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The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

[6-text p 216] grace of hise olde enemy [2374] ¶ And ysope seyth / ne truste not to hem to wheche thow hast had sumtyme werre or enmytee ne telle hem not thyn conseyl / [2375] And Seneca tellyth the cause why / It may not be seyth he / that where as greet feer long tyme hath deured; that there ne dwellyth sum vapour of warmnesse [2376] And therfore Seyth Salomon / in thyn olde fo truste neuere / [2377] ffor sekirly / thow thyn enemy be reconsyled / & makyth the cheer of humylite / & loutyth to the with hise heed / ne truste hym neuere / [2378] ffor sekyrly he makyth thilke feynede humylitee more for his owene profyt than for loue of thyn persone / by cause that he dem|yth to haue victorie ouyr thyn persone / by swich feynede contenaunce / the [folio 333b] whiche victorie / he myȝte not haue be stryf or werre / [2379] & Petyr Alfonce seyth make non felaueschepe with thynne olde enemyis / for ȝif thow do hem bounte; they wele peruertyn it in to wikkedenesse // [2380] And ek thow muste eschewe the wekedenesse of hem & the conseyil that been thynne seruauntis & beryn the grete reuerence / for perauenture they seyn / it moore for drede than for loue. [2381] And therfore seyth a philisofere in this wyse / There is no whit perfytely trewe to hym that he to soore dredyth / [2382] And Tullius seyth / theere is no myȝt so greet of ony Emperour / that longe may endure / but ȝif he haue moore loue of the peple than drede [2383] ¶ Thow schalt also enchewe the conseylynge of folk that been dronkelewe / for they ne can no conseyl hyde / [2384] ffor Salomon seyth there is no priuyte; theere as regnyth dronkenesse // [2385] ȝe schal also han in suspect / the conseylynge of sweche folk as conseyle ȝow o thyng priuyly / & conseyle ȝow the contrarie opynly [2386] ¶ ffor Cassiodere seyth / that it is a manere sleyte to hynderyn whan a man schewith to don on thyng pryuyly & werkyth the contrarye opynly / [2387] Thow schalt also haue in suspect / the conseylynge of wekede folk ffor the bok seyth the conseylynge of wekede folk; is alwey ful
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The Cambridge ms (University library, Gg. 4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,
1868-1879.

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