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| is wastyd the more muste it coste for the scarsenes / 347 And | |||
| furtherouer yef they wolde yeue suche pounsid and daggis | |||
| clothis to the poure folk / it is not conuenyent to were | |||
| for her estate ne sufficyent to her necessite / 348 On that other syde | |||
| for to speke of the disordinat scantnes of clothyng as ben | |||
| these cutted sloppis or hanselynes that thurgh her shortnes | |||
| couer not the shameful membris of a man to wicked en- | |||
| tent / 349 Allas some of hem shewen in the shap and the boos | |||
| of the horrible swollen membris that semen like to the ma- | |||
| ladye of hirma in the wrappyng of her hosyn 350 and eke the | |||
| buttokkis of hem behynde that faren as it were the hynder | |||
| part as a she ape in the ful of þe mone / 351 And more ouer the | |||
| wrecchid swellyng membris that they shewe in disgising | |||
| in departyng of her hosyn whit and rede semeth that half | |||
| the pryuy membris weren fleyn / 352 And so by that they depar- | |||
| ten her hosen in other colours as is whit & black / or whyt | |||
| and blewe / or black and reed and so forth / 353 Than semeth | |||
| it as by varyance of colour that half the part of his preuy | |||
| membris ben corupt by the fyre of seynt Antonye / or by | |||
| Canker / or by other suche myschaunces / 354 yet of the hyndar | |||
| part of her buttoks it is wel horrible for to see / For certes | |||
| in that partye of her body / ther as they purgen her stynkyng | |||
| ordure / 355 that foule party shewe they proudly to the peple in | |||
| despit of honeste / whiche honeste that Ihesu Crist and his | |||
| frendes obserued to shewe in his lyf / 356 Now as to outera- | |||
| geous aray of woman / god wote though the visage of hem | |||
| seme ful chast and debonair / yet notifyen they in their araye | |||
| of a tyre / lichorousnes and pryde / 357 I saye not that honeste | |||
| in clothyng of man & woman is vncouenable / but certes | |||