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466 Right so synneth the Iuge yf he take not and do vengeance | |||
on hem that hit haue deseruyd . 467 Senek saith thus / That | |||
maister he saith is good that repreuyd shrewis 468 And cas | |||
siodre sayth a man dredeth to doo outragiously whan he | |||
woot & knoweth that it displeseth the Iuges & soueraynes | |||
469 And another saith The Iuge that dredeth to do right ma | |||
keth shrewes . 470 And saint Poule thapostle saith how he wri | |||
teth to the romayns that the Iuges bere not the spere with | |||
oute cause 471 But they bere hit to punysshe the shrewes and | |||
mysdoers / And for to defenden the good men / 472 yf ye wole | |||
take vengeance on your enemyes ye shal retorne and haue | |||
your conrs to the Iuge that hath the Iurisdiction vpon hem | |||
473 and ye shall punysshe hem as the lawe axeth & requyreth | |||
474 | A | said Mellebe this vengeance liketh me nothing 475 I | |
bethinke me now and take hede how that fortune hath | |||
norysshid me fro my childhode and holpe me to passe many | |||
a strange paas / 476 Now wole I assaye in her trowyng with | |||
goddes helpe that shal me saue for to venge / 477 Certes sayd | |||
Prudence yf ye will werke be my counceyll ye shal not as | |||
saye fortune by no waye / 478 ne ye shal not lene ne bowe vnto | |||
her after the worde of seneke / 479 For thinges that ben folily | |||
don and that be doon in hope of fortune shal neuer come to | |||
good ende / 480 And as to the same seneke saith the more clere | |||
and the more shynyng that fortune is / the more brotyl & | |||
the sonner broken she is / 481 Truste ye not in her For ther nys | |||
no stedfastnes ne stablenes in her 482 For whan thou trowest | |||
to be most sure and syker of her / she wil faylle & deceyue the | |||
483 And where as ye sayn that fortune hath norisshid you in | |||
your chyldhode / 484 I say that ther is so mykyll the lasse truste | |||