The Husband and his Two Wives


6.16. De viro et duabus uxoribus
Caxton: Of the husbond and of his two wyues
Noo thynge is werse to the man than the woman / As it appereth by this fable / of a man of a meane age / whiche tooke two wyues / that is to wete an old / & one yong / whiche were both dwellyng in his hows / & by cause that the old desyred to haue his loue / she plucked the blak herys fro his hede and his berde / by cause he shold the more be lyke to her / And the yonge woman at the other syde plucked and drewe oute alle the whyte herys / to the ende / that he shold seme the yonger / more gay and fayrer in her syghte / And thus the good man abode withoute ony here on his hede
And therfore hit is grete folye to the auncyent to wedde them self ageyne / For them is better to be vnwedded / than to be euer in trouble with an euyl wyf / for the tyme in whiche they shold reste them / they put it to payne and to grete labour
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