I haue seid alle mortal folke enforcen hem to geten by dyuerse weyes.
And blysfulnesse] is swiche a goode þat who so haþ geten it he ne may ouer þat no þing more desiire.
I am no worse gadeling · ne no worse wight, But born of a lady · andgeten of a knight.
Ful lusty was the weder and benigne, For which the foules, agayn the sonne shene, What for the seson and the yonge grene, Ful loude songen hir affecciouns; 55 Him semed han geten hem protecciouns Agayn the swerd of winter kene and cold.
First, ye shul geten hem with-outen greet desyr, by good leyser sokingly, and nat over hastily.
And though the grete men and the mighty men geten richesses more lightly than thou, / yet shaltou nat been ydel ne slow to do thy profit; for thou shalt in alle wyse flee ydelnesse.
And every man oghte to doon his diligence and his bisinesse to geten him a good name.
By thise resons that I have seid un-to yow, and by manye othere resons that I coude seye, / I graunte yow that richesses been goode to hem that geten hem wel, and to hem that wel usen tho richesses.
Ful thredbar was his overest courtepy; 290 For he had geten him yet no benefyce, Ne was so worldly for to have offyce.
Bot yet al only he ne streccheth His reule upon religioun, Bot next to that condicioun In suche as clepe hem holy cherche It scheweth ek how he can werche Among tho wyde furred hodes, To geten hem the worldes goodes.
Ther be lovers of that degre, Which al here lust in privete, As who seith, geten al be Stelthe, And ofte atteignen to gret welthe As for the time that it lasteth.
Nat that I trowe to geten yow again, For wel I woot that it is al in vain, Sin that the goddes been contraire to me.
For wel, thoghte he, she sholde nat be geten And ay the more that he was in dispair, The more he coveteth and thoghte her fair.
And thei seye, that fornicatioun is no synne dedly, but a thing that is kyndely: and the men and women scholde not wedde but ones; and whoso weddethe oftere than ones, here children ben bastardis and geten in synne.
And thei maryen hem, whan thei ben half zere of age, and geten children.
But ye men semen to geten yow a perdurabletee, whan ye thenken that, in tyme to-cominge, your fame shal lasten.
Now is it cleer and certein thanne, that blisfulnesse is a parfit estat by the congregacioun of alle goodes; the whiche blisfulnesse, as I have seyd, alle mortal folk enforcen hem to geten by diverse weyes.
What seyst thou thanne, yif that a man coveiteth to geten alle thise thinges to-gider?
For that thing nis neither foul ne worthy to ben despised, that wel neigh al the entencioun of mortal folk travaylen for to geten it.
O precious and right cleer is the blisfulnesse of mortal richesses, that, whan thou hast geten it, than hast thou lorn thy sikernesse!
But wikkede folk,' quod she, 'yif they geten the good that 55 they desiren, they ne mowe nat be wikkede?
And ther-of cometh it, that yif thou see a wight that wolde geten that he may nat geten, thou mayst nat douten that power ne fayleth him to haven that he wolde.
Consider now yif that by thilke thinges, by whiche a man weneth to getenhim blisfulnesse, yif that he may comen to thilke ende that he weneth to come by nature.
And it semeth to some other 25 folk, that noblesse of renoun be the sovereyn good; and hasten hem to geten glorious name by the arts of werre and of pees.
Wherfore to geten more and more He set his herte and his desire; 5705 So hote he brennith in the fire Of coveitise, that makith him wood To purchase other mennes good.
Ne yit is he not thriven so That he hath geten a peny or two, That quitly is his owne in hold.
Upon the pore folk they geten Ful moche of that they spende or kepe; Nis none of hem that he nil strepe, And wryen him-self wel atte fulle; Withoute scalding they hem pulle.
And somme murthes to make, As mynstralles konne, And geten gold with hire glee, Giltles, I leeve.
For the good that thow hast geten Bigan al with falshede, And as longe as thow lyvest therwith, {95} Thow yeldest noght, but borwest.
Piers, "For any of yow alle To geten in-going at any gate there, But grace be the moore.
But we knowe many that han geten the blisse of heven after their deth.
They be nat faire for thou hast hem; but thou hast geten hem for the fairnesse of them-selfe.
Yſaac he let al hiſ god, for he waſ bi-geten of kinde blod.
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