Nona vtilitas est preparacio gaudiorum loci.
the nynt profit was, in gode fay,
that he stegh forth in-to þat blisse
for to ordaine vs that way
Ther in wele to wone i-wis.
Iohannis xiiijo: Vado parare vobis locum.
Sayn Iohan the apostel to our pay
In his gospel witnes this,
that God saide he stegh vp this day
to ordayne our place whit his.
Then tretes Austyn on this maner
speking to God deuoutely
and saide, ‘puruay at our praer
that thow puruayes appertely.
Domine, para nobis, quod paras: nos enim tibi paras.
‘for thow ordaynes vs to the,
and th[ou] in vs to be lengyng,
when þou ordaynes, as I se,
for vs a place of gode bidyng.’
