Þe oþ᷑ rule is al wtoutẽ. ⁊ ruleþ þe bodı⹎ ⁊ bodılıche deden. þat techeþ al hou me ſchal beren hĩ wıþ outen. How.eten. How drınken. weren. syngen. slepen. waken.
The other rule is entirely external; it governs the body and bodily doings. It contains everything [about] how you should behave externally: howto eat, how to drink, dress, sing, sleep, and keep a vigil.
The finite past formsat,ate,aten are occasionally found; these reflect either the same analogical modification as modern Englishate or the development of Proto-West Germanic*ā to/aː/ in East Saxon Middle English.
Rettger, James Frederick (1934), “The Development of Ablaut in the Strong Verbs of the East Midland Dialects of Middle English”, inLanguage (Language Dissertations;16)[2], volume10, number 4,Philadelphia:Linguistic Society of America,→DOI,→ISSN,→OCLC, part 2 (Special and Irregular Verbs), chapter 5 (Verbs of Class V), pages136-138.