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Erasmus, Desiderius, 1469-1536

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

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.


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