[6-text p 221] / in certeyn cas / & for certeyne Iuste causes / [2453] I am al redy / to chaunge my conseilours / right as thow wolt deuyse ‖ [2454] The prouerbe seith / that for to do synne / is mannyssh [humanum] / but certes / for to perseuere longe in synne [folio 223b] is werk of the deuel
[2455] ¶ To this sentence / answerde anon dame Pru|dence / & seyde ‖ [2456] Examyneth quod she youre con|seil / & lat vs se / the whiche of hem / han spoken moost resonably / & taught yow best conseil / [2457] And for as muche / as þat the examinacion is necessarie / lat vs bigynne / at the Sirurgiens / and at the Phisiciens / þat first speeken in this matere ‖ [2458] I sey yow þat the Sirurgiens & Phisiciens / han seyd yow in youre con|seil / discretly / as hem oghte / [2459] And in hir speche / seyden ful wysly / that to the office of hem / aperteneth / to doon to euery wight honour & profit. and no wight to anoye / [2460] and after hir craft to doon gret diligence vn-to the cure of hem / whiche þat they han in hir gouern|ance [2461] ¶ And sire / right as they han answered wysly & discretly / [2462] right so rede .I. / þat they be heighly & souereynly gerdoned / for hir noble speche / [2463] and eek for they shullen / do the moore ententif bisynesse / in the curacion of thy doghter deere ‖ [2464] ffor al be it so / that they ben youre freendes / therfore shal ye nat suffren / þat they serue you for noght. [2465] but ye oghte / the rather gerdone hem / & shewen hem youre largesse ‖ [2466] And as touchynge the proposicion / which þat the Physiciens / encresceden in this cas / this is to seyn / [2467] that in maladies / that a contrarie / is warisshed / by another contrarie [2468] I wolde fayn knowe / how ye vnderstande thilke text & what is youre sentence [2469] ¶ Certes quod Melibeus / I vnderstonde it in this wise ‖ [2470] that right as they han doon me a contrarie / right so / sholde I / doon hem another / [2471] for right as they han venged hem on me / & doon me wrong right so / shal I venge me vp-on hem /
