Marked words are the most distinguishing words of the nearest topic T39: conscience, lucre, usury, lucar, fraud, dissimulation, simony, london, lady, nemo.
For him a better name you could not express, For ill disposed women are always merciless. They are always scraping, clawing, & gathering, To maintain their lives in wickedness and sin. Carnal concupiscence shallbe called pleasure, And that pretty Marie loveth beyond all measure. Infidelity may not be called infidelity. No, we will work with a little more austerity, Infidelity for divers respects hath names divers, Of the which some of them to you I purpose to rehearse With bishops, priests, scribes, seniors and pharisies, And with as many as be of the Iewes degrees, I am called Legal justice commonly: For why by the law themselves they do justify. It is plain Infidelity so to believe: Therefore there, such a name to myself I do give. I have a garment correspondent to that name, By the which I walk among them without blame. With publicans and sinners of a carnal pretence, I am sometime called counsel, and sometime Prudence. I cause them the wisdom of God to despise, And for the flesh and the world wittily to devise, Prudence before Marie my name I will call. Which to my suggestions will cause her to fall: A vesture I have here to this garment correspondent, Lo here it is, a gown I trow convenient. For our honour I pray thee hearty do it wear. Marry did talk with me before in this gear, But because she shall the sooner to me apply, I will dress me in these garments even by and by. How think you by me now in this array? Mary loveth them I tell you, that use to go gay. Then hadst thou need to mend thy foolish countenance For thou lookest like one that hath lost his remembrance With the one eye overmuch thou usest to wink, That thou meanest some fraud thereby they will think He that looketh with one eye, & winketh with an other, I would not trust (say they) if he were my brother. Like obstinate Friars I temper my look, Which had one eye on a wench, and an other on a book Passion of God, behold, yonder cometh Marie. See that in your tales none from other do vary. It is a pretty wench that it is in deed, Much to entreat her, I think we shall not need. No, for I think she is ill enough of herself, She seemeth to be a proud little elf. I pray you behold how she trimmeth her gear? She would have all well about her every where. Maidens (quoth she?) there is no gentlewoman I ween So accumbred as I am, for such were never seen: Fie on them in good faith they are to bad, They would make some gentlewoman stark mad. Like as I put of my gear, so I do it find, And I can not tell how oft I have told them my mind, By the faith of my body if they do not amend, To lay them on the bones surely I do intend.
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For hym a better name you could not expresse, For yll disposed women are alway mercylesse. They are alwais scraping, clawing, & gathering, To maintaine their liues in wickednesse and synne. Carnall concupiscence shalbe called pleasure, And that pretie Marie loueth beyond all measure. Infidelitie may not be called infidelitie. No, we will worke with a litle more austeritie, Infidelitie for diuers respectes hath names diuers, Of the which some of thē to you I purpose to reherse With bishops, priests, scribes, seniors and pharisies, And with as many as be of the Iewes degrees, I am called Legall Iustice commonly: For why by the lawe them selues they do iustifie. It is playne Infidelitie so to beleue: Therfore there, suche a name to my selfe I do geue. I haue a garment correspondent to that name, By the which I walke among them without blame. With publicans and sinners of a carnall pretence, I am somtime called coūsel, and somtime Prudence. I cause them the wisedome of God to despise, And for the fleshe and the world wittily to deuise, Prudence before Marie my name I will call. Which to my suggestions will cause hir to fall: A vesture I haue here to this garment correspondēt, Lo here it is, a gowne I trowe conuenient. For our honor I pray thee heartily doe it weare. Mary did talke with me before in this geare, But bicause she shall the sooner to me apply, I will dresse me in these garments euen by and by. How thynke you by me now in this aray? Mary loueth them I tell you, that vse to go gay. Then hadst thou nede to mend thy folysh coūtenāce For thou lookest like one that hath lost his remēbrāce With the one eye ouermuch thou vsest to winke, That thou meanest som fraude therby they wyl think He that loketh with one eie, & winketh with an other, I would not trust (say they) if he were my brother. Lyke obstinate Friers I temper my looke, Which had one eie on a wench, and an other on a boke Passion of God, behold, yonder commeth Marie. See that in your tales none from other do varie. It is a pretie wenche that it is in dede, Muche to intreate her, I thynke we shall not nede. No, for I thinke she is yll inough of hir selfe, She seemeth to be a proude little elfe. I pray you behold how she trimmeth her geare? She would haue all well about her euery where. Maidēs (quod she?) there is no gētlewomā I wene So accumbred as I am, for such were neuer sene: Fie on them in good faith they are to badde, They would make some gentlewoman stark madde. Like as I put of my geare, so I do it fynde, And I can not tel how oft I haue told thē my mynd, By the faith of my body if they do not amende, To lay them on the bones surely I do intend.