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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Bride, by Samuel Rowlands
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+Title: The Bride
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+Author: Samuel Rowlands
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+Posting Date: October 20, 2012 [EBook #8189]
+Release Date: May, 2005
+First Posted: June 29, 2003
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+Language: English
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+THE BRIDE
+
+By Samuel Rowlands
+
+With an Introductory Note by Alfred Claghorn Potter
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+_Introductory Note_
+
+When the complete works of Samuel Rowlands were issued by the
+Hunterian Club in 1872-1880, in an edition of two hundred and ten copies,
+the Editor was obliged to omit from the collection the poem entitled
+"The Bride." No copy of this tract was supposed to be extant. Twenty
+years later, in the article on Rowlands in the Dictionary of National
+Biography, Mr. Sidney Lee also names this poem as one of the author's
+lost works. All that was known of it was the entry in the Stationers'
+Register: [Footnote: _Arber's Transcript, vol. iii. p. 609_.]
+
+   "22 [degrees] Maij 1617
+"Master Pauier. Entred for his Copie vnder the handes
+ of master TAUERNOR and both the wardens, A Poeme
+ intituled _The Bride_, written by SAMUELL ROWLANDE vj'd."
+
+While all of Rowlands's works are classed by bibliographers as "rare,"
+this one seemed to have disappeared entirely. No copy was to be
+found in any of the large libraries or private collections, nor was there
+any record of its sale.
+
+Last spring a copy was discovered in the catalogue of a bookseller in a
+small German town, and was secured for the Harvard College Library,
+being purchased from the Child Memorial Fund. The copy is perfect,
+except that the inner corner at the top of the second and third leaves
+has been torn off, with the loss of parts of two words, which have
+been supplied in manuscript. From this copy the present reprint is
+made. As in the Hunterian Club edition of Rowlands's Works, to which
+this may be considered a supplement, the reprint is exact. The general
+makeup of the book as to style and size of type has been followed as
+closely as possible; and the text has been reproduced page for page
+and word for word. The misprints, which are unusually numerous, even
+for a book of this period, have been left uncorrected. The title-page
+and the two head-pieces have been reproduced by photography.
+
+Of the poem itself, since it is now before the reader, little need be
+said. It cannot be claimed that it presents great poetical merit.
+Rowlands at his best was but an indifferent poet,--hardly more
+than a penny-a-liner. In his satirical pieces and epigrams, and in
+that bit of genuine comedy, "Tis Merrie vvhen Gossips meete," his
+work does have a real literary value, and is distinctly interesting as
+presenting a vivid picture of London life at the beginning of the
+seventeenth century. In "The Bride," it must be confessed, Rowlands
+falls below his own best work. Yet the poem is by no means wholly
+lacking in interest. If not his best work, "The Bride" is by no means
+his worst. Like most of his poems, it is written in an heroic stanza
+of six lines, and, as is not so common with him, is in dialogue form.
+The dialogue for the most part is well sustained and sprightly. The
+story of the birth of Merlin, it is true, seems to have been inserted
+mainly to fill out the required number of pages; but this digression has an
+interest of its own, in that the name here given to Merlin's mother,
+"Lady Adhan," does not appear in the ordinary versions of the legend.
+
+Of Rowlands's life almost nothing is known: that little is told in the
+Memoir by Mr. Gosse prefixed to the Hunterian Club edition, and by
+Mr. Lee in the Dictionary of National Biography, and need not be
+repeated here. All that is known with certainty is that Samuel
+Rowlands was a writer of numerous poems and pamphlets, published
+between the years 1598 and 1628. During this period there appeared
+almost every year a pamphlet bearing his name or the well known initials,
+"S. R." Twenty-eight separate works, of which many passed through
+several editions, are known to have been written by him. All of these
+early editions are rare; at least two of the works have been lost; several
+are extant only in the second or later editions; and of at least ten, only
+single copies are known to exist. Beside the edition of the Works already
+referred to, a number of Rowlands's tracts have been separately reprinted,
+in limited editions, by Sir Walter Scott, by S. W. Singer, by
+E. V. Utterson, by Halliwell-Phillipps, by J. P. Collier, and by
+E. F. Rimbault in the publications of the Percy Society; to this series
+of reprints, "The Bride" is now added.
+
+ALFRED CLAGHORN POTTER
+
+_Harvard College Library_
+_January, 1905_
+
+
+
+
+THE BRIDE
+BY S.R.
+
+LONDON
+Printed by W. I. for T. P. 1617
+
+
+
+THE BRIDE TO ALL MAYDES.
+
+  Not out of bubble blasted Pride,
+  Doe I oppose myselfe a Bride,
+  In scornefull manner with vpbraides:
+  Against all modest virgin maides.
+  As though I did dispise chast youth,
+  This is not my intent of truth,
+  I know they must liue single liues,
+  Before th'are graced to be wiues.
