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Cesarius tellis how som tyme þer was a clerk þat was wele and sufficientlie letterd̛. And on̛ a tyme he garte latt hym̛ blode, and
when̛ he had bled̛ he loste aƚƚ his letteraƚƚ connyng, right evyn̛ as he [MS. repeats, he.] had loste þaim be blode-lattyng [MS. blode lastyng.] , so þat he knew not a lettre nor cuthe not vnderstand̛ a lattyn̛ wurd̛; not-withstondyng he was refte no thyng els. And þis he tolde vnto many men̛. So þer was a man̛ on̛ a tyme cownceld̛ hym̛ & sayde, "þe same day twelmo[n]th at þou was lattyn̛ blude on̛, and þe same howre," he sulde lat hym̛ blude agayn̛, and so peraventur he sulde gytt agayn̛ his connyng. And so he did, & he requoverd̛ hys connyng agayn̛ als wele as evur he had it.