2689Wid. Come, come, your mocking: we will haue no

2690telling.

2691Pet. Come on I say, and first begin with her.

2692Wid. She shall not.

2693Pet. I say she shall, and first begin with her.

2694Kate. Fie, fie, vnknit that thretaning vnkinde brow,

2695And dart not scornefull glances from those eies,

2696To wound thy Lord, thy King, thy Gouernour.

2697It blots thy beautie, as frosts doe bite the Meads,

2698Confounds thy fame, as whirlewinds shake faire budds,

2699And in no sence is meete or amiable.

2700A woman mou'd, is like a fountaine troubled,

2701Muddie, ill seeming, thicke, bereft of beautie,

2702And while it is so, none so dry or thirstie

2703Will daigne to sip, or touch one drop of it.

2704Thy husband is thy Lord, thy life, thy keeper,

2705Thy head, thy soueraigne: One that cares for thee,

2706And for thy maintenance. Commits his body

2707To painfull labour, both by sea and land:

2708To watch the night in stormes, the day in cold,

2709Whil'st thou ly'st warme at home, secure and safe,

2710And craues no other tribute at thy hands,

2711But loue, faire lookes, and true obedience;

2712Too little payment for so great a debt.

2713Such dutie as the subiect owes the Prince,

2714Euen such a woman oweth to her husband:

2715And when she is froward, peeuish, sullen, sowre,

2716And not obedient to his honest will,

2717What is she but a foule contending Rebell,

2718And gracelesse Traitor to her louing Lord?

2719I am asham'd that women are so simple,

2720To offer warre, where they should kneele for peace:

2721Or seeke for rule, supremacie, and sway,

2722When they are bound to serue, loue, and obay.

2723Why are our bodies soft, and weake, and smooth,

2724Vnapt to toyle and trouble in the world,

2725But that our soft conditions, and our harts,

2726Should well agree with our externall parts?

2727Come, come, you froward and vnable wormes,

2728My minde hath bin as bigge as one of yours,

2729My heart as great, my reason haplie more,

2730To bandie word for word, and frowne for frowne;

2731But now I see our Launces are but strawes:

2732Our strength as weake, our weakenesse past compare,

2733That seeming to be most, which we indeed least are.

2734Then vale your stomackes, for it is no boote,

2735And place your hands below your husbands foote:

2736In token of which dutie, if he please,

2737My hand is readie, may it do him ease.

2738Pet. Why there's a wench: Come on, and kisse mee

2739Kate.

2740Luc. Well go thy waies olde Lad for thou shalt ha't.

2741Vin. Tis a good hearing, when children are toward.

2742Luc. But a harsh hearing, when women are froward,

2743Pet. Come Kate, weee'le to bed,

2744We three are married, but you two are sped.

2745'Twas I wonne the wager, though you hit the white,

2746And being a winner, God giue you good night.

2748Horten. Now goe thy wayes, thou hast tam'd a curst

2749Shrow.

2750Luc.Tis a wonder, by your leaue, she wil be tam'd so.

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