Piers Plowman - Maybe You Like It

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