The Tale of Melibeus Folio 341r 2 of 46 folios
strongere / or a moore myȝty man / tha
selue /
the / that is to seyne with as strong a man as
he is h
a weykere man ; it is folye /
a man fle stryuynge / as meche as he myȝte //
Salomon seyth it is a greet worschepe / to a m
to kep
or happe / that a man be of grettere myȝt
the / than thow art / do the greua
besye the rathere to stylle the same greua
than to venge the /
tith h
tere man than he is hym self
If a man of heyere staat or degre or moore myȝt
than thow / do the ony noye or greua
re hym /
a nothir tyme releue the
ȝe han bothe a lycence / for to venge ȝow /
theere been ful manye th
ne ȝow of vengea
enclyne to sufferre
wrongis that han been don to ȝow /
reward ȝif ȝe wele / considere the defautis /
hath suffered ȝow to haue this tribulacio
as I haue seyd ȝow heere by fore /
seyth that we ouȝtyn paciently / takyn the t
bulacio
thynkyn
han hem
a man considerith weel the no
fautis
cio
hym /
is moore heuy /
his peyne the lyȝtere
take the pacience / the pacience / of oure lord Ih
as seyth seynt petyr / In hise epistelis