al deadly greifes, & odible offences. xantip.  That is no newes to me.  Eula.  Though the woman shulde be well ware and wyse that she shulde neuer be disobedient vnto her husband yet she ought to be most circumspect that at meting she shew her selfe redy and pleasaunt unto him. xantyppa.  Yea vnto a man, holde well withall but I am combred with a beast.  Eula.  No more of those wordes, most commonly our husbandes ar euyll through our owne faute, but to returne againe vnto our taile they that ar sene in the olde fables of Poetes sai that Venus whome they make chiefe lady of wedlocke (hath a girdle made by the handy worke of Vulcan her Lorde, and in that is thrust al that enforceth love and with that she girdeth her whan so ever she lyeth wyth her housbande xantippa.  A tale of a tubbe.  Eulalya.  A tayle it is, but herken what the taile meaneth. xantippa.  Tell me.  Eulalia That techeth us that the wyfe ought to dyspose her selfe all the she maye that lieng by her husband she shew him al the plesure that she can; Wherby the honest love of matrimony may reuiue and be renewed, & that there with be clene dispatched al grudges & malice xant.  But how shall we come by the thys gyrdle?  Eula.  We nede neyther wytchraft nor enchauntment, ther is non of them al, so sure as honest condicions accompayned with good feloshyp. xan.  I can not fauoure suche an husbande as myne is.  Eula, It is moste thy profyt that he be no longer suche.  If thou couldest by thy Circes craft chaunge thin husband into an hogge, or a bore wouldest thou do it? xantip.  God knoweth.  Eu.  Art thou in dout? haddest thou leauer marye an hogge than a man.  Xantip.  Mary I had leauer haue a manne.  Eulalia. wel, what and thou coudest by sorcery make him of a dronkarde a soober man, of a vnthrifte a good housbande of an ydell losell a towarde body, woldest thou not doe it? xantip. yes, hardely, woulde I doe it.  But where shoulde I learne the cunnyng?  Eula.  For soth that conning hast thou in the if thou wouldest vtter it, thyn must he be, mauger thy head, the towarde ye makest him, the better it is for the, thou lokest on nothing but on his leude condicions, and thei make the half mad, thou wouldest amende hym and thou puttest hym farther oute of frame, loke rather on his good condicions, and so shalt thou make him better.  It is to late calagayne yesterdaie before thou were maryed unto hym.  It was tyme to consyder what his fautes were for a women shold not only take her husbande by the eyes but by the eares.  Now it is more tyme to redresse fautes then to fynd fautes. xantt.  What woman euer toke her gusband by the eares.  Eulali.  She taketh her husbande by the eyes that loketh on nothyng, but on the beautye and pulcritude of the body.  She taketh him by the eares, that harkeneth diligently what the common voice sayth by him xantip.  Thy counsaile is good, but it commeth a day after the faire.  Eula.  Yet it commeth time ynough to bringe thyne husbande to a greate furtheraunce to that shall bee yf God