rYght
welbelouyd
brother
&
persone
Eloquent
/
thou
admonestest
and
exhortest
me
to
prepare
&
make
redy
place
and
entree
for
the
vnto
the
lyf
Curiall
/
whyche
thou
desirest
/
And
that
by
my
helpe
and
requeste
thou
myghtest
haue
therin
offyce
/
And
herto
thou
art
duly
meuyd
by
comyn
errour
of
the
people
/
whiche
repute
t
honours
mondayne
&
pompes
of
them
of
the
courte
/
to
be
thynges
more
blessyd
&
happy
than
other
/
or
to
th
ende
that
I
Iuge
not
wel
of
thy
desyre
/
Thou
wenest
parauenture
/
that
they
that
wayte
on
offices
/
ben
in
vertuous
occupacions
&
reputest
them
the
more
worthy
for
to
haue
rewardes
&
merites
/
And
also
thou
adioustest
other
causes
that
meue
the
therto
/
by
th
example
of
me
/
that
empesshe
my selue
for
to
serue
in
the
courte
Ryall
/
And
to
th
ende
that
thou
myghtest
vse
thy
dayes
in
takyng
companye
wyth
me
/
and
that
we
myghte
to gidre
enioye
the
swettenes
of
frendshyppe
/
whyche
longe
tyme
hath
ben
bytwene
vs
tweyne
/
And
thys
knowe
I
wel
/
that
thy
courage
is
not
wyth
drawen
fer
from
my
frendshyppe
/
And
the
grace
of
humanyte
is
not
dreyed
vp
in
the
/
whyche
compryseth
hys
frendes
as
presente
And
leueth
not
at
nede
to
counseylle
&
ayde
them
absente
to
hys
power
/
And
I
trowe
that
thyn
absence
is
not
lasse
greuous
to
me
/
than
myn
is
to
thy self
/
For
me
semeth
that
thou
beyng
absente
I
am
there
where
the
places
and
affayres
desioyne
vs
/
But
by
cause
god
of
fortune
hath
so
departed
our
destynee
/
that
thou
awaytest
frely
on
thyn
owne
pryuate
thynges
/
And
that
I
am
occupyed
on
thynges
publycque
&
seruyses
in
sorowful
passions
/
that
whan
I
haue
on
my self
compassion
/
Thenne
am
I
enioyed
of
thyn
ease
/
&
take
grete
playsir
/
in
this
that
thou
auoydest
the
myserries
that
I
suffre
euery
day
/
And
yf
I
blame
or
accuse
fortune
for
me
/
I
preyse
and
thanke
her
on
that
other
parte
for
the
/
For
so
moche
as
she
hath
exempte
the
fro
the
anguysshes
that
I
suffre
in
the
courte
/
And
that
she
hath
not
made
vs
bothe
meschaunte
/
Thou
desirest
as
thou
sayst
to
be
in
the
courte
wyth
me
/
And
I
coueyte
yet
more
to
be
pryuely
and
syngulerly
wyth
the
/
And
also
for
me
thou
woldest
gladly
leue
thy
fraunchyse
and
pryuate
lyf
/
I
ought
more
gladly
for
the
loue
of
the
leue
thys
scruptude
mortell
/
For
as
moche
as
loue
acquyteth
hym
letter
in
humble
tranqullyte
than
in
orguyllous
myserye
/
late
hyt
suffyse
to
the
&
to
me
/
that
one
of
vs
tweyne
be
Infortunat
/
And
that
by
my
meschaunte
lyf
thou
mayst
see
and
knowe
more
certaynly
that
one
and
that
other
fortune
/
But
what
demaundest
thou
/
Thou
sechest
the
way
to
lese
thy self
/
by
th
example
of
me
/
And
wylt
lepe
fro
the
hauen
of
sewerte
/
for
to
drowne
thy self
in
the
see
of
peryl
and
myserye
/
Repentest
thou
the
to
haue
lyberte
/
Art
thou
annoyed
to
lyue
in
peas
/
humayne
nature
hath
suffred
suche
vnhappynes
/
that
she
appetyteth
and
desireth
to
haue
that
thyng
/
whyche
she
hath
not
/
Thus
mesprysest
thou
the
peas
of
thy
corage
/
and
the
sure
estate
of
thy
thought
/
And
by
therrour
of
mesprysement
whyche
thou
hast
goten
/
the
thynges
whyche
of
theyr
owne
condicion
ben
more
to
be
mesprised
/
than
they
that
ben
shewde
by
the
lyf
of
another
