| | doth the outrage 559 And therfore ye shal venge yow after the | |
| | ordre of right / that is to saye by the lawe / and not by excesse | |
| | ne by outrage 560 And also yf ye will venge you of the oul- | |
| | trage of your aduersaryes in other maner / ye synne / 561 And | |
| | therfore saith Senek / that a man shal neuer venge shrewd- | |
| | nes by shrewdnes / 562 and yf that ye saye that right axeth a | |
| | man to defende violence by violence and fightyng by figh | |
| | tyng / 563 Certes ye saye soth . whan the defence is don anon | |
| | withouten interuall or withouten taryeng or delaye 564 for to | |
| | defende hym and not forto venge hym . 565 And yet behoueth | |
| | that a man put suche temperance in hys defence 566 that men | |
| | haue no cause ne mater to reproche hym that defendeth hym | |
| | of oultrage or of excesse . For ellys were it agayn reson . | |
| | 567 Parde ye knowe well that ye make no defence as now for | |
| | to defende yow / but for to venge yow / 568 and so sueth it that | |
| | ye haue no will to do your will attemperatly . 569 And ther- | |
| | fore me thynketh that pacyence is good . For Salamon | |
| | sayth / That he that is not pacyent shal haue grete harm . | |
| 570 | C | Ertes said Mellebe I graunte yow that whan a man | |
| | is inpaciente and wroth of that whiche towcheth hym | |
| | not / & that apperteyneth not to hym / though hit harme hym | |
| | it is no wonder 571 For the lawe saith that he is culpable that | |
| | entermeteth or medleth of thyng that apperteyneth not | |
| | to hym . 572 And Salamon sayth / That he that enterme- | |
| | teth hym of the noyse of stryf of another man / is lyke to | |
| | hym that taketh a strange hound by the eerys . 573 For right | |
| | as he that taketh a strange hounde by the eerys / he is other- | |
| | whyle byten wyth the hound / 574 ryght in the same wyse / it is | |
| | reson that he haue harme that by hys Inpacyence medlyth | |
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