At þe last it goþ, y wot not whyder,
As ende of web out of slay.
And hem-self stoden so slydere,
How it is wiþ hym, y kan not say.
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¶ Sum man dar not be þef for drede;
His trouþe is vice, and no vertue.
In heuene he nys not worþi mede,
Þat cloþes trouþe in falsed hewe.
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Maugre his teeþ he is trewe;
Stoken in presoun as best fro stray,
Here wikked wille groweþ newe;
Þey thenke more þan þey say.
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¶ Men may not staunche a comoun noys,
Noþer for loue ne for awe.
After men lyue is comoun voys,
In wrongwys dede, or ryȝt lawe.
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Who doþ hem pyne, who doþ hem pawe,
Eche on telle oþer, child and may.
Tho that to vertues drawe,
Hem thar not recche what [men] say.
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¶ Tak fro þi foo, and ȝeue þi frende;
Tak not fro thy frend, to ȝeue þi foo:
Þy frend wole holde þe vnhende;
Þow haddest on enemy, þan hast þou [MS. þu. As the MS. has "thou," 4/116, 8/46, above, I print þu 'þou.' In my first-edited text of some Saints' Lives (Philolog. Soc. 1862) I printed ic as the Northern 'ic' instead of the Southern 'ich' as I ought to have done. Dr. R. Morris told me of the mistake.—F. J. F.] two.
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Man, be war er þou do so;
To greue the he wol assay; [folio 102a]
When þyn enemys wexen mo,
Litil worchipe of þe say.
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¶ Oo prouerbe loke ȝe preue,
Ȝe þat wole to resoun bende:
Look what neyȝebore most may greue;
By al way make hym þi frende.
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