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+Project Gutenberg's The Pain and Sorrow of Evil Marriage, by Wynkyn de Worde
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+Title: The Pain and Sorrow of Evil Marriage
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+Author: Wynkyn de Worde
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+Release Date: May 20, 2010 [EBook #32445]
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+                                   THE
+                             PAIN AND SORROW
+                                   OF
+                             EVIL MARRIAGE.
+
+
+                           FROM AN UNIQUE COPY
+
+
+                       Printed by Wynkyn de Worde.
+
+
+                                 LONDON:
+                    REPRINTED FOR THE PERCY SOCIETY,
+                   BY C. RICHARDS, ST. MARTIN’S LANE.
+                                MDCCCXL.
+
+
+  COUNCIL OF The Percy Society.
+
+  J. A. CAHUSAC, ESQ. F.S.A.
+  WILLIAM CHAPPELL, ESQ. F.S.A.
+  JOHN PAYNE COLLIER, ESQ. F.S.A.
+  T. CROFTON CROKER, ESQ. F.S.A.
+  REV. ALEXANDER DYCE.
+  RICHARD HALLIWELL, ESQ. F.S.A.
+  JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL, ESQ. F.R.S. Treasurer
+  WILLIAM JERDAN, ESQ. F.S.A.
+  SAMUEL LOVER, ESQ.
+  CHARLES MACKAY, ESQ.
+  E. F. RIMBAULT, ESQ. _Secretary_.
+  THOMAS WRIGHT, ESQ. M.A. F.S.A.
+
+
+
+
+INTRODUCTION.
+
+
+There are three early humorous tracts in verse upon the subject of
+marriage, all printed by Wynkyn de Worde: only one of them has a date,
+1535, but we can have little difficulty in assigning the two others to
+about the same period. They have the following titles.
+
+1. “A complaynt of them that be to soone maryed.”
+
+2. “Here begynneth the complaynte of them that ben to late maryed.”
+
+3. “The payne and sorowe of evyll maryage.”
+
+The last we have printed entire in the following pages, and of the two
+others, Dr. Dibdin has inserted a brief account in his edition of Ames
+(Typ. Ant. II. 384). We propose to go more at large into a description
+of the contents of these ancient and facetious relics.
+
+We have reason to believe that the two first are translations; and in
+default of English expressions, especially in the second piece, the
+writer has employed, and sometimes anglicised, several of the French
+words, which he thought better adapted to his purpose. To this
+production, “the Auctour,” as he calls himself, has subjoined a sort of
+epilogue, which ingeniously includes the printer’s colophon, as follows:
+
+    “Here endeth the complaynt of to late maryed,
+    For spendynge of tyme or they a borde
+    The sayd holy sacramente have to longe taryed,
+    Humane nature tassemble and it to accorde.
+    Enprynted in Fletestrete by Wynkyn de Worde,
+    Dwellynge in the famous cyte of London,
+    His hous in the same at the sygne of the Sonne.”
+
+At the conclusion of the “complaynt of them that be to soone maryed,”
+the date of 1535 has also been interwoven. Wynkyn de Worde’s will was
+proved the 19th January, 1534, which, according to our present mode of
+computing the year, would be the 19th January, 1535; so that either this
+piece came out after his death, or it was printed just before that
+event, and in anticipation of the new year, which would not then
+commence until the 26th March.
+
+Each of the tracts has a wood-cut on the titlepage, but only that called
+“The payne and sorowe of evyll maryage,” can be said to have anything to
+do with the subject, and that no doubt had been used for other works: it
+represents a marriage ceremony,—a priest joining the hands of a couple
+before the altar.
+
+The “complaynt of them that be to soone maryed” opens with the following
+stanza:
+
+    “For as moche as many folke there be
+    That desyre the sacrament of weddynge,
+    Other wyll kepe them in vyrgyny[t]e,
+    And toyll in chastyte be lyvynge;
+    Therfore I wyll put now in wrytynge
+    In what sorowe these men lede theyr lyves,
+    That to soone be coupled to cursed Wyves.”
+
+Thence the author proceeds to give some very sage and serious advice
+upon the evil of too hasty matrimonial alliances, but he does not
+attempt much humour until he comes to describe the conduct of his wife
+(for he writes in the first person throughout) when they had been
+married eight days: until then he had not been “chydden ne banged,” but
+he suffered for it bitterly afterwards;
+
+    “But soone ynoughe I had assayes
+    Of sorowe and care that made me bare.”
+
+It may here be observed that the stanza is peculiar, and consists of
+eight lines, the four first lines rhyming alternately, the fifth rhyming
+with the fourth, then a line with a new rhyme, while the seventh line
+rhymes with the third and fourth, and the eighth with the sixth. He
+continues the narrative of his sufferings in the following manner:
+
+    “About eyght dayes, or soone after
+    Our maryage, the tyme for to passe
+    My wyfe I toke, and dyd set her
+    Upon my knee for to solace;
+    And began her for to enbrace,
+    Sayenge, syster, go get the tyme loste;
+    We must thynke to labour a pace
+    To recompence that it hathe us coste.
+
+    “Than for to despyte she up arose,
+    And drewe her faste behynde me,
+    To me sayenge, is this the glose?
+    Alas, pore caytyfe, well I se
+    That I never shall have, quod she,
+    With you more than payne and tormente:
+    I am in an evyll degre;
+    I have now loste my sacramente.
+
+    “For me be to longe with you here,
+    Alas, I ought well for to thynke
+    What we sholde do within ten yere,
+    Whan we shall have at our herte brynke
+    Many chyldren on for to thynke,
+    And crye after us without fayle
+    For theyr meate and theyr drynke;
+    Then shall it be no mervayle.
+
+    “Cursed be the houre that I ne was
+    Made a none in some cloyster,
+    Never there for to passe;
+    Or had be made some syster,
+    In servage with a clousterer.
+    It is not eyght dayes sythe oure weddynge
+    That we two togyther weere:
+    By god, ye speke to soone of werkynge.”
+
+The second piece of ancient _facetiæ_, “the complaynte of them that ben
+to late maryed,” is written with much more humour, and is far better
+worth preservation, but it is disfigured by indelicacy, though not of
+the grossest kind, and never introduced but for the sake of heightening
+the drollery. It is the lamentation of an elderly gentleman, who after a
+youth of riot had married a young frolicksome wife, and he relates very
+feelingly the inconveniences, annoyances, and jealousies to which he is
+thereby exposed. After two introductory stanzas, (all of them are in the
+ordinary seven-line ballad form) he thus states his resolution late in
+life to commit the folly of matrimony.
+
+    “To longe have I lyved without ony make;
+    All to longe have I used my yonge age:
+    I wyll all for go and a wyfe to me take
+    For to increase both our twoos lynage;
+    For saynt John sayth that he is sage
+    That ayenst his wyll doth him governe,
+    And our lordes precepte hym selfe for to learne
+
+    “There is no greter pleasure than for to have
+    A wyfe that is full of prudence and wysdome.
+    Alas, for love nygh I am in poynte to rave.
+    These cursed olde men have an yll custome
+    Women for to blame, both all and some;
+    For that they can not theyr myndes full fyll,
+    Therfore they speke of them but all yll.
+
+    “Now, syth that I have my tyme used
+    For to follow my folyshe pleasaunces,
+    And have my selfe oftentimes sore abused
+    At plaies and sportes, pompes and daunces,
+    Spendynge golde and sylver and grete fynaunces,
+    For faut of a wyfe the cause is all:
+    To late maryed men may me call.”
+
+Hence he proceeds to narrate his early courses, especially his amours
+with “mercenary beauties.” He says:—
+
+    “Yf I withhelde ony praty one,
+    Swetely ynough she made me chere,
+    Sayenge that she loved no persone
+    But me, and therto she dyde swere.
+    But whan I wente fro that place there,
+    Unto another she dyde as moche;
+    For they love none but for theyr poche.”
+
+His male companions were about upon a par with his female, and upon both
+he wasted his substance; but having at last married, he imagined that he
+had only to enjoy tranquillity and happiness, and exclaimed:—
+
+    “Now am I out of this daunger so alenge,
+    Wherfore I am gladde it for to persever.
+    Longe about have I ben me for to renge;
+    But it is better to late than to be never.
+    Certes I was not in my lyfe tyll hyther
+    So full of joye, that doth in my herte inspyre:
+    Wedded folke have tyme at theyr desyre.”
+
+On trying the experiment, he by no means finds it answer his
+expectation. Besides other evils, he says, “constrayned I am to be full
+of jalousy;” and he admits in plain terms that his young wife has no
+great reason to be satisfied with her old husband. He observes:—
+
+    “It is sayd that a man in servytude
+    Hym putteth, whan he doth to woman bende:
+    He ne hath but only habytude
+    Unto her the whiche well doth hym tende.
+    Who wyll to householde comprehende,
+    And there a bout studyeth in youth alwayes,
+    He shall have honoure in his olde dayes.
+
+    “Some chyldren unto the courtes hauntes,
+    And ben purvayed of benefyces;
+    Some haunteth markettes and be marchauntes,
+    Byenge and sellynge theyr marchaundyses;
+    Or elles constytuted in offyces.
+    Theyr faders and moders have grete solace,
+    That to late maryed by no waye hase.
+
+    “I be wayll the tyme that is so spent,
+    That I ne me hasted for to wedde;
+    For I shall have herytage and rente,
+    Both golde and sylver and kynred;
+    But syth that our lorde hath ordeyned
+    That I this sacrament take me upon,
+    I wyll kepe it trewely at all season.”
+
+In the subsequent stanza, which occurs soon afterwards, the author seems
+to allude to the first of the three tracts now under consideration.
+
+    “Yf that there be ony tryfelers,
+    That have wylled for to blame maryage,
+    I dare well saye that they ben but lyers,
+    Or elles god fayled in the fyrste age:
+    Adam bereth wytnesse and tesmonage:
+    Maryed he was, and comen we ben.
+    God dyde choyse maryage unto all men.”
+
+This stanza affords an instance of the employment of an anglicised
+French word because it happened to answer the translator’s purpose as a
+rhyme to “age.” His objection is not to marriage generally, but to
+marriage when a man has ceased to be the subject of amorous affection;
+for he says expressly,
+
+    “All they that by theyr subtyll artes
+    Hath wylled for to blame maryage,
+    I wyll susteyne that they be bastardes,
+    Or at least wage an evyll courage,
+    For to saye that therein is servage
+    In maryage; but I it reny,
+    For therin is but humayne company.
