[Harl. MS 1758, leaf 205, for Cambr. MS.]
[There are no paragraph-breaks in the MS, but Tyrwhitt's are kept in the print for convenience sake. The many curls, tags, and lines, to final e/, f/, g/, ll/, r/, s/, t/ in Harl. 1758, are not printed here.]
Ier. 6o. State super vias & videte & interogate de semitis antiquis que sit via bona & ambulate in ea & inuenietis refrigerium animabis vestris.
[75] Our swete lord god of heuyn þat no man woll perische, but will þat we comen alle to þe knoweliche of hym. & to the blisfull lif þat is perdurable. [76] Amonyscheth vs bi þe prophet Ieromie. þat seith in this wise. [77] ¶ Stondith vp on þe weies & seeth & axeþ of olde pathees. þat is to seyn of olde sentences whiche is þe good weie. [78] & walkiþ in þat weie & ye scholen fynde refreschyng for your soulis. & cetera. [79] ¶ Manye ben þe weies espirituels þat ledyn folk to our lord ihesu crist & to the Regne of glorie. [80] Of whiche weies ther is a full noble weie & a full couenable whiche maie noght faile to man ne to woman that thorogh synne hath mys goon fro the right weie of Hierusalem celestiall. [81] And this weie is clepid [[Nota de peni|tencia. ‖]] penytence. of whiche men schuldyn gladly herkyn & enquere with all his hert [82] to wite what his pen|aunce & whens it is clepid penytence. & in how mony maneres ben the accions of worchyng of penytence [83] & how manye spices ther ben of penytences & whiche thynges a-pertenyn & bi-houyn to penytence. [Harl. 1758 folio 205b] Whiche thynges distourben penytence.
