Note 164 — Chapter XI · HISTORY OF SEPARATION AND DIVORCE UNDER ENGLISH AND ECCLESIASTICAL LAW
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Jeaffreson, Brides and Bridals, II, 310, who quotes the following verses entitled "A Poem on the Times of Edward II." from the Percy Society Publication:
"If a man have a wyf, And he love her nowt, Bring her to the constery, There trewth schuld be wrowt. Bring twei fals wytnes with hym, And hymself the thrydde, And he shall be deperted, As fair as he wold bydde, From his wyf; He schal be maynteyned fulle well To lede a sory lyf. "When he is deperted From hys trew spowse, Take hys neyghboures wyf And bryng her to howse, Yif he have selver Among the clerkes to send, He may have hir to hys wyf To hys life's end, With onskylle, Thei that so fair with falseness dele Godde's corse on her bille."