HUSBAND. O Lord, what pleasures and great commodity
Are heaped together in matrimony!
WIFE. How vehement, how strong a thing love is!
How many smirks and dulsome[345] kisses!
HUSBAND. What smiling, what laughing!
What sport, pastime, and playing!
WIFE. What tickling, what toying!
What dallying, what joying!
HUSBAND. The man with the wife is wholly delighted,
And with many causes to laughter enforced.
WIFE. When they two drink, they drink together;
They never eat but one with another.
HUSBAND. Sometimes to their garden forth they walk,
And into the fields sometimes they go,
With merry tricks and gestures they talk,
As they do move their feet to and fro.
WIFE. Sometimes they ride into the country,
Passing the time with mirth and sport;
And when with their friends they have been merry,
Home to their own house they do resort.
HUSBAND. Sometimes abroad they go to see plays,
And other trim sights for to behold:
When often they meet in the highways
Much of their acquaintance they knew of old.
WIFE. Sometimes to the church they do repair,
To hear the sermon that shall be made,
Though it to remember they shall have small care;
For why they be now but few of that trade.