QUISQUIS VOLET PERHENNEM CAUTUS, &c. —
Metrum 4
"What maner man stable and war, that wol fownden hym a
perdurable seete, and ne wol noght ben cast doun with the lowde
blastes of the wynd Eurus, and wole despise the see manasynge
with flodes; lat hym eschuwen to bilde on the cop of the
mountaigne, or in the moyste sandes; for the felle wynd Auster
tormenteth the cop of the mountaigne with alle hise strengthes,
and the lause sandes refusen to beren the hevy weyghte. And
forthi, yif thow wolt fleen the perilous aventure
(that is to seyn, of the werld)
have mynde certeynly
to fycchen thin hous of a myrie sete in a low stoon. For although
the wynd troublynge the see thondre with overthrowynges, thou,
that art put in quiete and weleful by strengthe of thi palys,
schalt leden a cler age, scornynge the woodnesses and the ires of
the eyr.
