[6-text p 644] of greuaunces in outward þinges. agains whiche he moot haue foure maners of pacience
[663] ¶ The firste greuaunce is of wicked wordes. þilke suffred Ihū crist wiþoute grucching ful paciently whan þe iewes despised him and reproued him ful ofte. [664] suffre þou þerfore paciently ¶ For þe wise man saiþ ¶ If [folio 271b] þou striue with a fool. þough þe fool be wroþ or þough he laughhe algate þou schalt haue no rest [665] ¶ That oþer greuaunce outward is to haue damage of þi catel; þer agayn suffred crist ful paciently whan he was despoylid of al þat he had in his lif and þat nas but his cloþis [666] ¶ The þridde greuaunce is. a man to haue harm in his body. þat suffred crist/ ful paciently in al his passioun [667] ¶ The ferþe greuaunce is in outrageous labour in werkis wherfore I say þat folk þat maken here seruauntȝ to trauaile to greuously or out of tyme as on haly dayes. soþely þay doon greet synne [668] ¶ Here against suffred crist ful paciently and taughte vs pacience whan he bar vpon his blisful schulder þe croys vpon which he schulde suffre despitous deth. [669] here may men lerne to be pacient. For certes nought oonly cristen ben pacient for þe loue of ihū crist and for guerdoun of þe blisful life þat is perdurable But þe olde paynymes þat neuer were cristen comaundedin and vseden þe vertu of pacience
[670] ¶ A philosopher vpon a tyme þat wolde haue bete his disciple for his grete trespas. For which he was gretly amoeued and brought a ȝerde to scoure þe child. [671] & whan þe child saugh þe ȝerde; he sayde to his maister ¶ what þenke ȝe to do ¶ I wolde bete þe quod þe maister for þi correccioun [672] Forsoþe quod þe child. ȝe oughte first correcte ȝoure silf þat han left al ȝoure pacience for þe gilt of a child [673] ¶ For soþe quod þe maister al wepyng. þou
