How none ought to repreue other of his meschyef Capitulo lxxxI Shall telle you another ensample / how Anna the wyf of Thobye spake folysshly to her lord / whiche was a good and a hooly man / and buryed
was wedded / It happed that a knyght demaunded the second doughter to be his wyf / & the fader graunted her to hym / He that neuer before had sene her came to be fyaunced with her / And
to ete it / What saye ye sayd them¦perours wyf / Madame sayd she / I telle yow trewe for certayn For I knowe this by the mouthe of Cathonets wyf / whiche sorowful and wepynge told it to me
my wyf I awaked her / and for to essaye her wylle / I sayd to her that I had slayne the sone of themperour / and that his herte confyted in spyeces I had made themperour and his wyf
he tolde his counseylle & al thys thyng vnto his wyf / how & in what maner he had be∣gifed his lord the kyng that wold haue had hir to wyf / & anone as she it wyst / she
that coūtre And after that the kyng remeued thens / & thought how he myt best delyuer Edelwold from his wyf / as he had hym fyrst decey∣ned / And the kyng anone after eyght dayes lete ordeyne a parle∣ment
And al so in this yere Edward prince of Walys wedded the Coūtrsse of snt / that was sir thomas wyf holand / the whiche was departed somtyme & deuorced fro therle of Salisbury for cause of the same knyght
hast brought me a monstre / throwe and caste hym oute / ¶ And Exantus sayd to her / My wyf thou oughtest now to be glad and Ioyons / by cause I haue brought to the so fayr and
Thus thenne whan Exantus wa returned in to his hows / he entrid in his chambre / & fonde his wyf sore wenyng / And he said to her / My swete loue / how is it with yow /
And Esope sayd to hym / A man that ret∣cheth of no thynge / ¶ Thenne Exantus sayd to his wyf secre∣tely / to thende that we maye auenge vs on Esope / and bete hym wel / Fayre loue
fader lefte and gaf to hym ysabeau to hys wyf / whyche lyued to gyder longe tyme in grete loue and concorde / And sone after the doulphyn & hys wyf deyeden / And thenne was Parys doulyhyn and had
that he tolde his coūceill & all this thyngvn to his wyf howe & in what maner he had begiled his lord thekyng that wold haue had hir to wyf And anone as she it wystshe loued hym neuer more
sle a rightous mā thā a wycked mā / ī what maner it is vnleful a man to sle his wyf for auoutry / & yt it is more syn a man to sle his fader or moder than his
ī which the husbōd may nat accuse his wyf of auoutrie. ca· vi.¶In what maner a man may forsake his wyf for fornicacion. of the irregularite of a man knowyng his wyf after yt he knowith yt she hath do
rede in the secounde boke of kin∣ges / of kinge Dauid Firste he de¦sired the faire woman Bersabee. that was wyf to the true knighte Drie / and fro that wycked desire he felle into auoutre / and from a
prayes we¦re not deled atte bataylle of norganes / they come to london and and toke her syster Agytha haraldes wyf and sente hyr to Chestre And they and aldredus tharchebisshop of york & the londoners promysed that they wold
were a thowsand crownes / the whiche a poure man fond / and toke them for to kepe to his wyf / wherof she was ful gladde / and sayd / thanked be god of al the goo∣des whiche he
counceylled him that assone as he myght he sholde take & wedd a new wyf. saying that the loue & new ac∣queyntan̄ce of a new wyf shold ma∣ke▪ him lyghtly to lose and forgete the thoughtes & Imaginacyons of loue
fro the nether porte of her. thrugh her edy vnto her throte or mouthe / for by cause of the luste of her flessh she betrayed her cyte and sayd suche husbond suche wyf. and this suffyseth of the quene
kyng tho with his wyf CōstāceWhiche had a grete part of his wylleIn Rome for a tyme stylleAbode & made hym wel at caseBut so yet coud he neuer pleaseOf hyr estate the trouthe pleyneHis wyf that she wold hym