Of god & man but with out penitence  
And confession with filth and v …  
Of deadly sins presumeth to accede  
un to the holy mysterise in deed  
He etith & drynkith his doom to him for sooth  
●che deadly sinner that cursidly so doth  
But we therefore that many day before  
with confession of our sins sore  
with penitence are chastysid & made thin  
with lean lent and fast again our sin  
with alms doing & bitter teris weeping  
And fro sins sluggy & fro sleeping  
Are cleney wash with outyn foul enfection  
Than in the day of holy resurrection  
Of our lord we to his board accede  
In faith catholic with flesh & blood us feed  
Of the unspotted lamb of christ Jesus  
Not unto doom but to increase of virtue  
we it teceyve to remission of sin  
Finally the bliss of heaven to win  
That is called healthful beatitude  
It for to take with the hole multitude  
Of joy & bliss to all our reparation  
we take this fest as to our preparation  
And thus my friends it needeth you to do  
These textis and reasons for to consent unto  
when this people in general had perceived  
The qwenies words & specially conceyvid  
These textis holy & true exposition  
Her wise words of true humble condition  
They could answer in no manner wise  
For ripe sentence with words ware & wise  
But when they knew the churches institution●  
Fron thence forward to thexecutions  
Of holy churches rite & governance  
They took to them this gentle observance  
In perceiving of this healthful mystery  
And kept it forth with conscience good & merry  

Preterea in aliquibus locis. etc.  

ANd in scotland also in divers placis  
Men there were I trow for lack of gracꝭ  
again holy churches consuetude  
That used to say myss that people rude  
with out the churches powere & licence  
Abhoiable was this insolence  
The which miss use this blessed holy qwene  
In that error in no wise would abstain  
In God's cause she set her heart on fire  
with all her study it was her hole desire  
For to destroy & bring to nought that rite  
That after ward none durst in soil non site  
So presume or of that foot appear  
In all the land of scottis ferr ne new  
Also they used against the reverence  
Of holy sunday again christs complacence  
In servile werkis to be laborious  
But the qwene devout & virtuous  
She wyd their default by authority  
And by reason to each in his degree  
saying thus that cristis holy day  
which is sunday was ordained this is no nay  
For cristis high blessed resurrection  
That every christian man should have affection  
It to have in laud & veneration  
That we should do no work nor operation  
That were servile for fro seruilite  
Of the fiend his bondage & pooste  
we were bought as well we known all  
Thus are we free after that we were thrall  
That day we should be devout & holy  
Keeping us fro nycete sin & folly  
This affirm the pope saint gregory  
where he saith thus in his devout story  
In the sunday no man put him in press  
from servile werkis but fro that labowr cease  
Insist to prayer in all manner wise  
In ghostly labour should he so devise  
That if ought of vice and insolence  
By six days before of negligence  
In the hole week it happened to be done  
That in sunday that cometh after soon  
Of Christ's rising should be expiation  
clean by praierꝭ in ghostly consolation  
And saint Gregor the pope & holy clerk  
A certain man for an earthly work  
Done on sunday espied in probation  
He smote with cursing & straight increpation  
with heart blaming & them that him also  
So conseylid & styrid him there to  
He jugid them for to be denouncid  
By ii month is cursed it was ꝓnouncid  
In opyn church this was his decree  
Till it was correct it would no other be  
when the reasons of the qwene devout  
well autorisid were thus brought about  
They were concludid & cowd not again say  
But that they must keep holy the sunday  
from work servile & so they did in deed  
From thence forward the better for to speed  
And further more unleeful mariagis  
Of stepmodres had yey in usagꝭ  
And that a man should wed his brotheris wife  
after that he was passed fro this life  
These were used & therefore the qwene  
These cursed uses she could not sustain  
And said that all faithful people must  
Her cursed use for sakyn & her lust  
And as death such marriage escheu  
And to good use conform them in virtue  
And in that land were many things more  
Of wikkid rite & cursed use also  
again the churches goodly ordinance  
which in that counsel by her governance  
were annulled dampuyd & cassate  
And fro those bounds fully extirpate  
Out of the realm by her providence  
Such was her wit prudence & sapiens    

Explicit scða distinctio & incipit tertia  
Cum enim de salute. etc.    


ALso more over when she of soul's health  
And wisdom spoke & of ghostly wealth