Dan Michel's Ayenbite of Inwyt : or, Remorse of conscience : Richard Morris's transcription now newly collated with the unique manuscript British Museum MS. Arundel 57, volume 1, text / by Pamela Gradon.

[typographic Fol. 2. b.]

ÞE NEȜENDE GODES HESTE.

Þe neȝende heste / is þellich. "Þou ne sselt naȝt wylni / þine neyȝbores [MS. neȝybores.] wyf. ne his wylni / ine þine herte." þet is to zigge / þou ne sselt naȝt consenti / to do zenne / mid þine bodye.

Þis heste uorbyet / to wylni mid wyl of herte / to habbe uelaȝrede ulesslich/ mid alle wyfmen / [MS. wyfmem.] out of spoushod. And þe kueade tocnen wiþoute / þet byeþ ymad / uor to draȝe zenne / ase byeþ / kueade wordes / of zuyche manere. oþer yefþes / oþer kueade takinges. And þe difference of þise heste / mid þe zixte / aboue yzed : zuo is/þet þe zixte heste uorbyet/þe dede wyþ-oute. ac þis uorbyet / þe grantinge wyþinne. Vor þe grant- inge / to habbe uelaȝrede u1esslich / mid wyfmen / þet ne is naȝt his be spouse : ys zenne dyadlich / be þe dome /

of godes spelle / þet zayþ. "Huo þet ziȝþ ane wyfman / and wylneþ his ine herte : he heþ y-zeneȝed / ine hyre: ine his herte ." þet is to zigge: wyþ aperte wylningge / and mid þoȝte.