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they shold haue ben in the seruyse of god, to whiche none ought to come but for to gyue laude, praye humbly, and deuoutely to worshippe god. And after this he said how he sawe the fendes lepe and spryng vpon the hornes and other nyce apparaylle of many wymmen, and they were tho that talked and jangled with company, and they that thought more to complaire and plese their amorettes & delytes of the world, than to plese god, & to haue the regardes and beholdynges of the musardes on them; he saw on these the fendes pynne their keuerchyefs. But vpon them ỷ sayd their prayers & were in deuocio, they were not on them ne touched the, how well there were ynough of them that were wel arayed & curyously. But it holdeth more in that hert than in thabyte. And after he said that soo arayed them for to ben the beter sene and take heede of done grete synne, and they that take playsir in the seruyse of god angre sore and gyuen grete debate to the fende oure enemy. After that he had said thus many thynges, the wymmen and they that cryed and were so tormented threwe awey their gaye arraye as peple oute of theyr wyt, and alweye abode they there in suche manere nyne dayes. And on the tenthe day they were brought ageyne to their right mynde by the prayer of the hoofy heremyte. And thus were they chastised, that fro than forthon they kepte them from spekying and janglyng in the tyme of the seruyce of god. Wherfore we may wel vnderstonde by this ensample that no persone ought not talk in the chirche ne distourble the seruyse of god.