No skill of stars, no depth of magic art,

Devised by that great clerk Zoroaster,

A wound that so infects the soul and heart,

As all our sense and reason it doth master;

A wound whose pang and torment is so durable,

As it may rightly called be incurable.

Ne se Cadurcis destitutam fasciis,

Nudam Caleno concumbentem videat.

[6185]Be it that some woman break chaste wedlock's laws,

And leaves her husband and becomes unchaste: