No More Learning

[Sidenote: [* fol. 28. ]]

sonnere
p{er}auenture ? en ? {o}u woldest *or sonnere ? en ? ei hem
self wenen to lakken mowynge to done yuel.

[Sidenote: In the narrow limits of this life, nothing, however
tardy it appears, can seem to an immortal soul to have a very long
duration. ]

? For 3548
? ere nis no ? ing so late in so short bou{n}des of ? is lijf
? at is longe to abide. namelyche to a corage inmortel.
[Sidenote: The great hopes, and the subtle machinations of the
wicked, are often suddenly frustrated, by which an end is put to
their wickedness. ]

Of whiche shrewes ? e grete hope {and} ? e heye co{m}passy{n}g{us}
of shrewednesse is often destroyed by a 3552
sodeyne ende or ? ei ben war. {and} ? at ? ing establi? to
shrewes ? e ende of hir shrewednesse.

[Sidenote: If vice renders men wretched, the longer they are
vicious the longer must they be miserable. ]

? For yif ? at
shrewednesse maki? e wrecches. ?