The material physi- cian gropes among phenomena, which fluctuate every in- 463:3 stant under influences not embraced in his diagnosis, and so he may stumble and fall in the darkness.
The petty intellect is alarmed by con- stant appeals to Mind.
Christian Scientists must live under the con- 451:3 stant pressure of the apostolic command to come out from the material world and be separate.
The thridde point of Theorique, Which cleped is Mathematique, Devided is in sondri wise And stant upon diverse aprise.
Bot I his grace have so poursuied, That I was mad his lieutenant: Forthi be weie of covenant Fro this day forth I am al thin, And if thee like to be myn, 950 That stant upon thin oghne wille.
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.
For thus stant every mannes lif In jeupartie for his wif Or for his dowhter, if thei be Passende an other of beaute.
That on hald and that other draweth, Ther is no day which hem bedaweth, No mor the Sonne than the Mone, Whan ther is eny thing to done, And namely with Covoitise; For he stant out of al assisse Of resonable mannes fare.
And natheles thei don it yit: That was to day a ragged tre, To morwe upon his majeste 1510 Stant in the temple wel besein.
For in the cas of yifte and lone Stant every man for him al one, Him thenkth of his unkindeschipe That him nedeth no felaschipe: 4700 Be so the bagge and he acorden, Him reccheth noght what men recorden Of him, or it be evel or good.
And certein, or I ferther pace, I wol yow al the shap devyse Of hous and site; and al the wyse How I gan to this place aproche 1115 That stood upon so high a roche, Hyer stant ther noon in Spaine.
First, sin thou wost this toun hath al this werre For ravisshing of wommen so by might, It sholde not be suffred me to erre, As it stant now, ne doon so gret unright.
But lest thow deme I truste not to thee, Now herkne, freend, for thus it stant with me.
For yif that wil lakketh, ther nis no wight that undertaketh to don that he wol nat don; and 20 yif power fayleth, the wil nis but in ydel and stant for naught.
Men shal reioysen of a greet empryse Acheved wel, and stant with-outen doute, Al han men been the lenger ther-aboute.
Tempest thee noght al croked to redresse, In trust of hir that turneth as a bal: Gret reste stant in litel besinesse; 10 And eek be war to sporne ageyn an al; Stryve noght, as doth the crokke with the wal.
Of the erl Hugelyn of Pyse the langour Ther may no tonge telle for pitee; But litel out of Pyse stant a tour, In whiche tour in prisoun put was he, 3600 And with him been his litel children three.
Now as to speken of bodily peyne, it stant in preyeres, in wakinges, in fastinges, in vertuouse techinges of orisouns.
Biforn him stant braun of the tusked swyn, And "Nowel" cryeth every lusty man.
His stede, which that shoon as sonne brighte, 170 Stant in the court, as stille as any stoon.
And thanne stant the sinne of contumelie or stryf and cheeste, and batereth and forgeth by vileyns reprevinges.
And she for sorwe as domb stant as a tree; 1055 So was hir herte shet in hir distresse Whan she remembred his unkindenesse.
The thridde partie of Penitence is Satisfaccioun; and that stant most generally in almesse and in bodily peyne.
Palente the cite of Evander kyng, As Virgill playnly makis rehersyng, Stude quhar in Rome now stant the cheif palyce; 25 This sam buke eyk, in mair hepit malyce, On the self ryver of Touyr says playnly Eneas dyd hys cyte edify.
Bot on quhat wys, sen tyme is convenabill, The fasson quhou this stant to do maist habill, 30 Hark, at schort wordys that poynt I sal ȝou say.
All thocht he stant in Latyn maist perfyte, Ȝit stude he nevir weill in our tung endyte, Les than it be by me now at this tyme.
Philosophie is knowing of devynly and manly thinges joyned with studie of good living; 55 and this stant in two thinges, that is, conninge and opinion.
The righte fayth to kepe of holy chirche The firste poynt is named of knighthode; And every man is holde for to wirche Upon the poynt that stant to his manhode.
Quod I than, 'how stant it in love of thilke wil, sithen men 15 loven willing of free choice in herte?
We reste our-self, and suffren every lond To slee eche other as thing undefended; So stant the werre, and pees is nat amended.
To chalenge love by right was never seyn, But herte assent, before bond and promyse; For strength nor force may not atteyne, certayn, A wil that stant enfeffed in fraunchyse!
Good is t'eschewe werre, and nathelees A king may make werre upon his right; 65 For of bataile the fynal ende is pees; Thus stant the lawe, that a worthy knight Upon his trouthe may go to the fight.
Thy title is knowe upon thyn auncestrye; The londes folk hath eek thy right affermed; So stant thy regne, of god and man confermed.
The holy hill of Folengo's Muses is a mountain of cheese and maccaroni, with lakes of broth and rivers of unctuous sauces: Stant ipsae Musae super altum montis acumen, Formajum gratulis durum retridando foratis.
Upon hem thre, so as I finde, Of swevenes stant al thapparence, Which other while is evidence, And other while bot a iape.
Harde to likke hony out of a marbil stoon, For ther is nouthir licour nor moisture; An ernest grote, whan it is dronke and goon, Bargeyn of marchauntys stant in aventure.
That was the furthest point, somehow, to which Charlotte Stant could be relegated.
I only meant that there are perhaps better things to be done with Miss Stant than to criticise her.
It's only," he explained to their hostess, "because of what Miss Stant has been telling me.
That was what, precisely, Charlotte Stant would be doing now; that was the present motive and support, to a certainty, of each of her looks and motions.
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