¶
This
first
chapiter
of
the
first
tractate
sheweth
vnder
what
kynge
the
play
of
the
chesse
was
founden
and
maad
.
:
.
AMonge
all
the
euyll
condicions
and
signes
that
may
be
in
a
man
the
first
and
the
grettest
is
whan
he
feereth
not
/
ne
dredeth
to
displese
and
make
wroth
god
by
synne
/
and
the
peple
by
lyuyng
disordynatly
/
whan
he
reccheth
not
/
ner
taketh
hede
vnto
them
that
repreue
hym
and
his
vices
/
but
sleeth
them
/
In
suche
wyse
as
dide
the
emperour
Nero
/
whiche
dide
do
slee
his
maister
seneque
For
as
moche
as
he
mig●●●
〈◊〉
suffre
to
be
repreuid
and
taught
of
hym
In
lyke
wyse
was
somtyme
a
kynge
in
babilome
that
was
named
Emsmerodac
a
Iolye
man
with
oute
Iustice
and
so
cruell
that
he
dyde
do
hewe
his
faders
body
in
thre
honderd
pieces
/
And
gaf
hit
to
ete
and
deuour
to
thre
honderd
birdes
that
men
calle
voultres
And
was
of
suche
condicion
as
was
Nero
/
And
right
well
resemblid
and
was
lyke
vnto
his
fader
Nabogodonosor
/
whiche
on
a
tyme
wold
do
slee
alle
the
sage
and
wyse
men
of
babylonye
/
For
as
moche
as
they
coude
not
telle
hym
his
dreme
that
he
had
dremed
on
a
nyght
and
had
forgoten
hit
lyke
as
it
is
wreton
in
the
bible
in
the
book
of
danyell
/
Vnder
this
kynge
than
Emlmerodach
was
this
game
and
playe
of
the
chesse
founden
/
Trewe
it
is
that
some
men
wene
/
that
this
playe
was
founden
in
the
tyme
of
the
bataylles
&
siege
of
troye
But
that
is
not
soo
For
this
playe-cam
to
the
playes
of
the
caldees
as
dyomedes
the
greek
sayth
and
reherceth
.
That
amonge
the
philosophrs
was
the
most
renomed
playe
amonge
all
other
playes
/
And
after
that
/
cain
this
playe
in
the
tyme
of
Alixandre
the
grete
in
to
Egipte
And
so
vnto
alle
the
parties
toward
the
south
/
And
the
cause
wherfore
thys
playe
was
so
renomed
shall
be
sayd
in
the
thirde
chapitre
.
This
seconde
chapitre
of
the
first
tractate
sheweth
who
fonde
first
the
playe
of
the
chesse
.
THys
playe
fonde
a
phylosopher
of
Th
oryent
whiche
was
named
in
Caldee
Exerses
or
in
greke
philometor
/
whiche
is
as
moche
to
saye
in
english
as
he
that
loueth
Iustice
and
mesure
/
And
this
philosopher
was
reno●●d
gretly
amonge
the
grekes
,
and
them
of
Athenes
whiche
were
good
clerkys
and
philosophers
also
renomed
of
theyr
comiynge
This
philosopher
was
so
Iuste
and
trewe
that
he
had
leuyr
dye
than
to
lyue
longe
and
be
a
fal●
flaterer
wyth
the
sayd
kynge
For
whan
he
behelde
the
foull
and
synfull
lyf
of
the
kynge
/
And
that
no
man
durst
blame
hym
.
For
by
his
grete
cruelte
he
putte
them
alle
to
deth
that
displesid
hym
/
he
put
hym self
in
paryll
of
deth
/
And
louyd
and
chees
rather
to
dye
than
longer
to
lyue
:
The
euyll
lyf
and
diffamed
of
a
kynge
is
the
lyf
of
a
cruell
beste
/
And
ought
not
longe
to
be
susteyned
/
For
he
destroyeth
hym
that
displesith
hym
/
And
therfore
reherceth
valeriuds
/
that
ther
was
a
wise
man
named
theodore
cerem
whom
his
kynge
dyde
do
hange
on
the
crosse
for
as
moche
as
he
repreuyd
hym
of
his
euyll
&
fowll
lyf
And
all
way
as
he
was
in
the
torment
he
said
to
the
kynge
/
vpon
thy
counceyllours
&
them
that
ben
cladd
in
thy
clothynge
&
robes
were
more
reson
that
this
torment
shold
come
/
For
as
moche
as
they
dar
not
saye
to
the
The
trouthe
for
to
do
Iustice
right
wysly
/
of
my self
I
make
no
force
whether
I
dye
on
the
lande
or
on
the
water
or
otherwyse
etc
as
who
sayth
he
recched
not
to
dye
for
Iustice
/
In
lyke
wyse
as
democreon
the
philosophre
put
out
his
owen
eyen
be
cause
he
wold
not
see
that
no
good
myght
come
to
the
euyll
and
vicyous
peple
wyth
out
right
And
also
defortes
the
philosophre
as
he
went
toward
his
deth
/
his
wyf
that
folowed
after
hym
saide
that
he
was
dampned
to
deth
wrongfully
/
than
he
answerd
and
sayd
to
her
/
holde
thy
peas
and
be
styll
/
hit
is
better
and
more
merytorye
to
dye
by
a
wronge
and
vnrightfull
Iugement
/
than
that
I
had
deseruyd
to
dye
.
¶
The
thirde
chapitre
of
the
●irst
tractate
treteth
wherfore
the
playe
was
founden
and
maad
.
THe
causes
wherfore
this
playe
was
founden
ben
thre
/
the
first
was
for
to
correcte
and
repreue
the
kynge
For
whan
this
kynge
Em●merodach
sawe
this
playe
And
the
barons
knyghtes
and
gentillmen
of
his
court
playe
wyth
the
philosopher
/
he
meruaylled
gretly
of
the
beaulte
and
nouelte
of
the
playe
/
And
desired
to
playe
agaynst
the
philosopher
/
The
philosopher
answerd
and
sayd
to
hym
that
hit
myght
not
be
doon
.
But
yf
he
first
lerned
the
playe
/
The
kynge
said
hit
was
reson
and
that
he
wold
put
hym
to
the
payne
to
lerne
hit
Than
the
philosophre
began
to
teche
hym
and
to
shewe
hym
the
maner
of
the
table
of
the
chesse
borde
and
the
chesse
meyne
/
And
also
the
maners
and
condicions
of
a
kynge
of
the
nobles
and
of
the
comun
peple
and
of
theyr
offices
and
how
they
shold
be
touchid
and
drawen
.
And
how
he
shold
amende
hym self
&
become
vertuous
And
whan
this
kynge
herde
that
he
repreuyd
hym
/
He
demanded
hym
vpon
payne
of
deth
to
telle
hym
wherfore
he
had
founden
and
made
this
playe
/
And
he
answerd
my
ryght
dere
lord
and
kynge
/
the
grettest
and
most
thinge
that
I
desire
is
that
thou
haue
in
thy self
a
gloryous
and
vertuous
lyf
And
that
may
I
not
see
/
but
yf
thou
be
endoctrined
and
well
manerd
and
that
had
/
so
mayst
thou
be
belouyd
of
thy
peple
Thus
than
I
desire
that
thou
haue
other
gouernement
than
thou
hast
had
/
And
that
thou
haue
vpon
thy self
first
seygnorye
and
maistrye
suche
as
thou
hast
vpon
other
by
force
and
not
by
right
Certaynly
hit
is
not
ryght
that
a
man
be
mayster
ouer
other
and
comandour
/
whan
he
can
not
rewle
ner
may
rewle
hym self
and
that
his
vertues
domyne
aboue
his
vices
/
For
seygnourye
by
force
and
wylle
may
not
longe
endure
/
Than
thus
may
thou
see
oon
of
the
causes
why
and
wherfore
I
haue
founden
and
maad
thys
playe
/
whyche
Is
for
to
correcte
and
repente
the
of
thy
tyra●nye
and
vicyous
lyuynge
/
For
alle
kynges
specyally
ought
to
here
her
corrygeours
or
correctours
and
her
corrections
to
hold
and
kepe
in
mynde
/
In
lyke
wyse
as
Valerius
reherceth
that
the
kynge
Alixandre
had
a
noble
and
renomed
knyght
that
sayd
in
repreuynge
of
Alixandre
that
he
was
to
moche
couetous
and
in
especyall
of
the
honours
of
the
world
/
And
sayd
to
hym
yf
the
goddes
had
maad
thy
body
as
greet
as
is
thy
herte
Alle
the
world
coude
not
holde
the
/
For
thou
holdest
in
thy
right
hand
alle
the
Oryent
/
And
in
thy
lyfte
hande
the
occident
/
syn
than
hit
is
so
/
or
thou
art
a
god
or
a
man
or
nought
/
yf
thou
be
god
/
doo
than
well
and
good
to
the
peple
as
god
doth
/
And
take
not
from
them
that
they
ought
to
haue
and
is
theyres
.
yf
thou
be
a
man
/
thinke
that
thou
shalt
dye
/
And
than
thou
shalt
doo
noon
euyll
/
yf
thou
be
nought
forgete
thy self
/
ther
is
no
thynge
so
stronge
and
ferme
/
but
that
somtyme
a
feble
thinge
casteth
doun
and
ouerthrowe
hit
How
well
that
the
lyon
be
the
strengest
beste
/
yet
somtyme
a
lityll
birde
eteth
hym
/
The
seconde
cause
wherfore
this
playe
was
founden
and
maad
/
was
for
to
kepe
hym
from
ydlenesse
/
wherof
senecque
saith
vnto
lucylle
ydlenes
wyth
oute
ony
ocupacion
is
sepulture
of
a
man
lyuyng
/
and
varro
saith
in
his
sentences
that
in
lyke
wise
as
men
goo
not
for
to
goo
/
the
same
wyse
the
lyf
is
not
gyuen
for
to
lyue
but
for
to
doo
well
and
good
/
And
therfore
secondly
the
philosopher
fonde
this
playe
for
to
kepe
the
peple
from
ydlenes
/
For
ther
is
moche
peple
.
Whan
so
is
that
they
be
fortunat
in
wordly
goodes
that
they
drawe
them
to
ease
and
ydlenes
wherof
cometh
ofte
tymes
many
euyllys
and
grete
synnes
And
by
this
ydlenes
the
herte
is
quenchid
wherof
cometh
desperacion
/
The
thirde
cause
is
that
euery
man
naturelly
desireth
to
knowe
and
to
here
noueltees
and
tydynges
/
For
this
cause
they
of
atthenes
studyed
as
we
rede
/
and
for
as
the
corporall
or
bodyly
sight
enpess●heth
and
letteth
otherwhyle
the
knowleche
of
subtyll
thinges
/
therfore
we
rede
that
democrion
the
phylosopher
put
oute
his
owen
eyen
/
for
as
moche
as
he
myght
haue
the
better
entendement
and
vnderstondynge
/
Many
haue
ben
made
blynde
that
were
grete
clerkis
in
lyke
wyse
as
was
dydymus
bisshop
of
Alixandrye
/
that
how
well
that
he
sawe
not
yet
he
was
so
grete
a
clerk
/
that
gregore
nazan
&
saynt
Ierome
that
were
clerkes
and
maystres
to
other
/
came
for
to
be
his
scolers
&
lerned
of
hym
And
saint
Anthonie
The
grete
heremyte
cam
for
to
see
hym
on
a
tyme
/
and
amonge
all
other
thynges
/
he
demanded
hym
yf
he
were
not
gretly
displesid
that
he
was
blynde
and
sawe
not
.
And
he
answerd
that
he
was
gretly
abasshid
/
for
that
he
supposid
not
that
he
was
not
displesid
in
that
he
had
lost
his
sight
/
And
saynt
Anthonye
answerd
to
hym
I
meruayle
moche
that
hit
displesith
the
that
thou
hast
lost
that
thynge
whiche
is
comyn
betwene
the
and
bestes
.
And
thou
knowest
well
that
thou
hast
not
loste
that
thynge
that
is
comyn
bitwene
the
and
the
angellis
And
for
thise
causes
forsayd
the
philosopher
entended
to
put
away
alle
pensifnes
and
thoughtes
/
and
to
thynke
only
on
this
playe
as
shall
be
said
&
appere
in
this
book
after
.
The
seconde
tractate
/
the
first
chapiter
treteth
of
the
forme
of
a
kynge
of
his
maners
and
of
his
estate
.
THe
kynge
must
be
thus
maad
For
he
must
sitte
in
a
chayer
clothed
in
purpure
/
crowned
on
his
heed
in
his
ryght
hand
a
ceptre
and
in
the
lyfte
hande
an
apple
of
gold
/
For
he
is
the
most
grettest
and
hyest
in
dignyte
aboue
alle
other
and
most
worthy
.
And
that
is
signefyed
by
the
corone
/
For
the
glorye
of
the
peple
is
the
dignite
of
the
kynge
/
And
aboue
all
other
the
kynge
ought
to
be
replenysshid
with
vertues
and
of
grace
/
and
thys
signefieth
the
purpure
For
in
lyke
wyse
as
the
robes
of
purpure
maketh
fayr
&
enbelysshith
the
body
/
the
same
wise
vertues
maketh
the
sowle
/
he
ought
alleway
thenke
on
the
gouernement
of
the
Royame
and
who
hath
th
admynystracion
of
Iustice
/
And
thys
shuld
be
by
hym self
pryncipally
.
This
signefieth
the
app̄ell
of
gold
that
he
holdeth
in
his
lyfte
honde
/
And
for
as
moche
as
hit
apperteyneth
vnto
hym
to
punysshe
the
rebelles
hath
he
the
sceptre
in
his
right
hand
And
for
as
moche
as
mysericorde
and
trouthe
conserue
and
kepe
the
kynge
in
his
trone
/
Therfore
ought
a
kynge
to
be
mercyfull
and
debonayr
For
whan
a
kynge
or
prynce
desired
or
will
be
belouyd
of
his
peple
late
hym
be
gouerned
by
debonarite
And
valerius
saith
that
debonairte
percyth
the
hertes
of
straungers
and
amolisshith
and
maketh
softe
the
hertes
of
his
enemyes
/
wherof
he
reherceth
that
philostratus
that
was
duc
of
athenes
had
a
doughter
/
whom
a
man
louyd
so
ardantly
/
that
on
a
tyme
as
he
sawe
her
wyth
her
moder
/
sodaynly
he
cam
and
kyssed
her
/
wherof
the
moder
was
so
angry
and
soroufull
that
she
wente
and
requyred
of
her
lord
the
duc
/
that
his
heed
myght
be
smyten
of
/
The
prynce
answerd
to
her
and
sayde
/
yf
we
shold
slee
them
that
loue
vs
/
what
shall
we
doo
to
our
enemyes
that
hate
vs
/
Certaynly
this
was
th
answer
of
a
noble
&
debonair
prynce
That
suffred
that
villonye
don
to
his
doughter
and
to
hym self
yet
more
This
prince
had
also
a
frende
that
was
named
Arispe
that
sayd
on
a
tyme
as
moche
villonye
vnto
the
prynce
as
ony
man
miht
saye
And
that
might
not
suffise
hym
/
but
he
scracchid
hym
in
the
visage
/
The
prynce
suffryd
hym
paciently
in
suche
wyse
as
thowh
he
had
doon
to
hym
no
vilonye
but
curtoysye
And
whan
his
sones
wold
haue
auengid
this
vilonye
/
he
comanded
them
that
they
shold
not
be
so
hardy
so
to
do
The
next
day
folowyng
arispe
remembrid
of
the
right
grete
vilonye
that
he
had
don
to
his
frende
and
lord
wyth
oute
cause
.
He
fyll
in
dispayr
and
wold
haue
slayn
hym self
/
whan
the
duc
knewe
and
vnderstode
that
/
he
cam
to
hym
and
sayd
/
ne
doubte
the
nothynge
And
swore
to
hym
by
his
fayth
/
that
also
well
he
was
and
shold
be
his
frende
fro
than
forthon
as
euery
he
had
ben
to fore
yf
he
wold
And
thus
he
respited
hym
of
his
deth
by
his
debonairte
.
And
in
lyke
wyse
rede
we
of
the
kynge
pirre
to
whom
was
reported
that
they
of
tarente
had
said
grete
vilonye
of
hym
For
whiche
cause
he
maad
alle
them
to
come
to
fore
hym
And
demanded
of
them
yf
they
had
so
sayd
.
Than
oon
of
them
answerd
and
sayd
/
yf
the
wyn
and
the
candellys
had
not
fayllyd
/
thys
langage
had
ben
but
a
Iape
/
In
regarde
of
that
we
had
thought
to
haue
doon
/
Than
the
kynge
began
to
lawhe
/
for
they
had
confessid
that
suche
langage
as
was
sayd
and
spoken
was
by
dronkenship
/
And
for
this
cause
of
debonairte
the
peple
of
tarante
toke
for
a
custome
that
the
dronken
men
shold
be
punysshyd
/
And
the
sobre
men
preysed
.
The
kynge
than
thus
ought
to
loue
humylyte
and
hate
fal●●te
after
the
holy
scripture
that
speketh
of
euery
man
generally
/
For
the
kynge
in
his
royame
representeth
god
/
And
god
is
verite
/
And
therfore
hym
ought
to
saye
no
thynge
but
yf
hit
were
veritable
and
stable
.
Valerius
reherceth
that
Alixandre
wyth
alle
his
ooste
rood
for
to
destroye
a
cyte
whyche
was
named
lapsare
/
whan
than
a
phylosophre
whiche
had
to
name
Anaximenes
whiche
had
ben
to fore
maistre
&
gouernour
of
Alixandre
herd
and
vnderstood
of
his
comyng
Cam
agayn
Alixandre
for
to
desire
and
requyre
of
hym
.
And
whan
he
sawe
Alixandre
he
supposid
to
haue
axid
his
requeste
/
Alixander
brake
his
demande
to fore
and
swore
to
hym
to
fore
he
axid
ony
thynge
by
his
goddes
.
That
suche
thynge
as
he
axid
or
requyryd
of
hym
/
he
wold
in
no
wyse
doon
/
Than
the
philosopher
requyred
hym
to
destroye
the
cyte
/
whan
Alixandre
vnderstood
his
desire
/
and
the
oth
that
he
had
maad
/
he
suffrid
the
cyte
to
stande
and
not
to
be
destroyed
For
he
had
leuer
doo
his
wyll
than
to
be
periured
and
forsworn
and
doo
agaynst
his
oth
/
Quyntilian
saith
that
no
grete
man
ne
lord
shold
not
swere
/
but
where
as
is
grete
nede
/
And
that
the
symple
parole
or
worde
of
a
prynce
ought
to
be
more
stable
than
the
oth
of
a
marchaunt
/
Alas
how
kepe
the
prynces
their
promisses
in
thise
dayes
/
not
only
her
promises
but
their
othes
her
sealis
and
wrytynges
&
signes
of
their
propre
handes
/
alle
faylleth
god
amende
hit
etc
A
kynge
also
ought
to
hate
alle
cruelte
/
For
we
rede
that
neuer
yet
dyed
ony
pietous
persone
of
euyll
deth
ne
cruell
persone
of
good
deth
Therfore
recounteth
valerius
that
ther
was
a
man
named
theryle
a
werkeman
in
metall
/
that
made
a
boole
of
coppre
and
a
lityll
wyket
on
the
side
/
wherby
men
myght
put
in
them
that
shuld
be
brent
therin
/
And
hit
was
maad
in
suche
manere
/
that
they
that
shold
be
put
and
enclosid
therin
shold
crye
no
thinge
lyke
to
the
wys
of
a
man
but
of
an
oxe
And
this
made
he
be
cause
men
shold
haue
the
lasse
pite
of
them
.
Whan
he
had
made
this
bole
of
copper
/
he
presented
hit
vnto
a
kynge
whiche
was
callyd
philarde
that
was
so
cruell
a
tyrant
that
he
delited
in
no
thinge
but
in
cruelte
And
he
told
hym
the
condicion
of
the
bole
/
whan
philarde
herde
and
vnderstode
this
/
he
alowed
and
preysed
moche
the
werke
/
And
after
sayde
to
hym
/
thou
that
art
more
cruell
than
I
am
/
thou
shalt
assaye
&
proue
first
thy
presente
and
yeft
/
And
so
made
hym
to
goo
in
to
the
boole
and
dye
an
euyll
deth
/
Therfore
saith
Ouide
ther
is
no
thinge
more
raisonable
than
that
a
man
dye
of
suche
deth
as
he
purchaseth
vnto
other
Also
the
kynge
ought
souerainly
kepe
Iustice
/
who
maketh
or
kepeth
a
royame
with
oute
Iustice
/
of
verray
force
ther
muste
be
grete
robberye
and
thefte
Therfor
reherceth
saint
Augustyn
in
a
book
which
is
intituled
the
cyte
of
god
/
that
ther
was
a
theef
of
the
see
named
diomedes
that
was
a
grete
rouar
and
dide
so
moche
harme
that
the
complaintes
cam
to fore
Alixander
whiche
dide
hym
to
be
taken
&
brought
to
fore
hym
/
and
he
demanded
hym
wherfore
he
was
so
noyous
&
cruell
in
the
see
And
he
answerd
to
hym
agayn
/
for
as
moche
as
thou
art
●on
a
lande
in
the
world
/
so
am
I
another
in
the
see
but
for
as
moche
as
the
euyll
the
I
doo
is
in
oon
galeye
or
tweyne
therfore
I
am
callyd
a
theef
/
but
for
as
moche
as
thou
d●st
in
many
shippis
and
with
grete
puyssance
and
power
therfore
art
thou
callyd
an
emperour
/
but
yf
fortune
were
for
me
in
suche
wyse
/
I
wold
be
come
a
good
man
and
better
than
I
now
am
/
but
thou
/
the
more
richer
and
fortunat
that
thou
art
/
the
more
worse
art
thou
/
Alixander
sayd
to
hym
I
shall
change
thy
fortune
in
suche
wyse
as
thou
ne
saye
/
that
thou
shalt
doo
hit
by
pouerte
/
but
for
euyll
and
mauaiste
/
And
so
he
made
hym
ryche
/
And
thys
was
he
that
afterward
was
a
good
prynce
and
a
good
Iusticyer
/
The
kynge
ought
to
be
soueraynly
chaste
/
And
this
signefyeth
a
quene
that
is
only
on
his
ryght
syde
For
hit
is
to
be
beleuyd
and
credible
that
whan
the
kynge
is
a
good
man
Iuste
.
trewe
&
of
good
maners
and
condicions
/
that
his
children
shall
folowe
gladly
the
same
/
for
a
good
sone
&
a
trewe
ought
not
to
forsake
&
goo
fro
the
good
condicions
of
his
fader
.
For
certes
hit
is
agaynst
god
and
nature
in
partie
whan
a
man
taketh
other
than
his
propre
wyf
/
And
that
see
we
by
birdes
/
of
whom
the
male
and
female
haue
to
gyder
the
charge
in
kepynge
and
norisshinge
of
their
yonge
fowlis
and
birdis
/
For
some
maner
of
fowlis
kepen
them
to
theyr
femeles
only
/
As
hit
appereth
by
storkes
dowues
and
turtils
/
But
tho
fowles
that
norisshith
not
their
birdes
haue
many
wyues
and
femelles
/
As
the
cock
that
no
thynge
norisshith
his
chekens
/
And
therfore
amonge
alle
the
bestes
that
been
/
Man
and
woman
putteth
most
theyr
●●●ente
and
haue
moste
cure
&
charge
in
norisshyng
of
their
children
/
And
therfore
doon
they
agaynst
nature
in
partye
whan
they
leue
theyr
wyues
for
other
women
/
Of
this
chastete
reherceth
valerius
an
example
and
saith
that
ther
was
a
man
of
rome
which
was
named
scipio
affrican
For
as
moche
as
he
had
conquerd
affricque
how
well
that
he
was
of
rome
born
.
Whan
he
was
of
.xxxiiii.
yer
of
age
he
conquerd
cartage
And
toke
moche
peple
in
Ostage
/
Amonge
whom
he
was
presented
wyth
a
right
fair
mayde
for
his
solas
and
playsir
whiche
was
assurid
and
handfast
vnto
a
noble
yong
gentillman
of
cartage
whiche
was
named
Indimcible
/
And
anon
as
this
gentill
scipio
knewe
that
Notwythstandyng
that
he
was
a
prynce
noble
&
lusty
Dyde
do
calle
anon
the
parents
and
kynnesmen
of
them
And
deliuerid
to
them
their
doughter
wyth
oute
doyng
of
ony
vilonye
to
her
/
and
the
raenso●
or
gold
that
they
had
ordeyned
for
their
doughter
/
gaf
hi●
euery
dele
In
dowaire
to
her
And
the
yong
man
that
was
her
husbonde
sawe
the
fraunchis●
●nd
gentilnes
of
hym
/
torned
hym self
and
the
hertes
of
the
noble
peple
vnto
the
loue
&
alliance
of
the
romayns
/
And
this
suffiseth
as
towchynge
the
kynge
etc
.
¶
The
seconde
chapit●●
of
the
seconde
book
treteth
of
the
forme
and
maners
of
the
Quene
.
THus
ought
the
Quene
be
maad
/
she
ought
to
be
a
fair
lady
sittynge
in
a
chayer
and
crowned
wyth
a
corone
on
her
heed
and
cladd
wyth
a
cloth
of
gold
&
a
mantyll
aboue
furrid
wyth
ermynes
And
she
shold
sytte
on
the
lyfte
syde
of
the
kinge
for
the
amplections
and
enbrasynge
of
her
husbonde
/
lyke
as
it
is
sayd
in
scripture
in
the
canticles
/
her
lyfte
arme
shall
be
vnder
my
heed
And
her
ryght
arme
shall
be
clyppe
and
enbrace
me
/
In
that
she
is
sette
on
his
lyfte
syde
is
by
grace
gyuen
to
the
kynge
by
nature
and
of
ryght
.
For
better
is
to
haue
a
kynge
by
succession
than
by
eleccion
/
For
oftentymes
the
electours
and
chosers
can
not
ne
wyll
not
accorde
/
And
so
is
the
election
left
/
And
otherwhyle
they
chese
not
the
beste
and
most
able
and
conuenyent
/
but
hym
that
they
best
loue
/
or
is
for
them
most
proffytable
/
But
whan
the
kynge
is
by
lignage
and
by
trewe
succession
/
he
is
taught
enseygned
and
nourisshid
in
his
yongth
in
alle
good
&
vertuous
tacches
and
maners
of
hys
fader
/
And
also
the
prynces
of
the
royame
dar
not
so
hardily
meue
warre
agaynst
a
kynge
hauynge
a
sone
for
to
regne
after
hym
And
so
a
Quene
ought
to
be
chaste
.
wyse
.
of
honest
peple
/
well
manerd
and
not
curyous
in
nourisshynge
of
her
children
/
her
wysedom
ought
not
only
t
appere
in
feet
and
werkes
but
also
in
spekynge
that
is
to
wete
that
she
be
secrete
and
telle
not
suche
thynges
as
ought
to
be
holden
secrete
/
Wherfore
it
is
a
comyn
prouerbe
〈…〉
that
women
can
kepe
no
counceyle
And
acordyng
therto
Macrobe
reherceth
in
the
book
of
the
dremes
of
scipio
.
That
ther
was
a
child
of
rome
that
was
named
papirus
that
on
a
tyme
went
with
his
fader
whiche
was
a
senatour
in
to
the
chambre
where
as
they
helde
their
counceyll
And
that
tyme
they
spak
of
suche
maters
as
was
comanded
and
agreed
shold
be
kept
secrete
vpon
payn
of
their
heedes
And
so
departed
And
whan
he
was
comen
home
from
the
senatoire
and
fro
the
counceyll
with
his
fader
/
his
moder
demanded
of
hym
what
was
the
counceyll
and
wherof
they
spack
and
had
taryed
so
longe
there
And
the
childe
answerd
to
her
and
sayd
he
durst
not
telle
ner
saye
hit
for
so
moche
as
hit
was
defended
vpon
payn
of
deth
Than
was
the
moder
more
desirous
to
knowe
than
she
was
to
fore
/
And
began
to
flatere
hym
one
tyme
And
afterward
to
menace
hym
that
he
shold
saye
and
telle
to
her
what
hit
was
And
whan
the
childe
sawe
that
he
might
haue
no
reste
of
his
moder
in
no
wise
He
made
her
first
promise
that
she
shold
kepe
hit
secrete
And
to
telle
hit
to
none
of
the
world
/
And
that
doon
he
fayned
a
lesing
or
a
lye
and
sayd
to
her
/
that
the
senatours
had
in
counceyll
a
grete
question
and
difference
whiche
was
this
/
whether
hit
were
better
and
more
for
the
comyn
wele
of
rome
/
that
a
man
shold
haue
two
wyuys
/
or
a
wyf
to
haue
two
husbondes
/
And
whan
she
had
vnderstonde
this
/
he
defended
her
that
she
shold
telle
hit
to
none
other
body
And
after
this
she
wente
to
her
gossyb
and
told
to
her
this
counceyll
secretly
/
And
she
told
to
an
other
/
And
thus
euery
wyf
tolde
hit
to
other
in
secrete
And
thus
hit
happend
anone
after
that
alle
the
wyues
of
rome
cam
to
the
senatorye
where
the
senatours
were
assemblid
/
And
cryed
wyth
an
hye
wys
/
that
they
had
leuer
/
and
also
hit
were
better
for
the
comyn
wele
that
a
wyf
shold
haue
two
husbondes
than
a
man
two
wyues
/
The
senatours
heerynge
this
.
were
gretly
abasshid
and
wist
not
what
to
saye
/
ner
how
to
answere
/
tyll
at
laste
that
the
child
papire
reherced
to
them
all
the
caas
and
feet
how
hit
was
happend
And
whan
the
senatours
herd
&
vnderstood
the
mater
they
were
gretly
abasshid
/
and
comended
gretly
the
Iugenye
&
wytte
of
the
child
that
so
wisely
contriued
the
lye
rather
than
he
wolde
discouere
their
counceyll
/
And
forthwith
made
hym
a
senatour
/
and
establisshid
&
ordeyned
fro
than
forthon
that
no
childe
in
ony
wise
sholl
entre
in
to
the
counceyll
hous
amonge
them
with
their
faders
exept
papirus
/
whome
they
wold
that
he
shold
alwey
be
among
them
/
also
a
quene
ought
to
be
chaste
/
for
as
she
is
aboue
all
other
in
astate
&
reuer●ce
so
shold
she
be
ensample
to
all
other
in
her
liuyng
honestly
/
wherof
Ierome
reherceth
agaynst
Io●ynyan
/
that
ther
was
a
gentilman
of
rome
named
duele
/
and
this
man
was
he
that
first
fond
the
maner
to
fight
on
the
water
/
and
had
first
victorie
/
this
duele
had
to
his
wif
one
of
the
best
women
&
so
chaste
/
that
euery
woman
might
take
ensample
of
her
/
And
at
that
tyme
the
synne
of
the
flesshe
was
the
grettest
synne
that
ony
might
doo
agaynst
nature
/
And
this
sayd
good
woman
was
named
ylye
/
and
so
hit
happend
that
this
duele
becam
so
olde
that
he
stowped
&
quaqued
for
age
And
on
a
tyme
one
of
his
aduersaries
repreuyd
&
reprochid
hym
sayng
that
he
had
a
stynkynge
breth
/
And
forthwyth
he
wente
home
to
his
wyf
alle
angry
and
abasshid
and
axid
her
why
and
wherfore
she
had
not
told
his
defaulte
to
hym
that
he
myght
haue
founden
remedye
to
haue
ben
purgid
therof
/
And
she
answerd
that
as
for
as
moche
as
she
supposid
that
euery
man
had
that
same
faute
as
well
as
he
For
she
kyst
neuer
ony
mannes
mouth
but
her
husbondes
/
O
moche
was
this
woman
to
be
preysed
&
haue
a
singuler
lawde
wenynge
that
this
defaulte
had
not
ben
only
in
her
husbonde
/
wherfore
she
suffrid
hit
paciently
in
suche
wyse
that
her
husbonde
knewe
his
defaute
sonner
by
other
than
by
her
/
Also
we
rede
that
ther
was
a
wedowe
named
anna
/
whiche
had
a
frende
that
counceyllid
her
to
marye
/
For
she
was
yong
fayr
and
riche
/
to
whom
she
answerd
that
she
wold
not
so
doo
in
no
wise
For
yf
I
shold
haue
an
husbond
as
I
haue
had
and
that
he
were
as
good
as
he
was
/
I
shold
euer
ben
aferd
to
lose
hym
/
lyke
as
I
lost
that
other
/
And
than
shold
I
lyue
allwey
in
fere
&
drede
/
whiche
I
wyll
not
And
yf
hit
happend
me
to
haue
a
wors
/
what
shold
hyt
prouffite
me
to
haue
an
euyll
husbond
after
a
good
.
And
so
she
concluded
that
she
wold
kepe
her
chastete
.
Saynt
Austyn
reherceth
in
the
book
de
Ciuitate
dei
that
in
rome
was
a
noble
lady
gentill
of
maners
&
of
hyghe
kynrede
named
lucrecia
/
And
had
an
husbonde
named
colatyne
/
whiche
desired
on
a
tyme
the
Emperours
sone
named
Torquyne
th
orguyllous
or
the
proude
and
he
was
callid
sixte
for
to
come
dyne
and
sporte
hym
in
his
castell
or
manoir
And
whan
he
was
entrid
amonge
many
noble
ladyes
he
sawe
lucrecia
/
And
whan
this
Emperours
sone
had
seen
&
aduertised
her
deportes
.
her
contenance
.
her
manere
.
and
her
beaulte
/
he
was
all
rauysshid
and
esprised
wyth
her
loue
forthwyth
And
espyed
a
tyme
whan
her
husbonde
collatyn
wente
vnto
the
ooste
of
th
emꝑour
/
and
cam
in
to
the
place
where
as
lucresse
was
with
her
felawship
/
whom
she
receyuyd
honorably
/
and
whan
tyme
came
to
goo
to
bedde
and
slepe
she
made
redy
a
bedde
ryally
for
hym
as
hit
apperteyned
to
the
emperours
sone
And
this
sixtus
espyed
where
lucresia
laye
.
And
whan
he
supposyd
&
knewe
that
euery
body
was
in
his
first
sleep
/
he
cam
to
the
bedde
of
lucresse
and
that
oon
hand
sette
on
her
breste
and
in
that
other
hand
a
naked
swerd
/
and
sayd
to
her
/
lucresse
holde
thy
pees
and
crye
not
/
For
I
am
sixte
tarquynus
sone
/
for
yf
thou
speke
ony
worde
thou
shalt
be
dede
/
And
for
fere
she
held
her
pees
/
Than
he
began
to
praye
and
promise
many
thinges
And
after
he
menaced
&
thretenyd
her
that
she
shold
enclyne
to
hym
to
do
his
wyll
/
And
whan
he
sawe
he
coude
ner
might
haue
his
entent
he
sayd
to
her
yf
thou
do
not
my
wyll
/
I
shall
slee
the
and
oon
of
thy
seruantes
and
shall
leye
hym
all
ded
by
thy
syde
And
than
I
shall
saye
that
I
haue
slayn
yow
for
your
rybawdrye
/
And
lucresse
that
than
doubted
more
the
shame
of
the
world
than
the
deth
consentid
to
hym
/
And
anone
after
as
the
Emperours
sone
was
departid
/
the
ladye
sente
lres
to
her
husbond
her
fader
her
brethern
&
to
her
frendes
/
and
to
a
man
callid
brute
conceyllour
&
neuewe
to
tarquyn
/
And
sayd
to
them
/
that
yesterday
sixte
the
emperours
sone
cam
in
to
myn
hous
as
an
enemye
in
likenes
of
a
frende
/
&
hath
oppressid
me
And
knowe
thou
colatyn
that
he
hath
dishonorid
thy
bedde
And
how
well
that
he
hath
fowled
&
dishonored
my
body
/
yet
myn
herte
is
not
/
wherfore
I
beseche
the
of
pardon
foryfnes
&
absolucion
of
the
trespas
but
not
of
the
payne
/
and
he
that
hath
doon
this
synne
to
me
hit
shall
ben
to
his
meschance
yf
ye
doo
your
deuoir
/
And
be
cause
no
woman
take
ensample
of
lucresse
and
lyue
after
the
trespaas
/
but
that
she
in
lykewyse
take
ensample
also
of
the
payne
And
forthwyth
wyth
a
swerd
that
she
helde
vnder
her
gowen
or
robe
/
she
roof
her self
vnto
the
herte
And
deyde
forthwyth
to
fore
them
/
And
than
brute
the
counseillr
And
her
husbond
collatyn
and
alle
her
other
frendes
swore
by
the
blood
of
lucresse
that
they
wold
neuer
reste
vnto
the
tyme
that
they
had
put
out
of
rome
tarquyn
and
alle
his
lignee
/
And
that
neuer
after
none
of
them
shold
come
to
dignite
/
And
alle
this
was
doon
.
For
they
bare
the
dede
corps
thurgh
the
cyte
and
meuyd
the
peple
in
suche
wyse
/
that
tarquyn
was
put
in
exyle
And
sixte
his
sone
was
slayn
/
A
Quene
ought
to
be
well
manerd
&
amonge
alle
she
ought
to
be
tumerous
and
shamefast
/
For
whan
a
woman
hath
loste
shamefastnes
/
she
may
ner
can
not
well
be
chaast
/
Wherfore
saith
symachus
that
they
that
ben
not
shamefast
haue
no
conscience
of
luxurye
/
And
saynt
Ambrose
saith
that
oon
of
the
best
parements
and
maketh
a
woman
most
fayr
in
her
persone
/
is
to
be
shamefast
/
Senecque
reherceth
that
ther
was
oon
named
Archezille
whiche
was
so
shamefast
That
she
put
in
a
pelow
of
fethers
a
certain
some
of
money
/
and
put
hit
vnder
the
heed
of
a
pour
frende
of
heeris
/
whiche
dissimyled
his
pouerte
and
wold
not
.
ner
durst
not
be
a
knowen
of
his
pouerte
For
for
shame
she
durst
not
gyue
hit
openly
/
but
had
leuer
that
he
shold
fynde
hit
/
than
that
she
had
gyuen
hit
hym
/
wherfore
otherwhile
men
shold
gyue
&
helpe
her
frendes
so
secretly
That
they
knowe
not
whens
hit
come
/
For
whan
we
kepe
hit
secret
and
make
no
boost
therof
/
our
deedes
and
werkes
shall
plese
god
and
them
also
/
A
Quene
ought
to
be
chosen
whan
she
shall
be
wedded
of
the
most
honest
kynrede
and
peple
/
For
oftentymes
the
doughters
folowen
the
tacches
and
maners
of
them
that
they
ben
discended
from
/
wherof
Valerius
maximus
sayth
that
ther
was
one
that
wold
marye
/
whiche
cam
to
a
philosopher
and
axid
counceyll
what
wif
he
might
best
take
He
answerd
that
he
shold
take
her
that
thou
knowe
certaynly
that
her
moder
and
her
grauntdame
haue
ben
chaast
and
well
condicioned
/
For
suche
moder
/
suche
doughter
comunely
/
Also
a
quene
ought
to
teche
her
childern
to
ben
contynent
and
kepe
chastite
entyerly
/
as
hit
is
wreton
in
ecclesiastes
/
yf
thou
haue
sones
enseigne
and
teche
them
/
And
yf
thou
haue
doughters
kepe
well
them
in
chastite
/
For
helemonde
reherceth
that
euery
kynge
&
prynce
ought
to
be
a
clerke
for
to
comande
to
other
to
studye
and
rede
the
lawe
of
our
lord
god
/
And
therfore
wrote
th
emperour
to
the
kynge
of
france
that
he
shold
doo
lerne
hys
children
sones
the
seuen
sciences
▪
lyberall
/
And
saide
amonge
other
thynges
that
a
kynge
not
lettryd
resembleth
an
ass●
coroned
/
Th
emperour
Octauian
maad
his
sones
to
be
taught
and
lerne
to
swyme
.
to
sprynge
and
lepe
.
to
Iuste
.
to
playe
wyth
the
axe
and
swerde
/
And
alle
maner
thynge
that
apperteyneth
to
a
knyght
/
And
his
doughters
he
made
hem
to
lerne
.
to
sewe
.
to
spynne
.
to
laboure
as
well
in
wolle
as
in
lynnen
cloth
/
And
alle
other
werkis
langynge
to
women
And
whan
his
frendes
demanded
wherfore
he
dyde
so
/
he
answerd
how
well
that
he
was
lord
&
syre
of
alle
the
world
/
yet
wyste
he
not
what
shold
befalle
of
his
children
and
whether
they
shold
falle
or
come
to
pouerte
or
noo
/
and
therfore
yf
they
conne
a
good
crafte
they
may●
alleway
lyue
honestly
/
The
Quene
ought
to
kepe
her
doughters
in
alle
chastyte
/
For
we
rede
of
many
maydens
that
for
theyr
virginite
haue
ben
made
quenes
/
For
poule
the
historiagraph
of
the
lombardes
reherceth
that
ther
was
a
duchesse
named
remonde
whiche
had
.iii.
sones
&
two
doughters
And
hit
happend
that
the
kynge
of
hongrye
cantanus
assaylled
a
castell
where
she
&
her
children
were
I●●e
And
on
a
day
she
behelde
her
enemyes
And
amonge
all
other
she
sawe
the
kynge
that
he
was
a
well
faryng
and
goodly
man
/
Anone
she
was
esprised
and
taken
wyth
his
loue
/
And
that
so
sore
/
that
forthwith
she
sent
to
hym
that
she
wold
deliuere
ouer
the
castell
to
hym
yf
he
wold
take
her
to
his
wyf
and
wedde
her
And
he
agreed
therto
/
and
sware
that
he
wold
haue
her
to
his
wyf
on
that
condicion
/
whan
than
the
kynge
was
in
the
castell
/
his
peple
toke
men
and
women
and
alle
that
they
fonde
/
her
sones
fledde
from
her
/
of
whom
one
was
named
Ermoaldus
and
was
yongest
/
and
after
was
du●
of
boneuentan
/
And
syn
kynge
of
the
lumbardis
.