+  But such are only touch'd by me,
+  That thinke themselues as good as wee:
+  And say girles, Weomens fellows arr,
+  Nay sawcely, Our betters farr:
+  Yea will dispute, they are as good,
+  Such Wenches vex me to the blood,
+  And are not to be borne with all:
+  Those I doe here in question call,
+  Whome with the rules of reasons Arte:
+  He teach more wit before we part,
+  Sylence, of kindnes I beseech,
+  Doe you finde eares, and weele finde speach.
+
+
+
+
+
+  THE BRIDE
+
+
+  Virgins, and fellow maydes (that were of late)
+     Take kindly heere my wedding dayes a dew,
+     I entertayne degree aboue your state:
+  For Marriage life's beyond the single crew,
+    Bring me to Church as custome sayes you shall,
+     And then as wife, farewell my wenches all.
+
+  I goe before you vnto Honour now,
+  And _Hymen's_ Rites with ioy doe vndertake
+  For life, I make the constant Nuptiall vow,
+  Striue you to follow for your credits sake,
+     For greater grace to Womankind is none
+     Then Ioyne with husband, faithfull two in one.
+
+  God Honoured thus, our great Grand-mother _Eue_
+  And gaue thereby the blessing of increase,
+  For were not mariage we must all beleeue,
+  The generations of the earth would cease.
+     Mankind should be extinguish'd and decreas'd
+     And all the world would but consist of beast.
+
+  Which caused me to finde my Mayden folly,
+  And having found it, to reforme the same:
+  Though some of you, thereat seeme melancholy
+  That I for ever doe renounce your name.
+    I not respect what censure you can giue,
+     Since with a loving Man I meane to liue.
+
+  Whose kindest heart, to me is worth you all,
+  Him to content, my soule in all things seekes,
+  Say what you please, exclaiming chide and brall,
+  Ile turne disgrace unto your blushing cheekes.
+     I am your better now by _Ring_ and _Hatt_,
+     No more playn _Rose_, but _Mistris_ you know what.
+
+  Marrie therefore and yeald increase a store,
+  Else to what purpose weare you breed and borne:
+  Those that receaue, and nothing giue therefore:
+  Are fruitles creatures, of contempt and scorne,
+     The excellence of all things doth consist,
+     In giuing, this no reason can resist.
+
+  The glorious Sun, in giving forth his light,
+  The Earth in plants, and hearbs & countles things
+  The trees their fruit, The _Empresse_ of the Night
+  _She_ bountious gives to rivers flouds and springs,
+     And all that heaven, and all that earth containes,
+     Their goodnes, in Increase of guifts explaynes.
+
+  But what doe you that neither give nor take,
+  (As only made for hearing, and for seeing,)
+  Although created helpers for Mans sake:
+  Yet Man no whit the better for your being,
+     That spend consume and Idle out your howers,
+     Like many garden-paynted vselesse flowers.
+
+  Your liues are like those worthles barren trees,
+  That never yeald (from yeare to yeare) but leaues:
+  Greene-bowes vpon them only all men sees,
+  But other goodnes there is none receaues,
+     They flourish sommer and they make a showe,
+     Yet to themselues they fruitles spring & growe.
+
+  Consider beast, and fish and foule, all creatures,
+  How there is male and female of their kinde,
+  And how in loue they doe inlarge their natures:
+  Even by constrayn'd necessity inclyn'd:
+     To paire and match, and couple tis decreed,
+     To stocke and store the earth, with what they breed.
+
+  In that most powerfull word, still power doth lye,
+  To whose obedience all must subiect bee,
+  That sayd at first, _Increase and multiply_,
+  Which still enduers from age to age we see:
+     Dutie obligeth every one should frame,
+     To his dread will, that did commaund the same.
+
+  _It is not good for Man to be alone_,
+  Sayd that great God, who only knowes whats best:
+  And therefore made a wife of _Adams_ bone,
+  While he reposing slept, with quyet rest,
+     Which might presage, the great Creator ment,
+     In their coniunction, sume of earths content,
+
+
+  _Mistris Susan_.
+
+  Good _Mistris Bride_, now we haue hard your speach
+  In commendation of your Nuptiall choyse,
+  Giue me a little favour I beseech,
+  To speake vnto you with a Virgins voyce:
+     Though diuers elder maydes in place there be,
+    Yet ile begin, trusting they'le second me.
+
+  We are your fellows but to Church you say,
+  As custome is that maydes, should bring the _Bride_
+  And for no longer then the wedding day,
+  You hould with vs, but turne to tother side:
+     Boasting of Honour you affend vnto,
+     And so goe forward making much adoe.
+
+  But this vnto you lustly I obiect,
+  In the defence of each beloued mayde,
+  _Virginity_, is life of chast respect,
+  No worldly burden thereupon is layd:
+    Our syngle life, all peace and quiet bringes,
+     And we are free from carefull earthly things.
+
+  We may doe what we please, goe where we list,
+  Without pray _husband will you giue me leaue_
+  Our resolutions no man can resist,
+  Our own's our owne, to giue or to receiue,
+     We live not under this same word obay:
+     _Till Death depart us_, at our dying day.
+
+  We may delight in fashion, weare the same,
+  And chuse the stuffe of last devised sale:
+  Take Taylors counsell in it free from blame,
+  And cast it off assone as it growes stale:
+     Goe out, come in, and at selfe pleasure liue,
+     And kindly take, what kind youngmen do giue.
