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Withinne his oghne conscience:
And thus the foles evidence;
Which was of goddes grace enspired;
Makth that good conseil was desired。
He putte awey the vicious
And tok to him the vertuous;
The wrongful lawes ben amended;
The londes good is wel despended;
The poeple was nomore oppressed;
And thus stod every thing redressed。  4010
For where a king is propre wys;
And hath suche as himselven is
Of his conseil; it mai noght faile
That every thing ne schal availe:
The vices thanne gon aweie;
And every vertu holt his weie;
Wherof the hihe god is plesed;
And al the londes folk is esed。
For if the comun poeple crie;
And thanne a king list noght to plie  4020
To hiere what the clamour wolde;
And otherwise thanne he scholde
Desdeigneth forto don hem grace;
It hath be sen in many place;
Ther hath befalle gret contraire;
And that I finde of ensamplaire。
After the deth of Salomon;
Whan thilke wise king was gon;
And Roboas in his persone
Receive scholde the corone;  4030
The poeple upon a Parlement
Avised were of on assent;
And alle unto the king thei preiden;
With comun vois and thus thei seiden:
〃Oure liege lord; we thee beseche
That thou receive oure humble speche
And grante ous that which reson wile;
Or of thi grace or of thi skile。
Thi fader; whil he was alyve
And myhte bothe grante and pryve;  4040
Upon the werkes whiche he hadde
The comun poeple streite ladde:
Whan he the temple made newe;
Thing which men nevere afore knewe
He broghte up thanne of his taillage;
And al was under the visage
Of werkes whiche he made tho。
Bot nou it is befalle so;
That al is mad; riht as he seide;
And he was riche whan he deide;    4050
So that it is no maner nede;
If thou therof wolt taken hiede;
To pilen of the poeple more;
Which long time hath be grieved sore。
And in this wise as we thee seie;
With tendre herte we thee preie
That thou relesse thilke dette;
Which upon ous thi fader sette。
And if thee like to don so;
We ben thi men for everemo;  4060
To gon and comen at thin heste。〃
The king; which herde this requeste;
Seith that he wole ben avised;
And hath therof a time assised;
And in the while as he him thoghte
Upon this thing; conseil he soghte。
And ferst the wise knyhtes olde;
To whom that he his tale tolde;
Conseilen him in this manere;
That he with love and with glad chiere   4070
Foryive and grante al that is axed
Of that his fader hadde taxed;
For so he mai his regne achieve
With thing which schal him litel grieve。
The king hem herde and overpasseth;
And with these othre his wit compasseth;
That yonge were and nothing wise。
And thei these olde men despise;
And seiden: 〃Sire; it schal be schame
For evere unto thi worthi name;    4080
If thou ne kepe noght the riht;
Whil thou art in thi yonge myht;
Which that thin olde fader gat。
Bot seie unto the poeple plat;
That whil thou livest in thi lond;
The leste finger of thin hond
It schal be strengere overal
Than was thi fadres bodi al。
And this also schal be thi tale;
If he hem smot with roddes smale;  4090
With Scorpions thou schalt hem smyte;
And wher thi fader tok a lyte;
Thou thenkst to take mochel more。
Thus schalt thou make hem drede sore
The grete herte of thi corage;
So forto holde hem in servage。
This yonge king him hath conformed
To don as he was last enformed;
Which was to him his undoinge:
For whan it cam to the spekinge;   4100
He hath the yonge conseil holde;
That he the same wordes tolde
Of al the poeple in audience;
And whan thei herden the sentence
Of his malice and the manace;
Anon tofore his oghne face
Thei have him oultreli refused
And with ful gret reproef accused。
So thei begunne forto rave;
That he was fain himself to save;  4110
For as the wilde wode rage
Of wyndes makth the See salvage;
And that was calm bringth into wawe;
So for defalte of grace and lawe
This poeple is stered al at ones
And forth thei gon out of hise wones;
So that of the lignages tuelve
Tuo tribes only be hemselve
With him abiden and nomo:
So were thei for everemo  4120
Of no retorn withoute espeir
Departed fro the rihtfull heir。
