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aussi bon semblant as parens de elle comme as siens ou
plus. Et ne est pas ypocrisie ne falseté, mes est bienfait.
Et est par cc nianifestee l'amisté quil a a sa femme. Et
semblablement doit faire la femme as parens de son man.
Et cc est Ic premier enseignenient de cest chapitre.
T. Item, ii doivent faire qu'il aient aussi comme commune
cure et solicitude de leur filz et enfans et (IC leur
amis et de toute Ia maison.
G. Car toutes les grandes choses sunt communes a l'un
et a l'autre, mes plus pnincipalnient appartiennent ou man.
T. Item, que chescun des .ii. s'efforce et mette cure
et peine a passer l'autre en ce qu'il soit cause que plus
de biens soient fais par lui au commun profit de la
maiSon et que chescun se peine de estre le melleur et Ic
plus juste.
G. Et qe un ne se atende on excuse en nien de l'autre
en leissant a faire bien, mes face chescun a son povoir le
miex, non pas pour envie, mes pour jalousie de vertu et
de justice.
T. Item, que chescun leisse orgueil et gouverne la
maison a droit et ait maniere humble et debonnaire.
G. Cc dit it afin que nul des manes ne se donne gloire
par sus l'autre pour cc se it a // (347c) fait aucun grant
bien, mes tousjours repute que encor deust il miex faire et
que I'autre fait miex. Apres it met la fin pourquoy Fen
doit gander telz enseigneniens.
7'. Afin que quant it vendront en villece et ii seront
delivrés du benefice.
C. Cc est a dire, quant it ne pourront plus estre bienfaicteurs
a leur farnille ne leur faire profit.
T. Et de mout de cures et de concupiscences et de
desiriers charnelz qui sunt faiz aucune foiz en joennece,
ii aient a respondre Fun a l'autre et a leur filz ou enfans
lequel des .ii. a esté cause de pluseurs biens en Ia maison
dont chescun des .ii. a esté fait recteur et gouverneur.
G. Et que ceste altercation ne soit pas contencieuse telement
que chescun se repute avoir fait plus de biens, mes
que elle soit gracieuse et que chescun attribue a l'autre
avoir fait plus dc biens.
T. Et clue Fen puisse savoir tantost oti comment le
mal qui seroit avenu avroit esté par fortune et le bien
par vertu.
C. Se aucun mal est advenu ou gouvernement d'ostel les
enfans doivent supposer que cc ne est pas par Ic vice des
parens et les parens aussi l'un de l'autre, mes que cc a esté
par infortune. Ft Ic bien qui est avenu, les cnfans Ic doivent
attribuer a la vertu des parens et le mari a la vertu
de la femme et la femme a Ia vertu du man.1
T. Es quelles choses qui avra vescu, il en raportera
et avra des diex tres grant merite.
C. En on texte est qui vixen!, cc est assavoir, qui vivra
/ (347d) en bonnes ocvres. Et tin autre texte est qui
vicerit, cc est a (lire, qui avra victoire en faisant plus de
biens ou victore sus les infortunes par vertu et par pa-
treat her parents as well as his own or better. And this
is not hypocrisy or falseness, but is quite fitting. And in
this way he makes manifest his love for his wife. The wife
should conduct herself likewise with her husbands parents.
And this is the first precept of this chapter.
T. Moreover, they must share mutually in the care
and attention to be given their children, their friends,
and the entire household.
Cr, For all major interests are common to each, but are
especially the husbands responsibility.
T. Each must vie with the other and seek diligently
to surpass the other in contributing his share to the
common good of the household and each should try to
excel in goodness and justice.
C. And neither should wait upon the other's action nor
seek any excuse for failure to do right; each should do his
best, not from enviousness, but because he is jealous of
virtue and justice.
T. Let each one cast aside his pride and seek to
govern the household justly and let him be humble and
unassuming in manner.
G. This he says in order that neither one should lord
it over the other because he has // (347c) accomplished
some notable action; rather, let him consider that he should
have done still better and that the other does better than
he. Next lie states the reason for observing such precepts.
T. So that when 01(1 age comes upon them and they
can no longer provide for others.
C. That is, when they will be no longer able to provide
for their family or to enhance its well-being.
T. And are released from many of their duties and
from preoccupation with the lusts and carnal desires
common to youth, they may be able to recount to each
other and to their children which one of them has contributed
more benefits to the home in which each has
served as director and governor.
C. And this controversy need not be angrily contentious
to the point that each makes claim to have done more good
things than the other ; rather, it should be an affable, polite
exchange in which each contends that the other has contributed
most to the common welfare.
7'. And it should appear quite clearly that the ills
that have befallen them have been due to fortune and
that the good was due to their own virtue.
C. If any misfortune has attended their management of
the household, the children should believe that this was in
no way attributable to the sins of the parents. And likewise
the parents should not blame each other, but rather
hold that it was caused by bad fortune. And whatever
good has come to the family the children must attribute to
their parents' virtue and the husband to the wife and the
wife to the husband.
7'. One who has lived through these things will win
great merit from the gods.
C. In one text the passage reads qui vixen!, that is,
who will live (347d) in good works; in another text it
reads qui z'iccrit, who will have victory in excess of good
deeds or victory over had fortune by his virtue and patience.