+
+    “Yf ther be yll women and rebell,
+    Shrewed, dispytous, and eke felonyous,
+    There be other fayre, and do full well,
+    Propre, gentyll, lusty and joyous,
+    That ben full of grace and vertuous;
+    They ben not all born under a sygnet:
+    Happy is he that a good one can get.”
+
+He adds just afterwards:—
+
+    “Galantes, playne ye the tyme that ye have lost,
+    Mary you be tyme, as the wyse man sayth.
+    Tossed I have ben fro pyler to post
+    In commersynge natures werke alwayes.
+    I have passed full many quasy dayes,
+    That now unto good I can not mate,
+    For mary I dyde my selfe to late.”
+
+In the second line we ought to read “sayes” for “sayth,” as the rhyme
+evidently shews. The last stanza of the body of the poem is in the same
+spirit.
+
+    “Better it is in youth a wyfe for to take,
+    And lyve with her to goddes pleasaunce,
+    Than to go in age, for goddes sake,
+    In worldly sorowe and perturbaunce,
+    For youthes love and utteraunce,
+    And than to dye at the last ende,
+    And be dampned in hell with the foule fende.”
+
+The three terminating stanzas consist of a supplementary address from
+“the Auctour,” the last containing the imprint or colophon as already
+inserted. The work is ended by Wynkyn de Worde’s well known tripartite
+device.
+
+We now proceed to insert, in its entire shape, the third tract upon this
+amusing subject, premising that (like our preceding quotations) it is
+from an unique copy. It will remind the reader in several places of
+passages in the Prologue of Chaucer’s “Wife of Bath,” especially where
+she remarks,
+
+    “Thou sayst droppyng houses, and eke smoke,
+    And chidyng wyves maken men to flee
+    Out of her owne houses. Ah, benedicite!
+    What ayleth suche an olde man for to chide?”
+
+But the Wife of Bath does not quote Solomon for the proverb, as we find
+him referred to on p. 20. Again, in a subsequent stanza, p. 21, we are
+strongly reminded of the lines where the Wife of Bath thus describes her
+conduct after she had married her fifth husband:—
+
+    “Therfore made I my visytations
+    To vigilles, and to processyons,
+    To preachyng eke, and to pilgrymages,
+    To playes of myracles, and to mariages,
+    And weared on my gay skarlet gytes.”
+
+The main difference is that instead of saying, with Chaucer, that women
+frequent “playes of myracles,” the author of the ensuing tract tells us
+that they delight “on scaffoldes to sytte on high stages,” from whence
+they usually beheld such performances. Throughout, the writer seems to
+have had our great early poet more or less in his eye, and hence we may
+possibly conclude, that if the two other pieces on the same subject were
+translations, this was original. It, therefore, deserves the more
+attention.
+
+
+
+
+The Payne and Sorowe of Evyll Maryage.
+
+
+
+
+THE PAYNE AND SOROWE OF EVYLL MARYAGE.
+
+
+    Take hede and lerne, thou lytell chylde, and se
+    That tyme passed wyl not agayne retourne,
+    And in thy youthe unto vertues use the:
+    Lette in thy brest no maner vyce sojourne,
+    That in thyne age thou have no cause to mourne
+    For tyme lost, nor for defaute of wytte:
+    Thynke on this lesson, and in thy mynde it shytte.
+
+    Glory unto god, lovynge and benyson
+    To Peter and Johan and also to Laurence,
+    Whiche have me take under proteccyon
+    From the deluge of mortall pestylence,
+    And from the tempest of deedly vyolence,
+    And me preserve that I fall not in the rage
+    Under the bonde and yocke of maryage.
+
+    I was in purpose to have taken a wyfe,
+    And for to have wedded without avysednes
+    A full fayre mayde, with her to lede my lyfe,
+    Whome that I loved of hasty wylfulnes,
+    With other fooles to have lyved in dystresse,
+    As some gave me counseyle, and began me to constrayn
+    To have be partable of theyr woofull payne.
+
+    They laye upon me, and hasted me full sore,
+    And gave me counseyle for to have be bounde,
+    And began to prayse eche daye more and more
+    The woofull lyfe in whiche they dyd habounde,
+    And were besy my gladnes to confounde,
+    Themselfe rejoysynge, bothe at even and morowe,
+    To have a felowe to lyve with them in sorowe.
+
+    But of his grace god hath me preserved
+    By the wyse counseyle of these aungelles thre:
+    From hell gates they have my lyfe conserved
+    In tyme of warre, whan lovers lusty,
+    And bryght Phebus was fresshest unto se
+    In Gemynys, the lusty and glad season,
+    Whan to wedde caught fyrst occasyon.
+
+    My joye was sette in especyall
+    To have wedded one excellent in fayrnes,
+    And thrugh her beaute have made my selfe thrall
+    Under the yocke of everlastynge dystresse;
+    But god alonely of his high goodnes
+    Hath by an aungell, as ye have herde me tell,
+    Stopped my passage from that peryllous hell.
+
+    Amonge these aungelles, that were in nombre thre,
+    There appered one out of the southe,
+    Whiche spake fyrst of all the trynyte
+    All of one sentence, the mater is full couthe;
+    And he was called Johan with the golden mouthe,
+    Which concluded by sentence full notable,
+    Wyves of custome ben gladly varyable.
+
+    After this Johan, the story sayth also,
+    In confyrmacyon of theyr fragylyte,
+    How that Peter, called acorbylio,
+    Affermeth playnly, how that wyves be
+    Dyverse of herte, full of duplycyte,
+    Mayterfull, hasty, and eke proude,
+    Crabbed of langage whan they lyst crye aloude.
+
+    Who taketh a wyfe receyveth a great charge,
+    In whiche he is full lyke to have a fall:
+    With tempest tossed, as is a besy barge;
+    There he was fre he maketh hymselfe thrall.
+    Wyves of porte ben full imperyall,
+    Husbandes dare not theyr lustes gaynsaye,
+    But lovely please and mekely them obaye.
+
+    The husbandes ever abydeth in travayle;
+    One labour passed there cometh an other newe,
+    And every daye she begynneth a batayle,
+    And in complaynynge chaungeth chere and hewe.
+    Under suche falsnes she fayneth to be true;
+    She maketh hym rude as is a dull asse,
+    Out of whose daunger impossyble is to passe.
+
+    Thus wedlocke is an endlesse penaunce,
+    Husbandes knowe that have experyence,
+    A martyrdom and a contynuaunce
+    In sorowe everlastynge, a deedly vyolence;
+    And this of wyves is gladly the sentence
+    Upon theyr husbandes, whan they lyst to be bolde,
+    How they alone governeth the housholde.
+
+    And yf her husbande happen for to thryve,
+    She sayth it is her prudent purveyaunce:
+    If they go abacke ayenwarde and unthryve,
+    She sayth it is his mysgovernaunce.
+    He bereth the blame of all suche ordynaunce;
+    And yf they be poore and fall in dystresse,
+    She sayth it is his foly and lewdnesse.
+
+    And yf so be he be no werkman good,
+    It may well happe he shall have an horne,
+    A large bone to stuffe with his hood;
+    A mowe behynde, and fayned cheere beforne:
+    And yf it fall that theyr good be lorne
+    By aventure, eyther at even or morowe,
+    The sely husbande shall have all the sorowe.
+
+    An husbande hath greate cause to care
+    For wyfe, for chylde, for stuffe and meyne,
+    And yf ought lacke she wyll bothe swere and stare,
+    He is a wastour and shall never the:
+    And Salomon sayth there be thynges thre,
+    Shrewde wyves, rayne, and smokes blake
+    Make husbandes ofte theyr houses to forsake.
+
+    Wyves be beestes very unchaungeable
+    In theyr desyres, whiche may not staunched be,
+    Lyke a swalowe whiche is insacyable:
+    Peryllous caryage in the trouble see;
+    A wawe calme full of adversyte,
+    Whose blandysshynge endeth with myschaunce,
+    Called Cyrenes, ever full of varyaunce.
+
+    They them rejoyce to se and to be sene,
+    And for to seke sondrye pylgrymages,
+    At greate gaderynges to walke on the grene,
+    And on scaffoldes to sytte on hygh stages,
+    If they be fayre to shewe theyr vysages;
+    And yf they be foule of loke or countenaunce,
+    They it amende with pleasynge dalyaunce.
+
+    And of profyte they take but lytell hede,
+    But loketh soure whan theyr husbandes ayleth ought;
+    And of good mete and drynke they wyll not fayle in dede,
+    What so ever it cost they care ryght nought;
+    Nor they care not how dere it be bought,
+    Rather than they should therof lacke or mysse,
+    They wolde leever laye some pledge ywys.
+
+    It is trewe, I tell you yonge men everychone,
+    Women be varyable and love many wordes and stryfe:
+    Who can not appease them lyghtly or anone,
+    Shall have care and sorowe all his lyfe,
+    That woo the tyme that ever he toke a wyfe;
+    And wyll take thought, and often muse
+    How he myght fynde the maner his wyfe to refuse.
+
+    But that maner with trouth can not be founde,
+    Therfore be wyse or ye come in the snare,
+    Or er ye take the waye of that bounde;
+    For and ye come there your joye is tourned unto care,
+    And remedy is there none, so may I fare,
+    But to take pacyens and thynke none other way aboute;
+    Than shall ye dye a martyr without ony doute.
+
+    Therfore, you men that wedded be,
+    Do nothynge agaynst the pleasure of your wyfe,
+    Than shall you lyve the more meryly,
+    And often cause her to lyve withouten stryfe;
+    Without thou art unhappy unto an evyll lyfe,
+    Than, yf she than wyll be no better,
+    Set her upon a lelande and bydde the devyll fet her.
+
+    Therfore thynke moche and saye nought,
+    And thanke God of his goodnesse,
+    And prece not for to knowe all her thought,
+    For than shalte thou not knowe, as I gesse,
+    Without it be of her own gentylnesse,
+    And that is as moche as a man may put in his eye,
+    For, yf she lyst, of thy wordes she careth not a flye.
+
+    And to conclude shortly upon reason,
+    To speke of wedlocke of fooles that be blente,
+    There is no greter grefe nor feller poyson,
+    Nor none so dredeful peryllous serpent,
+    As is a wyfe double of her entent.
+    Therfore let yonge men to eschew sorowe and care
+    Withdrawe theyr fete or they come in the snare.
+
+
+FINIS.
+
+
+Here endeth the payne and sorowe of evyll maryage. Imprynted at London
+in Fletestrete at the signe of the Sonne, by me Wynkyn de Worde.
+
+
+C. RICHARDS, PRINTER, 100, ST. MARTIN’S LANE, CHARING CROSS.
