Revelations of Divine Love
Sixteen revelations to Dame Julian, Anchoress at Norwich, in 1373. A version from the MS. in the British Museum, edited by Grace Warrack. Ninth edition, 1927. Includes several introductions, notes, and glossary. Primitive english throughout.
“Also in this He shewed me a little thing, the quantity of an hazel-nut, in the palm of my hand; and it was as round as a ball. I looked thereupon with eye of my understanding, and thought: What may this be? And it was answered generally thus: It is all that is made. I marvelled how it might last, for methought it might suddenly have fallen to naught for little[ness]. And I was answered in my understanding: It lasteth, and ever shall [last] for that God loveth it. And so All-thing hath the Being by the love of God.”