"For bisshopes y-blessed, Thei bereth manye names, _Præsul_ and _pontifex_, 9680 And _metropolitanus_, And othere names an heep, _Episcopus_ and _pastor_." "That is sooth," seide he; "Now I se thi wille; Thow woldest knowe and konne The cause of alle my names, And of me, if thow myghtest, Me thynketh by thi speche." "Ye, sire," I seide, 9690 "By so no man were greved, Alle the sciences under sonne, And alle the sotile craftes, I wolde I knewe and kouthe Kyndely in myn herte." "Thanne artow inparfit," quod he, "And oon of Prides knyghtes; For swich a lust and likyng Lucifer fel from hevene." _Ponam pedem meum in aquilone, et 9700 similis ero altissimo._ "It were ayeins kynde," quod he, "And alle kynnes reson, That any creature sholde konne al, Except Crist oone: Ayein swiche Salomon speketh, And despiseth hir wittes, And seith, _Sicut qui mel comedit multum, non est ei bonum; sic qui scrutator est majestatis, 9710 opprimitur a gloria_. {298} "To Englisshe men this is to mene, That mowen speke and here, The man that muche hony eteth, His mawe it engleymeth; And the moore that a man Of good matere hereth, But he do therafter, It dooth hym double scathe. _Beatus est_, seith seint Bernard, 9720 _Qui scripturas legit, Et verba vertit in opera_ Fulliche to his power. Coveitise to konne And to knowe sciences, Putte out of Paradis Adam and Eve. _Scientiæ appetitus hominem inmortalitatis gloria spoliavit._ "And right as hony is yvel to defie, 9730 And engleymeth the mawe; Right so he that thorugh reson Wolde the roote knowe Of God and of hise grete myghtes, Hise graces it letteth. For in the likynge lith a pride, And licames coveitise, Ayein Cristes counseil And alle clerkes techynge; That is _Non plus sapere quam oportet sapere_ =