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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Bride + +Author: Samuel Rowlands + +Posting Date: October 20, 2012 [EBook #8189] +Release Date: May, 2005 +First Posted: June 29, 2003 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BRIDE *** + + + + +Produced by David Starner, Phil Petersen, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team + + + + + + + + + + +Editorial note: Long s's have been turned into s's, and the occasional + use of a macron over a vowel to express a following + n or m has been replaced with the following n or m. + Otherwise, the spelling is as in the original edition + of 1617, as difficult and inconsistent as it may be. + + + + + + +THE BRIDE + +By Samuel Rowlands + +With an Introductory Note by Alfred Claghorn Potter + + + + + + + +_Introductory Note_ + +When the complete works of Samuel Rowlands were issued by the +Hunterian Club in 1872-1880, in an edition of two hundred and ten copies, +the Editor was obliged to omit from the collection the poem entitled +"The Bride." No copy of this tract was supposed to be extant. Twenty +years later, in the article on Rowlands in the Dictionary of National +Biography, Mr. Sidney Lee also names this poem as one of the author's +lost works. All that was known of it was the entry in the Stationers' +Register: [Footnote: _Arber's Transcript, vol. iii. p. 609_.] + + "22 [degrees] Maij 1617 +"Master Pauier. Entred for his Copie vnder the handes + of master TAUERNOR and both the wardens, A Poeme + intituled _The Bride_, written by SAMUELL ROWLANDE vj'd." + +While all of Rowlands's works are classed by bibliographers as "rare," +this one seemed to have disappeared entirely. No copy was to be +found in any of the large libraries or private collections, nor was there +any record of its sale. + +Last spring a copy was discovered in the catalogue of a bookseller in a +small German town, and was secured for the Harvard College Library, +being purchased from the Child Memorial Fund. The copy is perfect, +except that the inner corner at the top of the second and third leaves +has been torn off, with the loss of parts of two words, which have +been supplied in manuscript. From this copy the present reprint is +made. As in the Hunterian Club edition of Rowlands's Works, to which +this may be considered a supplement, the reprint is exact. The general +makeup of the book as to style and size of type has been followed as +closely as possible; and the text has been reproduced page for page +and word for word. The misprints, which are unusually numerous, even +for a book of this period, have been left uncorrected. The title-page +and the two head-pieces have been reproduced by photography. + +Of the poem itself, since it is now before the reader, little need be +said. It cannot be claimed that it presents great poetical merit. +Rowlands at his best was but an indifferent poet,--hardly more +than a penny-a-liner. In his satirical pieces and epigrams, and in +that bit of genuine comedy, "Tis Merrie vvhen Gossips meete," his +work does have a real literary value, and is distinctly interesting as +presenting a vivid picture of London life at the beginning of the +seventeenth century. In "The Bride," it must be confessed, Rowlands +falls below his own best work. Yet the poem is by no means wholly +lacking in interest. If not his best work, "The Bride" is by no means +his worst. Like most of his poems, it is written in an heroic stanza +of six lines, and, as is not so common with him, is in dialogue form. +The dialogue for the most part is well sustained and sprightly. The +story of the birth of Merlin, it is true, seems to have been inserted +mainly to fill out the required number of pages; but this digression has an +interest of its own, in that the name here given to Merlin's mother, +"Lady Adhan," does not appear in the ordinary versions of the legend. + +Of Rowlands's life almost nothing is known: that little is told in the +Memoir by Mr. Gosse prefixed to the Hunterian Club edition, and by +Mr. Lee in the Dictionary of National Biography, and need not be +repeated here. All that is known with certainty is that Samuel +Rowlands was a writer of numerous poems and pamphlets, published +between the years 1598 and 1628. During this period there appeared +almost every year a pamphlet bearing his name or the well known initials, +"S. R." Twenty-eight separate works, of which many passed through +several editions, are known to have been written by him. All of these +early editions are rare; at least two of the works have been lost; several +are extant only in the second or later editions; and of at least ten, only +single copies are known to exist. Beside the edition of the Works already +referred to, a number of Rowlands's tracts have been separately reprinted, +in limited editions, by Sir Walter Scott, by S. W. Singer, by +E. V. Utterson, by Halliwell-Phillipps, by J. P. Collier, and by +E. F. Rimbault in the publications of the Percy Society; to this series +of reprints, "The Bride" is now added. + +ALFRED CLAGHORN POTTER + +_Harvard College Library_ +_January, 1905_ + + + + +THE BRIDE +BY S.R. + +LONDON +Printed by W. I. for T. P. 1617 + + + +THE BRIDE TO ALL MAYDES. + + Not out of bubble blasted Pride, + Doe I oppose myselfe a Bride, + In scornefull manner with vpbraides: + Against all modest virgin maides. + As though I did dispise chast youth, + This is not my intent of truth, + I know they must liue single liues, + Before th'are graced to be wiues. + But such are only touch'd by me, + That thinke themselues as good as wee: + And say girles, Weomens fellows arr, + Nay sawcely, Our betters farr: + Yea will dispute, they are as good, + Such Wenches vex me to the blood, + And are not to be borne with all: + Those I doe here in question call, + Whome with the rules of reasons Arte: + He teach more wit before we part, + Sylence, of kindnes I beseech, + Doe you finde eares, and weele finde speach. + + + + + + THE BRIDE + + + Virgins, and fellow maydes (that were of late) + Take kindly heere my wedding dayes a dew, + I entertayne degree aboue your state: + For Marriage life's beyond the single crew, + Bring me to Church as custome sayes you shall, + And then as wife, farewell my wenches all. + + I goe before you vnto Honour now, + And _Hymen's_ Rites with ioy doe vndertake + For life, I make the constant Nuptiall vow, + Striue you to follow for your credits sake, + For greater grace to Womankind is none + Then Ioyne with husband, faithfull two in one. + + God Honoured thus, our great Grand-mother _Eue_ + And gaue thereby the blessing of increase, + For were not mariage we must all beleeue, + The generations of the earth would cease. + Mankind should be extinguish'd and decreas'd + And all the world would but consist of beast. + + Which caused me to finde my Mayden folly, + And having found it, to reforme the same: + Though some of you, thereat seeme melancholy + That I for ever doe renounce your name. + I not respect what censure you can giue, + Since with a loving Man I meane to liue. + + Whose kindest heart, to me is worth you all, + Him to content, my soule in all things seekes, + Say what you please, exclaiming chide and brall, + Ile turne disgrace unto your blushing cheekes. + I am your better now by _Ring_ and _Hatt_, + No more playn _Rose_, but _Mistris_ you know what. + + Marrie therefore and yeald increase a store, + Else to what purpose weare you breed and borne: + Those that receaue, and nothing giue therefore: + Are fruitles creatures, of contempt and scorne, + The excellence of all things doth consist, + In giuing, this no reason can resist. + + The glorious Sun, in giving forth his light, + The Earth in plants, and hearbs & countles things + The trees their fruit, The _Empresse_ of the Night + _She_ bountious gives to rivers flouds and springs, + And all that heaven, and all that earth containes, + Their goodnes, in Increase of guifts explaynes. + + But what doe you that neither give nor take, + (As only made for hearing, and for seeing,) + Although created helpers for Mans sake: + Yet Man no whit the better for your being, + That spend consume and Idle out your howers, + Like many garden-paynted vselesse flowers. + + Your liues are like those worthles barren trees, + That never yeald (from yeare to yeare) but leaues: + Greene-bowes vpon them only all men sees, + But other goodnes there is none receaues, + They flourish sommer and they make a showe, + Yet to themselues they fruitles spring & growe. + + Consider beast, and fish and foule, all creatures, + How there is male and female of their kinde, + And how in loue they doe inlarge their natures: + Even by constrayn'd necessity inclyn'd: + To paire and match, and couple tis decreed, + To stocke and store the earth, with what they breed. + + In that most powerfull word, still power doth lye, + To whose obedience all must subiect bee, + That sayd at first, _Increase and multiply_, + Which still enduers from age to age we see: + Dutie obligeth every one should frame, + To his dread will, that did commaund the same. + + _It is not good for Man to be alone_, + Sayd that great God, who only knowes whats best: + And therefore made a wife of _Adams_ bone, + While he reposing slept, with quyet rest, + Which might presage, the great Creator ment, + In their coniunction, sume of earths content, + + + _Mistris Susan_. + + Good _Mistris Bride_, now we haue hard your speach + In commendation of your Nuptiall choyse, + Giue me a little favour I beseech, + To speake vnto you with a Virgins voyce: + Though diuers elder maydes in place there be, + Yet ile begin, trusting they'le second me. + + We are your fellows but to Church you say, + As custome is