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LV. When Reason heard this then quoth he, I see your chiefest stay to be, That we have nam’d no guide; The worthy counsel hath therefore, Thought good that Wit should go before For perils to provide; Quoth Wit there is but one of three Things I shall to thee show, Whereof the first two cannot be For any thing I know: The way here so high here Is, that we cannot climb, Even o’er now, we four now, That will be hard for him. LVI. And next for us to wind about, Where this high range of rocks run out, . The stream is there too strong ; And also passeth wading deep, And breader far than we dare leap, It surely would be wrong, It spreads still broader to the sea. Since from the spring it came, The running dead doth signify The deepness of the same; I leave now to prieve now, How that it slowly slides, As sleeping and creeping, But nature so provides. LVII. Our way then lies below the fall, Whereby I warrant speed we shall, The way is wide and plain; The water also is right shallow, I’ll lead the way. and ye shall follow Nor find your labour vain. For as we find a mischief grow Oft of a trifling thing,
