| | Withoute hym we haue no might certeyn | |
| | Yf that hym list to stonden there agayn | |
| | And som tyme at our pray haue we leue | |
| 190 | Only the soule and not the body to greue | |
| | Witnes of Iob whom we dide woo | |
| | And som tyme haue we might on bothe two | |
| | This is to say on soule and on body eek | |
| | And somtyme we be suffrid for to seke | |
| 195 | Vp on a man and do his soule vnreste | |
| | And not his body and al for the beste | |
| | Whan he withstandith our temptacion | |
| | It is a cause of his saluacion | |
| | Al be it that it was not oure entent | |
| 200 | He sholde be saaf by goddis Iugement | |
| | And somtyme we be seruaunt vnto man | |
| | As to the archebisshop saint Dunstan | |
| | And to the apostil seruaunt was I | |
| | Yet tel me quod the sompnour feithfully | |
| 205 | Make ye your bodyes in suche wyse alway | |
| | Of elementis the fend answerde nay | |
| | Som tyme we faynyn and som tyme we aryse | |
| | With dede bodyes in fele sondry wyse | |
| | And speke as resonabil faire and wel | |
| 210 | As the Phitonysse did to Samuel | |
| | And yet wol som men sayn it was not he | |
| | I do no force of your diuinite | |
| | But o thing warne I the I wol not iape | |
| | Thou wolt wete algatis how we be shape | |
| 215 | Thou shalt here aftirward my brother dere | |
