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Marie Richards at Sep 22, 2021 01:53 PM

Page 174

dessus si trebuchent tant soubdainement jus par ter-
re qu'elle assomme et occist les gens qui pour lors se
retiennent dedens qui de telz dangiers n'estoient advi-
sez ne pourveuz. Si est une grant doleur pour le po-
vre poeuple qui demeure outel meschief advient quant
point n'est adverey a quelle heure celle tempeste doit
venir pour le escheuer Mais les saiges qui doubtent
a morir se arment et appareillent contre la mort et
rendent toute diligence de querir et avoir accordan-
che que souverain juge de leur pechies et deffaultes
selon leur loy et la creanche que ilz ont comme ceulx
qui n'ont jour ne heure ne espace de vivre la ou ilz
sont sains et haittiez. Ainsi font l'eaue et le vent le
droit mouvement par quoy fend et crosle. Com-
O
R ment l'eau de la mer devient Salee.
vous veul racompter comment l'eau
de la mer devient salee. Laquelle est
tant amere que personne n'en poeut boire ne les
bestes aussi. il advient par le soleil d'en hault. Car
il fait si tresgrant chault en aulcuns lieux que la
mer y esschauffe tant fort que la terre qui est


Translation

fall down to the earth so suddenly that they
may strike and kill the people who are inside
them, if they are not warned of such dangers.
It is a great source of suffering for the pour people
who live where such things happen, since it
is impossible to know when the storm might come,
so that they might escape it. But the wise men who fear
to die arm themselves against death and diligently
seek to reconcile themselves with the sovereign
judge of their sins and faults, according to their
law and their believe that they should
live like those who have neither day nor hour nor
place to live in health and ease. This is what the
water and the wind do to create the movements
by which [the earth] cracks and quakes.
How sea water becomes salty.
Now I want to tell you how sea water
becomes salty. It is so bitter than no one
can drink it, neither man nor beast. The reason
comes from the sun on high. For it is so hot
in some places that the sea
heats up so much as the land that is

Page 174

dessus si trebuchent tant soubdainement jus par ter-
re qu'elle assomme et occist les gens qui pour lors se
retiennent dedens qui de telz dangiers n'estoient advi-
sez ne pourveuz. Si est une grant doleur pour le po-
vre poeuple qui demeure outel meschief advient quant
point n'est adverey a quelle heure celle tempeste doit
venir pour le escheuer Mais les saiges qui doubtent
a morir se arment et appareillent contre la mort et
rendent toute diligence de querir et avoir accordan-
che que souverain juge de leur pechies et deffaultes
selon leur loy et la creanche que ilz ont comme ceulx
qui n'ont jour ne heure ne espace de vivre la ou ilz
sont sains et haittiez. Ainsi font l'eaue et le vent le
droit mouvement par quoy fend et crosle. Com-
O
R ment l'eau de la mer devient Salee.
vous veul racompter comment l'eau
de la mer devient salee. Laquelle est
tant amere que personne n'en poeut boire ne les
bestes aussi. il advient par le soleil d'en hault. Car
il fait si tresgrant chault en aulcuns lieux que la
mer y esschauffe tant fort que la terre qui est


Translation

fall down to the earth so suddenly that they
may strike and kill the people who are inside
them, if they are not warned of such dangers.
It is a great source of suffering for the pour people
who live where such things happen, since it
is impossible to know when the storm might come,
so that they might escape it. But the wise men who fear
to die arm themselves against death and diligently
seek to reconcile themselves with the sovereign
judge of their sins and faults, according to their
law and their believe that they should
live like those who have neither day nor hour nor
place to live in health and ease. This is what the
water and the wind do to create the movements
by which [the earth] cracks and quakes.
How sea water becomes salty.
Now I want to tell you how sea water
becomes salty. It is so bitter than no one
can drink it, neither man nor beast. The reason
comes from the sun on high. For it is so hot
in some places that the sea
heats up as much as the land that is