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if they name certain persons who owe arrears, take the 

 names, for often it happens that servants and provosts are 

 debtors themselves, and make others debtors whom they 

 can and ought not, and this they do to conceal their 

 disloyalty. 



HOW SEEVANTS AND PROVOSTS OUGHT TO BEHAVE. 



Those who have the goods of others in their keeping 

 ought to keep well four things : To love their lord and" 1 

 respect him, and as to making profit, they ought to look . 

 on the business as their own, and as to outlays, they ought 

 to think that the business is another's, but there are few 

 servants and provosts who keep these four things altogether, 

 as I think, but there are many who have omitted the three 

 and kept the fourth, and have interpreted that contrary to 

 the right way, knowing well that the business is another's 

 and not theirs, and take right and left where they judge 

 best that their disloyalty will not be perceived. Look into 

 your affairs often, and cause them to be reviewed, for those 

 who serve you will thereby avoid the more to do wrong, 

 and will take pains to do better. 



Here ends the treatise of husbandry. 



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