Lik a wyld best that war fra reson rent, As wytlace wy in to the ost he went, 400 Dingand on hard; quhat Sotheroun he rycht hyt, Straucht apon horss agayn mycht neuir syt.
Be reson heyr the contrar now is seyn; ‘For thai me hayt ma na Sotheroun leid.
And bad hy{m} to his power helpe where he se nede While {that} felde thus rewled reson with sadnesse.
He wede haue made reson & sadnesse both bly{n}de ¶ With sensualyte was he soone aqueynted.
For purviaunce is thilke divyne reson that is establisshed in the soverein prince of thinges; the whiche purviaunce disponeth alle thinges.
And gan bet minde and reson to him take, But wonder sore he was abayst, y-wis.
Thus am I with desyr and reson twight; Desyr for to distourben hir me redeth, And reson nil not, so myn herte dredeth.
Tha tell us that thare aint enny posishun that man kan fill, but what wimmin kan fill it tu; but iz that enny reson why it iz best to prove it.
Thare has alwus bin wolfs in sheeps clothing, and fashun will okasionally be used for the same purpis, but that aint enny reson why mutton aint good, nor why fashun shud be hipokrasy.
The ornary minds in this wurld are disposed tew coinside, which iz the reson whi superstitions prevale so mutch.
I trowe reson al this wol vndertake, And I knowe wel howe it stante, Alas fortune beginneth so to scant, Or ellis grace, that deade is gouernance.
Ye han of us as now the governaunce, And therfor wol I do yow obeisaunce, As fer as reson axeth, hardily.
For-as-muche thanne as reson is rebel to god, therfore is man worthy to have sorwe and to be deed.
For right as reson is rebel to god, right so is bothe sensualitee rebel to reson and the body also.
And by the same reson thinketh me, I sholde to the knotte condescende, And maken of hir walking sone an ende.
For if it werereson that a man sholde haten his enemy, for sothe god nolde nat receiven us to his love that been hise enemys.
So leve I noght, Lucifer, Ayein the lawe I fecche hem; But by right and by reson Raunsone here my liges.
Right so reson sheweth 9160 That the men that were riche, And hir makes also, Lyvede hir lif in murthe.
Ich rede the,' quath Reson tho, 'Rathe the to bygynne The lyf that ys lowable And leel to the soule.
And right as hony is yvel to defie, 9730 And engleymeth the mawe; Right so he that thorugh reson Wolde the roote knowe Of God and of hise grete myghtes, Hise graces it letteth.
And there as John Bokkyng seith that John Jenney hath no commaundment of my Lord to pursue hys ryght, it shewyth off reson that seth he ys of hys councell in especiall for that shyre, he ought doo hys ryzt to be savyd and kept of hys dewtee.
I shuld hafe, desyryng that the processe I was purposed take ayenst hym shuld be respited, and all that reson wold he shuld obbey.
And sey hem on my half that they shall be qwyt as ferre as law and reson wolle.
This article is agreed, excepting suche persones as for nieghnesse of blood, and for their estate, owe of reson to be suffred to speke with the King.
Thus am I with desyr and reson twight; Desyr for to destourben hir me redeth, And reson nil not, so myn herte dredeth.
I kept him in that thought, promissing him to treat with him all my castors att his house, if he should promise me there should be non of my brother Iroquoise there, by reson we must be liberall to one another.
He mentions that "in my absence peace was made betweene the French and the Iroquoits, which was the reson I stayed not long in a place.
I were told in towne, Thou says God is thi syre; I shalle the prove by good reson Thou moyttes[553] as man dos into myre.
And reson gladly she understood, Hit folowed wel she coude good.
That men shulde alwey loven, causeles, 590 Who can a reson finde or wit in that?
But wrecches and fooles and leude men, many wil conceyve a thing and mayntayne it as for sothe, though reson be in the contrarye; wherfore conninge is a straunger.
The thirde spece turneth in-to reson of understanding; al thinges to be sayd soth and discussed; and that in two thinges is devyded.
And a man, to be a maister over him-selfe, liveth in vertu and in goodnesse, and as resonof vertue techeth.
I trowe right, for 145 thou thy wil out of reson shulde not tourne, thy wil in one reson shulde not +onbyde.
God made al thing inreson and in witte of proporcion of melody, we mowe not suffyse to shewe.
But every wight that hath resonwot wel that wrecchednesse by no way may ben cause of none suche knotte; wherfore suche power is no cause.
Wherfore I wot wel, sithen that 55 they ben men, and reson is approved in hem, the clowde of errour hath her reson beyond probable resons, whiche that cacchende wit rightfully may not with-sitte.
Bot thei that taken otherwise Here lustes, ben none of the wise; And that whilom was schewed eke, If thou these olde bokes seke, Als wel be reson as be kinde, Of olde ensample as men mai finde.
The king, which understod here wille And knew here conseil that was trewe, Began ayein his sorwe newe 1100 With pitous herte, and thus to seie: "It is al reson that ye preie.
Alle othre bestes that men finde Thei serve unto here oghne kinde, Bot to reson the Soule serveth; Wherof the man his thonk deserveth And get him with hise werkes goode The perdurable lyves foode.
So ben thei comunly desesed; Ther may no welthe ne poverte Attempren hem to the decerte Of buxomnesse be no wise: For ofte time thei despise The goode fortune as the badde, As thei no mannes reson hadde, Thurgh pride, wherof thei be blinde.
And thei that herde Hou wysly that the king ansuerde, It was to hem a newe lore; Wherof thei dradden him the more, And broghten nothing to his Ere, Bot if it trouthe and reson were.
Min holy fader, reson wolde That I this vice eschuie scholde: Bot yit to strengthe mi corage, If that ye wolde in avantage Therof sette a recoverir, It were tome a gret desir, 3160 That I this vice mihte flee.
And riht so in the same wise, If thou thiself wolt wel avise, 430 Ther be lovers of suche ynowe, That wole unto no reson bowe.
I enswyr yow, and he may make yow aqwetance or get yow one of the Bysheop of Wynchestyr for Syr John Fastolfys goodes also, and in my reson thys wer lyght to be browght a bowght with the same bargayn.
And that is reson aswele, for that I wil not, by Goddis grace be hurted by hym, nor geve hym cause by my wil.
Est vulgare proverbium 'Accordyng to ryte reson that to oftyn it is in ceson, that in trust is gret treson.
Robert Fitzraf, for hese good, trewe and long servise to me doon and contynwyd, and alsoo be reson of my consanguynite and kynred.
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