/
I
meruaylle
me
moche
/
how
thou
that
art
prudent
and
wyse
of
goodes
/
art
so
ouer
seen
and
fro
thy self
for
to
dar
expose
thy self
to
so
many
perillis
And
yf
thou
wylt
vse
my
counseyl
/
Take
none
example
by
me
for
to
poursewe
the
courtes
/
Ne
the
publycque
murmures
of
hye
palaysis
/
But
alleway
late
my
perylle
be
example
to
the
for
to
fle
and
eschewe
them
/
For
I
dar
not
afferme
/
that
emonge
the
bruyt
of
them
that
torne
/
be
ony
thyng
stedfast
ne
holsom̄e
/
Thou
shalt
wene
&
hope
to
fynde
/
exercite
of
vertu
/
in
myserye
thus
commune
&
publycque
/
And
so
certaynly
shalt
thou
fynde
/
yf
thou
makest
thy
view
to
fight
constauntly
ayenst
alle
vices
/
But
be
ware
&
make
good
watche
that
thou
be
not
the
fyrst
that
shal
be
ouercome
/
For
I
saye
the
/
that
the
courtes
of
hye
prynces
be
neuer
disgarnysshed
of
peple
deceyuyng
by
fayr
langage
/
or
feryng
by
menaces
/
or
stryuyng
by
enuye
/
or
corrupte
by
force
of
yeftes
/
or
blandysshyng
by
flaterers
/
or
accusyng
of
trespaces
/
or
enpesshyng
&
lettyng
in
some
maner
wyse
/
the
good
wyl
of
true
men
For
our
poure
humanyte
is
lyghtly
enclyned
to
ensiewe
&
fololowe
the
maners
&
condycions
of
other
/
And
to
doo
as
they
doo
And
vnnethe
may
he
escape
that
is
asseged
and
assaylled
of
so
many
aduersaryes
/
Now
late
vs
graunte
that
thou
woldest
perseuere
in
vertue
/
And
that
thou
sholdest
escape
the
vycyous
and
the
corrupcion
of
suche
vycyous
persones
/
yet
in
thys
caas
thou
haddest
vaynquysshed
none
but
thy self
/
But
thys
had
ben
better
that
thou
haddest
don
it
in
thy
owne
secrete
pryue
place
And
be
thou
certayn
that
for
thy
vertue
thou
shalt
be
mocqued
and
for
thy
trouthe
thou
shalt
be
hated
/
or
that
thy
dyscrecion
shal
cause
the
to
be
suspecte
/
For
ther
is
nothyng
more
suspecte
to
euyl
peple
/
than
them
whom
they
knowe
to
be
wyse
and
trewe
/
The
reste
thenne
is
thys
/
that
thou
shalt
haue
labour
wythoute
fruyt
,
/
And
shalt
vse
thy
lyf
in
perylle
/
And
shalt
gete
many
enuyous
at
the
/
And
yf
thou
stryue
at
theyr
enuye
/
or
that
thou
takest
vengeance
/
I
telle
to
the
that
thy
vengement
shal
engendre
to
the
more
greuous
aduersytees
than
thou
haddest
tofore
/
And
by
the
contrarye
/
they
that
conne
dyssymyle
ben
preysed
and
vse
better
theyr
tyme
in
courtes
than
the
other
peple
/
The
abuses
of
the
courte
/
And
the
maner
of
the
peple
curyall
or
courtly
ben
suche
that
a
man
is
neuer
suffred
t
enhaunce
hym self
/
but
yf
he
be
corrumpable
/
For
vertue
whyche
is
in
so
many
maners
enuyed
/
yf
she
be
not
prowde
/
she
is
mesprysed
/
yf
she
bowe
not
/
she
is
by
force
sette
abacke
/
yf
she
be
broken
or
hurte
she
is
by
force
hunted
away
/
who
is
he
thenne
that
may
kepe
hym
that
he
be
not
corrupt
or
coromped
/
or
who
is
he
that
shall
escape
without
hauyng
harme
/
Suche
be
the
werkes
of
the
courte
that
they
that
be
symple
ben
mesprysed
/
the
vertuous
enuyed
/
And
the
prowde
arrogaunts
in
mortel
peryllis
/
And
yf
thou
be
sette
doun
and
put
aback
vnder
the
other
courtyours
/
Thou
shalt
be
enuyous
of
theyr
power
/
yf
thou
be
in
mene
estate
/
of
whyche
thou
hast
not
suffysaunce
/
thou
shalt
stryue
for
to
mounte
and
ryse
hyer
/
And
yf
thou
mayst
come
vnto
the
hye
secrets
