For we must needs die, and are as water split on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God take away life, but deviseth means, that he that is banished be not an outcast from him.
Alle we dyen, and as watris þat schulen not turne ayen, we sliden in to erþe; and God nyl þat a soule perische, but he withdrawith, and þenkith lest he perische outirly, which is cast awey.