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Title	The Booke of Thenseygnementes and Techynge that the Knyght of the Towre made to his Doughters
Author	Geoffroy de la Tour Landry
Editor	William Caxton, Gertrude Burford Rawlings
Year	1902
Publisher	G. Newnes Ltd.
Location	London
Source	pdf
Progress	To be proofread
Transclusion	Index not transcluded or unreviewed
OCLC	1041630503

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HERE FOLOWETH THE TABLE OF THE RUBRYSHES AND THE CHAPYTRES OF THE BOOKE OF THENSEYGNEMENTES AND TECHYNGE THAT THE KNYGHT OF THE TOWRE MADE TO HIS DOUGHTERS.

How god ought to be honoured to fore al other thynges.
What sholde be done whanne one is fyrst waked.
Of themperour's doughters, one synfull and that other deuoute.
How the dede folke shalle be prayd fore.
How the matyns and prayers shold be sayd.
How yonge ladyes ought to doo abstynence and faste.
How yong ladyes ought to faste tyll they be maryed.
Of a woman of folye that fylle in a pytte.
Of her that deyde and durst not confesse her synne.
How wymmen ought to mayntene them curtoysly.
How wymmen ought not to cast her hedes here and there.
How two tholdest doughters of the kyng of denmarke lost theyre maryage for theyr fowle maners.
How y (e) douȝter of y (e) kyng of aragon lost her maryage.
Of them that ben chydars and brawlers.
Of her that ete the ele and plucked of the fethers of the pye.
How a woman ought not to stryue with her husbond.
How a woman sprange vpon the table.
Of the woman that gaf the flesshe to her hoūdes.
Of them that take fyrst newe guyses.
How men ought not to stryue ageynste them that ben langageurs and full of wordes.
Of thre ladyes that araysoned boussycault.
Of them that wyl not were theyr good clothes on hyhe festes and holy dayes.
Of the suster of saynt Bernard, whiche came to see hym in grete araye.
Of them that playe and Iape at the masse.
An Ensample that happed at the masse of saynt Martyn.
Of a knyght that caused al the towne to lose theyr masse where as he dwellyd.
Of a lady that dispended the fourth parte of the day for to araye her.
How the sacrament sprange in to the mouthe of an hooly lady.
Of a Countesse that herd every day thre masses.
Of a yonge amerous lady & of an esquyer.
Yet of the same.
Of the vyces that renne and ben in many.
Of the good condycions that ben in dyuers and many maners amonge folke.
An Ensample of Eue our fyrst moder.
How an holy Bisshop reprysed and taught many ladyes.
How yong ladyes were scorned & mocked of the old & auncyent ladyes.
Yet of the same.
Of the good knyght that had thre wyues, & of their lyues.
Of the second wyf.
Of the thyrd wyf of the knyght.
Of a lady that blanked and popped her.
Of Apomena, quene of Surrye.
Of the quene Vastis.
Of Amon and of his wyf.
Of the quene Gesabel, whiche had many euyll condycions.
Of Athalia, quene of Jerusalem.
Of Enuye.
Of Dalida, Sampson's wyf.
How a woman ought to obeye to her lord or her husbond in alle thynges honest.
How men ought to kepe them self fro flaterers.
How a woman ought in no wyse discouere ne telle the secretes of her husbond for ouer many peryls.
How the faders and moders ought to praye for theyr children.
How men ought to sette and put theyr children in the wylle of god.
Of Charyte.
How a bienfaytte done for the loue of god is rendryd of god an honderd fold gretter.
How he that wyll praye god must do abstynence.
How men ought to sette and put theyr children to scole.
How euery good woman ought to ansuere for her lord in al thynge.
An ensample of the Quene of Saba and of the kyng Salamon.
How no woman ought not to chyde ne brawle with folke that ben brawlers.
How no good woman ought to ansuere to her husbond whanne he is wrothe.
How a good lady oughte to loue and drede and also bere feythe vnto her husbond.
How men ought bewaylle and wepe for there synnes and mysdedes.
This chapyter sheweth how be it that a woman haue an euyl and felon husbond, neuertheles she ought not therfore leue the seruyse of god.
How it is good to herberowe and receyue in his hows the seruauntes and mynystres of god.
Of a burgeyses wyf, whiche wold neuer pardonne her euylle wylle to her neyghbour, wherfore she was dampned.
Of them whiche ought to come to theyr carnal frendes in whatsomeuer estate they be.
Of a good knyght whiche fought ageynst a fals knyghte for the pyte of a mayde.
Of the thre Maryes whiche came to the sepulcre so erly.
Thexample of the folysshe vyrgyns, and also of the wyse and prudente vyrgyns.
How wymmen ought to be charytable by thexample of our lady.
Of the quene Jane of Fraunce.
How a woman ought not to marye her self without the counceylle of her parentes and Frendes.
How euery good woman ought wel to kepe her renommee.
How thauncyent were wonte to lerne the yonge.
How hit was wonte to departe the dyffamed wymmen fro the felauship & companye of the good and trewe.
How before this tyme men punysshed them that were dyffamed.
How god compareth the good wymmen to the precious perle or Margaryte.
How a doughter of a knyght lost her maryage.
How loue wylle be kepte warme.
How the deuylle tempteth one in the synne that he fyndeth hym most enclyned to.
An Ensample of a good wydowe.
The thre enseygnementes or lernynges whiche Cathon gaf to his sone.
The fyrst and the second enseygnement.
The thyrd enseygnement.
How Cathonet, after that he had done ageynst the two commaundements of his fader, essayed the thyrd on his wyf.
How Cathonet shold haue ben hanged.
How themperour's sone came to saue his mayster Cathonet.
How Cathonet escaped.
How Cathonet exposed his aduenture.

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