Coveitise-of-eighes 6670 Com ofter in mynde Than Do-wel or Do-bet, Among mydedes alle.
For James the gentile Jugged in hise bokes, 830 That feith withouten the feet Is right no thyng worthi, And as deed as a dore-tree, But if the dedes folwe.
Of alle kynne lybbynge laborers Lopen forth somme, As dikeres and delveres, That doon hire dedes ille, And dryveth forth the longe day With Dieu save dame Emme.
Swiche dedes I dide write, If he his day breke, I have mo manoirs thorugh rerages, Than thorugh miseretur et commodat.
And al that Marc hath y-maad, Mathew, Johan, and Lucas, Of thyne doughty dedes 3500 Was doon in oure armes.
For James the gentile Jugged in hise bokes That feith withouten the feet Is right nothyng worthi And as ded as a dore-tre But if the dedes folwe.
Nou is deuoutnes out icast, And mony gode dedesben clen for[gh]ete.
For otherwise it would lyttle auaile to do things for deseruing of the empyre, if afterwards your dedes be contrary to former deserts.
And as diuinely the father of Romaine eloquence doth say, how that philosophers by recording the glorious gestes and dedes of others, do seke after glory themselues.
But parentes offence or childrens trespas ought not to deface the vertuous dedes of their posterity.
Englande, and done suche dedes there that it shulde be spoken of xx yere after.
And whē they saye oure dedes with grace deserue heuen/ saye thou [with] Paule Ro.
Why be ye so hardy, to graunte, by letters of fraternite, to men and women, that they shall have part and merit of all your good dedes; and ye witen never whether god be apayed with youre dedes because of youre sinne?
For mekenesse in countenaunce, with a manly hert in dedes and in longe continuaunce, is the conisance of my livery to al my retinue delivered.
Hir dedes shuld be as bright as sterre, Hir living, lewed mannes light; 970 They say, the pope may not erre, Nede must that passe mannes might.
But that this thing more clerely be understande, it is for to knowe, whence and how thilke wil is so vicious, and so redy yveldedes to perfourme.
Witnesse of Rome that founder was, truly, 530 Of all knighthood anddedes marvelous; Record I take of Titus Livius.
Sith holy writ biddeth not thus, but even the contrary; for al such goostly dedes shulde be don freely, as god yeveth hem freely.
Saynt Paul techeth, that al our dedesshuld be don in charite, 20 and els it is nought worth, but displesing to god and harm to oure owne soules.
Sir Eglamour' 252, The knight must accomplish "dedes of armys thre" before he can marry the princess.
And thei hemself ben thilke same That setten most the world in blame, 630 Bot yet in contraire of her lore Ther is nothing thei loven more; So that semende of liht thei werke The dedes whiche are inward derke.
Bot evere it was a kinges riht To do the dedes of a knyht; 3850 For in the handes of a king The deth and lif is al o thing After the lawes of justice.
And forto preche therupon Crist bad to hise Apostles alle, The whos pouer as nou is falle On ous that ben of holi cherche, If we the goode dedes werche; 1800 For feith only sufficeth noght, Bot if good dede also be wroght.
Oure dedes ben of o colour And in effect of o decerte, Bot thi richesse and my poverte Tho ben noght taken evene liche.
The mihti kinges retenue That dai may stonde of no value 3410 With worldes strengthe to defende; For every man mot thanne entende To stonde upon his oghne dedes And leve alle othre mennes nedes.
Hise dedesben therof witnesse 790 Forth with the wisdom of his lore; It nedeth noght to seche more, He myhte noght have such manere, Of gentil blod bot if he were.
Two thinges ther ben in whiche the effect of alle the dedes of mankinde standeth, that is to seyn, wil and power; and yif that oon of thise two fayleth, ther nis nothing that may be don.
What other thing biwailen the cryinges of tragedies but only the dedes of Fortune, that with an unwar stroke overtorneth realmes of grete nobley?
And we haue beleued on Iesus Christ that we might be iustified by the faythe of Christe / and not by the dedes of the lawe / bicause that by the dedes of the lawe no fleshe shalbe iustified.
But they denye that they do worshippe the Images: They maye denye it in wordes / but in theyr dedes they do testifie cleane contrarye.
We knowe that a man is not iustified by the dedes of the lawe / [[Gala.
Enflamyd Messalina in suche wyse That euery nyght hir selfe she wolde disgyse And secretly go to the brothelhous For to fulfyll hir hote concupyssence What shall I wryte the dedes vicious Of Julia or, hir cruell offence.
If any hym for his dedesworthely accuse He couereth his venym: as symple of intent.
O man vnauysed, thy blyndnes set asyde Knowledge thy owne foly thy statelynes expel Let nat for thy eleuate mynde nor folysshe pryde, To order thy dedes by goode and wyse counsel Howbeit thou thynke thy reason doth excel Al other mennys wyt.
And tho was he called in contre Of the comune peple, For the dedes that he dide, Fili David, Jhesus.
And alle tho that ben fals, Fayre hem amende, And gyve hem wiit and good wil Swiche dedes to werch, That thei may wynnen the liif That evere shal lesten.
John Pa]ston and Thomas Howys, or be hem that shal aftyr them have the mynistracion of my goods in executyng [my] will in awmesse full dedes in fourme afore seyd soo that my mevable goodes be mean of that .
Loke who that is most vertuous alway, Privee and apert, and most entendeth ay To do the gentil dedes that he can, 1115 And tak him for the grettest gentil man.
The thyrde is to be gladde & cherefull in thy herte to do suche dedes cõmaûded without ony cõpulcyon / settynge a side all beestly condycyons.
Who that refrayneth his tonge he shalbe blessyd in all dedes &c.
But graût of thy grete goodnes / that the prayers [with] all other good dedesdone by me / or to be done may gracyously profyte me.
Nay nay except that man himselfe doo meeke And make resystance the ryght honour to seeke Els all such good dedesis not woth a leeke welth hereof take heede.
The "evelle dedes passed the good, & weyed downe & overcame her good dedes.
This mater was so publisshed abrode in Englande, that many such as had no desyn to do dedes of armes ther on self, yet they sayd they wolde be there to loke on them that shulde.
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