¶
Here
begynneth
the
table
of
the
fyrste
parte
of
this
present
boke
.
-
¶
The
,
fyrst
chapytre
telleth
howe
and
by
whom
the
Cyte
of
Ladyes
was
fyrste
begon
to
buylde
.
Capitulo
.
Primo
.
-
¶
Xp̄ine
telleth
howe
.iij.
ladyes
appered
to
her
/
&
howe
she
that
wente
before
reasoned
with
her
●yrste
and
comforted
her
of
the
dyspleasure
that
she
had
Capitulo
.
Secundo
.
-
¶
Xp̄ine
sayth
howe
that
the
lady
that
reasoned
with
her
deuysed
what
was
her
propryete
&
wher
of
she
serued
/
and
tolde
her
howe
she
sholde
buylde
a
cyte
with
the
helpe
of
these
.iij.
ladyes
.
Ca.
iij.
-
¶
Xp̄ine
telleth
howe
the
lady
deuysed
to
her
the
Cyte
that
was
commytted
to
her
to
make
and
that
she
was
stabled
to
helpe
her
to
begyn
the
walles
and
the
cloystre
aboute
/
and
after
tolde
her
her
name
.
Capitulo
.iiij.
-
¶
Xp̄ine
telleth
howe
the
seconde
lady
tolde
her
her
name
/
and
wherof
she
serued
/
&
howe
she
sholde
helpe
her
to
make
the
masonrye
of
the
Cyte
of
Ladyes
.
Ca.
v.
-
¶
Also
Xp̄ine
telleth
howe
the
thyrde
lady
tolde
her
what
she
was
and
wherfore
she
serued
/
and
howe
she
wolde
helpe
her
to
make
the
hyghe
bataylmentes
of
the
towres
of
her
Cyte
and
to
people
it
with
noble
ladyes
.
Ca.
vj.
-
¶
Also
Xp̄ine
telleth
howe
she
spake
to
the
thre
ladyes
.
Ca.
vij
.
-
¶
Here
Xp̄ine
telleth
howe
by
the
commaundement
of
dame
Reason
she
began
to
dygge
the
erthe
to
make
the
foundement
.
Ca.
viij
.
-
¶
Here
Xp̄ine
telleth
howe
she
dygged
in
the
erthe
whiche
is
to
vnderstande
the
questyons
that
she
made
to
Reason
/
and
howe
reason
answered
her
Capitulo
.ix.
-
¶
Also
of
the
same
altrycacyons
and
answeres
.
Capitulo
.x.
-
¶
Xp̄yne
demaundeth
of
Reason
wherfore
it
is
that
women
sytteth
not
in
the
syege
of
pleadynge
Capitulo
.xj.
-
¶
Also
it
speketh
of
the
Empresse
Nychole
/
and
after
of
dyuers
noble
quenes
and
pryncesses
of
Fraunce
.
Ca.
xij
.
-
¶
Of
the
quene
of
Fraunce
whiche
was
named
Fredegonde
.
Ca.
xiij
.
-
¶
Of
altercacyons
and
argumentes
of
Xp̄ine
to
dame
Reason
.
Ca.
xiiij
.
-
¶
Of
the
quene
Sem●ramys
.
Ca.
xv
.
-
¶
Of
the
Amozones
.
Ca.
xvj
.
-
¶
Of
the
quene
of
Amozonye
Thamaris
.
Ca.
xvij
.
-
¶
Howe
the
stronge
Hercules
&
Theseus
wente
vpon
the
Amozones
and
howe
the
.ij.
ladyes
Me
nalope
and
Ipolyte
had
almo●st
ouercome
them
Capitulo
.xviij.
-
¶
Of
the
quene
Pantassylea
howe
she
wente
to
the
socours
of
Troye
.
Ca.
xix
.
-
¶
Of
Cenobye
quene
of
Palmurenes
.
Ca.
xx
.
-
¶
Of
Lylye
moder
of
that
good
knyght
Thyerrys
.
Capitulo
.xxi.
-
¶
Of
the
quene
of
Fraunce
Fredegonde
.
Ca.
xxij
.
-
¶
Of
the
mayde
Camylle
.
Ca.
xxiij
.
-
¶
Of
the
quene
Ueronycle
of
Capadoce
.
Ca.
xxiiij
.
-
¶
Also
of
the
noble
Archemyse
quene
of
Carye
.
Capitulo
.xxv.
-
¶
Of
the
hardynesse
of
Cleolis
.
Ca.
xxvj
.
-
¶
Xp̄ine
demaundeth
of
Reason
yf
euer
god
lyste
to
make
a
woman
so
noble
to
haue
ony
vnderstandynge
of
the
hyghnesse
of
scyence
.
Ca.
xxvij
.
-
¶
Of
the
women
that
were
enlumyned
of
grete
scyences
and
fyrste
of
the
noble
mayde
Corny●ye
.
Capitulo
.xxviij.
-
¶
Of
Probe
the
Romayne
.
Ca.
xxix
.
-
¶
Of
Sapho
poete
and
phylosophre
.
Ca.
xxx
.
-
¶
Of
the
mayde
Manthoa
.
Ca.
xxxi
.
-
¶
Of
Medea
and
another
quene
named
Cyrtes
Capitulo
.xxxij.
-
¶
Xp̄ine
asketh
of
Reason
yf
there
was
euer
woman
that
founde
ony
thynge
of
herselfe
that
was
not
knowne
before
/
and
she
tolde
her
of
Nycostrate
otherwyse
called
Carmentis
.
Ca.
xxxiij
.
-
¶
Of
Mynerue
that
founde
many
scyences
/
and
the
manere
to
make
Armoure
of
Iron
and
steele
.
Capitulo
.xxxiiij.
-
¶
Of
the
ryght
noble
quene
Seres
.
Ca.
xxxv
.
-
¶
Of
the
noble
quene
Ises
that
founde
fyrste
the
crafte
to
make
Orcharde
and
to
plante
plantes
.
Capitulo
.xxxvj.
-
¶
Of
the
grete
welthe
that
is
come
to
the
worlde
by
dyuers
ladyes
.
Ca.
xxxvij
.
-
¶
Of
the
same
.
Capitulo
.xxxviij.
-
¶
Of
the
mayden
Arenye
that
founde
the
crafte
to
shere
sheepe
/
to
dresse
the
wolles
/
and
to
make
clothe
.
Ca.
xxxix
.
-
¶
Of
Pamphyle
that
founde
the
crafte
to
drawe
sylke
of
the
wormes
.
Ca.
xl
.
-
¶
Of
Thamar
that
was
a
souerayne
maystresse
in
the
crafte
of
payntynge
/
and
of
another
named
Irayne
.
Ca.
xlj
.
-
¶
Also
it
speke
of
Semproyne
.
Ca.
xlij
.
-
¶
Also
Xp̄ine
asketh
of
Reason
yf
naturall
prudence
be
in
woman
.
Ca.
xliij
.
-
¶
Also
it
speketh
of
Gaye
Cyryle
.
Ca.
xlv
.
-
¶
Also
it
speketh
of
the
aduyse
of
Dydo
quene
of
Cartage
.
Ca.
xlvj
.
-
¶
Also
it
speketh
of
Opys
.
Ca.
xlvij
.
-
¶
Also
of
Lauy●e
doughter
of
the
kynge
Latyn
.
¶
Thus
endeth
the
table
.
¶
Here
after
foloweth
the
Prologue
of
the
prynter
.
THe
kyndly
entente
/
of
euery
gentylman
Is
the
furtheraunce
/
of
all
gentylnesse
.
And
to
procure
/
in
all
that
euer
he
can
.
For
to
renewe
/
all
noble
worthynesse
.
This
dayly
is
sene
/
at
our
eye
expresse
.
Of
noble
men
/
that
do
endyte
and
rede
.
In
bokes
olde
/
theyr
worthy
myndes
to
fede
.
¶
So
nowe
of
late
/
came
in
my
custodye
.
This
foresayd
boke
/
by
Bryan
Anslay
.
yoman
of
the
seller
/
with
the
eyght
kynge
Henry
Of
gentyl
women
/
the
excellence
to
say
The
whiche
I
lyked
/
but
yet
I
made
delay
It
to
impresse
/
for
that
it
is
the
guyse
.
Of
people
lewde
/
theyr
prowesse
to
dyspyse
.
¶
But
then
I
shewed
/
the
foresayd
boke
Unto
my
lorde
/
the
gentyll
Erle
of
kente
And
hym
requyred
/
theron
to
loke
.
With
his
counsayle
/
to
put
it
in
to
prente
And
he
forthwith
/
as
euer
dylygente
Of
ladyes
(
abrode
)
to
sprede
theyr
royall
fame
.
Exhorted
me
/
to
prynte
it
in
his
name
.
¶
And
I
obeyenge
gladly
his
instaunce
Haue
done
my
deuoyre
/
of
it
to
make
an
ende
Prayenge
his
lordshyp
/
with
others
that
shall
chaunce
.
On
it
to
rede
/
the
fautes
for
to
amende
.
If
ony
be
/
for
I
do
●ayne
intende
.
Gladly
to
please
.
and
wylfully
remytte
This
ordre
rude
/
to
them
that
haue
fress
he
wyt●e
.
¶
Thus
endeth
the
prologue
.
¶
Here
begynneth
the
fyrste
chapytre
whiche
telleth
howe
&
by
whome
the
Cyte
of
Ladyes
was
fyrst
begon
to
buylde
.
Capitulo
.
Primo
.
AFter
the
maner
that
I
haue
moche
in
vsage
/
and
to
that
thynge
whiche
the
excercyse
of
my
lyfe
is
moost
dys
posed
/
that
is
to
knowe
in
the
haun
tynge
of
studye
.
On
a
day
as
I
was
syttynge
in
my
lytell
cell
dyuers
bokes
of
dyuers
matters
aboute
me
.
Myne
entente
was
at
that
tyme
to
trauayle
and
to
gather
in
to
my
consayte
the
wayenge
of
dyuers
sentences
of
dyuers
auctours
by
my
longe
tyme
before
studyed
.
I
dressed
my
vysage
towarde
those
foresayd
bokes
/
thynkynge
as
for
the
tyme
to
leue
in
peas
subtyll
thynges
/
&
to
dysporte
me
for
to
loke
vpon
some
pleasaunt
boke
of
the
wrytynge
of
some
poetes
/
&
as
I
was
in
this
entente
I
serched
aboute
me
after
some
praty
boke
/
&
of
aduenture
came
a
straunge
boke
in
to
my
handes
that
was
taken
to
me
to
kepe
/
I
opened
this
boke
and
I
sawe
by
the
intytulacyon
that
it
called
hym
Matheolus
.
Then
in
laughynge
bycause
I
had
not
sene
hym
/
and
often
tymes
I
had
herde
speke
of
hym
that
he
sholde
not
speke
well
of
the
reuerence
of
women
.
I
thought
that
in
maner
of
solace
I
wolde
vysyte
hym
.
And
yet
I
had
not
loked
longe
on
hym
but
that
my
good
moder
that
bare
me
called
me
to
the
refeccyon
of
souper
wherof
the
houre
was
come
purposynge
to
se
hym
in
the
mornynge
/
I
lefte
hym
at
that
tyme
/
&
in
the
morowe
folowynge
I
sate
me
agayne
to
my
study
as
I
dyde
of
custome
I
forgate
it
not
in
put
my
wyll
to
effecte
that
came
to
me
the
nyght
before
to
vysyte
the
foresayd
boke
of
Matheolus
.
And
then
I
began
to
rede
&
to
prosede
in
hym
.
But
as
me
semed
the
matter
was
not
ryght
pleasaunt
to
people
that
delyted
them
not
in
euyll
sayenge
/
nor
it
was
of
no
profyte
to
ony
edyfyenge
of
vertue
/
seynge
the
wordes
&
the
matters
dyshonest
of
whiche
it
touched
vysytynge
here
&
there
/
&
so
came
to
the
ende
I
lefte
hym
&
toke
hede
of
more
hygher
matters
&
of
more
profyte
/
yet
the
syght
of
this
foresayd
boke
howe
be
it
that
he
was
of
none
auctoryte
it
engendred
in
me
a
newe
thought
/
whiche
made
grete
meruayle
to
growe
in
my
courage
/
&
thynkynge
what
myght
be
the
cause
and
wherof
it
myght
come
that
so
many
dyuers
men
clerkes
and
others
haue
ben
and
ben
enclyned
to
say
by
mouthe
/
&
in
theyr
treatyse
and
wrytynges
so
many
slaundres
and
blames
of
women
and
of
theyr
condycyons
&
not
onely
one
or
twayne
nor
this
Matheolus
/
whiche
amonge
others
hath
no
maner
of
reputacyon
and
treateth
in
maner
of
scorne
/
but
generally
in
all
treatyses
of
phylosphres
/
poetes
/
and
all
rethorycyens
/
whiche
sholde
be
longe
to
reherce
all
theyr
names
/
speketh
as
it
were
by
one
mouthe
and
accordeth
all
in
semble
conclusyon
determynynge
that
the
condycyons
of
women
ben
fully
enclyned
to
all
vyces
.
These
thynges
thynkynge
in
me
ryght
depely
/
I
began
to
examyne
myselfe
and
my
condycyons
as
a
woman
naturall
.
And
in
lyke
wyse
I
dyscuted
of
other
women
/
whos
companye
I
haunted
/
as
well
of
pryncesses
and
of
grete
ladyes
as
of
meane
gentyll
women
ryght
grete
plentye
/
whiche
of
theyr
graces
haue
tolde
me
theyr
pryuytees
and
strayte
thoughtes
to
knowe
by
my
Iugement
in
conscyence
and
with
out
fauoure
yf
it
it
myght
be
trewe
that
so
many
notable
men
of
one
and
other
wytnesseth
/
yet
not
withstandynge
that
for
thynges
that
I
myght
knowe
as
longe
as
I
haue
sought
and
serched
I
coude
not
perceyue
that
suche
Iugementes
myght
be
trewe
agaynst
the
naturall
condycyons
or
maners
of
women
.
I
argued
strongly
agaynst
these
women
sayenge
that
it
sholde
be
to
grete
a
thynge
that
so
many
famous
men
/
so
solempne
clarkes
of
soo
hyghe
and
grete
vnderstandynge
/
so
clerely
seynge
in
all
thynges
as
it
semed
that
sholde
haue
spoken
or
wryten
lyengly
/
and
in
so
many
places
that
of
payne
I
founde
ony
morall
volume
what
so
euer
that
auctoure
were
that
or
I
had
redde
it
to
the
ende
but
some
chapytres
or
certayne
clauses
were
of
blamynge
of
theym
.
This
onely
shorte
reason
made
me
to
conclude
that
myne
vnderstandynge
/
for
his
symplenesse
&
ygnoraunce
ne
coude
not
knowe
my
grete
defautes
and
semblably
of
other
women
that
alwaye
it
accorded
that
it
was
so
truely
/
and
soo
I
reported
me
more
to
the
Iugement
of
other
then
to
that
I
felte
or
knowe
of
myselfe
.
Thus
in
this
thought
was
I
as
a
persone
halfe
from
hymselfe
/
&
there
came
before
me
ryght
grete
foyson
of
dyttyes
&
prouerbes
of
many
dyuers
auctours
to
the
purpose
that
I
remembred
in
myselfe
one
after
another
/
as
it
were
a
welle
spryngynge
.
And
in
conclusyon
of
all
I
determyned
that
god
made
a
foule
thynge
when
he
fourmed
woman
in
meruayllynge
howe
soo
worshypfull
a
werke
man
deyned
euer
to
make
one
soo
abhomynable
werke
whiche
is
the
vessell
as
by
sayenge
of
them
&
the
draught
&
herbegage
of
al
euyll
&
of
all
vyces
Then
I
beynge
in
this
thought
there
sprange
in
me
a
grete
dyspleasannce
&
sorowe
of
courage
in
dyspraysynge
myselfe
&
all
womenkynde
so
as
yf
that
sholde
be
shewed
in
nature
/
&
I
sayd
suche
wordes
in
my'complayntes
.
Ha
lorde
god
howe
may
that
be
/
for
if
I
arre
not
in
the
fayth
I
ought
not
doubt
that
thyne
infynyte
wysdome
&
veray
parfyte
goodnesse
had
nothynge
made
but
that
all
were
good
/
&
fourmest
not
the
thyselfe
woman
ryght
syngulerly
&
then
y●
gaue
her
all
suche
inclynacyons
that
pleased
the
that
she
sholde
haue
&
howe
maye
that
be
that
thou
sholde
haue
fayled
in
ony
thynge
/
&
alway
se
here
so
many
grete
occasyons
thus
Iuged
determyned
&
concluded
ayenst
them
I
can
not
vnderstande
this
repugnaunce
/
&
yf
it
be
so
good
lorde
god
that
it
be
true
that
womankynde
haboundeth
in
so
many
abhomy
nacyons
as
many
men
wytnesseth
/
&
thou
sayest
thyselfe
that
the
wytnesse
of
many
is
for'to
byleue
/
by
the
whiche
I
ought
not
doubte
but
that
it
sholde
be
true
.
Alas
good
lorde
why
haddest
thou
not
made
me
to
be
borne
in
to
this
worlde
in
the
mascu
lyne
kynde
/
to
that
entente
that
myne
enclynacyons
myght
haue
ben
al
to
haue
serued
the
the
better
&
that
I
sholde
not
haue
arred
in
ony
thynge
&
myght
haue
ben
of
so
grete
perfeccyon
as
they
say
that
men
be
/
yet
syth
it
is
so
that
thy
debonayrnesse
stretche
th
not
so
moche
towarde
me
/
then
spare
my
negly
gence
in
thy
seruyce
good
lorde
god
/
&
be
not
dyspleased
.
For
that
seruaunt
that
receyueth
leest
rewardes
of
his
lorde
/
leest
is
bounde
to
his
seruyce
.
Suche
wordes
&
mo
ynowe
I
sayd
ryght
long
in
my
sorowfull
thought
to
god
and
in
my
lamentacyon
so
as
she
that
by
my
foly
helde
me
ryght
euyll
contente
of
that
that
god
made
me
to
be
borne
in
to
this
worlde
in
kynde
of
woman
.
¶
Xp̄ine
telleth
howe
.iii.
ladyes
appered
to
her
/
&
howe
she
that
wente
before
reasoned
with
her
fyrste
and
comforted
her
of
the
dyspleasure
that
she
had
Capitulo
.
Secundo
.
AS
I
was
in
this
sorowfull
thought
the
heed
downe
cast
as
a
shamfull
persone
/
the
eyes
full
of
teeres
holdynge
myne
hande
vnder
my
cheke
/
lenynge
on
the
pomell
of
my
chayre
sod●ynly
I
sawe
come
downe
vpon
my
lappe
a
stremynge
of
lyght
as
it
were
of
the
same
.
And
I
that
was
in
a
derke
place
i
whiche
the
sone
myght
not
shyne
at
the
houre
sterte
then
as
thoughe
I
had
ben
waked
of
a
dreme
/
and
dressynge
the
heed
to
beholde
this
lyght
fro
whens
it
myght
come
I
sawe
before
me
standynge
thre
ladyes
crowned
of
ryght
souerayne
reuerence
.
Of
the
whiche
the
shynynge
of
theyr
clere
faces
gaue
lyght
vnto
me
and
to
all
the
place
/
there
as
I
was
meruayllynge
neyther
man
nor
woman
with
me
consyderynge
the
dore
close
vpon
me
/
and
they
thyder
came
doubtynge
leest
it
had
ben
some
fantasye
for
to
haue
tempted
me
made
the
sygne
of
the
crosse
in
my
forehede
ful
of
drede
.
And
then
she
whiche
was
the
fyrst
of
the
thre
in
laughynge
began
thus
to
reason
with
me
Dere
doughter
drede
the
nought
/
for
we
be
not
come
hyder
for
nothynge
that
is
contrary
vnto
the
/
nor
to
do
the
to
be
encombred
/
but
for
to
comforte
the
as
those
that
haue
pyte
of
thy
trouble
/
and
to
put
the
out
of
the
ygnoraunce
that
so
moche
blyndeth
thyne
vnderstandynge
/
and
that
thou
puttest
fro
the
that
thou
knowest
of
very
certayne
s●yence
/
to
gyue
faythe
to
the
contrary
to
that
whiche
thou
felest
not
/
ne
seest
not
/
ne
knowest
otherwyse
than
by
pluralyte
of
straunge
opynyons
.
Thou
resemblest
the
fole
of
the
whiche
was
made
a
Iape
whiche
was
slepynge
in
the
mylle
and
whas
clothed
in
the
clothynge
of
a
woman
/
and
to
make
resemblaunce
those
that
mocked
hym
wytnessed
that
he
was
a
woman
/
&
so
he
byleued
more
theyr
false
saynges
than
the
certaynte
of
his
beynge
.
Howe
is
it
fayre
doughter
/
&
where
is
thy
wytte
become
Hast
thou
forgoten
nowe
howe
the
fyne
golde
proueth
hym
in
the
fornayse
that
he
chaungeth
not
his
vertue
but
is
more
plyaunt
to
be
brought
in
to
dyuers
facyons
.
And
knowest
thou
not
that
the
moost
meruayllous
thynges
be
moost
debatous
&
most
arguous
yf
thou
wylte
aduyse
the
/
In
the
same
wyse
to
the
moost
hyghe
thynges
that
ben
that
is
to
knowe
the
celestyall
thynges
.
Beholde
yf
these
grete
phylosophres
that
hath
ben
that
thou
arguest
agaynst
thyne
owne
kynde
haue
determyned
false
and
to
the
contrary
of
trouthe
/
and
as
they
repugne
one
agaynst
another
as
thou
thyselfe
hast
sene
in
the
boke
of
Metaphisike
where
as
Arystotle
reproueth
theyr
opynyons
/
and
reherseth
the
same
wyse
of
Plato
and
of
others
/
&
note
this
agayne
.
If
saynt
Austyne
and
other
doctours
of
the
chyrche
haue
done
so
/
the
same
wyse
Arystotle
in
some
partyes
al
be
it
that
he
be
called
the
prynce
of
phylosophres
and
in
whome
Phylosophye
naturall
and
morall
was
soueraynely
.
And
it
semeth
that
trowest
that
al
the
wordes
of
Phylosophres
ben
artycles
of
the
fayth
of
Ihesu
cryst
/
and
that
they
maye
not
arre
.
And
as
to
these
poetes
of
whiche
thou
spekest
knowest
not
thou
well
that
they
haue
spoken
in
many
thynges
in
manere
of
fables
.
And
do
entende
so
moche
to
the
contrary
of
that
that
theyr
sayenges
sheweth
.
And
it
maye
be
taken
after
the
rewle
of
grammere
the
whiche
is
named
Antyphrasys
/
the
whiche
entendeth
thus
as
thou
knowest
well
/
'
as
one
sholde
say
syth
one
is
a
shrewe
/
that
is
to
saye
that
he
is
good
/
and
so
by
the
contrary
.
So
I
counsayle
the
that
thou
do
thy
profyte
of
theyr
sayenges
&
thou
vnderstande
it
so
what
so
euer
be
theyr
entente
in
suche
places
where
as
they
blame
women
.
And
peraduenture
this
same
man
that
is
Matheolus
in
his
boke
vnderstode
the
same
.
For
there
be
many
thynges
who
so
taketh
them
after
the
letter
it
sholde
be
pure
heresye
/
and
shame
to
hym
that
sayth
it
/
&
not
onely
to
hym
but
to
others
.
And
the
same
wyse
of
the
Romaunce
of
the
rose
on
whome
is
put
grete
faythe
bycause
of
the
auctoryte
of
the
maker
of
the
ordre
of
maryage
whiche
is
an
holy
estate
&
worshypfull
&
ordeyned
of
god
.
This
thynge
proueth
clerely
by
experyence
that
the
contrary
is
true
of
the
shrewdenesse
that
they
purpose
and
syth
to
be
in
that
estate
/
to
the
grete
charge
and
blame
of
women
.
For
who
was
euer
that
housbande
that
euer
suffred
suche
maystrye
of
his
wyfe
that
she
sholde
haue
leue
to
saye
so
many
vylanyes
and
iniures
as
they
put
vpon
women
that
they
sholde
saye
/
I
byleue
what
so
euer
thou
hast
sene
in
wrytynge
thou
sawest
it
neuer
at
the
eye
.
So
they
be
pure
lesynges
ryght
shrewdely
coloured
.
Thus
I
say
in
concludynge
my
lefe
frende
that
folye
caused
the
this
presente
opynyon
.
Nowe
come
agayne
to
thyselfe
&
take
thy
wytte
&
trouble
the
no
more
for
suche
fantasyes
.
For
knowe
wel
that
all
this
euyll
saynges
generally
of
women
hurteth
the
sayers
&
not
the
women
.
¶
Xp̄ine
sayth
howe
that
the
lady
that
reasoned
with
her
deuysed
what
was
her
propryete
&
wher
of
she
serued
/
and
tolde
her
howe
she
sholde
buylde
a
cyte
with
the
helpe
of
these
.iij.
ladyes
.
Ca.
iij.
THis
famous
lady
sayenge
these
wordes
to
me
with
the
presence
of
whome
I
can
not
say
whiche
of
my
wyttes
was
moost
vndertaken
in
myne
herynge
/
in
herkenynge
of
her
worthy
wordes
where
that
my
syght
was
in
beholdynge
her
grete
beaute
/
her
attyre
/
her
reuerent
porte
/
&
her
ryght
worshypfull
countenaunce
/
&
the
same
wyse
of
the
others
/
and
wyst
not
whiche
of
them
to
beholde
/
for
soo
moche
these
thre
ladyes
resembled
eyther
other
/
that
of
payne
I
myght
knowe
that
one
from
that
other
/
but
that
I
sholde
haue
ben
deceyued
.
And
she
of
the
lesse
auctoryte
than
that
other
had
her
chere
so
fyerse
that
whome
her
eyen
behelde
was
not
so
hardy
/
but
that
he
sholde
be
vndertaken
with
grete
drede
.
For
it
semed
that
she
manased
the
euyll
doers
.
Soo
I
was
before
them
standynge
vp
from
my
syege
for
theyr
reuerence
beholdynge
them
without
faynynge
of
ony
worde
/
as
that
persone
that
was
so
ouertaken
that
coude
not
sowne
a
worde
.
And
I
had
grete
meruayle
in
my
herte
thynkynge
who
they
myght
be
and
ryght
gladly
yf
I
had
durste
I
wolde
haue
asked
theyr
names
and
theyr
beynge
/
and
what
was
the
sygnyfyenge
of
the
dyfferent
septres
that
eche
of
them
helde
in
theyr
ryght
handes
whiche
were
of
ryght
grete
rychesse
and
wherfore
they
were
come
thyder
/
yet
when
I
had
thought
me
not
worthy
to
reason
with
them
in
suche
demaundes
soo
hyghe
ladyes
as
they
appered
vnto
me
I
durst
in
no
manere
but
contynued
my
syght
vpon
theym
halfe
aferde
/
&
halfe
assured
by
the
wordes
that
I
had
herde
them
saye
/
whiche
hathe
cast
me
out
of
my
fyrst
thought
/
yet
that
ryght
wyse
lady
that
had
reasoned
with
me
whiche
knewe
my
thought
in
spyryte
as
she
that
hath
syght
in
all
thynges
answered
to
my
thought
saynge
thus
.
Dere
doughter
knowe
ye
that
the
prouydence
of
god
that
nothynge
leueth
vayne
ne
cometh
not
vs
to
estable
thoughe
that
we
knowe
celestyall
thynges
to
be
&
to
haunte
amonge
the
people
of
this
bace
worlde
to
the
entente
to
put
in
ordre
&
to
holde
in
equyte
the
stablementes
made
by
ourselfe
after
the
wyll
of
god
in
dyuers
offyces
/
to
the
whiche
god
we
thre
ben
doughters
and
of
hym
borne
.
So
it
is
myne
offyce
to
redresse
men
and
women
when
they
are
out
of
the
waye
to
put
them
agayne
in
the
ryght
waye
.
And
I
come
to
them
pryuely
in
spyryte
all
couertely
/
and
I
preche
them
&
teche
them
in
shewynge
theyr
erroure
/
and
that
in
whiche
they
fayle
I
assygne
them
the
causes
/
&
after
I
teche
theym
the
manere
to
folowe
that
that
is
to
do
/
and
howe
they
sholde
flee
that
that
is
to
be
lefte
.
And
for
that
I
serue
to
showe
clerely
and
make
to
se
in
conscyence
theyr
dedes
to
euery
man
and
woman
/
and
theyr
propre
tatches
and
defautes
/
thou
feest
me
holde
in
stede
of
a
septre
this
bryght
glasse
or
myroure
that
I
bere
in
my
ryght
hande
knowe
this
for
trouthe
that
there
is
no
persone
that
loketh
in
this
myroure
but
he
maye
knowe
euery
creature
what
he
is
clerely
.
O
my
myroure
it
is
of
so
grete
dygnyte
that
it
is
not
without
grete
cause
that
he
is
so
enuyronned
of
so
ryche
precyous
stones
as
thou
seest
it
.
For
by
hym
these
beynges
qualytees
proporcyon
/
&
measures
of
al
thynges
ben
know
ne
/
ne
without
hym
may
nothynge
be
well
made
nor
done
/
&
for
that
that
thou
desyrest
to
knowe
also
the
offyces
of
myne
other
two
systers
that
thou
seest
here
/
to
that
entente
that
the
wytnessynge
of
vs
may
be
to
the
more
certayne
eche
of
them
in
theyr
owne
persone
shall
answere
of
theyr
name
and
of
theyr
propryete
/
yet
the
cause
and
the
mouynge
of
our
comynge
shall
be
declared
by
me
ryght
here
/
I
make
the
to
vnderstande
that
as
there
shall
be
done
nothynge
without
good
cause
/
our
apperynge
is
nothynge
here
in
vayne
.
For
thoughe
that
we
be
not
comunely
in
many
places
and
that
the
knowlege
of
vs
cometh
not
vnto
all
people
.
Neuerthelesse
for
the
grete
loue
the
whiche
thou
haste
for
to
enquyre
after
thynges
by
veray
longe
and
contynuall
studye
/
by
the
whiche
thou
doest
yelde
thyselfe
here
solytarye
/
and
thou
withdrawest
the
out
of
the
worlde
/
thou
haste
deserued
and
thou
deseruest
to
be
vysyted
and
to
be
comforted
of
vs
in
thy
trouble
&
sorowe
as
ryght
a
dere
frende
/
&
that
thou
be
made
clerely
seynge
those
thynges
that
defoule
&
trouble
thy
courage
in
the
derkenesse
of
thought
.
Also
there
is
a
gretter
cause
of
our
comynge
and
a
more
specyal
that
thou
shalte
knowe
by
our
reuelacyon
/
so
vnderstande
to
that
entente
that
this
erroure
myght
be
destroyed
we
wolde
that
these
ladyes
and
all
worshypfull
women
myght
haue
from
hens
forthe
some
manere
of
place
to
come
to
or
a
cloystre
of
defence
agaynst
all
those
that
wolde
assayle
them
.
For
the
defaute
of
whiche
all
these
foresayd
ladyes
and
famous
women
haue
longe
tyme
be
lefte
vnclosed
as
a
felde
without
hedge
without
fyndynge
of
ony
champyon
that
for
theyr
defence
myght
compare
suffycyently
.
Notwithstandynge
these
noble
men
that
by
ordenaunce
of
ryght
ought
to
defende
theym
/
whiche
by
neglygence
and
no
force
hathe
suffred
them
to
be
defouled
/
by
the
whiche
it
is
no
meruayl
thoughe
theyr
enuyous
enemyes
&
the
outrage
of
vylaynes
assaylled
them
by
dyuers
craftes
and
haue
had
the
vyctory
agaynst
them
in
theyr
warre
for
defaute
of
defence
where
is
that
cyte
so
stronge
that
myght
not
sone
be
taken
yf
there
be
not
founde
resystence
.
¶
Nor
so
vniuste
a
cause
but
it
myght
be
goten
by
contynuaunce
of
hym
that
pledeth
without
party
/
ryght
so
these
symple
&
debonayre
ladyes
to
the
ensample
of
pacyence
whiche
god
commaundeth
hath
suffred
frendely
these
grete
iniuryes
that
so
moche
by
the
mouthe
of
so
many
&
theyr
handes
wrytynge
haue
suffred
so
moche
wronge
thus
they
reporte
them
to
god
of
theyr
good
ryght
/
yet
nowe
it
is
tyme
that
theyr
Iuste
cause
be
put
out
of
the
handes
of
Pharao
.
And
therfore
bytwene
vs
thre
ladyes
that
thou
seest
here
moued
by
pyte
/
we
be
come
to
tell
the
of
a
certayne
buyldynge
made
in
the
manere
of
a
cloystre
of
a
Cyte
strongely
wrought
by
masons
handes
&
well
buylded
/
whiche
is
predestynate
to
the
for
to
make
and
to
stable
it
by
our
helpe
and
counsayle
/
in
the
whiche
shall
none
enhabyte
but
onely
ladyes
of
good
fame
/
and
women
worthy
of
praysynges
.
For
to
them
where
vertue
shall
not
be
founde
/
the
walles
of
our
Cyte
shall
be
strongely
shytte
.
¶
Xp̄ine
telleth
howe
the
lady
deuyfed
to
her
the
Cyte
that
was
commytted
to
her
to
make
and
that
she
was
stabled
to
helpe
her
to
begyn
the
walles
and
the
cloystre
aboute
/
and
after
tolde
her
her
name
.
Capitulo
.iiij.
THus
fayre
doughter
that
prerogatyue
is
gyuen
to
the
amonge
al
other
women
to
make
and
fortefye
the
Cyte
of
ladyes
for
the
whiche
thou
shalte
take
vpon
the
to
make
the
foundement
and
parfytely
conclude
hym
.
And
thou
shalte
receyue
of
vs
thre
/
wyne
and
water
as
of
a
clere
welle
.
And
we
shall
delyuer
to
the
mater
ynoughe
more
stronger
&
more
durable
than
ony
marbre
/
and
as
for
Cyment
there
shal
be
no
better
than
thou
shalte
haue
.
So
shall
thy
Cyte
be
ryght
fayre
without
pere
and
of
perpetuall
durynge
to
the
worlde
.
¶
Haste
thou
not
redde
that
the
kynge
Troys
founded
the
grete
cyte
of
Troye
by
the
helpe
of
Appolo
/
Mynerue
/
and
Neptune
/
whiche
the
people
at
that
tyme
trowed
theym
as
goddes
.
And
also
howe
Cadmus
founded
the
cyte
of
Thebes
by
the
mynestracyon
of
goddes
.
And
for
al
that
those
cytees
by
space
of
tyme
were
ouerthrowne
and
ben
tourned
in
to
ruyne
.
But
I
prophecye
to
the
as
verray
Sybylle
that
neuer
this
cyte
whiche
thou
shalte
founde
shall
be
brought
to
nought
/
ne
shall
not
fall
but
alway
endure
in
prosperyte
maulgre
all
his
enuyous
enemyes
/
thoughe
that
he
be
fought
withall
by
many
dyuers
assaultes
/
so
she
shal
neuer
be
taken
ne
ouercome
.
¶
Somtyme
the
royalme
of
Amosonye
was
begonne
by
the
ordynaunce
&
entrepryse
of
dyuers
women
of
grete
courage
whiche
despysed
bondage
so
as
the
hystoryes
bereth
wytnesse
.
And
longe
tyme
by
them
it
was
mayntayned
vnder
sygnyouryes
of
dyuers
quenes
ryght
noble
ladyes
the
whiche
they
chose
them selfe
&
gouerned
ryght
fayre
and
well
/
and
by
grete
strengthe
maynteyned
the
lordshyp
/
and
neuerthelesse
thoughe
they
were
of
grete
myght
&
puyssaunce
&
that
in
the
tyme
of
theyr
domynacyon
conquered
grete
parte
of
the
oryent
&
all
the
landes
nyghe
them
put
them
in
drede
/
&
in
the
same
wyse
the
countre
of
Grece
doubted
them
whiche
that
tyme
was
the
foure
of
all
countrees
of
the
worlde
/
and
not
for
that
within
processe
of
tyme
the
puyssaunce
of
the
royalme
by
the
same
manere
as
it
is
of
all
other
worldely
lordshyppes
there
is
not
by
den
in
this
tyme
as
nowe
but
onely
the
same
.
But
this
cyte
shal
be
of
moche
more
stronger
buyldynge
that
thou
hast
to
make
/
for
the
whiche
to
begyn
I
am
commytted
by
the
delyberacyon
amonge
vs
all
thre
ladyes
togyder
to
delyuer
the
morter
durable
and
without
corrupcyon
to
make
the
stron
foundementes
and
the
grete
walles
all
aboute
.
And
to
lyfte
vp
the
hyghe
large
and
grete
towres
and
stronge
castelles
/
dyked
/
bastyled
/
and
barred
as
moche
as
it
perteyneth
to
a
cyte
of
grete
defence
/
and
by
our
deuyse
thou
shalte
set
it
in
grete
depnesse
to
endure
the
longer
/
and
after
thou
shalte
lyfte
vp
the
walles
so
hyghe
that
all
the
worlde
shal
drede
them
.
Doughter
thus
I
haue
nowe
tolde
the
the
causes
of
our
comynge
to
the
entente
that
thou
take
the
more
credence
to
my
sayenge
.
Nowe
I
wyll
that
thou
lerne
my
name
by
the
sowne
of
that
whiche
onely
thou
shalte
knowe
that
thou
hast
in
me
if
y●
wylte
folowe
myne
ordynaunces
a
mynystresse
in
thy
nede
to
do
yty
thou
myght
not
yestereuen
.
I
am
named
dame
Reason
/
nowe
aduyse
thee
then
yf
thou
be
in
good
conduyte
/
so
I
say
no
more
to
the
at
this
tyme
¶
Here
Xp̄ine
telleth
howe
the
seconde
lady
tolde
her
her
name
/
and
wherof
she
serued
/
and
howe
she
sholde
helpe
her
to
make
the
masonry
of
the
cyte
of
Ladyes
.
Ca.
v.
WHan
the
lady
aboue
sayd
had
accheued
her
worde
or
that
I
had
laysoure
to
answere
.
The
seconde
lady
began
to
answere
in
this
manere
I
am
called
ryghtwysnesse
whiche
hathe
my
dwellynge
more
in
heuen
than
in
erthe
.
But
as
a
sone
beme
/
&
a
lyghtnynge
or
a
shynynge
or
god
&
messangere
of
his
goodnesse
/
I
haunte
amonge
the
Iuste
persones
and
counsayle
them
to
do
all
thynge
well
and
to
yelde
to
euery
man
that
that
is
his
/
and
after
to
say
and
sustayne
trouthe
to
bere
the
ryght
of
the
poore
people
and
Innocentes
/
to
greue
others
by
vsurpacyon
/
&
sustayne
the
renowne
of
them
that
ben
accused
without
cause
.
I
am
the
shelde
and
defence
of
the
seruauntes
of
god
/
I
call
on
the
punycyon
of
euyll
folkes
/
I
make
to
gyue
and
alowe
to
the
trauayllers
/
and
I
rewarde
the
good
doers
/
and
god
maketh
open
his
secretes
by
me
to
his
frendes
.
I
am
theyr
aduocate
in
heuen
.
This
shynynge
lyne
that
thou
seest
me
holde
in
stede
of
a
Septre
in
my
ryght
hande
is
the
ryght
rewle
that
departeth
the
ryght
from
the
wronge
/
and
it
sheweth
the
dyfference
bytwene
good
&
euyll
/
who
so
foloweth
it
shall
not
goo
out
of
the
waye
.
This
is
the
staffe
of
peas
that
reconsyleth
the
good
.
And
where
vpon
they
lene
them
/
he
smyteth
and
beteth
the
euyl
doers
/
what
sholde
I
more
saye
to
the.
By
this
lyne
all
thynges
are
lymytted
and
the
dygnytees
of
hym
ben
infynyte
.
Soo
vnderstande
that
he
shall
serue
the
wel
/
and
thou
shalte
haue
nede
of
hym
to
measure
the
buyldynge
of
the
cyte
that
is
commytted
to
the
to
make
/
&
of
the
sayd
Cyte
to
make
the
stone
werke
and
to
make
within
the
hyghe
towres
and
the
hyghe
palayces
to
compace
the
housynge
and
all
the
mansyons
/
the
stretes
and
places
/
and
all
thynges
couenables
to
helpe
the
/
and
to
put
suffycyent
people
within
the
foresayd
Cyte
/
thus
am
I
come
in
thyne
helpe
with
my
syster
Reason
/
and
this
noble
lady
whiche
thou
seest
here
.
Boholde
this
is
myne
offyce
.
Nowe
dysmaye
thou
not
of
the
grete
largenesse
and
longe
cyrcuyte
of
the
closynge
of
the
walle
.
For
by
the
helpe
of
god
and
of
vs
thou
shalte
buylde
it
and
people
it
ryght
well
and
fayre
without
leuynge
of
ony
voyde
thynge
with
fayre
mansyons
and
stronge
herbegages
¶
Here
Xp̄ine
telleth
howe
the
thyrde
lady
tolde
her
what
she
was
and
wherfore
she
serued
/
and
howe
she
wolde
helpe
her
to
make
the
hyghe
bataylmentes
of
the
towres
of
her
Cyte
and
to
people
it
with
noble
ladyes
.
Ca.
vi
.
AFter
this
spake
the
thyrde
lady
whiche
sayd
ryght
thus
.
Xp̄ine
ryght
dere
frende
.
I
am
Iustyce
the
synguler
doughter
of
god
/
and
my
beynge
procedeth
purely
of
his
propre
persone
.
My
dwellynge
is
in
heuen
/
in
erthe
/
and
in
helle
.
In
heuen
for
the
glorye
of
sayntes
and
of
blessyd
soules
/
In
erthe
for
to
departe
&
gyue
euery
man
his
porcyon
other
of
good
or
of
euyll
as
he
hathe
deserued
.
In
helle
for
the
punycyon
of
euyl
people
I
bowe
not
to
no
parte
.
For
there
is
no
frende
/
no
fere
of
grete
wyl
/
pyte
/
nor
prayer
/
thretnynge
nor
cruelte
that
moueth
me
.
Myne
offyce
is
onely
for
to
Iuge
/
departe
/
&
to
make
the
payment
after
euery
mannes
ryghtfull
deseruynge
.
I
susteyne
all
thynges
in
estate
/
and
without
me
there
may
no
thynge
be
stablysshed
/
I
am
in
god
/
and
god
is
in
me
/
&
we
be
as
one selfe
thynge
.
He
that
foloweth
me
maye
not
fayle
.
And
my
waye
is
sure
.
I
teche
to
euery
man
&
woman
holsome
vnderstandynge
yf
he
byleue
me
/
&
I
teche
hym
to
chastyce
/
to
knowe
/
&
to
reproue
hymselfe
/
fyrst
to
do
to
another
that
that
he
wolde
sholde
be
done
to
hym
/
to
departe
thynges
without
fauoure
to
saye
trouthe
/
to
fle
&
hate
lesynges
/
and
to
put
away
all
vycyous
thynges
.
This
vessell
of
fyne
golde
that
thou
seest
in
my
ryght
hande
made
after
the
guyse
of
a
rounde
measure
/
god
my
fader
gaue
it
me
/
&
it
serueth
to
measure
to
euery
man
his
lyueray
of
suche
meryte
as
he
ought
to
haue
.
It
is
marked
with
the
floure deluce
of
the
Trynyte
/
and
he
yelded
hym
Iuste
to
porcyons
there
maye
noo
man
complayne
of
my
measure
.
But
these
men
of
the
worlde
haue
other
measures
whiche
they
saye
dependeth
and
come
th
of
myne
.
But
falsely
they
measure
often
tymes
vnder
shadowe
of
me
/
and
there
theyr
measure
is
not
alwaye
Iuste
/
other
it
is
to
large
to
some
▪
or
to
lytel
to
some
others
.
I
myght
holde
longe
tale
ynoughe
of
the
propryetees
of
myne
offyce
.
But
shortly
for
to
say
I
am
an
especyall
amonge
other
vertues
/
for
al
they
referre
them
to
me
.
And
amonge
vs
.iij.
ladyes
that
thou
seest
here
we
be
as
one selfe
thynge
/
and
we
may
none
of
vs
do
without
other
.
And
that
the
fyrst
dysposeth
/
the
seconde
ordeyneth
and
putteth
it
to
werke
.
And
then
I
that
am
the
thyrde
perfourmeth
it
and
bryngeth
it
to
ende
.
Thus
am
I
stabled
to
helpe
the
by
the
wyll
of
vs
thre
perfytely
to
make
thy
Cyte
.
And
myne
offyce
shall
be
to
make
the
hyghe
roffes
of
thy
towres
of
the
mansyons
and
of
the
herbegages
whiche
shall
be
of
fyne
golde
shynynge
bryght
.
And
I
shall
people
it
of
ryght
worthy
ladyes
/
&
they
shal
be
suche
that
shall
haue
the
prerogatyue
and
the
honoure
amonge
these
other
women
as
the
moost
excellences
.
And
there
I
shall
yelde
the
by
thyne
owne
helpe
parfyte
fortefyenge
and
closynge
of
stronge
gates
the
whiche
I
shall
go
seke
in
heuen
and
I
shall
delyuer
vnto
the
the
keyes
with
myne
owne
handes
.
¶
Here
Xp̄ine
telleth
howe
she
spake
to
to
the
.iij.
ladyes
.
Ca.
vij
.
THese
wordes
abouesayd
ended
whiche
I
had
herkened
by
grete
entente
of
these
.iij.
ladyes
whiche
had
drawne
fro
me
entyerly
the
dyspleasaunce
that
I
had
before
theyr
comynge
Sodaynly
I
fell
downe
at
theyr
feete
not
onely
on
knees
but
all
flatte
for
theyr
grete
excellence
/
kyssynge
the
erthe
aboute
theyr
feete
worshyppynge
theym
as
goddesses
.
I
began
myneoryson
of
praysynge
of
them
in
this
wyse
.
O
lady
of
souerayne
dygnyte
/
Lanternesse
of
heuen
gyuynge
lyght
to
all
the
erthe
/
welles
of
paradyse
/
&
the
Ioy
of
them
that
ben
blessyd
/
wherof
is
come
to
your
hyghnesse
suche
humylyte
that
ye
haue
vouched
saufe
to
come
frome
your
hyghe
syeges
and
shynynge
trones
in
to
the
troubled
tabernacle
&
darke
of
a
symple
and
an
ygnoraunt
studye
/
whiche
maye
not
yelde
couenable
thankynges
to
suche
a
benefyce
/
&
whiche
haue
by
the
rayne
of
the
dewe
of
your
swete
wordes
fallen
vpon
me
departed
&
tempered
the
drynesse
of
myne
vnderstandynge
/
so
that
it
feleth
hym
nowe
redy
to
burgyn
&
put
out
newe
plantes
/
dysposed
to
bere
fruyte
of
profytable
vertue
and
delectable
smellynge
/
howe
shal
it
be
done
in
me
suche
grace
that
I
shall
receyue
the
gyfte
after
your
worde
to
make
&
fortefye
nowe
ryght
in
this
worlde
suche
a
newe
cyte
.
I
am
not
saynt
Thomas
the
appostle
that
made
by
deuyne
grace
in
heuen
a
ryche
palays
to
the
kynge
of
ynde
?
Nor
my
feble
wytte
can
not
/
ne
knoweth
not
the
crafte
ne
measures
/
ne
the
studye
nor
the
pratyke
of
buyldynge
/
and
yf
these
thynges
by
possybylyte
of
connynge
were
nowe
in
myne
vnderstandynge
/
where
sholde
be
taken
suffycyent
strengthe
in
my
f●ble
womans
body
to
put
so
grete
a
thynge
to
werke
/
yet
neuertheles
my
ryght
redoubted
ladyes
howe
be
it
that
the
meruayllynge
of
these
newe
tydynges
be
straunge
to
me
I
knowe
well
that
there
is
nothynge
impossyble
as
to
god
and
I
ought
not
doubte
that
what
thynges
that
euer
be
taken
on
hande
by
the
counsayle
and
helpe
of
you
thre
/
but
that
they
be
wel
and
fayre
ended
.
Thus
worshypped
be
god
with
al
my
power
and
you
my
ladyes
that
so
moche
haue
worshypped
me
that
I
am
sta
bled
to
so
noble
a
commyssyon
the
whiche
I
receyue
with
grete
gladnesse
.
And
se
here
your
chamberere
redy
to
obey
.
Nowe
commaunde
after
your
pleasure
.
¶
Here
Xp̄ine
telleth
howe
by
the
commaundement
of
dame
Reason
she
began
to
dygge
the
erthe
to
make
the
foundement
.
Ca.
viij
.
REason
the
noble
lady
then
answered
&
sayd
.
Nowe
ryse
doughter
without
more
abydynge
/
go
we
in
to
the
felde
of
scryptures
/
there
shall
be
loū
ded
the
Cyte
of
Ladyes
in
a
playne
countre
and
fruytefull
/
there
where
all
fruytes
&
swete
waters
ben
founde
/
and
where
the
grounde
haboundeth
of
all
good
thynges
.
Take
the
py
coys
of
thyne
vnderstandynge
and
dygge
strong
ly
/
&
make
a
grete
dyke
aboute
where
thou
seest
the
trace
of
my
lyne
.
And
I
shall
helpe
the
to
bere
out
the
erthe
vpon
myne
owne
sholders
.
And
then
for
to
obeye
to
theyr
commaundemente
I
dressed
me
lyghtly
felynge
my selfe
by
the
vertue
of
them
more
stronge
and
more
lyght
than
I
was
before
.
So
she
wente
before
and
I
after
/
and
we
came
in
to
the
foresayd
felde
/
I
began
to
dyke
and
dygge
after
her
sygne
with
the
picoys
of
inquisycyon
/
and
my
fyrst
worke
was
done
in
this
wyse
.
¶
Madame
me
thynketh
well
that
ye
haue
sayd
to
me
before
applyenge
to
the
purpose
of
that
/
that
many
men
haue
so
moche
blamed
and
blameth
generally
the
condycions
of
women
/
that
the
golde
the
more
it
is
in
the
fornayce
the
more
it
fyneth
hym
/
whiche
is
to
vnderstonde
/
that
the
more
they
be
blamed
wrongfully
the
more
encreaseth
theyr
meryte
of
theyr
praysynge
/
yet
I
pray
you
tell
me
wherfore
it
is
and
whens
cometh
the
cause
that
so
many
dyuers
auctours
haue
spoken
agaynst
them
in
theyr
bokes
syth
that
I
fele
nowe
that
it
is
of
wronge
/
whether
that
nature
enclyne
them
/
or
yf
they
doo
it
for
hate
/
and
whens
ryseth
the
cause
.
Than
she
answered
thus
.
Doughter
for
to
gyue
the
waye
to
goo
in
more
deper
I
shall
here
out
this
fyrst
to
be
borne
out
.
¶
Knowe
that
it
cometh
not
of
nature
/
but
it
is
all
the
contrary
.
For
there
is
in
the
worlde
no
man
so
grete
/
ne
so
stronge
as
he
is
of
the
grete
loue
that
nature
by
the
wyll
of
god
putteth
bytwene
man
and
woman
.
But
the
causes
ben
dyuers
&
indyfferent
that
hath
moued
&
moueth
many
dyuers
men
to
blame
women
/
and
the
same
wyse
the
auctours
in
theyr
bokes
as
that
thou
hast
founde
¶
For
some
haue
done
it
in
god
entente
/
that
is
to
knowe
/
for
to
drawe
agayne
these
men
that
be
out
of
the
waye
/
by
the
hauntynge
of
dyuers
wo
men
that
ben
vycyous
and
lyght
/
wherof
they
be
assotted
/
other
to
kepe
them
that
they
be
not
assotted
&
to
the
entente
that
euery
man
sholde
fle
the
lyfe
that
is
lecherous
&
foule
/
they
haue
blamed
all
women
generally
for
theyr
trowynge
to
do
of
al
abhomy
nacyons
.
Madame
sayd
I
then
pardon
me
yf
I
yelde
you
here
your
worde
/
then
haue
they
done
well
syth
the
good
entente
hathe
moued
them
.
For
it
is
sayd
that
the
entente
Iugeth
the
man
.
Fayre
doughter
that
is
euyll
taken
sayd
she
.
For
ygnoraunce
maketh
not
one
to
excuse
hym
yf
he
siewe
a
man
in
good
entente
/
&
by
his
folysshe
trowynge
then
sholde
it
be
well
done
/
yet
what
so
euer
they
be
as
in
that
they
haue
vsed
of
euyll
ryght
.
For
why
to
do
greuaunce
&
preiudyce
to
one
partye
to
trowe
to
socoure
another
it
is
no
ryght
/
and
to
blame
al
the
condycyons
of
women
to
the
contrary
of
trouthe
so
as
I
shal
shewe
that
by
experyence
.
Notwithstan
dynge
they
sholde
do
it
in
the
entente
to
withdrawe
these
foles
from
folye
/
&
also
that
yf
I
blame
the
fyre
whiche
is
ryght
a
good
element
&
ryght
necessary
bycause
that
some
men
were
brente
therin
.
And
al
so
the
water
for
that
some
men
ben
drowned
in
it
/
&
the
same
wyse
yf
one
sholde
saye
of
all
good
thynges
whiche
a
man
may
vse
bothe
wel
&
euyll
no
man
ought
to
blame
them
thoughe
these
foles
abuse
them
.
And
these
poyntes
yn
haste
touched
thyselfe
in
thy
sayinges
/
yet
they
that
so
hath
spoken
habundauntly
what
so
euer
was
theyr
entente
they
haue
taken
theyr
purpose
vpon
the
large
onely
to
come
to
theyr
entente
/
so
as
he
dothe
that
maketh
hym
to
cutte
a
longe
and
a
large
gowne
of
a
pece
of
cloth
that
cost
hym
nought
/
and
no
man
saythe
the
contrary
so
he
taketh
and
graunteth
the
ryght
of
another
to
his
vsage
/
yet
as
thou
haste
sayd
other
tymes
ynowe
.
If
thou
sholde
haue
sought
the
wayes
to
withdrawe
these
men
from
folye
and
to
kepe
them
that
they
laboure
not
in
vayne
to
blame
the
lyfe
and
the
condycyons
of
theym
the
whiche
sheweth
them
vycyous
and
lyght
/
as
there
is
nothyng
in
the
worlde
that
maketh
one
more
to
fle
to
say
the
ryght
trouthe
/
as
dothe
a
shrewde
woman
/
lyght
and
cursed
as
it
showeth
whiche
is
a
thynge
counterfayte
&
out
of
her
propre
condycyon
naturall
whiche
ought
to
be
symple
/
pryuy
/
and
honest
I
consente
well
that
they
sholde
haue
buylded
so
ueraynely
a
good
and
fayre
worke
/
but
to
blame
all
where
there
ben
so
many
ryght
excellent
I
y●
that
it
came
neuer
of
me
but
that
they
fayled
and
fayle
gretely
/
and
al
they
that
foloweth
them
So
cast
out
these
foule
stones
ragged
and
blacke
out
of
thy
werke
for
they
shall
neuer
serue
ne
shal
not
be
put
i
good
buyldynge
of
thy
cyte
.
¶
Other
men
haue
blamed
women
for
other
causes
/
for
to
some
it
is
come
of
theyr
owne
vyces
and
some
be
moued
for
the
defaute
of
theyr
owne
ladyes
others
for
pure
enuye
/
some
others
for
delectacyon
that
of
theyr
propre
condycyon
hath
to
saye
shrewdely
Other
for
to
showe
that
they
haue
sene
ynoughe
of
scrypture
/
and
so
they
grounded
them
on
that
that
they
haue
founde
in
bokes
&
speketh
after
those
others
and
aledge
them
for
auctours
.
Those
the
whiche
it
is
come
of
theyr
propre
vyces
ben
men
that
haue
vsed
theyr
youthe
in
the
dyssolute
lyfe
&
habounded
them
in
many
dyuers
loues
of
dyuers
women
.
Thus
they
are
borne
vp
by
dyuers
causes
whiche
taketh
no
hede
of
themselfe
&
waxeth
olde
in
theyr
synnes
without
repentaunce
/
yet
take
they
sorowe
to
theyr
passed
folyes
&
dyssolute
lyfe
that
they
haue
ledde
in
theyr
tyme
.
For
nature
is
waxed
colde
in
them
whiche
suffreth
theym
not
to
put
theyr
courage
to
effecte
after
theyr
wyl
that
the
appetyte
wolde
without
puyssaunce
.
So
they
haue
sorowe
when
they
se
that
the
lyfe
that
they
were
wonte
to
calle
theyr
good
tyme
is
faylled
from
them
&
that
the
yonge
men
that
ben
nowe
haue
the
tyme
as
they
were
wonte
to
haue
.
Thus
they
knowe
not
howe
to
put
away
theyr
sorowe
but
to
blame
women
by
theyr
trowynge
to
do
dys
pleasaunce
to
others
.
And
one
saythe
communely
suche
olde
men
speke
foule
and
dyshonestly
soo
as
thou
mayst
se
them
/
and
properly
of
Matheolus
whiche
confesseth
hymselfe
that
he
was
olde
full
of
wyll
and
no
power
/
&
thou
mayst
proue
it
true
by
hym
that
I
haue
sayd
to
the.
And
byleue
it
stably
that
it
is
in
the
same
wyse
of
others
/
but
these
olde
men
thus
defouled
whiche
be
as
the
lyfe
of
a
mesell
that
may
not
be
heled
of
the
good
auncyent
men
that
I
haue
made
perfyte
in
vertue
in
the
mouthe
of
whome
after
theyr
courage
all
the
wordes
ben
of
good
ensampre
/
honest
/
and
dyscrete
and
whiche
hateth
all
euyll
doyinge
&
euyll
sayenge
.
And
they
defame
not
ne
blame
nother
men
ne
women
/
but
hateth
all
vyces
in
generall
counsaylynge
to
fle
them
and
folowe
the
ryght
waye
.
Those
that
haue
ben
moued
by
defaute
of
theyr
owne
body
ben
some
impotent
and
dyfformed
of
theyr
membres
that
haue
sharpe
and
malycyous
vnderstandynge
.
And
the
sorowe
of
theyr
impotencye
can
none
otherwyse
aduenge
them
/
but
to
blame
them
of
whome
cometh
Ioye
to
many
by
trowynge
to
tourne
away
the
pleasaunce
of
others
when
they
may
not
vse
it
in
theyr
owne
persone
.
¶
Those
that
haue
blamed
them
by
enuye
ben
some
myscheuous
men
that
haue
sene
and
knowne
dyuers
women
of
gretter
vnderstandynge
&
more
noble
of
condycyon
than
they
be
that
blameth
them
And
therfore
theyr
grete
enyuye
hath
moued
them
to
blame
all
women
/
trowynge
to
withdrawe
&
to
make
lesse
theyr
worshyp
&
praysynge
/
All
this
that
he
hath
done
I
wote
not
what
man
in
his
sayenge
that
he
claymeth
tytle
of
phylosophy
in
whiche
he
trauayleth
hym
moche
to
proue
howe
it
perteyneth
not
that
euery
woman
be
worshypped
moche
by
man
/
and
sayth
that
they
that
maketh
so
moche
of
them
chaungeth
wrongfully
the
name
of
his
boke
/
that
is
to
say
of
phylosophye
maketh
phylosopholy
.
But
I
promyse
the
&
afferme
that
he
hymselfe
by
the
bryngynge
forthe
of
that
processe
full
of
lesynges
that
he
holdeth
maketh
a
ryght
phylosopholy
.
Those
that
of
nature
are
euyll
sayers
/
it
is
no
meruayle
whan
they
blame
euery
man
thought
they
saye
euyll
of
women
/
&
alwayes
this
I
promyse
the
that
a
man
that
saythe
euyll
wylfully
of
women
it
cometh
of
ryght
grete
age
of
courage
.
For
he
dothe
agaynst
reason
&
agaynst
kynde
Agaynst
reason
in
so
moche
that
he
is
ryght
vnkynde
&
euyll
knowynge
of
teh
grete
benefeytes
that
women
hath
done
to
hym
/
so
grete
that
he
may
not
yelde
them
agayne
/
&
by
so
often
tymes
&
contynuelly
that
she
dothe
to
hym
of
necessyte
ayenst
kynde
in
that
that
there
is
no
dome
beest
ne
byrde
but
naturally
it
loueth
derely
theyr
fader
and
moder
.
So
it
is
a
thynge
out
of
kynde
whan
a
reasonable
man
dothe
the
contrary
.
¶
And
so
as
there
is
so
worthy
a
werke
al
be
it
that
it
be
made
by
a
good
mayster
but
some
notwithstandynge
that
they
can
but
lytell
they
wyll
counterfeyte
.
There
ben
many
that
medle
them
of
endytynge
/
and
they
seme
that
they
may
not
do
amysse
syth
that
others
haue
sayd
in
theyr
bokes
that
that
they
wolde
say
and
as
that
men
saythe
I
knowe
some
of
theym
that
wyll
entremete
and
medle
for
to
speke
in
makynge
of
dyttyes
of
fresshe
water
without
salte
.
¶
Suche
ben
theyr
wrytynges
and
theyr
balades
without
vnderstandynge
or
felynge
/
and
spekynge
of
the
condycyons
of
women
/
or
of
lordes
/
or
of
other
peole
/
&
they
can
not
knowe
themselfe
nor
aduyse
theyr
caytyuous
inclynacyons
and
defautes
/
&
the
symple
people
whiche
ben
ygnoraunt
as
they
saye
that
it
is
the
beste
done
thynge
in
the
worlde
.
¶
Here
Xp̄ine
telleth
howe
she
dygged
in
the
erthe
whiche
is
to
vnderstande
the
questyons
that
she
made
to
Reason
/
any
howe
reason
answered
her
.
Capitulo
.ix.
NOwe
I
haue
arayed
&
ordeyned
grete
worke
/
so
thynke
thou
to
dygge
in
the
erthe
after
the
pourtrayenge
of
my
sygne
.
And
then
to
obeye
her
commaundement
I
smote
with
all
my
myght
in
this
manere
.
Madame
whens
came
it
to
Ouyde
that
is
of
reputacyon
amonge
poetes
as
one
of
the
moost
souerayne
/
notwithstandynge
that
dyuers
clerkes
say
/
and
my
Iugement
accordeth
to
the
same
alwayes
vnder
your
correccyon
that
Vyrgyle
was
more
to
prayse
&
his
wrytynges
of
more
spedefulnesse
than
his
whiche
blamed
women
so
moche
in
many
of
his
dyttyes
as
in
the
boke
that
he
made
whiche
is
called
the
crafte
of
loue
/
&
also
in
other
of
his
volumes
.
¶
Answere
.
Ouide
was
a
subtyll
man
in
the
crafte
and
scyence
of
poetrye
and
had
grete
vnderstandynge
/
all
be
it
he
lete
his
body
slyppe
in
to
all
vanyte
&
delyte
of
flesshe
,
not
onely
in
one
loue
/
but
habandoned
hymselfe
to
al
women
so
as
he
myght
.
Nor
he
kepte
not
measure
nor
trouthe
to
no
woman
/
but
haunted
this
lyfe
in
his
youthe
as
longe
as
he
myght
/
for
the
whiche
at
the
last
he
had
the
rewarde
and
payment
that
vnto
such
a
case
perteyneth
.
That
is
to
knowe
/
sclaundre
/
losse
of
goodes
and
membres
/
wherfore
in
for
his
grete
voluptuousnesse
as
well
in
dede
as
in
worde
counsayllynge
the
yonge
folke
to
lede
the
same
lyfe
he
was
sente
in
to
exyle
.
Also
as
it
happened
after
that
by
fauoure
of
some
yonge
puyssaunt
Romaynes
he
was
called
agayne
fro
exyle
.
And
he
kepte
hym
not
after
frome
fallynge
agayne
in
his
euyll
doynge
/
whereof
he
was
somwhat
punysshed
before
.
And
then
he
was
chafed
and
dysseuered
frome
his
membres
by
his
owne
deserte
.
Thus
it
is
to
the
purpose
that
I
sayd
to
the
aboue
.
For
when
he
sawe
that
he
myght
not
lede
the
lyfe
in
the
whiche
he
was
wonte
to
delyte
hym
so
moche
.
Then
he
toke
on
hym
strongly
to
blame
women
by
his
subtyll
reasons
/
and
by
that
enforced
hym
to
dysprayse
them
to
others
.
¶
Madame
ye
say
wel
.
But
I
haue
sene
a
boke
of
another
auctore
Italyen
.
I
suppose
of
the
contrary
or
of
the
marches
of
Costane
whiche
calleth
hym
Cecodastoly
that
sayth
in
a
chapytre
meruayllous
abhomynacyons
more
than
ony
other
suche
as
be
not
to
reherce
of
no
persone
that
hathe
vnderstandynge
.
¶
Answere
.
Thoughe
Cecodastoly
saye
euyll
of
all
women
/
Doughter
meruayle
the
not
for
he
had
all
women
in
hate
&
dyspleasaunce
and
the
same
wyse
by
his
horryble
shrewdenesse
he
wolde
make
them
to
dysplease
&
to
be
hated
of
al
men
.
So
he
was
alowed
after
his
meryte
/
for
by
the
deseruynge
of
his
cursed
vyce
he
was
brente
in
the
fyre
ryght
dyshonestly
.
¶
Another
lytell
booke
in
latyne
I
sawe
also
madame
/
that
nameth
hym
the
secrete
of
women
whiche
speketh
of
the
makynge
of
theyr
bodyes
naturall
many
grete
defautes
¶
Answere
.
Thou
mayst
knowe
by
thyselfe
with
out
ony
other
proue
/
that
that
boke
was
made
at
volentees
&
fayntly
coloured
as
thou
hast
redde
whiche
is
an
open
thynge
to
the
that
it
is
drawne
all
of
lesynges
/
&
thoughe
that
some
men
saye
that
it
was
arystotyll
/
that
is
not
to
byleue
that
suche
a
phylo
sophre
was
so
charged
with
so
false
tales
.
For
by
that
/
that
these
women
maye
clerely
proue
&
knowe
that
some
thynges
that
he
toucheth
be
not
true
/
but
verye
fables
/
thus
they
may
conclude
that
these
maters
that
he
treateth
of
be
very
lesynges
.
But
remembrest
that
it
not
that
he
saythe
at
his
begynnynge
that
I
wote
not
what
pope
cursed
euery
man
that
sholde
rede
it
to
ony
woman
/
or
take
it
them
to
rede
.
Madame
I
remembre
it
wel
.
Than
knowest
not
thou
the
malycyous
cause
wherfore
this
Iape
was
gyuen
to
be
byleued
of
bestyall
men
&
nyce
at
the
begynnynge
of
that
boke
.
Madame
nay
but
yf
ye
tell
it
me
.
It
was
to
that
entente
that
women
sholde
not
haue
no
knowlege
of
that
boke
nor
of
that
conteyned
in
hym
.
For
he
that
made
it
knewe
wel
that
yf
they
redde
it
or
herde
it
redde
/
that
they
sholde
knowe
well
that
it
was
but
tryfles
so
they
sholde
haue
spoken
ayenst
hym
&
mocked
hym
.
Thus
wolde
the
auctoure
that
made
it
mocke
&
begyle
the
men
that
sholde
rede
it
by
this
way
.
Madame
I
am
remembred
that
amonge
these
other
thynges
that
he
hath
sayd
when
he
hath
spoken
yn
oughe
of
the
impotence
imperfeccyon
&
feblenes
whiche
is
cause
of
myss
hapynge
of
womans
body
in
the
wombe
of
the
moder
that
nature
is
ashamed
/
when
she
sawe
that
she
had
fourmed
suche
a
body
as
a
thynge
imperfyte
.
Ha
the
grete
foly
swete
frende
&
the
grete
blyndnesse
out
of
all
reason
that
moueth
or
styreth
ony
man
to
say
it
&
howe
nature
whiche
is
the
chambryere
of
god
is
she
more
maystres
than
her
mayster
almyghty
god
whiche
had
the
shap
of
man
&
woman
in
his
thought
when
it
came
to
his
wyll
to
fourme
Adam
of
the
s●yme
of
the
erthe
in
the
felde
of
Damas
/
&
when
he
had
made
hym
he
brought
hym
in
to
paradyse
terrestre
whiche
was
&
is
the
worthyest
place
of
this
lowe
worlde
/
&
there
Adam
slepte
&
of
one
of
his
Rybbes
to
that
entente
that
he
sholde
loue
woman
as
his
owne
fless
he
fourmed
the
body
of
the
woman
/
so
the
moost
souerayne
werkeman
had
no
shame
to
make
&
fourme
the
body
of
woman
/
and
sholde
nature
be
ashamed
therof
.
¶
Ha
the
grete
some
of
folyes
to
saye
that
it
is
trewe
/
and
howe
was
she
fourmed
I
wote
not
yf
y●
notest
it
/
she
was
fourmed
after
the
ymage
of
god
.
O
howe
durste
the
mouthe
say
so
euyl
of
so
noble
a
prynte
/
but
some
be
so
grete
foles
that
they
trowe
when
they
here
say
that
god
made
man
after
his
ymage
that
it
be
to
say
of
materyall
body
.
But
it
is
not
so
/
for
god
had
not
then
taken
the
body
of
man
but
it
is
to
vnderstande
of
the
soule
whiche
is
a
spyryte
vnderstandynge
the
whiche
shal
endure
without
ende
to
the
lykenes
of
the
deite
/
the
whiche
soule
god
made
&
put
as
good
&
as
worthy
&
all
euen
to
the
body
of
woman
as
of
man
.
But
yet
as
to
the
makynge
of
the
body
the
woman
was
made
of
the
moost
souerayne
werke
man
/
and
in
what
place
was
she
made
/
In
paradyse
terrestre
/
wherof
came
the
foule
matere
that
she
was
made
of
.
Nay
it
was
of
the
moost
noble
matere
that
euer
was
made
that
was
of
the
body
that
god
made
.
Madame
after
that
that
I
fele
of
you
woman
is
ryght
a
noble
thynge
.
But
yet
Tullyus
sayth
that
a
man
sholde
neuer
serue
a
woman
/
and
he
that
dothe
it
defouleth
hymselfe
/
for
none
ought
to
serue
that
that
is
lower
than
hym selfe
.
¶
Answere
.
He
is
happy
that
serueth
the
vyrgyne
that
is
aboue
al
the
aungelles
/
and
he
or
she
that
is
moost
hyghe
ought
to
serue
her
in
whom
all
vertue
haboundeth
.
Also
madame
one
of
the
Cathons
sayth
whiche
that
was
a
grete
clerke
/
that
yf
the
worlde
had
ben
without
we
sholde
haue
ben
conuersannt
with
goddes
.
¶
Answere
.
Nowe
mayst
thou
well
se
the
foly
of
hym
that
men
helde
so
sage
.
For
by
the
encheson
of
woman
men
reygne
th
with
god
.
And
yf
ony
wolde
saye
y●
man
wa●
ban●sshed
by
woman
by
the
cause
of
dame
Eue●
I
saye
that
he
hathe
goten
more
hyghe
degre
by
ou●
lady
Mary
than
he
lost
by
Eue
in
so
moche
that
the
manhode
is
Ioyned
to
the
godhede
&
that
had
not
ben
yf
the
trespace
of
Eue
had
not
ben
.
So
bothe
man
and
woman
ought
to
lyfte
vp
themselfe
from
that
defaute
/
&
he
that
worshyppeth
woman
worshyppeth
hymselfe
.
For
of
so
moche
as
mannes
nature
fell
more
lower
by
suche
a
creature
as
wo
man
/
by
woman
she
is
lyfte
vp
agayne
more
hygher
/
&
to
be
conuersaunt
with
goddes
as
Caton
sayth
yf
woman
had
not
be
/
he
sayd
more
truer
than
he
wende
/
for
he
was
a
paynyme
/
&
amonge
them
of
that
lawe
they
vnderstode
as
well
goddes
to
be
in
helle
as
in
heuen
/
that
is
to
knowe
the
deuylles
whiche
they
called
theyr
goddes
of
helle
.
So
it
is
no
Iape
that
men
sholde
haue
ben
conuersaunt
with
those
goddes
yf
our
lady
Mary
had
not
ben
.
¶
Also
of
the
same
altrycacyons
and
answeres
.
Capitulo
.x.
ALso
the
same
Caton
sayth
yet
that
the
woman
that
pleaseth
a
man
naturally
resembleth
the
rose
whiche
is
pleasaunt
to
se
/
but
the
thorne
is
vnder
&
prycketh
¶
Answere
.
This
Caton
sayth
more
trewer
agayne
than
he
wende
.
For
euery
good
ho
nest
woman
&
of
good
lyfe
ought
to
be
&
is
one
of
the
pleasauntest
thynges
that
is
to
se.
And
alwayes
there
is
the
thorne
of
drede
to
do
amysse
&
a
compunccyon
in
her
courage
whiche
that
parteth
not
fro
her
.
And
that
maketh
her
to
holde
her
pryue
&
sytteth
styll
/
&
that
is
it
that
kepeth
her
.
Many
auctours
bereth
wytnesse
madame
that
women
ben
by
nature
synful
.
Doughter
thou
hast
herde
speke
of
a
prouerbe
that
sayth
that
that
nature
gyueth
may
not
be
taken
away
.
So
it
sholde
be
to
grete
a
meruayle
yf
they
sholde
be
so
enclyned
to
synne
naturally
.
For
the
women
that
loueth
her
worshyp
nature
styreth
them
neuer
to
come
in
suche
places
where
as
that
synne
that
is
sayd
of
them
is
vsed
/
as
in
tauernes
&
other
places
to
that
or
for
that
ordeyned
/
&
yf
ony
man
wolde
answere
&
saye
that
shame
kepeth
them
/
I
say
that
is
not
true
.
For
it
is
another
thynge
that
kepeth
them
whiche
is
theyr
naturall
condycyon
whiche
is
not
so
enclyned
therto
.
And
I
put
case
that
they
were
so
enclyned
&
that
shame
gaue
them
suche
resystence
contrary
to
theyr
naturall
inclynacyon
that
that
vertue
and
constaunce
sholde
tourne
them
to
grete
worshyp
&
praysynge
.
And
to
that
purpose
remembrest
thou
not
that
not
longe
ago
that
as
thou
were
in
a
festfull
day
at
the
gate
of
thyne
house
deuysynge
one
&
other
with
a
worshypfull
damoysell
thy
neyghboure
.
And
thou
sawest
a
man
come
out
of
a
tauerne
that
wente
talkynge
with
another
sayenge
/
I
haue
spente
thus
moche
at
the
tauerne
/
&
my
wyfe
shall
drynke
no
wyne
to
nyght
.
And
then
thou
called
hym
to
the
and
asked
the
cause
why
/
and
he
sayd
to
the.
For
this
cause
madame
.
For
she
hathe
suche
a
condycyon
that
euery
tyme
that
I
come
from
the
tauerne
she
asketh
me
howe
moche
I
haue
spente
/
&
yf
it
be
more
than
xij
.
pens
she
wyll
recompence
me
by
the
sobernes
of
her
mouthe
/
&
that
that
I
haue
spente
to
moche
&
sayth
that
yf
we
bothe
sholde
spende
so
largely
/
oure
crafte
sholde
not
tournysshe
vs
to
our
dyspence
.
Madame
sayd
I
then
of
that
I
remembre
me
well
.
&
then
she
sayd
to
me
.
Thou
mayst
knowe
by
ensamples
ynowe
that
by
nature
women
ben
sobre
/
&
those
that
be
not
they
go
out
of
kynde
/
for
there
may
not
be
a
more
lewder
vyce
in
a
woma
than
glo●o
ny
/
for
that
vyce
draweth
to
hym
many
other
vyces
But
y●
mayst
well
se
of
them
grete
companyes
&
grete
prese
in
theyr
chyrches
at
sermons
&
at
pardons
holdynge
theyr
beedes
in
theyr
handes
say
enge
theyr
prayers
.
Madame
sayd
I
that
is
trouthe
But
these
men
say
that
they
go
fresshe
&
Ioly
to
showe
theyr
beaute
&
to
drawe
these
men
to
theyr
loue
¶
Answere
.
That
sholde
be
a
thynge
for
●o
byleue
dere
frende
yf
one
sawe
none
there
but
yonge
women
&
fresshe
▪
but
y●
shalte
se
there
for
one
yonge
woman
.xx.
or
.xxx.
olde
of
symple
habyte
to
go
&
haunte
the
places
of
deuocyon
.
And
yf
deuocyon
be
amonge
women
it
sholde
folowe
in
the
same
wyse
that
charyte
fauteth
not
there
/
for
they
vysyte
the
syke
&
comforte
them
/
they
renne
to
pore
people
&
serche
th
hospytalles
&
bury
the
deed
bodyes
.
Me
semeth
that
these
be
the
werkes
of
women
the
whiche
ben
y●●oue
rayne
traces
that
god
commaundeth
vs
to
folowe
.
Madame
ye
say
wel
/
but
there
is
an
auctour
sayth
that
women
by
nature
haue
yll
courage
&
be
as
chyldren
And
for
that
cause
chyldren
ben
conuersaunt
with
them
/
&
they
with
the
chyldren
.
¶
Answere
.
Dou
ghter
yf
thou
take
hede
to
the
nature
of
a
chylde
of
his
condycyon
/
he
loueth
frendlynesse
/
&
swetnes
And
what
thynge
is
there
in
the
worlde
more
swetter
&
more
amyable
than
is
a
woman
well
set
in
ordre
.
Ha
the
cursed
people
of
the
deuylles
condycyon
that
wolde
haue
the
welthe
&
vertue
of
mekenesse
and
benygnyte
that
is
in
women
tourne
to
euyll
&
in
to
reproffe
.
For
thoughe
women
loue
chyldren
/
it
cometh
not
of
them
by
the
vyce
of
ygno
raunce
/
but
it
cometh
of
the
swetnesse
of
theyr
condycyon
/
and
yf
they
be
as
chyldren
in
benygnyte
of
that
&
in
that
they
be
well
counsaylled
.
For
so
as
the
gospell
recordeth
.
Ne
sayd
not
our
lorde
to
his
appostles
when
they
stryued
amonge
theym
whiche
sholde
be
moost
grete
/
&
he
called
a
chylde
and
layde
his
hande
on
his
heed
and
sayd
.
I
saye
you
certaynly
that
he
that
wyl
holde
hym
lytell
&
meke
as
a
chylde
shal
be
moost
hye
.
For
who
that
meketh
hym
shall
be
enhaunced
/
and
he
that
enhaunceth
hym
shall
be
put
lowe
.
Madame
men
dothe
me
grete
hurte
of
one
prouerbe
in
latyne
the
theyre
proue
women
by
often
tymes
whiche
sayth
wepe
speke
/
and
spynne
/
god
hath
put
in
woman
.
¶
An
swere
.
Forsothe
swete
frende
that
worde
is
true
howe
be
it
that
he
that
trowed
or
sayd
y●
in
reproue
/
it
was
for
them
a
good
happe
whiche
by
spekynge
/
wepynge
/
&
spynnynge
haue
ben
saued
/
thus
god
put
in
them
suche
condycyons
.
And
agaynst
them
that
so
moche
reproueth
them
in
the
condyon
of
wepynge
.
I
saye
yf
that
our
sauyour
Ihesu
cryst
to
whome
no
thought
is
hydde
and
whiche
seeth
euery
courage
had
knowen
that
the
teeres
of
women
had
come
onely
of
fragylyte
and
symplenesse
/
the
dygnyte
of
his
grete
hyghnesse
had
not
ben
so
enclyned
to
yelde
hymselfe
teeres
of
the
eyen
of
his
worshypfull
&
gloryons
body
by
compassy
on
when
he
sawe
Mary
Magdaleyne
&
Mar●ha
her
syster
wepe
for
the
dethe
of
theyr
broder
Lazare
whiche
he
raysed
from
the
dethe
.
O
howe
many
grete
graces
god
hath
done
to
women
bycause
of
theyr
teeres
.
He
dyspraysed
not
the
teeres
of
the
foresayd
Mary
Magdaleyne
/
but
accepted
them
in
so
moche
that
he
pardoned
her
of
her
synnes
/
&
by
the
merytes
of
them
she
is
in
heuen
gloryously
Also
he
put
not
awaye
those
teeres
of
the
wydowe
whiche
wepte
for
her
deed
sone
y●
one
bare
to
the
erthe
.
And
our
lorde
whiche
is
the
welle
of
all
pyte
moued
of
compassyon
for
the
teeres
of
her
wente
to
aske
her
/
wherfore
wepest
thou
/
and
then
anone
he
raysed
the
chylde
to
the
lyfe
.
Other
grete
graces
whiche
sholde
be
longe
to
telle
god
hathe
done
to
many
women
for
theyr
wepynge
&
alwaye
dothe
.
wherfore
I
suppose
that
bycause
of
theyr
wepynge
and
theyr
deuocyon
many
of
them
ben
saued
&
others
also
whiche
they
pray
for
.
Ne
was
not
saynt
Austyne
the
gloryous
doctoure
of
the
chyrche
conuerted
to
the
fayth
/
bycause
of
wepynge
of
his
moder
.
For
that
same
good
lady
wepte
with
out
seasynge
praynge
to
god
that
it
myght
please
him
to
enlumyne
the
herte
of
her
sone
whiche
was
at
the
tyme
a
paynyme
&
out
of
the
byleue
from
the
lyght
of
the
faythe
.
wherfore
this
good
lady
wente
often
tymes
to
requyre
saynt
Ambrose
that
he
sholde
pray
to
god
for
hym
/
&
then
my
lady
Reason
sayd
to
me
I
suppose
sayd
she
that
it
sholde
be
a
thynge
impossyble
that
so
many
teeres
of
a
woman
sholde
be
lost
.
O
blessyd
saynt
Ambrose
thou
trowed
not
that
so
many
teeres
of
a
woman
sholde
be
set
at
nought
/
and
that
may
be
answere
to
men
that
reproue
women
that
bycause
of
theyr
wepynge
/
of
a
woman
is
the
holy
lyght
in
the
fronte
of
holy
chyrche
whiche
clereth
&
enlumyneth
all
the
chyrche
.
That
is
to
knowe
saynt
Austyne
.
Soo
lette
men
speke
no
more
of
y●
as
nowe
.
The
same
wyse
truely
god
put
the
spekynge
in
woman
worshypped
be
he
.
For
yf
speche
had
not
ben
put
in
theym
they
had
ben
dome
/
yet
contrary
to
y●
that
the
prouerbe
whiche
I
knowe
not
who
made
it
at
his
pleasure
in
the
reproffe
of
women
/
yf
language
of
the
woman
had
ben
so
moche
reprouable
&
of
so
lytell
auctoryte
as
some
men
wolde
saye
/
our
lorde
Ihesu
Cryst
had
neuer
vouched
saufe
that
so
worshypfull
a
mystery
as
that
was
of
his
gloryous
resurreccyon
whiche
was
fyrst
announced
by
woman
as
he
hymselfe
commaunded
to
the
blessyd
Mary
Magdaleyne
to
whome
he
appered
fyrst
on
Ester
day
that
she
sholde
tell
it
&
announce
it
to
his
dyscyples
&
to
Peter
.
O
blessyd
lorde
Ihesu
loued
be
thou
whiche
with
other
infy
nyte
gyftes
&
graces
that
thou
hast
done
&
gyuen
to
woman
kynde
woldest
that
woman
sholde
be
the
berer
of
so
hyghe
&
worshypfull
tydynges
wel
ought
these
enuyous
men
to
be
styll
yf
they
aduyse
them
well
.
It
was
a
good
happe
that
the
woman
of
Cananee
was
so
grete
a
speker
whiche
dyde
nought
elles
but
crye
after
our
lorde
Ihesu
Cryst
goynge
by
the
stretes
of
Iherusalem
sayenge
.
Haue
mercy
on
me
lorde
for
my
doughter
is
syke
.
But
what
dyde
our
lorde
god
he
in
whom
al
mercy
ha
bounded
&
haboundeth
/
and
to
whom
it
suffysed
one
onely
worde
comynge
from
the
herte
to
haue
mercy
.
It
semed
that
he
delyted
in
many
wordes
of
the
mouthe
of
the
woman
alway
perseueraunt
in
her
prayer
/
but
wherfore
dyde
he
it
/
It
was
to
proue
her
stedfastnesse
.
For
when
he
herde
her
lyken
her selfe
to
dogges
/
that
semed
a
lytell
rudely
for
that
she
was
of
a
straunge
lawe
and
not
of
goddes
lawe
She
had
no
shame
to
speke
well
&
wysely
in
sayenge
.
Lorde
it
is
true
that
the
lytell
dogges
eteth
the
crommes
that
falleth
from
the
table
of
theyr
lorde
.
O
ryght
wyse
woman
who
hathe
tought
the
to
speke
so
.
Thou
gatest
thy
cause
by
thy
language
yssued
of
good
wyll
/
and
well
it
semed
.
For
oure
lorde
bare
wytnesse
of
his
owne
mouthe
/
retournynge
than
vnto
his
appostles
sayenge
to
th●ym
that
he
had
not
founde
suche
fayth
in
Israell
and
graunted
vnto
her
request
and
desyre
.
¶
Ha
who
maye
somme
suffysauntly
the
worshyp
in
the
kynde
of
woman
the
whiche
the
enuyous
men
wyll
so
dysprayse
consyderynge
that
in
the
herte
of
a
lytell
woman
of
the
kynred
of
paynymes
▪
god
founde
more
faythe
than
in
all
the
bysshoppes
&
prynces
or
preestes
/
or
in
the
people
of
Iewes
that
called
themselve
the
worthy
people
of
god
.
In
suche
a
manere
spake
also
longly
&
with
grete
pleatynge
&
wel
for
her
the
woman
Samarytane
that
was
come
to
drawe
of
the
water
/
where
she
founde
Ihesu
cryst
syttynge
all
wery
.
O
thou
blessyd
godhede
conioyned
to
the
worshypful
body
.
Howe
myght
thou
suffre
thy
holy
mouthe
to
open
/
and
to
holde
the
rayne
of
wordes
of
helthe
to
this
poore
&
lytel
woman
synner
/
the
whiche
was
not
of
that
lawe
.
Truely
thou
shewed
well
that
thou
dysdayned
not
the
deuoute
kynde
of
women
.
¶
Ne
spake
not
wysely
the
woman
that
sate
at
the
sermone
of
our
lorde
Ihesu
Cryste
whiche
was
so
embraced
with
his
holy
wordes
/
so
as
one
saythe
that
women
may
not
byleue
so
soone
/
yet
she
spake
at
that
tyme
/
&
then
she
rose
with
a
grete
wyll
&
sayd
.
Blessyd
be
that
wombe
that
bare
the
&
the
pappes
that
thou
sowked
.
¶
Thus
thou
mayst
vnderstande
fayre
swete
frende
that
god
hathe
shewed
that
truely
he
loueth
language
to
be
well
serued
.
So
that
ought
not
to
be
reproffe
to
them
wherof
so
moche
welthe
cometh
and
so
lytell
euyll
/
for
no
man
seeth
grete
preiudyce
come
of
theyr
language
.
¶
And
as
to
spynne
/
truely
it
is
goddes
wyll
that
it
be
kyndely
to
them
.
For
that
offyce
is
necessary
to
goddes
seruyce
/
&
to
the
helpe
of
euery
creature
reasonable
/
without
the
whiche
worke
the
offyces
of
the
worlde
sholde
be
maynteyned
in
grete
foulenesse
and
vnclennesse
.
So
it
is
grete
shredenesse
to
put
that
in
to
the
reproffe
of
woman
that
ought
to
tourne
them
to
grete
honoure
and
praysynge
.
¶
Xp̄ine
demaundeth
of
Reason
wherfore
it
is
that
women
sytteth
not
in
the
syege
of
pleadynge
Capitulo
.xj.
RIght
hyghe
and
worshypfull
lady
/
your
fayre
reasons
satysfyeth
ryght
gretely
my
thought
.
But
yet
tell
me
yf
it
please
you
the
trouthe
/
wherfore
is
that
that
these
women
holde
noo
pleadynge
in
the
courte
of
Iustyce
/
nor
they
knowe
not
of
the
causes
ne
dothe
no
Iugement
.
For
these
men
saye
that
it
is
for
they
can
not
/
&
that
woman
that
sytteth
in
the
place
of
Iustyce
gouerneth
her
shrewdely
.
Doughter
these
ben
but
Iapes
&
thynges
contryued
of
that
y●
one
lyst
to
say
of
women
But
he
that
wolde
demaunde
the
causes
and
rea
sons
of
al
thynges
it
sholde
be
to
moche
to
answere
.
Howe
be
it
that
Arystotle
in
in
his
boke
of
problemes
yeldeth
reason
of
many
thynges
/
&
in
the
same
wyse
in
the
boke
of
propryetees
of
thynges
ben
conteyned
the
beynges
of
dyuers
accyons
naturalles
.
But
as
to
that
fayre
frende
the
same
wyse
yf
it
be
demaunded
why
god
ordeyned
not
that
these
men
sholde
do
the
offyces
of
women
/
&
the
women
the
offyces
of
men
.
But
the
answere
is
this
the
as
a
wyse
lo●de
well
ordeyned
stablyssheth
his
meyne
to
do
dyueuers
offyces
one
one
thynge
/
another
another
thynge
/
as
so
that
that
one
dothe
another
do
the
not
.
The
same
wyse
god
hath
ordeyned
man
&
woman
to
serue
/
&
also
to
helpe
/
comforte
/
&
holde
company
one
with
another
euery
of
them
in
that
he
is
ordeyned
to
do
/
&
hathe
gyuen
to
euery
kynde
suche
nature
&
inclynacyon
as
to
do
his
offyce
competently
perteynynge
to
hym
/
howe
be
it
that
mannes
nature
abuseth
often
tymes
in
that
that
he
ought
to
do
.
He
hath
gyuen
to
men
body
stronge
power
/
and
hardy
to
go
&
come
&
speke
/
and
for
the
these
men
that
haue
that
nature
lerneth
the
lawes
/
&
ought
to
put
them
in
execucyon
/
to
holde
the
worlde
in
the
ordre
of
Iustyce
.
And
they
be
bounde
that
in
case
that
ony
wolde
not
obey
to
the
lawes
establed
by
ryght
&
reason
that
they
sholde
make
them
to
obeye
by
force
of
theyr
bodyes
and
by
puyssaunce
of
armes
&
that
the
women
may
not
do
.
