e corage wi? i{n}ne. {and} ?ou? ?ei ne anoye nat ?e body.
?itte vices wooden to distroien men by wounde of ?ou?t.
TUNC EGO FATEOR INQ{UA}M.
[Sidenote: [The ferthe p{ro}se.]]
++?an seide I ?
us I
confesse
{and} am aknowe q{uo}d I.
ne I ne se nat
?at men may seyn as by ry?t. ?{a}t shrewes ne ben nat chaunged in to
beestes by ?e qualite of hir soules. ? Al be it so ?{a}t ?ei kepen ?itte
?e forme of ?e body of mankynde. but I nolde nat of shrewes of whiche ?e
?