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10.374: Nemo ascendit ad celum nisi qui de celo descendit.
10.375: "And I leve it wel, by Oure Lord and on no lettrure bettre.
10.376: For Salomon the Sage that Sapienee [made]
10.377: God gaf hym grace of wit and alle goodes after
10.378: To rule the reume and riche to make;
10.379: He demed wel and wisely, as Holy Writ telleth.
10.380: Aristotle and he — who wissed men bettre?
10.381: Maistres that of Goddes mercy techen men and prechen,
10.382: Of hir wordes thei wissen us for wisest as in hir tyme —
10.383: And al Holy Chirche holdeth hem bothe [in helle]!
10.384: And if I sholde werche by hir werkes to wynne me hevene,
10.385: That for hir werkes and wit now wonyeth in pyne —
10.386: Thanne wroughte I unwisly. whatsoevere ye preche!
10.387: "Ac of fele witty, in feith, litel ferly I have
10.388: Though hir goost be ungracious God for to plese.
10.389: For many men on this moolde moore setten hir herte
10.390: In good than in God — forthi hem grace failleth
10.391: At hir mooste mesehief, whan [men] shal lif lete,
10.392: As Salamon dide and swiche othere, that shewed grete wittes,
10.393: Ac hir werkes, as Holy Writ seith, was evere the contrarie.
10.394: Forthi wise witted men and wel ylettred clerkes
10.395: As thei seyen hemself selde doon therafter:
10.395: Super cathedram Moysi &c.
10.396: "Ac I wene it worth of manye as was in Noes tyme
10.397: Tho he shoop that ship of shides and of bordes:
10.398: Was nevere wrighte saved that wroghte theron, ne oother
werkman ellis,
10.399: But briddes and beestes and the blissed Noe
10.400: And his wif with hise sones and also hire wyves:
10.401: Of wrightes that it wroghte was noon of hem ysaved.
10.402: "God lene it fare noght so bi folk that the feith techeth
10.403: Of Holi Chirche, that herberwe is and Goddes hous to save
10.404: And shilden us from shame therinne, as Noes ship dide beestes.
10.405: And men that maden it amydde the flood adreynten.
10.406: The culorum of this clause curatours is to mene,
10.407: That ben carpenters Holy Kirk to rnake for Cristes owene beestes:
10.407: Homines et iumenta salvabis, Domine, &c.
10.408: At domesday the deluvye worth of deth and fir at ones;
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