I you prayLet me not lik a worm go by the weyRemembre you myn owen lord so dereI was your wyf thogh I vnworthy wereWherfore in guerdom of my maydenhedeWhiche that I broughte and not ayen y bereAs vouchesauf as
not to reherce it you nomoreHe sayde Arueragus of gentilnesHadde leuer to dye in sorow and in distresThan that his wyf were of her trouth falsThe sorow of Dorigene he tolde hym alsHow loth her were to be a wickid
as I can and mayI thanke you be god and be seynt IameBut natheles I took it vnto our dameYour wyf at hoom the same gold ayenVp on your bench she woot it wel certeynBe certeyn tokenys that I can
slakker dectour than am IFor I wol paye you redelyFro day to day yf so be I faylleI am your wyf skore it vp on my taylAnd ellis I shal paye as sone as euer I mayFor be my trouthe
so hit is don / y blessid be the name of our lord.HO thise forsaid thinges answerd Mellebeus to his wyf Prudence alle thy wordes ben soth said he and therto prouffitable / But trewly myn herte is trobled with
saith he has¦teth wel that can abyde wisely / And in wikked haste is no prouffyt.THis Mellebeus answerd to his wyf prudence / I pur¦pose not said he to werke be thy counceyll for many causes and resons / For
the will of his wyf Consideryng her grete entente conformed hym anon̄ and assented to worke after her counceyll / And thanked god of whom procedeth alle goodnes and vertue / that hym hath sente a wyf of so grete
As saith seynt Mathew in the gospel / A man shal lete fader & moder & take hym to his wyf / and they shal be two in one flessh / This sacrament betokeneth the knyttyng to gyder of Crist
his wyf mowe assemble / The first for thentent of gen∣drure of children to the seruise of god. For certis that is the cause fynal of matrymony / That other is to yelde eueryche of hem the dete of her
and al naked wente out of his chambre toward the pytte / for he supposed that it had be his wyf / and fayne wold haue rescued hir / but she was not so moche a fole / for she
that Incontynente he shold goo toward the bourgeys wyf / & that of hir he shold haue al that shold please to hym / The whiche clerke wente Incontynent thyder and payed the bawde as he had promysed to hyr
/ Pxorem fuge ne ducas sub nomine dotis Nec retinere velis si ceperit esse molestaTHou oughtest not to take a wyf ne to coueyte hir for hyr dowayr / for hir rychesse ne for hir noblesse / but thou oughtest
suffre debonayrlye the wor∣des of thy wyf / whan they are prouffytable for the or for other / for it is ageynste ryght and reason to kepe noo pees / but alwayes though thy Wyf be accustomed for to lye
his clothesWere of the moost sowle coloure. his wyf wasof short stature and she was out of mesure thyc∣kewyth great brestys: and the here of hyr hedeclustred lyke thystelys. She had longe wynde∣broweslyke brostelys of a swyne. Longe cryslyke an
tarcum Tarc{us} gat tarcol. Tarcol gatpharsi Pharsi gat marcuel Marcuel gat mar∣quat/ Marquat gat marcolphū & that is I. Andmy wyf is comen of the blood and .xij. kyndre∣desof vntydy wyues. That is to knowe of lu∣picatha gat lupicana. Lupicanagat
the worldeMarcolf{us}.Hethat hath evyll neighborys praysyth hym selfSal.The wykkydman fleyth. nomā folwyngMarcol.Whan the kydde rennyth: men may sehis arsSalomōA good wyf and a fayre. isto hir husbonde a pleasureMar.A potfull ofmylke muste be kept wele from the katteSal.A wyse woman
co¦mytha great torde that men wyth theyre fetetrede So muste mē also / alle the bestyall wynestrede vndre fote / Salo:A fayre wyf becomythwell by hir husbād / Marc.A pot full wyth wy∣nebecomth well by the thrusty / Salo.wel beco¦myth
in the shoes fo the oolde people goyng vpan hylle So a talkatyf woman and dishobedyētis a great confusyon That wyf that is hlr hus∣bondesmaister is evyr cōtrarye to hym An evylwyf makyth a pacient herte. and a sory vysage
haue reson of the.WHan saturne had redde this lettre as a man all esbayed sent for his wyf Cibell and toke her a part. and coniured and charged her to saye the trouth and telle hym what she had don
the demande of his wyf Cybell / alle his blood began to change. and sayd to her that all in tyme she shold knowe the place where he wold go to Cybell was wyse and subtylle. whan she herd the