¶The .lxx. chapiter cōmaundeth that none presume to bete a nother.
ALl occasion of presumpcion / must be a voyded in the monastery / wherfore we make and ordeygne (sayth seynt Benet) that it be not lefull to any suster to excōicate or bete any of hir susters / hir oonly except / to whom power is cōmitted of thabbasse so for to doo / They that doth amysse muste be rebuked opynly / before all their susters / to thentēt that other may be affrayde therby. ¶To children vnto the tyme they be .xv. yeres of age / diligence of discipline / tutell / and sure kepynge / muste begyuen of all their susters / & that with all measure and reason. For she that ether presumethe to punishe / or stryke ony suster of a gritter ayge thē .xv. with out the cōmaundement of thabbasse / or elles is ouer sharpe or hasty with the children without discrecion / She must be puneshed by reguler discipline / for it is written. That / that thou wylt not haue doon to thy selfe / do thou to none other.