| | But though Salamon spak suche a word | |
| | Myn owen dere brother and my lord | |
| 245 | So wyssely god my soule brynge at reste | |
| | I holde your owen counsel for the best | |
| | For brother myn of me take this motyf | |
| | I haue be a courtman al my lyf | |
| | And yet god woot though y vnworthy be | |
| 250 | I haue stonde in ful gret degre | |
| | Aboute lordis in ful gret astaat | |
| | Yet hadde I neuer with non of hem debaat | |
| | I neuer contraried hem trewly | |
| | I woot wel that my lord can more than I | |
| 255 | What that he seith I holde it ferm & stabil | |
| | I say the same or othir thing semblable | |
| | A ful gret fool is ony counselour | |
| | That seruith a lord of high honour | |
| | That dar presume or onys thynke it | |
| 260 | That his counsel sholde passe his lordis wit | |
| | Nay lordis be no folis be my fay | |
| | Ye haue your self spoken here to day | |
| | So high sentence so holy and so wel | |
| | That I consente and conferme eueridel | |
| 265 | Your wordis and al your oppinion | |
| | Be god ther is noman in this toun | |
| | Ne in ytaille coude better haue sayd | |
| | Crist holdith hym of this ful wel payd | |
| | And trewly it is an high corage | |
| 270 | Of ony man that stept is in age | |
| | To take a yong wyf for be my fader kyn | |
