THE
PAIN AND SORROW
OF
EVIL MARRIAGE.


FROM AN UNIQUE COPY

Printed by Wynkyn de Worde.

LONDON:
REPRINTED FOR THE PERCY SOCIETY,
BY C. RICHARDS, ST. MARTIN’S LANE.
MDCCCXL.

COUNCIL
OF
The Percy Society.


INTRODUCTION.

There are three early humorous tracts in verse upon the subject of marriage, all printed by Wynkyn de Worde: only one of them has a date, 1535, but we can have little difficulty in assigning the two others to about the same period. They have the following titles.