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HERE BEGINNETH THE THREE AND FORTIETH CHAPTER
That all witting and feeling of a man's own being must needs be lost if the perfection of this work shall verily be felt in any soul in this life.
LOOK that nought work in thy wit nor in thy will but only God. And try for to fell all witting and feeling of ought under God, and tread all down full far under the cloud of forgetting. And thou shalt understand, that thou shalt not only in this work forget all other creatures than thyself, or their deeds or thine, but also thou shalt in this work forget both thyself and also thy deeds for God, as well as all other creatures and their deeds. For it is the condition of a perfect lover, not only to love that thing that he loveth
