Her pacience is al pased, And put out to ferme; 150 And pride is in her povertie, That litel is to preisen.
Ac in poverte, ther pacience is, Pride hath no myghte, Ne none of the sevene synnes 9360 Sitten ne mowe ther longe, Ne have power in poverte, If pacience folwe.
But I lokede what liflode it was That Pacience so preisede; And thanne was it a pece of the pater-noster, Fiat voluntas tua.
Ther parfit truthe and poore herte is, And pacience of tonge, Ther is Charite the chief chaumbrere For God hymselve.
For pacience is payn For poverte hymselve, And sobretee swete drynke And good leche in siknesse.
That scholde be the worldes hele Is now, men sein, the pestilence Which hath exiled pacience 280 Fro the clergie in special: And that is schewed overal, In eny thing whan thei ben grieved.
Bot, fader, if ye forth withal Som good ensample in special Me wolden telle of som Cronique, It scholde wel myn herte like Of pacience forto hiere, So that I mihte in mi matiere The more unto my love obeie And puten mi desese aweie.
Sone, it is 20 That in oure englissh Wrathe is hote, Which hath hise wordes ay so hote, That all a mannespacience Is fyred of the violence.
Contek, so as the bokes sein, Folhast hath to his Chamberlein, Be whos conseil al unavised Is Pacience most despised, Til Homicide with hem meete.
Mi Sone, that thou miht enforme Thi pacience upon the forme Of old essamples, as thei felle, Now understond what I schal telle.
Conscience ful curteisly tho Comaunded Scripture Bifore Pacience breed to brynge And me that was his macche.
This lokynge on lewed preestes 7210 Hath doon me lepe from poverte, The which I preise ther pacience is Moore perfit than richesse.
And alle the wise that evere were, By aught I kan aspye, Preiseden poverte for best lif, If pacience it folwed, And bothe bettre and blesseder By many fold than richesse.
Conscience tho with Pacience passed, Pilgrymes as it were.
And thanne Clergie and Conscience And Pacience cam after.
And I lyve sholde, Have pacience perfitliche, Than half thi pak of bokes.
And Pacience in the paleis stood In pilgrymes clothes, {248} And preyde mete par charite For a povere heremyte.
If other cause aught doth yow for to dwelle, That with your lettre ye me recomforte; 1395 For though to me your absence is an helle, With pacience I wol my wo comporte.
Alas, alas, by what meanes shall I now renue my playnts, which time and long pacience ought to haue buried and clearely quenched?
Also troweth and bileveth stedefastly, that he nis nat wel y-norissed ne wel y-taught, that can nat have pacience or wol nat receyve pacience.
The philosophre seith, that 'pacience is thilke vertu that suffreth debonairely alle the outrages of adversitee and every wikked word.
For she nis no-thing of swich pacience 3085 As was this Melibeus wyf Prudence.
I seye, that ther be ful manye thinges that shul restreyne yow of vengeance-takinge, / and make yow for to enclyne to suffre, and for to han pacience in the thinges that han been doon to yow.
Ther is a long and large difference Bitwix Grisildis grete pacience And of my wyf the passing crueltee.
O doghter, which that art my laste wo, And in my lyf my laste Ioye also, O gemme of chastitee, in pacience Take thou thy deeth, for this is my sentence.
For Goddes love, tak al in pacience Our prisoun, for it may non other be; 1085 Fortune hath yeven us this adversitee.
David king was meke, and suffred mokel hate and many yvel speches; no despyt ne shame that his enemys him deden might nat move pacience out of his herte, but ever in one plyte mercy he used.
So shal the cronique of thypacience Among the saynts be take in-to memorie 370 To the loenge of perdurable glorie.
And thus, whan humble pacience is pryded, The remenaunt, which that they shulde reule, No wonder is, though it stande out of reule.
And prosper sayth that to good men lacketh no goodnes/ ner to euyll men tencions stryfs and blames And pacience is a ryght noble vertu/ as a noble versifier sayth That pacience is a ryght noble maner to vaynquysshe.
For ye haue neade of pacience / that after ye haue doone the will of God / ye might receyue the promise.
Notwithstanding he conserued both loue in his hart, and pacience in his minde, for the losse of his Ladie's fauour, which he had right well deserued.
Wherefore the goodnes of God (which is perfect charitie and true loue) had pitie vpon her sorrowe, and regarded her pacience in such wise, as within few daies after the Bastarde died in the pursute of the other ladie's Loue.
Therwithall Bernage sayde vnto her: "Madame, if your pacience be correspondent to this torment, I deme you to be the happiest woman of the worlde.
Gods Favour toward me is hereby proved, For that he hath not quite dejected me; VVhy then, though crosses be not yet removed Yet so seasoned with pacience they be, As they excite me unto godlinesse, The onely way to endlesse happinesse.
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