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.