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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 14282 ***
+
+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 mery Dia-
+ logue, declaringe the propertyes
+ of shrowde shrewes,
+and ho-
+ nest wyues, not onelie verie
+ pleasaunte, but also not a
+
+lytle profitable: made
+ by ye famous clerke
+ D. Erasmus.
+
+Roteroda-
+ mus.
+ 
+ Translated into
+ Englyshe.
+ 
+
+Anno. M.CCCCC.
+ LVII.
+
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+Eulalia. God spede, & a thousand mine old acqueintāce.
+xantippa.
+
+xan. As many agayn, my dere hert. Eulalia. me semets ye ar warē
+much faire now of late.
+
+Eula. Saye you so? gyue you me a mocke at the first dash.
+
+xan. Nay veryly but I take you so.
+
+Eula. Happely mi new gown maketh me to loke fayrer then I sholde
+doe.
+
+xan. Sothe you saye, I haue not sene a mynioner this many dayes, I
+reken it Englishe cloth.
+
+Eu. It is english stuff and dyed in Venis.
+
+xan. It is softer then sylke what an oriente purpel colore here is
+who gaue you so rich a gift.
+
+Eu. How shoulde honeste women come by their gere? but by their
+husbandes.
+
+xā. 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 mā.
+
+Eula. Why say ye so. I pray you, are you at oddes now.
+
+xā. I shal neuer be at one wt 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 & 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 mē then he is.
+
+Eula. 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 cōmon buenes ar
+painted up, to please manye mennes eies we ar trime ynough yf we please
+our husbands only.
+
+xan. 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.
+
+Eulaly, where vpon?
+
+xantipha, wheron hym lykethe beste, at the tauerne, at the stewes
+and at the dyce.
+
+Eulalia Peace saye not so.
+
+xan. wel yet thus it is, then when he cōmeth home to me at
+midnight, longe watched for, he lyeth rowtyng lyke a sloyne all the leue
+longe nyght, yea and now and thē he all bespeweth his bed, and worse
+then I will say at this tyme.
+
+Eulali. Peace thou dyshonesteth thy self, when thou doest
+dishonesteth thy husbād.
+
+xantip. The deuyl take me bodye and bones but I had leuer lye by a
+sow with pigges, then with suche a bedfelowe.
+
+Eulali. Doest thou not then take him vp, wel favoredly for stūbling.
+
+Xantip. As he deserueth I spare no tonge.
+
+Eulalia. what doth he thē.
+
+xantip. At the first breake he toke me vp vengeably, trusting that
+he shoulde haue shakē me of and put me to scilence with his crabid
+wordes.
+
+Eula Came neuer your hote wordes vnto hādstrokes.
+
+xantip. On a tyme we fel so farre at wordes yt we wer
+almost by ye eares togither.
+
+Eula what say you womā?
+
+xan. He toke vp a staffe wandryng at me, as the deuill had bene on
+hym ready to laye me on the bones.
+
+Eula. were thou not redye to ron in at the bēch hole.
+
+xanti. Nay mary I warrant the. I gat me a thre foted stole in hand,
+& 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 grindstōe
+
+Eulalia. A newe found shelde, ye wanted but youre dystaffe to haue
+made you a speare.
+
+xantip. And he shoulde not greatlye a laughed at his parte.
+
+Eulali. Ah my frynde. xantyppa. that way is neither good nor godly,
+
+xantippa what is neither good nor godly. yf he wyll not vse me, as
+hys wyfe: I wil not take him for my husbande.
+
+Eulalya. 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.
+
+xantippa. I know that as well as you thē ye 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.
+
+Eula. 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,
+
+xan. Is he meete to be called my husbāde that maketh me his
+vnderlynge and his dryuel?
+
+Eula. But tel me dame xātip. Would he neuer offre the stripes
+after that
+
+xātip. Not a stripe, and therin he was the wyser man for &
+he had he should haue repented euery vayne in hys harte.
+
+Eulali. But thou offered him foule wordes plentie,
+
+xantip. And will do.
+
+Eula. What doth he ye meane seasō.
+
+xantip. 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.
+
+Eula. Doeth that greue thee?
+
+xantippa. To beyonde home, manie a tyme I haue much a do to hold my
+handes.
+
+Eula. Neighbour. xantip. wylt thou gyue me leaue to be playn with
+the.
+
+xantippa Good leaue haue you.
+
+Eula. Be as bolde on me agayne our olde acquayntaunce and amite,
+euen frō our chyldhode, would it should be so.
+
+xantippa. Trueth you saie, there was neuer woman kinde that I
+fauoured more
+
+Elaly Whatsoeuer thy husbād 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, euē till death depart you he must nedes be thy
+husbande, and thou hys wyfe,
+
+xan. Il mote they thryue & thei that taken away that liberty
+from vs
+
+Eulalia. Beware what thou sayest, it was christes act.
+
+Xā. I can euil beleue that
+
+Eula. 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.
+
+xantyppa. Why? can I forgeue him a new,
+
+Eu. It lieth great parte in the womē, for the orderinge of
+theyr husbandes.
+
+xan. Leadest thou a mery life with thine.
+
+Eula Now all is well.
+
+xan. Ergo ther was somwhat to do at your fyrste metying
+
+Eula. Neuer no greate busynes, but yet as it, happeneth now and
+than betwene man & womā, 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 mā
+hath his seueral aptite or mynde, and thinkes hys owne way best, & yf
+we list not to lie there liueth no mā without faulte, which yf anie
+were elles, ywis in wedlocke they ought to know and not vtterly hated
+
+xan, you say well,
+
+Eulalya. It happeneth many times that loue dayes breketh betwene
+man and wife, before ye one be perfitly knowē 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, & 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 ye 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 ye
+man & the wife, & 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
+
+Xan. But I praye you hartelye tell me, by what pollycy ye brought your
+good man to folow your daunce.
+
+Eula. I wyll tell you on this condicyon, that ye will folowe me.
+
+xan. I can.
+
+Eula, It is as easy as water if ye cā find in your hart to do
+it, nor yet no good time past for he is a yong mā, and you ar but
+agirle of age, and I trowe it is not a yere ful sins ye wer maried.
+
+Xā All thys is true
+
+Eulalia. I wyll shew you then. But you must kepe it secret
+
+xantip. with a ryght good wyl.
+
+Eula. 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 strēgth
+
+xantyppa. Suche a beaste haue I at home.
+
+Eula. 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 yt 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 ye
+wyues to use suche craftes toward our husbandes with whō all our lyfe
+tyme wil we, nyl we is one house, and one bed.
+
+xantip. furthwith your tale.
+
+Eula, whē I had ones marked there thynges. I applied my selfe
+unto hym, well ware not to displease him.
+
+xantip. How could thou do that.
+
+Eulalya. 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.
+
+xā. wherin.
+
+Eulalia. 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.
+
+xan. 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.
+
+Elali. 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 ye 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 whē he
+murneth, nor dysposed to play whē 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.
+
+xantyppa, O careful state of wyues, whē they muste be gladde
+and fayne to followe their husbandes mindes, be thei eluyshe, dronken, or
+doying what myschiefe they liste.
+
+Eula. 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, whē in a weighty matter it is laufull
+that the wyfe tell the good mā his faute, if that it be matter of
+substaunce, for at lyght trifles, it is best to play byll under wynge.
+
+xantyp. what tune is that
+
+Eula. when he is ydle, neither angry, pensife, nor ouersen, then
+betwixt you two secretly he must be told his faute gētly, 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 whē
+we begyn ones to chat our tounges neuer lie.
+
+Xantip. So men say
+
+Eulalia. Thus was I well ware on, that I neuer tell my husbād
+his fautes before companie, nor I neuer caried any cōplaynte furthe a
+dores: the mendes is soner made whē none knoweth it but two, and
+there were anie suche faute that myght not be wel borne nor amēded by
+ye 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 & loue his wiues curteysy.
+
+Xantip. She had nede be aswellerned womā, that would do all
+this.
+
+Eu. Mary through suche demeanoure, we shall sterre our husbādes
+vnto lyke gentylnesse.
+
+Xan: There be some that cannot be amended with all the gentyll
+handlynge in the worlde.
+
+Eula: 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 husbādes that hath
+won theyr wiues by suche curtesie, howe muche more are we boūde to
+use the same towarde our husbandes.
+
+Xantip. Than shall you tell of one farre vnlyke vnto thyne husband.
+
+Eula. 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 &
+hawke This yong gētilman would haue one that were unbrokē,
+because he might the soner breake her after hys owne mind, he begā 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 straūge vnto this young womā which at
+home was brought vp in all ydelnesse, and with the light communication of
+her fathers seruantes, and other pastimes, begā to waxe greuouse
+& paynfull, vnto her. She withdrew her good mynde and dylygence and whē
+her husband called vpon her she put ye 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 cōmē
+thyther, the gentilman left his wyfe with her mother & her sisters he
+wēt 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 yt 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 gētylman sayd agayne, I know that I may do but I
+had leuer haue her amēded 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 whē he might be alone with his doughter. Then he loked soureli
+vpō 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 gottē 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. Thē
+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.
+
+xantippa. How dyd she afterwarde?
+
+Eulalya, whē she was departed frō 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. Mā 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
+& kyssed her sayinge she should lacke nothyng yf she woulde holde her
+in that mind.
+
+xantip. Why did she cōtinue so.
+
+Eulalya. 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 begō and assured betwene
+them and many a daye after, shee thanked god yt euer she met
+with such a mā. For yf she had not she sayd she had ben cleane caste
+awaye.
+
+xan. We haue as greate plentie of suche housbandes, as of white
+crowes.
+
+Eulalya. Now, but for werieng you? I coulde tell you a thynge that
+chaunced a late in this same citye.
+
+xantyppa. I haue litell to doe, and I lyke your communicacyon very
+well.
+
+Eulalia. There was a certaine gentilmā he as suche sort of men
+do, vsed much huntyng in the cuntre, where he happened on a younge
+damoysell, a very pore womās child on whō he doted a man well
+stryken in age, and for her sake he lay oftē out of his owne house
+his excuse was hūtîg. This mās wife an exceding honest womā,
+halfe deale suspecte the mater, tried out her husbandes falshed, on a tyme
+whē 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 drāke, what thyng thei had
+to welcō him withall. There was neither one thyng nor other, but bare
+walles. This good womā returned home, and sone after came againe
+brynginge wt her a good soft bed, and al therto belongyng and
+certain plate besydes that she gaue them moneye, chargynge them that if
+the Gentilmā came agayne, they shold entreate him better not beyng
+knowē 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 demaūded
+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 bē 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.
+
+Xantippa. 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.
+
+Eula. 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 holāder.
+
+Xan. Very well.
+
+Eu. He (as it is not vnknowē maried an old wife in his florishîg
+youth.
+
+Xā. Per aduēture he maried the good and notthe woman.
+
+Eulalia. 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 ye
+gere.
+
+Xantip. What woulde I a said? I wolde haue flowē to the hores
+toppe and I wolde haue crowned myne husbande at hys oute goinge to her
+with a pysbowle,that he so ēbawlmed might haue gon vnto his souerayne
+ladie.
+
+Eula. 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
+
+Xantippa. I had leuer be slayne then I woulde be bawde vnto myne
+owne husbande.
+
+Eulalia. 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.
+
+Xantippa. I graunte you well, that it was better so but I coulde
+not abyde it.
+
+Eulalya. 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 & sobbîg
+like a child Thē she like a wise woman sayde. Is it not more honesty
+for me to lamente my dolours here in a secret place, thē to make
+wondering and on oute crye in the strete, as other womē 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.
+
+Xantippa. No more wil mine god thanke my selfe.
+
+Eulalya. But then ye are alwaies one at a nother, agreinge lyke
+dogges and cattes.
+
+Xan. What wouldest thou that I should do?
+
+Eu. Fyrst & 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 thē thou doest now.
+
+Xantippa. He his beyonde goddes forbode, he wil neuer amende.
