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R.10.314KD.10.297 ¶ Amonges riȝtful religiouse þis reule schulde be
holde . These lines are not attested in beta. F's version is sufficiently
different from R's to require full reproduction here (cf. Appendix 1, R10.314-26, for details
and any cross-references to the C version):
A-mongis ryghtful relygous / þis rewle sholde be holde.
[¶] Seynt Gregory
þe grete clerk / & þe goode pope.
Of Relygyonys rewle / he reersiþ in hise bookis.
& seyþ in exsomple / þat þeyhȝ sholde do þere-after.
¶ Whan fysshis
faile þe flood / & þe fressh water.
Þey dyȝen for drowhte / whan þei
dreyȝe lyȝe.
Ryght so quod Gregory / religioun trollyþ.
It steruyþ
& stynkþ / & stelyþ lordis almesse
Þat owt of Couent & cloistre / coueytyn
to lybbe.
For if hevene be in erthe / & ese to þe soule.
It ys in cloystre /
or in skole / be fele skylys y fyȝnde.
For in Cloistre comeþ no man / to
fyȝhte / ne to chyȝde.
But al is buxumnesse & bookis / to rede & to
leerne.
F.7.310KD.10.297A-mongis ryghtful relygous / þis rewle sholde be holde. These lines are not attested in beta.