SEdechias
was
the
first
Philosophir
by
whoom
thorugh
the
wil
and
pleaser
of
oure
lorde
god
Sapience
was
vnderstande
and
lawes
resceyued
.
whiche
Sedechias
saide
.
that
euery
creature
of
good
beleue
ought
to
haue
in
hym
sixtene
vertues
¶
The
first
vertue
is
to
drede
and
knowe
god
and
his
angellys
¶
The
seconde
vertue
is
to
haue
discrecion
to
dis
cerne
the
good
from
the
badde
and
to
vse
vertu
and
fle
●…ices
¶
The
thirde
vertue
is
to
obeye
the
kynges
or
princes
that
god
hath
ordeyned
to
reygne
vpon
hym
and
that
haue
lordship
and
power
vpon
the
people
¶
The
fourthe
.
vertue
is
to
worship
hys
fadre
&
hys
modre
¶
The
fyfthe
vertue
is
to
do
.
Iustely
and
truely
to
euery
creature
aftir
his
possibilite
¶
The
sixte
vertue
is
to
distribute
his
almes
to
the
poer
people
.
¶
The
seuenthe
vertue
is
to
●…epe
and
defende
straungers
and
pilgrymes
¶
The
eyght
ver
tue
is
to
bynde
and
determine
him self
to
serue
our
lorde
god
¶
The
nynthe
vertue
is
to
eschewe
fornicacion
¶
The
tenthe
vertue
is
to
haue
pacience
.
¶
The
enleuenth
vertue
is
to
be
stedefast
and
true
.
¶
The
twelfthe
vertue
is
to
be
peasible
and
attemperate
and
shamfast
of
synne
¶
The
thertenthe
vertue
is
to
loue
Iustice
¶
The
fourtenthe
vertue
is
to
be
liberal
and
not
couetouy
¶
The
fyftenthe
vertue
is
to
offre
sacrifices
to
our
lord
god
almyghty
for
the
benefices
and
gracis
that
he
sheweth
hym
dayly
¶
The
sixtenthe
vertue
is
to
worship
god
almyghty
and
to
put
hym
hooly
in
his
protection
and
defence
for
resistence
of
the
in
fortunitees
that
dayly
falles
in
thys
worlde
¶
The
saide
Sedechias
saide
that
right
as
it
apparteineth
to
the
people
to
be
subgect
and
obbeissant
to
the
Royal
mageste
of
thayr
kyng
or
prynce
right
so
it
behoueth
their
kyng
or
prince
to
entende
dyligentely
to
the
wele
and
gouernaunce
of
hys
people
,
and
rather
to
wil
the
wele
of
them
than
hys
owne
propre
lucre
.
for
by
similitude
ryght
so
is
the
kyng
or
the
prince
with
hys
people
as
the
soule
with
the
body
.
And
sayd
Sedechias
,
yf
a
kyng
or
a
prince
enforce
hym self
to
gadre
money
or
tresor
by
subtyl
exortacions
or
other
vndewe
meanes
he
ought
to
knowen
he
doth
amysse
,
for
suche
tresor
may
not
by
gadred
wythoute
the
sequele
be
to
hys
daunger
or
depeopulacion
of
hys
Royaume
or
countrey
¶
And
said
Sedechias
,
yf
a
kyng
or
a
prynce
be
negligent
and
sloughtfull
aud
take
no
hede
to
serche
and
enquere
the
disposicion
and
workis
of
hys
ennemyes
.
then●…ent
wyll
and
dedis
of
his
subgettys
he
shal
not
be
long
in
surete
in
hys
Royame
¶
And
said
.
Sedechias
the
people
is
fortunat
and
happy
that
haue
a
goode
and
a
vertuous
kyng
or
prince
discrete
ande
wyse
in
scyences
¶
And
mykyl
ar
the
peple
infortunat
whan
eny
of
thyes
thynges
lak
in
their
kyng
or
prynce
¶
And
saide
Sedechias
yf
a
kyng
or
a
prynce
for
slouthe
or
leue
to
do
eny
of
the
litil
thynges
that
hym
ought
,
and
is
ordeygned
he
shulde
execute
lightly
after
he
leueth
greter
vndon
and
soo
consequently
he
may
lese
alle
,
ryght
as
a
litill
sekenesse
or
hurt
withoute
it
be
sone
and
wele
remedied
,
may
cause
the
dystruction
of
all●…
the
hole
body
.
¶
And
saide
Sedechias
yf
a
kyng
or
a
prynce
byleue
the
fayre
wordes
ande
flate
●…yngis
of
hys
ennemyes
hauyng
no
Respect
to
their
wer
●…ys
it
is
meruaylle
but
the
sayd
kyng
or
prynce
therby
sodaynly
take
harme
.
¶
And
said
Sedechias
.
It
apparteygneth
to
a
kyng
or
a
prynce
to
enfourme
hys
sone
in
vertue
and
science
and
howe
he
shall
gouuerne
hys
lande
aftir
him
howe
he
shulde
be
rightwys
to
his
people
.
howe
he
sholde
loue
and
haunte
hys
knyghtes
not
sufferyng
them
to
vse
to
mykel
hunting
is
nor
other
Idelnesses
,
but
instructe
hem
to
haue
goode
eloquence
and
to
eschewe
alle
vanitees
.
¶
And
sayd
Sedechias
It
apparteyneth
to
a
kyng
or
a
prince
.
yf
he
wol
haue
eny
nygh
seruaunt
first
to
knowe
hys
guydyng
and
condicions
and
howe
he
gouuerneth
hym silf
in
hys
house
and
amongis
hys
fellawes
.
and
yf
he
vnderstande
hym
of
goode
condicion
and
gouuernaunce
hauyng
pacience
in
his
aduersite
reteyne
and
take
hym
than
hardely
¶
And
ellis
to
beware
of
hym
¶
And
sayd
.
Sedechias
yf
thou
haue
a
verry
true
frende
that
loueth
the
wele
thou
ought
to
take
hym
more
in
thy
loue
and
fauour
.
than
eny
of
thy
kennesmen
desiryng
thy
deth
for
to
haue
the
succession
of
thy
goodys
¶
And
sayd
Sedechias
commonely
euery
resemblance
delyteth
other
¶
And
said
Sedechias
he
that
will
not
be
chastysed
by
fayre
and
swete
wordes
.
ought
to
be
corrected
by
sharp
and
harde
corrections
.
And
sayd
Sedechi
as
the
grettest
richesse
is
satisfaccion
of
the
herte
And
said
he
is
not
riche
,
to
whom
richesse
lasteth
not
,
ne
whan
they
may
be
lightly
taken
awaye
,
But
the
best
richesse
is
that
thing
,
that
dureh
perpetuelly
¶
And
said
Sedechias
the
obeissaunce
don
by
loue
is
more
ferme
than
that
,
that
is
don
by
myght
or
drede
¶
And
said
that
experyence
is
a
goode
chastisement
¶
And
sayd
the
lokyng
vpon
the
ende
of
the
worke
,
yf
it
be
good
.
yeueth
hope
to
the
begynnyng
¶
And
saide
,
that
goode
renommee
and
fame
is
right
proffitable
in
this
worlde
/
the
dedes
therof
auaileth
in
the
other
worlde
¶
And
saide
.
it
is
better
a
man
to
holde
his
peas
than
to
speke
my●…he
to
eny
ignorant
man
.
and
to
be
alone
than
to
be
acompayned
with
euill
people
¶
And
saide
whan
a
kyng
or
a
prince
is
euill
tacched
and
vicioux
.
better
is
to
thaim
that
hath
noo
knowlege
of
hym
than
to
thoos
that
be
grettest
maisters
in
his
house
¶
And
saide
.
better
is
a
woman
to
be
.
bareyn̄
than
to
bere
an
euill
disposid
or
a
wikked
childe
¶
And
saide
.
the
commpanie
of
a
pour
wiese
man
is
bettir
than
of
a
riche
ignorant
that
weneth
to
br
wyse
by
subtilitee
¶
And
saide
.
he
that
offendeth
god
his
creator
.
by
gretter
reason
he
faileth
to
other
¶
And
saide
bileue
not
in
hym
that
seith
he
loueth
and
knoweth
trowth
and
doth
the
contrarye
¶
And
saide
.
the
ignorante
men
wol
not
abstyn̄
them
from
their
sensualitees
but
loue
their
l●…f
for
thair
pleasaunces
what
defence
so
euer
be
made
vnto
t●…m
.
right
as
children
enforce
them self
to
ete
swete
thinges
.
and
the
rather
that
they
be
charged
the
contrarie
.
but
it
is
otherwiese
with
wiesemen̄
f●…r
they
loue
their
liues
but
onely
to
do
goode
dedis
.
and
to
leue
Idelnesse
&
the
delectacon̄s
of
this
worlde
¶
And
saide
.
howe
may
be
compared
the
werkes
of
theim
that
entende
the
perfection
of
the
goode
thinges
perpetuel
.
to
thaim
that
wol
but
their
delites
transytory
¶
And
saide
that
the
wiese
men
bere
their
greues
&
sorowes
as
they
were
swete
vnto
them
.
knowing
their
trouble
pacient
ly
taken
.
the
ende
therof
shal
be
to
their
merite
¶
And
saide
that
it
is
proufitable
&
good
to
do
wele
to
them
that
haue
deserued
it
And
that
it
is
euille
doon
to
doo
wele
to
thaym
that
haue
nat
deserued
it
/
for
al
is
lost
that
is
yeue
vnto
them
right
as
the
reyne
that
falleth
vpon
the
grauel
¶
And
said
he
is
happy
that
vsith
his
dayes
in
doyng
couenable
thinges
,
and
takith
in
this
worlde
but
that
,
that
is
necessarie
vnto
hym
and
may
not
forbere
,
Applying
him self
to
do
good
dedis
&
to
leue
the
badde
¶
And
sayd
a
man
ought
nat
to
be
demed
by
his
wordes
,
but
by
his
workis
,
for
comenly
wordes
ben
vayne
,
but
by
the
dedes
is
knowen
the
harme
or
the
prouf
fit
of
euery
thing
¶
And
said
whan
that
almes
is
distribute
to
pouer
indigent
peple
,
it
proffiteth
as
a
good
medicine
couenably
yeuen
to
them
that
be
seke
,
but
the
almes
yeuen
to
the
not
indigent
is
a
medicine
yeuen
without
cause
And
said
,
he
is
happy
that
withdraweth
his
ere
&
his
eye
from
alle
vyle
thinges
¶
And
said
,
the
moost
couenable
dispence
that
eny
man
may
make
in
his
lyf
,
is
hit
that
is
sette
in
the
seruice
of
god
&
in
good
workis
.
And
the
second
is
that
is
spended
in
necessarie
thinges
that
may
not
be
forborne
as
mete
drinke
clothing
,
&
for
remedies
ayenst
sikenesse
:
the
worste
of
all
is
that
is
dispended
in
syn
&
euil
werkis
.
HErmes
was
borne
in
egypte
.
and
is
as
mykyl
to
say
ther
as
mercuri
,
&
in
ebreu
as
Enok
which
was
sone
to
Iareth
the
sone
of
Matusale
,
the
sone
of
Malaleel
,
the
sone
of
Caynan
the
sone
of
Enoes
sone
of
Seth
sone
to
Adam
,
And
to
fore
the
grete
flode
called
Noes
flode
After
that
was
ther
another
litil
flode
,
whiche
drowned
,
but
the
contre
of
Egypte
onely
afore
the
whiche
the
said
Hermes
departed
thens
.
and
went
through
alle
landes
tyl
he
was
four
soore
yere
olde
and.
ij
.
And
wyth
him
hadde
lxxij
,
personnes
of
diuers
tonges
whiche
alweye
stered
and
exhorted
the
people
to
obeye
our
lord
.
&
edified
Cvm.
to
wues
whiche
he
fulfilled
with
sciences
.
And
was
the
first
that
fonde
the
science
of
scoles
.
&
establisshed
to
the
people
of
euery
clymat
lawes
couenable
and
apparteignyng
to
thair
opinions
.
to
the
whiche
hermes
the
kyngis
in
thoo
dayes
yaf
grete
audience
and
obeissaunce
in
all
thair
landes
&
so
did
ab
thenhahitantis
of
the.
Isles
of
the
see
he
constreyned
them
to
kepe
the
lawe
of
god
in
saing
trouthe
to
dispise
the
worlde
to
kepe
Iustice
,
to
wynne
the
saluacon̄
in
the
other
worlde
.
he
commanded
orisons
&
praiers
to
be
saide
and
to
faste
euery
wyke
oon
day
.
to
destroye
the
ennemiyes
of
the
lawe
to
yeue
almes
to
the
pour
goddis
people
.
that
is
to
say
to
the
feble
and
Impotent
.
he
commanded
that
porke
flesshe
and
camelys
shold●…
be
eten̄
.
and
suche
semblable
metes
.
and
commanded
them
expressely
.
that
they
shulde
kepe
them
fro
pariury
.
he
stablisshed
many
festis
at
certain
seasons
▪
and
ordeigned
also
diuers
persones
to
offre
sacrifices
at
the
rising
of
the
sonne
.
and
som
other
at
the
first
newe
moone
.
and
at
the
coniunction
of
the
planettes
&
also
whan
the
planetes
entre
in
to
their
houses
.
and
whan
they
ascended
and
whan
they
discended
.
The
sacrifices
were
of
many
thinges
.
that
is
to
say
of
roses
.
of
flours
of
greynes
of
whete
.
of
barley
.
of
frutes
.
of
grapes
.
of
licours
.
of
wynes
.
And
the
same
hermes
saide
.
that
it
was
noo
Recompense
sufficient
.
to
thanke
god
onely
for
the
grace
he
hath
sent
vs
¶
And
saide
.
O
thou
man
yf
thou
dredest
god
wele
.
thou
shuldest
neuer
falle
in
to
the
patthes
that
bringeth
man
to
harme
¶
And
saide
.
make
not
your
clamours
to
god
as
Ignorauntes
ful
of
corrupt
▪
wil
fulnesse
.
and
be
not
inobedient
vnto
oure
lorde
god
.
nor
trespassours
to
his
lawe
.
And
wil
noon
of
you
do
to
your
felowe
.
otherwyse
than
ye
wolde
be
don
to
.
but
by
concordaunt
and
loue
to gyders
.
vse
fastyngis
and
orisons
in
pure
&
clene
willes
.
constreyne
you
to
do
goode
dedes
humbly
and
withoute
pryde
in
suche
manere
as
of
your
werkes
may
growe
good
fruytes
.
and
kepe
you
oute
of
the
companyes
of
theues
of
fornycatours
.
and
of
thoos
that
vse
eu●…lle
werkis
.
¶
And
said
kepe
you
that
ye
be
not
〈◊〉
and
let
trouth
be
alwey
in
your
mouthe
,
and
swere
not
but
ye
and
nay
,
enforce
you
not
to
cause
them
swere
that
ye
knowe
wille
lye
.
lest
ye
be
parteners
to
theyr
pariury
.
put
your
trust
in
god
that
knoweth
alle
seccetes
and
he
shal
Iuge
you
in
equite
.
at
the
grete
day
of
Iugement
when
he
shall
yeue
remuneracions
to
the
good
for
theyr
goode●…
goode●…nesse
and
punysshe
the
euyll
for
theyr
wykkydnesse
And
sayde
ye
be
certayn
that
the
redemptour
our
lord
is
the
gret
teste
sapience
.
and
the
gretteste
dilectacion
that
one
ought
to
haue
.
of
whom
alle
goodenesse
cometh
,
and
by
whom
alle
the
yatis
of
witte
&
vnderstanding
ben
opened
▪
¶
And
god
that
hath
loued
his
seruantis
hath
yeuen
them
discrecion
&
hath
establisshed
prophetes
&
propheciers
.
&
ministres
fulfilled
with
the
holy
goost
by
the
whiche
he
hath
manyfestely
shewed
vnto
them
the
secretis
of
the
lawe
&
the
trouth
of
the
sapience
to
entente
that
they
shuld
escheue
al
errours
&
applye
them
to
alle
good
dedis
And
said
vse
sapience
&
folowe
the
lawes
,
be
mercyfulle
▪
and
garnisshe
you
wyth
goode
doctrines
think
&
loke
wel
vpon
your
we●…kis
wythout
hasting
you
,
to
mykyll
&
in
especiaal
whan
ye
shal
punissh
nnsdoers
and
yf
ye
vse
eny
manere
of
thinge
likly
to
synne
be
not
shamefaste
to
with
drawe
you
therfro
and
to
take
penaunce
for
the
same
for
to
yeue
other
exemple
for
yf
it
be
not
punisshed
in
this
worlde
it
shal
be
at
the
greete
day
of
Iugement
and
suche
shal
be
tourmented
with
grete
peines
whitoute
ony
pyte
taken
vpon
them
¶
And
saide
correcte
you
by
your self
and
folowe
the
wiese
men
lernyng
of
hem
good
vertues
&
lette
all
your
desire
be
to
wynne
good
renommee
and
fame
.
employe
not
your
tyme
and
your
mynde
in
●●●●hede
nor
in
malice
¶
And
saide
loke
ye
sette
noo
vay●●●
to
the
noysaunce
of
eny
body
.
nor
that
ye
seke
th
aire
hurtes
by
cautesses
or
sotiltees
.
For
suche
workes
wol
not
be
hid
.
but
at
the
last
th●y
wol
apoere
¶
And
saide
con●●●eyne
you
to
annexe
the
loue
of
god
and
of
your
feith
vnto
sapience
.
and
yf
ye
do
so
all
your
lyf
.
it
shal
be
to
you
a
grete
&
a
prouffitable
wynnyng
.
&
of
that
noble
vertue
shal
come
vnto
you
greter
benefices
.
than
yf
ye
sholde
assemble
grete
golde
and
siluer
or
other
tresours
not
durable
.
for
it
shal
be
to
you
a
grete
richesse
in
the
other
world
that
neuer
shal
haue
ende
¶
And
saide
.
be
al
one
within
and
withoute
in
that
ye
shal
speke
.
&
be
w●re
that
your
wordes
be
not
contrary
to
the
thoughtes
of
your
hert
¶
And
saide
humble
and
obeye
your self
to
your
kyng
and
your
princes
.
and
worship
the
grete
ministres
vnder
them
.
loue
god
&
trouth
&
yeue
true
counsaile
to
that
entent
ye
may
the
more
hoolly
with
your
good
penance
be
in
the
waye
of
saluacion
And
saide
,
yelde
louing
vnto
your
lord
as
wele
in
your
tribulacion
as
in
prosperite
in
your
pouerte
as
wele
as
in
your
richesse
And
sayd
.
ye
shal
bere
hens
non
other
thingis
but
your
werkis
,
and
therfore
,
be
ware
that
ye
Iuge
not
vniustly
and
desire
rather
to
haue
pouerte
in
doing
good
dedes
,
than
richesse
in
syn
,
for
richesse
may
soon
be
lost
,
and
good
dedis
shal
euer
abyde
And
sayd
be
ware
of
to
mykyll
laughing
and
mokkyng
eny
persone
,
al
be
it
,
ye
perceyue
in
him
eny
foule
or
euyll
tache
.
yet
rebuke
them
not
dishonestly
.
but
thinke
that
god
hath
made
you
all
of
one
matere
&
might
haue
made
you
as
euil
as
he
,
wherfore
ye
ought
to
thanke
his
goodenesse
that
hath
shewed
you
suche
grace
,
&
hath
kept
you
from
myschef
in
the
tymes
past
and
present
,
¶
And
pray
him
of
his
mercy
he
wol
so
kepe
you
forthe
And
said
if
it
fortune
that
the
ennemyes
of
our
feith
wil
dispute
with
you
.
by
diuerse
&
sharp
seyngyes
,
ansuere
them
in
swetenesse
&
in
humylite
prayng
god
to
be
of
you
:
counseile
.
&
that
he
will
addresse
all
his
creatures
to
the
goode
feith
for
theyr
perpetuel
saluacion
¶
And
saide
be
silent
in
counseil
and
be
wel
ware
.
what
ye
speke
afo●…
your
ēnem●…
lest
●…e
resemble
him
that
seketh
a
〈◊〉
to
be
b●…tyn
wi●…h
all
.
And
sai●…
ye
may
not
be
Iuste
withou●…e
the
drede
of
our
lord
god
b●…
whiche
ye
atteyne
〈◊〉
of
the
holy
gost
that
shal
o●…n
●…ou
the
gates
of
paradis
wherin
you
:
soule●…●…hal
ē●…e
with
th●…s
that
haue
deserued
euerlasting
lyf
.
and
said
eschewe
〈◊〉
compa
ny
of
thoos
that
loueth
you
not
of
〈◊〉
peple
of
〈◊〉
m●…
&
of
ignoraūt●…
And
whan
●…e
〈◊〉
eny
good
thought
e●…e
cu●…e
it
&
ye
may
incontinent
leste
ye
〈◊〉
set
or
withdraw●…n
ther
fro
by
eny
〈◊〉
or
euil
〈◊〉
And
said
haue
no
enuie
though
thou
se
eny
prosperice
come
to
an
euil
man
for
hy●…
ende
shal
not
be
goode
.
¶
And
said
▪
make
your
children
lerne
goode
in
their
youthe
or
they
falle
to
malice
.
and
so
ye
shal
not
synne
in
them
¶
And
saide
.
worship
and
pray
to
our
lorde
with
a
clene
wil
&
adresse
al
your
desirs
to
him
and
he
shal
helpe
&
enhance
you
.
what
part
so
euer
ye
go
.
&
subdewe
your
ennemyes
vnder
you
¶
And
saide
.
whan
ye
wil
faste
.
make
first
clene
your
saules
of
al
filthe
that
your
fasting
may
come
of
pure
hert
without
eny
euill
cogitacions
whiche
god
reputeth
vile
.
and
as
ye
ought
to
abstene
your self
from
metis
.
so
ought
ye
to
abstene
from
synne
for
it
satisfieth
not
to
spare
metes
.
and
do
euill
dedis
¶
And
saide
.
in
your
yonge
age
visite
our
lordis
houses
and
lette
al
your
orisons
be
in
swettenesse
&
humilite
without
pompes
or
pride
.
And
whan
ye
be
mooste
mery
in
your
houses
with
your
folkes
.
haue
in
remembrance
our
lordis
poure
in
digent
people
.
and
departe
vnto
them
your
almes
¶
And
saide
.
yeue
conforte
to
prisoners
.
to
them
that
be
in
sorowe
and
trouble
/
he
le
the
seke
.
clothe
the
naked
.
yeue
mete
to
the
hungery
.
drinke
to
the
thurs●…y
.
harberowe
pilgrimes
make
satisfacion
to
your
creditours
.
and
paciently
suffre
the
Iniuries
that
ben
don
vnto
you
¶
And
saide
.
disconfort
nat
them
that
ben
in
affliction
but
helpe
them
with
swete
and
pleasaunt
wordes
¶
And
if
it
be
suche
as
afore
haue
hurte
you
benignely
for
yeue
it
them
.
satisfying
you
with
the
peyne
that
they
suffre
¶
And
saide
.
enforce
your self
to
win
ne
frendis
.
&
than
first
preue
them
ar
ye
put
to
moch
truste
in
them
▪
lest
it
be
to
youre
hurt
and
that
after
therof
ye
repente
you
¶
And
saide
.
he
that
god
exalted
in
this
worlde
ought
to
take
no
pride
nor
vayneglorye
in
hit
.
nor
repute
him self
gretter
than
oon
of
his
felawes
for
god
hath
made
riche
and
poure
of
oon
creacon̄
through
whiche
all
be
egall
¶
And
saide
beware
that
in
your
Ire
or
Indignacion
ther
escape
out
of
your
month
noo
foule
wordes
for
it
is
dishonneste
and
engendreth
hate
.
it
is
not
conuenyent
for
him
that
wil
haue
scyence
.
to
seke
it
by
mede
or
for
money
.
but
onely
by
delectacon̄
and
by
cause
it
is
more
precious
than
other
thinges
¶
And
saide
that
kyng
is
good
and
noble
.
that
causith
in
his
Royame
goode
lawes
to
be
kepte
&
mainteyned
.
and
the
badde
to
be
layde
downe
¶
And
saide
largesse
and
liberalite
is
knowen
.
whan
a
man
is
in
neces
site
&
pourete
.
&
pacience
.
whan
oon
hath
pouwer
to
Iuge
&
be
auenged
¶
And
saide
.
he
that
worshiped
the
wyese
men
loneth
Iustce
.
and
doth
goode
dedis
.
and
enforceth
hym
to
wynne
sciencis
and
good
condicions
and
therfore
he
shal
finde
that
that
liketh
hym
in
this
worlde
or
in
the
other
¶
And
seith
.
he
is
vnhappy
bothe
here
and
there
that
hath
witte
and
wol
lerne
noo
science
ne
doctrine
¶
And
saide
he
that
wol
not
teche
that
that
he
vnderstondeth
in
science
&
good
condicions
.
he
shal
be
partenar
to
the
Ignoraunse
of
frouward
folke
And
he
that
denyeth
to
teche
science
to
him
that
it
is
couenable
vnto
.
he
ought
to
be
depriued
of
his
benefice
in
this
world
.
but
ther
is
noone
that
doth
so
saue
Ignoraunt
folkis
whiche
comonely
been
enuious
froward
and
il
willed
¶
And
saide
.
liberalite
and
largesse
is
bettir
in
science
than
in
richesse
for
the
renomme
of
a
wyseman
abideth
.
and
the
richesses
abideth
not
.
And
a
man
ought
not
to
offende
nor
hate
him
.
that
hath
trespassed
vnto
hym
.
but
ought
to
do
goode
ayenst
harme
for
the
werkes
of
the
wiesemen
is
preued
in
.
iij.
thinges
that
is
to
seye
to
make
hys
ennemye
hys
frende
¶
And
to
make
the
iude
connyng
.
And
to
reforme
the
euyl
disposed
vnto
goodenesse
¶
And
sayd
,
He
may
be
callyd
good
whan
other
fare
the
bettir
for
hys
goodenesse
¶
And
said
he
that
loueth
the
wele
of
hys
neygbour
as
hys
owne
¶
And
saide
That
grete
science
prouffyteth
litill
to
a
couetous
man
But
lutil
scyence
prouffyteth
moche
to
him
that
withdraweth
his
courage
from
couetise
¶
And
said
.
That
the
lyff
may
be
resembled
to
the
fleyng
of
an
arowe
.
And
the
deth
is
like
the
lyghting
therof
.
¶
And
said
,
It
is
more
merytory
and
bettir
to
haue
pytie
vpon
the
foole
than
vpon
the
worldely
wyseman
¶
And
said
,
He
that
holdeth
hym
not
satysfied
with
that
,
that
god
had
sent
hym
Deserueth
not
to
haue
more
.
¶
And
sayde
,
A
reporter
or
a
contryuer
of
talys
comonely
,
other
he
lyeth
to
hym
that
he
telleth
them
,
or
he
is
fals
to
thoos
that
he
hath
seyde
yt
of
¶
And
said
derysion
and
scornyng
putteth
a
way
and
wastith
loue
as
the
fiere
doth
the
bronde
¶
And
sayde
.
The
enuyous
man
is
frendely
to
hym
that
is
present
,
&
in
his
absence
is
his
ennemye
,
and
so
sheweth
him
his
frende
by
worde
.
and
ennemye
by
dede
¶
And
said
,
An
enuious
man
serueth
of
noght
but
to
dysprayse
alle
other
¶
And
sayde
he
is
right
sure
that
feleth
him self
withouten
gilt
,
&
is
in
none
surete
that
wol
not
knowe
his
owne
gilt
.
And
sayde
.
Beware
obeye
not
vnto
couetise
for
whan
ye
wold
it
wol
not
obeye
vnto
you
.
¶
And
saide
,
He
that
yeueth
good
conseille
to
other
folkis
,
begynneth
to
do
prouffit
to
hym self
,
&
was
axed
of
the
said
hermes
what
it
was
that
moost
letted
&
troubleth
man
,
he
ansuerd
Ire
&
enuie
,
after
they
axed
hym
wherfore
.
the
wiese
man
stode
more
atte
yates
of
the
riche
man
,
than
the
riche
man
atte
yates
of
the
wiese
man
.
And
he
answered
.
the
wiese
man
knoweth
the
prouffit
of
the
riche
.
&
the
riche
knoweth
not
the
prouffit
of
the
sciencial
wiese
man
¶
And
saide
.
he
that
hath
witte
and
discrecion
and
knoweth
it
not
indede
resembleth
the
tree
.
that
bereth
noo
frute
¶
And
saide
.
he
is
wiese
that
knoweth
Ignoraunce
and
he
that
knowith
it
not
is
,
and
he
that
knoweth
not
him self
.
howe
sholde
he
knowe
or
deme
another
¶
And
saide
ther
be
.
ij
.
manere
of
men
the
don
seketh
and
can
not
finde
,
the
other
findeth
and
can
not
profite
¶
And
saide
sapience
is
like
athinge
fallen
in
a
watre
.
whiche
can
not
be
founde
.
but
by
them
that
wol
serche
and
fette
it
from
the
bottom
¶
And
saide
with
oute
chastite
a
man
can
not
be
very
parfightly
wiese
and
withoute
witte
he
may
not
be
parfight
in
science
¶
And
saide
discipline
is
the
ornament
of
witte
.
with
the
whiche
euery
man
ought
to
enriche
him self
¶
And
saide
it
is
not
honest
to
chastise
a
man
afore
all
folkis
rather
a
part
¶
And
said
whan
a
man
often̄
excuseth
him self
of
his
knowen
gilt
.
it
causith
his
errour
the
more
to
be
remembred
¶
And
said
.
the
ignoraunt
persone
is
but
litil
.
al
be
it
he
be
old
.
and
the
wiese
is
moche
.
al
be
it
he
be
yong
¶
And
the
worlde
dispraiseth
nowe
adays
thoos
that
a
for
it
was
wont
to
worship
and
the
erthe
wasteth
and
eteth
them
that
afor
it
was
wont
to
norysshe
and
fede
¶
And
saide
.
the
fole
is
knowen
by
his
wordis
.
and
the
wieseman
by
his
werkis
And
sayd
ther
be
fewe
folkis
enuious
of
a
dede
man
but
ther
be
many
that
wol
lye
vpon
them
¶
And
said
be
mery
and
gladde
and
It
suffyseth
to
angre
th
enuyous
man
And
ther
was
axed
of
the
sayd
hermes
,
why
he
maried
him
not
,
he
ansuerd
,
he
that
can
not
swymme
in
the
see
alone
howe
shulde
he
bere
another
in
his
necke
swymming
.
And
said
kepe
the
oute
of
the
company
of
a
Iange
ler
which
resembleth
to
a
thyng
that
semeth
good
a
ferre
,
&
nygh
It
is
right
noght
¶
And
said
He
that
wolle
do
euyll
at
thyn
Instaunce
ayenst
another
,
Ryght
to
wille
he
at
his
Instaunce
do
ayenst
the
¶
And
said
He
that
will
preyse
the
of
vertues
that
ben
not
in
the
,
&
thou
reioyce
hit
he
may
wele
allegge
the
vices
that
he
seth
in
the.
¶
And
saide
,
Ire
troubleth
reason
and
letteth
alle
goode
werkis
and
furthereth
alle
euyll
,
¶
And
said
he
that
laboureth
in
that
,
that
may
not
auayle
,
leseth
therfore
that
,
that
myght
prouffite
¶
And
said
the
hurte
&
the
trouble
that
is
don
&
caused
by
euyll
peple
lettith
the
desire
and
we
le
of
the
goode
And
said
whan
thi
frende
erreth
or
mystaketh
him
ayenst
the.
yet
as
moche
as
thou
may
departe
not
from
hys
amytiee
,
but
assaye
the
meanes
to
redresse
him
¶
And
said
Wyse
kynde
and
true
is
he
,
that
wille
lyghtly
foryete
the
errour
of
his
frende
¶
And
saide
,
It
is
bettir
chastyse
thy self
than
lete
other
do
.
And
said
The
goodenesse
that
cometh
of
an
Ignoraunt
man
,
Is
like
therbys
that
growe
on
adong
hille
And
said
an
euyll
felawe
is
like
atree
kyndeled
wherof
the
one
branche
setteth
the
other
afiere
¶
And
saide
,
The
noblest
thyng
that
god
hath
made
in
thys
worlde
is
a
man
,
&
the
richest
thing
to
him
is
reason
b●…
the
whiche
he
kepeth
iustice
&
escheweth
synne
And
said
〈◊〉
fole
wol
knowe
in
him self
no
vile
thing
&
the
ignoraunt
weneth
lightly
a
thing
be
other
than
it
is
.
and
the
suspections
.
man
maketh
many
doubtes
of
that
that
he
knoweth
¶
And
said
a
Right
recom̄endable
thing
in
heuen
and
in
erthe
is
atrue
tunge
¶
And
said
a
kyng
or
aprince
ought
nat
to
yeue
lorshippes
nor
auctorites
.
but
to
goode
&
merciable
folkes
.
And
therfore
they
shuld
loue
them
as
the
fadre
doth
his
children
¶
And
saide
it
sholde
suffise
a
man
and
ought
to
holde
himself
recompensed
whan
his
aduerse
partie
required
him
pardon
¶
And
it
was
axed
him
what
was
a
liberal
thinge
.
he
saide
to
yeue
siluer
to
vnknowen
men
for
the
loue
of
the
knowen
men
.
and
to
for
yeue
them
that
haue
noied
hym
.
for
the
loue
of
them
that
haue
〈◊〉
him
¶
And
said
the
lyf
in
this
world
is
so
shorte
that
ther
ought
none
conceyue
hate
nor
wyll
harme
to
other
And
said
establisshe
&
ease
thyn
Ire
.
with
thy
pacience
thin
Ignorance
with
thy
sapience
.
thy
foryetfulnesse
.
with
thyn
remembraunce
¶
And
said
it
is
a
goode
signe
,
whan
a
childe
is
shamefasée
,
for
it
sheweth
he
shulde
haue
wit
And
said
it
is
well
don
that
thou
do
goode
while
thou
art
in
prosperite
for
parauenture
in
aduersite
thy
pouer
sh●…ll
〈◊〉
¶
And
said
he
puttis
him
in
danger
that
abideth
in
a
〈◊〉
wher
ther
is
no
lord
.
that
woll
auenge
the
Ini●…s
don
thert●…
wher
ther
is
no
Iuste
Iuge
.
wher
ther
is
no
wyse
〈◊〉
.
wher
there
is
non
haboundant
market
.
and
where
there
is
no
rennyng
water
¶
And
said
it
apparteigneth
to
euery
man
with
all
his
power
to
seke
science
.
and
the
:
with
to
fo●…tif
fi
hym
hauyng
a
good
eye
vpon
his
enemyes
.
and
beware
he
be
not
reysed
to
highe
in
pride
by
lordship
or
other
richesse
.
his
will
his
wordes
and
his
dedis
alwaye
to
be
egall
and
so
shal
god
loue
hym
and
his
succession
And
sayde
ther
may
none
escape
to
be
atte
grete
day
of
Iugement
and
his
helpe
shal
be
ther
by
.iij.
thinges
.
Discrecion
,
chastete
,
and
goode
werkis
.
Alle
thynges
may
be
lefte
,
Saue
goode
dedis
Alle
thinges
may
be
chaunged
,
Saue
nature
Alle
thinges
may
be
redresshed
and
reformed
,
Saue
euil
dedis
,
Alle
thinges
may
be
ess●…ued
,
Saue
deth
,
and
the
sentence
of
oure
lord
.
¶
And
saide
It
is
no
meruaille
though
he
be
goode
,
that
is
not
couetous
,
But
It
were
grete
meruaylle
,
If
a
couetous
man
were
goode
¶
And
saide
The
errour
of
a
wyseman
may
be
resembled
to
a
Crased
shyp
,
whiche
in
drownyng
her self
,
Drowneth
many
other
¶
And
said
,
truste
is
in
maner
of
a
bondeship
And
mystrust
is
a
liberte
¶
And
the
saide
Hermes
correctyng
kyng
hamon
yaue
him
this
precepte
&
charge
,
loke
that
first
affore
al
thingis
ye
loue
,
drede
,
and
obeye
,
our
lord
god
And
said
all
men
that
haue
dominacion
&
lordship
vpon
the
peple
ought
alwaye
of
necessite
,
to
haue
.iij.
thinges
in
mynde
,
First
to
remember
the
peple
,
that
be
sugect
vnto
him
Secundely
al
be
it
that
they
be
in
his
seruitud
,
yet
ought
he
to
his
power
to
kepe
them
in
fraunchyse
and
liberte
and
nat
in
thraldom
/
Thirdely
Howe
his
lordship
and
power
in
thys
worlde
may
not
long
endure
¶
And
saide
,
o
kyng
hamon
it
behoueth
the
to
kepe
thy
soule
,
Right
wysely
in
wyl
and
worde
,
and
thou
oughtest
not
to
be
slowthful
to
the
distruction
of
the
mysereauntes
,
but
to
constreyne
them
to
obeye
our
lord
god
&
desire
not
to
haue
eny
richesse
without
it
be
rightfully
goten
.
For
thinke
verily
the
peple
wol
alwaye
●…ye
to
them
that
doo
rightfully
and
we
le
,
and
that
wolle
mayntene
them
and
there
may
noo
we
le
be
in
a
Royam̄e
withoute
it
be
habundaunt
of
people
for
the
decay
of
a
Royam̄
is
fawte
of
people
.
And
if
they
with
drawe
hem
the
prince
is
left
lorde
alone
and
therfore
remembre
wele
thy
dedis
and
estsones
thinke
on
thy
saule
and
put
in
that
garison
all
that
thou
shalt
haue
nede
of
in
the
other
world
.
And
yf
it
happen
that
thou
must
goo
in
the
werre
in
thyn
own̄e
persone
.
beware
wele
that
thin
ennemyes
supprise
the
not
by
slowthfull
soiournyng
¶
.
And
when
thou
goost
to
bataile
loke
that
first
thou
solicite
and
exorte
thy
people
as
corageousely
as
thou
can
.
and
loke
that
alle
thyn
habi●…
mentis
of
werre
be
redy
.
and
euery
man
set
in
his
warde
and
appointed
howe
they
shal
fight
and
sette
oute
¶
And
beware
wele
that
thou
be
not
supprised
by
thyn
ennemyes
.
for
lakke
of
wache
and
good
espial
.
ther fore
multiplie
thy
scowte
wache
and
thyn
aspies
so
that
thou
mayst
alwaye
knowe
the
guyding
of
thy
ennemys
and
loke
that
thou
be
sure
they
deceyue
the
not
.
¶
And
whan
thou
shalt
commaunde
thy
folkes
to
do
eny
thing
loke
secretely
whether
they
haue
obserued
it
after
theyr
charge
or
nat
.
whiche
shall
make
them
drede
the
more
to
offende
the.
¶
And
whan
thou
shalt
commaunde
eny
settres
to
thy
klerke
to
be
made
,
signe
nor
seale
them
not
til
thou
haue
ouerseen
thaim
.
for
many
haue
ben
des●…y
therby
.
¶
ware
thou
be
not
to
familyar
with
them
that
thou
knowes
not
.
vttre
not
the
secretes
of
thy
here
but
to
them
that
thou
haste
preued
.
and
knowest
true
vnto
the.
¶
Gouuerne
the
so
wysely
.
that
thy
knyghtes
and
thy
people
may
haue
pleasir
of
the.
and
be
gladde
to
be
in
thy
company
.
And
delite
them
to
se
the
rightfulle
and
of
good
gouernaunce
.
Slepe
no
more
than
shal
suffyse
onely
for
the
sustentacion
of
thy
body
.
and
the
rest
of
thy
herte
.
and
entremet●…
not
nor
let
thy
werkys
be
,
but
in
rightwysenesse
and
trouth
withoute
dissimulacion
.
and
slouthe
nor
delay
not
that
thou
must
nedely
execute
.
Susteyne
and
loue
also
thoos
that
be
the
grete
multiplyers
,
that
ys
to
saye
.
the
commones
that
labour
the
erthe
,
by
tylth
and
so
wyng
sedes
vpon
the
same
by
the
whiche
the
royaumes
and
the
people
be
susteyned
.
the
knyghtehode
multyplied
and
the
houses
fulle
of
richesse
.
wherfore
suche
wol
be
kept
and
cherisshed
.
¶
And
It
behoueth
openly
to
worship
thoos
that
be
goode
.
euery
man
after
his
discrecion
condicion
and
science
to
that
entent
,
that
the
peple
may
so
knowe
them
.
and
be
bonteuous
to
alle
thoos
that
seke
sciences
.
to
corage
them
the
more
to
lerne
and
entende
To
studye
.
so
that
the
royaumes
or
prouynces
may
be
the
better
for
thair
connynges
.
¶
Besye
thy self
to
punysshe
malefactours
.
and
thoos
that
putteth
the
in
daunger
or
trouble
within
thy
wyaume
or
lordship
.
make
stryke
of
their
hedes
publykely
that
other
may
take
example
by
them
.
to
a
thee●…fe
lete
his
hande
be
stryken
of
To
a
robber
of
the
hygh
waye
let
him
behanged
.
that
the
waye
may
be
the
surer
Bren
the
Sodomytes
and
punysshe
the
men
taken
in
fornycacion
after
their
estate
.
¶
And
the
women
in
like
wyse
.
Ware
the
of
the
wordes
of
lyers
.
and
suche
punysshe
.
se
the
prysonners
ones
in
a
moneth
¶
And
Delyuere
thoos
that
ought
to
be
delyuered
,
and
yeue
them
of
thyn
almes
:
p●…●…sshe
incontinent
thoos
that
haue
deserued
It
,
Yet
not
so
hastyly
but
that
they
may
haue
dysir
of
repentaunce
.
and
that
other
let
hem
be
kept
til
thou
knowe
the
trouth
whether
they
be
gylty
or
not
Beware
also
.
Vse
not
thyn
owne
counseyle
onely
.
