Resoun men clepe that lady, Which from hir tour deliverly Come doun to me withouten more.
Anoon Resoun to Chastitee 3055 Is fully assented that it be, And grauntid hir, at hir request, That Shame, bicause she is honest, Shal keper of the roser be.
A fool my-silf I may wel calle, 4540 That love asyde I had not leyde, And trowed that dame Resoun seyde.
To Resoun than prayeth Chastitee, Whom Venus flemed over the see, That she hir doughter wolde hir lene, To kepe the roser fresh and grene.
With that word Resoun wente hir gate, Whan she saugh for no sermoning She might me fro my foly bring.
Resoun wol that a lover be In his yiftes more large and free Than cherles that been not of loving.
And whyl I stood thus derk and pale, Resoun bigan to me hir tale; She seide: 'Al hayl, my swete frend!
It wanteth litel I wol thee slo; 3150 For Bialacoil ne knew thee nought, Whan thee to serve he sette his thought; For thou wolt shame him, if thou might, Bothe ageyn resoun and right.
Trouthe is put doun, resoun is holden fable; 15 Vertu hath now no dominacioun, Pitee exyled, no man is merciable.
Sadly awisit Wallace remembrith him thar On the promyss he maid his eyme befor: Resoun him rewllyt, as than he did no mor.
Than rewyt he sar, fra resoun had him knawin, At blud and land suld all lik beyn his awin.
And a mare grete resoun ffor be all gude custumes of noblesse, lordis, and gentilis, makis thair selis efter thair armes, and gif ane suld bere ane otheris armes in his sele, men suld nocht wit quhais it war.
Be quhat rycht or resoun may Men moue were agaynis the Sarra[gh]enis or othir mistrowaris.
But the resounof 10 crueltee nis nat y-nough rightful.
Semblable thing is it, that the resoun of mankinde ne weneth nat that the devyne intelligence bi-holdeth or knoweth thinges to comen, but right as the resoun of mankinde knoweth hem.
Worth up, if thou wolt, so it be by this lawe, that thou ne holde nat that I do thee wronge thogh thou 40 descende adoun, whan the resoun of my pley axeth it.
For yif it so be that men dyen in al, that is to seyn, body and sowle, the whiche thing our resoun defendeth us to bileven, thanne is ther no glorie in no wyse.
Certes,' quod she, 'nothing nis fayrer than is the thing that 115 by resoun sholde ben added to thise forseide thinges.
To give the good where it wanteth, trewly, That were resoun and a curteys maner; 450 And to your own moch better were worthy Than to straungers, to shewe hem lovely chere.
Also in you is lost, to my seming, Al curtesy, which of resoun wold say 435 That love for love were lawful deserving.
Ful gentelly than sayd Perseveraunce, "Resoun it wold that they were sonest sped.
Yet may ye wel repele your businesse And to resoun somwhat have attendaunce, 650 Moch better than to byde, by fol simplesse, The feble socour of desesperaunce.
Though thou the werres darst wel undertake, After resoun yet temper thy corage; 160 For lyk to pees ther is non avauntage.
Ther is no man that jangleth busily, And set his hert and al his mynd therfore, That by resounmay playne so pitously 335 As he that hath moche hevinesse in store.
Of Coveitise comen thise harde lordshipes, thurgh whiche men been distreyned by tailages, custumes, and cariages, more than hir duetee or resoun is.
Now is it resoun and tyme that I shewe yow, whanne, and wherfore, that ye may chaunge your conseil with-outen your repreve.
Eke if he love wyf or child, or other worldly thing, more than resoun requyreth.
Another Ire is ful wikked, that comth of felonye of herte avysed and cast biforn; with wikked wil to do vengeance, and therto his resoun consenteth; and soothly this is deedly sinne.
And for as muchel as the devel fighteth agayns a man more by queyntise and by sleighte than by strengthe, therfore men shal withstonden him by wit and by resoun and by discrecioun.
For certes, resoun wol nat that any man sholde biginne a thing, but-if he mighte parfourne it as him oghte.
And by this same resoun shul ye clepen to your conseil, of your freendes that been of age, swiche as han seyn and been expert in manye thinges, and been approved in conseillinges.
But lyue men good lif, and studie many persones Goddis lawe, and whanne chaungyng of wit is foundun, amende [th]ey it as resoun wole.
And whan Resoun it herde sein That loves rage was aweie, He cam to me the rihte weie, And hath remued the sotie Of thilke unwise fantasie, Wherof that I was wont to pleigne, So that of thilke fyri peine I was mad sobre and hol ynowh.
How myhte a mannes resoun sein That such a Stock mai helpe or grieve?
He hath the sor which noman heleth, The which is cleped lack of herte; Thogh every grace aboute him sterte, He wol noght ones stere his fot; So that be resoun lese he mot, That wol noght auntre forto winne.
Tho was betwen mi Prest and me Debat and gret perplexete: 2190 Mi resoun understod him wel, And knew it was sothe everydel That he hath seid, bot noght forthi Mi will hath nothing set therby.
Forthi, mi Sone, hold up thin hed, And let no Slep thin yhe englue, Bot whanne it is to resoun due.
Lo, hou Egipte al out of syhte Fro resoun stant in misbelieve For lacke of lore, as I believe.
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