And god 180 yeveth and departeth to othre folk prosperitees and adversitees y-medled to-hepe, after the qualitee of hir corages, and remordeth som folk by adversitee, for they ne sholde nat wexen proude by longe welefulnesse.
For nature yeveth to every thing that that is convenient to him, and travaileth that they ne dye nat, as 80 longe as they han power to dwellen and to liven.
But for as moche as to every wight his owne propre bountee yeveth him his mede, thanne at erst shal he failen of mede whan he forleteth to ben good.
Certes, thilke gold and thilke moneye shyneth and yeveth betere renoun to hem that despenden it thanne to thilke 10 folk that mokeren it; for avarice maketh alwey mokereres to ben hated, and largesse maketh folk cleer of renoun.
Good-Hope, how sore that they smerte, Yeveth hem bothe wille and herte 2770 To profre hir body to martyre; For Hope so sore doth hem desyre To suffre ech harm that men devyse, For Ioye that aftir shal aryse.
I preise no womman, though [she] be wood, That yeveth hir-silf for any good.
Oon is, it yeveth comfort to the feling spirites in bodily persones of reson.
Although a sypher in augrim have no might in significacion of it-selve, yet he yeveth power in significacion to other; and these clepe I the helpes to a poste to kepe him from falling.
The same lawe that joyneth by wedlocke without forsaking, the same lawe yeveth lybel of departicion bycause of devorse both demed and declared.
For right as lawe punissheth brekers of preceptes and the contrary-doers of the written constitucions, right so ayenward lawe rewardeth and yeveth mede to hem that lawe strengthen.
Why make ye not your festes to poore men, and yeveth hem yeftes, as ye don to the riche; sith poore men han more nede than the riche?
Why wrytest thou hir names in thy tables, that yeveth thee moneye; sith god knoweth all thing?
It is the spirit thatyeveth lyf; the flesshe, of nothing it profiteth.
How than may this 85 lyf maken men blisful, that whan it passeth it yeveth no wrecchednesse, and many tymes blisse, if in this lyfe he con live as he shulde?
It yeveth lyf and blisful goodnesse 65 in the laste endes, though the ginninges ben sharpe.
Sith holy writ biddeth not thus, but even the contrary; for al such goostly dedes shulde be don freely, as god yeveth hem freely.
And for-as-muche as Iesu Crist yeveth us thise yiftes of his largesse and of his sovereyn bountee, therfore is he cleped Iesus Nazarenus rex Iudeorum.
Certes, this is the fouleste thefte that may be, whan a womman steleth hir body from hir housbonde and yeveth it to hire holour to defoulen hir; and steleth hir soule fro Crist, and yeveth it to the devel.
Certes, he that is fool-large ne yeveth nat his catel, but he leseth his catel.
Senek among his othere wordes wyse Seith, that a man oghte him right wel avyse, (280) To whom he yeveth his lond or his catel.
And seint Paul yevethhem the regne, that nis dewe to no wight but to hem that doon deedly sinne.
Allas, why pleynen folk so in commune Of purveyaunce of God, or of fortune, That yeveth hem ful ofte in many a gyse Wel bettre than they can hem-self devyse?
For Salomon seith: that "right as the herte of a man delyteth in savour that is sote, right so the conseil of trewe freendes yeveth swetenesse to the soule.
Speke we now of wikked conseil; for he that wikked conseil yeveth is a traytour.
Soothly, what thing that he yeveth for veyne glorie, as to minstrals and to folk, for to beren his renoun in the world, he hath sinne ther-of and noon almesse.
For beggeres borwen evere mo, And hir borgh is God almyghty, To yelden hem that yeveth hem, And yet usure moore.
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