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15.038: Nempnede me thus to name — now thow myght chese<br />
15.039: How thow coveitest to calle me, now thow knowest alle my<br />
names.<br />
15.039: Anima pro diversis accionibus diversa nomina sortitur: dum<br />
15.039: vivificat corpus, anima est; dum vult, animus est; dum scit,<br />
15.039: mens est; dum recolit, memoria est; dum iudicat, racio est;<br />
15.039: dum sentit, sensus est; dum amat, Amor est ; dum negat vel<br />
15.039: consentit, consciencia est; dum spirat, spiritus est.'<br />
15.040: "Ye ben as a bisshop,' quod I, al bourdynge that tyme,<br />
15.041: " For bisshopes yblessed, thei bereth manye names —<br />
15.042: Presul and Pontifex and Metropolitanus,<br />
15.043: And othere names an heep, Episcopus and Pastor.'<br />
15.044: "That is sooth,' seide he, "now I se thi wille!<br />
15.045: Thow woldest knowe and konne the cause of alle hire names,<br />
15.046: And of myne, if thow myghtest, me thynketh by thi speche!'<br />
15.047: " Ye, sire,' I seide, "by so no man were greved,<br />
15.048: Alle the sciences under sonne and alle the sotile craftes<br />
15.049: I wolde I knewe and kouthe kyndely in myn herte!"<br />
15.050: "Thanne artow inparfit,' quod he, "and oon of Prides knyghtes!<br />
15.051: For swich a lust and likyng Lucifer fel from hevene:<br />
15.051: Ponam pedem meum in aquilone et similis ero Altissimo.<br />
15.052: "<strong>It</strong> were ayeins kynde,' quod he, "and alle kynnes reson<br />
15.053: That any creature sholde konne al, except Crist oone.<br />
15.054: Ayein swiche Salomon speketh, and despiseth hir wittes,<br />
15.055: And seith, Sicut qui mel comedit multum non est ei bonum,<br />
15.055: Sic qui scrutator est maiestatis opprimitur a gloria.<br />
15.056: "To Englisshe men this is to mene, that mowen speke and here,<br />
15.057: The man that muche hony eteth his mawe it engleymeth,<br />
15.058: And the moore that a man of good matere hereth,<br />
15.059: But he do therafter it dooth hym doubie scathe.<br />
15.060: "" Beatus est,' seith Seint Bernard, "" qui scripturas iegit<br />
15.061: Et verba vertit in opera fulliche to his power."<br />
15.062: Coveitise to konne and to knowe science<br />
15.063: Putte out of Paridis Adam and Eve:<br />
15.063: Sciencie appetitus hominem inmortalitatis gloriam spoliavit.<br />
15.064: "And right as hony is yvel to defie and engleymeth the mawe,<br />
15.065: Right so that thorugh reson wolde the roote knowe<br />
15.066: Of God and of hise grete myghtes — hise graces it letteth.<br />
15.067: For in the likynge lith a pride and licames coveitise<br />
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