Described Hardwick & Luard: i.246–9.

[1]

f. 98v

Sum men as richard hampole seyth ben begylyd wiþ ouer myche abstynence of mete and drynke and of slepe and þat is of temptacyoun of þe deuyll for to make hem fayle at here myd werk so þat þei bryng it to no gode ende as þei schuld done if þei knowe resoun and helde discrecyoun and so þei lese here meryt …

f. 100

… and knowyst þiself and god better þan þou dost now þan if þou se þat it be to do þou myght take to þe more abstynence.

‘Sequitur hic unum capitulum de discrecione habenda non solum in cibo et potu sed etiam in sompno et est extractum de tractatu quem transmisit cuidam recluse prefatus ricardus de hampole’ (f. 98v); ‘hucusque ricardus hampole’ (f. 100). Extract from Richard Rolle, Form of Living, occurring here as II.xvi of Speculum Spiritualium. IPMEP 351; Wells Rev. 9:3420–22 [11]. Ed. Ogilvie-Thomson, pp. 3–25. This extract is equivalent to Ogilvie- Thomson pp. 4–25 lines 48–88, 310–22, 440–55.

Other texts: Ogilvie-Thomson (1988, pp. xxxvi–xliv) lists 44 MSS (28 full, 16 extracts); this MS not noted by her. IMEP 12 p. 5 [5] adds another fragment in BodL Bodley 554 ff. 88v–89, for which see M. P. Kuczynski, ‘A Fragment of Richard Rolle's Form of Living in MS Bodley 554’, Bodleian Library Record 15.1 (1994), 20–33, and notes that Cambridge Fitzwilliam, Bradfer-Lawrence Dep BL 10 is now Tokyo, Toshiyuki Takamiya 66. Jones, ‘Rolle’, lists the 6 (of 10) MSS of Speculum Spiritualium which contain II.xvi, and notes that the chapter has been lost from one further MS. See Dd.5.64 [1]; Ff.5.40 [8]; Ff.5.45 [1]; Hh.1.12 [16, 27–29]; Ii.4.9 [25]; Ii.6.40 [9]; Ii.6.55 [1].

[2]

f. 226v

Take hede before þat þou be not lore thynke thynke thynke what þou were what þou are what þou schalt be.

Occurs amongst a number of Latin maxims. Listed as NIMEV 3250 and described as ‘five non-rhyming lines’.

s. xv ex.