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 OROLOGIUM SAPIENTI

Since it is that death nought to man, but rather from him, taketh, and priveth him of that he hath, whereof profiteth this doctrine of death? Say me it seemeth wonderful, and therefore teach me heavenly master.

Thou shalt understand that it is a science most profitable, and passing all other sciences, for to con die. For a man to know that he shall die, that is common to all men; as much as there is no man that may ever live or he hath hope or trust thereof; but thou shalt find full few that have this cunning to con to die. For that is a sovereign gift of God; sothly for a man to con to die is for to have his heart and his soul at all times upward to those things that be above; that is to say that what time death cometh