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| that ofte chideth / Seynt Poule saith eek / I seruaunt of | |||
| god behoue not to chide / 557 And how that chiding is a vileyns | |||
| thing betwixt alle maner folk / yet is hit certes most vn | |||
| couenable betwix a man and his wyf / For there is neuer | |||
| reste / And therfore saith Salamon / An hous that is vn | |||
| couerd in rayn and droppyng / and a chiding wyf be like | |||
| 558 a man that is in droppyng hous in many placis / though | |||
| he eschue the droppyng in one place / hit droppeth on hym in | |||
| another place / So farith it by a chyding wyf but she chide | |||
| hym in one place / she wyl chyde hym in another place / . | |||
| 559 And therfore better is a morsel breed with ioye / than | |||
| an hous ful of delytes wyth chydyng / Lo what Sala- | |||
| mon 560 and seynt Paule sayn / O ye women be ye subgettis | |||
| to your husbondis as behoueth in god / . And ye men | |||
| loue your wyuys / . 561 Afterward speke we of scornyng | |||
| whyche is a wicked synne and namely whan he scornyth | |||
| a man by his good werkis / . 562 For certes suche scorners | |||
| faren lyke the foule tode that may not endure to smelle the | |||
| swete sauour of the vyne whan it florisshith / 563 Thyse scor- | |||
| ners ben partyng felaws wyth the deuyll for they haue | |||
| ioye whan the deuyl wynneth and sorow whan he lesith . | |||
| 564 They be aduersaryes to Ihesu Crist For they haten that | |||
| he loueth that is to saye sauacion of soule / . 565 Speke we | |||
| now of wicked counceyl For he that wickyd coun- | |||
| ceyl yeuyth is a treytour . For he disceyueth hym that | |||
| trusteth in hym / . But natheles yet is wicked coun- | |||
| ceyl first ayenst hym self / 566 For as saith the wyse man . | |||
| Euery fals lyuyng hath his properte in hym self . For | |||
| he that wil anoye another man anoieth first hym self . | |||