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147. Moderation in spending. 



[Fol. 63.] 



I will not 

 explain all 

 points of 

 deceit. 



Else I 

 should act 

 like the 

 Knight de 

 la Tour, 



who wrote 

 a book 

 against vice, 



but really 

 taught vice. 



[Fol. 63*.] 



92 make a trewe rekenynge and a-compte to her housbaniJe, 

 what she hath payed. And yf the housbande go to the 

 market, to bye or sell, as they ofte do, he than to shewe 

 his wife in lyke maner. For if one of them shoulde vse 

 96 to deceyue the other, he deceyueth hym-selfe, and he is 

 not lyke to thryue. And therfore they muste be trewe 

 eyther to other. I coulde peraduenture shewe the hous- 

 bandes dyuerse poyntes that the wyues deceyue them 



loo in: and in lyke maner, howe husbandes deceyue theyr 

 wyues : but if I shulde do so, I shulde shewe mo subtyll 

 poyntes of deceypt, than eyther of them knewe of before. 

 And therfore me semeth beste to holde my peace, least 



104 I shoulde do as the knyght of the toure dyd, the whiche 

 had many fayre doughters, and of fatherly loue that he 

 oughte to them, he m.ade a boke, to a good entente, thdt 

 they myghte eschewe and flee from vyces, and folowe 



108 vertues. In the whiche boke he shewed, that if they 

 were wowed, moued, or styred by any man, after suche 

 a maner as he there shewed, that they shulde withstande 

 it. In the whiche boke he shewed so many wayes, howe 



112a man shoulde atteyne to his purpose, to brynge a woman 

 to vice, the whiche wayes were so naturall, and the wayes 

 to come to theyr purpose were soo subtylly contryued, 

 and craftely shewed, that harde it wold be for any woman 



116 to resyste or deny theyr desyre. And by the sayd boke 

 hath made bothe the men and the women to knowe more 

 vyces, subtyltye, and crafte, than euer they shulde haue 

 knowen, if the boke had not ben made : in the whiche 



120 boke he named hym-selfe the knight of the towre. And 

 thus I leue the wyues, to vse theyr occupations at theyr 

 owne discreation. 



Take care. 



147. ^ To kepe measure in spendynge. 



Nowe thou husbande and huswyfe, that haue done 



