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321 For good and wickednes be two contraryous / and pees | |||
and warre / vengeance and suffraunce / and discorde and | |||
accorde / and many other thinges / 322 But certes wickednes | |||
shal be waresshed be goodnes / and discorde be accorde and | |||
warre be pees . and so forth be other thinges . 323 And herto | |||
accordeth saynt Poule thappostle in many places / 324 He saith | |||
yelde not harme to harme ne wicked speche to wicked speche | |||
325 But do wel to hym that doth the harme and blysse hym that | |||
saith the harm / 326 And in many other places he saith and | |||
amonessheth pees and accorde . 327 But now wole I speke to | |||
yow of the counceyll whiche that was yeue to yow by the men | |||
of lawe and wise folke 328 that saiden alle by one accorde as | |||
ye haue herde / 329 that ouer alle thinges ye shold do diligence | |||
to kepe your persone and to warnstore your hows . 330 And | |||
saiden also that in this caas ye oughte for to werken ful | |||
aduysedly and with grete discretion and deliberation . | |||
331 And syre as to the first point that toucheth the keping of | |||
your persone 332 ye shal vnderstande that he that hath warre | |||
Shal euermore deuoutly and mekely beseken and prayen | |||
before all thinges 333 Ihesu Crist of his mercy that he wole haue | |||
hym in his protection & be his souerayn helper at his nede . | |||
334 For certes in this werke ther is no wight that may be coun | |||
ceyllyd ne kepte sufficiently withoute the keping of our | |||
lord Ihesu crist / 335 To this entente accordeth the prophete dauid | |||
that saith / 336 yf god ne kepe the Cyte / in ydell waketh he that | |||
kepeth hit / 337 Now syre than shul ye cōmytte the kepyng of | |||
your persone to your trewe frendes that ben y proued and | |||
knowen 338 And of them shall ye axe helpe your persone to | |||
kepe . For Cathon saith Yf thou haue nede of helpe axe hit | |||