The vice or vertu chese may.
Thus stonden alle men franchised,
Bot in astat thei ben divised;
Nota.[818]
To some worschipe and richesse,
To some poverte and distresse,
On lordeth and an other serveth;
Bot yit as every man deserveth
The world yifth noght his yiftes hiere.
Bot certes he hath gret matiere 3270