Piers Plowman - Maybe You Like It

11.175: Qui non diligit manet in morte.
11.176: Whoso loveth noght, leve me, he lyveth in deeth deyinge;
11.177: And that alle manere men, enemyes and frendes,
11.178: Love hir eyther oother, and lene hem as hemselve.
11.179: Whoso leneth noght, he loveth noght, Oure Lord woot the sothe
11.180: And comaundeth ech creature to conformen hym to lovye -
11.181: His neighebour as hymselve and hise enemyes after.
11.182: For hem that haten us is oure merite to lovye,
11.183: And sovereynly povere peple to plese — hir preieres maye us
helpe.
11.184: For oure joy and oure [ju]ele, Jesu Crist of hevene,
11.185: In a povere mannes apparaille pursueth us evere,
11.186: And loketh on us in hir liknesse and that with lovely chere,
11.187: To knowen us by oure kynde herte and castynge of oure eighen,
11.188: Wheither we love the lordes here bifore the Lord of blis
11.189: And exciteth us by the Evangelie that whan we maken festes,
11.190: We sholde noght clepe oure kyn therto, ne none kynnes riche:
11.190: Cum facitis conviva, nolite invitare amicos.
11.191: ""Ac calleth the carefulle therto, the croked and the povere;
11.192: For youre frendes wol feden yow, and founde yow to quyte
11.193: Youre festynge and youre faire yifte — ech frend quyteth so oother.
11.194: Ac for the povere I shal paie, and pure wel quyte hir travaille
11.195: That yyveth hem mete or moneie and loveth hem for my sake.'
11.196: "Almighty God myghte ha[ve] maad riche alle men, if he wolde,
11.197: Ac for the beste ben som riche and some beggeres and povere.
11.198: For alle arc we Cristes creatures, and of his cofres riche,
11.199: And bretheren as of oo blood, as wel beggeres as erles.
11.200: For at Calvarie of Cristes blood Cristendom gan sprynge,
11.201: And blody bretheren we bicome there, of o body ywonne,
11.202: As quasi modo geniti gentil men echone —
11.203: No beggere ne boye amonges us but if it synne made.
11.203: Qui facit peccatum servus est peccati.
11.204: In the olde lawe, as the lettre telleth, "mennes sones'' men called
us,
11.205: Of Adames issue and Eve, ay til God-Man deide;
11.206: And after his resurexcion Redemptor was his name.
11.207: And we hise bretheren thorugh hym ybought, bothe riche and
povere.
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