winkt at it and kept in his displeasure On a day he willed his wife for recreations sake to walke with him into the country to her father Oh shee was in heauen when she heard of that went with al her heart with him to her fathers house Being come thither he left his wife talking with her mother sisters himselfe went into the fields a hunting with his father in law being there and no body by he told his father in law how he hoped that he had happened on a comfortable companion to haue past his life withall but now he perceiued that he had one alwaies puling and complaining and pittifully taking on and that hée could not helpe it with whatsoeuer he could say Therefore he prayed his father to play the Physition and to cure his daughters malady Her father made him this answere Son saith he once in the Church I deliuered my daughter to you if she will not be ruled by your counsell vse your authority Then the young man thus replied Father I know very wel what I may do by my place and authority but I had rather shee might bee brought into order by your skill and authority then to vse the extreme remedy of Stafford law Vpon that his father promised him to do whathe could to cure and physicke his daughters crooked and peruerse disposition Within a day or two therefore he pickt out a fit oportunity both of time place to deale alone with his daughter Calling her to him aside and composing his countenance in a graue and grim manner and solemne sort he beganne to shew her what a hard fauoured woman she was and of no louely qualities and how he was oft afraid least hee should neuer haue bestowed her in marriage and yet saith hee through the great care that I haue had for thee I haue procured thee such an husband as the most courteous and beautifull damsell that is could not desire a better To be briefe the fathers spéech grew so hot that hee could scarce hold his hands The young woman moued partly with feare and partly with the truth of that her father told her fell downe at his feet praying him to forgiue her and promising euer after to be mindfull of her dutie Her father forgaue her and said further that hee would shew himselfe a right father if she would doe as she promised Xant And what followed Eu. The young woman going from her father returned to her chamber finds her husband all alone fals vpon her knees cried O husband vnwise as I was I haue not hitherto knowne you nor my selfe hereafter you shall sée me become a new woman only good husband forgiue and forget my former disobedience This vnexpected humble spéech of his wife hée welcomed with a kisse and promised her all things if shée would still continue in this minde Xant Yea but did she so Eul. Yes to her dying day neither was there any seruice so base which shée would not willingly vndergoe at her husbands pleasure howsoeuer Margery it may be you would haue done it at your leasure And there grew euery day such great loue betwixt thē that within few yeares she would often in company reioyce blesse God that shee was matched with such a husband whom if shée had not maried she thought there should not haue bene a more miserable creature vnder the Sunne Marg. Such men as these are as rare as white crowes Xant Yet you haue such an one Eul. The greater shall her iudgment be except she repent for there are few women in the country I can tell you that haue such a religious husband who seeketh by all meanes her saluation Xant Haue you no mo such exāples Eul. Yes that I haue and one especiall one which I hope will please Margery it being much in the commēdation of a woman as the other was of a man Xant I pray you let vs heare it Eul. There was a neighbour of ours a very honest man but somewhat of a hastie nature and of a waspish tetchy disposition on a day he beate his wife a woman by common report of singular good carriage and excellent behauiour such an one as Abigail being very well beloued of all her neighbours Being beaten abused of her husband she betakes her selfe into her secret closet and there shee sits sighing and sobbing so easing her heart and disgesting her griefe Soone after vpon occasion her husband went into that roome and finding his wife wofully weeping saies to her Why sittest thou here fighing sobbing and crying like a child Shee then thus prudently and patiently answered Husband said shee is it not better to doe thus here to bewaile my griefe where no body heares nor sees then to runne and cry out in the streetes and to exclaime on you as others do on their husbands By this wise and gentle speech of his wife the stout heart of her husband was broken hee gaue her his right hand and promised that hee would neuer touch her againe in any euill manner neither did he Xant I haue brought my husband to that passe too but yet another way then she did Eul. But I thinke you cannot yet agree Xant Why what would you haue me to do Eul. O Xantip how oft haue I told thee how thou shouldst behaue thy selfe to thy husband I perceiue thou hast a bad memory or at least small list to learne sith so soone thou forgettest thy duty Wel once more I wil tel thee First you must put vp all iniury at his hands Marg. Yea so one might soone bée made a foole a foot-stoole I would rather do him two for one Eul. Hold you your tongue Margery I speake not to you but to Xantip Then Xantip you must labour to win his good will by doing all duties with