which honesty Jesus Christ and his friends observed to shew in his life. Now as of the outrageous array of women, God wot, that though the visages of some of them seem full chaste and debonair, 5103 yet notify they, in their array of attire, likerousness and pride. I say not that honesty 5104 in clothing of man or woman unconvenable but, certes, the superfluity or disordinate scarcity of clothing is reprovable. Also the sin of their ornament, or of apparel, as in things that appertain to riding, as in too many delicate horses, that be holden for delight, that be so fair, fat, and costly; and also in many a vicious knave, 5105 that is sustained because of them; in curious harness, as in saddles, cruppers, peytrels, 5106

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