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144. A lesso7i for the wife. 



A lesson of 

 Solomon. 



[Fol. 60.] 



A lesson of 

 Jerome. 



Choose 

 either idle- 

 ness or 

 labour. 



144. \ A lesson for the wyfe. 



But yet er I begynne to shewe the wyfe, what warkes 

 she shall do, I wyll firste teche her a lesson of Salomon, 

 as I did to her husbande a lesson of the philosopher, 

 4 and that is, that she shulde not be ydle at noo tyme : 

 for Salomon saythe, Ociosus non gaudehit cum eledis in 

 cceIo : sed lugehit in CBterfium cum reprohis in inferno : That 

 is to say, The ydle folke shall not ioye with the chosen 

 8 folkes in heuen, but they shall sorowe with the reproued 

 and forsaken folkes in hell. And saynt Iherom saythe : 

 Semper boni operis aliquid facito, vt ie diabolus inueniat 

 occupatum : Quia sicut in aqua stante generantur vermes : sic 



1 2 in homine ocioso generantur malcB cogitationes : That is to say, 

 Alwaye be doinge of some good werkes, that the dyuell 

 may fynde the euer occupied : for as in standynge water 

 are engendred wormes, ryghte soo in an ydle body are 



]6 engendred ydle thoughtes. Here mayste thou se, that 

 of ydelnes commeth damnation, and of good warkes and 

 labour cometh saluation. Nowe arte thou at thy lyberty, 

 to chose whether waye thou wylt, wherin is a great 



20 diuersitie. And he is an vnhappy man or woman, that 

 god hath giuen bothe wyt and reason, and putteth hym 

 in chose, and woU chose the worst parte. Nowe thou 

 wyfe, I trust to shewe to the dyuers occupations, warkes, 



24 and laboures, that thou shalt not nede to be ydle no tyme 

 of the yere. 



I,et the wife 

 love her 

 husband. 



[Fol. 60*.] 



Matt. xix. 5. 

 Mark x. 7. 



145. % What thynges the wyfe is bounden of ryght to do. 



First and prynycypally the wyfe is bounde of ryghte to 

 loue her housbande, aboue father and mother, and aboue 

 all other men. For our lorde saythe in his gospell ; 

 4 Relinquet patrem et matrem, et adherebit ^ vxori sucb : A man 

 shulde leue father and mother, and drawe to his wyfe : 

 and the same wyse a wyfe shulde do to her husbande. 

 * Printed abherebit. 



