Companion to the English prose works of Richard Rolle : a selection / from the edition by Carl Horstman.

Of þe largesse of God.

Affter þou schalt þenken þat he is la[r]ge; and þat þou maiȝt sen in mony maners. Loke at þe ffurste þat he is large of wordly goodes, þat ȝiueþ his goodes also to wikke as to goode, of alle-manere þinges þat ben in eorþe. After þenk hou he is large for to [for]-ȝiuen; ffor whi? ȝif a Mon hedde I-don also monie wikkednesses as al þe men in þe world, ȝit he wolde beo rediore forte forȝiuen be þe hundreddel, þen we scholden be to aske forȝiuenesse. Also þou scha[l]t þenken þat he is large of gostlich goodes, þat is to seyen of his vertues: ffor whi? who haþ on, he haþ alle. Þe ffeorþe, þou schalt þenken þat he is large of his goodes pardurables, to alle þat wollen riȝtfolliche asken h[e]m. For wȝuche-manere miȝt he don from vs þat þat he a-monesteþ vs to asken? on oþer halue he wole ȝiuen vs gret mede so þat we wolen asken him; ffor he seiþ: «Preȝeþ me ȝiuen ow þe Ioye of heuene and I schal ȝiuen ou alle worldliche þinges wiþ-outen askynge». Þis Contemplacion of his largesse makeþ in mon certein hope.