that maydes, should bring the _Bride_ + And for no longer then the wedding day, + You hould with vs, but turne to tother side: + Boasting of Honour you affend vnto, + And so goe forward making much adoe. + + But this vnto you lustly I obiect, + In the defence of each beloued mayde, + _Virginity_, is life of chast respect, + No worldly burden thereupon is layd: + Our syngle life, all peace and quiet bringes, + And we are free from carefull earthly things. + + We may doe what we please, goe where we list, + Without pray _husband will you giue me leaue_ + Our resolutions no man can resist, + Our own's our owne, to giue or to receiue, + We live not under this same word obay: + _Till Death depart us_, at our dying day. + + We may delight in fashion, weare the same, + And chuse the stuffe of last devised sale: + Take Taylors counsell in it free from blame, + And cast it off assone as it growes stale: + Goe out, come in, and at selfe pleasure liue, + And kindly take, what kind youngmen do giue. + + Wee have no checking churlish taunts to feare us, + We have no grumbling at our purse expence: + We seeke no misers favour to forbeare us, + We use no houshold wranglings and offence: + We have no cocke to over crowe our combe, + + + _Cate_. + + Well said good _Susan_, now thou pay'st her home. + + + _Bride_. + + A little favour pray, good _Mistris Sue_, + You haue a time to heare aswell as speake: + You challenge more by odds then is your due, + And stand on Arguments are childish weake: + Of freedome, liberty, and all content, + But in the aire your breath is vainely spent. + + It is your shame to bost you haue your will, + And that you are in feare of no controwle, + Your cases _Sufan_, are more bad and ill, + Most dangerous to body and to soule: + A woman to her will hath oft bin try'd, + To run with errour, on the left hand side. + + Pray did not danger then to _Eue_ befall, + When she tooke liberty without her heda, + The _Serpent_ ouercame her therwithall, + And thorow will, she wilfull was misled: + Yelding assoone as _Sathan_ did intice, + And of her husband neuer tooke aduise. + + In wit to men we are inferiour far, + For arts for learning, and Ingenious things, + No rare Inuentions in our braynes there are, + That publique profit to a kingdome brings: + Tis they that must all callings execute, + And wee of all their labours reape the fruite. + + They are Diuines for soules true happines, + They Maiestraites to right offensiue wronges, + They souldiers for their martiall valiantnes, + They artizans, for all to vse belonges: + They husbandmen to worke the earths increase, + And they the some of womens ioye and peace. + + And shall not we performe obedience then? + As wee are bound by law of God and nature, + Yealding true harts affection unto men, + Ordain'd to rule and gouerne euery creature: + Why then of all on earth that liue and moue, + We should degenerate and monsters proue. + + + _Besse_. + + Monsters (forsoth) nere sleepe in maidens beds, + But they are lodged with your married wiues, + The knotty browes, and rugged butting heds, + Concerne not vs, professing single liues, + To learne your horne-booke we have no deuotion + Keepe monsters to your selues, we scorne the motion. + + + _Bride_. + + Besse, of such shapes, when your turne coms to marry + A carefull mynd, in choyse of husband beare, + For if your browes from former smothnes varry, + Thinke on this speach, _It commeth with a feare:_ + Which I am past, perplexe me no feare can. + Being sure I haue a constant honest man. + + + _Iane_. + + Belieue you haue, and t'is enough they say, + But you and I agree not in a mynde, + I read in storyes men will run astray, + Yet make their foolish wiues beleeue th'are kind: + And therefore since they are so cunning knowne + He keepe my selfe a maide and trust to none. + + Had I one sutor swore himselfe loue-sicke, + Another for his Mistris sake would die, + A third thorow _Cupids_ power growne lunaticke, + A fourth that languishing past hope did lye: + And so fift, sixt, and seauenth in loues passion, + My Maiden-head for them should ner'e change fashion. + + _Aeneas_ told many a cogging tale, + To Dido that renowned worthy Queene, + And _Iason_ with his flatterings did preuaile, + Yet falser knaues in loue were neuer seene: + And at this instant hower, as they were then, + The world aboundeth with deceitfull men. + + + _Doll_. + + _Iane_, thats too true, for to you all I sweare, + How I was bobd by one tis shame to tell, + A smoother fellow neuer wench did heare, + And as I liue, I thought he lou'd me well: + Heere you shall fee one of his cunning letters, + Which still I keepe, & meane to shew his betters. + + In Romane hand, on guilded paper writ, + Pray _Dorothy_ read you it to the rest, + But whether his owne head inuented it, + Or robd some printed Booke, I doe protest: + I cannot tell, but his owne name is to it, + Which proues he takes vpon him for to doe it. + + * * * * * + + The Loue Letter. + + _The truest heart, shall nought but falshood cherish, + The mildest man, a cruell tyrant prooue, + The water drops, the hardest flint shall perish, + The hilles shall walke, and massie earth remooue: + The brightest Sun shall turne to darkesome clowde, + Ere I prooue false, where I my loue haue vowde._ + + _Ere I prooue false, the world desolu'd shall be, + To that same nothing that it was before, + Ere I prooue false mine eyes shall cease to see, + And breath of life shall breath in me no more: + The strong built frame shall moue from his foundation + Ere I remoue my soules determination._ + + _Death shall forget to kill, and men to dye, + Condemned soules shall laugh, and cease to mourne, + The lowest hell shall rise and meete the skye, + Time shall forget his course and backe returne: + Contrary vnto kinde each thing shall proue, + Ere I be false or once forget my loue._ + + _Oh then deare heart regard my sad estate, + My passions griefe and wofull lamentation, + Oh pittie me ere pittie come too late, + That hold thee deare past mans imagination: + Preserue my life and say that thou wilt haue me, + Or else I die the whole world cannot saue me_. + + + _Grace_. + + This is a Ballad I haue heard it sung. + + + _Doll_. + + Well, be or be not, that's not to the matter, + But who will trust a louers pen or tongue, + That vse all protestations thus to flatter: + For this base fellow that was so perplext, + Sent this one monday, and was married next. + + + _Sara_. + + Now out vpon him most dissembling creature, + Ile warrant you that he can neuer thriue, + He showes himselfe, euen of as bad a nature, + As euer was in any man aliue: + Alas poore foole that hath this fellow got, + Shee hath a Iewell of him, hath she not? + + + _Nell_. + + Yes surely hath she, (waying all things deepe,) + A louer that will tast as sweete as gall, + One that is better farre to hang then keepe, + And I perswade me you doe thinke so all: + Excepting onely partiall _Mistris Bride_, + For she stands stoutly to the married side. + + _Bride_. + + So farre as reason, and as right requires, + I will defend them both by word and deede, + Yet haue I no apology for lyers, + And ill conditions that false hearts doe breede: + "All that are married be not faithfull kinde, + Nor all vnmarried, are not chast in minde." + + Are there not maids (vpon your coscience speake?) + Knowne to your selues as well as you knowe me, + Will vowe their loue to men, and falsly breake, + Which in the number of your _Virgins_ be, + That will delude some halfe a score young men, + And hauing gull'd them, take some other then. + + I will not name her was in loue with ten, + But in your eares i'le note her secret; harke, + She had both Courtiers, Cockneys, Country-men, + Yet in the ende a Saylor boards her Barke: + And therefore put not men in all the blame, + But speake the trueth, and so the diuell shame. + + _Grace_. + + I knowe the partie well that you doe meane, + And thus much for her I dare boldly say, + To diuers sutors though she seemed to leane, + To trye her fortunes out the wisest way: + Yet did she neuer plight her faith to any, + But vnto him she had, among so many: + + And ther's no doubt but diuers doe as she, + Your selfe in conscience, haue had more then one, + To whom in shewe you would familiar be, + And comming to the point why you would none: + Ciuilitie allowes a courteous cariage, + To such as proffer loue by way of marriage. + + An affable behauiour may be vsed, + And kinde requitall answere kinde deseart, + And yet no honest man thereby abused, + With fained showes, as if he had the heart: + When there is purpose of no such intent + To gull him with his time and mony spent. + + _Mall_. + + Were I to giue maides counsell, they to take it, + And that they would consent to doe as I, + Who offered us his loue, we would forsake it, + And like _Dianes Nymphs_ would liue and die: + For I protest your louers should haue none, + But wiues and widdowes to put tricks vpon. + + We would reuenge the crafty double dealing, + Thousands of harmelesse virgins doe endure, + By their deceitfull art of kinde-hart stealing, + Keeping our loues vnto our selues secure: + And credit to their vowes, should be no other, + But in at one eare, and goe out at t'other. + + _Bride_. + + This you would doe, and y'are in that minde now, + But I perswade me tis but rashly spoken, + And therefore _Mary_ make no foolish vow, + For if you doe in conscience t'will be broken: + Say you doe meane to keepe you free from man, + But to be sure, still put in _If you can_. + + Or else you may presume aboue your power, + Twixt words and deedes, great difference often growes, + You may be taken such a louing hower, + Your heart may all be _Cupids_ to dispose: + Then vve shall haue you