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 sende you anie
frute togither. xantippa. We are spede alredy of that.
Eulaly. How long ago. Xantip. A good whyle ago Eulalia.
How many monethes old is it. Xantip. It lacketh lytle
of. vii. Eula What a tale is this, ye reken the
monethes by nightes and dayes double. Xantippa. Not so.
Eula. It can not be none other wyse, yf ye reken from
the mariage day. xantippa. yea, but what then, I
spake with him before we were maried. Eulalia. Be
children gotten by speakinge. xantip. It befell so that
he mette me alone and begon to ticke at me, and tickled
me vnder the arme holes and sydes to make me laugh. I
might not awaie with ticklynge, but fell downe
backewarde vpon a bedde and he a lofte, neuer leuinge
kyssynge on me, what he did els I can not saye, but by
sayncte Marie within a while after my bely beganne to
swell. Eula. Go now and disprayse thine husbande
whiche yf he gette children by playe, what wyll he do
when he goeth to it in good ernest. xantippa, I fere
me I am p