laste? For yif it so be that men dyen in al, that is to seyn, body
and sowle, the whiche thing our resoun defendeth us to bileven,
thanne is ther no glorie in no wyse. For what sholde thilke glorie
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ben, whan he, of whom thilke glorie is seyd to be, nis right naught
in no wyse? And yif the sowle, whiche that hath in it-self science
of goode werkes, unbounden fro the prison of the erthe, wendeth
frely to the hevene, [despyseth it] nat thanne alle erthely occupacioun;
and, being in hevene, reioyseth that it is exempt fro alle
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