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THe Philosopher sayth: that who so wyll define / determine / and declare a thynge well what it is: must shewe and appoint somwhat of the contrarie thervnto. For (as he sayth in a nother place) whan thynges cōtra¦rie: ben leyde or compared to gether: eueriche of thē
doth appere ye more euident and clere for the tother / as whyte coloure leyde nere vnto blacke doth seme in it selfe more whytte & also causeth the blacke to se¦me more blacke: than els they shulde do alone. And pryde: is the better knowen by the declaracion of mekenes. So is it of obedience & disobedience. For as obedience: is an abnegacion & forsakyng of pro∣per wyll: subdued vnto the wyll of a nother persone souereine of religion (For we speke here of monasti¦call obedience / whiche religious persones done {pro}∣fesse) so is in obedience or disobedience / an election or choyse and folowynge (in effecte) of proper wyll: contrarie vnto the promyse and vowe made in pro∣fession / let this be taken thus for the definicion / that is to say: a determinacion or declaracion of the selfe thynge / what it is / and what is ment by that terme or name of obedience or inobedience and lykewyse of all other thynges.