Sythens that your wyldnes is ouerblowen

The sede of vertu on you shall be sowen

Vyce to depryue by his good auctoryte

As for to subdue all yll iniquyte

b .iiii.

 Of other mennes wordes be thou not bolde

And of theyr promys make no behest

And yf thou here an yll tale tolde

Gyue no iugement but say the best

So shall thou lyue euermore in rest

Who lytell medeleth is best at ease

For well were he that all myght please

 Beware kepe the from grete offence

That thou condempned be not by ryghtwysnes

Whan she doth gyue her mortall sentence

Without pease or mercy cause her reles

Her iugement of mortall heuynes

That the best frende to the wyll be

The for to socour in grete necessyte

 But yet in theym haue none affyaunce

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