pleasure is suche I shall recyte you (submyttyng me to the correction of
plaisir est tel, je uous reciteray (me soubmetant a la correction de
your grace, and of all persons connyng) that whiche I have therof
gathered
uostre grace, et de toute persone scauante) ce que jen ay peu
ceullier
from the philosophers, and of the holy s. Isodore, wherfore it shall
please you to knowe
des philosophes, et de saint Isidore; pourquoy il uous
plaira scauoir
that all thynges created of God under the moone ben or
elemented
que touttes choses creez de Dieu soubz le globe lunaire sont ou
ellementees
onely, as precious stones and other with all mettalles, or
seullement, come pierres precieuses et aultres auec tous metaulz, ou
be elemented and vegetables, as herbes, trees, and all maner
sont ellementees et uegetables, come herbes, arbres, et touttes manieres
of plantes, or ben elemented vegetables and sensytyves, as ben
de plantes, ou sont elementees uegetables et sensitiues, come sont
all beestes, byrdes, fyshes, reptyll them movyng from place to
other,
touttes bestes, oiseaulz, poissons, reptiles se mouuant de lieu a
aultre,
or ben elemented vegetables sensytyves and reasonable, as ben the
ou sont elementees uegetables sensitiues et racionelles, come sont les
men whiche have in them all the fours proprietees above sayd;
hommes lesquelz ont en eulz touttes les quatre proprietes dessus dictes;
for as touchyng the body (which is a masse elemented) it is but a
car quant au corps (qui est une masse elementee) ce nest que une
conglutination and combination of the foure elementes in the whiche our
conglutination, et combination des quatre elementes ezquelz nostre
Lorde hath planted the soule vegetable by the whiche it groweth in
length,
Seigneur a plante lame uegetable par laquelle il croist en longeur,
largenes, and depnes (whiche one calle thre dimensions) by cause that
the
largeur et profundite (quon dit trois dimensions) a cause que la
sayd vegetable hath in her foure vertues, by the whiche she
subsiste and
dicte uegetable a en soy quatre uertus, par lesquelles elle
subsiste et
groweth, that is to saye, the atractyve or appetityve, the retentyve,
the digestyve,
croist, cest a scauoir, latractiue ou appetitiue, la retentyue,
la degestiue,
and expulsive; a body may nat ete without appetit, nor may nat
et expulsiue; une personne ne peult menger sans appetit, ne ne peult