matrimony may reuiue and be renewed, & that there with
be clene dispatched al grudges & malice xant. But how
shall we come by the thys gyrdle? Eula. We nede neyther
wytchraft nor enchauntment, ther is non of them al, so
sure as honest condicions accompayned with good
feloshyp. xan. I can not fauoure suche an husbande as
myne is. Eula, It is moste thy profyt that he be no
longer suche. If thou couldest by thy Circes craft
chaunge thin husband into an hogge, or a bore wouldest
thou do it? xantip. God knoweth. Eu. Art thou in dout?
haddest thou leauer 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