that the selinesse is departed, thou art a wrecch. Than foloweth
this upon thy wordes; every soule resonable of man may nat dye;
and if deth endeth selinesse and maketh wrecches, as nedes of
fortune maketh it an ende. Than soules, after deth of the body,
in wrecchednesse shulde liven. But we knowe many that han
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geten the blisse of heven after their deth. How than may this
lyf maken men blisful, that whan it passeth it yeveth no wrecchednesse,
and many tymes blisse, if in this lyfe he con live as he
shulde? And wolt thou acompt with Fortune, that now at [t]he