[1]Forsothe Baldach Suytes answeride, and seide,[2]Power and drede is anentis hym, that is, God, that makith acordyng in hise hiye thingis.[3]Whether noumbre is of hise knyytis? and on whom schyneth not his liyt?[4]Whether a man comparisound to God mai be iustified, ether borun of a womman mai appere cleene?[5]Lo! also the moone schyneth not, and sterris ben not cleene in `his siyt;[6]hou miche more a man rot, and the sone of a man a worm, is vncleene `and vile, if he is comparisound to God.