chearefulnesse and louing kindnesse so shal you at last ouercome him or at least you shall haue him in a farre better temper then he is in at this present Xant Alas woman he is farre fiercer then he was before I feare me no gentlenesse will preuaile with him Eul. Feare not woman there is no wild beast so sauage but by gentle handling it may be tamed be not then hopelesse of a man do but put in practise vre my aduice for a few moneths and then blame me if you find not my counsell to doe you good There are some smal faults which you must winke at take heede that you giue no occasion of contention and thinke no scorne to be seruiceable in those things which become you There are some women that will be euer frumping or whining seldome or neuer vsing any amiable behauiour toward their husbands which is a signe that they haue not the loue of God shed abroad in their hearts For if they had it would cause them to loue their husbands vnspeakeably Xant Indéed gossip I must tell you plainly I cannot shew that loue to my husband that I should and some do to
which hee vnderwent for the loue he bare vnto her and to winne her vnto him againe and still how he doth send his messengers and embassadours to entreate his Church in his stead to bee reconciled vnto him Eul. One would thinke that these things should cause the heart of man to stoop and to bend his affections vnto his wife Ezer Yes verily so thinke I too little had I thought that any could haue made these things so plaine Abig. If so be you thinke these things so euident which I a simple woman haue opened vnto you how much more euident then thinke you should they haue bene if a godly learned man had had the matter in handling Ezer Well séeing it is so plaine as it is what is the next course that I must take that there may be peace and continuall loue betwéene me and my wife Abig. After you haue done as I haue set downe and declared your loue vnto your wife you then with wisedome and reuerence and in a louing manner must shew vnto her her miserable estate which she stands in and the iudgements of God due vnto her for sinne that so she may be humbled Ezer But if I should tell my Xantip of her miserable estate she would be so farre from humbling her selfe that she would rather be ready to fly in my face Abig. I hope not so But hearken I pray you Men do many times faile in the manner of their directions and admonitions vnto their wiues which is the cause that they profite no more then they do for commonly in their anger they will tell their wiues of their faults and that in such a hastie and hare-braind sort as spoiles all or else whē their wiues are moodie and troubled in minde so that it is no maruell that they doe more hurt thē good The very heathen would not fight nor reproue in their anger how much more then ought Christians to waite their oportunities when they may do the most good Ezer Why but do you hold then that a man may beate his wife when he is quiet Abig. Nay Much lesse when he is angry Eul. There was neuer any that hated their owne flesh but nourished and cherished it Now the wife is the husbands owne flesh as it is written They twaine shall be one flesh Therefore c. Ezer Yea but though he beate her yet he néed not hate her And againe hath not the man as much power ouer his wiues body as the father hath ouer the child but the father may correct and whip his child for his fault and yet loue him too For it is written in the Prouerbs Hee that corrects not his child hates him Abig. The comparison is not equall howsoeuer it bee granted that the husband hath power ouer the wiues body yet it is not in that manner as the father hath power ouer the childs he hath power ouer the wines body for procreation and so she hath power ouer his and both ouer the childs for correction So by this kinde of reasoning the wife hath as great prerogatiue ouer the mans body as the man hath ouer the wiues For so saith the Apostle The man hath not power ouer his owne body but the wife nor the wife ouer hers but her husband Ezer Againe it is said that S. Paul did beate downe his own body to bring it vnder when it would not bee in subiection from whence wee may gather that the wife being as the mans owne body may be beaten when she will not otherwise be kept vnder but be checkemate with him that thereby she may be brought into subiection to him Abig. By beating the Apostle meanes not a striking a flapping or whipping of himselfe as the foppish Papists falsely imagine but a taming of his body by abstaining from those thinges which might puffe vp his flesh and so indeed we grant that a man in wisedome when hee sees the stoutnesse of his wiues stomacke or the pride of her heart and raging of her affections swell either against God or him then I say he is to restraine her from those thinges which might make her more malapert and hee may then vse such holy meanes as may keepe her vnder Eul. Men as Abigail shewed are to loue their wiues as Christ loued his Church Ezer Yea but you know though Christ loue his Church yet if it will not be ruled by him he will correct it and that sharply so by your owne reason is a man to loue his wife yet if shee will not be obedient to him he may correct her by Christs example Abig. Howsoeuer it is said that the Lord correcteth his Church if shee will not be ruled by him he doth not thereby giue example or encouragement