¶ The .ii. Chapter.
BUt speake thou that which becōmeth wholsome learninge. That ye elder mē [ A] * 1.1 be sober / honest / discrete / sounde in the fayth in love & in paciēce. And ye elder wemē* 1.2 lykewyse / that they be in soche rayment as be¦commeth holynes / not falce accusars / not ge∣ven to moche drinkynge / but teachers of ho∣nest* 1.3 thynges / to make the younge wemen so bremynded / to love their husbandes / to love their children / to be discrete / chast / huswyfly / good and obediēt vnto their awne husbandes* 1.4 that the worde of god be not evyll spoken of. Yonge men lykwyse exhorte that they be so∣bre mynded.
Above all thynges shewe thy silfe an in∣sample [ D] of good workes with vncorrupt doc∣tryne / with honestie / and with the wholsome worde which cannot be rebuked / that he which withstondeth / maye be a shamed / havynge no¦thinge* 1.5 in you yt he maye disprayse. The servaū¦tes