whyche
ben
strongly
for
to
doubte
and
drede
/
in
the
doubtous
courteynes
of
the
most
hye
prynces
/
Thenne
shalt
thou
be
most
meschaunt
/
Of
somoche
as
thou
wenest
to
be
most
ewrous
and
happy
/
so
moche
more
shalt
thou
be
in
grete
perill
to
falle
/
lyke
to
hym
that
is
mounted
in
to
the
most
hye
place
/
For
to
them
whom
fortune
the
variable
hath
most
hyely
lyfte
vp
/
and
enhaunsed
/
resteth
nomore
but
for
to
falle
fro
so
hye
doun
/
by
cause
she
oweth
to
them
nothyng
but
ruyne
/
yf
thou
haste
take
of
her
alle
that
thou
myghtest
/
and
that
she
wold
gyue
/
thenne
art
thou
debytour
of
thy self
/
To
th
ende
that
she
rendre
and
yelde
hym
meschaunt
whom
she
had
enhaunsed
/
And
that
she
mocque
hym
of
hys
meschef
whom
she
had
made
blynde
of
vayn
glorye
of
hys
enhaunsyng
/
For
the
grete
wyndes
that
blowe
in
hye
courtes
ben
of
suche
condicion
/
that
they
only
that
ben
hyest
enhaunsed
/
ben
after
theyr
despoyntement
/
as
a
spectacle
of
enuye
/
of
detraction
/
or
of
hate
vnto
alle
peple
/
and
fynde
them self
subgettes
tyl
they
be
shamed
and
put
doun
emong
the
peple
/
And
that
they
/
that
to fore
poursiewed
to
them
and
flatered
/
Reporte
of
them
more
gretter
blames
and
dyuysions
than
the
other
/
For
multytud
of
peple
mespryse
alway
them
/
that
fortune
hath
most
aualed
and
throwen
doun
/
And
also
is
enuyous
of
them
that
she
seeth
enhaunsed
and
lyft
vp
/
Fortune
gladly
hath
sette
hys
eyen
on
hem
that
ben
in
hye
degree
and
on
the
soueraynes
yet
more
/
And
whan
she
pleyeth
wyth
smale
and
poure
folkes
/
that
is
no
certayn
/
for
of
the
meschief
of
poure
peple
she
retcheth
not
/
ne
doth
but
smyle
/
But
she
lawgheth
wyth
ful
mouth
and
smyteth
her
paulmes
to gydre
whan
she
seeth
grete
lordes
falle
in
to
meschyef
/
she
retcheth
but
/
lytel
for
tessaye
and
preue
her
fortune
in
lytyl
and
lowe
places
/
But
for
to
make
the
grete
and
myghty
to
falle
and
ouerthrowe
she
setteth
gladly
her
gynnes
/
And
them
that
ben
poure
&
caste
doun
maketh
she
of
tymes
to
ryse
&
mounte
fro
certaynte
to
Incertaynte
and
fro
good
rewle
to
euyl
rewle
/
Them
deceyueth
she
gladly
/
whom
she
fyndeth
esy
to
deceyue
/
and
variable
as
she
is
/
But
she
doth
the
custommes
&
strength
to
them
that
setteth
by
her
And
whan
she
seeth
her
despysed
&
nought
sette
by
/
thenne
she
loueth
them
in
peas
/
But
she
flateryth
and
lawgheth
for
nought
vnto
them
that
haue
hye
and
hole
courage
/
Now
she
essayeth
to
Iuste
ayenst
them
that
ben
most
stronge
/
And
now
she
enhaunseth
them
that
ben
most
feble
/
now
she
lawheth
to
one
/
and
she
grymmeth
to
other
/
But
the
man
that
hath
grete
corage
&
vertuous
mespriseth
her
lawhynges
and
mowes
/
And
nothyng
doubteth
her
menaces
/
But
the
courte
maketh
ouer
moche
compte
of
thys
fortune
/
that
draweth
the
peple
lyghtly
to
her
/
forgetyng
theyr
poure
estate
/
And
forgetyng
and
not
knowyng
them self
as
sone
as
they
ben
enhaunsed
/
whyche
the
wyse
men
do
not
/
whiche
for
none
auauncement
ne
hauyng
of
good
enpayre
not
them self
/
There
assaye
thou
for
to
mounte
/
yf
thou
wylt
leue
thy
lyberte
and
franchyse
/
Thenne
oughtest
thou
to
knowe
/
that
thou
shalt
haue
habundaunce
thy self
/
whan
thou
shalt
wylle
to
poursewe
the
court
/
whyche