And
the
two
susters
toke
chikens
And
put
hem
vnder
her
armes
next
the
flessh
and
bytwene
her
pappes
/
that
of
the
heete
&
chaffyng
the
flessh
of
the
chikens
stanke
.
And
whan
so
was
that
they
of
hongrye
wold
haue
enforcid
&
defowled
hem
anone
they
felte
the
stenche
and
fledde
away
and
so
lefte
hem
sayng
/
fy
how
these
lombardes
stynke
/
and
so
they
kept
their
virginite
/
wherfore
that
one
of
them
afterward
was
Quene
of
france
And
that
other
Quene
of
Aleman
/
And
hit
happend
than
that
the
kynge
Catanus
toke
acordynge
to
his
promyse
the
duchesse
/
and
laye
with
her
one
night
for
to
saue
his
oth
And
on
the
morn
he
made
her
comune
vnto
alle
the
hongres
/
And
the
thirde
day
after
he
dyde
doo
put
a
staf
of
tre
fro
the
nether
part
of
her
/
thurgh
her
body
vnto
her
throte
or
mouthe
/
for
be
cause
of
the
lust
of
her
flessh
she
betrayed
her
cyte
and
sayd
suche
husbond
/
suche
wyf
etc
And
this
sufficeth
of
the
Quene
.
¶
The
thirde
chapitre
of
the
seconde
tractate
treteth
of
the
alphyns
her
offices
and
maners
.
THe
Alphyns
ought
to
be
made
and
formed
in
manere
of
Iuges
syttynge
in
a
chayer
wyth
a
book
open
to
fore
their
eyen
/
And
that
is
be
cause
that
some
causes
ben
crymynell
/
And
some
ben
cyuyle
as
aboute
possessyons
and
other
temporell
thynges
and
trespaces
/
And
therfore
ought
to
be
two
Iuges
in
the
royame
/
one
in
the
black
for
the
first
cause
/
And
that
other
in
whyte
as
for
the
seconde
/
Theyr
office
is
for
to
counceyll
the
kynge
/
And
to
make
by
his
comandements
good
lawes
And
to
enforme
alle
the
royame
in
good
and
vertuous
maners
/
And
to
Iuge
and
gyue
sentence
well
and
truly
after
the
caas
is
had
/
And
to
counceyll
well
and
Iustely
alle
them
that
axe
counceyll
of
hem
/
wyth
oute
hauynge
of
ony
eye
opene
to
ony
persone
/
And
to
estudye
diligently
in
suche
wyse
and
to
ordeygne
alle
that
/
that
ought
to
be
kept
be
obseruyd
be
faste
and
stable
/
So
that
they
be
not
founde
corrupt
for
yeft
for
fauour
ne
for
lignage
ne
for
enuye
variable
And
as
touchynge
the
first
poynt
Seneque
sayth
in
the
book
of
benefetes
that
the
poure
Dyogenes
was
more
stronge
than
Alixandre
/
For
Alixandre
coude
not
gyue
so
moche
as
Diogenes
wold
reffuse
.
Marcus
cur●us
a
romayn
of
grete
renome
sayth
thus
.
That
whan
he
had
besiegid
&
assayllyd
them
of
samente
And
boneuentans
whiche
herde
that
he
was
poure
/
they
toke
a
grete
masse
and
wegghe
of
gold
and
sended
hit
to
hym
prayng
hym
that
he
wold
resseyue
hyt
and
leue
his
assault
and
siege
/
And
whan
they
cam
with
the
present
to
hym
they
fonde
hym
sittynge
on
the
erthe
and
ete
his
mete
oute
of
platers
and
disshes
of
tree
and
of
wode
and
dyde
than
her
message
/
to
whom
he
answerd
and
sayde
that
they
shold
goo
hoome
and
saye
to
them
that
sente
hem
that
marcus
cursus
loueth
better
to
be
lord
and
wynne
richesses
than
richesse
shold
wynne
hym
/
For
by
bataylle
he
shall
not
be
ouercome
and
vaynquysshid
Nor
be
gold
ne
siluer
he
shall
not
be
corrupt
ne
corompid
Often
tymes
that
thynge
taketh
an
euyll
ende
that
is
vntrewe
for
gold
and
siluer
/
And
that
a
man
is
subgett
vnto
money
may
not
be
lord
therof
/
helimond
reherceth
that
demonscene
demanded
of
aristodone
how
moche
he
had
wonne
for
pletynge
of
a
cause
for
his
clyent
/
And
he
answerd
a
marck
of
gold
/
Demoscenes
answerd
to
hym
agayn
that
he
had
wonne
as
moche
for
to
hold
his
pees
and
speke
not
Thus
the
tonges
of
aduocates
and
men
of
lawe
ben
peryllous
and
domegeable
/
yet
they
must
be
had
yf
thou
wylt
wynne
thy
cause
for
wyth
money
and
yeft
thou
shall
wynne
And
oftetymes
they
selle
as
welle
theyr
scilence
/
as
theyr
vtterance
/
Valerius
reherceth
that
the
senatours
of
rome
toke
counceyll
to geder
of
two
persones
that
one
was
poure
/
And
that
other
riche
and
couetous
/
whiche
of
hem
bothe
were
most
apte
for
to
sende
to
gouerne
and
Iuge
the
contre
of
spayne
/
and
scipion
of
affricque
sayd
that
none
of
them
bothe
were
good
ner
prouffitable
to
be
sente
theder
/
For
that
one
hath
no
thynge
And
to
that
other
may
nothynge
suffise
And
despised
in
his
saynge
alle
pouerte
and
auerice
in
a
Iuge
/
For
a
couetous
man
hath
nede
of
an
halfpeny
For
he
is
seruant
&
bonde
vnto
money
/
and
not
lord
therof
.
But
pouerte
of
herte
&
of
wylle
ought
to
be
gretly
alowed
in
a
Iuge
Therfore
we
rede
that
as
longe
as
the
romayns
louyd
pouerte
they
were
lordes
of
all
the
world
For
many
ther
were
that
exposed
alle
their
goodes
for
the
comyn
wele
and
for
that
was
most
prouffitable
for
the
comynaulte
that
they
were
so
poure
that
whan
they
were
dede
they
were
buryed
&
brought
to
erthe
with
the
comyn
good
/
And
theyr
doughters
were
maryed
by
the
●●mandement
of
the
senatours
/
But
syn
that
they
despised
pouert●
/
And
begonne
to
gadre
rychesses
/
And
●●ue
maad
grete
bataylles
/
they
haue
vsed
many
synnes
And
so
the
comyn
wele
perysshid
/
For
there
is
no
synne
but
that
it
regneth
there
/
Ther
is
none
that
is
so
●ynfull
as
he
that
hath
alle
the
world
in
despyte
/
For
he
is
in
pees
that
dredeth
no
man
/
And
he
is
ryche
that
coueyteth
no
thynge
/
Valere
reherceth
that
he
is
not
ryche
that
moche
hath
/
But
he
is
ryche
that
hath
lytyll
and
coueyteth
no
thynge
/
Than
thus
late
the
Iuges
take
hede
that
they
enclyne
not
for
loue
or
for
hate
in
ony
Iugement
/
For
theophrast
saith
that
alle
loue
is
blynde
ther
loue
is
/
ther
can
not
ryght
Iugement
by
gyuen
/
For
alle
loue
is
blynde
And
therfore
loue
is
none
euyn
Iuge
For
ofte
tymes
loue
Iugeth
a
fowll
&
lothly
woman
to
be
fayr
And
so
reherceth
quynte
curse
in
his
first
book
that
the
grete
Godaches
sayth
the
same
to
Alixandre
men
may
saye
in
this
caas
that
nature
is
euyll
For
euery
man
is
lasse
auysed
and
worse
in
is
owne
feet
and
cause
than
in
an
other
mans
/
And
therfore
the
Iuges
ought
to
kepe
hem
well
from
yre
in
Iugement
/
Tullius
sayth
that
an
angry
&
yrous
persone
weneth
that
for
to
doo
euyll
/
is
good
counceyll
/
and
socrates
saith
the
.ii.
thinges
ben
contraryous
to
counceyll
/
and
they
ben
hastynes
&
wrath
/
and
Galeren
sayth
in
Alexandrye
/
yf
yre
or
wrath
ouercome
the
whan
thou
sholdest
gyue
Iugement
/
weye
all
thinge
in
the
balance
so
that
thy
Iugement
be
not
enclyned
by
loue
ne
by
yefte
/
ne
fauour
of
persone
torne
not
thy
corage
.
Helemond
reherceth
that
Cambyses
kynge
of
perse
whiche
was
a
rightwys
kynge
had
an
vnrightwys
Iuge
/
whiche
for
enuye
and
euyll
will
had
dampned
a
man
wrongfully
and
agaynst
right
/
wherfore
he
dide
hym
to
be
flain
all
quyk
/
and
made
the
chayer
or
siege
of
Iugement
to
be
couerid
wyth
his
skyn
/
And
made
his
sone
Iuge
and
to
sitte
in
the
chayer
on
the
skyn
of
his
fader
/
to
th
ende
that
the
sone
shold
Iuge
rightwysly
/
And
abhorre
the
Iugement
&
payne
of
his
fader
/
Iuges
ought
to
punysshe
the
defaultes
egally
And
fullfille
the
lawe
that
they
ordeyne
/
Caton
sayth
accomplisshe
and
do
the
lawe
in
suche
wyse
as
thou
hast
ordeyned
and
gyuen
.
Valerius
reherceth
that
calengius
a
consull
had
a
sone
whiche
was
taken
in
adwultrye
.
And
therfore
after
the
lawe
at
that
tyme
he
was
dampned
to
lose
bothe
his
eyen
The
fader
wold
that
the
lawe
shold
be
accomplisshid
in
his
sone
with
out
fauour
/
but
all
the
cyte
was
meuyd
herewyth
And
wold
not
suffre
hit
/
but
in
the
ende
his
fader
was
vaynquysshid
by
theyr
prayers
/
And
ordeyned
that
his
sone
shold
lese
oon
eye
whiche
was
put
oute
And
he
hym self
lost
an
other
eye
/
And
thus
was
the
lawe
obserued
and
kept
/
And
the
prayer
of
the
peple
was
accomplisshid
We
●ede
that
ther
was
a
counceyllour
of
rome
that
had
gyuen
counceill
to
make
a
statute
/
that
who
some
euer
that
entrid
in
to
the
senatoire
/
&
a
swerd
gyrt
aboute
hym
shold
be
ded
/
Than
hit
happend
on
a
tyme
that
he
cam
from
with
out
and
entrid
in
to
the
senatoyre
&
his
swerd
gyrt
aboute
hym
/
wherof
he
took
nōn
heede
/
and
one
of
the
senatours
told
hym
of
hit
/
and
whan
he
knewe
hit
&
remembrid
the
statute
/
he
drewe
oute
his
swerd
&
slewe
hym self
to
fore
them
/
rather
to
dye
than
to
breke
the
lawe
/
for
whos
deth
all
the
senatours
made
grete
sorowe
/
but
alas
we
fynde
not
many
in
thise
dayes
that
soo
doo
/
but
they
doo
lyke
as
anastasius
saith
that
the
lawes
of
some
ben
lyke
vnto
the
nettis
of
spyncoppis
that
take
no
grete
bestes
&
fowles
but
lete
goo
&
flee
thurgh
.
But
they
take
flyes
&
gnattes
&
suche
smale
thynges
/
In
lyke
wise
the
lawes
now
a
dayes
ben
not
executed
but
vpon
the
poure
peple
/
the
grete
and
riche
breke
hit
&
goo
thurgh
with
all
And
for
this
cause
sourden
bataylles
&
discordes
/
and
make
the
grete
&
riche
men
to
take
by
force
and
strengthe
lordshippis
&
seignouries
vpon
the
smale
&
poure
peple
/
And
this
doon
they
specially
that
ben
gentill
of
lignage
&
poure
of
goodes
And
causeth
them
to
robbe
and
reue
And
yet
constrayned
them
by
force
to
serue
them
And
this
is
no
meruayll
/
for
they
that
drede
not
to
angre
god
/
ner
to
breke
the
lawe
and
to
false
hit
/
Falle
often
tymes
by
force
in
moche
cursednes
and
wikkidnes
/
but
whan
the
grete
peple
doo
acordinge
to
the
lawe
/
and
punysh
the
transgressours
sharply
The
comyn
peple
abstayne
and
withdrawe
hem
fro
dooyng
of
euyll
/
and
chastiseth
hem
self
by
theyr
example
/
And
the
Iuges
ought
to
entende
for
to
studie
/
for
that
yf
smythes
the
carpentiers
that
vignours
and
other
craftsmen
saye
that
it
is
most
necessarye
to
studye
for
the
comyn
prouffit
And
gloryfye
them
in
their
connyng
and
saye
that
they
ben
prouffitable
Than
shold
the
Iuges
studie
and
contemplaire
moche
more
than
they
in
that
/
that
shold
be
for
the
comyn
wele
/
wherfore
sayth
seneke
beleue
me
that
they
seme
that
they
do
no
thynge
they
doo
more
than
they
that
laboure
For
they
doo
spirytuell
and
also
corporall
werkis
/
and
therfore
amonge
Artificers
ther
is
no
plesant
reste
/
But
that
reson
of
the
Iuges
hath
maad
and
ordeyned
hit
/
And
therfore
angelius
in
libro
actiui
atticatorum
de
socrate
sayth
That
socrates
was
on
a
tyme
so
pensyf
that
in
an
hole
naturell
daye
/
He
helde
one
estate
that
he
ne
meuyd
mouth
ne
eye
ne
foote
ne
hand
but
was
as
he
had
ben
ded
rauysshyd
.
And
whan
one
demanded
hym
wherfore
he
was
so
pensyf
/
he
answerd
in
alle
worldly
thynges
and
labours
of
the
same
And
helde
hym
bourgoys
and
cytezeyn
of
the
world
And
valerius
reherceth
that
carnardes
a
knyght
was
so
sage
wyse
and
laborous
in
pensifnes
of
the
comyn
wele
/
that
whan
he
was
sette
at
table
for
to
ete
/
he
forgate
to
put
his
hande
vnto
the
mete
to
fede
hym self
.
And
therfore
his
wyf
that
was
named
mellyse
whom
he
had
taken
more
to
haue
her
companye
&
felawship
than
for
ony
other
thynge
/
Fedde
hym
to
th
ende
that
he
shold
not
dye
for
honger
in
his
pensifnes
/
Dydymus
sayd
to
Alixandrie
we
ben
not
deynseyns
in
the
world
but
straungers
/
ner
we
ben
not
born
in
the
world
for
to
dwell
and
abyde
allway
therin
/
but
for
to
goo
and
passe
thurgh
hit
/
we
haue
doon
noon
euyll
dede
/
but
that
it
is
worthy
to
be
punysshid
and
we
to
suffre
payne
therfore
And
than
we
may
goon
with
opon
face
and
good
conscience
And
so
may
we
goo
lightly
and
appertly
the
waye
that
we
hope
and
purpose
to
goo
This
suffiseth
as
for
the
Alphyns
.
¶
The
fourth
chapitre
of
the
seconde
book
treteth
of
the
ordre
of
cheualerye
and
knyghthode
and
of
her
offices
and
maners
.
THe
knyght
ought
to
be
made
alle
armed
vpon
an
hors
in
suche
wyse
that
he
haue
an
helme
on
his
heed
and
a
spere
in
his
ryght
hande
/
and
coueryd
wyth
his
sheld
/
a
swerde
and
a
mace
on
his
lyft
syde
/
Cladd
wyth
an
hawberk
and
plates
to
fore
his
brest●
/
legge
harnoys
on
his
legges
/
Spores
on
his
heelis
on
his
handes
his
gauntelettes
/
his
hors
well
broken
and
taught
and
apte
to
bataylle
and
couerid
with
his
armes
/
whan
the
knyghtes
ben
maad
they
ben
bayned
or
bathed
/
that
is
the
signe
that
they
shold
lede
a
newe
lyf
and
newe
maners
/
also
they
wake
alle
the
nyght
in
prayers
and
orysons
vnto
god
that
he
wylle
gyue
hem
grace
that
they
may
gete
that
thynge
that
they
may
not
gete
by
nature
/
The
kynge
or
prynce
gyrdeth
a
boute
them
a
swerde
in
signe
/
that
they
shold
abyde
and
kepe
hym
of
whom
they
take
theyr
dispenses
and
dignyte
.
Also
a
knyght
ought
to
be
wise
.
liberall
.
trewe
.
stronge
and
full
of
mercy
and
pite
and
kepar
of
the
peple
and
of
the
lawe
/
And
ryght
as
cheualrye
passeth
other
in
vertu
in
dignite
in
honour
and
in
reuerece
/
right
so
ought
he
to
surmounte
alle
other
in
vertu
/
For
honour
is
no
thing
ellis
but
to
do
reuerece
to
an
other
persone
for
the
good
&
vertuous
disposicion
that
is
in
hym
/
A
noble
knyght
ought
to
be
wyse
and
preuyd
to fore
he
be
made
knyght
/
hit
behoued
hym
that
he
had
longe
tyme
vsid
the
warre
and
armes
/
that
he
may
be
expert
and
wyse
for
to
gouerne
the
other
For
syn
that
a
knyght
is
capitayn
of
a
batayll
The
lyf
of
them
that
shall
be
vnder
hym
lyeth
in
his
hand
And
therfore
behoueth
hym
to
be
wyse
and
well
aduysed
/
for
some
tyme
〈…〉
and
engyue
is
more
worth
than
strengthe
or
hardynes
of
a
man
that
is
not
proued
in
Armes
/
For
otherwhyle
hit
happeth
that
whan
the
prynce
of
the
batayll
affieth
and
trusteth
in
his
hardynes
and
strength
And
wole
not
vse
wysedom
and
engyne
for
to
renne
vpon
his
enemyes
/
he
is
vaynquysshid
and
his
peple
slayn
/
Therfore
saith
the
philosopher
that
no
man
shold
chese
yong
peple
to
be
captayns
&
gouernours
For
as
moche
as
ther
is
no
certainte
in
her
wysedom
.
Alexandre
of
macedone
vaynquysshid
and
conquerid
Egypte
Iude
Caldee
Affricque
/
and
Assirye
vnto
the
marches
of
bragmans
more
by
the
counceyll
of
olde
men
than
by
the
strength
of
the
yong
men
/
we
rede
in
the
historye
of
rome
that
ther
was
a
knyght
whiche
had
to
name
malechete
that
was
so
wyse
and
trewe
that
whan
the
Emperour
Theodosius
was
dede
/
he
made
mortall
warre
ayenst
his
broder
germain
whiche
was
named
Gildo
or
Guye
For
as
moche
as
this
said
guye
wold
be
lorde
of
affricque
with
oute
leue
and
wyll
of
the
senatours
.
And
this
sayd
guye
had
slayn
the
two
sones
of
his
broder
malechete
/
And
dide
moche
torment
vnto
the
cristen
peple
And
afore
that
he
shold
come
in
to
the
felde
ayenst
his
broder
Emyon
/
he
wente
in
to
an
yle
of
capayre
And
ladde
with
hym
alle
the
cristen
men
that
had
ben
sente
theder
in
Exyle
And
made
hem
alle
to
praye
wyth
hym
by
the
space
of
thre
dayes
&
thre
nyghtis
/
For
he
had
grete
truste
in
the
prayers
of
good
folk
/
&
specially
that
noman
myght
counceyll
ne
helpe
but
god
/
and
.iii.
dayes
to fore
he
shold
fight
say●●
Ambrose
whiche
was
ded
a
lityl
to fore
apperid
to
hym
/
and
shewde
hym
by
reuelacion
the
tyme
&
our
that
he
shold
haue
victorie
/
and
for
as
moche
as
he
had
ben
.iii.
dayes
and
.iii.
nyghtes
in
his
prayers
&
that
he
was
assewrid
for
to
haue
victorie
/
He
faught
with
.v.
thousand
men
ayenst
his
broder
that
had
in
his
companye
.xxiiii.
thousand
men
And
by
goddes
helpe
he
had
victorie
And
whan
the
barbaryns
that
were
comen
to
helpe
guion
sawe
the
disconfiture
they
fledde
away
/
and
guion
fledd
also
in
to
affricque
by
shipp
/
and
whan
he
was
ther
arryued
he
was
sone
after
stranglid
/
These
.ii.
knyghtes
of
whom
I
speke
were
two
birdern
germayns
/
whiche
were
sent
to
affricque
for
to
defende
the
comyn
weele
/
In
likewise
Iudas
machabeus
Ionathas
&
symon
his
bredern
put
hem
self
in
the
mercy
and
garde
of
our
lord
god
And
agayn
the
enemyes
of
the
lawe
of
god
with
lityll
peple
in
regard
of
the
multitude
that
were
agayn
them
/
and
had
also
victorye
/
The
knights
ought
to
ben
trewe
to
theyr
princes
/
for
he
that
is
not
trewe
leseth
the
name
of
a
knight
Vnto
a
prince
trouth
is
the
grettest
precious
stone
whan
it
is
medlid
with
Iustice
/
Paule
the
historiagraph
of
the
lombardes
reherceth
that
ther
was
a
knight
named
enulphus
and
was
of
the
cyte
of
papye
that
was
so
trewe
to
his
kynge
named
patharich
/
that
he
put
hym
in
parill
of
deth
for
hym
/
For
hit
happend
that
Grymald
Duc
of
buuentayns
of
whom
we
haue
touched
to fore
in
the
chapitre
of
the
Quene
/
Dyde
do
shee
Godebert
whiche
was
kynge
of
the
lombardes
by
the
hande
of
Goribert
duc
of
Tauryn
/
whiche
was
discended
of
the
crowne
of
lombardis
And
this
grimald
was
maad
▪
kynge
of
lombardis
in
his
place
/
and
after
this
put
&
bannysshid
out
of
the
contrey
this
patharych
whiche
was
broder
vnto
the
kynge
Godebert
/
that
for
fere
and
drede
fledd
in
to
hongrye
/
And
than
this
knyght
Enulphus
dide
so
moche
that
he
gate
the
peas
agayn
of
his
lord
patharich
agaynst
the
kynge
grymalde
/
and
that
he
had
licence
to
come
out
of
hongrye
where
he
was
allwey
in
paryll
.
and
so
he
cam
and
cryed
hym
mercy
And
the
kynge
grymalde
gaf
hym
leue
to
dwelle
and
to
lyue
honestly
in
his
contree
/
allway
forseen
that
he
toke
not
vpon
hym
and
named
hym self
kynge
how
well
he
was
kynge
by
right
This
doon
a
litill
while
after
/
the
kynge
that
beleuyd
euyll
tonges
/
thought
in
hym self
how
he
myght
brynge
this
patharich
vnto
the
deth
And
alle
this
knewe
well
the
knyght
enulphus
/
whiche
cam
the
same
nyght
with
his
squyer
for
to
visite
his
lord
And
made
his
squyer
to
vnclothe
hym
&
to
lye
in
the
bedde
of
his
lord
And
made
his
lord
to
ryse
and
clothe
hym
wyth
the
clothis
of
his
squyer
/
And
in
this
wyse
brought
hym
oute
/
brawlynge
and
betynge
hym
as
his
seruant
by
them
that
were
assigned
to
kepe
the
hows
of
patharik
that
he
shold
not
escape
Whiche
supposid
that
hit
had
ben
his
squyer
that
he
entretid
so
outragiously
/
&
so
he
brought
hym
to
his
hous
whiche
Ioyned
with
the
walles
of
the
toun
/
And
at
mydnyght
whan
alle
men
were
a
sleepe
/
he
lete
adoun
his
maistre
by
a
corde
/
whiche
toke
an
hors
oute
of
the
pasture
And
fled
vnto
the
cyte
of
Aast
and
ther
cam
to
the
kynge
of
fraunce
/
And
whan
hit
cam
vnto
the
morn
.
Hit
was
founden
that
Arnolphus
and
his
squyer
had
dereyuyd
the
kynge
and
the
wacchemen
/
whom
the
kyng
comanded
shold
be
brought
to
fore
hym
And
demanded
of
them
the
maner
how
he
was
escaped
And
they
told
hym
the
trouthe
/
Than
the
kynge
demanded
his
counceyll
of
what
deth
they
had
deseruyd
to
dye
that
had
so
doon
and
wrought
agayn
the
wylle
of
hym
/
Some
sayde
that
they
shold
ben
honged
/
and
some
sayd
they
shold
ben
flayn
And
other
sayd
that
they
shold
be
beheedid
.
Than
sayd
the
kynge
by
that
lord
that
made
me
/
they
ben
not
worthy
to
dye
/
but
for
to
haue
moche
worship
and
honour
/
For
they
haue
ben
trewe
to
theyr
lord
/
wherfore
〈◊〉
kinge
gaf
hem
a
grete
lawde
and
honour
for
their
seet
And
after
hit
happend
that
the
propre
squyer
and
seruant
of
godeberd
slewe
the
traytre
Goribalde
that
by
〈◊〉
had
slayn
his
lord
at
a
feste
of
seynt
Iohn
in
his
〈◊〉
of
Tauryn
wherof
he
was
lord
and
duc
/
Thus
ought
the
knyghtes
to
loue
to
gyder
/
And
eche
to
put
his
lyf
in
auenture
for
other
/
For
so
ben
they
the
strenger
And
the
more
doubted
/
Lyke
as
were
the
noble
knyghtes
Ioab
and
Abysay
that
fought
agaynst
the
syryens
and
Amonytes
/
And
were
so
trewe
that
oon
to
that
other
that
they
vaynquysshid
theyr
enemies
And
were
so
Ioyned
to
gyder
that
yf
the
siryens
were
strenger
than
that
one
of
them
/
that
other
helpe
hym
/
we
rede
that
damon
and
phisias
were
so
ryght
parfyt
frendes
to
gyder
that
whan
Dionisius
whiche
was
kynge
of
cecylle
had
Iuged
one
to
deth
for
his
trespaas
in
the
cyte
of
syracusane
whom
he
wold
haue
executed
/
he
desired
grace
and
leue
to
goo
in
to
hys
contre
for
to
dispose
and
ordonne
his
testament
/
And
his
felawe
pleggid
hym
and
was
sewrte
for
hym
vpon
his
heed
that
he
shold
come
agayn
.
Wherof
they
that
sawe
&
herd
this
/
helde
hym
for
a
fool
and
blamed
hym
/
And
he
said
allway
that
he
repentid
hym
nothynge
at
all
/
For
he
knewe
well
the
trouth
of
his
felawe
And
whan
the
day
cam
and
the
oure
that
execusion
shold
be
doon
/
his
felawe
cam
and
presented
hym self
to
fore
the
Iuge
/
And
dischargid
his
felawe
that
was
plegge
for
hym
/
wherof
the
kynge
was
gretly
abasshid
And
for
the
grete
trouthe
that
was
founden
in
hym
He
pardonyd
hym
and
prayd
hem
bothe
that
they
wold
resseyue
hym
as
their
grete
frende
and
felawe
/
Lo
here
the
vertues
of
loue
that
a
man
ought
nought
to
doubte
the
deth
for
his
frende
/
Lo
what
it
is
to
doo
for
a
frende
/
And
to
lede
a
lyf
debonayr
And
to
be
wyth
out
cruelte
/
to
loue
and
not
to
hate
/
whiche
causeth
to
doo
good
ayenst
euyll
And
to
torne
payne
in
to
benefete
and
to
quenche
cruelte
Anthonyus
sayth
that
Iulius
Cesar
/
lefte
not
lightly
frenshippe
and
Amytye
/
But
whan
he
had
hit
he
reteyned
hit
faste
and
mayteyned
hit
alleway
/
Scipion
of
Affricque
sayth
that
ther
is
no
thynge
so
stronge
/
as
for
to
mayntene
loue
vnto
the
deth
The
loue
of
concupiscence
and
of
lecherye
is
sone
dissoluyd
and
broken
/
But
the
verray
true
loue
of
the
comyn
wele
and
prouffit
now
a
dayes
is
selde
founden
/
where
shall
thou
fynde
a
man
in
thyse
dayes
that
wyll
expose
hym self
for
the
worshippe
and
honour
of
his
frende
/
or
for
the
comyn
wele
/
selde
or
neuer
shall
he
be
founden
/
Also
the
knyghtes
shold
be
large
&
liberall
For
whan
a
knyght
hath
regarde
vnto
his
singuler
prouffit
by
his
couetyse
/
he
dispoylleth
his
peple
For
whan
the
souldyours
see
that
they
putte
hem
in
paryll
.
And
theyr
mayster
wyll
not
paye
hem
theyr
wages
liberally
/
but
entendeth
to
his
owne
propre
gayn
and
prouffyt
/
than
whan
the
Enemyes
come
they
torne
sone
her
backes
and
flee
oftentymes
/
And
thus
hit
happeth
by
hym
that
entendeth
more
to
gete
money
than
victorye
that
his
auaryce
is
ofte
tymes
cause
of
his
confusion
Than
late
euery
knyght
take
heede
to
be
liberall
in
suche
wyse
that
he
wene
not
ne
suppose
that
his
scarcete
be
to
hym
a
grete
wynnynge
or
gayn
/
And
for
thys
cause
he
be
the
lasse
louyd
of
his
peple
/
And
that
his
aduersarye
wythdrawe
to
hym
them
by
large
gyuynge
/
For
ofte
tyme
bataylle
is
auaunced
more
for
getynge
of
siluer
.
Than
by
the
force
and
strengthe
of
men
/
For
men
see
all●
daye
that
suche
thynges
as
may
not
be
achieuyd
by
force
of
nature
/
ben
goten
and
achieuyd
by
force
of
money
/
And
for
so
moche
hit
behoueth
to
see
well
〈◊〉
that
whan
the
tyme
of
the
bataylle
cometh
/
that
he
borowe
not
ne
make
no
t●yllage
/
For
noman
may
be
ryche
that
leuyth
his
owne
/
hopyng
to
gete
and
take
of
other
/
Than
allwaye
all
her
gayn
and
wynnynge
ought
to
be
comyn
amonge
them
exept
theyr
Armes
.
For
in
lyke
wyse
as
the
victorie
is
comune
/
so
shold
the
dispoyll
and
lotye
be
comune
vnto
them
And
therfore
Dauid
that
gentyll
knyght
in
the
fyrst
book
of
kynges
in
the
last
chapitre
made
a
lawe
/
that
he
that
abode
behynde
by
maladye
or
sekenes
in
the
tentes
shold
haue
as
moche
parte
of
the
butyn
as
he
that
had
be
in
the
bataylle
/
And
for
the
loue
of
thys
lawe
he
was
made
afterward
kynge
of
Israell
/
Alexander
of
Macedone
cam
on
a
tyme
lyke
a
symple
knyght
vnto
the
court
of
Porus
kynge
of
Iude
for
to
espye
the
state
of
the
kynge
and
of
the
knyghtes
of
the
court
/
And
the
kynge
resseyuyd
hym
ryght
worshipfully
/
And
demanded
of
hym
many
thynges
of
Alexander
and
of
his
constance
and
strengthe
/
nothynge
wenynge
that
he
had
ben
Alexander
But
antygone
one
of
his
knyghtis
and
after
he
had
hym
to
dyner
And
whan
they
had
seruyd
Alexander
in
vayssell
of
gold
and
siluer
with
dyuerce
metes
etc
After
that
he
had
eten
suche
as
plesid
hym
he
wyded
the
mete
and
toke
the
vayssell
and
helde
hit
to
hym self
and
put
hit
in
his
bosom
or
sleuys
/
wherof
he
was
accusid
vnto
the
kynge
After
dyner
than
the
kynge
callid
hym
and
demanded
hym
wherfore
he
had
taken
his
vayssell
And
he
answerd
/
Syre
kynge
my
lord
I
pray
the
to
vnderstande
and
take
heede
thy self
and
also
thy
knyghtes
/
I
haue
herd
moche
of
thy
grete
hyenes
And
that
thou
art
more
myghty
and
puyssant
in
cheualrye
&
in
dispensis
than
is
Alexander
/
and
therfore
I
am
come
to
the
a
pour
knyght
whiche
am
named
Antygone
for
to
serue
the
/
Than
hit
is
the
custome
in
the
Courte
of
Alexandre
/
that
what
thynge
a
knyght
is
seruyd
wyth
all
is
alle
his
/
mete
and
vayssell
and
cuppe
And
therfore
I
had
supposid
that
this
custome
had
ben
kept
in
thy
court
for
thou
art
richer
than
he
/
whan
the
knyghtes
herd
this
/
anon
they
lefte
porus
/
and
wente
for
to
serue
alixandre
/
and
thus
he
drewe
to
hym
the
hertes
of
them
by
yeftes
/
whiche
afterward
slewe
Porus
that
was
kynge
of
Iude
/
And
they
made
Alexandre
kynge
therof
Therfore
remembre
knyght
alleway
that
wyth
a
closid
and
shette
purse
shalt
thou
neuer
haue
victorye
.
Ouyde
sayth
that
he
that
taketh
yeftes
/
he
is
glad
therwyth
/
For
they
wynne
wyth
yeftes
the
hertes
of
the
goddes
and
of
men
For
yf
Iupiter
were
angrid
/
wyth
yeftes
he
wold
be
plesid
/
The
knyghtes
ought
to
be
stronge
not
only
of
body
but
also
in
corage
.
Ther
ben
many
stronge
and
grete
of
body
/
that
ben
faynt
and
feble
in
the
herte
/
he
is
stronge
that
may
not
be
vaynquysshid
and
ouercomen
/
how
well
that
he
suffryth
moche
otherwhile
/
And
so
we
beleue
that
they
that
be
not
ouer
grete
ne
ouer
lityll
ben
most
corageous
&
beste
in
batayll
.
We
rede
that
cadrus
duc
of
athenes
shold
haue
a
batayll
agayn
them
of
polipe
/
And
he
was
warned
and
had
a
reuelacion
of
the
goddes
/
that
they
shold
haue
the
victorie
of
whom
the
prynce
shold
be
slayn
in
the
batayll
/
And
the
pr●nce
whiche
was
of
a
grete
corage
and
trewe
herte
●oke
other
armes
of
a
poure
man
/
And
put
hym self
in
the
fronte
of
the
batayll
to
th
ende
that
he
might
be
slain
And
so
he
was
/
for
the
right
trewe
prince
had
leuer
dye
Than
his
peple
shold
be
ouercomen
/
And
so
they
had
the
victorye
/
Certes
hyt
was
a
noble
and
fayr
thynge
to
expose
hym self
to
the
deth
for
to
deffende
his
contrey
.
But
no
man
wold
doo
so
/
but
yf
he
hopyd
to
haue
a
better
thynge
therfore
/
Therfore
the
lawe
sayth
that
they
lyue
in
her
sowles
gloriously
that
ben
slain
in
the
warre
for
the
comyn
wele
/
A
knyght
ought
also
to
be
mercifull
and
pyetous
For
ther
is
nothynge
that
maketh
a
knyght
so
renomed
as
is
whan
he
sauyth
the
lyf
of
them
that
he
may
slee
/
For
to
shede
and
spylle
blood
is
the
condicion
of
a
wylde
beste
and
not
the
condicion
of
a
good
knyght
Therfore
we
rede
that
scylla
that
was
Duc
of
the
Romayns
wyth
oute
had
many
fayr
victoyres
agaynst
the
Romayns
wyth
Iune
that
were
contrayre
to
hym
/
In
so
moche
that
in
the
batayll
of
puylle
he
slewe
.xviii.
thousand
men
/
And
in
champanye
.lxx.
thousand
.
And
after
in
the
cyte
he
slewe
thre
thousand
men
vnarmed
And
whan
one
of
his
knyghtes
that
was
named
Quyntus
catulus
sawe
this
cruelte
sayd
to
hym
/
Sesse
now
and
suffre
them
to
lyue
and
be
mercyfull
to
them
wyth
whom
we
haue
ben
victorious
And
wyth
whom
we
ought
to
lyue
/
For
hit
is
the
moste
hyeft
and
fayr
vengeance
that
a
man
may
doo
/
as
to
spare
them
&
gyue
hem
her
lyf
whome
he
may
slee
Therfore
Ioab
ordeyned
whan
absalon
was
slayn
/
he
sowned
a
trompette
/
that
his
peple
shold
no
more
renne
&
slee
theyr
aduersaryes
.
For
ther
were
slayn
aboute
.xx.
thousand
of
them
/
and
in
lyke
wyse
dide
he
whan
he
faught
ayenst
Abner
And
Abner
was
vaynquysshid
and
fledde
For
where
that
he
wente
in
the
chaas
he
comanded
to
spare
the
peple
The
knyghtes
ought
to
kepe
the
peple
/
For
whan
the
peple
ben
in
theyr
tentes
or
castellis
/
the
knyghtes
ought
to
kepe
the
wacche
/
For
this
cause
the
romayns
callyd
them
legyons
And
they
were
made
of
dyuerce
prouynces
and
of
dyuerce
nacyons
to
th
entente
to
kepe
the
peple
/
And
the
peple
shold
entende
to
theyr
werke
/
For
no
crafty
man
may
bothe
entende
to
his
craft
&
to
fighte
how
may
a
crafty
man
entende
to
hys
werke
sewrely
in
tyme
of
warre
but
yf
he
be
kept
And
right
in
suche
wyse
as
the
knyghtes
shold
kepe
the
peple
in
tyme
of
peas
in
lyke
wise
the
peple
ought
to
pourveye
for
theyr
dispensis
/
how
shold
a
plowman
be
sewre
in
the
felde
/
but
yf
the
knyghtes
made
dayly
wacche
to
kepe
hem
For
lyke
as
the
glorye
of
a
kynge
is
vpon
his
knyghtis
/
so
hit
is
necessarye
to
the
knyghtes
that
the
marchantis
craftymen
and
comyn
peple
be
defended
and
kepte
/
therfore
late
the
knyghtes
kepe
the
peple
in
suche
wyse
that
they
maye
enioye
pees
and
gete
and
gadre
the
cos●is
and
expensis
of
them
bothe
/
we
rede
that
Athis
sayd
to
dauid
whiche
was
a
knyght
/
I
make
the
my
kepar
and
defendar
alleway
.
