Chaucerian and Other Pieces. Various
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I turned thy purpos, and shewed thee
a part of the hye waye, tho thou abode therin, and no deth ne
ferdnesse of non enemy might thee out of thilk way reve; but
ever oon in thyn herte, to come to the ilke blisse, whan thou
were arested and firste tyme enprisoned, thou were loth to
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chaunge thy way, for in thy hert thou wendest to have ben there
thou shuldest. And for I had routhe to sene thee miscaried,
and wiste wel thyn ablenesse my service to forther and encrese,
I com my-selfe, without other mene, to visit thy person in comfort
of thy hert. And perdy, in my comming thou were greetly
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glad[d]ed; after whiche tyme no disese, no care, no tene, might
move me out of thy hert. And yet am I glad and greetly enpited,
how continually thou haddest me in mynde, with good avysement
of thy conscience, whan thy king and his princes by huge wordes
and grete loked after variaunce in thy speche; and ever thou
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were redy for my sake, in plesaunce of the Margarite-perle and
many mo other, thy body to oblige in-to Marces doing, if any
contraried thy sawes. Stedfast way maketh stedfast hert, with
good hope in the ende. Trewly, I wol that thou it wel knowe;
for I see thee so set, and not chaunginge herte haddest in my
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service; and I made thou haddest grace of thy kinge, in
foryevenesse of mikel misdede. To the gracious king art thou mikel
holden, of whos grace and goodnesse somtyme hereafter I thinke
thee enforme, whan I shew the ground where-as moral vertue
groweth. Who brought thee to werke? Who brought this grace
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aboute? Who made thy hert hardy? Trewly, it was I. For
haddest thou of me fayled, than of this purpos had[dest thou]
never taken [hede] in this wyse. And therfore I say, thou might
wel truste to come to thy blisse, sithen thy ginninge hath ben hard,
but ever graciously after thy hertes desyr hath proceded. Silver
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fyned with many hetes men knowen for trew; and safely men
may trust to the alay in werkinge. This †disese hath proved what
way hence-forward thou thinkest to holde.'
'Now, in good fayth, lady,' quod I tho, 'I am now in; me
semeth, it is the hye way and the right.'
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'Ye, forsothe,' quod she, 'and now I wol disprove thy first
wayes, by whiche many men wenen to gette thilke blisse. But
for-as-moche as every herte that hath caught ful love, is tyed with
queynt knittinges, thou shalt understande that love and thilke
foresayd blisse toforn declared in this[e] provinges, shal hote the
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knot in the hert.'
'Wel,' quod I, 'this inpossession I wol wel understande.'
'Now also,' quod she, 'for the knotte in the herte muste ben
from one to an-other, and I knowe thy desyr, I wol thou understande
these maters to ben sayd of thy-selfe, in disproving of thy
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first service, and in strengthinge of thilke that thou hast
undertake to thy Margaryte-perle.'
'A goddes halfe,' quod I, 'right wel I fele that al this case is
possible and trewe; and therfore I †admitte it altogither.'
'†Understand wel,' quod she, 'these termes, and loke no
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contradiccion thou graunt.'
'If god wol,' quod I, 'of al these thinges wol I not fayle; and
if I graunt contradiccion, I shulde graunte an impossible; and
that were a foul inconvenience; for whiche thinges, lady, y-wis,
herafter I thinke me to kepe.'
Ch. IV. 1. shalte. amonge. 2. parfyte. 4. wretche. 5. seke; read seketh. 6. parfyte. 7. lyueth; read leveth. thynge. 8. howe. perfection. 9. erronyous. 13. I supply whiche. 14. moste. 15. parfyte. maye. 16. thynge. 20. sothe; read soghte. toforne.
21. thrages (sic); read thinges. 22. heere. 23. get; read getten. 26. wol; read wot. 30. parfite. 33. some (twice). 37. the. shalte. con. 39. howe ye meanen. 41. some deale. 42. entention. thre. lyuenges. 43. one. 44. thre. 45. great. cleaped. I supply and manlich. Resonablich. 47. nothynge. 47–9. reason (twice). 49. lyueng. thynge. 50. maye. 51. fathers. toforne. 52. lyuenges. 54. determination. 56. lyuenges (twice). lyueth; read leveth. to; read two.
57. the. 58. lyuenges. 59. made. 60. be; read by. 62. cleaped. 64. begon. 65. werne. 66. obey. 70. greatly. 73. Se. 75. folke. 80. wretch. 89. disceite. 92. reason. 94. arte.
95–6. the (twice). 97–100. purpose. 98. lyueng. 99. the. 100–2. the. 101. parte. dethe. 103. one. 106. the. 107. wyst. thyne. encrease. 108. come. mean. For person read prison? comforte. 109. greatly gladed. 110. disease. 111. gladde. greatly. 112. howe. 114. great. 115. peerle. 119. se the. 121. arte. 122. whose. 123. the. grounde. 124. the. 126. purpose. had; read haddest thou. I supply hede. 128. harde. 129. desyre. 130. heates.
131. diseases (sic). waye. -forwarde. 133–142. Nowe (four times). 139. toforne. 143. desyre. 145. strenghthynge. haste. 148. admytted; read admytte it. 149. Vnderstanden (sic). 149–152. contradyction (twice). 153. foule. ladye.
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