[Sidenote: If you at length shall arrive at this abode, you will say this is my country--here I was born--and here will I abide.] {and} yif þi weye ledeþ þe aȝeyne so þat þou be brouȝt þider. þan wilt þou seye now þat þat is þe contre þat þou requeredest of whiche þou ne haddest no mynde. but now it remenbreþ me wel 3160 here was I born. here wil I fastne my degree. here wil I dwelle. [Sidenote: And should you deign to look on the gloomy earth, you’ll see those tyrants, the fear of wretched folk, banished from those fair realms.] but yif þe lyke þan to loken on þe derkenesse of þe erþe þat þou hast for-leten. þan shalt þou seen þat þise felonous tyrauntes þat þe wrecched[e] poeple dredeþ 3164 now shule ben exiled from þilke faire contre. [Linenotes: 3151-2 _she_--he 3152-3 _of þe----of god_--of the worshipful lyht of god 3153 _þere haldeþ_--ther halt 3155 _þis worlde_--the world 3156 _carte_--cart or wayn 3157 [_the_]--from C. 3159 _whiche_--which 3161 _here_ (1, 2, 3)--her _born_--MS. borne, C. born _wil_ (1)--wol _wil_ (2)--wole 3162 _lyke_--liketh _derkenesse_--dyrknesses 3164 _wrecched[e]_--wrecchede 3165 _shule_--shollen _from_--fro] [[pg 112]] [Headnote: THE GOOD ARE ALWAYS STRONG.] TUNC EGO PAPE INQ{UA}M. {ET} C{ETERA}. [Sidenote: [The 2^e p{ro}se.]] [Sidenote: _B._ Ah! thou promisest me great things indeed!--but without delay, satisfy the expectations you have raised.] ++ÞAnne seide I þus. [owh] I wondre me þat þou by-hetest me so grete þinges. ne I ne doute nat þat þ{o}u ne mayst wel p{er}forme þat þou by-hetest. but I preie þe 3168 oonly þis. þat þou ne tarie nat to telle me þilke þinges þat þou hast meoued. [Sidenote: _P._ You must first be convinced that the good are always strong and powerful and the wicked destitute of strength.] first q{uo}d she þou most nedes knowen. þ{a}t good[e] folk ben al wey strong[e] {and} myȝty. and þe shrewes ben feble {and} desert {and} naked 3172 of alle strengþes. [Sidenote: These assertions do mutually demonstrate each other.] and of þise þinges certys eueryche of hem is declared {and} shewed by oþ{er}. [Sidenote: For since good and evil are contrary, if good be powerful evil must be impotent.] ¶ For so as good {and} yuel ben two cont{ra}ries. yif so be þat goode be stedfast. þa{n} sheweþ þe fieblesse of yuel al openly. 3176 [Sidenote: And if the frailty of evil is known, the strength and stability of good must also be known to you.] and yif þou knowe clerely þe freelnesse of yuel. þe stedfastnesse of goode is knowen.