_MAGNYFYCENCE accipiat indumentum._ _Magn._ To your requeste I shall be confyrmable. _Red._ Fyrst,[870] I saye, with mynde fyrme and stable Determyne to amende all your wanton excesse, And be ruled by me, whiche am called Redresse: Redresse my name is, that lytell am I vsed As the worlde requyreth, but rather I am refused: 2440 Redresse sholde be at the rekenynge in euery accompte, And specyally to redresse that were out of ioynte: Full many thynges there be that lacketh redresse, The whiche were to longe nowe to expresse; But redresse is redlesse, and may do no correccyon. Nowe welcome forsoth, Sad Cyrcumspeccyon. _Here cometh in SAD CYRCUMSPECCYON, sayenge_, _Sad Cyr._ Syr, after your message I hyed me hyder streyght, For to vnderstande your pleasure and also your mynde. _Red._ Syr, to accompte you the contynewe of my consayte, Is from aduersyte Magnyfycence to vnbynde. 2450 _Sad Cyr._ How fortuned you, Magnyfycence, so far to fal behynde? _Magn._ Syr, the longe absence of you, Sad Cyrcumspeccyon, Caused me of aduersyte to fall in subieccyon. _Red._ All that he sayth, of trouthe doth precede; For where sad cyrcumspeccyon is longe out of the way, Of aduersyte it is to stande in drede. _Sad Cyr._ Without fayle, syr, that is no nay; Cyrcumspeccyon inhateth all rennynge astray. But, syr, by me to rule fyrst ye began. _Magn._ My wylfulnesse, syr, excuse I ne can. 2460 _Sad Cyr._ Then ye repent you of foly in tymes past? _Magn._ Sothely, to repent me I haue grete cause: Howe be it from you I receyued a letter,[871] Whiche conteyned in it a specyall clause That I sholde vse largesse. _Sad Cyr._ Nay, syr, there a pause. _Red._ Yet let vs se this matter thorowly ingrosed. _Magn._ Syr, this letter ye sent to me, at Pountes was enclosed. _Sad Cyr._ Who brought you that letter, wote ye what he hyght? _Magn._ Largesse, syr, by his credence was his name. 2470 _Sad Cyr._ This letter ye speke of, neuer dyd I wryte. _Red._ To gyue so hasty credence ye were moche to blame. _Magn._ Truth it is, syr; for after he wrought me moch shame, And caused me also to vse to moche lyberte, And made also mesure to be put fro me. _Red._ Then welthe with you myght in no wyse abyde. _Sad Cyr._ A ha! fansy and foly met with you, I trowe. _Red._ It wolde be founde so, yf it were well tryde. _Magn._ Surely my welthe with them was ouerthrow. _Sad Cyr._ Remembre you, therfore, howe late ye were low. 2480 _Red._ Ye, and beware of vnhappy abusyon. _Sad Cyr._ And kepe you from counterfaytynge of clokyd colusyon. _Magn._ Syr, in goodhope I am to amende. _Red._ Vse not then your countenaunce for to counterfet. _Sad Cyr._ And from crafters and hafters I you forfende. _Hic intrat PERSEUERAUNCE._ _Magn._ Well, syr, after your counsell my mynde I wyll set.