that any man should beate his wife but it serueth to awe vs lest we offend his maiesty neither can any doe it in that manner nor bring profite thereby as Christ doth As for the manner of Christs correcting his Church it is in loue but neuer was it heard that euer any man did beate his wife in loue And againe he should doe to his wife as to himselfe but euery one would account him a mad man that would beate himselfe Further the Church by Gods correctiō is made better but the wife would bee made more vnruly and outragious by beating We are women haue some experience of these things Ezer I thinke you rather speake because you would not haue husbands to vse their authority Abig They haue no such authoritie neither will we for our parts giue them occasion to straine that which they haue vpon the tenters Ezer I would my wife would giue me no occasion neither Eul. I suppose by your spéech that you haue had many bouts Ezer Yea that we haue till the bloud hath run downe the one of our faces Abig. O lamentable thing to bee heard of in a Christian common wealth betwéene man and wife Eul. But how much the better hath she bene Ezer Not so much as I haue bene the worse and shee also was worse and worse rather Abig. I pray you neighbour therefore follow our counsell though we bee but women Ez. What would you haue me to do Abig. Suppose now that you had some deformitie on your face which did dis-figure you so much the one would be loath to looke vpon you and if you could helpe it what would you do Ezer If that by any meanes I could helpe it I would presently and if I could not then I would couer it that none should see it Abig. So likewise ought you to deale with your wife for shee is a speciall member of your body yea as hath bene said shee is as your selfe therefore as you helpe the deformitie of your owne face or if you can not heale it couer it so must you do vnto your wiues deformities Againe if you had committed some filthy and abhominable sinne which were not to be named and there were onely one or two that did know it what would
A LOOKING GLASSE FOR Maried Folkes Wherein they may plainly see their deformities and also how to behaue themselues one to another and both of them towards God Set forth Dialogue-wise for the more tastable and plainnesse sake By R. S. PROVERBS 11.29 He that troubleth his owne house shall inherite the winde and the foole shall be seruant to him that lendeth PROVERBS 12.4 A vertuous woman is the crowne of her husband but she that maketh him ashamed is as corruption to his bones LONDON Printed by N. O. for Henry Bell and are to be sold at his shop on Holburne Hill neere the crosse Keyes 1610. THE AVTHOR TO the gentle Reader COurteous Reader the speciall cause inducing me to take in hand this worke and to bring my candle lighted into the glorious Sun-shine of this age and to publish the same to the view of this famous common-wealth was that I haue seene heard with griefe of heart in many places whither I haue come wicked and vnquiet liuing betweene man wife the which caused me many a time to consult with my selfe how I might be a meanes to reforme the same I considered and thought with my selfe that many wanted meanes to be reconciled one to another and that there was no booke extant of this subiect in English and that for want of meanes many haue liued ignorantly and so of necessity wickedly and discontentedly together to the dishonor of God the offence and euill example of others the losse of their credits the wasting of their goods the corrupting of their children and seruants and finally to the consuming of their owne bodies yea many to the destroying of their soules for euermore The consideration of these things moued me not to delay but speedily to seeke out a remedy for them And I pray God grant that euery one that is infected with the aforesaid disease when as this booke shall come to their hands may apply it effectually vnto themselues that so they may expell the poisoned malice of their cankered hearts And all these patients I would haue to marke that the more they giue way vnto their nature or rather vnnaturall affections the more they shall be tainted with the horrible vices whereto they are addicted And againe the more they are infected with them the more venimous poyson their children shall draw from them not onely whiles they are in their mothers wombe but also much more afterwards by their euill examples And howsoeuer it is little regarded that children can be infected with the parents disposition while they are in the wombe yet dayly experience doth shew that as they are formed and proportioned in body much like vnto their parents so likewise in their nature and affections Now therefore though thou hast small regard of thy selfe yet for thy childrens sake which are the fruit of thy body take heed obserue and practise good counsell herein contained which if thou doest I make no doubt but thou shalt be a meanes to saue both thy selfe many others And moreouer pondering these things deeply with my selfe as I said I called vnto remembrance a Dialogue betweene two women to this effect written in Latine by the reuerend learned man Erasmus and thinking it was not in English I thought to publish the same in our mother tongue for the benefite of my countrymem but after considering further that that onely concerned women yea and that they might attaine