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A younge woman, or an olde. Ari∣stotle saith, it is mete for men to marye at .xxxvj. for maidens to marie at .xviij. but then was then, and now is now, al thynges in this worlde are ripe before there tyme. I meane not that honestie it self is so, for I neuer knew it ripe as yeat, but euer rawe. But thus ye see the time of mariage was not so hastely loked for, as it is now. In this worlde
a child shal scant be out of his shel, but he shalbe suer to one or other, y• which I doubte, whether it maye be called a mariage or no: for those that be of ripe yeres, no man doubteth, but if thei can agree both, & haue there frendes good wyll (for that ought to be sought for, and also obtained) the mariage is al∣lowed before God.