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| as I haue said in paradyse and wolde hym self be born in | |||
| mariage / 845 and forto halowe mariage he was atte wedding | |||
| where he torned water in to wyn / whiche was the first mi- | |||
| racle that he wrought in erthe to fore his discyples / 846 The | |||
| trewe effect of mariage clensith fornicacion and replenys | |||
| shith holy chirche of good lynage . For as the ende of ma | |||
| riage chaungith dedely synne in to venyal bitwene hem that | |||
| ben weddid and makith the hertis al one as wel of hem | |||
| as the bodyes / 847 Thus is verry mariage that is stablisshid | |||
| by god or that synne began whan naturel lawe was in his | |||
| right poynt in paradys / And it was ordeyned that a wo- | |||
| man shold haue but one man As saith saint Austyn by | |||
| many resons / 848 First that mariage is figured betwene Crist | |||
| and holy chirche / And another is that a man is heed | |||
| of the woman algate by ordynaunce it shold be so / 849 For yf a | |||
| woman had mo men than one / thenne shold she haue moo | |||
| heedis than one / and that were an horrible thyng before | |||
| god / And eke a woman myght not plese many folk at- | |||
| tones / And also ther shold neuer be pees ne reste amongs | |||
| them for euerich wold aske his owen thynge / 850 And fur- | |||
| thermore noman shold knowe his owen engendrure ne who | |||
| shold haue his heritage / and the woman shold be lasse lo- | |||
| uid fro the tyme that she were commyxt with many / 851 Now | |||
| comyth how a man shold bere hym with his wyf & namely | |||
| in two thingis that is to saye in suffraunce & in reuerence . | |||
| And this shewde first crist whan he made first woman 852 For | |||
| he made her not of adams heed For she shold not haue to | |||
| grete lordship 853 For there as the woman hath þe maistrye she | |||
| makith to muche disaraye / ther nede none ensamplis of this | |||