Yheue, 491, give.

Yougeth, 20, youth, bachelor's freedom.

[Footnote 1: The use of the flat _v_ade (l. 419, p. 12) within 2 lines
of the sharp _f_ade (l. 417), corresponds with the flat 'stow_d_e,' l.
400, p. 12, riming with 'owte,' l. 401, _badde_ with _hatte_, l. 265-6.
_Cost_, _brest_, l. 142-3, are careless rimes too.]




WOMEN.

[_Lambeth MS_. 306, _leaf_ 135.]


Wome{n)}, wome{n)}, loue of wome{n)},
make bare purs w_i_t_h_ some me{n)},
Some be nyse as a nonne hene,[1]
Ȝit al thei be nat soo. 4
some be lewde,
some all be schrewde;
Go schrewes wher thei goo.

Su{m~} be nyse, and some be fonde, 8
And some be tame, y vndirstond_e_,
And some cane take brede of a manes hande,[2]
Yit all thei be nat soo.