Peter Alphonse

“ Than he therof as coarted to the praiers of his wif saide: 'See that thow ne discovre oure counsail to any man; I was a thief.' Than saide she: 'It seemyth wonder to me how somoche money thow myghtest purchace and gete with theft and never I herd clayme ne chalange therof. [2] Than saide he: 'Suche a Maister of myn taught me a charme that I shuld sey [3] whan I shuld ascende to the Roof of the house. And comyng to the wyndow I toke the beame of the Moone with myn hand and vii tymes saide my charme, that is to say, Saule. ”

“ The disciple asked his Maister: "Whether the philosopher forbedith a goode deede of his creator and maker or of his creature?" [9] To this the Maister: "I sey to the that he whiche denyeth a goode deede he denyeth god; and he whiche obeieth nat vnto his kyng and Ruler is disobedient vnto god." The disciple saide: "Shewe the reason how that may be." The Maister saide: "No goode deede procedit from creature to creature but it procede of god ”

“ The philosopher: 'Biware the counsail of therfbrede til it be sowre dowgh.' Another: 'Ne bilieve the counsail that thow denyest of the moever of anothers goode dede, forwhi who that denyeth a goode deede bifore the eyen of hem all that hym biholdith hymsilf accusith.' Another: 'If thow be in any goodenes ne synne thow nat: kepe the, [8] for oftentyme the grettest goodenes is mynushid and made lasse or lost bi the lest'. ”