The.xxx. chapyter

ANother thynge also whych thys pacyfyer semeth to disprayse vnder the name of proude worldely coū tenaūce / yf men were as redy in a dede of hys owne nature indifferent, to cōstrue y• mynd and entent of the doer to the better part, as they be of their owne in warde goodnes to cō strue & report it to the worse / than myghte I saye that the same thynge whych they call the prowde worldely countenaunce, they myghte & wolde call a ful cherytable almoyse / that is to wytte the ryghte honest fyndynge & good bryngynge vp of so many temporall men in theyr seruyce / whiche though they be no beggers, yet myghte peraduenture the greate parte of them go begge if they founde them not, but sent them abrode to seke them selfe a seruyce.

And lyke as yf you wolde giue a pore man some money bycause he nedeth, and yet wolde make hym worke therfore in your gardayne, lest he sholde by your almoyse lyue idell and waxe a loyterer, the labour that he dothe taketh not away the nature & meryte of your almoyse: no mo[…]e it maketh the fyndynge of seruaūtes none almoise, though they wayte on the fynder and do hym seruyce in hys house. And of all almoyse the chyefe is, to se theym well broughte vppe, and well and honestely guyded. In whyche poynte though neyther parte do full theyr dutye / yet I suppose in good fayth, that the spyrytualty goth in that poynt which is no small almoyse, rather somewhat afore vs then anythynge dragge behynde vs.