aLle
vertuouse
doctryne
&
techynge
had
&
lerned
of
suche
as
haue
endeuoured
them
to
leue
for
a
remembraunce
after
theyr
dethe
to
vs
/
by
whiche
we
ben
enfourmed
in
scyence
/
wysedom
and
vnderstandyng
of
knowleche
/
hou
we
ought
to
rewle
our self
in
this
present
lyf
haue
caused
vs
to
know
many
good
reules
/
&
vertuouse
maners
to
be
gouerned
by
/
Emonge
al
other
this
book
is
a
special
doctryne
&
techyng
by
which
al
yong
gentyl
wymen
specially
may
lerne
to
bihaue
them self
vertuously
/
as
wel
in
their
vyrgynyte
as
in
their
wedlok
&
wedowhede
/
as
al
along
shal
be
more
playnly
said
in
the
same
/
which
boke
is
comen
to
my
handes
by
the
request
&
desyre
of
a
noble
lady
which
hath
brought
forth
many
noble
&
fayr
doughters
which
ben
vertuously
nourisshed
&
lerned
/
And
for
very
ziele
&
loue
that
she
hath
alway
had
to
her
fayr
children
&
yet
hath
for
to
haue
more
knouleche
in
vertue
to
th
ende
that
they
may
alwey
perseuere
in
the
same
hath
desired
&
required
me
to
translate
&
reduce
this
said
book
out
of
frenssh
in
to
our
vulgar
englissh
/
to
th
ende
that
it
may
the
better
be
vnderstonde
of
al
suche
as
shal
rede
or
here
it
/
wherfor
atte
contemplacion
of
her
good
grace
after
the
lytel
connyng
that
god
hath
sent
me
/
I
haue
endeuoyryd
me
to
obeye
her
noble
desyre
&
request
/
In
whiche
werk
I
fynd
many
vertuous
good
enseygnementis
&
lernynges
by
euydent
histories
of
auctorite
&
good
ensamples
for
al
maner
peple
in
generally
/
but
in
especial
for
ladyes
&
gentilwymen
doughters
to
lordes
&
gentilmen
/
For
whiche
book
al
the
gentilwymen
now
lyuyng
&
herafter
to
come
or
shal
be
arn
bounde
to
gyue
laude
praysyng
&
thankynges
to
the
auctor
of
this
book
&
also
to
the
lady
that
caused
me
to
translate
it
&
to
pray
for
her
long
lyf
&
welfare
/
&
when
god
wil
calle
her
fro
this
transitory
lyf
that
she
may
regne
in
heuen
sempiternally
where
as
is
Ioye
&
blysse
without
ende
/
Thenne
for
as
moche
as
this
book
is
necessary
to
euery
gentilwoman
of
what
estate
she
be
I
aduyse
euery
gentilman
or
woman
hauyng
such
children
/
desyryng
them
to
be
vertuously
brought
forth
to
gete
&
haue
this
book
to
th
ende
that
they
may
lerne
/
hou
they
ought
to
gouerne
them
vertuously
in
this
present
lyf
/
by
whiche
they
may
the
better
&
hastlyer
come
to
worship
and
good
renommee
/
And
I
desyre
all
them
that
shall
lerne
or
see
ony
thynge
in
this
sayd
book
/
by
whiche
they
shal
ben
the
wyser
&
better
/
that
they
gyue
laude
&
thankyng
to
the
sayd
ladyes
good
grace
/
and
also
to
praye
for
her
/
And
where
as
ony
defaulte
shalle
be
founde
in
the
reducynge
and
translatynge
in
to
our
Englysshe
tongue
/
that
it
be
arrettid
to
me
whiche
am
Ignoraunt
and
not
expert
in
the
werke
though
so
be
that
I
haue
emprysed
here
to fore
to
smatre
me
in
suche
translacions
whiche
I
confesse
and
knowleche
me
ignoraunt
and
therin
to
be
Imperfect
/
wherfore
I
humbly
requyre
and
byseche
my
sayd
good
lady
to
pardonne
me
of
my
symple
and
rude
reducynge
/
And
yf
ony
thynge
be
sayd
or
made
vnto
her
playsyre
/
than
I
thynke
my
labour
wel
employed
/
whome
I
humbly
byseche
to
receyue
this
lytel
book
in
gree
&
thanke
/
&
I
shalle
pray
to
almyghty
god
for
her
longe
and
good
lyf
/
and
to
send
to
her
after
this
shorte
and
transytory
lyf
euerlastyng
lyf
in
heuen
Amen
/
And
alle
other
that
be
vnderstandyng
&
fyndyng
ony
defaute
/
I
requyre
&
pray
them
of
theyre
charyte
to
correcte
and
amende
hit
/
and
so
doyng
they
shal
deserue
thanke
and
meryte
of
god
/
to
whome
I
shalle
pray
for
them
/
Here
foloweth
the
table
of
the
Rubryshes
and
the
chapytres
of
the
booke
of
th
enseygnementes
and
techynge
that
the
knyght
of
the
Towre
made
to
his
doughters
-
How
god
ought
to
be
honoured
to
fore
al
other
thynges
/
Capitulo
Primo
-
What
sholde
be
done
whanne
one
is
fyrst
waked
/
capitulo
ij
-
Of
th
emperours
doughters
one
synfull
/
and
that
other
deuoute
/
capitulo
iij
-
How
the
dede
folke
shalle
be
prayd
fore
/
Capitulo
iiij
-
How
the
matyns
and
prayers
shold
be
sayd
/
Capitulo
v
-
How
yonge
ladyes
ought
to
doo
abstynence
and
faste
/
ca
/
vj
-
How
yong
ladyes
ought
to
faste
tyll
they
be
maryed
ca
/
vij
-
Of
a
woman
of
folye
that
fylle
in
a
pytte
/
capitulo
viij
-
Of
her
that
deyde
and
durst
not
confesse
her
synne
/
capitulo
ix
-
How
wymmen
ought
to
mayntene
them
curtoysly
/
Capitulo
x
-
How
wymmen
ought
not
to
cast
her
hedes
here
and
there
ca
/
xj
-
How
two
th
oldest
doughters
of
the
kyng
of
denmarke
lost
theyre
maryage
/
for
theyr
fowle
maners
/
Capitulo
xij
-
How
the
doughter
of
the
kyng
of
aragon
lost
her
maryage
/
ca
xiij
-
Of
them
that
ben
chydars
and
brawlers
/
Capitulo
xiiij
-
Of
her
that
ete
the
ele
/
and
plucked
of
the
fethers
of
the
pye
/
Capitulo
xv
-
How
wymmen
ought
not
to
be
Ialous
/
Capitulo
xvj
-
How
a
woman
ought
not
to
stryue
with
her
husbond
ca
xvij
-
How
a
woman
sprange
vpon
the
table
/
capitulo
xviij
-
Of
the
woman
that
gaf
the
flesshe
to
her
houndes
/
capitulo
xix
-
Of
them
that
take
fyrst
newe
guyses
/
capitulo
xx
-
How
men
ought
not
to
stryue
ageynste
them
that
ben
langagagenrs
and
full
of
wordes
/
capitulo
xxj
-
Of
thre
ladyes
that
araysoned
boussycault
/
capitulo
xxij
-
Of
thre
ladyes
that
accuseden
one
knyght
/
Capitulo
xxiij
-
Of
them
that
gladly
gone
to
festes
and
Ioustes
/
ca
/
xxiiij
-
Of
them
that
wyl
not
were
theyr
good
clothes
on
hyhe
festes
and
holy
dayes
/
Capitulo
xxv
-
Of
the
suster
of
saynt
Bernard
whiche
came
to
see
hym
in
grete
araye
/
capitulo
/
xxvj
-
Of
them
that
playe
and
Iape
at
the
masse
/
ca
/
xxvij
-
An
Ensample
that
happed
at
the
masse
of
saynt
Martyn
/
Capitulo
xxviij
-
Of
a
knyght
that
caused
al
the
towne
to
lose
theyr
masse
where
as
he
dwellyd
/
capitulo
xxix
-
Of
a
lady
that
dispended
the
fourth
parte
of
the
day
for
to
araye
her
/
Capitulo
xxxo.
-
How
the
sacrament
sprange
in
to
the
mouthe
of
an
hooly
lady
/
Capitulo
xxxjo.
-
Of
a
Countesse
that
herd
euery
day
thre
masses
/
capo.
xxxij
-
Of
a
yonge
amerous
lady
&
of
an
esquyer
/
capitulo
xxxiij
-
Yet
of
the
same
/
Capitulo
xxxiiij
-
Of
the
man
and
woman
that
made
fornycacion
within
the
Chirche
/
capitulo
xxxv
-
Of
a
Monke
that
made
fornycacion
in
his
abbay
/
capo.
xxxvj
-
Of
the
vyces
that
renne
and
ben
in
many
/
capitulo
xxxvij
-
Of
the
good
condycions
that
ben
in
dyuers
and
many
maners
amonge
folke
/
Capitulo
xxxviij
-
An
Ensample
of
Eue
our
fyrst
moder
/
capitulo
xxxix
-
Of
the
second
folye
of
Eue
/
capitulo
xl
-
Of
the
thyrd
folye
of
Eue
/
capitulo
xlj
-
Of
the
fourthe
folye
of
Eue
/
capitulo
xlij
-
Of
the
fyfthe
folye
of
Eue
/
capitulo
xliij
-
Of
the
sixthe
folye
of
Eue
/
capitulo
xliiij
-
The
seuenth
foly
of
Eue
/
Capo.
xlvᵒ.
-
Of
the
eyght
folye
of
Eue
capo.
/
xlvjo.
-
The
nynthe
folye
of
Eue
/
capo.
xlvijᵒ.
-
How
an
holy
Bisshop
reprysed
/
and
taught
many
ladyes
/
Capitulo
/
xlviijo.
-
How
yong
ladyes
were
scorned
&
mocked
of
the
old
&
auncyent
ladyes
/
Capitulo
xlixo.
-
Yet
of
the
same
/
Capitulo
lo.
-
Of
the
good
knyght
that
had
thre
wyues
/
&
of
their
lyues
/
cap
/
ljo.
-
Of
the
second
wyf
/
capo.
lijᵒ.
-
Of
the
thyrd
wyf
of
the
knyght
/
capo.
/
liijo.
-
Of
a
lady
that
blanked
and
popped
her
/
capo.
/
liiijo.
-
Of
the
wyf
of
loth
that
brake
the
comaundement
of
god
capo.
lv
-
Of
the
doughter
of
Iacob
that
lost
her
maydenhede
/
capo.
lvjᵒ.
-
Of
Thamar
that
had
company
with
her
husbondes
fader
cao.
lvij
-
Of
Ioseph
that
wold
not
haue
company
with
the
quene
/
capo.
lviij
-
Of
the
doughters
of
Moab
/
of
whome
the
euyll
lygnage
yssued
/
Capitulo
lix
-
Of
the
Iewe
and
a
paynym
/
that
brocked
wyth
a
swerd
to
gydre
/
capo.
lx
-
How
none
ought
to
abyde
allone
in
a
place
/
capo.
lxiᵒ.
-
Of
a
roper
or
maker
of
cordes
/
&
of
a
fatte
pryour
/
capo.
lxijᵒ.
-
Of
Apomena
quene
of
Surrye
/
capo.
lxiij
-
Of
the
quene
Vastis
/
capo.
lxiiij
-
Of
Amon
and
of
his
wyf
/
capo.
lxv
-
Of
the
quene
Gesabel
whiche
had
many
euyll
condycions
/
capitulo
/
lxvjo.
-
Of
Athalia
quene
of
Ierusalem
/
capitulo
lxvijo.
-
Of
Enuye
/
capitulo
lxviij
-
Of
the
stryf
bytwene
Fenenna
and
Anne
/
Capitulo
lxixo.
-
Of
Dalida
Sampsons
wyf
/
capitulo
lxxo.
-
How
a
woman
ought
not
to
departe
ne
goo
fro
her
husbond
/
for
ony
wrath
or
angre
that
may
come
bytwene
them
/
cao.
lxxj
-
How
a
woman
ought
to
obeye
to
her
lord
or
her
husbond
in
alle
thynges
honest
/
capitulo
/
lxxijo.
-
How
men
ought
to
kepe
them self
fro
flaterers
/
capo.
/
lxxiijo.
-
How
a
woman
ought
in
no
wyse
discouere
ne
telle
the
secretes
of
her
husbond
/
for
ouer
many
peryls
/
capo.
/
lxxiiijo.
-
How
euery
good
woman
ought
to
enhorte
her
husbond
to
serue
god
with
grete
deuocion
/
capitulo
lxxv
-
How
a
woman
ought
not
to
requyre
of
her
husbond
ony
thyng
/
but
it
be
honest
&
prouffytable
to
them
bothe
/
ca
/
lxxvijo.
-
The
demaunde
or
askyng
that
the
moder
of
Salamon
made
capitulo
lxxvij
-
The
Iugement
of
kynge
Salamon
/
capitulo
lxxviijo.
-
How
the
synne
of
the
faders
is
noious
to
the
Children
/
capitulo
lxxix
-
How
none
ought
to
repreue
other
of
his
meschyef
/
cap
/
lxxxo.
-
Of
Herodias
the
cursyd
and
euylle
woman
/
whiche
caused
the
hede
of
saynt
Iohan
to
be
smyton
of
/
capitulo
lxxxjo.
-
Of
the
noble
woman
Sara
/
whiche
kepte
her self
full
clenely
/
capitulo
lxxxij
-
Of
the
valyaunt
lady
Rebecca
the
wyf
of
Isaac
/
ca
/
lxxxiij
-
How
the
faders
and
moders
ought
to
praye
for
theyr
children
/
capitulo
lxxxiiijo.
-
How
men
ought
to
sette
and
put
theyr
children
in
the
wylle
of
god
/
capitulo
lxxxv
-
Of
Charyte
/
Capitulo
lxxxvjo.
-
How
a
bienfaytte
done
for
the
loue
of
god
is
rendryd
of
god
an
honderd
fold
gretter
/
capitulo
lxxxvij
-
How
he
that
wyll
praye
god
must
do
abstynence
/
ca
/
lxxxviij
-
How
men
ought
to
sette
and
put
theyr
children
to
scole
/
Capitulo
lxxxix
-
Th
ensample
of
the
noble
lady
Ruth
/
capitulo
lxxxxᵒ.
-
How
euery
good
woman
ought
to
ansuere
for
her
lord
in
al
thynge
/
capitulo
lxxxxj
-
How
a
good
woman
ought
to
pease
the
yre
of
her
husbond
whan
she
seeth
hym
wrothe
/
capitulo
lxxxxij
-
An
ensample
of
the
Quene
of
Saba
/
and
of
the
kyng
Salamon
/
capitulo
lxxxxiij
-
How
it
is
good
to
acqueynte
hym self
with
holy
men
Capitulo
lxxxxiiij
-
How
no
woman
ought
not
to
chyde
ne
brawle
with
folke
that
ben
brawlers
/
capitulo
lxxxxv
-
How
no
good
woman
ought
to
ansuere
to
her
husbond
whanne
he
is
wrothe
/
Capitulo
lxxxxvjo.
-
How
god
taketh
in
his
kepynge
them
that
haue
affyaunce
and
trust
in
hym
/
Capitulo
lxxxxvij
-
How
a
good
lady
oughte
to
loue
and
drede
and
also
bere
feythe
vnto
her
husbond
/
capitulo
lxxxxviij
-
How
men
ought
bewaylle
and
wepe
for
theyre
synnes
and
mysdedes
/
Capitulo
lxxxxix
-
This
chapyter
sheweth
how
be
it
that
a
woman
haue
an
euyl
and
felon
husbond
/
Neuertheles
she
ought
not
therfore
leue
the
sernyse
of
god
/
Capitulo
C
-
How
it
is
good
to
herberowe
and
receyue
in
his
hows
the
seruauntes
and
mynystres
of
god
/
Capitulo
/
Cj
-
Of
a
burgeyses
wyf
/
whiche
wold
neuer
pardonne
her
euylle
wylle
to
her
neyghbour
/
wherfore
she
was
dampned
/
ca
/
Cij
-
Of
them
whiche
ought
to
come
to
theyr
carnal
frendes
in
what
someuer
estate
they
be
/
Capitulo
Ciij
-
Of
a
good
knyght
whiche
fought
ageynst
a
fals
knyghte
for
the
pyte
of
a
mayde
/
capitulo
Ciiij
-
Of
the
thre
Maryes
whiche
came
to
the
sepul●re
so
erly
/
Capitulo
〈◊〉
-
Th
example
of
the
folysshe
vyrgyns
/
and
also
of
the
〈◊〉
prudente
vyrgyns
/
Capitulo
〈◊〉
-
Of
the
gloryous
and
blessyd
vyrgyne
Marye
/
capi●●●●
〈◊〉
-
How
euery
good
women
ought
to
be
meke
and
〈◊〉
th
example
of
the
blessyd
vyrgyne
Marye
/
capitulo
〈◊〉
-
How
euery
good
woman
ought
to
be
pyteous
by
〈◊〉
of
oure
blessyd
lady
Marye
/
capitulo
〈◊〉
-
How
wymmen
ought
to
be
charytable
by
th
example
of
〈◊〉
lady
/
capitulo
〈◊〉
-
Of
the
quene
Iane
of
Fraunce
/
capitulo
〈◊〉
-
Example
of
good
ladyes
of
the
tyme
presente
/
capitulo
〈◊〉
-
How
a
woman
ought
not
to
marye
her self
without
〈…〉
ceylle
of
her
parentes
and
Frendes
/
capitulo
〈◊〉
-
How
euery
good
woman
ought
wel
to
kepe
her
renommee
/
capitulo
〈◊〉
-
How
th
auncyent
were
wonte
to
lerne
the
yonge
/
ca
/
〈◊〉
-
How
hit
was
wonte
to
departe
the
dyffamed
wymmen
〈◊〉
felauship
&
companye
of
the
good
and
trewe
/
capitulo
〈◊〉
-
How
before
this
tyme
men
punysshed
them
that
were
dyffamed
/
Capitulo
〈◊〉
-
How
god
compareth
the
good
wymmen
to
the
precious
perle
or
Margaryte
/
capitulo
Cxvi●●
-
How
a
doughter
of
a
knyght
lost
her
maryage
/
capitulo
Cx●●
-
How
loue
wylle
be
kepte
warme
/
capitulo
C●●
-
Of
the
louysshe
loue
whiche
surprysed
and
ouercame
the
ga●loys
&
galoyses
/
wherof
many
deyde
for
cold
/
capitulo
Cxxj
-
The
argument
of
the
knyght
of
the
toure
&
his
wyf
/
ca
/
Cxxij
-
The
ansuere
whiche
the
lady
of
the
Toure
made
to
her
lord
/
Capitulo
Cxxiij
-
How
a
woman
ought
not
to
here
the
wordes
or
talkynge
of
hym
that
requyreth
her
of
loue
/
capitulo
Cxxiiij
-
How
the
knyght
ansuereth
to
his
wyf
/
capitulo
Cxxv
-
How
a
man
ought
to
loue
after
his
estate
&
degre
/
ca
/
Cxxvjo.
-
How
wedded
wymmen
that
sette
theyre
loue
to
somme
of
lower
degree
than
they
be
of
/
be
not
worthy
to
be
callyd
wymmen
/
capitulo
/
Cxxvijo.
-
How
it
is
almesse
to
enhaunce
a
man
in
to
grete
valoyr
/
capitulo
Cxxviij
-
Th
ansuer
of
the
lady
of
the
Toure
/
capitulo
Cxxix
-
How
a
woman
that
wyl
kepe
her
honour
maye
shewe
no
maner
of
semblaunt
of
folye
/
capitulo
Cxxx
-
How
a
knyght
loued
the
lady
of
the
Toure
/
capo.
Cxxxjo.
-
Yet
speketh
the
knyght
of
the
Towre
/
capitulo
Cxxxij
-
How
one
must
be
wyly
and
subtyll
for
to
discouere
his
loue
/
capitulo
Cxxxiijo.
-
How
an
holy
lady
proued
an
Heremyte
/
capitulo
Cxxxiiij
-
How
the
deuylle
tempteth
one
in
the
synne
that
he
fyndeth
hym
most
enclyned
to
/
capitulo
Cxxxv
-
An
Ensample
of
a
good
wydowe
/
capitulo
Cxxxvjo.
-
The
thre
enseygnementes
or
lernynges
/
whiche
Cathon
gaf
to
his
sone
/
capitulo
Cxxxvij
-
The
fyrst
and
the
second
enseygnement
/
capitulo
Cxxxviij
-
The
thyrd
enseygnement
/
capitulo
/
Cxxxix
-
How
Cathonet
after
that
he
had
done
ageynst
the
two
commaundements
of
his
fader
/
essayed
the
thyrd
on
his
wyf
capitulo
Cxl
-
How
Cathonet
shold
haue
ben
hanged
/
capitulo
Cxlj
-
How
themperours
sone
came
to
saue
his
mayster
Cathonet
/
capitulo
Cxlij
-
How
Cathonet
escaped
/
Capitulo
Cxliij
-
How
Cathonet
exposed
his
aduenture
/
capitulo
Cxliiij
Explicit
Here
begynneth
the
book
whiche
the
knyght
of
the
toure
made
/
And
speketh
of
many
fayre
ensamples
and
th
ensygnementys
and
techyng
of
his
doughters
Prologue
IN
the
yere
of
oure
lord
a·
M
/
thre
honderd
/
〈◊〉
/
as
I
was
in
a
gardyn
vnder
a
shadowe
/
as
it
were
in
th
yssue
of
Aprylle
/
all
moornyng
and
pensyf
/
But
a
lytel
I
reioysed
me
in
the
sowne
and
songe
of
the
fowles
sauuage
/
whiche
songe
in
theyr
langage
/
as
the
Merle
/
the
Manys
the
thrustell
/
and
the
nyghtyngale
/
whiche
were
gay
/
and
lusty
/
This
swete
songe
enlustyed
me
/
and
made
myn
herte
all
tem●ye
/
So
that
thenne
I
wente
remembryng
of
the
tyme
passed
in
〈◊〉
youthe
/
How
loue
hadde
holde
me
in
that
tyme
in
his
se●uye●
b●
grete
distresse
/
In
whiche
I
was
many
an
houre
gladde
/
and
ioyeful
/
and
many
another
tyme
sorowful
/
lyke
as
it
〈◊〉
to
many
a
louer
/
But
alle
myn
euylles
●aue
rewarded
me
.
Sythe
that
the
fayre
and
good
hath
gyuen
to
me
/
whiche
hath
knowleche
of
alle
honoure
/
alle
good
/
and
fayre
mayntenyng
/
And
of
alle
good
she
semed
me
the
best
and
the
floure·
In
whom●
I
so
moche
me
delyt●d
/
For
in
that
tyme
I
made
songes
/
layes
.
Roundels
balades
/
Vyrelayes
/
and
newe
songes
in
the
mooste
best
wyse
I
coude
/
But
the
deth
.
whiche
spareth
none
hath
taken
her
/
For
whome
I
haue
receyued
many
sorowes
and
heuynesses
In
suche
wyse
that
I
haue
passed
my
lyf
more
than
twenty
yere
heuy
and
sorowfull
/
For
the
very
herte
of
a
trewe
louer
shall
neuer
in
ony
tyme
ne
day
forgete
good
loue
/
but
euermore
shal
remembre
it
/
And
thus
in
that
tyme
as
I
was
in
a
grete
pensyfnes
/
and
thought
I
beholde
in
the
way
/
and
sawe
my
doughters
comyng
/
Of
whome
I
hadde
grete
desyre
that
they
shold
torne
to
honoure
aboue
alle
other
thyng
/
For
they
ben
yong
&
●itil
/
&
dysgarnysshed
of
al
wytte
&
reson
/
wherfor
they
ought
at
begynnyng
to
be
taught
&
chastysed
curtoisly
by
good
ensamples
&
docerynes
as
dide
a
quene
I
suppose
she
was
quene
of
hongry
/
whiche
fayre
and
swetely
chastysed
hel
doughters
/
and
them
endoctryned
as
is
conteyned
in
her
book
/
And
therfor
when
I
saw
them
come
toward
me
/
I
remembryd
me
of
the
tyme
when
I
was
yong
and
roode
with
my
felauship
and
companyes
in
poytou
/
and
in
other
places
/
And
I
remembre
me
moche
wel
of
the
fayttes
and
sayenges
/
that
they
told
of
suche
thynges
/
as
they
fond
with
the
ladyes
and
damoyselles
/
that
they
requyred
and
prayd
of
loue
/
And
yf
one
wold
not
entende
to
theyr
prayer
/
yet
another
wold
requyre
withoute
abydyng
/
And
though
so
were
that
they
had
good
or
euyll
answers
/
of
al
that
they
rought
not
/
For
they
had
neyther
dirde
ne
shame
/
so
moche
were
they
endurate
and
acustomed
/
And
were
moche
wel
bespoken
/
and
had
fayre
langage
For
many
tymes
they
wold
haue
oueral
deduyte
/
And
thus
they
〈◊〉
no
thyng
but
deceyue
good
ladyes
/
and
damoysellys
.
and
be●●
ouerall
the
tydynges
/
somme
trewe
/
and
somme
lesynges
/
Wherof
there
happed
many
tymes
.
iniuryes
/
and
many
vylayno●●
diffames
withoute
cause
and
withoute
reason
/
And
in
alle
the
world
is
no
gretter
treson
/
than
for
to
deceyue
gentyll
wymmen
/
ne
to
encrece
ony
vylaynous
blame
/
For
many
ben
deceyued
by
the
grete
othes·
that
they
vse
/
wherof
I
debate
me
oftyme
with
them
.
And
saye
to
them
/
ye
ouer
false
men
/
how
may
the
god
〈◊〉
suffre
yow
to
lyue
/
that
soo
oftymes
ye
periure
and
forswere
〈◊〉
sel●
/
For
ye
hold
no
feythe
/
But
none
putt
hit
in
araye
/
by
〈◊〉
they
be
so
moche
and
so
ful
of
disaraye
/
And
by
cause
I
〈◊〉
that
tyme
soo
ledde
and
disposed
/
yet
I
doute
me
that
somme
〈◊〉
suche
in
this
tyme
present
/
Therfore
I
concluded
that
I
wold
〈◊〉
make
a
lytel
booke
/
wherin
I
wold
doo
be
wreton
the
good
maners
and
good
dedes
of
good
ladyes
and
wymmen
/
and
of
theyr
lyues
/
soo
that
for
theyr
vertues
and
bountees
they
ben
honoured
/
And
that
after
theyr
dethe
ben
renommed
and
preysed
and
shal
be
vnto
the
ende
of
the
worlde
for
to
take
of
them
good
ensample
and
contenaunce
/
And
also
by
the
contrarye
I
shall
doo
wryte
and
set
in
a
book
the
myshappe
and
vyces
of
euylle
wymmen
/
whiche
haue
vsyd
theyr
lyf
/
and
now
haue
blame
/
To
the
ende
/
that
the
euylle
maye
bee
eschewed
·
by
whiche
they
myght
erre
/
Whiche
yet
ben
blamed
/
shamed
/
and
dyffamed
/
And
for
this
cause
that
I
haue
here
sayd
/
I
haue
thought
on
my
wel
bylouyd
dough●ers·
whome
I
see
so
lytel
to
make
to
them
a
litil
book
/
for
to
lerne
to
rede
/
to
th
ende
that
they
maye
lerne
and
studye
/
&
vnderstode
the
good
and
euylle
that
is
passyd
/
for
to
kepe
them
fro
hym
/
whiche
is
yet
to
come
/
For
suche
ther
be
that
lawgheth
to fore
yow
/
whiche
after
youre
back
goo
mockyng
and
lyeng
/
Wherfor
it
is
an
hard
thyng
to
knowe
the
world
that
is
now
present
/
And
for
these
resons
as
I
haue
sayd
I
went
oute
of
the
gardyn
/
and
fond
in
my
weye
two
〈◊〉
and
two
clerkes
that
I
hadde
/
and
tolde
to
them·
that
I
wolde
make
a
book
and
an
examplayre
for
my
doughters
to
〈…〉
and
vnderstonde
/
how
they
ought
to
gouerne
them
〈…〉
kepe
them
from
euylle
/
And
thenne
I
made
them
to
〈…〉
before
me
the
book
of
the
byble
.
the
gestes
of
the
kyng
〈…〉
of
fraunce
and
of
Englond
/
/
and
many
other
〈◊〉
historyes
/
and
made
them
to
rede
euery
book
/
And
dyde
doo
mak●
of
them
this
book
.
whiche
I
wold
not
set
in
ryme
but
al
〈◊〉
in
prose
for
to
abredge
/
and
also
for
the
better
to
be
vnderstonde●
And
also
for
the
grete
loue
that
I
haue
to
my
doughters
〈◊〉
I
loue
/
as
a
fader
ought
to
loue
them
/
And
thenne
myn
〈◊〉
shal
haue
parfyte
ioye
.
yf
they
torne
to
good
and
to
honoure
〈◊〉
is
to
serue
and
loue
god
/
and
to
haue
the
loue
and
the
grace
〈…〉
neyghbours
/
and
of
the
world
/
And
by
cause
euery
〈…〉
moder
after
god
and
nature
ought
to
teche
&
enforme
their
children
and
to
distourne
them
fro
the
euyll
waye
/
and
to
shewe
〈◊〉
them
the
right
weye
and
true
pathe
/
as
wel
for
the
sa●a●cion
of
theyr
sowles
/
as
for
t
honoure
of
the
body
〈…〉
haue
made
two
bookes
/
that
one
for
my
sonnes
/
and
that
●ther
for
my
doughters
for
to
lerne
to
rede
/
And
thus
in
lernynge
〈◊〉
shalle
not
be
/
but
that
they
shalle
reteyne
somme
good
ensample
/
or
for
to
flee
the
euylle
and
reteyne
the
good
.
For
it
may
not
be
but
in
somtyme
they
shal
remembre
somme
good
ensample
or
som
good
lore
after
that
hit
shalle
falle
/
and
come
to
theyr
mynde
in
spekyng
vpon
this
matere
/
Thus
endeth
the
prologue
Here
foloweth
the
book
of
th
ensygnemens
and
techynges
of
the
knyght
of
the
Toure
/
And
first
how
god
ought
to
be
honoured
aboue
all
thynges
/
Capitulo
primo
IT
is
moche
fayre
and
ryght
a
noble
thyng
for
to
see
and
beholde
th
auncyent
hystoryes
/
whiche
haue
ben
wreton
of
oure
predecessours
/
for
to
shewe
to
vs
good
ensamples
/
and
to
aduertyse
vs
how
we
may
see
the
good
dedes·
that
they
fo●owed
/
and
t
eschewe
the
euyll
as
may
be
sent
/
that
they
eschewed
/
Thenne
I
shalle
speke
/
and
saye
to
them
thus
/
My
ryght
dere
doughters
for
as
moche
as
I
am
old
/
and
〈◊〉
I
haue
sene
the
world
more
lenger
than
ye
haue
/
I
shall
〈◊〉
to
yow
a
partye
of
the
world
after
my
seyence
/
whiche
is
n●t
〈◊〉
grete
/
B●t
the
grete
loue
that
I
haue
to
yow
/
And
the
〈…〉
I
haue
/
that
ye
torne
youre
hertes
and
youre
though●●
〈◊〉
god
/
and
to
serue
hym
/
by
whiche
ye
may
gete
wele
and
〈…〉
in
this
world
and
in
that
other
/
For
certeynly
al
the
〈…〉
honoure
/
and
al
thoneste
of
man
and
of
woman
〈…〉
and
of
the
grace
of
his
hooly
spyryte
/
And
also
gyue●●
〈◊〉
and
shorte
in
worldly
and
erthely
thynges
/
suche
as
〈…〉
hym
/
For
alle
thyng
falleth
at
his
playsyre
and
〈◊〉
And
also
gyueth
for
all
suche
we
le
and
seruyce
as
is
〈…〉
an
honderd
fold
double
/
And
therfore
my
right
dere
〈…〉
is
good
to
serue
suche
a
lord
.
whiche
rewarded
an
honderd
〈…〉
/
How
the
matyns
and
houres
ought
to
be
said
/
Capitulo
〈◊〉
aNd
by
cause
that
the
fyrst
werke
&
labour
that
man
or
woman
ought
to
doo
/
is
for
to
ad●ure
and
worshipe
oure
lord
/
and
saye
his
seruyse
/
That
is
to
vnderstande
/
that
as
soone
as
he
awaketh
/
he
ought
to
know
le●●che
hym
for
his
lord
and
maker
/
and
hym self
to
be
his
creature
That
is
to
wete·
to
saye
his
matyns
/
houres
and
his
orys●ns
▪
yf
he
be
a
clerk
and
to
rendre
and
yelde
to
hym
thankynges
and
●●●synges
/
As
to
say
/
laudate
dominum
omnes
genc●s
Benedicamus
patrem
et
filium
cum
sancto
spiritu
/
or
suche
o●●er
thynges
as
yelde
&
gyue
thankynges
&
preysynges
vnto
god
.
For
it
is
a
gretter
thyng
to
thanke
and
blysse
oure
lord
god
/
than
to
re●uy●●e
&
demaunde
hym
/
For
requeste
/
demaunde
/
yefte
of
guerdon
&
th●nkynges
/
and
to
yelde
preysynges
is
th●ffyce
of
angels
▪
which
alwey
gyue
thankynges
/
honoure
/
and
preysyng
vnto
god
/
for
it
is
better
to
thanke
god
/
than
to
requyre
hym
/
by
cause
he
knoweth
better
what
is
good
for
a
man
or
a
woman
than
they
wote
them self
/
After
we
ought
to
praye
for
them
/
that
ben
dede
to fore
we
goo
to
slepe
/
And
also
the
dede
men
praye
for
them
/
that
praye
for
hem
/
And
also
forgete
not
the
blessid
and
swete
Vyrgyne
Marye
/
whiche
nyght
and
day
prayeth
for
vs
/
And
also
to
recommaunde
yow
to
the
hooly
sayntes
of
heuen
/
And
when
this
is
done
/
thenne
maye
ye
well
goo
slepe
/
For
this
ought
to
be
done
as
ofte
as
ye
awake
Of
twoo
doughters
of
the
Emperoure
that
one
synfull
And
that
other
deuoute
/
Capitulo
Tercio
IT
is
conteyned
in
t
hystorye
of
Constantynople
.
that
an
Emperour
hadde
two
doughters
/
Of
whome
the
yongest
was
of
good
maners
and
loued
god
/
and
honoured
&
prayd
to
hym
alwey
when
she
awoke
/
and
moche
deuoutely
pra●●
for
the
sowles
of
them
that
were
dede
/
And
these
two
yong
〈…〉
lay
bothe
in
one
bedde
/
And
whan
the
oldest
awoke
/
and
〈◊〉
her
suster
saye
her
prayers
/
she
mocked
and
scorned
her
/
〈◊〉
said
to
her
that
she
letred
her
to
slepe
/
Thenne
it
happed
that
youthe
and
the
grete
ease
that
they
hadde
ben
norysshed
in
/
〈◊〉
them
to
loue
two
knyghtes
bretheren
/
whiche
were
twoo
goodly
men
and
moche
gentyll
/
And
so
long
endured
theyr
playsyre
and
loue
that
they
discouered
eche
to
her
loue
the
secrete
of
their
amerous
desyre
/
in
soo
moche
that
they
sett
a
certeyne
houre
to
these
knyghtes
for
to
come
to
them
pryuely
by
nyght
/
And
when
he
that
shold
come
to
the
yonger
/
supposyd
to
haue
entryd
within
the
Courteyns
/
hym
semed
that
he
sawe
moo
than
a
thousand
men
in
sudaryes
lyke
dede
men
/
whiche
were
aboute
the
damoysell
he
hadde
so
grete
fere
and
hydoure
.
that
he
was
al
affrayed
/
Wherof
he
tooke
the
feures
/
and
was
seke
in
his
bedde
/
But
to
that
other
knyght
if
happed
no
thyng
so
.
for
he
gate
the
oldest
doughter
of
the
emperoure
with
child
·
And
whan
the
Emperoure
knewe
that
she
was
grete
with
child
/
he
made
her
to
be
drowned
in
a
nyght
/
&
dyd
do
the
knyght
to
be
flayn
al
quyck
.
Thus
for
this
false
delyte
they
deyde
both
twe●n
/
But
that
other
doughter
was
saued
lyke
as
I
haue
said
&
shall
saye
/
when
it
cam
on
the
morn
it
was
said
oueral
/
that
the
knyght
was
seke
in
his
bedde
/
Thenne
she
for
whome
he
tooke
his
maladye
wente
for
to
see
hym
/
And
he
told
to
her
all
the
trouthe
/
how
when
he
supposid
to
haue
entrid
within
the
courteyns
/
he
sawe
a
merueylous
grete
nombre
of
dede
men
in
sudaryes
/
aboute
her
/
Of
whome
he
said
/
I
had
so
grete
drede
and
hydoure
/
that
I
was
taken
with
th
accesse
or
feures
/
and
also
was
al
moost
oute
of
my
wytte
for
fere
/
and
yet
am
all
affrayed
/
And
when
the
damoysel
herd
the
trouthe
/
she
was
mer●●ueylously
ioyeful
/
and
thanked
god
moche
humbly
/
whiche
〈◊〉
saued
her
fro
perisshyng
and
dishonoure
/
And
from
than
〈◊〉
on
/
she
worshyped
and
prayed
god
alwey
when
she
a
〈◊〉
And
praid
moche
deuoutely
for
all
Crysten
sowles
more
〈◊〉
fore
/
and
kepte
her
chastly
and
clene
/
And
it
was
〈…〉
that
a
grete
kyng
of
grece
desyred
and
demaunded
her
〈…〉
to
haue
her
in
maryage
/
And
her
fader
gafe
her
to
〈…〉
was
after
a
good
lady
and
deuoute
/
and
of
moche
〈…〉
/
Thus
was
she
saued
for
prayeng
to
god
/
and
〈…〉
hym
/
and
also
for
prayeng
for
them
that
ben
dede
/
And
〈…〉
suster
/
that
scorned
and
mocked
her
/
was
dr●wned
and
●●●●●noured
/
And
therfore
my
dere
doughters
remembre
yow
〈◊〉
this
example
alwey
whan
ye
awake
/
And
slepe
not
ageyne
〈◊〉
that
ye
haue
praid
for
them
that
ben
departed
oute
of
this
〈◊〉
lyke
as
dyde
the
doughter
of
the
emperour
/
And
yet
〈◊〉
wolde
wel
that
ye
shold
knowe
th
ensample
of
a
Damoyselle
whiche
a
greete
lord
wold
haue
for
fayre
or
fowle
for
to
accom●plysshe
his
fowle
playsyr
and
delyte
How
we
ought
to
praye
for
them
that
ben
dede
Capitulo
quarto
IT
happed
in
suche
wyse
/
that
this
lord
dyd
do
espye
/
where
as
this
Damoyselle
was
entred
in
to
an
hoole
where
as
she
entrid
&
rested
there
for
drede
of
hym
/
that
was
in
a
busshe
/
And
she
sayd
vygylles
for
the
dede
men
/
And
this
grete
lord
entryd
in
to
the
hoole
●
And
sawe
her
there
/
And
wende
anone
to
haue
accomplyss●yd
his
fowle
delyte
/
But
when
he
supposed
to
haue
taken
her
/
hym
semed
that
he
sawe
more
than
ten
thousand
prysonners
buryed
that
kepte
her
/
And
had
of
them
so
grete
fere
and
drede
/
that
anon
he
torned
and
fled
/
&
sente
to
her
word
/
that
for
certayne
/
he
wolde
neuer
pursewe
her
more
for
suche
fayte
/
and
that
she
had
ouer
grete
a
companye
that
kepte
her
/
And
after
he
cam
/
and
spak
to
her
and
demaunded
of
her
what
was
the
grete
companye
/
that
was
with
her
/
And
she
said
that
she
knewe
of
no
thyng
at
that
tyme
whan
he
cam
/
sauf
that
thenne
she
said
the
Vygylle
for
them
that
were
deed
/
And
thenne
thought
the
lord
wel
that
they
were
they
that
kepte
her
/
And
therfor
this
is
a
fayre
example
to
praye
for
them
that
ben
departed
oute
of
this
world
at
al
tymes
How
we
ought
to
saye
oure
houres
and
prayers
caᵒ.
/
vᵒ
fAyre
doughters
whan
ye
ryse
oute
of
youre
bedde
/
thenne
entre
in
to
the
seruyse
of
the
hyhe
lord
·
and
begyn
ye
your
matyne
/
This
ought
be
youre
first
werk
/
and
your
firste
labour
/
And
when
ye
shal
say
them·
saye
ye
them
with
good
herte
And
thynke
ye
on
none
other
thyng
yf
ye
may
/
For
ye
may
not
goo
two
weyes
at
ones
/
For
ye
must
goo
that
one
or
that
other
/
Thus
is
it
of
the
seruyce
of
god
/
For
as
the
wyseman
saith
in
sapyence
/
As
moche
auayleth
it
hym
/
that
redeth
&
vnderstondeth
not
/
as
it
doth
to
hym
/
that
hunteth
/
and
taketh
not
/
And
therfore
/
he
that
thynketh
on
erthely
thynges
/
and
seyth
his
Pater
noster·
or
prayers
.
that
toucheth
heuenly
thynges·
doth
a
thyng
that
is
contrary
/
And
it
proufyteth
not
/
it
is
not
but
for
to
mocke
god
And
therfore
saith
the
hooly
scripture
/
that
the
short
prayer
perceth
heuen
.
But
that
is
to
saye
/
that
more
auayleth
a
short
prayer
and
said
with
good
herte
/
and
deuoutely
/
than
a
grete
and
longe
prayer
/
and
to
thynke
on
other
thynges
/
And
when
more
is
said
deuoutely
/
than
is
it
more
worthe
/
and
more
deseruyth
he
meryte
And
yet
seith
the
hooly
scripture
/
that
lyke
as
the
swete
dewe
of
Maye
and
of
Aprylle
pleseth
moche
vnto
the
erthe
/
and
attempreth
it
swetely
in
makyng
to
germyne
and
fructyfye
/
Ryght
so
ben
the
heures
and
prayers
deuoutely
said
playsaunt
to
fore
god
Thenne
ye
shall
fynde
in
many
places
/
and
specially
in
the
legende
of
hooly
confessours·
of
vyrgyns
/
and
of
other
hooly
wymmen
whiche
made
her
beddes
of
hard
and
roughe
thynges
/
and
laye
theron
for
to
slepe
the
lasse
/
&
to
haue
the
lasse
reste
/
For
to
wepe
ofte
/
and
many
tymes
to
wake·
for
to
entre
in
to
prayers
/
and
in
the
seruyce
of
god
/
wherin
they
held
hem
day
and
nyght
/
And
for
that
seruyce
and
laboure
haue
they
goten
/
as
it
is
shewed
openly
to
the
world
/
that
they
ben
in
the
hooly
ioye
with
hym
/
by
that
/
that
he
doth
for
them
euydent
myracles
/
For
thus
god
rewardeth
the
seruyce
that
is
done
to
hym
an
honderd
fold
double
as
I
haue
seid
to
fore
/
And
therfore
fayre
doughters
saye
your
heures
and
prayers
deuoutely·
and
with
good
herte·
without
thy●●kyng
on
ony
other
thynge
/
And
beware
that
ye
breke
not
you
〈◊〉
faste
/
till
that
ye
haue
said
youre
matyns
and
heures
/
For
a
〈◊〉
bely
shal
neuer
be
humble
ne
deuoute
/
Also
see
wel
to
〈…〉
alle
the
masses
that
ye
maye
here
/
For
grete
good
sha●●
〈◊〉
therof·
Wherof
I
shall
saye
an
ensample
of
this
mater●
How
good
doughters
ought
to
faste
/
Capitulo
s●xto
tHere
was
a
knyght
/
that
hadde
two
doughters
〈◊〉
was
by
his
first
wyf
/
And
that
other
/
by
his
second
And
she
that
he
had
by
his
first
wyf
/
was
meruayl●●●ly
deuoute
/
ne
neuer
wold
ete
/
till
that
she
bad
said
all
her
houre●
and
herd
all
the
masses
that
she
myght
here
/
And
that
other
d●●●●ter
was
holden
so
tendyrly
/
and
so
moche
louyd
/
that
she
was
●●●fred
to
haue
alle
her
wylle
/
For
as
soone
as
she
had
herd
a
〈◊〉
masse
/
and
hadde
saide
twoo
or
thre
pater
nostres
/
she
wente
in
to
the
garderobe
/
and
there
ete
a
soupe
or
somme
lycorous
thyng
〈◊〉
sayd
that
her
hede
oke
for
fastyng
/
but
all
this
was
but
an
euylle
customme
/
And
also
when
her
fader
and
moder
were
a
bedde
▪
thenne
must
she
goo
ete
somme
good
morsell·
or
somme
good
〈◊〉
And
this
lyf
ledde
she
/
tyl
she
was
maryed
vnto
a
kynght
whiche
was
wyse
and
subtyle
/
Thenne
it
happed
that
her
lord
knewe
her
manere
/
whiche
was
euyll·
bothe
for
the
body
/
&
the
soule
and
told
/
and
shewed
this
to
her
moche
honestly
and
swetely
many
tymes
/
and
said
she
dyd
euyll
to
vse
suche
a
lyf
but
neuer
shewe
to
leue
it
/
for
faire
spekyng
/
ne
for
thyng
/
that
he
couthe
say
or
doo
Thenne
it
happed
/
that
on
a
nyght
/
he
had
slepte
his
first
slepe
/
And
tasted
beside
hym
/
and
found
her
not
/
wherof
he
was
moch
angry
/
And
aroos
from
his
bed
/
And
cast
aboute
hym
a
furryd
mantell
/
and
entred
in
to
his
garderobe
.
where
as
his
wyf
was
with
his
clerk
/
and
two
of
his
seruauntes·
and
ete
and
played
so
.
that
there
was
a
grete
noyse
/
and
the
men
and
wymmen
●aped
to geder
eche
with
other
/
And
the
lord
that
sawe
all
this
arraye
was
moche
wrothe
and
felle
/
And
helde
a
staf
in
his
honde
for
to
smyte
one
of
his
seruauntes
/
whiche
had
embracid
one
of
the
wymmen
of
the
chambre
/
and
smote
so
sore
that
seruaunt
/
that
a
splynt
sprange
out
of
the
staf
in
to
the
one
eye
of
his
wyf
/
which
was
by
hym
/
in
suche
manere
/
that
by
mysauenture
her
eye
was
smeton
oute
/
and
lost
her
eye
/
And
thus
her
husbond
had
her
in
suche
hate
.
that
he
tooke
his
herte
fro
her
/
and
set
it
in
another
/
in
suche
wyse
that
her
houshold
and
menage
wente
all
to
nought
and
to
perdicion
/
This
happed
by
the
euyl
gouernaunce
of
his
wyf
/
whiche
was
acustommed
to
lyue
dyssolutely
and
disordynately
/
bothe
on
mornynges
/
and
on
euenynges
/
wherof
the
grete
part
of
the
harme
was
here
/
by
cause
she
lost
her
eye
/
and
the
loue
of
her
husbond
/
Thenne
was
she
in
an
euyll
astate
&
moche
lassed
and
lesse
sette
by
of
al
men
that
knewe
her
.
And
therfor
it
is
goode
to
saye
their
houres
/
and
here
al
the
masses
fastyng
·
And
accustomme
them
to
lyue
sobyrly
and
honnestly
/
For
al
cometh
by
accustommaunce
and
vsage
/
as
it
happed
to
her
suster
/
She
vsyd
fro
her
youthe
to
serue
god
/
and
to
goo
to
the
chirche
/
as
for
to
saye
her
matyns
and
houres
deuoutely
/
and
here
alle
the
masses
fastyng
/
And
therfore
it
happed
that
god
rewarded
and
gafe
to
her
a
knyght
ryche
and
puyssaunt
/
And
she
lyued
with
hym
well
and
honestly
.
and
in
good
and
grete
pees
.
And
thenne
it
happed
that
theyr
fader
whiche
was
a
wyse
man
wente
for
to
see
his
two
doughters
/
And
fonde
with
tholder
grete
honours
and
grete
rychesse
/
and
was
receyued
there
moche
honourably
/
And
of
that
other
whiche
had
her
eye
oute
/
he
fond
her
all
oute
of
arraye
And
how
she
had
gouerned
her
nycely
and
wantonly
/
Thenne
it
happed
that
when
he
was
comen
home
ageyne
/
he
recounted
to
his
wyf
/
And
moche
cruelly
repreued
her
/
by
cause
she
had
lost
her
doughter
/
by
cause
she
had
kokered
her
and
norysshed
tendyrly
/
And
that
she
had
gyuen
her
the
reyne
ouerlong
in
suffryng
her
to
do
all
her
wylle
/
wherfore
she
was
in
an
hard
caas
/
And
by
this
ensample
it
is
good
to
serue
god·
&
here
all
the
masses
/
that
maye
be
herd
fastyng
/
And
to
take
on
her
/
honeste
and
sobrenes
of
mete
and
drynke
.
in
due
tyme
/
as
aboute
the
houre
of
tyerce
/
at
myd
day
/
at
souper
at
houre
couenable
/
after
the
tyme
/
For
suche
lyfe
as
ye
haue
vsed
&
mayntened
in
your
youthe
.
ye
wold
mayntene
and
vse
in
your
old
age
How
good
doughters
ought
to
fast
/
till
they
be
maryed
Capitulo
septimo
aLso
my
dere
doughters
/
ye
ought
to
faste
tyll
that
be
maryed
thre
or
foure
dayes
in
the
weke
.
For
〈◊〉
to
adaunte
youre
flesshe
/
that
it
m●ue
not
〈◊〉
/
for
to
kepe
yow
more
clene
and
holyly
in
〈◊〉
of
god
/
Whiche
shal
kepe
and
guerdome
yow
double
/
And
yf
ye
may
not
faste
the
thre
dayes
/
yet
at
the
lest
〈…〉
in
t
honoure
of
the
precious
blood
and
of
the
passion
of
Ihesu
〈◊〉
that
suffred
deth
for
vs
/
And
yf
ye
faste
it
not
to
brede
&
〈◊〉
atte
lest
take
no
thyng
that
suffreth
deth
/
For
it
is
a
moche
〈◊〉
thyng
as
I
haue
herd
telle
of
a
knyght
a
moche
noble
man
〈◊〉
was
in
a
batayle
of
Crysten
men
ageynst
the
sarasyne
/
It
〈◊〉
that
a
Crysten
man
had
his
heede
smyten
of
with
a
〈◊〉
and
spack
after
tyll
that
the
preest
cam
/
and
confessid
hym
/
And
he
demaunded
of
hym
/
for
what
meryte
it
was
that
he
〈◊〉
speke
withoute
the
body
.
And
the
hede
answerd
hym
/
that
no
〈◊〉
ode
dede
was
done
to
god
/
but
that
it
gate
grace
.
And
that
he
〈◊〉
kepte
the
wednesdaye
fro
etyng
of
flesshe
in
t
honoure
of
the
〈◊〉
of
god·
that
was
thenne
sold
/
And
the
frydaye
he
ete
no
〈◊〉
that
suffred
deth
/
And
for
this
seruyce
god
wold
not
that
he
shold
be
dampned
/
ne
that
he
shold
deye
in
dedely
synne
/
wherof
he
was
not
confessid
/
This
is
a
moche
fayre
example
/
and
ought
to
be
remembryd
/
that
suche
thynge
as
suffreth
deth
ought
not
be
eten
on
the
fryday
/
And
also
my
faire
doughters
/
it
is
moche
good
to
haste
the
saterday
/
in
t
honoure
of
oure
lady
and
of
her
hooly
vyrgynyte
/
to
th
ende
that
she
gete
grace
for
yow
for
to
kepe
clene
youre
vyrgynyte
and
youre
chastyte
in
the
grace
of
god
.
and
in
the
loue
of
youre
frendes
/
that
none
euyll
temptacions
ouer
maystrye
yow
not
/
And
hit
is
a
grete
vyctory
ageynst
the
flesshe
/
and
a
moche
hooly
thyng
/
And
I
saye
to
yow
for
trouthe
/
that
it
shalle
be
to
yow
a
lyght
thyng
/
yf
ye
acustomme
yow
therin
/
For
it
is
but
acustomaunce
for
to
here
the
masse
/
and
the
seruyce
of
god
/
for
to
saye
your
houres
.
and
to
doo
al
other
hooly
werkes
/
as
haue
done
these
holy
wymmen
/
lyke
as
it
is
conteyned
in
the
legendis
And
in
the
lyues
of
the
sayntes
of
heuen
Of
a
comyn
woman
that
wente
to
see
her
loue
/
and
fylle
in
a
pytte
/
Capitulo
Octauo
tHenne
I
wolde
that
ye
knewe
th
example
of
a
folysshe
woman
that
fasted
the
fryday
/
of
whome
I
shall
telle
to
yow
the
hystorye
/
Ther
was
a
folysshe
woman
in
the
Cyte
of
Rome
/
that
alwey
fasted
the
fryday
in
t
honoure
of
the
passyon
of
swete
Ihesu
Criste·
And
the
saterday
in
t
honoure
of
the
Vyrgynyte
of
oure
lady
/
And
alwey
these
two
dayes
she
kepte
surely·
Hit
happed
on
a
nyght
that
she
went
to
ward
her
loue
/
wh●n
it
was
derk
/
And
sodenly
or
she
was
ware
/
she
felle
in
to
a
pytte·
whiche
was
twenty
fadom
depe
/
And
as
she
was
fallyng
/
she
escryed
with
an
hyhe
voys
/
lady
helpe
/
and
she
fylle
vpon
the
water
/
and
fond
it
hard
as
a
plank
.
And
there
cam
a
voys
to
her
that
saide
/
in
t
honoure
of
the
vyrgyn
Marye
/
and
of
her
sone
for
whome
thou
hast
fasted
/
thou
art
saued
/
And
fro
hensforche
kepe
thy
body
clene
fro
the
synne
of
thy
flesshe
/
And
on
the
morn
peple
cam
for
to
drawe
water
/
and
fond
the
woman
in
the
pytte
oute
wherof
anone
she
was
drawen
vp
/
and
lete
goo
/
And
the
peple
merueyled
moche
how
she
was
saued
/
And
she
said
to
them
how
that
a
voys
had
said
to
her
/
that
it
was
for
the
fastynges
/
that
she
had
kept
the
fryday
and
saterday
/
as
ye
haue
herd
/
And
for
this
grace
that
god
and
the
blessid
Vyrgyn
oure
lady
saynt
Marye
had
done
to
her
/
she
made
a
vowe
to
them
/
that
she
shold
kepe
her
chaste
/
and
clene
.
And
shold
vse
her
lyf
in
the
seruyce
of
god
and
of
his
chirche·
and
euer
after
nyght
and
day
she
s●rued
in
the
chirche
for
to
lyghte
the
torches
/
tapres
/
and
lampes
/
and
to
kepe
clene
the
chirche
/
Now
on
a
nyght
/
there
cam
to
her
a
Vysyon
/
that
she
drewe·
and
took
oute
of
a
donghylle
a
vessell
/
lyke
to
a
plater
of
syluer
/
And
when
she
beheld
hit
/
she
sawe
therin
many
black
spottes
/
and
a
voys
cam
sayeng
.
scoure
and
make
clene
this
plater·
And
take
awey
tho
blak
spottes
/
so
long
/
tyll
it
be
as
clene
and
whyte
/
as
it
was
when
it
cam
from
the
handes
of
the
maystre
goldsmythe
/
And
this
aduysyon
cam
to
her
thre
tymes
/
And
when
she
awoke
/
she
remembryd
her
aduysyon
to
god
And
when
hit
was
hyhe
day
/
she
wente
for
to
confesse
her
/
to
an
hooly
man
/
and
told
to
hym
her
aduysyon
/
And
when
the
good
man
had
herd
all
the
maner
/
he
said
to
her
/
Fayre
doughter
/
ye
ar
moche
beholden
to
serue
god
/
whan
he
wylle
youre
saluacion
/
and
warneth
.
and
sheweth
to
yow
/
how
ye
ought
to
wasshe
yow
/
and
make
you
clene
by
confession
of
your
synnes
/
And
I
shall
shewe
yow
/
hou
he
hath
shewed
by
youre
aduysyon
the
Vessel
of
siluer
/
whiche
was
foully
bespottyd
of
the
donghylle
/
whiche
sygnyfyeth
the
sowle
that
is
in
the
body
/
And
yf
the
body
consentid
not
to
doo
synne
/
she
shold
be
alwey
whyte
as
the
vessel
of
syluer
/
that
cometh
fro
the
goldsmythe
/
Ryght
so
is
the
sowle
when
hit
cometh
fro
the
fonte
of
bapteme
/
And
lyke
as
the
Vessel
that
ye
sawe
was
in
the
donge
/
in
lyke
wyse
is
the
sowle
in
the
body
/
whiche
is
no
thynge
but
donge
/
and
fylthe
/
For
when
the
Chaytyf
body
hath
synned
by
his
fals
delytes
.
for
euery
synne
that
he
hath
done
/
ther
cometh
a
black
spot
in
the
sowle
/
And
that
abydeth
vnto
the
tyme
/
that
the
body
whiche
dyde
the
trespas
haue
confessid
and
bewaylyd
it
in
suche
manere
as
he
dyde
the
dede
/
and
therof
hath
made
satisfaction
/
And
therfor
fayre
doughter
the
voys
of
the
vysyon
hath
said
.
that
ye
shold
make
yow
clene
&
whyte
lyke
the
syluer
that
cometh
fro
the
goldsmyth
/
For
when
ye
come
fro
the
fonte
of
baptesme
/
after
ye
ought
put
it
in
place
.
where
it
shold
be
kepte
clene
and
withoute
or
dure
/
that
is
to
saye
to
kepe
you
fro
goyng
in
to
place
/
where
as
ye
ought
absteyne
you
for
to
doo
synne
/
And
kepe
yow
wel
that
ye
synne
nomore
/
For
it
is
a
good
thyng
to
be
shryuen
/
but
it
is
better
after
the
confession
to
kepe
hym
that
he
falle
not
ageyne
therto
/
For
the
tornyng
ageyne
is
wors
than
the
first
/
And
when
ye
shold
be
shryuen
/
ye
ought
to
saye
alle
/
and
reteyne
no
thyng
behynde
/
And
it
ought
to
be
said
in
the
manere
as
the
dede
was
done
/
Thenne
my
fair
doughters
said
the
good
man
/
I
shalle
telle
to
yow
an
ensample
of
a
bourgeyse
a
moche
myghty
woman
Of
her
that
deyde
.
and
durst
not
confesse
hir
synne
/
capo.
ixᵒ.
tHere
was
a
woman
of
grete
renomme
and
fame
lyke
to
be
a
blessid
woman
and
charitable
/
For
she
fasted
thre
dayes
in
the
weke
/
of
whiche
she
fasted
tweyne
to
brede
and
to
water
/
and
gafe
moche
almesse·
vysyted
the
seke
/
norysshed
the
orphanes
/
and
was
at
masse
vnto
mydday
And
said
many
orysons
and
prayers
/
And
lyued
an
hooly
lyf
/
as
a
good
woman
ought
to
doo
/
And
it
happed
that
she
departed
oute
of
this
world
/
by
whome
oure
lord
wold
shewe
ensample
/
how
she
was
lost
for
one
only
dedely
synne
/
For
the
sepulture
in
whiche
she
was
leyd
bigan
to
fume
/
&
smoken
/
and
the
erth
to
brenne·
and
there
had
ben
seen
on
the
graue
ouermoche
torment
And
the
peple
of
the
Countrey
merueyled
moche
/
what
it
mente
For
they
wende
veryly
/
that
she
hadde
be
saued
aboue
alle
other
wymmen
/
Thenne
was
there
an
hooly
man
in
the
Cyte
/
which
toke
the
crosse
/
the
stole
/
and
hooly
water
/
and
coniured
the
sowle
in
the
name
of
god
/
And
requyryd
of
almyghty
god
/
that
it
plesyd
hym
to
shewe
to
hym
/
wherfore
this
stenche
and
this
tormente
was
there
/
Thenne
a
voys
was
herd
/
that
sayd
/
I
am
the
poure
synnar
.
that
am
dampned
to
perpetuel
fyre
.
For
god
sheweth
that
my
wretchyd
body
gyueth
oute
smoke
and
torment
by
ensample
/
And
I
shall
telle
to
yow
/
how
it
hath
bifalle
me
by
the
synne
of
my
flesshe
/
I
laye
ones
with
a
Monk
/
And
I
durst
neuer
confesse
me
therof
/
for
doubte
to
be
accused
for
shame
of
the
world
/
And
I
doubted
more
the
bobaunce
of
the
world
/
than
the
spyrytuel
vengeaunce
of
my
synne
/
I
fasted
/
I
gaf
for
goddes
sake
my
good
/
I
herd
masses
/
and
said
many
orysons
&
heures
/
And
me
semed
the
grete
good
dedes
and
abstynence
that
I
dyde
quenchyd
and
estyncted
al
my
synnes
/
whiche
I
durst
not
telle
ne
saye
to
the
preest
/
wherfore
I
am
deceyued
and
loste
/
For
I
telle
wel
vnto
alle·
that
who
that
dyeth
in
dedely
synne
/
and
wylle
not
forthynke
it
.
he
is
dampned
perpetuelly
/
For
the
synne
ought
to
be
confessid
also
foully
as
the
dede·
was
done
/
and
by
the
same
manere
/
And
when
she
had
al
said
/
alle
they
that
were
there
present
were
moche
abasshed
/
For
there
was
none
/
but
that
he
thought
she
had
be
saued
/
And
thus
said
this
good
man
this
ensample
to
this
woman
that
confessyd
her
/
that
she
shold
confesse
and
telle
her
synnes
lyke
as
she
had
done
them
/
and
she
shold
put
aweye
the
spottes
of
the
syluer
vessel
/
These
ben
the
spottes
of
the
sowle
/
And
thenne
this
woman
confessid
her
/
and
lyued
after
an
holy
lyf·
And
thus
the
begynnyng
of
her
sauacion
/
cam
of
the
fastynges·
that
she
fasted
on
the
fryday
in
t
honoure
of
the
passion
of
oure
lord
/
and
the
saterday
for
t
honoure
of
the
vyrgynyte
of
our
blessid
lady
/
By
whiche
she
was
saued
from
perylle
/
For
ther
is
no
good
dede
done
/
but
it
is
rewarded
/
And
it
is
a
moche
hooly
thyng
to
faste
/
And
the
more
payne
it
doth
or
hurte
to
the
heede
or
body
.
so
moche
is
the
fastyng
more
of
meryte
/
&
greter
of
valewe
For
yf
the
fastyng
greuyd
not
/
there
shold
therof
be
no
mede
ne
merite
/
&
yet
for
to
shewe
an
ensample
how
fastyng
is
of
grete
meryte
/
It
is
trouthe
/
that
the
kynge
of
Nynyue
and
alle
his
Cyte
were
saued
therby
/
as
it
is
conteyned
in
the
grete
book
of
the
byble
/
For
god
had
doo
synken
certayne
Cytees
and
townes
for
the
grete
synnes
that
they
delyted
in
/
And
god
commaunded
his
prophete
to
telle
to
this
kyng
/
and
to
the
Cyte
/
that
yf
they
amended
them
not
/
that
they
shold
perysshe
in
lyke
wyse
/
Thenne
the
kyng
and
the
peple
of
the
cyte
had
grete
drede
and
fere
/
And
for
ca●●●ase
the
yre
of
god
/
alle
they
that
were
of
age
fasted
fourty
dayes
and
fourty
nyghtes
/
and
kneled
doune
on
her
knees
/
and
putte
sackes
on
theyr
hedes
in
grete
humylyte
.
wherfore
god
took
mercy
on
them
/
and
repeled
his
sentence
/
And
so
by
theyr
mekenes
and
fastynge
they
were
saued
/
And
therfore
my
fayre
doughters
/
fastyng
is
an
abstynence
and
a
vertu
moche
couenable
/
whiche
withdraweth
and
restreyneth
the
flesshe
from
euylle
desyres·
And
humbleth
the
herte·
and
geteth
pardon
and
grace
of
god
And
thenne
all
yong
wymmen
/
and
specyally
the
maydens
and
wydowes
ought
to
fast
/
as
I
haue
said
here
to fore
by
these
ensamples
/
whiche
by
the
playsyre
of
god
.
ye
shall
well
reteyne
and
kepe
How
good
wymmen
ought
to
mayntene
them self
curtoysly
.
capitulo
Deamo
aFter
this
/
my
doughters
/
see
ye
wel
to
.
that
ye
be
curtois
and
humble
/
For
there
is
no
gretter
vertue
for
to
cause
yow
to
haue
the
grace
of
god
/
and
the
loue
of
alle
peple
.
than
for
to
be
humble
and
curtoyse
.
For
curtosye
ouercometh
all
them
that
ben
felouns
prowde
by
th
ensample
of
the
sperhauk
Take
a
sperhauke
ramage
/
And
calle
hym
curtoysly
/
and
ye
shal
make
hym
come
frely
to
yow·
ye
fro
the
tree
/
he
shalle
come
vppon
youre
fyste
/
And
yf
ye
be
not
curtoyse
/
but
rude
and
cruel
he
shal
neuer
come
/
Thenne
syth
that
curtosye
vaynquysshyth
a
wylde
byrde
/
whiche
hath
in
hym
no
reson
/
Thenne
ought
she
wel
refrayne
a
man
and
woman
moche
more
.
that
they
be
not
ne
haue
the
herte
orguyllous
and
fyers
/
Curtosye
is
the
fyrst
ware
and
the
entre
of
alle
frendship
and
of
alle
worldly
loue
/
And
she
that
vaynquyssheth
hye
courages
/
and
that
amolysshyth
thyre
and
wrathe
of
euery
creature
/
Therfore
thenne
hit
is
a
fayre
thyng
to
be
curtoys·
I
knowe
a
lord
in
this
Countrey
/
whiche
hath
goten
and
conquerd
moo
knyghtes
/
squyers
and
other
peple
to
serue
hym
and
to
doo
his
playsyrs
by
his
grete
curtosye
in
the
tyme
/
that
he
bare
armes
/
than
other
dyd
for
money
/
eyther
for
other
thynges
/
And
this
is
my
lord
of
Craon
/
whiche
ought
wel
to
be
honoured
/
and
to
be
preysyd
for
his
curtosye
aboue
all
other
knyghtes
that
I
know
/
and
I
knowe
that
he
hath
goten
by
his
curtosye
moche
loue
and
renomme
of
ryght
grete
ladyes
/
and
also
of
other
grete
and
smale
.
Therfor
my
fayre
doughters
shewe
youre
curtosye
vnto
the
mene
and
smal
peple
/
for
to
do
them
honoure
/
And
to
speke
to
them
fayre
and
swetely
/
And
for
to
answere
them
curtoysly
/
they
shalle
bere
and
doo
the
gretter
reuerence
/
gretter
preysyng
and
renommee
than
the
grete
/
For
t
honour
of
the
curtosye
that
is
done
and
gyuen
to
the
grete
astates
/
is
but
their
ryght
/
But
that
whiche
is
done
vnto
smal
gentylmen
and
gentyl
wymmen
and
to
other
of
lasse
degre
/
that
honoure
and
curtosye
comen
of
a
fre
and
a
curtoys
hert
/
And
the
lytell
or
poure
man
or
woman
to
whome
it
is
done
/
thynketh
that
he
is
happy
to
receyue
it
and
hath
therin
agrete
playsyre
/
And
gyueth
ageyne
grete
honoure
to
hym
or
her
/
that
hath
done
to
hym
suche
curtosye
and
honoure
/
And
by
this
maner
of
the
smal
peple
to
whome
is
done
suche
curtosye
or
honoure
cometh
the
grete
loos
and
renomme
/
whiche
groweth
fro
day
to
day
/
It
hapned
that
I
was
in
a
companye
of
knyghtes
and
ladyes
/
And
a
grete
lady
tooke
of
her
hood
and
humbled
her self
curtoysly
vnto
a
tayloure
/
And
ther
was
a
knyght
that
said
to
her
/
Madame
why
haue
ye
taken
of
youre
hoode
vnto
a
taylloure
/
And
she
answerd
that
she
had
leuer
to
take
it
of
to·
hym
/
than
to
haue
lefte
it
vnto
a
gentyll
man
/
And
that
was
reputed
for
ryght
wel
done
/
and
as
for
the
best
taught
of
all
the
other
How
yonge
maydens
ought
not
to
torne
their
heedes
lyghtely
here
ne
there
/
Capitulo
xj
aFter
this
in
sayeng
to
them
/
le
ye
not
like
ne
semblable
the
tortuse
ne
to
the
Crane
.
whiche
torne
their
visage
and
the
heede
aboue
their
sholders
/
and
wynde
their
hede
here
and
there
as
a
vane
/
But
haue
youre
regard
and
manere
stedfast
lyke
as
the
hare
hath
/
which
is
a
beest
that
seeth
alwey
to
fore
hym
euen
right
forth
.
withoute
tornyng
of
his
heede
here·
ne
there
/
Alwey
see
that
ye
be
stedfast
in
lokyng
playnly
to
fore
you
And
yf
ye
wylle
loke
a
syde
/
torne
youre
vysage
&
youre
body
to geder
/
And
so
shalle
ye
hold
you
in
youre
estate
more
ferme
&
sure·
For
they
be
mocqued
that
so
lyghtely
cast
their
sight
and
hede
and
torne
their
vysage
here
and
there
How
the
doughters
of
the
kyng
of
denmarke
lost
their
husbonde
by
cause
of
theyr
maners
Capitulo
xijo.
tHenne
I
wold
wel
/
that
ye
had
vnderstonden
th
ensample
of
the
doughters
of
the
kyng
of
denmarke
/
whiche
I
shall
acompte
to
yow
/
Ther
ben
foure
kynges
on
this
side
the
see
/
that
auncyently
maryed
for
honoure
withoute
couetyse
of
lond
with
doughters
of
kynges
and
hyghe
prynces
that
were
wel
born
/
and
had
good
renomme
of
good
maners
/
of
good
mayntene
and
stedfast
/
And
they
shold
be
sene
yf
they
were
wel
s●apen
and
lyke
to
bere
children
/
and
that
they
had
suche
thynges
/
as
wymmen
ought
to
haue
/
And
these
ben
the
foure
kynges
/
the
kyng
of
Fraunce
/
whiche
is
the
moost
grettest
and
noble
/
the
next
is
the
kyng
of
Englond
/
the
thyrd
is
the
kyng
of
spayne
/
and
the
fourth
is
the
kynḡ
of
hongarye
/
whiche
is
by
right
Marchal
of
Cristen
men
in
werres
ageynst
the
hethen
men
and
sarasyns
/
So
it
happed
that
the
kyng
of
Englond
was
for
to
marye
/
And
he
herd
saye
that
the
kynge
of
denmarke
had
thre
fayre
doughters
and
moche
wel
born
/
And
by
cause
this
kyng
was
a
moche
wyse
man
/
And
the
quene
a
blessid
woman
and
of
good
lyf
/
be
sente
certayne
knyghtes
and
ladyes
of
the
mooste
suffisaunt
of
his
royamme
for
to
see
these
doughters
/
And
so
passed
the
see
/
and
camen
in
to
denmark
/
when
the
kyng
&
the
quene
saw
the
messagers
they
had
grete
ioye
/
&
honoured
&
fested
them
foure
dayes
/
&
none
knewe
the
trouthe
whiche
of
them
shold
be
chosen
/
And
they
affayted
&
arayed
the
doughters
the
best
wyse
they
myght
/
And
ther
was
in
this
companye
a
knyght
and
a
lady
riḡht
connyng
and
moche
subtyl
whiche
took
good
heede
and
set
their
ententes
for
to
see
the
manere
of
these
thre
yong
ladyes
&
their
contenaunces
/
&
otherwhyle
spaken
and
had
comynycacyon
with
hem
/
And
them
semed
that
the
oldest
was
the
fayrest
/
but
she
had
not
the
mooste
sure
manere
in
her
beholdyng
/
but
ofte
loked
here
and
there·
And
torned
ofte
her
heede
on
her
sholders
/
&
had
her
sight
ventillous
lyke
a
vane
/
The
second
doughter
had
moche
talkyng
and
spacke
ofte
tofore
she
vnderstood
that
whiche
was
said
to
her
/
The
third
was
not
the
fayrest
of
them
/
but
she
was
moost
agreable
.
