Piers Plowman - Maybe You Like It

3.337: Ac thow art lik a lady that radde a lesson ones,
3.338: Was omnia probate, and that plesed hire herte —
3.340: For that lyne was no lenger at the leves ende.
3.341: Hadde she loked that other half and the leef torned,
3.342: She sholde have founden fele wordes folwynge therafter:
3.343: Quod bonum est tenete — Truthe that text made.
3.344: And so [mys]ferde ye, madame — ye kouthe na moore fynde
3.345: Tho ye loked on Sapience, sittynge in youre studie.
3.346: This text that ye han told were [tidy] for lordes,
3.347: Ac yow failed a konnynge clerk that kouthe the leef han torned.
3.348: And if ye seche Sapience eft, fynde shul ye that folweth.
3.349: A ful teneful text to hem that taketh mede:
3.349: 350 And that is Animam autem aufert accipientium &c.
3.350: And that is the tail of the text of that tale ye shewed —
3.351: That theigh we wynne worshipe and with mede have victorie,
3.352: The soule that the soude taketh by so muche is bounde.-
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