Thanne may ye understonde by strenger resons, that if thou hast power to parfourne a werk of which thou shalt repente, thanne is it bettre that thou suffre than biginne.
Speketh so pleyn at this tyme, I yow preye, That we may understonde what ye seye.
In this Penitence or Contricion man shal understonde foure thinges, that is to seyn, what is Contricion: and whiche been the causes that moeven a man to Contricion: and how he sholde be contrit: and what Contricion availleth to the soule.
But atte laste hir frendes han hir maried (281) To Odenake, a prince of that contree, Al were it so that she hem longe taried; And ye shul understonde how that he Hadde swiche fantasyes as hadde she.
Now shal ye understonde in what manere that sinne wexeth or encreseth in man.
The laste thing that man shal understonde in contricion is this; wher-of avayleth contricion.
Sir Edwarde Franke hath bene in the North to inquire for hym; he is comyn agayne, and cane nogth understonde wher he is.
But than thou shalt understonde that thou may not bringe furthe the label fro the 20 degree of the mone as thou dide before; for-why the sonne is than in the same degree with the mone.
The ferste I understonde is this, What thing of al the world it is, Which men most helpe and hath lest nede.
And thus be cause of my scarsnesse 4740 Ye mai wel understonde and lieve That I schal noght the worse achieve The pourpos which is in my thoght.
For thilke tyme I understonde The Lumbard made non eschange The bisschopriches forto change, Ne yet a lettre for to sende For dignite ne for Provende, 210 Or cured or withoute cure.
And who that wolde ensamples telle, Be olde daies as thei felle, Than mihte a man wel understonde Such love mai noght longe stonde.
Mi Sone, thou schaltunderstonde That yit towardes Wraththe stonde 1090 Of dedly vices othre tuo: And forto telle here names so, It is Contek and Homicide, That ben to drede on every side.
Mi Sone, I understonde wel That thou hast told hier everydel, And as me thenketh be thi tale, It ben delices wonder smale, Wherof thou takst thi loves fode.
And red wher-so thou be, or elles songe, That thou be understonde I god beseche!
This understonde I wel,' quod I, 'and I acorde wel that it is right as thou seyst.
But that thou seidest whylom, that the questioun of the divyne purviaunce is enlaced with many other questiouns, I understonde 5 wel and proeve it by the same thing.
I wolde,' quod I, 'that thou makedest me cleerly to understonde 125 what thou seyst, and that thou recordedest me the forseyde thinges.
First woltow suffre me to touche and assaye the estat of thy thought by a fewe demaundes, so that I may understonde what be the manere of thy curacioun?
And for as moche as thou understonde which is the strengthe of this power of shrewes, I have definisshed a litel her-biforn, that nothing is so mighty as soverein good.
I understonde wel;' quod I, 'what thou purposest to seke; but I desire for to herkne that thou shewe it me.
For by grace of positioun, so that thou mowe 30 the betere understondethis that folweth, I pose, per impossibile, that ther be no prescience.
But this wot I wel, that who-so-ever wole remembren him of hise luxures, he shal wel understonde that the issues of delices ben sorwful and sorye.
It is nat to understonde 70 that any thing defendeth or forbit thee thy wil, whiche shal nat be; or els constrayneth it to be, whiche shal be.
And eyf he woll not, lete hym verely understonde that he shall be compellyd to fynd hym suerte of the pes to agry in thys heed, and that shall nowther be profitabyll, ner worchepful.
Ferthermore We do you to understonde that Roger Tillyngton, Skynnere, our welbeloved servaunt desurth gretly to be freman and enfranchised amongs you at þis tyme.
Item, thys daye I understonde that ther be comen letteris from my moder and yow, and Dawbeney, wherin I schall sende yow answer when I have seyn them.
And like you to witte, on Sondaye at even last I hadde writing and evedence frome my lorde by Punche of tidyngis and have understonde them wel al a longe.
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