sicke, & pine and grieue, + And nothing but a husband can relieue. + + Aske but your elders that are gone before, + And the'le say marry maide as we haue done, + Twixt twelue and twenty open loue the doore, + And say you vvere not borne to liue a Nonne: + Vnperfect female, liuing odde you are, + Neuer true euen, till you match and paire. + + Iust-_Nature_ at the first this course did take, + Woman and man deuided were in twaine, + But by vniting both did sweetely make, + Deuisions blisse contenfull to remaine, + Which well made lawe of _Nature_ and of kinde, + To matters reasonles doe nothing binde. + + Nothing vnfit, nothing vniust to doe, + But all in order orderly consisting, + Then what seeme they that wil not ioine their two + And so be one, without vnkinde resisting: + Surely no other censure passe I can, + But she's halfe woman liues without a man. + + One, that depriues her selfe of whats her right, + Borne vnto care, and ignorant of ease, + A lustlesse liuing thing, without delight, + One, whom vnpleasantnesse best seemes to please: + Depriu'd of lifes sweete ioy, from kind remoued, + Of worthlesse parts, vnworthy to be loued. + + Who will in paine pertake with such a one, + (Whom we may most vnhappy creature call,) + Who will assist her, when her griefe makes mone, + Or who vphold her if she chance to fall: + The burthen one doth beare is light to two, + For twisted cordes are hardest to vndoe. + + The loue and ioy doth absolute remaine, + That in posteritie is fixed fast, + For thou in children art new borne againe, + When yeeres haue brought thee to thy breath-spent last: + Those oliue plants, shall from each other spring, + Till _Times_ full period endeth euery thing. + + This being thus, what sencelesse girles you be, + To iustifie a life not worth embracing, + Opposing silly maiden wits gainst me, + That will not yeelde an ynch to your out-facing: + For were heere present all the maydes in towne, + With marriage reasons I would put them down. + + _Prudence_. + + Kinke sisters all, now I haue heard the _Bride_, + Will you haue my opinion, not to flatter, + Sure I am turning to the wedding side, + I heare such good sound reason for the matter: + Let _Grace_, _Doll_, _Besse_, and _Susan_, _Mary_, _Iane_, + Leade apes in hell, I am not of their vaine. + + As sure as death ile ioyne my selfe with man, + For I perswade me tis a happy life, + Ile be a Bride vvith all the speede I can, + It's vvonder how I long to be a vvife: + _Grace_ heer's good counsell, had you grace to take it + _Susan_ tis sound, oh _Besse_ doe not forfake it. + + Good husband-men vve see doe euer vse, + To chuse for forfit those that breede the best, + And none vvill keepe bad breeders that can chuse, + Euen so your fowlers that often brood the nest, + Are most esteem'd, & their kinds worthiest thoght + All barren things, by all are counted nought. + + Who plantes an orchard vvith vnfruitfull trees, + None but a madman so vvill vvast his ground, + Or vvho sowes corne vvhere onely sand he sees, + Assured that there vvill no increase be found: + And in a vvord all that the vvorld containes, + Haue excellence in their begetting gaines. + + For my part therefore I resolue me thus, + Vnto the purpose I was borne, ile liue, + All maydes are fooles that vvill not ioyne vvith vs, + And vnto men their right of marriage giue: + Most vvorthy Bride, here is my hand and vow, + I loue a man in heart, as vvell as thou. + + _Francis_. + + _Prudence_, I am of your opinion iust, + A vvif's farre better than a matchlesse maide, + Ile stay no longer virgin then needes must, + The law of Nature ought to be obayde: + Either vve must haue inward loue to men, + Or else beare hate, and so be brutish then. + + Doth not the vvorld instruct vs this by others, + That vvedlocke is a remedy for sinne, + Shall vve be vviser then our reuerent mothers, + That married, or we all had bastards bin: + And ere our mothers lost their maiden Iemme, + Did not our grandhams euen as much for them. + + From whence haue you the gift to liue vnwed, + Pray of what stuffe are your straight bodies made, + By what chast spirit was your nicenesse bred, + That seeme of flesh to be so purely stayde: + Are not all here made females for like ends, + Fye, fye for shame, disemble not with friends. + + Ile tell you one thing which by proofe I knowe, + My mother had a cocke that vs'd to roame, + And all the hens would to our neighbours goe, + We could not keepe them for our liues at home: + Abroad they went, though we wold nere so saine + Vntill by chance we got our cocke againe. + + And so my fathers pigeons in like sort, + Our matchlesse hens about would euer flye, + To paire with other doues they would resort, + (Pray laugh not _Susan_, for it is no lye) + I haue it not from other folkes relation, + But from mine owne, and mothers obseruation. + + _Susan_. + + I laugh that you compare vs to your hens, + Or straying pigions that abroad haue flowne, + To seeke about for cocks of other mens, + Because (you say) they wanted of their owne: + But _Francke_, though you like them be francke and free, + You must not iudge all other so to be. + + We doe not vse to hunt abroad for cockes, + But rather shun the places where they be, + The prouerbe sayes, _let geese beware the fox_, + Tis easie making prayes of such as we: + That will not keepe them from the charmers charme + Mens flatteries doe maiden-heads much harme. + + _Bride_. + + Flatterers are of all to be reiected, + As well of wiues as you that are but maydes, + We praise not faults wherewith men are infected, + Nor yeeld applause to euery one perswades: + Our praysing men thus vnderstand you must, + Tis meant of those are honest, louing, iust. + + Why there are men doe erre in what you hold, + Chast batchelers that neuer meane to match, + Who for the siugle life smooth tales haue told, + And yet the fleshly knaues will haue a snatch: + Ile ne're trust those that of themselues doe boast, + The great'st presisians will deceiue you most. + + I knew a prating fellow would maintaine, + A married man had but two merry dayes, + His wedding day the ioyfull first of twaine, + For then God giue you ioy, euen all men sayes: + The second merry day of married life, + Is that whereon he burieth his wife. + + And woemen vnto shippes he would compare, + Saying as they continually lacke mending, + So wiues still out of repairations are, + And vrge their husbands daily vnto spending: + Yea worse disgrace, he would presume to speake: + Which I will spare, least I offend the weake. + + But note the badnesse of this wretches life, + That counted woemen abiect things forsaken, + He raune away at last with's neighbours wife, + Worthy of hanging were the rascall taken: + Such odious actes haue such dishonest mates, + that against marriage, rude and senceles prates. + + But you most wilfull wenches that oppose, + Against the state that you are borne to honour, + A prophesie vnto you Ile disclose, + And she that here doth take most nice vpon her: + Pray note it well, for there is matter in it, + And for to doe you good thus I beginne it. + + When fish with fowle change elements together, + The one forsaking aire, the other water, + And they that woare the finne, to weare the feather, + Remaining changelings all the worlds time after: + The course of nature will be so beguilde, + One maide shall get another maide with childe. + + When euery Crow shall turne to be a Parret, + And euery Starre out-shine the glorious Sunne, + And the new water works runne white and clarret, + That come to towne by way of _Islington_, + Woemen and men shall quite renounce each other. + And maides shall bee with childe, like _Merlins_ mother. + + _Grace_. + + Like _Merlins_ mother, how was that I pray, + For I haue heard he was a cunning man, + There lines not snch another at this day, + Nor euer was, since _Brittans_ first began: + Tell vs the story, and we well will minde it. + Because they say, _In written bookes we finde it_. + + _Bride_. + + Marry this _Merlins_ mother was welsh Lady, + That liued in _Carnaruan_ beautious maide, + And loue of Lords and Knights shee did not way by, + But set all light, and euery one denay'd: + All Gentlemen, (as all you knowe be there,) + That came a wooing were no wit the neere. + + At length it hapned that this gallant girle, + Which scorned all men that she euer saw, + Holding her selfe to be a matchlesse Pearle, + And such a Loadestone that could Louers draw: + Grew belly-full, exceeding bigge and plumpe, + Which put her Mayden-credit in a dumpe. + + Time running course, and her full stomacke fed, + When consumation of fewe months expired, + Shee husbandlesse, a mayde was brought to bed, + Of that rare _Merlin_ that the world admired: + This to be honest, all her friends did doubt it, + Much prittle prattle was in _Wales_ about it. + + So that ere long, the strangnes of the thing, + To heare that Lady _Adhan_ had a childe, + Caus'd famous _Arthur_ (being Brittans King) + Send for her to the Court, and reason milde: + To know how this rare matter could be done, + And make her finde a father for her sonne. + + She told his Maiestie with sighes and teares, + That keeping beautie carefull from the Sunne, + Within her chamber safely shut from feares, + Till _Phoebus_ horses to the West were runne: + The doores fast lock'd, and she her selfe alone, + Came in a gallant stranger, meere vnknowne. + + Who euer came in courting manner to her, + With all the louing courage could be thought: + So powerfull in perswasions force to woe her, + That to his will constrained she was brought: + Although her heart did firme deniall vow, + Yet she was forc'd to yeeld and knew not how. + + So oft he came (quoth she) priuate and strange, + When I shut vp my selfe