Ac muche moore in metynge thus With me gan oon dispute; And slepynge I seigh al this.
And thanne saugh I muche moore Than I bifore of tolde, 2490 For I seigh the feld ful of folk, That I bifore of seide, And how Reson gan arayen hym Al the reaume to preche, And with a cros afore the kyng Comsede thus to techen.
The doughtieste doctour And devinour of the Trinitee Was Austyn the olde, And heighest of the foure, Seide thus in a sermon, I seighit writen ones: Ecce ipsi idiotae vi rapiunt coelum, ubi nos sapientes in inferno mergimur.
In oother science it seith, I seigh it in Caton: 5990 Qui simulat verbis, nec corde est fidus amicus, Tu quoque fac simile, sic ars deluditur arte.
And there I seigh a maister, What man he was I nyste, That lowe louted And loveliche to Scripture.
And Sapience seith the same, 4270 I seigh it in the Bible, Piger prae frigore No feeld nolde tilie, And therfore he shal begge and bidde, And no man bete his hunger.
Or that I lye wenen, Asketh at hym or at hym, And he yow kan telle What I suffrede and seigh And som tymes hadde, And what I kouthe and knew, And what kyn I com of.
I seigh somme that seiden Thei hadde y-sought seintes; 100 To ech a tale that thei tolde Hire tonge was tempred to lye, Moore than to seye sooth, It semed bi hire speche.
Clerkes kenne me That Crist is in alle places; Ac I seigh hym nevere soothly, But as myself in a mirour: In aenigmate tunc facie ad faciem.
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