þefis. And for his idilnes wan alle þing schal be ȝeuen to rest, þan his trauel schal be gynne in sarow.
XXX. Begry not leful to re|ligious.
Þis is an oþer; þat it is not leful to religious to beg. To þis I sey þus; þow it be leful to ilk man to beg in nede, neuerþeles it is [not] leful to ani man wiþ oute nede of releue and iust nede dispicing riȝtfulnes; noiþer to gedre him mikil worldly riches, noiþer wasting his tyme in idilnes, noiþer þat he wast himsilf and his goodis, and oþer mennis, in lustis, and in oþer veyn curiositeis. And for þe declaring of þis mater, I suppose first, þat begging is tane in diueris maneris, as gostly or bodily; and sum tyme ver|tuously, and sum tyme synfully, and sum tyme peynfully. Þer for þat to beg understond is sum nedy man to aske, be syde þe titul of worldly dett, helpe for his releue schewing be signe or bi tokun or be expresse voyce. And þus it semiþ þat Crist in manhod, as alle kyngis and princis lifyng, are nedid to beg of God al miȝty. And þus all begging of God gostly godis for relef of hem, and of her breþern, to be releuid of þer synnis, peynis, and wrechidnes, in case þei beg medfuly. Also þus man leuyng occupacoun about temporal þingis, and necessariis of lif, for wark mere profitable and more gostly, and helful to soule, and þerfor it nediþ to beg. And to swilk wit, as doctors seyn, is þis verrified of Crist, þat þe Salm seiþ, I am beggar and pore, and nedy, and helples, and swilk oþer; ffor he taking our kynd, was mad nedy and helples for vs, and þus he beggid gostly goodis for vs of þe Fadir. And þus, as it semiþ to sum of þe sawis of Seynt Bernard. Wan Ihu was of twelf ȝere [Bernard.] age, he dwellid still in Jerusalem after his parentis, þat he schewyng beggid his liflod fro dore to dore in Jerusalem, for þat he goyng in þe cite, schewid his ned to be releuid of þer defaut þat hauȝt to haue releuid him, so miȝt oþer; ffor far is þis fro hem þat beggun wiþ out nede, or wen þey miȝt oþer wise be susteynid, or for lust, or for oþer vndu caus beggen baldly. Wylful begging of stalworþ men is forfendid to ilk cristun man of þe apostil of Crist, and of
