¶ What quoth Doctryne where is he now ¶ That meu[i]d this mater straunge & dyffuse ¶ He is a cowarde I make myn auow ¶ He hyded his hede his mocyon to refuse ¶ Blame hym not q{uo}d Reason alway {that} to vse ¶ When he seeth Dethe soo nere at his honde ¶ Yet is his part hym to withstonde ¶ Or at the leste way elles fro hym flee Original has ¶ As longe as he may who dooth other wyse fym instead ¶ Is an ydeote quoth Sensualytee of hym ¶ Who dredeth not Dethe wyse men hym dyspyse ¶ What said Doctryne how long hathe this gyse ¶ Be holden & vsed thus atwixe you tweyne ¶ Ye were not wonte to acorde certeyne ¶ Yes quoth Reason in this poynt alway ¶ To euery man haue we yeuen our counsayll ¶ Dethe for to flee as long as they may ¶ Although wo otherwyse haue done our trauayl ¶ Eche other to represse yet withoute fayll ¶ In that poynt oonly dyscordeth we neuer ¶ Thus condescended therin be we for euer ¶ Aha sayd Doctryne then is the conclusyon ¶ Clerely determined of the gret doute ¶ That here wes meuyd & halfe in derysyon ¶ She me then called & bade me loke oute ¶ Come forthe she sayd & feere not this route ¶ And euen with that Reason & Sensualyte ¶ And Dethe fro thens were vanysshed all thre ¶ Then loked I forthe as Doctryne me badde ¶ When Dethe was gone me thought I was bolde ¶ To shewe myselfe but yet was I sadde ¶ Me thought my doute was not as I wolde ¶ Clerely and openly declared & tolde ¶ Hit sowned to me as a parable ¶ Derke as a myste or a fayned fable Original has myhe instead ¶ And Doctryne my conceyte gan espy of myste ¶ Wherfore sayd she standest thou soo styll ¶ Wherin is thy thought arte thou in stody ¶ Of thy questyon hast thou not thy fyll ¶ To the declared tell me thy wyll. ¶ Herdest thou not Reason & Sensualyte ¶ Declared thy doute here before the ¶ Forsothe quoth I I herde what they sayde ¶ But neuerthelesse my wytte is so thynne ¶ And also of Dethe I was so afrayde ¶ That hit is out where hit vent ynne ¶ And so that mater can I not wynne ¶ Without your helpe & benyuolence ¶ Therof to expresse the veray sentence ¶ Well quod Doctryne then yeue attendaunce ¶ Vnto my wordes & thou shalt here ¶ Openly declared the concordaunce ¶ Atwene Sensualyte & Reason in fere ¶ If thou take hede hit clerely dooth apere ¶ How they were knette in one opynyon ¶ Bothe agayn Dethe helde contradyccon