Piers Plowman - Maybe You Like It

11.208: Forthi love we as leve children shal, and ech man laughe of oother,
11.209: And of that ech man may forbere, amende there it neaeth,
11.210: And every man helpe oother — for hennes shul we alle:
11.210: Alter alterius onera portate.
11.211: And be we noght unkynde of oure catel, ne of oure konnyng
neither,
11.212: For woot no man how neigh it is to ben ynome fro bothe.
11.213: Forthi lakke no lif oother, though he moore Latyn knowe,
11.214: Ne undernyme noght foule, for is noon withoute defaute.
11.215: For whatevere clerkes carpe of Cristendom or ellis,
11.216: Crist to a commune womman seide in commune at a feste
11.217: That Fides sua sholde saven hire and salven hire of synnes.
11.218: "Thanne is bileve a lele help, above logyk or lawe.
11.219: Of logyk ne of lawe in Legendo Sanctorum
11.220: Is litel alowaunce maad, but if bileve hem helpe;
11.221: For it is overlonge er logyk any lesson assoille,
11.222: And lawe is looth to lovye but if he lacche silver.
11.223: Bothe logyk and lawe, that loveth noght to lye,
11.224: I conseille alle Cristene, clyve noght theron to soore,
11.225: For some wordes I fynde writen, were of Feithes techyng,
11.226: That saved synful men, as Seint Johan bereth witnesse:
11.226: Eadem mensura qua mensi fueritis remecietur vobis.
11.227: Forthi lerne we the lawe of love as Oure Lord taughte;
11.228: And as Seint Gregorie seide, for mannes soule helthe,
11.229: Melius est scrutari scelera nostra quam naturas rerum.
11.230: "Why I meve this matere is moost for the povere;
11.231: For in hir liknesse Oure Lord ofte hath ben yknowe.
11.232: Witnesse in the Pask wyke whan he yede to Emaus —
11.233: Cleophas ne knew hym noght, that he Crist were,
11.234: For his povere apparaille and pilgrymes wedes,
11.235: Til he blessede and brak the breed that thei eten.
11.236: So bi hise werkes thei wisten that he was Jesus,
11.237: Ac by clothyng thei knewe hym noght, ne by carpynge of tonge.
11.238: And al was ensample, for sooth, to us synfulle here,
11.239: That we sholde be lowe and loveliche of speche,
11.240: And apparaille us noght over proudly — for pilgrymes are we
alle.
11.241: And in the apparaille of a povere man and pilgrymes liknesse
11.242: Many tyme God hath ben met among nedy peple,
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