in most sad humor, + That I began to finde an inward change, + Which brought me quickly to an outward tumor: + An't please your highnes I was in such case, + That to the world I durst not show my face. + + My foes reioyced, all my friends were sad, + My selfe in sorrow spent both day and night, + No satisfaction my wrong'd honour had, + Was neuer maide in such perplexed plight: + To be with child whether I will or no, + And for my child, no humane father know. + + Had I bin married (quoth she) as I ought, + And with my loue, the loue of man requited, + I had not to this woefull state bin brought, + In all contempt, disgracefully despighted: + And tearmed strumpet by the rude vnciuill, + Who say my sonne is bastard to the diuell. + + Wherefore I wish Ladies of my degree, + And all the rest inferiour sorts of maydes, + To take a warning (for their good) by me, + Yeelding affection when kind men perswades: + And hate disdaine that vile accursed sin, + Least they be plagu'd for pride as I haue bin. + + How say you to this warning wenches now, + That Lady _Adhan_ giues vnto you all, + Were you not better marriage to allow, + Then in a manner for a Midwife call: + I thinke you were if I might iudge the cause, + How say you _Susan_, speake good _Doll_ and _Grace_. + + _Grace_. + + This is a story that seemes very strange, + And for my part, it doth me full perswade, + My Mayden-head with some man to exchange, + I will not liue in danger of a mayde: + The world the flesh, the diuell tempts vs still, + Ile haue a husband, I protest I will. + + If I were sure none of you here would blabbe, + I would euen tell you of a dreame most true, + And if I lye, count me the veriest drabbe, + That euer any of you saw or knewe: + When a friend speakes in kindnes do not wrong her: + For I can keepe it (for my life) no longer. + + One night (I haue the day of moneth set downe) + Because I will make serious matters sure, + Me thought I went a iourney out of towne, + And with a propper man I was made sure: + As sure as death, me thought we were assured, + And all things for the businesse were procured. + + We did agree, and faith and troath did plight, + And he gaue me, and I gaue him a Ring, + To doe as _Mistris Bride_ will doe at night, + And I protest me thought he did the thing: + The thing we stand so much vpon he tooke, + And I vpon the matter bigge did looke. + + Forsooth (in sadnes,) I was bigge with childe, + And had a belly, (marry God forbid,) + Then fell a weeping, but he laught and smil'd, + And boldly said, weele stand to what we did: + Fye, fye (quoth I) who euer stands I fall, + Farewell my credit, maydenhead and all. + + Thus as I cry'd and wept and wrong my hands, + And said deare maydes and maydenhead adue, + Before my face me thought my mother stands, + And question'd with me how this matter grew: + With that I start awake as we are now, + Yet feard my dreame had bin no dreame I vow. + + I could not (for my life) tell how to take it, + For I was stricken in a mightie maze, + Therefore if marriage come Ile not forsake it, + Tis danger to liue virgin diuers wayes, + I would not in such feare againe be found, + Without a husband, for a thousand pound. + + _Susan_. + + Is it euen so _Grace_, are you come to this, + You that perswaded me from loue of late, + When you knew who, sent me a Ring of his: + And would haue had me bin his turtle mate, + You cunningly did make me to forsake him, + Because I thinke in conscience you will take him. + + Ile trust your word another time againe, + That can dissemble so against your heart, + Wishing that I should earnestly refraine, + From that which thou thy selfe embracer art: + This is braue doing, I commend you _Grace_, + But ile nere trust you more in such a case. + + _Bride_. + + I pray you here let this contention ende, + (We being all of selfe same woman kind,) + And each the other, with aduise befriend, + Because I see some of you well enclin'd: + To take good wayes, and so become good wiues, + Ile teach you certaine rules to leade your liues. + + You that intend the honourable life, + And vvould vvith ioy liue happy in the same, + Must note eight duties doe concerne a wife, + To vvhich vvith all endeuour she must frame: + And so in peace possesse her husbands loue, + And all distast from both their hearts remooue. + + The first is that she haue domestique cares, + Of priuate businesse for the house vvithin, + Leauing her husband vnto his affaires, + Of things abroad that out of doores haue bin: + By him performed as his charge to doe, + Not busie-body like inclin'd thereto. + + Nor intermedling as a number will, + Of foolish gossips, such as doe neglect, + The things which doe concerne them, and too ill, + Presume in matters vnto no effect: + Beyond their element, when they should looke, + To what is done in Kitchin by the Cooke. + + Or vnto childrens vertuous education, + Or to their maides that they good huswiues be, + And carefully containe a decent fashion, + That nothing passe the lymmits of degree: + Knowing her husbands businesse from her own, + And diligent doe that, let his alone. + + The second dutie of the wife is this, + (Which shee in minde ought very carefull beare) + To entertaine in house such friends of his, + As she doth know haue husbands welcome there: + Not her acquaintance without his consent, + For that way Iealousie breeds discontent. + + An honest woman will the scandall shun, + Of that report is made of wantonnesse, + And feare her credit will to ruine run, + When euill speakers doe her shame expresse: + And therefore from this rule a practise drawes, + That the effect may cease, remoue the cause. + + Th'ird dutie is, that of no proude pretence, + She moue her husband to consume his meanes, + With vrging him to needlesse vaine expence, + Which toward the Counter, or to Ludgate leanes: + For many ydle huswiues (London knowes) + Haue by their pride bin husbands ouerthrowes, + + A modest woman will in compasse keepe, + And decently vnto her calling goe, + Not diuing in the frugall purse too deepe, + By making to the world a pecocke showe: + Though they seeme fooles, so yeelde vnto their wiues, + Some poore men doe it to haue quiet liues. + + Fourth dutie is, to loue her owne house best, + And be no gadding gossippe vp and downe, + To heare and carry tales amongst the rest, + That are the newes reporters of the towne: + A modest vvomans home is her delight, + Of businesse there, to haue the ouersight. + + At publike playes she neuer will be knowne, + And to be tauerne guest she euer hates, + Shee scornes to be a streete-wife (Idle one,) + Or field vvife ranging vvith her vvalking mates: + She knows how wise men censure of such dames, + And how with blottes they blemish their good names. + + And therefore with the doue sheele rather choose, + To make aboade where she hath dwelling place, + Or like the snayle that shelly house doeth vse, + For shelter still, such is good-huswiues case: + Respecting residence where she doth loue, + As those good housholders, the snayle and doue. + + Fift dutie of a wife vnto her head, + Is her ohedience to reforme his will, + And neuer with a selfe conceit be led, + That her aduise prooues good, his counsell ill: + In Iudgement being singular alone, + As hauing all the wit, her husband none. + + She must not thinke her wisedome to be thus, + (For we alasie are weakelings vnto men) + What singular good thing remaines in vs, + Of wife ones in a thousand, show me ten, + Her stocke of wit, that hath the most (I say,) + Hath scarse enough for spending euery day. + + When as the husband bargaines hath to make, + In things that are depending on his trade, + Let not wifes boldnes, power vnto her take, + As though no match were good but what she made + For she that thus hath oare in husbands boate, + Let her take breech, and giue him petti-coate. + + Sixt dutie is, to pacific his yre, + although she finde that he empatient be, + For hasty words, like fuell adde to fire, + And more, and more insenceth wraths degree: + When she perceiues his choller in a fit, + Let her forbeare, and that's a signe of wit. + + Many occasions vnto men doe fall, + Of aduerse crosses, woemen not conceiue, + To find vs honny, they doe meete with gall, + Their toyle for vs, doe their owne ioyes bereaue: + Great shame it were, that we should ad their woe, + That doe maintaine, and keepe, and loue vs so. + + If that a hasty word sometime be spoke, + Let vs not censure therefore they are foes, + Say tis infirmitie that doth prouoke, + Their hearts are sorry for their tongues God knowes: + Since we by proofe each day and hower finde, + For one harsh word, they giue ten thousand kind + + The seuenth dutie that she must endeauour, + Is to obserue her husbands disposition, + And thereunto conforme her selfe for euer, + In all obedient sort, with meeke submission: + Resoluing that as his conditions are, + Her rules of life she must according square. + + His vertues and good parts which she doth finde, + shee must endeauor for to imitate, + The vices whereunto he is enclin'd, + Shee must in patience beare in milde estate: + So that the meekenesse of her louing carriage, + May be peace-maker, of all strife in marriage. + + She must not doe as foolish woemen vse, + When they are met about the gossippes chat, + Their absent husbands with their tongues abuse, + But vtterly abhorre to offer that: + Resoluing that a husbands least disgrace, + Sould cause the wife to haue a blushing face. + + The eight last dutie she must take vpon her, + To binde all t'other seauen to be done, + Is loue and chiefe regard to husbands honour, + Which if at true affection it begunne: + Then be he poore, or sicke, or in distresse, + Shee still remaines most firme in faithfulnesse. + + Best in aduersitie it will appeare, + What constancy within the heart remaines, + No testimonie can be found more cleare, + Then friend in trouble rhat his loue explaines: + For such a one we may resolue is true, + That changeth not, though fortune turne from yon. + + And thus faire virgins, to you all farewell, + What I haue spoken doe proceede from loue, + The ioyes of marriage I want art to tell, + And therefore no more talke, but try and proue: + With wedding rings, be wiues of credit knowne + God send good husbands to you euery one. + + _FINIS_. + + + + + + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Bride, by Samuel Rowlands + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BRIDE *** + +***** This file should be named 8189.txt or 8189.