[6-text p 338]
Than were þey maade vpon a creature
To purgie vryne and eek for engendure
But I seye nought þat euery wight is holde
That haþ such harneys as I to yow of tolde
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To gon and vsen hem in engendrure
Thanne scholde men take of chastite no cure
Crist was a mayden and schapen as a man
And many a seynt syn þat þe world bygan
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Yet lyued þey euere in parfyt chastite
I nel envye with no virginite
lete hem ete brede of pured whete seed
And late vs wyues ete barly breed
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And yet with barly breed Mark telle can
Oure lord [[catchword: a leaf out; a sheet misplaced]] [Ihesu refresshed / many a man [MS Arch. Seld. B. 14 folio 84b]
in suche estate as god hath cleped vs
I wol perceiver / I am nought precious
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in wiffhode wol I vse myn instrument
as frely as my maker / hath hit sent
yiff I be dangerous / god yeve me sorowe
myn housbonde shal it haue both eve and amorwe
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whan that him list / com forth and pay his dette
an housbonde wol I haue / I wol not lette
which shal be / both my dettour and my thralle
and han his tribulacioun with-alle
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vppon his flesshe / while that I am his wiff
I haue the power / durynge al my liff [¶ Ad Corinthios vijo vir sui corporis non habet potestatem set mulier &c]
vppon his propre body / and not he
right thus the Appostel / tolde vn-to me
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and bad oure housbondes / for to love vs welle
alle this sentence / me liketh euerydelle
Uppe sterte the pardoner / and that anoon
now dame quod he / bi god and bi seint Iohn
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ye ben a noble prechoure / in this caas
I was abovte to wedde a wiff allaas
what shulde I bye it / on my flesshe so dere
yit had I lever wedde noon to yere
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