CVII.
Beneficia conferenda sunt Dignis.
Seneca tellis þat he þat hase benefice in giffyng sulde do as þai do at playes at þe baƚƚ; for & a man̛ caste a baƚƚ fro hym̛ to a noder, & he to hym̛ agayn̛, No doute, of patten̛ from̛ þe tone of þaim it wiƚƚ faƚƚ vnto þe ertℏ. Bod a gude player wiƚƚ vmwhile caste þe baƚƚ ferrer & vmwhile nerrer, at he at is a gude player may play with hym̛. Right so sulde it be betwix hym̛ þat giffis þe benefis & hym̛ þat takis it, for he þat giffis it suld̛ se þat he þatt he gaff it to war able for to take it, & kepe it fro þe erthe; þat is to mene, þat he cuthe reule it to þe plesur of God̛.
- ...Beneficia acquisita male malum exitum habent. Infra De Blasfemia.
- ...Beneficia multa eciam prestat deus MS. here repeats, eciam. inuitis. Infra Inuitus.