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 AND THE SLAE 45 LXXXVIII. Except the Cherrie be his chose ; Be ye his friends we are his foes, His doings we dispyte ; Gif we persave him settled sae, To satisfy him with the Slae, His companie we quyte : Then Dread and Danger grew full glad, And wont that they had won ; They thocht all seild that they had said, Sen they had first begun; They thocht then they moucht then, Without a party pleid, But yit thair, with wit thair, They were dung doun with speid. LXXXIX. Sirs, Dread and Danger then, quoth Wit, Ye did yoursells to me submit, Experience can prove. That, quoth Experience, I past, Thair ain confessions make them fast, They may nae mair remove; For gif I richt remember me, This maxime then they made, To wit, the man with wit sould wey What philosophs haif said ; Which sentance repentance Forbad him dier to buy, They knew then how trew then, And press'd not to reply.