to all that which hee counselleth there and yet be damned I haue added thereunto the substance of faith and repentance with diuers other particular poynts and examples though briefly which being practised are sufficient to life eternall And moreouer lest men by reading the former part of this booke which teacheth the duty of wiues should domineere too much ouer them I haue shewed them also in the later part thereof the duties which they owe to their wiues drawne from plaine proofes reasons and arguments of holy Scripture so that they may both learne how to behaue themselues each to other and both of them to God as they ought And now if thou shalt reape profite from thence as I hope thou shalt except the fault be in thy selfe giue glory to God counsel to thy neighbours as time and oportunity is offered and in so doing I doubt not but God will giue a blessing vnto thee thy directions and by this meanes thou shalt be an instrument of a publicke and continuall good not onely in making good parents but they by thy meanes also shall make good children and good seruants and this by Gods blessing shal successiuely go on from age to age euen to the end of the world and so by this meanes good parents which are scarce shall bee multipled to the increase of Gods Church and the flourishing estate of the common-wealth And further know this that good parents are speciall instruments to make godly children and good seruants and godly children and good seruants will make religious men and women and religious men and womē doth make a flourishing church and famous common-weale set forth Gods glory and establish the Princes kingdome Therefore I pray thee consider and lay it vnto heart what a common and continuall good this peace-making is betweene married couples Therefore by this premised euery one may easily see how necessary comfortable and commodious this little booke may bee through Gods blessing to all sorts of men high and low rich and poore religious and prophane that some may teach and some may learne and all reape profite one by another And now gentle reader if thou finde any slips herein as haply thou maist I pray thee couer them with thy courtesie Accept of my good wil receiue that with thankfulnesse to God which may be profitable to thy selfe and if I shal heare that it shal be courteously receiued and carefully practised it shall bee a meanes through Gods fauour to stirre me vp to attempt a greater worke that shall be more profitable both for the Church of Christ and my deare country for the wealth of both which I onely desire to liue and to haue maintenance to manifest my loue and duty which I owe vnto them But because I will not bee tedious in the preface I will conclude lest I weary thee before thou come to the Conference Onely this I desire of thee that thou wilt not onely begin to reade the booke but reade it to the end And howsoeeuer some things may seeme vnsauorie vnto thee at the first yet I feare not but in fine thou shalt finde it profitable and comfortable And thus I commit thee and all thy good exercises to the blessing of the Almighty Studious of thine as of mine owne quiet and profite Robert Snawsel A LOOKING GLASSE FOR MARRIED FOLKES OR A profitable Conference betweene foure women and one man touching their behauiours toward God and their husbands and what they ought to bee and also the dutie of husbands toward their wiues The foure womens names are
Abigail the fathers ioy Eulalie wel-spoken Xantip a scold Margerie a proud malapert Ben-ezer an helper Eulaly GOOD Morrow neighbor Xantip how do you to day did you see my gossip Margerie Xantip No I saw her not to day but mee thinks you are fairer then ordinary Eulal What do you begin to frump me Xant No truly you seeme to mée to bée very smug Eulal Peraduenture my new gowne sets a glosse on my face Xant I promise you you say true indeed I haue not seene a goodlier a great while I take it to bee made of English wooll Eul. The wooll indeed is from England but it was died in Venice Xant Truely it is a most gallant gowne the softnesse of it passeth silke and what a fine purple colour is it of Eul. It is true I like it well indeed but looke who comes yonder Xant It is Margerie whom you asked for Oh huge how braue is shée you haue onely a new gowne but shee is new from toppe to toe Abigail And yet I feare me her soule is as old as Adam and as filthy as the Serpent Xant Where were you that we saw you not before now Abig. Little had you thought that I had bene so neare you till you saw me Xant No for if I had I would not haue sworne so as I did Abig. Alas I heard thee with griefe and thought to haue told thee of it at time conuenient but were you not afraid lest God should see you and heare you sweare so horribly Xant I know well that God seeth all things but he is mercifull Abig. And as he is mercifull so also is he iust Xant Welcome Margerie welcome Marg. God a mercie good Xantip how dost thou Xant Better to see you so fresh and well liking mee thinks you are too too braue your gown is most stately made your neckerchiefe is of the finest cambricke your stomacher is most gallantly wrought and euery thing about you is so in print that it doth mee good to looke vpon you Marg. Woman I may speake it amongst vs here I will haue it so Xant And the more is my griefe that I cannot haue it so too Abig. I pray you neighbours talke