The Closet of Counsells conteining The aduice of diuers wyse Philosophers, touchinge sundry morall matters, in Poesies, Preceptes, Prouerbes, and Parrables, translated, and collected out of diuers aucthors, into Englishe Verse: by Edmond Eluiden. Wherunto is anexed a pithy and pleasant discription of the abuses: and vanities of the vvorlde |
Of a womans duety. |
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Of a womans duety.
A woman if she would auoydean yll suspitious name:
Must sone be ready to conceaue
of euill thinges a shame.
And in hir speach for to be slow
yet temperate in hir tonge:
And wise of witte, and in hir deedes
to offer none a wronge.
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and conuersytion meeke:
And lowe of heart, but of disdayne
and enuie for to seeke.
And stedfast in hir promyse made
and constant in hir loue:
That nothing may distemper it
or cause it to remoue.
And in correction pitifull
regarding well hir life:
For these adorne the virgins state
and bewtify the wife.
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