¶A Lesson.
OF this article we may lerne to haue Christ thus illuded and mocked euermore in our remembraunce so that we neuer vaynly reioyse in our outwarde garment / habite / or apparel / for our lorde god was mocked and scorned in his apparell. And spe∣cyally religious persons ought to folowe Christe in this thyng / for they represent Christ thus illuded and mocked in theyr habyt and tonsure, for the habyt of a religiouse person is a vyle thynge despysed and mocked of the worldlye people. The tonsure or crowne of the religious person: doth represent ye crowne of thor¦nes. And also in olde tyme religious men as monkes were wont to beare staues or styckes in theyr handes whiche dyd represente the rede that Christe had in his hande, and as Christe disdeyned not to be brought forth and shewed to the Iues in that scornfull habite: so religious persons shulde not be ashamed of theyr vyle habit nor to folow Christ which was dispised in this kyng{is} aray. And herunto saynte Paule sayth,* 1.1 Spectaculum facti sumus mūdo: We that despyse the worlde: be made a mocken stocke vnto the worlde / and neuer so moche as in these dayes / our lorde sende vs pacyence, and lyghten the soules of the dispysers.