+
+  Wee have no checking churlish taunts to feare us,
+  We have no grumbling at our purse expence:
+  We seeke no misers favour to forbeare us,
+  We use no houshold wranglings and offence:
+     We have no cocke to over crowe our combe,
+
+
+  _Cate_.
+
+  Well said good _Susan_, now thou pay'st her home.
+
+
+  _Bride_.
+
+  A little favour pray, good _Mistris Sue_,
+  You haue a time to heare aswell as speake:
+  You challenge more by odds then is your due,
+  And stand on Arguments are childish weake:
+     Of freedome, liberty, and all content,
+     But in the aire your breath is vainely spent.
+
+  It is your shame to bost you haue your will,
+  And that you are in feare of no controwle,
+  Your cases _Sufan_, are more bad and ill,
+  Most dangerous to body and to soule:
+     A woman to her will hath oft bin try'd,
+     To run with errour, on the left hand side.
+
+  Pray did not danger then to _Eue_ befall,
+  When she tooke liberty without her heda,
+  The _Serpent_ ouercame her therwithall,
+  And thorow will, she wilfull was misled:
+     Yelding assoone as _Sathan_ did intice,
+     And of her husband neuer tooke aduise.
+
+  In wit to men we are inferiour far,
+  For arts for learning, and Ingenious things,
+  No rare Inuentions in our braynes there are,
+  That publique profit to a kingdome brings:
+     Tis they that must all callings execute,
+     And wee of all their labours reape the fruite.
+
+  They are Diuines for soules true happines,
+  They Maiestraites to right offensiue wronges,
+  They souldiers for their martiall valiantnes,
+  They artizans, for all to vse belonges:
+     They husbandmen to worke the earths increase,
+     And they the some of womens ioye and peace.
+
+  And shall not we performe obedience then?
+  As wee are bound by law of God and nature,
+  Yealding true harts affection unto men,
+  Ordain'd to rule and gouerne euery creature:
+     Why then of all on earth that liue and moue,
+     We should degenerate and monsters proue.
+
+
+  _Besse_.
+
+  Monsters (forsoth) nere sleepe in maidens beds,
+  But they are lodged with your married wiues,
+  The knotty browes, and rugged butting heds,
+  Concerne not vs, professing single liues,
+     To learne your horne-booke we have no deuotion
+    Keepe monsters to your selues, we scorne the motion.
+
+
+  _Bride_.
+
+  Besse, of such shapes, when your turne coms to marry
+  A carefull mynd, in choyse of husband beare,
+  For if your browes from former smothnes varry,
+  Thinke on this speach, _It commeth with a feare:_
+     Which I am past, perplexe me no feare can.
+     Being sure I haue a constant honest man.
+
+
+  _Iane_.
+
+  Belieue you haue, and t'is enough they say,
+  But you and I agree not in a mynde,
+  I read in storyes men will run astray,
+  Yet make their foolish wiues beleeue th'are kind:
+     And therefore since they are so cunning knowne
+     He keepe my selfe a maide and trust to none.
+
+  Had I one sutor swore himselfe loue-sicke,
+  Another for his Mistris sake would die,
+  A third thorow _Cupids_ power growne lunaticke,
+  A fourth that languishing past hope did lye:
+     And so fift, sixt, and seauenth in loues passion,
+     My Maiden-head for them should ner'e change fashion.
+
+  _Aeneas_ told many a cogging tale,
+  To Dido that renowned worthy Queene,
+  And _Iason_ with his flatterings did preuaile,
+  Yet falser knaues in loue were neuer seene:
+     And at this instant hower, as they were then,
+     The world aboundeth with deceitfull men.
+
+
+  _Doll_.
+
+  _Iane_, thats too true, for to you all I sweare,
+  How I was bobd by one tis shame to tell,
+  A smoother fellow neuer wench did heare,
+  And as I liue, I thought he lou'd me well:
+     Heere you shall fee one of his cunning letters,
+     Which still I keepe, & meane to shew his betters.
+
+  In Romane hand, on guilded paper writ,
+  Pray _Dorothy_ read you it to the rest,
+  But whether his owne head inuented it,
+  Or robd some printed Booke, I doe protest:
+     I cannot tell, but his owne name is to it,
+     Which proues he takes vpon him for to doe it.
+
+         *       *       *       *       *
+
+  The Loue Letter.
+
+  _The truest heart, shall nought but falshood cherish,
+  The mildest man, a cruell tyrant prooue,
+  The water drops, the hardest flint shall perish,
+  The hilles shall walke, and massie earth remooue:
+     The brightest Sun shall turne to darkesome clowde,
+     Ere I prooue false, where I my loue haue vowde._
+
+  _Ere I prooue false, the world desolu'd shall be,
+  To that same nothing that it was before,
+  Ere I prooue false mine eyes shall cease to see,
+  And breath of life shall breath in me no more:
+     The strong built frame shall moue from his foundation
+     Ere I remoue my soules determination._
+
+  _Death shall forget to kill, and men to dye,
+  Condemned soules shall laugh, and cease to mourne,
+  The lowest hell shall rise and meete the skye,
+  Time shall forget his course and backe returne:
+     Contrary vnto kinde each thing shall proue,
+     Ere I be false or once forget my loue._
+
+  _Oh then deare heart regard my sad estate,
+  My passions griefe and wofull lamentation,
+  Oh pittie me ere pittie come too late,
+  That hold thee deare past mans imagination:
+     Preserue my life and say that thou wilt haue me,
+     Or else I die the whole world cannot saue me_.
