daisies, and spears for bents, then shall ye be, though men call you
dead, a part and parcel of the living wisdom of all things, very
stones of the pillars that uphold the joyful earth.

"Forsooth, ye have heard it said that ye shall do well in this world
that in the world to come ye may live happily for ever; do ye well
then, and have your reward both on earth and in heaven; for I say to
you that earth and heaven are not two but one; and this one is that
which ye know, and are each one of you a part of, to wit, the Holy
Church, and in each one of you dwelleth the life of the Church, unless
ye slay it. Forsooth, brethren, will ye murder the Church any one of
you, and go forth a wandering man and lonely, even as Cain did who
slew his brother? Ah, my brothers, what an evil doom is this, to be
an outcast from the Church, to have none to love you and to speak with
you, to be without fellowship! Forsooth, brothers, fellowship is
heaven, and lack of fellowship is hell: fellowship is life, and lack
of fellowship is death: and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is
for fellowship's sake that ye do them, and the life that is in it,
that shall live on and on for ever, and each one of you part of it,
while many a man's life upon the earth from the earth shall wane.

"Therefore, I bid you not dwell in hell but in heaven, or while ye
must, upon earth, which is a part of heaven, and forsooth no foul
part.

"Forsooth, he that waketh in hell and feeleth his heart fail him,
shall have memory of the merry days of earth, and how that when his
heart failed him there, he cried on his fellow, were it his wife or
his son or his brother or his gossip or his brother sworn in arms, and
how that his fellow heard him and came and they mourned together under