79.
Tes despenses despent
Mout corteisement
En beyuere e en viaunde,
Kar tei estot despendre
Solum ke poyeȝ entendre
Ke le tens demaunde.
Sum-while spend Mete and drink
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Hastiliche, I rede;
Hit falleþ mon to spende his good
Whon tyme hit wole in stede.
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¶ Quod nimium est, fugito, paruo gaudere memento; Tuta magis [[mage est, V. R.]] puppis, modico que flumine fertur.
80.
De Mesure hayes,
De petit seieȝ lees,
Kar ceo est mesure;
La nef ke veut sor le vnde
Ke guerres nest parfounde,
Plus est enseure.
¶ To make murþe of luitel þing;
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To muche, þou hit fleo;
Schip is more siker in luitel water
Þen in þe deope séé.
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¶ Quod pudeat, socios prudens celare memento: Ne plures culpent id, quod tibi displicet uni.
81.
Coyntement celeȝ
Ke ne seit vergondeȝ
Les feȝ ton compaynoun;
Kar plusours partey
Blamerunt en dreit de sei
Ces mesfeȝ en comun.
¶ Hele þing þat schameþ men,
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Qweynte mon ȝif þou beo,
Þat oþer men blame not
Þing þat greueþ þe. [[Harl. MS. 4657, [folio 91b] ]]
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¶ Nolo putes, prauos homines peccata lucrari: Temporibus peccata latent, & [[sed, V. R.]] tempore parent.
82.
Ne voyl qe vous guideȝ [[quidez. Addit. 22,283.]] [[Ne dais quider ke male gent]
Ke homme par pecches
