Who dar bete þee, nay lete be,
Riche or poore, weike or wiȝte,
Loke þou bere þee boolde on me,
And y for þee wole chide & fliȝte."
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Þanne up stood Paciens,
"As wraþþe biddiþ do not soo,
For wraþþe haþ no Conscience,
He makiþ ech man oþeris foo;
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Þer-with he getiþ his dispence,
Þat schulde be freende, to make hem foo.
Praie god, he be þi diffence,
Þat þou be not founde in þe noumbre of þoo."
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Quod enuie þanne, "y wole þee leere
To make þi lord to þee tame;
Be homeli, & rowne in his eere,
And bringe trewe folk in fals fame.
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Make him þi suget, to þee to swere
Þat he schal not discure þi name;
So make him fals witnesse to bere,
And gete þee richesse wiþ god-is grame."
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Þanne up roos a souereyn uertu
Þat is clepid Charite:
"Loke þou not hise maners sue,
For god-is enemy soþeli is he.
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Do þou to euery man þat is due [page 128]
As þou woldist he dide to þee."
Quod Coueitise "and alle folk were trewe,
Manye a man schulde neuere þee.
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Caste þee faste to Coueitise,
Make sotil þi wittis, & forge wilis,
And preue þat trewe men be nyce,
For so þe fals þe trewe bigilis;
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