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¶Here begynneth the fyrst chapytre of the gospell of dame Isengryne of Glay for the mondaye.
MI good neyghbours there is none of you but ye knowe that I toke my husbande Iosselyn more for his beaute than for his rychesse / for a poore felowe he was / & loo I sawe hym not to daye nor yesterdaye / wherfore I haue gre¦te sorowe at my herte. And certaynly he hath grete chepe of the goodes that my husbandes his predecessours had assembled togyder with grete labour & payne / wherfore I thynke it wyll be my deth. Now to this purpose and for the fyrst chapytre I tell you for as true as the gospell that the man that spendeth the goodes vnduely that co∣meth to hym by his wyfe wtouten leue shall gyue accoun¦tes before god as of thynges stolen. Glose. Upon this cha¦pytre sayth an auncyent matrone named Grayll Iohan bybebecked wyfe. Truly that husband that dooth ayenst this chapytre is put after his deth in a caudron in purga¦tory full of brymstone / yf he haue not done his penaunce in this worlde vpon the hospytalles.