submitted our selues and geuen vpp our power) to deuoure vpp body and soule / and to kepe vs / downe in darkenesse / with violence of swerde / and with all falshed and gyle.

In so moch that if any do but lift vpp his nose to smell aftir the trueth / they swapp him in the face with a fire brande to sengge his smellynge / or if he open one of his eyes to once loke towarde the light of gods worde / they bleare and dase his sight with their false iuglynge: so that if it were possible / though he were gods electe / he coude not but be kepte doune and perish for lacke of knowlege of the trueth.

And in like maner / because christ had institute the sacrament of his body and bloude / to kepe vs in remembraunce of his bodye breakinge and bloud shedynge for oure synnes / therfore went they and sett vpp this facion of the masse and ordeyned sacramentes in the ornamentes therof to signifie and expresse all the rest of his passion. The amice on the heed is the kercheue that Christ was blyndfolded with / when the soudioures buffeted him and mocked him sayenge: prophete vn to vs who smote the? But now it maye well signifie that he that putteth it on / is blynd and hath professed to leade vs aftir him in darkenesse / acordynge vn to the begynnynge of his playe. And the flappe theron is the croune of thorne. And the albe is the white garment that herode put on him / sayenge he was a fole because he held his peace and wold not answere him. And the .ij. flappes on the sleues and the other .ij. on the albe beneth ouer agenst his fete behind and before / are the .iiij. nayles. And the fanon on his hand / the cord that his handes were bound with: And the stole the rope where with he was