unwedded shalle not sette her love upon no man of lower or lasse degree
than she is of. For yf she tooke hym, her parentes and frendes shold hold her
lassed and hyndered.
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These, whiche loven suche folke, done ageynste theyre
worship and honoure. For men ought to desyre ne coveyte nothynge so moche
in this world as worship and the frendship of the world and of hir frendes, the
whiche is lost as soone as she draweth oute her self oute of the governement
and fro the counceyll of them, as I myght telle, yf I wold, an ensample of
many whiche therfore ben dyffamed and hated of theyr parents and frendes.
“And therfore, syre, as I theyr moder charge and deffende them: that
they take no playsaunce,
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ne that in no wyse sette theyr love to none of
lower degree than they be come of, ne also to none of hyhe estate, whiche
they may not have to their lord. For the grete lordes shalle not take them to
theyr wyves, but alle theyr lovynge loke and semblaunt, they do it for to
deceyve them and for to have the delytes and playsaunce of theyr bodyes,
and for to brynge them in to the folye of the world.”
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