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.
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xantyppa. Why? can I forgeue him a new,
Eu. It lieth great parte in the womē, 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 & womā, 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 mā hath his seueral aptite or mynde, and thinkes hys owne
way best, & yf we list not to lie there liueth no mā
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 knowē
vnto the other beware of that in any wife, for when malice is ones
begon, loue is but barely redressed agayne,
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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 cā find in your hart
to do it, nor yet no good time past for he is a yong mā, and
you ar but agirle of age, and I trowe it is not a yere ful sins ye
wer maried.
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