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.
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
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