and bridles, covered with precious cloth and rich bars and plates of gold and silver. For which God saith by Zechariah the prophet, “I will confound the riders of such horses.” These folk take little regard of the riding of God’s Son of heaven, and of his harness, when he rode upon an ass, and had no other harness but the poor clothes of his disciples; nor we read not that ever he rode on any other beast. I speak this for the sin of superfluity, and not for reasonable honesty, 5107 when reason it requireth. And moreover, certes, pride is greatly notified in holding of great meinie, 5108 when they be of little profit or of right no profit, and namely 5109 when that meinie is felonous and damageous 5110 to the people by hardiness 5111