+
+Eulalia. Eye saye not so, there is no beest so wild but by fayre
+handling be tamed, neuer mistrust man thē. 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 amēdes 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 & chyde making yt 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, & odible offēces.
+
+xantip. That is no newes to me.
+
+Eula. Though the woman shulde be well ware and wyse that she shulde
+neuer be disobedient vnto her husbād yet she ought to be most circūspect
+that at meting she shew her selfe redy and pleasaunt unto him.
+
+xantyppa. Yea vnto a man, holde well withall but I am combred with
+a beast.
+
+Eula. No more of those wordes, most commonly our husbādes 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
+
+xantippa. A tale of a tubbe.
+
+Eulalya. A tayle it is, but herkē what the taile meaneth.
+
+xantippa. Tell me.
+
+Eulalia That techeth us that the wyfe ought to dyspose her selfe
+all the she maye that lieng by her husbād she shew him al the plesure
+that she cā; Wherby the honest love of matrimony may reuiue and be
+renewed, & that there with be clene dispatched al grudges & malice
+
+xant. But how shall we come by the thys gyrdle?
+
+Eula. We nede neyther wytchraft nor enchauntment, ther is non of
+them al, so sure as honest condiciōs accompayned with good feloshyp.
+
+xan. I can not fauoure suche an husbande as myne is.
+
+Eula, 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?
+
+xantip. God knoweth.
+
+Eu. Art thou in dout? haddest thou leauer marye an hogge than a mā.
+
+Xantip. Mary I had leauer haue a manne.
+
+Eulalia. wel, what and thou coudest by sorcery make him of a drōkarde
+a soober man, of a vnthrifte a good housbande of an ydell losell a towarde
+body, woldest thou not doe it?
+
+xantip. yes, hardely, woulde I doe it. But where shoulde I learne
+the cunnyng?
+
+Eula. For soth that cōning hast thou in the if thou wouldest
+vtter it, thyn must he be, mauger thy head, the towarde ye
+makest him, the better it is for the, thou lokest on nothing but on his
+leude cōdicions, 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 cōsyder
+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 thē to
+fynd fautes.
+
+xantt. What woman euer toke her gusband by the eares.
+
+Eulali. 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 diligētly what the common voice sayth by him
+
+xantip. Thy counsaile is good, but it commeth a day after the
+faire.
+
+Eula. Yet it commeth time ynough to bringe thyne husbande to a
+greate furtheraunce to that shall bee yf God sende you anie frute
+togither.
+
+xantippa. We are spede alredy of that.
+
+Eulaly. How long ago.
+
+Xantip. A good whyle ago
+
+Eulalia. How many monethes old is it.
+
+Xantip. It lacketh lytle of. vii.
+
+Eula What a tale is this, ye reken the monethes by nightes and
+dayes double.
+
+Xantippa. Not so.
+
+Eula. It can not be none other wyse, yf ye reken from the mariage
+day.
+
+xantippa. yea, but what thē, I spake with him before we were
+maried.
+
+Eulalia. Be children gotten by speakinge.
+
+xantip. 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.
+
+Eula. Go now and disprayse thine husbāde whiche yf he gette
+children by playe, what wyll he do whē he goeth to it in good ernest.
+
+xantippa, I fere me I am payed agayin.
+
+Eula. Good locke God hath sent a fruitfull grounde, a good tylmā.
+
+Xantip. In that thing he might haue lesse laboure and more thanke.
+
+Eula. Few wyues finde at theyr husbandes in that behalf but were ye
+thē sure togither.
+
+xanti. yea that we were
+
+Eula. The offence is the lesse. Is it a man chylde.
+
+xantip. yea.
+
+Eula. He shal make you at one so that ye wil bow & forbere.
+What saieth other mē by thin husband, they that be his cōpanions,
+they delite with him abrode
+
+xā, They say that he is meruelous gentyl, redy to do euery man
+pleasure, liberal and sure to his frende.
+
+Eula. And that putteth me in good cōfort that he wyll be ruled
+after our counsayll.
+
+xantip. But I fynde him not so.
+
+Eula. 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 cōsidre 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.
+
+xantippa. Yet manye a tyme and ofte I haue troubled my braynes
+withal
+
+Eulalia. 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.
+
+xan. I haue a stepdame I warrant you, and myne husbandes mother
+euen such another.
+
+Eula. Do they hate the so deadly.
+
+xantip. They woulde se me hanged.
+
+Eula. Thē forget not thē what greater plesure couldest
+thou shew them then to se the deuorsed from thine husband and to led a
+wydowes lyfe. Yea and worse thē a wydow, for wydowes be at their
+choise.
+
+xantippa. I holde well with youre coūsell, but I can not awaye
+with the paynes.
+
+Eulalia. yet recken what paines ye toke or ye colde teache your
+paret to speake.
+
+xantippa. Exceadynge much.
+
+Eu. And thinke you much to labour a lytel in reforming your husbād
+with whō you may liue merely all the dayes of your lyfe. What busines
+doe mē put thē self to be wel & easly horsed & shal we
+think our selues to good to take paines that we mai haue our husbādes
+gētil & curteise vnto vs.
+
+xantip. What shal I do.
+
+Eu. I haue told you al redy, se that al thing be clene & 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 reuerēce
+the wife oweth vnto her husbād. Be neyther in your dūpes, nor
+alwayes on your mery pinnes go nether to homely nor to nycely. Let your
+meat be cleane dressed, you know yourhusbādes diet. What he loueth
+best that dresse. Moreouer shewe your selfe louinge and fayre spokē
+vnto thē where he loueth, call them now and thē vnto your table.
+At meate, se that al thinges be well sauored, and make good there, And whē
+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
+
+xantip. Beleuest thou that it will take and I put it into a profe.
+
+Eulali. Looke on me. I warrante it or ought longe I wyll in hande
+with thyne husbande, & I will tell hym his part.
+
+xantippa. 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.
+
+Eulalia. 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.
+
+xantippa. Chryst spede vs and bringe our pupose well aboute.
+
+Eulalia. He will not fayle the so thou do thy good wyll.
+
+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
+dōme. 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 tōge 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 sodēly 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 cōclusion her spech
+encresed day by day and she was so curst of cōdycyon 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 whē 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 toūg when she sleapte, and I layde three Aspen leaves
+there. Wherfore nowe she speaketh. But yet she speaketh soo much & so
+shrewdlye that I am more werier of her now, then I was when she was dōme:
+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 thē that haue least power there. Al be yet I haue
+power to make a womā 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.
+
+The end of this pleasant dialogue declaryng the seueral properties of ye
+two contrary disposers of the wyues aforesayde.
+
+Imprinted at London in Paules
+ church yearde, at the sygne of
+ the
+Sunne, by Antony
+ Kytson.
+
+
+
+
+ [This section produced by David Widger]
+
+
+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 mery Dia-
+ logue, declaringe the propertyes
+ of shrowde shrewes,
+and ho-
+ nest wyues, not onelie verie
+ pleasaunte, but also not a
+
+lytle profitable: made
+ by ye famous clerke
+ D. Erasmus.
+
+Roteroda-
+ mus.
+ 
+ Translated into
+ Englyshe.
+ 
+
+Anno. M.CCCCC.
+ LVII.
+
+    Return to the first section without the original page images
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Eulalia. God spede, & a thousand mine old acqueintāce.
+xantippa.
+
+xan. As many agayn, my dere hert. Eulalia. me semets ye ar
+warē much faire now of late.
+
+Eula. Saye you so? gyue you me a mocke at the first dash.
+
+xan. Nay veryly but I take you so.
+
+Eula. Happely mi new gown maketh me to loke fayrer then I
+sholde doe.
+
+xan. Sothe you saye, I haue not sene a mynioner this many
+dayes, I reken it Englishe cloth.
+
+Eu. It is english stuff and dyed in Venis.
+
+xan. It is softer then sylke what an oriente purpel colore
+here is who gaue you so rich a gift.
+
+Eu. How shoulde honeste women come by their gere? but by
+their husbandes.
+
+xā. 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 mā.
+
+Eula. Why say ye so. I pray you, are you at oddes now.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+xā. I shal neuer be at one wt 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 & 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 mē then
+he is.
+
+Eula. 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 cōmon buenes ar painted up, to please manye mennes eies we
+ar trime ynough yf we please our husbands only.
+
+xan. 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.
+
+Eulaly, where vpon?
+
+xantipha, wheron hym lykethe beste, at the tauerne, at the
+stewes and at the dyce.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Eulalia Peace saye not so.
+
+xan. wel yet thus it is, then when he cōmeth home to me
+at midnight, longe watched for, he lyeth rowtyng lyke a sloyne all
+the leue longe nyght, yea and now and thē he all bespeweth his
+bed, and worse then I will say at this tyme.
+
+Eulali. Peace thou dyshonesteth thy self, when thou doest
+dishonesteth thy husbād.
+
+xantip. The deuyl take me bodye and bones but I had leuer lye
+by a sow with pigges, then with suche a bedfelowe.
+
+Eulali. Doest thou not then take him vp, wel favoredly for stūbling.
+
+Xantip. As he deserueth I spare no tonge.
+
+Eulalia. what doth he thē.
+
+xantip. At the first breake he toke me vp vengeably, trusting
+that he shoulde haue shakē me of and put me to scilence with
+his crabid wordes.
+
+Eula Came neuer your hote wordes vnto hādstrokes.
+
+xantip. On a tyme we fel so farre at wordes yt we
+wer almost by ye eares togither.
+
+Eula what say you womā?
+
+xan. He toke vp a staffe wandryng at me, as the deuill had
+bene on hym ready to laye me on the bones.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Eula. were thou not redye to ron in at the bēch hole.
+
+xanti. Nay mary I warrant the. I gat me a thre foted stole in
+hand, & 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
+grindstōe
+
+Eulalia. A newe found shelde, ye wanted but youre dystaffe to
+haue made you a speare.
+
+xantip. And he shoulde not greatlye a laughed at his parte.
+
+Eulali. Ah my frynde. xantyppa. that way is neither good nor
+godly,
+
+xantippa what is neither good nor godly. yf he wyll not vse
+me, as hys wyfe: I wil not take him for my husbande.
+
+Eulalya. 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.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+xantippa. I know that as well as you thē ye
+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.
+
+Eula. 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,
+
+xan. Is he meete to be called my husbāde that maketh me
+his vnderlynge and his dryuel?
+
+Eula. But tel me dame xātip. Would he neuer offre the
+stripes after that
+
+xātip. Not a stripe, and therin he was the wyser man for
+& he had he should haue repented euery vayne in hys harte.
+
+Eulali. But thou offered him foule wordes plentie,
+
+xantip. And will do.
+
+Eula. What doth he ye meane seasō.
+
+xantip. 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.
+
+Eula. Doeth that greue thee?
+
+xantippa. To beyonde home, manie a tyme I haue much a do to
+hold my handes.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Eula. Neighbour. xantip. wylt thou gyue me leaue to be playn
+with the.
+
+xantippa Good leaue haue you.
+
+Eula. Be as bolde on me agayne our olde acquayntaunce and
+amite, euen frō our chyldhode, would it should be so.
+
+xantippa. Trueth you saie, there was neuer woman kinde that I
+fauoured more
+
+Elaly Whatsoeuer thy husbād 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, euē till death depart
+you he must nedes be thy husbande, and thou hys wyfe,
+
+xan. Il mote they thryue & thei that taken away that
+liberty from vs
+
+Eulalia. Beware what thou sayest, it was christes act.
+
+Xā. I can euil beleue that
+
+Eula. 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.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+xantyppa. Why? can I forgeue him a new,
+
+Eu. It lieth great parte in the womē, for the orderinge
+of theyr husbandes.
+
+xan. Leadest thou a mery life with thine.
+
+Eula Now all is well.
