Dit for yel Jevr enfointe in my lere
Sint alconliko as inyeure bisniesse
Do ivikke folk pat hated hem pforo
It is no puse pat is to wonder oore
ponst we be stered vay stornyes of desses
Sip pat onve hooos hap be euimore
to wicked folles villes to desplese

Aud yoke peare oosto bo huse in labimanco
att nozt for pi it is to be verezenes
ffor wth peri be vay orte sounaimeo
Aud nonst bit floode of erro hap hem menees
And if pat peri be evroun pus tourvenes
Anuse an hoost vrep strengthe vs asseitoy
Oure governo by penn may nonst be stened
Gis tresoure alle nito his tour he settep

O hees fooles tradellen yen eutentify
On veyne pusdes pat may penn nozt al available
And the pat siten in pis tour an hyno
Al orte pnoire from hem pat os affaile
In such a paleys stvone of appaible
Where pat yees fooles may not op attony
We stornen hem of alle her wante tnanile
Yeu'r bisniesse is enydeel in deyn

or he pat stondep teer & ordinate
And pronde happe onfrep ynder flyde
In alle fortunes he stondep strete alato
In wele an wo can euemilith abide
no wood or za floweyp to euyl sido
Bym decdep no puse of his tineito

Bym evenep nonst bit stonde in o deses
Hat foule fiyr pat onve of helle reley
In yo monteyn pat cleped is beseyn
po thondei hir pat his toes breketh

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He ne dzedey nozt whan is it pat ze meno
whi dzedo ze pan wrennes pat ze bene
ffees tyranimes pat ben wip orte mysht
pittey fals hape orte of zon herte etne

And femfully dzedo pittey from so ozt

or if pon no pinte of a man desu

zre what he may do poir haft no dzedo
par ofalt desvined po wzeched manye wo

And in no wise he may po nozt impyedo
who do hapey oort or dzedey ono hese

ho caftey away his cheddo, and is costablo

And kuytey a chery wip po whith he may lyo
whe'r pat penn list to lyo unprofitablo

He leste poir uozt whe'r my noedo go fost or shamp

Os chervip pino pino herte enteitifly

Or arte poir lito an asso to po hapey

pat is not menes away no melody

If yous courtest helpo or venedy

pat mosto vnhele po homides þe po giden
se then aknowven to me opyally

and vide it nozt þe po wil veleney

I draw to me po mysht of my cora to
zo ben qoþ pat broneth mo in estato
rzedep it noiz to telle zonr my damaco
þe hap me holdo in zonno pseuco aleato
zo wot in my hat degro | stod but lato
zre meney noozt zon po mand of pis ploco
is pis po libzare arhend ze wip me satz

When ze were al my soie et my cora

O pynne pintsyt disprinide wip mo

And oper oriente pat sulky were

When pat wip zon | stod in pis degro

What pan pis po alito of my chero

When of zonno was moimed to seke and seue

ye p[ro]o pointes longyngo to naturo
Hou pat ye sterre incensed ferre or nere
distruynghe it be nombre in figuro
A orimynge in me po maner of my lif
likly ynto me heneuly sounnane
Dechynge me to lyve contemplatif
I zeld zoys ponke wiy loryly obey sano
Jus was a cittynto of zonc ordinate
arbitr plato wzote zif it underfond o
a blifful pinse were to men gommento
zif only abise men chuldo it hano on hondo
H or if pat yse pat ysen conſiement
in wiscam woldo diffendo per byſiness
and plato alsod to yis same entent
Hap taſt vs pinc pinu orno lorc it as
to wisc men a nedsful taſis pes
ſto to deside a ſtaat a ſonereyito
test vankles folk pat woldo sonno a my po
vesteyn eſato e hano po comynakto
H or if pat wisc men and diuibus
Schuldo yis eſtate e ſonereyito forſale
pan opers wicked men and vicous
woldo bo ſul ſyno po sano eſtat to talo
and anſt pe ben comuryne arſ pei makt
and wised p[ra]ſces chulde be sette at nozt
p[ra]ſes chulde arnong wikkednesd wak to
and tenevo and otus bo to zowindo byzost
E ut chedelyne p[ra]ſor zonc auttoritze
I h[ad] deside to yis eutnacion
pytt I h[ad] leered of zonc be mygryto
to p[ritto] it ſo[py] in expeATION
Witnesſe upon zo orno diſtuction
And ges pat zoys hap sette in maner mynde
I conveyte ne[n] Administration
Auit comon p[rit] was b[op] cauſe and endo,

