The Thewis of Gud Women, an anonymous fifteenth-century Middle Scots text extant in two manuscripts, participates in the conduct literature tradition of the late Middle Ages that emulates parental advice. It delineates the qualities of good women versus bad, giving examples of commendable behavior and warning against morally compromising acts. The focus is on instilling proper behavior in young women, suggesting that the good wife narrator is educating her daughters, as indicated by the Latin title of the St. John’s College, Cambridge manuscript, Incipiunt Documenta Matris ad Filiam.