Thus
shold
the
knightes
haue
grete
zele
that
the
lawe
be
kept
/
For
the
mageste
ryall
ought
not
only
to
be
garnysshid
wyth
armes
but
also
wyth
good
lawes
/
And
therfore
shold
they
laboure
that
they
shold
be
well
kept
Turgeus
pompeyus
reherceth
of
a
noble
knyght
named
Ligurgyus
that
had
made
auncyent
lawes
the
whiche
the
peple
wold
not
kepe
ne
obserue
/
For
they
semed
hard
for
them
to
kepe
And
wold
constrayne
hym
to
rapele
&
sette
hem
a
part
whan
the
noble
knight
sawe
that
He
dyde
the
peple
to
vnderstande
that
he
had
not
made
them
but
a
god
that
was
named
Apollo
delphynus
had
made
them
/
And
had
comanded
hym
that
he
shold
do
the
peple
kepe
them
/
Thise
wordes
auayled
not
/
they
wold
in
no
wyse
kepe
them
/
And
than
he
sayd
to
them
that
hit
were
good
that
er
the
said
lawes
shold
be
broken
that
he
had
gyuen
to
them
.
that
he
shold
goo
and
speke
wyth
the
god
Appollo
/
For
to
gete
of
hym
a
dispensacion
to
breke
hem
/
And
that
the
peple
shold
kepe
&
obserue
them
tyll
that
he
retorned
agayn
/
The
peple
acorded
therto
&
swore
that
they
shold
kepe
them
to
the
tyme
he
retorned
Than
the
knight
wente
in
to
grece
in
exyle
&
dwellid
ther
alle
his
lyf
/
And
whan
he
shold
dye
he
comanded
that
his
body
shold
be
cast
in
the
see
/
For
as
moche
as
yf
his
body
shold
be
born
theder
/
the
peple
shold
wene
to
be
quyt
of
theyr
oth
/
And
shold
kepe
no
lenger
his
lawes
that
were
so
good
&
resonable
/
&
so
the
knight
had
leuer
to
forsake
his
owne
contre
&
to
dye
so
than
to
repele
his
lawes
And
his
lawes
were
suche
/
The
first
lawe
was
that
the
peple
shold
obeye
&
serue
the
princes
/
And
the
princes
shold
kepe
the
peple
&
do
Iustice
on
the
malefactours
The
second
lawe
that
they
shold
be
all
sobre
/
For
he
wiste
well
that
the
labour
of
cheualrye
is
most
stronge
whan
they
lyue
sobrely
/
The
thirde
was
the
noman
shold
bye
ony
thynge
for
money
but
they
shold
change
ware
for
ware
&
one
marchandyse
for
an
other
/
The
fourthe
was
that
men
shold
sette
nomore
by
money
ner
kepe
hit
more
than
they
wold
donge
or
fylthe
/
The
fyfthe
he
ordeyned
for
the
comyn
wele
alle
thynge
by
ordre
/
that
the
prynces
myght
meue
and
make
bataylle
by
her
power
.
to
the
maistres
counceillours
he
comysid
the
Iugementis
.
And
the
Annuell
rentes
/
to
the
senatours
the
kepynge
of
the
lawe
/
And
to
the
comyn
peple
he
gaf
power
to
chese
suche
Iuges
as
they
wold
haue
/
The
sixte
he
ordeyned
that
all
thinge
shold
be
departid
egally
&
all
thinge
shold
be
comyn
And
none
richer
than
other
in
patrymonye
/
The
seuenth
that
euery
man
shold
ete
lyke
well
in
comen
openly
/
that
riches
shold
not
be
cause
of
luxurye
whan
they
ete
secretly
/
The
eygthe
that
the
yonge
peple
shold
not
haue
but
one
gowne
or
garment
in
the
yere
/
The
nynth
that
men
shold
sette
poure
children
to
laboure
in
the
felde
/
to
th
ende
that
they
shold
not
enploye
theyr
yongthe
in
playes
and
in
folye
/
but
in
labour
/
The
tenthe
that
the
maydens
shold
be
maryed
wythoute
dowayre
/
In
suche
wyse
that
no
man
shold
take
a
wyf
for
moneye
/
The
xi
.
that
men
shold
rather
take
a
wyf
for
her
good
maners
and
vertues
than
for
her
richesses
/
The
twelfthe
that
men
shold
worshippe
the
olde
and
auncyent
men
for
theyr
age
and
more
for
theyr
wysedom
than
for
her
riches
this
knyght
made
none
of
thyse
lawes
/
but
he
first
kepte
hem
.
The
fyfthe
chapitre
of
the
second
book
of
the
forme
and
maners
of
the
rooks
.
THe
rooks
whiche
ben
vicaires
and
legats
of
the
kynge
ought
to
be
made
lyke
a
knyght
vpon
an
hors
and
a
mantell
and
hood
furryd
with
meneuyer
holdynge
a
staf
in
his
hande
/
&
for
as
moche
as
a
kyng
m●y
not
be
in
alle
places
of
his
royame
/
Therfore
the
auctorite
of
hym
is
gyuen
to
the
rooks
/
whiche
represent
the
kynge
/
And
for
as
moche
as
a
royame
is
grete
and
large
/
and
that
rebellion
or
nouelletes
might
sourdre
and
aryse
in
oon
partye
or
other
/
therfore
ther
ben
two
rooks
one
on
the
right
side
and
that
other
on
the
lifte
side
They
ought
to
haue
in
hem
.
pyte
.
Iustice
.
humylite
.
wilfull
pouerte
and
liberalite
/
Fyrst
Iustice
for
hit
is
most
fayr
of
the
vertues
/
For
hit
happeth
oftetyme
that
the
ministris
by
theyr
pryde
and
orgueyll
subuerte
Iustice
and
do
no
ryght
/
Wherfore
the
kynges
otherwhile
lose
theyr
royames
with
out
theyr
culpe
or
gylte
/
For
an
vntrewe
Iuge
or
of●●cyer
maketh
hys
lord
to
be
named
vnIuste
and
euyll
▪
And
contrarye
wyse
a
trewe
mynestre
of
the
lawe
and
ryghtwys
/
causeth
the
kynge
to
be
reputed
Iuste
and
trewe
/
The
Romayns
therfore
made
good
lawes
/
And
wolde
that
/
that
they
sholde
be
Iuste
and
trewe
/
And
they
that
establisshid
them
for
to
gouerne
the
peple
wold
in
no
wyse
breke
them
/
but
kepe
them
for
to
dye
for
them
/
For
the
auncyent
and
wyse
men
sayd
comynly
that
it
was
not
good
to
make
and
ordeygne
that
lawe
that
is
not
Iuste
Wherof
Valerius
reherceth
that
ther
was
a
man
that
was
named
Themistides
whiche
cam
to
the
counceyllours
of
athenes
and
sayd
that
he
knewe
a
counceyll
whiche
was
ryght
prouffytable
for
them
/
But
he
wolde
telle
hyt
but
to
but
to
one
of
them
whom
that
they
wold
/
And
they
assigned
to
hym
a
wyse
man
named
Aristides
/
And
whan
he
had
vnderstand
hym
he
cam
agayn
to
the
other
of
the
counceyll
And
sayd
that
the
counceyll
of
Themystides
was
well
prouffitable
/
but
hit
was
not
Iuste
/
how
be
hit
ye
may
reuolue
hit
in
your
mynde
/
And
the
counceyll
that
he
sayd
was
this
/
that
ther
were
comen
two
grete
shipp
is
fro
lacedome
and
were
arryued
in
theyr
londe
.
And
that
hit
were
good
to
take
them
/
And
whan
the
counceyll
herde
hym
that
sayde
/
that
hit
was
not
Iuste
ner
right
/
they
lefte
hem
alle
in
pees
And
wold
not
haue
adoo
with
alle
/
The
vicarye
or
Iuge
of
the
kynge
ought
to
be
so
Iuste
/
that
he
shold
enploye
alle
his
entente
to
saue
the
comyn
wele
And
yf
hit
were
nede
to
put
his
lyf
and
/
lose
hit
therfore
/
we
haue
an
ensample
of
marcus
regulus
wherof
Tullius
reherceth
in
the
book
of
offices
And
saynt
Augustyn
also
de
ciuitate
dei
how
he
faught
agayn
them
of
cartage
by
see
in
shippis
and
was
vaynquysshid
and
taken
/
Than
hit
happend
that
they
of
cartage
sente
hym
in
her
message
to
rome
for
to
haue
theyr
prisoners
there
/
for
them
that
were
taken
/
and
so
to
chaunge
one
for
an
other
And
made
hym
swere
and
promyse
to
come
agayn
/
And
so
he
cam
to
rome
And
made
proposicion
to
fore
the
senate
And
demanded
them
of
cartage
of
the
senatours
to
be
chaunged
as
afore
is
sayd
And
than
the
senatours
demanded
hym
what
counceyll
he
gaf
Certayn
sayd
he
I
counceyll
yow
that
ye
do
hit
not
in
no
wise
For
as
moche
as
the
peple
of
rome
that
they
of
cartage
holde
in
prison
of
youris
ben
olde
men
and
brusid
in
the
warre
as
I
am
my self
/
But
they
that
ye
holde
in
prison
of
their
peple
is
alle
the
flour
of
alle
their
folke
/
whiche
counceyll
they
toke
/
And
than
his
frendes
wolde
haue
holde
hym
and
counceyllyd
hym
to
abide
there
and
not
retorne
agayn
prysoner
in
to
cartage
/
but
he
wold
neuer
doo
so
ner
abide
/
but
wold
goo
agayn
and
kepe
his
oth
How
well
that
he
knewe
that
he
wente
toward
his
deth
For
he
had
leuyr
dye
than
to
breke
his
oth
Valerius
reherceth
in
the
sixth
book
of
one
Emelye
duc
of
the
romayns
/
that
in
the
tyme
whan
he
had
assieged
the
phalistes
/
The
scole
maystre
of
the
children
deceyuyd
the
children
of
the
gentilmen
that
he
drewe
hym
a
lityll
and
a
lytyll
vnto
the
tentys
of
the
romayns
by
fayr
speche
.
And
sayd
to
the
duc
Emelie
/
that
by
the
moyan
of
the
children
that
he
had
brought
to
hym
/
he
shold
haue
the
cyte
/
For
theyr
faders
were
lordes
and
gouernours
.
Whan
Emelie
had
herde
hym
he
sayd
thus
to
hym
Thou
that
art
euyll
and
cruell
And
thou
that
woldest
gyue
a
gyfte
of
grete
felonnye
and
of
ma●●astye
/
thou
shalt
ner
hast
not
founden
here
Duc
ne
peple
that
resembleth
the
/
we
haue
also
well
lawes
to
kepe
in
batayll
&
warre
A●
in
our
contres
&
other
places
/
and
we
wole
obserue
and
kepe
them
vnto
euery
man
as
they
ought
to
be
kept
And
we
ben
armed
agaynst
our
enemyes
that
wole
defende
them
And
not
ayenst
them
that
can
not
saue
their
lyf
whan
their
contre
is
taken
/
as
thise
lityll
children
/
Thou
hast
vaynquysshid
them
as
moche
as
is
in
the
by
thy
newe
decey●able
falsenes
and
by
subtilnes
and
not
by
armes
/
but
I
that
am
a
romayn
shall
vainquysshe
them
by
craft
and
strengthe
of
armes
/
And
anon
he
comanded
to
take
the
said
scole
maister
/
And
to
bynde
his
handes
behynde
hym
as
a
traytour
and
lede
hem
to
the
parentis
of
the
children
And
whan
the
faders
&
parentis
sawe
the
grete
courtosie
that
he
had
don
to
them
They
opend
the
yates
and
yelded
them
vnto
hym
/
we
rede
that
hanyball
had
taken
a
prince
of
rome
whiche
vpon
his
oth
and
promyse
suffrid
hym
to
gon
home
/
and
to
sende
hym
his
raunson
/
or
he
shold
come
agayn
within
a
certain
tyme
And
whan
he
was
at
home
in
his
place
/
he
sayde
that
he
had
deceyuyd
hym
by
a
false
oth
And
whan
the
senatours
knewe
therof
/
they
constrayned
hym
to
retorne
agayn
vnto
hanyball
/
Amosflorus
tellyth
that
the
phisicien
of
kynge
pirrus
cam
on
a
nyght
to
fabrice
his
aduersarye
And
promysid
hym
yf
he
wold
gyue
hym
for
his
laboure
that
he
wold
enpoysone
pirrus
his
maister
/
whan
fabricius
vnderstode
this
He
dyde
to
take
hym
and
bynde
hym
hande
&
foote
/
and
sente
hym
to
his
maistre
and
dyde
do
saye
to
hym
word
for
worde
lyke
as
the
phisicien
had
sayd
and
promysid
hym
to
doo
/
And
whan
pirrus
vnderstode
this
he
was
gretly
ameruaylled
of
the
loyalte
and
trouth
of
fabrice
his
enemye
/
and
sayd
certaynly
that
the
sonne
myghte
lighther
and
sonner
be
enpesshid
of
his
cours
/
than
fabrice
shold
be
letted
to
holde
loyalte
and
trouthe
/
yf
they
than
that
were
not
cristen
were
so
Iuste
and
trewe
and
●
louyd
their
contrey
and
their
good
renomee
/
what
shold
we
now
doon
than
that
ben
cristen
and
that
oure
lawe
is
sette
alle
vpon
loue
and
charyte
/
But
now
a
dayes
ther
is
nothynge
ellys
in
the
world
but
barate
Treson
deceyte
falsenes
and
trecherye
Men
kepe
not
theyr
couenantes
promyses
.
othes
.
writynges
.
ne
trouthe
/
The
subgettis
rebelle
agayn
theyr
lorde
/
ther
is
now
no
lawe
kepte
.
nor
fidelite
/
ne
oth
holden
/
the
peple
murmure
and
ryse
agayn
theyr
lord
and
wole
not
be
subget
/
they
ought
to
be
pi●tous
in
herte
/
whiche
is
auaillable
to
all
thinge
ther
is
pite
in
effecte
by
compassion
/
and
in
worde
by
remission
and
pardon
/
by
almesse
/
for
to
enclyne
hym self
to
the
poure
.
For
pite
Is
nothynge
ellis
but
a
right
grete
will
of
a
debonaire
herte
for
to
helpe
alle
men
/
Valerius
reherceth
that
ther
was
a
Iuge
named
sangis
whiche
dampned
a
woman
that
had
deseruyd
the
deth
for
to
haue
her
heed
smyten
of
or
ellis
that
she
shold
dye
in
prison
/
The
Geayler
that
had
pite
on
the
woman
put
not
her
anone
to
deth
but
put
her
in
the
pryson
/
And
this
woman
had
a
doughter
whiche
cam
for
to
se
and
conforte
her
moder
But
allway
er
she
entryd
in
to
the
pryson
the
Iayler
serchid
her
that
she
shold
bere
no
mete
ne
drynke
to
her
moder
/
but
that
she
shold
dye
for
honger
/
Than
hit
happend
after
this
that
he
meruaylled
moche
why
this
woman
deyd
not
/
And
began
to
espye
the
cause
why
she
lyuyd
so
longe
/
And
fonde
at
laste
how
her
doughter
gaf
souke
to
her
moder
/
And
fedde
her
with
her
melke
.
whan
the
Iayler
sawe
this
meruaill
/
he
wente
&
told
the
Iuge
/
And
whan
the
Iuge
sawe
this
grete
pite
of
the
doughter
to
the
moder
he
pardoned
her
and
made
her
to
be
delyuerid
oute
of
her
pryson
what
is
that
/
that
pite
ne
amolisshith
/
moche
peple
wene
that
it
is
agaynst
nature
and
wondre
that
the
doughter
shold
gyue
the
moder
to
souke
/
hit
were
agayn
nature
but
the
children
shold
be
kynde
to
fader
and
moder
/
Se●●ca
sayth
that
the
kynge
of
bees
hath
no
prykke
to
stynge
with
as
other
bees
haue
.
And
that
nature
hath
take
hit
away
from
hym
be
cause
he
shold
haue
none
armes
to
assaylle
them
And
this
is
an
example
vnto
prynces
that
they
shold
be
of
the
same
condicion
/
Valerius
reherceth
in
his
.v.
book
of
marchus
martellus
that
whan
he
had
taken
the
cyte
of
siracusane
.
And
was
sette
in
the
hyest
place
of
the
cyte
/
he
behelde
the
grete
destruction
of
the
peple
and
of
the
cyte
/
he
wepte
and
sayde
/
thou
oughtest
to
be
sorofull
/
for
so
moche
as
thou
woldest
haue
no
pite
of
thy self
/
But
enioye
the
for
thou
art
fallen
in
the
hande
of
a
right
debonaire
prynce
.
Also
he
recounteth
whan
pompeye
had
conqueryd
the
kynge
of
Germanye
that
often
tymes
had
foughten
ayenst
the
romayns
And
that
he
was
brought
to
fore
hym
bounden
/
he
was
so
pietous
that
he
wold
not
suffre
hym
to
be
longe
on
his
knees
to
fore
hym
/
but
he
receyuyd
hym
cortoysly
And
sette
the
crowne
agayn
on
his
heed
and
put
hym
in
the
state
that
he
was
to
fore
/
For
he
had
oppynyon
that
hit
was
as
worshipfull
and
sittynge
to
a
kynge
to
pardone
/
as
to
punysshe
.
Also
he
reherceth
of
a
counceyllour
that
was
named
poule
that
dide
do
brynge
to
fore
hym
a
man
that
was
prisonner
And
as
he
knelid
to
fore
hym
he
toke
hym
vp
fro
the
ground
&
made
hym
to
sytte
beside
hym
for
to
gyue
hym
good
esperance
and
hoope
And
sayd
to
the
other
stondynge
by
/
in
this
wyse
.
yf
hit
be
grete
noblesse
that
we
shewe
our self
contrarye
to
our
enemyes
/
than
this
fete
ought
to
be
alowed
that
we
shewe
our self
debonair
to
our
caytyfs
&
prisonners
Cesar
whan
he
herde
the
deth
of
cathon
whiche
was
his
aduersarye
sayde
that
he
had
grete
enuye
of
his
glorye
.
And
no
thinge
of
his
patrimonye
/
and
therfore
he
lefte
to
his
children
frely
alle
his
patrimonye
Thus
taught
vyrgyle
and
enseygned
the
gloryus
prynces
to
rewle
and
gouerne
the
peple
of
rome
And
saynt
Augustin
de
ciuitate
de●
saith
thus
Thou
emperour
gouerne
the
peple
pietously
And
make
peas
ouerall
/
deporte
and
forbere
thy
subgets
/
repreue
&
correcte
the
prowde
/
for
so
enseyne
And
teche
the
the
lawes
/
And
hit
was
wreton
vnto
Alexander
/
that
euery
prynce
ought
to
be
pyetous
in
punysshynge
/
And
redy
for
to
rewarde
/
Ther
is
no
thynge
that
causeth
a
prynce
to
be
so
belouyd
of
hys
peple
/
As
whan
he
speketh
to
hem
swetly
/
and
cōuersith
with
hem
symply
/
And
all
this
cometh
of
the
roote
of
pyte
/
we
rede
of
the
Emperour
Traian
that
his
frendes
repreuyd
hym
of
that
he
was
to
moche
pryue
and
familier
wyth
the
comyn
peple
more
than
an
emperour
ought
to
be
/
And
he
answerd
that
he
wold
be
suche
an
emperour
as
euery
man
desired
to
haue
hym
/
Also
we
rede
of
Alixander
that
on
a
tyme
he
ladde
his
oost
forth
hastely
/
and
in
that
haste
he
beheld
where
satte
an
olde
knight
that
was
sore
a
colde
Whom
he
dide
do
arise
and
sette
hym
in
his
owne
sete
or
siege
/
what
wondre
was
hit
though
the
knightes
desired
to
serue
suche
a
lord
that
louyd
better
theyr
helth
than
his
dignite
/
The
rookes
ought
also
to
be
humble
&
meke
After
the
holy
scripture
whiche
saith
/
the
gretter
or
in
the
hier
astate
that
thou
arte
/
so
moche
more
oughtest
thou
be
meker
&
more
humble
Valerius
reherceth
in
his
.vii.
book
that
ther
was
an
emperour
named
publius
cesar
/
That
dide
do
bete
doun
his
hows
whiche
was
in
the
middis
of
the
market
place
for
as
moche
as
hit
was
heier
than
other
houses
/
for
as
moche
as
he
was
more
glorious
in
astate
than
other
/
Therfore
wold
he
haue
a
lasse
hous
than
other
And
scipion
of
affrique
that
was
so
poure
of
voluntarie
pouerte
that
whan
he
was
dede
/
he
was
buried
at
the
dispencis
of
the
comyn
good
/
They
shold
be
so
humble
that
they
shold
leue
theyr
offices
/
and
suffre
other
to
take
hem
whan
her
tyme
comyth
/
&
doo
honour
to
other
/
for
he
gouerneth
wel
the
royame
that
may
gouerne
hit
whan
he
will
Valerius
saith
In
his
thirde
book
that
fabyan
the
grete
had
ben
maistre
counceyllour
of
his
fader
his
grauntsire
/
And
of
his
grauntsirs
fader
&
of
alle
his
antecessours
And
yet
dide
he
alle
his
payne
and
labour
/
that
his
sone
shold
neuer
haue
that
office
after
hym
/
but
for
nothynge
that
he
mystrusted
his
sone
/
For
he
was
noble
and
wise
and
more
attemprid
than
other
/
but
he
wold
that
the
office
shold
not
allway
reste
in
the
familye
and
hows
of
the
fabyans
Also
he
reherceth
in
his
seuenth
book
that
they
wold
make
the
sayd
fabyan
emperour
/
but
he
excused
hym
and
sayd
that
he
was
blynde
and
myght
not
see
for
age
/
but
that
excusacion
myght
not
helpe
hym
/
Than
sayd
he
to
hem
/
seke
ye
and
gete
yow
another
/
For
yf
ye
make
me
your
emperour
I
may
not
suffre
your
maners
/
nor
ye
may
not
suffre
myn
/
Ther
was
a
kynge
of
so
subtyll
engyne
That
whan
men
brought
hym
the
crowne
/
to
fore
that
he
toke
hit
/
he
remembrid
hym
a
lityll
and
saide
O
thou
crowne
that
art
more
noble
than
happy
For
yf
a
kynge
knewe
well
and
parfaytly
how
that
thou
art
full
of
paryls
of
thoughte
and
of
charge
/
yf
thou
were
on
the
grounde
/
he
wolde
neuer
lyfte
ner
take
the
vp
/
Remembre
the
that
whan
thou
art
most
gloryous
/
than
haue
some
men
moste
enuye
on
the
/
and
whan
thou
haste
moste
seignourye
and
lordships
than
shalt
thou
haue
moste
care
.
thought
and
anguysshes
/
Valpasian
was
so
humble
that
whan
Nero
was
slayn
alle
the
peple
cryed
for
to
haue
hym
emperour
/
and
many
of
his
frendes
cam
&
prayde
hym
that
he
wold
take
hit
vpon
hym
/
so
at
the
last
he
was
constrayned
to
take
hit
vpon
hym
/
And
sayd
to
his
frendes
Hit
is
better
and
more
to
preyse
and
alowe
for
a
man
to
take
th
empire
agaynst
his
wil
/
than
for
to
laboure
to
haue
hit
and
to
put
hym self
therin
/
Thus
ought
they
to
be
humble
and
meke
for
to
resseyue
worship
/
Therfore
sayth
the
bible
that
Ioab
the
sone
of
Saryne
that
was
captayn
of
the
warne
of
the
kynge
Dauid
/
whan
he
cam
to
take
and
wynne
a
Cyte
/
He
sente
to
Dauid
and
desired
hym
to
come
to
the
warre
/
that
the
victorye
shold
be
gyuen
to
Dauid
/
And
not
to
hym self
/
Also
they
ought
to
be
ware
that
they
chaunge
not
ofte
tymes
her
officers
/
Iosephus
reherceth
that
the
frendes
of
tyberyus
meruaylled
moche
why
he
helde
hys
offycyers
so
longe
in
theyr
offices
wyth
oute
changynge
/
And
they
demanded
of
hym
the
cause
/
to
whom
he
answerd
/
I
wold
chaunge
them
gladly
/
yf
I
wyste
that
hit
shold
be
good
for
the
peple
/
But
I
sawe
on
a
tyme
a
man
that
was
royuyous
&
full
of
soores
/
And
many
flyes
satte
vpon
the
soores
and
souked
his
blood
that
hit
was
meruaylle
to
see
/
wherfore
I
suib●e
and
chaced
them
away
.
And
he
than
said
to
me
why
chacest
and
smytest
away
thyse
flyes
that
ben
full
of
my
blood
/
And
now
shallt
then
late
come
other
that
ben
hongrye
whiche
shall
doon
to
me
double
payne
more
than
the
other
dide
/
for
the
prikke
of
the
hongrye
is
more
poyngnant
the
half
/
than
of
the
fulle
And
therfore
sayde
he
I
leue
the
officiers
in
their
offices
.
for
they
ben
all
riche
/
and
doo
not
so
moche
euyl
&
harme
As
the
newe
shold
doo
&
were
poure
yf
I
shold
sette
hem
in
her
places
/
They
ought
also
to
be
pacyent
in
herynge
of
wordes
&
in
suffrynge
payne
on
her
bodyes
/
as
to
the
first
One
said
to
alisander
that
he
was
not
worthy
to
regne
.
specially
whan
he
suffrid
that
lecherie
and
delyte
to
haue
seignoire
in
hym
/
he
suffrid
hit
paciently
/
And
answerd
none
otherwyse
but
that
he
wolde
corrette
hym self
.
And
take
better
maners
and
more
honeste
Also
hit
is
reherced
that
Iulius
cezar
was
ballyd
wherof
he
had
desplaysir
so
grete
that
he
kempt
his
heeris
that
laye
on
the
after
parte
of
his
heed
forward
for
to
hyde
the
bare
to fore
.
Than
sayd
a
knyght
to
hym
Cezar
hit
is
lighther
And
sonner
to
be
made
that
thou
be
not
ballid
/
than
that
I
haue
vsid
ony
cowardyse
in
the
warre
of
rome
/
or
here
after
shall
doo
ony
cowardyse
/
he
suffrid
hit
paciently
and
sayd
not
a
word
/
Another
reproched
hym
by
his
lignage
And
callyd
hym
former
/
he
answerd
that
hit
is
better
that
noblesse
begynne
in
me
/
than
hit
shold
faylle
in
me
/
Another
callid
hym
tyraunt
/
he
answerd
yf
I
were
one
.
thou
woldest
not
saie
soo
A
knight
callid
on
a
tyme
scipion
of
affricque
fowle
&
olde
knyght
in
armes
And
that
he
knewe
lityll
good
And
he
answerd
I
was
born
of
my
moder
a
lityll
child
and
feble
and
not
a
man
of
armes
.
And
yet
he
was
at
alle
tymes
one
of
the
best
and
moste
worthy
in
armes
that
liuyd
.
Another
sayd
to
vaspasian
/
And
a
wolf
shold
sonner
change
his
skyn
and
heer
/
than
thou
sholdest
chaunge
thy
lyf
For
the
lenger
thou
lyuest
the
mo●e
thou
coueytest
And
he
answerd
of
thyse
wordes
we
ought
to
laughe
.
But
we
ought
to
amende
our self
And
punysshe
the
trespaces
.
Seneque
reherceth
that
the
kynge
Antygonus
herde
certayn
peple
speke
and
saye
euyll
of
hym
/
And
therwas
betwene
hem
no
more
but
a
courtyne
/
And
than
he
sayde
make
an
ende
of
your
euyll
langage
leste
the
kynge
here
yow
/
for
the
courtyne
heereth
yow
well
I
nowhe
.
Than
as
towchynge
to
the
paynes
that
they
ought
to
suffre
paciently
Valerius
reherceth
that
a
tyrant
dide
do
tormente
Anamaximenes
&
thretenyd
hym
for
to
cutte
of
his
tonge
.
To
whom
he
sayd
hit
is
not
in
thy
power
to
doo
soo
/
and
forthwyth
he
bote
of
his
owne
tonge
/
And
shewed
hit
wyth
his
teth
and
casted
hit
in
the
visage
of
the
Tyrant
Hit
is
a
grete
vertu
in
a
man
that
he
forgete
not
to
be
pacyent
in
corrections
of
wronges
/
Hit
is
better
to
leue
a
gylty
man
vnpunysshyd
/
than
to
punysshe
hym
in
a
wrath
or
yre
Valerius
reherceth
that
archita
of
tarente
that
was
mayster
to
plato
sawe
that
his
feldes
&
lande
was
destroyed
and
lost
by
the
necligence
of
his
seruant
To
whom
he
sayd
yf
I
were
not
angry
with
the
I
wold
take
vengeance
and
turmente
the
/
Lo
there
ye
may
see
that
he
had
leuer
to
leue
to
punysshe
/
than
to
pugnysshe
more
by
yre
&
wrath
than
by
right
And
therfore
sayth
seneque
/
doo
no
thynge
that
thou
oughtest
to
doo
whan
thou
art
angry
/
For
whan
thou
art
angry
thou
woldest
doo
alle
thynges
after
thy
playsir
/
And
yf
thou
canst
not
va●nquysshe
thyn
yre
/
than
muste
thyn
yre
ouercome
the
/
After
thys
ought
they
to
haue
wylfull
pouerte
/
lyke
as
hit
was
in
the
auncyent
prynces
/
For
they
coueyted
more
to
be
riche
in
wytte
and
good
maners
than
in
moneye
/
And
that
reherceth
Valerius
in
his
.viii.
booke
that
scipion
of
Affryque
was
accused
vnto
the
Senate
that
he
shold
haue
grete
tresour
/
And
he
answerd
certes
whan
I
submysed
affryque
in
to
your
poeste
/
I
helde
no
thynge
to
my self
that
I
myght
saye
this
is
myn
saue
only
the
surname
of
affryque
/
Ner
the
affryquans
haue
not
founden
in
me
ner
in
my
broder
ony
auarice
/
ner
that
we
were
so
couetouse
that
we
had
ne
had
gretter
enuye
to
be
riche
of
name
than
of
rychesses
/
And
therfore
sayth
seneque
that
the
kynge
Altagone
vsid
gladly
in
his
hows
vessels
of
erthe
/
And
some
sayde
he
dyde
hit
for
couetyse
/
But
he
sayde
that
hit
was
better
and
more
noble
thynge
to
shyne
in
good
maners
than
in
vayssell
And
whan
some
men
demanded
hym
why
and
for
what
cause
he
dyde
so
/
he
answerd
I
am
now
kynge
of
secylle
/
and
was
sone
of
a
potter
/
and
for
as
moche
as
I
doubte
fortune
.
For
whan
I
yssued
out
of
the
hous
of
my
fader
and
moder
/
I
was
sodaynly
made
riche
/
wherfore
I
beholde
the
natiuyte
of
me
and
of
my
lignage
/
whiche
is
humble
&
meke
/
And
alle
these
thynges
cometh
of
wilfull
pouerte
/
for
he
entended
more
to
the
comyn
prouffyt
than
to
his
owen
/
And
of
thys
pouerte
speketh
saynt
Augustyn
in
the
booke
of
the
cyte
of
god
That
they
that
entende
to
the
comyn
prouffyt
.
sorowe
more
that
wilfull
pouerte
is
lost
in
rome
/
than
the
richesses
of
rome
/
For
by
the
wilfull
pouerte
was
the
renomce
of
good
maners
kept
entierly
/
thus
by
this
richesse
pouerte
is
not
only
corrupt
in
thyse
dayes
ner
the
cyte
ner
the
maners
/
but
also
the
thoughtes
of
the
men
ben
corrupt
by
thys
couetyse
and
by
felonnye
that
is
worse
than
ony
other
enemye
And
of
the
cruelte
of
the
peple
of
rome
speketh
the
good
man
of
noble
memorye
Iohn
the
monke
late
cardynall
of
rome
in
the
decretall
the
syxte
in
the
chapitre
gens
sancta
where
he
sayth
/
that
they
ben
felouns
ayenst
god
.
contrarye
to
holy
thynges
.
traytres
one
to
that
other
.
enuyous
to
her
neyghbours
.
proude
vnto
straungers
.
rebelle
and
vntrewe
vnto
theyr
souerayns
Not
suffringe
to
them
that
ben
of
lower
degree
than
they
and
nothinge
shamfast
to
demande
thinges
discouenable
and
not
to
leue
tyll
they
haue
that
they
demande
/
and
not
plesid
but
disagreable
whan
they
haue
resseyuyd
the
yeft
They
haue
their
tonges
redy
for
to
make
grete
boost
/
and
doo
lityll
/
They
ben
large
in
promysynges
/
And
smale
gyuers
/
they
ben
ryght
fals
deceyuours
/
And
ryght
inordent
and
bitynge
detractours
/
For
whiche
thynge
hit
is
a
grete
sorowe
to
see
the
humylite
the
pacyence
/
And
the
good
wisedom
that
was
wonte
to
be
in
this
cyte
of
rome
whiche
is
chief
of
alle
the
world
is
peruertid
&
torned
in
to
maleheurte
and
thise
euylles
/
And
me
thynketh
that
in
other
partyes
of
crestiante
they
haue
taken
ensample
of
them
to
doo
euyll
/
They
may
saye
that
this
is
after
the
decretale
of
seygnourye
and
disobeysance
/
that
sayth
That
suche
thynges
that
the
souerayns
doo
/
Is
lightly
and
sone
taken
in
ensample
of
theyr
subgets
/
Also
thise
vicayres
shold
be
large
and
liberall
/
In
so
moche
that
suche
peple
as
serue
them
ben
duly
payd
and
guerdoned
of
her
labour
/
For
euery
man
doth
his
labour
the
better
and
lightlyer
whan
he
seeth
that
he
shall
be
well
payd
and
rewarded
/
And
we
rede
that
Titus
the
sone
of
vaspasian
was
so
large
and
so
liberall
/
That
he
gaf
and
promysyd
somewhat
to
euery
man
/
And
whan
hys
moste
pryuy
frendes
demanded
of
hym
why
he
promysid
more
that
he
myght
gyue
/
he
answerd
for
as
moche
as
hyt
apperteyneth
not
to
a
prynce
that
ony
man
shold
departe
sorowfull
or
tryste
fro
hym
/
Than
hit
happend
on
a
day
that
he
gaf
ner
promysid
no
thynge
to
ony
man
And
whan
hit
was
euen
and
auysed
hym self
/
he
sayd
to
hys
frendes
/
O
ye
my
frendes
thys
day
haue
I
lost
for
this
day
haue
I
don
no
good
/
And
also
we
rede
of
Iulius
Cesar
that
he
neuer
saide
in
alle
his
lyue
to
his
knyghtes
goo
oon
but
allway
he
sayde
come
come
/
For
I
loue
allway
to
be
in
youre
companye
/
And
he
knewe
well
that
hit
was
lasse
payne
&
trauayll
to
the
knyghtes
whan
the
prynce
is
in
her
companye
that
loueth
hem
&
conforted
hem
And
also
we
rede
of
the
same
Iulius
cesar
in
the
booke
of
truphes
of
phylosophers
/
that
ther
was
an
Auncyent
knyght
of
his
that
was
in
paryll
of
a
caas
hangynge
to
fore
the
Iuges
of
rome
so
he
callyd
cesar
on
a
tyme
and
said
to
hym
to
fore
all
men
that
he
shold
be
his
aduocate
And
cesar
deliueryd
and
assigned
to
hym
a
right
good
aduocate
And
the
knyght
sayd
to
hym
O
cesar
I
put
no
vicaire
in
my
place
whan
thou
were
in
parill
in
the
batayll
of
assise
/
But
I
faught
for
the.
And
than
he
shewed
to
hym
the
places
of
his
woundes
that
he
had
receyuyd
in
the
batayll
And
than
cam
cesar
in
his
propre
persone
for
to
be
his
aduocate
&
to
plete
his
cause
for
hym
/
he
wold
not
haue
the
name
of
vnkyndenes
/
but
doubted
that
men
shold
saye
that
he
were
proude
And
that
he
wold
not
do
for
them
that
had
seruyd
hym
They
that
can
not
do
so
moche
/
as
for
to
be
belouyd
of
her
knightes
/
can
not
loue
the
knyghtes
And
this
sufficeth
of
the
rooks
.
¶
The
thirde
tractate
of
the
offices
of
the
comyn
peple
.
The
fyrst
chapitre
is
of
the
office
of
the
labourers
and
werkemen
.
FOr
as
moche
as
the
Noble
persone
canne
not
rewle
ne
gouerne
with
oute
the
seruyce
and
werke
of
the
peple
/
than
hit
behoueth
to
deuyse
the
o●uurages
and
the
offices
of
the
werkemen
Than
I
shall
begynne
fyrst
at
the
fyrst
pawne
/
that
is
in
the
playe
of
the
chesse
/
And
signefieth
a
man
of
the
comyn
peple
on
fote
For
they
be
all
named
pietous
that
is
as
moche
to
saye
as
footemen
And
than
we
wyll
begynne
at
the
pawne
whiche
standeth
to
fore
the
rooke
on
the
right
side
of
the
kinge
for
as
moche
as
this
pawne
apperteyneth
to
serue
the
vicaire
or
lieutenant
of
the
kynge
and
other
officers
vnder
hym
of
necessaryes
of
vitayll
/
And
this
maner
a
peple
is
figured
and
ought
be
maad
in
the
forme
&
shappe
of
a
man
holdynge
in
his
ryght
hande
a
spade
or
shouell
And
a
rodde
in
the
lifte
hand
/
The
spade
or
shouell
is
for
to
delue
&
labour
therwith
the
erthe
/
And
the
rodde
is
for
to
dryue
&
conduyte
wyth
all
the
Bestes
vnto
her
pasture
also
he
ought
to
haue
on
his
gyrdell
/
a
crokyd
hachet
for
to
cutte
of
the
supfluytees
of
the
vignes
&
trees
/
And
we
rede
in
the
bible
that
the
first
labourer
that
euer
was
/
was
Cayin
the
firste
sone
of
Adam
that
was
so
euyll
that
he
slewe
his
broder
Abel
/
for
as
moche
as
the
smoke
of
his
tythes
went
strayt
vnto
heuen
/
And
the
smoke
&
fume●
of
the
tythes
of
Cayin
wente
dounward
vpon
the
erthe
And
how
well
that
this
cause
was
trewe
/
yet
was
ther
another
cause
of
enuye
that
he
had
vnto
his
broder
/
For
whan
Adam
their
f●der
maried
them
for
to
multyplie
the
erthe
of
hys
●ignye
/
he
wolde
not
marye
ner
Ioyne
to
gyder
the
two
that
were
born
a●●ones
/
but
gaf
vnto
cayin
her
that
was
born
wyth
Abel
/
And
to
Abel
her
that
was
born
with
cayin
/
And
thus
began
the
nuye
that
cayin
had
ayenst
abel
/
For
his
wyf
was
fayrer
than
cayins
wyf
And
for
this
cause
he
slough
abel
with
the
chekebone
of
a
beast
&
at
that
tyme
was
neuer
no
maner
of
yron
blody
of
mannes
blood
/
And
abel
was
the
first
martier
in
th
olde
testament
/
And
this
cayin
dide
many
other
euyl
thinges
whiche
I
leue
/
for
hit
apperteyneth
not
to
my
mater
/
But
hit
behouet●
for
necessite
that
some
shold
labour
the
erthe
after
the
synne
of
adam
/
for
to
fore
er
adam
synned
/
the
erthe
brought
forth
fruyt
with
out
labour
of
handes
/
but
syn
he
synned
hit
muste
nedes
be
labourid
with
the
handes
of
men
And
for
as
moche
as
the
erthe
is
moder
of
alle
thynges
And
that
we
were
first
formed
and
toke
oure
begynnyng
of
the
erthe
/
the
same
wyse
at
the
laste
.
she
shall
be
the
ende
vnto
alle
vs
and
to
alle
thynges
/
And
god
that
formed
vs
of
the
erthe
hath
ordeyned
that
by
the
laboure
of
men
she
shold
gyue
nourysshyng
vnto
alle
that
lyueth
/
and
first
the
labourer
of
the
erthe
ought
to
knowe
his
god
that
formed
and
made
heuen
&
erthe
of
nought
And
ought
to
haue
loyaulte
and
trouth
in
hym self
/
and
despise
deth
for
to
entende
to
his
laboure
And
he
ought
to
gyue
thankyngis
to
hym
that
made
hym
And
of
whom
he
receyueth
alle
his
goodes
temporall
/
wherof
his
lyf
is
susteyned
/
And
also
he
is
bounden
to
paye
the
dismes
and
tythes
of
alle
his
thynges
And
not
as
Cayin
dyde
.