&
mayntened
her
manere
more
sure
and
sadly
/
&
spak
but
litil
/
&
that
was
wel
demeurly
.
&
her
regard
&
sight
was
more
ferme
/
&
humble
than
of
that
other
two
/
and
th
embassatours
took
their
aduys
&
counceil
that
they
wold
retorne
vnto
the
kyng
their
lord
/
&
saye
to
hym
suche
thyng
as
they
had
founden
/
&
thenne
he
myght
take
her
that
plesid
hym
/
Thenne
they
cam
to
the
kyng
&
quene
for
to
take
their
l●ue
/
&
thanked
them
moche
of
their
good
companye
&
of
t
honour
that
they
had
done
to
them
/
&
that
they
wold
wel
reporte
to
their
lorde
suche
thynges
as
they
had
sene
of
their
doughters
/
vpon
whiche
he
myght
do
his
plaisir
.
The
kyng
thenne
lycencyd
them
&
gaf
to
them
fair
gyftes
/
&
so
they
departed
&
cam
in
to
englond
And
recounted
to
their
lord
t
honoure
that
the
kyng
&
quene
had
done
to
them
/
&
after
they
reported
the
beaultes
of
the
doughters
/
their
maners
/
&
mayntenes
/
&
thus
ther
was
ynough
spoken
of
eche
of
them
/
&
there
were
ynough
that
susteyned
to
take
th
oldest
or
the
seconde
/
for
t
honour
/
&
that
hit
were
best
to
take
th
oldest
/
&
when
all
this
mater
had
ben
wel
beten
&
discussed
/
the
kyng
whiche
was
wyse
of
naturell
wytte
spak
of
the
yongest
&
said
thus
Myn
auncetours
maryed
them
but
for
worship
without
couetyse
&
for
bounte
of
the
woman
&
not
for
plaisaunce
.
but
I
haue
herd
ofter
myshappe
for
to
take
a
wyf
for
beaulte
or
for
plaisaunce
than
to
take
her
/
whiche
is
of
stedfast
manere
/
&
that
hath
fair
mayntene
/
And
there
is
not
in
the
world
so
grete
ease
/
as
to
haue
a
wyfe
sure
&
stedfast
/
ne
none
so
grete
&
fair
noblesse
/
&
therfor
I
chose
the
thyrd
doughter
/
For
I
wylle
haue
none
of
the
other
.
&
thenne
he
sent
for
to
fetche
her
/
wherof
the
two
older
doughters
had
grete
despyte
&
grete
desdayne
/
And
thus
she
that
badde
the
better
and
the
more
sure
manere
was
made
quene
of
Englond
/
and
th
oldest
was
refused
for
her
wylde
lokynge
/
whiche
was
ouer
ventyllous
And
that
other
suster
by
cause
she
spak
ouermoche
/
Now
fayre
doughters
take
ye
ensample
by
the
doughters
of
the
kyng
of
denmarke
/
And
late
not
your
eyen
ben
ouer
ventyllous
/
ne
tourne
not
youre
hede
hyder
ne
thyder
/
But
when
ye
wille
see
ony
thyng
on
ony
syde
/
torne
your
vysage
and
youre
body
to geder
/
And
be
not
ouer
full
of
wordes
/
For
who
that
speketh
ouermoche
/
is
not
reputed
for
wyse
.
And
ye
ought
wel
at
leyser
vnderstande
to fore
that
ye
answere·
And
yf
ye
make
a
lytell
pause
bytwene
/
ye
shall
answere
the
better
/
and
the
more
wysely
/
For
the
prouerbe
sayth
that
as
moche
auayleth
to
hym
that
hereth
/
and
no
thyng
vnderstondeth
.
as
to
hym
that
hunteth
and
no
thyng
taketh
as
is
sayd
to
fore
/
And
yet
my
fayre
doughters
I
shall
saye
to
yow
/
of
a
fayt
that
happed
me
of
this
mater
/
It
happed
me
ones
that
I
was
spoken
to
of
maryage
/
for
to
marye
with
a
noble
woman
/
whiche
had
fader
and
moder·
And
my
lord
my
fader
ladde
me
●h●der
for
to
see
her
/
whan
we
were
there
/
there
was
made
to
〈◊〉
grete
chere
&
ioyous
.
And
I
beheld
her
/
of
whome
I
was
spoken
to
And
I
set
my self
in
commynycacyon
with
her
of
many
thyng●●●
for
to
know
the
better
her
mayntenyng
&
gouernaunce
/
&
so
we
〈◊〉
in
spekyng
of
prysoners
/
And
thenne
I
said
to
her
/
damoys●●●
I
wold
wel
and
had
leuer
be
youre
prysoner
than
ony
others
/
&
I
thenke
that
youre
pryson
shold
not
be
so
hard
ne
cruell
/
as
is
●●e
pryson
of
englissh
men
/
And
she
ansuerd
me
that
she
had
la●e
sene
such
one
/
that
she
wold
wel
that
he
were
her
prysoner
/
&
I
demanded
her
/
yf
she
wold
yeue
hym
euyl
pryson
/
&
she
answerd
me
nay
/
but
that
she
wold
kepe
hym
as
derworthely
as
her
owne
body
/
&
I
said
to
her
/
that
he
who
someuer
he
was
he
was
wel
happy
&
curous
for
to
haue
so
swete
&
noble
a
pryson
/
Shall
I
saye
to
yow
She
louyd
hym
ynough
/
And
had
her
eye
quyck
&
lyght
/
&
she
was
ful
of
wordes
/
&
when
we
shold
departe
she
was
a●erte
/
for
she
praid
me
two
or
thre
tymes
/
that
I
shold
not
leue
/
but
come
see
her
how
sōeuer
it
went
/
but
I
helde
me
al
styll
/
for
I
had
neuer
sene
her
to fore
/
&
she
wist
wel
that
there
was
spoken
of
maryage
of
her
and
of
me
/
And
when
we
were
departed
/
my
lord
my
fader
demaunded
me
what
me
semed
of
her
that
I
had
sene
/
&
bad
me
to
telle
hym
myn
aduys
/
&
I
answerd
to
hym
&
said
that
she
was
good
&
faire
/
but
I
shall
neuer
be
more
nerre
her
than
I
am
/
yf
it
please
you
/
&
told
to
hym
how
me
semed
of
her
&
of
her
estate
/
and
thenne
he
said
/
that
he
wold
not
also
that
I
shold
haue
her
/
&
therfor
the
ouer
grete
malepertnes
&
the
lyght
manere
that
me
semed
to
see
in
her
/
discouraged
me
so
that
I
maryed
not
with
her
/
wher
of
I
haue
thanked
god
sith
many
tymes
/
for
it
was
not
after
a
yere
&
an
half
that
she
was
blamed
/
but
I
wote
neither
it
were
with
wrong
or
right
/
&
soone
after
she
deyde
/
&
therfor
my
fair
〈◊〉
al
gentyl
wymmen
and
noble
maydens
of
good
lygnage
/
ought
to
be
softe
/
humble
/
Rype
/
stedfast
of
estate
and
of
manere
/
of
lytel
speche
to
answere
curtoisly·
and
not
to
be
ouer
wyld
to
sprynge
ne
lepe
/
ne
cast
her
syght
ouer
lyghtely
/
For
in
lytel
doyng
ne
cometh
but
good
/
For
many
haue
lost
their
maryage
for
to
shewe
them
ouer
moche
/
and
to
make
ouer
grete
semblaunce
.
wher
of
oftymes
were
supposed
other
thynges
in
them
/
than
euer
were
done
or
thought
/
How
the
doughter
of
Aragon
lost
her
maryage
/
Capitulo
xiij
I
Wold
that
ye
shold
knowe
how
the
doughter
of
the
kynge
of
Aragon
lost
the
kyng
of
spayne
by
her
folye
/
It
is
conteyned
in
the
gestys
of
spayne
/
that
a
kyng
of
Aragon
hadde
two
doughters
/
of
whome
the
kyng
of
spayne
wolde
haue
one
/
And
for
to
chese
her
that
best
plesyd
hym
/
he
disguysed
hym self
in
the
fourme
of
a
seruaunt
/
And
wente
with
his
embassatours
/
that
is
to
saye·
his
Messagyers
/
and
with
a
bisshop
and
with
two
barons
/
And
it
is
not
to
be
demaunded
/
but
that
the
kyng
made
to
them
grete
honoure
and
ioye
/
The
doughters
of
the
kyng
arrayed
and
attoured
them
the
best
wyse
that
they
myght
/
And
in
especial
the
oldest
/
whiche
thought
that
theyr
comynge
was
for
her
/
And
so
they
were
there
in
the
Courte
thre
dayes
for
to
see
and
behold
the
countenaunces
/
wherof
it
happed
that
in
the
mornyng
whan
they
salewed
them
/
the
oldest
answerd
no
thyng
but
bitwene
her
teeth
/
as
she
that
was
fyers
and
of
grete
porte
But
her
suster
was
humble
and
ful
of
grete
curtosye
/
and
salewed
humbly
the
grete
and
smale
/
After
he
be●●ld
on
a
tyme
that
these
two
susters
playd
at
tables
with
two
knyghtes
.
but
th
oldest
chyd
with
one
of
the
knyghtes
/
And
demened
strongly
foule
chere
.
But
the
yonger
suster
/
which
had
also
lost
made
no
semblant
of
her
losse
/
but
made
as
good
chere
/
as
she
had
wonne
/
The
kyng
of
spayne
sawe
and
beheld
al
this
/
and
drewe
hym
a
part
/
and
called
his
counceylle
/
and
said
to
them
/
ye
knowe
wel
that
the
kynges
of
fraunce
ne
of
spayne
ought
not
to
marye
them
for
couetyse
but
nobly·
and
a
woman
of
good
maners
wel
born
/
and
disposed
to
come
to
honoure
/
and
to
bere
fruyte
/
And
for
as
moche
as
I
haue
sene
these
two
damoyselles·
And
haue
byholden
their
maners
and
theyr
guyses
/
me
semeth
that
the
yongest
is
moost
humble
and
moost
curtois
/
and
is
not
of
so
haultayn
courage
/
as
is
the
oldest
/
And
they
answerd
to
hym
/
Syre
th
oldest
is
more
fayre
/
And
he
answerd
to
them
/
none
honoure
/
ne
beaulte
.
ne
none
erthely
good
may
compare
to
bounte
ne
to
good
maners
/
And
in
especial
to
humylyte
/
And
by
cause
I
haue
sene
her
the
more
humble
and
the
more
curtoys
/
I
wylle
haue
her
/
And
thus
chaas
her
/
And
thenne
the
bisshop
and
the
barons
cam
to
the
kyng
of
Aragon
/
and
demaunded
of
hym
the
yonger
doughter
/
Thenne
the
kyng
and
alle
his
peple
were
moche
esmerueyled
that
they
took
not
the
oldest
/
whiche
was
moost
fayre
/
But
thus
it
happed
that
the
yonger
was
quene
of
spayne
/
by
cause
she
was
humble
and
softe
of
speche
to
greete
and
smale
〈◊〉
her
grete
curtosye
/
wherof
the
oldest
doughter
had
so
grete
desdayn
&
so
grete
despit
that
she
bycam
al
frantyke
&
from
her self
&
therfore
this
is
a
fayre
ensample
/
how
by
curtosye
and
humylyte
is
goten
the
sone
of
god
and
of
the
world
/
For
there
is
no
thyng
so
playsaunt
as
Humblesse
curtosye·
and
to
salewe
fayre
the
peple
grete
and
smale
/
and
to
make
no
chere
of
losse
ne
of
wynnyng
/
For
no
gentyl
wymmen
ought
to
make
none
effrayes
in
them
/
but
ought
to
haue
gentyl
hertes
and
softe
answers
/
And
to
be
humble
/
For
as
god
sayth
in
the
gospel
/
he
that
is
moost
worthe
and
moos●●
knoweth
/
moost
humbleth
hym
/
lyke
as
dyde
the
yonger
doughter
of
Aaragon
/
whiche
for
hir
humylyte
and
curtosye
con●uerd
to
be
quene
of
spayne
/
and
took
it
fro
hir
older
suster
Of
them
that
ben
chydars
or
scoldes
/
capo.
xiiii
.
fAyre
doughters
/
see
that
ye
begynne
no
strif
to
no
foole
/
ne
to
them
that
ben
hasty
and
hoote
/
For
it
is
grete
perill
Wherof
I
shal
shewe
to
you
an
Ensample
/
whiche
I
sawe
happen
in
a
Castel
/
wherin
many
ladyes
&
damoys●ls
duelleden
/
And
ther
was
a
damoysell
doughter
of
a
right
gentyl
knyght
And
she
waxe
angry
in
playeng
atte
tables
with
a
gentylman
/
whiche
was
hoote
and
hasty
and
moost
Ryotous
/
And
was
not
right
wyse
/
And
the
debate
was
of
a
dyes
.
whiche
she
saide
was
not
truly
made
/
And
soo
moche
it
encreaced
that
wordes
were
enhaunced
/
and
that
she
saide
he
was
a
coward
and
a
foole
.
And
so
they
lefte
theyr
playe
by
chydynge
and
strif
/
Thenne
said
I
to
the
damoyselle
/
My
fayre
Cosyn
/
Angre
you
with
no
thyng
.
that
he
saith
/
For
ye
knowe
wel
/
he
is
of
hauntayn
wordes
&
of
folissh
answers
/
wherfor
I
praye
yow
for
your
honour
that
ye
take
no
debate
ageynst
hym
/
&
I
told
her
&
counceiled
feithfully
/
as
I
wold
haue
said
to
my
suster
but
she
wold
not
bileue
me
/
but
yet
did
chide
more
after
this
than
to fore
/
And
she
sayd
to
hym
that
he
was
nought
worth·
and
many
other
wordes
/
And
he
answerd
to
her
/
that
he
was
better
for
a
man
/
than
she
was
for
a
woman
/
&
she
said
that
he
said
not
trouth
/
&
soo
the
wordes
aroos
/
that
he
said
yf
she
had
ben
wyse
and
good
/
she
shold
not
come
by
nyght
in
to
the
mennes
chambres
/
and
kysse
them
and
embrace
them
without
Candell
/
And
she
supposed
well
to
haue
auenged
her
/
and
sayd
to
hym
that
he
lyed
/
And
he
said
he
dyde
not
/
and
that
suche
one
&
suche
one
had
sene
it
/
And
there
was
moche
peple
/
that
herd
hit
/
whiche
knewe
no
thyng
therof
to
fore
/
And
many
of
them
sayd
/
that
a
good
stylle
/
and
not
so
to
haue
chyden
had
ben
better
for
her
&
that
she
was
beten
with
her
owne
staf
/
that
is
to
saye
by
her
tonge
/
and
by
hir
hasty
spekyng
/
And
after
these
wordes
she
wepte
and
said
that
he
had
diffamed
her
/
and
that
it
shold
not
be
left
so
And
she
reassayled
hym
to
fore
them
alle
in
suche
wyse
/
that
he
said
yet
more
fowle
and
shameful
wordes
to
the
dishonoure
of
hyr
that
she
shall
neuer
recouer
for
socoure
that
she
can
make
/
And
thus
was
she
shamed
by
the
haultesse
of
her
herte
/
And
therfore
this
a
good
ensample
/
how
no
woman
ought
to
chyde
nestryne
ageynst
a
foole
/
ne
with
peple
that
haue
haultayn
courage
/
but
they
ought
t
eschewe
them
/
For
whan
they
see
that
they
wil
speke
grossely
and
hyghe
/
they
sholde
lete
them
alone·
and
holde
them
al
styll
/
and
saye
to
them
/
Fayr
frende
I
see
wel
that
ye
speke
hyhe
and
wylle
ryotte
/
Now
wylle
I
leue
yow
/
and
so
departe
and
goo
fro
hym
/
lyke
as
a
knyght
dyd
to
a
lady
that
I
knowe
/
whiche
had
an
euylle
heede
/
and
saide
many
oultrages
to
the
knyght
to
fore
all
the
peple·
To
whome
the
knyght
said
/
Madame
yf
it
plesyth
yow
saye
ye
as
many
merueyles
as
ye
wylle
/
And
yf
I
here
yow
/
I
doo
yow
no
wrong
.
I
see
well
ye
be
maryed
/
wherof
I
am
sory
/
But
now
for
al
that
she
wolde
not
be
stylle
/
but
chode
more
than
to fore
/
And
when
the
knyght
sawe
/
that
she
wolde
not
leue
ne
be
stylle
for
no
thyng
/
he
took
a
lytell
wyspe
of
strawe
that
he
fond
/
And
set
it
to
fore
her
/
And
saide
to
her
Madame
/
yf
ye
chyde
more
/
so
chyde
to
this
wyspe
of
strawe
/
/
For
I
leue
it
here
for
me
/
And
wente
his
way
/
and
lefte
hyr
there
/
and
it
was
reputed
for
w●l
done
of
the
knyght
/
that
soo
lefte
her
/
And
she
was
holden
for
more
foole
than
to fore
.
For
when
she
fonde
not
/
to
whome
she
myght
chyde
/
she
restreyned
her
yf
she
wolde·
And
thus
ought
hit
to
be
done
/
For
hit
is
not
honest
ne
good
folke
to
stryue
with
fooles
/
ne
to
chydars·
ne
to
suche
as
haue
euylle
heedes
and
ben
hasty
and
hoote
/
but
t
eschewe
them
lyke
as
the
knyght
dyd
this
lady
/
of
whome
ye
haue
herd
/
Of
her
that
ete
the
Eele
and
plumed
her
pye
/
Capitulo
/
xv
/
I
Shall
telle
to
yow
an
Ensample
herof
vpon
the
fayt
of
wymmen
that
ete
the
good
morsels
behynde
theyr
husbondes
/
There
was
a
damoyselle
that
had
a
pye
in
a
cag●
whiche
spak
and
said
all
that
she
sawe
/
And
it
happed
that
the
lord
of
the
hows
made
to
kepe
a
grete
Ele
in
a
tronke
in
a
〈◊〉
And
he
kepte
it
moche
derworthely
for
to
gyue
it
to
som
good
lord
of
his
/
or
to
somme
frende
/
yf
they
come
to
see
hym
/
And
it
〈◊〉
that
the
lady
saide
to
the
Chamberere
/
that
it
were
good
to
ete
the
grete
ele
/
And
they
thought
that
they
wold
saye
to
theyr
lord
that
theues
had
eten
hym
/
And
when
the
lord
cam
home
〈…〉
began
to
telle
and
saye
to
hym
/
My
lady
hath
eten
the
Ele
〈◊〉
when
the
lord
herd
this
/
he
wente
to
his
ponde
/
and
fonde
not
〈◊〉
ele
/
And
cam
home
to
his
wyf
/
and
demaunded
her
what
〈◊〉
befallen
of
his
ele
/
And
she
supposed
to
haue
excused
her
/
A●●
he
said
that
he
was
acerteyned
therof
/
And
that
the
pye
had
〈◊〉
hym
/
And
in
the
hous
therfore
was
grete
so●owe
and
noyse
/
But
when
the
lord
was
gone
oute
/
the
lady
and
the
chambere●e
cam
to
the
pye
/
and
plucked
of
alle
the
fethers
of
his
hede·
sa●eng
Thou
hast
discouered
vs
of
the
ele
/
and
thus
was
the
p●ure
p●eplumed
and
lost
the
fethers
of
his
hede
.
But
fro
than
fo●th●n
yf
ony
man
cam
in
to
that
howe
/
that
was
balled
or
pylled
or
had
an
hyhe
forhede
/
the
pye
wolde
saye
to
them
/
ye
haue
told
my
lord
of
the
ele
/
And
therfore
this
is
a
good
ensample
/
that
no
good
woman
sholde
not
ete
for
hir
lycorousnes
the
swete
/
or
dey●●●
morsels
withoute
the
wytyng
of
her
husbond
·
but
yf
she
empl●●d
it
well
with
honoure
/
This
damoysell
was
after
mo●●e
scorned
&
mocked
for
that
ele
by
cause
of
the
pye
that
so
ofte
remembryd
〈◊〉
to
suche
as
cam
thyder
so
ballyd
or
pylled
How
wymmen
ought
not
to
be
Ielous
.
Capitulo
/
xvj
I
Shall
saye
to
yow
an
ensample
of
this
euyl
thyng
Ialousye
There
was
a
damoyselle
maryed
to
a
s●uyer
/
whiche
loued
so
wel
her
husbond
that
she
was
Ielouse
of
all
them
that
he
spak
to
/
wherfor
her
husbond
blamed
and
repreuyd
her
ofte
/
but
it
auayled
no
thynge·
And
among
al
other
she
was
Ielouse
of
a
damoyselle
of
the
Countrey
whiche
was
of
haultayn
courage
/
And
so
it
happed
on
a
tyme
/
that
she
dyd
chyde
ageynst
this
damoyselle
/
And
reproched
her
of
her
husbond·
And
that
other
said
/
that
by
her
fayth
/
s̄he
said
not
wel
ne
trouthe
/
And
that
other
said
that
she
lyed
/
And
thus
began
they
to
fyght
and
smyte
/
eche
other
fyersly
.
And
she
that
was
accused
tooke
a
staf
/
and
smote
that
other
on
the
nose
suche
a
stroke
/
that
she
brack
the
bone
/
wherof
she
had
euer
after
a
croked
nose
/
whiche
is
the
moost
syttyng
membre
that
a
man
or
woman
may
haue
/
as
it
that
stondeth
in
the
myddes
of
the
vysage
/
So
was
this
woman
al
blemysshed
and
blamed
of
her
husband
/
and
oftymes
reproched
/
so
that
it
had
ben
moche
better
for
her
not
to
haue
ben
Ielouse
/
and
to
haue
kept
her
vysage
hoole
withoute
blemysshe
/
And
thus
by
the
dysfyguryng
of
her
nose
and
myschaunce
/
her
husbond
myght
not
loue
her
soo
parfytely
after
/
as
he
dyde
to fore
/
as
he
was
woned
to
doo
/
And
other
whyle
took
other
/
And
thus
lost
she
the
loue
and
t
honoure
of
her
husbond
by
her
Ielousye
/
and
her
folye
/
This
is
a
right
good
ensample
for
al
good
ladyes
and
gentyl
wymmen
/
how
they
ought
to
make
semblaunt
of
suche
thynges
/
and
to
suffre
fayre
and
curtoisly
their
sorowe
yf
they
haue
ony
/
Lyke
as
dide
one
myn
Aunte
.
whiche
hath
told
it
me
many
tymes
/
This
good
lady
was
lady
of
languyller
/
whiche
thenne
had
a
lord
to
her
husbond
.
that
myght
wel
/
and
held
of
rente
for·
xv·
C.
pound
a
yere
&
helde
a
merueylous
noble
estate
/
but
her
husbond
was
lecherous
so
moche
/
that
he
held
alwey
a
woman
or
tweyne
in
his
hous
/
And
oftymes
he
roos
fro
his
wyf
/
and
wente
to
his
concubynes
/
And
when
he
cam
fro
his
folye
/
he
fond
a
candel
lyght
/
and
water
with
a
towayll
to
wesshe
his
hondes
/
And
when
he
was
come
ageyn
she
said
no
thyng
/
but
praid
hym
to
wesshe
his
hondes
/
And
he
said
that
he
cam
from
the
preuy
chambre·
And
therfor
said
she
by
cause
ye
come
fro
thens
/
ye
haue
the
more
nede
to
wasshe
yow
/
And
otherwyse
she
repreuyd
hym
not
/
But
som
tyme
she
said
to
hym
pryuely
bitwene
them
bothe
only
/
My
lord
I
wote
wel
and
knowe
of
youre
fait
with
suche
one
and
suche
one
/
but
neuer
for
me
by
goddes
grace
/
sith
that
it
is
youre
playsire
/
And
that
I
can
by
no
mene
remedye
it
.
I
shal
not
make
to
yow
the
werse
chere
/
ne
semblaunt
.
ne
to
them
also
/
For
I
were
wel
a
foole
to
breke
my
heede
for
the
debate
fo
youre
marchaundise
.
sith
it
may
be
none
other
wyse
/
but
I
pray
you
my
lord
atte
leste
that
ye
make
me
no
worse
chere
/
ne
that
I
lese
not
youre
loue
/
ne
your
good
semblaunt
/
For
of
the
surplus
I
shall
wel
deporte
and
forbere
/
And
shal
suffre
all
that
it
shall
playse
yow
to
commaunde
me
/
And
truly
by
the
softe
and
swete
wordes
that
she
said
to
hym
/
his
herte
malte
/
and
wexe
pytous
/
and
kept
hym self
from
it
a
good
whyle
.
And
duryng
her
lyf
by
grete
curtosye
and
humble
obeysaunce
she
vaynquyssh●th
hym
/
For
by
other
wey
/
she
had
neuer
done
it
/
And
at
the
last
he
repentyd
hym
/
and
kepte
hym
only
to
her
/
This
is
a
faire
ensample
/
how
by
curtosye
and
obeysaunce
a
woman
may
best
ouercome
and
withdraw
her
lord
and
husbond
fro
suche
feet
and
dedes
/
and
sonner
than
by
rudesse
/
For
a
man
is
of
suche
courage
/
that
when
they
be
ronne
●n
with
fyersnes
and
rudesse
/
they
done
hit
the
rather
/
and
ben
〈◊〉
worse
/
And
for
so
moche
for
to
saye
trouthe
/
and
ryght
/
an
husbond
ought
not
to
conne
his
wyf
maulgre
/
yf
she
be
som
what
●●●lons
of
hym
/
For
the
wise
man
saith
that
Ialousye
is
〈…〉
of
loue
/
And
I
trowe
he
saith
sooth
/
For
I
shold
not
moche
reche
of
suche
one
/
as
I
set
not
by
/
and
that
I
had
no
cause
to
loue
whether
he
dyde
wel
or
euyll
/
but
of
my
neyghbour
or
of
my
frende
I
shold
be
sory
and
heuy
at
my
herte
yf
he
had
ony
harme
or
disease
/
And
therfore
Ielousye
is
not
withoute
grete
loue
/
But
h●●
is
in
two
maners
/
of
whiche
that
one
is
werse
than
that
other
For
it
is
in
somme
/
in
whome
ben
no
good
resons
/
And
that
is
moche
better
to
suffre
for
his
honoure
and
for
his
estate
/
than
for
to
haue
it
/
And
also
a
man
ought
to
conne
not
ouermoche
maulgre
to
his
wyf
/
yf
she
be
a
lytell
Ialouse
ouer
hym
/
For
therby
she
sheweth
how
her
herte
doubteth
and
hath
grete
fere
/
that
another
haue
not
the
loue
that
she
ought
to
haue
of
ryght
.
after
god
and
the
chirche
/
but
she
that
is
wyse
maketh
lytell
semblaunt
/
and
she
ought
to
refreyne
her
wel
/
and
to
bere
her
euyll
curtoisly
and
conuertly
/
And
in
like
wise
ought
a
man
to
make
as
litell
semblaunt
as
he
maye
/
It
is
wisedom
to
hym
that
may
kepe
hym
/
but
alweye
the
wif
that
seeth
that
her
husbond
be
a
lytell
Ialouse
of
her
.
yf
she
apperceyue
that
she
hath
caused
it
of
ony
folissh
plesaunces
/
whiche
plese
hym
not
/
the
good
wif
thenne
ought
to
deporte
and
forbere
wisely
withoute
makyng
semblaunt
to fore
ony
/
how
she
speketh
or
maketh
ony
chere
by
ony
were
/
And
ought
to
saye
bytwene
them
bothe
wysely
.
and
the
moost
swetely
that
she
may
sayenge
that
she
knoweth
wel
/
that
the
grete
loue
that
he
hath
to
her
/
hath
made
hym
to
fere
and
doute
that
she
turneth
not
her
loue
awey
from
hym
/
And
to
saye
to
hym
that
he
haue
no
doute
ne
be
not
aferd
/
For
by
the
grace
of
god
she
shalle
kepe
t
honoure
well
of
them
bothe
/
And
thus
by
fayre
and
softe
wordes
to
meue
/
&
take
from
hym
&
bryng
hym
fro
his
folissh
Melancolye
/
For
yf
she
take
it
in
angre
/
and
haue
hyhe
wordes
she
shalle
enlumyne
the
fire
and
make
it
werse
/
and
to
make
it
werse
than
it
was
to fore
.
For
many
wymmen
ben
more
fyers
in
theyr
lesynges
and
lyes
/
than
in
theyr
trewe
sayenges
and
wordes
/
And
therfore
many
haue
grete
doubte
/
And
thus
I
saye
yow
that
the
good
wyf
how
wel
that
she
haue
a
lytel
suspection
of
Ryotte
or
greef
she
ought
not
the
lesse
to
loue
her
lord
and
husbond
for
a
lytell
Ielousye
/
For
she
ought
to
thynke
that
is
the
right
grete
loue
that
she
hath
to
hym
/
And
how
he
hath
grete
doute
and
fere
in
his
herte
that
another
haue
not
the
loue·
that
he
ought
to
haue
by
his
right
after
god
and
hooly
chirche
/
And
to
thynke
and
beholde
/
that
yf
another
withdrawe
the
loue
/
that
he
ought
to
haue
/
that
neuer
he
shal
loue
her
/
and
that
the
loue
and
the
ioye
of
theyr
maryage
shold
be
lost
/
And
theyr
good
and
menage
shold
torne
to
declyne
and
faile
fro
day
to
day
/
And
this
is
a
thyng
/
that
moche
peple
ought
to
remembre
and
trxpresse
oft
in
theyr
mynde
/
And
therfore
this
is
a
good
ensample
/
how
the
courage
&
thought
ought
to
be
mesured
How
a
good
woman
ought
not
to
stryue
with
her
husbond
/
Capitulo
/
xvij
/
aFter
this
a
woman
in
no
maner
wyse
ought
stryue
ageynst
her
husbond
/
ne
answere
hym
so
that
he
take
therby
displaysyre
/
lyke
as
dyde
the
wyf
of
a
burgeys
whiche
answerd
to
her
husbond
so
noiously
.
and
shamefully
to
fore
the
peple
/
that
he
bicam
angry
and
felle
to
see
hym self
so
rewlyd
to
fore
the
peple
/
that
he
had
therof
shame
/
And
he
said
to
her
/
and
bad
her
ones
or
twyes
/
that
she
shold
be
stylle
and
leue
/
but
she
wold
not
/
&
her
husbond
whiche
was
wrothe
smote
her
with
his
fyste
to
the
erthe·
And
smote
her
with
his
foote
on
the
vysage
so
that
he
brake
her
nose
/
by
whiche
she
was
euer
after
al
disfygured
·
And
soo
by
her
ryotte
and
ennoye
she
gate
her
a
croked
nose
moche
euyll
/
It
had
ben
moche
better
for
her·
that
she
had
holden
her
stylle
and
hadde
suffred
/
yet
it
is
reson
and
ryght
that
the
husbonde
haue
the
hyhe
wordes
/
and
it
is
but
honoure
to
a
good
woman
to
suffre
and
holde
her
in
pees
/
and
leue
the
haultayn
langage
to
her
husbond
and
lord
/
And
it
is
in
the
contrarye
to
a
woman
grete
shame
and
vylonye
to
stryue
ageynst
her
husbond
be
it
wrong
or
right
/
And
in
especial
to
fore
the
peple
/
I
say
not
/
but
when
she
shall
fynd
hym
alone
and
tyme
/
but
that
she
may
wel
reprehende
hym
and
aduyse
hym
in
shewyng
curtoysly
that
he
had
wrong
and
vnright
with
hym
/
And
yf
he
be
a
man
resonable
/
he
shal
conne
her
thanke
/
And
yf
he
be
other
〈◊〉
hath
not
she
done
but
her
parte
/
For
right
so
shold
a
wyse
〈◊〉
do
/
by
th
ensample
of
the
wyse
quene
hester
/
wyf
of
the
kyng
Assuere
/
whiche
was
moche
melancolyque
and
hasty
/
But
the
〈◊〉
lady
answerd
not
to
his
yre
/
But
after
when
she
sa●●e
hym
〈◊〉
attempryd
/
place
/
and
tyme
/
thenne
dyde
she
what
she
〈…〉
And
it
was
grete
wysedom
of
a
woman
/
And
thus
ought
〈◊〉
wymmen
to
do
/
By
this
ensample
/
the
wymmen
that
ben
〈◊〉
and
rampynge
ben
not
of
suche
obeysaunce
/
as
was
a
〈…〉
marchaunt
/
of
whome
I
shall
saye
and
telle
to
yow·
How
a
woman
sprange
vpon
the
table·
Capitulo
xv●●●
IN
a
tyme
it
happed
that
Marchauntes
of
Fraunce
cam
from
certayn
Fayres
/
where
as
they
sought
Dra●●er●●
And
as
they
cam
with
Marchaundyse
fro
Roan
/
that
one
of
them
said
/
it
is
a
moche
fayre
thynge
a
man
to
haue
a
wif
obeysaunt
in
alle
thynges
to
her
husbond
/
Verayly
sayde
that
one
/
my
wyf
obeyeth
me
well
/
And
the
second
said
.
I
trowe
/
that
my
wyf
obeye
me
better
/
ye
sayd
the
thyrd
/
lede
laye
a
wager
/
that
whiche
wyf
of
vs
thre
that
obeyeth
best
her
husbond
/
and
doeth
sonnest
his
commaundement
that
he
wynne
the
wager
/
wherupon
they
waged
a
Iewele
/
and
accorded
al
thre
to
the
same
&
sworen
that
none
shold
aduertyse
his
wyf
of
this
bargayn
/
sau●
only
to
saye
to
her
/
doo
that
whiche
I
shall
commaunde
what
sōeuer
it
be
/
After
when
they
cam
to
the
first
mans
hows
/
he
sayd
to
his
wyf
Sprynge
in
to
this
bacyne
/
and
she
answerd
/
wherfore
or
what
nede
is
it
.
And
he
said
by
cause
it
plays●th
me
so
/
and
I
wyll
that
thou
do
so
/
Truly
said
she
I
shall
knowe
fyrst
wherfor
I
shal
sprynge
/
And
soo
she
wold
not
doo
it·
And
her
husbond
waxe
moche
angry
and
felle
/
and
gafe
her
a
buffet
/
After
thys
they
cam
to
the
second
mrachauntes
hows
/
and
he
saide
to
his
wyf
lyke
as
that
other
saide
/
that
she
wold
doo
his
commaundement
/
And
it
was
not
long
after
that
he
said
to
her
/
Sprynge
in
to
the
basyn
/
And
she
demaunded
hym
wherfore
/
And
at
the
last
ende
for
ought
that
he
dyde
/
she
dyd
it
not
/
wherfore
she
was
beten
as
that
other
was
/
Thenne
cam
they
to
the
thyrd
mans
hous
And
there
was
the
table
couered
·
and
mete
set
theron
And
the
marchaunt
said
to
thother
marchauntes
in
theyr
errs
/
that
after
dyner
he
wold
commaunde
her
to
sprynge
in
to
the
bacyn
/
And
the
husbond
said
to
his
wyf
/
that
what
someuer
he
commaunded
her
she
shold
do
it
/
his
wyf
whiche
that
moche
louyd
hym
and
dred
hym
herd
wel
the
word
.
And
it
was
so
that
they
bygan
to
ete
/
and
there
was
no
salt
vpon
the
table
/
And
the
good
man
sayd
to
his
wyf
/
Sail
sur
table
And
the
good
wyf
whiche
hadde
fere
to
disobeye
hym
/
sprang
vpon
the
table
and
ouerthrewe
table
/
mete
/
wyn
/
and
platers
to
the
ground
/
How
said
the
good
man
/
is
this
the
manere
/
Conne
ye
none
other
playe
but
this
/
are
ye
mad
or
oute
of
youre
wyt
.
Syre
said
she
/
I
haue
done
youre
commaundement
/
haue
ye
not
said
that
youre
commaundement
shold
be
done
what
someuer
it
was
.
Certaynly
I
haue
it
done
to
my
power
how
be
it
that
it
is
youre
harme
and
hurte
as
moche
as
myn
.
For
ye
said
to
me
that
I
shold
sprynge
on
the
table
/
I
said
he
/
I
sayd
ther
lacked
salt
vpon
the
table
/
In
good
feyth
I
vnderstode
〈◊〉
she
for
to
spryng
/
thenne
was
ther
laughter
ynough
&
al
was
taken
for
a
bourd
and
a
mocquerye
/
Thenne
the
other
two
Marchaun●●s
said
it
was
no
nede
to
late
her
sprynge
in
the
basyn
/
For
she
had
done
ynough
/
And
that
her
husbond
had
wonne
the
wager
/
And
she
was
more
preised
than
the
other
two
that
wold
not
do
the
commaundement
of
theyr
husbondes
.
For
moyen
peple
chastysen
theyr
wynes
by
buffettys
and
strokes
/
but
gentyl
wymmen
ought
to
be
chastysed
by
fayre
semblaunt
and
by
curtosye
〈◊〉
For
other
wyse
ought
not
to
be
done
to
them
.
And
therfore
euery
gentyl
woman
sheweth
whether
she
haue
gentyll
courage
or
none
That
is
to
wyte
that
she
sheweth
by
faire
semblaunt
and
by
curtosye
that
she
obeyeth
and
hath
euer
doubte
to
disobeye
/
leste
ony
harme
come
or
myght
happen
or
falle
to
her·
For
the
other
two
wyues
obeyed
not
their
husbondes
lyke
as
the
good
wyf
dyde
to
the
thyrdde
marchaunt
whiche
for
fere
of
disobeysaunce
to
her
husbond
sprange
vpon
the
table
/
and
threwe
doune
alle
/
And
thus
ought
euery
good
woman
to
fere
and
obeye
her
lord
&
husbonde
and
to
doo
his
commaundement
is
hit
right
or
wrong
/
yf
the
commaundement
be
not
ouer
outrageous
/
And
yf
ther
be
vyce
therin
/
she
is
not
to
blame
/
but
the
blame
abyde●h
vppon
her
lord
and
husbonde
/
And
also
that
she
ought
not
tansuere
to
euery
word
of
euery
husbond
ne
of
other
/
And
that
therin
is
perys●e
lyke
as
was
of
the
knyghtes
doughter
/
that
sette
her
honoure
in
grete
balaunce
for
to
stryue
and
answere
to
the
hasty
squyer
that
sayd
to
her
vylonye
as
a
foole
/
For
many
ben
so
haultayn
and
of
soo
euyl
courage
/
that
they
saye
in
hastynesse
and
hete
alle
that
they
knowe
and
cometh
to
mouthe
/
Therfore
it
is
grete
peryll
to
begynne
strif
to
suche
peple
/
For
who
soo
doth
/
he
set
his
honoure
in
grete
aduenture
/
For
many
saye
in
theyr
angre
more
than
they
knowe
for
to
auenge
them
Of
the
woman
that
gaf
the
flesshe
to
her
honndes
/
capitulo
/
x●x
I
Shal
saye
to
yow
an
Ensample
of
a
lady
that
yaf
the
flesshe
and
good
morsels
to
her
lytell
houndes
/
Ther
wa●
a
lady
whiche
hadde
two
small
houndes
/
whome
she
moche
loued
and
had
soo
derworthe
that
that
she
took
in
them
greete
playsaunce
/
She
made
for
them
dayly
dysshes
of
sowpes
/
and
after
gaf
to
them
flesshe
and
other
fryandyses
delycyous
/
And
on
a
tyme
there
was
a
frere
mendy●aunt
that
said
to
her
that
it
was
euyll
done
to
gyue
suche
metes
to
the
houndes
that
were
grete
&
fatte
/
where
as
there
were
moche
poure
peple
lene
and
drye
for
●●gre
/
Thus
he
prechyd
vnto
the
lady
/
but
for
al
that
she
wold
not
leue
it
/
S●o
thenne
a
lytel
afterward
this
lady
bycam
seke
vnto
the
deth
/
And
ther
happed
a
wonder
thyng
/
whiche
was
sene
al
apertely
.
For
ther
cam
vpon
her
bed
two
lytel
black
dogges
/
And
whan
she
drewe
on
and
was
in
a
traunce
they
were
about
her
mouthe
/
and
lycked
her
lyppes
/
And
where
as
they
lycked
her
on
the
mouthe
/
it
bycam
as
black
as
a
Cole
/
This
I
haue
herd
of
a
damoyselle
that
said
that
she
had
sene
al
this
.
And
named
to
me
the
lady
/
This
is
a
good
en●ample
to
euery
good
lady
and
woman
/
how
they
ought
not
to
haue
ouer
grete
plais●re
in
suche
thynges
/
ne
to
〈◊〉
flesshe
/
ne
lychorous
metes
to
the
houndes
.
For
lack
of
whiche
the
poure
peple
of
god
dye
for
honger
the
whiche
ben
the
creatures
of
god
made
to
his
semblaunce
and
lykenes
/
and
ben
his
seruauntes
/
Suche
wymmen
vnderstande
not
the
word
of
god
in
the
gospel
/
where
as
god
sayth
/
he
that
doth
wel
to
the
poure
/
doth
to
me
seruyce
/
These
wymmen
resemble
not
vnto
the
good
quene
blanche
/
that
was
moder
of
saynt
lowys
whiche
dyd
do
gyue
in
hir
syght
the
mete
to
the
moost
nedy
and
meseased
.
And
after
saynt
lowys
dyd
in
lyke
wyse
/
For
he
vysyted
the
poure
peple
and
fedde
them
with
his
own
honde
/
The
plaisire
of
euery
good
woman
is
to
see
the
faderles
and
moderles
children
and
lytel
poure
children
and
them
norysshe
and
clothe
/
as
dide
the
holy
lady
that
was
Countesse
of
Mauns
whiche
norysshed
wel
thyrtty
orphanes
/
and
the
lytel
poure
children
for
pyte
/
and
therin
was
al
hir
disporte
/
And
therfor
she
was
louyd
of
god
/
and
had
an
holy
lyf
and
a
good
ende
/
And
ther
was
sene
at
her
deth
a
grete
clerenes
and
lyght
alle
full
of
lytel
children
/
These
were
not
the
smale
houndes
that
were
black
/
whiche
were
sene
with
the
other
/
as
ye
haue
herd
to fore
Of
them
that
take
first
newe
gyses
/
capitulo
/
xx
fAyre
doughters
I
praye
yow
that
ye
ben
not
the
fyrste
for
to
take
on
yow
newe
arraye
ne
gyses
.
and
that
ye
in
this
caas
be
the
last
and
tarye
lengest
/
And
in
especialle
the
newe
gyses
of
wymmen
of
straunge
Countre
.
For
I
shalle
saye
yow
of
a
debate
whiche
was
f
a
baronnesse
.
that
duellyd
in
guyenne
/
And
of
the
lord
of
beaumont
fader
of
hym
that
is
now
lord
/
whiche
was
a
subtyle
and
a
wyse
knyght
/
This
lady
aresonned
hym
of
his
wyf
/
And
said
fayre
Cosyn·
I
am
come
fro
brytayne
and
haue
sene
my
fayre
Cosyn
your
wyf
.
whiche
is
not
arayed
ne
aourned
as
ben
the
ladyes
of
guyenne
ne
of
many
other
places
/
For
her
pourfyls
of
her
garnementes
ne
of
her
hodes
ben
not
grete
ynough
after
the
gyse
that
now
is
vsed
/
Thenne
the
knyght
answerd
to
her·
Madame
syth
she
is
not
arayed
after
your
gyse
/
and
that
her
pourfyls
seme
lytell
/
wherfore
ye
blame
me
be
ye
certeyn
that
ye
shal
blame
me
nomore
therfore
/
For
I
shall
doo
araye
her
as
queyntely
and
as
nobly
as
ye
or
ony
other
ben
and
yet
more
/
For
ye
haue
not
but
the
half
of
your
garnementes
and
of
your
hoode
torned
outward
with
grys
and
crmynes
/
but
I
shalle
doo
to
her
better
/
For
I
sha●le
make
her
kirtels
and
hoodes
alle
the
furre
outward
/
&
so
she
shalle
be
better
pourfylled
than
ye
ne
the
other
/
And
after
this
he
said
/
Madame
/
thynke
ye
/
that
I
ne
wylle
wel
that
she
be
arayed
after
the
good
ladyes
of
the
Countre
/
yes
veryly
/
but
I
wylle
not
that
she
chaunge
the
guyse
of
good
wymmen
/
ne
of
the
ladyes
of
worship
of
Fraunce
and
of
this
Countre
/
whiche
vse
not
the
gyse
of
the
loues
ne
of
the
lemmans
of
th
englysshe
men
/
ne
of
the
peple
of
companyes
/
For
these
ben
they
that
first
knewe
this
gyse
in
brytayne
and
in
Guyenne
of
these
grete
pourfyls
and
of
the
Coursettys
torned
by
the
sydes
/
For
I
was
of
that
tyme
and
sawe
it
/
And
for
to
take
the
guyse
of
suche
wymmen
that
brought
it
firste
hyther
/
I
holde
them
euyl
counceyled
and
also
them
euyll
aduysed
that
arraye
them
so
/
and
also
them
that
take
and
vse
hit
/
how
wel
that
the
pryncesse
and
other
ladyes
of
Englond
·
whiche
after
theyr
longe
comyng
maye
wel
do
it
/
But
I
haue
herd
of
the
sages
that
euery
good
lady
&
woman
ought
to
kepe
the
gyse
&
state
of
the
good
ladyes
and
wymmen
of
theyr
Countre
&
comyn
gyse
of
the
R●y●●mme
/
of
whiche
they
ben
of
/
And
that
they
ben
moost
wyse
that
ben
the
laste
that
take
suche
noueltees
and
newe
gyses
/
And
thus
by
renomme
the
ladyes
of
Fraunce
and
of
these
lowe
marches
ben
holden
the
best
ladyes
that
ben
and
lest
blamed
These
wordes
were
said
to
fore
moche
peple
/
wherof
the
lady
●●ld
her self
nyce
/
and
wyst
not
what
to
answere
/
And
thenne
many
of
them
bigan
to
murmure
/
and
said
among
them
/
that
she
had
done
better
for
to
haue
holden
her
stylle
and
said
nought
/
And
therfore
my
fair
doughters
this
is
a
faire
Ensample
for
to
take
and
holde
astate
moyen
and
the
gyse
of
the
good
lady●s
of
the
Countre
and
of
the
comune
of
the
royamme
/
that
they
ben
of
That
is
to
saye
/
of
that
whiche
the
good
ladyes
vse
comunely
&
that
is
a
noble
thyng
/
For
to
take
a
newe
gyse
comen
by
straunge
wymmen
and
fro
other
Countrees
/
they
ben
more
mocqued
/
and
scorned
/
than
for
to
kepe
the
gyse
of
their
Countre
/
as
ye
haue
herd
of
the
good
knyght
that
was
wyse
/
and
of
grete
gouernement
in
repreuyng
of
the
lady
/
And
knowe
ye
for
certayne
/
that
they
that
first
done
and
take
the
newe
gyses
/
ben
scorned
&
mocked
/
But
god
haue
mercy
on
vs
at
this
day
/
after
that
som
haue
herd
that
ony
newe
facion
or
nouelte
of
goune
or
arraye
/
shall
neuer
reste
till
they
haue
therof
a
Copye
/
And
shullen
saye
to
their
lord
or
husbond
dayly
/
Suche
thyng
/
and
suche
shold
become
me
wel
/
and
it
is
right
faire
/
I
praye
yow
that
I
may
haue
it
/
yf
their
lord
or
husbond
saye
to
her
/
my
loue
yf
suche
one
haue
it
/
other
that
ben
holden
as
wyse
as
she
haue
it
not
/
And
she
thenne
wylle
saye
what
though
they
can
not
araye
them
/
what
haue
I
doo
with
all
/
Sith
that
suche
one
hath
it
.
I
may
wel
haue
it
/
and
were
it
as
wel
as
she
/
And
I
say
you
that
they
shal
fynd
so
many
resons
/
that
they
must
nedes
haue
theyr
parte
/
but
these
maner
of
wymmen
ben
not
founde
the
moost
wyse
ne
moost
connyng
/
but
they
haue
their
hert
moost
sette
to
the
plesaunce
of
the
world
/
I
speke
not
vpon
the
ladyes
ne
the
damoysels
that
maye
wel
do
at
their
lust
and
gyse
/
For
ageynst
their
estate
I
thynk
not
to
speke
ony
thyng
that
may
displese
them
yf
I
may
knowe
it
/
For
it
apperteyneth
not
/
ne
is
syttyng
to
me
but
to
honoure
and
obeye
them
to
my
powere
/
ne
I
entende
not
to
speke
ageynst
them
by
this
book
/
but
to
my
owne
doughters
/
wymmen
and
seruauntes
/
to
whome
I
may
say
that
as
it
shal
plese
me
.
and
after
my
wylle
How
me
ought
not
to
stryue
ayenst
them
that
ben
langageurs
and
full
of
wordes
/
Capitulo
xxi
fAyre
doughters
I
shall
saye
to
yow
an
Ensample
/
how
it
is
peryllous
to
speke
and
holde
stryf
to
peple
that
haue
the
world
in
their
hande
/
and
that
haue
manere
and
wytte
to
speke
.
For
gladly
men
ne
wynne
but
lytel
to
holde
stryf
of
bourdes
and
Iapes
to
suche
men
/
For
it
happed
at
a
grete
feste
where
as
were
many
grete
ladyes
and
lordes
/
And
that
ther
was
the
marchal
of
Clermont
/
whiche
merueiloussly
had
the
world
in
honde
as
of
fayre
spekyng
and
lyeng
subtylly
/
and
to
knowe
hym self
and
his
beyng
among
alle
knyghtes
and
ladyes
/
So
thenne
ther
was
one
lady
that
said
to
hym·
to
fore
alle
the
peple
/
Clermont
/
in
good
faythe
ye
ought
to
gyue
grete
guerdon
vnto
god
/
For
ye
be
a
good
knyght
and
semely
ynough
.
and
ye
knowe
many
and
conne
many
merueyles
.
and
were
parfite
ynough
/
yf
your
mockyng
ne
were
and
youre
euyll
tonge
.
whiche
somtyme
can
not
be
stylle
/
Now
Madame
is
this
the
worst
tatche
that
I
haue
/
She
sayd
ye
/
Now
see
we
thenne
in
this
poynt
as
me
semeth
for
to
Iuge
rightfully
/
that
I
haue
not
so
euylle
a
tonge
as
ye
/
And
I
shalle
saye
yow
wherfore
/
ye
haue
me
repreuyd
and
tolde
me
the
worst
tatche
that
I
haue
after
youre
aduys
/
And
I
haue
not
said
the
worst
tatche
that
I
knowe
in
yow
/
what
wrong
haue
I
doo
thenne
/
Madame
I
am
not
so
swyfte
of
my
speche
as
ye
are
/
The
lady
helde
her
pees
thenne
/
And
wold
that
she
had
not
stryuen
ne
spoken
to
hym
for
dyuerse
causes
/
whiche
I
reherce
not·
as
I
haue
herd
recounted
that
it
was
ynough
spoken
/
And
somme
said
that
it
had
better
for
her
to
haue
ben
stylle
/
And
therfore
this
is
a
good
Ensample
/
For
it
is
better
somtyme
to
be
stylle
and
saye
no
thyng
than
to
be
ouer
apperte
and
begynne
woedes
to
such
men
/
as
haue
their
wordes
redy
at
hand
/
And
that
haue
no
shame
to
saye
double
wordes
hauyng
dyuerse
ententes
/
And
therfore
take
ye
heede
to
whome
ye
enterpryse
to
speke
/
and
beware
that
ye
saye
no
thyng
to
theyr
displaisire
/
For
for
to
stryue
is
moche
peryllous
Of
thee
ladyes
that
ar●sonned
Boussycault
.
capitulo
/
xxijᵒ
yEt
shalle
I
saye
to
yow
of
this
matere
/
how
it
happed
that
thre
ladyes
supposed
to
haue
shamed
Boussycault
And
what
fylle
therof
/
Boussycault
was
a
wyse
man
/
and
wel
bespoken
amonge
alle
other
knyghtes
/
And
hadde
the
world
and
rule
at
the
wylle
among
grete
lordes
and
ladyes
.
So
it
happed
at
a
feste
that
thre
grete
ladyes
satte
in
a
Closette
/
and
spaken
of
theyr
good
auentures
so
long
/
that
that
one
said
to
the
other
/
Foull
alle
to
her
of
vs
/
that
wil
not
say
for
good
companye
yf
she
were
this
yere
praid
&
requyred
of
loue
/
veryly
seid
one
of
them
/
I
haue
ben
desired
within
this
yere
/
by
my
feyth
seid
the
other
so
haue
I
/
&
I
also
said
the
thyrd
/
Now
saide
one
that
was
most
peert
/
Foule
be
she
that
wylle
not
discouere
his
name
/
that
laste
desyred
vs
/
By
my
feyth
said
one
/
yf
ye
wylle
ensure
vs
to
saye
the
same
also
/
we
shall
saye
truly
the
treuthe
.
And
she
agreed
&
said
that
it
was
boussycault
/
ye
said
that
other
.
certeynly
it
was
he
that
desyred
me
/
Certaynly
so
dyd
be
me
said
the
thirdde
/
Ha
Ha
said
they
is
hit
soo
/
Certeynly
he
is
not
so
loyal
ne
trewe
as
we
had
supposed
/
He
is
not
but
a
bourdour
/
and
a
deceyuer
of
ladyes
/
late
vs
sende
for
hym
/
And
anone
●e
was
fette
/
and
cam
/
and
said
to
them·
My
ladyes
what
pleseth
yow
/
they
saide
we
haue
for
to
speke
with
yow
/
Sytte
here
doune
by
vs
/
And
wolde
haue
made
hym
sytte
at
theyr
feete
.
but
he
answerd
them
and
said
.
Sith
I
am
comen
at
youre
sendyng
fore
/
late
me
haue
a
chayer
or
a
stoole
to
sytte
on
/
For
yf
I
shold
sytte
lowe
I
myght
breke
my
poyntes
or
layners·
&
ye
myght
bere
me
on
hond
that
it
were
another
thyng
.
And
so
he
must
haue
a
syege
to
sytt
on
/
And
when
he
was
set
/
the
ladyes
that
were
wel
born
began
to
saye
to
hym
/
how
is
hit
Boussycault·
that
we
haue
ben
deceyued
by
yow
in
tyme
passed·
For
we
had
supposed
that
ye
had
ben
feith
full
and
trewe
/
And
ye
are
not
but
a
trompeur
and
a
mockar
of
ladyes·
It
is
al
youre
condicion
/
how
said
boussicault
my
ladyes
knowe
ye
that
I
haue
done
ony
deceyte
or
tromperye
/
yes
said
that
one
.
For
ye
haue
desired
my
faire
Cosyns
/
that
ben
here
/
&
also
so
haue
ye
me
/
And
ye
haue
sworen
to
eche
of
vs
that
ye
louyd
eche
best
aboue
al
creatures
/
this
is
a
grete
lesyng
/
&
it
is
not
trouthe
/
For
ye
be
not
worthy
ne
of
valewe
to
haue
thre
.
And
therfore
ye
ben
fals
and
deceyuable
.
And
ye
ought
not
to
be
putt
in
the
nombre
ne
in
th
acounte
of
good
and
trewe
knyghtes
/
Now
my
ladyes
haue
ye
al
said
/
ye
haue
grete
vnright
/
&
I
shall
tell
yow
wherfore
/
For
at
the
tyme
that
I
said
so
to
eche
of
yow
/
I
had
thenne
my
plesaunce
/
And
thought
so
at
that
tyme
.
And
therfore
ye
doo
wronge
to
holde
me
for
a
deceyuer
/
But
me
behoueth
to
suffre
of
yow
/
For
ye
haue
youre
parlementes
vpon
me
/
And
when
they
sawe
that
he
was
not
abasshed
/
they
bygan
to
saye
/
what
shall
we
doo
/
late
vs
drawe
lotte
for
hym
/
&
she
that
hath
the
shortest
shall
haue
hym
/
For
yf
I
lose
/
I
shall
quyte
my
part
truly
/
And
I
myn
said
the
other
/
Thenne
answerd
he
and
said
to
them
/
nay
my
ladyes
/
by
the
sacrament
of
god
/
I
am
not
soo
to
be
departed
ne
to
be
left
/
For
there
is
here
no
woman
that
I
wyll
abyde
with
/
And
therwith
he
aroos
and
wente
his
way
And
they
aboden
in
the
shame
more
abasshed
than
he
was
/
And
therfore
it
is
grete
perylle
to
begynne
strif
or
debate
wyth
men
that
knowe
the
world
/
and
that
can
mayntene
their
manere
And
therfore
this
is
a
good
Ensample
not
for
to
stryue
ne
to
haue
wordes
with
suche
maner
men
/
For
in
all
thyng
is
manere
For
other
whyle
they
that
wene
to
know
moost
/
ben
somtyme
deceyued
/
And
therfore
I
wold
that
ye
shold
remembre
an
Ensample
semblable
to
this
matere
Of
thre
ladyes
that
accuseden
one
knyght
/
capitulo
/
xxiij
IT
was
so
on
a
tyme
that
thre
badyes
accuseden
a
knyght
of
suche
a
caas
and
of
suche
a
deceyuaunce
/
And
had
shitte
hym
in
a
chambre
alone
/
and
euery
lady
had
a
damoyselle
/
And
that
notwithstondyng
they
iuged
hym
to
deth
/
sayeng
that
he
neuer
after
sholde
deceyue
in
suche
manere
lady
/
woman
/
ne
maide
/
And
they
were
so
angry
and
wroth
toward
hym
/
that
eche
of
them
helde
a
knyf
to
slee
hym
/
And
thenne
he
saide
to
them
My
ladyes
syth
it
pleseth
yow
/
that
I
shall
dye
withoute
remedye
and
withoute
mercy
/
I
praye
yow
alle
that
it
plese
yow
to
graunte
me
a
bone
&
a
yefte
/
And
they
acorded
&
graunted
it
〈◊〉
And
thenne
saide
he
/
wyte
ye
what
ye
haue
graunted
/
&
ther
〈◊〉
nay
/
but
ye
say
it
to
vs
/
I
desyre
thenne
saide
he
that
the
strongest
hore
of
you
smyte
me
the
first
stroke
/
Thenne
were
they
al
abass●●●
&
eche
of
them
behelde
other
/
&
eueriche
thought
in
hym self
〈◊〉
sholde
smyte
the
first
stroke
/
I
sholde
be
dishonoured
&
〈…〉
whan
he
sawe
them
so
astonyed
&
esbayed
/
he
ran
to
the
〈…〉
opened
it
/
&
went
out
/
&
so
departed
fro
them
/
&
thus
the
〈◊〉
saued
hym self
/
&
they
abode
all
astonyed
&
mocked
/
&
therfor
〈◊〉
lytel
aduysement
is
moche
worth
at
nede
/
be
it
to
man
or
woman
Thenne
I
leue
to
speke
more
of
this
matere
/
And
come
ag●●ne
to
speke
of
them
that
haue
their
herte
all
on
the
world
as
to
be
〈◊〉
feestes
/
Ioustes
and
carolles
&
to
goo
on
pilgremages
more
for
disporte
than
for
deuocion
Of
them
that
gladly
go
to
festes
and
Ioustes
capitulo
xxiiij
I
Shall
saye
to
yow
an
Ensample
of
a
good
lady
that
ga●
a
grete
blame
at
a
grete
feste
of
a
round
table
atte
Ioustes·
This
good
lady
was
yonge
.
And
her
herte
was
set
to
the
world
for
to
daunce
and
synge
well
.
whefore
the
lordes
and
knyghtes
loued
her
wel·
Not
withstondyng
hir
lord
her
husbond
was
no
thyng
plesid
that
she
went
so
gladly
/
but
she
ofte
p●●ide
and
requyred
hym
to
gyue
her
leue
/
And
her
husbonde
dyde
soo
for
fere
to
stande
oute
of
the
grace
of
other
lordes
/
And
by
cause
they
sholde
not
saye
/
that
he
were
not
Ielouse
/
And
he
hym self
also
spente
largely
for
to
acqueynte
hym
att
the
feestes
/
And
for
the
honoure
of
them
bothe
/
But
she
myght
wel
apperceyue
/
that
yf
she
had
wold
don
the
playsir●
and
wylle
of
her
husbond
/
that
she
shold
not
haue
gone
thyder
/
Hit
happed
on
a
tyme
as
she
was
acustomed
to
daunce
in
a
feste
all
nyght
tyl
hit
was
daye
/
that
sodenly
the
torches
and
lyghtes
were
al
quenchid
/
And
there
was
made
grete
hues
and
cryes
/
&
when
the
lyght
was
brought
ageyne·
the
broder
of
the
husbond
of
this
lady
sawe
that
a
lord
a
knyght
helde
this
lady
/
and
had
put
her
a
lytel
a
parte
or
a
syde
/
And
in
good
feithe
/
I
thynke
veryly
/
that
there
was
done
thenne
none
harme
/
ne
vylonye
/
But
neuertheles
the
broder
said
so
moche
that
her
husbond
knewe
ther
of
/
And
he
had
so
grete
sorowe
in
his
herte
therof
/
that
he
mystruste
her
all
his
lyf
after·
ne
neuer
had
syth
that
tyme
to
her
soo
grete
loue
ne
playsaunce
/
as
he
was
woned
to
haue
/
For
he
was
a
foole
/
and
so
was
she
also
/
And
euer
after
eche
arred
at
other
lyke
houndes
.
And
they
lost
all
their
goodes
and
housholde
.
And
all
for
a
lytell
occasion
/
I
knowe
wel
also
another
fayr
lady
/
that
moche
gladly
wold
be
ledde
to
the
feestes
/
And
was
therfor
blamed
and
sklaundred
with
a
grete
lord
·
wherfore
she
took
a
thought
&
bycam
seke
a
long
tyme
of
soo
grete
a
sekenes
/
that
she
she
was
all
deffeted
/
And
had
no
thyng
on
her
/
but
skyn
&
bone
And
began
to
drawe
toward
her
deth
/
wherfore
the
sacrament
was
brought
to
her
/
Thenne
said
she
to
fore
all
that
were
there
/
My
lordes
&
my
frendes
/
behold
&
see
/
In
what
poynt
I
am
/
I
was
wonte
to
be
whyte
/
Rody
/
fatte
/
and
the
world
preysed
my
beaute
/
Now
maye
ye
see
what
I
am
/
I
am
not
lyke
as
I
was
w●ned
to
be
/
I
was
acustomed
to
loue
festes
/
Ioustes
&
torneyes
but
the
tyme
is
passid
/
me
behoueth
to
goo
to
th
erthe
that
I
cam
fro
/
And
also
my
right
dere
frendes
/
it
is
said
and
moch
spoken
of
me
and
of
my
lord
of
Craon
/
But
by
that
god
that
I
owe
to
receyue
/
and
on
the
dampnacion
of
my
sowle
/
he
neuer
requyred
me
of
vylonye
/
ne
neuer
did
to
me
more
/
than
the
fader
that
engendryd
me
/
I
say
not
but
that
he
lay
in
my
bed
/
but
that
was
with
oute
vylonye
or
thynkyng
of
ony
euyll
/
Thenne
were
there
moche
peple
abasshed
that
supposed
wel
/
it
had
ben
all
otherwyse
/
Not
withstondynge
yet
had
she
be
sklaundred
and
blamed
therfore
a
fore
tyme
/
and
her
honoure
hurte
/
And
for
these
thynges
it
is
grete
perylle
to
alle
good
ladyes
that
haue
their
hertes
ouermoche
set
on
the
world·
ne
be
ouer
desyrous
to
goo
to
suche
feestes
/
that
they
may
kepe
them
honourably
/
The
feestes
and
reuelles
ben
cause
of
whiche
many
good
ladyes
and
gentyl
women
gete
moche
blame
and
noyse
withoute
cause
/
And
neuertheles
I
say
not
but
that
they
must
somtyme
obeye
their
husbondes
and
their
frendes
/
&
go
thyder
/
B●t
my
doughters
yf
it
happen
that
ye
goo
/
And
that
ye
maye
not
refuse
it
goodly
/
whan
it
cometh
to
nyght
that
they
shal
daunce
and
synge
/
so
kepe
yow
that
for
the
speche
of
the
world
/
ye
haue
alwey
by
you
somme
of
youre
frendes
or
of
youre
●eru●untes
/
For
yf
it
so
happed
/
that
the
torches
or
lyght
were
auenchyd
and
put
oute
/
that
they
myght
abyde
by
yow
/
n●t
for
●●●tyng
of
ony
euyl
/
but
for
the
perylle
of
euyll
eyen
/
and
of
〈◊〉
tonges
/
that
alweye
espye
/
and
seye
more
harme
than
ther
is
/
And
also
for
more
surely
to
kepe
youre
honoure
/
youre
name
and
youre
good
fame
.
ageynst
lyers
/
that
wylle
alwey
saye
the
euylle
and
leue
the
good
Of
them
that
wylle
not
were
theyr
good
clothes
on
hyghe
●estes
and
holy
dayes
/
capitulo
/
xxv
aN
other
ensample
I
shalle
telle
you
of
them·
that
wylle
not
were
theyr
gounes
ne
clothes
on
hyhe
fest●s
and
on
sondayes
for
the
honoure
of
oure
lord
/
Thenne
I
w●●l●
that
ye
sholde
take
ensample
how
a
damoyselle
repreuyd
her
l●dy
There
was
a
lady
/
whiche
had
good
gounes
&
ryche
/
but
she
wolde
not
were
them
on
sondayes
/
ne
on
fe●tful
dayes
/
but
yf
she
supposed
to
fynde
there
noble
men
of
estate
/
So
it
happed
at
a
fe●te
of
oure
lady
.
whiche
was
on
a
sonday
/
that
her
damoysell
said
to
her
Madame
why
clothe
ye
not
with
youre
good
gowne
this
day
for
the
loue
of
oure
lady
/
and
of
the
sonday
/
I
sayd
she
/
for
I
se
no
men
of
estate
here
/
a
ha
said
the
damoysell
/
god
and
his
moder
ben
more
grete
than
ony
other
/
And
they
ought
to
be
honoured
more
than
ony
worldly
thyng
/
For
he
may
gyue
and
take
awey
alle
thynges
at
his
plaisire
/
For
all
good
and
all
honoure
cometh
of
hym
and
of
his
blessid
dere
moder
/
and
on
theyr
hooly
da●es
we
ought
to
arraye
vs
the
better
/
holde
youre
pees
said
the
lady
/
God
and
the
preest
and
the
peple
see
me
al
day
/
but
folke
of
estate
see
me
not
al
wey
/
&
therfor
it
is
gretter
honour
to
me
to
ara●
&
make
me
fresshe
for
them
/
Madame
said
the
damoisel
that
is
eu●l
sayd
/
It
is
not
sayd
the
lady
/
late
come
al
that
may
come
therof
Anone
with
that
worde
there
cam
a
wynde
all
hoote
.
and
smote
her
in
suche
wyse
that
she
myght
not
stxre
ne
remeue
/
more
than
a
stone
/
And
thenne
she
confessid
her
and
repentyd
/
and
auowed
to
many
pylgremages
/
And
was
caryed
in
a
lytyer
/
And
she
told
to
al
men
of
worship
that
she
fonde
the
cause
of
this
maladye
that
had
so
taken
her
/
And
that
it
was
the
vengeaunce
of
god
/
And
she
said
that
she
had
more
grete
ioye
and
gretter
playsyre
for
to
make
her
queynt
and
gaye
for
peple
of
estate
that
cam
from
without
forth
in
to
suche
a
place
where
as
she
was
for
to
playse
them·
and
to
haue
parte
of
their
beholdynges
/
than
she
dyde
for
ony
deuocion
at
the
hyhe
festes
of
oure
lord
.
ne
of
his
sayntes
/
And
sithe
she
sayd
to
gentyll
wymmen
.
where
as
she
arayed
her
/
My
loues
/
loo
see
here
the
vengeaunce
of
god
/
And
tolde
to
them
alle
the
fayt
And
saide
to
them
/
I
was
woned
to
haue
a
faire
body
and
gente
/
And
so
sayd
euery
man
of
me
/
And
for
the
preysyng
the
bobaunce
and
the
glorye
that
I
took
/
I
clad
me
with
ryche
clothes
and
fyn
wel
pourfyld
and
furryd
·
And
shewed
them
att
festes
and
Iustes
/
For
somtyme
the
fruyte
that
was
in
me·
was
nought
&
folye
/
&
alle
that
I
dyde
was
for
the
glorye
and
loos
of
the
world
/
And
whan
I
herde
saye
of
the
companye
/
that
sayde
for
to
please
me
/
loo
there
is
a
wel
bodyed
woman
●
which
is
wel
worthy
to
be
bilouyd
of
somme
knyght
/
Thenne
al
my
herte
reioysed
in
me
/
Now
maye
ye
see
what
I
am
/
For
I
am
now
gretter
than
a
pype
.
