With Thy light enlighten my inmost parts. Feed me with honeyed songs of love, as far I may receive them by my powers of body and soul. In these, and such other meditations be glad, that so thou mayest come to the pith oflove. There are soothly three degrees of Christ's love, by one or another of which he that is chosen to love profits. Then truly is love unovercomeable when it can not be overcome by any other desire.
All labour is light to a lover, nor casn a man better overcome labour than by love.
Love truly is undeparted when the mind is kindled with great love, and cleaves to Christ with undeparted thought. Whom only he desires to see. And most this name JESU he in so mickle worships and loves that It continually rests in his mind. When therefore the love of Christ is set so mickle in the heart of God's lover and the world's despiser that it may not be overcome by other desire of love, it is called high. But when he holds undepartedly to Christ, ever thinking of Christ, by no occasion forgetting Him, it is called everlasting and undeparted.