The Tale of Melibeus Folio 340r 4 of 46 folios
or haue ȝoure recours / to the Iuge that hath the
diccio
lawe axit
nothyng /
how fortune hath norichid me / fr
chyldeheede /
a strong paas /
with godis helpe /~ that sche schal help
schame for to venge
to here aftyr the word of senek /
been folyly doon /
tune / schuln neu
as the same Senek seyth / the moore cleer
more schyn
sche nys nat stedefast ne stable /
wist to been most sekyr or sewir of hire helpe ; sche
wele fayle
Fortune hath norichid ȝoure childhrede
so meche schul ȝe the lasse truste in here wit /
nek seyth / what man that is norichid by Fortune ;
sche makyth h
desyre
aftyr the lawe /
is
remedie / but for to haue ȝoure recours / vn to the
souereyn Iuge that vengith alle vilaynyis /
gis /
nessith where as he seyth /
swerede / If I ne venge me not of the vila
nye that men doon to me /
warne hem that han doon to me that vilenye
le othere to doon to me a nothir vilenye /