For
howe
be
it
that
god
hath
gyuen
them
vnderstandynge
yet
they
may
not
vse
it
in
that
manere
for
theyr
honeste
.
For
it
were
not
conuenyent
that
they
sholde
goo
sewe
them
in
Iugement
as
these
men
done
.
For
there
ben
ynowe
that
dothe
it
/
for
what
nedeth
thre
men
to
lyfte
vp
a
fardell
that
twayne
may
lyghtly
bere
it
away
/
yet
yf
some
men
wolde
saye
that
women
haue
not
suffycyent
vnderstandynge
for
to
lerne
the
lawes
/
the
contrary
is
made
open
by
experyence
/
and
it
appereth
of
many
women
/
as
it
shall
be
sayd
here
after
the
whiche
haue
ben
ryght
grete
phylosophres
&
haue
lerned
more
subtyll
scyence
and
more
hygher
than
the
lawes
wryten
by
men
.
And
also
who
wolde
purpose
that
they
haue
not
naturall
wytte
in
dede
of
polycye
&
of
gouernaunce
.
I
gyue
the
ensample
of
many
grete
may
stresses
that
haue
ben
in
tyme
past
/
&
also
in
thy
tyme
/
to
the
entente
that
thou
sholdest
knowe
the
better
my
trouthe
them
that
haue
ben
wydowes
whiche
haue
kepte
good
gouernaunce
in
all
theyr
doynges
after
the
dethe
of
theyr
housbandes
/
whiche
gyueth
open
experyence
that
a
woman
that
hath
vnderstan
dynge
is
couenable
in
all
thynges
.
¶
Here
it
speketh
of
the
Empresse
Nyehole
&
after
of
dyuers
noble
quenes
and
pryncesses
of
Fraunce
.
Capitulo
.xij.
TEll
me
I
praye
the
where
was
euer
that
kynge
of
grete
vnderstandynge
in
the
dede
of
polycye
of
gouernaunce
to
kepe
souerayne
Iustyce
/
and
al
so
of
hyghe
magnyfycence
in
lyuynge
that
is
reode
of
the
ryght
noble
Empresse
Nychole
.
For
not
withstandynge
that
in
these
countrees
grete
/
large
/
&
dyuers
that
she
had
the
rewle
of
had
ben
kynges
of
grete
fame
called
Pharaons
of
whom
she
was
descended
.
This
lady
was
she
that
fyrste
began
to
lyue
in
her
royalme
after
lawes
&
worldely
polycy
/
&
she
destroyed
the
rude
maners
of
lyuynge
of
those
countrees
that
she
had
in
gouernaunce
.
And
these
auctours
saye
the
speke
th
of
her
that
she
amended
the
rudenesse
of
her
people
.
And
she
was
herytoure
of
the
foresayd
Pharaons
/
not
onely
of
the
lytell
countre
/
but
of
the
royalme
of
Arabee
of
Ethyope
and
of
Egypte
/
&
of
y●
I
le
Maromye
whiche
is
ryght
longe
and
large
/
and
habundaunte
of
all
manere
of
goodes
whiche
is
closed
with
the
flode
of
Nyle
whiche
she
go
uerned
by
meruayllous
prudence
/
what
shall
I
saye
more
of
this
lady
whiche
had
all
this
welthe
but
that
she
was
so
wyse
&
of
suche
gouernaunce
the
holy
scrypture
speketh
of
her
grete
vertue
.
She
herselfe
ordeyned
lawes
and
ryghtes
to
gouerne
her
people
.
She
habounded
in
grete
noblesse
and
rychesse
more
than
ony
man
in
those
dayes
/
&
she
was
profounde
&
experte
in
scryptures
&
in
.
And
she
had
so
hyghe
a
courage
that
she
dysdeyned
to
be
maryed
ne
wolde
that
no
man
sholde
haue
,
knowlege
of
her
body
.
¶
Of
the
quene
of
Fraunce
whiche
was
named
Fredegonde
.
Ca.
xiij
.
OF
ladyes
of
wyse
gouernaunce
I
myght
telle
the
ynoughe
.
The
quene
of
Fraunce
Fredegonde
that
had
ben
the
wyfe
of
kynge
Charles
notwithstandynge
she
was
cruell
out
of
naturall
lawe
of
woman
●et
after
the
dethe
of
her
houfbāde
she
gouerned
the
royalme
of
Fraunce
by
grete
prowe●se
whiche
was
at
that
tyme
in
ryght
grete
balaunce
.
For
there
was
lefte
her
a
sone
without
mo
herytours
of
his
fader
the
whiche
was
called
Clothary●
/
so
there
was
grete
deuy●yon
amonge
the
lordes
bycause
of
gouernaunce
&
vpon
that
there
fell
grete
warre
to
the
royalme
/
yet
this
lady
helde
contynually
her
sone
bytwene
her
armes
.
And
she
called
&
assembled
theyr
lordes
in
a
counsayle
&
sayd
lordes
so
here
your
kynge
/
ye
haue
not
for
goten
the
trouthe
/
whiche
alwayes
hath
ben
in
Fraunce
/
and
nowe
dyspyse
hym
not
thoughe
he
be
a
chylde
/
for
by
the
helpe
of
god
he
shall
encrease
and
when
he
shall
come
to
age
he
shal
knowe
his
good
frendes
and
shall
rewarde
them
after
theyr
desertes
.
So
I
pray
you
dysheryte
him
not
wrong
fully
.
And
as
for
me
I
make
you
certayne
that
he
shall
rewarde
them
that
well
and
truely
maynteyneth
hym
that
they
shall
be
the
better
euer
after
.
And
so
this
quene
appeased
the
lordes
thrughe
the
whiche
sadde
gouernaunce
she
dyde
so
moche
that
she
drewe
her
sone
out
of
his
enemyes
handes
and
nourysshed
hym
herselfe
tyl
that
he
was
of
age
and
by
her
he
gate
the
crowne
and
the
worshyppe
of
the
royalme
whiche
had
neuer
ben
done
but
by
the
grete
prudence
of
her
.
¶
And
in
the
same
wyse
one
maye
saye
of
the
ryght
wyse
/
and
in
all
cases
good
the
noble
quene
Blaunche
moder
vnto
Saynt
Lowes
/
whiche
so
nobly
&
prudently
gouerned
y●●oyalme
of
Frail
●o
ryll
her
sone
were
rype
of
age
/
whiche
was
neuer
better
gouerned
by
man
/
&
also
whan
he
was
come
to
his
age
by
the
proffe
of
her
wyse
gouernan̄●e
sh●
was
alway
thyefe
of
his
counsay●e
/
and
no
thynge
was
done
without
her
and
also
she
sewed
her
●one
alwaye
in
batayle
and
in
warre
/
other
n●
out
nombre
I
myght
tell
y●
to
this
purpose
whiche
I
let
passe
for
shortnesse
of
tyme
/
yet
syth
that
we
be
entred
to
speke
of
ladyes
of
Fraunce
without
goyenge
ferther
to
seke
straunge
storyes
.
Thou
sawest
in
thy
tyme
the
noble
quene
of
Fraunce
Iane
wedowe
of
kynge
Charles
the
fourth
/
yfthou
ha
ne
it
in
mynde
.
Aduyse
the
grete
welthe
that
the
fame
of
this
noble
lady
wytnesseth
as
moche
in
no
table
ordynaunce
of
her
courte
as
in
manere
of
ly
uynge
&
in
souerayne
Iustyce
.
It
was
neuer
spoken
of
prynce
that
maynteyned
and
kepte
better
in
his
londe
that
was
pertaynynge
to
hym
than
this
lady
dyde
.
And
the
noble
lady
that
was
wedded
to
the
duke
of
Orlynaunce
sone
of
kynge
Phylyp
resembled
her
wel
/
the
whiche
in
her
wydo
whode
in
the
whiche
she
was
longe
tyme
maynteyned
Iustyce
in
her
countre
so
ryghtfully
that
no
man
myght
do
better
.
¶
Also
the
quene
of
Fraunce
dame
Blaunche
whiche
was
wyfe
to
kynge
Iohan
maynteyned
her
londe
and
gouerned
by
grete
ordre
of
ryght
&
Iustyce
.
And
what
myght
one
saye
of
the
worshypfull
and
wyse
lady
the
duchesse
of
Aniou
some
tyme
doughter
to
the
holy
Charles
de
Bloys
duke
of
Brytayne
/
and
after
was
wyfe
to
the
yonger
brother
of
the
kyng
of
Fraunce
.
The
whiche
duke
was
called
syth
kynge
of
Ce●yl
how
helde
she
vnder
the
rodde
of
Iustyce
the
londes
&
countrees
/
as
well
of
Prouance
as
of
other
that
she
gouerned
and
helde
in
her
honde
for
the
ryght
noble
chyldren
whyle
that
they
were
yonge
/
where
was
euer
clamoure
or
playnte
harde
of
wronge
done
that
this
noble
lady
sholde
do
.
In
the
same
wyse
the
Countesse
de
la
marche
lady
&
countesse
of
Uandome
&
of
Castres
whiche
yet
is
on
lyue
/
what
myght
one
saye
of
her
gouernaunce
wolde
it
not
be
knowne
howe
&
in
what
manere
her
I●
styce
was
maynteyned
/
&
she
herselfe
as
a
good
&
wyse
lady
toke
hede
therto
curyously
.
And
what
sholde
I
say
more
/
one
myght
say
yn
oughe
of
grete
ladyes
/
meanes
/
&
lesse
/
in
the
same
wyse
howe
they
dyde
that
that
was
perteynynge
to
them
who
so
wyl
take
hede
.
It
semeth
me
that
one
myght
se
that
these
noble
ladyes
in
theyr
wydo
whode
haue
susteyned
&
suffycyently
well
kepte
Iurysdyc●yon
&
ryght
in
theyr
lordeshyppes
as
theyr
housbandes
dyde
that
tyme
lyuynge
&
as
well
loued
of
theyr
subiectes
&
better
.
For
be
it
no
doubte
nor
dyspleasaunce
to
men
that
there
ben
many
women
that
haue
better
vnderstandynge
than
some
of
these
men
haue
/
of
the
whiche
yf
theyr
housbandes
had
byleued
them
that
they
had
had
suche
vnderstandynge
as
they
had
it
myght
haue
tourned
theym
to
grete
profyte
/
yet
thoughe
these
women
communely
medle
them
not
of
the
dede
of
Iugement
ne
pronounce
the
causes
of
partyes
it
is
to
theym
no
force
.
For
by
so
moche
they
haue
the
lesse
charge
to
theyr
soules
and
to
theyr
bodyes
.
And
howe
be
it
that
it
is
a
thynge
necessary
for
to
punysshe
the
euyll
doers
and
to
do
ryght
vnto
euery
man
there
ben
men
ynowe
&
suche
offycers
that
they
myght
wyss
he
that
they
had
neuer
knowne
more
than
theyr
moders
.
For
yf
they
go
all
the
ryght
waye
/
god
knoweth
of
the
whiche
if
there
be
ony
fraude
theyr
punycyon
is
not
lytell
.
¶
Of
altercacyons
and
argumentes
of
Xp̄ine
to
dame
Reason
.
Ca.
xiiij
.
CErtes
madame
ye
say
ryght
wel
/
and
your
reasons
ben
ryght
well
sow●yn
ge
in
my
courage
.
But
yet
thoughe
it
be
so
of
theyr
vnderstandynge
is
that
proued
that
women
haue
feble
bodyes
/
tendre
and
not
myghty
in
the
dedes
of
strengthe
/
and
by
nature
they
ben
cowardes
/
and
this
is
one
thynge
that
maketh
moche
lesse
the
degree
and
auctoryte
of
the
kynde
of
woman
/
by
the
Iugement
of
men
.
For
they
wyll
saye
that
in
so
moche
as
a
body
is
more
imperfyte
in
euery
thynge
so
moche
is
it
abredged
and
made
lesse
of
his
vertue
.
And
by
that
that
thou
folowest
it
/
it
is
the
lesse
for
to
prayse
.
¶
Answere
.
Dere
doughter
thys
folowynge
is
not
good
nor
to
be
susteyned
.
For
without
fayle
one
seeth
often
tymes
that
when
nature
hathe
restrayned
ony
thynge
frome
a
body
that
she
hathe
fourmed
/
she
rewardeth
that
body
in
some
other
thynge
of
as
moche
valoure
/
as
thus
.
If
a
woman
be
imparfyte
of
shap
/
or
of
beaute
/
or
of
impotencye
/
or
feblenes
of
membres
it
is
sygne
that
she
recompenseth
her
with
some
other
thynge
that
is
more
worth
than
that
she
hath
berafte
her
.
Ensample
as
it
is
sayd
of
the
grete
phylosophre
Arystotle
whiche
was
ryght
lewde
of
shap
/
one
eye
hygher
than
that
other
and
of
straunge
vysage
/
yet
thoughe
he
had
ony
deformyte
of
body
or
of
shap
/
true
ly
nature
recompensed
hym
ryght
gretely
in
vnderstandynge
retentyfe
and
felynge
as
it
appereth
by
this
antentyke
wrytynges
so
that
recompensynge
of
so
grete
wytte
was
of
more
valoure
than
thoughe
he
had
a
body
lyke
vnto
Absolon
.
In
the
same
wyse
one
maye
say
of
the
grete
Emperoure
Alexandre
that
was
but
lytell
of
body
yet
had
he
grete
vertue
in
his
courage
as
it
appered
&
so
it
is
by
many
others
.
So
I
promyse
the
fayre
loue
that
the
grete
&
stronge
body
causeth
not
the
vertuous
&
myghty
courage
/
but
it
cometh
of
a
vertuous
strengethe
&
maners
that
is
gyuen
of
god
/
whiche
graunteth
to
nature
to
leue
to
some
creatures
reasonables
more
than
to
some
others
/
for
it
is
a
gyfte
hyd
in
the
vnderstandynge
&
in
courage
/
&
not
onely
in
the
strengthe
of
body
nor
of
membres
thus
we
knowe
often
tymes
by
that
the
grete
men
ynowe
&
of
stronge
membres
we
se
they
be
latches
faylyn
ge
&
recrayed
/
&
of
others
that
haue
ben
lytell
&
feble
of
body
that
ben
hardy
&
full
stronge
/
&
the
same
wyse
it
is
of
other
vertues
/
but
as
to
the
hardynes
&
suche
strengthe
/
god
&
nature
hathe
done
ynoughe
for
women
in
y●
that
he
hath
gyuen
them
Impotencye
.
For
at
the
leest
they
ben
agreably
excused
by
that
defaute
in
so
moche
that
they
do
not
these
horryble
crueltees
the
wronges
&
the
grete
greues
&
extorcyons
the
whiche
are
done
to
the
worlde
bycause
of
strength
/
so
they
shal
not
haue
suche
punyssh
mentes
as
suche
case
requyreth
/
&
it
sholde
haue
ben
ryght
good
for
the
soules
of
man
that
they
myght
haue
passed
the
pylgrymage
of
this
worlde
in
the
feble
body
of
woman
.
And
truely
I
saye
&
come
agayne
to
my
purpose
that
yf
nature
had
not
gyuen
grete
strengthe
of
membres
to
a
womans
body
that
she
recompenseth
her
ryght
well
in
that
y●
there
is
gyuen
to
her
a
more
vertuous
inclynacyon
/
that
is
to
loue
god
/
&
to
be
dredefull
naturally
to
do
contrary
to
his
commaundementes
/
&
those
that
do
otherwyse
dothe
out
of
kynde
.
But
alwayes
aduyse
the
dere
doughter
howe
it
semeth
that
god
lyst
to
showe
all
degrees
to
men
thoughe
that
they
say
that
for
as
moche
as
women
haue
not
all
so
grete
stren
gthe
&
hardynesse
corporall
as
communely
these
men
haue
that
they
ought
not
byleue
that
it
is
for
that
that
al
bodely
strengthe
and
hardynesse
be
shytte
fro
the
kynde
of
woman
.
It
appereth
by
that
that
in
many
women
there
is
shewed
grete
courage
/
strengthe
&
hardynesse
to
vndertake
all
maner
of
stronge
thynges
&
to
accheue
them
lyke
as
dyde
these
grete
men
&
solem●ne
conquerours
of
whom
there
is
made
so
grete
mencyon
in
wrytynges
as
I
shall
remembre
y●
here
after
by
ensample
.
Fayre
doughter
nowe
I
haue
ordeyned
&
arayed
for
that
a
pytte
grete
and
large
.
And
I
haue
borne
out
vpon
my
sholdres
ryght
grete
burdens
of
rubrysshe
of
the
erthe
.
And
it
is
tyme
that
thou
sette
in
these
grete
&
stronge
stones
for
the
foundement
of
the
walles
of
the
cyte
of
Ladyes
.
Nowe
take
thy
truell
&
thy
plumbe
with
thy
lyne
&
make
the
redy
to
werke
strong
ly
the
masonry
by
grete
dylygence
.
For
se
here
a
grete
and
a
large
stone
whiche
I
wyll
that
it
be
the
fyrste
set
in
the
foundement
of
thy
cyte
/
&
knowe
it
that
nature
herselfe
hathe
pourtrayed
it
by
the
sygnes
of
Astrologye
for
to
be
alowed
in
this
werke
.
Nowe
drawe
the
a
lytell
abacke
&
I
shall
cast
hym
on
.
¶
Of
the
quene
Semyramys
.
Ca.
xv
.
SEmyramys
was
a
woman
of
ryght
grete
vertue
in
dede
of
grete
&
vycto
ryous
courage
/
in
vndertakynge
of
entrepryses
/
and
in
hauntynge
of
dedes
of
armes
/
the
whiche
was
so
excellent
that
the
people
there
the
whiche
were
pay
nymes
sayd
that
for
the
grete
myght
and
strengthe
that
she
hadde
bothe
vpon
the
lande
/
and
vpon
the
see
/
that
she
was
syster
vnto
the
grete
god
Iupyter
and
doughter
to
the
auncyent
god
Saturnus
whiche
they
called
the
god
of
the
lande
&
of
the
see
.
This
lady
was
the
wyfe
of
kynge
Nynus
that
named
the
cyte
of
Nynyue
of
his
name
.
And
he
was
so
grete
a
couqueroure
that
by
the
helpe
of
his
wyfe
Semyramys
whiche
lykewyse
as
he
rode
alway
with
hym
in
harnoys
/
he
conquered
the
grete
Babylone
&
all
the
lande
of
Assyrye
&
other
countrees
many
.
It
happened
that
the
lady
beynge
yet
ynoughe
in
yonge
age
Nynus
her
housbande
was
slayne
with
an
arowe
at
the
assaulte
of
a
cyte
/
yet
when
the
obsequyes
&
the
solompnytees
was
couenably
done
of
the
foresayd
kynge
/
the
lady
neuer
lefte
the
excercyse
of
armes
/
but
more
than
before
by
ryght
grete
courage
toke
vpon
her
to
go
uerne
by
strengthe
the
lordshyppes
/
royalmes
/
&
landes
whiche
her
housbande
&
she
had
conquered
with
the
swerde
/
whiche
landes
&
royalmes
she
kepte
ryght
notably
by
grete
discyplyne
of
cheualrye
.
So
&
in
suche
manere
she
haunted
and
ac
complysshed
so
many
of
notable
werkes
that
no
man
in
vygure
and
in
strengthe
surmounted
her
This
lady
in
whom
habounded
ryght
hardy
cou
rage
/
ne
doubted
no
payne
/
ne
was
not
aferde
of
no
perylles
/
but
put
herselfe
to
all
thynges
by
suche
excellence
that
she
ouercame
all
her
aduersaryes
that
had
trowed
to
put
her
in
her
wydowhode
out
of
all
her
conquestes
.
By
the
whiche
she
was
so
dredde
&
doubted
in
armes
that
she
kepte
not
onely
the
countres
before
conquered
but
with
a
ryght
grete
armye
wente
vpon
the
lande
of
Ethyope
whiche
she
ouercame
by
grete
strengthe
&
put
it
vnder
subieccyon
&
Ioyned
it
to
her
Empyre
.
From
thens
she
wente
with
a
grete
puyssaunce
in
to
Inde
/
and
assayled
strongly
the
men
of
Inde
/
to
whom
there
was
neuer
man
approched
to
make
them
warre
.
So
she
ouercame
them
and
put
them
vnder
her
subieccyon
/
&
syth
she
wente
ferther
vpon
theyr
countrees
so
moche
that
to
say
shortly
that
she
conque
red
all
the
oryent
whiche
is
called
the
Eest
parte
of
the
worlde
whiche
were
ryght
grete
and
myghty
.
This
Semyramys
enforced
&
made
agaynst
the
cyte
of
Babylone
whiche
was
founded
by
Nem
broche
and
the
gyauntes
and
was
set
in
the
felde
of
Semyaar
grete
and
of
meruayllous
strengthe
and
cyrcuyte
/
and
so
this
lady
made
it
more
stronger
of
dyuers
defenses
/
and
lete
make
aboute
large
and
depe
dykes
.
Semyramys
was
in
a
tyme
in
her
chambre
&
maydens
aboute
her
k●mynge
her
heed
.
It
happened
that
tydynges
came
y●
one
of
her
royalmes
began
to
rebell
agaynst
her
.
So
she
lyfted
vp
herselfe
and
sware
by
her
puyssaunce
that
the
other
tresse
of
her
heed
sholde
neuer
be
tressed
whiche
was
vntressed
tyll
the
tyme
that
she
had
venged
her
of
that
iniury
and
put
agayne
that
londe
in
to
her
subieccyon
.
So
she
made
an●
ne
all
her
men
to
arme
them
in
a
grete
multytude
and
wente
vpon
these
rebelles
/
&
by
meruaylous
strengthe
put
them
vnder
subieccyon
/
&
thus
they
and
all
her
other
subiectes
dradde
her
that
neuer
syth
they
durste
not
moue
a
fote
to
rebell
.
Of
the
whiche
noble
dede
and
couragyous
longe
tyme
after
gaue
wytnesse
a
grete
ymage
made
of
brasse
gylte
/
rychely
lyfte
vp
vpon
an
hyghe
pyller
in
Ba
bylone
whiche
represented
a
pryncesse
holdynge
&
swerde
in
her
hande
/
&
one
of
the
sydes
of
her
heed
tressed
&
that
other
not
.
This
quene
founded
&
edyfyed
of
newe
dyuers
cytees
&
stronge
places
&
accon
plysshed
many
other
grete
dedes
so
moche
that
there
was
neuer
wryten
of
no
man
of
so
grete
courage
ne
of
more
meruaylous
werkes
worthy
to
be
had
in
mynde
.
It
is
trouthe
that
many
blameth
her
&
so
she
ought
of
ryght
yf
she
had
ben
of
our
lawe
of
that
that
she
toke
her
owne
sone
to
housbande
that
she
had
goten
of
Nynus
her
lorde
but
the
causes
that
moued
her
to
that
were
.ij.
pryncypally
/
that
one
that
she
wolde
not
haue
had
in
her
Empyre
none
other
lady
crowned
saue
onely
herselfe
the
whiche
sholde
haue
ben
if
her
sone
had
wedded
ony
other
lady
/
that
other
cause
was
that
her
semed
no
man
worthy
to
haue
her
to
his
wyfe
saue
onely
her
ow
ne
sone
/
yet
was
this
cause
the
gretter
thrughe
whi
the
she
was
somwhat
excused
in
y●
that
she
was
not
of
our
lawe
/
for
the
people
lyued
after
the
lawe
of
nature
where
one
durste
doo
to
another
without
mysse
takynge
that
whiche
his
herte
perceyued
/
or
desyred
.
For
it
is
no
doubte
that
if
she
had
thought
that
it
had
ben
euyll
or
that
ony
blame
sholde
fall
to
her
therof
but
that
she
had
so
grete
and
soo
hyghe
courage
/
and
loued
so
moche
worshyp
/
she
wolde
neuer
haue
done
it
.
Nowe
is
the
fyrst
stone
set
in
the
foundement
of
our
cyte
.
Nowe
it
is
conuenyent
from
hens
forthe
to
set
sewyngly
stones
to
the
quantyte
for
to
auaunce
our
buyldynge
.
¶
Of
the
Amozones
.
Capitulo
.xvi.
A
Lande
there
is
towarde
the
ende
of
Europe
after
the
grete
see
that
holde
th
in
all
the
worlde
/
whiche
lande
is
called
Syche
or
Sychye
.
It
happened
somtyme
that
the
countre
by
force
of
warre
was
despoyled
of
all
the
yonge
men
dwellynge
in
that
countree
.
And
when
the
women
of
that
place
sawe
that
they
had
lost
theyr
housbandes
/
theyr
bretherne
/
and
theyr
kynnesmen
.
And
there
was
none
lefte
but
olde
men
and
chyldren
/
they
assembled
by
grete
courage
and
toke
counsayle
bytwene
them
and
aduysed
the
conclusyon
that
from
that
tyme
forth
they
wolde
maynteyne
theyr
lordshyppes
without
ony
subieccyon
of
men
and
made
suche
a
commaundement
that
no
maner
of
man
sholde
entre
in
to
theyr
iurysdyc●yon
▪
yet
for
to
haue
lygnage
they
sholde
go
in
to
the
nerte
countre
by
a
certayne
season
of
the
yere
/
&
then
sholde
they
tourne
home
agayne
in
to
theyr
countre
.
And
yf
they
were
delyuered
of
ony
sones
they
sholde
sende
them
vnto
theyr
faders
.
And
yf
they
were
mayde
chyldren
they
wolde
nourysshe
them
themselfe
to
perfourme
theyr
ordynaunce
.
Then
they
chose
.ij.
of
the
moost
noble
ladyes
amonge
them
to
be
crowned
quenes
of
whiche
one
was
called
Lampheto
/
that
other
Marpasye
.
This
do
ne
they
chased
out
of
theyr
countre
all
the
mankynde
that
was
lefte
bothe
yonge
&
olde
.
And
after
that
they
armed
them
and
with
a
grete
batayle
all
of
ladyes
&
of
maydens
wente
vpon
theyr
enemyes
and
wasted
all
theyr
lande
by
fyre
and
by
armrs
/
and
there
was
none
that
myght
resyst
them
and
to
speke
shortely
they
auenged
the
dethe
of
theyr
frendes
full
notably
.
And
by
this
way
began
the
women
of
Syche
or
of
Sychye
to
bere
armes
/
the
whiche
syth
were
called
Amozonnes
/
that
is
as
moche
to
say
as
vnpapped
.
For
that
they
had
suche
a
manere
that
the
noble
women
when
they
were
lytell
maydens
theyr
lyfte
pappes
were
cutte
of
by
a
certayne
crafte
/
for
that
they
sholde
not
be
combred
to
bere
the
shelde
.
And
to
them
that
were
not
gentylwomen
theyr
ryght
pappes
were
cut
away
to
shote
the
more
easely
.
So
they
wente
so
moche
delytynge
in
the
crafte
of
armes
that
they
encrea
sed
by
forte
ryght
moche
theyr
countre
and
theyr
royalmes
in
so
moche
that
theyr
fame
wente
all
aboute
as
I
haue
here
before
touched
to
ye.
Then
they
wente
in
to
dyuers
countrees
eche
of
theym
ledynge
a
grete
hoost
&
dyde
so
moche
that
they
conquered
a
grete
parte
of
Europe
and
of
the
countre
of
Ayfe
and
put
vnder
subieccyon
many
dyuers
countres
and
Ioyned
them
to
theyr
lordshyppes
and
founded
many
cytees
and
townes
/
and
in
lyke
wyse
in
Ayse
in
the
cyte
of
Ephese
whiche
is
&
longe
tyme
hathe
ben
of
grete
renowne
.
Of
these
two
quenes
Marpasye
dyed
fyrst
in
a
batayle
then
the
Amozones
crowned
her
doughter
in
her
place
a
noble
mayde
and
a
fayre
whiche
was
named
Synoppe
whiche
had
so
grete
courage
&
hyghe
that
all
the
dayes
of
her
lyfe
she
dysdeyned
not
to
be
coupled
to
no
man
but
remayned
styll
a
maybe
al
her
lyfe
.
So
she
had
none
other
loue
nor
charge
but
onely
in
the
excersyse
of
armes
/
and
in
that
she
had
so
grete
pleasunce
that
she
myght
not
be
satysfyed
to
assayle
and
conquere
landes
and
royalmes
/
&
by
her
her
moder
was
gretly
venged
in
so
moche
that
those
of
that
countre
were
slayne
and
put
to
the
swerde
&
wasted
all
the
lande
and
conquered
.
¶
Of
the
quene
of
Amozonye
Thamaris
.
Ca.
xvii
.
THus
as
thou
mayste
here
howe
the
Amozones
began
and
maynteyned
longe
tyme
theyr
lordshyppes
ryght
worshypfully
.
Of
the
whiche
they
made
quenes
by
successyon
one
after
another
yf
ryght
worshypful
ladyes
whiche
to
name
by
rowe
it
myght
tourne
the
reders
to
grete
noyaunce
.
So
it
shall
suffyse
to
speke
of
the
pryn
cypalles
of
whiche
there
was
one
called
Thama
rye
ryght
hardy
wyse
&
sage
by
whos
wytte
cautele
and
strengthe
.
Cyrrus
the
stronge
and
myghty
kynge
of
Perse
was
ouercome
and
taken
/
whiche
had
conquered
the
grete
Babylone
/
and
in
the
same
wyse
a
grete
parte
of
the
worlde
.
So
he
wolde
after
many
other
conquestes
that
he
had
done
goo
vpon
the
lande
of
Amozones
in
hope
to
haue
put
them
vnder
his
subieccyon
/
wherof
it
happened
as
this
same
wyse
/
the
quene
knewe
by
her
spyes
that
this
same
kynge
Cyrrus
wolde
come
vpon
her
with
so
grete
strengthe
of
people
that
ought
suffycyently
to
conquere
all
the
worlde
/
she
aduysed
her
that
it
sholde
be
impossyble
to
dyscomfyte
theyr
hoost
by
strengthe
of
armes
.
So
it
was
con
uenyent
to
laboure
by
cautele
.
And
then
she
wente
this
worshypfull
capytayne
when
she
knewe
that
Cyrrus
was
entred
before
in
to
her
londe
/
the
whiche
she
suffred
and
lete
hym
passe
before
in
to
her
londe
without
ony
gayne
saynge
/
she
made
arme
all
her
damoyselles
/
and
by
ryght
good
ordynaunce
put
them
in
dyuers
busshmentes
vpon
the
mountayues
and
in
the
woodes
where
that
Cyrrus
myght
passe
none
other
way
.
There
abode
this
Thamarys
ryght
stylly
with
all
her
hoostes
vnto
the
tyme
that
Cyrrus
and
his
people
were
come
in
to
the
strayte
wayes
in
forestes
/
and
amonge
the
craggy
roches
where
thrughe
he
must
nedes
passe
.
And
then
the
lady
when
that
she
sawe
tyme
made
hastely
to
blowe
a
trompette
.
And
then
this
Cyrrus
was
ryght
sore
abasshed
whiche
toke
no
hede
to
hymselfe
/
&
sodeynly
sawe
hym
assayled
in
euery
parte
.
For
these
ladyes
that
were
vpon
the
moun
taynes
threwe
downe
grete
roches
vpon
them
whiche
myght
go
nother
forwarde
ne
backwarde
for
the
dyuersyte
of
the
countre
/
and
some
of
the
busshmentes
were
before
whiche
slewe
the
people
downe
ryght
feruently
that
wolde
haue
yssued
out
of
the
strayte
passages
&
myght
not
gather
them
togyder
for
that
other
busshment
that
was
behynde
them
.
So
they
were
smyten
a
sondre
with
stronge
roches
to
the
dethe
all
the
people
/
and
Cyrrus
taken
and
by
the
commaundement
of
the
quene
lefte
alyue
and
his
barons
with
hym
/
whom
she
made
to
come
before
her
in
to
a
pauylyon
after
the
dyscomfyture
/
&
for
the
grete
wrathe
that
she
had
to
hym
for
one
of
her
maydens
that
he
had
slayne
by
the
way
before
/
the
wolde
haue
no
mercy
of
Cyrrus
nor
of
his
barons
/
but
made
to
smyte
of
theyr
hedes
before
hym
.
And
after
that
she
sayd
to
hym
Cyrrus
whiche
by
thy
crueltees
were
neuer
satys
fyed
with
the
blode
of
man
nowe
thou
mayst
drynke
at
thy
wyll
.
And
then
she
made
to
sinyte
of
his
heed
&
cast
it
in
to
a
basyne
/
in
to
&
whiche
she
had
made
to
gather
the
blode
of
his
lordes
.
Fayre
dou
ghter
&
my
dere
frende
these
thynges
I
brynge
in
remembraunce
for
that
affermeth
the
matter
that
I
haue
tolde
the
of
.
Notwithstandynge
that
thou
knowest
them
well
/
&
thyselfe
hast
rehersed
them
another
tyme
in
thy
boke
of
the
mutacyon
of
fortune
&
in
the
same
wyse
in
thyne
epystle
of
Othea
.
So
I
shall
say
to
the
more
yet
here
after
folowynge
.
¶
Howe
the
stronge
Hercules
&
Theseus
wente
vpon
the
Amozones
and
howe
the
.ij.
ladyes
Me
nal●pe
and
ypolyte
had
almoost
ouercome
them
Capitulo
.xviij.
WHat
sholde
I
say
more
of
the
strengthe
of
theyr
bodyes
or
by
the
prowe●se
of
armes
of
these
ladyes
of
Amozonye
/
whiche
by
all
countrees
were
dredde
and
doubted
anone
to
that
of
londe
grece
whiche
was
farre
thens
.
And
the
tydynges
wen
●e
howe
these
ladyes
seased
not
to
destroy
landes
and
wasted
the
countres
yf
they
wolde
not
yelde
theym
ryght
soone
vnto
theym
/
and
howe
they
to
withstande
theyr
enemyes
.
Of
this
all
Grece
was
aferde
doubtynge
that
the
landes
of
theym
sholde
stretche
in
shorte
tnme
vnto
theyr
countre
.
Then
there
was
in
Grece
in
the
floure
of
his
youthe
Hercules
the
meruayllous
stronge
man
whiche
in
his
tyme
dyde
more
meruaylles
of
strength
than
euer
man
dyde
that
was
borne
of
woman
/
of
whome
is
made
mencyon
in
hystoryes
.
For
he
fought
with
gyauntes
and
Lyons
/
with
serpentes
and
monstres
ryght
mer●ayllous
and
had
of
all
them
the
vyctory
.
And
to
saye
shortely
he
was
so
stronge
that
neuer
man
was
lyke
hym
in
strength
excepte
Sampson
le
forte
.
This
Hercules
sayd
that
it
were
not
good
to
abyde
tyl
these
ladyes
of
Amo
●onye
came
vpon
them
/
but
it
were
moche
better
to
go
vpon
them
fyrst
/
then
for
that
they
lete
ordeyne
a
grete
nauye
of
shyppes
&
assembled
a
▪
grete
com
pany
of
yonge
lusty
men
for
to
go
thyder
in
grete
haste
/
when
Theseus
the
worshypfull
and
wyse
man
whiche
was
kynge
of
Athenes
knewe
this
tydynges
he
sayd
that
he
sholde
not
go
without
hym
.
And
so
he
assembled
a
grete
hoost
with
this
hoost
of
Hercules
/
and
when
they
were
all
assem
bled
they
put
them
in
to
the
see
towarde
the
countre
of
Amozonye
.
And
when
they
approched
the
countre
Hercules
notwithstandynge
his
meruaylous
strengthe
and
hardynesse
and
his
grete
host
of
people
durste
not
take
the
porte
by
day
ne
to
come
downe
vpon
the
lande
/
so
moche
the
strengthe
of
these
amozones
was
blowen
aboute
in
dyuers
countrees
that
it
were
meruayle
to
say
and
byleue
yf
there
were
not
soo
many
hystoryes
brynge
wytnesse
of
them
that
there
hathe
ben
so
many
worshypfull
men
ouercome
by
women
.
So
Hercules
and
his
hoost
abode
tyll
the
darke
nyght
was
come
.
And
then
when
the
houre
was
come
euery
mortall
creature
ought
to
take
his
rest
and
slepe
he
and
his
hoost
lepte
a
lande
and
entred
in
to
the
countre
/
and
began
to
sette
fyre
in
cytees
and
townes
and
slewe
all
the
women
that
toke
no
hede
of
theyr
comynge
.
In
the
meane
tyme
grete
was
the
crye
amonge
the
people
/
then
they
were
not
slowe
to
renne
to
theyr
harnoys
al
maner
of
women
as
those
that
were
moost
hardyest
to
renne
amonge
the
people
towarde
the
see
syde
vpon
theyr
enemyes
.
¶
And
then
there
reygned
vpon
these
Amozones
the
quene
Orthya
the
whiche
was
a
lady
of
ryght
grete
worthynesse
and
conquered
many
landes
.
And
this
was
the
moder
of
the
worshypfull
quene
Pantasylya
of
whom
shall
be
made
mencyon
here
after
.
This
quene
Orthya
was
crowned
after
the
cheualrous
quene
Anthyoppe
the
whiche
maynteyned
the
Amozones
in
grete
dys●yplyne
of
armes
&
of
cheualrye
/
and
was
passynge
wyse
&
hardye
in
her
tyme
.
Soo
this
quene
Orthya
herde
this
tydynges
howe
the
Grekes
were
come
in
by
nyght
fyghtynge
on
the
lande
&
alway
sleynge
the
people
.
Then
it
was
to
deme
that
she
was
wrothe
&
thought
to
be
auenged
vpon
theyr
male
talent
/
&
anone
manasynge
them
that
she
dredde
not
commaunded
to
make
redy
all
her
batayle
/
there
one
myght
se
all
the
ladyes
busy
to
renne
to
theyr
harnoys
and
assembled
them
aboute
theyr
quene
/
&
by
this
tyme
was
the
clere
daye
come
.
And
then
this
quene
armed
herselfe
and
abode
to
put
in
ordre
her
bataylles
and
her
hostes
.
Then
were
there
.ij.
worshypful
maydens
of
souerayne
strength
of
cheualrye
and
hardynesse
&
wyse
aboue
many
others
.
Of
whiche
y●
one
was
called
Manalyppe
&
that
other
Ipolyte
/
and
they
were
ryght
nyghe
kynne
to
the
quene
/
&
they
abode
not
onely
the
comynge
of
theyr
quene
/
but
as
fast
as
they
myght
be
armed
/
theyr
speres
in
theyr
handes
/
theyr
shel
des
of
stronge
elemphant
hangynge
vpon
theyr
neckes
mounted
vpon
theyr
well
rennynge
coursers
wente
ryght
fast
rennynge
towarde
the
porte
/
and
with
grete
hete
as
those
that
were
supprysed
with
wrathe
berynge
lowe
theyr
speres
bare
thrughe
the
best
of
the
grekes
.
That
is
to
knowe
Manalyppe
towarde
Hercules
/
and
Ipolyte
to
Thesens
/
but
whether
they
had
wrathe
or
no
it
apered
wel
/
for
notwithstandynge
the
grete
strengthe
hardynesse
&
grete
courage
of
them
so
strongly
these
maydens
hurte
them
/
&
by
so
grete
encountre
eche
of
theym
bete
theyr
knyght
/
&
they
also
fell
on
that
other
syde
/
but
as
soone
as
they
myght
they
recouered
them selfe
&
ranne
vpon
them
with
good
swerdes
.
O
what
worshyp
ought
these
ladyes
to
haue
that
by
suche
.ij.
women
were
beten
.ij.
of
the
best
knyghtes
that
were
in
all
the
worlde
/
&
this
thynge
sholde
not
be
credyble
to
be
trewe
but
that
so
many
antentyke
doctours
bereth
wytnesse
of
it
/
these
same
doctours
meruayllynge
themselfe
of
this
aduenture
in
excusynge
specyally
Hercules
consyderynge
his
outragyous
strengthe
sayth
that
he
was
beholdynge
to
his
hors
that
lepte
from
the
grete
hurte
of
the
stroke
/
for
they
trowed
not
yf
they
had
ben
on
●ote
but
they
sholde
haue
ben
throwne
downe
/
these
.ij.
knyghtes
were
ashamed
to
be
thus
beten
of
these
.ij.
maydens
.
notwithstandynge
these
maydens
fought
with
theyr
swerdes
ayenst
these
.ij.
knyghtes
strongly
&
the
batayle
endured
longe
▪
yet
at
the
last
&
what
me●
uayle
that
these
maydens
were
taken
/
for
there
ought
not
to
be
lyke
strokes
bytwene
them
.
Of
this
pryse
they
thought
them
gretely
honoured
.
Hercules
&
Thesens
were
gladder
than
&
they
had
taken
a
cyte
So
they
helde
them
in
theyr
shyppes
with
them
to
refresshe
them
and
to
vnarme
them
and
thought
that
they
had
well
employed
theyr
wyll
.
And
when
they
sawe
them
vnarmed
and
that
they
were
so
fayre
and
so
semely
then
doubled
theyr
Ioye
for
they
toke
neuer
pray
that
was
to
them
so
agreable
/
and
so
they
kepte
them
with
grete
Ioy
&
plea
saunce
.
Then
came
the
quene
vpon
the
grekes
with
a
grete
hoost
/
and
when
the
tydynges
came
to
her
that
these
two
maydens
were
taken
she
was
meruayllously
sorowful
/
yet
for
doubte
that
they
sholde
do
any
harme
to
these
ladyes
that
were
taken
yf
she
wente
vpon
them
she
rested
as
then
/
&
sente
to
them
by
.ij.
of
her
baronnesses
and
badde
them
to
put
to
theyr
fynaunce
for
these
.ij.
ladyes
as
moche
as
it
pleased
them
and
she
wolde
sende
it
vnto
them
.
Hercules
&
Theseus
receyued
these
messageres
with
grete
worshyp
and
answered
theym
courtoysly
/
and
yf
the
quene
wolde
make
a
small
peas
with
them
/
and
bothe
she
&
her
baronnesses
sholde
promyse
that
they
sholde
neuer
arme
them
agaynst
the
Grekes
but
to
be
theyr
good
frendes
And
the
Grekes
wolde
promyse
them
in
the
same
wyse
that
they
wolde
yelde
home
these
.ij.
ladyes
all
quyte
without
hauynge
ony
other
raunsome
saue
theyr
harnoys
onely
/
for
that
they
wolde
haue
for
worshyp
and
remembraunce
for
euer
of
this
vyctory
that
they
had
vpon
these
ladyes
.
Then
the
quene
for
the
desyre
that
she
had
to
haue
these
.ij.
damoyselles
agayne
/
whom
that
she
loued
so
mo
moche
was
constrayned
to
make
a
peas
with
the
grekes
.
Soo
was
this
matter
entreated
&
accorded
bytwene
them
that
the
quene
came
to
them
all
vnarmed
with
ryght
a
fayre
company
of
ladyes
&
maydens
in
so
ryche
araye
that
they
sawe
neuer
suche
before
/
the
grekes
mette
with
them
and
fee
sted
them
and
made
sure
the
peas
bytwene
them
and
there
was
moche
Ioy
made
/
yet
not
for
that
it
noyed
gretely
Thesens
to
delyuer
Ipolyte
for
he
was
smyten
with
grete
loue
.
Soo
Hercules
prayed
and
requyred
the
quene
so
moche
for
hym
that
she
graunted
Thesens
to
take
Ipolyte
vnto
his
wyfe
and
so
sholde
lede
her
in
to
his
countre
/
And
then
were
the
weddynges
made
worshypful
ly
/
and
after
that
the
Grekes
departed
/
and
Thesens
ledde
home
ypolyte
whiche
had
a
sone
after
warde
that
was
called
Ipolytus
whiche
was
a
knyght
of
grete
worshyp
and
a
chosen
man
amonge
many
.
And
when
it
was
knowne
in
grece
that
that
the
peas
was
made
they
had
neuer
gretter
Ioye
.
For
there
was
neuer
noo
thynge
that
they
doubted
more
.
¶
Of
the
quene
Pantassylea
howe
she
wente
to
the
socours
of
Troye
.
Ca.
xix
.
LOnge
tyme
lyued
this
noble
quene
Orthya
/
and
in
grete
prosperyte
helde
the
lande
of
Amozonye
and
moche
encreased
theyr
puyssaunce
and
she
was
ryght
olde
when
she
dyed
.
Then
they
crowned
after
her
her
noble
doughter
the
ryght
worshypfull
Pantassylle
/
whiche
aboue
all
others
bare
the
crowne
of
wytte
/
of
pryce
/
of
wysdome
and
worthynesse
.
This
lady
was
ne
uer
wery
to
bere
armes
ne
to
fyght
/
&
by
her
theyr
lordshyp
was
encreased
more
than
euer
it
was
.
For
she
tested
neuer
tyme
.
So
she
was
so
moche
dredde
of
her
enemyes
that
there
durst
none
abyde
her
.
This
lady
was
of
so
hyghe
courage
that
she
dysdeyned
neuer
to
be
coupled
to
man
but
was
a
mayde
all
her
lyfe
.
¶
In
her
tyme
was
the
grete
warre
of
the
Grekes
agaynst
the
Troyans
/
&
for
the
grete
fame
that
floured
thrughe
all
the
worlde
of
the
ryght
grete
worshyp
and
knyghthode
of
Ector
of
Troy
as
of
the
moost
manly
of
the
worlde
and
of
the
moost
excellent
in
al
graces
.
As
it
is
the
vsage
that
gladly
euery
frende
wolde
desyre
to
vysyte
his
lyke
.
Pantassylle
whiche
was
the
thyefe
of
all
ladyes
of
the
worlde
/
and
whiche
that
herde
saye
contynuelly
so
grete
goodnesse
of
this
worshypful
Ector
she
loued
hym
worshypfully
of
ryght
grete
loue
/
&
aboue
all
thynges
she
desyred
to
se
hym
/
&
for
to
fulfyll
this
desyre
she
departed
from
her
royalme
in
grete
haste
with
ryght
a
noble
company
of
ladyes
and
damoyselles
of
grete
prowesse
&
ryght
rychely
armed
.
So
she
toke
her
way
towarde
Troy
whiche
was
not
lytell
/
but
ryght
ferre
of
/
yet
it
thought
not
longe
/
nor
trauaylable
to
the
herte
that
loueth
wel
/
&
when
they
came
to
the
porte
of
Troy
there
aryued
this
noble
pan
tassylle
/
&
yet
it
was
to
late
for
there
she
founde
Ector
deed
whiche
was
slayne
by
Achylles
lyenge
a
wayte
for
hym
in
the
batayle
/
in
whom
perysshed
the
floure
of
all
knyghthode
of
Troy
.
Then
this
quene
Pantassylle
was
receyued
with
grete
worshyp
of
kynge
Pryamus
and
of
the
quene
Eccuba
his
wyfe
/
&
of
all
theyr
lordes
/
but
yet
she
had
her
herte
alway
on
that
that
she
sawe
neuer
Ector
on
lyue
/
whiche
caused
her
that
there
myght
nothynge
reioyce
her
/
yet
the
kynge
&
the
quene
whiche
without
seasynge
sorowed
for
the
dethe
of
theyr
sone
Ector
sayd
to
her
that
syth
they
myght
not
shewe
hym
to
her
on
lyue
that
they
wolde
showe
hym
to
her
deed
.
Then
they
ledde
her
in
to
the
temple
where
they
had
made
his
sepulture
the
most
noble
&
most
ryche
that
euer
ony
hystory
made
mency
on
of
/
for
it
was
made
in
a
chapell
ryght
ryche
all
of
golde
&
precyous
stones
before
the
hyghe
awter
of
theyr
goddes
/
&
there
sate
the
body
of
Ector
in
a
chayre
whiche
was
so
bawmed
&
couered
that
it
semed
vysybly
that
it
was
on
lyue
holdynge
a
swerde
in
his
hande
semynge
al
way
that
his
fyers
vysage
manased
the
Grekes
clothed
in
a
garment
grete
&
large
all
of
Tyssue
embrowdred
with
precyous
stones
traylynge
on
the
erthe
&
couered
the
partyes
bynethe
whiche
were
plunged
in
fyne
bawme
/
whiche
yelded
meruayllous
swetnes
/
there
the
Troyans
helde
this
body
in
grete
worshyp
as
it
had
ben
one
of
theyr
goddes
with
lyght
of
ware
clerely
brennynge
/
&
there
was
rychesse
without
nombre
/
&
thyder
they
led
this
quene
Pantassylle
the
whiche
as
sone
as
the
chapel
was
opened
&
sawe
the
body
of
Ector
kneled
her
dow
ne
saluynge
hym
as
he
had
ben
on
lyue
/
and
after
she
wente
nere
&
in
beholdynge
the
vysage
she
began
to
saye
suche
wordes
wepynge
.
¶
Ha
floure
and
excellence
of
all
knyghthode
of
all
the
worlde
/
the
grounde
and
the
endynge
of
all
worthynesse
/
who
maye
no
we
from
hense
forthe
auaunte
hym
after
you
of
ony
prowesse
/
or
to
stretche
a
●werde
syth
that
nowe
is
quenche●
the
lyght
and
ensample
of
soo
grete
hyghnesse
.
Alas
what
houre
was
borne
the
arme
so
cursed
that
durst
by
his
outragyous
courage
despoyle
the
worlde
of
so
grete
a
treasoure
.
¶
O
ryght
noble
prynce
wherfore
is
my
fortune
so
contrary
that
I
had
not
ben
so
nyghe
you
when
the
false
traytoure
that
slewe
you
made
suche
a
wayte
vpon
your
persone
.
If
I
had
ben
there
I
wolde
haue
wayted
vpon
your
persone
myselfe
/
yet
and
ye
were
on
lyue
he
wolde
byleue
your
dethe
sholde
be
reuenged
.
¶
Ha
what
grete
wrathe
and
sorowe
that
myne
herte
feleth
to
se
you
thus
without
puyssaunce
to
speke
to
me
whom
I
defy
red
so
moche
to
se.
Nowe
syth
it
maye
none
other
wyse
be
.
I
swere
by
al
the
hyghe
goddes
that
we
byleue
on
and
promyse
well
and
afferme
to
you
my
dere
lorde
the
whyle
my
lyfe
shall
endure
youre
dethe
shall
be
venged
by
me
vpon
the
Grekes
.
Thus
knelynge
before
the
body
Pantassylle
spake
so
hyghe
that
the
grete
company
of
lordes
&
ladyes
of
the
che●alrye
that
were
there
myght
here
her
.
she
and
all
wepte
for
pyte
and
coude
full
euyll
departe
from
thens
/
yet
at
the
last
kyssynge
the
hande
with
whiche
he
helde
the
swerde
she
departed
saynge
.
¶
worthynesse
of
knyghthode
whiche
semed
you
well
in
ydur
lyfe
when
the
representacyon
of
your
body
bereth
you
wytnesse
of
so
grete
excel
lence
/
&
anone
she
departed
wepynge
ryght
tenderly
/
and
as
soone
as
she
myght
she
armed
her
/
&
lepte
out
of
the
cyte
with
her
hoost
ryght
nobly
arayed
agaynst
the
Grekes
that
were
at
the
syege
.
And
to
saye
shortely
of
that
that
she
dyde
there
without
fayle
yf
she
had
lyued
longe
she
wolde
haue
done
many
meruaylles
of
armes
.
So
she
wolde
not
tourne
homewarde
but
wolde
fyght
with
Pyrrus
that
was
the
sone
of
Achylles
&
was
a
ryght
manly
knyght
of
his
hande
.
&
so
moche
she
bete
him
&
wounded
hym
that
he
was
almost
slayne
.
And
with
grete
pay
ne
he
was
rescowed
of
his
people
&
as
a
deed
man
was
borne
out
of
the
felde
/
and
the
Grekes
trowed
neuer
that
he
sholde
escape
/
wherfore
they
made
moche
sorowe
/
and
yf
she
hadde
hate
to
the
fader
she
shewed
it
well
to
the
sone
.
Neuerthelesse
to
make
shorte
the
tale
when
she
had
done
there
so
moche
of
armes
by
dyuers
Iourneys
with
her
people
that
the
Grekes
were
vndernethe
Pyrrus
that
was
amended
of
his
woundes
had
meruayllous
shame
and
sorowe
that
he
was
thus
beten
soo
foule
of
this
woman
.
So
he
ordeyned
his
people
of
his
hoost
whiche
were
of
ryght
grete
prowesse
that
they
sholde
attende
to
none
other
thynge
in
the
batayle
saue
onely
to
enclose
Pantassyllee
bytwene
them
and
to
put
her
from
her
people
/
for
he
wolde
that
she
were
slayne
by
his
owne
hande
&
he
promysed
them
yf
they
myght
do
thus
to
gyue
them
grete
gyftes
.
This
thynge
to
accomplysshe
the
people
of
Pyrrus
put
grete
payne
longe
tyme
or
they
myght
happen
to
do
it
/
●or
they
dred
soo
moche
to
come
nyghe
her
for
the
grete
strokes
that
she
gaue
,
yet
not
for
that
to
come
to
the
conclusyon
they
applyed
it
as
those
that
toke
no
hede
to
other
thynge
/
&
sawe
in
a
Iournay
where
she
dyde
meruayllous
dedes
of
armes
that
it
myght
nere
hande
suffyse
to
Ector
yf
he
had
ben
on
lyue
/
that
by
reason
she
ought
to
be
wery
/
&
there
they
enclosed
her
amonge
them
/
&
departed
her
from
her
batayle
/
&
so
sore
oppressed
her
ladyes
that
they
myght
not
socoure
her
/
&
that
notwithstandynge
by
ryght
meruayllous
vertue
and
strengthe
she
wolde
haue
defended
her
/
and
then
they
brake
her
harnoys
&
smote
of
a
quarter
of
her
helme
.
Then
Pyrrus
when
he
sawe
the
heed
bare
by
whiche
her
yelowe
heere
appered
gaue
her
so
grete
a
stroke
that
he
clefte
in
sondre
the
heed
&
the
brayne
.
And
thus
ended
the
worshypfull
Pantassylle
of
whom
it
was
grete
losse
to
the
Troyans
and
grete
sorowe
to
all
her
countre
whiche
made
grete
sorowe
and
lamentacyon
For
neuer
syth
there
reygned
none
suche
vpon
the
Amozones
.
And
thenne
they
bare
the
bodye
home
in
to
her
owne
countre
.
¶
And
thus
as
thou
mayst
here
began
the
royalme
of
women
&
was
maynteyned
by
grete
puyssaunce
/
whiche
endured
by
the
space
of
.viij.
hondred
yeres
as
thou
thyselfe
mayst
note
and
se
/
&
rede
by
the
hystoryes
of
nombre
whiche
may
renne
syth
theyr
begynnynge
tyll
after
the
conquest
of
grete
Alexandre
that
conquered
al
the
worlde
.
In
whiche
tyme
it
appered
that
then
the
reygne
&
lordshyp
of
the
Amozones
.
For
the
hystory
of
hym
maketh
mencyon
howe
he
wente
in
to
that
royalme
and
howe
he
was
receyued
of
the
quene
&
o●
the
ladyes
:
So
was
this
Alexandre
longe
tyme
after
the
destruccyon
of
Troye
/
and
the
same
wyse
more
than
.iiij.
hondred
yeres
after
the
foundacyon
of
Rome
whiche
was
longe
tyme
after
the
sayd
destruccyon
of
Troy
.
wherfore
yf
thou
wylte
take
the
leysoure
to
brynge
togyder
the
hy
storyes
and
to
calcule
the
tymes
and
the
nombre
thou
shalte
fynde
that
this
royalme
and
the
lorde
shyp
of
women
endured
ryght
a
longe
space
/
and
thou
mayst
note
that
in
al
the
lordshyppes
that
hath
ben
in
the
worlde
whiche
by
the
space
of
so
moche
tyme
hath
endured
one
shall
not
fynde
more
notable
prynces
nor
in
more
quantyte
ne
that
hath
do
ne
more
natable
dedes
than
were
done
by
the
quenes
and
the
ladyes
of
that
realme
.
¶
Of
Cenobye
quene
of
Palmurenes
.
Ca.
xx
.
THere
were
not
worshypfull
women
onely
of
these
Amozones
/
for
the
valyaunt
Cenobye
ought
not
to
be
of
lesse
fame
&
worthynes
that
was
quene
of
palmurenes
a
lady
of
noble
bloode
/
yssued
of
Ptholomees
kynges
of
egypte
.
Of
this
lady
was
apperynge
all
her
youthe
the
grete
courage
and
knyghtly
inclynacyon
that
she
had
.
For
as
soone
as
she
was
strengthed
there
myght
no
man
kepe
her
but
that
she
wolde
leue
the
dwellynge
in
the
townes
closyd
/
in
palayces
/
or
in
royall
chambres
but
to
enhabyte
the
woodes
&
forestes
in
whiche
places
she
had
her
swerde
gurde
aboute
her
&
dartes
by
grete
dylygence
tosle
the
wylde
beestes
/
as
hertes
and
hyndes
.
And
after
that
began
to
fyght
with
Lyons
/
with
beres
/
and
with
many
other
wylde
beestes
/
and
she
assayled
them
without
drede
&
ouercame
them
meruayllously
.
This
lady
helde
it
for
no
payne
to
lye
in
the
woodes
do
ubtynge
nothynge
vpon
the
harde
erthe
/
in
hote
and
in
colde
/
ne
it
greued
her
not
to
trace
the
strayte
passages
of
the
forestes
/
graue
vpon
the
mountaynes
/
dyke
in
the
valays
/
rennynge
after
the
bestes
.
This
lady
dyspraysed
all
carnall
loue
/
&
longe
tyme
refused
maryage
as
she
that
wolde
kepe
her
vyrgynyte
/
yet
at
the
last
constrayned
by
her
kynne
she
toke
to
housbande
the
kynge
of
Palmurenes
Of
grete
beaute
and
soueraynly
of
body
&
of
vysage
was
this
noble
Cenobye
whiche
set
but
lytell
by
her
beaute
.
And
fortune
was
so
fauourable
to
her
inclynacyon
that
she
consented
to
haue
an
housbande
corespondent
ynoughe
to
her
condyons
.
This
kynge
whiche
was
a
knyghtly
man
hadde
grete
luste
to
conquere
by
strengthe
of
armes
all
the
oryent
and
the
Empyres
aboute
hym
.
In
this
same
tyme
Ualeryan
Auguste
that
helde
the
Empyre
of
Rome
was
taken
of
Sapore
kynge
of
Perce
.
This
kynge
of
Palmurenes
assembled
his
grete
hoost
and
Cenobye
made
no
grete
force
of
the
fresshnes
of
her
beaute
/
but
dysposed
her
to
suffre
the
trauayle
of
armes
with
her
housbande
/
and
to
were
harnoys
/
&
to
be
partycypant
with
hym
in
all
labours
in
the
exercyse
of
knyghthode
.
This
kynge
that
was
named
Ordonet
stabled
Herode
his
sone
of
another
woman
to
conduyte
one
parte
of
his
hoost
takynge
hede
agaynst
the
sayd
Sa
pore
kynge
of
Perce
whiche
that
tyme
occupyed
Mesopotame
/
after
he
ordeyned
that
on
that
other
parte
sholde
go
vpon
hym
Cenobye
his
wyfe
with
another
grete
parte
of
his
hoost
.
And
he
hymselfe
sholde
go
in
that
other
parte
with
the
thyrde
parte
of
his
hoost
.
Soo
they
departed
in
suche
ordynaunce
.
But
what
shall
I
saye
/
the
ende
of
this
matter
was
suche
so
as
thou
mayst
se
by
the
hystoryes
that
this
lady
Cenobye
so
myghtely
and
by
suche
hardynesse
&
vertue
gate
dyuers
bataylles
agaynst
this
kynge
and
had
the
vyctorye
/
and
by
her
prowesse
put
Mesopotame
vnder
the
subieccyon
of
her
housbande
/
and
besyeged
Sopore
the
kynge
of
Perce
in
his
owne
cyte
and
toke
hym
by
strengthe
with
his
Concubynes
/
and
there
she
con
quered
grete
haboundaunce
of
rychesse
.
¶
After
this
vyctorye
it
happened
that
her
housbande
was
slayne
by
one
of
his
owne
kynnes
men
for
enuye
that
he
reygned
vpon
hym
/
yet
this
lady
by
noble
courage
toke
the
possessyon
of
the
Empyre
for
her
chyldren
whiche
were
yet
but
yonge
/
and
put
her selfe
in
the
see
royall
as
Empresse
and
toke
therof
the
gouernannct
by
grete
vertue
and
charge
and
to
say
all
/
so
she
gouerned
by
so
grete
wytte
&
dyscyplyne
of
knyghthode
/
that
Galeryan
and
Clau
dyan
Emperoures
of
Rome
thought
that
they
oc
cupyed
a
parte
of
the
oryent
for
the
Romaynes
durste
neuer
vndertake
ony
thynge
agaynst
her
.
And
the
same
wyse
the
Egypcyans
ne
the
Arabyens
ne
those
of
Armony
but
doubted
her
puyssaunce
and
her
grete
fyer●enesse
and
helde
theym
contente
to
kepe
that
they
had
&
medle
no
ferther
.
This
lady
was
worshypped
of
her
prynces
&
of
her
people
obeyed
and
loued
and
of
her
knyghtes
dred
and
doubted
/
for
when
she
rode
with
her
people
as
ofte
tymes
it
happened
she
wolde
neuer
speke
to
them
of
her
hoost
but
her
harnoys
on
her
backe
and
her
helme
on
her
heed
/
nor
to
no
batayle
made
her
armure
to
be
ledde
in
charyot
.
Notwithstandynge
other
kynges
vsed
that
guyse
.
And
alway
she
rode
vpon
a
well
rennynge
courser
/
&
often
tymes
she
wolde
ryde
vnknowne
to
espye
her
enemyes
before
her
folke
.
This
noble
lady
Cenobye
with
that
that
she
passed
all
other
knyghtes
of
the
worlde
that
tyme
in
dyscyplyne
and
crafte
of
knyghthode
.
¶
Also
she
passed
all
other
ladyes
in
noblesse
and
good
condycyons
of
honest
lyfe
/
and
ryght
sobre
soueraynely
in
all
her
demeanynge
yet
notwithstandynge
she
made
often
tymes
grete
feestes
vnto
to
her
barons
and
to
straungers
/
and
all
magnyfycence
was
holden
with
her
/
and
royall
largesse
in
all
thynges
/
and
grete
gyftes
and
fayre
/
&
coude
well
drawe
people
to
her
loue
and
benyuolence
/
she
was
alway
of
a
souerayne
chastyte
.
For
she
kepte
her
not
onely
from
other
men
but
in
the
same
wyse
she
wolde
not
lye
with
her
housbande
/
but
for
hauynge
of
yssue
/
&
that
she
shewed
openly
by
that
that
she
wolde
not
lye
with
hym
after
that
she
felte
her
with
chylde
/
and
to
that
entente
that
all
that
appered
outwarde
sholde
afferme
that
that
was
inwarde
/
she
wolde
neuer
that
ony
vycyous
man
sholde
haunte
her
courte
/
and
she
wolde
that
al
they
that
wolde
desyre
to
stande
in
her
good
grace
were
vertuous
and
well
condycyoned
/
and
she
dyde
grete
honoure
to
people
after
theyr
worthynesse
and
vertues
/
&
not
onely
for
theyr
rychesse
or
byrthe
/
and
she
loued
moche
those
men
that
were
of
sadde
condycyons
and
proued
in
knyghthode
.
She
lyued
after
a
royall
custome
of
an
Empresse
by
grete
magnyfycence
and
cost
of
estate
after
the
maner
of
Perse
/
whiche
was
those
dayes
the
moost
pontyfycall
custome
that
was
amonge
kynges
.
She
was
serued
in
vessell
of
golde
and
of
precyous
stones
/
She
was
garnyss
hed
of
all
good
araye
/
and
also
she
gathered
grete
treasoures
of
her
owne
without
doynge
of
extorcyon
.
and
she
gaue
ryght
largely
where
that
it
was
rea
sonable
/
for
there
was
neuer
prynce
of
gretter
largesse
nor
of
more
gretter
magnyfycence
.
¶
And
with
these
sayd
thynges
one
of
the
hyghest
of
her
vertues
that
I
shall
saye
to
the
was
lerned
in
letters
in
those
of
Egypte
and
of
her
owne
lan
guage
/
and
when
she
had
rest
then
ryght
dylygent
ly
she
toke
hede
to
the
scole
and
desyred
to
be
taught
in
phylosophy
by
a
phylosophre
that
was
named
longyne
.
She
knewe
the
latyne
and
the
grekysshe
letters
by
the
helpe
of
whiche
she
ordeyned
and
put
ryghte
curyously
all
her
hystoryes
vnder
ryghte
shorte
wordes
/
and
the
same
wyse
she
wolde
that
her
chyldren
that
she
nourysshed
were
lerned
in
scyences
.
Nowe
take
good
hede
ryght
dere
frende
yf
thou
haue
ought
sene
of
ony
prynce
or
knyght
more
vnyuersall
in
all
the
vertues
.
¶
Of
Lylye
moder
of
the
good
knyght
Thyerrys
.
Capitulo
.xxj.
ANd
howe
that
the
noble
lady
Lylye
was
not
in
batayle
in
propre
person
is
she
not
to
be
praysed
as
ryght
a
noble
&
worshypfull
lady
in
y●
that
she
counsayllynge
her
sone
Thyerrys
the
ryght
noble
knyght
made
hym
to
tourne
agayne
in
to
the
batayle
as
thou
shalte
here
.
This
Tyer
res
was
in
his
tyme
one
of
the
grete
prynces
of
the
palays
of
the
Emperour
of
Constantynoble
/
and
was
ryght
a
fayre
man
and
ryght
wel
proued
in
the
worthynesse
of
knyghthode
/
and
with
that
by
the
ryght
good
nourysshynge
&
counsayllynge
of
his
moder
was
ryght
vertuous
and
excellently
manered
.
¶
It
happened
that
a
prynce
named
Odonatre
wente
vpon
the
Romaynes
for
to
destroye
them
and
all
Italy
/
and
as
these
Romayns
wente
to
requyre
the
foresayd
Emperoure
of
Constantynoble
of
his
helpe
/
he
sente
to
them
this
knyght
Tyerres
as
for
the
best
knyght
of
cheualry
with
ryght
a
grete
hoost
of
people
.
So
it
happened
as
he
fought
in
batayle
ordeyned
agaynst
this
Odonatre
the
fortune
of
the
batayle
tourned
agaynst
hym
in
suche
wyse
that
for
drede
he
was
constrayned
to
fle
towarde
the
cyte
of
Rauenne
/
and
when
this
worshypful
&
wyse
moder
whiche
toke
good
hede
of
the
batayle
sawe
her
sone
fle
she
had
grete
and
meruayllous
sorowe
/
consyderynge
that
there
myght
be
no
gretter
reproffe
to
a
knyght
than
to
fle
in
batayle
.
Anone
the
grete
noblesse
of
her
courage
made
her
to
forgete
all
moderly
pyte
in
suche
maner
that
she
had
leuer
to
se
the
dethe
of
her
sone
worshypfully
than
there
sholde
falle
to
hym
suche
a
shame
.
So
she
ranne
anone
before
hym
&
prayed
hym
ryght
tenderly
that
he
sholde
not
dyshonoure
hym
by
suche
fleynge
/
but
that
he
sholde
assemble
agayne
his
hoost
and
tourne
to
the
batayle
/
yet
he
toke
noo
charge
of
these
wordes
/
and
then
the
good
moder
supprysed
with
grete
wrathe
lyfted
vp
her
gowne
before
and
sayd
to
hym
/
truely
fayre
sone
thou
hast
no
place
to
fle
to
but
thou
tourne
agayne
in
to
the
wombe
fro
whens
thou
camest
.
Then
was
this
Thyerres
so
ashamed
that
he
lefte
his
fleynge
&
assembled
his
people
agayne
/
&
touched
agayne
to
the
batayle
in
the
whiche
for
the
hete
that
he
had
of
the
shame
of
the
wordes
of
his
moder
he
fought
so
strongly
that
he
dyscomfyted
his
enemyes
and
slewe
Odonatre
/
and
so
all
Italye
was
delyuered
of
theyr
enemyes
by
the
wytte
of
this
lady
where
it
was
lyke
to
be
vtterly
destroy
ed.
So
me
semeth
that
the
honoure
of
this
vyctory
came
more
of
the
moder
than
of
the
sone
.
¶
Of
the
quene
of
Fraunce
Fredegonde
.
Ca.
xxij
.
OF
the
quene
of
Fraunce
Fredegonde
of
whom
I
spake
before
was
also
of
grete
hardynesse
of
that
that
she
dyde
in
batayle
.
For
as
I
haue
touched
ho
we
that
she
was
lefte
wedowe
of
kynge
Chylderyke
her
housbande
hauynge
Clotharye
her
sone
at
her
pappes
/
and
the
royalme
was
assay
led
with
werre
she
sayd
to
her
barons
.
Lordes
ne
drede
you
not
for
the
multytude
of
our
enemyes
that
ben
come
vpon
vs
.
For
I
haue
thought
before
a
wyle
by
the
whiche
we
shall
ouercome
them
yf
ye
wyll
byleue
me
/
I
shall
leue
al
femynyne
drede
/
and
I
shall
arme
myne
herte
with
the
hardynesse
of
a
man
to
that
entente
to
encreace
the
courage
of
you
/
&
of
all
our
hoost
by
pyte
of
your
yonge
prynce
.
So
I
shall
go
before
hauynge
hym
in
myne
armes
and
ye
shall
folowe
me
and
that
we
haue
ordeyned
our
conestable
to
do
/
ye
shal
do
the
same
.
And
the
barons
answered
&
bad
her
to
commaunde
them
&
with
ryght
good
herte
they
wolde
laboure
it
.
And
then
she
lete
make
and
well
ordeyned
her
hoost
.
Syth
she
put
her
before
wel
hor
sed
her
sone
bytwene
her
armes
the
barons
after
and
al
the
bataylles
sewynge
by
fayre
ordre
.
And
so
they
rode
towarde
theyr
enemyes
so
longe
tyll
the
nyght
was
come
.
And
then
they
entred
in
to
a
forest
.
So
the
conestable
cutte
downe
an
hyghe
braunche
of
a
tree
/
and
all
the
remenaunt
dyde
the
same
wyse
and
couered
al
theyr
horses
with
may
&
tyed
belles
aboute
some
of
theyr
neckes
as
men
dothe
to
horse
that
gothe
in
pastures
and
in
this
maner
they
rode
togyder
an
easy
pace
tyll
they
came
nyghe
the
lodgynges
of
theyr
enemyes
/
and
they
helde
hyghe
braunches
and
bowes
of
maye
in
theyr
handes
.
And
alway
the
quene
wente
before
with
hardy
courage
in
warnynge
theym
by
promyses
and
fayre
wordes
for
to
do
wel
holdynge
the
lytell
kynge
bytwene
her
armes
of
whiche
they
all
had
grete
pyte
/
and
had
the
more
courage
to
kepe
his
ryght
.
And
when
they
thought
that
they
were
nyghe
ynoughe
theyr
enemyes
they
rested
them
.
when
the
dawnynge
of
the
daye
began
to
appere
those
that
made
watche
of
the
hoost
of
the
enemyes
perceyued
it
&
began
to
saye
one
to
another.
.
Se
here
a
grete
meruayle
.
For
yesternyght
there
appered
no
woode
nor
forest
nyghe
vs
and
se
nowe
a
ryght
grete
&
a
thycke
woode
the
others
that
behelde
this
thynge
sayd
that
it
must
nedes
be
that
the
woode
had
ben
there
longe
tyme
before
for
it
myght
be
none
otherwyse
but
that
they
haue
ben
so
beestyss
he
that
they
haue
not
perceyued
it
/
and
that
it
was
to
se
that
it
was
a
woode
/
the
belles
of
the
hors
that
pastured
myght
haue
made
them
certayne
.
And
so
as
they
deuysed
they
thought
ne
uer
on
the
trechery
.
Sodeynly
the
quenes
hoost
cast
away
theyr
braunches
and
then
that
that
semed
to
theyr
enemyes
a
wode
it
appered
knyghtes
armed
/
so
they
ranne
vpon
them
/
and
this
was
done
so
sodaynly
that
theyr
enemyes
had
no
leysoure
to
arme
them
/
for
they
were
all
in
theyr
beddes
.
So
they
wente
in
to
theyr
lodgynges
/
and
slewe
and
toke
theym
all
that
they
coude
fynde
/
&
thus
they
had
the
vyctory
by
the
wytte
of
this
good
quene
Fredegonde
.
¶
Of
the
mayde
Camylle
.
Ca.
xxiij
.
OF
women
of
worshyp
and
of
knyghthode
I
myght
tell
the
ynoughe
.
The
noble
mayde
Camylle
was
noo
lesse
worthy
than
those
before
sayd
.
This
Camylle
was
doughter
of
the
ryght
auncyent
kynge
of
Uoulques
named
Machabyus
and
when
she
was
borne
her
moder
dyed
/
and
anone
after
her
fader
was
dysheryted
by
his
owne
people
that
rebelled
agaynst
hym
/
&
soo
moche
they
troubled
hym
that
he
was
constrayned
to
fle
for
sauynge
of
his
lyfe
.
Soo
he
bare
nothynge
with
hym
saue
onely
his
yonge
doughter
whom
he
loof
so
grete
loue
.
And
when
he
came
to
passe
ouer
a
grete
ryuere
that
he
myght
not
chose
but
he
must
nedes
passe
it
/
he
was
in
grete
myschyefe
for
that
that
he
coude
fynde
no
counsayle
to
helpe
his
lytel
doughter
to
passe
/
and
when
he
had
thought
ynoughe
he
toke
grete
ryndes
of
trees
&
made
a
vessell
as
it
were
a
lytell
bote
.
So
he
put
his
lytell
doughter
within
and
bounde
the
vessell
with
good
ropes
to
his
arme
.
And
after
put
it
in
the
ryuere
/
&
he
swymmynge
trayled
easely
this
vessell
after
hym
/
and
so
he
and
his
doughter
passed
ouer
the
water
in
to
the
woodes
/
and
there
he
lyued
longe
for
he
durste
not
go
none
other
waye
for
drede
of
his
enemyes
.
He
nourysshed
his
doughter
with
the
mylke
of
wylde
bestes
vnto
the
tyme
that
she
was
well
strengthed
/
and
with
the
skynnes
of
the
beestes
that
he
slewe
he
couered
bothe
hym
&
his
doughter
&
they
had
none
other
bedde
ne
other
couerynge
but
skynnes
of
bestes
.
And
when
she
was
waxed
moche
she
began
to
warre
with
wylde
be
stes
and
to
sle
them
with
her
slynges
and
stones
&
she
wolde
renne
after
so
lyghtly
that
there
myght
no
greyhounde
do
better
.
And
thus
she
conty
nued
tyl
she
came
to
her
parfyte
age
in
whiche
she
founde
herselfe
of
a
meruayllous
strengthe
&
hardynesse
/
and
then
she
was
enfourmed
of
her
fader
of
the
wronge
that
he
had
of
his
subgectes
.
She
felynge
herselfe
of
grete
strengthe
and
ryght
couragyous
departed
from
thens
and
toke
her
to
ar
mes
/
and
to
saye
shortely
she
dyde
so
moche
&
applyed
her
purpose
that
with
the
helpe
of
some
of
her
kynnesmen
she
beynge
alwaye
in
her
propre
persone
in
bataylles
/
dyde
so
moche
by
strengthe
of
armes
that
she
conquered
agayne
all
her
countre
and
neuer
lefte
after
to
pursewe
the
dedes
of
cheualrye
/
and
she
was
of
so
hyghe
courage
that
she
deyned
neuer
to
haue
housbande
ne
to
be
coupled
to
man
.
And
this
same
Camylle
was
the
mayden
that
came
to
the
socoure
of
Turnus
agaynst
Eneas
when
he
was
come
downe
in
to
Italye
.
¶
Of
the
quene
Ueronycle
of
Capadoce
.
Ca.
xxiiij
.
THere
was
a
quene
in
capadoce
that
was
named
Ueronycle
noble
of
blode
and
of
courage
/
as
she
that
was
doughter
to
the
grete
kynge
Mycrydaces
that
ruled
a
grete
parte
of
the
oryent
/
and
wyfe
of
kynge
Aryaraces
the
Capadocyan
.
This
lady
contynewed
in
her
wedowhode
in
the
whiche
wedowhode
one
of
the
bretherne
of
her
housbande
assayled
her
with
warre
to
dysheryte
her
and
her
chyldren
/
and
as
it
happened
durynge
this
stryfe
that
the
vncle
slewe
the
.ij.
sones
of
this
lady
and
his
owne
neuewes
.
She
was
so
vtterly
moued
with
sorowe
that
this
grete
wroth
made
all
drede
to
fle
from
her
.
So
she
armed
herselfe
&
with
a
grete
hoost
wente
agaynst
her
brother
in
lawe
/
and
so
she
plyed
her
entente
that
at
the
last
she
slewe
hym
her
owne
hande
&
made
her
charyot
to
go
ouer
hym
and
ouercame
the
batayle
.
¶
Of
the
noble
Archemyse
quene
of
Carye
.
Capitulo
.xxv.
WHat
shall
we
saye
lesse
of
the
noble
&
the
ryght
excellent
Archemyse
than
of
other
worshypfull
ladyes
whiche
was
quene
of
Carye
the
whiche
abo
de
wedowe
longe
after
her
housbande
kynge
Mansole
the
whiche
she
loued
of
so
grete
loue
that
it
myght
neuer
departe
from
her
herte
as
it
appered
so
as
it
shall
be
deuysed
to
the
in
tyme
and
place
here
after
.
Her
housbande
lefte
her
many
fayre
and
grete
countrees
in
gouernaunce
yet
to
gouerne
she
neuer
was
abasshed
/
for
strengthe
/
in
vertue
/
sadnesse
of
condycyons
/
&
prudente
in
gouernaunce
was
all
in
her
.
So
she
had
with
that
so
grete
hardynesse
in
dede
of
knyghthode
/
&
so
well
kepte
the
dyscyplyne
of
cheu●●rye
that
she
had
the
vyctory
of
many
dyuers
bataylles
.
And
thus
the
hyghnesse
of
her
name
was
gretely
lyfte
vp
by
grete
praysynge
.
For
in
her
wedowhode
with
that
that
ryght
nobly
she
gouerned
the
countres
she
armed
her
by
dyuers
tymes
and
in
especyall
.ij.
notable
dedes
/
that
one
was
to
kepe
her
countre
that
other
was
to
kepe
trouthe
&
faythfull
promyse
.
The
fyrst
was
when
the
foresayd
kynge
Mansole
her
housbande
was
deed
/
those
of
the
rodes
whiche
marched
ryght
nyghe
the
royalme
of
this
lady
had
grete
enuye
and
dysdayne
that
a
woman
sholde
haue
the
lordshyp
of
the
royalme
of
Carye
and
for
that
in
hope
to
put
her
out
&
to
gete
the
lande
they
came
vpon
her
with
a
grete
armye
and
a
grete
multytude
of
shyppes
and
made
her
waye
towarde
the
eyte
of
da●ycarnase
whiche
stode
vpon
the
see
in
an
hyghe
place
called
I
care
whiche
was
ryght
a
stronge
place
.
So
there
were
to
this
Cyte
two
gates
of
whiche
that
one
was
within
the
cyte
as
it
were
hydde
and
couered
and
at
the
entrynge
ryght
strayte
/
and
there
myght
one
go
and
entre
in
to
that
palays
without
seynge
of
them
without
and
of
them
of
the
cyte
also
.
That
other
comune
gate
was
nyghe
the
walles
of
the
Cyte
.
And
when
this
worshypfull
and
wyse
Archemyse
knewe
by
her
spyes
that
her
enemyes
were
come
she
made
her
people
to
go
to
harnoys
of
whom
there
were
assembled
ynowe
and
entred
in
that
lytell
gate
in
to
the
shyppes
that
she
ordeyned
to
come
thyder
/
yet
or
she
departed
she
ordeyned
to
them
of
the
cyte
whiche
were
good
and
trewe
in
whom
she
trysted
wel
to
do
suche
thynges
as
she
commaunded
them
that
when
she
sholde
make
a
certayne
sygne
that
she
deuysed
to
them
that
they
sholde
make
to
them
of
the
rodes
a
sygne
of
loue
and
that
they
sholde
call
them
vpon
the
walles
&
sholde
saye
to
them
that
they
wolde
delyuer
to
theym
the
cyte
/
and
that
they
sholde
come
boldely
/
and
that
they
sholde
do
soo
moche
yf
they
myght
to
make
them
lepe
out
of
theyr
shyppes
and
to
entre
in
to
the
market
place
of
the
cyte
.
And
this
thynge
ordeyned
the
lady
and
her
hoost
yssued
out
at
the
lytell
gate
and
wente
a
lytell
waye
in
to
the
hyghe
see
so
that
her
enemyes
toke
no
hede
of
them
/
and
as
she
had
made
her
sygne
and
knewe
by
the
sygne
of
them
of
the
cyte
that
the
enemyes
were
entred
in
/
anone
she
retourned
by
the
grete
gate
and
toke
the
shyppes
of
her
enemyes
and
entred
in
to
the
cyte
/
and
made
to
assayle
the
men
of
the
Rodes
in
euery
parte
by
her
busshmentes
/
and
she
and
her
hoost
were
before
them
/
and
so
slewe
them
al
and
dyscomfyted
them
and
had
the
vyctory
.
And
yet
more
worshypfully
dyde
this
noble
Archemyse
/
for
she
wente
after
in
to
the
shyppes
of
her
enemyes
with
all
her
hoost
/
and
wente
to
the
Rodes
/
&
made
to
lyfte
vp
an
hyghe
sygne
of
vyctorye
as
thoughe
it
▪
had
ben
theyr
people
that
sholde
come
agayne
vyctoryously
.
And
when
those
of
that
countre
sawe
this
trowynge
that
it
had
ben
theyr
people
they
were
passynge
Ioyfull
/
&
lete
open
theyr
porte
and
Archemyse
came
in
and
ordeyned
people
to
kepe
the
porte
/
and
then
wente
streyght
to
the
palays
and
toke
and
slewe
all
the
prynces
.
And
thus
those
of
the
Rodes
were
taken
whiche
toke
no
hede
of
themselfe
/
and
the
lady
kepte
her
seased
in
the
foresayd
Cyte
.
And
anone
after
all
the
hole
I
le
of
Rodes
yelded
theym
vnto
her
.
And
after
that
she
had
put
all
the
yle
in
seruage
&
vnder
trybute
she
lefte
it
garnysshed
with
good
kepers
/
and
so
retourned
home
/
yet
or
she
departed
she
lete
make
two
ymages
of
brasse
in
the
cyte
/
of
whyche
that
one
represented
the
persone
of
Archemyse
as
ouercomer
.
And
that
other
the
Cyte
of
Rodes
as
ouercome
.
¶
Another
notable
dede
amonge
others
that
this
lady
dyde
was
this
that
when
it
was
so
that
Exerse
the
kynge
of
Perse
was
come
agaynst
the
Macedonyes
and
all
the
lande
was
full
of
his
hoost
bothe
on
horse
backe
and
on
fote
and
the
ryuageful
of
people
and
of
his
shyppes
as
he
that
trowed
to
destroye
all
grece
.
Than
the
Grekes
whiche
had
made
alyaunce
with
this
lady
Archemyse
sente
to
her
to
requyre
her
of
her
helpe
/
to
the
whiche
helpe
she
sente
not
onely
but
lyke
a
cheualrous
lady
came
in
propre
persone
with
ryght
a
grete
hoost
.
And
so
well
she
kepte
her
place
there
that
to
saye
shortely
anone
she
put
her
in
batayle
agaynst
these
men
of
Perse
&
dyscomfyted
them
.
And
when
she
had
dyscomfyted
them
vpon
the
lande
she
entred
into
the
shyppes
and
was
before
al
others
with
her
nauye
and
nyghe
the
cyte
of
Salemyne
she
gaue
them
batayle
And
as
they
fought
strongly
this
worshypfull
archemyse
was
amonge
the
fyrst
lordes
and
capytaynes
of
her
hoost
and
comforted
them
with
grete
boldenesse
sayenge
.
Nowe
forthe
my
bretherne
and
good
knyghtes
and
laboure
so
that
the
worshyp
maye
be
ours
/
and
deserue
ye
this
daye
pray
synge
and
worshyp
.
And
my
grete
treasoure
shall
not
be
spared
vnto
you
/
and
to
saye
all
she
dyde
so
moche
that
in
lykewyse
as
she
dyscomfyted
them
on
the
londe
/
she
dyscomfyted
them
on
the
water
/
And
Exerses
fledde
shamefully
/
and
thus
she
had
people
innumerable
/
for
as
many
wryters
of
hystoryes
bereth
wytnesse
/
she
had
so
grete
an
hoost
that
dyuers
ryuers
taryed
theym
as
she
passed
.
And
so
had
this
worshypfull
lady
this
noble
vyctorye
and
retourned
worshypfully
in
to
her
countre
with
the
dyademe
of
grete
worshyp
.
¶
Of
the
hardynesse
of
Cleolis
.
Ca.
xxvj
.
ALso
Cleolis
the
noble
Romayne
was
ryght
an
hardy
woman
and
a
wyse
.
notwithstandynge
it
was
not
in
the
warre
nor
in
batayle
.
For
as
it
happened
ones
that
the
Romaynes
by
certayne
couenauntes
made
bytwene
them
and
a
kynge
that
had
ben
theyr
aduersary
.
It
was
accorded
that
by
certyfycacyon
of
the
couenauntes
there
was
sente
to
that
kynge
to
be
in
hostage
the
noble
mayden
Cleolis
and
other
mandens
of
noble
lygnage
of
Rome
/
and
when
this
Cleolis
had
ben
a
grete
whyle
in
the
foresayd
hoostage
.
She
thought
that
it
was
a
grete
hurte
to
the
worshyp
of
the
Cyte
of
Rome
/
that
so
many
of
noble
maydens
sholde
be
holden
as
prysoners
of
a
straunge
kynge
.
Soo
this
Cleolys
armed
her
courage
with
grete
hardynes
/
and
dyde
so
moche
by
fayre
wordes
&
fayre
promyses
that
she
deceyued
wysele
them
that
had
them
in
kepynge
&
departed
from
thens
by
nyght
/
and
ledde
her
felowes
and
wente
so
longe
tyll
they
aryued
vpon
the
reuer
of
Tybre
/
and
there
this
Cleolys
founde
in
the
medowes
an
horse
pasturynge
.
And
then
she
whiche
happely
neuer
rode
before
mounted
vpon
this
horse
/
&
without
ony
maner
of
drede
of
the
depnesse
of
the
water
put
one
of
her
felawes
behynde
her
&
passed
ouer
.
And
after
all
that
others
one
after
another
and
so
they
passed
ouer
saufe
/
and
this
lady
Cleolys
ledde
them
to
Rome
&
brought
them
to
theyr
frendes
.
The
hardynesse
of
this
mayde
was
gre
tely
praysed
of
them
of
Rome
/
and
the
same
wyse
the
kynge
that
had
them
in
hostage
praysed
her
gretely
&
had
therof
grete
solace
.
And
the
Romayns
to
that
entente
that
there
sholde
be
a
remembraunce
had
of
this
dede
from
thens
for
the.
They
made
make
the
ymage
of
Cleolys
whiche
was
made
in
the
guyse
of
a
mayde
syttynge
vpon
an
horse
.
And
they
put
this
ymage
in
an
hyghe
place
vpon
the
waye
by
whiche
they
wente
to
a
temple
&
there
it
abode
longe
tyme
.
Now
we
haue
accheued
ynoughe
as
for
the
foundement
of
our
cyte
.
Nowe
we
must
lyfte
vp
the
hyghe
walles
all
aboute
.
¶
Xp̄ine
demaundeth
of
Reason
yf
euer
god
lyste
to
make
a
woman
so
noble
to
haue
ony
vnderstan
dynge
of
the
hyghnesse
of
scyence
.
Ca.
xxvii
.
THese
thynges
of
me
ryght
well
herde
I
answered
to
y●
lady
that
spake
to
me
.
Madame
truely
without
fayle
god
shewed
grete
meruaylles
in
y●
strengthe
of
these
foresayd
ladyes
of
the
whiche
ye
haue
touched
/
yet
I
praye
you
to
make
me
wyse
yf
it
please
you
/
to
the
whiche
god
hathe
gyuen
them
soo
many
graces
it
pleased
to
worshyp
the
kynde
of
woman
to
gyue
pryuylege
to
ony
of
them
of
the
vertue
of
hyghe
vnderstandynge
and
of
grete
scyence
/
and
yf
they
haue
abyle
wytte
to
that
.
For
that
I
desyre
to
knowe
for
y●
that
men
maynteyne
and
say
that
the
vnderstan
dynge
of
women
is
but
of
lytell
takynge
.
¶
Answere
.
Doughter
by
that
that
I
haue
sayd
here
to
thou
mayst
knowe
the
contrary
of
theyr
opyny
on
/
and
for
to
expounde
it
more
playnly
I
shal
gyue
\
it
the
fyrst
by
ensamples
.
I
saye
to
the
agayne
and
doubte
neuer
the
contrary
that
yf
it
were
the
custome
to
put
the
lytel
maydens
to
the
scole
and
that
sewyngly
were
made
to
lerne
y●
s●yences
as
they
do
to
the
man
chyldren
/
that
they
sholde
lerne
as
parfytely
/
and
they
sholde
be
as
wel
entred
in
to
the
subtyltes
of
al
the
artes
and
scyences
as
they
be
/
and
peraduenture
there
sholde
be
mo
of
them
/
for
I
haue
touched
here
to fore
by
howe
moche
that
women
haue
the
body
more
softe
than
that
men
haue
/
and
lesse
habyle
to
do
dyuers
thynges
by
so
moche
they
haue
the
vnderstandynge
more
sharpe
there
as
they
apply
it
.
¶
Madame
be
not
dyspleased
/
suffre
me
vpon
this
poynte
yf
it
please
you
.
Certaynly
men
wolde
neuer
suffre
this
questyon
to
passe
for
trouthe
but
yf
it
were
openly
assoyled
.
For
they
wolde
saye
that
one
sayth
comunely
these
men
to
vnderstande
moche
more
than
the
wo
men
dothe
.
¶
Answere
doughter
knowest
thou
wherfore
it
is
that
they
vnderstande
lesse
.
