ÞE VIFTE STAPE OF PROUESSE.
Þe vifte stape of þise uirtu is ycleped constance.
Dan Michel's Ayenbite of Inwyt : or, Remorse of conscience : Richard Morris's transcription now newly collated with the unique manuscript British Museum MS. Arundel 57, volume 1, text / by Pamela Gradon.
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- Dan Michel's Ayenbite of Inwyt : or, Remorse of conscience : Richard Morris's transcription now newly collated with the unique manuscript British Museum MS. Arundel 57, volume 1, text / by Pamela Gradon.
- Author
- Michel, Dan, of Northgate, fl. 1340.
- Editor
- Morris, Richard, 1833-1894., Gradon, Pamela.
- Publication
- London: Oxford University Press
- 1965
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"Dan Michel's Ayenbite of Inwyt : or, Remorse of conscience : Richard Morris's transcription now newly collated with the unique manuscript British Museum MS. Arundel 57, volume 1, text / by Pamela Gradon." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/Ayenbite. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 9, 2025.
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Page 168
Þet is a uirtue þet makeþ þe herte strang and stedeuest ine god ase a tour yzet ope ane stronge roche / and ase a traw yroted ine guod land / þet hit ne ssake uor nenne wynd / þet may come ne blawe / þet is ine no cas þet moȝe come / ne guode ne kueade. wyþ-oute. þise uirtue / non ne comþ to uictorie. uor huanne godes knyȝt heþ ido zome prowesse : þanne him asayleþ þe dyeuel be ydele blisse. and þanne is þe batayle ine þe herte þe stranger uor him-zelue to ouercome / þet he ne ualle be ydele blisse : þanne alle þe uerste uondinge / ne wes. Huerof dauid zayþ ine þe sautere / þet þe dyeuel ouerþrauþ þe wel stronge of lefthalf be aduersit� / and þe wel stronge a riȝthalf : be ydele blisse. Þise uirtue preyseþ moche seneke þet zayþ. þet þer ne is uirtue bote þe ilke þet geþ uorþ proudliche be-tuene þe one auenture and þe oþre / þet is be-tuene þe guode and þe kueade. and grat onworþnesse of on an of oþer.