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[105] 52 Thomas More’s Life of John Picus If thou pain thy taste¦: remember therewithal How Christ for thee tasted eysell° and gall. 1 If thou withdraw thine handès and forbear The ravin° of anything: remember then How His ⌐ innocent ¬ handès nailèd were¦. If thou be tempt with° pride: think how that when He was in form of God, yet of a bondman He took the shape and humbled Himself for thee To the ⌐ most odious and vile ¬ death of a tree.° 2 Consider when thou art movèd to be wroth° He Who that was God, and of all men the best, 3 Seeing Himself scorned and scourgèd both, And as a thief between two thievès threst° With all rebuke and shame: 4 yet from his breast Came never sign of wrath or of disdain, 5 But patiently endurèd all the pain¦. Thus every snare and engine° of the devil If thou this wise° peruse them 6 by and by: There can be none so cursèd or so evil But ⌐ to some virtue thou mayst it apply. For oft thou shalt, resisting valiantly The fiendès might and subtle fiery dart, ¬ 2 eysell vinegar / 5 ravin theft, robbery / 7 tempt with tempted by / 10 of a tree on a cross / 12 wroth angry / 15 threst placed, [perhaps] thrust / 20 engine plot, wile / 21 this wise in this manner ¦1 More omits gulae resistens, “to resist gluttony” (CW 1:372, 373). / 6 More omits pro te ligno crucis, “to the wood of the cross for your sake” (CW 1:372, 373). / 18 More omits omnibus mansuetissime respondebat, “and he answered everyone with the greatest mildness” (CW 1:372, 373). 1. How Christ . . . gall: More’s translation of illum felle potatum & aceto, “they gave him gall and vinegar to drink” (CW 1:372, 373). Cf. Matthew 27:34; Mark 15:36; John 19:29. 2. He was . . . of a tree: An allusion to Philippians 2:6–8. 3. best: The Latin has iustissimus, “most righteous” (CW 1:372, 373). 4. Seeing Himself . . . and shame: The Latin is cum se tamen videret quasi latronem & illudi & conspui & flagellari & obprobriis omnibus affici & cum latronibus deputari, “when he saw himself treated like a thief, mocked and spat upon, and scourged and subjected to all manner of insults and classed among thieves” (CW 1: 372. 373). Cf. Mark 15:27; Luke 23:33; John 19:18. 5. Came . . . disdain: Cf. John 19:1–11. 6. peruse: “Seemingly used in the sense ‘recount in order’; if so, it antedates the earliest usage in this sense, which OED gives as More’s Dialogue of Comfort (CW 12, 40/22)” (CW 1:244). 5 10 15 20 25
5 10 15 20 25 Twelve Rules of Spiritual Battle Our Saviour Christ resemble in some part. Δ1 The Fifth Rule. Remember well that we in no wise must Neither in the foresaid espiritual armour, 2 Nor any other ¦remedy put our trust, But only in the virtue of our Saviour: 3 For He it is by Whose mighty power The world was vanquished and his° prince cast out Which reigned before in all the earth about. 4 In Him let us trust to overcome all evil, In Him let us put our hope and confidence To subdue the flesh 5 and master the devil, To Him be all honour and lowly reverence; Oft should we require° with all our diligence With prayer, ⌐ with tears, and lamentable plaints° ¬ The aid of His grace 6 and His holy saints. 7 The Sixth Rule. ¦One sin 8 vanquished, ⌐ look thou not tarry, ¬ But lie in await for another very hour, 9 For as a wood° lion, the fiend, our adversary, 10 his its / 17 require request, ask for / 18 plaints expressions of grief or sorrow / 25 wood raging ¦ 7 More omits humano, “human” (CW 1:244). / 23 More omits recordare, “remember that” (CW 1:374, 375). Δ1. Thus every . . . part: More’s significant alteration and expansion of the Latin & sic discurrendo per singula invenias nullam esse passionem quae te Christo aliqua ex parte conformem non efficiat, “and thus, running over the details one by one, you can discover that there is no suffering which may not render you conformed to Christ in some way” (CW 1:372, 373). 2. in the foresaid espiritual armour: More’s rendering of the Latin in illis duodecim armis, “in those twelve weapons” (CW 1:372, 373); likely, the “Twelve Weapons of Spiritual Battle” that follow Picus’ “Rules.” 3. our Saviour: The Latin is Iesu Christi (CW 1:372). 4. For He . . . earth about: In these three lines, More paraphrases and expands the allusions to Revelation 12:9 and John 12:31 found in the Latin original (CW 1:372). 5. the flesh: In place of the Latin mundum, “the world” (CW 1: 372, 373). 6. The aid of . . . grace: The Latin is simply auxilium, “help” (CW 1:372, 373). 7. In Him . . . saints: These seven lines of verse are More’s expansion of less than three lines of Latin prose (CW 1:372). 8. sin: The Latin is tentationem, “temptation” (CW 1:374, 375). 9. But lie. . . hour: In other words, “But be on your guard, always expecting another temptation.” 53 [106]
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