Revelations of Divine Love — Julian of Norwich

, | I pray Almyty God that this booke com not but to the É | hands of them that will be his faithfull lovers, and _ | to those that will submitt them to the faith of holy Church, and obey the holesom understondying and teching of the men that be of vertuous life, sadde Age and sound lering: ffor this Revelation is hey Divinitye and hey wisdom, wherfore it may not dwelle with him that is thrall to synne and to the Devill. And beware thou take not on thing after thy affection and liking, and leve another: for that is the com: ion ran herciique. but ike every thing zl

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with other. And, trewly understonden, All is according to holy Seripture and groundid in the same. And that Jesus, our very love, light and truth, shall shew to allelen soulis that with mekeness aske profe reverently this wisdom of hyin. And thou to whom this boke shall come, thank heyley and hertily our Saviour Christ Jesu that he made these shewings and revelations, for the, and to the, of his endles love, mercy and goodness for thine and our save guide, to conduct to everlastying bliss: the which Jesus mol grant us. AMEN,

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PAGE xix. resentment, remembrance, regard.

. xxi. a more venerable Abbot. The Abbot of Lambspring. | xxii. ghostly, spiritual. xxii. Wapse, in-gliding. xxiv. affectuous, sympathetic. xxiv. operative, efficacious. a «e 2 ete, sikernes, assurance, seeurity. 3 E 9. to wit his privities, that we should pry into His 3 secret things [and elsewhere, to wit=to kaoi; E 3. one like, alike. * EE — M (d 3. meed, reward IT Cyn EE E a E, E E E 9 ete E E

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PAGE 12. litlehead, littleness.

12. halseth, embraceth, 14. naughted of, made nought as to, ignores. 14. seelie, simple, weak. l7. sparred, fastened, closed. 17. bulke, body. 18. even Christian, fellow-Christiaus. 19. deed, diead (?) 20. fairhead, beauty, fairness. 20. divelyhead, life-likeness. 20. plentuoushead, plenteousness. 20. evesing, eaves. 21. like, also 22, l. 2. if etc., unless. 23. stinteth, ceased, stopped. 24, deemed, judged. 24. in party, partly, somewhat. 27. sullong, sullyimg, smearing. í 27. over yede, overspread, covered. 27. sweinly, dimly, obscurely, 28. wrake, seaweed. 29. the Holy Vernacle, the Handkerchief of S. Veronica, whereon Christ’s face was imprinted as He | wiped the sweat from His brow, when carrying the Cross, represented in one of the fourteen ` Stations of the Cross. ' 29, protraid, portrayed, 29. rewlyhead, ruefulness. |

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PAGE 29. overpassing, even more, surpassing.

33. point, in a, exactly, precisely. 35. Door, doer. 36. advisement, etc., carefully, with attention. 37. fulfilling the number that faileth, until the heavenly mansions are full. 38 ete. travelleth, travaileth, laboureth. 39. sooth fastness, truth. 39. cheere, chear, ete., countenance, look. 40 42 A8. irkeness, irksomeness. 43 43. none, anon. 44 45, most (?) moisture. 45. eloggering, clotted, adhering. 45. roode, cross. 46. sennet, seven nights, a week. 46, elongen, shrunken, withered. 47. clinging, binding, causing to cling. 48. raced, rased, scraped. 48. boystrous, rough, violent. 48. altho, alito, ete., altogether, wholly 48. sagging, drooping, hanging heavily. 49, seemed, showed. 49. rimpild, shrivelled, wrinkled. 50. onyd, oned, united. . 6l. feeled, endured, suffered du envy, malice, ill-will. levir, liefer, readier.

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grant mercy, an exclamation of thankfulness.

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St. Dionise, S. Denis, the traditional apostle of France, believed to be Dionysius the Areopagite. Paynius, Paynim, pagan. languring, languishing, uning, oneing, uniting. passible, capable of suffering. apaid, content, satisfied. liking . . . liketh, satisfying . . . satisfieth. letted, hindered, prevented. Sin is behovely, sin is necessary, it behoved that sin should be. lowed, humbled. asseethe, satisfaction. speed, benefit, profit aneynst, anempts, etc., anent, concerning, hill, conceal. friendful mean, friendly mediator. suffereth, allows. wistiy, earnestly or (?) wisely. intend, turn towards, attend. entented, attended. St. John os Beverley, Archbishop of York. Boru ; at Cherry Burton, died 721, canonised 1037. domes-man. Confessor.

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leese, lose. undertake, receive. mights, faculties.

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PAGE 101. entreth, leads.

102. tarry, hinder. 102. steeds, stand, resting-place. 106. buxom, obedient, compliant. 106. fulsome, plentiful. 107. duringly, permanently, lastingly. 108. sensuality, physical nature. 108. meddled, mingled, mixed. 111. into, unto, 111. came, went. 113. debt, duties. 113. took, saw, understood. I19. pronity, frailty. 121. adred, afraid.

123. slade, ravine, valley. ; is a 123. stonnyed, astonished, shunned. — E 124. grey, fright. i b 125. direct, attributed, reckoned. — 3 126. sithens, since. jn aut dps d E dv

126. nobley, ete., nobleness, —— reg HEM udo v. iu mea CST i A d