But
be
auysed
by
men
of
Age
and
discrecion
¶
And
suche
as
been
experte
in
many
thynges
And
whan
thou
shalt
fynde
ony
suche
Iust
and
rihtfully
be
counseyled
by
him
¶
And
elles
reporte
the
to
the
mooste
holsome
opynyon
of
alle
thy
counseyllours
.
and
god
shall
helpe
the.
¶
And
said
.
He
Is
noble
that
vsith
goodenesse
.
And
It
is
a
grete
goodenesse
to
vse
Iustyce
and
chastyte
.
and
to
yeue
lyberally
or
It
be
axid
.
¶
And
sayde
.
whan
¶
A
kyng
or
a
prince
can
nor
wille
restrayne
hys
euyll
vices
and
couetise
.
howe
shulde
he
repreue
his
seruauntes
.
&
whan
he
can
not
correcte
his
propre
seruauntis
.
howe
shulde
he
correcte
and
gyde
alle
his
people
.
and
specialy
thoos
.
that
ben
ferre
from
hym
.
Therfore
It
behoueth
A
kyng
or
a
prynce
fyrst
to
be
lorde
ouer
hym self
And
after
vpon
other
by
ordre
.
¶
And
sayde
.
A
good
kyng
or
a
prynce
shulde
not
be
to
full
of
Suspection
for
It
wol
make
men
drawe
from
hym
.
And
also
he
ought
not
to
haue
eny
of
that
disposicion
in
his
house
¶
And
in
especyall
.
Bakbyters
.
Contryuers
or
Reporters
of
tales
For
whan
there
Is
dyuysion
or
trouble
in
A
kyngys
or
in
a
prynces
house
.
Lyghtly
no
good
Counseyllours
or
seruauntis
wylle
abyde
there
.
TAc
sayd
,
he
that
can
not
refrayne
his
Ire
hath
no
power
ouir
hys
witte
.
And
said
a
wyse
kyng
or
a
prince
ought
not
to
make
comparisons
nor
dispute
in
discrecon̄
with
a
greter
and
myghtier
than
he
is
¶
And
said
whan
a
kyng
or
a
prince
hath
conquered
and
ouer
come
his
ennemyes
he
ought
to
maynteyne
them
in
Iustice
.
in
good
custumes
and
liberalite
and
pacience
And
so
may
he
make
of
ennemyes
his
frendes
And
said
yf
a
kyng
or
a
prince
assemble
an
outrageous
tresur
and
dispende
it
not
●…t
it
apparteyneth
he
shal
lese
both
it
&
his
Royaume
¶
And
saide
▪
the
people
ar
to
the
kyng
as
the
wynde
to
a
grete
fyere
.
for
the
more
the
wynde
is
.
the
stronger
is
the
fyere
¶
And
saide
a
kyng
or
a
prince
ought
to
knowe
thoos
that
wele
and
truely
haue
serued
him
and
establisshe
thoos
a
boute
hym self
after
th
aire
trouth
witte
&
connyng
and
ought
to
yeue
and
be
boun●…evous
vnto
theym
aftir
theyr
merites
▪
And
yf
he
yeue
by
wil
to
noughty
folkis
that
haue
not
deserued
it
/
it
puteth
a
weye
the
courage
of
his
goode
sernauntis
.
to
serue
hym
wele
eny
lenger
.
and
so
shal
he
be
bastily
so
full
of
noughty
people
that
when
he
wolde
he
can
not
be
delyuerede
of
theym
¶
And
saide
it
is
conuement
for
a
kyng
or
aprince
to
lerne
and
knowe
but
not
all
for
there
is
many
thinges
that
a
kyng
or
a
prince
ought
not
to
knowe
nor
vnderstonde
.
_●Alquinus
sayde
.
that
men
receyue
grete
benefices
dayly
of
god
our
creatour
al
be
it
that
they
be
synners
Then
they
be
bounde
to
thanke
hym
for
hys
graces
.
and
to
aske
hym
pardon
for
thayr
trespasses
¶
And
said
many
thyngis
seme
right
good
.
that
be
●…ull
badde
.
and
after
gretely
blamed
.
And
many
thyn●…es
be
dispraysyd
in
the
begynnyng
.
that
afterward
ben
founde
goode
and
desired
¶
And
sayde
Bettir
it
is
to
the
to
haue
grete
necessite
,
than
to
borowe
of
him
in
whom
thou
hast
no
truste
¶
And
sayde
If
thou
laboure
to
teche
a
foole
,
the
more
shal
folye
encresse
And
said
I
merueil
of
thoos
that
absteyne
them
from
metis
noyng
to
the
body
and
maketh
none
abstynence
of
synne
¶
And
said
multeplye
silence
.
for
that
auoydeth
perelles
and
vse
trouth
Whiche
discipline
shal
maynteyne
the
and
thy
werkis
&
he
that
wol
wele
kepe
the
feyth
,
ought
to
leue
to
his
frende
of
hys
goode
,
and
to
be
gracious
to
them
that
he
knoweth
good
and
no
denyer
of
Iustice
to
his
ennemye
,
and
to
eschewe
alle
thyngis
.
that
toucheth
disworship
.
OMer
was
an
anucient
vercifier
in
Grece
and
of
the
gretest
astate
there
.
he
was
after
moyses
.
v.
●…
.
lv.
yere
he
made
many
goode
thingis
.
and
all●…
the
vercifiers
of
grece
folowed
his
discipline
.
The
whiche
omer
by
fortune
was
taken
and
emprisoned
and
put
to
be
solde
as
a
prisonner
or
a
bondema
▪
¶
And
t●…an
one
axed
hym
.
whens
he
was
.
He
sayd
of
his
fad●…e
and
of
his
modre
.
will
thou
that
I
shal
beye
the
And
●…e
〈◊〉
why
axest
thou
me
counseyle
what
thou
wo●…
〈◊〉
with
〈◊〉
siluer
¶
And
they
axed
him
.
Wherto
he
was
goo●…
〈◊〉
sayd
To
be
deliuerd
.
¶
And
so
abode
long
in
pr●…son
¶
And
at
the
last
they
lete
him
go
.
He
was
A
man
faire
formed
.
and
of
large
statu●…e
.
and
lyued
.
Cviij
.
yere
.
And
here
after
folowe
his
seyinges
.
he
is
discrete
that
can
refrayne
his
tonge
¶
And
said
●…e
that
we●…kith
by
conseil
yeueth
him self
rest
,
and
labour
to
other
.
And
saide
it
is
a
frendely
lyuyng
to
d●…le
withoute
fraude
and
●…rat
,
And
saide
acompanye
the
with
good
people
.
and
thou
shalt
be
on
of
hem
.
acompanye
the
with
badde
,
&
thou
shalt
be
on
of
thoos
And
saide
he
is
good
and
liberal
that
applieth
him
to
good
werkis
and
●…lene
.
and
that
putteth
them
in
or
euer
ther
come
eny
occasion
of
empeschement
.
And
said
the
hert
shyneth
in
vertue
and
is
sure
whan
it
is
set
in
sapience
And
fraud
&
barat
is
in
the
fruit
of
euill
though
●…s
¶
And
said
the
mouth
sheweth
ofte
.
what
the
hert
thinketh
¶
And
said
the
looke
sheweth
somtyme
the
dis
posicion
of
the
hert
a
fore
the
wordes
been
spoken
¶
And
saide
it
is
agrete
surete
for
a
man
to
purueye
by
tyme
in
his
causis
¶
And
saide
it
is
merueile
of
a
man
.
that
may
be
in
resemblaunce
to
god
.
and
enforceth
him self
to
be
like
beest●…s
¶
And
saide
beware
thou
do
ne
take
noo
thing
that
thou
ferest
to
be
accused
of
.
for
if
thou
do
.
thou
shalt
be
the
accuser
of
thy selfe
¶
And
saide
payne
thy self
to
winne
good
condicions
and
vertues
.
for
therby
vices
&
harmes
〈◊〉
eschewed
¶
And
saide
ther
was
somtyme
a
wiese
man
skaped
out
of
a
broken
and
lost
ship
in
to
an
Isle
of
the
see
.
and
so
beyng
ther
alone
drewe
a
figure
of
geometrie
vpon
the
sandis
.
where
with
he
was
fonde
by
certaine
shipmen
.
that
brought
hym
to
the
kyng
of
that
grounde
tellyng
hym
that
cas
and
auenture
.
And
therfore
the
kyng
sent
through
all
hys
prouinces
.
and
charged
them
thy
shulde
enforce
them self
to
lerne
and
haue
suche
connyngis
as
shulde
byde
with
them
after
theyr
ship
were
lost
.
that
is
to
say
.
science
and
goode
werk●…s
¶
And
a
man
berith
with
hym
.ij.
vesse●…s
the
on
before
and
the
other
be
hynde
.
In
that
〈◊〉
be
the
〈◊〉
and
vices
of
other
folkis
,
In
that
behynde
be
his
owne
¶
And
saide
to
his
sone
.
Beware
that
thou
be
not
couetous
,
for
yf
thou
be
couetous
,
thou
shalt
be
pouer
And
saide
If
thou
be
pacient
thou
shalt
be
preysed
/
If
thou
be
prowde
,
thou
shalt
be
blamed
¶
And
said
.
a
man
is
bettir
than
al
other
bestes
of
the
erthe
.
¶
And
saide
Sapience
is
to
werke
by
science
And
sai●…e
knowlege
is
bettir
than
ignoraunce
¶
And
said
thys
world
is
an
house
of
marchaundyse
som
wynne
therin
by
their
goode
dedis
.
and
somme
liese
by
th
aire
euill
gouernaunce
¶
And
said
by
grete
dylygence
som
men
atteyne
to
their
purpose
.
¶
And
saide
.
he
that
hath
grete
myght
and
gouernaunce
in
thys
worlde
,
ought
to
haue
no
grete
reioyssyng
▪
and
he
that
hath
noon
,
is
dispreysed
¶
And
saide
ther
is
no
wikkedder
thyng
than
lyeng
.
and
ther
is
no
goodenesse
in
alyer
SAlon
was
of
Athenes
and
made
many
bookis
of
predicacions
¶
And
establysshed
the
lawes
there
whiche
athenes
was
a
Cyte
in
thoos
dayes
fulfil
led
with
wysemen
he
hadde
many
verses
techyng
folkis
to
eschewe
their
propre
willes
.
¶
And
saide
Whan
thou
wilt
doo
ony
thyng
folowe
not
thyn
owne
wil
but
seke
counseyle
and
therby
shalt
thou
knowe
,
the
trouth
of
the
werkes
¶
It
was
asked
him
,
What
was
the
mooste
difficulte
in
a
man
▪
¶
He
answered
.
To
knowe
him self
.
To
kepe
hys
fraunchyse
or
liberte
.
To
speke
in
places
where
he
ought
not
,
To
be
angry
,
with
that
he
may
not
amende
&
to
coueyte
that
,
that
he
may
not
haue
.
¶
And
said
the
thingeis
of
thys
world
ar
establisshed
by
lawes
,
and
the
lawees
be
sustyned
by
.
ij
.
thingis
that
is
to
say
by
swerde
and
by
banere
¶
And
said
to
his
disciples
.
wave
that
ye
be
noo
mokers
for
that
engendreth
hattered
¶
And
saide
the
vertuous
laudes
of
a
man
be
not
thoos
.
that
he
yeueth
him self
but
thoos
that
ben
yeuen
hym
for
his
goode
werkes
.
And
it
was
asked
him
who
was
liberall
he
saide
.
he
that
vsith
liberalite
.
not
couetyng
other
menne●…
goodes
¶
And
said
an
euill
tonge
was
sharper
than
a
glay●…e
A
riche
man
asked
him
what
were
his
goodis
.
he●…
answered
my
tresor
is
suche
that
no
man
may
haue
yt
withoute
my
wyll
and
may
not
be
mynisshed
for
no
thing
that
I
yeue
of
it
.
but
thou
maist
departe
with
noon
of
thyn
withoute
dymynuacion
¶
And
said
yf
thou
wilt
.
the
loue
of
thy
frende
shal
abyde
ferme
vnto
the.
be
curteise
to
him
and
spare
him
in
his
angre
or
errour
¶
And
saide
.
thou
owghtest
not
to
yeue
a
man
greter
preisyng
in
his
presence
than
he
is
worthy
for
he
knoweth
the
trouth
And
was
axed
him
howe
a
man
shold
wynn̄
frendes
.
he
answered
in
worshipping
&
seyng
good
of
them
in
their
absence
.
And
said
agoode
saule
hath
ney
ther
to
grete
Ioye
nor
to
grete
sorowe
for
she
reioyseth
nat
but
whan
she
seeth
goode
thynges
and
noon
euyll
.
and
hath
no
sorowe
.
but
when
she
seeth
the
euill
thingis
and
noon
goode
And
whan
she
loketh
on
all
the
world
she
seeth
the
goode
&
the
euyll
so
entermedled
that
she
sholde
not
simply
reioysse
her self
nor
trouble
her self
angrely
¶
And
saide
a
kyng
that
doth
right
&
Iustice
shall
reigne
and
gouerne
wele
his
people
,
&
he
that
doth
Iniustice
and
violence
seketh
another
to
reigne
for
him
And
said
it
behoueth
a
kyng
or
a
prince
first
to
ordre
&
dresse
him self
&
after
to
dresse
other
,
or
ellis
he
shulde
be
like
him
that
wolde
dresse
his
shadowe
a
for
him self
,
¶
And
yt
was
askid
of
hym
Whan
Contrees
and
townes
wer
wele
gouerned
,
He
answered
and
said
whan
their
prynces
rule
them
,
after
their
lawes
.
SAbyon
was
a
grete
deffendour
of
his
neyghbours
&
hadde
certayn
frendes
whiche
a
kyng
wolde
slee
And
whan
the
saide
sabyon
vnderstode
it
he
went
with
them
in
resistence
of
the
said
kyng
whiche
kyng
assembled
so
grete
nombre
of
knyghtes
ayenst
him
,
that
he
was
discomfit
&
taken
,
and
was
commanded
to
be
put
in
engyne
and
tormented
,
withoute
he
wolde
accuse
them
that
wer
consenting
to
make
werre
ayenst
the
kyng
,
whiche
Sabyon
ansuerd
that
for
no
payne
,
he
wold
not
telle
that
thyng
,
that
shulde
noye
his
frendes
,
¶
And
in
dede
beyng
in
the
engyne
cutte
his
tonge
with
his
owne
teth
,
to
th
entent
that
he
myght
not
accuse
his
felowes
and
frendes
.
And
the
sayde
sabyon
lyued
.
xlviii
.
yere
,
and
her
after
folowed
of
his
seynges
to
his
disciples
¶
And
sayd
yf
ye
lese
eny
thing
say
not
ye
haue
lost
it
but
saye
ye
haue
restored
that
was
not
youres
And
sayde
to
one
of
his
discipples
,
multiplie
thy
frendes
and
that
shal
asswage
thy
care
¶
And
sayde
a
wyseman
ought
to
be
ware
.
howe
he
weddeth
a
fayre
woman
for
euery
man
wil
desire
to
haue
her
loue
,
And
so
they
wol
seke
their
pleasirs
.
to
the
hurt
and
displeasir
of
her
housband
And
sayde
.
Delectacion
in
richesse
is
a
dangerous
vice
¶
And
there
cam
one
of
his
seruauntis
vnto
him
on
a
tyme
and
tolde
him
that
his
sone
was
dede
.
he
ansuerd
that
he
knowe
wel
that
he
was
mortal
&
not
inmortal
and
a
man
ought
not
to
drede
the
deth
of
the
body
.
but
the
deth
of
the
saule
.
Oon̄
asked
why
he
said
so
.
considering
that
he
helde
thoppynion
that
a
resonable
saule
myght
not
dye
.
he
aunswerde
whan
a
resonable
saule
is
conuerted
to
the
nature
of
a
beast
withoute
vse
of
reason
al
be
it
that
it
be
sustaunce
incorruptible
.
yet
is
she
reputed
for
dede
.
for
she
leseth
the
Intellettif
lyffe
.
he
founde
a
yong
pour
man
sitting
vpon
the
see
syde
wepyng
th
aduersitees
of
this
worlde
.
to
whom
he
saide
.
dyspaire
the
not
.
for
yf
thou
were
with
grete
richesse
in
the
myddel
of
yondre
see
in
grete
danger
of
thy
body
.
and
of
thy
goodis
,
thou
wolde
wisshe
right
bertely
to
be
here
with
oonely
thy
lyfe
saued
.
Also
.
and
if
thou
were
prisoner
.
and
the
kepers
wold
selle
the.
and
take
from
the
all
that
euer
thou
haddest
thou
woldest
be
glad
to
haue
oonely
the
deliuraunce
of
thy
body
the
yong
man
aunswerde
that
he
tolde
him
trouth
,
wele
than
saide
Sabion̄
vnto
hym
.
nowe
thynke
than
that
thou
hast
ben
in
al
this
daunger
and
hast
ascaped
them
.
and
art
nowe
at
thy
free
liberte
.
therfore
holde
the
content
with
the
state
that
thou
nowe
standest
in
.
And
so
the
yong
man
departed
gretely
reecomforted
.
YPocras
was
disciple
to
Esculapius
the
second
whiche
descended
of
blode
Royall
.
And
he
was
the
first
fynder
of
the
art
of
phisike
.
whiche
he
she
wed
and
taught
to
his
children
and
com̄annded
it
shulde
not
be
lerned
to
eny
straungers
.
but
oonely
from
the
fadre
to
the
sone
And
so
the
saide
science
to
rest
in
them
And
com̄an̄ded
that
thy
shulde
dwelle
in
the
middel
habitacion
of
grece
in
.
iij.
Isles
.
And
ypocras
restd
in
the
Ile
of
.
Thau
And
in
the.
ij
.
other
Isles
the
studye
was
lest
in
his
dayes
The
oppinion
of
the
first
.
Esculapius
.
was
that
phisyke
shuld
be
vsed
onely
by
experience
for
it
was
neuer
founde
but
onely
therby
.
and
so
was
it
vsid
.
M.
CCCC
.
yer
after
til
that
another
phisicien
came
callid
Methious
whoos
opynion
was
that
experience
withoute
Reason
.
was
a
dangerous
thing
.
And
so
thy
vsed
these
.
ij
.
opynious
.
vij
honderd
yeer
.
till
another
phisicien
cam
called
¶
Bramardos
.
whiche
dispraised
th
experience
.
sayng
that
to
many
errours
grewe
thrby
and
that
in
occupying
phisike
a
man
ought
to
vse
reason
onely
Not
with
standing
he
had
.
iij
disciples
whiche
helde
after
him
.
iij.
diuers
opinions
.
The
on
vsed
experience
onely
.
The
other
reason
onely
The.
iij
subtil
craftes
and
enchantementis
.
and
soo
these
.
iij.
weyes
were
vsid
.
vij
.
C.
yer
till
that
plato
cam
,
whiche
taught
diligentely
the
seyngis
of
his
,
predecessours
in
hys
science
and
shewed
that
experience
onely
was
dangerous
and
reason
onely
cowde
not
be
sufficient
&
tooke
the
bookes
aswele
of
subtil
crafte
,
and
enchaū●…emēt
as
thoos
of
onely
reason
/
aud
brent
them
all
but
thoos
that
were
of
reason
and
experience
to gider
he
reteyned
and
kept
●…em
and
commanded
that
they
shuld
be
vsed
,
and
after
his
deth
he
lefte
the
crafte
to
.
v.
of
his
disciples
The
first
to
ordeigne
phisike
to
the
body
The.
i●…
.
to
boxe
and
to
lete
blode
.
The
iij.
to
he
le
woundes
The.
iiij
.
to
bele
seke
●…yen
.
The.
v.
to
knytte
and
hele
broken
bones
And
after
this
came
Es●…
lapius
the.
ij
.
which
caught
diligentely
the
diuerse
opinions
And
in
especial
thoos
of
plato
,
whiche
he
vsed
and
toke
for
most
true
and
resonable
.
And
he
left
after
hym
.
thre
disciples
that
is
to
sey
Ypocras
and.
ij
.
other
whiche
dyed
and
so
rested
that
science
and
crafte
onely
in
him
.
than
rested
ypocras
alone
parfight
in
vertues
in
his
dayes
vsing
reason
,
The
whiche
ypocras
seeyng
the
crafte
of
physike
in
weye
of
perdicion
because
alle
his
felawes
were
dede
.
and
that
he
was
left
onely
in
the
Isle
of
thau
.
Thought
that
he
wold
for
the
moost
prouffyt
that
the
craft
therof
were
shewed
.
ande
taught
not
onely
to
his
children
and
kynnesmen
But
generally
to
alle
that
were
apt
to
lerne
it
Ande
dampned
in
that
science
dyuers
thinges
and
added
to
certayn
compylacions
in
breue
wordes
.
And
commaunded
hys
,
ij
.
sones
that
were
maistres
of
sciences
that
they
shuld
shewe
It
generally
.
for
he
sayde
It
was
more
couenable
It
shulde
be
taught
to
straungers
able
and
apt
to
the
love
than
to
his
owne
kynnesmen
not
dysposed
to
lerne
.
And
as
he
ordeigned
was
doon
ande
Is
vsid
to
thys
daye
,
and
in
hys
lyff
he
shewed
hit
to
dyuers
straungers
and
made
hem
expert
theerin
,
takyng
promysse
of
them
to
teche
it
further
/
It
happed
that
a
kyng
of
perse
callede
defour
sent
vnto
the
king
of
th
ysle
of
Thau
called
pylate
praieng
him
to
sende
him
ypocras
,
ande
he
wolde
yiue
hym
.
C.
kyn
tawes
of
golde
,
ande
than
was
the
lande
of
grece
deuyded
in
many
kyngdoms
,
of
the
whiche
somme
gaf
truage
to
the
kyng
of
perse
,
And
so
dyd
that
of
Thau
,
The
whiche
bade
ypocras
go
to
the
saide
kyng
of
perse
,
for
to
he
le
certayn
pestilences
that
were
than
in
his
Royaume
Seyeng
If
he
went
not
,
It
myght
be
to
grete
a
danger
to
the
Isle
seyng
the
sayde
pylate
was
not
of
power
to
resiste
the
saide
kyng
of
perse
,
The
whiche
ypocras
ansuerd
that
he
wolde
neuer
goo
to
hele
the
ennemyes
of
grece
Also
then
habitaunties
of
the
townes
where
he
duelled
in
.
said
they
hadde
leuer
deye
than
ypocras
shulde
departe
from
hem
.
The
saide
ypocras
was
.
Cxlvj.
yere
after
Nabugodonosor
.
he
made
diuers
bookis
of
phisik
of
the
whiche
.
xxx
.
be
hadde
and
of
thoos
xij
.
the
most
be
studyed
by
ordre
Other
bookis
be
also
hadde
of
¶
Galyens
makyng
.
The
saide
ypocras
was
of
littel
stature
grete
heded
.
croke
backed
.
moche
studyeng
and
of
littell
langage
.
and
moche
lokyng
down
to
the
erthe
,
holding
in
his
honde
a
flabotomye
of
munycion
for
latyng
blood
or
a
grene
braunche
proufficable
to
the
eyen
,
he
leuyd
four
soore
.
vj
yeres
wher
of
he
employed
.
xvii
.
in
studye
&
the
remenaunt
in
excercising
of
his
connyngis
.
And
here
foloweth
dyuerse
of
his
seyngis
:
Pouertie
in
surete
is
better
than
richesse
in
fere
¶
And
said
that
the
lyf
is
thought
short
.
the
peyne
is
thought
longe
/
experience
harde
to
com̄e
bye
,
and
Iugement
daungerous
¶
And
said
the
helth
is
not
to
be
slo
withfull
in
goode
excercises
nor
to
fill
hys
body
with
wynes
and
metes
.
¶
And
saide
it
is
better
to
amynusshe
that
hurteth
than
to
encresse
that
helpeth
¶
And
said
.
the
herte
is
tourmented
by
.
ij
.
passions
,
that
is
to
saye
,
with
sorowe
and
thought
of
sorowe
cometh
the
dremes
and
the
fantesyes
.
and
of
thought
cometh
the
wakyngis
and
vnrestis
.
and
sorowe
is
a
passion
of
thinges
past
.
and
thought
is
fere
of
thynges
to
come
¶
And
said
.
that
saule
is
lost
that
setteth
hys
entent
vpon
worldely
thynges
.
that
is
to
say
in
couetise
.
And
said
he
that
wol
the
lif
of
his
saule
lete
hym
mortifie
hit
&
yeue
it
payne
in
thys
world
And
said
ther
may
wele
be
loue
bitwene
.
ij
.
wysemen
.
but
not
bitwene
.
ij
.
foles
.
alle
be
it
that
their
foolyes
bee
equall
.
for
wyt
goth
by
ordre
and
may
concorde
in
one
sentence
.
but
in
folye
is
no
due
ordonnaunce
and
therfore
may
they
neuer
concorde
in
loue
¶
And
sayd
a
man
ought
not
to
swere
.
but
yt
is
so
,
or
it
is
not
so
¶
And
saide
holde
you
content
with
that
.
that
ought
suffise
you
.
and
so
ye
shall
not
haue
no
gruggyng
,
the
lesse
grugge
ye
haue
.
the
more
y●…
fle
fro
malice
and
wikkedenesse
▪
withdrawe
you
also
from
synne
.
&
seke
th
ende
of
vertues
and
goodenesses
¶
And
saide
.
He
that
wol
be
fre
let
him
not
coueyte
that
thinge
,
that
he
may
not
haue
,
for
and
he
do
he
is
bounde
therto
.
and
therfore
yf
thou
wilt
haue
that
thou
desirest
desire
that
thou
mayest
haue
.
¶
It
was
as●…red
of
hym
a
question
of
euyl
and
vile
thinges
To
the
whiche
he
ansuerd
noo
thing
.
They
asked
him
wherfore
he
spake
not
.
He
sayde
that
silence
was
the
answere
of
suche
questions
¶
And
sayde
/
Thys
worlde
is
to
noo
creature
perpetuel
.
therfore
then
let
noon
differ●●
or
delay
to
doo
goode
thinges
as
longe
as
he
may
.
And
namely
that
.
that
he
sholde
wynne
goode
renomme
therby
¶
And
saide
He
that
knoweth
not
trouth
is
rather
lyke
not
to
do
it
,
than
he
that
is
enfourmed
and
taught
ther
to
.
¶
And
sayde
Science
is
like
a
rote
of
a
Tr●…e
,
and
operacion
is
like
the
braunches
.
and
science
is
like
a
thing
engendryng
And
operacion
is
like
a
thing
engendred
¶
And
saide
,
Take
a
litill
of
science
at
ones
.
so
that
thou
maist
kepe
it
and
lerne
more
.
For
yf
thou
wylt
take
more
at
ones
than
thy
wytte
may
suffise
thou
mayest
lightely
forgete
all
.
PItagoras
saide
,
that
it
is
a
Right
blessed
and
a
noble
thing
to
serue
god
.
&
to
sayntifie
his
sainctes
to
dispreyse
the
world
.
to
vse
Iustice
and
of
alle
vertues
.
the
moost
principal
is
to
absteyne
hym
from
synne
.
And
it
is
good
to
vse
fastynges
&
studyes
and
to
make
hym
to
be
biloued
.
And
it
is
goode
to
haue
science
to
vnderstande
the
trouth
of
thinges
.
and
to
lerne
it
to
the
men
ande
shewe
it
to
the
women
he
ordeigned
also
predicacions
and
to
polisshe
and
enourne
the
speeche
¶
And
saide
the
saule
is
perpetuel
and
couenable
to
receiue
merites
and
peynes
.
he
moderated
so
his
mete
and
hys
drinke
that
he
was
at
noo
tyme
fatter
nor
leener
than
other
.
he
was
a
subtil
man
and
loued
aswele
to
do
goode
to
his
frendes
as
to
him self
.
sayng
the
goodis
of
frendes
ought
to
be
comyn
He
made
.
CC.
four
score
volumes
of
bookes
.
and
was
borne
in
the
countre
of
Samye
¶
And
said
an
harme
not
durable
is
bettir
than
a
welthe
not
abiding
.
And
that
was
wreten
both
in
his
seale
and
in
his
girdil
¶
And
said
as
the
begynnyng
of
our
creacion
cometh
of
god
.
right
so
is
it
behoueful
.
that
at
our
ende
our
saule
retourne
to
him
.
And
said
if
thou
wilt
knowe
god
enforce
not
thy self
to
knowe
the
worldely
people
.
and
said
a
wysman
reputeth
not
the
worship
of
god
in
wordes
but
in
dedes
.
And
said
sapience
is
to
loue
god
,
and
he
that
loueth
god
doth
that
god
loueth
And
he
that
doth
the
werkis
that
god
loueth
is
toward
god
.
and
he
that
is
toward
god
.
is
nygh
vnto
hym
And
said
god
is
not
onely
worshipped
by
the
sacrifices
or
by
other
oblacions
don
vnto
hym
.
but
by
the
wylle
and
acceptable
ententis
¶
And
sayd
he
that
clatereth
moche
it
is
signe
that
he
hath
litill
knowlege
¶
And
said
at
all
tymes
whatsomeuer
thou
do
,
haue
in
thy
remembraunce
th●●
god
is
by
the
and
knoweth
thy
thoughtes
,
and
seeth
thy
dedes
.
And
therfore
by
reason
,
thou
oughtest
to
be
ashamed
to
do
amysse
.
¶
And
sayde
God
onely
knowith
the
wyseman
that
dredeth
him
,
and
merueylle
not
though
the
people
knoweth
not
the
¶
And
saide
God
hath
not
in
thys
worlde
a
more
couenable
place
,
than
in
a
clene
and
a
pure
soule
.
¶
And
saide
a
man
ought
to
speke
of
honest
and
good
thynges
,
ande
ellis
harkyn
to
them
that
wylle
t●…lke
therof
¶
And
sayde
/
grugge
ande
eschewe
al
vyle
●…nges
aswele
of
the
,
as
of
other
/
but
in
especiall
of
thy
〈◊〉
.
¶
And
saide
purchasse
the
goodes
of
thys
worlde
in
●…htfull
laudable
&
worshipfull
manere
&
dispende
them
in
like
wyse
¶
And
said
kepe
thy
pacience
whan
thou
herest
lesinges
,
and
do
thoo
dedis
that
noman
may
speke
harme
of
,
and
entende
to
the
suretie
of
thy
body
,
be
attemperate
at
thy
mete
in
thy
drynke
,
in
thy
lying
with
women
and
in
all
thyn
other
labours
.
¶
And
saide
,
enforce
thy selfe
to
do
soo
wele
that
other
men
haue
enuie
at
the.
¶
And
sayde
Dispende
not
to
outrageousely
nor
be
not
to
scarse
,
so
that
thou
be
not
bounde
to
thy
tresore
,
haue
therin
attemperaunce
and
mesure
,
whiche
in
all
thinges
is
prouffytable
¶
Ande
sayde
.
Be
wakyng
and
herkenyng
to
thy
counseile
.
for
thy
nedis
,
for
yf
thou
slougth
it
,
or
slepe
it
,
hit
myght
cause
the
to
be
partener
of
thy
owne
deth
¶
And
sayde
medylle
the
not
to
do
eny
thyng
.
that
ought
not
to
be
doon
And
said
he
that
is
not
content
can
not
atteyne
to
trouth
And
sayd
.
he
that
hath
no
science
,
ought
to
be
dyspraysid
¶
And
sayd
the
Iuge
that
demeth
not
Rightfully
,
deserueth
grete
blame
.
ware
that
thy
tunge
speke
no
vilanye
nor
that
thou
yeue
thyn
eeres
to
here
it
.
And
said
a
man
ought
not
tenforce
hym self
in
this
worlde
,
to
make
pourchasses
nor
byldyngis
to
serue
other
after
hys
deth
.
but
ought
to
peyne
hym
to
wynne
and
to
gete
suche
thyngis
as
may
prouffit
him
after
hys
deth
¶
And
said
.
It
is
bettir
to
a
man
to
lye
vpon
the
harde
grownde
beleuyng
fermely
in
god
.
than
to
lye
in
abed
of
gold
,
puttyng
doubtes
in
him
¶
And
said
.
let
thy
marchaundise
by
spirituell
and
not
corporell
.
and
th
encresse
and
wynnyng
shal
be
goode
.
and
durable
¶
And
saide
.
he
that
hath
〈◊〉
vpon
hys
owne
saule
fereth
our
lorde
.
¶
And
saide
whan
thou
wilt
sette
vpon
eny
man
.
thinke
thou
woldeste
deffende
the
yf
thou
were
set
vpon
¶
And
said
dispose
thy
saule
to
receyue
alle
goode
and
couenable
thynges
¶
And
said
sette
a
syde
the
vanytes
of
thys
world
.
for
they
lette
and
empesche
thy
reason
¶
And
said
.
thou
oughtest
not
to
slepe
eny
nyght
.
til
thou
hast
remembred
and
considered
they
dedes
of
the
day
past
.
¶
And
yf
thou
haue
weldoon
be
gladde
&
Ioyous
therfore
.
and
thanke
god
ther
of
.
And
yf
thou
hast
erred
and
do
on
a
mysse
.
repente
the
ther
of
and
aske
forgeuenesse
and
pardon
of
god
.
and
in
so
doyng
.
thou
mayest
opteyne
vnto
hys
grace
¶
And
sayde
.
whan
thou
shalt
begynne
eny
werke
,
pray
god
of
helpe
to
brynge
yt
to
a
good
conclusion
¶
And
sayde
yf
thou
haue
haunted
eny
felowe
.
and
se
hys
companye
is
not
couenable
vnto
the.
spare
it
.
and
ye●…
dele
so
that
he
be
not
after
thin
ennemy
,
proue
euery
man
by
his
dedis
,
and
not
by
hys
wordis
.
for
thou
shalt
fynde
many
of
euyll
werkis
.
and
goode
wordes
¶
And
sayde
.
a
man
may
not
refrayne
hym
from
doyng
amysse
.
but
whan
he
hath
trespassed
.
let
him
beware
to
fall
eny
more
in
that
errour
.
And
saide
.
wyne
is
ennemye
to
the
soule
in
taking
of
it
outrageousely
.
and
is
like
settyng
.
fyre
to
fyre
.
And
sayde
.
a
seruaunt
ought
to
be
obeissant
vnto
his
lorde
,
but
not
so
absolutely
that
he
lese
therby
alle
his
liberte
&
¶
And
saide
,
It
is
more
couenable
for
a
man
to
suffer
d●…th
.
than
to
put
his
soule
in
perpetuel
derknes
.
And
soyde
.
Lette
not
to
doo
goode
dedis
.
though
they
be
not
pleasaunt
to
the
worlde
¶
And
saide
.
dele
alwaye
so
to
thy
power
.
that
thy
soule
may
stande
in
goode
and
noble
state
whatsomeuer
falle
of
thy
body
¶
And
sayde
.
Aclene
and
pure
soule
hath
no
delyte
in
worldely
thynges
,
¶
And
sayde
,
go
not
the
pathes
that
thou
maist
gete
hatered
by
Ande
sayde
.
thou
oughtest
to
wynne
frendis
,
for
the
maynteynyng
of
thyn
astate
.
and
do
not
thoo
thynges
that
thou
couetest
.
but
that
thou
oughtest
to
do
.
and
take
hede
whan
thou
shalt
speke
.
and
whan
thou
shuld
holde
thy
peace
¶
And
sayde
.
he
refreyneth
him
from
couetise
that
letteth
not
to
spende
hys
goode
for
his
frendes
¶
And
sayde
.
put
alle
couetise
from
the.
and
than
shalt
thou
apper
ceyu●…
trouth
.
¶
And
said
.
He
is
not
verry
pacient
that
sufferyth
but
as
moche
as
he
may
.
But
he
is
presentely
pacient
.
that
suffereth
ouer
his
power
¶
And
sayde
Pytagoras
.
Ryght
as
a
leche
ys
not
reputed
nor
taken
for
goode
nor
connyng
that
heleth
other
.
and
can
not
hele
him selfe
.
right
so
ys
he
noo
goode
gouernour
that
commandeth
other
to
eschewe
vices
.
and
nether
can
nor
wyll
leue
them
hym selfe
.
And
sayd
the
worlde
varieth
nowe
with
the
and
nowe
ayenst
the
,
If
it
be
vith
the
,
thynke
to
do
wele
,
&
yf
it
be
ayenst
the
,
take
it
paciently
¶
And
saide
many
harmes
comme
to
beestes
.
by
cause
thy
be
domme
.
and
vnto
men
through
their
owne
speche
¶
And
saide
.
harde
it
is
to
greue
him
that
can
absteyne
him
from
.
iiij
.
thingis
that
is
to
witte
hastynesse
,
wilfulle
frowardenesse
.
pride
.
and
slowthe
.
for
hastynesse
causith
repentaunce
.
wilfulle
frowardenesse
causeth
losses
.
pryde
causeth
hattered
.
and
slowth
causeth
dispreysing
.
He
sawe
a
man
right
nobl●…
and
richely
arrayed
,
whiche
hadde
vyle
and
foule
wordes
To
whom
he
sayde
.
Other
speke
after
thyn
arraye
.
or
lete
thyn
arraye
be
aftir
thy
wordes
.
The
kyng
than
of
Ceall●…
desired
hym
to
dwelle
with
hym
To
whom
he
saide
.
th●…
w●…kes
and
thy
demeanyngis
be
contrarye
to
thy
prouffyt
And
thyn
office
is
not
wele
executed
.
for
thou
distroyest
the
fundement
of
thy
feyth
.
wherfore
I
wol
not
dwelle
with
the
,
for
the
physicien
.
Is
not
sure
.
for
amongis
hys
pacientis
.
he
may
take
sekenesse
¶
And
sayde
.
If
thou
w●…
that
thy
childeren
or
thy
seruantis
do
no
fawtes
thou
〈◊〉
reste
a
thyng
innaturall
¶
And
sayde
.
The
soule
that
is
in
the
company
of
goode
peple
is
in
delectacion
and
Ioye
And
when
it
is
amonge
euyl
It
is
in
sorowe
and
l●…uines
se.
.
¶
And
sayd
.
The
wyseman
thenketh
on
the
wele
of
his
soule
as
attentyuely
as
other
attende
to
the
wele
of
theyr
bodyes
¶
And
saide
,
take
frenship
of
hem
that
thou
seest
folowe
trouth
,
&
thinke
or
thou
werke
.
And
saide
right
as
a
physicien
can
not
hele
hys
pacient
wythoute
he
telle
hym
the
trouth
of
hys
disease
.
right
so
may
not
a
man
be
wele
counseylled
of
hys
frende
withoute
he
telle
hym
the
playnesse
of
hys
cause
¶
And
saide
many
ennemytees
growen
for
faulte
of
trust
betwix
parties
,
and
trust
causeth
often
many
harmes
¶
And
whan
pytagoras
sat
in
hys
cheyre
he
vsed
in
shewyng
his
doctrines
to
saye
.
mesure
your
pathes
and
go
the
right
weye
.
&
so
shal
ye
go
surely
Attempre
you
from
couetise
,
and
your
goode
astate
shall
dure
.
vse
Iustice
,
and
ye
shal
be
byloued
and
dredde
.
kepe
nat
your
body
in
grete
delectacions
for
and
ye
so
do
ye
shal
not
con
susteyne
the
aduersites
that
myght
falle
vnto
you
.
¶
And
he
sawe
an
olde
man
that
was
shamefast
to
〈◊〉
.
to
whom
he
sayde
¶
Science
is
bettir
in
age
than
in
●…gth
.
¶
And
sayde
¶
.
If
thou
wylt
dispreyse
hym
.
●…at
thou
hatest
.
shewe
not
that
thou
art
hys
ennemye
And
saide
.
a
goode
kyng
or
a
prince
ought
to
thinke
diligenteli
to
the
state
and
guydyng
of
hys
lande
.
and
ought
to
ouersee
hyt
as
often
as
a
goode
gardyner
doth
his
garden
¶
And
saide
hyt
behoueth
a
kyng
to
yeue
ex●…ple
him self
to
kepe
his
lawes
/
and
se
that
his
next
kynnesmen
and
frendes
do
so
after
him
and
it
apparteneth
not
to
a
kyng
to
be
prowde
nor
to
do
after
hys
owne
wil
only
nor
to
ride
couertely
/
nor
in
noo
der●…re
nyght
but
gladdely
shewe
him self
open
faced
amongis
his
people
and
conuenyently
be
conuersant
amongis
them
without
ouer
moche
famylyarite
.
¶
And
whan
a
kyng
or
a
prince
shal
go
to
his
rest
.
that
he
se
ther
be
goode
wache
.
and
yf
thy
faylle
theryn
that
he
punysshe
them
we
le
/
and
to
beware
to
ete
the
mete
that
a
Ialous
woman
yeueth
hym
or
eny
other
suspect
persone
.
¶
And
sayde
.
the
wele
disposed
man
remembreth
,
but
hys
synnes
,
and
the
euyll
disposed
hath
mynde
,
but
on
hys
vertues
It
fortuned
his
wyff
was
decessed
a
ferre
countre
,
and
som
axed
hym
If
there
were
eny
dyfference
to
dye
in
their
propre
lande
or
ellis
ferre
from
thens
,
He
ansuerd
.
whersomeuer
one
dye
,
the
weye
to
the
other
world
is
alle
like
¶
And
sayd
to
a
yong
man
that
wolde
not
lerne
in
his
youthe
If
thou
wolle
not
take
peyne
to
lerne
thou
shalt
haue
the
peyne
to
be
lewde
.
and
vnconnyng
.
And
saide
god
loueth
thoos
that
bee
disobeissant
to
euyll
temptacions
¶
And
saide
,
good
praeyer
is
one
of
the
beste
thinges
a
man
may
present
to
god
,
&
yf
thou
axe
him
eny
boon
lete
thy
werkys
be
agreable
vnto
hym
DYogenes
otherwyse
called
dogly
by
cause
he
hadde
som
condicions
of
a
dogge
,
and
he
was
the
wysest
man
that
was
in
hys
dayes
.
