Book IV.

THE DESCENT:

FROM THE MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION INTO

THE VALLEY OF HUMILIATION AND DEATH.

‘But God forbede but men shulde leve

Wel mor thing then men han seen with eye

Men shall not wenen euery thing a lye

But yf him-selfe yt seeth or elles dooth

For god wot thing is neuer the lasse sooth

Thogh euery wight ne may it nat y-see.’

Chaucer: Prologue to the Legend of Good Women.