18. I rode with my cosen's wife to Maidstone; dyned at Gellibrands.
fo. 10b.
Jan. 1601.
As we were viewinge a scull in his studye, he shewed the seame in the middle over the heade, and said that was the place which the midwife useth shutt in women children before the wit can enter, and that is a reason that women be such fooles ever after.
My cosen shee said that the Gellibrands two wives[38] lived like a couple of whelpes togither, meaninge sporting, but I sayd like[39] a payre of turtles, or a couple of connies[40], sweetely and lovingly.
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Mr. Alane, a minister, was very sicke. Gellibrand gave him a glyster, and lett him bloud the same day, for a feuer; his reason was, that not to have lett him bloud had bin verry dangerous; but to lett bloud is doubtfull, it may doe good as well as harme.
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My cosen shee told me, that when shee was first married to hir husband Marche, as shee rode behinde him, shee slipt downe, and he left hir behinde, never lookt back to take hir up; soe shee went soe long a foote that shee tooke it soe unkindly that shee thought neuer to have come againe to him, but to haue sought a service in some vnknowne place; but he tooke hir at last.
Wee were at Mrs. Cavils, when she practised some wit upon my cosen[41]. Cosen she called double anemonies double enimies. Mrs. Cavill desired some rootes, and she referd hir to hir man Thomas Smith.
fo. 11.
Jan. 1601.