ben neither livinge ne trewe, ne everlastinge. After these wordes
they clepen "goddes" images wrought with mennes handes.
But now [art thou a] resonable creature, that by adopcion alone
art to the grete god everlastinge, and therby thou art "god"
cleped: let thy †faders maners so entre thy wittes that thou might
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folowe, in-as-moche as longeth to thee, thy †faders worship, so
that in nothinge thy kynde from his wil declyne, ne from his
nobley perverte. In this wyse if thou werche, thou art above
al other thinges save god alone; and so say no more "thyn herte