maketh
a
man
to
leue
hys
propre
maners
/
And
to
applye
hym self
to
the
maners
of
other
For
yf
he
be
verytable
/
men
shal
holde
hym
atte
scole
of
fayntyse
/
yf
he
loue
honest
lyf
/
men
shal
teche
hym
to
lede
dyshonest
lyf
/
yf
he
be
pacyent
/
&
sette
by
no
prouffyt
/
he
shal
be
left
to
haue
suffraunce
/
For
yf
he
can
nought
/
men
shal
demaunde
hym
nothyng
/
And
also
he
shal
fynde
none
/
that
shal
gyue
hym
ony
thyng
/
yf
he
entre
Inportunatly
/
They
that
be
Inportune
shal
put
hym
abacke
/
yf
he
be
acustomed
to
ete
soberly
/
and
at
a
certayn
houre
/
he
shal
dyne
late
and
shal
soupe
in
suche
facyon
that
he
shal
dysacustōme
hys
tyme
and
hys
maner
of
lyuyng
/
Yf
he
haue
be
acustomed
to
rede
and
studye
in
bookes
/
he
shal
muse
ydelly
alday
in
awaytyng
that
men
shal
open
the
dore
to
hym
of
the
chambre
or
wythdraught
of
the
prynce
/
yf
he
loue
the
rest
of
his
body
he
shal
be
ennoyed
now
here
/
nowe
there
/
as
a
courrour
or
renner
perpetuell
/
yf
he
wil
erly
goo
to
his
bedde
and
Ryse
late
at
hys
playsir
he
shal
faylle
therof
/
For
he
shal
wake
longe
and
late
/
and
ryse
ryght
erly
/
and
that
ofte
he
shal
lese
the
nyght
wythout
slepyng
/
yf
he
studye
for
to
fynde
frendshyp
/
he
shal
neuer
conne
trotte
so
moche
thurgh
the
halles
of
the
grete
lordes
that
he
shal
fynde
her
/
but
she
holdeth
her
wythoute
and
entreth
not
wyth
ony
/
For
she
is
moche
better
knowen
by
them
that
vsen
her
whyche
ben
experte
of
reffuse
/
throwen
doun
by
fortune
/
than
by
them
that
entre
ygnoraunt
/
and
not
knowen
her
tornes
/
Now
beholde
thenne
/
and
see
whyche
of
the
two
thou
shalt
chese
/
or
that
in
my
yssuyng
and
goyng
out
/
I
drawe
the
to
our
comune
prouffyt
or
in
thyn
entryng
thou
brynge
me
to
our
comune
dommage
and
hurte
/
And
forgete
not
that
who
serueth
in
the
courte
/
Alway
hym
behoueth
to
be
a
gheste
/
and
herberowed
in
another
mannes
hows
/
And
also
he
muste
ete
after
th
appetyte
of
other
/
and
otherwhyle
wythoute
hungre
and
fayn
he
maye
/
And
in
lyke
wyse
he
muste
wake
otherwhyle
atte
the
wylle
of
other
/
after
that
he
hath
begonne
to
slepe
and
by
grete
gryef
what
thyng
is
more
domageus
than
to
sette
vnder
fortune
the
vertues
of
nature
/
and
the
ryghtes
and
droytes
of
lyf
humayne
/
seen
that
it
is
a
thyng
more
free
in
a
man
/
than
to
lyue
naturelly
emong
vs
seruantes
of
courte
/
we
doo
nothynge
but
lyue
after
th
ordonance
of
other
/
And
thou
lyuest
in
thyn
hous
lyke
an
Emperour
/
thou
regnest
as
a
kyng
paysyble
/
vnder
the
couuerte
of
thyn
hous
/
And
we
tremble
for
drede
to
dysplayse
the
lordes
of
hye
houses
/
Thou
mayst
ete
whan
thou
hast
hungre
/
at
thyn
houre
and
at
thy
playsir
/
And
we
ete
so
gredyly
&
gloutounously
that
otherwhyle
we
caste
it
vp
agayn
and
make
vomytes
/
Thou
passest
the
nyght
in
slepyng
as
longe
as
it
playseth
the
/
And
we
after
ouermoche
drynkyng
of
wynes
and
grete
paynes
lye
doun
ofte
in
beddes
ful
of
vermyne
/
&
somtyme
wyth
stryf
and
debate
/
Retourne
brother
/
Retourne
to
thy self
/
And
lerne
to
know
the
felicite
/
by
the
myseryes
that
we
suffre
/
But
noman
preyseth
ynough
the
ayses
that
he
hath
in
hys
pryuate
and
propre
hous
/
but
he
that
tofore
mespryseth
th
anguysshes
that
he
hath
