| | If he be poure she helpith hym to swynke | |
| | She kepith his good & wastith it neuer a deel | |
| 100 | And al that her husbond lust she likith weel | |
| | She saith not onys nay whan he saith ye | |
| | Do this saith he al redy sire saith she | |
| | O blisful ordre o wedlok precious | |
| | Thou art so mery and eek so Ioyous | |
| 105 | And so comendid and approued eke | |
| | That euery man that holdeth hym worth a leek | |
| | Vp on his bare knees oughte al his lif | |
| | Thankin his god that hym sent a wyf | |
| | Or ellis praye god hym forto sende | |
| 110 | A wyf to laste to his liues ende | |
| | For than his lif is set in sikirnesse | |
| | He may not be disceyued as y gesse | |
| | So that he worke aftir his wyues rede | |
| | Than may he boldely bere vp his hede | |
| 115 | They be so trewe / and therto eke so wyse | |
| | For whiche yf thou wolt worche as the wyse | |
| | Do alwey as the woman wol the rede | |
| | Lo how Iacob as thyse clerkis rede | |
| | Be good counsel of his moder Rebek | |
| 120 | Bond the kiddis skyn aboute his nek | |
| | For whiche his fadris benyson he wan | |
| | Lo Iudith as the story wel telle can | |
| | Be wyse counsel she goddis pepil kepte | |
| | And slew hym Olofernes whyle he slepte | |
| 125 | Lo how Abigayl be good counsel that she | |
| | Saued her husbonde Nabal whan that he | |
