Ne faut en hypocrit la trompette sonner.
(They that will be blaming well meaning wives which do in secret give their husbands horns, these do much wrong by their reproaches, and are but vain babblers; for indeed such dames are but giving alms and showing good charity. They do well observe the Christian law of almsgiving,—never, like the hypocrites, sound the trumpet to proclaim your good deeds!)
An old Rhyme on the Game of Love,—found by the Author among some old papers:
Le jeu d’amours, où jeunesse s’esbat,
A un tablier se peut accomparer.
Sur un tablier les dames on abat;
Puis il convient le trictrac préparer,
Et en celui ne faut que se parer.
Plusieurs font Jean. N’est-ce pas jeu honneste,
Qui par nature un joueur admoneste