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 AND THE SLAE. 55 CVIII. Weil said, quoth Hope and Courage, now, We thairto will accord with you, And shall abide by them; Like as before we did submit, Sae we repent the same yet, We mind not to reclaim : Whom they shall chuse to guide the way, We shall them follow straight, And furder this man, what we may, Because we haye sae hecht; Promitting, bot flitting, To do the thing we can, To please baith, and ease baith This silly sickly man. CIX. When Reason heard this, then, quoth he, I see your chiefest stay to be, That we have nam'd nae guide: The worthy counsel has therefore, Though gude that Wit should gae before, For perils to provide. Quoth Wit, there is but ane of three, Which I shall to you show, Whairof the first twa cannot be, For ony thing I know: The way here sae stay here, Is that we cannot clim, Even owre now, we four now That will be hard for him.