Wiues are warme Climates well inhabited; But maids are frozen zones where none may dwel.
Nature hath set[145] a crowne of excellence, That all thewiues and widdowes of the earth, Should giue them place, and doe them reuerence?
And vsing conuersation with our men, & seeing they receiued no hurte of them, they brought to the towne their wiues and children, which were no smal number.
Also I pray you to cömaunde your wiues & families to make no alteratiö, but rather quietly to abide in your houses.
In Panuco the husbandes buy their wiues for a bowe, two arrowes, and a nette, and afterwarde the father in lawe speaketh not one worde to his sonne in law for the space of a whole yeare.
The obsequies endured foure dayes, in the whiche the wiues and daughters of the king offered great offerings at the place where his body was buried, and before the chest and his image.
Though they haue of late begunne to disdaine embrodering with pearle aboue their cappes, because the Diacks, and some Marchants wiues haue taken vp the fashion.
Where they vnderstood by the way that their Cholopey or bondslaues whom they left at home, had in their absence possessed their townes, lands, houses, wiues and all.
Sidenote: The kings company with his wiuesand concubines.
The greatest part of his life hee spendeth amongst his wiues and concubines.
But let Dame Partelot speake her pleasure, I would aduise all husbandes to lyue honestly with their honest wiues, and doe praie to God to plant mo sutchwiues to store the barren worlde that neuer or seldome bryngeth forth such increase.
The piteous and chaste death of one of the muleters wiues of the Queene of Nauarre.
The wiues laughed at large, and soone grew prodigall of idle talke.
Also the alder, whose barke is not vnprofitable to die blacke withall, and therfore much vsed by our countrie wiues in colouring their knit hosen.
That neither the same wiues should come to their houses, nor they to the houses where their wiues dwelled: but if they had any thing to say to them, they should take two or thrée witnesses, and talke with them abroad in the street.
Johannes Cremensis was sent into England from pope Honorius the second, to sée reformation in certeine points touching the church: but his cheefe errand was to correct preests that still kept their wiues with them.
A Most pleasant and excellent conceited Comedy, of Sir Iohn Falstaffe, and the merry Wiues of Windsor.
A Most pleasaunt and excellent conceited Comedie, of Syr Iohn Falstaffe, and the merrie Wiues of Windsor.
There entred also into the tower a great number of Iewes with their wiues and children, vnto whome one ward of the tower was committed to defend, which they did in that necessitie verie stoutlie.
Where the question may be asked, whether this decree was extended to preests wiues or no?
And by and by he saith, that there are to be counted oldwiues words, or rather doting fooles toyes to mocke children withall.
He rehersed also speciallie by name those their elders, which had resisted Iulius Cesar, by whose high valiancie they liued free from the bloudie thraldome and tributes of the Romans, and enioied their wiues and children safe and vndefiled.
The lamentable request of vs the Britains, beseeching you of aid to bee ministred vnto the prouince of the Romane empire, vnto our countrie, vnto our wiues and children at this present, which stand in most extreame perill.
Certes the suertie of your owne bodies, the quiet of your wiues and your daughters, the safegard of your goods: of all which things in times past ye stood euermore in doubt.
Mens wiues run thither with their husbands plate, & saie they dare not abide with their husbands for beating.
In this Isle there are such swarmes of people, that euery yeare they goe foorth in great numbers with their wiues and children into France.
And they said moreouer, that they doubted that the people would rather haue a peace then to die themselues, their wiues and children.
The Nairi and their wiues vse for a brauerie to make great holes in their eares, and so bigge and wide, that it is incredible, holding this opinion, that the greater the holes bee, the more noble they esteeme themselues.
The number of his owne followers, of his wiues attendants, and of the traine of his first begotten sonne and heire apparent, would seeme incredible vnto any man, vnlesse hee had seene it with his owne eyes.
And before hee returned answere, one night all of them with their wiues and children forsooke the towne, and fled away.
They liue in common togither: then doe the husbands, wiues and children each one retire themselues to their chambers.
The Gouernour left Donna Isabella in Hauana; and with her remained the wife of Don Carlos, and the wiues of Baltasar de Gallégos, and of Nonno de Touar.
If their wiues go out of their houses, as vnto the church, or any other place, they goe out with great maiesty, and with as many men and maids as though she were the wife of some noble man.
They tooke some Indians which were gathering together the stuffe which their wiues had hidden.
I aduised them to come downe from their holdes, and to returne with their wiues and children to their houses, and to become Christians, and that they would acknowledge the Emperours maiestie for their King and lorde.
He had as many wiues or concubines, as hee would haue, and such as liked him.
The pompe and liberalitie of the owners of the mines is maruellous to beholde: the apparell both of them and of their wiues is more to be compared to the apparell of noble persons then otherwise.
Of these I saw diuers in Guiana: and commonly euery king or casique hath one, which their wiues for the most part weare: and they esteeme them as great iewels.
So I presented to the king a little wine which I had with me in a bottle; which he esteemed aboue any treasure: for wine they will sell theirwiues and children.
And the people of these ylands, which the Spaniards haue, say, that if they would bring their wiues and children, that then they should haue among them what they would haue.
Many of them with their wiues and children came vnto the frier (which the captaine and souldiers brought with them) that hee might crosse and blesse them.
The Cacique and his two wiues were in the lodging of the Gouernour loose, and the halbardiers of his guard did keepe them.
You married ones, If each of you should take this course, how many Must murther Wiues much better then themselues For wrying but a little?
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