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+<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 14282 ***</div>
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+ <div class="figure" style="width: 100%;">
+ <a href="images/title.png"><img width="70%" src="images/title.png"
+ alt="A mery Dialogue, declaringe the propertyes of shrowde shrewes, and honest wyues, not onelie verie pleasaunte, but also not a lytle profitable: made by ye famous clerke D. Erasmus. Roterodamus. Translated into Englyshe." /></a>
+ </div>
+ <p style="text-align: center;">
+ A mery Dia-<br /> logue, declaringe the propertyes<br /> of shrowde shrewes,
+ and ho-<br /> nest wyues, not onelie verie<br /> pleasaunte, but also not a<br />
+ lytle profitable: made<br /> by ye famous clerke<br /> D. Erasmus.<br />
+ Roteroda-<br /> mus.<br /> <br /> Translated into<br /> Englyshe.<br /> <br />
+ Anno. M.CCCCC.<br /> LVII.
+ </p>
+ <hr />
+ <p>
+ [Transcriber's Note: With the exception of hyphenation at the end of
+ lines, the text version preserves the line breaks of the original; the
+ html version has been treated similar to drama and starts a new paragraph
+ for each change of speaker. An illustration of the title page is included
+ to give an impression of the original.]
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <br /> <br />
+ </p>
+ <table summary="" cellpadding="4" border="3">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <a href="#erasmus"><b>View HTML file with all the original page images (4.5mb)</b></a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <p>
+ <br /><br />
+ </p>
+ <hr />
+ <p>
+ <br /> <br />
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalia</b>. God spede, &amp; a thousand mine old acqueint&#257;ce.
+ xantippa.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xan</b>. As many agayn, my dere hert. Eulalia. me semets ye ar war&#275;
+ much faire now of late.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. Saye you so? gyue you me a mocke at the first dash.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xan</b>. Nay veryly but I take you so.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. Happely mi new gown maketh me to loke fayrer then I sholde
+ doe.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xan</b>. Sothe you saye, I haue not sene a mynioner this many dayes, I
+ reken it Englishe cloth.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eu</b>. It is english stuff and dyed in Venis.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xan</b>. It is softer then sylke what an oriente purpel colore here is
+ who gaue you so rich a gift.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eu</b>. How shoulde honeste women come by their gere? but by their
+ husbandes.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>x&#257;</b>. Happy arte thou that hathe suche an husband, but I wolde
+ to god for his passyon, that I had maryed an husband of clowts, when I had
+ maried col my good m&#257;.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. Why say ye so. I pray you, are you at oddes now.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>x&#257;</b>. I shal neuer be at one w<sup>t</sup> him ye se how
+ beggerly I go. I haue not an hole smock to put on my backe, and he is wel
+ contente with all: I praye god I neuer come in heuen &amp; I be not
+ ashamed oftimes to shewe my head, when I se other wiues how net and trim
+ they go that ar matched with farre porer m&#275; then he is.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. The apparell of honest wiues is not in the aray of the body,
+ nor in the tirements of their head as saynte Peter the apostle teacheth vs
+ (and that I learned a late at a sermon) but in good lyuynge and honest
+ conuersacion and in the ornamentes of the soule, the c&#333;mon buenes ar
+ painted up, to please manye mennes eies we ar trime ynough yf we please
+ our husbands only.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xan</b>. But yet my good man so euyll wylling to bestow ought vpon his
+ wyfe, maketh good chere, and lassheth out the dowrye that hee hadde with
+ mee no small pot of wine.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulaly</b>, where vpon?
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantipha</b>, wheron hym lykethe beste, at the tauerne, at the stewes
+ and at the dyce.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalia</b> Peace saye not so.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xan</b>. wel yet thus it is, then when he c&#333;meth home to me at
+ midnight, longe watched for, he lyeth rowtyng lyke a sloyne all the leue
+ longe nyght, yea and now and th&#275; he all bespeweth his bed, and worse
+ then I will say at this tyme.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulali</b>. Peace thou dyshonesteth thy self, when thou doest
+ dishonesteth thy husb&#257;d.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantip</b>. The deuyl take me bodye and bones but I had leuer lye by a
+ sow with pigges, then with suche a bedfelowe.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulali</b>. Doest thou not then take him vp, wel favoredly for st&#363;bling.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Xantip</b>. As he deserueth I spare no tonge.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalia</b>. what doth he th&#275;.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantip</b>. At the first breake he toke me vp vengeably, trusting that
+ he shoulde haue shak&#275; me of and put me to scilence with his crabid
+ wordes.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b> Came neuer your hote wordes vnto h&#257;dstrokes.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantip</b>. On a tyme we fel so farre at wordes y<sup>t</sup> we wer
+ almost by y<sup>e</sup> eares togither.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b> what say you wom&#257;?
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xan</b>. He toke vp a staffe wandryng at me, as the deuill had bene on
+ hym ready to laye me on the bones.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. were thou not redye to ron in at the b&#275;ch hole.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xanti</b>. Nay mary I warrant the. I gat me a thre foted stole in hand,
+ &amp; he had but ones layd his littell finger on me, he shulde not haue
+ founde me lame. I woulde haue holden his nose to the grindst&#333;e
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalia</b>. A newe found shelde, ye wanted but youre dystaffe to haue
+ made you a speare.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantip</b>. And he shoulde not greatlye a laughed at his parte.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulali</b>. Ah my frynde. xantyppa. that way is neither good nor godly,
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantippa</b> what is neither good nor godly. yf he wyll not vse me, as
+ hys wyfe: I wil not take him for my husbande.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalya</b>. But Paule sayeth that wyues shoulde bee boner and buxome
+ vnto their husbandes with all humylytye, and Peter also bryngethe vs an
+ example of Sara, that called her husbande Abrahame, Lorde.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantippa</b>. I know that as well as you th&#275; y<sup>e</sup> same
+ paule say that men shoulde loue theyr wyues, as Christ loues his spouse
+ the churche let him do his duete I wil do myne.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. But for all that, when the matter is so farre that the one
+ muste forber the other it is reason that the woman giue place vnto the
+ man,
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xan</b>. Is he meete to be called my husb&#257;de that maketh me his
+ vnderlynge and his dryuel?
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. But tel me dame x&#257;tip. Would he neuer offre the stripes
+ after that
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>x&#257;tip</b>. Not a stripe, and therin he was the wyser man for &amp;
+ he had he should haue repented euery vayne in hys harte.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulali</b>. But thou offered him foule wordes plentie,
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantip</b>. And will do.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. What doth he y<sup>e</sup> meane seas&#333;.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantip</b>. What doth he sometyme cowcheth an hogeshed, somtime he doth
+ nothing but stande and laughe at me, other whyle takethe hys Lute wheron
+ is scarslie three strynges layenge on that as fast as he may dryue because
+ he would not here me.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. Doeth that greue thee?
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantippa</b>. To beyonde home, manie a tyme I haue much a do to hold my
+ handes.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. Neighbour. xantip. wylt thou gyue me leaue to be playn with
+ the.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantippa</b> Good leaue haue you.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. Be as bolde on me agayne our olde acquayntaunce and amite,
+ euen fr&#333; our chyldhode, would it should be so.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantippa</b>. Trueth you saie, there was neuer woman kinde that I
+ fauoured more
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Elaly</b> Whatsoeuer thy husb&#257;d be, marke well this, chaunge thou
+ canst not, In the olde lawe, where the deuill hadde cast aboone betwene
+ the man and the wife, at the worste waye they myght be deuorsed, but now
+ that remedie is past, eu&#275; till death depart you he must nedes be thy
+ husbande, and thou hys wyfe,
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xan</b>. Il mote they thryue &amp; thei that taken away that liberty
+ from vs
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalia</b>. Beware what thou sayest, it was christes act.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>X&#257;</b>. I can euil beleue that
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. It is none otherwyse, now it is beste that eyther of you one
+ beyng with an other, ye laboure to liue at reste and peace.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xan</b>typpa. Why? can I forgeue him a new,
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eu</b>. It lieth great parte in the wom&#275;, for the orderinge of
+ theyr husbandes.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xan</b>. Leadest thou a mery life with thine.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b> Now all is well.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xan</b>. Ergo ther was somwhat to do at your fyrste metying
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. Neuer no greate busynes, but yet as it, happeneth now and
+ than betwene man &amp; wom&#257;, there was foule cloudes a loft, that
+ might haue made a storme but that they were ouer blowen with good
+ humanitie and wyse handlynge. Euery man hath hys maner and euery m&#257;
+ hath his seueral aptite or mynde, and thinkes hys owne way best, &amp; yf
+ we list not to lie there liueth no m&#257; without faulte, which yf anie
+ were elles, ywis in wedlocke they ought to know and not vtterly hated
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xan</b>, you say well,
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalya</b>. It happeneth many times that loue dayes breketh betwene
+ man and wife, before y<sup>e</sup> one be perfitly know&#275; vnto the
+ other beware of that in any wife, for when malice is ones begon, loue is
