No More Learning

at
contienen ? e more p{ar}tie of me{n} ne ben nat. ne han no
beynge. ? but na? eles it is so. {and} ? us stant ? is ? ing

[Sidenote: That the wicked are bad I do not deny--but I do not
admit that they have any real existence. ]

for ? ei ? at ben shrewes I denye nat ? at ? ei ben shrewes.
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but I denye {and} sey[e] symplely and pleynly ? at ? ei
[ne] ben nat. ne han no beynge.

[Sidenote: You may call a corpse a dead man, but you cannot with
propriety call it a man. ]

for ry? t as ? ou my? test
seyn of ? e careyne of a man ? at it were a ded man.
? but ? ou ne my? test nat symplely callen it a man. 3308

[Sidenote: So the vicious are profligate men, but I cannot confess
they absolutely exist.