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.  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
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