¶ Wedded mans iudgement
Vpon the former argument.
Moderator.
[27]
As Cock that wants his mate, goes rouing all about,
With crowing early and late, to find his louer out:
And as poore sillie hen, long wanting cock to guide,
Soone droopes and shortly then beginnes to [peake] aside:
Euen so it is with man and wife, where gouernment is found,
The want of ton the others life doth shortly soone [confound].
[28]
In iest and in earnest, here argued ye finde,
That husband and huswife togither must dwell,
And thereto the iudgement of wedded mans minde,
That husbandrie otherwise speedeth not well:
So somewhat more nowe I intende for to tell,
Of huswiferie like as of husbandrie tolde,
How huswifelie huswife helpes bring in the golde.
Thus endeth the booke of Husbandrie.
[Finis (1577).]
[1] they. 1577.
[2] you. 1577.
[3] you shall. 1577.
[4] you hap. 1577.