E il ne voyl entendre,
Ne deyez pur ceo cescer,
Pur quey le eyez cher,
Mes plus eplus reprendre.
Ȝif þou wolt chastise eny mon,
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Þouh he loue not þi lore;
Ȝif he be dere, leue him nouȝt,
But vndertake hym more.
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Contra verbosos noli contendere verbis: Sermo datur multis, animi sapiencia paucis.
38.
En-countre ianglour,
Ke ne eyez deshonour,
Ne voylles estriuer:
Kar meynt homme ad iangle
En vertu de sa lange,
Est poy de sauer.
Aȝeynes men ful of wordes
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Stryue þow riht nouht:
Wordes is ȝiuen to alle men,
And wisdam selden brouht.
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Dilige sic alios ut sis tibi carus amicus; Sit bonus esto bonis ne te mala dampna sequantur.
39.
Les autres issi amez
Ke tu a tey meymes seyez
Cheir a-mys;
Si seyes bon a bons
E taunt donez a tuens,
Ke tey ne seyt le pys.
Loue so wel oþure men,
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Þin oune frend þat þou be;
Beo so good to alle men,
Þat harm from þe fle.
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Rumores fuge, ne incipias nouus auctor haberi: Nam nulli tacuisse nocet, nocet esse locutum.
40.
Noueles fuez,
Ke troue ne seyes
Blaundour ne tenu;
Tere ne nuist pas,
