The old English versions of the Gesta Romanorum: edited for the first time from manuscripts in the British Museum and University Library, Cambridge, with an introduction and notes / By Sir Frederic Madden. Printed for the Roxburghe Club.
- Date:
- 1838
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Credit: The old English versions of the Gesta Romanorum: edited for the first time from manuscripts in the British Museum and University Library, Cambridge, with an introduction and notes / By Sir Frederic Madden. Printed for the Roxburghe Club. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Emperour of Hevene, by the mynystris of the same Emperour, soil. angelis and holy sayntis, that haven taken heede to his goode werkis. And as this smythe 3elde eche day to his fadir ijd, so owe we to 3elde to oure fadir of Hevene other too, that is to sey, love and honour. For whenne we were alle childryn of perdicione, and my3te not helpe vs selfe, thenne sent God adowne his owne geten sone to delyuer vs out of thraldom, as seyithe Saynt Jon, Sic Deus dilexit mundum, vt jilium suum vnigenitum daret, this is to sey, God lovid the wordle so wele, that he fowchid-safe to 3eve his owen geten sone. Also as Focus lent to his sone other ijd, ri3t so owe we to 3elde to the sone of goode wille and meretory workis, that he may 3elde it to vs a3en in the day of dome, whenne the body shal be glorified with the soule. And that he may be callid our sone, it shewithe wele in scripture, wher it is y-saide, Puer nobis natus est, et jilius datus est nobis, this is to sey, A child is borne to vs, and a sone is 3oven to vs. Also he lost ijd vpone his wife,—ho we so ? Thi wife is thi fleshe, that thou my3te not lefe; the ijd but delectacione and consentinge, that thou hast to synne ; and so the fleshe is euer contrarie to the spirite, and redy to ivil. Also he spende ijd vpone him selfe, as thus, by the first peny is vndirstond penaunce for synne, for the wiche the soule is glorified in Hevene; the secunde peny is good perseueraunce, that thou owist to haue alle the tyme of thi life ; for the Apostelle seyth, Qui perseue- rauerit vsque in jinem, saluus erit, this is to sey. He that contynuythe vn to the last ende, shalle be safe. And therfore if thou wolt in this maner spend thyn viijd, douteles thou my3the come to the kyndome of Heven. Moralite in an other maner. This Emperour is the Deville, the whiche sterithe a man to holde [c. 2.] his day, that is to synne, and to wrothe God euermore. Virgilie is the Holy Gost, that sittithe vp a prelate in the chirche, to shewe and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22007118_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
