No More Learning

{a}t is to seyn thy verray frendes.


QUOD MU{N}DUS STABILI FIDE.

[Sidenote: [The viij Met{ur}. ]]

++THat ? ^e world w{i}t{h} stable feith / varieth acordable chaungynges
// ? {a}t the contraryos qualite of element? holden among{e} hem self
aliau{n}ce p{er}durable / ? {a}t pheb{us} the sonne w{i}t{h} his goldene
chariet / bryngeth forth the rosene day / ? {a}t the mone hath
{com}mau{n}dement ou{er} the nyhtes // whiche nyhtes hesp{er}us the eue
sterre hat browt // ? {a}t ? ^e se gredy to flowen constreyneth w{i}t{h} a
certeyn ende hise floodes / so ? {a}t it is nat l[e]ueful to strechche
hise brode termes or bowndes vp-on the erthes // ? {a}t is to seyn to
cou{er}e alle the erthe // Al this a-cordau{n}ce of thinges is bownden
w{i}t{h} looue / ? {a}t gou{er}neth erthe {and} see / {and} hath also
{com}mau{n}dement? to the heuenes / {and} yif this looue slakede the
brydelis / alle thinges ?
{a}t now louen hem to gederes / wolden maken a
batayle contynuely {and} stryuen to fordoon the fasou{n} of this worlde
/ the which they now leden in acordable feith by fayre moeuynges // this
looue halt to gideres poeples Ioygned w{i}t{h} an hooly bond / {and}
knytteth sacrement of maryages of chaste looues // And loue enditeth
lawes to trewe felawes // O weleful weer{e} mankynde / yif thilke loue
? {a}t gouerneth heuene gouerned[e] yowr{e} corages /

EXPLICIT LIB{ER} 2_^us_.




INCIPIT LIB{ER} 3. _^us_


IAM CANTU{M} ILLA FINIERAT.

[Sidenote: [The fyrste p{ro}se. ]]

++By this she hadde endid hir{e} song{e} / whan the swetnesse of hir{e}
ditee hadde thorw p{er}ced me ? {a}t was desirous of herkninge / {and}
. I. astoned hadde yit streyhte myn Eres / ? {a}t is to seyn to herkne the
bet / what she wolde seye // so ? {a}t a litel her{e} aft{er} . I. seyde
thus // O thow ? {a}t art sou{er}eyn comfort of Angwissos corages // So
thow hast remou{n}ted {and} norysshed me w{i}t{h} the weyhte of thy
sentenses {and} w{i}t{h} delit of thy syngynge // so ? {a}t . I.