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/8/1/8/8189/ + +Produced by David Starner, Phil Petersen, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team + + +Updated editions will replace the 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No copy of this tract was supposed to be extant. Twenty +years later, in the article on Rowlands in the Dictionary of National +Biography, Mr. Sidney Lee also names this poem as one of the author's +lost works. All that was known of it was the entry in the Stationers' +Register: [Footnote: _Arber's Transcript, vol. iii. p. 609_.] + + "22 [degrees] Maij 1617 +"Master Pauier. Entred for his Copie vnder the handes + of master TAUERNOR and both the wardens, A Poeme + intituled _The Bride_, written by SAMUELL ROWLANDE vj'd." + +While all of Rowlands's works are classed by bibliographers as "rare," +this one seemed to have disappeared entirely. No copy was to be +found in any of the large libraries or private collections, nor was there +any record of its sale. + +Last spring a copy was discovered in the catalogue of a bookseller in a +small German town, and was secured for the Harvard College Library, +being purchased from the Child Memorial Fund. The copy is perfect, +except that the inner corner at the top of the second and third leaves +has been torn off, with the loss of parts of two words, which have +been supplied in manuscript. From this copy the present reprint is +made. As in the Hunterian Club edition of Rowlands's Works, to which +this may be considered a supplement, the reprint is exact. The general +makeup of the book as to style and size of type has been followed as +closely as possible; and the text has been reproduced page for page +and word for word. The misprints, which are unusually numerous, even +for a book of this period, have been left uncorrected. The title-page +and the two head-pieces have been reproduced by photography. + +Of the poem itself, since it is now before the reader, little need be +said. It cannot be claimed that it presents great poetical merit. +Rowlands at his best was but an indifferent poet,--hardly more +than a penny-a-liner. In his satirical pieces and epigrams, and in +that bit of genuine comedy, "Tis Merrie vvhen Gossips meete," his +work does have a real literary value, and is distinctly interesting as +presenting a vivid picture of London life at the beginning of the +seventeenth century. In "The Bride," it must be confessed, Rowlands +falls below his own best work. Yet the poem is by no means wholly +lacking in interest. If not his best work, "The Bride" is by no means +his worst. Like most of his poems, it is written in an heroic stanza +of six lines, and, as is not so common with him, is in dialogue form. +The dialogue for the most part is well sustained and sprightly. The +story of the birth of Merlin, it is true, seems to have been inserted +mainly to fill out the required number of pages; but this digression has an +interest of its own, in that the name here given to Merlin's mother, +"Lady Adhan," does not appear in the ordinary versions of the legend. + +Of Rowlands's life almost nothing is known: that little is told in the +Memoir by Mr. Gosse prefixed to the Hunterian Club edition, and by +Mr. Lee in the Dictionary of National Biography, and need not be +repeated here. All that is known with certainty is that Samuel +Rowlands was a writer of numerous poems and pamphlets, published +between the years 1598 and 1628. During this period there appeared +almost every year a pamphlet bearing his name or the well known initials, +"S. R." Twenty-eight separate works, of which many passed through +several editions, are known to have been written by him. All of these +early editions are rare; at least two of the works have been lost; several +are extant only in the second or later editions; and of at least ten, only +single copies are known to exist. Beside the edition of the Works already +referred to, a number of Rowlands's tracts have been separately reprinted, +in limited editions, by Sir Walter Scott, by S. W. Singer, by +E. V. Utterson, by Halliwell-Phillipps, by J. P. Collier, and by +E. F. Rimbault in the publications of the Percy Society; to this series +of reprints, "The Bride" is now added. + +ALFRED CLAGHORN POTTER + +_Harvard College Library_ +_January, 1905_ + + + + +THE BRIDE +BY S.R. + +LONDON +Printed by W. I. for T. P. 1617 + + + +THE BRIDE TO ALL MAYDES. + + Not out of bubble blasted Pride, + Doe I oppose myselfe a Bride, + In scornefull manner with vpbraides: + Against all modest virgin maides. + As though I did dispise chast youth, + This is not my intent of truth, + I know they must liue single liues, + Before th'are graced to be wiues. + But such are only touch'd by me, + That thinke themselues as good as wee: + And say girles, Weomens fellows arr, + Nay sawcely, Our betters farr: + Yea will dispute, they are as good, + Such Wenches vex me to the blood, + And are not to be borne with all: + Those I doe here in question call, + Whome with the rules of reasons Arte: + He teach more wit before we part, + Sylence, of kindnes I beseech, + Doe you finde eares, and weele finde speach. + + + + + +THE BRIDE + + +Virgins, and fellow maydes (that were of late) + Take kindly heere my wedding dayes a dew, + I entertayne degree aboue your state: +For Marriage life's beyond the single crew, + Bring me to Church as custome sayes you shall, + And then as wife, farewell my wenches all. + +I goe before you vnto Honour now, +And _Hymen's_ Rites with ioy doe vndertake +For life, I make the constant Nuptiall vow, +Striue you to follow for your credits sake, + For greater grace to Womankind is none + Then Ioyne with husband, faithfull two in one. + +God Honoured thus, our great Grand-mother _Eue_ +And gaue thereby the blessing of increase, +For were not mariage we must all beleeue, +The generations of the earth would cease. + Mankind should be extinguish'd and decreas'd + And all the world would but consist of beast. + +Which caused me to finde my Mayden folly, +And having found it, to reforme the same: +Though some of you, thereat seeme melancholy +That I for ever doe renounce your name. + I not respect what censure you can giue, + Since with a loving Man I meane to liue. + +Whose kindest heart, to me is worth you all, +Him to content, my soule in all things seekes, +Say what you please, exclaiming chide and brall, +Ile turne disgrace unto your blushing cheekes. + I am your better now by _Ring_ and _Hatt_, + No more playn _Rose_, but _Mistris_ you know what. + +Marrie therefore and yeald increase a store, +Else to what purpose weare you breed and borne: +Those that receaue, and nothing giue therefore: +Are fruitles creatures, of contempt and scorne, + The excellence of all things doth consist, + In giuing, this no reason can resist. + +The glorious Sun, in giving forth his light, +The Earth in plants, and hearbs & countles things +The trees their fruit, The _Empresse_ of the Night +_She_ bountious gives to rivers flouds and springs, + And all that heaven, and all that earth containes, + Their goodnes, in Increase of guifts explaynes. + +But what doe you that neither give nor take, +(As only made for hearing, and for seeing,) +Although created helpers for Mans sake: +Yet Man no whit the better for your being, + That spend consume and Idle out your howers, + Like many garden-paynted vselesse flowers. + +Your liues are like those worthles barren trees, +That never yeald (from yeare to yeare) but leaues: +Greene-bowes vpon them only all men sees, +But other goodnes there is none receaues, + They flourish sommer and they make a showe, + Yet to themselues they fruitles spring & growe. + +Consider beast, and fish and foule, all creatures, +How there is male and female of their kinde, +And how in loue they doe inlarge their natures: +Even by constrayn'd necessity inclyn'd: + To paire and match, and couple tis decreed, + To stocke and store the earth, with what they breed. + +In that most powerfull word, still power doth lye, +To whose obedience all must subiect bee, +That sayd at first, _Increase and multiply_, +Which still enduers from age to age we see: + Dutie obligeth every one should frame, + To his dread will, that did commaund the same. + +_It is not good for Man to be alone_, +Sayd that great God, who only knowes whats best: +And therefore made a wife of _Adams_ bone, +While he reposing slept, with quyet rest, + Which might presage, the great Creator ment, + In their coniunction, sume of earths content, + + +_Mistris Susan_. + +Good _Mistris Bride_, now we haue hard your speach +In commendation of your Nuptiall choyse, +Giue me a little favour I beseech, +To speake vnto you with a Virgins voyce: + Though diuers elder maydes in place there be, + Yet ile begin, trusting they'le second me. + +We are your fellows but to Church you say, +As custome is that maydes, should bring the _Bride_ +And for no longer then the wedding day, +You hould with vs, but turne to tother