The only drawback to Pecock's style, for a modern reader, is his tendency to pleonasm. The reason already suggested does not cover nearly all the instances of bouble, or even triple, expressions. Pecock is not wholly free from the old love of balanced phrases, nor perhaps, from the turn for quasi-legal forms affected in his age. He repeats the seid, thenow rehercid tiresomely, and rejoices in triplicates: so mich fonned, masid and dotid: ech gouernaunce or conuersacioun or policie which Holi Scripture werneth not and forbedeth not.