That game was evel bygo«n»nen̄, It sithen rewed us alle.
Fortħ wente this fals Mapyne By nyght into the Tou[rh]— 2348 Mapyne entered the God gife himevel endinge!
Who so wole not helpe a man̄ at nede, On evel deth mote he dye!
And aftirward, if þat ye liste, best way of the Ye may gife hem ful evel grace.
Shal he never more ete brede, All traito«ur»s evel mot[115] thai fare!
He smote the bisshope witħ a bronde but the Soudan And gaf him an evel bronte.
That evel hath vs ladde; And in Paris be crowned kinge unless he be crowned In despite of hem alle, 908 king at Paris.
For many tymes, whan she wol make A ful good silogisme, I drede That aftirward ther shal in dede Folwe an evel conclusioun; This put me in confusioun.
For preching of a cursed man, 5760 Though [it] to other may profyte, Himsilf availeth not a myte; For oft good predicacioun Cometh of evel entencioun.
I have pite to seen the sorwe, That waketh bothe eve and morwe, To innocents doth such grevaunce; I pray god yeve him evel chaunce, That he ever so bisy is 4275 Of any womman to seyn amis!
For in the cas of yifte and lone Stant every man for him al one, Him thenkth of his unkindeschipe That him nedeth no felaschipe: 4700 Be so the bagge and he acorden, Him reccheth noght what men recorden Of him, or it be evel or good.
It is al on to seie unkinde As thing which don is ayein kinde, For it with kinde nevere stod A man to yelden evel for good.
And whan this man the pot hath by the stele, 50 And fully is in his possessioun, With that woman he kepeth not to dele, After if he may fynden in the toun Any woman, his blinde affeccioun On to bestowe; evel mote he preve!
And that was on a tree right fast[e] by; But who was than evel apayd but I?
Me thinketh no wight oghte her-of us blame, Ne beren us ther-for an evel name.
And, if hit happe me rehersen eft That they han in her fresshe songes sayd, I hope that they wil nat ben evel apayd, Sith hit is seid in forthering and honour Of hem that either serven leef or flour.
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