Ne pleye with spone, trenchere, ne knyffe.
Yn honesty & clenys lede þou thi lyffe.
This boke is made for chylder ȝonge
At the scowle þat byde not longe:
Sone it may be conyd & had,
And make them gode iff þei be bad.
God gyffe them grace, vertuos to be,
Fore than þei may both thryff & the.
Amen! quod Kate.
[*] l. 143-4, ? sense, reading corrupt. [Corrigenda]