Twenty-six political and other poems (including 'Petty Job') from the Oxford mss. Digby 102 and Douce 322. Ed., with introduction and glossarial index, by D. J. Kail ...

XVII. Loue that god loueth.

[Digby 102, leaf 116.] [25 stanzas of 8, abab, abab.]

(1)
That ilke man wole lerne wel To loue god wiþ al his myȝt, Þat loue in his herte fele. Þere god doþ loue, loue þou ryȝt; Line 4 There god doþ hate euerydele, Hate it boþe day and nyȝt, Ȝeue hym [folio 116b] noþer mete ne mele, But flyt hym fere out of ȝoure syȝt. Line 8
(2)
¶ Many gret[e] causes is, To loue god, why men ouȝte. He shop vs lyk ymage his, And wiþ his deþ, fro pyne vs bouȝt, Line 12 And ȝut, þouȝ we don ofte amys, For eche a gylt he beteþ vs nouȝt; And we þenke to amende, he profreþ to kys. Man, of loue he haþ besouȝt. Line 16
(3)
¶ Ȝif a lord ȝeue fee or rent For to do a gret office, To serue hym wel is þyn atent, For thy profyt, but not for his, Line 20 For he fyndeþ þe þy vaunsement; Þy loue vppon þe profyt lys. Suche worldly louers are gostly blent; Suche loue to god is cold as yse. Line 24
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¶ Ȝif þou serue god for helle drede, Or loue god for his blisse, Þat loue is worth no parfyt mede: Þou [sechest] thy profyt, and not hisse. Line 28
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Twenty-six political and other poems (including 'Petty Job') from the Oxford mss. Digby 102 and Douce 322. Ed., with introduction and glossarial index, by D. J. Kail ...
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London,: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., limited,
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