[6-text p 220] reconsyled / & folk þat don ȝow reuerence with-outyn loue / [2436] And ek also ȝe han erred / for ȝe han brouȝt with ȝow to ȝoure conseyl; Ire. Coueytyse. & Hastifnesse / [2437] the wheche thre thyngis been con|traryous / to euery conseyl honeste & profitable / [2438] And the whiche thre thyngis; ȝe han not anientissed or destroyed hem neythir in ȝoure self ne in ȝoure conseylourys / as ȝe ouȝte [2439] ¶ Ȝe han erred also for ȝe han schewid to ȝoure conseylouris ȝoure talent & ȝoure affeccioun to makyn werre anon & for to doon vengeaunce / [2440] they han espied be ȝoure wordis to what thyng ȝe been enclyned / [2441] & therefore han they conseylid ȝow rathere to ȝoure talent; than to ȝoure profit [2442] ¶ Ȝe han errid also / for it semyth that ȝow suffysith to han been con|seylid by these conseylouris only / & with litil avis [2443] wheere as in so greet & in so high a neede / it hadde been necessarye / mo conseylouris / & moore deliberacioun / to perforne ȝoure emprise [2444] ¶ Ȝe han errid also ffor ȝe han not examynyd / ȝoure conseyl in the for seyde manere / ne due maneere / as the caas requiryth [2445] ¶ Ȝe han errid also for ȝe han makid non deuysioun / bytwixe ȝoure conseylouris / . . . . . [no gap] [2446] ne ȝe ne haue not knowe / the wil of ȝoure trewe frendis olde & wyse / [2447] but ȝe han cast alle here wordys in an hochepot / & enclyned ȝoure herte to the more part & to the grettere noumbere // And theere been ȝe condescendit / [2448] & sith ȝe wote weel that men schal [folio 335b] alwey fynde a grettere noumbre of folys than of wise men / [2449] & therfore in the conseylis that been at congregaciounnys & multitudis of folk there as men take more reward to the nombre than to the sapience of personis / [2450] ȝe seen weel that in sweche conseylyngis foolis han the maistrie [2451]
MElibeus answerede agen & seyde I graunte wel that I haue erryd / [2452] but theere as thow hast told / me heere be-forn / that he nys to blame that chaungith his con|seyl
