The boke named the royall.
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- Title
- The boke named the royall.
- Author
- Laurent, Dominican, fl. 1279.
- Publication
- [Enprynted at London :: In fletestrete at the sygne of ye sonne by Wynkyn de Worde,
- [1507]]
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- Subject terms
- Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800.
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"The boke named the royall." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A11159.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024.
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THe .vii. degree of equyte is the seuenth eye / whi∣che he must haue ye wyll haue this vertue. That is that he beholde vpwarde on hye. And that he haue god all waye tofore hym. ¶Of suche our lorde sayth in the gospell / yf thyn eye be poore and symple. All thy bo∣dy shall be clere and shynynge And yf thyn eye be derke and tenebrous. All thy body shall be derke obscure and tenebrouse. That is to saye yf the entencyon of thyn her¦te is pure and symple. and goth forth the ryght lygne af¦ter god by all the degrees that we haue tofore named. All the messe and substaunce of thy werkes and of thy vertues shall be fayre and clere and playsaunt to god. And yf the entencyon be not good but frowarde and euyll / and reployeth bacwarde / all the werke shal be der¦ke and tenebrouse. For without good and ryghtfull en∣tencyon. Almesse by cometh synne / and vertues vyces. Thentencyon is symple whan a man maketh his wer∣kes good ryght for goodes loue / and it is obscure and derke / whan a man dooth his werkes for to playse the worlde or for vayne glorye. It is croked and not ryght in two thynges / that is whan one holdeth one parte to god / and that other of the worlde. For thentencyon re∣torneth bacwarde / whan a man secheth his own prouf¦fyte in all thynge that he dooth. Now hast thou herde the seuen degrees of this vertue of Equyte by whiche this tree ryseth on heyghte