+ but barely redressed agayne, namely, yf the mater grow furthe unto bytter
+ checkes, &amp; shamfull raylinges such things as are fastened with glew,
+ yf a manne wyll all to shake them strayght waye whyle the glew is warme,
+ they soone fal in peces, but after y<sup>e</sup> glew is ones dried vp
+ they cleue togither so fast as anie thing, wherefore at the beginning a
+ meanes must be made, that loue mai encrease and be made sure betwene y<sup>e</sup>
+ man &amp; the wife, &amp; that is best brought aboute by gentilnesse and
+ fayre condycions, for the loue that beautie onelie causeth, is in a maner
+ but a cheri faire
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Xan. But I praye you hartelye tell me, by what pollycy ye brought your
+ good man to folow your daunce.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. I wyll tell you on this condicyon, that ye will folowe me.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xan</b>. I can.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>, It is as easy as water if ye c&#257; find in your hart to do
+ it, nor yet no good time past for he is a yong m&#257;, and you ar but
+ agirle of age, and I trowe it is not a yere ful sins ye wer maried.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>X&#257;</b> All thys is true
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalia</b>. I wyll shew you then. But you must kepe it secret
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantip</b>. with a ryght good wyl.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. This was my chyefe care, to kepe me alwayes in my housbandes
+ fauoure, that there shulde nothyng angre him I obserued his appetite and
+ pleasure I marked the tymes bothe whan he woulde be pleased and when he
+ wold be all byshrwed, as they tameth the Elephantes and Lyons or suche
+ beastes that can not be wonne by str&#275;gth
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xan</b>typpa. Suche a beaste haue I at home.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. Thei that goth vnto the Elephantes weare no white garmentes,
+ nor they that tame wylde bulles, weare no blasynge reedes, for experience
+ teacheth, that suche beastes bee madde with those colours, like as the
+ Tygers by the sound of tumbrels be made so wode, that thei plucke
+ theymself in peces. Also thei y<sup>t</sup> breake horses haue their
+ termes and theyr soundes theyr hadlynges, and other knackes to breake
+ their wyldnes, wyth all. Howe much more then is it oure duetyes that y<sup>e</sup>
+ wyues to use suche craftes toward our husbandes with wh&#333; all our lyfe
+ tyme wil we, nyl we is one house, and one bed.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantip</b>. furthwith your tale.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>, wh&#275; I had ones marked there thynges. I applied my selfe
+ unto hym, well ware not to displease him.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantip</b>. How could thou do that.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalya</b>. Fyrste in the ouerseynge my householde, which is the very
+ charge and cure of wyues, I wayted euer, not onely gyuynge hede that
+ nothing shoulde be forgotten or undoone, but that althynges should be as
+ he woulde haue it, wer it euer so small a trifle.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>x&#257;</b>. wherin.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalia</b>. As thus. Yf mi good man had a fantasye to this thynge, or
+ to that thyng, or if he would haue his meate dressed on this fashion, or
+ that fashion.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xan</b>. But howe couldest thou fashyon thye selfe after hys wyll and
+ mynde, that eyther woulde not be at home or elles be as freshe as a saulte
+ heryng.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Elali</b>. Abyde a while. I come not at that yet, yf my husband wer
+ very sad at anye tyme, no time to speake to him. I laughed not nor tryfled
+ him as many a woman doth but I looked rufully and heauyly, for as a glasse
+ (if it be a true stone) representeth euer y<sup>e</sup> physnamy of hym
+ that loketh in it, so lykewyse it becommeth a wedded woman alway to agre
+ vnto the appetite of her husbande, that she be not mery wh&#275; he
+ murneth, nor dysposed to play wh&#275; he is sad. And if that at any time
+ he be waiward shrewshaken, either I pacyfye hym with faire wordes, or I
+ let hym alone, vntyll the wynd be ouerblowen gyuing him neuer a word at
+ al, vntil the time come that I may eyther excuse my faute, or tell hym of
+ hys. In lyke wyse when he commeth home wel whitled, I gyue hym gentyll and
+ fayre woordes, so with fayre entreatynge I gette hym to bed.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantyppa</b>, O careful state of wyues, wh&#275; they muste be gladde
+ and fayne to followe their husbandes mindes, be thei eluyshe, dronken, or
+ doying what myschiefe they liste.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. As whoe saieth this gentill dealynge serueth not for bothe
+ partyes, for they spyte of theyr berdes muste suffre many thynges in our
+ demeanor, yet a time ther is, wh&#275; in a weighty matter it is laufull
+ that the wyfe tell the good m&#257; his faute, if that it be matter of
+ substaunce, for at lyght trifles, it is best to play byll under wynge.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantyp</b>. what tune is that
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. when he is ydle, neither angry, pensife, nor ouersen, then
+ betwixt you two secretly he must be told his faute g&#275;tly, or rather
+ intreated, that in this thynge or that he play the better husbande to loke
+ better to his good name and fame and to his helth and this tellyng must be
+ myxt with mery conceites and pleasaunt wordes many times I make a meane to
+ tel my tale after this fashyon, that he shall promise me, he shal take no
+ displeasure wyth my thynge, that I a foolyshe woman shall breake vnto hym,
+ that pertayneth eyther to hys helthe worshyppe or welth. When I haue sayde
+ that I woulde, I chop cleane from that communication and falle into some
+ other pastime, for this is all our fautes, neyghbour Xantippa, that wh&#275;
+ we begyn ones to chat our tounges neuer lie.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Xantip</b>. So men say
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalia</b>. Thus was I well ware on, that I neuer tell my husb&#257;d
+ his fautes before companie, nor I neuer caried any c&#333;playnte furthe a
+ dores: the mendes is soner made wh&#275; none knoweth it but two, and
+ there were anie suche faute that myght not be wel borne nor am&#275;ded by
+ y<sup>e</sup> wyues tellige, it is more laudable that the wife make
+ complaynte vnto the Parentes and kynsfolke of her husband, then vnto her
+ own, and so to moderate her complaynte that she seme not to hate hym but
+ hys vice nor let her play all the blabbe, that in some poynt vnutered, he
+ may know &amp; loue his wiues curteysy.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Xantip</b>. She had nede be aswellerned wom&#257;, that would do all
+ this.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eu</b>. Mary through suche demeanoure, we shall sterre our husb&#257;des
+ vnto lyke gentylnesse.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Xan</b>: There be some that cannot be amended with all the gentyll
+ handlynge in the worlde.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>: In faith I thyncke nay, but case there be, marke this wel the
+ good man must be for borne, howe soeuer the game goeth, then is it better
+ to haue him alwayes at one point or ells more kinde and louing throw oure
+ gentill handlinge, then to haue him worse and worse throwe our
+ cursednesse, what wyll you say and I tell you of husb&#257;des that hath
+ won theyr wiues by suche curtesie, howe muche more are we bo&#363;de to
+ use the same towarde our husbandes.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Xantip</b>. Than shall you tell of one farre vnlyke vnto thyne husband.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. I am aquented with a certayne gentelman well lerned and a
+ veri honest man, he maried a yonge wyfe, a mayden of. xvii. yeare olde
+ brede and brought vp of a chylde in the countre vnder her fathers and
+ mother wing (as gentilmen delite to dwel in the countre) to hunt &amp;
+ hawke This yong g&#275;tilman would haue one that were unbrok&#275;,
+ because he might the soner breake her after hys owne mind, he beg&#257; to
+ entre her in learning syngynge, and playinge, and by lytle and lytle to
+ vse here to repete suche thynges as she harde at sermons, and to instruct
+ her with other things that myght haue doone her more good in time to come.
+ This gere, because it was stra&#363;ge vnto this young wom&#257; which at
+ home was brought vp in all ydelnesse, and with the light communication of
+ her fathers seruantes, and other pastimes, beg&#257; to waxe greuouse
+ &amp; paynfull, vnto her. She withdrew her good mynde and dylygence and wh&#275;
+ her husband called vpon her she put y<sup>e</sup> finger in the eye, and
+ wepte and many times she would fal downe on the grounde, beatynge her head
+ agaynst the floure, as one that woulde be out of thys worlde. When there
+ was no healpe for this gere, the good man as though he hadde bene wel
+ asked his wyfe yf she woulde ryde into the countre with him a sporting
+ vnto her fathers house, so that she graunted anone. When they were c&#333;m&#275;
+ thyther, the gentilman left his wyfe with her mother &amp; her sisters he
+ w&#275;t furth an huntynge with his father in lawe, there betwene theym
+ two, he shewed al together, how that he hadde hoped to haue had a louynge
+ companion to lead his lyfe withall, now he hath one that is alwaies
+ blubberynge and pyninge her selfe awaye withoute anye remedie, he prayeth
+ him to lay to hys hande in amendinge his doughters fautes her father
+ answered y<sup>t</sup> he had ones giuen hym his doughter, and yf that she
+ woulde not be rewled by wordes (a goddes name take Stafforde lawe) she was
+ his owne. Then the g&#275;tylman sayd agayne, I know that I may do but I
+ had leuer haue her am&#275;ded eyther by youre good counsell or
+ commaundement, then to come vnto that extreme waies, her father promised
+ that he would fynde a remedye. After a dai or two, he espied time and
+ place wh&#275; he might be alone with his doughter. Then he loked soureli
+ vp&#333; his doughter, as though he had bene horne woode with her, he
+ began to reherse how foule a beaste she was, how he feared many tymes that
+ she neuer haue bestowed her. And yet sayde he much a doe, vnto my great
+ coste and charg, I haue gott&#275; the one that moughte lye by any Ladyes
+ syde, and she were a quene and yet thou not perceiuying what I haue done
+ for the nor knowynge that thou hast suche a man whiche but of his goodnes
+ myghte thynke thee to euill to be stoye in his kytchen, thou contrariest
+ al his mind to make a short tale he spake so sharpely to her, that she
+ feared that he wold haue beaten her. It is a man of asubtyll and wylye
+ wytte, whyche wythout a vysarde is ready to playe anye maner of parte. Th&#275;
+ this yonge wife what for feare, and for trouthe of the matter, cleane
+ stryken oute of countenaunce, fell downe at her fathers fete desyryng hym
+ that he wolde forgette and forgiue her all that was past and euer after
+ she woulde doe her duetye Her father forgaue her, and promised that she
+ shoulde finde him a kynd and a louynge father, yf so be that she
+ perfourmed her promyse.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantippa</b>. How dyd she afterwarde?
