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A description, etc. 
72. 
§] A description of Huswife and 
Flusweferte. 
F huswife doth huswiferie challenge that name, 
; of huswiferie huswife doth likewise the same, 
Where husband and husbandrie ioineth with thease, 
there wealthines gotten is holden with ease. 
The name of a huswife what is it to say ? 
the wife of the house, to the husband a stay. 
If huswife doth that, as belongeth to hur: 
if husband be godlie,' there needeth no stur. 
The huswife is she that to labour doth fall, 
the labour of hir I doo huswiferie call. 
If thrift by that labour be honestlie® got: 
then is it good huswiferie, else is it not. 
The woman the name of a huswife doth win, 
by keeping hir house, and of dooings therein. 
And she that with husband will quietly dwell, 
must thinke on this lesson, and follow it well. 
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73. 
Instructions to Husweferie. 
Serue God is the furst, 
True loue is not wurst. 
DAILIE good lesson, of huswife in deede, 
is God to remember, the better to speede. 
An other good lesson, of huswiferie thought, 
is huswife with husband to liue as she ought. 
