And of the felonyes and 35 fraudes of thyne accusours, it semeth thee have y-touched it forsothe rightfully and shortly, al mighten tho same thinges betere and more plentivousely ben couth in the mouthe of the poeple that knoweth al this.
How 75 many men, trowest thou, wolden demen hem-self to ben almost in hevene, yif they mighten atayne to the leest party of the remnaunt of thy fortune?
And other folk dreden more than they oughten [that] whiche they mighten wel beren; and somme dispyse that they mowe nat beren; and thilke folk god ledeth in-to experience of himself by aspre and sorwful thinges.
What brydles mighten withholden, to any certein ende, the desordenee covetise of men, whan, ever the rather that it fleteth in large yiftes, the more ay brenneth in hem the thurst of havinge?
And bi-twixen these two lettres ther weren seyn degrees, nobly y-wroght in manere of laddres; by whiche degrees men mighten climben fro the nethereste lettre to the 25 uppereste.
For they mowen don wikkednesses; the whiche they ne mighte nat don, yif they mighten dwellen in the forme and in the doinge of good folk.
And eek they taken of hir bonde-men amerciments, whichemighten more resonably ben cleped extorcions than amerciments.
And men mighten axe, why that misericorde and pitee is relevinge of Avarice?
To whom Cecile answerde boldely, 'Men mighten dreden wel and skilfully 320 This lyf to lese, myn owene dere brother, If this were livinge only and non other.
For soothly, oure swete lord Iesu Crist hath spared [586] us so debonairly in our folies, that if he ne hadde pitee of mannes soule, a sory song we mighten alle singe.
The northren light in at the dores shoon, For windowe on the wal ne was ther noon, (1130) Thurgh which men mighten any light discerne.
That in this worlde han fethres and stature, Men mighten in that place assembled finde Before the noble goddesse Nature.
Somtyme hir ladies will not on hem rewe, Somtyme, yif that Ielosye hit knewe, They mighten lightly leye hir heed to borowe; 205 Somtyme envyous folke with tunges horowe Depraven hem; alas!
And right as Aleyn, in the Pleynt of Kinde, Devyseth Nature of aray and face, In swich aray men mighten hir ther finde.
God helpe me so, I can not tellen whider We mighten goon, if I shal soothly seyn, Ther any wight is of us more fayn Than Sarpedoun; and if we hennes hye Thus sodeinly, I holde it vilanye.
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