suffred
in
admynystracion
publycque
/
Arystotle
the
phylosophre
gloryfyed
in
hym self
/
that
he
had
left
the
hye
palays
of
kyng
Alysaundre
/
And
had
leuer
to
leue
there
hys
discyple
Calistenes
/
than
there
lenger
to
dwelle
/
Dyogenes
also
whiche
in
hys
tyme
aboue
alle
other
men
louyd
lyberte
and
fraunchyse
Refused
the
grete
rychesses
and
wordly
Ioyes
to
whyche
he
was
callyd
/
he
fledde
them
for
to
enhabyte
and
dwelle
frely
wythin
the
toune
/
wherin
he
slepte
/
And
also
durst
somoche
auaunte
hym
/
that
he
was
more
puyssaunt
prynce
in
that
he
myght
more
reffuse
of
goodes
than
the
said
Alysaundre
hath
power
to
gyue
hym
For
the
veray
phylosophre
/
that
can
wel
mespryse
th
ambycious
vanyte
of
the
peple
of
the
court
/
techeth
to
his
counseyllours
/
that
ther
is
more
of
humanyte
in
smale
thynges
and
eases
/
than
in
the
courtes
of
prynces
/
And
the
benes
of
Pictagoras
/
And
the
wortes
that
Orace
ete
/
rendrid
and
gafe
better
sauour
/
than
that
Sardanapalus
fonde
in
the
grete
and
delycious
wynes
Aromatyques
that
he
dranke
/
for
as
moche
as
the
delyces
were
medled
with
the
galle
of
poyson
/
Feures
/
&
anguysshes
mondaynes
/
that
he
had
alway
vpon
hys
herte
/
not
only
our
lyf
/
but
th
exaction
of
our
lyf
/
hys
tormentis
adioyne
to
our
lyf
in
suche
wyse
that
she
ne
hath
glorye
mondayne
/
ne
pompe
caduque
wythoute
aduersyte
/
Oftymes
the
peple
make
grete
wondrynges
of
the
Ryche
robe
of
the
courtyour
/
but
they
knowe
not
by
what
labour
ne
by
what
dyffyculte
he
hath
goten
it
/
The
peple
otherwhyle
honoureth
and
worshypeth
the
grete
apparaylle
of
a
puyssant
man
But
they
acompte
not
the
pryckkyng
that
he
hath
felte
in
the
pourchassyng
of
it
/
Ne
the
greuys
that
he
hath
goten
in
shewyng
of
yt
/
Othertymes
beholde
the
peple
thordynaunces
and
grete
houshold
of
the
hye
and
grete
lordes
/
but
they
knowe
not
of
what
dyspence
they
ben
charged
for
to
nourysshe
them
/
Ne
consydre
nothyng
the
tytle
/
of
whyche
they
knowe
certaynly
/
that
they
haue
in
them
no
merites
/
Yf
we
calle
an
hare
/
a
lyon
/
or
saye
that
a
fayr
mayde
is
fowle
/
or
a
fowle
/
crokebacked
/
haltyng
/
or
euyl
shapen
to
be
as
fayre
as
Helayne
/
that
shold
be
a
grete
lesynge
/
and
worthy
of
derysion
/
And
allewaye
emonge
vs
couetyours
enfayned
/
we
falowe
more
the
names
of
th
offyces
/
than
the
droytes
and
ryghtes
/
we
be
verbal
/
or
ful
of
wordes
/
and
desyre
more
the
wordes
than
the
thynges
/
And
in
thys
we
ben
contrarye
to
the
wyse
Cathon
/
Whyche
desired
more
to
excersise
hym self
vertuously
in
comune
offyce
and
publycque
/
than
to
haue
the
name
/
And
in
suche
wyse
gouerneth
he
hym self
/
that
whan
he
was
called
/
he
was
allewaye
founde
worthy
to
haue
better
than
he
was
callyd
to
/
And
somoche
more
was
he
honowred
/
as
whan
he
fledde
most
the
worldly
honours
/
But
by
the
contrarye
we
coueyte
to
be
honowred
/
how
wel
that
we
ben
not
worthy
/
And
so
take
the
honours
as
by
force
and
strengthe
/
er
we
ben
called
therto
And
herof
foloweth
that
we
lese
by
good
ryght
/
that
whyche
we
Iuge
to
our self
and
that
we
dar
demande
indewly
/
And
to
saye
trouthe
the
honours
flee
fro
vs
/
whyche
we
poursewe
ouer
folyly
/
Therfore
brother
I
counseylle
the
/
that
