If so be thette there assaile the any, Be ware thou ne thi men ryse not lyghtly Ayens theyme, that thi town of strenght not slake; Off the fryst Troye example thou mayst take. Whenne Hercules wyth mych pepyll com opon the fryst Troye and that kyng Leomedon herd seye of there comyng, than he with all the peple that he myght gete in the cete yode owte and went ayens theyme to the water syde, and there theye assembled wyth full ferse bataile and þe cete was left voyde of peple. Than Thelamen Ayaux, the wich was enbushed wyth a grete oste nere the walles of the cete, enteryd into it, and thus the fryst Troye was takyn. Therefor it is seyde to the goode knyght that he shulde kepe hym, that in siche wyse he be not disseyuyd wyth his [Sidenote: f. 48.] ennemyes. And Hermes seyth, “Kepe the from the peple[413] of thyn ennemyes.” Where it is seyde that a man shuld kepe hym, yf he be assayled, that his cete be not voide, it is to sey that the good spyryte shulde euer kepe hym sesid and filled with vertues. And hereto seyth Seynt Austyn that, lyche as in tyme of werre men of armes shuld not be onsesyde of theyre armes ne owt of theyme nyght ner day, on the same wyse duryng the tyme of this present lyfe he shulde not be dyspoyled of vertues, for he thate the fende fyndeth withowte vertues faryth as he that the aduersari fyndyth withoute armes. Therfor the Gospel seyth, [“Fortis armatus custodit atrium suum”].[414] LXVII. Opon the harpe assot the not to sore Off Orpheus. Yf thou sete any store Be armes, thou wylte þerin wele spede. To fre[415] instrementis thou hast non nede. Orpheus was a poyete, and the fabill seyth that he cowde welle pleye on the harrpe, so that the ryngyng[416] wateres all only tournyd theyre coruse, and the birdes of the eyre, the wylde bestes and the fres[417] serpentis foryate there cruelnes and restyd to here the songge and the swete sounde of his harpe. This is to vnderstond he pleyith so wele that all maner of pepill of whate condicions that they were delytede theyme to here the poietis pley. And becawse that syche instrumentis sotted often the hertis of men, it is seyde to the goode knyght that he shuld not delyte hym to meche therein, for it longeth not to the sones of knyghthode to mvse to mych in instrumentis ne in othir ydylnes. To this purpose an auctorite seyth, “The soule of the instrument is the snare of the serpent”; and Platon seyth, “He þat settyth holy his plesauns of fleysly delythes is more bond þan a sclawe,” that is to seye, than a man that is bought and solde.