+
+
+  _Grace_.
+
+  This is a Ballad I haue heard it sung.
+
+
+  _Doll_.
+
+  Well, be or be not, that's not to the matter,
+  But who will trust a louers pen or tongue,
+  That vse all protestations thus to flatter:
+     For this base fellow that was so perplext,
+     Sent this one monday, and was married next.
+
+
+  _Sara_.
+
+  Now out vpon him most dissembling creature,
+  Ile warrant you that he can neuer thriue,
+  He showes himselfe, euen of as bad a nature,
+  As euer was in any man aliue:
+     Alas poore foole that hath this fellow got,
+     Shee hath a Iewell of him, hath she not?
+
+
+  _Nell_.
+
+  Yes surely hath she, (waying all things deepe,)
+  A louer that will tast as sweete as gall,
+  One that is better farre to hang then keepe,
+  And I perswade me you doe thinke so all:
+     Excepting onely partiall _Mistris Bride_,
+     For she stands stoutly to the married side.
+
+  _Bride_.
+
+  So farre as reason, and as right requires,
+  I will defend them both by word and deede,
+  Yet haue I no apology for lyers,
+  And ill conditions that false hearts doe breede:
+     "All that are married be not faithfull kinde,
+      Nor all vnmarried, are not chast in minde."
+
+  Are there not maids (vpon your coscience speake?)
+  Knowne to your selues as well as you knowe me,
+  Will vowe their loue to men, and falsly breake,
+  Which in the number of your _Virgins_ be,
+     That will delude some halfe a score young men,
+     And hauing gull'd them, take some other then.
+
+  I will not name her was in loue with ten,
+  But in your eares i'le note her secret; harke,
+  She had both Courtiers, Cockneys, Country-men,
+  Yet in the ende a Saylor boards her Barke:
+     And therefore put not men in all the blame,
+     But speake the trueth, and so the diuell shame.
+
+  _Grace_.
+
+  I knowe the partie well that you doe meane,
+  And thus much for her I dare boldly say,
+  To diuers sutors though she seemed to leane,
+  To trye her fortunes out the wisest way:
+     Yet did she neuer plight her faith to any,
+     But vnto him she had, among so many:
+
+  And ther's no doubt but diuers doe as she,
+  Your selfe in conscience, haue had more then one,
+  To whom in shewe you would familiar be,
+  And comming to the point why you would none:
+  Ciuilitie allowes a courteous cariage,
+  To such as proffer loue by way of marriage.
+
+  An affable behauiour may be vsed,
+  And kinde requitall answere kinde deseart,
+  And yet no honest man thereby abused,
+  With fained showes, as if he had the heart:
+     When there is purpose of no such intent
+     To gull him with his time and mony spent.
+
+  _Mall_.
+
+  Were I to giue maides counsell, they to take it,
+  And that they would consent to doe as I,
+  Who offered us his loue, we would forsake it,
+  And like _Dianes Nymphs_ would liue and die:
+     For I protest your louers should haue none,
+     But wiues and widdowes to put tricks vpon.
+
+  We would reuenge the crafty double dealing,
+  Thousands of harmelesse virgins doe endure,
+  By their deceitfull art of kinde-hart stealing,
+  Keeping our loues vnto our selues secure:
+     And credit to their vowes, should be no other,
+     But in at one eare, and goe out at t'other.
+
+  _Bride_.
+
+  This you would doe, and y'are in that minde now,
+  But I perswade me tis but rashly spoken,
+  And therefore _Mary_ make no foolish vow,
+  For if you doe in conscience t'will be broken:
+     Say you doe meane to keepe you free from man,
+     But to be sure, still put in _If you can_.
+
+  Or else you may presume aboue your power,
+  Twixt words and deedes, great difference often growes,
+  You may be taken such a louing hower,
+  Your heart may all be _Cupids_ to dispose:
+     Then vve shall haue you sicke, & pine and grieue,
+     And nothing but a husband can relieue.
+
+  Aske but your elders that are gone before,
+  And the'le say marry maide as we haue done,
+  Twixt twelue and twenty open loue the doore,
+  And say you vvere not borne to liue a Nonne:
+     Vnperfect female, liuing odde you are,
+     Neuer true euen, till you match and paire.
+
+  Iust-_Nature_ at the first this course did take,
+  Woman and man deuided were in twaine,
+  But by vniting both did sweetely make,
+  Deuisions blisse contenfull to remaine,
+     Which well made lawe of _Nature_ and of kinde,
+     To matters reasonles doe nothing binde.
