Emperour le dey nomer
Ki sei meymes set Iusticer.
Ȝif þou desyre gretliche honour,
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I schal þe make an Emperour;
An Emperour I schal him calle
Þat con him-self Iustifie (!) ouer alle.
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Noli [MS. Volo] auertere faciem tuam ab vllo paupere.
Si vus desireȝ de dieu la grace,
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De nuly poure turneþ la face,
Ke dieu ne turne sa face de vous—
Si dit le sage a nous tous.
Ȝif þou desyre of god to haue grace,
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ffrom no pore mon turne þi face,
Leste god turne his face from þe—
Þe wise mon techeþ alle þus, parde.
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TOBIAS.
Si multum tibi fuerit, habundanter tribue.
Si poy as, poy durras,
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E durras mout si mout as;
Si rien ne as mout durras
Quaunt de doner la volunte as.
Ȝif þou haue luytel, luitel ȝiue and do;
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Ȝif þou haue muchel, muche ȝiue also;
Ȝif þou haue nouȝt, muche þou schalt ȝiue
And þi wille be to ȝiue ȝif þou were I-þriue.
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RAPHAEL.
Elemosina purgat peccata & facit inueniri vitam eternam.
Bon est estre augmoners;
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Deuȝ bens est pur ce apparaylers:
De ces pecches remissioun,
E vye perdurable en guerdoun.
Hit is good to don almes-dede,
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ffor twei godes ben ordeynt to þi mede:
On is of þi sunnes remission,
Þat toþur euer-lastinge lyf to þi gerdon.
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SENECA.
Auarus nullis est bonus, in se pessimus.
Mal est estre trop auers,
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