No More Learning

{a}t is a moore verray thing{e} //

[Sidenote: What remains to be said is of such a nature that when
it is first tasted it is pungent and unpleasant, but when once
swallowed it turns sweet, and is grateful to the stomach. ]

And certes the remenau{n}t
of thinges ? {a}t ben yit to seye / ben swyche // ? {a}t fyrst 1720
whan men tasten hem they ben bytynge / but whan
they ben resseyuyd w{i}t{h}-inne a whyht than ben they
swete //

[Sidenote: But because you say you would now gladly hear, with
what desire would you burn if you could imagine whither I am going
to lead you? ]

but for thow seyst ? {a}t thow art so desirous to
herkne hem // wit[h] how gret brennynge woldesthow 1724
glowen / yif thow wystest whyder . I. wol leden the //

[Sidenote: _B. _ Whither is that, I pray? ]

whydyr{e} is ? {a}t q{uod} . I. //

[Sidenote: _P. _ To that true felicity, of which you seem to have
but a faint foretaste. ]

to thilke verray welefulnesse
q{uod} she // of whyche thynge herte dremeth //

[Sidenote: But your sight is clouded with false forms, so that it
cannot yet behold this same felicity.
]

but for as moche as thy syhte is ocupied {and} distorbed / by 1728
Imagynasyon of herthely thynges / thow mayst nat yit
sen thilke selue welefulnesse //

[Sidenote: _B. _ Show me, I pray, that true happiness without
delay. ]

do q{uod} . I. {and} shewe
me / what is thilke verray welefulnesse / . I. preye the [[pg 64]]
w{i}t{h}-howte tarynge //

[Sidenote: _P. _ I will gladly do so at your desire, but I will
first describe that false cause (of happiness), so that you may be
better able to comprehend the exact model. ]

? {a}t wole . I. gladly don q{uod} she / 1732
for the cause of the // but . I. wol fyrst marken the by
wordes / {and} I wol enforcen me to enformen the //
thilke false cause of blysfulnesse ? {a}t thow more knowest /
so ? {a}t whan thow hast fully by-holden thilke false 1736
goodes {and} torned thyne eyen to ?