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'No more of this for Godde's dignity '	A
Quoth oure Hoste 'for thou makest me	B
So weary of thy very lewedness stupidity ignorance	C
That all so wisly God my soule bless surely	B
Mine eares ache for thy drafty speech worthless	D
Now such a rhyme the devil I beteche commend to	E
This may well be rhyme doggerel ' quoth he	B
'Why so ' quoth I 'why wilt thou lette me prevent	F
More of my tale than any other man	G
Since that it is the best rhyme that I can ' know	H
'By God ' quoth he 'for plainly at one word	I
Thy drafty rhyming is not worth a tord	I
Thou dost naught elles but dispendest time wastest	I
Sir at one word thou shalt no longer rhyme	J
Let see whether thou canst tellen aught in gest by way of	K
Or tell in prose somewhat at the least narrative	L
In which there be some mirth or some doctrine '	A
'Gladly ' quoth I 'by Godde's sweete pine suffering	M
I will you tell a little thing in prose	N
That oughte like you as I suppose please	O
Or else certes ye be too dangerous fastidious	D
It is a moral tale virtuous	D
All be it told sometimes in sundry wise although it be	B
By sundry folk as I shall you devise	P
As thus ye wot that ev'ry Evangelist	I
That telleth us the pain of Jesus Christ passion	Q
He saith not all thing as his fellow doth	R
But natheless their sentence is all soth true	E
And all accorden as in their sentence meaning	M
All be there in their telling difference	C
For some of them say more and some say less	S
When they his piteous passion express	S
I mean of Mark and Matthew Luke and John	T
But doubteless their sentence is all one	Q
Therefore lordinges all I you beseech	U
If that ye think I vary in my speech	U
As thus though that I telle somedeal more	V
Of proverbes than ye have heard before	V
Comprehended in this little treatise here	W
T'enforce with the effect of my mattere with which to	E
And though I not the same wordes say enforce	X
As ye have heard yet to you all I pray	Y
Blame me not for as in my sentence	C
Shall ye nowhere finde no difference	C
From the sentence of thilke treatise lite this little	Z
After the which this merry tale I write	I
And therefore hearken to what I shall say	Y
And let me tellen all my tale I pray '	A
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A young man called Meliboeus mighty and rich begat upon his	A2
wife that called was Prudence a daughter which that called was	B2
Sophia Upon a day befell that he for his disport went into the	C2
fields him to play His wife and eke his daughter hath he left	I
within his house of which the doors were fast shut Three of his	A2
old foes have it espied and set ladders to the walls of his house	D2
and by the windows be entered and beaten his wife and	I
wounded his daughter with five mortal wounds in five sundry	B
places that is to say in her feet in her hands in her ears in her	E2
nose and in her mouth and left her for dead and went away	Y
When Meliboeus returned was into his house and saw all this	F2
mischief he like a man mad rending his clothes gan weep and	I
cry Prudence his wife as farforth as she durst besought him of	K
his weeping for to stint but not forthy notwithstanding he gan	G
to weep and cry ever longer the more	V
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This noble wife Prudence remembered her upon the sentence of	K
Ovid in his book that called is the 'Remedy of Love '	-
where he saith He is a fool that disturbeth the mother to weep	G2
in the death of her child till she have wept her fill as for a	C2
certain time and then shall a man do his diligence with amiable	Z
words her to recomfort and pray her of her weeping for to stint	I
cease For which reason this noble wife Prudence suffered her	E2
husband for to weep and cry as for a certain space and when	H2
she saw her time she said to him in this wise 'Alas my lord '	-
quoth she 'why make ye yourself for to be like a fool For	V
sooth it appertaineth not to a wise man to make such a sorrow	H
Your daughter with the grace of God shall warish be cured	I
and escape And all although were it so that she right now	I2
were dead ye ought not for her death yourself to destroy	J2
Seneca saith 'The wise man shall not take too great discomfort	I
for the death of his children but certes he should suffer it in	K2
patience as well as he abideth the death of his own proper	E2
person ''	-
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Meliboeus answered anon and said 'What man ' quoth he	B
'should of his weeping stint that hath so great a cause to weep	G2
Jesus Christ our Lord himself wept for the death of Lazarus	D
his friend ' Prudence answered 'Certes well I wot	I
attempered moderate weeping is nothing defended forbidden	Q
to him that sorrowful is among folk in sorrow but it is rather	E2
granted him to weep The Apostle Paul unto the Romans	L2
writeth 'Man shall rejoice with them that make joy and weep	G2
with such folk as weep ' But though temperate weeping be	B
granted outrageous weeping certes is defended Measure of	K
weeping should be conserved after the lore doctrine that	I
teacheth us Seneca 'When that thy friend is dead ' quoth he 'let	I
not thine eyes too moist be of tears nor too much dry although	H
the tears come to thine eyes let them not fall And when thou	I2
hast forgone lost thy friend do diligence to get again another	E2
friend and this is more wisdom than to weep for thy friend	I
which that thou hast lorn lost for therein is no boot	I
advantage And therefore if ye govern you by sapience put	I
away sorrow out of your heart Remember you that Jesus	D
Sirach saith 'A man that is joyous and glad in heart it him	M2
conserveth flourishing in his age but soothly a sorrowful heart	I
maketh his bones dry ' He said eke thus 'that sorrow in heart	I
slayth full many a man ' Solomon saith 'that right as moths in	K2
the sheep's fleece annoy do injury to the clothes and the small	N2
worms to the tree right so annoyeth sorrow to the heart of	K
man ' Wherefore us ought as well in the death of our children	Q
as in the loss of our goods temporal have patience Remember	E2
you upon the patient Job when he had lost his children and his	A2
temporal substance and in his body endured and received full	O2
many a grievous tribulation yet said he thus 'Our Lord hath	P2
given it to me our Lord hath bereft it me right as our Lord	I
would right so be it done blessed be the name of our Lord ''	-
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To these foresaid things answered Meliboeus unto his wife	Q2
Prudence 'All thy words ' quoth he 'be true and thereto	I
also profitable but truly mine heart is troubled with this	F2
sorrow so grievously that I know not what to do ' 'Let call '	-
quoth Prudence 'thy true friends all and thy lineage which be	B
wise and tell to them your case and hearken what they say in	K2
counselling and govern you after their sentence opinion	Q
Solomon saith 'Work all things by counsel and thou shall never	E2
repent '' Then by counsel of his wife Prudence this Meliboeus	F2
let call sent for a great congregation of folk as surgeons	F2
physicians old folk and young and some of his old enemies	F2
reconciled as by their semblance to his love and to his grace	F2
and therewithal there come some of his neighbours that did him	M2
reverence more for dread than for love as happeneth oft There	R2
come also full many subtle flatterers and wise advocates	F2
learned in the law And when these folk together assembled	I
were this Meliboeus in sorrowful wise showed them his case	F2
and by the manner of his speech it seemed that in heart he bare	R2
a cruel ire ready to do vengeance upon his foes and suddenly	B
desired that the war should begin but nevertheless yet asked he	B
their counsel in this matter A surgeon by licence and assent of	K
such as were wise up rose and to Meliboeus said as ye may	Y
hear 'Sir ' quoth he 'as to us surgeons appertaineth that we	B
do to every wight the	C2

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