| | lyke a fool 15 For sothe hit apperteyneth not to a wise man to | |
| | make suche sorowe 16 your doughter by the grace of god shall | |
| | warisshe & escape . 17 And alle were hit so that she right now | |
| | were dede / ye ne ought not for her deth your self to destroye . | |
| | 18 Senek saith / the wise man shal not take to grete discōforte | |
| | for the deth of his children / 19 but certes he shuld suffre hit in | |
| | pacience as wel as he abideth the deth of his owen propre persone | |
| 20 | T | His Mellebeus answerd anon and seide / what man | |
| | shold of his wepyng stynte that hath so grete cause | |
| | to wepe . 21 Ihesu Crist our lord hym self wepte for the deth | |
| | of lazarus his frende . 22 Prudence answerde Certes wel I | |
| | wote a temparate wepyng is nothing defended to hym | |
| | that is sorowfull among folk in sorowe But it is rather | |
| | graunted hym to wepe . 23 The apostle Paule vnto the Rom- | |
| | mayns wryteth / Many shal reioyse with hem that make | |
| | ioye and wepe with suche folke as pyne . 24 But a temperate | |
| | wepyng though it be granted hym / Outrageous wepyng | |
| | certes is defended / 25 Mesure of wepyng shulde be consideryd | |
| | after the lore that Seneke techeth vs / 26 whan that thy frende | |
| | is dede said he / Lete not thyn eyen be to moyste of teerys | |
| | ne to moche drye . Al though thy teerys come to thyn eyen | |
| | late hem not falle / 27 And whan thou hast lost thy frende / do | |
| | diligently to gete the another frende / And this is better | |
| | than for to wepe for thy frende whiche thou hast loste / For | |
| | theryn is no bote / 28 And therfore yf thou gouerne the by sa | |
| | pience put away sorowe out of thy herte . | |
| 29 | R | Emembre the that Ihesus sirak saith / that a man that | |
| | is ioyous & glad in herte / hit hym comserueth floris | |
| | shing in age . & sothly sorouful herte maketh his bones drye | |
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