+
+
+
+
+
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+Project Gutenberg's The Pain and Sorrow of Evil Marriage, by Wynkyn de Worde
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+Title: The Pain and Sorrow of Evil Marriage
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+Author: Wynkyn de Worde
+
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+                                   THE
+                             PAIN AND SORROW
+                                   OF
+                             EVIL MARRIAGE.
+
+
+                           FROM AN UNIQUE COPY
+
+
+                       Printed by Wynkyn de Worde.
+
+
+                                 LONDON:
+                    REPRINTED FOR THE PERCY SOCIETY,
+                   BY C. RICHARDS, ST. MARTIN'S LANE.
+                                MDCCCXL.
+
+
+  COUNCIL OF The Percy Society.
+
+  J. A. CAHUSAC, ESQ. F.S.A.
+  WILLIAM CHAPPELL, ESQ. F.S.A.
+  JOHN PAYNE COLLIER, ESQ. F.S.A.
+  T. CROFTON CROKER, ESQ. F.S.A.
+  REV. ALEXANDER DYCE.
+  RICHARD HALLIWELL, ESQ. F.S.A.
+  JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL, ESQ. F.R.S. Treasurer
+  WILLIAM JERDAN, ESQ. F.S.A.
+  SAMUEL LOVER, ESQ.
+  CHARLES MACKAY, ESQ.
+  E. F. RIMBAULT, ESQ. _Secretary_.
+  THOMAS WRIGHT, ESQ. M.A. F.S.A.
+
+
+
+
+INTRODUCTION.
+
+
+There are three early humorous tracts in verse upon the subject of
+marriage, all printed by Wynkyn de Worde: only one of them has a date,
+1535, but we can have little difficulty in assigning the two others to
+about the same period. They have the following titles.
+
+1. "A complaynt of them that be to soone maryed."
+
+2. "Here begynneth the complaynte of them that ben to late maryed."
+
+3. "The payne and sorowe of evyll maryage."
+
+The last we have printed entire in the following pages, and of the two
+others, Dr. Dibdin has inserted a brief account in his edition of Ames
+(Typ. Ant. II. 384). We propose to go more at large into a description
+of the contents of these ancient and facetious relics.
+
+We have reason to believe that the two first are translations; and in
+default of English expressions, especially in the second piece, the
+writer has employed, and sometimes anglicised, several of the French
+words, which he thought better adapted to his purpose. To this
+production, "the Auctour," as he calls himself, has subjoined a sort of
+epilogue, which ingeniously includes the printer's colophon, as follows:
+
+    "Here endeth the complaynt of to late maryed,
+    For spendynge of tyme or they a borde
+    The sayd holy sacramente have to longe taryed,
+    Humane nature tassemble and it to accorde.
+    Enprynted in Fletestrete by Wynkyn de Worde,
+    Dwellynge in the famous cyte of London,
+    His hous in the same at the sygne of the Sonne."
+
+At the conclusion of the "complaynt of them that be to soone maryed,"
+the date of 1535 has also been interwoven. Wynkyn de Worde's will was
+proved the 19th January, 1534, which, according to our present mode of
+computing the year, would be the 19th January, 1535; so that either this
+piece came out after his death, or it was printed just before that
+event, and in anticipation of the new year, which would not then
+commence until the 26th March.
+
+Each of the tracts has a wood-cut on the titlepage, but only that called
+"The payne and sorowe of evyll maryage," can be said to have anything to
+do with the subject, and that no doubt had been used for other works: it
+represents a marriage ceremony,--a priest joining the hands of a couple
+before the altar.
+
+The "complaynt of them that be to soone maryed" opens with the following
+stanza:
+
+    "For as moche as many folke there be
+    That desyre the sacrament of weddynge,
+    Other wyll kepe them in vyrgyny[t]e,
+    And toyll in chastyte be lyvynge;
+    Therfore I wyll put now in wrytynge
+    In what sorowe these men lede theyr lyves,
+    That to soone be coupled to cursed Wyves."
+
+Thence the author proceeds to give some very sage and serious advice
+upon the evil of too hasty matrimonial alliances, but he does not
+attempt much humour until he comes to describe the conduct of his wife
+(for he writes in the first person throughout) when they had been
+married eight days: until then he had not been "chydden ne banged," but
+he suffered for it bitterly afterwards;
+
+    "But soone ynoughe I had assayes
+    Of sorowe and care that made me bare."
+
+It may here be observed that the stanza is peculiar, and consists of
+eight lines, the four first lines rhyming alternately, the fifth rhyming
+with the fourth, then a line with a new rhyme, while the seventh line
+rhymes with the third and fourth, and the eighth with the sixth. He
+continues the narrative of his sufferings in the following manner:
+
+    "About eyght dayes, or soone after
+    Our maryage, the tyme for to passe
+    My wyfe I toke, and dyd set her
+    Upon my knee for to solace;
+    And began her for to enbrace,
+    Sayenge, syster, go get the tyme loste;
+    We must thynke to labour a pace
+    To recompence that it hathe us coste.
+
+    "Than for to despyte she up arose,
+    And drewe her faste behynde me,
+    To me sayenge, is this the glose?
+    Alas, pore caytyfe, well I se
+    That I never shall have, quod she,
+    With you more than payne and tormente:
+    I am in an evyll degre;
+    I have now loste my sacramente.
+
+    "For me be to longe with you here,
+    Alas, I ought well for to thynke
+    What we sholde do within ten yere,
+    Whan we shall have at our herte brynke
+    Many chyldren on for to thynke,
+    And crye after us without fayle
+    For theyr meate and theyr drynke;
+    Then shall it be no mervayle.
+
+    "Cursed be the houre that I ne was
+    Made a none in some cloyster,
+    Never there for to passe;
+    Or had be made some syster,
+    In servage with a clousterer.
+    It is not eyght dayes sythe oure weddynge
+    That we two togyther weere:
+    By god, ye speke to soone of werkynge."
+
+The second piece of ancient _faceti�_, "the complaynte of them that ben
+to late maryed," is written with much more humour, and is far better
+worth preservation, but it is disfigured by indelicacy, though not of
+the grossest kind, and never introduced but for the sake of heightening
+the drollery. It is the lamentation of an elderly gentleman, who after a
+youth of riot had married a young frolicksome wife, and he relates very
+feelingly the inconveniences, annoyances, and jealousies to which he is
+thereby exposed. After two introductory stanzas, (all of them are in the
+ordinary seven-line ballad form) he thus states his resolution late in
+life to commit the folly of matrimony.
+
+    "To longe have I lyved without ony make;
+    All to longe have I used my yonge age:
+    I wyll all for go and a wyfe to me take
+    For to increase both our twoos lynage;
+    For saynt John sayth that he is sage
+    That ayenst his wyll doth him governe,
+    And our lordes precepte hym selfe for to learne
+
+    "There is no greter pleasure than for to have
+    A wyfe that is full of prudence and wysdome.
+    Alas, for love nygh I am in poynte to rave.
+    These cursed olde men have an yll custome
+    Women for to blame, both all and some;
+    For that they can not theyr myndes full fyll,
+    Therfore they speke of them but all yll.
+
+    "Now, syth that I have my tyme used
+    For to follow my folyshe pleasaunces,
+    And have my selfe oftentimes sore abused
+    At plaies and sportes, pompes and daunces,
+    Spendynge golde and sylver and grete fynaunces,
+    For faut of a wyfe the cause is all:
+    To late maryed men may me call."
+
+Hence he proceeds to narrate his early courses, especially his amours
+with "mercenary beauties." He says:--
+
+    "Yf I withhelde ony praty one,
+    Swetely ynough she made me chere,
+    Sayenge that she loved no persone
+    But me, and therto she dyde swere.
+    But whan I wente fro that place there,
+    Unto another she dyde as moche;
+    For they love none but for theyr poche."
+
+His male companions were about upon a par with his female, and upon both
+he wasted his substance; but having at last married, he imagined that he
+had only to enjoy tranquillity and happiness, and exclaimed:--
+
+    "Now am I out of this daunger so alenge,
+    Wherfore I am gladde it for to persever.
+    Longe about have I ben me for to renge;
+    But it is better to late than to be never.
+    Certes I was not in my lyfe tyll hyther
+    So full of joye, that doth in my herte inspyre:
+    Wedded folke have tyme at theyr desyre."
+
+On trying the experiment, he by no means finds it answer his
+expectation. Besides other evils, he says, "constrayned I am to be full
+of jalousy;" and he admits in plain terms that his young wife has no
+great reason to be satisfied with her old husband. He observes:--
+
+    "It is sayd that a man in servytude
+    Hym putteth, whan he doth to woman bende:
+    He ne hath but only habytude
+    Unto her the whiche well doth hym tende.
+    Who wyll to householde comprehende,
+    And there a bout studyeth in youth alwayes,
+    He shall have honoure in his olde dayes.
+
+    "Some chyldren unto the courtes hauntes,
+    And ben purvayed of benefyces;
+    Some haunteth markettes and be marchauntes,
+    Byenge and sellynge theyr marchaundyses;
+    Or elles constytuted in offyces.
+    Theyr faders and moders have grete solace,
+    That to late maryed by no waye hase.
+
+    "I be wayll the tyme that is so spent,
+    That I ne me hasted for to wedde;
+    For I shall have herytage and rente,
+    Both golde and sylver and kynred;
+    But syth that our lorde hath ordeyned
+    That I this sacrament take me upon,
+    I wyll kepe it trewely at all season."
+
+In the subsequent stanza, which occurs soon afterwards, the author seems
+to allude to the first of the three tracts now under consideration.
+
+    "Yf that there be ony tryfelers,
+    That have wylled for to blame maryage,
+    I dare well saye that they ben but lyers,
+    Or elles god fayled in the fyrste age:
+    Adam bereth wytnesse and tesmonage:
+    Maryed he was, and comen we ben.
+    God dyde choyse maryage unto all men."
+
+This stanza affords an instance of the employment of an anglicised
+French word because it happened to answer the translator's purpose as a
+rhyme to "age." His objection is not to marriage generally, but to
+marriage when a man has ceased to be the subject of amorous affection;
+for he says expressly,
+
+    "All they that by theyr subtyll artes
+    Hath wylled for to blame maryage,
+    I wyll susteyne that they be bastardes,
+    Or at least wage an evyll courage,
+    For to saye that therein is servage
+    In maryage; but I it reny,
+    For therin is but humayne company.
+
+    "Yf ther be yll women and rebell,
+    Shrewed, dispytous, and eke felonyous,
+    There be other fayre, and do full well,
+    Propre, gentyll, lusty and joyous,
+    That ben full of grace and vertuous;
+    They ben not all born under a sygnet:
+    Happy is he that a good one can get."
