[Sidenote: Matt. vi. 6.] Mat. vi. _Tu autem cum oraueris, intra [in] cubiculum tuum .i. in loco secreto, et clauso hostio, ora patrem tuum._ Whan thou shalte praye, entre into thy chambre or oratory, and steke the doore, and praye to the father of heuen. 48 [Sidenote: Isidore.] Isodorus, _Ardens oratio est non labiorum sed cordium, potius enim orandum est corde q_uam _ore_. The hoter prayer is with the harte than with the lyppes, rather pray with [Sidenote: 1 Sam. i. 13.] thy herte than with thy mouth. _Regum primo. Anna 52 loquebatur in corda._ Anna spake with the harte. [Sidenote: [Fol. 82_b_.]] 166. A meane to put away ydle thoughtes in prayinge. [Sidenote: Against idle thoughts.] And to auoyde wauerynge myndes, in worldlye occupations whanne thou shalte praye, I shall shewe vnto you the beste experience that euer I coulde fynde for the same, the whiche haue benne moche troubled therwith, and that 4 [Sidenote: If you understand Latin, keep your eye on the book, and remember the English of it.] is this. He that can rede and vnderstande latyne, let hym take his booke in his hande, and looke stedfastely vppon the same thynge that he readeth and seeth, that 8 is no trouble to hym, and remembre the englysshe of 8 the same, wherin he shall fynde greatte swetenes, and shall cause his mynde to folowe the same, and to leaue other worldly thoughtes. And he that canne-not reade nor [Sidenote: If not, think of Christ’s passion,] vnderstande his pater noster, Aue, nor Crede, he must 12 remembre the passyon of Christe, what peyne he suffered for hym, and all mankynde, for redemynge of theyr soules. And also the miracles and wonders that god hath doone, and fyrste what wonders were doone the nyghte of his 16 [Sidenote: and of His miracles;] natiuitie and byrthe. And howe he turned water in-to wyne, and made the blynde to se, the dombe to speake, the deafe to here, the lame to go, the sycke to be hole. [Sidenote: [Fol. 83.]] And howe he fed fyue thousande with two fysshes, and 20 fyue barley loues, wherof was lefte .xii. coffyns or skyppes of fragmentes. And howe he reised Lazare from deathe to lyfe, with manye moo myracles that be innumerable to be rehersed. And also to remembre the specyall poyntes 24 [Sidenote: how He was betrayed,] of his passion, howe he was solde & betrayed of Judas, and taken by the iewes, and broughte before Pylate, than to kynge Herode, and to bysshope Cayphas, and than to Pylate agayne, that iudged hym to death, and howe he 28 [Sidenote: scourged,] was bounde to a piller, and how they scurged, bobbed, mocked hym, spytte in his face, crowned hym with thornes, and caused hym to beare the crosse to the mounte of [Sidenote: and crucified;]