For certes 166 ye may not deme for the beste hastely a soden | |
| | thought that falleth in your herte / but ye muste auise yow | |
| | on hit ful ofte / 167 For as ye herde to fore the comyn prouerbe / | |
| | whiche is this / he that sone demeth sone repenteth / 168 Syre ye | |
| | be not alway in like disposition / 169 For certes somtyme / suche | |
| | thing as semeth that is good for to doo / Another tyme | |
| | hit semeth to yow the contrarye / 170 And whan ye haue take | |
| | counceill in your self & haue demed by good deliberacon su | |
| | che thing as semeth yow best / 171 Than I counceille yow to kepe | |
| | hit secrete / 172 And bewreye not your counceyll to ony persone | |
| | but yf hit so be that ye wene sikerly / that thorugh your be | |
| | wreyng your condition shal be to yow the more prouffyta | |
| | ble / 173 For Ihesus sirak saith / neyther to thy frende / ne to thy | |
| | foo discouer not thy secrete counceyll / ne thy folye / 174 For they | |
| | will yeue the audience / lokyng and supportyng in your | |
| | presence / And scorne yow in your absence / 175 An other clerk | |
| | saith that scarsely shal thou fynde ony personne that may | |
| | kepe counceyll secretly / 176 The book saith whilis that thou ke | |
| | pest thy counceyll in thy herte / thou kepest hit in thy prison | |
| | 177 And whan thou wreyest hit to ony wight he holdeth the | |
| | in his snare / 178 And therfore hit is better to hyde your coun | |
| | ceyll in your herte / than praye hym to whom ye haue bewreyd | |
| | your conceyll that he wole kepe it cloes & stille 179 For Seneca | |
| | saith / yf hit so be that thou ne may thy counceill hyde / How | |
| | darst thou pray ony other wight to hyde thy conceyll and | |
| | kepe hit secrete . 180 But natheles yf thou wene sikerly that thy | |
| | bewreyyng of thy counceyll to a personne will make thy | |
| | condition stonden in the better plight / than shal thou telle | |
| | hym thy counceyll as in this wise / 181 First thou shalt make | |
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