heuene; for many men maken hem more bisy to geten worldly muk þan to geten vertues & holy lif, & maken more sorowe whanne þei fallen fro worldly catel in-to pouerte þan whanne þei fallyn fro grace & charite & oþere vertues in-to many orble [orrible AA.] synnys. Also men [page 195] louen more to venge wrongis & dispites don to here owene personys or lordischipis þan to venge wronggis or dispitis don aȝenst þe mageste of god almyȝtty; as ȝif a man speke a word of litel reprof or vilonye of a lord or a grete man of þis world he schal be pursued & peyned þer-fore þat alle þe world or many men schullen wondere vpon hym, but ȝif men speken falsnesse bi oure god, seiynge þat crist beggede [begge X.] as men don now nedles, or dispisen his name bi cursid swerynge, or speken vilonye of lecherie or of oþere foule synnys to foule cristene soulis þerbi, þei ben not pursued ne hurlid out, but chirischid & holde goode felawis, & summe ȝit ben holden holy men, for goddis lawe is not knowen & here ypocrisie is ȝit hid, & þus vnriȝtwis|nesse regneþ vpon many sidis.
iniuries or wrongis ben don to pore men many weies; for prelatis techen hem not treuely goddis lawe, neiþer in word ne ensaumple of holy lif, & ȝit þei cursen faste for here dymes & offryngis of pore men, whanne þei schulden raþere ȝeue hem worldly goodis þan take of hem; for prelatis wasten in pride, glotonye, [gloterie AA. and so generally through the tract.] worldly plees & grete festis of lordis and riche men þe tresor of pore men, þe while þei ben in moche peyne & wrecchidnesse in bodi & soule; & ȝit prelatis wolen not do sacramentis & here gostly office to here sugetis, as halwynge of chirchis and auteris & chircheȝerdis & oþere ornementis, but [omitted X.] ȝif men bien hem for moche money; & þanne comynly þe biere & þe sellere ben cursed of god. also lordis many tymes don wrongis to pore men bi extorscions & vnresonable mercy|mentis & vnresonable taxis, & taken pore mennus goodis & paien not þerfore but white stickis, & dispisen hem &
