The erthe for hevynesse That he wolde suffre, Quaked as quyk thyng, And al biquasshed the roche.
Ich highed to her house, To herken of more; And when I came to that court, I gaped aboute, 310 Swich a bild bold Y-buld upon erthe heighte Say I nought in certeyn Syththe a long tyme.
Christ bad blissen Bodies on erthe That wepen for wikkednesse That he byforn wroughte.
Whil God wes on erthe And wondrede wyde, Whet wes the resoun Why he nolde ryde?
By god, in erthe I was his purgatorie, For which I hope his soule be in glorie.
The porter seyh tho · it might no better be, He sette foot on erthe · and bigan to flee.
In langour and in torment furious Two yeer and more lay wrecche Aurelius, Er any foot he mighte on erthe goon; Ne confort in this tyme hadde he noon, Save of his brother, which that was a clerk; 1105 He knew of al this wo and al this werk.
And for to halwen mariage, he was at a weddinge, where-as he turned water in-to wyn; which was the firste miracle that he wroghte in erthe biforn hise disciples.
Adam felde tweyne · and Gamelyn felde three, The other setten feet on erthe · and bigonne flee.
Distempre yow noght, ye be my confessour; 2195 Ye been the salt of the erthe and the savour.
For sche is so highe, that the flode of Noe ne myght not come to hire, that wolde have covered alle the erthe of the world alle aboute, and aboven and benethen, saf Paradys only allone.
For oure Lord God made the erthe alle round, in the mydde place of the firmament.
The erthe mynystrethe to us 2 thynges; our liflode, that comethe of theerthe that wee lyve by, and oure sepulture aftre oure dethe.
Caton magnifiethe that prince that cherisshith and favourithe erthe tiliers.
March betokeneth the six yeres followynge, Arayeng the erthe with pleasaunt verdure; That season youth thought for nothynge, And wothout thought dooth his sporte and pleasure.
The goodes of the erthe is gadered evermore In August, so at forty-eight yere Man ought to gather some goodes in store To susteyne aege that then draweth nere.
Thou myghtest as well into the erthe synke, As thou coudest forbeare laughyng any whyle.
It is wonder, above any mannes wit, Withoute werre how Cristes fayth was wonne; And we that been upon this erthe yit Ne kepe it nat as it was first begonne.
He hath no corage of a man, trewly, That secheth plesaunce, worship to despyse; Nor to be called forth is not worthy The erthe to touch the ayre in no-kins wyse.
Certes, non age ne other thing in erthe may the leest sillable of 15 this in no poynte deface, but clerely as the sonne in myne understandinge soule they shynen.
But now the faith of Crist is come a-place 50 Among the princes in this erthe here, It sit hem wel to do pite and grace, But yet it mot be tempred in manere.
Also the yere with-draweth floures and beautee of herbes and of erth; the same +yere maketh springes and jolite in Vere so to renovel with peinted coloures, that erthe semeth as gay as heven.
Also this god, by his coming, made not 110 pees alone betwene hevenly and erthly bodyes, but also amonge us on erthe so he pees confirmed, that in one heed of love oon body we shulde perfourme.
Is nat every thing, a this halfe god, mad buxom to mannes contemplation, understandinge in heven and 40 in erthe and in helle?
Forgeten had the erthe his pore estat Of winter, that him naked made and mat, And with his swerd of cold so sore greved; Now hath the atempre sonne al that releved That naked was, and clad hit new agayn.
Love, that governeth erthe and see, and hath also commaundements to the hevenes.
Love, that of erthe and see hath governaunce, Love, that his hestes hath in hevene hye, .
For the mone envyrounethe the erthe more hastyly than ony othere planete.
And zif ony man aske hem, what is here beleeve; thei answeren thus, and in this forme, Wee beleven God formyour of hevene and of erthe and of alle othere things, that he made.
The watre of that see is fulle bytter and salt: and ziff the erthe were made moyst and weet with that watre, it wolde nevere bere fruyt.
And forsothe there is a great marveyle: for men may see there the erthe of the tombe apertly many tymes steren and meven, [Footnote: Stir and move.
