[6-text p 205] in tyme comynge ben possible to [folio 219a] falle for þis same cause [2214] and eek by resoun Of þe grete richesse and power of þe parties boþe [2215] ¶ ffor þe whiche resouns it were a gret perile for to erren in þis matiere // [2216] wherfore melibeus þis is oure sentence we counseile ȝou abouen alle þinges þat right anon þou do þi diligence in kepyng of þi propre persone in suche a wyse þat þou ne wante none aspye ne wacche þi body for to saue [2217] ¶ And after þat we counseile þat þou sette in þin hous suffisaunt garnysoun ¶ So þat þey may as wel þy body and þin hous defende [2218] ¶ But certes for to meve werre ne sodeinly for to do vengeance ¶ We may nouȝt deme in so litel tyme þat it were profit|able [2219] wherfore we asken leysir and space to haue deliberacion in þis cas to deme [2220] for þe commune prouerbe saiþ þus. he. þat sone demeþ sone schal repente [2221] ¶ And eek men say þus þat þilke Iuge is wys þat sone vnderstandeþ a matiere and Iugeþ by leysyr [2222] ¶ ffor al be it so þat alle taryynge be anoyful; algates it nys nouȝt to reproue in ȝeuyng of Iuggementz ne in vengaunce takynge whanne it is suffisaunt and resonable. [2223] and þat schewed oure lord ihesus crist by en|sample ¶ ffor when þat þe womman was taken in aduoutrye was brought in his presens to knowe what schal ben don with hire persone ¶ Al be it so þat he wiste wel himself what þat he wolde answere; ȝit ne wolde he nouȝt answere sodeinly but he wolde haue deliberacion and in þe grounde he wrot twyes [2224] ¶ And by þis cause we axen deliberacion And we schullen þanne by þe grace of god counseile þe þinge þat schal be profitable
[2225] ¶ Vp sterte þenne þe ȝonge folk atones; and þe moste partye of þat company haue scorned þis olde wise man and bygonne to make noyse and sayden [2226] right so ¶ as whiles þat yren is hoot men schulden smyte ¶ Right so men schulden wreken here wronges whiles
