schulde come and be, is not vnleeful and synful; but it is according with doom of resoun, and is ther|fore leeful: ȝhe, and to [into, MS. (first hand).] men being not disposid to grettist perfitnes, and of which it is not like to be turned into such disposicioun, it is discreetist and best.
xij. CHAPITER.
To the iiije. semyng skile, which groundith him silf vpon a storie of a voice herd in the eir seiyng thus, In this dai venom is hild out into the chirche, it is to be seid, that thilk ground is not sure trouthe, nei|ther he is likeli to be trewe: and ther fore neither eny sure trouthe [neither eny sure trouthe is added in the margin by a later hand.] neither eny likeli to be trowid trouthe may be proued or knowun or trowid therbi. And so cesith al the strengthe of this iiije. semyng skile.
That thilk storie, which the iiije. semyng skile takith for his ground and fundament, is not worthi to be trowid, y proue bi iiij. resouns; of whiche the firste is this: If no storier or cronycler hadde writun of thilk voice to be spokun in the eir, noman now ouȝte bileeue [to beleeue, MS. (first hand).] or trowe that thilk voice was so spokun: so that al wherbi we ouȝte trowe [to trowe, MS. (first hand).] eny thing of thilk voice is this, for that so or so or so (and in noon other wise) it is writun in storie or cronicle of thilk voice spokun. [writun, MS. We must either make this correction, or cancel the first or second writun.] But so it is, that in noon storier or cronicler it is writun that eny good aungel seide thilk voice in the eir; but in ech storie or cronicle speking therof it is seid and writun that the feend spake thilk voice. Forwhi noon fundamen|tal
