and ben gladded, as if he the same joye had. What wonder,
sith god is the gretest love and the *gretest wisdom? In hem
shal he be, and they in god. Now than, whan al false folk be
ashamed, which wenen al bestialtè and erthly thing be sweter and
better to the body than hevenly is to the soule; this is the grace
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and the frute that I long have desyred; it doth me good the
savour to smelle.
Crist, now to thee I crye of mercy and of grace; and graunt,
of thy goodnes, to every maner reder ful understanding in this