He
dispraysed
gretely
the
worlde
,
and
lay
in
a
tonne
,
Whiche
he
tourned
for
his
auantage
from
the
sonne
And
the
wynde
,
as
it
pleased
hym
,
and
therin
he
rested
whansomeuer
the
nyght
fill
vpon
him
,
He
ete
whansomeuer
he
was
hungered
were
it
by
day
or
by
nyght
in
the
strete
or
ellis
where
wythoute
eny
shame
therof
.
¶
And
was
content
wyth
.ij.
gownes
of
wollen
cloth
in
the
yere
.
¶
Ande
so
he
leuyd
and
gonuerned
him self
till
his
deth
¶
Somme
axed
him
Why
he
was
called
dogly
,
he
sayde
be
cause
I
barke
vpon
the
fooles
and
fawne
vpon
the
wysemen
.
¶
Alexsandre
the
grete
cam
vnto
hym
of
whom
he
toke
litle
regarde
.
be
axed
hym
why
he
sette
so
litil
by
hym
.
seyng
that
he
was
so
myghty
a
hyng
and
hadde
noo
necessite
,
he
ansuerd
I
haue
noght
to
●…o
nor
sette
by
him
that
is
bondeman
to
my
thrall
.
why
qd
Alexsandre
.
am
I
so
than
/
ye
said
diogenes
.
for
I
am
lord
and
maistre
to
al
couetise
.
and
holde
her
vnder
my
fete
as
my
thrall
and
couetise
is
thy
maistresse
,
and
thou
art
bounde
vnto
her
.
and
so
art
thou
bounde
to
my
thrall
Than
sayd
alexsandre
.
yf
thou
wylt
axe
me
eny
thying
of
thys
worlde
I
wol
yeue
it
the
Dyogenes
answered
.
why
shulde
I
axe
the
eny
thing
.
while
I
am
Richer
than
thou
art
.
for
that
littil
that
I
haue
contenteth
me
bettir
than
all
the
grete
quantite
that
thou
hast
satisfieth
the.
I
pray
the
stande
out
of
my
light
.
and
take
not
from
me
that
.
that
thou
maist
not
yeue
me
.
we
le
qd
alexsandir
.
who
shal
bery
the
whan
thou
art
ded
He
answerd
.
he
that
wol
not
suffre
the
frenche
of
my
careyn
aboue
the
erthe
¶
And
the
sayde
diogenes
saide
he
is
not
parfitely
goode
.
that
doth
but
onely
absteyne
him
from
euil
dedis
.
he
sawe
a
Iong
man
of
good
and
vertuouse
disposicion
.
whiche
was
euil
visaged
.
to
whom
he
saide
the
goodenesse
and
vertues
that
be
in
the
yeue
beaute
in
thy
face
And
som
axed
him
whan
it
was
tyme
a
man
to
ete
He
saide
whan
he
hadde
apetite
and
mete
.
and
if
he
hadde
noon
/
whan
he
myght
gete
it
¶
And
said
it
is
goode
a
man
kepe
hym
from
the
gyle
of
his
ennemy
.
And
the
enuie
of
his
frende
¶
And
said
right
as
a
man
appereth
greter
in
a
myst
than
in
a
clere
weder
right
so
appereth
more
his
vice
in
his
Ire
than
in
his
pacience
¶
And
said
to
alexsandre
thinke
not
thou
art
the
more
worthy
for
thy
beaute
.
tresour
and
riche
araye
,
but
onely
for
thy
liberalite
and
goodenesse
.
¶
And
sayd
when
thou
dispreysest
a
vice
in
another
man
.
loke
that
thou
vse
hy●…
not
thy self
And
sayde
whan
thou
seest
adogge
leue
his
maistre
,
&
folo
we
the
Dryue
hym
a
waye
.
for
right
so
wil
he
leue
the
to
go
to
another
.
He
sawe
a
man
that
prayed
god
to
yeue
hym
sapience
,
To
whom
he
sayde
thy
peticion
auayleth
not
,
with
out
first
thou
payne
thy self
to
lerne
it
.
And
saide
.
of
alle
vertues
of
humanite
,
the
greter
quantite
therof
is
the
bettir
saue
of
wordes
And
said
it
is
not
honest
to
yeue
praysing
to
a
man
of
a
thing
that
he
hath
not
deserued
He
sawe
a
peyntour
that
was
waxe
a
physicien
.
to
whom
he
saide
thou
knowest
that
men
myght
se
at
the
eye
,
the
fawtes
that
thou
didest
in
thy
crafte
▪
but
nowe
they
may
not
be
perceyued
for
they
ar
hidde
vnther
the
erthe
.
And
he
sawe
right
a
faire
persone
,
whiche
was
a
foole
.
and
than
he
sayde
.
ther
is
a
fayre
house
.
and
right
an
euyll
hoste
herborowed
therin
¶
He
sawe
also
a
foole
sitte
in
a
wyndowe
.
And
he
sayd
.
Tlrr
sittith
astone
vpon
a
stone
.
¶
One
axed
hym
What
was
loue
He
sayde
.
It
was
A
sekenesse
that
grewe
of
Idelnesse
and
for
lakke
of
vertuouse
excercise
.
¶
One
axed
hym
What
was
richesse
He
sayde
Absteynyng
from
couetise
¶
The
sayd
.
Dyogenes
was
in
a
season
seke
.
and
his
frendis
cam
to
vysite
him
.
Seyng
dowte
ye
nat
.
for
your
sekenesses
come
but
of
goddis
wylle
.
He
ansuerd
Therfore
am
I
the
more
aferd
.
¶
He
sawe
an
old
man
that
dyede
his
heeres
¶
To
whom
he
sayde
¶
Thou
maiste
wel
hyde
thy
whyte
heeres
.
but
nat
thyn
age
¶
And
sayde
.
It
is
more
behooffull
.
thou
goo
to
the
leche
.
Than
the
leche
to
the.
And
semblably
I
seye
it
of
the
leche
of
the
soule
.
¶
And
sayde
.
Dyogenes
If
thou
wylt
correcte
eny
man
shewe
it
not
by
vyolence
.
But
as
the
surgyen
doth
to
the
seke
.
that
is
to
saye
softely
and
pacient
ly
but
and
thou
wilt
correcte
thy self
.
dispose
the
as
the
hurt
man
.
doth
to
the
leche
.
It
was
axed
hym
howe
a
man
myght
kepe
hym
from
ire
.
he
answered
a
man
ought
alle
waye
to
haue
in
Remembrance
that
he
can
not
at
all
tymes
be
serued
but
somtyme
shal
be
feyn̄
to
do
seruice
.
and
also
h●…●…ul
not
be
alweye
obeyde
but
at
sumtyme
he
must
obeye
.
and
he
shal
not
at
alle
tymes
be
suffered
in
his
wylle
but
at
sumtyme
he
must
suffre
hauyng
thys
in
his
mynde
.
it
shulde
appease
hys
Ire
¶
And
ther
come
a
gester
afore
Alexandre
sittyng
at
his
dyner
.
whiche
prāised
hym
outrageosely
.
and
diuerse
herkened
gr●…etely
ther
to
,
the
said
dyogenes
began
to
ete
faster
than
before
.
som
axed
hym
why
he
herkened
not
the
feyre
seyngis
of
the
gester
/
he
an
answered
.
I
do
more
prouffitably
than
to
herken
lesyngys
what
is
shuche
praysing
worth
.
whan
he
is
neuer
the
better
therfore
¶
And
saide
yf
thou
talke
wyth
astraunger
speke
not
to
moche
,
til
thou
haue
first
made
comparison
bytwene
the
connyng
of
his
science
and
thyn
.
and
yf
thou
fynde
thyn
better
than
hys
,
speke
the
boldelier
and
ellis
holde
thy
peace
and
lerne
at
hym
¶
Dyuers
dylicious
persones
blamed
hym
of
hys
manere
of
leuyng
and
he
said
.
it
lieth
wele
in
my
power
yf
me
lyst
to
lyue
after
your
guise
/
but
it
is
not
in
your
power
to
lyue
after
my
maner
¶
And
it
was
tolde
hym
that
certayn
persones
hadde
saide
euyll
of
hym
in
hys
absence
,
he
answered
it
shal
not
hurte
me
though
a
man
strike
at
me
and
touche
me
not
.
¶
And
sayd
.
it
is
a
churlissh
condicion
to
answere
dishonestely
,
and
a
noble
condicion
to
answere
pacyently
.
¶
And
sayd
,
Ther
is
no
greter
tresour
than
Dyscrecion
and
wytte
,
Nor
greter
pouerte
than
Ignoraunce
Nor
better
frendeship
than
goode
condicions
,
nor
bettere
guyde
than
Is
goode
fortune
.
¶
Ande
sayde
,
Sekenesse
Is
the
pry
son
of
the
body
.
Ande
sorowe
Is
the
prison
of
thy
soule
.
¶
Ther
was
a
man
of
grete
byrthe
that
rebuked
hym
.
To
whom
he
sayde
/
My
blode
ande
linage
is
enhaunsede
by
me
.
ande
thyn
Is
hurte
ande
lowed
by
the
¶
The
sayde
.
Dyogenes
was
of
lytille
speche
¶
And
one
asked
hym
Why
he
spake
noo
more
,
He
answered
Ther
was
grete
vertue
in
a
mannys
eeres
¶
Ther
was
a
man
sayde
hym
grete
vylanye
to
whom
he
sayde
No
worde
One
asked
hym
Why
he
ansuerde
not
.
¶
He
sayde
I
coude
do
hym
no
greter
dysworshyp
than
he
doth
hym selfe
,
For
he
hath
contrybued
blame
vnto
him
that
hath
not
deserued
it
.
¶
One
asked
hym
.
How
he
shulde
trouble
hys
ennemyes
.
He
answered
.
Enforce
thy self
to
be
vertuous
and
goode
.
¶
And
If
thou
wilt
.
that
thy
goodenesse
appere
grete
vnto
straungers
,
Repute
them
thy self
to
be
litylle
¶
And
sayd
.
If
thou
yeue
power
to
thy
wyff
one
ly
to
trede
vpon
thy
fote
on
the
morowe
she
wold
trede
vpon
thy
hede
,
¶
And
sayd
Company
of
women
Is
an
harme
that
can
not
be
escheued
¶
And
sayd
He
that
doth
good
for
the
goodenesse
of
hyt
onely
,
ought
not
to
drede
byfore
whom
he
doth
hit
nor
for
the
praysing
ne
blame
ther
of
.
One
asked
him
whan
he
shulde
knowe
his
frende
he
said
in
necessite
for
in
prosperite
euery
man
is
frendely
Ther
was
another
man
said
vilanye
vnto
hym
wher
at
he
toke
non
angre
It
was
asked
hym
why
he
was
so
pacient
he
aunswred
other
hath
he
said
soth
or
lied
yf
he
haue
said
trouth
I
ought
not
to
be
angry
.
ande
yet
lesse
if
he
haue
liede
he
sawe
a
man
clater
so
muche
that
ther
cowde
noo
body
make
hym
holde
his
peas
to
whom
he
saide
.
frende
thou
hast
ij
.
eeres
and
but
on
tunge
wherfor
thou
oughtest
to
herken
double
asmoche
as
thou
spekest
.
he
sawe
a
faire
yong
man
that
dede
grete
diligence
to
lerne
to
whom
he
saide
ye
do
pas
singly
wele
to
make
your
dedis
assemble
your
beawte
.
SOcrates
in
grekes
tonge
is
to
say
.
keper
of
Iustice
he
was
maried
ayenst
the
custume
of
that
countre
whiche
was
that
good
and
vertuous
people
shulde
be
wedded
to gedres
/
to
th
entent
that
theyr
lynage
myght
be
the
better
but
he
wedded
the
worst
woman
that
was
in
all
the
lande
ande
hadde
.
iij.
children
by
her
.
he
loued
and
worshipped
sapience
somuch
,
that
it
was
a
grete
hynderaunce
to
all
his
successours
.
for
he
wolde
not
suffre
hys
science
to
be
written̄
And
saide
that
science
was
pure
and
clene
.
wherfore
it
was
couenable
she
shulde
be
onely
sette
in
mynde
and
corrage
and
not
in
skynnes
of
dede
bestes
nor
in
no
suche
corrupte
thingis
and
therfore
he
made
noo
bookis
nor
yaue
no
doctrine
to
his
disciples
.
but
onely
by
wordes
of
discipline
.
and
that
opinion
he
helde
of
.
Tumo
whiche
was
his
maister
for
as
the
saide
Socrates
bryng
of
tendre
age
axed
his
maister
why
wil
ye
not
suffre
me
to
write
the
doctrines
that
ye
teche
me
Tumo
aunswered
hym
couetest
thou
more
the
wild
brestes
skynnes
to
be
worshipped
with
sapience
.
than
th
engyne
of
man
I
sette
the
case
that
one
mete
the
in
the
wilde
feld
.
and
axe
the
conseile
vpon
a
question
.
were
it
good
that
thou
shuldest
saye
let
me
go
home
&
ouer
see
my
bookes
first
.
It
were
more
honest
to
haue
a
recours
to
thy
remembrance
and
therupon
briefly
to
determyne
,
It
were
so
certainely
sayd
Socrates
,
wel
then
reteyne
it
wel
in
thy
mynde
.
that
thou
shalt
lerne
.
And
put
it
not
in
thy
booke
in
which
opinion
the
said
Socrates
rested
,
he
defended
that
no
man
shulde
worship
false
ydolles
but
wolde
that
all
honnour
and
worship
shulde
be
referred
to
the
creatour
of
alle
thyngys
.
and
for
that
opynyon
he
was
condempned
to
deth
by
.
xij
.
Iuges
of
Athenes
.
whiche
ordeigned
that
he
shulde
drinke
certeyn
poysons
,
wherof
the
kyng
of
that
countre
was
sory
.
but
he
cowd
not
reuoke
the
sentence
.
he
gaf
him
as
long
respit
of
his
Iugement
as
he
myght
.
The
said
kyng
hadde
a
ship
charged
with
thynges
that
in
certayn
tymes
shuld
be
offred
in
the
temple
to
the
ydoles
.
he
hadde
a
custume
that
he
wolde
yeue
no
Iugement
and
especyally
vpon
mannes
deth
▪
till
the
sayde
ship
were
retourned
to
athenes
/
whiche
was
not
yet
com
home
And
vpon
her
com̄yng
home
one
of
Socrates
felawes
called
Inclites
tolde
hym
in
the
prison
/
that
the
saide
ship
sholde
come
to
the
porte
on
the
morowe
or
the
next
day
.
wher
fore
he
saide
.
It
wer
good
that
we
shulde
yeue
.
CCCC
.
peces
of
golde
to
thy
kepers
.
that
they
wold
leete
the
secretely
escape
and
than
myghtest
thou
go
to
rome
and
nedest
littill
to
drede
them
of
athenes
.
he
answered
.
all
that
I
haue
is
not
worth
four
honderd
.
pecis
of
gold
.
no
said
Inclites
.
I
and
thy
frendes
haue
so
moche
whiche
we
woll
gladdely
yeue
thy
kepers
to
saue
thy
lyf
if
it
please
the.
to
the
which
socrates
answered
this
cyte
wherin
I
must
suffre
deth
.
is
the
naturall
place
of
my
birth
wherin
I
must
dye
without
deseruyng
onely
by
cause
that
I
repreue
hem
for
doyng
in
iust
dedes
,
and
for
worshippyng
the
false
and
vayne
ydolles
and
that
I
wolde
haue
them
honour
the
true
god
.
wherfore
I
saye
,
If
thyse
men
of
my
nacion
persecute
me
for
susteynyng
&
seynge
trouth
.
right
so
wil
strangers
do
whersoin
euer
I
become
for
I
wol
neuer
spare
to
say
trouth
nor
vse
lesinges
,
and
certaynly
thoos
wolde
haue
lesse
mercy
of
me
than
thoos
of
thys
towne
,
were
in
I
am
born
,
It
happened
that
he
therde
daye
his
disciples
cam
vnto
him
&
fonde
hym
in
pryson
,
by
the
comaundement
of
the
,
xij
▪
Iuges
they
axed
hym
many
dowtable
questions
,
touchyng
the
soule
,
he
ansuerd
them
,
as
largely
and
as
gladely
as
euer
he
dede
wher
of
they
merueylled
to
see
so
grete
constaunce
in
a
man
so
nygh
his
deth
,
One
of
his
disciples
called
Deman
said
maistre
I
knowe
wele
▪
It
is
an
harde
thing
to
the.
for
to
shewe
and
teche
vs
in
the
caas
,
that
thou
nowe
standest
in
&
l●…kkyng
of
thy
lore
is
to
us
a
damegeous
thing
,
for
in
this
worlde
hast
thou
no
felowe
of
good
doctryne
,
Socrates
ansuerd
Spare
not
to
enquere
of
me
what
it
pleaseth
you
for
it
is
to
me
a
grete
pleaser
,
they
axed
him
questyons
of
the
soule
,
whiche
he
ansuerd
,
&
after
they
axed
him
of
the
state
of
the
worlde
,
and
composicion
of
the
Elementis
whiche
al
so
he
ansuerd
right
xerfundely
,
And
he
saide
vnto
them
I
trowe
the
hour
of
my
deth
approcheth
nygh
I
wil
bayne
me
&
make
me
clene
in
thys
world
,
&
sey
myn
orisons
to
th
entent
that
I
shall
haue
no
payne
after
my
deth
wherfore
I
pray
you
spare
me
for
a
while
,
he
entred
a
hous
and
baygned
hym
&
said
his
orisons
,
&
than
called
his
wyf
&
childeren
&
gaue
them
many
feir
doctrines
&
bad
them
payne
them
for
to
do
goode
adresse
their
saules
to
him
that
alle
created
and
than
cam
one
from
the
Iuges
to
hym
with
poyson
to
drinke
¶
And
said
O
socrates
thinke
not
that
I
am
he
that
maketh
the
to
dye
/
for
I
knowe
thou
art
the
best
man
that
euer
cam
in
thys
lande
but
I
am
sent
from
the
Iuges
for
to
sle
the
,
&
here
is
the
confection
that
thou
must
drinke
take
it
paciently
sithen
thou
maist
not
scape
it
/
Socrates
said
I
take
it
with
goode
hert
,
&
knowe
wele
thou
art
not
gylty
therof
,
&
so
drinke
it
And
whan
his
frendes
sawe
that
they
made
grete
weping
&
lamentacion
wherof
he
blamed
them
seying
I
haue
sent
a
waye
the
women
by
cause
they
shuld
not
do
as
ye
do
,
he
went
a
litil
from
them
&
saide
O
god
haue
mercy
vpon
me
,
&
anone
his
sinewes
shranke
his
fe●…e
wexed
colde
,
&
than
he
leide
him
doun
,
one
of
his
disaples
tooke
a
bodekyn
&
prikked
him
in
his
feete
,
and
axed
hym
If
he
felt
eny
thmg
.
And
he
saide
naye
,
than
he
prikked
him
in
his
thyghes
,
and
axed
him
if
he
felt
it
,
he
sayd
naye
Anone
the
colde
strake
vp
vnto
his
sydes
than
socr●…tes
saide
whan
the
cold
cometh
to
my
hert
I
must
nedis
dye
Than
saide
Inclites
O
dere
maistre
welle
of
sapience
and
of
science
correct
and
teche
vs
yet
,
while
thy
speche
lasteth
to
whom
he
said
I
can
non
otherwiese
shewe
you
nowe
dyeng
than
I
haue
doon
afore
in
my
lyf
.
the
said
Inclites
saide
syr
comaunde
me
what
thyng
ye
wil.
he
answered
noo
thyng
.
aud
lift
vp
his
eyen
to
the
skye
seyng
I
present
my
sowle
to
the
maker
of
alle
the
worlde
and
so
dyed
¶
The
sayd
socrates
hadde
.
xij
.
M.
disciples
and
disciples
of
his
disciples
.
¶
And
in
hys
lyf
he
deuysed
that
men
shulde
be
guyded
after
.
thre
.
ordres
that
is
to
saye
in
Clergie
,
in
knyghthode
&
in
commones
,
and
ordeigned
the
clergie
aboue
the
knyghthode
.
the
knyghthode
aboue
the
peple
and
that
the
clergie
shulde
pray
for
the
knyghthode
and
the
peple
,
the
knyghthode
sholde
defende
the
clergie
&
the
peple
▪
the
people
to
labour
for
the
clergie
and
the
knyghthode
¶
The
sayde
socrates
was
of
rede
colour
,
&
of
competent
stature
hore
heded
,
and
wele
faced
,
demure
of
speche
,
a
grete
studyer
and
loker
vpon
the
erthe
.
aud
whan
he
spake
he
wagged
his
litil
fynger
,
he
lyued
four
score
.
ij
.
yeres
,
&
was
written
in
his
scale
,
pacience
&
good
byleue
in
god
maketh
a
man
victorious
,
Ande
was
wrytten
in
his
girdel
,
hauing
respect
and
consideracion
to
th
ende
of
euery
thing
causeth
the
saluaciou
of
the
soule
&
of
the
body
,
he
establisshed
lawes
whiche
were
sent
into
the
Eest
,
West
,
South
,
&
North
,
and
▪
all
was
gouerned
by
them
.
¶
And
said
the
first
thing
that
thou
shuld
fixe
thy
wyl
in
is
to
kepe
dyuyne
Iustice
&
to
applye
thy
wil
to
the
same
,
and
not
to
do
sacrefices
nor
no
iniuste
thinges
nor
to
swere
no
false
othes
,
And
said
,
right
as
a
man
is
heled
of
his
sekenesse
,
by
vertue
of
a
medycine
,
right
so
is
an
euyll
man
heled
of
his
malice
by
vertue
of
the
lawe
¶
And
said
to
his
disciples
I
am
a
tilman
,
and
vertues
ben
the
sedes
,
and
study
is
the
water
that
moisteth
them
¶
Wherfore
yf
the
sedes
be
not
clene
.
nor
the
water
sufufficient
,
what
someuer
be
so
wen
profiteth
litil
And
said
one
ought
to
merueile
at
him
that
forgeteth
the
perpetuall
goodenesse
of
the
other
worlde
,
for
the
goodes
of
this
worlde
that
is
not
durable
¶
And
said
.
the
wele
disposed
soule
loueth
to
do
wele
.
and
the
euyl
disposed
soule
loueth
to
do
●…rme
And
said
the
goode
soule
graffeth
godenesse
and
the
fruyt
ther
of
is
saluacion
And
the
euil
disposed
graffeth
vices
,
and
the
fruyt
therof
is
dampnacion
.
And
said
the
goode
saule
is
knowen
by
that
she
receyued
gladly
trouth
&
the
euil
saule
by
that
she
receyueth
gladly
lesinges
¶
And
saide
that
when
apersonne
dowteth
in
dowtefull
thingis
and
is
stedfast
in
thoos
that
been
open
and
euident
to
the
eye
,
it
is
signe
that
he
is
of
good
vnderstanding
¶
And
said
that
the
saules
of
them
that
ben
good
,
been
sorowfull
of
the
werkis
of
them
that
been
euill
¶
And
said
the
man
that
foloweth
couetise
leseth
him self
endelesly
,
&
at
the
last
is
al
dishonoured
And
whoo
that
hates
it
geteth
ynough
,
&
at
the
ende
is
right
wele
worshipped
And
said
that
the
goode
saule
saueth
him self
.
&
other
ben
saued
by
him
¶
And
said
the
saule
knoweth
all
thinges
&
than
he
that
knoweth
his
saule
,
knowyth
euery
thing
.
&
he
that
knoweth
not
his
saule
,
knoweth
noo
thing
And
said
he
that
is
keytif
to
him self
,
he
is
more
keytif
to
another
&
he
that
is
liberall
to
him self
/
is
com̄onely
liberall
to
another
¶
And
said
litil
teching
suffiseth
to
the
goode
saule
,
&
to
the
euill
saule
moche
teching
may
not
a
wile
And
saide
that
.
vj.
maner
of
men
be
/
that
neuer
be
out
of
angre
▪
that
is
to
witte
▪
the
first
is
he
that
may
not
forgete
his
trouble
the.
ij
.
an
en●…ous
man
that
dwelleth
with
folkis
newly
enrichyd
.
she
.
iij.
he
that
dwelleth
in
a
place
.
where
another
hath
thriuen
&
he
can
finde
no
prouffit
there
.
the.
iiij
.
a
riche
man
fallen
in
pouerte
.
the.
v.
he
that
enforceth
him self
to
com
to
the
state
that
is
not
bylonging
to
him
to
haue
And
the.
vj.
he
that
hath
dwellith
with
a
wyeseman
,
and
hath
noo
thing
lerned
of
hym
.
And
said
who
so
payneth
hym
self
to
shewe
doctryne
to
a
man
of
euyll
courage
,
resembleth
to
him
,
that
woll
maistric
a
strong
hors
/
whiche
if
he
yeue
him
not
a
strong
bitte
with
a
corbe
,
he
shal
neuer
con
gouerne
him
And
saide
to
moche
haunting
felisship
engendreth
no
grete
loue
bitwene
them
/
&
absteynyng
from
them
causeth
ennemytees
,
&
than
it
is
best
to
dele
therin
moderately
And
said
he
that
doth
goode
is
better
than
the
goode
.
&
he
that
doth
euill
,
is
wors
than
the
euill
¶
And
saide
science
is
had
by
diligence
of
men
,
But
discrecion
cometh
of
god
And
said
wysdom
is
the
leche
of
the
lawe
,
&
moneye
is
the
sekenesse
&
when
the
leche
may
not
hele
him self
,
howe
shulde
he
hele
a nother
And
saide
thou
maist
not
be
perfyttely
good
if
thou
hatest
thyn
ennemy
,
what
shalt
thou
be
than
if
thou
hateste
thy
frende
.
And
said
this
world
may
be
likened
to
away
ful
of
thistles
in
a
manere
hidde
,
wher
a
man
is
prykked
that
entreth
in
it
,
&
if
he
aspie
them
he
wol
beware
of
it
,
&
said
he
that
loueth
the
worlde
,
hath
but
labour
,
&
he
that
hateth
it
hath
rest
¶
And
saide
he
is
right
simple
that
is
certayn
to
departe
from
this
worlde
,
&
besieth
him
to
make
in
hit
his
bildingis
¶
And
said
thy
worlde
is
like
a
light
brenning
fyre
,
wherof
a
litil
is
goode
to
kyndylle
his
light
to
shewe
him
the
wey
,
&
he
that
taketh
to
moche
therof
may
lightely
bren
hem
self
with
all
¶
And
said
he
that
setteth
all
his
mynde
in
this
worlde
,
leseth
his
soule
,
&
he
that
thinketh
on
his
soule
hateth
this
worlde
And
said
he
that
loueth
thys
worlde
may
not
fayle
to
fall
in
one
of
these
.
ij
.
inconuenientis
or
both
,
that
is
to
say
,
other
to
displease
our
lord
god
or
ellis
to
be
enuied
at
of
myghtier
men
then
he
is
And
said
a
man
that
seketh
to
haue
ennemyes
seketh
his
distruction
&
he
that
hath
many
enuy●…rs
&
ennemyes
is
in
the
danger
of
euil
fortune
¶
And
saide
this
worlde
is
but
a
passage
in
to
the
other
worlde
,
and
ther fore
.
he
that
puruei●…th
him
of
thingis
necessarie
,
for
that
passage
,
is
the
surer
for
al
ꝑills
¶
And
saide
trouble
not
thy self
gretly
,
with
worldely
ac
quisicions
,
but
resemble
the
birddes
of
the
skye
whiche
in
the
mornyng
seke
but
their
refection
for
that
day
&
sembla
by
the
wilde
bestes
that
com̄e
oute
of
the
monteynes
for
to
seke
their
fode
,
and
cit
nyght
repeire
home
ayen
¶
And
sayd
the
errour
is
knowen
in
the
ende
to
be
euill
and
that
that
is
goode
is
the
more
clerly
seen
after
,
ther
by
Plato
toke
upon
him
to
go
in
a
wyage
and
desired
to
knowe
of
Socrates
howe
he
shuld
gouerne
him self
ther
in
and
he
saide
dowte
the
of
thoos
,
that
thou
knowest
,
&
beware
of
thoos
that
thou
knowes
not
,
&
go
not
by
nyght
,
ete
noon
herbes
that
thou
knowest
not
/
&
loke
that
thou
kepe
the
high
weye
,
though
i●…
be
the
benger
entende
not
to
chastise
him
that
is
out
of
alle
reason
,
for
thou
shalt
make
hym
ther
by
thin
enemy
And
sayde
lye
not
with
a
woman
withoute
necessite
constrayn
the
¶
And
saide
two
thynges
be
laudable
that
is
for
to
saye
,
lawe
and
sapience
,
lawe
kepeth
rightwysnysse
,
and
sapience
causith
good
condicions
.
Socrates
acompanied
him self
with
a
Riche
man
.
and
they
mette
theues
in
an
hygh
waye
,
the
Riche
man
said
It
were
dan̄gerous
to
me
if
they
knowe
me
¶
And
socrates
said
It
were
the
better
for
me
,
If
y
were
knowen
by
them
¶
And
said
a
wyseman
ought
to
vse
hys
dayes
in
one
of
these
two
maneres
that
is
▪
to
seye
.
in
that
that
may
cause
hym
to
haue
▪
Ioye
in
thys
world
and
in
the
other
.
or
in
that
,
that
may
cause
him
to
haue
goode
name
in
this
worlde
And
saide
this
worlde
is
delectacion
of
an
houre
,
&
sorowe
of
many
daies
,
&
the
other
worlde
is
grete
reste
&
long
ioye
And
said
whosomeuer
teche
the
one
worde
of
sapience
doth
the
more
goode
,
than
if
he
gafe
the
of
his
golde
,
And
saide
swere
not
by
our
lorde
,
for
no
maner
of
lucre
al
be
it
thy
cause
be
true
for
som
wol
thinke
thou
forswerest
thy self
And
said
take
hede
howe
thou
yeuest
thy
yeftes
,
for
som
simple
folkes
yeue
to
the
vnnedy
,
&
refuse
hit
to
thoos
that
haue
nede
And
said
If
thou
wilt
wynne
a
frende
speke
good
of
him
for
goode
〈◊〉
engendreth
loue
,
&
euill
speche
engendreth
hatered
And
said
a
kyng
ought
to
put
from
him
al
euil
disposed
●…sones
for
the
harme
that
they
of
his
companye
do
is
reputed
his
dede
,
And
said
he
that
erreth
&
knoweth
hit
.
&
after
〈◊〉
him
therof
hath
deseruid
pardon
And
said
he
that
●…dleth
to
correct
euery
man
causeth
the
moost
part
to
hate
him
.
And
said
to
a
man
that
hadde
reproued
his
linage
If
I
be
the
worse
for
my
linage
as
thou
sayest
thy
linage
is
the
worse
for
the
¶
And
said
he
that
seketh
the
delices
of
this
worlde
is
like
vnto
him
that
seketh
to
drink
zarab
wenyng
it
were
water
&
renneth
to
drinke
it
till
he
be
wery
,
&
whan
he
cometh
to
hit
,
he
findeth
no
thing
&
than
he
is
more
thristy
than
he
was
before
,
for
zarab
is
a
myst
in
a
medew
/
whiche
at
somtime
by
reflection
of
the
sonne
semeth
a
water
&
is
none
in
dede
And
said
a
man
hath
neuer
perfyte
reste
&
ioye
in
thys
world
▪
for
he
can
not
al
waye
perseuere
in
delectacion
&
possesse
his
winning
&
oft
hath
trouble
&
angwysshe
,
aswele
forlosse
of
his
frendis
as
otherwyse
.
And
said
the
loue
of
thys
world
stoppeth
mannes
erres
,
from
hering
sapience
,
&
blynfildeth
the
eyen
from
seing
trouth
.
&
hit
causeth
also
a
man
to
be
enuied
&
kepeth
him
from
doyng
goode
dedis
And
saide
he
that
loueth
&
vseth
trouth
hath
moo
&
greter
seruauntis
than
a
kyng
And
saide
he
is
not
free
that
byndeth
him
to
another
▪
And
said
afferme
no
thing
,
til
thou
knowe
the
trouth
nor
do
no
thyng
▪
but
it
be
couenable
nor
beginne
no
thing
,
but
yf
thou
se
howe
to
bringe
it
to
goode
conclusion
,
Ther
was
a
riche
man
saide
to
him
,
O
socrates
why
art
thou
so
poure
,
To
whom
he
ansuerd
If
thou
knowest
what
is
pouerte
.
thou
woltdeste
haue
more
sorwe
of
thy
pouerte
than
of
myn
¶
And
sayd
It
is
a
grete
merueile
to
se
a
wyseman
angry
.
And
sayd
the
deth
is
a
thing
that
may
not
be
eschewed
&
ther
ought
none
to
drede
hit
/
but
suche
as
haue
comitted
grete
imquite
and
don
litil
iustice
,
wherfore
they
shulde
drede
dampnacion
for
their
demerites
after
their
deth
¶
And
said
good
deth
is
not
to
be
dispised
,
but
to
be
magnified
&
preysed
for
it
makith
transmutacion
from
the
worlde
of
vnclennesse
and
shame
to
the
world
of
worship
.
from
the
world
not
durable
to
the
worlde
perpetuel
▪
from
the
world
of
folie
and
va●…rites
to
the
world
of
sapience
reason
and
trouth
¶
And
fro
the
worlde
of
traueile
and
peyne
to
the
worlde
of
consolacion
and
reste
¶
And
said
,
It
is
merueile
of
him
that
dowteth
to
dye
,
and
doth
thinges
contrari
to
his
saluacion
And
said
.
deth
is
lyffe
to
him
that
knoweth
to
haue
ioye
after
it
¶
And
said
he
that
liueth
wele
shal
dye
wose
And
said
better
it
is
worshipfull
deth
than
shamefull
lyfe
And
said
deth
is
the
rest
of
couetous
people
for
the
lenger
they
lyue
the
more
multiplie
their
couetises
.
&
so
deth
is
they
more
couen
able
for
them
,
than
lyf
,
for
the
deth
of
euil
people
is
the
wele
and
surete
of
the
good
Because
they
shall
do
nomore
synne
nor
hurt
to
the
people
¶
And
said
the
lyf
Iugeth
inderectely
amongis
the
dede
¶
And
said
.
one
ought
not
to
wepe
for
him
that
is
slayne
with
out
cause
.
but
for
him
that
hath
slayne
him
,
for
he
that
sleeth
vniuste
ly
,
dampneth
him self
.
¶
And
said
he
that
dredeth
eny
thing
,
ought
to
his
power
to
be
ware
therof
Also
he
that
dowteth
to
haue
peines
for
his
synnes
after
his
deth
ought
so
to
dele
,
that
he
may
escheue
that
parell
¶
And
said
whan
thou
wolt
do
eny
thing
loke
for
what
occasion
hit
is
And
if
thou
seest
the
ende
therof
goode
/
haste
the
conclusion
.
and
ellis
resiste
thy
wil
¶
And
saide
bettir
is
to
a
man
to
liue
harde
.
than
to
borowe
of
him
that
reputeth
his
litil
lones
&
yeftes
to
be
grete
&
withoute
cause
wol
think
a
man
to
be
in
his
danger
¶
And
saide
take
in
no
preisyng
the
lone
or
yeft
of
him
that
hath
disworshipped
the
for
the
dishonour
&
shame
therof
is
more
than
the
wynning
He
loued
alwey
to
lerne
,
wherof
som
rebuked
him
.
to
whom
he
said
,
the
grettest
shame
,
that
can
come
to
an
olde
man
is
to
be
ignorant
,
he
fomde
a
yong
man
that
hadde
folisshly
spent
&
wasted
his
substance
&
was
broght
to
suche
pouerte
.
that
he
was
feyn
to
ete
olyues
,
to
whom
he
saide
if
the
olyues
hadde
be
as
goode
to
the
at
the
begynnyng
,
as
they
be
nowe
.
thou
shuldest
haue
hadde
yet
largely
of
thy
goodes
¶
And
saide
ther
is
noo
difference
bitwix
agrete
teller
of
tydyngis
.
and
a
lyer
¶
And
said
the
noblest
thing
that
children
may
lerne
is
science
,
for
therby
they
eschewe
to
do
euill
werkis
¶
And
said
the
gretest
wynnyng
that
a
man
may
haue
,
is
to
gete
a
true
frende
,
he
herde
a
man
say
that
one
was
surer
in
keping
his
tunge
,
than
in
moche
speking
▪
for
in
moche
langage
one
may
lightli
erre
.
To
whom
he
said
one
ought
not
to
vnder
stande
that
in
them
that
speke
wele
.
And
said
the
proffit
of
silence
is
lesse
than
the
prouffit
,
of
speche
,
&
the
harme
of
speche
is
more
,
than
the
harme
of
silence
.
And
saide
one
may
knowe
a
wyseman
by
harkēyng
&
holding
his
tunge
,
&
a
man
may
knowe
a
fole
by
his
moche
claterī
g
And
said
he
that
wol
not
holde
his
peas
til
he
be
constreyned
is
to
blame
&
he
that
wil
holde
his
peas
til
he
be
boden
speke
is
to
be
preysed
And
said
It
is
an
ignorant
thing
to
dispute
in
thingez
that
may
not
be
vnderstande
.
&
saide
the
meane
is
best
in
all
thinges
And
said
moche
rennyng
maketh
moche
werinesse
.
&
saide
if
the
witte
of
a
man
ouer
maistrie
not
his
frailte
,
he
shal
sone
be
ouercome
&
brought
to
nought
And
said
he
is
abeest
that
can
not
discerne
the
good
from
the
euill
And
said
he
is
a
good
frende
that
doth
the
good
,
&
a
myghty
frende
,
that
defendeth
the
from
harme
,
he
wrote
vnto
a
king
reconforting
him
whan
his
sone
was
dede
in
this
maner
▪
god
made
this
worlde
an
hous
of
delectacion
&
reward
&
the
troubles
in
this
worlde
causen
remuneracion
in
the
other
And
said
no
man
ought
to
repute
him self
wyse
And
said
this
world
yeueth
exemple
to
thoos
that
abyde
by
thaim
that
depart
▪
And
said
the
losse
of
some
is
lerning
to
other
.
And
said
he
that
trusteth
in
this
worlde
is
deceiued
,
&
he
that
is
suspectious
is
in
grete
sorw
One
of
his
disciples
gafe
him
a
gyfte
&
he
was
troubled
with
al
It
was
axed
him
why
he
reioysed
it
nat
he
said
the
recepcion
of
this
gifte
hath
procured
his
worship
&
put
me
in
his
danger
And
said
be
to
thy
fader
and
to
thy
moder
,
as
thou
wilt
thy
children
ben
to
the
And
saide
be
not
to
angry
nor
to
wrathfull
▪
for
that
is
the
werke
of
a
fole
And
said
one
ought
to
haue
shame
to
speke
that
he
hath
shame
to
do
¶
And
saide
refrayne
the
from
vices
in
thy
youth
&
it
shal
be
the
feirest
garment
,
that
thou
maiest
were
¶
And
saide
gouerne
the
so
to
thy
power
,
that
noman
say
harme
of
the
,
albe
it
,
it
were
lesynges
,
for
all
men
knowe
not
the
trouth
,
&
yet
they
haue
eeres
,
plato
desired
him
to
answere
in
.
iij.
thingis
&
he
wold
be
his
disciple
the
first
was
what
maner
ofmen
one
ought
to
haue
moost
pite
of
.
the.
ij
.
wher
fore
som
mennis
wirkis
preue
not
,
the
iij.
bowe
a
man
shulde
do
to
haue
retribucione
of
our
lord
The
first
he
auswered
that
a
man
ought
to
haue
pite
in
.
iij
wieses
that
is
to
seye
of
agood
man
in
the
handis
of
ashrew●…
for
he
hath
ther
but
al
sorowe
,
&
of
a
wieseman
in
the
of
a
foole
which
is
to
him
gre
¶
heuynesse
&
a
liberal
man
in
the
subiection
of
a
kaytif
for
he
hath
therby
grete
tri
bulaciō
The
ij
.
their
werkis
preue
nat
that
haue
goode
cōnseil
,
&
werke
not
ther
after
,
&
haue
richesse
&
wil
not
dispen
de
hit
for
their
nede
The.
iij.
is
the
goode
retribucion
,
that
one
receyueth
of
our
lord
god
com̄eth
to
be
entierly
obeissant
vnto
hym
,
&
absteine
him
from
synne
.
&
whan
plato
was
thus
answered
,
he
becam
his
disciple
al
his
lyf
And
the
socrates
seide
dispreise
thy
bodeli
deth
&
it
shal
be
the
lyf
of
thy
saule
,
folowe
Iustice
&
thou
shalt
be
saued
.
And
said
a
wieseman
resteth
&
deliteth
him
whan
he
findeth
trouth
And
saide
a
wieseman
ought
to
speke
with
an
ignorant
as
the
phisicien
doth
with
his
pacient
¶
And
saide
he
that
taketh
his
pleasance
in
thys
world
must
nedis
falle
in
one
of
these
.
ij
causes
that
is
to
say
other
to
lakke
,
that
he
coueteth
or
to
lese
that
he
hath
wonne
with
grete
payne
¶
And
said
to
one
of
his
disciples
.
suffise
the
to
ete
that
wille
take
awaye
thy
hungere
.
&
dryncke
that
wil
stanche
thy
thurst
remembring
wele
thy
soule
.
&
folowe
goode
werkis
,
serne
sapience
of
the
moost
wysemen
that
be
in
thy
dayes
,
escheue
the
ginnes
that
women
set
to
take
men
with
al
▪
for
they
be
hindrers
of
sapyence
,
And
said
he
that
loueth
this
world
is
like
to
him
that
entreth
in
to
the
see
for
if
he
escape
the
parels
of
the
same
men
wol
seye
he
is
fortunat
.
&
if
he
be
perisshed
they
wol
sey
he
is
wilfully
disceyued
▪
And
said
man
hath
pouer
ouer
his
wordis
▪
til
they
be
spoken
.
&
whan
he
hath
ones
vttered
them
he
hath
no
power
ouer
hem
.
