For I saw full surely that ever as our contrariness worketh to us here in earth pain, shame, and sorrow, right so, on the contrary wise, grace worketh to us in heaven solace, worship, and bliss; and overpassing. And so far forth, that when we come up and receive the sweet reward which grace hath wrought for us, then we shall thank and bless our Lord, endlessly rejoicing that ever we suffered woe. And that shall be for a property of blessed love that we shall know in God which we could never have known without woe going before.
And when I saw all this, it behoved me needs to grant that the mercy of God and the forgiveness is to slacken and waste our wrath.
[1] "buxum" = ready to bend or obey.
[2] "lovely chere," loving Look. See [li.], [lxxi.], etc.
[3] "I cowth not a perceyven of."
[4] "But in all this the swete eye of pite and love cumith never of us, ne the werkyng of mercy cesyth not."
[5] or largeness.