all the world scaped nomore but eyght personesOf the wyf of loth that trespassed the commaundement of god / Capitulo .lv.aN Ensample I shall reherce vnto yow / of Lothis wyf / whiche god saued out of Gomore with her
/ and take hede what meschyef befelle to Aaman by the folysshe counceylle of his wyf / Of the quene Gesabel whiche had many euylle condycions / Capitulo lxvj / nOw wylle I telle yow thexample of an eulle /
woman approuued and knowenHow the synne of the fader is noyus to his Children Capitulo lxxixaNother ensample was of the wyf of kynge Roboam / She had a child whiche was seke / wherfor the kyng sente the quene to
holy scrypture or wrytyng preyseth so mochOf the noble woman Sarra whiche kepte her self full clenly Capitulo lxxxijsArra was wyf to Abraham a moche good woman & a wyse / and god kepte her fro many paryls / For
he shold sende one to Iouste for hym / but he coude none fynde / Wherfore the valyaunt lady his wyf that sawe the cowardnesse of her lord and the shame comynge to hym wente and armed her self /
that reynart the foxe hath don to me and to my wyf that is to wee he is comen in to my hows ayenst the wylle of my wyf / And there he hath be pyssed my chyldren where as
he complayneth how that reynart myn eme hath moche trespaced to hym by cause of his wyf / Myn Eme hath leyn by her but that is wel seuen yer to fore / er he wedded her / and yf
yerde / ther is a beere take worde anone sprange oneral in the thorpe / ther n nether man ne wyf / but alle ranne theder as fast as coude / eueryche wyth his wepen / some wyth a sta
me wel bythoughte / whiche I shal telle you here after / Also I haue bydryuen wyth dame erswynde his wyf / I wolde I had not don it / I am sory for it / hit is to her
/ How ysegrym and his wyf ereswyn muste suffre her shois to be plucked of / And how reynard dyde on the shoys for to goo to rome wyth / capitulo ·xixo.tHus hath this false pylgrym goten fro Isegy ij
/ now herke what he thēne dyde / whan we were comen in to myn hows / and ermelyn my wyf vnderstode that I shold goo ouer see she fyl doun in a swoun & whan kywart sawe that /
barons and that I trusted and beleuid so moche the fals horeson the foxe / and my wyf is cause therof / she prayde me so moche that I herde her prayer and that me repenteth / thaugh it be
of arabye / My lord the kyng see hier this pyteous werke / Thise ben the fe∣thers of sharpbecke my wyf / my lord yf ye wil haue wor∣ship ye muste do herfore Iustyce & auenge you in suche wise
you it thynketh me good Tho laye they doun on a lytier made of strawe / the foxe / hys wyf and hys chyldren wente alle to slepe / But the foxe was al heuy / and laye. sighed &
whiche was cutte out of his skynne / And also I made the wulf & his wyf to lese her shoon / I peased the the kynge with grete lesyngis & bare hym on honde that the wulf and the
cam corbant the rock fleyng wyth a sorou∣ful noyse / I asked what hym eyled. and he said alas my wyf is deed / yonder lyeth a dede hare full of mathes and wormes / & there she ete so
/ my wyf his sondrely wyse / and wil gladly do somme what for her frendis / who that hath nede of helpe shal fynde on her grete frendship / one shal alway seke on his frendis / thaugh he
the beuer wyth his wyf ordegale / the genete / the ostrole / the boussyng / and the fyret / thyse tweyne ete as fayne polayl as doth reynart / The oter and pantecro∣et his wyf whom I had almoste
so fair & where she was / venus said it is helene kynge mencla wyf of grece / ther ly∣ueth not anobler. richr. gentiller. ne wyser wyf in al the world / Thenne parys gaf to her thapple and said
this false theef betraied my wyf ones fowle and dishonestly / hit was so that in a wynters day that they wente to gyder thurgh a grete water / and be bare / my wyf an honde that he wold