And
saide
he
that
hath
no
power
to
refreyne
his
tonge
hath
no
myght
to
resist
all
his
other
delectacions
,
And
said
silence
&
speche
is
goode
in
diuers
wyses
&
places
And
said
if
a
man
be
moche
herde
speke
.
one
may
knowe
if
he
be
discrete
or
not
&
if
he
holde
his
peas
or
speke
litil
.
one
wil
the
rather
deme
he
be
wyse
And
sayd
whan
a
man
speketh
he
ought
to
considere
what
he
wil
seye
for
better
it
is
he
considere
.
than
another
shold
.
And
said
to
one
of
his
disciples
whan
thou
wilt
speke
.
speke
cu
:
toisely
or
hold
thy
peas
.
and
said
he
that
holdeth
his
peas
or
speketh
litil
lerneth
atte
speche
of
other
,
&
if
he
speke
,
other
lerne
at
his
wordes
One
axed
him
what
was
a
goode
purchasse
.
he
ansuerd
that
/
that
groweth
in
the
spending
therof
.
And
said
dronkenship
vndoth
a
man
/
&
said
one
ought
not
to
axe
conseile
of
him
that
hath
his
herte
al
sette
to
the
world
for
his
adius
shal
be
but
after
his
pleasance
,
&
said
good
conseil
sheweth
often
the
ende
of
the
werke
,
ther
was
a
woman
that
called
him
olde
and
said
his
face
was
right
foule
To
whom
he
answered
then
art
so
derke
&
so
troublous
amyrour
that
my
beawte
can
not
be
perceyued
therin
¶
And
said
he
is
discrete
that
kepeth
wele
his
secretes
,
&
he
is
not
wyse
that
discouers
them
And
said
a
man
ought
to
kepe
secrete
that
he
is
desired
to
kepe
,
&
he
is
more
to
preise
that
kepeth
that
thing
secrete
whiche
he
is
not
desireth
to
kepe
¶
And
said
if
thou
can
not
kepe
thyn
own
secretes
,
moche
lesse
woll
he
kepe
hit
,
to
Whom
thou
hast
told
hit
to
.
one
axed
hym
why
a
wiese
man
wil
desire
to
haue
counsaile
.
he
seyde
leste
his
wyll
be
in
eny
wyse
medled
with
his
witte
¶
And
said
he
that
is
of
good
condicion
is
of
good
and
sure
lyf
,
and
is
beloued
of
good
people
and
he
that
is
of
euill
condicions
is
euyn
the
contrary
.
And
saide
to
one
of
his
disciples
,
truste
not
thys
worlde
.
for
it
paieth
neuer
that
it
promitteth
¶
And
said
acustume
you
to
be
content
with
litil
.
for
ye
shal
fynde
hit
for
the
best
.
and
that
shall
come
vnto
you
,
repute
it
not
for
litil
,
for
it
may
encresse
,
&
multiplie
,
but
seke
to
wynne
frendes
in
very
loue
shewyng
them
noo
signe
of
hate
.
and
one
axed
him
what
difference
was
betwene
trouth
and
lesingis
,
he
said
as
moche
as
is
bewene
the
eere
and
the
eye
¶
And
said
he
that
desireth
to
haue
more
than
suffisaunce
hath
that
proffiteth
him
noo
thyng
¶
And
said
to
one
of
his
disciples
,
trust
not
in
the
tyme
.
for
it
faileth
Incontinent
to
him
that
trustith
ther
to
¶
And
said
ware
thou
be
not
disceyued
by
thy
beaute
,
and
by
thy
youth
.
nor
by
the
helth
of
thy
body
for
th
ende
of
thy
helth
shal
be
sekenesse
.
&
the
ende
of
they
sekenesse
shal
be
deth
&
thou
maist
not
escheue
the
diseases
of
this
world
,
ther
was
neuer
Ioie
withoute
sorwe
nor
neuer
light
withoutderkenesse
.
nor
neuer
rest
withoute
labour
nor
assemble
without
departing
And
said
.
like
as
the
fortune
of
thys
worlde
.
shal
make
thy
reioysing
vpon
thin
enemy
right
so
may
it
make
thin
ennemy
haue
reioysing
vpon
the.
¶
And
said
he
that
stablissheth
,
&
setteth
him self
in
couenable
place
,
is
the
more
sure
for
the
peryls
of
this
worlde
¶
And
saide
.
he
that
is
fulfilled
with
the
loue
of
this
worlde
disposeth
hym
to
.
iij.
thinges
,
that
is
to
saye
,
first
to
pouerte
,
for
he
shall
neuer
atteyn
to
the
richesse
that
he
desireth
,
Secundely
,
to
suffre
payne
,
thirdely
to
besynesse
,
without
expedicion
¶
And
said
telle
neuer
thy
conseyle
to
him
that
is
angry
whan
one
praieth
him
to
kepe
it
secrete
,
One
axed
him
what
he
had
wonne
by
his
science
be
said
I
am
as
a
man
sitting
on
the
see
syde
&
biholding
the
simple
folkes
wraped
in
the
wawes
of
the
see
¶
And
said
grete
fredom
growith
by
seruice
,
for
the
more
one
serueth
the
more
fre
he
becometh
,
¶
And
said
.
he
that
wil
wynne
frendes
lete
him
loke
first
yf
he
can
refrayne
them
from
couetise
,
&
if
he
can
,
rest
than
with
them
&
ellis
sone
to
departe
And
said
if
thou
be
not
couetous
,
thou
may
rest
in
euery
place
And
the
said
socrates
had
many
seynges
ayenst
wo
men
whihe
is
not
translated
,
And
it
was
axede
of
him
to
what
science
it
was
best
to
sette
his
childe
to
scole
,
he
ansuerde
,
to
lerne
that
.
that
is
bothe
proffitable
in
this
worlde
&
the
other
/
one
axed
him
whan
he
beganne
to
be
wyse
&
vertuous
he
ansuerd
/
whan
first
I
refreined
my self
wil
And
saide
whan
a
man
is
so
diligent
to
lerne
,
&
loueth
so
wele
science
that
he
taketh
non
hede
of
preysing
nor
dispreising
for
the
lore
therof
▪
than
is
he
wyse
It
was
tolde
him
that
ther
hadde
no
credence
be
yeuen
to
alle
his
wordes
he
answered
.
so
that
my
wordes
haue
be
good
and
reasonnable
I
yeue
no
grete
forde
who
hath
beleued
them
or
no
¶
And
saide
.
he
i●…
good
in
the
hyest
degre
of
goodenesse
.
that
enforceth
him
to
be
good
him self
And
he
is
in
the.
ij
.
degre
that
enforceth
hym
to
cause
other
to
be
good
,
and
he
that
rekketh
of
none
of
thiese
ij
.
is
to
be
dispreised
¶
And
saide
.
to
his
disciples
be
not
d●…sirous
to
haue
the
goode
not
durabll
.
but
couette
to
haue
that
is
perpetuelly
good
¶
And
saide
.
be
not
inquisitif
vpon
other
folkys
lest
they
be
inquisitif
vpon
the
¶
And
said
put
wit
and
discrecion
afore
the
in
alle
thy
werkes
.
and
thou
shalt
be
the
better
garnysshed
whan
thou
shalt
com
to
the
execucion
of
the
same
¶
And
saide
for
bere
not
to
do
goode
dedis
all
be
it
they
be
vnknowen
There
was
one
dis
preysed
his
face
,
to
whom
he
saide
it
was
not
in
my
power
to
make
my
face
,
and
therfore
I
ought
not
be
blamed
if
it
be
foule
/
that
that
I
haue
power
ouer
I
haue
made
fair
and
that
that
thou
haddest
power
ouer
thou
hast
soyled
¶
And
said
be
true
vnto
him
that
companyeth
with
the
,
and
beereth
trouth
vnto
the.
and
thou
shalt
be
the
more
sure
to
eschewe
dan̄giers
And
sayd
do
to
other
as
thou
woldest
they
shuld
do
to
the
And
do
to
noon
other
but
as
thou
woldest
be
doon
to
¶
And
saide
a
man
ought
to
be
corrected
by
experience
and
taught
by
the
mutacion
of
this
worlde
And
said
he
is
liberall
that
hath
greter
delectacion
to
haue
good
renoume
than
money
¶
And
saide
pacience
is
a
strong
castell
.
and
hastynesse
engendreth
repentaunce
¶
And
said
honour
is
the
fruyte
of
trouth
,
and
for
thy
trouth
thy
frendes
shal
worship
the
And
thy
goodenesse
shal
be
knowen
not
sparing
to
do
that
,
that
shal
be
prouffitable
¶
And
said
,
it
ought
suffise
a
man
to
knowe
and
vnderstande
that
,
that
he
seeth
dayli
fal
in
this
worlde
for
ther
by
he
may
lerne
newe
sciences
,
he
ought
to
be
worshipped
that
willeth
wele
to
euery
man
,
and
he
that
wol
other
menns
harmes
putteth
him self
in
grete
perille
,
but
the
Iuste
man
resteth
in
surete
¶
And
said
he
that
kepeth
him self
wele
is
a
grete
conquerour
,
and
he
that
settith
so
litil
by
him self
that
he
thenketh
not
on
his
saule
,
leseth
him silf
,
he
that
is
pacient
doth
wele
▪
and
shal
not
repente
him
,
&
he
that
holdeth
his
peas
saueth
hys
daunger
¶
And
said
let
thy
sedes
be
goode
workes
,
&
thou
shalt
gadre
flours
of
Ioye
and
of
gladdenesse
¶
And
said
,
thou
shalt
haue
rest
in
the
companye
of
a
wyse
man
:
labour
in
the
companye
of
a
foole
¶
And
said
to
be
satis
fied
with
littel
is
worship
/
and
not
to
be
satisfied
with
moche
is
shame
¶
And
said
enquere
whan
thou
hast
doon
eny
deffaulte
,
and
yf
thou
haue
erred
correct
thy self
and
repent
the
and
aftir
that
repentaunce
ware
thou
falle
noo
more
therto
,
and
loke
thou
vaunte
the
not
of
eny
of
thy
goode
dedis
¶
And
saide
he
that
preiseth
him
that
doth
wele
is
partener
of
his
goode
dedis
¶
And
said
accompanye
not
with
him
that
knoweth
not
him self
¶
And
said
he
is
in
grete
reste
that
refrayneth
him
fro
angre
¶
And
said
he
is
wele
disposed
that
can
tempre
his
delyng
and
his
speche
¶
And
saide
take
noo
shame
to
here
trouth
of
whom
so
euere
thou
herest
it
,
for
trouth
is
so
noble
that
it
worshippeth
thoos
that
prouounce
it
¶
And
said
that
thing
that
kepeth
a
man
from
shame
is
better
than
the
richesse
purchas
sed
therby
.
And
said
many
men
may
aperceyue
fawtis
in
them self
.
that
fynde
fawtis
in
all
other
,
¶
And
sayd
to
a
man
that
fled
venquisshed
from
a
bataille
,
thou
doost
euyll
to
flee
from
the
honorable
deth
to
the
shamefull
lyff
¶
And
said
he
that
erreth
,
or
he
knowe
the
trouth
.
ought
the
sonner
to
haue
forgeuenesse
And
said
moche
wyne
&
sapience
may
not
acorde
,
for
they
be
in
maner
contrarious
And
said
suffisaunce
is
a
castel
that
kepeth
wysemen
from
euyll
werkis
.
And
said
if
he
can
not
eschewe
ire
yet
kepe
it
sekret
.
And
saide
that
thing
that
a
foole
leseth
can
neuer
be
recouerd
,
but
a
wyseman
can
lese
no
thing
,
There
was
a
foole
that
blamed
him
,
wherfore
one
of
his
felawes
axed
him
leue
to
auenge
him
,
to
whom
he
said
a
wyseman
yeueth
neuer
licence
to
do
amysse
¶
And
said
all
thinges
be
streng
thed
&
susteined
by
Iustyce
,
&
all
thinges
be
amunysshed
&
feblisshed
by
Iniustice
¶
And
said
all
that
thou
doost
may
not
be
kept
conseile
,
al
be
it
,
it
be
nat
newe
vnderstanden
it
shal
be
knowen
at
somtyme
.
¶
And
said
good
renomme
is
bettir
than
richesse
/
for
richesse
woll
be
loste
and
renome
wol
laste
Sapience
is
a
riches
that
wil
neuer
faile
nor
adminysshe
¶
And
said
,
ware
the
of
dronkenship
for
the
wit
that
is
ouercome
with
wyne
,
is
like
the
hors
that
casteth
his
maistre
¶
And
said
take
hede
of
the
guydyng
of
him
that
thou
axes
conseile
of
,
it
he
gouerne
him self
euill
by
liklyhode
,
right
so
wil
he
guyde
the
,
for
be
reason
he
ought
to
loue
him self
better
than
the.
¶
And
saide
he
ware
thou
breke
not
the
lawes
that
be
for
the
commone
prouffyt
¶
And
saide
pouertee
is
better
than
euyl
goten
richesse
▪
And
saide
a
man
without
science
is
like
a
royame
without
a
kyng
And
saide
a
kyng
ought
to
take
none
to
his
seruice
but
suche
as
he
hath
preued
afore
good
and
true
¶
And
said
he
that
taketh
al
men
in
like
condicion
,
may
not
make
hem
al
his
frendes
¶
And
saide
/
committe
all
thy
causes
to
god
with
out
eny
excepcion
▪
And
said
,
repute
not
thy
synnes
litil
nor
magnifye
thy
good
dedis
for
thou
shalt
haue
nede
of
them
yf
they
were
more
¶
And
said
to
his
disciples
,
beware
of
thys
worlde
&
thinke
it
is
a
thorny
busshe
that
thou
must
trede
vpon
¶
And
said
like
as
thoos
that
be
worldely
wyse
kepe
them
from
angre
in
the
presence
of
their
kyng
by
as
grete
reason
ought
they
to
be
ware
,
howe
they
angre
them
afore
god
that
is
to
vnderstanden
in
euery
place
for
god
is
ouer
all
¶
And
said
he
that
is
long
or
he
be
angry
,
is
harder
to
appease
,
than
he
that
is
lightly
wroth
/
right
as
the
grene
wode
is
hotter
than
the
other
whan
it
is
wel
kyndelyd
Ther
were
brought
afore
him
certayn
people
whiche
said
dyuers
Iniures
to
him
,
he
answered
,
if
ye
haue
●…ny
other
matere
to
wynne
of
me
then
thys
,
do
it
or
ellis
holde
you●…
pras
Ther
was
greter
reuerence
made
to
another
man
than
to
him
wherfore
oon
axed
him
if
he
had
eny
enuie
therat
le
answered
if
he
had
more
science
than
I
,
I
wolde
haue
hadde
enuie
at
him
or
ellis
not
And
said
.
sapience
&
goode
renome
is
not
founde
but
in
goode
persones
wherfore
they
be
better
than
the
grete
richesse
that
is
founde
in
fooles
&
euil
people
.
&
said
thy
saule
ought
to
thinke
wel
,
&
thy
body
to
helpe
therto
And
said
that
thou
oughtest
kepe
secret
in
thy
corrage
discouer
it
not
to
euery
man
And
said
oon
vnto
him
that
sawe
him
in
a
pouer
clothing
thys
is
not
Socrates
thus
pouerly
arraied
that
yaue
the
lawes
to
the
people
of
athens
to
whom
he
answerd
,
the
true
lawis
not
mad
by
good
arrayement
but
by
vertue
reason
and
science
¶
And
said
to
his
disciples
Dyspreyse
the
deth
,
and
semblably
drede
hit
¶
And
sayd
a
wyseman
ought
to
knowe
what
is
his
soule
PLaton
is
by
interpretacion
as
moche
to
seye
as
ended
or
fulfilled
&
was
of
grece
,
by
his
faders
syde
he
was
of
the
noble
esculapius
kynnerede
&
by
his
moders
syde
of
the
kinnered
of
zalon
that
ordeigned
diuers
lawes
,
as
it
is
abouen
saide
,
he
dwelled
with
socrates
the
space
of
/
v
,
yeres
,
&
after
the
deth
of
the
sayd
socrates
he
vnderstode
that
in
Egipte
were
certayn
of
pytagoras
disciples
to
whom
he
went
,
&
proffyted
moche
in
lernyng
with
them
.
he
retourned
then
ayen
to
Athenes
,
&
there
he
ordeigned
.ij.
scoles
&
vsed
laudable
lyff
,
in
doyng
goode
werkis
helping
&
nourisshing
the
nedy
peple
And
they
of
Athenes
wold
haue
made
him
their
lorde
.
he
refused
hit
vtterly
for
as
moche
as
he
knewe
them
of
badde
&
wikked
condicions
/
&
knewe
wele
that
he
coude
not
lightly
chaunge
their
disposicions
,
&
al
so
he
wyste
wele
if
he
shuld
correcte
them
like
as
it
apperteyned
they
wolde
serue
him
as
they
did
socrates
,
The
sayde
plato
lyued
.
lxi
.
yeres
a
man
of
good
discrecion
.
disposicion
,
&
right
pacient
,
&
a
grete
yeuer
of
his
good
to
pouer
men
&
to
strangers
&
he
had
many
disciples
,
amonge
the
whi
che
.ij.
of
them
after
his
deth
.
that
is
to
witte
zenocrates
&
Aristotiles
helde
the
scoles
.
And
the
said
Platon
dide
teche
his
sapience
by
allegorye
,
to
th
entent
that
hit
shulde
not
be
vnderstande
but
by
wytty
men
,
¶
And
he
lerned
hit
of
Tymed
and
of
socrates
,
he
made
.vj.
bookis
and
preched
and
taught
the
people
that
they
shulde
yeue
graces
and
thankes
to
god
for
his
goodenesse
and
mercy
and
for
that
he
made
them
all
egall
in
so
moche
.
that
be
a
man
neuer
so
mighty
,
his
power
can
no
more
,
than
yf
he
were
a
poure
creature
,
resiste
ayenst
deth
,
semblably
he
hadde
thanke
god
for
the
witte
that
he
hath
yeuen
to
man
.
¶
And
said
ymagyne
no
thing
to
be
in
him
,
but
that
,
that
is
nedfull
good
and
couenable
.
And
said
,
be
not
couetons
vpon
word
ly
goodes
/
for
god
hath
ordeygned
that
we
shulde
haue
suffisaunce
in
thys
worlde
.
And
suche
suffisaunce
is
called
Sapience
,
The
whiche
ye
ought
to
haue
with
the
drede
of
god
.
whiche
is
the
keye
of
goodenesse
.
wherby
ye
may
entre
and
atteyne
to
the
goode
and
true
richesse
of
this
world
,
leauyng
to
do
all
thing
that
may
cause
hattered
and
euill
will
,
for
and
ye
wist
howe
summe
thinges
that
ye
loue
&
preyse
,
ar
euill
and
vyle
,
ye
wolde
haue
them
in
more
hatered
than
loue
.
And
saide
.
directe
and
amende
your self
and
after
labour
to
correcte
other
and
if
ye
do
not
ye
shal
be
dampned
And
I
telle
you
.
the
thing
that
hath
made
me
moost
gladde
.
Is
that
I
haue
not
sette
by
golde
ne
siluer
.
for
if
I
hadde
gadred
grete
tresor
I
shulde
haue
hade
many
heuy
thoughtes
,
where
I
haue
nowe
Ioye
&
gladdenesse
.
whiche
encresse
daily
in
me
in
lernyng
wysdom
.
And
for
to
sete
you
wete
.
that
gold
and
siluer
aren
not
good
.
to
be
ouer
moche
set
by
¶
Ther
is
summe
countre
that
a
littill
yuory
or
vnycorne
bone
.
Is
bought
for
a
grete
somme
of
gold
And
in
other
places
.
men
take
glasses
bras
and
other
suche
thinges
.
for
as
moche
gold
.
And
therfore
if
it
were
perfytely
good
of
hit
,
self
,
hit
shulde
be
egally
chosen
and
loued
ouer
alle
like
as
sapience
ys
chosen
and
loued
in
euery
Cuntre
.
¶
And
said
.
Enquere
and
seke
to
haue
vertues
,
&
ye
shal
be
saued
praise
no
foule
thingis
and
blame
no
thing
that
is
laudable
,
&
trauaile
you
not
for
to
wynne
thinges
,
that
shal
lightly
be
lost
,
folowe
after
your
good
predecessours
arraye
you
with
iustice
and
clothe
you
with
chastite
,
and
so
ye
shal
be
happy
,
&
your
werkes
lauded
And
sayde
Custoume
is
a
grete
thing
.
And
said
the
wikked
werkes
dampne
and
distroye
the
good
as
the
bitrenesse
of
the
aloe
tre
distroyeth
the
swettenesse
of
the
hony
,
And
said
.
A
wyseman
ought
not
to
think
on
his
lossis
,
but
ought
to
kepe
wele
the
remenaunt
of
his
good
¶
And
said
he
that
doth
not
for
his
frendis
while
he
may
.
they
wol
leue
him
whan
he
shal
haue
moost
nede
to
them
¶
And
said
that
sapience
is
good
,
for
she
can
not
be
lost
as
other
catalles
and
worldely
goodes
maye
And
it
was
axed
him
wher
by
a
wyse
man
myght
be
knowen
,
&
he
ansuerd
whan
he
woll
not
be
wroth
of
the
iniures
that
ben
don
vnto
him
&
reioyseth
him
not
when
men
preyse
hym
.
¶
And
It
was
axed
of
him
/
howe
men
might
beste
be
venged
of
their
ennemyes
,
he
ansuerd
for
to
be
vertuous
.
and
to
do
good
and
noble
dedes
¶
And
said
to
his
disciples
.
Enforce
you
to
gete
Sciences
.
by
the
whiche
ye
shal
dyrecte
your
soules
And
do
your
part
for
to
kepe
the
lawe
in
suche
wyse
that
your
maker
may
be
content
wyth
you
¶
And
he
sawe
a
yong
man
that
had
solde
,
the
lyuelode
that
was
com
to
him
by
succession
¶
And
he
dispended
it
amysse
in
grete
dyners
and
other
mysrewle
To
whom
he
said
the
erthe
eteth
other
men
.
but
thy self
eteste
the
erthe
.
And
it
was
axed
of
him
.
why
it
is
That
tresour
and
science
may
not
accorde
to
gyder
.
And
he
answered
and
sayd
that
one
thing
,
hool
acomplisshed
may
not
be
d●…uided
And
said
that
he
that
trustes
in
his
fortune
.
And
is
not
som
what
besye
and
diligent
to
laboure
in
goode
werkis
the
goode
resorted
from
him
,
as
doth
the
arowe
from
the
stone
that
it
hath
light
vpon
And
said
.
he
that
techeth
goode
to
other
and
doth
it
not
him self
.
Is
like
to
hym
that
lighteth
a
candell
to
another
,
and
goth
him self
darkeling
And
saide
a
kyng
ought
not
to
be
gretely
praysed
,
that
reygneth
onely
but
vpon
his
subiectes
,
but
he
ought
to
haue
lawde
that
reigneth
and
hath
lordship
wpon
hys
ennemyes
And
said
.
he
that
gadereth
and
assembleth
moche
siluer
ought
not
to
be
called
riche
,
but
he
that
dispendeth
it
worshipfully
and
laudably
.
And
som
asked
him
howe
one
might
kepe
him
from
nede
,
and
he
answered
if
men
be
riche
let
hem
lyue
temperately
,
and
sobrely
.
and
if
they
by
pouer
lete
hem
laboure
diligentely
.
Than
som
axed
him
of
howe
moche
goode
a
man
ought
to
be
content
.
And
he
answered
to
haue
so
moche
as
he
neded
nat
to
flatre
nor
borouwe
of
other
¶
And
said
to
his
disciples
,
whan
ye
shal
be
we●…y
of
studyeng
,
sporte
you
in
redyng
goode
stories
.
¶
And
sayd
,
that
the
wyseman
ought
not
to
coueite
the
richesse
of
hys
frendes
.
lest
he
be
hated
and
dyspreysed
therfore
¶
And
said
Alitill
good
is
a
grete
thing
yf
thou
be
content
ther
with
¶
And
said
▪
it
is
bettir
and
a
more
couenable
thing
to
akyng
,
to
remembre
and
se
to
the
goode
gouernaunce
of
his
people
the
space
of
aday
,
than
for
to
daunce
&
sporte
him
a
hole
yere
.
And
sayd
werkis
doon
by
wysdom
causeth
knowlege
of
thingis
&
them
discreteli
to
discerne
,
&
werkes
doon
by
ignorance
is
an
vnknowen
thing
tille
trouth
stable
&
sette
them
in
their
right
wey
,
&
workis
doon
by
lesingis
is
for
to
disordre
goode
thinges
&
put
them
〈◊〉
of
their
propre
placis
¶
And
saide
thou
shalt
neuer
be
pacient
whyle
thou
art
couetous
,
And
it
was
asked
him
howe
he
myght
haue
lerned
so
moche
wysdom
,
he
ansuerd
by
cause
I
haue
putte
more
oylle
in
my
lampe
to
studie
by
than
wyn
in
my
cuppe
.
And
it
was
axed
of
him
what
man
is
moost
couenable
to
gonerne
a
towne
,
And
he
ansuerd
he
that
●…n
we
le
gouerne
him self
,
And
it
was
also
axed
of
him
what
man
was
moost
worthy
to
be
called
wyse
.
and
he
ansnerd
he
that
taketh
moost
hede
to
goode
conseile
and
casteth
moost
dowtes
¶
And
said
that
the
vessels
of
golde
be
proued
and
knowen
by
thair
sowne
,
if
they
be
broken
or
hoole
.
soo
ar
men
proued
and
knowen
by
their
speche
if
they
be
wyse
or
fooles
.
¶
And
it
was
axed
him
whiche
be
the
moost
Ignorant
men
in
their
dedis
,
And
he
saide
suche
as
werke
moost
after
their
owne
conseyll
,
and
that
obeye
to
them self
,
and
for
deffault
of
goode
aduisement
dispose
hem
hardely
to
do
wykkid
dedes
And
they
asked
him
who
dooth
moost
wrong
to
him self
.
And
he
said
.
he
that
meketh
him
to
thoos
that
he
ought
not
▪
¶
And
saide
the
ignorant
people
Iugeth
lightly
the
fairenesse
or
the
filth
that
they
se
outwarde
.
&
the
wyseman
Iugeth
by
that
.
that
they
se
of
mannes
condicions
¶
And
said
he
findeth
sapience
that
seketh
her
by
the
right
weye
.
and
many
erre
by
cause
they
seke
her
vnduely
and
blame
her
without
cause
And
said
he
that
is
ignorant
of
good
sapience
.
knoweth
not
him self
.
&
he
that
knoweth
not
him self
is
of
al
igno
●…untis
the
moost
ignoraunt
,
And
he
is
wyse
that
knoweth
Ignoraunce
.
and
he
that
knoweth
it
not
is
ignoraunt
¶
And
saide
wrath
ledeth
shame
in
a
lece
.
And
said
The
king
resembleth
to
a
grete
Ryuere
growyng
of
litil
a●…
d
smale
rennyng
watres
and
therfore
if
he
be
swete
the
litill
shulde
be
swete
▪
¶
And
if
he
be
salt
the
litill
shulde
be
salt
¶
And
said
be
wele
ware
that
in
bataille
thou
truste
not
al
onely
in
thy
strength
dispreysing
thin
naturall
witte
for
often
engin
causeth
victorie
without
might
,
but
vnuethe
may
men
haue
victorie
by
strength
withoute
vse
o●…
naturall
polycie
.
And
saide
wordes
without
goode
effec●…
is
like
a
grete
watre
that
drowneth
the
peple
&
doth
it self
no
prouf
fyt
¶
And
saide
a
suspection
man
is
of
euill
condicions
and
lyueth
in
sorowe
¶
And
saide
be
not
wyllyng
to
vse
eny
worldely
delectacions
/
in
to
the
tyme
that
ye
se
whether
witte
and
reason
graunte
ther
to
.
And
if
thiese
two
accorde
thou
maiste
we
le
and
lightly
knowe
the
fairenesse
.
and
the
filth
therof
.
And
in
what
wyse
they
wrie
.
and
what
difference
is
betwene
hem
¶
And
sayd
.
The
Reames
aren
somtyme
lost
by
neglygence
And
somtyme
for
vsing
to
moche
Idelnesse
&
also
by
to
grete
trustyng
in
fortune
.
Also
whan
men
entende
not
to
encrese
the
peple
to
inhaby●…
the
lande
And
Also
when
werre
lasteth
long
ther
in
And
sayd
.
The
ende
of
Indygnacion
is
to
be
ashamed
of
him self
.
¶
And
It
was
axed
hym
howe
A
wyseman
coude
be
troubled
¶
And
he
answered
.
Whan
he
is
compelled
to
telle
the
trouth
of
an
vnknowen
thyng
to
him
¶
And
sayd
.
Whan
thou
shalt
se
A
man
of
good
disposicion
.
and
fulle
of
perfectyon
.
thou
ought
to
do
after
hym
.
fore
couetise
is
bothe
weke
and
seke
in
hym
And
said
,
dispraise
not
a
litill
goode
thing
for
it
may
encresse
.
And
said
,
blame
not
nor
rebuke
a
man
whan
he
is
wroth
.
for
than
thou
mayest
not
directe
him
¶
And
said
be
not
gladde
of
the
euill
fortune
of
another
,
for
thou
knowest
not
howe
the
worlde
may
tourne
ayenst
the.
¶
And
sayd
stable
thy
witte
bothe
at
thy
right
hand
and
thy
left
And
thou
shalt
be
fre
¶
And
saide
,
ther
be
thre
thinges
that
doth
me
harme
to
se
,
that
is
to
saye
A
riche
man
fallen
in
pouerte
,
a
worshipfull
man
dispraised
,
and
a
wyseman
in
okked
,
and
soorned
by
ignoraunte
people
.
¶
And
said
.
be
not
in
felisship
with
the
wikked
men
for
,
noo
goode
that
they
can
promise
the.
¶
And
said
whan
a
wyaume
is
in
prosperite
,
Couetise
is
bounde
to
the
king
,
&
whan
it
is
in
aduersite
,
the
kyng
is
bounde
to
couetise
¶
And
said
.
Couete
not
that
thy
thing
ben
hastely
don
,
but
desire
only
that
they
be
well
don
And
said
a
man
ought
to
be
better
content
&
is
more
bounde
to
his
prince
,
for
oon
fairre
worde
of
hym
than
yf
other
hadde
geuen
him
grete
giftis
¶
And
said
,
the
gyftes
that
be
yeuen
to
the
goode
people
,
asken
retrybucion
&
the
gyftes
that
be
yeuen
to
the
noghty
people
,
causen
them
but
to
aske
more
¶
And
said
,
the
wikkidenesse
foloweth
after
the
wikked
men
,
and
dispraiseth
alle
goodenesse
.
like
as
the
flye
that
setteth
her
vpon
corrupt
thinges
,
and
leueth
the
swete
flowres
.
¶
And
said
.
haste
thou
not
to
preyse
eny
thing
vnto
the
tyme
,
that
thou
knowest
yf
it
be
worthy
,
for
to
be
praysed
or
not
¶
And
said
that
a
wyseman
ought
not
to
exalte
hym self
by
fore
the
vnconnyng
but
meke
hym
and
thanke
god
that
it
hath
pleased
hym
to
exalte
hym
in
grace
/
and
put
peyne
to
bringe
hym
out
of
his
Ignorance
in
the
waye
of
rightwysenesse
&
cortesie
for
if
he
shulde
rebuke
him
shamefully
it
shulde
be
cruelte
&
to
istructe
him
easely
is
courteysie
And
said
that
.
ij
.
disputers
disputing
&
arguyng
.
for
to
haue
knowlech
of
the
trouth
of
a
thing
,
haue
no
cause
to
be
wroth
to gidre
for
their
questyon
falleth
to
oo
conclusion
,
but
&
if
the
one
thinketh
for
to
conquere
the
other
,
they
may
haue
lightely
hatered
to gider
.
for
as
moche
as
ich
of
them
wolle
brige
his
felawe
to
his
owne
entente
&
so
to
subdue
his
opynion
.
And
said
whan
thou
wilt
borowe
or
axe
eny
thing
of
ony
man
,
if
it
be
refused
the
,
thou
ought
to
be
more
ashamed
of
thin
askyng
than
he
of
his
refus
And
said
he
that
can
not
nor
will
gouerne
him self
is
not
able
to
gouerne
many
other
And
said
a
wyseman
ought
to
aske
curteyse
ly
&
mekely
,
&
with
fewe
wordis
like
as
the
leche
that
d●…aweth
more
bloode
of
a
man
mekely
&
wythout
noyse
than
doth
the
sincerolle
that
pryeketh
faster
&
maketh
more
noyse
And
said
a
man
of
feble
courage
annoyeth
him
lightly
of
that
he
loueth
¶
And
said
enforce
thy self
to
knowe
god
&
drede
him
,
&
peyne
the
for
to
knowe
thy self
&
to
teche
other
and
rather
to
do
so
than
to
besy
the
in
thin
other
daily
occupacions
And
said
Desire
no
thing
of
god
,
but
that
is
prouffitable
but
desire
of
him
the
good
that
is
durable
loue
not
simply
the
goode
lyff
here
,
but
principally
the
good
ende
And
said
he
is
vnhappy
that
continueth
in
his
malice
&
thinketh
not
on
his
ende
¶
And
saide
reken
not
thy
gettyng
in
thynges
that
been
from
the
,
ne
cary
not
to
do
for
them
that
haue
don
for
the.
tille
they
aske
the
,
the
recompense
¶
And
sayd
.
He
is
not
verry
wyse
that
gladdeth
or
reioysed
him
in
worldely
prosperitees
,
and
is
troubled
in
aduersitees
¶
And
said
the
filth
of
worldely
witte
is
knowen
in
moche
speche
¶
And
said
first
thinke
&
afterward
speke
&
than
execute
,
for
thinges
chaunge
lightly
¶
And
said
,
angre
the
not
sodeynly
,
for
if
thou
acustume
it
.
it
woll
tourne
ones
to
thy
harmes
¶
And
said
.
If
thou
be
willling
to
yeue
eny
thing
to
eny
nedy
body
.
tary
not
till
to
mo
rouwe
.
for
thou
knowest
not
what
may
befall
to
the.
And
yeue
to
him
that
may
not
labour
ne
gete
his
liuing
And
said
be
not
wyse
onely
in
seyng
.
but
in
dedes
.
for
the
speche
wasteth
in
the
world
and
the
sapience
of
dedis
,
is
prouffitable
in
the
euer
lasting
world
.
And
said
,
our
lord
accepteth
him
for
noble
.
that
doth
goode
werkis
though
he
be
peasible
&
of
fewe
wordes
.
and
reputeth
for
euill
the
praieres
&
sacrifices
that
ben
doon
by
euill
people
¶
And
said
,
If
thou
laboure
to
doo
goode
.
thou
shalt
therfore
suffre
no
peyn
.
for
if
thou
hast
difectacion
to
do
synne
.
thy
dilectacion
shall
vanishe
and
be
none
,
and
thy
synne
shal
abide
euer
with
the
And
said
.
haue
in
mynde
the
daye
that
thou
shal
be
called
to
thy
Iugement
,
&
thou
shalt
here
nothing
&
than
thy
clatteryng
toung
shal
be
still
the
thought
shal
faile
the
,
thyn
e●…n
shal
be
derke
,
and
thyn
humanite
shal
be
consumed
in
to
the
erthe
,
and
thy
witte
so
corrupt
.
that
thou
shalt
haue
no
power
to
fele
the
stenche
of
thy
body
.
nor
howe
the
wormes
shal
suke
thy
roten
kareyn
.
Also
haue
in
mynde
the
plaor
wher
thou
shalt
goo
.
the
lordis
and
the
seruauntis
shal
be
alle
like
in
the
sayd
place
.
and
that
ther
may
nother
frende
ne
foo
hurt
nor
helpe
the.
¶
And
therfore
ser●…e
good
sciences
and
disciplyne
.
for
thou
shalt
not
knowe
whan
thy
departyng
out
of
thys
world
shal
be
and
yet
be
certayn
that
amongis
all
the
yeftes
of
god
,
sopience
is
the
moost
exellent
,
she
yeueth
goodenesse
to
the
good
peple
&
pardonneth
to
the
wikked
their
wikkednesses
.
thinke
&
haue
in
thy
mynde
continually
that
thou
haste
a
de
,
&
trust
not
in
eny
thingis
of
thys
moeuaeble
world
.
be
wele
ware
that
thou
do
no
foule
dedis
.
for
no
delectacion
nor
winningis
,
&
be
ware
that
for
the
variable
plaisaunces
of
thys
wikked
world
thou
lese
not
the
ioyfull
&
euerlasting
blysse
¶
And
saide
loue
sapience
vnderstande
&
herken
the
wysemen
,
&
be
obeyssant
to
thy
lorde
werke
not
but
in
due
tyme
.
&
yet
ta●…
hede
howe
thou
shalt
do
it
,
loke
that
thou
say
no
worde
vnconuenient
,
&
be
not
prowde
for
no
richesses
.
ne
despeire
the
not
for
no
euyl
fortunes
be
wele
disposed
to
all
peple
&
dispray
se
no
man
for
his
mekenesse
¶
And
said
that
thou
reputeste
no
vice
in
thy self
,
blame
not
another
though
he
doth
it
.
&
thou
ought
not
to
desire
to
be
preysed
of
vertues
that
be
not
in
the
,
ne
do
no
suche
thing
that
thou
woldeste
blame
or
disprayse
another
if
he
did
it
.
Thou
must
do
suche
thingis
as
ben
good
&
couenable
though
they
be
forboden
the
And
sayd
Awyseman
ought
to
repute
his
errour
grete
&
his
good
dedis
litill
¶
And
said
afolye
ys
to
cut
the
vynes
,
&
take
awey
the
euil
branches
therof
&
to
leue
wythin
our self
the
couetises
.
&
other
wikkidnesse
.
And
saide
like
as
we
kepe
our self
from
the
multitude
of
metes
for
the
helth
of
our
body
we
ought
to
by
as
grete
reason
to
abstein
vs
from
vices
,
for
the
saluacion
of
our
soules
,
And
said
he
that
addeth
to
his
gentilnesse
noblesse
wyth
good
maners
and
condicions
is
worthy
to
be
praysed
¶
And
that
he
taketh
and
suffiseth
him
onely
.
with
the
gentilnesse
that
cometh
to
him
by
hys
kynred
,
withoute
purchassing
eny
other
vertues
.
ought
not
to
be
called
good
,
nor
to
be
holde
noble
¶
And
said
,
if
thou
fele
thy self
more
true
to
the
kyng
,
than
other
ben
,
and
that
thy
wagis
ben
like
to
theires
or
lesse
,
yet
thou
ought
not
to
compleyne
therof
,
for
thin
ar
lasting
,
and
so
ar
not
theires
And
said
,
If
eny
haue
enuie
at
the
,
and
by
enuie
saith
euill
of
the
,
Sette
not
therby
,
and
thou
shalt
haue
peas
with
hym
,
for
he
seketh
not
but
for
to
haue
noyse
with
the
And
said
men
ought
to
kepe
wele
their
halidayes
,
that
is
to
witte
principally
from
euill
doyng
.
¶
And
said
.
the
more
that
thou
art
exalted
in
high
astate
the
more
thou
ought
to
be
meke
and
curteise
to
the
people
to
the
ende
,
that
their
loue
may
abyde
with
the
,
yf
eny
thing
shuld
befall
the.
other
wyse
than
we
le
¶
And
said
onneth
may
a
man
kepe
the
loue
of
his
frendes
.
if
he
wol
correct
him
rudely
of
his
faultes
¶
And
said
a
wyseman
ought
for
to
chese
goode
men
to
be
his
seruauntes
,
like
as
men
chese
the
goode
grounde
for
to
labour
hit
.
ARistotle
by
interpretacion
in
grekes
tonge
,
is
fulfilled
or
complete
of
goodenesse
.
And
he
was
sone
to
Nichomacus
.
the
whiche
was
right
connyng
in
fisike
and
a
good
fisicien
,
&
was
boren
in
the
Towne
of
Stagree
.
and
he
was
of
the
kinned
both
by
his
fadirs
syde
,
and
by
his
modirs
syde
of
Esculapius
of
the
whiche
here
byfor
hath
bemade
mencion
for
he
was
in
hys
tyme
the
moost
excellent
.
And
the
best
of
al
the
grekes
,
and
whan
the
sayde
aristotle
was
.viij.
yeres
of
age
hys
fadyr
put
him
in
the
cite
of
Athenes
that
than
was
called
the
Cyte
of
wysedom
.
and
there
he
lerned
Gramare
R●…torike
and
other
bookes
of
poetrie
.
And
therin
he
studyed
.
the
space
of
.ix.
yeres
prouffyting
greteli
therin
¶
And
in
thoos
dayes
men
sette
moche
store
by
the
forsayde
sciences
and
was
their
opynion
that
it
was
the
laddre
to
go
vp
in
to
all
other
sciences
And
certayn
other
wyse
men
at
the
same
tyme
as
Pytagoras
and
pytoras
and
dyuers
other
reputed
and
held
the
sayd
sciences
for
no
sciences
and
did
but
mocke
and
scorne
theim
,
that
lerned
them
Sayng
that
such
science
as
Gramare
Retorik
and
poetrye
,
were
not
couenable
to
come
to
eny
wysedom
And
that
Gramare
is
not
but
for
to
teche
the
children
.
Poetrye
but
for
to
telle
falles
and
to
make
lesynges
,
Retorike
for
to
speke
faire
and
in
termes
.
And
whan
Aristotle
herde
this
wordes
he
had
grete
merueyle
therof
and
was
gretely
agreued
wyth
such
as
helde
the
same
opynyon
.
And
strength
him
after
his
power
to
susteyne
alle
maner
of
Gramaryens
the
po●…s
and
also
the
Retoriciens
And
said
pleynly
that
Sapience
can
not
excuse
her
of
the
said
Sciences
for
Reason
is
an
Instrument
of
wytte
.
as
It
appereth
openly
.
that
knowyng
of
eny
thing
is
to
vse
of
Reason
,
and
thys
prerogatiue
.
whiche
god
had
yeuen
to
men
is
right
noble
and
worthy
.
to
th
entente
that
amongis
the
men
he
shuld
be
holden
for
the
mooste
Noble
and
mooste
wyse
that
mooste
vseth
reason
¶
And
that
better
and
more
couenably
receyueth
in
his
herte
thynges
.
