LXXIX.
Aspectus debet esse compositus.
Tullius tellis how þat Pericles [MS. paricles.] & Sophocles war made dukis at Athenys. And on̛ a tyme, when̛ þai went to speke to-gedur in a cowncelhows of suche thyngis as was necessarie vnto þe cetie, þer happend̛ a fayr yong man̛ to go be a wyndow at þai sett enence. And þis Sophocles spak vnto Pericles [MS. pericℏ.] & sayd̛; "Se! yonder gois a fayr yong man̛!" And he ansswerd̛ hym̛ agayn̛ & said̛; "Sur, it semys a man̛ of cownceƚƚ, not alonelie to kepe stiƚƚ his handis & his tong, bod also for to kepe his een̛ contynent from̛ aƚƚ maner of ydiƚƚ sightis in tyme þat he is at conceƚƚ."