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tel ou telle se cuidera ancores esbatre en che siecle
ou six ou huit ou dix ans que en mains de cincq jours
se treuve condempne et devale en la fournaise ar
dant dinfer Si est celui de bonne heure nez et bien
advise quant a sa fin il est pris ou service de nostre
seigneur et non pas es voluptez mondaines et
dampnables tant comme son createur lui preste
lentendement et il en a temps et espace Car dieu
lui rendra si riche don et si bel que il aura tous
biens a son habaudon avec la joie pardurable
de paradis. Laquelle nous soit par le createur et
redempteur du monde ottroie en qui toute pitie
et misericorde habonde en qui tous biens et ver
tus quelzconcques ont este sont et seront pardu
rablement. Chi fine le liure appelle lymage du
monde leque en parlant de dieu et de ses euvres
inestimables encommenche dentre en matere. et
en parlant de lui et de ses haultes puissanches et
dominations prend fin. Car en tous commenchemens
et en toutes operations doit estre le nom de dieu
evocquie et appelle comme celui sans lequel toutes

one or another person will still try to struggle in this world
for six or eight or ten years, but in less than five days he
will find himself condemned and will fall into the burning
furnace of Hell. A person is born in a good hour and well advised,
if when he is at his end he is engaged the service of Our Lord
and not in worldly and damnable laciviousness, as his Creator
gives him the understanding to do, and he has enough time
and space. For God will make him such a rich and beauteous
gift that he will have all good things for his use together with
the lasting joy of Paradise, given to us by the Creator and
Redeemer of the world, Who abounds with all pity and
compassion, and in Whom all good things and every virtue
have been, are, and always will be. This ends the book called
the Image of the World, which begins by speaking of
God and His inestimable works, and ends by speaking of Him
and His great power and position. For in all our beginnings
and in all our actions the name of God should be evoked
and called upon, as the One without whom all

tel ou telle se cuidera ancores esbatre en che siecle
ou six ou huit ou dix ans que en mains de cincq jours
se treuve condempne et devale en la fournaise ar
dant dinfer Si est celui de bonne heure nez et bien
advise quant a sa fin il est pris ou service de nostre
seigneur et non pas es voluptez mondaines et
dampnables tant comme son createur lui preste
lentendement et il en a temps et espace Car dieu
lui rendra si riche don et si bel que il aura tous
biens a son habaudon avec la joie pardurable
de paradis. Laquelle nous soit par le createur et
redempteur du monde ottroie en qui toute pitie
et misericorde habonde en qui tous biens et ver
tus quelzconcques ont este sont et seront pardu
rablement. Chi fine le liure appelle lymage du
monde leque en parlant de dieu et de ses euvres
inestimables encommenche dentre en matere. et
en parlant de lui et de ses haultes puissanches et
dominations prend fin. Car en tous commenchemens
et en toutes operations doit estre le nom de dieu
evocquie et appelle comme celui sans lequel toutes

one or another person will still try to struggle in this world
for six or eight or ten years, and in less than five days he
will find himself condemned and will fall into the burning
furnace of Hell. He is born in a good hour and well advised,
if when he is at his end he is engaged the service of Our Lord
and not in worldly and damnable laciviousness, as his Creator
gives him the understanding to do, and he has enough time
and space. For God will make him such a rich and beauteous
gift that he will have all good things for his use together with
the lasting joy of Paradise, given to us by the Creator and
Redeemer of the world, who abounds with all pity and
compassion, and in whom all good things and every virtue
have been, are, and always will be. This ends the book called
the Image of the World, which begins by speaking of
God and His inestimable works, and ends by speaking of Him
and his great power and position. For in all our beginnings
and in all our actions the name of God should be evoked
and called upon, as the One without whom all