+
+He adds just afterwards:--
+
+    "Galantes, playne ye the tyme that ye have lost,
+    Mary you be tyme, as the wyse man sayth.
+    Tossed I have ben fro pyler to post
+    In commersynge natures werke alwayes.
+    I have passed full many quasy dayes,
+    That now unto good I can not mate,
+    For mary I dyde my selfe to late."
+
+In the second line we ought to read "sayes" for "sayth," as the rhyme
+evidently shews. The last stanza of the body of the poem is in the same
+spirit.
+
+    "Better it is in youth a wyfe for to take,
+    And lyve with her to goddes pleasaunce,
+    Than to go in age, for goddes sake,
+    In worldly sorowe and perturbaunce,
+    For youthes love and utteraunce,
+    And than to dye at the last ende,
+    And be dampned in hell with the foule fende."
+
+The three terminating stanzas consist of a supplementary address from
+"the Auctour," the last containing the imprint or colophon as already
+inserted. The work is ended by Wynkyn de Worde's well known tripartite
+device.
+
+We now proceed to insert, in its entire shape, the third tract upon this
+amusing subject, premising that (like our preceding quotations) it is
+from an unique copy. It will remind the reader in several places of
+passages in the Prologue of Chaucer's "Wife of Bath," especially where
+she remarks,
+
+    "Thou sayst droppyng houses, and eke smoke,
+    And chidyng wyves maken men to flee
+    Out of her owne houses. Ah, benedicite!
+    What ayleth suche an olde man for to chide?"
+
+But the Wife of Bath does not quote Solomon for the proverb, as we find
+him referred to on p. 20. Again, in a subsequent stanza, p. 21, we are
+strongly reminded of the lines where the Wife of Bath thus describes her
+conduct after she had married her fifth husband:--
+
+    "Therfore made I my visytations
+    To vigilles, and to processyons,
+    To preachyng eke, and to pilgrymages,
+    To playes of myracles, and to mariages,
+    And weared on my gay skarlet gytes."
+
+The main difference is that instead of saying, with Chaucer, that women
+frequent "playes of myracles," the author of the ensuing tract tells us
+that they delight "on scaffoldes to sytte on high stages," from whence
+they usually beheld such performances. Throughout, the writer seems to
+have had our great early poet more or less in his eye, and hence we may
+possibly conclude, that if the two other pieces on the same subject were
+translations, this was original. It, therefore, deserves the more
+attention.
+
+
+
+
+The Payne and Sorowe of Evyll Maryage.
+
+
+
+
+THE PAYNE AND SOROWE OF EVYLL MARYAGE.
+
+
+    Take hede and lerne, thou lytell chylde, and se
+    That tyme passed wyl not agayne retourne,
+    And in thy youthe unto vertues use the:
+    Lette in thy brest no maner vyce sojourne,
+    That in thyne age thou have no cause to mourne
+    For tyme lost, nor for defaute of wytte:
+    Thynke on this lesson, and in thy mynde it shytte.
+
+    Glory unto god, lovynge and benyson
+    To Peter and Johan and also to Laurence,
+    Whiche have me take under proteccyon
+    From the deluge of mortall pestylence,
+    And from the tempest of deedly vyolence,
+    And me preserve that I fall not in the rage
+    Under the bonde and yocke of maryage.
+
+    I was in purpose to have taken a wyfe,
+    And for to have wedded without avysednes
+    A full fayre mayde, with her to lede my lyfe,
+    Whome that I loved of hasty wylfulnes,
+    With other fooles to have lyved in dystresse,
+    As some gave me counseyle, and began me to constrayn
+    To have be partable of theyr woofull payne.
+
+    They laye upon me, and hasted me full sore,
+    And gave me counseyle for to have be bounde,
+    And began to prayse eche daye more and more
+    The woofull lyfe in whiche they dyd habounde,
+    And were besy my gladnes to confounde,
+    Themselfe rejoysynge, bothe at even and morowe,
+    To have a felowe to lyve with them in sorowe.
+
+    But of his grace god hath me preserved
+    By the wyse counseyle of these aungelles thre:
+    From hell gates they have my lyfe conserved
+    In tyme of warre, whan lovers lusty,
+    And bryght Phebus was fresshest unto se
+    In Gemynys, the lusty and glad season,
+    Whan to wedde caught fyrst occasyon.
+
+    My joye was sette in especyall
+    To have wedded one excellent in fayrnes,
+    And thrugh her beaute have made my selfe thrall
+    Under the yocke of everlastynge dystresse;
+    But god alonely of his high goodnes
+    Hath by an aungell, as ye have herde me tell,
+    Stopped my passage from that peryllous hell.
+
+    Amonge these aungelles, that were in nombre thre,
+    There appered one out of the southe,
+    Whiche spake fyrst of all the trynyte
+    All of one sentence, the mater is full couthe;
+    And he was called Johan with the golden mouthe,
+    Which concluded by sentence full notable,
+    Wyves of custome ben gladly varyable.
+
+    After this Johan, the story sayth also,
+    In confyrmacyon of theyr fragylyte,
+    How that Peter, called acorbylio,
+    Affermeth playnly, how that wyves be
+    Dyverse of herte, full of duplycyte,
+    Mayterfull, hasty, and eke proude,
+    Crabbed of langage whan they lyst crye aloude.
+
+    Who taketh a wyfe receyveth a great charge,
+    In whiche he is full lyke to have a fall:
+    With tempest tossed, as is a besy barge;
+    There he was fre he maketh hymselfe thrall.
+    Wyves of porte ben full imperyall,
+    Husbandes dare not theyr lustes gaynsaye,
+    But lovely please and mekely them obaye.
+
+    The husbandes ever abydeth in travayle;
+    One labour passed there cometh an other newe,
+    And every daye she begynneth a batayle,
+    And in complaynynge chaungeth chere and hewe.
+    Under suche falsnes she fayneth to be true;
+    She maketh hym rude as is a dull asse,
+    Out of whose daunger impossyble is to passe.
+
+    Thus wedlocke is an endlesse penaunce,
+    Husbandes knowe that have experyence,
+    A martyrdom and a contynuaunce
+    In sorowe everlastynge, a deedly vyolence;
+    And this of wyves is gladly the sentence
+    Upon theyr husbandes, whan they lyst to be bolde,
+    How they alone governeth the housholde.
+
+    And yf her husbande happen for to thryve,
+    She sayth it is her prudent purveyaunce:
+    If they go abacke ayenwarde and unthryve,
+    She sayth it is his mysgovernaunce.
+    He bereth the blame of all suche ordynaunce;
+    And yf they be poore and fall in dystresse,
+    She sayth it is his foly and lewdnesse.
+
+    And yf so be he be no werkman good,
+    It may well happe he shall have an horne,
+    A large bone to stuffe with his hood;
+    A mowe behynde, and fayned cheere beforne:
+    And yf it fall that theyr good be lorne
+    By aventure, eyther at even or morowe,
+    The sely husbande shall have all the sorowe.
+
+    An husbande hath greate cause to care
+    For wyfe, for chylde, for stuffe and meyne,
+    And yf ought lacke she wyll bothe swere and stare,
+    He is a wastour and shall never the:
+    And Salomon sayth there be thynges thre,
+    Shrewde wyves, rayne, and smokes blake
+    Make husbandes ofte theyr houses to forsake.
+
+    Wyves be beestes very unchaungeable
+    In theyr desyres, whiche may not staunched be,
+    Lyke a swalowe whiche is insacyable:
+    Peryllous caryage in the trouble see;
+    A wawe calme full of adversyte,
+    Whose blandysshynge endeth with myschaunce,
+    Called Cyrenes, ever full of varyaunce.
+
+    They them rejoyce to se and to be sene,
+    And for to seke sondrye pylgrymages,
+    At greate gaderynges to walke on the grene,
+    And on scaffoldes to sytte on hygh stages,
+    If they be fayre to shewe theyr vysages;
+    And yf they be foule of loke or countenaunce,
+    They it amende with pleasynge dalyaunce.
+
+    And of profyte they take but lytell hede,
+    But loketh soure whan theyr husbandes ayleth ought;
+    And of good mete and drynke they wyll not fayle in dede,
+    What so ever it cost they care ryght nought;
+    Nor they care not how dere it be bought,
+    Rather than they should therof lacke or mysse,
+    They wolde leever laye some pledge ywys.
+
+    It is trewe, I tell you yonge men everychone,
+    Women be varyable and love many wordes and stryfe:
+    Who can not appease them lyghtly or anone,
+    Shall have care and sorowe all his lyfe,
+    That woo the tyme that ever he toke a wyfe;
+    And wyll take thought, and often muse
+    How he myght fynde the maner his wyfe to refuse.
+
+    But that maner with trouth can not be founde,
+    Therfore be wyse or ye come in the snare,
+    Or er ye take the waye of that bounde;
+    For and ye come there your joye is tourned unto care,
+    And remedy is there none, so may I fare,
+    But to take pacyens and thynke none other way aboute;
+    Than shall ye dye a martyr without ony doute.
+
+    Therfore, you men that wedded be,
+    Do nothynge agaynst the pleasure of your wyfe,
+    Than shall you lyve the more meryly,
+    And often cause her to lyve withouten stryfe;
+    Without thou art unhappy unto an evyll lyfe,
+    Than, yf she than wyll be no better,
+    Set her upon a lelande and bydde the devyll fet her.
+
+    Therfore thynke moche and saye nought,
+    And thanke God of his goodnesse,
+    And prece not for to knowe all her thought,
+    For than shalte thou not knowe, as I gesse,
+    Without it be of her own gentylnesse,
+    And that is as moche as a man may put in his eye,
+    For, yf she lyst, of thy wordes she careth not a flye.
+
+    And to conclude shortly upon reason,
+    To speke of wedlocke of fooles that be blente,
+    There is no greter grefe nor feller poyson,
+    Nor none so dredeful peryllous serpent,
+    As is a wyfe double of her entent.
+    Therfore let yonge men to eschew sorowe and care
+    Withdrawe theyr fete or they come in the snare.
+
+
+FINIS.
+
+
+Here endeth the payne and sorowe of evyll maryage. Imprynted at London
+in Fletestrete at the signe of the Sonne, by me Wynkyn de Worde.
+
+
+C. RICHARDS, PRINTER, 100, ST. MARTIN'S LANE, CHARING CROSS.
