[260] Orig. reads _as_.
+ _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.