[6-text p 236] is to seyn / my grief and my desese [folio 229a] toucheth me right ny / [2736] And therfore / thogh I be wrooth / and in|pacient it is no meruaille / [2737] and sauynge youre grace / I kan nat se / þat it myghte greetly harme me / thogh I tooke vengeance / [2738] for I am richere & moore myghty / than myne enemys been / [2739] and wel knowen ye / þat by moneye & by hauynge grete posses|sions / been alle the thynges of this world gouerned ‖ [2740] And Salomon seith ‖ That alle thynges obeyen to moneye
[2741] ¶ Whanne Prudence / hadde herd hir housbonde auanten hym / of his richesse & of his moneye; dispreis|ynge / the power of his Aduersaries; she spak & seyde in this wise ‖ [2742] Certes deere sire / I graunte yow / þat ye been / riche & myghty / [2743] & þat the richesses been goode / to hem / þat han wel ygeten hem / & þat wel konne vsen hem ‖ [2744] ffor right as the body of a man / may nat lyue with-oute the soule; namoore may it lyue / with-oute the temporel goodes / [2745] and by rich|esses / may a man gete hym grete [frendes] ‖ [2746] ¶ And therfore / seith Pamphilles ‖ If Anetherdes doghter / he seith / be riche; she may chese / of a thousand men / which she wol take to hir housbonde ‖ [2747] for of a thousand men; oon wol nat forsaken hire / ne refusen hire ‖ [2748] And this Pamphilles seith also ‖ If thow be right happy / that is to seyn / If thow be right riche; thow shalt fynde / a greet nombre of felawes & freendes / [2749] and if thy fortune chaunge / that thow wexe poore; far|wel freendshipe & felaweshipe / [2750] for thow shalt been / al allone / with-outen any compaignye / but if it be / the compaignye of poore folk [2751] ¶ And yet seith this Pamphilles moore ouer ‖ That they þat been / thralle & bonde of lynage / shuln be maad / worthy and noble by the richesses / [2752] and right so as by richesses / ther comen manye goodes; right so by pouerte / come ther manye harmes & yueles ‖ [2753] for greet pouerte / con|streyneth
