“That canst thou, full well and sweetly, if so be thou put God first. Otherwise, nay.”
“Soothly, Mistress, I know not well what you would be at.”
“What our Saviour would be at Himself, which is, thy true bliss and blessedness, Phyllis. My maid, to be assured of fair ending and good welcome at the end of the journey makes not the journeying wearier. To know not whither thou art wending, save that it is into the dark; to be met of a stranger, that may be likewise an enemy; to be had up afore the judge’s bar, with no advocate to plead for thee, and no surety of acquittal,—that is evil journeying, Phyllis, Dost not think so much?”
Perrote listened in vain for any answer.
Note 1. Psalm seventy-two, verses 4, 5, 8, 12, 13, 18, 19; Hereford and Purvey’s version, 1381-8.
Note 2. Romans six, verse 16; Wycliffe’s version, 1382.