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HERE BEGINNETH THE SIX AND FORTIETH CHAPTER
A good teaching how a man shall flee these deceits, and work more with a listiness of spirit, than with any boisterousness of body.
AND therefore for God's love be wary in this work, and strain not thine heart in thy breast over-rudely nor out of measure; but work more with a list than with any worthless strength. For ever the more listily, the more meekly and ghostly: and ever the more rudely, the more bodily and beastly. And therefore be wary, for surely what beastly heart that presumeth for to touch the high mount of this work, it shall be beaten away with stones. Stones be hard and dry in their kind, and they hurt full sore where they hit. And surely such rude
