The Fire of Love

For the honour of our Lord Jesu Christ, at the asking of thy desire, Sister Margaret, coveting [16] to make satisfaction, and for increase also of ghostly comfort, to thee and more, that understand not curiosity [17] of Latin, I, among lettered men simplest and in living unthriftiest, have taken this work to translate from Latin into English for the edification of many souls. And since it is so that all good pleasure and ghostly life of man's soul stands in perfect love, therefore this holy man, Richard Hampole, has named his book Incendium Amoris, that is to say "The Fire of Love." The which book I think to change neither in meaning nor substance, but truly to write it in good exposition after mine understanding.