King Alfred's Old English Version of St. Augustine's Soliloquies, Turned Into Modern English
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Both faith and all the good that we shall have. Therefore I knozv not what else we can do zvithout His help. Howbeit I advise thee that thou begin it. Pray in as few words as thou most sincerely canst, and ask for that which is and may be most needful for thee. A. Then said I: 'Lord, Lord, Thou who remainest unchangeable, grant me these two things which I always ivished, to wit, that I may understand Thee and myself.' Now I have done as thou didst instruct me; truly have I prayed. R. Now I hear... zvhat thou zmshesf to know. Howbeit I would first learn from thee whether thou knowest without doubt that thou dost exist or not ; or that thou dost live or dost not live. A. These are two things which I certainly know. R. What now wishest thou to know ? A. Whether I be immortal. R. I hear that thou wouldst live always. A. That I confess. R. Wilt thou, then, know enough if I cause thee to know that thou mayest live always? A. That is a very good desire; yet say what I ask thee about: zvhether I shall live always; and then I would $6 King Alfred's [56.13—58.22 know whether I, after the parting of the body and the soul, shall ever know more than I now know of all that which I have long wished to know; for I can not find any thing better in man than that he know, and nothing worse than that he be ignorant.
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