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LUST DENIED ARE ANCHORS TO HEAVEN
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ancras[1] begytan mage, oððe hū ic hī āfastnian mage būton þū hyt mē swætolocor getēce.

G. Ic þē myhte getēcen, ac ic þē scolde[2] ērest ācsian, hū manige þū forlēten hæbbe þisse worlde lusta for Gode? Syððan þū ðonne mē þæt āsǣd heafst, þonne mæg ic þē secgan būtan ǣlcum twēon þæt þū heafst swā feola ðāra ancra begyte swā þū heafst þāra lusta on wurlde forlǣten.

A. Hū mæg ic forlǣten þæt ðæt ic wōt and can and of cyldehāde togewonod ēom, and lufian þæt ðet mē uncūð is būton gē be gesegenum? Ic wēne þēah gyf mē wēre 10 swā cūð þæt ðet þū mē ymbe sagest swā mē is þæt ðæt ic hǣr gesēoh, þæt ic lufede þæt and forsawe ðis.

G. Ic wundrige hwī [þū] swā spece.[3] Gepenc nū gyf ðīnes hlāfordes ǣrendgewrit and hys insegel tō ðe cymð, hwæðer þū mæge cweðan þæt ðū hine be ðām ongytan ne mægæ, nē hys willan þǣr on gecnāwan ne mæge? Gyf þū ðonne cwyst þæt þū hys willan ðēr on gecnāwan mage, cweð þonne hweðer þē rihtra þince, þe þū hys willan folgie, þe þū folgie þām welan[4] þe hē ðē ēr forgeaf tō ēacan hys frēondscype?

A. Manifestum.

R. Quid, transversim?

A. Quid, nisi infinite secari posse ?

R. Quid, sphaeram ex una qualibet parte a medio, ne duos quidem pares cirulos habere posse pariter lucet?

A. Pariter omnino.

R. Quid linea et sphaera ? unumne aliquid tibi videntur esse, an quidquam inter se differunt?

A. Quis non videat differre plurimum?

R. At si aeque illud atque hoc nosti, et tamen inter se, ut fateris, plurimum differunt, est ergo differentium rerum scientia indiff ens?

A. Quis enim negavit?

R. Tu paulo ante. Nam cum te rogassem quomodo velis Deum nosse, ut possis dicere, Satis est; respondisti te ideo nequire hoc explicare, quia nibil haberes perceptum, similiter atque Deum cupis percipere, nihil enim te scire Deo simile. Quid ergo nunc? linea vel sphaera similes sunt?

  1. amcras.
  2. The letters st erased after scolde.
  3. A c erased before c in spece.
  4. welam.