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Of wiuing and thriuing. 
Who then may blame him for that clause, 
Though then he spake as some had cause, 
As touching for to wiue ? 
Obtection. 
Why then I see to take a shrew, 
(As seldome other there be few) 
Is not the way to thriue: 
So hard a thing I spie it is, 
The good to chuse, the shrew to mis, 
That feareth me to wiue. 
Affirmation. 
She may in something seeme a shrew, 
Yet such a huswife as but few, 
To helpe thee for to thriue: 
This prouerbe looke in mind ye keepe, 
As good a shrew is as a sheepe, 
For you to take to wiue. 
Obtection. 
Now be she lambe or be she eaw, 
Giue me the sheepe, take thou the shreaw, 
See which of vs shall thriue: 
If she be shrewish thinke for troth, 
For all her thrift I would be loth 
To match with such to wiue. 
Affirmation. 
Tush, farewell then, I leaue you off, 
Such fooles as you that loue to scoff, 
Shall seldome wiue to thriue: 
Contrarie hir, as you do me, 
And then ye shall, I warrant ye, 
Repent ye if ye wiue. 
