begonne communycation.
encomencee comunicacion.
Lau.
In good soth, madame, I am redy to acquyte me, howbeit that I
make protestation
En uerite, madame, je suis prect de me acquicter, combien que je
proteste
before your grace that I shall speke therof as a clerke of armes,
deuant uostre grace que jen parleray come ung clerc darmes,
for I knowe nothyng of it but by here say.
car je nen scay rien que par ouir dire.
Ma.
Well, well, care ye nat.
Bien, bien, ne uous chaille.
Lau.
It is trouth, madame, that there is foure elementes, that is to
say: the
Il est bien uray, madame, que sont quatre elementz, cest a
scauoir: la
erthe, the water, thayre, and the fyre, the whiche have eche one a
qualytie proper
terre, leau, lair, et le feu, lesquelz ont chescun une
qualite propre
and one folowyng. The erthe is drie of her proper qualytie, and
colde
et une cocomitante. La terre est seiche de sa propre qualite, et
froide
by nature folowynge, the whiche cometh of the water that to her is
nyghe:
par nature cocomitante, laquelle uient de leaue qui luy est
prouchayne:
the water is colde of his ppopertie, but for the neighbourhode
that she hath of
leau est froide de sa propriete, mais par la contiguite
quelle a de
the ayre, she is moyst: the ayre of his proper qualytie is moyst,
but by the
lair, elle est moiste: lair de sa propre qualite est moist,
mais par la
concordence that he hath to the fyre, he is hote: the fyre is hote
of his
simbolisacion quil a au feu, il est chault: le feu est chault
de sa
proper nature and drie by the erthe, to the whiche he is very nyghe;
of the whiche
propre nature et sec par la terre, a laquelle il est concomitant;
desquelles
foure qualyties naturall and folowyng dothe springe to us
quatre qualites naturelles et concomitantes nous resultent