Vulgar words in The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 (Page 1)
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And for that[55] with Dan we damn unlawful thoughts, therefore he is well cleped in the story "Doom.
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CAPITULUM VI HOW THE VIRTUES OF ABSTINENCE AND PATIENCE RISE IN THE SENSUALITY WHEN Leah saw that Rachel her sister made great joy of these two bastards born of Bilhah her maiden, she called forth her maiden Zilpah, to put to her husband Jacob; that she might make joy with her sister, having other two bastards gotten of her maiden Zilpah.
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But within shall Dan deem and damn evil thoughts by sight of pain; and without shall Gad put against[73] false delights by use of abstinence.
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Jacob said of Issachar that he was "a strong ass dwelling between the terms.
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"[83] And so it is that a man in this state, and that feeleth the earnest of everlasting joy in his affection, is as "an ass, strong and dwelling between the terms"; because that, be he never so filled in soul of ghostly gladness and joy in God, yet, for corruption of the flesh in this deadly life, him behoveth bear the charge of the deadly body, as hunger, thirst, and cold, sleep, and many other diseases; for the which he is likened to an ass as in body; but as in soul he is strong for to destroy all the passions and the lusts of the flesh by patience and abstinence in the sensuality, and by abundance of ghostly joy and sweetness in the affection.