Madame
naye
but
yf
it
please
you
to
tell
it
me
without
fayle
it
is
for
that
they
haunte
not
so
many
dyuers
places
ne
so
many
dyuers
thynges
/
but
they
holde
them
within
theyr
houses
/
and
it
suffyseth
them
to
do
theyr
busynesses
/
and
there
is
nothynge
that
techeth
a
creature
reasonable
so
moche
as
dothe
the
experyence
of
many
dyuers
thynges
.
Madame
and
syth
that
they
haue
the
vnderstandynge
abyle
to
conceyue
and
to
lerne
as
the
men
haue
/
wherfore
lerne
they
not
more
.
¶
Answere
.
For
that
doughter
for
it
is
no
nede
to
the
comune
thyn
ge
that
they
medle
them
of
that
whiche
is
commytted
to
man
to
do
/
as
I
haue
sayd
to
the
before
.
It
suffyseth
that
they
do
comune
offyce
to
the
whiche
they
are
ordeyned
/
and
that
that
one
Iugeth
by
the
experyence
of
that
that
the
women
can
lesse
than
men
it
is
no
meruayle
as
it
is
sayd
before
though
theyr
vnderstandynge
be
lesse
.
Make
the
a
beholdyng
of
the
people
of
the
lowe
countre
/
or
of
the
hyghe
mountaynes
.
Thou
shalte
fynde
countrees
ynowe
that
the
people
seme
as
bestes
they
be
so
symple
/
and
yet
it
is
no
doubte
that
nature
hath
made
them
as
parfyte
in
all
thyse
thynges
as
in
body
and
vnderstandynge
as
well
as
the
wysest
people
/
and
the
moost
experte
of
those
that
ben
in
good
cytees
or
in
good
townes
/
and
that
is
for
defaute
of
lernynge
.
Not
withstandynge
as
I
haue
sayd
to
the
before
that
of
men
and
women
some
haue
better
vndestrandynge
than
some
/
for
there
hath
ben
women
of
ryght
grete
connynge
and
of
grete
vnderstandynge
.
I
shall
tell
the
and
to
our
purpose
that
I
tolde
the
of
the
vnderstandyng
of
wo
men
that
they
haue
as
sharpe
wytte
to
lerne
as
men
haue
.
¶
Of
women
that
were
enlumyned
of
grete
scyences
&
fyrst
of
the
noble
mayde
Cornyfye
.
Ca.
xxviii
.
COrnyfye
the
noble
mayde
was
sent
to
the
scole
by
her
fader
in
maner
of
scorne
/
or
of
Iape
with
her
brother
Cornyfycyen
when
they
were
yonge
chyldren
.
But
this
lytell
mayde
by
mernayllous
wytte
haunted
the
scole
so
moche
that
she
began
to
fele
the
swete
droppes
of
vnderstan
dynge
to
lerne
.
So
it
was
no
lyght
thynge
to
take
away
this
pleasaunce
from
her
/
to
the
whiche
all
other
womens
werkes
put
a
parte
/
she
applyed
her
in
that
she
myght
.
And
thus
she
occupyed
her
so
well
by
the
space
of
tyme
that
she
was
ryght
a
souerayne
poete
/
and
not
onely
in
that
scyence
but
it
semed
that
she
was
nourysshed
with
the
mylke
and
with
the
doctryne
of
party
te
phylosophye
For
she
wolde
fele
and
knowe
of
all
maner
of
scy
ences
that
she
lerned
soueraynly
in
so
moche
that
she
passed
her
broder
whiche
was
ryght
a
grete
poete
in
all
excellent
clargye
/
&
it
suffysed
her
not
onely
the
connynge
but
she
put
the
vnderstandynge
to
werke
it
/
and
her
handes
to
the
penne
in
compylynge
many
ryght
notable
bokes
/
the
whiche
bokes
and
dyttyes
were
in
the
tyme
of
saynt
Gre
gory
of
grete
pryce
/
of
whom
Bocace
the
Italyen
whiche
was
a
grete
poete
maketh
mencyon
in
pray
synge
this
woman
sayth
in
his
boke
.
O
ryght
grete
worshyp
to
that
woman
that
hath
lefte
womans
werkes
and
applyeth
and
gyueth
her
wytte
to
the
studye
of
ryght
hyghe
connynge
.
And
this
Bocace
sayth
forthermore
certefyenge
the
purpose
that
I
sayd
to
the
of
the
wyttes
of
women
.
Nowe
ben
they
ashamed
sayth
he
as
these
slowe
women
that
so
mysse
trusteth
of
theyrselfe
and
of
theyr
vnderstandynge
so
as
thoughe
they
were
borne
in
the
mountaynes
without
vnderstandynge
what
is
welthe
or
worshyp
/
&
so
dyscourageth
themselfe
/
and
sayth
that
they
be
not
good
to
other
thynge
nor
profytable
but
to
take
men
aboute
the
necke
and
to
bere
&
nourysshe
chyldren
/
and
god
hathe
gyuen
them
fayre
vnderstandynge
yf
they
wolde
applye
it
in
all
thynges
that
these
gloryous
and
excellent
men
dothe
/
for
yf
they
wolde
studye
/
the
thynges
be
nother
more
ne
lesse
but
also
comune
to
women
as
to
men
/
and
may
by
honest
laboure
gete
them
name
perpetuall
/
the
whiche
hauynge
is
agreable
to
all
worshypfull
men
.
Ryght
dere
doughter
thus
mayst
thou
se
howe
this
auctoure
Bocace
bereth
wytnesse
of
that
that
I
haue
sayd
to
the
and
howe
he
prayseth
and
proueth
scyence
in
woman
.
¶
Of
Probe
the
Romayne
.
Ca.
xxix
.
OF
grete
excellence
in
scyence
also
was
Probe
the
Romayne
wyfe
of
Adelphe
/
&
was
crystened
.
This
woman
had
so
notable
wytte
/
and
she
loued
and
haunted
the
scole
soo
moche
that
she
coude
soueraynly
the.
vi●.
scyences
lyberales
and
was
ryght
a
souerayne
poete
.
And
by
so
grete
laboure
in
studyenge
she
haunted
the
bokes
of
poetes
and
in
especyall
of
vyrgyle
and
of
his
dyttyes
that
to
all
purposes
she
had
them
all
in
mynde
/
the
whiche
as
in
a
tyme
she
sawe
by
grete
entente
of
her
wytte
and
of
her
thought
/
and
as
she
toke
hede
of
the
sygnyfyenge
of
them
/
It
came
to
her
entencyon
that
one
myght
after
the
foresayd
bokes
dyscryue
all
the
scrypture
and
the
hystoryes
of
the
olde
testament
and
of
the
newe
by
pleasaunt
verses
and
full
of
substaunce
the
whiche
thynge
for
certayne
that
the
auctoure
Bocace
saythe
is
not
without
meruayle
that
so
hyghe
consyderacyon
myght
entre
in
the
brayne
of
woman
/
and
ryght
a
●rete
meruayleas
he
sayth
to
put
it
in
execucyon
for
she
ryght
gretely
desyrynge
to
fulfyll
her
thought
put
the
hande
to
the
werke
and
somtyme
she
ranne
by
the
Bucolyques
or
by
Eueydos
or
by
the
Georgykes
whiche
were
the
bokes
that
Uyrgyle
made
whiche
ben
so
named
/
that
is
to
say
/
she
vysyted
and
redde
&
nowe
of
one
parte
she
toke
the
hole
verse
/
nowe
of
others
some
lytell
partes
she
touched
by
meruayllous
crafte
&
subtylte
to
her
purpose
/
and
so
ordynately
made
hole
verses
and
the
letell
partes
put
togyder
&
coupled
&
redde
in
be
holdynge
the
lawe
/
the
crafte
&
the
measure
of
fete
and
the
Ioynynge
togyder
the
verses
without
faylynge
in
ony
parte
that
no
man
myght
do
better
.
And
by
suche
manere
after
the
begynnynge
of
the
worlde
she
made
the
begynnynge
of
her
boke
in
sewynge
all
the
hystoryes
of
the
olde
testament
&
of
the
newe
/
and
so
came
to
the
sendynge
of
the
holn
ghost
to
the
apostles
accordynge
all
with
the
bokes
of
Uyrgyle
soo
ordynately
that
who
had
not
knowynge
of
this
makynge
wolde
haue
wende
that
Uyrgyle
had
ben
a
prophete
or
an
Euangelyst
togyder
.
For
the
whiche
the
foresayd
Bocace
sayth
grete
recommendacyon
&
lowynge
of
this
woman
.
For
it
appereth
openly
that
she
had
very
knowlege
and
playne
of
holy
bokes
and
holy
volumes
of
deuyne
scrypture
the
whiche
boke
was
knowne
of
many
grete
clerkes
&
deuynes
of
our
tyme
.
And
this
noble
lady
wolde
that
this
foresayd
werke
made
and
compounded
by
grete
laboure
Laboure
sholde
be
called
Centonyas
.
And
not●●
standynge
that
the
laboure
of
werke
as
for
the
gretnesse
ought
suffyse
to
the
lyfe
of
a
man
/
yet
she
lefte
not
tyll
she
had
made
many
dyuers
other
bokes
ryght
worshypfull
&
excellente
.
One
amonge
all
other
she
made
in
verses
&
to
be
called
also
Cento
nye
bycause
of
an
hundred
verses
that
ben
conteyned
therin
.
Also
she
toke
the
bokes
of
Omerus
the
poete
and
the
verses
by
whiche
one
myght
conclude
to
the
praysynge
of
her
whiche
knewe
not
one
ly
the
latyne
letters
but
also
the
grekes
as
parfytely
.
Of
the
whiche
lady
and
of
her
thynges
that
she
dyde
Bocace
sayth
that
it
ought
to
be
grete
pleasaunce
to
all
women
to
here
.
¶
Of
Sapho
poete
and
phylosophre
.
Ca.
xxx
.
ANd
of
lesse
connynge
than
Probe
/
was
not
the
noble
Sapho
/
whiche
was
a
mayde
of
the
cyte
of
Mylycene
.
This
Sapho
was
of
ryght
grete
beaute
of
body
and
of
vysage
/
and
in
maner
ly
countenaunce
/
and
in
speche
ryght
agreable
&
pleasaunt
/
and
aboue
all
other
graces
that
were
gyuen
her
she
passed
of
hyghe
vnderstandynge
.
For
she
was
experte
pro●oundely
in
many
dyuers
artes
and
scyences
.
And
she
knewe
not
onely
letters
and
wrytynges
made
by
others
/
but
of
herselfe
she
founde
many
newe
thynges
/
and
made
many
dyuers
bokes
&
dyttyes
/
of
whom
speketh
●he
poe●●
Bornes
these
fayre
wordes
of
poetyke
language
Sapho
garnysshed
of
quycke
vnderstandynge
and
of
brenuynge
desyre
by
contynuel
study
amonge
the
beestysshe
people
and
without
co●nynge
haunted
the
hyghnesse
of
the
mountay
ne
of
●ernaso
/
this
is
to
vnderstande
the
par●yte
studye
by
veray
hardynesse
and
boldenesse
/
she
ac
companyed
herselfe
with
the
.ix.
muses
not
refused
that
is
to
say●
amonge
the
craftes
and
scyences
/
&
so
entred
in
the
forest
of
Lawryere
full
of
braunches
of
vertue
/
&
floures
of
dyuers
colours
smellynge
of
grete
swetnesse
of
dyuers
herbes
where
they
rest
them
and
dwell
/
grammer
/
Logyke
/
and
the
noble
rethoryke
/
Geometry
/
and
Arysmetryke
and
so
moche
she
wente
that
she
came
and
aryued
in
the
caue
and
depnesse
of
Appolyne
god
of
scyence
and
connynge
/
and
founde
the
sprynge
and
conduyte
of
Castolyo
the
welle
/
and
toke
the
wrest
of
the
harne
and
touched
it
.
So
she
made
grete
melodyes
with
the
nymphes
ledynge
the
daunce
/
this
is
to
vnderstande
with
the
rules
of
Irmony
and
cordes
of
musyke
.
By
these
thynges
that
Bocace
sayth
of
her
ought
to
be
vnderstande
the
depnesse
of
her
vnderstandynge
/
and
the
bokes
that
she
made
of
so
depe
scyence
that
the
sentences
ben
stronge
to
knowe
&
vnderstande
to
men
of
grete
wytte
and
the
scole
after
the
wytnesse
of
auncyent
men
endureth
vnto
this
day
/
and
her
wrytynges
and
dyt●yes
ryght
notably
compounded
&
made
by
the
lyghtes
and
ensamples
to
them
that
cometh
after
par●yte
wrytynge
and
e●dytynge
.
She
founde
many
dyuers
maners
of
makynge
of
songes
/
and
dyttyes
playes
/
and
wepynge
complayntes
and
straunge
lamentacyons
of
loue
ryght
well
&
in
fayre
ordre
whiche
were
named
after
her
name
Saphyse
/
and
of
these
dyttyes
recordeth
Crassus
that
when
Plato
the
grete
Phylosophre
whiche
was
mayster
to
Arystotle
was
deed
/
one
founde
the
bokes
of
the
wrytynges
of
Sapho
vnder
his
bolster
of
his
heed
/
and
to
saye
shortely
of
this
lady
she
was
of
so
grete
excellence
of
connynge
that
in
the
Cyte
where
she
was
conuersaunt
to
the
entent
that
she
was
moost
worshypfull
and
that
she
sholde
be
alwaye
in
remembraunce
/
one
made
to
her
lykenesse
an
ymage
of
brasse
halowed
in
the
name
of
her
lyfte
of
a
grete
hyght
.
So
was
this
lady
named
and
counted
amonge
all
other
poetes
of
renowne
/
of
the
whiche
as
Bocace
saythe
the
worshyppes
of
dyademes
&
of
crownes
/
&
of
mytres
of
bysshoppes
be
not
gretter
ne
them
that
hathe
vyctores
and
chaplettes
of
Lauryere
and
palme
.
¶
Leonte
that
was
a
greke
was
a
grete
phyloso
phre
also
/
whiche
durste
reproue
the
Phylosophre
Theophrast
by
pure
and
trewe
reasons
/
whiche
was
so
gretely
named
in
his
dayes
.
¶
Of
the
mayde
Manthoa
.
Ca.
xxxj
.
IF
the
scyences
ben
easy
&
couenable
to
women
to
lerne
/
knowe
it
for
trouthe
that
the
same
wyse
the
craftes
are
not
vnsene
to
them
&
som
tyme
in
the
olde
lawe
of
paynymes
the
people
vsed
many
dyuers
dyuynacyons
of
that
that
was
to
come
by
the
fiyght
of
byrdes
/
and
by
the
flambes
of
fyre
.
And
by
the
entrayles
of
deed
beestes
.
And
that
was
a
propre
arte
or
a
connynge
whiche
they
helde
in
grete
dygnyte
.
In
this
tyme
a
mayden
was
a
grete
maystresse
whiche
was
doughter
of
Thyryfye
/
whiche
was
the
gretest
preest
of
the
cyte
of
Thebes
so
as
we
calle
hym
a
bysshop
/
for
in
that
other
lawes
the
bysshoppes
were
maryed
.
This
woman
that
was
named
Manthea
whiche
flou
red
in
the
tyme
of
kynge
Edyppus
was
of
so
clere
and
grete
wytte
that
she
knewe
al
the
crafte
of
Pyromancye
whiche
is
for
to
dyuyne
by
the
flambes
of
fyre
/
the
whiche
arte
vsed
in
the
olde
tyme
those
of
Caldee
whiche
founde
it
/
and
others
say
th
that
Nembroche
the
gyaunt
founde
it
.
So
there
was
in
her
tyme
no
man
that
knewe
the
mouynges
of
the
flambes
of
fyre
/
the
colours
and
the
sow
●e
that
came
out
of
the
fyre
but
she
.
And
also
she
kne
we
clerely
the
vaynes
of
beestes
/
the
throtes
of
boles
and
the
entraylles
of
all
beestes
that
one
wolde
byleue
that
by
these
craftes
often
tymes
the
spyrytes
were
constrayned
to
speke
and
to
gyue
answere
of
that
that
one
wolde
knowe
.
In
the
tyme
of
this
lady
Thebes
was
destroyed
thrughe
the
encheson
of
the
.ij.
sones
of
kynge
Edyppus
.
Then
wente
this
lady
to
dwelle
in
Asye
/
and
there
she
made
a
temple
of
the
god
Apollo
the
whiche
was
syth
in
grete
renowne
.
She
ended
her
lyfe
in
Ita
lye
/
and
of
the
name
of
this
lady
for
her
grete
auctoryte
there
was
named
a
Cyte
of
the
countre
and
yet
is
Manthoa
/
in
the
whiche
vyrgyle
was
borne
¶
Of
Medea
and
another
quene
named
Cyrtes
Capitulo
.xxxij.
MEdea
of
whome
hystoryes
ynoughe
maketh
mencyon
coude
as
moche
of
crafte
and
connynge
as
she
before
reherced
.
She
was
the
doughter
of
Othes
kynge
of
Coloos
and
of
Per
te
/
She
was
ryght
fayre
of
body
and
of
vysage
/
But
in
connynge
she
passed
all
other
women
in
her
tyme
/
she
knewe
the
vertues
of
euery
dyuers
herbe
and
all
maner
enchauntementes
that
myght
be
made
and
of
ony
crafte
that
myght
be
lerned
she
was
not
ygnoraunt
by
the
vertue
of
a
songe
that
she
coude
/
she
wolde
make
the
Ayre
to
trouble
and
the
skye
to
waxe
darke
/
moue
the
wyndes
out
of
the
pyttes
and
caues
of
the
erthe
to
make
the
tempestes
to
ryse
in
the
ayre
/
to
make
waters
and
grete
ryuers
to
stande
styll
/
to
make
venyme
to
make
fyres
without
laboure
to
brenne
ony
maner
thynge
that
she
wolde
&
all
suche
maner
of
thynges
she
coude
do
/
this
was
she
that
made
Iason
to
conquere
the
golden
fleece
by
enchauntement
.
¶
Cyrtes
also
was
a
quene
of
a
countree
vpon
the
see
whiche
stode
vpon
the
entryes
of
Italye
.
This
lady
coude
so
moche
of
the
crafte
of
enchaun
tement
that
there
was
nothynge
that
she
wolde
do
/
but
she
wolde
do
it
by
the
vertue
of
her
enchauntement
/
and
by
a
drynke
that
she
wolde
gyue
she
wolde
chaunge
the
bodyes
of
men
in
to
the
fygu
res
of
wylde
bestes
and
byrdes
.
And
to
wytnesse
the
same
thynge
it
is
wryten
in
the
hystory
of
Ulyxes
that
when
he
retourned
after
the
destruccyon
of
Troy
trowed
to
go
agayne
in
to
his
countree
/
of
grete
fortune
and
woodnesse
of
tempestes
burled
his
shyppes
here
and
there
by
many
dyuers
troubles
at
the
laste
they
aryued
at
the
porte
of
the
cyte
of
this
lady
Cyrtes
.
yet
this
wyse
vlyxes
wolde
not
take
the
lande
without
lycence
of
the
quene
of
the
lande
/
he
sente
certayne
of
his
knyghtes
to
her
for
to
knowe
yf
it
pleased
her
that
they
myght
take
the
lande
.
Then
this
lady
trowed
that
they
had
ben
her
enemyes
gaue
them
drynke
of
the
drynke
that
she
made
/
and
anone
they
were
transfourmed
in
to
hogges
/
but
Ulyxes
wente
anone
to
her
/
and
dyde
so
moche
that
they
were
put
agayne
in
to
theyr
owne
s●ap
/
and
in
the
same
wyse
some
men
saye
of
Dyomede
that
was
another
prynce
of
Grece
that
when
he
aryued
at
the
porte
of
this
lady
Cyrtes
that
she
made
his
knyghtes
to
be
transfygured
in
to
byrdes
whiche
be
yet
ryght
grete
&
of
other
shappe
than
other
byrdes
ben
/
and
they
ben
ryght
fyerse
and
those
of
that
countree
calle
them
Dyomedens
.
¶
Xp̄ine
asketh
of
Reason
yf
there
was
euer
woman
that
founde
ony
thynge
of
herselfe
that
was
not
knowne
before
/
and
she
tolde
her
of
Nycostra
te
otherwyse
called
Carmentis
.
Ca.
xxxiij
.
I
Xp̄ine
whiche
vnderstode
these
thynges
of
dame
reason
replyed
vpon
that
in
this
manere
.
Madame
I
se
wel
that
ye
myght
fynde
ynowe
and
of
grete
nombre
of
women
praysed
in
scyences
and
in
crafte
/
but
knowe
ye
ony
that
by
the
ver
tue
of
theyr
felynge
and
of
subtylte
of
wytte
haue
founde
of
themselfe
ony
newe
craftes
and
scyences
necessary
good
and
couenable
that
were
neuer
founde
before
nor
knowne
/
for
it
is
not
so
grete
maystry
to
folowe
and
to
lerne
after
ony
other
scyence
founde
and
comune
before
as
it
is
to
fynde
of
theymselfe
some
newe
thynge
not
accustomed
before
.
¶
Answere
.
Ne
doubte
ye
not
the
contrary
my
dere
frende
but
many
craftes
and
scyences
ryght
notable
hathe
ben
founde
by
the
wytte
and
subtylte
of
women
as
moche
by
speculacyon
of
vnderstandynge
the
whiche
sheweth
them
by
wrytynge
as
in
craftes
the
sheweth
theym
in
werkynge
of
handes
and
of
laboure
.
And
of
these
I
shall
gyue
the
ensamples
.
And
fyrst
I
shal
tell
the
of
Nycostrate
whiche
those
of
Italye
called
Carmentes
.
This
lady
was
doughter
of
the
kynge
of
Archadye
named
Pallent
.
She
was
meruayllous
wytty
&
gyuen
of
god
to
her
of
specyall
gyftes
of
vnderstandynge
.
She
was
a
grete
clarke
in
the
letter
of
Grece
/
and
had
so
moche
fayre
and
wyse
speche
&
worshypfull
faconde
that
the
poetes
beynge
the
tyme
that
wrote
of
her
fayned
in
her
wrytynges
that
she
was
loue
of
the
god
Mercuryus
/
&
that
she
had
a
sone
by
the
foresayd
god
/
whiche
was
of
grete
vnderstandynge
.
This
lady
by
certayne
chaunce
that
happened
in
the
countre
where
she
was
wente
out
of
her
countre
/
her
sone
and
grete
foyson
of
people
that
folowed
&
wente
with
her
/
and
with
a
grete
nauye
came
in
to
Italye
/
and
aryued
vpon
the
water
of
Tybre
and
there
she
descended
out
of
her
shyppes
.
So
she
wente
vp
vpon
an
hyghe
hylle
that
she
named
the
mounte
Palentyne
after
her
fader
vpon
the
whiche
mounte
the
Cyte
of
Rome
was
founded
syth
.
This
lady
with
her
sone
and
those
that
folowed
her
founded
a
fayre
castell
there
.
And
as
this
lady
had
founde
the
men
of
that
countre
al
bestysshe
and
rude
she
ordeyned
and
wrote
certayne
lawes
by
the
whiche
she
enioyned
them
to
lyue
by
ordre
of
ryght
and
reason
after
Iustyce
and
she
was
the
fyrst
that
in
this
countre
whiche
was
syth
of
so
grete
renowne
/
&
of
whom
all
the
lawes
of
ryght
come
of
the
fyrst
that
establed
the
lawes
there
.
This
lady
knewe
by
inspyracyon
deuyne
that
by
the
spyryte
of
prophecye
amonge
other
graces
that
she
had
synguler
specyalte
was
gyuen
to
her
howe
this
countre
ought
to
be
in
tyme
to
come
moost
noble
of
excellence
&
of
renowne
aboue
all
the
countres
of
the
worlde
.
So
it
semed
her
that
it
sholde
be
no
honest
thynge
that
when
the
hyghnesse
of
the
Empyre
of
Rome
that
all
the
worde
ought
to
lordeshyp
and
gouerne
that
they
sholde
vse
of
letters
and
carectes
straunge
/
and
begged
of
other
countrees
/
and
to
that
entente
al
so
that
she
wolde
shewe
her
wysdome
and
excellence
of
wytte
to
the
worlde
to
come
/
she
dyde
soo
moche
by
her
study
that
she
founde
propre
letters
dyfferenced
from
all
other
nacyons
of
the
worlde
that
is
to
knowe
the.
A.
B.
C.
and
the
ordenaunce
of
latyne
by
puttynge
togyder
of
the
same
letters
with
the
dyfference
of
vowelles
with
all
the
entrynge
of
the
scyence
of
grammere
.
The
whiche
letters
and
scyences
she
toke
and
taught
them
to
her
people
/
and
wolde
that
it
sholde
be
knowne
com
munely
/
so
it
was
no
lytell
scyence
nor
lytell
profy
table
that
this
woman
founde
.
For
the
subtylnesse
of
the
sayd
scyence
/
and
for
the
grete
profyte
and
welthe
that
is
come
to
the
worlde
by
it
one
myght
say
that
there
was
neuer
worthyer
thynge
founde
to
the
worlde
/
and
of
that
benefyse
the
Italyens
haue
not
ben
vnkynde
&
of
good
ryght
to
whom
this
thynge
was
so
meruayllous
that
they
had
her
not
onely
in
reputacyon
more
than
man
/
but
a
goddesse
.
For
the
whiche
they
honoured
her
with
deuyne
worshyppes
.
And
when
she
was
deed
they
edyfyed
and
founded
a
tymple
in
her
name
.
And
it
was
made
and
buylded
at
the
foote
of
the
foresayd
mountayne
where
she
dwelled
.
And
to
gyue
to
this
lady
a
perpetuall
memorye
for
euermore
/
they
toke
many
of
them
theyr
names
as
after
the
scyences
that
she
had
founde
/
&
also
they
gaue
the
name
of
her
to
dyuers
of
theyr
thynges
so
as
themselfe
of
that
countre
for
the
scyence
of
latyne
whiche
that
was
founde
there
by
that
lady
they
call
themselfe
latynes
in
grete
worshyp
/
and
that
more
is
for
that
that
ita
in
latyne
that
is
to
say
in
Frensshe
ouy
/
and
in
Englysshe
ye
/
the
souerayne
affyrmacyon
of
this
language
is
latyne
.
And
yet
it
suffyseth
not
them
that
this
countre
was
called
the
lande
of
latyne
/
but
they
wolde
that
all
the
countres
ouer
the
mountaynes
whiche
is
grete
&
large
/
&
where
there
were
many
dyuers
countres
&
lordshyppes
all
was
called
Italye
.
Of
this
lady
Carmentys
dyttyes
were
called
carmen
in
latyn
And
also
the
Romaynes
that
came
a
grete
whyle
syth
named
one
of
the
gates
of
the
Cyte
of
Rome
Carmentele
/
the
whiche
names
for
what
maner
prosperyte
that
the
Romaynes
had
syth
nother
for
no
hyghnesse
of
Emperours
they
chaunged
neuer
syth
/
so
as
it
appereth
vnto
this
day
it
endure
th
yet
.
And
what
wylte
thou
more
fayre
doughter
may
there
ony
man
saye
more
worshyp
of
ony
man
borne
of
woman
/
yet
thou
trowest
not
that
this
crafte
be
onely
to
the
worlde
by
whiche
many
scyences
and
dyuers
haue
ben
founde
.
¶
Of
Mynerue
that
founde
many
scyences
/
and
the
maner
to
make
Armoure
of
Iron
and
steele
.
Ca.
xxxiiij
.
MInerue
so
as
thou
haste
wryten
in
other
places
was
mayden
of
Grece
and
her
surname
was
Pallas
/
this
mayde
was
of
so
grete
excellence
in
wytte
that
the
lewde
people
of
that
countree
for
that
that
they
knewe
not
well
of
what
kynrede
she
was
of
/
&
they
sawe
her
do
thynges
that
had
not
ben
before
in
vsage
/
sayd
that
she
was
a
goddesse
comen
frome
heuen
/
for
by
so
moche
as
they
knewe
not
frome
whens
she
came
the
more
was
to
them
meruaylable
the
grete
connynge
of
her
aboue
all
women
in
her
tyme
/
this
lady
was
subtyll
and
of
grete
vnderstandynge
not
onely
in
one
thynge
but
soueraynely
in
all
thynges
.
She
founde
by
her
subtylnesse
certayne
lettres
Grekeysshe
that
some
call
them
Carectes
/
by
the
whiche
one
myght
put
a
grete
tale
of
dyuers
thynges
in
wrytynge
in
the
space
of
ryght
fewe
lettres
&
of
shorte
wrytynge
the
whiche
abreuyacyons
vseth
the
Grekes
yet
whiche
was
ryght
a
fayre
inuencyon
and
a
subtyll
to
fynde
.
She
founde
nombre
and
maner
of
a
compte
and
to
put
togyder
sommes
.
She
had
the
spyryte
soo
moche
enlumyned
of
vnderstandynge
that
she
founde
many
craftes
and
werkes
to
make
that
had
neuer
ben
founde
before
.
The
crafte
of
wolle
and
to
make
clothe
/
&
she
founde
fyrst
that
euer
was
aduysed
to
shere
shepe
to
tose
wolle
/
to
kembe
&
to
carde
it
with
dyuers
instrumentes
to
make
it
clene
/
to
make
it
softe
with
roddes
of
yron
/
to
spynne
at
the
dysta●●e
&
after
instrumentes
to
make
the
clothe
/
&
howe
it
sholde
be
wouen
.
Also
she
founde
the
cafte
&
vsage
to
make
oyle
of
fruytes
of
the
erthe
/
of
Olyues
&
of
other
fruyte
to
presse
it
&
to
drawe
the
lycoure
.
¶
Also
she
founde
the
crafte
&
the
vsage
to
make
cartes
&
charyottes
to
bere
thynges
easely
from
one
place
to
another
/
&
yet
dyde
this
lady
more
/
&
that
semed
more
meruaylable
for
that
that
it
is
ferre
fro
the
nature
of
woman
that
she
sholde
aduyse
her
of
suche
thynges
.
For
she
founde
the
crafte
&
the
manere
of
makynge
of
harnoys
&
armure
of
yron
&
of
stele
the
whiche
the
knyghtes
,
&
men
of
armes
vseth
in
ba
tayle
with
whiche
they
couer
theyr
bodyes
and
that
she
t●ke
it
fyrst
to
them
at
Athenes
to
whome
she
taught
the
vsage
of
ordeynynge
hoostes
in
batayle
&
the
maner
of
fyghtynge
in
ordre
&
arowe
/
&
she
founde
fyrst
pypes
/
shalmes
/
&
trompes
&
instrumentes
of
mouthe
.
This
lady
with
the
grete
vertue
of
vnderstandynge
that
she
had
was
alwaye
a
vyrgyn
/
&
for
the
gret
chastyte
that
she
was
of
the
poetes
sayd
in
theyr
sayenges
that
wulcan
the
god
of
fyre
had
longe
wrestled
with
her
/
&
fynally
she
ouercame
hym
&
surmounted
hym
/
that
is
as
moche
to
saye
/
that
she
ouercame
the
brennynge
&
the
concupyscence
of
the
flesshe
whiche
gyueth
grete
defaute
in
youthe
.
The
people
of
Athenes
had
her
in
grete
reuer●nce
&
called
her
goddesse
of
armes
&
of
knyghthode
bycause
that
she
founde
fyrst
the
vsage
.
And
also
they
called
her
goddesse
of
connynge
for
the
grete
scyence
that
habounded
in
her
.
¶
After
her
dethe
they
made
to
her
a
temple
in
Athenes
consecrate
in
her
name
/
&
in
that
temple
they
set
her
ymage
whiche
was
in
the
shap
&
semblaunce
of
a
mayden
the
whiche
ymage
sygnyfyed
wysdome
&
knyghthode
/
&
so
this
ymage
had
the
eyen
terryble
&
cruell
for
that
that
knyghthode
is
ordeyned
to
execute
the
rygure
of
Iustyce
/
also
it
sygnyfyed
that
one
knewe
lytel
often
tymes
to
what
ende
entendeth
the
entencyon
of
a
wyse
man
/
she
had
the
heed
helmet
whiche
betokened
that
a
knyght
ought
to
haue
strengthe
in
vertue
/
&
also
it
sygnyfyed
that
the
counsayles
ought
to
be
couerte
&
secrete
.
She
was
clothed
with
an
haw
berke
whiche
betokeneth
the
puyssaunce
of
the
state
of
knyghthode
/
&
it
betokened
also
that
the
wyse
man
ought
to
be
alway
armed
agaynst
the
monynges
of
fortune
be
it
well
or
euyll
/
she
helde
a
shafte
or
a
longe
spere
whiche
was
to
say
that
a
knyght
ought
to
be
the
staffe
of
Iustyce
/
&
it
sygnyfyed
also
that
the
wyse
man
pycketh
his
darte
of
a
grete
lengthe
.
She
had
hangynge
at
her
necke
a
targe
or
a
shelde
of
crystall
whiche
betokened
that
the
knyghtes
ought
to
be
alwaye
wakynge
&
to
se
clere
vpon
the
defence
of
the
countre
and
of
the
people
Also
it
sygnyfyed
that
vnto
the
wyse
man
al
thynges
ben
brought
and
made
open
.
In
the
myddes
of
this
targe
there
was
also
pourtrayed
the
heed
of
a
serpent
the
whiche
was
named
Gorgon
/
the
whiche
heed
betokened
and
sygnyfyed
that
a
noble
and
worthy
knyght
ought
to
be
subtyl
and
wyly
and
watchynge
vpon
his
enemyes
as
dothe
the
serpent
it
was
also
to
vnderstande
that
the
wyse
man
ought
to
be
aduysed
of
all
malyces
thrughe
whiche
he
myght
be
noyed
.
Also
they
put
a
byrde
in
y●
one
syde
of
this
ymage
as
for
kepe
it
whiche
fleeth
by
nyght
that
men
calleth
a
choughe
whiche
betokeneth
that
a
knyght
ought
to
be
as
well
by
nyght
as
by
daye
all
redy
for
the
defence
comune
if
nede
be
.
Also
it
sygnyfyed
that
the
wyse
man
sholde
wake
at
euery
houre
vpon
that
that
is
to
hym
easye
to
doo
.
This
lady
was
by
longe
tyme
holden
by
so
grete
reuerence
/
and
so
moche
wente
her
renowne
that
in
many
places
were
stabled
&
made
temples
in
her
name
/
and
in
the
same
wyse
longe
tyme
after
that
the
Romaynes
were
in
theyr
grete
puyssaunce
put
her
ymage
amonge
theyr
other
goddes
.
¶
Of
the
ryght
noble
quene
Seres
.
Ca.
xxxv
.
CEres
whiche
was
in
the
ryght
olde
dayes
quene
of
the
royalme
of
Syculyens
had
a
prerogatyue
to
fynde
by
subtylte
of
wytte
fyrst
the
scyence
and
vsage
of
the
tyllynge
of
the
erthe
&
of
the
toles
that
perteyneth
therto
.
She
to
her
subiectes
to
put
togyder
&
to
make
tame
the
oxen
&
to
accustome
them
to
be
coupled
in
the
yoke
.
She
founde
also
the
ploughe
&
shewed
them
the
maner
howe
they
sholde
cleue
&
departe
the
erthe
and
al
the
laboure
y●
therto
perteyneth
/
&
after
she
taught
them
to
cast
the
sede
vpon
the
erthe
&
to
couer
it
/
&
after
when
the
sede
was
growne
&
multyplyed
she
shewed
theym
howe
they
sholde
repe
the
corne
/
&
with
betynge
of
flayles
to
put
it
out
of
the
eres
.
After
she
taught
them
to
grynde
it
bytwene
.ij.
harde
stones
by
crafte
/
&
howe
they
sholde
make
mylles
&
she
taught
them
after
to
make
brede
of
the
mele
/
&
also
this
lady
taught
to
the
people
that
lyued
customably
as
beestes
with
acornes
&
hawthorne
buryes
/
&
wylde
apples
to
vse
more
couenable
fedynges
/
yet
this
lady
dyde
more
for
the
people
of
the
countre
that
had
it
of
custome
to
dwelle
here
&
there
in
woodes
&
in
wylde
places
&
voyde
as
beestes
made
them
to
assemble
by
grete
companyes
/
&
taught
them
to
make
townes
&
cytees
&
howses
in
the
whiche
they
sholde
dwelle
togyder
/
&
thus
by
this
lady
the
worlde
was
brought
out
of
the
beestysshnesse
in
to
the
reasonable
lyfe
of
man
.
Of
this
Ceres
the
poetes
fayned
the
tale
howe
her
doughter
was
rauysshed
by
Pluto
god
of
helle
/
and
for
the
auctoryte
of
her
vnderstan
dynge
and
the
grete
welthe
that
she
had
procured
to
the
worlde
/
the
people
of
thens
worshypped
her
&
called
her
goddesse
of
corne
.
¶
Of
the
noble
quene
I●es
that
founde
fyrste
the
crafte
to
make
Orchardes
and
to
plante
plantes
.
Ca.
xxxvj
.
THe
same
wyse
was
Isys
of
so
grete
te
vnderstandynge
in
the
dede
of
labour
that
she
was
not
onely
named
quene
of
Egypte
but
ryght
syguler
&
specyall
goodnesse
of
Egypcyens
.
Of
this
Isys
speketh
the
fable
that
Iupyter
loued
her
and
howe
he
transfourmed
her
in
to
a
cowe
/
&
after
howe
she
came
in
to
her
fyrst
fourme
whiche
by
sygnyfyenge
of
her
grete
vnderstandynge
soo
as
thou
haste
touched
her
thyselfe
in
thy
boke
of
Othea
.
She
founde
dyuers
maners
of
letters
abreged
that
she
tought
the
Egypcyans
and
gaue
them
fourme
of
theyr
longe
language
to
abrege
it
.
This
was
the
doughter
of
Iuachus
kynge
of
Grekes
and
syster
of
Phoroneus
whiche
was
ryght
a
wyse
man
/
and
this
lady
wente
out
of
Grece
for
dyuers
thynges
that
fell
&
wente
in
to
Egypte
with
her
brother
.
There
she
taughte
amonge
other
thynges
the
vsage
of
orchardes
&
to
graffe
trees
on
dyuers
stockes
/
&
she
gaue
&
ordeyned
certayne
lawes
and
ryghtfull
/
and
she
tought
the
people
of
Egypte
whiche
lyued
rudely
without
ordynaunce
of
Iustyce
to
lyue
by
ryght
ordre
/
&
to
speke
shortely
she
dyde
so
moche
the
lyuynge
&
deed
/
they
had
her
in
grete
reuerence
/
&
her
renowne
wente
thrughe
the
worlde
in
so
moche
that
in
dyuers
places
were
made
temples
and
oratoryes
in
her
name
.
And
also
at
Rome
in
the
tyme
of
theyr
hyghnesse
they
made
a
temple
in
her
name
where
they
ordeyned
sacrefyses
and
offerynges
&
grete
solempnytees
in
the
maner
as
they
of
Egypte
were
accustomed
to
doo
for
her
.
The
housbande
of
this
lady
was
named
Aprys
/
whiche
after
the
arroure
of
auncyent
people
was
sone
of
the
god
Iupyter
&
of
Nyode
/
doughter
of
Phoroneus
/
of
whome
the
olde
hystoryes
and
poetes
maketh
mencyon
ynoughe
.
¶
Of
the
grete
welthe
that
is
come
to
the
worlde
by
dyuers
ladyes
.
Ca.
xxxvij
.
MAdame
I
haue
grete
meruayle
of
y●
/
that
I
haue
herde
you
saye
that
so
moche
good
sholde
come
to
the
worlde
bycause
of
the
vnderstandynge
of
woman
.
And
these
men
saye
comunely
theyr
vnderstandynge
is
as
a
thynge
withoute
pryce
and
that
they
haue
not
serued
ne
serueth
to
the
worlde
but
for
to
bere
chyldren
and
spynne
.
¶
An
swere
.
Nowe
mayst
thou
well
knowe
the
grete
ygnoraunce
&
they
yelde
no
thankynges
to
them
from
whom
they
come
.
And
also
thou
mayst
se
clerely
howe
god
whiche
nothynge
dothe
without
cause
hath
wyll
to
showe
to
men
that
he
dysprayseth
not
the
woman
kynde
/
ne
thoughe
that
he
consydereth
that
in
the
brayne
of
woman
there
is
so
grete
vnderstandynge
that
not
onely
they
ben
abyle
for
to
lerne
/
and
to
withholde
the
scyences
/
but
to
fynde
of
themselfe
all
newe
scyences
of
soo
grete
vtylyte
and
profyte
vnto
the
worlde
/
that
nothynge
is
more
necessary
so
as
thou
mayst
se
of
this
Carmentes
of
whome
I
haue
spoken
to
the
that
founde
the
letters
of
latyne
/
to
the
whiche
god
hath
ben
so
gracyous
&
so
moche
multyplyed
the
scyence
the
this
lady
founde
whiche
hathe
defaced
as
amonge
vs
all
the
letters
of
Ebrue
&
of
Grewe
/
&
that
nyghe
Europe
whiche
conteyneth
a
grete
partye
&
space
of
the
erthe
vseth
of
these
letters
of
the
whiche
there
be
made
&
compounded
infynyte
bokes
of
volumes
of
al
facultees
/
where
be
put
&
kepte
in
perpetuall
memorye
the
actes
&
dedes
of
men
and
the
nobles
&
excellent
praysyngees
of
god
&
all
maner
scyences
and
craftes
.
So
mayst
thou
conclude
that
the
welthe
that
this
woman
hath
done
is
infynyte
.
For
by
this
lady
thoughe
that
they
wyl
not
knowe
it
these
men
are
drawne
out
of
yg
noraunce
&
put
in
to
knowynge
/
by
her
they
haue
the
crafte
to
sende
theyr
courages
&
entencyons
as
ferre
as
they
wyll
&
haue
knowledge
&
vnderstandynge
agayne
of
all
thynges
that
pleaseth
them
&
the
same
wyse
to
knowe
thynges
passed
&
present
/
and
some
that
are
to
come
.
And
also
by
the
scyence
of
this
woman
men
may
make
accorde
and
Ioyne
frendshyppes
with
persones
ferre
fro
them
and
by
answeres
that
they
gaue
that
one
to
that
other
they
fele
and
knowe
theyr
wyll
without
seynge
.
And
to
say
shortely
all
the
welthe
that
cometh
of
letters
may
not
be
tolde
/
for
they
dyscryue
and
make
to
vnderstande
and
knowe
god
&
celestyall
thynges
/
the
heuens
the
see
/
the
erthe
al
persones
and
all
thynges
/
where
was
there
euer
man
tha●
euer
dyde
more
good
.
¶
Of
the
same
.
Capitulo
.xxxviij.
ANd
also
where
was
there
euer
man
by
whom
more
welthe
happened
to
the
worlde
than
dyde
by
this
noble
quene
Ceres
of
whome
I
haue
spoken
of
to
the
before
whiche
may
not
gete
a
name
of
gretter
praysynge
as
to
brynge
the
wylde
men
dwellynge
in
wodes
as
beestes
with
out
lawe
of
ryght
to
dwelle
in
cytees
&
townes
&
to
teche
them
to
vse
the
ryght
way
&
to
haue
pourchaced
vytayle
of
better
●edynge
than
acornes
&
wylde
apples
/
that
is
to
knowe
/
whetes
and
cornes
by
the
whiche
these
men
haue
the
body
more
fayre
&
more
clere
and
the
membres
more
stronge
&
more
mouynge
as
it
were
mete
more
comforta
tyfe
/
and
more
couenable
to
mannes
nature
and
the
lande
full
of
thystles
of
thornes
/
&
of
busshes
euyll
set
to
gyder
and
full
of
wylde
trees
/
she
taught
to
clense
by
laboure
/
and
to
sowe
the
sede
the
whiche
by
the
labourynge
of
the
grounde
there
as
it
was
wylde
it
becometh
free
&
tame
to
the
comune
profyte
/
&
so
by
this
lady
mannes
nature
receyueth
that
profyte
by
the
whiche
the
wylde
&
rude
worlde
was
chaunged
in
to
the
guyse
of
good
cytees
and
townes
/
and
the
slawstrynge
wyttes
&
slowe
/
beynge
in
the
caues
of
ygnoraunce
were
chaunged
and
brought
agayne
in
to
hyghnesse
of
contemplacyon
and
exersyses
couenables
/
and
she
ordeyned
some
men
to
labonre
the
feldes
by
the
whiche
so
many
cytees
&
towne
are
replenysshed
&
susteyned
/
&
some
to
do
other
necessary
werkes
to
lyue
by
.
¶
I
sys
the
same
wyse
in
orchardes
/
&
gardynes
who
may
somme
the
grete
welthe
that
she
procured
t●
the
worlde
to
gyue
the
manere
to
lyfte
vp
plantes
and
trees
and
so
many
good
herbes
couenable
to
the
nourysshynge
of
man
.
¶
My
nerue
also
that
pourueyed
by
her
wytte
to
mannes
nature
so
many
dyuers
necessary
th●nges
as
clothynge
of
wolle
whiche
were
before
clothed
with
skynnes
of
be●stes
.
Also
she
put
them
out
of
payne
that
they
had
to
bere
all
theyr
necessary
thynges
bytwene
theyr
armes
from
one
place
to
another
and
ordeyned
and
founde
the
manere
to
make
cartes
and
charyottes
for
theyr
socoure
and
to
the
nobles
and
knyghtes
she
founde
the
crafte
&
the
vsage
to
make
harnoys
to
couer
theyr
bodyes
for
the
more
suretye
in
the
warre
more
fayre
and
stronger
and
more
couenable
than
they
had
before
whiche
was
onely
with
the
hydes
of
beestes
.
¶
Xp̄ine
and
I
sayd
to
her
.
Ha
madame
.
Nowe
I
perceyue
by
that
/
that
ye
saye
more
than
euer
I
dyde
the
grete
vnkyndnesse
and
vnconnynge
of
these
men
that
so
moche
euyll
sayth
of
women
/
for
notwithstandynge
that
it
sholde
seme
that
there
is
cause
ynoughe
of
praysynge
of
them
by
that
woman
is
moder
to
man
/
and
al
other
welthes
that
one
mayese
openly
that
generally
women
dothe
to
men
.
Truely
I
se
nere
the
ryght
hepe
of
beuety
ses
and
of
souerayne
largenesse
that
they
haue
receyued
and
receyue
of
them
.
Nowe
lette
them
holde
theyr
peas
from
hens
torthe
these
euyll
sayenge
clerkes
of
women
that
haue
blamed
and
spoken
shrewdely
of
women
in
theyr
bokes
and
dyttyes
and
other
suche
/
and
lette
them
caste
downe
theyr
eyen
for
shame
of
that
they
haue
mysse
sayd
consyderynge
the
trouthe
whiche
is
contrary
vnto
theyr
wrytynge
seynge
this
noble
lady
Carment
is
the
whiche
by
the
hyghnesse
of
her
vnderstan
dynge
hath
taught
them
as
theyr
maystresse
at
the
scole
suche
a
lesson
by
the
whiche
vnderstandynge
/
they
holde
them
so
hyghe
and
worshypfull
/
that
is
to
knowe
the
noble
letters
of
latyne
/
yet
what
shall
these
nobles
and
knyghtes
say
to
this
thynge
so
moche
agaynst
ryght
that
saythe
euyll
generally
of
all
women
/
lette
them
refrayne
theyr
mou
thes
&
from
hens
forth
aduysynge
the
vsage
,
to
bere
armes
in
batayle
/
&
to
fyght
in
ordenaunce
of
the
whiche
crafte
they
prayse
them
&
holde
them
grete
/
&
all
is
come
to
them
by
women
▪
&
generally
al
men
that
lyueth
by
brede
/
&
that
lyueth
in
Cytees
and
townes
by
the
ordre
of
ryght
.
And
also
those
that
tylleth
the
lande
/
haue
they
soo
moche
cause
to
blame
women
as
many
of
theym
dothe
thynkyn
ge
vpon
these
benefeytes
and
goodnesses
whiche
they
haue
done
for
them
.
Forsothe
naye
.
And
that
by
these
women
/
that
is
to
vnderstande
Myuerne
Ceres
/
and
Isys
there
ben
come
to
them
so
many
dy●●rs
●elthes
&
profytes
/
of
the
whiche
benefy
ses
they
haue
theyr
lyfe
worshypfully
&
so
they
lyue
and
shall
lyue
alway
.
These
thynges
ben
wel
appealed
without
fayle
madame
/
but
yet
it
semeth
me
that
the
doctryne
of
Arystotle
whiche
was
of
ryght
grete
profyte
to
mannes
wytte
&
wherof
one
holdeth
of
grete
counte
and
of
ryght
/
none
of
all
that
other
phylosophres
that
euer
were
there
is
not
of
so
grete
profyte
to
the
worlde
as
haue
ben
&
ben
by
the
doctryne
of
these
foresayd
ladyes
.
¶
Of
the
mayden
Arenye
that
founde
the
crafte
to
shere
sheepe
/
to
dresse
the
wolles
/
and
to
make
clothe
.
Ca.
xxxix
.
NOt
onely
by
these
ladyes
god
hadde
lust
to
pouruey
to
the
worlde
many
dyuers
thynges
&
necessaryes
/
but
also
in
the
same
wyse
by
many
dyuers
others
.
So
as
by
a
mayde
of
the
lande
of
Assye
that
was
named
Arenye
doughter
of
ydmuete
Cholophone
the
whiche
was
of
meruayllous
&
subtell
wytte
.
So
moche
she
laboured
her
wyttes
that
she
founde
fyrst
the
crafte
to
dye
wolle
in
to
dyuers
coloures
&
to
make
werkes
in
clothe
as
paynters
dothe
/
in
the
manere
that
we
sholde
calle
the
clothes
of
hyghe
lyst
and
in
this
crafte
she
was
meruayllous
subtyll
.
And
it
was
she
wherof
the
fable
speketh
and
saythe
that
she
stryued
with
Pallas
whiche
became
a
flee
.
This
woman
founde
another
scyence
more
necessarye
.
For
this
was
she
that
founde
fyrst
the
maner
of
Flaxe
&
maner
of
werkes
to
make
lynnen
clothe
/
the
whiche
thynge
semeth
to
be
ryght
necessarye
to
the
worlde
thoughe
that
some
men
say
that
the
exercyse
therof
be
reprofe
to
women
.
This
Arenye
also
founde
fyrste
to
make
nettes
and
craftes
to
take
byrdes
and
fysshes
and
founde
the
crafte
of
fysshynge
/
&
to
take
and
deceyue
the
stronge
wylde
beestes
and
conyes
&
hares
/
&
byrdes
with
nettes
whiche
was
not
knowne
before
.
So
me
semeth
that
this
wo
man
made
no
lytell
seruyce
to
the
worlde
by
the
whiche
syth
men
haue
founde
grete
profyte
.
¶
notwithstandynge
that
dyuers
auctoures
and
also
this
Bocace
whiche
telleth
the
foresayd
thynges
haue
sayd
that
the
worlde
was
better
when
the
people
lyued
not
but
with
hawes
&
acornes
/
and
that
they
ware
but
skynnes
of
bestes
then
it
hathe
ben
syth
when
that
they
were
taught
to
vse
others
more
delycatyfe
/
yet
saue
the
reuerence
of
the
sayd
auctoure
&
of
all
them
that
shall
saye
that
it
is
preiudyce
to
the
worlde
to
vse
suche
thynges
&
that
the
nourysshynge
of
mannes
body
sholde
be
founde
and
vsed
I
saye
that
in
so
moche
that
ony
creature
receyue
th
more
of
graces
&
of
grete
gyftes
of
god
/
by
soo
moche
is
he
the
more
beholdynge
to
serue
hym
the
better
/
&
that
yfony
creature
vse
euyll
of
well
y●
god
hathe
prouyded
for
hym
&
graunted
hym
to
vse
them
well
&
couenably
/
&
made
them
for
the
vsage
of
man
&
woman
that
it
cometh
of
the
shrewdenesse
and
cursydnesse
of
them
that
vseth
it
euyl
and
not
that
the
thynges
of
hym
sholde
not
be
euyl
but
good
to
vse
.
Ihesu
cryst
hymselfe
in
his
owne
persone
shewed
it
wel
for
he
vsed
brede
and
wyne
fless
he
and
fyss
he
/
robe
of
coloure
/
of
lynnen
/
and
of
all
other
thynges
necessary
whiche
had
not
be
done
yf
it
had
ben
better
to
vse
to
eate
acornes
&
hawes
&
also
he
honoured
moche
the
scyence
that
Ceres
founde
/
that
is
to
knowe
of
brede
when
it
plea
sed
hym
to
gyue
to
man
&
woman
his
owne
body
in
fourme
of
brede
/
and
that
they
sholde
vse
it
.
¶
Of
Pamphyle
that
founde
the
crafte
to
drawe
sylke
of
the
wormes
.
Ca.
xl
.
OF
scyences
good
and
profytable
founde
by
women
/
amonge
others
we
ought
not
to
forgete
the
noble
P●mphy
le
of
the
countre
of
Grece
.
This
lady
was
of
ryght
subtyll
wytte
in
dyuers
werkes
/
and
so
moche
delyted
to
serche
straunge
thynges
that
she
was
the
fyrst
that
founde
the
crafte
of
sylke
.
For
as
she
was
ryght
subtyll
and
yma
gynatyfe
she
aduysed
her
of
these
wormes
that
maketh
sylke
naturally
vpon
the
braunches
of
trees
So
she
toke
the
bothomes
that
these
wormes
had
made
and
she
sawe
that
they
were
ryght
fayre
/
&
then
she
toke
many
thredes
and
put
theym
togyder
and
twyned
them
/
and
then
she
assayed
if
this
threde
wolde
take
ony
fayre
coloure
/
and
when
she
had
proued
all
this
and
sawe
that
it
was
ryght
a
fayre
thynge
she
toke
it
to
make
and
to
weue
in
to
clothes
of
sylke
.
For
the
whiche
thynge
of
the
connynge
of
this
woman
there
is
come
grete
beaute
and
profyte
to
the
worlde
multyplyed
in
all
conntres
.
For
god
is
worshypped
and
serued
in
dyuers
arayes
therof
.
And
the
noble
robes
&
ray
mentes
of
prelates
in
deuyne
offyces
ben
made
therof
.
And
also
of
Emperours
kynges
and
prynces
/
and
the
same
wyse
the
people
of
some
landes
vseth
none
other
clothynge
for
that
they
haue
no
wolles
and
they
haue
ynowe
of
sylke
wormes
.
¶
Of
Thamar
that
was
a
souerayne
maystresse
in
the
crafte
of
payntynge
/
and
of
another
named
Irayne
.
Ca.
xli
.
WHat
woldest
thou
I
sholde
say
yf
nature
of
woman
be
able
to
fynde
and
to
lerne
the
speculatyfe
scyences
and
also
these
hande
craftes
.
The
same
wyse
it
is
empropryed
to
execute
them
and
put
them
in
werke
ryght
subtylly
when
they
haue
lerned
them
.
So
as
it
is
wryten
of
a
woman
that
was
named
Thamar
whiche
was
of
so
grete
subtylte
in
the
crafte
and
scyence
of
payntynge
that
in
those
dayes
whyle
she
lyued
there
was
no
ne
suche
as
she
was
in
connynge
.
This
woman
as
Bocace
sayth
was
doughter
to
Nyton
Peyn
tre
and
was
in
the
tyme
of
Olympe
.
Olympe
was
a
grete
solempne
day
so
called
/
in
the
whiche
there
were
made
dyuers
playes
/
and
he
that
gate
it
sholde
be
graunted
vn to
hym
that
he
asked
yt
it
were
a
reasonable
thynge
the
whiche
feest
&
playes
was
done
in
the
honoure
of
Iupyter
/
&
it
was
halowed
from
.vj.
yere
vnto
.vj.
yere
.iiij.
yere
free
bytwene
bothe
/
&
Hercules
ordeyned
fyrst
this
feest
/
and
of
the
fyrst
begynnynge
that
it
was
ordeyned
they
made
theyr
date
.
So
as
dothe
the
crysten
men
of
the
Incarnacyon
of
Ihesu
cryst
.
This
Thamar
lefte
all
womens
werkes
and
folowed
the
crafte
of
her
fader
by
ryght
grete
subtelte
of
wytte
in
the
tyme
when
Archylans
reygned
vpon
the
Macedonyes
she
had
synguler
praysynge
in
so
moche
that
they
of
the
countre
of
Ephese
that
there
worshypped
the
goddesse
Dyane
made
by
grete
charge
that
this
Thamar
sholde
paynte
the
ymage
of
theyr
goddesse
/
whiche
they
kepte
longe
tyme
after
in
grete
dygnyte
as
a
thynge
made
by
grete
subtylte
and
solempnely
paynted
/
&
they
shewed
neuer
this
ymage
but
at
the
feest
&
solempnyte
of
the
god
desse
the
whiche
payntynge
as
it
endured
by
ryght
grete
age
bare
so
grete
wytnesse
of
the
subtylte
of
this
woman
that
vnto
this
day
there
is
me
mory
of
her
wytte
.
In
this
scyence
of
payntynge
there
was
also
a
woman
of
Grece
soueraynly
whiche
was
named
Irane
that
she
passed
al
those
that
were
in
her
tyme
/
this
woman
was
a
dyscyple
of
a
payntoure
called
Cracyne
the
whiche
was
a
souerayne
werke
man
/
yet
she
was
subtyll
&
so
moche
lerned
in
the
scyence
that
she
passed
&
exce
ded
her
mayster
so
meruayllousiy
that
for
the
remembraunce
of
her
they
lete
make
an
ymage
whiche
was
as
a
mayden
that
paynted
/
&
they
lyfte
it
for
ho
noure
amonge
that
other
ymages
of
souerayne
werke
men
of
certayne
workes
that
had
ben
before
her
.
For
suche
custome
had
these
auncyent
men
that
they
worshypped
bothe
men
&
women
that
passe
other
in
excellence
whyder
it
were
of
vnderstandynge
or
of
strengthe
or
of
beaute
/
or
of
ony
other
grace
or
vertue
that
for
to
make
theyr
perpetuall
remembraunce
they
made
to
set
theyr
ymages
in
hyghe
&
worshypfull
places
.
¶
Marcya
the
Romayne
that
was
also
a
vyrgyne
was
of
ryght
grete
vertue
in
noble
lyuynge
/
&
in
good
condycyons
/
she
was
also
of
noble
wytte
in
the
crafte
of
payntynge
/
this
woman
wrought
by
so
grete
crafte
&
so
maysterly
the
she
passed
all
men
/
&
the
same
wyse
Gaye
&
Spolyn
that
were
called
the
moost
souerayne
payntoures
of
the
worlde
in
theyr
tyme
/
she
passed
them
&
attayned
the
worshyp
of
all
that
myght
be
knowne
of
that
scyence
after
that
that
the
maystres
sayd
.
This
Marcya
to
that
entente
that
the
remembraunce
of
the
scyence
sholde
shewe
after
her
amonge
her
noble
werkes
she
made
a
table
by
grete
crafte
where
she
paynted
her
fygure
beholdynge
her
in
a
myroure
so
properly
that
euery
man
that
sawe
it
Iuged
it
to
be
on
lyue
/
the
whiche
table
ryght
longe
syth
was
soueraynely
kepte
&
she
wed
to
werke
men
as
a
treasoure
of
solempnyte
.
¶
Then
I
sayd
to
her
mada
me
by
this
ensample
one
may
perceyue
that
in
the
olde
tyme
these
wyse
people
were
more
worshypped
than
they
be
no
we
/
&
the
scye
nces
holdeth
in
moche
more
pryce
/
yet
to
the
purpose
of
that
that
ye
saye
of
women
experte
in
the
scyence
of
payntynge
.
¶
I
knowe
at
this
day
a
woman
that
men
calleth
Ana
stase
the
is
so
moche
experte
&
lerned
to
make
vyny
ettes
of
enlumynynge
in
bokes
&
chasynge
hysto
ryes
that
there
is
mencyon
made
of
ony
werke
man
in
the
towne
of
Parys
/
yet
there
ben
suche
in
that
towne
that
ben
called
the
soueraynest
werkemen
of
the
worlde
/
but
that
she
passeth
them
/
ne
that
so
swetely
maketh
flourysshynges
as
she
dothe
/
and
this
I
knowe
by
experyence
/
for
she
hathe
wrought
for
myselfe
dyuers
thynges
whiche
ben
holden
syngulersby
themselfe
amonge
the
vynyettes
of
other
werke
men
.
Responce
.
Of
that
I
byleue
the
well
fayre
doughter
/
for
thou
mayst
fynde
women
ynowe
whiche
ben
wel
experte
in
dyuers
thynges
who
that
wolde
serche
aboute
in
the
worlde
/
and
yet
to
the
same
purpose
I
shall
telle
the
of
a
woman
of
Rome
.
¶
Here
it
speketh
of
Semproyne
.
Ca.
xlij
.
SEmproyne
of
Rome
was
a
woman
of
grete
beaute
/
yet
notwithstandynge
that
the
shap
of
her
body
&
of
her
vysage
passed
in
her
tyme
all
other
women
in
beaute
/
yet
she
passed
&
exceded
in
excellence
of
subtylte
of
her
wytte
/
the
whiche
she
had
so
redy
that
there
was
nothynge
soo
subtyll
in
worde
nor
in
werke
but
anone
she
wolde
haue
it
so
hooly
that
she
wolde
not
fayle
but
as
her
lyste
she
wolde
reporte
it
all
that
she
had
herde
saye
thoughe
it
were
ryght
a
grete
narracyon
.
This
lady
knewe
not
onely
the
latyne
letters
but
the
Grekyss
he
also
entyerly
&
wrote
them
so
wyttely
that
it
was
grete
meruayle
to
se.
Also
of
speche
&
faconde
&
of
fayre
manere
so
comely
&
so
gentyll
that
by
her
wordes
&
maners
she
coude
drawe
ony
persone
to
that
she
wolde
/
yf
she
wolde
or
lyst
to
prouoke
them
to
solace
/
or
Ioye
/
to
wepe
or
to
sorowe
/
in
the
same
wyse
she
coude
moue
euery
man
therto
/
other
to
hardynes
or
to
ony
dede
of
strengthe
/
or
to
lerne
ony
other
thynge
/
she
coude
styre
them
therto
/
&
she
had
spoken
with
them
.
And
with
that
so
moche
she
was
of
maner
/
of
speche
/
and
of
countenaunce
/
and
ful
of
courtoysye
/
and
of
swetnesse
that
one
sholde
ne
uer
be
satysfyed
to
beholde
her
/
&
here
her
/
she
songe
so
melodyously
/
and
by
grete
crafte
played
in
all
instrumentes
soueraynly
/
&
she
coude
all
maner
of
playes
/
and
to
saye
shortely
she
was
ryght
able
and
wytty
to
do
al
maner
of
thynges
that
mannes
wytte
myght
comprehende
.
¶
Here
Xp̄ine
asketh
of
Reason
yf
naturall
prudence
be
in
woman
.
Ca.
xliij
.
IXp̄ine
yet
sayd
to
her
.
Madame
truely
I
se
well
that
it
is
true
that
god
worshypped
be
he
hath
gyuen
vnderstandynge
to
woman
comprehensyfe
in
all
thynges
to
vnderstande
/
knowe
/
&
to
holde
/
yet
for
that
that
one
seeth
people
ynowe
that
haue
ryght
subtyll
wytte
&
redy
to
fele
&
to
vnderstande
all
that
one
wolde
showe
them
/
&
ben
so
subtyl
in
felynge
&
retentyfe
that
there
is
no
scyence
but
that
it
be
open
ynoughe
to
them
whiche
by
hauntynge
of
the
scole
geteth
ryght
grete
clargye
.
And
neuerthelesse
there
ben
many
also
that
be
of
grete
reputacyon
amonge
clarkes
&
full
of
scyence
that
haue
but
lytell
wysdome
in
maners
&
in
worldely
gouernaunce
wherof
I
haue
grete
meruayle
/
for
it
is
no
doubte
that
the
introduccyon
of
scyence
techeth
the
good
condycyons
&
vertues
.
So
I
wolde
knowe
ryght
fayne
of
you
my
lady
yf
it
pleased
you
if
the
vnderstandynge
of
woman
whiche
is
ynoughe
as
me
semeth
by
your
proues
&
that
I
se
it
by
takynge
&
retentyfe
in
subtyll
thynges
&
scyences
as
others
ben
/
but
I
wolde
wyte
yf
theyr
vnderstandynge
be
prompte
&
abyle
in
thynges
that
prudence
techeth
/
that
is
to
knowe
to
haue
aduyse
vpon
that
whiche
is
best
to
do
/
&
of
that
that
ought
to
be
leest
remembraunce
of
thynges
passed
by
the
whiche
one
maye
be
the
more
experte
by
that
ensample
that
one
haue
wyse
syght
in
gouernaunce
of
present
thynges
/
&
that
one
haue
pourueyaunce
vpon
thynges
to
come
.
These
thynges
as
me
semeth
techeth
prudence
.
¶
Answere
thou
sayst
trewe
doughter
/
but
this
prudence
of
whiche
thou
spekest
/
knowe
that
it
cometh
by
nature
to
man
&
woman
to
some
more
/
to
some
lesse
/
&
not
to
allyke
/
howe
be
it
that
she
dothe
so
moche
that
naturally
they
ben
prudent
.
For
thou
mayst
knowe
that
two
strengthes
togyder
ben
more
&
more
resystynge
than
is
euery
strengthe
by
hymselfe
.
And
therfore
I
saye
to
the
that
euery
persone
that
by
nature
hathe
prudence
/
that
is
called
naturall
wytte
/
&
with
that
connynge
gotten
to
that
persone
bryngeth
hym
to
praysynge
/
of
grete
excellence
/
yet
suche
hathe
one
/
as
thou
thyselfe
hathe
sayd
/
that
another
hath
not
.
For
that
one
is
the
gyfte
of
god
that
other
is
goten
by
longe
studyenge
/
yet
they
ben
bothe
good
/
but
some
sooner
shall
chose
naturall
wytte
without
scyence
goten
than
goten
with
scyence
/
and
neuertheles
vpon
this
preposycyon
there
may
many
opposycyons
be
founde
/
of
the
whiche
maye
sprynge
questyons
ynowe
/
for
one
myght
say
that
he
dothe
well
to
chose
the
more
whiche
is
moost
auaylable
or
profyte
in
the
comune
nede
/
and
it
is
so
that
to
knowe
scyences
it
profyteth
a
synguler
persone
and
more
to
all
persones
by
the
shewynge
that
he
dothe
to
others
that
all
sholde
not
do
of
naturall
wytte
that
he
sholde
haue
.
For
this
naturall
wytte
maye
not
endure
but
durynge
the
lyfe
of
the
persone
that
hathe
it
/
and
when
he
dyeth
his
wette
dyeth
with
hym
/
but
the
Scyence
that
is
goten
endureth
perpetually
for
euer
to
theym
that
hathe
it
for
to
knowe
in
praysynge
/
and
it
profyteth
vnto
many
people
/
in
soo
moche
that
they
do
teche
it
vnto
others
/
and
maketh
bookes
vnto
theym
that
ben
to
come
.
So
theyr
scyence
dyeth
not
with
them
.
So
as
I
may
shewe
the
by
ensample
of
Arystotle
&
of
others
by
the
whiche
the
scyences
were
brought
to
the
worlde
that
profyteth
more
to
the
worlde
the
connynge
go
ten
of
them
than
dothe
all
the
prudence
without
scyence
goten
of
all
that
men
passed
or
those
that
ben
.
Not
withstandynge
that
by
prudence
many
dyuers
royalmes
&
Empyres
hathe
ben
well
gouerned
and
dressed
/
yet
al
these
thynges
ben
faylynge
&
gothe
with
these
men
/
&
scyence
endureth
euer
.
But
yet
this
questyon
I
shall
leue
vnassoylled
&
to
determyne
to
others
.
For
it
draweth
not
to
the
purpose
of
the
strengthynge
of
our
cyte
/
and
I
shall
tourne
agayne
to
the
questyon
that
thou
hast
made
to
me
/
that
is
to
knowe
yf
there
be
natural
prudence
in
woman
/
of
the
whiche
thynge
I
answere
y●
soo
that
thou
mayst
knowe
by
that
that
is
sayd
to
the
before
.
So
as
thou
mayst
se
generally
by
the
gouer
naunce
of
them
in
offyces
that
are
put
to
them
to
do
/
&
yf
thou
take
hede
it
shall
seme
the
good
.
Thou
shalte
fynde
that
to
gouerne
theyr
housholde
and
to
pouruaye
for
it
in
all
thynges
after
theyr
puyssaunce
they
ben
comunely
and
for
the
moost
partye
ryght
curyous
quycke
and
dylygent
in
so
moche
that
theyr
neglygent
housbandes
thynketh
that
it
is
grete
anoyaunce
to
them
that
they
busy
them
so
moche
to
do
that
that
perteyneth
to
them
to
pour
uaye
and
then
they
saye
/
that
they
wolde
be
maystresses
and
more
wyse
than
they
.
And
thus
they
wolde
tourne
it
in
to
euyl
that
that
many
women
say
to
them
in
good
entente
&
of
these
wyse
women
speaketh
the
epystle
of
Salamon
/
of
whiche
the
substaunce
after
our
purpose
wyll
say
that
it
foloweth
so
.
¶
The
epystle
of
Salamon
in
the
boke
of
prouerbes
.
Ca.
xliiij
.
WHo
shall
fynde
a
stronge
woman
that
is
to
say
wyse
/
her
housbande
shall
not
faute
of
all
good
.
She
is
praysed
of
all
the
countre
/
&
her
housbande
truste
th
her
wel
/
for
she
yeldeth
hym
al
wel
the
and
prosperyte
in
all
tymes
/
she
seketh
&
pour
chaseth
wolles
/
that
is
to
vnderstande
werke
to
kepe
her
meyny
i
profytable
werkes
to
garnysshe
her
hous●ande
&
she
herselfe
put
her
handes
to
the
busynesse
/
and
she
is
as
a
shyp
of
a
marchaunte
that
bereth
all
manere
of
goodes
and
pouruayeth
for
brede
.
She
gyueth
her
gyftes
to
them
that
ben
worthy
/
and
those
ben
her
counsayllours
.
And
all
haboundaunce
of
meetes
&
drynkes
spryngeth
also
to
her
seruauntes
.
She
consydereth
the
value
of
a
maner
or
she
bye
it
.
And
by
that
werke
of
her
wytte
she
hath
planted
vynes
with
the
whiche
her
hous
holde
is
pouruayed
.
She
gyrdeth
her
raynes
with
strengthe
and
constaunce
of
busynesse
/
and
her
armes
ben
in
contynuall
good
werke
she
seeth
that
her
busynesse
is
good
&
therfore
she
contynueth
it
And
for
so
moche
that
the
lyght
of
her
laboure
shall
neuer
be
quenched
what
darke
tyme
that
cometh
She
busyeth
herselfe
in
stronge
thynges
/
&
with
that
she
dysprayseth
not
womens
workes
but
she
herselfe
worketh
it
.
She
stretcheth
her
handes
to
the
poore
&
feble
in
theyr
socoure
/
her
house
by
her
pourueyaunce
is
kepte
from
al
maner
of
coldnes
of
snowe
&
those
that
she
hath
to
gouerne
ben
clothed
in
double
robes
.
She
maketh
for
herselfe
robes
of
sylke
of
purple
of
worshyp
&
of
renowne
/
&
her
housbande
is
worshypped
when
he
is
set
with
the
fyrst
auncyent
men
of
the
erthe
.
She
maketh
cloth
lynnen
&
wollen
that
she
selleth
/
&
her
clothynge
is
strengthe
&
worshyp
/
&
for
that
Ioye
perpetuall
shal
be
to
her
/
her
mouthe
speketh
alway
wordes
of
wysedome
/
&
the
lawe
of
buxomnesse
is
in
her
tongue
.
She
consydereth
the
prouysyons
of
her
house
/
&
she
eteth
not
her
brede
ydell
.
The
condycyons
of
her
chyldren
sheweth
that
she
is
theyr
moder
/
&
the
werke
of
them
sheweth
her
goodnesse
.
The
clene
rayment
of
her
housbande
yeldeth
her
praysynges
.
She
is
maystresse
of
her
doughters
in
al
thynges
thoughe
they
be
grete
/
she
dysprayseth
false
praysynges
and
vayne
beaute
.
Suche
a
woman
shall
drede
our
lorde
&
shall
be
praysed
.
and
she
shall
yelde
her
fruyte
after
her
werke
whiche
prayseth
her
in
all
places
.
¶
Here
it
speketh
of
Gay
Cyryle
.
Ca.
xlv
.
TO
the
purpose
that
the
epystle
of
Salamon
sayth
of
a
wyse
woman
maye
well
be
remembred
the
noble
quene
Gay
Cyryle
.
This
lady
was
of
Rome
or
of
Constaunce
/
and
maryed
to
a
kynge
of
the
Romaynes
.
She
was
of
prudence
in
the
dede
of
gouernaunce
&
ryght
vertuous
.
And
with
the
grete
naturall
wyt
trouthe
&
bounte
that
she
had
aboue
all
women
she
was
praysed
to
be
ryght
a
grete
vyander
&
of
notable
pourueyaunce
/
&
thoughe
she
were
a
quene
&
myght
well
leue
to
werke
with
her
handes
/
yet
she
had
the
herte
alwaye
to
profyte
in
some
thynge
&
noo
tyme
to
be
ydle
/
but
alway
laboured
in
some
werke
/
&
the
same
wyse
she
made
the
ladyes
&
damoyselles
aboute
her
to
laboure
/
&
in
especyall
those
that
serued
her
.
She
founde
the
maner
to
sorte
wolles
/
&
to
make
fyne
clothe
&
of
dyuers
sortes
/
&
in
that
she
occupyed
her
whiche
is
for
the
tyme
a
ryght
honourable
thynge
/
by
whiche
this
noble
lady
in
all
places
was
praysed
&
worshypped
/
by
whiche
for
the
reuerence
&
memory
of
her
the
Romaynes
whiche
after
encreased
in
ryght
grete
puyssaunce
whiche
in
her
tyme
were
not
ordeyned
&
maynteyned
the
custo
me
that
to
the
weddynge
of
her
doughters
when
the
spouse
sholde
entre
fyrst
in
to
the
house
of
her
housbande
/
one
asked
howe
she
sholde
be
named
/
&
she
answered
Gaye
/
&
that
gaue
to
vnderstande
that
she
wolde
folowe
this
same
lady
in
dedes
&
in
werkes
after
her
puyssaunce
.
¶
Here
it
speketh
of
the
aduyse
of
Dydo
quene
of
Cartage
.
Ca.
xlv●
.
PRudence
so
as
thyselfe
hast
sayd
before
/
is
to
haue
aduyse
&
a
beholdynge
vpon
thynges
that
one
wyll
take
on
hande
howe
that
they
sholde
be
determyned
/
and
that
women
sholde
be
in
suche
respecte
aduysed
in
grete
matters
.
I
shall
gyue
the
yet
ensample
of
some
puyssaunt
ladyes
/
&
fyrst
of
Dydo
.
This
Dydo
was
fyrst
named
Elyxa
/
the
connynge
of
her
prudence
shewed
well
by
her
werkes
as
I
shall
tell
ye.
She
founded
&
edyfyed
a
cyte
in
the
lande
of
Auffryke
named
Cartage
of
the
whiche
she
was
lady
&
quene
/
&
the
maner
of
that
foundynge
to
gete
the
lande
&
to
possede
it
shewed
in
her
grete
constaunce
/
noblesse
&
vertue
/
without
whiche
to
haue
by
grace
veray
prudence
maye
not
be
in
ony
persone
.
The
comynge
of
this
lady
was
of
them
of
Fenyce
whiche
of
the
last
partyes
of
Egypte
came
in
to
the
lande
of
Syrye
/
&
there
they
founded
&
buylded
dyuers
noble
townes
and
Cytees
Amonge
the
whiche
people
there
was
a
kynge
called
Agenor
of
the
whiche
descended
by
lygnage
the
fader
of
this
lady
dydo
whiche
was
named
Beel
&
was
kynge
of
Fenyce
/
&
he
put
the
royalme
of
Cypre
vnder
his
subieccyon
.
This
kynge
had
one
sone
named
Pygynalyon
/
&
this
mayden
Dydo
with
out
mo
chyldren
/
&
when
he
came
to
the
dethe
he
charged
gretely
his
barons
that
they
sholde
bere
to
these
.ij.
chyldren
loue
&
trouthe
&
so
to
do
they
made
promyse
to
hym
.
When
the
kynge
was
deed
they
crowned
Pygynalyon
his
sone
&
wedded
Elyxe
whiche
was
ryght
a
fayre
mayde
to
a
duke
of
the
countre
whiche
was
grettest
after
the
kynge
&
was
called
Acerbe
Cyte
or
Cytens
.
And
this
Cyteon
was
the
grete
preest
of
the
temple
of
Hercules
after
theyr
lawe
and
was
a
meruayllous
ryche
man
And
so
he
and
his
wyfe
loued
moche
togyder
and
ledde
a
good
lyfe
.
But
this
kynge
Pygynalyon
was
of
shrewde
condycyons
/
cruell
/
&
the
moost
coueytous
persone
that
one
myght
se
/
for
he
coude
not
haue
so
moche
but
he
wolde
coueyte
more
Elyxe
his
syster
whiche
knewe
well
his
grete
coueytyse
/
and
also
she
knewe
well
that
her
housbande
had
grete
treasoure
/
and
there
was
grete
spekynge
of
this
rychesse
/
she
counsaylled
and
aduysed
hym
that
he
sholde
kepe
hym
from
the
kynge
/
and
sholde
put
his
goodes
in
some
secrete
place
/
to
that
entente
that
the
kynge
sholde
not
take
it
awaye
.
Cycyens
byleued
well
this
counsayle
yet
he
kepte
not
well
his
persone
from
the
awaytes
of
the
kynge
as
she
had
tolde
hym
.
So
the
kynge
made
hym
to
be
slayne
on
a
daye
/
to
the
entente
that
he
myght
haue
his
grete
treasoures
/
of
the
whiche
dethe
Elyxe
had
so
grete
sorowe
that
she
was
nere
hande
deed
/
and
was
longe
tyme
in
wepynge
and
wayllynge
/
soro
wynge
pyteously
her
husbande
and
her
lorde
/
cursynge
her
cruell
brother
that
made
hym
to
dye
.
But
the
false
kynge
that
founde
a
wyle
of
his
opynyon
whiche
was
for
that
that
he
had
founde
lytell
or
nought
of
the
goodes
of
Cytens
and
bare
grete
rancoure
to
his
syster
.
For
he
thought
that
she
had
hydden
the
goodes
.
And
she
whiche
sawe
well
that
she
was
in
grete
peryll
of
her
lyfe
was
warned
by
her
prudence
to
leue
\
her
owne
countre
&
to
go
thens
.
This
thynge
remembred
/
she
toke
aduyse
in
herselfe
by
vertuous
courage
of
that
she
sholde
do
&
armed
her
with
stren
gthe
&
constaunce
to
put
in
effecte
that
she
wolde
take
on
hande
.
So
this
lady
knewe
well
that
the
kynge
was
not
welbyloued
of
his
lordes
/
nor
of
his
people
for
the
grete
crueltyes
&
extorcyons
that
he
dyde
/
so
she
toke
to
her
certayne
lordes
&
cytesyns
/
&
also
of
the
comune
people
/
&
after
that
that
she
had
made
them
swere
that
they
sholde
holde
it
in
counsayle
suche
thyngesas
she
wolde
deuyse
to
them
she
by
ryght
fayre
language
began
to
declare
her
entente
/
so
moche
that
they
accorded
to
go
with
her
/
&
ther
to
they
made
theyr
othe
to
be
trewe
&
faythfull
.
So
this
lady
as
soone
as
she
myght
made
redy
her
nauye
all
secretly
/
&
by
nyght
she
departed
with
al
her
grete
treasours
&
foyson
of
people
with
her
&
she
charged
gretly
her
maryners
to
employ
them
to
go
.
More
gretter
malyce
dyde
this
lady
for
she
knewe
well
that
her
broder
as
soone
as
he
knewe
of
her
goynge
wolde
sende
people
after
her
/
&
secretly
she
made
fylle
grete
males
&
grete
fardelles
of
thynges
of
noo
valewe
/
but
they
were
heuy
as
it
had
ben
grete
treasoure
to
that
entente
that
in
delyuerynge
these
foresayd
males
&
fardelles
to
them
that
her
broder
wolde
sende
after
it
sholde
let
her
passe
&
not
to
hurte
her
goynge
/
whiche
thynge
came
all
to
the
poynte
/
for
they
were
not
longe
,
gone
but
grete
foyson
of
people
came
from
the
kynge
sewynge
after
her
to
haue
arested
her
but
the
lady
wel
&
wysely
spake
to
them
&
sayd
that
she
wente
in
her
pylgrymage
/
so
they
letted
her
not
/
but
when
this
lady
sawe
that
this
excusacyon
wolde
not
aduayle
she
knewe
wel
that
he
wolde
nothynge
with
her
but
to
haue
her
treasoure
,
&
she
sayd
that
she
wolde
sende
it
to
hym
with
a
good
wyll
/
and
those
that
knewe
wel
that
they
wolde
do
theyr
payne
to
contente
the
kynges
appetyte
&
to
apease
the
kynge
/
&
then
the
lady
with
a
sorowfull
chere
as
thoughe
she
toke
sorowe
for
it
made
to
be
delyuered
all
these
males
&
bagges
to
them
.
And
those
that
trowed
verely
the
they
had
do
ne
well
theyr
deuoyre
&
that
they
sholde
brynge
Ioy
full
tydynges
to
the
kynge
departed
from
her
/
&
the
quene
without
makynge
semblaunt
of
that
thought
on
her
goynge
as
soone
as
she
myght
/
&
they
wente
so
longe
by
day
&
by
nyght
that
they
aryued
in
the
Ile
of
Cypre
/
&
there
they
refresshed
them
a
ly
tell
whyle
/
&
anone
after
she
toke
her
shyppes
when
she
had
done
her
oblacyons
vnto
the
goddes
/
and
she
brought
with
her
the
preest
of
Iouys
&
his
wyfe
&
all
his
housholde
/
&
he
had
dyuyned
before
that
there
sholde
come
a
lady
of
the
partyes
of
Phenyce
for
the
whiche
he
sholde
leue
his
countre
&
sholde
go
with
her
.
Thus
they
wente
&
lefte
behynde
them
the
lande
of
Grece
&
the
lande
of
Cecyll
in
the
ryght
hande
&
they
sayled
longe
by
the
lande
of
Me●ulye
so
moche
that
they
aryued
in
Ausryke
&
there
toke
the
lande
and
anone
came
the
people
of
the
countre
to
se
the
manere
&
what
people
they
were
/
&
when
they
sawe
the
lady
&
her
people
they
brought
plentye
of
vy●ay
les
&
the
lady
spake
to
them
ryght
frendly
&
sayd
/
that
for
the
grete
welthe
the
she
had
herde
say
of
that
coun
tre
she
was
come
thyder
to
dwell
there
yf
it
pleased
them
/
&
they
answered
that
they
wolde
well
/
and
the
lady
that
made
semblaunt
that
she
wolde
make
no
grete
dwellynge
vpon
a
straunge
lande
requyred
them
to
selle
to
her
vpon
the
see
coste
so
moche
lande
onely
as
the
hyde
of
an
oxe
wolde
enclose
there
to
make
dwellynge
places
for
her
&
her
people
/
the
whiche
thynge
was
graunted
to
her
/
and
the
couenauntes
&
the
pryce
sworne
bytwene
them
.
The
lady
then
whiche
shewed
her
wyt
&
grete
prudence
made
to
take
an
hyde
of
an
oxe
/
&
made
to
cutte
it
by
the
smallest
thonges
that
myght
be
made
&
knytte
them
togyder
all
on
lengthe
&
after
made
to
stretche
it
vpon
the
grounde
all
aboute
the
see
coste
whiche
con
teyned
a
meruayllous
grete
countre
of
the
whiche
thynge
the
sellers
were
meruayllous
sore
abasshed
&
meruaylled
moche
of
the
cauteyles
of
this
woman
&
not
for
that
yet
they
must
holde
theyr
pryce
▪
&
thus
this
lady
gate
this
lande
in
Auffryke
/
&
in
the
sayd
fortakynge
there
was
smyten
of
the
heed
of
an
horse
/
by
the
whiche
heed
&
by
the
crye
&
the
flyght
of
by
r
des
they
vnderstode
after
theyr
dyuynynge
that
in
that
cyte
that
sholde
be
founded
/
there
sholde
be
in
tyme
to
come
men
of
warre
&
wyse
in
armes
.
Then
this
lady
sente
anone
all
aboute
to
seke
werkemen
&
opened
her
treasoure
&
made
to
buylde
a
Cyte
/
meruayllous
grete
/
fayre
&
stronge
whiche
she
named
Cartage
/
&
the
towre
of
the
dongeon
she
called
Byrse
whiche
is
to
say
the
hyde
of
an
oxe
/
&
so
as
she
beganto
buylde
her
cyte
she
herde
tydynges
of
her
broder
whiche
manaced
her
gretely
&
all
that
were
in
her
company
for
bycause
she
had
mocked
hym
of
the
treasoure
/
but
she
answered
to
the
messangers
that
the
treasoure
was
good
&
fayre
that
she
toke
to
bere
to
her
broder
/
but
that
by
aduenture
those
that
brought
it
toke
it
awaye
&
put
in
stede
of
that
some
false
thynges
/
or
that
it
myght
well
be
for
the
vengeaunce
of
the
dethe
of
her
housbande
the
goddes
had
no
wyl
that
he
that
slewe
hym
sholde
reioyce
his
goodes
&
ther fore
they
haue
chaunged
it
.
But
as
for
the
manasynge
she
thought
by
the
helpe
of
her
goddes
she
sholde
defende
her
from
her
broder
/
&
then
she
made
to
call
all
those
that
she
had
brought
thyder
with
her
&
sayd
to
them
that
she
wolde
not
that
they
sholde
abyde
with
her
agaynst
her
courage
/
ne
that
by
her
sholde
come
encombraunce
to
them
/
by
the
whiche
yf
they
wolde
tourne
home
agayne
all
or
some
of
them
that
she
wolde
restore
them
for
theyr
laboure
&
sende
them
forthe
/
&
they
answered
all
with
one
voyce
that
they
wolde
lyue
&
dye
with
her
without
partynge
all
the
dayes
of
theyr
lyues
.
Then
departed
the
messangers
,
&
the
lady
as
moche
as
she
myght
busyed
her
to
perfourme
her
cyte●
&
when
it
wasal
made
she
or
deyned
lawes
to
the
people
for
to
lyue
after
ryght
&
Iustyce
/
&
thus
she
gouerned
so
notably
&
by
gret
prudence
that
in
al
countres
wente
her
renowne
/
&
euery
manspake
of
her
not
onely
for
the
grete
vertue
that
was
in
her
but
as
moche
for
hardynesse
of
the
fayre
entrepryse
that
she
had
made
/
&
for
the
grete
prudent
gouernaunce
they
chaunged
her
name
&
called
her
Dydo
whiche
is
as
moche
to
say
in
latyne
as
Ui
rago
/
that
is
to
saye
she
that
hath
vertue
&
strengthe
of
man
/
&
thus
she
lyued
gloryously
a
grete
whyle
&
longer
had
done
if
fortune
had
ben
fauourable
to
her
/
but
as
she
often
tymes
enuyous
to
them
that
ben
in
prosperyte
dystempered
to
her
an
harde
draught
of
drynke
at
the
last
so
as
here
after
in
tyme
&
place
I
shall
tell
the.
¶
Here
it
speketh
of
Opis
.
Ca.
xlvij
.
OPys
or
Ops
that
syth
was
called
goddesse
&
moder
of
goddes
was
of
the
auncyent
people
/
had
in
reputacyon
as
ryght
a
wyse
woman
for
that
that
after
the
sayenge
of
the
olde
hystoryes
ryght
prudently
&
constauntly
she
coude
holde
her
contente
amonge
the
prosperytees
&
aduersytees
that
happened
to
her
in
her
tyme
.
This
lady
was
dou
ghter
of
Urane
that
was
ryght
a
puyssaunt
man
in
Grece
&
of
Uesta
his
wyfe
whiche
was
ryght
rude
&
lytell
knowynge
of
the
worlde
/
and
this
lady
Opys
or
Ops
was
wedded
to
Saturnus
the
kynge
of
Crete
whiche
was
her
broder
.
So
this
kynge
had
a
vysyon
that
his
wyfe
sholde
be
delyuered
of
a
man
chylde
that
sholde
slee
hym
/
&
for
to
voyde
this
foresayd
destenye
he
ordeyned
that
all
the
men
chyldren
that
the
quene
sholde
haue
sholde
be
slayne
/
yet
for
all
that
this
lady
dyde
so
moche
by
her
wytte
whiche
founde
suche
cauteyles
that
she
respyted
her
thre
sones
from
the
dethe
/
that
is
to
knowe
Iupyter
Neptunus
/
and
Pluto
/
and
she
was
gretely
worshypped
syth
/
and
her
wysedome
praysed
/
and
for
her
vnderstandynge
/
and
for
the
auctoryte
of
her
chyldren
she
gate
in
her
tyme
so
grete
voyce
/
and
worshyp
in
the
worlde
that
the
lewde
people
of
the
countre
called
her
goddesse
and
moder
of
goddes
.
For
her'sones
in
theyr
lyuynge
was
counted
for
goddes
for
that
they
were
in
some
thynges
more
knowynge
then
other
men
that
were
all
as
bestes
.
So
there
were
ordeyned
and
sacryfyed
temples
/
the
whiche
opynyon
the
foles
kepte
longe
tyme
/
and
the
same
wyse
at
Rome
in
the
tyme
of
the
prosperyte
of
the
Romaynes
was
this
folye
/
&
then
had
this
goddesse
in
grete
reuerence
.
¶
Of
Lauyne
doughter
of
the
kynge
Latyn
.
Capitulo
.xlviij.
LAuyne
whiche
was
quene
of
the
Larynes
had
also
praysynge
of
prudence
.
