The Tale of Melibeus Folio 337r 10 of 46 folios
be it so / that it seeme that thow art in sekyr place / ȝit
schalt thow alwey doon diligence in kep
soone /
weel auysed / he dredyth his leste enemy //
seith / that the litelle wesele / wele sle the greete bo
le
til thorn ; may pryke a kyng wol sore /
le holde the wylde boor /
re wheere as is no drede /
folk han greet lust
hem to been disseyuyd /
enpoyso
skornerys /
no c
as to the secunde poynt / wheere as ȝoure wise con
seylourys / conseylede ȝow to warnestore / ȝoure hous
with greet diligence /
vndyrstande / thilke wordis
stonde it in this wyse / That I schal war
nestore myn hous / with touris
as han caste
and artelleryes /
ne
myis schul been in dreede myn hous forto aproch
ce // warnestorynge is quod sche of heye
tourys
costagis
they been acc
but if they been defendit by trewe frendys that
been olde
the gretteste /
ryche man may han / as weel to kepyn his
as hese goodis / is