〈…〉 casting a regard  
In casting a laughter amorous  
Than with a pretty smile she doth me lard  
And that maketh me somewhat joyous  
But coming to a bed delicious  
For to hold the spear in a full hand  
It plieth and faileth for it will not stand   

When I heard her babble and language  
Her gentle terms spoken so properly  
I do me wish for to be in to the age  
Of eighteen/ neyntene/ or four and twenty  
Such assawtes than give would I  
That for it she should have no need to crave  
Of the great pleasure that she should have   

If that she go to banquets and dances  
She doth none offence therein certain  
Needs she must have her pleasances  
In some place to make her glad and fain  
Wherefore I dare well say and sustain  
That after with me I would have her led  
If any sooner I had been to her wed   

We twain should have all our yongenesse  
After marriage custom and right  
Passed in joy/ solace/ and gladness  
And is wherefore I have me pight  
Force it is ●o me that the fire be night  
That at a need I can not have quenched  
To late married is for to be complained   

 
Him putteth/ when he doth to woman bend  
He ne hath but only habitude  
Unto her the which well doth him tend  
Who will to household comprehend  
〈◊〉 there about studieth in youth always  
He shall have honour in his old days   

Some children unto the courts haunts  
… en purveyed of benefices  
Some haunteth markets & be marchuntes  
buying and selling their marchanndyses  
Or else constituted in offices  
Their faders and moders have great solace  
That to late married by no way hast   

I ●●…wayll the time that is so spent  
That I 〈◊〉 hasted for to wed  
For I sh●ll have heritage and rent  
Both gold and silver and great kindred  
But s●ch that our lord hath or deigned  
That I this sacrament take me upon  
I will ●e●eit ●ewely at all season   

Theophrastus us showeth in his prose  
That in marriage all is out of tune  
So both also the romanute of the rose  
Composed by master Iohan de mehune  
Yet nevertheless it is all common  
That they never were in bond of marriage  
Wherefore at all a ventures is their language   

 
The said holy sacrament have to ●oge ●a●yed  
Human nature tassemble & it to accord  
Emprented in fleetstreet by Wynker de ward  
Dwelling in the famous city of L●ndon  
His house in the same at the sign of the sone   
Finis   


W  printer's device of William Caxton C  
Wynkyn de word   printer's device of Wynkyn de Worde   

〈…〉 M. CCCCC.xvij. translate in 〈◊〉 ●●mous cite of Andwerpe  

The presupposy●●…e with the foundation of the perfection & d … of the great world & of the conjunctions more & lass &. constyl 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of this year practe … … rdinge on the same ¶ a … 〈…〉 … e of this y●●● 〈…〉 following the sentence of thiboutot & cōstylla●iō● beforesaid well considered be good underst … we can 〈◊〉 Saturn & Mercurii be lords of t … … ment/ & that mars & … rn be lords over all things elem …   

¶ The general disposistion or moving of the air  
This ●●re in his beginning shall be cold & wete & often times dark cl … 〈◊〉 …nge with hail & frost and oft shall it be very tempestuous with 〈◊〉 corruption & change of the air as thunder & lihgtening & in the end 〈◊〉 be more supposed to drught than to r●ines   

〈…〉 ¶ The disposition of t●e winter.  
The winter beginneth when the son toniheth the first point of capric●●● which was the last year the xi day of december it shall by his significatour ●perate in all his qualities. not to cold nor to hot but sometime frost & sn●● which shall not long endure   

¶ The disp●●●cyon of the prime time  
The prime time beginneth this present year▪ the ten day of march & the … tion of the son & the moan shallbe before that (the eight day of march) at t●● rising of the son the significatours showeth us than to have divers 〈◊〉 hail & darkness. sometime tennestions which shall noye both man & bes●● it shallbe disposed by corruption●s fervent sicknesses   

¶ The disposition of the summer  
〈◊〉 shallbe bebynneth the twelve day. of june. & the opposition of the son & th●●●ne shallbe the eight day. before: that is the four day of june. the summer for th●●●●●te part shallbe dry for the principal planetis shālbe full of fire▪ but somt●●● it shallbe wijnde with thunder lighten & hail in the descending of the said ●●●●cipall planetis   

¶ The disposition of the harvest.