 | Songs, Carols, and other Miscellaneous Poems, from the Balliol Ms. 354, Richard Hill's Commonplace book |  |
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55. He is wise, so most I goo,
That can be mery, & suffer woo.
1
Be mery & suffer, as I the vise,Wher-euer thow sytt or rise;
Be well ware, whom thow despise,
Þou shalt kysse who is thy foo.
He is wise, [so most I goo,
That can be mery, & suffer woo.]
2
Beware, to whom þou spek thy will,For thy speche may greve the yll;
Here & see, & goo than still,
But well is he þat can do soo.
He is wise, [so most I goo,
That can be mery, & suffer woo.]
3
Many a man holdyth hym so stowght,What so euer he thynk, he seyth it owt;
But if he loke well a-bowt,
His tonge may be his most foo.
He is wise, [so most I goo,
That can be mery, & suffer woo.]
4
Be mery, now is all my songe,Þe wise man tawght both old & yonge;
Who can suffer & hold his tonge,
He may be mery & no thyng woo.
He is wise, [so most I goo,
That can be mery, & suffer woo.]
5
Yff any man displese the owght,Suffer with a mery thowght;
Let care away & greve þe nowght,
& shake thy lappe & lat it go.
He is wise, [so most I goo,
That can be mery, & suffer woo.]
Explicit.
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