And yif this love slakede the brydeles, alle thinges that now loven hem to-gederes wolden maken a bataile continuely, and stryven to fordoon the fasoun of this worlde, the whiche they now leden in acordable feith by faire moevinges.
Jube, Domine, Lord of Love, I pray Commaund me well this lesson for to rede; This legend is of all that wolden dey 1375 Marters for love; god yive the sowles spede!
Of poore men have they greet care; for they ever crave and nothing offren, they wolden have hem dolven!
Oft the lothe thing is doon, by excitacion of other mannes opinion, whiche woldenfayne have myn abydinge.
For if such men wolden their eyen of their conscience revolven, [they] shulden seen the same sentence they legen on other springe out of their sydes, with so many braunches, it were impossible to nombre.
These thinges me greven to thinke, and 20 namely on passed gladnesse, that in this worlde was wont me disporte of highe and lowe; and now it is fayled; they that wolden maystries me have in thilke stoundes.
With Antichrist they shullen fall, For they wolden god betray.
For if it were so, that no man sholde be conseilled but only of hem that hadden lordshipe and maistrie of his persone, men wolden nat be conseilled so ofte.
Now wolden som men seye, paraventure, That, for my necligence, I do no cure To tellen yow the Ioye and al tharray 1075 That at the feste was that ilke day.
We fayle of that which that we wolden have, And in our madnesse evermore we rave.
His freendes sente he to at his instaunce, And preyed hem to doon him that plesaunce, That hastily they wolden to him come; He wolde abregge hir labour, alle and some.
Ye han bigonne your question folily,' Quod she, 'that wolden two answeres conclude In oo demande; ye axed lewedly.
Certes, he Iakke Straw, and his meynee, Ne made never shoutes half so shrille, 4585 Whan that they wolden any Fleming kille, As thilke day was maad upon the fox.
And the lovinge children, that whylom loveden so fleshly everich other, wolden everich of hem eten other if they mighte.
And also, for my suffrance, men wolden do to me so muchel vileinye, that I mighte neither here it ne sustene; / and so sholde I been put and holden over lowe.
They wolden seye, and swere it, out of doute, That love ne droof yow nought to doon this dede, But lust voluptuous and coward drede.
The sorwe and wo ye wolden make, That ye ne dorste come ayein for shame!
They wolden awyrien that wight For his wel dedes, 1320 And so they chewen charite, As chewen shaf houndes.
We have seyn ourself In a short tyme {497} Whou freres wolden no flesh Among the folk usen; But now the harlotes Han hyd thilke reule, And for the love of oure Lord Han leyd hire in water.
And whan thise ydel wordes weren sayd, The colde wal they wolden kisse of stoon, And take hir leve, and forth they wolden goon.
And yif this Love slakede the brydeles, alle thinges that now loven hem to-gederes wolden maken a bataile continuely, and stryven to fordoon the fasoun of this worlde, the whiche they now leden in acordable feith by faire moevinges.
How 75 many men, trowest thou, wolden demen hem-self to ben almost in hevene, yif they mighten atayne to the leest party of the remnaunt of thy fortune?
And yit, certes, they wolden bothe han renounced hir power; of whiche two Senek enforcede him to yeven to Nero his richesses, and also to han gon in-to 40 solitarie exil.
The whiche nat 35 only ne asswagen nat hise sorwes with none remedies, but theywolden feden and norisshen hem with swete venim.
Bot, fader, if ye forth withal Som good ensample in special Me wolden telle of som Cronique, It scholde wel myn herte like Of pacience forto hiere, So that I mihte in mi matiere The more unto my love obeie And puten mi desese aweie.
Bot if the Prelatz wolden werke Upon the feith which thei ous teche, Men scholden noght here weie seche Withoute liht, as now is used: Men se the charge aldai refused, Which holi cherche hath undertake.
Bot yit o thing I you beseche, Which stant in alle mennes speche, The godd and the goddesse of love, Of whom ye nothing hier above Have told, ne spoken of her fare, That ye me wolden now declare 1380 Hou thei ferst comen to that name.
And thus the wel meninge of love Was ate laste set above; 1600 And so as thou hast herd tofore, The false tunges weren lore, Whiche upon love wolden lie.
To setten either part in reste It thoghte hem thanne for the beste With resonable amendement; And thus was Anthenor forth sent To axe Esionam ayein And witen what thei wolden sein.
Bot overmore hou that it is, 7840 Toward mi schrifte as it belongeth, To wite of othre pointz me longeth; Wherof that ye me wolden teche With al myn herte I you beseche.
And thei that thanne wolden plese The fader, scholden it obeie, Whan that they comen thilke weie.
And there is the place, where the Jewes wolden han cast up the body of oure Lady, whan the apostles beren the body to ben buryed, in the Vale of Josaphathe.
And men wolden many tymes put the appulle into the ymages hond azen, but it wil not holde it.
And in the roche, with inne the chapelle, zit apperen the fyngres of oure Lordes hond, whan he putte hem in the roche, whan the Jewes wolden have taken him.
Wolden [one of the Three] told me he could not describe how well-intentioned for your Excellency the Prince-Royal is [cunning dog!
And the trip that Odin had made with Wolden into the tunnel.
As they got into the little car, Wolden told Odin that they would have to circle the bay before going to the Tower on a ferry, since the lower stories were still under water.
Ato and Wolden had some last words with the captains who were working upon the rebuilding of Opal.
Wolden entered, carrying a strange-looking slug-horn that glimmered like mother-of-pearl.
Be patient, my friend," Woldenhad sensed his thoughts again.
Wolden says that it is a terrible experience to go from the fourth-dimensional light of his into a time-bound world.
Ato looked like a man who could calmly send a hundred-thousand to their deaths for one objective, while Wolden would have theorized and rationalized until the objective was lost.
And shoten on him, so don on bere Dogges, that wolden him to-tere.
And oure other fellows, that wolden not gon in with us, thei wenten by another coste, to ben before us, and so thei were.
And thoughe thei wolden putten hem in to that see, thei ne wysten never, where that thei scholde arryven.
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