mercy is more to me swetter than any livinges; wherfore my lippes mowen not suffyse, in speking of her ful laude and worshippe 120 as they shulde. But who is that [wolde be wyse] in knowing of the orders of heven, and putteth his resones in the erthe? I forsothe may not, with blere eyen, the shyning sonne of vertue in bright whele of this Margaryte beholde; therfore as yet I may her not discryve in vertue as I wolde. In tyme cominge, 125 in another tretyse, thorow goddes grace, this sonne in clerenesse of vertue to be-knowe, and how she enlumineth al this day, I thinke to declare. CH. I. 2. howe. comforte. 3. hadde. 5. folke. 6. anone. 10. purpose. 12. wytte. 14. wotte. great. 16. _(Something seems to be lost here)._ 17. _I supply_ nedeth. 18. o; _read_ of. 19. erronyous. maye. 20. menne. sayne. 26. amonge. 31. wretchydnesse. fal. _I supply_ of. 32. forthe. 33. stedfaste faythe. 34. darne. 35. endlesse. 36. _I supply_ men. 37. folke. 39. great. 40. onely. 42. fathers; _read_ faders. 44. faythe. 47. put. miracles; _read_ miracle. 48. thangel. 50. saythe. 51. werne. 53. discomfyte. 54. _I supply_ arn. 55. wotte. 56. reason. erroure. 57. reason. bewonde (_sic_). catchende wytte. 59. with; _read_ whiche. 60. reason. 61. Nowe. 62. alwaye. 63. booke. rancoure. 64. althoughe. 65. booke. 67. _I supply_ of. nowe. 69. wotte. 70. wysdome 71. toke. 73. reason. 75. reasons. 76. parfyte. 78-9. reason (_twice_). 79. parfyte. 80. maye. persel. 81. parfyte. 85. reason. 86. none. 88. amonge. sayne. 88-91. sede. 91. mowen; _read_ mowe. 92. londe-tyllers. set. 93. hath; _read_ han. 94. meanynge. 95. howe. menne cleape. kynge (_sic_); _read_ thing. 98. great. 99. the. 101. radde. 104. thynge. done. 107. thynge. 110. boke. 111. done (_sic_). 112. yonge. 113. canne. sette. 114. thre. 116. thynge. maye. thre. 121. that in knowyng (_sic_); _supply_ wolde be wyse _before_ in knowing. 125. maye. 126. thorowe. 127. howe. CHAPTER II. In this mene whyle this comfortable lady gan singe a wonder mater of endytinge in Latin; but trewly, the noble colours in rethorik wyse knitte were so craftely, that my conning wol not strecche to remembre; but the sentence, I trowe, somdel have I in mynde. Certes, they were wonder swete of sowne, and they 5 were touched al in lamentacion wyse, and by no werbles of myrthe. Lo! thus gan she singe in Latin, as I may constrewe it in our Englisshe tonge.