| | Ye may repente of weddid mannys lyf | |
| 420 | In whiche ye saye there is no stryf | |
| | And ellis god forbede but yf he sent | |
| | A wedded man grace hym to repente | |
| | Wel ofter rather than a sengil man | |
| | And therfore the beste rede that I can | |
| 425 | Dispeyrith you not but haue in memorye | |
| | Parauenture she may be your purgatorye | |
| | She may be goddis mene and goddis whippe | |
| | That shal make your soule in to heuyn skippe | |
| | Swifter than an arow doth out of a bowe | |
| 430 | I hope to god her aftir shul ye knowe | |
| | That ther nys noon so greet felicite | |
| | In mariage ne memory shal be | |
| | But that hit may be your saluacion | |
| | So that ye vse it as skil is and reson | |
| 435 | The lustis of your wyf temperatly | |
| | And that ye plese her not to amerously | |
| | And that ye kepe you eke from other synne | |
| | My tale is doon for my wit is thynne | |
| | Beth not agast here of my brother | |
| 440 | But lete vs wade fro this mater to another | |
| | The wyf of bathe yf ye haue vnderstonde | |
| | Of mariage whiche I haue in honde | |
| | Declared hath ful wel in litil space | |
| | Fareth now wel god haue you in his grace | |
| 445 | And with this he with his brother | |
| | Hath take her leue and eche of hem of other | |
| | For when they saw it muste nedis be | |
