wedlok, but thei helden dampnable if eny widowe were weddid; and herwith thei helden, if eny persoon hadde do oonys eny notable greet synne, that he neuer schulde haue therof forȝeuenes, [forȝeues, MS.] how euer miche [how miche, MS. (first hand).] repentaunce and penaunce he dide for it. And so oonli these heretikis and othere to hem like weren in the case of forbeding of which Seint Poul spekith in the ije. text; and not the othere religiose forbeders of this present tyme, whiche forbeden wedding and eting of fleisch bi cause of vow or boond therto bifore maad of hem to whom the forbedingis [are] maad, and whiche neither forsaken neither forbeden wedding and eting of fleisch as deedis vnleeful and contrarie to Goddis lawe. And thus myche is ynouȝ for answere to the ije. argument.
Answere to the iije. argument schal be the same answere which is sett bifore in the iiije. parti of this book the ixe. chapiter, and is ȝouun there for answere to the firste semyng skile sett in the viije. chapiter of the same iiije. partie. Therfore who so wole se the seid answere, turn he thider; for there he mai it se.
To the iiije. bifore maad argument, proceding vpon the reuelacioun and prophecie ȝouun to Seinte Hilde|gard, it is to be seid thus: Whether it be trewe or no what sche seide and wroot of the persoones hold|ing the iiij. ordris of beggeris and of her ordre, this y dare seie, that among the reuelaciouns and pro|phecies, whiche ben ascriued to hir, is conteyned vntrouthe contrarie to the trewe feith; and for to it proue y durst leie in plegge my lijf, how euer it be that her prophecies and reuelacions weren approued.
