And if ye vouche sauf, my lady bright, I wol ben he to servenyow my-selve, Yee, lever than he lord of Greces twelve!
Quod Pandarus, `For ought I can espyen, 1135 This light, nor I ne serven here of nought; Light is not good for syke folkes yen.
Thus theyserven Sathanas, And soules bygyleth, 1430 Marchaunes of malisones, Mansede wrecches.
For he hathe every day, 50 fair damyseles, alle maydenes, that serven him everemore at his mete, and for to lye be hem o nyght, and for to do with hem that is to his pleasance.
Wherfore methinkethe, that Cristene men scholden ben more devoute, to serven oure Lord God, than ony other men of ony other secte.
And ther ben certeyn men in every town, that serven of non other thing; and thei clepen hem Cadeberiz, that is to seyne, the foles of Wanhope.
That thou be trew from hensforth to thy might, And serven Love in thyn entencion: 290 Swere this, and than, as fer as it is right, Thou shalt have grace here in my quenes sight.
Antichrist these serven all; I pray thee, who may say [me] nay?
Cupido, unto whos comaundement The gentil kinrede of goddes on hy And people infernal been obedient, And mortel folk al serven besily, The goddesse sone Cithera soothly, 5 To alle tho that to our deitee Ben sugets, hertly greting sende we!
Therfore I must his socour be, That peyneth him to serven me; For if he deyde for love of this, 6015 Than semeth in me no love ther is.
And if they be not as they seme, That serven thus the world to queme, 7270 There wolde I dwelle, to disceyve The folk, for they shal not perceyve.
A mighty man, that can and may, Shulde with his honde and body alway Winne him his food in laboring, 6575 If he ne have rent or sich a thing, Although he be religious, And god to serven curious.
But the servaunt traveileth in vayne, That for to servendoth his payne 2110 Unto that lord, which in no wyse Can him no thank for his servyse.
I wol noght serven Venus ne Cupyde For sothe as yet, by no manere wey.
For never, for no wo, ne shal I lette To serven hir, how fer so that she wende; 440 Sey what yow list, my tale is at an ende.
And if ye vouche sauf, my lady bright, I wol ben he to serven yow my-selve, Ye, lever than be lord of Greces twelve!
Quod Pandarus, 'for ought I can espyen, 1135 This light nor I ne serven here of nought; Light is not good for syke folkes yen.
And though ye Troians with us Grekes wrothe Han many a day be, alwey yet, pardee, O god of love in sooth we serven bothe.
And the prosperitee that is yeven to shrewes sheweth a greet argument to gode folk, what thing they sholde demen of thilke welefulnesse, the whiche prosperitee men seen 205 ofteserven to shrewes.
Honour' is eek cleped greet lordshipe; ther shal no man serven other but of harm and torment.
And yet they wenen for to been ful wyse That serven love, for aught that may bifalle!
She sholde eek serven him in alle honestee, and been attempree of hir array.
Paulynes pryvees For pleintes in consistorie, Shul servenmyself 1240 That Cyvyle is nempned.
Ac thanne swoor Symonye, 1220 And Cyvylle bothe, That somonours sholde be sadeled And serven hem echone, And late apparaille thise provisours In palfreyes wise, Sire Symonye hymself Shal sitte upon hir bakkes.
For David in hise dayes Dubbed knyghtes, And dide hem sweren on hir swerdes To serven truthe evere; And who so passed that point Was apostata in the ordre.
And ther are seven sustren {115} That serven Truthe evere, And arn porters of the posternes That to the place longeth.
And for to serven a seint 7842 And swich a thef togideres, It were neither reson ne right To rewarde hem bothe y-liche.
I se ensamples myself, And so may manye othere, That servauntz that serven lordes Selde fallen in arerage, 6560 And tho that kepen the lordes catel, Clerkes and reves.
Somme serven the kyng, And his silver tellen In cheker and in chauncelrie, Chalangen hise dettes Of wardes and of wardemotes, Weyves and streyves.
And, if hit happe me rehersen eft That they han in her fresshe songes sayd, I hope that they wil nat ben evel apayd, Sith hit is seid in forthering and honour Of hem that either serven leef or flour.
And thise Azimutz serven to knowe the costes of the firmament, and to othre conclusiouns, as for to knowe the cenith of the sonne and of every sterre.
And of myne olde servaunts thou misseyest, +And hinderest hem with thy translacioun, 250 And lettest folk to han devocioun +To serven me, and haldest hit folye To troste on me.
Righte wel oughte us for to love and worschipe, to drede and serven suche a Lord; and to worschipe and preyse suche an holy lond, that broughte forthe suche fruyt, thorghe the whiche every man is saved, but it be his owne defaute.
Of the Rialtee of his Palays, and how he sitt at Mete; and of the grete nombre of Officeres, that serven hym.
And that knowe we wel, be oure prophecyes, that Cristene men schulle wynnen azen this lond out of oure hondes, whan thei serven God more devoutly.
And before the emperoures table, stonden grete lordes, and riche barouns and othere, that serven the emperour at the mete.
And some serven as servantz, lordes and ladies, And in stede of stywardes, sitten and demen.
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