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lawe oweth, after desertes, to ben rewarded by payne or by mede,
but-if mercy weyve the payne. So than †by part resonfully may
be seye, that mercy bothe right and lawe passeth. Th' entent
of al these maters is the lest clere understanding, to weten, at
th'ende of this thirde boke; ful knowing, thorow goddes grace,
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I thinke to make neverthelater. Yet if these thinges han a good
and a †sleigh inseër, whiche that can souke hony of the harde
stone, oyle of the drye rocke, [he] may lightly fele nobley of mater