For he him-selve her ne winne may, He speketh her repreef and vileinye, 115 As mannes blabbing tonge is wont alway.
Approveth Christ ony more religions than oon, that saynt 35 James speketh of?
Who-so spekethayenst hir powere, 835 It shall be holden heresy.
And of this speketh claudyan and sayth that alle thoo thynges that the Ayer goth aboute and enuyronned.
And of the cruelte of the peple of rome speketh the good man of noble memorye Iohn the monke late cardynall of rome in the decretall the syxte in the chapitre gens sancta where he sayth/ that they ben felo[=u]s ayenst god.
That he his son to habundant riches shal auance But no thynge he speketh of vertuous gouernance.
Speketh so pleyn at this tyme, I yow preye, That we may understonde what ye seye.
He yexeth, and he speketh thurgh the nose (231) As he were on the quakke, or on the pose.
Now cometh ydel wordes, that is with-outen profit of him that speketh tho wordes, and eek of him that herkneth tho wordes.
My faire brid, my swete cinamome, Awaketh, lemman myn, and speketh to me!
And eek whan he speketh more than nedeth, it is sinne.
Soothly, this Avarice is a sinne that is ful dampnable; for al holy writ curseth it, and speketh agayns that vyce; for it dooth wrong to Iesu Crist.
For after the habundance of the herte speketh the mouth ful ofte.
Thus seith the king that knoweth your wikkednesse; And Iesus filius Syrak, as I gesse, 2250 Ne speketh of yow but selde reverence.
He seith also, that "he that speketh to his freend wordes of swetnesse and of plesaunce, setteth a net biforn his feet to cacche him.
I have herd you say howe he speketh as good Gascon as outher you or I.
But I shall shewe you, as dyvers men speketh secretelye, whan they be togyder as frendes.
As in Therence Simo speketh of his son Pam- philus / sayeth vnto his man called Sosia / how couldest thou know his condicions or nature afore / whyle his age and feare / and his maister dyd let it to be knowen.
He speketh there of riche men right noght, 7710 Ne of right witty, Ne of lordes that were lewed men, But of the hyeste lettred oute.
Spera-in-Deo spekethof preestes That have no spendyng silver, That if thei travaille truweliche And truste in God almyghty, Hem sholde lakke no liflode, Neyther lynnen ne wollen.
Ther herde I trumpen Messenus, Of whom that speketh Virgilius.
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