+
+xan. Ergo ther was somwhat to do at your fyrste metying
+
+Eula. Neuer no greate busynes, but yet as it, happeneth now
+and than betwene man & womā, 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 mā hath his seueral aptite or mynde, and thinkes hys owne
+way best, & yf we list not to lie there liueth no mā
+without faulte, which yf anie were elles, ywis in wedlocke they
+ought to know and not vtterly hated
+
+xan, you say well,
+
+Eulalya. It happeneth many times that loue dayes breketh
+betwene man and wife, before ye one be perfitly knowē
+vnto the other beware of that in any wife, for when malice is ones
+begon, loue is but barely redressed agayne,
+
+[Illustration]
+
+namely, yf the mater grow furthe unto bytter checkes, & 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 ye 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 ye
+man & the wife, & 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.
+
+Xan. But I praye you hartelye tell me, by what pollycy ye
+brought your good man to folow your daunce.
+
+Eula. I wyll tell you on this condicyon, that ye will folowe
+me.
+
+xan. I can.
+
+Eula, It is as easy as water if ye cā find in your hart
+to do it, nor yet no good time past for he is a yong mā, and
+you ar but agirle of age, and I trowe it is not a yere ful sins ye
+wer maried.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Xā All thys is true
+
+Eulalia. I wyll shew you then. But you must kepe it secret
+
+xantip. with a ryght good wyl.
+
+Eula. 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 strēgth
+
+xantyppa. Suche a beaste haue I at home.
+
+Eula. 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 yt
+breake horses haue their termes and theyr soundes theyr hadlynges,
+and other knackes to breake their wyldnes, wyth all.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Howe much more then is it oure duetyes that ye wyues to
+use suche craftes toward our husbandes with whō all our lyfe
+tyme wil we, nyl we is one house, and one bed.
+
+xantip. furthwith your tale.
+
+Eula, whē I had ones marked there thynges. I applied my
+selfe unto hym, well ware not to displease him.
+
+xantip. How could thou do that.
+
+Eulalya. 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.
+
+xā. wherin.
+
+Eulalia. 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.
+
+xan. 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.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Elali. 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 ye
+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 whē he murneth, nor dysposed to play whē 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.
+
+xantyppa, O careful state of wyues, whē they muste be
+gladde and fayne to followe their husbandes mindes, be thei eluyshe,
+dronken, or doying what myschiefe they liste.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Eula. 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, whē in a weighty
+matter it is laufull that the wyfe tell the good mā his faute,
+if that it be matter of substaunce, for at lyght trifles, it is best
+to play byll under wynge.
+
+xantyp. what tune is that
+
+Eula. when he is ydle, neither angry, pensife, nor ouersen,
+then betwixt you two secretly he must be told his faute gētly,
+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.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+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 whē we begyn ones to chat our
+tounges neuer lie.
+
+Xantip. So men say
+
+Eulalia. Thus was I well ware on, that I neuer tell my husbād
+his fautes before companie, nor I neuer caried any cōplaynte
+furthe a dores: the mendes is soner made whē none knoweth it
+but two, and there were anie suche faute that myght not be wel borne
+nor amēded by ye 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 & loue his
+wiues curteysy.
+
+Xantip. She had nede be aswellerned womā, that would do
+all this.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Eu. Mary through suche demeanoure, we shall sterre our husbādes
+vnto lyke gentylnesse.
+
+Xan: There be some that cannot be amended with all the
+gentyll handlynge in the worlde.
+
+Eula: 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
+husbādes that hath won theyr wiues by suche curtesie, howe
+muche more are we boūde to use the same towarde our husbandes.
+
+Xantip. Than shall you tell of one farre vnlyke vnto thyne
+husband.
+
+Eula. 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
+
+[Illustration]
+
+(as gentilmen delite to dwel in the countre) to hunt & hawke
+This yong gētilman would haue one that were unbrokē,
+because he might the soner breake her after hys owne mind, he begā
+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 straūge vnto
+this young womā which at home was brought vp in all ydelnesse,
+and with the light communication of her fathers seruantes, and other
+pastimes, begā to waxe greuouse & paynfull, vnto her. She
+withdrew her good mynde and dylygence and whē her husband
+called vpon her she put ye 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.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+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 cōmē thyther, the gentilman left his
+wyfe with her mother & her sisters he wēt 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 yt 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 gētylman sayd
+agayne, I know that I may do but I had leuer haue her amēded
+eyther by youre good counsell or commaundement,
+
+[Illustration]
+
+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
+whē he might be alone with his doughter. Then he loked soureli
+vpō 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 gottē 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.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Thē 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.
+
+xantippa. How dyd she afterwarde?
+
+Eulalya, whē she was departed frō 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. Mā 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 & kyssed her sayinge she should
+lacke nothyng yf she woulde holde her in that mind.
+
+xantip. Why did she cōtinue so.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Eulalya. 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 begō
+and assured betwene them and many a daye after, shee thanked god yt
+euer she met with such a mā. For yf she had not she sayd she
+had ben cleane caste awaye.
+
+xan. We haue as greate plentie of suche housbandes, as of
+white crowes.
+
+Eulalya. Now, but for werieng you? I coulde tell you a thynge
+that chaunced a late in this same citye.
+
+xantyppa. I haue litell to doe, and I lyke your communicacyon
+very well.
+
+Eulalia. There was a certaine gentilmā he as suche sort
+of men do, vsed much huntyng in the cuntre, where he happened on a
+younge damoysell, a very pore womās child on whō he doted
+a man well stryken in age, and for her sake he lay oftē out of
+his owne house his excuse was hūtîg. This mās wife
+an exceding honest womā, halfe deale suspecte the mater, tried
+out her husbandes falshed,
+
+[Illustration]
+
+on a tyme whē 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 drāke,
+what thyng thei had to welcō him withall. There was neither one
+thyng nor other, but bare walles. This good womā returned home,
+and sone after came againe brynginge wt her a good soft
+bed, and al therto belongyng and certain plate besydes that she gaue
+them moneye, chargynge them that if the Gentilmā came agayne,
+they shold entreate him better not beyng knowē 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
+
+[Illustration]
+
+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 demaūded 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 bē 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.
+
+Xantippa. 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.
+
+Eula. 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 holāder.
+
+Xan. Very well.
+
+Eu. He (as it is not vnknowē maried an old wife in his
+florishîg youth.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Xā. Per aduēture he maried the good and notthe
+woman.
+
+Eulalia. 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 ye gere.
+
+Xantip. What woulde I a said? I wolde haue flowē to the
+hores toppe and I wolde haue crowned myne husbande at hys oute
+goinge to her with a pysbowle,that he so ēbawlmed might haue
+gon vnto his souerayne ladie.
+
+Eula. 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
+
+Xantippa. I had leuer be slayne then I woulde be bawde vnto
+myne owne husbande.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Eulalia. 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.
+
+Xantippa. I graunte you well, that it was better so but I
+coulde not abyde it.
+
+Eulalya. 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 & sobbîg like a child Thē she
+like a wise woman sayde. Is it not more honesty for me to lamente my
+dolours here in a secret place, thē to make wondering and on
+oute crye in the strete,
+
+[Illustration]
+
+as other womē 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.
+
+Xantippa. No more wil mine god thanke my selfe.
+
+Eulalya. But then ye are alwaies one at a nother, agreinge
+lyke dogges and cattes.
+
+Xan. What wouldest thou that I should do?
+
+Eu. Fyrst & 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
+thē thou doest now.
+
+Xantippa. He his beyonde goddes forbode, he wil neuer amende.
+
+Eulalia. Eye saye not so, there is no beest so wild but by
+fayre handling be tamed, neuer mistrust man thē. Assay a moneth
+or two, blame me and thou findest not that my counsell dooeth ease.
+There be some fautes wyth you thoughe
+
+[Illustration]
+
+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 amēdes 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 & chyde making yt 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, & odible offēces.
+
+xantip. That is no newes to me.
+
+Eula. Though the woman shulde be well ware and wyse that she
+shulde neuer be disobedient vnto her husbād yet she ought to be
+most circūspect
+
+[Illustration]
+
+that at meting she shew her selfe redy and pleasaunt unto him.
+
+xantyppa. Yea vnto a man, holde well withall but I am combred
+with a beast.
+
+Eula. No more of those wordes, most commonly our husbādes
+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
+
+xantippa. A tale of a tubbe.
+
+Eulalya. A tayle it is, but herkē what the taile
+meaneth.
+
+xantippa. Tell me.
+
+Eulalia That techeth us that the wyfe ought to dyspose her
+selfe all the she maye that lieng by her husbād she shew him al
+the plesure that she cā; Wherby the honest love of matrimony
+may reuiue and be renewed, & that there with be clene dispatched
+al grudges & malice
+
+[Illustration]
+
+xant. But how shall we come by the thys gyrdle?
+
+Eula. We nede neyther wytchraft nor enchauntment, ther is non
+of them al, so sure as honest condiciōs accompayned with good
+feloshyp.
+
+xan. I can not fauoure suche an husbande as myne is.
+
+Eula, 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?
+
+xantip. God knoweth.
+
+Eu. Art thou in dout? haddest thou leauer marye an hogge than
+a mā.
+
+Xantip. Mary I had leauer haue a manne.
+
+Eulalia. wel, what and thou coudest by sorcery make him of a
+drōkarde a soober man, of a vnthrifte a good housbande of an
+ydell losell a towarde body, woldest thou not doe it?
+
+xantip. yes, hardely, woulde I doe it. But where shoulde I
+learne the cunnyng?
+
+Eula. For soth that cōning hast thou in the if thou
+wouldest vtter it, thyn must he be, mauger thy head, the towarde ye
+makest him, the better it is for the,
+
+[Illustration]
+
+thou lokest on nothing but on his leude cōdicions, 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 cōsyder 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 thē
+to fynd fautes.
+
+xantt. What woman euer toke her gusband by the eares.
+
+Eulali. 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 diligētly what the common
+voice sayth by him
+
+xantip. Thy counsaile is good, but it commeth a day after the
+faire.
+
+Eula. Yet it commeth time ynough to bringe thyne husbande to
+a greate furtheraunce to that shall bee yf God sende you anie frute
+togither.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+xantippa. We are spede alredy of that.
+
+Eulaly. How long ago.
+
+Xantip. A good whyle ago
+
+Eulalia. How many monethes old is it.
+
+Xantip. It lacketh lytle of. vii.
+
+Eula What a tale is this, ye reken the monethes by nightes
+and dayes double.
+
+Xantippa. Not so.
+
+Eula. It can not be none other wyse, yf ye reken from the
+mariage day.
+
+xantippa. yea, but what thē, I spake with him before we
+were maried.
+
+Eulalia. Be children gotten by speakinge.
+
+xantip. 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.
+
+Eula. Go now and disprayse thine husbāde whiche yf he
+gette children by playe, what wyll he do whē he goeth to it in
+good ernest.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+xantippa, I fere me I am payed agayin.
+
+Eula. Good locke God hath sent a fruitfull grounde, a good
+tylmā.
+
+Xantip. In that thing he might haue lesse laboure and more
+thanke.
+
+Eula. Few wyues finde at theyr husbandes in that behalf but
+were ye thē sure togither.
+
+xanti. yea that we were
+
+Eula. The offence is the lesse. Is it a man chylde.
+
+xantip. yea.
+
+Eula. He shal make you at one so that ye wil bow &
+forbere. What saieth other mē by thin husband, they that be his
+cōpanions, they delite with him abrode
+
+xā, They say that he is meruelous gentyl, redy to do
+euery man pleasure, liberal and sure to his frende.
+
+Eula. And that putteth me in good cōfort that he wyll be
+ruled after our counsayll.
+
+xantip. But I fynde him not so.
+
+Eula. 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 cōsidre this he is yet but a
+childe, I thinke he passethe not.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+xxiiij. the blacke oxe neuer trode on hys fote, nowe it is but loste
+laboure to recken vpon anye deuorse.
+
+xantippa. Yet manye a tyme and ofte I haue troubled my
+braynes withal
+
+Eulalia. 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.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+xan. I haue a stepdame I warrant you, and myne husbandes
+mother euen such another.
+
+Eula. Do they hate the so deadly.