side: + Boasting of Honour you affend vnto, + And so goe forward making much adoe. + +But this vnto you lustly I obiect, +In the defence of each beloued mayde, +_Virginity_, is life of chast respect, +No worldly burden thereupon is layd: + Our syngle life, all peace and quiet bringes, + And we are free from carefull earthly things. + +We may doe what we please, goe where we list, +Without pray _husband will you giue me leaue_ +Our resolutions no man can resist, +Our own's our owne, to giue or to receiue, + We live not under this same word obay: + _Till Death depart us_, at our dying day. + +We may delight in fashion, weare the same, +And chuse the stuffe of last devised sale: +Take Taylors counsell in it free from blame, +And cast it off assone as it growes stale: + Goe out, come in, and at selfe pleasure liue, + And kindly take, what kind youngmen do giue. + +Wee have no checking churlish taunts to feare us, +We have no grumbling at our purse expence: +We seeke no misers favour to forbeare us, +We use no houshold wranglings and offence: + We have no cocke to over crowe our combe, + + +_Cate_. + +Well said good _Susan_, now thou pay'st her home. + + +_Bride_. + +A little favour pray, good _Mistris Sue_, +You haue a time to heare aswell as speake: +You challenge more by odds then is your due, +And stand on Arguments are childish weake: + Of freedome, liberty, and all content, + But in the aire your breath is vainely spent. + +It is your shame to bost you haue your will, +And that you are in feare of no controwle, +Your cases _Sufan_, are more bad and ill, +Most dangerous to body and to soule: + A woman to her will hath oft bin try'd, + To run with errour, on the left hand side. + +Pray did not danger then to _Eue_ befall, +When she tooke liberty without her heda, +The _Serpent_ ouercame her therwithall, +And thorow will, she wilfull was misled: + Yelding assoone as _Sathan_ did intice, + And of her husband neuer tooke aduise. + +In wit to men we are inferiour far, +For arts for learning, and Ingenious things, +No rare Inuentions in our braynes there are, +That publique profit to a kingdome brings: + Tis they that must all callings execute, + And wee of all their labours reape the fruite. + +They are Diuines for soules true happines, +They Maiestraites to right offensiue wronges, +They souldiers for their martiall valiantnes, +They artizans, for all to vse belonges: + They husbandmen to worke the earths increase, + And they the some of womens ioye and peace. + +And shall not we performe obedience then? +As wee are bound by law of God and nature, +Yealding true harts affection unto men, +Ordain'd to rule and gouerne euery creature: + Why then of all on earth that liue and moue, + We should degenerate and monsters proue. + + +_Besse_. + +Monsters (forsoth) nere sleepe in maidens beds, +But they are lodged with your married wiues, +The knotty browes, and rugged butting heds, +Concerne not vs, professing single liues, + To learne your horne-booke we have no deuotion + Keepe monsters to your selues, we scorne the motion. + + +_Bride_. + +Besse, of such shapes, when your turne coms to marry +A carefull mynd, in choyse of husband beare, +For if your browes from former smothnes varry, +Thinke on this speach, _It commeth with a feare:_ + Which I am past, perplexe me no feare can. + Being sure I haue a constant honest man. + + +_Iane_. + +Belieue you haue, and t'is enough they say, +But you and I agree not in a mynde, +I read in storyes men will run astray, +Yet make their foolish wiues beleeue th'are kind: + And therefore since they are so cunning knowne + He keepe my selfe a maide and trust to none. + +Had I one sutor swore himselfe loue-sicke, +Another for his Mistris sake would die, +A third thorow _Cupids_ power growne lunaticke, +A fourth that languishing past hope did lye: + And so fift, sixt, and seauenth in loues passion, + My Maiden-head for them should ner'e change fashion. + +_Aeneas_ told many a cogging tale, +To Dido that renowned worthy Queene, +And _Iason_ with his flatterings did preuaile, +Yet falser knaues in loue were neuer seene: + And at this instant hower, as they were then, + The world aboundeth with deceitfull men. + + +_Doll_. + +_Iane_, thats too true, for to you all I sweare, +How I was bobd by one tis shame to tell, +A smoother fellow neuer wench did heare, +And as I liue, I thought he lou'd me well: + Heere you shall fee one of his cunning letters, + Which still I keepe, & meane to shew his betters. + +In Romane hand, on guilded paper writ, +Pray _Dorothy_ read you it to the rest, +But whether his owne head inuented it, +Or robd some printed Booke, I doe protest: + I cannot tell, but his owne name is to it, + Which proues he takes vpon him for to doe it. + + * * * * * + +The Loue Letter. + +_The truest heart, shall nought but falshood cherish, +The mildest man, a cruell tyrant prooue, +The water drops, the hardest flint shall perish, +The hilles shall walke, and massie earth remooue: + The brightest Sun shall turne to darkesome clowde, + Ere I prooue false, where I my loue haue vowde._ + +_Ere I prooue false, the world desolu'd shall be, +To that same nothing that it was before, +Ere I prooue false mine eyes shall cease to see, +And breath of life shall breath in me no more: + The strong built frame shall moue from his foundation + Ere I remoue my soules determination._ + +_Death shall forget to kill, and men to dye, +Condemned soules shall laugh, and cease to mourne, +The lowest hell shall rise and meete the skye, +Time shall forget his course and backe returne: + Contrary vnto kinde each thing shall proue, + Ere I be false or once forget my loue._ + +_Oh then deare heart regard my sad estate, +My passions griefe and wofull lamentation, +Oh pittie me ere pittie come too late, +That hold thee deare past mans imagination: + Preserue my life and say that thou wilt haue me, + Or else I die the whole world cannot saue me_. + + +_Grace_. + +This is a Ballad I haue heard it sung. + + +_Doll_. + +Well, be or be not, that's not to the matter, +But who will trust a louers pen or tongue, +That vse all protestations thus to flatter: + For this base fellow that was so perplext, + Sent this one monday, and was married next. + + +_Sara_. + +Now out vpon him most dissembling creature, +Ile warrant you that he can neuer thriue, +He showes himselfe, euen of as bad a nature, +As euer was in any man aliue: + Alas poore foole that hath this fellow got, + Shee hath a Iewell of him, hath she not? + + +_Nell_. + +Yes surely hath she, (waying all things deepe,) +A louer that will tast as sweete as gall, +One that is better farre to hang then keepe, +And I perswade me you doe thinke so all: + Excepting onely partiall _Mistris Bride_, + For she stands stoutly to the married side. + +_Bride_. + +So farre as reason, and as right requires, +I will defend them both by word and deede, +Yet haue I no apology for lyers, +And ill conditions that false hearts doe breede: + "All that are married be not faithfull kinde, + Nor all vnmarried, are not chast in minde." + +Are there not maids (vpon your coscience speake?) +Knowne to your selues as well as you knowe me, +Will vowe their loue to men, and falsly breake, +Which in the number of your _Virgins_ be, + That will delude some halfe a score young men, + And hauing gull'd them, take some other then. + +I will not name her was in loue with ten, +But in your eares i'le note her secret; harke, +She had both Courtiers, Cockneys, Country-men, +Yet in the ende a Saylor boards her Barke: + And therefore put not men in all the blame, + But speake the trueth, and so the diuell shame. + +_Grace_. + +I knowe the partie well that you doe meane, +And thus much for her I dare boldly say, +To diuers sutors though she seemed to leane, +To trye her fortunes out the wisest way: + Yet did she neuer plight her faith to any, + But vnto him she had, among so many: + +And ther's no doubt but diuers doe as she, +Your selfe in conscience, haue had more then one, +To whom in shewe you would familiar be, +And comming to the point why you would none: +Ciuilitie allowes a courteous cariage, +To such as proffer loue by way of marriage. + +An affable behauiour may be vsed, +And kinde requitall answere kinde deseart, +And yet no honest man thereby abused, +With fained showes, as if he had the heart: + When there is purpose of no such intent + To gull him with his time and mony spent. + +_Mall_. + +Were I to giue maides counsell, they to take it, +And that they would consent to doe as I, +Who offered us his loue, we would forsake it, +And like _Dianes Nymphs_ would liue and die: + For I protest your louers should haue none, + But wiues and widdowes to put tricks vpon. + +We would reuenge the crafty double dealing, +Thousands of harmelesse virgins doe endure, +By their deceitfull art of kinde-hart stealing, +Keeping our loues vnto our selues secure: + And credit to their vowes, should be no other, + But in at one eare, and goe out at t'other. + +_Bride_. + +This you would doe, and y'are in that minde now, +But I perswade me tis but rashly spoken, +And therefore _Mary_ make no foolish vow, +For if you doe in conscience t'will be broken: + Say you doe meane to keepe you free from man, + But to be sure, still put in _If you can_. + +Or else you may presume aboue your power, +Twixt words and deedes, great difference often growes, +You may be taken such a louing hower, +Your heart may all be _Cupids_ to dispose: + Then vve shall haue you sicke, & pine and grieue, + And nothing but a husband can relieue. + +Aske but your elders that are gone before, +And the'le say marry maide as we haue done, +Twixt twelue and twenty open loue the doore, +And say you vvere not borne to liue a Nonne: + Vnperfect female, liuing