And therfore is alle the erthe departed in theise 3 parties, be theise 3 bretheren.
Of the evylle Customs used in the Yle of Lamary: and how the Erthe and the See ben of round Forme and schapp, be pref of the Sterre, that is clept Antartyk, that is fix in the Southe.
In this lond, is the erthe more highe than in ony other; and that makethe gret cold.
For the erthe and the see ben of round form and schapp, as I have seyd beforn.
And the erthe and the lond chaungeth often his colour.
And whan men gon bezonde tho iourneyes, toward Ynde and to the foreyn yles, alle is envyronynge the roundnesse of this erthe and of the see, undre oure contrees on this half.
And whan the Jewes hadden made the temple, com an erthe quakeng, and cast it doun (as God wolde) and destroyed alle that thei had made.
For the superficialtee of the erthe is departed in 7 parties, for the 7 planetes: and tho parties ben clept clymates.
Bot for ther mai no mannes lif Endure upon this Erthe hiere, This worthi queene, as thou miht hiere, 4260 Er that the children were of age, Tok of hire ende the passage, With gret worschipe and was begrave.
So mai it schewe wel therfore, As I have told it hier tofore, In hevene and ek in Erthe also It is accept to bothe tuo.
Ferst forto loke the Clergie, Hem oughte wel to justefie Thing which belongith to here cure, As forto praie and to procure Oure pes toward the hevene above, And ek to sette reste and love 3000 Among ous on this erthe hiere.
The Stiel which he syh afterward A world betokneth more hard: 640 Bot yet the werste of everydel Is last, whan that of Erthe and Stiel He syh the feet departed so, For that betokneth mochel wo.
A fryere that preached vpon a saynt Christofers daye, greatly laudynge saynte Christopher, sayde: what a prerogatyue hadde he here in erthe in his armes to beare our Sauioure!
Forgeten had the erthe his pore estat 125 +Of winter, that him naked made and mat, And with his swerd of cold so sore greved; Now hath the atempre sonne al that releved That naked was, and clad hit new agayn.
Al the environinge of the erthe aboute ne halt nat but the resoun of a prikke at regard of the greetnesse of hevene'; tr.
For the Superficialtee of the Erthe is departed in 7 parties, for the 7 Planetes; and the parties ben clept Clymates.
And by these skilles, as I finde, 750 Hath fish dwellinge in floode and see, And trees eek in erthe be.
Forgeten had the erthe his pore estat +Of winter, that him naked made and mat, And with his swerd of cold so sore had greved.
She is not going to break her heart about a husband who gives up the ghost; her conscience is easy; the spouse departs quite ready for a better world: By God, in erthe I was his purgatorie, For which I hope his soule be in glorie.
Sooth is that, with-outen doute, the frutes of the erthe owen to ben to the norissinge of bestes.
Al the linage of men that ben inerthe ben of semblable birthe.
For wher-for elles bereth lightnesse the flaumbes up, and the weighte presseth the erthe a-doun, but for as moche as thilke places and thilke 100 moevinges ben covenable to everich of hem?
Al that lyketh yow heer, and excyteth and moeveth your thoughtes, the erthe hath norisshed it in hise lowe caves.
And other beestes gladen hem-self to diggen hir tras or hir steppes in the erthe with hir goings or with hir feet, and to goon either by the grene feldes, or elles to walken under the wodes.
And thus I may by reson sein That erthe is the most nedeles And most men helpe it netheles; So that, my lord, touchend of this I have answerde how that it is.
My lege lord, this wolde I rede: The erthe it is, which evermo With mannes labour is bego As well in winter as in maie.
Knowleche your self at all tymes carayne and erthe / & the glory therof is as a floure in the medowe.
Yn yustyng ne in turnament 1021 Ther myght no man withsytt hys dynte, But to the erthe them thronge.
With heve tymbyr and ovyrryde 40 Ther myght no man~ hys dent abyde, But to the erthe he them strake.
Bacward than be a browE Twenty fote he gard hyme goo, 655 Thus erthe on hym he wane.
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