no more of those things why should wee busie our minds so much about this outward apparell which onely sets out the body and many times makes vs forget both God and our selues Therefore I pray you good neighbours let vs regard this outward decking lesse the inward adorning of our selues more Marg. What shall wée haue of you a Puritane Abig. I pray you Margerie vse no more such scoffing speeches Marg. And I pray you Abigail tel mee doe you not thinke better of your selfe then of any of vs Abig. If you aske me to be bettered by my speech I will tell you what I thinke of my selfe Eul. Truly I do Abigail Abig. I think in my conscience that I am a poore sinfull and miserable woman in my selfe not worthy to liue vpon the earth onely in and by Christ Iesus I hope to bee made eternally happy Eulal What are you poore and miserable haue you not riches the world at will and haue you not a louing husband which makes much of you Abig. Alacke Eulaly thou art an honest ciuill woman I must needs say but yet thou speakest very carnally What is all my riches if I had 10000 times more then I haue if that I bee not rich in Christ Iesus and what though I could rule the whole world which way I would if I haue not peace of conscience and what if I haue a louing husband if I haue not a good husband Eul. Are you not rich in Christ haue you not peace of conscience and haue you not also a louing and good husband Abig. Because you protested that you asked me to be bettered by me I will make my case knowne vnto you in your eare It is many times thus with me when I thinke vpon my riches and the aboundance of wealth which God hath bestowed vpon my husband and me then sathan suggesteth euill motions in my heart and my corrupt affections break forth in my life so that often I thinke better of my selfe then I ought and that I may neglect to worke with my hands and that I may haue this and that fashion of apparell because other of my calling haue the same and that I may eate this dainty thing or that and that I may either sit vp idly in the night or lye longer then ordinary in the morning And on the other side while I thus pride my selfe in my apparell and walke idly out of my calling and pamper this sinfull carcase with delicious fare I haue not respect vnto some of my poore members nay vnto Christs members as I ought I speake this to my shame that selfe loue is so much in me which quenches the spirit of God and depriues me many times of his fauour and the excellent graces of his spirit then my conscience is troubled and disquieted and then it is such a griefe vnto me that I haue not a good husband howsoeuer I confesse indeed I haue a louing husband Eul. What meane you by a good husband Abig. By a good husband I meane a religious husband which should be my partener and helper not onely in bodily and worldly things but especially in spiritual and heauenly that we might draw Christs yoke equally together that so in and through Christ wee might bee glorified together I tel you neighbour you will hardly beleeue what a comfor it would bee vnto mee if hee would tender my soule as he doth my body nay if he would tender his owne soule Indeed he will not be against any good thing I doe I thanke God for it but here is my griefe that he will not bee partener of the good with mee which is the cause when I am sicke or afflicted in conscience as many times I am humbled for my sins I blesse God for it then I say he cannot minister spirituall comfort to me Onely this he wil say how dost thou wife or God helpe thee which I take kindly but alas it is farre from that which the Apostle exhorts men vnto namely that they should dwell with their wiues as men of knowledge that is if the woman be ignorant as the most are he should instruct and informe her in the waies of the Lord if she heare any thing preached or at publicke disputations whereof shee stands in doubt shee should aske her husbande iudgement at home and he should be able to resolue her he should be able through God to comfort her in affliction and to reioyce with her in prosperity I do not meane any outward or fleshly ioy so much as that which is spirituall and heauenly Marg. What is that which you two are whispering together of so long I doe not think but it was about some religious matters for Abigail loues to talke of nothing else mee thought I heard now and then a sound
credit nor profit whē the streame runs with violence this way What a horrible sinne is it that the woman should vsurpe the mans authority the poore man dares not do any thing but what his wife wil and as she saith so it must bee or else the house will not hold her neither will she looke vpon him without lumping and lowring if any describe the vglines of her countenāce in the time of her anger she will scarce be friends with them Oh therfore Oh therefore that these masterly dames would but glasse themselues that they might see their rugged browes their fiery eyes pouching mouthes their blacke and poysoned tonges which vtter horrible blasphemies both against God and men especially against their husbands whom they should loue most dearely So heere is the cause why many men thinke it their greatest wisdome to possesse their soules in patience and to passe by many grieuances in our sexe Onely this is the refuge of those that are godly to comfort themselues in the Lord their God Therefore well saith