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 it. For all good and worship may therof come to yow, and hit is a vertue the whiche escheweth grete hate and grete enuye, and many euyls also. For many one I knowe whiche haue loste moche of theyr goodes & suffred many grete euyls for to haue spoke to lyghtely of other, and for to haue reported suche wordes as they herd saye, of the whiche they had nought to doo at al. For none soo wyse is that may knowe what to hym is to come, and full of naturel wytte be they whiche kepe them self fro recordynge of ony wordes. For he whiche wythsayeth them that blameth other, as wel in ryght as in wronge, he doth but wel; and for to hold and kepe secretely the dommage and euylle of other may come but good, as hit is reherced in the booke of my two sonnes, and also in an Euangely.

Here fynysshed the booke whiche the knyght of the Toure made to the enseygnement and techyng of his doughters, translated oute of Frenssh in to our maternall Englysshe tongue by me, William Caxton, whiche book was ended & fynysshed the fyrst day of Iuyn, the yere of oure lord mcccclxxxiii, And enprynted at westmynstre the last day of Ianyuer the fyrst yere of the regne of kynge Rychard the thyrd. 197