And
am
not
like
as
I
was
/
ne
the
gownes
ne
robes
that
I
loued
/
&
had
so
dere
.
that
I
wold
not
were
them
on
sondayes
ne
on
the
feestes
for
t
honoure
of
god
shall
now
neuer
serue
me
/
And
therfor
my
fair
loues
&
frendes
/
god
hath
shewed
to
me
my
folye
/
that
spared
myn
araye
on
holy
dayes
for
to
shewe
me
fresshe
&
Ioly
to
fore
men
of
astate
for
to
haue
preysyng
&
beholdyng
of
them
/
wherfore
I
pray
yow
my
frendes
/
that
ye
take
ensample
here
at
me
/
Thus
complayned
this
good
lady
al
seke
and
swollen
/
vij
/
yere
/
And
after
when
god
had
sene
her
contricion
&
her
repentaunce
/
he
sente
to
her
helthe
/
&
was
hoole
after
her
lyf
/
&
was
euer
after
moche
humble·
towarde
god
/
And
gafe
the
moste
parte
of
her
goodes
for
goddes
sake
/
&
helde
her
afterward
symply
and
had
not
her
herte
set
toward
the
world
/
as
she
was
woned
/
&
therfor
my
fair
doughters
this
is
a
goode
ensample
hou
ye
ought
to
apparayle
yow·
&
were
youre
good
clothes
on
the
sondayes
/
&
the
good
feestes
for
t
honoure
and
the
loue
of
god
which
gyueth
all
/
And
for
t
honoure
of
his
swete
moder
&
of
the
hooly
sayntes
more
than
for
worldly
people
/
whiche
ben
no
thyng
but
fylthe
/
&
erthe
/
And
for
theyr
regard
and
preysyng
/
For
they
that
soo
done
for
their
plaisaunce
displese
god
/
And
he
shal
take
vengeaunce
on
them
in
this
world
/
or
in
that
other
/
like
as
he
dyd
of
the
lady
of
whiche
ye
haue
herd
/
And
therfore
this
is
a
good
Ensample
to
all
good
ladyes
and
to
alle
good
wymmen
Of
the
suster
of
seynt
Bernard
whiche
cam
to
see
hym
in
grete
araye
Capitulo
xxvj
oNe
Ensample
.
wylle
I
telle
yow
after
this
matere
/
It
happed
that
seynt
bernard
whiche
was
an
hooly
man
/
and
of
hyhe
lygnage
lefte
all
his
grete
possessions
/
and
noblesse
for
to
serue
god
in
an
Abbaye
and
to
lede
the
better
his
lyf
/
he
was
chosen
Abbot·
and
ware
hayer
and
dyd
grete
abscynence
/
&
was
a
grete
almes
man
to
the
poure
/
And
he
had
a
su●ter
whiche
was
a
grete
lady
/
and
she
cam
for
to
see
hym
with
grete
foyson
of
peple
nobly
arrayed
with
ryche
robes
set
with
perles
&
precious
stones
/
&
in
this
grete
estate
she
cam
to
fore
her
broder
whiche
was
a
good
and
holy
man
/
And
whan
saynt
Bernard
sawe
her
in
this
araye
/
he
blessid
hym
/
and
torned
to
her
his
back
/
And
the
lady
was
gretely
abasshed
by
cause
he
deyned
not
to
speke
to
her
/
&
he
sente
her
worde
that
he
was
aferd
to
see
her
in
so
grete
pryde
/
&
so
desguysed
&
deffaited
/
Thenne
she
dide
of
her
ryche
atours
&
ryche
robes
/
&
arayed
her
moche
symply
/
&
thenne
he
cam
to
her
&
said
/
fair
suster
.
yf
I
loue
your
body
I
owe
by
reson
moch
more
to
loue
youre
sowle
/
Wene
ye
not
that
it
displesyth
god
&
hys
sayntes
&
to
all
the
Courte
of
heuen
to
see
suche
pryde
and
bobaunce
set
vp·
And
to
araye
karoyn
/
that
within
a
day
after
the
sowle
shal
departe
shalle
so
rote
and
stynke
/
that
no
creature
may
feele
ne
see
it
withoute
errour
and
abhomynacion
/
Faire
suster
/
why
thynke
not
ye
ones
a
day
/
how
the
poure
dye
for
cold
/
and
for
hongre
ther
withoute
/
where
as
the
tenthe
parte
of
youre
queynteryes
and
noblesses
myght
refresshe
and
clothe
moo
than
xl
persones
ageynst
the
cold
.
Thenne
this
hooly
man
declared
to
her
hou
she
shold
leue
the
folye
of
the
world·
and
the
bobaunce
therof
/
and
shewed
to
her
how
she
shold
saue
her
sowle
soo
moche
that
the
good
lady
wepte
/
And
after
she
dyde
doo
selle
the
moost
parte
of
her
ryche
Roobes
and
ryche
araye
/
And
ledde
soo
hooly
a
lyf
/
that
she
had
the
grace
of
god
and
of
the
world
/
that
is
to
say
of
good
and
wyse
men
/
whiche
ben
better
than
fooles·
And
therfor
my
fayr
doughters
this
is
a
fair
Ensample
that
ye
ought
not
haue
youre
herte
set
toward
the
world
/
ne
to
fynde
and
set
these
newe
gyses
and
queyntyses
to
please
with
the
world
.
but
that
ye
departe
so
with
god
/
whiche
all
sendeth
/
And
soo
may
ye
gete
youre
sauacion
/
For
it
is
better
to
haue
lasse
gownes
and
robes
/
that
the
poure
may
haue
theyr
parte
/
For
who
someuer
lette
all
his
entent
for
to
haue
the
playsyr
of
the
world
/
I
am
certayne
that
it
is
folye
and
temptacion
of
the
fende
onre
enemye
/
And
ye
ought
more
better
to
araye
yow
for
the
loue
and
honoure
of
god
/
than
for
the
folysshe
thought
of
the
world
whiche
is
but
a
shadowe
vnto
the
regard
of
hym
that
all
maye
and
al
gyueth
/
and
alwey
endureth
his
glorye
/
Of
them
that
playe
and
iape
at
the
masse
/
capitulo
/
xxvij
I
Shalle
telle
yow
another
Ensample
of
them
that
Iangle
at
the
masse·
when
they
ought
to
here
the
seruyse
of
god
/
It
is
conteyned
in
the
gestys
of
Athenes
/
that
ther
was
an
heremyte
a
moche
hooly
man
and
of
blessid
lyf
/
And
he
had
a
Chappel
in
his
hermytage
of
saynt
Iohan
/
And
thyder
cam
many
knyghtes
/
squyers
ladyes
and
damoysels
of
the
Countre
/
as
wel
for
the
feste
/
as
for
the
holynes
of
hym
/
And
this
hooly
heremyte
songe
the
masse
.
And
when
he
torned
hym
after
the
gospel
/
he
behelde
the
ladyes
and
damoisels
/
knyghtes
and
squyers
/
that
bourded
&
iangled
in
the
tyme
of
the
masse
and
ronned
one
with
another
/
And
he
beheld
moche
theyr
contenaunce
/
And
he
sawe
that
at
eche
ere
of
man
and
woman
was
a
fende
moche
black
and
horryble
/
whiche
also
laughed
and
Iangled
amonge
them
/
and
wrote
the
wordes
that
were
said
/
These
fendes
wenten
spryngyng
vppon
theyr
queynt
arayement
/
and
nyce
araye
lyke
as
the
smale
byrdes
that
lepe
fro
braunche
to
braunche
/
And
this
hooly
man
blessid
hym
and
merueyled
/
And
when
he
was
in
his
canon
aboute
th
ende
he
herde
them
speke
and
laughe
/
And
thenne
he
smote
the
booke
for
to
make
them
be
stylle
/
but
somme
there
were
that
wold
not
/
Thenne
said
he
/
fayre
lord
god
make
thou
them
to
hold
their
pees
/
and
be
styll
/
and
that
they
maye
knowe
their
folye
/
Thenne
they
that
soo
laughed
/
bigan
to
crye
and
braye
/
bothe
men
and
wymmen
as
demonyakes
and
suffryng
so
grete
peyne
.
that
it
was
a
pytous
thyng
to
see
and
here
And
when
the
masse
was
songen
/
the
hooly
heremyte
said
/
hou〈◊〉
hadde
sene
the
fendes
of
helle
laugh
vpon
them
with
euyl
contenaunces
when
he
was
at
the
masse
/
And
after
he
told
them
that
they
fylle
in
grete
perylle
when
they
spak
and
bourded
/
and
of
the
grete
synne
that
they
dide
in
the
tyme
of
the
masse
/
when
they
shold
haue
ben
in
the
seruyse
of
god
/
To
whiche
none
ought
to
come
/
but
for
to
gyue
laude
/
praye
humbly
and
deuoutely
to
worshippe
god
/
And
after
this
he
said
/
how
he
sawe
the
fendes
lepe
&
sprynge
vpon
the
hornes
/
&
other
nyce
apparaylle
of
many
wymmen
/
And
they
were
tho
that
talked
and
Iangled
with
company
And
they
that
thought
more
to
complaire
and
plese
their
amorettes
&
delytes
of
the
world
/
than
to
plese
god
/
&
to
haue
the
regardes
&
beholdynges
of
the
musardes
/
on
them
/
he
saw
on
these
the
fendes
pynne
their
keuerchyefs
/
but
vpon
them
that
sayd
their
prayers
&
were
in
deuocion
/
they
were
not
on
them
ne
touched
them
how
well
there
were
ynough
of
them
/
that
were
wel
arayed
&
curyously
/
But
it
holdeth
more
in
the
hert
than
in
thabyte
/
And
after
he
said
that
soo
arayed
them
for
to
ben
the
beter
sene
/
and
take
heede
of·
done
grete
synne
/
And
they
that
take
playsir
in
the
seruyse
of
god
/
angre
sore
and
gyuen
grete
debate
to
the
fende
oure
enemy
/
After
that
he
had
said
thus
many
thynges
/
the
wymmen
and
they
that
cryed
and
were
so
tormented
/
threwe
awey
their
gaye
arraye
/
as
peple
oute
of
theyr
wyt
/
And
alweye
abode
they
there
in
suche
manere
nyne
dayes
/
And
on
the
tenthe
day
they
were
brought
ageyne
to
their
right
mynde
/
by
the
prayer
of
the
hooly
heremyte·
And
thus
were
they
chastised
/
that
fro
than
forthon
/
they
kepte
them
from
spekyng
and
Ianglyng
in
thetyme
of
the
seruyce
of
god
/
wherfore
we
may
wel
vnderstonde
by
this
ensample
that
no
persone
ought
not
talk
in
the
chirche
ne
distourble
the
seruyse
of
god
An
Ensample
that
happed
at
the
masse
of
seynt
Martyn
capitulo
/
xxviij
aNd
yet
I
shalle
saye
to
yow
what
befelle
att
the
masse
of
seynt
Martyn
of
Tours
/
The
hooly
man
songe
the
masse
And
his
godsone
seynt
Bryce
helpe
hym
to
synge
which
was
after
hym
Archebisshop
of
Tours
/
This
saynt
Bryce
began
to
laughe
/
And
saynt
Martyn
apperceyued
it
/
And
when
the
masse
was
done
/
seynt
Martyn
callyd
hym
/
And
demaunded
of
hym
why
he
laughed
/
And
he
answerd
hym
that
he
had
sene
the
deuyll
/
whiche
put
in
wrytynge
/
alle
that
the
men
and
wymmen
talked
to geder
as
longe
as
he
sayd
the
masse
/
Thenne
it
happed
/
that
the
parchemyn
in
whiche
the
fende
wrote
/
was
ouer
shorte
/
And
he
began
to
drawe
it
oute
a
long
with
his
teeth
.
for
to
make
it
larger
/
And
when
he
so
drewhe
with
his
teeth
/
the
perchemyn
escaped
fro
hym
/
in
suche
wyse
that
he
smote
his
heede
ayenst
the
stone
walle
/
And
for
that
cause
I
lough
/
And
whan
saynt
Martyn
hadde
herd
that
seynt
Bryce
had
sene
this
/
he
preched
vp
on
this
mater
to
the
peple
/
how
it
was
grete
perylle
to
speke
&
talke
in
the
masse
tyme
/
and
in
the
tyme
of
the
seruyce
of
god
/
And
yet
susteyne
the
grete
clerkes
that
me
ought
not
saye
no
prayers
in
the
masse
tyme
/
And
in
especial
whyle
the
gospell
is
red
and
per
omnia
with
the
preface
/
And
for
these
causes
aforsaid
my
fair
doughters
/
ye
haue
herby
a
fayre
ensample
/
how
that
ye
ought
to
mayntene
you
humbly
and
deuoutely
in
the
Chirche
/
and
not
to
talke
ne
iangle
for
no
thyng
that
may
happen
Of
a
knyght
that
causid
all
a
towne
to
lese
theyr
masse
where
as
he
dwellyd
/
capitulo
xxixo.
aNother
Ensample
I
shalle
telle
yow
of
them
that
lose
their
masse
/
and
also
to
make
other
to
lese
it
/
I
haue
herd
told
of
a
knyght
and
of
a
lady
/
that
fro
theyr
youth
took
grete
plaisire
to
slepe
to
fore
none
.
And
this
they
vsed
in
suche
manere
that
oftymes
they
lost
theyr
masse
/
And
causid
alle
they
parysshe
to
lose
it
also
/
in
whiche
they
dwellyd
/
For
he
was
lord
and
patron
of
the
parysshe
/
And
the
parson
durst
not
with
saye
hym
/
So
it
happed
on
a
sonday
/
that
they
sente
to
the
parson
that
he
shold
tarye
for
them
/
And
whan
they
cam
/
it
was
passed
mydday
/
And
they
of
the
parysshe
told
the
preest
that
it
was
past
none
/
And
therfor
he
durst
not
synge
masse
/
And
so
they
hadde
no
masse
that
daye
/
wherfore
the
peple
of
the
parysshe
were
moche
angry
/
but
they
must
nedes
suffre
/
And
it
happed
in
the
same
nyght
that
the
preest
had
a
vysyon
/
that
hym
semed
/
that
he
kept
a
grete
flock
of
sheep
.
in
a
felde
/
where
as
was
no
grasse
/
And
he
wold
haue
brought
them
in
a
pasture
for
to
haue
fedde
them
/
where
to
was
but
one
path
/
and
in
that
path
was
a
black
swyn
and
a
sowe
/
whiche
lay
ouerthwert
the
way
/
And
these
hogg●s
were
horned
/
And
he
had
soo
grete
drede
and
fere
/
bothe
he
/
and
his
shepe
.
that
he
durst
not
entre
in
to
his
pasture
/
And
anon
they
torned
back
to
their
feld
withoute
pasture
/
And
soo
they
had
no
mete
/
And
thenne
hym
thought
one
saide
to
hym
/
leuest
thou
to
gyue
pasture
to
thy
sheep
/
for
fere
of
these
horned
beestes
/
&
there
with
al
he
awoke
/
And
in
lyke
wyse
this
vysion
happed
the
same
nyght
to
the
knyght
and
to
the
lady
his
wyfe·
for
them
semed
that
they
become
a
bore
and
a
sowe
/
and
were
also
horned
/
And
that
they
wold
not
suffre
the
sheep
to
passe
and
goo
to
their
pasture
/
And
sith
them
semed
/
ther
cam
a
grete
chace
of
black
hunters
syttyng
vpon
grete
black
horses
/
which
had
with
them
grete
quantyte
of
grehoundes
and
black
dogges
/
whome
them
semed
.
they
vncoupled
/
and
dide
set
them
on
hem
/
and
made
them
all
to
drawe
hem
/
and
byte
them
by
the
eres
/
armes
/
and
thyes
/
And
blewe
their
hornes
/
halowed
and
cryed
/
And
this
chace
or
hutyng
endured
on
them
so
longe
/
that
them
semed
that
they
were
taken
&
slayn
/
&
ther
with
all
they
awoke
beyng
sore
agast
&
effrayed
/
&
this
aduysion
happed
and
cam
to
them
two
tymes
/
Now
it
happed
that
the
preest
cam
vnto
the
place
/
where
this
knyght
&
lady
were
/
And
they
tolde
to
hym
their
vysyon
/
And
in
lyke
wyse
the
preest
told
to
them
his
/
wherof
they
were
sore
admerueyled
and
abasshed
by
cause
they
were
lyke
/
Thenne
the
preest
aduysed
hym
/
and
sayde
to
the
knyght
/
Syre
there
is
an
hooly
hermyte
here
by
in
suche
a
foreste
/
whiche
shalle
make
vs
wyse
and
vnder
stonde
of
this
thynge
/
Thenne
they
wente
to
this
hooly
man
/
and
recounted
to
hym
theyr
aduysyon
/
fro
poynt
to
poynt
/
And
thys
hooly
man
which
was
wyse
and
of
a
blessid
lyf
/
declared
to
them
all
their
fait
/
And
said
to
the
knyght
&
his
wyf·
ye
be
the
black
swyne
/
whiche
kepe
the
pathe
and
the
entre
of
the
pasture
.
that
the
sheepe
may
not
fede
them
/
ne
may
not
ete
of
the
good
pasture
That
is
to
saye
that
ye
be
lord
of
the
parysshe
/
in
whiche
ye
dwelle
And
ye
haue
distourbled
and
lette
the
good
peple
and
parisshens
for
to
lere
the
seruyse
of
god
/
which
is
good
pasture
&
refresshyng
of
the
spyrituel
lyf
of
the
sowle
/
by
cause
of
youre
latchesse
and
youre
long
reste
/
And
the
hornes
that
ye
haue
ben
the
braunches
of
youre
synnes
/
whiche
ben
moche
grete
/
And
in
especiall
of
the
grete
synnes
that
ye
haue
done
in
lettyng
other
fro
the
benefete
and
the
seruyce
of
god
/
whiche
ye
may
not
amende
but
by
greete
penaunce
and
tormente
/
And
therfore
the
vengeaunce
of
the
wrong
that
ye
haue
done
/
is
shewed
to
yow
/
that
ye
shall
be
tormentyd
and
hūnted
of
the
fendes
of
helle
/
And
at
the
last
ye
shalle
be
taken
and
slayn
by
the
very
huntyng
of
deuyls
/
lyke
as
it
was
shewed
to
yow
by
youre
aduysyon
/
And
I
say
you
certaynly
.
that
it
hadde
ben
lasse
synne
an
honderd
ageynst
one
/
that
ye
had
herde
no
masse
than
for
to
take
fro
the
good
peple
ne
fro
the
preest
their
deuocion
/
for
when
he
abode
ouer
long
/
he
was
angry
&
synned
in
the
synne
of
wrathe
/
and
the
good
peple
also
/
of
whome
somme
wente
to
tauerne
/
And
other
lost
their
deuocion
and
alle
good
charyte
/
And
all
the
synnes
and
euyls
comen
of
yow
/
&
by
youre
slouthe
/
wherof
ye
shall
gyue
a
rekenyng
perauenter
has●lyer
than
ye
wene
/
For
ye
shalle
be
hunted
and
put
to
doth
lyke
as
ye
haue
sene
in
youre
aduysyon
/
That
is
to
say
that
ye
ben
in
the
wey
to
be
dampned
/
yf
ye
put
not
therto
remedye
/
Thenne
the
knyght
was
moche
abasshed
/
and
demaunded
of
hym
counceil
how
he
myght
doo
/
Thenne
the
hooly
man
said
that
he
shold
thre
sondayes
kne●e
to
fore
his
parisshens
/
and
crye
them
mercy
/
and
praye
them
to
pardone
hym
/
And
that
they
wold
praye
to
god
for
hym
and
his
wyf
also
/
And
from
thenne
forthon
they
wold
be
the
first
to
fore
other
at
the
Chirche
/
and
there
he
confessid
hym
to
the
heremyte
/
And
he
gafe
to
hym
that
penaunce
and
other
/
And
fro
than
forthon
he
chastysed
hym self
/
And
he
and
his
wyf
thanked
oure
lord
/
that
he
vouchesauf
to
shewe
to
them
this
demonstraunce
/
And
I
saye
yow
that
fro
than
forthon
/
they
were
the
first
that
cam
to
the
chirche
/
And
also
the
hooly
heremyte
said
to
the
preest
and
declared
to
hym
his
vision
.
and
tolde
hym
that
god
ought
to
be
more
drad
and
serued
than
the
world
.
And
therfore
my
faire
doughters
/
take
herby
a
good
ensample
/
that
for
your
plaisire
ye
cause
none
to
lese
their
masse
/
ne
theyr
deuocion
for
your
slouthe
and
neclygence
/
For
it
were
better
that
ye
herd
none
/
And
I
wolde
wel
/
that
ye
shold
knowe
and
lerne
th
ensample
of
a
lady
/
that
spended
the
fourthe
parte
of
the
daye
for
to
araye
her
/
Of
a
lady
that
dispended
the
fourthe
parte
of
the
day
for
to
araye
her
/
capitulo
/
xxx
tHer
was
a
lady
/
whiche
had
her
lodgyng
by
the
chirche
/
And
she
was
alweye
acustomed
for
to
be
long
to
araye
her
/
And
to
make
her
fresshe
and
gay
/
in
so
moche
that
it
annoyed
and
greued
moche
the
parson
of
the
Chirche
/
and
the
parysshens
/
And
it
happed
on
a
sonday
that
she
was
so
long
/
that
she
sente
to
the
preest
/
that
he
shold
tarye
for
her
/
lyke
as
she
had
ben
acustomed
·
And
it
was
thenne
ferforthe
on
the
day
/
And
it
annoyed
the
peple
/
And
there
were
somme
that
said
.
how
is
●it
/
shall
not
this
lady
this
day
be
pynned
ne
wel
besene
in
a
Myrroure
/
And
somme
said
softely
.
god
sende
to
her
an
euyll
syght
.
in
her
myrroure
that
causeth
vs
this
day
●
and
so
oftymes
to
muse
&
to
abyde
for
her
.
&
thenne
as
it
plesyd
god
for
an
ensample
.
as
she
loked
in
the
Myrroure
she
sawe
therin
the
fende
/
whiche
shewed
to
her
his
hynder
parte
so
fowle
and
horryble
/
that
the
lady
wente
oute
of
her
wytte
/
and
was
al
ce●onyak
a
long
tyme
/
and
after
god
sente
to
her
helthe
/
And
after
she
was
not
so
long
in
arayeng
but
thanked
god
that
had
so
suffred
her
to
be
chastysed
/
And
therfore
this
is
a
good
ensample
/
how
me
ought
not
to
be
so
long
/
for
to
apparayle
ne
to
make
her
gaye
/
as
for
to
lese
the
seruyse
of
the
masse
.
ne
to
make
other
to
lese
the
seruyce
of
god
How
god
sprange
in
to
the
mouthe
of
a
hooly
lady
/
capo.
/
xxxjo.
nOw
I
shalle
telle
yow
vpon
this
matere
of
a
good
lady
whiche
was
hooly
of
lyf
/
and
moche
loued
god
&
his
seruyse
/
And
that
day
that
she
herd
no
masse
/
she
ere
neither
flesshe
ne
fysshe
.
so
euyll
at
ease
was
she
at
her
herte
/
So
it
happed
on
a
tyme
/
that
her
chappellayn
was
in
suche
wyse
seke
/
that
he
myght
not
synge
masse
/
The
good
lady
was
not
wel
at
ease
att
her
herte
/
by
cause
she
had
lost
her
seruyse
/
And
walked
out
of
her
Castel
sayenge
/
O
good
lorde
/
forgete
vs
not
/
but
plese
hit
the
to
pourueye
to
vs
that
we
may
here
the
holy
seruyce
/
and
in
sayeng
these
wordes
/
she
sawe
two
freres
of
relygyon
comyng
/
of
whom
she
had
grete
ioye
/
And
anone
she
demaunded
yf
they
had
said
masse
/
And
they
said
nay
/
And
she
desyred
them
to
synge
/
And
they
saide
gladly
/
yf
it
please
god
/
And
when
the
good
lady
herd
that
she
thanked
god
/
And
the
yonger
songe
first
/
And
thenne
whan
he
had
made
thre
pyeces
of
the
sacrament
/
the
olde
frere
beheld
it
.
And
sawe
one
of
the
partes
spryng
in
to
the
mouthe
of
the
good
lady
/
in
maner
of
a
lytel
bryght
clerenes
/
The
yonge
frere
loked
all
aboute
/
where
hit
was
become
/
And
that
other
trembled
for
fere
and
sorowe
of
his
felawe
/
And
cam
to
hym
and
sayd
that
he
sholde
not
be
dismayed
/
For
that
he
sought
was
in
the
mouthe
of
the
good
lady·
Thenne
was
he
wel
assured
and
thanked
god
of
the
myracle
that
thus
happed
to
this
good
lady
/
that
so
moche
louyd
the
seruyse
of
god
/
Loo
my
faire
doughters·
this
is
a
good
ensample
for
you
certayn
/
They
that
loue
god
in
his
seruyse
/
god
loueth
them
/
as
it
is
shewed
appertely
/
by
this
good
lady
/
whiche
had
so
grete
desyre
to
see
hym
and
here
his
seruyse
as
afore
is
said
/
Of
a
Countesse
that
euery
day
herd
thre
masses
/
capitulo
/
xxxij
/
I
Wolde
that
ye
sholde
wel
reteyne
an
ensample
of
a
good
lady
/
a
Countesse
/
whiche
euery
day
wolde
here
thre
masses
/
And
on
a
tyme
she
wente
a
pylgremage·
And
hit
happed
of
her
Chappellayns
to
falle
of
an
hors
to
th
erthe
/
so
that
he
was
so
hurte
that
he
myght
not
saye
masse
/
The
lady
was
at
ouer
a
grete
meschyef
for
to
lose
one
of
her
masses
/
And
she
complayned
deuoutely
to
god
/
And
anone
god
sente
to
her
an
Angel
in
stede
of
a
preest
/
whiche
songe
the
third
masse
/
but
when
he
had
songen
/
and
was
vnreuested
/
it
was
not
knowen
where
he
bicam
for
ony
serche
that
they
couthe
make
.
Thenne
thought
the
good
lady
/
that
god
hadde
sente
hym
to
her
/
And
thanked
hym
moche
humbly
/
and
this
is
a
faire
Ensample
how
god
purueyeth
to
them
that
haue
deuocion
in
hym
/
and
in
his
seruyce
/
But
I
trowe
that
ther
ben
many
ladyes
at
this
day
/
that
passe
wel
with
lasse
than
thre
masses
/
For
it
suffyseth
them
ynowe
of
one
masse
only
/
soo
lyte●l
loue
and
deuocion
/
haue
they
in
god
/
&
in
his
seruyce
/
Fo●
in
herynge
of
his
seruyse
his
propte
persone
fonde
hym
/
For
who
someuer
loueth
and
dredeth
hym
/
he
wyl
oft
see
hym
and
here
his
hooly
word
/
And
in
lyke
wyse
the
contrary
/
For
he
that
hath
not
wel
set
his
hert
to
hym
ward
/
he
passeth
lyghtely
as
many
doo
in
thise
dayes
/
whiche
haue
their
herte
more
set
on
the
world
/
and
on
the
delyte
of
the
flesshe
/
than
on
god
.
Of
a
yong
amorouse
lady
/
and
of
an
esquyer
/
Capitulo
/
xxxiij
I
Shalle
telle
to
yow
an
Ensample
of
a
yong
lady
.
whiche
had
sette
her
hert
on
the
world
/
And
vnto
her
repayred
a
squyer
/
whiche
was
Ioly
and
amourous
on
her
/
And
she
ne
hated
hym
not
/
And
more
for
to
haue
ease
and
delyte
for
to
speke
and
bourde
to geder
/
she
made
her
lord
and
husbond
to
bileue
that
she
had
auowed
to
go
a
pylgremage
/
&
her
husbond
whiche
was
a
good
man
suffred
her
by
cause
he
wold
not
displease
her
/
and
so
it
happed
on
a
tyme
that
she
and
this
squyer
went
a
pylgremage
vnto
a
monastery
of
oure
lady
/
And
they
were
in
grete
plaisire
on
the
way
for
to
speke
to geder
/
For
they
entended
wel
other
thynges
than
to
saye
theyr
matyns
/
And
they
had
grete
playsyre
and
delyte
on
the
wey
/
wherof
it
happed
that
when
they
were
comen
in
to
the
chirche
/
and
were
in
the
myddel
of
the
masse
/
the
fowle
fende
/
whiche
is
alwey
in
a
wayte
tenflamme
&
tempte
man
and
woman
/
helde
them
so
subget
in
this
temptacion
and
fowle
plaisire
/
that
they
had
theyr
eyen
and
plesaunces
more
to
beholde
eche
other
/
and
to
make
smale
signes
and
tokenes
of
loue
than
they
bad
in
the
dyuyne
seruyse
/
or
for
to
saye
deuoutely
theyr
prayers
/
And
soo
it
happed
by
open
myracle
/
that
soo
grete
a
maladye
tooke
the
said
lady
/
that
sodenly
she
swouned
/
And
they
knewe
not
whether
she
was
dede
or
a
lyue
/
And
so
she
was
born
thennes
in
mennes
armes
in
to
the
towne
/
as
a
dede
body
/
And
her
husbonde
and
frendes
were
sente
fore
/
whiche
were
moche
sorowfull
of
this
aduenture
/
And
they
beheld
hyr
/
and
wis●
not
whether
she
wold
dye
or
lyue
/
Thenne
it
happed
that
the
lady
whiche
was
in
grete
payne
sawe
a
merueylous
aduysyon
/
for
her
semed
that
she
sawe
her
fader
and
moder
/
whiche
had
ben
dede
long
to
fore
/
her
moder
shewed
to
her
/
her
brest
/
sayeng
/
Fayre
doughter
/
loo
here
thy
noreture
/
loue
and
honoure
thy
husbond
and
lord
/
as
thou
dydest
this
brest
that
gaf
the
to
sowke
/
Sythe
that
the
Chirche
hath
gyuen
hym
to
the·
And
after
her
fader
sayd
to
her
.
Fair
doughter
why
hast
thou
more
plesaunce
and
gretter
loue
to
other
than
to
thyn
owne
lord
and
husbond
/
Beholde
this
pytte
that
is
beside
the
/
And
know
thou
for
certayn
/
yf
thou
falle
in
this
fire
of
euyll
hete
/
that
thou
shalt
abyde
therin
/
And
thenne
she
loked
and
sawe
a
pytte
ful
of
fyre
so
nyghe
to
her
/
that
almoost
she
had
fallen
therin
.
And
she
was
thenne
all
effrayed
/
And
after
this
her
fader
and
moder
shewed
to
her
wel
an
honderd
preestes
reuested
al
in
whyte
/
And
the
fader
and
moder
said
to
her
/
Fair
doughter
we
thanke
the
/
by
cause
that
thou
hast
reuested
this
folke
here
/
And
after
that
her
semed
that
she
sawe
th
ymage
of
oure
lady
holdyng
a
Cote
and
a
sherte
/
and
sayd
to
her
/
This
Cote
and
this
sherte
kepe
the
fro
fallyng
in
this
pytte
Thou
hast
defowled
my
hows
and
mocked
it
/
And
in
this
effraye
/
she
awoke
/
and
gaf
a
grete
syghe·
And
thenne
had
her
lord
&
her
frendes
grete
ioye
/
and
sawe
well
that
she
was
not
deed
/
And
this
lady
felt
her self
al
wery
/
and
feble
of
the
aduysyon
&
drede
of
the
fyre
/
and
of
the
flamme
of
the
pytte
/
in
whiche
she
was
almoost
falle
/
And
she
demaunded
to
haue
a
preest
/
And
anon
was
fette
to
her
an
hooly
man
a
relygyous
whiche
was
a
grete
Clerke
/
and
ware
the
hayre
and
lyued
an
hooly
lyf
/
And
to
hym
she
confessid
her
/
and
tolde
to
hym
all
her
aduysyons
and
the
grete
drede
that
she
had
to
falle
in
to
the
pyt
/
And
there
she
tolde
to
hym
all
her
synnes
.
&
her
yong
wantoun
lyf
/
And
the
holy
man
declared
to
her
/
hir
aduysyon
/
&
said
to
her
in
this
wyse
Yet
of
the
same
/
Capitulo
xxxxiiij
dAme
ye
ben
moche
beholdynge
to
god
/
and
to
his
swete
moder
/
whiche
wylle
not
haue
yow
dampned
/
ne
the
perdicion
of
youre
sowle
/
But
they
shewe
to
yow
youre
perylle
and
youre
saluacion
/
First
they
haue
shewed
to
yow
youre
fader
and
moder
/
And
youre
moder
said
to
yow
/
Fayre
doughter
see
the
breestes
.
of
whiche
thou
hast
taken
thyn
noreture
loue
&
honoure
thy
husbond
.
lyke
as
thou
hast
done
these
brestes
/
That
is
to
vnderstonde
/
ye
ought
to
loue
&
fere
hym
/
like
as
ye
loued
the
pappes
of
youre
moder
/
&
ther
ye
took
youre
norysshynge
And
like
as
the
childe
leueth
alle
thynges
for
loue
of
the
〈◊〉
.
&
for
the
swetenes
of
the
mylke
/
wherof
he
taketh
his
foode
/
ryght
so
ought
euery
good
woman
next
god
and
his
hooly
lawe
loue
her
husbond
aboue
al
other
/
and
leue
all
other
loues
for
hym
/
In
lyke
wyse
as
oure
lord
saith
with
his
hooly
mouthe
/
that
a
man
shold
leue
fader
&
moder
/
suster
&
broder
/
&
abyde
with
his
wyf
&
with
wyf
her
husbonde
/
&
that
they
be
not
tweyne
but
one
flessh
/
&
that
god
hath
ioyned
man
may
not
departe
/
&
also
where
he
said
that
youre
moder
saide
/
ye
tooke
youre
noreture
in
her
pappes
&
your
welthe
/
that
is
to
say
/
yf
ye
loue
youre
husbond
aboue
al
other
/
thenne
shall
your
noreture
growe
&
encrece
from
day
to
day
/
like
as
the
child
groweth
by
his
noreture
of
the
pappe
&
by
the
s●ettenes
of
the
mylke
/
which
signyfyeth
the
grete
swetenes
the
〈◊〉
the
loue
that
ought
to
be
in
trewe
mariage
/
&
the
grace
of
god
du●lleth
in
them
/
After
your
fader
said
/
faire
doughter
.
why
hast
thou
more
gretter
loue
&
plaisaunce
to
other
than
to
thyn
husbond
/
beholde
the
pitte
that
is
beside
the
/
&
knowe
thou
verily
yf
thou
fall
in
the
pitte
with
grete
hete
/
that
thou
shalt
be
lost
therin
/
that
is
to
saye
/
that
if
thou
loue
more
another
than
thy
lord
/
thou
shalt
fall
in
to
the
pyt
/
where
ye
shal
be
brent
&
broiled
for
the
delyte
of
euil
plaisaunce
&
euyll
hete
/
And
therfore
he
shewed
to
yow
the
pytte
of
fire
&
of
hete
/
And
the
vengeaunce
&
the
pugnycion
that
behoueth
to
ensue
for
this
delite
&
the
hete
of
the
folissh
plaisaunce
.
After
he
shewed
to
you
the
prestes
in
white
/
&
said
that
ye
had
reuested
them
/
wherof
he
thanked
you
/
that
signefiāce
is
/
that
ye
haue
〈◊〉
reuestid
prestes
/
&
done
said
masses
for
them
/
&
in
like
maner
pray
they
for
you·
&
they
ben
sory
when
they
see
them
that
done
good
for
them
ben
sent
to
perdicion
/
as
ye
may
wel
apperceyue
that
they
were
sory
of
the
temptacion
that
ye
had
in
the
foule
plaisaunce
/
in
which
ye
were
in
the
wey
for
to
be
lost
/
&
therfor
they
cam
for
to
socour
you
for
loue
of
the
good
dedes
of
the
masses
&
almesses
that
ye
haue
done
for
them
/
After
ye
saw
th
ymage
of
our
lady
that
held
a
cote
&
a
shirte
/
&
said
this
cote
&
this
shirt
haue
kept
the
fro
fallyng
in
to
the
pytte
/
for
thou
hast
defouled
my
hous
&
mocked
it
/
That
is
to
saye
that
ye
haue
ben
in
the
chirch
in
gretter
loue
of
another
/
than
of
hym
/
They
were
the
folisshe
regardes
&
the
folisshe
plaisires
that
ye
toke
hym
/
for
whom
ye
emprised
&
toke
the
Iourneye
:
&
also
the
vois
said
to
you
the
haue
fouled
&
mocked
his
haus
that
is
his
chirch
For
all
they
that
come
thyder
for
ony
other
playsaunce
/
but
for
the
deuocion
of
hooly
place
/
&
doo
not
the
seruyse
of
god
/
but
come
for
their
plaisire
and
worldly
delyte
/
they
mocke
the
chirche
and
the
hows
of
god
/
After
ye
defowled
it
when
ye
synned
there
lyke
as
the
voys
said
to
yow
.
that
was
when
ye
hadde
youre
herte
sette
more
in
the
plaisire
of
folye
/
than
on
the
dyuyne
seruyse
/
And
of
that
trespas
god
hath
wylled
to
shewe
to
you
youre
defaulte
/
And
hath
sente
to
yow
this
grete
euylle
and
sekenes
/
that
ye
haue
now
felt
/
And
this
grace
and
chastysement
is
comen
to
yow
for
the
seruyse
&
good
dede
that
ye
dyde
to
two
poure
wymmen
/
of
whiche
ye
gaf
to
one
a
Cote
/
&
to
that
other
a
smok
And
the
voys
said
to
yow
/
that
the
Cote
and
smock
haue
kepte
you
fro
fallyng
in
to
the
pytte
/
that
is
to
say
that
the
good
deede
and
th
almesse
that
ye
haue
done
for
goddes
sake
haue
kept
you
fro
perysshynge
/
For
yf
ye
hadde
fallen
in
to
the
folye
and
fowle
playsyre·
where
ye
had
set
youre
herte
in
/
ye
had
ben
vtterly
loste
and
perysshed
/
wherfore
ye
ought
to
gyue
grete
thankyng
&
seruyse
to
god
/
that
he
hath
vouchedsauf
to
shewe
yow
youre
errour
Now
ought
ye
from
hens
forth
to
kepe
yow
from
fallynge
in
suche
perylle
/
as
for
to
lose
all
honoure
and
youre
sowle
/
and
not
to
haue
plaisire
to
loue
none
so
moche
as
youre
lord
youre
husbond
to
whome
ye
haue
promysed
feith
and
trouthe
/
and
ye
ought
not
to
chaunge
for
better
ne
werse
/
And
yf
she
chaunge
and
loue
an
other
/
than
she
lyeth
and
periured
her
feithe
and
trouthe
/
Now
haue
ye
here
god
be
thanked
a
faire
myroure
all
lyke
as
the
wyse
man
shewed
yow
the
aduysyon
/
And
thus
he
confessid
&
taught
her
the
best
wyse
he
couthe·
&
the
lady
wexed
al
hole
/
and
thanked
god
and
lefte
all
her
folysshe
plaisaunce
/
Thenne
it
happed
aboute
half
yere
after
/
that
the
squyer
that
loued
her
peramours
cam
from
a
vyage
/
and
from
an
armee
where
he
had
ben
/
And
cam
to
her
queynt
and
Iolye
/
And
began
to
bourde
and
iape
/
&
speke
suche
langage
as
he
had
to
fore
other
tymes
vsed
/
And
he
fonde
her
all
straunge
/
thenne
was
he
all
abasshed
and
admerueyled
/
And
demaunded
her
and
said
/
Madame
at
what
playe
haue
I
lost
the
good
tyme
/
the
lyf
and
the
hope
/
that
I
haue
had
to
lyue
with
you
Ioiously
/
And
she
answerd
to
hym
that
all
that
tyme
was
passid
/
For
neuer
as
long
as
I
lyue
sayd
she
I
purpose
to
loue
ne
haue
plaisaunce
thith
none·
sauf
with
my
lord
my
husbonde
/
And
thenne
she
told
to
hym
the
aduenture
that
happed
her
in
the
chirch·
And
he
thought
and
supposed
wel
to
haue
torned
her
/
but
he
myght
not
/
and
when
he
sawe
that
she
was
feeme
and
constaunt
/
he
lefte
her
/
And
after
sayd
/
and
tolde
to
many
other
the
constaunce
and
stedfastnes
of
her
/
wherof
he
moche
preysed
and
honoured
her
the
more
/
And
therfore
here
is
a
good
Ensample
/
how
me
ought
not
to
goo
to
hooly
pylgremages
for
no
foolysshe
playsaunces
/
but
only
for
the
dyuyne
seruyse
and
for
the
loue
of
god
/
And
how
good
it
is
for
to
praye
/
and
to
doo
saye
masses
for
the
soules
of
fader
/
moder
and
other
frendes
/
For
in
lyke
wyse
they
praye
and
empetre
grace
for
them
that
ben
alyue
that
remembre
them
/
and
doo
good
for
them
as
ye
haue
herde
/
And
also
it
is
good
to
gyue
almesse
for
gods
sake
/
for
the
almesses
geten
grace
of
god
to
them
/
that
gyue
them
lyke
as
ye
haue
herd
/
And
nowe
I
shalle
telle
yow
another
ensample
that
happed
in
a
Chirche
/
whiche
was
called
oure
lady
of
Bealem
Of
the
man
and
woman
that
made
fornycacion
within
the
Chirche
/
Capitulo
xxxv
IT
befelle
in
the
same
chirche
vpon
the
Vygyl
or
euen
of
oure
lady
that
one
named
P●rrot
Lenard
/
whiche
was
sergeaunt
of
the
saide
chirche
that
same
yere
laye
with
a
woman
vnder
an
Awter
/
in
whiche
place
this
myracle
befelle
/
They
were
ioyned
to geder
as
a
dogge
is
to
a
bytche
/
And
in
this
manere
they
were
founden
&
taken
/
&
so
ioyned
&
knytted
to geder
they
were
all
the
hole
day
/
in
so
moche
that
they
of
the
chirch
&
of
the
Countrey
had
leyser
ynough
to
see
&
behold
them·
For
they
couthe
not
departe
one
fro
another
/
wherfore
a
procession
was
made
for
to
pray
god
for
them
/
And
soo
about
the
eueuyng
of
the
daye
they
were
losed
and
departed
.
that
one
fro
that
other
/
Neuertheles
nedeful
and
right
it
was
that
the
Chirche
shold
be
newe
holowed
/
And
that
the
said
perrot
for
his
penaunce
shold
goo
al
about
the
Chirche
al
naked
on
thre
sondayes
/
betyng
hym self
/
rehercyng
and
tellyng
his
defaute
and
synne
/
And
therfore
here
is
to
euery
man
a
good
ensample
/
how
that
he
shold
hold
hym
clenly
and
honestly
in
holy
chirche
.
And
●et
shall
I
telle
yow
an
other
ensample
vpon
the
same
matere
/
whiche
byfelle
in
the
partyes
of
peytow
/
whiche
is
not
past
thre
yere
Of
a
Monke
that
made
fornycacion
in
his
Abbeye
/
Capitulo
xxxvj
IN
pytowe
was
an
Abbeye
whiche
was
named
chyure
fare
/
of
whiche
Abbeye
the
chirche
hath
be
sore
empeired
and
wast
by
the
warre
/
The
pryoure
of
the
same
Abbeye
hadde
a
neuewe
that
had
to
name
pygrere
/
It
befell
on
a
sonday
after
matyns
were
done
/
And
as
the
Monkes
made
hem
redy
toward
the
hyghe
masse
/
that
this
Pygrere
was
demaunded
and
asked
for
/
and
sought
all
aboute
/
and
he
couthe
not
be
founden
/
but
at
the
last
so
grete
serche
was
made
for
hym
.
that
he
was
founde
within
the
Chirche
lyeng
vpon
a
woman
in
grete
distresse
and
hard
empesshed
.
For
so
nyghe
they
touched
and
ioyned
one
to
other
that
they
myght
not
departe
nor
styre
one
fro
other
/
but
bothe
at
ones
.
And
in
suche
manere
and
poynt
they
were
so
longe
that
alle
the
monkes
cam
thyder
or
they
were
losed
·
And
when
the
poure
Monke
sawe
his
vncle
and
al
the
other
monkes
with
hym
/
he
had
grete
shame
and
grete
sorowe
in
his
herte
/
And
for
this
cause
and
mesehyef
lefte
he
that
Abbeye
/
and
wente
in
another
somwhere
/
Here
may
be
taken
grete
Ensample
/
how
men
ought
wel
to
kepe
them self
fro
synne
doyng
in
hooly
places
/
specially
to
flesshely
delyte
or
lecherye
/
both
in
spekyng
or
in
ony
other
maner
/
For
it
is
not
conuenient
that
a
man
in
suche
places
loke
nor
beholde
maide
ne
woman
.
but
by
thought
and
weye
of
maryage·
For
as
god
sayth
in
the
Euangely
/
as
telleth
and
recounteth
one
Euangelyste
/
sayng
that
the
swete
Ihesu
Cryst
entred
or
went
in
a
chirche
.
whiche
at
that
tyme
was
called
the
Temple
/
where
as
men
sold
Mercery
and
other
ware
/
And
as
oure
lord
god
sawe
this
/
he
put
them
oute
euerychone
/
And
sayd
that
his
hows
sholde
be
kepte
clene
/
And
that
it
ought
to
be
the
hows
of
hooly
orysons
and
prayers
.
and
not
hows
of
Marchaundyse
nor
pytte
or
spelonke
for
theues
/
And
for
to
conferme
these
reasons
oure
lord
god
hath
wel
shewed
to
vs
appert
or
knowen
myracles
/
whiche
of
late
he
hath
made
in
the
forsayd
Chirches
as
ye
haue
herd
/
And
how
that
moche
displesyth
hym
that
men
defowle
his
hooly
hows
and
his
hooly
Chirche
Of
the
vyces
that
renne
&
ben
in
many
one
/
Capitulo
/
xxxvij
mY
faire
doughters
he
that
the
best
or
good
seeth
/
and
taketh
the
bad
or
euylle
.
it
is
good
right
that
after
therof
he
hym
repente
/
I
say
so
by
cause
that
we
haue
thorugh
this
world
many
euylle
and
badde
Ensamples
/
and
mo
ther
be
that
rather
and
soner
taken
the
bad
than
the
best
or
good
/
They
that
soo
doo
ben
fooles
/
For
they
put
them self
oute
of
the
ryght
way
that
is
oute
of
the
commaundements
of
god
/
whiche
all
good
/
and
also
oure
saluacion
techeth
vs
/
And
he
gyueth
vs
it
both
by
writynges
and
by
lawe
/
the
whiche
we
hold
and
sette
but
litil
by
/
For
we
see
that
the
moost
parte
of
the
world
rewleth
and
guydeth
them self
after
the
carnal
or
flesshely
delyte
and
wylle
/
And
ben
ful
of
veyne
glorye
and
dampnable
worship
.
The
one
is
prowde
for
his
scyence
/
the
other
for
his
Rychesse
/
Somme
for
their
gentylnesse
/
Other
be
that
ben
enuyous
of
the
goodes
and
worship
that
they
see
in
other
folk
more
than
in
them self
/
Other
be
that
ben
yrous
and
kepe
euylle
wylle
in
their
hertes
to
the
folk
Other
be
that
ben
so
esprysed
and
brennynge
in
the
hete
and
stynkyng
fyre
of
lecherye
that
they
be
wors
than
wylde
beestes
/
Other
ben
glotouns
&
lecherous
/
whiche
taken
ouer
moche
good
wynes
and
of
delycate
metes
.
Other
also
that
ben
couetous
to
haue
other
mennes
goode
/
Other
be
that
ben
theues
/
vsurers
/
Rauynours
/
traytours
and
backbyters
/
This
maner
of
folk
thenne
sheweth
wel
/
that
they
be
sones
and
disciples
of
the
deuylle
/
For
wel
they
ensyewe
and
folowe
the
doctryne
and
faites
of
hym
their
mayster
/
by
whoos
co●eunylle
and
temptacion
they
be
ioyned
with
synne
and
lyeng
in
the
way
of
dampnacion·
And
therin
the
deuyll
holdeth
them
faste
bounden
vnto
the
tyme
of
shewynges
of
very
and
pure
confession
And
of
this
manere
the
moost
parte
of
the
world
is
entatched
and
ouercome
/
Of
the
good
condycions·
that
ben
in
dyuerse
and
many
maners
/
amonge
folke
/
Capitulo
xxxviij
aLso
ther
he
other
that
ben
sage
and
wyse
/
whiche
haue
al
their
herte
and
truste
in
god
/
And
for
the
loue
and
drede
that
they
haue
toward
hym
/
they
hold
them
clenly
and
fro
synne
/
alwey
fyghtynge
ageynste
the
fire
of
lecherye
/
Also
they
hold
them
sobirly
fro
etynge
of
delycious
metes
and
wynes
kepyng
good
dyete
/
For
suche
delycates
ben
but
the
bronde
that
lyghteth
and
sparkleth
the
fire
of
lecherye
/
Other
ther
ben
that
haue
grace
/
wytte
and
suffisaunce
ageynste
couetyse
/
And
other
that
haue
a
fre
hert
and
pyteous
vpon
other
mens
peynes
/
/
And
ben
trewe
and
rightful
toward
their
neyghbours
/
And
also
ben
peasyble
.
And
therfor
oure
lord
god
maketh
them
to
lyue
in
pees
and
peasybly
/
For
who
that
the
euyll
and
the
Ryote
seketh
/
anguysshe
and
doloure
shal
soone
folowe
hym
/
Many
men
by
their
grete
Ire
and
angre
beten
them self
with
their
owne
staf
/
And
euery
day
ben
aboute
to
purchace
to
them self
grete
peyne
and
sorowe
/
And
therfore
oure
lord
God
in
the
Euangely
/
blesseth
alle
them
that
ben
debonaire
/
and
peasyble
of
herte
/
Alle
suche
folke
that
so
clerly
and
feruently
byhauen
and
mayntene
them self
in
the
loue
and
drede
of
god
and
of
theyr
neighbours
shewe
wel
that
they
be
wel
lyke
theyr
mayster
.
that
is
god
the
fader
/
of
whome
they
holden
and
kepe
the
hooly
commaundementes
/
as
hooly
chirche
techeth
them
/
&
they
haue
a
fre
herte
to
witholde
them
after
th
examplayre
of
his
sone
whiche
is
th
exemplaire
of
life
/
and
of
ioye
perdurable
/
And
is
the
swete
welle
or
fountayn
/
wherynne
men
maye
fynde
alle
goodnesse
and
sauement
And
therfore
fayr
doughters
/
haue
ye
euer
youre
herte
in
hym
/
and
loue
and
drede
hym
/
And
he
shalle
saue
yow
fro
alle
peryls
/
and
fro
all
euylle
temptacions
/
Wherfore
my
faire
doughters
I
wylle
shewe
and
declare
vnto
yow
by
this
book
the
trewe
women
and
good
ladyes
/
that
oure
lord
god
preyse
so
moche
in
his
byble
/
by
whoos
hooly
dedes
and
operacions
were
and
shalle
be
euermore
preysed
/
Wherby
ye
may
take
good
Ensample
of
honest
and
clenly
lyuynge
/
And
also
I
shalle
shewe
yow
somme
euyl
wymmen
that
were
furyous
and
replenysshed
of
alle
malyce
/
the
whiche
fynysshed
theyr
lyf
in
grete
sorowe
and
heuynesse
/
to
th
ende
ye
take
of
them
goode
Ensample
to
kepe
yow
fro
all
euylle
and
fro
the
perdycyon
.
wher
as
they
fallen
in
Th
ensample
of
Eue
oure
first
moder
capitulo
/
xxxix
tHe
first
ensample
of
euyll
and
of
synne
/
wherby
the
deth
is
come
and
entred
in
to
this
world
cam
by
Eue
our
first
moder
/
that
lytell
kepte
the
commaundement
of
god
/
and
the
worship
wherin
he
had
enhaunced
and
put
her
/
for
he
hadde
made
her
lady
/
of
alle
thynges
lyuyng
that
were
vnder
the
heuen
/
whiche
al
were
obeyeng
to
her
/
And
yf
she
had
not
falle
in
to
the
synne
of
inobedyence
/
there
had
be
no
fysshe
in
the
see
ne
beest
on
th
erthe
/
ne
byrde
in
thayer
/
but
that
they
had
al
be
v●der
her
obeisaunce
/
&
at
her
will
myght
haue
take
them
.
and
dyuyse
&
haue
them
where
someuer
she
wold
/
Also
she
shold
haue
had
children
without
ony
dolour
or
peyne
/
&
neuer
she
shold
haue
had
honger
ne
thurst
/
nother
cold
ne
hete
/
trauaylle
/
ne
sekenesse
/
tristesse
or
heuynesse
of
herte
ne
erthely
deth
/
No
water
myght
haue
drouned
her
ne
fyre
myght
haue
conbusced
or
brente
her
/
ne
glauye
or
wepen
myght
haue
hurte
her·
no
thyng
myght
ennoye
her
/
Thenne
loke
we
and
thynke
how
a
synne
alone
withoute
ony
more
was
cause
to
putt
her
fro
thys
grete
honoure
and
worshyp
and
make
her
falle
so
lowe
and
in
suche
secuage
/
For
she
lost
all
that
is
before
rehercyd
only
for
the
synne
of
Inobedyence
/
Loke
ye
wel
thenne
/
that
ye
kepe
yow
fro
it
/
as
I
trust
in
god
ye
shall
remembrynge
this
Ensample
.
And
knowe
ye
that
the
synne
of
oure
first
moder
Eue
/
cam
by
euylle
and
shrewed
aqueyntaunce
by
cause
she
helde
parlement
with
the
serpente
/
whiche
as
the
Hystorye
sayth·
hadde
a
face
ryght
fayre
lyke
the
face
of
a
woman
And
spack
ryght
mekely
/
she
herde
hym
with
alle
her
wylle
/
and
pryuely
/
where
Inne
she
dyde
lyke
a
foole
/
For
yf
at
the
begynnynge
she
hadde
not
herde
hym
/
But
hadde
come
to
her
lord
she
hadde
dyscomfyted
and
ouercome
hym
to
grete
shame
/
And
soo
the
foole
herynge
of
hym
tourned
her
in
to
grete
losse
&
damage
/
And
therfore
my
fayre
doughters
/
It
is
not
good
to
here
folke
/
that
ben
in
theyr
speche
blandysshynge
and
castynge
many
flaterynge
wordes
/
For
they
benefulle
of
decepcion
/
The
Serpente
found
Eue
ferre
froo
her
lord
/
and
allone
/
Wherfore
atte
his
beste
leyser
/
he
shewed
her
his
deceyuable
purpos
and
false
langage
/
For
the
whiche
cause
it
is
not
good
to
be
alone
with
ony
other
/
withoute
he
be
of
his
next
parente
or
kynrede
/
Not
withstandynge
I
saye
not
but
men
may
wel
bere
honoure
to
euery
one
after
he
is
worthy
/
but
men
put
more
his
honoure
and
worship
in
Ieopardy
and
daunger
by
answere
to
moche
/
than
by
fewe
and
short
answere
/
For
one
word
bryngeth
in
another
Of
the
second
folye
of
Eue
/
Capitulo
xlᵒ.
tHe
seconde
folye
of
Eue
oure
firste
moder
is
/
that
she
to
lyghtely
answerd
withoute
remembryng
her
ne
thynkyng
to
no
harme
/
as
lucifer
demaunded
and
asked
of
her
why
she
and
her
husbonde
ete
not
of
the
fruyte
of
the
tree
of
lyf
as
they
dyd
of
other
/
she
withoute
takyng
ony
counceylle
of
her
husbond
answerd
and
helde
with
hym
talkyng
wherof
she
dide
lyke
a
foole
and
myshapped
her
/
For
the
answere
was
not
conuenyent
to
her
/
but
it
longed
and
apperteyned
to
her
lord
Adam
by
cause
god
had
gyuen
to
her
lord
the
kepyng
of
her
and
of
the
fruyte
/
And
to
hym
hadde
deuysed
and
tolde
/
whiche
fruytes
they
sholde
ete
/
And
therfore
she
myghte
haue
answerd
/
that
he
shold
speke
to
her
lord
/
and
not
to
her
/
And
therfore
my
faire
doughters
herin
maye
ye
take
good
Ensample
/
that
yf
one
requyre
yow
of
foly
/
or
of
ony
thyng
that
toucheth
youre
honoure
and
worship·
ye
may
wel
couer
and
hyde
it
/
sayeng
that
ye
therof
shal
speke
therof
to
youre
lord
/
Wherfore
my
fayr
doughters
I
wolde
that
ye
wel
withheld
within
youre
hert
th
exsample
of
a
good
lady
of
Acquyllee
/
whiche
the
prynce
of
that
Countre
praid
of
foule
loue
/
And
whan
he
had
ynough
prayd
and
spoken
to
her
/
she
answerd
that
she
sholde
therof
speke
to
her
lord
/
And
when
the
prynce
sawe
this·
he
lefte
her
in
pees
/
and
neuer
syth
spack
to
her
therof
/
and
said
to
many
one
that
she
was
one
of
the
moost
parfyte
&
best
lady
that
was
in
his
land
/
&
in
this
manere
the
good
lady
receyued
grete
preysyng
and
louyng
of
many
one
.
And
soo
ought
euery
goode
woman
doo
/
and
not
answere
after
her
owne
wylle
The
thyrdde
folye
of
Eue
capitulo
/
xlj
/
tHe
thyrd
folye
of
Eue
was
.
that
she
was
not
remembryng
the
defence
of
god
/
whiche
he
made
to
her
/
&
to
her
lord
.
For
god
tolde
them
.
that
yf
they
ete
of
that
fruyte
they
shold
deye
of
it
.
And
therfore
when
she
answerd
to
th
enemy
lucifer
/
she
told
hym
not
playnly
the
trouthe
/
but
said
yf
we
ete
of
it
/
it
myght
fortune
soo
that
by
aduenture
we
shold
dye
/
She
●y●e
put
condicion
in
her
answere
/
as
many
folysshe
women
doo
when
men
speke
to
them
of
foly
/
but
oure
lord
god
spak
to
them
with
oute
ony
condicion
/
and
withoute
auenture
/
Her
symple
and
folysshe
answer
gaf
to
the
serpent
lucifer
gretter
boldenesse
to
sp●●●
to
her
more
largely
and
to
tempte
her
more
playnly
/
She
did
as
they
that
herkene
.
and
that
lyghtely
answer
to
them
that
requyre
them
of
fowle
loue
/
For
by
theyr
symple
and
wyse
answere
and
by
the
herkynge
of
the
fowle
talkynge
of
them
/
that
praye
them
of
soo
fowle
loue
/
they
gyue
to
them
place
and
leue
to
speke
ferthermore
/
as
it
happed
to
eue
oure
fyrst
moder
/
whiche
herd
th
enemy
that
tempted
her
/
and
said
to
her
/
ye
may
wel
take
of
the
fruyte
and
ete
of
it
/
and
so
shalle
ye
knowe
bothe
good
and
euil
as
wel
as
he
that
suche
deffence
hath
made
vnto
yow
/
Ye
knowe
not
why
he
hath
forbede
that
ye
shold
ete
none
of
it
/
It
is
bycause
that
ye
shold
ete
of
it
/
ye
sholde
be
as
fayre
as
bryght
shynyng
and
as
myghty
as
he
hym self
is
/
And
soo
the
foole
and
〈◊〉
wende
he
had
told
trouthe
/
and
byleued
hym
by
couetyse
and
by
his
faire
spekynge
/
as
done
the
folysshe
wymmen
tha●
ben
of
lyght
byleue
/
as
they
here
the
faire
semely
wordes
and
blandysshynge
wordes
of
the
Ianglours
/
that
gyue
them
counceylle
to
playe
and
take
the
worldly
disportes
ageynst
their
worship
and
honoure
/
and
by
their
flaterynge
wordes
and
promysses
/
whiche
they
hold
not
they
deceyue
them
/
soo
that
the
poure
and
vnwyse
wymmen
byleue
them
in
so
moche
that
they
consent
&
graunte
to
the
fowle
delyte
.
of
whiche
they
be
by
them
so
tempted
/
whe●●f
afterwarde
they
hold
them self
deceyued
&
ashamed
/
For
when
they
haue
done
with
them
their
fowle
delyte
and
accomplysshed
their
wylle
/
they
leue
hem
as
shamefully
defamed
.
Of
the
fourth
folye
of
Eue
capo.
/
xlijo.
/
He
fourthe
foly
of
Eue
was
the
foolyssh
beholdynge
/
when
she
loked
and
behelde
the
tree
&
the
fruyte
forbeden
that
god
had
to
them
defended
/
This
tree
was
to
her
eyen
so
fayre
and
so
delectable
/
that
she
only
by
the
sight
of
hit
desyred
of
the
fruyte
to
th
ende
she
shold
ete
it
/
And
soo
by
her
foolysshe
lokynge
.
she
felle
in
a
foule
thought
/
Therfor
by
a
foule
beholdynge
and
lokynge
come
oftymes
many
peryls
/
for
as
the
sage
saith
/
The
worst
enuye
that
men
hath
.
is
the
eye
/
Many
haue
be
deceyued
thorugh
fals
beholdynge
/
For
there
be
many
men
that
by
their
grete
arte
make
a
fals
samblaunt
/
or
behauyng
of
a
fals
beholdynge
/
as
many
one
that
behold
and
loke
stedfastly
shewyng
by
their
loke
to
be
debonaire
and
gracious
/
wherof
many
a
woman
is
by
suche
fals
beholdyng
deceyued
/
for
they
wene
&
thynk
that
they
make
suche
lokyng
&
haue
suche
byhauyng
only
by
the
destresse
of
loue·
But
they
doo
it
for
no
thynge
els
than
for
to
deceyue
them
/
And
therfore
this
is
a
good
Ensample
to
a
warraunt
and
kepe
hym self
of
fals
beholdynge
/
Neuertheles
oftyme
many
one
is
by
them
deceyued
/
for
when
th
enemye
fyndeth
them
in
suche
foole
lokynge
&
delyte
.
he
pryketh
and
enflammeth
them
by
suche
temptacion
.
wherin
he
holdeth
them
fast
bounden
/
in
soo
moche
that
he
maketh
them
to
fall
in
the
fylthe
or
ordure
of
that
they
desire
to
doo
/
wherfore
they
lose
bothe
body
&
sowle
/
thenne
all
this
euylle
come
only
by
fowle
beholdynge
.
And
therfore
I
wold
ye
wyste
and
knewe
th
ensample
of
kynge
dauyd
/
that
only
by
a
foule
loke
in
beholdyng
the
wyf
of
Vrye
his
knyght
he
felle
in
fornycacion
of
auoutrye
.
And
after
in
homycyde
/
in
makyng
hym
to
be
put
to
dethe
/
wherof
god
toke
grete
vengeaunce
on
hym
/
and
vpon
his
peple
/
whiche
occasion
cam
only
by
fowle
beholdynge
/
as
it
befelle
by
oure
first
moder
Eue
/
that
by
her
foolysshe
loke
&
plaisir
she
felle
in
the
fait
or
dede
/
whiche
alle
the
world
and
the
humayne
lygnage
bought
ful
dere
/
By
this
lokynge
fait
or
dede
cam
the
deth
in
to
the
world
/
And
therfore
this
is
a
good
ensample
for
to
kepe
hym self
fro
suche
folyssh
and
fals
lokynge
/
Of
the
fyfthe
folye
of
Eue
capo
/
xliij
tHe
fyfthe
folye
of
Eue
was
when
she
took
and
touched
the
fruyte
/
It
hadde
be
better
that
she
had
had
no
handes
/
For
ouermoche
peryllous
was
the
touchynge
of
it
/
But
after
the
lokynge
that
sh
had
had
.
And
as
the
two
vyces
and
her
wyll
were
acordynge
to geder
she
hadde
no
fere
ne
drede
no
thynge
/
but
touched
it
/
and
tooke
of
it
at
her
wylle
/
And
therfore
saith
the
sage
that
men
ought
to
kepe
hym self
fro
touchynge
of
ony
delyte
/
wherby
the
sowle
and
the
body
myght
be
hurte
in
ony
manere
/
For
foolisshe
touchyng
chaufe
and
enflamme
the
herte
/
And
when
Reason
is
blynde
/
whiche
ought
to
rewle
and
gouerne
both
herte
&
body
.
men
fall
in
synne
and
in
foolysshe
del●te
And
yet
saith
the
sage
/
who
that
surely
wyl
kepe
hym
〈…〉
clenly
/
he
ought
to
locke
his
bandes
twyes
or
thryes
.
or
that
●e
come
to
towche
or
tast
ony
fowle
thynge
/
It
is
to
saye
that
or
〈◊〉
enterprise
or
vndertake
ony
fait
or
dede
/
he
ought
fyrst
to
thynk●
two
or
thre
tymes
/
For
touchynge
and
kyssyng
meueth
〈◊〉
blood
and
flesshe
in
so
moche
that
they
forgete
the
fere
and
drede
of
god
/
and
the
worship
of
the
world
/
And
soo
many
euylle
dedes
bicomen
by
foolisshe
attouchementis
/
As
in
like
wise
bifelle
to
Eue
that
touchid
to
the
fruyte
forboden
Of
the
sixthe
folye
of
Eue
/
capitulo
xli
.
ijo.
tHe
sixthe
folye
was
that
she
ete
of
the
fruyte
.
this
was
the
moost
perillous
poynt
of
the
dolorous
fait
/
For
by
the
same
fait
or
dede
.
we
&
alle
the
world
were
delyuerd
to
the
perille
of
the
deth
of
helle
/
and
made
straungers
of
the
greete
ioye
of
paradys
.
how
many
an
euylle
dede
and
dolorous
become
in
the
world
only
by
that
etyng
/
god
knoweth
it
/
he
god
whiche
is
almyghty
/
how
sholde
men
knowe
how
and
in
whiche
maner
thou
shalt
punysshe
them
that
done
suche
foolisshe
and
fowle
faite●
/
And
that
delyteth
them
in
delicious
metes
/
and
in
strong
and
swete
wynes
/
wherof
they
norysshe
their
body
and
fylle
theyr
bely
by
which
delyte
they
be
chaufed
and
meued
to
the
fowle
delyte
of
lechery
and
to
many
other
synne
/
Why
take
they
no
hede
to
the
poure
/
hongrye
/
that
deye
for
cold
and
for
hongre
and
thurste
/
of
whiche
god
shalle
aske
and
demaunde
to
them
acompte
the
daye
of
his
grete
Iugement
/
And
knowe
ye
that
synne
is
not
only
in
takyng
to
moche
of
metes
and
wynes
/
but
gretter
synne
is
of
the
delite
that
men
take
in
the
sauoure
and
etyng
of
them
/
wherfore
the
sage
sayth
that
the
dethe
lyeth
vnder
the
delyces
as
the
nette
vnder
the
fisshe
whiche
is
cause
of
his
deth
/
Lyke
wyse
the
sauour
and
delite
that
men
take
in
delycious
metes
bryngeth
the
sowle
to
deth
/
And
right
soo
as
the
delyte
of
the
appell
brought
Eue
to
deth
/
in
suche
wyse
be
brought
to
their
ende
may
one
by
the
delyte
that
they
take
in
delicious
metes
and
good
wynes
/
The
seuenthe
folye
of
Eue
/
Capitulo
xlv
tHe
seuenthe
folye
was
/
that
she
byleued
not
what
oure
lord
god
had
told
her
and
to
adam
her
lord
/
that
is
/
that
she
shold
dye
yf
she
ete
of
the
fruyte
/
But
he
told
her
not
that
she
shold
soone
deye
of
bodely
dethe
/
but
symply
had
saide
to
her
/
that
she
shold
dye
as
she
did
/
Fyrst
her
sowle
and
after
of
bodely
deth
as
she
long
tyme
had
be
in
the
laboure
and
peyne
of
the
world
.
and
that
she
hadde
suffred
moche
sorowe
and
susteyned
many
meschyefs
peynes
and
dolours
/
as
god
told
&
promysed
her
/
And
after
her
deth
she
descended
and
fylle
in
a
derke
and
obscure
pryson
/
wheroute
none
scapeth
/
that
was
the
lymbo
of
helle
where
she
and
her
husbond
with
all
their
lygnage
were
in
pryson
vnto
the
tyme
that
oure
lord
Ihesu
Crist
was
put
on
the
Cros
whiche
space
of
tyme
was
fyue
thousand
yere
and
moo
/
And
that
same
tyme
god
delyuerd
them
/
&
also
al
tho
that
had
serued
hym
and
hadde
be
obeisshyng
to
his
commaundements
in
the
old
and
auncyent
lawe
/
And
the
cursed
and
euylle
folke
full
of
synne
h●
lete
in
the
pryson
of
helle
/
he
took
with
hym
the
whete
/
and
the
strawe
he
lete
brenne
/
Allas
why
thynk
we
not
/
also
they
that
be
slepynge
in
synne
to
amende
vs
/
and
not
euer
striue
with
the
folysshe
hope
that
we
haue
of
longe
lyf
and
not
abyde
tylle
we
see
vs
nyghe
oure
terme
and
ende
/
Suche
folk
seeth
not
the
deth
that
of
nyghe
foloweth
them·
whiche
sodenly
shalle
come
/
as
the
theef
that
cometh
in
atte
back
dore
to
robbe
and
kytte
mennes
throtes
/
And
no
man
knoweth
when
he
cometh
/
And
after
this
theef
stelyng
day
by
day
is
destroyed
/
Lyke
wyse
is
of
the
synners
that
synne
day
by
daye
/
tyl
the
deth
taketh
them
and
destroyeth
them
Also
as
the
theef
that
steleth
/
and
that
can
not
hym self
absteyne
fro
euylle
doynge
/
and
hath
a
delyte
in
his
theeftes
tylle
the
tyme
he
is
taken
and
put
to
deth
/
Lyke
wyse
of
the
synner
that
so
so
moche
goth
and
cometh
to
his
folysshe
playsaunce
and
to
his
delytes
that
men
ben
perceyuyng
of
it
/
in
so
moche
that
he
is
ashamed
and
dyffamed
of
the
world
/
and
hated
of
god
and
of
the
sages
/
Of
the
eyghte
folye
of
Eue
/
capitulo
xlvjo.
tHe
eight
folye
of
Eue.
was
/
that
she
gaf
th
appel
to
her
husbond
/
and
praid
hym
to
ete
of
it
/
as
she
dyde
/
And
as
a
foole
wold
not
disobeye
her
/
And
therfore
they
were
bothe
partyners
of
oure
grete
sorowe
and
euylle
/
Here
thenne
is
a
good
ensample
/
For
yf
ony
woman
counceylle
ony
thyng
to
her
husbond
/
he
ought
first
to
thynke
yf
she
said
well
or
not
/
and
to
what
ende
her
counceylle
shalle
mowe
come
/
or
that
he
to
her
counseylle
gyue
ony
consent
/
For
none
ought
to
be
enclyned
toward
his
wyf
ne
so
obeysshynge
/
but
that
he
fyrst
consydere
yf
she
saith
wel
or
not
/
Many
wymmen
be
/
that
gyue
no
force
and
care
of
nothyng
/
but
that
they
may
haue
their
wylle
/
I
my self
knewe
a
Baron
/
that
byleued
in
all
thynges
his
wyf
.
in
soo
moche
/
that
by
her
foolysshe
counceylle
/
he
tooke
deth
/
wherof
it
was
grete
pyte
and
damage
/
But
better
it
had
be
to
hym
that
he
had
dredde
her
lesse
and
lesse
byleued
/
Lyke
as
Adam
folysshly
bileuyd
hys
wyf
to
his
and
oure
also
grete
meschyef
and
sorowe
/
Therfore
euery
good
woman
ought
to
thynke
wel
/
what
counceylle
she
wyll
gyue
to
her
lorde
/
and
that
she
counceyl
hym
not
to
doo
ony
thyng
·
wherby
he
or
she
may
haue
ony
shame
or
damage
in
acomplysshynge
her
foolyssh
wylle
/
For
and
she
be
wyse
she
ought
to
thynke
to
what
ende
other
good
or
euylle
/
her
counceylle
may
come
/
And
lyke
as
eue
wold
not
do
wel
/
neuertheles
she
ought
not
to
counceylle
other
to
doo
euylle
/
For
it
suffysed
wel
/
and
to
moche
yf
she
dyde
it
/
Herupon
may
we
take
good
Ensample
/
for
yf
one
wylle
not
faste
ne
doo
ony
good
/
he
ought
not
to
gyue
to
ony
other
shrewde
counceylle
that
may
kepe
hym
fro
good
and
holy
doynge·
And
therfore
saith
the
sage
/
he
that
so
counceyleth
other
hath
the
gretter
parte
of
the
synne
/
And
therfore
yf
one
wylle
do
no
good
/
lete
other
doo
as
they
be
wyllyng
to
doo·
The
nynthe
folye
of
Eue
Capitulo
xlvij
tHe
nynthe
folye
of
Eue
was
the
last
and
moost
/
For
as
god
dyde
putt
her
to
reason
/
askyng
to
her
/
why
she
had
trespaced
his
commaundement
/
and
had
made
her
lord
to
falle
in
synne
/
she
thenne
wold
haue
excused
her
/
and
sayd
that
the
serpent
had
so
counceyled
her
/
and
had
made
her
to
do
it
/
S●●
wende
to
alyght
her
euylle
and
her
synne
/
puttyng
the
charge
of
the
dede
vpon
other
/
Wherfore
it
semed
that
god
therfore
was
more
angry
thenne
than
he
was
before
/
For
he
said
that
fro
thens
forthon
sholde
the
bataylle
be
of
it
bytwene
her
and
the
enemye
/
by
cause
she
wold
be
lyke
vnto
god
/
also
that
she
dyd
trespasse
his
commaundement
/
And
bicause
she
byleued
more
in
the
enemye
than
she
dyde
in
hym
/
that
had
made
her
/
Also
by
cause
she
deceyued
her
lord
by
hir
folyssh
counceylle
/
and
that
she
w●lde
haue
excused
her
synne
and
mysdede
/
god
put
the
bataylle
bytwene
man
and
th
enemy
/
For
th
excusacions
of
eue
displeasid
moche
to
god
/
as
done
now
these
dayes
they
that
confesse
them
&
publysshynge
their
mysfaytes
and
synnes
.
excuse
them self
in
theyr
confession
/
that
is
to
wyte
that
they
ne
confesse
or
telle
their
synnes
so
vylaynsly
as
they
made
them
&
therfor
they
be
semblable
and
lyke
vnto
oure
fyrst
moder
Eue
/
whiche
excused
her
/
But
saynt
Powle
saith
that
who
so
wylle
be
well
&
clenly
wasshed
of
synne
/
he
ought
to
confesse
and
telle
it
as
shamefully
as
he
hath
done
/
or
els
he
is
not
clene
of
synne
.
