strengþe & in vertue, ne bereþ noȝt þe bittur dom þat is aȝeyn hem. [verse 12] And þese beþ as vnresonabel bestes, kyndelyche in-to takynge & in-to deþ, blasphemynge in þinges þat þei knoweþ noȝt, in hure corrupcyoun þei schulen peryschen, vnderfongynge þe mede of vnryȝtfulnesse. [verse 13] Þese weneþ þat lustes ben delyces [delytes P.] of day [in later hand on erasure, S.] , & beþ fulfylled wiþ þe delyces of wem of defoulynge, & doþ leccherye wiþ ȝow in hure [verse 14] leccheryes; and haueþ yen [þan P.] ful of avoutrye, & of gult þat may noȝt cessen; deceyfynge soules vnstabel [& vnstabel S, P.] ; habbeþ hure [verse 15] herte y-stered to coueytyse; children of cursynge; & leuynge þe [P folio 21b] ryȝte weye han y-erred & han [om. P.] y-swed [y, om. P.] þe weye of Baalam [verse 16] & Booȝor, þat loued þe mede of wyckednesse; bote he had a doumbe beste þat was vnder ȝok a mendement of his wodnesse, spekynge in mannys voys, þat forbed þe vnkun|nyngnesse of þe prophete. [verse 17] Þese beþ welles wiþouten water, & cloudes y-dryfen a-boute wiþ whirlynge wyndes, to whom þe dymschyp of derknesse is y-kept to. [verse 18] & spekynge in pruyde of vanyte bygyleþ in þe desyres of þe leccherye of hure flesch þilke þat fleþ a luytel weye from hem; & þei [verse 19] haueþ hure conuersacyoun in errour, byhotynge to hem fredom & beþ hem-selfen seruauntis of corrupcyoun. For of whom a man is ofercome, his serfaunt he is. [verse 20] For ȝef men flen þe defoulynge of þe world in þe knowynge of oure Lord Iesu Crist, & afterward medlen wiþ þe same þinges, & ben ofercomen of hem, hure [S folio 19] later doynges beþ worse þan þe raþer. [verse 21] For it were beter to hem noȝt for-to knowe þe weye of ryȝtfulnes, þan, after þe knowynge, turnen hem aȝeynward from þe holy commaundement þat is y-take to hem. [verse 22] And to hem falleþ þe seyenge of þe trewe [trewþe P.] prouerbe, Þe hound [u inserted above the line, S.] haþ y-turned hym aȝeyn forto caste, & þe sowe is y-wasche in þe gaseyn of fen.
[verse 1] And [C m 3m in the margin in an early hand, S.] lo, my leueste frendes, y write to ȝow þis [þe P.] seconde [verse 2] epystel [P folio 22] to stere ȝow in-to warnynge to a cler þouȝt [u added above line in darker ink, S.] , þat ȝe
