AB ¶ By what prayer or thought thou mayst be styred to deuocyon.
[W]Han thou ordeynest þe to praye or haue ony deuocyon, founde to haue a preuy place from all maner noyse, & tyme of reste without ony lettynge. Syt there or knele there as is moost to thyn ease. Than be thou lorde or lady, thynke wel thou hast a good þat made the of nought / whiche hath gyue to the thy ryght wyttes / ryght lymmes & other worldely ease more than to some other as þou mayst se aldaye þat lyue in grete dysease & moche bodely myschyef. Thynke also how synful thou art, & were not the kepynge of þat good god thou sholdest fall in to all maner of synne by thyn owne wretchednes, & than þou mayst thynke sothly as of thyself þat there is none so synful as thou art. Also yf þou haue ony vertue or grace of good lyuynge thynke it cometh of goddes sendynge & nothynge of thyselfe. Thynke also how longe & how often god hath suffred the in synne / he wolde not take the in to dampnacyon whan þou haddest deserued it / but goodly hath abyden the tyll þou woldest leue synne & torne to goodnes /