And dar no mannes werk beginne:

So mai he noght be resoun winne;

For who that noght dar undertake,

Be riht he schal no profit take. 320

Bot of this vice the nature

Dar nothing sette in aventure,

Him lacketh bothe word and dede,

Wherof he scholde his cause spede:

He woll no manhed understonde,

For evere he hath drede upon honde: