[6-text p 242] as to mony folke [2852] ffor þe victorie of Bataile commeþ nouht be grete nombre of peple; [2853] Bot it commeþ fro oure lorde of heuen; [2854] And dere sire for also muchel as þere is noman certeine; if it be worþi þat god ȝif him victorie [neant plus se Il est certain se Il est digne de lamour de dieu] or nouȝt; After þat Salomon seiþ; [2855] Therfor euery man schold gretely drede werres to be-ginne [2856] ¶ And be-cause þat in Batailes scholne fallen mony periles; [2857] And happeþe oþere while; þat as sone is þe grete man sleyne; as þe lytel man; [2858] ¶ And as it [is] wreten in þe secunde boke of kinges; The dedes of Bataile been aduenterous & vncertein; [2859] ffor as lyhtly as one is hurte wiþ a spere [folio 203b] as a-noþer; [2860] And þere-fore it is grete perile in werre ¶ Ther-fore scholde men flee & eschewe werre in as muchel as a man maie goodly; [2861] ¶ For Salomon seiþe he þat loueþ perile; schal fal in perile
[2862] ¶ After þat dame Prudence had spoken in þis manere Mellibe anseward & seide; [2863] ¶ I. see wele dame Prudence þat be ȝowre faire wordes & be ȝoure resouns þat [vous mettez auant que] þe werre likeþ ȝow no þinge; [2864] Bot .I. haue nouht ȝit herde ȝoure wise counsele how .I. schal do in þis nede;
[2865] ¶ Certes quod sche .I. counseile ȝowe to accorde with ȝoure aduersaries & þat ȝe haue pees wiþ hem; [2866] ¶ For [Seneques,, MS Reg. 19 C xi, lf 63, col. 2] seinte Iames seiþe [en ses epistre] þat be concorde & pees þat smale Richesse waxen grete [2867] And be debate & discorde grete riches fallen doune; [2868] And ȝe knowen þat of þe grettest & most souereine þinge þat is in þis werlde is vnite & pees; [2869] ¶ And þerfore seide oure lorde ihesu crist to his Apostles in þis wise [2870] ¶ Wel happy & blissed be þei þat louen & purchasen pees; For þei bien cleped þe childerne of god; [2871] ¶ A quod Mellibe; Nowe .I. se wele ȝe loue nouht my honour ne my worschippe. [2872] Ȝe knowen wele þat myne
