abandonned to that fame delyte/ And herof hit is fayd
in the fables of the poetes in the first book of the
Truphes of the Philofophers by figure. That they
that entryd in to the fontayne of the firenes or mermaydens/
were corrumpid and they toke them away with hem/ And
alfo y’e ought to knowe that they ought to entende
diligently to the cures of the enfermytees in cyrugerye/
They ought to make theyr playfters acordynge to the
woundes or fores/ yf the wounde be rounde The enplaftre
muft be round/ and yf hyt be longe/ hyt mufte be longe/
and otherwhile hit mufte be cured by his contrarye/
lyke as it apperteyneth to phifique/ For the hete
is cured by cold/ and the colde by hete/ and Ioye by
forowe/ and fbrowe by Ioye/ and hit happeth ofte tymes
that moche peple be in grete paryll in takynge to
moche Ioye and lefe her membris/ and become half benomen
in the fodayn Ioye/ And Ioye is a replection of thynge
that is delectable fprad a brode in all the membris
with right grete gladnes And all men entende and desire
to haue the sayd ryght grete Ioye naturelly/ But they
knowe not what may ensue and come therof And this Ioye
cometh otherwhile of vertue of conscience/ And the
wyse man is not wyth out this Ioye And this Ioye is
neuer Interrupt ne in deffaulte at no tyme For hit
cometh of nature And fortune may not take a waye that
nature geueth. And merciall saith that Ioyes
fugitiues abide not longe But flee away an[=o]n And
valerian reherceth that he that hath force and strengthe
raysonable/ hath hit of verray matier of complection
and that cometh of loue And this Ioye hath as moche
power to departe the sowle fro the body/ as hath the
thondre/ wherof hit happend that ther was a woman
named lyna whiche had her husbonde in the warre in
the shippis of the romayns/ And she supposid verily
that he was ded/ But hit happend that he cam agayn
home And as he entryd in to his yate/ his wif met wyth
hym sodeynly not warned of his comyng. whiche was so
glad and Ioyous/ that in enbrasynge hym she fyll doun
ded Also of an other woman to whom was reportid by
a fals messanger that her sone was ded/ whiche wente
home soroufully to her hows/ And afterward whan her
sone cam to her/ As sone as she sawe hym/ she was
so esmoued wyth Ioye y’t she deyde to fore hym/
But this is not so grete meruaylle of women as is of
the men/ For the women ben likened vnto softe waxe
or softe ayer and therfor she is callid mulier whyche
Is as moche to saye in latyn as mollys aer. And
in english soyfte ayer/ And it happeth ofte tymes
that the nature of them that ben softe and mole/ taketh
sonner Inpression than the nature of men that is rude
and stronge/ Valerye reherceth & sayth that a knyght
of rome named Instaulosus that had newly conquerid
and subiuged the yle of Corsika/ And as he sacrefyed
his goddes/ he receyuyd lettres from the senate of
rome In whiche were conteyned dyuerse supplicacyons/
The whiche whan he vnderstood he was so glad and so
enterprysed wyth Ioye/ that he knewe not what to doo