acqueintance. xantippa. xan. As many agayn, my dere
hert. Eulalia. me semets ye ar waren much faire now
of late. Eula. Saye you so? gyue you me a mocke at the
first dash. xan. Nay veryly but I take you so. Eula.
Happely mi new gown maketh me to loke fayrer then I
sholde doe. xan. Sothe you saye, I haue not sene a
mynioner this many dayes, I reken it Englishe cloth.
Eu. It is english stuff and dyed in Venis. xan. It is
softer then sylke what an oriente purpel colore here is
who gaue you so rich a gift. Eu. How shoulde honeste
women come by their gere? but by their husbandes.
xan. Happy arte thou that hathe suche an husband, but
I wolde to god for his passyon, that I had maryed an
husband of clowts, when I had maried col my good man.
Eula. Why say ye so. I pray you, are you at oddes now.
xan. I shal neuer be at one with him ye se how
beggerly I go. I haue not an hole smock to put on my
backe, and he is wel contente with all: I praye god I
neuer come in heuen & I be not ashamed oftimes to shewe
my head, when I se other wiues how net and trim they go
that ar matched with farre porer men then he is.
Eula. The apparell of honest wiues is not in the aray
of the body, nor in the tirements of their head as
saynte Peter the apostle teacheth vs (and that I
learned a late at a sermon) but in good lyuynge and
honest conuersacion and in the ornamentes of the soule,
the common buenes ar painted up, to please manye
mennes eies we ar trime ynough yf we please our
husbands only. xan. But yet my good man so euyll
wylling to bestow ought vpon his wyfe, maketh good