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| and so vigorous that it dar withstande myghtily and | |||
| wrastle ayenst the sawtes of the deuyl and wisely kepe him | |||
| self fro perils that ben wicked / 656 For it enhaunsith and | |||
| enforsith the sowle / right as accidye abatith it and maketh | |||
| it feble For this fortitudo may endure with longe suffrance | |||
| the traueyllis that ben couenable / 657 This vertu hath many | |||
| spicis the first is clepid magnanymyte that is to saye grete | |||
| corage / For certes ther behoueth grete corage ayenst accidye | |||
| leest that it swalowe the sowle by the synne of sorow or dis- | |||
| troye it with wanhope / 658 This maketh folk to vndertake | |||
| hard and greuous thingis by her owen will wisely and | |||
| resonably / 659 And for as muche as the deuyl fightith ayenst | |||
| man more by queyntyse and by sleyght than by strength | |||
| therfore a man shal withstande hym by wit by reson and | |||
| by discrecion / 660 Thenne ben ther the vertues of feyth and hope | |||
| in god and in his saintis to achyeuen and complisshe | |||
| the good werkis in whiche he purposith fermly to contynue . | |||
| 661 Thenne cometh sewrte and sikernesse / and that is whan | |||
| a man doth and perfourmeth grete werkis of goodnes that | |||
| he hath begunne / 662 And that is the ende why men shold do | |||
| good werkis / For in the complisshyng of good werkis | |||
| lieth the grete guerdon / 663 Thenne is the constance that is sta | |||
| blenes of corage / and thys shold be in herte by stedfast | |||
| feyth and in mouth and in beryng / in chere and in dede | |||
| 664 Eke ther ben mo special thingis and remedies ayenst acci | |||
| dye in diuerse werkis & in consideracion of the peyne of helle | |||
| and of the ioye of heuen / And in trust of the grace of | |||
| the holy goost that wil yeue hym might to perfourme his entent | |||
| . Sequitur de Auaricia . | |||