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de dieu. Se les hommes du jour dentendoient bien
ceste parole ilz en retendroient plus volentiers les
doctrines qui viennent de la bouche du createur et
facteur de toutes choses mais les grans rentes que ilz
ont et les grans tresors de leurs coffers sont cause de
abregier leurs jours par leurs desordenez mengiers
qui trop leur nuisent. si que nature ne les poent bon
nement porter ne soustenir dont il convient que ils en
rendent plus tost lame. Ainsi leurs rentes et leurs tre
sors ou de tous biens poins ils se delitent leur emble
leur vie leur coeur et leur sens tout ensamble. Si que
quant la mort vient et quils doiuent morir ilz ont per
du sens et entendement dont pluseurs en sont mors
et dampnez qui au besoing ne se pouoient conseillier
ne ne avoient quant ilz en auoient plus grant me
stier ilz ne vinoient pas aussi comme ceulx qui pour
eulx oster des perilz estudioient es sciences et usoient
leur vie en telle maniere que ilz voloient leurs corps
soustenir seulement tant comme ilz seroient au siecle
sicomme ceulx qui bien sauoient que trespeu leur du
roit ceste vie. Si nauoient daultre chose enuie fors


Translation

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of God. If people today really understood
this saying they would more willingly accept
the doctrines that come from the mouth of the Creator
and Maker of all things. But the large incomes
that they have, and the large treasures in their coffers,
are the reason why they cut short their days with their disordered
appetites, which damage them so much. If nature cannot
hold and sustain them well, then they should give themselves
instead to the spirit. For their income and their
treasures and all the good things in which they delight steal away
their lives, their hearts, and their senses all together. **** So
when death comes and they must die, they have lost their wit
and understanding, and many of them are dead and
damned, who cannot be counseled nor help themselves
when they have most need. They do not live like those
who, to save themselves from peril, studied the sciences and
lived their lives in such a way that they wished to sustain
their bodies only so long as they might be in this world,
knowing that their lives lasted only a short while.
They did not desire anything else except

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xii

de dieu. Se les hommes du jour dentendoient bien
ceste parole ilz en retendroient plus volentiers les
doctrines qui viennent de la bouche du createur et
facteur de toutes choses mais les grans rentes que ilz
ont et les grans tresors de leurs coffers sont cause de
abregier leurs jours par leurs desordenez mengiers
qui trop leur nuisent. si que nature ne les poent bon
nement porter ne soustenir dont il convient que ils en
rendent plus tost lame. Ainsi leurs rentes et leurs tre
sors ou de tous biens poins ils se delitent leur emble
leur vie leur coeur et leur sens tout ensamble. Si que
quant la mort vient et quils doiuent morir ilz ont per
du sens et entendement dont pluseurs en sont mors
et dampnez qui au besoing ne se pouoient conseillier
ne ne avoient quant ilz en auoient plus grant me
stier ilz ne vinoient pas aussi comme ceulx qui pour
eulx oster des perilz estudioient es sciences et usoient
leur vie en telle maniere que ilz voloient leurs corps
soustenir seulement tant comme ilz seroient au siecle
sicomme ceulx qui bien sauoient que trespeu leur du
roit ceste vie. Si nauoient daultre chose enuie fors


Translation

xii

of God. If people today really understood
this saying they would more willingly accept
the doctrines that come from the mouth of the Creator
and Maker of all things. But the large incomes
that they have, and the large treasures in their coffers,
are the reason why they cut short their days with their disordered
appetites, which damage them so much. If nature cannot
hold and sustain them well, then they should give themselves
instead to the spirit. For their income and their
treasures and all the good things in which they delight take away
their lives, their hearts, and their senses all together. So
when death comes and they must die, they have lost their wit
and understanding, and many of them are dead and
damned, who cannot be counseled nor help themselves
when they have most need. They do not live like those
who, to save themselves from peril, studied the sciences and
lived their lives in such a way that they wished to sustain
their bodies only so long as they might be in this world,
knowing that their lives lasted only a short while.
They did not desire anything else except