MORALITEE.
DEre Frendes, this Emperoure may welle be callid̛ Eche Cristin man̛, that hatℏ an host to-geder of vertuys; for with oute the host of vertuys may no man̛ fyȝte gostly. The sitee, that
Early English versions of the Gesta Romanorum / edited by Sidney J.H. Herrtage
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- Early English versions of the Gesta Romanorum / edited by Sidney J.H. Herrtage
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- Herrtage, Sidney J. H. (Sidney John Hervon)
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- 1879
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we owe to be-sege abowte, is þe worlde, in the whiche is an̛ hie castelle, scil. Vanitas vanitatum, þis is to seye, Vanite of vanytes; & in the walle, scil. vanite, is a cokautrice, scil. pryde of lyfe; wronge covetise of yen̛, and̛ wronge covetise of fleshe; and̛ thorow this pryde bethe vnnumberable peple in-fecte and̛ dede, in euerlastinge dethe. And̛ þere for̛ ther is a goode Remedye, scil. to considre thin owne foulnesse, howe that þou nakid̛ entredist into the worlde, & with what kynne cloþ þou ert I-cladde in̛ þin endyng. Yf enye man̛ askithe wherfore & whie a proude man̛ deyethe þerefor̛ euerlastingely? sothely hit is for the host of vertues failithe; and̛ þerfor̛ I saye, sete [leaf 192, back, col. 2] vp a cler̛ myrrour, scil. an holy conscien̄s, & by that consciens considre thi foulenesse, febilnesse, & fragilitee, and̛ so thow shalt see thin owne faute. & þenne, yf the cocautrice be destroyed̛, scil. pryde of lyfe, wronge covetise of yen̛, and̛ wronge covetise of fleshe, certenlye þou shalt entre, & wynne the citee off hevene, &c.