When you go to town or to church go suitably accompanied by honourable women according to your estate, and flee suspicious company, never allowing any ill famed women to be seen in your presence. And as you go bear your head upright and your eyelids low and without fluttering, and look straight in front of you and about four rods ahead, without looking round at any man or woman to the right or to the left, nor looking up, nor glancing from place to place, nor stopping to speak to anyone on the road.

DEFINE: This is a historical source describing proper conduct for women in public, emphasizing modesty and restricted gaze.

XREF: This connects to broader medieval conduct literature and the disciplined female gaze, resonant with similar prescriptions found in courtesy books and Book of the Knight of La Tour-Landry.

Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order a…, loc. 650