| | But he shal gladly teche the science that he can withoute pre | |
| | sumption or pride / 104 and suche thinges as he can not / he shal | |
| | not be ashamed for to lerne hem and enquyre of lasse folk | |
| | than hym self / 105 And that ther hath be many a good woman | |
| | Hit may be preuyd / 106 For Criste wolde neuer descende for to | |
| | be born of a woman / yf alle women had be wicked / 107 And | |
| | after that for the grete bounte that is in our lord Ihesu crist | |
| | Whan he was risen from deth to lyf / Apperid rather to a | |
| | woman than to his apostles / 108 And though that Salamon | |
| | saide he fonde neuer woman good / yet foloweth not therfore | |
| | that alle women ben wicked / 109 For though he fonde no good | |
| | woman certes many another man hath founden many a wo | |
| | man full good / and full trewe / 110 or ellis perauenture thentent | |
| | of Salamon was this that in souerain bounte he fonde no | |
| | woman / 111 This is to saye / 112 that there is noo wight so good | |
| | that he ne wanteth som of the perfection of god that is his | |
| | maker . | |
| 113 | Y | Our thirde reson is this / ye saye that yf ye gouerne | |
| | yow be my counceyll hit shold seme that ye had yeue | |
| | me the maistrye and the lordship ouer your personne / 114 Sire | |
| | saue your grace / hit is not so / yef hit so were that noman | |
| | shold be counceylled but only of hem that had lordship and | |
| | maistrye of his personne / Men wold not be counceylled so | |
| | ofte as they ben / 115 For sothly that man that axeth counceyll | |
| | of a purpoos / yet hath he his fre chois whether he wil werke | |
| | by that counceyll or not . 116 And as to your fourth reson there | |
| | that ye saye that the Ianglerye of women can not hyde thin | |
| | ges that they knowe / as who saith a woman can not hyde | |
| | that she woot . 117 Syr thise wordes ben to vnderstande of | |
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