| | in sorouful wise his caas / 43 And by the maner of his speche | |
| | hit semed that in his herte he bare a cruel yre redy to do ven | |
| | geance vpon his foos / And sodenly desired that he shold | |
| | begynne the warre / 44 But neuertheles yet axed he their coun | |
| | ceyll vpon this mater . 45 A cyrurgien by licence and assente | |
| | of suche as were wyse rose vp . And to Mellebeus sayde | |
| | as ye may here . | |
| 46 | S | Ire said he as to vs Cirurgiens / hit apperteyneth | |
| | that we doo to euery wight the beste that we can doo . | |
| | Where as we be withholden and to our pacyente that we do | |
| | no dommage / 47 Wherfore hit happeth many tyme and ofte | |
| | That whan two men hauee che other wounded one cirurgien | |
| | heleth hem bothe . 48 Wherfore vnto our arte hit is not perty- | |
| | nent to norisshe warre / ne partyes to supporte / 49 But certes | |
| | as to the warisshyng & heelyng of your doughter al be it | |
| | so that she be perilously hurt & wounded / we shal do ententyf | |
| | besynes fro day to day / that with the grace of god she shal | |
| | be hool & sound as sone as possible is . 50 Almost in the same | |
| | wyse the phisiciens answerd saue that they saiden a fewe wor | |
| | des moo / 51 That right as maladyes ben cured be their contra | |
| | ryes / right so shal men warisshe warre by pees . 52 His feyned | |
| | frendes that semed reconciled and his flaterers 53 made sem | |
| | blant of wepyng & empeyred & grucchid moche in this ma | |
| | ter . Preysing gretly Mellebeus of might / Of power of Ry | |
| | chesse & of frendes / dispreysing the power of his aduersaryes | |
| | 54 And said vtterly / that he anone shold wrekyn hym on his | |
| | aduersaries begynnyng warre / 55 vp roose than an aduocate that | |
| | was wyse / by leue and by counceyll of other that were wyse | |
| | And sayde 56 lordynges for the nede whiche we ben assembled | |
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