For
as
saynt
Peter
sayth
/
Lyke
so
as
the
theef
dwelleth
fayn
there
as
he
may
be
hyd
and
there
as
men
hyde
and
couere
his
thefte
/
and
goth
not
there
as
men
crye
after
hym
/
Ryght
so
and
by
semblable
manere
dothe
synne
in
suche
folke·
For
they
be
lodged
with
th
enemy
whiche
hydeth
their
theftes
/
that
is
to
saye
their
synnes
by
subtyle
temptacion
/
Here
shalle
I
leue
to
speke
of
Eue
oure
fyrst
moder
.
and
shalle
telle
yow
how
none
wyse
woman
ne
oughte
to
be
to
hasty
in
takynge
ony
newe
thynges
brought
vp
/
ne
other
noueltees
/
And
how
syth
late
a
hooly
man
dyd
preche
therof
/
And
after
this
matere
I
shalle
telle
and
reherce
vnto
yow
the
ensample
of
a
knyght
that
had
thre
wyues
/
and
all
vppon
this
matere
/
And
thenne
I
shalle
tourne
ageyne
to
the
tale
and
matere
of
the
euylle
and
shrewde
wyues
/
And
also
I
shalle
telle
of
the
good
and
hooly
wymmen
/
And
how
the
hooly
scripture
preyseth
them
How
a
hooly
bisshop
reprysed
and
taught
many
ladyes
Capitulo
xlviij
/
I
Shalle
telle
yow
how
a
hooly
man
late
dide
preche
/
and
was
a
bisshop
a
right
good
clerke
/
At
his
prechynge
&
sermon
were
many
ladyes
and
damoisellys
/
of
which
som
were
dressid
and
clothed
after
the
newe
manere
/
the
remenaunt
of
their
heedes
was
lyke
two
hornes
/
and
their
gownes
made
after
the
newe
gyse
.
wherof
the
good
hooly
man
had
merueyle
.
and
began
to
repreue
them
gyuynge
and
rehercynge
to
fore
them
many
a
fair
ensample
/
and
told
them
how
the
deluge
or
gaderyng
of
waters
in
the
dayes
of
Noe
was
bycause
of
the
pryde
and
desguysynge
of
men
and
specially
of
wymmen
/
that
counterfeted
them self
of
newe
and
dishonest
rayments
/
And
thenne
when
th
enemye
sawe
their
grete
pryde
and
their
desguysynge
/
he
made
them
to
falle
in
the
fylthe
of
the
stynkyng
synne
of
lecherye
/
whiche
thynge
was
so
moche
displesynge
to
god
.
that
he
dyde
made
to
rayne
fourty
dayes
and
fourty
nyghtes
/
withoute
cessynge
/
in
so
moche
that
the
waters
were
aboue
the
erthe
/
and
surmounted
by
heyght
of
ten
Cubites
vpon
the
hyhest
montayn
/
Thenne
was
all
the
world
drowned
and
perysshed
/
and
none
abode
on
lyue
/
sauf
only
.
Noe.
his
wyf
/
his
thre
sones·
and
his
thre
doughters
/
And
alle
this
grete
meschyef
cam
bycause
of
that
synne
/
And
thenne
as
the
bisshop
had
shewed
to
them
this
fayte
&
many
other
/
he
said
that
the
wymmen
that
were
so
horned
were
like
the
snayle
that
ben
horned
.
He
said
more
/
I
doute
said
he
that
betwyxt
their
hornes
th
enemye
hath
made
his
mancion
&
dwellynge
/
For
as
they
take
hooly
water
/
they
cast
dounward
theyr
faces
/
And
that
maketh
the
deuylle
syttynge
vpon
their
heede
by
nature
and
strengthe
of
the
hooly
water
/
He
tolde
and
reherced
to
them
many
merueyles
in
so
moche
.
that
at
the
ende
of
his
predicacion
he
made
hem
to
be
mowrnynge
and
full
of
thought
/
For
he
hadde
repreued
them
so
sore
/
that
they
had
so
grete
shame
/
that
they
ne
durst
lyfte
vp
their
hedes
/
and
helde
them
mocked
/
and
diffamed
of
their
vyce
/
And
after
many
of
them
caste
awey
their
braunches
and
hornes
/
and
held
them
lowe
and
went
symply
/
For
he
saide
that
suche
coyntyses
&
suche
countrefaytyng
and
suche
wantonnesse
were
to
compare
to
the
Copspyn
that
maketh
his
nette
/
to
take
the
flyes
/
Ryght
soo
dothe
the
deuylle
by
his
temptacion
the
desguysyng
in
men
and
wymmen
/
to
the
ende
they
may
be
enamoured
one
of
other
.
and
for
to
take
and
brynge
them
to
the
delyte
of
lechery
/
He
taketh
them
/
and
byndeth
them
/
as
the
copspyn
doth
the
flees
in
her
nette
as
a
holy
heremyte
telleth
in
the
booke
of
the
faders
of
lyf
/
to
whome
was
shewed
by
tonge
as
ye
may
fynde
playnly
in
the
said
book
.
And
yet
he
saith
that
the
coulpe
of
the
synne
was
in
them
/
that
first
tooke
&
brought
vp
suche
desguysynge
and
that
euery
good
womman
and
wyse
ought
wel
to
drede
the
takynge
and
werynge
of
suche
raymentes
vnto
the
tyme
she
seeth
that
euery
one
comynly
took
and
went
in
hem
/
For
after
the
word
of
god
/
the
first
shall
be
the
most
blamed
/
And
the
last
shal
syt
on
the
hyhe
syege
/
The
bisshop
that
a
good
man
was
sayd
an
Ensample
vpon
the
fait
of
them
that
hasted
them
to
be
the
fyrst
in
takynge
and
bryngynge
vp
suche
noueltees
/
And
said
thus
.
How
the
yong
ladyes
were
scorned
and
mocked
of
the
olde
&
Auncyent
/
Capitulo
xlix
IT
befelle
that
many
ladyes
and
damoysels
were
come
at
the
weddyng
of
a
maide
/
As
they
were
goyng
toward
the
place
/
where
as
the
dyner
sholde
be
/
they
found
a
passynge
fowle
wey
within
a
medowe
/
Thenne
said
the
yong
lady
/
We
shalle
wel
go
thorugh
this
medowe
and
leue
the
hyhe
waye
The
Auncyent
and
wyse
said
they
shold
go
the
hyhe
way
/
For
it
was
the
best
and
more
sure
goynge
and
moost
drye
/
The
yong
ladyes
that
ful
were
of
their
wylle
/
wold
not
folowe
them
/
and
thought
they
shold
be
bifore
them
/
at
the
said
place
/
And
soo
they
tooke
their
weye
thorugh
the
medowe
/
where
were
old
cloddes
all
roten
/
And
as
they
were
vpon
them
/
they
brake
vnder
theyr
feet
/
And
soo
they
felle
in
the
myere
and
dyrte
vnto
the
knees
/
And
with
grete
peyne
cam
they
oute
ageyne
/
and
took
the
hyghe
weye
/
They
made
clene
their
hosen
and
gownes
with
theyr
knyues
the
best
they
couthe
/
So
long
they
were
in
wasshyng
of
their
hoses
and
gownes
/
that
they
myght
not
come
to
the
begynnnyng
of
the
dyner
/
Euery
one
demaunded
&
asked
after
them·
but
no
body
couth
tell
of
them
/
At
the
last
they
cam
as
the
fyrst
mes
or
cours
was
eten
/
&
after
they
had
taken
their
refection
&
wel
dronken
they
beganne
to
telle
and
recounte
how
they
were
falle
in
the
myre
vnto
the
knees
to
/
Ye
said
thenne
a
good
auncyent
/
and
wyse
lady
that
was
come
by
the
hyhe
weye
/
Ye
wend
to
take
the
shortest
way
to
th
ende
/
ye
myght
be
the
●
sonner
&
fyrst
at
the
place
&
wold
not
folowe
vs
/
hit
is
wel
bestowed
/
For
I
telle
yow
for
certayne
that
some
wene
to
auai●●e
them self
/
that
hyndreth
them
/
And
suche
one
is
that
weneth
to
be
the
first
and
formest
that
ofte
fyndeth
her
the
last
of
all
/
She
gaf
them
these
two
notables
/
to
th
ende
they
shold
know
their
faute
/
for
as
saith
the
said
holy
man
thus
is
hit
of
this
worlde
/
they
that
first
may
haue
noueltees
of
the
world·
wene
to
doo
wel
and
be
therfore
enhaunced
and
to
fore
other
ben
holden
and
wysshed
/
but
as
for
one
that
holdeth
hit
wel
done
/
there
ben
ten
that
maken
of
hit
/
For
suche
one
preyseth
their
doynge
before
them
/
that
behynde
their
back
putteth
out
his
tonge
scornynge
and
mockyng
them
Yet
of
the
same
capitulo
/
l
sHe
holdeth
her self
the
best
welcome
that
firste
bryngeth
vpon
her
ony
noueltees
/
But
as
the
good
and
hooly
man
saith
/
they
that
firste
take
suche
newe
raymentis
be
lyke
to
the
yong
ladyes
that
fylle
in
the
myere
/
wherof
they
were
mocked
by
the
wyse
ladyes
that
took
the
best
and
ryght
wey
/
for
men
may
not
mocke
them
that
kepe
suche
wey
/
And
that
vse
their
lyf
after
reason
and
not
after
theyr
owne
wylle
/
I
say
not
/
but
that
whan
that
manere
of
newe
raymentis
is
taken
&
comynly
wered
of
euery
one
/
&
in
euery
towne
/
it
may
be
thenne
worne
&
taken
/
but
yet
the
wyse
woman
shal
leue
and
forbere
it
yf
she
can
And
suche
wymmen
shalle
not
be
lyke
ne
compared
to
them
that
fylle
in
the
myere
by
cause
they
wold
be
first
in
the
place
/
&
they
were
the
last
/
Therfore
my
faire
doughters
hit
is
good
that
none
hast
her
not
/
but
good
is
to
holde
the
myddel
estate
/
The
lesse
is
the
moost
certayne
and
seurest
/
but
as
now
is
a
cursed
and
shrewed
world
/
For
yf
somme
folysshe
woman
full
of
her
wylle
taketh
&
bryngeth
vpon
her
ony
noueltee
&
newe
estate
/
euery
other
one
shalle
soone
saye
to
her
lorde
/
Syre
it
is
told
to
me
that
suche
one
hath
suche
a
thynge
that
ouer
faire
is
/
and
that
so
wel
becometh
her
/
I
pray
yow
good
syre
that
I
may
haue
suche
one
/
for
I
am
as
good
and
as
gentyll
of
blood
/
And
ye
as
Gentyl
a
man
as
she
and
her
lord
ben
/
&
haue
as
wel
for
to
paye
as
she
hath
/
And
thus
she
shalle
fynde
soo
many
reasons
.
that
she
shalle
haue
her
wylle
/
or
els
ryote
and
noyse
shalle
all
day
be
at
home
/
and
neuer
shalle
be
ther
pees
/
tylle
she
haue
her
parte·
be
it
right
or
wronge
/
She
shalle
not
loke
yf
ony
of
hir
neyghbours
haue
that
thynge
that
she
wylle
haue
/
Also
she
shalle
not
abyde
till
euery
one
haue
it
/
but
the
hastlyest
that
she
may
she
shalle
doo
shape
&
make
it
/
And
forthwith
shalle
were
it
/
It
is
merueyle
of
suche
coyntyse
and
noueltees
/
wherof
the
grete
clerkes
say
that
seynge
the
men
and
wymmen
so
desguysed
and
takyng
euery
day
newe
raiments
/
they
doute
that
the
world
shalle
perysshe
/
as
it
dyd
in
tyme
of
Noe
/
that
the
wymmen
desguysed
them
and
also
the
men
whiche
displesid
god
/
And
herupon
I
shalle
reherce
yow
merueil
whiche
a
good
lady
dyde
recounte
to
me
in
this
same
yere
/
She
tolde
and
saide
to
me
that
she
with
many
other
ladyes
were
come
to
a
feeste
of
seynt
Margrete
/
where
as
euery
yere
was
grete
assemble
made
/
There
cam
a
lady
moche
coynt
and
Ioly
/
and
dyuersly
disguysed
and
arraid
more
than
ony
other
there
/
And
by
cause
of
her
straunge
and
newe
array
euerychone
of
them
cam
to
beholde
and
loke
on
her
/
as
it
had
be
a
wylde
beest
/
For
her
clothyng
and
araye
was
different
and
no
thyng
lyke
to
theyr
/
And
therfore
she
had
wel
her
part
beholdyng
&
lokyng
Thenne
said
the
good
lady
esto
her
/
My
frende
telle
ye
vs
yf
it
please
yow
how
ye
name
that
aray
that
ye
haue
on
youre
heed
She
answerde
and
saide
the
galhows
aray
/
God
blesse
vs
said
the
good
lady
.
the
name
of
hit
is
not
faire
/
And
I
ne
wote
how
suche
aray
may
plese
yow
/
The
tydyng
of
this
aray
and
of
his
name
were
borne
al
aboute
hyghe
and
lowe·
wherof
euery
one
s●orned
and
mocked
her·
And
as
mockyng
and
scornynge
cam
there
she
was
to
beholde
and
loke
vpon
her
/
I
dyde
aske
of
the
good
lady·
the
manere
and
facion
of
the
same
araye
/
And
she
tolde
me
the
manere
of
it
/
but
euylle
I
witheld
it
But
as
ferre
as
I
me
remembre
of
it
/
Hit
was
hyghe
culewed
with
longe
pynnes
of
syluer
vppon
her
hede
after
the
makynge
and
maner
of
a
gybet
or
galhows
right
straunge
and
merueylous
to
se
/
And
in
good
feyth
after
that
tyme
the
yonge
and
folysshe
lady
that
had
that
araye
on
her
heede
was
euer
mocked
&
scorned
&
nought
set
by
/
Here
shal
I
leue
to
speke
of
the
newe
and
desguysed
raymentis
and
of
the
good
bisshop
that
so
repreued
them
that
hadde
and
wered
suche
araye
And
that
dede
shewe
to
them
by
Ensamples
and
hooly
scripture
how
that
suche
noueltees
/
that
specially
wymmen
took
on
them
was
token
and
signe
of
somme
grete
meschyef
to
come
as
is
werre
/
famyne
and
pestylence
.
Of
the
good
knyght
that
had
thre
wyues
and
of
their
lyues
Capitulo
lj
Ayre
doughters
I
wold
ye
couthe
and
wel
withheld
the
example
of
a
knyght
that
had
thre
wyues
/
A
knyght
was
somtyme
a
right
good
man
/
and
of
good
and
honest
lyuynge
/
whiche
had
an
Heremyte
to
his
vncle
a
good
&
hooly
man
and
of
relygyous
lyf
/
This
knyght
and
his
first
wyf
whiche
he
moche
loued
were
but
a
lytel
space
of
tyme
to geder
/
For
the
deth
that
all
consumeth
and
destroyeth
/
tooke
her
/
wherof
the
knyght
was
so
ful
of
sorowe
that
nyghe
he
deyde
therof
/
He
ne
wyste
where
to
seke
ony
comforte
sauf
only
to
the
Heremyte
his
vncle
that
he
knew
for
a
holy
man
/
He
cam
to
hym
mournyng
and
wepynge
/
waylynge
and
regretyng
his
wyf
/
The
hooly
men
comforted
hym
in
the
best
maner
and
wyse
that
he
couthe
/
And
at
the
last
the
knyght
preid
hym
that
he
wolde
pray
god
for
hym
that
he
myght
knowe
whether
she
was
dampned
or
saued
/
The
hooly
man
hadde
pyte
of
his
neuewe
/
and
went
in
to
his
〈◊〉
And
there
he
made
his
prayer
to
god
/
and
requyred
that
it
〈◊〉
please
hym
to
shewe
where
she
was
/
And
after
he
had
be
long
tyme
in
oryson
/
he
fylle
a
slepe
/
And
soone
after
hym
thought
/
he
sawe
the
poure
sowle
before
seynt
Mychael
th
archaungel
/
and
the
fende
at
the
other
syde
/
and
was
in
a
balaunce
/
and
her
good
dedes
with
her
/
And
at
the
other
side
was
the
deuyll
with
all
hyr
euyll
dedes
/
whiche
greued
&
troubled
her
sore
/
it
were
her
gounes
that
were
of
moche
fyn
cloth
/
&
furred
of
calabre
/
letuce
&
ermyn
And
the
enuy
or
deuylle
cryed
with
a
hyghe
voys
&
said
/
Sire
this
woman
had
ten
paire
of
gownes
long
&
short
/
And
ye
know
wel
she
had
with
half
of
them
ynough
/
that
is
a
long
gowne
/
two
kyrtells
&
two
cottes
hardyes
/
or
two
short
gownes
/
&
therwith
she
myght
haue
be
pleasid
&
suffised
.
as
a
good
&
symple
lady
/
&
after
god
&
right
she
hath
had
of
them
to
moche
by
the
half
&
of
the
valewe
of
one
of
her
gownes
/
l
/
poure
peple
had
had
l.
ellys
of
burell
or
fryse
/
whiche
haue
suffred
suche
cold
&
such
mesease
about
hem
/
&
yet
she
neuer
took
pyte
on
them
/
Thenne
took
the
deuyl
her
gownes
/
rynges
&
Iewelles
that
she
had
had
of
the
men
by
loue
/
Also
alle
the
vayne
and
euylle
wordes
that
she
/
hadde
sayd
of
other
by
enuye
/
and
taken
awey
their
good
renommee
/
For
ouermoche
she
was
enuyous
and
of
euyll
talkyng
/
and
no
synne
that
she
had
done
he
lefte
behynde
/
but
al
this
to geder
he
dyde
put
in
the
balaunce
/
and
weyed
/
they
were
to
her
good
dedes
/
but
moche
more
they
weyed
than
dyde
all
the
good
that
she
euer
hadde
done
/
And
thus
took
her
the
deuylle
whiche
dyde
her
to
endowe
her
gownes
that
were
thenne
brennyng
as
fire
and
had
her
within
in
to
helle
.
And
the
power
sowle
cryed
and
sorowed
pyteously
/
Thenne
awaked
the
hooly
heremyte
/
and
tolde
part
of
this
aduysion
to
the
knyght
his
neuewe
/
And
commaunded
hym
and
charged
that
all
her
gownes
shold
be
gyuen
for
goddes
sake
to
poure
folke
/
Of
the
second
wyf
/
capitulo
/
lij
aFter
this
the
said
knyght
maryed
hym
ageyne
to
another
woman
/
they
were
fyue
yere
to geder
/
And
thenne
she
passed
oute
of
this
worlde
/
And
yf
the
knyght
hadde
be
sore
meuyd
and
sorowful
of
the
deth
of
his
first
wyf
/
yet
more
he
was
of
his
second
wyf·
And
wepynge
came
to
th
eremyte
his
vncle
demenynge
grete
sorowe
/
and
praide
hym
for
this
as
he
had
done
for
the
other
that
he
myght
knowe
where
she
was
/
And
for
the
grete
pyte
that
he
took
of
hym
/
seynge
hym
in
suche
sorowe
wente
allone
in
his
Chappel
/
And
there
made
to
god
his
prayer
&
oryson
/
There
it
was
shewed
&
reueled
to
hym
that
she
shold
be
saued
/
but
that
she
shold
be
.
C.
yere
within
the
fire
of
purgatory
/
For
certayne
fawtes
whiche
she
had
done
she
beynge
in
her
maryage
.
that
was
that
a
squyer
had
leyn
with
her
and
other
grete
synnes
/
Neuertheles
she
had
therof
many
tyme
be
confessid
/
for
yf
she
had
not
so
doo
she
withoute
doute
hadde
be
dampned
/
Thenne
cam
th
eremyte
to
the
knyght
/
and
told
hym
how
hys
wyf
was
saued
/
wherof
he
was
ioyeful
and
glad
/
Here
may
ye
see
how
that
for
one
dedely
synne
she
was
so
longe
in
the
fyre
of
purgatorye
/
but
it
may
well
be
/
as
the
hooly
man
sayth
that
they
had
done
the
dede
ten
or
twelue
tymes
/
For
a
certeyne
and
very
trouthe
is
/
for
euery
dedely
synne
confessid
shalle
the
sowle
be
punysshed
in
purgatory
the
tyme
and
space
of
seuen
yere
/
Faire
doughters
take
ye
here
good
ensample
how
this
fowll
and
fals
delyte
is
dere
bought
/
And
how
therof
men
must
gyue
acompte
/
And
also
of
them
that
haue
so
many
gownes
and
that
so
moche
waste
their
good
to
be
Iolyf
&
repayre
their
carayn
/
in
so
moche
they
may
haue
the
loke
and
beholdynge
of
the
world
/
and
the
plaisaunce
of
the
folke
/
Now
see
how
it
happed
to
the
knyghtis
first
wyf
/
that
for
her
pryde
and
for
the
grete
quantite
of
gownes
and
Iewelles
that
she
hadde
/
was
loste
and
dampned
for
euer
/
And
yet
many
one
is
in
this
world
that
wel
haue
the
courage
soo
prowde
/
that
wel
they
dare
bye
gownes
of
thre
or
foure
score
Crownes
/
&
yet
thynkyng
hit
of
lytel
prys
/
that
yf
so
were
they
must
gyue
to
poure
folke
two
or
thre
shyllynges
/
they
shold
holde
that
ouermoche
/
and
as
halfe
loste
/
Loke
and
beholde
ye
thenne
how
they
that
haue
soo
many
gownes
wherof
they
coyntyse
and
araye
their
bodyes
/
how
ones
they
shalle
straitly
answer
of
them
/
And
therfore
euery
good
woman
after
she
is
of
estate
and
degree
she
ought
to
hold
and
behaue
her
symply
and
honestly
in
her
clothyng
/
and
in
the
quantite
of
hit
/
And
gyue
a
parte
to
god
/
to
th
ende
she
may
in
the
other
world
be
clothed
of
all
ioye
and
glorye
/
as
dyde
the
hooly
ladyes
and
hooly
vyrgyns
as
in
their
legende
is
rehercyd
/
As
of
seynt
Elyzabeth
/
of
saynt
Katheryn
and
of
seynt
Agathe
and
other
mo
/
that
gaue
their
gownes
to
the
poure
folke
for
the
loue
of
god
And
soo
ought
to
doo
euery
good
woman
/
Now
I
haue
told●
&
recounted
to
yow
of
the
two
first
wyues
of
the
knyght
/
and
herafter
ye
shalle
here
of
the
thyrd
Of
the
third
wyf
of
the
knyght
capitulo
/
liij
sone
after
toke
the
said
knyght
his
thyrdde
wyf
/
and
were
long
tyme
to geder
/
but
at
the
last
she
deyde
/
wherfore
the
knyght
was
nyghe
deed
for
sorowe
/
And
w●en
she
was
dede
/
the
knyght
cam
to
his
Eme
/
and
praid
hym
for
the
same
as
he
hadde
done
for
his
two
firste
wyues
/
And
as
the
hooly
man
was
in
his
prayers
and
oryson
/
it
cam
to
hym
in
aduysyon
that
an
angel
was
before
hym
/
whiche
shewed
hym
the
torment
&
peyne
that
the
poure
sowle
suffred
/
For
he
sawe
appertely
and
clerely
/
how
one
deuylle
helde
her
faste
with
his
hondes
or
clowes
.
by
her
heres
and
tressis
/
as
a
lyon
holdeth
his
proye
/
in
suche
manere
/
that
she
couthe
nought
meue
her
hede
here
ne
there
/
&
dyde
put
brennyng
nedels
thorugh
her
browes
/
whiche
entred
in
to
her
heede
/
as
ferre
as
he
myghte
thruste
them
in
/
And
the
poure
sowle
at
euery
tyme
cryed
horrybly
/
And
after
he
had
made
her
to
suffre
suche
grete
martyre
that
ouerlonge
lasted
/
Another
deuylle
horryble
and
ouer
hydous
cam
there
with
grete
brondes
of
fyre
/
and
thrested
them
vnto
her
face
/
And
in
suche
maner
he
tormented
her
and
brente
.
and
enflammed
her
ouer
alle
sydes
/
that
the
Heremyte
was
therof
sore
effrayed
and
trembled
for
fere
/
But
the
Aungel
assured
hym
and
saide
that
she
had
wel
deseruyd
it
/
And
th
eremyte
demaunded
of
hym
why
/
And
the
Angel
saide
that
she
had
popped
and
polysshed
her
face
for
to
seme
more
faire
and
plaisaunt
to
the
world
And
that
it
was
one
of
the
synnes
that
was
moost
displesynge
to
god
/
For
she
dyde
hit
by
pryde
/
by
whiche
men
falle
to
the
synne
of
lecherye
/
And
fynally
in
to
all
other
.
For
aboue
alle
thynge
it
displesith
to
the
Creatour
.
as
one
wylle
haue
by
crafte
more
beaute
than
na●ure
hath
gyuen
to
hym
/
And
that
hit
suffyseth
hym
not
to
be
made
and
compassid
after
the
hooly
ymage
/
Of
whome
alle
the
Aungels
in
heuen
take
alle
theyr
ioye
and
delyte
/
For
yf
god
had
wolde
of
his
hooly
purueaunce
/
they
had
not
be
wymmen
/
but
they
had
be
domme
beestes
or
serpentes
/
And
why
thenne
take
they
no
heede
to
the
grete
beaute
whiche
their
creatoure
hath
gyuen
hym
/
And
why
doo
they
put
to
their
faces
other
thynge
than
god
hath
gyuen
hem
It
is
therfore
no
merueyle
yf
they
endure
and
suffre
suche
penaunce·
And
thenne
said
the
Aungel
she
hath
wel
deserued
it
/
Go
ye
there
as
the
body
of
her
lyeth
and
ye
shall
see
the
vysage
ryght
hydous
and
affrayed
/
And
by
cause
he
was
eueer
besy
aboute
her
browes
and
aboute
her
temples
and
forheede
to
dresse
and
paynte
them
that
she
myghte
be
faire
/
and
playsaunt
to
the
worlde
/
it
is
conuenient
and
ryght
that
in
euery
place
wheroute
she
plukked
ony
here
of
her
face
/
that
there
be
put
euery
day
a
brennynge
bronde
/
Syre
saide
the
Heremyte
shalle
she
be
longe
in
this
torment
/
Ye
saide
the
angell
a
thousande
yere
/
and
more
he
wold
not
discouere
ne
telle
to
hym
of
hit
/
But
as
the
deuylle
dide
putte
the
brounde
in
her
face
/
the
power
sowle
cryed
sore
/
and
cursed
the
houre
/
that
she
euer
was
borne
or
engendryd
/
And
of
the
fere
that
thenne
the
hooly
heremyte
hadde
he
awoke
alle
affraid
/
And
cam
to
the
Knyght
.
And
told
hym
his
vysyon
/
The
knyght
was
sore
abasshed
and
right
sore
meued
of
this
auysyon
/
And
went
to
see
the
body
that
men
wold
haue
supposed
had
be
fair
/
but
they
founde
the
vysage
soo
black
and
soo
hydous
and
so
horrible
to
see
that
it
was
grete
confusion
/
Thenne
bileued
wel
the
knyght
for
certeyne
al
that
th
eremyte
his
vncle
had
told
hym
/
wherof
he
had
grete
horroure
and
grete
abhomynacion
and
pyte
/
in
so
moche
that
he
lefte
the
world
and
dyde
were
the
hayre
euery
fryday
and
euery
wednesday
/
and
gaf
for
goddes
sasake
the
third
parte
of
all
his
reame
and
good
/
And
fro
thennes
forth
he
vsed
and
hooly
lyf
/
and
had
no
cure
more
of
the
worldly
bobaunces
/
ne
plaisire
so
moche
he
was
ferful
and
agaste
of
that
he
had
sene
his
last
wyf
/
and
of
that
vncle
had
told
hym
Of
the
lady
that
blanked
and
popped
her
Capitulo
l●●ij
●
aNd
for
to
afferme
this
Ensample
that
it
may
for
very
certeyne
haue
be·
I
shalle
telle
yow
of
suche
one
that
byfelle
but
to
late
/
I
sawe
a
baronnesse
ryght
a
hyghe
and
noble
lady
of
lygnage
/
the
whiche
as
men
saide
blanked
and
popped
or
peynted
her self
/
I
sawe
also
hym
that
gaf
to
her
euery
yere
suche
thynges
wherwith
she
popped
her
/
wherfore
he
tooke
yerely
grete
pension
of
her
/
as
he
hym self
said
as
he
was
a
parte
at
his
seurte
/
This
lady
was
somtyme
right
moche
honoured
and
worshiped
and
also
right
myghty
/
her
lord
deyde
/
wherfore
euer
syn
her
stat
day
by
day
dymynnyssed
/
One
tyme
was
that
she
had
more
than
.lx
/
payre
of
gownes
as
men
said
/
but
at
the
last
she
had
lesse
and
scant
ynough
/
And
of
her
I
herd
saye
/
that
after
she
was
dede
her
visage
and
all
the
body
of
her
took
suche
forme
and
coūtrefaiture
that
men
ne
couthe
saye
what
it
was
But
well
I
wene
that
the
peyntynge
of
her
face
wherof
ofte
she
vsed
as
she
lyued
/
also
the
grete
pryde
of
her
and
the
grete
wast
and
superfluyte
of
her
gownes
was
cause
and
occasion
of
suche
horryble
countrefeture
/
wherfore
my
faire
doughters
I
pray
you
that
here
ye
wylle
take
good
Ensample
and
wel
withold
it
and
kepe
hit
in
rememembraunce
withynne
youre
hertes
/
And
that
ye
put
no
thynge
to
youre
faces
/
but
loue
them
/
as
god
&
nature
hath
made
and
ordeyned
them
.
for
ye
maye
fynde
and
see
atte
oure
lady
of
Rukemadoure
many
tresses
of
ladyes
and
damoyselles
that
had
wasshed
them
in
wyn
and
other
thynges
/
And
therfor
they
myght
not
entre
in
to
the
Chirche·
tyll
they
had
doo
kyt
of
their
tresses
and
brought
them
in
to
the
Chappell
of
oure
lady
/
where
as
yet
they
be
hangynnge
/
This
fayt
or
dede
is
approued
/
And
I
telle
you
that
that
oure
lady
dyde
shewe
to
them
grete
loue
in
doynge
this
myracle·
for
the
gloryous
vyrgyn
wold
not
that
they
shold
lese
their
peyne
and
tyme
comyng
thyder
/
Also
that
they
sholde
not
be
lost
for
euer
/
therfore
she
shewed
the
said
myracle
on
them
/
wherfor
they
that
were
in
the
weye
of
perdicion
were
brought
to
the
weye
of
saluacion
/
Here
is
a
fair
spectacle
to
euery
woman
to
see
in
/
and
conceyue
the
tyme
comynge
and
the
tyme
also
gone
and
passed
as
in
the
tyme
of
Noe
when
thorugh
the
synne
of
pryde
god
sent
the
deluge
of
waters
/
wherof
all
the
world
was
drowned
/
for
by
that
synne
of
pryde
came
amonge
men
and
wymmen
the
fowle
and
vyle
synne
of
lecherye
/
And
therof
cam
the
grete
perylle
/
and
of
all
the
world
scaped
nomore
but
eyght
persones
Of
the
wyf
of
loth
that
trespassed
the
commaundement
of
god
/
Capitulo
.lv.
aN
Ensample
I
shall
reherce
vnto
yow
/
of
Lothis
wyf
/
whiche
god
saued
out
of
Gomore
with
her
lord
and
her
two
doughters
/
God
defended
her
that
she
ne
shold
loke
bebynde
her
/
but
she
dyd
not
his
commandement
/
but
loked
anon
behynde
her
/
And
therfore
she
bycam
/
&
was
tourned
in
to
a
salt
stone
/
Right
so
as
seynt
Martyn
of
verter
dede
doo
falle
and
perysshe
the
Cytee
of
derbenges
whiche
was
in
the
bisshopryche
of
Nantes
/
whiche
perisshed
thorugh
the
synne
of
lechery
and
of
pride
as
dide
that
Cyte
/
wherout
Loth
was
saued
/
that
was
Gomore
and
Sodome
and
other
fyue
Cytees
moo
that
god
made
to
be
conbusted
and
sonken
vnto
the
Abysmes
/
And
bicame
a
grete
water
that
men
calle
the
lake
of
Gomore
/
And
the
cause
was
the
synne
of
lecherye
/
that
so
merueylously
stynketh
/
that
the
stenche
of
it
goth
vnto
the
heuen
/
and
bestormeth
all
the
ordre
of
nature
/
And
so
were
the
seuen
Cytees
brenned
and
fourdryed
in
stynkyng
sulphure
/
by
cause
they
that
were
moche
vsed
of
the
fylthe
&
ordure
of
lechery
/
For
he
that
myght
do
it
/
dyd
it
without
hauyng
ony
shame
/
And
to
it
enforced
them self
withoute
kepynge
in
their
fowle
and
abhomynable
doyng
the
lawe
of
reason
of
nature·
And
right
soo
as
their
hertes
were
brente
and
esprysed
in
that
fowle
synne
of
lechery
/
oure
lord
god
made
them
to
be
brent
and
with
them
their
children
&
goodes
by
thonder
and
stynkyng
fire
of
sulphure
/
whiche
ouer
hote
and
horryble
is
.
And
this
was
the
vengeaunce
and
punycion
of
oure
creatoure
the
fader
/
Here
is
a
faire
ensample
.
how
men
ought
wel
to
kepe
hem
self
fro
the
forfait
of
maryage
whiche
is
commaundement
of
god
/
For
in
maryage
men
may
doo
many
greuous
synne
/
After
thenne
as
the
wyf
of
Loth
hadde
loked
behynd
her
for
to
see
the
torment
of
the
synners
that
were
perysshynge
by
fyre
of
sulphure
as
befo●●
is
said
/
she
was
transformed
in
to
a
stone
by
cause
she
trespassed
the
commaundement
of
god
/
Here
may
the
synnar
take
faire
●●●nyffyaunce
or
ensample
in
thynkyng
how
ofte
god
hath
pardo●●ned
hym
his
mysdedes
and
faultes
when
he
hath
graunted
hym
grace
to
confesse
them
/
but
the
commaundement
of
god
.
that
is
to
say
of
the
preest
whiche
hath
defended
hym
.
that
nomore
h●
shold
see
behynde
/
that
is
to
vnderstonde
that
he
ne
shold
torne
ony
more
to
synne
/
but
eftsoone
after
he
doth
the
contraire
/
And
suche
men
or
wymmen
be
to
compare
to
the
wyf
of
Lothe·
And
as
I
trowe
they
shalle
at
the
last
be
transformed
in
to
a
stone
as
she
was
/
that
is
to
wete
transported
or
borne
in
to
the
Abismes
of
helle
/
I
wolde
ye
couthe
th
example
of
the
lady
that
dyde
leue
her
lord
that
was
a
faire
knyght
/
and
went
with
a
Monke
/
and
her
bretheren
pursewed
her
/
and
dyde
so
moche
that
they
found
her
that
nyght
lyenge
with
the
said
monke
/
They
kyt
awey
the
Genytoryes
of
the
monke
/
and
casted
them
in
their
susters
vysage
/
And
they
tooke
them
and
bothe
to geder
they
putted
in
a
sakke
with
grete
foyson
or
quantite
of
stones
and
casted
them
in
to
a
depe
water
/
And
so
bothe
to geder
they
were
drowned
/
For
of
euyll
lyf
cometh
euer
an
euylle
ende
/
And
it
is
a
synne
that
nedes
must
at
the
last
be
knowen
and
punysshed
/
And
yet
I
shalle
telle
th
example
of
the
two
doughters
of
Loth
/
how
th
enemy
tempted
them
vylaynsly
/
They
sawe
ones
their
fader
withoute
ony
breche
/
And
forthwith
bothe
were
tempted
of
his
companye
/
&
they
discouered
eche
to
other
their
secre●e
and
faitt
/
And
thenne
went
and
took
good
wynes
and
good
metes
and
festyed
and
chyered
their
fader·
and
soo
moche
they
made
hym
drynk
that
he
was
dronke
/
And
anone
they
had
hym
to
his
bed
/
and
bothe
all
naked
wente
/
and
leyd
them self
a
bothe
his
sydes
/
And
meuyd
hym
to
fornycacion
/
in
so
moche
he
had
the
maydenhode
of
them
bothe
/
whiche
were
his
doughters
/
This
was
a
perillous
and
abhomynable
synne
/
Neuertheles
they
were
bothe
grete
with
child
/
And
had
two
sones
the
one
named
Moab
/
and
the
other
was
called
Amon
/
Of
whiche
two
sones
cam
first
the
paynyms
/
and
the
fals
lawe
/
And
many
euyls
and
sorowe
cam
by
that
synne
And
men
saie
they
were
bycome
passynge
proude
after
the
transformacion
of
their
moder
/
And
that
all
their
entent
was
to
coyntyse
and
arraye
them self
/
whiche
caused
the
deuyll
fyrst
to
temp●e
them
lyghtlyer
and
the
sooner
he
brought
them
to
that
fowle
synne
of
lechery
/
I
wold
also
ye
couthe
and
well
hadde
withold
within
youre
thoughtes
th
example
of
the
fowle
damoysel
/
the
whiche
for
a
hood
that
a
knyght
gaf
her
/
she
dyde
soo
moche
by
certayne
yeftes
and
promesses
that
her
lady
dyd
his
wylle
/
and
made
her
to
be
diffamed
and
dishonoured
/
wherof
grete
meschyef
befelle
/
For
a
seruaunt
of
her
lord
whiche
of
yongth
he
hadde
brought
vp
and
norysshed
perceyued
hym
of
it
/
and
told
it
to
his
lord
/
in
so
moche
that
soone
after
he
toke
&
fond
the
knyght
with
his
wyf
/
he
kylde
hym
/
and
dyde
his
wyf
to
be
mewred
and
putte
in
pryson
perpetuel
/
where
as
she
deyde
in
grete
sorowe
and
●angoure
/
It
happed
ones
or
she
was
dede
/
that
her
lord
came
forth
by
the
pryson
where
she
was
in
/
he
thenne
stood
styll
and
harked
what
she
said
/
And
she
sorowed
sore
and
cursid
her
that
had
counceyled
her
so
to
doo
/
And
thenne
he
sent
one
to
wete
what
was
she
that
so
had
counceyled
her
/
And
she
saide
how
it
was
her
damoisell
The
lord
made
her
come
to
fore
hym
and
commaunded
and
straytly
charged
her
/
that
she
sholde
say
trouthe
/
And
at
the
last
she
confessed
that
she
was
cause
of
her
meschyef
/
And
that
she
had
counceyled
her
/
&
for
her
laboure
she
had
of
the
knyght
a
hoode
/
And
thenne
the
lord
saide
/
For
a
lytel
thynge
ye
haue
vndo
yow
and
haue
be
to
me
traitresse
.
And
therfore
I
Iuge
and
gyue
sentence
/
that
the
hood
and
the
neck
be
bothe
cutte
to geder
/
And
soo
was
her
Iugement
/
Now
maye
ye
see
how
good
is
to
take
with
hym
good
companye
and
in
his
seruyse
good
and
trewe
seruauntes
that
be
not
blamed
of
no
man
lyuynge
/
For
the
saide
damoysell
was
not
wyse
/
And
therfore
good
is
to
take
wyse
seruauntes
and
not
fooles
/
For
fooles
and
shrewd
seruauntes
be
sooner
brought
to
doo
somme
euylle
and
to
gyue
euylle
counceylle
to
their
lorde
or
lady
than
other
/
as
dyde
the
two
doughters
of
lothe
one
to
other
/
And
the
same
damoysel
whiche
had
and
receyued
the
gwerdon
of
her
deserte
Of
the
doughter
of
Iacob
that
was
depuceled
or
her
maydenhode
taken
fro
her
/
Capitulo
lvj
I
Shalle
telle
you
another
Example
of
the
doughter
of
Iacob
/
whiche
for
lyghtnes
and
Iolyte
of
herte
lefte
the
hous
of
her
fader
and
of
her
bretheren
for
to
goo
and
see
the
atoure
or
aray
of
the
wymmen
of
another
lande
/
Wherfore
hit
happed
that
Sychem
the
sone
of
amor
which
was
a
grete
lord
in
that
londe
sawe
her
so
faire
that
he
coueyted
her
/
and
prayd
her
of
loue
/
in
so
moche
he
took
fro
her
maydenhode
/
&
thenne
when
her
twelue
bretheren
wyste
and
knewe
of
hit
/
come
thyder
and
slewe
hym
and
also
the
moost
parte
of
his
lygnage
and
of
his
folke
for
the
shame
that
they
had
of
their
suster
/
that
so
had
be
depuceld
or
defowled
/
Now
loke
ye
and
see
how
by
a
foolysshe
woman
cometh
many
euyllis
&
domages
/
For
by
her
yongthe
and
by
her
lyght
courage
was
made
grete
occyflon
and
shedyng
of
bloode
/
As
it
fortuned
and
happed
by
a
doughter
of
a
kyng
of
grece
whiche
by
her
foolyssh
loue
acoynted
her
of
the
sone
of
an
erle
of
that
Countre
.
wherfore
the
kyng
made
hym
werre
duryng
the
which
more
than
a
thousande
men
were
slayn
/
And
yet
hadde
the
werre
lenger
lasted
when
the
kynges
broder
whiche
was
a
wyse
man
come
to
the
kynge
/
and
saide
to
hym
/
Syre
quod
he
I
merueyle
moche
that
only
for
the
sport
and
delyte
of
youre
doughter
/
so
many
good
knyghtes
ben
lost
&
also
so
many
good
men
/
It
were
better
that
neuer
she
hadde
be
borne
/
The
kynge
thenne
saide
/
ye
sa●e
trouthe
/
And
anone
he
made
his
doughter
to
be
take
/
by
whiche
the
meschyef
was
bygonne
/
and
made
her
to
be
hewen
in
smal
pyeces
/
And
thenne
before
all
he
said
/
that
wel
right
it
was
/
that
she
sholde
be
so
detrenchid
by
whome
so
many
had
ben
hewen
and
slayn
Of
thamar
that
hadde
companye
with
hir
husbondes
fadre
Capitulo
lvij
I
Wylle
that
ye
here
th
example
of
Thamar
whiche
was
wyf
to
Henam
that
was
sone
of
Iuda
sone
of
Iacob
&
broder
to
Ioseph
/
This
Henam
was
yrous
and
felon
/
and
of
euyl
lyf
of
whiche
I
wylle
not
say
moche
nor
al
/
by
cause
god
wold
that
he
deyd
sodenly
and
pytously
.
And
as
Thamar
sawe
/
that
of
her
lord
she
myht
haue
no
lygnage
she
bethought
her
that
the
fader
of
her
lord
shold
yet
engendre
&
gete
children
wel
/
and
that
she
was
not
barayn
/
And
coueyted
and
desyred
to
haue
his
flesshely
companye
/
whiche
was
ageynst
the
lawe
/
Neuertheles
so
moche
she
dide
/
that
she
cam
by
nyght
in
his
Chambre
and
leid
her
with
hym
And
as
I
wene
she
conceyued
of
hym
two
Children
/
of
whiche
the
one
was
named
phares
.
And
the
other
had
to
name
Zaram
.
wherfor
many
tribulacions
and
euylls
befelle
afterward
For
the
children
that
ben
not
of
trewe
maryage
/
they
be
they
by
whome
the
grete
herytages
and
Auncestri
ben
loste
/
wherof
I
shalle
telle
you
an
Ensample
of
a
kynge
of
Naples
/
as
it
is
conteyned
in
the
Cronycles
of
that
lond
/
There
was
somtyme
a
quene
of
that
lond
whiche
clenly
ne
truly
kepte
her
body
toward
her
lord
/
in
so
moche
she
gate
a
sone
by
another
than
her
lord
/
It
befelle
afterward
/
that
this
sone
was
made
kynge
of
the
lond
/
after
the
dethe
of
the
kynge
/
This
newe
kynge
was
passynge
prowde
and
loued
not
his
lordis
ne
barons
but
was
to
them
full
hard
and
felon
&
also
to
al
his
comyns
he
was
vnresonable
/
For
he
took
fro
them
all
that
he
couthe
/
And
enforced
their
wyues
/
and
vyoled
their
doughters
/
And
vsed
all
euyl
dedes
/
whiche
he
couthe
ymagyne
to
doo
/
He
bigan
werre
to
his
neyghbours
and
to
his
Barons
in
so
moche
that
alle
the
reame
was
put
in
exyle
and
brought
to
grete
pouerte
.
whiche
longe
tyme
lasted
/
In
that
tyme
was
ther
a
Baron
a
good
man
and
a
right
good
knyght
/
whiche
went
vnto
an
Heremytage
/
where
as
was
an
hooly
heremyte
moche
relygious
/
And
that
many
thynges
knewe·
The
knyght
demaunded
and
asked
of
hym
how
and
wherfore
they
had
so
long
warre
in
the
lond
And
yf
it
shold
yet
last
long
tyme
/
And
the
hooly
Here
myte
answerd
hym
.
Sire
it
is
conuenyent
that
the
tyme
haue
his
cours
/
that
is
to
saye
that
as
long
as
this
kynge
and
one
his
sone
shalle
be
on
lyue
the
tribulacion
shalle
not
cesse
/
And
I
shall
telle
yow
why
/
trouthe
it
is
that
this
kyng
that
now
regneth
is
not
trewe
heyr
to
the
Crowne
/
but
is
borne
in
aduoultrye
/
And
therfore
he
may
not
be
peasyble
to
the
reame
ne
haue
the
Ioysaūce
of
it
/
wherfore
he
and
his
reame
must
haue
sorowe
and
tribulacion
/
as
long
as
a
fals
heyr
/
shall
possesse
it
/
But
his
sone
shal
haue
none
heyr
/
And
so
shalle
fynysshe
the
fals
lygnee
and
shall
the
reame
come
ageyne
to
the
right
heyre
/
And
thenne
shalle
lasse
the
pestylence
and
pees
shalle
be
/
And
al
haboundaunce
of
goodes
shalle
come
to
the
reame
/
Ryght
so
as
the
good
Heremyte
had
saide
.
so
it
befelle
.
He
said
more
ouer
/
For
he
spak
of
the
fals
quene
/
and
said
she
shold
be
punysshed
in
this
world
&
that
the
wyf
of
the
kynge
her
sone
shold
accuse
her
toward
her
lord
/
And
hou
she
shold
lye
with
one
of
her
preestes
/
and
that
the
kynge
her
sone
sholde
fynde
hem
to geder
/
and
how
both
/
he
shold
do
to
be
brent
in
a
grete
fornais
/
And
all
this
befelle
afterwarde
as
he
said
/
For
in
certeyne
the
quene
was
destroyed
and
brente
by
the
commaundement
of
the
kyng
her
sone
/
And
therfore
my
good
doughters
a
noble
thyng
is
to
kepe
hym self
clenly
in
his
maryage
/
And
for
a
fals
heyre
ofte
cometh
in
a
lond
many
euyls
and
tribulacions
/
For
by
the
fals
heyres
ben
lost
the
grete
lordshipes
/
&
the
moders
of
them
dampned
perpetuelly
in
helle
as
longe
as
their
sones
shalle
possesse
ony
ground
of
theyr
parastre
/
that
is
to
say
of
their
moders
husbond
Of
Ioseph
that
wold
not
haue
the
companye
of
the
quene
Capitulo
lviij
fAyre
doughters
I
shalle
telle
yow
an
Ensample
of
a
grete
euylle
that
came
by
lokynge
and
folysshe
plaisaunce
.
It
is
of
Ioseph
the
sone
of
Iacob
/
he
that
was
sold
by
his
bretheren
to
the
kyng
Pharaon
/
This
Ioseph
was
of
merueylous
beaute
wyse
and
right
humble
/
And
for
his
good
seruyse
the
kyng
loued
hym
moche
and
gafe
hym
baundon
ouer
all
the
goodes
that
were
in
his
reame
.
The
quene
that
sawe
hym
so
faire
gentyll
meke
and
curteys
was
soone
merueylously
enamoured
of
hym
.
And
shewed
hym
many
signes
and
tokenes
of
loue
in
beholdynge
and
lokynge
on
hym
/
And
when
the
quene
sawe
that
for
ony
thyng
that
she
couthe
doo
/
he
wolde
not
consent
to
her
euyll
wyll
/
she
was
sore
troubled
and
nyghe
oute
of
her
wit
At
the
last
she
called
hym
and
hadde
hym
alone
with
her
in
a
chambre
/
and
ther
she
preid
hym
of
loue
/
But
he
that
was
good
and
honest
answerd
to
her
/
that
he
neuer
sholde
be
suche
a
traitoure
to
his
lorde
/
And
thenne
she
with
hir
fyst
tooke
hym
fast
by
the
mantell
and
bigan
to
crye
as
lowde
and
hyghe
as
she
myght
.
in
so
moche
alle
came
thyder
/
She
saide
to
the
lord
that
he
wolde
haue
haue
forced
her
/
And
forthwith
the
lord
made
hym
to
be
take
/
&
put
in
a
pryson
/
whiche
was
right
derke
&
obscure
/
where
he
was
a
long
space
of
tyme
/
But
afterward
god
that
wold
not
forgete
hym
for
his
vertue
and
goodnes
delyuerd
hym
oute
of
pryson
/
And
was
gretter
mayster
than
he
was
before
in
the
reame
and
more
better
loued
and
honoured
/
And
therfore
is
here
a
good
ensample
/
For
god
enhaunceth
euer
the
Iuste
and
trewe
/
And
the
fals
quene
was
punysshed
.
for
within
a
lytell
tyme
after
she
deide
vylaynsly
/
and
sodenly
of
an
euylle
deth
/
&
so
god
rewarded
eche
of
them
after
their
deserte
and
meryte
/
Therfore
is
here
a
faire
ensample
to
doo
wel
/
For
of
good
delyng
and
of
good
guydynge
cam
neuer
but
worship
and
honoure
/
And
as
saith
th
euangelyst
/
there
is
no
good
dede
done
but
it
shalle
be
remembryd
&
rewarded
/
Ne
also
none
euylle
dede
done
but
that
it
shalle
be
punysshed
/
Therfore
getynge
of
fals
heyres
is
grete
sorowe
and
tribulacion
to
come
in
a
land
where
as
they
become
lordes
of
/
wherfore
the
moders
of
them
shalle
be
delyuerd
to
the
dolorous
deth
of
helle
/
wheroute
they
shalle
neuer
yssue
/
as
long
as
their
children
bastardys
shall
hold
ony
of
the
lond
and
goodes
of
their
husbondes
/
And
alle
this
is
very
trouth
as
wytnesseth
many
that
ben
suscited
ageyne
/
and
so
doth
the
hooly
scripture
also
Of
the
doughters
of
Moab
/
of
whom
the
euyll
lygnee
yssued
Capitulo
lix
/
aNother
ensample
I
shalle
telle
yow
of
the
euylle
wymmen
that
were
in
tyme
passed
/
how
the
doughters
of
Moab
were
falsely
engendryd
and
goten
/
And
ageynst
the
lawe·
And
comynly
of
an
euylle
or
bad
tree
yssueth
bad
&
euylle
fruyte
/
For
these
doughters
were
fooles
and
ful
of
lechery
/
wherfore
it
bifelle
that
balam
whiche
was
a
paynym
for
to
doo
gryef
to
the
hoost
of
the
sones
of
Israel
/
dyde
do
make
these
doughters
queynt
and
Ioly
and
wel
arayed
of
ryche
clothes
and
with
precious
stones
/
And
sente
them
in
the
said
hoost
of
the
Hebreux
whiche
were
al
folke
of
god
to
th
ende
he
sholde
make
them
to
falle
in
synne
with
them
/
And
that
their
god
sholde
caste
therfore
his
yre
vpon
them
/
Thenne
cam
these
coynted
and
Ioly
doughters
in
to
the
hoost
of
the
Iewes
/
of
whome
many
of
them
as
they
saw
the
beaute
of
them
/
were
sore
tempted
/
and
so
esprysed
of
theyr
loue
/
that
at
the
last
they
tooke
and
had
theyr
delyte
and
plaisaunce
with
them
/
wherfore
the
prynces
of
the
hoost
made
no
semblaunt
/
but
god
was
therfore
angry
vpon
them
/
And
commaunded
to
Moyses
that
the
prynces
of
the
hoost
that
suche
inyquyte
hadde
susteyned
and
made
sholde
be
hanged
.
and
put
to
deth
/
Wherfore
Moyses
made
anone
to
knowe
thorugh
oute
all
the
hoost
the
comaundement
of
god
/
whiche
sone
after
was
accomplysshed
/
and
many
one
put
to
deth
for
the
forsaid
fowle
dede
and
inyquyte
/
Here
is
a
good
ensample
for
the
prynces
and
Capytayns
of
hoostes
that
suffren
many
force
and
vyolence
to
be
done
/
and
that
suffren
a
grete
nombre
of
harlottes
within
their
hoost
/
wel
maye
they
see
how
suche
thynges
displeasen
god
the
fader
/
that
wold
take
vengeaunce
of
the
capitaynes
of
the
Iewes
hoost
/
Of
the
Iewe
&
of
the
paynym
/
that
were
broched
with
aswerd
Capitulo
lx
/
I
Shalle
telle
yow
another
Ensample
that
befelle
another
tyme
in
the
said
hoost
of
the
sones
of
Israell
/
that
is
to
wyte
.
the
Iewes
that
were
people
of
god
/
and
that
kepte
his
lawes
/
Now
it
befelle
that
the
doughter
of
Madyan
whiche
was
a
paynym
was
so
sore
tempted
that
she
coynted
and
arrayed
her
in
the
best
wyse
she
couthe
/
And
thenne
cam
in
to
the
hoost
of
Ebreus
/
She
was
coynt
and
Ioly
and
right
richely
and
nobly
arayd
/
And
dyde
come
thyder
only
for
hors
and
harnois
that
is
to
wete
/
to
accomplisshe
her
fowle
delyte
.
She
cam
so
ferre
in
to
the
hoost
that
a
knyght
one
of
the
lordes
of
the
hoost
espyed
her
and
sawe
her
/
the
whiche
was
lyghtely
tempted
and
surprysed
of
her
loue
/
in
so
moche
he
dyde
made
her
to
come
in
to
his
ten●e
and
lodgynge
and
tooke
his
delyte
with
her
/
And
hit
ha●ped
thenne
as
it
plesyd
god
that
one
of
the
moost
Chyuetayns
and
lord
of
the
hoost
knewe
and
perceyued
this
fowle
dede
.
And
be
in
contynent
cam
there
/
as
they
were
yet
nyghe
to geder
/
and
broched
and
put
his
swerde
thorugh
bothe
the
bodyes
of
them
/
And
soo
lothe
they
deyde
there
vylaynsly
by
the
synne
of
lechery
/
The
knyght
was
named
Sambry
/
and
was
of
the
lygnage
of
Symeon
that
was
of
the
twelue
prynces
of
their
lawe
/
And
yet
neuertheles
he
was
not
spared
.
For
the
prynces
and
chyuetayns
of
the
hoost
that
sawe
how
god
wrought
for
them
that
euery
day
were
fyghtyng
ageynst
as
many
mo
as
they
were
/
And
that
all
the
vyctoryes
that
they
had
/
they
had
them
thorow
the
myght
of
god
whiche
wold
spare
no
man
/
but
dyde
good
Iustyce
to
euery
man
what
someuer
he
had
be
/
For
it
was
nother
ryght
neither
reson
/
that
their
folke
shold
lye
with
them
of
other
lawe
/
as
the
Cristen
folke
with
the
Iewes
and
sarasyns
/
And
so
they
helde
and
kepte
them self
clenly
as
moche
for
fere
of
their
prynces
/
as
for
the
loue
of
god
.
And
god
gaue
hem
vyctory
and
warauntyssed
them
/
And
for
certeyne
the
thyng
that
god
kepeth
/
shalle
neuer
be
hurted
ne
domaged
in
no
wyse
/
Now
may
ye
see
how
god
hateth
the
synne
and
dede
of
lechery
/
And
how
he
wylle
that
men
be
punysshed
of
it
How
none
ought
to
abyde
allone
in
a
place
with
another
alone
Capitulo
lxj
yEt
my
dere
doughters
I
shalle
telle
you
another
ensample
/
how
men
ought
not
to
abyde
alone
with
another
al
one
/
all
be
he
of
his
parente
/
his
affynyte
or
other
For
ye
shall
here
how
it
befelle
to
thamar
the
doughter
of
kynge
Dauyd
to
whome
her
broder
tooke
awey
her
maydenhede
/
This
Amon
was
tempted
ageynst
god
and
ageynste
the
lawe
/
And
for
to
accomplysshe
his
euylle
wylle
/
fayned
hym self
to
be
seke
.
and
made
his
suster
to
serue
and
kepe
hym
.
