21. _Sattan._ God<ys> sonne! þanne schulde þou be ful gladde, Aftir no catel neyd thowe craue! But þou has leued ay like a ladde, And in sorowe, as a symple knaue. _Iesus._ Þat was for hartely loue I hadde 245 Vnto mannis soule, it for to saue; And for to make þe mased and madde, And by þat resoune þus dewly to haue Mi godhede here, I hidde In Marie modir myne, 250 For it schulde noȝt be kidde To þe, nor to none of thyne. 22. _Sattan._ A! þis wolde I were tolde in ilke a toune. So, sen þou sais God is thy sire, I schall þe proue, be right resoune, 255 Þou motes His men into þe myre. To breke His bidding were þei boune, And, for they did at my desire, Fro Paradise He putte þame doune In helle here to haue þer hyre. 260 And thyselfe, day and nyght, Has taught al men emang To do resoune and right, And here werkis þou all wrang. 23. _Iesus._ I wirke noght wrang, þat schal þow witte, 265 If I my men fro woo will wynne; Mi prophetis playnly prechid it, All þis note þat nowe begynne. Þai saide þat I schulde be obitte, To hell þat I schulde entre in, 270 And saue my seruauntis fro þat pitte, Wher dampned saulis schall sitte for synne. And ilke trewe prophettis tale Muste be fulfillid in mee; I haue þame boughte with bale, 275 And in blisse schal þei be. 24. _Sattan._ Nowe sen þe liste allegge þe lawes, Þou schalte be atteynted, or we twynne, For þo þat þou to wittenesse drawes Full even agaynste þe will begynne. 280 Salamon saide in his sawes Þat whoso enteres helle withynne Shall neuer come oute, þus clerkis knawes, And þerfore, felowe, leue þi dynne. Iob, þi seruaunte, also 285 Þus in his tyme gune telle, Þat nowthir frende nor foo Shulde fynde reles in helle. 25. _Iesus._ He saide full soth, þat schall þou see, Þat in helle may be no reles, 290 But of þat place þan preched he Where synffull care schall euere encrees. And in þat bale ay schall þou be, Whare sorowes sere schall neuer sesse, And for my folke þerfro wer free, 295 Nowe schall þei passe to þe place of pees. Þai were here with my wille, And so schall þei fourthe wende, And þiselue schall fulfille Þer wooe withouten ende. 300