| | may prycke the kynge full sore . And an hounde will sle | |
| | the wylde bore / 359 But natheles I saye not that thou shalt be | |
| | so cowarde that thou doubte / where as is no drede / 360 The book | |
| | saith that som folke haue grete luste to desceyue But yet | |
| | they dreden hem to be disceyued . 361 Thou shalt drede to be en- | |
| | poysoned / And kepe the from the company of skorners . | |
| | 362 For the book saith with scorners make no companye / but | |
| | fle her wordes as venym / 363 Now as to the second poynt / where | |
| | as your wyse counceyllours counceylled yow to warnstore | |
| | your hous with grete diligence 364 I wolde fayn knowe how that | |
| | ye vnderstonde the wordes & what is the sentence . 365 Mellebeus | |
| | answerd and sayde / Certes I vnderstande hit in this wise | |
| | that I shal warnstore my hows with towres suche as be cas | |
| | tellis and other maner edifices with armure and other | |
| | maner artyllerye 366 by suche thinges whiche I may my persone | |
| | and my hous so defenden that myn enemyes shall be in drede | |
| | my hous for tapproche . | |
| 367 | T | O this sentence answerde anon prudence / warnsto- | |
| | ryng said she of grete towres and edifices 368 with | |
| | grete costages and grete trauayll And whan that they | |
| | be accomplisshid yet ben they not worth a strawe / but yf they | |
| | ben defended be trewe frendes that ben olde and wise / 369 And | |
| | vnderstonde well that the grettest and strengest garyson | |
| | that a ryche man may haue as wel to kepe his persone as | |
| | his good / is 370 that he be belouyd with his subgettes & with | |
| | his neyghbours . 371 For thus saith Tullius That ther is a | |
| | maner garyson that noman may vaynquisshe ne discomfyte | |
| | And that is 372 a lord to be belouyd of his Cytezeyns and | |
| | of his peple . 373 Now syr as to your third poynt / Where as | |
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