He
euer
loked
on
her
of
a
waunton
and
fals
regard
/
and
kyssed
and
embraced
her
/
And
so
moche
he
made
lytell
and
lytell
that
he
chaffed
hym
so
that
he
depuceled
her
/
that
is
to
say
/
he
tooke
her
maydenhede
fro
her
/
And
when
Absolon
hir
broder
of
fader
and
moder
wyst
and
knewe
it
al
moost
he
wexe
woode
for
yre
and
anger
/
He
slewe
his
broder
Amon
that
suche
desloyalte
and
vntrouth
had
done
to
his
suster
And
therof
cam
many
tribulacions
and
euyls
/
And
therfore
here
is
a
faire
Ensample
/
For
euery
woman
that
clenly
wylle
kepe
honoure
and
worship
ought
not
to
abyde
alone
with
a
man
alone
withoute
it
be
with
her
lord
/
with
her
fader
or
with
her
sone
/
and
not
with
ony
other
/
For
many
euyls
&
temptacions
ben
therof
come
/
Of
the
whiche
yf
I
wold
I
shold
reherce
you
of
many
of
them
/
to
whome
as
men
saie
is
euyll
happed
&
also
by
their
nygh
parentes
/
Therfore
it
is
grete
perylle
to
trust
in
none
/
For
the
deuylle
is
to
subtyll
to
tempte
the
flesshe
/
whiche
is
yong
and
lusty
/
wherfor
men
ought
to
kepe
hem
self
well
and
take
the
moost
seurest
wey
/
wherof
I
wold
ye
wyst
thou
it
happed
to
an
euyll
wyf
/
whiche
was
wyf
to
a
roper
or
cable
maker
/
seruynge
for
shippes
and
grete
vessels
vpon
the
see
/
and
was
dwellynge
in
a
good
towne
/
Of
the
roper
or
maker
of
cordes
and
kables
and
of
the
fat
Pryour
/
Capitulo
lxij
a
Man
was
whiche
of
his
craft
was
a
Rope
maker
/
&
had
a
wyf
whiche
was
not
wyse
/
and
the
whiche
kepte
not
her
feyth
&
trouth
toward
hym
/
but
falsed
it
by
the
mene
of
a
fals
bawde
/
whiche
for
a
lytel
syluer
made
her
to
synne
and
playe
with
a
pryour
/
that
was
Ryche
/
and
a
grete
lechour
/
And
soo
for
the
couetyse
of
a
lytell
gyft
and
a
lytell
Iewel
the
sayd
euylle
Bawde
maade
her
to
falle
in
a
myschaunt
and
euylle
dede
/
wherfor
the
sage
sayth
/
She
that
taketh
/
selleth
her self
/
It
happed
ones
/
that
this
Pryour
was
come
by
nyght
and
laye
with
her
/
And
as
he
yssued
oute
of
the
chambre
/
the
fyre
beganne
to
brenne
/
and
gaf
lyght
/
And
thenne
her
husbond
sawe
hym
how
he
wente
oute
/
wherof
he
was
affrayed
/
and
sayd
he
had
sene
somme
man
within
the
chambre
/
His
wyf
made
semblaunt
as
she
therof
were
affrayed
/
and
sayd
it
was
the
fende
or
elles
the
goblyn
or
somme
spyryte
/
But
notwithstondyng
her
sayeng
/
the
good
man
was
therof
in
grete
trytesse
and
in
grete
melancolye
/
The
wyf
whiche
was
malycious
and
subtyle
went
anon
to
another
her
godsep
her
neyghbour
and
bawde
/
&
brought
her
home
with
her
The
bawde
thenne
saw
the
good
man
went
aboute
the
hows
/
berynge
with
hym
the
cordaylle
/
wherwith
he
he
made
his
cordes
/
She
tooke
in
her
handes
a
spynroke
with
blacke
wolle
and
beganne
to
spynne
/
And
as
he
was
comynge
ageyne
toward
her
she
tooke
another
with
whyte
wolle
/
Thenne
sayd
to
her
the
good
man
whiche
was
a
playne
man
and
trewe
/
My
godsep
me
semed
/
that
ryght
now
ye
spanne
blacke
wolle
/
Ha
a
sayd
she
my
Godsep
/
Veryly
I
dyd
not
soo
/
Thenne
wente
he
fro
her
ageyne
/
and
as
he
torned
ageyne
toward
her
/
and
that
she
had
taken
the
other
spynrock
he
loked
on
her
/
and
beganne
to
saye
/
Haue
fayre
godsep
/
ye
had
incontynent
a
spynrock
with
whyte
wolle
/
Ha
fayr
godsep
what
ayleth
the
now
In
good
feyth
It
is
not
so
/
I
see
wel
/
that
ye
be
dasewed
and
sore
dyseased
of
your
syghte
and
wytte
/
And
in
trouthe
men
wene
somtyme
to
see
a
thynge
that
they
see
not
/
Ye
be
thoughtfull
/
and
ryght
pensyf
/
certaynly
/
ye
haue
somme
thynge
that
hurteth
yow
/
And
the
good
man
that
thought
she
sayd
trouthe
sayd
to
her
/
by
god
godsep
me
thought
that
this
last
nyght
I
sawe
some
body
that
yssued
oute
of
oure
chambre
/
Ha
a
my
good
godsep
&
frend
sayd
the
old
and
fals
woman
/
Hit
was
nothynge
but
the
day
/
and
the
nyght
/
that
so
bestourned
your
syght
/
Thenne
was
the
good
man
wel
apayed
by
the
falsenes
of
the
old
woman
/
&
wend
verily
she
had
said
trouth
Afterward
it
befell
another
tyme
to
hym
/
as
he
supposed
to
take
at
his
beddes
feet
a
pouche
or
sack
/
for
to
haue
gone
with
/
at
a
market
thre
myle
thens
/
but
he
toke
with
hym
the
pryours
breche
/
and
put
them
vnder
his
armes
/
And
thenne
whanne
he
cam
to
the
market
and
wende
to
haue
taken
his
pouche
or
lytyll
sak
/
he
toke
the
pryours
breche
/
And
as
he
sawe
that
/
he
was
sore
troubled
and
wrothe
of
hit
/
And
the
pryour
that
was
voyded
and
hydde
vnder
the
bedde
/
wende
to
haue
take
his
breche
/
but
he
fonde
none
/
sauf
the
pouche
or
sak
allone
/
and
thenne
he
knewe
well
/
that
the
good
man
had
them
with
hym
Thenne
was
his
wyf
at
a
grete
meschyef
/
and
wyst
not
what
to
do
/
she
wente
to
her
godsep
ageyne
/
and
told
her
al
the
mater
and
fayt
/
And
that
she
for
goddes
sake
wold
fynde
some
remedye
to
it
/
She
sayd
to
her
ye
shal
take
a
payre
of
breches
/
And
I
shalle
take
also
another
payre
/
and
shalle
telle
hym
/
that
all
wymmen
were
them
/
And
so
they
dyde
/
Thenne
perceyued
hym
the
fals
godseb
and
sawe
hym
come
/
She
went
and
welcomed
hym
and
asked
hym
what
chere
good
godsep
quod
she
I
doubte
that
ye
haue
fonde
some
euyll
auenture
or
that
ye
haue
lost
somme
thynge
wherof
ye
be
so
sadde
/
Veryly
sayd
the
good
man
/
I
haue
lost
no
thynge
/
but
well
I
haue
other
thought
/
she
dyde
so
moche
that
he
tolde
her
alle
the
matere
how
that
he
had
founde
a
payre
of
breches
at
hir
beddes
feet
/
And
whan
she
herd
hym
saye
thus
/
she
began
to
lawghe
and
sayd
/
Ha
my
godsep
/
Now
I
see
wel
that
ye
be
deceyued
and
in
the
weye
to
be
dampned
/
For
in
good
feythe
in
alle
this
towne
is
none
better
than
is
youre
wyf
/
ne
that
more
feythfully
and
clenly
kepeth
her self
toward
her
husbond
/
than
she
dothe
toward
yow
/
And
to
putte
yow
oute
of
suspecion
/
trouthe
hit
is
that
she
and
I
/
and
many
other
of
thys
Towne
good
wymmen
and
trewe
haue
take
eche
of
vs
a
paire
of
breches
/
and
were
them
for
these
lechours
and
putyers
/
that
forced
and
wylle
doo
theyr
wylles
of
good
wymmen
/
And
to
th
ende
ye
knowe
yf
I
lye
or
saye
trouthe
/
loke
yf
I
were
them
or
not
/
She
tooke
vp
her
clothes
and
shewed
hym
the
breche
/
And
he
beheld
and
sawe
that
she
sayd
trouthe
/
and
byleued
her
/
And
so
by
suche
maner
the
fals
godsep
had
saued
his
wyf
twyes
/
But
at
the
laste
al
euylle
wylle
be
knowen
/
The
good
man
ones
sawe
his
wyf
goo
in
to
the
sayd
pryours
hows
allone
/
wherof
he
was
ful
angry
and
sorowful
/
In
so
moche
that
Incontynently
he
deffended
h●r
and
warned
her
vpon
payne
of
lysynge
of
her
eye
/
that
neuer
she
sholde
be
so
hardy
to
goo
ne
conuerse
in
the
hows
of
the
sayd
pryour
/
But
neuertheles
she
myght
neuer
hold
her self
ther
fro
/
For
the
grete
temptacion
that
the
fende
gaf
her
/
It
becam
ones
that
the
good
man
made
semblaunt
to
goo
oute
&
played
And
hyded
hym self
in
a
secrete
place
/
And
soone
after
his
foole
wyf
wente
in
to
the
pryours
hows
/
And
her
husbond
folowed
her
pas
bypas
/
and
brought
her
ageyne
/
and
told
her
/
that
euylle
she
had
kepte
his
commaundement
/
wherfor
he
bete
her
/
and
brake
bothe
her
legges
/
Thenne
wente
she
in
to
the
Towne
/
and
made
couenaunt
with
a
Cyrurgyen
to
hele
and
sette
ageyne
fast
to
gyder
two
broken
legges
/
And
whanne
this
couenaunt
was
made
/
he
cam
ageyne
to
his
hows
/
and
took
a
stamper
/
and
brake
the
two
legges
of
his
wyf
/
sayeng
to
her
/
At
the
lest
shalt
thou
hold
a
whyle
my
couenaunt
/
and
shalt
not
go
ageynste
my
deffence
there
as
it
pleaseth
me
not
/
And
whan
he
had
thus
done
/
he
tooke
and
leyd
her
in
a
bed
&
there
she
was
a
grete
whyle
without
departyng
/
&
atte
last
the
fende
mocked
her
/
as
ye
herd
to fore
/
For
he
made
her
euer
to
seke
soo
many
of
fowle
plesaunces
in
her
folye
/
and
in
her
fowle
synne
/
that
he
myght
not
chastyse
her
therof
/
but
whan
she
was
amended
of
her
legges
/
came
the
Pryour
secretely
to
her
/
But
the
good
man
herd
hym
come
/
and
doubted
hym self
/
and
made
semblaunt
of
slepe
and
routed
/
And
at
the
laste
soo
moche
he
was
herynge
them
/
that
he
herd
/
how
he
disported
hym self
with
his
wyf
accomplysshynge
and
doynge
the
fowle
synne
of
lecherye
/
and
he
tasted
aboute
/
and
founde
well
that
the
dede
was
trewe
/
And
thenne
he
wexed
so
moche
angry
/
and
wrothe
therof
that
al
most
he
was
oute
of
his
memorye
and
wytte
/
And
drewe
oute
a
grete
knyf
with
a
sharp
poynte
/
and
caste
a
lytel
strawe
within
the
fyre
/
and
ranne
to
them
lyghtly
/
And
he
kylled
them
bothe
at
ones
/
And
whanne
he
had
done
this
dede
/
he
called
to
hym
his
meyne
and
his
neyghbours
/
and
shewed
them
the
faytte
or
dede
And
sente
also
for
the
Iustyse
of
whiche
he
was
excused
/
And
hadde
no
harme
/
Ryght
moche
merueylled
the
neyghbours
how
she
had
tourned
her
herte
to
loue
suche
a
pryour
/
whiche
hadde
soo
grete
a
bely
/
and
soo
thycke
and
fatte
/
soo
blacke
and
so
fowle
of
face
and
so
vncurteys
as
he
was
/
And
her
husbond
was
fayre
and
good
/
sage
&
ryche
/
But
many
wymmen
ben
lyke
and
of
the
nature
of
the
she
wulf
/
that
is
the
female
of
the
wulf
/
whiche
taketh
and
cheseth
to
her
loue
the
most
fowle
and
lothly
wolf
/
And
soo
dothe
the
folysshe
wyf
by
the
temptacion
of
the
fende
/
that
euer
incessauntly
is
aboute
the
synnar
/
bet
man
or
wyf
/
to
make
them
to
falle
in
dedely
synne
/
Aind
as
the
synne
is
gretter
the
more
he
hath
myght
and
puyssaunce
ouer
the
synnars
/
And
by
cause
he
was
a
man
of
Relygyon
/
and
the
woman
wedded
was
the
synne
gretter
/
And
for
certayne
by
the
holy
scrypture
and
wrytynge
/
and
as
men
may
al
aboute
see
/
yf
a
woman
accomplysshe
or
doo
that
synne
of
lechery
with
one
her
kynne
&
nygh
of
her
blood
/
she
shall
be
the
more
temptyd
&
shal
be
more
brennyng
&
to
it
shal
haue
more
folyssh
appetyte
&
euyl
plesaunce
/
&
therfor
it
is
trewe
that
so
ofte
is
the
pot
borne
to
fetche
water
/
that
atte
laste
it
breketh
in
pyeces
/
For
this
folysshe
wyf
/
whiche
hadde
a
husbond
/
ten
tymes
fayrer
than
the
Monke
was
and
more
curteys
and
gracious
And
that
soo
ofte
hadde
escaped
thorugh
her
fals
Godseps
delynge
/
And
that
vpon
the
defence
of
her
husbond
wente
ageyne
to
the
pryours
hows
/
as
ye
herd
to fore
/
And
ouermore
as
the
grete
anguysshe
and
dolour
that
she
had
suffred
of
her
legges
was
past
/
yet
she
ne
wold
chastyse
ne
kepe
her self
clene
of
that
fowle
synne
of
lechery
/
Thenne
is
it
thyng
trewe
and
approuued
/
that
al
this
is
but
temptacion
of
the
deuylle
/
whiche
holdeth
and
kepeth
the
synnars
with
brennynge
and
enflammed
hertes
/
to
th
ende
he
may
doo
them
to
falle
within
his
grynnes
or
nettes
as
he
dyd
the
sayd
foole
woman
and
to
the
sayd
pryour
/
and
made
them
bothe
to
receyue
deth
vylaynysly
/
Now
haue
I
shewed
vnto
yow
by
many
ensamples
of
the
byble
/
and
of
the
kynges
gestes
also
by
other
wrytynge
/
How
the
synne
of
lechery
&
the
desguysynge
and
werynge
rayments
and
clothes
of
newe
facion
/
is
moche
displeasynge
to
god
/
And
how
the
deluge
and
assemblyng
of
waters
cam
therof
/
and
alle
the
world
perysshed
sauf
only
eyght
persones
And
how
Sodome
and
Gomorre
with
fyue
other
cytees
were
also
brente
and
conbusted
vnto
th
abismes
by
fyre
of
sulphur
and
of
fouldre
/
And
how
so
many
euylles
/
werres
/
famyns
and
pestylences
and
other
trybulacions
/
ben
therof
come
/
and
be
comynge
daye
by
daye
in
this
world
/
And
how
the
stenche
of
hit
is
so
gretely
displeasynge
to
the
angels
of
heuen
/
And
how
the
holy
vyrgyns
that
ben
in
heuen
in
ioye
and
glorye
gaf
them self
to
martyrdome
rather
than
they
shold
consente
to
hit
ne
goo
fro
theyre
good
/
holy
and
pure
wylle
for
ony
yeftes
ne
for
promesses
/
as
it
is
conteyned
in
theyr
legendes
/
as
of
saynt
katheryn
/
saynt
Margaryte
/
of
saynte
Crystyn
/
the
enleuen
thowsand
vyrgyns
and
of
many
other
/
of
whiche
the
grete
constaunce
and
feruente
courage
of
them
/
were
to
longe
to
be
recounted
/
For
they
surmounted
many
grete
temptacions
and
vaynquysshed
many
tyraunts
/
wherby
they
gate
&
conquered
the
grete
reame
of
blysse
and
glorye
/
where
as
they
shalle
euer
be
in
perdurable
ioye
/
Now
my
fayr
doughters
I
telle
yow
that
no
thynge
or
lytyll
is
to
kepe
hym self
clenly
/
It
is
/
drede
and
be
of
hertely
louynge
toward
her
lord
/
and
thynke
what
euylle
what
shame
/
and
what
dolour
and
sorowe
cometh
therof
vnto
the
world
/
and
how
hit
displeaseth
god
/
And
how
therof
men
lese
bothe
body
&
sowle
the
loue
of
god
/
and
the
loue
of
his
parentes
and
frendes
/
&
of
the
world
/
wherfor
moche
affectuelly
I
praye
yow
/
as
my
ryght
dere
doughters
/
that
ye
daye
and
nyght
wyl
thynke
on
it
/
For
many
grete
and
euylle
temptacions
shall
befyght
and
assaylle
yow
/
Be
ye
thenne
stronge
and
valyaunt
to
resiste
&
ouercome
them
/
And
loke
and
behold
the
place
wheroute
ye
be
come
of
/
and
what
dishonour
and
shame
myght
come
to
yow
therof
Of
Apomena
quene
of
Surye
/
Capitulo
lxiij
nOw
shalle
I
telle
yow
of
somme
wymmen
/
the
whiche
ben
ouermoche
proude
of
theyr
grete
worship
and
goodes·
whiche
god
hath
gyuen
them
/
As
reherced
is
in
the
bylle
/
ther
was
a
woman
whiche
Was
named
Apomena
/
doughter
of
a
symple
knyght
named
Bernard
/
This
Apomena
was
fayre
and
yonge
/
in
so
moche
that
the
kynge
of
Surye
/
Whiche
was
a
myghty
kynge
was
enamoured
of
her
and
so
moche
that
he
loued
her
that
by
his
grete
folye
he
toke
her
in
maryage
and
made
her
quene
/
And
whanne
she
sawe
her self
soo
hyghe
and
so
myghty
/
and
in
so
grete
honour
and
worship
brought
/
she
sette
nought
syn
of
her
frendes
and
parentes
and
had
shame
and
desdayne
to
see
or
mete
with
hem
/
And
became
ouer
proude
and
so
moche
grete
of
courage
that
also
to
the
kynge
her
lord
she
bare
not
so
grete
reuerence
as
she
ought
to
haue
doo
/
by
cause
she
sawe
hym
symple
and
debonayr
/
And
also
she
/
by
her
grete
pryde
/
dayned
not
bere
reuerence
ne
worship
to
none
of
the
kynges
parents
/
And
soo
moche
she
dyd
that
of
euery
one
she
was
hated
and
that
the
kynge
was
wrothe
with
her
and
chaced
/
and
sente
her
in
exyle
/
And
so
by
grete
pryde
she
lost
the
grete
honour
and
worship
where
in
of
lowe
degree
she
had
fortunatly
be
brought
/
for
many
wymmen
be
that
may
not
suffre
ease
&
worship
to
gyder
/
&
can
not
reste
tyl
by
their
pryde
&
enuy
they
falle
in
grete
pouerte
/
&
fro
hyhe
to
lowe
as
dyd
the
folysshe
quene
wh●che
was
come
fro
lowe
degree
vnto
so
hyghe
and
myghty
estate
and
myght
not
suffre
it
/
And
euery
woman
whan
she
seeth
and
knoweth
her
bord
symple
and
debonayr
to
her
/
she
ought
the
more
to
bere
hym
honoure
and
worship
/
for
soo
doynge
she
worshippeth
and
bereth
honour
to
her self
/
and
hath
the
loue
of
them
that
seeth
her
soo
doo
/
And
also
therfore
she
ought
to
hold
her
the
more
cloos
and
symplya
/
and
to
force
her self
to
kepe
his
loue
and
his
pees
/
For
al
hertes
be
not
euer
in
one
estate
/
A
stone
slyteth
/
And
a
hors
falleth
/
Men
wene
somtyme
that
suche
one
be
symple
/
whiche
hath
a
malycious
herte
/
And
therfor
a
woman
may
not
bere
to
moche
worship
and
honour
to
be●
lord
/
ne
to
moche
be
obeyssaunt
to
hym
/
of
what
someuer
condicion
he
be
/
wherof
I
wylle
telle
yow
an
ensample
of
the
wyf
of
the
grete
Herodes
/
He
hadde
a
wyf
whiche
he
ouermoche
loued
He
wente
to
Rome
/
And
in
the
mene
whyle
hit
befelle
/
that
his
men
that
were
with
hym
/
the
whiche
in
no
wyse
loued
theyr
lady
his
wyf
/
by
cause
she
was
toward
them
to
proude
&
felon
/
told
hym
how
she
had
a
prynce
to
her
loue
/
wherof
Herodes
was
wrothe
/
and
at
his
retourne
fro
Rome
he
reprouued
her
of
this
grete
faulte
and
vylonye
/
whiche
she
had
done
to
hym
/
She
answerd
thenne
to
proudely
and
to
lyghtly
/
And
had
not
her
lord
in
honour
by
fayre
wordes
ne
by
curtosye
/
neyther
humbly
she
spake
to
hym
/
as
she
oughte
to
haue
do
/
And
therfor
her
lord
/
that
was
felon
and
despytous
/
and
wrothe
of
her
proud
and
hyghe
spekynge
toke
a
knyf
/
and
slewe
her
/
wherof
he
was
after
sory
/
For
he
fonde
not
that
tale
whiche
his
men
had
told
hym
of
her
trewe
/
And
so
her
pryde
/
and
ouermoche
langage
was
cause
of
her
dethe
●
And
therfor
this
ensample
is
very
good
to
euery
woman
to
see
/
how
she
ought
to
be
meke
and
humble
and
curtois
in
gyuyng
ony
answere
ageynst
the
yre
and
wrathe
of
her
lord
/
For
the
wyse
Salamon
sayth
that
by
curtosye
and
by
swete
langage
ought
the
good
wymmen
to
refreyne
the
yre
&
wrathe
of
their
lord
/
For
the
lord
of
right
ought
to
haue
aboue
his
wyf
the
hyghe
talkyng
/
be
it
ryght
or
wrong
/
&
specially
in
his
yre
/
&
wrath
/
&
bifore
ony
folk
/
but
as
his
wrath
is
gone
she
may
wel
shewe
to
hym
that
he
had
no
cause
so
to
do
/
&
so
she
shal
euer
hold
the
loue
and
pees
of
her
lord
and
of
all
her
hows
/
neyther
she
shalle
not
make
her self
to
be
blamed
/
ne
to
be
bete
/
ne
slayne
by
her
lord
/
as
dyd
the
wyf
of
kynge
Herodes
Of
the
quene
Vastis
Capitulo
lxiiij
/
I
Shal
telle
you
another
ensample
of
a
quene
that
was
named
vastys
/
She
was
wyf
to
the
kynge
Assuerus
It
befelle
/
that
the
kynge
held
a
feste
with
his
barons
and
there
were
alle
the
grete
lordes
of
his
londe
/
They
satte
att
dyner
in
a
hall
and
the
quene
in
another
/
And
whanne
the
barons
had
dyned
they
prayd
the
kynge
that
he
wold
vouchesauf
to
shewe
them
the
quene
whiche
was
merueyllously
fayr
/
The
kynge
sente
for
her
ones
/
twyes
and
thryes
/
but
neuer
she
daygned
to
come
/
wherof
the
kynge
had
grete
shame
/
and
demaunded
of
his
barons
counceylle
what
therof
he
myght
best
do
/
And
suche
was
the
counceylle
gyuen
/
that
is
to
wete
that
he
shold
put
her
fro
hym
/
and
made
her
to
be
lockked
&
shette
bitwene
two
wallys
that
euery
other
shold
take
therby
ensample
to
be
better
obedyent
to
theyr
lord
than
she
was
/
And
so
after
theyr
counceyll
dyde
the
kyng
his
wyf
to
be
mured
/
and
herof
he
made
a
lawe
/
that
fro
thens
forthon
al
wymmen
that
shold
of
ony
thyng
wythsaye
&
be
disobebedyent
to
her
lord
/
seynge
that
it
be
resonable
/
that
she
shold
be
a
yere
within
two
wallys
/
and
with
litil
mete
and
drynke
for
her
defaute
/
And
as
yet
they
kepe
and
hold
that
custome
in
that
londe
/
The
quene
that
sawe
her
put
in
mewe
was
sore
ashamed
&
wepte
and
sorowed
moche
/
but
it
was
to
late
/
For
notwithstondynge
her
mournynge
and
lamentacion
she
was
putte
in
pryson
as
aboue
is
sayd
where
she
was
a
yere
/
Therfore
wel
ye
ought
to
take
here
good
ensample
/
For
specially
before
folke
ye
ought
to
doo
the
commaundment
of
your
lord
/
and
obeysshe
and
bere
hym
honour
/
and
euer
shewe
hym
semblaunt
of
loue
yf
ye
wylle
haue
the
loue
of
hym
and
of
the
world
/
But
I
saye
not
as
ye
shalle
be
pryuely
and
allone
one
by
other
/
but
that
ye
may
eslargysshe
your self
to
say
or
do
your
wylle
/
after
the
best
wyse
that
ye
maye
/
and
after
ye
knowe
his
maners
I
shall
telle
yow
th
ensample
of
the
lyon
&
of
his
propryete
/
As
the
lyonesse
that
is
to
vnderstond
the
female
of
the
lyon
hath
done
the
lyon
ony
faute
or
despyte
/
he
shalle
not
go
with
her
/
but
fro
her
shalle
kepe
hym self
one
daye
and
a
nyght
/
And
soo
sheweth
he
his
lordship
and
seygnorye
that
he
hath
ouer
the
lyonesse
/
This
ensample
is
fair
&
prouffitable
to
all
wymmen
/
consyderynge
how
a
sauage
and
wyld
beest
and
withoute
reason
/
and
that
dothe
/
but
as
nature
enclyneth
her
/
maketh
her self
to
be
drawe
/
and
doubted
of
felawe
Of
a
man
and
of
his
wyf
/
capitulo
lxv
aNd
yet
I
shalle
telle
yow
another
ensample
vpon
this
matere
/
There
was
one
Amon
whiche
was
the
kynges
Seneschal
/
and
came
of
nought
and
lowe
degree
/
He
bicame
thorugh
his
seruyse
moche
ryche
and
bought
londes
and
possessions
and
gouerned
/
and
had
as
vnder
hym
almost
the
half
of
the
reame
/
And
whanne
he
sawe
hym
so
ryche
/
And
that
he
was
bicome
so
grete
a
lord
/
he
wexyd
/
&
bicame
ouer
proude
and
felon
and
presumptuous·
and
wold
/
that
men
sholde
knele
bifore
hym
/
and
that
euery
one
shold
bere
vnto
hym
honour
and
reuerence
/
It
befelle
that
one
Mardocheus
that
was
a
noble
man
which
had
nourysshed
the
noble
quene
Hester
/
whiche
was
a
good
lady
and
trewe
/
was
aboue
al
other
displeasyd
of
the
pryde
and
presumpcion
of
the
sayd
Amon
whiche
come
of
nought
/
therfor
she
daygned
not
to
bere
hym
ony
reuerence
/
ne
knele
bifore
hym
as
other
dyd
/
wherfor
he
bicame
as
a
fole
/
and
almost
oute
of
his
wytte
for
angre
/
and
therof
dyd
complayne
hym self
to
his
wyf
/
And
his
wyf
that
of
so
hyhe
courage
was
and
as
proude
was
as
he
counceylled
hym
that
he
shold
make
a
gallowes
to
be
sette
&
dressyd
bifore
his
place
/
and
that
he
shold
make
hym
and
his
wyf
to
be
taken
and
honged
theron
to
grete
meschyef
/
And
that
he
shold
accuse
them
of
some
grete
treason
and
falshede
/
And
whanne
he
was
take
/
and
the
gallowes
dressyd
/
the
frendes
of
mardocheus
wente
anone
rennynge
to
the
quene
Hester
/
and
tolde
her
how
Aaman
wold
make
hym
to
be
hanged
that
had
nourysshed
her
/
And
anone
the
quene
made
to
be
sent
for
Aaman
/
he
came
/
and
she
had
hym
tofore
the
kynge
Where
as
trouthe
of
the
fayte
or
dede
was
dylygently
Inquyred
and
knowen
/
In
so
moche
that
it
was
founde
that
Mardocheus
was
accused
by
the
accusacion
of
Aaman
&
was
nothynge
gylty
/
And
that
suche
treason
he
had
putte
on
hym
was
by
enuy
/
&
thenne
the
good
and
noble
quene
Hester
kneled
bifore
her
lord
the
kynge
/
and
requyred
and
prayd
hym
/
that
suche
Iustyce
shold
be
made
of
Aaman
the
Seneschalle
as
he
wolde
it
had
be
done
of
Mardocheus
and
of
his
wyf
/
And
that
he
shold
be
hanged
at
the
yate
of
his
place
/
to
shewe
that
falsly
&
by
enuy
he
had
accused
Mardocheus
of
treson
/
And
as
the
good
quene
dyde
requyre
her
lord
/
so
was
hit
done
/
Thus
was
hanged
Aaman
by
his
grete
pryde
and
sur●uedrye
/
And
by
the
counceylle
of
his
wyf
/
Wherfore
grete
folye
is
to
a
man
come
fro
lowe
degree
to
Worship
and
grete
estate
to
become
and
wexe
prowde
and
surquydous
for
erthely
good
/
that
he
hath
gadred
&
amassed
/
and
to
myspryse
ony
other
/
but
yf
he
be
wyse
/
he
ought
hym self
shewe
to
euery
one
meke
and
humble
/
to
th
ende
he
may
falle
in
the
grace
and
welwyllynge
of
alle
folke
and
that
none
may
haue
enuye
ouer
hym
/
For
comynly
men
haue
more
enuye
ouer
them
/
that
ben
come
of
nought
to
grete
worship
/
than
of
them
that
ben
come
of
ryche
and
noble
folke
and
of
Auncestrye
/
The
wyf
of
Aaman
was
not
wyse
whanne
she
sawe
the
yre
&
wrathe
of
her
lorde
to
susteyne
hym
in
his
folye
/
for
euery
good
woman
&
wyse
ought
by
fayr
and
curtoys
spekynge
put
aweye
yf
she
may
the
yre
and
Wrathe
of
her
lorde
/
&
specially
Whan
she
seeth
hym
meued
and
be
Wyllynge
to
do
somme
euylle
or
somme
shameful
dede
/
Wherof
dommage
&
dishonour
maye
to
them
come
/
as
dyd
Aamans
wyf
/
whiche
repreuyd
not
her
lord
of
his
folye
/
but
gaf
hym
folysshe
and
euylle
counceyll
Wherby
he
dyd
vylaynously
/
Men
ought
not
to
susteyne
his
lord
in
his
Wrathe
and
yre
/
but
curtoysly
and
by
fayr
Wordes
men
ought
to
repreue
hym
of
his
euylle
thought
/
and
shewe
vnto
hym
lytyl
and
lytyl
the
reasons
and
cause
why
he
shold
not
do
as
he
had
purposed
to
do
/
For
Which
thyng
my
fayr
doughters
I
requyre
and
praye
yow
/
that
ye
here
take
good
ensample
/
and
take
hede
what
meschyef
befelle
to
Aaman
by
the
folysshe
counceylle
of
his
wyf
/
Of
the
quene
Gesabel
whiche
had
many
euylle
condycions
/
Capitulo
lxvj
/
nOw
wylle
I
telle
yow
th
example
of
an
eu●lle
/
cruel
/
and
dyuerse
quene
/
how
it
befelle
to
her
/
It
was
the
quene
Gesabel
/
whiche
had
many
euyl
ratc●●●
/
Fyrst
she
hated
the
Indygent
/
and
power
/
she
hated
the
holy
and
good
heremytes
and
al
prestes
and
men
of
holy
〈◊〉
/
and
alle
them
that
to
the
laye
peple
taught
the
feyt●●
〈◊〉
made
them
to
be
beten
and
robbed
/
in
soo
moche
that
of
ne●●
they
must
voyde
/
and
goo
oute
of
the
reame
/
she
had
of
none
mercy
ne
pyte
/
wherfor
she
was
cursed
/
and
hated
of
god
●
and
of
al
the
peple
/
A
good
man
was
at
that
tyme
/
whic●●
was
named
Nabor
/
whiche
had
an
Aker
of
a
vyne
yerd
ryght
fertyle
and
good
/
whiche
the
kynge
coueyted
and
desyred
moche
to
haue
it
by
byenge
/
or
otherwyse
/
but
the
good
man
Nabor
consented
not
to
hit
with
good
wylle
/
The
kyng
told
to
this
quene
his
wyf
that
he
was
ryght
sory
/
that
he
myght
not
haue
that
vyneyerd
/
And
she
sayd
/
that
well
she
shold
make
that
he
shold
haue
it
/
as
she
dyde
/
For
by
treson
she
made
the
good
man
Nabor
to
be
murdred
and
slayne
/
And
thenne
she
brought
forth
/
and
made
to
come
fals
men
/
whiche
wytnessid
that
he
had
gyuen
the
kyng
Achas
her
lord
his
vyneyerd
/
whiche
thynge
was
moche
displeasynge
to
god
wherfor
he
sente
Iosue
to
make
werre
ageynst
hym
/
in
so
moche
he
toke
prysoner
the
kynge
Achas
/
and
with
hym
lx
children
/
grete
and
smal
/
And
anone
after
Iosue
made
theyr
bedes
to
be
smyton
of
/
This
was
the
punycion
of
the
vengeaunce
dyuyne
/
And
as
for
the
euylle
and
cruell
quene
gesabell
I
shalle
telle
yow
the
ende
of
her
/
She
wente
vp
vnto
a
hyhe
portayll
or
yate
where
as
Iosue
shold
passe
/
and
there
she
coynted
and
arayed
her
with
clothes
of
gold
/
and
flourynge
of
ryche
ermyns
with
grete
plente
of
precious
stones
/
al
desguysed
and
in
other
maner
of
clothynge
than
ony
other
woman
of
that
lond
was
/
And
as
she
sawe
the
kynge
go
by
the
waye
/
she
bigannne
of
a
hyghe
voys
to
curse
hym
and
all
his
lygnage
also
/
and
proudely
she
spake
to
hym
sayenge
of
hym
al
the
vylonye
that
her
cruel
and
proude
herte
couthe
thynke
/
The
kynge
▪
thenne
beganne
to
loke
vp
and
sawe
the
couetyse
and
desguysynge
of
her
and
herd
her
proud
/
and
shamefull
Wordes
/
wherof
he
was
merueylled
and
wrothe
/
And
seyng
she
h●ld
not
her
fals
and
venymed
tongue
/
but
cursed
/
and
euer
spake
euylle
/
commaunded
to
his
men
/
that
they
shold
go
where
as
she
was
/
And
that
they
shold
caste
her
before
alle
the
peple
the
heed
dounward
fro
the
place
where
she
was
vnto
the
strete
/
And
so
they
dyde
/
And
thus
by
her
cruell
courage
and
pryde
she
shamefully
and
vylaynsly
ended
her
lyf
/
And
for
the
grete
crueltees
and
euyls
that
she
in
her
lyf
had
done
&
made
to
be
done
commaunded
kynge
Iosue
that
she
shold
haue
sepulcre
/
but
that
she
shold
be
eten
and
deuoured
of
dogges
/
as
she
was
/
By
suche
wayes
god
taketh
vengeaunce
of
tyme
of
them
/
that
haue
no
pyte
of
the
power
and
Indygent
/
And
that
loue
not
his
chirche
and
his
seruauntes
/
and
that
by
couetyse
make
grete
crueltees
and
many
euylle
dedes
/
and
also
them
that
brynge
fals
wytnes
to
disheryte
other
of
his
ryght
/
as
dyd
the
fals
quene
gesabel
/
whiche
susteyned
her
lord
in
his
folye
/
wherfor
euylle
happed
to
her
/
Here
ye
maye
take
ensample
to
be
pyteous
charytable
toward
the
poure
folke
/
and
to
loue
holy
chirche
and
the
mynystres
of
hit
/
and
al
so
to
kepe
hym self
fro
gyuynge
ony
euylle
counceyl
to
her
lord
Also
to
take
no
desguysed
rayment
/
but
only
thestate
of
the
good
and
worshipful
wymmen
of
the
lond
Of
Athalia
quene
of
Iherusalem
/
Capitulo
lxvij
I
Athalye
wylle
telle
yow
another
ensample
of
a
quene
of
Ierusalem
/
whiche
was
of
euyll
condycions
/
diuerse
and
withoute
pyte
/
For
whanne
Ozias
her
sone
was
deed
/
she
made
al
the
children
of
her
sone
to
be
slayne
and
alle
his
heyres
also
/
sauf
only
one
that
a
good
man
named
Zoadis
made
to
be
nourysshed
secretely
/
This
quene
toke
the
possession
of
alle
the
reame
and
goodes
/
And
made
vnto
the
peple
grete
dyuersytees
and
sore
trauaylled
them
/
and
she
taxed
them
so
hyghe
/
that
they
became
poure
/
And
as
she
had
so
trauaylled
the
reame
/
as
she
that
was
withoute
reason
and
pyte
/
the
child
/
whiche
hadde
be
secretely
nouriss●●d
and
brought
vp
cam
to
his
enherytaunce
/
and
toke
the
quene
Athalia
/
and
made
her
to
deye
of
an
euyl
and
shameful
dethe
/
And
soo
she
hadde
at
the
laste
the
reward
and
guerdon
of
her
meryte
/
For
god
gyueth
to
euery
one
the
deserte
of
his
meryt●
in
his
lyf
or
after
his
dethe
/
For
none
euylle
is
done
but
〈◊〉
shalle
be
punysshed
soone
or
in
tyme
to
come
/
I
wold
〈◊〉
doughters
that
ye
knewe
th
ensample
and
the
tale
of
a
〈◊〉
of
Fraunce
/
whiche
had
to
name
Brunehault
/
She
was
the
quene
/
of
whome
Sybile
prophesyed
/
sayenge
thus
/
Brun●hault
shal
come
fro
black
Spayne
in
to
the
Reame
of
Gaule
Fraunce
whiche
shal
do
many
euylle
dedes
/
and
afterwarde
she
shal
be
destroyed
/
And
so
it
befelle
/
For
she
made
somme
of
her
children
to
be
slayne
/
and
also
the
sones
of
her
children
&
other
grete
crueltees
she
procured
/
and
dyde
/
whiche
were
to
long
to
be
reherced
/
But
at
the
laste
as
hit
pleasyd
god
s●e
was
payd
/
For
a
child
that
scaped
her
cruelte
whiche
was
sone
to
her
sone
/
and
the
whiche
knewe
the
grete
crueltees
and
abhomynaltees
that
she
had
done
and
procured
and
maade
to
be
done
/
accused
her
/
And
thenne
al
her
fayttes
and
dedes
were
put
to
Iugement
before
al
the
barons
of
the
londe
/
and
sentence
of
dethe
was
cast
on
her
/
that
she
shold
be
bounden
with
the
heres
of
her
hede
atte
hors
taylle
/
And
thus
it
was
done
And
so
she
deyed
of
an
euyl
and
shameful
dethe
Of
Enuye
Capitulo
lxviij
I
Wylle
telle
yow
an
ensample
of
Enuye
/
whiche
is
an
euyl
vyce
/
of
Marye
the
suster
of
Moyses
/
the
whiche
sayd
that
she
was
as
wel
belouyd
of
god
as
her
broder
Moyses
/
and
that
god
herd
her
prayers
and
requestes
as
he
dyd
his
/
wherof
god
was
wrothe
with
her
/
and
made
her
to
become
lepre
/
in
soo
moche
she
was
put
oute
of
the
towne
/
soo
that
she
myght
no
more
come
amonge
the
folke
/
And
not
withstandynge
her
grete
enuye
/
yet
had
Moyses
and
Aaron
/
pyte
of
her
/
and
made
requeste
that
it
wold
please
hym
to
hele
and
gwerysshe
her
/
And
at
theyr
requeste
god
maade
her
hole
ageyne
/
Take
ye
here
ensample
how
grete
parylle
is
to
haue
enuye
of
other
mens
preferement
and
worship
/
And
how
god
dyd
punysshe
this
lady
whiche
was
the
moost
noble
damoysel
that
was
in
alle
the
land
/
Of
the
content
that
was
bytwene
Fenenna
and
Anna
Capitulo
lxix
I
Wold
fayre
doughters
that
ye
knewe
another
ensample
vpon
this
matere
of
a
wyf
to
a
grete
lord
/
whiche
was
named
Helchana
/
Whiche
had
two
wyues
after
the
lawe
of
the
lond
/
the
one
was
named
Anna
/
and
the
other
Fenenna
/
Of
Anna
Helchana
myght
haue
no
children
/
wherof
Fenenna
was
ful
glad
and
ioyeful
/
For
wyues
that
bare
no
children
were
lesse
preysed
/
than
they
that
bare
ony
/
Fenenna
scorned
and
mocked
Anna
/
and
called
her
berhayn
/
And
was
ouer
proude
that
she
had
of
her
lord
many
fayr
children
/
And
Anna
had
none
/
Anna
ofte
wepte
&
sorowed
/
and
complayned
her
to
god
/
And
god
whiche
her
pacyence
and
humylyte
beheld
/
and
sawe
the
scornynge
and
mockynge
of
Fenenna
/
took
al
her
children
fro
her·
And
made
Anna
to
wexe
grete
with
child
/
and
many
one
she
hadde
of
her
lord
afterward
/
wherfor
Helchana
loued
her
more
than
he
dyd
Fenenna
/
to
whome
her
children
were
al
dede
/
And
thus
ben
the
Iugements
of
god
merueyllous
/
For
he
hateth
alle
maner
of
enuye
/
And
chastyseth
the
proude
whan
hym
lyst
/
and
enhaunceth
the
meke
and
humble
that
requyreth
hym
of
mercy
/
And
therfor
ye
haue
here
a
good
ensample
/
how
no
woman
ought
to
wexe
proude
of
the
goodes
and
graces
that
god
gyue●h
to
her
/
and
not
to
haue
enuye
of
ony
other
goodes
ne
to
be
glad
and
ioyefull
of
the
meschyef
of
other
/
As
Fenenna
was
/
of
that
she
sawe
her
haue
many
children
/
and
Anna
none
/
And
therfor
god
punysshed
her
ouer
her
children
/
For
they
deyde
euerychone
/
And
gaf
somme
to
her
that
to fore
had
none
/
Suche
ben
the
Iugements
of
god
/
therfore
men
ought
well
to
take
here
ensample
/
and
thanke
god
of
al
his
bienfaittes
/
Here
I
leue
this
matere
/
And
shalle
telle
yow
of
another
vpon
the
faytte
or
dede
of
couetyse
/
Of
Dalida
the
euylle
wyf
/
Capitulo
l●●
I
Shalle
telle
yow
another
Ensample
vpon
the
faytte
or
dede
of
an
euylle
wyf
and
a
fals
woman
/
whic●e
was
named
Dalida
/
whiche
was
wyf
of
Sampson
/
that
moche
loued
her
/
in
so
moche
that
he
dyde
nothyng
but
that
he
made
her
to
knowe
hit
/
And
for
the
grete
loue
that
he
had
to
her
/
he
lyke
a
foole
discouered
and
told
her
that
al
his
〈◊〉
was
in
the
heerys
of
the
heed
/
And
whanne
the
fals
wo●ā
wist
it
/
she
made
to
telle
the
paynyms
whiche
were
enemyes
to
her
lord
/
that
yf
they
wold
gyue
her
a
good
reward
she
sholde
so
do
/
that
they
shold
take
hym
/
And
anone
the
paynyms
promysed
her
that
yf
she
couthe
so
doo
/
as
she
sayd
/
they
shold
gyue
her
a
grete
quantite
of
gold
and
of
gownes
/
and
as
many
precious
stones
as
she
wold
take
of
them
/
And
she
that
thorugh
couetyse
was
deceyued
/
made
her
lord
to
slepe
in
her
lappe
/
And
whyle
he
fast
slepte
/
she
cutte
awey
the
heerys
of
his
heede
/
And
anone
sent
for
the
paynyms
/
whiche
nyghe
were
embusshed
/
and
made
hym
to
be
taken
of
them
/
Thenne
he
awoke
and
fonde
alle
his
myght
and
strengthe
loste
and
gone
that
before
that
tyme
was
wont
to
resiste
and
fyghte
he
al
one
ageynst
thre
thowsand
men
/
And
whanne
they
hadde
hym
fast
bounden
/
they
thrested
and
putte
oute
bothe
his
eyen
And
made
hym
to
tourne
aboute
a
mylle
as
a
blynde
hors
/
Behold
ye
thenne
and
loke
how
couetyse
deceyued
this
folissh
woman
that
for
a
lytell
gold
bitrayed
her
lord
/
that
soo
moche
loued
her
/
whiche
was
moost
doubted
of
all
m●n
/
that
euer
were
and
euer
shall
be
/
A
coueytous
herte
dar
well
saye
&
vndertake
to
do
moch
euylle
/
For
he
maketh
the
noble
men
to
be
rapynous
&
tyraunts
ouer
their
men
&
subgettes
/
Couetyse
also
maketh
many
theues
/
many
vsurers
/
many
murderers
many
maydens
&
wydowes
to
become
harlottes
/
and
many
secrete
homycyde
is
done
by
this
fals
vyce
of
couetyse
/
the
●hildren
also
to
desyre
and
wysshe
the
dethe
of
theyr
faders
and
moders
onely
for
to
haue
and
rauysshe
their
goodes
after
theyr
dethe
/
Also
Iudas
for
couetyse
of
syluer
he
bitrayd
oure
lord
Ihesu
Cryst
/
In
suche
maner
done
these
dayes
the
aduocates
and
men
of
lawe
/
whiche
sellen
theyr
talkyng
&
wordes
tornynge
fro
the
trouthe
/
and
pletynge
ageynst
hit
/
For
they
doo
the
ryght
of
the
good
man
to
be
dylayed
for
to
haue
and
take
of
hym
more
syluer
/
And
many
one
of
them
is
that
taketh
on
bothe
partyes
/
And
so
they
selle
theyr
speche
/
whiche
god
gaaf
them
to
prouffyte
with
for
the
comyn
wele
/
Therfor
is
couetyse
moche
deceyuable
/
which
brought
the
wyf
of
Sampson
to
doo
grete
folye
/
Here
ye
haue
good
ensample
to
kepe
your self
fro
the
vyce
of
couetyse
/
For
soone
after
god
sente
to
the
sayd
dalida
the
deserte
of
her
meryte
and
dede
/
She
toke
to
spouse
one
of
the
paynyms
/
and
made
a
grete
feste
/
Sampson
that
knewe
of
it
/
And
to
whom
his
heres
were
growen
and
his
strengthe
come
ageyne
/
made
hym
to
be
ledde
there
as
they
were
sette
at
the
dyner
/
And
thenne
he
toke
the
pyler
in
his
armes
whiche
stode
in
the
myddell
of
the
halle
/
and
that
susteyned
and
bare
al
the
place
/
and
shoke
it
with
so
grete
strengthe
and
myght
that
he
brake
it
in
to
pyeces
/
and
the
place
fylle
vpon
them
/
there
was
slayne
dalida
/
her
newe
lord
and
the
moost
parte
of
them
that
were
at
that
dyner
/
And
thus
Sampson
venged
hym
of
dalida
his
fals
wyf
/
whiche
was
there
punysshed
of
her
euylle
dede
and
folye
/
And
well
was
reason
and
ryght
that
of
euyl
doynge
/
euyl
shold
come
to
her
/
How
a
Woman
ought
not
to
departe
ne
goo
fro
her
husbond
for
ony
Wrathe
or
euyl
wyl
that
may
growe
or
come
emonge
them
/
Capitulo
lxxj
I
wylle
telle
yow
how
of
a
lytel
wrathe
sourded
and
came
grete
euyll
/
A
good
man
was
whiche
was
noble
/
and
of
the
mount
Euffraym
/
he
maryed
hym
/
and
took
a
damoysell
of
Bethlehem
the
whiche
for
a
lytel
occacion
was
wrothe
with
her
husbond
/
and
wente
ageyne
to
her
faders
hows
/
The
good
man
her
husbond
was
therof
heuy
and
sorowful
/
and
wente
and
dyd
fetche
her
home
ageyne
/
And
her
fader
blamed
her
and
sayd
she
dyde
not
as
a
good
wyf
shold
do
/
As
they
were
goynge
homeward
/
they
lodged
in
a
toune
named
galga
/
where
as
was
many
worldly
folke
ful
of
lechery
/
This
folke
cam
there
where
as
this
woman
&
her
lord
were
lodged
/
they
brake
the
dores
and
by
force
&
vyolence
vylaynsly
toke
and
rauysshed
the
sayd
woman
fro
her
husbond
/
&
for
nothyng
that
their
hoost
coude
saye
or
do
/
whiche
wold
haue
gyuen
one
of
his
doughters
for
the
warauntyse
of
his
hostesse
/
they
wold
not
leue
her
/
but
had
her
wyth
them
.
And
as
the
mornynge
cam
/
she
that
sawe
her
dishonoured
and
so
vylaynsly
shamed
/
toke
in
her self
suche
shame
&
suche
a
sorowe
that
she
thenne
deyde
at
her
lordes
feet
/
wherfore
the
good
man
was
nyghe
dede
also
/
&
as
he
was
come
to
hym self
ageyne
/
he
toke
&
bare
her
body
vnto
his
hows
/
&
thenne
be
made
xij
pyeces
of
her
body
/
&
vpon
euery
pyece
he
set●e
a
paper
leef
/
wherin
was
wreton
al
the
maner
how
it
befelle
to
her
&
sent
these
xij
pyeces
to
xij
persones
her
parentes
&
most
nyhe
of
her
kyn
to
th
ende
they
shold
among
them
take
vengeaunce
of
it
/
wherof
it
befelle
that
all
her
frendes
&
her
husbondes
frendes
also
toke
therof
so
grete
yre
&
wrath
/
&
had
so
grete
abhomynacion
of
it
/
that
they
gadred
&
assembled
them
to
gyder
/
&
wyth
grete
nombre
of
men
of
armes
/
came
to
galga
/
&
slewe
th●r
wel
xxxiijM
persones
men
&
wymmen
/
This
is
to
yow
a
good
ensample
/
how
a
woman
ought
not
to
leue
her
husbond
&
lord
for
none
yre
ne
maltalent
that
may
be
bitwene
them
/
&
a
wyse
&
good
woman
ought
to
bere
&
suffre
the
yre
and
wrath
of
her
husbondes
in
the
most
fayr
&
humble
wyse
that
she
can
&
to
put
her self
in
payne
to
appease
hym
by
curtoys
&
fayr
wordes
/
&
not
leue
&
go
fro
hym
/
as
dyd
the
said
damoysel
/
whiche
lefte
her
lord
/
&
wente
fro
hym
/
&
her
husbond
must
fetche
her
ageyn
By
the
whiche
her
goynge
she
deyd
/
and
soo
dyd
many
one
/
as
aboue
is
sayd
/
And
yf
she
had
be
in
pees
and
styll
with
her
lord
/
al
this
grete
euylle
and
sorowe
had
not
fallen
/
And
therfore
it
is
somtyme
good
to
refreyne
hir
/
yre
and
amolysshe
hir
herte
/
For
this
is
the
vsage
of
the
wyse
woman
/
whiche
tendeth
to
lyue
peasybly
and
louyngly
with
her
husbond
and
lord
How
a
woman
ought
to
obeye
her
husbond
in
alle
thynge
honest
Capitulo
lxxij
I
Wold
ye
knewe
wel
the
tale
and
example
of
the
lady
/
whiche
daygned
not
to
come
to
her
dyner
for
ony
commaundement
that
her
lord
coude
make
to
her
/
and
so
many
tyme
he
sent
for
her
/
that
at
the
last
whanne
he
sawe
she
wold
not
come
at
his
commaundement
/
he
made
to
come
before
hym
his
swyneherd
/
he
that
kepte
his
swynes
/
whiche
was
foule
/
and
ouermoche
hydous
/
and
bad
hym
fetche
the
clowte
of
the
kechyn
wherwith
men
wype
dysshes
and
platers
And
thenne
he
made
a
table
or
bord
to
be
dressyd
before
hys
wyf
/
and
made
it
to
be
couerd
with
the
sayd
cloute
/
and
commaunded
to
his
swyneherd
to
sytte
besyde
her
/
And
thenne
he
sayd
thus
to
her
/
Lady
yf
ye
ne
wylle
ete
with
me
/
ne
come
at
me
/
ne
come
at
my
commaundement
/
ye
shalle
haue
the
kepar
of
my
swyne
to
hold
yow
company
and
good
felauship
/
And
this
cloute
to
wype
your
handes
with
al
/
And
whanne
she
that
thenne
was
sore
ashamed
and
more
wrothe
than
she
was
tofore
sawe
and
knewe
that
her
lord
mocked
her
/
refreyned
her
proude
herte
and
knewe
her
foly
/
Therfore
a
woman
ought
not
in
no
wyse
to
refuse
to
come
at
the
commaundement
of
her
lord
yf
she
wylle
haue
and
kepe
his
loue
and
pees
/
And
also
by
good
reason
humylyte
ought
to
come
fyrste
to
the
woman
/
For
euer
she
ought
to
shewe
her self
meke
and
humble
toward
her
lord
/
How
men
ought
to
kepe
hem
self
fro
flaterers
/
Ca
lxxiij
hEre
shall
I
telle
yow
an
ensample
of
a
grete
lady
named
Susanna
/
that
had
a
sone
a
grete
lord
/
whiche
was
gone
in
to
a
feld
or
batayll●
/
where
he
wa●
slayne
/
The
moder
was
in
grete
thought
and
sorowe
what
tydynges
she
shold
here
of
hym
/
In
her
companye
she
had
a
woman
a
flateresse
&
a
grete
lyer
/
whiche
ofte
sayd
to
her
/
Madame
be
not
in
no
wyse
desmayed
ne
sorowful
/
●o
my
lord
your
sone
hath
victory
vpon
his
enemyes
/
therfor
he
must
tary
&
abyde
there
a
whyle
for
to
ordeyne
of
his
affaryre●
/
&
so
this
fals
flateresse
appeased
her
lady
of
fayre
wordes
nought
/
For
she
ne
sayd
neuer
to
her
lady
ony
word
that
myght
displease
her
/
as
done
many
flaterers
and
many
flateresses
/
whiche
shal
neuer
sa●e
thynge
that
may
displease
theyr
ladyes
or
lordes
/
and
s●alle
hyde
the
trouthe
/
and
theyr
wele
and
make
them
to
haue
io●e
of
nought
/
As
dyd
this
fals
woman
to
that
good
lady
/
Whiche
made
her
to
vnderstonde
/
that
her
sone
had
obteyned
vyctory
/
and
brought
With
hym
his
prysoners
/
And
wel
hit
was
the
contrary
/
For
he
deyde
there
/
wherfor
it
befell
that
whan
the
lady
his
moder
knewe
it
/
she
deyde
nyghe
for
sorowe
/
therfor
is
an
euylle
thyng
to
a
man
to
haue
aboute
hym
ony
flaterers
/
For
they
dare
not
gyue
trewe
counceylle
/
but
ofte
they
make
theyr
lordes
to
do
grete
folye
/
They
be
lyke
to
the
Iouglours
whiche
wylle
make
of
a
cole
seme
and
shewe
a
fayr
thynge
/
For
they
preyse
a
thyng
before
the
folk
/
and
behynde
them
they
blame
hit
/
wherfor
one
ought
not
to
byleue
that
/
what
they
sayen
/
For
they
retche
not
what
they
say
/
but
that
they
may
please
yow
&
to
haue
youre
loue
/
And
yf
ye
be
wyse
/
ye
ought
to
knowe
them
better
/
than
they
shalle
you
/
&
put
them
fro
yow
&
take
suche
one
that
shall
telle
yow
the
trouthe
&
your
we
le
/
Suche
flaterers
deceyue
the
ryche
men
/
as
dyd
a
flaterer
to
a
woman
that
sold
cheses
/
whiche
was
fowle
of
vysage
/
&
he
made
her
to
vnderstonde
/
that
she
was
fayr
&
praty
/
And
the
woman
was
so
folyssh
that
she
wende
he
had
sayd
trouthe
/
Somtyme
she
gaf
hym
a
chese
/
and
as
he
hadde
it
and
was
behynd
her
bak
he
mocked
her
of
it
/
I
wold
ye
wyst
th
example
/
whiche
I
sawe
in
the
toun
of
Angolosme
/
as
the
duk
of
normandy
cam
before
Aguyllon
/
ther
were
knyghtes
which
for
to
take
their
disp●rte
shotte
at
a
marke
/
And
whanne
the
duke
cam
in
to
the
wherin
was
the
holy
brede
of
the
manna
whiche
cam
and
descended
fro
heuen
/
wherof
the
holy
faders
were
refressh●
and
fylled
/
that
for
to
worshipe
god
and
the
feste
/
the
kyng
went
and
putte
hym self
among
the
prestes
for
to
synge
and
harpe
with
them
/
and
made
the
grettest
ioye
that
he
coude
for
the
loue
and
worship
of
god
and
of
his
chirche
/
His
wyf
loked
on
hym
that
so
dede
/
and
had
of
it
grete
desdayne
and
shame
/
and
mocked
hym
sayenge
that
he
was
bicome
a
mynystrelle
And
the
good
kynge
answerd
that
one
may
not
to
moche
meke
ne
humble
hym self
toward
god
/
ne
do
to
moche
worshyp
and
reuerence
to
his
chirche
/
For
of
god
cometh
alle
the
good
and
honour
that
man
and
woman
may
haue
/
And
therfore
god
was
displeased
of
that
she
had
spoken
of
it
/
and
made
her
barayn
and
seke
by
cause
he
wold
shewe
to
her
her
folye
/
For
euery
goode
woman
ought
to
Incyte
and
mene
her
lorde
to
worship
god
and
the
chirche
/
and
not
mocke
hym
of
that
he
dothe
in
the
worship
of
god
/
For
as
the
sage
sayth
in
the
boke
of
sapyence
/
whanne
the
man
seeth
hym
mocked
&
scorned
/
specially
/
before
ony
folke
of
his
wyf
/
his
herte
swelleth
/
whiche
causeth
hym
to
answere
outrageously
/
And
therfor
it
is
good
to
a
woman
to
be
of
fayre
and
swete
spekynge
in
repreuynge
her
lord
of
ony
thynge
How
a
woman
ought
not
to
requyre
of
her
husbond
ony
thynge
but
it
be
honeste
and
prouffitable
to
them
bothe
/
Capitulo
lxxvj
aN
ensample
shall
I
telle
yow
of
Bersabee
the
wyf
of
Vrye
whiche
duellyd
before
the
palais
of
kyng
dauid
This
Bersabee
ones
kembed
&
wesshed
her
heer
at
a
wyndowe
where
as
kyng
dauid
myght
well
see
her
/
She
had
ouer
fayr
heres
/
wherfor
the
kynge
was
tempted
and
sente
for
her
/
and
so
moche
he
dyde
that
he
laye
with
her
/
and
by
cause
of
the
folyssh
plesaunce
and
delyte
that
he
toke
with
her
/
He
dyde
sende
his
lettres
to
Ioab
whiche
was
Chyuetayne
and
capitayn
of
his
hoost
/
that
he
sholde
put
Vrye
in
suche
place
that
he
myght
be
slayne
/
Vrye
bare
hym self
the
lettres
of
his
dethe
/
For
in
certayne
it
was
done
as
the
kynge
had
wreton
/
And
thus
kynge
dauyd
made
double
synne
/
for
an
homycyde
he
was
/
and
hadde
accomplysshed
and
done
the
synne
of
lecherye
/
wherfor
god
was
displeased
/
and
sente
to
hym
and
to
his
reame
many
euyls
/
wherof
the
nombre
were
to
longe
to
reherce
/
And
all
this
meschyef
cam
by
the
pryde
that
bersabee
had
of
her
herte
/
Therfore
a
woman
ought
not
to
be
proude
of
ony
beaute
that
she
hath
/
shewe
her self
only
to
please
the
world
/
The
demaunde
or
askyng
that
the
moder
of
Salamon
made
/
Capitulo
lxxvij
tHe
moder
of
kynge
Salamon
whiche
was
a
good
lady
dyd
requyre
of
Salamon
her
sone
/
that
he
wold
graunte
and
feaunce
her
to
a
man
/
whiche
was
a
paynym
and
theyr
enemye
/
Salamon
ansuerd
that
this
enemy
shold
neuer
haue
the
wyf
of
his
lord
his
fader
/
She
held
her
thenne
for
nyce
and
ashamed
of
that
she
had
be
warned
of
her
demaunde
and
requeste
/
Therfor
euery
woman
ought
to
thynke
or
she
requyre
her
lord
of
ony
thynge
yf
her
requeste
be
resonable
or
not
/
I
wold
ye
knewe
the
folysshe
requeste
which
the
duchesse
of
Athenes
made
to
the
duke
her
lord
/
She
had
a
bastard
sone
/
And
therfor
she
made
her
requeste
to
her
lord
/
that
he
myght
haue
to
his
wyf
his
owne
suster
/
And
the
duk
that
sawe
her
symplenes
/
beganne
to
lawghe
and
dyssymyled
her
requeste
/
and
sayd
that
he
shold
speke
with
his
Frendes
of
it
/
She
thenne
that
wold
fayn
haue
sene
this
maryage
to
be
couenaunted
and
graunted
rested
not
to
speke
to
her
lord
of
it
/
tylle
at
the
laste
he
sayd
to
her
/
that
it
shold
not
be
done
wherfore
she
tooke
suche
a
sorowe
in
her
herte
that
she
laye
seke
therof
/
the
duk
prayd
her
/
and
also
made
her
to
be
prayd
by
other
to
come
&
lye
with
hym
/
but
she
wold
not
/
wherfore
the
duke
was
wrothe
/
&
he
sware
and
sayd
that
neuer
she
shold
lye
in
his
bedde
/
and
made
her
to
be
conueyed
in
a
castel
/
Here
is
thenne
a
good
ensample
/
how
a
woman
ought
to
beware
her self
that
she
requyre
not
her
lord
of
nothyng
vnresonable
or
dishonest
/
&
hou
that
she
must
obeye
hym
/
&
not
do
lyke
as
the
duchesse
of
Athenes
did
/
wherfor
her
lord
exyled
&
put
her
fro
hym
/
The
Iugement
of
the
kynge
Salamon
/
capitulo
lxxviij
I
Wylle
telle
yow
an
Ensample
of
a
fals
woman
/
two
wymmen
were
somtyme
/
whiche
bothe
were
lodged
in
one
hows·
and
eche
of
them
had
a
sone
/
whiche
children
were
bothe
seke
/
and
bothe
borne
vpon
one
daye
/
It
befell
on
a
nyght
that
one
of
them
was
by
auenture
smouldred
/
His
moder
that
sawe
hym
dede
went
anone
as
a
fals
woman
and
toke
the
other
child
whiche
lyued
/
&
in
hir
cradell
leyd
her
sone
whiche
was
dede
/
And
he
that
lyued
she
leyd
in
her
cradel
/
And
thenne
whanne
the
other
woman
cam
to
see
and
take
heed
to
her
child
/
and
sawe
hym
that
was
dede
/
she
anon
knewe
that
it
was
not
her
sone
/
wherof
sourded
a
grete
content
and
stryf
bytwene
these
two
wymmen
/
In
so
moche
that
the
cause
and
matere
was
brought
to fore
Salamon
/
And
after
he
had
herd
their
debate
and
stryf
/
he
sayd
/
lete
a
swerd
be
brought
hyder
/
And
I
shalle
parte
this
child
in
two
and
gyue
to
eche
of
them
one
half
/
She
to
whome
the
child
apperteyned
not
answerd
and
sayd
she
was
content
/
And
she
that
was
moder
of
the
child
sayd
/
Rather
than
it
shold
be
done
/
I
haue
leuer
to
quytte
yow
and
gyue
yow
my
parte
/
soo
that
his
lyf
may
be
saued
/
Thenne
the
kynge
Iuged
that
the
child
shold
be
gyuen
to
her
/
that
wold
haue
hym
to
be
saued
/
And
soo
was
the
treason
of
the
fals
woman
approuued
and
knowen
How
the
synne
of
the
fader
is
noyus
to
his
Children
Capitulo
lxxix
aNother
ensample
was
of
the
wyf
of
kynge
Roboam
/
She
had
a
child
whiche
was
seke
/
wherfor
the
kyng
sente
the
quene
to
a
holy
prophete
to
praye
hym
/
that
he
wold
Impetre
to
god
the
helthe
of
theyr
child
/
The
quene
wente
to
hym
/
And
as
she
was
come
to
fore
the
dore
of
his
hows
/
And
or
euer
he
sawe
her
/
by
the
grace
of
the
holy
ghost
he
knewe
what
she
was
and
also
what
she
wold
/
and
sayd
to
her
with
a
hyghe
voys
/
Quene
wyf
to
Roboam
your
sone
deyd
this
nyght
of
a
good
dethe
/
But
alle
thyne
other
children
shalle
deye
of
euylle
dethe
/
by
cause
of
the
synne
of
theyr
fader
/
thyn
husbond
/
whiche
is
a
tyraunt
ouer
his
peple
/
lecherous
&
of
euylle
conscyence
/
The
quene
wente
ageyne
homeward
/
and
fonde
her
sone
cold
and
dede
/
and
told
her
lord
what
he
hadde
sayd
/
but
therfor
he
amended
hym
not
/
wherfor
perysshed
alle
his
children
/
And
thus
is
here
a
good
ensample
to
vse
and
kepe
honeste
lyf
/
and
to
loue
and
kep●
in
ryght
his
peple
/
and
not
greue
them
/
as
Roboam
dyd
/
For
the
synne
of
the
fad●r
and
moder
is
noyous
to
the
children
as
ye
haue
herd
tofore
/
How
none
ought
to
repreue
other
of
his
meschyef
Capitulo
lxxx
I
Shall
telle
you
another
ensample
/
how
Anna
the
wyf
of
Thobye
spake
folysshly
to
her
lord
/
whiche
was
a
good
and
a
hooly
man
/
and
buryed
the
dede
bodyes
/
whiche
a
paynym
made
to
be
slayn
in
the
despyte
of
god
and
of
his
lawe
/
the
whiche
was
callyd
Senacherib
/
It
fort●●●d
that
the
swalowe
dyd
foule
within
the
eyen
of
Thobye
/
and
a
long
tyme
he
was
blynd
/
wherfor
his
wyf
sayd
to
hym
as
●n
grete
despyte
I
am
merueyled
/
how
the
god
for
whoos
loue
ye
take
so
grete
payne
to
burye
these
dede
bodyes
/
gyueth
not
your
syght
ageyne
/
The
good
man
had
pacyence
/
and
ansuerd
that
of
al
thynge
he
may
doo
his
pleasyr
/
wherfor
it
fortuned
to
her
that
she
was
sore
punysshed
by
sekenesse
/
whic●e
god
sente
her
/
And
as
the
pleasyr
of
god
was
Thobye
●a●de
his
syght
restored
ageyne
/
And
thus
by
this
ensample
none
good
woman
ought
to
mocke
or
scorne
her
husbond
/
ne
preyse
hym
the
lesse
for
ony
sekenesse
or
trybulacion
that
god
sende●●
hym
/
For
as
wel
is
the
axe
or
swerd
lyft
ouer
the
ho●●
as
ouer
the
seke
/
as
ye
haue
herd
of
Thobye
/
whiche
was
heled
of
his
eyen
/
and
his
wyf
by
cause
of
her
folysshe
spekynge
/
felle
in
a
grete
sekenesse
/
wherfor
I
wyl
that
ye
knowe
th
ensample
of
Sara
/
whiche
had
seuen
husbondes
/
the
whic●e
the
deuyl
slewe
/
by
cause
they
wold
vse
her
of
an
enorme
and
ouer
foule
faytte
/
of
which
it
neded
not
to
be
spoken
of
/
Thys
by
the
smallyst
worme
that
myght
be
founde
in
the
world
/
I
haue
spoken
and
told
vnto
yow
of
the
euylle
wymmen
after
hit
is
conteyned
within
the
byble
for
to
be
vnto
yow
&
other
an
ensample
for
to
kepe
and
beware
yow
of
euylle
doyng
/
Now
I
shalle
traytte
and
telle
vnto
yow
of
the
good
wymmen
/
the
whiche
holy
wrytyng
preyseth
moche
/
And
therfore
it
is
good
to
recorde
and
brynge
to
memory
the
good
condycions
of
the
good
wymmen
whiche
somtyme
were
the
myrrour
and
exemplary
to
alle
other
of
that
tyme
that
now
ben
&
to
them
that
ben
yet
to
come
/
And
the
fyrst
ensample
is
of
Sarra
whiche
the
holy
scrypture
or
wrytyng
preyseth
so
moch
Of
the
noble
woman
Sarra
whiche
kepte
her self
full
clenly
Capitulo
lxxxij
sArra
was
wyf
to
Abraham
a
moche
good
woman
&
a
wyse
/
and
god
kepte
her
fro
many
paryls
/
For
as
the
kyng
Pharao
toke
her
/
god
dyde
sende
hym
so
many
euyls
/
and
so
moche
he
was
trauaylled
of
sekenes
/
that
of
nede
he
must
take
&
yelde
her
ageyne
to
her
owne
lord
/
&
so
god
saued
her
by
cause
of
her
holynes
and
good
lyf
/
As
he
dyde
kepe
many
sayntes
fro
fyre
and
water
/
and
fro
gleues
/
or
wepen
/
and
also
fro
many
other
grete
torments
/
as
is
conteyned
in
the
bookes
of
theyr
lyf
and
legendes
/
For
thus
saueth
God
them
/
that
louen
hym
and
ben
his
frendes
/
Thys
Sarra
suffred
many
euyls
and
grete
dolours
/
She
was
the
space
of
a
honderd
yere
barayn
/
but
by
cause
of
her
holy
feyth
and
for
the
sure
trouthe
that
euer
she
bare
vnto
her
lord
/
and
also
for
her
humylyte
/
God
send
and
gaf
her
a
sone
/
whiche
afterward
was
a
good
holy
man
/
It
was
Isaac
of
whome
the
xij
lygnees
yssued
and
came
/
and
God
gaf
hym
to
her
for
her
grete
bounte
Of
the
Valyaunt
lady
Rebecca
the
wyf
of
ysaac
/
Capitulo
lxxxiij
aNother
ensample
I
shalle
telle
yow
of
Rebecca
which
was
merueyllously
good
and
fayre
/
and
full
of
good
condycions
/
The
holy
wrytynge
preyseth
moche
this
Rebecca
/
as
for
her
grete
humylyte
/
She
was
wyf
to
ysaac
and
moder
of
Iacob
/
The
scrypture
wytnessyth
how
she
loued
and
worshipped
her
lord
aboue
al
thyng
/
and
shewed
her
to
hym
meke
and
humble
/
and
ansuerd
hym
swetely
/
and
for
to
haue
be
slayne
she
wold
not
haue
sayd
one
worde
that
myght
haue
displeased
hym
/
And
by
cause
of
her
grete
humylyte
shew
shewed
her
more
to
be
seruaunt
than
lady
/
She
was
long
tyme
barayne
/
but
god
whiche
loueth
holynesse
and
humylyte
/
gaf
and
sente
to
her
two
children
at
ones
/
and
at
one
byrthe
/
that
were
Ezau
and
Iacob
/
of
the
whiche
Iacob
yssued
twelue
children
/
the
whiche
afterward
were
prynces
of
the
twelue
lygnees
/
of
whom
th
epystle
of
al
hallowen
day
maketh
mencion
/
This
Rebecca
loued
more
Iacob
/
whiche
was
the
last
borne
than
she
dyd
Esau
/
she
made
hym
to
haue
the
blessyng
of
his
fader
/
as
in
the
byble
is
reherced
/
She
loued
hym
best
that
best
couthe
cheuysshe
hym self
/
and
whiche
was
of
grete
purueaunce
/
She
was
lyke
the
lyonesse
/
whiche
of
alle
her
faons
she
loueth
best
hym
/
that
best
can
purchace
for
hym self
/
Iacob
was
of
grete
purueaunce
/
And
Esau
hadde
alle
his
herte
sette
to
the
chace
and
to
the
veneson
/
And
so
the
children
of
one
fader
and
moder
ben
not
of
one
condycion
/
&
manere
/
For
some
louen
one
crafte
and
one
maner
of
lyuyng
and
the
other
louen
another
/
I
shall
telle
yow
th
ensample
of
a
good
man
and
of
a
good
woman
whiche
were
long
tyme
to
gyder
withoute
hauyng
ony
children
/
And
at
theyr
request
god
sente
them
a
moche
fayr
sone
/
And
soone
after
another
they
had
whiche
was
fowle
and
lame
/
Trouthe
hit
is
/
that
they
shold
gyue
to
the
Chirche
theyr
fyrst
begoten
sone
/
But
as
they
had
the
second
/
and
sawe
hym
so
contrefayt
/
they
sayd
he
shold
be
gyuen
to
the
Chirch
/
And
that
the
fayrest
shold
abyde
with
them
for
to
be
theyr
heyr
/
wherof
god
was
wrothe
and
took
them
both
/
and
neuer
syn
they
had
none
wherfore
they
lyued
in
grete
sorowe
/
And
therfor
is
here
a
good
ensample
/
For
none
ought
to
make
ony
promesse
to
god
/
but
yf
he
wyll
holde
and
accomplysshe
it
/
and
none
may
mocke
hym
as
these
wold
haue
done
in
gyuynge
to
hym
the
fowlest
of
theyr
two
children
/
and
wold
haue
kepte
the
fayrest
for
them
and
the
whiche
they
had
promysed
to
gyue
hym
/
Ye
shall
neuer
see
good
come
therof
to
them
that
so
do
/
Ne
to
them
that
haue
and
take
oute
their
sones
and
their
doughters
fro
the
monastery
where
ones
they
were
gyuen
and
receyued
/
wherof
many
ensamples
I
haue
sene
with
myn
ey●n
/
as
of
many
/
that
haue
be
had
oute
of
theyr
Abbeyes
for
the
landes
&
possessions
that
to
them
were
comynge
by
the
succession
of
theyre
parentes
/
whiche
were
passed
oute
of
this
world
/
And
after
by
couetyse
somme
made
werre
ageynste
them
/
and
toke
by
force
alle
that
they
had
fro
them
/
And
for
certayne
I
sawe
neuer
none
soo
had
oute
of
the
chirche
that
myght
be
peasyble
/
but
at
the
last
he
came
euer
to
nought
/
And
as
wel
I
say
of
wymmen
/
that
for
suche
caas
or
other
were
had
oute
fro
theyr
monastery
/
I
wyst
neuer
none
/
but
that
she
had
an
euylle
ende
/
For
at
the
last
they
were
dyffamed
and
vyoled
/
and
deyde
of
theyr
children
/
or
otherwyse
vilaynsly
they
ended
their
lyf
And
therfor
men
ought
not
take
fro
god
that
whiche
is
his
How
the
faders
and
moders
ought
to
praye
for
theyr
chil̄dren
/
Capitulo
lxxxiiij
/
I
Shalle
telle
yow
th
example
of
lya
the
wyf
of
Iacob
The
byble
preyseth
her
moche
/
and
sayth
how
she
loued
parfyghtely
her
lord
&
the
worship
that
she
bare
vnto
hym
/
And
how
as
god
sente
to
her
ony
child
she
thanked
hym
therof
deuoutely
/
&
therfore
god
gaf
her
Viij
of
the
xij
prynces
/
of
whome
the
twelue
lygnees
yssued
/
that
soo
moche
were
good
men
and
dradde
and
loued
god
aboue
al
thyng
And
their
fader
and
moder
praid
euer
god
for
them
syn
they
were
but
yonge
/
that
he
wold
purueye
them
of
his
loue
and
of
his
grace
/
And
he
wel
herd
theyr
prayer
/
For
they
were
holy
men
&
worshipped
aboue
al
folk
/
Here
is
thenne
good
ensample
/
hou
the
faders
and
moders
ought
euery
day
to
pray
god
for
theyr
children
/
as
Iacob
and
Lia
dyd
/
And
yet
I
saye
that
for
no
faute
ne
ryotte
they
neuer
cursyd
them
/
but
blamed
and
repreued
them
by
other
maner
and
dede
/
And
bete
them
as
they
deserued
hit
/
For
better
hit
were
to
bete
an
honderd
tyme
his
children
than
to
curse
them
ones
/
wherof
I
shall
telle
yow
an
Ensample
of
a
woman
whiche
was
yrous
and
euylle
/
And
lyghtly
she
was
angry
/
And
also
was
her
husbond
/
And
by
theyr
grete
yre
they
were
euer
chydyng
&
brawlyng
to
gyder
/
they
had
a
sone
/
the
whiche
had
done
to
them
somme
faulte
/
wherfor
the
fader
and
moder
beganne
sore
to
curse
hym
/
And
the
child
whiche
was
wrothe
answerd
to
them
folysshly
/
And
thenne
the
fader
and
the
moder
/
that
for
his
answere
were
ful
of
yre
and
wrathe
wente
and
gaf
hym
to
the
deuyl
/
And
the
fende
cam
that
seased
and
toke
hym
by
the
one
hand
and
lyfte
hym
vp
fro
the
ground
/
And
where
as
he
touched
hym
/
the
fyre
sprang
oute
and
loste
his
hand
/
For
whiche
●ause
he
was
al
his
lyf
in
daunger
and
parylle
/
And
therfor
there
is
grete
daunger
in
cursynge
of
his
owne
children
/
And
wysshyng
to
them
ony
euylle
/
and
yet
gretter
perylle
is
to
gyue
them
by
ony
yre
or
wrathe
to
the
deuyll
And
therfor
haue
ye
this
ensample
in
your
memorye
/
and
see
how
ye
ought
to
wysshe
euer
alle
good
for
your
children
/
&
pray
god
for
them
as
dyd
Iacob
and
his
wyf
for
theyr
children
/
whiche
god
enhaunced
ouer
all
the
lygnees
and
generacions
/
And
doo
not
lyke
as
dyd
the
man
and
his
wyf
the
whiche
thurgh
theyr
yre
cursed
theyr
child
/
and
after
gaf
hym
to
the
deuyll
/
wherfor
the
child
was
in
perylle
alle
his
lyf
durynge
/
How
men
ought
to
sette
/
and
put
theyr
children
in
the
wylle
of
god
/
Capitulo
lxxxv
aNother
ensamps●
I
shalle
telle
yow
of
Rachel
the
second
wyf
of
Iacob
/
whiche
was
moder
to
Ioseph
/
whiche
his
bretheren
sold
in
egypte
/
Of
her
speketh
to
be
nourysshed
in
her
wardrobbe
more
derely
/
And
as
in
Iape
she
called
hym
her
sone
/
of
the
whiche
cam
afterward
so
moche
good
/
For
god
chose
and
stablysshed
hym
mayster
and
gouernour
ouer
alle
his
people
/
And
also
dyd
shewe
to
hym
many
of
his
secretes
/
And
toke
hym
the
rodde
wherwith
he
departed
the
see
/
and
made
drye
waye
to
passe
it·
and
made
also
with
that
same
rodde
to
yssue
and
come
oute
of
the
stone
lyuynge
and
swete
water
/
And
also
he
toke
hym
the
tables
of
the
lawe
/
and
many
other
signes
and
tokens
of
loue
he
dyd
shewe
vnto
hym
as
of
his
nourysshynge
wherof
the
good
lady
was
well
rewarded
/
For
god
forgeteth
neuer
the
seruyce
done
to
hym
by
charyte
/
as
to
nourysshe
the
orphanes
or
faderles
/
whiche
is
an
operacion
of
Mysericorde
/
that
God
moche
loued
/
as
hit
is
conteyned
in
●he
lyf
of
saynte
Elysabeth
/
whiche
nourisshed
the
poure
Orphanes
/
And
maad
them
to
lerne
somme
crafte
to
gete
theyr
lyuynge
with
/
Wherfor
it
befelle
that
a
good
woman
whiche
had
but
one
chil̄d
the
whiche
was
wont
to
bathe
hym self
in
the
ryuer
fyll
within
a
pytte
/
where
he
was
eyght
dayes
/
And
his
moder
whiche
was
charitable
to
god
and
to
saynt
Elysabeth
hadde
therfore
grete
dolour
and
sorowe
/
It
befelle
that
at
the
laste
daye
of
eyght
/
she
dremed
that
her
sone
was
in
a
pytte
ful
of
water
/
And
that
saynte
Elysabeth
kepte
hym
there
on
lyue
/
and
tolde
her
/
by
cause
that
ye
haue
euer
nourysshed
and
susteyned
the
orphans
and
faderles
/
oure
lord
wylle
not
/
that
your
sone
deye
ne
perysshe
in
this
pytte
/
And
therfore
make
ye
redy
to
haue
hym
oute
/
And
thenne
the
moder
awoke
and
made
her
sone
to
be
had
oute
of
the
pytte
/
and
fonde
hym
of
fayr
colour
alyue
/
And
the
child
recounted
to
his
moder
/
how
a
fayre
lady
had
euer
kepte
hym
/
And
had
sayd
to
hym
It
is
goddes
wylle
that
thow
be
saued
for
the
charyte
and
myserycorde
of
thy
moder
whiche
with
good
wylle
had
susteyned
the
orphanes
and
them
nourysshed
/
Therfor
here
is
a
good
ensample
how
men
ought
to
nourysshe
the
orphanes
and
the
smal
children
that
haue
mystier
or
nede
for
it
is
grete
almesse
&
grete
charyte
/
&
that
moche
pleseth
god
&
to
this
is
shewed
to
vs
example
of
many
other
bestes
also
/
that
whan
men
haue
slayn
the
moder
/
and
that
the
faons
ben
loste
withoute
noreture
/
another
beest
cometh
and
nouryssheth
them
vnto
the
tyme
that
they
may
purueye
them self
How
the
benefaytte
/
whiche
is
done
for
the
loue
of
god
is
rendred
of
god
an
C
tyme
gretter
than
it
is
/
Capitulo
/
lxxxxvij
aNother
ensample
I
shall
reherce
vnto
yow
vpon
this
faytte
/
It
befelle
that
in
the
Towne
of
Iherico
was
a
woman
whiche
was
named
Raab
/
and
the
which
was
blamed
/
but
charytable
she
was
/
wherfor
it
befelle
/
that
certayne
good
men
whiche
were
come
there
for
to
preche
to
the
peple
of
that
toune
euylle
&
cruell
there
duellyng
/
wherfore
they
lefte
and
wente
and
hyded
them
in
the
sayd
womans
hows
/
She
casted
ouer
them
beddes
and
fardels
of
lynen
clo●●
In
so
moche
that
the
peple
coude
not
fynde
them
/
for
they
wold
haue
put
them
to
dethe
/
And
at
nyght
the
sayd
woman
had
them
oute
of
her
hows
with
a
cord
oute
of
a
wyndowe
/
and
saued
them
/
wherfor
it
befell
that
she
therfore
was
wel
guerd●ned
after
the
deserte
/
For
the
towne
was
soone
after
take
/
and
alle
the
men
and
wom●n
put
to
dethe
sauf
this
Raab
/
and
her
meyny
/
whiche
god
wold
haue
saued
/
by
cause
she
had
saued
his
mynystres
and
sergeans
/
And
therfore
sayth
the
holy
Euangely
/
where
god
sayth
/
that
the
good
and
seruyce
that
one
shal
doo
to
hym
or
to
his
seruaunts
for
the
loue
of
hym
/
be
shalle
rendre
it
a
C
double
/
wherfor
I
wold
ye
wyst
th
example
of
saynte
Anastasye
/
whiche
was
putte
in
pryson
/
But
god
made
her
to
be
delyuerd
oute
/
And
made
her
to
wete
/
that
hit
was
/
by
cause
that
she
susteyned
of
her
owne
good
the
prysoners
whiche
were
in
the
prysons
and
chartres
where
as
she
wyst
that
ony
were
putte
in
wrongly
and
by
enuye
or
for
somme
debte
/
And
she
gaf
so
moche
of
her
good
that
she
had
them
oute
/
And
therfor
god
guerdoned
her
to
double
/
And
also
the
swete
Ihesu
Cryste
sayd
in
theuangely
/
that
at
the
daye
of
his
grete
Iugement
/
he
shalle
haue
mercy
on
them
/
whiche
shalle
haue
vysyted
and
comforted
them
/
that
were
emprysoned
/
and
the
seke
and
also
the
poure
wymmen
that
lay
pourely
in
theyr
childbedde
/
For
at
that
ferdful
and
dredefull
day
god
shalle
therof
aske
a
rekenynge
/
and
nedes
men
must
rendre
hym
reason
therof
/
And
wel
I
wene
/
that
many
one
haue
be
repreued
therof
/
whiche
shalle
be
in
grete
charge
and
payne
to
gyue
a
good
ansuere
/
And
therfore
my
fayr
doughters
/
thynke
now
on
hit
whyles
ye
lyue
/
as
dyd
saynt
Arragone
whiche
was
quene
of
Fraunce
/
and
whiche
comforted
and
vysyted
the
poure
enchartered
and
emprysoned
/
and
nourysshed
the
orphanes
/
and
vysyted
them
that
were
seke
/
And
by
cause
she
myghte
not
entende
to
hit
/
as
ofte
as
she
wold
for
doubte
to
disobeye
her
lord
·
she
lefte
her
lord
&
alle
the
worship
and
vayne
glory
of
the
world
and
the
worldly
Ioye
/
and
ranne
to
hyde
her
secretely
fro
parys
vnto
Poytyers
/
And
there
she
rendryd
her self
in
to
thabbeye
/
and
bycame
a
Nonne
/
and
lefte
the
world
/
to
th
ende
she
myght
the
better
serue
god
withoute
drede
of
ony
man
/
wherfore
afterward
god
shewed
for
her
sake
a
myracle
/
For
a
tree
whiche
stode
in
the
myddes
of
theyr
cloystre
/
the
whiche
was
al
drye
/
god
made
hym
to
bycome
and
wexe
fayr
and
grene
And
sprange
oute
of
hit
newe
braunches
and
leues
ageynste
the
cours
of
nature
/
But
no
thynge
is
Impossible
to
god
/
And
many
other
grete
myracles
he
dyd
for
the
loue
of
her
And
therfore
is
here
a
good
ensample
to
be
charytable
/
as
aboue
ye
haue
herd
of
these
two
holy
ladyes
/
and
of
this
good
lady
Raab
/
as
they
dyd
/
and
how
at
the
last
god
gwerdoned
and
rewarded
them
for
theyr
good
seruyse
/
How
he
that
wyll
praye
god
must
do
abstynence
/
ca
/
lxxxviij
aNother
ensample
shalle
be
reherced
to
yow
of
the
Fader
and
moder
of
Sampson
/
whiche
were
hooly
folk
in
theyr
maryage
/
but
they
myght
haue
no
Children
/
and
yet
many
clamours
&
orysons
they
hadde
therfore
made
vnto
god
/
This
good
lady
was
thenne
vpon
a
day
at
a
chirche
/
whiche
at
that
tyme
was
called
temple
/
And
as
she
was
there
wepynge
and
prayenge
god
/
god
toke
pyte
on
her
/
and
sente
vnto
her
an
Angel
/
whiche
told
her
/
that
she
shold
haue
a
sone
that
shold
be
the
strongest
man
that
euer
was
/
&
that
by
his
strengthe
the
lawe
shol̄d
be
enhaunced
/
The
good
lady
came
soone
to
her
lord
/
and
told
hym
this
tydynge
/
Her
lord
thenne
kneled
/
and
prayd
god
/
that
he
wold
shewe
to
hym
/
this
thynge
by
his
angel
/
And
thenne
god
sente
to
them
his
aungel
/
whiche
sayd
vnto
them
that
they
shold
faste
and
doo
abstynence
/
and
also
that
they
shold
kepe
this
child
fro
moch
mete
and
drynke
/
And
yet
sayd
the
aungel
/
For
ouermoche
●tynge
and
drynkyng
fyghten
ageynst
the
body
and
ageynst
the
sowle
/
And
whanne
thus
he
had
sayd
to
them
/
he
departed
fro
them
/
They
●obeyed
the
commaundement
of
the
Aungel
/
&
fasted
and
made
abstynence
/
And
soone
after
they
had
a
chil̄de
/
whiche
whanne
he
was
ful
growen
he
fought
ageynst
the
paynyms
and
kepte
and
mayntened
the
lawe
of
god
ayens●
them
/
of
whome
he
made
grete
occisyons
and
many
grete
merueylles
as
god
susteyned
and
helped
hym
/
For
he
allone
discomfyted
and
ouercame
thre
thousand
persones
/
Therfor
ye
haue
here
good
ensample
/
how
ye
shalle
fast
and
do
abstynence
yf
ye
wylle
requyre
of
god
ony
thynge
/
For
confession
and
fastynge
done
the
request
to
be
graunted
of
god
/
as
the
Aungel
told
vnto
them
/
And
yet
after
he
sayd
to
them
/
that
they
shold
kepe
theyr
sone
fro
ouermoche
mete
/
&
specially
of
drynk
Thenne
syth
the
holy
Aungel
of
god
whiche
al
thyng
knoweth
defended
to
them
this
two
vyces
/
Hit
is
thenne
good
to
euery
man
and
woman
to
kepe
them
ther
fro
.
