the faderles and modirles children and poor widowis and do other bodili almes, thanne as for thanne and as for al thilk while it is not comaundement of God to him forto do such now seid almes, neither forto releeue the pouerte of his fadir and modir; and bi lijk skile it muste needis folewe, that if euer and whanne euer a man may not aȝens resoun (but bi doom of cleer resoun) make him silf lacke suche ricchessis, ȝhe, and make him silf lack the power forto wynne or other wise come to iustli suche ricch|essis, thanne and as for al thilk while it is not comaundement [a comaundement, MS. (first hand, apparently).] of God to him neither forto releeue the pouerte of his fadir and moder or of eny other neiȝbour, neither it is comaundement of God to him forto labore that he wynne bi craft or in eny other wise to gete ricches forto therbi releeue the pouerte and nede of his fadir and modir or of eny other neiȝbour to him.
And that a man now hauyng ricchessis in greet plente mai with his good wil iustli and leefulli make him silf lacke tho same ricchessis, ȝhe, and the power forto wynne, gete, or haue ther aftir eny suche ricch|essis, y proue in this wise: I putte caas here, were a man which hath myche ricches, wherwith he mai weel releeue the pouerte of his fadir and modir and of hise othere neiȝboris, if thei in eny pouerte now weren; and this man hath a bodili sijknes, (or ellis dredith for greet liklihode forto falle into a bodili sijknes,) bi which he schal lyue in huge vnberable peine or be deed; ther is a lecche which wole vndir|take to make him hool, or to preserue him fro the fal into thilk sijknes; but al the ricches of this seid man is litil ynouȝ forto spende aboute the medicyns longing to thilk cure or preseruacioun. This man