This
noble
lady
was
descended
of
this
Saturnus
kynge
of
Crete
of
whome
we
haue
spoken
/
&
was
doughter
of
the
kynge
Latyn
/
and
after
Turnus
the
kynge
of
Turylyens
coueyted
to
haue
her
to
wyfe
/
but
her
fader
whiche
had
answere
of
the
goddes
that
she
sholde
be
gyuen
to
a
lorde
of
Troye
whiche
taryed
the
maryage
longe
tyme
/
notwithstandynge
that
his
wyfe
laboured
the
contrary
/
&
when
Eneas
was
ary●ed
in
Italy
he
asked
leue
of
the
kynge
Latyne
to
descende
vpon
his
lande
/
but
he
gaue
hym
not
onely
that
leue
/
but
he
graunted
hym
his
doughter
in
maryage
.
And
for
this
cause
Tur
nus
moued
warre
agaynst
Eneas
in
the
whiche
was
grete
slaughter
&
kynge
Turnus
was
slay
ne
hymselfe
.
And
Eneas
had
the
vyctory
and
wedded
Lauyne
that
had
syth
a
sone
by
hym
of
whome
she
mas
grete
when
Eneas
dyed
.
But
when
it
ca●●e
that
she
sholde
be
delyuered
for
the
grete
drede
that
she
had
that
a
sone
that
Eneas
had
of
another
woman
/
whiche
chylde
was
named
Asta
nyus
that
for
couetyse
of
reygnyge
sholde
not
slee
the
chylde
that
she
was
delyuered
of
.
She
wente
&
was
delyuered
in
a
woode
and
gaue
the
chylde
a
name
Iulyus
Syluyus
.
This
lady
wolde
neuer
after
be
maryed
/
and
she
gouerned
her
in
her
wydo
whode
ryght
prudentely
/
and
maynteyned
the
royalme
by
grete
wysedome
/
and
her
sone
in
lawe
had
her
in
so
grete
loue
that
he
had
none
euyll
wyll
agaynst
her
nor
his
broder
.
But
after
that
that
he
had
buylded
the
ryte
of
Alba
he
wente
to
dwel
there
/
&
Lauyne
gouerned
the
lande
ryght
wysely
tyll
the
chylde
was
growne
/
of
the
whiche
chylde
came
Remus
and
Romulus
whiche
founded
Ro
me
/
and
the
hyghe
Romayne
prynces
that
came
syth
.
¶
what
woldest
thou
that
I
sholde
saye
mo
more
dere
doughter
/
me
semeth
that
I
haue
brought
for
the
proues
ynowe
to
myne
entente
/
that
is
to
vnderstande
of
that
I
she
we
by
quycke
reason
&
ensample
that
god
hathe
not
had
/
ne
hathe
in
reprobacyon
the
femynyne
vse
as
these
men
haue
/
so
as
thou
seest
clerely
.
And
as
it
hathe
appered
&
yet
shall
appere
by
the
dysposycyon
of
myne
other
two
systers
that
ben
here
.
For
well
me
semeth
that
frome
hens
forthe
it
ought
to
suffyse
in
that
that
I
haue
made
the
walles
of
the
cloystre
of
the
cyte
of
ladyes
.
Nowe
ben
all
thynges
accheued
and
ordeyned
.
Nowe
cometh
forthe
myne
other
,
two
systers
/
and
by
theyr
helpe
and
deuyse
lette
the
remenaunte
of
the
buyldynge
be
perfourmed
and
made
an
ende
by
them
.
¶
Here
endeth
the
fyrste
parte
of
the
boke
of
the
Cyte
of
Ladyes
.
¶
Here
after
foloweth
the
table
or
rubrysshes
of
the
seconde
partye
of
this
boke
/
whiche
telleth
howe
/
and
by
whome
the
Cyte
was
buylded
within
and
peopled
.
¶
Tabula
.
-
¶
The
fyrste
chapytre
speketh
of
the
.x.
Sybylles
Capitulo
.
Primo
.
-
¶
Also
of
Sybylle
Erytee
.
Capitulo
.ij.
-
¶
Also
of
Sybylle
Almethea
.
Ca.
iij.
-
¶
Also
of
dyuers
ladyes
.
Ca.
iiij
.
-
¶
Also
of
Nycostrate
/
and
of
Cassandra
/
and
of
the
quene
Basyne
.
Ca.
v.
-
¶
Of
Anthoyne
that
became
Empresse
.
Ca.
vj.
-
¶
Xp̄ine
,
speketh
to
dame
ryghtwysnesse
.
Ca.
vij
.
-
¶
Here
it
begynneth
to
speke
of
doughters
that
loued
fader
&
moder
&
fyrst
of
Drypetue
.
Ca.
viij
.
-
¶
Also
of
Isyphyle
.
Ca.
ix
.
-
¶
Also
of
the
vyrgyne
Caudyne
.
Ca.
x.
-
¶
Also
of
a
woman
that
gaue
her
moder
sowke
in
pryson
.
Ca.
xj
.
-
¶
Also
ryghtwysnesse
sayth
that
she
hathe
accheued
the
treasourye
that
it
is
tyme
to
people
it
.
Ca.
xij
.
-
¶
Also
Xp̄ine
asketh
of
dame
ryght
wysnesyf
that
be
true
that
these
bokes
&
these
men
say
that
the
lyfe
of
maryage
is
harde
to
bere
for
the
occasyon
of
women
&
to
theyr
grete
wronge
/
and
there
answereth
ryghtwysnesse
&
begynneth
to
speke
of
the
grete
loue
of
women
to
theyr
housbandes
.
Ca.
xiij
.
-
¶
Also
of
the
quene
Ipsytrace
.
Ca.
xiiij
.
-
¶
Also
of
the
Empresse
Tryarye
.
Ca.
xv
.
-
¶
Also
of
the
quene
Archemyse
.
Ca.
xvj
.
-
¶
Also
of
Argyue
doughter
of
the
kynge
Adrastus
Capitulo
.xvij.
-
¶
Also
of
the
noble
lady
Agryppyne
.
Ca.
xviij
.
-
¶
Also
Xp̄ine
sayth
&
after
ryghtwysnesse
answereth
gyuynge
ensample
&
of
the
noble
lady
Iulye
doughter
of
Iulyus
Cezar
/
&
wyfe
of
the
prynce
Pompee
.
Ca.
xix
.
-
¶
Also
of
the
noble
lady
Tyerce
Emulyen
.
Ca.
xx
-
¶
Also
of
zancyppe
wyfe
of
the
phylosophre
Socrates
.
Ca.
xxj
.
-
¶
Of
Pompay
paulyne
wyfe
of
seneke
.
Ca.
xxij
.
-
¶
Also
of
the
noble
Sulpyce
.
Ca.
xxiij
.
-
¶
Also
of
dyuers
ladyes
togyder
that
respyted
theyr
housbandes
from
the
dethe
.
Ca.
xxiiij
.
-
¶
Also
Xp̄ine
sayth
to
dame
ryghtwysnes
ayenst
them
that
sayth
that
women
can
kepe
no
counsayle
&
the
answere
that
she
maketh
is
of
Porcya
doughter
of
Catho
.
Ca.
xxv
.
-
¶
To
the
same
purpose
of
the
noble
lady
Curya
.
Capitulo
.xxvj.
-
¶
yet
to
the
same
purpose
.
Ca.
xxvij
.
-
¶
Also
proues
agaynst
that
y●
some
say
that
a
man
is
a
fole
that
byleueth
the
counsayle
of
his
wyfe
&
taketh
ony
trust
to
it
/
Xp̄ine
asketh
of
ryghtwysnesse
and
she
answereth
her
.
Ca.
xxviij
.
-
¶
Of
men
to
▪
whom
it
hathe
well
sewed
of
byleuynge
of
theyr
wyues
/
&
gyueth
ensample
of
dyuers
.
Ca.
xxix
.
-
¶
Of
the
grete
welthe
that
is
come
to
the
worlde
&
cometh
all
day
bycause
of
women
.
Ca.
xxx
.
-
¶
Also
of
Iudyth
the
noble
wydowe
.
Ca.
xxxj
.
-
¶
Also
of
the
quene
,
Hester
.
Ca.
xxxij
.
-
¶
Of
the
ladyes
of
Sabyne
.
Ca.
xxxiij
.
-
¶
Also
of
Ueturye
.
Ca.
xxxiiij
.
-
¶
Of
the
quene
of
Fraunce
Clotylde
.
Ca.
xxxv
.
-
¶
Also
agaynst
them
that
say
that
it
is
not
good
that
women
lerne
letters
.
Ca.
xxxvj
.
-
¶
Also
Xp̄ine
sayth
to
ryghtwysnesse
&
an
answere
vpon
the
same
agaynst
them
that
say
that
there
ben
but
fewe
women
chast
&
speketh
of
Susan
.
Ca.
xxxvij
.
-
¶
Also
of
Sarra
.
Ca.
xxxviij
.
-
¶
Also
of
Rebecca
.
Ca.
xxxix
.
-
¶
Also
of
Ruth
.
Ca.
xl
.
-
¶
Also
of
Penolope
.
Ca.
xlj
.
-
¶
Also
agaynst
them
that
sayth
that
vnethes
fayre
women
ben
chast
&
speketh
of
Maryamyre
.
Ca.
xlij
.
-
¶
Also
of
the
same
&
of
Anthoyne
wyfe
of
Druse
Tyber
.
Capitulo
.xliij.
-
¶
Also
agaynst
them
that
saye
that
women
wyll
be
wylfully
rauysshed
of
men
/
ensamples
dyuers
/
&
fyrst
of
Lucresse
.
Ca.
xliiij
.
-
¶
Also
of
the
quene
of
Gausgrees
.
Ca.
xlv
.
-
¶
Of
the
Sycambres
&
other
maydens
.
Ca.
xlvj
.
-
¶
Proues
agaynst
y●
that
one
sayth
of
the
inconstaunce
of
women
Xp̄ine
speketh
&
ryghtwysnesse
answereth
her
of
the
inconstaunce
of
dyuers
Emperours
Capitulo
.xlvij.
-
¶
Also
of
Nero.
Ca.
xlviij
.
-
¶
Of
the
emperoure
Galba
and
of
others
.
Ca.
xlix
.
-
¶
Also
of
Grysylde
marquyse
of
Saluce
a
stronge
woman
in
vertue
.
Ca.
l.
-
¶
Also
of
Florence
of
Rome
.
Ca.
lj
.
-
¶
Of
that
wyfe
of
Barnabo
the
Geneuoys
.
Ca.
lij
.
-
¶
Also
after
that
that
ryght
had
tolde
of
constaunte
ladyes
Xp̄ine
demaunded
her
yf
it
were
trewe
that
dyuers
men
say
that
there
are
but
fewe
women
praysable
in
the
lyfe
of
loue
/
&
ryghtwysnesse
answereth
Capitulo
.
liij
.
-
¶
Also
of
Dydo
quene
of
Cartage
to
the
purpose
of
stable
loue
in
a
woman
.
Ca.
liiij
.
-
¶
Also
of
Medea
.
Ca.
lv
.
-
¶
Also
of
Tysbe
the
mayde
.
Ca.
lvj
.
-
¶
Also
of
Hero.
Ca.
lvij
.
-
¶
Also
of
Sysmonde
doughter
of
the
prynce
of
Salerne
.
Ca.
lviij
.
-
¶
Also
of
Lyzabeth
&
of
other
louers
.
Ca.
lix
.
-
¶
Also
of
Iuno
&
other
worshypful
ladyes
.
Ca.
lx
-
¶
Also
Xp̄ine
sayth
&
ryghtwysnesse
answereth
her
agaynst
those
that
sayth
that
women
draweth
men
to
them
by
theyr
Iolytees
.
Ca.
lxj
.
-
¶
Of
Claudyne
woman
of
Rome
.
Ca.
lxij
.
-
¶
Howe
that
he
lyeth
not
that
sayth
that
some
women
delyteth
them
in
fayre
clothynge
or
araye
.
Ca.
xliij
.
-
¶
Of
quene
Blaunche
moder
of
saynt
Lewes
&
other
good
women
loued
for
theyr
vtues
.
ca.
lxiiij
.
-
¶
Also
Xp̄ine
sayth
and
ryghtwysnesse
answereth
her
agaynst
them
that
say
that
women
by
nature
are
scarce
and
couetouse
.
Ca.
lxv
.
-
¶
Of
the
ryche
lady
&
lyberall
Buyse
.
Ca.
lxvj
.
-
¶
Of
pryncesses
&
ladyes
of
Fraunce
.
Ca.
lxvij
.
-
¶
Also
Xp̄ine
speketh
to
all
pryncesses
and
to
all
women
.
Ca.
lxviij
.
¶
Here
endeth
the
table
.
¶
Here
begynneth
the
seconde
partye
of
the
boke
of
the
Cyte
of
Ladyes
the
whiche
telleth
howe
&
by
whome
the
Cyte
was
buylded
within
and
peopled
.
And
the
fyrst
chapytre
speketh
of
the
.v.
Sybylles
.
Capitulo
.
Primo
.
AFter
the
wordes
of
the
fyrst
lady
that
was
named
Reason
.
The
seconde
lady
drewe
her
towarde
me
the
whiche
was
named
ryghtwysnesse
/
&
thus
sayd
to
me
.
Dere
frende
I
ought
to
drawe
me
abacke
/
nor
to
bellowe
to
buylde
&
to
make
the
stone
worke
with
thy
helpe
in
cyrcuyte
of
the
cloystre
of
the
waile
nowe
made
by
my
syster
Reason
of
the
cyte
of
Ladyes
.
Nowe
take
thy
toles
and
come
before
and
tempre
thy
morter
euery
corner
/
and
buylde
on
fast
with
the
foote
of
thy
penne
.
For
I
shall
delyuer
ynoughe
wherof
/
&
by
the
vertue
of
god
we
shall
haue
good
buyldynge
&
hyghe
palayces
/
royal
&
noble
mansyons
of
these
excellente
ladyes
of
grete
worshyp
and
renowne
che
shal
be
lodged
in
this
cyte
/
&
shal
abyde
perpe
tually
fro
hens
forth
.
Then
IXp̄ine
herynge
the
worde
of
this
worshypfull
lady
sayd
in
this
manere
/
Ryght
excellente
lady
se
me
here
all
redy
.
No
we
commaunde
for
my
desyre
is
to
obeye
/
&
she
layd
to
me
thus
.
Frende
beholde
these
fayre
stones
more
fayrer
than
ony
precyous
stones
&
shynynge
whiche
I
haue
sought
for
y●
&
ordeyned
them
,
redy
to
lodge
them
in
the
ma●onry
semeth
y●
that
I
haue
ben
ydle
whyle
my
syster
Reason
&
you
haue
ben
busy
Or
set
them
a
rowe
after
my
lyne
that
thou
seest
here
by
the
ordynaunce
that
I
shall
tell
the.
Amonge
the
ladyes
of
souerayne
dygnyte
maye
well
be
put
in
the
rowe
ofhyghnesse
the
hyghly
fulfylled
of
Sa
pyence
the
wyse
Sybelles
the
whiche
as
olde
an
tentyke
auctours
put
in
theyr
wrytynges
were
.x.
by
nombre
thoughe
that
some
put
but
.ix.
¶
O
my
dere
frende
take
hede
here
what
more
worshyp
in
dede
of
reuelacyons
dyde
god
euer
to
a
prophete
that
he
loued
more
than
he
gaue
and
graunted
to
these
ryght
noble
ladyes
of
whome
I
speke
to
the
dyde
not
he
sende
in
to
them
the
holy
spyryte
of
prophecy
so
moche
that
it
semed
not
onely
of
that
that
they
sayd
that
it
sholde
be
a
pronosty
cacyon
of
tyme
to
come
/
but
it
semed
as
it
were
of
cronycles
of
thynges
passed
and
came
so
moche
that
they
were
clerely
vnderstandynge
in
theyr
thynges
wryten
/
&
also
of
the
comynge
of
our
lorde
Ihesu
Cryst
whiche
came
ryght
longe
tyme
after
they
spake
more
clerely
as
it
is
founde
than
dyde
al
the
prophetes
These
ladyes
vsed
al
theyr
lyues
in
mayden
hode
&
dyspraysed
pollucyon
/
and
all
were
named
Sybelles
/
and
it
is
not
to
vnderstande
that
it
was
theyr
propre
names
/
but
Sybelle
is
to
say
as
knowynge
the
thought
of
god
/
and
so
they
were
called
for
that
that
they
prophecyed
meruayllous
thynges
that
it
was
conuenyent
that
that
they
sayd
sholde
come
to
them
of
the
pure
thought
of
god
.
So
it
is
a
name
of
offyce
and
no
propre
name
.
These
ladyes
were
borne
in
dyuers
countres
of
the
worlde
and
not
all
in
one
tyme
/
and
all
they
prophecyed
grete
foyson
of
thynges
to
come
and
in
especyall
of
our
lorde
Ihesu
Cryst
and
of
his
comynge
/
soo
as
it
is
sayd
ryght
clerely
thoughe
that
they
were
al
paynymes
&
not
of
the
lawe
of
Iewes
whiche
that
tyme
was
the
lawe
of
god
.
¶
The
fyrst
was
borne
in
the
lande
of
Perse
/
&
for
that
she
was
named
Persya
.
¶
The
seconde
was
of
Lybye
/
and
was
called
Lybyca
.
¶
The
thyrde
of
De●phe
engendred
in
the
temple
of
Appolyn
/
&
was
named
Delphyca
.
And
this
lady
preched
the
destruccyon
of
Troye
longe
tyme
before
/
&
Ouyde
put
many
verses
of
her
in
his
boke
.
¶
The
fourthe
was
of
ytalye
&
was
called
Symerya
.
¶
The
fyfte
was
of
Babylon
and
was
called
Erophyle
.
This
lady
answered
to
them
of
grece
of
thynges
that
they
demaunde
her
/
that
Troye
and
ylyon
the
stronge
castell
sholde
perysshe
by
them
/
and
that
Omere
sholde
wryte
lesyngly
/
also
she
was
called
Erytell
for
that
she
dwelled
in
y●
I
le
/
and
there
were
her
bookes
founde
.
¶
The
.vj.
was
of
the
Ile
of
Samos
&
was
called
Samya
.
¶
The
.vij.
was
called
Cunyana
and
was
borne
of
ytallye
in
Cumynys
in
the
lande
of
Champayne
.
¶
The
.viij.
was
named
Elespontyne
&
was
borne
hesponte
in
the
fe●de
of
Troy
&
floured
in
the
temple
of
the
noble
auctoures
Solyn
&
Tyry
.
¶
The
.ix.
was
of
Frygya
therfore
she
was
named
Frygica
.
This
lady
spake
moche
of
the
fallynge
of
dyuers
lordshyps
/
&
she
spake
moche
of
the
comynge
of
the
false
prophete
Antecryst
¶
The
.x.
was
called
Tyburtine
/
&
by
another
name
Albuyna
of
whom
the
wrytynges
are
moche
praysed
for
that
that
she
wrote
clerely
of
Ihesu
Cryst
and
notwithstandynge
that
these
Sybylles
were
borne
of
paynymes
all
they
reproued
theyr
lawe
/
and
blamed
them
that
they
worshypped
dyuers
goddes
saynge
that
there
is
but
one
god
/
&
that
all
theyr
ydolles
were
but
vayne
.
¶
Here
it
speketh
of
Sybyll
Erytee
.
Ca.
ij
.
AMonge
that
other
Sybelles
Eryte
had
the
gretest
prerogatyue
of
wysdome
.
For
of
her
the
vertue
was
so
grete
by
a
synguler
&
a
specyall
gyfte
of
god
that
she
wrote
&
prophecyed
dyuers
thynges
to
come
so
clerely
that
it
semed
better
to
be
a
gospell
than
prophecye
/
&
at
the
request
of
the
grekes
she
put
theyr
laboures
clerely
in
wrytynges
/
theyr
ba
taylles
/
&
the
destruccyon
of
Troy
that
it
was
neuer
clerer
after
it
was
done
than
it
was
before
.
The
same
wyse
she
descryued
and
put
to
gyder
in
fewe
wordes
&
true
the
Empyre
&
the
lordshyp
of
the
Romaynes
/
&
theyr
dyuers
aduentures
longe
tyme
before
that
it
was
come
/
&
soo
it
semed
better
to
be
a
shorte
remembraunce
of
thynges
passed
than
of
thynges
of
tyme
to
come
.
And
a
more
greter
dede
she
dyde
&
a
more
meruayle
/
for
she
prophecyed
&
opened
playnely
the
secretenesse
of
the
thought
of
god
that
was
neuer
opened
by
the
prophetes
but
by
●ygures
&
derke
wordes
and
couerte
.
That
is
to
knowe
the
holy
ghost
/
the
mystery
of
the
Incarnacyon
of
the
sone
of
god
in
the
mayden
Mary
.
And
in
her
boke
there
was
wryten
/
Ihesus
/
Ceytos
/
Cenyos
.
Sothor
whiche
was
to
say
in
englysshe
Ihesu
Cryst
sone
of
god
&
sauyoure
/
&
there
was
also
the
lyfe
&
the
werkes
of
hym
/
the
treason
and
the
takynge
&
al
the
scornynges
&
his
dethe
.
The
resurreccyon
/
the
vyctory
/
and
the
Assencyon
/
the
comynge
of
the
holy
ghost
to
the
apostles
/
the
comynge
at
the
day
of
Iugement
/
&
the
same
wyse
that
she
had
sayd
&
compounded
shortely
the
mystery
of
the
crysten
faythe
/
&
not
onele
she
tolde
the
dedes
to
come
/
that
is
to
say
the
day
of
Iugement
/
the
tremblynge
day
the
erthe
shall
swete
blode
/
the
kynge
shal
come
fro
heuen
that
shall
Iuge
all
the
worlde
/
&
that
bothe
good
&
euyll
shal
se
/
euery
soule
shall
take
agayne
his
body
/
&
euery
soule
shal
haue
praysynge
after
his
deserte
.
There
rychesse
shall
fayle
&
the
false
ymages
also
/
the
fyre
shal
brenne
bothe
see
&
lande
/
&
al
thynge
shal
perysshe
excepte
the
sayntes
loued
of
god
/
there
shall
be
no
thynge
hydde
/
all
shall
be
open
/
&
all
thynges
shall
dye
/
there
shal
be
wepynge
&
sorowful
people
shal
strayne
theyr
tethe
for
dystres
The
sone
/
the
mone
/
the
sterres
shal
lose
theyr
clerenesse
/
hylles
&
valays
shal
be
made
euen
/
the
see
&
the
lande
&
all
thynges
shall
be
brought
in
egalnes
The
trompe
of
heuen
shall
call
mankynde
to
come
to
the
Iugement
/
then
there
shall
be
grete
drede
&
euery
man
shal
wepe
for
his
folye
.
Then
shal
the
erthe
be
made
newe
/
kynges
&
prynces
shal
come
before
the
Iuge
whiche
shall
gyue
euery
man
after
his
deserte
.
Fyre
of
brymstone
shall
departe
frome
heuen
whiche
shall
fall
in
to
helle
.
And
all
these
thynges
ben
conteyned
in
.xxvij.
verses
that
this
Sybylle
made
.
For
the
whiche
merytes
as
Bocace
sayth
and
other
wyse
auctoures
whiche
that
wryteth
of
her
holdeth
that
she
was
ryght
wel
byloued
with
god
/
&
that
she
ought
to
be
honoured
more
than
ony
other
woman
after
the
holy
sayntes
of
paradyse
.
This
woman
kepte
her
in
vyrgy
nyte
all
the
dayes
of
her
lyfe
/
&
so
it
is
to
presume
that
she
was
brought
vp
in
all
clennesse
/
for
in
an
herte
euyll
tatches
/
or
fouled
with
vyces
it
maye
not
be
that
moche
lyght
of
knowynge
of
thynges
to
come
myght
haue
his
beynge
.
¶
Of
the
Sybyll
Almethea
.
Ca.
iij.
ALmethea
that
Sybylle
was
borne
as
it
is
sayd
in
the
lande
of
Champayne
whiche
is
nyghe
Rome
.
This
lady
had
al
so
ryght
especyall
grace
of
the
spyryte
of
prophecy
/
&
she
was
borne
as
some
auctours
say
in
the
tyme
of
the
destruccyon
of
Troye
/
&
lyued
vnto
the
tyme
of
Tarquyne
the
proude
/
&
some
called
her
Deiphyle
.
This
lady
notwithstandynge
that
she
lyued
a
meruayllous
grete
age
she
was
a
vyrgyne
all
her
lyfe
/
&
for
the
grete
wysdome
of
her
some
poetes
fayned
that
was
loued
of
Phebus
whiche
they
called
god
of
wysdome
/
&
that
by
the
gyfte
of
this
Phebus
she
gate
so
moche
of
vnderstandynge
&
lyued
longe
/
whiche
is
to
vnderstande
y●
for
her
maydenhode
&
for
that
she
was
loued
of
god
the
sone
of
sapyence
whiche
enlumyned
her
with
the
clerenesse
of
prophecye
by
the
whiche
she
hath
sayd
before
&
wryten
many
dyuers
thynges
to
come
.
Ouer
this
it
is
wryten
that
she
beynge
at
the
ryuage
of
Bayoule
nyghe
the
lake
of
helle
had
a
noble
&
a
meruayllous
answere
&
reuelacyon
deuyne
whiche
is
wryten
&
kepte
in
her
name
&
is
in
vere
Ry
med.
And
thoughe
it
be
ryght
an
auncyent
thynge
it
is
yet
a
grete
meruayle
of
the
gretenesse
&
the
excellence
of
this
to
whom
it
is
well
cō●ydered
&
beholden
.
Some
faynynges
say
that
the
ledde
Eneas
to
helle
&
brought
hym
agayne
.
This
woman
came
to
Rome
&
brought
with
her
.ix.
bokes
the
whiche
she
presented
to
sell
to
Tarquyne
the
kynge
/
but
as
he
wolde
refuse
to
take
them
of
the
pryce
that
she
asked
she
brente
.iij.
of
theym
in
his
presence
/
&
that
other
day
she
asked
for
the
other
.vi.
bokes
that
were
lefte
the
same
pryce
as
she
asked
for
the
hole
.ix.
&
sware
that
yf
one
wolde
not
gyue
the
same
pryce
that
she
asked
anone
she
wolde
brenne
.iij.
of
them
/
&
the
day
after
that
kynge
Tarquyne
gaue
her
the
same
pryce
that
she
asked
fyrst
.
So
these
bokes
were
well
kekte
&
it
was
founde
that
they
declared
clerely
the
actes
that
sholde
come
vnto
the
Romaynes
/
&
the
grete
case
that
syth
hath
happened
they
founde
wryten
in
the
sayd
bokes
/
the
whiche
syngulerly
be
kepte
in
the
treasourye
of
the
Emperours
as
for
to
receyue
counsayle
of
them
as
it
were
an
answere
deuyne
▪
¶
Nowe
take
hede
here
swete
frende
howe
god
gaue
so
grete
grace
to
a
women
that
she
had
wytte
to
counsayle
&
aduyse
not
onely
one
Emperour
in
his
lyfe
/
but
to
all
them
that
were
to
come
to
Rome
&
all
the
dedes
of
the
Empyre
durynge
the
worlde
.
So
tell
me
I
the
pray
where
was
there
euer
a
man
that
sholde
do
that
/
&
y●
as
a
fole
not
longe
ago
heldest
the
euyll
contente
to
be
of
the
kynde
of
suche
creatures
thynkynge
the
god
wolde
haue
had
it
in
reprocyon
/
of
this
Sybylle
speketh
Uyrgyll
in
his
boke
all
in
verses
.
She
ended
her
dayes
&
her
tombe
was
shewed
longe
after
¶
Of
dyders
ladyes
prophetes
.
Ca.
iiij
.
THese
foresayd
ladyes
were
not
onely
by
the
gyfte
of
god
prophetysynge
to
the
worlde
/
but
there
hath
ben
grete
foyson
of
others
i
al
lawes
that
hath
ben
holden
/
for
yf
thou
loke
in
the
lawe
of
Iewes
y●
shalte
fynde
ynowe
as
Delborra
whiche
was
a
woman
prophete
in
the
tyme
of
Iuges
of
Israell
/
by
the
whiche
Delborra
the
people
of
god
were
delyuered
out
of
the
bondage
of
the
kynge
of
Canaan
whiche
had
holden
them
in
seruytude
.xx.
yeres
.
¶
The
blessyd
Elysabeth
cosyne
to
our
lady
was
not
she
a
prophete
when
she
sayd
to
the
blessyd
mayden
that
came
to
vysyte
her
/
whens
cometh
this
that
the
moder
of
god
is
come
to
me
/
yet
she
knewe
that
she
was
conceyued
of
the
holy
ghost
/
but
it
was
by
the
spyryte
of
prophecye
.
¶
Also
my
frende
the
good
lady
Anne
hebrewe
that
lyghted
the
lampes
in
the
temple
had
not
she
the
spyryte
of
prophecy
as
Symeon
had
the
prophete
to
whom
our
lady
presented
Ihu
▪
cryst
on
Candelmasse
day
vpon
the
awter
of
the
temple
&
the
holy
prophete
knewe
that
it
was
the
sauyour
of
the
worlde
/
&
toke
hym
bytwene
his
armes
/
yet
the
good
lady
Anne
whiche
wente
aboute
in
the
temple
doynge
her
offyce
/
anone
as
she
sawe
the
holy
vyrgyne
holdynge
her
sone
entre
in
to
the
temple
/
she
knewe
in
spyryte
that
it
was
the
sauyour
of
the
worlde
/
she
k●●●ed
downe
&
worshypped
hym
&
sayd
with
an
hyghe
voyce
that
it
was
he
that
was
come
to
saue
all
the
worlde
.
Thou
shalte
fynde
women
prophetes
ynowe
in
the
lawe
of
Iewes
and
thou
loke
after
them
/
&
in
the
crysten
lawe
as
infynyte
as
the
sayntes
/
but
nowe
passe
we
ouer
these
here
/
for
that
that
one
myght
saye
that
god
had
pryuyleged
them
by
his
specyall
gyfte
▪
&
let
vs
passe
ouer
spekynge
yet
of
paynymes
.
¶
The
quene
of
Saba
of
who
me
holy
scrypture
maketh
mencyon
that
when
she
that
was
of
souerayne
vnderstandynge
herde
speke
of
the
wysdome
of
Salamon
of
whom
that
fame
ran
by
al
the
worlde
she
desyred
to
se
hym
/
&
for
that
that
she
came
out
of
a
corner
of
the
oryent
one
of
the
last
partyes
of
the
worlde
/
she
lefte
her
countre
&
rode
by
the
londe
of
Othyope
/
&
of
Egypte
by
the
passages
of
the
reed
see
/
&
by
the
grete
desertes
of
Arabe
/
&
with
a
noble
company
of
prynces
/
lordes
/
&
kny
ghtes
/
&
of
many
noble
ladyes
with
grete
estate
/
&
treasoure
of
many
precyous
thynges
/
&
aryued
in
the
cyte
of
Iherusalem
to
se
&
vysyte
the
wyse
Salamon
/
&
to
knowe
yf
it
were
true
that
folke
sayd
of
hym
in
all
the
worlde
.
So
Salamon
receyued
her
with
grete
worshyp
as
it
was
reason
&
she
was
with
hym
a
grete
whyle
&
proued
his
wysdome
in
many
thynges
.
Many
demaundes
&
questyons
she
made
to
hym
whiche
were
ryght
derke
/
and
couerte
/
the
whiche
he
answered
after
that
she
asked
so
gretely
that
she
sayd
that
he
myght
not
haue
so
grete
wysdome
by
mannes
wytte
/
but
by
the
specyall
gyfte
of
god
.
This
lady
g●●te
hym
many
dyuers
precyous
thynges
amonge
the
whiche
there
were
plantes
of
lytell
trees
that
yelded
lycoure
&
bare
bawme
.
The
whiche
kynge
Salamon
made
plante
nyghe
a
water
called
Allephater
&
commaunded
that
they
sholde
be
laboured
&
kepte
wysely
&
also
she
gaue
hym
many
precyous
Iewelles
.
Of
the
wysdome
of
this
lady
&
of
her
prophecy
speketh
many
dyuers
scryptures
that
sayth
/
that
as
she
was
in
Iherusalem
/
&
that
Salamon
ledde
her
for
to
se
the
noblesse
of
the
temple
that
he
had
made
to
buylde
.
She
sawe
a
longe
borde
that
was
couched
attrauers
of
a
myre
&
made
as
a
planke
to
passe
ouer
the
depnesse
.
Then
the
body
rested
in
beholdynge
the
planke
&
worshypped
it
&
sayd
/
this
planke
whiche
is
nowe
holden
in
grete
foulenesse
and
put
vnder
the
feete
shall
be
yet
worshypped
aboue
all
the
trees
of
the
worlde
&
garnysshed
with
precyous
stones
&
treasoure
of
prynces
/
&
vpon
this
sa
me
planke
he
shall
dye
that
shall
brynge
the
Iewes
lawe
to
nought
.
They
helde
this
worde
but
for
a
scorne
or
a
Iape
but
put
hym
away
&
hydde
hym
in
the
erthe
in
a
place
where
as
they
trowed
that
it
sholde
neuer
be
founde
/
but
that
y●
god
wyll
haue
kepte
is
well
saued
.
For
as
well
as
they
coude
hyde
it
yet
it
was
founde
at
the
last
in
the
tyme
of
the
passyon
of
our
lorde
Ihesu
Cryst
/
&
of
this
planke
was
the
crosse
on
the
whiche
our
sauyoure
suffred
his
passyon
/
&
then
was
the
prophecye
made
true
of
this
lady
.
¶
Of
Nycostrate
/
and
of
others
.
Ca.
v.
THis
Nycostrate
of
whom
mencyon
was
made
before
was
also
a
woman
prophete
/
for
as
sone
as
she
had
passed
the
flode
of
Tybre
&
she
with
her
sone
Euander
where
hystoryes
ynowe
maketh
mencyon
was
vpon
the
mounte
Pallentyne
she
prophecyed
that
vpon
the
hyll
sholde
be
buylded
a
cyte
the
most
named
that
euer
was
in
the
worlde
/
&
sholde
be
the
chefe
&
souerayne
of
al
lordshyppes
world
ly
/
&
to
the
conclusyon
that
she
wolde
be
the
tyrst
that
sholde
laye
a
stone
/
she
buylded
there
a
stronge
castell
so
as
it
is
sayd
before
&
there
is
Rome
buylded
syth
and
edyfyed
.
¶
Also
Cassandra
the
noble
mayde
of
Troye
doughter
to
kynge
Pryamus
of
Troye
/
&
syster
to
the
worshypfull
Hector
/
she
was
so
grete
a
clarke
that
she
knewe
all
the
craftes
&
was
also
a
prophete
.
For
this
mayde
wolde
neuer
take
man
thoughe
it
had
ben
a
grete
prince
&
she
had
in
spyryte
that
that
was
to
come
she
was
euer
full
of
sorowe
&
heuynesse
/
&
when
she
sawe
the
grete
prosperyte
of
Troy
so
gretely
flourysshed
in
magnyfycence
before
y●
the
warre
began
bytwene
the
Troyans
&
the
grekes
she
made
moche
sorowe
&
wepte
sore
beholdynge
the
noblesse
&
rychesse
of
the
cyte
/
her
fayre
&
worshyp
full
bretherne
&
specyally
the
noble
Hector
that
was
so
worshypfull
a
man
she
myght
not
holde
her
peas
for
the
grete
sorowe
that
was
to
come
.
And
when
she
sawe
the
warre
begyn
than
began
her
sorowe
/
so
she
seased
not
to
crye
&
wayle
&
counsayled
her
fader
and
her
bretherne
to
make
peas
with
the
grekes
or
elles
without
fayle
with
the
warre
they
sholde
be
destroyed
/
but
they
toke
no
charge
of
all
her
wordes
nor
byleued
her
/
&
alway
as
she
that
gretely
playned
&
of
good
ryght
this
grete
losse
&
damage
myght
not
be
styll
by
the
whiche
often
tymes
she
was
beten
of
her
fader
&
of
her
bretherne
the
sayd
she
was
a
fole
/
but
for
al
that
she
wolde
not
holde
her
in
peas
to
dye
therfore
ne
spared
not
to
speke
without
seasyn
ge.
For
the
whiche
to
make
her
holde
her
peas
they
made
her
to
be
shytte
in
a
chambre
to
put
awaye
her
noyse
from
theyr
eeres
/
yet
it
had
ben
better
that
they
had
byleued
her
/
for
it
happened
to
them
as
she
had
tolde
them
before
.
So
they
byleued
at
the
ende
&
then
it
was
to
late
for
them
/
&
so
it
happeneth
ofte
tymes
that
a
fole
wyl
neuer
byleue
a
thyng
tyll
he
haue
it
.
¶
Also
was
it
not
a
meruayllous
Pronosty
cacyon
that
the
quene
Basyne
made
/
that
had
ben
the
wyfe
of
the
kynge
of
Thorynge
&
syth
was
wyfe
to
Chylderyke
the
.iiij.
kynge
of
Fraunce
so
as
the
Cronycles
conteyneth
it
.
For
the
hystory
sayth
that
the
nyght
of
the
weddynge
of
her
&
of
the
kynge
Chyl
deryke
/
she
sayd
to
hym
that
he
sholde
holde
him
chast
that
nyght
&
he
sholde
se
a
meruaylous
vyspon
.
And
then
she
sayd
to
hym
anone
after
that
he
sholde
ryse
&
go
to
the
dore
of
the
chambre
and
not
well
that
that
he
sholde
se.
The
kyuge
wente
thyder
&
it
semed
hym
that
he
sawe
grete
bestes
that
men
call
Unycornes
/
Leopardes
/
and
Lyons
/
that
wente
&
came
by
the
palays
/
so
he
retourned
agayne
all
aferde
and
demaunded
the
quene
what
that
sholde
sygnyfye
/
&
she
answered
hym
that
she
wolde
tell
hym
in
the
mornynge
/
and
that
he
sholde
haue
no
drede
/
but
to
go
thyder
agayne
/
&
soo
he
dyde
.
And
it
semed
hym
that
he
same
grete
beres
&
wolues
that
wolde
renne
one
vpon
another
.
The
quene
sente
hym
agayne
the
thyrde
tyme
/
and
hym
semed
that
he
sawe
dogges
/
and
lytell
beestes
/
eche
of
theym
dyspysynge
other
.
And
as
the
kynge
was
moche
adradde
of
this
thynge
.
The
quene
tolde
hym
the
aduy
syon
of
the
beestes
that
he
had
sene
/
whiche
sygnyfyed
dyuers
generacyons
of
prynces
that
sholde
reygne
in
Fraunce
that
sholde
come
of
theym
/
the
whiche
theyr
condycyons
and
theyr
dedes
sholde
drawe
after
the
nature
of
those
beestes
that
he
had
sene
.
Soo
thou
mayste
clerely
se
fayre
loue
howe
our
lorde
hathe
made
open
often
tymes
his
secretes
to
the
worlde
by
women
.
¶
Here
it
speketh
of
Anthonye
that
became
Empresse
.
Capitulo
.vj.
THat
was
noo
lytell
secrete
that
god
shewed
by
reuelacyon
of
a
woman
to
Iustynyan
/
whiche
was
syth
Em
peroure
of
Constantynoble
as
the
hystoryes
telleth
.
This
Iustynyan
was
keper
of
the
treasours
&
coffers
of
the
Emperoure
Iustyne
.
It
happened
in
a
day
that
as
this
Iusty
nyan
was
gone
to
dysporte
hym
in
the
feldes
/
and
had
brought
with
hym
to
be
his
comforte
a
woman
that
he
loued
moche
whiche
was
called
Anthony
/
and
when
the
houre
of
nyght
was
come
&
that
this
Iustynyan
had
luste
to
slepe
/
and
layde
his
heed
in
his
louers
lappe
.
And
when
he
was
on
slepe
/
then
Anthony
sawe
a
grete
Egle
come
flyenge
ouer
them
whiche
payned
hym
to
come
downe
to
kepe
the
vysage
of
Iustynyan
fro
the
brennynge
of
the
sone
with
his
wynges
.
This
woman
whiche
was
wyse
vnderstode
the
sygnyfyaunce
.
And
when
he
was
awaked
she
reasoned
with
hym
by
fayre
wordes
and
sayd
.
Fayre
swete
loue
I
haue
loued
you
moche
and
loue
you
as
hym
whiche
is
the
mayster
of
my
body
/
and
of
my
loue
as
ye
knowe
wel
.
So
it
is
no
reason
that
a
louer
wel
loued
of
his
loue
ought
to
denye
her
nothynge
.
And
for
that
I
wolde
requyre
you
in
rewarde
of
my
maydenhede
/
and
of
my
loue
but
one
gyfte
the
whiche
thoughe
it
be
ryght
grete
to
me
it
shal
seme
to
you
but
ryght
lytell
yf
ye
wyl
graunte
it
me
.
Iustynyan
answered
to
his
loue
that
she
sholde
requyre
hym
hardely
/
and
that
she
sholde
fayle
of
nothynge
that
he
myght
graunte
her
.
Then
sayd
Anthony
.
My
loue
the
gyfte
that
I
requyre
of
you
is
this
/
that
when
ye
shal
be
Emperour
that
ye
haue
not
in
dyspraysyng
your
poore
loue
Anthony
/
but
that
she
may
accompanye
her
with
your
worshyp
&
with
your
Empyre
by
true
maryage
/
&
so
to
promyse
me
right
anone
/
when
Iustynyan
had
herde
the
damoysell
thus
speke
he
began
to
laughe
trowynge
that
she
sayd
it
in
Iape
.
And
as
he
that
helde
it
as
a
thynge
impossyble
to
hap
pen
to
hym
promysed
her
that
without
fayle
he
wolde
take
her
to
his
wyfe
when
he
sholde
be
Emperoure
&
so
he
sware
by
al
his
goddes
/
and
then
she
thanked
hym
hertely
/
and
in
token
of
this
promyse
she
gaue
hym
her
rynge
/
and
he
gaue
his
to
her
.
And
anone
the
began
to
saye
.
I
brynge
the
tydynges
certaynly
that
thou
shalte
be
Emperoure
and
that
it
shall
be
in
shorte
tyme
.
And
then
they
departed
.
So
it
passed
not
longe
tyme
after
that
as
the
Emperour
Iustyne
had
assembled
his
hoost
to
go
vpon
them
of
Perce
a
sykenesse
toke
hym
thrughe
the
whiche
he
dyed
.
And
as
after
the
prynces
&
ba
rons
were
assembled
to
chose
a
newe
Emperoure
&
they
myght
not
wel
accorde
/
it
happened
that
in
maner
of
dyspyte
of
another
/
they
chose
Iustynyan
to
be
Emperour
/
the
whiche
slewthed
not
but
as
soone
as
he
myght
/
ryght
vygorously
with
a
grete
hoost
ranne
vpon
these
Percyens
&
wanne
y●
ba
tayle
&
toke
the
kynge
of
Perce
&
conquered
there
grete
good
&
worshyp
/
&
when
he
was
retourned
home
into
his
palays
Anthony
his
loue
forgate
†hyt†
not
but
dyd
that
she
myght
to
entre
by
grete
subtylte
there
where
he
sate
in
his
trone
with
his
prynces
/
&
she
kneled
before
hym
&
began
her
reason
&
sayd
that
she
was
a
mayde
that
was
come
to
hym
to
aske
ryght
&
reason
of
a
man
that
had
betrouthed
her
&
had
gyuen
her
his
rynge
&
taken
hers
.
The
Emperoure
whiche
yet
thought
not
on
her
/
answered
her
and
sayd
if
that
man
had
betrouthed
her
reason
wolde
that
he
toke
her
/
and
yf
she
myght
proue
that
she
sayd
that
she
sholde
haue
ryght
and
that
he
sholde
take
her
.
And
then
Anthony
drewe
the
rynge
from
her
fynger
/
and
shewed
it
to
hym
/
and
sayd
.
Noble
Empe
roure
I
maye
proue
it
by
this
rynge
/
beholde
it
yf
thou
knowe
it
.
Then
the
Emperoure
sawe
well
that
he
was
taken
by
his
wordes
yet
not
for
that
he
thought
to
kepe
his
promyse
.
And
anone
he
made
her
to
be
ledde
into
his
chambre
to
araye
her
in
noble
garmentes
/
and
toke
her
to
wyfe
.
¶
Here
Xp̄ine
speketh
to
ryghtwysnes
.
Ca.
vii
.
MAdame
by
that
that
I
vnderstande
&
se
openly
the
grete
ryght
of
women
agaynst
that
of
whiche
they
be
so
moche
accused
maketh
me
to
knowe
better
frome
hense
forthe
the
wronge
of
theyr
accusers
.
And
yet
I
maye
not
holde
me
styll
of
a
comune
custome
that
renneth
amonge
these
men
And
in
the
same
wyse
amonge
some
women
/
that
the
comune
custome
is
this
/
that
when
these
women
be
with
chylde
/
and
be
delyuered
of
a
mayde
chylde
/
the
husbandes
ben
wrothe
with
it
often
tymes
and
chydeth
/
for
that
his
wyfe
was
not
delyuered
of
a
sone
.
And
theyr
nyce
wyues
whiche
ought
to
haue
souerayne
Ioye
of
that
/
that
god
hath
saufely
delyuered
them
/
&
thanke
hym
with
good
herte
/
they
troubled
themselfe
also
/
for
that
theyr
hous
bandes
ben
troubled
with
it
.
And
madame
frome
whens
cometh
that
/
that
they
be
wrothe
/
be
the
doughters
of
more
preiudyce
than
the
sones
/
or
be
they
of
lesse
loue
to
theyr
fader
&
moder
&
lesse
charge
to
them
than
be
the
sones
.
¶
Answere
.
Dere
frende
for
that
that
thou
demaundest
me
the
cause
whens
it
cometh
I
answere
the
certaynly
that
/
that
cometh
of
ryght
grete
symplenesse
and
ygnoraunce
to
them
that
troubleth
them
so
.
Notwithstandynge
that
the
pryncypal
cause
that
moueth
them
therto
is
for
the
cost
of
theyr
goodes
that
they
must
vnpurse
&
laye
out
when
they
be
in
the
age
of
maryage
.
And
also
some
dothe
it
for
that
they
doubte
the
perylles
that
they
maye
be
deceyued
by
euyll
counsayle
in
symples
/
but
al
these
causes
in
regarde
be
of
no
reason
For
as
touchynge
the
doubte
that
they
do
foly
/
there
ben
but
fewe
/
but
they
enfourme
theyr
chyldren
when
they
ben
yonge
and
lytell
and
that
the
moder
gyueth
them
good
ensamples
bytwene
themselfe
in
honeste
and
techynge
.
For
yf
the
moder
were
of
a
foly
lyfe
it
sholde
be
lytell
ensample
to
the
doughter
/
and
that
she
be
kepte
from
euyll
company
and
holden
shorte
in
tyme
of
youthe
/
it
is
the
prerogatyue
to
good
condycyons
all
her
lyfe
.
¶
Item
as
to
the
cost
I
trowe
yf
the
fader
and
moder
beholde
well
that
that
the
sone
cost
them
/
as
to
make
them
to
lerne
scyences
or
crafte
/
as
to
holde
them
in
estate
and
also
in
superfluous
despenses
/
in
lewde
companyes
/
and
in
many
nycetees
/
I
trowe
they
sholde
fynde
but
lytel
aduauntage
in
sones
more
than
in
doughters
.
And
the
wrathe
and
sorowe
that
they
cause
often
tymes
theyr
faders
&
moders
to
haue
/
as
in
folowynge
of
dyssolute
lyfe
&
so
moche
grefe
and
cost
to
theyr
faders
&
moders
I
trowe
it
sholde
passe
the
sorowe
that
they
haue
for
theyr
doughters
.
¶
Beholde
how
many
sones
thou
shalte
fynde
that
haue
nourysshed
swetely
and
mekely
theyr
faders
and
moders
in
theyr
age
/
so
as
they
ought
to
do
.
I
trowe
thou
shalte
fynde
them
but
thynne
sowne
.
And
thoughe
the
fader
and
moder
make
as
moche
of
theyr
sones
as
theyr
goodes
/
when
they
be
wexen
myghty
and
ryche
and
theyr
fader
poore
they
wyll
dyspyse
hym
/
and
they
wyll
be
wrothe
&
shamefull
when
they
se
hym
.
And
yf
theyr
fader
be
ryche
they
wyll
desyre
his
dethe
to
haue
his
good
.
¶
All
be
not
suche
/
but
there
be
many
of
them
/
and
whan
the
sones
be
maryed
/
god
knoweth
the
grete
coueytyse
that
they
haue
alway
to
drawe
from
the
fader
and
moder
/
and
they
wolde
not
recke
thoughe
they
sholde
dye
for
hongre
/
so
that
they
myght
haue
al.
And
where
as
the
moder
abydeth
wedo
we
and
where
as
they
ought
to
comforte
her
/
and
to
be
staffe
and
berer
vp
of
her
age
/
they
wyll
crye
on
her
tyll
they
haue
drawne
from
her
that
that
she
hath
And
yf
she
wyl
not
gyue
them
ynoughe
after
theyr
entente
they
wyl
haue
no
conscyence
to
moue
plee
ayenst
her
.
Of
suche
sones
there
be
ynowe
/
&
some
doughters
haply
also
.
yet
if
thou
take
good
hede
I
trowe
thou
shalte
fynde
sones
more
shrewysshe
to
the
fader
and
moder
than
doughters
.
And
yet
I
put
case
that
all
were
good
/
it
is
comunely
sayd
the
doghters
holde
better
company
to
the
faders
and
moders
than
the
sones
.
And
more
vysyteth
/
comforteth
/
and
kepeth
them
in
theyr
sykenes
and
ege
The
cause
is
this
/
for
that
that
the
sones
trauaylleth
more
vp
and
downe
in
the
worlde
here
and
there
/
and
the
doughters
be
more
coye
and
holde
theym
more
nyghe
so
as
thou
mayste
se
thyselfe
.
For
notwithstandynge
that
thy
bretherne
were
ryght
naturall
&
of
grete
loue
/
they
be
gone
in
to
the
worlde
and
thou
alone
arte
abydynge
to
kepe
company
with
thy
good
moder
the
whiche
is
a
souerayne
comforte
in
her
age
.
And
for
that
I
saye
to
the
in
conclusyon
that
they
be
more
foles
that
troubleth
theym
and
be
wroth
when
they
haue
borne
doughters
.
And
for
that
that
vpon
this
purpose
thou
hast
put
me
/
I
wyl
tell
the
of
some
women
of
whome
amonge
other
the
hystoryes
wryteth
/
whiche
were
ryght
kynde
vnto
theyr
fader
and
moder
.
¶
Here
it
begynneth
to
speke
of
doughtes
that
loued
fader
and
moder
/
and
fyrst
of
Drypetrue
.
Ca.
viij
.
OF
grete
loue
to
her
fader
was
Drypetrue
quene
of
Laodocye
/
she
was
doughter
to
the
grete
kynge
Mytrydaces
And
she
loued
hym
soo
moche
that
she
folowed
hym
in
all
bataylles
.
She
was
of
a
straunge
shappe
in
some
thynges
/
for
she
had
a
double
rewe
of
tethe
whiche
was
a
grete
deformyte
/
but
she
was
of
so
grete
loue
to
her
fader
that
she
●●te
him
neuer
nother
in
ꝓsperyte
ne
i
euyll
fortune
And
thoughe
she
were
a
quene
and
lady
of
a
grete
lande
by
the
whiche
she
myght
well
be
at
rest
and
ease
in
her
countre
/
she
was
in
euery
place
partycy
pante
of
all
the
paynes
and
trauayles
that
her
fader
had
in
many
dyuers
armyes
there
as
he
was
And
when
he
was
ouercomen
of
the
grete
Pompee
/
she
lefte
hym
neuer
/
but
serued
hym
by
grete
charge
and
dylygence
.
¶
Of
Isyphyle
.
Ca.
ix
.
ISyphyle
put
her
in
peryll
of
dethe
to
saue
her
fader
/
whiche
was
named
Thoant
and
was
kynge
of
Leuydynyens
.
And
as
his
countre
rebelled
ayenst
hym
and
with
a
grete
woodnesse
came
to
the
palays
to
sle
the
kynge
.
Isyphyle
anone
hydde
hym
in
one
of
her
coffres
.
And
after
she
lepte
out
to
appease
the
people
/
but
i●
auayled
her
nothynge
/
and
as
they
sought
the
kynge
all
aboute
and
myght
not
fynde
hym
.
They
put
the
poyntes
of
theyr
glayues
ayenst
Isyphyle
and
gretel●
manaced
her
of
dethe
yf
she
wolde
not
tell
them
o●
her
fader
.
And
with
that
they
promysed
her
if
they
myght
knowe
by
her
where
he
was
/
they
wolde
crowne
her
quene
/
and
they
wolde
obaye
to
her
.
But
she
whiche
coueyted
more
the
lyfe
of
her
fader
then
to
be
quene
/
ne
was
not
aferde
for
drede
of
d●
the
answered
them
with
an
hardy
courage
/
and
without
sygne
of
ony
drede
/
that
without
fayle
he
was
fledde
a
grete
whyle
before
.
And
at
y●
lastfor●
that
they
myght
not
fynde
hym
/
and
that
she
so
surely
affermed
them
that
he
was
fledde
/
they
byleued
her
and
crowned
her
quene
/
&
a
whyle
she
reygned
peasybly
vpon
them
.
And
she
that
a
lytel
whyle
had
kepte
her
fader
secretely
for
drede
at
the
last
that
by
some
enuyous
persone
he
might
be
accused
/
put
hym
out
by
nyght
and
sente
hym
by
see
to
another
place
with
grete
goodes
/
but
as
this
thynge
was
at
the
last
opened
to
the
vntrue
Cytezyns
they
chaced
theyr
quene
Isyphyle
out
of
the
royalme
&
wolde
haue
slayne
her
yf
her
grete
goodnesse
had
not
kepte
her
.
¶
Of
the
mayde
Claudyne
.
Ca.
x.
AS
a
sygne
of
grete
loue
shewed
the
mayden
Claudyne
to
her
fader
/
then
when
by
the
good
dedes
of
hym
/
and
by
the
grete
vyctoryes
that
he
had
had
in
many
bataylles
retourned
hym
/
&
vyctoryously
was
receyued
at
Rome
in
the
souerayne
worshyp
that
they
called
the
tryumphe
/
whiche
was
a
ryght
grete
worshyp
/
in
the
whiche
they
receyued
princes
when
they
retourned
ouercomers
of
ony
grete
dedes
.
Soo
this
same
fader
of
Claudyne
whiche
was
one
of
the
prynces
of
Rome
ryght
worshypfull
beynge
in
this
honoure
of
tryumphe
was
assayled
by
another
of
the
lordes
of
Rome
that
hated
hym
.
But
when
Claudyne
his
dou
ghter
whiche
was
sacred
to
the
goddes
Besta
/
as
we
say
here
a
relygyous
of
some
abbay
/
and
was
with
the
ladyes
of
her
ordre
that
were
gone
to
the
processyon
agaynst
this
foresayd
prynce
/
so
as
the
custome
was
/
herde
the
noyse
/
and
knewe
that
her
fader
was
assayled
of
his
enemyes
.
Then
the
grete
loue
that
the
doughter
had
to
the
fader
made
her
forgete
al
the
symple
behauynge
that
a
relygyous
woman
sholde
haue
comonly
.
Also
she
put
backe
all
drede
and
▪
fere
in
suche
manere
that
anone
she
lepte
forthe
and
wente
flyenge
thrughe
the
prece
/
and
boldely
wente
amonge
the
swerdes
that
she
sawe
vpon
her
fader
/
and
toke
hym
by
the
throte
that
she
sawe
nexte
hym
/
and
to
her
power
toke
strongly
vpon
her
to
defende
her
fader
/
there
the
prece
was
so
grete
that
anone
the
medlynge
was
departed
.
Then
as
the
worshypfull
Romaynes
had
of
custo
me
to
set
moche
by
euery
parsone
that
dyde
ony
worshypful
acte
of
meruayle
/
praysed
gretely
this
may
den
and
gaue
her
grete
laude
of
that
she
had
done
.
¶
Here
it
speketh
of
a
woman
that
gaue
her
moder
sowke
in
the
pryson
.
Ca.
xi
.
ORete
loue
also
had
a
woman
of
Rome
to
her
moder
/
of
whome
the
hystoryes
speketh
.
It
happened
that
the
sayd
moder
for
a
certayne
cryme
that
she
was
attaynted
of
/
was
condempned
to
perpetuall
pryson
.
And
that
none
sholde
gyue
her
neyther
mete
nor
drynke
/
by
the
whiche
in
this
maner
she
sholde
fynysshe
her
lyfe
.
The
doughter
constray
constrayned
of
grete
loue
beynge
sory
for
this
condempnacyon
/
requyred
them
that
kepte
the
pryson
of
a
specyal
grace
/
that
she
myght
vysyte
her
moder
euery
daye
whyle
she
was
on
lyue
/
to
that
entente
that
she
myght
counsayle
her
of
pacyence
.
And
shortely
to
saye
/
so
moche
she
employed
and
prayed
/
that
the
kepers
of
the
pryson
had
pyte
on
her
/
and
graunted
her
that
she
sholde
vysyte
her
moder
euery
daye
.
But
or
she
sholde
go
to
her
that
she
bare
with
her
no
vytayle
.
And
when
this
vysytacyon
had
endured
by
so
many
dayes
/
that
it
was
impossyble
to
the
Iay
loures
that
the
woman
prysoner
myght
lyue
so
longe
naturally
without
mete
&
yet
was
not
dede
/
and
consydered
that
none
other
vysyted
her
but
her
doughter
/
whiche
they
serched
ryght
dylygently
or
she
sholde
go
in
to
her
moder
/
they
meruaylled
ryght
strongely
what
that
myght
be
.
And
on
a
day
they
spyed
the
moder
&
the
doughter
togyder
the
whiche
was
lately
delyuered
of
a
chylde
/
&
then
they
sawe
her
gyue
the
tete
to
her
moder
so
moche
tyl
she
had
al
/
and
thus
the
moder
drewe
mylke
of
the
pappes
of
her
doughter
.
And
thus
the
doughter
yelded
to
the
moder
in
her
age
that
that
she
had
taken
of
her
in
her
youthe
.
This
contynuell
dylygence
&
grete
loue
of
the
doughter
to
the
moder
moued
the
Iaylours
to
grete
pyte
and
they
reported
it
to
the
Iuges
/
then
of
manly
compassyon
they
delyuered
the
moder
to
the
doughter
.
¶
Also
to
the
purpose
of
loue
of
the
doughter
to
the
fader
one
may
say
of
the
good
&
wyse
Grysylde
whiche
syth
was
marquyse
of
Saluce
/
of
whome
I
shall
telle
hereafter
the
grete
vertue
/
stablenesse
/
and
constaunce
.
O
howe
true
loue
hath
nature
gyuen
vnto
her
/
to
be
so
busy
to
serue
her
fader
Ianycle
so
humbly
and
obeysauntely
in
his
sykenesse
/
and
in
his
age
/
that
she
in
her
clennesse
&
vyrgynyte
/
&
in
the
floure
of
her
youthe
nourysshed
/
and
gouerned
so
dylygentely
by
the
laboure
/
and
the
crafte
of
her
handes
getynge
/
with
grete
charge
and
busynesse
the
poore
lyfe
of
theym
bothe
.
O
in
a
good
houre
were
those
doughters
borne
of
suche
bounte
/
and
so
grete
loue
to
theyr
fader
&
moder
.
For
notwithstandynge
that
that
they
do
that
they
ought
to
do
/
yet
they
gete
grete
meryte
to
the
soule
/
&
grete
praysynge
is
gyuen
them
of
the
worlde
/
and
in
the
same
wyse
to
the
sones
that
ben
of
the
condycyon
.
¶
what
woldest
thou
that
I
sholde
say
more
I
coude
tell
the
ensamples
ynowe
of
lyke
case
but
ynoughe
suffyseth
.
¶
Here
ryghtwysnesse
sayth
that
she
hathe
accheued
the
stone
werke
of
the
Cyte
/
and
it
is
tyme
to
people
it
.
Ca.
xij
.
NOwe
me
semeth
ryght
dere
frende
that
our
buyldynge
is
well
lyfte
vp
of
our
Cyte
of
Ladyes
/
and
the
hyghe
masonry
al
alonge
the
large
stretes
/
and
the
royall
palayces
/
stronge
buyldynges
of
dongeons
/
and
defensable
towres
lyfted
ryght
hyghe
that
it
maye
be
sene
a
farre
.
Soo
it
is
tyme
fro
hensforthe
that
we
begynne
to
people
this
noble
cyte
/
to
that
entente
that
she
be
not
waste
nor
voyde
but
enhabyted
of
ladyes
of
grete
excellence
/
for
we
wyll
none
other
people
.
¶
O
howe
fortunate
shall
the
cytezynes
of
our
cyte
be
/
for
they
shall
haue
no
nede
to
haue
drede
nor
doubte
to
be
dyslodged
of
theyr
possessyon
by
straungers
.
For
this
is
the
propryete
of
our
werke
that
the
owners
shall
not
nede
to
be
put
out
.
And
nowe
there
is
a
newe
femenyne
royalme
bygon
/
but
it
is
moche
more
worthyer
than
that
other
was
.
For
it
shall
nede
that
the
ladyes
lodged
here
goo
out
of
theyr
lande
for
to
conceyue
ne
brynge
forthe
newe
heyres
to
maynteyne
theyr
possessyon
by
dyuers
ages
fro
lygne
to
lygne
.
For
it
shall
suffyse
ynoughe
for
euer
of
them
that
we
shall
put
in
it
nowe
/
for
this
is
the
destyne
of
them
/
that
they
shall
neuer
dye
.
And
without
fayle
they
shall
abyde
in
the
same
age
/
beaute
/
and
fresshnesse
/
be
they
yonge
or
o●de
that
we
shall
put
therin
.
And
when
we
haue
peopled
it
with
noble
cytezynes
.
Dame
Iustyne
my
syster
shall
come
after
that
shall
brynge
thyder
the
quene
/
aboue
all
other
women
moost
excellent
/
accompanyed
with
pryncesses
of
grete
dygny
te
/
whiche
shall
enhabyte
the
moost
hyghe
places
&
hyghe
dongeons
.
For
it
is
good
reason
that
when
the
quene
shal
come
thyder
that
she
fynde
the
cyte
gar
nysshed
&
peopled
of
noble
ladyes
that
sholde
receyue
her
with
grete
worshyp
as
theyr
souerayne
lady
&
Empresse
of
all
theyr
kynde
/
yet
what
cytezyns
shall
we
put
there
/
shall
they
be
vnstable
women
or
defamed
/
certaynly
nay
/
but
they
shal
be
al
worshypfull
women
&
of
grete
auctoryte
.
For
more
fayre
people
ne
more
grete
aray
may
not
be
in
a
cyte
than
good
women
&
worshypfull
.
Nowe
ryse
leefe
frende
/
nowe
put
the
in
busynes
and
go
before
/
and
lette
vs
seke
them
.
¶
Here
Xp̄ine
asketh
of
dame
ryghtwysnesse
yf
y●
be
true
that
these
bokes
&
these
men
sayth
that
the
lyfe
of
maryage
is
harde
to
bere
for
the
occasyon
of
women
&
to
theyr
grete
wronge
.
And
ryghtwysnesse
answereth
&
begynneth
to
speke
of
the
grete
loue
of
women
to
theyr
husbandes
.
Ca.
xiij
.
THen
in
goynge
to
seke
the
fore sayd
ladyes
by
the
ordynaunce
of
dame
ryghtwysnesse
/
in
goynge
I
sayd
these
wordes
/
ma dame
without
fayle
ye
&
reason
haue
assoyled
&
concluded
soo
wel
&
so
fayre
my
questyons
&
demanndes
that
I
can
not
replye
no
more
/
&
I
holde
me
ryght
well
enfourmed
of
that
that
I
sought
.
And
by
you
two
I
haue
lerned
ynoughe
howe
al
thynges
able
ought
to
be
done
&
lerned
/
as
moche
in
strengthe
of
bodyes
as
in
wysdo
me
of
vnderstandynge
/
&
yf
al
vertues
be
possyble
to
be
executed
by
women
.
But
yet
I
pray
you
that
ye
wolde
telle
&
certyfye
me
/
yf
it
be
true
that
these
men
say
/
&
so
many
auctours
bereth
wytnesse
thrughe
the
whiche
I
am
in
ryght
a
grete
thought
/
that
the
ly
fe
of
the
ordre
of
maryage
be
to
men
heuy
&
enuyronned
of
so
grete
tempest
by
the
blame
&
importunyte
of
women
&
of
theyr
rauenous
grefe
/
as
it
is
wry
ten
in
many
bokes
/
&
people
ynowe
wytnesseth
it
.
and
that
they
loue
theyr
husbandes
and
theyr
com
pany
so
lytell
/
that
nothynge
noyeth
them
so
moche
/
by
the
whiche
to
voyde
suche
inconuenyences
/
many
haue
counsayled
the
wyse
men
that
they
mary
not
/
certefyenge
that
fewe
of
them
be
true
in
theyr
partye
/
&
also
walere
wryteth
to
Ruphyn
/
&
Theophrastus
in
his
boke
sayth
that
noo
wyse
man
ought
to
take
a
wyfe
/
for
there
is
but
lytell
loue
in
a
woman
/
but
grete
charge
&
Ianglynge
.
And
yf
the
man
do
it
to
be
the
better
serued
&
kepte
in
his
sykenes
/
more
better
&
more
truely
a
true
seruaunt
shall
kepe
hym
&
serue
hym
/
&
shal
not
cost
hym
so
moche
.
And
yf
the
wo
man
be
syke
the
husbande
is
in
grete
sorowe
/
&
dare
not
speke
one
worde
nyghe
her
.
And
ynoughe
of
suche
thynges
he
telleth
whiche
sholde
be
to
longe
to
reherce
/
wherfore
I
say
myne
owne
lady
that
yf
these
thynges
be
true
/
these
defaultes
be
so
grete
that
all
the
grace
&
vertues
that
they
may
haue
be
brought
to
nought
and
quenched
.
¶
Answere
.
Certesdere
frende
so
as
that
thyselfe
hath
sayd
somtyme
to
the
pur
pose
that
one
may
lede
a
processe
well
at
his
ease
that
pledeth
without
partye
.
And
I
promyse
the
that
▪
the
bokes
that
so
sayth
women
made
them
not
.
But
I
trowe
that
he
that
wolde
make
a
newe
booke
that
were
true
of
the
debates
of
maryage
&
that
he
were
enfourmed
of
the
trouthe
one
sholde
fynde
other
tydynges
Alas
dere
frende
howe
many
women
be
there
as
thou
knowest
thyselfe
that
vseth
theyr
wery
lyfe
in
the
bande
of
maryage
by
the
hardnesse
of
theyr
husbandes
in
more
greter
penaunce
than
they
were
esclaues
amonge
the
sarazynes
.
Ha
god
howe
many
harde
betynges
without
cause
&
reason
/
howe
many
vylanous
wronges
&
outragyous
bondages
suffreth
many
of
these
good
and
worshypfull
women
whiche
all
crye
not
out
an
harowe
/
and
suche
that
dye
for
hungre
/
and
for
mysease
/
&
theyr
husbandes
ben
at
the
tauerne
/
and
in
other
dyssolute
places
/
and
yet
the
poore
women
shall
be
beten
at
theyr
comynge
home
/
and
that
shal
be
theyr
souper
.
And
to
say
that
these
husbandes
ben
ony
thynge
sorowful
for
the
sykenesse
of
theyr
wyues
.
I
praye
the
my
loue
where
be
they
.
And
without
that
/
that
I
say
more
to
the
/
thou
mayst
knowe
well
that
these
sclaundres
sayd
agaynst
women
who
so
saythe
it
they
were
&
be
thynges
founde
&
sayd
of
vyolence
&
ayenste
trouthe
.
For
the
husbandes
ben
maysters
ouer
the
women
/
&
not
the
women
theyr
maystresses
/
so
they
wolde
neuer
suffre
suche
auctorite
of
theyr
wyues
But
I
promyse
the
that
all
maryages
be
not
maynteyned
in
suche
contentes
it
were
grete
damage
.
For
there
ben
some
that
lyueth
in
peasyblenesse
/
loue
/
and
trouthe
togyder
/
by
that
that
the
partyes
be
good
&
dyscrete
/
and
reasonable
/
thoughe
it
be
not
of
euyll
husbandes
.
There
ben
ryght
good
/
worshypfull
/
and
wyse
/
and
that
the
women
that
meteth
with
them
lyueth
as
to
the
glory
of
the
worlde
in
ryght
a
good
houre
for
them
.
And
that
thou
mayst
well
knowe
by
thyselfe
that
&
thou
haddest
suche
one
that
in
thy
Iugement
none
other
man
passed
hym
in
al
bounte
/
peasyblenes
/
trouthe
/
&
good
loue
of
the
whiche
the
sorowes
of
that
that
dethe
toke
hym
away
from
the
shall
neuer
parte
from
thyne
herte
.
And
thoughe
that
I
say
to
the
/
and
it
is
trouthe
there
ben
many
good
women
ryght
euyll
ledde
by
theyr
dyuers
housbandes
.
Knowe
it
for
trouthe
that
there
be
many
dyuers
women
/
shrewde
cruell
/
and
cursed
/
&
without
reason
.
For
yf
I
sholde
say
that
all
were
good
/
lyghtly
I
myght
be
proued
a
lyer
.
But
in
the
lesse
partye
/
and
of
that
partye
whiche
be
good
I
medle
me
not
.
For
suche
euyll
women
ben
as
thynges
out
of
theyr
nature
.
But
for
to
speke
of
those
that
ben
good
/
for
that
that
this
Theofrastus
of
whome
thou
hast
spoken
sayth
/
that
also
truely
and
as
busely
shall
a
mābe
kepte
in
his
sykenesse
/
or
in
his
nede
by
his
seruaunt
as
by
his
wyfe
.
A
howe
many
good
women
ben
there
so
busy
to
serue
theyr
husbondes
hole
or
syke
by
true
loue
as
&
they
were
theyr
goddes
.
I
trowe
that
one
shal
not
fynde
but
fewe
suche
seruauntes
.
And
for
that
that
we
be
entred
in
to
this
matter
I
shal
gyue
the
many
ensamples
of
grete
loue
and
trouthe
of
women
borne
to
theyr
housbandes
.
And
nowe
we
be
thanked
be
god
retourned
to
our
Cyte
with
a
noble
company
of
worshypfull
women
that
we
shall
lodge
there
.
And
se
here
this
noble
lady
&
quene
Hypsytrace
wyfe
sometyme
of
the
ryche
kynge
Mytrydaces
for
that
that
she
is
of
olde
tyme
/
and
her
valure
of
grete
dygnyte
we
shall
lodge
her
fyrst
in
the
noble
palays
that
is
arayed
for
her
.
¶
Here
it
speketh
of
the
quene
Hypsytrace
.
Ca.
xiiij
.
HOwe
myght
there
be
●ny
creature
of
gretter
loue
to
another
than
was
the
ryght
fayre
/
good
/
and
true
Hypsytrace
to
her
husbande
.
And
it
shewed
wel
.
She
was
wyfe
of
the
grete
kynge
Mytrydaces
/
whiche
gouerned
the
countres
of
.xxiiij.
languages
.
And
thoughe
it
so
were
that
this
kynge
was
myghty
&
puyssaunt
.
The
Romaynes
moued
ryght
harde
warre
agaynst
hym
/
but
in
all
the
tyme
that
he
laboured
by
grete
charges
in
the
bataylles
/
where
that
euer
he
wente
his
good
wyfe
lefte
hym
not
/
&
thoughe
that
this
kynge
after
the
maner
of
Barbaryne
had
dyuers
concubynes
.
Neuerthelesse
this
noble
lady
was
alway
embraced
in
parfyte
loue
/
in
suche
maner
that
in
no
wyse
she
suffred
not
that
he
sholde
go
without
her
/
where
she
was
ofte
tymes
in
bataylles
with
hym
in
peryl
to
lose
his
royalme
and
in
aduenture
of
his
lyfe
ayenst
the
Romaynes
.
But
when
he
sholde
go
in
to
a
straunge
regyon
or
in
to
a
ferre
countre
/
or
passe
the
see
/
or
desires
/
and
peryllous
forestes
/
he
wente
neuer
but
she
was
al
way
his
ryght
true
felawe
without
departynge
.
For
she
loued
hym
of
so
parfyte
loue
that
she
thought
that
no
man
sholde
serue
her
lorde
so
clenly
ne
so
well
as
she
sholde
.
And
agaynst
that
/
that
the
phylosophre
Theofrastus
sayth
touchynge
this
matter
.
This
lady
for
that
that
she
knewe
that
often
tymes
kynges
&
prynces
haue
false
seruauntes
/
wherof
foloweth
false
seruyce
.
She
as
a
true
louer
to
that
entente
that
she
myght
mynystre
al
necessaryes
&
conuenable
thynges
to
her
lorde
/
thoughe
it
so
be
that
she
suffred
grete
payne
she
wolde
alway
folowe
▪
hym
/
&
for
so
moche
that
to
suche
a
dede
the
habyte
of
a
woman
is
not
conuenable
/
nor
it
is
not
expedyent
that
a
woman
so
nyghe
a
grete
kynge
/
&
soo
noble
a
fyghter
in
batayle
sholde
be
sene
to
that
entente
/
that
a
man
sholde
seme
to
smyte
of
her
yelowe
heres
as
golde
whiche
to
the
apparellynge
of
a
woman
is
a
thynge
ryght
well
semynge
.
But
with
that
she
spared
not
the
fayre
fresshnesse
of
her
vysage
/
but
ware
her
helme
/
vnder
the
whiche
she
was
ofte
tymes
soylled
and
full
of
●wetynge
and
duste
/
and
her
fayre
body
&
softe
vsed
the
harneys
and
habergyon
/
hosed
with
yron
/
and
the
precyous
rynges
&
the
ryche
ornamentes
put
a
parte
.
In
stede
of
whiche
she
bare
in
her
handes
/
axes
/
harde
speres
/
bowes
and
arowes
▪
stretchynge
aswerde
.
And
in
this
maner
this
noble
quene
gouerned
her
by
strengthe
of
grete
loue
and
true
/
and
thus
she
chaunged
the
tendernes
of
her
fayre
body
and
yonge
/
whiche
was
wonte
to
be
cheryss
hed
softely
/
and
delycately
/
and
she
lyued
after
the
manere
of
a
stronge
armed
knyght
.
O
sayth
Bocaca
that
wryteth
this
story
/
what
is
that
that
loue
causeth
not
one
to
do
when
she
that
had
it
of
custome
to
lyue
so
delycately
/
to
lye
softe
/
&
to
haue
al
thynges
at
her
ease
/
and
nowe
demeaned
by
her
free
wyll
as
it
were
an
harde
man
and
a
stronge
lyenge
day
and
nyght
in
the
mountaynes
and
valays
/
in
the
desertes
/
and
in
forestes
/
often
tymes
vpon
the
bare
erthe
for
drede
of
enemyes
in
euery
syde
of
her
wylde
beestes
/
&
serpentes
.
But
all
this
was
swete
to
her
/
to
be
alwaye
nyghe
her
husbande
/
for
to
comforte
hym
/
counsayle
hym
/
&
serue
hym
in
all
his
nedes
.
And
yet
after
when
she
had
suffred
to
endure
longe
tyme
many
harde
trauayles
.
It
happened
that
her
husbande
was
dyscomfyted
ryght
cruelly
by
Pompee
prynce
of
the
hoost
of
the
Romaynes
/
so
that
he
was
constrayned
to
fle
.
yet
when
he
was
forsaken
of
al
his
owne
people
and
lefte
alone
/
his
good
wyfe
lefte
hym
neuer
/
but
rennynge
after
folowed
hym
by
hylles
&
valays
/
by
forestes
/
&
by
many
strayte
passages
/
and
he
whiche
was
forsaken
of
all
his
frendes
/
&
had
noo
maner
of
hope
/
yet
was
he
comforted
by
his
good
wyfe
/
whiche
counsaylled
hym
swetely
to
haue
hope
of
better
fortune
.
And
the
more
that
he
and
she
were
in
grete
trybulacyon
the
more
she
payned
herselfe
to
do
hym
solace
/
&
to
reioyse
hym
by
the
swetnesse
of
her
/
to
the
entente
to
appease
his
malancoly
by
goodly
playes
that
she
coude
fynde
by
the
whiche
thynges
/
and
by
the
grete
swetenesse
of
her
/
so
moche
she
comforted
hym
/
that
in
euery
mysery
that
he
suffred
in
all
his
trybulacyons
she
made
hym
so
to
forgete
it
/
that
he
sayd
often
tymes
that
he
was
not
in
exyle
but
hym
semed
that
he
was
ryght
delycyously
in
his
palays
with
his
true
spouse
.
¶
Of
the
Empresse
Tryayre
.
Ca.
xv
.
RIght
lyke
to
the
foresayd
quene
in
case
and
in
true
loue
towarde
her
husbande
was
the
noble
Empresse
Try
ayre
wyfe
of
Lucyan
Urylyan
Empe
roure
of
the
Romaynes
.
She
loued
hym
of
so
grete
loue
/
that
she
folowed
hym
in
euery
place
/
and
in
all
bataylles
armed
lyke
a
knyght
alway
ryght
nyghe
hym
/
and
fought
ryght
strong
ly
/
whereof
it
happened
on
a
tyme
that
this
Emperoure
had
warre
with
Uaspasyan
bycause
of
the
lordeshyp
of
the
Empyre
.
And
whan
he
sholde
go
ayenst
a
Cyte
of
Uolques
and
sholde
do
by
nyght
that
he
sholde
entre
in
to
the
towne
he
founde
the
people
a
slepe
/
&
he
wente
vpon
them
cruelly
.
But
this
noble
lady
Tryayre
whiche
all
the
nyght
had
folowed
her
husbande
and
was
not
ferre
fro
hym
but
alway
desyrynge
that
he
myght
haue
the
vyctory
of
the
batayle
alwaye
in
harnays
the
sw●rde
gyrde
aboute
her
/
fyghtynge
ryght
fyersely
in
the
rowte
nyghe
her
husbande
/
nowe
here
/
nowe
there
by
the
darkenesse
of
the
nyght
hauynge
no
drede
nor
fere
/
but
that
she
bare
her
so
worshypfully
that
she
had
the
pryce
of
the
batayle
aboue
al
others
and
dyde
many
meruayles
.
So
it
shewed
wel
as
Bocace
sayth
the
grete
loue
that
she
had
to
her
husbande
in
prouynge
the
bande
of
maryage
that
other
wolde
so
moche
reproue
.
¶
Of
the
quene
Archemyse
.
Ca.
xvi
.
OF
ladyes
that
haue
loued
theyr
husbandes
of
grete
loue
&
shewed
it
in
dede
I
may
say
yet
of
the
noble
lady
Archemyse
quene
of
Carye
that
as
it
is
sayd
before
folowed
the
kynge
Mansole
her
husbande
in
many
grete
batayles
tyll
he
came
to
the
dethe.
And
she
outraged
with
so
grete
sorowe
as
moche
as
ony
creature
myght
bere
/
yf
she
shewed
it
well
in
his
lyfe
that
she
loued
hym
wel
she
dyde
no
lesse
in
the
ende
.
For
in
makynge
all
the
solempnytes
that
was
in
the
vsage
there
/
as
moche
as
myght
be
made
for
a
kynge
with
grete
company
of
prynces
&
of
barons
made
brenne
the
body
of
her
housbande
/
wherof
she
herselfe
gadred
the
asshes
quenchynge
them
with
her
teeres
/
and
put
them
in
a
vessell
of
golde
.
So
she
semed
that
it
was
no
reason
that
the
asshes
of
hym
that
she
had
loued
so
moche
sholde
haue
other
scpulture
than
the
herte
&
the
body
where
the
rote
of
this
grete
loue
was
/
and
therfore
she
dranke
the
foresayd
asshes
/
by
successyon
of
tyme
medled
with
her
drynke
/
by
lytel
and
lytel
tyl
she
had
taken
all
/
yet
notwithstandynge
that
for
the
remembraunce
of
hym
she
wolde
let
make
suche
a
sepulture
/
whiche
sholde
be
alway
for
hym
a
perpetuall
memory
/
and
to
make
it
she
spared
no
treasoure
/
so
she
made
to
seke
certayne
werke
men
that
coude
deuyse
&
make
meruayllous
werkes
in
buyldynge
/
that
is
to
knowe
/
Scope
/
Bryaxe
/
Thymothe
/
and
Leothayre
/
whiche
were
werke
men
of
grete
excellence
/
and
the
quene
sayd
to
them
that
she
wolde
haue
a
sepulture
made
for
the
kynge
Mansole
her
lorde
/
the
moost
solempne
that
kynge
or
prynce
myght
haue
in
the
worlde
.
For
she
wolde
that
by
the
meruayllous
werke
the
name
of
her
husbande
sholde
endure
alwaye
.
And
they
sayd
that
they
wolde
do
it
ryght
well
.
So
the
quene
made
them
to
seke
stones
of
marble
ynowe
/
and
of
Iasper
of
dyuers
colours
/
and
all
that
euer
they
wolde
aske
.
The
ende
of
the
werke
was
suche
/
that
the
foresayd
werke
men
before
the
cyte
of
Elycarnase
whiche
is
the
mayster
Cyte
of
Carye
lyfted
vp
a
grete
werke
of
marble
stone
wrought
by
entayle
ryght
nobly
.
And
it
was
made
square
/
&
in
euery
squarenesse
it
was
of
.lxiiij.
fote
.
And
on
hyght
an
.
C.
and
.xl.
fore
And
yet
it
was
more
meruaylous
.
For
al
this
grete
buyldynge
was
sette
vpon
.xxx.
grete
pyllers
of
marble
.
And
eche
of
the
.iiij.
werke
men
wrought
by
stryfe
one
with
another
/
wherof
the
werke
was
so
meruaylous
that
it
gaue
not
onely
remembraunce
of
hym
that
it
was
made
for
/
But
it
was
meruayle
of
the
subtylnesse
of
the
werke
men
.
The
fyrst
werke
man
to
perfourme
this
werke
that
was
called
Itrayre
made
the
hyghnesse
of
the
sepulture
to
be
lyfted
vp
by
.lx.
degrees
.
And
after
came
the
syxte
werke
man
named
Pychys
the
whiche
wrought
a
charyote
of
marble
/
and
set
it
in
the
hyghnesse
of
the
buyldynge
.
This
werke
was
soo
meruaylous
that
it
was
called
one
of
the
.vij.
meruayles
of
the
worlde
.
And
in
so
moche
that
it
was
made
for
the
kynge
Mansolee
/
the
werke
toke
his
name
and
was
called
Mansolee
.
And
for
that
/
that
it
was
the
moost
solempne
sepulture
that
euer
was
made
for
kynge
or
for
prynce
.
All
other
sepultures
of
kynges
and
prynces
haue
ben
called
syth
mansolees
.
And
thus
appered
wel
in
dede
and
in
sygne
that
the
true
loue
dured
all
the
whyle
she
lyued
.
¶
Of
Argyne
doughter
of
the
kynge
Adrastus
.
Capitulo
.xvij.
O
The
grete
loue
proued
that
Argyne
had
/
doughter
to
Adrastus
kynge
of
Arge
towarde
her
housbande
Polymyte
.
O
what
is
he
that
dare
saye
that
there
is
but
lytel
loue
in
a
woman
to
warde
her
husbande
/
yf
he
consyder
well
this
lady
.
This
Polymyte
that
was
the
husbande
of
Argyne
stryued
with
his
broder
Ethyocles
for
bycause
of
the
lordeshyp
of
the
royalme
of
Thebes
.
whiche
perteyued
to
hym
by
certayne
couenauntes
that
were
made
bytwene
them
/
but
as
Ethyocles
wolde
wolde
not
in
no
maner
wyse
graunt
hym
the
royalme
Polymyte
his
broder
moued
warre
agaynst
hym
to
the
helpe
of
whome
kynge
Adrastus
came
with
al
his
power
/
yet
fortune
tourned
shrewdely
ayenste
Polymyte
whiche
slewe
his
broder
/
&
his
broder
hym
in
batayle
.
And
the
hoost
bode
not
longe
on
lyue
but
onely
the
kynge
Adrastus
and
slewe
the
thyrde
parte
of
his
people
.
But
when
Argyne
kne
we
that
her
husbande
was
deed
in
batayle
.
She
departed
and
all
her
ladyes
with
her
out
of
the
cyte
of
Arge
/
and
forsoke
her
royal
see
.
And
of
that
that
she
dyde
Bacace
saythe
in
this
manere
.
The
noble
lady
Argyne
herde
say
that
the
body
of
Polymyte
her
husbande
laye
vnburyed
amonge
the
bodyes
and
caraynes
of
the
comune
people
that
there
were
slayne
.
Anone
she
full
of
sorowe
lefte
the
habyte
and
●he
ornamentes
/
the
noblesse
and
swetnesse
of
her
courte
to
dwelle
in
her
chambres
worshypfully
arayed
/
and
with
that
by
grete
desyre
/
the
brennynge
of
loue
surmounted
and
ouercame
the
feblenesse
and
womanly
tendrenesse
.
And
so
moche
she
wente
by
her
Iourneys
/
tyll
that
she
came
to
that
place
where
the
batayle
had
ben
/
on
the
whiche
waye
she
had
no
fere
of
the
busshmentes
nor
of
the
way
tynge
of
her
enemyes
/
ne
was
neuer
wery
of
longnesse
of
the
way
.
And
she
came
in
to
the
felde
/
dredynge
not
the
cruell
bestes
ne
the
grete
byrdes
sewynge
the
deed
bodyes
/
ne
the
wycked
spyrytes
whiche
after
the
lykenesse
of
dyuers
fowles
flyeth
aboute
deed
bodyes
.
And
whiche
is
a
thynge
more
meruaylous
as
Bocace
sayth
/
she
doubted
not
the
precepte
/
nor
the
commaundement
of
kynge
▪
Creonce
whiche
had
commaunded
and
made
crye
vpon
the
payne
of
losynge
of
theyr
heedes
that
none
sholde
vysyte
nor
bury
those
bodyes
whose
soo
euer
they
were
.
For
she
was
not
come
thyder
for
to
obey
to
that
commaundement
/
but
as
sone
as
she
was
aryued
/
whiche
was
aboute
the
nyght
/
she
lefte
not
for
no
stynkynge
that
came
out
of
the
caraynes
/
but
wente
with
a
grete
brennynge
&
a
sorowfull
courage
/
&
vnderset
the
bodyes
/
nowe
one
/
nowe
another
/
sekynge
for
hym
that
she
loued
so
moche
/
nowe
here
/
nowe
there
/
and
thus
she
seased
not
tyll
that
with
the
lyght
of
a
lytell
bronde
offyre
that
she
helde
in
her
hande
she
knewe
her
ryght
entyerly
beloued
husbande
/
and
so
she
founde
that
she
sought
.
O
sayd
Bocace
the
meruaylous
loue
/
the
brennynge
desyre
/
and
the
affeccyon
of
women
.
For
as
the
face
of
her
husbande
for
the
rustynesse
of
his
harnoys
halfe
eten
/
all
full
of
stynkynge
/
all
forbledde
/
full
of
dust
charged
with
foulenesse
/
all
pale
&
blacke
whiche
was
as
at
that
tyme
vnable
to
be
knowen
myght
be
hydde
from
this
woman
so
brennyngly
she
loued
hym
/
thus
the
stynkynge
of
the
body
&
the
foulenesse
of
the
vysage
myght
not
let
her
/
but
that
she
kyssed
hym
/
and
embraced
hym
straytely
bytwene
her
armes
.
Notwithstandynge
the
precepte
/
&
commaundement
of
kynge
Creonce
/
she
spared
not
but
that
she
cryed
with
an
hyghe
voyce
.
Alas
alas
I
haue
founde
hym
that
I
loued
so
moche
/
&
then
she
wepte
with
grete
plente
of
teeres
.
For
as
she
knewe
by
often
tymes
kyssynge
his
mouthe
that
there
was
no
lyfe
in
hym
/
and
had
wasshed
hym
with
her
teeres
al
stynkynge
/
&
often
tymes
by
grete
cryes
/
wepynges
/
&
waylynges
called
vpon
hym
fynably
as
she
sawe
that
the
soule
was
departed
fro
the
body
made
to
lyght
vp
a
grete
fyre
so
as
it
was
the
maner
there
of
buryenge
of
kynges
&
of
grete
states
/
to
that
entente
that
she
wolde
do
the
last
&
pyteous
offyce
/
put
him
in
the
fyre
with
many
sorowfull
cryes
of
whome
she
gadred
the
asshes
ryght
derely
in
a
vessel
of
golde
And
when
she
had
done
al
this
/
as
she
that
wolde
ad
uenture
her
body
to
the
dethe
for
to
venge
her
husbande
/
dyde
so
moche
/
&
put
to
suche
payne
with
the
helpe
of
other
ladyes
wherof
there
was
grete
quam
tyte
that
the
walles
of
the
cyte
of
Thebes
were
ouerthrowen
/
&
gate
the
towne
/
&
put
all
to
dethe
.
¶
Of
the
noble
lady
Egryppyne
.
Ca.
xviij
.
WEll
ought
to
be
put
amonge
these
noble
ladyes
of
grete
loue
to
theyr
housbandes
the
noble
lady
Egryppyne
dou
ghter
of
Marke
Egryppyne
&
of
Iulye
doughter
of
the
Emperour
Octauyan
lorde
of
all
the
worlde
.
And
as
this
noble
lady
was
gyuen
in
maryage
to
Bermanyce
the
ryght
noble
prynce
/
well
manered
/
wyse
/
and
an
encreaser
and
multeplyer
of
the
comune
profyte
of
Rome
.
Tybere
the
Emperour
whiche
was
of
euyll
condycyons
/
toke
suche
enuye
of
the
welthe
that
he
herde
of
Bermanyce
husbande
of
the
sayd
lady
Egryppyne
/
and
of
that
that
euery
man
loued
hym
/
that
he
lete
make
watche
vpon
hym
&
●lewe
hym
/
of
whose
dothe
his
good
wyfe
had
suche
sorowe
that
she
wolde
in
lyke
wyse
be
slayne
/
and
that
semed
ryght
wel
.
