Þou maiȝt oþur mennes goodnesse
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Preisen wiþ-outen blame,
But not þin owne be-fore men,
ffor hit were but a schame.
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Multorum cum facta senex & dicta recenses, ffac tibi succurrant iuuenisque feceris ipse.
44.
Seiez en ta iuuente
E metez vostre entente
De ben dyre e fere;
Kar quaunt veyllard regeies
En ces fez e diz,
Le tuen puissez retrere.
Sun, do her in þi ȝouþe
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Þing þat þe mouwe helpe;
Whon þou art an old mon aftur,
Þerof þenne maiȝt þou ȝelpe.
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Ne cures siquis tacito sermone loquatur: Conscius ipse sibi de se putat omnia dici.
45.
Si homme nuil ren
A vous parout ben,
Ia ne eizes enui;
Ky ke mauueis se sent,
Il quide ke tote gent
Parlent de ly.
Ȝif þou seo men speke stille,
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A-Meoued beo þou nouȝt:
Þe wikked mon weneþ þat alle men
Haue him in heore þouht.
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Cum fueris felixque sunt aduersa caueto: Non eodem cursu respondent (vltima) primis.
46.
Taunt cum es benure,
En-countre aduersyte
Deuez vous eschure;
Kar le comencement
E le defynement
Ne sount pas de vne mesure.
Ȝif þou, mon, be meke and mylde,
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ffleo al frouward þing;
