is that same which the father and the mother have to their
chylde, the whiche
filialle est celle que le pere et la mere ont a leur
enfant, laquelle
is nat nor easy to your grace to understande, unto
nest pas facile ne aysee a uostre grace dentendre, jusques a
that that he please God that ye understande it by experiens, for
the childe
ce quil plaise a Dieu que lentendes par experience, car
lenfant ne
know never the love that the father and mother have toward him,
unto
cognoist jamais lamour que le pere et mere ont vers luy,
jusques a
the tyme that he be made father or mother, bycause that suche love
is nat reciprocque
ce quil soit fait pere ou mere, pour ce que telle amour
nest pas reciproque,
or retorning, but rather comyng from God to the firste father or
prothoplauste
ains uenant de Dieu au premier pere ou
prothoplauste
it goeth and retourne to God from father to the sonne. The seconde
sen va et retourne a Dieu de pere en filz. La seconde
love is called matrimoniall the whiche is of mervellouse strength
and
amour est dicte matrimonialle, la quelle est de merveilleuse energie
et
vertu, specially whan the mariages ben made after the ordynance of
vertu, especiallement quant les mariages sont faitz selon lordonance de
God, that is to say, by true love and, if it were nat to eschewe
prolixite,
Dieu, cest a dire par uray amour, et, si ce nestoit pour non estre
prolix,
I myght recite you of many women whiche ben deed
je vous poulroie reciter de pluisieurs femmes qui sont mortes
and perished for the love of their husbandes, and many men
lykewyse
et perie pour lamour de leur maris, et pluisieurs hommes
semblablement
for the love of their wyves. And touchyng to the thirde, that is
sayde
pour lamour de leur femmes. Et quant a la tierce qui est
dicte
animalle, she is without conparacion stronger than the others, bycause
animalle, elle est sans comparacion plus forte que les aultres, pour ce
it is the love that the soule hath to his body the whiche is so
great that
que cest lamour que lame a a son corps, laquelle est sy
grande que
nothyng is so moche loved in this worlde, that the man ne renounce and
refuse,
riens nest tant ayme en ce monde que lhomme ne renounce et
refuse,
first that he suffre his soule to departe from his body, nor nothing
premier quil souffre son ame departir de son corps, ne riens