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A Dialogue touching the matrimoniall degree.
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A Dialogue touching the matrimoniall degree.
Sithe
wee are now in pleasaunt place,
Where eache may speake his minde at will,
And quietly debate the case,
Accordingly by simple skill,
I meane to reason this with thee,
Who will be bounde and may go free.
Where eache may speake his minde at will,
And quietly debate the case,
Accordingly by simple skill,
I meane to reason this with thee,
Who will be bounde and may go free.
What bandes you meane first let me know,
And then I will some answer make,
In diuers sence your wordes do grow,
And diuersly they may be take,
Though commonly they be aplide,
To those that are in wedlocke tide.
And then I will some answer make,
In diuers sence your wordes do grow,
And diuersly they may be take,
Though commonly they be aplide,
To those that are in wedlocke tide.
My meaning is as ye do gesse,
Now let me heare what you can say,
If I shall right my minde expresse,
And speake the truth without delay,
I thinke him voyde of witte to bee,
That wil be bounde and may go free.
Now let me heare what you can say,
If I shall right my minde expresse,
And speake the truth without delay,
I thinke him voyde of witte to bee,
That wil be bounde and may go free.
In wedlocke state, is no such bande,
No freedom lost by taking wife,
If that the truth be rightly scande,
She causeth longe and happie life,
A verteous wife enlarge thy daies,
Of husbands age deuine bookes saies,
No freedom lost by taking wife,
If that the truth be rightly scande,
She causeth longe and happie life,
A verteous wife enlarge thy daies,
Of husbands age deuine bookes saies,
Who hastes to wyue in hope of that,
Maye grope for Eles and catch a Snake,
And proue as wise as Pusse our Catte,
That sekinge fishe fell in the lake.
Let them that list therfore for me,
I will not binde and maie goe free.
Maye grope for Eles and catch a Snake,
And proue as wise as Pusse our Catte,
That sekinge fishe fell in the lake.
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I will not binde and maie goe free.
Well then I see who will contend,
If thou so wilfully be bente,
I doe fall out to little ende,
Take hede therfore leste thou repente,
The life thou now calst libertie,
Here after through extremitie.
If thou so wilfully be bente,
I doe fall out to little ende,
Take hede therfore leste thou repente,
The life thou now calst libertie,
Here after through extremitie.
The Batcheler most ioyefully,
In pleasant plight doth passe his daies,
Good feloship and companie,
He doth maynteine and keepe alwaies,
With Damsels braue he may well go,
The maride man can not do so.
In pleasant plight doth passe his daies,
Good feloship and companie,
He doth maynteine and keepe alwaies,
With Damsels braue he may well go,
The maride man can not do so.
Though daintie Dames thee now delight,
And bewties beames thine eies do blinde,
When time shall come of perfit sight,
The weddid life thou suerst shalt finde,
For God himselfe to auoyde sinne,
The weddid state did first beginne.
And bewties beames thine eies do blinde,
When time shall come of perfit sight,
The weddid life thou suerst shalt finde,
For God himselfe to auoyde sinne,
The weddid state did first beginne.
Finis.
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