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þe þæt geat is swȳþe wīd, and sē weg is swīþe rūm þe tō forspillednesse gelǣt, and swȳþe manega synt þe þurh þone weg farað.^[1]

14. Ēalā hū neara and hū angsum is þæt geat and sē weg þe tō līfe gelǣdt, and swȳþe fēawa synt þe þone weg findon!^[2]

Ðys godspell gebyrað on þǣre nygoðan wucan ofer pentecosten.

15. Warniað ēow fram lēasum wītegum, þā cumað tō ēow on scēapa gegyrelum, ac hig bēoð innane rēafigende wulfas.^[3]

16. Fram hyra wæstmun gē hī undergytað. Cwyst þū gaderað man wīnberian of þornum, oððe fīcæppla of þyrncinum?^[4]

17. Swā ǣlc gōd trēow byrþ gōde wæstmas, and ǣlc yfel trēow byrþ yfele wæstmas.^[5]

18. Ne mæg þæt gōde trēow beran yfle wæstmas, ne þæt yfele trēow gōde wæstmas.^[6]

19. Ǣlc trēow þe ne byrð gōdne wæstm sȳ hyt forcorfen, and on fȳr āworpen.

20. Witodlīce be hyra^[7] wæstmum gē hig oncnāwað.

21. Ne gǣð ǣlc þǣra on heofena rīce þe cwyþ

1. A, forspyllednysse; B, gelætt; A, synd.
2. A, nearu; B, ancsum; A, læt (for gelædt); A, synd; B, finden.
3. A, gegyrlum; B, reafiende.
4. B, Cwysþu; A, winbergean; A, þyrcenum.
5. B, tryw (twice).
6. B, om. Ne . . . beoran yfle wæstmas (homœoteleuton; supplied by the scribe on the margin); A, yfele (twice).
7. A, heora.