[Here begynneth the booke which the knyght of the toure made and speketh of many fayre ensamples and thensygnementys and techyng of his doughters]

About this Item

Title: [Here begynneth the booke which the knyght of the toure made and speketh of many fayre ensamples and thensygnementys and techyng of his doughters]
Author: La Tour Landry, Geoffroy de, 14th cent.
Publication: [[Westminster :: William Caxton],; the yere of oure lord M CCCC lxxxiij and enprynted at Westmynstre the last day of Ianyuer the fyrst yere of the regne of kynge Rychard the thyrd. [1484]]
Rights/Permissions: To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.
Subject terms: Women -- Education, Medieval -- Early works to 1800.; Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800.
Cite this Item: "[Here begynneth the booke which the knyght of the toure made and speketh of many fayre ensamples and thensygnementys and techyng of his doughters]." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A05159.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024.

Pages

How a woman ought to obeye her husbond in alle thynge ho¦nest Capitulo lxxij

I Wold ye knewe wel the tale and example of the la¦dy / whiche daygned not to come to her dyner for ony commaundement that her lord coude make to her / and so many tyme he sent for her / that at the last whanne he sawe she wold not come at his commaundement / he made to come be¦fore hym his swyneherd / he that kepte his swynes / whiche was foule / and ouermoche hydous / and bad hym fetche the clowte of the kechyn wherwith men wype dysshes and platers And thenne he made a table or bord to be dressyd before hys wyf / and made it to be couerd with the sayd cloute / and com¦maunded to his swyneherd to sytte besyde her / And thenne he sayd thus to her / Lady yf ye ne wylle ete with me / ne come at me / ne come at my commaundement / ye shalle haue the kepar of my swyne to hold yow company and good felauship / And this cloute to wype your handes with al / And whanne she that thenne was sore ashamed and more wrothe than she was tofore sawe and knewe that her lord mocked her / refrey∣ned her proude herte and knewe her foly / Therfore a woman ought not in no wyse to refuse to come at the commaundement of her lord yf she wylle haue and kepe his loue and pees / And also by good reason humylyte ought to come fyrste to the woman / For euer she ought to shewe her self meke and humble toward her lord /