[6-text p 236] is to seyne / myn greef & myn deseese touchith me ryȝt now / [2736] And therfore thow I be wroth & in|pacient; it is no meruayle // [2737] And sauynge ȝoure grace / I can not seen that it myȝte greetly harme me thow I tok vengeaunce [2738] ffor I am richere & moore myȝty than myne enemy is been // [2739] And weel knowe ȝe that by monee & by hauynge / greete posses|siouns been alle thyngis of this world / gouernyd [2740] ¶ And salomon seith That alle these thyngis obeye to monye. [2741]
WHanne Prudence hadde herd these wordis of hire hosisbonde how he auaunted hym of hese richesse / and of hise mene / dispreysynge the poweer / of hise aduersaryis / sche spak & seyde in this wyse / [2742] Certis deere sere / I graunte ȝow that ȝe been riche / & myghty / [2743] & that the richessis been goode to hem / that han weel I-getyn hem and that weel cunne vse hem // [2744] For rygh as the body of a man may not leue with-outyn the soule; no moore may it leue with-oute the temperel goodis / [2745] and by richessis may a man getyn hym best frendis / [2746] And therefore seyth Pamphilles ¶ If Auerthes doughtir he seyth be ryche / Sche may chesen of a thousent men . . . . .[2747] . . [no gap in the MS.] / oon wele not forsakyn hyre ne refusyn hire / [2748] And this Pamphiles seith also / If thow be ryȝt happy / that is to seyne / If [folio 343a] thow be ryȝt ryche / thow schat fyndyn a greet noumbere of felawys & frendis / [2749] And ȝif thyn fortune chonge Fare weel freendschepe & felaweschepe / [2750] for thow schat been a-loone / with-outyn ony cumpanye But if it be the cumpanye of poore folk [2751] ¶ And ȝit seyth this Pamphilles moore ouyr That they that been / boonde & thralle / of linage schuln been made worthy & noble bi the richesses [2752] & ryȝt so as by richessis theere comyn manye goodys; ryȝt so by pouerte / comyn theere manye harmys / & euellis / [2753] For greet pouerte; con|streynyth
