A boke newly translated out of Latyn in to Englisshe, called The folowing of Christe with the Golden epistel of saynt Barnard.

❧Howe all temporall honoure is to be dyspysed. The .xlvi. Chapitre.

MI sonne take it nat to no greue though thou se other men ho∣noured & exalted & thy selfe dis∣pysed & set at nought if thou reyse vp thy herte to me in heuen / the dispytes of man in erth shal lytel greue the. O lorde we be here in great derkenes / & sone are we de∣ceyued with vanyties / but verely if I be∣helde my selfe well I shulde opēly so that there was neuer wrōg done to me by any creature: ne that I haue nothing wherof I may rightwisely cōplayne. But for as∣muche as I haue ofte synned / and gre∣uously offended agaynste the. ♣ Therfore all creatures be armed agaynste me. To me therfore is due confusion and dispyte / to the laude / honoure / and glorye. And but I can brynge my selfe to thys poynte that I wolde gladly be dispised & forsakē

of all creatures / and vt••erly to seme as nought in the worlde / I maye nat be in∣wardly pacified ne stabled in the / ne spiri¦tually be illumined / nor yet fully be oned to the.