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalya</b>, wh&#275; she was departed fr&#333; her father she came
+ backe into a chaumber, and there by chaunce found her husband alone she
+ fel on her knees to hym and said. M&#257; in tymes paste, I neyther knewe
+ you nor my selfe, from this daye froward ye shall se me cleane chaunged,
+ onelye pardon that is past, with that her husbande toke her in his armes
+ &amp; kyssed her sayinge she should lacke nothyng yf she woulde holde her
+ in that mind.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantip</b>. Why did she c&#333;tinue so.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalya</b>. Euen tyll her endynge daye, nor there was none so vyle a
+ thynge but that she woulde laye handes on it redely with all her herte, if
+ her husband wolde let her, so great loue was beg&#333; and assured betwene
+ them and many a daye after, shee thanked god y<sup>t</sup> euer she met
+ with such a m&#257;. For yf she had not she sayd she had ben cleane caste
+ awaye.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xan</b>. We haue as greate plentie of suche housbandes, as of white
+ crowes.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalya</b>. Now, but for werieng you? I coulde tell you a thynge that
+ chaunced a late in this same citye.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantyppa</b>. I haue litell to doe, and I lyke your communicacyon very
+ well.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalia</b>. There was a certaine gentilm&#257; he as suche sort of men
+ do, vsed much huntyng in the cuntre, where he happened on a younge
+ damoysell, a very pore wom&#257;s child on wh&#333; he doted a man well
+ stryken in age, and for her sake he lay oft&#275; out of his owne house
+ his excuse was h&#363;t&icirc;g. This m&#257;s wife an exceding honest wom&#257;,
+ halfe deale suspecte the mater, tried out her husbandes falshed, on a tyme
+ wh&#275; he had taken his iourney fourth of the town vnto some other
+ waies, she wente vnto that poore cotage and boulted out all the hoole
+ matter, where he laye on nights, wheron he dr&#257;ke, what thyng thei had
+ to welc&#333; him withall. There was neither one thyng nor other, but bare
+ walles. This good wom&#257; returned home, and sone after came againe
+ brynginge w<sup>t</sup> her a good soft bed, and al therto belongyng and
+ certain plate besydes that she gaue them moneye, chargynge them that if
+ the Gentilm&#257; came agayne, they shold entreate him better not beyng
+ know&#275; al this while that she was his wyfe, but fayued her to be her
+ sister. Not long after her husband stale thether againe, he sawe the howse
+ otherwyse decked, and better fare then he was wounte to haue. He asked,
+ frome whence commeth al this goodly gere? They sayde that an honeste
+ matrone, a kynsewoman of hys hadde broughte it thyther and commaunded
+ thenm that he should be well cherished when so euer he came, by and by his
+ hart gaue him that it was hys wiues dede, whan he came home he dema&#363;ded
+ of her yf she hadde bene there or nay, she sayd yea. Then he asked her for
+ what purpose she sente all that housholde stuffe thyther. Man (said she)
+ ye haue b&#275; tenderly brought vp. I perceiued that ye were but corslie
+ handled there, me thought that it was my part, seing it was your wyll and
+ pleasure to be there ye shoulde be better loked to.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Xantippa</b>. She was one of goddes fooles. I woulde rather for a bed
+ haue layd vnder him a bundel of nettels: or a burden of thistels.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. But here the end her husbande perceyuyng the honeste of her
+ great pacience neuer after laye from her, but made good cheare at home
+ with his owne. I am sure ye knowe Gilberte the hol&#257;der.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Xan</b>. Very well.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eu</b>. He (as it is not vnknow&#275; maried an old wife in his florish&icirc;g
+ youth.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>X&#257;</b>. Per adu&#275;ture he maried the good and notthe woman.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalia</b>. There sayde ye well, setting lytell stoore by hys olde
+ wife, hunted a callette, with whom he kept much companie abrode, he dined
+ or supped litell at home. What wouldest thou haue sayd to y<sup>e</sup>
+ gere.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Xantip</b>. What woulde I a said? I wolde haue flow&#275; to the hores
+ toppe and I wolde haue crowned myne husbande at hys oute goinge to her
+ with a pysbowle,that he so &#275;bawlmed might haue gon vnto his souerayne
+ ladie.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. But how much wiselier dyd this woman? She desyred that yonge
+ woman home vnto her, and made her good chere, so by that meanes she
+ brought home also her husband without ani witchraft or sorserie, and yf
+ that at anye season he supped abrode with her she would sende vnto them
+ some good dayntie morsel, and byd him make good chere
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Xantippa</b>. I had leuer be slayne then I woulde be bawde vnto myne
+ owne husbande.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalia</b>. Yea, but consyder all thynges well, was not that muche
+ better, then she shoulde be her shrewyshnesse, haue putte her husbandes
+ minde cleane of from her, and so haue ledde all her life in trouble and
+ heuynesse.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Xantippa</b>. I graunte you well, that it was better so but I coulde
+ not abyde it.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalya</b>. I wyll tell you a prety story more, and so make an ende
+ One of oure neyghboures, a well disposed and a goddes man, but that he is
+ some what testie, on a day pomeld his wife well and thriftely aboute the
+ pate and so good a woman as euer was borne, she picked her into an inner
+ parler, and there weepynge and sobbynge, eased her heuye harte, anone
+ after, by chaunce her husbande came into the same place, and founde hys
+ wyfe wepyng. What sitest thou heare sayth he seighing &amp; sobb&icirc;g
+ like a child Th&#275; she like a wise woman sayde. Is it not more honesty
+ for me to lamente my dolours here in a secret place, th&#275; to make
+ wondering and on oute crye in the strete, as other wom&#275; do. At so
+ wyfely and womanly a saing his hart melted, promysynge her faythfullye and
+ truelie that he woulde neuer laye stroke on her afterwarde, nor neuer did.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Xantippa</b>. No more wil mine god thanke my selfe.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalya</b>. But then ye are alwaies one at a nother, agreinge lyke
+ dogges and cattes.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Xan</b>. What wouldest thou that I should do?
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eu</b>. Fyrst &amp; formest, whatsoeuer thy husbande doeth sayde thou
+ nothinge, for his harte must be wonne by lytell and litel by fayre meanes,
+ gentilnesse and forbearing at the last thou shalte eyther wynne him or at
+ the least waie thou shalt leade a better life th&#275; thou doest now.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Xantippa</b>. He his beyonde goddes forbode, he wil neuer amende.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalia</b>. Eye saye not so, there is no beest so wild but by fayre
+ handling be tamed, neuer mistrust man th&#275;. Assay a moneth or two,
+ blame me and thou findest not that my counsell dooeth ease. There be some
+ fautes wyth you thoughe thou se them, be wyse of this especyall that thou
+ neuer gyue hym foule wordes in the chambre, or inbed but be sure that all
+ thynges there bee full of pastyme and pleasure. For yf that place which is
+ ordeined to make am&#275;des for all fautes and so to renew loue, be
+ polluted, eyther with strife or grugynges, then fayre wel al hope of loue
+ daies, or atonementes, yet there be some beastes so wayward and
+ mischeuous, that when theyr husbandes hath them in their arms a bed, they
+ scholde &amp; chyde making y<sup>t</sup> same plesure their lewd
+ condicions (that expelseth all displeasures oute of their husbandes mynde
+ unpleasaunt and lytell set bi corrupting the medecine that shuld haue
+ cured al deadly greifes, &amp; odible off&#275;ces.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantip</b>. That is no newes to me.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. Though the woman shulde be well ware and wyse that she shulde
+ neuer be disobedient vnto her husb&#257;d yet she ought to be most circ&#363;spect
+ that at meting she shew her selfe redy and pleasaunt unto him.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantyppa</b>. Yea vnto a man, holde well withall but I am combred with
+ a beast.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. No more of those wordes, most commonly our husb&#257;des ar
+ euyll through our owne faute, but to returne againe vnto our taile they
+ that ar sene in the olde fables of Poetes sai that Venus whome they make
+ chiefe lady of wedlocke (hath a girdle made by the handy worke of Vulcan
+ her Lorde, and in that is thrust al that enforceth love and with that she
+ girdeth her whan so ever she lyeth wyth her housbande
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantippa</b>. A tale of a tubbe.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalya</b>. A tayle it is, but herk&#275; what the taile meaneth.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantippa</b>. Tell me.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalia</b> That techeth us that the wyfe ought to dyspose her selfe
+ all the she maye that lieng by her husb&#257;d she shew him al the plesure
+ that she c&#257;; Wherby the honest love of matrimony may reuiue and be
+ renewed, &amp; that there with be clene dispatched al grudges &amp; malice
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xant</b>. But how shall we come by the thys gyrdle?
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. We nede neyther wytchraft nor enchauntment, ther is non of
+ them al, so sure as honest condici&#333;s accompayned with good feloshyp.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xan</b>. I can not fauoure suche an husbande as myne is.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>, It is moste thy profyt that he be no longer suche. If thou
+ couldest by thy Circes craft chaunge thin husband into an hogge, or a bore
+ wouldest thou do it?
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantip</b>. God knoweth.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eu</b>. Art thou in dout? haddest thou leauer marye an hogge than a m&#257;.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Xantip</b>. Mary I had leauer haue a manne.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalia</b>. wel, what and thou coudest by sorcery make him of a dr&#333;karde
+ a soober man, of a vnthrifte a good housbande of an ydell losell a towarde
+ body, woldest thou not doe it?
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantip</b>. yes, hardely, woulde I doe it. But where shoulde I learne
+ the cunnyng?
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. For soth that c&#333;ning hast thou in the if thou wouldest
+ vtter it, thyn must he be, mauger thy head, the towarde y<sup>e</sup>
+ makest him, the better it is for the, thou lokest on nothing but on his
+ leude c&#333;dicions, and thei make the half mad, thou wouldest amende hym
+ and thou puttest hym farther oute of frame, loke rather on his good
+ condicions, and so shalt thou make him better. It is to late calagayne
+ yesterdaie before thou were maryed unto hym. It was tyme to c&#333;syder
+ what his fautes were for a women shold not only take her husbande by the
+ eyes but by the eares. Now it is more tyme to redresse fautes th&#275; to
+ fynd fautes.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantt</b>. What woman euer toke her gusband by the eares.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulali</b>. She taketh her husbande by the eyes that loketh on nothyng,
+ but on the beautye and pulcritude of the body. She taketh him by the
+ eares, that harkeneth dilig&#275;tly what the common voice sayth by him
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantip</b>. Thy counsaile is good, but it commeth a day after the
+ faire.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. Yet it commeth time ynough to bringe thyne husbande to a
+ greate furtheraunce to that shall bee yf God sende you anie frute
+ togither.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantippa</b>. We are spede alredy of that.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulaly</b>. How long ago.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Xantip</b>. A good whyle ago
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalia</b>. How many monethes old is it.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Xantip</b>. It lacketh lytle of. vii.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b> What a tale is this, ye reken the monethes by nightes and
+ dayes double.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Xantippa</b>. Not so.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. It can not be none other wyse, yf ye reken from the mariage
+ day.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantippa</b>. yea, but what th&#275;, I spake with him before we were
+ maried.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalia</b>. Be children gotten by speakinge.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantip</b>. It befell so that he mette me alone and begon to ticke at
+ me, and tickled me vnder the arme holes and sydes to make me laugh. I
+ might not awaie with ticklynge, but fell downe backewarde vpon a bedde and
+ he a lofte, neuer leuinge kyssynge on me, what he did els I can not saye,
+ but by sayncte Marie within a while after my bely beganne to swell.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. Go now and disprayse thine husb&#257;de whiche yf he gette
+ children by playe, what wyll he do wh&#275; he goeth to it in good ernest.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantippa</b>, I fere me I am payed agayin.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. Good locke God hath sent a fruitfull grounde, a good tylm&#257;.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Xantip</b>. In that thing he might haue lesse laboure and more thanke.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. Few wyues finde at theyr husbandes in that behalf but were ye
+ th&#275; sure togither.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xanti</b>. yea that we were
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. The offence is the lesse. Is it a man chylde.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantip</b>. yea.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. He shal make you at one so that ye wil bow &amp; forbere.
