[6-text p 231] helpe; Sche wil Faile þe & deceyve þe; [2643] ¶ And where as ȝe seine þat fortone haþ norissched ȝow fro ȝoure child-hode; [2644] I. saie ȝoue þat in so muche schal ȝe þe lasse trust in hire & in hire witte; [2645] ¶ For Senec seiþe. þat what man is norisched be fortune sche makeþ him a grete foole; [2646] ¶ Nowe seþen ȝe desire & axen vengeance; And þe vengeance þat is done after þe lawe & be-forne þe Iuge ne likeþ ȝowe nouȝt; [2647] And vengeance þat is done in hope of forton is peril|ous & vncerteine; [2648] Than haue ȝe none oþer remedye; bot for to haue ȝoure recours vnto þe souereyne Iuge þat vengeþ al velanyes & wronges [2649] And he schal venge ȝoue after þat þi self witnesseþ; . . . . [no gap] [2650] Leueþ þe vengeance to me & .I. schal done it;
[2651] Mellibe anseward; I. ne venge me nouht of þe wronge þat men han done to me [2652] .I. schal somne or werne hem þat haue done þis velany to me And al oþere to done me anoþere velanye [2653] ¶ For it is wreten if þou take no vengeance of an olde velanye; þou somp|nest þine aduersarie to done þe a newe velanye; [2654] [Et ainsi par mon serement en souffrant len me fera tant de villenie de toutes pars (Reg. 19 C xi, lf 60, col. 2)] þat .I. myht neyþe ber it ne susteinge; [2655] And. so schold .I. be oueresett And halden ouere lowe; [2656] For men seine in muchel suffringe schold mony þinges falle. vn-to þe whiche .I. schal nouht suffre
[2657] ¶ Certes quod prudence .I. graunte þat ouer muchel suffrance is nouht good; [2658] ¶ Bot ȝit ne fouloweþ it nouȝt þere-of; þat euery person to whom men doone velanye take of hit vengeance; [2659] For þat appar|teneþ & longeþ al only to þe Iuge. For þei schal vengen þe vilenys & þe inIuryes [2660] And þerfore þo tuo Auctoritees þat ȝe haue seide aboue ben only vnderstonden in þe Iugges [2661] ¶ For whan þei suffren ouere mechel þe wronges & velanys be done
