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ments are moved by him. To him, a hundred thousand years do not amount to as much as
the tiniest part of a single hour of this world,
nor do they to all those who are in paradise. For the least of those who live there
has, in a sole hour of joy, more happiness,
pleasure, solace, honor, and delight, of which he will never
be weary or sated, than any man could think of or know how to reckon in a hundred thousand years, should he live so long, or if he were the most perceptive of any man who
ever lived or will live, however hard he should think.
God is of such a great and inestimable glory,
without peer, the true and sovereign Lord, and the God who
knows all and sees all that ever was, that is, and that ever will be,
and everything that is belongs to Him. No good things are ever
lacking to Him and He has them always before Him. Nor
was there ever, nor will there ever be, any good thing that
had not been envisioned by him before the creation of the world.
Now please hear why God made and created the world.

rubric: Why God made and created the world

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Marie Richards

original folio 4r
Walters folio 9r
Cf. BL Royal MS 19 A IX f 7v-8r
Caxton, ed. Prior, p. 10-11
Gossuin, ed. Prior, p 61-62

Marie Richards

lines 6-7: BL has "que nulz homs ne pourroit penser ne ne pouvoit en cent mille ans estimer se il tant povoit durer"