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| 589 The firste greuance is wickid wordes / that greuaunce suf | |||
| fryd Ihesu Crist withoute grucchyng wel paciently whan | |||
| the Iewes despised hym and reproued hym ful ofte / 590 Suf | |||
| fre thou therfore paciently / for the wyse man saith yf thou | |||
| stryue with a fool / yf the fool be wroth or though he laughe | |||
| Algate thou shalt haue no reste 591 That other greuance out- | |||
| ward is to haue domage of thy Catel / Ther ayenst suf- | |||
| fryd Crist ful paciently whan he dispoylid was of all that | |||
| euer he had in this lyf & that nas but clothis / 592 The thirde | |||
| greuance is to a man to haue greuance in his body / that suf | |||
| fryd Crist ful paciently in al his passion / 593 The fourthe gre | |||
| uance is in outrageous labour in werkis / Wherfore I saye | |||
| that folk þt maken her seruantes to trauayle to greuously | |||
| out of tyme as in holy dayes / sothly they do gret synne / 594 here | |||
| ayenst suffred cryst ful paciently and taught vs pacience | |||
| whan he bare vpon his blessid sholdres the crosse vpon which | |||
| he shold suffre despitous deth / 595 here may men lerne to be pa | |||
| cient / For certes not only cristen men be pacient for the loue | |||
| of Ihesu Crist and for guerdon of the blysse of heuen and | |||
| lyf of the blessyd that is perdurable / But certes the olde | |||
| paynems that neuer were crystend comendid and vsyd | |||
| the vertu of pacience / 596 A philosophre vpon a tyme that wolde | |||
| haue beten his disciple for his grete trespaas / for whiche he | |||
| was gretly ameuyd and brought a yerd to scourge the | |||
| child / 597 And whan the child sawe the yerd he said to his | |||
| maister / what wil ye doo / I wil bete the quod the maister | |||
| for thy correction / 598 For soth quod the child ye ought first | |||
| correcte your self that haue lost your pacience for the gilt of | |||
| a child / 599 For soth said the maister al wepyng thou saist | |||