But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in 'their own' counsels 'and' in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
And þei herden not, neþer bowiden doun her eere, but þei yeden in her lustis, and in þe schrewidnesse of her yuel herte; and þei ben put bihynde, and not bifore,