+ What saieth other m&#275; by thin husband, they that be his c&#333;panions,
+ they delite with him abrode
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>x&#257;</b>, They say that he is meruelous gentyl, redy to do euery man
+ pleasure, liberal and sure to his frende.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. And that putteth me in good c&#333;fort that he wyll be ruled
+ after our counsayll.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantip</b>. But I fynde him not so.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. Order thy selfe to him as I haue tolde thee, and cal me no
+ more true sayer but a lier, if he be not so good vnto the as to anie
+ creature liuinge Again c&#333;sidre this he is yet but a childe, I thinke
+ he passethe not. xxiiij. the blacke oxe neuer trode on hys fote, nowe it
+ is but loste laboure to recken vpon anye deuorse.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantippa</b>. Yet manye a tyme and ofte I haue troubled my braynes
+ withal
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalia</b>. As for that fantasye whensoeuer it commeth into your mynd
+ first of all counte how naked a thynge woman is, deuorsed from man. It is
+ the hyghest dignitie that longethe to the wyfe to obsequyous vnto her
+ spouse. So hath natyre ordeined so god hath appoynted, that the woman
+ shoulde be ruled al by the man loke onely vppon this whiche is trouth,
+ thine husbande he is, other canste thou none haue. Againe forgette not
+ that swete babe be gotten of both your bodies what thin beste thou to do
+ with that, wilte thou take it awaye with thee? Thou shalte bereue thyne
+ husband his ryght wylt thou leue it with hym? thou shalt spoile thy self
+ of thy chefeste Jewell thou haste. Beside all this tell me trueth hast
+ thou none euyll wyllers, Besyde all thys tell me trueth, hast thou none
+ euyll wyllers.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xan</b>. I haue a stepdame I warrant you, and myne husbandes mother
+ euen such another.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. Do they hate the so deadly.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantip</b>. They woulde se me hanged.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. Th&#275; forget not th&#275; what greater plesure couldest
+ thou shew them then to se the deuorsed from thine husband and to led a
+ wydowes lyfe. Yea and worse th&#275; a wydow, for wydowes be at their
+ choise.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantippa</b>. I holde well with youre co&#363;sell, but I can not awaye
+ with the paynes.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalia</b>. yet recken what paines ye toke or ye colde teache your
+ paret to speake.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantippa</b>. Exceadynge much.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eu</b>. And thinke you much to labour a lytel in reforming your husb&#257;d
+ with wh&#333; you may liue merely all the dayes of your lyfe. What busines
+ doe m&#275; put th&#275; self to be wel &amp; easly horsed &amp; shal we
+ think our selues to good to take paines that we mai haue our husb&#257;des
+ g&#275;til &amp; curteise vnto vs.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantip</b>. What shal I do.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eu</b>. I haue told you al redy, se that al thing be clene &amp; trim
+ at home, that no sluttysh or vnclenlye syghtes dryue hym oute a dores. Be
+ your selfe alwayes redy at a becke, berynge continuali in minde what reuer&#275;ce
+ the wife oweth vnto her husb&#257;d. Be neyther in your d&#363;pes, nor
+ alwayes on your mery pinnes go nether to homely nor to nycely. Let your
+ meat be cleane dressed, you know yourhusb&#257;des diet. What he loueth
+ best that dresse. Moreouer shewe your selfe louinge and fayre spok&#275;
+ vnto th&#275; where he loueth, call them now and th&#275; vnto your table.
+ At meate, se that al thinges be well sauored, and make good there, And wh&#275;
+ that he is toppe heuy playing on his lute, sytte thou by and singe to him
+ so shalte thou make hym keepe home, and lessen hys expences This shall he
+ thynke at length, in faythe I am a fonde felowe that maketh suche chere
+ with a strumpet abroode with greate lossee bothe of substance and name,
+ seyng that I haue a wyfe at home bothe muche fayrer, and one that loueth
+ me ten times better, with whome I may be both clenlyer receiued and
+ dayntelier cherisshed
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantip</b>. Beleuest thou that it will take and I put it into a profe.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulali</b>. Looke on me. I warrante it or ought longe I wyll in hande
+ with thyne husbande, &amp; I will tell hym his part.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantippa</b>. ye marie that is well sayde. But be wyse that he espie
+ not our casle, he would plaie his fages, all the house should be to lytle
+ for hym.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalia</b>. Take no thoughte. I shall so conuey my matters, that he
+ shall dysclose all together hym selfe, what busynesse is betwene you, that
+ done I wyll handell him pretelie as I thinke beste, and I truste to make
+ him a new man for the and when I se my time I wyl make a lie for thee, how
+ louinge thou hast spoken of him.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantippa</b>. Chryst spede vs and bringe our pupose well aboute.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalia</b>. He will not fayle the so thou do thy good wyll.
+ </p>
+ <hr />
+ <p style="text-align: justify;">
+ There was a man that maried a woman whiche hadde great riches and beawtye.
+ Howe bee it she hadde suche an impedyment of nature that she was domme and
+ coulde not speake, whiche thynge made him ryghte pensyfe, and sayd,
+ wherfore vpon a daye as he walked alone ryght heuye in hearte thynkynge
+ vpon his wyfe. There came one to hym and asked him what was the cause of
+ his heuynesse whiche answered that it was onely bycause his wife was borne
+ d&#333;me. To whome this other said I shal shewe the soone a remedy and a
+ medicyne (therfore that is thus) go tak an aspen leafe and lay it vnder
+ her t&#333;ge this night shee beinge a sleape, and I warrant the that shee
+ shall speake on the morowe whiche man beyng glad of thys medycyne prepared
+ therfore and gathered aspen leaues, wherfore he layd thre of them vnder
+ her tonge whan shee was a sleape. And on the morow when he him selfe
+ awaked he Desyrous to know how hys medicine wrought being in bed with her,
+ he demaunded of her how she did, and sod&#275;ly she answered and sayd, I
+ beshrewe thy harte for waking me so early, and so by the vertue of that
+ medycyne she was restored to her speche. But in c&#333;clusion her spech
+ encresed day by day and she was so curst of c&#333;dycyon that euery daie
+ she brauled and chyd with her husbande, so muche at the laste he was more
+ weped, and had much more trouble and disease wyth her shrewed wordes then
+ he hadde before wh&#275; she was dumme, wherfore as he walked another time
+ alone he happened to mete agayne with the same personne that taught hym
+ the sayde medycine and sayde to hym thys wyse. Syr ye taught me a medicin
+ but late to make my domme wyfe to speake, byddynge me lay an aspen leafe
+ vnder her to&#363;g when she sleapte, and I layde three Aspen leaves
+ there. Wherfore nowe she speaketh. But yet she speaketh soo much &amp; so
+ shrewdlye that I am more werier of her now, then I was when she was d&#333;me:
+ Wherfore I praie you teache me a medycine to modyfye her that she speake
+ not so muche. This other answered and sayd thus. Sir I am a deuyl of hel
+ but I am one of th&#275; that haue least power there. Al be yet I haue
+ power to make a wom&#257; to speake, but and yf a woman begin ones to
+ speake, I nor al the deuyls in hel that haue the mooste power be not able
+ to make a woman to be styll, nor to cause her to leue speakyng.
+ </p>
+ <hr />
+ <p>
+ The end of this pleasant dialogue declaryng the seueral properties of y<sup>e</sup>
+ two contrary disposers of the wyues aforesayde.
+ </p>
+ <p style="text-align: center;">
+ Imprinted at London in Paules<br /> church yearde, at the sygne of<br /> the
+ Sunne, by Antony<br /> Kytson.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <a name="erasmus" id="erasmus"> [This section produced by David Widger]
+ <br /> <br /> </a>
+ </p>
+ <div class="figure" style="width: 100%;">
+ <a href="images/title.png"><img width="70%" src="images/title.png"
+ alt="A mery Dialogue, declaringe the propertyes of shrowde shrewes, and honest wyues, not onelie verie pleasaunte, but also not a lytle profitable: made by ye famous clerke D. Erasmus. Roterodamus. Translated into Englyshe." /></a>
+ </div>
+ <p style="text-align: center;">
+ A mery Dia-<br /> logue, declaringe the propertyes<br /> of shrowde shrewes,
+ and ho-<br /> nest wyues, not onelie verie<br /> pleasaunte, but also not a<br />
+ lytle profitable: made<br /> by ye famous clerke<br /> D. Erasmus.<br />
+ Roteroda-<br /> mus.<br /> <br /> Translated into<br /> Englyshe.<br /> <br />
+ Anno. M.CCCCC.<br /> LVII.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <br /> <br />
+ </p>
+ <hr />
+ <p>
+ <br /> <br />
+ </p>
+ <table summary="" cellpadding="4" border="3">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <a href="#top"><b>Return to the first section without the original page images</b></a>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <p>
+ <br /><br />
+ </p>
+ <hr />
+ <table summary="">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img alt="002 (118K)" src="images/002.jpg" height="677" width="404" />
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalia</b>. God spede, &amp; a thousand mine old acqueint&#257;ce.
