pastyme and pleasure. For yf that place which is
ordeined to make amendes for all fautes and so to
renew loue, be polluted, eyther with strife or
grugynges, then fayre wel al hope of loue daies, or
atonementes, yet there be some beastes so wayward and
mischeuous, that when theyr husbandes hath them in
their arms a bed, they scholde & chyde making that same
plesure their lewd condicions (that expelseth all
displeasures oute of their husbandes mynde unpleasaunt
and lytell set bi corrupting the medecine that shuld
haue cured al deadly greifes, & odible offences.
xantip. That is no newes to me. Eula. Though the woman
shulde be well ware and wyse that she shulde neuer be
disobedient vnto her husband yet she ought to be most
circumspect that at meting she shew her selfe redy
and pleasaunt unto him. xantyppa. Yea vnto a man, holde
well withall but I am combred with a beast. Eula. No
more of those wordes, most commonly our husbandes ar
euyll through our owne faute, but to returne againe
vnto our taile they that ar sene in the olde fables of
Poetes sai that Venus whome they make chiefe lady of
wedlocke (hath a girdle made by the handy worke of
Vulcan her Lorde, and in that is thrust al that
enforceth love and with that she girdeth her whan so
ever she lyeth wyth her housbande xantippa. A tale of a
tubbe. Eulalya. A tayle it is, but herken what the
taile meaneth. xantippa. Tell me. Eulalia That techeth
us that the wyfe ought to dyspose her selfe all the she
maye that lieng by her husband she shew him al the
plesure that she can; Wherby the honest love of