Many have ben whiche sholde have be counted wyse
       Sad and discrete, and right well sene[15] in scyence;
     But all they have defyled with this one vyse
       Of moche spekynge:  o cursyd synne and offence
       Ryte it is that so great inconvenience
     So great shame, contempt rebuke and vylany
     Sholde by one small member came to the hole body.

     Let suche take example by the chatrynge pye,
       Whiche doth hyr nest and byrdes also betraye
     By hyr grete chatterynge, clamoure dyn and crye,
       Ryght so these folys theyr owne foly bewraye. 
       But touchynge wymen of them I wyll nought say,
     They can not speke, but ar as coy and styll
     As the horle wynde or clapper of a mylle.

     [Footnote 15:  Well seen—­well versed.]

End of Volume V.