The forrest of fancy Wherein is conteined very prety apothegmes, and pleasaunt histories, both in meeter and prose, songes, sonets, epigrams and epistles, of diuerse matter and in diuerse manner. VVith sundry other deuises, no lesse pithye then pleasaunt and profytable.

Of the wickednesse of women and howe prone they are to the procatious of the flesh.

IOue on a day disposde to iest, with Iuno for delight,

The wicked wiles of womens wits, in wordes did plaine resite. And said that they to fleshly lustes, more subiect were then men. Iuno denyde, to haue it tryde, they craued iudgement then. And for because Tiresias had, both man and woman bin, Supposing him the metest man, and most expert therein, They did elect him for their iudge, the truth thereof to trye: He sentence past with Iupiter. and boldly did replye, That women were the wantonner, although for shame they sought, For to conceale from open shew. what was their secret thought. But Iuno as the nature is, of all the femine sect, When as she saw Tiresias did her wished will reiect, In giuing so his sentence graue, contrary to her mind, (Inflamde with yre to worke reuenge,) she made Tiresias blinde, Therefore I must of force conclude, that neither fury fell, Nor Serpent dyre, not Tiger fierce, nor all the fiendes in hell. May more torment the mind of man, or worke his wretched woe: So much as can one wicked wench, in whome doth fury floe.

Finis.