[6-text p 241] [2833] And therfore seyth seynt austyn / that there been two thyngis that been necessarye & nedeful [2834] & that is good Concience & good loos / [2835] that is to seyne good concience to thyn owene parsone / In word and good los / for thyn neyghebore owtward / [2836] And he that trustith hym so mechil in hise goode concience / [2837] that he displesith & settyth at nouȝt / his goode name or los / & rekkith nat thow he kepith nat his goode name / nys but a crewel cherl /
[2838] Sire now haue I schewid ȝow / how ȝe schuldyn doon to getyn rychessis / & how ȝe schuldyn vsyn hem / [2839] And I se weel that for the trust that ȝe han in ȝoure richessis / ȝe wele meue werre / & batayle [2840] ¶ I conseyle ȝow that ȝe begynne no werre in trust of ȝoure rychessis / for they ne suffyse not / werrys to mayn|tene / [2841] And therfore seyth a philysophere That man that desyryth & wele algatis han werre / schal neuere han suffisaunce / [2842] for the rychere that he is the grettere dispencis wolde he makyn / ȝif he wele haue wor|schepe & victorie [2843] And Salomon seyth / that the grettere rychessis that a man hath; the mo dispendouris / he hath [2844] ¶ And deere sere / al be it so that for ȝoure rychessis / ȝe mowe haue meche folk / [2845] ȝit behouyth it nat / ne it is nat good to bryngyn werre / where as ȝe mowe in othere manere haue pees / vn-to ȝoure worschepe & profyt / [2846] ffor the victorye of bataylis / that been in this world / lyth not in grete nou[m]bre or multitude of peple / ne in the vertew of man / [2847] but it lyth in the wil & in the vertu of oure lord god / almighty / [2848] & therfore Iudas / Machabeus / whiche was goddis knygh / [2849] whanne he schulde fyghte aȝen hyse aduersaryis that a grettere noumbre & a grettere mul|titude of puple of folk & was strongere / than was his puple of Machabye / [2850] ȝit he reconfortyth his litil cumpanye / & seyde ryȝt in this wise / [2851] Also lyghtely quod he may oure lord god / almyghty ȝeue victorye to a fewe folk;
