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| in this place / is full heuy thing and high mater / 57 be cause | |||
| of the wronge and of the wikkednes that hath be don and | |||
| eke be reson of the grete domages that in tyme comyng be | |||
| possible to falle for the same / 58 And eke be reson of the grete | |||
| Richesse & of the power of the parties bothe / 59 For the whiche | |||
| hit were a full grete paryll to erren in this mater / 60 Wher | |||
| for Mellebeus this is oure entente / We counceylle yow . a | |||
| boue all thing that right anone thou do diligence in kepinge | |||
| of thy proper persone in suche wise that thou ne wante none | |||
| espye ne wacche . thy body for to saue / 61 And after in thy hous | |||
| we counceylle that thou sette sufficient garnyson so as they | |||
| maye as well thy body as thy hous defende / 62 But certes for | |||
| to meue warre ne sodenly for to do vengeance We may not | |||
| deme in so litil tyme that hit shold be prouffytable / 63 Wher | |||
| fore we axen leyser and space to haue deliberation in this | |||
| caas to deme / 64 For the comyn prouerbe saith thus / He that | |||
| sone demeth . sone shal repente / 65 And eke men saye that that | |||
| Iuge is wyse that sone vnderstandeth a mater and Iugeth | |||
| be leyzer / 66 For al be hit so that taryeng be noyeful / Algates | |||
| it is not to be reproued in yeuyng of Iugement ne in ven- | |||
| geance takyng whan it is sufficient and resonable / 67 And | |||
| that shewed our lord Ihesu crist be ensample For whan the | |||
| woman that was taken in a voultrye was brought in his | |||
| presence to knowe what shold be doo of her personne / al be | |||
| hit that he wiste wel hym self what he wold doo / yet ne wolde | |||
| he answere sodeynly but he wold haue deliberation / and in the | |||
| ground he wrote twyes / 68 And be this cause we axe delibera | |||
| tion And we shal than by the grace of god counceylle you | |||
| that thing that is most prouffytable . 69 Vp sterte than the | |||