idipsum. ¶ Noght fourthe vaine sonnes of men, leighers sonnes of men in weighes: that thai desceif of vanite in it selven. ¶ .i amonest ȝou to hope & to hell ȝour hartes, and ȝit sonnes of men, of adam and of eve, are vaine [U2 ins. 'of.' S om.] , askand erthely things til thaim, & leighers [S leres them.] in weighes, that is, on the weighess [S weght.] of rightwisnes, through the whilke thei deceive lightly as ypocrits. that are leighers, & couaytes to be sene sothefaste: for with a fals punde thei begile them that sees thaim, that thei, desceifid of vanite, disceif other: in it selven, that es, in that ilk that thai er trowid even & rightuous.
10. Nolite sperare in iniquitate, & rapinas nolite concu|piscere: diuicie si affluant nolite cor apponere. ¶ Willes noght hope in wickednes, & rauyns [S. U2 ravings.] willes nought covaite: if riches habounde, willes nought set thy herte thertill. ¶ My hope is in god. but ye men that lufes this werld willes nought hope but in wickednes, that is, in goods of this life. that are wickedlie gotten, or wickedlie holden, but make restitution: & ȝif [S thof.] ye be pore willes nought covaite ravyns [S. U2 ravings.] , for thar the devill ravisch ȝou. it is a harmefull winninge to win cattell & tine rightowsnes, whiles ye halde other mens goods, the divill haldes you: & if riches ha|bounde in grete plentie rightwislie, wills nought sett to your herts to lufe theym, & to hope in them: he dames not men that haves riches, for thei maye winne heven with thaym, but theim he damnes that setts ther herte in them, to halde them.
11. Semel locutus est deus, duo hec audiui, quia potestas dei est, & tibi domine miserecordia: quia tu reddes vnicui|que iuxta opera sua. ¶ Ane tyme spake god, ther twa J herde, for might of god is, & till the lorde is mercy: for thou sall ȝelde till ike ane beside ther warks. ¶ As whoe say, set not your herts on this worlde, for the might of god is to venge him onn sinfull men. that loves thair good more than him: & to the lorde is mercy, to reward them in heuen that loves the ouer all thinge, for thou yeldes to everie one after ther warkes, good or ill. how wate thou this? for ane tyme, that is endelesse [S endelesly.] , spake god, that is, he ordeyned all thinge, amongest whilke ther twa J harde, might & mercy: for of [S. U2 om.] them twa is all haly write, for theym christe is sente vnto erthe: the myght we aught to drede, the mercy to love, alls [S elles.] we maye not live.
