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22 O’er rackless may repent. Then quoth Experience and spoke, Sir, I have seen them baith, In braidiness and lie aback, Escape and come to skaith, But what now of that now, Sturt follows all extremes; Retain then, the mean then, The surest way it seems. LIII. Rebuking Dread and Danger sore. Suppose they meant well evermore To me as they had swore; Because their neighbours they abus’d, In so far as they had accus’d, Them, as ye heard before; Did he not else, quoth he consent The Cherry for to pou? Quoth Danger we are well content, But yet the manner how? We shall now, e’en all now, Get this man with us there; It rests then, and’s best then, Your counsel to declare, L1V. Well said quoth Hope and Courage now We thereto will accord with you, And shall abide by them; Like as before we did submit, Now we repeat the same as fit We mind not to reclaim; Whom they shall chuse to guide the way, We shall them follow straight, And further this man what we may, Because we have so hight; Promitting but fitting, To do the thing we can, To please baith, and ease baith, This silly sickly man.