¶
And
telleth
hem
in
place
.
and
tyme
couenable
.
And
for
as
moche
as
Sapyence
is
moost
noble
of
alle
other
thynges
she
ought
to
be
declared
by
the
best
rayson
and
couenable
manere
and
by
the
moost
pleasannt
and
short
wordes
that
can
be
doon
without
errour
or
letting
the
sentence
for
if
the
reason
be
spoken
inparfeitely
the
name
of
wisdom
ys
loste
therby
,
and
so
is
the
speker
in
fawte
And
so
the
herers
resten
in
dowte
of
the
sentence
¶
And
after
that
aristoteles
cowde
the
sciences
abouen
said
he
lerned
of
plato
in
a
place
Called
Epidenie
Ethikes
ande
the
.iiij.
sciences
theolegi
theolegikes
,
and
at
that
tyme
he
was
.xvij.
yeres
of
age
,
and
whan
plato
went
the
second
tyme
into
Cecile
,
he
left
Aristotiles
in
his
place
in
the
said
towne
of
Epidenie
,
In
the
whiche
he
taught
the
sciences
and
lerned
than
after
the
deth
of
plato
the
kyng
phelipe
of
macedoyne
sent
for
aristotiles
whiche
went
to
him
in
macedoyne
and
ther
dwelled
with
him
during
his
lyf
teching
contynnaly
the
said
sciences
and
aftir
the
deth
of
kyng
phelippe
Reigned
his
sone
Alexandre
the
grete
And
whan
,
Alexandre
departed
from
macedoyne
for
to
go
into
the
Countre
and
region
of
dayse
thoo
retourned
Aristotiles
to
athenes
and
there
he
dwelled
.x.
yeres
studyng
til
that
he
becam
a
souuerain
clerk
,
&
apre●…st
accused
him
by
enuie
to
the
Citezeins
telling
hem
that
he
worshipped
not
their
ydolles
like
as
other
people
dide
〈◊〉
that
tyme
wherof
aristotiles
was
aduertised
and
hastyly
departed
fro
Athenes
and
went
into
that
towne
of
setagire
where
he
was
borne
fering
that
they
of
¶
Athenes
wold
haue
don
to
him
as
they
dide
to
socrates
if
he
hadde
dwelled
lenger
with
theym
¶
And
he
ordeined
a
place
in
setagire
where
he
helde
and
kept
the
seoles
yeuing
many
good
in
structions
to
the
people
.
And
occupied
the
tyme
in
good
dedes
.
¶
And
dede
grete
almesdedis
to
poure
people
.
and
maried
many
pouer
children
that
wer
fadir
and
modir
lees
and
he
taught
benygnely
alle
tho
that
wolde
studye
what
astat
or
nacion
that
euer
they
,
werof
,
and
ediffied
&
bilded
newe
ayen
the
said
Cite
of
stagier
and
therin
ordeigned
lawes
.
and
yaue
instuictions
to
kyngis
and
princis
whiche
they
toke
and
kepete
right
reuerentely
.
and
after
he
deyde
in
the
age
of
.lxiij.
yeres
.
they
of
Stagire
toke
his
bonys
and
right
worshipfully
put
hem
in
ashryne
wher
they
held
their
counseile
for
his
grete
witte
,
and
also
for
the
grete
and
feruent
loue
that
they
hadde
to
him
,
and
as
often
tymes
that
they
hadde
ado
eny
grete
matere
for
to
●…ue
tlr
declaracion
therof
,
the
men
whiche
were
of
counseile
wol●…●…o
and
stande
as
nygh
the
saide
shryne
wher
the
bonys
〈◊〉
as
they
cowde
for
to
haue
knowlege
of
the
trouth
of
〈◊〉
in
a
tere
,
and
thus
they
did
for
to
worship
him
the
m●…
and
their
opinyons
and
verry
trust
were
for
only
beyng
〈◊〉
the
said
shryne
their
wittes
shulde
be
the
bettir
and
theyr
wnderstandyng
,
more
pure
and
subtill
¶
And
the
said
Aristotill
hadde
in
his
tyme
many
kynges
sones
that
wer
his
disciples
.
and
he
made
in
his
dayes
wele
an
.
C.
bookis
of
the
whiehe
we
haue
nowe
.xxviij.
in
logike
.
v●…ij
.
in
nature
the
booke
of
Ethik
the
booke
of
politik
the
booke
of
.
Methafisike
▪
that
is
named
theologike
&
the
bookis
of
the
wittes
of
geometrie
,
and
plato
rebuked
him
by
cause
that
he
wrotte
his
sciences
in
bookis
,
to
whom
he
said
in
excusiug
him
that
it
is
a
thing
knowen
and
notified
ynowe
▪
that
all
,
thoo
that
loueth
,
science
ought
to
do
nothing
that
shulde
cause
the
losse
of
her
And
therfore
It
is
good
to
compose
and
make
bookis
by
the
whiche
science
shal
be
lerned
,
&
whan
our
memorie
shal
fayle
it
shal
be
recouerd
by
mene
of
bookis
for
he
that
hateth
science
shal
not
proffite
in
hit
though
it
be
so
that
he
se
the
bookis
&
biholde
hem
yet
shal
he
sette
not
by
it
,
but
departe
wors
&
lesse
wyse
than
he
was
afore
.
&
I
haue
made
and
ordeigned
my
bookis
in
suche
forme
that
the
wyse
men
shal
lightly
&
aisely
vnderstande
hem
but
the
ignoraunt
men
shal
haue
but
litil
auayle
by
hem
¶
And
the
saide
Aristotiles
held
gladly
in
his
hande
an
Instrument
of
the
science
of
the
sterres
.
And
saide
to
kyng
Alexander
he
that
hath
in
this
worlde
good
&
laudable
name
&
the
grace
of
god
ought
to
aske
ne
desire
non
other
thing
And
saide
thus
to
him
,
directe
thy self
first
for
yf
thou
be
not
iuste
howe
maist
thou
wele
directe
thy
people
.
&
yf
thou
be
in
errour
thou
canst
neuer
gouerne
hem
wele
,
for
a
pouer
man
can
not
make
another
riche
,
he
that
is
disworshipped
can
not
worship
another
,
he
that
is
right
feble
may
not
helpe
another
&
so
may
not
goodely
ne
we
se
eny
man
directe
another
,
but
if
he
directe
him self
first
.
And
therfore
if
thou
woll
take
of
the
filthes
from
other
.
clense
thy self
first
,
or
ellis
thou
shalt
be
as
the
leche
that
is
seke
&
can
not
hele
him self
and
traueileth
to
hele
other
that
haue
the
same
sekenesse
¶
And
sayd
It
is
a
grete
a
vancement
to
the
people
to
haue
a
rightwys
kyng
¶
And
It
is
a
grete
corrupcion
vnto
theym
to
haue
a
corrupt
and
mysruled
kyng
¶
And
saide
.
kepe
the
fro
couetise
for
thou
oughtest
to
thynk
and
remembre
wele
that
It
is
not
laudable
thyng
to
haue
richesses
in
thys
worlde
.
and
shame
in
the
other
seyng
that
this
worlde
is
no
more
but
onely
abaytyng
place
for
to
go
to
the
other
worlde
.
¶
And
said
,
If
thou
wol
be
riche
suffise
the
with
suche
as
thou
hast
,
for
he
that
hath
not
suffisaunce
can
neuer
be
riche
what
goodes
that
euer
he
hath
¶
And
sayd
If
it
were
so
that
by
euill
doyng
It
shulde
fortune
the
to
haue
som
good
,
&
by
wele
doyng
to
haue
som
harme
,
yet
eschewe
the
euill
orellis
thou
shalt
be
deceyued
atte
last
&
euir
do
wele
&
atte
last
thou
shalt
be
remunered
therfore
And
said
suche
thing
as
thou
praysis
vpon
thy self
blame
it
not
vpon
another
.
and
do
nothing
to
other
,
but
as
thou
wolde
sé
it
wer
don
to
the
,
refrayn
thyn
owne
wille
,
&
hate
not
other
men
be
not
enuious
,
and
haue
him
not
in
Indignacion
that
hath
offenseth
the
,
for
no
man
can
somtyme
eschewe
errour
,
be
not
couetous
,
for
couetise
lettith
the
mannes
reason
&
taketh
aweye
the
knowlege
of
trouth
,
do
not
vncouenable
werkis
,
take
compaynie
with
wyse
men
and
studie
in
their
bookis
,
fle
lesinges
,
for
the
lyers
lyeth
not
but
for
vnkno
wing
of
reason
&
of
her
saules
,
the
lest
harme
that
can
fall
to
alyer
,
is
that
noo
man
bileueth
him
of
nothing
that
be
saith
,
neuertheles
a
man
may
bettir
be
ware
of
a
theffe
than
of
alyer
¶
And
said
the
hertis
of
good
people
accorden
togiders
,
like
as
renning
watre
with
the
watre
of
the
see
.
&
the
hertis
of
euil
people
can
not
lightly
accorde
,
al
be
it
that
thei
be
togidres
,
as
the
vnreasonable
bestes
that
playe
&
lepe
togidre
&
sodaynly
falle
to
fighting
¶
And
said
,
ordeigne
that
your
offices
and
auctoritees
ben
yeuen
to
them
that
loueth
&
foloweth
trouth
&
rightwysnes
and
cause
them
to
haue
rigorous
peynes
that
ben
harmedoers
&
loueth
falshode
&
decepcion
And
said
,
If
ye
haue
dowte
in
eny
thing
counseile
you
to
wysemen
&
if
thei
dispraise
you
therof
be
ye
neu
wroth
therfore
▪
and
yf
a
man
hath
som
vice
&
beside
that
hath
many
vertues
ye
ought
not
therfore
to
lete
to
aske
him
conseile
And
said
many
man
shal
both
lette
and
trouble
them
that
can
not
helpe
hym
And
saide
Iustice
is
a
mesure
the
whiche
god
hath
ordeigned
vpon
the
erthe
by
the
whiche
the
feble
is
defended
from
the
myghty
,
and
the
true
from
the
vntrue
¶
And
saide
the
wyseman
knoweth
what
ignorance
is
,
in
asmoche
as
somtyme
he
hath
ben
ignorant
but
the
ignorant
was
neuer
wyse
&
therfore
he
knoweth
not
what
is
wysedom
¶
And
said
to
Alexandre
,
ther
be
may
litil
besinesses
in
thy
Royame
&
many
grete
&
generall
&
if
thou
yeue
pouer
to
eny
persone
vpon
the
grete
,
&
thy self
to
occupie
the
litil
thou
shalt
wele
witte
&
perceyue
that
grete
domage
shul
therby
fal
to
the
in
tyme
comyng
,
if
it
falle
not
sonner
And
said
liberalite
is
to
yeue
to
nedi
peple
or
to
him
that
hath
deserued
it
,
so
that
the
gift
be
after
the
possibilite
of
the
yeuer
for
he
that
yeueth
ouer
reason
ought
to
be
called
a
waster
&
not
liberal
,
And
said
sapience
is
the
defense
of
the
soule
&
myrrour
of
reason
wherfore
he
is
right
blessid
that
traueilleth
to
haue
her
for
she
is
the
fondement
&
the
roote
of
al
noble
dedes
&
laudable
thingis
&
by
her
we
may
winne
the
good
ende
and
kepe
vs
from
peyne
euerlastyng
,
And
said
O
alex
andre
if
thou
vse
thy
pouoir
and
lordship
other
wyse
than
thou
oughtest
to
do
,
thou
shalt
be
enuied
,
of
enuie
shal
com
lesingis
,
of
lesingis
shal
com
Iniustice
&
ennemytee
,
of
In
iustice
and
ennemyte
shal
com
bataile
.
and
by
batayll
the
lawe
shal
be
perisshed
,
the
people
hurt
,
and
thy
possessions
lost
.
¶
But
yf
thou
vse
thy
lordship
as
thou
oughteste
to
do
.
trouth
shall
encresse
in
thy
Royaume
.
of
trouth
shall
come
Iustice
,
of
Iustice
loue
,
of
loue
grete
yeftis
,
&
su
retie
by
the
whiche
.
the
lawe
.
the
people
and
thy
good
shal
be
maynteyned
&
encrece
¶
And
said
he
that
maketh
his
Royaume
seruaunt
to
the
lawe
shal
reigne
,
&
he
that
taketh
&
put
out
the
lawe
from
the
royame
shal
not
reigne
.
And
said
.
A
kyng
ought
to
be
of
goode
&
strong
courage
,
to
remember
wele
the
ende
of
the
werkis
,
&
to
be
courtoys
&
fre
.
&
to
refrayn
his
wrath
wher
it
apparteigneth
and
shewe
hit
where
it
nedeth
,
to
kepe
him
from
couetise
,
to
be
true
to
gouerne
him
as
nygh
as
he
may
after
his
good
predecessours
to
yeue
to
his
men
as
they
haue
deserued
.
to
deffende
&
kepe
the
lawe
&
the
feith
.
&
euir
to
do
wele
after
his
might
,
&
yf
the
strength
of
his
body
faile
him
thenne
to
kepe
the
might
of
his
corage
,
by
the
whiche
he
shal
be
the
more
assured
in
al
his
nedis
.
And
said
the
kyng
that
gouerneth
him
&
his
roaume
wele
by
his
wysdom
Is
worthy
to
be
greetly
praised
&
lauded
¶
And
said
to
Alexander
,
seche
to
wynne
the
ri
chesses
that
be
not
transitories
.
the
lyf
that
is
not
moeuable
the
kingdoom
that
can
not
be
taken
aweye
from
the
&
the
euer
lasting
Ioye
,
&
be
piteful
but
not
somoche
that
thou
stande
in
daungir
therby
,
do
pugnicion
&
Iustice
to
thaim
that
haue
deserued
it
without
delay
trauaille
the
to
fortiffie
the
lawe
for
in
that
is
the
loue
&
drede
of
god
.
&
whan
thou
shalt
be
compelled
to
take
vengeaunse
of
thyn
ennemy
put
it
not
ouer
til
another
daye
for
the
fortune
,
&
condicions
of
this
worlde
in
oeue
&
chaunge
of
tentymes
sodaynely
¶
And
said
thou
ought
not
to
hate
him
that
saith
the
sothe
nor
to
chide
him
that
kepeth
the
feithe
but
he
that
shal
do
contrarie
to
the
feith
be
thou
his
ennemy
with
al
the
pouer
of
thy
reame
,
and
said
It
is
bettir
that
thou
correcte
thy self
and
amende
the
after
the
exemple
of
thy
predecessours
,
than
thy
successours
shulde
amende
him
aftir
the
exemple
of
the
¶
And
said
worshippe
the
goode
men
&
therby
thou
shalt
haue
the
loue
of
the
people
and
sette
not
all
thy
will
in
this
world
in
the
whiche
thou
maist
not
long
abyde
,
And
saide
worshippe
sapience
&
fortiffie
it
by
good
maistris
disciples
&
scolers
,
worship
hem
paye
for
their
expencis
&
kepe
hem
of
thy
household
.
aftir
that
thou
shalt
se
they
shal
be
prouffited
&
sped
in
the
science
And
thou
shalt
fynde
that
grete
prouffit
&
worship
shal
come
to
the
therfore
¶
And
saide
he
is
of
bygge
&
strong
corage
of
good
discrecion
&
laudable
feith
,
that
bereth
pacientely
all
his
aduersitees
for
a
man
can
not
be
knowen
in
his
prosperite
.
¶
And
saide
thou
ought
to
thinke
that
the
wekest
of
alle
thyn
ennemyes
is
stronger
than
thy selfe
¶
And
said
thou
ought
to
cherisshe
thy
knyghtis
&
thy
yomanry
,
&
to
haue
hem
in
as
grete
loue
in
tyme
of
peas
as
in
tyme
of
werre
,
for
if
thou
sette
litill
by
them
in
tyme
of
peas
,
they
shal
forsake
the
whan
thou
shalt
haue
more
nede
of
hem
And
said
the
grettest
prouffit
that
thou
canst
do
in
thy
royame
is
to
take
aweye
the
wikkid
peple
,
&
to
rewarde
the
goode
.
And
saide
a
man
is
of
euyl
condiciou
that
taketh
no
hede
but
to
the
vices
&
fawtes
of
other
in
dispreysing
of
them
¶
And
said
worshipful
deth
is
bettir
than
shameful
lyf
And
said
the
sapience
of
a
man
of
lowe
degre
is
worship
&
the
folie
of
him
that
is
of
high
degre
is
a
shame
&
auarice
is
the
thing
that
taketh
awey
the
name
of
gentilnesse
.
And
said
the
good
prince
ought
to
goune
the
peple
as
his
good
predecessours
haue
don
&
to
loue
&
cherisshe
the
good
and
true
peple
more
than
his
tresour
or
other
worldely
goo
des
,
and
to
delite
him
in
that
,
that
he
hath
rightwysly
,
and
not
wrougfully
¶
And
said
no
man
ought
to
be
ashamed
to
do
Iustice
,
for
if
the
kyng
be
not
iusticial
he
is
not
king
but
he
is
violent
and
rapax
¶
And
said
the
wikkid
men
obeye
for
drede
,
and
the
goode
for
theire
goodenesse
¶
And
said
men
ought
to
do
wele
to
the
good
people
&
to
chastise
the
wikkid
by
rigour
.
¶
And
said
wrath
ought
not
to
be
to
sharp
ne
to
swete
,
and
he
wrotte
an
epistyll
to
Alexandre
that
the
kynges
been
worshipped
for
.
iij.
thinges
that
is
to
witte
for
instruction
of
good
lawes
,
for
conquestes
of
lan
des
&
regions
and
for
to
peoplishe
&
distroye
desertes
&
〈◊〉
dernessis
,
and
he
wrotte
also
to
alexandre
that
he
shulde
not
be
willing
to
correcte
all
mennes
faw●…
to
〈◊〉
for
it
lieth
not
entierly
in
mannes
pouer
to
kep●…
him
from
doing
euil
,
&
therfore
it
is
good
somtyme
to
fory●…ue
〈◊〉
&
if
it
be
so
that
of
nede
pugnicion
must
be
don
,
men
ought
to
shewe
that
thei
do
it
by
compulsion
to
amende
&
pug●…
the
errours
&
not
in
manere
no●…
by
weye
of
〈◊〉
&
he
sawe
a
man
that
hadde
his
hand
smytten
of
fo●…
thef●…e
that
he
had
don
.
And
he
said
for
asmoche
as
that
man
had
taken
from
other
suche
as
was
not
his
owne
.
men
haue
taken
from
him
that
,
that
was
his
.
&
said
thou
maist
not
so
we
le
cause
thy
peple
to
loue
the
as
to
cherisshe
hem
&
shewe
hem
right
wysenesse
,
&
if
thou
doost
the
contrary
though
thou
hast
the
lordship
of
their
bodies
thou
hast
not
the
lordship
of
their
hert
is
ne
of
their
courages
,
&
that
shalt
thou
finde
whan
thou
callest
vpon
their
seruise
at
thy
nede
wherfore
it
is
a
grete
dangier
for
a●…ing
to
do
iniurie
&
do
make
his
peple
hade
him
And
said
he
is
right
happy
that
can
chastise
him self
taking
exemple
by
other
,
And
said
fortifie
your
soules
with
goode
dedes
&
departe
you
from
couetises
which
distroyeth
the
feble
corages
¶
Ther
is
nothyng
that
maketh
a
man
lesse
to
be
sette
by
,
than
to
preyse
and
boste
him self
of
his
good
dedis
And
it
was
axed
of
him
what
is
the
cause
that
wysemen
wol
not
be
wrothe
&
eny
man
wol
teche
hem
.
And
he
ansuerd
for
asmoche
as
wysemen
knowen
that
science
is
a
right
prouffitable
thing
.
And
said
he
that
wol
not
nor
can
not
do
wele
atte
lest
ought
to
kepe
him
from
euil
doing
And
said
to
his
disciples
loke
that
ye
haue
.
iiij
.
eeres
.
ij
.
for
to
herkēe
&
lerne
sciencis
&
proffitable
thingis
,
&
the
other
,
ij
,
for
your
other
worldely
besinesses
,
The
moost
profitable
thing
to
the
world
is
the
deth
of
the
euil
peple
.
And
saide
a
man
may
not
be
so
wele
knowen
,
as
in
grete
auctorite
.
And
said
in
al
thingis
the
lest
quantite
is
the
lighter
to
bere
sauf
only
in
sciences
,
for
he
that
hath
moost
therof
the
lightelyer
may
he
bere
it
And
it
was
axed
of
him
what
was
the
moost
couenable
thing
for
a
discrete
man
to
haue
,
And
he
ansuerd
that
,
that
shulde
abide
with
him
if
he
wer
ascapede
out
of
a
drowned
ship
in
the
see
,
And
said
men
ought
to
loue
to
lerne
the
best
of
the
sciences
as
the
bees
loue
the
swetest
of
the
floures
,
&
he
had
a
noble
&
worshipfull
heritage
of
the
which
he
lete
ot●…r
haue
the
gouernance
&
wold
not
go
theder
him self
And
it
was
axed
him
the
cause
And
he
ansuerd
that
,
he
that
oftenest
goth
to
se
his
heritagis
hath
the
mo
displeasirs
.
And
said
the
tonge
of
a
foole
is
the
key
of
his
secret
And
said
to
one
that
was
slowthful
&
wold
not
lerne
,
sithen
thou
wol
not
take
the
peyne
for
to
lerne
.
thou
shalt
haue
the
peyne
to
be
lewde
&
vnconnyng
.
And
said
kepe
the
from
the
feliship
of
him
that
knoweth
not
him self
.
¶
Tho
that
been
dayly
enclined
&
vtterly
disposed
to
vices
may
not
encresse
in
good
ne
proffyte
in
science
,
And
saide
if
thou
woll
habandone
to
thy
body
alle
his
wil
thou
shalt
be
the
worse
both
in
helth
&
in
alle
other
thinges
.
and
atte
last
thy
soule
shal
be
dampned
therfore
.
He
that
is
entierly
enclined
to
do
fornicacion
may
not
be
praysed
ne
come
to
good
ende
¶
And
said
a
mery
man
wol
not
lightly
be
wroth
.
A
liberal
man
may
not
wele
be
enuious
,
ne
a
couetous
man
content
with
his
richesse
.
And
said
the
man
is
preued
&
tryed
by
his
werkis
as
the
gold
by
the
fyer
,
One
of
his
disciples
made
to
him
an
euill
raport
of
one
of
his
felawes
.
to
whom
●…e
said
I
wol
not
beleue
thyn
euill
wordis
ayenst
thy
felawe
nor
I
wol
not
beleue
his
euil
wordes
ayenst
the
And
said
like
as
the
rayn
may
not
proffite
to
the
corne
that
is
saw●…
vpon
the
drye
stones
,
nomore
can
studieng
auaile
to
a
foole
A
mannes
tonge
sheweth
his
witte
or
his
folie
¶
Experience
ought
to
correcte
a
man
and
to
helpe
hym
to
liue
wele
And
saide
sapience
maketh
richesse
to
be
faier
&
hydeth
pouerte
,
It
was
axed
of
him
what
was
fayer
speking
.
And
he
ansuerd
to
speke
litille
&
laudably
&
to
yeue
reasonable
answeres
.
&
he
wrote
thus
to
alerandre
,
ye
be
a
noble
&
mighty
kyng
&
more
mighty
than
ye
were
&
shal
encrece
yf
ye
directe
&
gouerne
wele
&
iustely
your
peple
/
and
in
so
doing
the
people
shal
obeye
you
,
but
if
ye
be
an
extorcioner
&
take
all
their
good
from
them
than
ye
shal
be
lord
of
the
pouer
peple
&
than
shall
ye
be
like
him
that
hath
leuer
gouerne
the
dom
beestis
than
the
men
,
ne
ther
is
nothing
so
couenable
to
aking
as
to
coueyte
vnduely
the
goodes
of
his
peple
¶
And
said
he
that
hath
a
litil
of
trouth
desireth
to
haue
more
,
And
said
reason
maketh
a
man
to
be
more
souuerain
than
beestis
&
he
that
hath
no
reason
is
but
a
beeste
in
many
thinges
the
newest
is
the
best
,
but
loue
is
contrarye
,
for
the
elder
it
is
the
more
it
is
worth
,
&
one
Abrakyn
lord
of
sciences
axed
him
what
thing
a
man
ought
to
lerne
first
that
seketh
sapience
,
to
whom
he
answerd
the
gouernement
of
the
saule
,
In
as
moche
as
she
is
euerlasting
&
more
noble
without
eny
comparison
than
eny
thing
that
we
haue
¶
Than
they
axed
him
howe
may
the
saule
acquere
sapience
,
and
he
answered
as
a
seke
man
seketh
his
fisicien
and
as
a
blynde
man
enquereth
of
the
colours
to
theym
that
se
hem
/
and
it
was
axed
of
him
,
howe
a
saule
might
se
her self
,
and
he
answered
the
saule
that
lakketh
sapience
can
se
nothing
as
the
eyen
with
out
light
that
nether
se
hem
self
nor
other
¶
And
said
all
manere
of
thinges
haue
propertes
,
and
the
properte
of
discrecion
is
to
chese
wele
the
good
from
the
euill
¶
And
said
the
lordshippes
wonne
by
study
dangiers
and
peynes
and
so
kept
,
ought
wele
to
contynue
&
prospere
And
thoos
that
be
lightly
wonne
&
kept
in
.
Ioye
and
plesaence
,
comme
to
a
litil
prouffit
atte
last
,
&
we
se
cōmoneli
the
townes
wherin
the
inhabitauntes
take
grete
labour
be
wele
maynteyned
and
encresse
with
grete
richesses
,
and
the
townes
full
of
pleasaunce
&
delices
fal
to
ruyne
&
distruction
¶
And
said
hastinesse
of
speche
maketh
men
to
erre
And
said
I
merueille
howe
he
that
men
lawde
without
cause
accept
it
&
is
pleased
with
all
,
&
he
of
whom
men
say
euill
without
cause
is
angry
with
al
And
said
loke
that
thou
be
not
as
the
bulter
whiche
castith
the
floure
&
kepeth
the
brenne
¶
And
saide
men
ought
not
to
take
the
gouernance
of
the
peple
to
a
child
to
him
also
that
can
not
knowe
the
nedis
of
the
poure
peple
to
him
that
is
couetous
,
to
him
that
wil
werke
withoute
deliberacion
,
ne
to
him
that
is
vengeable
And
saide
ther
is
no
difference
bitwix
a
childe
of
age
&
a
child
of
maneres
as
of
condicion
what
age
that
euer
he
be
of
,
for
the
condicions
of
men
aren
knowen
&
shewed
by
dedis
&
not
by
age
¶
And
saide
It
is
nedeful
to
a
man
if
he
wol
be
good
that
he
be
able
of
him self
to
knowe
trouth
&
do
it
in
dede
or
ellis
that
he
lerne
hit
of
other
/
for
he
that
of
him self
can
not
vnderstande
hit
nor
wil
lerne
hit
can
not
be
good
And
saide
goodenesse
is
diuided
in
.
iij.
maneres
.
the
first
is
in
the
soule
the
second
in
the
body
.
and
the
therde
in
the
operacions
wherof
the
moost
noble
is
the
goodenesse
of
the
soule
for
in
vsing
the
vertue
therof
,
is
fonde
&
knowen
the
forme
in
good
dedis
And
said
a
man
findeth
sapience
and
good
condicions
in
long
lernyng
of
veray
science
,
And
said
ther
be
many
persones
that
knowen
the
good
werkis
&
do
hem
not
whiche
res●…
blen
the
seke
folkis
that
axe
helpe
&
conseil
of
the
leche
&
do
no
thing
ther
aftir
,
&
therfor
the
bodyes
ben
without
helth
&
the
soules
without
blessidnes
And
said
one
may
knowe
the
in
ward
disposicions
of
a
man
b●…
his
outward
operacions
,
And
said
wele
doing
is
a
laudable
thing
,
neuthelesse
it
is
somwhat
harde
to
do
/
but
lightly
one
may
do
euil
as
an
a●…chier
to
faile
of
the
butte
is
no
wonder
,
but
to
hitte
the
prike
is
a
greet
maistrie
.
&
said
in
diuers
manere
we
may
be
euill
but
we
may
not
be
good
but
in
one
wey
,
&
said
default
of
witte
causeth
many
harmes
&
maketh
many
men
to
fal
by
ignorance
Not
knowing
what
thing
to
be
don
or
left
¶
And
said
Aged
folkis
louen
togider
/
and
so
doo
not
childeren
for
olde
folkis
haue
their
delectacions
like
/
&
yong
folkis
in
diuers
weyes
¶
And
said
agrete
acōplissing
of
mennes
feli
cite
is
to
be
wele
frended
than
a
man
without
felisship
can
not
haue
hole
felicite
¶
And
said
euery
man
hath
nede
of
frendis
,
whether
he
standeth
in
goode
caas
or
in
badde
,
if
he
standeth
in
euill
condicion
,
they
for
to
helpe
him
,
and
yf
he
stande
in
good
caas
,
he
to
make
mery
and
cherysshe
them
that
they
may
helpe
him
to
resiste
inconuenientes
that
might
falle
¶
And
said
noon
hath
delectacion
in
iustice
,
but
the
iuste
man
,
none
hath
fauour
to
sapience
but
the
wyseman
and
noon
loueth
frendeship
but
the
true
frende
¶
And
said
the
wikkid
men
susteyne
their
perilles
by
their
bodely
strength
and
the
good
men
suffre
their
parilles
paciently
by
the
vertue
of
thair
saules
which
pacience
cometh
not
by
might
of
arme
nor
of
hande
nor
non
other
membre
,
but
onely
of
grace
of
the
saule
,
and
therby
to
resiste
ayenst
couetise
and
other
grieues
of
thys
world
trusting
therfore
aftir
to
come
to
blisse
&
he
wrote
to
kyng
alexandre
in
this
forme
,
thou
oughtest
to
obeye
wele
the
commandementes
of
god
,
for
he
hath
yeue
the
thy
desires
,
and
all
that
thou
hast
axed
of
him
¶
And
said
sapience
is
lyf
&
ignorance
is
deth
and
ther fore
he
that
is
sapient
is
a
lyue
,
for
he
vnderstandeth
what
he
doth
&
he
that
is
ignorant
is
deed
for
he
vnderstandeth
not
his
doyng
And
said
the
antiquite
of
the
tyme
maketh
the
werkis
olde
▪
&
bydeth
no
thing
but
renome
which
resteth
in
the
hertis
of
the
successours
/
it
is
nedeful
than
to
cōq̄re
good
renommee
&
therby
shal
endure
noblesse
,
&
said
lesing
is
the
sekenesse
of
the
saule
whiche
can
not
be
heled
but
by
the
meane
of
reason
whiche
lieth
neuer
¶
And
saide
A
moche
wyseman
is
he
that
pronounseth
not
the
thinges
into
the
tyme
that
he
is
present
that
wol
vnderstande
hem
.
¶
And
the
best
speker
is
he
that
speketh
not
til
he
is
wele
purueyed
what
he
shal
saye
.
&
the
best
werkeman
is
he
that
beginneth
not
his
werke
into
the
tyme
that
he
hath
wele
disputed
and
auised
it
,
in
his
herte
Nether
is
none
that
ought
to
haue
so
moche
thought
as
the
wyseman
.
for
it
is
necessarie
to
him
to
be
purueyed
and
certayn
of
his
werkis
¶
And
said
men
are
more
enclined
to
couetise
than
to
reason
.
for
couetise
hath
acompaigned
them
from
their
childehode
.
&
reason
cometh
not
to
them
till
that
they
be
of
parfyte
age
¶
And
saide
.
the
children
hate
their
maistres
whan
they
teche
hem
for
they
knowe
not
what
good
may
befall
them
therby
,
but
think
only
the
labour
of
the
peyne
of
their
lerning
And
the
said
Aristoteles
callid
Alexandre
axing
him
questions
vpon
the
gouernance
of
the
lordis
&
of
the
peple
.
to
whom
alexandre
yaue
good
ansueres
.
But
neuer
the
lesse
Aristotiles
beet
him
with
a
Rod.
And
it
was
axed
of
him
why
he
had
beet
him
with
oute
cause
And
he
ansuerd
this
childe
is
like
&
able
to
be
a
grete
lord
&
a
myghty
kyng
.
And
I
haue
bete
him
all
onely
for
to
holde
him
lowly
.
and
in
mekenesse
fo●…
he
shal
be
to
soon
prowde
¶
And
saide
If
thou
canst
directe
another
.
directe
him
as
thy self
.
And
a
yong
man
axed
him
why
he
was
so
pouer
.
To
whom
he
answered
.
My
pouerte
hath
no
thyng
offensed
me
.
ne
doth
me
no
harme
But
thyn
hath
doon
the
and
shalle
do
harmes
ynowhe
¶
And
sayd
.
The
Royaumes
by
maynteyned
by
the
lawes
ordeigned
by
the
kyng
and
princes
¶
And
said
the
kynges
and
princes
ben
susteyned
&
vphold
by
knighthode
,
¶
And
the
knyghtis
ben
maniteyned
by
moneye
,
&
money
cometh
of
the
people
,
and
the
people
is
gouerned
by
Iustice
without
whiche
no
Royaume
may
prospere
ALexander
the
grete
was
sone
to
phelip
king
of
macedone
,
whiche
phelip
regned
.
vij
.
yere
.
And
the
said
.
Alexander
began
to
regne
in
the.
x
viij
.
yer
of
his
age
And
he
said
to
his
people
in
thys
wyse
,
Fayr
lordes
I
will
in
no
wyse
be
contrarye
to
your
wylles
ne
to
your
dedes
But
I
shewe
to
you
that
I
hate
frawdes
&
malices
,
&
as
I
haue
louid
you
duryng
my
faders
lyf
,
so
wil
I
doo
in
tyme
comyng
And
I
bothe
counceylle
&
pray
you
that
ye
drede
god
obeye
him
as
souerayn
of
all
And
chese
him
for
kyng
/
&
be
most
obeyssant
to
him
that
shal
best
pourueie
for
the
good
astate
of
his
peple
&
that
shal
be
most
debonayr
&
mercyful
to
poure
folkes
that
beste
shal
kepe
Iustice
,
&
the
right
of
the
feble
ayenst
the
myghty
,
him
also
that
shal
best
dispose
for
the
publyke
wele
,
&
for
no
delectacion
of
worldly
pleasances
shal
not
be
slowful
to
kepe
&
defend
you
and
by
whom
ye
shal
be
defended
&
all
euill
&
harmes
,
by
the
meane
of
his
good
dedes
shal
be
destroyed
,
and
him
that
most
hardyli
shal
put
him
forth
for
to
destroye
your
ennemies
,
For
suche
ought
to
be
chosen
kyng
and
none
other
,
&
whan
his
people
had
herd
the
reasons
abouesayd
and
knowen
his
grete
discrecion
wytte
and
understanding
they
were
gretly
ameruaylled
and
,
answered
to
him
thus
¶
We
haue
herde
and
vnderstand
thy
grete
reasons
.
And
haue
resseyued
and
resseyue
thy
good
counceyll
,
and
therfore
we
wole
and
byseche
the
that
thou
Reygne
and
haue
the
lordship
vpon
vs
duryng
thy
lyf
.
we
hope
that
ther
is
none
that
hath
so
wele
deseruid
to
be
our
kyng
¶
And
thus
they
chees
him
to
ther
kyng
and
to
their
lord
and
coroned
him
&
yaf
him
their
blessinges
,
and
praid
to
god
that
he
wold
blesse
&
mayntene
him
.
¶
To
whom
he
said
I
haue
herde
the
prayer
that
ye
haue
made
for
me
,
beseching
to
god
that
he
wol
stedefaste
the
loue
of
me
in
your
hertes
&
corages
And
that
by
no
maner
of
the
delectacion
he
suffre
me
to
do
thing
ayen
your
proffites
ne
to
my
disworship
,
&
sone
after
he
sent
lettres
to
alle
the
prynces
and
goode
townes
of
his
Royaume
,
¶
And
whan
he
had
sent
his
lettres
One
daire
kyng
of
perce
&
of
mede
sent
to
Alexandre
for
tribute
like
as
he
had
of
his
fader
.
And
he
sent
him
word
that
the
henne
that
leyd
that
egge
was
dede
¶
And
after
this
Alexander
made
grete
conquestis
.
and
whan
he
had
co●…iquered
Inde
he
went
to
●…contre
cassid
bragman
,
the
whiche
whan
they
wiste
his
comyng
,
they
sente
many
wyse
men
to
him
,
whiche
salewd
him
&
saide
,
sir
Alexauder
thou
hast
no
cause
to
werre
vpon
vs
,
ne
to
be
●…il
willig
,
for
we
ben
both
poure
&
meke
,
&
we
haue
no
thing
but
only
sapience
,
the
whiche
if
thou
wolt
haue
,
pray
god
that
he
wol
yeue
her
the.
for
by
batayll
thou
shalt
neuer
haue
her
.
Ande
whan
alerander
herd
hem
saye
so
,
he
made
al
his
Ooste
to
tarye
&
with
fewe
of
his
knyghtes
wente
within
the
said
contre
for
tenquere
further
of
the
trouth
¶
And
whan
he
entred
wyth
in
the
same
ground
.
he
fond
many
pouer
foolkes
women
&
childeren
al
naked
gadering
herbes
in
the
feldes
And
he
axid
of
them
many
questions
.
to
whiche
they
answered
right
wysely
,
and
than
he
bad
hem
axe
of
hym
somme
thing
that
myght
doo
hem
good
&
to
all
their
people
,
&
he
wolde
yeue
it
hem
gladdy
¶
And
thenne
they
said
.
Sir
we
axe
the
none
other
thing
but
that
thou
wilt
gyue
us
euer
lasting
lyf
Then
ne
Alexander
ansuerd
&
said
,
how
might
a
man
make
other
mennes
liues
euerlasting
,
whan
he
may
not
lengthe
his
owen
lyf
an
our
And
that
ye
axe
of
me
is
in
no
mannes
power
that
lyueth
.
Than
they
said
to
him
.
Syth
thou
hast
goode
●…nowleche
therof
.
wherfore
trauayllest
thou
thy self
to
dest●…oye
all
the
world
,
and
to
gadre
all
the
worldly
tresours
and
wost
not
whan
thou
must
leue
hem
,
Thenne
¶
Alexander
said
to
him
.
I
do
not
alle
these
thinges
that
ye
say
of
my self
.
but
god
hath
sent
me
thurgh
all●…
the
worlde
for
te●…alte
and
magnifye
hys
lawe
and
to
destroye
them
that
〈◊〉
not
in
him
.
¶
And
somtyme
.
Alexander
wente
〈◊〉
visyting
his
lordes
and
enqueryng
of
her
〈◊〉
And
vpon
a
tyme
he
cam
in
to
a
towne
of
his
owne
¶
And
sawe
two
men
of
the
same
towne
bysore
a
Iuge
pletyng
of
the
whiche
one
said
to
the
Iuge
.
Sir
.
I
haue
bought
an
hous
of
thys
man
.
And
longe
after
I
haue
founde
with
in
the
same
a
tresour
vnder
therth●…
,
whiche
is
not
myn
.
¶
And
I
haue
offred
to
diliuere
it
to
hym
.
¶
And
he
hath
refused
it
,
wherfore
Sir
I
biseche
the
that
he
be
compelled
to
take
it
for
as
moche
as
he
knoweth
it
is
not
myne
for
I
haue
no
right
therto
.
¶
Thenne
the
Iuge
comanded
his
aduerse
partie
●…ansuere
to
the
same
.
and
thenne
he
said
.
Sir
Iuge
that
same
tresour
was
neuer
myne
but
he
hath
,
edyfyed
in
that
place
that
was
byfore
comyn
to
alle
tho
that
wolde
haue
edyfyed
ther
in
¶
And
therfore
I
haue
no
right
to
take
it
.
And
thenne
they
bothe
required
the
Iuge
that
he
wolde
take
it
to
him self
,
to
whom
he
answe
red
and
said
/
sithen
it
is
so
that
ye
saye
,
that
is
ye
haue
no
right
to
whom
the
heretage
hath
longed
and
yet
longeth
where
the
tresour
was
founde
,
hou
sholde
I
haue
eny
right
therto
that
am
but
a
stran̄ger
in
that
caas
,
and
neuer
afore
herde
speke
therof
ye
wolde
excuse
you
therof
and
giue
me
the
charge
of
the
tresour
,
that
is
euill
doo
¶
Thenne
〈◊〉
axid
of
him
that
had
founde
the
tresour
whether
he
had
o●…
childeren
,
whiche
answerd
he
had
a
sone
,
and
he
axed
th●…
other
in
like
wise
,
&
he
said
he
had
a
doughter
.
Thenne
t●…
Iuge
said
&
Iuged
that
amariage
sholde
be
made
bitwen
them
and
that
they
sholde
haue
the
tresour
by
that
meane
And
whan
Alexander
herde
this
Iugement
,
he
had
grete
meruayll
therof
,
and
said
thus
to
the
Iuge
.
I
trowe
that
ther
is
not
in
al
the
world
so
rightwis
ne
so
trewe
a
Iuge
as
thou
art
,
And
the
Iuge
that
knewe
him
not
saide
and
axed
of
him
whether
ony
Iuge
wold
haue
don
other
wyse
Ye
certaynly
said
Alexander
in
many
landes
.