But
as
Abell
dyde
of
the
beste
that
he
chese
out
allway
for
to
gyue
to
god
&
to
plese
hym
/
For
they
that
grucche
and
be
greuyd
in
that
they
rendre
and
gyue
to
god
the
tienthes
of
her
goodes
/
they
ought
to
be
aferd
and
haue
drede
that
they
shall
falle
in
necessite
And
that
they
might
be
dispoyllyd
or
robbed
by
warre
or
by
tempeste
that
myght
falle
or
happen
in
the
contrey
And
hit
is
meruayll
though
hit
so
happen
For
that
man
that
is
disagreable
vnto
god
And
weneth
that
the
multiplynge
of
his
goodes
temporell
cometh
by
the
vertu
of
his
owne
counceyll
and
his
wytte
/
the
whiche
is
made
by
the
only
ordenance
of
hym
that
made
alle
And
by
the
same
ordenance
is
soone
taken
away
fro
hym
that
is
disagreable
/
and
hit
is
reson
that
whan
a
man
haboundeth
by
fortune
in
goodes
/
And
knoweth
not
god
/
by
whom
hit
cometh
/
that
to
hym
come
some
other
fortune
by
the
whiche
he
may
requyre
grace
and
pardon
And
to
knowe
his
god
/
And
we
rede
of
the
kynge
Dauid
that
was
first
symple
&
one
of
the
comyn
peple
/
that
whan
fortune
had
enhaunsed
and
sette
hym
in
grete
astate
/
he
lefte
and
forgate
his
god
/
And
fyll
to
aduoultrye
and
homicyde
and
other
synnes
/
Than
anon
his
owne
sone
Absalon
assaylled
&
began
to
persecute
hym
And
than
whan
he
sawe
that
fortune
was
contrarye
to
hym
/
he
began
to
take
agayn
his
vertuous
werkis
and
requyred
pardoun
and
so
retorned
to
god
agayn
.
We
rede
also
of
the
children
of
ysrael
that
were
nyghe
enfamyned
in
desert
and
sore
hongry
&
thrusty
that
they
prayd
&
requyred
of
god
for
remedy
/
Anon
he
changed
his
wyll
&
sente
to
hem
manna
/
&
flessh
etc
/
And
whan
they
were
replenesshid
&
fatte
of
the
flessh
of
bestes
&
of
the
manna
/
they
made
a
calf
of
gold
and
worshippid
hit
.
Whiche
was
a
grete
synne
&
Inyquyte
/
For
whan
they
were
hongry
they
knewe
god
/
And
whan
theyre
belyes
were
fylde
&
fatted
/
they
forgid
ydoles
&
were
ydolatrers
After
this
euery
labourer
ought
to
be
faythfull
&
trewe
That
whan
his
maystre
delyuereth
to
hym
his
lande
to
be
laboured
/
that
he
take
no
thinge
to
hym self
but
that
hym
ought
to
haue
&
is
his
/
but
laboure
truly
&
take
cure
and
charge
in
the
name
of
his
maistre
/
and
do
more
diligently
his
maisters
labours
than
his
owen
/
for
the
lyf
of
the
most
grete
&
noble
men
next
god
heth
in
the
handes
of
the
labourers
/
and
thus
all
craftes
&
occupacions
ben
ordeyned
not
only
to
suffise
to
them
only
/
but
to
the
comyn
/
And
so
hit
happeth
ofte
tyme
that
the
labourer
of
the
erthe
vseth
grete
and
boystous
metes
/
and
bryngeth
to
his
maister
more
subtile
&
more
deyntous
metes
/
And
valerius
reherceth
in
his
.vi.
book
that
ther
was
a
wise
&
noble
maistre
that
was
named
Anthomus
that
was
accused
of
a
caas
of
aduoultrye
/
&
as
the
cause
henge
to
fore
the
Iuges
/
his
accusers
or
denonciatours
brought
I
labourer
that
closid
his
land
for
so
moche
as
they
sayde
whan
his
maistre
wente
to
doo
the
aduoultrye
/
this
same
seruant
bare
the
lanterne
.
wherof
Anthonyus
was
sore
abasshyd
and
doubted
that
he
shold
depose
agaynst
hym
But
the
labourer
that
was
named
papirion
sayd
to
his
maister
that
he
shold
denye
his
cause
hardyly
vnto
the
Iuges
For
for
to
be
tormentid
/
his
cause
shold
neuer
be
enpeyrid
by
hym
/
ner
nothyng●
shold
yssue
out
of
his
mouth
wherof
he
shold
be
noyed
or
greuyd
And
than
was
the
labourer
beten
and
tormentid
and
brent
in
many
places
of
his
body
But
he
sayd
neuer
thynge
wherof
his
mayster
was
hurte
or
noyed
/
But
the
other
that
accused
his
maister
were
punysshid
And
papiryon
was
deliuerid
of
his
paynes
free
and
franc
/
And
also
telleth
valerius
that
ther
was
another
labourer
that
was
named
penapion
/
that
seruyd
a
maister
whos
name
was
Themes
whiche
was
of
meruayllous
faith
to
his
maystre
For
hit
befell
that
certain
knyghtes
cam
to
his
maisters
hows
for
to
slee
hym
And
anone
as
papiryon
knewe
hit
/
he
wente
in
to
his
maisters
chambre
And
wold
not
be
knowen
For
he
dide
on
his
maisters
gowne
and
his
rynge
on
his
fynger
/
And
laye
in
his
bedde
And
thus
put
hym self
in
parill
of
deth
for
to
respite
his
maisters
lyf
/
But
we
see
now
a
dayes
many
fooles
that
daigne
not
to
vse
groos
metes
of
labourers
.
And
flee
the
cours
clothynge
And
maners
of
a
seruant
Euery
wise
man
a
seruant
that
truly
seruyth
his
maister
is
free
and
not
bonde
/
But
a
foole
that
is
ouer
proude
is
bonde
/
For
the
debilite
and
feblenes
of
corage
that
is
broken
in
conscience
by
pryde
Enuye
.
or
by
couetyse
is
ryght
seruytude
/
yet
they
ought
not
to
doubte
to
laboure
for
feere
&
drede
of
deth
/
no
man
ought
to
loue
to
moche
his
lyf
/
For
hit
is
a
fowll
thynge
for
a
man
to
re●me
to
the
deth
for
the
enemye
of
his
lyf
/
And
a
wyse
man
and
a
stronge
man
ought
not
to
flee
for
his
lyf
/
but
to
yssue
For
ther
is
no
man
that
lyueth
/
but
he
must
nedes
dye
.
And
of
this
speketh
claudyan
and
sayth
that
alle
thoo
thynges
that
the
Ayer
goth
aboute
and
enuyronned
.
And
alle
thynge
that
the
erthe
laboureth
/
Alle
thyngys
that
ben
conteyned
wyth
in
the
see
Alle
thynges
that
the
floodes
brynge
forth
/
Alle
thynges
that
ben
nourysshid
and
alle
the
bestes
that
ben
vnder
the
heuen
shall
departe
alle
from
the
world
/
And
alle
shall
goo
at
his
comandement
/
As
well
Kynges
Prynces
and
alle
that
the
world
enuyronned
and
gooth
aboute
/
Alle
shall
goo
this
waye
/
Than
he
ought
not
to
doubte
for
fere
of
deth
.
For
as
well
shall
dye
the
ryche
as
the
poure
/
deth
maketh
alle
thynge
lyke
and
putteth
alle
to
an
ende
/
And
therof
made
a
noble
versifier
two
versis
whiche
folowe
Forma
.
genus
.
mores
.
sapiencia
.
res
.
et
honores
/
●orteruant
subita
sola
manent
merita
/
Wherof
the
english
is
Beaulte
.
lignage
.
maners
.
wysedom
.
thynges
&
honoures
/
shal
ben
deffetid
by
sodeyn
deth
/
no
thynge
shall
abide
but
the
merites
/
And
herof
fynde
we
in
Vitas
patrum
.
that
ther
was
an
erle
a
riche
&
noble
man
that
had
a
sone
onely
/
and
whan
this
sone
was
of
age
to
haue
knowlech
of
the
lawe
/
he
herde
in
a
sermone
that
was
prechid
that
deth
spareth
none
/
ne
riche
ne
poure
/
and
as
well
dyeth
the
yonge
as
the
olde
/
and
that
the
deth
ought
specially
to
be
doubted
for
.iii.
causes
/
one
was
/
that
noman
knoweth
whan
he
cometh
/
and
the
seconde
/
ner
in
what
state
he
taketh
a
man
/
And
the
thirde
he
wote
neuer
whither
he
shall
goo
.
Therfore
eche
man
shold
dispise
and
flee
the
world
and
lyue
well
and
holde
hym
toward
god
And
whan
this
yong
man
herde
this
thynge
/
he
wente
oute
of
his
contrey
and
fledde
vnto
a
wyldernesse
vnto
an
hermytage
/
and
whan
his
fader
had
loste
hym
he
made
grete
sorowe
/
and
dyde
do
enquere
&
seke
hym
so
moche
at
last
he
was
founden
in
the
herimtage
/
and
than
his
fader
cam
theder
to
hym
and
sayde
/
dere
sone
come
from
thens
/
thou
shalt
be
after
my
deth
erle
and
chyef
of
my
lignage
/
I
shall
be
lost
yf
thou
come
not
out
from
thens
/
And
he
than
that
wyste
non
otherwise
to
eschewe
the
yre
of
his
fader
bethought
hym
and
sayde
/
dere
fader
ther
is
in
your
contre
and
lande
a
right
euyll
custome
yf
hit
plese
yow
to
put
that
away
I
shall
gladly
come
out
of
this
place
and
goo
with
yow
The
fader
was
glad
and
had
grete
Ioye
And
demaunded
of
hym
what
hit
was
And
yf
he
wold
telle
hym
he
promysid
hym
to
take
hit
away
and
hit
shold
be
left
and
sette
a
parte
.
Than
he
sayde
dere
fader
ther
dyen
as
well
the
yong
folk
in
your
contrey
as
the
olde
/
do
that
away
I
pray
yow
/
whan
his
fader
herde
that
he
sayde
Dere
sone
that
may
not
be
ner
noman
may
put
that
away
but
god
only
/
Than
answerd
the
sone
to
the
fader
/
than
wylle
I
serue
hym
and
dwelle
here
wyth
hym
that
may
do
that
.
And
so
abode
the
childe
in
the
hermytage
&
lyuyd
there
in
good
werkes
After
this
hit
apperteyneth
to
a
labourer
to
entende
to
his
laboure
and
flee
ydlenes
/
And
thou
oughtest
to
knowe
that
Dauid
preyseth
moche
in
the
sawlter
the
trewe
labourers
and
sayth
/
Thou
shalt
ete
the
labour
of
thyn
handes
and
thou
art
blessid
/
and
he
shall
do
to
the
good
And
hit
behoueth
that
the
labourer
entende
to
his
labour
on
the
werkedayes
for
to
recuyell
and
gadre
to
gyder
the
fruyt
of
his
labour
/
And
also
he
ought
to
reste
on
the
holyday
/
bothe
he
and
his
bestes
.
And
a
good
labourer
ought
to
norysshe
and
kepe
his
bestes
/
And
this
is
signefied
by
the
rodde
that
he
hath
.
Whiche
is
for
to
lede
and
dryue
them
to
the
pasture
/
The
firste
pastour
that
euer
was
/
was
Abel
whiche
was
Iuste
and
trewe
/
and
offryd
to
god
the
bestes
vnto
his
sacrefice
/
And
hym
ought
he
to
folowe
in
craft
&
maners
But
no
man
that
vseth
the
malice
of
Cayin
maye
ensue
and
folowe
Abel
/
And
thus
hit
apperteyneth
to
the
labourer
to
sette
and
graffe
trees
and
vygnes
/
and
also
to
plante
and
cutte
them
And
so
dyde
noe
whiche
was
the
first
that
planted
the
vygne
after
the
deluge
and
flood
For
as
Iosephus
reherceth
in
the
book
of
naturell
thinges
Noe
was
he
that
fonde
fyrst
the
vygne
/
And
he
fonde
hym
bitter
and
wylde
/
And
therfore
he
toke
.iiii.
maners
of
blood
/
that
is
to
wete
the
blood
of
a
lyon
.
the
blood
of
a
lamb
.
the
blood
of
a
swyne
.
and
the
blood
of
an
ape
and
medlid
them
altogeder
with
the
erthe
/
And
than
he
cutte
the
vygne
/
And
put
this
aboute
the
rootes
therof
.
To
th
ende
that
the
bitternes
shold
be
put
away
/
and
that
hyt
shold
be
swete
/
And
whan
he
had
dronken
of
the
fruyt
of
this
vygne
/
hit
was
so
good
and
mighty
that
he
becam
so
dronke
/
that
he
dispoylled
hym
in
suche
wise
that
his
pryuy
membres
might
be
seen
/
And
his
yongest
sone
chamm
mocqued
and
skorned
hym
And
whan
Noe
was
awakid
&
was
sobre
&
fastinge
/
he
assemblid
his
sones
and
shewid
to
them
the
nature
of
the
vygne
and
of
the
wyn
/
And
told
to
them
the
cause
why
that
he
had
put
the
blood
of
the
bestes
aboute
the
roote
of
the
vygne
and
that
they
shold
knowe
well
that
otherwhile
by
the
strength
of
the
wyn
men
be
made
as
hardy
as
the
lyon
and
yrous
And
otherwhile
they
be
made
symple
&
shamefast
as
a
lambe
And
lecherous
as
a
swyn
/
And
curyous
and
full
of
playe
as
an
Ape
/
For
the
Ape
is
of
suche
nature
that
whan
he
seeth
one
do
a
thynge
he
enforceth
hym
to
doo
the
same
/
and
so
doo
many
whan
they
ben
dronke
/
they
will
medle
them
wyth
alle
officers
&
matiers
that
apperteyne
no
thynge
to
them
/
And
whan
they
ben
fastynge
&
sobre
they
can
scarsely
accomplisshe
theyr
owne
thynges
And
therfore
valerian
reherceth
that
of
auncyente
and
in
olde
tyme
women
dranke
no
wyn
for
as
moche
as
by
dronkenship
they
myght
falle
in
ony
filthe
or
vilonye
And
as
Ouide
sayth
/
that
the
wyns
otherwhyle
apparaylle
the
corages
in
suche
manere
that
they
ben
couenable
to
alle
synnes
whiche
take
away
the
hertes
to
doo
well
/
They
make
the
poure
riche
/
as
longe
as
the
wyn
is
in
his
heed
And
shortly
dronkenshyp
is
the
begynnynge
of
alle
euyllys
/
And
corrompith
the
body
/
and
destroyed
the
sowle
and
mynusshith
the
goodes
temporels
/
And
this
suffyseth
for
the
labourer
.
¶
The
seconde
chapitre
of
the
thirde
tractate
treteth
of
the
forme
and
maner
of
the
second
pawne
and
of
the
maner
of
a
smyth
.
THe
seconde
pawne
that
standeth
to
fore
the
knyght
on
the
right
side
of
the
kynge
hath
the
forme
and
figure
of
a
man
as
a
smyth
and
that
is
reson
For
hit
apperteyneth
to
the
knyghtes
to
haue
bridellys
sadellys
spores
and
many
other
thynges
made
by
the
handes
of
smythes
and
ought
to
holde
an
hamer
in
his
right
hande
.
And
in
his
lyfte
hande
a
dolabre
and
he
ought
to
haue
on
his
gyrdell
a
trowell
For
by
this
is
signefied
all
maner
of
werkemen
/
as
goldsmithes
.
marchallis
.
smithes
of
all
forges
/
forgers
&
makers
of
monoye
&
all
maner
of
smythes
ben
signefyed
by
the
hamer
/
The
carpenters
ben
signefyed
by
the
dolabre
or
squyer
/
And
by
the
trowell
we
vnderstande
all
masons
&
keruars
of
stones
/
tylers
/
and
alle
them
that
make
howses
castels
&
tours
/
And
to
alle
these
crafty
men
hit
apperteyneth
that
they
be
trewe
.
Wise
and
stronge
/
and
hit
is
nede
that
they
haue
in
hem
self
faith
and
loyaulte
/
For
vnto
the
goldsmythes
behoueth
gold
&
siluer
And
alle
other
metallys
/
yren
&
steel
to
other
/
And
vnto
the
carpenters
and
masons
/
ben
put
to
theyr
edifices
the
bodyes
and
goodes
of
the
peple
/
And
also
men
put
in
the
handes
of
the
maronners
body
and
goodes
of
the
peple
/
And
in
the
garde
and
sewerte
of
them
men
put
body
&
sowle
in
the
paryls
of
the
see
and
therfore
ought
they
to
be
trewe
/
vnto
whom
men
commytte
suche
grete
charge
and
so
grete
thynges
vpon
her
fayth
and
truste
.
And
therfore
sayth
the
philosopher
/
he
that
leseth
his
fayth
and
beleue
/
may
lose
no
gretter
ne
more
thynge
.
And
fayth
is
a
souerayn
good
and
cometh
of
the
good
wyll
of
the
herte
and
of
his
mynde
And
for
no
necessite
wyll
deceyue
no
man
/
And
is
not
corrupt
for
no
mede
.
Valerius
reherceth
that
Fabius
had
receyuyd
of
hanybal
certayn
prysoners
that
he
helde
of
the
romayns
for
a
certayn
some
of
money
whiche
he
promysid
to
paye
to
the
sayd
hanyball
/
And
whan
he
cam
vnto
the
senatours
of
rome
and
desired
to
haue
the
money
lente
for
hem
They
answerd
that
they
wold
not
paye
ner
lene
/
And
than
fabius
sente
his
sone
to
rome
&
made
hym
to
selle
his
heritage
&
patrimonye
/
and
sente
the
money
that
he
resseyuyd
therof
vnto
hanibal
/
And
had
leuer
&
louyd
better
to
be
poure
in
his
contrey
of
herytage
/
than
of
byleue
and
fayth
/
But
in
thyse
dayes
hit
were
grete
folye
to
haue
suche
affiance
in
moche
peple
but
yf
they
had
ben
preuyd
afore
For
oftentymes
men
truste
in
them
by
whom
they
ben
deceyuyd
at
theyr
nede
/
And
it
is
to
wete
that
these
crafty
men
and
werkemen
ben
souerainly
prouffitable
vnto
the
world
And
wyth
oute
artificers
and
werkmen
the
world
myght
not
be
gouerned
/
And
knowe
thou
verily
that
alle
tho
thynges
that
ben
engendrid
on
the
erthe
and
on
the
see
/
ben
made
and
formed
for
to
do
prouffit
vnto
the
lignage
of
man
/
for
man
was
formed
for
to
haue
generacion
/
that
the
men
myght
helpe
and
prouffit
eche
other
And
here
in
ought
we
to
folowe
nature
/
For
she
shewed
to
vs
that
we
shold
do
comyn
prouffit
one
to
an
other
/
And
the
first
fondement
of
Iustice
is
that
no
man
shold
noye
ne
greue
other
But
that
they
ought
doo
the
comyn
prouffit
/
For
men
saye
in
reproche
That
I
see
of
thyn
/
I
hope
hit
shall
be
myn
But
who
is
he
in
thyse
dayes
that
entendeth
more
to
the
comyn
prouffit
than
to
his
owne
/
Certaynly
none
/
But
all
way
a
man
ought
to
haue
drede
and
feere
of
his
owne
hows
/
whan
he
seeth
his
neyghbours
hous
a
fyre
And
therfore
ought
men
gladly
helpe
the
comyn
prouffit
/
for
men
otherwhile
sette
not
be
a
lityll
fyre
And
might
quenche
hit
in
the
begynnyng
/
that
afterward
makyth
a
grete
blasyng
fyre
.
And
fortune
hath
of
no
thinge
so
grete
playsir
/
as
for
to
torne
&
werke
allway
/
And
nature
is
so
noble
a
thynge
that
were
as
she
is
she
wyll
susteyne
and
kepe
/
but
this
rewle
of
nature
hath
fayllid
longe
tyme
/
how
well
that
the
decree
sayth
that
alle
the
thynges
that
ben
ayenst
the
lawe
of
nature
/
ought
to
be
taken
away
and
put
a
part
And
he
sayth
to fore
in
the
.viii.
distinition
that
the
ryght
lawe
of
nature
differenceth
ofte
tymes
for
custome
&
statutes
establisshid
/
for
by
lawe
of
nature
all
thinge
ought
to
be
comyn
to
euery
man
/
and
this
lawe
was
of
old
tyme
And
men
wene
yet
specially
that
the
troians
kept
this
lawe
And
we
rede
that
the
multitude
of
the
Troians
was
one
herte
and
one
sowle
/
And
verayly
we
fynde
that
in
tyme
passid
the
philosophres
dyde
the
same
/
And
also
hit
is
to
be
supposyd
that
suche
as
haue
theyr
goodes
comune
&
not
propre
is
most
acceptable
to
god
/
For
ellys
wold
not
thise
religious
men
as
monkes
freris
chanons
obseruantes
&
all
other
auowe
hem
&
kepe
the
wilfull
pouerte
that
they
ben
professid
too
/
For
in
trouth
I
haue
my self
ben
conuersant
in
a
religious
hous
of
white
freris
at
gaunt
Whiche
haue
alle
thynge
in
comyn
amonge
them
/
and
not
one
richer
than
an
other
/
in
so
moche
that
yf
a
man
gaf
to
a
frere
.iii.
d
or
.iiii.
d.
to
praye
for
hym
in
his
masse
/
as
sone
as
the
masse
is
doon
he
deliuerith
hit
to
his
ouerest
or
procuratour
in
whyche
hows
ben
many
vertuous
and
deuoute
freris
And
yf
that
lyf
were
not
the
beste
and
the
most
holiest
/
holy
church
wold
neuer
suffre
hit
in
religion
And
acordynge
therto
we
rede
in
plato
whiche
sayth
that
the
cyte
is
well
and
Iustely
gouernid
and
ordeyned
in
the
whiche
no
man
maye
saye
by
right
.
by
custome
.
ne
by
ordenance
/
this
is
myn
/
but
I
say
to
the
certaynly
that
syn
this
custome
cam
forth
to
say
this
is
myn
/
And
this
is
thyn
/
no
man
thought
to
preferre
the
comyn
prouffit
so
moche
as
his
owen
/
And
alle
w●rkemen
ought
to
be
wise
&
well
aduysyd
so
that
they
haue
none
enuye
ne
none
euyll
suspecion
one
to
an
other
/
for
god
wylle
that
our
humayne
nature
be
couetous
of
two
thynges
/
that
is
of
Religion
.
And
of
wysedom
/
but
in
this
caas
ben
some
often
tymes
deceyuyd
For
they
take
ofte
tymes
religion
and
leue
wisedom
And
they
take
wysedom
and
reffuse
religion
And
none
may
be
vraye
and
trewe
with
oute
other
For
hit
apperteyneth
not
to
a
wyse
man
to
do
ony
thynge
that
he
may
repente
hym
of
hit
/
And
he
ought
to
do
no
thynge
ayenst
his
wyll
/
but
to
do
alle
thynge
nobly
.
meurely
.
fermely
.
and
honestly
And
yf
he
haue
enuye
vpon
ony
.
hit
is
folye
For
he
on
whom
he
hath
enuye
is
more
honest
and
of
more
hauoir
than
he
whiche
is
so
enuyous
/
For
a
man
may
haue
none
enuye
on
an
other
/
but
be
cause
he
is
more
fortunat
and
hath
more
grace
than
hym self
/
For
enuye
is
a
sorowe
of
corage
that
cometh
of
dysordynance
of
the
prouffit
of
another
man
And
knowe
thou
verily
that
he
that
is
full
of
bounte
shall
neuer
haue
enuye
of
an
other
/
But
th
enuyous
man
seeth
and
thynketh
alleway
that
euery
man
is
more
noble
/
And
more
fortunat
that
hymself
And
sayth
alleway
to
hym self
/
that
man
wynneth
more
than
I
/
and
myn
neyghebours
haue
more
plente
of
bestes
/
and
her
thynges
multiplye
more
than
myn
/
and
therfore
thou
oughtest
knowe
that
enuye
is
the
moste
grettest
dedely
synne
that
is
/
for
she
tormenteth
hym
that
hath
her
wythin
hym
/
wyth
oute
tormentynge
or
doyng
ony
harme
to
hym
/
on
whome
he
hath
enuye
.
And
an
enuyous
man
hath
no
vertue
in
hym self
/
for
he
corrumpeth
hym self
for
as
moche
as
he
hateth
allway
the
welthe
and
vertues
of
other
/
and
thus
ought
they
to
kepe
them
that
they
take
none
euyll
suspecyon
For
a
man
naturelly
whan
his
affection
hath
suspecion
in
ony
man
that
he
weneth
that
he
doth
/
hit
semeth
to
hym
verily
that
it
is
doon
.
And
hit
is
an
euyll
thynge
for
a
man
to
haue
suspecion
on
hym self
/
For
we
rede
that
dionyse
of
zecyll
a
tyrant
Was
so
suspecionous
that
he
had
so
grete
fere
and
drede
For
as
moche
as
he
was
hated
of
all
men
/
that
he
putte
his
frendes
oute
of
theyr
offices
that
they
had
/
And
put
other
strangers
in
theyr
places
for
to
kepe
his
body
/
and
these
suche
as
were
ryght
Cruell
and
felons
/
And
for
fere
and
doubte
of
the
barbours
/
he
made
hys
doughters
to
lerne
shaue
and
kembe
/
And
whan
they
were
grete
.
He
wold
not
they
shold
vse
ony
yron
to
be
occupied
by
them
/
but
to
brenne
and
senge
his
heeris
/
and
manaced
them
and
durst
not
truste
in
them
/
And
in
lyke
wyse
they
had
none
aff●ance
in
hym
And
also
he
dyde
do
enuyronne
the
place
where
he
laye
wyth
grete
diches
and
brode
lyke
a
castell
/
And
he
entryd
by
a
drawbrygge
whiche
closyd
after
hym
/
And
hys
knyghtes
laye
wyth
oute
wyth
his
gardes
whiche
wacchid
and
kept
straytly
thys
forteresse
/
And
whan
plato
sawe
thys
Dionyse
kynge
of
cezille
thus
enuyronned
and
set
aboute
wyth
gardes
&
wacchemen
for
the
cause
of
his
suspecion
sayd
to
hym
openly
to
fore
all
men
kinge
why
hast
thou
don
so
moche
euyll
&
harme
/
that
the
behoneth
to
be
kept
wyth
so
moche
peple
/
And
therfor
I
saye
that
hit
apperteyneth
not
to
ony
man
that
wylle
truly
behaue
hym self
in
his
werkis
to
be
suspecyous
/
And
also
they
ought
to
be
stronge
and
seure
in
theyr
werkes
/
And
specyally
they
that
ben
maysters
and
maronners
on
the
see
/
for
yf
they
be
tumerous
and
●erdfull
they
shold
make
a
ferde
them
that
ben
in
theyr
shippis
/
that
knowe
not
the
paryls
/
And
so
hit
might
happene
that
by
that
drede
and
fere
alle
men
shold
leue
theyr
labour
/
And
so
they
myght
be
perisshid
and
despeyred
in
theyr
corages
/
For
a
shippe
is
soone
perisshid
and
lost
by
a
lityll
tempest
/
whan
the
gouernour
faylleth
to
gouerne
his
shippe
for
drede
/
And
can
gyue
no
counceyll
to
other
than
it
is
no
meruayll
/
thaugh
they
be
aferd
that
ben
in
his
gouernance
/
And
therfore
ought
be
in
them
strengthe
force
and
corage
/
and
ought
to
considere
the
peryls
that
might
falle
/
And
the
gouernour
specially
ought
not
to
doubte
/
And
yf
hit
happen
that
ony
paryll
falle
/
he
ought
to
promyse
to
the
other
good
hoope
/
And
hit
apperteyneth
well
/
that
a
man
of
good
and
hardy
corage
be
sette
in
that
office
/
In
suche
wyse
that
he
haue
ferme
and
seure
mynde
ayenst
the
paryls
that
oftetymes
happen
in
the
see
/
and
with
this
ought
the
maroners
haue
good
and
ferme
creance
and
beleue
in
god
/
and
to
be
of
good
reconforte
&
of
fayr
langage
vnto
them
that
he
gouerneth
in
suche
paryls
/
And
this
sufficeth
to
yow
as
touchynge
the
labourers
.
¶
The
thirde
chapitre
of
the
thirde
book
treteth
of
the
office
of
notaryes
aduocats
skryueners
and
drapers
or
clothmakers
.
THe
thirde
pawne
whiche
is
sette
to
fore
the
Alphyn
on
the
right
side
ought
to
be
figured
as
a
clerk
And
hit
is
reson
that
he
shold
so
be
/
For
as
moche
as
amonge
the
comon
peple
of
whom
we
speke
in
thys
book
they
plete
the
differencis
contencions
and
causes
otherwhile
the
whiche
behoueth
the
Alphins
to
gyue
sentence
and
Iuge
as
Iuges
And
hit
is
reson
that
the
Alphin
or
Iuge
haue
his
notarye
/
by
whom
the
processe
may
be
wreton
/
And
this
pawne
ought
to
be
made
and
figured
in
this
mamere
/
he
muste
be
made
like
a
man
that
holdeth
in
his
right
hand
a
pair
of
sheres
or
forcetis
/
and
in
the
lifte
hand
a
grete
knyf
and
on
his
gurdell
a
penuer
and
an
yukhorn
/
and
on
his
●ere
a
penne
to
wryte
wyth
And
that
ben
the
Instrumentis
&
the
offices
that
ben
made
and
put
in
writynge
autentyque
/
and
ought
to
haue
passed
to
fore
the
Iuges
as
libelles
writtes
condempnacions
and
sentences
/
And
that
is
signefied
by
the
scriptoire
and
the
penne
and
on
that
other
part
hit
appertayneth
to
them
to
cutte
cloth
.
shere
.
dighte
.
and
dye
/
and
that
is
signefied
by
the
forcettis
or
sheres
/
and
the
other
ought
to
shaue
berdes
and
kembe
the
heeris
/
And
the
other
ben
coupers
.
coryers
.
t●wiers
.
skynners
.
bouchers
and
cordwanners
/
and
these
ben
signefyed
by
the
knyf
that
he
holdeth
in
his
hand
and
some
of
thise
forsayd
crafty
men
ben
named
drapers
or
clothmakers
for
so
moche
as
they
werke
wyth
wolle
.
and
the
Notayres
.
skynners
.
coryours
.
and
cardewaners
werke
by
skynnys
and
hydes
As
parchemyn
velume
.
peltrye
and
cordewan
/
And
the
Tayllours
.
cutters
of
cloth
.
●euars
.
fullars
.
dyers
/
And
many
other
craftes
ocupye
and
vse
wulle
/
And
alle
thyse
crafty
men
&
many
other
that
I
haue
not
named
/
ought
to
doo
theyr
craft
and
mestyer
/
where
as
they
ben
duly
ordeyned
Curyously
and
truly
/
Also
ther
ought
to
be
amonge
thyse
crafty
men
amyable
companye
and
trewe
/
honest
contenance
/
And
trouthe
in
their
wordes
/
And
hit
is
to
wete
that
the
notaries
ben
right
prouffitable
and
ought
to
be
good
&
trewe
for
the
comyn
And
they
ought
to
kepe
them
fro
appropriynge
to
them self
that
thynge
that
apperteyneth
to
the
comyn
And
yf
they
be
good
to
them self
/
they
ben
good
to
other
.
And
yf
they
be
euyll
for
them self
/
they
ben
euyll
for
other
And
the
processes
that
ben
made
to
fore
the
Iuges
ought
to
ben
wreton
&
passid
by
them
/
and
hit
is
to
wete
that
by
their
writynge
in
the
processis
may
come
moche
prouffit
And
also
yf
they
wryte
otherwyse
than
they
ought
to
doo
/
may
ensewe
moche
harme
and
domage
to
the
comyn
Therfore
ought
they
to
take
good
heede
that
they
chaunge
not
ne
corrumpe
in
no
wyse
the
content
of
the
sentence
.
For
than
ben
they
first
forsworn
And
ben
bounden
to
make
amendes
to
them
that
by
theyr
tricherye
they
haue
endomaged
/
And
also
ought
they
to
rede
visite
and
to
knowe
the
statutes
.
ordenances
and
the
lawes
of
the
cytees
of
the
contre
/
where
they
dwelle
and
enhabite
/
And
they
ought
to
considere
yf
ther
be
ony
thynge
therin
conteyned
ayenst
right
and
reson
/
and
yf
they
fynde
ony
thinge
contraire
/
they
ought
to
admoneste
and
warne
them
that
gouerne
/
that
suche
thynges
may
be
chaunged
into
better
astate
/
For
custome
establisshid
ayenst
good
maners
and
agaynst
the
fayth
/
ought
not
to
be
holden
by
right
.
For
as
hit
is
sayd
in
the
decree
in
the
chapitre
to
fore
/
alle
ordenance
made
ayenst
ryght
ought
to
be
holden
for
nought
Alas
who
is
now
that
aduocate
or
notaire
that
hath
charge
to
wryte
and
kepe
sentence
that
putteth
his
entente
to
kepe
more
the
comyn
prouffit
or
as
moche
as
his
owen
/
But
alle
drede
of
god
is
put
a
back
/
and
they
deceyue
the
symple
men
And
drawen
them
to
the
courtes
disordinatly
and
constrayned
them
to
swere
and
make
othes
not
couenable
/
And
in
assemblyng
the
peple
thus
to
gyder
they
make
moo
traysons
in
the
cytees
than
they
make
good
alyances
And
otherwhile
they
deceyue
their
souerayns
/
whan
they
may
doo
hit
couertly
For
ther
is
no
thynge
at
this
day
that
so
moche
greueth
rome
and
Italye
as
doth
the
college
of
notaries
and
aduocates
publicque
/
For
they
ben
not
of
oon
a
corde
/
Alas
and
in
Eugeland
what
hurte
doon
the
aduocats
.
men
of
lawe
.
And
attorneyes
of
court
to
the
comyn
peple
of
the
royame
as
well
in
the
spirituell
lawe
as
in
the
temporall
/
how
torne
they
the
lawe
and
statutes
at
their
pleasir
/
how
ete
they
the
peple
/
how
enpouere
they
the
comynte
/
I
suppose
that
in
alle
Cristendom
ar
not
so
many
pletars
attorneys
and
men
of
the
lawe
as
ben
in
englond
onely
/
for
yf
they
were
nombrid
all
that
lange
to
the
courtes
of
the
channcery
kinges
benche
.
comyn
place
.
cheker
.
ressayt
and
helle
And
the
bagge
berars
of
the
same
/
hit
shold
amounte
to
a
grete
multitude
And
how
alle
thyse
lyue
&
of
whome
.
yf
hit
shold
be
vttrid
&
told
/
hit
shold
not
be
byleuyd
.
For
they
entende
to
theyr
synguler
wele
and
prouffyt
and
not
to
the
comyn
/
how
well
they
ought
to
be
of
good
wyll
to
gyder
/
and
admoneste
and
warne
the
cytes
eche
in
his
right
in
suche
wise
that
they
myght
haue
pees
and
loue
one
with
an
other
And
tullius
saith
that
frendshippe
and
good
wyll
that
one
ought
to
haue
ayenst
an
other
for
the
wele
of
hym
that
he
loueth
/
wyth
the
semblable
wylle
of
hym
/
ought
to
be
put
forth
to
fore
alle
other
thynges
/
And
ther
is
no
thynge
so
resemblynge
and
lyke
to
the
bees
that
maken
honye
ne
so
couenable
in
prosperite
and
in
aduersite
as
is
loue
/
For
by
loue
gladly
the
bees
holden
them
to
gyder
/
And
yf
ony
trespace
to
that
other
anone
they
renne
vpon
the
malefactour
for
to
punysshe
hym
/
And
verray
trewe
loue
faylleth
neuer
for
wele
ne
for
euyll
/
and
the
most
swete
and
the
most
confortynge
thynge
is
for
to
haue
a
frende
to
whom
a
man
may
saye
his
secrete
/
as
well
as
to
hym self
/
But
verayly
amytye
and
frendship
is
somtyme
founded
vpon
som
thinge
delectable
And
this
amytye
cometh
of
yongthe
/
in
the
whiche
dwelleth
a
disordinate
heete
.
And
otherwhile
amytie
is
founded
vpon
honeste
/
And
this
amytie
is
vertuouse
/
Of
the
whiche
tullius
saith
that
ther
is
an
amytie
vertuous
by
the
whiche
a
man
ought
to
do
to
his
frende
alle
that
he
requyreth
by
rayson
For
for
to
do
to
hym
a
thynge
dishonneste
it
is
ayenst
the
nature
of
verray
frendshipe
&
amytie
/
And
thus
for
frendshipe
ne
for
fauour
a
man
ought
not
to
doo
ony
thinge
vnresonable
ayenst
the
comyn
prouffit
ner
agaynst
his
fayth
ne
ayenst
his
oth
/
for
yf
alle
tho
thynges
that
the
frendes
desire
and
requyre
were
accomplisshid
&
doon
/
hit
shold
seme
that
they
shold
be
dishoneste
coniuracions
/
And
they
myght
otherwhile
more
greue
&
hurte
than
prouffit
and
ayde
/
And
herof
sayth
seneque
that
amytie
is
of
suche
wylle
as
the
frende
wylle
/
And
to
reffuse
that
ought
to
be
reffusid
by
rayson
/
And
yet
he
sayth
more
.
that
a
man
ought
to
alowe
and
preyse
his
frende
to
fore
the
peple
/
and
to
correcte
and
to
chastyse
hym
pryuyly
.
For
the
lawe
of
amytie
is
suche
.