For
by
this
synne
of
glotonye
men
falle
in
alle
the
other
sixe
dedely
synnes
/
as
ye
shalle
more
playnly
knowe
in
the
booke
of
your
bretheren
/
where
as
it
is
reherced
/
how
an
heremyte
chose
his
synne
of
glotonye
/
and
made
it
/
in
so
moche
he
bycame
dronke
/
And
soone
after
by
this
synne
he
fylle
and
made
alle
the
seuen
/
And
neuertheles
he
had
supposed
to
haue
chosen
the
most
best
of
them
alle
/
Wherof
I
shall
telle
yow
what
Salamon
therof
seyth
in
the
book
of
th
enseygnements
/
first
he
saith
that
wyn
taken
as
they
dyd
cutte
it
/
they
sawe
a
whyte
doune
/
that
yssued
oute
of
hit
/
wherfor
some
of
them
by
this
ensample
were
conuertyd
to
the
feythe
of
god
/
And
therfor
after
this
ensample
it
is
good
to
put
his
children
to
scole
whanne
they
be
yonge
/
and
make
them
to
lerne
the
bookes
of
sapyence
/
that
is
to
saye
the
bookes
of
good
techynge
and
enseygnementes
/
where
as
men
see
the
sauement
of
bothe
the
body
and
sowle
/
And
not
putte
them
to
lerne
in
the
bookes
of
the
fallaces
and
vanytres
of
the
world
/
For
better
thyng
is
and
more
noble
to
here
speke
of
the
good
enseygnementes
and
techynges
that
may
prouffyte
bothe
to
the
body
and
sowle
/
than
rede
and
studye
the
fables
/
and
lesynges
/
wherof
no
good
ne
prouffyte
may
come
And
by
cause
somme
folke
sayen
that
they
wold
not
/
that
theyr
wyues
ne
also
theyr
doughters
wyst
ony
thynge
of
clergye
ne
of
wrytynge
/
therfor
I
say
answerynge
to
them
/
that
as
for
wrytyng
it
is
no
force
/
yf
a
woman
can
nought
of
hit
but
as
for
redynge
I
saye
that
good
and
prouffytable
is
to
al
wy●en
/
For
a
woman
that
can
rede
may
better
knowe
the
peryls
of
the
sowle
and
her
sauement
/
than
she
that
can
nought
of
it
/
for
it
hath
be
preued
Th
example
of
the
noble
lady
Ruth
/
Capitulo
lxxxx
aNother
ensample
I
shalle
reherce
vnto
yow
of
a
good
lady
/
whiche
was
named
Ruth
/
of
the
whiche
yssued
and
cam
kynge
Dauyd
/
The
holy
scrypture
preyseth
moche
this
good
lady
/
whiche
merueyllously
loued
god
/
and
honoured
and
obeyed
her
lord
/
And
for
the
loue
of
hym
she
bare
honour
and
loued
his
frendes
/
and
made
to
them
better
chere
than
she
dyd
to
her
owne
frendes
/
wherof
hit
befelle
/
that
after
that
her
lord
was
dede
/
his
sone
whiche
he
had
of
another
wyf
/
wold
leue
to
her
nothynge
/
neyther
land
ne
meuable
good
/
but
wold
haue
al
for
hym self
/
by
cause
he
thoughte
/
she
was
of
ferre
countrey
and
ferre
fro
her
frendes
/
but
the
parentes
and
frendes
of
her
lord
that
loued
her
moche
for
her
grete
bounte
/
and
for
the
grete
seruyce
that
she
had
done
to
them
whyles
that
her
lord
was
a
lyue
/
dyd
helpe
her
ageynst
theyr
frendes
and
parentes
/
In
soo
moche
that
they
made
her
to
haue
al
that
of
ryght
apperteyned
to
her
/
And
soo
this
good
lady
saued
her
good
thurgh
the
frendship
and
good
companye
that
she
had
done
the
frendes
and
parentes
of
her
lord
/
And
therfore
is
here
good
ensample
how
alle
good
wymmen
ought
to
serue
and
bere
worship
to
the
frendes
and
parentes
of
theyre
lordes
/
For
gretter
semblaunt
of
loue
may
they
not
shewe
vnto
them
/
and
alle
good
may
therof
come
to
her
/
as
dyd
to
the
good
lady
Ruthe
the
whiche
by
cause
she
had
loued
and
worshipped
the
parentes
and
frendes
of
her
lord
/
recouered
and
hadde
her
herytage
/
as
ye
haue
herd
to fore
How
euery
good
woman
ought
to
answere
for
her
lord
/
Capitulo
lxxxxj
I
Wylle
telle
yow
another
Ensample
of
a
good
lady
/
the
whiche
ought
wel
to
be
preysed
/
It
was
the
good
lady
Abygal
/
whiche
had
a
lord
that
was
ful
of
yre
/
dyuerse
and
ryotous
to
al
his
neyghbours
/
He
forfayted
somme
thynge
toward
the
kynge
dauyd
wherfore
he
wold
haue
had
hym
to
be
destroyed
and
putte
to
dethe
/
but
the
good
lady
whiche
was
sage
and
wyse
wente
toward
the
kyng
and
so
moche
humbled
her self
/
that
by
her
swete
and
fayre
wordes
she
made
the
pees
of
her
lord
/
Of
many
other
peryls
wherin
he
fylle
and
putte
hym self
thurgh
his
fals
tongue
/
she
saued
hym
also
/
And
thus
this
good
lady
amended
euer
his
folye
/
wherof
she
may
be
wel
preysed
/
Therfore
ye
haue
here
good
ensample
/
how
euery
good
woman
must
suffre
of
her
lord
and
ought
to
answere
for
hym
ouer
al
/
al
be
he
neuer
so
yrous
ne
cruel
to
her
and
saue
and
kepe
hym
fro
all
peryls
/
I
wolde
ye
wyst
th
example
of
a
good
lady
wyf
vnto
a
Senatour
of
Rome
/
as
it
is
conteyned
in
the
cronykles
of
the
Romayns
/
This
Senatour
was
Ialous
of
his
wyf
withoute
ony
cause
and
was
euylle
and
cruell
to
her
/
Hit
befelle
/
that
he
accused
one
of
treason
/
the
whiche
anone
casted
his
gage
of
bataylle
vnto
hym
sayenge
that
wrongly
he
accused
hym
/
The
day
cam
that
they
shold
Iouste
that
one
ageynst
the
other
The
Senatour
was
aferd
and
durst
not
come
/
and
sent
word
to
the
Senate
how
he
was
seke
/
and
that
he
shold
sende
one
to
Iouste
for
hym
/
but
he
coude
none
fynde
/
Wherfore
the
valyaunt
lady
his
wyf
that
sawe
the
cowardnesse
of
her
lord
and
the
shame
comynge
to
hym
wente
and
armed
her self
/
&
cam
to
the
felde
/
And
by
cause
god
sawe
her
bounte
and
that
she
dyd
her
deuoyr
/
he
gaf
her
force
and
strengthe
in
soo
moche
/
that
she
obteyned
the
vyctory
/
And
whanne
the
Ioustynge
was
fynysshed
/
th
emperour
wold
knowe
who
was
the
champyon
of
the
Senatour
/
wherfor
the
good
ladyes
helme
was
vnlocked
/
and
soo
she
was
knowen
/
wherfor
th
emperour
and
alle
they
of
the
toune
bare
vnto
her
fro
thens
forthon
gretter
honour
than
they
were
wont
to
doo
/
And
therfor
is
here
good
ensample
how
euery
good
woman
must
humbly
suffre
of
her
lord
that
whiche
she
maye
not
amende
/
For
she
that
more
suffreth
of
her
lord
withoute
makynge
therof
no
resemblaunt
receyueth
therof
more
worship
x
tymes
/
than
she
that
hath
no
cause
to
suffre
of
hym
/
or
that
wyll
not
suffre
nothyng
of
hym
As
Salamon
sayth
whiche
moche
wel
spake
of
wymmen
/
preysyng
the
one
and
blamynge
the
other
How
the
good
woman
ought
to
pease
the
yre
of
her
husbond
whanne
she
seeth
hym
wrothe
/
Capitulo
lxxxxij
aNother
ensample
I
wylle
reherce
and
shewe
vnto
you
of
one
of
the
wyues
of
kynge
dauyd
/
how
she
peased
the
yre
of
her
lord
/
Ye
haue
well
herd
telle
how
amon
despuceled
his
suster
/
And
how
Absalon
venged
this
shame
and
made
hym
to
be
put
to
dethe
/
wherfor
he
fledde
oute
of
the
land
by
cause
the
kynge
dauyd
wold
haue
hym
to
be
slayne
but
this
good
lady
gate
hym
his
pees
/
For
so
many
good
reasons
she
shewed
to
her
lord
that
he
graunted
his
grace
and
pardon
/
and
yet
she
was
not
his
moder
/
but
only
wyf
of
his
fader
/
but
she
kepte
her
lord
in
loue
and
his
child●●n
also
/
as
a
good
lady
that
she
was
/
And
so
ought
to
doo
euery
good
woman
/
For
gretter
semblaunt
of
loue
she
may
not
shewe
to
her
lord
/
than
to
loue
his
children
whiche
ben
goten
of
other
wymm●n
/
And
soo
doynge
she
worshippeth
her self
/
And
atte
last
may
come
therof
but
good
to
her
/
as
dyd
to
this
good
lady
/
For
whanne
the
kyng
was
dede
/
somme
wold
haue
taken
her
ryght
fro
her
/
but
Absalon
wold
not
suffre
hit
/
And
sayd
before
them
alle
/
how
be
it
/
that
she
be
not
my
moder
/
yet
euer
she
loued
me
/
and
many
tyme
she
hath
Impetred
my
pees
toward
the
kynge
my
fader
/
wherfor
I
shalle
not
suffre
that
she
ony
thynge
lese
of
her
ryght
/
And
therfore
/
here
is
a
good
ensample
/
how
euery
good
woman
ought
to
bere
worship
and
loue
her
lordis
children
and
his
parentes
/
Th
example
of
the
Quene
Saba
/
and
of
the
kynge
Salamon
/
Capitulo
lxxxxiij
I
Shalle
telle
yow
another
ensample
of
the
quene
Saba
/
whiche
was
a
moche
good
lady
and
wyse
/
the
whiche
cam
fro
oryent
in
to
Ierusalem
for
to
demaunde
&
aske
counceylle
of
the
kynge
Salamon
/
and
she
loste
not
her
waye
/
For
she
had
of
hym
good
counceylle
of
the
whiche
wel
it
happed
to
her
/
Therfore
ye
ought
to
take
here
good
ensample
/
For
euery
good
lady
oughte
to
ch●se
a
good
and
trewe
man
and
also
wyse
of
her
lygnage
or
els
of
other
/
and
hold
and
kepe
hym
in
loue
and
frendship
/
of
whome
she
may
take
counceylle
of
that
she
hath
to
doo
/
And
yf
she
falle
in
pl●e
or
in
ony
contempte
the
good
and
wyse
man
shalle
amodere
hit
And
shalle
make
her
to
haue
her
ryght
withoute
grete
costes
and
expenses
/
And
euer
therof
cometh
somme
good
/
As
did
to
the
good
quene
Saba
that
fro
so
ferre
came
to
haue
counceylle
of
the
kynge
Salamon
/
Yet
wold
I
ye
wyst
th
example
of
an
Emperour
of
Rome
/
This
emperour
was
seke
and
lay
in
the
bedde
of
dethe
/
Euery
one
of
the
lordes
and
Senatours
for
to
please
hym
sayd
to
hym
that
he
shold
soone
be
hole
yf
he
coude
swette
/
But
ony
frend
that
he
had
spake
to
hym
noothyng
of
the
prouffyte
and
saluacion
of
his
sowle
/
There
was
there
with
hym
one
his
chamberlayne
whiche
he
had
nourysshed
and
brought
vp
of
his
yongthe
/
This
chamberlayne
sawe
wel
/
that
his
lord
couthe
not
scape
fro
dethe
/
And
how
all
they
that
were
there
sayd
nought
but
for
to
please
hym
/
wherfor
he
cam
to
hym
and
sayd
/
Syre
how
fele
yow
your
herte
/
And
th
emperour
ansuerd
to
hym
/
Sore
and
feble
is
my
hert
Thenne
beganne
the
chamberlayn
to
saye
moche
humbly
/
Syre
god
hath
gyuen
to
yow
in
this
world
alle
worship
&
honour
And
also
grete
quantite
of
worldly
goodes
/
wherfor
ye
must
thanke
hym
/
and
ye
shal
doo
wel
/
And
of
suche
goodes
as
god
hath
sente
to
yow
ye
must
ordeyne
and
departe
to
the
poure
folke
a
parte
of
them
/
In
suche
wyse
that
he
haue
no
cause
to
repreue
yow
therof
/
whanne
th
emperour
had
herd
hym
/
He
was
wel
pleased
with
hym
that
he
had
so
sayd
/
and
sayd
two
wordes
/
More
worthe
is
the
frend
/
whiche
prycketh
than
the
flaterynge
frend
whiche
enoynteth
/
Thus
he
spak
/
by
cause
that
his
other
frendes
had
spoken
to
hym
of
bodyly
helthe
/
only
for
to
please
hym
/
but
the
same
spake
to
hym
of
the
saluacion
of
his
sowle
/
for
who
that
loueth
the
body
of
very
loue
ought
in
especiall
to
loue
the
sowle
/
And
none
oughte
to
cele
or
hyde
nothynge
fro
his
frend
/
yf
it
be
his
prouffyte
and
honour
/
And
for
loue
ne
for
hate
of
ony
body
/
he
ought
not
to
counceylle
hym
/
but
trewely
after
his
power
as
a
good
and
trewe
frend
shold
doo
and
not
flatere
hym
ne
make
the
placebo
/
As
dyd
the
frendes
of
th
emperour
whiche
knewe
wel
/
that
he
coude
not
scape
fro
dethe
/
and
durste
not
saye
ne
shewe
vnto
hym
the
prouffyte
of
his
soule
/
the
which
his
trewe
frend
and
pouer
chamberlayne
putte
in
the
waye
of
saluacion
/
For
th
emperour
byleuyd
hym
and
gaf
and
departed
largely
of
his
goodes
to
the
poure
for
the
loue
of
god
How
it
is
good
to
aqueynte
hym self
with
holy
men
/
Capitulo
lxxxxiiij
aNother
ensample
I
shalle
telle
yow
of
a
moche
good
and
trewe
woman
the
whiche
had
a
trewe
man
to
her
lord
and
moche
symple
/
This
good
lady
was
moche
charytable
/
and
loued
moche
holy
men
/
In
the
partyes
of
Iherusalem
was
that
tyme
a
prophete
whiche
was
named
Helyseus
/
This
good
lady
had
grete
deuocion
toward
this
hooly
man
and
pro●hete
/
and
prayd
hym
to
come
and
be
herberowed
with
her
lord
in
her
hows
/
They
dyde
anone
make
a
chambre
redy
for
hym
there
as
the
sayd
hooly
prophete
wered
the
hayre
and
made
his
prayers
and
had
his
afflyctions
solytayrly
and
secretely
/
This
good
lady
thenne
myght
haue
no
children
of
her
lord
/
wherof
she
made
her
complaynt
to
the
prophete
/
but
this
holy
man
at
her
request
prayd
god
soo
longe
/
that
they
had
a
sone
merueyllously
fayre
whiche
lyued
wel
xv
yere
and
deyde
in
the
chambre
of
this
holy
prophete
/
And
whanne
this
good
lady
sawe
her
sone
dede
/
she
was
fulle
of
sorowe
/
and
wente
so
ferre
aboute
the
countrey
that
she
fonde
and
mette
with
the
forsayd
Helyseus
/
And
whanne
she
had
founde
hym
she
had
hym
to
the
chambre
/
and
shewed
to
hym
the
child
whiche
was
dede
/
sayeng
to
hym
in
this
manere
/
Ha
a
holy
prophete
and
good
man
this
is
the
child
whiche
god
sente
me
thurgh
your
prayer
/
the
whiche
was
al
my
ioye
and
my
sustenaunce
/
I
pray
yow
that
to
hym
ye
wylle
make
your
prayer
and
oryson
that
it
please
hym
to
restore
hym
his
lyf
ageyne
/
or
els
to
take
me
with
hym
/
For
I
wylle
not
abyde
after
hym
/
Helyseus
thenne
whiche
had
pyte
of
the
woman
/
prayd
god
for
the
child
/
and
god
gaf
hym
his
lyf
ageyne
and
lyued
longe
tyme
after
that
/
and
was
an
holy
man
/
by
the
whiche
ensample
/
my
fayr
doughters
ye
may
see
and
knowe
/
how
good
hit
is
to
be
knowen
and
aqueynted
with
holy
men
/
As
this
good
lady
was
/
whiche
myght
haue
no
children
/
but
at
the
prayer
of
the
holy
man
Helyseus
/
of
whome
she
was
aqueynted
/
she
had
a
fayr
sone
whiche
god
resuscited
at
his
prayer
also
/
And
for
certayne
god
is
yet
at
this
daye
as
myghty
and
debonayre
as
he
was
at
that
tyme
to
them
/
that
deseruen
it
/
These
be
they
/
whiche
put
them
in
payne
●o
haue
an
humble
and
meke
herte
/
Therfor
men
ought
to
kepe
the
felauship
of
the
good
and
holy
men
/
whiche
vsen
holy
lyf
/
&
byleue
them
/
For
al
good
may
therof
come
/
as
dyd
to
the
sayd
lady
How
no
woman
ought
to
chyden
or
brawle
with
folk
whiche
ben
braynles
/
Capitulo
lxxxxv
I
Shalle
reher●e
and
telle
vnto
yow
another
ensample
of
a
lady
whiche
was
named
Sarra
/
of
the
whiche
ye
haue
wel
herd
to fore
/
how
she
had
seuen
husbondes
the
whiche
al
seuen
the
deuylle
slewe
/
by
cause
they
wold
haue
vsed
her
in
vntrewe
maryage
/
And
also
how
her
godsep
repreued
her
of
that
none
of
her
husbondes
myght
abyde
with
her
But
the
good
lady
that
sawe
/
that
this
foole
wold
chyde
with
her
/
sayd
moche
humbly
/
and
as
sage
and
wyse
/
Fayre
frend
to
the
neyther
to
me
apperteyneth
not
to
speke
of
the
Iugementes
of
god
/
and
nothynge
more
she
sayd
to
her
/
She
resembled
not
to
the
doughter
of
a
Senatour
of
Rome
/
whiche
was
so
felon
&
so
hyghe
of
herte
that
she
dyd
chyde
in
playn
strete
with
one
of
her
neyghbours
/
And
so
moche
grewe
&
went
vp
her
wordes
/
that
the
other
sayd
to
her
/
that
she
was
not
hole
ne
clene
of
body
/
wherof
befelle
that
this
word
wente
so
fer
were
it
trouthe
or
lesynge
/
that
she
therby
lost
her
maryage
/
Therfor
it
is
grete
folye
to
euery
woman
to
chyde
ne
ansuere
folkes
〈…〉
fooles
and
cruels
of
theyr
tongue
/
wherof
I
shalle
〈…〉
an
ensample
that
I
sawe
of
a
gentyll
woman
that
bra●●
〈…〉
a
man
that
had
an
euylle
heed
/
I
sayd
vnto
her
/
〈…〉
I
praye
yow
that
ye
answere
not
this
foole
/
For
he
〈…〉
shapen
to
saye
more
euylle
than
good
/
She
wold
not
byleu●
〈◊〉
/
but
chyd
more
than
she
dyd
to
fore
/
sayenge
to
hym
that
he
was
nought
/
And
he
ansuerd
to
her
/
that
he
was
as
good
for
a
man
as
she
was
for
a
woman
/
And
so
ferforth
wente
theyr
wordes
/
that
he
sayd
for
certayne
he
wyste
and
knewe
wel
a
man
that
dyd
kysse
her
bothe
daye
and
nyght
whanne
that
he
wold
/
And
thenne
I
called
her
a
syde
/
and
told
her
/
that
it
was
but
folye
to
take
hed●
to
the
wordes
of
a
foole
and
to
answere
and
speke
with
hym
/
The
wordes
were
foule
and
dishonest
/
and
herd
of
many
one
/
wherfore
she
was
diffamed
/
And
by
her
brawlyng
she
dyd
do
knowe
to
many
one
that
whiche
they
wyst
ne
knewe
not
/
She
resembled
not
to
the
wyse
Sarra
/
whiche
made
no
grete
ansuere
to
the
wordes
of
her
godsep
/
For
otherwhyle
one
put
hym self
fro
his
good
ryght
by
his
owne
wordes
in
to
grete
wronge
/
And
also
dishonest
thynge
is
to
ony
gentylle
woman
to
braule
with
ony
man
/
wherfor
I
shalle
telle
yow
th
example
of
the
propriete
of
certayne
beestes
/
Loke
and
behold
these
grete
dogges
that
men
calle
mastyns
/
they
shalle
barke
and
shewe
theyr
tethe
/
but
a
gentylle
dogge
shalle
not
do
so
/
And
also
in
lyke
wyse
shold
be
of
the
gentylle
men
and
wymmen
/
wherfore
I
shalle
reherce
to
yow
th
example
of
th
emperour
of
Constantynople
/
whiche
was
a
man
moche
felon
and
cruel
/
but
neuer
he
chydde
to
no
body
/
It
byfell
ones
that
he
founde
his
two
doughters
chydynge
and
brawlynge
to
gyder
/
wherfore
he
wold
bete
them
/
but
the
quene
wente
bytwene
hym
&
them
/
And
thenne
sayd
th
emperour
that
none
gentyll
herte
shold
neuer
chyde
ne
say
ony
vylony
/
For
by
the
courage
and
herte
ben
the
gentylmen
knowen
fro
the
other
/
For
he
is
a
chorle
and
a
vylayne
that
of
his
mouthe
sayth
ony
vylonye
/
And
therfore
they
that
haue
pacyence
and
saye
no
vylonye
shewen
theyr
gentyll
courage
and
noblesse
/
And
for
certayne
oftyme
hit
befelle
that
one
fowle
word
spoken
engendreth
other
suche
wordes
/
whiche
afterward
bereth
shame
and
dishonour
/
And
therfore
my
fayre
doughters
take
ye
here
good
ensample
/
For
the
foole
whiche
is
of
hyghe
courage
shalle
saye
moche
euylle
and
thynges
that
neuer
were
thought
for
to
auenge
his
grete
yre
/
And
also
ought
wel
euery
good
woman
to
kepe
her self
that
she
nothynge
ansuere
to
her
lord
before
the
folke
for
many
causes
/
For
in
holdynge
her
pees
she
may
haue
and
receyue
but
grete
worship
/
And
yf
she
answere
hym
she
shalle
haue
the
euylle
wylle
of
her
husbond
/
wherof
no
goood
may
come
to
her
/
but
grete
shame
and
dishonour
How
no
good
woman
ought
to
ansuere
to
her
husbond
whanne
he
is
wrothe
/
Capitulo
/
lxxxxvj
geteth
his
seruauntes
socoured
and
helped
her
/
And
maade
danyel
the
prophete
whiche
as
tho
was
but
of
fyue
yere
of
age
/
to
come
forth
/
the
whiche
cryed
with
a
hyghe
voyce
/
sayeng
thus
/
ye
Iuges
of
Israel
that
is
to
say
the
peple
of
god
/
lette
not
the
trewe
blood
and
ignoraunt
of
this
faytte
or
dede
be
shadde
/
but
enquere
yow
of
eche
of
them
allone
/
vnder
what
maner
and
forme
they
fonde
her
/
Thenne
was
the
peple
gretely
merueylled
as
they
sawe
and
herd
this
lytell
child
so
speke
/
wherfor
they
perceyued
well
/
that
it
was
by
myracle
of
god
The
Iuges
thenne
lete
th
enquest
to
be
made
of
the
two
prestes
eche
one
by
hym self
/
The
one
sayd
/
that
they
had
founde
her
with
a
man
vnder
a
figge
tree
/
And
the
other
sayd
vnder
a
pynappel
tree
/
And
therfore
were
they
reproued
and
bothe
Iuged
to
dye
/
And
at
the
last
whanne
they
sawe
that
no
remedye
was
but
that
they
must
dye
/
they
told
the
trouthe
of
hit
before
alle
the
peple
that
were
there
/
And
sayd
that
they
were
well
worthy
to
receyue
deth
and
not
she
/
And
therfore
here
may
ye
see
and
take
axample
/
how
god
kepeth
them
/
that
haue
their
trust
and
confidence
in
hym
/
as
had
the
good
lady
the
whiche
wold
rather
suffre
deth
/
than
to
be
fals
to
the
lawe
/
For
she
doubted
more
the
perdycion
or
losse
of
her
sowle
and
the
perdurable
or
euerlastynge
dethe
/
than
she
dyd
the
pouere
lyf
of
this
world
/
And
thus
by
cause
of
her
bounte
/
god
saued
bothe
her
body
and
sowle
/
And
therfor
euery
good
lady
ought
to
haue
her
trust
in
god
/
and
for
his
loue
to
kepe
trewely
her
maryage
/
and
also
absteyne
her
of
synne
/
How
the
good
lady
ought
to
loue
and
drede
and
also
to
bere
feythe
vnto
her
lord
/
Capitulo
lxxxxviij
I
Shalle
telle
yow
another
Ensample
of
the
newe
testament
/
It
is
of
saynt
Elysabeth
moder
vnto
Saynte
Iohan
/
This
Elysabeth
thenne
serued
fyrste
god
/
and
afterward
her
lord
and
aboue
al
wymmen
he
drad
and
doubted
hym
/
And
as
he
came
oute
of
the
Town
/
and
that
by
aduenture
somme
thynge
was
befalle
amys
in
her
hows
/
she
kepte
it
/
and
made
it
to
be
kepte
secrete
vnto
the
tyme
that
she
sawe
her
poynt
/
Thenne
wente
she
/
and
told
it
to
hym
by
soo
fayre
and
attemperate
langage
that
in
no
wyse
he
myght
neuer
be
wroth
/
She
euer
c●ueyted
the
pees
and
loue
of
her
lord
And
also
ought
to
doo
euery
good
woman
/
This
holy
lady
loued
and
dradde
god
/
and
bare
feythe
to
her
lord
/
and
therfor
god
gaf
her
saynt
Iohan
Baptist
to
her
sone
whiche
was
a
good
guerdon
/
For
a
woman
that
loueth
god
/
and
holdeth
her
clenely
god
rewardeth
her
on
lyue
/
And
after
her
dethe
he
guerdonne●h
and
rewardeth
her
with
/
C
/
double
mo
/
As
he
dyd
to
this
holy
lady
to
whome
he
gaf
celestyals
and
erthely
goodes
to
suffysaunce
/
as
he
dothe
to
his
frendes
/
whi●he
kepeth
and
holdeth
them
clenely
in
theyr
maryage
/
and
that
haue
good
hope
in
hym
/
as
had
this
good
Susanne
/
How
men
●ught
bewaylle
and
wepe
for
his
synnes
and
mysdedes
Capitulo
lxxxxix
aNother
Ensample
I
shalle
telle
yow
of
Mary
Magdalene
/
whiche
dyd
wasshe
and
spurge
awey
her
synnes
and
mysdedes
by
the
water
of
her
eyen
/
as
she
wasshed
the
feet
of
oure
lord
Ihesu
Cryste
/
and
wyped
them
with
her
here
/
She
wepte
for
her
synnes
for
the
loue
of
god
and
drede
of
her
mysdede
/
And
thus
at
th
example
of
her
we
ought
to
do
as
she
dyd
/
For
we
ought
to
wepe
for
our
synnes
and
mysdedes
.
and
haue
pyte
and
be
shamefull
of
that
that
we
haue
done
and
humbly
goo
to
Confession
/
and
there
to
the
preeste
we
ought
to
telle
our
synnes
as
we
haue
done
them
without
hydyng
or
coueryng
nothyng
therof
/
for
the
boldnes
that
men
vndertake
to
say
theyr
mysdede
&
synne
also
the
shame
that
men
haue
to
telle
them
/
is
to
them
a
grete
parte
of
their
indulgences
&
god
whiche
seeth
the
hūylyte
&
the
repentaunce
moueth
hym self
to
pyte
&
e●largyssheth
his
misericorde
/
as
he
did
to
Mary
Magdalene
to
whome
he
pardonned
her
synnes
and
mysdedes
for
the
grete
contricion
and
repenta●nce
that
she
had
/
Another
reason
is
wherof
the
holy
magdalene
ought
to
be
preysed
It
is
by
cause
that
she
loued
and
wonderly
●rad
god
/
And
for
certayne
the
grete
myracle
that
she
sawe
whiche
god
made
and
that
he
had
reysed
her
owne
broder
/
the
whiche
hadde
told
her
tydynges
of
the
other
world
/
and
the
paynes
of
hell
And
that
she
sawe
wel
/
that
she
must
dye
&
be
punysshed
there
for
her
synnes
and
mysdedes
/
made
her
al
ferdfull
&
sore
abasshed
/
And
therfor
she
was
thyrtty
yere
and
more
in
a
deserte
makyng
there
her
penaunce
sorowynge
and
sore
wepyng
for
her
synnes
and
mysdedes
/
And
whanne
she
had
ben
there
long
tyme
fastynge
and
withoute
mete
/
our
lord
beheld
her
/
and
had
on
her
pyte
/
and
sente
her
euery
day
the
brede
of
heuen
/
wherof
she
was
rassasyed
and
fylde
vnto
her
ende
that
god
toke
her
/
And
therfore
is
here
good
ensample
how
good
is
to
wepe
for
his
synnes
/
and
ofte
to
confesse
hym self
/
and
to
fas●
and
make
abstynences
and
also
to
loue
&
drede
god
/
as
dyd
this
holy
and
good
Magdaleyne
/
that
soo
moche
loued
god
/
that
she
wepte
for
her
synnes
vpon
his
feet
/
And
after
fasted
and
suffred
soo
moche
euylle
and
meschyef
in
the
buscage
&
desertes
/
where
as
god
comforted
her
by
his
aungels
/
whiche
euery
day
dyd
brynge
to
her
the
brede
of
heuen
/
And
in
suche
wyse
shal
god
doo
to
alle
good
wymmen
and
to
alle
them
/
whiche
with
a
contryte
and
good
herte
shalle
wepe
for
theire
synnes
/
and
that
shalle
loue
god
and
doo
abstynences
/
as
he
dyd
to
this
good
woman
/
The
next
chappytre
sheweth
/
how
be
it
/
that
a
woman
haue
an
euylle
and
felon
husbond
/
neuertheles
she
ought
not
therby
to
lene
the
seruyse
of
god
/
Capitulo
C
aFter
this
ensample
I
shalle
telle
yow
another
of
ij
good
wymen
wyues
of
two
paynyms
/
The
onewas
wyf
to
the
seneschall
of
Herode
/
This
go●d
woman
serued
our
lord
at
the
time
that
he
preched
&
administred
&
made
his
mete
and
drynke
the
best
wyse
they
couthe
/
Here
i●
good
ensample
how
euery
good
woman
/
al
be
it
so
that
she
haue
neuer
so
peruers
and
euylle
husbond
/
yet
this
notwithstondyng
she
ne
oughte
to
leue
the
seruyse
of
god
and
be
obeysshynge
to
hym
/
or
els
atte
leste
she
ought
to
be
more
●umble
and
deuoute
for
to
Impetre
and
gete
the
grace
of
god
for
her
and
for
her
husbond
/
For
the
good
that
she
dothe
appeaseth
the
yre
of
god
/
and
is
cause
of
the
sauement
of
theyre
temporall
rychesse
and
goodes
/
For
the
good
that
she
dothe
suporteth
the
euylle
and
mysdedes
of
her
husbond
/
as
it
is
reherced
in
the
lyf
of
the
Auncyent
faders
/
where
as
he
spek●th
of
an
euylle
man
and
a
tyraunt
/
the
whiche
was
thre
t●mes
saued
fro
euylle
dethe
for
goodnes
and
bounte
of
his
wyf
/
Wherfore
hit
befelle
whanne
she
was
dede
and
that
he
had
no
body
more
that
prayd
for
hym
/
he
was
for
his
grete
synnes
&
mysdedes
brought
in
to
a
shamefull
dethe
by
the
kyng
of
that
lond
/
And
therfor
it
is
good
and
necessary
to
an
euyl
man
to
haue
a
good
wyf
and
of
holy
lyf
/
And
the
more
that
the
good
wyf
knoweth
her
husbond
more
felon
and
cruel
/
and
grete
synuar
/
the
more
she
ought
to
make
gretter
abstynences
and
good
dedes
for
the
loue
of
god
/
And
yf
the
one
suffre
not
the
other
/
that
is
to
vnderstonde
/
yf
the
good
dyd
suffre
&
supported
not
the
euylle
/
all
shold
go
to
perdicion
/
And
yet
I
saye
that
the
obeyssaunce
and
drede
of
god
was
stablysshed
before
maryage
/
For
men
ought
fyrst
obeye
to
the
creatour
/
whiche
hath
made
them
to
his
blessyd
forme
and
semblaunce
and
that
maye
gyue
them
grace
to
be
saued
/
And
also
the
lawe
commaundeth
that
men
ought
not
to
obeye
to
the
body
/
tylle
that
they
haue
purueyed
fyrst
for
the
prouffyte
of
the
sowle
/
whiche
is
perdurable
/
wherupon
sayth
the
glose
that
alle
good
and
dewe
seruyse
of
the
body
is
to
the
sauement
of
the
sowle
/
For
the
good
of
the
sowle
hath
none
lyke
hit
/
And
therfor
it
is
good
to
dresse
&
meue
his
lord
to
doo
somme
good
/
And
after
his
poure
to
kepe
hym
fro
euylle
dede
/
And
thus
oughte
to
doo
euery
good
woman
/
How
it
is
good
to
herberowe
and
receyue
in
his
hows
the
gentylle
wymmen
that
were
of
good
renommee
/
she
enhaunced
and
maryed
them
/
She
maade
to
seche
and
enquere
the
poure
housholders
/
and
somme
of
her
good
she
gaf
to
them
/
She
had
grete
pyte
of
wymmen
whiche
were
at
theyre
childbedde
/
and
vysyted
/
and
foustred
them
/
She
had
of
her
owne
phisicien●
and
Cyrurgyens
to
helpe
and
he
le
for
goddes
loue
al
maner
of
folke
/
And
in
especia●●e
the
poure
whiche
had
nought
to
paye
/
And
as
men
saye
god
shewed
and
made
oftyme
myracle
for
her
sake
/
For
whanne
men
took
her
her
booke
and
her
paternoster
/
they
stode
before
her
allone
by
them self
in
the
aye●
And
also
many
other
tokens
and
signes
were
sene
/
whiche
for
her
loue
god
dyd
shewe
/
And
therfore
here
ought
euery
good
woman
to
take
good
ensample
and
haue
pyte
one
of
other
/
and
thynke
how
god
gyueth
the
goodes
to
be
therof
thanked
and
knowen
/
and
to
helpe
and
haue
pyte
on
the
poure
/
Here
I
leue
the
tale
of
these
good
ladyes
and
of
thys
matere
But
soone
I
shalle
com●
to
hit
ageyne
/
and
shalle
speke
of
another
ensample
/
Of
the
Burgeys
/
whiche
wold
neuer
pardonne
her
euylle
wylle
to
one
her
neyghbour
/
wherfore
she
was
dampned
/
Capitulo
/
Cij
mY
fayre
doughters
beware
ye
well
that
the
synne
of
yre
ouercome
yow
not
/
For
god
sayth
in
his
holy
euangely
that
men
ought
to
pardonne
to
them
that
haue
mysprysed
and
mysdone
/
And
yf
one
be
smeton
of
his
neyghbour
/
or
of
his
broder
crysten
vpon
one
cheke
/
he
oughte
to
l●ye
forth
the
other
for
to
receyue
on
it
as
moche
/
For
takynge
vengeaunce
is
none
meryte
/
but
is
contrary
to
●he
sowl●
/
And
yet
sayth
oure
lord
/
that
yf
one
haue
ony
hate
or
wrathe
with
ony
other
/
he
ought
to
goo
and
aske
hym
mercy
to fore
he
make
or
doo
his
oryson
/
offrynge
or
prayer
/
that
it
may
be
of
ony
valewe
and
playsaunt
to
god
/
For
of
no
mane●
of
man
ne
woman
/
whiche
in
the
synne
of
yre
/
god
receyueth
not
theyre
offrynge
/
how
grete
that
it
be
/
For
as
god
that
maad
the
pater
noster
whiche
sayth
that
god
shold
pardonne
to
them
/
as
they
pardonned
to
other
/
therfore
we
ought
to
pardonne
eche
one
to
other
/
And
thus
they
that
ben
euer
in
wrathe
/
and
hate
/
yf
they
saye
the
pater
noster
/
theyr
prayer
is
more
ageynst
them
/
than
with
them
/
And
vpon
thys
/
I
shalle
telle
yow
an
ensample
of
a
grete
Burgeyse
/
as
I
herd
saye
at
a
p●edycacion
or
prechynge
/
This
Burgeyse
was
moche
ryche
/
charytable
/
and
moche
preysed
/
and
had
on
her
many
signes
and
tokens
to
be
a
good
c●ysten
/
It
befelle
that
she
was
brought
thorugh
a
grete
sekenes
to
the
bedde
of
dethe
/
ther
cam
to
her
/
her
curate
or
parson
whiche
was
a
hooly
man
and
trewe
/
He
herd
her
in
confessyon
/
And
as
he
came
to
speke
to
her
of
the
synne
of
yre
/
sayenge
to
her
that
she
must
pardonne
to
alle
them
that
had
mysprysed
or
mysdone
vnto
her
/
And
whanne
she
herde
of
that
artycle
/
she
ansuerd
that
a
woman
whiche
was
her
neyghboure
had
soo
moche
mesprysed
and
mysdone
vnto
her
/
that
she
myght
neuer
pardonne
ne
forgyue
her
with
her
good
wyll
/
Thenne
the
holy
man
began
to
put
for●he
&
shewe
vnto
her
by
fayr
wordes
&
ensamples
/
how
Ihesu
Cryst
forgaaf
&
pardonned
his
dethe
/
Also
he
reherced
to
her
th
example
of
a
knyghtes
sone
/
whos
fader
had
be
slayne
/
This
knyghtes
sone
came
to
an
heremyte
and
confessyd
hym
/
And
as
he
came
to
the
synne
of
yre
/
he
sayd
/
that
he
myght
neuer
pardon●e
ne
Forgyue
to
hym
that
had
slayne
his
fader
/
And
the
holy
heremyte
shewed
hym
how
god
forgaf
his
dethe
/
and
many
other
ensamples
he
dyd
shewe
vnto
hym
/
And
so
moche
he
sayd
that
by
his
swete
and
fayr
wordes
/
the
child
pardonned
and
forgaf
his
faders
dethe
with
good
wylle
/
In
suche
wyse
that
whanne
the
child
cam
to
knele
before
the
crucyfyxe
/
he
enclyned
his
heed
toward
hym
/
And
a
voys
was
herd
/
whiche
sayd
/
by
cause
that
thow
hast
pardonned
humbly
for
the
loue
of
me
/
I
pardonne
and
forgyue
to
the
al
thy
synnes
and
mysdedes
/
and
thow
shalt
haue
grace
to
come
to
me
in
to
the
celestyal
ioye
/
This
parson
or
curate
thenne
shewed
and
told
this
ensample
with
many
other
to
the
sayd
Burgeis
/
But
for
none
ensample
ne
for
no
thynge
that
he
couthe
saye
or
doo
/
she
wold
neuer
forgyue
her
euylle
wylle
/
but
in
that
estate
she
deyde
/
wherof
hit
befelle
that
atte
nyght
a
vysyon
came
to
the
sayd
curate
or
parson
/
by
the
whiche
vysion
he
sawe
how
the
in
suche
poynt
and
estate
as
I
was
whanne
I
herd
yow
I
am
come
to
see
yow
/
therfore
please
it
yow
to
pardonne
me
for
the
grete
Ioye
whiche
I
haue
of
youre
comynge
maade
me
to
doo
hit
/
The
knyght
thenne
beheld
and
sawe
the
manere
of
his
nyece
/
wherof
he
was
full
glad
/
and
loued
and
preysed
her
moche
more
than
his
other
nyece
/
He
gaf
her
the
two
gownes
whiche
he
had
bought
for
her
and
for
her
suster
/
And
thus
she
that
cam
gladly
in
th
estate
wherynne
she
was
to
welcome
her
vncle
/
she
wanne
bothe
gownes
/
and
she
whiche
taryed
for
to
make
her
ioly
and
gay
lost
her
parte
of
them
/
She
thenne
that
forthwith
came
to
welcome
her
vncle
as
she
had
brought
hym
in
her
chamber
/
she
wente
and
propyrly
arayed
her self
/
And
thenne
sayd
to
hym
/
My
lord
and
myn
vncle
/
I
haue
arayed
and
coynted
me
for
to
serue
yow
more
honestly
/
And
thus
she
gate
the
loue
of
her
vncle
/
and
the
other
lost
it
/
Here
is
good
ensample
/
how
men
ought
to
come
ioyously
in
thestate
where
one
is
in
to
welcome
his
frendes
whiche
be
come
to
see
hym
/
And
yf
ye
wyst
th
example
of
a
baronnesse
or
wyf
of
a
baron
whiche
Was
a
good
lady
/
and
whiche
wold
in
no
manere
were
ne
doo
on
euery
day
hir
best
gownes
/
wherfore
her
seruauntes
sayd
to
her
/
Madame
why
go
ye
not
better
arayed
and
more
coynted
than
ye
doo
/
And
she
answerd
to
them
/
yf
euery
day
I
went
in
my
best
rayments
and
helde
me
coynte
and
Ioly
/
how
shold
I
doo
on
the
hyghe
feestes
and
holydayes
/
And
also
as
the
lordes
my
parentes
shalle
come
to
see
me
/
For
thenne
as
I
shold
araye
me
the
best
wyse
I
couthe
/
yet
men
shold
saye
that
al
the
day
byfore
I
was
fayrer
and
better
besene
/
wherof
no
thanke
I
shold
haue
of
them
whiche
were
come
to
see
me
/
And
therfor
I
preyse
her
nothyng
that
can
not
amende
her self
in
tyme
and
place
as
nede
is
/
For
a
thynge
whiche
is
comyn
and
dayly
sene
is
nothynge
preysed
ne
sette
by
Of
the
good
knyght
whiche
fought
ageynst
the
fals
knyghte
for
the
pyte
of
a
mayde
/
Capitulo
Ciiij
I
Wold
ye
wyst
th
example
of
a
knyght
whiche
fought
for
a
mayde
/
There
was
at
the
Courte
of
a
grete
lord
a
fals
knyght
whiche
requyred
and
prayd
a
mayde
of
folyssh
loue
/
but
she
wold
nought
doo
for
hym
for
yeste
ne
for
promesse
/
but
wold
kepe
her
body
clenely
/
And
whan
the
knyght
sawe
this
/
he
sayd
that
she
shold
repente
her
/
He
tooke
an
Appel
/
and
poysonned
it
/
and
fewe
dayes
after
that
he
toke
the
appel
to
her
for
to
gyue
it
to
the
yonge
sone
of
her
lord
/
She
toke
the
appel
/
and
gaf
it
to
the
child
/
And
soone
after
that
he
had
eten
it
he
deyde
/
wherfor
this
mayde
was
take
and
shortly
to
say
redy
for
to
be
brente
/
She
wepte
and
complayned
her self
to
god
sayenge
that
she
had
no
culpe
of
this
dede
/
but
that
the
fals
knyght
whiche
took
her
th
apple
was
therof
gylty
and
none
other
/
And
he
deffended
it
ageynst
her
/
&
sayd
he
was
redy
to
preue
the
contrary
ageynst
ony
knyght
in
champ
of
batayll
/
But
she
couthe
fynde
none
that
for
her
wolde
fyght
ageynst
hym
/
by
cause
he
was
so
strong
and
so
moche
doubted
in
armes
/
wherfor
it
befelle
that
oure
lord
god
whiche
forgeteth
not
the
clamour
and
prayer
of
the
trewe
and
Iuste
had
pyte
of
her
/
And
as
it
pleased
hym
a
good
knyght
whiche
had
to
name
patrydes
that
was
free
and
pyteous
/
as
men
were
aboute
for
to
haue
cast
the
mayd
in
to
the
fyre
/
and
beheld
the
mayde
whiche
wepte
sore
and
made
grete
sorowe
/
He
had
pyte
of
her
/
and
demaunded
of
her
the
trouthe
of
the
fayt
And
fro
the
begynyynge
vnto
the
ende
she
told
hym
how
hit
was
/
And
also
the
most
parte
of
them
that
were
there
presente
wytnessyd
as
she
sayd
/
Thenne
the
good
knyght
meued
of
pyte
casted
his
gage
ageynst
this
fals
knyght
/
The
bataylle
was
bytwene
them
hard
and
cruel
to
see
in
so
moche
that
a●
the
laste
this
fals
knyght
was
disconfyted
and
openly
dyd
shewe
his
treason
/
And
thus
was
the
mayde
saued
/
But
the
good
knyght
patryde
receyued
at
that
sorowe
/
v
/
mortall
woundes
/
wherfor
as
his
armes
were
of
he
sente
his
sher●e
whiche
was
broken
in
fyue
places
to
the
sayd
mayde
whiche
kepte
hit
all
her
lyf
/
and
euery
day
she
prayd
for
the
knyght
that
suche
dolour
had
suffred
for
her
/
And
thus
for
pyte
and
Fraunchyse
fought
the
gentyll
knyght
/
and
receyued
/
v
/
mortalle
woundes
As
the
swete
Ihesu
Cryst
dyd
whiche
faught
for
the
pyte
of
that
they
shold
haue
none
/
by
cause
they
were
come
to
late
/
wherfor
I
doubte
after
the
purpos
of
this
ensample
/
that
many
one
is
a
slepe
and
sorowfulle
to
the
seruyse
of
god
/
And
as
of
them
that
ben
not
garnysshed
of
that
whiche
is
apperteynynge
to
theyr
sauement
/
that
is
to
wete
to
doo
good
and
holy
operacions
/
and
haue
the
grace
of
god
/
doubte
ye
not
/
but
yf
they
tary
longe
to
amende
them
before
theyr
ende
/
Hit
shall
be
sayd
to
them
as
it
was
seyd
to
the
/
v
/
vnwyse
virgyns
and
shalle
fynde
the
yate
of
the
castell
shette
before
them
/
Thenne
shalle
not
be
tyme
to
repente
them
/
but
sore
abasshed
they
shall
be
as
they
shalle
see
them
departed
fro
God
and
fro
the
good
sowles
/
and
be
cast
and
had
in
to
the
cruell
pytte
of
helle
where
as
they
shalle
be
in
contynuell
payne
and
dolour
/
whiche
neuer
shal
take
none
ende
/
Allas
how
dere
shalle
be
sold
the
coyntyses
and
folysshe
playsaunces
and
delytes
/
wherof
men
shall
haue
vsed
for
to
obeye
to
his
careyn
/
and
to
the
world
/
This
way
shal
goo
alle
euylle
wymmen
/
And
the
good
women
to
the
contrary
/
For
they
shalle
goo
with
the
espouse
/
that
is
with
god
theyr
creatour
/
&
shalle
fynde
the
grete
yate
open
where
thorugh
they
shalle
goo
in
to
the
blysse
and
Ioye
of
paradys
/
by
cause
they
haue
ben
curyous
and
awaked
wyth
theyr
lampes
and
lumynary
/
abydynge
the
comynge
of
the
spouse
/
that
is
to
saye
that
they
haue
made
good
and
hooly
operacions
and
haue
watched
for
to
abyde
the
houre
of
theyre
dethe
/
and
haue
not
be
slepynge
in
synne
/
but
haue
hold
them self
clene
/
and
haue
confessyd
them
ofte
and
kepte
them selfe
clene
fro
synne
to
theyr
poure
/
And
whiche
loued
and
drad
god
/
These
shalle
be
the
good
wymmen
of
whome
god
spake
in
his
euangely
/
as
y●
haue
herd
to fore
Of
the
gloryous
and
blessyd
vyrgyne
Marye
Capitulo
Cvij
aFter
this
I
shalle
speke
of
one
vyrgyne
whiche
hath
no
pere
/
It
is
of
the
holy
and
blessyd
vyrgyne
Marye
moder
to
the
sauyour
of
alle
the
world
/
This
blessyd
vyrgyne
is
of
soo
hyghe
exemplary
that
none
maye
wryte
the
good
/
the
bounte
and
the
hyghenesse
wherin
her
swete
and
blessyd
sone
enhaunceth
her
daye
by
daye
/
This
swete
vyrgyne
worshipped
and
drad
her
sone
more
than
euer
dyd
ony
other
moder
his
/
by
cause
she
knewe
wel
/
fro
whens
he
came
/
She
was
chamberere
and
Temple
of
God
where
as
the
weddynge
of
the
deyte
and
of
the
humylyte
was
maade
/
the
whiche
humanyte
broughte
the
lyf
and
sauement
of
alle
the
world
/
God
wold
that
she
shold
take
to
her
spouse
the
hooly
man
Ioseph
/
whiche
was
a
good
old
man
and
trewe
/
For
god
wold
be
borne
vnder
the
shadowe
of
maryage
for
to
obeye
to
the
lawe
and
for
to
eschewe
the
euylle
talkynge
of
the
world
/
And
also
for
to
gyue
her
companye
and
gouerne
&
lede
her
in
to
Egypte
/
Wherof
it
befelle
/
whanne
Ioseph
perceyued
and
sawe
her
grete
with
child
/
he
wold
leue
her
/
and
told
her
/
how
he
wel
wyste
and
knewe
/
that
hit
was
not
of
hym
/
but
that
same
nyght
oure
lord
sente
hym
vysybly
his
angel
/
whiche
sayd
vnto
hym
/
that
he
shold
not
be
desmayed
ne
abasshed
/
And
●hat
she
was
grete
wyth
the
hooly
ghoost
for
the
sauemente
of
alle
the
world
/
Ioseph
hadde
thenne
therof
grete
Ioye
/
and
payned
hym self
to
bere
vnto
her
worship
and
honour
/
more
than
he
dyd
before
/
For
he
wyst
well
by
the
sayenge
and
wrytynge
of
the
pro●hetes
that
the
sone
of
god
shold
be
borne
of
a
vyrgyn
/
whiche
shold
haue
to
name
Marye
/
wherfore
he
thanked
God
moche
humbly
of
the
grete
grace
that
he
had
done
to
hym
/
in
gyuyng
to
hym
the
kepynge
and
gouernaunce
of
his
swete
and
blessyd
moder
/
And
also
the
good
moder
and
vyrgyne
bare
to
hym
honour
and
reuerence
/
wherof
in
the
holy
scrypture
she
is
moche
preysed
/
Also
she
is
moche
preysed
of
that
the
Angel
founde
her
alone
wi●hin
the
Temple
knelynge
sayenge
her
prayers
and
orysons
/
And
thus
ought
euery
good
woman
to
be
in
deuocion
and
in
the
seruyse
of
god
/
And
yet
the
holy
scrypture
preyseth
her
by
cause
she
dradde
&
was
aferd
as
the
Aungel
salewed
her
/
Of
whome
she
demaunded
how
it
myght
be
that
she
shold
conceyue
a
child
that
hadde
neuer
knowen
man
/
&
th
aungel
ansuerd
her
&
said
to
her
that
she
shold
haue
no
fere
&
that
she
shold
not
be
merueylled
/
for
she
shold
be
replenysshed
with
the
holy
ghost
&
that
nothyng
was
inpossyble
as
to
god
/
that
was
to
saye
that
god
myght
do
all
thynge
after
his
wylle
and
playsyre
/
And
that
her
Cosyn
saynt
Elyzabeth
was
grete
with
child
/
and
had
as
thenne
born
her
fruyte
the
space
of
six
monethes
/
the
whiche
was
barayne
and
was
oute
of
the
age
to
bere
ony
children
/
And
thenne
as
the
Aungel
had
thus
sayd
to
her
/
she
assewred
her self
/
&
sayd
in
this
manere
/
Here
is
the
auncylle
or
chambrere
of
god
Be
done
to
me
after
thy
wordes
/
She
wold
fyrst
knowe
how
it
myght
be
/
But
thus
dyd
not
Eue
/
she
dyd
byleue
to
lyghtely
/
As
this
day
done
many
symple
wymmen
whiche
lyghtely
byleue
the
fooles
/
wherfore
afterward
they
be
broughte
to
doo
folye
/
They
enquere
not
ne
behold
not
the
ende
to
the
whiche
they
shall
come
/
as
dyd
the
gloryous
and
blessyd
vyrgyn
Marye
/
whiche
enquyred
of
the
Aungel
the
ende
of
the
faytte
or
dede
/
the
whiche
he
dyd
announce
to
her
/
Thus
thenne
ought
the
good
wymmen
to
doo
/
as
men
speketh
to
them
of
yongthe
/
or
of
ony
other
thynge
/
wherof
dyshonoure
and
blame
may
come
to
them
How
euery
good
woman
ought
to
be
meke
and
humble
at
th
exemplary
of
the
blessyd
vyrgyne
Mary
/
Capitulo
Cxviij
aLso
the
hooly
wrytynge
preyseth
her
for
her
greete
humylyte
/
For
as
the
Aungel
told
her
that
she
shold
be
the
moder
of
the
sone
of
God
/
of
whome
the
regne
shold
haue
none
ende
/
She
took
no
pryde
therfore
within
he
r
self
/
but
sayd
that
she
was
his
chamberere
or
seruaunt·
And
that
hyt
shold
be
done
after
his
playsyre
/
This
word
was
ryght
agreable
vnto
god
/
in
soo
moche
that
he
came
doune
fro
heuen
/
and
daygned
to
take
humanyte
/
and
the
fourme
of
a
child
within
her
wombe
virgynal
/
Therfore
is
here
good
Ensample
/
how
euery
good
woman
oughte
to
humble
her self
toward
god
/
toward
her
lord
and
toward
the
world
/
For
god
sayd
/
who
that
shalle
more
humble
hym self
/
and
shalle
kepe
hym self
mekely
/
the
more
shalle
he
be
ones
enhaunced
and
worshipped
/
And
for
certayne
god
and
his
Angels
louen
better
humylyte
than
ony
other
vertue
/
For
humylyte
fight
ageynst
pryde
/
whiche
god
hateth
more
than
ony
other
synne
/
And
thorugh
the
whiche
the
Aungels
felle
in
to
helle
/
And
therfore
ought
euery
noble
woman
to
humble
her self
/
and
be
curtoys
to
the
leste
as
to
the
moost
takynge
exemplary
to
our
blessyd
lady
moder
and
vyrgyne
Mary
/
whiche
named
her self
chamberere
of
god
/
Also
she
is
preysed
of
the
holy
scrypture
for
her
good
kynde
and
nature
of
her
curtosye
whanne
she
wente
and
vysyted
her
cosyn
saynte
Elysabeth
/
whiche
wold
serue
her
And
the
child
of
Elysabeth
/
that
was
saynte
Iohan
baptist
maade
thenne
Ioye
within
his
moders
bely
/
In
so
moche
that
by
the
grace
of
the
holy
ghost
/
saynte
Elysabeth
cryed
&
sayd
/
that
blessid
shold
be
the
fruyt
of
her
wombe
&
that
she
was
blessyd
aboue
al
wymmen
/
&
that
hit
was
not
reson
that
the
moder
of
god
shold
come
to
see
and
vysyte
so
poure
a
woman
as
she
was
/
And
than
bothe
Cosyns
humbled
them self
one
toward
the
other
/
wherfore
good
exemplary
is
here
/
how
that
parentes
and
Frendes
ought
to
see
and
vysyte
eche
other
in
theyr
childbedde
/
and
in
theyr
dysease
and
sekenesse
/
And
humble
them self
the
one
ageynst
the
other
/
as
dyd
these
two
holy
and
blessyd
ladyes
/
as
ye
haue
herd
/
and
not
say
as
doo
some
whiche
of
theyr
prowde
and
folysshe
herte
saye
thus
I
am
the
more
noble
/
the
more
gentylle
/
eyther
the
more
hyghe
maystresse
:
And
therfor
I
ought
to
go
before
that
other
/
Ha
a
god
how
lytell
they
thynke
to
the
curtosye
and
humylyte
of
these
two
hooly
ladyes
/
And
also
to
that
/
that
god
sayth
in
his
euangely
/
as
ye
haue
herd
/
that
the
mooste
humble
shalle
be
the
moost
hyghely
enhaunced
/
Allas
how
this
folyssh
enuye
that
they
haue
to
be
fyrst
and
before
other
and
the
preysynge
of
them self
/
shalle
to
them
be
dere
sold
/
wherof
the
good
quene
Hester
speketh
and
sayth
ryght
well
/
sayeng
that
in
as
moche
as
a
woman
is
of
gretter
lygnage
or
gretter
maystresse
/
the
more
ought
she
to
be
humble
and
debonayr
/
And
the
more
that
she
bereth
her self
curtoysly
/
the
more
she
receyueth
worship
and
praysynge
of
other
folke
/
for
the
small
folke
holdeth
them
to
be
worshipped
whanne
the
grete
make
to
them
ony
chere
and
speke
fayre
to
them
/
wherfore
the
grete
be
preysed
of
them
in
euery
place
/
And
therfore
no
better
vertue
maye
be
in
a
woman
/
than
the
vertue
of
humylyte
/
&
be
curtoys
bothe
to
grete
and
small
/
And
goo
and
vysyte
the
poure
/
theyr
Frendes
and
parentes
/
as
dyd
the
quene
of
heuen
whiche
wente
and
vysyted
her
Cosyn
/
and
how
they
humbled
them self
one
toward
the
other
/
How
euery
good
woman
oughte
to
be
pyteous
at
the
exemplary
of
the
blessyd
vyrgyne
Marye
/
Capitulo
/
Cix
aLso
the
hooly
scrypture
preyseth
her
/
in
that
she
wente
in
to
galylee
to
the
weddynge
/
and
had
pyte
of
that
the
wyn
lacked
there
/
And
in
complaynyng
her selfe
of
that
the
wyn
wanted
there
/
requyred
her
sone
that
he
wolde
gyue
remedye
to
it
/
The
swete
Ihesu
Criste
had
pyte
of
his
moder
/
And
therfore
is
here
good
ensample
/
how
euery
good
woman
oughte
to
haue
pyte
of
her
parentes
and
poure
neyghbours
and
to
helpe
and
socoure
them
of
that
she
may
/
For
hit
is
grete
charyte
and
fredome
comyng
of
kynde
/
Also
the
swete
vyrgyne
Marye
had
and
suffred
dolour
for
her
sone
/
whiche
was
gone
to
dyspute
ageynste
the
maystres
of
the
lawe
/
For
she
wend
that
he
was
ascended
and
gone
in
to
heuen
/
She
sought
hym
al
aboute
/
and
so
moche
she
dyd
/
that
she
found
hym
/
to
whome
she
sayd
/
Fayre
sone
your
parentes
and
I
haue
be
in
grete
fere
for
yow
/
For
we
wend
to
haue
lost
yow
/
And
he
ansuerd
that
his
parentes
were
tho
that
dyd
the
commaundementes
of
god
his
fader
/
The
Iewes
thenne
and
the
maysters
of
the
lawe
were
wonderly
abasshed
of
the
grete
wyt
that
they
founde
in
hym
whiche
was
of
soo
lytell
age
/
After
this
dolour
thenne
that
she
had
wenyng
her self
to
haue
lost
her
sone
she
had
another
right
grete
sorowe
/
for
as
she
offred
hym
in
to
the
temple
/
saynt
Symeon
receyued
hym
whiche
before
desyred
moch
to
see
hym
/
&
hadde
praid
to
god
long
tyme
before
that
he
myght
not
deye
vnto
the
tyme
that
he
first
had
sene
the
sone
of
god
with
his
eyen
/
Thenne
thorugh
the
grace
of
god
he
knewe
hym
/
and
sayd
with
a
hyghe
voys
/
Here
is
the
lyght
and
the
sauement
of
the
world
/
And
sayd
to
his
moder
that
one
tyme
shold
come
/
that
to
her
shold
seme
that
a
suerde
shold
tresperce
her
sowle
and
her
herte
/
that
is
to
wete
/
that
she
shold
see
hym
suffre
grete
and
dolorouse
passyon
/
And
therfore
is
here
good
ensample
to
euery
good
lady
and
to
euery
good
woman
how
they
may
not
be
desmayed
ne
esmerueyll●d
as
they
suffre
ony
mysease
/
seynge
that
the
quene
of
heuen
suffred
in
this
world
soo
moche
payne
and
dolour
/
Thenne
oughte
we
wel
to
suffre
and
haue
pacyence
we
that
be
poure
synnars
/
&
that
deseruen
more
after
our
meryte
/
to
receyue
payne
&
euyll
than
good
/
And
that
by
reason
ought
not
to
be
spared
in
berynge
dolours
and
trybulacions
/
seynge
that
god
spared
not
his
moder
/
How
the
wymmen
ought
to
be
charytable
after
th
exemplary
of
our
lady
/
Capitulo
Cx
aLso
good
ladyes
and
euery
good
woman
ought
to
be
charytable
/
as
the
holy
lady
was
/
that
gaf
for
the
loue
of
god
and
ful
charyte
the
moste
parte
that
she
had
/
And
at
th
example
of
her
dyd
saynt
Elyzabeth
/
saynte
Lucye
/
saynt
Cecylle
and
many
other
holy
ladyes
/
whiche
were
so
charitable
that
they
gaf
to
the
poure
&
Indygent
the
most
parte
of
theyr
reuenues
/
As
reherced
is
playnly
in
theyr
legendes
/
wherfor
I
wold
ye
wyst
th
example
of
a
good
lady
of
Rome
whiche
was
atte
masse
/
and
sawe
besyde
her
a
poure
woman
the
whiche
was
shakyng
for
cold
/
for
the
froste
was
grete
/
The
good
lady
had
pyte
of
her
/
and
pryuely
called
her
to
her
and
wente
/
and
had
her
in
to
her
hows
/
whiche
was
not
ferre
thens
/
and
gaf
to
her
a
good
furred
gowne
/
And
whyles
she
was
aboute
this
charytable
dede
/
the
preest
that
sayd
the
masse
couthe
speke
neuer
a
word
vnto
the
tyme
that
she
was
come
to
the
Chirche
ageyne
/
And
as
soone
as
she
was
come
ageyne
he
spake
as
he
dyd
to
fore
/
And
sawe
afterward
in
a
vysion
the
cause
why
he
had
lost
his
speche
/
&
hou
god
preyseth
before
his
angels
the
gyft
gyuen
of
the
good
lady
to
hym
/
Here
is
good
ensample
for
euery
good
woman
to
be
charytable
and
not
to
suffre
her
poure
neyghbours
to
be
shakynge
for
cold
and
hongre
/
ne
to
haue
ony
mysease
/
but
to
helpe
them
as
ferre
/
as
theyr
power
may
retche
/
Now
haue
I
told
yow
of
the
blessyd
and
holy
vyrgyne
Marye
/
to
the
whiche
none
may
be
lykened
ne
compared
/
And
lytell
ynough
I
haue
spoken
of
her
/
but
to
longe
were
the
matere
yf
I
shold
speke
of
all
her
dedes
&
fayttes
/
Therfor
as
now
I
shalle
leue
of
her
/
And
shall
speke
of
the
good
wydowes
ladyes
of
Rome
/
the
whiche
whan
as
they
held
them
clenly
in
theyr
wydowhede
they
were
worshipfully
crowned
in
signe
and
token
of
chastyte
/
But
long
thynge
were
to
reherce
the
bounte
and
charyte
of
them
/
whiche
were
before
the
comynge
of
Ihesu
Cryste
/
as
it
is
founde
and
reherced
in
the
byble
/
Also
I
haue
recounted
to
yow
of
some
good
ladyes
whiche
haue
ben
syn
the
newe
testament
/
that
is
to
wete
syn
god
toke
his
humanyte
within
the
wombe
of
the
blessyd
vyrgyne
Marye
/
And
in
lyke
wyse
as
the
holy
scripture
preyseth
the
good
ladyes
of
that
tyme
/
It
is
reason
and
ryght
that
we
preyse
some
of
this
present
tyme
wherin
we
be
/
Wherfor
I
shalle
telle
yow
of
euery
estate
of
them
one
example
or
tweyne
for
to
shewe
example
vnto
al
other
/
For
men
ought
not
to
hyde
the
goodhede
/
ne
also
the
worship
of
them
/
And
none
good
lady
ought
not
to
take
desdayne
of
hit
/
but
be
gladde
to
here
telle
and
recounte
the
goodnes
and
worship
of
them
Of
the
quene
Iohane
of
Fraunce
/
capitulo
/
Cxj
tHe
good
quene
Iane
of
Fraunce
whiche
of
late
passed
out
of
this
world
/
&
the
whiche
was
wyse
/
of
holy
lyf
/
&
moche
charytable
/
&
also
ful
of
deuocion
/
held
her
estate
so
clenly
&
so
noble
by
so
good
ordenaunce
/
that
grete
thynge
were
to
reherce
it
/
After
by
her
shal
we
set
the
duchesse
of
orliaunce
which
in
her
lyf
suffred
moch
/
but
she
kept
her
euer
clenly
&
holily
/
but
to
long
it
were
to
recounte
of
her
good
lyf
&
good
condycions
/
Also
we
may
not
forgete
the
good
Countesse
of
Roussyllon
/
the
whiche
she
beynge
a
wydowe
kepte
&
gouerned
her
self
so
clenely
/
and
soo
peasyble
dyd
nourysshe
her
children
/
the
whiche
also
kepte
good
Iustyce
and
held
her
land
and
peple
in
pees
Also
I
wylle
telle
yow
of
a
baronnesse
whiche
duellyd
in
our
Countrey
the
whiche
was
in
wydowhede
by
the
space
of
xxxv
yere
/
and
was
yonge
and
fayr
whanne
her
lord
deyde
/
and
of
many
one
she
was
requyred
/
But
she
sayd
in
her
secrete
/
that
for
the
loue
of
her
lord
and
of
her
children
she
shold
neuer
be
wedded
/
And
held
her
in
her
wydowhede
clenly
withoute
ony
reproche
/
wherof
she
ought
to
be
preysed
/
And
her
name
I
shalle
declare
vnto
yow
/
It
was
my
lady
of
Vertus
Example
of
many
good
ladyes
of
tyme
presente
/
Capitulo
Cxii
aLso
I
shalle
telle
yow
of
the
wyf
of
a
knyght
which
was
a
wydowe
/
This
lady
was
yonge
and
fayre
/
&
of
many
men
lordes
and
knyghtes
she
was
desyred
&
requyred
to
maryage
/
but
neuer
she
wold
be
wedded
/
but
nourysshed
her
children
ryght
worshipfully
/
Wherfore
she
oughte
to
be
preysed
/
and
yet
more
she
myght
be
preysed
durynge
her
lordes
lyf
/
For
her
lord
was
ouer
lytell
of
persone
crokbacked
goglyed
and
vncurtoys
/
And
she
was
fayre
and
yonge
/
&
a
gentylle
woman
borne
/
but
the
good
lady
loued
and
worshipped
hym
/
as
ony
woman
can
or
may
loue
ony
man
/
And
dradde
/
and
serued
hym
so
mekely
that
many
man
〈◊〉
wonder
therof
/
wherfore
she
may
wel
be
sette
in
to
the
nombre
of
the
good
wymmen
/
Now
shalle
I
telle
yow
of
a
good
woman
/
the
wyf
of
a
symple
man
/
This
lady
was
good
and
fayre
/
&
of
good
lignage
/
&
also
yong
/
&
her
lord
was
old
&
auncyent
/
&
al
tourned
in
traunce
/
for
he
pyssed
&
made
vnd●r
hym
his
syege
/
as
a
yong
child
doth
/
But
nothwithstōdyng
al
this
the
good
lady
serued
hym
nyght
&
daye
ryght
humbly
&
with
good
hert
&
more
curtoisly
than
shold
haue
done
a
chamberere
or
seruaunt
/
Some
cam
ofte
to
her
for
to
fetche
her
to
the
