Conscience accuses the friars of waxing 'oute of numbre,' and reminds them that 'Hevene haveth evene numbre, and helle is withoute numbre.
O blisful light, of which the bemes clere Adorneth al the thridde hevene faire!
Love, that of erthe and see hath governaunce, Love, that his hestes hath in hevene hye, .
Chaucer mentions the irregularity of planetary movements in Boethius also when he says: "and whiche sterre in hevene useth wandering recourses, y-flit by dyverse speres.
Tho nicht efter thet aperede an ongel of hevene in here slepe ine metinge, and hem seide and het, thet hi ne solde ayen wende be herodes, ac be an other weye wende into hire londes.
And the bristlede boor markede with scomes the shuldres of Hercules, the whiche shuldres the heye cercle of 40 hevenesholde thriste.
And also blisful Venus, wel arayed, 680 Sat in hir seventhe hous of hevene tho, Disposed wel, and with aspectes payed, To helpen sely Troilus of his wo.
Pandare answerde, and seyde thus, that he That ones may in hevene blisse be, He feleth other weyes, dar I leye, Than thilke tyme he first herde of it seye.
I trowe, y-wis, from hevene teres reyne, For pitee of myn aspre and cruel peyne!
Fil Pandarus on knees, and up his yen To hevene threw, and held his hondes hye, 'Immortal god!
Certes, it is leveful to the hevene to make clere dayes, and, after that, to coveren tho same dayes with derke nightes.
And right so ben we gladed som-tyme of the face of the see whan it is cleer; and also mervailen we on the hevene and on the sterres, and on the sonne and on the mone.
The Aungil came fro hevene tour, To grete Marye with gret honour, And seyde sche xuld bere the flour That xulde breke the fyndes bond.
An hendy hap ichabbe y-hent, Ichot from hevene it is me sent, From alle wymmen my love is lent Ant lyht on Alisoun.
There ys no solas under hevene Of alle that a man may nevene That shulde a man so moche glew As a gode womman that loveth true.
The flour sprong in heye Bedlem, That is bothe bryht and schen: The rose is Mary hevene qwyn, Out of here bosum the blosme sprong.
The thredde braunche is good and swote, It sprang to hevene crop and rote, Therein to dwellyn and ben our bote; Every day it schewit in prystes hond.
Certes oftyn i gan take, An usage on nyth moche to wake, And prei to hevene kyng; That i moste comen to this .
Coveiteth he noon erthely good, But hevene riche blisse, Hath he anye rentes or richesse, Or anye riche frendes.
Tho that weren in hevene Token stella cometa, And tendeden it as a torche To reverencen his burthe; The light folwede the Lord Into the lowe erthe.
O blisful light of whiche the bemes clere 1 Adorneth al the thridde hevene faire!
On heveneyet the sterres were sene, Al-though ful pale y-waxen was the mone; 275 And whyten gan the orisonte shene Al estward, as it woned is for to done.
So what for o thing and for other, swete, I shal him so enchaunten with my sawes, 1395 That right inhevene his sowle is, shal he mete!
A-wey, thou foule daunger and thou fere, And lat hem in this hevene blisse dwelle, That is so heygh, that al ne can I telle!
O blisful light, of whiche the bemes clere Adorneth al the thridde hevene faire!
Mi fader, this ensample is hard, Hou such thing to the heveneward 730 Among the goddes myhte falle: For ther is bot o god of alle, Which is the lord of hevene and helle.
And Jason riht in such degre Ne mihte noght withholde his lok, Bot so good hiede on hire he tok, That him ne thoghte under the hevene Of beaute sawh he nevere hir evene, With al that fell to wommanhiede.
And ek of that thou tellest forth, Hou that hire weyhte of love unevene Is unto thin, under the hevene Stod nevere in evene that balance Which stant in loves governance.
And in this wise thou schalt seie, That he do thilke astat aweie 2880 Of Pope, in which he stant honoured, So schal his Soule be socoured Of thilke worschipe ate laste In hevene which schal evere laste.
Of tho that sitte upon the hevene Of Signes in the nombre ellevene Aquarius hath take his place, And stant wel in Satornes grace, Which duelleth in his herbergage, Bot to the Sonne he doth oultrage.
This same yere, in the monthe of Juyne and July, in diverses parties of hevene appered stella co'mata.
Certes, it is leveful to the hevene to make clere dayes.
To-broken been the statuts hye in hevene That creat were eternally to dure, Sith that I see the brighte goddes sevene Mow wepe and wayle, and passioun endure, As may in erthe a mortal creature.
The hevene hath propretee of sikernesse, This world hath ever resteles travayle; 70 Thy laste day is ende of myn intresse: In general, this reule may nat fayle.
And certes every man, mayden, or wyf, 1180 May understonde that Iesus, hevene king, Ne wolde nat chese a vicious living.
He shal be rated of his studying, If that I may, by Iesus, hevene king!
Crist seith that 'as wel shal ther be Ioye in hevene upon a sinful man that doth penitence, as up-on nynety and nyne rightful men that neden no penitence?
And heer-of seith seint Peter: 'ther is noon other name under hevene that is yeve to any man, by which a man may be saved, but only Iesus.
For sith that verray hevene is boght so dere, With tribulacioun and greet penaunce, How sholde I thanne, that live in swich plesaunce 1650 As alle wedded men don with hir wyvis, Come to the blisse ther Crist eterne on lyve is?
She may be goddes mene, and goddes whippe; Than shal your soule up to hevene skippe Swifter than dooth an arwe out of the bowe!
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.
That other hath his othes swore Be hevene and be the goddes alle, 45 If that it myhte so befalle That he out of the pet him broghte, Of all the goodes whiche he oghte He schal have evene halvendel.
Thanne hent Hope an horn Of Deus, tu conversus vivificabis, And blew it with Beati quorum Remissae sunt iniquitates, That alle seintes in hevene Songen at ones.
And alle that hoped it myghte be so, Noon hevene myghte hem holde, But fellen out in fendes liknesse Nyne dayes togideres, 700 Til God of his goodnesse Gan stablisse and stynte, And garte the hevene to stekie And stonden in quiete.
Ac to bugge water, ne wynd, Ne wit, ne fir the ferthe, Thise foure the fader of hevene Made to this foold in commune.
There is Crist in his kingdom To close and to shette, 210 And to opene it to hem, And hevene blisse shewe.
For the heighe Holy Goost Hevene shal to-cleve, And love shall lepen out after Into the lowe erthe; And clennesse shal cacchen it, And clerkes shullen it fynde.
The mooste partie of this peple That passeth on this erthe, Have thei worship in this world, Thei wilne no bettre; Of oother hevene than here Holde thei no tale.
Thanne he assoiled hire soone, And sithen he seide, 1450 "We have a wyndow in werchynge Wole sitten us ful hye, Woldestow glaze that gable And grave therinne thy name, Syker sholde thi soule be Hevene to have.
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