Of his louynge mynde & • tuouse behauour to his frēndes

HIs louers and frendes with grete benygnite & curtesye he entreted / whom he vsed in all secrete cōmuninge […]tuously to exhorte to godward whose goodely wordes so effectually wrought in y• herers: y• where a cōnynge man (but not so good as cōnynge) came to him on a daye for y• grete fame of his lernyng to cōmune with hym as they fell in talkynge of […]tue he was with the wordes of Picus so throughly perced that forth withall he forsoke his accustomed vyce and reformed his condicyons. The wordes y• he sayd vnto hym were these yf we hadde euer more before our eyen ye paynful deth of chryst which he suffred for the loue of vs: and than yf we wolde agayne thynke vpon our deth we sholde wele beware of synne. Merueylouse benignyte & curtesy he shewed vnto th[…] not whom strength of body or goodes of fortune magnified but to them whom lernynge & ꝯdiciōs boūde hȳ to fauoure / for simylytude of maners is a cause of loue & frendeshyp. Alikenes of condicions is (as Appolloniꝰ sayth an affinyte.