Ful ofte hir wordes sche reherceth, Er sche his slepi eres perceth; With mochel wo bot ate laste 105 His slombrende yhen he upcaste And seide hir that it schal be do.
And thus in court of iuggement This Adrian was thanne assent, And the querele in audience Declared was in the presence 210 Of themperour and many mo; Wherof was mochel speche tho And gret wondringe among the press.
For it befell that ilke throwe 3070 At Troie, wher the Siege lay Upon the cause of Menelay And of his queene dame Heleine, The Gregois hadden mochel peine Alday to fihte and to assaile.
And this also schal be thi tale, If he hem smot with roddes smale, 4090 With Scorpions thou schalt hem smyte; And wher thi fader tok a lyte, Thou thenkst to take mochel more.
Sche broghte him to his chambre tho And tok hire leve, and forth is go Into hire oghne chambre by, As sche that wende certeinly Have had a frend, and hadde a fo, Wherof fell after mochel wo.
The Schip was blowe fro the londe, Wherin that thei seilende were; This Adriagne hath mochel fere Of that the wynd so loude bleu, As sche which of the See ne kneu, 5410 And preide forto reste a whyle.
And thus this worthi lord as tho 3280 Sette in balance his oghne astat And with himself stod in debat, And thoghte hou that it was noght good To se so mochel mannes blod Be spilt for cause of him alone.
Mi fader, so as I have herd Your tale, bot it were ansuerd, 2150 I were mochel forto blame.
The ferste of hem his rihte name Was Diogenes thanne hote, In whom was founde no riote: 2230 His felaw Arisippus hyhte, Which mochel couthe and mochel myhte.
And mochel sorwe hadde he in his minde Er that he coude his felawshippe finde.
Tho saw I al the half y-grave With famous folkes names fele, That had y-been in mochel wele, And hir fames wyde y-blowe.
As thus: yif that a wight wolde ryden for cause of hele, he ne desireth nat somochel the moevinge to ryden, as the effect of his hele.
For yif ther were maked comparisoun of the abydinge of a moment to ten thousand winter, for as mochel as bothe the spaces ben ended, yit hath the moment som porcioun of it, al-though it litel be.
Now whan thou were riche and weleful, as thee semede, with how mochel woldest thou han bought the fulle knowinge of this, that is to seyn, 30 the knowinge of thy verray freendes?
Thanne axe I,' quod she, 'in as mochel as apertieneth to that, sholden thanne thinges that comen of free wil ben constreined to bityden by necessitee?
And the beautee of feldes, delyteth it nat mochel un-to yow?
For no wight nil haten goode men, but-yif he were over-mochel a fool; and for to haten shrewes, it nis no resoun.
But for as mochel as the knowinge of thise thinges is a maner porcioun of the medicine of thee, al-be-it so that I have litel tyme to don it, yit natheles I wol enforcen me to shewe somwhat of it.
But your glorie, that is so narwe and so streite y-throngen in-to so litel boundes, how mochel coveiteth it in largesse and in greet doinge?
There was no joye ne feste at alle; There n' as but hevinesse and mochel sorwe, For prively he wed her on the morwe, And all day after hid him as an owle, So wo was him his wife loked so foule!
Nay,' quod I, 'therto shal no thing me bringe Fro love; and yet he doth me mochel wo.
Forwhy I took hit of so yong age, That malice hadde my corage Nat that tyme turned to no-thing 795 Through to mochel knowleching.
Who-so mochel wol embrace Litel therof he shal distreyne.
A mochel foole than I were, If I suffrid you awey to bere The fresh botoun, so fair of sight.
It ledith man now up, now doun, In mochel dissolucioun, And makith him love yvel company, And lede his lyf disrewlily, 4900 And halt him payed with noon estate.
And if he do not his requeste, He shal as mochel him moleste As his felow, for that he 5275 May not fulfille his voluntee [As] fully as he hath requered.
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