_"A Good Wife," &c._, and _"God speed the Plough!"_--I
should hold myself deeply indebted to any of your correspondents who
would inform me where the two following quotations are to be found.
I have been anxiously looking for them for some years. I have taken
some pains myself--{230} "I have poached in Suidas for unlicensed
Greek"--have applied to my various antiquarian friends (many of
whose names I was delighted to recognise among the brilliant galaxy
that enlightened your first number)--but hitherto all in vain; and I
am reduced to acknowledge the truth of the old proberb, "A ---- may
ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven
years:"--
I. "For thus will most truly be verified the _saying of the
poet_, 'A good wife, by obeying her husband, shall bear the
rule, so that he shall have a delight and a gladness the sooner at
all times to return home to her.' But, on the contrary part, 'when
the wives be stubborn, froward, and malapert, their husbands are
compelled thereby to abhor and flee from their own houses, even as
they should have battle with their enemies.'"--_Homily on
Matrimony_, p. 450. ed. Oxford, 1840.