+
+xantip. They woulde se me hanged.
+
+Eula. Thē forget not thē what greater plesure
+couldest thou shew them then to se the deuorsed from thine husband
+and to led a wydowes lyfe. Yea and worse thē a wydow, for
+wydowes be at their choise.
+
+xantippa. I holde well with youre coūsell, but I can not
+awaye with the paynes.
+
+Eulalia. yet recken what paines ye toke or ye colde teache
+your paret to speake.
+
+xantippa. Exceadynge much.
+
+Eu. And thinke you much to labour a lytel in reforming your
+husbād with whō you may liue merely all the dayes of your
+lyfe. What busines doe mē put thē self to be wel &
+easly horsed & shal we think our selues to good to take paines
+that we mai haue our husbādes gētil & curteise vnto
+vs.
+
+xantip. What shal I do.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Eu. I haue told you al redy, se that al thing be clene &
+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 reuerēce the wife oweth vnto her husbād. Be
+neyther in your dūpes, nor alwayes on your mery pinnes go
+nether to homely nor to nycely. Let your meat be cleane dressed, you
+know yourhusbādes diet. What he loueth best that dresse.
+Moreouer shewe your selfe louinge and fayre spokē vnto thē
+where he loueth, call them now and thē vnto your table. At
+meate, se that al thinges be well sauored, and make good there, And
+whē 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
+
+[Illustration]
+
+at home bothe muche fayrer, and one that loueth me ten times better,
+with whome I may be both clenlyer receiued and dayntelier cherisshed
+
+xantip. Beleuest thou that it will take and I put it into a
+profe.
+
+Eulali. Looke on me. I warrante it or ought longe I wyll in
+hande with thyne husbande, & I will tell hym his part.
+
+xantippa. 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.
+
+Eulalia. 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.
+
+xantippa. Chryst spede vs and bringe our pupose well aboute.
+
+Eulalia. He will not fayle the so thou do thy good wyll.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+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 dōme. 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 tōge
+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.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+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 sodēly 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 cōclusion her spech encresed
+day by day and she was so curst of cōdycyon 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 whē 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 toūg when she
+sleapte, and I layde three Aspen leaves there.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Wherfore nowe she speaketh. But yet she speaketh soo much & so
+shrewdlye that I am more werier of her now, then I was when she was
+dōme: 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 thē that haue least power
+there. Al be yet I haue power to make a womā 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.
+
+The end of this pleasant dialogue declaryng the seueral properties
+of ye two contrary disposers of the wyues aforesayde.
+
+Imprinted at London in Paules
+ church yearde, at the sygne of
+
+the Sunne, by Antony
+ Kytson.
+
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+      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>
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+      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.]
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+    <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>
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+The Project Gutenberg eBook of A Merry Dialogue Declaringe the Properties of Shrowde Shrews and Honest Wives, by Desiderius Erasmus
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+Title: A Merry Dialogue Declaringe the Properties of Shrowde Shrews and Honest Wives
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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A MERRY DIALOGUE ***
+
+
+
+
+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 mery Dia-
+ logue, declaringe the propertyes
+ of shrowde shrewes,
+and ho-
+ nest wyues, not onelie verie
+ pleasaunte, but also not a
+
+lytle profitable: made
+ by ye famous clerke
+ D. Erasmus.
+
+Roteroda-
+ mus.
+ 
+ Translated into
+ Englyshe.
+ 
+
+Anno. M.CCCCC.
+ LVII.
+
+[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.]
+
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+
+Eulalia. God spede, & a thousand mine old acqueintāce.
+xantippa.
+
+xan. As many agayn, my dere hert. Eulalia. me semets ye ar warē
+much faire now of late.
+
+Eula. Saye you so? gyue you me a mocke at the first dash.
+
+xan. Nay veryly but I take you so.
+
+Eula. Happely mi new gown maketh me to loke fayrer then I sholde
+doe.
+
+xan. Sothe you saye, I haue not sene a mynioner this many dayes, I
+reken it Englishe cloth.
+
+Eu. It is english stuff and dyed in Venis.
+
+xan. It is softer then sylke what an oriente purpel colore here is
+who gaue you so rich a gift.
+
+Eu. How shoulde honeste women come by their gere? but by their
+husbandes.
+
+xā. 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 mā.
+
+Eula. Why say ye so. I pray you, are you at oddes now.
+
+xā. I shal neuer be at one wt 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 & 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 mē then he is.
+
+Eula. 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 cōmon buenes ar
+painted up, to please manye mennes eies we ar trime ynough yf we please
+our husbands only.
+
+xan. 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.
+
+Eulaly, where vpon?
+
+xantipha, wheron hym lykethe beste, at the tauerne, at the stewes
+and at the dyce.
+
+Eulalia Peace saye not so.
+
+xan. wel yet thus it is, then when he cōmeth home to me at
+midnight, longe watched for, he lyeth rowtyng lyke a sloyne all the leue
+longe nyght, yea and now and thē he all bespeweth his bed, and worse
+then I will say at this tyme.
+
+Eulali. Peace thou dyshonesteth thy self, when thou doest
+dishonesteth thy husbād.
+
+xantip. The deuyl take me bodye and bones but I had leuer lye by a
+sow with pigges, then with suche a bedfelowe.
+
+Eulali. Doest thou not then take him vp, wel favoredly for stūbling.
+
+Xantip. As he deserueth I spare no tonge.
+
+Eulalia. what doth he thē.
+
+xantip. At the first breake he toke me vp vengeably, trusting that
+he shoulde haue shakē me of and put me to scilence with his crabid
+wordes.
+
+Eula Came neuer your hote wordes vnto hādstrokes.
+
+xantip. On a tyme we fel so farre at wordes yt we wer
+almost by ye eares togither.
+
+Eula what say you womā?
+
+xan. He toke vp a staffe wandryng at me, as the deuill had bene on
+hym ready to laye me on the bones.
+
+Eula. were thou not redye to ron in at the bēch hole.
+
+xanti. Nay mary I warrant the. I gat me a thre foted stole in hand,
+& 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 grindstōe
+
+Eulalia. A newe found shelde, ye wanted but youre dystaffe to haue
+made you a speare.
+
+xantip. And he shoulde not greatlye a laughed at his parte.
+
+Eulali. Ah my frynde. xantyppa. that way is neither good nor godly,
+
+xantippa what is neither good nor godly. yf he wyll not vse me, as
+hys wyfe: I wil not take him for my husbande.
+
+Eulalya. 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.
+
+xantippa. I know that as well as you thē ye 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.
+
+Eula. 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,
+
+xan. Is he meete to be called my husbāde that maketh me his
+vnderlynge and his dryuel?
+
+Eula. But tel me dame xātip. Would he neuer offre the stripes
+after that
+
+xātip. Not a stripe, and therin he was the wyser man for &
+he had he should haue repented euery vayne in hys harte.
+
+Eulali. But thou offered him foule wordes plentie,
+
+xantip. And will do.
+
+Eula. What doth he ye meane seasō.
+
+xantip. 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.
+
+Eula. Doeth that greue thee?
+
+xantippa. To beyonde home, manie a tyme I haue much a do to hold my
+handes.
+
+Eula. Neighbour. xantip. wylt thou gyue me leaue to be playn with
+the.
+
+xantippa Good leaue haue you.
+
+Eula. Be as bolde on me agayne our olde acquayntaunce and amite,
+euen frō our chyldhode, would it should be so.
+
+xantippa. Trueth you saie, there was neuer woman kinde that I
+fauoured more
+
+Elaly Whatsoeuer thy husbād 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, euē till death depart you he must nedes be thy
+husbande, and thou hys wyfe,
+
+xan. Il mote they thryue & thei that taken away that liberty
+from vs
+
+Eulalia. Beware what thou sayest, it was christes act.
+
+Xā. I can euil beleue that
+
+Eula. 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.
+
+xantyppa. Why? can I forgeue him a new,
+
+Eu. It lieth great parte in the womē, for the orderinge of
+theyr husbandes.
+
+xan. Leadest thou a mery life with thine.
+
+Eula Now all is well.
+
+xan. Ergo ther was somwhat to do at your fyrste metying
+
+Eula. Neuer no greate busynes, but yet as it, happeneth now and
+than betwene man & womā, 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 mā
+hath his seueral aptite or mynde, and thinkes hys owne way best, & yf
+we list not to lie there liueth no mā without faulte, which yf anie
+were elles, ywis in wedlocke they ought to know and not vtterly hated
+
+xan, you say well,
+
+Eulalya. It happeneth many times that loue dayes breketh betwene
+man and wife, before ye one be perfitly knowē 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, & 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 ye 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 ye
+man & the wife, & 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
+
+Xan. But I praye you hartelye tell me, by what pollycy ye brought your
+good man to folow your daunce.
+
+Eula. I wyll tell you on this condicyon, that ye will folowe me.
+
+xan. I can.
+
+Eula, It is as easy as water if ye cā find in your hart to do
+it, nor yet no good time past for he is a yong mā, and you ar but
+agirle of age, and I trowe it is not a yere ful sins ye wer maried.
+
+Xā All thys is true
+
+Eulalia. I wyll shew you then. But you must kepe it secret
+
+xantip. with a ryght good wyl.
+
+Eula. 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 strēgth
+
+xantyppa. Suche a beaste haue I at home.
+
+Eula. 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 yt 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 ye
+wyues to use suche craftes toward our husbandes with whō all our lyfe
+tyme wil we, nyl we is one house, and one bed.
+
+xantip. furthwith your tale.
+
+Eula, whē I had ones marked there thynges. I applied my selfe
+unto hym, well ware not to displease him.
+
+xantip. How could thou do that.
+
+Eulalya. 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.
+
+xā. wherin.
+
+Eulalia. 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.
+
+xan. 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.
+
+Elali. 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 ye 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 whē he
+murneth, nor dysposed to play whē 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.
+
+xantyppa, O careful state of wyues, whē they muste be gladde
+and fayne to followe their husbandes mindes, be thei eluyshe, dronken, or
+doying what myschiefe they liste.
+
+Eula. 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, whē in a weighty matter it is laufull
+that the wyfe tell the good mā his faute, if that it be matter of
+substaunce, for at lyght trifles, it is best to play byll under wynge.
+
+xantyp. what tune is that
+
+Eula. when he is ydle, neither angry, pensife, nor ouersen, then
+betwixt you two secretly he must be told his faute gētly, 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 whē
+we begyn ones to chat our tounges neuer lie.
+
+Xantip. So men say
+
+Eulalia. Thus was I well ware on, that I neuer tell my husbād
+his fautes before companie, nor I neuer caried any cōplaynte furthe a
+dores: the mendes is soner made whē none knoweth it but two, and
+there were anie suche faute that myght not be wel borne nor amēded by
+ye 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 & loue his wiues curteysy.
+
+Xantip. She had nede be aswellerned womā, that would do all
+this.
+
+Eu. Mary through suche demeanoure, we shall sterre our husbādes
+vnto lyke gentylnesse.
+
+Xan: There be some that cannot be amended with all the gentyll
+handlynge in the worlde.
+
+Eula: 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 husbādes that hath
+won theyr wiues by suche curtesie, howe muche more are we boūde to
+use the same towarde our husbandes.
+
+Xantip. Than shall you tell of one farre vnlyke vnto thyne husband.
+
+Eula. 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 &
+hawke This yong gētilman would haue one that were unbrokē,
+because he might the soner breake her after hys owne mind, he begā 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 straūge vnto this young womā which at
+home was brought vp in all ydelnesse, and with the light communication of
+her fathers seruantes, and other pastimes, begā to waxe greuouse
+& paynfull, vnto her. She withdrew her good mynde and dylygence and whē
+her husband called vpon her she put ye 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 cōmē
+thyther, the gentilman left his wyfe with her mother & her sisters he
+wēt 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 yt 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 gētylman sayd agayne, I know that I may do but I
+had leuer haue her amēded 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 whē he might be alone with his doughter. Then he loked soureli
+vpō 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 gottē 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. Thē
+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.
