[Et si sal evanuerit in quo salietur, etc.]

"For fressh flessh outher fissh,

Whan it salt failleth,

It is unsavory for sothe,

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Y-soden or y-bake;

So is mannes soule, soothly,

That seeth no goode ensamples

Of hem of holi chirche,

That the heighe wey sholde teche,