The Book of Margery Kempe

As surely as I have great cause to thank Thee, hear my prayers, for though I had as many hearts and souls enclosed in my soul as God knew from the beginning how many should dwell in Heaven without end, and as there are drops of water, fresh and salt, chips of gravel, stones small and great, grasses growing in all the earth, kernels of corn, fishes, fowls, beasts, and leaves on trees, when most plenty 1s, feather of fowl, or hair of man or beast, seeds that grow in the earth, or in weeds, in flowers, in land or in water when most grow, and as many creatures as on earth have been and are, or shall be, or might be by Thy might, and as there are stars and angels in Thy sight, or other kinds of things that groweth upon earth, and each were a soul as holy as ever was Our Lady Saint Mary who bore Jesus Our Saviour, and if it were possible that each could think or speak as great a reverence and worship as ever did Our Lady Saint Mary here on earth, and now doth in Heagen and shall do without end, I may right well think in my heart and speak it with my mouth at this time in worship of the Trinity and of all the Court of Heaven, to the great shame and disgrace of Satan who fell from God's face, and of all his wicked spirits, so that all these hearts and souls could never thank God nor fully praise Hım, fully bless Hım, or fully worship Hım, fully love Hım, or fully give laudation praise and reverence to Him as He were worthy to have, for the great mercy that He hath shewn to me on earth That I cannot do nor may do