{50} and contemplacyone of God, þay are so chargede wyth othyre affeccyons and othire vanytés.
22 [ynence]] ynesche MS.
23 [mekill]] MS. follows with: or thay lufe þame ouer lyttill, caught up from below.
C. THE SEVEN GIFTS OF THE HOLY GHOST. (Chap. xi of The Form of Perfect Living; ed. Horstmann, vol. i, p. 196.)
Þe seuene gyftes of þe Haly Gaste, þat ere gyfene to men and wymmene þat er ordaynede to þe ioye of heuene, and ledys theire lyfe in this worlde reghtwysely. Thire are thay:—Wysdome,
{55} Undyrstandynge, Counsayle, Strenghe, Connynge, Peté, the Drede of God. Begynne we at Consaile, for þareof es myster at the begynnynge of oure werkes, þat vs myslyke noghte aftyrwarde. With thire seuene gyftes þe Haly Gaste [teches] sere mene serely.
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Consaile es doynge awaye of worldes reches, and of all delytes of all thyngeȝ þat mane may be tagyld with, in thoghte or dede, and [þar]with drawynge intill contemplacyone of Gode.
Undyrstandynge es to knawe whate es to doo, and whate