[6-text p 587]
þe flemyng saiþ and lerne it if þe leste
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þat lytel Iangelynge causeþ mechel reste
My sone if þou no wickede word hast seyd
þe þar nouȝt drede for to be bywreyd
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But he þat haþ myssayd I dar wel sayn [folio 261a]
he may by no way clepe his word agayn
Thing þat is sayde is sayde and forþ it goþ
Though him repente or be him neuer so loþ
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he is his þralle to whom þat he haþ sayd
A tale of which he is now yuele payd
My sone be war and be nouȝt auctour newe
Of tydynges wheþer þay ben fals or trewe
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Wher so þou come amonges heihe or lowe
Kepe wel þy tunge and þenk vpon þe crowe
Explicit fabula mancipii
