Sine fide impossibile est placere deo.
Mind, as in Cristes passioun,
makes our penaunce more light,
as Gregori witnesse by resoun,
and I to telle now haue i-tight:
Gregorius: Si passio Christi ad memoriam reducitur,
nichil est, quod non equo animo toleretur.
‘Ȝif Cristes passioun be in mynde,
no pyne for him we thole may
that [n]is light, ȝif we be kynd,
and better suffer hit we mone aye.’
The thridde vertu of charite
mas tho other studfast aye,
for ther-as thing may louet be,
mon nys not werry be no waye,
And witnesse saynt Gregore,
As I to specify am in-tent,
that loue is noght wurth witerlye,
Ther loue in dede ys negligent.
