And comfortye all crystene,
Wold holy churche amende.
Job the parfit patriarch
This proverbe wrot and tauhte,
To makye a man lovye mesure,
That monkes beeth and freeres.
Nunquam dicit Job, rugiet onager, etc.
Throughout this part of the poem, Whitaker's text differs very much in words and phraseology from the one now printed, but it would take up too much space to point out all these variations.
[10247]. Job vi, 5.
[10270]. 2 Corinth, ix, 9.