For
a
man
ought
not
to
demande
ner
doo
to
be
doon
to
his
frende
no
vyllayns
thynge
that
ought
to
be
kept
secrete
And
valerian
sayth
that
it
is
a
fowll
thynge
and
an
euyll
excusacion
/
yf
a
man
conffesse
that
he
hath
done
ony
euyll
for
his
frende
ayenst
right
and
rayson
/
And
sayth
that
ther
was
a
good
man
named
Tassile
whiche
herde
one
his
frende
repuyre
of
hym
a
thynge
dishonneste
whiche
he
denyed
and
wold
not
doo
And
than
his
frende
sayth
to
hym
in
grete
dispyte
/
what
nede
haue
I
of
thy
frendship
&
amytie
whan
thou
wylt
not
doo
that
thynge
that
I
requyre
of
the
And
Tassile
answerd
to
hym
/
what
nede
haue
I
of
the
frendship
and
of
the
amytie
of
the
/
yf
I
shold
doo
for
the
thynge
dishoneste
And
thus
loue
is
founded
otherwhile
vpon
〈◊〉
prouffitable
/
and
this
loue
endureth
as
longe
as
he
seeth
his
prouffit
And
herof
men
saye
a
comyn
prouerbe
in
england
/
that
loue
lasteth
as
longe
as
the
money
endureth
/
and
whan
the
money
faylleth
than
there
is
no
loue
/
and
varro
reherceth
in
his
sommes
/
that
the
riche
men
ben
alle
louyd
by
this
loue
/
for
their
frendes
ben
lyke
as
the
huske
whiche
is
aboute
the
grayn
/
and
no
man
may
proue
his
frende
so
well
as
in
aduersite
/
or
whan
he
is
poure
/
for
the
veray
trewe
frende
faylleth
at
no
nede
/
And
seneque
saith
that
some
folowe
the
emperour
for
riches
/
and
so
doon
the
f●●es
the
hony
for
the
swetenes
/
and
the
wolf
the
karayn
And
thise
companye
folowe
the
proye
/
and
not
the
man
And
tullius
saith
that
Tarquyn
the
proude
had
a
neuewe
of
his
suster
which
was
named
brutus
and
this
neuewe
had
banysshid
tarquyn
out
of
rome
and
had
sente
hym
in
exyle
/
And
than
sayd
he
first
that
he
parceyuyd
&
knewe
his
frendes
whiche
were
trewe
&
vntrewe
/
and
that
he
neuer
perceyuyd
a
fore
tyme
whan
he
was
puyssant
for
to
doo
their
wyll
/
and
sayd
well
that
the
loue
that
they
had
to
hym
/
endured
not
but
as
longe
as
it
was
to
them
prouffitable
/
and
therfore
ought
all
the
ryche
men
of
the
world
take
hede
/
be
they
Kynges
Prynces
or
du●s
to
what
peple
they
doo
prouffit
&
how
they
may
and
ought
be
louyd
of
theyr
peple
/
For
cathon
sayth
in
his
book
/
see
to
whom
thougyuyst
/
and
this
loue
whiche
is
founded
vpon
theyr
prouffit
/
whiche
faylleth
and
endureth
not
/
may
better
be
callyd
and
said
marchandyse
than
loue
/
For
yf
we
repute
this
loue
to
our
prouffit
only
/
and
nothynge
to
the
prouffyt
of
hym
that
we
loue
/
It
is
more
marchandyse
than
loue
/
For
he
byeth
our
loue
for
the
prouffit
that
he
doth
to
vs
/
and
therfor
saith
the
versifier
thise
two
versis
Tempore
felici
multi
murmerantur
amici
Cum
〈…〉
ina
perit
nullus
amicus
erit
/
whiche
is
to
saye
in
English
that
as
longe
as
a
man
is
ewrous
and
fortunat
he
hath
many
frendes
but
whan
fortune
torneth
and
perisshith
.
ther
abideth
not
to
hym
one
frende
/
And
of
this
loue
ben
louyd
the
medowes
.
feldes
.
Trees
and
the
bestes
for
the
prouffit
that
men
take
of
them
/
But
the
loue
of
the
men
ought
to
be
charyte
.
veray
gracious
and
pure
by
good
fayth
/
And
the
veray
trewe
frendes
ben
knowen
in
pure
aduersite
/
and
pers
alphons
saith
in
his
book
of
moralite
that
ther
was
a
philosophre
in
arabye
that
had
an
onely
sone
/
of
whom
he
demanded
what
frendes
he
had
goten
hym
in
his
lyf
And
he
answerd
that
he
had
many
And
his
fader
sayd
to
hym
/
I
am
an
olde
man
/
And
yet
coude
I
neuer
fynde
but
one
frende
in
alle
my
lyf
/
And
I
trowe
verily
that
it
is
no
lytyll
thynge
for
to
haue
a
frende
/
and
hit
is
well
gretter
and
more
a
man
to
haue
many
/
And
hit
appertayneth
and
behoueth
a
man
to
assaye
and
preue
his
frende
er
he
haue
nede
And
than
comanded
the
philosopher
his
sone
/
that
he
shold
goo
and
slee
a
swyne
/
and
putte
hit
in
a
sack
/
and
fayne
that
hit
were
a
man
dede
that
he
had
slayn
and
bere
hit
to
his
frendes
for
to
burye
hit
secretly
/
And
whan
the
sone
had
don
as
his
fader
comanded
to
hym
and
had
requyred
his
frendes
one
after
an
other
as
afore
is
sayd
/
They
deuyed
hym
/
And
answerd
to
hym
that
he
was
a
vylayne
to
requyre
&
desire
of
them
thynge
that
was
so
peryllous
And
than
he
cam
agayn
to
his
fader
and
sayd
to
hym
how
he
had
requyred
alle
his
frendes
/
And
that
he
had
not
founden
one
that
wolde
helpe
hym
in
his
nede
And
than
his
fader
said
to
hym
that
he
shold
goo
and
requyre
his
frende
whiche
had
but
one
/
and
requyre
hym
that
he
shold
helpe
hym
in
his
nede
And
whan
he
had
requyred
hym
/
Anone
he
put
oute
alle
his
mayne
oute
of
his
hows
/
And
whan
they
were
oute
of
the
waye
or
a
slepe
he
dide
do
make
secretly
a
pytte
in
the
grounde
/
And
whan
hyt
was
redy
and
wold
haue
buryed
the
body
/
he
fonde
hit
an
hogge
or
a
swyne
and
not
a
man
/
And
thus
thys
sone
preūyd
thys
man
to
be
a
veray
trewe
frende
of
his
fader
/
And
preuyd
that
his
frendes
were
fals
frendes
of
fortune
/
And
yet
reherceth
the
sayd
piers
Alphons
/
That
ther
were
two
marchantes
one
of
Bandach
and
that
other
of
Egipte
whiche
were
so
Ioyned
to
gyder
by
so
grete
frendshippe
that
he
of
Bandach
cam
on
a
tyme
for
to
see
hys
frende
in
Egipte
/
of
whom
he
was
receyuyd
ryght
honourably
And
thy●
marchant
of
Egipte
had
in
his
hows
a
fayr
yonge
mayden
whom
he
shold
haue
had
in
maryage
to
hymself
/
Of
the
whiche
mayde
thys
marchant
of
Bandach
was
esprysed
wyth
her
loue
so
ardantly
that
he
was
ryght
seeke
/
And
that
men
supposid
hym
to
dye
.
And
than
the
other
dyde
doo
come
the
phisicyens
whiche
sayd
that
in
hym
was
none
other
sekenes
sauf
passyon
of
loue
/
Than
he
axid
of
the
seeke
man
yf
ther
were
ony
woman
in
hys
hows
that
he
louyd
and
made
alle
the
women
of
his
hows
to
come
to
fore
hym
/
And
than
he
chees
her
that
shold
haue
ben
that
others
wyf
and
sayd
that
he
was
seek
for
the
loue
of
her
/
Than
hys
frende
sayd
to
hym
Frende
conforte
your self
/
For
trewly
I
gyue
her
to
yow
to
wyf
wyth
alle
the
dowayre
that
is
gyuen
to
me
wyth
her
/
And
had
leuer
to
suffre
to
be
wyth
oute
wyf
than
to
lese
the
body
of
his
frende
.
And
than
he
of
Bandach
wedded
the
mayde
.
And
wente
wyth
his
wyf
and
wyth
his
richesse
ayen
in
to
his
contrey
And
after
this
anone
after
hit
happend
that
the
marchaunt
of
Egipte
be
cam
so
poure
by
euyll
fortune
/
that
he
was
constrayned
to
seche
and
begge
his
brede
by
the
contrey
in
so
moche
that
he
cam
to
bandach
.
And
whan
he
entrid
in
to
the
toun
hit
was
derke
nyght
that
he
coude
not
fynde
the
hows
of
his
frende
/
but
wente
and
laye
this
nyght
in
an
olde
temple
/
And
on
the
morn
whan
he
shold
yssue
oute
of
the
temple
/
the
officers
of
the
toun
arestid
hym
and
sayd
that
he
was
an
homycide
and
had
slayn
a
man
whiche
laye
there
dede
And
anon
he
confessid
hit
wyth
a
good
wylle
/
And
had
leuyr
to
ben
hangid
/
than
to
dye
in
that
myserable
and
poure
lyf
that
he
suffrid
And
thus
whan
he
was
brought
to
Iugement
And
sentence
shold
haue
ben
gyuen
ayenst
hym
as
an
homicide
/
his
frende
of
bandach
cam
and
sawe
hym
and
anone
knewe
that
this
was
his
good
frende
of
Egipte
And
forthwyth
stept
in
and
sayde
that
he
hym self
was
culpable
of
the
deth
of
this
man
/
and
not
that
other
/
and
enforced
hym
in
alle
maners
for
to
delyuer
and
excuse
that
other
/
And
than
whan
that
he
that
had
don
the
feet
and
had
slayn
the
man
sawe
this
thynge
/
he
considerid
in
hym self
that
these
two
men
were
Innocente
.
of
this
feet
/
And
doubtynge
the
dyuyn
Iugement
he
cam
to
fore
the
Iuge
and
confessid
alle
the
feet
by
ordre
/
And
whan
the
Iuge
sawe
and
herd
alle
this
mater
/
and
also
the
causes
he
considerid
the
ferme
and
trewe
loue
that
was
betwene
the
two
frendes
And
vnderstode
the
cause
why
that
one
wold
saue
that
other
/
and
the
trouth
of
the
fayte
of
the
homicide
And
than
he
pardoned
alle
the
feet
hoolly
and
entierly
/
and
after
the
marchant
of
bandach
brought
hym
of
egipte
wyth
hym
in
to
his
hous
/
and
gaf
to
hym
his
suster
in
mariage
/
and
departid
to
hym
half
his
goodes
/
And
so
bothe
of
hem
were
riche
/
And
thus
were
they
bothe
veray
faythfull
and
trewe
frendes
/
Furthermore
Notaires
.
men
of
lawe
and
crafty
men
shold
and
ought
to
loue
eche
other
And
also
ought
to
be
contynent
chaste
&
honeste
/
For
by
theyr
craftes
they
ought
so
to
be
by
necessite
/
For
they
conuerse
&
accompanye
them
ofte
tyme
with
women
And
therfor
hit
apperteyneth
to
them
to
be
chaste
and
honeste
And
that
they
meue
not
the
women
ner
entyse
them
to
law
he
/
and
Iape
by
ony
disordinate
ensignees
or
tokens
/
Titus
liuy●s
reherceth
that
the
philosopher
democreon
dyde
do
put
oute
his
eyen
for
as
moche
as
he
myght
not
beholde
the
women
wyth
oute
flesshely
desire
/
And
how
well
hit
is
said
before
that
he
dide
hit
for
other
certayn
cause
yet
was
this
one
of
the
pryncipall
causes
/
And
Valerian
telleth
that
ther
was
a
yonge
man
of
rome
of
ryght
excellent
beaute
/
And
how
well
that
he
was
ryght
chaste
/
For
as
moche
as
his
beaute
meuyd
many
women
to
desyre
hym
/
in
so
moche
that
he
vnderstode
that
the
parents
and
frendes
of
them
had
suspecion
in
hym
/
he
dyde
his
visage
to
be
cutte
wyth
a
knyf
and
lancettis
endlonge
and
ouerthwart
for
to
deforme
his
visage
/
And
had
leuer
haue
a
fowle
visage
and
disformed
/
than
the
beaute
of
hys
visage
shold
meue
other
to
synne
/
And
also
we
rede
that
ther
was
a
Nonne
a
virgyne
dyde
do
put
oute
bothe
her
eyen
For
as
moche
as
the
beaute
of
her
eyen
meuyd
a
kynge
to
loue
her
/
whyche
eyen
she
sente
to
the
kynge
in
a
presente
/
And
also
we
rede
that
plato
the
ryght
ryche
and
wyse
phylosophre
lefte
hys
owne
lande
and
Contre
.
And
cheese
his
mansion
and
dwellynge
in
achadomye
a
town
/
whiche
was
not
only
destroyed
but
also
was
full
of
pestelence
/
so
that
by
the
cure
and
charge
and
customance
of
sorowe
that
he
there
suffrid
/
myght
eschewe
the
heetes
and
occasions
of
lecherye
/
And
many
of
his
disciples
dyde
in
lyke
wyse
/
Helemand
reherceth
that
demostenes
the
philosopher
lay
ones
by
a
right
noble
woman
for
his
disporte
/
and
playnge
with
her
he
demanded
of
her
what
he
shold
gyue
to
haue
to
doo
wyth
her
/
And
she
answerd
to
hym
/
a
thousand
pens
/
and
he
sayd
agayn
to
her
I
shold
repente
me
to
bye
hit
so
dere
/
And
whan
he
aduysed
hym
that
he
was
so
sore
chauffid
to
speke
to
her
for
taccōplssh
his
flesshely
desire
/
he
dispoylled
hym
alle
naked
and
wente
and
putte
hym
in
the
middes
of
the
snowe
And
ouide
reherceth
that
this
thynge
is
the
leste
that
maye
helpe
and
moste
greue
the
louers
And
therfore
saynt
Augustyn
reherceth
in
his
book
de
Ciuita●d●i
that
ther
was
a
ryght
noble
romayne
named
mercu●ian
that
wan
and
toke
the
noble
cyte
of
siracuse
And
to fore
er
he
dyde
do
assaylle
hit
or
befyghte
hit
/
and
er
he
had
do
be
shedde
ony
blood
/
he
wepte
and
shedde
many
treris
to fore
the
cyte
And
that
was
for
the
cause
that
he
doubted
that
his
peple
shold
defoyle
and
corrumpe
to
moche
dishonestly
the
chastyte
of
the
toun
And
ordeyned
vpon
payne
of
deth
that
no
man
shold
be
so
hardy
to
take
and
defoylle
ony
woman
by
force
what
that
euer
she
were
/
After
this
the
craftymen
ought
to
vnderstond
for
to
be
trewe
/
and
to
haue
trouthe
in
her
mouthes
And
that
theyr
dedes
folowe
theyr
wordes
For
he
that
sayth
one
thynge
and
doth
another
/
he
condempneth
hym self
by
his
word
Also
they
ought
to
see
well
to
that
they
be
of
one
Acorde
in
good
.
by
entente
.
by
word
.
and
by
dede
/
so
that
they
ben
not
discordant
in
no
caas
/
But
euery
man
haue
pure
veryte
and
trouth
in
hym self
/
For
god
hym self
is
pure
verite
/
And
men
saye
comynly
that
trouthe
seketh
none
hernes
ne
corners
/
And
trouthe
is
a
vertu
by
the
whyche
alle
drede
and
fraude
is
put
away
/
Men
saye
truly
whan
they
saye
that
they
knowe
/
And
they
that
knowe
not
trouthe
/
ought
to
knowe
hit
/
And
alleway
vse
trouthe
/
For
Saynt
Austyn
sayth
that
they
that
wene
to
knowe
trouthe
/
And
lyuyth
euyll
&
viciously
It
is
folye
yf
he
knoweth
hit
not
/
And
also
he
sayth
in
an
other
place
that
is
better
to
suffre
peyne
for
trouthe
.
Than
for
to
haue
a
benefete
by
f●lsenes
or
by
flaterye
.
And
man
●hat
is
callyd
a
beast
resonable
and
doth
not
his
werkes
after
reson
and
trouthe
/
Is
more
bestyall
than
ony
beste
brute
/
And
knowe
ye
that
for
to
come
to
the
trouthe
/
Hit
cometh
of
a
raysonable
forsight
in
his
mynde
/
And
lyenge
cometh
of
an
outrageous
and
●●ntrarye
thought
in
his
mynde
/
For
he
that
lyeth
wetyngly
/
Knoweth
well
that
hit
is
agaynst
the
trouthe
that
he
thynketh
/
And
herof
speketh
Saynt
Bernard
and
sayth
/
That
the
mouthe
that
lyeth
destroyeth
the
sowle
/
And
yet
sayth
Saynt
Austyn
in
an
other
place
For
to
saye
ony
thynge
/
And
to
doo
the
contrarye
.
maketh
doctryne
suspecious
/
And
knowe
ye
veryly
that
for
to
lye
is
a
right
perillous
thynge
to
body
and
sowle
For
the
lye
that
the
auncyent
enemye
made
Eue
&
adam
to
beleue
hym
/
made
hem
for
to
be
dampned
wyth
alle
theyr
lignage
to
the
deth
pardurable
And
made
hem
to
be
cast
oute
of
Paradyse
terrestre
/
For
he
made
them
to
beleue
that
god
had
not
forboden
them
the
fruyt
.
But
only
be
cause
they
shold
not
knowe
that
her
maister
knewe
But
how
well
that
the
deuyll
said
thise
wordes
yet
had
she
double
entente
to
hem
bothe
For
they
knewe
anon
as
they
had
tasted
of
the
fruyt
that
they
were
dampned
to
the
deth
pardurable
/
And
god
knewe
hit
well
to fore
But
they
supposid
well
to
haue
knowen
many
other
thynges
And
to
be
lyke
vnto
his
knowleche
and
science
And
therfore
sayth
saynt
poule
in
a
pistyll
/
hit
ne
apperteyneth
to
saure
or
knowe
more
than
behoueth
to
saure
or
knowe
/
but
to
sauoure
or
knowe
by
mesure
or
sobrenes
/
And
valerian
reherceth
that
ther
was
a
good
woman
of
siracusane
that
wold
not
lye
vnto
the
kynge
of
secylle
whiche
was
named
dyonyse
And
this
kynge
was
so
full
of
tyrannye
&
so
cruell
that
alle
the
world
desired
his
deth
and
cursid
hym
/
Saauf
this
woman
onely
whiche
was
so
olde
that
she
had
seen
thre
or
.iiii.
kynges
regnynge
in
the
contre
/
And
euery
mornynge
as
sone
as
she
was
rysen
she
prayd
to
god
that
he
wold
gyue
vnto
the
tyrant
good
lyf
and
longe
And
that
she
myght
neuer
see
his
deth
/
And
whan
the
kynge
dyonise
knewe
this
he
sent
for
her
And
meruayllid
moche
herof
For
he
knewe
well
that
he
was
sore
behated
/
And
demaunded
her
/
what
cause
meuyd
her
to
pray
for
hym
.
And
she
answerd
and
said
to
hym
Syre
whan
I
was
a
mayde
we
had
a
right
euyll
tyrant
to
our
kynge
of
whom
we
coueyted
sore
the
deth
And
whan
he
was
ded
ther
cam
after
hym
a
worse
/
of
whom
we
coueyted
also
the
deth
/
And
whan
we
were
deliueryd
of
hym
/
thou
camst
to
be
our
lord
whiche
art
worste
of
alle
other
.
And
now
I
doubte
yf
we
haue
one
after
the
he
shall
be
worse
than
thou
art
/
And
therfore
I
shall
pray
for
the
And
whan
dionyse
vnderstod
that
she
was
so
hardy
in
sayynge
the
truthe
/
he
durste
not
doo
tormente
her
for
shame
be
cause
she
was
so
olde
.
¶
The
fourth
chapitre
of
the
thirde
book
treteth
of
the
maner
of
the
fourth
pawn
and
of
the
marchants
or
changers
.
THe
fourth
pawn
is
sette
to
for
the
kynge
And
is
formed
in
the
fourme
of
a
man
holding
in
his
ryght
hand
a
balance
/
And
the
weyght
in
the
lifte
hand
/
And
to
fore
hym
a
table
And
at
his
gurdell
a
purse
fulle
of
monoye
redy
for
to
gyue
to
them
that
requyre
hit
And
by
this
peple
ben
signefied
the
marchans
of
cloth
lynnen
and
wollen
&
of
all
other
marchandises
And
by
the
table
that
is
to
for
hym
is
signefied
the
changeurs
/
And
they
that
leue
money
/
And
they
that
bye
&
selle
by
the
weyght
ben
signefyed
by
the
balances
and
weight
And
the
customers
/
●ollers
/
and
resseyuours
of
rentes
&
of
money
ben
signefied
by
the
purse
And
knowe
ye
that
alle
they
that
ben
signefied
by
this
peple
ought
to
●lee
auaryce
and
couetyse
/
And
eschewe
brekynge
of
the
dayes
of
payement
/
And
ought
to
holde
and
kepe
theyr
promyssis
/
And
ought
also
to
rendre
&
restore
that
/
that
is
gyuen
to
them
to
kepe
/
And
therfor
hit
is
reson
that
this
peple
be
sette
to
for
the
kynge
for
as
moche
as
they
signefie
the
resscyuours
of
the
tresours
royall
that
ought
allway
to
be
redy
to fore
the
kynge
and
to
answere
for
hym
to
the
knightes
and
other
persones
for
their
wages
&
souldyes
And
therfor
haue
I
sayd
that
they
ought
to
flee
auarice
.
For
auarice
is
as
moche
to
say
as
an
adourer
or
as
worshipar
of
fals
ymages
/
&
herof
saith
Tullius
that
auarice
is
a
couetise
to
gete
that
thing
that
is
aboue
necessite
/
&
it
is
a
loue
disordinate
to
haue
ony
thynge
And
it
is
one
of
the
werst
thyngis
that
is
And
specially
to
prynces
and
to
them
that
gouerne
the
thynges
of
the
comunete
And
this
vice
causeth
a
man
to
do
euyll
/
And
this
doynge
euyll
is
whan
hit
regneth
in
olde
men
And
herof
saith
Seneque
That
alle
wordly
thynges
ben
mortifyed
and
appetissid
in
olde
men
reserued
auaryce
only
/
whiche
alleway
abideth
wyth
hym
and
dyeth
wyth
hym
But
I
vnderstande
not
well
the
cause
wherof
this
cometh
ne
wherfore
hit
may
be
And
hit
is
a
fowle
thynge
and
contrarie
to
reson
That
whan
a
man
is
at
ende
of
his
Iourney
for
to
lengthe
his
viage
and
to
ordeyne
more
vitayll
than
hym
behoueth
And
this
may
well
be
lykened
to
the
auarycious
wolf
For
the
wolf
doth
neuer
good
tyll
he
be
dede
And
thus
it
is
sayd
in
the
prouerbis
of
the
wisemen
/
that
th
auaricious
man
doth
no
good
tyll
that
he
be
ded
/
And
he
desireth
no
thynge
but
to
lyue
longe
in
this
synne
For
the
couetouse
man
certaynly
is
not
good
for
ony
thynge
For
he
is
euyll
to
hymself
and
to
the
riche
and
to
the
poure
.
And
fynde
cause
to
gayn
saye
theyr
desire
/
and
herof
reherceth
seneque
and
sayt●
that
Antigonus
was
a
couetous
prynce
/
&
whan
Tinque
whiche
was
his
frende
requyred
of
hym
a
besaunt
/
he
answerd
to
hym
that
he
demanded
more
than
hit
apperteyned
to
hym
And
than
tinque
constrayned
by
grete
necessite
axid
and
requyred
of
hym
a
peny
/
And
he
answerd
to
hym
that
hit
was
no
yefte
couenable
for
a
kynge
and
so
he
was
allway
redy
to
fynde
a
cause
nought
to
gyue
For
he
myght
haue
gyuen
to
hym
a
besaunt
as
a
kynge
to
his
frende
/
And
the
peny
as
to
a
poure
man
And
ther
is
no
thynge
so
lytyll
/
but
that
the
humanyte
of
a
kynge
may
gyue
hit
Auarice
full
of
couetyse
is
a
maner
of
alle
vices
of
luxurye
And
Iosephus
reherceth
in
the
book
of
auncyent
histories
/
that
ther
was
in
rome
●
ryght
noble
lady
named
Paulyne
/
And
was
of
the
most
noble
of
rome
/
right
honeste
for
the
noblesse
of
chastete
/
whiche
was
maryed
in
the
tyme
that
the
women
gloryfied
them
in
theyr
chastete
vnto
a
yonge
man
fayr
.
noble
.
and
riche
aboue
alle
other
/
and
was
lyke
and
semblable
to
his
wyf
in
alle
caasis
/
And
this
paulyne
was
belouyd
of
a
knight
named
emmerancian
And
was
so
ardautly
esprysed
in
her
loue
that
he
sente
to
her
many
right
riche
yeftes
/
And
made
to
her
many
grete
promissis
/
but
he
might
neuer
t●●ne
the
herte
of
her
whiche
was
on
her
side
also
colde
and
harde
as
marbill
But
had
leuer
to
reffuse
his
yeftes
and
his
promisses
.
Than
to
entende
to
couetise
&
to
lose
her
chastete
/
and
we
●ede
also
in
the
historyes
of
rome
that
ther
was
a
noble
lady
of
rome
/
whiche
lyuyd
a
solitarye
lyf
and
was
chaste
&
honeste
/
And
had
gadrid
to
gyder
a
grete
some
of
gold
/
And
had
hid
hit
in
the
erthe
in
a
pytte
wyth
in
her
hous
/
And
whan
she
was
ded
/
the
bisshop
dyde
do
burye
her
in
the
churche
well
and
honestly
/
And
anone
after
this
gold
was
founden
&
born
to
the
bisshop
/
And
the
bisshop
bad
to
caste
hit
in
to
the
pytte
wher
she
was
buryed
/
And
.iii.
dayes
men
herd
her
crye
&
make
grete
noyse
/
and
saye
that
she
brennyd
in
grete
payne
/
and
they
herd
her
ofte
tymes
thus
tormentid
in
the
chirche
/
the
neighbours
wente
to
the
bisshop
&
told
hym
therof
/
and
the
bisshop
gaf
hem
leue
to
open
the
sepulcre
/
and
whan
they
had
opend
hit
/
they
fonde
all
the
gold
molten
with
fyre
full
of
sulphre
/
And
was
poured
and
put
in
her
mouth
/
and
they
herd
one
saye
/
thou
desiredest
this
gold
by
couetyse
take
hit
and
drynke
hit
/
And
than
they
toke
the
body
out
of
the
tombe
And
hit
was
cast
oute
in
a
preuy
place
Seneque
reherceth
in
the
book
of
the
cryes
of
women
that
auarice
is
foundement
of
alle
vices
/
And
valerian
reherceth
that
auarice
is
a
ferdfull
garde
or
kepar
of
rychessis
for
he
that
hath
on
hym
or
in
his
kepynge
moche
money
or
other
rychessis
/
is
allway
aferd
to
lose
hit
or
to
be
robbid
or
to
be
slayn
therfore
/
And
he
is
not
ewrous
ner
happy
that
by
couetyse
geteth
hit
/
And
alle
the
euyllys
of
this
vice
of
auarice
had
a
man
of
rome
named
septemulle
For
he
was
a
frende
of
one
named
tarchus
And
this
septemulle
brente
so
sore
and
so
cruelly
in
this
synne
of
couetyse
/
that
he
had
no
shame
to
smyte
of
the
hede
of
his
frende
by
trayson
/
For
as
moche
as
one
framosian
had
promysed
to
hym
as
moche
weyght
of
pure
gold
as
the
heed
weyed
And
he
bare
the
sayd
heed
vpon
a
staf
thurgh
the
cyte
of
rome
/
and
he
wyded
the
brayn
out
therof
and
fyld
hit
full
of
leed
for
to
weye
the
heuyer
This
was
a
right
horrible
and
cruell
auarice
Ptolome
kynge
of
the
Egipciens
poursewed
auarice
in
an
other
manere
For
whan
anthome
emperour
of
rome
sawe
that
he
was
right
riche
of
gold
and
siluer
/
he
had
hym
in
grete
hate
and
tormentid
hym
right
cruelly
And
whan
he
shold
perishe
be
cause
of
his
richessis
/
he
toke
alle
his
hauoyr
and
put
hit
in
a
shippe
And
wente
wyth
alle
in
to
the
hye
see
to
th
ende
for
to
drowne
and
perishe
there
the
shippe
and
his
rychesses
be
cause
Anthonie
his
enemye
shold
not
haue
hit
/
And
whan
he
was
there
he
durst
not
perisshe
hit
ner
myght
not
fynde
in
his
herte
to
departe
from
hit
/
but
cam
and
brought
hit
agayn
in
to
his
hows
where
he
resseyuyd
the
reward
of
deth
therfore
.
And
wyth
oute
doubte
he
was
not
lord
of
the
richesse
but
the
richesse
was
lady
ouer
hym
/
And
therfore
hit
is
sayd
in
prouerbe
that
a
man
ought
to
s●ignorye
ouer
the
riches
/
and
not
for
to
serue
hit
/
and
yf
thou
canst
dewly
vse
thy
rychesse
than
she
is
thy
chamberyer
/
And
yf
thou
can
not
departe
from
hit
and
vse
hit
honestly
at
thy
playsir
/
knowe
verily
that
she
is
thy
lady
For
the
richesse
neuer
satisfieth
the
couetouse
/
but
the
more
he
hath
/
the
more
he
desireth
/
And
saluste
sayth
that
auarice
distourblith
fayth
poeste
honeste
and
alle
these
other
good
vertues
/
And
taketh
for
these
vertues
pryde
.
cruelte
.
And
to
forgete
god
/
And
saith
that
alle
thynges
be
vendable
And
after
this
they
ought
to
be
ware
that
they
lene
not
to
moche
/
ner
make
so
grete
creances
by
which
they
may
f●lle
in
pouerte
/
For
saynt
Ambrose
saith
vpon
to
bye
.
pouerte
hath
no
lawe
for
to
owe
hit
is
a
shame
/
&
to
owe
and
not
paye
is
a
more
shame
/
yf
thou
be
poure
beware
how
thou
berowest
/
and
thinke
how
thou
maist
paye
&
rendre
agayn
yf
thou
be
ryche
thou
hast
none
nede
to
borowe
&
axe
/
&
it
is
said
in
the
prouerbes
that
hit
is
fraude
to
take
/
that
thou
wilt
not
ner
maist
rendre
&
paye
agayn
/
and
also
hit
is
said
in
reproche
/
whan
I
leue
I
am
thy
frend
/
&
whan
I
axe
I
am
thy
enemye
/
as
wo
saith
/
god
at
the
le●y●ge
/
&
the
deuyll
at
rendrynge
/
And
seneque
sayth
in
his
auctorites
/
that
they
that
gladly
borowe
/
ought
gladly
to
paye
/
and
ought
to
surmonte
in
corage
to
loue
hem
the
better
be
cause
they
▪
lene
hem
&
ayde
hem
in
her
nede
For
for
benefetes
&
good
tornes
doon
to
a
man
ought
to
gyue
hym
thankinges
therfore
/
And
moche
more
ought
a
man
to
repaye
that
Is
lente
hym
in
his
nede
/
But
now
in
these
dayes
many
men
by
lenynge
of
their
money
haue
made
of
their
frendes
enemyes
/
And
herof
speketh
Domas
the
philosopher
and
sayth
that
my
frende
borowed
money
of
me
/
And
I
haue
lost
my
frende
and
my
money
attones
/
Ther
was
a
marchant
of
Gene
&
also
a
chaungeour
/
whos
name
was
Albert
gauor
/
And
this
albert
was
a
man
of
grete
trouth
and
loyaulte
/
for
on
a
tyme
ther
was
a
man
cam
to
hym
and
said
&
affermed
that
he
had
delyueryd
in
to
his
banke
.v.
honderd
floryns
of
gold
to
kepe
whiche
was
not
trouth
for
he
lyed
/
whyche
fyue
honderd
floryns
the
said
Albert
knewe
not
of
/
ner
coude
fynde
in
all
hys
bookes
ony
suche
money
to
hym
due
And
this
lyar
coude
not
brynge
no
wytnessis
/
but
began
to
braye
.
crye
and
deffame
the
said
albert
And
than
this
Albert
callid
to
hym
this
marchaunt
and
sayd
/
Dere
frende
take
here
v
▪
honderd
florms
whyche
thou
affermest
and
sayst
that
thou
hast
deliuerid
to
me
And
forthwyth
tolde
hem
and
toke
hem
to
hym
And
lo
this
good
man
had
leuer
to
lose
his
good
than
his
good
name
and
renome
And
this
other
marchant
toke
these
florins
that
he
had
wrongfully
receyuyd
/
and
enployed
them
in
diuerce
marchandise
in
so
moche
that
he
gate
and
encresid
and
wan
with
them
.xv.
thousand
florins
And
whan
he
sawe
that
he
approchid
toward
his
deth
/
and
that
he
had
no
children
He
establisshid
albert
his
heyr
in
alle
thingis
And
sayd
that
with
the
.v.
honderd
florms
that
he
had
receyuyd
of
albert
falsely
/
he
had
goten
alle
that
he
had
in
the
world
And
thus
by
dyuyne
pourueance
he
that
had
be
a
theef
fraudelent
/
was
made
afterward
a
trewe
procurour
and
attorney
of
the
sayd
albert
/
But
now
in
this
dayes
ther
ben
marchauns
that
do
marchandise
with
other
mens
money
whiche
is
taken
to
hem
to
kepe
/
And
whan
they
ben
requyred
to
repaye
hit
they
haue
no
shame
to
denye
hit
appertly
/
wherof
hit
happend
that
ther
was
a
marchant
whyche
had
a
good
&
a
grete
name
and
renome
of
kepynge
well
suche
thynges
as
was
delyueryd
to
hym
to
kepe
/
But
whan
he
sawe
place
and
tyme
/
he
reteynyd
hyt
lyke
a
theef
/
So
hyt
befelle
that
a
marchant
of
with
oute
forth
herd
the
good
reporte
&
fame
of
this
man
/
cam
to
hym
and
deliuerid
hym
grete
tresour
to
kepe
/
And
this
tresour
abode
thre
yer
in
his
kepynge
.
And
after
this
thre
yer
thys
marchant
cam
&
requyred
to
haue
hys
good
deliueryd
to
hym
agaym
/
And
thys
man
knewe
well
that
he
had
no
recorde
ne
wytnes
to
preue
on
hym
this
duete
/
Nor
he
had
no
obligacion
ne
wrytynge
of
hym
therof
/
In
suche
wyse
that
he
denyed
alle
entyerly
/
And
sayd
playnly
he
knewe
hym
not
.
And
whan
thys
good
man
herde
and
vnderstode
thys
.
he
wente
sorowfully
and
wepynge
from
hym
so
ferre
and
longe
that
an
old
woman
mette
wyth
hym
/
And
demanded
of
hym
the
cause
of
hys
wepynge
/
And
he
sayd
to
her
/
woman
hit
apperteyneth
no
thynge
to
the
Go
thy
way
/
And
she
prayd
hym
that
he
wold
telle
her
the
cause
of
hys
sorowe
/
For
parauenture
she
myght
gyue
hym
counceylle
good
and
prouffytable
.
And
than
this
man
told
to
her
by
ordre
the
●aas
of
his
fortune
/
And
the
old
woman
that
was
wyse
&
subtyll
demanded
of
hym
yf
he
had
in
that
cyte
ony
frende
whiche
wold
be
faythfull
and
trewe
to
hym
And
he
sayd
ye
that
he
had
dyuerce
frendes
/
Than
said
she
goo
thou
to
them
and
saye
to
them
that
they
do
ordeyne
and
bye
dyuerce
cofres
&
chestie
/
And
that
they
do
fylle
them
with
som
olde
thinges
of
no
value
/
and
that
they
fayne
And
saye
that
they
be
full
of
gold
.
siluer
&
other
Iewels
and
of
moche
grete
tresour
/
And
than
that
they
brynge
them
to
this
sayd
marchant
And
to
saye
to
hym
that
he
wold
kepe
them
/
For
as
moche
as
they
had
grete
trust
and
affiance
in
hym
And
also
that
they
haue
herd
of
his
grete
trouthe
and
good
renome
/
And
also
they
wold
goo
in
to
a
fer
contre
And
shold
be
longe
er
they
retorned
agayn
And
whilis
they
speke
to
hym
of
this
mater
/
thou
shalt
come
vpon
them
and
requyre
hym
that
he
do
deliuere
to
the
/
that
thou
tokest
to
hym
/
And
I
trowe
be
cause
of
tho
good
men
that
than
shall
profre
to
hym
the
sayd
tresour
/
And
for
the
couetise
to
haue
hit
/
he
shall
deliuere
to
the
thy
good
agayn
/
But
beware
late
hym
not
knowe
in
no
wyse
that
they
ben
thy
frendes
ner
of
thy
knowleche
This
was
a
grete
and
good
counceyll
of
a
woman
And
verily
hit
cometh
of
nature
oftentymes
to
women
to
gyue
counceyll
shortly
and
vnauysedly
to
thynges
that
ben
in
doute
or
perillous
and
nedeth
hasty
remedye
/
And
as
ye
haue
herd
/
this
good
man
dyde
And
dyde
after
her
counceyll
And
cam
vpon
them
whan
they
spack
of
the
mater
to
the
marchant
for
to
deliuere
to
hym
the
sayd
cofres
to
kepe
whyche
his
frendes
had
fayned
and
requyred
of
hym
that
he
had
taken
to
hym
to
kepe
/
and
than
anon
the
sayd
marchant
sayd
to
hym
I
knowe
the
now
well
.
For
I
haue
auysed
me
that
thou
art
suche
a
man
/
And
camst
to
me
suche
a
tyme
/
And
deliuerest
to
me
suche
a
thynge
whiche
I
haue
well
kept
/
And
than
callyd
his
clerck
/
and
bad
hym
goo
fecche
suche
a
thynge
in
suche
a
place
/
and
deliuere
hit
to
that
good
man
For
he
deliuerid
hit
to
me
/
And
than
the
good
man
receyuyd
his
good
.
And
wente
his
way
right
Ioyously
and
gladd
/
And
this
marchant
trycheur
and
deceyuour
was
defrauded
from
his
euyll
malice
/
And
he
ne
had
neyther
that
one
ne
that
other
ony
thynge
that
was
of
value
/
And
therfore
hit
Is
sayd
in
prouerbe
to
defraude
the
beguylar
is
no
fraude
/
And
he
that
doth
well
foloweth
oure
lord
And
seneke
saith
that
charyte
enseygneth
and
techeth
that
men
shold
paye
well
For
good
payement
is
sometyme
good
confession
/
And
this
marchant
trycheour
&
deceyuour
resembleth
&
Is
lyke
to
an
hound
that
bereth
a
chese
in
his
mouth
whan
he
swymmeth
ouer
a
watre
For
whan
he
is
on
the
watre
He
seeth
the
shadowe
of
the
chese
in
the
watre
/
And
than
he
weneth
hit
be
an
other
chese
/
And
for
couetyse
to
haue
that
/
he
openth
his
mouth
to
cacche
that
/
And
than
the
chese
that
he
bare
fallyth
doun
in
to
the
watre
/
And
thus
he
loseth
bothe
two
/
And
in
the
same
wise
was
seruyd
this
marchant
deceynour
/
For
for
to
haue
the
coffres
/
whiche
he
had
not
seen
/
He
deliueryd
agayn
that
he
wold
haue
holden
wrongfully
&
thus
by
his
couetise
and
propre
malice
he
was
deceyuyd
/
And
therfore
hit
apperteyneth
to
euery
good
&
wyse
man
to
knowe
&
considere
in
hym self
how
moche
he
had
resseyuyd
of
other
men
/
And
vpon
what
condicion
hit
was
deliuerid
to
hym
And
hit
is
to
wete
that
this
thinge
apperteyneth
to
resseyuours
&
to
chaungeours
And
to
alle
true
marchans
and
other
what
som
euyr
they
bee
/
and
ought
to
kepe
their
bookes
of
resaytes
&
of
payements
of
whom
&
to
whom
and
what
tyme
&
day
.
and
yf
ye
demande
what
thynge
makyth
them
to
forgete
suche
thynges
as
ben
taken
to
them
to
kepe
I
answere
&
saye
that
hyt
Is
grete
couetyse
for
to
haue
tho
thynges
to
them self
and
neuer
to
departe
from
them
/
And
hit
is
all
her
thought
and
desire
to
assemble
alle
the
good
that
they
may
gete
For
they
beleue
on
none
other
god
/
but
on
her
richessis
theyr
hertes
ben
so
obstynat
/
and
this
sufficeth
of
the
marchantes
.
¶
This
fyfth
chapitre
of
the
thirde
book
treteth
of
phisiciens
spicers
and
Apotyquaryes
.
