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The Index of Middle English Prose Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 March 2023
Described Hardwick & Luard: iv.362–4.
[1]
f. 135
Be deuout to god and tempere þyn herte wit him as mikul as þou may bowe mekely to þi prelatus and hold no rancour aʒeynes hem ne dispise hem ne deme hem nouʒt ne gruche nouʒt wit hem be in pes wit þy breþeryn be pacient in harde wordus and repreues ne deme no man liʒthli …
… be not proud in word ne in maneris hate money loue pouerte fle wymmen haue pite of diseysed be chaste in all and þou schalt beo sayf.
Extract from the Formula Noviciorum or De Exterioris et Interioris Hominis Compositione, Book 1, part 1, chapter 40. Wells Rev. 9:3458–9 [67]; Jolliffe I.4, O.6.
Other texts: The same extract occurs in BodL Ashmole 41 f. 135v, indexed in IMEP 9, Ashmole 41 [2]. For the expanded recension of the full text see Dd.2.33 [1].
s. xv.
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