+ xantippa.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xan</b>. As many agayn, my dere hert. Eulalia. me semets ye ar
+ war&#275; much faire now of late.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. Saye you so? gyue you me a mocke at the first dash.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xan</b>. Nay veryly but I take you so.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. Happely mi new gown maketh me to loke fayrer then I
+ sholde doe.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xan</b>. Sothe you saye, I haue not sene a mynioner this many
+ dayes, I reken it Englishe cloth.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eu</b>. It is english stuff and dyed in Venis.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xan</b>. It is softer then sylke what an oriente purpel colore
+ here is who gaue you so rich a gift.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eu</b>. How shoulde honeste women come by their gere? but by
+ their husbandes.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>x&#257;</b>. Happy arte thou that hathe suche an husband, but I
+ wolde to god for his passyon, that I had maryed an husband of
+ clowts, when I had maried col my good m&#257;.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. Why say ye so. I pray you, are you at oddes now.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img alt="003 (116K)" src="images/003.jpg" height="672" width="408" />
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <p>
+ <b>x&#257;</b>. I shal neuer be at one w<sup>t</sup> him ye se how
+ beggerly I go. I haue not an hole smock to put on my backe, and he
+ is wel contente with all: I praye god I neuer come in heuen &amp; I
+ be not ashamed oftimes to shewe my head, when I se other wiues how
+ net and trim they go that ar matched with farre porer m&#275; then
+ he is.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. The apparell of honest wiues is not in the aray of the
+ body, nor in the tirements of their head as saynte Peter the apostle
+ teacheth vs (and that I learned a late at a sermon) but in good
+ lyuynge and honest conuersacion and in the ornamentes of the soule,
+ the c&#333;mon buenes ar painted up, to please manye mennes eies we
+ ar trime ynough yf we please our husbands only.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xan</b>. But yet my good man so euyll wylling to bestow ought
+ vpon his wyfe, maketh good chere, and lassheth out the dowrye that
+ hee hadde with mee no small pot of wine.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulaly</b>, where vpon?
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantipha</b>, wheron hym lykethe beste, at the tauerne, at the
+ stewes and at the dyce.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img alt="004 (117K)" src="images/004.jpg" height="680" width="383" />
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalia</b> Peace saye not so.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xan</b>. wel yet thus it is, then when he c&#333;meth home to me
+ at midnight, longe watched for, he lyeth rowtyng lyke a sloyne all
+ the leue longe nyght, yea and now and th&#275; he all bespeweth his
+ bed, and worse then I will say at this tyme.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulali</b>. Peace thou dyshonesteth thy self, when thou doest
+ dishonesteth thy husb&#257;d.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantip</b>. The deuyl take me bodye and bones but I had leuer lye
+ by a sow with pigges, then with suche a bedfelowe.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulali</b>. Doest thou not then take him vp, wel favoredly for st&#363;bling.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Xantip</b>. As he deserueth I spare no tonge.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalia</b>. what doth he th&#275;.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantip</b>. At the first breake he toke me vp vengeably, trusting
+ that he shoulde haue shak&#275; me of and put me to scilence with
+ his crabid wordes.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b> Came neuer your hote wordes vnto h&#257;dstrokes.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantip</b>. On a tyme we fel so farre at wordes y<sup>t</sup> we
+ wer almost by y<sup>e</sup> eares togither.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b> what say you wom&#257;?
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xan</b>. He toke vp a staffe wandryng at me, as the deuill had
+ bene on hym ready to laye me on the bones.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img alt="005 (116K)" src="images/005.jpg" height="678" width="393" />
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. were thou not redye to ron in at the b&#275;ch hole.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xanti</b>. Nay mary I warrant the. I gat me a thre foted stole in
+ hand, &amp; he had but ones layd his littell finger on me, he shulde
+ not haue founde me lame. I woulde haue holden his nose to the
+ grindst&#333;e
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalia</b>. A newe found shelde, ye wanted but youre dystaffe to
+ haue made you a speare.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantip</b>. And he shoulde not greatlye a laughed at his parte.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulali</b>. Ah my frynde. xantyppa. that way is neither good nor
+ godly,
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantippa</b> what is neither good nor godly. yf he wyll not vse
+ me, as hys wyfe: I wil not take him for my husbande.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalya</b>. But Paule sayeth that wyues shoulde bee boner and
+ buxome vnto their husbandes with all humylytye, and Peter also
+ bryngethe vs an example of Sara, that called her husbande Abrahame,
+ Lorde.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img alt="006 (118K)" src="images/006.jpg" height="670" width="380" />
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantippa</b>. I know that as well as you th&#275; y<sup>e</sup>
+ same paule say that men shoulde loue theyr wyues, as Christ loues
+ his spouse the churche let him do his duete I wil do myne.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. But for all that, when the matter is so farre that the
+ one muste forber the other it is reason that the woman giue place
+ vnto the man,
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xan</b>. Is he meete to be called my husb&#257;de that maketh me
+ his vnderlynge and his dryuel?
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. But tel me dame x&#257;tip. Would he neuer offre the
+ stripes after that
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>x&#257;tip</b>. Not a stripe, and therin he was the wyser man for
+ &amp; he had he should haue repented euery vayne in hys harte.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulali</b>. But thou offered him foule wordes plentie,
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantip</b>. And will do.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. What doth he y<sup>e</sup> meane seas&#333;.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantip</b>. What doth he sometyme cowcheth an hogeshed, somtime
+ he doth nothing but stande and laughe at me, other whyle takethe hys
+ Lute wheron is scarslie three strynges layenge on that as fast as he
+ may dryue because he would not here me.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. Doeth that greue thee?
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantippa</b>. To beyonde home, manie a tyme I haue much a do to
+ hold my handes.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img alt="007 (117K)" src="images/007.jpg" height="666" width="382" />
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. Neighbour. xantip. wylt thou gyue me leaue to be playn
+ with the.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantippa</b> Good leaue haue you.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. Be as bolde on me agayne our olde acquayntaunce and
+ amite, euen fr&#333; our chyldhode, would it should be so.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantippa</b>. Trueth you saie, there was neuer woman kinde that I
+ fauoured more
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Elaly</b> Whatsoeuer thy husb&#257;d be, marke well this, chaunge
+ thou canst not, In the olde lawe, where the deuill hadde cast aboone
+ betwene the man and the wife, at the worste waye they myght be
+ deuorsed, but now that remedie is past, eu&#275; till death depart
+ you he must nedes be thy husbande, and thou hys wyfe,
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xan</b>. Il mote they thryue &amp; thei that taken away that
+ liberty from vs
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalia</b>. Beware what thou sayest, it was christes act.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>X&#257;</b>. I can euil beleue that
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. It is none otherwyse, now it is beste that eyther of
+ you one beyng with an other, ye laboure to liue at reste and peace.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img alt="008 (118K)" src="images/008.jpg" height="668" width="388" />
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <p>
+ <b>xan</b>typpa. Why? can I forgeue him a new,
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eu</b>. It lieth great parte in the wom&#275;, for the orderinge
+ of theyr husbandes.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xan</b>. Leadest thou a mery life with thine.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b> Now all is well.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xan</b>. Ergo ther was somwhat to do at your fyrste metying
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. Neuer no greate busynes, but yet as it, happeneth now
+ and than betwene man &amp; wom&#257;, there was foule cloudes a
+ loft, that might haue made a storme but that they were ouer blowen
+ with good humanitie and wyse handlynge. Euery man hath hys maner and
+ euery m&#257; hath his seueral aptite or mynde, and thinkes hys owne
+ way best, &amp; yf we list not to lie there liueth no m&#257;
+ without faulte, which yf anie were elles, ywis in wedlocke they
+ ought to know and not vtterly hated
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xan</b>, you say well,
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalya</b>. It happeneth many times that loue dayes breketh
+ betwene man and wife, before y<sup>e</sup> one be perfitly know&#275;
+ vnto the other beware of that in any wife, for when malice is ones
+ begon, loue is but barely redressed agayne,
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img alt="009 (117K)" src="images/009.jpg" height="664" width="393" />
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <p>
+ namely, yf the mater grow furthe unto bytter checkes, &amp; shamfull
+ raylinges such things as are fastened with glew, yf a manne wyll all
+ to shake them strayght waye whyle the glew is warme, they soone fal
+ in peces, but after y<sup>e</sup> glew is ones dried vp they cleue
+ togither so fast as anie thing, wherefore at the beginning a meanes
+ must be made, that loue mai encrease and be made sure betwene y<sup>e</sup>
+ man &amp; the wife, &amp; that is best brought aboute by gentilnesse
+ and fayre condycions, for the loue that beautie onelie causeth, is
+ in a maner but a cheri faire.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Xan.</b> But I praye you hartelye tell me, by what pollycy ye
+ brought your good man to folow your daunce.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. I wyll tell you on this condicyon, that ye will folowe
+ me.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xan</b>. I can.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>, It is as easy as water if ye c&#257; find in your hart
+ to do it, nor yet no good time past for he is a yong m&#257;, and
+ you ar but agirle of age, and I trowe it is not a yere ful sins ye