THe
pawōn
that
is
sette
to
fore
the
quene
signefyeth
the
phisicyen
/
spicer
and
Apotyquaire
/
and
is
formed
in
the
figure
of
a
man
/
And
he
is
sette
in
a
chayer
as
a
maystre
and
holdeth
in
his
right
hand
a
book
/
And
an
ample
or
a
boxe
wyth
oynementis
in
his
lyft
hand
/
And
at
his
gurdell
his
Instrumentis
of
yron
and
of
siluer
for
to
make
Incysions
and
to
serche
woundes
and
hurtes
/
and
to
cutte
apostumes
/
And
by
thyse
thynges
ben
knowen
the
cyrurgyens
/
By
the
book
ben
vnderstanden
the
phisicyens
/
and
alle
gramaryens
.
logicyens
/
maistres
of
lawe
.
of
Geometrye
.
Arismetryque
.
musique
and
of
astronomye
/
And
by
the
ampole
/
ben
signefyed
the
makers
of
pigmentaries
spicers
and
apotiquayres
/
and
they
that
make
confections
and
confytes
and
medecynes
made
wyth
precyous
spyces
And
by
the
ferremens
and
Instrumentis
that
hangen
on
the
gurdell
ben
signefied
the
cyrurgyens
&
the
maistres
And
knowe
ye
for
certain
that
a
maystre
&
phisicyen
ought
to
knowe
the
proporcions
of
lettres
of
gramayre
/
the
monemens
the
conclusions
and
the
sophyms
of
logyque
.
the
gracious
speche
and
vtterance
of
rethorique
/
the
mesures
of
the
houres
and
dayes
/
and
of
the
cours
and
astronomye
/
the
nombre
of
ars
metryk
/
&
the
Ioyous
songes
of
musyque
And
of
alle
thyse
tofore
named
/
the
maistres
of
rethorique
ben
the
chyef
maistres
in
speculatyf
/
And
the
two
laste
that
ben
practisiens
and
werkers
ben
callyd
phisicyens
and
cyrurgyens
/
how
well
they
ben
sage
and
curyous
in
thyse
sciences
/
And
how
well
that
mannes
lyf
is
otherwhile
put
in
th
ordonance
of
the
phisicyen
or
cyrurgyen
/
yf
he
haue
not
sagesse
and
wysedom
in
hym self
of
dyuerce
wrytynges
and
is
not
expert
/
And
medlyth
hym
in
the
craft
of
phisique
/
He
ought
better
be
callyd
a
s●ear
of
peple
than
a
phisicyen
or
cyrurgyen
.
For
he
may
not
be
a
maystre
but
yf
he
be
sewre
and
expert
in
the
craft
of
phisike
that
he
s●e
not
moo
than
he
●●●eth
and
maketh
hoole
/
And
therfore
sayth
Auy●emie
in
an
Enphormye
/
yf
thou
curest
the
seke
man
.
And
knowest
not
the
cause
/
wherof
the
maladye
ought
to
be
cured
/
Hit
ought
to
be
sayd
that
thou
hast
cured
hym
by
fortune
and
ha●pe
more
than
by
ony
comynge
.
And
in
alle
thyse
maner
of
peple
/
Ther
ought
to
be
incur●e
of
good
maners
/
Curtoysie
of
wordes
/
Chastite
of
the
body
promysse
of
helthe
/
And
as
to
them
that
ben
seke
contynuell
visitacion
of
them
/
And
they
ought
to
enquere
the
cause
of
theye
sekenessis
and
the
sygnes
and
tokens
of
theyr
maladyes
/
As
is
rehercid
in
the
bookes
of
the
auctours
by
ryght
grete
diligence
/
And
specially
in
the
bookes
of
ypocras
galyene
and
of
Auycene
And
whan
many
maysters
and
phisicyens
ben
assemblid
to
fore
the
pacyent
or
seke
man
/
They
ought
not
there
to
argue
and
dispute
one
agaynst
an
other
/
But
they
ought
to
make
good
and
symple
colacion
to geder
.
In
suche
wyse
as
they
be
not
seen
in
theyr
desputynge
on●
agaynst
an
other
/
for
to
encroche
and
gete
more
glorye
of
the
world
to
them self
/
than
to
trete
the
salute
and
helthe
of
the
pacyent
and
seke
man
/
I
meruayll
why
that
whan
they
see
and
knowe
that
whan
the
seke
man
hath
grete
nede
of
helthe
wherfore
than
they
make
gretter
obiection
of
contraryousnes
for
as
moche
as
the
lyf
of
man
is
demened
and
put
amonge
them
but
hit
is
be
cause
that
he
is
reputed
most
sage
and
wise
that
argueth
and
bryngeth
in
moste
subtyltes
/
And
alle
this
maner
is
amonge
doctours
of
lawe
that
treteth
no
thynge
of
mannes
lyf
.
But
of
temporelle
thynges
/
that
he
is
holden
most
wyse
and
best
lerned
/
that
by
his
counceyll
can
beste
acorde
the
contencions
and
discencions
of
men
And
therfore
ought
the
phisicyens
and
cyrurgyens
leue
whan
they
be
to
fore
the
seke
men
alle
dissencions
and
contrariousnes
of
wordes
/
in
suche
wyse
that
hit
appere
that
they
studye
more
for
to
cure
the
seke
men
than
for
to
despute
And
therfore
is
the
phisicien
duly
sette
to
fore
the
quene
/
So
that
it
is
figured
that
he
ought
to
haue
in
hymself
chastite
and
contynence
of
body
.
For
hit
apperteyneth
somtyme
vnto
the
phisicien
to
visite
and
cure
Quenes
duchesses
and
countesses
and
alle
other
ladyes
and
see
and
beholde
some
secrete
sekenessis
that
falle
and
come
otherwhile
in
the
secretis
of
nature
And
therfore
hit
apperteyneth
to
them
that
they
be
chaste
and
folowe
honeste
and
chastite
/
and
that
they
be
ensample
to
other
of
good
contynence
/
For
valerian
reherceth
that
ypocras
was
of
meruayllous
contynence
of
his
body
/
For
whan
he
was
in
the
scoles
of
Athenes
/
he
had
by
hym
a
ryght
fayr
woman
whyche
was
comyn
And
the
yonge
scolers
and
the
Ioly
felaws
that
were
students
promisyd
to
the
woman
a
besan̄t
/
yf
she
myght
or
coude
torne
the
corage
of
ypocras
for
to
haue
to
doon
wyth
her
/
And
she
cam
to
hym
by
nyght
and
dyde
so
moche
by
her
craft
that
she
laye
wyth
hym
in
his
bedd
/
but
she
coude
neuer
do
so
moche
that
she
myghte
corrumpe
his
chaste
liuynge
ne
defoule
the
crowne
of
his
conscience
/
and
whan
the
yonge
men
knewe
that
she
had
ben
with
hym
all
the
might
And
coude
not
chaunge
his
contynence
/
they
began
to
mocque
her
/
And
to
axe
and
demande
of
her
the
besant
that
they
had
gyuen
to
her
.
And
she
answerd
That
hit
was
holden
a
gaged
vpon
an
ymage
/
For
as
moche
as
she
might
not
change
his
contynence
she
callyd
hym
an
ymage
/
And
in
semblable
wyse
reherceth
Valerian
of
Scenocrates
philosopher
that
ther
laye
with
hym
a
woman
all
night
And
tempted
hym
disordina●ly
/
but
that
ryght
chaste
man
/
made
neuer
semblant
to
her
/
Ner
he
neuer
remeuyd
from
his
ferme
purpoos
/
In
suche
wyse
as
she
departid
from
hym
alle
confusid
and
shamed
/
Cornelius
scipion
that
was
sent
by
the
romayns
for
to
gouerne
spayne
/
as
sone
as
he
entryd
in
to
the
castellis
&
in
to
the
townes
of
that
lande
He
began
to
take
away
all
the
thynges
that
miht
styre
or
meue
his
men
to
lecherye
wherfore
men
sayd
that
he
drof
&
chared
oute
of
the
oste
moo
than
two
thousand
hourdellys
/
And
he
that
was
wyse
knewe
well
that
delyte
of
lecherye
corrupted
and
apayred
the
corages
of
tho
men
that
ben
abandonned
to
that
same
delyte
/
And
herof
hit
is
sayd
in
the
fables
of
the
poetes
in
the
first
book
of
the
Truphes
of
the
Philosophers
by
figure
.
That
they
that
entryd
in
to
the
fontayne
of
the
sirenes
or
mermaydens
/
were
corrumpid
and
they
toke
them
away
with
hem
/
And
also
ye
ought
to
knowe
that
they
ought
to
entende
diligently
to
the
cures
of
the
enfermytees
in
cyrugerye
/
They
ought
to
make
theyr
playsters
acordynge
to
the
woundes
or
sores
/
yf
the
wounde
be
rounde
The
enplastre
must
be
round
/
and
yf
hyt
be
longe
/
hyt
muste
be
longe
/
and
otherwhile
hit
muste
be
cured
by
his
contrarye
/
lyke
as
hit
apperteyneth
to
phisique
/
For
the
hete
is
cured
by
cold
/
and
the
colde
by
hete
/
and
Ioye
by
sorowe
/
and
sorowe
by
Ioye
/
and
hit
happeth
ofte
tymes
that
moche
peple
be
in
grete
paryll
in
takynge
to
moche
Ioye
and
lese
her
membris
/
and
become
half
benomen
in
the
sodayn
Ioye
/
And
Ioye
is
a
replection
of
thynge
that
is
delectable
sprad
a
brode
in
all
the
membris
with
right
grete
gladnes
And
all
men
entende
and
desire
to
haue
the
sayd
ryght
grete
Ioye
naturelly
/
But
they
knowe
not
what
may
ensue
and
come
therof
And
this
Ioye
cometh
otherwhile
of
vertue
of
conscience
/
And
the
wyse
man
is
not
wyth
out
this
Ioye
And
this
Ioye
is
neuer
Interrupt
ne
in
deffaulte
at
no
tyme
For
hit
cometh
of
nature
And
fortune
may
not
take
a
waye
that
nature
geueth
.
And
merciall
saith
that
Ioyes
fugitiues
abide
not
longe
But
flee
away
anon
And
valerian
reherceth
that
he
that
hath
force
and
strengthe
raysonable
/
hath
hit
of
verray
matier
of
complection
and
that
cometh
of
loue
And
this
Ioye
hath
as
moche
power
to
departe
the
sowle
fro
the
body
/
as
hath
the
thondre
/
wherof
hit
happend
that
ther
was
a
woman
named
lyna
whiche
had
her
husbonde
in
the
warre
in
the
shipp
is
of
the
romayns
/
And
she
supposid
verily
that
he
was
ded
/
But
hit
happend
that
he
cam
agayn
home
And
as
he
entryd
in
to
his
yate
/
his
wif
met
wyth
hym
sodeynly
not
warned
of
his
comyng
.
whiche
was
so
glad
and
Ioyous
/
that
in
enbrasynge
hym
she
fyll
doun
ded
Also
of
an
other
woman
to
whom
was
reportid
by
a
fals
messanger
that
her
sone
was
ded
/
whiche
w●●te
home
soroufully
to
her
hows
/
And
afterward
whan
her
sone
cam
to
her
/
As
sone
as
she
sawe
hym
/
she
was
so
esmoued
with
Ioye
that
she
deyde
to
fore
hym
/
But
this
is
not
so
grete
meruaylle
of
women
as
is
of
the
men
/
For
the
women
ben
likened
vnto
softe
waxe
or
softe
ayer
and
therfor
she
is
callid
mulier
whyche
Is
as
moche
to
saye
in
latyn
as
mollys
aer
.
And
in
english
soyfte
ayer
/
And
hit
happeth
ofte
tymes
that
the
nature
of
them
that
ben
softe
and
mole
/
taketh
sonner
Inpression
than
the
nature
of
men
that
is
rude
and
stronge
/
Valerye
reherceth
a
sayth
that
a
knyght
of
rome
named
I●staulosus
that
had
newly
conquerid
and
subiuged
the
yle
of
Corsika
/
And
as
he
sacrefyed
his
goddes
/
he
receyuyd
lettres
from
the
senate
of
rome
In
whiche
were
conteyned
dyuerce
supplicacyons
/
The
whiche
whan
he
vnd●rstood
he
was
so
glad
and
so
enterprysed
wyth
Ioye
that
he
knewe
not
what
to
doo
And
than
a
grete
fu●●ce
or
smoke
yssued
out
of
the
fyre
In
whiche
he
dispayred
and
fyll
in
to
the
fyre
/
where
he
was
anone
ded
/
And
also
it
is
sayd
that
Philomenus
lawhed
so
sore
and
distemperatly
that
he
deyde
alle
lawhynge
/
And
we
rede
that
●pocras
the
phisicien
fonde
remedye
for
thys
Ioye
/
For
whan
he
had
longe
dwellyd
oute
of
his
contreye
for
to
lerne
connynge
and
wysedom
/
And
shold
retorne
vnto
his
parentis
and
frendes
/
whan
he
approchid
nyghe
them
/
He
sente
a
messanger
to fore
for
to
telle
to
them
his
comynge
/
and
comanded
hym
to
saye
that
he
cam
for
they
had
not
longe
to fore
seen
hym
And
that
they
shold
attempre
them
in
that
Ioye
er
they
shold
see
hym
/
And
also
we
rede
that
Titus
the
sone
of
vaspasian
whan
he
had
conquerd
Iherusalem
and
abode
in
the
contrees
by
he
herde
that
his
fader
vaspasian
was
chosen
by
alle
the
senate
for
to
gouerne
the
empire
of
rome
/
wherfore
he
had
so
right
grete
Ioye
that
sodaynly
he
loste
the
strength
of
all
his
membres
And
he
cam
all
Impotent
And
whan
Iosephus
that
made
the
historye
of
the
romayns
ayenst
the
Iewis
/
whiche
was
a
ryght
wyse
phisicien
sawe
and
knewe
the
cause
of
this
sekenes
of
the
sayd
Titus
/
he
enquyred
of
his
folk
yf
he
had
in
hate
ony
man
gretly
so
moche
that
he
myght
not
here
speke
of
hym
ner
well
see
hym
And
one
of
the
seruantes
of
Titus
sayd
that
he
had
one
persone
in
ha●●
so
moche
.
That
ther
was
no
man
in
his
court
so
hardy
that
durste
name
hym
in
his
presence
/
and
than
Iosephus
assigned
a
day
whan
this
man
shold
come
/
and
ordeyned
a
table
to
sette
in
the
sight
of
Titus
/
and
dide
hit
to
be
replenysshid
plenteuously
wyth
alle
dayntees
/
and
ordeyned
men
to
be
armed
to
kepe
hym
in
suche
wyse
that
no
man
shold
hurte
hym
by
the
comandement
of
Titus
/
and
ordeyned
boutellers
.
Coques
/
and
other
officers
for
to
serue
hym
worshipfully
lyke
an
Empour
/
and
whan
all
this
was
redy
/
Iosephus
brought
in
this
man
that
tytus
hated
and
sette
hym
at
the
table
to
fore
his
eyen
and
was
seruyd
of
yonge
men
wyth
grete
reuerence
ryght
cortoisly
/
And
whan
titus
behelde
his
enemye
sette
to
fore
hym
wyth
so
grete
honour
/
He
began
to
chauffe
hym self
by
grete
felonnye
And
comanded
his
men
that
this
man
shold
be
slayn
/
And
whan
he
sawe
/
that
none
wold
obeye
hym
But
that
they
allway
seruyd
hym
reuerently
/
he
waxe
so
ardante
/
and
enbrasid
wyth
so
grete
yre
/
that
he
that
had
lost
alle
the
force
and
strengthe
of
his
body
and
was
alle
Impotent
in
alle
his
membres
/
Recoured
the
helthe
agayn
and
strenghte
of
his
membris
/
by
the
hete
that
entryd
in
to
the
vaynes
and
finewis
And
Iosephus
dide
so
moche
that
he
was
recouerid
and
hole
/
And
that
he
helde
that
man
no
more
for
his
enemye
/
but
helde
hym
for
a
verray
true
frende
/
And
afterward
made
hym
his
loyall
felawe
and
compaignon
And
the
espicers
and
Apotecayres
ought
to
make
truly
suche
thynges
as
Is
comanded
to
them
by
the
physicyens
/
And
they
ought
●accomplisshe
theyr
billis
and
charge
curyously
wyth
grete
disygence
/
that
for
none
other
cause
they
shold
be
ocupied
but
in
makynge
medicynes
or
confections
truly
.
And
that
they
ought
vpon
paryll
of
theyr
sou●le
not
to
forgete
/
by
negligence
ne
rechelesnes
to
gyue
one
medecyne
for
an
other
/
In
suche
wyse
that
they
be
not
s●ears
of
men
/
And
that
they
do
putte
no
false
thynges
In
her
spyces
for
to
empayre
or
encrecynge
the
weyght
.
For
yf
they
so
doo
they
may
better
be
callyd
theuys
than
espicers
or
apotecayris
/
And
they
that
ben
acustomed
to
make
oynements
they
ought
to
make
hyt
proprely
of
true
stuf
and
of
good
odoure
after
the
receptes
of
the
auncyent
doctours
/
And
after
the
forme
that
the
phisicyens
and
cyrurgyens
deuyse
vnto
them
/
Also
they
ought
to
beware
that
for
none
auayle
ne
gyfte
that
they
myght
haue
/
that
they
put
in
theyr
medicynes
no
thynge
venemous
ner
doynge
hurte
or
scathe
to
ony
persone
of
whom
they
haue
none
good
ne
veray
knowlege
/
to
th
ende
that
they
to
whom
the
medicynes
shold
be
gyuen
/
torne
not
to
them
hurte
ne
domage
/
ne
in
destructions
of
theyr
neyghbours
/
and
also
that
they
that
haue
mynystrid
tho
thyngis
to
them
/
ben
not
taken
for
parteners
of
the
blame
and
of
the
synne
of
them
The
cyrurgyens
ought
also
to
be
debonayr
.
amyable
.
&
to
haue
pytye
of
their
pacyents
.
And
also
they
ought
not
be
hasty
to
launse
and
cutte
apostumes
and
soores
/
ne
open
the
heedes
/
ner
to
arrache
bones
broken
/
but
yf
the
cause
be
apparant
/
For
they
myght
ellys
lose
theyr
good
renome
And
myght
better
be
callyd
bouchers
than
helars
or
guarisshors
of
woundes
and
soores
And
also
hit
behoueth
that
alle
this
maner
of
peple
foresayd
that
haue
the
charge
for
to
make
hole
and
guarisshe
alle
maner
of
maladyes
and
Infirmitees
that
they
first
haue
the
cure
of
them self
/
and
they
ought
to
purge
them self
fro
alle
apostumes
and
alle
vices
/
In
suche
wyse
that
they
be
net
and
honeste
and
enformed
in
alle
good
maners
/
And
that
they
shewe
hem
hole
and
pure
&
redy
for
to
he
le
other
And
herof
sayth
Boecius
de
Consolacione
In
his
first
booke
that
the
sterres
that
ben
hid
vnder
the
clowdes
maye
gyue
no
light
.
And
therfore
yf
ony
man
wole
beholde
clerly
the
write
.
Late
hym
wythdrawe
hym
fro
the
obscurete
and
derkenes
of
the
clowdes
of
ignorance
/
for
whan
the
engyne
of
a
man
sheweth
in
Ioye
or
in
sorowe
/
The
pensee
or
thought
is
enuoluped
in
obscurete
&
vnder
the
clowdes
.
¶
The
sixthe
chapitre
of
the
thirde
booke
treteth
of
the
sixth
pawn
/
whiche
is
lykened
to
tauerners
hostelers
and
vitayllers
.
THe
sixthe
pawn
whiche
standeth
to
fore
the
Alphyn
on
the
lyfte
syde
is
made
in
thys
forme
.
For
hit
is
a
man
that
hath
the
right
hande
stracched
oute
as
for
to
calle
men
/
And
holdeth
in
his
lyfte
hande
a
loof
of
breed
and
a
cuppe
of
wyn
/
And
on
his
gurdell
hangynge
a
boudest
of
keyes
/
And
this
resembleth
the
Tauerners
.
hostelers
.
and
sellars
of
vitaylle
.
And
thise
ought
proprely
to
be
sette
to
fore
the
/
Alphyn
as
to
fore
a
Iuge
For
ther
sourdeth
ofte
tymes
amonge
hem
contencion
noyse
and
stryf
/
whiche
behoueth
to
be
determyned
and
trayted
by
the
alphyn
/
whiche
is
Iuge
of
the
kynge
/
And
hit
apperteyneth
to
them
for
to
seke
and
enquyre
for
goodwyns
and
good
vitayll
for
to
gyue
and
selle
to
the
byers
/
And
to
them
that
they
herberowe
/
And
hit
apperteyneth
to
them
well
to
kepe
their
herberowes
and
I●mes
/
and
alle
tho
thyngis
that
they
brynge
in
to
theyr
loggynge
and
for
to
putte
hyt
in
seure
and
sauf
warde
and
kepynge
/
And
the
firste
of
them
Is
signefyed
by
the
lyfte
hande
in
whiche
he
bereth
brede
and
wyn
/
and
the
seconde
is
signefied
by
the
right
hande
whiche
Is
strac●hed
oute
to
calle
men
/
And
the
thirde
is
representid
by
the
keyes
hangynge
on
the
gurdell
And
thyse
maner
of
peple
ought
t
eschewe
the
synne
of
glotonye
/
For
moche
peple
comen
in
to
theyr
howses
for
to
drynke
and
to
ete
for
whyche
cause
they
ought
resonably
to
rewle
them self
and
to
refrayne
them
from
to
moche
mete
and
drynke
/
to
th
ende
that
they
myght
the
more
honestly
delyuere
thyngis
nedefull
vnto
the
peple
that
come
vnto
them
/
And
no
thynge
by
oustrage
that
myght
noye
the
body
/
For
hit
happeth
ofte
tymes
that
ther
cometh
of
glotonye
tencyons
.
stryfs
.
ryottes
.
wronges
.
and
molestacyons
/
by
whiche
men
lese
other
while
their
handes
.
theyr
eyen
.
and
other
of
their
membres
/
And
somtyme
ben
slayn
or
hurt
vnto
the
deth
/
As
it
is
wreton
In
vitas
patrum
As
on
a
tyme
an
heremyte
wente
for
to
visite
his
gossibs
/
And
the
deuyll
apperyd
to
hym
on
the
waye
in
lykenes
of
an
other
heremyte
for
to
tempte
hym
/
and
saide
thou
hast
lefte
thyn
heremitage
And
goost
to
visyte
thy
gossibs
/
The
behoueth
by
force
to
doo
one
of
the
thre
thynges
that
I
shall
saye
to
the
/
thou
shalt
chese
whether
thou
wylt
be
dronke
/
or
ellys
haue
to
do
flessly
wyth
thy
gossib
or
ellys
thou
shalt
s●e
her
husbond
whiche
is
thy
gossip
also
/
And
the
hermyte
that
thought
for
to
chese
the
lefte
euyll
chace
for
to
be
dronke
/
and
whan
he
cam
vnto
them
he
dranke
so
moche
that
he
was
veray
dronke
And
whan
he
was
dronke
and
eschauffed
wyth
the
wyn
/
he
wold
haue
a
doo
wyth
hys
gossib
/
And
her
husbonde
wythstode
hym
.
And
than
the
hermyte
slewe
hym
/
And
after
that
saye
by
his
gossib
and
knewe
her
flessly
/
And
thus
by
this
synne
of
dronkenship
he
accomplisshid
the
two
other
synnes
/
By
whyche
thynge
ye
may
vnderstande
and
knowe
that
whan
the
deuyll
wyll
take
one
of
the
castellis
of
Ihesu
cryst
/
that
is
to
wete
the
body
of
a
man
or
of
a
woman
/
he
doth
as
a
prynce
that
setteth
a
●iege
to
fore
a
castell
that
he
wold
wynne
/
whiche
entendeth
to
wynne
the
gate
/
For
he
knoweth
well
whan
he
hath
wonne
the
gate
/
he
may
sone
doo
hys
wylle
wyth
the
castell
.
And
in
lyke
wyse
doth
the
deuyll
wyth
euery
man
and
woman
.
For
whan
he
hath
wonne
the
gate
/
that
is
to
wete
the
gate
of
the
mouth
by
glotonye
or
by
other
synne
He
may
doo
wyth
the
offices
of
the
body
alle
his
wylle
as
ye
haue
herd
to fore
/
And
therfore
ought
euery
man
ete
and
drynke
sobrely
in
suche
wyse
as
he
may
lyue
.
And
not
lyue
to
ete
glotonsly
a
for
to
drynke
dronke
▪
ye
see
comunly
that
a
grete
bole
is
suffisid
wyth
right
a
lityll
pasture
/
And
that
a
wode
suffiseth
to
many
olefauntes
And
hit
behoueth
a
man
to
be
fedde
by
the
erthe
or
by
the
see
/
neuertheles
it
is
no
grete
thynge
to
fede
the
bely
/
no
thynge
so
grete
as
is
the
desire
of
many
metes
Wherof
Quyntylian
sayth
/
That
hit
happeth
ofte
tymes
in
grete
festes
&
dyners
/
that
we
be
fylde
wyth
the
sight
of
the
noble
and
lichorous
metis
and
whan
we
wolde
ete
we
ben
saciat
and
fild
/
And
therfore
hit
is
sayd
in
prouerbe
/
hit
is
better
to
fylle
the
bely
than
the
eye
/
And
lucan
sayth
that
glotonye
is
the
moder
of
alle
vices
/
and
especiall
of
lecherye
/
and
also
is
destroyer
of
all
goodes
And
may
not
haue
suffisance
of
lityll
thynge
/
A
couetous
honger
what
sekest
thou
mete
and
vitayllis
on
the
lande
&
in
the
see
/
And
thy
Ioye
is
nothynge
ellis
but
to
haue
playnte●ous
disshes
&
well
fylde
at
thy
table
lerne
how
men
may
demene
his
lyf
wyth
lityll
thynge
/
And
Cathon
sayth
in
no
wyse
obeye
to
glotonye
whiche
is
frende
to
lecherye
/
And
the
holy
doctour
saynt
Augustyn
sayth
/
the
wyn
eschauffeth
the
bely
that
falleth
anone
,
to
lecherye
/
The
bely
and
the
membrers
engendreurs
ben
neyghebours
to
lecherye
/
And
thus
the
vice
of
glotonye
prouoketh
lecherye
/
wherof
cometh
forgetenes
of
his
mynde
and
destruction
of
alle
quyk
and
sharp
reson
And
is
cause
of
distempance
of
his
wittes
/
what
synne
is
fowler
than
this
synne
and
more
stynkynge
ne
more
domageous
.
For
this
synne
hath
taken
away
the
vertue
of
the
man
/
his
prowesse
languisshed
/
his
vertue
is
torned
to
diffame
/
the
strengthe
of
body
and
of
corage
is
torned
by
the
/
And
therfore
sayth
Ba●lle
le
grant
/
late
vs
take
hede
how
we
serue
the
bely
&
the
throte
by
glotonye
lyke
as
we
were
dombe
bestes
/
and
we
studye
for
to
be
lyke
vnto
belues
of
the
see
/
to
whom
nature
hath
gyuen
to
be
alleway
enclined
toward
the
erthe
&
ther
to
loke
for
to
serue
theyr
belyes
/
And
herof
saith
Boecius
de
consolacione
in
his
fourth
book
/
that
a
man
that
lyuyth
and
doth
not
the
condicions
of
a
man
/
may
neuer
be
in
good
condicion
/
Than
muste
hit
nedes
be
that
he
be
transported
in
nature
of
a
beast
or
of
a
belue
of
the
see
.
How
well
that
ryght
grete
men
and
women
full
of
meruayllous
sciences
and
noble
counceyll
in
thise
dayes
in
the
world
ben
kept
and
nourisshid
in
this
glotonye
of
wyns
and
metes
/
and
ofte
tymes
ben
ouerseen
/
how
suppose
ye
/
is
hit
not
right
a
perillous
thinge
that
a
lord
or
gouernour
of
the
peple
and
commun
we
le
/
how
well
that
he
be
wyse
/
yf
he
eschauffe
hym
sone
so
that
the
wyn
or
other
drynke
surpryse
hym
and
ouercome
his
brayn
.
his
wysedom
is
lofte
/
For
as
Cathon
sayth
/
Ire
enpessheth
the
corage
in
suche
as
he
may
not
kepe
verite
and
trouthe
And
anon
as
he
is
chauffed
/
lecherye
is
meuyd
in
hym
in
suche
wyse
that
the
lecherye
maketh
hym
to
medle
in
dyuerse
villayns
dedes
/
For
than
his
wysedom
is
a
slepe
and
goon
/
And
therfore
sayth
Ouide
in
his
booke
De
remedio
amoris
/
yf
thou
take
many
and
dyuerce
wyns
/
they
apparylle
and
enforce
the
corages
to
lecherye
And
Thobie
witnessith
in
his
booke
/
that
luxurye
destroyeth
the
body
/
and
mynussheth
richesses
/
she
loseth
the
sowle
/
she
febleth
the
strengthe
she
blyndeth
the
syght
/
and
maketh
the
wys
hoos
a
rawe
/
Ha
A
ryght
euyll
and
fowle
synne
of
dronkenship
/
by
the
perissheth
virginite
/
whiche
is
suster
of
angellis
possedynge
alle
goodnes
and
seurte
of
alle
Ioyes
pardurable
/
Noe
was
one
tyme
so
chauffed
with
wyn
/
that
he
discouerd
and
shewid
to
his
sones
his
preuy
membres
in
suche
wyse
as
one
of
his
sones
mocqued
hym
/
And
that
other
couerd
hem
/
And
loth
whiche
was
a
man
right
chaste
.
was
so
alloted
by
moche
drynkynge
of
wyn
/
that
on
a
montayne
he
knewe
his
doughters
carnelly
/
And
had
to
doo
wyth
them
as
they
had
ben
his
propre
wyues
.
And
crete
reherceth
that
boece
whiche
was
flour
of
the
men
/
tresor
of
rychesses
/
singuler
house
of
sapience
myrour
of
the
world
/
Odour
of
good
renome
/
and
glorye
of
his
subgettis
loste
alle
thyse
thynges
by
his
luxurye
We
haue
seen
that
dyuerce
that
were
Ioyned
by
grete
amyte
to geder
whiles
they
were
sobre
/
that
that
one
/
wolde
put
his
body
in
paryll
of
deth
for
that
other
/
and
whan
they
were
eschauffed
with
wyn
&
dronke
/
they
haue
ronne
eche
vpon
other
for
to
sle
hem
/
And
somme
haue
ben
that
haue
slayn
so
his
frende
/
Herodes
Antipas
had
not
doon
saynt
Iohn
baptist
to
ben
beheded
/
ne
had
the
dyner
ben
full
of
glotonye
and
dronkenship
/
Balthazar
kynge
of
babilone
had
not
ben
chaced
out
of
his
kyngdom
ne
be
slayn
yf
he
had
ben
sobre
amonge
his
peple
whom
tyrus
and
dares
fonde
dronken
and
slewe
hym
The
hostelers
ought
to
be
well
bespoken
and
courtoys
of
wordes
to
them
that
they
receyue
in
to
their
loggynge
For
fayr
speche
&
Ioyous
chiere
&
debonayr
/
cause
men
to
gyue
the
hostelyer
a
good
name
/
And
therfore
it
is
said
in
a
comyn
prouerbe
/
Courtoyse
langage
and
well
saynge
is
moche
worth
and
coste
lityll
/
And
in
an
other
place
it
is
said
that
curtoysie
passeth
beaulte
/
Also
for
as
moche
as
many
paryls
and
aduentures
may
happen
on
the
wayes
and
passages
to
hem
that
ben
herberowed
with
in
their
Innes
/
therfore
they
ought
to
accompanye
them
whan
they
departe
and
enseigne
them
the
wayes
and
telle
to
them
the
paryls
/
to
th
ende
that
they
may
surely
goo
theyr
viage
and
Iourney
/
And
also
they
ought
to
kepe
their
bodies
.
their
goodes
/
And
the
good
fame
and
renomee
of
their
Innes
/
we
rede
that
loth
whan
he
had
receyuyd
the
angels
in
to
his
hous
right
debonairly
whiche
he
had
supposid
had
ben
mortall
men
and
straungers
/
to
th
ende
that
they
shold
eskape
the
disordinate
and
vnnaturell
synne
of
lecherye
of
the
soda●●tes
/
by
the
vertu
of
good
fayth
/
he
sette
a
part
the
naturell
loue
of
a
fader
/
and
proferd
to
them
his
doughters
whiche
were
virgyns
to
th
ende
that
they
shold
kepe
them
and
defende
them
fro
that
vyllayne
and
horrible
synne
/
And
knowe
ye
for
certayn
that
alle
tho
thynges
that
ben
taken
and
delyueryd
to
kepe
to
the
hoste
or
hostesses
they
ought
to
be
sauf
and
yelden
agayn
wyth
out
a
payringe
For
the
ooste
ought
to
knowe
/
who
that
entryth
in
to
his
hous
for
to
be
her
berowhed
taketh
hit
for
his
habitacion
for
the
tyme
/
he
hym self
and
alle
suche
thynges
as
he
bryngeth
wyth
hym
ben
commysed
of
ryght
in
the
warde
and
kepynge
of
the
hoost
or
hosteler
And
ought
to
be
as
sauf
as
they
were
put
in
his
owen
propre
hous
And
also
suche
hoostis
ought
to
hold
seruantes
in
their
houses
whiche
shold
be
trewe
and
wyt●
oute
auarice
In
suche
wise
that
they
coueyte
not
to
haue
the
goodes
of
their
ghestes
And
that
they
take
not
a
way
the
prouender
fro
theyr
horses
whan
hyt
is
gyuen
to
them
/
that
by
thoccasion
therof
theyr
horsis
perisshe
not
ne
faylle
theyr
maister
whan
they
haue
nede
/
and
myght
falle
in
the
handes
of
theyr
enemyes
/
For
than
sholde
the
seruantes
because
of
that
euyll
/
wherfore
theyr
maisters
shold
see
to
For
wyth
oute
doubte
this
thynge
is
worse
than
thefte
Hit
happend
on
a
tyme
in
the
parties
of
lomberdye
in
the
cyte
of
Iene
that
a
noble
man
was
logged
in
an
hostelerye
wyth
moche
compaignye
/
And
whan
they
had
gyuen
prouendour
to
their
horses
/
In
the
first
oure
of
the
nyght
.
the
seruant
of
the
hous
cam
secretly
to
fore
the
horses
for
to
stele
away
their
prouender
/
And
whan
he
cam
to
the
lordes
hors
/
The
hors
caught
wyth
his
teth
his
Arme
and
helde
hit
faste
that
he
myght
not
escape
/
And
whan
the
theef
sawe
that
he
was
so
strongly
holden
/
he
began
to
crye
for
the
grete
payne
that
he
suffryd
and
felte
/
In
suche
wyse
that
the
noble
mannes
meyne
cam
with
the
hooste
/
But
in
no
maner
/
ner
for
ought
they
coude
doo
They
coude
not
take
the
theef
out
of
the
horses
mouth
vnto
the
tyme
that
the
neyghbours
whiche
were
noyed
wyth
the
noyse
cam
and
sawe
hit
/
And
than
the
theef
was
knowen
and
taken
and
brought
to
fore
the
Iuge
And
confessid
the
feet
and
by
sentence
diffinytyf
was
hanged
and
lost
his
lyf
/
And
in
the
same
wyse
was
an
other
that
dyde
so
/
And
the
hors
smote
hym
in
the
visage
/
That
the
prynte
of
the
horse
shoo
and
nayles
abode
euer
in
his
visage
/
Another
caas
right
cruell
and
villaynous
fylle
at
tholouse
/
Hit
happend
a
Ionge
man
and
his
fader
wente
a
pilgremage
to
saynt
Iames
in
Galyce
And
were
logged
in
an
hostelrye
of
an
euyll
hoost
and
full
of
right
grete
couetyse
/
In
so
moche
that
he
desired
and
coueyted
the
goodes
of
the
two
pilgrimes
And
here
vpon
auysed
hym
and
put
a
cuppe
of
siluer
secretly
in
the
male
that
the
yonge
man
bare
/
And
whan
they
departed
oute
of
their
loggynge
/
he
folowed
after
hem
and
sayd
to
fore
the
peple
of
the
court
that
they
had
stolen
and
born
away
his
cuppe
/
And
the
yonge
man
excused
hym self
and
his
fader
/
And
sayde
they
were
Innocen●
of
that
caas
/
And
than
they
serchid
hem
and
the
cuppe
was
founden
in
the
male
of
the
yonge
man
And
forthwyth
he
was
dampned
to
the
deth
and
hanged
as
a
theef
/
and
this
feet
doon
all
the
goodes
that
langed
to
the
pilgrym
were
deliuerid
to
the
oost
as
confisqued
And
than
the
fader
wente
for
to
do
his
pilgremage
/
and
whan
he
cam
agayn
he
muste
nedes
come
&
passe
by
the
place
where
his
sone
henge
on
the
gibet
And
as
he
cam
he
complaygned
to
god
and
to
saynt
Iames
how
they
might
suffre
this
auenture
to
come
vnto
his
sone
/
Anone
his
sone
that
henge
spack
to
his
fader
And
sayde
how
that
saynt
Iames
had
kepte
hym
with
out
harme
And
bad
his
fader
goo
to
the
Iuge
and
shewe
to
hym
the
myracle
/
And
how
he
was
Innocent
of
that
fayte
/
And
whan
this
thynge
was
knowen
the
sone
of
the
pilgryme
was
taken
doun
fro
the
gibet
/
and
the
cause
was
brought
to
fore
the
Iuge
And
the
hooste
was
accused
of
the
trayson
/
and
he
confessid
his
trespaas
/
and
sayd
he
dide
hit
for
couetyse
to
haue
his
good
And
than
the
Iuge
dampned
hym
for
to
be
hanged
on
the
same
gibet
where
as
the
yonge
pilgryme
was
hanged
And
that
I
haue
sayd
of
the
seruantes
beynge
men
/
the
same
I
saye
of
the
women
as
chambriers
and
tapsters
For
semblable
caas
fille
in
spayne
at
saynt
doune
of
a
chamberier
/
that
put
a
cup
in
lyke
wyse
in
the
scrippe
of
a
pilgryme
/
be
cause
he
wold
not
haue
a
doo
wyth
her
in
the
synne
of
lecherye
/
wherfore
he
was
hanged
And
his
fader
&
moder
that
were
there
with
hym
wente
and
dyde
her
pilgremage
/
And
whan
they
cam
agayn
they
fonde
her
sone
lyuynge
/
And
than
they
wente
and
told
the
Iuge
/
whiche
Iuge
sayd
that
he
wolde
not
byleue
hit
tyll
a
cok
and
an
henne
whiche
rosted
on
the
fyre
were
a
lyue
&
the
cok
crewe
.
And
anon
they
began
wexe
a
lyue
&
the
cok
crewe
and
began
to
crowe
and
to
pasture
/
and
whan
the
Iuge
sawe
this
miracle
/
he
wente
and
toke
doun
the
sone
/
and
made
the
chamberyer
to
be
taken
and
to
be
hanged
/
wherfore
I
saye
that
the
hoostes
ought
to
hold
no
tapsters
ne
chamberyers
/
but
yf
they
were
good
meure
and
honeste
/
For
many
harmes
may
be
falle
and
come
by
the
disordenat
rewle
of
seruantes
.
¶
The
seuenth
chapitre
of
the
thirde
Tractate
treteth
of
kepars
of
townes
customers
and
tolle
gaderers
etc.
