Three prose versions of the Secreta Secretorum / edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Steele and a glossary by T. Henderson

Of knowleche of þe same peynes. Cam. 24m.

dEre sone, wite welle that y haue had knowleche of moche disese in my tyme, and therfore haue oft in memorie the dedis of thi forne fadris, and thynke how they haue lyvid, and so maist thou se and knowe bi many goode examplis how þou shalt done in thi governaunce in tyme comyng of tho [folio 12b] dedis that are passid; and loke thou haue no dispite, ne greue nought him that is lesse of myght than thou arte, for often it is sene that god encresith sympille men, and makith hem riche, and so cometh the pore man to power to quite that is done to him afore tyme, good othir yville.