| | For perauenture they say more for drede than for loue / 223 And | |
| | therfore saith a philosopher in this wise / Ther is no wight | |
| | parfightly trewe to hym that he sore dredeth / 224 And Tulli9 | |
| | saith / ther is no wight so grete as an Emperour that longe | |
| | may endure but yf he haue more loue of his peple than drede | |
| | 225 Thou shalt eschewe the counceyll of folke that ben dronke- | |
| | lewe / For they can no counceyll hyde / 226 For Salamon saith | |
| | there is no pryuyte where as regneth dronkenes / 227 Ye shal | |
| | alway haue in suspect suche folk as counceyll yow one thing | |
| | pryuely and counceylle yow the contrary openly . 228 Cassiodre | |
| | saith that it is a maner sleight to hyndre / Whan a man | |
| | scheweth to doo one thinge openly & werketh the contrary | |
| | pryuely / 229 Thou shalt also haue in suspect the counceyllyng | |
| | of wicked folk / For the book saith That the counceyll of | |
| | wicked folk is alleway full of fraude . 230 And dauid saith | |
| | That blysful is that man that hath not folowed the coun | |
| | ceyll of wicked folk / 231 Thou shalt also eschewe the counceyl | |
| | lyng of yong folk for her counceyll is not rype . | |
| 232 | N | Ow sire sith I haue schewed yow all this of whiche | |
| | folk ye shal take your counceyll and of whiche folk | |
| | ye shal eschewe their counceyll / 233 Now wole I telle yow how ye | |
| | shal examyne your counceyll / After the doctryne of Tulli9 | |
| | 234 In examynyng than of your counceyllours ye shal cōsidere | |
| | many thinges / 235 Alderfirst thou shalt considere / that in that | |
| | thing that thou art purposed and vpon what thing thou | |
| | shalt haue counceyll that veray trouthe be said & conserued | |
| | This is to saye / telle all trewly thy tale / 236 For he that saith | |
| | fals / may not well be counceylled in that caas of the whiche | |
| | he lieth / 237 And after this considere thre thinge that accorde | |
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