ID2 AN INTERLOCUCYON BETWYXT MAN AND WOMAN

Whiche hâve ben chast and holy vyrgyns pure.

And that out of Goddes lawes never hath gone; 1 35

Wherefore in heven ?iow sayntys be they sure.

The m an.

35. But now ofevyll there be so many, Theyr kynde encreaseth styll every day, From evyl into luorse : sofast they multyplye

That ivolde the devyll had one to cary th'other away. 140

The Womak.

36. One vyrgyn another for Goddis love hath martyred By compulsyon of Man, as Scrypture hath exprest, That in a day .xj. th ou s and dyed;

Wherefore to dysprayse iuomen ye do not best.

The Man.

3-. Consyderyng the evyll which of women hâve corne, 14S Hoyufalse they be, how cursed and cruell, One ought toflye them and from them to ronne. For well happy is hc that ipith them doth not mell.

The Woman.

3g, AU the nobles of tyme passed

And ail the sayntes of Paradyse 1 5o

Fyrst ail from Women they liave proceded,

For to dysprayse Women infaythye be not wyse.

The Man.

3g. Do jueye your blâme and lande in balaunce, To se of them whiche twayne )peye moste,

14? com.

AN INTER[,OCUCYON BETWYXT MAX AND WOMAN iS.")

Fol. Av. And when thatye se there the dyfferaiince, 1 55

/ trowe ofyoïir lande ye wyll make small boste.

The Woman. '