+
+xantippa. How dyd she afterwarde?
+
+Eulalya, whē she was departed frō 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. Mā 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
+& kyssed her sayinge she should lacke nothyng yf she woulde holde her
+in that mind.
+
+xantip. Why did she cōtinue so.
+
+Eulalya. 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 begō and assured betwene
+them and many a daye after, shee thanked god yt euer she met
+with such a mā. For yf she had not she sayd she had ben cleane caste
+awaye.
+
+xan. We haue as greate plentie of suche housbandes, as of white
+crowes.
+
+Eulalya. Now, but for werieng you? I coulde tell you a thynge that
+chaunced a late in this same citye.
+
+xantyppa. I haue litell to doe, and I lyke your communicacyon very
+well.
+
+Eulalia. There was a certaine gentilmā he as suche sort of men
+do, vsed much huntyng in the cuntre, where he happened on a younge
+damoysell, a very pore womās child on whō he doted a man well
+stryken in age, and for her sake he lay oftē out of his owne house
+his excuse was hūtîg. This mās wife an exceding honest womā,
+halfe deale suspecte the mater, tried out her husbandes falshed, on a tyme
+whē 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 drāke, what thyng thei had
+to welcō him withall. There was neither one thyng nor other, but bare
+walles. This good womā returned home, and sone after came againe
+brynginge wt her a good soft bed, and al therto belongyng and
+certain plate besydes that she gaue them moneye, chargynge them that if
+the Gentilmā came agayne, they shold entreate him better not beyng
+knowē 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 demaūded
+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 bē 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.
+
+Xantippa. 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.
+
+Eula. 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 holāder.
+
+Xan. Very well.
+
+Eu. He (as it is not vnknowē maried an old wife in his florishîg
+youth.
+
+Xā. Per aduēture he maried the good and notthe woman.
+
+Eulalia. 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 ye
+gere.
+
+Xantip. What woulde I a said? I wolde haue flowē to the hores
+toppe and I wolde haue crowned myne husbande at hys oute goinge to her
+with a pysbowle,that he so ēbawlmed might haue gon vnto his souerayne
+ladie.
+
+Eula. 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
+
+Xantippa. I had leuer be slayne then I woulde be bawde vnto myne
+owne husbande.
+
+Eulalia. 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.
+
+Xantippa. I graunte you well, that it was better so but I coulde
+not abyde it.
+
+Eulalya. 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 & sobbîg
+like a child Thē she like a wise woman sayde. Is it not more honesty
+for me to lamente my dolours here in a secret place, thē to make
+wondering and on oute crye in the strete, as other womē 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.
+
+Xantippa. No more wil mine god thanke my selfe.
+
+Eulalya. But then ye are alwaies one at a nother, agreinge lyke
+dogges and cattes.
+
+Xan. What wouldest thou that I should do?
+
+Eu. Fyrst & 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 thē thou doest now.
+
+Xantippa. He his beyonde goddes forbode, he wil neuer amende.
+
+Eulalia. Eye saye not so, there is no beest so wild but by fayre
+handling be tamed, neuer mistrust man thē. 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 amēdes 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 & chyde making yt 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, & odible offēces.
+
+xantip. That is no newes to me.
+
+Eula. Though the woman shulde be well ware and wyse that she shulde
+neuer be disobedient vnto her husbād yet she ought to be most circūspect
+that at meting she shew her selfe redy and pleasaunt unto him.
+
+xantyppa. Yea vnto a man, holde well withall but I am combred with
+a beast.
+
+Eula. No more of those wordes, most commonly our husbādes 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
+
+xantippa. A tale of a tubbe.
+
+Eulalya. A tayle it is, but herkē what the taile meaneth.
+
+xantippa. Tell me.
+
+Eulalia That techeth us that the wyfe ought to dyspose her selfe
+all the she maye that lieng by her husbād she shew him al the plesure
+that she cā; Wherby the honest love of matrimony may reuiue and be
+renewed, & that there with be clene dispatched al grudges & malice
+
+xant. But how shall we come by the thys gyrdle?
+
+Eula. We nede neyther wytchraft nor enchauntment, ther is non of
+them al, so sure as honest condiciōs accompayned with good feloshyp.
+
+xan. I can not fauoure suche an husbande as myne is.
+
+Eula, 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?
+
+xantip. God knoweth.
+
+Eu. Art thou in dout? haddest thou leauer marye an hogge than a mā.
+
+Xantip. Mary I had leauer haue a manne.
+
+Eulalia. wel, what and thou coudest by sorcery make him of a drōkarde
+a soober man, of a vnthrifte a good housbande of an ydell losell a towarde
+body, woldest thou not doe it?
+
+xantip. yes, hardely, woulde I doe it. But where shoulde I learne
+the cunnyng?
+
+Eula. For soth that cōning hast thou in the if thou wouldest
+vtter it, thyn must he be, mauger thy head, the towarde ye
+makest him, the better it is for the, thou lokest on nothing but on his
+leude cōdicions, 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 cōsyder
+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 thē to
+fynd fautes.
+
+xantt. What woman euer toke her gusband by the eares.
+
+Eulali. 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 diligētly what the common voice sayth by him
+
+xantip. Thy counsaile is good, but it commeth a day after the
+faire.
+
+Eula. Yet it commeth time ynough to bringe thyne husbande to a
+greate furtheraunce to that shall bee yf God sende you anie frute
+togither.
+
+xantippa. We are spede alredy of that.
+
+Eulaly. How long ago.
+
+Xantip. A good whyle ago
+
+Eulalia. How many monethes old is it.
+
+Xantip. It lacketh lytle of. vii.
+
+Eula What a tale is this, ye reken the monethes by nightes and
+dayes double.
+
+Xantippa. Not so.
+
+Eula. It can not be none other wyse, yf ye reken from the mariage
+day.
+
+xantippa. yea, but what thē, I spake with him before we were
+maried.
+
+Eulalia. Be children gotten by speakinge.
+
+xantip. 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.
+
+Eula. Go now and disprayse thine husbāde whiche yf he gette
+children by playe, what wyll he do whē he goeth to it in good ernest.
+
+xantippa, I fere me I am payed agayin.
+
+Eula. Good locke God hath sent a fruitfull grounde, a good tylmā.
+
+Xantip. In that thing he might haue lesse laboure and more thanke.
+
+Eula. Few wyues finde at theyr husbandes in that behalf but were ye
+thē sure togither.
+
+xanti. yea that we were
+
+Eula. The offence is the lesse. Is it a man chylde.
+
+xantip. yea.
+
+Eula. He shal make you at one so that ye wil bow & forbere.
+What saieth other mē by thin husband, they that be his cōpanions,
+they delite with him abrode
+
+xā, They say that he is meruelous gentyl, redy to do euery man
+pleasure, liberal and sure to his frende.
+
+Eula. And that putteth me in good cōfort that he wyll be ruled
+after our counsayll.
+
+xantip. But I fynde him not so.
+
+Eula. 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 cōsidre 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.
+
+xantippa. Yet manye a tyme and ofte I haue troubled my braynes
+withal
+
+Eulalia. 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.
+
+xan. I haue a stepdame I warrant you, and myne husbandes mother
+euen such another.
+
+Eula. Do they hate the so deadly.
+
+xantip. They woulde se me hanged.
+
+Eula. Thē forget not thē what greater plesure couldest
+thou shew them then to se the deuorsed from thine husband and to led a
+wydowes lyfe. Yea and worse thē a wydow, for wydowes be at their
+choise.
+
+xantippa. I holde well with youre coūsell, but I can not awaye
+with the paynes.
+
+Eulalia. yet recken what paines ye toke or ye colde teache your
+paret to speake.
+
+xantippa. Exceadynge much.
+
+Eu. And thinke you much to labour a lytel in reforming your husbād
+with whō you may liue merely all the dayes of your lyfe. What busines
+doe mē put thē self to be wel & easly horsed & shal we
+think our selues to good to take paines that we mai haue our husbādes
+gētil & curteise vnto vs.
+
+xantip. What shal I do.
+
+Eu. I haue told you al redy, se that al thing be clene & 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 reuerēce
+the wife oweth vnto her husbād. Be neyther in your dūpes, nor
+alwayes on your mery pinnes go nether to homely nor to nycely. Let your
+meat be cleane dressed, you know yourhusbādes diet. What he loueth
+best that dresse. Moreouer shewe your selfe louinge and fayre spokē
+vnto thē where he loueth, call them now and thē vnto your table.
+At meate, se that al thinges be well sauored, and make good there, And whē
+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
+
+xantip. Beleuest thou that it will take and I put it into a profe.
+
+Eulali. Looke on me. I warrante it or ought longe I wyll in hande
+with thyne husbande, & I will tell hym his part.
+
+xantippa. 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.
+
+Eulalia. 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.
+
+xantippa. Chryst spede vs and bringe our pupose well aboute.
+
+Eulalia. He will not fayle the so thou do thy good wyll.
+
+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
+dōme. 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 tōge 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 sodēly 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 cōclusion her spech
+encresed day by day and she was so curst of cōdycyon 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 whē 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 toūg when she sleapte, and I layde three Aspen leaves
+there. Wherfore nowe she speaketh. But yet she speaketh soo much & so
+shrewdlye that I am more werier of her now, then I was when she was dōme:
+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 thē that haue least power there. Al be yet I haue
+power to make a womā 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.
+
+The end of this pleasant dialogue declaryng the seueral properties of ye
+two contrary disposers of the wyues aforesayde.
+
+Imprinted at London in Paules
+ church yearde, at the sygne of
+ the
+Sunne, by Antony
+ Kytson.
+
+
+
+
+ [This section produced by David Widger]
+
+
+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 mery Dia-
+ logue, declaringe the propertyes
+ of shrowde shrewes,
+and ho-
+ nest wyues, not onelie verie
+ pleasaunte, but also not a
+
+lytle profitable: made
+ by ye famous clerke
+ D. Erasmus.
+
+Roteroda-
+ mus.
+ 
+ Translated into
+ Englyshe.
+ 
+
+Anno. M.CCCCC.
+ LVII.
+
+    Return to the first section without the original page images
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Eulalia. God spede, & a thousand mine old acqueintāce.
+xantippa.
+
+xan. As many agayn, my dere hert. Eulalia. me semets ye ar
+warē much faire now of late.
+
+Eula. Saye you so? gyue you me a mocke at the first dash.
+
+xan. Nay veryly but I take you so.
+
+Eula. Happely mi new gown maketh me to loke fayrer then I
+sholde doe.
+
+xan. Sothe you saye, I haue not sene a mynioner this many
+dayes, I reken it Englishe cloth.
+
+Eu. It is english stuff and dyed in Venis.
+
+xan. It is softer then sylke what an oriente purpel colore
+here is who gaue you so rich a gift.
+
+Eu. How shoulde honeste women come by their gere? but by
+their husbandes.
+
+xā. 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 mā.
+
+Eula. Why say ye so. I pray you, are you at oddes now.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+xā. I shal neuer be at one wt 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 & 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 mē then
+he is.
+
+Eula. 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 cōmon buenes ar painted up, to please manye mennes eies we
+ar trime ynough yf we please our husbands only.
+
+xan. 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.
+
+Eulaly, where vpon?
+
+xantipha, wheron hym lykethe beste, at the tauerne, at the
+stewes and at the dyce.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Eulalia Peace saye not so.
+
+xan. wel yet thus it is, then when he cōmeth home to me
+at midnight, longe watched for, he lyeth rowtyng lyke a sloyne all
+the leue longe nyght, yea and now and thē he all bespeweth his
+bed, and worse then I will say at this tyme.
+
+Eulali. Peace thou dyshonesteth thy self, when thou doest
+dishonesteth thy husbād.
+
+xantip. The deuyl take me bodye and bones but I had leuer lye
+by a sow with pigges, then with suche a bedfelowe.
+
+Eulali. Doest thou not then take him vp, wel favoredly for stūbling.
