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| his wyf mowe assemble / The first for thentent of gen- | |||
| drure of children to the seruise of god . For certis that | |||
| is the cause fynal of matrymony / 866 That other is to yelde | |||
| eueryche of hem the dette of her body / For neyther of hem | |||
| hath power of his owen body / The thirde is for teschewe | |||
| lecherye and vilonye / . The fourth forsothe is dedely | |||
| synne / 867 As to the first it is meritorye / The seconde also | |||
| for the decree saith she hath meryte for that she yeldith to | |||
| her husbond the dette of her body / Ye though it be ayenst | |||
| her likyng and the luste of her herte / 868 The thirde maner | |||
| whiche is teschewe lecherye / I holde it no dedely synne . | |||
| but many of thyse be not withoute venyal synne for the | |||
| corupcyon and delyte therof / 869 The fourth maner is to | |||
| vnderstande yf that they assemble only for amerouse loue | |||
| and for none of the forsayd causis but for taccomplissh | |||
| the brennyng delyte they recke neuer how ofte / sothly it | |||
| is a dedely synne / and yet wyth sorow some folk wyl | |||
| payne hem more to do than her appetyte suffyseth / 870 The se | |||
| conde maner of chastyte is to be clene wydowe to eschewe | |||
| the brasynge of man & to desyre thembrasyngis of Ihesu | |||
| Crist / 871 Thyse ben tho that haue ben wyuys and haue for- | |||
| goon her husbondis / And eke women that haue don le | |||
| cherye / and be releuyd by penaunce / 872 And certis yf that | |||
| a wyf can kepe her al chaste by licence of her husbonde / so | |||
| that she gaf no cause ner none occasion that he agiltyd | |||
| Hit were to here grete meryte / 873 These maner of women | |||
| that obseruen chastite muste be clene in herte as wel as in | |||
| body & in thought & mesurable in clothing & in contenance | |||
| Abstynent in etyng & drinkyng / in spekyng / & in dede | |||