Thenne
the
Iuge
hauyng
grete
meruayll
ther
of
axed
of
him
whether
it
rayned
and
the
sonne
dide
shyne
in
tho
landes
,
as
though
he
wold
haue
sayd
that
hit
was
meruayll
that
god
shuld
sende
ony
light
or
rayne
or
other
good
thinges
to
them
that
doo
not
ryght
&
trewe
Iustice
And
therof
Alexander
had
gretter
meruaylle
than
byfore
and
said
that
ther
were
but
fewe
suche
people
vpon
erthe
,
as
they
were
in
that
san●…e
And
as
Alexander
wente
out
of
that
lande
he
passed
th●…rgh
a
cite
,
in
whiche
al
the
houses
of
that
cyte
were
of
one
●…igh
〈◊〉
&
byfore
the
dore
of
euery
hous
was
a
grete
pytte
or
graue
in
whiche
cyte
ther
was
no
Iuge
,
wherof
he
had
grete
meruaylle
.
And
axed
of
the
inhabitantis
therin
wherfore
suche
thingis
sholde
serue
.
The
whiche
ansuerd
him
&
said
First
for
the
outrageous
height
of
houses
.
loue
&
Iustice
can
not
be
longe
in
a
town
a
mong
the
peple
,
And
they
saide
that
the
pittes
or
graues
were
their
owne
houses
to
which
they
sholde
sone
go
to
&
there
dwelle
vntil
the
day
of
Iugement
And
as
touching
that
they
had
no
Iuge
,
they
said
that
they
made
good
Iustice
of
them self
wherfore
they
needed
no
Iuge
.
Thenne
Alexander
departed
from
them
right
wel
plesed
.
And
a
fore
his
deth
he
wrote
a
lettre
vnto
his
moder
desiring
her
to
make
no
sorowe
for
him
¶
And
sone
after
Alexandre
died
&
was
put
in
a
Coffre
of
gold
&
buried
in
Alexsandre
.
&
he
was
born
theder
with
grete
reuerence
by
kynges
princes
&
other
grete
lordes
,
that
kept
&
fulfilled
his
testament
as
he
had
ordeigned
.
Thenne
stert
vp
one
of
the
grettest
lordes
of
them
that
kept
hym
&
said
thus
.
They
that
neuer
wepte
for
other
kynges
,
now
ought
to
wepe
for
this
same
And
tho
that
neuer
had
meruaill
of
aduersite
,
shold
now
haue
meruail
of
the
deth
of
this
king
And
he
desired
the
other
lordes
that
they
shuld
saye
somme
good
thing
for
to
conforte
the
peple
that
was
gretli
dismaied
&
troubled
for
the
deth
of
kyng
alexandre
,
or
for
the
deth
of
the
worthyest
kyng
that
euer
was
Thenne
one
of
them
said
king
alexandre
was
wont
to
kepe
gold
&
seluer
,
&
now
gold
&
seluer
kepe
him
And
he
said
it
by
cause
of
the
chest
that
his
body
laye
in
which
was
of
gold
And
another
said
alexander
is
depted
fro
sinnes
&
filthes
&
now
his
soule
is
with
the
good
soules
which
ben
purified
And
another
said
alexander
was
wonte
to
chastise
alle
men
,
and
now
he
is
chastysed
¶
And
another
said
,
the
kynges
were
wonte
to
dr●…de
him
and
now
the
pourest
man
of
all
the
world
dredeth
him
not
¶
And
another
said
,
yester
day
all
the
erthe
suffiseth
not
to
Alexander
,
&
now
the
lengthe
of
his
body
suffiseth
him
And
another
sayd
Alexander
might
here
yesterday
&
no
body
durst
speke
ayenst
his
wille
,
and
now
euery
man
may
speke
&
he
heerith
not
¶
And
another
said
the
mor●…
that
thastate
of
kyng
.
Alexander
was
grete
and
more
exellent
the
more
is
thoccasion
of
his
deth
greuous
&
pytefull
¶
And
a nother
said
thoo
that
sawe
not
yesterday
¶
Alexander
fe●…ede
him
gretely
,
&
now
thoo
that
see
him
fereth
him
not
¶
And
ther
said
Alexander
was
he
whoos
enemyes
durst
not
com●…
nere
him
,
and
now
his
frendes
dispreyse
and
wil
not
see
hym
¶
And
whan
Alexander
began
to
regne
he
wa●…
bu●…
xviij
.
yeres
of
age
And
he
regned
.
xvij
..
yere
of
the
whiche
euiployed
.
ix
.
yeres
in
bataylle
and
in
conquer●…ng
And.
viij
.
yere
he
restyd
hym
visiting
the
groundes
and
landes
that
he
had
conqueryd
¶
And
he
had
victorye
vpon
xxiiij
.
maner
of
langages
¶
And
in
two
yeres
he
sought
all
th
orient
and
occident
,
And
the
nombre
of
his
knightes
that
were
comonly
of
his
retenew
and
at
his
wages
were
CCC
.
xiij
.
M.
without
yomārye
&
other
men
necessarie
to
his
werres
¶
And
he
deyde
in
the
eage
of
.
xxxv
.
yeres
.
and
he
was
of
sangweyn
colour
,
his
face
ful
of
poc●…is
.
One
of
his
eyen
graye
and
that
other
black
,
smale
&
sharp
〈◊〉
vi
saged
like
a
ly
on
¶
And
was
of
grete
strengthe
&
loued
moche
warres
fro
his
chyldehode
vnto
his
lyues
ende
.
And
he
comanded
that
the
people
shold
worship
god
&
●…epe
hem
from
synne
.
¶
And
saide
the
world
is
not
susteyned
but
comonly
by
science
▪
And
the
royames
be
not
directed
but
by
the
same
,
&
alle
thinges
ben
gouerned
by
reason
And
saide
sapience
is
messagier
of
reason
¶
And
it
byfelle
that
Alexander
passid
thurgh
a
toun
wherin
.
vij
.
kynges
had
regned
byfore
And
he
askid
yf
ony
of
their
kin●…ede
was
alyue
,
And
they
of
the
toun
said
ye
,
a
sone
of
one
of
the
said
kinges
And
alexander
desired
to
see
him
¶
And
the
p●…ple
saide
to
alexander
that
he
was
euer
in
the
chirchyerd
And
alexander
wente
to
see
him
.
&
axid
of
him
wherfore
he
a
bood
so
in
the
chircheyerd
,
&
why
he
wold
not
take
vpon
him
suche
astate
as
his
fader
had
&
his
.
Auncestris
,
as
other
men
doo
.
Seyng
that
it
was
the
will
of
all
the
peple
¶
And
the
yong
child
ansuerd
&
saide
O
right
bounteuous
kyng
I
haue
here
a
thing
to
do
,
the
whiche
whan
I
haue
don
it
,
I
shal
do
thy
comandemeut
,
To
whom
thenne
alexander
axed
what
thing
it
was
that
he
had
to
do
there
And
he
ansuerd
I
am
sechyng
the
bones
of
my
fader
&
of
myn
auncestris
kynges
for
to
put
hem
a
part
from
the
other
but
I
finde
hem
also
semblable
that
I
can
not
knowe
one
from
the
other
¶
Thenne
alexander
saide
to
him
,
thou
oughtest
tacquere
worship
in
this
world
¶
And
If
thou
haddest
good
and
strong
corage
,
thou
mightest
haue
all
thy
faders
goodes
and
of
thy
pr●…decessours
&
alle
ther
honours
To
whome
the
yong
child
ansuerd
&
saide
.
I
haue
good
herte
.
And
alexander
axed
him
wherin
.
And
he
saide
by
cause
that
I
haue
founde
lyf
without
deth
,
●…ougthe
without
eage
.
xi
chesse
without
poute
,
Ioye
without
troble
.
&
helthe
without
sekenes
Certaynly
said
alexander
of
all
these
thinges
haue
I
none
,
Thenne
sayd
the
childe
yf
ye
wil
haue
hem
axe
hem
of
him
that
hath
hem
and
he
may
yeue
hem
and
none
other
Thenne
Alexander
said
that
he
had
neuer
seen
man
of
so
grete
discrecion
¶
Alexander
vsed
euery
day
to
be
in
a
certayn
place
,
for
to
here
the
complayntes
of
euery
body
And
it
was
so
that
vpon
a
day
onely
ther
cam
none
to
complayne
vnto
him
¶
And
therfore
he
wolde
not
that
day
sholde
be
put
in
the
nombre
of
the
dayes
of
his
regne
¶
And
whan
he
was
redy
to
fyghte
with
kyng
daire
,
it
was
told
him
that
the
same
daire
had
with
him
more
than
.
ccc
.
M.
good
fyghting
men
.
wherto
he
ansuerd
and
said
a
goode
cooke
ought
neuer
to
be
abasshed
to
see
in
his
kechyn
many
s●…eep
among
other
bestis
¶
And
the
patryarkes
&
pr●…lates
that
were
for
that
tyme
cam
and
said
to
him
.
God
hath
yeue
to
the
lordship
vpon
many
royames
,
regions
and
contree●…
to
th
entente
that
thou
sholdest
haue
many
children
begoten
of
thy
body
,
for
to
haue
the
succession
of
the
same
after
thy
deth
,
and
therfore
it
were
good
that
thou
sholdest
●…aue
wyues
¶
Tho
whom
he
ansuerd
.
that
it
shold
torne
him
to
grete
ashame
that
had
ouercome
alle
the
mightyest
men
of
the
world
/
for
to
be
disconfited
by
women
¶
Ther
cam
to
him
a
pouer
man
wel
and
wysely
spekyng
whiche
was
pourly
arayed
¶
To
whom
,
Alexander
sayd
I
haue
meruaylle
that
thy
clothyng
is
not
after
thy
spech●…
,
For
ther
is
bytwene
them
grete
difference
,
Thenne
the
pour
man
sayd
O
myghty
kynge
I
may
self
lerne
to
speke
and
to
haue
reason
with
me
,
and
ye
maye
resonably
clothe
me
,
thenne
.
Alexander
made
him
to
be
clothd
with
one
of
his
best
gownes
Also
ther
passed
a
theef
byfore
alexandre
that
was
goyng
to
be
hanged
,
whiche
saide
O
worthy
king
saue
my
lyf
for
I
repente
me
sore
of
my
mysdedes
.
Thenne
Alexander
comanded
that
he
sholde
be
hanged
whyle
he
had
goode
repentaunce
¶
Also
vpon
a
tyme
one
axed
of
him
x.
pieces
of
goold
,
To
whom
Alexander
said
thou
art
not
worthy
to
haue
so
moche
¶
And
he
saide
to
him
ayen
,
Syr
if
I
am
not
worthy
to
haue
so
moche
yet
ar
ye
able
to
yeue
it
me
¶
And
alexander
axid
of
Aristotle
what
thing
a
good
and
a
manly
king
ought
conttnuelly
doo
¶
And
he
ansuerd
that
he
ought
to
thynke
euery
nyght
to
the
goode
gouernaunce
of
his
people
,
&
the
day
folowing
to
put
it
in
effect
¶
And
it
was
axid
of
him
what
thing
was
moost
delectable
in
conquering
of
landes
and
of
contrees
.
And
he
saide
the
mooste
delectacion
was
to
gyue
largely
and
recompense
them
that
haue
doone
hym
good
seruise
.
¶
And
he
axid
of
Aristotle
by
what
mene
he
shold
be
counceilled
And
he
ansuered
and
saide
,
Ordeine
vpon
the
gouernement
of
thy
houshold
hym
that
hath
many
seruauntes
&
can
wele
rule
and
gouerne
them
,
&
make
hym
thy
procurour
and
receyuour
of
thy
money
that
hath
grete
liuelode
and
spendeth
discretly
and
notably
¶
And
a
Patriarke
axid
of
hym
what
he
wolde
do
with
so
many
men
as
he
had
,
And
he
ansuerd
I
that
am
lord
of
them
that
ben
grete
and
myghty
lordes
may
wel
forbere
to
be
lord
of
their
seruauntis
,
And
ther
cam
two
men
before
him
different
of
opinions
to
whom
he
said
,
the
sentence
that
shal
plese
that
one
shal
displese
that
othir
,
&
therfor
consente
ye
to
the
trouth
,
&
that
shal
plese
you
bothe
¶
And
it
was
axid
of
hym
why
he
worshippid
more
his
mastir
than
his
fadre
And
he
ansuerd
for
as
moch
as
I
haue
of
my
maister
euerlasting
lyf
,
And
I
haue
of
my
fader
lyf
but
for
a
certayn
tyme
¶
And
whan
dares
doughters
were
taken
it
was
tolde
him
that
they
were
right
fayre
and
therfore
he
wolde
not
see
them
feeryng
to
haue
don
ony
dishonest
thinges
,
sayng
that
grete
dishonour
were
vnto
him
that
had
oucome
so
many
notable
&
manly
men
in
the
bataylles
,
yf
he
shold
be
oucomen
by
women
beyng
in
his
prysons
.
¶
And
it
bifelle
that
one
made
a
longe
sermon
byfore
him
whiche
noyed
moche
to
alexander
wherf●…re
he
sayde
the
predicacion
is
not
to
be
lawded
that
endureth
ouer
the
power
of
the
herkeners
but
that
is
good
that
endureth
after
the
possibilite
of
them
that
hereth
it
¶
And
it
was
axid
of
him
how
men
myght
acquyere
the
loue
of
other
men
,
&
he
ansuerd
in
doyng
hem
good
.
or
els
atte
leste
in
doyng
hem
no
ne
harme
,
And
said
men
some
tyme
throue
better
by
theyr
ennemyes
than
by
their
frendes
¶
And
it
was
axid
of
him
how
he
myght
be
so
mighty
,
consideryng
that
he
was
so
yong
of
age
.
And
he
said
for
as
moche
as
I
haue
tranaylled
tacquere
frendys
,
&
yeuen
to
myn
ennemyes
.
and
by
thys
maner
I
haue
power
vpon
hem
alle
¶
And
said
it
is
a
grete
losse
to
a
man
to
lose
his
frendis
and
more
than
to
lese
his
sone
or
his
tresour
¶
And
said
the
frendes
that
be
acqnerid
by
good
dedes
.
ben
better
than
tho
that
ben
acq̄rid
by
force
¶
And
vpon
a
tyme
as
alexander
wente
to
sporte
him
priuely
.
certayn
men
beyng
at
a
wyndow
keste
water
vpon
him
,
wenyng
that
he
had
ben
one
of
their
felaws
&
whan
they
sawe
that
it
was
alexander
they
were
gretely
aferd
&
alexander
badde
hem
be
not
aferd
sayng
that
they
had
weted
no
ne
but
him
that
they
thought
to
wete
.
&
as
aristotle
taught
many
kynges
sones
with
Alexander
,
he
axed
ones
of
one
of
hem
,
what
shal
thou
gyue
me
whan
thou
shalt
be
a
kyng
The
whiche
said
I
shal
make
the
my
grete
gouernour
,
&
in
like
wyse
he
axid
of
another
,
whiche
saide
I
shal
yeue
to
the
half
my
royame
,
And
thenne
he
axid
of
alexander
,
whiche
ansuerd
him
thus
Maistre
enquere
of
me
not
this
day
vp
on
that
,
that
I
haue
to
do
to
morowe
,
for
whan
I
shal
see
that
I
neuer
sawe
,
I
shal
thinke
that
I
neuer
thoughte
,
but
if
I
regne
as
thou
sayst
I
shal
thenne
do
as
thou
shalt
see
and
thinke
to
be
couenable
.
And
thenne
Aristotle
saide
to
him
Certaynly
I
wote
wel
that
thou
shalt
be
a
grete
&
a
mighti
kyng
.
for
thy
face
&
thy
nature
sheweth
it
so
¶
Alexander
sayde
to
one
that
long
had
ben
his
lieutenaunt
&
had
neuer
rebuked
him
of
no
vice
I
am
no
thing
pleased
with
thy
seruice
,
Why
sire
said
his
lieutenaunt
By
cause
saide
Alex
ander
that
I
am
a
man
as
another
&
erre
&
haue
erred
a
tyme
,
sith
thou
cam
in
my
seruice
,
&
thou
sawest
neuer
no
fawte
in
me
therfore
thou
art
not
suche
,
as
I
ought
to
haue
to
be
my
lieutenaunt
,
for
thou
art
not
wyse
,
and
if
thou
hast
seen
&
knowen
my
fawtes
and
not
corrected
me
therof
Thou
art
not
trewe
to
me
.
And
he
said
Reason
letteth
not
to
acquere
science
,
but
slouth
dispraysith
it
.
And
somme
axed
of
a
wyse
man
called
Nychomake
,
what
was
the
cause
that
men
obeyed
so
lightly
to
Alexandre
.
And
he
said
by
cause
that
he
was
vertuous
,
that
he
hath
wel
kept
Iustice
&
he
had
ben
of
good
conuersacion
and
of
right
excellent
go
uernement
And
there
were
two
men
whiche
axed
euerych
of
them
to
haue
to
his
wyf
the
doughter
of
a
riche
man
,
of
whiche
two
.
one
was
riche
and
the
other
poure
And
the
fader
yaf
the
doughter
to
the
poure
man
.
wherfore
,
Alexander
axid
of
him
why
he
did
so
,
And
he
saide
by
cause
the
riche
is
ignorant
&
like
to
become
a
poure
man
.
and
the
poure
is
wyse
&
able
to
become
a
riche
man
,
¶
Alexander
axid
of
a
wyse
philosophre
by
what
mene
the
royames
were
wel
dire●…
tid
&
holden
in
goode
astate
.
And
he
ansuerd
by
obeyssaunce
of
the
peple
&
the
Iustice
of
the
kyng
¶
And
as
Alexander
foughte
ones
in
bataille
many
women
cam
in
the
same
bataill
ayenst
him
thēue
he
withdrawe
him
hastely
&
said
to
his
men
if
we
sholde
haue
victory
of
this
bataill
where
thise
women
ben
,
it
were
no
worship
to
vs
,
&
if
they
had
the
victorie
,
thenne
it
were
to
vs
a
ppetuel
shame
/
wherfore
we
shal
not
fighte
ayenst
them
whyle
the
women
ben
ther
And
saide
it
is
a
perillous
thing
a
man
tabide
so
long
in
the
see
that
the
storme
&
tempest
come
vpon
him
,
that
may
well
dep●…e
during
the
faire
weder
In
like
wyse
it
is
of
them
that
dwel
in
princes
&
kinges
houses
¶
And
saide
,
it
is
a
foule
thing
to
a
man
to
haue
grete
wordes
without
effecte
,
&
it
is
a
fayre
thing
to
him
that
put
his
werkis
bifore
his
wordes
And
said
the
grettest
&
most
laudable
liberte
that
is
to
a
man
,
is
to
kepe
him
from
couetise
And
whan
his
fader
commanded
him
that
he
sholde
gladly
here
the
commaundementis
of
his
maistre
,
he
saide
,
he
wold
not
onely
here
them
,
but
he
wold
fulfille
them
with
glad
herte
to
his
pouere
And
said
It
is
worse
a
man
to
haue
defaute
of
discrecion
/
thenne
of
richesses
THolome
was
a
right
wyseman
&
we
le
vnderstanden
,
&
in
especial
in
.
iiij
.
sciencis
that
is
to
witte
,
Geometrie
musike
,
arismetrik
&
astrologie
,
&
he
mad
many
good
bokis
a
mong
the
which
one
is
callid
Almageste
the
which
is
of
Astrologie
,
&
he
was
borne
in
¶
Alexandrie
the
greteste
cyte
that
is
in
the
land
of
Egipte
.
&
ther
he
made
his
consideracions
in
the
tyme
of
kyng
Adryan
.
and
made
his
dictions
vpon
the
consideracions
at
Roodes
,
he
was
not
kyng
all
be
it
that
many
personnes
calleth
hym
kyng
.
And
he
lyued
.
lxx
viij
.
yeres
.
¶
And
said
.
he
is
wyse
that
disposith
his
tonge
to
speke
of
god
,
and
he
that
knoweth
hym
not
is
the
moost
foole
of
alle
.
¶
And
said
,
he
that
is
enclyned
to
his
wille
is
nyghe
to
the
Ire
of
god
,
and
the
nerer
that
a
man
approucheth
the
deth
/
the
more
he
ought
to
laboure
and
traueyll
to
do
we
le
¶
And
said
Sapience
abydeth
no
lenger
in
the
hert
of
a
foole
.
than
a
fleyng
thing
that
may
not
tarye
in
thaier
.
¶
And
sayd
good
wytte
and
good
discrecion
ben
fellawes
,
¶
And
sayd
A
man
of
good
sapience
can
not
dye
,
ne
a
man
of
good
vnderstandyng
can
neuer
be
pouer
¶
And
said
Sapience
is
aire
that
wexeth
grene
in
the
hert
and
fructifieth
in
the
tonge
¶
And
said
Beware
that
thou
dispute
not
with
hym
that
hath
no
knowlege
,
ne
yeue
not
thy
conseyl
but
to
him
that
askith
it
,
ne
telle
not
thy
secret
but
to
hym
that
can
kepe
it
.
And
said
he
that
wol
lyue
wele
ought
not
to
kepe
in
his
hert
all
his
aduersitees
And
said
the
maystre
of
a
grete
house
hath
many
melancolyes
And
said
speke
wysely
aswele
for
thy self
as
for
all
other
And
said
yf
thou
mayst
not
eschewe
sometyme
to
be
wroth
atte
lest
lette
not
thy
wrath
last
lou●…
¶
And
said
the
hertis
of
good
peple
ben
the
castell
&
forterescis
of
secretes
And
said
a
man
that
is
not
to
be
correctid
by
other
men
may
surly
correcte
them
of
their
faultes
.
And
said
he
that
askid
conseil
of
the
wyseman
and
doth
ther
aftir
whether
it
turneth
him
to
good
or
to
euill
he
ought
not
to
be
blamed
therof
▪
¶
And
saide
.
It
is
bettir
,
a
kyng
to
directe
his
peple
,
than
to
haue
grete
habondaunce
of
knyghtis
¶
And
sayde
Surete
putteth
a
weye
sorowe
▪
and
fere
empescheth
gladnes
¶
And
saide
The
wordis
of
god
auayleth
not
to
them
that
haue
put
al
their
hert
to
the
worlde
¶
And
said
It
is
to
grete
folie
a
man
to
thinke
to
moche
on
the
thinges
that
passith
his
vnderstanding
¶
And
sayde
men
been
of
two
,
natures
som
wolle
neuer
be
content
howe
be
it
that
they
finde
ynough
,
&
som
other
seke
and
finde
nothing
¶
And
said
men
cause
tacquere
&
geete
money
.
And
money
is
the
cause
tacquere
men
,
¶
And
saide
.
He
of
the
whiche
the
Science
excedith
his
witte
may
be
likened
to
a
feble
shepherd
that
hath
a
grete
heep
of
sheep
in
his
kepyng
¶
And
saide
he
that
hath
put
al
his
entente
to
his
flessly
delites
,
is
more
bonde
than
a
keytif
▪
And
said
the
hygher
that
a
man
is
exaltid
in
his
lordship
,
the
more
greuous
it
shal
be
to
him
to
fall
from
the
same
And
said
thought
is
the
key
of
certaynete
And
saide
the
reffuses
of
a
nygard
ben
bettir
than
the
largesces
of
a
prodygall
waster
¶
And
saide
.
thou
canst
do
nothing
so
acceptable
to
god
as
to
do
wele
to
him
that
hath
offensed
ayenst
the
¶
And
saide
if
thou
wol
be
wyse
be
not
in
feliship
wyth
foolis
.
but
be
euer
in
feliship
with
them
that
ben
wyser
than
thy self
▪
¶
And
saide
the
soule
can
not
be
deceyued
into
the
tyme
that
the
body
taketh
his
ende
.
And
said
¶
Folye
is
the
gretteste
ennemy
that
ony
body
may
haue
And
said
Good
will
is
the
fondement
of
alle
good
werkes
.
&
good
werkis
is
the
messagier
in
the
other
world
And
said
he
that
kepith
the
good
opynion
and
leueth
the
euill
yeueth
grete
reste
to
his
herte
¶
And
said
Sekenesse
is
the
prison
of
the
body
and
saluacion
of
the
soule
ASsaron
sayd
that
a
kyng
in
his
kyngdom
may
be
dommaged
and
hurte
,
and
specially
by
fyue
thinges
,
the
first
is
by
to
grete
drienesse
as
to
be
iij.
yere
without
Rayn
.
the
seconde
is
by
expending
more
than
his
lyuelode
cometh
to
the
therde
is
,
to
vse
to
moche
woōmen
wyne
&
huntyng
,
the
fourthe
is
to
be
of
euill
maneres
&
of
wicked
condicions
&
also
to
be
to
cruel
&
vengeable
,
the
fyfte
is
,
to
haue
many
ennemyes
.
¶
And
said
the
moost
notable
maneris
&
condicions
&
the
moost
prouffytable
is
to
be
liberal
and
true
of
his
worde
.
¶
And
said
he
that
is
liberal
may
not
lyue
amys
,
the
true
speker
may
not
be
shamed
of
his
speking
,
the
meke
&
lo
wly
man
can
not
be
hated
,
the
sobre
man
can
not
be
seke
,
&
he
that
we
le
&
dyli
gently
vnderstondith
to
his
bysenesse
may
neuer
repente
therof
&
bringeth
hym
to
good
perfection
And
said
a
king
or
a
prince
ought
not
to
truste
them
that
disprayse
hym
in
him
that
is
couetous
,
in
him
that
is
com
from
grete
pouertie
to
grete
richesses
in
him
from
the
whiche
he
hath
taken
the
goodes
and
lordshippes
,
in
him
that
hath
suffred
many
domages
and
hurtes
for
the
wyall
mageste
&
ordinaunce
Ne
in
him
that
hath
made
eny
aliaunce
or
promesse
with
his
ennemyes
,
&
he
ought
to
be
wele
ware
that
he
yeue
no
power
to
non
suche
as
thoo
abouesaide
And
sayd
It
is
an
impossible
thing
a
man
to
kepe
him
from
falling
in
som
fawte
that
is
exaltid
with
a
kyng
in
grete
magnificence
without
desserte
And
said
whan
a
wyse
prince
knoweth
that
eny
of
his
men
had
offenseth
ayenst
him
,
he
ought
hastely
to
enquere
the
trouth
of
the
dede
.
and
the
quantite
of
the
trespas
.
and
yf
it
be
don
wylfully
or
by
ignorance
,
and
also
If
he
was
wont
to
do
so
.
and
yf
he
be
like
to
falle
therin
ayen
.
And
vpon
euery
of
the
same
pointis
to
Remedye
hastely
¶
And
said
.
The
kynges
seruauntis
ought
to
shewe
in
seruyng
hym
their
good
vertues
their
feith
the
noblesse
of
their
kynrede
.
to
th
enteute
that
the
kyng
may
bettir
knowe
hem
and
do
to
euery
of
them
as
he
shal
haue
deserued
¶
And
saide
.
If
a
kyng
loueth
and
cherissheth
the
vntrewe
and
wikkid
men
as
them
that
been
good
and
true
.
he
ought
not
to
be
called
kyng
for
he
is
not
like
to
reygne
long
.
¶
And
said
.
If
the
kyngis
conseyllours
his
physicien
and
hys
confessour
deleth
wyth
other
thynges
.
than
langith
to
their
offices
¶
The
kyng
shall
contynuelly
be
endommaged
.
seke
of
body
.
and
of
the
soule
¶
And
like
to
come
to
a
foule
ende
¶
And
saide
.
He
that
sayth
not
trouth
to
hys
leche
And
he
that
counceylleth
wyth
his
frend●…
¶
And
●…elleth
him
not
the
trouth
of
his
counceylle
.
he
distroyeth
him self
.
¶
And
Assaron
sayde
.
A
kyng
sholde
not
commytte
to
another
the
besynes
.
that
ys
necessarye
to
hym self
for
to
do
¶
And
Assaron
sayde
.
The
moost
secrete
counseylle
of
the
kyng
Is
his
conscience
and
his
good
dedes
is
hys
best
tresour
.
¶
And
of
alle
men
.
the
trewes●…
is
the
best
¶
And
the
best
Rychesses
ben
they
that
be
truely
and
duely
goten
.
¶
And
he
sayth
a
kyng
sholde
committe
his
besynesses
to
him
that
he
hath
proued
in
fayth
in
witte
and
in
good
gouernaunce
,
and
if
he
may
finde
no
suche
▪
take
him
that
hath
euer
be
conuersant
with
wyse
men
¶
And
he
said
a
wyse
kyng
of
good
vnderstonding
amendeth
and
auaylleth
moche
his
counseillonrs
¶
And
he
sayth
whan
a
kyng
of
good
discrecion
hath
to
do
two
right
hasty
thinges
,
he
sholde
begynne
at
the
noblest
and
at
the
most
pronffittable
And
yf
they
ben
bothe
two
of
one
estate
,
beginne
at
that
whiche
may
best
be
recouerd
in
tyme
comyng
¶
And
he
sayth
yf
a
kyng
be
mercyfull
,
his
besynes
shal
goo
wel
.
his
wysedom
shal
auayle
him
in
tyme
comyng
,
yf
he
be
trewe
his
people
shal
reioyse
with
him
,
&
yf
he
be
Iuste
.
his
regne
shal
endure
¶
And
he
sayth
kynges
sholde
gete
good
renome
and
other
mene
dignitees
by
good
mesure
,
for
ontrageousnes
is
not
enduryng
.
¶
And
he
sayth
yt
belongeth
to
a
conquerours
kyng
to
sette
and
kepe
good
Iustice
in
his
Reames
and
other
lordshippes
go
ten
¶
And
hou
be
it
that
it
is
a
greuous
thing
to
conquere
them
yet
is
it
a
more
greuous
&
more
chargeable
thing
to
kepe
them
wel
¶
And
he
sayth
he
that
is
most
complete
of
witt
,
is
he
that
knoweth
him self
.
And
that
departed
him
not
from
th
obeyssaūce
of
god
for
what
maner
occasion
that
cometh
to
him
,
&
that
contynuelly
thanketh
him
for
the
goodes
that
he
hath
sent
him
¶
And
assaron
sayth
that
an
euill
lawe
&
the
loue
of
a
shrewe
lastth
no
lenger
than
the
shadowe
of
acloude
¶
And
assaron
sayth
that
a
wyseman
enforceth
him
to
fle
and
wythdraweth
from
harme
.
And
the
foole
doth
grete
payne
to
fynde
hit
And
assaron
sayth
whan
a
wyseman
that
is
counceylour
or
offycer
to
a
kyng
seeth
that
the
kynge
wille
doo
or
saye
ony
thing
domageable
and
harmefull
to
hym
or
to
hys
Royaume
or
to
his
people
and
subgettis
he
shold
addresse
and
remembre
him
of
good
examples
of
cronyckes
and
histories
of
his
noble
and
wyse
predecessour
concernyng
vnto
that
purpos
in
so
moche
,
that
the
kyng
conceyue
and
haue
knowleche
that
he
sayth
it
for
his
wele
and
worship
¶
.
LEgmon
was
born
in
Ethyope
and
lerned
his
science
in
the
londe
of
Asteyn
in
the
tyme
of
king
dauid
the
prophete
.
And
was
bought
by
a
Iewe
for
an
esclaue
or
bondman
for
.
xxx
.
marck
And
his
maistre
pleyed
gladly
atte
dise
.
and
ther
ran
by
fore
his
maistres
gate
a
Ryuer
.
And
on
a
tyme
as
his
maister
&
an
other
man
playde
atte
dyse
,
they
leyd
&
sette
an
owche
to
plege
,
that
who
of
them
lost
a
game
.
shold
do
the
wille
of
the
winnar
.
or
he
shold
drynke
alle
the
water
that
ran
&
passed
afore
his
yate
.
So
it
happend
that
his
maistre
lost
.
And
that
other
comaunded
him
.
that
he
sholde
do
hoolly
his
comandement
.
And
the
loser
ansuerd
that
he
was
redy
to
be
at
his
Iugement
.
Thenne
he
said
to
him
.
thou
shalt
gyue
me
alle
the
good
that
thou
hast
of
ony
valewe
.
or
thou
shalt
drynke
all
the
watre
of
this
Ryuer
.
And
he
that
had
lost
demanded
only
respyte
of
one
daye
for
tauise
him
.
&
that
other
graunted
it
to
him
And
thus
he
abode
in
his
hous
right
pensyf
and
ful
of
thoughte
how
he
might
escape
fro
this
perille
.
And
as
he
was
in
this
thought
legmon
his
bondman
and
seruaunt
cam
home
&
brouht
vpon
his
necke
a
burthen
of
wood
and
salewed
his
maistre
.
¶
The
whiche
gaf
him
no
answere
.
for
the
thought
that
he
was
in
.
Howe
be
it
he
was
accustomed
for
taraysone
hym
for
the
good
wordes
that
he
fonde
in
him
,
&
thenne
legmon
said
to
hym
Maistre
who
hath
angred
or
greuid
the
And
he
answerd
nothing
agayn
And
legmon
said
maistre
telle
me
the
cause
of
thy
sorow
and
woo
,
For
I
shal
lyghtly
remedye
it
if
I
may
.
and
thenne
his
maistre
reherced
to
hym
all
the
fayte
as
is
afore
reherced
,
And
thenne
legmon
said
to
him
that
he
sholde
in
no
wyse
abasshe
him
¶
For
he
wold
gyue
him
good
counceyll
.
Thou
shalt
demande
him
sayd
he
.
if
thou
shalt
drinke
that
the
ruyer
conteyneth
now
thys
present
tyme
▪
or
ellis
all
that
,
that
shal
renne
and
come
continuelly
,
and
I
wote
wel
he
shal
saye
that
thou
shal
drinke
al
that
it
conteyneth
now
,
and
whan
he
hath
so
said
,
thou
shalt
saye
to
him
,
that
he
stoppe
and
make
the
riuyer
to
stande
without
rennyng
ony
more
,
&
that
thou
art
redy
to
drinke
hit
that
it
holdeth
now
,
and
thus
thou
shalt
wynne
thy
cause
¶
Whan
the
maister
,
herde
the
counseyll
of
his
bondman
he
was
moche
recomforted
And
in
like
wyse
on
the
morn
he
said
to
him
that
had
wonne
the
owche
,
&
in
thys
wyse
he
escaped
from
the
paryll
,
and
fro
thenne
forthon
he
afranchised
legmon
ande
made
him
fre
that
afore
was
bonde
and
thrall
And
he
dyde
and
gaf
him
moche
good
and
was
reputed
for
right
▪
a
wyseman
¶
And
one
of
his
felawes
of
tyme
past
mette
him
on
a
tyme
¶
And
demanded
of
him
art
thou
not
he
that
were
wont
to
kepe
sheep
with
me
.
And
he
answerd
yes
,
how
said
that
other
who
hath
sette
the
in
thys
estate
▪
I
shal
telle
the
said
legmon
sayng
of
trouth
to
be
trewe
,
and
not
tentende
vpon
vnprouffitable
thinges
.
¶
And
it
was
sayd
.
that
a
voys
apperyd
to
him
▪
whiche
sayd
to
hym
,
wolt
thou
be
a
grete
lord
vpon
th
erthe
and
he
ansuerd
yf
god
will
,
I
will
obeye
him
but
yf
he
wille
yene
me
the
choyse
and
my
playsir
,
I
wyll
peas
One
asked
him
wherfore
he
wolde
not
be
a
kyng
,
he
ansuerd
/
yf
I
iuge
rightfully
,
I
may
not
eschewe
the
hate
of
many
men
.
And
yf
I
dissimile
,
I
shal
withdrawe
me
fro
the
way
of
paradyse
I
hadde
leuer
haue
in
thys
world
suffisaunce
with
pouerte
&
wynne
the
blysse
of
that
other
world
than
for
to
loue
to
be
hyghe
reysed
in
this
world
¶
And
dauid
was
in
a
place
where
moche
peple
spack
among
whom
legmon
was
stylle
,
and
he
demanded
him
wherfore
spekest
not
thou
,
as
other
doo
.
he
ansuerd
by
cause
ther
is
no
word
good
but
of
god
,
ner
no
good
silence
but
to
thinke
on
god
¶
And
this
Iewe
that
was
maystre
of
legmon
gaf
hym
moche
good
,
the
whiche
he
distributed
in
almesse
,
and
lente
it
to
pouer
nedy
people
withoute
vsure
.
And
therfore
god
multiplied
all
his
goodes
gretly
¶
And
it
is
said
he
lefte
all
his
richesses
and
made
hym self
a
recluse
in
a
temple
solitair●…y
vnto
his
deth
,
and
there
prechid
many
fayre
them
gi●…
wysedoms
to
his
sone
.
¶
And
said
,
Sone
take
abstinence
&
restrayne
thy
will
,
For
yf
thou
preyse
the
wo●…de
and
the
diuerse
aduentures
that
dayly
comen
in
doyng
of
fensis
in
thinge
deffended
of
god
,
thou
desirest
but
deth
ther fore
enforce
the
t
eschewe
the
euil
and
to
folowe
the
good
for
the
good
mortifieth
and
destwyeth
the
euyll
¶
And
sayde
sone
speke
euer
of
god
,
and
god
shal
euer
put
good
wordes
in
thy
mouth
.
¶
Sone
sette
alway
thyn
owen
werkys
to
fore
thyn
eyen
,
¶
And
other
mennys
behynde
the
a
parte
Sone
whan
thou
seest
ony
synnar
,
repreue
hym
not
of
his
fawtes
,
but
thynke
on
thyn
owne
wher
of
thou
shalt
yeue
acompt
¶
Sone
employe
not
thy
corage
in
the
loue
of
this
world
.
whiche
is
a
thing
that
passeth
and
deceyueth
alle
them
that
affie
in
hit
.
And
hold
the
content
with
litill
,
&
coueyte
not
the
goodes
of
other
¶
Sone
sette
attemperaunce
in
thy
lyuyng
.
and
be
replenisshid
with
Sapience
and
conuerse
wyth
wysemen
and
so
mayst
thou
gete
wysedom
¶
Sone
be
simple
.
well
doyng
.
thinkyng
moche
.
and
of
fewe
wordes
,
but
if
they
be
trewe
,
and
be
no
grete
lawgher
And
be
not
dispreyser
ne
mocquer
of
other
,
be
stylle
and
not
ful
of
langage
,
for
I
haue
ofter
repented
me
of
moche
speking
than
of
beyng
styll
.
Sone
Beware
that
the
cock
be
not
erlyer
awaked
in
the
morenyng
than
thou
And
drede
god
and
kepe
the
from
vayn
glorie
.
Sone
Beware
that
thou
be
defrawded
for
to
byleue
.
that
thou
hast
in
the
thing
.
whiche
thou
haste
not
.
though
that
men
bere
the
it
on
honde
by
flaterie
¶
Sone
who
loueth
god
best
,
dredeth
him
most
.
¶
Sone
lerne
goodnes
&
after
teche
it
forth
to
other
.
For
doctours
and
techers
wyth
their
techinges
ben
lykened
vnto
sprynging
welles
rennyng
▪
of
whiche
the
peple
ben
continuelly
seruid
,
and
yet
they
abide
alway
full
.
And
knowe
thou
sone
that
if
a
foole
speke
,
he
shal
be
mocqued
for
his
vncurtais
speche
,
If
he
be
still
&
speke
not
,
he
shal
thinke
euil
,
if
he
do
ony
thing
/
it
is
euill
&
loseth
hys
tyme
,
if
he
sette
him
to
studye
,
he
shal
lese
his
dispence
&
shal
not
prouffite
,
if
of
auenture
he
be
riche
he
shall
be
proude
&
presumptuous
,
if
he
be
poure
,
he
shal
fall
in
despayr
.
If
he
haue
ony
good
garment
,
he
wil
be
proude
therof
,
If
he
demaunde
ony
thyng
,
he
shall
axe
it
vncurtaisly
,
and
yf
ony
man
axe
of
him
to
borowe
.
he
shall
denye
it
.
If
he
gyue
ought
he
shal
reproche
hym
.
yf
a
man
gyue
to
him
he
shal
conne
him
no
thanke
.
whan
he
is
mery
or
Ioyous
▪
it
is
out
of
me
sure
.
And
whan
he
is
angry
he
is
in
like
wyse
,
yf
men
telle
him
ony
thing
in
secrete
,
he
shal
discouer
it
,
yf
he
haue
puissance
or
myght
,
he
shal
secretly
seche
occasion
to
do
euill
&
shal
trete
his
subgettis
by
vyolence
.
yf
men
felawshipe
with
hym
,
he
shal
make
hym
angrye
,
yf
men
folowe
hym
he
fleeth
the
peple
/
who
so
wil
correcte
him
,
he
wil
not
do
for
him
but
shal
hate
his
corrector
,
And
his
felaws
shal
hate
hym
,
yf
he
speke
he
wil
be
herd
.
And
yf
other
men
speke
he
will
not
here
them
,
yf
men
praye
hym
to
pardone
another
he
shal
not
do
it
,
he
loueth
better
deceyt
than
trouthe
,
a
man
may
not
put
him
from
his
oppynyon
,
For
euer
he
will
haue
his
by
him self
,
and
who
so
doth
euill
,
he
reputeth
it
fowel
don
,
yf
he
studye
or
speke
with
wyse
men
,
he
wil
not
meeke
hym self
nor
take
hede
to
hem
And
yf
he
be
with
a
more
fole
than
he
is
him self
,
he
shal
deffame
and
mocque
〈◊〉
he
shal
comande
them
to
doo
well
.
And
he
wil
do
the
worst
he
can
,
And
he
shal
comande
them
to
saye
trouthe
&
he
shal
lye
,
his
dedes
shal
be
moche
discordaunt
to
hys
wordes
▪
for
yf
his
tonge
saith
one
,
his
herte
thinketh
another
▪
yf
þ
ᵘ
be
riche
he
saith
þ
ᵘ
art
an
vsurer
,
yf
thou
be
poure
he
shal
se●…e
noght
by
the.
yf
thou
do
wel
,
he
saith
thou
dost
it
by
ypocrisie
,
yf
thou
do
euil
,
he
wil
deffame
the
,
if
thou
giue
to
him
be
wil
●…lle
the
waster
,
yf
thou
gyue
to
him
noght
he
shal
holde
the
for
a
kaityf
&
nigard
.
yf
þ
ᵘ
be
debonayr
,
he
shal
saie
thou
art
a
beast
.
