So hyȝt nys nauȝt senne-lyas,
Þat child þat haueþ lyf,
Ybore oþer on-bore was,
bote Crystnynge brekeþ þat stryf. [bote, in the handwriting of a later revisor of the text. It had been erroneously written at the end of line 103, where it has been erased.]
Oryginale þys senne hys cleped,
For man of kende hyt takeþ [After takeþ, a later hand has added syn.]
. . . . .
. . . . . [Here two lines are wanting.]
Line 108
Ryȝt so hys al mankende a-merred
Þorȝ þe route of fenym,
Þat doþ þat mannes body ybered
Nys bote a lyte slym.
Line 112
Her-vppe yþoȝt haþ meny a man,
And ised many a foul
Þat on-wyslyche god ous by-gan,
And hys red was to coul,
Line 116
Þat let man to suich meschyef, [let, read ledde?—meschyef, the second e written over the y; so also in the corresponding ryme-word lief the i is written over the e.]
Þat myȝte hyt habbe vndo;
Ac ȝef þou wolt by gode lief,
Þenche þou namore so.
Line 120
Ne velþe hyt nauȝt to clypye aȝen, [Wright page 106]
We soeþ wel hyt hys þous,
God te atwyte oure won [won, read wen? but see note.]
No longeþ noþyng to ous.
Line 124
For wo dysputeþ a-ȝeyn hym,
Concluded schel he be; [wo ( = who), MS. we.]
