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 Thexperience that we haue day by day ought to suffyse / 854 Also  
 certes ne he made not the woman of the feet of Adam / for  
 she sholde not beholde to lowe / for she can not paciently suf  
 fre / But god made woman of the Ryb of Adam / For wo  
 man shold be felawe vnto man / 855 Man shold bere hym to  
 his wyf . in fayth . in trouthe and in loue as seyth saynt  
 Poule / and that man shold loue his wyf as Crist dyde holy  
 chirche that louyd it so wel that he deyde for hit / So shold  
 a man for his wyf yf it were nede / 856 Now how that a wom  
 man shold be subget to her husbond that tellyth seynt  
 Peter 857 and eke as saith the decree / a woman as longe as  
 she is a wyf / she hath none auctoryte to swere ne to bere  
 wytnes wyth outen leue of her husbond / And also 858 she  
 shold be honest and attemperat of aray / I wote wel that  
 they shold sette her entente to plese her husbondes / but not  
 by queyntyse of her aray / 859 saint Iherome saith that wyuys  
 ben apparayllyd in silk and in purpure maye not clothen  
 hem in Ihesu Crist / 860 seynt Gregore saith eke that no wight  
 seketh no precyous araye / but only vayn glorye to be honou  
 rid the more beforn the peple / 861 hit is a grete folye a woman  
 to haue grete aray outward and her self to be ful Inward  
 862 A wyf shold eke be mesurable . in lokyng . in beryng and  
 in lawhyng and discrete in alle her wordes and her dedes  
 863 And aboue alle worldly thingis she shold loue her hus-  
 bonde with alle her herte and to hym be trewe of her body  
 864 So sholde euery husbonde eke be trewe to his wyf /  
 for sithyn al the body is the husbondis so sholde her herte be also / or ellis  
 ther is betwix hem two no parfyt mariage as in that / 865 Than  
 shal a man vnderstande that for thre thingis a man and  
  

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 854
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 928
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 928

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 855
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 929
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 929

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 856
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 930
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 930

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 857
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 931
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 931

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 858
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 932
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 932

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 859
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 933
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 933

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 860
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 934
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 934

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 861
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 935
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 935

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 862
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 936
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 936

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 863
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 937
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 937

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 864
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 938
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 938

CTP/Traditional Line Concorder

In CTP line numbering: PA, 865
In Group (Traditional) numbering: Group I, 939
In Fragment (Riverside) numbering: Fragment X, 939