Ne I sey not this al-only for these men, But most for wommen that bitraysed be 1780 Through false folk; god yeve hem sorwe, amen!
Wommen ben wyse in short avysement; And lat sen how your wit shal now avayle; And what that I may helpe, it shal not fayle.
And I wol in that outer hous allone Be wardeyn of your wommen everichone.
O, rolled shal I been on many a tonge; Through-out the world my belle shal be ronge; And wommen most wol hate me of alle.
I knowe also, and alday here and see, Men loven wommen al this toun aboute; Be they the wers?
No wonder is, so god me sende hele, Though wommendrede with us men to dele.
And of Criseyde thou hast seyd as thee liste, That maketh men to wommen lasse triste, That ben as trewe as ever was any steel.
Thise ladies eek compleynen hem on clerkes 190 That they han maad bokes of hir diffame, In which they lakken wommen and hir werkes And speken of hem greet repreef and shame, And causelees yive hem a wikked name.
But, maugre hem that blamen wommen most, Suche is the force of myn impressioun, That sodeinly I felle can hir bost And al hir wrong imaginacioun.
And trusteth wel, that it is no mervayle; For wommen knewen pleynly hir entente.
Men, to sey wel of wommen it is best, And nat for to despyse hem ne deprave, If that they wole hir honour kepe and save.
They that to wommen been y-whet so kene My sharpe persing strokes, how they smyte, Shul fele and knowe; and how they kerve and byte.
I see wel mennes owne falsenesse Hem causeth wommen for to trusten lesse.
Now holdeth this for ferme and for no lye, That this trewe and just commendacioun 450 Of wommen is nat told for flaterye, Ne to cause hem pryde or elacioun, But only, lo!
Displese her nat, honoureth that womman, And other wommen alle, for her sake!
To sclaundre wommen thus, what may profyte To gentils namely, that hem armen sholde, 135 And in defence of wommen hem delyte As that the ordre of gentilesse wolde?
Mi fader, as toward the Love Of Maidens forto telle trowthe, Ye have thilke vice of Slowthe, Me thenkth, riht wonder wel declared, That ye the wommen have noght spared 1600 Of hem that tarien so behinde.
The cause why I have it laft Mai be for I unto that craft Am nothing able so to stele, Thogh ther be wommen noght so fele.
The craft Minerve of wolle fond And made cloth hire oghne hond; And Delbora made it of lyn: Tho wommenwere of great engyn.
Wherof as to the world nomore Ne wol sche torne, and preith therfore That in som temple of the Cite, To kepe and holde hir chastete, Sche mihte among the wommen duelle.
For of a thousand men, saith Solomon, I find oon good man; but certes of alle wommen good womman find I never noon.
And though that Solomon say he fond never good womman, it folwith nought therfore that alle wommen ben wicked; for though that he fonde noone goode wommen, certes many another man hath founden many a womman ful goode and trewe.
Secondly, I say that alle wommen be wikked, and noon good of hem alle.
This were a long lettyng," Quod a lady in scleyre, "What sholde we wommen Werche the while?
Thorugh wyn and thorugh wommen Ther was Loth acombred, And there gat in glotonie Gerles that were cherles.
Thise been tho that han been wyves and han forgoon hir housbondes, and eek wommen that han doon lecherie and been releeved by Penitence.
Secoundly I seye, that alle wommen been wikke and noon good of hem alle.
The clerk, whan he is old, and may noght do Of Venus werkes worth his olde sho, Than sit he doun, and writ in his dotage That wommen can nat kepe hir mariage!
Rede auctours, wher they trete of swich matere, And what thay seyn of wommenye may here.
What seye we eek of wommen that mordren hir children for drede of worldly shame?
This cursednesse doon men and wommen in diverse entente and in diverse manere; but though that holy writ speke of horrible sinne, certes, holy writ may nat been defouled, na-more than the sonne that shyneth on the mixen.
Furthermore, the philosophre seith, "in wikked conseil wommen venquisshe men;" and for thise resouns I ne owe nat usen thy conseil.
And though that Salomon seith, that "he ne fond never womman good," it folweth nat therfore that alle wommen ben wikke.
Wommen wel ought pite to take Of hem that sorwen for hir sake.
We see that no man loveth now 5805 But for winning and for prow; And love is thralled in servage Whan it is sold for avauntage; Yit wommen wol hir bodies selle; Suche soules goth to the devel of helle.
For, though I seye it myself, I have saved with this charme, Of men and of wommen Many score thousand.
For that that wommen witeth, May noght wel be counseille.
And at the laste this lymytour, Tho my lord was oute, He salvede so oure wommen Til some were with childe.
When wommenbegins to get up in years they go in the legs, same as harses.
He knew there was six insides because six fares was put through the winder, but whether they was put through by men or ma'adens or widder wommen was moren he cud say.
Moren enough fat oldwommen on the out journey," declared Mr. Crows passionately.
Of the Lond whereWommen duellen with outen companye of men.
And thei wedden there no wyfes: for all the wommen there ben commoun, and thei forsake no man.
Also at Cayre, that I spak of before, sellen men comounly bothe men and wommen of other lawe, as we don here bestes in the markat.
And the wommen haven no schame of the men; but lyen alle to gidre, syde to syde, tille the hete be past.
And there is a comoun hows in that cytee, that is alle fulle of smale furneys; and thidre bryngen wommen of the toun here eyren [Footnote: Eggs.
In that contree and in Ethiope and in many other contrees, the folk lyggen alle naked in ryveres and watres, men and wommen to gedre, fro undurne of the day, tille it be passed the noon.
And alle the men andwommen of that yle han houndes hedes: and thei ben clept Cynocephali: and thei ben fulle resonable and of gode undirstondynge, saf that thei worschipen an ox for here god.
In that contree, wommen that ben unmaryed, thei han tokenes on hire hedes, lyche coronales, to ben knowen for unmaryed.
In that lond is fulle gret hete: and the custom there is such, that men and wommengon alle naked.
In that contree growen manye stronge vynes: and the wommen drynken wyn, and men not: and the wommen schaven hire berdes, and the men not.
For thei wolden, that alle the wommen weren wydewes, as the queen and thei weren.
Which is all verry Fine for you and your Patent Tea, But I wonders How Poor Wommen is to get Their Beau-He!
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