¶ Of Hym That Made as He Hadde Ben a Chaste Lyuer. Lxxiiii
¶ A felowe, that toke vpon him, as he had ben the moste chaste and beste disposed man lyuinge, was by one of his felowes on a tyme taken in aduoutry,262 and sharpely rebuked for it, bycause he prated so moche of chastite, and yet was taken in the same faute. To whome he answerde againe: O fool, doste thou thinke that I did it for bodely pleasure? No! no! I dyd it but onely to subdue my flesshe, and to purge my reynes.
Wherby ye may perceyue, that of all other dissemblynge hipocrytes are the worste.