For
she
withdrewe
not
to
say
grete
vylanyes
to
Tybere
/
For
the
whiche
he
made
her
to
be
beten
&
tourmented
cruelly
/
and
put
her
in
pryson
.
But
as
she
that
the
sorowe
of
her
housbande
myght
not
forgete
/
loued
better
the
dethe
than
the
lyfe
/
purposed
neuer
to
ete
nor
drynke
/
but
this
purpose
came
to
the
tyraunt
Tybere
to
tourment
her
longer
/
and
wolde
constrayne
her
by
tourmentes
that
she
sholde
ete
/
but
it
auayled
not
.
So
he
wolde
by
strengthe
make
to
caste
the
mete
in
to
the
stomake
.
But
she
shewed
well
to
hym
that
he
hadde
puyssaunce
to
make
folke
to
be
slayne
/
but
not
to
kepe
them
from
dethe
yf
they
wolde
.
For
thus
she
ended
her
dayes
.
¶
Here
Xp̄ine
speketh
/
and
ryght
wysnes
answereth
gyuynge
ensamples
of
the
noble
lady
Iulye
doughter
of
Iulyus
Cesar
/
wyfe
of
the
prynce
Pompee
.
Capitulo
.xix.
WHen
that
my
lady
ryghtwysnes
sayd
to
me
these
wordes
.
I
replyed
her
in
suche
maner
.
Madame
truely
it
seme
th
me
to
be
grete
honoure
to
the
kynde
of
women
to
here
tell
of
so
many
excellent
ladyes
.
And
amonge
other
vertues
of
them
ought
to
be
ryght
agreable
to
al
people
/
that
so
grete
loue
may
be
in
the
herte
of
a
woman
in
the
bonde
of
maryage
.
Nowe
let
them
slepe
and
holde
theyr
peas
this
Matheolus
and
all
other
Ianglers
that
enuyously
and
lyengly
haue
spoken
agaynst
women
.
But
madame
yet
me
thynketh
that
the
phylosophre
Phylostratus
of
who
me
I
haue
spoken
here
aboue
sayth
that
these
women
hateth
theyr
husbandes
when
they
be
olde
/
&
also
that
they
loue
not
these
connynge
men
that
be
clerkes
.
For
he
sayth
that
the
charges
hat
one
ought
to
haue
in
daungers
of
women
/
&
the
studyenge
of
bokes
ben
contrary
togyder
.
¶
Answere
.
O
dere
frende
holde
thy
peas
/
I
haue
anone
founde
the
ensamples
contrary
to
theyr
sayenge
/
by
the
whiche
we
shal
holde
them
as
no
sayenges
true
.
¶
Iulye
was
in
her
tyme
the
moost
noblest
of
the
ladyes
of
Rome
doughter
of
Iulyus
Cesar
whiche
was
syth
Emperoure
of
Rome
and
of
Coruylle
his
wyfe
comynge
downe
fro
Eneas
of
Troye
.
This
lady
was
wyfe
of
Pompee
the
grete
conqueroure
the
whiche
as
Bocace
sayth
in
ouercomynge
the
kynges
/
in
puttynge
downe
/
in
makynge
agayne
of
other
in
puttynge
vnder
subieccyon
dyuers
nacyons
in
destroyenge
theues
of
the
see
/
hauynge
the
fauoure
of
Rome
of
all
the
kynges
in
the
worlde
/
in
crettynge
the
lordshyppes
/
not
onely
of
the
landes
/
but
also
of
the
see
and
caues
by
meruayllous
vyctoryes
in
souerayne
worshyp
was
than
waxen
olde
and
sore
brused
.
But
not
for
that
the
noble
lady
Iulye
his
wyfe
whiche
was
but
yonge
as
yet
/
loued
him
of
soo
grete
loue
that
she
ended
her
lyfe
by
a
straunge
aduenture
.
For
as
it
happened
in
a
day
that
Pompee
had
deuocyon
to
gyue
praysynge
to
goddes
that
he
had
goten
by
noble
vyctoryes
and
wolde
do
sa
crefyse
after
the
custome
of
that
countre
.
And
as
the
beest
sacryfyed
was
vpon
the
awter
/
&
Pompe
as
by
deuocyon
helde
hym
by
that
one
syde
/
his
robe
was
soylled
with
the
blode
yssuynge
oute
of
the
wounde
of
the
beest
/
wherfore
Pompe
dyde
of
his
robe
&
sente
it
home
by
one
of
his
seruauntes
/
&
for
to
brynge
another
clene
&
fresshe
.
So
it
happened
by
an
euyll
fortune
that
he
that
bare
the
robe
mette
with
Iulye
the
wyfe
of
Pompe
the
whiche
when
she
sawe
the
robe
of
her
lorde
so
soyled
with
blode
/
then
for
that
that
she
knewe
wel
that
dyuers
tymes
it
happened
in
Rome
that
to
them
that
were
the
best
/
one
wolde
renne
vpon
hym
for
enuye
&
sle
hym
wherwith
she
was
supprysed
sodaynly
by
the
sygne
that
she
sawe
of
certayne
byleuynge
that
it
had
happened
soo
to
her
husbande
by
some
fortune
/
by
whiche
suche
sodayne
sorowe
toke
her
at
the
herte
that
as
she
that
wolde
no
longer
lyue
/
she
beynge
grete
with
chylde
fell
flatte
to
the
erthe
/
pale
and
styffe
/
&
the
eyen
tourned
in
her
heed
/
that
there
myght
noo
remedy
be
had
soo
sone
to
put
her
oute
of
that
drede
/
but
that
she
yelded
vp
the
spyryte
/
whiche
dethe
by
reason
ought
to
be
grete
sorowe
to
the
husbande
.
But
it
was
not
onely
preiudycyable
to
hym
nor
to
the
Romaynes
/
but
it
was
also
to
all
the
worlde
of
the
tyme
.
For
yf
she
&
her
sone
had
lyued
/
the
grete
werre
had
neuer
ben
that
was
syth
bytwene
Iulyus
Cesar
and
Pompe
/
the
whiche
warre
was
preiudycyable
to
all
the
londes
of
the
worlde
.
¶
Of
the
noble
lady
Tyerce
Emulyene
.
Ca.
xx
.
THe
fayre
and
good
Tyerce
Emulyene
wyfe
of
prynce
Scypyon
the
fyrste
Affrycan
hated
not
her
husbande
also
thoughe
he
were
olde
.
This
lady
was
of
grete
prudence
&
ryght
vertuous
/
&
as
her
husbande
was
olde
/
&
she
yet
fayre
&
yonge
▪
that
notwithstandynge
he
laye
with
a
bonde
woman
whiche
was
her
seruaunt
/
&
so
often
it
fell
that
this
worshypfull
lady
perceyued
it
.
She
not
withstandynge
that
her
herte
was
sorowfull
v●ed
the
vertue
of
her
grete
vnderstandynge
/
and
not
onely
of
the
passyon
of
Ialousye
.
For
she
dyssymyled
so
wysely
that
her
husbande
ne
none
other
herde
her
ne
uer
speke
of
it
.
For
she
wolde
not
telle
it
to
hym
for
that
that
he
sholde
seme
that
it
were
shame
to
hym
that
she
sholde
reproue
so
wyse
&
so
grete
a
man
as
he
was
&
to
make
mencyon
therof
to
o●y
other
.
For
the
sholde
be
a
maner
of
repreffe
&
losynge
of
the
praysynge
so
wyse
a
man
/
&
ayenst
the
honoure
of
his
persone
/
whiche
had
conquered
so
many
royalmes
&
Empyres
.
Soo
she
neuer
lefte
hym
this
good
lady
▪
to
serue
hym
truely
/
to
loue
hym
/
and
worshyp
hym
.
And
when
he
was
deed
/
she
made
the
mayden
fre
and
wedded
her
to
a
free
man
.
¶
And
I
Xp̄ine
answered
.
Then
truely
madame
to
this
purpose
the
ye
saye
/
I
haue
sene
often
tymes
women
in
lyke
case
whiche
for
ony
thynge
that
they
knewe
/
wolde
not
saye
thoughe
they
knewe
well
that
theyr
husbanddes
had
them
but
in
lytell
loue
/
and
yet
they
loued
them
/
and
made
them
good
chere
/
&
releued
them
/
and
comforted
them
of
whome
they
had
chyldren
before
.
And
also
I
haue
herde
say
of
a
lady
of
Bry
tayne
that
lyued
but
late
/
&
was
countesse
of
Coemen
whiche
was
in
the
floure
of
her
youthe
fayre
aboue
all
the
ladyes
.
And
by
her
grete
goodnesse
/
and
constaunce
she
dyde
the
same
.
¶
Of
Uancyppe
wyfe
of
the
phylosopre
Socrates
.
Capitulo
.xxj.
VAncyppe
the
ryght
noble
lady
a
woman
of
grete
connynge
and
bounte
/
so
she
had
to
husbande
the
grete
phylosophre
Socrates
.
And
notwithstandynge
that
he
was
in
grete
age
/
&
that
he
had
grete
charge
to
serche
and
tourne
the
bokes
to
pourchace
for
his
wyfe
softe
thynges
and
curyous
/
the
worshypful
woman
lefte
ne
uer
to
loue
hym
/
but
trowed
that
it
was
so
grete
a
thynge
the
excellent
vnderstandynge
/
&
the
grete
vertue
of
hym
/
and
of
his
constaunce
/
that
she
had
hym
in
souerayne
loue
&
reuerence
.
And
when
this
woman
knewe
that
her
husbande
was
condempned
to
the
dethe
by
them
of
Athenes
for
that
that
he
blamed
them
that
they
worshypped
the
ydolles
/
&
sayd
that
there
was
not
but
one
god
that
ought
to
be
worshypped
&
serued
.
This
noble
lady
myght
not
haue
pacyence
of
this
thynge
but
fledde
/
her
heere
hangynge
aboute
her
chekes
/
full
of
sorowe
/
wepynge
/
&
betynge
at
the
palays
gate
where
her
housbande
was
/
and
there
she
founde
hym
amonge
the
false
Iuges
whiche
hadde
taken
to
hym
a
venymous
drynke
to
shorten
his
lyfe
/
and
when
it
came
to
the
poynte
that
Socrates
wolde
put
the
cuppe
to
his
mou
the
to
drynke
the
venyme
/
she
wente
to
hym
with
a
grete
wrathe
and
raced
the
cuppe
out
of
his
hande
and
threwe
it
all
togyder
on
the
erthe
/
but
Socrates
repreued
her
/
&
counsayled
her
to
haue
pacyence
/
and
comforted
her
.
And
when
she
myght
not
let
hym
in
no
wyse
fro
that
dethe
/
she
sorowed
strong
ly
and
sayd
.
Ha
what
harme
and
what
losse
is
it
/
to
make
so
Iuste
a
man
to
dye
wrongefully
&
synfully
.
And
Socrates
alway
comforted
her
/
&
sayd
to
her
/
that
it
was
better
that
he
sholde
dye
wrongfully
/
then
ryghtfully
/
and
so
he
passed
.
But
the
sorowe
ended
not
in
the
herte
of
her
that
loued
hym
so
moche
all
her
lyfe
.
¶
Of
Pompe
Paulyne
/
wyfe
of
Seneke
Capitulo
.xxij.
THe
ryght
wyse
phylosophre
Seneke
notwithstandynge
that
he
was
ryght
olde
/
&
al
his
entent
was
in
studyeng
it
fayled
not
but
that
he
was
well
byloued
of
his
wyfe
/
fayre
&
yonge
whiche
was
named
Pompee
Paulyne
.
All
the
charge
that
this
noble
lady
had
was
to
serue
hym
&
kepe
hym
in
peas
/
as
she
that
ryght
truly
&
derely
loued
hym
/
&
when
she
knewe
that
the
tyraunt
emperour
Nero
to
whom
he
had
ben
mayster
had
condempned
hym
to
dye
/
to
be
drowned
in
a
bayne
fatte
/
then
as
she
that
became
out
of
herselfe
sorowe
/
&
as
she
that
wolde
fayne
dye
with
her
husbande
/
wente
cryenge
many
vylanyes
to
the
tyraunt
Nero
to
the
entente
that
he
sholde
stretche
his
cruelte
vpon
her
also
.
But
all
that
auayled
her
not
/
so
moche
she
sorowed
the
dethe
of
her
housbande
/
that
she
lyued
not
longe
after
.
And
I
Xp̄ine
sayd
then
to
the
lady
that
spake
to
me
.
Certes
madame
your
wordes
hathe
remembred
me
/
and
drawne
to
mynde
many
other
women
/
fayre
/
and
yonge
/
ryght
perfytely
louynge
theyr
husbandes
/
notwithstandynge
that
they
were
ryght
feble
&
olde
And
in
my
tyme
I
haue
sene
ynowe
that
haue
loued
theyr
husbandes
perfytely
/
&
hath
borne
them
true
loue
all
the
whyle
they
lyued
/
&
namely
the
noble
doughter
of
one
of
the
grete
barons
of
Brytayne
that
was
gyuen
by
maryage
to
the
ryght
worshypfull
constable
of
Fraunce
syr
Bertram
Claquyn
/
the
whiche
notwithstandynge
that
he
was
ryght
lewde
of
shap
of
his
body
and
olde
/
this
noble
lady
beynge
in
the
floure
of
her
youthe
/
whiche
toke
hede
more
to
the
grete
pryce
of
his
vertue
then
to
the
facyon
of
his
body
loued
hym
of
ryght
grete
loue
/
so
moche
that
all
her
lyfe
she
had
plente
of
sorowe
for
his
dethe
.
And
ynowe
of
other
lyke
I
myght
telle
/
whiche
that
I
lette
passe
for
shortuesse
of
tyme
.
Answere
of
that
I
leue
the
ryght
well
/
and
yet
I
shall
tell
the
of
mo
ladyes
louynge
theyr
husbandes
.
¶
Of
the
noble
Sulpyce
.
Ca.
xxiij
.
SUlpyce
was
wyfe
of
Lentylyus
Cōsulyennole
a
man
of
Rome
/
whome
she
loued
of
so
grete
loue
as
it
appered
.
For
when
he
sholde
be
condempned
by
the
Iuges
of
Rome
for
certayne
thynges
of
whiche
he
was
blamed
to
be
sente
wretchedly
into
exyle
/
&
there
to
vse
his
lyfe
poore
ly
.
The
good
lady
Sulpyce
notwithstondynge
that
she
was
in
Rome
of
ryght
grete
rychesse
/
&
myght
abyde
in
ease
&
reste
loued
better
to
folowe
her
husbande
in
his
pouerte
&
exyle
/
than
abyde
in
haboun
daunce
of
rychesse
without
hym
.
So
she
renounced
all
her
herytage
/
goodes
&
countre
/
&
dyde
so
moche
that
she
stale
away
fro
her
moder
&
cosynes
/
whiche
kepte
her
for
the
same
cause
that
she
sholde
not
go
away
.
And
in
an
vnknowne
wede
dyde
so
moche
that
she
wente
to
her
housbande
.
Xp̄ine
sayd
.
Certes
madame
it
semeth
me
by
y●
that
ye
say
of
some
wo
men
that
I
haue
sene
in
my
tyme
in
lyke
case
.
For
of
suche
I
haue
knowne
of
whom
the
husbandes
haue
become
lyppers
/
&
that
it
were
conuenyent
that
they
were
departed
fro
the
worlde
and
put
in
syke
houses
.
But
theyr
good
wyues
euermore
for
that
that
they
wolde
not
leue
them
loued
better
to
goo
with
them
for
to
serue
them
in
theyr
sykenesse
/
&
to
holde
them
the
true
faythe
&
promyse
in
maryage
than
to
byde
without
theyr
housbandes
well
at
ease
in
theyr
houses
.
And
I
trowe
I
knowe
one
that
is
yonge
/
fayre
/
and
good
/
of
whome
the
housbande
is
had
in
suspeccyon
of
suche
sykenesse
.
But
as
her
frendes
hath
warned
her
/
&
preched
to
her
to
leue
his
company
/
&
to
dwell
with
them
/
she
answered
that
the
dayes
of
her
lyfe
she
wolde
not
leue
hym
.
And
yf
they
make
it
to
be
proued
that
he
is
ataynte
of
the
sayd
maladye
/
by
whiche
it
is
conuenyent
that
he
for
sake
the
worlde
that
without
fayle
she
wolde
go
with
hym
.
And
for
that
cause
her
frendes
haue
lefte
it
to
make
a
proffe
therof
.
Also
other
women
I
knowe
that
I
leue
to
be
named
for
that
that
by
aduenture
I
sholde
dysplease
them
whiche
that
haue
housbandes
so
cursed
/
&
of
so
an
vnordynate
lyfe
/
that
the
fader
&
the
moder
of
the
woman
wolde
that
they
were
deed
And
dothe
all
that
they
may
for
to
withdrawe
the
women
to
them
from
theyr
shrewde
husbandes
/
but
they
loue
better
to
be
beten
with
many
paynes
&
to
be
in
grete
pouerte
/
and
subieccyon
with
theyr
husbandes
then
for
to
leue
them
.
And
they
saye
to
theyr
frendes
/
ye
haue
gyuen
me
to
hym
/
with
hym
shall
I
lyue
and
dye
/
and
these
thynges
be
sene
all
daye
/
but
all
people
consydereth
it
not
.
¶
Here
it
speketh
of
dyuers
ladyes
that
respyted
theyr
husbandes
fro
the
dethe
.
Ca.
xxiiij
.
OF
many
women
also
in
the
same
wyse
as
those
before
sayd
of
grete
loue
to
theyr
husbandes
I
wyll
tell
you
yet
.
¶
It
happened
after
that
/
that
Iason
had
ben
in
Coltos
to
gete
the
golden
fleece
/
that
some
of
his
knyghtes
that
he
brought
with
hym
whiche
were
of
a
countre
of
Grece
/
that
is
called
Menudye
lefte
theyr
owne
countre
and
Cyte
/
and
wente
to
dwelle
in
another
Cyte
of
Grece
that
is
called
Lacedemonye
/
soo
they
were
there
gretely
receyued
and
honoured
as
moche
for
theyr
auncyent
noblesse
as
for
theyr
rychesse
.
And
there
they
maryed
the
moost
noblest
maydens
of
the
Cyte
.
And
so
moche
they
waxed
ryche
and
mounted
in
worshyp
that
they
lyfted
vp
themselfe
in
so
grete
pryde
that
they
wolde
make
a
conspyracyon
ayenst
the
soueraynes
of
the
Cyte
/
and
so
they
dyde
to
haue
the
lordeshyp
.
So
theyr
ymagynacyon
was
knowen
/
wherfore
all
were
put
in
pryson
/
&
condempned
to
the
dethe
.
¶
Of
this
thynge
theyr
wyues
were
in
greate
sorowes
.
And
they
assembled
them
togyder
as
for
to
make
theyr
sorowes
.
So
it
was
counsayled
amonge
them
yf
ony
way
myght
be
founde
howe
they
myght
delyuer
theyr
husbandes
.
And
in
the
ende
this
was
theyr
conclusyon
/
that
in
a
nyght
they
sholde
araye
them
in
lewde
gownes
/
&
they
sholde
couer
theyr
heedes
with
mantellesas
thoughe
they
wolde
not
be
know
ne
.
And
in
suche
a
wyse
they
wente
to
the
pryson
/
&
soo
moche
they
prayed
with
wepynge
&
gyftes
to
the
kepers
of
the
pryson
that
they
wolde
suffre
them
to
go
se
theyr
husbandes
.
And
when
they
were
with
theyr
husbandes
they
gaue
them
theyr
lewde
gownes
&
toke
those
gownes
that
they
were
clothed
in
.
And
syth
put
them
out
of
the
pryson
/
and
the
kepers
trowed
that
it
were
the
women
that
had
tourned
agay
ne
.
And
when
it
came
to
the
daye
that
they
sholde
dye
the
kepers
brought
them
to
the
tourment
.
And
when
it
was
sene
that
they
were
women
eche
of
them
had
grete
meruayle
of
theyr
wyse
cauteyle
.
Soo
they
were
gretely
praysed
/
and
the
cytezynes
had
pyte
of
theyr
doughters
/
so
there
dyed
none
.
And
so
these
worshypful
women
delyuered
theyr
husbandes
fro
the
dethe
.
¶
Here
Xp̄ine
speketh
to
dame
ryght
wysnesayen
ste
them
that
sayth
that
women
can
not
kepe
noo
counsayle
.
And
the
answere
that
she
maketh
of
Porcya
.
Capitulo
.xxv.
MAdame
I
knowe
certaynely
nowe
&
also
I
haue
perceyued
that
grete
is
the
loue
/
and
the
trouthe
that
many
haue
had
and
hath
to
theyr
husbandes
And
therfore
I
haue
grete
meruayle
of
a
language
that
renneth
comunely
amonge
these
men
.
And
also
mayster
Iohn
de
Meun
affermeth
it
so
strongly
in
his
romaunce
of
the
rose
/
and
other
auctours
also
dothe
it
/
that
what
a
man
say
the
to
his
wyfe
it
maye
not
be
kepte
pryue
/
and
that
women
can
not
holde
theyr
peas
.
¶
Answere
.
Dere
frende
thou
oughtest
to
knowe
that
all
women
be
not
wyse
/
and
the
same
it
is
of
men
/
by
the
whiche
yf
a
man
haue
ony
wytte
/
he
ought
well
to
aduyse
hym
what
wytte
his
wyfe
hathe
/
and
what
goodnesse
or
he
saye
ony
thynge
that
he
wolde
haue
kepte
close
/
for
therof
myght
come
foly
.
But
when
a
man
knoweth
that
he
hath
a
good
wyfe
/
wyse
/
and
dys
crete
/
there
is
nothynge
more
trusty
in
the
worlde
nor
that
so
moche
may
comforte
a
man
.
For
dyscrecy
on
and
secretenesse
are
too
be
commended
in
ony
persone
.
And
yet
to
the
purpose
of
women
louynge
theyr
husbandes
.
There
was
late
a
man
in
Rome
ryght
notable
named
Brutus
whiche
was
maryed
to
a
gentyl
woman
named
Porcya
/
this
noble
Porcya
was
doughter
of
Chaton
the
lesse
whiche
was
neuewe
to
grete
Chaton
.
Her
foresayd
housbande
Brutus
felte
that
his
wyfe
was
ryght
wyse
/
secrete
/
and
chaste
/
tolde
her
his
entente
/
that
he
and
Cassyen
another
noble
man
of
Rome
were
in
purpose
to
sle
Iulyus
Cesar
at
the
counsayle
/
the
whiche
thynge
the
wyse
lady
aduysynge
the
grete
euyl
that
myght
come
of
it
with
al
her
puyssaunce
counsayled
hym
the
contrary
/
and
warned
hym
of
the
myschyefe
that
myght
falle
therof
/
and
myght
not
slepe
all
the
nyght
.
Then
the
morowe
comen
when
that
the
foresayd
Brutus
wente
oute
of
his
chambre
to
goo
to
perfourme
his
entrepryse
.
The
lady
whiche
wolde
full
fayne
tourne
his
purpose
toke
a
rasoure
frome
the
barboure
as
thoughe
she
wolde
haue
pared
her
nayles
/
and
lete
the
rasoure
falle
/
and
after
made
as
thoughe
she
wolde
haue
taken
it
vp
/
and
anone
she
smote
herselfe
in
the
hande
/
wherfore
her
women
that
sawe
her
so
wounded
cryed
so
pyteously
and
so
strongely
that
Brutus
tourned
agayne
.
And
when
he
sawe
her
hurte
he
blamed
her
/
and
sayd
that
it
was
not
her
offyce
to
werke
with
a
rasoure
but
of
the
barboure
.
And
she
answered
hym
that
she
had
not
done
it
soo
folyly
as
he
thought
.
For
that
that
she
had
done
was
a
purpose
to
assaye
howe
she
myght
sle
herselfe
yf
the
entrepryse
that
he
had
made
sholde
tourne
hym
to
euyll
.
But
for
all
that
he
wolde
not
leue
but
wente
anone
/
and
bytwene
hym
&
Cassyen
they
slewe
Iulyus
Cesar
.
And
anone
after
they
were
exyled
and
Brutus
was
slayne
/
notwithstandynge
that
he
was
fled
out
of
Rome
.
But
when
Porcya
his
good
wyfe
knewe
that
he
was
deed
/
her
sorowe
was
so
grete
that
she
forsoke
the
Ioye
of
her
lyfe
.
And
for
that
that
men
toke
awaye
from
her
/
her
knyues
and
all
thynges
that
she
myght
sle
her
with
.
For
folkes
sawe
wel
what
she
wolde
do
/
she
wen
te
to
the
fyre
and
toke
brennynge
coles
and
brente
her
and
dyed
.
And
by
this
waye
ended
this
noble
lady
Porcya
/
whiche
was
the
moost
straungest
de
the
that
euer
ony
dyed
on
.
¶
And
yet
of
the
same
matter
/
&
speketh
of
the
noble
lady
Curya
.
Ca.
xxvj
.
ANd
yet
I
shall
tell
the
to
that
purpose
ayenst
them
that
saye
that
women
can
not
kepe
no
counsayle
/
and
alwaye
conty
nuynge
the
matter
of
the
grete
loue
that
many
women
haue
to
theyr
husbandes
.
Curya
the
noble
Romayne
was
of
meruayllous
fayth
/
constaunce
/
wysdome
/
and
loue
towarde
Quyntus
Lucrecyus
her
husbande
.
For
when
her
sayd
husbande
/
and
other
in
lyke
wyse
sholde
be
condempned
to
the
dethe
for
a
certayne
cryme
that
was
put
vpon
them
/
&
it
sholde
come
to
his
know
ledge
that
one
sought
them
to
be
Iustyfyed
.
It
happened
hym
so
well
that
they
had
space
to
flee
.
But
for
the
fere
that
they
had
to
be
founde
/
they
wente
to
hyde
them
in
caues
of
wylde
beestes
/
&
yet
they
durst
not
abyde
there
.
But
Lucrecyus
/
by
the
good
counsayle
of
his
wyfe
parted
neuer
out
of
his
chambre
/
and
when
they
that
sought
them
came
there
/
she
helde
hym
bytwene
her
armes
in
her
bedde
/
&
she
hyd
hym
soo
wysely
that
they
neuer
perceyued
hym
.
And
after
had
hym
so
wysely
bytwene
the
walles
of
her
chambre
/
that
neuer
none
of
her
m●ynye
perceyued
it
ne
knewe
it
.
And
she
coude
so
well
kepe
his
counsayle
by
grete
cautele
and
wysdome
/
that
she
clothed
her
in
poore
clothes
/
her
heere
hangynge
aboute
her
chekes
/
al
forwepte
/
betynge
her
handes
togyder
/
wente
aboute
by
the
stretes
and
by
the
temples
and
asked
all
aboute
after
her
husbande
and
serched
yf
ony
persone
knewe
where
her
husbande
was
become
/
or
to
what
place
he
was
fled
For
my
desyre
is
to
be
felawe
with
hym
in
his
exyle
/
and
in
his
myseryes
.
And
by
this
way
so
wysely
she
coude
fayne
that
neuer
man
perceyued
it
/
&
so
she
saued
hym
.
And
with
that
she
comforted
her
housbande
full
of
sorowe
.
And
shortely
to
saye
/
so
moche
she
dyde
/
&
so
moche
she
purchaced
for
hym
that
she
delyuered
hym
not
onely
from
his
exyle
/
but
from
his
dethe
also
.
¶
yet
of
the
same
purpose
.
Ca.
xxvij
.
ANd
for
that
we
be
in
purpose
to
telle
ensamples
ayenst
them
that
say
that
women
can
not
kepe
noo
counsayle
/
truely
I
myght
tell
the
of
ynowe
of
them
without
nombre
.
But
let
it
suffyse
the
of
one
that
I
shall
tell
the
yet
.
In
the
tyme
y●
Nero
the
tyraunt
and
Emperour
reygned
in
Rome
/
there
were
certayne
men
that
consydered
that
for
the
ryght
grete
myscheues
&
crueltes
the
the
sayd
Nero
dyde
/
that
it
sholde
be
grete
welthe
&
profyte
to
take
away
the
lyfe
fro
hym
.
So
they
made
conspyracyon
ayenst
hym
/
&
were
aduysed
to
sle
hym
.
These
same
men
repayred
al
to
the
house
of
one
woman
in
the
whiche
they
trusted
so
moche
that
they
spared
not
saye
the
dede
of
theyr
conspyracyon
before
her
.
And
as
it
happened
in
an
euenynge
tyde
that
they
were
aduysed
to
put
to
effecte
in
the
mournynge
theyr
entrepryse
they
souped
with
the
sayd
wo
man
/
and
they
kepte
them
not
wysely
fro
spekynge
/
by
the
whiche
by
mysaduenture
/
there
were
so
me
that
herde
them
/
whiche
for
to
flatter
and
to
haue
grace
of
the
Emperoure
wente
&
tolde
hym
what
they
herde
them
say
/
by
the
whiche
they
were
not
so
soone
departed
from
the
sayd
woman
but
that
the
sergeauntes
of
the
Emperoure
came
to
the
womans
house
/
but
bycause
that
they
founde
not
the
men
there
that
conspyred
thus
the
dethe
of
the
emperour
they
toke
the
woman
and
ledde
her
before
the
Emperoure
whiche
enquyred
gretely
of
this
matter
.
But
he
coude
neuer
doo
so
moche
by
gyuynge
of
grete
gyftes
/
nor
by
promyse
/
nor
by
force
of
tourmentes
/
of
whiche
he
spared
none
that
he
myght
knowe
of
this
woman
what
men
they
were
/
ne
that
she
knewe
ony
thynge
of
suche
matters
/
and
thus
this
woman
was
meruayllously
proued
bothe
secrete
and
constaunte
.
¶
Proues
ayenst
them
that
say
that
a
man
is
but
lewde
that
byleueth
the
counsayle
of
his
wyfe
/
or
taketh
ony
hede
therto
.
Ca.
xxviij
.
MAdame
by
these
reasons
that
I
vnder
stande
of
you
&
by
that
that
I
se
so
moche
wyt
&
welthe
to
be
in
a
woman
/
I
meruayle
that
/
that
dyuers
men
saye
/
that
these
men
ben
lewde
fooles
that
byleue
&
gyueth
credence
to
the
counsayle
of
theyr
wyues
.
¶
Answere
.
I
haue
sayd
to
the
before
that
all
wo
men
be
not
wyse
.
But
those
that
haue
wyues
/
good
/
and
wyse
dothe
grete
foly
when
they
byleue
them
not
/
so
as
thou
mayste
se
by
that
that
I
haue
sayd
to
the
before
.
For
yf
Brutus
had
byleued
Porcy
a
his
wyfe
as
for
sleynge
of
Iulyus
Cesar
he
hadde
not
be
slayne
hymselfe
ne
the
euyll
had
not
happened
that
felle
.
And
for
that
that
we
be
entred
in
to
this
purpose
.
I
shall
tell
the
of
dyuers
to
whome
it
hath
happened
euyll
in
the
same
wyse
that
they
byleued
not
theyr
wyues
.
And
also
I
shall
tell
the
after
of
dyuers
to
whome
it
hathe
well
happened
/
that
they
byleued
theyr
wyues
.
yf
Iulyus
Cesar
of
whome
we
haue
spoken
/
had
byleued
the
ryght
wyse
&
good
woman
/
whiche
by
many
tokens
that
she
had
sene
apperynge
/
that
betokened
the
dethe
of
her
husbande
/
and
the
horryble
dreme
that
she
had
the
nyght
before
by
the
whiche
she
counsayled
hym
to
tourne
his
purpose
that
he
sholde
not
come
at
the
counsayle
that
daye
/
yf
he
had
not
come
there
/
he
had
not
ben
slayne
.
Also
in
the
same
wyse
Pompe
that
had
wedded
Iulye
the
doughter
of
Iulyus
Cesar
as
I
haue
sayd
before
.
And
after
her
he
wedded
another
noble
lady
named
Cornelya
/
whiche
to
the
purpose
abouesayd
loued
hym
so
moche
that
for
none
euyll
fortune
that
happened
hym
wolde
not
leue
hym
.
And
also
when
he
was
constrayned
to
fle
by
the
see
after
the
batayle
in
whiche
he
was
dyscom
fyted
by
Iulyus
Cesar
/
the
good
lady
was
alway
with
hym
/
&
bare
hym
company
in
al
his
perylles
And
when
he
aryued
in
the
kyngdome
of
Egypte
and
that
Tholomee
the
kynge
of
that
countre
made
semblaunte
by
treason
that
he
had
Ioye
of
his
comynge
/
sente
his
people
before
hym
as
thoughe
they
sholde
receyue
hym
with
Ioy
/
and
that
was
for
to
sle
hym
/
the
whiche
people
sayd
to
hym
that
he
sholde
entre
in
to
theyr
shyppes
&
that
he
sholde
leue
his
people
to
that
entente
that
they
myght
brynge
theyr
vesselles
to
the
porte
more
lyghtely
.
But
when
he
wolde
haue
entred
in
to
theyr
shyppes
his
good
and
wyse
wyfe
Cornylle
counsayled
hym
the
contrary
that
he
sholde
not
go
in
to
ony
nor
to
put
his
people
away
from
hym
.
And
when
she
sawe
that
he
wolde
not
byleue
her
/
nor
do
by
her
counsayle
/
she
wolde
haue
gone
in
to
the
shyp
with
hym
/
but
he
wolde
not
suffre
her
/
and
made
her
to
be
holden
with
strengthe
/
then
began
her
sorowe
that
neuer
fayled
after
all
the
dayes
of
her
lyfe
.
For
he
was
not
ferre
from
her
/
but
she
had
alwaye
her
beholdynge
after
hym
/
and
there
she
sawe
the
traytours
murther
hym
within
the
shyp
.
For
the
whiche
she
wolde
haue
drowned
herselfe
in
the
see
yf
she
had
not
ben
kepte
with
strengthe
.
¶
Also
as
it
happened
myscheuously
to
Ector
of
Troye
.
For
as
the
nyght
before
that
he
was
slayne
Adromatha
his
wyfe
had
a
ryght
meruaylous
vysyon
/
that
yf
Ector
wente
to
the
batayle
in
the
morowe
that
he
sholde
dye
with
out
fayle
/
by
the
whiche
this
lady
affrayed
of
this
thynge
/
whiche
was
no
dreme
but
a
meruaylous
prophecy
/
prayed
hym
with
Ioyned
handes
vpon
her
knees
before
hym
beryng
bytwene
her
armes
his
two
fayre
sones
that
as
that
day
he
sholde
not
come
at
the
batayle
.
But
he
dyspysed
her
wordes
/
thynkynge
that
euermore
it
semed
hym
that
it
sholde
be
reproffe
to
hym
/
that
for
the
counsayle
and
wordes
of
a
woman
he
sholde
leue
to
go
to
the
batayle
/
nother
for
prayer
of
fader
nor
moder
to
whom
she
hadde
prayed
to
requyre
hym
/
wolde
he
not
leue
.
wherby
it
happened
hym
as
it
is
sayd
before
.
For
he
was
slayne
by
Achylles
/
therfore
it
had
ben
better
that
he
had
byleued
her
.
¶
Of
case
infynyte
I
myght
tell
that
of
men
to
whom
it
happened
full
euyl
by
dyuers
maners
that
they
dysdeyned
not
to
byleue
the
counsayle
of
theyr
good
&
wyse
wyues
.
But
yf
ony
euyll
come
to
them
that
dyspyseth
theyr
counsayles
/
those
women
ought
not
to
be
blamed
.
¶
Here
it
speketh
of
them
that
there
is
good
comynge
of
it
that
byleueth
that
counsayle
of
theyr
wyues
/
and
gyueth
ensample
of
dyuers
ladyes
.
Ca.
xxix
.
OF
them
to
whome
it
hathe
fortuned
well
by
the
byl●uynge
of
the
counsayle
of
theyr
wyues
/
I
shall
tell
the
of
some
and
let
it
suffyse
the
for
a
proffe
.
Soo
moche
I
myght
say
that
the
processe
sholde
be
without
ende
.
And
lette
that
auayle
the
whiche
is
sayd
before
of
many
that
maye
serue
to
the
same
purpose
.
¶
The
Emperoure
Iustynyan
of
whome
it
is
sayd
before
had
a
baron
with
hym
that
he
helde
hym
as
a
felawe
/
and
loued
hym
as
hymselfe
/
and
was
called
Bellyfere
whiche
was
ryght
a
worthy
knyght
.
So
the
Emperoure
had
made
hym
mayster
&
gouernoure
of
his
cheualry
&
made
hym
to
syt
at
his
table
serued
as
hymselfe
And
to
say
also
he
shewed
hym
many
sygnes
of
loue
that
the
barons
had
grete
enuye
therof
.
In
soo
moche
that
they
sayd
to
the
Emperour
/
that
he
entended
to
slee
hym
/
and
to
take
the
Empyre
vpon
hym
.
The
Emperour
byleued
this
thynge
to
sone
&
to
fynde
the
way
couertely
howe
that
he
myght
make
hym
to
dye
.
Then
he
commaunded
that
he
sholde
go
fyght
ayenst
a
people
that
was
called
the
Uoendres
where
as
no
man
myght
haue
the
better
for
the
grete
strengthe
that
they
were
of
/
when
Bellyfere
vnderstode
this
commaundement
and
knewe
well
that
the
Emperour
charged
hym
not
with
this
thynge
but
yf
he
had
be
fallen
out
of
his
grace
/
and
benyuolence
.
So
he
was
so
meruayllously
sorowfull
that
he
myght
not
be
more
.
And
wente
home
to
his
house
.
When
his
wyfe
whiche
was
called
Antonye
/
&
was
syster
to
the
Empresse
/
sawe
her
husbande
lye
vpon
his
bedde
pale
&
pensyfe
/
and
the
eyes
full
of
teeres
/
she
that
had
grete
pyte
of
hym
demaunded
hym
so
moche
that
with
grete
payne
he
tolde
her'the
cause
of
his
sorowe
/
&
when
the
lady
vnderstode
it
then
she
made
semblaunt
to
be
ryght
Ioyous
and
comforted
hym
and
sayd
Syr
haue
ye
none
other
thynge
that
dyscomforteth
you
but
this
.
And
yt
is
to
vnderstande
that
the
faythe
of
Ihesu
cryst
was
as
yet
but
ryght
newe
.
And
therfore
the
good
lady
whiche
was
a
cry
sten
woman
began
to
saye
/
haue
ye
trust
in
Ihesu
cryste
that
was
crucyfyed
/
and
ye
shall
haue
the
hygher
hande
of
your
enemyes
with
the
helpe
of
hym
.
And
thoughe
the
enuyous
wolde
noye
you
/
ye
shall
do
soo
moche
by
your
worthynesse
that
ye
shall
yelde
them
lyers
of
that
that
they
saye
.
So
byleue
me
well
and
dyspyse
not
my
wordes
/
and
lette
all
your
hope
be
in
god
/
and
I
promyse
you
that
ye
shall
ouer
come
them
.
And
be
well
ware
that
ye
shewe
noo
maner
semblaunt
to
haue
ony
dyspleasaunce
of
this
thynge
/
&
that
no
man
se
you
sory
/
but
ryght
Ioyfull
/
as
he
that
is
well
contente
.
And
ye
shal
assemble
your
hoost
in
the
hastyest
wyse
that
ye
maye
/
&
beware
also
that
no
man
knowe
at
what
porte
ye
wyll
aryue
.
And
also
loke
that
ye
haue
shyppes
y●owe
/
and
then
parte
your
hoost
in
to
two
partes
as
soone
as
ye
maye
secretly
with
one
partye
entrynge
in
to
Auffryke
/
and
anone
renne
vpon
your
ene
myes
/
and
I
shall
haue
that
other
partye
of
youre
people
with
me
/
and
we
shal
aryue
by
the
see
at
an
hauen
.
And
I
tell
you
that
they
shall
abyde
to
gyue
you
batayle
/
and
we
shall
entre
in
to
that
other
parte
in
townes
&
cytees
/
and
we
shall
put
theym
all
to
the
dethe
/
and
brenne
and
destroy
all
that
they
fynde
.
Bellyfere
byleued
well
this
counsayle
of
his
wyfe
/
soo
he
dyde
as
a
wyse
man
.
For
more
ne
for
lesse
that
she
had
sayd
he
ordeyned
hym
on
his
waye
/
of
the
whiche
it
came
so
well
to
passe
/
that
he
ouercame
his
enemyes
and
put
them
vnder
subieccyon
/
and
toke
the
kynge
of
Uoendres
/
&
so
he
had
this
noble
voctory
by
the
counsayle
&
wytte
of
his
worshypfull
wyfe
/
and
then
the
Emperour
loued
hym
better
than
euer
he
dyde
before
.
¶
Also
kynge
Alexander
had
not
in
despyte
the
wordes
of
the
quene
his
wyfe
that
was
doughter
of
Dayre
kynge
of
Per
se
/
when
the
sayd
Alexander
felte
that
he
was
em
poysoned
by
his
seruauntes
/
and
of
the
grete
soro
we
that
he
felte
he
wolde
go
cast
hymselfe
in
a
ryuere
to
ende
his
lyfe
the
sooner
.
And
the
good
lady
that
wente
ayenst
hym
thoughe
she
had
ryght
grete
so
rowe
toke
hym
/
&
comforted
hym
/
&
sayd
to
hym
that
he
sholde
tourne
agayne
/
&
sholde
laye
hym
in
his
bedde
.
And
she
wolde
speke
to
his
barons
/
&
wolde
make
his
ordynaunce
as
was
perteynynge
to
suche
a
prynce
.
For
it
sholde
be
a
grete
losynge
of
his
worshyp
yf
one
myght
say
after
that
ympacyence
had
ouercome
hym
..
So
he
byleued
his
wyfe
/
and
by
her
counsayle
made
his
ordynaunces
.
¶
Here
it
speketh
of
the
grete
welthe
that
is
come
to
the
worlde
and
euery
daye
cometh
by
the
cause
of
women
.
Ca.
xxx
.
MAdame
I
se
infynyte
welthes
come
to
the
worlde
by
women
.
And
alwaye
these
men
say
that
there
is
none
but
it
cometh
by
them
.
¶
Answere
.
Fayre
frende
thou
mayst
se
by
that
that
I
haue
sayd
to
the
longe
ago
that
the
contrary
that
they
saye
is
true
.
For
there
is
no
man
that
may
so
me
the
grete
welthe
that
is
come
to
the
worlde
by
women
/
and
euery
daye
cometh
I
haue
proued
to
the
by
the
noble
ladyes
that
hathe
brought
to
the
worlde
scyences
and
craftes
.
But
yf
it
suffyse
the
not
that
I
haue
sayd
to
that
of
temporall
welthes
that
ben
come
by
them
.
I
shal
tell
the
of
that
spyrytualles
.
O
howe
is
euery
man
so
vnkynde
that
he
forgeteth
that
by
women
the
gate
of
paradyse
was
opened
to
vs
that
is
by
the
vyrgyne
Mary
/
what
gretter
welthe
may
one
desyre
and
that
god
is
made
man
as
I
haue
sayd
to
the
before
.
And
who
may
forgete
the
grete
welthes
that
the
moders
do
to
the
chyldren
/
and
women
to
all
men
and
to
all
the
worlde
.
I
praye
them
that
they
wolde
not
forgete
the
welthes
that
toucheth
of
whens
they
be
spyrytuall
.
And
let
vs
beholde
in
the
olde
lawe
of
Iewes
yf
thou
wylte
beholde
the
hystory
of
Moyses
to
whome
god
gaue
the
lawe
of
the
Iewes
wryten
.
Thou
shalte
fynde
that
by
a
woman
that
same
holy
prophete
by
whome
came
so
many
grete
welthes
was
respyted
frome
dethe
as
I
shall
telle
the.
¶
In
the
tyme
that
the
Iewes
were
in
the
thraldome
of
the
kynge
of
Egypte
there
sholde
a
man
be
borne
of
the
Ebrues
that
sholde
defende
the
chyldren
of
Israell
from
the
bondage
of
them
.
So
it
happened
when
that
Moyses
that
noble
duke
was
borne
of
his
moder
,
whiche
durste
not
nourysshe
hym
was
constrayned
to
put
hym
in
a
lytell
basket
&
put
hym
in
to
the
ryuere
.
So
it
happened
as
god
wolde
that
he
sholde
be
saued
/
y●
Chermyche
the
doughter
of
kynge
Pharao
sported
her
vpon
the
ryuere
that
tyme
the
the
basket
f●oted
vpon
the
water
by
the
whiche
anone
she
made
to
take
it
vp
for
to
saue
that
she
hadde
goten
.
And
when
she
sawe
that
it
was
a
chylde
/
and
soo
fayre
that
noo
fayrer
myght
be
sene
she
had
a
meruaylous
grete
Ioy
.
So
she
made
it
to
be
nourysshed
/
and
sayd
that
it
was
her
chylde
.
And
for
that
y●
by
myracle
he
wolde
not
souke
no
woman
of
a
straunge
lawe
/
she
made
it
to
souke
and
to
be
nourysshed
by
a
woman
of
the
Ebrues
.
This
Moyses
chosen
of
god
when
he
was
of
age
/
it
was
he
to
whome
god
gaue
the
lawe
and
that
drewe
the
chyldren
of
Israell
out
of
the
hondes
of
the
Egyptyens
/
and
passed
the
reede
see
&
was
duke
&
conduytoure
of
the
chyldren
of
Israel
.
And
thus
came
so
grete
welthe
to
the
Iewes
by
the
cause
of
this
woman
that
saued
hym
.
¶
Of
Iudyth
that
noble
lady
.
Ca.
xxxj
.
THe
noble
lady
and
wydowe
Iudyth
saued
the
people
of
Israell
frome
perysshynge
/
in
the
tyme
that
the
seconde
Nabugodonosor
had
sente
Holophernes
duke
of
his
cheualry
vpon
the
Iewes
after
that
he
had
conquered
the
lande
of
Egypte
.
And
as
the
sayd
Holophernes
with
a
grete
puyssaunce
hadde
besyeged
the
Iewes
in
a
cyte
/
and
also
he
fared
soo
fowle
with
theym
that
they
myght
not
abyde
it
longe
/
&
had
taken
away
the
conduytes
of
water
from
them
/
and
al
theyr
vytaylles
began
to
fayle
them
.
Nowe
the
Iewes
had
no
hope
to
haue
power
ayenst
hym
/
and
they
were
as
vpon
the
poynte
to
be
taken
of
hym
that
manaced
them
gretely
/
wherfore
they
were
in
grete
sorowe
.
And
then
they
wente
to
theyr
prayers
be
,
sechynge
almyghty
god
that
he
wolde
haue
pyte
of
his
people
/
and
to
defende
them
from
theyr
ene
myes
.
God
herde
theyr
prayers
/
and
as
he
wolde
saue
all
mankynde
by
a
woman
/
he
wolde
saue
them
and
socoure
them
by
a
woman
.
In
that
cyte
was
Iudyth
than
/
the
wyse
woman
whiche
was
yet
but
yonge
and
ryght
fayre
/
but
yet
more
chaste
/
&
that
was
better
/
she
had
moche
pyte
of
the
people
that
were
in
suche
desolacyon
and
prayed
god
nyght
and
daye
that
he
wolde
socoure
them
.
And
so
as
god
enspyred
her
in
whome
she
had
grete
trust
She
aduysed
her
of
grete
herdynesse
and
in
a
nyght
she
commended
her
to
god
/
and
departed
out
of
the
cyte
she
and
her
seruaunt
/
and
wente
so
moche
tyll
that
she
came
to
the
hoost
of
Holophernes
And
when
they
that
made
the
watche
of
the
hoost
perceyued
her
grete
beaute
by
the
lyght
of
the
mone
/
they
ledde
her
anone
to
Holophernes
/
whiche
receyued
her
with
grete
Ioye
/
for
that
she
was
so
fayre
and
made
her
to
sytte
by
hym
/
and
praysed
moche
her
wytte
/
and
her
beaute
.
And
in
the
beholdynge
of
her
he
was
gretely
embraced
with
loue
and
by
grete
desyre
he
coueted
her
.
But
she
that
thought
otherwyse
prayed
god
alway
in
her
thought
that
he
wolde
her
helpe
to
perfourme
that
she
wolde
do
/
and
she
ledde
Holophernes
alway
forthe
with
fayre
wordes
tyll
that
she
sawe
her
tyme
/
when
it
was
come
to
the
thyrde
parte
of
the
nyght
Holophernes
had
gyuen
a
souper
to
his
barons
&
had
well
dronken
&
was
well
chaufed
with
wyne
&
mete
/
and
myght
abyde
no
lenger
fro
bedde
/
&
sente
for
this
good
lady
Iudyth
that
she
sholde
come
before
hym
.
And
then
he
tolde
her
his
wyll
/
&
that
tyme
she
sayd
nothynge
contrary
to
his
entente
.
But
she
sayd
that
she
wol
pray
hym
that
for
the
more
honeste
he
wolde
make
voyde
his
pauylyon
of
all
people
/
&
that
he
sholde
goo
fyrst
to
bedde
/
&
that
she
wolde
come
to
hym
with
out
fayle
aboute
mydnyght
when
all
men
slepte
.
And
thus
he
accorded
.
And
the
good
lady
put
her
to
her
payers
alway
prayenge
god
that
he
wolde
gyue
hardynes
to
her
womanly
herte
&
ferefull
to
delyuer
his
people
fro
the
felle
tyraunt
/
when
Iudyth
thought
that
Holophernes
was
on
slepe
/
she
came
stylly
&
her
mayden
with
her
/
&
herkened
at
the
dore
of
the
pauylyon
&
vnderstode
that
he
slepte
strongely
.
Then
sayd
the
lady
go
we
hardely
/
for
god
is
with
vs
.
So
she
entred
in
&
without
drede
toke
the
swerde
that
she
sawe
at
his
beddes
hede
&
drewe
hym
out
naked
&
lyfte
hym
vp
with
all
her
strengthe
&
smo
te
of
the
heed
of
Holophernes
/
without
herynge
of
ony
body
/
&
put
the
heed
in
her
lappe
/
&
as
soone
as
she
myght
she
dressed
her
towarde
the
cyte
so
moche
that
without
ony
lettynge
came
to
the
gate
&
cryed
come
come
&
open
/
for
god
is
with
vs
.
And
when
she
was
entred
in
no
man
knewe
the
way
that
was
made
of
this
aduenture
.
And
on
the
morowe
she
hanged
the
heed
vpon
a
perche
aboue
the
walles
&
all
the
people
of
the
cyte
armed
them
&
manfully
ranne
vpon
theyr
enemyes
the
whiche
were
yet
in
theyr
beddes
.
For
they
toke
no
hede
of
them
of
the
cyte
.
And
when
they
came
in
to
the
Pauylyon
of
theyr
duke
to
make
hym
aryse
hastely
/
&
there
they
founde
hym
deed
/
&
al
his
people
began
to
sparcle
So
they
slewe
&
toke
all
that
they
myght
fynde
.
And
thus
was
the
people
of
god
delyuered
fro
the
handes
of
Holophernes
by
Iudyth
the
worshypfull
lady
whiche
shall
enermore
be
praysed
gretely
in
holy
scrypture
.
¶
Of
the
worshypfull
quene
Hester
.
Ca.
xxxij
.
BI
the
noble
and
wyse
lady
quene
Hester
god
wolde
also
delyuer
his
people
from
the
bondage
of
kynge
Assuere
This
kynge
Assuere
was
of
greate
puyssaunce
aboue
al
other
kynges
in
those
dayes
.
And
posseded
many
royalmes
/
and
he
was
a
paynyme
&
helde
the
Iewes
in
seruage
And
as
the
kynge
made
to
seke
in
al
royalmes
the
moost
noble
maydens
/
the
moost
fayre
/
the
best
taught
for
to
chose
one
amonge
them
al
that
myght
plea
se
hym
best
to
be
his
wyfe
.
And
amonge
all
others
was
brought
before
hym
/
the
noble
/
good
/
wyse
/
and
fayre
/
and
loued
of
god
/
the
mayden
Hester
that
was
an
Ebrue
/
whiche
pleased
hym
moost
aboue
all
others
/
and
so
he
wedded
her
/
and
so
moche
he
loued
her
of
grete
loue
that
he
wolde
not
denaye
her
of
nothynge
that
she
wolde
requyre
hym
of
.
It
happened
on
a
tyme
after
/
that
a
false
flatterer
whiche
was
named
Naman
/
and
he
exhorted
the
kynge
ayenst
the
Iewes
/
that
he
dyde
so
moche
that
he
commaunded
all
aboute
/
where
that
euer
the
Iewes
were
founde
that
they
sholdde
be
taken
.
And
the
quene
knewe
nothynge
of
this
/
for
yf
she
had
knowne
it
/
it
wolde
haue
greued
her
euyll
that
the
people
sholde
be
so
euyll
entreated
.
Neuertheles
an
vncle
of
hers
named
Mardocheus
whiche
was
as
chyefe
of
the
Iewes
made
her
to
knowe
it
/
&
prayed
her
that
she
wolde
remedy
it
as
soone
as
she
myght
.
For
the
daye
was
shorte
within
the
whiche
that
the
sentence
of
the
kynge
sholde
be
executed
.
Of
this
the
quene
Hester
was
ryght
sory
/
soo
she
clothed
&
arayed
her
in
the
moost
noblest
wyse
that
she
myght
/
and
wente
with
her
woman
as
to
dysporte
her
in
a
gardyne
where
she
knewe
well
that
the
kynge
was
at
the
wyndowes
.
And
when
at
the
tournynge
towarde
the
chambre
of
the
kynge
as
thoughe
she
thought
not
on
hym
.
And
she
●awe
the
kynge
at
the
wyndowes
/
anone
she
fell
downe
on
her
knees
&
saluted
hym
/
&
the
kynge
to
whome
it
pleased
her
humylyte
/
&
whiche
had
grete
pleasure
to
beholde
her
grete
beaute
of
the
whiche
she
had
ynoughe
called
her
and
sayd
to
her
/
that
she
sholde
demaunde
what
thynge
she
wolde
&
she
sholde
haue
it
And
the
quene
sayd
to
hym
the
she
wolde
none
other
thynge
but
that
he
sholde
come
and
dyne
with
her
in
her
chambre
/
and
that
he
sholde
brynge
with
hym
Naman
/
and
the
kynge
graunted
her
.
And
when
thre
dayes
were
past
the
kynge
came
&
dyned
with
her
.
And
he
had
soo
agreable
chere
that
pleased
hym
well
.
And
then
he
behelde
her
countenaunce
/
her
worshyp
/
her
bounte
/
and
beaute
/
and
wolde
not
leue
her
in
peas
/
but
that
he
sholde
aske
some
maner
grete
gyfte
.
Then
she
fell
downe
at
his
feete
&
in
wepynge
she
began
to
say
/
that
she
wolde
pray
hym
that
he
wolde
haue
pyte
on
the
people
of
the
Iewes
and
that
he
wolde
not
put
them
to
so
grete
myschyefe
syth
that
he
had
put
her
in
so
grete
worshyp
.
For
it
was
grete
pyte
to
se
her
lygnage
and
them
of
her
nacyon
so
vylanously
to
be
destroyed
And
then
the
kynge
all
wrothe
answered
her
and
sayd
.
Myne
owne
lady
what
is
he
that
durste
do
it
.
She
answered
/
syr
Naman
your
prouost
make
th
it
to
be
done
/
whiche
is
here
present
.
And
to
say
it
shortely
/
the
kynge
called
agayne
his
sentence
&
Naman
was
hanged
whiche
had
caused
all
the
to
be
done
.
And
Mardocheus
vncle
to
the
quene
was
put
in
his
place
/
the
Iewes
fraunchysed
&
made
moost
priuyleged
of
ony
other
people
&
moost
had
in
worshyppe
.
And
soo
in
the
same
wyse
that
god
wolde
by
Iudyth
he
dyde
by
this
noble
quene
Hester
that
his
people
were
saued
.
And
byleue
it
not
that
these
two
ladyes
were
alone
in
the
holy
scrypture
by
whom
god
wolde
saue
his
people
dyuers
tymes
For
there
benynowe
of
others
whiche
I
leue
for
shortnes
of
tyme
as
of
Delborra
of
whom
I
haue
spoken
aboue
/
whiche
delyuered
the
people
fro
bondage
.
¶
Of
the
ladyes
of
Sabyne
.
Ca.
xxxiij
.
OF
ladyes
of
auncyent
lawe
of
paynymes
/
also
I
may
tell
the
of
many
whi
the
in
the
same
wyse
were
cause
of
sauynge
of
countres
/
cytees
/
&
townes
But
I
shall
passe
ouer
excepte
two
ensamples
ryght
notable
without
mo
/
for
all
proueth
of
them
.
¶
when
Remus
&
Romulus
had
founded
the
cyte
of
Rome
/
and
Romulus
had
peopled
the
cyte
/
and
fulfylled
it
of
knyghtes
and
men
of
armes
that
he
had
chosen
and
assembled
after
dy
uers
vyctoryes
that
he
had
/
Romulus
wo●de
fay
ne
purchace
that
they
myght
haue
wyues
to
the
entente
that
they
myght
haue
yssue
that
myght
posses
the
cyte
and
the
lordeshyp
.
But
he
wyste
not
well
howe
he
myght
do
that
he
and
his
felawshyp
myght
haue
wyues
/
and
that
they
were
maryed
/
for
the
kynges
and
the
prynces
/
and
the
people
of
the
countre
desyred
not
gretly
to
haue
affynyte
with
them
for
that
it
semed
them
that
they
were
fyerse
people
/
&
dyuers
/
&
so
they
wolde
not
gyue
them
theyr
doughters
in
maryage
.
And
therfore
Romulus
aduy
sed
of
a
grete
cautele
made
to
crye
a
●ourney
and
a
Ioustes
by
all
the
countres
/
&
that
it
pleased
the
kynges
and
prynces
and
lordes
and
all
other
people
sholde
brynge
adyes
and
damoyselles
to
●e
the
dysporte
of
the
straunge
knyghtes
.
The
daye
of
the
feest
was
come
/
and
grete
was
the
assemble
what
of
one
syde
/
what
of
that
other
.
And
thyder
came
grete
foyson
of
ladyes
and
of
maydens
to
beholde
the
playe
.
And
amonge
all
others
the
kynge
of
Sabyne
had
brought
with
hym
a
fayre
mayden●
whiche
was
his
doughter
with
all
the
ladyes
&
gentylwomen
of
that
countre
that
folowed
her
.
Thus
were
the
Ioustes
ordeyned
without
the
cyte
in
a
fayre
playne
besyde
an
hylle
.
And
the
ladyes
were
al
set
by
rowe
on
hye
vpon
the
hylle
.
There
the
knyghtes
enforced
them
one
agaynst
another
to
make
dysporte
.
¶
For
the
fayre
ladyes
that
they
sawe
encreased
theyr
hertes
in
strengthe
and
hardynesse
to
make
knyghtes
.
And
to
make
the
ta●e
shorte
when
they
had
ronne
togyder
ynoughe
/
&
Romulus
semed
that
it
was
tyme
to
do
that
they
had
ordeyned
.
He
toke
a
grete
horne
of
an
Holofaunt
&
began
to
blowe
ryght
hyghe
.
That
blowynge
and
that
token
they
entended
well
/
and
anone
lefte
the
playe
/
and
all
they
ranne
towarde
the
ladyes
/
and
Romulus
toke
the
kynges
doughter
for
he
was
gretely
smyten
with
loue
/
and
all
that
others
in
the
same
wyse
toke
eche
of
them
one
/
&
anone
they
set
them
on
theyr
horses
and
fledde
towarde
the
cyte
.
And
they
shytte
the
gates
ryght
well
and
surely
.
There
was
a
grete
crye
and
grete
soro
we
of
the
faders
&
moders
that
theyr
doughters
were
so
taken
awaye
with
strengthe
,
But
theyr
wepynge
auayled
them
not
.
Romulus
made
a
grete
feest
&
wedded
his
lady
/
&
so
dyde
all
that
others
.
Of
this
sprange
grete
warre
.
For
as
sone
as
the
kynge
of
Sabyne
myght
/
he
came
with
a
grete
hoost
vpon
the
Romaynes
/
but
it
was
no
lyght
thynge
to
ouer
come
them
nor
to
dyscomfyte
them
/
for
they
were
ryght
men
.
The
warre
endured
bytwene
them
v.
yeres
/
&
on
a
day
when
bothe
hostes
sholde
mete
togyder
&
this
thynge
was
gretely
sorowed
of
the
ladyes
of
the
cyte
that
there
sholde
be
so
grete
man
slaughter
.
And
when
this
Romulus
was
yssued
out
of
the
cyte
with
a
grete
hoost
.
The
quene
assembled
to
a
parlyament
al
the
ladyes
of
the
cyte
in
to
a
temple
/
&
then
she
whiche
was
ryght
wyse
/
good
&
fayre
/
began
thus
to
say
/
worshypfull
ladyes
of
Sabyne
/
my
ryght
dere
systers
&
felawes
/
ye
knowe
the
rauysshynge
that
was
done
on
vs
by
our
housbandes
/
for
the
whiche
cause
our
faders
&
frendes
ha
th
moued
warre
to
our
husbandes
&
our
husbandes
ayenst
them
.
So
we
may
not
in
our
parte
in
no
maner
determyne
this
mortall
warres
/
nor
to
be
mayntened
who
that
euer
wyn
the
vyctory
/
but
it
must
be
grete
p̄iudyce
to
vs
/
for
yf
our
husbandes
be
ouer
come
it
ought
to
be
to
vs
that
loue
them
as
reason
is
&
that
we
haue
chyldren
by
them
/
ryght
grete
sorowe
&
desolacyon
/
&
that
our
lytel
chyldren
sholde
be
or
phelynes
/
that
is
to
say
without
faders
.
And
yf
it
happen
that
our
husbandes
haue
the
vyctory
and
that
our
faders
and
frendes
be
deed
and
destroyed
/
certes
we
ought
to
haue
grete
pyte
that
for
vs
there
sholde
suche
myschyefe
happen
/
and
that
that
is
done
maye
be
none
other
wyse
.
And
therfore
me
semeth
it
sholde
be
grete
welthe
if
the
ony
counsayle
myght
be
founde
by
vs
that
peas
were
set
in
this
warre
.
And
yf
it
please
you
to
folowe
me
/
&
do
as
I
shall
do
I
trowe
we
shal
come
wel
to
our
entente
.
And
all
the
ladyes
answered
to
the
wordes
of
the
quene
and
sayd
that
she
sholde
commaunde
and
they
wolde
obey
.
And
then
the
quene
wente
with
her
heere
aboute
her
chekes
/
and
bare
foote
/
and
all
the
others
dyde
in
the
same
wyse
.
And
those
that
had
chyldren
bare
them
bytwene
theyr
armes
&
ledde
them
with
them
/
and
there
was
grete
foyson
of
chyldren
and
of
women
with
chylde
.
The
quene
put
herselfe
before
in
this
pyteous
processyon
and
so
they
came
to
the
felde
ryght
there
as
the
batayle
sholde
be
the
same
houre
that
they
began
to
assemble
.
And
she
wente
to
put
herselfe
bytwene
bothe
hoostes
with
all
the
company
of
ladyes
and
gentyl
women
so
that
they
myght
not
assemble
.
For
the
quene
&
al
the
other
ladyes
kneled
bytwene
them
cryenge
with
an
hyghe
voyce
.
Faders
&
frendes
/
ryght
dere
lordes
/
entyerly
byloued
housbandes
/
for
goddes
sake
make
peas
/
or
elles
sle
vs
here
/
&
let
vs
no
longer
lyue
/
when
the
housbandes
sawe
theyr
wyues
and
theyr
chyldren
bytwene
theyr
armes
It
is
no
doubte
that
they
were
gretely
abasshed
and
dysmayde
/
and
the
same
wyse
to
the
faders
to
se
theyr
doughters
it
fylled
theyr
hertesful
of
pyte
by
whiche
they
loked
one
vpon
another
&
behelde
the
pyte
of
the
ladyes
whiche
prayed
them
so
mekely
/
the
whiche
caused
bothe
partyes
to
tourne
all
theyr
wrathe
and
malyce
in
to
amourous
pyte
as
of
the
sones
to
the
fader
/
so
moche
that
they
were
constrayned
to
cast
of
theyr
harneys
on
bothe
partyes
/
and
to
embrace
eche
other
/
and
to
make
a
fynall
peas
.
Romulus
ledde
the
kynge
of
Sabyne
his
fader
in
to
the
cyte
&
gretely
worshypped
hym
and
all
the
company
.
And
thus
by
the
wosdome
&
vertue
of
this
quene
and
of
the
other
ladyes
were
the
Romaynes
and
Sabynes
saued
that
they
be
not
destroyed
.
¶
Of
Uetury
the
noble
lady
of
Rome
.
Ca.
xxxiiij
.
VEtury
was
a
noble
lady
of
Rome
/
moder
of
the
ryght
worshypful
Ro
mayne
named
Marcyan
a
man
of
vertue
and
counsayle
/
subtyll
/
and
redy
/
wyse
&
hardy
.
This
worshyp
ful
knyght
sone
of
Uetury
was
sente
by
the
Romaynes
with
a
grete
hoost
ayenst
the
Coryens
/
of
whome
he
had
the
vyctory
/
and
toke
the
fortresse
of
Uolques
/
for
the
whiche
vyctory
that
he
had
vpon
the
Coryens
/
he
was
named
Coryolus
.
Of
this
thynge
this
man
was
so
gretely
worshypped
that
he
had
all
the
gouernaunce
of
Rome
But
as
that
was
a
thynge
ryght
daungerous
to
gouerne
the
people
euery
man
after
his
entente
▪
At
the
last
the
Romaynes
were
wrothe
ayenst
hym
and
condempned
hym
to
be
exyled
/
and
was
banysshed
out
of
Rome
.
But
of
that
he
coude
ryght
well
reuenge
hym
.
For
he
wente
towarde
the
Coryens
that
he
had
dyscomfyted
before
/
and
made
them
to
rebelle
ayenst
the
Romaynes
/
&
they
made
hym
theyr
capytayne
/
&
with
a
grete
puyssaunce
came
vpon
the
cyte
of
Rome
/
&
dyde
them
moche
harme
where
so
euer
they
wente
.
The
Romayns
doubted
this
matter
gretely
/
and
for
the
peryll
whiche
they
sawe
themselfe
in
/
they
sente
messages
to
them
to
treate
for
the
peas
.
But
Marcyen
dysdeyned
not
to
here
them
/
and
as
often
as
they
sente
it
auayled
them
not
but
euermore
dyde
them
moche
harme
.
So
they
sente
to
hym
the
bysshoppes
/
&
the
preestes
all
reuested
in
vestymentes
praynge
hym
ryght
humbly
for
the
peas
/
but
it
auayled
not
.
And
then
the
Romayns
wyst
not
what
to
do
/
but
they
sente
ladyes
of
the
cyte
to
the
noble
lady
Ueturye
moder
of
Marcyen
to
praye
her
that
she
wolde
take
the
payne
to
treate
for
the
peas
vnto
her
sone
.
Then
this
good
lady
Uetury
departed
out
of
the
cyte
&
with
her
the
noblest
ladyes
of
the
towne
/
&
in
this
processyon
she
wente
to
her
sone
/
the
whiche
sone
as
a
good
knyght
as
soone
as
he
knewe
the
comynge
of
his
moder
descended
from
his
hors
&
wente
on
fote
to
mete
her
/
&
receyued
her
ryght
humbly
as
a
sone
ought
to
do
his
moder
.
And
then
as
she
began
to
praye
hym
for
the
peas
he
answered
that
it
perteyned
to
the
moder
to
commaunde
the
soue
and
not
to
praye
.
And
thus
this
noble
lady
ledde
hym
agayne
to
Rome
.
And
by
her
were
the
Romaynes
as
that
tyme
kepte
from
dystruccyon
and
thus
she
dyde
alone
/
that
all
the
hyghe
legates
of
Rome
myght
not
do
.
¶
Of
the
quene
of
Fraunce
Crotylde
.
Ca.
xxxv
.
OF
grete
welthes
that
be
come
by
wo
men
to
beholde
the
spyrytualte
as
I
haue
sayd
to
y●
before
.
Crotylde
doughter
of
the
kynge
of
Burgoyne
wyfe
of
the
stronge
Clodonne
kynge
of
Fraunce
/
was
it
not
she
by
whom
the
faythe
of
The
su
cryst
was
fyrst
brought
and
spredde
to
the
kynges
and
prynces
of
Fraunce
/
where
myght
there
be
a
better
thynge
done
than
that
was
that
she
dyde
For
as
she
was
made
lyght
with
the
fayth
of
our
lorde
.
And
she
was
a
good
lady
and
an
holy
.
She
neuer
seased
to
comune
with
her
husbande
&
pray
hym
that
he
wolde
receyue
the
faythe
/
and
be
baptysed
/
but
he
wolde
not
accorde
to
her
/
alway
this
lady
seased
not
to
pray
vnto
god
in
wepynge
and
fastynge
that
he
wolde
enlumyne
the
herte
of
the
kynge
/
in
so
moche
that
at
the
last
our
lorde
had
pyte
of
her
afflyc●yon
/
&
enspyred
the
kynge
in
suche
manere
y●
as
he
was
ones
gone
to
do
a
batayl
ayenst
the
kynge
of
Almaunce
&
the
dyscomfyture
of
the
batayle
came
vpon
hym
.
And
then
the
kynge
Clodon
soo
as
god
wolde
enspyre
hym
lyfted
vp
his
eyen
towarde
heuen
and
by
grete
affeccyon
sayd
these
wordes
.
Almyghty
god
whiche
that
the
quene
my
wyfe
byleueth
and
worshyppeth
let
thyne
infynyte
grace
shyne
on
me
this
daye
to
helpe
me
in
this
batayle
.
And
I
promyse
the
that
I
shall
receyue
thyne
holy
faythe
/
he
had
no
soner
sayd
these
wordes
but
that
the
dede
of
the
batayle
tourned
to
hym
&
had
the
playne
vyctory
.
Then
he
yelded
thankynges
to
our
lorde
and
retourned
home
with
grete
comforte
and
Ioye
/
and
receyued
baptyme
with
the
quene
and
all
his
barons
/
and
after
al
the
people
.
And
from
that
houre
vnto
this
day
our
lorde
hathe
stretched
his
grace
soo
plenteously
on
vs
that
the
faythe
fayled
neuer
syth
in
Fraunce
/
and
all
by
the
prayers
of
this
good
lady
and
holy
quene
/
ne
there
was
neuer
kynge
heretyke
worshypped
by
god
as
there
hathe
ben
of
dyuers
other
kynges
&
Emperoures
/
the
whiche
thynge
is
gretely
to
be
praysed
in
them
.
And
therfore
they
be
called
very
crysten
people
.
If
I
wolde
tell
the
all
that
grete
welthes
that
cometh
by
women
the
wrytynge
sholde
be
to
grete
.
But
yet
vpon
the
acte
that
toucheth
the
spyrytualte
/
howe
many
holy
martyrs
haue
there
ben
comforted
/
harboured
/
and
refresshed
by
women
/
wyues
/
and
wydowes
.
If
thou
wylte
rede
thou
shalte
fynde
that
it
pleased
god
that
all
for
the
moost
parte
in
theyr
aduersytees
&
martyrdomes
were
comforted
by
women
/
not
onely
the
martyres
but
also
the
appostles
saynt
Poule
and
other
/
and
in
the
same
wyse
Ihesu
cryst
was
refresshed
and
comforted
by
women
.
¶
And
the
frenss
he
men
that
haue
in
soo
grete
deuocyon
the
body
of
saynt
Denys
a
good
cause
why
/
for
he
brought
fyrst
the
faythe
in
to
Fraunce
/
haue
not
they
that
blessyd
body
/
and
the
bodyes
also
of
his
blessyd
felawes
saynt
Rust●ke
and
saynt
Elenthere
thrughe
the
helpe
of
a
woman
.
For
the
tyraunt
that
made
them
to
be
heeded
ordeyned
that
the
bodyes
sholde
be
cast
in
to
the
ryuer
of
Sayne
/
and
they
that
sholde
haue
done
it
put
the
bodyes
in
a
sacke
to
bere
it
thyder
.
and
they
were
harboured
with
a
good
woman
a
wedowe
whiche
was
named
Catule
/
the
whiche
opened
the
sacke
and
toke
out
the
holy
bodyes
&
put
in
to
the
sacke
deed
hogges
.
And
buryed
these
holy
martyres
as
worshypfully
as
she
coude
in
her
owne
house
.
And
set
wrytynge
ouer
them
to
the
entente
that
in
tyme
to
come
they
sholde
be
knowne
And
longe
tyme
after
also
by
a
woman
there
was
made
fyrst
a
chapell
in
the
honoure
of
them
.
That
was
by
my
lady
saynt
Geuenyene
tyll
vnto
that
tyme
that
the
good
kynge
of
Fraunce
Dangobert
founded
the
chyrche
that
is
nowe
there
.
¶
Here
it
speketh
ayenst
them
that
say
that
is
not
good
that
women
sholde
lerne
letters
.
Ca.
xxxvi
.
AFter
these
thynges
before
sayd
.
I
Xp̄ine
sayd
thus
.
Madame
I
se
well
that
many
grete
welthes
cometh
by
women
And
yf
ony
euyll
haue
folowed
by
ony
euyll
women
/
neuertheles
it
semeth
me
that
there
ben
many
mo
welthes
come
by
good
women
/
&
in
the
same
wyse
by
wyse
women
/
and
by
them
that
haue
lerned
scyences
/
of
whom
there
is
mencyon
made
before
/
by
the
whiche
I
meruayle
gretely
of
the
opynyon
of
some
men
that
saye
/
that
they
wolde
not
in
no
wyse
that
theyr
doughters
or
wyues
or
kynneswomen
sholde
lerne
scyences
and
that
it
sholde
apayre
theyr
condycyons
.
¶
Answere
.
Thou
mayst
se
well
by
that
that
al
the
opynyons
of
men
be
not
founded
vpon
reason
/
&
that
they
haue
wronge
.
For
it
ought
not
to
be
presumed
that
of
knowynge
the
scyence
moral
and
they
that
lerne
vertue
the
condycyons
of
them
ought
not
to
be
enpayred
by
that
/
but
it
is
no
doubte
that
they
nobled
therby
&
amended
/
howe
is
it
thought
that
he
that
lerneth
a
good
lesson
of
doctryne
sholde
enpayre
.
¶
This
thynge
is
not
to
say
ne
to
susteyne
/
I
say
not
that
it
is
good
that
a
man
or
a
woman
sholde
study
in
scyences
of
sorcery
/
or
of
suche
as
ben
forbydden
.
For
it
is
not
for
nought
that
the
chyrche
hathe
put
them
out
of
the
comune
vsage
/
but
that
the
women
apayreth
with
connynge
it
is
not
well
to
byleue
.
¶
Quintus
Ortencyus
was
not
of
the
same
opynyon
that
was
a
grete
rethorycyen
in
Rome
and
a
so
uerayne
endytoure
.
The
same
man
had
a
doughter
named
Hortence
whome
he
loued
moche
for
the
subtylnesse
of
her
wytte
/
and
made
her
to
lerne
let
tres
/
and
to
study
in
the
foresayd
scyence
of
retho●yke
/
wherof
she
lerned
soo
moche
that
not
onely
as
Boca●e
sayth
she
resembled
her
fader
by
wytte
and
good
remembraunce
and
in
all
facultes
/
but
also
of
well
pronounsynge
/
and
of
all
ordre
of
spekynge
so
well
that
he
passed
her
in
nothynge
.
And
to
the
purpose
of
that
that
is
sayd
aboue
of
welthe
that
cometh
by
women
.
The
welthe
that
cometh
by
this
woman
and
by
her
connynge
was
amonge
other
that
in
the
tyme
that
Rome
was
gouerned
by
thre
men
/
this
woman
Hortence
toke
vpon
her
to
susteyne
the
causes
of
women
and
to
demeane
that
that
a
man
durste
not
take
on
hande
/
that
was
of
certayne
charges
that
one
wolde
put
vpon
them
and
on
theyr
araymentes
in
the
tyme
of
necessytes
of
Rome
.
And
the
cloquence
of
this
woman
was
so
fayre
that
she
was
herde
with
no
lesse
wyll
than
her
fader
was
/
and
gate
her
cause
.
¶
In
the
same
wyse
to
speke
of
more
newe
tyme
without
lokynge
after
olde
hystoryes
.
Iohsi
Andry
a
solempne
legyster
of
Boloynela
Grace
/
was
not
of
the
same
opynyon
that
it
was
euyll
that
women
were
lettered
/
as
to
this
fayre
doughter
/
and
good
/
that
he
loued
so
moche
whiche
was
named
Nouuelle
made
her
to
lerne
letters
/
&
she
had
the
lawes
that
when
he
was
occupyed
in
ony
busynesse
by
the
whiche
he
myght
not
entende
to
rede
the
lessons
of
his
scolers
he
sent
Nouuelle
his
doughter
in
his
place
to
rede
to
the
scolers
in
the
thayre
/
&
to
the
entente
that
her
beaute
sholde
not
hurre
the
thought
of
them
that
she
taughte
she
had
a
lytell
curtyne
before
her
▪
&
by
suche
manere
she
fullylled
the
occupa●yons
of
her
fader
whom
he
loued
so
moche
/
that
for
to
put
the
name
of
her
in
remembraunce
made
a
notable
letter
of
a
boke
of
lawe
that
he
called
it
after
the
name
of
his
doughter
Nouuelle
.
So
there
be
not
many
men
that
be
wyse
of
the
opynyon
aboue
sayd
.
¶
Thy
fader
that
was
a
naturall
phylosophre
had
not
that
opynyo
that
women
sholde
not
lerne
letters
/
but
in
so
moche
that
he
sawe
she
enclyned
to
lernynge
as
thou
knowest
well
he
had
grete
pleasure
of
it
.
And
by
the
blame
of
thy
moder
whiche
by
the
comune
opyny
on
of
women
thou
were
taryed
in
thy
youthe
to
entre
more
in
the
depnesse
of
scyences
.
But
as
the
prouerbe
say
the
/
that
nature
gyueth
maye
not
be
taken
awaye
.
So
it
may
not
hurte
the
felynge
of
connynge
that
thou
hast
gadred
togyder
the
lytel
droppes
of
the
whiche
I
trowe
that
thou
wenest
be
not
of
lyt●ll
valure
/
but
thou
holdest
theym
in
grete
treasoure
and
without
fayle
thou
haste
cause
And
I
Xp̄ine
answered
.
Madame
that
you
say
is
as
true
as
the
Pater
noster
.
¶
Here
Xp̄ine
to
ryghtwysnesse
and
she
answereth
agaynst
them
that
sa●e
there
be
but
fewe
women
chaste
/
and
telleth
of
Susanne
.
Ca.
xxxvij
.
MAdame
to
that
that
I
se
that
these
grete
welthes
&
all
vertues
may
be
founde
in
women
.
And
whens
cometh
it
that
these
men
saye
that
there
be
but
fewe
women
chast
.
And
yf
it
be
so
/
al
other
vertues
sholde
be
as
nought
in
so
moche
the
chastyte
sholde
be
the
moost
souerayne
vertue
in
a
woman
.
But
by
that
I
haue
herde
you
say
it
is
all
other
wyse
.
¶
Answere
.
By
that
that
I
haue
sayd
to
y●
truely
and
that
thou
knowest
is
open
ynoughe
the
contrary
.
And
yet
I
thynke
to
saye
&
alwaye
shall
¶
O
of
howe
many
worshypful
ladyes
chaste
speketh
holy
scrypture
/
whiche
rather
chase
the
dethe
than
to
breke
theyr
chastyte
/
and
clennesse
of
body
and
of
thought
/
so
as
the
fayre
and
goo
Susanne
the
wyfe
of
Ioachym
that
was
a
man
of
the
lygnage
of
Iewes
ryche
and
of
grete
auctoryte
.
And
as
vpon
a
tyme
this
good
lady
sported
her
alone
in
a
gardyne
/
there
entred
to
her
two
false
olde
prestes
and
requyred
her
to
synne
with
them
/
and
she
alwaye
denyed
them
.
By
whiche
when
they
sawe
that
theyr
prayer
auayled
not
they
manased
her
to
accuse
her
to
the
Iustyce
/
and
to
put
on
her
that
she
was
founde
with
a
yonge
man
.
And
when
she
herde
theyr
manales
/
for
the
custome
was
there
that
women
founde
in
suche
case
were
stoned
to
the
dethe
she
sayd
than
enuyronned
with
anguysshe
in
euery
parte
.
If
I
do
not
that
these
men
requyre
me
I
shall
haue
corporall
dethe
.
And
yf
I
do
it
I
offende
before
the
face
of
my
creatoure
.
But
not
for
that
it
is
better
to
be
innocent
and
suffre
corporall
dethe
then
fall
by
synne
in
to
the
wrathe
of
my
lorde
god
And
then
cryed
Susanne
and
the
people
that
were
within
came
anone
/
and
to
say
shortly
so
moche
wytnesse
these
false
preestes
made
that
Susanne
was
condempned
to
the
dethe
.
But
god
whiche
prouyded
alwaye
for
his
frendes
opened
the
mou
the
of
the
profyte
Danyel
whiche
was
a
yonge
chylde
bytwene
the
armes
of
his
moder
the
whiche
when
they
ledde
Susanne
to
the
Iugement
with
grete
multytude
of
people
that
wente
wepynge
after
her
/
cryed
&
sayd
that
the
innocent
Susanne
was
Iuged
by
grete
wronge
.
So
she
was
ledde
home
agayne
&
the
false
preestes
better
examyned
were
founde
by
theyr
confessyon
culpable
.
And
the
innocent
Susanne
was
delyuered
and
they
were
Iuged
to
the
dethe
.
¶
Of
Sarra
the
wyfe
of
Abraham
.
Ca.
xxxviij
.
OF
the
chastyte
&
goodnesse
of
Sarra
speketh
the
byble
aboute
the
.xx.
chapytre
of
Genesis
.
This
woman
was
wyfe
of
Abraham
the
grete
Patryarke
Moche
good
thynge
is
there
sayd
of
her
in
holy
scrypture
whiche
that
I
leue
to
tell
the
for
shortnesse
.
But
of
her
chastyte
may
one
saye
to
the
purpose
that
we
spake
of
before
that
there
ben
fayre
women
ynowe
that
be
chaste
.
For
she
was
of
so
souerayne
beaute
that
in
her
tyme
she
passed
all
other
women
/
so
moche
that
many
prynces
coueted
her
/
but
she
was
so
true
that
she
dysdeyned
not
to
here
theym
.
wherof
amonge
all
the
others
that
coueyted
her
was
the
kynge
Pharao
/
in
soo
moche
that
he
toke
her
awaye
by
strengthe
frome
her
husbande
.
But
the
grete
goodnesse
of
her
whiche
yet
passed
her
beaute
desyred
of
god
that
she
loued
soo
tenderly
that
he
wolde
kepe
her
frome
all
maner
of
vylanyes
.
And
almyghty
god
herynge
her
petycyon
tourmented
so
moche
Pharao
and
his
people
bothe
of
body
and
of
herte
by
greuous
sykenesses
and
dyuers
vysytacyons
/
that
he
touched
her
neuer
/
and
so
was
he
constrayned
to
yelde
her
agayne
.
¶
Of
Rebecca
.
Capitulo
.xxxix.
REbecca
the
wyfe
of
Isaac
the
Patry
arke
fader
of
Iacob
/
was
not
moche
lesse
to
prayse
than
the
fayre
&
good
Sarra
.
This
Rebecca
is
meruayllously
praysed
in
holy
scripture
of
dyuers
thynges
.
And
it
is
wryten
of
her
in
the
.xxiiij.
chapytre
of
the
fyrste
boke
of
the
byble
/
that
she
was
so
good
/
wyse
/
and
honest
/
that
she
was
ensample
of
chastyte
vnto
all
women
that
knewe
her
.
And
with
that
she
bare
her
meruayllously
mekely
towarde
her
housbande
/
and
soo
symply
that
she
semed
not
that
she
was
a
lady
/
and
therfore
the
good
man
Isaac
worshypped
her
/
and
loued
her
meruayllously
well
.
¶
But
this
good
woman
Rebecca
hadde
of
almyghty
god
a
better
gyfte
than
the
loue
of
her
housbande
for
her
grete
chastyte
and
goodnesse
.
¶
For
this
noble
lady
that
was
so
moche
in
the
loue
and
in
the
grace
of
our
lorde
Ihesu
she
had
it
so
gretely
that
notwithstandynge
she
was
olde
&
●arayne
god
gaue
her
two
chyldren
in
one
wombe
whiche
was
Iacob
and
Esau
/
of
whome
came
the
lygnages
of
Israell
.
¶
Of
the
noble
woman
Ruth
.
Ca.
xl
.
OF
good
ladyes
and
chaste
I
myght
tel
the
/
of
whiche
holy
scrypture
maketh
mencyon
whiche
I
leue
for
shorten●s
Ruth
was
a
noble
lady
&
a
good
whiche
dessended
of
the
lygnage
of
Dauyd
the
prophete
.
She
was
ryght
chaste
/
and
in
lykewyse
in
her
wydowhode
of
ryght
grete
loue
to
her
husbande
as
it
appered
.
For
the
grete
loue
that
she
had
to
hym
when
he
was
deed
she
forsoke
her
ow
ne
countre
/
and
nacyon
/
and
wente
to
dwelle
and
vse
her
lyfe
with
the
Iewes
of
the
whiche
lygnage
her
husbande
came
/
and
dwelled
with
his
owne
moder
.
And
to
say
shortly
this
noble
lady
was
so
good
and
chaste
that
there
was
a
boke
made
of
her
/
and
of
her
lyfe
/
in
the
whiche
these
thynges
before
sayd
be
wryten
.
¶
Of
Penolope
wyfe
of
Ulyxes
.
Ca.
xlj
.
OF
chaste
ladyes
paynymes
there
be
founde
ynowe
ryght
good
and
worshypfull
in
dyuers
cronycles
Penolope
the
wyfe
of
prynce
Ulyxes
was
rygh
a
vertuous
lady
/
&
amonge
other
vertues
that
she
had
she
was
gretely
praysed
for
her
chastyte
/
&
many
dyuers
hystoryes
maketh
mencyon
of
her
.
For
this
lady
al
the
whyle
the
her
husbande
was
at
the
syege
before
Trope
that
endured
.x.
yeres
/
she
gouerned
her
ryght
wysely
.
And
not
withstandynge
that
she
was
requyred
of
many
kynges
and
prynces
for
bycause
that
she
was
so
fayre
/
she
wolde
not
herken
to
them
nor
here
them
speke
.
And
she
was
wyse
&
prudent
/
&
deuoute
to
her
goddes
/
&
of
fayre
&
good
behauynge
.
And
also
after
the
dystruccyon
of
Troye
she
abode
her
sayd
husbande
other
.x.
yeres
&
men
supposed
that
he
was
perysshed
in
the
see
.
where
there
were
many
pestylences
.
And
when
he
was
come
home
he
founde
her
besyeged
with
a
kynge
the
wolde
haue
had
her
by
strengthe
in
maryage
.
For
her
grete
beaute
and
chastyte
/
her
husbande
came
in
the
guyse
of
a
Pylgryme
&
enquyred
of
her
/
&
when
he
herde
good
tydynges
of
her
/
he
was
ryght
Ioyous
.
And
he
had
grete
Ioye
of
his
yonge
sone
Thelomachus
whiche
he
lefte
with
her
ryght
lytell
/
and
he
founde
hym
then
parfytely
growne
.
And
I
Xp̄ine
sayd
thus
.
Madame
by
y●
that
I
haue
herde
you
saye
/
these
foresayd
ladyes
lefte
not
to
be
chaste
thoughe
they
were
fayre
.
For
many
men
say
that
of
grete
payne
there
be
founde
ony
fayre
women
chaste
.
¶
Answere
.
Those
that
so
saye
fayleth
.
For
there
be
/
hathe
ben
/
and
shall
be
fayre
women
chaste
.
¶
Here
it
speketh
ayenst
them
that
saye
that
it
is
a
payne
for
to
fynde
ony
fayre
woman
chaste
.
Capitulo
.xlij.
MAryamyre
was
a
woman
of
Ebrue
doughter
of
kynge
Arystobolus
/
she
was
of
so
grete
beaute
that
not
onely
in
that
tyme
men
wende
that
she
had
passed
and
exceded
all
other
women
in
beaute
/
but
they
Iuged
her
that
she
was
rather
a
celestyall
ymage
&
godly
/
than
a
mortall
woman
/
and
the
fygure
of
her
was
paynted
in
a
table
and
sente
to
kynge
Anthony
of
Egypte
the
whiche
for
the
grete
meruayle
of
suche
beaute
sayd
/
&
Iuged
that
she
was
doughter
of
Iupyter
the
god
For
he
wolde
not
byleue
that
she
myght
be
engen
dred
by
a
mortall
man
.
This
lady
notwithstandynge
her
excellent
beaute
and
that
she
was
tempted
and
assayed
to
be
had
of
dyuers
grete
prynces
/
&
kynges
.
Neuerthelesse
by
grete
vertue
&
strength
of
courage
she
re●ysted
all
/
&
for
that
she
was
the
more
praysed
&
more
shynynge
in
renowne
.
And
yet
she
was
more
to
prayse
/
in
so
moche
that
she
was
wedded
ryght
euyll
/
that
is
to
knowe
/
to
Herode
Anthy
pater
kynge
of
Iewes
whiche
was
a
man
of
grete
cruelte
/
and
also
he
had
made
to
be
slayne
the
broder
of
this
good
lady
/
for
the
whiche
cause
and
many
others
that
he
dyde
to
her
she
had
hym
in
hate
.
But
for
al
that
she
lefte
neuer
to
be
a
good
woman
and
chaste
.
And
yet
with
this
it
came
to
the
knowledge
of
this
lady
that
he
had
ordeyned
that
yf
he
dyed
before
her
/
that
she
sholde
he
slayne
anone
after
to
the
entente
that
none
other
sholde
haue
the
possessyon
of
so
grete
beaute
after
hym
.
¶
Also
the
same
purpose
of
Anthony
wyfe
of
Dru
se
Tybere
broder
of
the
noble
Emperoure
Nero.
Capitulo
.
.xliij.
