2249. From Ecclus. xxv. 30 (Vulgate): 'Mulier, si primatum habeat, contraria est uiro suo.' Not in the A. V.; cf. v. 22 of that version. 2250. From Ecclus. xxxiii. 20-22 (Vulgate); 19-21 (A. V.). 2251. After _noght be_, ed. 1550 adds--'if I shuld be cou_n_sayled by the'; but this is redundant. See next note. 2252-3. These clauses are omitted in the MSS. and black-letter editions, but are absolutely necessary to the sense. The French text has--'car il est escript: la jenglerie des femmes ne puet riens celer fors ce qu'elle ne scet. Apres, le philosophe dit: en mauvais conseil les femmes vainquent les hommes. Pour ces raisons, je ne doy point user de ton conseil.' It is easy to turn this into Chaucerian English, by referring to ll. 2274, 2280 below, where the missing passage is quoted with but slight alteration. The former clause is quoted from Marcus Annaeus Seneca, father of Seneca the philosopher, Controversiarum Lib. ii. 13. 12:--'Garrulitas mulierum id solum nouit celare, quod nescit.' Cf. P. Plowman, B. v. 168; xix. 157; and see the Wyf of Bathes Tale, D. 950. The second clause is from Publilius Syrus, Sent. 324:--'Malo in consilio feminae uincunt uiros.' 2257. 'Non est turpe cum re mutare consilium'; Seneca, De Beneficiis, iv. 38, § 1. _Maketh no lesing_, telleth no lie; compare the use of _lyer_ just above. _Turneth his corage_, changes his mind. Mätzner quotes a similar phrase from Halliwell's Dict., s. v. _Torne_:-- 'But thogh a man himself be good, And he _torne_ so _his mood_ That he haunte fooles companye, It shal him torne to grete folie.' MS. Lansdowne 793, fol. 68. [207] 2258. _Thar ye nat_, it needs not that ye; i. e. you are not obliged. _But yow lyke_, unless you please (lit. unless it please you). 2259. _Ther_, where. _What that him lyketh_, whatever he likes. 2260. _Save your grace_, with the same sense as the commoner phrase 'save your reverence.' The Lat. text has 'salua reuerentia tua'; which shews the original form of the phrase. _As seith the book._ Here 'the book' probably means no more than the Latin text, which has 'nam qui omnes despicit, omnibus displicet'; without any reference. 2261. _Senek._ Mätzner says this is not to be found in Seneca; in fact, the Latin text refers us to 'Seneca, De Formula Honestae Vitae'; but Sundby has found it in Martinus Dumiensis, Formula Honestae Vitae, cap. iii. This shews that it was attributed to Seneca erroneously. Moreover, the original is more fully expressed, and runs thus--'Nullius imprudentiam despicias; rari sermonis ipse, sed loquentium patiens auditor; seuerus non saeuus, hilares neque aspernans; sapientiae cupidus et docilis; quae scieris, sine arrogantia postulanti imperties; quae nescieris, sine occultatione ignorantiae tibi benigne postula impertiri.' Cf. Horace, Epist. vi. 67, 68.