THe
gardes
and
kepars
of
of
cytees
ben
signefied
by
the
.vii.
pawn
whiche
stondeth
in
the
lyfte
side
to
fore
the
knyght
/
And
is
formed
in
the
semblance
of
a
man
holdynge
in
his
right
hande
grete
keyes
And
in
his
lifte
hande
a
potte
&
an
elle
for
to
mesure
with
And
ought
to
haue
on
hys
gurdell
a
purse
open
/
And
by
the
keyes
ben
signefyed
the
kepars
of
the
cytees
and
townes
and
comyn
offices
/
And
by
the
potte
and
elle
ben
signefyed
them
that
haue
the
charge
to
weye
and
mete
&
mesure
truly
And
by
the
purse
ben
signefied
them
that
reseyue
the
costumes
.
tolles
.
scawage
.
peages
/
and
duetes
of
the
cytees
&
townes
And
thyse
peple
ben
sette
by
ryght
to
fore
the
knyght
/
And
hit
behoueth
that
the
gardes
and
offycers
of
the
townes
be
taught
And
enseygned
by
the
knyghtes
/
And
that
they
knowe
and
enquyre
how
the
cytees
or
townes
ben
gouerned
/
whiche
apperteyneth
to
be
kept
and
defended
by
the
knyghtes
.
And
first
hit
apperteyneth
that
the
kepars
of
the
cyte
be
dilygente
.
besy
.
clere
seeynge
and
louers
of
the
comyn
prouffit
&
we
le
as
well
in
the
tyme
of
pees
as
in
the
tyme
of
warre
/
They
ought
alleway
to
goo
in
the
cyte
and
enquyre
of
all
thynges
and
ought
rapporte
to
the
gouernours
of
the
cyte
suche
thynge
as
they
fynde
and
knowe
And
suche
thynge
as
apperteyneth
and
to
the
seuerte
of
the
same
/
and
to
denonce
and
telle
the
defaultes
and
paryls
that
ther
bee
/
And
yf
hit
be
in
tyme
of
warre
they
ought
not
to
open
the
yates
by
nyght
to
no
man
/
And
suche
men
as
ben
put
in
this
office
/
ought
to
be
of
good
renome
&
fame
.
trewe
.
and
of
good
conscience
/
In
suche
maner
that
they
loue
them
of
the
Cyte
or
town
/
And
that
they
put
to
no
man
ony
blame
or
vilanye
with
out
cause
by
enuye
.
Couetyse
ne
by
hate
/
but
they
ought
to
be
sory
and
heuy
whan
they
see
that
ony
man
shold
be
complayned
on
for
ony
cause
For
h●t
happeth
ofte
tymes
that
diuerce
officers
accuse
the
good
peple
fraudulently
/
To
th
ende
that
they
myght
haue
a
thanke
&
be
preysed
and
to
abide
stille
in
theyr
offices
And
trewly
hit
is
a
grete
and
hye
maner
of
malyce
to
be
in
will
to
doo
euyll
and
diffame
other
wyth
oute
cause
to
gete
glorie
to
hym self
Also
the
kepars
and
officers
of
cytees
ought
to
be
suche
that
they
suffre
no
wronges
ne
vylonyes
to
fore
the
Iuges
and
gouernours
of
cytees
wyth
out
cause
to
be
doon
to
them
that
ben
Innocents
/
but
they
ought
to
haue
theyr
eyen
and
regarde
vnto
hym
/
that
knoweth
the
hertes
and
thoughtes
of
alle
men
/
And
they
ought
to
drede
&
doubte
hym
wyth
oute
whos
grace
theyr
wacche
and
kepynge
is
nought
And
that
promyseth
to
them
that
doubte
hym
shall
be
ewrous
&
happy
/
And
by
hym
ben
alle
thynges
accomplisshid
in
good
/
Hit
is
founden
in
the
historyes
of
rome
that
Temperour
Frederik
the
seconde
dide
do
make
a
gate
of
marble
of
meruayllous
werke
and
entayll
in
the
cyte
of
capnane
vpon
the
watre
that
renneth
aboute
the
same
/
and
vpon
this
yate
he
made
an
ymage
lyke
hym self
sittynge
in
his
mageste
/
and
two
Iuges
whiche
were
sette
/
one
on
the
right
side
and
that
other
on
the
lifte
side
.
And
vpon
the
sercle
aboue
the
hede
of
the
Iuge
on
the
ryght
side
was
wreton
/
Alle
they
entre
seurly
that
will
liue
purely
/
And
vpon
the
sercle
of
the
Iuge
on
the
lift
side
was
wreton
The
vntrewe
man
ought
to
doubte
/
to
doo
thynge
that
he
be
put
to
prison
fore
/
and
on
the
sercle
aboue
them●our
was
wreton
/
I
make
them
lyue
in
misery
/
that
I
see
lyue
dismesurably
/
And
therfore
hit
apperteyneth
to
a
Iuge
to
shewe
to
the
peple
for
to
drede
and
doubte
to
doo
euyll
/
And
hit
apperteyneth
to
the
gardes
and
officers
to
doubte
the
Iuges
and
to
do
trewly
their
seruyces
and
offices
And
hit
apperteyneth
to
a
prynce
to
menace
the
traytours
and
the
malefactours
of
right
greuous
paynes
.
And
herof
we
fynde
in
the
auncyent
historyes
of
cecylle
that
the
kynge
denys
had
a
broder
whom
he
louyd
sore
well
/
But
allway
where
he
wente
he
made
heuy
and
tryste
semblant
/
And
thus
a●
they
wente
bothe
to
gyder
on
a
tyme
in
a
chare
/
ther
cam
agayn
hem
two
poure
men
wyth
glad
visage
but
in
foule
habite
And
the
kynge
anon
as
he
sawe
them
/
sprange
out
of
his
chare
and
resseyuyd
them
worshipfully
with
grete
reuerence
/
wherfore
his
barons
were
not
only
ameruaylled
but
also
angry
in
their
corages
/
notwithstandynge
fere
and
drede
letted
them
to
demande
hym
the
cause
But
they
made
his
broder
to
demande
the
cause
and
to
knowe
the
certaynte
/
And
whan
he
had
herde
his
broder
saye
to
hym
the
demande
/
and
that
he
was
blessyd
&
also
a
kynge
whiche
was
ryche
and
full
of
delites
&
worshipis
/
he
demanded
hym
yf
he
wold
assaye
&
knowe
the
grace
and
beneurte
of
a
kynge
And
his
broder
answerd
ye
/
And
that
he
desired
and
requyred
hit
of
hym
/
and
than
the
kinge
comanded
vnto
alle
his
sugettis
that
they
shold
obeye
in
alle
thynges
only
vnto
his
broder
And
than
whan
the
oure
of
dyner
cam
and
alle
thynge
was
redy
/
the
broder
was
sette
at
the
table
of
the
kynge
And
whan
he
sawe
that
he
was
seruyd
wyth
right
noble
botelliers
and
other
officers
.
And
he
herde
the
sownes
of
musicque
right
melodious
The
kynge
demanded
hym
than
/
yf
he
supposid
that
he
were
benerous
and
blessid
.
And
he
answerd
I
wene
well
that
I
am
right
well
blessid
and
fortunat
/
and
that
I
haue
well
proued
and
fele
and
am
expert
therof
And
than
the
kynge
secretly
made
to
be
hanged
ouer
his
heed
a
sharp
cuttynge
swerde
hangynge
by
an
hors
heer
or
a
silken
threde
so
small
that
no
man
myght
see
hit
where
by
hit
henge
/
and
whan
he
sawe
his
broder
put
no
more
his
hand
to
the
table
/
ne
had
no
more
regarde
vnto
his
seruantes
/
he
sayd
to
hym
why
ete
ye
not
/
ar
ye
not
blessid
/
saye
yf
ye
fele
ony
thynge
otherwyse
than
blessid
and
well
/
And
he
answerde
for
as
moche
as
I
see
this
sharp
swerde
hangynge
so
subtilly
and
parillously
ouer
my
hede
I
fele
well
that
I
am
not
blessid
for
I
drede
that
hit
shold
falle
on
my
he●e
/
and
than
discouerd
the
kynge
vnto
hem
alle
wherfore
he
was
allway
so
heuy
cherid
and
triste
For
where
he
was
/
he
thought
alleway
on
the
swerde
of
the
secrete
vengeance
of
god
/
whiche
he
behelde
alleway
in
his
herte
/
wherfore
he
had
allway
in
hym self
grete
drede
And
therfore
he
worshipid
gladly
the
poure
peple
wyth
glad
visage
and
good
conscience
And
by
this
sheweth
the
kynge
well
/
that
what
man
that
is
allway
in
drede
is
not
allway
mery
or
blessid
.
And
herof
sayth
Quyntilian
that
this
drede
surmounteth
alle
other
maleurtees
and
euyllys
/
For
it
is
maleurte
of
drede
nyght
and
day
/
And
it
is
verite
that
to
hym
that
Is
doubtid
of
moche
peple
/
so
muste
he
doubte
moche
/
And
that
lord
is
lasse
than
his
seruantes
that
dredeth
hys
seruantes
/
And
truly
hit
Is
a
ryght
sure
thynge
to
drede
no
thinge
but
god
/
And
sumtyme
right
hardy
men
ben
constrayned
to
lyue
in
drede
/
Drede
causeth
a
man
to
be
curyous
and
besy
to
kepe
the
thynges
that
ben
commysed
to
hym
that
they
perisshe
not
/
But
to
be
to
moche
hardy
&
to
moche
ferdfull
/
bothe
two
ben
vices
The
comyn
officers
ought
to
be
wise
.
discrete
.
and
well
aduysed
in
suche
wyse
that
they
take
not
of
the
peple
ne
requyre
no
more
than
they
ought
to
haue
by
reson
/
ne
that
they
take
of
the
sellars
ne
of
the
byars
no
more
than
the
right
custom
and
toll
/
for
they
bere
the
name
of
a
commun
persone
/
and
therfore
ought
they
to
shewe
them
commune
to
all
men
/
and
for
as
moche
as
the
byars
and
sellars
haue
somtyme
moche
langage
/
they
ought
to
haue
with
them
these
vertues
/
that
is
to
wete
pacience
and
good
corage
with
honeste
for
they
that
ben
despiteus
to
the
commun
/
ben
otherwhile
had
in
vilayns
despite
/
therfore
beware
that
thou
haue
no
despite
to
the
poure
mendicants
/
yf
thou
wilt
come
and
atteyne
to
thingis
souerayn
for
the
Iniurye
that
is
don
wyth
oute
cause
/
torneth
to
diffame
hym
that
doth
hit
/
A
Iogheler
on
a
tyme
beheld
socrates
and
said
to
hym
/
thou
hast
the
eyen
of
corrumpour
of
children
&
art
as
a
traytre
.
And
whan
his
disciples
herde
hym
/
they
wold
auengid
their
maister
But
he
repreuyd
hem
by
suche
sentence
saynge
/
Suffre
my
felaws
for
I
am
he
and
suche
one
as
he
saith
/
by
the
sight
of
my
visage
/
But
I
refrayne
and
kepe
me
well
from
suche
thynge
/
This
same
socrates
hym self
was
chidde
and
right
fowll
spoken
to
of
his
wyf
/
and
she
Imposid
to
hym
many
grete
Iniuries
with
out
nombre
/
and
she
was
in
a
place
a
boue
ouer
his
heed
And
whan
she
had
brawlid
Inowh
/
she
made
her
watre
and
pourid
hit
on
his
heed
And
he
answerd
to
here
no
thynge
agayn
/
sauf
whan
he
had
dryed
and
wypid
his
heed
he
said
/
he
knewe
well
that
after
suche
wynde
and
thonder
sholde
comen
rayn
and
watre
And
the
philosophres
blamed
hym
that
he
coude
not
gouerne
two
women
/
that
was
his
wyf
and
his
chambrere
/
And
shewde
hym
that
one
cokke
gouerned
well
.xv.
hennes
He
answerd
to
them
that
he
was
so
vsed
and
accustomed
wyth
theyr
chydynge
that
the
chydynges
of
them
ne
of
estrangers
dyde
hym
no
greef
ne
harme
/
gyue
thou
place
to
hym
that
brawleth
or
chydeth
/
and
in
suffrynge
hym
thou
shalt
be
his
vaynquysshour
/
And
Cathon
sayth
whan
thou
lyuyst
ryghtfully
recche
the
not
of
the
wordes
of
euyll
peple
/
And
therfore
it
is
sayd
in
a
comyn
prouerbe
/
he
that
well
doth
reccheth
not
who
seeth
hit
/
&
hit
is
not
in
our
power
to
lette
men
to
speke
▪
And
prosper
sayth
that
to
good
men
lacketh
no
goodnes
/
her
to
euyll
men
tencions
stryfs
and
blames
And
pacience
is
a
right
noble
vertu
/
as
a
noble
versifier
sayth
That
pacience
is
a
ryght
noble
maner
to
vaynquysshe
.
For
he
that
suffreth
ouercometh
.
And
yf
thou
wylt
vaynquysshe
and
ouercome
/
lerne
to
suffre
/
The
peagers
ner
they
that
kepe
passages
ought
not
to
take
other
peage
ne
passage
money
but
suche
as
the
prynce
or
the
lawe
haue
establisshid
/
so
that
they
be
not
more
robbeurs
of
monoye
than
reseyuours
of
peage
and
passage
And
hit
apperteyneth
to
them
to
goo
out
of
the
paryllous
weyes
and
doubteuous
for
to
kepe
their
office
and
they
ought
to
Requyre
theyr
passage
of
them
that
owe
to
paye
hit
wyth
oute
noynge
and
contencion
/
And
they
ought
not
to
loue
the
comyn
prouffyt
so
moche
/
That
they
falle
in
the
hurtynge
of
theyr
conscience
/
For
that
shold
be
a
manere
of
robberye
/
And
herof
sayth
ysaye
Woo
to
the
that
robbest
/
For
thou
thy self
shalt
be
robbed
/
The
gardes
or
porters
of
the
gates
of
cytees
and
of
the
comyn
good
ought
to
be
good
and
honeste
.
And
alle
trouthe
ought
to
be
in
them
and
they
ought
not
to
take
ne
withdrawe
the
goodes
of
the
comyn
that
they
haue
in
kepynge
/
more
than
apperteyneth
to
them
for
theyr
pension
or
●●ee
So
that
they
that
ben
made
tresorers
and
kepars
ben
not
named
theuys
/
For
who
that
taketh
more
than
his
He
shall
neuer
thryue
wyth
alle
ner
shall
not
enioye
hit
longe
For
of
euyll
gooten
good
the
thyrde
he●r
shall
neuer
reioyce
/
And
this
suffisith
etc
.
¶
This
eygth
chapitre
of
the
thirde
book
trete●h
of
Rybauldis
players
of
dyse
and
of
messagers
and
corrours
THe
rybauldes
.
players
of
dyse
And
the
messangers
and
corrours
ought
to
be
sette
to
fore
the
rook
For
hit
apperteyneth
to
the
rook
whiche
is
vicayre
&
lieutenant
of
the
kynge
to
haue
men
couenable
for
to
renne
here
and
there
for
tenquyre
&
espie
the
place
and
cytees
that
myght
be
contrarye
to
the
kynge
/
And
thys
pawn
that
representeth
thys
peple
ought
to
be
formed
in
this
maner
he
must
haue
the
forme
of
a
man
that
hath
longe
heeris
and
black
and
holdeth
in
his
ryght
hand
a
lityll
monoye
And
in
his
lyfte
hande
thre
Dyse
And
aboute
hym
a
co●de
in
stede
of
a
gyrdell
/
and
ought
to
haue
a
boxe
fulle
o
lettres
And
by
the
first
/
whiche
is
money
is
vnderstand
they
that
be
fole
large
&
wastours
of
theyr
goodes
/
And
by
the
seconde
whiche
is
the
dyse
Ben
represented
the
players
at
dyse
/
Rybauldes
and
butters
/
And
by
the
thyrde
whiche
is
the
boxe
full
of
lettres
ben
representid
the
messagers
.
corrours
/
And
berars
of
lettres
/
And
ye
shall
vnderstande
that
the
roock
whiche
is
vicaire
of
the
kynge
whan
he
seeth
to
fore
hym
suche
peple
as
ben
folelarge
and
wastours
.
He
is
bounden
to
constitute
and
ordeyne
vpon
them
tutours
and
curatours
to
see
that
they
ete
not
ne
waste
in
suche
maner
theyr
goodes
ne
theyr
heritages
/
that
pouerte
constrayne
hem
not
to
stele
/
For
he
that
of
custome
hath
had
haboundance
of
moneye
and
goth
and
dispendith
hit
folily
and
wasteth
hit
away
/
whan
he
cometh
to
pouerte
and
hath
nought
/
he
muste
nedes
begge
and
are
his
breed
.
orellis
he
muste
be
a
theef
/
For
suche
maner
of
peple
/
yf
they
haue
ben
delicyous
they
wyll
not
laboure
/
for
they
haue
not
lerned
hit
And
yf
they
be
noble
and
comen
of
gentilmen
/
they
be
ashamed
to
axe
and
begge
/
And
thus
muste
they
by
force
whan
they
haue
wasted
theyr
propre
goodes
yf
they
wyll
lyue
they
muste
stele
and
robbe
the
goodes
of
other
And
ye
shall
vnderstande
that
folelarge
is
a
right
euyll
vice
/
for
how
well
that
she
dooth
good
and
prouffit
somtyme
to
other
yet
she
doth
harme
and
domage
to
hym
that
so
wasteth
.
Cassiodore
admonesteth
the
fole
larges
to
kepe
theyr
thynges
/
that
by
no
necessite
they
falle
in
pouerte
/
And
that
they
be
not
constrayned
to
begge
ne
to
stele
of
other
men
For
he
saith
that
hit
is
gretter
subtilte
to
kepe
well
his
owne
goodes
/
than
to
fynde
strange
thynge
/
and
that
it
is
gretter
vertue
to
kepe
that
is
goten
than
to
gete
and
wynne
more
/
and
claudian
saith
in
like
wise
in
his
book
that
hit
is
a
gretter
thynge
&
better
to
kepe
that
is
goten
Than
to
gete
more
And
therfore
hit
is
sayd
that
the
poure
demandeth
and
beggeth
er
he
felith
/
and
also
hit
is
sayd
that
he
that
dispendith
mo●e
than
he
hath
/
with
oute
strook
he
is
smyten
to
the
deth
/
Ther
was
a
noble
man
named
Iohn
de
ganazath
whiche
was
ryght
ryche
/
And
this
man
had
but
two
doughters
whom
he
maryed
to
two
noble
men
/
And
whan
he
had
maryed
them
/
he
loued
so
well
his
sones
in
lawe
their
husbondes
/
that
in
space
&
succession
of
tyme
/
he
departed
to
them
alle
his
goodes
temporell
/
And
as
longe
as
he
gaf
to
them
they
obeyed
hym
&
were
right
diligent
to
plese
and
serue
hym
so
hit
befell
that
on
a
tyme
that
he
had
alle
gyuen
in
so
moche
that
he
had
ryght
nought
/
Than
hit
happend
that
they
to
whom
he
had
gyuen
his
goodes
/
whiche
were
wonte
to
be
amyable
&
obeyssant
to
hym
as
longe
as
he
gaf
.
Whan
tyme
cam
that
he
was
poure
and
knewe
that
he
had
not
they
becam
vnkynde
Disagreable
and
disobeyssant
/
And
whan
the
fader
sawe
that
he
was
deceyuyd
by
his
debonayrte
and
loue
of
his
doughters
/
He
desired
and
coueyted
sore
t
eschewe
his
pouerte
/
At
laste
he
wente
to
a
marchant
that
he
knewe
of
olde
tyme
.
And
requyred
hym
to
●ene
to
hym
.x.
thousand
pound
for
to
paye
and
rendre
agayn
wyth
in
thre
dayes
/
And
he
lente
hit
hym
/
and
whan
he
had
brought
hit
in
to
his
how●
/
Hit
happend
that
hit
was
a
day
of
a
solempne
feste
/
on
whiche
day
he
gaf
to
his
doughters
and
her
husbonde
a
right
noble
dyner
/
and
after
dyner
he
entrid
in
to
his
chambre
secretly
wyth
them
/
And
drewe
out
of
a
coffre
that
he
had
do
make
all
newe
shettynge
with
iii.
lockis
/
the
menoye
that
the
marchant
had
lente
hym
And
poured
out
vpon
a
tapyte
that
his
doughtres
and
theyr
husbondes
myght
see
hit
/
And
whan
he
had
shewid
hit
vnto
them
he
put
hit
vp
agayn
and
put
hit
in
to
the
cheste
faynynge
that
hit
had
ben
all
his
And
whan
they
were
departed
he
bare
the
money
home
to
the
marchant
that
he
had
borowed
hit
of
/
And
the
next
day
after
his
doughters
and
theyre
husbondes
Axid
of
hym
how
moche
moneye
was
in
the
cheste
that
was
shette
wyth
.iii.
lockis
/
And
than
he
fayned
and
saide
that
he
had
therin
.xxv.
thousand
pound
/
whiche
he
kepte
for
to
make
his
testament
and
for
to
leue
to
his
doughters
and
hem
/
yf
they
wolde
bere
hem
as
well
to
hym
ward
as
they
dyde
whan
they
were
maried
/
And
than
whan
they
herde
that
/
they
were
right
Ioyous
and
glad
And
they
thoughte
and
concluded
to
serue
hym
honorably
as
well
in
clothynge
as
in
mete
and
drynke
&
of
alle
other
thynges
necessarye
to
hym
vnto
his
ende
And
after
this
whan
the
ende
of
hym
began
tapproche
/
he
callyd
his
doughters
and
her
husbondes
and
sayd
to
hem
in
thys
ma●ere
/
ye
shall
vnderstande
that
the
moneye
that
is
in
the
chest
shette
vnder
.iii.
lockes
I
wylle
leue
to
yow
Sanynge
I
wyll
that
ye
gyue
in
my
presence
er
I
dye
whilis
I
lyue
to
the
frere
prechours
.
C.
pound
and
to
the
frere
menours
.
C.
pound
/
And
to
the
heremytes
of
saynt
Augustyn
.l.
pound
to
th
ende
that
whan
I
am
buryed
and
put
in
the
erthe
ye
maye
demande
of
them
the
keyes
of
the
cheste
where
my
tresour
is
Iime
/
whiche
keyes
they
kepe
/
and
I
haue
put
on
eche
keye
a
bille
&
writynge
In
witnessinge
of
the
thynges
aboue
sayd
/
And
also
ye
shall
vnderstande
that
he
dyde
do
to
be
gyuen
whilis
he
laye
in
his
deth
bedde
to
eche
churche
and
recluse
and
to
youre
peple
a
certayn
quantyte
of
moneye
by
the
handes
of
his
doughters
husbondes
/
whiche
they
dyde
gladly
.
In
hope
to
haue
shortly
the
money
that
they
supposid
had
ben
in
the
cheste
/
And
whan
hit
cam
to
the
last
day
/
that
he
deyde
/
He
was
born
to
churche
and
his
exequye
don
and
was
buryed
solempnly
/
And
the
eygth
day
the
seruyse
worshipfully
accomplisshid
/
They
wente
for
to
demande
the
keyes
of
the
Religious
men
that
they
had
kept
/
whiche
were
deliueryd
to
them
/
And
than
they
wente
and
opend
the
coffre
where
they
supposid
the
money
had
ben
I●●●
/
And
there
they
fonde
no
thyng
but
a
grete
clubbe
/
And
on
the
the
handlynge
was
wreton
/
I
Iohn
of
canazath
make
this
testament
/
that
he
be
slayn
wyth
this
clubbe
/
that
leuyth
his
owen
prouffit
.
And
gyuyth
hit
to
other
/
as
who
sayth
hit
is
no
wysedom
for
a
man
to
gyue
his
good
to
his
children
and
kepe
none
for
hym self
/
And
ye
shall
vnderstande
that
it
is
a
grete
folye
to
dispende
and
waste
his
good
/
In
hope
for
to
recoure
hit
of
other
be
hit
of
sone
or
doughter
or
ryght
nyghe
kyn
/
For
a
man
ought
to
kepe
in
his
hande
in
dispendynge
his
owen
goodes
/
to fore
he
see
that
he
dyspende
other
mennys
/
And
he
ought
not
to
be
holden
for
a
good
man
/
That
hath
lityll
renome
and
spendeth
many
thyngys
/
And
I
trowe
that
suche
persones
wold
gladly
make
noueltees
as
for
to
noye
and
greue
seignories
and
meue
warres
and
tencions
agaynst
them
that
habounde
in
rychesses
and
goodes
/
And
also
make
extorcyons
clamours
&
trybulacyons
ayenst
theyr
lordes
to
th
ende
to
waste
the
goodes
of
the
peple
.
lyke
as
they
haue
wasted
theyris
And
suche
a
wastour
of
goodes
may
neuer
be
good
for
the
comyn
prouffit
.
And
ye
shall
vnderstande
that
after
these
wastours
of
goodes
we
saye
that
the
pleyars
of
dyse
and
they
that
vse
bordellis
ben
worst
of
alle
other
For
whan
the
hete
of
playnge
at
the
dyse
/
And
the
couetyse
of
theyr
stynkynge
lecherye
hath
brought
hem
to
pouerte
/
hit
foloweth
by
force
that
they
muste
ben
theuys
and
robbeurs
And
also
dronkenship
.
glotonye
.
And
alle
maner
of
euyllis
folowe
them
and
myschief
/
And
they
folowe
gladly
the
companyes
of
knyghtes
and
of
noble
men
whan
they
goon
vnto
the
warre
or
batayllis
And
they
coueyte
not
so
moche
the
victorye
as
they
do
the
robberie
And
they
do
moche
harme
as
they
goo
And
they
brynge
lityll
gayn
or
wynnynge
/
wherof
hit
happend
on
a
tyme
that
saynt
bernard
rode
on
an
hors
aboute
in
the
contrey
And
mette
wyth
an
hasardour
or
dyseplayer
/
whiche
sayd
to
hym
/
th●n
goddes
man
wilte
thou
playe
at
dyse
wyth
me
thyn
hors
ayenst
my
sowle
/
to
whom
saynt
Bernard
answerd
/
yf
thou
wilt
oblige
thy
sowle
to
me
ayenst
my
hors
/
I
wolle
a
lighte
doun
&
playe
wyth
the
/
and
yf
thou
haue
mo
poyntes
than
I
on
thre
dyse
I
promyse
the
thou
shalt
haue
myn
hors
/
And
than
he
was
glad
/
and
anon
caste
.iii.
dyse
/
And
on
eche
dyse
was
a
syse
/
whiche
made
.xviii.
poynts
And
anone
he
toke
the
hors
by
the
brydell
/
as
he
that
was
sewr
that
he
had
wonne
/
and
said
that
the
hors
was
his
And
than
saynt
Bernard
sayde
abyde
my
sone
For
ther
ben
mo
poyntes
on
the
dyse
than
.xviii.
And
than
he
caste
the
dyse
/
In
suche
wyse
that
one
of
the
.iii.
dyse
clefte
a
sonder
in
the
myddes
/
And
on
that
one
parte
was
syse
and
on
that
other
an
Aas
/
And
eche
of
that
other
was
a
syse
/
And
than
Saynt
Bernard
sayde
That
he
had
wonne
hys
sowle
for
as
moche
as
he
had
caste
on
thre
dyse
.xix.
poynts
/
And
than
whan
thys
player
sawe
and
apperceyuyd
thys
myracle
/
He
gaf
hys
sowle
to
saynt
Bernard
and
be
cam
a
monke
and
finysshid
his
lyf
in
good
werkes
/
The
corrours
and
berars
of
lettres
ought
hastely
and
spedily
do
her
viage
that
is
comanded
hem
/
with
oute
taryenge
/
For
their
taryenge
might
noye
and
greue
them
that
sende
hem
forth
/
or
ellis
them
to
whom
they
ben
sent
too
/
And
torne
hem
to
ryght
grete
domage
or
villonye
/
for
whiche
cause
euery
noble
man
ought
well
to
take
hede
to
whom
he
deliuere
his
lettres
and
his
mandements
/
and
otherwhilis
suche
peple
ben
Ioghelers
&
dronkelewe
/
And
goon
out
of
their
waye
for
to
see
abbayes
and
noble
men
for
to
haue
auantage
And
hit
happeth
ofte
tymes
/
that
whan
suche
messagers
or
currours
ben
enpesshid
by
ony
taryenge
/
That
other
currours
bere
lettres
contrarye
to
his
/
And
come
to
fore
hym
of
which
thinges
ofte
tymes
cometh
many
thinges
discouenable
of
losse
of
frendes
of
castellys
&
of
lande
&
many
other
thinges
as
in
the
feet
of
marchandise
etc
.
And
otherwhile
hit
happeth
that
a
prynce
for
the
faulte
of
suche
messangers
leseth
to
haue
victorye
vpon
hys
enemyes
/
And
also
ther
ben
some
that
whan
they
come
In
a
cyte
where
they
haue
not
ben
to
fore
/
that
ben
more
besy
to
visyte
the
Cyte
and
the
noble
men
that
dwelle
theryn
/
Than
they
ben
to
doo
theyr
wyage
/
whyche
▪
thynge
they
ought
not
to
doo
/
But
yf
they
had
specyall
charge
of
them
that
sente
hem
forth
so
to
doo
.
And
also
whan
they
be
sente
forth
of
ony
lordes
or
marchauntes
they
ought
to
be
well
ware
/
that
they
charge
hem
not
wyth
ouer
moche
mete
on
morenynges
ne
with
to
moche
wyn
on
euenynges
/
wherby
her
synewis
and
vaynes
myght
be
greuyd
/
that
they
muste
for
faute
of
good
rewle
tarye
But
they
ought
to
goo
and
come
hastely
for
to
reporte
to
their
maistres
answers
as
hit
apperteyneth
And
this
suffisen
of
the
thynges
aboue
sayd
.
¶
The
fourth
tractate
&
the
last
of
the
progression
and
draughtes
of
the
forsayd
playe
of
the
chesse
.
¶
The
first
chapitre
of
the
fourth
tractate
of
the
chesse
borde
in
genere
how
it
is
made
.
ȜE
haue
deuised
aboue
the
thinges
that
apperteyne
vnto
the
formes
of
the
chesse
men
and
of
theyr
offices
/
that
is
to
wete
as
well
of
noble
men
as
of
the
comyn
peple
/
than
hit
apperteyneth
that
we
shold
deuyse
shortly
how
they
yssue
and
goon
oute
of
the
places
where
they
be
sette
/
And
first
we
ought
to
speke
of
the
forme
and
of
the
facion
of
the
chequer
after
that
hit
representeth
and
was
made
after
/
For
hyt
was
made
after
the
forme
of
the
cyte
of
Babyloyne
/
In
the
whiche
this
same
playe
was
founden
as
hit
is
sayd
afore
/
And
foure
thinges
The
first
is
/
wher
ye
shal
vnderstande
that
ye
ought
to
consydere
here
in
fore
that
.lxiiii.
poyntes
ben
sette
in
the
eschequer
whiche
ben
alle
square
/
The
seconde
is
wherfore
the
bordeur
aboute
his
hyher
than
the
squarenes
of
the
poyntes
/
The
thirde
is
wherfore
the
comyn
peple
ben
sette
to
fore
the
nobles
/
The
fourthe
wherfore
the
nobles
and
the
peples
ben
sette
in
their
propre
places
Ther
ben
as
many
poyntes
in
the
eschequer
wyde
as
full
And
ye
shall
first
vnderstande
wherfore
that
ther
ben
lxiiii
.
poynts
in
the
eschequyer
/
For
as
the
blessid
saint
Iherome
saith
/
the
cyte
of
babilone
was
right
grete
and
was
made
alle
square
/
and
in
euery
quarter
was
.xvi.
myle
by
nombre
and
mesure
/
the
whiche
nombre
foure
tymes
told
was
.lxiiii.
myles
/
After
the
maner
of
lombardye
they
be
callid
myles
/
and
in
france
leukes
/
and
in
englong
they
be
callid
mylis
also
/
And
for
to
represente
the
mesure
of
thys
cyte
/
In
whiche
thys
playe
or
game
was
founden
/
The
philosopher
that
fonde
hit
first
ordeyned
a
tablier
conteynyng
.lxiiii.
poynts
square
/
the
which
ben
comprised
wyth
in
the
bordour
of
the
tablier
/
ther
ben
xxxii
.
on
that
on
side
&
.xxxii.
on
that
other
whiche
ben
ordeyned
for
the
beaulte
of
the
playe
/
and
for
to
shewe
the
maner
&
drawynge
of
the
chesse
as
hit
shall
appere
in
the
chapitres
folowynge
/
and
as
to
the
seconde
/
wherfore
the
bordour
of
the
schequyer
is
hyher
than
the
table
wyth
in
.
hit
is
to
be
vnderstande
that
the
bordour
aboute
representeth
the
walle
of
the
cyte
/
whiche
is
right
hyghe
/
And
therfor
made
the
philosopher
the
bordour
more
hyghe
than
the
tablier
And
as
the
blessid
saint
Iherome
saith
vpon
the
prophesie
of
ysaye
/
that
is
to
wete
vpon
a
montayne
of
obscurete
.
whiche
wordes
were
said
of
babilone
whiche
standeth
in
chaldee
/
and
nothinge
of
that
babilone
that
stondeth
in
egipte
/
for
it
is
so
that
babilone
whiche
standeth
in
chaldee
was
sette
in
a
right
grete
playne
/
&
had
so
hyghe
walles
that
by
the
heyghte
of
them
/
was
contynuell
derkenes
environed
&
obscurete
/
that
none
erthely
man
might
beholde
and
see
the
ende
of
the
hyghnes
of
the
walle
/
And
therfore
ysaye
callid
hit
the
montaigne
obscure
/
And
saint
Iherome
sayth
that
the
mesure
of
the
heyght
of
this
walle
was
thre
thousand
paas
/
whiche
extendeth
vnto
the
lengthe
of
thre
myle
lombardes
/
hit
is
to
wete
that
lombarde
mylis
and
english
myles
ben
of
one
lengthe
And
in
one
of
the
corners
of
this
cyte
was
made
a
toure
treangle
as
a
shelde
wherof
the
heyght
extended
vnto
the
lengthe
of
.vii.
thousand
paas
/
whiche
is
.vii.
myle
english
And
this
towr
was
callyd
the
tour
of
Babell
/
The
walles
aboute
the
tour
made
a
woman
whos
name
was
semiranus
as
sayth
virgilius
/
As
to
the
thirde
wherfore
the
comyn
peple
ben
sette
to
fore
the
nobles
in
the
felde
of
the
bataylle
in
one
renge
First
for
as
moche
as
they
ben
necessarye
to
alle
nobles
For
the
rooke
whiche
standeth
on
the
ryght
syde
and
is
vicaire
of
the
kynge
what
may
he
doo
yf
the
labourer
were
not
sette
to
fore
hym
and
labourid
to
mynystre
to
hym
suche
temporell
thynges
as
be
necessary
for
hym
/
And
what
may
the
knyght
doo
yf
he
ne
had
to
fore
hym
the
smyth
for
to
forge
his
armours
.
sadellis
.
axis
and
spores
and
suche
thynges
as
apperteyneth
to
hym
/
And
what
is
a
knyght
worth
wyth
oute
hors
and
armes
/
certaynly
nothynge
more
than
on
of
the
peple
or
lasse
perauenture
And
in
what
maner
shold
the
nobles
lyue
yf
no
man
made
cloth
and
bought
and
solde
marchandyse
/
And
what
shulde
kynges
and
quenes
and
the
other
lordes
doo
yf
they
had
no
phisicyens
ne
cyrurgiens
/
than
I
saye
that
the
peple
ben
the
glorye
of
the
Crowne
And
susteyne
.
the
lyf
of
the
nobles
And
therfore
thou
that
art
a
lord
or
a
noble
man
or
knyght
/
despise
not
the
comyn
peple
for
as
moche
as
they
ben
sette
to
fore
the
in
the
playe
The
seconde
cause
is
why
the
peple
ben
sette
to
fore
the
nobles
and
haue
the
table
wyde
to
fore
them
/
is
be
cause
they
begyn
the
bataylle
/
They
ought
to
take
hede
and
entende
to
do
theyr
offices
and
theyr
craftes
/
In
suche
wyse
that
they
suffre
the
noble
men
to
gouerne
the
cytees
and
to
counceylle
and
make
ordenances
of
the
peple
of
the
batayll
how
shold
a
labourer
a
plowman
or
a
craftyman
counceylle
and
make
ordenance
of
suche
thynges
as
he
neuer
lerned
/
And
wote
ne
knoweth
the
mater
vpon
what
thynge
the
counceylle
ought
to
be
taken
/
Certes
the
comyn
peple
ought
not
to
entende
to
none
other
thynge
but
for
to
do
their
seruyse
and
the
office
whiche
is
couenable
vnto
hem
/
And
hyt
apperteyneth
not
to
hem
to
be
of
counceyllys
ne
at
the
aduocacions
/
ne
to
menace
ne
to
threte
noman
/
for
ofte
tymes
by
menaces
and
by
force
good
counceylle
is
distroublid
/
And
where
good
counceyll
faylleth
/
there
ofte
tymes
the
cytees
ben
betrayed
and
destroyed
/
And
Plato
sayth
That
the
comyn
thynges
and
the
cytees
ben
blessid
whan
they
ben
gouerned
by
wyse
men
/
or
whan
the
gouernours
studye
in
wisedom
/
And
so
hit
apperteyneth
to
the
comyn
to
lerne
to
vttre
the
maters
&
the
maner
of
procuracion
to fore
they
be
counceyllours
/
For
hit
happeth
oftetymes
that
he
that
maketh
hym
wyser
that
he
vnderstandeth
is
made
more
foole
than
he
is
/
And
the
fourth
cause
wherfore
that
ther
ben
in
the
tab●er
as
many
poynts
wyde
as
ben
full
.
hit
is
to
wete
for
that
they
what
euer
they
be
that
haue
peple
to
gouerne
/
ought
ten
force
to
haue
cytees
&
castellis
&
possessions
for
to
sette
his
peple
theryn
/
And
for
to
laboure
&
doo
their
ocupacion
/
For
for
to
haue
the
name
of
a
kynge
with
out
royame
is
a
name
wyde
/
and
honour
with
oute
prouffit
/
And
alle
noblesse
wyth
oute
good
maners
/
and
with
out
suche
thinges
as
noblesse
may
be
mayntenyd
/
ought
better
be
callid
folye
than
noblesse
.
And
shamefull
pouerte
is
the
more
greuous
whan
hit
cometh
by
nature
of
an
hyhe
and
noble
burth
or
hous
.
For
noman
gladly
wole
repreue
a
poure
man
of
the
comyn
peple
/
But
euery
man
hath
in
despite
a
noble
man
that
is
poure
yf
he
haue
not
in
hym
good
maners
and
vertuous
/
by
whiche
his
pouerte
is
forgoten
/
and
truly
a
royame
with
oute
haboundance
of
goodes
by
whiche
hit
may
be
gouerned
and
prospere
/
may
better
be
callyd
a
latrocynye
or
a
nest
of
theeuys
than
a
royame
/
Alas
what
haboundance
was
some
tymes
in
the
royames
.
And
what
prospite
/
In
whiche
was
Iustice
/
And
euery
man
in
his
office
contente
/
how
stood
the
cytees
that
tyme
in
worship
and
renome
/
how
was
renomed
the
noble
royame
of
Englond
Alle
the
world
dredde
hit
And
spack
worship
of
hit
/
how
hit
now
standeth
and
in
what
haboundance
I
reporte
me
to
them
that
knowe
hit
yf
ther
ben
theeuis
wyth
in
the
royame
or
on
the
see
/
they
knowe
that
laboure
in
the
royame
And
sayle
on
the
see
I
wote
well
the
fame
is
grete
therof
I
pray
god
saue
that
noble
royame
And
sende
good
true
and
politicque
counceyllours
to
the
gouernours
of
the
same
etc
/
And
noblesse
of
lignage
wyth
oute
puyssance
and
might
is
but
vanyte
and
dispite
.
And
hit
is
so
as
we
haue
sayd
to fore
that
the
schequer
whiche
the
philosopher
ordeyned
represented
and
figured
the
sayd
cyte
of
Babilone
And
in
lyke
wyse
may
hit
figure
a
royame
and
signefye
al●
the
w●rld
And
yf
men
regarde
and
take
heed
vnto
the
poyntes
vnto
the
middes
of
euery
quadrante
and
so
to
double
euery
quadrant
to
other
the
myles
of
this
cyte
all
way
doublinge
vnto
the
nombre
of
.lxiiii.
