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All this worlde here, both longe and brode
God it made, for mannes gode
And al other thynges, as clarckes can proue
He made onely for mannes byhoue
If a man loue any thyng more by any way
Than he doth God, that in heuen is on hye
Than is that man to God vnkynde
That so lytell on hym, setteth his mynde
For God is more worthye, loued to be
Than any creature, that men may se
Syth he is the begynnynge of all maner thynge
And of all thynge, make shall an endynge
And thus I say by them, that gyueth them ofte
To the worldes lykynge, that thynketh them softe
And loueth all thynge, that therto falleth
And suche men worldely men me calleth
For theyr loue moste, in the worlde is set
The whiche the loue of God, slaulyche doth let
And for the loue of this worldes vanyte
A man at the last, for barred may be
From the hye heauen, where all ioye is
There a man shall dwell without ende ywys
But a great clarcke telleth, that is Bartylmewe
There be two worldes, pryncypally to eschewe
And that one worlde, is inuysyble and clene
And that other bodely, as men may sene
And the ghostly worlde, that no man may se
Is the hye heauen, where God sytteth in trynyte
And thyther shall we come, and there lyue ay
If that we thytherwarde, holde the ryght way
Nowe wyll I no longer, vpon this matter stande
For soone after it shall come more to hande.