¶ Suffraunce in trouble wyth Innocensy ¶ Clennes contynence and virgynyte ¶ Kyndnes reuerence { with} curteysy ¶ Content & pleased wyth pyteous pouerte ¶ Entendyng wel mynystryng equyte ¶ Twene ryght & wrong hole indyfferently ¶ And labouryng the seruyse of god to multyply
¶ Refuse of ryches & worldly vaynglory ¶ Perfeccyon wyth perfyght contemplacyon ¶ Relygyon professyon wel kept in memory ¶ Verry drede of god wyth holy predycacyon ¶ Celestyall sapyence wyth gostly inspyracyon ¶ Grace was the guyde of al this meyne ¶ Whome folowed konnyng { with} his genealogy
¶ That is to say gramer and Sophystry ¶ Phylosophy naturall logyke and Rythoryke ¶ Arsmetrycke geometry wyth astronomye ¶ Canon and Cyuyll melodyous musyke ¶ Noble Theology and corporal physyke ¶ Moralyzayson of holy scrypture ¶ Profound poetry and drawy{ n}g of pycture
¶ Thyse folowed connyng & thyd{ er} wyth hin cam ¶ Wyth many one mo offryng her seruyse ¶ To Vertu at that nede but notwythsto{ n}dy{ n}g than ¶ Some he refused and sayd in nowyse ¶ They shuld wyth hym go & as I coud auyse ¶ Thyse wore her names fyrst Nygro{ m}mancy ¶ Geomansy magyke and glotony
¶ Adryomansy Ornomancy { with} pyromancy ¶ Fysenomy also and pawmestry ¶ And al her sequeles yf I shal not lye ¶ Yet connyng prayed Vertu he wold not deny ¶ Theym for to know nor dysdeyn his eye ¶ On hem to loke wherto Vertu graunted ¶ How be it in his werres ge wold not they hau{ n}ted
¶ So had they connyng lyghly to depart ¶ From Vertu his feld and they seyng this ¶ By comyn assent hyred them a carte ¶ And made hem be caryed toward Vyce Iwys. ¶ Fro thens forth to serue hy{ m} this wold not mys ¶ For loth they were to be maysterles ¶ In stede of the better the worse there they ches
¶ But forth to relese al the remenaunt Original has ¶ Of pety capteins that wyth Vertu were rrmenaunt ¶ Moderate dyet and wysdom auenant instead of ¶ Euen weyght and mesure ware of contagyo{ us} ge{ re} remenaunt ¶ Loth to offend and louyng ay to lere Original has ¶ Worshyp and profyte { with} myrth in maner ann instead ¶ Thyse pety capteyns wyth Vertu were in fere of and
¶ Comons hem folowed a grete multitude ¶ But in came pyson to that other syde ¶ I trow there was not brefely to conclude. ¶ The .x. man that batayl to abyde. ¶ Yet neuertheles I shal not from you hyde. ¶ what maner people they were & of what secte ¶ As nere as my wyt therto wyll me derect.