+
+
+
+
+
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+<h1><span style="font-size: 50%">THE</span><br />
+<span style="font-size: 80%">PAIN AND SORROW</span><br />
+<span style="font-size: 50%">OF</span><br />
+<span style="letter-spacing: 0.20ex">EVIL MARRIAGE</span>.</h1>
+
+<hr />
+
+<p class="center">FROM AN UNIQUE COPY</p>
+
+<p class="center"><b>Printed by Wynkyn de Worde.</b></p>
+
+<p class="publisher">LONDON:<br />
+REPRINTED FOR THE PERCY SOCIETY,<br />
+<span style="font-size: 80%">BY C. RICHARDS, ST. MARTIN’S LANE.</span><br />
+<span style="font-size: 70%">MDCCCXL.</span></p>
+</div>
+
+
+<h2><span style="font-size: 80%">COUNCIL</span><br />
+<span style="font-size: 60%">OF</span><br />
+The Percy Society.</h2>
+
+<hr class="chpt" />
+<ul>
+<li>J.&nbsp;A. CAHUSAC, <span class="smcap">Esq.</span> F.S.A.</li>
+<li>WILLIAM CHAPPELL, <span class="smcap">Esq.</span> F.S.A.</li>
+<li>JOHN PAYNE COLLIER, <span class="smcap">Esq.</span> F.S.A.</li>
+<li>T. CROFTON CROKER, <span class="smcap">Esq.</span> F.S.A.</li>
+<li>REV. ALEXANDER DYCE.</li>
+<li>RICHARD HALLIWELL, <span class="smcap">Esq.</span> F.S.A.</li>
+<li>JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL, <span class="smcap">Esq.</span> F.R.S. Treasurer</li>
+<li>WILLIAM JERDAN, <span class="smcap">Esq.</span> F.S.A.</li>
+<li>SAMUEL LOVER, <span class="smcap">Esq.</span></li>
+<li>CHARLES MACKAY, <span class="smcap">Esq.</span></li>
+<li>E.&nbsp;F. RIMBAULT, <span class="smcap">Esq.</span> <i>Secretary</i>.</li>
+<li>THOMAS WRIGHT, <span class="smcap">Esq.</span> M.A.&nbsp;F.S.A.</li>
+</ul>
+
+
+
+
+
+<h2>INTRODUCTION.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[5]</a></span></h2>
+
+
+<p class="ni"><span class="smcap">There</span> are three early humorous tracts in verse
+upon the subject of marriage, all printed by
+Wynkyn de Worde: only one of them has a
+date, 1535, but we can have little difficulty in
+assigning the two others to about the same
+period. They have the following titles.</p>
+
+<p>1. “A complaynt of them that be to soone
+maryed.”</p>
+
+<p>2. “Here begynneth the complaynte of them
+that ben to late maryed.”</p>
+
+<p>3. “The payne and sorowe of evyll maryage.”</p>
+
+<p>The last we have printed entire in the following
+pages, and of the two others, Dr. Dibdin has
+inserted a brief account in his edition of Ames
+(Typ. Ant. <small>II.</small> 384). We propose to go more at
+large into a description of the contents of these
+ancient and facetious relics.</p>
+
+<p>We have reason to believe that the two first
+are translations; and in default of English expressions,
+especially in the second piece, the writer<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[6]</a></span>
+has employed, and sometimes anglicised, several
+of the French words, which he thought better
+adapted to his purpose. To this production,
+“the Auctour,” as he calls himself, has subjoined
+a sort of epilogue, which ingeniously includes the
+printer’s colophon, as follows:</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">“Here endeth the complaynt of to late maryed,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For spendynge of tyme or they a borde<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The sayd holy sacramente have to longe taryed,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Humane nature tassemble and it to accorde.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Enprynted in Fletestrete by Wynkyn de Worde,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Dwellynge in the famous cyte of London,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">His hous in the same at the sygne of the Sonne.”<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>At the conclusion of the “complaynt of them
+that be to soone maryed,” the date of 1535 has
+also been interwoven. Wynkyn de Worde’s will
+was proved the 19th January, 1534, which, according
+to our present mode of computing the
+year, would be the 19th January, 1535; so that
+either this piece came out after his death, or it
+was printed just before that event, and in anticipation
+of the new year, which would not then
+commence until the 26th March.</p>
+
+<p>Each of the tracts has a wood-cut on the titlepage,
+but only that called “The payne and
+sorowe of evyll maryage,” can be said to have
+anything to do with the subject, and that no
+doubt had been used for other works: it represents<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</a></span>
+a marriage ceremony,—a priest joining the
+hands of a couple before the altar.</p>
+
+<p>The “complaynt of them that be to soone
+maryed” opens with the following stanza:</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">“For as moche as many folke there be<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That desyre the sacrament of weddynge,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Other wyll kepe them in vyrgyny[t]e,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And toyll in chastyte be lyvynge;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Therfore I wyll put now in wrytynge<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In what sorowe these men lede theyr lyves,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That to soone be coupled to cursed Wyves.”<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>Thence the author proceeds to give some very
+sage and serious advice upon the evil of too hasty
+matrimonial alliances, but he does not attempt
+much humour until he comes to describe the conduct
+of his wife (for he writes in the first person
+throughout) when they had been married eight
+days: until then he had not been “chydden ne
+banged,” but he suffered for it bitterly afterwards;</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">“But soone ynoughe I had assayes<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Of sorowe and care that made me bare.”<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class="ni">It may here be observed that the stanza is peculiar,
+and consists of eight lines, the four first lines
+rhyming alternately, the fifth rhyming with the
+fourth, then a line with a new rhyme, while the
+seventh line rhymes with the third and fourth, and
+the eighth with the sixth. He continues the narrative
+of his sufferings in the following manner:<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[8]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">“About eyght dayes, or soone after<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Our maryage, the tyme for to passe<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">My wyfe I toke, and dyd set her<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Upon my knee for to solace;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And began her for to enbrace,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sayenge, syster, go get the tyme loste;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">We must thynke to labour a pace<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To recompence that it hathe us coste.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">“Than for to despyte she up arose,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And drewe her faste behynde me,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To me sayenge, is this the glose?<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Alas, pore caytyfe, well I se<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That I never shall have, quod she,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With you more than payne and tormente:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I am in an evyll degre;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I have now loste my sacramente.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">“For me be to longe with you here,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Alas, I ought well for to thynke<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">What we sholde do within ten yere,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Whan we shall have at our herte brynke<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Many chyldren on for to thynke,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And crye after us without fayle<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For theyr meate and theyr drynke;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Then shall it be no mervayle.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">“Cursed be the houre that I ne was<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Made a none in some cloyster,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Never there for to passe;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Or had be made some syster,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In servage with a clousterer.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">It is not eyght dayes sythe oure weddynge<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That we two togyther weere:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">By god, ye speke to soone of werkynge.”<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>The second piece of ancient <i>faceti&aelig;</i>, “the
+complaynte of them that ben to late maryed,” is<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</a></span>
+written with much more humour, and is far better
+worth preservation, but it is disfigured by indelicacy,
+though not of the grossest kind, and
+never introduced but for the sake of heightening
+the drollery. It is the lamentation of an elderly
+gentleman, who after a youth of riot had married
+a young frolicksome wife, and he relates very
+feelingly the inconveniences, annoyances, and jealousies
+to which he is thereby exposed. After
+two introductory stanzas, (all of them are in the
+ordinary seven-line ballad form) he thus states
+his resolution late in life to commit the folly of
+matrimony.</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">“To longe have I lyved without ony make;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">All to longe have I used my yonge age:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I wyll all for go and a wyfe to me take<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For to increase both our twoos lynage;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For saynt John sayth that he is sage<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That ayenst his wyll doth him governe,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And our lordes precepte hym selfe for to learne<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">“There is no greter pleasure than for to have<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A wyfe that is full of prudence and wysdome.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Alas, for love nygh I am in poynte to rave.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">These cursed olde men have an yll custome<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Women for to blame, both all and some;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For that they can not theyr myndes full fyll,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Therfore they speke of them but all yll.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">“Now, syth that I have my tyme used<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For to follow my folyshe pleasaunces,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And have my selfe oftentimes sore abused<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">At plaies and sportes, pompes and daunces,</span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[10]</a></span><br />
+<span class="i0">Spendynge golde and sylver and grete fynaunces,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For faut of a wyfe the cause is all:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To late maryed men may me call.”<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>Hence he proceeds to narrate his early courses,
+especially his amours with “mercenary beauties.”
