[73]
And one thing / I warne you specyally
To womanhede / take awe alweye
[Sidenote: Specially attend to women, and]
And them to serue / loke ye haue an eye 507
And theire com_m_andementis that ye obeye
Plesant wordes I auyse you to them seye
[Sidenote: speak pleasant words to them.]
And in alle wyse / do ye your diligence
To do them plesure / and reuerence 511
[74]
And at this tyme this tretye shal suffise
[Sidenote: This is enough for the present.]
Dispose you / to kepe it in your mynde
[Sidenote: Mind you attend to it,]
The doctrine whiche for you I deuyse 514
And doubteth not / ful wel ye shal it finde
To your honour / enrolle it vp and bynde
Right in your breste / and at your riper age
I shal wryte to you / herof the surplusage 518
[Sidenote: and when you're older I'll write you the rest.]
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THE ORIEL TEXT.
[75]
Goo, litle childe, and who doth you Appose,
Seying, your_e_ quaire kepeth non accordaunce,
Tell [hym], as yite neyther of ryme ne prose 521
Ye be experte; pray hym of sufferaunce;
Childer must be of childly gouernaunce,
And they must also entredet[1] be
[Sidenote 1: Read entreted]
Wyth esy thyng, [and not] of subtilte. 525
[76]
Your_e_ lytil quaier su_m_mitteth euery where
To corecc_i_on and beneuolence,
But where enuie is, loke hit come not there, 528
For eny thing kepith your_e_ trety thense;
Enuie is full of frowarde reprehense,
And howe to hurte liethe eu_er_e in awayte,
Kepeth your_e_ quaier_e_, that hit be not her baite.