bi an ensaumple of oxen threisching or treding out corn of the strawe and chaaf in a floor, and bi Poul ie. Thim. ve. capitulum.
Neuertheles thouȝ this present vije. trouthe muste needis be holden [beholden, MS.] for open resoun which myȝte be brouȝt therto and for textis of Scripture, (summe now bifore alleggid, and summe after soone in this present chapiter to be rehercid,) ȝit it myȝte seme that aȝens this present vije. trouthe Crist him silf spekith and meeneth, Luk xe. capitulum., where he seide to hise disciplis thus: Go ȝe: lo, y sende ȝou as lambren among wolues; therfore nile ȝe bere a sachel neither scrippe neither schoon, and grete ȝe no man bi the wey. Into what hous that ȝe entren, first seie ȝe, Pees to this hous; and if a sone of pees be there, ȝoure pees schal reste on him; but if noon, it schal turne aȝen to ȝou: and dwelle ȝe in the same hous, eting and drinking tho thingis whiche ben at hem; for a werkman [Perhaps werk man, MS. (here and below), but?] is worthi his hire. Lo hou in these wordis, "a werkman is worthi his meede," Crist clepid it which prechouris and prelatis schulde take into her fynding to be meede or reward of her preching, which is a deede of cure doing. And in lijk maner, ie. Thim. ve. capitulum., bi like and the same wordis Poul clepith the fynding of prechouris her mede or reward. Wherfore it wolde seme that the ije. partie of this present vije. trouthe is not to be holde as for trewe; but it wolde seme that the ȝifte of temporal godis mad to preestis is in the ije. parti of the firste trouthe sett bifore in the xvje. chapiter; and therfore tho temporal godis mowen be withdrawe, if preestis performe not sufficientli the deedis of her cure. But ȝit notwithstonding these ij. now laste rehercid textis, (oon of Crist, Luk xe. capitulum.,
