[6-text p 242] as to manye folk/ [2852] for the victorie of a bataile cometh nat by the grete nombre of peple / [2853] but it come / fro oure lord god of heuene ‖ [2854] And deere sire / for as muchel as ther is no man certeyn / if it be worthy / þat god yeue hym victorie / [ne plus quil scet se il est dines de lamour de dieu ( [MS Reg. 19 C vii folio 142b] )] or naght after that Salomon seith; [2855] therfore euery man / sholde greetly drede / werres to bigynne ‖ [2856] And by cause þat in batailles / fallen manye perils / [2857] & happeth outher while / þat as soone is the grete man slayn / as the litel man / [2858] And as it is ywriten / in the seconde book of kynges ‖ The dedes of batailles / been Auenturouse & no thyng certeyne / [2859] for as lightly / is oon hurt with a spere / as another [2860] ¶ And for ther is greet peril in werre; therfore sholde a man / fle & eschewe werre / in as muchel / as a man may goodly ‖ [2861] ffor Salomon seith / he þat loueth peril / shal falle in peril
[2862] ¶ After þat dame Prudence / hadde spoken in this manere / Melibe answerde & seyde [2863] ¶ I se wel dame Prudence that by youre faire wordes & by youre resons / þat ye han shewed me; þat the werre / liketh yow no [folio 231b] thyng [2864] but I haue nat yet herd youre con|seil / how I shal do in this nede
[2865] ¶ Certes quod she / I conseile yow / þat ye acorde with youre Aduersaries / & þat ye / haue pees with hem ‖ [2866] ffor Seint Iame seith / in hise epistles / That by concord & pees / the smale richesses / wexen grete / [2867] & by debaat and discord / the grete richesses fallen doun / [2868] And ye knowen wel / þat oon of the gretteste & moost souereyn thyng þat is in this world / is vnitee & pees / [2869] And therfore seyde oure lord Ihesu crist to hise Apostles / in this wise ‖ [2870] Wel happy & blessed been they / þat louen / & purchacen pees / for they been called children of god [2871] ¶ A quod Melibe now se I wel / þat ye louen nat myn honur ne my worshipe ‖ [2872] Ye knowen wel / þat myne
