ds,
++Now understande, litell and grete,
Je vous dirai maintenant
I shall saye you right forth 12
Dune aultre matere
Of an othir matere
La quele ie comence.
The whiche I wyll begynne.
+Se vous estes maries,
+Yf ye be maried,
Et vous aues femme,
And ye haue a wyfe, 16
Et vous ayes marye,
And ye haue a husbonde,
+Se vous maintenes paisiblement,
+So mayntene you pesibly,
Que vous voisins ne disent
That your neyghbours saye not
De vous fors que bien:
Of you othirwyse than well: 20
Ce seroit virgoingne.
Hit shold be shame.
+Se vous aues pere & mere,
+If ye haue fader and moder
Si les honnoures tousiours;
So worshippe them alleway;
Faictes leur honneur;
Doo to hem worshipp; 24
Deportes les;
Forbere them;
Car selon le commandement
For after the commaundement
Et conseil de cathon,
And the counseill of cathon,
Les doibt en honnourer;
Men ought to worshippe them; 28
Car il dist en son liure:
For he saith in his booke:
"Honnoure pere & mere."
"Worshippe fader and moder."
+Se vous aues enfans,
+Yf ye haue children,
Si les chastoyes de la verge,
So chastyse them with the rodde, 32
Et les instrues
And enforme them
De bonnes meurs
With good maners
Le temps quilz soient jofnes;
the tyme that they be yong;

[Sidenote: P. 9.]

Les envoyes a lescole
Sende them to the scole 36
Aprendre lire et escripre,
To lerne rede and to write,
quilz ne resambloient bestes.
That they resemble not bestis.
+Soyes debonnair
+Be ye buxom
Enuers touttes gens--
Vnto alle folke-- 40

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[Headnote: MARGARET IS SENT TO THE BUTCHER'S AND POULTERER'S.]

Enuers vous seruans:
Vnto your seruaunts:
Penses quilz soyent
Thynke that they be
Aussi bons co{m}me vous;
As good as ye;
Ne le despites point.
Despyse them not. 4
+Comandes eux v{ost}re volente
+Commaunde them your wyll
En tele maniere:
In suche manere:
"Margote, prengne de largent,
"Margret, take of the siluer,
Va a la boucherye,
Goo to the flesshshamels, 8
Sy achates de lechar."
Bye ther of the flessh."
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