[may] ben dwelled in their hertes. Proverbes of Salomon openly
techeth, how somtyme an innocent walkid by the way in
blyndnesse of a derke night; whom mette a woman (if it be leefly to
saye) as a strumpet arayed, redily purveyed in turninge of
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thoughtes with veyne janglinges, and of rest inpacient, by
dissimulacion of my termes, saying in this wyse: "Com, and be we
dronken of our swete pappes; use we coveitous collinges." And
thus drawen was this innocent, as an oxe to the larder.'
'Lady,' quod I, 'to me this is a queynte thing to understande;