... mende or brynge agayne into the ryght course a clocke whiche longe hath contynued out of his ryght ordre, but it is moche more dyffuse to brynge the herte of man that is broken & brought out of good ordre by contynuall custome of synne into the ryght waye agayne than it is to brynge a clocke in to his true course. . . . More ouer it is necessary that a newe werke be set in a ryght course. For what profyteth a clocke be it neuer so well and craftely made, yf it stand styll or go not as it sholde in a due and Iuste course? truly no thynge. So whan the herte is ones made newe, fyrst it must be set in a due and ryght course' (117-18). A my lordes and maysters that haue this worldly wysdome, that study and employ your wyttes to cast & compasse this world, what haue ye of all this besynes at the last but a lytell vanyte. lytell vanyte. The spyder craftely spynneth her thredes and curyously weueth and Ioyneth her webbe, but cometh a lytell blast of wynde and dysapoynteth all togyder' (285). ... Our soul delivered from the devil's snares as the sparrow from the baits and traps of birdtakers (154). Understandynge wyll and reason whiche must be vnto the soule as bones and senewes to socoure it, be so vtterly wedred and dryed vp, that no maner of moysture of deuocyon is in them euen es they were tosted at the fyre, therfore as one lackynge the quycke humure of deuocyon, I can not longe contynue in prayer . . . For my bones that is to saye the stronge partes of my soule be dryed awaye lyke vnto the drosse or scrappes of talowe after it is clarefyed by the fyre' (147). The more that a synner accustometh hymselfe in synne the more greuous & deper is his discencyon towarde the pyt of hell, all though he perceyue it not, for by' lytel and lytel he synketh in to the fylthy pleasure of it, euen as an hors the softer myre or claye he waltreth hymselfe in the more easely he lyeth & enprynteth deper his symilytude in it, but whan he is about to ryse agayne the softnes of the cley wyll not suffre to take holde wherby he myght be assysted' (204). Were not they whiche thou dyde set in the foundacyon softe & slypper erth? yes truly vnto the tyme thou made them harde as stones by the vertue & strength of thy brennynge charyte' (178). The heat and cold of hell add either of them to the other's violence (423-4, 426).1 Euen as in the forge of a Smith the colde water when it is cast into the Fyer, causeth the Fyer to be much more fearse and violent' (424). Cabala, the, and the master of Plato, e. g. 62, 327. Councils of Nice and Ephesus, 335. Wyllyam Parysyense, 80; Cyprian, 320. Damascene, 334. noble doctour perisiense, 40. the 1 Compare Measure for Measure, III. i. 118-123: To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice.' Also Bede, eccl. hist. v. 12 (Stapleton): 'As we walkyd furder we came to a great brode vally so brode, so longe, and so deepe that no man could measure it. That which lay on the left hande as we went, semed to haue one side very terrible with flaming fier, the other intolerable with hayle, and snowe: beating an[d] percing into euery corner. Bothe places were full of mens sowles, which apperyd to me to be cast interchaungeably, nowe hither now thither, as it wer with a violent tempest: for when they could no lenger suffre the intolerable heate and flames of fier, they leaped to the mydst of that hatefull and deadly colde. And when they pitefully in (sic) could finde no reast there, agayne they wer reuersed into those vnquencheable flames of fier.' Where the last consonant of a verb is a dental, the participle seldom terminates in -ed; participles from Latin mostly end in -te. |