[Sidenote: Seed of Discretion.] There is a sede, that is called Discretio_n_, and if a husband haue of that sede, and myngle it amonge his other cornes, they wyll growe moche the better; for that sede wyll tell hym, how many castes of corne 4 euery lande ought to haue. And a yonge husbande, and may fortune some olde husbande, hath not sufficyente [Sidenote: Borrow discretion, if you have it not.] of that sede: and he that lackethe, let hym borowe of his neyghbours that haue. And his neyghbours 8 be vnkynde, if they wyll not lende this yonge housbande parte of this sede. For this sede of Discretion hath a wonders property: for the more that it is taken of or lente, the more it is. And therfore me semeth, 12 [Sidenote: [Fol. 9_b_.]] it shoulde be more spyrituall than temporall, wherin [Sidenote: Temporal things, when divided, wane.] is a greate dyuersitie. For a temporall thynge, the more it is deuyded, the lesse it is: and a spirytuall thynge, the more it is deuided, the more it is. _Verbi 16 gratia._ For ensaumple, I put case a wyfe brynge a lofe of breade to the churche, to make holy breade of; whan it is cut in many smal peces, and holy breade made therof, there may be so many men, women, 20 and children in the churche, that by that tyme the priest hath delte to euery one of them a lyttell pece, there shall neuer a crume be lefte in the hamper. And a [Sidenote: Spiritual things, when divided, wax.] spiritualle thynge as a _Pater-noster_, or a prayer, that any 24 man can say, let hym teache it to .xx., a .C., or to a .M., yet is the prayer neuer the lesse, but moche more. And so this sede of Discrecio_n_ is but wisdome and reason: and he that hath wysedome, reason, and discretion may teche 28 it, and enforme other men as he is bounde to do. Wherein he shall haue thanke of god: and he doth but as god hath [Sidenote: Matt. x. 8.] commaunded hym in his gospell, _Quod gratis accepistis, gratis date_: That thynge that ye toke frely, gyue it frely 32 again, and yet shall ye haue neuer the lesse. 12. ¶ Howe all maner corne shoulde be sowen.