordis of hem,
