LINGUAE VASCONUM PRIMITIAE - Euskaltzaindia

35 Virtue should be greater among men,
for 1 see much more of it in women.
There are a thousand wicked men for each woman like them,
and a thousand faithful women for each man like them.
39 None would be honest if they looked towards men,
for men are unable to desist from ravishing any who are good,
but many women are able to elude their grasp,
for their righteousness is greater.
43 1 have never heard of a women violating aman.
It is, rather, the man who madly pursues her,
and should a woman turn to him endearingly,
what man will fault her?
47 God loves a woman aboye all else in the world.
He descended from heaven loving one of them.
Through a woman He become our brother;
on Her account are all women worthy of praise.
51 A woman seems to be a sweet thing to me.
Amid all the charm she is most delicate;
Day and night she oozes with appeal,
to speak ill of her is villainy.
55 Nothing in the world is so beautiful or pleasurable
as a woman under aman naked.
With both arms stretched out, she surrenders herself
so that the man might do with her what he will.
59 Though a bolt might tear though the middle of her,
she would complain no more than an angel.
Instead, with the bolt grown soft and the wound healed over,
her grace reconciles them both.
63 Is there anyone so callous that he forgets her,
only later to speak ill of her in such a way?
Whoever might do so is not well bred.
Why can he not recognize such a good thing?
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