+
+  Nothing vnfit, nothing vniust to doe,
+  But all in order orderly consisting,
+  Then what seeme they that wil not ioine their two
+  And so be one, without vnkinde resisting:
+     Surely no other censure passe I can,
+     But she's halfe woman liues without a man.
+
+  One, that depriues her selfe of whats her right,
+  Borne vnto care, and ignorant of ease,
+  A lustlesse liuing thing, without delight,
+  One, whom vnpleasantnesse best seemes to please:
+     Depriu'd of lifes sweete ioy, from kind remoued,
+     Of worthlesse parts, vnworthy to be loued.
+
+  Who will in paine pertake with such a one,
+  (Whom we may most vnhappy creature call,)
+  Who will assist her, when her griefe makes mone,
+  Or who vphold her if she chance to fall:
+     The burthen one doth beare is light to two,
+     For twisted cordes are hardest to vndoe.
+
+  The loue and ioy doth absolute remaine,
+  That in posteritie is fixed fast,
+  For thou in children art new borne againe,
+  When yeeres haue brought thee to thy breath-spent last:
+     Those oliue plants, shall from each other spring,
+     Till _Times_ full period endeth euery thing.
+
+  This being thus, what sencelesse girles you be,
+  To iustifie a life not worth embracing,
+  Opposing silly maiden wits gainst me,
+  That will not yeelde an ynch to your out-facing:
+     For were heere present all the maydes in towne,
+     With marriage reasons I would put them down.
+
+  _Prudence_.
+
+  Kinke sisters all, now I haue heard the _Bride_,
+  Will you haue my opinion, not to flatter,
+  Sure I am turning to the wedding side,
+  I heare such good sound reason for the matter:
+     Let _Grace_, _Doll_, _Besse_, and _Susan_, _Mary_, _Iane_,
+     Leade apes in hell, I am not of their vaine.
+
+  As sure as death ile ioyne my selfe with man,
+  For I perswade me tis a happy life,
+  Ile be a Bride vvith all the speede I can,
+  It's vvonder how I long to be a vvife:
+  _Grace_ heer's good counsell, had you grace to take it
+     _Susan_ tis sound, oh _Besse_ doe not forfake it.
+
+  Good husband-men vve see doe euer vse,
+  To chuse for forfit those that breede the best,
+  And none vvill keepe bad breeders that can chuse,
+  Euen so your fowlers that often brood the nest,
+     Are most esteem'd, & their kinds worthiest thoght
+     All barren things, by all are counted nought.
+
+  Who plantes an orchard vvith vnfruitfull trees,
+  None but a madman so vvill vvast his ground,
+  Or vvho sowes corne vvhere onely sand he sees,
+  Assured that there vvill no increase be found:
+     And in a vvord all that the vvorld containes,
+     Haue excellence in their begetting gaines.
+
+  For my part therefore I resolue me thus,
+  Vnto the purpose I was borne, ile liue,
+  All maydes are fooles that vvill not ioyne vvith vs,
+  And vnto men their right of marriage giue:
+     Most vvorthy Bride, here is my hand and vow,
+     I loue a man in heart, as vvell as thou.
+
+  _Francis_.
+
+  _Prudence_, I am of your opinion iust,
+  A vvif's farre better than a matchlesse maide,
+  Ile stay no longer virgin then needes must,
+  The law of Nature ought to be obayde:
+     Either vve must haue inward loue to men,
+     Or else beare hate, and so be brutish then.
+
+  Doth not the vvorld instruct vs this by others,
+  That vvedlocke is a remedy for sinne,
+  Shall vve be vviser then our reuerent mothers,
+  That married, or we all had bastards bin:
+     And ere our mothers lost their maiden Iemme,
+     Did not our grandhams euen as much for them.
+
+  From whence haue you the gift to liue vnwed,
+  Pray of what stuffe are your straight bodies made,
+  By what chast spirit was your nicenesse bred,
+  That seeme of flesh to be so purely stayde:
+     Are not all here made females for like ends,
+     Fye, fye for shame, disemble not with friends.
+
+  Ile tell you one thing which by proofe I knowe,
+  My mother had a cocke that vs'd to roame,
+  And all the hens would to our neighbours goe,
+  We could not keepe them for our liues at home:
+     Abroad they went, though we wold nere so saine
+     Vntill by chance we got our cocke againe.
+
+  And so my fathers pigeons in like sort,
+  Our matchlesse hens about would euer flye,
+  To paire with other doues they would resort,
+  (Pray laugh not _Susan_, for it is no lye)
+     I haue it not from other folkes relation,
+     But from mine owne, and mothers obseruation.
+
+  _Susan_.
+
+  I laugh that you compare vs to your hens,
+  Or straying pigions that abroad haue flowne,
+  To seeke about for cocks of other mens,
+  Because (you say) they wanted of their owne:
+     But _Francke_, though you like them be francke and free,
+     You must not iudge all other so to be.
+
+  We doe not vse to hunt abroad for cockes,
+  But rather shun the places where they be,
+  The prouerbe sayes, _let geese beware the fox_,
+  Tis easie making prayes of such as we:
+     That will not keepe them from the charmers charme
+     Mens flatteries doe maiden-heads much harme.