+
+Xantip. As he deserueth I spare no tonge.
+
+Eulalia. what doth he thē.
+
+xantip. At the first breake he toke me vp vengeably, trusting
+that he shoulde haue shakē me of and put me to scilence with
+his crabid wordes.
+
+Eula Came neuer your hote wordes vnto hādstrokes.
+
+xantip. On a tyme we fel so farre at wordes yt we
+wer almost by ye eares togither.
+
+Eula what say you womā?
+
+xan. He toke vp a staffe wandryng at me, as the deuill had
+bene on hym ready to laye me on the bones.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Eula. were thou not redye to ron in at the bēch hole.
+
+xanti. Nay mary I warrant the. I gat me a thre foted stole in
+hand, & 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
+grindstōe
+
+Eulalia. A newe found shelde, ye wanted but youre dystaffe to
+haue made you a speare.
+
+xantip. And he shoulde not greatlye a laughed at his parte.
+
+Eulali. Ah my frynde. xantyppa. that way is neither good nor
+godly,
+
+xantippa what is neither good nor godly. yf he wyll not vse
+me, as hys wyfe: I wil not take him for my husbande.
+
+Eulalya. 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.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+xantippa. I know that as well as you thē ye
+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.
+
+Eula. 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,
+
+xan. Is he meete to be called my husbāde that maketh me
+his vnderlynge and his dryuel?
+
+Eula. But tel me dame xātip. Would he neuer offre the
+stripes after that
+
+xātip. Not a stripe, and therin he was the wyser man for
+& he had he should haue repented euery vayne in hys harte.
+
+Eulali. But thou offered him foule wordes plentie,
+
+xantip. And will do.
+
+Eula. What doth he ye meane seasō.
+
+xantip. 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.
+
+Eula. Doeth that greue thee?
+
+xantippa. To beyonde home, manie a tyme I haue much a do to
+hold my handes.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Eula. Neighbour. xantip. wylt thou gyue me leaue to be playn
+with the.
+
+xantippa Good leaue haue you.
+
+Eula. Be as bolde on me agayne our olde acquayntaunce and
+amite, euen frō our chyldhode, would it should be so.
+
+xantippa. Trueth you saie, there was neuer woman kinde that I
+fauoured more
+
+Elaly Whatsoeuer thy husbād 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, euē till death depart
+you he must nedes be thy husbande, and thou hys wyfe,
+
+xan. Il mote they thryue & thei that taken away that
+liberty from vs
+
+Eulalia. Beware what thou sayest, it was christes act.
+
+Xā. I can euil beleue that
+
+Eula. 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.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+xantyppa. Why? can I forgeue him a new,
+
+Eu. It lieth great parte in the womē, for the orderinge
+of theyr husbandes.
+
+xan. Leadest thou a mery life with thine.
+
+Eula Now all is well.
+
+xan. Ergo ther was somwhat to do at your fyrste metying
+
+Eula. Neuer no greate busynes, but yet as it, happeneth now
+and than betwene man & womā, 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 mā hath his seueral aptite or mynde, and thinkes hys owne
+way best, & yf we list not to lie there liueth no mā
+without faulte, which yf anie were elles, ywis in wedlocke they
+ought to know and not vtterly hated
+
+xan, you say well,
+
+Eulalya. It happeneth many times that loue dayes breketh
+betwene man and wife, before ye one be perfitly knowē
+vnto the other beware of that in any wife, for when malice is ones
+begon, loue is but barely redressed agayne,
+
+[Illustration]
+
+namely, yf the mater grow furthe unto bytter checkes, & 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 ye 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 ye
+man & the wife, & 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.
+
+Xan. But I praye you hartelye tell me, by what pollycy ye
+brought your good man to folow your daunce.
+
+Eula. I wyll tell you on this condicyon, that ye will folowe
+me.
+
+xan. I can.
+
+Eula, It is as easy as water if ye cā find in your hart
+to do it, nor yet no good time past for he is a yong mā, and
+you ar but agirle of age, and I trowe it is not a yere ful sins ye
+wer maried.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Xā All thys is true
+
+Eulalia. I wyll shew you then. But you must kepe it secret
+
+xantip. with a ryght good wyl.
+
+Eula. 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 strēgth
+
+xantyppa. Suche a beaste haue I at home.
+
+Eula. 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 yt
+breake horses haue their termes and theyr soundes theyr hadlynges,
+and other knackes to breake their wyldnes, wyth all.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Howe much more then is it oure duetyes that ye wyues to
+use suche craftes toward our husbandes with whō all our lyfe
+tyme wil we, nyl we is one house, and one bed.
+
+xantip. furthwith your tale.
+
+Eula, whē I had ones marked there thynges. I applied my
+selfe unto hym, well ware not to displease him.
+
+xantip. How could thou do that.
+
+Eulalya. 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.
+
+xā. wherin.
+
+Eulalia. 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.
+
+xan. 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.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Elali. 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 ye
+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 whē he murneth, nor dysposed to play whē 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.
+
+xantyppa, O careful state of wyues, whē they muste be
+gladde and fayne to followe their husbandes mindes, be thei eluyshe,
+dronken, or doying what myschiefe they liste.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Eula. 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, whē in a weighty
+matter it is laufull that the wyfe tell the good mā his faute,
+if that it be matter of substaunce, for at lyght trifles, it is best
+to play byll under wynge.
+
+xantyp. what tune is that
+
+Eula. when he is ydle, neither angry, pensife, nor ouersen,
+then betwixt you two secretly he must be told his faute gētly,
+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.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+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 whē we begyn ones to chat our
+tounges neuer lie.
+
+Xantip. So men say
+
+Eulalia. Thus was I well ware on, that I neuer tell my husbād
+his fautes before companie, nor I neuer caried any cōplaynte
+furthe a dores: the mendes is soner made whē none knoweth it
+but two, and there were anie suche faute that myght not be wel borne
+nor amēded by ye 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 & loue his
+wiues curteysy.
+
+Xantip. She had nede be aswellerned womā, that would do
+all this.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Eu. Mary through suche demeanoure, we shall sterre our husbādes
+vnto lyke gentylnesse.
+
+Xan: There be some that cannot be amended with all the
+gentyll handlynge in the worlde.
+
+Eula: 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
+husbādes that hath won theyr wiues by suche curtesie, howe
+muche more are we boūde to use the same towarde our husbandes.
+
+Xantip. Than shall you tell of one farre vnlyke vnto thyne
+husband.
+
+Eula. 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
+
+[Illustration]
+
+(as gentilmen delite to dwel in the countre) to hunt & hawke
+This yong gētilman would haue one that were unbrokē,
+because he might the soner breake her after hys owne mind, he begā
+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 straūge vnto
+this young womā which at home was brought vp in all ydelnesse,
+and with the light communication of her fathers seruantes, and other
+pastimes, begā to waxe greuouse & paynfull, vnto her. She
+withdrew her good mynde and dylygence and whē her husband
+called vpon her she put ye 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.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+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 cōmē thyther, the gentilman left his
+wyfe with her mother & her sisters he wēt 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 yt 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 gētylman sayd
+agayne, I know that I may do but I had leuer haue her amēded
+eyther by youre good counsell or commaundement,
+
+[Illustration]
+
+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
+whē he might be alone with his doughter. Then he loked soureli
+vpō 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 gottē 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.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Thē 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.
+
+xantippa. How dyd she afterwarde?
+
+Eulalya, whē she was departed frō 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. Mā 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 & kyssed her sayinge she should
+lacke nothyng yf she woulde holde her in that mind.
+
+xantip. Why did she cōtinue so.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Eulalya. 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 begō
+and assured betwene them and many a daye after, shee thanked god yt
+euer she met with such a mā. For yf she had not she sayd she
+had ben cleane caste awaye.
+
+xan. We haue as greate plentie of suche housbandes, as of
+white crowes.
+
+Eulalya. Now, but for werieng you? I coulde tell you a thynge
+that chaunced a late in this same citye.
+
+xantyppa. I haue litell to doe, and I lyke your communicacyon
+very well.
+
+Eulalia. There was a certaine gentilmā he as suche sort
+of men do, vsed much huntyng in the cuntre, where he happened on a
+younge damoysell, a very pore womās child on whō he doted
+a man well stryken in age, and for her sake he lay oftē out of
+his owne house his excuse was hūtîg. This mās wife
+an exceding honest womā, halfe deale suspecte the mater, tried
+out her husbandes falshed,
+
+[Illustration]
+
+on a tyme whē 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 drāke,
+what thyng thei had to welcō him withall. There was neither one
+thyng nor other, but bare walles. This good womā returned home,
+and sone after came againe brynginge wt her a good soft
+bed, and al therto belongyng and certain plate besydes that she gaue
+them moneye, chargynge them that if the Gentilmā came agayne,
+they shold entreate him better not beyng knowē 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
+
+[Illustration]
+
+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 demaūded 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 bē 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.
+
+Xantippa. 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.
+
+Eula. 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 holāder.
+
+Xan. Very well.
+
+Eu. He (as it is not vnknowē maried an old wife in his
+florishîg youth.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Xā. Per aduēture he maried the good and notthe
+woman.
+
+Eulalia. 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 ye gere.
+
+Xantip. What woulde I a said? I wolde haue flowē to the
+hores toppe and I wolde haue crowned myne husbande at hys oute
+goinge to her with a pysbowle,that he so ēbawlmed might haue
+gon vnto his souerayne ladie.
+
+Eula. 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
+
+Xantippa. I had leuer be slayne then I woulde be bawde vnto
+myne owne husbande.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Eulalia. 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.
+
+Xantippa. I graunte you well, that it was better so but I
+coulde not abyde it.
+
+Eulalya. 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 & sobbîg like a child Thē she
+like a wise woman sayde. Is it not more honesty for me to lamente my
+dolours here in a secret place, thē to make wondering and on
+oute crye in the strete,
+
+[Illustration]
+
+as other womē 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.
+
+Xantippa. No more wil mine god thanke my selfe.
+
+Eulalya. But then ye are alwaies one at a nother, agreinge
+lyke dogges and cattes.
+
+Xan. What wouldest thou that I should do?
+
+Eu. Fyrst & 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
+thē thou doest now.
+
+Xantippa. He his beyonde goddes forbode, he wil neuer amende.
+
+Eulalia. Eye saye not so, there is no beest so wild but by
+fayre handling be tamed, neuer mistrust man thē. Assay a moneth
+or two, blame me and thou findest not that my counsell dooeth ease.
+There be some fautes wyth you thoughe
+
+[Illustration]
+
+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 amēdes 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 & chyde making yt 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, & odible offēces.
+
+xantip. That is no newes to me.
+
+Eula. Though the woman shulde be well ware and wyse that she
+shulde neuer be disobedient vnto her husbād yet she ought to be
+most circūspect
+
+[Illustration]
+
+that at meting she shew her selfe redy and pleasaunt unto him.
+
+xantyppa. Yea vnto a man, holde well withall but I am combred
+with a beast.
+
+Eula. No more of those wordes, most commonly our husbādes
+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
+
+xantippa. A tale of a tubbe.
+
+Eulalya. A tayle it is, but herkē what the taile
+meaneth.
+
+xantippa. Tell me.
+
+Eulalia That techeth us that the wyfe ought to dyspose her
+selfe all the she maye that lieng by her husbād she shew him al
+the plesure that she cā; Wherby the honest love of matrimony
+may reuiue and be renewed, & that there with be clene dispatched
+al grudges & malice
+
+[Illustration]
+
+xant. But how shall we come by the thys gyrdle?
+
+Eula. We nede neyther wytchraft nor enchauntment, ther is non
+of them al, so sure as honest condiciōs accompayned with good
+feloshyp.
+
+xan. I can not fauoure suche an husbande as myne is.
+
+Eula, 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?
+
+xantip. God knoweth.
+
+Eu. Art thou in dout? haddest thou leauer marye an hogge than
+a mā.
+
+Xantip. Mary I had leauer haue a manne.