thou
delyte
the
/
in
thy self
/
of
thy
vertue
/
For
she
yeldeth
Ioye
and
preysynge
to
them
that
lyue
wel
/
late
thy
grete
suffysaunce
reteyne
the
wythin
thy
lytyl
Cenacle
/
And
repute
not
thy self
vertuous
by
heryng
saye
as
done
men
of
the
courte
/
But
do
payne
to
be
verytable
by
th
effecte
of
the
werke
/
wherto
coueytest
thou
the
gloryes
of
palayses
whyche
for
theyr
wretched
myserye
haue
nede
that
men
haue
pyte
on
them
/
Ne
poursewe
it
not
in
fayt
/
But
by
the
playnt
of
myn
vnhappynes
/
folowe
not
me
/
by
cause
I
am
oftymes
cladde
wyth
the
beste
/
But
haue
pyte
and
compassion
of
the
peryls
/
of
whyche
I
am
asseged
/
and
of
th
assaultes
of
whyche
I
am
enuyronned
nyght
and
day
/
For
I
haue
nede
to
beholde
on
what
foot
that
euery
man
cometh
to
me
/
And
to
note
and
marke
the
paas
and
the
peryl
of
euery
worde
that
departeth
fro
my
mouth
to
th
ende
that
by
my
vtteraunce
I
be
not
surprysed
/
and
that
in
spekyng
vnpourueydly
I
ne
gyue
mater
to
ony
man
to
make
false
relacion
/
ne
to
interprete
euyl
my
worde
/
whyche
I
maye
neuer
reuoke
ne
put
in
agayn
/
For
the
courte
is
the
nourysshe
of
peple
/
whyche
by
fraude
and
franchyse
/
studye
for
to
drawe
from
one
and
other
suche
wordes
/
by
whiche
they
may
persecute
them
/
by
that
/
whyche
by
the
perylles
of
other
/
they
may
entie
in
to
the
grace
of
them
that
haue
auctoryte
to
helpe
/
or
to
annoye
/
And
whyche
take
more
playsyr
in
false
reportes
/
than
in
verytable
and
trewe
wordes
/
yf
thou
haue
offyce
in
courte
/
make
the
redy
to
fyghte
/
For
yf
thou
haue
ony
good
/
other
shal
desyre
to
take
it
fro
the
/
and
thou
shalt
not
escape
wythout
debate
/
Some
shal
machyne
by
some
moyen
to
deceyue
the
/
And
the
behoueth
to
tormente
thy self
to
resist
hym
/
And
after
whan
thou
shalt
haue
enployed
thy
body
/
thy
tyme
and
thy
goodes
for
to
deffende
the
/
Another
newe
one
cometh
to
the
court
&
shal
supplante
thy
benediction
/
And
shal
take
it
gylefully
fro
the
/
Thus
shalt
thou
lese
wyth
grete
sorowe
/
that
whyche
thou
haste
goten
wyth
grete
labour
/
Or
yf
thyn
offyce
abyde
wyth
the
/
so
shal
thou
not
abyde
longe
wythout
drede
and
fere
of
hym
or
of
other
enuyous
whyche
shal
laboure
to
take
it
fro
the
/
Tofore
that
thou
hast
ony
offyces
thou
boughtest
peas
and
moderacion
to
lyue
/
And
as
sone
as
thou
shalt
haue
it
/
thou
shalt
be
deffyed
of
an
other
/
which
shal
enforce
hym
for
to
gyue
largely
for
to
take
it
fro
the
And
the
behoueth
maulgre
thy self
/
that
thou
gyue
as
moche
as
he
/
to
th
ende
that
thou
kepe
it
/
And
that
it
abyde
wyth
the
/
Beholde
thenne
brother
beholde
/
how
moche
thy
lytyl
hous
gyueth
the
liberte
and
franchyse
/
And
thanke
it
that
it
hath
receyuyd
the
as
only
lorde
/
And
after
that
thy
dore
is
shette
and
closed
ther
entreth
none
other
but
suche
as
pleseth
the
/
Men
knocke
oftymes
atte
yates
of
ryche
and
hye
palayses
/
Ther
is
alleway
noyse
and
murmure
/
In
grete
places
ben
grete
and
moche
peples
/
of
whyche
some
ben
harde
pressyd
/
The
halle
of
a
grete
prynce
is
comunely
Infecte
and
eschaufed
of
the
breeth
of
the
peple
/
The
vssher
smyteth
wyth
hys
Rodde
vpon
the
heedes
of
them
that
ben
there
/
Some
entre
by
forse
of
threstyng
/
And
other
stryue
