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a homme ne jamais ne fera. Mais tantost quil se fu
consenti au pechie il perdi tant de son sens et povoir que
tantost devint homme mortel. et tel estoit avant quil pe
chie eust que jamais ne devoit mort sentir ne nous tous
descenduz de lui naivons moins merite de lui. En joie
en soulaz en deduit ou paradis terrestre tous ensam
bel et nez et nourrist sans nulz pechies et puis ou ciel
glorifiez. Mais depuis quilz gousterent du fruit que
dieu leur avoit deffendu. furent son sens et son entende
ment si destruis et tellement corrumpu par son pechie
que tous en demouransmes entechiez et soulliez ne neult
riens dessoubz le firmament qui nen voulsist moult
moins que devant. Et meismes les estoilles en rendi
rent moins de clarte que paravant elles navoient fait
Ainsi empirerent de leurs biens et vertus toutes choses
quelconcques par le pechie de Adam que dieu avoit
fait naistre pour lomme comme celui quil voloit faire
naistre de tous les biens quil avoit faiz. Mais tan
tost quil eust commis le pechie il se senti tant desnue de
son sens et entendement et de sa beaulte que il lui sam
bla quil fut tout nud et que il eust perdu tous biens

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and will never give to any [other] man. But as soon as Adam consented
to sin, he lost all his sense and power and immediately became
a mortal man. Before, he was such that he would never
feel death, nor would any of us who descended from him
have less merit than he, all together in joy, solace, and
pleasure in the terrestrial paradise, where we would be born
and nourished without any sin and then glorified in heaven.
But after they tasted the fruit that God had forbidden them, their
sense and understanding were so destroyed and corrupted
by their sin that we have all remained tainted and defiled,
and there is nothing under the firmament that is not worth
much less than before. Even the stars shine less
brightly than they had done before. And in this way all
things worsened in every one of their good qualities and virtues,
by the sin of Adam, whom God made to be born as a man,
as someone that He wanted to be born with all the good qualities
that He made. But as soon as he had committed the sin,
he felt himself to be stripped of his sense and understanding
and of his beauty, so it seemed to him
that he was entirely naked and that he had lost all his goods,

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a homme ne jamais ne fera. Mais tantost quil se fu
consenti au pechie il perdi tant de son sens et povoir que
tantost devint homme mortel. et tel estoit avant quil pe
chie eust que jamais ne devoit mort sentir ne nous tous
descenduz de lui naivons moins merite de lui. En joie
en soulaz en deduit ou paradis terrestre tous ensam
bel et nez et nourrist sans nulz pechies et puis ou ciel
glorifiez. Mais depuis quilz gousterent du fruit que
dieu leur avoit deffendu. furent son sens et son entende
ment si destruis et tellement corrumpu par son pechie
que tous en demouransmes entechiez et soulliez ne neult
riens dessoubz le firmament qui nen voulsist moult
moins que devant. Et meismes les estoilles en rendi
rent moins de clarte que paravant elles navoient fait
Ainsi empirerent de leurs biens et vertus toutes choses
quelconcques par le pechie de Adam que dieu avoit
fait naistre pour lomme comme celui quil voloit faire
naistre de tous les biens quil avoit faiz. Mais tan
tost quil eust commis le pechie il se senti tant desnue de
son sens et entendement et de sa beaulte que il lui sam
bla quil fut tout nud et que il eust perdu tous biens

105

and will never give to any [other] man. But as soon as Adam consented
to sin, he lost all his sense and power and immediately became
a mortal man. Before, he was such that he would never
feel death, nor would any of us who descended from him
have less merit than he, all together in joy, solace, and
pleasure in the terrestrial paradise, where we would be born
and nourished without any sin and then glorified in heaven.
But after they tasted the fruit that God had forbidden them, their
sense and understanding were so destroyed and corrupted
by their sin that we have all remained tainted and defiled,
and there is nothing under the firmament that is not worth
much less than before. Even the stars shine less
brightly than they had done before. And in this way all
things worsened in every one of their good qualities and virtues,
by the sin of Adam, whom God made to be born as a man,
as someone that He wanted to be born with all the good qualities
that He made. But as soon as he had committed the sin,
he felt himself to be stripped of his sense and understanding
and of his beauty, so it seemed to him
that he was entirely naked and that he had lost all his goodness,