+ wer maried.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img alt="010 (117K)" src="images/010.jpg" height="665" width="387" />
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <p>
+ <b>X&#257;</b> All thys is true
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalia</b>. I wyll shew you then. But you must kepe it secret
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantip</b>. with a ryght good wyl.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. This was my chyefe care, to kepe me alwayes in my
+ housbandes fauoure, that there shulde nothyng angre him I obserued
+ his appetite and pleasure I marked the tymes bothe whan he woulde be
+ pleased and when he wold be all byshrwed, as they tameth the
+ Elephantes and Lyons or suche beastes that can not be wonne by str&#275;gth
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xan</b>typpa. Suche a beaste haue I at home.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. Thei that goth vnto the Elephantes weare no white
+ garmentes, nor they that tame wylde bulles, weare no blasynge
+ reedes, for experience teacheth, that suche beastes bee madde with
+ those colours, like as the Tygers by the sound of tumbrels be made
+ so wode, that thei plucke theymself in peces. Also thei y<sup>t</sup>
+ breake horses haue their termes and theyr soundes theyr hadlynges,
+ and other knackes to breake their wyldnes, wyth all.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img alt="011 (118K)" src="images/011.jpg" height="660" width="398" />
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <p>
+ Howe much more then is it oure duetyes that y<sup>e</sup> wyues to
+ use suche craftes toward our husbandes with wh&#333; all our lyfe
+ tyme wil we, nyl we is one house, and one bed.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantip</b>. furthwith your tale.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>, wh&#275; I had ones marked there thynges. I applied my
+ selfe unto hym, well ware not to displease him.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantip</b>. How could thou do that.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalya</b>. Fyrste in the ouerseynge my householde, which is the
+ very charge and cure of wyues, I wayted euer, not onely gyuynge hede
+ that nothing shoulde be forgotten or undoone, but that althynges
+ should be as he woulde haue it, wer it euer so small a trifle.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>x&#257;</b>. wherin.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalia</b>. As thus. Yf mi good man had a fantasye to this
+ thynge, or to that thyng, or if he would haue his meate dressed on
+ this fashion, or that fashion.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xan</b>. But howe couldest thou fashyon thye selfe after hys wyll
+ and mynde, that eyther woulde not be at home or elles be as freshe
+ as a saulte heryng.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img alt="012 (118K)" src="images/012.jpg" height="670" width="391" />
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <p>
+ <b>Elali</b>. Abyde a while. I come not at that yet, yf my husband
+ wer very sad at anye tyme, no time to speake to him. I laughed not
+ nor tryfled him as many a woman doth but I looked rufully and
+ heauyly, for as a glasse (if it be a true stone) representeth euer y<sup>e</sup>
+ physnamy of hym that loketh in it, so lykewyse it becommeth a wedded
+ woman alway to agre vnto the appetite of her husbande, that she be
+ not mery wh&#275; he murneth, nor dysposed to play wh&#275; he is
+ sad. And if that at any time he be waiward shrewshaken, either I
+ pacyfye hym with faire wordes, or I let hym alone, vntyll the wynd
+ be ouerblowen gyuing him neuer a word at al, vntil the time come
+ that I may eyther excuse my faute, or tell hym of hys. In lyke wyse
+ when he commeth home wel whitled, I gyue hym gentyll and fayre
+ woordes, so with fayre entreatynge I gette hym to bed.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantyppa</b>, O careful state of wyues, wh&#275; they muste be
+ gladde and fayne to followe their husbandes mindes, be thei eluyshe,
+ dronken, or doying what myschiefe they liste.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img alt="013 (116K)" src="images/013.jpg" height="666" width="386" />
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. As whoe saieth this gentill dealynge serueth not for
+ bothe partyes, for they spyte of theyr berdes muste suffre many
+ thynges in our demeanor, yet a time ther is, wh&#275; in a weighty
+ matter it is laufull that the wyfe tell the good m&#257; his faute,
+ if that it be matter of substaunce, for at lyght trifles, it is best
+ to play byll under wynge.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantyp</b>. what tune is that
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. when he is ydle, neither angry, pensife, nor ouersen,
+ then betwixt you two secretly he must be told his faute g&#275;tly,
+ or rather intreated, that in this thynge or that he play the better
+ husbande to loke better to his good name and fame and to his helth
+ and this tellyng must be myxt with mery conceites and pleasaunt
+ wordes many times I make a meane to tel my tale after this fashyon,
+ that he shall promise me, he shal take no displeasure wyth my
+ thynge, that I a foolyshe woman shall breake vnto hym, that
+ pertayneth eyther to hys helthe worshyppe or welth.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img alt="014 (119K)" src="images/014.jpg" height="665" width="388" />
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <p>
+ When I haue sayde that I woulde, I chop cleane from that
+ communication and falle into some other pastime, for this is all our
+ fautes, neyghbour Xantippa, that wh&#275; we begyn ones to chat our
+ tounges neuer lie.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Xantip</b>. So men say
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalia</b>. Thus was I well ware on, that I neuer tell my husb&#257;d
+ his fautes before companie, nor I neuer caried any c&#333;playnte
+ furthe a dores: the mendes is soner made wh&#275; none knoweth it
+ but two, and there were anie suche faute that myght not be wel borne
+ nor am&#275;ded by y<sup>e</sup> wyues tellige, it is more laudable
+ that the wife make complaynte vnto the Parentes and kynsfolke of her
+ husband, then vnto her own, and so to moderate her complaynte that
+ she seme not to hate hym but hys vice nor let her play all the
+ blabbe, that in some poynt vnutered, he may know &amp; loue his
+ wiues curteysy.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Xantip</b>. She had nede be aswellerned wom&#257;, that would do
+ all this.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img alt="015 (120K)" src="images/015.jpg" height="670" width="389" />
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eu</b>. Mary through suche demeanoure, we shall sterre our husb&#257;des
+ vnto lyke gentylnesse.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Xan</b>: There be some that cannot be amended with all the
+ gentyll handlynge in the worlde.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>: In faith I thyncke nay, but case there be, marke this
+ wel the good man must be for borne, howe soeuer the game goeth, then
+ is it better to haue him alwayes at one point or ells more kinde and
+ louing throw oure gentill handlinge, then to haue him worse and
+ worse throwe our cursednesse, what wyll you say and I tell you of
+ husb&#257;des that hath won theyr wiues by suche curtesie, howe
+ muche more are we bo&#363;de to use the same towarde our husbandes.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Xantip</b>. Than shall you tell of one farre vnlyke vnto thyne
+ husband.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. I am aquented with a certayne gentelman well lerned and
+ a veri honest man, he maried a yonge wyfe, a mayden of. xvii. yeare
+ olde brede and brought vp of a chylde in the countre vnder her
+ fathers and mother wing
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img alt="016 (117K)" src="images/016.jpg" height="671" width="387" />
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <p>
+ (as gentilmen delite to dwel in the countre) to hunt &amp; hawke
+ This yong g&#275;tilman would haue one that were unbrok&#275;,
+ because he might the soner breake her after hys owne mind, he beg&#257;
+ to entre her in learning syngynge, and playinge, and by lytle and
+ lytle to vse here to repete suche thynges as she harde at sermons,
+ and to instruct her with other things that myght haue doone her more
+ good in time to come. This gere, because it was stra&#363;ge vnto
+ this young wom&#257; which at home was brought vp in all ydelnesse,
+ and with the light communication of her fathers seruantes, and other
+ pastimes, beg&#257; to waxe greuouse &amp; paynfull, vnto her. She
+ withdrew her good mynde and dylygence and wh&#275; her husband
+ called vpon her she put y<sup>e</sup> finger in the eye, and wepte
+ and many times she would fal downe on the grounde, beatynge her head
+ agaynst the floure, as one that woulde be out of thys worlde.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img alt="017 (119K)" src="images/017.jpg" height="663" width="387" />
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <p>
+ When there was no healpe for this gere, the good man as though he
+ hadde bene wel asked his wyfe yf she woulde ryde into the countre
+ with him a sporting vnto her fathers house, so that she graunted
+ anone. When they were c&#333;m&#275; thyther, the gentilman left his
+ wyfe with her mother &amp; her sisters he w&#275;t furth an huntynge
+ with his father in lawe, there betwene theym two, he shewed al
+ together, how that he hadde hoped to haue had a louynge companion to
+ lead his lyfe withall, now he hath one that is alwaies blubberynge
+ and pyninge her selfe awaye withoute anye remedie, he prayeth him to
+ lay to hys hande in amendinge his doughters fautes her father
+ answered y<sup>t</sup> he had ones giuen hym his doughter, and yf
+ that she woulde not be rewled by wordes (a goddes name take
+ Stafforde lawe) she was his owne. Then the g&#275;tylman sayd
+ agayne, I know that I may do but I had leuer haue her am&#275;ded
+ eyther by youre good counsell or commaundement,
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img alt="018 (118K)" src="images/018.jpg" height="667" width="386" />
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <p>
+ then to come vnto that extreme waies, her father promised that he
+ would fynde a remedye. After a dai or two, he espied time and place
+ wh&#275; he might be alone with his doughter. Then he loked soureli
+ vp&#333; his doughter, as though he had bene horne woode with her,
+ he began to reherse how foule a beaste she was, how he feared many
+ tymes that she neuer haue bestowed her. And yet sayde he much a doe,
+ vnto my great coste and charg, I haue gott&#275; the one that
+ moughte lye by any Ladyes syde, and she were a quene and yet thou
+ not perceiuying what I haue done for the nor knowynge that thou hast
+ suche a man whiche but of his goodnes myghte thynke thee to euill to
+ be stoye in his kytchen, thou contrariest al his mind to make a
+ short tale he spake so sharpely to her, that she feared that he wold
+ haue beaten her. It is a man of asubtyll and wylye wytte, whyche
+ wythout a vysarde is ready to playe anye maner of parte.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img alt="019 (117K)" src="images/019.jpg" height="658" width="387" />
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <p>
+ Th&#275; this yonge wife what for feare, and for trouthe of the
+ matter, cleane stryken oute of countenaunce, fell downe at her
+ fathers fete desyryng hym that he wolde forgette and forgiue her all
+ that was past and euer after she woulde doe her duetye Her father
+ forgaue her, and promised that she shoulde finde him a kynd and a
+ louynge father, yf so be that she perfourmed her promyse.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantippa</b>. How dyd she afterwarde?
