Also mariage taketh awaie widowhed, and doeth repare
with a newe freshe mariage, the lacke and priuacion of the
Death.
Mariage. other. She that was by death left a widowe, mariage again
hath coupled her to a newe housbande: and doeth restore that
whiche death tooke awaie. That that death dissolueth and
destroieth, mariage increaseth, augmēteth, and multiplieth.
Bee it so, but mariage is a painfull life, it forceth euery one
to trauaile, to vpholde and maintaine his state, I commende
not the idell life, neither a life occupied to no vertuous ende.
Nature moueth euery manne to loue hymself and his, so thy
care and paine be to a godlie purpose. It is commendable. It
is the duetie of euery man, as his power, witte, and industrie
is able, to emploie thereto his cogitacion. To laboure for thy
wife, whom thou loueste, and deare children, thy laboure is
pleasure, the ioye easeth thy labour. To behold thy self in thy
children, thei beyng vertuouslie broughte vp, it is a goodlie
The mariage
of a chaste
woman. comfort, to liue with a chaste woman, sober and continente,
her vertues be a continuall pleasure, a passyng ioye. In ma-
riage ought to be greate deliberacion, whom thou chosest to
thy continuall compainie or felowshippe, her life paste well
knowen, her parentes and kindrede how honeste and vertu-
ous, her maners, her fame, how commendable, her counti-
The choise
of a wife. naunce sober, a constaunt iye, and with shamefastnes beau-
tified, a mouthe vttering fewe woordes discretlie. She is not
to be liked, whō no vertuous qualitées in her educaciō, beu-
tifieth and adorneth, the goodlie qualitees sheweth, the well
framed and nurtured mynde. These thynges maie be suffi-
ciente, to shewe what excellencie is in mariage and how ne-
cessarie it is, to the procreacion and preseruaciō of mankind.

Legislacio.
¶ A Oracion either in the defence of
a Lawe, or againste a Lawe.

Any learned menne are in this opinion, that vpon
a Lawe alledged, a Oracion maie bee made in the
defence of it: or matter maie be suppeditated, to in-
uaigh by force of argument againste it.

Although the lawe alleged be in maner the whole cause,
bicause it doeth cōtain al the matter included in the oracion.

In this Oracion, the persone is induced to be spoken vp-
pon, vnknowne, vncertaine: wherefore it is to be placed, ra-
ther in the state and forme of consultacion, and to bée exami-
ned with iudgement.

The induccion of a Lawe, is in twoo sortes.

A confirmacion of any olde Lawe, or a confutacion.

As for example.

The Ciuill Lawe doeth well commende, bondmen to be
manumised, that is, to be made free.