laid apart all temporal and worldly trust, we three will not fail you. And therefore put your soul in comfort, and arm you with the armour of a sure and holy Confession, with a sorrowful Contrition, purposing to do very Satisfaction; and be out of doubt. We hope ye shall speed right well, if it be in your heart as ye speak with your mouth, — and else trust not to our friendship in no wise. But go and labour your supplication as effectually as ye can devise, and be out of all despair; for we. Faith, Hope, and Charity, will believe[1] you for the trust that ye have had alway in us.
How The Dying Body calleth after the Soul Again
Where be ye, dear Soul, that here was with me but late, complaining that ye must to pain for a long while or else eternally, and in my default and without remedy ? I have been in such dread, sorrow, and fear for you that nothing could comfort me till Faith and Hope came to me and asked me if I were not acquainted with Charity. And I have answered them simply that I was never acquainted with him^ and that me repenteth sore now. But Faith and Hope have brought me with him, and I have lowly and humbly submitted myself to him, and meekly cried him mercy of my presumptious folly; promising that I will never offend him more, denying all such as be his enemies, and as he loveth not
- ↑ de Worde, ' not leave you.'
