Paper 2 - Body and Soul Quotes

she must struggle not to let the ‘lahe flesch meistrin hire to swithe’

Ancrene Wisse, struggle

tameth wel hire fulitohe flesch

Ancrene Wisse, tame well her undisciplined flesh

Vre flesch is ure fa

Hali Meithad, Our flesh is our foe

 lam ant wurmene mete

Hali Meithad, the lustful body is ‘clay and food for worms’

input in a prison, bitund in a cwalmhus

Ancrene Wisse, soul trapped in body is ‘put in a prison, confined in a death cell’

lomen to tilie with the heorte

Ancrene Wisse, Moses: physical suffering is worthless except as ‘tools to cultivate the heart with’

‘god freond ant help of treowe hine’

Ancrene Wisse, flesh kept intact is ‘good friend and gives us help as a faithful servant’

 ‘hokerlich wunder’

Ancrene Wisse, soul and body forged = ‘shameful wonder’

Schirnesse of heorte is Godes luve ane.

Ancrene Wisse, ‘Purity of heart is the love of God alone.’

as a mon the woheth, as a king thet luvede a gentil povre leafdi

Ancrene Wisse, (Christ) ‘as a man that woos, as a king that loved a gentle impoverished lady’

wohede ure sawle

Ancrene Wisse, (Christ) ‘wooed our soul’

Luve maketh hire schir, grithful ant cleane.

Ancrene Wisse, ‘Love makes the heart pure, calm, and chaste.’

This bruchele vetles, thet is wummone flesch

Ancrene Wisse, ‘this frail vessel, that is woman’s flesh’

meith-lure, mei leosen his halnesse with a stinkinde wil

Ancrene Wisse, ‘the maidenly flesh, may lose its holiness with a stinking desire’