SEMPRONIO

Due guard my lord and God be in this place For I have be about your bysynes To order such thing as were convenient your house and horse and all thing was to dress How so what is the cause of your unrest Marry sir this would make a wild Horse tame Sir shortly I assure you it shall be done Tush sir be merry let pass away the mare How Say you have I not hied me lightly Here is your chair and lute to make you merry Behold nero in the love of tapaya oppressed Room how he brent / old and young wept But she took no thought nor never the less slept I will not mok this foul is a lover His saying in this none can control ¶ Marry sir that is a spice of heryse Nay nay it is easy I nough to do But First for to he'll a man knowledge must be Of the seknes than to gyff counsel thereto A is this Calisto his fire / now I know well ¶ How that love over him hath cast her net In whose perseverans is all inconstans what than. For thou settest mannis dignity in obeysanus To the unperfection of the week woman A woman a God nay to God a villain Of your saying you may be sorry. why so. ¶ Oh ferfull heart why comparyst thou w to Nembroth Or alexander of this world not lord only But worthy to subdue heuyu as saying goes And thou reputest thy self more hie Then them both and dyspayryst so cowardly To win a woman of whom hath been so many Got and ungotten never harden of any ¶ It is resytyd in the fist of Saint John ̄ n This is the woman of auncyoun malice Of whom but of a woman was it long on That adam was expulsed from paradise She put man to pain whom ely did despise ¶ Nay but of those men it were wisdom That overcame them to seek remedy And not of those that they did overcome Fle from their beginning eschew their folly Thou knowest they do evil thing many They keep no mean but rigour of intention Be it fair foul wilful without reason ¶ Keep them never so close they willbe she wed Gyff tokens of love by many subtle ways Seeming to be sheep and serpently shrewd Craft in them renewing that never decays Their seyenge sighting provoking their plays Oh what pain is to fulfil their appetite And to accomplish their wanton delytis ¶ It is to see their dyssemblyng: Their flattering count nann heir ingratytude falls witness feigned weeping There vain glory and how they can delude Their foolish es their angling not mewde Their lecherous lust and wylenes therefore whychcrafte & charmys to make men to their lore ¶ Their enba winning & their unshamefastness Their bawdry their suttelte & fresh attiring what trimyng what painting to make fayrnes Their falls intent & flykkeryng smyl ng Therefore lo that is and old saying That women be the dyuelle net and head of sin And mannys misery in paradise did Begin Marry syrye were a man of clear wit whom nature hath endued the best gift As beauty & greatness of members perfect Strength lightness & beyond this yche whyt Fortune hath parted with you of her influens For to be able of liberal expense ¶ For without Good whereof fortune is lady Noman can have wealth therefore by conjecture you should be beloved of every body Then is it not like here of ass tails ¶ Sir have you all done. I put case all this you have said be true yet are you more noble sith you be a man Possible it is in every condition To abbot her as Much as you do love her In the wynnyug / begilyng is the danger That you shall see he e after with eyes from with dyme eyes which show a little thing much But for you shall not despair I assure you No labour nor dylygens in me shall gruch So trusty & fryndely you shall India he urh In all thing possible that you can The thing to accomplish to your desire yet I shall do that trust me for a suret Sir God reward you & lend us good spe I doubt not but I shall perform it in deed ¶ But without reward it is har to work well Nay be not you / for it passeth a marvel The master slow / the servant to e diligent Sir I have a neighbour a mother of That can provoke the har rokkys to ¶ In all evil deed she is perfect wise I trow more than a M virgins Have be destroyed by her subtle devise For she never faylyth where she begins All only by this craft her lyffyng she wynnis Maid wyffys widows and everyone If she ones meddyll there skapyth none I shall bring her ydyr unto this place But you must in any wise let rewards go And show her your greuys in every case Sir God be with you. ¶ Omoder Lelestyne I pray God prosper the Of troth to seek you was mine hither continued ̄ ming Mother lay a pert now all other thyug And all only tend to me and Imagine In that that I purpose now to Begin ¶ Calisto in the love of fair melebea Burnyth wherefore of the he hath great need Peas for me thinketh Calisto is nigh I pray the permeno lefe thy malicious enu y sir she thinketh that money all thing fedys Then come on sempronio I pray the with me And ta here mother a while I pray the For where of mistrust you have me appealed have here my cloak till your doubt be assoiled ¶ Now do you well for weed among corn Nor suspecious w to Friend did never well Or faithfulness of word tornyd to a skorn Maketh mind doubtful good reason does tell Go you before & I shall wait you upon Farewell mother we will come again anon you sir in my mind & most according Sir I am content as you continued ̄ maund me you sir. what is she It is one which is all other exceeding The picture of angelle if thou her see Phebus or Phoebe no comparison may be To her. what height she / I say how can that fire be That tormentyth but one living man greater Than that fire that bre ̄ nyth a hold city here And all y e people theri ̄ . For you speak like no crystyn man I would thou knewest melebea worship I In her I believe and her I love / A would than with the melebea is a great woman I know on which foot thou dost halt on I shall shortly he'll the my life thereupon beleuyst y than ̄ peas peas she is unperfect I would you knew As all women be and of less value Phylozophers say the martyr is less worthy Than the form / so is woman to man surely with clear eyes trust e