Newe Sonets and pretie Pamphlets. Written by Thomas Howell. Newly augmented, corrected and amended |
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A freindly admonishment to bee freinde to choose a wife.
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A freindly admonishment to bee freinde to choose a wife.
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liue in loue: for thy behoue, let reason rule thy choyce:
so shalt thou weare: Ulisses eare, to shun the Syrens voyce,
Beware and care: before thou stare, on womens painted eyes,
like Crocodiles: with poysoned smiles, they will thee cleane disguise,
If thou to catche: intendst a match, to liue in mariage sporte:
first marke and heare: what fame she beare, amonge the wiser sorte,
For market men: can tell thee then, how doth the market go,
if well thou heare: then draw thee neare, and be in sute not slo,
so shalt thou weare: Ulisses eare, to shun the Syrens voyce,
Beware and care: before thou stare, on womens painted eyes,
like Crocodiles: with poysoned smiles, they will thee cleane disguise,
If thou to catche: intendst a match, to liue in mariage sporte:
first marke and heare: what fame she beare, amonge the wiser sorte,
For market men: can tell thee then, how doth the market go,
if well thou heare: then draw thee neare, and be in sute not slo,
In womens mindes: are diuers winds, which stur their Aspin tunge,
to prate and chat, they know not what, by that much strife is sprong,
But take thou heede: and euer dreede, to matche with carters kinde,
for carters seede, is base of breede, whose maners ill wee finde,
They will deuise: both tales and lies, to bring thy house to square:
no honest man (if that she can,) with hir shall credit beare,
Such rusticke kinde: such faults will finde, whē they desarue the blame
and wilbe proude: and scould full loude; not passyng for hir fame,
to prate and chat, they know not what, by that much strife is sprong,
But take thou heede: and euer dreede, to matche with carters kinde,
for carters seede, is base of breede, whose maners ill wee finde,
They will deuise: both tales and lies, to bring thy house to square:
no honest man (if that she can,) with hir shall credit beare,
Such rusticke kinde: such faults will finde, whē they desarue the blame
and wilbe proude: and scould full loude; not passyng for hir fame,
The seruants good: from meate and foode, she will debar with paine:
and yet complaine, as though thy gaine, by them were spent in vaine,
To blinde thine eyes: she will haue spies, to bringe thee tales and lies,
as though for thrift, good huswiues shift, she doth for thee deuise,
When she in deede, her selfe will feede, and take her priuate gaine,
and make the weare kyng, Midas eare, as though she tooke the paine,
But in hir Wyne, she will diuine, and blab the secret minde:
to such hir mates: as chats and prates, according to hir kinde,
and yet complaine, as though thy gaine, by them were spent in vaine,
To blinde thine eyes: she will haue spies, to bringe thee tales and lies,
as though for thrift, good huswiues shift, she doth for thee deuise,
When she in deede, her selfe will feede, and take her priuate gaine,
and make the weare kyng, Midas eare, as though she tooke the paine,
But in hir Wyne, she will diuine, and blab the secret minde:
to such hir mates: as chats and prates, according to hir kinde,
By this I say, a foole in play, by hir thou shalt be made:
and all the towne: will call thee clowne, which ridest on such a Iade,
Agayne a mayde, of honest trade, if thou wilt seeke to haue:
though riches want: yet like the Ant, by trauell will she saue.
An still enough, thy man at plough, and all thy seruants els,
shall of hir meate, both drinke and eate, no toyes nor lies she tels,
In quiet rest, she maketh nest, to lodge thy weary bones:
and will thee keepe, in quiet sleepe, from all deepe sighes and grones,
and all the towne: will call thee clowne, which ridest on such a Iade,
Agayne a mayde, of honest trade, if thou wilt seeke to haue:
though riches want: yet like the Ant, by trauell will she saue.
An still enough, thy man at plough, and all thy seruants els,
shall of hir meate, both drinke and eate, no toyes nor lies she tels,
In quiet rest, she maketh nest, to lodge thy weary bones:
and will thee keepe, in quiet sleepe, from all deepe sighes and grones,
Amonge hir maydes, with honest trades, she puts hir hande in vse:
and alwaies dreades: hir husbands deedes, with scoldyng to abuse,
Besides all this: thou shald not misse, but haue an honest fame:
for such a wife: is chaste of life, and like Ulisses dame,
He is a cokes: and worthy strokes, whose wife the Breeches beare:
a Cuckolds hoode, to do him good, deserueth he to weare,
Take heede therfore: and keepe in store, this short admonishment:
Least had I wist: alas I mist, then doest to late repent.
and alwaies dreades: hir husbands deedes, with scoldyng to abuse,
Besides all this: thou shald not misse, but haue an honest fame:
for such a wife: is chaste of life, and like Ulisses dame,
He is a cokes: and worthy strokes, whose wife the Breeches beare:
a Cuckolds hoode, to do him good, deserueth he to weare,
Take heede therfore: and keepe in store, this short admonishment:
Least had I wist: alas I mist, then doest to late repent.
Finis.
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