[ [[MS. torn away. Supplied from Addit. MS. 22,283.]] Puisse ren] gayner [
ke pecche aiment, e le funt suuent,ke pru emporterunt;Ne pot ester ke tus peccheske or sunt cuuers, e celéés;En aucun tens se mustrunt.]] [Kar pecche]s escapisent [E en tens] arere issent [E renden]t mal louer.
[I nul n]ot þat þou hope
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Wicked men sunnes winne;
Sunnes askapen ofte in tounes,
And schewen In tyme and blinne.
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Corporis [[MS. corpus]] exigui vires contempnere noli: Consilio pollet, cui uim natura negauit.
83.
Ne eieȝ en despit
La force del petit,
Kar se ne uaut guere;
Kar la ou force faut,
Bon counseil vaut,
Quant homme ad a fere.
¶ Ne haue þou not in dispit
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Þe bodi of luitel mon:
In pes and werre þer strengþe is wone,
Good wisdam ofte he con.
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¶ Quem [[Cui, V. R.]] scieris non esse parem [te [[tibi, Addit. 22,283.]] tempore cede: Victorem a uicto superari sepe videmus.
84.
Souent desporteras
Cely ke pluis bas
De tei est, e mynour:
Kar nous aoums veu
Souent le vencu
Reueyndre le vencour.
¶ Þouh a mon be not þi peere,
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ffor-bere þou him in cas:
Ofte we seon þe strengor falle
Þorw him þat feblore was.
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¶ Aduersus [[MS. Aduersum]] notum noli contendere verbis: Lis minimis verbis interdum maxima cressit.
85.
A conu ne od pier
Ne voiles estriuer,
Ne en Ieu ne adecertes;
Kar graunt cuntek souent