+He says:—</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">“Yf I withhelde ony praty one,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Swetely ynough she made me chere,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Sayenge that she loved no persone<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But me, and therto she dyde swere.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But whan I wente fro that place there,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Unto another she dyde as moche;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For they love none but for theyr poche.”<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>His male companions were about upon a par
+with his female, and upon both he wasted his
+substance; but having at last married, he imagined
+that he had only to enjoy tranquillity and
+happiness, and exclaimed:—</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">“Now am I out of this daunger so alenge,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Wherfore I am gladde it for to persever.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Longe about have I ben me for to renge;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But it is better to late than to be never.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Certes I was not in my lyfe tyll hyther<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">So full of joye, that doth in my herte inspyre:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Wedded folke have tyme at theyr desyre.”<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>On trying the experiment, he by no means finds
+it answer his expectation. Besides other evils,
+he says, “constrayned I am to be full of jalousy;”
+and he admits in plain terms that his young wife<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</a></span>
+has no great reason to be satisfied with her old
+husband. He observes:—</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">“It is sayd that a man in servytude<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Hym putteth, whan he doth to woman bende:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He ne hath but only habytude<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Unto her the whiche well doth hym tende.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Who wyll to householde comprehende,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And there a bout studyeth in youth alwayes,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He shall have honoure in his olde dayes.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">“Some chyldren unto the courtes hauntes,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And ben purvayed of benefyces;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Some haunteth markettes and be marchauntes,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Byenge and sellynge theyr marchaundyses;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Or elles constytuted in offyces.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Theyr faders and moders have grete solace,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That to late maryed by no waye hase.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">“I be wayll the tyme that is so spent,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That I ne me hasted for to wedde;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For I shall have herytage and rente,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Both golde and sylver and kynred;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But syth that our lorde hath ordeyned<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That I this sacrament take me upon,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I wyll kepe it trewely at all season.”<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>In the subsequent stanza, which occurs soon
+afterwards, the author seems to allude to the first
+of the three tracts now under consideration.</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">“Yf that there be ony tryfelers,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That have wylled for to blame maryage,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I dare well saye that they ben but lyers,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Or elles god fayled in the fyrste age:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Adam bereth wytnesse and tesmonage:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Maryed he was, and comen we ben.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">God dyde choyse maryage unto all men.”<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>This stanza affords an instance of the employment<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[12]</a></span>
+of an anglicised French word because it
+happened to answer the translator’s purpose as a
+rhyme to “age.” His objection is not to marriage
+generally, but to marriage when a man has
+ceased to be the subject of amorous affection; for
+he says expressly,</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">“All they that by theyr subtyll artes<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Hath wylled for to blame maryage,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I wyll susteyne that they be bastardes,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Or at least wage an evyll courage,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For to saye that therein is servage<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In maryage; but I it reny,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For therin is but humayne company.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">“Yf ther be yll women and rebell,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Shrewed, dispytous, and eke felonyous,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">There be other fayre, and do full well,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Propre, gentyll, lusty and joyous,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That ben full of grace and vertuous;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">They ben not all born under a sygnet:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Happy is he that a good one can get.”<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>He adds just afterwards:—</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">“Galantes, playne ye the tyme that ye have lost,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Mary you be tyme, as the wyse man sayth.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Tossed I have ben fro pyler to post<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In commersynge natures werke alwayes.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">I have passed full many quasy dayes,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That now unto good I can not mate,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For mary I dyde my selfe to late.”<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>In the second line we ought to read “sayes<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[13]</a></span>”
+for “sayth,” as the rhyme evidently shews. The
+last stanza of the body of the poem is in the
+same spirit.</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">“Better it is in youth a wyfe for to take,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And lyve with her to goddes pleasaunce,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Than to go in age, for goddes sake,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In worldly sorowe and perturbaunce,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For youthes love and utteraunce,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And than to dye at the last ende,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And be dampned in hell with the foule fende.”<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>The three terminating stanzas consist of a supplementary
+address from “the Auctour,” the last
+containing the imprint or colophon as already
+inserted. The work is ended by Wynkyn de
+Worde’s well known tripartite device.</p>
+
+<p>We now proceed to insert, in its entire shape,
+the third tract upon this amusing subject, premising
+that (like our preceding quotations) it
+is from an unique copy. It will remind the reader
+in several places of passages in the Prologue of
+Chaucer’s “Wife of Bath,” especially where she
+remarks,</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">“Thou sayst droppyng houses, and eke smoke,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And chidyng wyves maken men to flee<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Out of her owne houses. Ah, benedicite!<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">What ayleth suche an olde man for to chide?”<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p class="ni">But the Wife of Bath does not quote Solomon
+for the proverb, as we find him referred to on<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[14]</a></span>
+p. 20. Again, in a subsequent stanza, p. 21, we are
+strongly reminded of the lines where the Wife of
+Bath thus describes her conduct after she had
+married her fifth husband:—</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">“Therfore made I my visytations<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To vigilles, and to processyons,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To preachyng eke, and to pilgrymages,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To playes of myracles, and to mariages,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And weared on my gay skarlet gytes.”<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>The main difference is that instead of saying,
+with Chaucer, that women frequent “playes of
+myracles,” the author of the ensuing tract tells
+us that they delight “on scaffoldes to sytte on
+high stages,” from whence they usually beheld
+such performances. Throughout, the writer seems
+to have had our great early poet more or less in
+his eye, and hence we may possibly conclude, that
+if the two other pieces on the same subject were
+translations, this was original. It, therefore,
+deserves the more attention.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[15]</a></span></p>
+
+
+
+<h2>The Payne and Sorowe<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[16]</a></span><br />
+of<br />
+Evyll Maryage.</h2>
+
+
+
+<h2>THE PAYNE AND SOROWE OF<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[17]</a></span><br />
+EVYLL MARYAGE.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0"><span class="smcap">Take</span> hede and lerne, thou lytell chylde, and se<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That tyme passed wyl not agayne retourne,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And in thy youthe unto vertues use the:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Lette in thy brest no maner vyce sojourne,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That in thyne age thou have no cause to mourne<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For tyme lost, nor for defaute of wytte:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Thynke on this lesson, and in thy mynde it shytte.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Glory unto god, lovynge and benyson<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To Peter and Johan and also to Laurence,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Whiche have me take under proteccyon<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">From the deluge of mortall pestylence,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And from the tempest of deedly vyolence,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And me preserve that I fall not in the rage<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Under the bonde and yocke of maryage.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">I was in purpose to have taken a wyfe,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And for to have wedded without avysednes<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A full fayre mayde, with her to lede my lyfe,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Whome that I loved of hasty wylfulnes,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With other fooles to have lyved in dystresse,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As some gave me counseyle, and began me to constrayn<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To have be partable of theyr woofull payne.</span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[18]</a></span><br />
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">They laye upon me, and hasted me full sore,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And gave me counseyle for to have be bounde,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And began to prayse eche daye more and more<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The woofull lyfe in whiche they dyd habounde,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And were besy my gladnes to confounde,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Themselfe rejoysynge, bothe at even and morowe,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To have a felowe to lyve with them in sorowe.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">But of his grace god hath me preserved<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">By the wyse counseyle of these aungelles thre:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">From hell gates they have my lyfe conserved<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In tyme of warre, whan lovers lusty,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And bryght Phebus was fresshest unto se<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In Gemynys, the lusty and glad season,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Whan to wedde caught fyrst occasyon.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">My joye was sette in especyall<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To have wedded one excellent in fayrnes,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And thrugh her beaute have made my selfe thrall<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Under the yocke of everlastynge dystresse;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But god alonely of his high goodnes<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Hath by an aungell, as ye have herde me tell,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Stopped my passage from that peryllous hell.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Amonge these aungelles, that were in nombre thre,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">There appered one out of the southe,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Whiche spake fyrst of all the trynyte<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">All of one sentence, the mater is full couthe;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And he was called Johan with the golden mouthe,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Which concluded by sentence full notable,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Wyves of custome ben gladly varyable.</span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[19]</a></span><br />
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">After this Johan, the story sayth also,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In confyrmacyon of theyr fragylyte,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">How that Peter, called acorbylio,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Affermeth playnly, how that wyves be<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Dyverse of herte, full of duplycyte,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Mayterfull, hasty, and eke proude,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Crabbed of langage whan they lyst crye aloude.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Who taketh a wyfe receyveth a great charge,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In whiche he is full lyke to have a fall:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">With tempest tossed, as is a besy barge;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">There he was fre he maketh hymselfe thrall.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Wyves of porte ben full imperyall,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Husbandes dare not theyr lustes gaynsaye,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But lovely please and mekely them obaye.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">The husbandes ever abydeth in travayle;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">One labour passed there cometh an other newe,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And every daye she begynneth a batayle,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And in complaynynge chaungeth chere and hewe.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Under suche falsnes she fayneth to be true;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">She maketh hym rude as is a dull asse,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Out of whose daunger impossyble is to passe.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Thus wedlocke is an endlesse penaunce,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Husbandes knowe that have experyence,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A martyrdom and a contynuaunce<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In sorowe everlastynge, a deedly vyolence;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And this of wyves is gladly the sentence<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Upon theyr husbandes, whan they lyst to be bolde,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">How they alone governeth the housholde.</span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[20]</a></span><br />
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">And yf her husbande happen for to thryve,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">She sayth it is her prudent purveyaunce:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">If they go abacke ayenwarde and unthryve,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">She sayth it is his mysgovernaunce.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He bereth the blame of all suche ordynaunce;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And yf they be poore and fall in dystresse,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">She sayth it is his foly and lewdnesse.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">And yf so be he be no werkman good,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">It may well happe he shall have an horne,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A large bone to stuffe with his hood;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A mowe behynde, and fayned cheere beforne:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And yf it fall that theyr good be lorne<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">By aventure, eyther at even or morowe,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">The sely husbande shall have all the sorowe.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">An husbande hath greate cause to care<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For wyfe, for chylde, for stuffe and meyne,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And yf ought lacke she wyll bothe swere and stare,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">He is a wastour and shall never the:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And Salomon sayth there be thynges thre,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Shrewde wyves, rayne, and smokes blake<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Make husbandes ofte theyr houses to forsake.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Wyves be beestes very unchaungeable<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">In theyr desyres, whiche may not staunched be,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Lyke a swalowe whiche is insacyable:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Peryllous caryage in the trouble see;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">A wawe calme full of adversyte,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Whose blandysshynge endeth with myschaunce,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Called Cyrenes, ever full of varyaunce.</span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[21]</a></span><br />
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">They them rejoyce to se and to be sene,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And for to seke sondrye pylgrymages,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">At greate gaderynges to walke on the grene,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And on scaffoldes to sytte on hygh stages,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">If they be fayre to shewe theyr vysages;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And yf they be foule of loke or countenaunce,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">They it amende with pleasynge dalyaunce.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">And of profyte they take but lytell hede,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But loketh soure whan theyr husbandes ayleth ought;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And of good mete and drynke they wyll not fayle in dede,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">What so ever it cost they care ryght nought;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Nor they care not how dere it be bought,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Rather than they should therof lacke or mysse,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">They wolde leever laye some pledge ywys.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">It is trewe, I tell you yonge men everychone,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Women be varyable and love many wordes and stryfe:<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Who can not appease them lyghtly or anone,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Shall have care and sorowe all his lyfe,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">That woo the tyme that ever he toke a wyfe;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And wyll take thought, and often muse<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">How he myght fynde the maner his wyfe to refuse.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">But that maner with trouth can not be founde,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Therfore be wyse or ye come in the snare,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Or er ye take the waye of that bounde;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For and ye come there your joye is tourned unto care,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And remedy is there none, so may I fare,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">But to take pacyens and thynke none other way aboute;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Than shall ye dye a martyr without ony doute.</span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[22]</a></span><br />
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Therfore, you men that wedded be,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Do nothynge agaynst the pleasure of your wyfe,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Than shall you lyve the more meryly,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And often cause her to lyve withouten stryfe;<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Without thou art unhappy unto an evyll lyfe,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Than, yf she than wyll be no better,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Set her upon a lelande and bydde the devyll fet her.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">Therfore thynke moche and saye nought,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And thanke God of his goodnesse,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And prece not for to knowe all her thought,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For than shalte thou not knowe, as I gesse,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Without it be of her own gentylnesse,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">And that is as moche as a man may put in his eye,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">For, yf she lyst, of thy wordes she careth not a flye.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">And to conclude shortly upon reason,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">To speke of wedlocke of fooles that be blente,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">There is no greter grefe nor feller poyson,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Nor none so dredeful peryllous serpent,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">As is a wyfe double of her entent.<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Therfore let yonge men to eschew sorowe and care<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Withdrawe theyr fete or they come in the snare.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+
+<p class="center" style="font-size: 80%; padding-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 1em">FINIS.</p>
+
+
+<p>Here endeth the payne and sorowe of evyll maryage.
