The fourth rule

Thynke how that we not onely sholde not grudge
But eke be glad and ioyfull of this fyght
And longe therfore all though we coude not Iudge
How that therby redounde vnto vs myght
Ony profyte but onely for delyght
To be confourmed and lyke in some behauour
To Iesu Chryst our blessed lorde & sauyoure

As often as thou dost warre and stryue.
By the resystence of ony synfull mocyon
Agaynst ony of thy sensuall wyttes fyue
Cast in thy mynde as oft with good deuocyon
How thou resemblest chryst / as with sowre pocyon
If thou payne thy tast: remembre therwithall
How chryst for the tasted eysell and gall

Yf thou withdrawe thyn handes and forbere
The rauen of ony thynge: remembre than
How his innocent handes nayled were
Yf thou be tempte wt pryde: thynke how that whan
He was in forme of god: yet of a bonde man
He toke the shap and humbled hym selfe for the
To the moost odiouse and vyle deth of a tree.

Consydre when thou arte moued to be wrothe
He who that was god / and of all men the best
Seynge hym selfe scorned scorged both
And as a thefe betwene.ij. theues threst
With all rebuke and shame: yet from his brest
Came neuer signe of wrath or of disdayne
But pacyently endured all the payne.

Thus euery snare and engyne of the deuyll
Yf thou this wyse peruse them by and by
There can be none so cursed or so euyll
But to some vertue thou mayst it applye
For ofte thou shalt: resystyng valyauntly
The fendes myght and socle fyery datte
Our […]auyour cryst resemble in some parte