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¹ Forsothe Baldach Suytes answeride, and seide,² Power and drede is anentis hym, that is, God, that makith acordyng in hise hiye thingis.³ Whether noumbre is of hise knyytis? and on whom schyneth not his liyt?⁴ Whether a man comparisound to God mai be iustified, ether borun of a womman mai appere cleene?⁵ Lo! also the moone schyneth not, and sterris ben not cleene in `his siyt;<sup>6</sup> hou miche more a man rot, and the sone of a man a worm, is vncleene `and vile, if he is comparisound to God.