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Passus Nine<br />
9.001: "Sire Dowel dwelleth,' quod Wit, "noght a day hennes<br />
9.002: In a castel that Kynde made of foure kynnes thynges.<br />
9.003: Of erthe and eyr is it maad, medled togideres,<br />
9.004: With wynd and with water wittily enjoyned.<br />
9.005: Kynde hath closed therinne craftily withalle<br />
9.006: A lemman that he loveth lik to hymselve.<br />
9.007: Anima she hatte; [to hir hath envye]<br />
9.008: A proud prikere of Fraunce, Princeps huius mundi,<br />
9.009: And wolde wynne hire awey with wiles and he myghte.<br />
9.010: "Ac Kynde knoweth this wel and kepeth hire the bettre,<br />
9.011: And hath doon hire with Sire Dowel, Duc of thise marches.<br />
9.012: Dobet is hire damyselle, Sire Doweles doughter,<br />
9.013: To serven this Iady leelly bothe late and rathe.<br />
9.014: Dobest is above bothe, a bisshopes peere;<br />
9.015: That he bit moot be do — he [bidd]eth hem alle.<br />
9.016: [By his leryng] is lad [that lady Anima].<br />
9.017: "Ac the Constable of that castel, that kepeth [hem alle],<br />
9.018: Is a wis knyght withalle — Sire Inwit he hatte,<br />
9.019: And hath fyve faire sones by his firste wyve:<br />
9.020: Sire Se-wel, and Sey-wel, and Here-wel the hende,<br />
9.021: Sire Werch-wel-with-thyn-hand, a wight man of strengthe,<br />
9.022: And Sire Godefray Go-wel — grete lordes [alle].<br />
9.023: Thise sixe ben set to save this lady Anima<br />
9.024: Til Kynde come or sende to kepen hire hymselve.'<br />
9.025: "What kynnes thyng is Kynde?' quod, "kanstow me telle?'<br />
9.026: " Kynde,' quod Wit, "is creatour of alle kynnes thynges,<br />
9.027: Fader and formour of al that evere was maked —<br />
9.028: And that is the grete God that gynnyng hadde nevere,<br />
9.029: Lord of lif and of light, of lisse and of peyne.<br />
9.030: Aungeles and alle thyng arn at his wille,<br />
9.031: Ac man is hym moost lik of marc and of shape.<br />
9.032: For thorugh the word that he [warp] woxen forth beestes:<br />
9.032: Dixit et facta sunt.<br />
9.033: "A[c] he made man [moost] li[k] to hymself,<br />
9.034: And Eve of his ryb bon withouten any mene.<br />
9.035: For he was synguler hymself and seide Eaciamus —<br />
9.036: As who seith, "" Moore moot herto than my word oone:<br />
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