2228. Fr. text--'qui ne scevent que guerre se monte.'--Mr. 2229. 'The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water'; Prov. xvii. 14. 2231. 'The chylde may rue that is vnborn'; Chevy Chase, l. 9. 2235. 'A tale out of season is as music in mourning'; Ecclus. xxii. 6. 2237. Not from 'Solomon,' but from 'Jesus, son of Sirach,' as before. The Lat. text agrees with the Vulgate version of Ecclus. xxxii. 6: 'ubi auditus non est, ne effundas sermonem'; the E. version (verse 4) is somewhat different, viz. 'Pour not out words where there is a musician, and shew not forth wisdom out of time.' Chaucer gives us the same saying again _in verse_; see B. 3991. 2238. Lat. text: 'semper consilium tunc deest, quando maxime opus est'; from Publilius Syrus, Sent. 594. (_Read_ cum opus est maxime.) 2242. Cf. F. text--'Sire, dist elle, je vous prie que vous ne vous hastez, et que vous pour tous dons me donnez espace.'--Wright. 2243. _Piers Alfonce_, Petrus Alfonsi. 'Peter Alfonsus, or Alfonsi, was a converted Spanish Jew, who flourished in the twelfth century, and is well known for his _Disciplina Clericalis_, a collection of stories and moralisations in Latin prose, which was translated afterwards into French verse, under the title of the _Chastoiement d'un pere a son fils_. It was a book much in vogue among the preachers from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century.'--Wright. Tyrwhitt has a long note here; he says that a copy of this work is in MS. Bibl. Reg. 10 B. xii in the British Museum, and that there is also a copy of another work by the same author, entitled _Dialogus contra Judaeos_, in MS. Harl. 3861. He also remarks that the manner and style of the _Disciplina Clericalis_ 'show many marks of an Eastern original; and one of his stories _Of a trick put upon a thief_ is entirely taken from the Calilah a Damnah, a celebrated collection of Oriental apologues.' All the best fables of Alfonsus [206] were afterwards incorporated (says Tyrwhitt) into the Gesta Romanorum. He was born at Huesca, in Arragon, in 1062, and converted to Christianity in 1106. The words here referred to are the following: 'Ne properes ulli reddere mutuum boni uel mali, quia diutius expectabit te amicus, et diutius timebit te inimicus'; Disc. Cler. xxv. 15; ed. F. W. V. Schmidt, Berlin, 1827, 4to., p. 71. 2244. _The proverbe_, &c.; not in either the Latin or the French texts. Cf. the proverb of Hending--'ofte rap reweth,' often haste rues it. Heywood has--'The more haste, the worse speed'; on which Ray notes--'Come s'ha fretta non si fa mai niente che stia bene'; _Ital._ Qui trop se hâte en cheminant, en beau chemin se fourvoye souvent; _Fr._ Qui nimis properè minus prosperè; et nimium properans serius absoluit. 'Tarry a little, that we may make an end the sooner, was a saying of Sir Amias Paulet. Presto e bene non si conviene; _Ital._' See 2325 below, and observe that Chaucer has _the same form of words_ in Troil. i. 956. 2247. From Ecclesiastes, vii. 28. Cf. A. 3154.