to ordeyne the thynges that apperteyne to the counceyll/
and to the besoygne of the royame/ For yf eche man
shold entende to his owen proper thynges/ And y’t
they defended not ner toke hede vnto the thingis y’t
apperteynen to the kynge to the comyn and to the royame/
the royalme shold an[=o]n be deuided in parties And
thus myght the Iuge regne/ And the name of the dignyte
royall shold be lost/ And truly for as moche as the
kynge holdeth the dignyte aboue alle other and the
seygnourye royall/ therfore hit apperteyneth not that
he absente hym longe/ ne wythdrawe hym ferre by space
of tyme from the maister siege of his royame/ For
whan he wele meue hym/ he ought not to passe at the
first draught the nombre of .iii. poynts/ And whan
he begynneth thus to meue from his whyt poynt/ he
hath the nature of the rooks of the right syde and
of the lifte syde for to goo black or whithe/ And also
he may goo vnto the white poynt where the gardes of
the Cyte ben sette And in this poynt he hath the nature
of a knyght. And thyse two maners of meuynge
apperteyneth otherwhile to the quene/ and for as moche
as the kynge and the quene that ben conioyned to geder
by mariage ben one thynge as one flessh and blood/
therfore may the kynge meue on the lifte side of his
propre poynt also wele as he were sette in the place
of the quene whiche is black/ and whan he goth right
in maner of the rook only/ And hit happen that the
aduersarie be not couered in ony poynt in the seconde
ligne/ The kynge may not passe from his black poynt
vnto the thirde ligne/ And thus he sortisith the nature
of the rook on the ryght syde and lyfte syde vnto
the place of the knyghtes and for to goo ryght to
fore In to the whyte poynt to fore the marchant/ And
the kynge also sortyst the nature of the knyghtes
whan he goth on the ryght syde in two maners/ For
he may put hym in the voyde space to fore the phisicyen/
And in the black space to fore the tauerner/ And on
the other side he goth in to other two places in lyk
wise that is to fore the smyth/ and the notarye/ And
thus as in goynge out first in to .iiii. poynts he
sorteth the nature of knyghtes/ and also the kynge
sortiseth the nature of the alphins at his first yssu
in to .ii. places And he may goo on bothe sides vnto
the white place voyde/ that one to fore y’e smith
on that on side/ and that other to for the tauerner
on that other side/ All these yssues hath y’e
kyng out of his propre place of his owen vertue whan
he begynneth to meue. But whan he is ones meuyd
fro his propre place/ He may not meue but in to one
space or poynt/ and so from one to an other/ And than
he sortiseth the nature of the comyn peple/ and thus
by good right he hath in hymfelf the nature of alle/
For alle the vertue that is in the membres cometh
of the heed and all meuyng of the body/ The begynnynge
& lyf comen from the herte/ And all the dignyte that
the subgettes haue by execucion/ and contynuell apparence
of their meuynge & yssue/ The kynge deteyneth hit
& is attribued to hym/ the victorye of the knightes/