And the constable of the castle, that keepeth all the watch, Is a wise knight withal, Sir Inwit he hight, And hath five fair sonnes by his first wife, Sir Seewell and Saywell, and Hearwell-the-end, Sir Workwell-with-thy-hand, a wight man of strength, And Sir Godfray Gowell, great lordes forsooth. These five be set to save this lady Anima, Till Kind come or send, to save her for ever.' 'What kind thing is Kind,' quod I, 'canst thou me tell?'-- 'Kind,' quod Wit, 'is a creator of all kinds things, Father and former of all that ever was maked, And that is the great God that 'ginning had never, Lord of life and of light, of bliss and of pain, Angels and all thing are at his will, And man is him most like, of mark and of shape, For through the word that he spake, wexen forth beasts, And made Adam, likest to himself one, And Eve of his ribbe bone, without any mean, For he was singular himself, and said _Faciamus_, As who say more must hereto, than my worde one, My might must helpe now with my speech, Even as a lord should make letters, and he lacked parchment, Though he could write never so well, if he had no pen, The letters, for all his lordship, I 'lieve were never ymarked; And so it seemeth by him, as the Bible telleth, There he saide, _Dixit et facta sunt_. He must work with his word, and his wit shew; And in this manner was man made, by might of God Almighty, With his word and his workmanship, and with life to last, And thus God gave him a ghost[36] of the Godhead of heaven, And of his great grace granted him bliss, And that is life that aye shall last, to all our lineage after; And that is the castle that Kinde made, Caro it hight, And is as much to meane as man with a soul, And that he wrought with work and with word both; Through might of the majesty, man was ymaked. Inwit and Allwits closed been therein, For love of the lady Anima, that life is nempned.[37] Over all in man's body, she walketh and wand'reth, And in the heart is her home, and her most rest, And Inwit is in the head, and to the hearte looketh, What Anima is lief or loth,[38] he leadeth her at his will Then had Wit a wife, was hote Dame Study, That leve was of lere, and of liche boeth. She was wonderly wrought, Wit me so teached, And all staring, Dame Study sternely said; 'Well art thou wise,' quoth she to Wit, 'any wisdoms to tell To flatterers or to fooles, that frantic be of wits;' And blamed him and banned him, and bade him be still, With such wise wordes, to wysh any sots, And said, '_Noli mittere_, man, _margaritae_, pearls, Amonge hogges, that have hawes at will. They do but drivel thereon, draff were them lever,[39] Than all precious pearls that in paradise waxeth.[40] I say it, by such,' quod she, 'that shew it by their works, That them were lever[41] land and lordship on earth, Or riches or rentes, and rest at their will,