no thingI pray the wyf do nomore soTel me now or I fro the goYf ony dettour haue in myn absenceY payed the lest be thy negligenceI mighte hym axe a thing that he hath paidThis wyf was not a
gnat so moot I thryueFor on thy bed thy wyf I saw hym swyueWhat wol ye more the crowe anon hym toldeBy sad tokenys and by wordis boldeHow that his wyf hadde don her lecheryeHym to gret shame and to
yeue by veray charite and loue without ony vaynglorye / Coniugem AmaTHou oughtest to loue thy wyf as thy self / Neuerthe¦lesse the wyf by ryght lawe deuyne / and humayne she ought to be subgette to hyr husbond /
in to hell & ther he is ded / ye haue ben wyf of a man goten in auoul∣trye / from hens forth ye shal̄ be felawe & wyf of a man legitisme & born in lawful̄ mariage / ffor
Penolope his wyf how many notable men had requyred her / But she wold neuer entende to man / she was so moche chaste. And how certayn {per}sones helde partye of his lande ayenst the will of his wyf /
/ wyf of the sa¦me philip his broder / after that Iose∣phus sayth / she was suster of Herode Agryppa / And whan he retourned / he refused and repudyed his owne wyf and secretely wedded her to his wyf
man than a wycked / & how it isvnleful a man to slee his wyf for a∣uoutry/ & more synne to slee fader ormoder than his wyf. ca.xxiij.¶Why god suffreth warre & batayl.thre thynges be nedefull y• batayle berightful /
chargyng hym to brynge his wyf with hym / for she was called a fair lady / and a passynge wyse / and her name was called Igrayne / So whan the duke and his wyf were comyn vnto the
but nedes I muste take a wyf / and I wylle none take / but by thy counceill and by thyne aduys / it is wel done said Merlyn / that ye take a wyf / for a man of
so by suche maner the fals godsep had saued his wyf twyes / But at the laste al euylle wylle be knowen / The good man ones sawe his wyf goo in to the sa∣yd pryours hows allone / wherof
his wyf / And thenne whanne he hed sene this vysyon / he sayd that he shold neuer reste tylle he come in to Acquyllee for to enquere of the lyf and condycions of the prouost and of his wyf
not breke ne do a∣geynst the thyrd / wherfore he wente to his wyf / and sayd thus to her / My good frende and my wyf / I wold telle yow a grete counceylle / whiche toucheth my persone
knewe that she was his wyf / and wep¦te for ioye / and kyssed her / and glori∣fyed moche our lord god whiche com∣forted the discomforted / And thenne sayd his wyf / Syre / where ben oure so∣nes /
to make wynesAnd this he taught / and it felle sooHis wyf whiche cam with hym thoWas cleped Ceres by nameAnd for she taught also the sameAnd was his wyf that ylke throweAs it was to the peple knoweThey made
Loths wyf a stone of salte for that she loked agay e whan the cyte sanke downe.¶ Of Abraham and his generacyon. ca. xxxi.ANd ye shall vnderstande that Loth was Arons sone Abrahams broder / and Sara Abrahams wyf was
and for to gete somwhat for to lyue honestly / And by cause that he dwellyd to longe / his wyf supposed that he was dede / And therfore she enamoured her self with another man / whiche dyd to
my sone ysaac ha¦ue no wyf of the doughters of canaan in whos londe he dwelleth but goo vnto the hows of my fader and of my kynrede & of them thou shalt take a wyf to my so∣ne /
to caste hym in to the See / so that he myght haue his wyf / And whanne Eustace sawe that / he lefte his wyf moche sorowfully / and toke his two children / and went wepynge and sayde
ne / but wylde beestes / whiche haue bor¦ne awey my sones / To hym was his wyf left / and my wyf is taken fro me and delyuerd to another / O good lord gyue thou reste to my
of thy mouth shold crepeBe not Irous kepe thy behestes as thy lyfBe temparat with wyne & be not excessifThy wyf is wordes take in noon auctoriteIn foly slepe nomore than nedith theLibroz lege libros disce / quod legeris mementoIn