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but a woman muſt be wrapped in warme mantles: a man triumphes at warres, but a woman reioyceth more at peace.
If a man talke of any kinde of beaſt or fowle, preſently the nature is knowne: as for example, the Lyons are all ſtrong and hardy, the Hares are all fearefull and cowardly, the Doues are all ſimple, and ſo of all beaſts and fowles the like I meane, few or none ſwaruing from his kinde; but women haue more contrary ſorts of behauiour then there be women: and therefore impoſſible for a man to know all, no nor one part of womens qualities, all the dayes of his life.
Some with ſweet words vndermine their husbands, as Dalila did Sampſon, and ſome with chiding and brawling are made weary of the world, as Socrates and others: Socrates when his wife did chide and brawle, would goe out of the houſe till all were quiet againe: but becauſe hee would not ſcould with her againe, it grieued her the more; for on a time ſhee watched his going out, and threw a chamber-pot out of a window on his head; Ha, ha, quoth hee, I thought after all this thunder there would come raine.
There is an hiſtory maketh mention of one named Annynius, who inuited a friend of his to go home with him to ſupper; but when he came home, he found his wife chiding and brawling with her Maidens, whereat his gueſt was very much diſcontented. Annynius turning to him, ſaid: Good Lord how impatient art thou? I haue ſuffered her theſe twenty yeeres, and canſt not thou abide her two howres? by which meanes he cauſed his wife to leaue chiding, and laughed out the matter.
