Poem by John Heywood

Precepts of a Man to His Wife

“Stand still, wife!” “I will:” 
“Be still, wife!” “I nill.” 
“Now bark, wife!” “I will:” 
“To wark, wife!” “I nill.” 
“Prove me, wife!” “I will:”
“Love me, wife!” “I nill.” 
“Now chat, wife!” “I will:”
“Leave that, wife!” “I nill.”
“Keep chair, wife!” “I will:” 
“Speak fair, wife!” “I nill.”

1. Of Holding an Inn
2. Of a Hand-gun and a Hand
3. Of Treading a Shoe Awry
4. What God Said to One. Otherwise. Thou art one of them to whom God bade Ho!
5. A Loss by the Devil’s Death. Otherwise. 4. The devil is dead: who shall his land rightly win?

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