1 This is a true sayinge. Yf a ma covet ye office of a bysshope he desyreth a good worke.2 Ye and a bisshope must be fautlesse the husband of one wyfe sober discrete honestly aparelled harberous apt to teache3 not dronke no fighter not geve to filthy lucre: but gentle abhorrynge fightynge abhorrynge coveteousnes4 and one that rueleth his awne housse honestly havynge chyldren vnder obedience with all honeste.5 For yf a man cannot rule his owne housse how shall he care for the congregacion of God.6 He maye not be a yonge skoler lest he swell and faule into the iudgement of the evyll7 speaker. He must also be well reported of amonge them which are with out forth lest he fall into rebuke and snare of the evyll speaker.