For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; and man hath no preeminence above the beasts: for all is vanity.
Þerfor oon is þe perisching of man and of beestis, and euene condicioun is of euer eithir; as a man dieth, so and tho beestis dien; alle beestis breþen in lijk maner, and a man hath no thing more than a beeste.