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The Cell of Self-Knowledge : Seven Early English Mystical Treatises Printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 · Henry Pepwell — chapter 13 of 22 · ~255 words · public domain

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Latin Invisibilium: Pepwell has "unseasable."

Pepwell has "feble."

Reasons.

Because.

Judicium (Pepwell adds: "or judgment").

Gen. xlix. 16: "Dan shall judge his people."

Gen. xxx. 6.

Gen. xxx. 8: "Comparavit me Deus cum sorore mea, et invalui" (Vulgate).

In the Latin, "Comparalio vel conversio."

Gen. xlix. 21: "Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words" (Nephthali cervus emissus at dams eloquia pulchritudinis, Vulgate).

Harl. MS. 1022, ed. Horstman, reads: "full."

Underloute, participle of Underluten (O.E. Underlutan), "to stoop beneath," or "submit to." Cf. Wycliffe's Bible, Gen. xxxvii. 8: "Whether thow shalt be oure kyng, oither we shal be undirloute to thi bidding?"

Discomfort.

Dixit: Feliciter. Gen. xxx. 11 (Vulgate).

Felicitas. Harl. MS. 674 adds: "whether thou wilt."

The MSS. have: "selyness."

Gen. xxx. 13 (Vulgate): Hoc pro beatitudine mea.

Beatus.

Natural.

Murmurs, complains. Cf. Chaucer, The Persones Tale, ed. Skeat SS 30: "After bakbyting cometh grucching or murmuracion; and somtyme it springeth of impacience agayns God, and somtyme agayns man. Agayns God it is, whan a man gruccheth agayn the peynes of helle, or agayns poverte, or los of catel or agayn reyn or tempest; or elles gruccheth that shrewes han prosperitee, or elles for that goode men han adversitee."

Pepwell adds: at the least willingly.

Pepwell reads: "put down."

Watches.

Promises. Latin: fovet promissis.

A curious mistranslation: "Sed Aser hosti suo facile illudit dum partem quam tuetur, alta patientiae rupe munitam conspicit" (Benjamin Minor, cap. 33).

Dwelling-place.

Pacified. Harl. MS. 1022, ed. Horstman, reads: "the cite of conscience is made pesebule."

Merces.

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