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Title: The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises

Author: Richard Rolle of Hampole

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THE FORM OF PERFECT LIVING
AND
OTHER PROSE TREATISES.

by

RICHARD ROLLE,
OF HAMPOLE,
A.D. 1300-1349.

Rendered into Modern English by Geraldine E. Hodgson, D.Litt.,
Lecturer in Education in the University of Bristol.

London:
Thomas Baker, 72, Newman Street, W.
1910.

Printed By W. C. Hemmons,
St. Stephen Street,
Bristol.

"Love is a life, joining together the loving and the loved."

"Truth may be without love, but it cannot help without it."

RICHARD ROLLE

(_The Form of Perfect Living_, ch. x.).

Preface.

This book is not intended for those who are acquainted with Anglo-Saxon
and Middle English; but for those who care for the thought, specially
the religious and devotional thought, of our forefathers. My one aim has
been to make a portion of that thought accurately intelligible to modern
readers, with the greatest possible saving of trouble to them. When I
could use the old word or phrase, with certainty of its being
understood, I have done so. When I could not, I have replaced it with
the best modern equivalent I could find or invent. In extenuation of the
occasional use of Rolle's expr