+Imprynted at London in Fletestrete at the signe of the
+Sonne, by me Wynkyn de Worde.</p>
+
+
+<p class="center" style="font-size: 70%; padding-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 1em">C. RICHARDS, PRINTER, 100, ST. MARTIN’S LANE, CHARING CROSS.</p>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<pre>
+
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+
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+Project Gutenberg's The Pain and Sorrow of Evil Marriage, by Wynkyn de Worde
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+Title: The Pain and Sorrow of Evil Marriage
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+Author: Wynkyn de Worde
+
+Release Date: May 20, 2010 [EBook #32445]
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+                                   THE
+                             PAIN AND SORROW
+                                   OF
+                             EVIL MARRIAGE.
+
+
+                           FROM AN UNIQUE COPY
+
+
+                       Printed by Wynkyn de Worde.
+
+
+                                 LONDON:
+                    REPRINTED FOR THE PERCY SOCIETY,
+                   BY C. RICHARDS, ST. MARTIN'S LANE.
+                                MDCCCXL.
+
+
+  COUNCIL OF The Percy Society.
+
+  J. A. CAHUSAC, ESQ. F.S.A.
+  WILLIAM CHAPPELL, ESQ. F.S.A.
+  JOHN PAYNE COLLIER, ESQ. F.S.A.
+  T. CROFTON CROKER, ESQ. F.S.A.
+  REV. ALEXANDER DYCE.
+  RICHARD HALLIWELL, ESQ. F.S.A.
+  JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL, ESQ. F.R.S. Treasurer
+  WILLIAM JERDAN, ESQ. F.S.A.
+  SAMUEL LOVER, ESQ.
+  CHARLES MACKAY, ESQ.
+  E. F. RIMBAULT, ESQ. _Secretary_.
+  THOMAS WRIGHT, ESQ. M.A. F.S.A.
+
+
+
+
+INTRODUCTION.
+
+
+There are three early humorous tracts in verse upon the subject of
+marriage, all printed by Wynkyn de Worde: only one of them has a date,
+1535, but we can have little difficulty in assigning the two others to
+about the same period. They have the following titles.
+
+1. "A complaynt of them that be to soone maryed."
+
+2. "Here begynneth the complaynte of them that ben to late maryed."
+
+3. "The payne and sorowe of evyll maryage."
+
+The last we have printed entire in the following pages, and of the two
+others, Dr. Dibdin has inserted a brief account in his edition of Ames
+(Typ. Ant. II. 384). We propose to go more at large into a description
+of the contents of these ancient and facetious relics.
+
+We have reason to believe that the two first are translations; and in
+default of English expressions, especially in the second piece, the
+writer has employed, and sometimes anglicised, several of the French
+words, which he thought better adapted to his purpose. To this
+production, "the Auctour," as he calls himself, has subjoined a sort of
+epilogue, which ingeniously includes the printer's colophon, as follows:
+
+    "Here endeth the complaynt of to late maryed,
+    For spendynge of tyme or they a borde
+    The sayd holy sacramente have to longe taryed,
+    Humane nature tassemble and it to accorde.
+    Enprynted in Fletestrete by Wynkyn de Worde,
+    Dwellynge in the famous cyte of London,
+    His hous in the same at the sygne of the Sonne."
+
+At the conclusion of the "complaynt of them that be to soone maryed,"
+the date of 1535 has also been interwoven. Wynkyn de Worde's will was
+proved the 19th January, 1534, which, according to our present mode of
+computing the year, would be the 19th January, 1535; so that either this
+piece came out after his death, or it was printed just before that
+event, and in anticipation of the new year, which would not then
+commence until the 26th March.
+
+Each of the tracts has a wood-cut on the titlepage, but only that called
+"The payne and sorowe of evyll maryage," can be said to have anything to
+do with the subject, and that no doubt had been used for other works: it
+represents a marriage ceremony,--a priest joining the hands of a couple
+before the altar.
+
+The "complaynt of them that be to soone maryed" opens with the following
+stanza:
+
+    "For as moche as many folke there be
+    That desyre the sacrament of weddynge,
+    Other wyll kepe them in vyrgyny[t]e,
+    And toyll in chastyte be lyvynge;
+    Therfore I wyll put now in wrytynge
+    In what sorowe these men lede theyr lyves,
+    That to soone be coupled to cursed Wyves."
+
+Thence the author proceeds to give some very sage and serious advice
+upon the evil of too hasty matrimonial alliances, but he does not
+attempt much humour until he comes to describe the conduct of his wife
+(for he writes in the first person throughout) when they had been
+married eight days: until then he had not been "chydden ne banged," but
+he suffered for it bitterly afterwards;
+
+    "But soone ynoughe I had assayes
+    Of sorowe and care that made me bare."
+
+It may here be observed that the stanza is peculiar, and consists of
+eight lines, the four first lines rhyming alternately, the fifth rhyming
+with the fourth, then a line with a new rhyme, while the seventh line
+rhymes with the third and fourth, and the eighth with the sixth. He
+continues the narrative of his sufferings in the following manner:
+
+    "About eyght dayes, or soone after
+    Our maryage, the tyme for to passe
+    My wyfe I toke, and dyd set her
+    Upon my knee for to solace;
+    And began her for to enbrace,
+    Sayenge, syster, go get the tyme loste;
+    We must thynke to labour a pace
+    To recompence that it hathe us coste.
+
+    "Than for to despyte she up arose,
+    And drewe her faste behynde me,
+    To me sayenge, is this the glose?
+    Alas, pore caytyfe, well I se
+    That I never shall have, quod she,
+    With you more than payne and tormente:
+    I am in an evyll degre;
+    I have now loste my sacramente.
+
+    "For me be to longe with you here,
+    Alas, I ought well for to thynke
+    What we sholde do within ten yere,
+    Whan we shall have at our herte brynke
+    Many chyldren on for to thynke,
+    And crye after us without fayle
+    For theyr meate and theyr drynke;
+    Then shall it be no mervayle.
+
+    "Cursed be the houre that I ne was
+    Made a none in some cloyster,
+    Never there for to passe;
+    Or had be made some syster,
+    In servage with a clousterer.
+    It is not eyght dayes sythe oure weddynge
+    That we two togyther weere:
+    By god, ye speke to soone of werkynge."
+
+The second piece of ancient _facetiae_, "the complaynte of them that ben
+to late maryed," is written with much more humour, and is far better
+worth preservation, but it is disfigured by indelicacy, though not of
+the grossest kind, and never introduced but for the sake of heightening
+the drollery. It is the lamentation of an elderly gentleman, who after a
+youth of riot had married a young frolicksome wife, and he relates very
+feelingly the inconveniences, annoyances, and jealousies to which he is
+thereby exposed. After two introductory stanzas, (all of them are in the
+ordinary seven-line ballad form) he thus states his resolution late in
+life to commit the folly of matrimony.
+
+    "To longe have I lyved without ony make;
+    All to longe have I used my yonge age:
+    I wyll all for go and a wyfe to me take
+    For to increase both our twoos lynage;
+    For saynt John sayth that he is sage
+    That ayenst his wyll doth him governe,
+    And our lordes precepte hym selfe for to learne
+
+    "There is no greter pleasure than for to have
+    A wyfe that is full of prudence and wysdome.
+    Alas, for love nygh I am in poynte to rave.
+    These cursed olde men have an yll custome
+    Women for to blame, both all and some;
+    For that they can not theyr myndes full fyll,
+    Therfore they speke of them but all yll.
+
+    "Now, syth that I have my tyme used
+    For to follow my folyshe pleasaunces,
+    And have my selfe oftentimes sore abused
+    At plaies and sportes, pompes and daunces,
+    Spendynge golde and sylver and grete fynaunces,
+    For faut of a wyfe the cause is all:
+    To late maryed men may me call."
+
+Hence he proceeds to narrate his early courses, especially his amours
+with "mercenary beauties." He says:--
+
+    "Yf I withhelde ony praty one,
+    Swetely ynough she made me chere,
+    Sayenge that she loved no persone
+    But me, and therto she dyde swere.
+    But whan I wente fro that place there,
+    Unto another she dyde as moche;
+    For they love none but for theyr poche."
+
+His male companions were about upon a par with his female, and upon both
+he wasted his substance; but having at last married, he imagined that he
+had only to enjoy tranquillity and happiness, and exclaimed:--
+
+    "Now am I out of this daunger so alenge,
+    Wherfore I am gladde it for to persever.
+    Longe about have I ben me for to renge;
+    But it is better to late than to be never.
+    Certes I was not in my lyfe tyll hyther
+    So full of joye, that doth in my herte inspyre:
+    Wedded folke have tyme at theyr desyre."
+
+On trying the experiment, he by no means finds it answer his
+expectation. Besides other evils, he says, "constrayned I am to be full
+of jalousy;" and he admits in plain terms that his young wife has no
+great reason to be satisfied with her old husband. He observes:--
+
+    "It is sayd that a man in servytude
+    Hym putteth, whan he doth to woman bende:
+    He ne hath but only habytude
+    Unto her the whiche well doth hym tende.
+    Who wyll to householde comprehende,
+    And there a bout studyeth in youth alwayes,
+    He shall have honoure in his olde dayes.
+
+    "Some chyldren unto the courtes hauntes,
+    And ben purvayed of benefyces;
+    Some haunteth markettes and be marchauntes,
+    Byenge and sellynge theyr marchaundyses;
+    Or elles constytuted in offyces.
+    Theyr faders and moders have grete solace,
+    That to late maryed by no waye hase.
+
+    "I be wayll the tyme that is so spent,
+    That I ne me hasted for to wedde;
+    For I shall have herytage and rente,
+    Both golde and sylver and kynred;
+    But syth that our lorde hath ordeyned
+    That I this sacrament take me upon,
+    I wyll kepe it trewely at all season."
+
+In the subsequent stanza, which occurs soon afterwards, the author seems
+to allude to the first of the three tracts now under consideration.
+
+    "Yf that there be ony tryfelers,
+    That have wylled for to blame maryage,
+    I dare well saye that they ben but lyers,
+    Or elles god fayled in the fyrste age:
+    Adam bereth wytnesse and tesmonage:
+    Maryed he was, and comen we ben.
+    God dyde choyse maryage unto all men."
+
+This stanza affords an instance of the employment of an anglicised
+French word because it happened to answer the translator's purpose as a
+rhyme to "age." His objection is not to marriage generally, but to
+marriage when a man has ceased to be the subject of amorous affection;
+for he says expressly,
+
+    "All they that by theyr subtyll artes
+    Hath wylled for to blame maryage,
+    I wyll susteyne that they be bastardes,
+    Or at least wage an evyll courage,
+    For to saye that therein is servage
+    In maryage; but I it reny,
+    For therin is but humayne company.