The
nombre
of
the
same
shulde
surmounte
alle
the
world
/
And
not
only
the
world
but
many
worldes
by
the
doublinge
of
inylis
/
whiche
doublinge
so
as
afore
is
sayd
shuld
surmounte
alle
thynges
/
And
thus
endeth
the
first
chapitre
of
the
fourth
booke
.
¶
The
seconde
chapitre
of
the
fourth
tractate
treteth
of
the
draught
of
the
kynge
/
And
how
he
meuyth
hym
in
the
chequer
.
WE
ought
to
knowe
that
in
this
world
/
the
kynges
seygnourye
and
regne
eche
in
his
royame
.
And
in
this
playe
we
ought
to
knowe
by
the
nature
of
hit
how
the
kynge
meueth
hym
and
yssueth
oute
of
his
place
/
For
ye
shall
vnderstande
that
he
is
sette
in
the
fourth
quadrante
or
poynt
of
th
eschequer
.
And
whan
he
is
black
/
he
standeth
in
the
white
/
and
the
knyght
on
his
ryght
side
in
white
/
And
the
Alphyn
and
the
rooke
in
black
/
And
on
the
lifte
side
the
foure
holden
the
places
opposite
/
And
the
rayson
may
be
suche
/
For
be
cause
that
the
knyghtes
ben
the
glorye
&
the
crowne
of
the
kynge
/
They
ensiewe
in
semblable
residence
/
that
they
doo
whan
they
ben
sette
semblably
on
the
ryght
side
of
the
kynge
&
on
the
lyfte
side
of
the
quene
/
And
for
as
moche
as
the
rook
on
the
ryght
syde
is
vicayre
of
the
kynge
he
accompanyeth
the
quene
in
semblable
siege
that
the
Alphyn
doth
whiche
is
Iuge
of
the
kynge
/
And
in
lyke
wyse
the
lifte
rook
&
the
lyfte
Alphyn
accompanye
the
kynge
in
semblable
siege
/
In
suche
wyse
as
they
ben
sette
aboute
the
kynge
in
bothe
sides
wyth
the
Quene
in
manere
of
a
crowne
/
That
they
may
seurely
kepe
the
royame
that
reluyseth
and
shyneth
in
the
kynge
and
in
the
Quene
/
In
suche
wyse
as
they
may
conferme
and
diffende
hym
in
theyr
sieges
and
in
theyr
places
.
And
the
more
hastily
renne
vpon
his
enemyes
And
for
as
moche
as
the
Iuge
.
the
knyght
/
and
the
vicaire
.
kepe
and
garnysshe
the
kynge
on
that
one
syde
/
They
that
ben
sette
on
the
other
syde
kepe
the
Quene
/
And
thus
kepe
they
alle
the
strength
and
fermete
of
the
royame
/
And
semblably
otherwhile
for
to
ordeyne
the
thynges
that
apperteyne
to
the
counceyll
/
and
to
the
besoyngne
of
the
royame
/
For
yf
eche
man
shold
entende
to
his
owen
proper
thynges
/
And
that
they
defended
not
ner
toke
hede
vnto
the
thingis
that
apperteynen
to
the
kynge
to
the
comyn
and
to
the
royame
/
the
royalme
shold
anon
be
deuided
in
parties
And
thus
myght
the
Iuge
regne
/
And
the
name
of
the
dignyte
royall
shold
be
lost
/
And
truly
for
as
moche
as
the
kynge
holdeth
the
dignyte
aboue
alle
other
and
the
seygnourye
royall
/
therfore
hit
apperteyneth
not
that
he
absente
hym
longe
/
ne
wythdrawe
hym
ferre
by
space
of
tyme
from
the
maister
siege
of
his
royame
/
For
whan
he
wele
meue
hym
/
he
ought
not
to
passe
at
the
first
draught
the
nombre
of
.iii.
poynts
/
And
whan
he
begynneth
thus
to
meue
from
his
whyt
poynt
/
he
hath
the
nature
of
the
rooks
of
the
right
syde
and
of
the
lifte
syde
for
to
goo
black
or
whithe
/
And
also
he
may
goo
vnto
the
white
poynt
where
the
gardes
of
the
Cyte
ben
sette
And
in
this
poynt
he
hath
the
nature
of
a
knyght
.
And
thyse
two
maners
of
meuynge
apperteyneth
other
while
to
the
quene
/
and
for
as
moche
as
the
kynge
and
the
quene
that
ben
conioyned
to geder
by
mariage
ben
one
thynge
as
one
flessh
and
blood
/
therfore
may
the
kynge
meue
on
the
lifte
side
of
his
propre
poynt
also
wele
as
he
were
sette
in
the
place
of
the
quene
whiche
is
black
/
and
whan
he
goth
right
in
maner
of
the
rook
only
/
And
hit
happen
that
the
aduersarie
be
not
couered
in
ony
poynt
in
the
seconde
ligne
/
The
kynge
may
not
passe
from
his
black
poynt
vnto
the
thirde
ligne
/
And
thus
he
sortisith
the
nature
of
the
rook
on
the
ryght
syde
and
lyfte
syde
vnto
the
place
of
the
knyghtes
and
for
to
goo
ryght
to fore
In
to
the
whyte
poynt
to
fore
the
marchant
/
And
the
kynge
also
sortyst
the
nature
of
the
knyghtes
whan
he
goth
on
the
ryght
syde
in
two
maners
/
For
he
may
put
hym
in
the
wyde
space
to
fore
the
phisicyen
/
And
in
the
black
space
to
fore
the
tauerner
/
And
on
the
other
side
he
goth
in
to
other
two
places
in
lyk
wise
that
is
to
fore
the
smyth
/
and
the
notarye
/
And
thus
as
in
goynge
out
first
in
to
.iiii.
poynts
he
sorteth
the
nature
of
knyghtes
and
also
the
kynge
sortiseth
the
nature
of
the
alphins
at
his
first
yssu
in
to
.ii.
places
And
he
may
goo
on
bothe
sides
vnto
the
white
place
wyde
/
that
one
to
fore
the
smith
on
that
on
side
/
and
that
other
●o
for
the
tauerner
on
that
other
side
All
these
yssues
hath
the
kyng
out
of
his
propre
place
of
his
owen
vertue
whan
he
begynneth
to
meue
.
But
whan
he
i●
ones
meuyd
fro
his
propre
place
●
He
may
not
me●e
but
in
to
one
space
or
poynt
and
so
from
one
to
an
other
/
And
than
he
sortiseth
the
nature
of
the
comyn
peple
/
and
thus
by
good
right
he
hath
in
hym self
the
nature
of
alle
/
For
alle
the
vertue
that
is
in
the
membres
cometh
of
the
heed
and
all
me●yng
of
the
body
/
The
begynnynge
&
lyf
comen
from
the
herte
●
And
all
the
dignyte
that
the
subgettes
haue
by
execucion
and
contynuell
apparence
of
their
meuynge
&
yssue
The
kynge
deteyneth
hit
&
is
attrib●ed
to
hym
/
the
victorye
of
the
knightes
/
the
prudence
of
the
Iuges
/
the
auctorite
of
the
vicaires
or
legates
The
contynence
of
the
quene
the
concorde
&
vnyte
of
the
peple
Ben
not
all
thise
thinges
ascribed
vnto
the
honour
and
worship
of
the
kynge
In
his
yssue
whan
he
meuyd
first
The
thirde
ligne
to
fore
the
peple
he
neuer
excedeth
/
Fro
in
the
.iii.
nombre
alle
maner
of
states
begynne
to
meue
For
the
trynary
nombre
conteyneth
.iii.
parties
/
whiche
make
a
perfect
nombre
/
For
a
trynarye
nombre
hath
.
i.ii.iii
.
Whiche
Ioyned
to geder
maken
.vi.
Whiche
is
the
first
parfyt
nombre
And
signefieth
in
this
place
/
vi
.
persones
named
that
constitute
the
perfection
of
a
royame
That
is
to
wete
the
kynge
.
the
quene
.
Iuges
.
knyghtes
.
the
vicaires
or
legats
/
and
the
comyn
peple
And
therfor
the
kynge
ought
to
begynne
in
his
first
menynge
of
.iii.
poyntes
/
that
he
shewe
perfection
of
lyf
as
well
in
hym self
as
in
other
After
that
the
kynge
begynneth
to
me●e
he
may
lede
wyth
hym
the
quene
/
after
the
maner
of
his
yssue
For
why
the
quene
foloweth
vnto
two
angularye
places
/
after
the
maner
of
the
alphyn
/
and
to
a
place
indirect
in
the
maner
of
a
rook
in
to
the
black
poynt
to
fore
the
phisicien
/
herin
is
signefied
that
the
women
may
not
meue
neyther
make
vowes
of
pylgremage
ner
of
viage
wythoute
the
wylle
of
theyr
husbondes
/
For
yf
a
woman
had
a
vowed
ony
thynge
/
her
husbonde
lyuynge
/
and
agayn
saynge
/
she
may
not
yelde
ne
accomplisshe
her
vowe
/
yf
the
husbond
wyll
goo
oughwer
.
he
may
well
goo
wyth
oute
her
And
yf
so
be
that
the
husbond
wyll
haue
her
wyth
hym
/
she
is
bounden
to
folowe
hym
/
And
by
reson
For
a
man
is
the
heed
of
a
woman
/
and
not
econuerso
/
For
as
to
suche
thingis
as
longe
to
patrymony
/
they
ben
lyke
/
but
the
man
hath
power
ouer
her
body
/
And
so
hath
not
the
woman
ouer
his
And
therfore
whan
the
kynge
begynneth
to
me●e
.
the
Quene
may
folowe
/
And
not
alleway
whan
she
meuyd
it
is
no
nede
the
kynge
to
meue
/
For
why
four
the
first
lignes
be
with
in
the
limytes
and
space
of
the
royame
/
And
vnto
the
thirde
poynt
the
kynge
may
meue
at
his
first
meuynge
out
of
his
propre
place
/
And
whan
he
passith
the
fourth
ligne
he
goeth
oute
of
his
royame
.
And
yf
he
passe
oon
poynt
late
hym
beware
/
For
the
persone
of
a
kynge
Is
acounted
more
than
a
thousand
of
other
/
For
whan
he
exposeth
hym
vnto
the
paryllis
of
bataylle
/
Hit
is
necessarye
that
he
goo
temperatly
and
slyly
/
For
yf
he
be
taken
or
ded
/
or
ellis
Inclusid
and
shette
vp
/
Alle
the
strengthes
of
alle
other
faylle
and
alle
Is
fynysshid
and
loste
/
And
therfore
he
hath
nede
to
goo
and
meue
wysely
/
And
also
therfore
he
may
not
meue
but
one
poynt
after
hys
fyrst
meuynge
but
where
that
euer
he
goo
foreward
or
bacward
or
on
that
one
syde
or
that
other
or
ellis
cornerwyse
/
He
may
neuer
approche
hys
aduersarye
the
kynge
nerrer
than
in
the
thirde
poynt
/
And
therfore
the
kynges
in
batayll
ought
neuer
tapproche
one
nyghe
that
other
/
And
also
whan
the
kynge
hath
goon
so
ferre
that
alle
his
men
be
lost
/
than
he
is
sole
/
And
than
he
may
not
endure
longe
whan
he
is
brought
to
the
extremyte
/
And
also
he
ought
to
take
hede
that
he
stande
not
soo
that
a
knyght
or
an
other
saith
chek
rook
/
than
the
kyng
loseth
the
rook
/
That
kynge
is
not
well
fortunat
that
leseth
hym
to
whom
his
Auctoryte
delegate
apperteyneth
/
who
may
doo
the
nedes
of
the
royame
yf
he
be
priuyd
taken
or
dede
/
that
was
prouisour
of
alle
the
royame
/
he
shall
bere
a
sack
on
his
hede
that
Is
shette
in
a
cyte
/
And
alle
they
that
were
theryn
ben
taken
in
captiuite
and
shette
vp
etc
.
¶
The
seconde
chapiter
of
the
fourth
book
of
the
quene
and
how
she
yssueth
oute
of
her
place
.
WHan
the
Quene
whiche
is
accompanyed
vnto
the
kynge
begynneth
to
meue
from
her
propre
place
/
She
goth
in
dowble
manere
/
that
is
to
wete
as
an
Alphyn
whan
she
is
black
/
she
may
goo
on
the
ryght
syde
&
come
in
to
the
poynt
to
fore
the
notayre
And
on
the
lifte
syde
in
the
black
poynt
and
come
to
fore
the
gardees
of
the
cyte
And
hit
is
to
wete
that
she
sortiseth
in
her self
the
nature
in
.iii.
maners
first
on
the
ryght
syde
to
fore
the
alphyn
/
Secondly
on
the
lifte
syde
where
the
knyght
is
/
And
thirdly
indirectly
vnto
the
black
poynt
to
fore
the
phisicyen
And
the
rayson
why
.
Is
for
as
moche
as
she
hath
in
her self
by
grace
/
the
auctorite
that
the
rooks
haue
by
commyscion
/
For
she
may
gyue
&
graunte
many
thynges
to
her
subgetts
graciously
And
thus
also
ought
she
to
haue
parfyt
wisedom
●
as
the
alphyns
haue
whiche
ben
Iuges
/
as
hit
sayd
aboue
in
the
chapitre
of
the
Quene
/
And
she
hath
not
the
nature
of
knyghtes
/
And
hit
is
not
sittynge
ne
couenable
thynge
for
a
woman
to
goo
to
bataylle
for
the
fragilite
and
feblenes
of
her
/
And
therfore
holdeth
she
not
the
waye
in
her
draught
as
the
knyghtes
doon
/
And
whan
she
is
meuyd
ones
oute
of
her
place
she
may
not
goo
but
fro
oon
poynt
to
an
other
and
yet
cornerly
whether
hit
be
foreward
or
backward
takynge
or
to
be
taken
/
And
here
may
be
axid
why
the
quene
goth
to
the
bataylle
wyth
the
kynge
/
certainly
it
is
for
the
solace
of
hym
/
and
ostencion
of
loue
/
And
also
the
peple
desire
to
haue
succession
of
the
kynge
And
therfore
the
tartaris
haue
their
wyues
in
to
the
felde
with
hem
/
yet
hit
is
not
good
that
men
haue
theyr
wyuys
with
hem
/
but
that
they
abyde
in
the
cytees
or
within
their
owne
termes
/
For
whan
they
ben
oute
of
theyr
cytees
and
limytes
they
ben
not
sure
/
but
holden
suspecte
/
they
shold
be
shamfast
and
hold
alle
men
suspect
/
For
dyna
Iacobs
doughter
as
longe
as
she
was
in
the
hows
of
her
brethren
/
she
kept
her
virginite
/
But
assone
as
she
wente
for
to
see
the
strange
Regyons
.
Anone
she
was
corrupt
and
defowled
of
the
sone
of
sichem
/
Seneca
sayth
that
the
women
that
haue
euyll
visages
ben
gladly
not
chaste
/
but
theyr
corage
desireth
gladly
the
companye
of
men
/
And
Solynus
saith
that
no
bestes
femellys
desyre
to
be
towched
of
theyr
males
whan
they
haue
conceyuyd
/
Except
woman
whyche
ought
to
be
a
best
Raysonable
/
And
in
thys
caas
she
leseth
her
rayson
/
And
Sidra●
wythnesseth
the
same
And
therfore
in
the
olde
lawe
/
the
faders
hadd
dyuerce
wyues
and
An●●llys
to
th
ende
whan
one
was
wyth
childe
they
myght
take
another
▪
They
ought
to
haue
the
visage
enclyned
for
●●schewe
the
sight
of
the
men
/
that
by
the
sight
they
be
not
meuyd
with
Incontynence
and
diffame
of
other
/
And
Ouyde
sayth
that
ther
ben
some
That
how
well
that
they
eschewe
the
dede
/
yet
haue
they
grete
Ioye
whan
they
ben
prayed
/
And
therfore
ought
the
good
women
flee
the
curyosit●es
and
places
wher
they
myght
f●●lle
in
blame
and
noyse
of
the
peple
.
¶
The
fourth
chapitre
of
the
fourth
book
Is
of
the
yssuynge
of
the
Alphyn
.
THe
manere
and
nature
of
the
draught
of
the
Alphyn
is
suche
/
that
he
that
is
black
in
his
propre
siege
is
sette
on
the
right
side
of
the
kynge
/
And
he
that
is
whyt
is
sette
on
the
lifte
side
/
And
ben
callyd
and
named
black
and
white
/
But
for
no
cause
that
they
be
so
in
substance
of
her
propre
colour
/
But
for
the
colour
of
the
places
in
whiche
they
ben
sette
/
And
alleway
be
they
black
or
white
/
whan
they
ben
sette
in
theyr
places
/
the
alphyn
on
the
ryght
syde
/
goynge
oute
of
his
place
to
the
ryght
sydeward
comyth
to
fore
the
labourer
/
And
hit
is
reson
that
the
Iuge
ought
to
deffende
and
kepe
the
labourers
and
possessions
whiche
ben
in
his
Iurisdiction
by
alle
right
and
lawe
/
And
also
he
may
goo
on
the
lyfte
syde
to
the
wyde
place
to
fore
the
phisicien
/
For
lyke
as
the
phisiciens
haue
the
charge
to
hele
the
Infirmites
of
a
man
/
In
lyke
wyse
haue
the
Iuges
charge
to
appese
alle
stryues
and
contencions
and
reduce
vnto
vnyte
/
And
to
punysshe
and
correcte
causes
crymynels
/
The
lyfte
alphyn
hath
also
two
wayes
fro
his
owen
place
oon
toward
the
right
syde
vnto
the
black
space
wyde
to
fore
the
marchant
/
For
the
marchants
nede
ofte
tymes
counceylle
and
ben
in
debate
of
questions
whiche
muste
be
determyned
by
the
Iuges
/
And
that
other
yssue
is
vnto
the
place
to
fore
the
rybauldis
And
that
ys
be
cause
that
ofte
tymes
amonge
them
.
falle
noyses
discencions
thefte
and
manslaghter
/
wherfore
they
ought
to
be
punysshid
by
the
Iuges
/
And
ye
shall
vnderstande
that
the
alphyn
goth
alleway
corner
wyse
fro
the
thirde
poynt
to
the
thirde
poynt
kepynge
allway
his
owne
siege
/
For
yf
he
be
black
/
he
goth
allway
black
/
And
yf
he
be
whyte
he
goth
alleway
whyte
.
the
yssue
or
goynge
cornerly
or
angularly
signefieth
cautele
or
subtylyte
/
whiche
Iuges
ought
to
haue
/
The
.iii.
poyntes
betoken
.iii.
thynges
that
the
Iuge
ought
to
attende
/
A
Iuge
ought
to
furder
rightfull
a
trewe
causes
.
secondly
he
ought
to
gyue
trewe
counceyll
/
and
thirdly
he
ought
to
gyue
and
Iuge
rightfull
sentences
after
tha
legeances
/
And
neuer
to
goo
fro
the
ryghtwisnes
of
the
lawe
/
And
it
is
to
wete
that
the
Alphyn
goth
in
six
drawhtes
alle
the
tablier
round
aboute
/
and
that
he
cometh
agayn
in
to
his
owen
place
/
And
how
be
hit
that
alle
rayson
and
good
perfection
shold
be
in
a
kynge
/
yet
ought
hit
also
specially
be
in
them
that
ben
conceyllours
of
the
kynge
and
the
Quene
And
the
kynge
ought
not
to
doo
ony
thynge
doubtouse
/
tyll
he
haue
axid
counceyll
of
his
Iuges
And
of
the
sages
of
the
royame
And
therfore
ought
the
Iuge
●o
be
parfaytly
wyse
and
sage
as
well
in
science
as
in
good
maners
/
And
that
is
signefied
whan
they
mene
from
thre
poynts
in
to
thre
/
For
the
sixt
nombre
by
whiche
they
goo
alle
th
eschequer
/
And
brynge
hem
agayn
in
to
her
propre
place
in
suche
wyse
that
th
ende
of
her
moeuynge
is
comoyned
agayn
to
the
begynnynge
of
the
place
frowhens
they
departed
/
And
therfore
hit
is
callid
a
parfayt
moeuynge
.
¶
The
fyfth
chapitre
of
the
fourth
Tractate
Is
of
the
meuynge
of
the
knyghtes
.
AFter
the
yssue
of
the
Alphyns
we
shall
deuyse
to
yow
the
yssue
&
the
moeuynge
of
the
knyghtes
/
And
we
saye
that
the
knyght
on
the
right
syde
is
whyt
/
And
on
the
lifte
syde
black
/
And
the
yssue
and
moeuynge
of
hem
bothe
is
in
one
maner
whan
so
is
that
the
knyght
on
the
ryght
syde
Is
whyt
/
The
lyfte
knyght
is
black
/
The
moeuynge
of
hem
is
suche
/
That
the
whyte
may
goo
in
to
the
space
of
the
alphyn
/
as
hit
apperyth
of
the
knyght
on
the
right
side
that
is
whyte
.
And
hath
thre
yssues
fro
his
propre
place
/
one
on
his
ryght
syde
in
the
place
to
fore
the
labourer
/
And
hit
is
well
reson
that
whan
the
labourer
and
husbonde
man
hath
laboured
the
feldes
/
the
knyghtes
ought
to
kepe
them
/
to
th
entent
that
they
haue
vitailles
for
them self
and
their
horses
/
The
second
yssue
is
that
he
may
meue
hym
vnto
the
black
space
to
fore
the
notarye
or
draper
.
For
he
is
bounden
to
deffende
and
kepe
them
that
make
his
vestementis
&
couertours
necessarye
vnto
his
body
.
The
thirde
yssue
is
that
he
may
go
on
the
lifte
syde
in
to
the
place
to fore
the
marchant
whiche
is
sette
to
fore
the
kynge
/
the
whiche
is
black
/
And
the
reson
is
for
as
moche
as
he
ought
and
is
holden
to
deffende
the
kynge
as
well
as
his
owen
persone
/
whan
he
passith
the
first
draught
/
he
may
goo
foure
wayes
/
And
whan
he
is
in
the
myddes
of
the
tabler
he
may
goo
in
to
.viii.
places
sondry
/
to
whiche
he
may
renne
And
in
lyke
wise
may
the
lyfte
knyght
goo
whiche
is
black
and
goth
oute
of
his
place
in
to
white
/
and
in
that
maner
goth
the
knyght
fightynge
by
his
myght
/
and
groweth
and
multiplieth
in
hys
poyntis
/
And
ofte
tymes
by
them
the
felde
Is
wonne
or
lost
/
A
knyghts
vertue
and
myght
is
not
knowen
but
by
his
fightynge
/
and
in
his
fightynge
he
doth
moche
harme
for
as
moche
as
his
myght
extendeth
in
to
so
many
poyntis
/
they
ben
in
many
peryllis
in
theyr
fightynge
/
And
whan
they
escape
they
haue
the
honour
of
the
game
And
thus
is
hit
of
euery
man
the
more
vailliant
/
the
more
honoured
And
he
that
meketh
hym self
ofte
tymes
shyneth
clerest
.
¶
The
sixt
chapitre
of
the
fourth
tractate
treteth
of
the
yssue
of
the
rooks
and
of
her
progression
.
THe
moeuynge
and
yssue
of
the
rooks
whiche
ben
vicairs
of
the
kynge
is
suche
/
that
the
ryght
rook
is
black
and
the
lifte
rook
is
whyte
/
And
whan
the
chesse
ben
sette
as
well
the
nobles
as
the
comyn
peple
first
in
their
propre
places
/
The
rooks
by
their
propre
vertue
haue
no
wey
to
yssue
but
yf
hyt
be
made
to
them
by
the
nobles
or
comyn
peple
/
For
they
ben
enclosed
in
their
propre
sieges
/
And
the
reson
why
is
suche
That
for
as
moche
as
they
ben
vicaires
lieutenants
or
comyssioners
of
the
kynge
/
Theyr
auctoryte
is
of
none
effecte
to fore
they
yssue
out
/
And
that
they
haue
begonne
truhaunce
theyr
office
/
For
as
longe
as
they
be
within
the
palais
of
the
kynge
/
So
longe
may
they
not
vse
ne
execute
theyr
commyssion
/
But
anon
as
they
yssue
they
may
vse
theyr
auctorite
/
And
ye
shall
vnderstande
that
their
auctorite
is
grete
/
for
they
represente
the
psone
of
the
kynge
/
and
therfore
where
the
tablier
is
wyde
they
may
●●nne
alle
the
triblier
/
In
lyke
wyse
as
they
goon
thurgh
the
royame
and
they
may
goo
as
well
white
as
black
as
well
on
the
right
sid●
&
lifte
as
foreward
and
backward
/
And
as
fer
may
they
renne
as
they
fynde
the
tablier
wyde
whether
hit
be
of
his
aduersaryes
as
of
his
owen
felowship
/
And
whan
the
rook
is
in
the
myddell
of
the
tablier
/
he
may
goo
whiche
way
he
wyll
in
to
foure
right
lignes
on
euery
side
and
hit
is
to
wete
that
he
may
in
no
wyse
goo
cornerwyse
/
but
allway
ryght
forth
goynge
&
comynge
as
afore
is
sayd
/
wherfore
all
the
subgettis
of
the
kinge
as
well
good
as
euyll
ought
to
knowe
by
their
moeuynge
that
auctorite
of
the
vicairca
and
comyssioners
ought
to
be
verray
true
rightwis
&
Iuste
/
and
ye
shall
vnderstande
that
they
ben
stronge
and
vertuous
in
bataylle
For
the
two
rooks
only
may
vaynquysshe
a
kynge
theyr
aduersarye
and
take
hym
/
and
take
from
hym
his
lyf
and
his
royame
/
And
this
was
doon
whan
chirus
kynge
of
perse
And
darius
kynge
of
medes
slewe
baltazar
and
toke
his
royame
from
hym
.
Whiche
was
neuew
to
enylmoradach
vnder
whom
this
game
was
founden
.
¶
The
seuenth
chapitre
of
the
fourth
book
treteth
of
the
yssue
of
the
comyn
peple
etc
ONe
yssue
and
one
mouynge
apperteyneth
vnto
alle
the
peple
/
For
they
may
goo
fro
the
poynt
they
stande
in
at
the
first
meuynge
vnto
the
thirde
poynt
right
forth
to
fore
them
/
&
whan
they
haue
so
don
they
may
afterward
mene
no
more
but
fro
one
poynt
ryght
forth
in
to
an
other
/
And
they
may
neuer
retorne
backward
And
thus
goynge
forth
fro
poynt
to
poynt
They
may
gete
by
vertue
and
strengthe
/
that
thynge
that
the
other
noble
fynde
by
dignyte
/
And
yf
the
knyghtes
and
other
nobles
helpe
hem
that
they
come
to
the
ferthest
sygne
to
fore
them
where
theyr
aduersaryes
were
sette
.
They
acquyre
the
dignyte
that
the
quene
hath
graunted
to
her
by
grace
/
For
yf
ony
of
them
may
come
to
thys
sayd
ligne
/
yf
he
be
white
as
labourer
draper
phi●icyen
or
kepar
of
the
cyte
ben
/
they
reteyne
suche
dignyte
as
the
quene
hath
/
for
they
haue
goten
hit
/
and
than
retornynge
agayn
homeward
/
they
may
goo
lyke
as
it
is
sayd
in
the
chapitre
of
the
quene
And
yf
ony
of
the
pawns
that
is
black
/
as
the
smyth
the
marchant
the
tauerner
and
the
rybaulde
may
come
wyth
oute
domage
in
to
the
same
vtterist
ligne
/
he
shall
gete
by
his
vertu
the
dignyte
of
the
black
quene
And
ye
shall
vnderstande
/
whan
thyse
comyn
peple
mene
right
forth
in
her
ligne
/
and
fynde
ony
noble
persone
or
of
the
peple
of
their
aduersaries
sette
in
the
poynt
at
on
ony
side
to
fore
hym
/
In
that
corner
poynt
he
may
take
his
aduersarye
wherther
hit
be
on
the
right
side
or
on
the
lifte
/
And
the
cause
is
that
the
aduersaries
ben
suspecyous
that
the
comyn
peple
lye
In
a
wayte
to
Robbe
her
goodes
or
to
take
her
persones
whan
they
goo
vpward
right
forth
.
And
therfore
he
may
take
in
the
right
angle
to
fore
hym
one
of
his
aduersaries
/
As
he
had
espied
his
persone
/
And
in
the
lifte
angle
as
robber
of
his
goodes
/
and
whether
hit
be
goynge
foreward
or
retornynge
fro
black
to
whyte
or
whyte
to
black
the
pawn
must
allway
goo
in
his
right
ligne
/
and
allway
take
in
the
corner
that
he
findeth
in
his
waye
/
but
he
may
not
goo
on
neyther
side
tyll
he
hath
ben
in
the
furdest
ligne
of
th
esehequer
/
And
that
he
hath
taken
the
nature
of
the
d●●nghtes
of
the
quene
/
And
than
he
is
a
fiers
/
And
than
he
may
goo
on
alle
sides
cornerwyse
fro
poynt
to
poynt
only
as
the
quene
doth
fightynge
and
takynge
whom
he
findeth
in
his
waye
/
And
whan
he
is
thus
comen
to
the
place
where
the
noble●
his
aduersaries
were
sette
he
shall
be
named
white
fiers
or
black
fiers
/
after
the
poynt
that
he
is
in
/
and
there
taketh
he
the
dignyte
of
the
quene
etc
And
all
these
thinges
may
appere
to
them
that
beholden
the
play
of
the
chesse
/
and
ye
shall
vnderstande
that
no
noble
man
ought
to
haue
despite
of
the
comyn
peple
/
for
hit
hath
ben
ofte
tymes
seen
/
that
by
their
vertu
a
witte
/
Diuerce
of
them
haue
comen
to
right
highe
a
grete
astate
as
poopes
bisshoppes
Emperours
and
kynges
/
As
we
haue
in
the
historye
of
Dauid
that
was
made
kynge
/
of
a
shepherd
and
one
of
the
comyn
peple
/
and
of
many
other
etc
.
And
in
lyke
wyse
we
rede
of
the
contrary
/
that
many
noble
men
haue
ben
brought
to
myserye
by
their
defaulte
As
of
gyges
whiche
was
right
riche
of
landes
and
of
richesses
And
was
so
proude
that
he
wente
and
demanded
of
the
god
appollo
/
yf
ther
were
ony
in
the
world
more
riche
or
more
happy
than
he
was
/
and
than
he
herde
a
wys
that
yssued
out
of
the
fosse
or
pitte
of
the
sacrefices
/
that
a
peple
named
agalaus
sophide
whiche
were
poure
of
goodes
and
riche
of
corage
was
more
acceptable
than
he
whiche
was
kynge
And
thus
the
god
Appollo
alowed
more
the
sapience
&
the
seurte
of
the
poure
man
and
of
his
lityll
mayne
/
than
he
dide
the
astate
and
the
persone
of
giges
ne
of
his
ryche
mayne
/
And
hit
is
more
to
alowe
a
lityll
thynge
scurly
poursiewed
than
moche
good
taken
in
fere
and
drede
And
for
as
moche
as
a
man
of
lowe
signage
is
by
his
vertue
enhaunsed
so
moche
the
more
he
ought
to
be
glorious
and
of
good
renomee
/
virgile
that
was
born
in
lombardye
of
the
nacion
of
mantua
and
was
of
lowe
and
symple
lignage
/
yet
he
was
souerayn
in
wisedom
and
science
and
the
moste
noble
of
alle
the
poctes
/
of
whome
the
renome
is
and
shall
be
durynge
the
world
/
so
hit
happend
that
an
other
poete
axid
and
demanded
of
hym
wherfore
he
setted
not
the
versis
of
homere
in
his
book
/
And
he
answerd
that
he
shold
be
of
right
grete
strength
and
force
that
shold
pluck
the
clubbe
out
of
hercules
handes
/
And
thys
suffyceth
the
state
and
draughtis
of
the
comyn
peple
etc
.
¶
The
eyght
chapitre
and
the
last
of
the
fourth
book
of
the
epilogacion
and
recapitulacion
of
this
book
.
FOr
as
moche
as
we
see
and
knowe
that
the
memorye
of
the
peple
is
not
retentyf
but
right
forgetefull
whan
some
here
longe
talis
a
historyes
whiche
they
cannot
alle
reteyne
in
her
mynde
or
recorde
Therfore
I
haue
put
in
this
present
chapitre
all
the
thynges
abouesayd
as
shortly
as
I
haue
conne
/
First
this
playe
or
game
was
founden
in
the
tyme
of
em●merodach
kynge
of
Babilone
/
And
exerses
the
philosopher
otherwyse
named
philometer
fonde
hit
/
And
the
cause
why
/
was
for
the
correction
of
the
kynge
lyke
as
hit
apperith
in
thre
the
first
chapitres
for
the
said
kynge
was
so
tyrannous
and
felon
that
he
might
suffre
no
correction
/
But
slewe
them
and
dide
do
put
hem
to
deth
/
that
correctid
hym
/
and
had
than
do
put
to
deth
many
right
wyse
men
Than
the
peple
beynge
sorowfull
and
ryght
euyll
plesid
of
this
euyll
lyf
of
the
kynge
prayd
and
requyred
the
philosopher
/
that
he
wolde
repryse
and
telle
the
kynge
of
his
folye
/
And
than
the
philosopher
answerd
that
he
shold
●●dede
yf
he
so
dide
/
and
the
peple
sayd
to
hym
/
Certes
then
oughtest
sonner
wille
to
dye
to
th
ende
that
thy
renome
myght
come
to
the
peple
than
the
lyf
of
the
kynge
shold
contynue
in
euyll
for
lacke
of
thy
counceyll
/
or
by
faulte
of
reprehension
of
the
/
or
that
thou
darst
not
doo
and
shewe
/
that
thou
saist
/
And
whan
the
philosopher
herd
this
he
promisid
to
the
peple
that
he
wold
put
hym
in
deuoyr
to
correcte
hym
/
and
than
he
began
to
thynke
in
what
maner
he
myght
escape
the
deth
and
kepe
to
the
peple
his
promesse
/
And
than
thus
he
made
in
this
maner
and
ordeyned
th
eschequer
of
.lxiiii.
poynts
as
Is
afore
sayd
/
And
dide
doo
make
the
forme
of
chequers
of
gold
and
siluer
In
humayne
fygure
after
the
facyons
and
formes
as
we
haue
dyuysid
and
shewid
to
yow
to fore
in
theyr
chapitres
/
And
ordeyned
the
moeuynge
and
the
state
after
that
it
is
said
in
the
chapitres
of
theschesses
And
whan
the
philosopher
had
thus
ordeyned
the
playe
or
game
/
and
that
hit
plesid
alle
them
that
sawe
hit
/
on
a
tyme
as
the
philosopher
playd
on
hit
/
the
kynge
cam
and
sawe
hit
and
desired
to
playe
at
this
game
/
And
than
the
phylosopher
began
tenseigne
and
teche
the
kynge
the
science
of
the
playe
&
the
draughtes
.
Saynge
to
hym
fyrst
how
the
kynge
ought
to
haue
in
hym self
pytie
.
debonairte
and
rightwisnes
as
hit
is
said
to fore
in
the
chapitre
of
the
kynge
And
he
enseygned
to
hym
the
estate
of
the
quene
and
what
maners
she
ought
to
haue
And
than
of
the
alphyns
as
connceyllours
and
Iuges
of
the
royame
And
after
the
nature
of
the
knyghtes
/
how
they
ought
to
be
wise
.
trewe
and
curtoys
and
alle
the
ordre
of
knyghthode
And
than
after
/
the
nature
of
the
vicaires
&
rooks
as
hit
apperyth
in
theyr
chappitre
And
after
this
how
the
comyn
peple
ought
to
goo
eche
in
his
office
/
And
how
they
ought
to
serue
the
nobles
.
And
whan
the
philosopher
had
thus
taught
and
enseigned
the
kynge
and
his
nobles
by
the
maner
of
the
playe
and
had
rephended
hym
of
his
euyll
maners
/
The
kynge
demanded
hym
vpon
payne
of
deth
to
telle
hym
the
cause
why
and
wherfore
he
had
made
&
founden
thys
playe
and
game
And
what
thynge
meuyd
hym
therto
/
And
than
the
philosopher
constrayned
by
fere
and
drede
answerd
/
that
he
had
promysid
to
the
peple
whiche
had
requyred
hym
that
he
shold
correcte
and
reprise
the
kynge
of
his
euyll
vices
/
but
for
as
moche
as
he
doubtid
the
deth
and
had
seen
that
the
kynge
dide
do
slee
the
sages
&
wyse
men
/
That
were
so
hardy
to
blame
hym
of
his
vices
/
he
was
in
grete
anguysshe
&
sorowe
/
how
he
myght
fynde
a
maner
to
correcte
&
reprehende
the
kynge
/
And
to
saue
his
owen
lyf
/
and
thus
he
thought
longe
&
studyed
that
he
fonde
thys
game
or
playe
/
Whiche
he
hath
do
sette
forth
for
to
amende
and
correcte
the
lyf
of
the
kynge
and
to
change
his
maners
/
and
he
adioustyd
with
all
that
he
had
founden
this
game
for
so
moche
as
the
lordes
and
nobles
habondynge
in
delyces
&
richessis
/
And
enioynge
temporell
peas
shold
eschewe
ydlenes
by
playnge
of
this
game
/
And
for
to
gyue
hem
cause
to
leue
her
pensifnes
and
sorowes
/
In
auysynge
&
studyynge
this
game
.
And
whan
the
kynge
had
herd
alle
thyse
causes
/
He
thought
that
the
philosopher
had
founde
a
good
maner
of
correction
/
And
than
he
thanketh
hym
gretly
/
and
thus
by
th
enseygnement
and
lernynge
of
the
phylosopher
he
changid
his
lyf
his
maners
&
alle
his
euyll
condicions
And
by
this
maner
hit
happend
that
the
kynge
that
to
fore
tyme
had
ben
vicyous
and
disordynate
in
his
liuyng
was
made
Iuste
.
and
vertuous
.
debonayre
.
gracious
and
and
full
of
vertues
vnto
alle
peple
/
And
a
man
that
lyuyth
in
this
world
with
out
vertues
liueth
not
as
a
man
but
as
a
beast
/
And
therfore
my
ryght
redoubted
lord
I
pray
almighty
god
to
saue
the
kyng
our
souerain
lord
&
to
gyue
hym
grace
to
yssue
as
a
kynge
&
tabounde
in
all
vertues
/
&
to
be
assisted
with
all
other
his
lordes
in
such
wyse
that
his
noble
royame
of
Englond
may
prospere
&
habounde
in
vertues
/
and
that
synne
may
be
eschewid
iustice
kepte
/
the
royame
defended
good
men
rewarded
malefactours
punysshid
&
the
ydle
peple
to
be
put
to
laboure
that
he
wyth
the
nobles
of
the
royame
may
regne
gloriously
In
conquerynge
his
rightfull
enheritaunce
/
that
verray
peas
and
charite
may
endure
in
bothe
his
royames
/
and
that
marchandise
may
haue
his
cours
in
suche
wise
that
euery
man
eschewe
synne
/
and
encrece
in
vertuous
occupacions
/
Praynge
your
good
grace
to
resseyue
this
lityll
and
symple
book
made
vnder
the
hope
and
shadowe
of
your
noble
protection
by
hym
that
is
your
most
humble
seruant
/
in
gree
and
thanke
And
I
shall
praye
alimighty
god
for
your
longe
lyf
&
welfare
/
whiche
he
preserue
And
sende
yow
thaccomplisshement
of
your
hye
noble
.
Ioyous
and
vertuous
desirs
Amen
:
/
:
Fynysshid
the
last
day
of
marche
the
yer
of
our
lord
god
.
a
.
thousand
foure
honderd
and
lxxiiii