[6-text p 644] of thynges / and greuaunces / ayeinst þe which .iiij. he most have .iiij. maner of Paciences /
[663] The first greuaunce is / of wykked wordes tho suffred Ihesu Crist / without grucchyng full paciently / whan the Iewes despised hym / and repreued hym full ofte / [664] suffre þou þerfore paciently ffor the wise man seith/ yf þou stryve with a fooll/ þough þe fole be wroth or þough he laugh / all gate þou shalt haue no rest / [665] þat other greuaunce [Eg. 2726 folio 258a] Outward is to haue damage of thy catell/ þere ayeinst suffred crist full paciently / whan he was despoyled of all that he hadde in this lyf/ and that nas but his clothes / [666] The thirde greuaunce is / a man to haue harme in his body þat suffred Crist full paciently in all his passion / [667] The ferthe grevaunce is in outrageous labour in werkes / wherfore I seye þat folk þat maken her seruauntes to travaillen to greuously or out of tyme / as on holidayes / sothly they doon grete synne / [668] here ayeinst suffred Crist full paciently / and taught vs pacience / whan he bare vp-on his blissed sholder the crosse / vp-on which he suffred dispitous deth/ [669] Here men mow lerne to be pacient/ for certes nat onely cristen men ben pacient/ for þe love of Ihesu Crist / and for the gwerdon / of þe blisfull lyf / þat is perdurable / But certes þe old Payens / þat neuer were cristen commendeden and vseden þe vertue of pacience /
[670] A Philosophre vp-on a tyme þat wold haue bette his disciple / for his grete trespace / for which he was gretely ameved / and brought a yerde to skoure the childe / [671] and whan þe child sawe the yerd / he seid to his maister / what thynk ye to doo / I woll bete the koth þe maister / for thy correccion / [672] forsoth koth the child / ye ought first correcte your self/ þat han lost all your Pacience for the gilt of a childe / [673] forsoth koth þe maister all wepyng/ þou
