Now wherewith should he make his payëment, If he us’d not his silly instrument? Then were they made upon a creature To purge urine, and eke for engendrure. But I say not that every wight is hold, 1791 That hath such harness 1792 as I to you told, To go and usë them in engendrure; Then should men take of chastity no cure. 1793 Christ was a maid, and shapen 1794 as a man, And many a saint, since that this world began, Yet ever liv’d in perfect chastity. I will not vie 1795 with no virginity. Let them with bread of pured 1796 wheat be fed, And let us wivës eat our barley bread.

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