FOr
that
that
one
sayth
comunely
that
it
is
as
stronge
a
thynge
that
a
fayre
woman
maye
kepe
her
amonge
yonge
men
&
courtyours
desyrous
of
loue
without
takynge
/
as
it
is
to
be
amonge
the
flambes
of
fyre
without
brennynge
/
well
she
coude
defende
her
the
fayre
&
good
Anthonye
wyfe
of
Druse
Thybere
broder
of
Nero
the
Emperoure
.
This
lady
dwelled
in
the
floure
of
her
so
uerayne
beaute
&
grene
youthe
wedowe
of
Druse
Thybere
her
husbande
whiche
his
broder
Nero
had
slayne
with
poyson
/
wherof
this
noble
lady
had
so
grete
sorowe
that
she
purposed
neuer
after
to
be
maryed
/
but
to
lyue
in
chastyte
/
the
whiche
purpose
she
helde
as
longe
as
she
lyued
so
holy
that
there
was
neuer
paynyme
lady
that
had
gretter
praysynge
of
chastyte
.
So
she
dyde
of
this
thynge
soo
moche
more
to
be
praysed
as
Bocace
saythe
that
in
this
chastyte
&
contynuence
she
was
abydynge
amonge
in
the
courte
amonge
the
yonge
lusty
people
/
fresshe
&
Ioly
louers
lyuynge
courtely
.
There
she
vsed
her
lyfe
without
spotte
of
ony
blame
/
or
of
ony
maner
of
lyghtnesse
/
the
whiche
thynge
as
the
auctoure
saythe
is
worthy
too
be
lyfted
vp
in
praylynge
/
soo
as
of
a
yonge
woman
ryght
excellent
in
beaute
whiche
was
the
doughter
of
Marke
Anthonye
that
ledde
his
lyfe
full
synfully
.
But
not
for
that
the
lewde
ensamples
that
she
sawe
/
made
her
neuer
to
falle
/
but
that
she
abode
alway
in
chastyte
amonge
the
brennynge
tyres
/
and
it
was
noo
lytell
whyle
/
but
that
she
was
perseueraunt
tyll
that
she
dyed
for
age
.
Of
suche
that
were
fayre
and
chaste
lyuynge
amonge
the
worldely
people
/
and
also
in
courte
amonge
the
yonge
lusty
folkes
/
of
ensamples
I
myght
fynde
the
ynowe
and
at
this
daye
also
/
nor
doubte
the
not
but
there
ben
many
thoughe
that
the
euyll
tongues
lysteth
for
too
saye
shrewdely
.
¶
And
of
suche
good
and
chaste
ladyes
ledynge
theyr
lyues
amonge
these
worldely
people
speketh
Ualery
of
this
noble
and
worthy
lady
Sulpyce
/
the
whiche
was
of
greate
beaute
/
and
yet
she
was
named
the
moost
chaste
amonge
all
the
ladyes
of
Rome
.
¶
Here
it
speketh
agaynst
them
that
saythe
that
women
wolde
be
rauysshed
/
and
gyueth
ensamples
of
dyuers
/
and
fyrste
it
speketh
of
the
noble
and
worthy
lady
Lucresse
.
wyfe
of
Tarquyne
Collatyn
.
Capitulo
.xliiij.
THen
I
Xp̄ine
sayd
thus
.
Madame
I
byleue
it
well
that
ye
saye
/
and
I
am
sure
that
there
ben
ynowe
fayre
women
chaste
/
and
that
can
kepe
them
from
the
awayte
of
the
deceyuours
/
yet
it
greueth
me
of
that
that
many
men
say
that
women
wolde
be
rauysshed
/
and
that
it
dysplease
th
them
not
thoughe
they
saye
the
contrary
with
theyr
mouthe
.
But
it
were
a
grete
thynge
to
make
me
to
byleue
it
that
it
were
agreable
to
theym
.
¶
Answere
.
Doubte
it
not
fayre
frende
/
that
it
is
noo
pleasaunce
to
these
chaste
ladyes
of
herte
and
thought
to
be
rauysshed
/
but
it
is
to
theym
ryght
grete
sorowe
aboue
all
other
/
and
that
it
be
true
there
be
many
of
them
that
haue
shewed
it
by
fayre
ensamples
.
As
of
Lucres
the
ryght
noble
woman
of
Rome
/
souerayne
in
chastyte
amonge
all
that
ladyes
of
Rome
wyfe
of
the
noble
Tarquyne
Collatyn
/
&
as
Tarquyne
the
prowde
sone
of
the
kynge
was
taken
with
the
loue
of
this
lady
Lucres
/
and
durst
not
tell
it
her
/
for
the
grete
chastyte
that
she
was
of
/
but
dyspayred
to
come
therto
by
gyftes
or
prayer
.
So
he
thought
to
come
to
it
by
cautele
/
he
sayd
that
he
was
well
byloued
with
her
husbande
by
the
whiche
he
entred
in
to
her
house
when
it
pleased
hym
/
by
the
whiche
as
in
a
tyme
he
wolde
go
thyder
when
he
knewe
verely
that
her
housbande
was
not
at
home
/
and
she
receyued
hym
ryght
worshypfully
as
him
whiche
she
thought
was
a
ryght
good
frende
to
her
housbande
.
But
Tarquyne
whiche
thought
all
otherwyse
dyde
so
moche
that
he
entred
at
nyght
in
to
her
chambre
/
of
the
whiche
she
was
gretely
aferde
.
And
to
say
shortely
when
he
had
spoken
ynoughe
by
grete
promyses
/
gyftes
/
and
offres
that
he
myght
do
his
wyll
with
her
/
&
sawe
that
all
auayled
not
/
he
toke
his
swerde
&
manaced
her
to
●lee
her
yf
she
spake
one
worde
/
but
that
she
sholde
consente
to
his
wyll
/
&
she
answered
that
he
sholde
●le
her
hardely
for
she
loued
more
to
dye
than
to
consente
.
Tarquyne
that
sawe
that
nothynge
auayled
hym
/
aduysed
hym
of
another
grete
malyce
/
and
sayd
that
he
wolde
tell
it
openly
that
he
had
founde
her
with
one
of
her
seruauntes
/
and
to
say
shortely
she
was
so
gretely
aferde
of
this
thynge
thynkynge
that
folkes
wolde
soone
byleue
suche
a
thynge
by
the
wordes
of
hym
she
suffred
his
strengthe
.
But
yet
myght
not
Lucresse
bere
pacyentely
this
grete
dyspleasure
/
wherfore
when
it
was
daye
she
sente
to
seke
her
husbande
/
and
her
fader
and
kynnesfolke
whiche
were
the
grettest
of
Rome
/
&
when
they
were
come
to
her
she
tolde
them
with
grete
wepynges
and
waylynges
that
whiche
was
done
to
her
.
And
as
her
housbande
and
kynnes
folkes
sawe
her
in
soo
grete
sorowe
recomforted
her
/
she
drewe
a
knyfe
that
she
had
vnder
her
gowne
sayenge
/
thoughe
it
be
so
that
I
clere
me
of
this
synne
/
and
I
shewe
myne
Innocence
/
neuerthelesse
I
delyuer
me
not
from
tourment
/
nor
I
put
me
out
of
payne
/
ne
fro
hens
forthe
there
shal
neuer
woman
lyue
shamed
by
the
ensample
of
Lucresse
.
And
these
thynges
sayd
/
by
grete
strengthe
she
fyxed
the
knyfe
in
to
her
brest
/
and
fell
downe
dyenge
in
the
syght
of
her
husbande
and
frendes
.
So
they
ranne
al
as
they
had
ben
out
of
themselfe
vpon
this
Tarquyne
/
and
for
this
cause
all
Rome
was
moued
/
and
chased
the
kynge
out
of
the
towne
&
they
wolde
haue
slayne
his
sone
yf
they
myght
haue
fouude
hym
.
And
neuer
syth
there
was
no
kynge
in
Rome
bycause
of
this
grete
outrage
done
to
Lucres
/
&
as
some
say
for
bycause
of
her
there
was
a
lawe
made
that
yf
ony
man
that
rauysshed
a
woman
sholde
dye
the
whiche
lawe
is
conuenable
and
Iuste
.
¶
Of
the
same
purpose
of
the
quene
of
Gausegres
.
Capitulo
.xlv.
WEll
to
the
purpose
aboue
sayd
the
hystory
maketh
mencyon
of
the
noble
quene
&
wyfe
of
Orgyagontes
kynge
of
Gausegres
.
It
happened
in
the
tyme
when
the
Romayns
made
theyr
grete
conquestes
vpon
straungers
that
this
sayd
kynge
was
taken
by
the
sayd
Romaynes
in
a
batayle
&
his
wyfe
with
hym
/
&
when
they
were
at
theyr
lodgynge
the
noble
quene
whiche
was
ryght
fayre
/
symple
&
chaste
pleased
gretely
one
of
that
constables
of
the
sayd
hoost
of
Rome
whiche
had
taken
the
kynge
&
her
.
So
he
prayed
&
requyred
her
by
grete
offres
/
but
when
he
sawe
that
prayers
auayled
hym
not
/
he
lefte
of
and
spake
no
more
.
Then
this
noble
lady
had
grete
sorowe
for
the
wronge
that
this
constable
dyde
to
her
/
and
she
lefte
not
to
thynke
how
she
myght
be
reuenged
.
So
she
●aryed
&
dyssyinyled
tyll
she
sawe
her
tyme
/
and
when
she
sawe
that
the
raunsome
was
brought
for
to
delyuer
her
husbande
and
her
/
the
lady
wolde
that
this
money
sholde
be
payde
to
the
sayd
constable
she
beynge
present
To
whom
she
sayd
that
she
wolde
that
he
sholde
waye
the
golde
to
the
entente
that
he
sholde
haue
noo
wronge
/
and
that
he
were
not
deceyued
.
And
when
she
sawe
that
he
entended
to
way
the
golde
&
that
there
was
noae
of
his
people
aboute
hym
.
The
lady
toke
a
knyfe
and
smote
hym
in
the
throte
and
slewe
hym
/
and
smote
of
his
hede
&
without
ony
trouble
brought
it
to
her
husbande
&
tolde
hym
ho
we
she
had
done
/
and
howe
she
had
reuenged
her
wronge
.
¶
yet
of
the
same
/
and
of
the
ladyes
of
Sycambres
and
other
maydens
.
Ca.
xlvj
.
ALso
thoughe
I
maye
gyue
the
ensam
ples
of
maryed
women
of
whome
I
myght
tell
the
ynoughe
of
whom
the
sorowe
to
be
rauysshed
was
importable
/
I
shall
tell
the
of
wydowes
and
maydens
.
¶
Sysponne
was
a
woman
of
Grece
/
and
she
was
taken
&
rauysshed
with
maryners
&
scommers
of
the
see
/
whiche
were
enemyes
to
that
countre
/
the
whiche
lady
as
she
that
was
of
grete
beaute
was
requyred
by
them
ryght
gretely
.
And
when
she
sawe
that
she
myght
not
escape
/
but
to
be
rauysshed
she
had
this
thynge
in
so
grete
abho
mynacyon
and
dyspleasannce
that
she
had
leuer
to
dye
.
And
therfore
she
lepte
in
to
the
see
/
and
was
drowned
.
¶
Also
the
Sycambres
whiche
nowe
ben
called
Frensshmen
assayled
on
a
tyme
amonge
other
the
cyte
of
Rome
with
a
grete
hoost
&
a
multytude
of
people
.
And
in
hope
that
they
sholde
haue
destroyed
the
cyte
they
brought
theyr
wyues
with
them
and
theyr
chyldren
.
And
it
happened
that
the
dyscomfyture
tourned
vpon
the
Sycambres
/
when
theyr
wyues
sawe
that
/
they
counsayled
amonge
them
that
it
was
better
to
dye
in
defendynge
theyr
chastyte
.
For
they
knewe
that
after
the
vsage
of
warre
they
sholde
be
rauysshed
than
to
be
deedly
dyshonoured
.
So
they
made
fortresses
aboute
them
with
theyr
charyottes
and
cartes
&
armed
them
ayenst
the
Romaynes
/
and
they
defended
them
as
moche
as
they
myght
and
slewe
many
of
them
/
but
at
the
last
they
were
siayne
the
moost
parte
of
theym
.
And
those
that
were
lefte
on
lyue
prayed
with
Ioyned
handes
that
they
wolde
not
touche
them
in
no
vylany
/
and
that
they
myght
vse
the
ende
of
theyr
lyues
in
seruynge
in
the
temple
of
maydens
of
the
goddesse
Uesta
.
But
for
that
that
it
was
not
graūted
to
them
they
wolde
sle
them
rather
than
to
be
rauysshed
.
¶
Also
of
maydens
in
lyke
wyse
so
as
of
Uyrgyne
the
noble
mayde
of
Rome
whiche
the
false
Iuge
Claudyen
trowed
to
haue
by
cautele
&
by
force
/
and
when
he
sawe
the
prayer
auayled
hym
not
/
but
she
notwithstandynge
her
grene
youthe
had
leuer
to
dye
than
to
be
rauysshed
.
¶
Also
there
was
a
cyte
taken
in
Lombardy
by
the
enemyes
whiche
that
slewe
the
lorde
.
The
doughters
of
the
sayd
lorde
whiche
were
ryght
fayre
in
so
moche
that
they
thought
they
sholde
be
solde
to
be
rauysshed
/
they
pourneyed
them
of
a
straunge
remedy
/
for
the
whiche
they
were
gretely
to
prayse
.
For
they
toke
the
flesshe
of
chekyns
rawe
and
put
it
in
theyr
bosomes
/
so
it
was
anone
corrupte
by
hete
/
wherof
it
happened
that
when
they
that
wolde
rauysshe
them
came
nyghe
to
them
and
they
felte
the
stynke
anone
they
lefte
them
saynge
.
O
goddes
howe
these
lom
bardes
stynke
.
But
that
stynkynge
made
them
to
smell
ryght
swete
.
¶
Proues
agaynst
that
that
one
speketh
of
the
inconstaunce
of
women
.
Xp̄ine
speketh
&
ryghtwysnes
answereth
of
the
inconstaunce
and
fragylyte
of
dyuers
Emperoures
.
Ca.
xlvij
.
MAdame
ye
tell
me
meruayllous
constaunce
/
stablenesse
and
vertue
of
the
grete
courage
of
women
/
what
myght
one
saye
more
of
the
moost
stron
gest
men
that
euer
were
/
yet
aboue
all
vyces
that
men
and
also
the
bokes
say
to
be
of
women
cryeth
all
of
one
voyce
vpon
them
/
that
they
be
varyable
/
Inconstaunte
/
chaungeable
/
lyght
/
&
of
frayle
courage
/
bowynge
as
chyldren
.
Are
these
men
then
so
constaunnte
that
they
may
not
vary
and
it
is
a
grete
thynge
to
do
that
so
moche
accuseth
women
of
inconstaunce
.
Certes
yf
they
do
to
moche
it
is
ryght
lewde
and
euyl
semynge
to
aske
of
another
a
vertue
that
they
can
not
haue
themselfe
.
¶
Answere
.
Fayre
swete
loue
haste
not
thou
alwaye
herde
say
that
a
fole
perceyueth
better
the
lytell
mote
in
the
face
of
his
neyghboure
then
he
beholdeth
the
grete
beme
that
hangeth
ouer
his
owne
eye
.
So
I
shall
shewe
the
grete
contradyccyon
in
that
that
these
men
saye
so
moche
of
the
varyaunce
of
women
.
They
accorde
all
generally
that
wo
men
by
nature
be
ryght
frayle
/
and
yet
these
men
desyre
that
women
sholde
be
of
grtter
constaunce
then
they
can
be
themselfe
.
For
those
that
so
calleth
themselfe
to
be
so
stronge
and
of
so
noble
condycyon
/
yet
they
maye
not
holde
them
from
fallynge
in
to
many
ryght
grete
defautes
and
synnes
/
and
knowe
well
that
they
mysse
take
/
and
they
laboure
so
moch●
to
the
women
that
yf
ony
of
them
fall
in
ony
defaute
of
whiche
they
are
the
cause
/
and
by
theyr
cautayles
they
haue
drawne
them
therto
by
grete
payne
and
laboure
/
yet
●yth
they
name
them
soo
frayle
they
ought
in
some
wyse
for
to
supporte
theyr
fragylyte
/
and
not
to
calle
a
lytell
faute
a
grete
cryme
/
yet
they
lyst
not
to
supporte
them
but
maketh
and
saythe
many
greate
gryefes
of
theym
/
And
they
denaye
not
to
calle
theym
stronge
/
and
constaunte
when
they
endure
theyr
grete
outrages
.
And
thus
at
all
purposes
these
men
wolde
haue
the
ryght
from
them
.
And
of
that
thou
hast
spoken
ynoughe
in
thy
pystle
of
the
god
of
loue
.
But
to
that
thou
demaundest
me
yf
these
men
be
so
stronge
&
so
constaunte
that
they
haue
cause
to
blame
other
of
theyr
constaunce
.
If
thou
beholde
syth
the
ages
and
auncyent
tyme
vnto
this
daye
by
the
bokes
&
by
that
thou
haste
sene
in
thyne
age
/
and
at
all
tymes
thou
mayst
se
it
before
thyne
eyes
/
not
onely
in
symple
men
/
nor
of
lowe
estate
/
but
of
the
grettest
thou
mayst
knowe
the
perfeccyon
of
theyr
constaunce
/
I
wyll
not
saye
absolutely
that
it
is
with
them
so
generally
as
they
say
of
women
but
as
it
hathe
ben
/
and
is
in
some
of
theym
.
¶
And
for
that
that
yf
there
be
in
the
courage
of
men
no
inconstaunce
but
accuse
the
women
of
the
vyce
.
Take
hede
nowe
here
/
and
I
shall
gyue
the
ensamples
of
the
grettest
prynces
and
moost
lyfted
vp
in
estate
/
whiche
is
a
thynge
not
perteynynge
to
the
same
vyce
more
than
in
others
without
sekynge
in
more
auncyent
ages
¶
where
was
there
euer
courage
of
women
soo
frayle
/
nor
so
euyll
accustomed
and
lesse
constaunt
then
was
the
Emperour
Claudyen
.
He
was
soo
varyable
that
what
so
euer
he
ordeyned
in
one
houre
he
dyspysed
it
in
another
/
and
there
was
neuer
sta
blenes
founde
in
his
worde
/
he
accorded
to
all
coum
sayle
.
He
caused
his
wyfe
to
be
slayne
by
his
cruelte
/
and
after
at
nyght
he
,
asked
wherfore
she
came
not
to
bedde
/
and
commaunded
his
seruauntes
that
he
had
made
smyte
of
theyr
heedes
to
come
&
play
with
hym
.
This
Emperoure
was
of
so
caytyfe
a
courage
that
he
trembled
alwaye
/
nor
he
trusted
no
body
/
I
can
not
tell
the
all
the
shrewdenesse
of
the
condycyons
of
this
lewde
Emperoure
/
but
that
he
was
full
of
fragylyte
.
¶
Tybere
the
Emperoure
what
was
he
more
wrothe
/
all
in
constaunce
/
all
varyaunce
/
all
slyppernesse
was
mor
en
hym
than
euer
was
founde
in
woman
.
¶
Of
Nero
the
cruell
Emperoure
.
Ca.
xlviij
.
ANd
Nero
that
was
he
/
syth
we
be
entred
in
the
dedes
of
Emperoures
.
Of
this
Nero
the
grete
varyablenesse
appered
.
For
at
the
begynnynge
he
was
good
ynoughe
and
dyde
his
payne
to
please
all
people
.
But
after
he
had
no
refrayne
of
his
lechery
/
of
his
rauyne
/
nor
of
his
cruelte
/
and
to
exercyse
it
the
more
/
often
tymes
he
armed
hym
by
nyght
and
wente
with
his
glotons
and
his
felawes
to
vnthryfty
places
playenge
and
Iapynge
by
the
stretes
/
doynge
all
shrewdenes
/
&
to
fynde
occasyon
to
do
shrewdely
/
he
shouldred
them
that
he
mette
/
&
yf
they
spake
ony
worde
/
other
he
wolde
wounde
them
or
sle
them
.
He
brake
tauernes
&
dores
of
lewde
houses
/
he
toke
women
by
strengthe
/
wherby
he
was
almoost
slayne
ones
of
the
husbande
of
a
woman
that
he
had
rauysshed
.
He
lete
make
bathes
for
lewdenesse
/
and
ete
and
dranke
all
the
nyght
and
slepte
the
day
.
He
ordeyned
nowe
one
thynge
nowe
another
/
as
his
foly
styred
hym
to
do
dyuers
thynges
.
All
lechery
/
al
superfluytes
all
pryde
/
and
al
maner
thoughtes
of
foly
was
in
hym
/
he
haunted
al
euyll
/
he
loued
noughty
folkes
and
tourmented
the
good
.
He
was
consentynge
to
the
dethe
of
his
fader
&
of
his
moder
/
&
when
she
was
deed
he
made
her
to
be
opened
to
se
the
place
where
he
was
conceyued
.
And
when
he
had
sene
it
/
he
sayd
that
she
was
a
fayre
woman
when
she
lyued
.
He
slewe
his
wyfe
Octouyene
that
was
ryght
a
good
woman
/
and
toke
another
that
he
loued
moche
at
the
begynnynge
/
&
after
slewe
her
/
he
lete
sle
a
kynnes
woman
of
his
owne
bycause
she
wolde
not
be
maryed
to
hym
/
he
made
to
sle
his
lytell
doughter
within
the
age
of
.vij.
yeres
bycause
one
bare
her
to
playe
with
a
dukes
sones
.
He
lete
sle
the
noble
phylosophre
Seneke
whiche
was
his
mayster
.
For
that
that
he
was
alwaye
ashamed
when
he
sawe
hym
/
he
enpoysoned
his
prouost
faynynge
that
he
wolde
hele
hym
agayne
/
he
enpoysoned
with
metes
and
drynkes
all
the
noble
auncyent
prynces
and
barons
of
grete
auctoryte
that
had
grete
gouernaunce
/
he
made
to
sie
his
aunte
/
and
toke
her
goodes
/
he
made
to
destroye
all
the
nobles
of
Rome
and
put
them
in
exyle
/
and
destroyed
theyr
chyldren
/
he
made
a
cruell
man
of
Egypte
to
be
accustomed
to
ete
mannes
fless
he
rawe
to
the
entente
that
by
hym
he
wolde
make
men
to
be
eten
quicke
what
shall
I
say
one
may
not
tell
the
horryble
dedes
that
he
dyde
ne
gathered
togyder
the
erueltees
of
hym
.
He
made
fyre
to
be
caste
all
aboute
Rome
vj.
dayes
and
.vj.
nyghtes
/
and
by
that
pestylence
dyed
moche
of
the
people
/
he
behelde
the
fallynge
of
his
toure
/
and
made
grete
Ioye
/
and
songe
/
He
made
to
sle
saynt
Peter
and
saynt
Poule
/
and
many
other
martyres
.
And
in
doynge
these
thynges
when
he
had
reygned
the
space
of
.xiiij.
yeres
the
Romaynes
that
had
suffred
to
moche
rebelled
ayenst
hym
/
&
he
fell
in
dyspayre
and
slewe
hymselfe
.
¶
Of
the
Emperoure
and
of
others
.
Ca.
xlix
.
_●I
grete
meruayle
I
haue
tolde
y●
as
that
it
semeth
by
aduenture
of
the
cursednesse
of
Nero
/
and
of
his
fragylytes
.
But
I
promyse
the
that
the
Emperoure
that
succeded
hym
whiche
was
named
Galba
was
but
lytell
better
yf
he
had
lyued
longe
/
for
his
cruelte
was
out
of
measure
.
And
with
his
other
vyces
he
was
so
varyable
that
there
was
no
maner
of
restraynynge
ne
he
was
neuer
in
one
estate
/
nowe
cruell
&
without
measure
/
nowe
to
softe
and
without
Iustyce
/
neglygent
/
enuyous
/
and
full
of
suspeccyon
/
lytell
louynge
his
prynces
and
his
knyghtes
/
caytyfe
/
and
fereful
of
courage
coueytous
aboue
all
thynge
/
he
reygned
but
.vj.
monethes
for
he
was
slayne
to
shorten
his
crueltes
¶
But
Othomy
whiche
that
succeded
hym
was
no
better
/
For
that
some
saye
that
women
ben
cutyous
.
The
Emperoure
was
curyous
and
delyca
te
of
his
body
/
caytyfe
of
courage
/
sekynge
after
nothynge
but
his
ease
folyly
large
/
a
grete
gloton
faynte
/
lecherous
/
a
false
traytoure
/
and
full
of
all
shrewdenesse
/
full
of
dysdayne
.
And
the
ende
of
hym
was
that
he
slewe
hymselfe
after
that
he
had
reygned
thre
monethes
/
for
bycause
that
his
enemyes
had
the
vyctory
of
hym
in
batayle
.
¶
Uyncylyen
that
succeded
this
Othomy
was
noo
better
but
full
of
cursednesse
/
I
wote
not
what
I
shal
tell
the
more
and
thou
trowe
that
I
lye
/
rede
the
hystoryes
of
Emperours
/
and
the
processe
of
theyr
lyues
/
and
thou
shalte
fynde
that
there
were
but
fewe
in
nombre
that
were
of
good
condycyons
/
ryghtfull
&
constaunt
/
of
the
whiche
good
was
the
Emperour
Trayane
and
Tytus
.
But
I
promyse
the
that
ayenst
these
two
good
thou
shalte
fynde
.x.
euyll
.
¶
And
in
the
same
wyse
of
the
Popes
&
of
people
of
holy
chyrche
/
whiche
ought
to
be
more
chosen
/
but
thoughe
that
at
the
begynnynge
of
crysten
faythe
there
were
sayntes
.
Syth
the
Emperour
Constantyne
gaue
to
the
chyrche
grete
reuenues
and
rychesses
/
the
holynesse
that
hath
ben
/
rede
theyr
gestes
and
crownacles
&
tell
me
yf
they
be
of
the
same
perfeccyon
nowe
/
and
nowe
thou
mayst
se
at
this
daye
yf
the
worlde
be
in
amendynge
.
And
yf
grete
stablenesse
haue
ben
and
grete
constaunce
in
the
dedes
and
counsayles
as
moche
of
temporall
prynces
/
as
of
spyrytuall
/
it
appereth
ynoughe
.
I
shall
say
to
the
more
I
wote
not
to
whom
men
speke
of
inconstaunce
/
nor
of
varaunce
of
women
/
nor
howe
they
haue
no
shame
to
open
theyr
mouthe
when
they
beholde
how
in
the
grete
dedes
gouerned
by
them
/
and
not
by
the
women
with
so
moche
inconstaunce
&
varyaunce
as
it
were
the
dedes
of
chyldren
/
&
howe
well
theyr
purpose
and
accorde
abydeth
that
they
make
in
theyr
grete
counsayles
.
¶
And
I
shal
tell
the
all
at
ones
vpon
these
thynges
/
there
is
none
other
inconstaunce
nor
varyaunce
but
to
do
agaynst
that
the
reason
techeth
.
And
a
creature
reasonable
made
after
the
ymage
of
god
/
and
that
hathe
knowledge
of
that
y●
enclyneth
more
to
sensualyte
than
to
reason
that
is
frayle
/
and
the
more
that
the
shrewdenesse
is
grete
the
ferder
it
is
fro
reason
/
and
ought
to
be
called
the
gre●ter
fragylyte
.
And
I
am
certayne
that
rede
al
alonge
the
hystoryes
of
whom
that
euer
they
are
wryten
thoughe
phylosophers
&
many
auctours
haue
sayd
and
afferme
that
there
is
so
grete
fragy
lyte
in
women
that
thou
shalte
not
fynde
ony
wo
man
of
so
grete
cursednesse
as
there
hathe
ben
in
grete
quantyte
of
men
.
The
worste
women
that
thou
shalte
fynde
in
holy
scrypture
was
Athalys
&
Iesobell
her
moder
quenes
of
Iherusalem
whiche
poursued
the
chyldren
of
Israell
.
Brunchent
quene
of
Fraunce
/
and
some
other
.
But
aduyse
the
of
the
cursednesse
of
Iudas
that
so
myscheuously
betrayed
his
good
mayster
swete
Ihesus
to
whom
he
was
appostle
that
had
done
hym
so
moche
good
/
and
take
hede
of
Iulyan
the
apostata
.
Denys
the
tyraunt
.
So
many
of
shrewde
kynges
in
dyuers
countrees
/
of
false
Emperoures
and
Popes
/
and
other
prelates
without
faythe
/
full
of
coueytyse
/
the
antecrystes
also
and
thou
shalte
fynde
also
the
men
haue
cause
to
holde
theyr
peas
/
and
that
women
haue
cause
to
thanke
god
/
and
prayse
hym
that
ha
the
put
the
treasoure
of
so
many
good
soules
in
the
bodyes
of
women
.
So
I
shall
saye
noo
more
as
nowe
agaynst
them
by
ensamples
of
the
dedes
of
them
that
call
these
women
so
frayle
.
And
I
shall
tell
the
of
dyuers
women
ryght
stable
&
constaunt
of
whome
the
hystoryes
ben
ryght
good
to
here
of
good
ensamples
.
¶
Of
Grysylde
Marquys
of
Saluce
a
woman
of
grete
vertue
/
and
specyally
in
pacyence
.
Ca.
l.
WRyten
it
is
that
there
was
a
Marquys
of
Saluce
named
by
name
Gautyre
sans
pere
.
He
was
fayre
of
body
and
a
worshypfull
man
/
but
ryght
straunge
of
condycyons
his
lordes
often
tymes
counsayled
hym
&
prayed
hym
that
he
wolde
mary
/
that
he
myght
haue
yssue
.
But
it
was
longe
tyme
or
he
wolde
accorde
to
them
.
At
the
last
he
sayd
to
them
that
he
wolde
with
a
good
wyll
.
If
it
sholde
be
agreable
to
them
/
that
he
myght
take
suche
a
woman
as
he
wolde
chose
to
be
maryed
vnto
/
to
the
whiche
thynge
they
accorded
and
made
theyr
othe
therto
.
This
Marquys
haunted
often
tymes
the
dysporte
of
huntynge
and
hawkynge
in
the
feldes
/
in
the
whiche
amonge
the
poore
men
labourers
of
that
towne
there
dwelled
a
ryght
poore
man
impotent
&
olde
that
was
called
Ianycle
/
and
was
a
good
true
man
al
his
lyfe
.
This
same
good
man
had
a
doughter
of
the
age
o●
.
xviij
yeres
named
Grysylde
/
whiche
serued
hym
by
grete
dylygence
and
founde
hym
by
the
laboure
of
her
spynnynge
.
The
sayd
Marquys
whiche
often
tymes
passed
that
waye
had
well
aduysed
the
good
condycyons
and
the
honeste
of
this
mayden
whiwas
ryght
fayre
of
body
and
of
vysage
/
whom
he
had
ryght
gretely
in
his
grace
.
It
happened
that
the
Marquys
that
was
accorded
with
his
barons
that
he
sholde
take
a
wyfe
/
sayd
to
theym
/
that
they
sholde
assemble
at
a
certayne
day
for
the
weddynges
/
&
he
●rdeyned
that
all
the
ladyes
sholde
be
there
/
so
he
lete
make
grete
araye
.
And
at
that
daye
as
all
men
&
women
were
assembled
before
hym
/
he
made
al
that
route
to
take
theyr
horses
/
for
to
go
with
hym
for
to
fetche
home
his
spouse
.
Soo
they
wente
ryght
vnto
the
house
of
Ianycle
/
and
there
they
mette
with
Grysylde
with
a
potte
of
water
vpon
her
heed
whiche
came
fro
the
welle
.
He
demaunded
of
her
where
her
fader
was
.
And
this
Grysy●de
mekely
kneled
downe
and
sayd
vnto
hym
that
he
was
at
home
.
Go
seke
hym
sayd
he
vnto
her
.
And
when
the
good
man
was
come
/
the
Marquys
sayd
to
hym
that
he
wolde
take
his
doughter
by
maryage
.
And
Ianycle
answered
hym
that
he
sholde
do
his
pleasure
.
So
the
ladyes
entred
in
to
the
lytell
house
and
clothed
and
arayed
the
spouse
ryght
nobly
so
as
it
perteyned
to
the
estate
of
a
Marquys
/
of
Robes
&
of
Iewelles
that
he
had
ordeyned
for
her
.
Soo
he
ledde
her
home
&
wedded
her
in
his
palays
.
And
to
make
the
tale
shorte
.
This
lady
bare
her
so
wel
to
euery
creature
that
the
nobles
grete
and
lytell
/
&
all
the
people
loued
her
/
and
so
well
she
coude
behaue
her
with
euery
persone
that
euery
man
helde
them
contente
/
and
she
serued
and
cherysshed
her
lorde
so
as
she
ought
.
This
yere
this
lady
had
a
doughter
whiche
was
taken
in
grete
Ioye
.
But
when
she
was
in
age
that
she
was
taken
fro
the
pappes
The
Marquys
made
the
lady
to
byleue
for
to
pro
her
constaunce
/
that
she
dyspleased
the
lordes
that
the
lygnage
of
her
sholde
lordeshyp
vpon
them
/
&
and
therfore
he
wolde
that
the
chylde
were
slayne
To
this
thynge
whiche
ought
to
be
ryght
harde
to
euery
moder
.
Grysylde
answered
that
the
doughter
was
his
owne
&
that
he
myght
do
his
pleasure
.
So
he
made
the
chylde
to
be
taken
to
a
squyer
of
his
the
whiche
in
makynge
semblaunt
that
he
came
thyder
to
sle
the
chylde
/
and
he
bare
it
secretly
to
Boloyne
la
grace
to
the
countesse
of
Payngo
whiche
was
syster
to
the
Marquys
to
kepe
and
to
nourysshe
it
.
But
for
al
this
Grysylde
made
neuer
semblaunt
of
heuynesse
that
trowed
her
doughter
to
be
slayne
.
Agayne
in
the
yere
after
the
lady
was
with
chylde
and
was
delyuered
of
a
fayre
sone
the
fade
receyued
it
with
grete
Ioye
.
And
yet
agayne
the
Marquys
wolde
assaye
his
wyfe
as
he
dyde
before
/
and
sayd
to
her
that
the
chylde
must
nedes
be
slayne
to
contente
the
lordes
&
his
people
.
And
Grysylde
answered
that
yf
it
suffysed
not
that
her
chylde
sholde
dye
/
that
she
was
redy
to
dye
if
it
myght
please
hym
.
So
he
toke
the
chylde
to
the
squyer
in
the
●ame
wyse
as
he
dyde
that
other
/
and
yet
she
made
neuer
semblaunt
of
sorowe
/
ne
sayd
other
worde
/
but
that
she
prayed
the
squyer
that
when
he
had
slayne
the
chylde
/
that
he
wolde
hury
hym
/
to
the
entente
that
the
tender
flesshe
of
the
chylde
were
not
eten
with
wylde
beestes
/
ne
with
byrdes
Of
this
grete
hardnesse
there
appered
neuer
chaungynge
chere
in
Grysylde
.
But
yet
it
was
no●
longe
after
that
the
Marquys
wolde
assay
her
agayne
when
they
had
ben
togyder
.vij.
yeres
/
in
the
whiche
tyme
the
good
lady
had
borne
her
so
well
that
it
ought
to
haue
suffysed
the
prouynge
of
her
vertue
when
the
Marquys
on
a
daye
called
her
in
to
his
chambre
and
sayd
to
her
that
he
was
in
poynte
to
lose
his
lordshyp
by
his
knyghtes
and
his
squyers
for
her
.
For
they
had
grete
dysdayne
to
holde
for
theyr
lady
and
maystres
the
doughter
of
Ianycle
So
it
is
conuenyent
yf
he
wolde
appease
them
that
she
wente
home
agayne
to
her
fader
so
as
she
came
thens
/
and
that
he
sholde
wedde
another
more
gentyll
woman
/
&
of
more
hygher
blode
.
To
this
thynge
whiche
ought
to
be
ryght
greuous
&
harde
to
her
/
answered
grysylde
.
My
lorde
I
knewe
well
alway
&
oftymes
thought
the
bytwene
thy
noblesse
&
magnyfycence
&
my
pouerte
myght
be
no
proporcyon
nor
I
thought
me
not
onely
worthy
to
be
your
spouse
/
nor
also
to
be
the
poorest
of
your
house
.
And
nowe
I
am
redy
to
retourne
in
to
the
house
of
my
fader
/
in
the
whiche
I
shall
were
myne
age
.
And
as
to
my
dowre
that
thou
hast
ordeyned
me
to
haue
/
that
I
ought
to
haue
I
se
it
well
.
Thou
knowest
well
that
when
thou
tokest
me
out
of
my
faders
house
thou
madest
me
to
be
dyspoyled
all
naked
/
&
clothed
me
agayne
in
good
robes
with
the
whiche
I
came
with
y●
/
ne
neuer
other
thynge
of
myne
owne
brought
I
with
me
/
but
fayth
/
maner
/
loue
/
reuerence
/
and
pouerte
.
So
it
is
reason
that
I
yelde
to
the
agayne
thy
mouable
goodes
.
And
se
here
thy
robe
of
whiche
I
me
despoyle
/
&
so
I
yelde
to
y●
the
rynge
with
the
whiche
thou
dydest
wedde
me
/
&
I
yelde
to
the
all
other
rynges
/
Iewelles
/
clothynge
/
and
araye
/
by
the
whiche
I
was
worshypped
&
enryched
in
thy
chambre
/
all
naked
out
of
my
faders
house
I
came
/
&
all
naked
I
shall
tourne
agayne
.
Saue
that
it
me
semeth
a
thynge
vnconuenable
that
this
wombe
in
the
whiche
the
chyldren
were
that
thou
haddest
engendred
sholde
appere
all
naked
before
the
people
For
the
whiche
yf
it
pleas
the
&
none
otherwyse
I
praye
the
y●
for
the
recompensacyon
of
my
vygynyte
that
I
brought
in
to
thy
palays
the
whiche
I
bere
not
agayne
that
it
maye
please
the
that
there
myght
be
lefte
vnto
me
a
symple
smocke
with
the
whiche
I
shall
couer
the
wombe
of
thy
wyfe
/
sometyme
Marquyse
.
And
then
the
Marpuys
myght
not
holde
hym
no
more
from
wepynge
for
compassyon
/
&
yet
he
ouercame
his
courage
and
ordeyned
that
there
was
brought
to
her
a
smocke
.
¶
Then
in
the
presence
of
all
the
knyghtes
&
ladyes
Grysylde
dyspoyled
her
/
&
dyde
of
her
hosen
&
shoes
/
&
put
of
all
her
ornamentes
/
and
nothynge
remayned
but
onely
the
smocke
.
Then
stretched
the
rumoure
all
aboute
that
the
Marquys
wolde
departe
from
his
wyfe
&
all
men
and
women
were
come
to
the
palays
so
rowynge
gretely
of
this
thynge
.
And
Grysylde
all
naked
saue
her
smocke
/
bare
heeded
/
and
bare
fote
was
set
vpon
an
horse
/
and
with
company
of
lordes
/
knyghtes
/
and
ladyes
/
that
all
men
&
women
wepte
cursynge
the
Marquys
&
sorowed
gretely
the
goodnesse
of
the
lady
/
yet
Grysylde
neuer
caste
teere
out
of
her
eyes
&
was
conuayed
vnto
the
house
of
her
fader
/
the
whiche
good
olde
man
had
ben
alway
in
doubte
thynkynge
that
his
lorde
sholde
be
full
euery
daye
of
so
poore
a
maryage
.
Then
he
he
rynge
the
noyse
wente
to
mete
with
his
doughter
and
brought
to
her
her
olde
cote
all
to
torne
whiche
he
had
kepte
/
so
she
clothed
her
agayne
without
shewynge
semblaunt
of
ony
sorowe
.
And
thus
dwelled
Grysylde
with
her
fader
a
whyle
in
suche
humylyte
&
pouerte
&
in
seruynge
her
fader
as
she
was
wonte
/
no
sorowe
shewynge
outwardes
nor
no
heuy
countenaunce
was
sene
in
her
/
but
recom
forted
her
fader
of
his
heuynesse
that
he
had
for
to
se
his
doughter
to
fall
frome
so
grete
hyghnesse
in
to
so
grete
pouerte
.
¶
And
when
the
Marquys
semed
that
he
had
proued
his
true
spouse
ynoughe
/
he
sente
to
his
syster
that
she
sholde
come
to
hym
ryght
nobly
accompanyed
with
lordes
&
ladyes
/
&
sholde
brynge
with
her
his
two
yonge
chyldren
without
makynge
semblaunt
that
they
were
his
And
he
made
his
barons
&
sugectes
to
vnderstande
that
he
wolde
take
a
newe
wyfe
/
and
wedde
a
ryght
notable
lady
whiche
his
syster
had
in
kepynge
.
So
he
made
to
assemble
a
ryght
fayre
company
of
knyghtes
and
of
ladyes
in
his
palas
that
sa
me
daye
that
his
syster
sholde
aryue
/
And
he
lete
make
ryght
a
fayre
feest
and
a
grete
.
So
he
sente
to
Grysylde
and
sayd
to
her
in
this
manere
.
Grysylde
the
mayden
that
I
shall
wedde
shall
be
here
to
morowe
.
And
for
that
I
desyre
that
my
syster
&
her
company
sholde
be
ryght
nobly
receyued
/
for
that
that
thou
knowest
my
condycyon
/
and
howe
I
ought
to
receyue
lordes
and
ladyes
/
and
thou
knowest
the
chambres
and
places
/
and
to
the
entente
that
euery
persone
be
well
lodged
after
his
estate
/
and
in
especyall
my
spouse
that
shall
be
.
For
I
wyll
that
thou
haue
all
the
charge
/
And
all
offycers
shall
obaye
vnto
the.
So
thynke
theron
and
se
that
all
be
well
ordeyned
.
Grysylde
answered
and
sayd
she
wolde
doo
it
with
ryght
a
good
wyl
.
And
in
the
mornynge
the
company
were
aryued
/
grete
was
there
the
fceste
.
And
Grysylde
lefte
not
for
her
lewde
coote
/
but
that
she
wente
with
a
glad
chere
to
mete
the
mayden
and
newe
spouse
as
she
trowed
/
&
makynge
reuerence
humbly
kneled
before
her
sayenge
welcome
my
lady
and
also
to
the
sone
/
and
to
all
men
and
women
of
the
com
pany
/
&
thus
receyued
them
eche
after
theyr
estate
ryght
Ioyously
.
And
thoughe
so
be
that
she
was
in
the
habyte
of
a
poore
woman
it
semed
by
her
be
hauoure
that
she
was
a
woman
of
ryght
grete
worshyp
/
and
of
meruayllous
prudence
so
moche
that
the
straungers
meruaylled
them
howe
suche
fayre
speche
/
and
suche
worshypfull
myght
be
vnder
so
poore
an
habyte
.
Grysylde
had
made
so
well
to
be
ordeyned
al
thynges
that
there
was
nothynge
amysse
at
the
poynte
.
But
with
so
good
a
wyll
drewe
her
nyghe
this
mayden
and
the
sone
/
that
she
coude
not
departe
from
them
.
The
Marquys
had
made
▪
redy
all
thynges
as
for
to
wedde
the
yonge
mayden
.
And
when
it
came
to
the
houre
to
synge
the
masse
.
Then
came
the
Marquys
and
before
all
he
called
Grysylde
and
sayd
to
her
howe
semeth
that
Grysylde
of
my
newe
spouse
/
is
she
not
fayre
and
goodly
.
And
she
answered
full
goodly
.
Certaynly
my
lorde
there
maye
not
be
founde
a
good
lyer
ne
a
fayrer
.
But
of
one
thynge
I
wyll
pray
y●
in
good
fayth
and
counsayle
y●
that
is
that
thou
make
her
not
sory
/
ne
prycke
her
not
with
the
nedles
of
whiche
thou
hast
proued
that
other
.
For
this
is
more
yonge
and
more
delycyously
nourysshed
/
so
parad
uenture
she
shall
not
suffred
as
that
other
hathe
done
Then
the
Marquys
herynge
the
wordes
of
Grysylde
consyderynge
her
grete
stablenesse
strengthe
and
constaunce
had
grete
meruayle
of
her
vertue
/
and
pyte
toke
hym
that
he
had
gyuen
her
to
suffre
with
out
sayenge
the
contrary
.
Soo
he
began
to
saye
thus
in
the
presence
of
all
the
people
.
¶
Grysylde
it
ought
ynoughe
to
suffyse
the
prouynge
of
thy
constaunce
/
of
thy
veray
faythe
/
trouthe
/
and
grete
loue
/
hobey
saunce
/
&
mekenesse
/
well
proued
towarde
me
.
And
byleue
it
that
there
is
noo
man
vnder
heuen
that
by
so
many
proues
hathe
knowne
the
loue
of
maryage
as
I
haue
done
in
the.
And
then
the
Marquys
wente
nere
her
whiche
helde
downe
her
heed
for
shame
for
the
grete
praysynge
that
he
sayd
to
her
.
So
he
enbraced
her
uraytely
in
his
armes
and
kyssed
her
in
sayenge
.
Thou
arte
myne
onely
spouse
/
other
weddynges
shal
I
neuer
haue
.
This
mayde
that
thou
thynkest
that
sholde
be
my
spouse
is
thy
doughter
&
myne
/
and
that
other
is
thy
sone
and
myne
.
So
knowe
they
all
that
be
here
that
that
I
haue
done
hathe
ben
to
proue
my
true
spouse
/
and
not
to
condempne
her
.
And
I
haue
made
my
chyldren
to
be
nourysshed
at
Boloyne
la
grace
with
my
syster
/
&
not
s●ayne
them
/
now
se
them
here
.
Then
this
lady
herynge
the
wordes
of
her
lorde
the
Marquys
fell
downe
flatte
for
Ioy
And
when
she
came
to
herselfe
she
toke
the
chyldren
in
her
armes
/
and
it
was
no
doubte
but
her
herte
had
meruayllous
▪
Ioye
.
And
all
the
people
wepte
for
Ioye
&
pyte
.
There
was
she
greued
more
than
euer
she
was
before
.
So
she
was
clothed
agayne
and
arayed
ryght
rychely
.
So
the
feest
was
grete
&
ryght
Ioyous
where
euery
man
had
grete
wordes
of
the
praysynge
of
this
lady
.
And
they
lyued
togyder
.xx.
yeres
in
grete
Ioye
and
peas
.
And
the
Marquys
made
Ianycle
her
fader
of
whome
he
made
no
grete
compte
before
to
come
to
the
palays
&
there
he
helde
hym
in
grete
worshyp
/
he
maryed
his
chyldren
hyghly
&
after
hym
his
sone
succeded
by
the
good
wyll
of
the
lordes
/
&
of
the
comunes
also
.
¶
Of
Florence
of
Rome
.
Ca.
lj
.
OF
Grysylde
Marquyse
of
Saluce
that
had
ynoughe
of
vertuous
strengthe
/
&
constaunce
I
haue
sayd
to
y●
.
Nowe
I
shall
telle
the
of
the
noble
Florence
Empresse
of
rome
whiche
by
meruaylous
pacyence
suffred
grete
aduersyte
/
soo
as
it
is
wryten
of
her
in
the
myracles
of
our
lady
.
This
lady
was
of
souerayne
beaute
but
she
was
more
chaste
/
and
vertuous
.
It
happened
that
the
Emperoure
her
husbande
ought
to
go
to
a
grete
warre
ryght
a
grete
waye
thens
.
So
he
lefte
to
kepe
his
countre
/
and
his
wyfe
/
a
broder
that
he
had
the
whiche
tempted
with
the
enemy
after
the
departynge
of
the
Emperoure
coueyted
folyly
his
brothers
wyfe
/
&
to
speke
shortely
he
helde
her
so
shorte
that
she
sho●de
accorde
to
his
wyl
/
that
for
drede
that
after
the
prayers
he
wolde
vse
her
by
force
/
he
put
her
in
pryson
in
a
stronge
toure
&
there
she
was
tyll
the
comynge
of
the
Emperoure
when
it
came
that
the
tydynges
were
brought
that
the
sayd
Emperoure
was
come
agayne
/
he
made
the
lady
to
be
taken
out
of
pryson
/
she
not
wenynge
that
he
wolde
complayne
on
her
wrongfully
&
he
dyde
it
to
the
entente
that
she
sholde
kepe
the
countre
whyle
he
wolde
go
ayenst
his
broder
/
at
the
arrynge
of
whome
he
toke
all
the
euyll
of
this
good
lady
/
and
the
worste
that
myght
be
sayd
by
the
whiche
the
Emperoure
that
byleued
hym
sent
his
people
and
ordeyned
that
or
he
sholde
aryue
with
out
makynge
ony
mencyon
of
it
that
she
sholde
be
slayne
.
For
he
wolde
not
se
her
ne
fynde
her
onlyue
.
But
she
meruayllynge
moche
of
these
tydynges
prayed
so
moche
to
them
that
were
commytted
to
do
this
thynge
that
they
sholde
let
her
go
in
an
habyte
vnknowne
.
So
they
graunted
her
her
desyre
.
Then
this
noble
lady
wente
&
by
a
straunge
aduenture
that
happened
her
/
she
was
commytted
to
kepe
a
chylde
of
a
grete
prynce
.
So
it
fortuned
that
the
broder
of
that
prynce
was
taken
with
the
loue
of
her
/
in
soo
moche
that
after
that
he
had
requyred
her
ynoughe
/
for
despyte
that
she
wolde
not
accorde
to
hym
/
he
slewe
the
yonge
chylde
by
her
as
she
slepte
to
the
entente
to
make
her
to
be
destroyed
.
All
these
aduersytees
whiche
were
not
lytell
suffred
this
noble
lady
the
Empresse
ryght
pacyently
&
by
ryght
stronge
&
constaunt
courage
.
And
when
she
sholde
be
ledde
to
the
place
where
she
sholde
be
put
to
the
dethe
as
she
that
some
supposed
had
slayne
the
chylde
suche
pyte
came
to
the
lorde
and
to
the
lady
for
the
fayre
lyfe
and
the
grete
ver
tues
that
they
had
sene
in
her
that
theyr
hertes
coude
not
suffre
her
to
dye
/
but
they
put
her
in
exyle
.
In
the
whiche
place
as
she
was
in
grete
pouerte
and
was
ryght
pacyent
&
deuoute
towarde
god
&
his
swete
moder
/
she
slepte
on
a
tyme
after
her
prayers
made
to
god
in
a
fayre
grene
place
/
then
she
had
a
vysyon
of
the
blessyd
vyrgyne
Mary
that
she
sholde
gader
a
certayne
herbe
that
was
vnder
her
heed
/
and
with
that
herbe
she
sholde
gete
her
lyuynge
/
in
helynge
all
maner
of
sykenesses
.
And
on
a
tyme
after
by
the
sayd
herbe
the
lady
had
heled
so
many
syke
folkes
/
of
whom
the
renowne
sprange
all
aboute
it
fortuned
that
the
broder
of
the
prynce
that
had
slayne
the
chylde
aboue
sayd
was
syke
of
a
grete
sykenesse
ryght
horrybly
/
for
whom
men
were
sente
to
fetche
this
woman
to
hele
hym
.
And
when
she
was
come
in
to
his
presence
she
sayd
to
hym
that
he
myght
well
se
that
god
bete
hym
with
his
roddes
/
and
that
he
sholde
confesse
his
synne
openly
/
&
he
sholde
be
hole
/
for
otherwyse
she
myght
not
hele
hym
.
And
then
he
moued
with
grete
contryey
on
confessed
his
horryble
wyckednesse
/
&
howe
he
hymselfe
had
slayne
the
chylde
thrughe
whiche
the
good
lady
was
blamed
that
kepte
hym
.
The
prynce
was
passynge
wrothe
with
this
and
wolde
at
all
tymes
do
Iustyce
on
his
broder
.
But
the
noble
lady
prayed
hym
so
moche
that
she
appeased
hym
to
hym
/
and
then
she
heled
hym
anone
/
and
thus
this
good
lady
yelded
good
for
euyll
after
the
commaun
bement
of
god
.
¶
It
happened
in
the
same
wyse
and
it
taryed
not
longe
after
/
but
that
the
broder
of
the
Emperour
/
by
the
whiche
Florence
was
exyled
felle
in
soo
horryble
sykenesse
of
the
lyppre
that
he
was
all
stynkynge
.
And
as
the
voyce
wente
in
all
the
worlde
howe
there
was
a
woman
that
wolde
hele
al
maner
of
sykenesse
.
Anone
men
were
sente
out
to
seke
her
by
the
commaundement
of
the
Em
peroure
without
ony
knowlege
what
she
was
.
For
he
demed
his
wyfe
to
be
deed
longe
before
.
And
when
she
was
come
before
hym
she
sayd
to
hym
that
it
was
conuenyent
that
he
sholde
confesse
hym
openly
/
for
otherwyse
he
myght
not
be
heled
.
But
as
he
refused
it
longe
tyme
/
at
the
laste
he
opened
all
his
wyckednesse
that
he
had
done
to
the
Empresse
/
for
the
whiche
he
wyst
well
that
god
punysshed
hym
.
This
thynge
herde
of
the
Emperour
beynge
passynge
wrothe
of
that
that
he
trowed
that
he
had
made
his
true
spouse
to
dye
that
he
loued
so
moche
wolde
haue
slayne
his
broder
.
But
the
good
lady
opened
herselfe
to
the
Emperoure
and
made
the
peas
bytwene
hym
and
his
broder
.
And
thus
Florence
recouered
by
the
meryte
of
her
patyence
/
her
estate
and
felycyte
/
with
grete
Ioye
of
the
Emperoure
and
of
all
people
.
¶
Of
the
wyfe
of
Barnabo
the
Geneuoys
.
Capitulo
.lij.
TO
the
purpose
yet
of
women
that
be
constaunte
maye
well
be
brought
to
remembraunce
the
hystory
that
Bocace
telleth
in
his
boke
of
Cent
nouuelles
howe
it
happened
on
a
tyme
in
Parys
/
as
many
marchauntes
Lombardes
and
Italyens
were
togyder
at
a
souper
.
In
whiche
as
they
spake
of
many
thynges
they
tell
to
speke
of
theyr
wyues
/
so
moche
that
amonge
others
a
Ianeuoys
that
was
called
Barnabo
began
gretely
to
prayse
his
wyfe
of
beaute
/
of
wytte
/
of
chastyte
aboue
all
thynges
/
&
of
al
vertues
.
So
there
was
another
outragyous
felawe
in
the
company
named
Ambrose
whiche
sayd
that
he
was
a
foole
to
prayse
his
wyfe
so
moche
and
specyally
of
chastyte
and
that
there
was
none
so
stronge
but
that
one
sholde
ouercome
her
by
gyftes
/
by
promyse
/
&
fayre
wordes
/
&
so
to
come
to
his
entente
.
Of
this
thynge
began
a
grete
stryfe
bytwene
them
twayne
&
it
came
so
ferre
forthe
that
they
layde
in
wager
the
some
of
.v.
thousande
Floryns
Barnabo
sayd
that
/
that
other
sholde
not
lye
with
his
wyfe
for
al
that
he
coude
do
And
Ambrose
layde
that
he
sholde
/
&
that
he
wolde
bryn
ge
so
good
a
token
that
it
sholde
suffyse
▪
that
other
marchauntes
dyde
as
moche
as
they
coude
to
seas
the
debate
but
it
auayled
not
.
Ambrose
departed
th●s
as
soone
as
he
myght
/
&
wente
to
Gene
/
&
when
he
came
there
he
enquyred
gretely
of
the
lyfe
of
the
wyfe
of
Bar●abo
/
But
to
saye
shortely
/
soo
moche
he
herde
recorde
of
her
grete
goodnesse
that
he
lost
al
his
hope
that
he
sholde
neuer
come
to
his
entente
wherof
he
founde
hymselfe
gretely
abasshed
&
repentaunt
of
his
foly
.
And
he
aduysed
hym
of
a
grete
malyce
/
for
it
greued
his
herte
ryght
sore
to
lose
so
.v.
thousande
floryns
.
Soo
he
dyde
so
moche
that
he
spake
to
an
olde
poore
woman
that
repayred
ofte
tymes
to
the
house
of
y●
,
good
woman
.
And
gaue
and
promysed
her
so
moche
that
he
was
put
in
a
grete
cofre
/
and
was
borne
in
to
the
chambre
of
the
sayd
good
woman
to
whom
the
olde
poore
woman
had
made
to
vnderstande
that
there
was
moche
good
gere
in
the
cofre
/
whiche
was
taken
her
to
kepe
/
and
theues
laboured
to
robbe
her
/
and
therfore
she
prayed
her
that
it
myght
abyde
a
lytell
whyle
in
her
chambre
to
be
kepte
tyll
they
came
home
that
ought
it
/
to
the
whiche
thynge
the
good
woman
consented
with
a
good
wyll
.
Ambrose
whiche
was
in
the
cofre
made
suche
a
wayte
vpon
the
lady
by
nyght
that
he
sawe
her
all
naked
/
and
with
that
wente
preuyly
out
of
the
cofre
and
toke
a
gyrdell
&
a
purse
made
with
the
nedle
that
she
had
wrought
by
good
crafte
.
And
after
entred
in
to
the
cofre
agayne
soo
preuyly
that
the
lady
that
slepte
/
and
with
her
a
lytel
doughter
that
she
had
felte
nothynge
of
it
.
And
when
he
had
ben
there
.iij.
dayes
the
olde
poore
woman
came
agayne
to
fetche
her
cofre
.
Ambrose
that
had
grete
Ioye
&
wende
that
he
had
well
employed
his
entente
/
wente
to
Parysagayne
&
reported
to
her
husbande
before
all
the
company
that
he
had
lyne
with
his
wyfe
at
his
ease
.
And
fyrste
he
tolde
hym
the
token
of
the
chambre
and
of
the
payntynge
that
was
in
it
.
After
he
shewed
hym
the
purse
and
the
gyrdell
that
he
knewe
well
/
and
sayd
that
the
had
gyuen
it
to
hym
/
and
tolde
hym
all
the
facyon
of
her
body
/
and
that
he
sawe
her
all
naked
/
and
he
tolde
hym
also
that
she
had
a
lytell
spotte
as
it
were
a
warte
vnder
the
lyfte
pappe
.
Then
the
husbande
byleued
stably
by
the
tokens
the
wordes
of
Ambrose
/
of
whiche
yf
he
were
sory
no
man
meruayle
And
then
he
payed
hym
and
contented
hym
of
this
v.
thousande
floryns
.
And
as
soone
as
he
myght
he
wente
to
Gene.
And
before
that
he
sholde
aryue
he
sente
expressely
to
his
factoure
that
gouerned
all
his
doynges
there
/
in
whome
he
trusted
aboue
all
thynges
the
maner
howe
he
wolde
that
he
sholde
sle
this
woman
his
wyfe
/
the
whiche
the
commaun
dement
sene
made
the
good
woman
to
mounte
on
horse-backe
/
and
made
her
to
byleue
that
he
wolde
brynge
her
to
her
husbande
.
And
the
good
woman
whiche
byleued
hym
well
wente
with
hym
with
grete
Ioye
.
But
when
they
were
come
into
a
wode
he
tolde
her
that
he
must
nedes
sle
her
by
the
commaundement
of
his
mayster
her
housbande
.
And
to
make
the
tale
shorte
this
woman
dyde
so
moche
whiche
was
so
good
&
so
fayre
&
so
moche
she
coude
preche
that
he
lete
her
go
so
that
she
sholde
promyse
hym
that
she
sholde
go
out
of
the
countre
.
She
that
was
thus
escaped
wente
vnto
a
towne
and
dyde
so
moche
to
a
good
woman
that
she
bought
her
clothynge
for
a
man
/
so
she
cutte
of
her
heere
&
she
arayed
her
in
the
lykenesse
of
a
yonge
man
.
And
she
dyde
so
moche
that
she
put
herselfe
with
a
ryche
man
of
Cateloyne
named
Syguyr
Ferant
that
was
come
downe
from
his
shyp
to
refresshe
hym
so
she
serued
hym
so
well
that
he
helde
hym
conten
te
meruayllously
.
For
he
founde
neuer
so
good
a
seruaunt
/
&
this
same
woman
called
herseite
Sagurat
Daffynoly
.
This
Saguyr
Ferant
that
wente
agayne
in
to
the
shyp
&
Sagurat
daffynoly
with
hym
wente
so
moche
by
see
tyll
he
came
in
to
Alexandre
/
and
there
he
bought
faucons
ryght
fayre
&
good
/
horses
also
.
And
after
that
he
wente
towarde
the
Sowdan
of
Babylone
with
whom
he
had
good
frendeshyp
/
and
when
he
had
byden
there
a
whyle
and
the
Sowdan
aduysed
well
this
Sagurat
Daffynoly
the
whiche
serued
so
dylygently
his
mayster
/
and
the
whiche
semed
to
hym
so
fayre
and
gracyous
that
he
pleased
hym
meruayllously
so
moche
that
he
prayed
this
Saguyr
Ferant
that
he
wolde
gyue
hym
to
hym
/
and
he
wolde
make
hym
a
grete
mayster
/
and
he
graunted
hym
ayenst
his
wyl
.
And
to
saye
shortely
soo
well
this
Sagurat
Daffynoly
serued
the
Sowdan
that
he
trusted
no
man
so
moche
as
he
dyde
hym
/
and
was
so
grete
mayster
aboute
hym
that
he
gouerned
all
.
It
hap
pened
that
in
a
towne
of
the
Sowdans
sholde
be
a
grete
fayre
where
marchauntes
came
of
all
partyes
/
the
Sowdan
ordeyned
Sagurat
that
he
sholde
go
in
to
that
towne
to
kepe
the
fayre
/
&
to
take
hede
of
his
ryght
.
And
as
it
happened
as
god
wol
de
that
to
that
fayre
was
come
with
other
Italyens
that
brought
many
Iewelles
this
false
Ambrose
aboue
sayd
/
whiche
was
gretely
enryched
with
the
goodes
of
Barnabo
.
Sagurat
that
was
lyeutenaunt
of
the
towne
of
the
Sowdans
was
gretely
worshypped
of
all
people
/
&
for
he
was
a
grete
lorde
and
a
grete
mayster
the
marchauntes
brought
to
hym
euery
day
Iewelles
to
selle
.
So
amonge
others
there
came
to
hym
that
same
Ambrose
/
&
as
he
had
opened
a
lytell
cofre
full
of
Iewelles
before
Sagurat
to
the
entente
that
he
sholde
se
them
And
in
this
cofre
was
the
purse
&
the
gyrdell
before
sayd
/
by
the
whiche
as
soone
as
Sagurat
sawe
it
he
knewe
it
well
and
toke
it
in
his
hande
&
behelde
it
strongely
meruayllynge
gretely
howe
they
myght
come
thyder
.
And
Ambrose
that
but
lytell
thought
of
that
aduenture
began
to
laughe
ryght
faste
/
and
Sagurat
that
sawe
hym
laughe
sayd
to
hym
Frende
I
suppose
that
thou
laughest
of
that
/
that
I
muse
to
beholde
this
womans
thynge
/
and
forsothe
it
is
ryght
fayre
.
And
Ambrose
answered
him
My
lorde
it
is
at
your
commaundement
.
But
I
laughe
for
that
that
I
bethynke
me
of
the
manere
howe
I
had
it
.
So
god
gyue
me
Ioye
sayd
Sagurant
I
praye
the
tell
me
howe
thou
haddest
it
.
By
my
faythe
sayd
Ambrose
I
shall
tell
you
howe
I
gate
it
/
I
had
it
of
a
fayre
gentylwoman
that
gaue
it
me
with
whome
I
laye
all
a
hole
nyght
.
And
moreouer
besyde
that
I
gate
fyue
thousande
Floryns
of
good
golde
for
a
wager
that
I
dyde
make
with
the
folyss
he
husbande
of
her
that
is
named
Barnabo
whiche
durst
so
lewdely
laye
it
with
me
that
I
sholde
not
lye
with
his
wyfe
/
and
nowe
the
vnhappy
man
hath
slayne
her
also
.
But
he
hathe
better
deserued
to
be
punysshed
than
she
.
For
a
man
may
well
knowe
that
euery
woman
is
frayle
and
lyght
to
ouercome
.
Soo
there
is
no
man
that
ought
to
haue
affyaunce
in
a
woman
.
Then
knewe
Sagurat
the
cause
of
the
wrathe
of
her
housbande
that
she
knewe
neuer
before
.
But
as
a
ryght
prudent
and
stable
wysely
she
dyssymyled
vnto
the
tyme
that
it
come
to
the
poynte
.
So
she
made
semblaunt
to
haue
ryght
grete
solace
of
this
thynge
/
&
she
sayd
to
hym
that
he
was
ryght
a
good
felawe
/
and
that
he
wolde
haue
hym
ryght
specyally
in
frendeshyp
/
&
that
he
wolde
that
he
sholde
abyde
and
bye
marchaundyse
for
them
bothe
/
and
that
he
wolde
take
hym
ynoughe
wherof
in
his
handes
.
Of
that
Am
brose
hadde
grete
Ioye
.
And
forth
with
Sagurat
made
to
delyuer
hym
an
house
.
And
for
to
deceyue
hym
the
better
she
toke
hym
money
in
his
handes
And
shewed
hym
so
grete
sygne
of
loue
that
he
was
alwaye
with
hym
.
And
she
made
hym
to
tell
that
Iape
before
the
Sowdan
to
make
hym
to
laughe
And
to
saye
shortely
howe
the
thynge
was
determyned
.
So
moche
Sagurat
dyde
and
pourchased
that
she
dyde
so
moche
to
the
Ieneuoys
that
were
in
that
countre
after
that
that
she
knewe
the
estate
of
Baruabo
that
was
fallen
in
pouerte
.
what
for
the
grete
fynaunce
that
he
had
payed
/
and
for
the
grete
sorowe
that
he
toke
therfore
that
Barna
bo
sholde
come
ouer
in
to
that
countre
by
the
com
maundement
of
the
Sowdan
/
and
to
make
the
tale
shorte
/
when
he
was
come
in
to
that
countre
he
came
before
the
Sowdan
.
And
anone
Sagurat
made
seke
after
Ambrose
.
But
or
he
came
he
had
wel
enfourmed
the
Sowdan
howe
Ambrose
lyed
in
makynge
his
auaunte
that
he
made
of
this
woman
.
And
she
prayed
hym
also
that
in
case
that
the
trou●he
come
to
knowlege
that
he
wolde
punysshe
Iustely
the
sayd
Ambrose
/
the
whiche
thynge
when
Ambrose
&
Barnabo
were
come
before
the
Sowdan
/
Sagurat
began
to
saye
in
this
maner
.
Ambrose
it
pleaseth
to
our
lorde
that
is
here
that
thou
tell
the
Iape
all
alonge
howe
thou
dydest
gete
of
Barnabo
that
here
is
.v.
thousande
floryns
wher
of
thou
haste
tolde
hym
by
what
maner
thou
dyde
lye
with
his
wyfe
.
And
then
Ambrose
chaunged
coloure
as
he
to
whom
the
trouthe
myght
vnethes
suffre
to
couer
soo
an
vntrue
fraude
/
for
it
was
to
hym
a
sodayne
thynge
of
the
whiche
he
toke
no
hede
.
Then
he
toke
to
hym
a
lytell
maner
and
answered
.
My
lorde
it
is
no
force
thoughe
I
tell
it
not
.
Barnabo
knoweth
well
ynoughe
.
I
haue
shame
of
his
shame
.
And
then
Barnabo
full
of
sorowe
&
of
shame
prayed
that
he
myght
neuer
here
of
it
more
/
and
that
he
wolde
lette
hym
leue
.
But
Sagurat
answered
as
in
laughynge
that
he
sholde
not
go
/
and
that
it
was
conuenyent
that
he
lete
hym
tell
it
.
Then
Ambrose
whiche
sawe
that
he
was
constrayned
began
to
say
all
with
a
tremblynge
voyce
that
he
had
made
Barnabo
to
vnderstande
and
all
as
he
had
tolde
them
.
And
when
he
had
ended
his
reason
Sagurat
asked
of
Barnabo
yf
it
were
true
that
Ambrose
had
sayd
/
and
he
answered
and
sayd
ye
without
fayle
.
And
howe
sayd
Sagurat
be
ye
well
certayne
that
this
man
here
laye
with
your
wyfe
/
for
that
that
he
tolde
to
you
certayne
tokens
/
be
you
suche
a
beest
that
you
can
not
knowe
that
by
wayes
ynowe
fraudelently
he
myght
knowe
the
facyon
of
her
body
without
lyenge
with
her
/
and
ye
haue
for
this
cause
made
your
wyfe
to
dye
/
ye
are
worthy
to
dye
yourselfe
for
ye
haue
no
suffycyent
profe
.
Then
Barnabo
had
grete
drede
And
then
Sagurat
that
wolde
no
longer
be
styll
and
that
her
semed
tyme
to
speke
sayd
to
Ambrose
False
traytoure
saye
the
trouthe
without
makynge
the
to
be
tourmented
.
And
the
woman
of
whom
y●
auauntest
the
is
not
yet
deed
/
but
she
is
not
ferre
hens
to
say
the
contrary
to
thy
false
lesynges
.
For
y●
touched
her
neuer
.
There
was
a
grete
assemble
/
what
of
lordes
of
the
Sowdans
as
of
grete
foyson
of
Lombardes
whiche
meruayllously
herkened
this
thynge
.
And
to
saye
it
shortely
this
Ambrose
was
so
ledde
that
he
confessed
before
the
Sowdan
and
all
the
people
all
the
fraude
/
and
howe
he
had
wrought
by
coueytyse
to
gete
those
.v.
thousande
Floryns
.
when
Barnabo
herde
this
almost
he
was
out
of
hymselfe
/
for
that
he
wyste
none
other
but
that
his
wyfe
was
slayne
.
But
the
good
woman
came
to
hym
and
sayd
/
what
woldest
thou
gyue
hym
that
wolde
yelde
the
thy
wyfe
agayne
alyue
hole
and
chaste
Barnabo
answered
&
sayd
that
he
wolde
gyue
all
that
euer
he
coude
make
in
the
worlde
.
And
then
she
sayd
vnto
hym
.
Barnabo
broder
and
frende
/
howe
is
that
thou
knowest
not
her
.
And
as
he
was
abasshed
that
he
wyst
not
what
he
dyde
she
vnbotened
her
brest
and
sayd
to
hym
I
am
thy
dere
felawe
that
thou
haste
condempned
to
the
dethe
without
cause
.
And
then
they
embraced
eche
other
in
meruayllous
grete
Ioy
.
And
the
Sowdan
and
all
the
people
was
gretely
admeruayled
of
this
thynge
/
and
ryght
gretely
pray
sed
the
grete
vertue
of
this
woman
/
and
they
gaue
her
grete
gyftes
.
And
all
the
goodes
that
was
perteynynge
to
Ambrose
was
gyuen
to
her
/
and
he
was
put
vnto
the
dethe
ryght
myscheuously
/
And
ryght
so
Barnabo
and
the
good
woman
his
wyfe
tourned
home
agayne
in
to
theyr
countree
/
and
there
they
lyued
togyder
longe
tyme
after
in
prosperyte
and
Ioye
.
¶
Here
it
sheweth
howe
after
that
/
that
Ryghtwysnesse
had
tolde
of
these
constaunce
/
my
lady
Xp̄ine
asked
her
yf
it
be
true
that
dyuers
men
saye
that
there
ben
but
fewe
women
true
in
theyr
amourouse
lyfe
/
and
therto
answered
ryghtwysnes
.
Capitulo
.liij.
WHen
my
lady
ryghtwysenesse
had
tolde
me
all
these
thynges
and
ynoughe
of
others
whiche
I
leue
for
shortnesse
So
as
of
Loonce
that
was
a
woman
of
Grece
/
the
whiche
wolde
neuer
for
tourmentes
that
ony
man
wolde
do
to
her
accuse
two
men
with
that
whiche
she
was
aquaynted
/
but
cutte
of
her
tonge
with
her
tethe
before
the
Iuge
to
put
hym
out
of
hope
that
she
sholde
tell
hym
by
strengthe
of
tourmentes
.
And
ynowe
of
other
ladyes
&
gentylwomen
whiche
were
of
constaunte
courage
that
they
had
leuer
to
drynke
poyson
and
dye
/
than
to
bowe
ayenst
ryght
and
trouthe
.
And
then
I
sayd
to
her
/
Madame
ye
haue
shewed
me
ynoughe
grete
constaunce
in
the
courage
of
women
and
all
other
vertues
/
that
truely
there
maye
no
more
be
sayd
of
no
man
.
Soo
I
meruayle
me
gretely
howe
so
many
worshypfull
ladyes
that
haue
ben
so
wyse
&
so
well
lettred
/
&
that
haue
goten
the
fayre
style
of
endytynge
&
to
make
fayre
bokes
hath
suffred
so
longe
without
sayenge
the
contrary
so
many
errours
to
be
wytnessed
ayenst
them
by
dyuers
men
when
that
they
knewe
well
that
it
was
of
grete
wronge
.
¶
Answere
/
my
dere
frende
this
questyon
is
lyght
ynoughe
to
assoyle
/
thou
mayst
se
by
that
that
is
sayd
before
/
that
the
grete
vertues
of
these
ladyes
of
whome
I
haue
tolde
y●
here
aboue
in
dyuers
werkes
dyfferenced
one
frome
another
ententyfely
occupyed
and
not
all
in
one selfe
thynge
.
This
werke
was
reserued
to
the
to
make
and
not
to
them
/
an
to
people
of
good
vnderstandynge
/
the
women
were
praysed
ynoughe
without
other
wrytynge
.
And
as
to
the
longnesse
of
tyme
passed
without
gayne
saynge
all
thynges
cometh
well
to
poynte
/
&
ynoughe
to
the
beholdynge
of
the
longe
worlde
/
how
longe
suffreth
god
heresyes
to
be
in
the
worlde
ayenst
the
holy
lawe
/
whiche
yet
endureth
that
he
hathe
not
destroyed
them
.
So
it
is
of
many
other
thynges
that
ben
suffred
longe
without
gayne
sayenge
&
syth
they
be
reproued
at
the
last
¶
Then
I
Xp̄ine
sayd
to
her
.
Madame
ye
say
passynge
well
.
But
I
yelde
me
certayne
/
that
many
noyses
groweth
amonge
the
euyll
sayers
of
this
present
werke
/
whiche
wyll
saye
that
yf
it
be
true
that
some
women
haue
ben
/
&
ben
good
/
yet
they
be
not
so
al
¶
Answere
.
what
meruayle
thoughe
they
be
not
all
noted
/
that
of
the
company
of
Ihesu
cryst
there
were
but
.xij.
yet
was
one
ryght
euyll
/
&
these
men
durst
saye
that
all
women
sholde
be
good
/
what
shol
de
they
be
than
I
suppose
when
all
men
be
parfyte
that
the
women
shall
folowe
them
.
¶
I
Xp̄ine
answered
.
Madame
nowe
let
vs
leue
thyse
questyons
/
but
a
lytel
yssuynge
out
of
termes
wherof
we
haue
spoken
tyll
nowe
/
ryght
gladly
I
wolde
make
you
some
demaundes
to
the
same
purpose
yf
that
I
knewe
that
it
sholde
not
noy
you
/
for
that
that
the
mater
thoughe
it
be
founded
vpon
the
lawe
of
kynde
/
it
cometh
not
all
by
the
attemperynge
of
reason
.
And
she
answered
vnto
me
/
dere
frende
/
say
what
thou
wylte
.
For
the
dyscyple
that
asketh
of
the
mayster
ought
not
to
be
reproued
thoughe
he
aske
that
he
desyreth
to
knowe
.
Madame
there
renneth
in
the
worlde
a
naturall
lawe
of
men
to
women
/
and
women
to
men
/
not
the
lawe
made
by
the
stablynge
of
people
/
but
by
carnal
enclynacyon
by
the
whiche
they
loue
eche
other
of
ryght
grete
and
stronge
loue
by
one
pleasaunt
tyme
/
&
so
they
knowe
not
to
what
cause
ne
wherfore
suche
loue
one
of
another
is
fyxed
in
them
.
And
in
this
loue
that
is
comune
ynoughe
&
it
is
called
y●
amourous
lyfe
/
the
men
say
comunely
that
women
thoughe
they
promyse
/
there
he
but
fe
we
abydynge
in
one
place
/
&
of
lytell
loue
.
Ryght
subtyll
&
faynte
/
&
all
that
cometh
of
the
lyghtnesse
of
theyr
courage
.
And
amonge
all
other
auctours
y●
accuseth
them
of
that
Ouyde
in
his
boke
of
the
crafte
of
loue
gyueth
them
ryght
grete
charge
/
&
this
Ouyde
sayth
&
others
in
the
same
wyse
when
they
haue
blamed
ynoughe
the
women
vpon
that
thynge
that
they
put
in
theyr
bokes
as
well
of
the
descyuable
condycyons
of
them
as
of
theyr
wyckednesse
that
they
doo
it
for
the
comune
welthe
to
the
entente
to
aduyse
the
men
of
theyr
cauteyles
the
better
to
eschewe
them
/
so
as
of
the
serpent
whiche
is
hydde
vnder
an
herbe
.
So
please
it
you
myne
owne
lady
to
teche
me
the
trouth
\ this
thynge
.
¶
Answere
.
My
dere
frende
as
to
that
that
they
say
that
women
be
desceyuable
I
wote
not
what
I
shall
say
to
the
more
.
For
thyselfe
hath
treated
suffycyentely
ynoughe
of
this
matter
/
as
well
ayenst
this
Ouyde
as
ayenst
others
in
thyne
epystle
of
the
god
of
loue
.
And
in
the
epystles
vpon
the
Romaunce
of
the
rose
.
But
vpon
the
poynte
that
thou
hast
touched
to
me
/
that
they
saye
that
they
doo
yet
for
the
comune
welthe
.
I
shall
shewe
the
that
it
was
nothynge
for
that
cause
/
&
se
here
the
reason
.
The
comune
profyte
in
a
Cyte
/
or
a
countre
/
or
in
comunalte
of
people
is
none
other
thynge
but
one
profyte
/
&
the
generall
welthe
is
of
the
whiche
eche
one
hath
his
parte
.
But
the
thynge
that
sholde
be
done
in
profyte
some
and
not
to
some
/
sholde
be
called
the
pryuate
welthe
or
propre
/
&
not
the
comune
.
And
yet
that
shall
do
the
lesse
good
that
is
taken
away
from
one
and
gyuen
to
another
.
And
this
thynge
ought
to
be
called
not
pryuate
welthe
or
propre
/
but
ryght
grete
extorcyon
made
to
another
in
fauoure
of
the
partye
.
So
thou
mayst
se
&
perceyue
clerely
that
they
do
it
fauourably
&
in
preiudyce
of
one
parte
to
his
gryefe
to
sustayne
that
other
.
For
they
spake
not
to
the
women
in
aduysynge
them
that
they
kepe
them
from
the
awaytes
of
men
.
And
yet
it
is
a
thynge
ryght
certayne
often
tymes
that
they
desceyue
women
by
theyr
cauteylous
&
false
semblaunt
.
And
it
is
noo
doubte
that
the
women
be
as
well
in
the
nombre
of
the
creatures
erthely
as
be
the
men
.
Then
I
conclude
that
they
sholde
do
for
the
comune
welthe
that
is
to
vnderstande
of
.ij.
partes
they
sholde
haue
spoken
as
well
to
the
women
that
they
sholde
beware
of
the
men
as
they
haue
done
to
the
men
to
beware
of
the
women
.
But
for
to
leue
to
goo
to
questyon
and
in
folowynge
the
other
/
that
is
to
vnderstande
that
women
be
not
of
so
lytell
loue
there
as
theyr
hartes
is
sette
&
that
they
be
more
stabler
than
they
say
/
it
shall
suffyse
to
proue
it
by
ensample
of
them
that
haue
perceyuered
vnto
the
dethe
.
And
fyrst
I
shal
tell
the
of
the
noble
Dydo
quene
of
Cartage
of
whome
it
is
spo
ken
here
aboue
of
her
grete
valoure
as
thyselfe
ha
the
touched
other
tymes
.
¶
Here
it
speketh
of
Dydo
quene
of
Cartage
to
the
purpose
that
loue
is
stable
in
a
woman
.
Ca.
liiij
.
SO
as
it
is
sayd
aboue
.
Dydo
quene
of
Cartage
beynge
in
her
cyte
in
Ioy
and
peas
reygnynge
gloryously
come
by
fortune
Eneas
fledde
frome
Troye
after
the
destruccyon
of
the
Duke
&
capytayne
of
many
Troyans
cast
by
dyuers
tempestes
/
theyr
shyppes
broken
/
theyr
vytayles
fayled
/
&
grete
losse
of
people
.
Desyrous
of
rest
weary
of
rouynge
by
the
see
/
busy
to
gete
lodgynge
/
aryued
at
the
porte
of
Cartage
/
&
as
for
doubte
of
mysta
kynge
he
wolde
not
be
so
hardy
to
take
londe
with
out
lycence
of
that
of
the
quene
/
but
sente
to
her
to
knowe
whyder
it
pleased
her
or
no.
But
the
noble
lady
full
of
worshyp
and
of
worthynes
whiche
knewe
well
that
the
Troyans
were
of
more
reputacyon
for
the
tyme
/
then
was
ony
nacyon
of
the
worlde
.
And
that
this
Duke
Eneas
was
of
the
noble
blode
royall
of
Troye
.
She
gaue
hym
not
onely
lycence
that
he
sholde
take
the
lande
/
But
she
herselfe
with
a
noble
company
of
lordes
/
and
ladyes
/
and
gentyl
women
came
agaynst
hym
vnto
the
see
syde
/
and
receyued
hym
&
all
his
company
with
grete
worshyp
/
she
ledde
hym
in
to
her
cyte
and
gretely
worshypped
hym
/
feested
hym
/
&
eased
hym
/
why
sholde
I
make
the
tale
longe
.
So
longe
Eneas
was
there
at
soiourne
/
ease
/
and
reste
/
that
he
thought
but
lytell
of
all
the
tourmentes
that
he
had
before
And
so
moche
was
theyr
hauntynge
/
the
loue
whiche
subtylly
can
sette
harteson
fyre
made
that
one
to
loue
that
other
.
But
after
that
that
experyence
shewed
she
loued
moche
better
Eneas
than
he
dyde
her
.
For
notwithstandynge
that
he
had
gyuen
to
her
his
faythe
that
he
sholde
neuer
take
other
woman
/
but
that
he
sholde
be
hers
euermore
/
he
departed
after
that
/
that
she
had
refresshed
hym
with
good
and
ease
/
his
shyppes
garnysshed
full
of
treasoure
and
goodes
/
as
she
that
had
not
spared
her
goodes
there
as
the
herte
was
holly
sette
wente
away
without
takynge
leue
by
nyght
ryght
tray
tourously
without
knowynge
of
her
/
and
thus
he
payed
his
hostesse
.
The
whiche
departynge
was
to
her
so
grete
sorowe
of
hym
that
she
loued
so
moche
that
she
wolde
forsake
all
Ioye
&
her
lyfe
also
.
And
in
dede
after
that
she
had
wepte
and
wayled
ynoughe
she
cast
herselfe
in
a
grete
fyre
that
she
lete
make
/
and
so
she
brente
herselfe
.
And
others
say
that
she
slewe
herselfe
with
the
swerde
of
Eneas
.
And
thus
pyteously
ended
the
noble
quene
Dydo
the
whiche
had
ben
so
gretly
worshypped
that
she
passed
in
renowne
all
other
women
in
her
tyme
.
¶
Of
Medea
the
true
Louer
.
Ca.
lv
.
MEdea
doughter
of
the
kynge
of
Colcos
whiche
had
so
moche
vnderstan
dynge
loued
ofto
grete
loue
and
stable
Iason
.
This
Iason
was
a
knyght
of
Grece
ryght
manly
in
armes
.
He
herde
tell
that
in
y●
I
le
of
Colcos
whiche
was
in
the
countre
of
whiche
the
fader
of
Medea
was
kynge
/
there
was
a
shepe
that
semed
as
impossyble
to
conquere
.
And
yet
it
was
prophecyed
that
by
a
knyght
it
sholde
be
conquered
.
Iason
whiche
vnderstode
this
thynge
/
as
ryght
desyrous
to
encreas
his
renowne
from
good
to
better
/
departed
from
Grece
with
a
grete
company
to
the
entente
to
proue
hym
in
this
conquest
.
And
as
he
was
aryued
in
the
foresayd
countre
of
Colcos
/
the
kynge
of
the
londe
sayd
to
hym
that
it
was
impossyble
that
by
the
prowesse
of
armes
of
man
the
golden
fleece
myght
be
goten
.
For
it
was
a
thynge
made
by
enchautement
/
and
y●
as
many
knyghtes
as
assayed
it
were
perysshed
.
So
he
wolde
not
that
he
sholde
lese
his
lyfe
in
suche
manere
.
And
Iason
sayd
shortely
that
syth
he
had
taken
the
enterpryse
in
hande
he
wolde
not
leue
to
dye
therfore
.
Medea
the
dou
ghter
of
the
kynge
whiche
sawe
Iason
of
suche
beaute
&
o●
so
grete
renowne
/
&
of
the
lygnage
of
a
kynge
semed
that
he
were
a
good
maryage
for
her
/
&
that
he
myght
the
better
employe
his
loue
to
her
she
thought
to
kepe
hym
from
the
dethe
.
For
grete
pyte
toke
her
that
suche
a
knyght
sholde
perysshe
so
.
So
she
spake
to
hym
longe
&
at
laysoure
/
&
to
say
shortely
she
toke
hym
charmes
&
enchauntementesas
she
that
coude
all
/
&
taught
hym
all
the
maner
howe
&
by
what
waye
he
sholde
conquere
the
golden
fleece
so
the
Iason
sholde
promyse
her
to
take
her
to
wyfe
without
hauynge
other
/
&
to
loue
her
truely
.
But
of
this
promyse
lyed
Iason
.
For
after
that
that
he
was
come
to
his
entente
he
lefte
her
for
another
/
wherof
as
sone
as
he
had
lefte
her
she
fell
in
suche
dyspayre
that
there
was
neuer
after
Ioy
in
her
herte
¶
Of
Tysbe
the
mayden
.
Ca
▪
lvj
.
OUyde
telleth
in
his
booke
of
Methamorphoseos
that
in
the
cyte
of
Babylone
were
.ij.
noble
&
ryche
Cytezynes
ryght
nyghe
neyghboures
that
the
walles
of
theyr
houses
that
they
dwelled
in
Ioyned
togvder
.
These
.ij.
men
had
.ij.
chyldren
fayre
aboue
all
others
/
that
one
a
sone
that
was
named
Pyra
mys
/
and
that
other
a
doughter
whiche
was
named
Tysbe
.
These
.ij.
chyldren
whiche
yet
were
without
malyce
/
as
of
the
age
of
.vij.
yeres
loued
so
parfytely
togyder
that
they
myght
not
abyde
one
frome
another
.
And
it
was
theyr
guyse
alwaye
that
euery
day
to
ryse
in
the
mornynge
togyder
to
take
theyr
refeccyon
of
theyr
faders
for
to
go
to
play
with
other
chyldren
of
theyr
age
to
the
entente
that
they
myght
be
alway
togyder
/
&
at
al
theyr
playes
one
myght
se
them
togyder
/
&
thus
endure
tyll
they
were
waxen
grete
/
&
as
they
grewe
in
age
so
encreased
the
flambes
of
theyr
loue
/
so
moche
that
by
theyr
hauntynge
they
were
perceyued
/
&
so
some
had
suspeccyon
by
the
whiche
it
was
reported
to
the
moder
of
Tysbe
The
whiche
toke
suche
wrathe
of
this
thynge
that
she
shytte
her
faste
in
her
chambres
/
and
sayd
that
she
wolde
kepe
her
well
ynoughe
fro
the
hauntynge
of
Pyramys
.
Of
this
pryson
were
ryght
sorowfull
these
two
louers
that
theyr
wepynges
&
com
playntes
were
ryght
pyteous
.
And
so
was
this
sorowe
to
them
ryght
harde
for
that
none
of
theym
myght
se
other
.
This
dystresse
endured
passynge
longe
/
the
whiche
made
not
lesse
theyr
loue
/
ne
made
them
nothynge
the
slower
for
so
moche
as
they
sawe
not
eche
other
but
alway
encreased
the
hete
of
theyr
age
/
so
moche
that
they
were
come
to
the
age
of
.xv.
yeres
.
It
happened
on
a
daye
so
as
fortune
wolde
that
Thysbe
that
thought
alwaye
in
her
loue
all
wepynge
in
her
chambre
beholdynge
the
walle
that
was
bytwene
the
.ij.
houses
in
sayenge
pyteously
.
O
thou
walle
of
harde
stone
whiche
makest
the
departynge
bytwene
my
loue
and
me
/
yf
there
were
ony
pyte
in
the
thou
woldest
cleue
in
sondre
to
the
entente
that
I
myght
se
hym
that
I
haue
desyred
so
moche
.
And
as
she
sayd
these
wordes
/
she
sawe
by
aduenture
in
a
corner
the
walle
cleued
by
the
whiche
she
perceyued
the
lyght
of
that
other
parte
/
and
then
she
dygged
in
the
clefte
with
the
pendant
of
her
gyrdell
/
for
other
toole
had
she
none
/
the
hole
encreased
so
moche
the
she
put
thrughe
the
pendant
/
to
the
entente
that
Pyramys
sholde
perceyue
it
.
The
whiche
thynge
happened
as
by
this
token
these
.ij.
louers
often
tymes
assembled
to
speke
togyder
in
the
foresayd
hole
where
they
made
theyr
pyteous
complayntes
.
And
at
the
last
constrayned
by
grete
loue
they
toke
counsayle
that
they
wolde
stele
awaye
by
nyght
fro
theyr
faders
and
moders
.
And
that
eche
of
them
sholde
fynde
other
at
a
welle
vnder
a
whyte
mulbery
tre
/
where
they
were
wonte
to
playe
in
theyr
youthe
.
And
as
Tysbe
whiche
loued
more
was
the
fyrst
come
to
the
welle
abydynge
her
loue
/
she
beynge
aferde
of
a
lyon
that
she
herde
comynge
to
drynke
at
the
well
she
fled
to
hyde
her
in
a
busshe
there
by
.
