Aboute that tyme Cesara the kynges wyf of Perce come with fewe crysten men to constantinople for to be crystned / her husbon¦de herde therof and sente messagers to constantinople for to axe his wyf of themperour· But cesara answerd
/ This man lefte his wyf for she had broken spouseed and was slayne of the clerk that had lay by his wyf. whan he was dede god shewde ma¦ny myracles for him. but his wyf spake euyl of the
hym and charged that all her gownes shold be gyuen for goddes sake to poure folke / Of the second wyf / capitulo / lijaFter this the said knyght maryed hym ageyne to ano∣ther woman / they were fyue yere
fowle and lothly wolf / And soo dothe the folysshe wyf by the temptacion of the fende / that euer in∣cessauntly is aboute the synnar / bet man or wyf / to make them to falle in dedely synne /
what someuer condicion he be / wherof I wylle telle yow an ensample of the wyf of the grete Herodes / He hadde a wyf whiche he ouermoche loued He wente to Rome / And in the mene whyle hit
Iustyce shold be made of Aaman the Seneschalle as he wolde it had be done of Mardocheus and of his wyf / And that he shold be hanged at the yate of his place / to she∣we that falsly &
the erle went thens in to Cornewayle with his wyf in to the castel of Tyntagell / And the kyng lete ordeyne a grete hoost & come in to Cornewayl for to destroye the erle yf he myght / But
sayenge. Crescite t multiplicamini et repleti terrā. That is to saye in Englysshe. Wexe & be multeplyed and fylle the rthe / and no man may saye there. This is my wyf. Ne woman saye. This is my husbonde. And
shold recomaunde hyr tothe kyng / in tellyng to hym thatit was not leeful to a paynymto haue to his wyf a crysten wo¦mā / Neuertheles she prayed hymthat of al this he shold say nooworde / & that she
must wepe / How sayd the bourgeys wyf ye say wonder / is hit trouthe that ye say / the whiche sware that hit was veray trouthe Helas / sayd the bourgeys wyf whiche be¦leuyd lightly / knowest thou not
faith in fyrst epystle to the Corynthyeus / the body of the man is byngyng to the wyf. And the body of the wyf to the man. thats to vnderstonde in mariage / And as seynt Ambrose saith inis exameron.
& redy to the worlde warde / Curtoys and large of yeftes / On his fyrste wyf he bygate thre sonnes / Rychard Robert & Wiliam / & thre doughters On his seconde wyf he gate wyliam and Robert /
his ryght by his wyues tytle vnto the Crowne of spa∣yne / and he had with hym the Duchesse his wyf and his thre doughters. And therafter grete commynycacion herupon had they were acorded and concluded that the kynge of
haue ben that others wyf and sayd that he was seek for the loue of her / Than hys frende sayd to hym Frende conforte your self / For trewly I gyue her to yow to wyf wyth alle the
of the coūtre / of grete audacyte / and of name magnyfyque ryght moche byloued of Elysse / Thenne his wyf. whiche thenne he loued also moche of fyne loue wythout fayntasie whiche sone after fayled by his deth anguysshous.
lyues / cap / ljo.Of the second wyf / capo. lijo.Of the thyrd wyf of the knyght / capo. / liijo.Of a lady that blanked and popped her / capo. / liiijo.Of the wyf of loth that brake the comaūdement
/ Of Dalida the euylle wyf / Capitulo lI Shalle telle yow another Ensample vpon the faytte or dede of an euylle wyf and a fals woman / whice was named Dalida / whiche was wyf of Sampson / that
made the grettest ioye that he coude for the lo∣ue and worship of god and of his chirche / His wyf loked on hym that so dede / and had of it grete desdayne and shame / and mocked hym
for them as dyd Iacob and his wyf for theyr chil¦dren / whiche god enhaunced ouer all the lygnees and gene∣racions / And doo not lyke as dyd the man and his wyf the whiche thurgh theyr yre cursed theyr
therfor it is good and necessary to an euyl man to haue a good wyf and of holy lyf / And the more that the good wyf knoweth her husbond more felon and cruel / and grete synuar / the