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalya</b>, wh&#275; she was departed fr&#333; her father she
+ came backe into a chaumber, and there by chaunce found her husband
+ alone she fel on her knees to hym and said. M&#257; in tymes paste,
+ I neyther knewe you nor my selfe, from this daye froward ye shall se
+ me cleane chaunged, onelye pardon that is past, with that her
+ husbande toke her in his armes &amp; kyssed her sayinge she should
+ lacke nothyng yf she woulde holde her in that mind.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantip</b>. Why did she c&#333;tinue so.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img alt="020 (118K)" src="images/020.jpg" height="663" width="382" />
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalya</b>. Euen tyll her endynge daye, nor there was none so
+ vyle a thynge but that she woulde laye handes on it redely with all
+ her herte, if her husband wolde let her, so great loue was beg&#333;
+ and assured betwene them and many a daye after, shee thanked god y<sup>t</sup>
+ euer she met with such a m&#257;. For yf she had not she sayd she
+ had ben cleane caste awaye.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xan</b>. We haue as greate plentie of suche housbandes, as of
+ white crowes.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalya</b>. Now, but for werieng you? I coulde tell you a thynge
+ that chaunced a late in this same citye.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantyppa</b>. I haue litell to doe, and I lyke your communicacyon
+ very well.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalia</b>. There was a certaine gentilm&#257; he as suche sort
+ of men do, vsed much huntyng in the cuntre, where he happened on a
+ younge damoysell, a very pore wom&#257;s child on wh&#333; he doted
+ a man well stryken in age, and for her sake he lay oft&#275; out of
+ his owne house his excuse was h&#363;t&icirc;g. This m&#257;s wife
+ an exceding honest wom&#257;, halfe deale suspecte the mater, tried
+ out her husbandes falshed,
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img alt="021 (117K)" src="images/021.jpg" height="659" width="383" />
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <p>
+ on a tyme wh&#275; he had taken his iourney fourth of the town vnto
+ some other waies, she wente vnto that poore cotage and boulted out
+ all the hoole matter, where he laye on nights, wheron he dr&#257;ke,
+ what thyng thei had to welc&#333; him withall. There was neither one
+ thyng nor other, but bare walles. This good wom&#257; returned home,
+ and sone after came againe brynginge w<sup>t</sup> her a good soft
+ bed, and al therto belongyng and certain plate besydes that she gaue
+ them moneye, chargynge them that if the Gentilm&#257; came agayne,
+ they shold entreate him better not beyng know&#275; al this while
+ that she was his wyfe, but fayued her to be her sister. Not long
+ after her husband stale thether againe, he sawe the howse otherwyse
+ decked, and better fare then he was wounte to haue. He asked, frome
+ whence commeth al this goodly gere? They sayde that an honeste
+ matrone, a kynsewoman of hys hadde broughte it thyther and
+ commaunded
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img alt="022 (118K)" src="images/022.jpg" height="664" width="388" />
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <p>
+ thenm that he should be well cherished when so euer he came, by and
+ by his hart gaue him that it was hys wiues dede, whan he came home
+ he dema&#363;ded of her yf she hadde bene there or nay, she sayd
+ yea. Then he asked her for what purpose she sente all that housholde
+ stuffe thyther. Man (said she) ye haue b&#275; tenderly brought vp.
+ I perceiued that ye were but corslie handled there, me thought that
+ it was my part, seing it was your wyll and pleasure to be there ye
+ shoulde be better loked to.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Xantippa</b>. She was one of goddes fooles. I woulde rather for a
+ bed haue layd vnder him a bundel of nettels: or a burden of
+ thistels.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. But here the end her husbande perceyuyng the honeste of
+ her great pacience neuer after laye from her, but made good cheare
+ at home with his owne. I am sure ye knowe Gilberte the hol&#257;der.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Xan</b>. Very well.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eu</b>. He (as it is not vnknow&#275; maried an old wife in his
+ florish&icirc;g youth.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img alt="023 (116K)" src="images/023.jpg" height="657" width="385" />
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <p>
+ <b>X&#257;</b>. Per adu&#275;ture he maried the good and notthe
+ woman.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalia</b>. There sayde ye well, setting lytell stoore by hys
+ olde wife, hunted a callette, with whom he kept much companie
+ abrode, he dined or supped litell at home. What wouldest thou haue
+ sayd to y<sup>e</sup> gere.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Xantip</b>. What woulde I a said? I wolde haue flow&#275; to the
+ hores toppe and I wolde haue crowned myne husbande at hys oute
+ goinge to her with a pysbowle,that he so &#275;bawlmed might haue
+ gon vnto his souerayne ladie.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. But how much wiselier dyd this woman? She desyred that
+ yonge woman home vnto her, and made her good chere, so by that
+ meanes she brought home also her husband without ani witchraft or
+ sorserie, and yf that at anye season he supped abrode with her she
+ would sende vnto them some good dayntie morsel, and byd him make
+ good chere
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Xantippa</b>. I had leuer be slayne then I woulde be bawde vnto
+ myne owne husbande.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img alt="024 (117K)" src="images/024.jpg" height="667" width="382" />
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalia</b>. Yea, but consyder all thynges well, was not that
+ muche better, then she shoulde be her shrewyshnesse, haue putte her
+ husbandes minde cleane of from her, and so haue ledde all her life
+ in trouble and heuynesse.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Xantippa</b>. I graunte you well, that it was better so but I
+ coulde not abyde it.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalya</b>. I wyll tell you a prety story more, and so make an
+ ende One of oure neyghboures, a well disposed and a goddes man, but
+ that he is some what testie, on a day pomeld his wife well and
+ thriftely aboute the pate and so good a woman as euer was borne, she
+ picked her into an inner parler, and there weepynge and sobbynge,
+ eased her heuye harte, anone after, by chaunce her husbande came
+ into the same place, and founde hys wyfe wepyng. What sitest thou
+ heare sayth he seighing &amp; sobb&icirc;g like a child Th&#275; she
+ like a wise woman sayde. Is it not more honesty for me to lamente my
+ dolours here in a secret place, th&#275; to make wondering and on
+ oute crye in the strete,
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img alt="025 (116K)" src="images/025.jpg" height="667" width="382" />
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <p>
+ as other wom&#275; do. At so wyfely and womanly a saing his hart
+ melted, promysynge her faythfullye and truelie that he woulde neuer
+ laye stroke on her afterwarde, nor neuer did.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Xantippa</b>. No more wil mine god thanke my selfe.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalya</b>. But then ye are alwaies one at a nother, agreinge
+ lyke dogges and cattes.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Xan</b>. What wouldest thou that I should do?
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eu</b>. Fyrst &amp; formest, whatsoeuer thy husbande doeth sayde
+ thou nothinge, for his harte must be wonne by lytell and litel by
+ fayre meanes, gentilnesse and forbearing at the last thou shalte
+ eyther wynne him or at the least waie thou shalt leade a better life
+ th&#275; thou doest now.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Xantippa</b>. He his beyonde goddes forbode, he wil neuer amende.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalia</b>. Eye saye not so, there is no beest so wild but by
+ fayre handling be tamed, neuer mistrust man th&#275;. Assay a moneth
+ or two, blame me and thou findest not that my counsell dooeth ease.
+ There be some fautes wyth you thoughe
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img alt="026 (113K)" src="images/026.jpg" height="637" width="385" />
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <p>
+ thou se them, be wyse of this especyall that thou neuer gyue hym
+ foule wordes in the chambre, or inbed but be sure that all thynges
+ there bee full of pastyme and pleasure. For yf that place which is
+ ordeined to make am&#275;des for all fautes and so to renew loue, be
+ polluted, eyther with strife or grugynges, then fayre wel al hope of
+ loue daies, or atonementes, yet there be some beastes so wayward and
+ mischeuous, that when theyr husbandes hath them in their arms a bed,
+ they scholde &amp; chyde making y<sup>t</sup> same plesure their
+ lewd condicions (that expelseth all displeasures oute of their
+ husbandes mynde unpleasaunt and lytell set bi corrupting the
+ medecine that shuld haue cured al deadly greifes, &amp; odible off&#275;ces.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantip</b>. That is no newes to me.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. Though the woman shulde be well ware and wyse that she
+ shulde neuer be disobedient vnto her husb&#257;d yet she ought to be
+ most circ&#363;spect
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img alt="027 (116K)" src="images/027.jpg" height="666" width="381" />
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <p>
+ that at meting she shew her selfe redy and pleasaunt unto him.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantyppa</b>. Yea vnto a man, holde well withall but I am combred
+ with a beast.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. No more of those wordes, most commonly our husb&#257;des
+ ar euyll through our owne faute, but to returne againe vnto our
+ taile they that ar sene in the olde fables of Poetes sai that Venus
+ whome they make chiefe lady of wedlocke (hath a girdle made by the
+ handy worke of Vulcan her Lorde, and in that is thrust al that
+ enforceth love and with that she girdeth her whan so ever she lyeth
+ wyth her housbande
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantippa</b>. A tale of a tubbe.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalya</b>. A tayle it is, but herk&#275; what the taile
+ meaneth.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantippa</b>. Tell me.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalia</b> That techeth us that the wyfe ought to dyspose her
+ selfe all the she maye that lieng by her husb&#257;d she shew him al
+ the plesure that she c&#257;; Wherby the honest love of matrimony
+ may reuiue and be renewed, &amp; that there with be clene dispatched
+ al grudges &amp; malice
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img alt="028 (117K)" src="images/028.jpg" height="671" width="382" />
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <p>
+ <b>xant</b>. But how shall we come by the thys gyrdle?
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. We nede neyther wytchraft nor enchauntment, ther is non
+ of them al, so sure as honest condici&#333;s accompayned with good
+ feloshyp.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xan</b>. I can not fauoure suche an husbande as myne is.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>, It is moste thy profyt that he be no longer suche. If
+ thou couldest by thy Circes craft chaunge thin husband into an
+ hogge, or a bore wouldest thou do it?
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantip</b>. God knoweth.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eu</b>. Art thou in dout? haddest thou leauer marye an hogge than
+ a m&#257;.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Xantip</b>. Mary I had leauer haue a manne.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalia</b>. wel, what and thou coudest by sorcery make him of a
+ dr&#333;karde a soober man, of a vnthrifte a good housbande of an
+ ydell losell a towarde body, woldest thou not doe it?
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantip</b>. yes, hardely, woulde I doe it. But where shoulde I
+ learne the cunnyng?
