Ȝeue no doom in riȝt assyse.
ffle fro trouþe and þou hym spye.
Loke þou be proudest in alle gyse:
Þan men wole preyse þe bodylye.
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¶ Loke þou haue sorwe sad
Whan þou seest folk haue welfare;
Loke þou be mery and glad
Whan þou wost folk haue sorwe and care.
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ffede non hungry, ne cloþe no bare;
Lete herberweles þerout ly;
Visite no syke, and prisoners spare.
Loue þy seluen þus bodyly.
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¶ Ȝif þy man be a good seruaunt
Þat þe were loþ to for-go,
Stele þyn owen good fro his hand,
Bere on hym he stal it so.
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Bryng hym in presoun tho,
Longe there for to lye,
Til he be fayn, for sorwe and wo,
To swere to serue þe bodylye.
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¶ And ȝif þou haue a damysele
Þat serueþ þe wel, of trewe lynage,
ffonde to make here wombe to swelle,
Make no fors of no maryage.
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And ȝif she grucche wiþ þe to rage,
And alway fro the wole wrye,
Bete here, and ȝeue here non oþer wage,
And lyue in lustes bodylye.
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¶ Thus make þe byknowe.
After þy dede, resceyue thy name.
So shal þyn horn oft[e] blowe,
And hunte after his owen shame.
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