daunces
&
festes
/
but
seldom
she
wente
thyder
/
And
no
plesaunce
ne
no
thynge
myght
haue
hold
her
as
tyme
was
for
to
doo
some
seruyse
to
her
lord
/
And
yf
one
sayd
to
her
/
Madame
ye
shold
take
youre
sporte
/
and
playe
more
ofte
than
ye
doo
/
And
be
other
grete
peryls
/
And
as
he
hath
suffred
payne
and
trauail
ynough
/
he
is
put
and
enhaunced
in
to
grete
honour
/
And
grete
yeftes
ben
thenne
gyuen
to
hym
/
and
grete
wonder
and
merueylle
it
is
yf
the
grete
worship
and
grete
renommee
that
men
beren
vnto
hym
/
Lyke
wyse
it
is
of
the
good
lady
and
good
woman
/
whiche
in
euery
place
is
renommed
in
honoure
and
worship
/
This
is
the
good
woman
that
payneth
her selfe
to
kepe
her
body
clene
and
her
worship
also
/
the
whiche
also
sette
nought
by
her
yongthe
ne
of
the
delytes
and
folysshe
plesaunces
of
this
world
/
wherof
she
myght
receyue
ony
blame
/
as
I
haue
sayd
before
of
the
knyghtes
/
the
whiche
take
and
suffre
suche
poynte
and
trauaylle
for
to
be
put
in
to
the
nombre
of
the
other
that
ben
renommed
of
grete
worthynes
and
valyaunce
/
This
oughte
to
doo
euery
good
woman
and
euery
good
lady
/
and
thynke
how
thus
doynge
she
geteth
the
loue
of
god
and
of
her
lord
/
of
theyr
frendes
and
of
the
world
And
the
sauement
of
her
sowle
/
wherof
the
world
preyseth
her
and
god
also
/
For
he
calleth
her
the
precious
Margarite
/
It
is
a
perle
/
whiche
is
whyte
and
round
bryght
and
wythoute
macule
or
spotte
/
Here
is
a
good
ensample
how
god
preyseth
the
good
lady
in
the
euangely
/
and
thus
ought
to
doo
alle
folke
/
For
m●n
ought
to
doo
and
bere
as
moche
worship
and
honour
to
a
good
lady
or
damoysell
as
to
a
good
knyght
or
squyer
/
But
as
now
this
day
the
world
is
al
tourned
vpsodoune
/
For
worship
is
not
kepte
in
her
ryght
regle
/
ne
in
her
ryght
estate
/
as
hit
was
wonte
to
be
/
Now
I
wylle
telle
yow
how
on
a
tyme
I
herd
say
to
my
lord
my
fader
and
to
many
other
good
knyghtes
/
how
in
theyr
tyme
men
worshipped
and
bare
grete
reuerence
to
the
good
women
/
And
how
they
which
were
worthy
to
be
blamed
/
were
refused
and
separed
oute
of
the
felauship
of
the
other
/
And
yet
it
is
not
past
fourty
yere
that
this
customme
was
as
they
sayd
/
And
at
that
tyme
a
woman
reproued
of
blame
had
not
be
soo
hardy
to
putte
her self
in
the
Rowe
or
companye
of
them
that
were
renommed
/
Wherfore
I
shalle
telle
yow
of
two
good
knyghtes
of
that
tyme
/
the
one
was
named
My
lord
Raoul
/
de
lyege
/
and
the
other
had
to
name
Geffroy
/
and
were
both
bretheren
/
and
good
knyghtes
in
armes
/
for
euer
they
vyaged
&
neuer
rested
tylle
they
came
in
place
where
they
myght
essaye
and
preue
the
strengthe
of
theyr
bodyes
for
to
gete
worship
and
good
renomme
/
And
so
moche
they
dyd
by
theyr
valyaunce
/
that
at
the
last
they
were
renommed
ouer
al
/
as
charny
and
bouchykault
were
in
theyr
tyme
/
And
therfor
they
were
byleuyd
and
herd
before
all
other
as
knyghtes
auctorysed
and
renommed
How
th
auncyent
were
wonte
to
lerne
the
yonge
/
Capitulo
Cxv
●Herfore
hit
became
that
yf
they
sawe
a
yonge
man
of
age
make
ony
thyng
that
dyd
ageynst
his
honour
they
shewed
hym
his
fawte
before
the
folke
/
And
therfor
the
yong
men
dradde
them
moche
/
For
thenne
as
I
herd
saye
to
my
lord
my
fader
/
how
a
yonge
man
cam
to
a
feste
where
were
many
lordes
ladyes
and
damoysels
/
and
●rrayed
as
they
wold
haue
sette
them
to
dyner
/
and
had
on
hem
a
coo●e
hardye
after
the
maner
of
almayne
/
He
cam
and
salewed
the
lordes
and
ladyes
/
And
whanne
he
had
done
to
them
reuerence
/
the
forsayd
Syre
Geffroy
called
hym
before
hym
/
and
demaunded
hym
where
his
vyell
or
clauycordes
were
/
and
that
he
shold
make
his
craft
/
And
the
yonge
man
ansuerd
/
Syre
I
can
not
medle
therwith
/
Ha
a
sayd
the
knyght
/
I
can
not
byleue
it
/
For
ye
be
contrefaytted
and
clothed
lyke
a
mynystrell
/
Neuertheles
I
knowe
well
your
auncestrye
and
the
good
and
trewe
men
of
the
towre
/
of
the
whiche
ye
be
come
of
/
But
in
good
faythe
I
sawe
neuer
none
of
your
lygnage
/
that
wol̄de
haue
contrefayted
hym
ne
also
be
clothed
of
suche
gowne
as
ye
be
/
And
thenne
he
ansuerd
to
the
knyght
ageyn
Syth
that
my
clothynge
semeth
to
yow
lothely
and
dishoneste
hit
shalle
be
amended
/
Thenne
he
called
to
hym
a
mynystrell
&
gaf
hym
his
gowne
/
and
toke
another
/
and
came
ageyne
to
the
halle
/
And
whan
the
good
&
auncyent
knyght
sawe
hym
he
sayd
/
trewely
this
yonge
man
forueyeth
not
/
For
he
byleueth
the
counceylle
of
his
older
/
And
euery
yonge
man
and
yonge
wymmen
whiche
byleue
the
counceylle
of
th
auncyent
&
good
folke
may
not
faylle
to
come
to
honour
and
worshyp
/
And
therfore
is
here
a
good
ensample
/
how
none
ought
to
byleue
/
and
not
to
haue
shame
ne
vergoyne
of
the
techynge
of
the
wyse
men
and
more
auncyent
than
he
is
/
For
that
whiche
they
saye
and
techen
they
done
it
not
but
for
good
/
But
the
yonge
men
and
wymmen
that
ben
at
this
day
take
to
thys
no
hede
/
but
haue
grete
despyte
whanne
they
be
repreued
of
theyr
wyckednes
and
folye
/
and
wene
to
be
more
wyse
than
the
olde
and
auncyent
folke
/
It
is
grete
pyte
thenne
of
suche
vnknowlege
/
For
euery
gentylle
herte
and
of
honeste
lyuynge
oughte
to
haue
grete
Ioye
whan
he
is
repreued
of
his
fawte
and
mysdede
/
and
yf
he
be
wyse
and
sage
/
he
shalle
thanke
hym
/
by
whome
he
knoweth
his
fawte
/
And
in
this
is
shewen
and
perceyued
the
free
kynd
of
the
good
yonge
man
&
yong
woman
/
For
no
chorlysshe
nor
vylayne
herte
shall
neuer
yeue
thanke
ne
graces
of
it
/
Now
haue
I
told
to
yow
how
th
auncyent
spake
and
chastysed
the
yong
men
/
And
now
I
shalle
telle
yow
how
they
gaf
good
ensamples
to
the
good
ladyes
&
damoysels
that
were
at
that
tyme
How
hit
was
wonte
to
departe
the
blamed
and
dyffamed
women
fro
the
felauship
&
companye
of
the
good
and
trewe
/
Capitulo
Cxvj
IN
tho
dayes
was
the
tyme
of
pees
/
and
were
holden
grete
festes
and
reueyls
/
and
al
maner
of
knyghtes
and
ladyes
and
damoysels
gadred
and
assembled
to
gyder
where
as
they
wyst
that
ony
feste
was
kepte
and
holden
/
And
there
they
cam
with
grete
worship
/
and
wyth
them
came
the
good
knyghtes
of
that
tyme
/
but
yf
hit
happed
by
somme
aduenture
/
that
ony
lady
or
damoysell
that
had
euyl
name
or
were
blamed
of
her
honour
put
her self
/
and
wente
byfore
another
of
good
renome
/
how
be
hit
that
she
were
more
gentyl
and
more
noble
and
more
Ryche
/
yet
notwithstondynge
the
good
and
auncyent
knyghtes
had
no
shame
to
come
to
them
before
euery
one
/
ne
to
telle
thus
to
them
/
lady
or
damoysel
be
not
yow
displesyd
yf
this
lady
go
before
yow
/
for
how
it
be
so
that
she
be
not
so
noble
ne
so
ryche
as
ye
be
/
neuertheles
she
is
not
blamed
/
and
hath
good
Renommee
/
and
is
put
among
the
nombre
of
the
good
wymmen
/
And
thus
it
is
not
sayd
of
yow
wherfore
me
displeaseth
moche
/
but
worship
and
honour
shalle
be
borne
to
them
that
be
worthy
/
and
haue
deserued
it
/
And
therfore
be
not
yow
meruaylled
/
Thus
and
in
lyke
wyse
spake
that
tyme
the
good
and
auncyent
knyghtes
and
put
them
of
good
Renommee
the
fyrst
and
formest
/
wherof
they
thanked
god
that
had
gyue
them
grace
to
kepe
&
hold
them
clenely
/
wherby
they
were
sette
bifore
the
other
and
worshipped
ouer
al
/
And
the
other
tooke
them self
by
the
nose
castynge
theyr
faces
dounward
/
and
receyued
moch
shame
&
vergoyne
/
And
therfore
was
this
a
good
ensample
to
al
wymmen
/
For
by
the
grete
repreef
and
shame
that
they
herd
saye
&
talke
of
the
other
/
they
doubted
&
drad
ony
thynge
/
to
do
that
was
amys
/
of
whiche
they
myght
be
blamed
as
the
other
were
/
But
certaynly
now
vppn
this
daye
men
bere
as
grete
worship
to
them
that
ben
blamed
as
to
the
good
and
trewe
/
wherof
many
one
taketh
euylle
ensample
/
and
saye
/
I
see
that
men
bere
as
grete
honoure
to
them
/
whiche
shold
be
blamed
and
dyffamed
/
as
they
do
to
the
honest
and
trewe
/
it
is
no
force
to
doo
euylle
/
al
thynge
passeth
forth
awey
/
but
neuertheles
it
is
euylle
sayd
/
For
in
good
feythe
how
be
it
that
they
wene
to
●●●eyue
honour
and
worship
of
them
that
be
wyth
them
/
whan●e
they
be
departed
they
mocke
and
scorne
with
them
/
sayenge
one
to
other
/
Suche
one
is
full
curtoys
of
her
body
/
suche
a
man
taketh
his
disporte
with
her
/
And
thus
somme
maken
good
chere
and
beren
honour
before
them
/
and
behynd
theyr
backes
they
pulle
oute
theyr
tongues
in
scornynge
of
them
But
the
folysshe
wymmen
perceyue
them
not
/
but
Ioyen
them self
in
theyr
folye
/
and
wene
that
none
knowe
theyr
fawte
&
shame
/
Thus
is
the
tyme
chaunged
otherwyse
than
hit
was
wonte
to
be
/
wherfore
hit
is
damage
and
grete
pyte
/
For
hit
were
best
that
of
theyr
fawte
and
blame
they
were
reproued
before
al
as
they
were
at
that
tyme
/
Yet
more
I
shalle
telle
yow
/
as
I
haue
herd
reherced
of
many
knyghtes
whiche
saw
and
knewe
the
sayd
Syre
Geffroy
de
lyege
/
how
that
as
he
rode
thorugh
the
Countrey
/
and
as
he
aspyed
and
sawe
some
place
or
manoyr
/
he
demaunded
and
asked
the
/
place
/
and
yf
he
vnderstode
by
ony
maner
that
the
lady
of
the
manoyr
or
place
were
blamed
of
her
honour
and
worship
/
he
shold
haue
gone
oute
of
his
ryght
way
/
Rather
than
he
had
not
gone
to
the
yate
of
the
same
place
/
and
make
there
a
faytte
and
put
and
sette
his
signes
ageynste
the
yate
/
And
thenne
rode
ageyne
in
to
his
ryght
way
/
And
contrary
to
this
dede
/
yf
hit
happed
to
hym
to
passe
before
the
place
of
a
good
and
Renommed
lady
or
damoyselle
/
al
had
he
neuer
so
grete
haste
/
he
wente
to
see
her
/
And
sayd
to
her
my
good
Frende
/
other
my
lady
/
or
els
damoysell
/
I
praye
to
god
that
in
this
welthe
and
honoure
he
wylle
euer
hold
and
mayntene
yow
in
to
the
nombre
of
the
good
wymmen
/
For
wel
ye
oughte
to
be
preysed
and
worshipped
/
And
thus
by
this
maner
and
way
the
good
wymmen
drad
and
held
them
more
sure
fro
doynge
ony
thynge
/
wherby
they
myght
lese
theyr
worship
and
honoure
/
wherfore
I
wold
that
tyme
were
come
ageyne
/
For
as
I
wene
many
one
shold
not
be
blamed
and
diffamed
as
they
be
now
/
How
before
this
tyme
men
punysshed
them
that
were
diffamed
Capitulo
Cxvij
wHerfore
yf
the
wymmen
recorded
and
thought
the
tyme
past
before
the
comynge
of
Cryst
/
whiche
lasted
more
than
fyue
thousand
yere
/
And
how
the
badde
and
euylle
wymmen
/
specially
they
that
were
wedded
were
punysshed
/
as
they
mysgyded
them
/
For
yf
it
myght
be
proued
only
by
two
men
that
they
had
had
companye
or
carnal
felauship
with
ony
other
than
to
theyr
lord
/
she
was
brente
eyther
stoned
with
stones
/
And
for
no
gold
ne
syluer
she
myghte
be
saued
al
were
she
neuer
so
noble
/
after
the
lawe
of
god
and
of
Moyses
/
And
yet
I
ne
knowe
but
fewe
Reames
this
day
sanf
the
Reame
of
Fraunce
and
of
Englond
/
and
in
the
lowe
or
basse
Almayne
/
but
that
men
doo
Iustyse
of
them
when
the
trouthe
and
certaynte
of
the
dede
may
be
openly
knowen
/
That
is
to
wete
in
Romayne
/
In
Spayne
/
In
Aragon
/
and
in
many
other
Reames
/
In
somme
plares
men
kytte
of
theire
throtes
/
And
in
somme
they
be
heded
before
the
peple
/
And
in
other
places
they
be
mewred
or
put
bytwene
two
walles
/
And
therfore
this
Example
is
good
and
prouffytable
to
euery
good
woman
/
For
how
be
hit
that
in
this
Royamme
Iustyce
is
not
done
of
them
as
in
other
Reames
/
Neuertheles
they
lese
therfore
theyr
worship
and
theyre
estate
/
the
loue
of
god
and
of
theyre
lordes
and
of
theyre
frendes
and
world
also
/
For
they
ben
separed
and
putte
oute
of
the
book
of
them
that
ben
good
and
trewe
/
as
more
playnly
is
reherced
in
the
booke
of
the
holy
faders
lyf
/
wherof
the
tale
shold
be
longe
to
reherce
/
wherof
I
shalle
telle
yow
a
moche
fayr-example
/
the
hyghest
of
alle
other
examples
as
hit
is
/
whiche
god
told
of
his
mouthe
/
as
telleth
the
holy
scrypture
How
god
compared
the
good
woman
to
the
precious
Margaryte
/
Capitulo
Cxviij
gOd
preyseth
the
good
woman
/
whiche
is
clene
and
pure
/
And
sayth
/
how
it
is
a
noble
thynge
of
a
hooly
and
good
woman
/
And
syth
god
of
his
owne
mouthe
preyseth
her
so
/
by
good
reason
the
world
and
al
the
folk
ought
to
loue
and
preyse
her
well
/
It
is
conteyned
in
the
Euangely
of
the
vyrgyns
/
how
the
swete
Ihesu
Cryst
preched
and
taught
the
peple
/
and
spake
vpon
the
matere
of
the
good
and
clene
wymmen
where
as
he
sayth
/
Vna
Margarita
preciosa
comparauit
eam
/
I
telle
yow
sayd
our
lord
/
that
a
woman
whiche
is
pure
and
clene
ought
to
be
compared
to
the
preciouse
Margaryte
/
This
was
merueyllously
spoken
/
For
a
Margaryte
is
a
grete
perle
and
round
bryght
and
whyte
and
clene
without
ony
spotte
or
tatche
/
This
perle
is
named
Margaryte
preciouse
/
And
dyd
god
shewe
the
valour
and
worthe
of
the
woman
/
For
she
that
is
clene
and
withoute
tatche
/
that
is
to
saye
/
she
that
is
not
wedded
that
kepeth
her
vyrgynyte
&
chastyte
/
And
also
she
that
is
wedded
whiche
kepeth
and
holdeth
her self
clenely
in
the
holy
sacramente
of
maryage
/
and
not
suffreth
her self
to
be
shamed
of
her
spouse
/
the
whiche
god
hath
destyned
and
gyuen
to
her
/
Also
she
that
kepeth
wel
and
clenely
her
wydowhede
/
These
be
tho
/
as
the
glose
seyth
/
of
whome
god
spake
in
his
holy
euuangely
/
These
be
lykened
and
compared
as
sayd
our
lord
to
the
precious
margaryte
whiche
is
euer
bryght
and
clene
withoute
ony
macule
or
tatche
/
For
as
sayth
the
holy
scrypture
nothynge
is
so
agreable
to
god
and
to
his
Angels
as
a
good
woman
/
and
in
a
parte
god
preyseth
more
her
than
the
man
/
And
by
reason
she
ought
to
haue
more
meryte
/
by
cause
she
is
of
lyghter
courage
than
the
man
is
/
that
is
to
saye
that
the
woman
was
fourmed
and
made
out
of
the
mans
body
/
And
in
so
moche
that
she
is
more
feble
than
the
man
is
/
And
yf
she
resisteth
ageynste
the
temptacions
of
the
deuylle
/
of
the
world
/
and
of
the
flesshe
/
the
more
she
is
worthy
to
haue
gretter
meryte
than
the
man
/
And
therfor
god
compareth
her
to
the
precious
margaryte
/
whiche
is
bryght
and
clene
/
Also
saith
the
glose
in
another
place
/
that
as
it
is
a
foul
thynge
to
spylle
droppes
of
ynke
in
to
a
dysshe
ful
of
mylke
/
Ryght
so
is
of
her
that
ought
to
be
a
good
mayd
whanne
she
spylleth
and
gyueth
her
maydenhede
to
another
than
to
her
spouse
/
And
also
is
of
her
whiche
is
wedded
that
of
her
falshede
&
fowle
lecherye
breketh
and
spylleth
her
holy
sacrament
of
maryage
and
forswereth
her
feythe
and
her
lawe
toward
God
and
the
chirche
/
and
toward
her
lord
also
/
Also
she
whiche
oughte
to
bere
her self
clenely
in
her
wydowhede
and
that
doth
the
contrarye
/
This
maner
of
wymmen
be
lyke
the
black
tatches
that
ben
vpon
the
whyte
mylke
and
vpon
the
whyte
couerchyef
/
they
be
lyke
in
no
thyng
to
the
precious
Margaryte
For
in
the
precious
margaryte
is
no
maner
of
tatche
/
Allas
a
woman
ought
wel
to
hate
her self
/
and
to
curse
her
euyll
lyf
whanne
she
is
put
oute
of
the
nombre
of
the
good
and
trewe
women
/
Thenne
yf
they
remembred
wel
them self
of
thre
thynges
/
the
fyrste
is
how
they
that
be
not
yet
wedded
lese
theyre
maryage
and
theyr
honour
and
acquere
the
shame
and
hate
of
theyr
parentes
and
frendes
and
of
the
world
/
And
how
euery
one
shewe
them
with
the
fynger
/
Secondly
/
how
they
that
ben
wedded
lese
al
worship
and
the
loue
of
god
/
and
of
theyr
lordes
/
of
theyr
frendes
and
of
al
other
/
for
god
letteth
them
to
haue
ony
welthe
or
cheuaunce
/
And
to
long
were
the
fowle
and
euylle
talkynge
whiche
is
sayd
of
them
/
to
be
reherced
/
For
somme
shall
do
to
them
good
chere
before
them
/
but
behynd
them
/
they
shalle
hold
theyr
talkynge
scornyng
&
mockyng
them
/
And
neuer
after
they
shalle
loue
theyr
lord
/
For
the
deuyll
shalle
make
them
as
brennynge
and
to
haue
more
delyte
in
that
dampnable
synne
of
fornycacion
/
than
in
the
dede
of
maryage
/
For
in
the
dede
of
maryage
is
no
mortall
synne
/
for
it
is
an
operacion
commaunded
of
god
/
And
therfore
the
deuylle
hath
nothynge
to
doo
of
hit
/
but
in
puterye
and
in
synne
mortalle
or
dedely
he
hath
grete
power
/
and
is
there
in
his
persone
to
chauffe
and
meue
the
synnar
to
the
fals
delyte
/
as
the
smyth
/
whiche
putteth
the
cole
in
the
fornays
/
and
thenne
he
bloweth
and
kyndeleth
hit
/
And
soo
moche
wayteth
the
deuylle
to
serue
them
wel
in
that
fowle
delyte
/
and
to
kepe
them
stylle
therin
/
that
at
the
last
he
caryeth
and
bereth
wyth
hym
theyr
soules
in
to
the
depe
pytte
of
helle
/
wherof
he
taketh
as
grete
Ioye
/
and
holdeth
hym
therof
as
wel
apayed
/
as
doth
he
that
al
the
day
hath
chaced
and
atte
euen
he
taketh
the
best
and
hath
it
with
hym
/
And
in
lyke
wyse
dothe
the
deuyll
of
al
suche
men
and
wymmen
as
rayson
is
/
For
the
holy
wrytynge
sayth
/
they
that
ben
chauffed
and
brennynge
in
the
fyre
of
lecherye
/
shalle
be
brente
in
the
fyre
of
helle
/
And
it
is
well
reson
as
a
good
heremyte
sayth
in
vitas
patrum
/
that
one
hete
be
put
with
the
other
/
for
as
god
sayth
/
there
is
no
good
dede
done
/
but
that
it
shalle
be
guerdonned
/
Ne
none
euylle
done
/
but
that
it
shal
be
punysshed
/
How
the
doughter
of
a
knyght
lost
her
maryage
Capitulo
Cxix
I
Shalle
telle
yow
another
Ensample
of
the
doughter
of
a
noble
knyght
/
that
loste
her
maryage
by
her
coynted
Raymentes
&
clothynges
/
A
knyght
was
which
had
many
doughters
of
the
whiche
th
eldest
was
wedded
/
It
happed
that
a
knyght
demaunded
the
second
doughter
to
be
his
wyf
/
&
the
fader
graunted
her
to
hym
/
He
that
neuer
before
had
sene
her
came
to
be
fyaunced
with
her
/
And
she
whiche
knewe
wel
of
his
comynge
arayed
&
coynted
her self
in
the
best
manere
that
she
coude
/
to
th
ende
that
she
myght
seme
the
fayrer
/
smaller
/
&
of
of
body
well
shapen
/
She
had
vpon
her
but
a
streyght
cote
furred
.
It
was
at
that
season
moche
cold
/
and
grete
wynde
rose
vp
and
blewe
/
And
she
whiche
was
symply
clothed
had
grete
cold
/
in
so
moche
that
for
cold
she
wexed
black
/
Thenne
arryued
the
knyght
whiche
cam
for
to
see
her
/
and
sawe
her
colour
deed
and
pale
/
also
he
beheld
hir
other
suster
/
whiche
had
the
co●our
rede
and
fresshe
/
For
she
was
clothed
wyth
gownes
good
and
warme
as
she
that
thought
not
soone
to
be
maryed
The
knyght
beheld
wel
the
one
and
the
other
/
And
after
dyner
he
callyd
to
hym
two
of
his
parentes
/
whiche
were
come
with
hym
/
And
sayd
to
them
/
Fayr
lordes
we
be
come
hyder
to
see
the
doughters
of
the
lord
of
this
place
/
And
by
cause
I
knowe
well
that
to
my
wyf
I
may
haue
the
whiche
I
wylle
ch●se
of
them
/
therfor
I
shalle
haue
the
thyrd
doughter
/
Thenne
sayd
his
parentes
vnto
hym
/
Ye
saye
not
wel
/
for
gretter
worship
shal
be
to
yow
to
take
the
oldest
/
Fayre
frendes
ansuerd
the
knyght
/
I
see
in
the
choys
but
lytill
auauntage
/
ye
wote
and
knowe
well
how
they
haue
a
suster
wedded
/
whiche
is
older
than
they
be
and
fyrst
born
/
I
see
the
thyrd
more
fair
and
fresshe
/
and
of
better
colour
than
the
second
/
of
the
whiche
men
haue
spoken
to
me
/
In
the
thyrd
is
my
plesaunce
&
my
loue
sette
therfore
before
ony
other
/
I
wylle
haue
her
/
his
parentes
thenne
ansuerd
to
hym
/
that
he
shold
doo
after
his
playsyre
/
And
thenne
he
made
to
demaunde
and
aske
the
third
doughter
for
to
be
his
wyf
/
And
the
fader
dyd
graunte
her
to
hym
/
wherof
many
one
were
merueylled
/
And
she
specially
/
whiche
wend
to
be
maryed
was
sore
abasshed
&
sorowful
/
It
befelle
a
lytell
whyle
after
/
that
this
second
doughter
which
had
loste
the
knyght
by
cause
of
the
grete
cold
whiche
caused
her
vysage
to
be
of
euylle
colour
whanne
she
was
wel
clothed
and
that
she
had
on
her
suche
a
gowne
as
she
was
wonte
to
couere
hir
as
it
was
cold
wether
/
her
colour
cam
to
her
ageyn
/
&
fressher
by
a
grete
dele
/
than
her
suster
dyd
/
whiche
the
knyghte
had
wedded
/
In
soo
moche
that
the
knyght
merueylled
hym
moche
therof
/
and
sayd
vnto
her
/
Fayre
suster
whanne
I
cam
for
to
see
yow
/
and
that
I
tooke
your
suster
/
ye
were
not
soo
fayre
by
moche
/
as
ye
now
be
/
For
ye
be
now
of
colour
fresshe
whyte
and
rede
/
and
that
tyme
ye
were
black
and
pale
/
and
your
suster
was
fayrer
/
but
now
ye
passe
her
of
beaute
/
wherfore
I
haue
grete
merueylle
/
Thenne
sayd
his
wyf
/
whiche
was
there
present
/
Syre
I
shalle
telle
all
the
maner
how
hit
was
/
My
suster
that
ye
see
here
thought
and
wende
/
and
also
dede
we
al
/
that
ye
shold
come
for
to
haue
fyaunced
her
/
wherfor
she
coynted
and
arayed
her self
in
the
most
praty
maner
that
she
couthe
for
to
shewe
her
body
praty
and
small
and
well
shapen
/
but
the
cold
was
at
that
tyme
grete
/
the
whiche
made
her
black
&
palysshed
her
colour
/
and
I
whiche
thought
ne
wend
not
to
receyue
soo
grete
worship
as
to
be
your
wyf
/
coynted
not
my self
/
but
I
was
wel
clothed
with
furred
gounes
that
kepte
my
body
warme
/
wherfore
I
had
better
colour
than
she
had
/
wherof
I
thanke
god
/
For
therfore
/
I
gate
your
loue
/
And
blessyd
be
the
houre
that
my
suster
clothed
her self
so
lyght
/
For
yf
it
had
not
be
so
/
ye
had
not
take
me
for
to
haue
lefte
her
/
Thus
loste
as
ye
haue
herd
th
eldest
doughter
her
maryage
by
cause
she
coynted
her self
/
Now
haue
ye
herd
good
Ensample
how
one
ought
not
to
coynte
her
body
for
to
shewe
it
small
and
better
shapen
&
specially
in
the
wynter
/
in
so
moche
that
she
lost
her
manere
and
colour
/
As
ones
it
befell
to
Syre
Foucques
delaual
/
as
he
told
me
vpon
the
fayt
of
this
Ensample
/
of
whome
I
shal
speke
and
telle
vnto
yow
what
that
happed
to
hym
/
How
loue
wylle
be
kepte
warme
/
Capitulo
Cxx
sIre
Foucques
de
laual
was
a
fayr
knyght
clene
&
wel
besene
emong
other
/
&
was
of
good
maner
/
and
of
fayr
maynten
/
It
happed
to
hym
as
he
told
me
that
ones
he
was
gone
for
to
see
his
peramours
in
the
wynter
season
that
the
froste
was
grete
and
the
wether
passyng
cold
/
He
thenne
hadde
in
the
mornynge
coynted
hym self
of
a
scarlatte
gowne
wel
broudred
/
&
of
a
hood
of
scarlatte
sengle
&
wythoute
furrynge
/
and
nought
els
he
had
on
hym
sauf
only
his
fyn
sherte
/
For
he
had
no
mantell
neyther
gloues
in
his
handes
/
The
wynd
and
the
cold
were
grete
/
wherfore
he
had
soo
grete
cold
/
that
he
became
of
colour
black
and
pale
/
For
the
perles
ne
the
precious
stones
/
wiche
were
on
the
broudryng
of
his
sengle
gowne
couthe
gyue
hym
no
hete
/
ne
kepe
hym
fro
the
cold
/
There
came
another
knyght
/
whiche
also
was
amerous
of
that
lady
/
but
he
was
not
so
gay
aourned
/
ne
so
sengle
of
clothes
/
but
he
had
on
hym
good
and
warme
gownes
/
&
had
a
mantell
/
and
a
double
hood
/
and
was
reed
as
a
cok
/
and
had
a
good
lyuynge
colour
/
The
lady
thenne
welcomed
this
knyght
/
and
maade
to
hym
better
chere
/
than
she
dyd
to
Syre
Foucques
/
and
held
with
hym
better
companye
/
And
sayd
to
Syre
Foucques
/
Syre
hold
yow
nere
the
fyre
/
for
I
doubte
/
that
ye
be
not
al
hool
/
for
your
colour
is
dede
and
pale
/
And
he
ansuerd
that
his
herte
was
ioyous
and
well
at
his
ease
/
This
other
knyght
was
fayrer
to
the
lady
syght
/
than
Foucques
/
But
within
a
whyle
after
Syre
Foucques
aspyed
the
knyght
/
whiche
was
goynge
toward
the
place
of
his
peramours
/
He
arayed
hym
otherwyse
than
he
was
wonte
to
doo
And
so
moche
hyed
hym
/
that
he
came
thyder
/
as
soone
as
the
other
knyght
dyd
/
for
to
preue
how
the
mater
and
his
faytte
shold
ende
/
But
certaynly
he
was
thenne
take
of
his
lady
for
the
fayrest
and
best
coloured
/
wherfore
he
told
me
how
loue
wylle
be
kepte
hote
and
warme
/
And
how
that
he
had
approuned
hit
/
Therfore
hit
is
grete
folye
to
kepe
hys
body
sengle
of
clothes
for
to
seme
to
the
folkes
syght
better
maad
/
&
fayrer
of
body
/
Yet
vpon
this
matere
I
wylle
reherce
vnto
you
a
grete
merueylle
/
how
many
one
deyd
for
cold
/
Of
the
folysshe
loue
/
whiche
surprysed
and
ouercame
the
Galoys
and
the
Galoyses
/
wherfore
many
one
of
them
deyd
for
cold
/
Capitulo
Cxxj
Ayre
doughters
I
shalle
telle
yow
of
the
galoys
and
galoyses
/
how
the
deuylle
by
his
arte
made
many
of
them
to
deye
for
cold
with
the
helpe
of
the
flamme
of
venus
goddesse
of
loue
and
of
lecherye
/
It
byfelle
thenne
in
the
partyes
of
peytou
and
in
other
Countrees
nyghe
/
that
the
goddesse
Venus
whiche
hath
grete
power
vpon
yongthe
/
that
is
to
wete
vpon
the
yonge
folke
/
For
somme
she
maketh
to
be
amerous
of
loue
resonable
/
And
other
of
folysshe
loue
and
vnresonable
/
wherof
somme
lese
theyr
honour
and
worshyp
/
And
other
bothe
body
&
sowle
&
made
many
knyghtes
and
squyers
ladyes
and
damoysels
to
loue
peramours
eche
other
/
And
to
make
an
ordenaunce
of
a
moche
sauage
and
wyld
guyse
/
and
ageynst
the
kynde
of
the
tyme
/
whiche
ordenaunce
was
this
that
in
the
somer
they
shold
be
clothed
hote
and
warme
with
theyr
furred
gownes
and
with
mantels
and
double
hoodes
/
And
euer
fyre
they
shold
haue
in
theyr
chemenyes
/
were
it
neuer
so
grete
a
hete
/
And
that
they
shold
make
of
the
somer
wynter
/
&
thus
to
the
contrarye
/
In
the
wynter
tyme
/
and
as
it
was
hard
frosen
these
galoys
&
galoyses
dyd
on
theyre
shertes
but
only
a
shorte
and
sengle
gown
withoute
lynyng
and
had
no
mantell
ne
hood
but
sengle
for
no
grete
cold
ne
wynd
that
myght
come
/
And
yet
more
theyr
chambres
were
withoute
fyre
and
dayly
made
swyped
clene
/
And
yf
at
that
season
ony
herbe
or
grasse
or
somme
thynge
fresshe
and
grene
myght
be
found
/
it
was
had
in
to
theyr
chambres
&
strawed
on
the
floor
/
And
vpon
theyr
beddes
they
had
thurgh
al
the
nyght
but
only
a
sengle
and
lyght
couerlet
.
and
nomore
they
myght
haue
after
theyr
owne
ordynaunce
/
Ferthermore
it
was
ordeyned
that
as
soone
as
a
galoys
cam
ther
as
a
galoyse
was
/
&
yf
she
had
ony
husbond
/
he
must
by
this
ordenaunce
go
&
take
the
galoys
horses
/
whiche
last
was
come
thyder
/
and
ryde
oute
of
his
place
/
&
neuer
to
come
ageyne
as
long
as
the
galoys
shold
be
with
his
wyf
/
And
also
yf
her
husbond
were
a
galoys
&
went
to
see
his
peramours
another
galoyse
&
found
her
husbond
with
her
/
it
had
be
grete
shame
to
the
husbond
/
yf
he
had
abyden
at
home
neyther
to
haue
ordeyned
ony
thynge
/
whyles
the
galoys
had
be
with
his
wyf
/
for
he
had
thenne
no
more
power
within
his
hows
than
had
a
straunger
/
This
lyf
lasted
longe
whyle
vnto
the
tyme
that
the
most
parte
of
them
was
dede
and
perysshed
of
the
grete
cold
/
whiche
they
suffred
Many
of
the
galoys
deyde
in
theyr
ladyes
bedde
/
And
so
dede
in
lyke
wyse
the
galoyses
with
theyr
frendes
and
peramours
scornynge
them
that
were
warme
and
wel
clothed
/
And
som
of
them
were
to
whome
men
must
dysseuere
theyr
teethe
wyth
knyues
/
and
toste
and
Rost
them
before
the
fyre
as
a
chyken
hard
of
●roste
/
Wherfore
I
doubte
moche
that
these
galoyses
&
galoys
whiche
deyde
by
suche
maner
were
martired
by
loue
/
&
that
as
they
deyde
of
cold
/
they
shalle
haue
to
the
contrarye
a
grete
hete
and
a
warme
clothynge
in
the
pytte
of
helle
/
For
yf
they
had
suffred
for
the
loue
of
god
whiche
suffred
soo
moche
for
them
the
tenthe
parte
of
the
payne
and
dolour
whiche
they
dyd
suffre
for
the
fowle
delyte
of
theyr
stynkynge
lecherye
/
they
shold
haue
hadde
mercy
and
grete
guerdon
in
the
other
world
/
But
the
deuylle
whiche
euer
is
aboute
to
make
the
man
and
the
woman
to
dysobeye
to
god
/
made
them
to
fele
gretter
delyte
and
playsaunce
in
folysshe
loue
/
than
to
doo
somme
seruyse
vnto
god
/
And
by
this
reason
whiche
wel
is
approuued
how
the
deuyll
tempteth
and
essayeth
man
and
woman
And
holdeth
in
perylle
bothe
the
sowle
and
the
body
/
And
hou
he
gyueth
folysshe
playsaunces
and
many
euylle
maners
/
that
is
to
wete
somme
by
couetyse
to
drawe
to
hym
the
good
&
substaunce
of
other
/
And
somme
he
holdeth
in
grete
pryde
by
the
praysyng
of
them self
and
dispraysynge
of
other
/
Some
also
by
enuye
whanne
they
see
other
haue
more
goodes
than
they
/
Also
by
glotonye
/
wherin
the
body
delyteth
hym self
/
and
maketh
hym
to
falle
in
to
the
synne
of
dronkeship
/
whiche
synne
taketh
fro
them
reason
and
entendement
/
and
maketh
them
to
fall
in
to
carnal
delyte
/
Eyther
also
by
lecherye
makyng
them
to
haue
their
peramours
with
them
/
and
to
loue
them
wyth
folysshe
loue
and
playsaunce
/
As
dyd
the
folysshe
galoys
and
galoyses
/
and
amonge
them
suche
a
folysshe
and
brennynge
loue
that
he
brought
them
to
an
euylle
ende
/
and
to
deye
of
dyuerse
dethe
/
But
notwithstondyng
al
this
I
saye
not
but
that
there
is
a
trewe
loue
without
blame
and
dishonoure
/
And
wherof
moche
worship
cometh
/
These
ben
trewe
/
the
whiche
requyre
nothyng
wherout
may
come
ony
falshed
or
abusion
For
he
that
loueth
not
trewely
thynketh
for
to
haue
dishonoured
his
loue
and
her
estate
/
And
suche
loue
is
not
trewe
/
but
is
fals
dyssymylynge
and
trecherye
/
Therfore
to
grete
Iustyse
may
not
be
made
of
them
/
but
so
moche
I
telle
yow
well
/
that
ther
be
of
suche
folke
/
whiche
ben
of
dyuerse
maners
/
that
is
to
wete
/
some
trewe
/
somme
fals
and
deceyuable
/
and
gyue
no
force
at
al
/
but
to
haue
theyr
fowle
delyte
and
wylle
/
And
many
suche
folk
is
as
now
in
this
world
/
wherfore
the
world
is
hard
to
knowe
and
moche
merueyllous
/
And
suche
wene
wel
to
knowe
them self
/
but
wors
they
knowe
them self
than
done
ony
other
The
Argument
of
the
knyght
of
the
Towre
and
of
his
wyf
Capitulo
Cxxi●
mY
dere
doughters
as
for
to
loue
peramours
I
shal
tell
yow
alle
the
debate
and
stryf
of
me
and
of
your
moder
I
wold
susteyne
ageynste
her
/
that
a
lady
or
damoyselle
myght
loue
peramours
in
certayne
caas
/
For
in
loue
is
but
good
worship
/
withoute
ony
euyll
be
thought
in
it
In
this
thenne
wherin
is
thought
ony
euylle
is
not
loue
/
but
rather
it
is
grete
falshede
and
mauuastye
/
wherfore
take
ye
●●de
And
here
ye
the
grete
debate
and
stryf
whiche
was
bytwene
her
and
me
/
Thus
thenne
I
sayd
to
your
moder
/
Lady
w●y
shalle
not
the
ladyes
and
damoysels
loue
peramours
/
For
in
certayne
me
semeth
that
in
good
loue
and
trewe
maye
be
but
welthe
and
honour
/
and
also
the
louer
is
the
better
therfore
&
more
gay
and
Ioly
/
and
also
the
more
encouraged
to
excercyse
hym self
more
ofte
in
armes
/
And
taketh
therfore
better
maner
in
al
estates
for
to
please
vnto
his
lady
or
l●ue
/
And
in
lyke
wyse
dothe
she
of
whome
he
is
enamoured
for
to
please
hym
the
better
as
ferre
as
she
loueth
hym
/
And
also
I
tell
yow
that
grete
almesse
it
is
whanne
a
lady
or
damoysell
maketh
a
good
knyght
/
eyther
a
good
squyer
/
These
ben
my
reasons
The
answere
whiche
the
lady
of
the
towre
maad
vnto
her
lord
Capitulo
Cxxij
tHenne
ansuerd
to
me
your
moder
/
Syre
I
merueyll
me
not
/
yf
amonge
yow
men
susteyne
and
holde
this
reason
that
al
women
oughte
to
loue
peramours
/
But
sith
this
debate
and
stryf
is
come
before
our
owne
doughters
/
I
wylle
answere
after
myn
aduys
and
Intencion
/
For
vnto
our
children
we
must
hyde
nothynge
/
Ye
say
/
and
so
done
all
other
men
that
a
lady
or
damoysell
is
the
better
worth
/
whan
she
loueth
peramours
/
And
that
she
shalle
be
the
more
gay
&
of
fayr
maner
and
countenaunce
/
And
how
she
shalle
do
grete
almesse
to
make
a
good
knyght
/
These
wordes
are
but
sport
and
esbatement
of
lordes
and
of
felawes
in
a
langage
moche
comyn
/
For
they
that
saye
that
alle
the
honour
and
worshyppe
whiche
they
gete
and
haue
is
comynge
to
them
by
theyre
peramours
/
And
that
theyr
loue
encourageth
them
to
goo
in
vyages
/
And
for
to
plese
to
them
by
state
of
armes
/
but
these
wordes
coste
to
them
but
lytyll
to
say
for
to
gete
the
better
and
sooner
the
grace
and
good
wylle
of
theyr
peramours
/
For
of
suche
wordes
and
other
moche
merueyllous
many
one
vseth
full
ofte
/
but
how
be
hit
that
they
saye
that
for
them
and
for
theyr
loue
they
done
hit
/
In
good
feyth
/
they
done
it
only
for
to
enhaunce
them self
/
and
for
to
drawe
vnto
them
the
grace
and
vayne
glory
of
the
world
/
Therfore
I
charge
yow
my
fayre
doughters
that
in
this
mater
ye
byleue
not
your
fader
/
But
I
pray
yow
that
ye
hold
your self
clenly
and
without
blame
/
and
that
ye
be
not
amerous
for
many
reasons
/
whiche
I
shalle
reherce
vnto
yow
/
Fyrste
I
saye
not
/
but
that
euery
good
woman
of
age
maye
loue
well
and
better
the
one
than
the
other
/
that
is
to
wete
/
folke
of
worship
and
honour
/
And
them
also
/
that
shalle
counceylle
her
for
her
owne
helthe
&
worship
/
And
thus
men
oughte
to
loue
by
this
manere
/
the
one
more
than
the
other
/
But
as
for
to
be
so
ferforth
enamoured
/
in
soo
moche
that
this
loue
be
mayster
of
her
/
and
maketh
them
to
falle
in
somme
fowle
and
shamefull
delyte
/
somtyme
with
ryght
/
and
somtyme
with
wronge
/
for
the
watche
whiche
men
haue
vpon
this
shameful
dede
or
feate
/
and
also
suche
dishonour
and
escry
/
whiche
soone
is
not
put
oute
/
And
by
the
false
watches
&
bacbyters
whiche
ben
neuer
cessyng
to
talke
of
som
euylle
rather
than
of
somme
good
/
wherby
they
take
away
&
dyffamen
the
good
Renomme
of
the
good
wymmen
and
of
many
a
good
lady
/
And
therfore
alle
wymmen
/
whiche
ben
not
wedded
may
kepe
and
hold
them self
fro
hit
/
And
that
for
many
Reasons
/
The
fyrste
Reason
is
/
by
cause
that
a
woman
whiche
is
enamoured
of
a
man
maye
not
serue
god
of
no
good
herte
ne
trewe
/
as
she
dyd
before
/
For
many
one
I
haue
herd
saye
/
the
whiche
haue
ben
amerous
in
theyr
yong●●e
that
when
they
were
in
the
chirche
/
theyre
thought
and
Melancolye
made
them
ofte
to
thynke
vnto
theyr
delytes
/
and
to
theyr
peramours
/
more
than
they
dyd
to
the
seruyse
of
God
/
And
also
the
arte
of
loue
is
of
suche
kynde
/
that
whanne
one
is
in
the
Chirche
to
here
masse
and
the
dyuyne
seruyse
/
and
as
the
preest
holdeth
the
body
of
oure
lord
bytwene
his
handes
than
cometh
most
to
his
mynde
euylle
and
fowle
thoughtes
/
This
is
the
arte
or
crafte
of
the
goddesse
that
men
calle
Venus
the
whiche
had
the
name
of
a
planete
as
I
herd
saye
of
a
good
and
trewe
man
/
whiche
preched
and
sayd
how
ones
the
deuylle
entred
in
to
the
body
of
a
dampned
woman
/
whiche
was
Ioly
and
gaye
/
and
moche
amerous
/
The
deuylle
that
was
within
her
body
made
her
to
doo
many
fals
myracles
/
wherfor
the
paynyms
helde
her
for
a
goddesse
and
worshipped
her
as
a
god
/
And
this
Venus
was
she
that
gaf
coun●●ylle
to
the
Troians
/
that
they
shold
sende
Parys
the
sone
of
kyng
Priamus
in
to
grece
/
and
that
she
shold
make
hym
rauysshe
and
haue
with
hym
the
fayrest
lady
of
al
grece
/
wherof
she
sayd
trouthe
/
For
parys
dyd
rauysshe
the
fayr
Helayne
/
the
wyf
of
the
kynge
Menelaus
/
for
the
whiche
faytte
or
dede
were
slayne
afterward
more
than
xl
kynges
and
xiiCM
other
persones
and
mo
/
wherof
this
Venus
was
of
al
thys
grete
meschyef
pryncipall
cause
/
She
was
an
euylle
goddesse
/
fulle
of
euylle
temptacion
/
She
is
the
goddesse
of
loue
whiche
kyndeleth
and
chauffeth
the
amerous
hertes
/
and
maketh
them
to
thynke
bothe
day
and
nyght
to
the
Ioye
and
foule
delytes
of
lechery
/
And
specially
whan
they
be
at
the
masse
or
heryng
the
dyuyn
seruyse
/
the
deuyl
causeth
this
for
to
trouble
their
feythe
/
and
theyr
deuocion
whiche
they
haue
toward
oure
lord
/
And
knowe
ye
for
certayne
my
fayr
doughters
/
that
a
woman
whiche
is
amerous
shalle
neuer
sette
her
herte
to
god
/
ne
she
shall
not
saye
deuoutely
her
houres
or
matyns
ne
the
hert
open
for
to
here
the
dyuyne
seruyse
of
god
/
wherof
I
shall
telle
yow
an
Ensample
/
Two
quenes
were
at
this
syde
of
the
see
/
which
in
lent
vpon
the
holy
thursday
in
the
passion
weke
took
theyr
fowle
delytes
and
playsaunce
within
the
Chirche
/
duryng
the
seruyse
dyuyne
/
And
rested
not
of
theyr
foly
tylle
hit
was
alle
done
/
wherfore
god
/
whiche
was
displeased
wyth
them
/
for
theyr
enorme
and
fowle
synne
made
theyr
fowle
dede
and
faytte
to
be
openly
knowen
amonge
the
folke
/
In
suche
wyse
/
that
they
were
take
/
and
putte
vnder
a
grete
and
heuy
coope
of
lede
/
And
there
they
deyd
of
an
euylle
dethe
/
And
the
two
knyghtes
theyre
putyers
deyd
also
as
they
that
were
flayne
they
beynge
yet
on
lyue
/
Now
maye
ye
see
how
theyr
fals
loue
was
euylle
and
dampnable
/
And
how
the
temptacion
of
Venus
the
goddesse
of
loue
/
and
lady
of
lechery
tempted
them
so
moche
that
she
made
them
to
take
theyr
fowle
plesaunce
In
suche
holy
tyme
as
vpon
the
thursday
and
holy
frydaye
in
the
●assyon
weke
/
By
this
Ensample
is
wel
sene
and
knowen
/
how
that
euery
woman
amerous
is
more
tempted
wythin
the
Chyrche
than
in
eny
other
place
/
And
the
same
is
the
fyrst
reason
/
how
a
yonge
woman
must
kepe
her self
fro
suche
folysshe
loue
/
and
not
be
in
no
wyse
amerous
/
The
other
rayson
is
by
cause
of
many
gentylle
men
whiche
ben
so
fals
and
deceyuab●e
that
they
requyre
euery
gentylle
woman
that
they
may
fynde
/
And
to
them
they
swere
that
they
shalle
kepe
to
them
their
feythe
/
and
be
trewe
to
them
/
and
shalle
loue
them
without
falshed
or
deceyuaunce
/
and
that
rather
they
shold
deye
/
than
to
thynke
ony
vylonye
or
dyshonoure
/
And
that
they
shalle
be
the
better
preysed
for
the
loue
of
them
/
And
that
yf
they
haue
ony
good
and
worship
/
it
shalle
come
by
them
/
And
thus
they
shalle
shewe
and
saye
to
them
so
many
reasons
and
abusions
that
a
grete
meruaylle
is
to
here
hem
speke
/
And
yet
more
they
gyue
oute
of
theyr
brestes
grete
and
fayned
syghes
/
And
make
as
they
were
thynkynge
and
Melancolyous
/
And
after
they
cast
a
fals
loke
/
And
thenne
the
good
and
debonayr
wymmen
that
sene
them
/
supposen
/
that
they
be
esprysed
of
trewe
and
feythfull
loue
/
but
al
suche
maner
of
folke
/
whiche
vsen
to
make
suche
semblaunt
/
ben
but
deceyuours
or
be
gylers
of
the
ladyes
and
damoysels
/
For
there
is
no
lady
ne
damoysell
that
wold
here
them
/
but
that
they
shold
be
deceyued
of
them
by
theyr
fals
reasons
/
whiche
they
shold
not
here
These
ben
contrary
to
the
feythfulle
and
trewe
louers
/
For
he
that
loueth
with
god
and
trewe
loue
/
as
he
cometh
before
his
peramours
/
he
is
ferynge
and
dredefull
lest
he
doo
ony
thyng
that
may
displease
her
/
For
he
is
not
so
hardy
to
discouere
ne
say
one
onely
word
/
And
yf
he
loue
her
wel
I
wene
that
he
shalle
be
thre
or
four
yere
er
he
dar
saye
his
secrete
vnto
her
/
But
thus
do
not
the
fals
louers
/
For
they
praye
al
them
that
they
fynd
as
aboue
is
sayd
/
And
are
not
in
drede
ne
in
fere
to
saye
al
that
cometh
vpon
theyr
fals
tongues
/
And
no
shame
ne
vergoyne
they
haue
of
hit
/
And
al
that
whiche
they
maye
vnderstand
of
them
/
they
reherce
and
telle
it
amonge
theyr
felawes
/
And
of
them
they
hold
theyre
talkynge
/
wherof
they
laugh
and
scorne
and
take
theyr
disporte
of
hit
/
And
thus
by
suche
a
waye
/
they
mocke
and
scorne
the
ladyes
and
damoysels
and
make
newe
talkynges
and
lesynges
of
them
/
whiche
before
were
neuer
sayd
ne
spoken
of
/
For
they
to
whom
they
tellen
hit
/
put
to
it
rather
somme
euyll
/
than
somme
good
In
so
moche
that
fro
word
to
word
and
by
suche
mockynge
and
fryuolles
many
ladyes
and
damoysels
ben
ofte
blamed
How
a
woman
ought
not
to
here
the
wordes
or
talkynge
of
hym
that
requyreth
her
of
loue
/
Capitulo
Cxxiiij
aNd
to
th
ende
ye
be
not
deceyued
/
kepe
yow
wel
fro
the
talkynge
of
them
/
And
yf
one
begynne
to
resonne
and
talke
with
yow
of
suche
mater
/
lete
hym
alone
/
or
els
calle
to
yow
somme
other
body
to
here
hym
say
what
he
wil
And
thus
ye
shalle
voyde
and
breke
his
talkynge
/
And
knowe
yow
for
certayne
/
that
yf
ye
doo
thus
ones
or
twyes
/
he
shalle
nomore
speke
to
yow
therof
/
but
in
good
feyth
at
the
last
he
shalle
preyse
and
drede
yow
/
and
shalle
saye
/
this
woman
is
assured
and
ferme
/
And
by
this
maner
of
waye
ye
shalle
not
be
put
in
theyr
Ianglory
and
talkynges
/
and
shall
not
also
haue
no
blame
ne
diffame
of
the
world
/
How
the
knyght
answereth
to
his
wyf
/
Capitulo
Cxxv
tHenne
I
ansuerd
/
Lady
ye
be
moche
hard
&
euyll
in
as
moche
that
ye
wyll
not
suffre
that
your
doughters
be
amerouse
/
And
yf
so
came
that
somme
gentyl
knyght
/
worshipful
/
myghty
/
and
puyssaunt
ynough
after
theyre
degree
had
sette
his
herte
on
one
of
them
/
and
be
wyllynge
to
loue
her
/
and
take
her
to
his
wyf
/
why
shalle
she
not
loue
hym
Syre
sayd
his
wyf
/
To
this
I
shalle
ansuere
yow
/
It
is
so
as
to
me
semeth
/
that
euery
woman
/
mayde
/
or
wydowe
/
may
wel
bete
her self
with
her
owne
staf
/
For
al
men
ben
not
of
one
condycion
/
ne
of
one
manere
/
for
that
thynge
/
whiche
pleseth
to
one
is
dyspleasyng
to
the
other
/
And
somme
ben
/
the
whiche
taken
grete
playsyre
of
the
grete
chere
and
semblaunt
that
is
done
to
them
/
And
that
thynken
but
good
and
honeste
/
And
som
also
ben
therfore
more
curyous
to
demaunde
and
aske
theyr
peramours
to
be
theyre
wyues
/
But
many
other
ben
whiche
are
not
of
suche
manere
/
but
all
contrarye
/
For
whanne
they
see
/
that
theyr
peramours
paynen
them self
to
make
them
chere
/
they
preyse
them
lesse
/
And
within
theyr
hertes
ben
doubtyng
of
them
/
And
as
they
see
them
so
lyght
of
wylle
and
so
enamowred
/
they
leue
them
/
and
demaunde
them
not
for
to
be
theyr
wyues
/
And
thus
many
one
for
to
shewe
them self
to
moche
amerous
/
and
for
to
be
to
moche
open
in
beholdynge
/
and
in
gyuynge
fayre
semblaunt
/
lese
theyre
maryage
/
For
in
certayne
they
that
kepe
them
symply
/
and
the
whiche
gyuen
noo
fayre
token
or
semblaunt
to
one
nomore
than
to
other
/
ben
most
preysed
/
and
they
be
therfore
the
sooner
wedded
/
wherupon
ye
told
me
ones
an
ensample
whiche
I
haue
not
forgeten
which
happed
to
yow
of
a
lady
/
to
whome
I
gyue
no
name
/
the
whiche
ye
wente
ones
to
see
her
wyllynge
to
take
her
in
maryage
She
that
wyst
and
knewe
well
how
it
was
spoken
of
yow
&
her
for
her
maryage
/
maade
to
yow
as
grete
chere
/
as
she
hadde
loued
and
knowen
your
personne
all
the
dayes
of
her
lyf
/
ye
prayd
her
of
loue
/
but
by
cause
that
she
whiche
was
not
wyse
ynough
to
ansuere
yow
curtoysly
and
wel
/
ye
demaunded
her
not
/
And
yf
she
had
hold
self
more
secrete
and
couered
/
and
more
symply
/
ye
had
take
her
to
your
wyf
/
of
whome
I
haue
syn
herd
saye
/
that
she
hath
be
blamed
/
but
I
wote
not
for
certayne
yf
it
was
so
/
And
certaynly
Syre
ye
be
not
the
fyrst
/
to
whome
suche
aduenture
is
happed
/
For
many
wymmen
haue
lost
theyr
maryage
/
by
cause
of
theyr
amerous
loke
and
fayr
semblaunt
/
Therfore
it
is
good
to
euery
woman
vnwedded
for
to
behaue
her
symply
and
clenely
/
and
specially
before
them
/
of
whome
is
spoken
for
her
maryage
/
I
saye
not
but
that
men
must
bere
honoure
to
euery
one
after
that
they
be
How
men
ought
to
loue
after
his
estate
and
degree
Capitulo
Cxxvj
wHat
saye
yow
lady
/
wold
ye
haue
kept
them
so
straitly
/
that
they
shold
not
take
somme
plesaunce
/
more
to
somme
than
to
the
other
/
Syre
I
wylle
not
/
that
they
haue
or
take
ony
plesaunce
of
them
that
ben
of
lower
estate
or
degree
than
they
be
of
/
that
is
to
wete
that
no
woman
vnwedded
shalle
not
sette
her
loue
vpon
no
man
of
lower
or
lasse
degree
than
she
is
of
/
For
yf
she
tooke
hym
/
her
parentes
and
Frendes
shold
hold
her
lassed
and
hyndered
/
These
whiche
louen
suche
folke
done
ageynste
theyre
worship
and
honoure
For
men
ought
to
desyre
ne
coueyte
nothynge
so
moche
in
this
world
as
worship
and
the
frendship
of
the
world
/
and
of
hir
Frendes
/
the
whiche
is
lost
as
soone
as
she
draweth
oute
her self
oute
of
the
gouernement
and
fro
the
counceyll
of
them
as
I
myght
telle
yf
I
wold
an
Ensample
of
many
whiche
therfore
ben
dyffamed
and
hated
of
theyr
parents
&
Frendes
And
therfore
Syre
as
I
theyr
moder
charge
and
deffende
them
/
that
they
take
no
playsaunce
ne
that
in
no
wyse
sette
theyr
loue
to
none
of
lower
degree
than
they
be
come
of
/
Ne
also
to
none
of
hyhe
estate
/
whiche
they
may
not
haue
to
their
lord
For
the
grete
lordes
shalle
not
take
them
to
theyr
wyues
/
but
alle
theyr
louynge
loke
and
semblaunt
they
do
it
for
to
deceyue
them
/
and
for
to
haue
the
delytes
and
playsaunce
of
theyr
bodyes
/
and
for
to
brynge
them
in
to
the
folye
of
the
world
How
wedded
wymmen
whiche
haue
sette
theyr
loue
to
some
of
lower
degree
than
they
be
of
/
are
not
worthy
to
be
callyd
wymmen
/
Capitulo
Cxxvij
aLso
they
whiche
putte
and
sette
theyr
loue
on
thre
maner
of
folke
/
that
is
to
wete
wedded
men
/
prestes
and
monkes
/
and
as
to
seruauntes
and
folke
of
noughte
These
maner
of
wymmen
whiche
take
to
theyr
peramours
and
loue
suche
folke
/
I
hold
them
of
none
extyme
ne
valewe
/
but
that
they
be
more
gretter
harlottes
/
than
they
that
ben
dayly
at
the
bordell
/
For
many
wymmen
of
the
world
done
that
synne
of
lechery
/
but
only
for
nede
and
pouerte
/
or
els
by
cause
they
haue
ben
deceyued
of
hit
by
false
counceylle
of
bawdes
/
But
alle
gentylle
women
whiche
haue
ynough
to
lyue
on
/
the
whiche
make
theyre
peramours
or
louers
suche
maner
of
folke
as
before
is
sayd
/
it
is
by
the
grete
ease
wherin
they
be
/
and
by
the
brennynge
lecherye
of
theyr
bodyes
/
For
they
knowe
wel
/
that
after
the
lawe
of
theyr
maryage
they
may
not
haue
for
theyr
lordes
/
ne
to
be
theyr
husbondes
men
of
the
chirche
ne
other
of
no
valewe
/
This
loue
is
not
for
to
recouere
ony
worship
/
but
alle
dishonour
and
shame
How
hit
is
almesse
to
enhaunce
a
man
in
to
grete
valour
/
Capitulo
Cxxviij
aT
the
leste
syth
ye
wylle
not
graunte
ne
accorde
/
that
youre
doughters
loue
no
man
peramours
/
as
longe
as
they
shalle
be
vnwedded
/
please
it
yow
to
suffre
/
that
whanne
they
shall
be
wedded
/
they
may
take
somme
plesaunce
of
loue
for
to
hold
and
behaue
them self
the
more
gaye
and
Ioyefull
/
and
for
the
better
knowe
theyr
behauynge
and
maner
emonge
folke
of
worship
/
And
as
before
this
tyme
/
I
haue
sayd
to
yow
/
It
were
to
them
grete
welthe
and
worship
/
to
make
a
man
of
none
extyme
ne
of
valewe
to
become
of
grete
valour
The
answere
of
the
lady
of
the
Towre
/
Capitulo
Cxxix
sIre
to
thys
I
ansuere
yow
/
I
wylle
well
and
am
content
that
they
make
good
chere
to
all
worshipfulle
men
/
And
more
to
somme
than
to
the
other
/
that
is
to
wete
/
to
them
of
gretter
name
and
more
gentyl
/
or
els
better
men
of
theyr
persones
/
And
after
that
they
bere
to
them
worship
and
honour
/
And
that
they
synge
and
daunce
before
them
honourably
/
But
as
for
to
loue
peramours
sythe
they
shall
be
wedded
/
withoute
it
be
of
suche
loue
as
men
ought
to
bere
vnto
folke
of
worshippe
for
to
loue
and
worshippe
them
after
that
they
be
worthy
and
of
valour
/
And
whiche
haue
had
grete
payne
and
trauaylle
to
gete
and
acquere
glorye
and
worshyp
by
theyr
valyaunce
in
armes
/
These
must
be
loued
/
doubted
serued
and
honoured
withoute
hauynge
in
them
ony
plesaunce
/
sauf
only
for
the
bounte
of
them
/
But
to
saye
and
hold
hit
good
/
that
a
wedded
woman
shold
loue
and
haue
a
peramour
/
Ne
take
the
othe
and
feythe
of
none
/
to
th
ende
/
that
they
be
theyr
louers
and
peramours
/
Ne
also
to
gyue
their
feith
and
othe
to
none
/
I
trowe
and
wene
certaynly
/
that
no
lady
ne
damoysell
wedded
ne
woman
of
other
estate
/
shall
not
put
her
estate
and
worship
in
this
balaunce
for
many
reasons
/
the
whiche
I
shalle
declare
vnto
yow
/
wherof
the
fyrst
is
as
before
I
told
yow
/
that
none
woman
amerous
shalle
neuer
be
soo
deuoute
in
her
prayers
/
ne
to
here
the
seruyse
of
god
/
as
she
was
before
/
For
oute
of
loue
spryngen
and
comen
to
many
thoughtes
and
Melancolye
as
men
sayn
/
And
many
one
ben
so
enamoured
and
enflammed
of
loue
that
yf
they
herd
ryng
the
last
peel
of
a
masse
/
and
that
they
knewe
that
theyr
peramoure
wold
haue
come
to
see
them
/
they
shold
lese
the
masse
for
to
please
to
theyr
peramoure
/
This
is
no
game
egaly
parted
/
But
suche
is
the
temptacion
of
Venus
the
goddesse
of
lecherye
/
The
other
Reason
I
doo
compare
to
the
mercer
/
whiche
weyeth
his
sylke
whiche
is
fyn
and
lyght
/
but
yet
he
maye
put
so
moche
of
it
in
to
the
balaunce
/
that
it
shalle
ouerbere
the
weyght
whiche
is
at
the
other
syde
of
the
balaunce
/
That
is
to
saye
that
the
woman
may
be
soo
moche
enamoured
/
that
lasse
she
shalle
loue
her
lord
therfore
/
and
that
the
loue
/
worship
and
cheuaunce
whiche
he
shold
haue
/
she
shalle
take
fro
hym
/
and
gyue
it
to
other
/
And
for
certayne
a
woman
may
not
haue
two
hertes
/
no
more
than
a
greyhond
may
renne
after
two
bestes
/
Therfore
Impossyble
is
that
she
myght
loue
her
peramour
of
trewe
loue
and
her
lord
also
withoute
faute
or
deceyuaunce
But
god
and
Reson
naturell
constrayneth
her
/
For
as
the
clerkes
say
and
the
predycatours
/
god
beganne
the
world
by
maryage
of
man
and
woman
/
And
god
hym self
whanne
he
came
in
to
this
world
/
he
spake
and
treated
at
a
sermon
/
that
he
made
of
maryage
/
sayeng
that
maryage
is
a
sacrament
Ioyned
and
annexed
of
god
to
the
man
and
the
woman
/
&
how
they
be
but
one
body
/
and
that
they
oughte
to
loue
eche
other
more
than
fader
ne
moder
/
ne
other
creature
/
And
therfore
syth
that
god
hath
assembled
them
/
no
man
mortal
ought
not
to
separe
them
/
ne
take
fro
them
the
loue
/
whiche
is
bytwene
them
/
This
sayd
god
of
his
owne
mouthe
/
And
therfore
at
the
dore
where
as
the
preest
maketh
them
to
swere
that
they
shalle
loue
and
kepe
eche
other
bothe
seke
and
hole
/
And
that
they
shalle
not
gwerpysshe
or
leue
eche
other
for
none
other
better
or
worse
/
And
therfore
I
saye
/
syth
the
creatour
of
al
the
creatures
sayd
so
it
is
but
one
thynge
and
one
body
that
men
ought
to
gwerpysshe
and
leue
al
other
worldly
loue
for
to
take
the
loue
whiche
oughte
to
be
in
maryage
/
how
thenne
shold
the
wedded
woman
gyue
her
loue
ne
do
ony
oth
to
some
other
withoute
consent
of
her
lord
/
I
trowe
that
after
the
wylle
of
god
and
the
commaundementes
of
holy
chirche
th●t
this
may
not
dewely
be
done
withoute
feythe
be
broken
of
one
syde
or
of
ther
/
and
many
horryble
dedes
done
/
For
in
good
feythe
I
doubte
not
but
that
they
whiche
ben
amerous
&
gyuen
theyr
feythe
to
other
men
louen
but
lytel
or
nought
theyre
husbondes
/
and
that
they
be
cursed
of
god
/
How
a
woman
whiche
wylle
kepe
her
honour
must
doo
ne
shewe
no
maner
of
semblaunt
to
none
/
Capitulo
Cxxx
tHere
ben
yet
other
Reasons
for
to
kepe
the
loue
of
her
lord
clenely
withoute
daunger
or
parylle
/
that
is
to
wete
ageynst
enuyous
folke
that
haue
euylle
and
cursed
tongues
/
whiche
maken
the
fals
reportes
/
that
is
to
saye
/
that
yf
ony
woman
maketh
somme
semblaunt
of
loue
to
some
man
/
And
yf
that
somme
other
her
seruaunt
/
or
ony
other
body
perceyueth
it
/
As
they
shalle
be
departed
fro
her
/
they
anone
shalle
talke
and
speke
therof
before
the
folke
/
And
thus
shal
the
wordes
soo
ferre
goo
/
that
at
the
laste
men
shalle
saye
/
that
she
hath
fawted
in
dede
/
&
by
this
maner
is
a
good
&
trewe
woman
blamed
and
dishonoured
/
And
yf
hit
befalle
that
by
somme
aduenture
her
lord
haue
ony
knowlechynge
of
hit
.
