Sey what your beste conseil is.
Confessor.
Mi Sone, my conseil is this:[1122]
Hou so it stonde of time go,[1123]
Do forth thi besinesse so,
That no Lachesce in the be founde:
For Slowthe is mihti to confounde 300
The spied of every mannes werk.
For many a vice, as seith the clerk,
Ther hongen upon Slowthes lappe