were acquainted with you, be not the lother to do for me. I sore repent me that I have thus unreasonably and unwittingly absented me from you, and heartily I cry you mercy, and pray you of your charity to put out of your mind my presumptuous folly. For certainly I shall never do so more again, but in every thing that I have to do I shall desire your favour, succour, and counsel. And I utterly deny and defy Vengeance, and never to deal with him more, howsoever I be done to; but take it in patience and think, as me ought of right, that worse than I have been done to, I have deserved to be done to. But that is not the World, for him have I served and pleased, and displeased Almighty God, that is Maker of all things, and His Holy Begotten Son, that conceived was of the Holy Ghost, and born of the pure and chaste Virgin, and died for our redemption. And I have grievously offended and broken His commandments in all things, knowing that I did not well; wherefore my peril is the more. Nor I have not called after the blessed Holy Ghost's grace, mercy, succour, and His help, when I have been in places of peril of deadly sin. Nor upon that most holy, pure, chaste, and excellent Virgin, and besought her of grace. And she turned her visage from me not from lack of faith, but that me-thought that her most excellent [charity and] chastity must of very right abhor my sins, and all things that I pleased the world with.
I know well that I have displeased Him that redeemed me with His precious passion; and this,
