[Of Man's Soul.]
Bot resun ȝeit herd ȝe noght
Querof of manes saule es wroght,
Of gastli light men sais it es,
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þat godd has made till his licknes,
Als a preinte of sele in wax thrist,
þar-ine he has his licknes fest;
He has it wroght as freind and fere,
For-þi es na thing sua dere.
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His goddhed es in trinite.
And þe saule has propre thinges thre
Menyng and þat of thinges thre, [folio 2a:2]
þat is and was and ay sal be.
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It has also vnderstanding clene.
Of thing it seis and of vnsene,
It has also wisdam in wille
þe gode to take and leue þe ille,
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All þe mightes þat may be
wonis in þat hali trinite.
Alle uirtus has a saule i-wis,
þat vte of sinne clensed es,
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And als god þat es in on and thre,
wid nankines creature may be
vnder-fanding non ouyr tane,
And he ouertakis þaim ilk ane.
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Alsua þe saule widuten wene,
To alkines thing it es vnsene,
þou it of all thing haue sight,
To se na saule haue þai na might.
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Nou haue i scheud ȝu til hiþer,
Hou tua thinges haldis man togiþer,
þe saule of gastli thing to tell,
þe bodi his fless and fell.
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