[200]The whole passage included in square brackets is omitted in Pepwell, but is identical in the two MSS. [201]So Harl. MS. 2373; Harl. MS. 674 reads: "medeful." [202]The trunk. [203]Pepwell inserts: "it is but churl's meat, for." [204]Not in Pepwell. [205]Pepwell reads: "and for nothing else." [206]Had never received it from Him. [207]Pure Love, or Charity, which "attains to God Himself, that it may abide in Him, not that any advantage may accrue to us from Him" (St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, II.-ii. Q. 23, A. 6). For the whole doctrine of "Pure Love or Disinterested Religion," cf. F. von Hugel, The Mystical Element of Religion, ii. pp. 152-181. [208]So both MSS.; Pepwell reads: "blessedness." [209]Hindering or marring. [210]Cf. St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, II.-ii. Q. 27, A. 3; and F. von Hugel, op. cit., ii. p. 167. [211]In the Divine Essence. [212]So Harl. MS. 674, I take "it" as the beatitude of man which is God Himself. [213]Cf. Dante, Par. xxxiii, 143-145:-- "Ma gia volgeva il mio disiro e il velle, Si come rota ch' egualmente e mossa, L'Amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle." "But already my desire and will, even as a wheel that is equally moved, were being turned by the Love that moves the sun and the other stars." [214]1 Cor. vi. 17. [215]Pepwell adds: "or sundry." [216]So Pepwell and Harl. MS. 2373; Harl. MS, 674 reads: "they ben one spirit." [217]Cant. ii. 16. [218]Harl. MS. 674 reads: "glose." Pepwell adds: "or flatter." [219]Heed. [220]Pepwell adds: "or betokeneth." Cf. Langland, Piers the Plowman, A. i. 1: "What this mountein bemeneth." [221]Cf. above, p. 28 note. [222]Pepwell adds: "or counsel." [223]Of thyself thou hast nought but sin. [224]So the MSS.: Pepwell has: "to God." [225]Pepwell changes to "divers." [226]Cf. Dante, De Monarchia, iii. 16: "Man alone of beings holds a mid-place between corruptible and incorruptible; wherefore he is rightly likened by the philosophers to the horizon which is between two hemispheres. For man, if considered after either essential part, to wit soul and body is corruptible if considered only after the one, to wit the body, but if after the other, to wit the soul, he is incorruptible. . . . If man then, is a kind of mean between corruptible and incorruptible things, since every mean savours of the nature of the extremes, it is necessary that man should savour of either nature. And since every nature is ordained to a certain end, it follows that there must be a twofold end of man, so that like as he alone amongst all beings partakes of corruptibility and incorruptibilty, so he alone amongst all beings should be ordained for two final goals of which the one should be his goal as a corruptible being, and the other as an incorruptible" (P. H. Wicksteed's translation). [227]Pepwell modernises this throughout to "dwelling alone." [228]Pepwell substitutes "doubt." Cf. Chaucer, Legend of Good Women, 2686: "Thryes doun she fil in swiche a were."