• "tHis book is intituled confessio amantis, that is to saye in englysshe the confessyon of the louer maad and compyled by Iohan Gower squyer ...", Gower, John, 1325?-1408., page 259.
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purse withinHe fond also his stone therinWherfor for ioye his hert playdAnd to his wyf thus he said here my gold / loo here my stonHis wyf had wonder theruponAnd asked hym how it myght beNow by my trouthe quod

• "Thou fiers god of armes, mars the rede.", Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400., page 3.
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a spere & targeMani a fresh kinght & mani a blisful routeOn hors & fote al the felde abouteIpolita his wyf / the hardy queneOf cythia / that he conquerd hadWith emelie / her youg suster sheneFair in a chare

• "Here endeth this doctrine at Westmestre by london in fourmes enprinted. In the whiche one euerich may shortly lerne. Frenssh and englissh ...", Hilton, Walter, d. 1396., page 90.
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good vynegreGood veriuse good mustardeGalentyne sawceBlack pepre.Good gauselyn.Natalye the wyf of the stewesKepeth a good styeweThe moste suffysaunte of the citeThey goon thedyr to be stewedAlle the strangersShe duelleth.After the walle of the white frerisoLyuer the brocourWynneth by brocorageWith one

• "The temple of glas.", Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?, page 5.
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For she so longe her lord ne mighte seeWas of colour bothe pale and greneAnd after next was the fresh queneI mene al cest the noble trewe wyfAnd for admete hou she lost her lifAnd for her trouth yf

• "[Here begynneth the table of a book entytled the book of good maners.].", Legrand, Jacques, ca. 1365-1415., page 96.
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the wyf of Actilius was so chaste. that ne∣mantouched her sauf her husbond onely / And on a tyme happed that a man sayd to hyr husbonde that his mouth sta∣eAnd whan he cam home he blamed his wyf by

• "[Here begynneth the table of a book entytled the book of good maners.].", Legrand, Jacques, ca. 1365-1415., page 114.
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theflood. Exepte noe his wyf. & his chyldren. as it is wreon tothe boke of genesis the vij chapitre. wherfore were srayn people of the trybe of bemamyn. but for the lechee whi¦chewas com̄ysed in the wyf of the leuyte.

• "Prolicionycion [sic].", Higden, Ranulf, d. 1364., page 445.
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his hornes the crucifix which sayd to hym that he his wyf & his children shold suffre moche wo and sorowe ¶And after this he was crystend and his wyf and his children / and he had a newe name

• "Prolicionycion [sic].", Higden, Ranulf, d. 1364., page 615.
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of the danes / & hadde al mercia after the deth of his sus∣ter Elfleda / ¶ On his fyrst wyf Egwyna he gate his ol∣dest soune Edelstan / On quene Edgyna he gate Edredus and Edwynus and seuen doughters

• "Prolicionycion [sic].", Higden, Ranulf, d. 1364., page 828.
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/ ¶ In the same yere Edward prynce of wales maryed the Coūtesse of kente. that was Syr Thomas holandes wyf / whiche was somtyme dyuorsed fro the Erle of Salysbury / for cause of the same knyght / ¶

• "[T]o the right noble, right excellent [and] vertuous prince George duc of Clarence Erle of warwyk and of salisburye, grete chamberlayn of Englond [and] leutenant of Irelond oldest broder of kynge Edward by the grace of god kynge of England and of frau[n]ce, your most humble seruant william Caxton amonge other of your seruantes sendes vnto you peas. helthe. ioye and victorye vpon your enemyes ...", Cessolis, Jacobus de., page 18.
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better and more for the comyn wele of rome / that a man shold haue two wyuys / or a wyf to haue two husbondes / And whan she had vnderstonde this / he defended her that she shold telle

• "[T]o the right noble, right excellent [and] vertuous prince George duc of Clarence Erle of warwyk and of salisburye, grete chamberlayn of Englond [and] leutenant of Irelond oldest broder of kynge Edward by the grace of god kynge of England and of frau[n]ce, your most humble seruant william Caxton amonge other of your seruantes sendes vnto you peas. helthe. ioye and victorye vpon your enemyes ...", Cessolis, Jacobus de., page 19.
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had leuer / and also hit were better for the comyn wele that a wyf shold haue two husbondes than a man two wyues / The senatours heerynge this. were gretly abasshid and wist not what to saye / ner

• "[T]o the right noble, right excellent [and] vertuous prince George duc of Clarence Erle of warwyk and of salisburye, grete chamberlayn of Englond [and] leutenant of Irelond oldest broder of kynge Edward by the grace of god kynge of England and of frau[n]ce, your most humble seruant william Caxton amonge other of your seruantes sendes vnto you peas. helthe. ioye and victorye vpon your enemyes ...", Cessolis, Jacobus de., page 24.
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the castell to hym yf he wold take her to his wyf and wedde her And he agreed therto / and sware that he wold haue her to his wyf on that condicion / whan than the kynge was in

