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.
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