CHAPTER LXXII.
[Of a woman who would not obey her husband.]
I wolde ye knew another ensaumple upon the woman that wolde not ete atte the bidding of her husbonde. There was a lady that wolde not come ete with her husbond̛ whanne he
Book of the Knight of La Tour-Landry : compiled for the instruction of his daughters : translated from the original French into English in the reign of Henry VI / [by Geoffroy de La Tour Landry] ; edited ... with an introduction and notes by Thomas Wright
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- Book of the Knight of La Tour-Landry : compiled for the instruction of his daughters : translated from the original French into English in the reign of Henry VI / [by Geoffroy de La Tour Landry] ; edited ... with an introduction and notes by Thomas Wright
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- La Tour Landry, Geoffroy de, 14th cent.
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- Wright, Thomas, 1810-1877
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- 1906
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was atte mete, for no thyng that he coude saie her nor comaunde her. And he saw that; and whanne he had etin, he sent for his swyne-herde, and made fette the kichin clothe that his disshes were wiped with, and spred it on a borde, and sette mete theron, and made the swyne-herthe sitte doun theratte; and thanne he called his lady his wyff, and saide her, "Sethe ye wol not ete in my companie with me, ye shaƚƚ sitte downe and ete here with the swyne-herthe, for there shal none other man holde you compani at youre mete." And whedir she ware wrothe or gladde, he made her sitte doun. And she wepte and made moche sorugℏ that her husbonde wolde chastise her so, to make her be serued in so ungoodly [fol/col 31b/2] wise. And, therfor, aƚƚ women aught to be humble, and to fulfeƚƚ her husbondes comaundement, and to ete with hym in his presence rather thanne with ani other.