For-thi loke thow lovye, As longe as thow durest; For is no science under sonne So sovereyn for the soule.
Ac astronomye is an hard thyng, And yvel for to knowe; Geometrie and geomesie, So gynful of speche, 6030 Who so thynketh werche with tho two Thryveth ful late, For sorcerie is the sovereyn book That to tho sciences bilongeth.
For-thi God of his goodnesse The firste gome Adam Sette hym in solace, And in sovereyn murthe; And siththe he suffred hym synne, Sorwe to feele, To wite what wele was Kyndeliche and knowe it.
As it is verified by the famous astrologien Ptolome in his booke called Centilogie, the capitalle, seieng quod homo sapiens dominatur astris, that a man is sovereyn abofe suche domes of constellacions.
Item, I will and graunte that if outhyr the forseyd licence and graunte of oure seyd sovereyn Lord, or of hise heyre Kynges, or the licence or graunt of ony othyr .
To my ryth wurchepfull sovereyn and master, John Paston, be this delyveryd in hast.
Your observaunces in so low manere, And your awayting and your besinesse 250 Upon me, that ye calden your maistresse, Your sovereyn lady in this worlde here?
Of the whiche men, som of hem wenen that sovereyngood be to liven with-oute nede of any thing, and travaylen hem to be haboundaunt of richesses.
And some folk ther ben that holden, that right heigh power be sovereyn good, and enforcen hem for to regnen, or elles to ioignen hem to hem that regnen.
The whiche delyt only considerede Epicurus, and iuged and establisshed that delyt is 55 the sovereyn good; for as moche as alle othre thinges, as him thoughte, bi-refte awey Ioye and mirthe fram the herte.
And many folk mesuren and gessen thatsovereyn good be Ioye and gladnesse, and wenen that it be right blisful thing to ploungen hem in voluptuous delyt.
And som other men demen that sovereyn good be, 20 for to ben right digne of reverence; and enforcen hem to ben reverenced among hir neighbours by the honours that they han y-geten.
But natheles ther fore scholde noght a man putten his beleeve in suche thinges: but always han fulle trust and beleeve in God oure Sovereyn Lord.
But he holdethe it of the grete Cham, that is the gretteste Emperour and the most sovereyn lord of alle the partes bezonde: and he is lord of the iles of Cathay and of many othere iles, and of a gret partie of Inde.
And for this Cham, this emperour clepeth him Cham and sovereyn of all the world.
And for als moche as he was the moste myghty, and no man myghte withstonde him, he cleped himself the sone of God, and sovereyn of alle the world.
At Babiloyne was his sovereyn see, In which his glorie and his delyt he hadde.
Eke whan he useth his wyf, withouten sovereyn desyr of engendrure, to the honour of god, or for the entente to yelde to his wyf the dette of his body.
Fair was this mayde in excellent beautee Aboven every wight that man may see; For nature hath with sovereyn diligence Y-formed hir in so greet excellence, 10 As though she wolde seyn, 'lo!
And taketh kepe of that that I shal seyn; 90 Of alle tresons sovereyn pestilence Is whan a wight bitrayseth innocence.
And ye knowen wel that oon of the gretteste and most sovereyn thing, that is in this world, is unitee and pees.
The whiche delyt only considerede Epicurus, and iuged and establisshed that delyt is the sovereyn good.
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