1349. slewe; downe. 1350. There. 1352. downe. 1353. bete; slewe. 1358. wrytynge. 1361. mayde. 1362. And the lambe (_om._ And); _supply_ for sinners. 1364. erthely harme. 1366-7. wrytynge. 1369. freshe. 1370. maynteyne. 1371. often (_read_ oft). 1375. hye; lowe. 1378. Eche; sende. 1379. wrytynge. * * * * * III. JACK UPLAND. I, Jack Uplande, make my mone to very god and to all true belevinge in Christ, that Antichrist and his disciples, by colour of holines, walken and deceiven Christes church by many fals figures, wherethrough, by Antichrist and his, many vertues been transposed to vices. 5 But the fellest folk that ever Antichrist found been last brought into the church, and in a wonder wyse; for they been of divers sectes of Antichrist, sowen of divers countrees and kinredes. And all men knowen wel, that they ben not obedient to bishoppes, ne lege men to kinges; neither they tillen ne 10 sowen, weden, ne repen woode, corn, ne gras, neither nothing that man shuld helpe but only hem-selves, hir lyves to sustein. And these men han all maner power of god, as they sayen, in heaven and in earth, to sell heaven and hell to whom that hem lyketh; and these wrecches wete never where to been 15 hemselves. And therfore, frere, if thine order and rules ben grounded on goddes law, tell thou me, Jack Upland, that I aske of thee; and if thou be or thinkest to be on Christes syde, kepe thy pacience. Saynt Paul techeth, that al our dedes shuld be don in charitè, 20 and els it is nought worth, but displesing to god and harm to oure owne soules. And for because freres chalengen to be gretest clerkes of the church, and next folowinge Christ in livinge, men shulde, for charitè, axe hem some questions, and pray hem to grounde their answers in reson and in holy writ; for 25 els their answere wolde nought be worth, be it florished never so faire; and, as me think, men might skilfully axe thus of a frere. 1. Frere, how many orders be in erthe, and which is the perfitest order? Of what order art thou? Who made thyn order? What is thy rule? Is there ony perfiter rule than Christ 30 himselfe made? If Christes rule be moost perfit, why rulest thou thee not therafter? Without more, why shall a frere be more punished if he breke the rule that his patron made, than if he breke the hestes that god himself made? 2. Approveth Christ ony more religions than oon, that saynt 35 James speketh of? If he approveth no more, why hast thou left his rule, and taken another? Why is a frere apostata, that leveth his order and taketh another secte; sith there is but oon religion of Christ?