&
who
so
draweth
him
fro
his
companie
,
he
saith
he
doth
it
for
pri
de
.
But
the
wyseman
is
al
of
other
contrary
condicions
▪
for
he
hath
continence
,
iustice
besines
foryeuenes
&
mekenes
he
●…an
wel
speke
,
and
be
stylle
in
place
&
tyme
,
he
knoweth
&
doth
wel
.
he
hath
his
seruauntis
in
his
puyssaunce
&
poure
,
he
is
liberall
to
demaunders
,
he
is
wyse
in
speking
,
and
wel
understanding
the
wordes
of
other
,
If
he
lerne
,
he
shal
meue
good
questions
,
If
men
do
him
good
he
shal
thanke
hem
,
who
telleth
him
his
conseyll
,
he
shal
kepe
it
secrete
,
&
he
shal
truste
wel
in
other
,
if
he
yeue
,
he
gyueth
gladly
without
reproche
.
he
wil
do
to
none
other
man
,
but
as
he
wolde
be
don
to
.
If
he
be
riche
he
shal
not
be
proude
therof
,
If
he
be
poure
or
riche
he
shal
not
forgete
god
.
he
shal
alway
prouffite
in
science
.
he
gyueth
credence
to
him
that
techeth
him
,
he
shal
not
grutche
to
a
greter
than
he
is
,
nor
dispreyse
a
lasse
,
he
shal
axe
nothing
but
if
he
haue
right
therto
,
he
is
agreable
in
his
answers
,
&
saith
no
thing
but
if
he
knowe
it
wel
,
he
hydeth
not
his
science
/
the
more
he
accompanyeth
the
men
,
the
more
he
loueth
them
,
he
constreineth
his
will
to
trouth
,
whether
it
will
or
not
,
he
correcteth
him self
geuing
example
to
other
,
he
is
lightly
torned
to
do
well
,
if
he
bere
witnes
,
it
shal
be
veritable
,
if
he
be
a
Iuge
he
shal
iuge
&
do
all
thing
truely
,
if
men
do
him
harme
,
he
shal
do
good
therfore
,
he
coueyteth
not
the
goodes
of
other
men
.
he
reputeth
him self
as
a
stranger
in
this
world
,
&
thinketh
not
,
but
on
his
departing
,
he
doth
wel
and
comandeth
other
to
do
the
same
,
he
defendeth
euill
and
kepeth
him self
fro
doyng
it
.
And
that
lyeth
in
his
herte
the
tonge
pronounceth
,
and
his
dedes
ben
accordyng
to
his
wordes
.
Sone
vnderstande
wysdom
and
excersise
the
same
without
thinking
on
other
thinges
for
whan
thou
hast
goten
it
,
thou
shalt
be
euer
in
Ioye
¶
And
knowe
that
it
is
not
goten
but
by
debonairte
▪
&
by
good
keping
of
thy
tunge
▪
For
the
tunge
is
the
dore
of
the
almer●…ye
of
sapience
,
wher
in
euery
man
may
wel
entre
,
yf
it
be
not
shett
,
And
therfor●…
men
sholde
kepe
well
the
keye
,
that
is
to
saye
the
tunge
more
besily
than
his
gold
or
siluer
.
¶
Sone
lose
not
thyn
owen
thinges
,
for
kepynge
of
strange
thynges
.
For
thy
propre
thinges
ben
thy
goodes
▪
whiche
thy
saule
shal
bere
wyth
hym
,
And
the
richesses
that
shal
abyde
after
thy
deth
shal
come
to
other
men
,
Sone
honoure
wysedom
.
And
denye
it
not
to
them
that
desire
it
,
&
shewe
it
not
to
hem
that
despyse
it
¶
Sone
who
that
hath
mercy
on
other
,
shal
haue
mercy
on
hym self
¶
Sone
be
thou
content
with
that
thou
hast
withoute
coueytyng
of
the
goodes
of
other
,
or
of
that
whiche
thou
knowest
,
thou
mayst
not
haue
¶
Sone
receyue
pacyently
the
wordes
of
correction
and
,
of
prechyng
though
they
be
hard
&
greuous
And
said
he
is
right
vnhappy
that
hereth
&
vnderstondeth
not
,
&
yet
he
is
more
vnhappy
that
hereth
&
vnderstandeth
&
nothing
prouffiteth
to
hym
sone
acompanye
the
with
them
that
god
loueth
¶
Sone
yelde
than●…
kyngis
to
our
lord
god
of
the
goodes
that
he
hath
made
the
to
resseyue
in
humilite
/
&
departe
them
to
thoos
that
be
nedy
Sone
yf
thou
haue
don
ony
good
that
the
semeth
good
,
giue
no
laude
ne
preising
to
thy self
therof
,
for
þ
ᵘ
wotest
not
if
god
be
pleasid
with
al
or
not
,
In
euery
worke
is
comonly
som
thing
euer
contrarye
,
&
th
aduersarye
of
the
worke
is
proude
thought
,
sone
coueyte
not
the
delites
of
this
worlde
but
only
them
that
may
make
the
nyghe
to
god
Sone
truste
thou
very
ly
in
god
&
loue
them
that
obeye
him
&
haue
them
in
hate
that
disobeye
him
,
sone
ther
is
nothing
more
acceptable
to
god
than
goode
understanding
&
that
is
in
ten
condicions
that
is
to
weten
in
not
preysing
him self
,
in
wel
doing
,
in
beyng
content
of
thinges
nocessarie
to
the
lyf
,
to
gyue
of
his
goodes
for
goddis
sake
.
to
will
worship
to
him self
,
to
kepe
him self
from
doing
shameful
thingis
in
geting
science
&
connyng
al
the
dayes
of
his
lyf
,
to
kepe
him self
from
angre
.
In
giuing
his
loue
to
all
them
that
desire
it
.
And
to
repute
him self
werst
,
and
the
other
better
.
for
the
men
ben
of
two
maners
.
Somme
ben
good
.
and
som
ben
badde
,
Wherfore
a
man
shold
homble
and
meke
him
to
bothe
,
to
the
goode
in
praying
god
to
make
him
semblable
&
like
to
hem
,
to
the
euyll
for
as
moch
as
it
is
not
knowen
.
whether
his
goodence
be
within
him
hyd
.
And
he
wyl
not
shewe
it
by
wyn
glorie
.
And
in
doyng
thise
thinges
is
a
man
reputed
for
sage
&
wyse
.
Sone
worshipe
god
and
praye
him
that
he
wil
kepe
the
from
hauing
an
euil
wyf
▪
&
he
wil
teche
&
enforme
her
for
ther
is
none
other
remedie
.
Sone
shewe
to
other
suche
as
thou
hast
lerned
,
ne
felauship
the
not
with
shr●…wys
.
that
thou
be
not
one
of
them
,
&
haue
thou
none
affiaunce
in
the●…hous
where
the
peple
lyue
this
day
&
deye
to
morowe
Sone
enhabyte
thy self
with
the
wyse
men
continuelly
,
for
god
enlumineth
their
hertes
by
wordes
of
sapience
in
suche
wyse
as
the
goodes
vnder
erthe
ben
moysted
by
rayne
and
with
dewes
.
And
somme
men
saye
that
legmon
is
buried
in
a
toun
called
karaualle
bitwene
the
mesquitte
and
the
marche
,
And
ther
ben
buried
.
lxx
.
prophetes
that
deyde
after
legmon
the
whiche
the
children
of
ysrael
kept
so
long
in
hostage
that
they
deyde
for
hunger
And
whan
Legmon
was
nygh
his
deth
he
wepte
sore
.
&
his
sone
axid
him
why
he
wepte
for
fere
of
deth
▪
or
for
sorowe
that
he
had
to
leue
the
world
.
¶
He
ansuerd
I
wepe
for
nonne
of
the
two
thinges
but
I
wepe
bicause
I
haue
a
way
for
to
goo
.
from
whiche
I
sawe
neuer
man
come
agayn
,
and
I
bere
but
litill
vytaill
with
me
.
&
am
charged
with
many
grete
charges
.
And
I
wote
neuer
whether
I
shal
be
aleged
&
discharged
ar
none
whan
I
shal
come
to
th
ende
of
my
waye
¶
And
he
sayde
to
his
sone
,
Sone
thou
oughtest
to
drede
god
&
not
only
to
be
worshipped
of
men
¶
Sone
whan
thou
comest
in
apsa
ce
where
shal
be
spoken
of
god
,
abyde
there
,
for
if
thou
be
a
fooll
,
thou
mayst
be
amended
.
&
become
wyse
,
if
thou
be
wyse
thou
shalt
encrece
thy
wysdom
,
&
if
god
sende
them
ony
good
thou
shalt
haue
thy
parte
,
but
&
yf
thou
haunte
places
where
god
is
not
spoken
of
,
all
the
contrarye
shal
happen
to
the
so
ne
▪
be
aferd
of
the
vengeance
of
our
lord
as
moche
as
thou
mayst
,
&
drede
him
&
considre
his
right
grete
puissance
and
might
¶
And
said
in
like
wyse
as
in
geuing
largely
a
man
maketh
of
his
enemy
hys
frende
,
right
so
by
pryde
a
man
maketh
of
his
frende
his
enemy
¶
And
said
the
wode
shewith
the
wysedom
of
the
man
&
therfore
ought
a
man
to
be
wel
auised
what
he
saith
.
¶
And
said
atrewe
man
resteth
in
his
trouthe
,
&
the
reward
of
a
lyar
is
,
that
he
be
not
bileuid
of
that
he
reherseth
¶
And
said
reherce
ne
tel
nothing
to
him
that
wil
not
bileue
the
▪
ne
demaunde
not
that
thing
that
thou
wost
wel
shal
not
by
graunted
to
the
ne
promyse
no
thing
but
thou
mayst
and
wilt
holde
and
kepe
¶
And
saide
thou
oughtest
a
loue
all
thing
fle
the
companye
of
a
lyar
,
&
yf
thou
maye
not
eschewe
his
compa
nye
,
atte
leste
beware
that
thou
bileue
no
thing
that
he
saith
And
said
sone
sette
the
not
in
the
hiest
place
for
it
is
better
that
thou
be
taken
vp
fro
the
lowest
place
for
to
sitte
in
the
hyest
▪
than
to
be
taken
from
the
hyest
and
be
sette
al
benethe
¶
And
saide
Sone
yet
ones
I
comande
the
that
thou
drede
god
aboue
alle
thinges
,
for
that
is
thing
rightfull
&
prouffitable
to
the
,
¶
And
do
so
that
alle
thy
thoughtes
be
alway
in
him
and
thy
wordes
semblably
.
for
the
spekyng
and
thinkyng
in
god
surmounteth
alle
other
wordes
and
thoughtes
as
he
him self
surmounteth
alle
other
creatures
And
therfore
men
ought
to
obeye
him
.
notwithstonding
ony
other
thing
that
they
ben
constreyned
to
,
Sone
make
thy
orisons
&
prayers
duly
to
him
.
for
prayer
is
as
a
ship
that
is
in
the
see
.
for
yf
she
be
good
she
shal
be
sauf
and
all
that
ben
therin
.
And
if
she
be
euill
,
she
shal
perisshe
&
alle
they
that
be
therin
And
saide
A
man
may
lightly
fynde
his
liuyng
and
his
necessitees
in
this
world
.
which
is
of
litill
duryng
as
to
vs
creatures
.
but
a
man
sholde
pourueye
him
of
thinges
necessaries
,
for
to
bere
with
him
whan
he
shal
departe
hens
¶
And
saide
,
How
may
a
man
make
another
to
chaunge
his
wille
.
that
can
not
refreme
his
owne
will
¶
And
said
Good
will
ys
one
of
the
goodes
wherof
god
is
seruid
,
And
gladly
to
here
thinges
lowable
is
to
him
agreable
.
And
a
curtoyse
ansuer
ought
moche
to
be
preysed
¶
If
the
behoueth
to
sende
ony
message
or
legacion
.
sende
a
wyseman
▪
and
if
thou
maist
none
finde
goo
thy self
¶
And
said
byleue
not
him
that
lyeth
to
the
of
another
man
,
for
he
shal
lye
in
like
wyse
to
another
man
of
the
And
saide
it
is
more
light
to
chaunge
montaignes
fro
one
place
to
another
.
than
for
to
make
him
vnderstande
that
hath
none
entendement
¶
And
said
do
not
that
of
which
thou
sholdest
haue
shame
to
see
another
do
it
.
Two
pacientis
ben
in
thys
worlde
of
whiche
one
is
he
that
seeth
&
endnreth
paciently
that
he
hateth
,
&
that
other
is
to
refrayne
his
wil.
Ther
ben
thre
estates
of
men
that
ben
knowen
but
in
thre
maners
,
that
is
to
witte
the
pacient
is
not
knouen
but
in
his
aduersite
&
in
his
Ire
.
The
valyant
man
is
not
knowen
but
in
warre
And
the
frende
is
not
knowen
but
in
necessite
,
¶
Of
alle
other
maners
&
condicions
the
worst
is
a
man
to
be
suspecionous
of
his
frende
.
and
to
discouer
thinges
secrete
,
to
haue
truste
and
affiaunce
in
euery
man
.
to
speke
ouermoche
of
thynges
vnproffitable
and
to
be
in
daunger
of
euil
peple
for
couetise
of
goodes
temporell
,
¶
And
saide
the
thought
is
the
myrrour
of
the
man
wherin
he
may
beholde
his
beaute
&
his
filth
¶
And
he
saide
beware
&
kepe
the
for
to
be
suspecōus
.
for
suspecion
taketh
a
way
the
loue
fro
the
peple
Witte
without
doctrine
is
a
tre
without
fruyte
.
And
said
for
to
be
Ioyous
&
to
euery
man
gladli
,
to
be
liberal
in
gyuyng
&
receyuing
&
to
for
gyue
gladli
his
euil
,
wil
maken
a
man
to
belouid
of
eche
body
.
ANese
the
philosophre
saith
,
Whan
men
were
olde
Their
vertues
ben
dispysed
,
And
the
riche
men
ben
more
ferful
than
poure
men
.
¶
And
he
said
the
noble
deth
is
better
than
a
vyle
domynacion
And
said
the
moste
and
grettest
ewre
or
happe
of
a
man
is
to
haue
a
good
felawe
,
nowe
thenne
accompanye
the
with
good
peple
and
thou
shalt
be
one
of
them
¶
One
of
the
grettest
vylonyes
&
iniquitees
of
the
world
is
for
to
do
vylonie
vnto
an
impotent
persone
And
said
If
thou
hast
don
ony
trespas
or
sinne
repente
the
anon
without
abiding
vnto
the
moren
And
he
said
thou
oughtest
to
gyue
him
thanke
,
that
doth
the
good
of
what
condicion
that
he
be
of
,
so
that
he
do
it
liberally
&
in
good
entente
And
said
he
may
not
knowe
ne
apperceyue
many
thingis
,
that
can
not
apperceyue
ne
knowe
him self
,
And
said
if
thou
wilt
haue
enduring
loue
with
another
put
thy self
in
payne
tēforme
him
in
goode
maners
&
said
yf
a
king
be
iuste
&
rightful
he
shal
seygnorie
&
be
lord
ouer
the
corages
of
his
peple
if
he
be
otherwyse
though
he
be
named
for
th
aire
kyng
yet
wil
they
haue
their
corages
SAcdarge
saith
that
the
werkes
of
this
vnto
another
world
ben
guided
by
two
thingis
one
is
by
science
of
whiche
the
soule
is
adressyd
.
&
that
other
is
bysenes
of
whiche
the
soule
&
the
body
ben
entreteigned
&
kny●…
And
said
men
leue
for
to
do
moche
harme
&
euil
whan
they
doubte
&
fere
our
lord
,
and
said
noblesse
of
lignage
is
right
couenable
to
receyue
science
,
Thentencion
of
the
man
shold
be
for
to
refraine
his
corage
from
fylth
&
foule
thinges
,
for
the
good
lyf
maketh
the
good
renome
&
causeth
a
good
ende
,
he
is
right
exessēt
which
is
honourable
in
al
his
●…isportes
,
&
of
whom
the
wytte
surmonteth
the
Ire
▪
He
saide
late
it
suffise
to
the
to
be
so
wyse
,
that
thou
canst
do
wel
&
kepe
the
fro
doyng
euil
Ther
is
nothing
so
euil
vnto
a
man
,
as
to
be
euil
en●…ctri
ned
,
and
in
especyall
,
whan
he
is
yssued
of
noble
and
good
lignage
And
said
for
to
conne
science
/
it
is
a
right
honourable
&
prouffitable
thing
For
by
hir
the
goodes
of
this
world
and
of
that
other
ben
goten
,
A
wyse
man
wil
nothing
haue
of
his
prynce
but
that
whiche
he
hath
goten
by
sayng
trouthe
and
by
his
good
werkes
.
¶
And
sayd
he
is
a
good
lord
that
taketh
vpon
him
payne
to
kepe
his
sugdttis
in
suche
wyse
,
as
he
kepeth
his
owen
body
.
and
that
he
be
not
so
rigorous
and
opressing
.
that
them
behoueth
to
leue
his
lordship
¶
And
that
also
he
be
not
to
them
so
debonayr
.
that
they
dispyse
his
maundementis
¶
And
he
said
the
most
curteys
gyuer
is
he
.
that
gyueth
without
axing
¶
And
saide
In
what
someuer
place
thou
be
with
thyn
ennemye
/
be
it
in
disporte
or
other
wyse
.
make
all
way
good
wacche
on
thy self
though
so
be
thou
be
strenger
than
he
and
mightier
yet
laloure
al
way
to
make
peas
¶
And
sayd
in
like
wyse
as
it
is
grete
peyne
to
the
body
of
a
man
to
susteyne
thing
that
is
inpossible
to
him
,
right
so
is
it
agreuous
thing
to
a
wyseman
for
to
teche
a
foole
¶
And
sayd
A
suspecious
man
may
neuer
haue
good
lyf
And
saide
.
he
is
right
Ignoraunt
and
vnkynde
that
can
not
gyue
thankyng
for
the
goodenesse
that
is
don
to
him
.
but
yet
he
is
more
vnkynde
that
denyeth
it
to
other
¶
And
sayde
.
He
that
demaundeth
but
reason
is
able
to
wynquysshe
and
ouercome
his
ennemye
THesille
saide
Thou
oughtest
to
lone
bettir
the
Rude
wordes
that
ben
prouffitable
and
true
.
than
the
swete
wordis
that
ben
of
deceyte
and
flateringe
Som
men
put
venym
in
swete
drinkis
and
the
medicines
that
sonest
heleth
people
.
aren
byttre
,
and
of
euille
sauour
And
saide
.
It
is
a
foule
thing
to
be
so
curious
for
the
fedyng
of
the
body
.
that
it
hurteth
bothe
it
:
the
soule
And
saide
as
a
shipman
taketh
not
the
see
without
he
seth
that
he
hath
a
couenable
wynde
.
no
more
shuld
a
man
dispose
him
to
ony
maner
werkis
without
that
it
were
conuenable
for
the
soule
,
And
said
thou
oughtest
to
do
that
,
that
is
most
proufytable
for
the
body
.
and
rather
that
.
that
is
moost
couenable
for
thy
saule
.
&
not
to
do
the
contrarye
¶
And
said
he
that
can
wele
conseille
other
,
ought
to
conseille
wele
hym self
and
haue
remembraunce
to
the
saluacion
of
hys
saule
,
for
it
is
a
grete
vice
,
to
a
man
to
worship
&
helpe
another
and
disworship
and
hurt
hym self
¶
And
said
as
it
bycometh
euill
a
man
,
that
hath
afoule
&
vnclene
body
to
be
clothed
with
cloth
of
gold
or
with
cloth
of
sylke
.
right
so
it
is
afoule
thing
to
haue
grete
beawte
of
body
and
of
vysage
and
be
full
of
euill
werkys
.
And
said
we
ought
by
reason
to
kepe
cleenly
our
bodyes
.
we
ar
armor
specyaly
bounde
to
kepe
honestly
and
we
se
that
.
that
yeueth
vs
know
lege
of
our
lord
god
.
that
is
the
wysedom
of
the
saule
and
not
to
hurte
or
ouercom
it
with
meetes
or
drynkes
.
And
it
was
axid
of
him
howe
a
man
myght
kepe
him
from
Ire
And
he
ansuerd
,
in
remembryng
that
it
is
inpossible
he
shulde
al
weye
be
obeyed
,
but
that
he
must
somtyme
obeye
And
that
he
shall
not
alwaye
commaunde
but
he
shal
be
commaunded
.
And
also
that
god
seeth
all
thing
.
&
yf
he
hath
this
in
consideracion
.
he
shulde
not
longe
be
wroth
,
and
he
sawe
agrete
fatte
man
to
whom
he
saide
thou
paynes
the
sore
to
breke
the
wallis
of
thy
pryson
,
¶
And
said
whan
thou
shalt
correcte
another
shewe
hit
not
like
him
that
wold
benge
him
of
his
ennemy
but
do
as
the
phisician
that
cour
toysely
speketh
to
his
pacient
.
And
whan
thou
shalt
correcte
thyself
shewe
the
as
the
hurt
man
doth
to
hys
leech
SAint
Gregorie
seide
Recomaunde
to
god
the
begynnyng
&
the
ende
of
al
thy
werkis
And
said
studie
,
and
trauaylle
to
knowe
alle
thinges
,
and
reteyne
and
holde
wyth
the
thoos
that
ben
moost
proffytable
,
¶
And
saide
.
pouerte
is
euyll
.
but
euill
richesse
moche
worse
And
said
be
thou
pacient
and
haue
reason
in
thy
wrath
,
and
lighte
thy self
wyth
Sapience
in
stede
of
candel
and
presume
not
to
be
better
than
thou
art
.
but
thinke
thou
art
dedely
.
Repute
the
for
a
straunger
&
thou
shalt
worshippe
the
straungers
¶
And
saide
whan
thy
ship
shal
be
laden
with
grete
transquillite
than
thou
oughtest
fere
to
be
drowned
¶
And
said
men
ought
to
receyue
meryly
alle
that
god
sendeth
hem
.
¶
And
said
the
hattered
of
good
men
is
better
than
the
loue
of
euyl
peple
¶
And
sayd
frequente
and
haunte
the
companyes
of
wysemen
and
not
of
the
riche
¶
And
saide
dispraise
not
a
litel
of
goode
thinges
.
for
they
may
gretely
encresse
and
amende
¶
And
said
Endure
paciently
without
takyng
vengeance
.
GAlyen
was
one
of
the.
viij
.
leches
Right
excellent
in
medycine
.
whiche
were
al.
viij
.
superlatyf
aboue
all
other
lechis
.
of
the
whiche
the
first
was
Esculapyus
The
seconde
Gorius
The
therde
Myrius
The
four
the
Promenides
.
The.
v.
platon
.
The.
vj.
Esculapius
the
seconde
The.
vij
.
Ypocras
The.
viij
.
Galyen
whiche
had
none
like
to
him
,
He
was
borne
after
the
Incarnacion
of
oure
lord
.
ij
.
C.
yeres
And
he
composed
and
made
we
se
a
iiij
.
C.
volumes
of
bookis
among
which
therben
,
viij
,
that
ben
studyed
in
suche
thinges
as
men
desire
to
lerne
of
the
art
of
medicine
.
his
fader
was
right
diligent
to
put
him
to
the
scole
&
spendid
moche
good
vpon
him
,
&
sent
hym
in
to
the
countre
of
Asie
in
the
cite
of
Pargame
.
Athenes
Rome
&
Alexandrie
,
for
to
finde
the
best
maistres
,
And
there
he
lerned
physik
geometrie
,
gramayre
,
and
other
scienc̄es
And
he
lerned
physik
of
a
woman
called
cleopatre
whyche
taught
hym
many
goode
herbis
.
And
prouffitable
to
all
manere
of
sekenesses
.
And
he
dwelled
long
in
Egipte
for
to
knowe
all
thyse
herbis
¶
And
long
after
he
deyed
nygh
the
Cyte
of
Escam
,
fast
by
the
grene
see
.
in
the
marches
of
egypte
.
And
in
his
youthe
he
desired
gretly
to
knowe
the
science
demonstratiue
.
And
he
was
so
enclyned
to
lerne
hyt
.
that
whan
he
departed
from
the
scole
wyth
other
childeren
his
mynde
was
euer
vpon
that
.
that
hys
mayster
hadde
taught
hym
.
wherof
his
felowes
mokkyd
hym
And
axed
hym
why
he
wolde
not
play
,
and
sporte
hym
with
hem
.
To
whom
he
sayd
.
I
take
as
grete
pleasaunce
to
recorde
my
lesson
.
as
ye
do
in
your
pleyes
.
wher
of
hys
said
felawes
hadde
grete
meruaylle
.
¶
And
sayde
that
hys
fader
was
happy
to
haue
suche
a
childe
.
and
to
put
hym
to
the
scole
.
that
so
wele
loued
wysdom
.
hys
fader
was
a
grete
labourer
.
his
graunt
fader
was
a
souerayn
maystre
carpenter
.
and
hys
grauntsirs
fader
was
an
harper
and
meter
of
landes
whiche
is
the
science
of
geometrie
.
Galyen
was
at
Rome
in
the
reigne
of
kyng
Octauyen
whiche
reygned
after
Adrien
and
their
he
made
a
booke
of
anascomie
and
many
other
traityes
.
Som
sey
that
grete
part
of
hys
bookis
were
brent
and
among
hem
som
of
aristotilles
bookys
written
with
his
hand
&
of
danagoras
&
of
.
Andromache
and
a
booke
that
he
hadde
made
of
trya●…les
for
venyms
.
&
taught
the
kyng
of
grece
to
breke
the
hilles
.
and
felle
the
vallees
and
to
make
pleyne
weyes
in
ther
countres
and
edyfied
.
Cytees
and
closed
hem
wyth
bigge
walles
and
also
to
make
ryueres
renne
thorugh
the
townes
¶
And
in
other
places
.
where
nede
was
And
to
do
all
other
thinges
that
were
to
the
commone
proffyt
¶
And
in
thoos
dayes
they
hadde
more
delectacion
and
pleasaunce
to
the
goode
rule
and
gouernaunce
of
their
lordship
than
to
the
ease
&
pleasaunce
of
their
owne
bodyes
.
And
their
hertis
were
moche
sette
to
haue
goode
vnyuersitees
&
scoles
of
grete
clerkes
.
And
specially
in
physyke
¶
And
also
they
ordeigned
in
euery
Cuntre
and
region
certayn
folkis
to
gader
herbes
&
to
breng
them
to
the
maistres
of
physyke
for
to
preue
them
by
experience
¶
And
the
same
herbes
thus
approued
were
sent
to
the
kinges
closid
and
sealled
with
their
sealles
.
to
th
entent
that
they
shulde
not
be
chaunged
and
than
the
kynges
ordeigned
hem
for
seke
folkis
¶
And
the
said
Galyen
sayd
wysdom
can
not
prouffit
to
a
foole
Ne
wi●…e
to
him
that
vseth
it
not
¶
And
sayd
Heuynesse
cometh
of
the
thinges
passed
.
and
thought
of
thinges
to
comme
And
Galyen
was
foure
score
yere
and.
vij
.
whan
he
sayd
that
many
grete
lordes
be
Ignoraunte
.
Whan
they
be
more
enclyned
to
haue
fayre
horsses
and
riche
gownes
.
and
other
Iewels
.
than
to
wynne
goode
fame
by
good
condicions
¶
And
saide
The
physiciens
were
wont
to
haue
lordship
and
to
gouerne
seke
folkis
and
to
cause
them
to
do
suche
thinges
as
were
most
expedient
and
prouffitable
for
their
helth
.
and
no
seke
man
durst
disobeye
his
physycien
but
shulde
be
compelled
to
obeye
him
wherfore
they
were
the
the
soner
recouered
and
hole
.
¶
And
nowe
the
leches
been
subgettis
to
the
seke
folkis
And
be
compelled
to
handylle
hem
easely
.
and
softely
¶
And
to
yeue
hem
swete
drinckis
thogh
it
auayleth
hem
but
litill
,
and
ther fore
is
ther
the
more
sekenesses
,
and
lenger
vnhelth
¶
And
said
,
somtyme
thoo
that
were
moost
sobre
in
their
metis
and
lest
dranke
wyne
were
best
byloued
and
most
praysid
,
and
nowe
the
most
glottons
,
and
thoo
that
oftenest
ben
dronken
ar
the
most
set
by
,
and
the
rather
sette
atte
grete
lordes
bourdes
,
whiche
yeueth
euill
exempell
to
other
And
said
thou
mayst
wele
Instructe
all
men
,
sauf
onely
thoos
that
be
withoute
shame
.
¶
And
said
,
a
man
that
knoweth
wele
him self
hath
pouer
ynowe
to
correcte
him self
¶
And
said
a
man
may
loue
him self
so
moche
,
that
he
is
deceyued
therby
for
we
se
many
that
wene
and
seme
to
be
goode
,
and
ar
contrarye
,
¶
And
said
,
he
is
iuste
that
may
bothe
do
right
or
wronge
and
yet
kepe
Iustice
.
And
●…e
is
wyse
and
dyscrete
that
knoweth
that
,
that
suffisith
to
be
knowen
and
that
doth
vertuousely
to
euery
creature
And
sayd
like
as
a
seke
man
desireth
,
not
to
departe
from
his
phisicien
,
till
he
hath
recouerid
his
helth
whiche
he
cowde
not
do
by
him self
In
like
wyse
a
man
ought
to
desire
the
companye
of
a
confessour
for
the
helth
of
his
saule
And
he
sawe
a
man
that
was
gretly
made
of
and
cherisshed
with
kynges
for
the
strenght
of
his
body
of
whom
he
sayde
,
perauenture
It
shal
cause
him
to
repente
hit
at
last
IT
was
asked
of
one
called
protege
,
wherfore
it
was
that
one
of
his
neyghbours
made
dye
his
here
in
blak
,
he
ansuerd
,
by
cause
no
man
shulde
aske
to
lerne
sapience
of
him
,
&
plures
sayde
,
the
more
good
that
a
foole
hath
the
more
he
is
fowle
.
And
it
was
axid
of
one
aristan
,
whan
it
was
goode
to
lye
with
a
woman
,
he
ansuerd
,
at
al
tymes
whan
a
man
will
hurt
enpayre
and
feble
his
body
,
And
yt
was
asked
of
dymicrates
wherby
he
knewe
and
perceyued
best
his
witte
¶
He
ansuerd
In
that
,
that
I
thynke
,
I
vnderstande
aud
knowe
but
littylle
¶
And
saide
the
wyseman
that
replieth
ys
bettir
than
the
foole
that
accordeth
to
euery
porpose
,
And
ther
was
a
wyse
man
called
azee
,
that
was
a
prisonner
to
whom
his
mayster
axed
,
of
what
kynrede
he
was
He
ansuerd
enquere
not
of
my
lynage
,
but
axe
of
my
prudence
and
connynge
,
and
was
axed
of
another
called
,
Sygonce
.
also
prisonner
of
one
that
wolde
haue
bought
him
,
wherto
he
was
good
.
And
he
ansuerd
to
be
deliuerd
,
and
another
man
axid
of
hym
If
it
ware
goode
that
he
shulde
bye
hym
.
To
whom
he
ansuerd
I
am
nothing
worth
but
ye
or
som
other
bye
me
,
&
a nother
saide
he
dispraisith
him self
.
that
dispraiseth
alle
other
,
and
yeueth
him self
lawde
.
And
ther
was
one
that
praied
god
to
kepe
him
from
the
daunger
of
hys
frendis
And
it
was
asked
him
,
why
he
prayed
not
rather
,
that
god
sholde
kepe
him
from
his
enemyes
than
fro
his
frendes
¶
And
he
ansuerd
,
for
asmoche
.
as
I
may
wele
kepe
me
from
myn
ennemyes
in
whom
I
haue
no
trust
,
but
I
may
not
kepe
me
from
my
frende
whom
I
truste
.
It
was
axed
of
a
wyseman
whiche
be
the
moost
noble
worldly
thynges
To
whom
he
ansuerd
,
to
loue
sapience
,
and
to
hate
fooly
nat
to
be
aschamed
to
lerne
And
it
was
axed
of
Archasam
whiche
be
the
sciences
that
children
shulde
lerne
¶
He
ansuerd
thoos
that
cause
them
to
hate
ignorance
in
their
age
And
it
was
axed
of
another
.
why
he
wold
haue
no
siluer
and
he
answered
.
for
asmoche
as
it
cometh
to
men
by
fortune
&
is
kept
by
nygardship
&
couetise
&
is
often
foolishly
spent
&
to
euyl
vse
,
And
another
saide
the
loue
of
a
foole
shal
be
more
noysant
to
the
than
his
hatered
.
And
ther
was
a
man
that
saide
to
another
,
I
shall
put
my
peyne
and
dyligence
to
distroye
the.
¶
He
ansuerd
and
said
I
shal
enforce
me
to
distroye
thy
malyce
.
&
appease
thyn
Ire
And
ther
cam
bysore
a
kyng
.iij.
wysemen
The
one
was
a
greke
.
The
other
a
Iewe.
And
the
therde
a
sarasyn
.
of
whom
the
said
kyng
desirid
.
that
ych
of
them
wold
vtter
som
good
and
notable
sentence
.
Than
the
Greke
sayd
I
may
wele
correcte
and
amende
my
thoughtis
,
but
not
my
wordes
.
Than
the
Iewe
sayd
I
haue
meruayll
of
them
.
that
saye
thinges
preyudiciall
,
where
scilence
were
more
prouffitable
.
¶
And
the
sarasyn
saide
,
I
am
maister
ouer
my
wordes
/
or
it
be
pronunced
/
but
whan
it
is
spoken
I
am
seruaunt
therto
.
¶
And
It
was
axed
one
of
them
Who
myght
be
called
a
kyng
And
he
ansuerd
.
He
that
is
not
subgect
to
his
owne
will
¶
And
assaron
saide
to
an
euille
payer
that
desired
to
borowe
money
of
him
,
that
he
wolde
lene
him
none
.
for
I
knowe
wel
that
he
coude
not
displease
him
so
moche
in
refusing
the
lone
,
as
in
axyng
him
his
payement
ayen
¶
And
saide
,
The
wysemen
speke
with
good
deliberacion
,
&
the
fooles
speke
without
aduisement
¶
And
Teofrates
saide
he
is
of
good
condicion
that
reporteth
&
sayeth
good
of
other
folkis
,
&
kepeth
secret
their
defaultes
And
it
was
axed
of
disconie
what
thingis
were
most
necessarie
for
a
man
to
kepe
him
out
of
other
folkis
daunger
And
he
answered
If
he
be
riche
to
lyue
moderately
.
and
yf
he
be
pouer
to
laboure
dylygentely
¶
And
Nycomake
said
ther
is
not
so
goode
a
doctour
,
as
discrecion
,
ne
so
goode
apre
cher
as
ihe
tyme
,
&
he
that
correctith
hym
by
other
is
right
diligent
&
wele
occupyed
.
And
it
is
bettir
to
take
exemple
by
other
than
other
to
take
yt
by
hym
¶
And
Thymetus
said
.
medle
nor
vndertake
not
with
the
gouernaunce
of
a
foole
.
for
he
can
not
peyse
nor
conceyue
,
what
good
thou
doost
to
hym
,
no
more
than
a
horse
or
other
beestis
take
hede
wheder
they
be
charged
wyth
gold
or
grauell
,
and
yt
was
axed
of
Aathelyn
.
why
men
been
punisshed
for
their
mysdedes
.
and
not
for
their
thoughtes
¶
He
sayd
their
thoughtes
aren
reserued
onely
to
god
¶
And
〈◊〉
menyus
sayd
,
ther
be
.iij.
thyngis
that
a
prynce
ought
to
eschewe
.
The
fyrste
is
to
moche
drynkyng
.
The
seconde
is
to
moche
delectacion
in
musyke
.
¶
And
the
therde
dotyng
of
women
,
for
thyse
.iij.
thyngis
put
awey
alle
his
other
good
thoughtes
¶
And
sayd
thought
for
thingis
lost
and
euill
doon
.
that
can
not
be
amended
foryetyng
therof
is
the
medycine
.
¶
And
sayd
trouth
is
good
to
be
sayde
.
&
specially
whan
it
prouffyteth
euery
body
.
And
said
.
If
thou
can
not
atteyn
to
the
wysedom
of
auncient
men
at
the
lest
studye
and
see
ther
bookis
&
somme
profyt
thou
maeyst
haue
therby
.
And
quidarius
said
I
haue
meruayle
of
thoos
that
blame
so
moche
the
foule
thingis
vpon
other
and
think
hem
fayr
vpon
hem
self
Dimycrates
saide
pacience
is
a
castelle
imprenable
&
worship
is
the
fruyte
of
trouth
&
repentaunce
is
the
fruyte
of
haast
▪
And
it
was
axyd
of
dithomages
,
why
the
riche
men
be
more
prowde
than
wysemen
,
&
he
sayd
for
the
wysemen
knowen
and
dreede
our
lord
and
vnderstande
what
offence
pride
is
vnto
him
.
but
the
riche
man
taketh
none
hede
therto
.
And
som
axed
of
him
whiche
was
better
to
haue
sapience
or
richesse
.
And
he
sayde
.
ther
is
no
goode
richesse
,
but
it
be
aswele
proffytable
in
the
other
world
as
in
this
.
but
sapience
is
good
for
either
world
.
It
was
tolde
Aristotles
that
a
man
had
said
goode
of
him
.
And
he
saide
I
shal
recompense
it
,
They
axed
him
In
what
maner
.
And
he
sayd
I
will
seie
of
him
in
like
wyse
¶
And
Octyphon
saide
A
mannes
witte
can
not
atteyne
to
do
thinges
aboue
his
vnderstanding
.
but
vndre
he
may
execute
like
as
ye
may
put
no
more
wyn
in
a
pype
than
it
conteyneth
but
lesse
ye
may
¶
And
Oricas
saide
a
man
of
goode
vnderstanding
may
wele
eschewe
grete
quantite
of
the
infortunes
of
this
world
.
like
as
the
goode
shipman
knoweth
by
experience
the
weder
likly
to
be
in
the
see
¶
Samaron
saide
I
haue
lost
all
that
I
had
,
&
therfore
I
fere
no
thing
,
And
saide
In
all
thy
entreprises
,
haue
more
truste
in
thy
science
than
in
thy
strength
¶
Gregorius
saide
,
The
peyntours
may
wele
make
pictures
semblable
to
thinges
But
the
propre
thing
none
can
make
,
but
only
god
&
nature
¶
And
the
kyng
Armesys
calling
to
him
his
brethren
saide
to
them
,
If
ye
wol
repute
&
take
me
,
but
only
as
your
brother
I
wil
shewe
you
that
I
am
your
kyng
,
but
&
ye
take
me
for
your
kyng
I
shal
shewe
you
,
that
ye
ar
my
brethren
And
Tales
milostius
saide
I
haue
grete
meruayle
of
them
that
for
worldely
goodes
put
hem
dayly
in
perille
by
londe
&
by
water
of
deth
/
aswele
by
fete
of
merchandise
as
other
wyse
,
not
knowing
who
shall
succede
or
depart
their
good
after
their
deth
,
&
myght
with
lesse
daunger
&
peyne
lerne
Sapience
.
by
the
whiche
ther
goode
name
and
fame
shulde
be
more
lawded
and
praysed
,
as
it
is
sayde
in
a
prouerbe
,
he
is
not
dede
whoos
renomme
and
fame
lastith
Pyctagoras
sayde
,
Science
hath
non
ennemyes
,
but
ignorant
men
¶
And
saide
clateringe
of
fooles
is
displeysir
to
wysemen
,
Lyke
as
the
stenche
of
a
kareyn
is
to
them
that
smell
it
,
for
the
foole
knoweth
no
more
the
fawte
of
his
speche
than
the
kareyn
doth
of
his
stenche
,
And
it
was
axed
of
another
howe
men
myght
kepe
him
from
moche
drynking
And
he
ansuerd
in
beholding
wele
the
grete
that
be
fall
to
dronken
men
.
¶
And
Eugen●…
saide
Many
persones
hauyng
reason
and
vnderstandyng
axen
candell
,
and
light
for
to
ete
theyr
mete
,
but
fewe
persones
ther
be
that
kyndelle
&
sharpe
their
wyttes
in
geting
sciences
for
the
prouffyte
of
their
saules
.
And
Esecon
saide
,
deth
is
displesaunt
to
all
persones
sauff
to
the
wysemen
for
sapience
is
the
thing
that
moost
lettith
the
fere
of
deth
And
adrien
saide
,
If
I
shulde
not
loue
sapience
,
but
be
causes
he
dispraised
deth
,
yet
shulde
I
loue
her
¶
And
hermes
sayde
the
grete
prouffyt
that
I
haue
founde
in
sapience
Is
that
I
haue
composed
and
knyt
alle
my
thoughtes
in
one
And
quiramis
said
Amam
may
not
be
withoute
thoughtes
than
he
ought
to
remember
the
thinges
ppetuel
And
said
som
thinke
it
goode
,
that
euery
body
were
of
like
condycion
but
thinketh
the
contrarye
,
for
then
euery
man
wolde
commande
and
non
obeye
.
And
demepates
said
whan
thou
to
mest
in
to
a
straunge
countre
,
herken
disigently
.
after
the
langage
&
reason
of
the
peple
¶
And
if
thou
fynde
thy self
as
wyse
or
wyser
then
they
.
Endoctryne
them
.
And
ellys
peyn
thy self
to
lerne
of
theyre
lore
and
doctrine
rather
than
to
besy
the
in
other
ydell
and
wyne
occupacions
¶
A
phylosopher
whiche
was
dysciple
of
Pytagoras
saide
,
He
ought
not
to
be
callid
manly
that
wylle
strike
him
.
that
can
not
defende
him self
¶
And
Silde
seide
in
all
thingis
the
meane
is
best
¶
And
to
lyne
warely
is
a
grete
tresure
¶
And
to
lyue
wastfully
causith
pouerte
¶
And
it
is
inpossible
to
please
all
men
ther
with
And
saide
.
be
not
wroth
with
him
that
sayth
trouth
.
haue
pacience
and
good
shal
come
to
the
therfore
¶
And
said
the
wykkid
lordis
resemble
to
the
dronken
men
that
in
their
dronkenship
hate
all
fayre
and
goode
vertues
.
and
louen
alle
vices
and
filthys
but
when
his
dronkenship
is
passed
he
is
ashamed
of
his
dedis
¶
And
saide
.