• "[T]o the right noble, right excellent [and] vertuous prince George duc of Clarence Erle of warwyk and of salisburye, grete chamberlayn of Englond [and] leutenant of Irelond oldest broder of kynge Edward by the grace of god kynge of England and of frau[n]ce, your most humble seruant william Caxton amonge other of your seruantes sendes vnto you peas. helthe. ioye and victorye vpon your enemyes ...", Cessolis, Jacobus de., page 42.
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be maryed wythoute dowayre / In suche wyse that no man shold take a wyf for moneye / The xi. that men shold rather take a wyf for her good ma∣ners and vertues than for her richesses / The twelfthe

• "[T]o the right noble, right excellent [and] vertuous prince George duc of Clarence Erle of warwyk and of salisburye, grete chamberlayn of Englond [and] leutenant of Irelond oldest broder of kynge Edward by the grace of god kynge of England and of frau[n]ce, your most humble seruant william Caxton amonge other of your seruantes sendes vnto you peas. helthe. ioye and victorye vpon your enemyes ...", Cessolis, Jacobus de., page 57.
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born with cayin / And thus began the nuye that cayin had ayenst abel / For his wyf was fayrer than cayins wyf And for this cause he slough abel with the chekebone of a beste & at that tyme

• "[T]o the right noble, right excellent [and] vertuous prince George duc of Clarence Erle of warwyk and of salisburye, grete chamberlayn of Englond [and] leutenant of Irelond oldest broder of kynge Edward by the grace of god kynge of England and of frau[n]ce, your most humble seruant william Caxton amonge other of your seruantes sendes vnto you peas. helthe. ioye and victorye vpon your enemyes ...", Cessolis, Jacobus de., page 114.
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hym self was chidde and right fowll spoken to of his wyf / and she Imposid to hym many grete Iniuries with out nombre / and she was in a place a boue ouer his heed And whan she had

• "Here fynyssheth the boke yf [sic] Eneydos, compyled by Vyrgyle, which hathe be translated oute of latyne in to frenshe, and oute of frenshe reduced in to Englysshe by me wyll[ia]m Caxton, the xxij. daye of Iuyn. the yere of our lorde. M.iiij.Clxxxx. The fythe yere of the regne of kynge Henry the seuenth.", Mirk, John, fl. 1403?, page 3.
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a mercer cam in to an hows and axed for mee. and specyally he axyd after eggys And the goode wyf answerde. that she coude speke no fren∣she. And the marchaūt was angry. for he also coude speke no frenshe.

• "Here fynyssheth the boke yf [sic] Eneydos, compyled by Vyrgyle, which hathe be translated oute of latyne in to frenshe, and oute of frenshe reduced in to Englysshe by me wyll[ia]m Caxton, the xxij. daye of Iuyn. the yere of our lorde. M.iiij.Clxxxx. The fythe yere of the regne of kynge Henry the seuenth.", Mirk, John, fl. 1403?, page 33.
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fonde they the preste of Iubyter wyth his wyf and alle his meyne vaticynaūte of prophecy¦eng thynges moche merueyllous. in pronostycacyon righte happy of their fleeynge and voyage. the whiche wyth his wyf and meynage wente anone wyth theym. and

• "[Here begynneth the booke which the knyght of the toure made and speketh of many fayre ensamples and thensygnementys and techyng of his doughters].", La Tour Landry, Geoffroy de, 14th century., page 6.
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his wyf / capo. lxvOf the quene Gesabel whiche had many euyll condycions / capitulo / lxvjo.Of Athalia quene of Ierusalem / capitulo lxvijo.Of Enuye / capitulo lxviijOf the stryf bytwene Fenenna and Anne / Capitulo lxixo.Of Dalida Sampsons wyf

• "[Here begynneth the booke which the knyght of the toure made and speketh of many fayre ensamples and thensygnementys and techyng of his doughters].", La Tour Landry, Geoffroy de, 14th century., page 7.
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lady Rebecca the wyf of Isaac / ca / lxxxiijHow the faders and moders ought to praye for theyr children / capitulo lxxxiiijo.How men ought to sette and put theyr children in the wylle of god / capitulo lxxxvOf Charyte

• "[Here begynneth the booke which the knyght of the toure made and speketh of many fayre ensamples and thensygnementys and techyng of his doughters].", La Tour Landry, Geoffroy de, 14th century., page 8.
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& galoyses / wherof many deyde for cold / capitulo CxxjThe argument of the knyʒt of the toure & his wyf / ca / CxxijThe ansuere whiche the lady of the Toure made to her lord / Capitulo CxxiijHow a