And
in
goynge
she
lete
fall
a
whyte
couerchefe
the
whiche
the
lyon
founde
/
and
caste
vpon
it
the
entrayles
of
beestes
that
he
had
deuoured
/
Pyramys
came
or
that
Tysbe
durste
come
out
of
the
busshe
.
And
for
that
he
founde
the
couerchefe
of
Tysbe
whiche
he
perceyued
by
the
mone
lyght
charged
with
the
entraylles
/
trowed
verely
that
his
loue
was
deuoured
.
So
he
had
so
grete
sorowe
that
he
slewe
hymselfe
with
his
swerde
.
And
as
he
was
in
dyenge
Tysbe
came
whiche
founde
hym
in
that
poynt
and
by
the
token
of
the
couerchefe
that
she
sawe
hym
haue
in
his
hande
she
knewe
the
cause
of
the
euyll
aduenture
/
wherof
she
had
suche
sorowe
that
she
wolde
lyue
no
longer
.
And
when
she
sawe
that
the
spyryte
of
her
loue
was
out
of
his
body
after
many
grete
●amentacyons
that
she
made
she
slewe
herselfe
with
the
same
swerde
.
¶
Of
the
good
woman
Hero.
Ca.
lvij
.
THe
noble
yonge
woman
Hero
loued
not
moche
lesse
the
Hander
than
dyde
Tysbe
Pyramys
.
For
as
this
Hander
to
kepe
the
worshyp
of
her
loued
better
to
put
hym
in
grete
peryll
than
she
sholde
be
blamed
for
hym
/
to
the
entente
that
theyr
loue
myght
endure
the
longer
/
without
espyenge
of
ony
people
/
he
toke
suche
a
maner
to
se
his
lady
often
tymes
.
He
rose
by
nyght
from
his
bedde
to
the
entente
that
no
man
sholde
knowe
it
.
And
wente
alone
to
an
arme
of
the
see
ryght
large
whiche
was
called
Herles
&
passed
ouer
swymmynge
tyll
he
came
to
a
castell
named
Habydon
that
stode
vpon
the
ryuere
in
that
other
syde
where
y●
Hero
dwelled
whiche
abode
at
a
wyndowe
/
&
in
the
longe
nyghtes
of
wynter
helde
out
a
bronde
of
fyre
at
the
wyndo
we
to
the
entente
that
he
sholde
come
the
ryght
way
thyder
.
These
.ij.
louers
contynued
this
lyfe
many
yeres
tyll
fortune
had
enuye
of
theyr
solacyous
lyfe
/
&
thought
to
trouble
theym
.
For
as
it
happened
on
a
tyme
of
wynter
that
by
the
woodnesse
of
the
see
the
ryuere
was
full
of
tempest
&
passynge
depe
&
peryllous
/
the
whiche
tempest
durynge
so
longe
without
seasynge
that
they
thought
it
ryght
longe
y●
one
to
se
that
other
whiche
was
ryght
noyous
to
the
.ij.
louers
and
gretely
they
complayned
them
of
the
wynde
&
of
the
tempest
that
endured
so
longe
At
the
last
the
Hander
whome
grete
desyre
chased
by
that
that
he
sawe
in
a
nyght
the
bronde
at
the
wyndowe
y●
Hero
helde
It
semed
hym
that
she
called
hym
and
he
thought
grete
cowardyse
that
he
put
hym
not
in
peryll
/
&
that
he
wente
not
/
for
drede
of
whiche
he
doubted
hym
.
And
she
wolde
fayne
defende
him
that
he
sholde
not
go
to
put
hym
in
suche
peryll
yf
she
myght
.
Notwithstandynge
she
helde
out
that
bronde
at
aduenture
to
teche
hym
the
ryght
way
yf
he
wolde
nedes
do
it
.
So
thus
happened
the
vnhappy
aduenture
that
the
Hander
put
hymselfe
in
the
ryuere
&
myght
not
stryue
agaynst
the
flode
of
the
water
whiche
bare
hym
soo
ferre
that
he
must
nedes
drowne
.
The
good
Hero
to
whom
her
herte
gaue
as
it
happened
seased
neuer
wepynge
.
And
when
the
clere
day
appered
as
she
that
slepte
not
wente
agay
ne
to
the
wyndowe
where
she
had
ben
all
the
nyght
And
she
sawe
the
body
of
her
loue
flete
vpon
the
water
nyghe
the
brynke
.
She
that
wolde
not
lyue
no
longe
after
caste
her
in
to
the
see
/
&
dyde
so
moche
that
she
●oke
her
loue
in
her
armes
/
and
so
dyed
/
and
thus
she
was
perysshed
.
¶
Of
Sysmonde
doughter
of
the
prynce
of
Salerne
.
Ca.
lviij
.
BOcace
telleth
in
the
boke
of
Cent
Nou
uelles
that
a
prynce
of
Salerne
named
Cancre
had
a
fayre
doughter
ryght
gentyll
&
courtoys
whiche
was
named
Sysmonde
.
He
loued
this
doughter
of
soo
grete
loue
that
with
grete
payne
he
wolde
accorde
vnto
the
styrynge
of
his
lordes
to
marye
her
to
the
Erle
of
Champayne
.
But
as
she
that
sholde
not
abyde
longe
in
maryage
/
this
Erle
dyed
and
the
fader
toke
her
home
agayne
to
hym
/
thynkynge
neuer
to
marye
her
agayne
.
The
lady
whiche
was
nourysshed
tenderly
/
and
was
ryght
fayre
/
&
in
the
floure
of
her
youthe
.
And
whiche
that
knewe
the
wyll
of
her
fader
that
she
sholde
be
maryed
agayne
wente
and
aduysed
her
amonge
all
the
seruauntes
of
her
fader
of
a
squyer
the
whiche
aboue
al
the
others
thoughe
there
were
grete
foyson
of
knyghtes
and
gentyll
men
he
semed
to
her
fayre
and
good
/
&
worthy
to
be
loued
.
And
so
moche
that
she
thought
to
passe
her
youthe
more
Ioy
ously
to
take
her
pleasaunce
.
And
longe
tyme
or
she
wolde
dyscouer
this
thynge
she
behelde
euery
day
when
she
sate
at
her
faders
table
the
maner
/
countenaunce
/
and
condycyons
of
the
squyer
whiche
was
named
Guyscart
so
moche
that
from
day
to
day
he
semed
to
her
more
parfyte
amonge
all
thynges
.
By
the
whiche
she
called
hym
on
a
day
before
her
&
sayd
to
hym
in
this
manere
/
Guyscart
fayre
frende
the
trust
that
I
haue
in
your
bounte
/
beaute
/
&
wysdome
/
counsayleth
me
to
dyscouer
to
you
of
dyuers
thynges
that
toucheth
me
ryght
secrete
the
whiche
I
wolde
not
tell
to
none
other
body
.
But
I
wolde
or
that
I
tell
it
you
to
haue
your
trouthe
that
shal
neuer
be
opened
by
you
.
Guyscart
an
swered
.
Madame
you
nede
not
to
doubte
that
there
shall
be
nothynge
knowne
by
me
that
ye
tell
me
/
and
for
that
I
assure
you
by
my
trouthe
.
And
then
sayd
Sysmonde
to
hym
/
Guyscarte
knowe
it
for
trouthe
that
my
pleasaunce
is
in
a
gentylman
/
that
I
loue
and
wylloue
/
and
for
that
that
I
may
not
well
speke
to
hym
nor
by
whome
to
sende
hym
my
wyll
.
I
wolde
that
ye
were
meane
of
our
loues
.
Nowe
beholde
yf
I
haue
grete
truste
in
you
aboue
all
others
when
I
wyll
put
myne
honoure
in
your
handes
.
And
there
he
set
hym
on
his
knees
and
sayd
.
Madame
I
knowe
wel
that
ye
haue
suche
wytte
and
goodnesse
that
ye
wolde
not
do
the
thynge
vnconuenable
.
Soo
I
thanke
you
ryght
mekely
that
ye
trust
in
me
more
than
in
another
.
Nowe
commaunde
your
good
pleasure
to
me
your
seruaunt
/
and
I
shall
obey
to
my
power
and
serue
hym
yf
I
knewe
whiche
he
were
that
were
so
happy
to
haue
the
loue
of
a
lady
of
so
grete
worthynesse
/
as
ye
are
.
For
certes
he
hath
not
fayled
of
a
noble
loue
.
When
Sysmonde
that
had
wyll
to
proue
hym
had
herde
hym
speke
so
wysely
.
Then
she
toke
hym
by
the
hande
and
sayd
.
Frende
Guyscart
knowe
it
that
thou
arte
he
that
I
haue
chosen
for
myne
one
ly
loue
/
and
in
whom
I
wyll
take
all
my
pleasaunce
.
For
me
semeth
that
the
noblesse
of
thy
courage
and
the
good
maners
of
whiche
thou
arte
full
yel
deth
the
worthy
to
haue
an
hyghe
loue
.
The
yonge
man
had
grete
Ioye
of
this
thynge
&
thanked
ryght
humbly
/
and
shortely
to
say
/
longe
tyme
con
tynued
theyr
loue
without
that
/
the
ony
tydynges
was
felte
therof
.
But
fortune
enuyous
of
theyr
so
lace
wolde
no
longer
suffre
these
.ij.
louers
in
Ioy
but
tourned
theyr
dysporte
in
to
grete
and
bytter
sorowe
by
meruaylous
aduenture
.
It
fortuned
in
a
somers
day
that
Sysmonde
dysported
her
in
a
gar
dyne
with
her
maydens
/
at
that
houre
her
fader
that
had
none
other
welthe
but
when
he
sawe
her
wen
te
alone
in
to
her
chambre
to
dysporte
hym
with
her
.
But
when
he
founde
the
wyndowes
shytte
and
the
curteynes
of
the
bedde
drawne
/
&
that
there
was
no
body
there
trowed
that
she
had
ben
a
slepe
.
So
he
wolde
not
awake
her
but
layde
hym
on
a
lytell
couche
/
&
there
he
slepte
strongly
.
when
Sysmonde
thought
that
she
had
ben
longe
ynoughe
in
the
gardyne
she
wente
to
her
chambre
&
layde
her
on
her
bedde
as
for
to
slepe
/
all
her
women
were
voyded
&
shytte
the
dore
vpon
her
/
not
perceyuynge
that
her
fader
or
ony
other
was
there
/
&
when
she
sawe
her selfe
alone
she
rose
from
her
bedde
&
wente
to
seke
Guyscart
whiche
was
in
one
of
he
wardrobes
/
&
brought
hym
in
to
her
chambre
.
And
so
as
they
deuysed
bytwene
them
two
within
the
curteyns
as
they
that
trowed
that
they
were
alone
/
the
prynce
awoke
&
vnderstode
that
there
was
a
man
with
his
doughter
/
he
had
so
grete
sorowe
of
the
thynge
that
of
payne
the
consyderacyon
that
he
sholde
dyshonoure
his
doughter
myght
not
kepe
hym
▪
but
that
he
had
departed
them
.
Neuerthelesse
he
suffred
&
vnderstode
wel
who
it
was
/
&
dyde
so
moche
that
he
lepte
out
of
the
chambre
they
not
knowynge
of
hym
.
And
when
these
two
louers
had
ben
ynoughe
togyder
Guyscarte
departed
.
But
the
prynce
that
had
made
watche
vpon
hym
/
anone
he
made
hym
to
be
ta
ken
&
prysoned
hym
.
And
after
wente
to
his
doughter
/
&
they
beynge
alone
in
the
chambre
the
eyesfull
of
teeres
/
and
with
grete
sorowe
began
to
saye
to
her
.
¶
Sygysmonde
I
trowed
to
haue
in
that
a
dou
ghter
aboue
all
women
/
fayre
/
chaste
/
&
wyse
▪
but
of
so
moche
am
I
the
more
ouercome
to
say
as
thoughe
I
had
trowed
the
contrary
.
For
yf
I
had
not
sene
it
with
myne
eyes
there
was
nothynge
that
sholde
haue
made
me
byleue
that
thou
had
be
sup
prysed
with
the
loue
of
ony
man
▪
but
it
had
ben
thyne
housbande
.
But
as
of
that
I
am
certayne
the
sorowe
therof
shall
be
the
tourment
of
myne
age
.
And
of
that
lytell
tyme
that
I
haue
to
lyue
/
&
that
whiche
engrudgeth
moost
my
wrathe
is
that
that
I
trowed
y●
to
be
of
more
noble
courage
then
ony
woman
borne
.
And
I
se
well
the
contrary
/
by
that
y●
thou
hast
taken
the
to
one
of
the
leest
of
myne
housholde
.
For
yf
thou
wolde
haue
done
suche
a
thynge
/
thou
my
ghtest
haue
founde
some
of
more
noblesse
&
worshyp
in
my
courte
then
when
thou
toke
Guyscart
.
To
whome
I
trowe
to
yelde
the
sorowe
that
I
haue
by
his
cause
.
For
I
wolde
that
thou
knowe
it
that
I
shall
make
hym
to
dye
/
&
the
same
wolde
I
do
by
the
yf
I
myght
destroy
fro
myne
herte
the
loue
that
I
haue
in
the
more
gretter
than
euer
fader
had
to
his
doughter
/
whiche
tourneth
me
fro
it
/
when
Sysmonde
vnderstode
this
thynge
&
that
her
fader
condenpned
hym
to
deth
that
she
loued
so
moche
she
was
so
sorowfull
that
she
wolde
fayne
dye
that
houre
/
yet
by
ryght
stable
courage
&
constaunte
chere
with
out
castynge
ony
teeres
out
of
her
eyes
/
thoughe
she
was
dysposed
to
lyue
no
longer
she
answered
thus
Fader
syth
that
it
is
so
that
fortune
hathe
made
that
to
be
knowne
whiche
that
I
wolde
so
fayne
haue
couered
.
I
haue
noo
nede
to
make
noo
request
of
you
/
excepte
yf
I
wyste
to
aske
of
you
remyssyon
&
lyfe
to
hym
that
ye
manace
of
dethe
.
I
wolde
beseche
you
to
take
myne
and
leue
his
.
For
in
that
that
I
aske
you
pardon
/
&
ye
wolde
do
to
hym
as
ye
saye
I
wolde
not
aske
it
.
For
I
wyll
noo
longer
lyue
.
For
of
so
moche
I
make
you
certayne
that
by
his
dethe
ye
shall
sle
me
.
But
of
this
thynge
that
moueth
you
to
so
grete
wrathe
ayenst
vs
/
haue
ye
not
cause
to
take
it
vnto
your
owne
blame
.
For
ye
that
be
of
fless
he
haue
not
ye
engendred
a
doughter
of
fless
he
&
not
of
stone
nor
of
yron
.
And
ye
ought
to
thynke
thoughe
ye
be
olde
/
what
and
howe
grete
is
the
heuynesse
of
youthe
lyuynge
in
delyces
and
at
ease
/
and
the
pryckynges
whiche
are
to
passe
.
And
syth
that
I
sawe
that
ye
thought
neuer
mary
me
agayne
/
&
felynge
me
yonge
&
prycked
with
lustynesse
I
fell
to
loue
this
same
gentylman
and
not
without
a
cause
/
ne
without
grete
delyberacyon
I
consented
and
accorded
to
myne
herte
that
he
desyred
/
yet
or
that
I
aduysed
well
the
condycyons
of
hym
parfyte
in
all
vertues
more
than
ony
other
of
your
courte
/
and
that
ye
may
knowe
your selfe
whiche
haue
nourysshed
hym
/
&
what
other
thynge
is
noblesse
but
vertues
/
for
it
cometh
not
of
fless
he
&
blode
whiche
is
but
donge
/
so
ye
haue
not
cause
to
saye
that
I
haue
taken
me
to
the
leest
noble
of
your
courte
/
and
thus
ye
haue
no
cause
of
wrathe
towarde
vs
/
your
owne
blame
consydered
But
at
all
yf
ye
wyll
take
so
grete
punysshment
of
hym
for
that
trespace
it
perteyneth
not
to
be
taken
but
it
sholde
be
taken
of
wronge
&
of
synne
.
But
it
is
more
ryght
that
I
haue
it
whiche
styred
hym
therto
/
whiche
thought
that
he
ought
to
haue
it
.
For
certes
it
sholde
haue
ben
to
moche
in
the
herte
of
a
vylayne
to
haue
refused
a
lady
of
suche
parentage
Ought
ye
then
to
employe
this
trespace
all
vpon
hym
and
not
vpon
me
.
Then
the
prynce
departed
from
Sysmonde
.
But
yet
he
was
not
appeased
to
warde
Guyscart
/
but
in
the
mornynge
made
hym
to
be
slayne
/
&
commaunded
that
the
herte
sholde
be
taken
out
of
the
body
/
the
whiche
herte
the
fader
put
in
a
ryght
ryche
cuppe
of
golde
/
and
by
a
secremessagere
sent
it
vnto
his
doughter
/
and
he
sholde
say
that
he
sent
her
that
presente
&
to
enioy
of
that
thynge
that
she
loued
moost
.
The
messagere
came
before
Sysmonde
and
made
his
present
and
sayd
that
he
was
charged
therwith
.
And
she
toke
the
cuppe
and
opened
it
/
and
anone
she
knewe
the
aduenture
.
But
thoughe
she
had
sorowe
inestymable
/
she
was
not
dysmayed
of
her
hyghe
courage
/
but
made
her
answere
to
hym
in
this
wyse
without
chaungynge
her
chere
sayenge
.
My
frende
say
to
the
prynce
that
one
thynge
perceyue
I
well
/
that
is
this
/
that
to
so
noble
a
herte
he
hathe
gyuen
suche
a
sepulture
that
perteyneth
to
hym
.
For
other
than
golde
&
precyous
stones
ought
he
not
haue
.
Than
she
stouped
ouer
the
cuppe
and
kyssed
the
herte
/
in
sayenge
pyteously
.
Ha
ryght
swete
herte
herboure
of
all
my
pleasure
.
Cursed
be
the
cruelte
of
that
maketh
me
to
see
the
in
this
plyte
.
ye
were
alwaye
present
in
myne
herte
/
and
the
veray
eyen
of
my
thought
.
Now
hast
thou
passed
the
course
of
thy
noble
lyfe
by
dyuerse
fortunes
/
but
yet
thou
hast
suche
asepul
ture
of
thyne
enemye
as
thy
worthynesse
hath
deserued
/
so
it
pertayneth
well
that
I
do
myn
offyce
that
thou
be
wasshed
&
bayned
with
the
teeres
of
her
that
thou
loued
so
moche
/
and
thou
shalte
not
fayle
therof
/
and
with
that
thy
soule
shal
not
be
longe
without
myne
.
For
that
is
no
reason
but
that
I
shall
make
the
companye
in
short
tyme
/
yet
maulgre
fortune
that
hath
be
to
the
so
contrarye
/
there
is
come
to
the
so
moche
of
wele
nowe
that
my
cruell
fader
bath
sent
y●
to
me
to
th
entent
that
thou
be
more
worshypped
/
and
that
I
speke
to
the
or
that
I
dye
and
that
my
soule
maye
se
thyn
/
of
whom
I
desyre
the
companye
aboue
all
thynge
/
for
I
knowe
well
that
thy
spyryte
desyreth
myne
/
suche
wordes
&
others
ynowe
sayd
Sysinonde
so
pyteous
that
ony
persone
that
harde
it
ought
to
haue
grete
pyte
of
it
.
And
so
depely
she
wepte
that
it
semed
that
she
had
.ij.
welles
in
her
hede
that
ran
without
ceasynge
in
to
the
cup
without
makynge
noyse
or
crye
/
but
with
alowe
voyce
kyssynge
alwaye
the
herte
.
The
ladys
&
gentylwomen
that
were
about
her
had
grete
meruayle
of
this
thynge
/
for
they
knewe
nothynge
of
the
aduenre
/
ne
what
was
the
cause
of
the
grete
sorowe
.
So
they
wept
all
for
pytye
/
and
payned
them
to
recomforte
her
/
but
it
auayled
not
/
&
in
vayne
they
asked
her
moost
pryue
women
the
cause
of
her
sorowe
.
And
she
ouercome
with
meruayllous
sorowe
whan
she
had
wepte
ynough
sayd
.
O
ryght
welbyloued
herte
I
haue
done
al
myne
ossyce
that
longed
to
that
nowe
there
resteth
nought
to
doo
but
to
sende
my
soule
to
make
companye
with
thyne
.
And
with
these
wordes
she
lyfte
her
vp
and
opened
an
almarye
&
toke
out
a
boxe
where
she
had
put
venymous
herbes
to
dyssolue
in
water
/
to
haue
it
redy
whan
the
cause
happed
.
So
she
cast
the
water
in
to
the
cuppe
where
the
herte
was
&
without
ony
maner
drede
dranke
it
all
/
&
layde
her
done
vpon
her
bed
abydynge
the
dethe
holdynge
the
cup
alwaye
ryght
stratly
whan
that
women
sawe
her
body
chaunge
by
sygnes
of
dethe
/
sorowynge
meruayllously
cursed
the
fader
whiche
was
gone
a
lytell
whyle
to
dysporte
hym
.
And
than
he
came
at
the
houre
that
the
venym
by
gan
to
stretche
aboute
in
the
vaynes
/
and
he
ful
of
sorowe
of
the
case
that
was
happed
repentynge
hym
of
that
he
had
done
/
bygan
to
speke
to
her
by
swete
wor
destrowyng
to
haue
recomforted
her
makynge
grete
sorowe
/
&
his
doughter
answered
him
Cancre
reserue
thy
teeres
tyl
a nother
tyme
/
for
here
is
no
nede
of
them
&
I
desyre
them
not
/
thou
resemblest
the
mad
man
that
slewe
a
man
&
after
wepte
for
it
/
had
it
not
be
better
that
thou
haddest
let
thy
douzter
lyue
at
plesaunce
secretly
louyng
a
man
than
to
se
her
hard
deth
by
thy
cruelte
to
thy
grete
sorowe
.
The
whiche
dethe
shall
make
that
thynge
that
was
secrete
to
appere
openly
/
&
then
she
myght
speke
no
more
for
her
herte
brake
/
holdynge
the
cuppe
ryght
straytely
in
her
handes
And
anone
after
her
the
fader
dyed
for
sorowe
.
And
thus
ended
Sysmonde
the
doughter
of
the
prynce
of
Salerne
/
¶
Of
Lyzabeth
and
of
other
louers
.
Ca.
lix
.
ALso
Bocace
telleth
in
the
saydbooke
of
Cent
Nouuelles
that
in
the
cyte
of
Messyne
in
Italy
there
was
a
yonge
woman
named
Lyzabeth
/
the
whiche
iij.
bretherne
of
hers
by
theyr
coueytousnes
taryed
her
of
maryenge
.
And
they
had
a
factoure
and
a
gouernoure
of
all
theyr
busynesses
ryght
fayre
and
a
goodly
yonge
man
whiche
that
theyr
fader
had
nourysshed
all
his
youthe
.
¶
It
happened
by
the
contynuell
frequentacyon
that
they
had
bytwene
them
they
loued
eche
other
,
and
this
loue
contynued
a
whyle
ryght
Ioyously
.
But
at
the
last
as
these
bretherne
perceyued
as
they
that
wolde
not
make
grete
noyse
for
dyshonourynge
of
theyr
syster
were
aduysed
to
sle
hym
.
And
in
dede
they
ledde
this
yonge
man
whiche
was
named
Laurence
with
them
vnto
a
manere
of
theues
/
&
when
they
were
come
thyder
they
had
hym
in
to
a
gardyne
and
slewe
hym
/
and
buryed
hym
amonge
the
trees
.
And
they
came
home
agayne
to
theyr
house
made
them
to
byleue
that
they
had
sente
this
Laurence
ferre
in
to
another
cou●re
in
theyr
message
.
Lyzabeth
whiche
loued
Laurence
of
so
grete
loue
was
nothynge
at
hertes
ease
bycause
she
had
lost
the
presence
of
her
loue
&
her
herte
gaue
her
straungely
of
this
matter
so
moche
that
in
a
tyme
con
strayned
of
ryght
loue
myght
not
suffre
noo
longer
but
that
she
a●ked
of
one
other
bretherne
where
that
Laurence
was
&
why
he
taryed
so
longe
.
By
the
whiche
her
broder
answered
her
ryght
tyersly
&
sayd
/
what
perteyneth
it
to
the
to
knowe
/
&
then
Ly
zabeth
perceyued
certaynly
that
they
had
slayne
lau
rence
/
for
the
whiche
she
made
meruaylous
sorowe
when
she
was
alone
/
&
she
wepte
all
the
nyght
ryght
depely
without
takynge
ony
maner
of
rest
in
complaynynge
hym
that
she
loued
so
moche
/
&
ther
with
she
became
ryght
syke
/
for
the
whiche
sykenesse
she
requyred
her
bretherne
that
they
wolde
let
her
go
to
dysporte
her
at
theyr
maner
without
the
Cyte
a
lytel
whyle
/
&
when
they
had
graunted
her
she
wente
thyder
/
&
she
to
whome
her
herte
gaue
all
this
aduenture
wente
alone
in
to
the
gardyne
where
this
Laurence
lay
deed
/
&
lokynge
all
aboute
she
sawe
where
the
body
was
buryed
by
the
raysynge
of
the
newe
erthe
/
&
then
she
dygged
the
erthe
with
a
pycoys
that
she
founde
there
so
moche
tyll
she
founde
the
body
Then
embrasynge
the
body
by
grete
dystresse
made
sorowe
out
of
measure
.
But
for
so
moche
that
she
knewe
that
she
myght
not
be
longe
there
for
fere
she
sholde
be
perceyued
/
toke
the
body
out
of
the
erthe
and
toke
the
heed
of
her
loue
that
her
bretherne
had
smyten
of
/
and
knytted
it
in
a
couerchefe
&
buryed
it
in
one
of
her
grete
pottes
wheron
they
vse
to
set
herbes
&
plantes
&
an
herbe
aboue
it
swete
ly
smellynge
that
is
called
Basylycon
.
And
with
this
potte
she
tourned
home
to
her
house
agayne
but
she
had
this
potte
in
so
grete
cherete
that
she
coude
not
parte
from
it
but
put
it
in
one
of
her
chambre
wyndowes
in
the
ayre
.
And
she
watered
it
with
none
other
water
but
with
the
teeres
of
her
eyen
nyght
and
daye
.
And
this
thynge
endured
no
lytell
whyle
as
some
of
these
men
saye
women
forgeteth
lyghtly
/
but
it
semed
that
her
sorowe
encreased
from
day
to
daye
/
&
thus
was
the
Basylycon
waxen
fayre
&
grete
for
the
fatnesse
of
the
erthe
/
&
to
tell
shortely
so
moche
she
ledde
this
lyfe
vpon
the
potte
/
that
it
happened
that
some
of
her
neyghboures
perceyued
howe
she
wepte
without
seasynge
at
this
wyndowe
vpon
the
potte
/
&
tolde
to
her
bretherne
the
meruayle
of
her
sorowe
.
So
they
were
gretely
abasshed
what
it
myght
be
.
And
by
nyght
stale
awaye
the
potte
wherof
in
the
mornynge
there
began
to
sprynge
a
newe
noyaunce
when
she
founde
not
her
potte
/
&
for
all
grace
she
requy
red
that
she
myght
haue
her
potte
agayne
&
she
wolde
quyte
it
them
thoughe
she
sholde
gyue
her
parte
of
all
her
other
goodes
/
and
sayd
pyteously
in
complaynynge
.
Alas
in
what
houre
brought
my
moder
me
forthe
in
to
this
worlde
with
my
cruel
bretherne
the
whiche
hateth
my
symple
pleasaunce
/
that
they
wyll
not
leue
me
a
lytell
poore
potte
of
Basylycon
whiche
cost
them
nought
nor
yelde
it
me
agayne
/
&
I
aske
them
nothynge
elles
for
my
maryage
/
&
for
my
dowry
.
Alas
it
is
not
grete
the
I
desyre
of
them
/
&
thus
she
lete
it
passe
/
but
her
sorowe
neuer
seased
so
moche
that
she
layde
her
on
a
bed
&
was
sore
syke
.
In
the
whiche
sykenesse
what
so
euer
one
offred
her
she
set
not
by
it
ne
by
no
Ioye
in
the
worlde
but
onely
her
potte
/
&
thus
she
dyed
pyteously
.
And
I
thynke
not
that
this
thynge
is
a
lesynge
for
there
they
made
a
songe
of
the
complaynte
of
this
geney●womā
&
of
her
pot
whiche
they
synge
yet
.
what
shall
I
tell
the
more
I
sholde
holde
the
to
longe
yf
I
tolde
the
the
hystoryes
of
women
in
suche
maner
of
loue
taken
/
whiche
haue
loued
of
ryght
grete
loue
.
¶
Of
another
also
telleth
Bocace
of
whome
the
housbande
made
to
eate
the
herte
of
her
loue
/
whiche
neuer
ete
after
.
The
same
dyde
the
lady
of
Fayllee
whiche
loued
the
Chastelayne
of
Coussy
by
to
grete
loue
.
Also
I
soude
Trystram
.
Tyamere
whiche
loued
Hercules
so
moche
that
she
slewe
herselfe
when
he
was
deed
.
So
it
is
no
dou
bte
that
there
is
ryght
grete
loue
in
a
constaunte
woman
where
she
setteth
her
herte
thoughe
it
be
so
that
there
be
some
women
lyght
.
¶
But
these
pyteous
ensamples
&
ynowe
of
others
that
I
myght
tell
the
ought
not
to
be
the
cause
to
moue
the
courage
of
wo
men
to
put
them
in
this
peryllous
see
&
dampnable
of
lewde
loue
.
For
alway
the
ende
therof
is
to
them
grete
preiudyce
in
grefe
of
body
&
goodes
/
or
dyshonoure
in
the
soule
whiche
is
most
.
So
they
shalldo
as
wyse
women
whiche
by
good
wyt
can
eschewe
&
not
to
gyue
audyence
to
them
whiche
with
out
seasynge
trauaylleth
them
to
deceyue
theym
in
suche
case
.
¶
Of
Iuno
&
of
other
dyuers
ladyes
of
renowne
.
Ca.
lx
.
NOwe
I
haue
tolde
that
of
grete
foyson
of
ladyes
of
the
whiche
the
hystoryes
maketh
mencyon
/
but
for
to
saye
of
all
the
processe
sholde
be
infynyte
the
whiche
I
haue
not
taken
in
honde
/
&
it
suttyseth
me
without
more
that
I
brynge
forth
some
in
wytnessynge
to
saye
the
contrary
to
that
y●
thou
hast
purposed
that
dyuers
men
say
.
I
wyl
tell
the
in
conclusyon
of
some
that
hathe
ben
in
the
worlde
gretely
praysed
by
dyuers
accydentes
more
than
by
grete
vertues
.
¶
Iuno
doughter
of
Sa
turnus
&
of
Opys
after
the
sayenges
of
poetes
&
the
erroure
of
paynymes
was
gretely
praysed
aboue
all
other
women
of
that
lawe
more
for
her
good
fortune
than
for
ony
other
excellence
.
She
was
syster
of
Iupyter
and
maryed
vnto
hym
whome
they
called
souerayne
god
/
&
for
the
grete
rychesse
&
fortune
in
whiche
she
lyued
&
habounded
with
her
housbande
was
reputed
as
goddesse
of
rychesse
.
And
those
madde
people
byleued
that
for
her
stature
that
she
had
after
her
dethe
that
they
were
the
better
fortuned
/
&
they
graunted
to
her
also
the
conforte
of
the
ryghtes
of
maryage
/
&
by
her
helpe
the
women
recouered
in
praynge
to
her
/
and
they
made
temples
of
her
all
aboute
/
awters
/
preestes
/
playes
&
sacrefyses
/
&
thus
was
she
longe
worshypped
of
the
grekes
and
of
them
of
Cartage
/
&
with
that
she
was
brought
to
Rome
after
and
put
in
the
Capytole
in
the
Celle
of
Iupyter
her
housbande
.
And
there
she
was
worshypped
of
Romaynes
that
were
lordes
of
the
worlde
with
many
dyuers
cerymonyes
by
longe
tyme
.
¶
Also
Europe
that
was
doughter
of
Agenor
kynge
of
Phenyce
was
also
gretely
praysed
for
that
/
that
Iupyter
whiche
loued
her
named
the
thyrde
parte
of
the
worlde
after
her
name
.
And
it
is
to
knowe
that
of
the
names
of
dyuers
women
hathe
ben
dyuers
landes
/
Cytees
and
townes
named
so
/
as
Englonde
of
a
woman
that
was
called
Angle
/
and
so
of
others
.
¶
Iocasta
quene
of
Thebes
was
praysed
for
her
grete
infortune
/
for
by
mysaduenture
she
had
wed
ded
her
owne
sone
after
that
/
that
she
had
slayne
his
owne
fader
wherof
none
of
theym
bothe
knewe
.
And
she
sawe
that
he
dyspayred
when
he
knewe
the
aduenture
&
after
sawe
hym
slayne
bytwene
two
sones
that
she
had
.
¶
Also
Meduse
or
Bargon
was
praysed
for
her
grete
beaute
/
she
was
doughter
of
the
ryche
kynge
Porce
of
whom
the
Royalme
was
ryght
haboundauntly
closed
with
the
see
.
This
Me
duse
as
the
auncyent
hystoryes
sayth
was
of
soo
meruayllous
beaute
that
not
onely
she
passed
all
other
women
/
but
that
is
a
meruayllous
thynge
and
aboue
nature
.
She
had
her
countenaunce
so
pleasaunt
with
her
beaute
of
body
and
of
vysage
&
of
her
yelowe
heeres
as
longe
thredes
of
golde
&
cryspe
that
she
drewe
euery
mortall
creature
that
she
behelde
to
her
/
so
that
she
was
unmouable
to
all
people
.
And
therfore
the
fable
fayneth
that
she
became
a
stone
.
¶
Helayne
wyfe
of
Menelans
/
kynge
of
Lacedemoyne
doughter
of
Tyndarus
kynge
of
Ceballe
/
&
of
Leyda
his
wyfe
was
gretely
renowmed
for
her
grete
beaute
.
And
for
that
that
it
happened
for
bycause
of
the
rauysshynge
that
Parys
made
of
her
whiche
was
the
cause
by
the
whiche
Troye
was
destroyed
of
this
quene
/
thoughe
it
be
sayd
of
the
beaute
of
others
/
the
hystoryes
affermeth
that
she
was
the
fayrest
woman
that
euer
was
borne
of
moder
.
And
therfore
these
Poetes
saye
that
she
was
engendred
of
Iupyter
the
grete
god
.
¶
Also
Polexene
that
was
the
meke
doughter
of
kynge
Pryamus
was
also
as
fayre
a
mayde
as
is
made
mencyon
in
ony
hystore
/
and
with
that
she
was
ryght
stable
&
constaunte
of
courage
as
she
shewed
in
receyuynge
the
deth
without
vysege
or
●here
when
she
was
heeded
vpon
the
tombe
of
Achylles
/
then
she
sayd
that
it
was
more
agreable
to
her
to
dye
than
to
be
ledde
in
seruage
.
Of
others
ynowe
I
myght
tell
the
whiche
that
I
leue
for
shortenesse
.
¶
Here
speketh
Xp̄ine
/
and
ryghtwysnesse
answereth
ayenst
them
that
women
drawe
men
to
them
by
theyr
gaynesse
.
Ca.
lxj
.
IXp̄ine
sayd
thus
Madame
truely
to
the
purpose
aboue
sayd
.
The
peryllous
lyfe
of
foly
loue
to
that
that
I
se
/
truely
it
ought
to
be
eschewed
of
women
that
haue
ony
vnderstandynge
in
soo
moche
that
it
is
to
them
so
preiudyable
.
But
there
is
grete
blame
gyuen
to
them
that
delyte
them
to
be
gay
in
theyr
araye
and
clothynge
/
and
some
saye
that
they
do
it
for
to
drawe
these
men
to
theyr
loue
.
¶
Answere
.
Dere
loue
I
shall
not
excuse
them
that
be
curyous
and
quaynte
of
theyr
aray
For
without
fayle
that
vyce
and
not
lytell
ne
no
quayntenesse
out
of
estate
that
perteyneth
to
euery
persone
to
bere
is
not
without
blame
by
the
whiche
not
to
excuse
the
euyll
/
but
to
the
entente
that
none
charge
them
to
gyue
greter
blame
/
ne
other
that
it
affermeth
not
of
suche
women
that
one
seeth
fresshe
and
gaye
.
I
say
to
the
certaynely
that
it
cometh
not
to
all
women
bycause
of
loue
that
they
do
so
/
but
it
cometh
to
many
as
well
men
as
women
by
ryght
good
condycyón
and
naturall
inclynacyon
that
they
delyte
theym
in
fresshenesse
/
and
in
fayre
habytes
and
ryche
/
in
clennesse
/
and
in
profytable
thynges
.
And
yf
it
come
to
them
by
kynde
it
were
herde
to
them
to
eschewe
it
howe
be
it
that
it
sholde
be
the
more
vertuous
.
¶
It
is
not
wryten
of
the
Appostle
saynt
Barthylme
we
the
whiche
was
a
ryght
grete
gentyll
man
/
that
notwithstandynge
that
our
sauyoure
cryste
Ihesu
preched
and
teched
strongly
of
pouerte
&
lymplenesse
in
all
maner
of
thynges
/
yet
the
blessyd
apostle
all
his
lyfe
ware
clothes
of
sylke
frenged
aboute
with
golde
and
precyous
stones
/
and
it
cometh
to
hym
of
kynde
to
be
rychely
arayed
the
whiche
is
comunely
a
curyous
thynge
and
full
of
pryde
/
and
yet
he
synned
not
.
And
some
wyll
say
that
for
that
cause
our
lorde
suffred
that
for
his
martyr
dome
he
lefte
his
skynne
/
and
was
slayne
.
And
the
se
thynges
that
I
tell
the
for
to
showe
that
no
man
ought
to
Iuge
another
of
conscyence
for
his
haby
te
/
ne
for
his
araye
.
For
it
perteyneth
onely
to
god
to
be
Iuge
of
all
creatures
/
and
vpon
that
I
shall
tell
the
some
ensamples
.
¶
Of
Claudyne
a
woman
of
Rome
.
Ca.
lxij
.
ALso
Bocace
and
Ualere
telleth
that
Clau
dyne
whiche
was
a
noble
lady
of
Rome
delyted
gretely
in
fayr●
clothynges
&
delycate
.
And
for
that
that
she
was
modelycatyfe
than
the
other
ladyes
of
Rome
/
some
presumed
shrewdely
ayenst
her
/
&
ayenst
her
chastyte
to
the
preiudyce
of
her
good
name
.
So
it
happened
in
the
.xv.
yere
of
the
seconde
batayle
of
Aufryke
.
That
the
ymage
of
Pyssemonde
moder
of
the
goddes
after
opynyon
had
ben
borne
fro
Rome
there
were
assembled
all
the
noble
ladyes
of
Rome
to
go
mete
with
the
ymage
whiche
was
put
in
a
shyp
vpon
Tybre
/
but
the
maryners
myght
not
aryue
at
the
porte
for
all
theyr
strength
.
Then
Claudyne
whiche
knewe
well
that
she
was
mysbylened
of
wronge
for
her
fresshnesse
she
kneled
before
the
ymage
and
made
her
prayer
all
on
hyghe
in
sayenge
to
the
goddesse
/
that
as
truely
as
that
she
knewe
that
her
chastyte
was
hole
and
not
corrupte
that
she
wolde
gyue
her
grace
that
she
alone
myght
drawe
the
shyp
to
the
hauen
.
And
then
trustynge
to
her
clennesse
toke
her
gyrdell
&
bounde
it
to
the
sterne
of
the
shyp
/
and
atter
drewe
the
shyp
to
the
ryuayle
as
lyghtly
as
thoughe
all
the
maryners
of
the
worlde
had
ben
there
.
And
then
euery
body
meruaylled
therof
.
I
haue
not
tolde
that
this
ensample
for
the
thynge
that
I
wene
that
the
ymage
that
they
as
foles
and
myscreauntes
call
a
goddesse
that
had
myght
to
lyfte
vp
the
prayer
of
Claudyne
but
I
haue
tolde
it
the
for
to
shewe
the
that
she
that
was
so
gaye
lefte
not
for
so
moche
to
be
chaste
and
by
that
she
shewed
that
she
had
that
the
trouthe
of
her
chastyte
was
so
courable
to
her
the
whiche
helped
her
and
not
the
goddesse
.
¶
Howe
they
lye
not
vpon
some
women
for
so
moche
thoughe
they
delyte
them
in
fayre
clothynge
&
araye
.
Ca.
lxiij
.
ANd
those
women
that
wolde
be
byloued
payne
them
for
the
cause
to
be
gaye
nyce
and
curyous
.
I
shall
proue
the
that
encheson
maketh
them
not
the
sooner
/
ne
the
better
to
be
loued
of
wyse
men
&
of
worshyp
/
and
more
sooner
and
better
ben
these
vertuous
women
honest
&
symple
loued
of
them
that
loue
worshyp
than
the
moost
Iolyest
&
fayrest
.
So
one
myght
answere
me
thus
/
syth
that
women
drawe
these
men
to
theym
by
theyr
vertue
and
honeste
.
It
were
better
that
there
were
fewer
good
women
/
but
the
reason
sholde
be
nought
worth
.
For
the
good
and
profytable
thynges
ought
not
to
be
lefte
to
be
tolde
&
to
encrease
for
that
thoughe
the
foles
abuse
them
and
euery
man
ought
to
do
his
deuoyre
as
wel
doynge
thoughe
it
fortune
the
contrary
.
And
that
it
is
soo
that
many
women
ben
loued
for
theyr
vertues
and
honeste
.
I
shall
shewe
the
ensamples
fyrst
of
dyuers
sayntes
of
paradyse
I
myght
tell
the
that
were
coueyted
of
men
for
theyr
honeste
.
¶
Lucresse
of
whom
I
spake
here
aboue
whiche
was
rauysshed
/
the
grete
honeste
of
her
was
cause
that
Tarquyne
loued
her
more
than
her
beaute
.
For
as
her
housbande
was
ones
at
a
soupere
there
as
this
Tarquyne
was
whiche
rauysshed
her
after
and
dyuers
other
knyghtes
with
theym
they
began
to
speke
of
theyr
wyues
/
and
euery
man
sayd
that
his
was
best
.
But
to
knowe
the
trouthe
&
to
proue
whiche
o●
theyr
wyues
was
moost
worthy
to
be
praysed
euery
man
wente
to
horse
backe
&
wente
to
theyr
houses
.
And
thoughe
that
they
founde
occupyed
in
the
moost
honest
offyces
&
the
werke
were
the
mo●e
of
reputacyon
wherof
it
fortuned
that
Lucresse
amonge
all
the
other
was
founde
the
moost
honestly
occupyed
as
ryght
a
wyse
&
a
good
woman
clothed
in
a
symple
gowne
amonge
her
maydens
&
her
women
werkyngein
wulles
&
spekynge
of
vertuous
thynges
/
&
thyder
came
the
sayd
Tarquyne
sone
of
the
kynge
with
her
hous
bade
whiche
behol
dynge
her
grete
honeste
/
her
symple
countenaunce
&
her
styll
manere
was
so
amerous
of
her
that
it
caused
him
to
do
the
folye
that
he
dyde
a●ter
.
¶
Of
quene
Blaunche
moder
of
saynt
Lewes
&
o●
other
good
women
loued
for
theyr
vertues
.
Capitulo
.lxiiij.
THe
same
wyse
was
loued
for
her
grete
vnderstandynge
/
wysdome
/
vertue
&
bounte
/
the
ryght
noble
quene
Blaunche
moder
of
saynt
Lewes
of
the
erle
of
Champayne
not●standynge
she
had
passed
the
floure
of
her
youthe
.
But
this
noble
erle
herynge
the
quene
speke
to
hym
with
so
wyse
wordes
when
he
had
begon
to
warre
agaynst
the
sayd
sayd
saynt
Lewes
and
the
good
lady
spake
to
hym
of
it
sayenge
that
he
ought
not
to
do
so
con
syderynge
the
welthes
that
her
sone
had
done
to
hym
/
the
erle
behelde
her
by
grete
entent
meruaylynge
hym
of
the
grete
goodnesse
&
vertue
of
her
by
the
whiche
he
was
so
strongely
vndertaken
with
her
loue
that
he
wyst
not
what
to
say
nor
do
/
ne
durst
neuer
warre
ayenst
hym
after
.
For
he
knewe
wel
that
there
was
so
moche
welthe
in
her
and
of
vertue
also
that
he
coude
neuer
do
otherwyse
but
accorde
with
hym
and
her
.
So
he
suffred
fro
that
houre
for
the
many
troubles
by
lewde
desyres
that
constrayned
hym
/
yet
she
answered
hym
by
the
same
.
And
then
when
she
doubted
not
that
he
sholde
neuer
make
warre
to
the
kynge
but
wolde
be
all
his
/
and
that
she
was
incertayne
that
herte
and
body
and
all
that
euer
he
had
was
submytted
to
her
commaundement
/
soo
she
loued
hym
all
his
lyfe
after
.
And
he
lefte
not
for
a
lytell
wanhope
that
he
myght
come
to
her
loue
.
So
he
made
his
louely
complayntes
in
dyttyes
praysynge
gretely
his
lady
.
The
whiche
goodly
dyttyes
that
he
made
he
put
them
to
a
musyeyen
to
set
them
in
to
songe
ryght
delectably
And
in
his
halle
at
Prouynce
and
also
at
Troyes
he
made
wryte
them
and
yet
they
appere
in
many
places
.
And
thus
myght
I
tell
the
of
many
other
¶
And
I
Xp̄ine
answered
Madame
to
your
purpose
in
lyke
case
I
haue
sene
by
experyence
.
For
I
knowe
many
vertuous
women
that
by
that
they
haue
confessed
them
to
me
in
complaynynge
them
to
me
of
the
pleasaunce
that
they
toke
there
they
haue
ben
more
requyred
syth
the
tyme
that
theyr
grete
beaute
and
youthe
hath
ben
past
▪
than
they
were
in
theyr
grete
f●oure
wherof
they
sayd
.
Alas
what
wyll
ye
that
I
say
to
these
men
seynge
in
me
ony
countenaunce
of
foly
by
the
whiche
they
haue
coloure
and
cause
to
thynke
that
he
was
of
accorde
to
do
so
grete
foly
.
And
I
perceyue
nowe
open
ly
by
that
that
ye
saye
that
the
grete
welthe
of
them
hathe
ben
cause
to
make
them
to
loue
.
And
it
is
well
contrary
to
the
opyupon
of
dyuers
folke
that
say
that
a
good
woman
that
wolde
be
chaste
shall
neuer
be
that
woman
that
lyst
to
be
coueyted
nor
requyred
.
¶
Xp̄ine
asketh
&
ryght
wysnes
answereth
ayenst
them
that
saye
that
women
by
nature
ben
scarse
.
Capitulo
.lxv.
REplye
you
I
can
no
more
myne
owne
lady
/
For
my
questyons
ben
well
assoyled
.
And
it
semeth
me
that
ye
haue
ynoughe
proued
false
the
euyll
say
enges
that
so
many
men
saye
vpon
women
.
And
also
amonge
other
vyces
of
women
they
saye
that
Auaryce
is
a
naturall
thynge
in
them
/
but
it
appereth
not
so
to
me
by
that
that
ye
saye
.
¶
An
swere
.
Dere
doughter
I
tell
the
certaynly
that
Auaryce
is
no
more
naturall
in
women
than
in
men
/
&
yf
there
be
lesse
god
knoweth
it
.
And
that
thou
mayst
se
by
that
that
by
the
couetysenesse
of
dyuers
men
there
is
moche
more
harme
done
to
the
worlde
than
by
the
lytell
couetysenesse
of
women
.
But
as
I
haue
sayd
to
the
before
that
the
fole
knoweth
better
the
lytell
trespace
in
his
neyghboure
than
he
dothe
the
grete
cryme
of
hymselfe
.
And
by
that
that
one
sethe
often
tymes
that
women
delyte
them
in
louynge
to
spynne
and
carde
suche
thyngesmē
call
couetyse
.
But
I
promyse
the
that
there
ben
grete
foyson
of
them
that
yf
they
had
wherof
they
wolde
not
be
scarse
ne
couetouse
as
of
that
that
sholde
be
to
theyr
worshyp
.
But
poore
men
holde
comunely
theyr
wynes
so
strayte
that
they
must
nedes
kepe
that
they
haue
/
for
they
wote
well
it
were
no
lyght
thynge
to
haue
more
.
And
so
there
ben
some
people
that
calleth
women
scarse
/
for
that
they
haue
maryed
full
large
wastours
of
theyr
goodes
/
&
the
poore
women
that
knewe
well
that
theyr
housbandes
haue
spended
lewdely
that
that
sholde
fynde
theyr
housholde
&
that
they
&
theyr
chyldren
dare
not
compare
chere
and
maye
not
holde
them
to
speke
to
theyr
housbandes
&
to
counsayle
them
of
lesse
despence
.
So
suche
thynges
is
no
coueytyse
ne
scar
senesse
but
it
is
a
sygne
of
ryght
grete
prudence
/
&
suche
debates
one
may
se
often
tymes
in
maryages
by
that
that
suche
counsayllynge
pleaseth
not
to
the
men
/
and
by
that
they
gyue
blame
to
the
women
of
that
they
ought
to
prayse
them
of
.
But
that
it
be
true
that
this
vyce
of
Auaryce
be
not
in
them
so
as
some
wyll
say
/
It
appereth
to
almesse
that
with
ryght
good
wyll
they
do
dayly
/
&
god
knoweth
it
howe
many
prysoners
in
the
londe
of
the
sara●yns
howe
many
nedy
gentylmen
&
others
haue
ben
and
ben
all
dayes
lowe
in
the
worlde
comforted
&
socoured
by
women
&
by
theyr
goodes
.
¶
The
Ladyes
of
Rome
were
not
scarse
when
in
the
tyme
that
the
Cyte
was
gretely
greued
with
warre
/
by
the
whiche
all
the
comune
treasoure
of
the
towne
was
wasted
&
spended
on
men
of
armes
wherof
it
was
grete
sorowe
to
the
Romaynes
to
fynde
the
way
to
haue
syluer
to
put
forth
an
armye
whiche
was
of
force
ryght
necessary
for
them
.
But
the
ladyes
by
theyr
owne
fre
wyll
&
also
the
wydowes
assembled
them
&
brought
all
theyr
Iewelles
&
al
that
they
had
without
sparynge
ony
thynge
to
the
prynces
of
Rome
/
&
freely
toke
it
them
of
the
whiche
thynge
the
ladyes
were
gretely
praysed
/
and
afterwardes
all
theyr
Iewelles
&
goodes
were
yelded
to
them
agayne
&
of
good
ryght
.
For
they
were
the
cause
of
the
recouerynge
of
Rome
.
¶
Of
the
ryche
lady
and
lyberall
named
Buyse
.
Capitulo
.lxvj.
OF
the
lyberalyte
of
women
also
it
is
wryten
in
the
dedes
of
the
Romaynes
of
the
worshypfull
ryche
woman
Buyse
or
Paulyne
whiche
was
in
the
londe
of
Puyl
le
in
the
tyme
that
Hanyball
greued
so
moche
the
Romaynes
by
fyre
and
yren
/
that
he
despoyled
almost
all
Italy
of
men
&
of
goodes
It
happened
that
of
the
grete
dyscomfyture
of
Canes
wherof
Hanyball
had
so
noble
a
vyctorye
/
many
Romaynes
fledde
that
scaped
from
the
batayle
woū
ded
and
hurte
.
But
this
worshypfull
lady
Buyse
receyued
all
them
that
she
myght
haue
anone
to
the
nombre
of
.x.
thousande
and
gadered
them
in
to
her
houses
/
for
she
was
of
grete
rychesse
.
Soo
she
made
them
to
be
heled
at
her
cost
and
charge
/
&
socoured
them
all
with
her
goodes
soo
moche
that
by
the
helpe
and
comforte
that
she
dyde
to
themthey
myght
tourne
agayne
to
Rome
and
set
vp
theyr
armes
agayne
of
the
whiche
thynge
she
was
ryght
gretely
praysed
.
So
doubte
ye
not
dere
frende
that
of
infynyte
women
/
large
curtoys
/
and
/
lyberall
I
myght
tell
the
ynoughe
.
¶
And
also
with
out
sekynge
more
ferther
the
hystoryes
as
well
of
other
largesse
of
ladyes
I
myght
tell
the
ynoughe
Ne
was
not
the
lyberalyte
grete
of
the
noble
lady
de
la
ryuere
named
Margarete
whiche
is
yet
on
lyue
/
and
was
somtyme
wyfe
of
the
lorde
Burell
lorde
de
la
ryuere
/
and
fyrste
chambrelayne
of
the
wyse
kynge
Charles
.
This
lady
as
she
that
was
alwaye
/
wyse
/
worshypfull
and
well
manered
.
It
happened
in
a
tyme
amonge
others
/
that
she
beynge
at
a
grete
feest
where
there
was
grete
foyson
of
noble
ladyes
and
of
knyghtes
and
of
gentylmen
in
grete
apparayle
.
Then
this
noble
lady
whiche
was
fayre
&
yonge
as
she
behelde
the
noble
cheualry
that
was
there
thought
that
there
was
no
cheere
amonge
others
ryght
a
notable
knyght
and
of
grete
worshyp
in
his
lyuynge
that
was
called
syr
Emenyon
de
Pomyners
.
This
lady
lefte
not
for
so
moche
that
he
was
a
goodly
man
to
haue
remem
braunce
of
hym
bycause
of
his
worthynesse
and
bounte
/
her
thought
the
more
fayrer
araye
myght
not
be
in
a
company
than
notable
men
&
of
good
fame
thoughe
that
they
were
olde
.
So
she
asked
gretely
where
this
syr
Emenyon
was
that
he
was
not
at
that
assemble
.
So
it
was
tolde
her
that
he
was
in
pryson
in
the
castell
of
Parys
for
fyue
hondred
frankes
in
whiche
he
was
bounde
for
a
vyage
that
he
dyde
in
armes
as
he
dyde
ofte
tymes
.
Ha
sayd
the
noble
lady
what
shame
is
this
to
the
realme
to
suffre
suche
a
man
to
be
an
houre
in
pryson
for
dette
.
And
than
she
toke
the
chapellet
of
golde
that
she
had
vpon
her
hede
/
ryght
ryche
and
fayre
/
and
put
vpon
her
in
stede
of
that
a
chapellet
of
peruencle
/
and
so
she
toke
it
to
a
certayne
messagere
&
sayd
.
Go
and
put
this
chapellet
in
plegge
for
that
he
oweth
/
and
that
he
be
delyuered
anone
and
come
heder
/
the
whiche
thynge
was
done
of
the
whiche
she
was
gretely
praysed
.
¶
Of
pryncesses
&
of
ladyes
of
Fraunce
.
Ca.
lxvij
.
ANd
I
Xp̄ine
sayd
thus
.
Madame
sythe
that
ye
haue
remembred
this
lady
that
is
in
my
tyme
and
are
entred
to
the
same
pourse
of
ladyes
of
Fraunce
a
bydynge
in
that
countre
.
I
pray
you
that
it
please
you
to
saye
som
what
of
them
that
ye
seme
ought
to
be
sayd
/
&
yfye
thynke
that
it
be
good
that
they
maye
be
harboured
in
our
cyte
.
For
wherefore
ought
they
to
be
forgotten
as
thoughe
they
were
straungers
.
Answere
.
Xp̄ine
I
answere
the
certaynely
that
I
se
many
of
them
ryght
vertuous
/
and
it
pleaseth
me
wel
that
they
be
of
our
cytezeynes
And
fyrst
of
all
shall
not
be
refused
/
there
the
noble
quene
of
Fraunce
Isabell
debauere
/
nowe
by
the
grace
of
god
reygnynge
in
whom
there
was
neuer
founde
no
cruelte
nor
extorcyon
ne
none
euyl
vyce
but
alway
in
good
loue
&
benygnyte
to
her
subiectes
.
¶
Ne
ought
not
gretely
to
be
praysed
the
fayre
yonge
/
good
&
wyse
duchesse
of
Berry
wyfe
of
duke
Iohn
late
sone
of
kynge
Iohn
of
Fraunce
&
broder
of
the
wyse
kynge
Charles
/
the
whiche
noble
duchesse
bare
herselfe
so
wysely
&
chaste
in
the
floure
of
her
youthe
that
all
the
worlde
praysed
her
of
grete
vertue
.
what
sholde
I
say
to
that
of
the
duchesse
of
Orlyaunce
wyfe
of
Lewes
sone
of
Charles
the
wyse
kynge
of
Fraunce
late
doughter
of
the
duke
of
Myllayne
/
of
whiche
prudent
lady
ye
myght
tell
the
stronge
&
constaunte
courage
of
grete
loue
to
her
lorde
/
aduysed
in
gouernaunce
/
Iust
to
euery
man
&
wyse
of
her
behauoure
.
¶
what
is
there
to
saye
of
the
duchesse
of
Burgoyne
wyfe
of
duke
Iohn
sone
of
Phylyp
/
late
sone
of
kynge
Iohn
of
Fraunce
/
was
she
not
ryght
vertuous
true
to
her
lorde
benygne
in
herte
/
&
in
her
countenaunce
/
good
in
condycyons
&
without
ony
vyce
.
¶
The
countesse
of
Cleremount
doughter
of
the
duke
of
Berry
aboue
sayd
of
his
fyrst
wyfe
&
maryed
to
the
erle
of
Cleremount
sone
of
the
duke
of
Burbon
abydynge
the
duchy
/
is
not
the
tale
of
her
suche
that
perteyneth
to
be
to
euery
hygh
pryncesse
of
the
gret
loue
of
her
lorde
wel
manered
in
all
thynges
wyse
/
&
her
vertues
appe
red
lyke
to
her
countenaunce
&
honourable
porte
&
this
is
she
that
yn
louest
syngulerly
amonge
others
as
moche
for
her
vertues
as
for
the
grete
benefeytes
of
her
/
stretched
vnto
that
by
charyte
&
good
loue
yn
arte
beholdynge
therto
.
The
Duchesse
of
Holande
&
countesse
of
Heynaulte
doughter
of
the
aboue
sayd
Phylyp
&
syster
of
hym
that
is
nowe
/
ought
not
the
lady
to
be
put
amonge
the
good
ladyes
true
in
cou
rage
/
ryghtwyse
in
gouernaunce
/
charytable
/
&
so
ueraynely
deuoute
to
god
warde
/
&
to
say
shortly
all
good
.
¶
The
duchesse
of
Burgon
/
ought
she
not
to
be
remembred
amonge
the
praysed
ladyes
/
&
ryght
worshypfull
worthy
to
be
praysed
in
al
thyn
ges
/
what
sholde
I
say
/
I
must
occupye
longe
tyme
to
tell
all
theyr
grete
bountees
.
¶
The
good
lady
&
fayre
&
ryght
a
noble
woman
countesse
of
Saynt
Poule
/
doughter
of
the
duke
of
Bar
/
cosyn
germayne
of
the
kynge
of
Fraunce
wel
ought
to
come
in
place
amonge
others
.
¶
Also
she
that
thou
louest
well
Anne
doughter
somtyme
of
the
Erle
of
Marche
&
syster
to
hym
that
nowt
is
whiche
is
maryed
to
the
broder
of
the
quene
of
Fraunce
Lewes
de
bauyere
empeyreth
not
the
company
of
them
that
haue
grace
&
be
worthy
of
pray
synge
/
for
to
god
&
the
worlde
her
vertuesben
accepted
.
¶
Of
other
coum
tesses
&
baronnesses
ladyes
&
gentylwomen
/
burgeyses
/
wyues
&
of
al
estates
there
ben
ynowe
bothe
good
&
fayre
maulgre
the
euyll
sayers
that
god
be
worshypped
whiche
maynteyne
them
&
amende
them
that
do
amysse
/
&
of
this
thyng
doubte
not
the
contrary
For
I
afferme
that
for
certayne
thoughe
that
many
men
as
euylsayers
&
enuyous
say
the
contrary
.
&
I
Xp̄ine
answered
/
than
certes
madame
this
I
sayd
of
you
is
to
me
a
souerayne
Ioye
.
And
she
answered
me
.
Dere
frende
nowe
I
haue
suffycyently
done
myne
offyce
in
the
Cyte
of
ladyes
/
as
in
makynge
the
fayre
palays
&
●ayre
mansyons
/
&
I
haue
peopled
it
with
nobles
grete
rowtes
of
all
estates
whiche
is
nowe
fulfylled
/
nowe
come
my
syster
Iustyce
whiche
shal
perfourme
the
surplus
&
so
y●
shalte
be
suffysed
.
¶
Xp̄ine
speketh
to
all
pryncesses
ladyes
/
&
to
all
women
.
Ca.
.lxviij.
MOost
doubted
execellente
&
worshyp
full
pryncesse
of
Fraunce
and
of
euery
countree
/
all
ladyes
gentyll
women
/
&
generally
al
women
/
whiche
loueth
/
loued
/
and
shal
loue
vertue
and
good
condycyons
.
As
moche
those
that
ben
passed
as
those
ben
nowe
/
&
those
that
are
to
come
/
be
ye
glad
&
make
Ioye
in
our
newe
Cyte
/
whiche
thanked
be
god
is
al
buylded
for
the
moost
parte
/
&
nere
hande
peopled
yelde
ye
thankes
to
god
whiche
hytherto
hath
con
duyted
mewith
grete
laboure
&
studye
&
wolde
y●
a
worshypfull
lodgynge
for
a
perpetuall
dwellynge
as
longe
as
the
worlde
shall
last
were
made
by
me
in
the
cloystre
of
a
cyte
stablysshed
/
to
whiche
I
am
come
hytherto
/
hopynge
to
go
forthe
to
the
conclusyon
of
my
worke
/
by
the
helpe
&
comforte
of
dame
Iustyce
/
whiche
after
her
promyse
shall
be
to
me
helpe
with
out
beynge
wery
tyll
it
be
closed
&
al
parfytely
made
.
Nowe
pray
for
me
my
moost
doubted
ladyes
.
¶
Here
endeth
the
seconde
parte
of
this
boke
.
¶
Here
begynneth
the
table
of
the
thyrde
parte
of
this
boke
/
the
whiche
speketh
howe
&
by
whome
the
hyghe
batylmentes
of
the
towres
of
the
Cyte
of
Ladyes
were
perfourmed
/
&
what
noble
ladyes
were
chosen
for
to
dwelle
in
the
hyghe
&
grete
palays
and
hyghe
dongeons
.
-
¶
The
fyrst
chapytre
telleth
howe
Iustyce
ledde
the
quene
of
heuen
to
enhabyte
&
lordshyp
in
the
Cyte
of
Ladyes
.
Capitulo
.
Primo
.
-
¶
Also
of
the
systers
of
oure
Lady
and
of
Mary
Magdaleyne
.
Ca.
secundo
.
-
¶
Also
of
saynt
Katheryne
.
Ca.
iij.
-
¶
Also
of
saynt
Margarete
.
Ca.
iiij
.
-
¶
Also
of
saynt
Luce.
Ca.
v.
-
¶
Also
of
saynt
Martyne
.
Ca.
vj.
-
¶
Also
of
another
saynt
Luce.
Ca.
vij
.
-
¶
Of
saynt
Iustyne
&
other
vyrgynes
.
Ca.
viij
.
-
¶
Also
of
the
blessyd
Theodosy●e
/
and
of
saynt
Barbara
/
and
saynt
Doro●he
.
Ca.
ix
.
-
¶
Also
the
lyfe
saynt
Xp̄ine
.
Ca.
x.
-
¶
Also
of
dyuers
sayntes
whiche
sawe
theyr
chyldren
martyred
before
them
.
Ca.
xj
.
-
¶
Also
of
saynt
Maryne
the
vyrgyne
.
C.
xij
.
-
¶
Also
of
the
ble●syd
Eu●ro●yne
.
Ca.
xiij
.
-
¶
Also
of
y●
blessyd
anastase
&
her
●elawes
.
ca.
xiiij
-
¶
Of
the
.iij.
systers
vyrgynes
.
Ca.
xv
.
-
¶
Also
of
the
noble
Athalye
.
Ca.
xvj
.
-
¶
Also
of
saynt
Affre
.
Ca.
xvij
.
-
¶
Of
dyuers
noble
ladyes
whiche
serued
&
herboured
the
apostles
&
other
dyuers
sayntes
.
ca.
xviij
-
¶
Also
in
the
ende
of
this
boke
Xp̄ine
speketh
to
the
ladyes
.
Ca.
xix
.
¶
Here
begynneth
the
thyrde
parte
of
the
boke
of
the
Cyte
of
Ladyes
/
whiche
telleth
howe
and
by
whome
the
hyghe
bataylementes
of
the
towres
were
made
&
perfourmed
/
&
what
noble
ladyes
were
chosen
to
enhabyte
the
hyghe
palays
and
the
hyghe
dongeons
.
¶
The
fyrst
chapytre
telleth
howe
Iustyce
ledde
the
quene
of
heuen
to
enhabyte
and
lordeshyp
in
the
Cyte
of
ladyes
.
Capitulo
.
Primo
.
ANd
then
my
lady
Iustyce
drewe
her
towarde
me
in
her
hyghe
manere
&
sayd
thus
.
Xp̄ine
to
saye
the
ryght
way
It
semeth
me
well
that
after
thy
possybylyte
with
the
helpe
of
my
systers
so
that
thou
hast
knowne
to
put
in
werke
thou
hast
wrought
well
and
fayre
in
the
buyldynge
of
the
Cyte
of
Ladyes
.
And
frome
hense
forthe
it
is
tyme
that
I
entremete
me
of
the
surpluse
so
as
I
haue
promysed
the.
That
is
to
knowe
to
brynge
thyder
and
lodge
the
moost
excellent
and
blessyd
quene
amonge
all
women
with
her
noble
company
so
that
the
cyte
maye
be
lordeshypped
and
gouerned
by
her
/
and
enhabyted
with
a
grete
multytude
of
noble
ladyes
of
her
courte
and
of
her
me●ny
For
I
se
the
palays
and
the
hyghe
mansyons
redy
and
arayed
/
and
al
the
stretes
couered
to
receyue
her
and
her
ryght
honourable
and
excellente
rowte
and
assemble
.
Nowe
come
on
then
ye
pryn
cesses
/
ladyes
/
and
all
women
before
/
to
receyue
this
lady
with
grete
worshyppe
and
reuerence
.
whiche
is
not
onely
your
quene
/
but
she
whiche
hathe
domynacyon
and
lordeshyp
aboue
al
puysaunce
after
here
onely
sone
that
she
bare
and
con
ceyued
of
the
holy
ghost
/
and
whiche
is
the
sone
of
god
the
fader
.
But
it
is
good
reason
that
this
moost
hyghe
&
excellent
pryncesse
be
mekely
prayed
by
the
assemble
of
all
ladyes
&
women
that
it
please
her
of
her
grete
makenesse
to
dwelle
here
alowe
amonge
them
in
theyr
Cyte
&
congregacyon
without
hauynge
them
in
dysdayne
for
the
regarde
of
her
hyghnesse
towarde
theyr
lytelnesse
.
But
it
nedeth
not
to
doubte
that
her
mekenesse
whiche
passeth
all
others
&
her
benygnyte
more
than
aungelyke
ne
wyll
not
suffre
her
to
make
refuge
to
dwelle
&
enhabyte
in
the
Cyte
of
ladyes
aboue
all
other
women
in
the
palays
that
my
syster
ryghwysnesse
hath
ordeyned
for
her
whiche
is
all
made
of
glorye
&
of
praysynge
.
Nowe
come
on
then
al
women
with
me
&
say
we
thus
here
.
¶
we
salute
y●
with
the
same
salutacyon
that
the
aungell
brought
to
y●/y●
whiche
y●
hast
most
agreable
aboue
al
other
salutacyons
saynge
to
ye.
(
Aue
Maria
)
.
All
the
deuoute
kynde
of
women
beseche
the
mekely
that
thou
abhorre
not
to
dwelle
amonge
them
by
grace
&
pyte
as
theyr
defenderesse
/
&
protectryce
/
&
keperayenst
all
the
assaultes
of
the
enemyes
&
of
the
worlde
/
&
that
they
may
drynke
of
the
well
of
vertues
that
floweth
fro
the
/
&
to
be
refresshed
/
so
that
synne
&
all
vyce
be
to
them
abhomy
nable
.
Nowe
then
come
on
our
heuenly
quene
/
temple
of
god
/
selle
&
cloystre
of
the
holy
ghost
/
habytacle
of
the
Trynyte
/
Ioye
of
aungelles
/
Sterre
&
redresse
of
them
that
ben
out
of
the
ryght
way
/
hope
of
al
true
byleuynge
people
.
O
blessyd
lady
what
is
he
so
outragyous
that
euer
dare
thynke
or
put
out
of
his
mouthe
that
the
femenyne
kynde
is
foule
consydered
thy
dygnyte
/
for
thoughe
all
the
doynges
of
women
were
euyll
/
so
passeth
&
surmounteth
the
lyght
of
thy
goodnesse
all
the
euyll
that
may
be
.
And
when
god
wolde
chose
his
spouse
in
thiskynde
for
thyne
honoure
ryght
excellent
lady
.
All
men
ought
to
be
ware
/
not
onely
to
blame
women
but
to
haue
them
in
grete
reuerence
.
¶
The
answere
of
the
blessyd
quene
is
thus
Iustyce
the
ryght
welbyloued
of
my
sone
/
with
ryght
good
wyll
I
shall
dwell
&
abyde
amonge
my
systers
and
frendes
the
women
.
For
reason
/
ryght
wysnesse
/
and
thyselfe
wolde
that
I
dyde
so
/
and
nature
enclyneth
me
therto
/
for
they
serue
me
/
prayse
me
/
and
worshyp
me
without
sea
synge
.
So
I
am
and
shall
be
euermore
the
heede
of
the
kynde
of
women
.
For
this
thynge
was
euer
in
the
thought
of
god
the
fader
preparate
/
and
ordeyned
in
the
counsayle
of
the
Trynyte
¶
Then
answered
Iustyce
with
all
the
women
/
Lady
thankynges
/
and
praysynges
be
gyuen
to
the
by
the
in
fynyte
worldes
.
Nowe
lady
saue
vs
/
and
pray
for
vs
to
thy
sone
whiche
nothynge
the
refuseth
.
¶
Of
the
Systers
of
our
Lady
&
of
Mary
Magdaleyne
.
Ca.
secundo
.
NOwe
the
Empresse
is
lodged
with
vs
whether
the
euyll
sayenge
Ianglers
wyl
or
no.
And
nowe
ought
y●
blessyd
systers
to
put
in
/
&
saynt
Mary
Mag
daleyne
with
them
/
whiche
made
her
company
without
leuynge
her
in
the
tyme
of
the
passyon
of
her
sone
ryght
nyghe
the
crosse
.
O
the
grete
faythe
of
women
&
grete
loue
whiche
neuer
lefte
the
sone
of
god
quycke
nor
deed
whan
he
was
abandonned
&
forsaken
of
his
apostles
/
and
it
appered
well
that
god
reproued
not
the
loue
of
women
as
it
were
a
frayle
thynge
as
some
men
wyll
say
when
he
put
so
grete
loue
in
the
herte
of
y●
blessyd
Mary
Magdaleyne
&
of
other
ladyes
as
it
appe
red
and
that
it
proued
so
moche
.
¶
Of
saynt
Katheryne
the
holy
vyrgyne
.
Ca.
iij.
TO
make
company
with
the
vyrgyne
quene
of
heuen
/
&
pryncesse
of
the
Cyte
of
Ladyes
/
we
must
lodge
with
her
the
blessyd
vyrgynes
&
holy
ladyes
in
shewynge
howe
god
hath
proued
the
kynde
of
women
/
by
that
that
the
same
wyse
that
he
gyuen
vnto
men
he
hath
gyuen
vnto
wo
men
for
to
vnderstande
in
theyr
yonge
and
tendre
age
for
to
be
constaunte
and
stronge
in
sufferynge
horryble
martyrdomes
for
the
holy
lawe
/
the
whiche
ben
crowned
in
glorye
of
whome
the
fayre
lyuesben
of
good
ensample
to
here
to
euery
euery
woman
aboue
all
othher
wysdome
/
&
ther fore
they
shall
be
the
superlatyue
degre
of
our
Cyte
And
fyrst
as
a
ryght
excellent
y●
blessyd
Katheryn
whiche
was
doughter
of
kynge
Costes
of
Alexandre
.
This
blessyd
vyrgyn
was
lefte
to
be
heyre
of
her
fader
in
the
age
of
.xviij.
yeres
/
&
notably
she
gouerned
her
&
her
herytage
/
she
was
a
crysten
wo
man
&
all
gyuen
to
god
refusynge
all
other
maryages
.
It
happened
that
in
to
the
cyte
of
Alexandre
was
come
the
Emperour
Maxencyus
the
whiche
on
a
day
of
grete
solempnyte
of
his
goddes
had
made
to
aray
grete
appareyle
to
make
solempne
sacryfyse
.
Katheryne
beynge
in
her
palays
herde
the
noyse
of
beestes
that
were
arayed
to
do
sacryfyse
&
grete
noyse
of
instrumentes
/
&
as
she
had
sente
to
knowe
what
it
was
.
And
it
was
reported
to
her
that
the
Emperour
was
in
the
temple
to
do
sacrefyse
anone
she
wente
&
began
to
correcte
the
Em
peroure
of
that
erroure
by
many
wyse
wordes
/
&
as
she
was
a
grete
clerke
&
had
lerned
scyences
began
to
proue
by
good
reasons
of
Phylosophye
that
there
was
but
one
god
maker
of
all
thynges
/
&
that
he
ought
to
be
worshypped
&
none
other
.
when
that
Emperour
herde
this
mayden
whiche
was
so
noble
&
of
so
grete
auctoryte
thus
speke
/
&
whiche
that
was
so
fayre
was
all
admeruaylled
&
wyste
not
what
to
say
but
entended
to
beholde
her
/
so
he
sente
al
aboute
to
seke
phylosophres
in
all
the
londe
of
egypte
/
so
there
came
before
hym
.l.
phylosophres
whiche
helde
them
ryght
euyll
contente
when
they
knewe
the
cause
wherfore
they
were
brought
thyder
.
And
sayd
that
lytell
wytte
had
moued
them
to
trauayle
frome
so
farre
coutrees
for
to
dyspute
with
a
mayden
/
and
to
telle
shortely
when
the
day
of
theyr
dysputac
yon
was
come
/
the
blessyd
Katheryne
ledde
theym
for
the
so
with
argumentes
/
that
they
were
all
ouercome
and
coude
not
assoyle
her
questyons
for
the
whiche
the
Emperoure
was
pas
synge
wrothe
with
them
/
but
all
that
aduayled
no
thynge
.
For
by
the
grace
of
god
&
by
the
holy
wordes
of
the
vyrgyne
they
were
all
conuerted
&
confessed
the
name
of
Ihesu
Cryst
/
for
the
whiche
despyte
the
Emperoure
made
them
all
to
be
brente
&
the
holy
mayden
conforted
them
in
theyr
martyrdome
/
and
assured
them
to
be
receyued
in
perpetuall
glory
&
prayed
god
that
he
wolde
kepe
them
in
the
veray
faythe
.
And
so
by
her
they
were
put
in
the
nombre
of
the
blessyd
martyrs
.
And
suche
a
myracle
god
shewed
in
them
that
the
fyre
neuer
hurte
theyr
bodyes
ne
theyr
clothes
but
that
they
bode
al
hole
after
the
fyre
was
done
without
losynge
of
ony
heere
of
theyr
heedes
/
but
it
semed
that
all
were
on
lyue
The
tyraunte
Maxencyus
whiche
gretely
coueyted
the
holy
vyrgyne
katheryne
for
her
beaute
began
to
flatter
her
that
she
sholde
tourne
to
his
wyll
/
But
when
he
sawe
that
it
aduayled
nothynge
he
tourned
hym
to
his
manasynges
and
then
to
tourmented
and
made
her
to
be
beten
cruelly
and
after
to
put
her
in
pryson
without
vysytynge
of
ony
persone
the
space
of
.xij.
dayes
without
mete
or
drynke
trowynge
to
haue
made
her
dye
for
hongre
.
But
the
aungelles
of
our
lorde
were
with
her
whiche
comforted
her
&
after
the
.xij.
dayes
she
was
brought
before
the
Emperoure
/
and
he
sawe
her
more
fresshe
and
hole
than
she
was
before
/
and
trowed
that
she
had
ben
vysyted
.
So
he
commaunded
the
kepers
of
the
pryson
to
be
tourmented
/
but
Katheryne
whiche
had
pyte
on
them
affermed
that
she
had
no
comforte
saue
onely
from
heuen
.
The
Em
peroure
wyst
not
what
harde
tourmentes
he
myght
make
to
tourment
her
.
And
by
the
counsayle
of
his
prouoste
he
lete
make
wheles
full
of
rasoures
whiche
tourned
one
ayenst
another
/
&
what
someuer
was
in
the
myddes
was
al
cutte
of
/
and
bytwene
these
wheles
he
made
put
saynt
Katheryne
all
naked
whiche
alwaye
worshypped
god
with
Ioyned
handes
.
Then
the
aungelles
of
god
came
and
defended
her
/
whiche
brake
the
wheles
with
so
grete
strengthe
that
all
the
tourmentoures
were
slayne
with
them
.
And
when
the
Empe
roures
wyfe
vnderstode
these
meruaylles
that
god
made
for
saynt
Katheryne
she
was
conuerted
/
&
blamed
the
Emperoure
of
that
that
he
dyde
/
and
then
she
wente
and
vysyted
the
holy
vyrgyne
in
the
pryson
and
prayed
her
that
she
wolde
pray
to
god
for
her
.
For
the
whiche
despyte
the
Emperoure
made
to
tourmente
his
wyfe
and
to
drawe
of
her
pappes
/
and
the
vyrgyne
sayd
to
her
.
Doubte
ye
not
the
tourmentes
noble
quene
for
this
daye
thou
shalte
be
receyued
in
the
Ioye
without
ende
.
And
then
the
Emperoure
made
his
wyfe
to
be
heeded
and
a
grete
multytude
of
people
that
were
conuerted
.
The
Emperoure
requyred
Katheryn
that
she
wolde
be
his
wyfe
/
and
when
he
sawe
that
she
was
refusynge
to
all
his
petycyons
wente
&
gaue
his
sentence
that
she
sholde
b●
heeded
.
And
she
made
her
prayer
praynge
for
all
them
that
had
remembraunce
on
her
passyon
/
and
for
theym
that
called
her
name
in
theyr
trybulacyons
that
god
myght
be
theyr
helpe
&
socoure
.
A
voyce
came
fro
heuen
whiche
sayd
that
her
prayer
was
herde
.
Soo
she
made
an
ende
of
her
martyrdome
and
in
stede
of
blode
there
ranne
mylke
out
of
her
body
.
And
the
aungelles
toke
her
holy
body
&
bare
it
to
the
mounte
Synay
whiche
is
.xx.
dayes
Iourney
fro
thens
And
there
they
buryed
her
/
at
the
whiche
tombe
god
hath
done
many
myracles
whiche
I
let
passe
for
shortenesse
.
And
of
the
same
tombe
there
renneth
oyle
whiche
heleth
many
syke
men
and
god
anone
after
punysshed
the
Emperoure
ryght
hor
rybly
.
¶
Of
saynt
Margarete
.
Ca.
iiij
.
WE
shall
not
forgete
also
the
blessyd
vyr
gyne
saynt
Margarete
of
whome
the
Legende
is
knowne
full
well
howe
she
was
borne
in
Antyoche
of
noble
kynrede
/
introducte
in
y●
faythe
when
she
was
yonge
of
her
nouryse
/
of
whome
ryght
humbly
she
wente
euery
daye
to
kepe
the
shepe
/
wherof
it
happened
that
Olybryus
whiche
was
stewarde
with
the
Emperoure
sawe
her
in
goynge
by
and
coueyted
her
.
So
he
sente
to
fetche
her
/
&
for
that
that
she
wolde
not
consente
to
his
wyll
/
and
that
she
tolde
hym
that
she
was
a
crysten
wo
man
/
he
made
her
to
be
strongly
tourmented
/
beten
and
prysoned
in
the
whiche
pryson
for
that
that
she
felte
her
tempted
she
requyred
that
she
myght
se
hym
vysybly
that
soo
moche
euyll
pourchased
her
.
And
then
came
an
horryble
serpente
whiche
gretely
made
her
aferde
and
swalowed
her
.
But
she
made
the
sygne
of
the
crosse
and
anone
the
serpente
brake
/
and
after
she
sawe
at
a
corner
of
the
pryson
a
blacke
fygure
as
of
a
man
of
Ethyope
/
And
then
Margarete
wente
boldely
and
coniured
hym
/
and
he
couched
vnder
her
feete
/
and
she
sette
her
feete
vpon
his
throte
/
and
he
cryed
with
an
hygh
voyce
/
mercy
.
The
pryson
fulfylled
with
clerenesse
Margarete
was
comforted
of
the
aungelles
/
and
then
she
was
tourmented
agayne
before
the
Iuge
/
the
whiche
when
he
sawe
that
all
his
ammonycyons
aduayled
hym
not
/
made
her
to
be
tourmented
more
than
she
was
before
.
But
the
aungelles
of
god
came
and
brake
all
the
tourmentes
/
and
the
vyrgyne
lepte
awaye
from
it
all
hole
/
and
there
was
grete
foyson
of
people
conuerted
.
And
when
the
false
tyraunte
sawe
that
he
ordeyned
that
she
was
heeded
.
But
she
made
her
oryson
fyrste
/
and
prayed
vnto
almyghty
god
for
all
theym
that
remembred
her
passyon
/
and
all
they
that
prayed
vnto
her
in
theyr
trybulacyens
/
and
for
women
grete
with
chylde
that
almyghty
god
wolde
grauute
vnto
them
theyr
petycyon
.
And
the
aungell
of
god
came
&
tolde
her
that
her
prayers
were
herde
and
that
she
sholde
go
in
the
name
of
god
to
receyue
the
palme
of
the
vyctory
/
and
then
she
stretched
forthe
her
necke
and
was
heeded
/
&
the
aungelles
bare
her
soule
to
heuen
.
¶
This
false
Olybryus
also
made
to
tourmente
the
holy
vyrgyne
named
Regyne
/
whiche
was
ryght
yonge
of
the
age
of
.xv.
yeres
for
that
that
she
wolde
not
accorde
to
hym
/
and
she
conuerted
moche
people
with
her
holy
prechynge
.
¶
Of
the
holy
vyrgyne
saynt
Luce.
Ca.
v.
THe
biessyd
saynt
Luce
whiche
was
borne
in
Rome
ought
not
to
be
forgeten
in
our
letanye
/
the
whiche
was
rauysshed
of
the
kynge
Aceya
of
Barbary
.
And
when
he
was
in
his
co●n
tre
he
trowed
to
haue
defouled
her
.
Then
she
by
the
vertue
of
god
began
so
to
preche
vnto
hym
that
he
meruaylled
of
her
wytte
and
lefte
her
&
sayd
that
she
was
a
goddesse
&
helde
her
in
grete
worshyp
and
reuerence
in
his
palays
.
And
ryght
reuerent
ly
he
establysshed
her
dwellynge
for
her
and
her
meyny
/
and
ordeyned
that
no
man
sholde
repayre
thyder
to
hurte
her
or
trouble
her
.
And
she
without
seasynge
was
in
fastynges
and
in
orysons
&
ledde
ryght
an
holy
lyfe
prayenge
for
her
hoost
▪
that
it
myght
please
god
to
enlumyne
hym
with
the
lyght
of
his
holy
faythe
/
and
her
hoost
asked
counsayle
of
her
in
all
his
doynges
/
and
he
toke
it
wel
what
so
euer
she
counsayled
hym
/
when
he
wente
to
the
werre
he
prayed
her
that
she
wolde
praye
to
her
god
for
hym
/
and
she
blessyd
hym
/
and
he
came
agayne
as
ouercomer
of
his
enemyes
/
wherfore
he
wolde
worshyp
her
as
a
goddesse
&
wolde
haue
made
to
buylde
a
temple
for
her
but
she
sayd
that
he
sholde
beware
therof
and
that
there
was
not
but
one
god
/
&
that
she
was
a
symple
synner
and
thus
she
was
by
the
space
of
.xx.
yeres
perseuerynge
in
holy
lyfe
.
So
she
had
it
by
reuelacyon
of
our
lorde
that
she
sholde
retourne
to
Rome
/
&
there
she
sholde
accomplysshe
the
terme
of
her
lyfe
by
martyrdome
/
&
she
tolde
it
to
the
kynge
whiche
was
ryght
full
of
sorowe
for
it
/
and
answered
her
and
sayd
.
Alas
yf
thou
parte
frome
me
/
myne
enemyes
wyll
assayle
me
/
&
I
shall
lose
my
good
fortune
when
I
shall
not
haue
the.
And
she
sayd
to
hym
/
thou
kynge
come
with
me
/
and
leue
thyne
erthely
royalme
/
for
thou
arte
chosen
to
posses
a
more
noble
kyngdome
whiche
is
without
ende
And
he
anone
lefte
all
that
he
had
&
wente
with
the
holy
vyrgyne
not
as
a
lorde
but
as
a
seruaunte
And
when
they
were
come
to
rome
/
and
she
was
knowne
that
she
was
a
crysten
woman
/
she
was
taken
&
brought
to
her
martyrdome
.
Of
the
whiche
thynge
the
kynge
Aeeya
was
ryght
sorowful
and
ranne
aboute
and
wolde
haue
reuenged
her
after
his
power
/
yf
the
holy
vyrgyne
had
not
bydden
hym
the
contrary
/
soo
he
wepte
tenderly
and
cryed
that
they
were
cursed
people
to
do
so
moche
euyll
to
the
holy
vyrgyne
of
god
.
And
when
it
came
that
one
sholde
smyte
of
the
heede
of
that
blessyd
vyrgyne
/
the
kynge
wente
to
put
his
heed
by
hers
/
cryenge
I
am
a
crysten
man
/
&
I
offre
myne
heed
to
Ihesu
Cryst
god
&
maker
of
all
thynge
whom
that
holy
Luce
worshyppeth
.
And
soo
they
were
bothe
heeded
togyder
and
crowned
in
glory
/
and
xij
.
other
with
theym
that
were
conuerted
by
the
holy
vyrgyne
saynt
Luce
wherof
the
feest
of
them
is
halowed
togyder
in
the
.vij.
kalenders
of
Iule
¶
Of
the
blessyd
vyrgyne
saynt
Martyne
.
Ca.
vj.
THe
blessyd
vyrgyne
Martyne
maye
not
be
forgoten
.
This
blessyd
mayde
was
borne
in
Rome
of
ryght
noble
kynred
.
The
Emperoure
wolde
constrayne
her
to
be
his
wyfe
bycause
of
her
beaute
/
and
she
answered
I
am
a
crysten
woman
offred
to
god
alyue
whiche
delyteth
hym
in
chaste
bodyes
and
in
clene
herte
/
and
to
hym
I
do
sacrefyse
and
commende
me
.
And
for
despyte
of
these
wordes
the
Emperoure
made
her
to
be
ledde
to
the
temple
to
constrayne
her
to
worshyp
the
ydolles
/
and
she
kneled
downe
and
her
eyen
towarde
heuen
/
lyftynge
vp
her
Ioyned
handes
made
her
orysons
to
god
/
and
anone
the
ydolles
fell
downe
all
to
torne
/
the
temple
brake
/
and
the
prestes
of
the
temple
of
ydolles
were
slayne
/
and
the
deuyll
that
was
in
the
ydoll
cryed
&
confessed
that
the
holy
vyrgyne
Martyne
was
the
veray
seruaunt
of
god
.
The
tyraunte
Emperoure
for
to
reuenge
his
goddes
made
her
to
be
cruelly
tourmented
/
in
the
whiche
god
appered
to
her
&
comforted
her
/
and
she
prayed
for
them
that
tourmented
her
somoche
that
they
were
conuerted
by
her
merytes
/
and
grete
foyson
of
people
also
.
Of
the
whiche
thynge
the
Emperoure
was
worse
dysposed
than
before
and
made
her
to
be
tourmented
more
and
more
of
dyuers
tourmentynges
and
cruel
But
those
that
tourmented
her
thought
verely
that
they
sawe
god
and
his
sayntes
before
her
/
&
they
asked
mercy
of
her
and
were
conuerted
.
And
soo
as
she
was
in
oryson
prayenge
for
them
a
lyght
came
rounde
aboute
them
/
and
a
voyce
was
herde
from
heuen
that
sayd
I
spare
you
for
the
loue
of
my
ryght
welbyloued
Martyne
.
And
then
the
prouost
cryed
to
them
for
that
they
were
conuerted
and
sayd
.
O
fooles
ye
are
deceyued
by
this
enchauntresse
Martyne
.
And
they
answered
without
drede
.
Nay
thou
arte
deceyued
by
the
dyuyll
that
dwelleth
within
the
/
for
thou
knowest
not
hym
that
made
the.
And
the
Emperour
wrothe
out
of
measure
commaunded
them
to
be
hanged
/
&
theyr
flesshe
to
be
al
to
torne
/
&
they
receyuynge
martyr
dome
Ioyfully
praysed
god
.
And
the
Emperour
agayne
made
martyne
to
be
dispoyled
al
naked
&
her
flesshe
whyte
as
lylye
that
made
them
abasshed
for
her
grete
beaute
/
&
when
the
Emperour
whiche
coueyted
her
had
longe
tyme
counsayled
her
/
and
sawe
that
she
wolde
not
obaye
/
made
her
to
be
cutte
al
aboute
/
and
out
of
her
woundes
there
came
mylke
for
blode
/
and
yelded
grete
swetnesse
&
yet
he
woode
on
her
made
to
stretche
her
abrode
and
raced
her
with
hokes
and
brake
all
the
body
so
moche
that
they
that
tourmented
her
were
al
wery
and
god
kepte
her
that
she
sholde
not
dye
so
soone
/
to
the
entente
that
the
tourmentoures
myght
haue
cause
to
be
conuerted
the
whiche
began
to
crye
Emperoure
we
wyll
do
no
more
/
for
the
aungelles
beteth
vs
with
chaynes
.
