| | and the connyng of Salamon is ful trewe 770 he saith that | |
| | swete wordes multiplye and encrecen frendes and make | |
| | shrewes to be debonayr and meke / 771 Certes said they we put | |
| | alle our dede and al our mater and cause / hoolly in your | |
| | good will . 772 And be redy to obeye to the comandement of | |
| | my lord Mellebe 773 And dere and benigne lady we pray you | |
| | and beseche yow as mekely as we can 774 that it like vnto | |
| | your grete goodnes to fulfillen in dede your wordes goodly | |
| | 775 For we consideren and knowleche that we haue offended | |
| | and greuyd my lord Mellebe out of mesure 776 so ferforth | |
| | that we be not of power to make hym amendes 777 And ther | |
| | fore we obligen vs and bynde vs and our frendes for to | |
| | done al his will and cōmandementes / 778 But perauenture he | |
| | hath suche anger and suche wrath to vs ward be cause | |
| | of our offence / 779 that he wole enione vs suche peyne that we | |
| | may not bere hit ne susteyne hit / 780 And therfore noble lady | |
| | we beseche your noble pite 781 to take suche auisement in this | |
| | nede that we ne our frendes be not disherited & destroyed | |
| | thurgh our folye . | |
| 782 | C | Ertes said dame prudence it is an hard thing and | |
| | right peryllous 783 that a man put hym self al vtterly | |
| | in arbitration and Iugement and in the myght & power | |
| | of his enemye . 784 For Salamon saith Beleue me and yeue | |
| | credence to that I shal saye / ne yeue neuer the power ne gouer | |
| | nance of thy goodes . 785 to thy sone . to thy wyf . to thy frende ne | |
| | to thy broder / 786 ne yeue thou myght ne maistrye ouer thy body | |
| | whilest thou lyuest / 787 Now sith that he defendeth that a man | |
| | shoold not yeue to his broder ne to his frende the myght of | |
| | his body 788 by a strenger reson he defendeth a man to yeue hym | |
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