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To consider thre maner thynges •
allwyes by good auysement •
thinges passed and eke presente •
and thinges aft that shall fall •
and she not looke / first of all •
and done hir Inward besy peyne •
thinges presente for to ordeyne •
auysely on euery side •
and future thinges for to provyde •
the thinges passed in substaunce •
ffor to haue in remembraunce •
and who thus dothe I saye that he •
verrayly hath eygħen thre •
comitted vnto his deffence •
the truue myrrour of prouydence1 •
than this lady is hys gyde •
hym to defend / on euery syde •
agayne fortune goode and peruerse •
and all hir power for to reuerse •
ffor fraunchysed and lybertie2 •
from hys power to goo free •
stond alle folkes in sentence •
which byn gouerned by prudence3 •
.i.
providencia •
Now sheweth hyr here the second lady dame ryghtwysnesse4 •
Soth here this lady rightwyssnes •
of all vertues she is prycesse •
for by the scales of hur ballaunce •
she sett them all in gouernaunce •
she putteth asyde it is no drede •
frenshipe fauour / and all hines5 nede6 •
loue and drede7 She setteth at noughte •
ffor rightfull dome may not be boughte •
and ryghtwysnes8 who can esspye •
hath neyther hand nor eyghe9 •
she loste hur hand full ther agone •
ffor she reseyueth gyftes none •
nother of frend nother of foo •
and she hath lost hur syght allso •
for of ryghte she dothe provyde •
nought for to loke on neyther syde •
to hyghe estate no lowe degre •
but doth to boden10 all equyte •
and maketh non excepcion •
to nayther part but of rayson •
Notes
  1. Bracketed on the left side. ↩
  2. The EETS edition adds "[at]" prior to "liberte," which is missing here. ↩
  3. Bracketed on both sides. ↩
  4. Bracketed on both sides. ↩
  5. Trinity R.3.20 has "kyns" here. It seems likely that the scribe misinterpreted the initial letter of the exemplar. ↩
  6. Trinity R.3.20 has "meede" ↩
  7. Bracketed on both sides. ↩
  8. Bracketed on the right. ↩
  9. The second glyph appears to have been written over with an "y" but it is unclear what the scribe originally wrote here. ↩
  10. Trinity R.3.20 has "boþen" here. ↩

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.