Piers Plowman - Maybe You Like It

10.211: " Yet ar ther fibicches in forceres of fele mennes makynge,
10.212: Experiments of Alkenamye the peple to deceyve;
10.213: If thow thynke to dowel, deel therwith nevere!
10.214: Alle thise sciences I myself sotilede and ordeynede,
10.215: And founded hem formest folk to deceyve.
10.216: "Tel Clergie thise tokenes, and to Scripture after,
10.217: To counseille thee kyndely to knowe what is Dowel.'
10.218: I seide, " Graunt mercy, madame,' and mekely hir grette,
10.219: And wente wightly my wey withoute moore lettyng —
10.220: And til I com to Clergie I koude nevere stynte.
10.221: I grette the goode man as the goode wif me taughte,
10.222: And afterwardes the wif, and worshiped hem bothe,
10.223: And tolde hem the tokenes that me taught were.
10.224: Was nevere gome upon this ground, sith God made the worlde,
10.225: Fairer underfongen ne frendloker at ese
10.226: Than myself, soothly, soone so he wiste
10.227: That I was of Wittes hous and with his wif Dame Studie.
10.228: I seide to hem soothly that sent was I thider
10.229: Dowel and I and Dobt to leme.
10.230: "It is a commune lyf,' quod Mergie, "on Holy Chirche to bileve,
10.231: With alle the articles of the feith that falleth to be knowe:
10.232: And that is to bileve lelly, bothe lered and lewed,
10.233: On the grete God that gynnyng hadde nevere,
10.234: And on the soothfast Sone that saved mankynde
10.235: Fro the dedly deeth and the develes power
10.236: Thorugh the help of the Holy Goost, the which goost is of bothe
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10.237: Thre propre persones, ac noght in plurel nombre,
10.238: For al is but oon God and ech is God hymselve:
10.238: Deus Pater, Deus Filius, Deus Spiritus Sanctus —
10.239: God the Fader, God the Sone, God Holy Goost of bothe,
10.240: Maker of mankynde and of [animal]es bothe.
10.241: "Austyn the olde herof made bokes,
10.242: And hymself ordeyned to sadde us in bileve.
10.243: Who was his auctour? Alle the foure Evaungelistes;
10.244: And Crist cleped hymself so, the [same] bereth witnesse:
10.244: Ego in patre et pater in me est, et qui videt me
10.244: videt et patrem meum.
10.245: "Alle the clerkes under Crist ne koude this assoille,
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