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This chapter offers a study of the Chapters in Four Ways, a still unedited and largely overlooked fourteenth-century collection of a hundred moral chapters in three different types of meter and in prose: each chapter has three quatrains (hexameters, iambs, and paired octosyllables) and three prose texts, all of which are surrounded by scholia. By providing a critical edition and translation of chapter 37, ‘On Women’, along with a commentary, this paper investigates the relationship between the prose and poetry sections of the collection, their nature, structure, and intended audience.