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 goddes knyght . 689 whan he shold fight agaynst his aduersa  
 ryes that had a gretter nombre and gretter multitude of  
 peple and strenger than was the peple of Machabee / 690 yet he  
 recomforted his lityl peple and said right in this wyse  
 691 Also lightly said he may our lord god yeue victorye to  
 a fewe folk as to many folke / 692 For the victory of a bataill  
 cometh not by a grete nombre of peple 693 but hit cometh from  
 our lord god of heuen 694 And dere sire for as moche as ther  
 is noman certayn that he be worthy that god wole yeue hym  
 victory or not . Salamon saith / 695 Therfore euery man shold  
 gretly drede warris to begynne 696 and be cause that in bataill  
 falle many paryls 697 And happeth otherwhile that also soone  
 is a grete man slayn as a litil man . 698 And as is wreton  
 in the second book of kynges / the dedes of bataill ben aven  
 turous and no thing certayn / 699 For as lightly is one hurte  
 with a spere as an other / 700 And for ther is grete paryll in  
 warre therfore shold a man eschewe and flee warre in as  
 mykyll as a man may goodly . 701 For Salamon sayth He  
 that louyth paryll shal falle in paryll . 702 After that dame  
 prudence had spaken in this mater Mellebee answerd and  
 sayde 703 I see wel dame prudence that by fair wordes and by  
 your resons that ye haue shewed me / that warre liketh you  
 no thyng / 704 but I haue not herde yet in this counceyll / how I  
 shal do in this nede . 705 Certes said she I counceylle yow that  
 ye accorde with your aduersaryes that ye haue pees with hem  
 706 For saynt Iame saith in his epistlis That by acorde and  
 pees the smale riches wexe grete 707 And by debate & discorde  
 the grete richesse fallen doun and faillen / 708 And ye knowe  
 well that one of the grettest and most souerayn thyng  
  

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: TM, 689
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2849
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1659

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: TM, 690
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2850
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1660

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: TM, 691
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2851
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1661

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: TM, 692
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2852
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1662

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: TM, 693
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2853
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1663

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: TM, 694
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2854
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1664

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: TM, 695
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2855
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1665

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: TM, 696
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2856
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1666

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: TM, 697
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2857
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1667

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: TM, 698
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2858
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1668

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: TM, 699
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2859
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1669

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: TM, 700
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2860
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1670

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: TM, 701
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2861
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1671

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: TM, 702
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2862
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1672

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: TM, 703
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2863
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1673

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: TM, 704
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2864
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1674

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: TM, 705
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2865
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1675

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: TM, 706
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2866
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1676

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: TM, 707
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2867
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1677

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: TM, 708
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group B2, 2868
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment VII, 1678