A Merry Dialogue Declaringe the Properties of Shrowde Shrews and Honest Wives eBook

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A Merry Dialogue Declaringe the Properties of Shrowde Shrews and Honest Wives eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 24 pages of information about A Merry Dialogue Declaringe the Properties of Shrowde Shrews and Honest Wives.
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
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