Piers Plowman - Maybe You Like It

17.037: And siththe right as myself so lovye alle peple.
17.038: "The gorne thit gooth with o staf — he semeth in gretter heele
17.039: Than he that gooth with two staves, to sighte of us alle.
17.040: And right so, bi the roode, reson me sheweth
17.041: It is lighter to lewed men o lesson to knowe
17.042: Than for to techen hem two, and to hard to lerne the leeste!
17.043: It is ful hard for any man on Abraham bileve,
17.044: And wel awey worse yit for to love a sherewe.
17.045: In pace in is lighter to leeve in thre lovely persones
17.046: Than for to lovye and lene as wel lorels as lele.
17.047: Go thi gate, 'quod I to Spes; "so me God helpe,
17.048: Tho that lernen thi lawe wol litel while usen it!'
17.049: And as we wenten thus in the wey, wordynge togideres,
17.050: Thanne seighe we a Samaritan sittynge on a mule,
17.051: Ridynge ful rapely the righte wey we yeden,
17.052: Comynge from a contree that men called Jerico —
17.053: To a justes in Jerusalem he [j]aced awey faste.
17.054: Bothe the heraud and Hope and he mette atones
17.055: Where a man was, wounded, and with theves taken.
17.056: He myghte neither steppe ne stande, ne stere foot ne handes,
17.057: Ne helpe hymself soothly, for semyvif he semed,
17.058: And as naked as a nedle, and noon help abouten.
17.059: Feith hadde first sighte of hym, ac he fleigh aside,
17.060: And nolde noght neghen hym by nyne londes lengthe.
17.061: Hope cam hippynge after, that hadde so ybosted
17.062: How he with Moyses maundement hadde many men yholpe;
17.063: Ac whan he hadde sighte of that segge, aside he gan hym drawe
17.064: Dredfully, bi this day, as doke dooth fram the faucon!
17.065: Ac so soone so the Samaritan hadde sighte of this leode,
17.066: He lighte adown of lyard and ladde hym in his handes,
17.067: And to the wye he wente hise woundes to biholde,
17.068: And parceyved by his pous he was in peril to dye,
17.069: And but he hadde recoverer the rather, that rise sholde he nevere;
17.070: And breide to hise boteles, and bothe he atamede.
17.071: With wyn and with oille hise woundes he wasshed,
17.072: Enbawmed hym and bond his heed, and in his lappe hym leide,
17.073: And ladde hym so forth on lyard to Lex Christi, a graunge
17.074: Wel sixe mile or sevene biside the newe market;
17.075: Herberwed hym at an hostrie and to the hostiler called,
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