¶ Certys q{uo}d I it remembreþ me nat þat euere I was so free of my þouȝt. þat I ne was al-wey in anguysh{e} of 1912 somwhat. [Sidenote: _P._ That was because something was absent which you did desire, or something present which you would fain be quit of.] þ{a}t was þat þou lakkedest þat þou noldest han lakked. or ellys þou haddest þat þou noldest han had. [Sidenote: _B._ That’s quite true.] ryȝt so is it q{uod} I þan. [Sidenote: _P._ Then you did desire the presence of the one and the absence of the other?] desiredest þou þe p{re}sence of þat oon {and} þe absence of þat oþer. 1916 [Sidenote: _B._ I confess I did.] I graunt[e] wel q{uod} .I. [Sidenote: _P._ Every man is in need of what he desires.] for soþe q{uod} she þan nediþ þer somwhat þat euery man desireþ. [Sidenote: _B._ Certainly he is.] ȝe þer nediþ q{uod} I. [Sidenote: _P._ If a man lack anything can he be supremely happy?] ¶ Certis q{uod} she {and} he þat haþ lakke or nede of a wyȝt nis nat in euery way suffisaunt to hym self. 1920 [Sidenote: _B._ No.] no q{uod} .I. [Sidenote: _P._ Did you not in your abundance want for somewhat?] {and} þou q{uo}d she in alle þe plente of þi rycchesse haddest þilke lak of suffisaunce. [Sidenote: _B._ What then if I did?] ¶ what ellis q{uod} .I. [Sidenote: _P._ It follows that riches cannot put a man beyond all want, although this was what they seemed to promise.] ¶ þanne may nat rycchesse maken þat a man nis nedy. ne þat he be suffisaunt to hym self. {and} 1924 þat was it þ{a}t þei byhyȝten as it semeþ. [Sidenote: Money may part company with its owner, however unwilling he may be to lose it.] ¶ and eke certys I trowe þat þis be gretly to consydere þat moneye ne haþ nat in hys owen kynde þat it ne may ben by-nomen of hem þat han it maugre hem. [Sidenote: _B._ I confess that’s true.] ¶ I by-knowe 1928 it wel q{uod} I [Sidenote: _P._ It ought to be confessed when every day we see _might_ prevailing over _right_.] ¶ whi sholdest þou nat by-knowen it q{uod} she. whan euery day þe strenger folke by-nymen it fram þe febler maugre hem. [Sidenote: From whence springs so much litigation, but from this, that men seek to recover their own of which they have been unjustly deprived?] ¶ Fro whennes comen ellys alle þise foreine compleintes or quereles of 1932 plety{n}g{us}. ¶ But for þat men axen aȝeine her moneye þat haþ be by-nomen hem by force or by gyle. {and} alwey maugre hem. [Sidenote: _B._ Nothing is more true.] ¶ Ryȝt so it is q{uod} I. [Sidenote: _P._ Then a man needs the assistance of others in order to keep his riches.]