The First Master said, that if anything had been better to any man living in this world than tribulation, God would have given it to His Son. But for He saw well there was nothing better than it, therefore He gave it to Him and made Him suffer most tribulation in this wretched world, more than ever did any man or ever shall.

The Second Master said, that if there were any man in this world that might be without spot of sin, as our Lord Jesu Christ was, and might live thirty year (an it were possible) without meat and drink, and also were so devout in prayer that he might speak with angels in the ear, as did Mary Maudelene : yet might he not deserve in that life so great meed as man deserveth in suffering of little tribulation.

The Third Master said, that if it so were that the Mother of God and all the saints of heaven prayed all for one man, yet should they not get him so much meed, nor so great, as he should get himself by meekness of suffering of a little tribulation.

The Fourth Master said : we worship the Cross for our Lord Jesu Christ hung thereupon bodily; but I say we should rather, and by more right and reason, have in mind that tribulation that He suffered thereupon for our guilts and trespasses.