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Card 6

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"And when that I hadde getten unto me/By maistrie, al the sovraintee/...After that day we hadden never debaat."

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Card 7

Front

"Men may conseille a womman to been oon/But conseilling is no commandement."

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Card 8

Front

"An housbonde I wol have, I wol nat lette/ Which shal be bothe my dettour and my thral"

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Card 9

Front

"Shulde ye speke and bere hem wrong on honde;/ For half so boldly kan there no man/Swere and lyen, as a womman kan."

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Card 10

Front

"Thou seist men may not keep a castel wal/It may so longe assailed been overal."

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Card 11

Front

"O lord! The peyne I dide hem and the wo/Ful giltelees, by Goddes sweete pine."

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Card 12

Front

"Deceite, weping, spinning, God have yive/To wommen kindly, whil that they may live."

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Card 13

Front

"Sith a man is moore resonable/Than womman is, ye moste been suffrable."

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Card 14

Front

"And thanne wolde he upon his Bible seke/That ilke proverb of Ecclesiaste/Where he commandeth and forbedth fast/Man shal not suffre his wife go roule aboute"

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Card 15

Front

"For trusteth wel, it is an impossible/That any clerk wol speke good of wives."

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