Al Irahel with comun vois
A king upon here oghne chois
Among hemself anon thei make;
And have here yonge lord forsake;
A povere knyht Jeroboas
Thei toke; and lefte Roboas;
Which rihtfull heir was be descente。
Lo; thus the yonge cause wente:    4130
For that the conseil was noght good;
The regne fro the rihtfull blod
Evere afterward divided was。
So mai it proven be this cas
That yong conseil; which is to warm;
Er men be war doth ofte harm。
Old age for the conseil serveth;
And lusti youthe his thonk deserveth
Upon the travail which he doth;
And bothe; forto seie a soth;   4140
Be sondri cause forto have;
If that he wole his regne save;
A king behoveth every day。
That on can and that other mai;
Be so the king hem bothe reule;
For elles al goth out of reule。
And upon this matiere also
A question betwen the tuo
Thus writen in a bok I fond;
Wher it be betre for the lond   4150
A king himselve to be wys;
And so to bere his oghne pris;
And that his consail be noght good;
Or other wise if it so stod;
A king if he be vicious
And his conseil be vertuous。
It is ansuerd in such a wise;
That betre it is that thei be wise
Be whom that the conseil schal gon;
For thei be manye; and he is on;   4160
And rathere schal an one man
With fals conseil; for oght he can;
From his wisdom be mad to falle;
Thanne he al one scholde hem alle
Fro vices into vertu change;
For that is wel the more strange。
Forthi the lond mai wel be glad;
Whos king with good conseil is lad;
Which set him unto rihtwisnesse;
So that his hihe worthinesse    4170
Betwen the reddour and Pite
Doth mercy forth with equite。
A king is holden overal
To Pite; bot in special
To hem wher he is most beholde;
Thei scholde his Pite most beholde
That ben the Lieges of his lond;
For thei ben evere under his hond
After the goddes ordinaunce
To stonde upon his governance。  4180
Of themperour Anthonius
I finde hou that he seide thus;
That levere him were forto save
Oon of his lieges than to have
Of enemis a thousend dede。
And this he lernede; as I rede;
Of Cipio; which hadde be
Consul of Rome。 And thus to se
Diverse ensamples hou thei stonde;
A king which hath the charge on honde    4190
The comun poeple to governe;
If that he wole; he mai wel lerne。
Is non so good to the plesance
Of god; as is good governance;
And every governance is due
To Pite: thus I mai argue
That Pite is the foundement
Of every kinges regiment;
If it be medled with justice。
Thei tuo remuen alle vice;   4200
And ben of vertu most vailable
To make a kinges regne stable。
Lo; thus the foure pointz tofore;
In governance as thei ben bore;
Of trouthe ferst and of largesse;
Of Pite forth with rihtwisnesse;
I have hem told; and over this
The fifte point; so as it is
Set of the reule of Policie;
Wherof a king schal modefie  4210
The fleisschly lustes of nature;
Nou thenk I telle of such mesure;
That bothe kinde schal be served
And ek the lawe of god observed。
The Madle is mad for the the femele;
Bot where as on desireth fele;
That nedeth noght be weie of kinde:
For whan a man mai redy finde
His oghne wif; what scholde he seche
In strange places to beseche    4220
To borwe an other mannes plouh;
Whan he hath geere good ynouh
Affaited at his oghne heste;
And is to him wel more honeste
Than other thing which is unknowe?
Forthi scholde every good man knowe
And thenke; hou that in mariage
His trouthe pliht lith in morgage;
Which if he breke; it is falshode;
And that descordeth to manhode;    4230
And namely toward the grete;
Wherof the bokes alle trete;
So as the Philosophre techeth
To Alisandre; and him betecheth
The lore hou that he schal mesure
His bodi; so that no mesure
Of fleisshly lust he scholde excede。
And thus forth if I schal procede;
The fifte point; as I seide er;
Is chastete; which sielde wher  4240
Comth nou adaies into place;
And natheles; bot it be grace
Above alle othre in special;
Is non that chaste mai ben all。
Bot yit a kinges hihe astat;
Which of his ordre as a prelat
Schal ben enoignt and seintefied;
He mot be more magnefied
For dignete o

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