And
then
there
came
newe
tormentoures
to
tourment
her
and
anone
they
were
deed
/
and
the
Emperour
confused
wyste
not
what
to
doo
/
but
made
her
to
be
stretched
to
brenne
her
with
brennynge
gr●es
/
&
alwaye
she
gloryfyed
our
lorde
/
and
there
came
out
of
her
mouthe
ryght
grete
swetnesse
/
&
when
the
tyrauntes
had
tourmented
her
so
moche
that
they
were
ashamed
they
cast
her
in
a
derke
pryson
And
Emenyon
the
cosyn
of
the
Emperoure
wen
te
to
loke
in
to
the
pryson
/
and
he
sawe
Martyne
enuyronned
with
aungelles
set
in
a
trone
ryght
well
arayed
and
there
was
grete
clerenesse
with
many
dyuers
songes
ryght
melodyous
/
and
she
helde
a
table
of
golde
in
the
whiche
there
was
wry
ten
.
My
lorde
swete
Ihesu
cryst
so
moche
by
thy
werkes
praysed
in
thy
blessyd
sayntes
Emenyon
gretely
admeruayled
of
this
thynge
wente
to
tell
it
to
the
Emperoure
whiche
answered
that
he
was
deceyued
by
her
enchauntementes
/
in
the
mornynge
the
tyraunt
made
her
to
be
taken
out
of
pryson
/
&
euery
body
meruaylled
of
that
that
she
was
all
hole
thrughe
whiche
many
was
conuerted
.
At
the
last
he
made
her
to
be
ledde
to
the
tymple
to
constrayne
her
to
do
sacrefyse
to
the
false
goddes
.
Then
the
deuyll
began
to
braye
and
sayd
/
alas
alas
I
am
confounded
/
and
the
holy
vyrgyne
commaunded
hym
to
come
out
and
that
he
sholde
shewe
hym
in
his
owne
lewde
lykenesse
/
and
anone
there
came
a
grete
thondre
with
lyghtnynge
/
that
came
from
heuen
and
brake
the
ydoll
and
brente
the
preestes
.
And
then
the
Emperoure
was
woode
with
her
&
made
her
to
be
stretched
abrode
&
raced
all
the
flesshe
of
her
body
with
combes
of
yron
/
and
she
alway
worshypped
god
/
and
when
he
sawe
that
she
dyed
not
he
made
her
to
be
put
to
wylde
beestes
to
be
deuoured
and
a
grete
lyon
that
had
not
eten
in
thre
dayes
came
to
her
and
bowed
hym
to
her
and
laye
downe
by
her
as
it
were
a
lytell
dog
and
lycked
her
woundes
/
&
she
thanked
our
lorde
in
saynge
.
Blessyd
be
thou
almyghty
god
that
by
thy
vertue
hast
modered
the
cruelte
of
wycked
bestes
.
The
tyraunte
wrothe
with
this
thynge
commaunded
that
the
lyon
sholde
be
put
agayne
in
to
his
caue
/
and
the
lyon
dressed
hym
by
grete
wrathe
and
made
a
lepe
and
slewe
Emenyon
the
Emperoures
cosyn
of
the
whiche
thynge
he
was
ryght
sorowfull
and
commaunded
her
to
be
cast
in
to
the
fyre
/
and
she
beynge
within
with
a
Ioyful
chere
god
sente
a
grete
wynde
that
put
away
the
fyre
aboute
her
&
brente
them
that
tourmented
her
The
Emperoure
commaunded
that
the
heere
of
her
heed
sholde
be
cutte
awaye●
whiche
was
ryght
fayre
and
longe
sayenge
that
the
enchauntementes
was
in
her
heeres
.
And
the
vyrgyne
sayd
to
hym
.
Thou
takest
awaye
the
heeres
whiche
is
an
ornamente
of
woman
/
as
the
apostle
sayth
/
&
god
shall
put
the
out
of
thy
reygne
and
poursue
y●
and
thou
shalte
byde
the
dethe
with
grete
sorowe
and
payne
.
Then
he
made
her
to
be
enclosed
in
a
temple
where
his
goddes
were
/
and
nayled
the
dore
&
sealed
it
with
his
owne
sygnete
.
And
when
thre
dayes
were
past
he
came
agayne
and
founde
his
goddes
all
ouerthrowne
and
the
holy
vyrgyne
playenge
with
aungelles
hole
and
sounde
.
The
Emperoure
asked
her
what
she
had
done
with
his
goddes
/
and
she
sayd
the
vertue
of
Ihesu
cryste
hathe
ouerthrowne
them
and
confounded
them
.
And
then
he
commaunded
that
one
sholde
cutte
her
throte
/
them
there
was
herde
a
voyce
that
sayd
Martyne
vyrgyne
for
that
that
thou
hast
fought
for
my
name
thou
shalte
entre
in
to
my
kyngdome
amonge
my
sayntes
.
And
thou
shalte
enioye
with
me
euerlastyngly
.
And
thus
ended
the
blessyd
Martyne
/
and
then
came
the
bysshoppe
of
Rome
with
all
his
clargye
&
buryed
the
body
honourably
in
the
chyrche
.
And
the
same
day
the
Emperoure
Alexander
was
smyten
with
suche
a
sorowe
that
he
ete
his
owne
flesshe
&
gnewe
hymselfe
to
the
dethe
.
¶
Of
saynt
Luce
of
Syracuse
.
Ca.
vij
.
ANother
vyrgyne
Saynt
Luce
there
was
in
the
Cyte
of
Syracuse
/
and
so
as
she
prayed
at
the
sepulture
of
saynt
Agace
for
her
moder
whiche
was
/
she
sawe
saynt
Agace
in
a
vysyon
in
the
myddes
of
aungelles
arayed
in
precyous
stones
whiche
sayd
to
her
.
Luce
my
syster
deuoute
vyrgyne
wherfore
requyrest
thou
of
me
that
thou
mayst
gyue
to
thy
moder
thyselfe
I
tell
the
for
certayne
that
so
as
the
cyte
of
Cathonyas
is
lyfted
vp
by
me
/
so
shall
the
cyte
of
Syracuse
be
worshypped
by
y●
.
For
thou
hast
arayed
to
Ihesu
cryst
delectable
Iewelles
in
thy
clennesse
.
Luce
rose
vp
/
&
her
moder
was
hole
/
and
she
gaue
al
that
she
had
for
goddes
sake
/
and
after
ended
her
lyfe
by
martyrdome
/
and
amonge
other
martyrdomes
that
she
had
/
the
Iuge
manaced
her
to
make
her
to
be
ledde
to
the
place
where
that
lewde
women
vsed
theyr
lyfe
.
&
there
she
sholde
be
defouled
in
the
despyte
of
her
spouse
/
&
she
answered
.
The
soule
shal
neuer
be
defouled
without
consente
of
the
mynde
.
For
yf
thou
make
me
to
be
corrupted
by
force
my
chastyte
/
&
my
vyctory
shall
be
doubled
therby
/
&
so
as
they
wolde
lede
her
to
the
place
aboue
sayd
/
she
was
so
heuy
that
for
no
horse
nor
other
bestes
that
sholde
drawe
her
thyder
myght
not
be
remoued
&
they
put
cordes
on
her
fete
to
drawe
her
forthe
but
she
was
so
stable
as
it
had
ben
an
hylle
.
And
at
her
passynge
she
prophesyed
that
that
was
to
come
to
the
Emperoure
.
¶
Also
the
gloryous
vyrgyne
saynt
Benet
borne
in
rome
is
worthy
of
grete
reuerence
.
She
had
with
her
.xij.
vyrgynes
conuerted
by
her
predycacyon
.
She
desyred
to
encrease
by
prechynge
the
crysten
relygyon
.
So
she
departed
&
her
com
pany
and
preched
and
conuerted
moche
people
with
out
hauynge
ony
drede
for
god
was
with
them
and
by
the
wyll
of
god
they
were
departed
in
sondre
and
stretched
them
in
dyuers
countrees
to
that
entente
that
euery
of
theym
myght
profyte
/
and
as
this
holy
vyrgyne
had
conuerted
dyuers
coum
tres
and
encreased
the
faythe
of
our
lorde
/
she
ended
her
lyfe
by
the
palme
of
martyrdome
/
and
on
the
same
wyse
dyde
her
holy
felawes
.
¶
And
saynt
fauste
was
not
of
lesse
perfeccyon
of
the
age
of
.xiiij.
yeres
/
whiche
for
that
that
she
wolde
not
do
sacrefyse
to
the
ydolles
/
the
Emperoure
Maxymy
on
made
her
to
be
sawed
with
a
sawe
of
yron
But
as
the
●awyers
seased
not
sawynge
fro
the
houre
of
tyerce
anone
to
the
houre
of
noone
and
they
myght
not
entame
her
/
and
they
sayd
to
her
by
what
vertue
hast
thou
holden
vs
by
thyne
enchauntementes
soo
longe
here
without
doynge
ony
thynge
/
and
the
holy
vyrgyne
Fauste
began
to
preche
to
them
of
Ihesu
Cryst
and
of
his
lawe
and
so
conuerted
them
.
The
Emperoure
had
grete
indyngnacyon
hereof
and
made
her
to
be
tourmented
with
dyuers
tourmentes
/
and
amonge
others
he
made
to
nayle
her
heed
with
a
thousande
nayles
lyke
to
the
helme
of
a
knyght
/
and
she
prayed
for
them
that
dyde
her
persecucyon
.
And
the
prouost
was
conuerted
by
that
that
he
sawe
the
heuens
open
&
god
syttynge
with
his
aungelles
and
when
saynt
Fauste
was
in
the
cawdron
o●
water
boylynge
the
sayd
prouost
began
to
crye
.
Thou
holy
seruaunt
of
god
ne
go
thou
not
without
me
and
lepte
in
to
the
cawdron
/
and
when
the
other
twayne
that
he
had
conuerted
sawe
that
they
lepte
in
to
the
cawdron
also
/
of
whiche
the
water
boyled
ryght
feruently
/
and
the
holy
Fauste
touched
theym
▪
and
they
felte
no
maner
of
euyll
.
And
she
sayd
I
am
in
the
myddes
as
it
were
a
byne
beryn
ge
fruyte
/
as
our
lorde
sayth
/
where
there
ben
two
or
thre
assembled
in
my
name
I
am
in
the
myddes
of
them
.
And
then
there
was
herde
a
voyce
from
heuen
that
sayd
.
Come
to
me
my
blessyd
vyrgyne
the
fader
hath
asked
for
you
/
and
they
that
herde
this
thynge
yelded
vp
the
ghost
ryght
Ioyously
.
¶
Of
saynt
Iustyne
.
Ca.
viii
.
THe
holy
vyrgyne
Iustyne
borne
in
●nthyoche
yonge
and
of
souerayne
beaute
ouercame
the
deuyll
whiche
was
called
vp
by
the
callynge
of
a
●y
gromancere
that
he
sholde
do
so
moche
that
she
sholde
consente
to
the
wyll
of
a
man
that
was
gretely
taken
with
her
loue
/
and
lefte
her
not
in
peas
.
But
for
that
that
by
prayers
nor
by
promyses
he
coude
doo
nothynge
/
he
trowed
that
the
●eu●ll
sholde
helpe
hym
but
it
aduayled
hym
not
/
for
the
gloryous
Iustyne
chased
the
ene
my
dyuers
tymes
whiche
that
put
hym
in
dyuers
fourmes
to
tempte
her
.
But
he
was
ouercome
of
her
and
wente
his
waye
confused
.
And
at
the
last
she
ended
her
lyfe
by
martyrdome
and
conuerted
the
sayd
nygromancere
that
was
called
Cypryen
and
had
ben
a
man
of
ryght
a
shrewde
lyfe
/
but
by
her
he
was
put
in
a
good
lyfe
/
and
dyuers
others
were
conuerted
by
the
sygnes
that
god
shewed
in
her
.
¶
Also
y●
blessyd
vyrgyne
Eulalye
borne
in
Spay
ne
of
the
age
of
.xij.
yeres
stale
awaye
from
her
fader
and
moder
that
helde
her
in
close
for
that
that
she
neuer
stynted
to
speke
of
our
lorde
Ihesu
cryst
so
she
fledde
by
nyght
/
and
wente
and
cast
downe
the
ydolles
of
the
temples
to
the
erthe
/
and
cryed
to
the
Iuges
that
dyde
so
moche
persecucyon
to
the
martyres
that
they
were
deceyued
/
and
that
in
that
faythe
she
wolde
dye
/
so
she
was
put
in
the
nombre
of
the
knyghtes
of
Ihesu
cryste
/
and
had
many
grete
tourmentes
/
&
there
was
moche
people
conuerted
by
the
myracles
that
god
shewed
to
her
¶
Also
of
another
holy
vyrgyne
that
was
called
Matre
whiche
was
ryght
sore
tourmented
for
the
fayth
of
Ihesu
Cryste
/
and
amonge
her
tourmentes
she
had
her
pappes
raced
frome
her
body
/
and
after
so
as
she
was
in
the
pryson
god
sente
vnto
her
his
aungell
whiche
that
establysshed
her
helthe
/
wherof
the
prouost
was
gretely
abasshed
.
But
he
lefte
not
for
that
/
but
that
he
made
her
to
be
gretely
tourmented
of
dyuers
paynes
/
and
at
the
laste
she
yelded
vp
the
spyryte
to
god
/
and
her
holy
body
lyeth
nyght
the
Cyte
of
Raynes
.
¶
Also
the
blessyd
vyrgyne
saynt
Faythe
suffred
martyrdome
in
her
youthe
/
and
had
many
tourmentes
.
And
our
lorde
crowned
her
and
sente
her
a
crowne
of
precyous
stones
by
an
aungell
/
and
god
shewed
for
her
many
meruaylles
/
by
the
whiche
many
people
were
conuerted
.
¶
Also
the
holy
and
blessyd
vyrgyne
Marcyenne
when
one
dyde
worshyp
to
a
false
ymage
of
an
ydoll
/
she
toke
the
ydoll
and
threwe
hym
to
the
grounde
and
brake
hym
/
for
the
whiche
cause
she
was
so
moche
beten
that
they
lefte
her
for
deed
/
and
prysoned
in
a
place
▪
in
the
whiche
place
a
false
mynystre
trowed
to
haue
rauysshed
her
by
nyght
.
But
by
grace
deuy
ne
there
came
a
grete
walle
bytwene
her
and
him
that
he
myght
not
goo
frome
thens
/
the
whiche
was
sene
on
the
morowe
of
all
the
people
/
by
the
whiche
there
was
moche
people
conuerted
.
This
holy
&
blessyd
vyrgyne
hadde
many
dyuers
tourmentes
.
But
alwaye
she
preched
of
the
name
of
Ihesu
Cryste
/
and
at
the
laste
she
prayed
to
god
that
he
wolde
take
her
vnto
hym
.
And
thus
she
ended
her
lyfe
in
her
grete
tourmente
.
¶
Also
the
blessyd
vyrgyne
Saynt
Eufenye
also
suffred
moche
for
the
name
of
god
/
she
was
of
good
kynred
&
of
noble
shap
of
body
.
The
prouost
Pry
sens
co●●saylled
her
that
she
sholde
worshyp
the
ydolles
/
and
forsake
Ihesu
cryste
/
&
she
by
ryght
grete
argumentes
answered
hym
so
moche
that
he
coude
not
assoyle
her
questyons
wherof
he
had
so
grete
wrathe
that
he
was
ouercome
of
a
woman
/
and
made
her
to
be
tourmented
with
ryght
greuous
and
harde
tourmentes
.
But
thoughe
the
body
of
her
were
sore
brused
her
wytte
alway
encreased
and
yelded
good
wordes
full
of
the
holy
ghost
/
and
when
she
was
tourmented
the
aungel
of
god
defended
her
and
brake
the
tourment
/
and
tourmented
the
tourmentoures
/
and
she
with
a
gladde
vysage
wente
out
all
hole
.
The
false
prouost
made
to
hete
a
fournoys
of
whiche
the
flame
stretched
out
by
.xl.
cubytes
of
hyght
/
and
made
her
to
be
cast
in
it
and
she
sange
within
it
praysynge
god
ryght
melodyously
soo
hyghe
that
all
people
praysed
her
/
&
when
the
fyre
was
all
consumed
she
came
out
saufe
&
hole
.
The
Iuge
wrother
than
he
was
made
to
brynge
brennynge
pynsons
to
drawe
out
her
membres
/
but
those
that
sholde
haue
done
it
were
so
aferde
that
none
durst
touche
her
and
all
the
tourmentes
were
all
to
broken
.
So
the
false
tyraunte
made
to
brynge
foure
lyons
/
and
other
.ij.
wylde
beestes
but
they
worshypped
her
/
and
y●
blessyd
vyrgyne
desyrous
to
go
to
her
god
prayed
hym
that
he
wolde
take
her
to
hym
/
and
then
she
ended
without
touchynge
of
ony
of
the
wylde
beestes
.
¶
Of
the
vyrgyne
Theodosyne
/
Saynt
Barbara
/
and
saynt
Dorothe
.
Ca.
ix
.
THe
constaunce
of
the
martyrdome
of
the
blessyd
Theodosyne
cometh
to
our
purpose
well
to
be
remembred
This
vyrgyne
was
ryght
noble
&
of
grete
beaute
of
the
age
of
.xviij.
yeres
she
by
meruayllous
wytte
dysputed
with
the
Iuge
whiche
manaced
her
to
tourment
her
yi
she
forsoke
not
Ihesu
Cryst
/
and
as
she
answered
by
godly
wordes
/
he
made
her
to
be
taken
by
the
heere
and
beten
ryght
sore
/
and
she
sayd
to
hym
.
Certes
he
is
a
caytyfe
that
wolde
lordeshyp
another
and
can
not
gouerne
hymselfe
.
Alas
to
hym
that
hath
grete
charge
to
be
fulfylled
with
metes
and
drynkes
and
hath
no
thought
of
the
hongre
euyl
for
hym
that
wolde
be
warmed
and
wyll
not
clothe
ne
warme
those
that
ben
euyll
clothed
/
wo
be
to
hym
that
wolde
haue
rest
&
trauaylleth
others
euyll
be
it
to
hym
that
saythe
all
thynges
ben
his
and
he
hathe
receyued
them
of
god
/
wo
be
to
hym
that
wolde
that
one
sholde
do
well
and
he
dothe
all
euyll
.
Suche
worthy
wordes
sayd
alwaye
the
holy
vyrgyne
in
her
tourmente
.
¶
But
for
that
she
had
sorowe
in
her
herte
of
the
shame
of
that
/
that
her
shamfast
membres
appered
openly
god
sente
her
a
whyte
cloude
that
couered
her
al.
And
Urban
the
Iuge
manaced
her
more
and
more
to
whome
she
sayd
.
Thou
she
west
none
of
my
meeses
of
my
dyner
that
is
ordeyned
for
me
.
And
the
tyraunt
manaced
her
that
he
wolde
corrupte
her
vyrgynyte
/
to
whom
she
answered
.
Thou
manacest
in
vayne
to
be
corrupcyon
in
me
for
god
enhabyteth
in
the
clene
hertes
.
The
prouost
more
wode
than
he
was
made
her
to
be
cast
in
the
see
an
heuy
stone
aboute
her
necke
.
And
she
borne
vp
with
aungelles
&
brought
agayne
to
the
loude
syngynge
&
bare
the
stone
bytwene
her
handes
/
whiche
wayed
moche
more
than
herselfe
.
The
tyraunte
made
to
lette
go
vpon
her
.ij.
Leoperdes
but
they
lepte
aboute
her
makynge
her
grete
chere
.
At
the
last
the
tyraunt
that
knewe
not
howe
to
do
made
to
smyte
of
her
heed
/
&
the
soule
departed
fro
her
body
vysybly
in
the
shappe
of
a
whyte
downe
/
shynynge
bryght
/
&
the
same
nyght
she
appered
to
her
fader
&
moder
more
clerer
than
the
sone
/
crowned
with
precyous
stoues
accompanyed
with
many
vyrgynes
holdynge
a
crosse
of
golde
in
her
hande
/
&
sayd
to
them
.
Se
here
what
is
the
Ioy
that
ye
wolde
haue
put
awaye
from
me
/
and
by
that
they
were
conuerted
.
¶
Also
in
the
tyme
of
Maxymyan
the
Emperoure
floured
in
vertues
the
blessyd
vyrgyne
saynt
Barbara
of
noble
lygnage
&
soueraynely
sayre
/
her
fader
for
bycause
of
her
beaute
had
shytte
her
in
a
toure
/
and
she
had
inspyracyon
of
the
crysten
faythe
/
&
for
that
that
she
myght
not
be
baptysed
of
none
other
she
herselfe
toke
water
&
baptysed
her
in
the
name
of
the
fader
&
sone
&
the
holy
ghost
.
Her
fader
wolde
haue
maryed
her
ryght
hyghly
and
she
refused
all
maryages
/
and
at
the
laste
she
tolde
that
she
was
crystened
/
and
hadde
vowed
her
vyrgynyte
vnto
god
/
the
fader
wolde
haue
slayne
her
for
that
cause
/
and
she
fledde
and
escaped
/
and
as
her
fader
poursued
her
to
put
her
to
the
dethe
/
at
the
laste
he
founde
her
by
the
techynge
of
a
shepeherde
whiche
serched
anone
bothe
hym
and
his
beestes
/
and
the
fader
ledde
her
to
the
prouost
the
whiche
for
that
that
she
dysobeyed
al
his
commaundementes
made
her
to
be
martyred
with
many
a
greuous
tourmente
/
and
hanged
her
by
the
feete
/
and
she
sayd
to
hym
/
caytyfe
ne
seest
thou
not
that
the
tourmentes
dothe
me
no
harme
/
and
he
ryght
wrothe
made
her
pappes
to
be
drawne
frome
her
body
/
and
in
that
estate
made
her
to
be
ledde
thrughe
the
cyte
.
And
she
alwaye
gloryfyed
god
.
But
for
that
that
she
hadde
shame
that
her
vyrgynall
body
was
sene
all
naked
/
our
lorde
sente
her
his
aungell
and
heled
all
her
woundes
/
and
couered
her
body
with
a
whyte
clothe
.
And
when
she
had
ben
ledde
forth
ynoughe
one
ledde
her
agayne
before
the
prouost
whiche
was
wode
when
he
sawe
her
all
hole
/
and
her
face
shynynge
bryght
/
soo
he
made
her
agayne
to
be
tourmented
soo
moche
that
he
commaunded
when
he
coude
thynke
of
no
mo
tourmentes
that
her
heed
sholde
be
smyten
of
.
And
she
made
her
orysons
and
prayed
god
that
he
myght
be
in
the
helpe
of
all
them
that
requyred
her
in
remembraunce
and
recorded
her
passyon
.
And
when
she
hadde
all
ended
her
oryson
and
prayer
/
there
was
a
voyce
herde
from
heuen
whiche
sayd
vnto
her
in
this
wyse
.
Come
vnto
me
my
ryght
dere
welbyloued
doughter
to
rest
the
in
the
kyngdome
of
my
fader
and
receyue
thy
crowne
.
And
that
that
thou
hast
requyred
shall
be
graunted
to
the
&
so
as
she
was
gone
vp
vpon
the
hylle
where
she
sholde
be
heeded
Her
cruell
fader
smote
of
her
heed
hymselfe
.
And
as
he
came
downe
the
hylle
the
fyre
of
heuen
brent
hym
al
to
poudre
.
¶
Also
y●
blessyd
vyrgyne
saynt
Dorothe
the
same
wyse
suffred
dyuers
martyrdomes
in
Capadoce
.
And
for
that
that
she
wolde
not
take
no
man
to
housbande
/
and
spake
so
moche
of
her
spouse
Ihesu
Cryst
.
The
mayster
of
the
scoles
whiche
was
named
Theophylus
sayd
to
her
in
mockery
when
one
ledde
her
to
be
heeded
/
that
at
the
leest
when
she
sholde
be
with
her
spouse
that
she
wolde
sende
to
hym
of
the
roses
and
apples
of
the
gardyne
of
her
housbande
/
and
she
sayd
that
she
wolde
/
wherof
it
happened
that
as
soone
as
she
had
made
an
ende
of
her
martyrdome
ryght
a
fayre
yonge
chylde
as
of
the
age
of
.iiij.
yeres
come
to
Theophylus
and
brought
with
hym
a
lytell
panyer
full
of
s●ueraynly
fayre
roses
and
apples
meruayllously
well
smellynge
and
fayre
/
&
sayd
that
the
vyrgyne
Dorothe
sente
them
to
hym
.
Then
was
he
gretely
admeruaylled
for
it
was
wryten
in
the
moneth
of
February
/
so
he
was
conuerted
&
after
was
martyred
for
the
name
of
Ihesu
cryst
¶
So
of
all
other
sayntes
vyrgynes
that
ben
in
heuen
by
constaunce
of
martyrdome
yf
I
wolde
tell
the
the
hystory
sholde
be
ryght
longe
so
as
saynt
Cecyle
/
saynt
Agnes
/
saynt
Agace
/
and
infynyte
others
/
and
yf
thou
wylte
haue
mo
/
go
and
beholde
in
the
hystoryal
myroure
and
there
thou
shalte
fynde
ynoughe
.
And
I
shall
tell
the
yet
of
Saynt
Crystyne
for
that
that
she
is
thy
godmoder
/
and
is
a
vyrgyne
of
grete
dygnyte
I
shall
tell
the
lyfe
of
her
more
playne
/
whiche
is
deuoute
and
fayre
.
¶
The
lyfe
of
saynt
Xp̄ine
vyrgyne
and
martyre
.
Capitulo
.x.
THe
blessid
vyrgyne
saynt
Xp̄ine
was
of
the
cyte
of
Syre
doughter
of
Urban
mayster
of
the
cheualrye
/
this
lady
for
her
beaute
was
kepte
in
close
by
the
commaundement
of
her
fader
in
a
toure
/
and
she
had
with
her
seuen
maydens
.
And
there
her
fader
lete
make
a
fayre
oratory
of
ydolles
nyghe
to
the
chambre
of
Xp̄yne
to
the
entente
that
she
sholde
worshyp
them
.
But
she
that
was
so
yonge
as
of
the
age
of
.xij.
yeres
was
enspyred
of
the
fayth
of
Ihesu
cryst
and
made
no
force
of
the
ydolles
wherof
that
maydens
meruaylled
and
often
tymes
they
called
on
her
to
do
oblacyon
.
And
when
she
had
taken
ensence
so
as
to
make
sacrefyse
to
the
ydolles
/
she
kneled
towarde
the
Eest
at
a
wyndowe
and
loked
towarde
heuen
&
encensed
the
inmortall
god
.
And
the
moost
parte
of
the
nyght
she
was
at
that
wyndowe
beholdynge
the
sterres
and
she
waylynge
besought
god
ryght
deuoutely
and
prayed
hym
that
he
wolde
be
her
helpe
agaynst
all
her
aduersaryes
.
The
maydens
whiche
perceyued
well
that
her
herte
was
all
in
Ihesu
cryste
/
kneled
before
her
often
tymes
with
Ioyned
handes
prayenge
that
she
sholde
not
put
her
entente
in
a
straunge
god
/
but
that
she
wolde
worshyp
the
goddes
of
her
fader
and
moder
/
&
yf
that
she
were
knowne
al
they
sholde
be
destroy
ed.
Saynt
Xp̄ine
answered
that
they
were
deceyued
by
the
deuyll
whiche
styred
them
to
worshyp
so
many
goddes
/
and
that
there
was
but
one
.
At
the
last
as
her
fader
knewe
that
his
doughter
wolde
not
worshyp
the
ydolles
he
was
ryght
sorowfull
and
reproued
her
.
And
she
sayd
that
with
a
good
wyll
she
wolde
offre
to
god
of
heuen
/
&
he
trowed
that
she
mente
Iupyter
and
was
ryght
glad
and
wolde
haue
kyssed
her
/
but
she
c●yed
&
sayd
/
foule
not
my
mouthe
.
For
I
wyll
offre
myne
offrynge
clene
to
god
of
heuen
/
and
of
erthe
/
and
of
that
her
fader
was
contente
.
And
she
wente
in
to
her
chambre
&
shytte
fast
the
dore
/
&
set
her
on
her
knees
/
&
offred
her
holy
oryson
to
god
in
wepynge
/
and
the
holy
aungell
of
our
lorde
came
downe
&
comforted
her
/
&
brought
her
whyte
brede
&
mete
wherof
she
ete
/
for
in
.iij.
dayes
she
had
no
maner
of
mete
nor
drynke
.
After
that
saynt
Xp̄ine
sawe
at
the
wyn
dowes
many
poore
crysten
men
beggynge
at
the
fote
of
her
toure
/
and
she
hadde
nothynge
to
gyue
them
/
and
she
wente
to
seke
the
Idolles
of
her
fader
whiche
were
of
golde
and
syluer
/
and
she
brake
them
all
and
gaue
the
peces
to
the
poore
men
.
And
when
her
fader
knewe
that
thynge
he
bete
her
ryght
cruelly
/
and
she
tolde
hym
playnly
that
he
was
deceyued
to
worshyp
suche
false
ymages
and
that
there
was
but
one
god
in
Trynyte
/
the
whiche
she
confessed
/
and
other
god
wolde
she
not
worshyp
to
dye
therfore
/
wherfore
he
was
woode
with
her
/
and
made
her
to
be
bounde
with
chaynes
/
and
ledde
her
betynge
her
in
dyuers
places
/
and
after
put
her
in
pryson
/
and
he
sayd
that
he
wolde
be
Iuge
hymselfe
of
that
cause
.
Soo
he
made
her
to
be
brought
before
hym
on
the
morowe
and
manaced
her
with
all
tourmentes
/
yf
she
wolde
not
worshyp
the
ydolles
/
and
after
that
that
he
sa
we
well
that
she
wolde
not
tourne
her
entente
for
prayer
ne
for
manaces
/
made
her
to
be
stryped
all
naked
bothe
armes
and
legges
and
beten
so
moche
that
.xij.
men
were
wery
of
it
/
and
she
asked
her
fader
alwaye
yf
he
aduysed
her
not
/
&
he
sayd
to
her
.
Doughter
naturall
pyte
constrayneth
sore
my
courage
to
tourmente
the
so
whiche
arte
my
flesshe
.
But
the
reuerence
and
the
faythe
that
I
haue
to
my
goddes
constrayneth
me
to
do
it
for
y●
that
thou
dyspysest
theym
.
And
the
holy
vyrgyue
answered
hym
.
Tyraunt
whiche
I
ought
not
to
calle
fader
/
but
enemye
of
myne
holynesse
/
tourmente
the
flesshe
hardely
that
thou
haste
engendred
/
and
spare
it
not
.
For
as
for
that
thou
mayst
wel
doo
at
thy
pleasure
/
but
as
for
the
spyryte
the
whiche
was
made
of
my
fader
the
whiche
is
in
heuen
thou
hast
no
power
in
no
wyse
to
touche
it
by
no
temptacyon
/
for
Ihesu
cryst
my
sauyoure
kepeth
hym
.
The
cruell
fader
more
woode
then
he
was
made
to
brynge
a
whele
that
he
had
let
make
/
and
made
this
holy
swete
yonge
mayden
to
be
bounde
to
it
/
and
to
put
fyre
vnder
/
and
after
made
to
cast
boylynge
oyle
grete
plentye
vpon
her
body
/
and
the
whele
tourned
vpon
her
/
and
all
to
brake
her
/
but
god
the
souerayne
fader
had
pyte
on
his
seruaunt
sente
his
aungell
whiche
brake
the
whele
all
to
peces
/
and
slewe
the
tourmentoures
staunched
the
fyre
/
and
delyuered
the
vyrgyne
hole
and
sounde
/
and
slewe
more
than
a
thousande
persones
that
behelde
her
without
pyte
/
and
the
aungelles
of
god
came
aboute
her
and
comforted
her
.
And
her
fader
asked
her
/
tell
me
who
hath
taught
the
all
the
cursednesse
.
And
she
answered
/
Tyraunt
without
pyte
/
haue
not
I
tolde
the
well
that
my
fader
Ihesu
cryste
hathe
taught
me
this
pacyence
/
and
all
the
ryght
way
in
the
fayth
of
god
alyue
.
And
therfore
despyse
I
all
thy
tourmentes
.
And
I
shall
ouercome
in
the
vertue
of
god
all
the
assaultes
of
the
deuyll
.
And
he
ouercome
&
confused
made
to
cast
her
in
ryght
an
horryble
&
a
derke
pryson
.
And
so
as
she
was
there
thynkynge
on
the
grete
mysteryes
of
our
lorde
there
came
to
her
.iij.
aungelles
with
a
grete
lyght
and
brought
her
mete
/
and
comforted
her
/
and
she
yelded
thankynges
to
god
.
Urban
wyst
not
what
to
do
with
her
/
&
lefte
not
to
thynke
before
what
tourmentes
he
myght
do
to
her
/
at
the
last
as
all
anoy
anoyed
with
her
for
to
be
delyuered
of
her
made
to
put
a
grete
stone
aboute
her
necke
and
throwe
her
in
to
the
see
.
But
anone
as
they
threwe
her
in
to
the
see
/
the
aungelles
receyued
her
/
and
she
wente
vp
on
the
water
with
the
aungelles
/
and
then
Xp̄ine
prayed
our
lorde
Ihesu
cryst
lyftynge
vp
her
eyen
to
heuen
that
it
myght
please
hym
that
she
myght
receyue
the
holy
sacrament
of
baptyme
in
that
same
water
whiche
she
had
desyred
so
moche
to
haue
.
And
then
our
lorde
Ihesu
cryst
dessended
in
propre
persone
with
a
grete
multytude
of
aungelles
/
&
baptysed
her
and
made
her
after
his
name
Xp̄ine
/
and
crowned
her
/
and
shynynge
sterre
vpon
her
heed
/
and
sette
her
on
the
londe
.
And
that
same
nyght
Urban
was
tourmented
with
the
deuyll
and
dyed
myscheuously
.
And
in
the
mornynge
after
she
was
founde
prayenge
in
her
faders
halle
in
a
corner
.
And
thus
this
blessyd
Xp̄ine
whiche
god
wolde
receyue
by
matyrdome
whiche
she
desyred
ryght
moche
was
ledde
agayne
by
the
tourmentoures
in
to
the
pryson
.
¶
And
the
newe
Iuge
named
zyon
whiche
knewe
well
what
was
done
to
her
/
made
her
to
come
before
hym
&
coueyted
her
for
her
beaute
/
but
when
he
sawe
that
all
his
fayre
wordes
aduayled
hym
not
he
made
her
to
be
tourmented
agayne
and
made
to
●ylle
a
grete
cawdron
full
of
oyle
and
pytche
and
a
grete
fyre
vndernethe
it
/
&
foure
men
tourmented
her
in
the
cawdron
with
grete
hokes
of
yron
/
and
the
holy
vyrgyne
songe
to
god
ryght
melodyously
and
mocked
the
tourmentoures
&
manaced
them
with
the
paynes
of
helle
.
And
when
the
cruell
Iuge
sawe
that
nothynge
aduayled
hym
he
made
to
hange
her
in
the
place
before
all
people
by
the
heere
of
her
heed
/
whiche
was
longe
and
shynynge
lyke
golde
.
And
the
wo
men
came
rennynge
aboute
her
whiche
wepte
for
pyte
to
se
so
yonge
a
mayden
tourmented
/
&
cryed
to
the
tyraunt
sayenge
.
Thou
vntrewe
and
cruel
man
/
howe
myght
the
herte
of
a
man
haue
suche
cruelte
agaynst
a
mayden
so
fayre
and
so
tendre
/
thou
arte
worse
than
ony
wylde
beest
/
&
all
wolde
haue
ronne
vpon
hym
.
Then
the
Iuge
sayd
to
her
.
Xp̄ine
frende
thou
shalte
suffre
no
more
tourmente
/
but
come
with
me
/
and
let
vs
worshyp
the
souerayne
god
that
hath
susteyned
the
so
moche
/
he
thought
of
Iupyter
whiche
they
helde
for
theyr
souerayne
god
/
but
she
thought
all
otherwyse
.
Then
she
sayd
to
hym
/
thou
hast
ryght
well
sayd
and
I
graunt
the.
And
then
he
made
her
to
be
vnhanged
and
ledde
her
to
the
temple
/
and
grete
,
foyson
of
people
folowed
them
/
when
he
had
brought
her
before
the
ydolles
trowynge
that
she
wolde
haue
worshypped
them
/
she
kneled
downe
behol
dynge
towarde
heuen
/
&
made
her
oryson
to
god
and
then
she
rose
vp
and
tourned
her
towarde
the
ydoll
and
sayd
/
I
saye
to
the
thou
wycked
spyryte
whiche
arte
in
this
ydoll
in
the
name
of
Ihesu
cryst
that
thou
come
out
/
&
anone
the
wycked
spyryte
lepte
out
&
made
a
grete
&
a
ferefull
noyse
by
the
whiche
all
were
so
ferde
that
they
fell
downe
to
the
erthe
And
the
Iuge
when
he
was
releued
sayd
.
Xp̄ine
thou
haste
moued
our
god
almyghty
/
but
for
that
that
he
hath
pyte
on
y●
/
he
is
come
out
that
he
myght
se
his
creature
.
And
she
was
wrothe
with
that
worde
/
&
reproued
hym
strongly
that
he
was
soo
blynde
that
he
knewe
not
goddes
vertue
.
So
she
prayed
god
that
the
ydoll
sholde
falledowne
al
to
poudre
/
the
whiche
thynge
was
done
/
&
by
the
wordes
and
sygnes
of
the
holy
mayde
there
were
conuerted
what
of
men
&
women
mo
than
.iij.
thousande
.
And
the
Iuge
ryght
sore
aferde
sayd
.
If
the
kynge
knewe
that
that
is
done
agaynst
our
god
/
by
the
shewynge
of
this
Xp̄ine
/
he
wolde
destroye
me
myscheuously
/
and
then
the
Iuge
full
of
angu
ys●
he
waxed
woode
and
dyed
.
¶
The
thyrde
Iu ge
came
after
named
Iulyan
/
and
made
to
take
Xp̄ine
and
made
his
auaunt
that
he
wolde
make
her
to
worshyp
the
ydolles
.
But
for
al
his
myght
that
he
coude
do
/
he
myght
not
make
her
remeue
out
of
the
place
where
she
was
/
so
he
lete
make
a
grete
fyre
aboute
her
/
&
she
bode
in
that
fyre
.iij.
dayes
and
.iij.
nyghtes
/
&
there
were
herde
many
dyuers
swete
melodyes
/
&
the
tourmentoures
were
aferde
by
the
meruayllous
sygnes
that
they
sawe
/
the
whiche
thynges
reported
to
Iulyan
he
wende
to
haue
waxen
wode
/
&
when
the
fyre
was
consumed
she
came
out
al
hole
.
The
Iuge
made
serpentes
to
be
brought
forth
&
made
to
cast
vpon
her
.ii.
aspes
&
.ij
grete
colubres
whiche
bote
&
venymed
meruayllously
/
but
these
serpentes
fell
downe
at
her
fete
the
the
hedes
enclyned
towarde
her
without
doynge
her
ony
herme
.
And
then
there
were
other
.ij.
horrybie
serpentes
let
lowce
vpon
her
and
they
hanged
them
at
her
pappes
&
lycked
her
.
And
Xp̄ine
loked
towarde
heuen
and
sayd
.
I
yelde
the
thankynges
my
lorde
god
Ihesu
cryst
whiche
hast
made
me
so
worshypfully
to
be
enhaunced
by
the
holy
vertues
that
these
horryble
serpentes
knoweth
thy
dygnyte
in
me
.
And
this
obstynate
Iulyan
seynge
these
meruaylles
cryed
to
hym
that
was
keeper
of
the
serpentes
.
Arte
not
thou
enchaunted
of
Xp̄ine
also
by
the
whiche
thou
haste
no
power
to
moue
the
serpentes
agaynst
her
.
Then
he
whiche
doubted
the
Iuge
trowed
to
haue
moued
the
serpentes
ayenst
her
/
and
they
ranne
vpon
hym
and
slewe
hym
.
And
so
moche
euery
body
doubted
the
serpentes
that
none
durste
come
nyghe
Xp̄ine
/
&
she
commaunded
them
by
the
vertue
of
god
that
they
sholde
go
agayne
into
theyr
owne
place
without
doynge
ony
harme
to
ony
creature
/
&
so
they
dyde
.
Then
she
raysed
agayne
the
deed
man
to
his
lyfe
whiche
anone
cast
hym
at
her
feete
and
was
conuerted
.
And
the
Iuge
blynded
with
the
deuyll
so
as
he
perceyued
not
the
meruayllous
sygnes
sayd
vnto
Xp̄ine
.
Thou
hast
ynoughe
shewed
thy
wytche
craftes
/
and
she
sayd
to
hym
.
Thou
man
out
of
wytte
yf
thyne
eyen
wolde
se
the
vertues
of
god
thou
sholdest
byleue
them
.
And
then
he
beynge
passynge
wrothe
made
to
drawe
her
pappes
out
of
her
body
/
and
anone
there
came
out
mylke
in
stede
of
blode
.
And
for
that
that
she
without
seasynge
named
the
name
of
our
lorde
Ihesus
/
he
made
to
cutte
of
her
tonge
/
but
she
spake
better
and
clerer
after
then
she
dyde
before
/
and
blessyd
god
in
thankynge
hym
of
his
grete
benefeytes
that
he
dyde
to
her
.
And
began
to
make
her
oryson
vnto
god
that
it
myght
please
hym
to
perfourme
the
crowne
of
her
martyrdome
and
to
receyue
her
to
hym
.
And
then
there
was
herde
a
voyce
frome
heuen
sayenge
/
Xp̄ine
pure
and
clene
the
heuens
ben
open
for
the
/
and
the
reygne
without
ende
redy
and
all
the
company
of
sayntes
blesseth
god
for
the
/
for
thou
hast
fro
thy
youthe
susteyned
the
name
of
cryste
/
&
then
she
praysed
&
gloryfyed
god
the
eyen
to
warde
heuen
.
The
voyce
was
herde
agayne
whiche
sayd
.
Come
Xp̄ine
my
ryght
welbyloued
and
chosen
doughter
/
and
receyue
the
palme
and
perdurable
crowne
and
the
rewarde
of
thy
passyonable
lyfe
in
the
confessyon
of
my
name
.
And
the
false
Iulian
that
herde
this
voyce
blamed
the
tourmentoures
that
they
had
not
cutte
the
tonge
of
Xp̄ine
more
nerer
/
so
they
cutte
it
so
nyghe
that
she
sholde
not
speke
so
moche
as
she
dyde
of
our
lorde
Iesu
cryst
/
for
they
toke
an
yron
hoke
and
pulled
out
the
tonge
/
and
cutte
it
anone
to
the
throte
.
And
she
toke
the
culpen
of
the
tonge
and
threwe
it
to
the
vysage
of
the
tyraunt
/
and
smote
out
his
eye
/
and
sayd
to
hym
as
holely
as
euer
she
spake
before
.
Thou
cursed
tyraunt
what
auayleth
the
to
cutte
of
my
tonge
to
the
entente
that
it
sholde
not
worshyp
god
when
my
spyryte
shal
alway
worshyp
hym
&
thy
spyryte
shall
dwell
alway
in
cursednesse
.
And
for
that
thou
knowest
not
my
worde
it
is
good
reason
that
my
tonge
hathe
made
the
blynde
.
Then
she
whiche
that
sawe
Ihesu
cryste
syttynge
in
the
ryght
syde
of
his
fader
ended
her
martyrdome
by
two
arowes
that
were
shotte
at
her
/
one
in
the
syde
/
that
other
towarde
the
herte
.
And
a
cosyne
of
hers
whiche
was
conuerted
by
her
buryed
her
body
&
wro
te
her
gloryous
legende
.
O
blessyd
Xp̄ine
and
holy
mayden
&
chosen
of
god
I
praye
the
by
the
holynesse
wherof
god
hath
made
the
soo
worthy
to
praye
for
me
a
synner
named
of
thy
name
/
&
haue
pyte
on
me
blessyd
godmoder
whiche
haste
reioyced
me
to
haue
cause
to
put
thyne
holy
legende
in
my
wrytynges
the
whiche
at
the
reuerence
I
harecorded
a
longe
that
it
myght
be
agreable
to
the
and
to
all
women
cause
of
good
ensample
.
¶
Of
dyuers
sayntes
whiche
y●
sawe
theyr
chyldren
martyred
before
them
.
Ca.
xj
.
O
what
thynge
in
the
worlde
is
more
tendre
to
a
moderly
herte
than
to
se
her
chylde
to
suffre
payne
.
But
for
that
that
I
se
faythe
is
yet
the
grettest
thynge
as
it
appered
to
many
worshypfull
women
whiche
for
the
loue
of
Ihesu
cryste
offred
theyr
owne
chyldren
to
tourment
.
As
this
blessyd
Felyx
whiche
sawe
her
.viij.
chyldren
whiche
were
ryght
fayre
yonglynges
martyred
before
her
/
and
comforted
and
counsayled
them
of
pacyence
by
moderly
wordes
to
be
stable
in
the
faythe
.
And
for
the
loue
of
god
she
had
forgoten
all
womanly
courage
as
to
the
body
.
And
after
that
when
she
had
offred
them
all
in
sacrefyse
to
god
she
wolde
be
sacrefyed
herselfe
vnto
god
by
martyrdome
.
¶
Also
the
blessyd
Iulytte
in
the
same
wyse
whiche
had
a
sonne
named
Cyrycus
/
she
nourysshed
hym
not
onely
with
bodely
fode
but
also
with
spy
rytuall
.
For
without
seasynge
she
enfourmed
him
in
the
faythe
in
suche
wyse
that
he
beynge
ryght
lytell
and
yonge
myght
neuer
be
ouercome
with
tourmente
/
ne
by
fayre
wordes
that
he
sholde
for
sake
the
name
of
Ihesu
cryste
/
but
when
he
was
tourmented
he
sayd
with
his
lytell
clere
voyce
.
I
am
a
crysten
man
/
I
am
a
crysten
man
.
I
thanke
the
our
lorde
Ihesu
cryste
/
and
he
spake
so
openly
as
it
hadde
ben
a
man
of
.xl.
yeres
of
age
/
and
his
good
moder
comforted
hym
the
whiche
was
also
ryght
cruelly
tourmented
/
and
she
without
sea
synge
praysed
our
lorde
and
comforted
other
mar
tyres
/
and
spake
of
the
heuenly
Ioye
that
they
dyde
abyde
/
and
that
they
sholde
haue
noo
drede
.
¶
Also
what
shall
we
nowe
saye
of
the
meruayllous
constaunce
and
strengthe
that
the
blessyd
Blan
dyne
had
/
she
sawe
tourmented
and
martyred
be
fore
her
her
doughter
whiche
was
of
the
age
of
.xv.
yeres
whom
she
comforted
Ioyously
/
&
after
as
a
woman
sholde
go
to
her
spouse
/
she
wente
to
put
her
in
tourmente
/
&
was
soo
moche
tourmented
by
multytude
of
martyrdomes
that
the
tourmen
toures
were
wery
of
her
/
&
put
her
on
agrydyren
and
rosted
her
&
was
alwaye
prycked
with
pynnes
of
yron
/
and
she
alwaye
gloryfyed
our
lorde
god
/
&
so
she
contynued
anone
to
the
dethe
.
¶
what
sholde
I
saye
to
the
for
to
fulfyll
our
cyte
of
suche
meyny
.
Come
on
Saynt
Ursula
with
all
thy
.xj.
thousande
vyrgynes
and
blessyd
martyres
for
the
name
of
Ihesu
cryst
all
theyr
heedes
smyten
of
so
as
they
were
sente
to
be
maryed
&
they
aryued
in
a
londe
of
myscreauntes
whiche
wolde
constrayne
them
to
forsake
the
faythe
of
god
/
and
they
chose
rather
to
dye
than
to
forsake
the
name
of
theyr
sauyoure
Ihesu
cryst
.
¶
Of
saynt
Maryne
the
holy
vyrgyne
.
Ca.
xij
.
OF
vyrgynes
martyred
one
myght
tell
a
grete
nombre
/
and
the
same
wyse
of
others
that
lyued
in
relygyon
/
and
in
many
other
holy
guyses
/
and
I
shall
tell
the
of
twayne
of
whom
the
hystory
is
ryght
fayre
.
¶
A
seculer
man
had
one
onely
doughter
lytell
and
yonge
named
Maryne
/
so
he
put
her
in
the
warde
of
a
cosyne
of
his
owne
/
and
entred
in
relygyon
/
and
ledde
ryght
an
holy
lyfe
.
And
not
for
that
nature
drewe
hym
to
thynke
on
his
doughter
wherof
his
payne
made
hym
to
be
heuy
/
so
he
was
ryght
pensyfe
/
and
the
abbot
demaunded
hym
the
cause
of
his
heuynes
so
moche
tyll
he
tolde
hym
that
all
his
thought
was
vpon
a
doughter
of
his
/
whiche
he
had
lefte
in
the
worl
de
whiche
he
myght
not
forgete
.
The
abbot
bad
him
that
he
sholde
go
to
fetche
her
/
and
that
she
myght
be
put
in
to
relygyon
with
hym
.
So
was
this
mayde
with
her
fader
clothed
as
a
lytell
monke
/
and
coude
well
kepe
her
close
/
and
she
was
of
ryght
good
dyscyplyne
.
And
when
she
came
to
the
age
of
.xviij.
yeres
alwaye
perseuerynge
frome
good
to
better
/
the
fader
whiche
had
taught
her
this
holy
lyfe
passed
out
of
this
worlde
/
&
she
abode
alone
in
her
faders
celle
in
holy
lyuynge
/
so
that
the
abbot
and
all
other
praysed
her
holy
conuersacyon
/
and
wyst
none
other
but
that
she
was
a
man
.
This
abbay
was
but
.iij.
myles
frome
a
market
towne
So
it
fortuned
that
the
monkes
must
of
necessyte
go
other
whyles
vnto
the
foresayd
market
for
to
bye
theyr
necessaryes
/
wherof
it
happened
dyuers
tymes
that
they
were
nyghted
in
theyr
comynge
home
warde
/
in
the
wynter
season
after
that
they
hadde
done
theyr
busynes
/
so
that
they
must
nedes
lye
in
the
towne
.
And
Maryne
whiche
was
named
frere
Maryne
dyuers
tymes
abode
at
his
course
in
the
foresayd
towne
in
a
certayne
hostery
where
he
lodged
communely
when
he
came
to
the
towne
.
So
it
happe
in
that
tyme
that
the
doughter
of
the
hoste
was
with
chylde
.
And
as
she
was
constrayned
by
her
fader
&
moder
to
tell
whos
it
was
she
put
it
vpon
frer●
Maryne
wher
of
the
fader
and
moder
came
and
complayned
to
the
abbot
whiche
made
hym
to
be
sente
for
&
was
ryght
sorowfull
of
this
thynge
.
And
the
holy
may
den
had
leuer
take
the
blame
vpon
her
than
to
ex
cuse
her
.
And
she
kneled
wepynge
and
●ayd
/
fader
pray
for
me
I
haue
synned
and
I
shall
do
penaunce
.
And
then
the
abbot
beynge
ryght
wrothe
made
hym
to
be
beten
and
tourmented
/
and
put
hym
out
of
the
monastery
and
defendynge
hym
the
entrynge
agayne
.
And
he
set
hym
on
the
e●the
before
the
abbay
/
&
lay
there
in
penaunce
/
&
asked
of
his
bretherne
one
mors●ll
of
brede
ones
a
day
&
the
do●
ghter
of
the
hosteler
was
delyuered
of
a
sone
/
and
the
moder
of
her
brought
this
chylde
to
Maryne
before
the
abbay
and
there
lefte
it
.
And
the
holy
mayden
receyued
hym
/
and
with
the
morselles
of
brede
that
men
goynge
in
&
out
gaue
hym
nourysshed
this
chylde
as
thoughe
it
had
ben
his
owne
/
and
on
a
tyme
after
that
the
bretherne
moued
with
pyte
prayed
the
abbot
that
he
wolde
receyne
agayne
frere
Maryne
to
mercy
/
and
with
grete
payne
they
constrayned
hym
at
theyr
prayer
.
And
she
had
ben
then
.v.
yeres
in
that
penaunce
before
the
gate
of
the
monastery
.
And
when
he
was
entred
in
the
abbaye
the
abbot
commaunded
hym
to
do
all
the
foule
offyces
of
within
/
and
that
he
sholde
bryn
in
water
to
wasshe
al
theyr
necessaryes
/
and
that
he
sholde
serue
all
the
people
of
the
place
.
And
the
holy
vyrgyne
dyde
it
humbly
/
&
with
a
good
wyll
And
within
a
whyle
after
she
passed
to
our
lorde
.
And
when
the
bretherne
had
tolde
this
to
the
abbot
he
sayd
to
them
.
Se
ye
that
his
syn●e
was
suche
that
he
deserued
no
pardon
.
¶
Neuerthelesse
wasshe
hym
and
bury
hym
ferre
from
the
abbay
And
so
as
they
dyde
of
his
clothes
suche
as
he
ware
they
sawe
that
it
was
a
woman
/
then
they
began
to
crye
and
were
passynge
sory
for
the
grete
euyll
and
greuaunce
that
was
done
to
soo
holy
a
creature
without
cause
/
of
the
whiche
conuersacyon
they
had
grete
meruayle
.
This
thynge
tolde
to
the
abbot
he
was
astonyed
gretely
/
and
anone
he
fell
downe
at
the
feere
of
the
holy
body
in
grete
wepynge
/
betynge
his
brest
for
his
blame
and
cryenge
mercy
/
and
requyrynge
pardon
/
and
ordeyned
her
sepulture
in
a
chapell
within
the
monastery
.
Thyder
came
al
the
monkes
amonge
the
whiche
there
was
one
that
hadde
but
one
eye
whiche
kneced
downe
and
kyssed
the
holy
body
by
grete
deuocyon
/
and
anone
his
syght
was
restored
to
hym
the
same
daye
.
¶
And
the
woman
that
bare
the
chylde
became
out
of
her
wyste
/
and
cryed
on
her
synne
/
and
then
she
was
brought
vnto
the
ho
ly
body
/
and
there
she
recouered
helthe
.
And
syth
almyghty
god
dyde
many
myracles
for
her
in
the
●ayd
place
.
¶
Of
the
moost
holy
and
blestyd
vyrgyne
Eu●ra
syne
.
Capitulo
.xiij.
THere
was
a
mayde●
alexandre
named
Eufrasyne
the
whiche
god
had
gyuen
to
her
fader
Paffousyen
a
man
of
grete
rychesse
by
the
prayers
of
an
holy
abbot
&
of
a
couent
of
monkes
that
was
nyghe
hym
/
when
this
doughter
was
waxen
moche
the
fader
wolde
haue
maryed
her
/
but
she
that
was
gyuen
in
purpose
to
kepe
her
vyrgynyte
fled
clothed
in
the
guyse
of
a
man
/
&
requyred
the
abbot
that
she
myght
be
receyued
in
to
the
sayd
abbaye
/
and
made
hym
to
byleue
that
she
was
a
yonge
man
of
the
Emperoures
courte
whiche
had
deuocyon
to
be
rendred
in
to
that
relygyon
.
The
abbot
whiche
sa
we
his
grete
deuocyon
receyued
hym
with
good
wyll
.
And
when
the
fader
myght
not
fynde
his
doughter
he
had
meruayllous
sorowe
.
So
he
came
to
the
abbot
to
tell
his
grete
sorowe
to
fynde
some
comforte
/
and
prayed
hym
and
his
couente
to
praye
to
god
that
he
myght
haue
some
tydynges
of
her
.
The
abbot
comforted
hym
and
sayd
that
he
myght
not
byleue
that
a
chylde
gyuen
of
god
by
prayer
sholde
be
perysshed
.
Longe
the
abbot
&
the
couent
prayed
to
god
for
this
thynge
.
And
as
this
good
man
myght
here
no
tydynges
euery
day
to
the
abbot
to
haue
some
comforte
in
his
trybulacyon
the
abbot
sayd
to
hym
on
a
day
truely
I
wene
not
that
thy
doughter
is
euyl
gone
for
yf
it
were
so
I
deme
that
god
wolde
haue
shewed
it
vuto
vs
or
this
tyme
.
But
and
yf
thou
wylte
speke
to
a
chylde
of
deuocyon
and
prayer
the
whiche
we
haue
here
within
whiche
came
hyder
frome
the
Emperours
courte
/
and
god
hathe
gyuen
hym
so
moche
of
grace
that
euery
persone
that
speketh
with
hym
fyndeth
hym
ryght
well
comforted
.
Paffou
syen
prayed
hym
that
for
goddes
loue
he
myght
speke
with
hym
.
And
the
abbot
made
the
fader
to
be
brought
to
the
doughter
whiche
he
knewe
not
but
the
doughter
knewe
well
the
fader
/
so
she
was
anone
full
of
teeres
and
tourned
her
a
parte
so
as
thoughe
she
wolde
ende
some
maner
of
oryson
/
&
the
beaute
and
the
fresshnesse
of
her
vysage
was
gretely
empayred
by
the
grete
abstynence
that
she
dyde
.
After
she
spake
to
her
fader
&
comforted
hym
&
made
hym
certayne
that
he
sholde
se
his
doughter
or
he
dyed
/
and
that
he
sholde
not
doubte
but
that
she
was
in
the
seruyce
of
god
where
euer
she
were
/
and
that
yet
he
sholde
haue
grete
Ioy
of
her
The
fader
trowed
that
he
knewe
that
by
dyuyne
vertue
and
departed
thens
ryght
well
comforted
and
sayd
to
the
abbot
that
euer
syth
his
doughter
departed
he
had
not
founde
to
his
courage
so
mo
the
of
comforte
/
and
I
am
sayd
he
fulfylled
with
the
grace
of
god
syth
that
I
shall
haue
tydynges
of
my
doughter
/
and
with
that
recommendynge
hym
to
the
abbot
&
to
the
prayers
of
the
bretherne
he
departed
.
But
he
myght
not
holde
hym
/
but
that
he
must
often
tymes
come
agayne
to
vysyte
the
ho
ly
brother
/
and
he
dyde
nothynge
but
by
his
counsayle
.
And
thus
it
endured
by
so
longe
tyme
that
this
doughter
whiche
named
herselfe
Synaroch
had
complete
the
space
of
.xxxviij.
yere
within
her
celle
.
And
than
it
pleased
god
to
call
her
to
hym
&
sykenes
toke
her
.
The
good
man
of
that
ryght
sorow
full
came
thyder
/
and
whan
he
sawe
that
Synaroche
sholde
dye
he
began
to
crye
.
Alas
where
be
those
swete
wordes
&
those
promyses
that
y●
hast
made
to
me
that
I
sholde
se
my
doughter
.
Syna
roche
passed
to
god
/
and
the
fader
was
not
there
when
he
passed
.
He
helde
a
wrytynge
in
honde
whiche
no
man
myght
take
out
/
the
abbot
and
all
the
couent
came
to
assaye
but
they
dyde
nothynge
/
vpon
this
the
fader
came
thyder
with
grete
cryenge
/
and
grete
wepynge
for
his
good
frende
whiche
he
founde
dede
on
whome
was
all
his
comforte
.
and
as
sone
as
he
approched
the
corpes
to
kysse
it
before
all
he
opened
the
hande
and
toke
to
hym
the
writynge
/
and
he
toke
it
and
redde
within
that
it
was
his
doughter
/
and
that
none
sholde
touche
her
body
to
bury
it
but
onely
he
/
this
thynge
was
grete
meruayle
to
hym
/
to
the
abbot
/
and
to
all
the
couent
whiche
gretely
praysed
her
holy
stablenes
in
vertue
.
And
to
the
fader
doubled
the
wepynge
in
consolacyon
of
his
lyfe
.
So
he
solde
all
that
euer
he
had
/
and
rendred
hym
in
to
the
same
abbaye
&
there
he
ended
his
lyfe
.
Nowe
I
haue
tolde
the
of
dyuers
vyrgynes
.
So
I
shall
tell
the
of
other
ladyes
martyres
ryght
gloryous
&
of
holy
lyfe
.
¶
Of
the
blyssed
lady
Anastase
and
her
felowes
Ca.
xiiij
.
THere
was
in
the
tyme
of
the
grete
persecucyon
of
the
crysten
people
in
Rome
in
the
tyme
of
Dyoclutan
the
Emperoure
.
There
was
in
that
Cyte
ryght
noble
lady
of
grete
rychesse
&
of
grete
auctoryte
whiche
was
named
Anastase
.
This
lady
had
meruayllous
grete
compassyon
of
the
tourment
that
she
sawe
done
euery
day
to
the
martyres
/
and
for
to
comforte
them
and
vysy
te
theym
/
she
clothed
her
in
the
habyte
of
a
poore
woman
/
and
wente
with
one
mayden
vnto
the
prysons
where
they
were
/
and
comforted
theym
with
precyous
meetes
and
drynkes
/
and
of
suche
as
she
myght
.
She
wasshed
/
and
wyped
theyr
woundes
/
and
anoynted
them
with
ryght
precyous
oyntementes
.
And
she
contynued
soo
longe
tyll
she
was
accused
to
Publyen
/
whiche
was
a
noble
man
of
Rome
whiche
that
wolde
haue
had
her
to
wyfe
/
whiche
waxed
wrothe
with
it
/
and
he
made
suche
awaytes
on
her
that
she
durst
not
come
oute
of
her
house
.
And
then
amonge
other
martyres
in
the
pryson
there
was
Saynt
Gryso
gone
a
man
of
ryght
grete
excellence
/
the
whiche
hadde
suffered
many
dyuers
tourmentes
/
and
he
was
susteyned
of
the
goodes
and
the
vysytacyons
of
that
good
and
gracyous
lady
Anastase
.
Unto
whome
the
foresayd
saynt
Grysogone
sent
couertely
dyuers
epystles
/
by
a
good
vertuous
crysten
woman
/
counsaylynge
her
of
pacyence
/
and
in
the
same
wyse
she
sente
vnto
hym
by
the
sayd
woman
.
And
at
the
last
so
as
god
wolde
he
that
helde
her
so
shorte
dyed
.
And
she
solde
al
that
she
had
/
and
employed
it
all
in
the
vysytacyon
&
sustenaunce
of
martyres
.
This
noble
lady
hadde
grete
suyte
of
ladyes
and
of
maydyns
crystened
.
And
amonge
the
others
.
¶
There
were
.iij.
maydens
systers
of
noble
lygnage
whiche
were
ryght
famylyer
with
her
/
one
of
these
systers
was
called
Agappe
that
other
Thyonne
/
and
the
thyrde
Hyrene
.
So
it
came
to
the
knowlege
of
the
Emperour
that
these
noble
systers
were
crystened
/
he
sente
for
them
and
promysed
them
grete
gyftes
&
that
he
wolde
marye
them
hyghly
yf
they
wolde
forsake
the
name
of
Ihesu
cryst
/
and
as
they
made
therof
no
charge
he
made
them
to
be
beten
/
&
after
to
be
put
in
harde
pryson
in
the
whiche
pryson
theyr
holy
frende
Anastase
vysyted
them
not
sparynge
nyght
and
day
and
prayed
god
that
he
wolde
suffre
her
to
lyue
whyle
her
goodes
endured
to
the
entente
that
she
myght
employ
them
al
in
that
holy
werke
.
The
Emperoure
commaunded
Dulcycyon
his
prouost
that
all
the
crysten
people
that
were
in
the
prysons
sholde
be
constrayned
by
tourmentes
to
worshyp
the
ydolles
.
So
the
sayd
prouost
made
them
for
to
be
brought
before
hym
amonge
whiche
were
the
.iij.
systers
.
And
when
the
cursed
Iuge
sawe
them
he
coueyted
them
for
theyr
beaute
and
counsaylled
them
in
secrete
wyse
by
fayre
wordes
and
promyses
that
they
sholde
accorde
to
hym
/
and
he
sholde
delyuer
theym
.
But
as
they
were
all
that
refusynge
he
put
them
in
to
the
warde
of
one
that
was
famylyer
with
hym
and
he
made
them
to
be
ledde
in
to
his
house
and
he
thought
to
haue
them
agaynst
theyr
wyll
or
with
theyr
wyll
.
And
when
the
nyght
came
he
wente
alone
without
lyght
to
the
house
where
he
made
them
to
be
brought
.
And
as
he
wolde
goo
to
the
place
where
he
herde
theyr
voyce
/
whiche
all
the
nyght
dyde
no
thynge
but
prayse
god
/
He
passed
by
the
place
where
all
the
vesselles
of
the
kechyne
were
kepte
.
And
then
he
full
of
the
deuyll
&
blynded
with
the
spyryte
of
Lechery
so
as
god
wolde
he
toke
them
by
the
necke
&
kyssed
them
straytely
syth
one
&
syth
another
/
and
trowed
that
it
had
ben
the
maydens
.
And
so
moche
he
wente
thus
doynge
that
he
was
verely
wery
.
And
when
it
was
daye
he
wente
to
his
people
whiche
abode
hym
without
/
whiche
when
they
sawe
hym
/
he
semed
a
fygure
of
the
deuyll
so
moche
he
was
soylled
with
fatte
and
coles
/
and
his
gowne
rente
and
traylynge
in
the
dyrte
/
so
they
fledde
from
hym
all
aferde
.
And
when
he
sawe
them
fle
thus
/
and
that
they
despy
sed
hym
he
was
meruayllously
abass●ed
/
wherfore
it
was
/
so
he
thought
hym
that
he
wolde
go
and
complayne
to
the
Emperoure
of
that
y●
euery
man
mocked
hym
there
as
he
wente
and
scorned
hym
.
And
when
he
was
entred
into
the
palas
where
many
abode
hym
in
the
mornynge
/
then
there
began
a
grete
crye
vpon
hym
where
some
bete
bȳ
with
roddes
/
some
shoued
hym
abacke
sayenge
.
Go
out
of
the
waye
thou
vnhappy
and
abhomynable
persone
thou
stynkest
all
aboute
/
some
scratched
hym
in
the
vysage
/
and
some
laughed
hym
to
scorne
/
soo
he
was
greately
admeruaylled
what
that
it
myght
be
that
he
was
almoost
out
of
his
wytte
.
For
the
deuyll
had
closed
soo
his
eyen
that
he
myght
no
perceyue
it
/
so
he
tourned
hym
home
agayne
vnto
his
house
ryght
foule
ashamed
.
¶
And
then
another
Iuge
was
put
in
his
place
/
whiche
made
these
thre
blessyd
vyrgynes
to
come
before
hym
/
and
he
wolde
make
them
to
worshyppe
the
ydolles
/
and
for
that
that
they
wolde
do
nothynge
as
his
byddynge
was
/
he
commaunded
them
to
be
dyspoyled
all
naked
/
and
soo
to
be
beten
/
yet
for
all
theyr
myght
they
myght
not
despoyle
theym
/
for
theyr
clothes
were
so
cleuynge
to
them
that
there
myght
no
man
put
them
of
/
so
he
made
them
to
be
put
in
a
fyre
ryght
hote
brennynge
whiche
greued
them
nothynge
.
And
then
they
prayed
to
god
that
they
myght
ende
theyr
lyues
yf
it
pleased
hym
/
so
they
passed
anone
to
our
lorde
ryght
gloryously
.
But
for
to
showe
that
it
was
theyr
wyll
to
dye
/
the
fyre
neuer
brente
them
nor
none
of
theyr
clothes
/
and
when
the
fyre
was
wasted
the
bodyes
of
them
were
founde
/
the
han
des
Ioyned
as
hole
and
fresshe
as
thoughe
they
had
slepte
.
And
the
blessyd
lady
Anastase
whiche
toke
good
hede
of
them
buryed
them
.
¶
Of
saynt
Theodore
the
vyrgyne
.
Ca.
xv
.
ANother
noble
felawe
had
this
good
Anastase
whiche
was
named
Theo
dory
/
the
whiche
had
.iij.
yonge
chyldren
.
This
lady
for
that
that
she
refused
maryage
of
the
erle
Lencadyne
/
and
that
she
wolde
not
do
sacrefyse
to
the
ydolles
there
was
made
many
tourmentes
for
her
.
And
to
constrayne
the
better
by
moderly
pyte
made
to
tourment
one
of
her
sones
.
But
by
the
vertue
of
the
faythe
whiche
passed
nature
she
comforted
hym
sayenge
/
sone
ne
doubte
thou
not
these
tourmentes
/
for
by
them
thou
shalte
go
to
Ioye
euerlastynge
/
and
then
the
lady
was
put
in
pryson
.
A
sone
of
the
deuyll
came
to
her
to
defoule
her
chastyte
/
but
sodeynly
he
began
to
blede
at
the
nose
/
and
he
cryed
and
sayd
that
a
yonge
felawe
had
smyten
hym
on
the
nose
with
his
fyst
whiche
was
with
her
in
the
pryson
.
So
this
lady
was
tourmented
/
and
at
the
laste
they
slewe
her
and
her
.iij.
sones
whiche
yelded
theyr
blessyd
spyrytes
gloryfyenge
god
&
the
blessyd
Anastase
buryed
them
.
¶
Then
this
holy
Anastase
had
so
moche
haunted
the
vysytacyon
of
martyres
that
at
the
last
she
was
taken
&
emprysoned
/
so
she
myght
no
more
vysyre
the
sayntes
of
god
/
ne
had
no
mete
nor
drynke
.
But
god
whiche
wolde
not
that
she
whiche
so
dylygently
hadde
comforted
and
refresshed
his
holy
seruauntes
to
suffre
more
/
he
sente
vnto
her
the
spyryte
of
her
blessyd
felawe
Theodorye
with
a
grete
lyght
the
whiche
set
before
her
a
table
and
she
brought
with
her
dyuers
precyous
refecryens
.
And
kepte
company
with
her
.xxx.
dayes
/
in
the
whiche
tyme
was
neuer
delyuered
to
her
mete
nor
drynke
/
and
they
trowed
that
she
had
ben
deed
for
hongre
/
so
she
founde
all
alpue
and
brought
before
the
pr●uost
whiche
had
grete
sorowe
/
and
for
that
that
dyuers
people
were
conuerted
by
the
myracle
/
he
made
her
to
be
put
in
a
shyn
with
other
trespassours
that
were
condempned
to
dethe
.
And
when
they
were
in
the
hyghe
see
/
the
maryners
to
obey
that
that
they
were
commaunded
/
brake
the
shyp
and
wente
in
to
another
vessell
.
And
then
the
blessyd
Theodosyne
appered
to
them
/
and
conueyed
them
by
the
see
a
nyght
and
a
daye
/
as
surely
as
they
had
ben
vpon
the
playne
erthe
/
so
moche
that
she
set
them
in
the
Ile
of
palme
/
in
the
whiche
I
le
there
were
many
bysshoppes
&
holy
men
put
in
exyle
so
they
were
receyned
there
/
with
praysynges
to
god
&
with
grete
Ioye
.
And
those
that
were
escaped
with
Anastase
were
baptysed
and
byleued
in
god
.
This
thynge
after
come
to
the
knowlege
of
the
Emperoure
he
sente
to
fetche
theym
all
bothe
man
and
woman
and
chylde
aboute
the
nombre
of
thre
hondred
/
whiche
he
made
all
to
dye
by
dyuers
tourmentes
.
And
the
blessyd
Anastase
after
many
grete
argumentes
that
she
made
to
the
Emperoure
/
&
after
dyuers
tourmentes
that
she
had
was
crowned
by
martyrdome
.
¶
Of
the
noble
Natalye
.
Ca.
xvj
.
NAtalye
the
noble
wyfe
of
Adryan
prynce
of
the
cheual●y
of
the
Emperoure
Maxymyan
as
she
was
crystened
se
cretly
in
the
tyme
that
dyuers
crysten
people
were
martyred
she
herde
saye
that
Adryan
her
housbande
for
whom
she
prayed
god
without
seasynge
was
sodaynly
conuerted
in
beholdynge
the
martyres
tourmented
/
and
had
confessed
the
name
of
Ihesu
cryst
wherfore
the
Em
perour
of
that
ryght
wrothe
made
hym
to
be
put
in
ryght
an
harde
pryson
.
The
good
lady
ryght
Ioyous
of
the
conuersyon
of
her
housbande
wente
anone
to
the
pryson
to
comforte
hym
/
and
to
praye
hym
to
perseuer
in
that
he
had
begon
/
and
kyssed
the
chaynes
with
whiche
he
was
bounde
wepynge
for
pyte
&
Ioye
/
and
counsayllynge
hym
grete
ly
that
he
wolde
haue
no
respecte
to
these
erthely
Ioyes
that
endured
but
a
whyle
/
but
that
he
sholde
haue
before
his
eyen
the
grete
glory
that
was
ordeyned
for
hym
.
This
holy
lady
was
there
longe
comfortynge
hym
and
all
the
other
martyres
praynge
god
that
she
myght
be
of
theyr
company
and
prayed
them
gretely
that
they
sholde
comforte
her
housbande
of
whome
she
doubted
her
that
by
force
of
tourmentes
he
sholde
not
chaunge
in
the
stablenesse
of
the
faythe
/
she
vysyted
euery
daye
/
and
euery
daye
preched
hym
to
haue
stablenesse
/
&
many
a
fayre
worde
she
spake
to
hym
.
But
for
that
that
she
and
dyuers
other
ladyes
vysyted
the
holy
martyres
the
Emperoure
made
to
defende
that
no
woman
sholde
come
in
to
them
.
And
therfore
she
clothed
her
in
the
guyse
of
a
man
And
when
it
came
to
the
daye
of
his
last
martyrdome
she
was
presente
and
wyped
his
woundes
and
kyssed
his
blode
and
prayed
hym
that
he
wolde
pray
to
god
for
her
.
And
thus
passed
the
blessyd
Adryan
/
and
she
toke
with
her
one
of
his
handes
that
was
cutte
of
/
and
wrapped
it
full
derely
in
a
couerchefe
as
a
relyke
.
This
holy
lady
after
the
dethe
of
her
housbande
one
wolde
constrayne
her
to
be
wedded
bycause
she
was
of
hyghe
lygnage
fayre
and
ryche
/
so
she
was
alway
in
oryson
pray
enge
god
that
he
wolde
drawe
her
out
of
the
han
des
of
them
that
wolde
constrayne
her
to
be
wedded
.
And
then
there
appered
to
her
in
slepynge
the
spyryte
of
her
housbande
whiche
comforted
her
/
and
sayd
vnto
her
that
she
sholde
goo
in
to
Coustantynoble
to
burye
the
bodyes
of
many
martyres
that
were
there
/
and
she
dyde
soo
.
And
when
she
had
ben
there
a
whyle
in
goddes
seruyce
in
vysytynge
the
holy
martyres
emprysoned
/
her
housbande
appered
vnto
her
agayne
and
sayd
to
her
/
Syster
and
frende
Chambere
of
Ihesu
Cryste
come
on
in
to
glorye
perpetuall
for
our
lorde
calleth
the.
And
then
she
awoke
/
and
anone
after
she
passed
to
our
lorde
.
¶
Of
the
holy
and
blessyd
Saynt
Affra.
Capitulo
.xvij.
AFfra
was
a
woman
that
lyued
folyly
conuerted
to
the
fayth
of
Ihesu
Cryst
and
was
accused
to
the
Iuge
whiche
sayd
to
her
.
It
suffyseth
not
the
/
the
dyshonestye
of
thy
body
but
that
thou
muste
fall
in
erroure
to
worshyp
a
straunge
god
/
do
sacrefyse
to
our
goddes
that
they
maye
pardon
the
And
Affra
answered
/
I
shall
doo
sacrefyse
to
my
god
Ihesu
Cryste
that
came
downe
for
synners
.
For
his
gospell
sayth
that
a
woman
a
synner
wasshed
his
feete
with
her
teres
and
had
forgyuenesse
And
he
despysed
neuer
folyly
lyuynge
woman
ne
the
publycanes
synners
but
he
lete
them
ete
with
hym
.
The
Iuge
sayd
vnto
her
.
If
thou
do
no
sacrefyse
thou
shalte
not
be
loued
of
thy
rybaudes
/
ne
thou
shalte
receyue
no
gyftes
of
them
.
She
answered
I
shal
neuer
receyue
cursed
gyftes
&
those
that
I
haue
goten
vntruely
I
haue
prayed
to
the
poore
people
that
they
wyll
take
them
and
pray
for
my
synnes
.
The
Iuge
gaue
his
sentence
that
saynt
Affra
sholde
be
brente
syth
that
she
wolde
not
do
sacrefyse
.
And
when
she
was
delyuered
to
tourmente
she
worshypped
god
and
sayd
lorde
god
almyghty
Ihesu
cryst
whiche
callest
synners
to
penaunce
receyue
my
martyrdome
in
goood
entente
in
the
houre
of
my
passyon
/
&
delyuer
me
fro
euerlastynge
fyre
by
this
corporall
fyre
that
is
arayed
to
my
body
/
&
the
fyre
beynge
aboute
her
she
sayd
.
Lorde
Ihesu
cryst
pleaseth
the
to
receyue
me
a
pore
synner
in
sacrefyse
of
thy
holy
name
y●
the
offred
thyselfe
in
sacrefyse
for
all
the
worlde
/
and
thou
ryghtfull
were
put
on
the
crosse
for
the
vnryghtfull
/
and
good
for
the
euyll
doers
/
blessyd
for
the
cursed
/
swete
for
the
bytter
/
clene
and
innocent
from
synne
to
delyuer
the
synners
.
To
the
I
offre
the
sacrefyse
of
my
body
whiche
lyueth
and
reygneth
with
the
fader
and
the
holy
ghost
by
all
the
worlde
of
worldes
.
And
thus
ended
the
blessyd
Affre
for
whome
our
lorde
hath
shewed
syth
many
myracles
.
¶
Here
telleth
Iustyce
of
dyuers
ladyed
whiche
serued
and
lodged
the
appostles
and
other
sayntes
.
Capitulo
.xviii.
WHat
woldest
thou
that
I
saye
to
the
more
fayre
Xp̄ine
.
I
myght
brynge
to
remembraunce
suche
ensamples
without
nombre
.
But
for
that
y●
thou
arte
adme
ruaylled
so
as
thou
haste
sayd
here
before
that
wherfore
all
auctours
blame
women
.
I
saye
to
the
that
thoughe
that
thou
hast
founde
it
in
the
wrytynges
of
auctours
pay
nymes
I
trowe
that
to
that
purpose
thou
shalte
fynde
but
fewe
in
holy
legendes
and
in
the
hysto
ryes
of
Ihesu
cryst
and
of
his
appostles
/
and
the
same
wyse
of
all
the
sayntes
so
as
thou
mayst
se
/
but
a
grete
nombre
thou
shalte
fynde
of
meruayllous
constauncè
by
the
grace
of
god
in
women
/
&
good
seruyces
grete
charytees
that
they
haue
do
ne
and
do
without
faynynge
/
and
by
good
wyll
to
the
seruauntes
of
god
bothe
hospytalytees
&
other
good
dedes
/
so
as
it
is
wryten
of
Drucyane
whiche
was
a
good
lady
and
a
awydowe
/
whiche
receyued
to
host
saynt
Iohn
the
euangelyst
/
she
serued
hym
of
his
mete
and
his
drynke
.
And
whan
the
sayd
saynt
Iohan
sholde
be
receyued
fro
his
exyle
and
those
of
the
cyte
made
hym
a
grete
feest
Drucyane
was
borne
to
be
buryed
whiche
was
deed
for
sorowe
that
he
taryed
so
longe
/
&
her
neygh
boures
sayd
to
hym
.
Iohan
see
here
Drucyane
thy
good
hostesse
whiche
is
deed
for
sorowe
for
thy
longe
taryenge
/
she
shal
serue
that
no
more
.
And
than
saynt
Iohan
sayd
to
her
Drucyane
ryse
vp
and
go
in
to
thy
house
and
make
redy
my
refeccy
on
/
&
she
rose
frome
dethe
to
lyfe
.
¶
Also
another
of
the
cyte
of
Lymoges
named
Susanne
/
she
was
the
fyrst
that
harboured
saynt
Marcyall
whiche
was
sente
thyder
by
saynt
Peter
to
conuerte
the
countre
and
dyde
hym
ryght
moche
good
.
¶
Also
the
good
lady
Maxymylle
buryed
saynt
Androwe
and
toke
hym
frome
the
crosse
/
and
doynge
this
she
put
herselfe
to
the
peryll
of
dethe
.
¶
Also
the
holy
mayde
Euphygene
folowed
by
denocyon
saynt
Mathewe
the
euangelyst
/
and
after
his
dethe
she
made
to
edefye
for
hym
ryght
a
fayre
chyrche
.
¶
Also
another
good
lady
was
so
moche
taken
with
the
loue
of
saynt
Poule
the
apostle
that
she
folowed
hym
all
aboute
/
and
serued
hym
by
grete
dylygence
.
¶
Also
in
that
tyme
of
the
apostles
a
noble
quene
called
Helyn
/
and
it
was
not
she
that
was
moder
of
Constantyne
but
another
quene
of
Oblygoys
whiche
wente
to
Iherusalem
/
in
the
whiche
there
was
grete
scarcete
of
vytaylles
for
the
famyne
that
was
there
.
And
when
she
knewe
that
the
sayntes
of
our
lorde
that
were
in
the
Cyte
to
preche
and
to
conuerte
the
people
dyed
for
hongre
she
made
to
bye
so
moche
vytaylles
for
them
that
they
were
pouruayed
as
longe
as
the
derthe
lasted
.
¶
Also
when
one
lydde
saynt
Poule
to
be
heeded
by
the
commaundement
of
Nero
a
good
lady
whiche
was
called
Pautylle
that
was
acostomed
to
serue
hym
came
ayenst
hym
wepynge
gretely
.
And
saynt
Poule
asked
of
her
a
couerchefe
that
she
had
vpon
her
heed
/
and
she
toke
it
hym
wherof
the
shrewde
people
that
were
there
mocked
hym
sayenge
for
that
it
was
fayre
that
so
moche
she
had
loste
.
Saynt
Poule
hymselfe
wyped
his
eyen
/
&
after
when
he
was
deed
he
sente
it
agayne
to
the
woman
full
of
blode
wherfore
she
kepte
it
ryght
rychely
.
And
saynt
Poule
appered
to
her
and
sayd
that
for
so
moche
that
she
had
done
hym
seruyce
in
heuen
in
prayenge
for
her
/
ynoughe
of
others
in
lyke
case
I
myght
tell
the.
¶
Uaxyllete
was
a
noble
lady
in
the
vertue
of
charyte
.
This
lady
was
maryed
to
saynt
Iulyan
.
And
in
the
nyght
of
theyr
weddynge
of
one
acorde
they
vowed
vyrgynyte
/
and
none
myght
thynke
the
holy
conuersacyon
of
this
woman
/
ne
the
multytude
of
women
and
maydens
that
were
saued
and
drawne
to
holy
lyfe
by
her
holy
monycyon
.
To
saye
shortely
so
moche
she
had
of
grace
in
her
that
our
lorde
spake
to
her
as
she
was
in
dyenge
.
¶
I
wote
not
what
I
sholde
saye
more
Xp̄yne
my
dere
loue
I
myght
tell
the
without
nombre
of
ladyes
of
dyuers
estates
as
well
vyrgynes
as
wydowes
/
or
maryed
women
/
in
whome
god
hath
shewed
his
vertues
by
meruayllous
strengthe
and
constaunce
/
so
be
thou
suffysed
as
nowe
.
For
ryght
well
&
fayre
as
it
semeth
me
I
haue
wel
quytte
me
of
myne
offyce
in
perfourmynge
of
the
hyghe
bataylementes
of
thy
Cyte
.
And
I
haue
peopled
it
with
excellente
ladyes
/
so
as
I
promysed
the.
And
notwithstandynge
that
I
name
not
/
ne
maye
not
name
all
the
holy
ladyes
by
theyr
names
/
whiche
that
hathe
ben
/
whiche
that
ben
/
and
whiche
that
shal
be
/
all
maye
be
comprehended
in
this
Cyte
of
Ladyes
/
of
the
whiche
one
maye
saye
.
(
¶
Gloriosa
dicta
sunt
de
te
ciuitas
dei
)
.
That
is
to
say
/
gloryous
thynges
ben
sayd
of
the
thou
Cyte
of
god
.
So
I
yelde
it
to
the
as
a
parfyte
thynge
wel
and
stably
so
as
I
promysed
the.
Nowe
I
betake
the
to
god
/
and
the
peas
of
oure
hyghe
souerayne
be
euerlastyngely
with
the.
AMEN
¶
Here
Xp̄ine
speketh
vnto
the
ladyes
in
the
ende
of
the
boke
.
Ca.
xix
.
MI
ryght
redoubted
ladyes
worshypped
by
god
nowe
is
our
Cyte
well
accheued
and
made
parfyte
/
in
the
whiche
all
ye
that
loueth
honoure
/
vertue
/
&
praysynge
may
be
lodged
with
grete
worshyp
as
wel
those
that
are
past
as
those
that
ben
nowe
/
and
those
that
be
to
come
.
For
it
is
founded
and
made
for
euery
woman
of
worshyp
.
And
my
ryght
dere
ladyes
it
is
a
thynge
natural
to
mannes
herte
to
reioyce
hym
when
he
fyndeth
hym
that
he
hathe
the
vyctory
of
ony
entrepryse
/
and
that
his
enemyes
be
confounded
So
haue
ye
cause
all
ye
my
ladyes
to
reioyce
you
nowe
vertuously
in
god
and
in
good
condycyons
by
this
newe
cyte
to
se
it
parfyte
whiche
may
not
be
onely
the
refuge
of
al
you
/
that
is
to
vnderstande
of
vertuous
women
/
but
also
the
defence
and
warde
ayenst
your
enemyes
and
assayllers
yf
ye
kepe
it
well
.
For
ye
may
se
that
the
matter
wherof
it
is
made
is
all
of
vertue
/
and
so
truely
shynynge
that
all
ye
maye
beholde
therin
and
specyally
in
the
emfrytaylynge
of
this
laste
partye
/
and
the
same
wyse
in
that
whiche
may
touche
you
of
other
partyes
.
And
my
dere
ladyes
.
Soo
vse
ye
not
of
this
newe
herytage
as
these
proude
people
whiche
be
come
so
full
of
pryde
when
theyr
prosperyte
encreaseth
and
are
mounted
in
rychesse
/
but
by
the
ensample
of
your
quene
the
souerayne
vyrgyne
whiche
after
so
grete
worshyp
that
the
aungell
brought
to
her
as
to
be
the
moder
of
the
sone
of
god
.
She
so
moche
more
meked
her
in
callynge
her
the
hande
mayden
of
god
.
So
my
ladyes
as
be
it
true
that
the
more
the
vertues
ben
the
more
ye
ought
to
yel
de
you
humble
&
benygne
/
and
this
Cyte
be
cause
vnto
you
to
loue
good
maners
/
and
to
be
vertuous
and
humble
.
¶
And
haue
ye
not
in
despyte
ye
ladyes
that
ben
maryed
to
be
so
subiectes
to
your
housbandes
.
For
it
is
not
some
tymes
best
to
a
creature
to
be
free
out
of
subieccyon
/
&
that
wytnesseth
the
tonge
of
our
lorde
god
where
he
sayth
to
Esoras
the
prophete
.
Those
he
sayth
that
vse
theyr
free
wyll
falleth
in
synne
/
and
despyse
theyr
lorde
/
and
defouleth
the
Iuste
people
/
and
therfore
they
perysshe
.
So
be
ye
humble
and
pa●yente
and
the
grace
of
god
shall
encreace
in
you
/
and
ye
shal
be
gyuen
in
praysynge
to
the
worlde
.
For
saynt
Gregory
sayth
that
pacyence
is
the
entrye
of
paradyse
and
the
way
of
Ihesu
Cryst
.
¶
And
amon
you
vyrgynes
in
the
state
of
maydenhode
/
be
ye
clene
/
symple
/
coye
/
and
without
ydelnesse
.
For
the
gynnes
of
euyll
men
ben
set
agaynst
you
.
So
be
ye
armed
with
vertuous
strengthe
agaynst
theyr
cauteyles
to
eschewe
theyr
frequentacyon
.
¶
And
to
ladyes
wedowes
be
honest
in
habyte
&
countenaunce
and
in
worde
/
deuoute
in
dede
and
in
conuersacyon
/
prudente
in
gouernaunce
/
pacyente
in
that
where
nede
is
/
in
mekenesse
&
in
charyte
.
¶
And
to
all
generally
/
grete
/
meane
/
&
lytel
wyll
ye
alway
to
be
set
in
defence
agaynst
the
ene
myes
of
your
worshyp
&
chastyte
.
Se
my
ladyes
howe
these
that
accuseth
you
maketh
all
them
lyers
that
blameth
you
.
And
put
abacke
these
losen
gyers
whiche
by
dyuers
draughtes
hurteth
and
withdraweth
that
that
ye
ought
to
kepe
so
well
/
that
is
to
vnderstande
your
worshyppes
.
O
the
lewde
loue
of
whiche
they
counsayle
you
and
styreth
you
therto
.
Fle
it
for
goddes
loue
fle
it
/
for
be
ye
certayne
/
thoughe
that
the
semblaunt
be
fayre
it
is
deceyuable
/
that
at
all
tymes
the
ende
of
it
is
preiudyce
to
you
.
And
thynke
not
the
contrary
for
otherwyse
it
maye
not
be
.
Remembre
howe
they
call
you
frayle
and
false
/
and
alwaye
they
seke
engynes
ryght
straunge
and
deceyuable
with
grete
payne
and
trauayle
for
to
take
you
so
as
one
do
the
to
take
wylde
beestes
.
Flee
theyr
gynnes
my
ladyes
/
flee
theyr
acquayntaunce
vnder
laughynge
of
whome
is
lapped
venyme
ryght
full
of
anguysshe
whiche
bryngeth
one
lyghtly
to
the
dethe
And
thus
that
it
please
you
my
ryght
redoubted
ladyes
to
drawe
to
the
vertues
and
flee
vyces
to
encreace
and
multeplye
our
Cyte
/
and
ye
to
reioyce
in
well
doynge
.
And
me
your
seruaunt
to
be
recommended
vnto
you
in
praynge
god
whiche
by
his
grace
in
this
worlde
graunte
me
for
to
lyue
/
and
perseuer
in
his
holy
seruyce
/
and
at
the
ende
to
be
pyteous
to
my
grete
defautes
/
and
graunte
bothe
vnto
you
and
me
the
Ioye
whiche
endureeuermore
.
AMEN
¶
Finis
.