he
shalle
take
her
in
hate
/
and
of
hertely
loue
he
shalle
neuer
loue
her
/
And
euer
he
shalle
saye
euylle
of
her
/
And
thus
is
the
trewe
loue
of
maryage
lost
and
go
fro
them
/
and
neuer
parfyght
Ioye
ne
loue
shalle
they
haue
to
gyder
/
And
therfore
grete
parylle
is
to
euery
wedded
woman
to
put
her
lord
and
his
estate
&
the
welthe
&
Ioye
of
her
maryage
in
this
balaunce
&
in
suche
peryllous
auenture
/
wherfor
I
counceyll
not
to
no
good
woman
to
haue
ony
peramour
ne
to
be
amerous
/
in
so
moch
that
she
be
subget
to
other
than
to
her
lord
/
for
by
suche
a
cause
many
good
maryages
haue
ben
left
&
forgoten
/
&
for
one
word
that
is
come
therof
an
C
euyls
ben
comen
therfor
/
I
shal
telle
yow
therof
one
example
of
them
whiche
ben
dede
/
&
haue
fynysshed
theyr
lyues
by
the
peryls
whiche
ben
in
folysshe
loue
/
The
lady
of
Coussy
&
her
peramoure
deide
therof
/
&
also
dyd
the
Castellayne
of
the
verger
/
And
after
her
the
Duchesse
/
And
also
many
other
deyde
therof
only
for
the
loue
and
the
most
parte
withoute
Confessyon
or
shryfte
/
wherfore
/
I
wote
not
how
they
doo
in
the
other
world
/
But
I
doubte
not
/
but
that
the
delytes
and
playsaunces
whiche
they
tooke
therof
in
this
world
/
shalle
be
to
them
derely
sold
/
And
the
delytes
of
them
that
ben
amerous
ben
suche
/
that
for
one
Ioye
that
they
receyue
of
hit
/
they
suffre
and
haue
therfore
an
C
dolours
/
And
for
one
worship
honderd
shames
/
And
euer
I
haue
herd
saye
/
that
a
woman
amerous
shalle
neuer
after
loue
her
lord
with
good
herte
/
but
that
she
shalle
euer
be
in
Melancolye
and
in
smalle
thoughtes
How
a
knyght
loued
the
lady
of
the
toure
/
Ca
/
Cxxxj
lAdy
ye
make
me
to
be
merueylled
/
how
that
ye
so
sore
discounceylle
them
to
loue
/
Wene
ye
to
doo
me
to
by
leue
that
ye
be
so
trewe
in
your
spekynge
/
that
ye
neuer
were
amerous
/
certaynly
I
haue
wel
herd
the
complaynte
of
some
/
of
whome
ye
hold
wel
your
pees
/
Syre
sayd
the
lady
I
trowe
that
ye
wold
not
byleue
me
yf
I
told
to
you
the
very
trouthe
therof
/
but
as
for
to
saye
I
haue
ben
prayd
of
loue
/
I
haue
many
tymes
perceyued
how
somme
men
were
aboute
to
speke
to
me
therof
/
but
euer
I
brake
theyr
wordes
/
&
called
to
me
somme
other
/
wherby
I
dyd
breke
theyr
faytte
/
wherof
ones
hit
befelle
as
many
knyghtes
and
ladyes
were
playenge
with
me
/
that
a
knyght
sayd
to
me
/
how
that
he
loue
all
the
ladyes
that
ben
in
this
world
/
And
I
dyd
demaunde
and
asked
hym
yf
hit
was
long
syn
that
sekenes
&
euylle
had
taken
him
/
&
he
ansuerd
that
it
was
wel
ij
yere
gone
&
past
and
that
neuer
he
durst
telle
it
to
me
/
I
thenne
ansuerd
to
hym
that
it
was
nothynge
of
that
space
of
tyme
/
&
that
he
hasted
hym
to
moche
/
and
that
it
was
but
a
temptacion
&
that
he
shold
goo
to
the
chirche
for
to
cast
vpon
hym
holy
water
/
and
that
he
shold
saye
his
Aue
maria
/
&
that
his
temptacion
shold
sone
after
go
fro
hym
/
For
the
loue
was
newe
/
And
he
demaunded
of
me
why
/
And
thenne
I
sayd
to
hym
/
that
none
peramoure
or
louer
ought
not
to
saye
to
his
lady
/
that
he
loueth
her
/
tyll
the
tyme
of
seuen
yere
and
an
half
be
passyd
&
gone
/
and
that
it
was
but
a
lytell
tem●tacion
/
Thenne
he
wende
to
haue
argued
/
and
put
many
reasons
vnto
me
/
whanne
I
sayd
al
on
hyghe
/
Behold
ye
all
what
sayth
this
knyght
/
whiche
is
but
two
yere
syn
he
loued
fyrst
one
lady
/
and
thenne
he
●rayd
that
I
shold
kepe
my
pees
therof
and
that
in
good
fey●he
he
shold
neuer
speke
to
me
therof
/
But
at
the
last
he
sayd
to
me
L●dy
of
the
Towre
ye
be
moche
euylle
and
straunge
/
and
also
after
your
wordes
ouer
prowd
in
loue
/
I
doubte
that
ye
haue
not
be
euer
so
straunge
/
Ye
be
lyke
the
lady
of
the
●ualle
/
whiche
said
to
me
thus
that
she
wold
neuer
here
ne
vnderstand
the
noote
and
wordes
of
none
/
sauf
one
tyme
that
a
knyghte
pra●d
her
/
but
she
had
an
vncle
whiche
she
made
to
hyde
hym self
behynd
her
/
for
to
here
and
vnderstande
what
that
the
knyght
shold
seye
/
wherin
she
dyd
grete
treason
/
For
he
wende
wel
secretely
to
saye
his
rayson
/
and
wend
not
that
ony
one
had
herd
hym
/
but
her self
alone
/
wherfore
I
dare
almost
say
that
bothe
yow
and
she
be
but
grete
spekers
/
and
lytell
pyteous
of
them
that
requyre
mercy
and
grace
/
And
she
is
of
your
oppynyon
/
that
no
ladyes
or
damoysels
may
not
disporte
them
with
none
other
than
with
theyr
lord
for
the
resons
/
which
ye
haue
sayd
before
/
but
syre
sayd
thenne
the
lady
of
the
tour
to
her
lord
/
as
for
your
doughters
ye
may
saye
to
them
and
charge
them
of
that
what
shalle
befalle
yow
/
but
after
the
faytte
or
dede
ryght
shall
be
done
/
Syre
I
pray
to
god
that
to
worship
and
honour
they
may
come
/
as
I
desyre
/
For
myn
entencion
and
wyll
is
not
to
ordeyne
vpon
none
ladyes
ne
damoysels
/
but
yf
hit
be
vpon
myn
owne
doughters
/
of
whome
I
haue
the
chastysement
and
charge
/
For
euery
good
lady
or
damoyselle
yf
god
be
pleased
shalle
gouerne
and
kepe
hem
self
well
to
theyr
worship
and
honour
withoute
I
that
am
of
lytell
wytte
and
lytell
knowynge
entremete
me
therof
/
Yet
speketh
the
knyght
of
the
Toure
/
Capitulo
Cxxxij
aT
the
lest
my
lady
I
wylle
yet
argue
to
yow
sayeng
that
yf
she
may
seme
to
come
vnto
worship
and
valour
/
the
whiche
had
neuer
ne
also
shold
haue
courage
ne
hardynes
to
put
hym self
in
payn
to
haue
hit
/
but
it
were
for
the
loue
and
playsyr
of
his
lady
/
and
by
good
trust
to
be
a
good
knyght
and
Renommed
amonge
the
valyaunt
and
hardy
for
to
gete
worship
and
the
grace
of
his
peramour
/
And
for
a
lytell
chere
a
man
comynge
of
lowe
degree
may
be
enhaunced
by
his
loue
/
and
be
compted
amonge
the
worthy
and
valyaunt
How
one
must
be
wyly
and
subtyll
for
to
discouere
his
loue
/
Capitulo
Cxxxiij
sIre
hit
semeth
me
that
there
be
many
maners
of
loue
/
And
as
men
saye
the
one
is
better
than
the
other
/
for
yf
hit
be
so
that
a
knyght
or
squyer
loueth
somme
lady
or
damoyselle
by
worshyp
and
honoure
only
/
And
for
to
kepe
her
worship
and
the
curtosye
of
her
and
for
the
good
that
she
shalle
do
to
hym
/
suche
loue
is
good
whiche
is
wythout
prayer
or
request
/
What
lady
/
yf
he
requyreth
her
to
kysse
or
embrace
hym
/
it
is
no
force
/
the
wyndes
blowen
it
awey
/
Ha
a
Syre
I
answere
vnto
yow
/
that
as
wel
to
my
doughters
as
to
other·
that
me
semeth
/
And
therto
I
consente
/
that
they
maye
make
to
them
good
chere
/
and
that
they
kysse
them
before
all
to
th
ende
that
they
lose
not
theyr
valour
/
but
as
for
my
doughters
whiche
ben
here
present
I
defende
and
withsaye
to
them
the
kyssyng
and
alle
suche
maners
of
disportes
/
For
the
wyse
lady
Rebecca
whiche
was
ryght
gentylle
and
noble
/
sayth
/
the
kyssynge
is
nyghe
parente
and
Cosyn
vnto
the
fowle
faytte
or
dede
/
And
Sybylle
sayth
that
the
fyrst
signe
or
token
of
loue
is
the
loke
or
beholdyng
/
And
after
the
amerous
loke
they
come
to
the
kyssynge
/
and
thenne
the
dede
or
faytte
/
Th●
whiche
dede
taketh
awey
the
loue
&
worship
of
god
&
of
the
world
&
thus
they
come
from
one
dede
to
another
/
&
I
lete
you
know
that
me
semeth
that
assone
as
they
suffre
them
to
be
kyssed
they
put
them self
in
the
subiection
of
the
deuyll
/
whiche
is
to
subtyll
/
For
suche
one
weneth
wel
at
the
begynnyng
to
kepe
hym
fermely
and
be
stronge
/
the
whiche
he
deceyueth
by
his
subtyll
arte
and
crafte
/
and
by
suche
kyssynges
/
And
thus
as
one
kyssynge
draweth
to
hym
another
/
And
as
the
fyre
kyndeleth
a
strawe
/
and
fro
that
strawe
it
cometh
/
and
kyndeleth
another
/
&
thus
atte
last
the
bedde
is
a
fyre
&
the
hows
also
/
In
lyke
wyse
is
it
of
suche
loue
/
And
yet
I
charge
yow
my
fayre
doughters
/
that
ye
be
no
players
/
For
suche
playeng
causeth
oftyme
many
a
folysshe
loke
/
and
beholdynge
/
by
the
whiche
may
perauentur
come
blame
and
euylle
renomme
/
I
herd
ones
reherce
and
saye
a
tale
of
the
duchesse
of
bauyere
/
how
that
she
had
wel
twenty
subgettes
as
men
sayd
the
whiche
loued
her
/
and
to
eche
of
them
she
gaf
signe
and
token
of
loue
/
She
playd
wi●h
them
at
the
tables
/
and
wan
of
them
coursers
and
hakneys
and
dere
and
ryche
furrynges
and
also
rynges
and
precious
stones
/
and
many
other
Iewels
and
grete
prouffyte
she
had
by
them
/
But
for
certayne
she
coude
neuer
kepe
her self
so
wel
/
but
that
at
the
last
s̄he
was
blamed
and
dyffamed
/
And
better
it
had
be
for
her
worshyp
/
that
she
had
bought
and
payed
alle
that
she
had
of
them
/
half
derer
more
than
it
was
worthe
/
Therfore
grete
perylle
is
to
euery
lady
or
damoysell
and
to
all
other
good
and
worshipfull
wymmen
to
vse
suche
playenge
and
be
of
suche
lyf
/
For
the
most
appertyse
and
wyse
fynd
them self
at
the
last
by
suche
delynge
mocked
and
blamed
/
and
fowle
dyffamed
/
And
therfore
my
fayre
doughters
take
ye
here
good
ensample
/
and
be
ye
not
to
curyous
to
ony
playe
for
to
wynne
suche
ouches
or
fer●aylles
For
by
the
couetousnes
to
gete
and
haue
suche
Iewels
for
nought
many
a
woman
put
her self
in
subiection
/
and
oftyme
it
befalleth
therfor
that
they
be
deceyued
/
And
thus
is
it
good
to
aduyse
and
beware
hym self
before
the
comynge
of
the
stroke
/
How
the
holy
lady
approuued
the
Heremyte
/
Ca
/
Cxxxv
fAyr
doughters
I
wylle
telle
yow
one
of
the
last
ensamples
of
this
book
/
It
is
of
a
full
good
lady
/
whiche
is
moche
to
be
preysed
/
And
this
ensample
is
reherced
in
the
booke
of
Vitas
Patrum
/
how
the
wyf
of
the
prouost
of
Acquylee
approued
an
holy
Heremyte
by
his
bounte
/
Ther
was
thenne
an
holy
Heremyte
in
an
heremytage
/
the
whiche
had
ben
there
by
the
space
of
xxv
yere
/
where
as
he
ete
but
breed
and
herbes
and
Rotes
/
And
ofte
he
fasted
/
and
was
of
good
and
holy
lyuynge
/
This
good
and
holy
Here
myte
beganne
ones
vpon
a
tyme
to
saye
/
A
good
lord
my
creatour
and
my
maker
/
yf
ageynst
the
I
haue
ony
thyng
mysprysed
I
demaunde
and
crye
to
the
mercy
/
And
yf
I
haue
this
xxv
yere
done
ony
good
dwellyng
stylle
in
this
Heremytage
/
what
meryte
shalle
I
haue
therfore
/
A
vysyon
came
sone
to
hym
/
by
the
whiche
hym
thought
that
he
sawe
oure
lord
/
whiche
sayd
to
hym
/
thow
shalt
haue
the
meryte
of
the
prouost
of
Acquylee
and
of
his
wyf
/
And
thenne
whanne
he
hed
sene
this
vysyon
/
he
sayd
that
he
shold
neuer
reste
tylle
he
come
in
to
Acquyllee
for
to
enquere
of
the
lyf
and
condycions
of
the
prouost
and
of
his
wyf
/
He
wente
thyder
/
And
as
god
wold
thurgh
the
grace
of
the
holy
ghoost
the
prouost
and
his
wyf
knewe
wel
the
comynge
of
this
Heremyte
/
and
the
cause
also
why
he
came
thyder
/
It
befelle
thenne
as
the
Heremyte
was
nyghe
by
the
Towne
/
he
sawe
the
prouost
/
whiche
yssued
oute
of
hit
with
a
grete
companye
of
men
/
and
wente
to
make
Iustyse
of
a
Squyer
/
whiche
had
slayne
another
Squyer
/
And
was
the
prouost
rydynge
vpon
a
fayr
courser
/
And
had
on
hym
a
fayre
gowne
of
sylke
rychely
furred
/
And
all
his
men
that
were
aboute
hym
wel
clothed
&
arayed
/
And
as
sone
as
the
prouoste
sawe
the
Heremyte
/
he
knewe
hym
/
as
the
wylle
of
god
was
/
and
callyd
hym
/
and
sayd
/
good
and
trewe
man
/
goo
ye
home
to
my
wyf
/
and
take
her
this
rynge
And
telle
her
/
that
she
doo
to
yow
as
she
wold
doo
to
me
The
Heremyte
demaunded
of
hym
what
he
was
/
And
he
answerd
to
hym
that
he
was
the
prouost
of
Acquyllee
/
The
Heremyte
thenne
that
sawe
hym
in
suche
estate
and
soo
Rychely
clothed
/
was
abasshed
/
and
ryght
sore
merueylled
/
that
he
was
so
coyntely
arayed
/
and
that
he
wente
for
to
make
a
man
to
be
hanged
/
He
wyst
not
what
he
shold
thynke
or
saye
/
and
was
al
troubled
and
abasshed
/
And
hym
thought
/
that
he
had
nothynge
deserued
of
god
/
But
neuertheles
he
wente
to
the
prouostes
place
/
and
founde
there
the
lady
his
wyf
/
to
whome
he
toke
the
rynge
/
and
said
vnto
her
that
her
lord
sent
hym
thyder
/
And
that
she
shold
doo
to
hym
/
as
she
wold
doo
to
hym self
/
The
good
lady
receyued
hym
/
and
made
the
table
to
be
couerd
&
prayd
hym
to
sytte
before
her
/
She
made
hym
to
be
serued
of
grete
plente
of
good
and
delycate
metes
and
of
good
wynes
/
And
the
Heremyte
whiche
was
not
wont
to
haue
before
hym
suche
metes
/
Neuertheles
he
ete
and
dranke
there
/
And
sawe
how
the
good
lady
toke
the
good
metes
that
were
put
before
her
/
and
how
she
brake
and
dressed
the
good
capons
and
other
metes
/
And
thenne
she
dyd
put
it
al
to
gyder
in
a
grete
dysshe
/
and
sente
it
to
the
poure
folke
/
And
toke
only
for
her
refection
brede
and
water
/
And
thus
she
dyd
euery
day
bothe
at
souper
and
at
dyner
/
And
as
the
euen
ca●e
she
had
the
Heremyte
in
to
her
chambre
/
whiche
was
rychely
hanged
with
cloth
of
sylke
and
nobly
dressed
and
arayed
and
sayd
to
hym
/
good
and
trewe
man
ye
shall
lye
in
the
bedde
of
my
lord
and
in
his
chambre
/
The
Heremyte
wold
haue
reffused
it
/
but
the
lady
sayd
that
she
wold
do
the
comaundement
of
her
lord
/
And
that
for
certayne
he
shold
lye
there
/
There
s●e
made
to
be
brought
to
hym
good
spyces
and
stronge
and
good
wynes
/
wherto
the
good
Heremyte
tooke
soo
good
a
sauoure
that
he
ete
and
dranke
soo
moche
/
that
he
was
dronke
and
ful
Ioyous
in
his
spekynge
/
For
the
good
wyn
had
soone
ouercomen
hym
/
by
cause
he
was
not
wonte
to
drynke
of
hit
/
He
wente
to
bedde
/
and
the
lady
vndyd
her
clo●●es
●
and
leyde
her self
by
hym
/
and
beganne
to
embrace
and
ta●●e
hym
/
And
the
Heremyte
that
moche
hadde
taken
of
metes
and
drynkes
/
awaked
/
and
his
flesshe
beganne
sore
to
be
meuyd
/
And
wold
haue
accomplysshed
the
faytte
or
dede
of
fornycacion
with
the
lady
/
Thenne
sayd
she
to
hym
Swete
Frende
whanne
my
lord
wyl
haue
to
doo
with
me
of
suche
thyng
/
he
goeth
fyrste
to
bathe
and
wassheth
hym selfe
in
that
Tubbe
/
whiche
ye
see
yonder
full
of
water
for
to
be
the
more
clene
and
fayre
/
And
th
eremyte
whiche
thoughte
to
nothyng
than
to
fulfylle
and
accomplysshe
his
wyll
sterte
in
the
tubbe
full
of
water
/
and
bathed
and
wasshed
hym
in
the
water
/
whiche
was
cold
as
ony
yse
/
and
anone
he
was
as
half
dede
of
cold
/
Thenne
the
lady
called
hym
to
her
/
And
he
came
alle
shakynge
/
For
his
hete
was
gone
/
and
also
his
euylle
wylle
And
the
lady
embraced
hym
ageyne
so
moche
that
he
gate
hete
/
and
was
so
chauffed
that
he
wold
haue
done
his
folysshe
delyte
/
And
as
she
sawe
hym
soo
chauffed
and
so
brennyng
in
that
fowle
delyte
of
lecherye
/
she
prayd
hym
that
he
wold
for
the
loue
of
her
goo
and
wasshe
hym
ageyne
in
the
tubbe
for
to
be
the
clener
/
And
he
that
yet
had
not
slepte
and
was
full
of
myghty
and
stronge
wynes
/
as
a
man
oute
of
his
wytte
rose
vp
oute
of
the
bedde
/
and
wente
/
and
bathed
hym
ageyn
in
to
the
tubbe
/
And
anone
the
cold
water
made
hym
feble
&
hard
for
cold
/
Thenne
the
lady
called
hym
to
her
ageyne
/
And
shakynge
he
came
to
her
as
he
dyd
before
/
his
teeth
shoke
/
and
bete
eche
other
for
cold
/
And
alle
his
grete
here
was
passed
and
gone
/
The
lady
roose
vp
and
couered
hym
well
with
warme
clothes
/
and
lefte
hym
alone
/
to
th
ende
he
shold
take
his
reste
/
And
soone
after
as
he
was
a
lytyll
warme
/
he
fylle
in
to
a
slepe
/
for
his
hede
was
ryght
pesaunt
and
heuy
/
And
he
awoke
not
tylle
the
morowe
was
come
/
To
his
rysynge
cam
an
old
preest
or
chappellayne
/
whiche
demaunded
hym
how
he
dede
/
And
whanne
he
perceyued
that
he
laye
in
so
fayr
a
bedde
/
and
that
he
was
so
taken
and
surprysed
/
he
was
full
of
shame
and
moche
merueylled
how
in
that
dronkeship
and
folysshe
wylle
he
was
falle
/
He
thenne
sawe
wel
/
that
they
were
of
gretter
meryte
than
he
was
/
And
demaunded
of
the
Chappellayne
of
the
lyf
and
gouernaunce
of
the
Prouost
and
of
his
wyf
/
And
he
told
hym
that
the
most
parte
of
the
dayes
of
the
yere
they
wered
the
hayre
/
And
that
the
good
metes
whiche
were
brought
at
the
table
before
them
/
they
sente
to
poure
folke
/
and
ete
black
brede
and
metes
of
lytyll
sauoure
and
dranke
but
water
/
And
how
they
fasted
the
most
parte
of
the
weke
/
He
after
demaunded
of
hym
why
that
tubbe
full
of
cold
water
Was
sette
by
theyr
bedde
/
And
he
answerd
that
it
was
put
there
for
to
kepe
them
fro
the
brennynge
wylle
of
lecherye
/
for
as
soone
as
she
or
he
is
chauffed
and
their
flesshe
mouyng
to
that
fowle
delyte
/
they
ryse
out
of
the
bed
/
&
wasshe
and
bathe
them self
in
this
tubbe
/
whiche
is
ful
of
water
/
excepte
one
daye
of
the
weke
/
Thenne
as
th
eremyte
had
this
examyned
the
old
Chappellayne
vpon
the
faytte
of
the
prouost
and
of
the
lady
his
wyf
/
and
that
he
was
well
certayne
how
they
ledde
theyr
lyf
/
he
thought
that
the
prouost
/
how
be
it
that
he
were
nobly
and
Rychely
arayed
withoute
/
and
to
the
sight
of
the
folke
/
whiche
secretely
vnknowynge
to
no
man
bare
and
had
on
his
flesshe
the
hayre
/
and
made
good
Iustyce
and
the
execucion
of
the
mysdoers
to
be
done
and
executed
bifore
hym
was
worthy
to
haue
and
also
his
wyf
seuen
tymes
more
meryte
/
For
he
remembryd
hym
of
the
fowle
dede
/
whiche
he
wold
haue
commysed
or
done
with
the
good
lady
/
And
how
she
essayed
/
wherof
he
was
moche
vergoynous
and
shamefull●
and
within
his
herte
he
cursed
hym self
that
euer
he
departed
oute
of
his
heremytage
/
and
that
in
trouthe
he
was
not
worthy
〈◊〉
pulle
of
theyr
shone
and
hosen
fro
theyr
legges
/
wherfore
fro
thens
he
departed
shameful
and
wepynge
/
sayenge
with
a
hyghe
voys
/
Fayre
god
and
good
lord
/
I
knowe
no
gretter
tresour
more
noble
/
ne
more
precious
than
is
the
good
lady
/
whiche
hath
essayed
me
/
sene
my
foly
/
and
approuued
my
fallace
and
decepcion
/
And
veryly
she
is
wel
worthy
to
be
called
and
named
the
precious
Margaryte
/
as
ye
sayd
in
the
Euangely
/
Thus
spake
the
holy
Heremyte
in
hym self
allone
And
repented
hym
of
his
mysdede
/
and
humbly
cryed
to
god
mercy
/
praysynge
the
good
lady
of
her
good
lyf
/
Therfore
a
woman
is
to
be
preysed
/
whanne
she
essayeth
her self
/
and
that
she
can
resiste
ageynst
the
temptacions
of
the
deuyl
/
and
ageynst
the
feblenes
of
her
mortal
flesshe
/
the
folysshe
wylle
of
her
fowle
delyte
/
And
thenne
as
that
fowle
and
dampnable
delyte
is
by
them
accomplysshed
and
done
/
they
repente
them
of
it
/
but
it
is
to
late
/
For
the
deuyl
as
he
hath
purchaced
and
brought
them
therto
/
he
holdeth
them
in
his
subiection
/
and
for
his
seruauntes
/
and
assembled
and
bynde
them
to
gyder
/
in
suche
wyse
that
with
grete
payne
they
may
be
vnbound
/
How
the
deuylle
tempteth
many
one
of
the
synne
/
where
as
he
fyndeth
them
most
wyllynge
and
redy
to
/
Capitulo
Cxxxv
aN
Ensample
I
shalle
reherce
vnto
yow
of
a
grete
lady
/
whiche
was
lady
to
a
Baron
/
This
lady
was
longe
tyme
in
thestate
of
wedowhede
/
and
had
but
a
doughter
/
whiche
was
wedded
to
a
grete
lord
/
She
thenne
be
came
seke
/
and
laye
in
her
dedely
bedde
/
and
made
the
cheste
where
as
her
tresoure
was
in
to
be
sealed
/
and
the
keye
to
be
brought
vnto
her
w̄hiche
she
put
in
a
lynen
clothe
vnder
her
bak
The
dethe
ranne
fast
vpon
her
/
and
she
whiche
had
euer
thought
to
her
tresour
/
lyfte
vp
her
hand
makynge
signe
or
token
/
that
none
shold
approche
ne
come
to
her
back
/
And
thus
she
dyd
styll
/
tylle
that
she
deyde
and
rendryd
her
sowle
oute
of
her
body
/
Thenne
came
the
doughter
whiche
was
a
grete
lady
/
and
demaunded
of
them
that
were
at
her
deth
/
yf
she
had
ony
tresour
/
They
ansuerd
that
they
knewe
of
none
/
but
thought
that
she
had
some
/
And
that
yf
she
had
ony
/
it
was
hyd
somwher
aboute
her
bedde
/
They
tol̄d
to
her
the
maner
of
her
moder
and
how
she
wold
not
suffre
that
ony
body
shold
come
by
her
/
and
also
how
s̄he
maade
a
cheste
to
be
sealed
/
and
the
keye
of
hit
brought
to
her
/
whiche
keye
she
kepte
euer
vnder
her
back
/
The
corps
was
meued
and
tourned
/
and
the
keye
found
/
And
thenne
her
doughter
wente
in
to
a
Towre
where
as
the
Chyste
was
/
and
opened
hit
/
wherin
she
fond
as
wel
in
coyne
as
in
plate
more
than
thyrtty
thousand
pound
/
but
the
gold
was
found
in
cloutis
and
ballys
of
threde
and
of
wulle
.
and
in
other
thynges
/
wherof
alle
they
that
knewe
and
sawe
the
maner
of
it
were
merueylled
and
abasshed
/
The
doughter
thenne
made
a
Crosse
/
and
sayd
/
that
in
good
feythe
she
held
her
not
so
ryche
by
the
xxv
parte
as
she
was
/
wherfore
she
merueylled
moche
and
was
sore
abasshed
/
And
yet
she
sayd
/
how
of
late
she
and
her
lord
also
cam
to
her
/
and
prayd
her
to
helpe
and
lene
to
them
some
of
her
good
tyll
a
certayne
tyme
that
they
shold
rendre
it
and
paye
it
her
ageyne
/
And
that
she
sware
&
made
grete
othes
to
them
that
she
had
no
money
ne
no
syluer
/
but
suche
plate
as
they
sawe
abrode
/
that
was
a
c●up
and
a
pyece
only
/
And
therfore
was
she
moche
merueylled
to
fynd
there
so
grete
a
tresour
/
Thenne
sayd
the
folke
whiche
were
with
her
/
Madame
be
not
ye
merueylled
/
for
we
ben
therof
more
merueylled
than
yow
/
For
yf
she
wold
send
on
a
message
/
or
els
as
she
had
som
other
thyng
to
do
/
she
borowed
some
money
of
oure
seruauntes
/
&
sayd
that
she
had
no
money
by
her
feythe
/
The
doughter
tooke
alle
this
good
with
her
/
and
went
her
waye
toward
her
lord
/
to
whome
she
was
welcome
And
of
all
this
tresour
was
neuer
gyuen
a
halfpeny
for
the
sowle
of
theyr
moder
/
but
soone
they
forgate
her
/
For
it
is
not
yet
longe
tyme
gone
that
I
was
where
as
she
was
buryed
/
and
demaunded
and
asked
of
the
Monkes
of
the
Abbeye
/
where
she
lay
/
and
why
she
had
no
tombe
on
her
/
or
some
token
of
her
/
And
they
ansuerd
to
me
that
syn
she
was
entered
there
/
no
masse
ne
no
seruyse
at
all
/
ne
none
other
good
ther
had
be
done
for
her
/
By
this
ensample
may
ye
knowe
how
the
deuylle
is
subtyll
to
tempte
the
folke
of
the
synne
where
he
seeth
them
most
entatched
/
&
soo
fast
he
holdeth
them
in
it
/
that
they
maye
not
leue
it
/
withoute
to
be
therof
Confessyd
/
and
maketh
them
his
seruauntes
as
he
dyd
the
forsayd
lady
/
For
he
dyd
soo
moche
that
she
was
subgette
and
seruaunt
to
her
gold
/
in
suche
wyse
that
she
durst
not
take
of
hit
to
doo
her
eny
good
/
And
therfore
my
fayre
doughters
here
is
a
good
ensample
/
that
yf
it
befelle
that
god
of
his
grace
sende
yow
ony
grete
good
that
ye
departe
largely
of
hit
to
the
poure
folke
in
the
worship
of
god
and
for
the
loue
of
hym
/
And
specially
to
youre
poure
parentes
and
neyghbours
/
and
leue
it
not
to
be
departed
by
the
handes
of
youre
heyres
/
as
dyde
this
lady
/
for
whome
after
her
dethe
was
neuer
masse
ne
none
other
good
done
for
her
as
ye
haue
herd
to fore
/
Th
example
of
a
good
wydowe
/
Capitulo
Cxxxvj
aNother
Ensample
I
wylle
telle
yow
contrary
to
this
It
is
of
a
good
lady
/
whiche
longe
tyme
was
in
wydowhede
/
She
was
of
a
holy
lyf
/
and
moche
humble
&
honourable
/
as
she
whiche
euery
yere
kepte
and
held
a
Fest●
vpon
Crystemasse
day
of
her
neyghbours
bothe
ferre
and
nere
ty●l
her
halle
was
ful
of
them
/
She
serued
and
honoured
eche
one
after
his
degree
/
And
specially
she
bare
grete
reuerence
to
the
good
and
trewe
wymmen
/
and
to
them
/
whiche
had
deseruyd
to
be
worshipped
/
Also
she
was
of
suche
customme
/
that
yf
she
knewe
ony
poure
gentyll
woman
/
that
shold
be
wedded
/
She
arayed
her
with
her
Iewels
/
Also
she
wente
to
the
obsequye
of
the
poure
gentyll
wymmen
/
and
gaf
there
torches
and
all
suche
other
lumynary
as
it
neded
therto
/
Her
dayly
ordenaunce
was
that
she
rose
erly
ynough
.
/
and
had
euer
Freres
and
two
or
thre
chappellayns
whiche
sayd
matyns
before
her
within
her
oratorye
/
And
after
she
herd
a
hyhe
masse
and
two
lowe
/
And
sayd
her
seruyse
full
deuoutely
/
And
after
this
she
wente
and
arayed
her self
/
and
walked
in
her
gardyn
or
els
aboute
her
place
sayenge
her
other
deuocions
&
prayers
/
And
as
tyme
was
she
wente
to
dyner
/
And
after
dyner
yf
she
wyste
and
knewe
ony
seke
folke
or
wymmen
in
theyr
childbedde
she
wente
to
see
and
vysyted
them
/
and
made
to
be
brought
to
them
of
her
best
mete
/
And
there
as
she
myght
not
go
her self
/
she
had
a
seruaunt
propyce
therfore
/
whiche
rode
vpon
a
lytell
hors
/
and
bare
with
hym
grete
plente
of
good
mete
and
drynke
for
to
gyue
to
the
poure
and
seke
folke
there
as
they
were
/
And
after
she
had
herd
euensonge
/
she
wente
to
her
s●uper
yf
she
fasted
not
/
And
tymely
she
wente
to
bedde
/
And
made
her
styward
to
come
to
her
to
wete
what
mete
sholde
be
had
the
next
daye
/
and
lyued
by
good
ordenaunce
/
and
wold
be
purueyed
byfore
of
alle
suche
thynge
that
was
nedefull
for
her
houshold
/
She
made
grete
abstynence
/
and
wered
the
hayre
vpon
the
wednesday
and
vpon
the
fryday
/
And
hou
I
knowe
this
I
shalle
telle
it
to
yow
/
This
good
lady
dyed
in
a
Manoyr
whiche
she
held
in
dowaye
/
the
whiche
was
apperteynynge
to
my
lord
my
fader
/
And
I
and
my
susters
whiche
were
but
yonge
of
age
cam
to
duelle
there
/
And
the
bedde
wheron
this
good
lady
deyd
was
broken
in
pyeces
/
&
vnder
the
strawe
was
founde
a
hayr
/
whiche
a
damoysell
toke
And
sayd
to
vs
that
it
was
the
hayr
of
her
lady
/
And
that
she
wered
it
two
or
thre
dayes
in
the
weke
/
And
also
told
/
and
reherced
to
vs
her
good
condycions
and
her
good
lyf
/
And
how
she
Rose
euery
nyght
thre
tymes
/
and
kneled
doune
to
the
ground
by
her
bedde
/
and
rendryd
thankynges
to
god
/
and
prayd
for
al
Crysten
sowles
/
And
how
she
dyd
grete
almes
to
the
poures
/
This
good
lady
that
wel
is
wor●●y
to
be
named
and
preysed
/
had
to
name
My
lady
Cecyle
of
balleuylle
/
And
yet
I
haue
herd
saye
that
her
broder
myghte
spende
yerely
xviijM
pound
/
but
notwithstondynge
that
/
she
was
the
most
humble
and
the
most
good
and
curtoys
lady
/
that
euer
I
knewe
or
wyste
in
ony
countrey
/
and
that
lasse
was
enuyous
and
neuer
she
wold
here
say
ony
euyll
of
no
body
/
but
excused
them
&
prayd
to
god
/
that
they
myght
amende
them
/
and
that
none
was
that
knewe
what
to
hym
shold
happe
/
And
thus
she
blamed
them
that
spake
euylle
of
other
folk
And
maade
them
abasshed
of
that
she
repreued
them
so
as
she
dyd
/
And
thus
oughte
to
doo
euery
good
woman
/
and
euery
good
man
at
th
example
of
this
good
lady
/
And
knowe
ye
that
hit
is
a
noble
vertu
not
to
be
enuyous
/
And
not
to
be
Ioyeful
of
the
dommage
or
scathe
of
other
/
And
for
certayn
this
good
lady
sayd
/
that
they
whiche
auaunced
them
of
the
euylle
and
dommage
of
other
/
and
that
mocked
theyr
neyghbours
and
other
/
And
that
god
shold
punysshe
them
or
so●e
of
theyr
nyghe
frendes
and
parentes
/
wherof
came
to
them
grete
shame
/
And
that
haue
I
sene
ofte
befalle
/
as
the
good
lady
sayd
/
For
none
oughte
not
to
Iuge
ne
reproche
the
dammage
or
euylle
of
other
/
Many
suche
fayre
and
prouffytable
talkyng
of
this
good
lady
is
in
my
memorye
/
Notwithstondyng
the
yong
age
whiche
I
was
of
whanne
she
deyde
/
For
I
was
not
aboue
ten
yere
old
/
She
had
a
ryghte
noble
ende
/
and
as
I
wene
ryght
agreable
to
god
/
And
as
men
say
communely
of
honest
and
good
lyf
cometh
euer
a
good
ende
The
thre
enseygnementes
or
lernynges
whiche
Cathon
gaf
to
his
sone
/
Capitulo
Cxxxvij
aNother
ensample
I
will
telle
yow
of
the
wyse
Cathon
by
whos
wysedome
was
all
the
Cyte
of
Rome
gouerned
/
He
made
&
wrote
many
fayr
auctorytees
/
the
whiche
yet
as
now
make
grete
memore
of
hym
/
This
Cathon
had
a
sone
/
and
as
he
was
in
the
bedde
of
his
deth
/
he
callyd
his
sone
to
hym
/
the
whiche
had
to
name
Cathonet
/
and
sayd
to
hym
Fayre
sone
I
haue
longe
lyued
in
this
world
/
whiche
is
moche
hard
to
knowe
/
and
moche
merueyllous
/
and
alwey
shall
wexe
wors
as
I
trowe
/
wherfore
I
wold
and
desyre
moche
that
your
gouernement
and
maner
of
lyuynge
shold
be
good
to
the
worship
of
yow
and
of
all
your
frendes
/
I
haue
take
therfore
to
yow
by
wrytynge
many
enseygnementes
/
the
whiche
shalle
prouffyte
to
you
herafter
/
yf
ye
therto
wylle
sette
your
herte
and
haue
them
in
youre
memorye
/
Neuertheles
I
haue
bethought
in
my self
to
telle
and
gyue
yow
other
thre
/
er
I
deye
/
wherfore
I
praye
yow
that
euer
ye
wyll
haue
them
in
your
memorye
The
Fyrste
enseygnement
/
Capitulo
Cxxxviij
tHe
fyrst
enseygnement
of
the
thre
/
is
this
/
that
ye
take
none
offyce
of
your
souerayne
lord
/
yf
so
be
that
ye
haue
good
ynough
&
good
suffysaunte
after
as
your
estate
oughte
to
haue
/
and
nomore
ye
ought
to
aske
of
God
/
And
therfore
ye
ought
not
put
your self
in
subiection
to
lose
your
good
by
somme
euyll
word
or
by
somme
euyll
reporte
/
For
certaynly
my
fayr
sone
there
be
lordes
of
dyuerse
condycions
and
maners
/
Somme
ben
hasty
/
and
that
lyghtely
bileue
And
somme
haue
other
maners
of
condycion
/
And
therfore
men
oughte
to
haue
suffysaunce
and
be
doubtynge
to
put
hym self
/
his
estate
/
and
worship
in
parylle
and
in
the
daunger
of
folke
whiche
ben
lyght
of
wylle
/
The
second
enseygnement
is
that
ye
respyte
no
man
that
hath
deseruyd
to
deye
/
&
specially
yf
he
be
custommed
to
doo
euylle
/
For
yf
ye
soo
dyde
ye
shold
be
participant
in
al
the
euylle
that
he
afterward
shold
doo
as
ryght
were
The
thyrd
enseygnement
Capitulo
xxxix
He
thyrd
Enseygnement
is
/
that
ye
preue
and
essaye
your
wyf
to
wete
and
knowe
yf
she
shalle
kepe
secretely
your
counceylle
/
whiche
parauenture
myght
be
cause
of
your
dethe
/
For
there
ben
somme
whiche
ben
moche
wyse
/
and
that
can
wel
kepe
secretely
what
that
someuer
men
sayen
to
them
/
and
the
whiche
also
gyue
good
counceylle
and
aduysement
/
And
somme
ben
that
can
neuer
kepe
theyr
tongue
/
but
telle
alle
that
is
sayd
to
them
/
as
well
ageynste
them
/
as
for
them
/
And
thus
the
wyse
Cathon
gaf
this
thre
enseygnementes
to
his
sone
/
as
he
laye
seke
at
the
poynt
of
his
dethe
/
This
trewe
and
wyse
man
Cathon
deyde
and
his
sone
abode
on
lyue
/
whiche
was
hold
sage
and
wyse
/
In
so
moche
/
that
th
emperour
of
Rome
toke
hym
his
sone
for
to
endoctryne
and
teche
hym
/
And
afterward
he
maade
some
lordes
to
speke
to
hym
for
to
withold
hym
to
gouerne
and
sette
in
good
rewle
/
●he
grete
fayttes
and
materes
of
Rome
/
and
promysed
hym
to
haue
therby
grete
auaylles
and
prouffytees
/
wher
for
and
by
the
couetyse
of
these
prouffytees
/
he
consented
to
t●ke
th
offyce
/
and
toke
on
hym
the
charge
of
it
/
and
forgate
th
enseygnement
and
techynge
of
his
fader
/
And
after
whan
he
was
stablysshed
and
receyued
in
his
offyce
/
he
rode
on
a
daye
thorugh
the
hyghe
strete
with
grete
companye
of
folke
/
whiche
folowed
hym
/
He
sawe
a
theef
whiche
men
conueyed
to
the
galhows
for
to
be
hanged
/
whiche
was
moche
yonge
/
Thenne
sayd
one
to
Cathon
whiche
stood
by
hym
/
Syre
by
cause
of
the
nouellyte
of
your
offyce
/
ye
may
wel
respyte
and
kepe
this
man
fro
dethe
/
And
he
withoute
enquest
by
hym
made
of
the
caas
why
he
was
Iuged
to
receyue
dethe
/
made
hym
to
be
vnbound
/
and
by
cause
of
the
nouellyte
of
his
offyce
he
kepte
the
theef
fro
dethe
/
He
was
to
hasty
/
For
at
that
tyme
he
thought
not
on
the
commaundement
that
his
fader
had
made
vnto
hym
How
Cathon
after
he
had
done
ageynst
the
two
commaundements
essayed
the
thyrd
on
his
wyf
capitulo
Cxl
aS
the
nyght
was
come
/
And
that
Cathon
had
slept
his
fyrst
slepe
/
he
had
many
vysyons
vpon
this
matere
/
in
so
moche
that
he
remembryd
how
he
had
broken
and
done
ageynst
two
of
the
commaundementes
of
his
fader
And
seynge
this
he
thought
that
he
wold
not
breke
ne
do
ageynst
the
thyrd
/
wherfore
he
wente
to
his
wyf
/
and
sayd
thus
to
her
/
My
good
frende
and
my
wyf
/
I
wold
telle
yow
a
grete
counceylle
/
whiche
toucheth
my
persone
/
and
myghte
be
the
cause
of
my
dethe
/
yf
I
wyst
that
ye
shold
kepe
it
secretely
Ha
a
my
lord
sayd
she
/
on
my
feythe
/
I
hadde
leuer
be
dede
/
than
to
discouere
to
ony
body
youre
counceylle
/
Ha
a
my
frend
thenne
shalle
ye
knowe
hit
sayd
he
/
Trouth
it
is
/
that
th
emperour
toke
to
me
his
sone
/
as
ye
wel
knowe
for
to
lerne
/
and
teche
hym
/
but
certaynly
/
hit
is
not
longe
tyme
gone
/
for
somme
wordes
whiche
he
sayd
to
me
/
that
I
as
a
dronken
man
and
as
he
that
was
wrothe
of
other
thynge
hastely
toke
the
Child
and
slewe
hym
/
and
more
I
dyd
/
for
I
tooke
and
arrached
oute
of
his
bely
his
herte
/
the
whiche
I
made
to
be
confyte
in
sugre
and
other
spyces
/
and
sente
it
to
th
emperour
his
fader
/
and
to
his
moder
/
And
they
ete
hit
/
And
thus
I
auenged
me
of
hym
/
but
I
knowe
wel
now
that
it
is
an
euyll
and
abhomynable
dede
done
/
wherof
I
me
repente
/
but
it
is
to
late
/
Therfore
my
good
Frend
and
my
wyf
/
I
praye
yow
as
affectuelly
as
I
can
/
that
ye
kepe
this
counceyll
secrete
withyn
your
herte
as
I
trust
me
to
yow
/
But
the
morowe
after
/
she
beganne
to
wepe
and
maake
grete
sorowe
/
And
a
woman
whiche
was
with
her
demaunded
of
her
/
Madame
what
haue
ye
that
ye
make
suche
sorowe
/
Haue
ye
ony
heuynesse
wythin
your
herte
/
Veryly
sayd
she
thenne
/
ye
my
Frend
/
and
that
a
grete
/
but
rather
I
shold
deye
/
er
it
shold
be
knowen
/
Ha
a
madame
/
she
were
wel
oute
of
her
wytte
that
shold
telle
and
dyscouere
such●
a
counceylle
yf
ye
had
sayd
hit
/
And
as
for
me
rather
I
shold
lete
me
drawe
/
than
I
shold
telle
it
ageyn
Ye
sayd
the
wyf
of
Cathonet
/
maye
I
truste
in
yow
/
Ye
by
feyth
saith
the
other
woman
/
She
tooke
her
feythe
and
her
othe
And
thenne
to
her
she
told
and
discouered
her
secrete
/
how
her
lord
had
slayne
themperours
sone
/
and
his
herte
confyted
in
spyces
had
sente
to
th
emperour
his
fader
and
to
his
moder
/
&
how
they
had
ete
of
hit
/
This
woman
maade
a
Crosse
as
she
were
sore
merueylled
/
and
sayd
that
she
shold
kepe
hit
secretely
/
But
certaynly
her
taryenge
there
after
that
she
knewe
hit
/
thought
her
longe
for
to
haue
go
and
telle
it
to
other
/
For
as
soone
as
she
was
departed
fro
Cathons
hows
/
she
wente
forthwith
where
themperours
wyf
was
/
and
came
and
kneled
before
her
/
and
sayd
Madame
to
your
good
grace
I
wyll
speke
secretely
of
a
grete
counceylle
/
And
thenne
th
emperesse
commaunded
her
ladyes
to
go
a
parte
/
And
the
sayd
woman
beganne
thus
to
speke
/
Madame
the
grete
loue
whiche
I
bere
vnto
yow
/
and
for
the
grete
good
that
ye
haue
done
to
me
And
as
I
truste
that
ye
yet
wylle
doo
/
maketh
me
to
come
hyder
for
to
telle
yow
a
grete
counceylle
/
the
whiche
I
wold
not
telle
but
to
youre
persone
/
For
I
myght
not
suffix
ne
see
your
dishonour
for
none
erthely
good
/
Madame
it
is
so
/
that
ye
loue
and
haue
dere
Cathonet
more
than
ony
other
/
as
it
appyereth
wel
/
For
ye
haue
made
hym
gouernour
of
the
Cyte
of
Rome
/
And
ye
shewed
hym
gretter
loue
whanne
ye
gaf
to
hym
the
kepynge
of
your
sone
/
to
whome
he
hath
hold
such
felauship
that
he
hath
slayne
hym
/
And
hath
take
his
hert
out
of
his
bely
/
And
wel
dressyd
and
confyted
in
sugre
and
spyces
and
hath
made
yow
to
ete
it
/
What
saye
ye
sayd
themperours
wyf
/
Madame
sayd
she
/
I
telle
yow
trewe
for
certayn
For
I
knowe
this
by
the
mouthe
of
Cathonets
wyf
/
whiche
sorowful
and
wepynge
told
it
to
me
in
grete
counceylle
/
And
whanne
th
emperesse
herd
her
to
speke
/
she
with
a
hyghe
voys
beganne
to
crye
/
and
made
suche
a
sorowe
that
it
was
pyte
to
see
In
soo
moche
that
the
tydynges
came
to
th
emperour
/
how
the
Emperesse
made
so
grete
sorowe
/
Th
emperour
was
sore
abasshed
And
came
there
as
th
emperesse
was
/
and
demaunded
of
her
/
why
she
maade
suche
sorowe
/
And
she
with
hyghe
pleynt
ansuerd
and
reherced
to
hym
al
that
the
damoysell
had
told
her
of
theyr
sone
/
And
whan
th
emperour
wyst
that
they
had
eten
the
herte
of
theyr
child
/
he
bicame
ryght
angre
/
and
sorowfull
And
commaunded
that
Cathonet
shold
forthwith
be
t●ke
and
hanged
in
the
myddes
of
Rome
/
there
as
the
folke
myght
loke
on
hym
as
vpon
a
fals
murderer
and
traytour
/
His
Sergeaunts
wente
and
toke
hym
anone
/
and
told
hym
the
commaundement
of
th
emperour
/
and
that
it
was
for
his
sone
/
whiche
he
had
slayne
/
Cathonet
thenne
sayd
to
them
/
It
is
no
nede
that
al
that
men
sayn
be
trouthe
/
ye
shalle
put
me
in
pryson
/
and
shalle
say
/
that
it
is
to
late
to
make
ony
execucion
of
Iustyse
/
And
that
to
morowe
I
shalle
be
hanged
befor●
the
peple
/
The
Sergeaunts
loued
hym
moche
and
soo
dyd
alle
manere
of
folke
/
they
dyd
as
he
badde
them
to
doo
/
And
thenne
wente
and
sayd
to
the
Emperoure
and
th
emperesse
that
hit
were
for
the
beste
to
make
Iustyse
of
hym
on
the
morowe
nexte
comynge
/
and
that
hir
was
to
late
/
and
how
more
people
shold
thenne
be
gadered
and
assembled
for
to
see
hym
And
the
Emperour
whiche
made
grete
sorowe
for
his
sone
graunted
hit
/
And
not
withstondyne
this
/
in
the
meane
whyle
that
Cathonet
was
conueyed
to
pryson
/
he
callyd
to
hym
a
Squyer
of
his
/
And
seyd
to
hym
/
goo
to
suche
a
knyght
that
kepeth
themperours
sone
/
and
telle
hym
how
the
Emperour
weneth
that
I
haue
put
hym
to
dethe
/
And
that
he
faylle
not
to
be
here
to
morowe
with
hym
before
the
houre
of
pryme
/
or
els
I
shalle
be
in
grete
perylle
to
receyue
a
shameful
dethe
/
This
Squyer
departed
and
soo
faste
rode
and
waloped
/
that
that
nyght
he
came
aboute
one
of
the
cloke
after
mydnyght
there
as
Cathonet
hadde
take
to
kepe
the
sone
of
the
Emperoure
as
to
his
trewe
and
good
Frende
/
whiche
was
a
trewe
man
/
and
moche
wyse
/
And
merueyllously
they
loued
eche
other
/
The
Squyr
beganne
to
calle
wyth
an
hyghe
voys
/
And
dyd
soo
moche
/
that
he
came
to
fore
the
bedde
there
as
the
trewe
and
noble
Baron
laye
/
And
told
hym
/
how
somme
had
done
byle●e
to
the
Emperour
/
that
Cathone●
hadde
slayne
his
sone
/
And
how
hit
was
ordeyned
/
that
he
shold
be
on
that
next
morowe
hanged
/
And
as
the
Baron
herd
this
/
he
was
sore
abasshed
/
&
moche
merueylled
of
this
auenture
/
&
forthwith
he
rose
oute
of
his
bedde
/
and
made
his
men
to
be
redy
/
and
came
to
the
bedde
where
the
sone
of
th
emperour
laye
/
and
told
to
hym
the
merueyll
And
whanne
the
child
vnderstood
it
he
had
grete
sorowe
in
his
herte
/
For
ouermoche
he
loued
Cathonet
his
maystre
/
Here
I
leue
to
speke
of
the
Baron
/
and
of
themperours
sone
/
and
tourne
ageyne
to
speke
of
Cathonet
whiche
was
in
pryson
/
How
they
wold
hange
Cathonet
/
Capitulo
Cxli
cAthonet
was
merueyllously
loued
in
Rome
of
al
maner
of
folke
/
as
he
that
was
wyse
/
humble
/
trewe
and
curtoys
/
And
whan
the
morow
was
come
/
he
sayd
to
one
his
grete
frend
/
that
at
all
auenture
he
shold
make
the
hangmen
of
the
towne
to
hyde
them self
secretely
somwher
ty●l
it
were
about
the
houre
of
tierce
/
And
he
dyd
as
he
had
prayd
hym
to
doo
/
Cathonet
thenne
aboute
the
houre
of
pryme
was
conueyed
to
the
galhows
of
alle
the
peple
of
Rome
/
whiche
made
grete
sorowe
for
hym
/
And
yet
gretter
sorowe
had
they
made
/
but
they
wened
veryly
that
he
had
done
the
dede
/
of
whiche
he
was
accused
/
wherof
they
had
grete
merueylle
/
And
sayd
emonge
them
how
may
suche
a
wyse
man
haue
be
so
sore
tem●ted
of
the
deuylle
/
that
he
hath
slayne
themperours
sone
/
how
may
this
be
/
Of
this
faytte
was
grete
talkynge
amonge
the●
Somme
byleued
hit
/
And
somme
sayd
it
was
not
so
●
Neuertheles
he
was
had
to
the
galhows
/
and
was
asked
after
〈◊〉
hang
man
/
but
he
coude
not
be
found
there
/
wherof
hit
befelle
a
grete
merueylle
/
for
he
whiche
Cathonet
had
respyted
&
saued
fro
dethe
/
as
men
led
hym
to
be
hanged
/
came
forthe
&
sayd
●
Lordes
the
dede
is
fowle
/
dishonest
/
and
vylaynous
/
and
for
the
loue
of
th
emperour
I
offre
my self
to
doo
th
offyce
/
yf
there
be
none
other
that
wylle
doo
hit
/
Euery
man
loked
thenne
on
hym
&
sayd
/
Is
not
that
he
/
to
whome
Cathonet
graunted
his
lyf
whanne
he
was
newe
putte
in
th
offyce
of
gouernour
/
Certaynly
sayd
the
other
/
hit
is
he
&
none
other
/
withoute
fawte
/
wherfore
in
token
and
signe
of
a
grete
me●ueyll
/
they
blessyd
them
with
theyr
handes
.
sayeng
/
He
is
wel
a
foole
that
saueth
and
respyteth
ony
theef
fro
the
galhows
/
Cathon
thenne
loked
on
hym
/
and
sayd
/
thou
arte
wel
passyng
redy
/
Remembryst
not
thow
the
tyme
passed
/
but
thus
gone
the
merueylles
of
the
world
/
And
as
soone
as
he
had
sayd
these
wordes
there
was
a
grete
nombre
of
men
al
on
horsback
whiche
made
grete
clamour
and
cryed
/
put
not
to
dethe
the
trewe
man
Cathonet
How
themperours
sone
came
to
saue
his
mayster
Cathonet
and
of
his
escape
Capitulo
Cxlij
aNd
whan
the
people
perceyued
/
and
sawe
the
horses
rennynge
toward
them
/
and
sawe
anone
the
sone
of
th
emperour
/
whiche
cryed
/
touche
not
/
neyther
ley
hand
on
my
maysters
body
/
for
I
am
alyue
/
they
were
gretely
merueylled
/
The
child
anone
lyght
of
his
hors
and
wente
and
vnbonde
his
mayster
/
&
sore
wepyng
kyssed
hym
ful
tendirly
&
said
Ha
a
my
swete
frend
&
maister
who
hath
this
purchaced
&
so
grete
a
lesyng
founde
&
contryued
vpon
you
/
the
which
my
lord
my
fader
hath
so
lyghtely
byleued
/
And
thenne
he
embraced
&
kyssed
hym
ageyne
/
&
al
the
people
whiche
was
gretely
merueylled
/
as
they
sawe
the
pyte
&
good
nature
of
the
child
thanked
&
mercyed
god
with
al
theyr
hertes
of
the
delyueraunce
of
Cathonet
/
The
child
made
his
mayster
to
be
sette
on
horsbak
&
ledde
hym
thurgh
the
stretes
of
Rome
by
the
raynes
of
his
brydell
tyll
they
came
in
to
the
palais
where
th
emperour
his
fader
was
/
And
whanne
th
emperour
and
his
wyf
knewe
for
certayne
the
comynge
of
theyr
sone
/
they
wente
and
met
hym
with
grete
Ioye
/
And
as
they
sawe
hym
ledynge
his
mayster
Cathonet
by
the
raynes
/
they
were
gretely
merueylled
/
&
held
them
ashamed
and
vergoynous
toward
Cathonet
/
and
cam
to
hym
/
and
eche
of
them
kyssed
hym
/
and
made
to
hym
the
grettest
ioye
and
chere
and
the
grettest
honoure
that
they
couthe
/
And
excused
them
toward
hym
of
this
dede
/
Thenne
sayd
the
child
to
his
fader
th
emperour
/
Ha
my
lord
wylle
ye
vse
of
so
hasty
Iustyce
withoute
makynge
of
none
enqueste
vpon
the
dede
or
faytte
/
For
a
man
of
so
hyghe
estate
as
ye
be
shold
&
ought
to
be
more
blamed
therfore
/
than
another
of
lower
degre
or
estate
/
For
ye
hadde
maade
hym
to
be
dampned
and
destroyed
withoute
cause
it
had
be
grete
pyte
and
grete
dommage
/
And
certaynly
neuer
after
I
shold
haue
had
Ioye
in
my
herte
/
For
yf
I
can
ony
good
/
it
cometh
of
hym
/
Th
emperour
ansuerd
/
Fayr
sone
hit
was
euylle
done
of
vs
/
and
in
this
we
haue
gretely
offended
and
gete
shame
/
but
the
loue
that
we
haue
in
the
/
and
the
trust
that
we
haue
in
thyn
preferrement
/
toke
reason
fro
vs
/
and
bestourned
our
wytte
/
Thenne
spake
Cathonet
and
sayd
to
th
emperour
/
Syre
merueylle
yow
not
of
this
thynge
/
I
shalle
now
telle
vnto
yow
/
why
al
this
was
sayd
/
My
fader
whiche
in
his
tyme
was
a
ryght
wyse
man
and
a
trewe
/
and
borne
in
this
land
shewed
to
me
many
good
enseygnementes
/
yf
I
had
be
so
Wyse
/
to
haue
had
them
euer
stylle
in
memorye
/
And
yet
as
he
was
〈◊〉
his
bedde
/
and
nyghe
at
his
last
ende
/
he
callyd
me
to
〈…〉
he
whiche
moche
desyred
that
I
myght
lerne
and
know
〈◊〉
good
/
and
prayd
me
that
I
wold
wel
kepe
in
my
〈…〉
thre
enseygnements
/
emonge
al
other
that
he
before
that
〈◊〉
taught
to
me
/
the
whiche
I
wylle
now
recorde
and
〈◊〉
them
/
to
th
ende
that
they
may
be
ensample
in
tyme
to
come
to
euery
man
/
as
to
hym
/
to
whome
they
haue
happed
/
and
〈◊〉
done
the
contrarye
/
How
Cathonet
told
th
emperour
of
the
lore
of
his
fader
and
of
his
escape
Capitulo
Cx●●●●
He
fyrst
enseygnement
that
he
taught
me
/
was
〈◊〉
that
yf
euer
god
gaf
me
chaunce
and
good
ynough
that
I
shold
thanke
hym
moche
of
hit
/
and
haue
〈◊〉
me
suffysaunce
/
and
not
coueyte
ne
aske
more
of
god
/
And
by
cause
I
shold
haue
suffysaunce
/
he
commaunded
and
cha●ged
me
/
that
neuer
I
shold
put
my self
in
subiection
of
none
offyce
vnder
my
souerayne
lord
/
For
yf
I
dyd
so
by
coue●yse
of
more
good
/
somme
enuyous
by
somme
fals
repporte
shold
make
me
to
lese
my
good
and
my self
also
/
And
that
hit
was
a
peryllous
thynge
to
serue
ony
prynce
or
grete
lord
of
lyght
and
hasty
wylle
/
For
many
one
ther
ben
/
whiche
enquereth
them
not
yf
the
repporte
to
them
made
is
trewe
or
not
wherfor
the
commaundements
of
suche
hasty
lordes
ben
straunge
and
peryllous
/
as
ye
now
haue
sene
how
this
ensample
is
to
me
whiche
all
most
hath
be
shamefulle
&
greuable
/
And
yf
I
had
byleuyd
the
counceyll
of
my
fader
/
I
had
neuer
falle
in
suche
perylle
/
For
thanked
be
god
I
had
of
erthely
goodes
ynough
/
and
more
than
I
haue
deseruyd
to
god
/
and
myght
wel
haue
deported
my self
of
takynge
of
th
offyce
/
The
second
enseygnement
was
that
I
neuer
shold
respyte
ne
saue
to
no
man
his
lyf
/
whiche
had
deserued
to
deye
/
and
in
especiall
a
theef
or
an
homycyde
/
whiche
were
custommed
to
theftes
and
murdre
of
folke
/
And
that
yf
I
dyd
/
I
shold
euer
be
partener
of
alle
suche
euylle
dedes
that
they
myght
doo
afterward
/
And
this
commaundement
I
haue
enfrayned
and
broken
/
For
this
daye
haue
I
sene
hym
whiche
I
haue
respyted
hym
fro
the
shamefulle
dethe
/
that
offred
and
presented
hym self
for
to
be
the
hangman
of
my
body
/
lytell
reward
he
offred
to
me
/
The
thyrd
enseygnement
was
that
I
shold
essaye
my
wyf
or
euer
I
shold
discouere
to
her
ony
grete
counceylle
/
For
therin
is
to
grete
paryll
/
Neuertheles
ther
ben
some
that
can
wel
kepe
secretely
what
men
saye
to
them
/
and
in
the
whiche
men
fynd
good
counceylle
and
comforte
/
And
other
also
whiche
that
can
no
thynge
kepe
in
secrete
/
And
thenne
as
I
me
bethought
how
I
had
broken
and
done
ageynst
the
ij
enseygnementes
of
my
fader
/
I
thought
and
sayd
in
my self
that
I
shold
preue
and
essaye
the
thyrd
/
wherfore
that
other
daye
as
I
was
a
bedde
wyth
my
wyf
I
awaked
her
/
and
for
to
essaye
her
wylle
/
I
sayd
to
her
that
I
had
slayne
the
sone
of
th
emperour
/
and
that
his
herte
confyted
in
spyeces
I
had
made
th
emperour
and
his
wyf
to
ete
hit
/
And
that
for
the
loue
of
whiche
she
loued
me
/
she
shold
kepe
this
in
secrete
/
soo
that
none
myght
neuer
knowe
no
thynge
of
hit
/
Now
haue
I
proued
and
essayed
how
she
hath
kepte
secretely
my
counceylle
as
euery
one
maye
now
see
and
knowe
/
But
I
gyue
me
not
to
grete
merueylle
therof
/
For
hit
is
not
of
newe
how
that
a
woman
can
not
kepe
secretely
that
whiche
men
say●n
to
her
in
counceylle
/
How
Cathonet
exposed
his
auenture
or
hap
/
Capitulo
xliiij
nOw
haue
ye
herd
how
it
is
happed
to
me
/
by
cause
I
dyd
not
byleue
the
counceylle
of
my
Fader
/
whiche
was
so
trewe
and
wyse
a
man
/
To
me
therfore
is
come
almost
a
grete
euylle
/
And
notwithstondynge
thus
sayd
Cathonet
to
th
emperour
/
Syre
I
rendre
and
discharge
me
of
your
offyce
/
And
from
hensforth
I
shalle
not
be
en●eched
of
hit
/
And
he
therof
was
discharged
with
grete
payne
●
Neue●●theles
he
was
receyued
for
to
be
mayster
of
the
grete
〈◊〉
of
Rome
/
And
in
especiall
of
the
grete
fayttes
and
dedes
●
And
th
emperour
made
hym
to
haue
grete
prouffitees
/
and
〈◊〉
hym
grete
yeftes
/
and
loued
hym
aboue
al
other
/
And
〈◊〉
moche
holyly
in
the
loue
of
god
and
of
the
peple
/
〈◊〉
therfore
my
fayre
doughters
this
is
here
a
good
ensam●●●●
how
ye
ought
to
kepe
the
counceyll
of
your
lord
/
and
not
〈◊〉
it
to
no
body
what
someuer
it
be
/
For
ofte
comen
therof
〈◊〉
euyls
/
and
for
to
be
secrete
/
and
specially
in
suche
thyng
〈◊〉
is
deffended
/
may
not
come
sauf
only
good
/
And
in
lyke
〈◊〉
as
the
shafte
is
departed
fro
the
bowe
must
take
her
flyg●●
and
cours
/
and
neuer
cometh
ageyne
to
the
bowe
/
tyll
it
hau●
smyte
somme
thynge
/
Soo
is
the
word
whiche
yssued
oute
of
the
mouthe
lyke
it
/
For
after
that
he
is
put
out
of
the
mou●●
it
may
neuer
be
put
in
to
the
mouthe
ageyne
/
but
that
it
shal
be
herd
be
it
good
or
euylle
/
wherfor
we
ought
wel
to
haue
〈◊〉
our
memorye
the
saynges
and
auctorytees
of
the
wyse
S●lamon
/
whiche
sayth
that
men
must
thynke
on
the
wordes
twyes
or
thryes
or
they
be
putt
oute
of
the
mouthe
/
And
thus
ought
to
doo
al
wyse
folke
/
For
ouer
many
grete
euyls
haue
ben
done
and
engendered
for
to
haue
discouered
the
counceyll
and
suche
thynges
as
haue
ben
sayd
there
in
counceylle
/
Therfore
I
pray
yow
fayr
doughters
that
ye
wylle
haue
this
ensample
in
your
memory
and
neuer
forgete
it
/
For
all
good
and
worship
may
therof
come
to
yow
/
And
hir
is
a
vertue
the
whiche
escheweth
grete
hate
and
grete
enuye
and
many
euyls
also
/
For
many
one
I
knowe
whiche
haue
loste
moche
of
theyr
goodes
/
&
suffred
many
grete
euyls
for
to
haue
spoke
to
lyghtely
of
other
/
and
for
to
haue
reported
suche
wordes
as
they
herd
saye
/
of
the
whiche
they
had
nought
to
doo
at
al
For
none
soo
wyse
is
that
may
knowe
what
to
hym
is
to
come
/
And
full
of
naturel
wytte
be
they
/
whiche
kepe
them self
fro
recordynge
of
ony
wordes
/
For
he
whiche
wythsayeth
them
that
blameth
other
as
wel
in
ryght
as
in
wronge
/
he
doth
but
wel
/
And
for
to
hold
and
kepe
secretely
the
dommage
and
euylle
of
other
may
come
but
good
/
as
hit
is
reherced
in
the
booke
of
my
two
sonnes
And
also
in
an
Euangely
Here
fynysshed
the
booke
/
whiche
the
knyght
of
the
Toure
made
to
the
enseygnement
and
techyng
of
his
doughters
translated
oute
of
Frenssh
in
to
our
maternall
Englysshe
tongue
by
me
William
Caxton
/
whiche
book
was
ended
&
fynysshed
the
fyrst
day
of
Iuyn
/
the
yere
of
oure
lord
MCCCClxxxiij
And
enprynted
at
westmynstre
the
last
day
of
Ianyuer
the
fyrst
yere
of
the
regne
of
kynge
Rychard
the
thyrd