Overmore the seyd William, atte commaundement of the seyd Duc of Norffolk, hath submytted hym to stonde to the ordinaunce of divers persones of alle the seyd matiers: ones at Leyceetre, the Wednesday next biforn Palm Soneday, the iiij.
He was biforn anoyed sore, 3565 But than ye doubled him wel more; For he of blis hath ben ful bare, Sith Bialacoil was fro him fare.
To ihe{s}u crist bigan to calle, And deyede biforn his heyme{n} alle.
With þe neue he robert sette Biforn þe teth a dint ful strong.
Biforn here fet þanne lay a tre, And putten with a mikel ston, &c.
Wherfor I seye, that from eterne if he Hath wist biforn our thought eek as our dede, We have no free chois, as these clerkes rede.
For 60 we seen many thinges whan they ben don bifornoure eyen, right as men seen the cartere worken in the torninge or atempringe or adressinge of hise cartes or charietes.
And for as moche as the peyne of the accusacioun aiuged biforn ne sholde nat sodeinly henten ne punisshen wrongfully Albin, a counseiller of Rome, I putte me ayeins the hates and indignaciouns of the accusor Ciprian.
And yif thou coveitest by honour to gon biforn other folk, thou shalt defoule thy-self thorugh humblesse of axinge.
But yif so be that non uncertein thing ne may ben in him that is right certein welle 100 of alle thinges, thanne is the bitydinge certein of thilke thinges whiche he hath wist biforn fermely to comen.
In whiche manere knoweth god bifornthe thinges to comen, yif they ne be nat certein?
I mene, from 11 of the clokke biforn the houre of noon til oon of the clok next folwing.
Outher it is thestaat of innocence, as was thestaat of Adam biforn that he fil into sinne; in which estaat he was holden to wirche, as in heryinge and adouringe of god.
Whan that our lord had warned himbiforn 3535 That al the world with water sholde be lorn?
For Tullius seith: that "long apparailling bifornthe bataille maketh short victorie.
Soothly, the gode werkes, that he didebiforn that he fil in sinne, been al mortified and astoned and dulled by the ofte sinning.
For whether that he payde, or took by taille, 570 Algate he wayted so in his achat, That he was ay biforn and in good stat.
Humilitee eek in werkes is in foure maneres: the firste is, whan he putteth othere men biforn him.
And with that worde, anon ther gan appere 200 An old man, clad in whyte clothes clere, That hadde a book with lettre of golde in honde, And gan biforn Valerian to stonde.
Thus seyde I never er now to womman born; 155 For god myn herte as wisly glade so, I lovede never womman here-biforn As paramours, ne never shal no mo.
So often here-biforn Hastow made many a lady bright of hewe Seyd, "Welawey!
This Troilus, as I biforn have told, 1100 Thus dryveth forth, as wel as he hath might.
Hastow not lived many a yeerbiforn With-outen hir, and ferd ful wel at ese?
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