or man or eny othir thing,) and if it can be aspied bi eny sufficient or eny myche likeli evidencis that the feend puttith there his partie and his entermeting, thanne first the vce of thilk thing is to be shoned, eschewid, and avoidid; and aȝenward if, after that sufficient enqueraunce is mad, it kan not be knowe that the feend dooth eny thing aboute the seid thing, than the vce of the seid thing ouȝte not be [to be, MS. (first hand).] refusid. Forwhi ellis we schulden neuere be boold forto vce eny thing, (neither mete ne drinke ne hors ne asse ne man ne womman,) and that bi cause the feend hath putte him into suche thingis, as we mowe haue in oold recordis. And now neerer to oure purpos. Bi cause the peple of which the legend of Seint Bartholome spekith were necligent forto aspie that the feend spake in the ymage, and that he hurtid hem, and thei myȝten [myȝte. MS. (first hand).] haue wist this weel ynowȝ if thei wolden have ȝeue therto sufficient diligence; and aȝenward now adaies no man can fynde eny sufficient euydence or eny greet likelihode that feendis speken now bi ymagis, as it wole appere ful weel how tho euydencis mowe be answerid to and assoilid if thei be brouȝt forth into liȝt:—therfore the peple of which the legende of Seint Bartholome spekith weren to be blamed for that thei attendiden to thilk greet ymage as to her God, and peple now adaies ben not to be blamed thouȝ thei attenden [attende, MS. (first hand).] to ymagis forto vse hem as signes and tokenes of God. And this is ynouȝ for answere to the ve. argument.
To the vje. argument it is answerid sufficientli bi|fore in the first [See the following note.] parti of this present book toward the eende, in the [ive.] [A space left in the MS. for the number. Pecock's memory has failed him: he appears to mean Part ii. c. iv. See p. 158.] chapiter, that if ech gouer|naunce schulde be left of which cometh yuel, certis no