odde you are, + Neuer true euen, till you match and paire. + +Iust-_Nature_ at the first this course did take, +Woman and man deuided were in twaine, +But by vniting both did sweetely make, +Deuisions blisse contenfull to remaine, + Which well made lawe of _Nature_ and of kinde, + To matters reasonles doe nothing binde. + +Nothing vnfit, nothing vniust to doe, +But all in order orderly consisting, +Then what seeme they that wil not ioine their two +And so be one, without vnkinde resisting: + Surely no other censure passe I can, + But she's halfe woman liues without a man. + +One, that depriues her selfe of whats her right, +Borne vnto care, and ignorant of ease, +A lustlesse liuing thing, without delight, +One, whom vnpleasantnesse best seemes to please: + Depriu'd of lifes sweete ioy, from kind remoued, + Of worthlesse parts, vnworthy to be loued. + +Who will in paine pertake with such a one, +(Whom we may most vnhappy creature call,) +Who will assist her, when her griefe makes mone, +Or who vphold her if she chance to fall: + The burthen one doth beare is light to two, + For twisted cordes are hardest to vndoe. + +The loue and ioy doth absolute remaine, +That in posteritie is fixed fast, +For thou in children art new borne againe, +When yeeres haue brought thee to thy breath-spent last: + Those oliue plants, shall from each other spring, + Till _Times_ full period endeth euery thing. + +This being thus, what sencelesse girles you be, +To iustifie a life not worth embracing, +Opposing silly maiden wits gainst me, +That will not yeelde an ynch to your out-facing: + For were heere present all the maydes in towne, + With marriage reasons I would put them down. + +_Prudence_. + +Kinke sisters all, now I haue heard the _Bride_, +Will you haue my opinion, not to flatter, +Sure I am turning to the wedding side, +I heare such good sound reason for the matter: + Let _Grace_, _Doll_, _Besse_, and _Susan_, _Mary_, _Iane_, + Leade apes in hell, I am not of their vaine. + +As sure as death ile ioyne my selfe with man, +For I perswade me tis a happy life, +Ile be a Bride vvith all the speede I can, +It's vvonder how I long to be a vvife: +_Grace_ heer's good counsell, had you grace to take it + _Susan_ tis sound, oh _Besse_ doe not forfake it. + +Good husband-men vve see doe euer vse, +To chuse for forfit those that breede the best, +And none vvill keepe bad breeders that can chuse, +Euen so your fowlers that often brood the nest, + Are most esteem'd, & their kinds worthiest thoght + All barren things, by all are counted nought. + +Who plantes an orchard vvith vnfruitfull trees, +None but a madman so vvill vvast his ground, +Or vvho sowes corne vvhere onely sand he sees, +Assured that there vvill no increase be found: + And in a vvord all that the vvorld containes, + Haue excellence in their begetting gaines. + +For my part therefore I resolue me thus, +Vnto the purpose I was borne, ile liue, +All maydes are fooles that vvill not ioyne vvith vs, +And vnto men their right of marriage giue: + Most vvorthy Bride, here is my hand and vow, + I loue a man in heart, as vvell as thou. + +_Francis_. + +_Prudence_, I am of your opinion iust, +A vvif's farre better than a matchlesse maide, +Ile stay no longer virgin then needes must, +The law of Nature ought to be obayde: + Either vve must haue inward loue to men, + Or else beare hate, and so be brutish then. + +Doth not the vvorld instruct vs this by others, +That vvedlocke is a remedy for sinne, +Shall vve be vviser then our reuerent mothers, +That married, or we all had bastards bin: + And ere our mothers lost their maiden Iemme, + Did not our grandhams euen as much for them. + +From whence haue you the gift to liue vnwed, +Pray of what stuffe are your straight bodies made, +By what chast spirit was your nicenesse bred, +That seeme of flesh to be so purely stayde: + Are not all here made females for like ends, + Fye, fye for shame, disemble not with friends. + +Ile tell you one thing which by proofe I knowe, +My mother had a cocke that vs'd to roame, +And all the hens would to our neighbours goe, +We could not keepe them for our liues at home: + Abroad they went, though we wold nere so saine + Vntill by chance we got our cocke againe. + +And so my fathers pigeons in like sort, +Our matchlesse hens about would euer flye, +To paire with other doues they would resort, +(Pray laugh not _Susan_, for it is no lye) + I haue it not from other folkes relation, + But from mine owne, and mothers obseruation. + +_Susan_. + +I laugh that you compare vs to your hens, +Or straying pigions that abroad haue flowne, +To seeke about for cocks of other mens, +Because (you say) they wanted of their owne: + But _Francke_, though you like them be francke and free, + You must not iudge all other so to be. + +We doe not vse to hunt abroad for cockes, +But rather shun the places where they be, +The prouerbe sayes, _let geese beware the fox_, +Tis easie making prayes of such as we: + That will not keepe them from the charmers charme + Mens flatteries doe maiden-heads much harme. + +_Bride_. + +Flatterers are of all to be reiected, +As well of wiues as you that are but maydes, +We praise not faults wherewith men are infected, +Nor yeeld applause to euery one perswades: + Our praysing men thus vnderstand you must, + Tis meant of those are honest, louing, iust. + +Why there are men doe erre in what you hold, +Chast batchelers that neuer meane to match, +Who for the siugle life smooth tales haue told, +And yet the fleshly knaues will haue a snatch: + Ile ne're trust those that of themselues doe boast, + The great'st presisians will deceiue you most. + +I knew a prating fellow would maintaine, +A married man had but two merry dayes, +His wedding day the ioyfull first of twaine, +For then God giue you ioy, euen all men sayes: + The second merry day of married life, + Is that whereon he burieth his wife. + +And woemen vnto shippes he would compare, +Saying as they continually lacke mending, +So wiues still out of repairations are, +And vrge their husbands daily vnto spending: + Yea worse disgrace, he would presume to speake: + Which I will spare, least I offend the weake. + +But note the badnesse of this wretches life, +That counted woemen abiect things forsaken, +He raune away at last with's neighbours wife, +Worthy of hanging were the rascall taken: + Such odious actes haue such dishonest mates, + that against marriage, rude and senceles prates. + +But you most wilfull wenches that oppose, +Against the state that you are borne to honour, +A prophesie vnto you Ile disclose, +And she that here doth take most nice vpon her: + Pray note it well, for there is matter in it, + And for to doe you good thus I beginne it. + +When fish with fowle change elements together, +The one forsaking aire, the other water, +And they that woare the finne, to weare the feather, +Remaining changelings all the worlds time after: + The course of nature will be so beguilde, + One maide shall get another maide with childe. + +When euery Crow shall turne to be a Parret, +And euery Starre out-shine the glorious Sunne, +And the new water works runne white and clarret, +That come to towne by way of _Islington_, + Woemen and men shall quite renounce each other. + And maides shall bee with childe, like _Merlins_ mother. + +_Grace_. + +Like _Merlins_ mother, how was that I pray, +For I haue heard he was a cunning man, +There lines not snch another at this day, + Nor euer was, since _Brittans_ first began: + Tell vs the story, and we well will minde it. + Because they say, _In written bookes we finde it_. + +_Bride_. + +Marry this _Merlins_ mother was welsh Lady, +That liued in _Carnaruan_ beautious maide, +And loue of Lords and Knights shee did not way by, +But set all light, and euery one denay'd: + All Gentlemen, (as all you knowe be there,) + That came a wooing were no wit the neere. + +At length it hapned that this gallant girle, +Which scorned all men that she euer saw, +Holding her selfe to be a matchlesse Pearle, +And such a Loadestone that could Louers draw: + Grew belly-full, exceeding bigge and plumpe, + Which put her Mayden-credit in a dumpe. + +Time running course, and her full stomacke fed, +When consumation of fewe months expired, +Shee husbandlesse, a mayde was brought to bed, +Of that rare _Merlin_ that the world admired: + This to be honest, all her friends did doubt it, + Much prittle prattle was in _Wales_ about it. + +So that ere long, the strangnes of the thing, +To heare that Lady _Adhan_ had a childe, +Caus'd famous _Arthur_ (being Brittans King) +Send for her to the Court, and reason milde: + To know how this rare matter could be done, + And make her finde a father for her sonne. + +She told his Maiestie with sighes and teares, +That keeping beautie carefull from the Sunne, +Within her chamber safely shut from feares, +Till _Phoebus_ horses to the West were runne: + The doores fast lock'd, and she her selfe alone, + Came in a gallant stranger, meere vnknowne. + +Who euer came in courting manner to her, +With all the louing courage could be thought: +So powerfull in perswasions force to woe her, +That to his will constrained she was brought: + Although her heart did firme deniall vow, + Yet she was forc'd to yeeld and knew not how. + +So oft he came (quoth she) priuate and strange, +When I shut vp my selfe in most sad humor, +That I began to finde an inward change, +Which brought me quickly to an outward tumor: + An't please your highnes I was in such case, + That to the world I durst not show my face. + +My foes reioyced, all my friends were sad, +My selfe in sorrow spent both day and night, +No satisfaction my wrong'd honour had, +Was neuer maide in such perplexed plight: + To be with child whether I will or