+
+    "Yf ther be yll women and rebell,
+    Shrewed, dispytous, and eke felonyous,
+    There be other fayre, and do full well,
+    Propre, gentyll, lusty and joyous,
+    That ben full of grace and vertuous;
+    They ben not all born under a sygnet:
+    Happy is he that a good one can get."
+
+He adds just afterwards:--
+
+    "Galantes, playne ye the tyme that ye have lost,
+    Mary you be tyme, as the wyse man sayth.
+    Tossed I have ben fro pyler to post
+    In commersynge natures werke alwayes.
+    I have passed full many quasy dayes,
+    That now unto good I can not mate,
+    For mary I dyde my selfe to late."
+
+In the second line we ought to read "sayes" for "sayth," as the rhyme
+evidently shews. The last stanza of the body of the poem is in the same
+spirit.
+
+    "Better it is in youth a wyfe for to take,
+    And lyve with her to goddes pleasaunce,
+    Than to go in age, for goddes sake,
+    In worldly sorowe and perturbaunce,
+    For youthes love and utteraunce,
+    And than to dye at the last ende,
+    And be dampned in hell with the foule fende."
+
+The three terminating stanzas consist of a supplementary address from
+"the Auctour," the last containing the imprint or colophon as already
+inserted. The work is ended by Wynkyn de Worde's well known tripartite
+device.
+
+We now proceed to insert, in its entire shape, the third tract upon this
+amusing subject, premising that (like our preceding quotations) it is
+from an unique copy. It will remind the reader in several places of
+passages in the Prologue of Chaucer's "Wife of Bath," especially where
+she remarks,
+
+    "Thou sayst droppyng houses, and eke smoke,
+    And chidyng wyves maken men to flee
+    Out of her owne houses. Ah, benedicite!
+    What ayleth suche an olde man for to chide?"
+
+But the Wife of Bath does not quote Solomon for the proverb, as we find
+him referred to on p. 20. Again, in a subsequent stanza, p. 21, we are
+strongly reminded of the lines where the Wife of Bath thus describes her
+conduct after she had married her fifth husband:--
+
+    "Therfore made I my visytations
+    To vigilles, and to processyons,
+    To preachyng eke, and to pilgrymages,
+    To playes of myracles, and to mariages,
+    And weared on my gay skarlet gytes."
+
+The main difference is that instead of saying, with Chaucer, that women
+frequent "playes of myracles," the author of the ensuing tract tells us
+that they delight "on scaffoldes to sytte on high stages," from whence
+they usually beheld such performances. Throughout, the writer seems to
+have had our great early poet more or less in his eye, and hence we may
+possibly conclude, that if the two other pieces on the same subject were
+translations, this was original. It, therefore, deserves the more
+attention.
+
+
+
+
+The Payne and Sorowe of Evyll Maryage.
+
+
+
+
+THE PAYNE AND SOROWE OF EVYLL MARYAGE.
+
+
+    Take hede and lerne, thou lytell chylde, and se
+    That tyme passed wyl not agayne retourne,
+    And in thy youthe unto vertues use the:
+    Lette in thy brest no maner vyce sojourne,
+    That in thyne age thou have no cause to mourne
+    For tyme lost, nor for defaute of wytte:
+    Thynke on this lesson, and in thy mynde it shytte.
+
+    Glory unto god, lovynge and benyson
+    To Peter and Johan and also to Laurence,
+    Whiche have me take under proteccyon
+    From the deluge of mortall pestylence,
+    And from the tempest of deedly vyolence,
+    And me preserve that I fall not in the rage
+    Under the bonde and yocke of maryage.
+
+    I was in purpose to have taken a wyfe,
+    And for to have wedded without avysednes
+    A full fayre mayde, with her to lede my lyfe,
+    Whome that I loved of hasty wylfulnes,
+    With other fooles to have lyved in dystresse,
+    As some gave me counseyle, and began me to constrayn
+    To have be partable of theyr woofull payne.
+
+    They laye upon me, and hasted me full sore,
+    And gave me counseyle for to have be bounde,
+    And began to prayse eche daye more and more
+    The woofull lyfe in whiche they dyd habounde,
+    And were besy my gladnes to confounde,
+    Themselfe rejoysynge, bothe at even and morowe,
+    To have a felowe to lyve with them in sorowe.
+
+    But of his grace god hath me preserved
+    By the wyse counseyle of these aungelles thre:
+    From hell gates they have my lyfe conserved
+    In tyme of warre, whan lovers lusty,
+    And bryght Phebus was fresshest unto se
+    In Gemynys, the lusty and glad season,
+    Whan to wedde caught fyrst occasyon.
+
+    My joye was sette in especyall
+    To have wedded one excellent in fayrnes,
+    And thrugh her beaute have made my selfe thrall
+    Under the yocke of everlastynge dystresse;
+    But god alonely of his high goodnes
+    Hath by an aungell, as ye have herde me tell,
+    Stopped my passage from that peryllous hell.
+
+    Amonge these aungelles, that were in nombre thre,
+    There appered one out of the southe,
+    Whiche spake fyrst of all the trynyte
+    All of one sentence, the mater is full couthe;
+    And he was called Johan with the golden mouthe,
+    Which concluded by sentence full notable,
+    Wyves of custome ben gladly varyable.
+
+    After this Johan, the story sayth also,
+    In confyrmacyon of theyr fragylyte,
+    How that Peter, called acorbylio,
+    Affermeth playnly, how that wyves be
+    Dyverse of herte, full of duplycyte,
+    Mayterfull, hasty, and eke proude,
+    Crabbed of langage whan they lyst crye aloude.
+
+    Who taketh a wyfe receyveth a great charge,
+    In whiche he is full lyke to have a fall:
+    With tempest tossed, as is a besy barge;
+    There he was fre he maketh hymselfe thrall.
+    Wyves of porte ben full imperyall,
+    Husbandes dare not theyr lustes gaynsaye,
+    But lovely please and mekely them obaye.
+
+    The husbandes ever abydeth in travayle;
+    One labour passed there cometh an other newe,
+    And every daye she begynneth a batayle,
+    And in complaynynge chaungeth chere and hewe.
+    Under suche falsnes she fayneth to be true;
+    She maketh hym rude as is a dull asse,
+    Out of whose daunger impossyble is to passe.
+
+    Thus wedlocke is an endlesse penaunce,
+    Husbandes knowe that have experyence,
+    A martyrdom and a contynuaunce
+    In sorowe everlastynge, a deedly vyolence;
+    And this of wyves is gladly the sentence
+    Upon theyr husbandes, whan they lyst to be bolde,
+    How they alone governeth the housholde.
+
+    And yf her husbande happen for to thryve,
+    She sayth it is her prudent purveyaunce:
+    If they go abacke ayenwarde and unthryve,
+    She sayth it is his mysgovernaunce.
+    He bereth the blame of all suche ordynaunce;
+    And yf they be poore and fall in dystresse,
+    She sayth it is his foly and lewdnesse.
+
+    And yf so be he be no werkman good,
+    It may well happe he shall have an horne,
+    A large bone to stuffe with his hood;
+    A mowe behynde, and fayned cheere beforne:
+    And yf it fall that theyr good be lorne
+    By aventure, eyther at even or morowe,
+    The sely husbande shall have all the sorowe.
+
+    An husbande hath greate cause to care
+    For wyfe, for chylde, for stuffe and meyne,
+    And yf ought lacke she wyll bothe swere and stare,
+    He is a wastour and shall never the:
+    And Salomon sayth there be thynges thre,
+    Shrewde wyves, rayne, and smokes blake
+    Make husbandes ofte theyr houses to forsake.
+
+    Wyves be beestes very unchaungeable
+    In theyr desyres, whiche may not staunched be,
+    Lyke a swalowe whiche is insacyable:
+    Peryllous caryage in the trouble see;
+    A wawe calme full of adversyte,
+    Whose blandysshynge endeth with myschaunce,
+    Called Cyrenes, ever full of varyaunce.
+
+    They them rejoyce to se and to be sene,
+    And for to seke sondrye pylgrymages,
+    At greate gaderynges to walke on the grene,
+    And on scaffoldes to sytte on hygh stages,
+    If they be fayre to shewe theyr vysages;
+    And yf they be foule of loke or countenaunce,
+    They it amende with pleasynge dalyaunce.
+
+    And of profyte they take but lytell hede,
+    But loketh soure whan theyr husbandes ayleth ought;
+    And of good mete and drynke they wyll not fayle in dede,
+    What so ever it cost they care ryght nought;
+    Nor they care not how dere it be bought,
+    Rather than they should therof lacke or mysse,
+    They wolde leever laye some pledge ywys.
+
+    It is trewe, I tell you yonge men everychone,
+    Women be varyable and love many wordes and stryfe:
+    Who can not appease them lyghtly or anone,
+    Shall have care and sorowe all his lyfe,
+    That woo the tyme that ever he toke a wyfe;
+    And wyll take thought, and often muse
+    How he myght fynde the maner his wyfe to refuse.
+
+    But that maner with trouth can not be founde,
+    Therfore be wyse or ye come in the snare,
+    Or er ye take the waye of that bounde;
+    For and ye come there your joye is tourned unto care,
+    And remedy is there none, so may I fare,
+    But to take pacyens and thynke none other way aboute;
+    Than shall ye dye a martyr without ony doute.
+
+    Therfore, you men that wedded be,
+    Do nothynge agaynst the pleasure of your wyfe,
+    Than shall you lyve the more meryly,
+    And often cause her to lyve withouten stryfe;
+    Without thou art unhappy unto an evyll lyfe,
+    Than, yf she than wyll be no better,
+    Set her upon a lelande and bydde the devyll fet her.
+
+    Therfore thynke moche and saye nought,
+    And thanke God of his goodnesse,
+    And prece not for to knowe all her thought,
+    For than shalte thou not knowe, as I gesse,
+    Without it be of her own gentylnesse,
+    And that is as moche as a man may put in his eye,
+    For, yf she lyst, of thy wordes she careth not a flye.
+
+    And to conclude shortly upon reason,
+    To speke of wedlocke of fooles that be blente,
+    There is no greter grefe nor feller poyson,
+    Nor none so dredeful peryllous serpent,
+    As is a wyfe double of her entent.
+    Therfore let yonge men to eschew sorowe and care
+    Withdrawe theyr fete or they come in the snare.
+
+
+FINIS.
+
+
+Here endeth the payne and sorowe of evyll maryage. Imprynted at London
+in Fletestrete at the signe of the Sonne, by me Wynkyn de Worde.
+
+
+C. RICHARDS, PRINTER, 100, ST. MARTIN'S LANE, CHARING CROSS.
+
+
+
+
+
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