pryde and veine glorie, how a man scornede festivaly and merily
swich vanitee. Whylom ther was a man that hadde assayed
with stryvinge wordes another man, the whiche, nat for usage of
verray vertu but for proud veine glorie, had taken up-on him
falsly the name of a philosophre. [This rather man]. that I spak
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of thoughte he wolde assaye, wher he, thilke, were a philosophre
or no; that is to seyn, yif that he wolde han suffred lightly in
pacience the wronges that weren don un-to him. This feynede
philosophre took pacience a litel whyle, and, whan he hadde