+
+Eulalia. wel, what and thou coudest by sorcery make him of a
+drōkarde a soober man, of a vnthrifte a good housbande of an
+ydell losell a towarde body, woldest thou not doe it?
+
+xantip. yes, hardely, woulde I doe it. But where shoulde I
+learne the cunnyng?
+
+Eula. For soth that cōning hast thou in the if thou
+wouldest vtter it, thyn must he be, mauger thy head, the towarde ye
+makest him, the better it is for the,
+
+[Illustration]
+
+thou lokest on nothing but on his leude cōdicions, 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 cōsyder 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 thē
+to fynd fautes.
+
+xantt. What woman euer toke her gusband by the eares.
+
+Eulali. 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 diligētly what the common
+voice sayth by him
+
+xantip. Thy counsaile is good, but it commeth a day after the
+faire.
+
+Eula. Yet it commeth time ynough to bringe thyne husbande to
+a greate furtheraunce to that shall bee yf God sende you anie frute
+togither.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+xantippa. We are spede alredy of that.
+
+Eulaly. How long ago.
+
+Xantip. A good whyle ago
+
+Eulalia. How many monethes old is it.
+
+Xantip. It lacketh lytle of. vii.
+
+Eula What a tale is this, ye reken the monethes by nightes
+and dayes double.
+
+Xantippa. Not so.
+
+Eula. It can not be none other wyse, yf ye reken from the
+mariage day.
+
+xantippa. yea, but what thē, I spake with him before we
+were maried.
+
+Eulalia. Be children gotten by speakinge.
+
+xantip. 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.
+
+Eula. Go now and disprayse thine husbāde whiche yf he
+gette children by playe, what wyll he do whē he goeth to it in
+good ernest.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+xantippa, I fere me I am payed agayin.
+
+Eula. Good locke God hath sent a fruitfull grounde, a good
+tylmā.
+
+Xantip. In that thing he might haue lesse laboure and more
+thanke.
+
+Eula. Few wyues finde at theyr husbandes in that behalf but
+were ye thē sure togither.
+
+xanti. yea that we were
+
+Eula. The offence is the lesse. Is it a man chylde.
+
+xantip. yea.
+
+Eula. He shal make you at one so that ye wil bow &
+forbere. What saieth other mē by thin husband, they that be his
+cōpanions, they delite with him abrode
+
+xā, They say that he is meruelous gentyl, redy to do
+euery man pleasure, liberal and sure to his frende.
+
+Eula. And that putteth me in good cōfort that he wyll be
+ruled after our counsayll.
+
+xantip. But I fynde him not so.
+
+Eula. 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 cōsidre this he is yet but a
+childe, I thinke he passethe not.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+xxiiij. the blacke oxe neuer trode on hys fote, nowe it is but loste
+laboure to recken vpon anye deuorse.
+
+xantippa. Yet manye a tyme and ofte I haue troubled my
+braynes withal
+
+Eulalia. 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.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+xan. I haue a stepdame I warrant you, and myne husbandes
+mother euen such another.
+
+Eula. Do they hate the so deadly.
+
+xantip. They woulde se me hanged.
+
+Eula. Thē forget not thē what greater plesure
+couldest thou shew them then to se the deuorsed from thine husband
+and to led a wydowes lyfe. Yea and worse thē a wydow, for
+wydowes be at their choise.
+
+xantippa. I holde well with youre coūsell, but I can not
+awaye with the paynes.
+
+Eulalia. yet recken what paines ye toke or ye colde teache
+your paret to speake.
+
+xantippa. Exceadynge much.
+
+Eu. And thinke you much to labour a lytel in reforming your
+husbād with whō you may liue merely all the dayes of your
+lyfe. What busines doe mē put thē self to be wel &
+easly horsed & shal we think our selues to good to take paines
+that we mai haue our husbādes gētil & curteise vnto
+vs.
+
+xantip. What shal I do.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Eu. I haue told you al redy, se that al thing be clene &
+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 reuerēce the wife oweth vnto her husbād. Be
+neyther in your dūpes, nor alwayes on your mery pinnes go
+nether to homely nor to nycely. Let your meat be cleane dressed, you
+know yourhusbādes diet. What he loueth best that dresse.
+Moreouer shewe your selfe louinge and fayre spokē vnto thē
+where he loueth, call them now and thē vnto your table. At
+meate, se that al thinges be well sauored, and make good there, And
+whē 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
+
+[Illustration]
+
+at home bothe muche fayrer, and one that loueth me ten times better,
+with whome I may be both clenlyer receiued and dayntelier cherisshed
+
+xantip. Beleuest thou that it will take and I put it into a
+profe.
+
+Eulali. Looke on me. I warrante it or ought longe I wyll in
+hande with thyne husbande, & I will tell hym his part.
+
+xantippa. 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.
+
+Eulalia. 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.
+
+xantippa. Chryst spede vs and bringe our pupose well aboute.
+
+Eulalia. He will not fayle the so thou do thy good wyll.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+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 dōme. 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 tōge
+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.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+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 sodēly 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 cōclusion her spech encresed
+day by day and she was so curst of cōdycyon 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 whē 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 toūg when she
+sleapte, and I layde three Aspen leaves there.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Wherfore nowe she speaketh. But yet she speaketh soo much & so
+shrewdlye that I am more werier of her now, then I was when she was
+dōme: 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 thē that haue least power
+there. Al be yet I haue power to make a womā 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.
+
+The end of this pleasant dialogue declaryng the seueral properties
+of ye two contrary disposers of the wyues aforesayde.
+
+Imprinted at London in Paules
+ church yearde, at the sygne of
+
+the Sunne, by Antony
+ Kytson.
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+<div style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Author: Desiderius Erasmus</div>
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+      <a name="top" id="top"> </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>
+    <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>
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+        </td>
+      </tr>
+    </table>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br />
+    </p>
+    <hr />
+    <table summary="">
+      <tr>
+        <td>
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+        <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>
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Merry Dialogue Declaringe the Properties
+of Shrowde Shrews and Honest Wives, by Desiderius Erasmus
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+Title: A Merry Dialogue Declaringe the Properties of Shrowde Shrews and Honest Wives
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+                         A mery Dia-
+               logue, declaringe the propertyes
+                  of shrowde shrewes, and ho-
+                 nest wyues, not onelie verie
+                  pleasaunte, but also not a
+                    lytle profitable: made
+                     by ye famous clerke
+                         D. Erasmus.
+                          Roteroda-
+                             mus.
+
+                       Translated into
+                          Englyshe.
+
+                        Anno. M.CCCCC.
+                            LVII.
+
+
+
+
+  Eulalia. God spede, & a thousand mine old
+  acqueintance. xantippa. xan. As many agayn, my dere
+  hert. Eulalia. me semets ye ar waren much faire now
+  of late. Eula. Saye you so? gyue you me a mocke at the
+  first dash. xan. Nay veryly but I take you so. Eula.
+  Happely mi new gown maketh me to loke fayrer then I
+  sholde doe. xan. Sothe you saye, I haue not sene a
+  mynioner this many dayes, I reken it Englishe cloth.
+  Eu. It is english stuff and dyed in Venis. xan. It is
+  softer then sylke what an oriente purpel colore here is
+  who gaue you so rich a gift. Eu. How shoulde honeste
+  women come by their gere? but by their husbandes.
+  xan. 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 man.
+  Eula. Why say ye so. I pray you, are you at oddes now.
+  xan. I shal neuer be at one with 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 & 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 men then he is.
+  Eula. 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 common buenes ar painted up, to please manye
+  mennes eies we ar trime ynough yf we please our
+  husbands only. xan. 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. Eulaly, where vpon? xantipha,
+  wheron hym lykethe beste, at the tauerne, at the stewes
+  and at the dyce. Eulalia Peace saye not so. xan. wel
+  yet thus it is, then when he commeth home to me at
+  midnight, longe watched for, he lyeth rowtyng lyke a
+  sloyne all the leue longe nyght, yea and now and then
+  he all bespeweth his bed, and worse then I will say at
+  this tyme. Eulali. Peace thou dyshonesteth thy self,
+  when thou doest dishonesteth thy husband. xantip. The
+  deuyl take me bodye and bones but I had leuer lye by a
+  sow with pigges, then with suche a bedfelowe. Eulali.
+  Doest thou not then take him vp, wel favoredly for
+  stumbling. Xantip. As he deserueth I spare no tonge.
+  Eulalia. what doth he then. xantip. At the first
+  breake he toke me vp vengeably, trusting that he
+  shoulde haue shaken me of and put me to scilence with
+  his crabid wordes. Eula Came neuer your hote wordes
+  vnto handstrokes. xantip. On a tyme we fel so farre
+  at wordes that we wer almost by ye eares togither.
+  Eula what say you woman? xan. He toke vp a staffe
+  wandryng at me, as the deuill had bene on hym ready to
+  laye me on the bones. Eula. were thou not redye to ron
+  in at the bench hole. xanti. Nay mary I warrant the.
+  I gat me a thre foted stole in hand, & 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
+  grindstone Eulalia. A newe found shelde, ye wanted
+  but youre dystaffe to haue made you a speare. xantip.
+  And he shoulde not greatlye a laughed at his parte.
+  Eulali. Ah my frynde. xantyppa. that way is neither
+  good nor godly, xantippa what is neither good nor
+  godly. yf he wyll not vse me, as hys wyfe: I wil not
+  take him for my husbande. Eulalya. 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. xantippa. I know that as well as you
+  then ye 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. Eula. 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, xan. Is he meete to be called my husbande
+  that maketh me his vnderlynge and his dryuel? Eula. But
+  tel me dame xantip. Would he neuer offre the stripes
+  after that xantip. Not a stripe, and therin he was
+  the wyser man for & he had he should haue repented
+  euery vayne in hys harte. Eulali. But thou offered him
+  foule wordes plentie, xantip. And will do. Eula. What
+  doth he ye meane season. xantip. 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.
+  Eula. Doeth that greue thee? xantippa. To beyonde home,
+  manie a tyme I haue much a do to hold my handes. Eula.
+  Neighbour. xantip. wylt thou gyue me leaue to be playn
+  with the. xantippa Good leaue haue you. Eula. Be as
+  bolde on me agayne our olde acquayntaunce and amite,
+  euen from our chyldhode, would it should be so.
+  xantippa. Trueth you saie, there was neuer woman kinde
+  that I fauoured more Elaly Whatsoeuer thy husband 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, euen till
+  death depart you he must nedes be thy husbande, and
+  thou hys wyfe, xan. Il mote they thryue & thei that
+  taken away that liberty from vs Eulalia. Beware what
+  thou sayest, it was christes act. Xan. I can euil
+  beleue that Eula. 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. xantyppa. Why? can I
+  forgeue him a new, Eu. It lieth great parte in the
+  women, for the orderinge of theyr husbandes. xan.
+  Leadest thou a mery life with thine. Eula Now all is
+  well. xan. Ergo ther was somwhat to do at your fyrste
+  metying Eula. Neuer no greate busynes, but yet as it,
+  happeneth now and than betwene man & woman, 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 man
+  hath his seueral aptite or mynde, and thinkes hys owne
+  way best, & yf we list not to lie there liueth no man
+  without faulte, which yf anie were elles, ywis in
+  wedlocke they ought to know and not vtterly hated xan,
+  you say well, Eulalya. It happeneth many times that
+  loue dayes breketh betwene man and wife, before ye
+  one be perfitly knowen 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, & 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 ye 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 ye man &
+  the wife, & 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 Xan. But I
+  praye you hartelye tell me, by what pollycy ye brought
+  your good man to folow your daunce. Eula. I wyll tell
+  you on this condicyon, that ye will folowe me. xan. I
+  can. Eula, It is as easy as water if ye can find in
+  your hart to do it, nor yet no good time past for he is
+  a yong man, and you ar but agirle of age, and I trowe
+  it is not a yere ful sins ye wer maried. Xan All thys
+  is true Eulalia. I wyll shew you then. But you must
+  kepe it secret xantip. with a ryght good wyl. Eula.