+
+  _Bride_.
+
+  Flatterers are of all to be reiected,
+  As well of wiues as you that are but maydes,
+  We praise not faults wherewith men are infected,
+  Nor yeeld applause to euery one perswades:
+     Our praysing men thus vnderstand you must,
+     Tis meant of those are honest, louing, iust.
+
+  Why there are men doe erre in what you hold,
+  Chast batchelers that neuer meane to match,
+  Who for the siugle life smooth tales haue told,
+  And yet the fleshly knaues will haue a snatch:
+     Ile ne're trust those that of themselues doe boast,
+     The great'st presisians will deceiue you most.
+
+  I knew a prating fellow would maintaine,
+  A married man had but two merry dayes,
+  His wedding day the ioyfull first of twaine,
+  For then God giue you ioy, euen all men sayes:
+     The second merry day of married life,
+     Is that whereon he burieth his wife.
+
+  And woemen vnto shippes he would compare,
+  Saying as they continually lacke mending,
+  So wiues still out of repairations are,
+  And vrge their husbands daily vnto spending:
+     Yea worse disgrace, he would presume to speake:
+     Which I will spare, least I offend the weake.
+
+  But note the badnesse of this wretches life,
+  That counted woemen abiect things forsaken,
+  He raune away at last with's neighbours wife,
+  Worthy of hanging were the rascall taken:
+     Such odious actes haue such dishonest mates,
+     that against marriage, rude and senceles prates.
+
+  But you most wilfull wenches that oppose,
+  Against the state that you are borne to honour,
+  A prophesie vnto you Ile disclose,
+  And she that here doth take most nice vpon her:
+     Pray note it well, for there is matter in it,
+     And for to doe you good thus I beginne it.
+
+  When fish with fowle change elements together,
+  The one forsaking aire, the other water,
+  And they that woare the finne, to weare the feather,
+  Remaining changelings all the worlds time after:
+     The course of nature will be so beguilde,
+     One maide shall get another maide with childe.
+
+  When euery Crow shall turne to be a Parret,
+  And euery Starre out-shine the glorious Sunne,
+  And the new water works runne white and clarret,
+  That come to towne by way of _Islington_,
+     Woemen and men shall quite renounce each other.
+     And maides shall bee with childe, like _Merlins_ mother.
+
+  _Grace_.
+
+  Like _Merlins_ mother, how was that I pray,
+  For I haue heard he was a cunning man,
+  There lines not snch another at this day,
+     Nor euer was, since _Brittans_ first began:
+     Tell vs the story, and we well will minde it.
+     Because they say, _In written bookes we finde it_.
+
+  _Bride_.
+
+  Marry this _Merlins_ mother was welsh Lady,
+  That liued in _Carnaruan_ beautious maide,
+  And loue of Lords and Knights shee did not way by,
+  But set all light, and euery one denay'd:
+     All Gentlemen, (as all you knowe be there,)
+     That came a wooing were no wit the neere.
+
+  At length it hapned that this gallant girle,
+  Which scorned all men that she euer saw,
+  Holding her selfe to be a matchlesse Pearle,
+  And such a Loadestone that could Louers draw:
+     Grew belly-full, exceeding bigge and plumpe,
+     Which put her Mayden-credit in a dumpe.
+
+  Time running course, and her full stomacke fed,
+  When consumation of fewe months expired,
+  Shee husbandlesse, a mayde was brought to bed,
+  Of that rare _Merlin_ that the world admired:
+     This to be honest, all her friends did doubt it,
+     Much prittle prattle was in _Wales_ about it.
+
+  So that ere long, the strangnes of the thing,
+  To heare that Lady _Adhan_ had a childe,
+  Caus'd famous _Arthur_ (being Brittans King)
+  Send for her to the Court, and reason milde:
+     To know how this rare matter could be done,
+     And make her finde a father for her sonne.
+
+  She told his Maiestie with sighes and teares,
+  That keeping beautie carefull from the Sunne,
+  Within her chamber safely shut from feares,
+  Till _Phoebus_ horses to the West were runne:
+     The doores fast lock'd, and she her selfe alone,
+     Came in a gallant stranger, meere vnknowne.
+
+  Who euer came in courting manner to her,
+  With all the louing courage could be thought:
+  So powerfull in perswasions force to woe her,
+  That to his will constrained she was brought:
+     Although her heart did firme deniall vow,
+     Yet she was forc'd to yeeld and knew not how.
+
+  So oft he came (quoth she) priuate and strange,
+  When I shut vp my selfe in most sad humor,
+  That I began to finde an inward change,
+  Which brought me quickly to an outward tumor:
+     An't please your highnes I was in such case,
+     That to the world I durst not show my face.
+
+  My foes reioyced, all my friends were sad,
+  My selfe in sorrow spent both day and night,
+  No satisfaction my wrong'd honour had,
+  Was neuer maide in such perplexed plight:
+     To be with child whether I will or no,
+     And for my child, no humane father know.
