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.

ÞE ZIXTE BENE OF ÞE HOLY PATER NOSTER.

Et ne nos inducas in temptacionem. þe ybernde : uer dret. and þe ilke þet oþerhuyl yualle is in-to zenne. huanne þe zenne him is uoryeue: he is þe more milde: and þe more dreduol / and þe more he heþ grater drede of uondinge. Þeruore bit he hier to huam god his misdedes uoryefþ / þet he hine loky uram ayen-uallinge. Et ne nos inducas in temptacionem. þet is to zigge. 'Vayre zuete uader / ne led ous naȝt in-to uondinge.' Þe dyeuel is þe uondere. vor hit is his creft / huer-of he serueþ ine godes house / uor to proui þe newe knyȝtes. and yef þe uondinge nere guod and uremuol to guode / god þet al makeþ uor oure guode / nolde naȝt þolye þet hi come. Ac ase zayþ sant bernard. huanne þe uondere ous knokeþ ope þane reg: he ous ssepþ oure corounes of blisse. Ase þe ilke þet ope þe regge of þe guode knyȝte / smit and beat / him ssept his los : and his blisse. Þe dyeuel þerto propreliche uondeþ þane man : þet he hine myȝte wyþ-draȝe uram þe loue of god. þeruore bit sainte pawel his deciples / þet hi by yzet ase tours. yroted ase trawes : in loue. zuo þet non uondinge him ne moȝe refye / ne rocky. Þeruore ine [typographic Fol. 35.b .] þise bezechinge we acseþ help of gode ine oure batayle / and þe yefþe of pité. þet is a grace þet bedeaweþ þe herte and makeþ his zuete and reuþeuol. and makeþ his al become grene / and berþ ynoȝ frut of guode workes wyþ-oute and wyþ-inne erþe / strengþi his roten ine þe erþe of libbende. þet is ase þet guode mortyer / huer-of me makeþ þe guode walles sarzineys þet me ne may naȝt breke / ne mid pic / ne mid mongenel. Þanne huanne we ziggeþ. et ne nos inducas in temptacionem. þet is to zigge. 'Vayre zuete uader / make oure herten ueste / an stedeuest / þet hi ne ssake uor none uondynge þet to hare comþ.' We ne byddeþ naȝt / þet we ne ssolle by uonded : Vor þet were a fole

bezechinge / and ssamuol. Ase þe zone of a guod man þet ssel by a newe knyȝt him bezekþ. `Leue uader ich þe bidde þet þou me loki þet ich ne guo neuremo: ne to ioustes / ne to tornemens.' We wylleþ wel þet we by yuonded. vor hit is oure ureme ine uele maneres. uor we byeþ þe more ymylded / and þe dreduoller / and þe more wys ine alle þinges. and þe more worþ / an þe more asayd. Vor ase zayþ salomon. Ze þet ne heþ þise uondinges: he ne may noþing wel conne. bote ase me kan þe batayle of troye / be hyere-zigginge. Vor he ne may him-zelue yknawe / ne him uestni ine þ e strengþe of his uyendes / ne hare sotylhede. and hou god is trewe to þe nyede / his uryend uor to helpe. ne of hou uele zennes / ne of hou uele perils / he heþ þe ofte yloked. and uor alle þise skeles / he ne ssel naȝt ariȝt conne god louie / ne him þonki of his guode. Ac we him biddeþ þet he loky oure herten / þet hi ne guo in- to uondynge / þet is þet hi ne consenti. Vor al þet is of ous : we byeþ zuo poure / and zuo fyeble / þet we ne moȝe naȝt ane time of þe daye þolye þe asaylinges of þe dyeule: wyþ-oute þe help of oure lhorde. And huanne he ous fayleþ: we guoþ þer-in. Huanne he ous helpþ: we wyþstondeþ. and we uyȝteþ / and we ouercomeþ. And þeruore we ziggeþ. 'Lyeue uader ne led ous naȝt in-to uondinge. þet is ne þole naȝt / þet we go in-to consentinge.'