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Nether was adultery so sore punished among ¹the people of Israel only, but also the Heathen used mortal executions thereof. This will I now declare out of the histories & credible wry ters. Wham any of the Lepre•ans were taken in ad uoutry, they were bounden, & carried three days through the cite, & afterward (as long as they lived) were they despised, & with shame & confusion, reputed as parsons desolate of all honest. Among the Lo•rensiaus did Zalencius forbyd ad ²uoutry under a great punishment. The transgressors caused he to have both there eyes thrust out. And when his own son was taken in adultery, he bad them put out his one eye as Judges & the tother did he himself put out as a father. In the days of our forefathers, the noble Germans (afore they came to Christen ³faith the punishment of a woman that brake wedlock, stood in the power and authority of her husband. And at the lest he might stripe her out of her clothes, thrust h•r out of his house, & beat her openly with rods in the City or tow ne, even before her friends. &c. as Cornelius Tacitus maketh mention, who also writeth ⟨p. xxxii⟩these words: Among them there was none y• laugh ed at the misdeed: & to defile or be defiled, was named among them to be as much, as not to do accor ding to y• course, manner & custom of the world.

Nether was aduoutry so sore punished amōg ¹the people of Israel onely, but also the Heithen vsed mortall executious therof. Thys wyll I nowe declare oute of the histories & credible wri ters. Whā any of the Lepre•ās were taken in ad uoutry, they were bounden, & caryed thre dayes thorowe the cite, & afterwarde (as longe as they lyued) were they despised, & with shame & cōfusion, reputed as parsonnes desolate of all honeste. Among the Lorēsiaus dyd Zalēcius forbyd ad