_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]
{GH}it 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.
[Some be lewde, &c.] 12
[leaf 135, back] Some cane part with-outen hire,
And some make bate in eueri chire,
And some cheke mate with oure Sir_e_,
Yit all they be nat so. 16
Some be lewde,
and sume be schreued_e_,
go wher they goo.
Som be browne, and some be whit, 20
And some be tender as a ttripe,
And some of theym be chiry ripe,
Yit all thei be not soo.
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