+
+  Had I bin married (quoth she) as I ought,
+  And with my loue, the loue of man requited,
+  I had not to this woefull state bin brought,
+  In all contempt, disgracefully despighted:
+     And tearmed strumpet by the rude vnciuill,
+     Who say my sonne is bastard to the diuell.
+
+  Wherefore I wish Ladies of my degree,
+  And all the rest inferiour sorts of maydes,
+  To take a warning (for their good) by me,
+  Yeelding affection when kind men perswades:
+     And hate disdaine that vile accursed sin,
+     Least they be plagu'd for pride as I haue bin.
+
+  How say you to this warning wenches now,
+  That Lady _Adhan_ giues vnto you all,
+  Were you not better marriage to allow,
+  Then in a manner for a Midwife call:
+     I thinke you were if I might iudge the cause,
+     How say you _Susan_, speake good _Doll_ and _Grace_.
+
+  _Grace_.
+
+  This is a story that seemes very strange,
+  And for my part, it doth me full perswade,
+  My Mayden-head with some man to exchange,
+  I will not liue in danger of a mayde:
+     The world the flesh, the diuell tempts vs still,
+     Ile haue a husband, I protest I will.
+
+  If I were sure none of you here would blabbe,
+  I would euen tell you of a dreame most true,
+  And if I lye, count me the veriest drabbe,
+  That euer any of you saw or knewe:
+     When a friend speakes in kindnes do not wrong her:
+     For I can keepe it (for my life) no longer.
+
+  One night (I haue the day of moneth set downe)
+  Because I will make serious matters sure,
+  Me thought I went a iourney out of towne,
+  And with a propper man I was made sure:
+     As sure as death, me thought we were assured,
+     And all things for the businesse were procured.
+
+  We did agree, and faith and troath did plight,
+  And he gaue me, and I gaue him a Ring,
+  To doe as _Mistris Bride_ will doe at night,
+  And I protest me thought he did the thing:
+     The thing we stand so much vpon he tooke,
+     And I vpon the matter bigge did looke.
+
+  Forsooth (in sadnes,) I was bigge with childe,
+  And had a belly, (marry God forbid,)
+  Then fell a weeping, but he laught and smil'd,
+  And boldly said, weele stand to what we did:
+     Fye, fye (quoth I) who euer stands I fall,
+     Farewell my credit, maydenhead and all.
+
+  Thus as I cry'd and wept and wrong my hands,
+  And said deare maydes and maydenhead adue,
+  Before my face me thought my mother stands,
+  And question'd with me how this matter grew:
+     With that I start awake as we are now,
+     Yet feard my dreame had bin no dreame I vow.
+
+  I could not (for my life) tell how to take it,
+  For I was stricken in a mightie maze,
+  Therefore if marriage come Ile not forsake it,
+  Tis danger to liue virgin diuers wayes,
+     I would not in such feare againe be found,
+     Without a husband, for a thousand pound.
+
+  _Susan_.
+
+  Is it euen so _Grace_, are you come to this,
+  You that perswaded me from loue of late,
+  When you knew who, sent me a Ring of his:
+  And would haue had me bin his turtle mate,
+     You cunningly did make me to forsake him,
+     Because I thinke in conscience you will take him.
+
+  Ile trust your word another time againe,
+  That can dissemble so against your heart,
+  Wishing that I should earnestly refraine,
+  From that which thou thy selfe embracer art:
+     This is braue doing, I commend you _Grace_,
+     But ile nere trust you more in such a case.
+
+  _Bride_.
+
+  I pray you here let this contention ende,
+  (We being all of selfe same woman kind,)
+  And each the other, with aduise befriend,
+  Because I see some of you well enclin'd:
+     To take good wayes, and so become good wiues,
+     Ile teach you certaine rules to leade your liues.
+
+  You that intend the honourable life,
+  And vvould vvith ioy liue happy in the same,
+  Must note eight duties doe concerne a wife,
+  To vvhich vvith all endeuour she must frame:
+     And so in peace possesse her husbands loue,
+     And all distast from both their hearts remooue.
+
+  The first is that she haue domestique cares,
+  Of priuate businesse for the house vvithin,
+  Leauing her husband vnto his affaires,
+  Of things abroad that out of doores haue bin:
+     By him performed as his charge to doe,
+     Not busie-body like inclin'd thereto.
+
+  Nor intermedling as a number will,
+  Of foolish gossips, such as doe neglect,
+  The things which doe concerne them, and too ill,
+  Presume in matters vnto no effect:
+     Beyond their element, when they should looke,
+     To what is done in Kitchin by the Cooke.
+
+  Or vnto childrens vertuous education,
+  Or to their maides that they good huswiues be,
+  And carefully containe a decent fashion,
+  That nothing passe the lymmits of degree:
+     Knowing her husbands businesse from her own,
+     And diligent doe that, let his alone.
+
+  The second dutie of the wife is this,
+  (Which shee in minde ought very carefull beare)
+  To entertaine in house such friends of his,
+  As she doth know haue husbands welcome there:
+     Not her acquaintance without his consent,
+     For that way Iealousie breeds discontent.
