youre dystaffe to haue made you a speare. xantip.
And he shoulde not greatlye a laughed at his parte.
Eulali. Ah my frynde. xantyppa. that way is neither
good nor godly, xantippa what is neither good nor
godly. yf he wyll not vse me, as hys wyfe: I wil not
take him for my husbande. Eulalya. But Paule sayeth
that wyues shoulde bee boner and buxome vnto their
husbandes with all humylytye, and Peter also bryngethe
vs an example of Sara, that called her husbande
Abrahame, Lorde. xantippa. I know that as well as you
then ye same paule say that men shoulde loue theyr
wyues, as Christ loues his spouse the churche let him
do his duete I wil do myne. Eula. But for all that,
when the matter is so farre that the one muste forber
the other it is reason that the woman giue place vnto
the man, xan. Is he meete to be called my husbande
that maketh me his vnderlynge and his dryuel? Eula. But
tel me dame xantip. Would he neuer offre the stripes
after that xantip. Not a stripe, and therin he was
the wyser man for & he had he should haue repented
euery vayne in hys harte. Eulali. But thou offered him
foule wordes plentie, xantip. And will do. Eula. What
doth he ye meane season. xantip. What doth he
sometyme cowcheth an hogeshed, somtime he doth nothing
but stande and laughe at me, other whyle takethe hys
Lute wheron is scarslie three strynges layenge on that
as fast as he may dryue because he would not here me.
Eula. Doeth that greue thee? xantippa. To beyonde home,
manie a tyme I haue much a do to hold my handes. Eula.
Neighbour. xantip. wylt thou gyue me leaue to be playn
with the. xantippa Good leaue haue you. Eula. Be as
bolde on me agayne our olde acquayntaunce and amite,
euen from our chyldhode, would it should be so.
xantippa. Trueth you saie, there was neuer woman kinde
that I fauoured more Elaly Whatsoeuer thy husband be,
marke well this, chaunge thou canst not, In the olde
lawe, where the deuill hadde cast aboone betwene the
man and the wife, at the worste waye they myght be
deuorsed, but now that remedie is past, euen till
death depart you he must nedes be thy husbande, and
thou hys wyfe, xan. 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