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¶ The. xxi. Chapter.

Now to return to young daughters how ¹they should be instruct in prayer & know lege of their christen religion according as it is set forth in dialogues & institutions of the christians, yet shall they not be to busy in teaching & reasoning openly, but there to use silence and to learn at home, openly to hear, and at home let them reason and teach each other. Neither would I not have them ever shut up, as it were in cage, never to speak nor to come forth, but ²sometimes to see the good fashions and honest behaviour of other for to keep them ever in mew is enough either to make them stark fools, or •lles to make them naughts, when they shall once come abroad into company. As for this thing, every discrete parent shall know by the aforesaid rules how to order them, to avoid all wan tonnes and niceness in words, gestures and deeds, to eschew all unhonest games and pass times, to avoid all unhonest loves and occasions of the same, as unhonest dancing, wanton communication, company with ribalds and filthy speakers, teach them to avert their sight and senses from all such inconveniences, let them avoid idleness, be occupied ether doing