And sin that noon loveth hir so wel as I, 435 Al be she never of love me behette, Than oghte she be myn thourgh hir mercy, For other bond can I noon on hir knette.
For your disese, wel oghte I swoune and swelte, Thogh I non other harm ne drede felte.
Thus am I slain, with sorwes ful dyverse; 25 Ful longe agoon I oghtehave taken hede].
For, sith a womman was so pacient Un-to a mortal man, wel more us oghte 1150 Receyven al in gree that god us sent; For greet skile is, he preve that he wroghte.
The causes that oghte moeve a man to Contricion been six.
Seint Ambrose seith, that 'Penitence is the pleyninge of man for the gilt that he hath doon, and na-more to do any thing for which him oghte to pleyne.
Now sith that maydens hadden swich despyt 1395 To been defouled with mannes foul delyt, Wel oghte a wyf rather hir-selven slee Than be defouled, as it thinketh me.
Of the remedie of thise two sinnes, as seith the wyse man, that 'he that dredeth god, he spareth nat to doon that him oghte doon.
For al-be-it so that they been your freendes, therfore shal ye nat suffren that they serve yow for noght; / but ye oghtethe rather guerdone hem and shewe hem your largesse.
And sir, by your leve, that am nat I; / for ye han ful ofte assayed my grete silence and my gret pacience; and eek how wel that I can hyde and hele thinges that men oghte secreely to hyde.
I oghte deme, of skilful Iugement, (940) That in the salte see my wyf is deed.
Thanne was his visage, that oghte be desired to be seyn of al man-kinde, in which visage aungels desyren to looke, vileynsly bispet.
Pite was cause of thilke good, Wherof that we ben alle save: Wel oghte a man Pite to have And the vertu to sette in pris, Whan he himself which is al wys Hath schewed why it schal be preised.
So be ther some of love seke, Whiche oghte of reson to ben hole, And some comen to the dole In happ and as hemselve leste Drinke undeserved of the beste.
Thus is this vice forto drede; For who these olde bokes rede 2140 Of suche ensamples as were ar, Him oghte be the more war Of alle tho that feigne chiere, Wherof thou schalt a tale hiere.
For that a man scholde al unthryve Ther oghte no wisman coveite, The lawe was noght set so streite: 2510 Forthi miself withal to save, Such on ther is I wolde have, And non of al these othre mo.
I rede ensample amonges alle, 460 Wherof to kepe wel an Ere It oghte pute a man in fere.
For it sit every man to have Reward to love and to his miht, Ayein whos strengthe mai no wiht: And siththe an herte is so constreigned, The reddour oghte be restreigned To him that mai no bet aweie, Whan he mot to nature obeie.
He is the levein of the bred, Which soureth al the past aboute: Men oghte wel such on to doute, For evere his bowe is redi bent, And whom he hit I telle him schent, 450 If he mai perce him with his tunge.
Me thinketh no wightoghte her-of us blame, Ne beren us ther-for an evel name.
In noble corage oghtebeen areste, +And weyen every thing by equitee, +And ever han reward to his owen degree.
Now certes, yif ye wolde have in memorie, 2530 Hit oghte be to yow but litel glorie To have a sely mayde thus betrayed!
For sith no cause of deeth lyth in this cas, 395 +Yow oghte been the lighter merciable; +Leteth your yre, and beth somwhat tretable!
Wel oghte us, it is very necessary for us, it well behoves us.
This man to yow may falsly been accused, +Ther as by right him oghte been excused.
Pardee, hit oghte thee to lyke; 860 For hard langage and hard matere Is encombrous for to here At ones; wost thou not wel this?
For sith no cause of deeth lyth in this cas, +Yow oghte been the lighter merciable; 410 +Leteth your yre, and beth somwhat tretable!
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