3 Beholde we put bittes into ye horses mouthes that they shuld obeye vs and we turne aboute all the body.4 Beholde also the shyppes which though they be so gret and are dryven of fearce windes yet are they turned about with a very smale helme whither soever the violence of the governer wyll.5 Even so the tonge is a lyttell member and bosteth great thinges. Beholde how gret a thinge a lyttell fyre kyndleth6 and the tonge is fyre and a worlde of wyckednes. So is the tonge set amonge oure members that it defileth the whole body and setteth a fyre all that we have of nature and is it selfe set a fyre even of hell.7 All the natures of beastes and of byrdes and of serpentes and thinges of ye see are meked and tamed of the nature of man.8 But the tonge can no man tame. Yt is an vntuely evyll full of deedly poyson.