[6-text p 641] And therfore seith Salamon / An hous þat is vncouered and droppyng and a chidyng [[MS. repeats and a chidyng]] / wyf / ben like [632] a man þat is in a droppyng hous / in many places / þough he eschew the droppyng in oo place it droppeth on hym in another place / So fareth it by a chidyng wyf/ but she chide hym in oo place / she woll chide him / in another / [633] and therfore better is A morsell brede with ioye / þan an hous full of delices / with chidyng/ seith Salamon / [634] Seint Poule seith / O ye Wommen / be ye subiectes to your housbondes / as byhoueth in god / and ye men loueth your wyfes / Ad Colonisences 3o.
[635] Afterward speke we of scornyng/ which is a wykked synne And namely whan he skorneth a man for his gode werkes / [636] ffor certes soch scorners / faren like the foule tode / þat may nat endure / to smell the swete sauour / of the vyne whan it florissheth / [637] þe scorners ben partyng felawes with the devyll/ for þey han Ioye whan þe devyll wynneth / and sorow whan he leseth / [638] they ben aduersaries of Ihesu Crist/ for they haten þat he loueth / þat is to sey sauacion of soule /
[639] Speke we now of wykked counseill / for he þat wikked counseill yeveth is a traytour / for he disceyueth / hym þat trusteth hym / . . . [no gap in the MS.] But natheles yitte is his wykked counseill/ first ayeinst hym self/ [640] . . . . . [no gap in the MS.] þat he þat woll anoye another man / he anoyeth first hym self/ [641] And men shull vnderstonde þat man shall nat take his counseill of fals folk/ ne of angrye folk or greuous / folk/ þat loven specially to moch her owen profite / ne to moch worldly folk/ namely in counseillyng of soules /
[642] Now comth þe Synne of hem / þat sowen and maken discorde amonges folk/ which is a synne/ þat