Salmon It is better to liue in the wildernesse with a dinner of greene hearbes then to haue a stalled oxe or to liue in a wide house with a contentious woman Marg. I will be sworne if there were but thrée or foure moe here if they were of my mind wee would teach you how to defame shame vs on this manner Eul. You defame and shame your selues I onely shew what shrewes are and those that will neither be ruled by God nor their husbands as he that toucheth not pitch shall not be defiled so she that is not of this stocke and linage is not blamed Xant Let her alone good Eulaly and tel me how did you after your husband was in bed Eulal When his stomack was emptied and he come to himselfe when he was not stirred in his affections nor troubled with other actions but he and I alone either in bed or in some conuenient place I would gently admonish him or rather intreat him that he would haue a care of the health of his body to auoid that sin to bee ouercome with drinck telling him of such young men yea gallant gentlemen as he knew who got surfets by so ouercharging their stomacks also with weeping eies I would intreat him to haue a care of his estate and credit children and seruants lest the one should be vndone by his spending their portions and the other by following his vnseemely course of life This was the manner of my proceeding with him seasoning my speeches in the best manner that they might not be distasted but digested of him Also sometimes I was wont to vse a preface and make him promise mee that hee would haue patience with me if I a simple woman should put him in minde of something that might tend to his credit or welfare any way whē I had told him my mind I would breake off that talke and fall into some other more delightful to him For gossip Xantip I may say to you that this is the weakenes of vs women that when wee haue begunne to speake wee are so talkatiue and full of words that wee wot not when to leaue Xant It is the pleasure of men indeed so to say of vs who haue no better sport then to speake of and report our infirmities but say on I pray you Eul. I had also a speciall care of this that I would not find fault with my husband for any thing in any bodies presence nor complaine of him abroad A matter is soone amended that is but betweene two and not blazed abroad But if the matter bee of such a nature that it cannot well be holpen by the wiues counsell it is a seemelier course that the wife make complaint to her husbands parents or some of his kindred rather then to her owne and also that she moderate her complaint tēper her speech so that she may seeme not to hate her husbands person but only his ill conditions Neither let her blab out all that so when her husband comes to heare of it by his friends that she hath spoken of his faultes with the least he may be forced to acknowledge his wiues courtesie and kind dealing to say as Saul did of Dauid She is more righteous then I. Xant She had neede be an Academick and brought vp in their schooles and Vniuersitie that should skill to do this as you haue set downe Eul. By this meanes we shall draw our husbands to shew vs the like kindnesse Xant There are some husbands whom no gentle intreaty will doe any good Eul. Truely I thinke there are few or none such but say there be first of al as I haue said before the husband must be borne endured and dwelled with though neuer so wretched and wicked euen a diuell incarnate Therefore it is farre better to beare with one like our selues or that may bee bettered by our courteous carriage then one that will be worse euery day then other by our ouerthwart crabbed behauiour Come on Margerie what will you say if I tell you of some husbands that haue reformed their wiues on this wise by their gentle carriage If they doe it how much more thē is it meet that we should do the same to our husbands Marg. If you can tell vs of a truth of any such I say they are rare swans and such husbands are hard to come by Eul. Why there are many such géese as you are will not bee ruled by them but continually will bee gagling at them Xant Shee hath such a swanne her selfe if she had eyes to se him or grace to make vse of him I would I had such another if I had I would thinke I had a rare Iewell Eul. I am acquainted with such another who is both a learned and a noble man and of an excellent good courage He married a young maid about 17. yeares old brought vp continually in the country as noble men you know haue a kind of felicity to dwell in the country that they may there hunt and hauke He would make choise of a plaine and homely wench to the intent he might better bring her to his bow He began to teach her to reade and to plaie on instruments by little and little to accustome her to make relation of some points deliuered in the Sermon and to traine her vp in other matters which were commendable profitable Now because these were strange and vncouth to the rude young woman which had liued quitely in her mothers kitchin among men and maid seruants she grew soone weary of them and would not obey her husband as you Margery wil not and when her husband vrged her to them shee would like a child put fingar in the eye and sometimes she would throw her selfe vpon the cold ground and beate her head against it as if shee would haue beaten out her braines Shee continued this course a good while her husband very wisely