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The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

[6-text p 216] grace of his olde enmye. [2374] And. Isope. seiþe. Ne trust nouht to hem to whiche some time þou hast hadd werre or enemete; ne tell hem nouht þine counsell. [2375] ¶ And Senec telleþ þe cause whi; It maie nouht be seiþ he þat where longe time fire haþe endured þat þere dwelleþ som tyme vapoure of hete; [2376] ¶ And þerefor seiþ Salomon. In þine olde foo truste þou neuere. [2377] ffor sekerly þouhe þine enmye be reconsilede & makeþ þe þere of humylite & louteþ to þe wiþ his hede ne trust him neuere. [2378] ffor certes he makeþ þilke feyned humylite more for his profit þan for any humylite. or for any loue of þin persone . . . . . [no gap] be suche feyned countenance. The whiche victorie. he myht haue be strif of werre. [2379] ¶ And Peter alfons seiþe Maake no felaweschepe wiþ þine olde enmys; ffor if þou done hem bounte þei willen peruerten it to wikkednesse; [2380] ¶ And eke þou most eschiewe þe counselinge of þine seruantȝ þat beren þe grete reuerence; ffor parauenture þei seine it more for drede þan for loue [2381] And þerfore seiþe a philosofer in þis wise. Ther is no wyght parfitly trewe to hime þat he to sore dredeþ; [2382] And Tullius seiþe There is no wight so grete of any emperoureȝ þat longe maie endure bot if he haue loue of þe peple & drede [2383] ¶ þou schalt eschewe also þe counselinge of folke þat bien dronkenlewe for þei ne can no counsell hide. [2384] Salomon. seiþe. þere nys no priuete þere as regneþ drunkennesse [2385] ¶ ȝe scholne haue also in suspecte to þe counselinge of suche folke as counsel ȝowe a þinge priuely & counsel ȝowe a thinge þat is contrarye openly [2386] ¶ ffor Cassidorie. seiþe þat it is a maner sleihte to hindren his enmye whan he scheweþ to done a þinge openlye & wirkeþ priuely þe contrarie. [2387] ¶ þou schalt haue also in þi suspecte þe counselinge of wikked folke . . . . . [no gap] þat is alweie ful
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The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,
1867-1879.

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