for
to
resyste
/
Some
tyme
a
poure
man
meschaunt
that
hath
to fore
be
sore
sette
abacke
is
further
sette
forth
than
an
other
/
And
the
most
fyers
and
prowde
whom
a
man
durste
not
tofore
touche
/
is
put
further
aback
and
is
in
more
gretter
daunger
/
There
knoweth
noman
in
certayn
yf
hys
astate
be
sure
or
not
/
But
who
someuer
it
be
alway
he
is
in
doubte
of
hys
fortune
/
And
whan
thou
wenest
to
be
most
in
grace
/
Thenne
remembre
the
of
the
poete
that
sayth
/
that
it
is
no
grete
preysynge
/
for
to
haue
ben
in
the
grace
of
a
grete
prynce
/
And
to
th
ende
that
thou
mayst
the
better
knowe
now
the
courte
/
I
wyl
dyscryue
and
dyffyne
it
to
the
/
The
courte
to
th
ende
that
thou
vnderstande
it
/
is
a
couente
of
peple
that
vnder
fayntyse
of
Comyn
we
le
assemble
hem
to gydre
for
to
deceyue
eche
other
/
For
ther
be
not
many
of
them
but
that
they
selle
bye
/
or
eschange
somtyme
theyr
rentes
or
propre
vestementis
/
For
emonge
vs
of
the
courte
/
we
be
meschaunt
and
newfangle
/
that
we
bye
the
other
peple
/
And
somtyme
for
theyr
money
we
selle
to
them
our
humanyte
precyous
/
we
bye
other
/
And
other
bye
vs
/
But
we
can
moche
better
selle
our self
to
them
that
haue
to
doo
wyth
vs
/
how
moche
thenne
mayst
thou
gete
/
that
it
be
certayn
/
or
what
sewrte
/
that
it
be
wythout
doubte
and
wythout
peryll
/
wyll
thou
goo
to
the
court
for
to
selle
or
lese
/
the
goodnes
of
vertues
whyche
thou
haste
goten
wythoute
the
courte
/
I
saye
to
the
whan
thou
enforcest
the
to
entre
/
thenne
begynnest
thou
to
lese
the
seygnorye
of
thy self
/
And
thou
shalt
nomore
enioye
the
droytes
and
ryghtes
of
thy
franchyse
and
liberte
/
Certes
brother
thou
demandest
that
/
whyche
thou
oughtest
to
deffye
/
And
fyxest
thyn
hope
in
that
/
that
shal
drawe
the
to
peryl
and
perdicion
/
And
yf
thou
come
/
the
courte
shal
serue
the
with
so
many
contryued
lesynges
on
that
one
parte
/
And
on
that
other
syde
she
shal
delyuere
to
the
so
many
cures
and
charges
/
that
thou
shalt
haue
wythin
thy self
contynuell
bataylle
/
thought
/
and
anguysshes
/
And
for
certayn
a
man
man
not
wel
saye
/
that
he
is
wel
happy
/
that
in
tyme
of
tempeste
is
bought
and
in
so
many
contrarytees
assayeed
and
proued
/
And
yf
thou
demandest
/
what
is
the
lyf
of
them
of
the
courte
I
answere
the
brother
/
that
it
is
a
poure
rychesse
/
An
habundance
myserable
/
an
hyenesse
that
falleth
/
An
estate
not
stable
/
A
sewrte
tremblyng
/
And
an
euyl
lyf
/
And
also
it
may
be
called
of
them
that
ben
amorouse
a
deserte
lyberte
/
Flee
ye
men
flee
and
holde
and
kepe
you
ferre
fro
suche
an
assemblee
/
yf
ye
wyll
lyue
wel
and
surely
/
and
as
peple
wel
assured
vpon
the
Ryuage
/
beholde
vs
drowne
by
our
owne
agreement
/
And
mespryse
our
blyndenes
/
that
may
ne
wylle
knowe
our
propre
meschyef
/
For
lyke
as
the
folysshe
maronners
/
whyche
somtyme
cause
them self
to
be
drowned
/
by
theyr
dyspourueyed
aduysement
/
In
lyke
wyse
the
courte
draweth
to
hym
and
deceyueth
the
symple
men
/
and
maketh
them
to
desire
and
coueyte
it
/
lyke
as
a
Rybaulde
or
a
comyn
womman
wel
arayed
/
by
her
lawhyng
and
by
her
kyssynge
/
The
courte
taketh
meryly
them
that
comen
therto
/
in
vsyng
to
them
false
promesses
/
The
courte
