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< 283v Cx1: Folio 284r; The Tale of Melibee 540-558 284v > Go to Cx2
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 540 The Ioye of god he saith is perdurable that is to saye euer-  
 lastyng 541 Also trowe ye wel and eke beleue stedfastly that  
 he is not wel norysshid ne well taught that will not haue  
 pacience ne wil not receyue pacience . 542 For Salamon saith  
 That the doctryne of a man and the witte is knowen be pa  
 cience 543 And in another place he saith that he that is pacient  
 gouerneth hym by grete prudence . 544 & the same salamon saith  
 The angry and the wrathful man maketh noyses And  
 the pacient man attemprith hym and stilleth hym / 545 he saith  
 also / hit is more worth to be pacyent than for to be ryght  
 strong / 546 And he that may haue the lordship of his owen  
 herte is more to preyse / than by his force or strengthe taketh  
 grete cytees 547 And therfore saith saynt Iame in his epistle  
 That pacience is a grete vertue of perfection . 548 Certes said  
 Mellebe I grante dame prudence that pacience is a grete vertu  
 of perfection 549 but euery man may not haue the perfection that  
 ye seke 550 ne I am none of that nombre of right parfight men  
 551 For my herte may neuer be in pees vnto the tyme that hit  
 be venged 552 And al be hit so that hit was grete paryll to  
 myn enemyes to doo me a vilonye in takyng vengeance  
 vpon me 553 Yet toke they no hede of the paryll but fulfylled  
 their wicked will and corage / 554 And therfore me thinketh  
 men ought not to repreue me / though I put me in a lityll  
 paryll for to venge me / 555 And though I doo a grete excesse  
 That is to saye that I a venge one outrage by another .  
556 A Said dame Prudence ye saye your wil as you liketh  
 557 But in no caas of the world a man shold not do  
 outrage ne excesse for to venge hym 558 For cassiodre saith that  
 as euyl doth he that avengeth hym by outrage as he that  
  

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In CTP line numbering: TM, 540
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2700
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1510

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In CTP line numbering: TM, 541
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2701
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1511

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In CTP line numbering: TM, 542
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2702
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1512

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In CTP line numbering: TM, 543
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2703
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1513

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In CTP line numbering: TM, 544
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2704
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1514

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In CTP line numbering: TM, 545
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2705
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1515

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In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2706
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1516

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In CTP line numbering: TM, 547
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2707
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1517

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In CTP line numbering: TM, 548
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2708
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1518

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In CTP line numbering: TM, 549
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2709
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1519

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In CTP line numbering: TM, 550
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2710
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1520

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In CTP line numbering: TM, 551
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2711
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1521

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In CTP line numbering: TM, 552
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2712
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1522

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In CTP line numbering: TM, 553
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2713
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1523

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In CTP line numbering: TM, 554
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2714
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1524

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In CTP line numbering: TM, 555
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2715
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In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2716
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1526

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In CTP line numbering: TM, 557
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2717
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1527

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In CTP line numbering: TM, 558
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2718
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1528