[The Pentateuch]

To speak of chastity / it is a gif e not given unto all persons testifieth both christ and also his apostle Paul / wherefore all persons may not vow it. Moreover there be causes wherefore many persons may better live chaste at one time then at another. Many may live chaste at twenty and thirty for certain cold diseases following them / which at .xl. when their health is come cannot do so. Many be occupied with wild ⟨image 246⟩fantasies in their youth that they care not for marriage which same when they be warren sad shall be greatly desirous / it is a dangerous thing to make sin where none is and to for swear y• benefit of god & to bind thy self under pain of damnation of thy soul that thou wouldest not use the remedy that god hath created if need required. ¶ Another thing is this / beware that thou ge•t thee not a false feigned chastity made with the ungodly persuasions of saint Heron or of Ovid in his filthy book of the remedy against love / lest when through such imaginations thou hast utterly despised / defied and abhorred all voman kind / thou come in to such case through the fierce wrath of god / that thou canst nether live chaste nor find in thy heart to marry and so be compelled to fall into the abomination of the pope against nature and kind.

To speake of chastite / it is a gif e not geuen vnto all persones testifyeth both christ and also his apostle Paule / wherfore all persones maye not vowe it. Moreouer there be causes wherfore many persones maye better lyue chast at one tyme then at another. Many maye lyue chast at twentye and thirtye for certayne colde diseases folowinge them / which at .xl. when their helth is come cannot do so. Many be occupyed with wylde ⟨image 246⟩phantasyes in their youth yt they care not for mariage which same when they be warē sad shalbe greatly desyrouse / yt is a daungerous thynge to make synne where none is ād to for swere y• benefyte of god & to bynde thy self vnder payne of dānacyon of thy soule that thou woldest not vse the remeadye that god hath created if nead requyred. ¶ Another thinge is this / beware that thou ge•t the not a false fayned chastite made with ye vngodly perswasions of saynte Herō or of Ouide in his fylthye boke of the remedye agenst loue / lest when thorow soch imaginacyons thou hast vtterlye despysed / defyed ād abhorred all voman kynde / thou come in to soch case thorow the firce wrath of god / yt thou canst nether lyue chast nor fynde in thy harte to marye ād so be cōpelled to faule into the abhominacion of the pope agenst nature and kynde.