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

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Editor

Horstmann, Carl, b. 1851.

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London: Sonnenschein

1895-1896

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English prose literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500.

English language -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Texts.

Mysticism -- England

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"Companion to the English prose works of Richard Rolle : a selection / from the edition by Carl Horstman." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/rollecmp. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 5, 2024.

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How Mon schal loken his staat. Capitulum primum.

ÞE word of þe Apostele ffalleþ to Men of Religion and to alle gode cristene men: «Seoþ þe stat wherto ȝe beoþ clept». Þis he seiþ, ffor to drawe vs to perfeccion. And þerfore, what-time I þenke on my-self, bi day or bi niht, on on half I haue gret Ioye, and on a noþur half gret Serwe. Ioye, for þe grete Religion and godnesse þat he haþ schewed to me and to Monkynde; Serwe, for þe wikked liuinge in me, and feble conuersacion. For whi? þus seiþ Eusebie in a Sarmoun: «Cum to Religion, is a souereyn perfeccion; not parfytliche liuen is a souereyn da[m]pnacion». Þerfore þe beste þing is whose liueþ in Religion, drawe he to þe lyf of perfeccion as he wilneþ his sauacion, and leue al þat is in þe world & al þat þer-to falleþ, and ȝiue al his power to liue parfyt lyf.