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And for the purpos of this matter •
of a Iuge ye shall here •
which neuer his lyffe of entent •
ther passed no Iudgemente •
by his lippes of falsenesse •
of whome the story doth expresse •
after his dethe / by accountes cler •
more than thre hundred yeare •
his body as is made mencyous[y]1 •
was tourned vnto corrupcyouy2 •
the story telleth it is no dred •
but lyche aroos / swet and red •
mouth and lippes were yfounde •
nougħte corrupte / but hole and sounde •
ffor truth that he did expresse •
in all his domes of ryghtwyssenes •
ffor this lady / with that balaunce •
was with hym of acquayntaunce •
which him made in his ententes •
to gyue also ryghtwyse Iugemente •
wherfore this lady which ye here see •
with hur balaunce of eq[u]yte3 •
hath the scales hanged soo •
that she hath nothynge to doo •
neuer with fortunes4 doubellnesse •
for euer in on state ryghtwysenesse5 •
no wher mouinge to ne fro •
in no thynge that she hath to do •
Lo here kometh in now the third lady called fortitudo6 •
Taketh hede this fayre lady loo / •
I called is fortitudo7 •
whan philosophers by ther sentence •
ar wante to clepe magnyfycence8 •
and fortitudo9 sothly she hyghte •
ageyne all vyces for to fyghte •
agaynste ałł aduersyte •
in signe wher of she bereth aswerde10 •
That she of nothinge is a ferde •
ffor common profit also she •
Notes
  1. As is seen elsewhere in the manuscript a word we might expect to terminate in an "n" instead terminates in either a "y" or "h." Here, however, it looks like the scribe first wrote an "s" and then corrected it to "y." ↩
  2. As mentioend in the previous note, the final word of this line terminates with "y." ↩
  3. The scribe forgot the "u" after the "q" glyph here, and has added it between "q" and "u" ↩
  4. Bracketed on both sides. ↩
  5. Bracketed on both sides. ↩
  6. Bracketed on both sides. ↩
  7. Bracketed on the right. ↩
  8. Bracketed on the left. ↩
  9. Bracketed on both sides. ↩
  10. The scribe originally had written a different word here but corrected themselves by writing over the section after "as" with "werde." ↩

The work on this manuscript witness was generously supported by a ZKS-Lendrum Fellowship in the Scientific Study of Manuscripts and Inscriptions at the Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Durham University. The transcription of this work is owned by the editor and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The images are (c) British Library Board (British Library Additional MS 29729) and rights are reserved.