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3. if pat hane had any henynesse
Of wikked folk is appyn dvident

In maynlieu of tixing and jiztisnieſſo
By vieſſer freedom of my costiſco
Of mynſtý men spawed non oſſent
When com gast no pupl o wold o appſſo
In mete by ene arip mynſtý reſſent
And ofteu lette by of bis wikkedneſſo

4. And Stainſo will o poſſe of p wittie houſe
How often a tafte by downe of bis malte
And many a poor man and answeryn houſe
pat avarè a ſatt by curſed doncito
Of men pat ſil of benyn avaro et vuto
Halpo hem ofte outo of adnſito
ſtoz to defend hem onto of such folke
do my aſtate put ni jupto

5. Her was Icarus man pat mo from jiztis dano
Bonjons by fanor by ſiend bip or by abate
Witn wban calbog po courtices now and nowe
So put ni praldomo and in ſmil ſeruage
What by tributo and wban by caviato
And what co raleyno and cyporcion
As ore me ſene po harino of pat damato
As penn pat auffesd to ſukation

6. And wban pynuico p Gist Campanio
was oto oppſed in a dax 3celo
pat no man moſt ocelo tomo et dy
til pat po houſo had doo vy his daries
And such a price do ſevenons et do deu
pat poor men wero Harmed and anoyd
pan arip flood po bynacces officiu

Wetyno no bynac pat ſtatuto | Deſtuyed
And pailyno eſo a compeſo of Boine
What pales houſe had apperſed so -

That p[er] his soodes falsh[hy] by nonno
I restenred hy when pat p[er] his woldo or no
Allyno pat was counsilo aldo
pat was a juste to a g[en]ons peynt
oyf sif allone to s[an]eu hy vyfio
of dipnano | assise g[ue]te disdeyno

That had actised hy h[is] s[ome]p z[ou]
In palayn h[an]o | hat[es] and c[om]p'to
for lond of viyt and were not p[er] mo[ro]
for to be fano[d]s of p[er] comnato
Suf[er] | no fienslip h[an]o as touvardo mo
p[er] h[yn]tes z[allo] | h[an]o no lond deserv'd
my s[ome]p pan | schulde p[er] c[ome]r | so
my outfor p[er] w[he]r]o | h[an]o lond deserv'd.

Itt norro hyr hom iwas | actised p[er]s
f[or] c[om]p of non pat iwas of h[on]est famo
S[on] o[n] per was pat h[es]ht z[ap]liu[s]
p[er] h[yn]tes before h[as] b[ey]f f[or]m'd o[n] blam'd
and o[n]te of offi[c]o iwas h[e] p[itt]e w[er] f[am]o
and o[n] hy h[ef]llo | at n[y]p[the]f and at n[ed]o
h[os] iwas accept'd ac[i]se of n[ny] nam[o]
Stur'd p[er] to hy c[i]st'es and hy m[ed]o

It op[er] two pat h[an] me p[er]s desfiled
were Gaudens[iu]s and op[ilion]
which pat p[er] h[yn]tes justes h[as] e[pi]led
f[or] certeyn [in]fette p[er] h[as] | d[on]
but m[or] to sentuarie pan be p[er] o[n]
p[er]u to defende ast[ern] p[er] h[yn]tes l[am]o
And kno[w]mes p[er] p[er] h[yn]tes comannded o[n]o
that o[n]te of sentuariy p[er] schulde b[er] d[ra]i[k]o

Itt if p[er] voided p[er] o[n]te of d[an]eu[n]
by t[ym]o affixed at a certeyn d[ay]
and p[er]e r[om]to r[om] an p[er] h[is] ch[il]fio b[ran]o
and b[er] compelled for to z[on] p[er] u[ra]y