lawheth
atte
begynnyng
on
them
that
entre
/
And
after
she
grymmeth
on
them
/
And
somtyme
byteth
them
ryght
aygrely
/
The
courte
reteyneth
the
caytyuys
whiche
can
not
absente
and
kepe
them
fro
thene
/
and
alday
adnewe
auctoryse
and
lorshippe
vpon
suche
as
they
surmounte
/
The
courte
also
by
errour
forgeteth
ofte
them
that
beste
seren
/
And
dyspende
folyly
her
propre
good
for
tenryche
them
that
ben
not
worthy
/
and
that
haue
ryght
euyl
deseruyd
it
/
And
the
man
is
vnhappy
that
is
taken
in
/
and
had
leuer
to
perysshe
/
than
to
yssue
and
goo
out
/
And
ther
to
lese
hys
cours
of
nature
/
wythout
euer
to
haue
hys
franchyse
and
lyberte
vntyl
hys
deth
/
Beleue
surely
brother
and
doubte
nothynge
that
thou
excersysest
ryght
good
and
ryght
prouffytable
offyce
yf
thou
canst
wel
vse
thy
maystryse
that
thou
hast
in
thy
lytyl
hous
/
and
thou
art
and
shal
be
puyssaunt
as
longe
as
thou
hast
and
shal
haue
of
thy self
suffysaunce
/
For
who
that
hath
a
smal
howshold
and
lytle
meyne
and
gouerneth
them
wysely
&
in
pras
/
he
is
a
lorde
/
And
somoche
more
is
he
ewrous
&
happy
as
he
more
frely
maynteneth
it
/
As
ther
is
nothyng
so
precious
vnder
heuen
/
as
for
to
be
of
sufficient
comynycacion
wyth
franchyse
/
O
fortuned
men
/
O
blessyd
famyllye
where
as
is
honeste
pouerte
that
is
content
with
reson
without
etyng
the
fruytes
of
other
mennes
labour
/
O
wel
happy
howse
in
whyche
is
vertue
wythout
fraude
ne
barat
/
and
whyche
is
honestly
gouerned
in
the
drede
of
god
and
good
moderacion
of
lyf
/
There
entre
no
synnes
/
There
is
a
true
and
ryghtful
lyf
/
where
as
is
remorse
of
euery
synne
and
where
is
no
noyse
/
murmure
ne
enuye
/
of
suche
lyf
enioyeth
nature
/
and
in
smale
eases
lyueth
she
longe
/
and
lytyl
and
lytyl
she
cometh
to
playsaunt
age
and
honeste
ende
/
For
as
seyth
Seneke
in
hys
tragedyes
/
Age
cometh
to
late
to
peple
of
smale
howses
/
whyche
lyue
in
suffysaunce
/
But
emong
vs
courtyours
that
be
seruauntes
to
fortune
/
we
lyue
disordynatly
/
we
wexen
old
more
by
force
of
charges
than
by
the
nombre
of
yeres
/
And
by
defaulte
of
wel
lyuyng
we
ben
wery
of
the
swetenes
of
our
lyf
/
whyche
so
moche
we
desire
and
haste
to
goo
to
the
deth
the
whyche
we
somoche
drede
and
doubte
/
Suffyse
the
thenne
broder
to
lyue
in
peas
on
thy
partye
/
&
lerne
to
contente
the
by
our
meschiefs
/
Ne
mesprise
not
thy self
so
moche
/
that
thou
take
the
deth
/
for
the
lyf
/
Ne
leue
not
the
goodes
that
thou
shalt
be
constrayned
to
brynge
/
For
to
seche
to
gete
them
after
wyth
grete
wayllynges
and
sorow
/
whych
shal
be
to
the
horryble
and
harde
to
fynde
/
Fynably
I
praye
the
/
counseylle
and
warne
the
/
that
yf
thou
hast
taken
ony
holy
and
honeste
lyf
/
that
thou
wyl
not
goo
and
lese
it
/
And
that
thou
take
away
that
thought
And
despyse
alle
thy
wyl
for
to
come
to
courte
/
And
be
content
to
wythdrawe
the
wythin
th
enclose
of
thy
pryue
hous
/
And
yf
thou
haue
not
in
tyme
passed
knowen
that
thou
hast
ben
ewrous
And
happy
/
thenne
lerne
now
to
knowe
it
fro
hens
forth
/
And
to
god
I
comande
the
by
thys
wrytyng
whyche
gyue
the
hys
grace
/
Amen
Thus
endeth
the
Curial
made
by
maystre
Alain
Charretier
Translated
thus
in
Englyssh
by
Wylliam
Caxton