+
+  An honest woman will the scandall shun,
+  Of that report is made of wantonnesse,
+  And feare her credit will to ruine run,
+  When euill speakers doe her shame expresse:
+     And therefore from this rule a practise drawes,
+     That the effect may cease, remoue the cause.
+
+  Th'ird dutie is, that of no proude pretence,
+  She moue her husband to consume his meanes,
+  With vrging him to needlesse vaine expence,
+  Which toward the Counter, or to Ludgate leanes:
+     For many ydle huswiues (London knowes)
+     Haue by their pride bin husbands ouerthrowes,
+
+  A modest woman will in compasse keepe,
+  And decently vnto her calling goe,
+  Not diuing in the frugall purse too deepe,
+  By making to the world a pecocke showe:
+     Though they seeme fooles, so yeelde vnto their wiues,
+     Some poore men doe it to haue quiet liues.
+
+  Fourth dutie is, to loue her owne house best,
+  And be no gadding gossippe vp and downe,
+  To heare and carry tales amongst the rest,
+  That are the newes reporters of the towne:
+     A modest vvomans home is her delight,
+     Of businesse there, to haue the ouersight.
+
+  At publike playes she neuer will be knowne,
+  And to be tauerne guest she euer hates,
+  Shee scornes to be a streete-wife (Idle one,)
+  Or field vvife ranging vvith her vvalking mates:
+     She knows how wise men censure of such dames,
+     And how with blottes they blemish their good names.
+
+  And therefore with the doue sheele rather choose,
+  To make aboade where she hath dwelling place,
+  Or like the snayle that shelly house doeth vse,
+  For shelter still, such is good-huswiues case:
+     Respecting residence where she doth loue,
+     As those good housholders, the snayle and doue.
+
+  Fift dutie of a wife vnto her head,
+  Is her ohedience to reforme his will,
+  And neuer with a selfe conceit be led,
+  That her aduise prooues good, his counsell ill:
+     In Iudgement being singular alone,
+     As hauing all the wit, her husband none.
+
+  She must not thinke her wisedome to be thus,
+  (For we alasie are weakelings vnto men)
+  What singular good thing remaines in vs,
+  Of wife ones in a thousand, show me ten,
+     Her stocke of wit, that hath the most (I say,)
+     Hath scarse enough for spending euery day.
+
+  When as the husband bargaines hath to make,
+  In things that are depending on his trade,
+  Let not wifes boldnes, power vnto her take,
+  As though no match were good but what she made
+     For she that thus hath oare in husbands boate,
+     Let her take breech, and giue him petti-coate.
+
+  Sixt dutie is, to pacific his yre,
+  although she finde that he empatient be,
+  For hasty words, like fuell adde to fire,
+  And more, and more insenceth wraths degree:
+     When she perceiues his choller in a fit,
+     Let her forbeare, and that's a signe of wit.
+
+  Many occasions vnto men doe fall,
+  Of aduerse crosses, woemen not conceiue,
+  To find vs honny, they doe meete with gall,
+  Their toyle for vs, doe their owne ioyes bereaue:
+     Great shame it were, that we should ad their woe,
+     That doe maintaine, and keepe, and loue vs so.
+
+  If that a hasty word sometime be spoke,
+  Let vs not censure therefore they are foes,
+  Say tis infirmitie that doth prouoke,
+  Their hearts are sorry for their tongues God knowes:
+     Since we by proofe each day and hower finde,
+     For one harsh word, they giue ten thousand kind
+
+  The seuenth dutie that she must endeauour,
+  Is to obserue her husbands disposition,
+  And thereunto conforme her selfe for euer,
+  In all obedient sort, with meeke submission:
+     Resoluing that as his conditions are,
+     Her rules of life she must according square.
+
+  His vertues and good parts which she doth finde,
+  shee must endeauor for to imitate,
+  The vices whereunto he is enclin'd,
+  Shee must in patience beare in milde estate:
+     So that the meekenesse of her louing carriage,
+     May be peace-maker, of all strife in marriage.
+
+  She must not doe as foolish woemen vse,
+  When they are met about the gossippes chat,
+  Their absent husbands with their tongues abuse,
+  But vtterly abhorre to offer that:
+     Resoluing that a husbands least disgrace,
+     Sould cause the wife to haue a blushing face.
+
+  The eight last dutie she must take vpon her,
+  To binde all t'other seauen to be done,
+  Is loue and chiefe regard to husbands honour,
+  Which if at true affection it begunne:
+     Then be he poore, or sicke, or in distresse,
+     Shee still remaines most firme in faithfulnesse.
+
+  Best in aduersitie it will appeare,
+  What constancy within the heart remaines,
+  No testimonie can be found more cleare,
+  Then friend in trouble rhat his loue explaines:
+     For such a one we may resolue is true,
+     That changeth not, though fortune turne from yon.
+
+  And thus faire virgins, to you all farewell,
+  What I haue spoken doe proceede from loue,
+  The ioyes of marriage I want art to tell,
+  And therefore no more talke, but try and proue:
+     With wedding rings, be wiues of credit knowne
+     God send good husbands to you euery one.
+
+  _FINIS_.
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