ABSTRACT
II. And now I wish you to know my meaning ; For all the discourse consists only In the points which I will tell you truly. The first is, the person who preaches to the people, The second, the people who well hear and understand him, The third is the moral which from the sermon results. Then about the first, I tell you it is foolish To send up another into the pulpit, when he knows himself How to speak with certainty for and against his proposition And knows how to forward his purpose. Of the second, the people who, without murmur, Must all listen to it very peaceably For he knows how to turn it to their improvement. But amongst these his preaching is worth but little, For the Gospel says that the seed is lost Which is cast among stones and thorns and rocks. And the third, I tell you, should be the foundation Of the proposition he expounds, if he tells it truthfully. Wherefore on this I shall found my discourse and be brief About this fine expedition which is pleasing to us all.
