¶ The .xxvi. chapytre.
¶ And for conclusyon my frendes and neyghboures / and for to make an ende of my chapytres I tell you that whan there cometh to a wyfe the sekenes in her pappes / she ne∣dethe none other thynge but that her husbande make her with his instrument naturall thre sercles aboute the sore / & without ony doubte she shall be hole. Glose. Sayntefoute ne tempremure sayth that it ought to be vnderstande that those thre sercles sholde be made at the ende of the bely / a lytell vnder the gyrdell. ¶ All the assystentes began for to laughe a pase of that Ioyous conclusyon / and dyde prayse ryght strongely the wysdome of dame Ysengryne that soo hyghely had conteyned her gospell and departed it in .xxvi artycles that were all of grete auctoryte and importaun∣ce / and promysed that they wolde take payne for to lerne them by rote / for to publysshe them to them that had not ben at that lecture. ¶ Full gladde was I whan dame Isē¦gryne made an ende of her speche / for bothe paper and can¦dell dyde fayle me / with slombre that dyd strongly assayle me / for it was almoost mydnyght / wherfore I wolde ha∣ue taken leue of them: but they made me abyde tyl another was electe to rede on the morowe. So they toke counsayll and of a comyn accorde dyde chese Transelyne of the cro∣ke which was an auncyent damoysell the whiche toke on her the charge ryght gladly / and requyred me instauntlye