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. For soth that c&#333;ning hast thou in the if thou
+ wouldest vtter it, thyn must he be, mauger thy head, the towarde y<sup>e</sup>
+ makest him, the better it is for the,
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img alt="029 (114K)" src="images/029.jpg" height="657" width="376" />
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <p>
+ thou lokest on nothing but on his leude c&#333;dicions, and thei
+ make the half mad, thou wouldest amende hym and thou puttest hym
+ farther oute of frame, loke rather on his good condicions, and so
+ shalt thou make him better. It is to late calagayne yesterdaie
+ before thou were maryed unto hym. It was tyme to c&#333;syder what
+ his fautes were for a women shold not only take her husbande by the
+ eyes but by the eares. Now it is more tyme to redresse fautes th&#275;
+ to fynd fautes.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantt</b>. What woman euer toke her gusband by the eares.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulali</b>. She taketh her husbande by the eyes that loketh on
+ nothyng, but on the beautye and pulcritude of the body. She taketh
+ him by the eares, that harkeneth dilig&#275;tly what the common
+ voice sayth by him
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantip</b>. Thy counsaile is good, but it commeth a day after the
+ faire.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. Yet it commeth time ynough to bringe thyne husbande to
+ a greate furtheraunce to that shall bee yf God sende you anie frute
+ togither.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img alt="030 (115K)" src="images/030.jpg" height="670" width="376" />
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantippa</b>. We are spede alredy of that.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulaly</b>. How long ago.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Xantip</b>. A good whyle ago
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalia</b>. How many monethes old is it.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Xantip</b>. It lacketh lytle of. vii.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b> What a tale is this, ye reken the monethes by nightes
+ and dayes double.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Xantippa</b>. Not so.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. It can not be none other wyse, yf ye reken from the
+ mariage day.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantippa</b>. yea, but what th&#275;, I spake with him before we
+ were maried.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalia</b>. Be children gotten by speakinge.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantip</b>. It befell so that he mette me alone and begon to
+ ticke at me, and tickled me vnder the arme holes and sydes to make
+ me laugh. I might not awaie with ticklynge, but fell downe
+ backewarde vpon a bedde and he a lofte, neuer leuinge kyssynge on
+ me, what he did els I can not saye, but by sayncte Marie within a
+ while after my bely beganne to swell.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. Go now and disprayse thine husb&#257;de whiche yf he
+ gette children by playe, what wyll he do wh&#275; he goeth to it in
+ good ernest.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img alt="031 (118K)" src="images/031.jpg" height="664" width="384" />
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantippa</b>, I fere me I am payed agayin.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. Good locke God hath sent a fruitfull grounde, a good
+ tylm&#257;.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Xantip</b>. In that thing he might haue lesse laboure and more
+ thanke.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. Few wyues finde at theyr husbandes in that behalf but
+ were ye th&#275; sure togither.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xanti</b>. yea that we were
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. The offence is the lesse. Is it a man chylde.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantip</b>. yea.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. He shal make you at one so that ye wil bow &amp;
+ forbere. What saieth other m&#275; by thin husband, they that be his
+ c&#333;panions, they delite with him abrode
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>x&#257;</b>, They say that he is meruelous gentyl, redy to do
+ euery man pleasure, liberal and sure to his frende.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. And that putteth me in good c&#333;fort that he wyll be
+ ruled after our counsayll.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantip</b>. But I fynde him not so.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. Order thy selfe to him as I haue tolde thee, and cal me
+ no more true sayer but a lier, if he be not so good vnto the as to
+ anie creature liuinge Again c&#333;sidre this he is yet but a
+ childe, I thinke he passethe not.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img alt="032 (121K)" src="images/032.jpg" height="659" width="388" />
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <p>
+ xxiiij. the blacke oxe neuer trode on hys fote, nowe it is but loste
+ laboure to recken vpon anye deuorse.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantippa</b>. Yet manye a tyme and ofte I haue troubled my
+ braynes withal
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalia</b>. As for that fantasye whensoeuer it commeth into your
+ mynd first of all counte how naked a thynge woman is, deuorsed from
+ man. It is the hyghest dignitie that longethe to the wyfe to
+ obsequyous vnto her spouse. So hath natyre ordeined so god hath
+ appoynted, that the woman shoulde be ruled al by the man loke onely
+ vppon this whiche is trouth, thine husbande he is, other canste thou
+ none haue. Againe forgette not that swete babe be gotten of both
+ your bodies what thin beste thou to do with that, wilte thou take it
+ awaye with thee? Thou shalte bereue thyne husband his ryght wylt
+ thou leue it with hym? thou shalt spoile thy self of thy chefeste
+ Jewell thou haste. Beside all this tell me trueth hast thou none
+ euyll wyllers, Besyde all thys tell me trueth, hast thou none euyll
+ wyllers.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img alt="033 (117K)" src="images/033.jpg" height="660" width="386" />
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <p>
+ <b>xan</b>. I haue a stepdame I warrant you, and myne husbandes
+ mother euen such another.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. Do they hate the so deadly.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantip</b>. They woulde se me hanged.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eula</b>. Th&#275; forget not th&#275; what greater plesure
+ couldest thou shew them then to se the deuorsed from thine husband
+ and to led a wydowes lyfe. Yea and worse th&#275; a wydow, for
+ wydowes be at their choise.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantippa</b>. I holde well with youre co&#363;sell, but I can not
+ awaye with the paynes.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalia</b>. yet recken what paines ye toke or ye colde teache
+ your paret to speake.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantippa</b>. Exceadynge much.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eu</b>. And thinke you much to labour a lytel in reforming your
+ husb&#257;d with wh&#333; you may liue merely all the dayes of your
+ lyfe. What busines doe m&#275; put th&#275; self to be wel &amp;
+ easly horsed &amp; shal we think our selues to good to take paines
+ that we mai haue our husb&#257;des g&#275;til &amp; curteise vnto
+ vs.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantip</b>. What shal I do.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img alt="034 (118K)" src="images/034.jpg" height="661" width="382" />
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eu</b>. I haue told you al redy, se that al thing be clene &amp;
+ trim at home, that no sluttysh or vnclenlye syghtes dryue hym oute a
+ dores. Be your selfe alwayes redy at a becke, berynge continuali in
+ minde what reuer&#275;ce the wife oweth vnto her husb&#257;d. Be
+ neyther in your d&#363;pes, nor alwayes on your mery pinnes go
+ nether to homely nor to nycely. Let your meat be cleane dressed, you
+ know yourhusb&#257;des diet. What he loueth best that dresse.
+ Moreouer shewe your selfe louinge and fayre spok&#275; vnto th&#275;
+ where he loueth, call them now and th&#275; vnto your table. At
+ meate, se that al thinges be well sauored, and make good there, And
+ wh&#275; that he is toppe heuy playing on his lute, sytte thou by
+ and singe to him so shalte thou make hym keepe home, and lessen hys
+ expences This shall he thynke at length, in faythe I am a fonde
+ felowe that maketh suche chere with a strumpet abroode with greate
+ lossee bothe of substance and name, seyng that I haue a wyfe
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img alt="035 (116K)" src="images/035.jpg" height="663" width="384" />
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <p>
+ at home bothe muche fayrer, and one that loueth me ten times better,
+ with whome I may be both clenlyer receiued and dayntelier cherisshed
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantip</b>. Beleuest thou that it will take and I put it into a
+ profe.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulali</b>. Looke on me. I warrante it or ought longe I wyll in
+ hande with thyne husbande, &amp; I will tell hym his part.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantippa</b>. ye marie that is well sayde. But be wyse that he
+ espie not our casle, he would plaie his fages, all the house should
+ be to lytle for hym.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalia</b>. Take no thoughte. I shall so conuey my matters, that
+ he shall dysclose all together hym selfe, what busynesse is betwene
+ you, that done I wyll handell him pretelie as I thinke beste, and I
+ truste to make him a new man for the and when I se my time I wyl
+ make a lie for thee, how louinge thou hast spoken of him.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>xantippa</b>. Chryst spede vs and bringe our pupose well aboute.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <b>Eulalia</b>. He will not fayle the so thou do thy good wyll.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <p>
+ <br /> <br />
+ </p>
+ <hr />
+ <p>
+ <br /> <br />
+ </p>
+ <table summary="">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img alt="036 (116K)" src="images/036.jpg" height="653" width="384" />
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <p>
+ There was a man that maried a woman whiche hadde great riches and
+ beawtye. Howe bee it she hadde suche an impedyment of nature that
+ she was domme and coulde not speake, whiche thynge made him ryghte
+ pensyfe, and sayd, wherfore vpon a daye as he walked alone ryght
+ heuye in hearte thynkynge vpon his wyfe. There came one to hym and
+ asked him what was the cause of his heuynesse whiche answered that
+ it was onely bycause his wife was borne d&#333;me. To whome this
+ other said I shal shewe the soone a remedy and a medicyne (therfore
+ that is thus) go tak an aspen leafe and lay it vnder her t&#333;ge
+ this night shee beinge a sleape, and I warrant the that shee shall
+ speake on the morowe whiche man beyng glad of thys medycyne prepared
+ therfore and gathered aspen leaues, wherfore he layd thre of them
+ vnder her tonge whan shee was a sleape.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img alt="037 (119K)" src="images/037.jpg" height="662" width="376" />
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <p>
+ And on the morow when he him selfe awaked he Desyrous to know how
+ hys medicine wrought being in bed with her, he demaunded of her how
+ she did, and sod&#275;ly she answered and sayd, I beshrewe thy harte
+ for waking me so early, and so by the vertue of that medycyne she
+ was restored to her speche. But in c&#333;clusion her spech encresed
+ day by day and she was so curst of c&#333;dycyon that euery daie she
+ brauled and chyd with her husbande, so muche at the laste he was
+ more weped, and had much more trouble and disease wyth her shrewed
+ wordes then he hadde before wh&#275; she was dumme, wherfore as he
+ walked another time alone he happened to mete agayne with the same
+ personne that taught hym the sayde medycine and sayde to hym thys
+ wyse. Syr ye taught me a medicin but late to make my domme wyfe to
+ speake, byddynge me lay an aspen leafe vnder her to&#363;g when she
+ sleapte, and I layde three Aspen leaves there.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ <table summary="">
+ <tr>
+ <td>
+ <img alt="038 (97K)" src="images/038.jpg" height="643" width="379" />
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+ </td>
+ <td>
+ <p>
+ Wherfore nowe she speaketh. But yet she speaketh soo much &amp; so
+ shrewdlye that I am more werier of her now, then I was when she was
+ d&#333;me: Wherfore I praie you teache me a medycine to modyfye her
+ that she speake not so muche. This other answered and sayd thus. Sir
+ I am a deuyl of hel but I am one of th&#275; that haue least power
+ there. Al be yet I haue power to make a wom&#257; to speake, but and
+ yf a woman begin ones to speake, I nor al the deuyls in hel that
+ haue the mooste power be not able to make a woman to be styll, nor
+ to cause her to leue speakyng.
+ </p>
+ <hr />
+ <p>
+ The end of this pleasant dialogue declaryng the seueral properties
+ of y<sup>e</sup> two contrary disposers of the wyues aforesayde.
+ </p>
+ <p style="text-align: center;">
+ Imprinted at London in Paules<br /> church yearde, at the sygne of<br />
+ the Sunne, by Antony<br /> Kytson.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+
+ <div>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 14282 ***</div>
+</body>
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