haue I at home. Eula. Thei
that goth vnto the Elephantes weare no white garmentes,
nor they that tame wylde bulles, weare no blasynge
reedes, for experience teacheth, that suche beastes bee
madde with those colours, like as the Tygers by the
sound of tumbrels be made so wode, that thei plucke
theymself in peces. Also thei that breake horses haue
their termes and theyr soundes theyr hadlynges, and
other knackes to breake their wyldnes, wyth all. Howe
much more then is it oure duetyes that ye wyues to
use suche craftes toward our husbandes with whom all
our lyfe tyme wil we, nyl we is one house, and one bed.
xantip. furthwith your tale. Eula, when I had ones
marked there thynges. I applied my selfe unto hym, well
ware not to displease him. xantip. How could thou do
that. Eulalya. Fyrste in the ouerseynge my householde,
which is the very charge and cure of wyues, I wayted
euer, not onely gyuynge hede that nothing shoulde be
forgotten or undoone, but that althynges should be as
he woulde haue it, wer it euer so small a trifle.
xan. wherin. Eulalia. As thus. Yf mi good man had a
fantasye to this thynge, or to that thyng, or if he
would haue his meate dressed on this fashion, or that
fashion. xan. But howe couldest thou fashyon thye selfe
after hys wyll and mynde, that eyther woulde not be at
home or elles be as freshe as a saulte heryng. Elali.
Abyde a while. I come not at that yet, yf my husband
wer very sad at anye tyme, no time to speake to him. I
laughed not nor tryfled him as many a woman doth but I
looked rufully and heauyly, for as a glasse (if it be a
true stone) representeth euer ye physnamy of hym that
loketh in it, so lykewyse it becommeth a wedded woman
alway to agre vnto the appetite of her husbande, that
she be not mery when he murneth, nor dysposed to play
when he is sad. And if that at any time he be waiward
shrewshaken, either I pacyfye hym with faire wordes, or
I let hym alone, vntyll the wynd be ouerblowen gyuing
him neuer a word at al, vntil the time come that I may
eyther excuse my faute, or tell hym of hys. In lyke
wyse when he commeth home wel whitled, I gyue hym
gentyll and fayre woordes, so with fayre entreatynge I
gette hym to bed. xantyppa, O careful state of wyues,
when they muste be gladde and fayne to followe their
husbandes mindes, be thei eluyshe, dronken, or doying
what myschiefe they liste. Eula. A