Wherof it nedeth to be schrive. [Sidenote: Confessor.] Mi Sone, godd it thee foryive, If thou have eny thing misdo Touchende of this, bot overmo[447] Ther is an other yit of Pride, Which nevere cowthe hise wordes hide, That he ne wole himself avaunte; Ther mai nothing his tunge daunte, 2390 That he ne clappeth as a Belle: Wherof if thou wolt that I telle, It is behovely forto hiere, So that thou myht thi tunge stiere, Toward the world and stonde in grace, Which lacketh ofte in many place[448] To him that can noght sitte stille, Which elles scholde have al his wille.[449] [Sidenote: [iv. AVANTANCE OR BOASTING.]] ix. _Magniloque propriam minuit iactancia lingue_ _Famam, quam stabilem firmat honore cilens._ _Ipse sui laudem meriti non percipit, vnde_ _Se sua per verba iactat in orbe palam._ _Estque viri culpa iactancia, que rubefactas_ _In muliere reas causat habere genas._ [Sidenote: =P. i. 123=] The vice cleped Avantance With Pride hath take his aqueintance, 2400 So that his oghne pris he lasseth, When he such mesure overpasseth That he his oghne Herald is. That ferst was wel is thanne mis, [Sidenote: Hic loquitur de quarta specie Superbie, que Iactancia dicitur, ex cuius natura causatur, vt homo de seipso testimonium perhibens suarum virtutum merita de laude in culpam transfert, et suam famam cum ipse extollere vellet, illam proprio ore subvertit. Set et Venus in amoris causa de isto vicio maculatos a sua Curia super omnes alios abhorrens expellit, et eorum multiloquium verecunda[451] detestatur. Vnde Confessor Amanti opponens materiam plenius declarat.] That was thankworth is thanne blame, And thus the worschipe of his name Thurgh pride of his avantarie He torneth into vilenie. I rede how that this proude vice Hath thilke wynd in his office,[450] 2410 Which thurgh the blastes that he bloweth The mannes fame he overthroweth Of vertu, which scholde elles springe Into the worldes knowlechinge; Bot he fordoth it alto sore. And riht of such a maner lore Ther ben lovers: forthi if thow Art on of hem, tell and sei how. Whan thou hast taken eny thing Of loves yifte, or Nouche or ring, 2420 Or tok upon thee for the cold[452] Som goodly word that thee was told, Or frendly chiere or tokne or lettre,[453] Wherof thin herte was the bettre, Or that sche sende the grietinge, Hast thou for Pride of thi likinge Mad thin avant wher as the liste? [Sidenote: Amans.] I wolde, fader, that ye wiste, [Sidenote: =P. i.