No More Learning

shronk
39 _lyche_--lyk
40 _semed[e]_--semede
_touched[e]_--towchede
41 _when_--whan
_hef_--MS. heued, C. hef
_heyer_--hyere
42 _perced[e]_--percede
_sy? t_--syhte
_lokyng_--lookynge
44 _crafte_--craft
45 _wouen_--MS. wonnen, C. wouen
_owen hondes_--owne handes
46 _knew_--MS. knewe, C. knewh
_selfe declaryng_--self declarynge
_schewyng_--shewynge
47 _derkenes_--dirknesse
_forleten_--forletyn
48 _dispised_--despised
_had[de] duskid_--hadde dusked
_dirkid_--derked
49 _by-smoked_--the smokede
_ne? erest[e]_--nethereste
50 _? ese_--thise
51 _swiche_--omitted
_gregkysche_--grekyssh{e}
_signifie? _--syngnifieth
52 _hey? est[e]_--heyeste]

[Headnote:
A DESCRIPTION OF PHILOSOPHY. ]

[Sidenote: Between the letters were steps like a ladder. ]

? And by-twene ?
ese two l{ett}res ? ere weren seien degrees
nobly wrou? t in manere of laddres. By wyche
degrees men my? t[en] clymbe fro ? e ne? emast[e] l{ett}re 56
to ? e ouermast[e].

[Sidenote: Philosophy's garments were tattered and torn, and
pieces had been carried violently off. ]

? Na? eles hondes of su{m} men
hadde korue ? {a}t clo? e by vyolence {and} by strenke? .
?