On a night, as this creature lay in her bed with her husband, she heard a sound of melody so sweet and delectable, that she thought she had been in Paradise, and therewith she started out of her bed and said: "Alas, that ever I did sin! It is full merry in Heaven."
Quelle: The Book of Margery Kempe, Ch. 3; p. 5.
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“Pacyens is more worthy than myraclys werkyng.”
Patience is more worthy than miracle-working.
Quelle: The Book of Margery Kempe, Ch. 51; p. 108.
She came before the Archbishop and fell down on her knees, the Archbishop saying full boisterously unto her: "Why weepest thou, woman?" She, answering, said: "Sir, ye shall wish some day that ye had wept as sore as I."
Ch. 52; p. 112.
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(Staley, 2001: 64-5).
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