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Thanne sit he doun / and writ in his dotage
That wommen / kan nat kepe hir mariage
But now to purpos / why I tolde thee
That I was beten / for a book pardee
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Vp-on a nyght Iankyn þat was oure sire
Redde on his book / as he sat by the fire
Of Eua first that for hir wikkednesse
Was al mankynde / broght to wrecchednesse
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ffor which crist hym self/ was slayn
That boghte vs / with his herte blood agayn
Lo heere expres / of womman may ye fynde
That womman / was the los / of al mankynde
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¶ Tho redde he me / how Sampson loste hise heres
Slepynge / his lemman / kitte it with hir sheres
Thurgh which treson / loste he bothe hise eyen
¶ Tho redde he me / if that I shal nat lyen
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Of Hercules / and of his Dianyre
That caused hym / to sette hymself afyre
¶ No thyng forgat he / the sorwe and wo
That Socrates / hadde with hise wyues two
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How Xantippa / caste pisse vp-on his heed
This sely man / sat stille as he were deed
He wiped his heed / namoore dorste he seyn
But er þat thonder stynte / comth a reyn
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¶ Of Phasifpha / that was the queene of Crete [¶ Quid referam Phasifphen / Clitermistram & Eriphilem /. quarum prima delicijs fluens quippe vt Regis vxor Tauri dicitu, adpetisse concubitus. Alla occidisse virum suum ob amorem Adulterij .‖ Tercia perdidisse Amphiorax & saluti viri monile Aureum pertulisse &c ‖ Hec Metellius Marrio secundum Valerium]
ffor shrewednesse / hym thoughte the tale swete
ffy speke namoore / it is a grisly thyng
Of hire / horrible lust and hir likyng
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¶ Of Clitermystra / for hire lecherye
That falsly / made hire housbonde for to dye
He redde it/ with ful good deuocion
¶ He tolde me eek for what occasion
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Amphiorax / at Thebes loste his lyf
Myn housbonde / hadde a legende of his wyf /
¶ Eriphilem / that for an Ouche of gold
Hath priuely / vn-to the grekes told
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