(239. Beggar.)
¶ "I dar not medle of lordes mariágis,
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How þey hem knytten, hir makës vnseen;
But as to me it semeþ [seemeth R, seme H.] swiche vságe is
Not worþ a strawe; for, also mot I theen,
Reportës not so sikyr iuges ben,
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As man to se þe womannës persóne;
In whiche a choys, lat man hymself allone.
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(240. Beggar.)
¶ "Weddyng at hoom in þis land, holsom were,
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So þat a man hym weddë duëly;
To se þe flesche firste, it may no þing dere,
And hym avisë how hym lykiþ [lykiþ = lykþ.] þer-by
Or he be knyt; lo! þis conceyt haue I;
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In þis materë [matere R, mater H.] depper cowde I go,
But passe I wole, & slippe away þer-fro.
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(241. Beggar.)
¶ "Now sythen þou hast, to my Iugëment, [folio 31a]
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Þe maryëd vn-to goddës plesaunce,
Be a trewe housbounde, as by myn assent;
kepë þi bond; be war of þencombraunce
Of þe feend, which, with many a circumstaunce
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fful sly, him castiþ þë wrappe in & wrye,
To stirë þe for to done aduoutre.
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(242. Beggar.)
¶ "Aduoutrie and periurie, and wylful slaghtre, [¶ In canoni|bus. Adul|terare sponte periurare, & hominem sponte occi|dere, equipa|rantur. Iero|nimus dicit, Adulterium secundum locum habet in penis.]
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Þe book seiþ, lik ben, & o peys þei weye.
War aduoutre! it is no pleye or laghtre
To don it; fle also þise oþer tweye!
ffor þus wot I wel, seint Ierom can seye:
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'In peyne, aduoutre haþ þe secounde place.'
Þo þre to eschue, god þe grauntë grace!
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