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< 282r Cx1: Folio 282v; The Tale of Melibee 485-503 283r > Go to Cx2
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 in your wytte . 485 For Seneke saith what man that is noris  
 shed by fortune she maketh hym a fool / 486 Now sith ye desiren  
 & axe vengeance / And the vengeance that is don after the  
 lawe & before the Iuge liketh not yow / 487 And the vengeance  
 that is don in hope of fortune is perylous & vncerteyne / 488 than  
 haue ye no remedye but for to haue your recours vnto the so  
 uerayn Iuge that vengeth all vilonyes & wronges 489 And he  
 shal venge yow after that hym self witnesseth where as he  
 sayth / 490 leue ye the vengeance vnto me and I shal do hit .  
491 MEllebe answerd yf I venge me not of the vilonnye  
 that men haue don vnto me 492 I somone and warne hem  
 that haue doon to me this vilonye and alle other to do me  
 vilonye / 493 For it is wreton yf thou takest noo vengeance of  
 an olde vilonye / thou somonest thyn aduersarye to doo the a  
 newe vilonye 494 Also for my suffraunce men wold do me so  
 grete vilonye that I myght not bere hit ne susteyne hit / 495 &  
 than shold I be put and holde ouer lowe . 496 For men sayn in  
 mykyl suffryng shal many thinges falle vnto the whiche  
 thou ne shal mowe suffre .  
497 CErtes said dame prudence I graunte yow well that  
 ouer moche suffraunce is not good / 498 But yet hit fo-  
 loweth not therof that euery persone to whom men do vilonye  
 to take of hit vengeance 499 For that apperteyneth & longeth  
 al onely to the Iuges . For they shal venge the vilonyes &  
 the Iniuryes / 500 And therfore the two auctoritees that ye haue  
 said to fore ben alonely vnderstonde in þe Iuges 501 For whan  
 ye suffre ouer many wronges & vilanyes to be doon with-  
 outen punysshing 502 they semen not a man to do only newe  
 wronges / but they 503 cōmanden hym & bidden hym to do synne .  
  

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: TM, 485
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2645
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1455

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: TM, 486
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2646
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1456

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: TM, 487
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2647
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1457

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: TM, 488
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2648
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1458

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: TM, 489
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2649
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1459

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: TM, 490
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2650
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1460

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: TM, 491
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2651
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1461

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: TM, 492
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2652
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1462

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: TM, 493
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2653
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1463

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: TM, 494
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2654
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1464

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: TM, 495
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2655
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1465

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: TM, 496
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2656
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1466

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: TM, 497
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2657
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1467

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: TM, 498
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2658
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1468

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: TM, 499
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2659
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1469

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: TM, 500
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2660
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1470

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: TM, 501
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2661
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1471

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: TM, 502
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2662
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1472

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: TM, 503
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2663
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1473