dooth not ther ynne amys, neither brekith therbi eny comaundement of God, but he ther yn and ther bi fulfillith the now seid comaundement of God.
And thouȝ y schulde seie no more than this now seid, certis it were ynouȝ for answere to the first semyng skile. Neuertheles thus myche more y schal therto sette: The comoun peple and perauenture summe of the clerkis ben her yn bigilid, that thei weenen this comaundement of God, Honoure thou thi fadir and modir, to be a seueral comaundement bi him silf departid fro this comaundement of God, Loue thou thi neiȝbore as thi silf, and to be a streitir comaunde|ment and more to be kept than is this comaundement, Loue thou thi neiȝbore as thi silf; but certis this is not trewe. Forwhi therof wolde folewe that a mannys fadir and modir be not to him hise neiȝboris; and it is fals: for thei ben to him summe of hise principal|ist neiȝboris. Also it wolde therof folewe that the deedis of reuerencing and the deedis of releeuying, which a man dooth to his fadir and modir, weren not deedis of loue; which also is vntrewe. And therfore, sithen a mannys fader and modir ben to him nedis hise neiȝboris, and not more to him than neiȝboris, thouȝ thei ben hise principal neiȝboris, and the reuer|encing and the releeuying, (whethir thei ben goostli or bodili,) ben deedis of loue, and ben noon better neither more than deedis of loue, it folewith needis that in this comaundement, Worschipe thou (in affect and effect bi reuerencing and releving) [and bi releving is added in the margin by a later hand; bi having been afterwards erased.] thi fadir and modir, whanne and as and if resoun deemeth it to be doon, is no thing comaundid streiter than is comaun|did and conteyned in this comaundement, Loue thou (in affect and effect) ech of thi neiȝboris as thi silf.