no, + And for my child, no humane father know. + +Had I bin married (quoth she) as I ought, +And with my loue, the loue of man requited, +I had not to this woefull state bin brought, +In all contempt, disgracefully despighted: + And tearmed strumpet by the rude vnciuill, + Who say my sonne is bastard to the diuell. + +Wherefore I wish Ladies of my degree, +And all the rest inferiour sorts of maydes, +To take a warning (for their good) by me, +Yeelding affection when kind men perswades: + And hate disdaine that vile accursed sin, + Least they be plagu'd for pride as I haue bin. + +How say you to this warning wenches now, +That Lady _Adhan_ giues vnto you all, +Were you not better marriage to allow, +Then in a manner for a Midwife call: + I thinke you were if I might iudge the cause, + How say you _Susan_, speake good _Doll_ and _Grace_. + +_Grace_. + +This is a story that seemes very strange, +And for my part, it doth me full perswade, +My Mayden-head with some man to exchange, +I will not liue in danger of a mayde: + The world the flesh, the diuell tempts vs still, + Ile haue a husband, I protest I will. + +If I were sure none of you here would blabbe, +I would euen tell you of a dreame most true, +And if I lye, count me the veriest drabbe, +That euer any of you saw or knewe: + When a friend speakes in kindnes do not wrong her: + For I can keepe it (for my life) no longer. + +One night (I haue the day of moneth set downe) +Because I will make serious matters sure, +Me thought I went a iourney out of towne, +And with a propper man I was made sure: + As sure as death, me thought we were assured, + And all things for the businesse were procured. + +We did agree, and faith and troath did plight, +And he gaue me, and I gaue him a Ring, +To doe as _Mistris Bride_ will doe at night, +And I protest me thought he did the thing: + The thing we stand so much vpon he tooke, + And I vpon the matter bigge did looke. + +Forsooth (in sadnes,) I was bigge with childe, +And had a belly, (marry God forbid,) +Then fell a weeping, but he laught and smil'd, +And boldly said, weele stand to what we did: + Fye, fye (quoth I) who euer stands I fall, + Farewell my credit, maydenhead and all. + +Thus as I cry'd and wept and wrong my hands, +And said deare maydes and maydenhead adue, +Before my face me thought my mother stands, +And question'd with me how this matter grew: + With that I start awake as we are now, + Yet feard my dreame had bin no dreame I vow. + +I could not (for my life) tell how to take it, +For I was stricken in a mightie maze, +Therefore if marriage come Ile not forsake it, +Tis danger to liue virgin diuers wayes, + I would not in such feare againe be found, + Without a husband, for a thousand pound. + +_Susan_. + +Is it euen so _Grace_, are you come to this, +You that perswaded me from loue of late, +When you knew who, sent me a Ring of his: +And would haue had me bin his turtle mate, + You cunningly did make me to forsake him, + Because I thinke in conscience you will take him. + +Ile trust your word another time againe, +That can dissemble so against your heart, +Wishing that I should earnestly refraine, +From that which thou thy selfe embracer art: + This is braue doing, I commend you _Grace_, + But ile nere trust you more in such a case. + +_Bride_. + +I pray you here let this contention ende, +(We being all of selfe same woman kind,) +And each the other, with aduise befriend, +Because I see some of you well enclin'd: + To take good wayes, and so become good wiues, + Ile teach you certaine rules to leade your liues. + +You that intend the honourable life, +And vvould vvith ioy liue happy in the same, +Must note eight duties doe concerne a wife, +To vvhich vvith all endeuour she must frame: + And so in peace possesse her husbands loue, + And all distast from both their hearts remooue. + +The first is that she haue domestique cares, +Of priuate businesse for the house vvithin, +Leauing her husband vnto his affaires, +Of things abroad that out of doores haue bin: + By him performed as his charge to doe, + Not busie-body like inclin'd thereto. + +Nor intermedling as a number will, +Of foolish gossips, such as doe neglect, +The things which doe concerne them, and too ill, +Presume in matters vnto no effect: + Beyond their element, when they should looke, + To what is done in Kitchin by the Cooke. + +Or vnto childrens vertuous education, +Or to their maides that they good huswiues be, +And carefully containe a decent fashion, +That nothing passe the lymmits of degree: + Knowing her husbands businesse from her own, + And diligent doe that, let his alone. + +The second dutie of the wife is this, +(Which shee in minde ought very carefull beare) +To entertaine in house such friends of his, +As she doth know haue husbands welcome there: + Not her acquaintance without his consent, + For that way Iealousie breeds discontent. + +An honest woman will the scandall shun, +Of that report is made of wantonnesse, +And feare her credit will to ruine run, +When euill speakers doe her shame expresse: + And therefore from this rule a practise drawes, + That the effect may cease, remoue the cause. + +Th'ird dutie is, that of no proude pretence, +She moue her husband to consume his meanes, +With vrging him to needlesse vaine expence, +Which toward the Counter, or to Ludgate leanes: + For many ydle huswiues (London knowes) + Haue by their pride bin husbands ouerthrowes, + +A modest woman will in compasse keepe, +And decently vnto her calling goe, +Not diuing in the frugall purse too deepe, +By making to the world a pecocke showe: + Though they seeme fooles, so yeelde vnto their wiues, + Some poore men doe it to haue quiet liues. + +Fourth dutie is, to loue her owne house best, +And be no gadding gossippe vp and downe, +To heare and carry tales amongst the rest, +That are the newes reporters of the towne: + A modest vvomans home is her delight, + Of businesse there, to haue the ouersight. + +At publike playes she neuer will be knowne, +And to be tauerne guest she euer hates, +Shee scornes to be a streete-wife (Idle one,) +Or field vvife ranging vvith her vvalking mates: + She knows how wise men censure of such dames, + And how with blottes they blemish their good names. + +And therefore with the doue sheele rather choose, +To make aboade where she hath dwelling place, +Or like the snayle that shelly house doeth vse, +For shelter still, such is good-huswiues case: + Respecting residence where she doth loue, + As those good housholders, the snayle and doue. + +Fift dutie of a wife vnto her head, +Is her ohedience to reforme his will, +And neuer with a selfe conceit be led, +That her aduise prooues good, his counsell ill: + In Iudgement being singular alone, + As hauing all the wit, her husband none. + +She must not thinke her wisedome to be thus, +(For we alasie are weakelings vnto men) +What singular good thing remaines in vs, +Of wife ones in a thousand, show me ten, + Her stocke of wit, that hath the most (I say,) + Hath scarse enough for spending euery day. + +When as the husband bargaines hath to make, +In things that are depending on his trade, +Let not wifes boldnes, power vnto her take, +As though no match were good but what she made + For she that thus hath oare in husbands boate, + Let her take breech, and giue him petti-coate. + +Sixt dutie is, to pacific his yre, +although she finde that he empatient be, +For hasty words, like fuell adde to fire, +And more, and more insenceth wraths degree: + When she perceiues his choller in a fit, + Let her forbeare, and that's a signe of wit. + +Many occasions vnto men doe fall, +Of aduerse crosses, woemen not conceiue, +To find vs honny, they doe meete with gall, +Their toyle for vs, doe their owne ioyes bereaue: + Great shame it were, that we should ad their woe, + That doe maintaine, and keepe, and loue vs so. + +If that a hasty word sometime be spoke, +Let vs not censure therefore they are foes, +Say tis infirmitie that doth prouoke, +Their hearts are sorry for their tongues God knowes: + Since we by proofe each day and hower finde, + For one harsh word, they giue ten thousand kind + +The seuenth dutie that she must endeauour, +Is to obserue her husbands disposition, +And thereunto conforme her selfe for euer, +In all obedient sort, with meeke submission: + Resoluing that as his conditions are, + Her rules of life she must according square. + +His vertues and good parts which she doth finde, +shee must endeauor for to imitate, +The vices whereunto he is enclin'd, +Shee must in patience beare in milde estate: + So that the meekenesse of her louing carriage, + May be peace-maker, of all strife in marriage. + +She must not doe as foolish woemen vse, +When they are met about the gossippes chat, +Their absent husbands with their tongues abuse, +But vtterly abhorre to offer that: + Resoluing that a husbands least disgrace, + Sould cause the wife to haue a blushing face. + +The eight last dutie she must take vpon her, +To binde all t'other seauen to be done, +Is loue and chiefe regard to husbands honour, +Which if at true affection it begunne: + Then be he poore, or sicke, or in distresse, + Shee still remaines most firme in faithfulnesse. + +Best in aduersitie it will appeare, +What constancy within the heart remaines, +No testimonie can be found more cleare, +Then friend in trouble rhat his loue explaines: + For such a one we may resolue is true, + That changeth not, though fortune turne from yon. + +And thus faire virgins, to you all farewell, +What I haue spoken doe proceede from loue, +The ioyes of marriage I want art to tell, +And therefore no more talke, but try and proue: + With wedding rings, be wiues of credit knowne + God send good 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