CONTEMPLATION.
For to go toward heaven.
FREEWILL.
Marry, and you will me thither bring,
I would do after you.[159]
PERSEVERANCE.
I pray you, remember my words now:
Freewill, bethink thee that thou shalt die,
And of the hour thou are uncertain,
Yet by thy life thou mayest find a remedy;
For, and thou die in sin, all labour is in vain,
Then shall thy soul be still in pain.
Lost and damned for evermore;
Help is past, though thou would fain,
Then thou wilt curse the time that thou were bore.
FREEWILL.
Sir, if ye will undertake that I saved shall be,
I will do all the penance that you will set me.
CONTEMPLATION.
If that thou for thy sins he sorry,
Our Lord will forgive thee them.