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| than ony man can rekene / right as he somtyme is cause of | |||
| alle damages that bestis doo in the felde that breketh the hegge | |||
| of the closure / thurgh whiche he destroieth that may not be | |||
| restored / 797 For certis nomore may maydenhede be restored . | |||
| than an arme that is smyten fro the body may retorne ayen | |||
| towexe / 798 She may haue mercy this woot I well / yf she do | |||
| penytence / but neuer shal it be / but that she is corupt / 799 and | |||
| al be it soo that I haue spoke somwhat of auoultrye / it is | |||
| good to shewe mo peryllis that longen to aduoultry for | |||
| teschue the foule synnys of aduoultrye / 800 In latyn it is for | |||
| to saye thapproching of another mannys bed / thurgh whiche | |||
| they that were one flessh habounden her bodyes to other per- | |||
| sones / 801 Of thys synne as sayth the wyseman come many | |||
| harmys / First brekyng of feith And certis feith is keye | |||
| of Cristendome / 802 And whan that keye is broken and lorn | |||
| Certeyn cristendom standith without fruyt / 803 This synne | |||
| is eke thefte for thefte generally to speke of / is for to reue | |||
| a thing of a man ayenst his will / 804 Certis this is the fou- | |||
| lest thefte that may be / whan a woman stelith her body from | |||
| her husbond and yeueth it to her holour to defoule it / and | |||
| stelyth her soule from Crist and yeuyth hit to the deuyll . | |||
| 805 This is a foule thefte for to stele and breke the Chalys . | |||
| For thyse aduoultreris breken the temple of god spirytu- | |||
| elly and stelyn the vessel of grace / that is the body and the | |||
| sowle / For whiche Crist shal destroye hem as saith seynt | |||
| Paule / 806 Sothly of thys thefte doubtyd gretly Ioseph . | |||
| whan that his lordis wyf praid hym of vilonye whan he | |||
| said / Lo my lady / how my lord hath take to me vnder my | |||
| ward al that he hath in this world / ne nothing is out of | |||