+  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 strength
+  xantyppa. Suche a beaste haue I at home. Eula. 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 that 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 ye wyues to
+  use suche craftes toward our husbandes with whom all
+  our lyfe tyme wil we, nyl we is one house, and one bed.
+  xantip. furthwith your tale. Eula, when I had ones
+  marked there thynges. I applied my selfe unto hym, well
+  ware not to displease him. xantip. How could thou do
+  that. Eulalya. 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.
+  xan. wherin. Eulalia. 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. xan. 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. Elali.
+  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 ye 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 when he murneth, nor dysposed to play
+  when 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. xantyppa, O careful state of wyues,
+  when they muste be gladde and fayne to followe their
+  husbandes mindes, be thei eluyshe, dronken, or doying
+  what myschiefe they liste. Eula. 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, when in a weighty
+  matter it is laufull that the wyfe tell the good man
+  his faute, if that it be matter of substaunce, for at
+  lyght trifles, it is best to play byll under wynge.
+  xantyp. what tune is that Eula. when he is ydle,
+  neither angry, pensife, nor ouersen, then betwixt you
+  two secretly he must be told his faute gently, 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 when we begyn ones to chat our tounges
+  neuer lie. Xantip. So men say Eulalia. Thus was I well
+  ware on, that I neuer tell my husband his fautes
+  before companie, nor I neuer caried any complaynte
+  furthe a dores: the mendes is soner made when none
+  knoweth it but two, and there were anie suche faute
+  that myght not be wel borne nor amended by ye 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 & loue his wiues curteysy.
+  Xantip. She had nede be aswellerned woman, that would
+  do all this. Eu. Mary through suche demeanoure, we
+  shall sterre our husbandes vnto lyke gentylnesse.
+  Xan: There be some that cannot be amended with all the
+  gentyll handlynge in the worlde. Eula: 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
+  husbandes that hath won theyr wiues by suche
+  curtesie, howe muche more are we bounde to use the
+  same towarde our husbandes. Xantip. Than shall you tell
+  of one farre vnlyke vnto thyne husband. Eula. 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 &
+  hawke This yong gentilman would haue one that were
+  unbroken, because he might the soner breake her after
+  hys owne mind, he began 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 straunge vnto this young woman which at home
+  was brought vp in all ydelnesse, and with the light
+  communication of her fathers seruantes, and other
+  pastimes, began to waxe greuouse & paynfull, vnto
+  her. She withdrew her good mynde and dylygence and
+  when her husband called vpon her she put ye 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 commen thyther, the gentilman left his wyfe
+  with her mother & her sisters he went 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 that 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 gentylman sayd agayne, I know that I
+  may do but I had leuer haue her amended 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 when he might be alone with his doughter. Then
+  he loked soureli vpon 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 gotten 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. Then 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. xantippa. How dyd she
+  afterwarde? Eulalya, when she was departed from 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. Man 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 & kyssed her sayinge
+  she should lacke nothyng yf she woulde holde her in
+  that mind. xantip. Why did she continue so. Eulalya.
+  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 begon and assured betwene them and
+  many a daye after, shee thanked god that euer she met
+  with such a man. For yf she had not she sayd she had
+  ben cleane caste awaye. xan. We haue as greate plentie
+  of suche housbandes, as of white crowes. Eulalya. Now,
+  but for werieng you? I coulde tell you a thynge that
+  chaunced a late in this same citye. xantyppa. I haue
+  litell to doe, and I lyke your communicacyon very well.
+  Eulalia. There was a certaine gentilman he as suche
+  sort of men do, vsed much huntyng in the cuntre, where
+  he happened on a younge damoysell, a very pore womans
+  child on whom he doted a man well stryken in age, and
+  for her sake he lay often out of his owne house his
+  excuse was hunting. This mans wife an exceding
+  honest woman, halfe deale suspecte the mater, tried
+  out her husbandes falshed, on a tyme when 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 dranke, what thyng thei had to welcom him
+  withall. There was neither one thyng nor other, but
+  bare walles. This good woman returned home, and sone
+  after came againe brynginge with her a good soft bed,
+  and al therto belongyng and certain plate besydes that
+  she gaue them moneye, chargynge them that if the
+  Gentilman came agayne, they shold entreate him better
+  not beyng knowen 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 demaunded 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 ben 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.
+  Xantippa. 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. Eula. 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 holander.
+  Xan. Very well. Eu. He (as it is not vnknowen maried
+  an old wife in his florishing youth. Xan. Per
+  aduenture he maried the good and notthe woman.
+  Eulalia. 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 ye gere.
+  Xantip. What woulde I a said? I wolde haue flowen to
+  the hores toppe and I wolde haue crowned myne husbande
+  at hys oute goinge to her with a pysbowle, that he so
+  embawlmed might haue gon vnto his souerayne ladie.
+  Eula. 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 Xantippa. I had leuer be slayne then I
+  woulde be bawde vnto myne owne husbande. Eulalia. 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.
+  Xantippa. I graunte you well, that it was better so but
+  I coulde not abyde it. Eulalya. 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 & sobbing like a child Then
+  she like a wise woman sayde. Is it not more honesty for
+  me to lamente my dolours here in a secret place, then
+  to make wondering and on oute crye in the strete, as
+  other women 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. Xantippa. No more wil mine god thanke my
+  selfe. Eulalya. But then ye are alwaies one at a
+  nother, agreinge lyke dogges and cattes. Xan. What
+  wouldest thou that I should do? Eu. Fyrst & 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 then thou doest now. Xantippa. He
+  his beyonde goddes forbode, he wil neuer amende.
+  Eulalia. Eye saye not so, there is no beest so wild but
+  by fayre handling be tamed, neuer mistrust man then.
+  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 amendes 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 & chyde making that 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, & odible offences.
+  xantip. That is no newes to me. Eula. Though the woman
+  shulde be well ware and wyse that she shulde neuer be
+  disobedient vnto her husband yet she ought to be most
+  circumspect that at meting she shew her selfe redy
+  and pleasaunt unto him. xantyppa. Yea vnto a man, holde
+  well withall but I am combred with a beast. Eula. No
+  more of those wordes, most commonly our husbandes 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 xantippa. A tale of a
+  tubbe. Eulalya. A tayle it is, but herken what the
+  taile meaneth. xantippa. Tell me. Eulalia That techeth
+  us that the wyfe ought to dyspose her selfe all the she
+  maye that lieng by her husband she shew him al the
+  plesure that she can; Wherby the honest love of
+  matrimony may reuiue and be renewed, & that there with
+  be clene dispatched al grudges & malice xant. But how
+  shall we come by the thys gyrdle? Eula. We nede neyther
+  wytchraft nor enchauntment, ther is non of them al, so
+  sure as honest condicions accompayned with good
+  feloshyp. xan. I can not fauoure suche an husbande as
+  myne is. Eula, 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? xantip. God knoweth. Eu. Art thou in dout?
+  haddest thou leauer marye an hogge than a man.
+  Xantip. Mary I had leauer haue a manne. Eulalia. wel,
+  what and thou coudest by sorcery make him of a
+  dronkarde a soober man, of a vnthrifte a good
+  housbande of an ydell losell a towarde body, woldest
+  thou not doe it? xantip. yes, hardely, woulde I doe it.
+  But where shoulde I learne the cunnyng? Eula. For soth
+  that conning hast thou in the if thou wouldest vtter
+  it, thyn must he be, mauger thy head, the towarde ye
+  makest him, the better it is for the, thou lokest on
+  nothing but on his leude condicions, 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 consyder 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 then to fynd fautes. xantt. What woman euer
+  toke her gusband by the eares. Eulali. 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 diligently what the common
+  voice sayth by him xantip. Thy counsaile is good, but
+  it commeth a day after the faire. Eula. Yet it commeth
+  time ynough to bringe thyne husbande to a greate
+  furtheraunce to that shall bee yf God sende you anie
+  frute togither. xantippa. We are spede alredy of that.
+  Eulaly. How long ago. Xantip. A good whyle ago Eulalia.
+  How many monethes old is it. Xantip. It lacketh lytle
+  of. vii. Eula What a tale is this, ye reken the
+  monethes by nightes and dayes double. Xantippa. Not so.
+  Eula. It can not be none other wyse, yf ye reken from
+  the mariage day. xantippa. yea, but what then, I
+  spake with him before we were maried. Eulalia. Be
+  children gotten by speakinge. xantip. 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. Eula. Go now and disprayse thine husbande
+  whiche yf he gette children by playe, what wyll he do
+  when he goeth to it in good ernest. xantippa, I fere
+  me I am payed agayin. Eula. Good locke God hath sent a
+  fruitfull grounde, a good tylman. Xantip. In that
+  thing he might haue lesse laboure and more thanke.
+  Eula. Few wyues finde at theyr husbandes in that behalf
+  but were ye then sure togither. xanti. yea that we
+  were Eula. The offence is the lesse. Is it a man
+  chylde. xantip. yea. Eula. He shal make you at one so
+  that ye wil bow & forbere. What saieth other men by
+  thin husband, they that be his companions, they
+  delite with him abrode xan, They say that he is
+  meruelous gentyl, redy to do euery man pleasure,
+  liberal and sure to his frende. Eula. And that putteth
+  me in good comfort that he wyll be ruled after our
+  counsayll. xantip. But I fynde him not so. Eula. =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 considre 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.
+  xantippa. Yet manye a tyme and ofte I haue troubled my
+  braynes withal Eulalia. 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. xan. I haue a stepdame I
+  warrant you, and myne husbandes mother euen such
+  another. Eula. Do they hate the so deadly. xantip. They
+  woulde se me hanged. Eula. Then forget not then
+  what greater plesure couldest thou shew them then to se
+  the deuorsed from thine husband and to led a wydowes
+  lyfe. Yea and worse then a wydow, for wydowes be at
+  their choise. xantippa. I holde well with youre
+  counsell, but I can not awaye with the paynes.
+  Eulalia. yet recken what paines ye toke or ye colde
+  teache your paret to speake. xantippa. Exceadynge much.
+  Eu. And thinke you much to labour a lytel in reforming
+  your husband with whom you may liue merely all the
+  dayes of your lyfe. What busines doe men put them
+  self to be wel & easly horsed & shal we think our
+  selues to good to take paines that we mai haue our
+  husbandes gentil & curteise vnto vs. xantip. What
+  shal I do. Eu. I haue told you al redy, se that al
+  thing be clene & 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 reuerence the wife oweth vnto her husband. Be
+  neyther in your dumpes, nor alwayes on your mery
+  pinnes go nether to homely nor to nycely. Let your meat
+  be cleane dressed, you know yourhusbandes diet. What
+  he loueth best that dresse. Moreouer shewe your selfe
+  louinge and fayre spoken vnto them where he loueth,
+  call them now and then vnto your table. At meate, se
+  that al thinges be well sauored, and make good there,
+  And when 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 xantip. Beleuest
+  thou that it will take and I put it into a profe.
+  Eulali. Looke on me. I warrante it or ought longe I
+  wyll in hande with thyne husbande, & I will tell hym
+  his part. xantippa. 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.
+  Eulalia. 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.
+  xantippa. Chryst spede vs and bringe our pupose well
+  aboute. Eulalia. He will not fayle the so thou do thy
+  good wyll.
+  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 domme. 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
+  tonge 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 sodenly 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 conclusion her spech
+  encresed day by day and she was so curst of condycyon
+  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 when 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 toung when
+  she sleapte, and I layde three Aspen leaves there.
+  Wherfore nowe she speaketh. But yet she speaketh soo
+  much & so shrewdlye that I am more werier of her now,
+  then I was when she was domme: 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 them that haue least
+  power there. Al be yet I haue power to make a woman
+  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.
+
+  The end of this pleasant dialogue declaryng the seueral
+  properties of ye two contrary disposers of the wyues
+  aforesayde.
+
+                Imprinted at London in Paules
+                church yearde, at the sygne of
+                    the Sunne, by Antony
+                          Kytson.
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