all dedes &c. Knowleche your self at all tymes carayne and erthe /
& the glory therof is as a floure in the medowe. Absteyne you as
pylgryms from all desyres of [the] flesshe / the whiche dayly
bataylleth ayenst the soule. Absteyne also from lyes at all tymes
/ as ye wolde from helle / for them in no wyse loueth Ihesus your
spouse. And also beware to mayntene or botrace suthe lyes whiche
is abhomynable in the syght of god. Yf there come ony straûger
vnto you / lete hym knowe by your heuenly talkynge & behauyour
[that] ye be a well taught spouse of cryste & [that] they may
glorefye in you & for you & be amended by you. Bere [the] wordes
of saynt Ierom in your mynde that sayth thus. Truste me verely
[that] theris no thynge more peryllous to a man. than is a woman /
& to a woman no thynge more contagyous than is a man / for eyther
of them is chaff & eyther is fyre. And note this for a truth /
[that] preuy talkyng lacketh no suspycyon. That thynge is not
lefull to be seen / [that] is not lefull to be desyred. More than
ony man can suppose or wryte / [the] deuyll reioyseth whan memorye
of o man is fixed & had in a womãnes herte. There is no venym in
the worlde so noysom to woman as is affeccõn towarde man of what
soeuer cause it procede or growe. Ye may see [that] the desyre of
worldly wymen is euer in vesture / golde / precyous stones / &
ornament outwarde of the body / & therin they put theyr glorye &
felycyte. In so moche [that] it suffyseth not them theyr luste
gyuen by nature only / but they seke occasyon & craft by the sayd
premysses to encreace theyr sayd luste & desyres to theyr grete
dampnacõn / beware ther fore of ony costely habyte or suche
vanytees &c. Certaynly sayth the sayd saynt Ierom / [the]
pryncypall desyre is of suche wymen [that] men sholde fest theyr
eyen in [the] faces of them by the prouocacõn & syght of theyr
precyous arraye. But they sholde cõsyder though nature hath gyuen