"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
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"Men may conseille a womman to been oon/But conseilling is no commandement."
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Card 8
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"An housbonde I wol have, I wol nat lette/ Which shal be bothe my dettour and my thral"
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Card 9
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"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
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"Thou seist men may not keep a castel wal/It may so longe assailed been overal."
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Card 11
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"O lord! The peyne I dide hem and the wo/Ful giltelees, by Goddes sweete pine."
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Card 12
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"Deceite, weping, spinning, God have yive/To wommen kindly, whil that they may live."
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Card 13
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"Sith a man is moore resonable/Than womman is, ye moste been suffrable."
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Card 14
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"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
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"For trusteth wel, it is an impossible/That any clerk wol speke good of wives."