A
kyng
of
goode
witte
&
discrecion
ought
to
be
wele
content
and
pleased
,
when
men
offre
him
their
seruice
And
ought
in
his
peas
and
prosperice
to
worship
&
cherisshe
his
knyghtis
&
men
of
werre
and
to
paye
them
wele
their
wages
.
all
be
it
he
wene
to
haue
none
ennemyes
,
for
he
can
not
be
sure
,
howe
sone
he
shal
haue
nede
of
his
seruauntis
¶
And
Melious
saide
He
is
not
riche
to
whom
the
richesses
lasten
but
litil
.
ne
fre
whan
they
may
be
lyghtly
taken
.
But
the
laudable
Rychesses
len
thoos
.
that
duren
perpetuelly
¶
And
Brakalyke
sayd
,
The
couetous
man
.
hath
noo
reste
.
¶
And
the
nygard
may
neuer
by
Ryche
,
¶
And
Phelype
kyng
of
Macedone
saide
to
thoos
that
counseylled
hym
to
bren
the
Cyte
of
Athenes
¶
whan
he
hadde
wonne
it
.
We
shuld
than
seme
men
dyscounfyt
.
where
we
haue
ouercomme
our
ennemyes
¶
And
Archydes
sayd
.
The
tunge
may
welle
make
lesyngis
.
wythoute
th
assent
of
the
herte
And
ther
fore
it
is
conuenient
that
the
tonge
and
the
hert
be
of
one
opynyon
¶
And
said
,
Make
no
desir
to
god
for
that
,
that
thou
mayest
wele
haue
,
whiche
is
suffisaunce
but
pray
and
require
him
that
,
that
thou
hast
may
suffise
the
Pitagoras
saide
,
he
that
beleueth
not
the
resurection
of
man
is
like
a
dome
beeste
that
fallith
for
febilnes
¶
And
said
A
man
ought
to
do
his
werkis
,
by
deliberacion
,
&
by
grete
prouision
and
not
sodaynly
¶
And
said
yf
thou
wil
excede
thyn
ennemy
,
calle
him
no
foole
nor
taletellar
nor
obiecte
none
of
his
vices
,
for
thy
blamyng
wer
to
him
agrete
laude
.
¶
And
saide
he
that
wolde
be
laudid
of
his
work●…s
ought
to
haue
a
trewe
frende
to
reporte
them
¶
And
said
kepe
thy
frende
aboue
all
thingis
¶
And
thinke
what
●…est
thou
shalt
haue
,
yf
thou
lake
a
trewe
frende
,
if
thy
house
fall
down
,
thou
shal
not
lese
therby
,
but
the
departing
of
the
sto:nes
&
the
tymbre
,
but
if
thou
lese
thy
frende
,
thou
mayst
ge●…
therby
many
ennemyes
.
¶
And
saide
whan
a
man
is
in
grete
Ire
&
wrath
,
he
may
be
likened
to
an
house
taken
with
fire
in
which
,
for
the
quantite
of
the
smoke
&
of
the
noyse
of
the
fiere
,
ther
may
no
man
see
ne
here
therin
&
may
also
be
likened
to
a
shyp
in
an
outrageous
tempest
in
the
see
,
whyche
wil
not
be
wele
condyted
nor
stered
for
the
feruentnesse
of
the
same
tempest
,
&
so
whan
a
mannes
blode
&
corage
is
ste
red
with
wrathe
and
Ire
,
ther
may
no
persuasions
nor
holsom
counseil
auail
nor
stere
him
to
his
proufit
,
&
is
so
curs
sid
that
a
litill
sparke
of
hyt
makith
lightly
a
grete
fiere
yet
wrath
is
many
a
tyme
pacefied
by
silence
,
as
the
fiere
quenchith
when
the
brondis
be
taken
awey
,
Also
a
dronken
man
can
nat
perceyue
his
dronkenship
til
he
be
sobre
,
&
after
whan
he
seeth
another
dronken
,
he
knoweth
therby
in
what
was
he
was
in
¶
Also
the
angred
man
retourned
by
his
pacience
&
seeth
another
angry
,
may
wele
perceyue
his
owne
defawtes
¶
And
saide
.
We
see
comonly
women
sonner
angry
than
men
,
the
seke
men
rather
than
the
hole
.
the
olde
man
lightlyer
than
the
yonge
.
wherfore
it
is
to
be
thought
that
wrath
cometh
of
feblenesse
of
courage
,
And
a
maistre
rebuked
his
clerck
seyng
,
holde
thy
peas
bondemans
sone
And
he
ansuerd
,
I
am
not
the
lesse
worth
for
my
kynne
But
thou
art
the
wors
for
thy
condicions
¶
And
saide
A
wyseman
ought
to
saye
that
,
that
is
conuenient
&
somtyme
to
here
that
,
that
is
not
to
be
said
¶
And
saide
ther
is
no
thing
that
greueth
somoche
thy
frende
,
as
to
shewe
him
that
thou
hast
him
suspect
And
saide
Companye
&
dele
so
with
the
peple
,
that
they
wissche
after
thy
p̄sense
.
whan
thou
art
absent
,
&
that
they
lament
&
be
waile
thy
deth
a
man
wepte
whan
his
sone
was
boren
,
And
it
was
axid
of
him
why
he
wepte
&
ought
rather
to
be
ioyefull
.
And
he
ansuerd
I
wepe
for
my
sone
that
goth
nowe
to
warde
his
deth
,
And
it
was
axed
of
him
what
maner
peple
be
leest
behated
And
he
ansuerd
thoo
that
may
nother
helpe
nor
hurt
&
that
doth
nother
good
nor
harme
,
for
the
euil
peple
hate
the
goode
,
&
the
goode
hate
the
euil
And
saide
Custume
is
harder
to
breke
than
nature
.
And
said
ther
ben
,
ij
,
maner
of
abstinence
One
is
with
goode
wyl
.
&
the
other
by
force
.
whiche
is
not
goode
.
And
a nother
saide
,
speke
but
prouffitable
thinges
nor
ete
no
more
than
for
thy
sustynaunce
,
&
seke
to
haue
nothing
,
but
that
is
possible
to
be
had
.
ne
compleyne
the
not
of
thy
frendis
,
take
none
vnhope
of
that
.
that
thou
maist
not
amende
Aske
nothing
of
the
couetous
man
,
teche
that
thou
can
,
yeue
that
thou
hast
.
haue
pacience
in
thyn
aduersitees
Do
to
be
written
in
thy
seale
or
in
thy
signet
/
bothe
goode
peple
and
bad
shal
ende
,
&
beholde
that
sentence
often
.
And
said
.
Short
remembraunce
&
hastenesse
of
speche
maketh
many
a
tyme
man
fayle
and
erre
in
his
Iugement
.
And
one
Rebuked
a
wyseman
,
To
the
whiche
the
wyseman
saide
.
Thou
rebukes
me
nat
of
alle
my
vices
.
And
It
was
axid
of
him
,
why
he
wolde
haue
no
sone
.
he
ansuerd
I
had
leuer
be
withoute
.
for
whan
I
beholde
the
grette
loue
that
a
man
hath
to
his
chylde
&
the
grette
peynes
&
troubles
he
hath
to
bryng
him
vp
,
and
atte
last
must
lese
him
,
that
sorowe
were
more
to
me
,
than
the
Ioye
.
It
was
aduised
one
that
was
goyng
in
a
ferre
vyage
,
that
he
shuld
nat
holde
his
Iurney
,
lest
he
dyed
therin
¶
And
he
ansuerd
That
deth
is
alle
one
to
me
,
be
it
in
other
Countrees
or
at
home
And
It
was
axid
of
another
what
thing
is
not
to
be
don
though
it
be
iuste
&
trew
And
he
ansuerd
a
man
ought
not
to
prayse
him self
.
of
eny
of
hys
goode
dedis
¶
And
saide
It
is
somtyme
good
to
spare
the
sothe
for
to
yeue
hope
to
his
ennemyes
,
&
to
saue
his
frendis
from
deth
for
trouth
nedeth
not
alwayes
be
said
¶
And
it
was
axid
of
him
what
thing
was
most
delectable
¶
And
he
ansuerd
helthe
whiche
is
not
sure
to
be
kept
long
in
one
degre
&
is
moste
diffycile
.
¶
And
said
.
A
man
that
desireth
to
come
to
eny
grete
wele
,
ought
not
to
leue
it
though
he
atteyn
not
therto
at
the
first
.
but
ought
to
continue
his
entreprise
for
it
cometh
at
one
tyme
.
that
cometh
nat
at
.
C.
And
saide
the
wyseman
is
not
deceyued
by
flateringis
deceyuable
or
swete
wordes
,
like
as
the
snake
,
whiche
ys
taken
&
eten
by
the
pecok
in
beholding
the
fayr
fethres
of
his
tayle
.
And
awitty
prince
may
helpe
him
in
his
warres
aswele
with
bad
peple
as
with
good
in
diuers
maners
¶
And
said
If
thou
ha●…e
a
man
.
thou
oughtest
not
therfore
hate
all
his
seruantes
¶
And
said
.
Though
a
man
haue
bought
abooke
It
compelleth
hym
not
to
studye
and
rede
therm
And
said
.
Men
ought
to
serue
god
in
.
x.
maneris
.
that
is
to
wytte
.
to
yelde
him
graces
.
for
the
benefetes
that
he
hath
yeue
hym
.
to
bere
paciently
hys
aduersitees
to
speke
trewly
.
to
paye
all
that
he
promytteth
,
to
Iuge
right
wysely
to
be
temperate
.
to
do
goode
dedis
after
hys
pouer
or
he
be
required
.
to
worschipe
hys
frendis
.
to
foryeue
the
fawtes
of
hys
ennemyes
.
to
desire
nor
do
ony
thyng
to
ony
man
but
as
he
wolde
be
don
to
¶
And
one
was
blamed
bicause
he
hadde
yeuen
his
siluer
to
an
euylle
persone
.
beyng
in
ne
cessite●…
¶
And
he
said
I
haue
not
yeuen
hym
my
siluer
for
hys
badnes
.
but
by
cause
he
was
in
necessite
¶
And
saide
excercite
of
diuers
labours
is
helth
and
delectacion
of
the
body
¶
And
was
axed
him
.
sithen
whan
he
was
waxed
wyse
.
And
he
ansuerd
.
sithen
the
tyme
that
I
began
to
disprayse
and
mystxyst
my self
.
he
herde
a
man
reherse
lesingis
and
vntrewe
wordes
.
To
whom
he
sayd
.
If
thou
hardest
another
fey
.
that
thou
sayest
.
thou
woldest
not
byleue
him
wherefore
thou
maeyst
wel
thynke
noman
bileueth
the
¶
And
Aristophanus
sayd
.
Victorie
of
worde
is
not
victorie
in
dede
.
but
the
veray
victorie
is
in
the
werke
.
And
Anaxagoras
sayde
A
good
wyseman
fereth
not
the
deth
for
wysedom
gouerneth
hys
wytte
.
hys
tonge
&
hys
voyce
trouth
gydeth
his
herte
and
his
will
,
pytie
&
mercy
ben
his
frendis
.
seking
of
wysemen
ben
his
fete
,
his
lordship
is
Iustyce
.
his
reigne
is
mesure
.
his
swerde
is
grace
,
his
wepen
is
peas
,
his
arowe
is
saluacion
,
his
knyghthode
is
the
counseylle
of
wysemen
.
his
ornamentis
ben
strength
,
his
tresoure
is
discipline
.
his
loue
is
the
companye
of
good
peple
,
his
loue
&
all
his
desir
is
to
fle
synne
&
to
serue
&
loue
god
.
And
saide
A
grette
tresour
is
to
haue
frendis
&
is
a
noble
affection
,
wherfore
it
is
conuenient
to
cherisshe
&
kepe
hem
wele
,
&
to
winne
one
by
another
as
oon
byrd
draweth
many
moo
into
his
company
And
a
kyng
axid
of
a
wrse
man
whom
he
reputed
able
to
be
a
good
Iuge
And
he
ansuerd
He
that
is
not
deceyued
by
flateries
/
that
is
not
corrupt
by
yeftes
,
&
is
not
deceyued
for
fawte
of
discrecion
¶
And
another
saide
Sclandrers
ben
wors
than
theues
,
for
theues
stele
but
the
goodes
&
sclandrers
take
&
distroye
loue
And
another
said
worship
yeuen
without
cause
atte
last
tourneth
to
shame
.
¶
And
another
saide
It
were
better
to
be
in
companye
&
conuersaunt
with
a
serpent
.
than
with
an
euil
woman
.
And
saide
one
ought
to
doubte
the
subtilitees
&
craftes
of
his
ennemy
if
he
be
wyse
,
and
if
●…e
be
a
fole
th●…
drede
his
folies
And
another
said
the
most
liberal
in
this
worlde
is
he
that
reputeth
for
a
grete
thing
the
goode
dedis
that
be
don
to
him
&
that
he
reputeth
for
litil
that
he
hath
don
to
other
&
that
holdeth
him
content
with
that
he
hath
be
he
pouer
or
riche
.
&
said
the
moost
nigard
of
al
men
is
he
that
axid
inportunatly
after
he
is
ones
denied
&
refused
his
asking
,
and
another
said
enuie
distroieth
the
world
&
freteth
&
wereth
it
as
the
filth
of
a
gonge
doth
euery
swetnesse
.
&
another
said
,
like
as
no
thing
may
be
writen
in
a
peyre
of
tables
all
redy
wryten
in
,
with
out
the
first
writyng
be
put
out
,
All
in
like
wyse
the
vertues
and
noblesses
may
not
be
hadde
in
no
body
withouten
the
vices
&
wrecchednesses
been
first
put
awey
And
another
saide
like
as
a
man
may
not
all
at
ones
,
by
holde
with
one
eye
the
skye
,
&
with
the
other
the
erth
,
In
like
wyse
a
man
may
not
arredye
&
dispose
his
wytte
to
vertues
,
&
to
vyces
to
gyder
¶
And
another
saide
the
right
stedefaste
loue
is
whan
the
frendis
ben
of
like
condicions
,
and
yf
they
be
dyuerse
or
contrarious
vnneth
that
loue
many
long
endure
¶
And
saide
peple
ought
to
dowte
their
kyng
&
him
obeye
with
fere
&
in
loue
.
And
som
axed
him
whan
the
witte
of
man
was
parfeyte
¶
And
he
sayd
whan
that
he
speketh
trouth
¶
And
another
saide
the
enuious
hateth
the
liberall
,
and
the
nygarde
is
wroth
with
that
another
spendeth
▪
And
another
said
al
getting
may
not
be
iustified
ne
helth
may
not
be
by
glotonie
,
n●…
frendeship
with
decepcion
ne
noblesse
with
badde
discipline
ne
loue
with
pride
ne
iustice
with
necessite
ne
rest
of
hert
with
enuie
ne
witte
&
discrecion
with
vengeaunce
nor
proces
without
conseill
And
another
said
truste
not
a
foole
nother
for
loue
ne
for
neyghbourship
for
it
were
as
good
to
haue
to
thy
neyghbour
ahouse
take
with
fiere
.
&
another
said
he
is
thy
grete
ennemy
whoos
werkis
ben
harde
bittre
&
noyeng
to
the
&
his
wordes
swete
&
curtoys
,
&
another
said
the
wysemen
endure
here
al
their
lyues
lasting
,
&
after
their
deth
their
goode
workes
shal
lasten
in
mennes
myndes
.
&
another
said
consideracion
of
the
ende
of
the
workis
helpeth
moche
to
the
goode
conclusion
And
another
said
,
thou
ought
to
loue
though
thou
be
not
loued
¶
And
another
sayde
a
foole
weneth
ener
that
god
hath
no
thing
we
le
don
nor
employed
,
but
that
he
hath
yeuen
him
&
semeth
that
he
coude
haue
made
&
ordeigned
this
world
bettir
than
god
hath
don
,
how
be
it
he
can
not
goune
his
owne
persone
onely
And
another
saide
be
willyng
to
yeue
the
nedy
peple
,
&
in
so
doyng
thou
shalt
do
seruice
&
pleaser
to
our
lord
god
And
another
said
bettir
is
a
man
to
holde
his
peas
than
to
contrarye
&
argue
with
a
foole
/
&
is
as
good
to
haue
the
ennemyte
of
bad
peple
as
their
frende
ship
,
&
the
harde
&
the
sharp
lyf
in
wele
doyng
.
is
bettir
than
the
swettest
in
doyng
euil
dedis
,
&
it
is
bettir
to
be
without
fame
than
to
haue
hit
bad
,
&
pouerte
is
bettir
than
the
riches
of
keytyues
.
&
the
poure
man
without
vices
is
bettir
than
the
riche
man
that
is
worshipped
for
his
synnes
And
another
saide
It
were
bettir
not
to
knowe
an
inuiste
kyng
than
to
be
his
cōseyllour
,
or
next
in
his
grace
And
another
said
If
thou
yeue
for
to
haue
fame
only
therby
that
is
not
life
ralite
for
thou
dost
it
but
forthyn
owne
auayse
¶
And
another
said
He
ys
of
no
laudable
lyf
that
is
not
this
day
as
good
or
bettir
▪
as
he
was
the
day
passed
And
another
said
thou
shalt
not
mowe
haue
that
.
that
thou
desirest
withoute
that
thou
bere
paciently
the
greues
that
thou
woldest
not
haue
And
another
said
a
man
shal
be
in
thy
handes
as
long
as
he
shal
truste
the
And
it
was
axid
of
a
wyseman
,
why
he
desired
not
to
haue
a
sone
,
he
ansuerd
by
cause
that
I
haue
had
ynough
a
do
for
to
chastise
my
body
and
to
adresse
my
soule
without
hauing
eny
other
persone
to
rule
or
teche
¶
And
it
was
axid
of
him
,
who
was
he
that
most
repenteth
him
in
thys
world
.
¶
And
he
answered
.
The
wyseman
at
hys
deth
,
by
cause
that
he
hath
not
wrought
allwayes
after
sapience
&
he
that
hath
don
goode
to
an
vnkinde
man
.
And
it
was
axed
of
him
,
what
thing
encresed
the
lawe
He
ansuerd
trouth
.
And
what
sustyneth
trouth
,
Reason
and
wytte
&
wherby
is
wytte
gouerned
,
by
kepyng
of
the
tong
,
&
howe
is
the
tonge
kept
,
with
pacience
,
what
causeth
pacience
deed
of
god
.
and
what
causeth
dred
of
god
.
Often
to
speke
&
remembre
deth
,
and
to
considere
and
knowe
his
fraylnes
¶
And
other
said
superfluyte
maketh
the
body
seke
wyn
troublith
the
wytte
,
wrath
is
contrarye
to
wysedom
,
but
tem
perance
conforteth
the
hert
,
and
put
aweye
al
heuinesse
and
causith
helth
.
¶
And
saide
howe
be
it
that
a
wyse
man
be
of
lowe
kynred
yet
is
he
noble
,
and
though
he
be
astranger
he
shold
be
worshipped
,
&
though
he
be
pouer
yet
the
peple
haue
nede
of
him
¶
And
auother
saide
he
that
endureth
&
taketh
no
payn
in
his
youth
restith
him
not
in
his
age
.
And
another
sayde
the
errour
of
a
foole
yeueth
litille
veste
to
hys
thoughtis
.
And
another
saide
the
tonge
of
adiscrete
man
is
in
his
herte
&
the
herte
of
a
foole
is
in
his
tonge
,
And
a nother
saide
not
withstanding
thy
nature
vse
euer
more
goode
&
laudable
condicions
And
another
said
a
man
ought
continuelly
to
enquere
what
men
say
of
him
&
where
in
they
lawde
him
&
wher
in
thei
blame
him
if
they
lawde
him
he
to
yeue
that
cause
continuelly
withoute
pride
therof
&
yf
they
blame
him
,
he
to
beware
from
fallyng
any
more
in
to
that
caas
and
not
to
hate
hem
for
thair
auertissement
¶
And
saide
he
is
,
wyse
that
is
humble
and
meke
in
his
myght
&
pouoir
.
¶
And
whan
he
is
in
grete
astate
to
dysprayse
the
world
,
and
is
attemperate
in
grete
auctorite
.
And
one
desired
of
a
wyseman
to
telle
him
the
difference
bytwyx
this
world
and
the
other
world
.
And
he
ansuerd
.
this
world
is
Adreme
,
And
the
other
world
is
a
thyng
a
waked
¶
And
another
saide
.
Bettir
is
to
speke
wele
than
to
kepe
scilence
.
and
bettir
to
kepe
silence
than
to
speke
euil
And
another
saide
I
haue
acompayned
me
with
the
riche
men
&
haue
seen
their
riche
arraye
clothing
&
other
thingis
better
than
myn
were
.
wherof
I
had
suche
enuie
&
mesan●…o
lye
that
I
myght
haue
no
reste
in
my self
,
Than
I
acompayned
me
with
pouer
men
,
like
as
I
was
,
&
than
I
was
satisfyed
&
in
peace
And
another
saide
like
as
a
man
that
is
in
a
derke
kaue
may
not
se
his
propre
figure
.
In
like
wyse
the
soule
that
is
not
clene
nor
pure
may
not
clerely
se
perceyue
ne
knowe
the
trewe
and
perfytte
goodenesse
of
almyghty
god
¶
And
another
saide
like
as
the
children
whan
they
be
borne
in
peyne
&
entred
into
this
world
reioysse
hem
after
whan
they
be
grete
,
&
fele
the
delices
and
eases
therof
,
In
like
wyse
men
be
sorowfull
whan
they
shal
dye
.
yet
if
they
haue
lyued
wele
.
they
go
after
in
to
a
〈◊〉
world
.
where
they
than
shal
resioysse
them
perpetually
¶
And
another
said
,
As
the
goodenesse
of
wysemen
goth
eumore
in
a
mending
In
like
wyse
goth
the
malices
of
the
fooles
euery
day
in
empayring
¶
And
another
said
If
thou
correcte
a
wyseman
,
he
shal
thanke
the
therfore
,
&
if
thou
teche
a
foole
.
he
shal
dyspreyse
the
¶
And
saide
He
ys
thy
verray
frende
that
in
thy
necessite
offerith
him self
&
alle
his
goodes
vnto
the
And
another
saide
the
gouernour
of
a
wyseman
is
pacience
and
the
goueruour
of
a
foole
is
pride
.
And
another
said
a
man
that
is
slowthfull
in
his
werkis
is
commonely
enuious
of
the
wele
of
other
men
¶
And
another
sayde
It
is
goode
toenquere
twies
of
thinges
vnknowen
,
for
the
first
question
is
of
wille
,
and
the
seconde
is
of
discrecion
And
another
saide
trouth
is
goddes
messager
wherefore
she
must
be
worshipped
for
the
loue
of
her
maister
¶
And
another
said
,
he
that
multiplieth
hys
temporall
goodes
dyminueth
his
espūalles
.
And
another
saide
thoos
that
byleue
and
drede
god
stedfastlye
haue
not
delectacion
but
onely
in
him
&
in
his
werkis
¶
And
another
saide
the
moost
laudable
werkis
that
one
may
doo
is
to
obeye
the
maundementes
&
pleaser
of
our
lord
god
,
and
the
werke
of
the
body
Ioigned
to
the
werke
of
the
herte
is
more
laudable
than
the
werke
of
the
herte
onely
¶
And
another
said
the
euile
creatures
been
wors
than
serpentes
lyons
or
caraynes
,
And
in
like
wyse
as
vpon
the
erthe
,
ther
is
nothing
bettir
than
the
goode
creatures
Right
so
ther
is
no
thing
wors
than
thoos
that
be
wykked
.
¶
And
another
saide
he
that
taketh
vpon
him
higher
astate
,
than
to
him
bilongith
,
putteth
grete
peyn
to
be
euill
spoken
of
¶
And
a nother
saide
he
that
will
haue
reste
in
his
lyf
,
ought
to
kepe
hym
from
.
iiij
.
occasions
,
the
first
is
that
he
ought
not
to
be
wroth
though
som
creature
lyue
,
whiche
he
wolde
haue
dede
seconde
is
yf
som
dye
whiche
he
wolde
haue
alyue
.
th●…
therde
is
.
yf
he
hath
not
that
,
that
he
desireth
.
and
the
fourthe
is
.
yf
he
see
that
fortune
raise
and
bring
vp
somother
of
lower
degre
than
he
is
¶
And
another
saide
to
entermedle
and
dele
litille
with
worldely
werkis
is
a
thing
that
may
best
kepe
a
man
from
alle
inconuenientis
.
¶
And
another
saide
the
more
a
wyseman
is
alone
the
greter
is
his
Ioye
be
it
day
or
nyght
And
another
said
the
euil
disposed
king
is
like
a
caraygne
that
maketh
the
erth
stenke
aboute
it
,
&
the
goode
king
is
like
the
fayer
rennyng
ryuire
that
is
prouffitable
to
the
creatures
And
another
said
The
wysemen
ar
nat
content
to
prouffite
onely
them self
,
but
semblably
do
auantage
to
other
,
&
the
fooles
hurte
not
onely
them self
,
but
rather
take
grete
labour
to
hurte
&
trouble
other
folkes
And
another
said
,
a
foole
for
a
litill
thing
exposeth
him
●…ightly
to
fortune
.
And
said
thou
maiest
not
be
so
wele
arrayed
nor
be
seen
,
as
with
trouth
,
And
another
saide
absteynyng
from
wrath
and
couetise
is
a
laudable
thing
aswele
in
this
worlde
,
as
in
the
other
¶
And
another
saide
,
he
that
yeueth
conseyle
&
praysith
it
him self
wold
feyn
be
callid
〈◊〉
And
another
said
lete
not
to
do
wele
though
thy
good
dedis
ben
not
knowen
,
for
wele
doyng
is
so
goode
of
hit
self
that
it
shal
be
willable
ynough
to
the
att●…
last
And
another
saide
,
a
man
of
goode
discrecion
,
ought
not
to
excercise
hym
in
thinges
inpossible
,
ne
say
thinges
not
willable
,
●…e
spende
more
than
his
wynnyng
is
,
ne
promette
more
,
than
he
may
fullfille
And
another
said
,
a
man
may
haue
but
payne
&
labour
in
thys
world
And
said
he
that
eteth
not
shal
dye
for
hungre
,
&
if
he
eteth
more
than
ynough
he
shal
be
seke
wherfor
it
is
a
difficile
thing
to
a
man
to
be
longe
in
helth
And
another
seide
trust
him
not
that
forswerith
his
fe●…th
for
worldely
thinges
And
another
said
Idelnesse
eng●…dreth
ignoraunce
,
&
ignoraunce
engendreth
errour
.
And
another
said
thou
shalt
finde
eueri
where
clothing
mete
,
&
place
for
to
dwelle
in
if
thou
be
ought
,
but
&
that
suffiseth
the
not
that
is
to
the
necessarie
,
thou
shalt
be
subgect
to
couetise
,
&
yet
thou
shalt
lakke
thy
desir
And
another
said
In
long
sleping
is
no
proffite
,
but
harme
is
to
vse
it
,
&
a
man
ought
to
beware
that
he
dispende
not
half
his
lyf
in
Idelnesse
,
And
another
said
the
goode
soule
,
wol
haue
no
rest
in
this
world
than
he
that
wol
haue
a
goode
soule
,
ought
to
beware
of
to
moche
rest
,
And
another
said
beware
of
the
companye
of
a
lyer
in
all
thy
werkis
,
be
they
in
grete
auctorite
or
in
smal
And
another
said
he
that
loueth
the
with
feynt
loue
&
for
worldely
thingis
shal
hate
the
in
like
wyse
,
but
he
that
loueth
the
for
the
perpetuel
we
le
shal
growe
eumore
in
thy
loue
.
And
another
said
goune
the
so
wele
that
thou
kepe
the
from
euil
doing
,
&
suffise
the
with
the
goode
dedis
that
thou
shalt
do
besyde
,
And
another
sayd
he
that
wil
wite
whethir
his
soule
be
noble
&
clene
.
or
foule
&
corrupt
,
he
ought
to
considere
his
disectaciō
&
his
conscience
,
&
if
he
delyteth
him
in
doyng
good
vertues
&
noble
thingis
without
harm
,
than
his
soule
is
clene
&
noble
,
&
if
he
delyteth
him
in
doing
foule
&
transitorie
thinges
&
of
no
value
than
his
soule
is
foule
,
for
euery
thing
resioyeth
with
hies
semblable
,
the
good
with
the
goode
,
&
the
euil
with
the
euill
And
another
saide
,
he
is
happy
that
goeth
the
right
wey
,
for
he
findeth
sooner
therby
the
place
whedir
he
wold
go
,
&
he
that
gooth
oute
of
his
weye
/
the
more
he
gooth
,
the
ferther
he
is
behinde
And
it
was
axid
of
a
wyseman
what
was
ꝑ●…aytte
folye
,
he
ansuerd
to
think
to
com
to
a
good
astate
&
prosperite
by
bad
werkis
,
to
loue
falshed
&
hate
trouth
,
to
take
delectacion
in
richesses
,
&
to
trust
euery
man
.
&
it
was
axid
of
him
what
is
the
signe
of
litil
forsight
&
litill
knowlege
,
he
ansuerd
one
to
yeue
trust
wher
he
hath
ben
deceyued
.
And
suffise
you
with
the
translacion
of
the
sayngis
of
these
philosopheres
HEre
endeth
the
book
named
the
dictes
or
sayengis
of
the
philosophres
enprynted
.
by
me
william
Caxton
at
westmestre
the
yere
of
our
lord
.
M.
CCCC
.
Lxx
vij
.
Whiche
book
is
late
translated
out
of
Frenshe
into
englyssh
.
by
the
Noble
and
puissant
lord
Lord
Antone
Erle
of
Ryuyers
lord
of
Scales
&
of
the
Ile
of
wyght
,
Defendour
and
directour
of
the
siege
apostolique
,
for
our
holy
Fader
the.
Pope
in
this
Royame
of
Englond
and
Gouernour
of
my
lord
Prince
of
wales
And
It
is
so
that
at
suche
tyme
as
he
had
accomplysshid
this
sayd
werke
,
it
liked
him
to
sende
it
to
me
in
certayn
quayers
to
ouer
see
,
whiche
forthwith
I
sawe
&
fonde
therin
many
grete
.
notable
.
&
wyse
sayengis
of
the
philosophres
Acordyng
vnto
the
bookes
made
in
frenshe
whiche
I
had
ofte
afore
redd
But
certaynly
I
had
seen
none
in
englissh
til
that
tyme
¶
And
so
afterward
I
cam
vnto
my
sayde
lord
&
tolde
him
how
I
had
red
&
seen
his
book
And
that
he
had
don
a
meritory
dede
in
the
labour
of
the
translacion
therof
in
to
our
englissh
tunge
,
wherin
he
had
deseruid
a
singuler
lawde
&
thank
¶
Thenne
my
said
lord
desired
me
to
ouersee
it
and
where
as
I
shold
fynd
faute
to
correcte
it
wherein
I
answerd
vnto
his
lordship
,
that
I
coude
not
amende
it
But
yf
I
sholde
so
presume
I
myght
apaire
it
For
it
was
right
wel
&
connygly
made
and
translated
into
right
good
and
fayr
englissh
,
Not
withstondyng
he
willed
me
to
ouersee
it
&
shewid
me
dyuerce
thinges
whiche
as
him
semed
myght
be
left
out
as
diuerce
lettres
missiues
sent
from
Alisander
to
darius
&
aristotle
and
eche
to
other
.
which
lettres
were
lityll
appertinent
vnto
the
dyctes
and
sayenges
aforsayd
for
as
moche
as
they
specifye
of
other
maters
,
And
also
desired
me
that
don
to
put
the
said
booke
in
enprinte
.
And
thus
obeyng
hys
request
and
comaundement
I
haue
put
me
in
deuoyr
to
ouersee
this
his
sayd
book
and
beholden
as
nygh
as
I
coude
howe
It
accordeth
wyth
thorigynal
beyng
in
frensh
¶
And
I
finde
nothyng
discordaunt
therin
.
Sauf
onely
in
the
dyctes
and
sayengys
of
Socrates
,
Wherin
I
fynde
that
my
saide
lord
hath
left
out
certayn
and
dyuerce
conclusions
towchyng
wymen
,
Wherof
I
meruaille
that
my
sayd
lord
hath
not
wreton
them
.
ne
what
hath
meuyd
him
so
to
do
Ne
what
cause
he
hadde
at
that
tyme
.
But
I
suppose
that
som
fayre
lady
hath
desired
him
to
leue
it
out
of
his
booke
▪
Or
ellyes
he
was
amerous
on
somme
noble
lady
.
for
whoos
loue
he
wold
not
sette
it
in
his
book
,
or
ellis
for
the
very
affeccion
loue
and
good
wylle
that
he
hath
vnto
alle
ladyes
and
Gentylwomen
.
he
thought
that
Socrates
spared
the
sothe
¶
And
wrote
of
wymen
more
than
trouthe
.
whiche
I
can
not
thinke
that
so
trewe
a
man
&
so
noble
a
Phylosophre
as
Socrates
was
sholde
write
other
wyse
than
trouth
For
If
he
had
made
fawte
in
wryting
of
wymen
.
He
ought
not
ne
sholde
not
be
beleuyd
in
his
other
dictes
and
sayinges
.
But
I
apperceyue
that
my
sayd
lord
knoweth
veryly
that
suche
defautes
ben
not
had
ne
founden
in
the
wymen
born
and
dwellyng
in
these
partyes
ne
Regyons
of
the
world
.
Socrates
was
a
Greke
boren
in
a
ferre
Contre
from
hens
.
Whyche
contre
ys
alle
of
othere
condycions
than
thys
is
.
¶
And
men
and
wymen
of
other
nature
than
they
ben
heere
in
thys
contre
For
I
wote
wel
.
of
what
someuer
condicion
women
ben
in
Grece
.
the
women
of
this
contre
ben
right
good
,
wyse
,
playsant
,
humble
,
discrete
,
sobre
,
chast
,
obedyent
to
their
husbondis
,
trewe
,
secrete
,
stedfast
,
euer
besy
,
&
neuer
ydle
,
Attemperat
in
speking
,
and
vertuous
in
alle
their
werkis
or
atte
leste
sholde
be
so
,
For
which
causes
so
euydent
my
sayd
lord
as
I
suppose
thoughte
it
was
not
of
necessite
to
sette
in
his
book
the
saiengis
of
his
Auctor
socrates
touchyng
women
But
for
as
moche
as
I
had
comandement
of
my
said
lord
to
correcte
and
amende
where
as
I
sholde
fynde
fawte
and
other
fynde
I
none
sauf
that
he
hath
lefte
out
these
dictes
&
saynges
of
the
women
of
Grece
,
Therfore
in
accomplishing
his
comandement
for
as
moche
as
I
am
not
in
certayn
wheder
it
was
in
my
lordis
copye
or
not
.
or
ellis
perauenture
that
the
wynde
had
blowe
ouer
the
leef
,
at
the
tyme
of
translacion
of
his
booke
,
I
purpose
to
wryte
tho
same
saynges
of
that
Greke
Socrates
,
whiche
wrote
of
tho
women
of
grece
and
nothyng
of
them
of
thys
Royame
,
whom
I
suppose
he
neuer
knewe
,
For
yf
he
had
I
dar
plainly
saye
that
he
wolde
haue
reserued
them
inespeciall
in
his
sayd
dictes
Alway
not
presumyng
to
put
&
sette
them
in
my
sayd
lordes
book
,
but
inthende
aparte
in
the
rehersayll
of
the
werkis
humbly
requiryng
all
them
that
shall
rede
this
lytyll
rehersayll
that
yf
they
fynde
ony
faulte
tarette
it
to
Socrates
and
not
to
me
whiche
wryteth
as
here
after
foloweth
.
SOcrates
sayde
That
women
ben
th
apparaylles
to
cacche
men
,
but
they
take
none
but
them
that
wil
be
pouer
,
or
ellis
them
that
knowe
hem
not
And
he
sayd
that
ther
is
none
so
grete
empeshement
vnto
a
man
as
ignoraunce
.
and
women
¶
And
he
sawe
a
woman
that
bare
fyre
,
of
whom
he
saide
that
the
hotter
bare
the
colder
¶
And
he
sawe
a
woman
seke
.
of
whom
he
saide
that
the
euyll
restyth
and
dwellyth
with
the
euill
¶
And
he
sawe
a
woman
brought
to
the
Iustyce
.
and
many
other
wymen
folowed
her
wepyng
.
of
whom
he
sayde
.
the
euyll
ben
sory
&
angry
by
cause
the
euyll
shal
perisshe
.
And
he
sawe
a
Iong
mayde
that
lerned
to
write
,
of
whom
he
saide
.
that
men
multiplied
euyll
vpon
euyll
¶
And
sayd
that
the
Ignoraunce
of
a
man
is
knowen
in
thre
thynges
.
That
is
to
wete
Whan
he
hath
no
thought
to
vse
reason
,
Whan
he
can
not
refrayne
his
couetises
,
¶
And
whan
he
is
gouerned
by
the
conceill
of
wymen
in
that
he
knoweth
that
they
knowe
not
.
¶
And
he
saide
vnto
his
discyples
,
Wylle
ye
that
I
enseygne
and
teche
you
,
howe
ye
shal
mowe
escape
from
alle
euille
¶
And
they
ansuerd
,
ye
,
And
thenne
he
saide
to
them
¶
For
what
someuer
thyng
that
it
be
.
kepe
you
and
be
wele
ware
that
ye
obeye
not
to
wymen
,
Who
ansuerd
to
him
agayn
:
¶
And
what
sayist
thou
by
our
good
moders
and
of
our
susters
.
He
saide
to
hem
.
Suffise
you
.
with
that
I
haue
sayde
to
you
,
For
alle
ben
semblable
in
malyce
.
¶
And
he
saide
.
who
someuer
wyll
acquere
and
gete
science
.
late
him
neuer
put
him
in
the
gouernaunce
of
a
woman
.
And
he
sawe
a
woman
that
made
her
fresshe
and
gaye
.
to
whom
he
sayde
,
Thou
resemblest
the
fyre
For
the
more
wode
is
leyde
to
the
fyre
the
more
wole
it
brenne
.
¶
And
the
gretter
is
the
hete
¶
And
on
a
tyme
one
axid
him
,
what
him
semed
of
wymen
.
¶
He
ansuerd
That
the
wymen
resemble
vnto
a
Tre
called
Edelfla
Whiche
ys
the
fayrest
tre
to
be
holde
and
see
that
may
be
▪
But
within
it
is
ful
of
venym
.
And
they
saide
to
him
and
demanded
wherfore
he
blamed
so
wymen
.
and
that
he
him self
had
not
comen
into
this
worlde
ne
none
other
men
also
with
oute
hem
,
He
ansuerd
.
The
woman
is
like
vnto
a
Tre
named
Chassoygnet
.
on
whiche
tre
ther
ben
many
thinges
sharpe
and
pryckyng
.
whiche
hurte
and
pryek
them
that
approche
vnto
hyt
¶
And
yet
neuerthelesse
that
same
tre
bringeth
forth
goode
dates
and
swete
.
And
they
demanded
hym
.
why
he
fled
from
the
wymen
.
¶
And
he
ansuerde
For
as
moche
as
I
see
them
flee
and
eschewe
the
goode
and
comonly
do
euill
¶
And
a
woman
sayde
to
him
.
wylt
thou
haue
ony
other
woman
than
me
¶
And
he
ansuerd
to
her
▪
Arte
not
thou
ashamed
toffre
thy self
to
him
.
that
demandeth
nor
desireth
the
not
.
LO
these
ben
the
dictes
&
sayengis
of
the
philosophre
Socrates
whiche
he
wrote
in
his
book
¶
And
certaynly
he
wrote
no
worse
than
afore
is
rehersed
And
for
asmoche
as
it
is
acordaunt
.
that
his
dyctes
and
sayengis
shold
be
had
as
wel
as
others
therfore
I
haue
sette
it
in
th
ende
of
this
booke
▪
And
also
somme
persones
perauenture
that
haue
red
thys
booke
in
frensshe
wold
haue
arette
a
grette
defaulte
in
me
that
I
had
not
do
my
deuoir
in
visiting
&
ouerseyng
of
my
lordes
book
acording
to
his
desire
.
And
somme
other
also
happely
myght
haue
supposed
that
Socrates
had
wreton
moche
more
ylle
of
women
than
here
afore
is
specified
,
wherfore
in
satisfieng
of
all
parties
&
also
for
excuse
of
the
saide
socrates
I
haue
sette
these
sayde
dyctes
&
sayengis
a
parte
in
th
ende
of
this
book
,
to
th
entent
that
yf
my
sayd
lord
or
ony
other
persone
what
someuer
he
or
she
be
that
shal
rede
or
here
it
,
that
If
they
be
not
well
plesyd
with
alle
that
they
wyth
a
penne
race
it
out
or
ellys
rente
the
leef
oute
of
the
booke
,
Humbly
requyryng
and
besechyng
my
sayd
lord
to
take
no
displaysir
on
me
so
presumyng
but
to
perdone
where
as
he
shal
fynde
faulte
,
and
that
it
plese
hym
to
take
the
labour
of
thenpryntyng
in
gre
&
thanke
,
whiche
gladly
haue
don
my
dyligence
in
th
accomplisshyng
of
his
desire
and
comandement
,
In
whiche
I
am
bounden
so
to
do
for
the
good
reward
that
I
haue
resseyuyd
of
hys
sayd
lordship
,
Whom
I
beseche
Almyghty
god
t
encrece
and
to
contynue
in
his
vertuous
disposicion
in
thys
world
.
And
after
thys
lyf
to
lyue
euerlastyngly
in
heuen
.
Amen
.