Evangelium, quod The man, as telleth the clergie, And whan this litel world miftorneth The grete worlde al overtorneth. The lond, the fee, the firmament Ayein the man and make him werre, Ther while him felfe ftant out of herre, The remenaunt wol nought accorde, The man is cause of alle wo, Why this worlde is divided fo. Hic dicit fecundum Divifion the gospel faith omne regnum in fe divifum defolabitur. Quod ex fue com plexionis materia regne al overthrowe. And thus may every man wel knowe Divifion aboven alle Is thing, which maketh the world to falle It may firfte prove upon a man. divifus homo mor- Is made upon divifion talis exiftit. Of cold of hot of moift of drie, Withouten interrupcion, There shulde no corrupcion Engendre upon that unite, Within him felfe, he may nought laste, But in a man yet over this Full great divifion there is, Through which that he is ever in ftrife The body and the foule alfo That what thing that the body hateth But netheles ful ofte is fene Of werre whiche is hem betwene And was the cause and the matere, Of all the world and made an ende Qualiter in edificacione Turris Babel, But Noe with his felaship, Whan he the toure Babel on hight quam in dei con- Let make, as he that wolde fight temptum Nem broth erexit, lingua Ayein the highe goddes might, prius hebraica in Wherof devided anon right varias linguas cœ debatur. lica vindicta divi- Was the language in fuche entent There wiste non what other ment, Qualiter mundus, qui in ftatu divifio So that they mighten nought procede. Where finne taketh the cafe on honde It may upright nought longe ftonde, Is moder of division. And token whan the world shall faile, nis quafi cotidianus For so faith Crift withoute faile, prefenti tempore That nigh upon the worldes ende vexatur flagellis, a lapide fuperveni- Pees and accorde away shall wende ente, id eft a divina potencia ufque ad And alle charite shall cease refolucionem om nis carnis fubito Among the men and hate encrease. conteretur. And whan these tokens ben befall All fodeinly the ftone fhall fall, As Daniel it hath beknowe, Which all this world fhal overthrowe And every man shall than arise To joie or elles to juise, Where that he shall for ever dwell Or straight to heven or straight to hell. In heven is pees and al accorde, But wolde god that now were one Whiche had an harpe of fuch temprure As well the lorde as the shepherde That was a luftie melodie Hic narrat exemplum de concordia et unitate inter homines provocanda. Et dicit, qualiter quidam Arion nuper citharista ex fui cantus cithareque confona melodia tante virtutis extiterat, ut ipfe non folum virum cum viro, fed etiam leonem cum cerva, lupum cum agno, canem cum lepore ipfum audientes unanimiter abfque ulla difcordia ad in vicem pacificavit. To make pees where nowe is hate. So that mesure upon oultrage It greveth ofte. And now no more Explicit Prologus. |