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leur mort. Car par leur avarite et chevanche les
sciences viennent a neant si que a pau quelles
ne sont peries. Et che qui orendroit en est sceu
vient et naist de la cite de paris plus que de nulle
aultre cite. Des trois manieres de gens et com
ment clergie vint premierement en france
ORendroit rengne clergie moult fort a
paris. sicomme jadis elle fist a thenes une cite
lors moult noble et puissante. Les philosophes
qui lors estoient et qui les aultres devoient enseig
nier et aprendre ne poseerent que trois manieres
de gens au monde selon leur entendement. Che
furent clercs chevaliers et labouriers. Les labouriers
ou gaigneurs de terre doient pourveoir aux clers
et aux chevaliers che que mestier leur est pour vi
vre au monde honnestement. Et le chevalier les
doit garder et deffendre comme bon seigneur que
ilz ne facent tort les ungs aux aulters. Et les clers
doivent enseignier les deux manieres de gens et
les doivent adrechier de leurs euvres si que nul ne
face chose dont il perde dieu na sa grace. Ainsi po

their death. For due to their avarice and acquired wealth
the sciences are coming to naught, so that they have almost
perished. And this is known to happen these days in the city
of Paris, more than any other city. [rubric] Of the three types
of people and how scholarship first came to France. [rubric]
These days scholarship has a leading position in
Paris, which is as Athens used to be, a very noble and
powerful city. The philosophers who lived there at that time, who studied and
taught others, identified only three kinds of people in the world, according
to their understanding. These were scholars, knights, and laborers.
The laborers, or those who worked on the land, were required
to provide to the scholars and the knights with whatever was
necessary for them to live honestly in the world. And the knight
was required to guard and defend them, as a good lord, so
that they should not harm each other. And the scholars
were required to teach the other two types of people and to
strive with their works to make sure that no one did
anything by which he would be lost to God or His grace. In this way,

leur mort. Car par leur avarite et chevanche les
sciences viennent a neant si que a pau quelles
ne sont peries. Et che qui orendroit en est sceu
vient et naist de la cite de paris plus que de nulle
aultre cite. Des trois manieres de gens et com
ment clergie vint premierement en france
ORendroit rengne clergie moult fort a
paris. sicomme jadis elle fist a thenes une cite
lors moult noble et puissante. Les philosophes
qui lors estoient et qui les aultres devoient enseig
nier et aprendre ne poseerent que trois manieres
de gens au monde selon leur entendement. Che
furent clercs chevaliers et labouriers. Les labouriers
ou gaigneurs de terre doient pourveoir aux clers
et aux chevaliers che que mestier leur est pour vi
vre au monde honnestement. Et le chevalier les
doit garder et deffendre comme bon seigneur que
ilz ne facent tort les ungs aux aulters. Et les clers
doivent enseignier les deux manieres de gens et
les doivent adrechier de leurs euvres si que nul ne
face chose dont il perde dieu na sa grace. Ainsi po

their death. For due to their avarice and acquired wealth
the sciences are coming to naught, so that they have almost
perished. And this is known to happen these days in the city
of Paris, more than any other city. [rubric] Of the three types
of people and how scholarship first came to France. [rubric]
These days scholarship has a leading position in
Paris, which is as Athens used to be, a very noble and
powerful city. The philosophers who lived there at that time, who studied and
taught others, identified only three kinds of people in the world, according
to their understanding. These were scholars, knights, and laborers.
The laborers, or those who worked on the land, were required
to provide to the scholars and the knights with whatever was
necessary for them to live honestly in the world. And the knight
was required to guard and defend them, as a good lord, so
that they should not harm each other. And the scholars
were required to teach the other two types of people and to
strive with their works to make sure that no one did
anything by which he would be lost to God or His grace. In this way,