[6-text p 669] holy chirche ¶ Anoþer is for a man is heed of a womman algate by ordinaunce it/ schulde be so [923] ¶ For if a womman had mo men þan oon; þanne schulde sche haue mo hedes þan oon & þat were an horrible þing biforn god. And eek a womman. myȝte nouȝt please to many folk al at oones. and also þer ne schulde neuer be pees & rest among hem. For euerich wolde aske his oughne þing. [924] and forþer-ouer no man schulde knowe his oughne en|gendrure ne who schulde haue his heritage and þe womman scholde be þe lasse loued fro þe tyme þat sche were ioyned to many men
[925] ¶ Now comeþ how þat a man schulde bere him wiþ his wif and namely in tuo þinges þat is [folio 280b] to sayn in sufferaunce and in reuerence and þat schewed crist whan he made first womman. [926] For he ne made hire not of þe heed of adam. for sche schulde not to gret lordschipe haue / [927] þer as þe womman haþ þe maistry sche makith to moche disaray. þer nedith noon ensample of þis. þe experience of þis of day by day oughte suffice [928] ¶ Also certes god ne made nouȝt womman of þe foot of adam. For sche ne scholde nouȝt be holden to lowe for sche can not/ paciently suffre ¶ But god made womman of þe ribbe of adam For womman schulde be felawe vnto man [929] Man schulde bere him to his wif. in faith in trouþe and in loue as saiþ seint poule. aman schulde loue his wif as crist loued holy chirche . . . . . [no gap] þat deyed for it. so schulde a man for his wyf if/ it were neede
[930] ¶ Now how þat a womman schulde be subiect to hir housbonde þat tellith seint peter. iijo. co. first in obedi|ence [931] and eek/ as saiþ þe decre. A womman þat is a wif as longe as sche is a wif sche haþ noon auctorite to swere ne to bere witnesse wiþoute leue of hir housbonde þat is hir lord. algate he schulde be so by resoun. [932] sche schulde eek serue him in al
