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wheere that ȝe seyn that alle wemen been wekke .
Saue ȝo
wyse
the book /
pience . schal no man dispreyse / but he schal gladly
teche the cience that he can ; with outyn p
or p
he schal not been aschamed to lerne h
of lasse folk th
been ful manye a good woman ; may lyghtely been
preuyd /
uere han descendit to been born of a woman ; ȝif
alle wemen hadde been wekke /
the greete bounte / that is in oure lord I
he was resyn fr
a woman th
mon seyth that he ne fond neuere woman good ; it
ne folwyth nat therfore that alle wemen been
wikke /
certys manye a nothir man hat foundyn manye a
woman ful good
of Salomon
rein bounte he fond no woman /
theere is no wyȝt that hath souereyn bo
god a lone / as he h
thith s
makere
ȝif ȝe gouerne ȝow by myn conseyl ; it schulde seme
that ȝe hadde ȝeue me the maystrye
pe ouyr ȝoure
nat so / for if it so were that no man schulde been
conseyled but only of h
maystrye of his
seyled / so ofte /
as to ȝoure forte reso
lerye of women can hide th
As ho sey that a woman can not hyde that sche wot