Furst and foreward · to folk þat ben I-weddet, [Ferst—forward] And formest & ferst T; Formest and first U.]
And libbeþ as heore lawe wole · hit likeþ God almihti; [lawe wole] lawis wiln T. hit] þat U.]
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For þorw wedlac þe world stont · hose wol hit I-knowe. [For] þat T; And U. hose] whoso TU.]
Þei ben Ricchest in Reame · and þe Rote of dowel; [Ricchest—Reame] þe riccheste of reaumes TU.]
For of heore kuynde þei come · þat confessours beþ nempned, [kuynde] kynde T; kyn U.]
Boþe Maydens and Martires · Monkes an Ancres, [martires] nonnes TU.]
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Kynges and Knihtes · and alle cunne Clerkes,
Barouns and Burgeis · and Bonde Men of tounes. [tounes] towne U.]
¶ Fals folk and Feiþles · þeoues and lyȝers [Fals] Ac fals TU. þeoues] as þeuis TU.]
Ben Conseyuet in Curset tyme · as Caym was on Eue, [on] and U (wrongly).]
After þat Adam and Eue · hedden eten of þe Appel [Eue] she T. hedden] TU omit. of] TU omit.]
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Aȝeyn þe heste of him · þat hem of nouȝt made. [U omits.]
¶ An Angel in haste · þennes hem tornde [haste] angir T. þennes—tornde] hiȝte hym (hem U) to wende TU.]
In-to þis wrecchede world · to wonen and to libben
[In tene & in trauaile · to here lyues ende]; [From U; also in T. in trauaile] trauaille T.]
Line 141
In þat Corsede Constellacion · þei knewen to-gedere, [þei] þat þei U.]
And Brouȝten forþ [a barn] · þat muche bale [wrouȝte.] [[a barn TU] Barnes V. [wrouȝte TU] wrouȝten V; cf. next line.]
¶ Caym men cleped him · In Cursed tyme engendret, [men—him] þei hym callide TU.]
And so seiþ þe sauter · seo hit whon þe likeþ,
Concepit in dolore, [et peperit iniquitatem, &c.][Part of the Latin is from T; U here inserts a wrong quotation, Quare via, &c.; for which see Pass. XI. l. 23.] Line 145 And alle þat come of þat Caym · Crist hem hatede Aftur, [And] TU omit. hem hatede] hatide hem U; hatid T.] And Mony Milions mo · of Men and of Wymmen
