Whitaker's text has the following passage:-- 'Ho suffreth more than God?
And worshiped be he that wroghte al, Bothe good and wikke, And suffreth that synfulle be, [Tyl som tyme that thei repenten].
Though I bi treson be take At youre owene wille, Suffrethmyne apostles in pees And in pays gange.
Certes, this strengthe is cause more efficient, and mochel more mighty to seen and to knowe thinges, than thilke cause that 30 suffreth and receiveth the notes and the figures impressed in maner of matere.
And ayeinward, alle fortune is blisful to a man by the agreabletee or by the egalitee of him that suffreth it.
God tokneth and assigneth the tymes, ablinge hem to hir propres offices; ne he ne suffreth nat the stoundes whiche that him-self hath devyded and constreyned to ben y-medled to-gidere.
For which, the continuel dreed that he hath ne suffreth him nat to ben weleful.
But sin ye wol not suffre us liven here, Yet suffreth that our soules ben y-fere.
And other folk he suffreth to ben travailed with harde thinges, for that they sholden confermen the vertues 185 of corage by the usage and exercitacioun of pacience.
Pacience, that is another remedye agayns Ire, is a vertu that suffreth swetely every mannes goodnesse, and is nat wrooth for noon harm that is doon to him.
Charmes for woundes or maladye of men, or of bestes, if they taken any effect, it may be peraventure that god suffreth it, for folk sholden yeve the more feith and reverence to his name.
And thou shalt understonde, that man suffrethfoure manere of grevances in outward thinges, agayns the whiche foure he moot have foure manere of paciences.
The philosophre seith, that 'pacience is thilke vertu that suffreth debonairely alle the outrages of adversitee and every wikked word.
Suffrance suffreth swetely alle the anoyaunces and the wronges that men doon to man outward.
Me thinks, you do me wrong to vse sutch reprochful words, which am but a seruaunt, and bounde to the commaundement of my mistresse: Why sir, do you not know that a pursiuaunt or messanger suffreth no paine or blame?
Sutch is the manner of wilde and foolish youth, whych suffreth it selfe to be caried beyonde the boundes of reason.
And truly that man is voyde of Sense, whych suffreth hym selfe so fondly to bee charmed, sith the pearill of others before time abused, ought to serue hym for exaumple.
Many of these prisoners be shoomakers, and haue from the king a certaine allowance of rise: some of them worke for the keeper, who suffreth them to go at libertie without fetters and boords, the better to worke.
Certaine godly bookes also he hath done into that speach, not omitting to translate other as laisure suffreth him.
But the goodnesse of God, who is a iust Iudge, and suffreth his owne elect to be proued to the extremitie, of purpose to make their glorie the greater, and the ruine of the wicked more apparaunt, manifested there an euident miracle.
Povert of kinred is behynde; richesse suffreth him to passe; truly he saith, he com never of Japhetes childre.
Illustration: That fole that suffreth his Chylde for to offende Wythout rebukynge, blame, and correccion.
And suffreth the unwise With yow for to libbe; And with glad wille dooth hem good, For so God yow hoteth.
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