34.
Ceo qe vous auez cher,
Dount quidez enpeirer,
De tey osteras;
Kar il est profyt
Richesse en despyt
Luer deueras.
Þing þat wole apeire þi stat,
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Beo hit þe neuer so lef,
Hastiliche do hit þe fro,
Or þou þole þe gref.
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Constans & lenis ut res expostulat esto: Temporibus mores sapiens sine crimine mutat.
35.
Red e suef seyez
Solum ce ke tu veyez
Cum les choses ount;
Ly sages saunz blamer
Ces mours fet atemprer
Solum ke les choses sount.
Studefast & stille þou be,
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As þi catel wol aske:
Þe wyse mon liueþ withouten blame,
ffor he con wel hym taske.
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Nil temere uxori de seruis crede querenti: Sepe etenim mulier quem coniux diligit odit.
36.
Ne errez folement
Ta femme, quaunt souent
De tes seruauns se cleyme:
Kar souent eschet
Ke la dame het
Ceus ky ly syre eyme.
Leeue not þi wyf fulliche
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Of þi seruans pleynande:
Ofte falleþ, þe wyf hit hateþ
Þat loueþ þe goode hosebande.
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Cumque mones aliquem nec se uelit ipse moneri, Si tibi sit carus, noli desistere ceptis.
37.
Si de ces folies
A kuns chasties
