And the more the thing shal seeme harde, difficult or painefull, the greater shall your merite be, and the more firmely shall he be bounde, whiche doth receive it.
Amadour that through the force of loue had lost al reason, said vnto her: "Doth my long seruice merite a recompence of such cruelty?
His deserued aduauncement may stirre vp ech Gentle heart, to merite and serue in Common wealth.
Howbeit I speake not this that a faythful seruaunt should be vnrewarded (a thing very requisite) but to inferre and proue that reward should excell the merite and seruice of the receiuer.
Se not hir, quhais fenzeit teiris suld not be sa mekle praisit nor estemit, as the trew and faithful travellis quhilk I sustene for to merite hir place.
But so as only bountee and prowesse may enhaunsen every man over other men; thanne mot it nedes be that shrewes, which that shrewednesse hath cast out of the condicioun of mankinde, ben put under the merite and the desert of men.
But O, wel ben they 175 worthy of merite (as who seith, nay), ther mighte never yit non of hem be convict of swiche a blame as myne is!
But 115 folye, that lyeth alwey to him-self, may not chaunge the merite of thinges.
For hem that haten us 6920 Is oure merite to lovye, And povere peple to plese, Hir preieres maye us helpe.
Gartringen having fallen in the battle; he was promoted lieutenant-general, and retained this command after the conclusion of peace, receiving in addition the order pour le merite for his services.
Amongst these are Estat Jes fideles apres la mort; Sur l'oraison dominicale; Du merite des oeuvres; Traite de la justification; and paraphrases of books of the Old and New Testament.
And evere the gretter merite shal he han, that most restreyneth the wikkede eschaufinges of the ordure of this sinne.
And as your good deserts doe merite thankes for this your arte, now well begonne, euen so your new told tale of comming hyther, requyreth no lesse, for that you haue dysclosed the trouth.
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