• "wHan that Apprill with his shouris sote and the droughte of marche hath p[er]cid ´e rote ...", Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400., page 511.
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no thingI pray the wyf do nomore soTel me now or I fro the goYf ony dettour haue in myn absenceY payed the lest be thy negligenceI mighte hym axe a thing that he hath paidThis wyf was not a

• "wHan that Apprill with his shouris sote and the droughte of marche hath p[er]cid ´e rote ...", Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400., page 646.
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gnat so moot I thryueFor on thy bed thy wyf I saw hym swyueWhat wol ye more the crowe anon hym toldeBy sad tokenys and by wordis boldeHow that his wyf hadde don her lecheryeHym to gret shame and to

• "Here begynneth the prologue or prohemye of the book callid Caton whiche booke hath ben translated in to Englysshe by Mayster Benet Burgh, late Archedeken of Colchestre and hye chanon of saint stephens at westmestre ... and by cause of late cam to my hand a book of the said Caton in Frensshe, whiche reherceth many a fayr lernynge and notable ensamples, I haue translated it oute of frensshe in to Englysshe, as al along here after shalle appiere, whiche I presente vnto the cyte of london.", Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400., page 19.
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yeue by veray charite and loue without ony vaynglorye / Coniugem AmaTHou oughtest to loue thy wyf as thy self / Neuerthe¦lesse the wyf by ryght lawe deuyne / and humayne she ought to be subgette to hyr husbond /

• "hEre begynneth the volume intituled and named the recuyell of the historyes of Troye, composed and drawen out of dyuerce bookes of latyn in to frensshe by the ryght venerable persone and worshipfull man. Raoul le ffeure. preest and chapelayn vnto the ryght noble gloryous and myghty prynce in his tyme Phelip duc of Bourgoyne of Braband [et]c in the yere of the incarnacion of our lord god a thousand foure honderd sixty and foure, and translated and drawen out of frenshe in to englisshe by Willyam Caxton mercer of ye cyte of London, at the comau[n]deme[n]t of the right hye myghty and vertuouse pryncesse hys redoubtyd lady. Margarete by the grace of god. Duchesse of Bourgoyne of Lotryk of Braband [et]c., whiche sayd translacion and werke was ... fynysshid in the holy cyte of Colen the. xix. day of septembre the yere of our sayd lord god a thousand foure honderd sixty and enleuen [sic] [et]c. ...", Lefèvre, Raoul, fl. 1460., page 343.
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in to hell & ther he is ded / ye haue ben wyf of a man goten in auoul∣trye / from hens forth ye shal̄ be felawe & wyf of a man legitisme & born in lawful̄ mariage / ffor

• "hEre begynneth the volume intituled and named the recuyell of the historyes of Troye, composed and drawen out of dyuerce bookes of latyn in to frensshe by the ryght venerable persone and worshipfull man. Raoul le ffeure. preest and chapelayn vnto the ryght noble gloryous and myghty prynce in his tyme Phelip duc of Bourgoyne of Braband [et]c in the yere of the incarnacion of our lord god a thousand foure honderd sixty and foure, and translated and drawen out of frenshe in to englisshe by Willyam Caxton mercer of ye cyte of London, at the comau[n]deme[n]t of the right hye myghty and vertuouse pryncesse hys redoubtyd lady. Margarete by the grace of god. Duchesse of Bourgoyne of Lotryk of Braband [et]c., whiche sayd translacion and werke was ... fynysshid in the holy cyte of Colen the. xix. day of septembre the yere of our sayd lord god a thousand foure honderd sixty and enleuen [sic] [et]c. ...", Lefèvre, Raoul, fl. 1460., page 689.
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Penolope his wyf how many notable men had requyred her / But she wold neuer entende to man / she was so moche chaste. And how certayn {per}sones helde partye of his lande ayenst the will of his wyf /

• "[Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive, Lombardica historia] [Wyllyam Caxton].", Jacobus, de Voragine, ca. 1229-1298., page 431.
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/ wyf of the sa¦me philip his broder / after that Iose∣phus sayth / she was suster of Herode Agryppa / And whan he retourned / he refused and repudyed his owne wyf and secretely wedded her to his wyf

• "Diues [et] pauper.", Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375., page 14.
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man than a wycked / & how it isvnleful a man to slee his wyf for a∣uoutry/ & more synne to slee fader ormoder than his wyf. ca.xxiij.¶Why god suffreth warre & batayl.thre thynges be nedefull y• batayle berightful /

• "[Le morte darthur]", Malory, Thomas, Sir, 15th cent., page 36.
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chargyng hym to brynge his wyf with hym / for she was called a fair lady / and a passynge wyse / and her name was called Igrayne / So whan the duke and his wyf were comyn vnto the

• "[Le morte darthur]", Malory, Thomas, Sir, 15th cent., page 99.
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but nedes I muste take a wyf / and I wylle none take / but by thy counceill and by thyne aduys / it is wel done said Merlyn / that ye take a wyf / for a man of

• "[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 92.
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so by suche maner the fals godsep had saued his wyf twyes / But at the laste al euylle wylle be knowen / The good man ones sawe his wyf goo in to the sa∣yd pryours hows allone / wherof

• "[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 173.
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his wyf / And thenne whanne he hed sene this vysyon / he sayd that he shold neuer reste tylle he come in to Acquyllee for to enquere of the lyf and condycions of the prouost and of his 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 183.
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not breke ne do a∣geynst the thyrd / wherfore he wente to his wyf / and sayd thus to her / My good frende and my wyf / I wold telle yow a grete counceylle / whiche toucheth my persone

• "[Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive, Lombardica historia] [Wyllyam Caxton].", Jacobus, de Voragine, ca. 1229-1298., page 566.
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knewe that she was his wyf / and wep¦te for ioye / and kyssed her / and glori∣fyed moche our lord god whiche com∣forted the discomforted / And thenne sayd his wyf / Syre / where ben oure so∣nes /

• "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 213.
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to make wynesAnd this he taught / and it felle sooHis wyf whiche cam with hym thoWas cleped Ceres by nameAnd for she taught also the sameAnd was his wyf that ylke throweAs it was to the peple knoweThey made

• "Here begynneth a lytell treatyse or booke named Johan Mau[n]deuyll knyght born in Englonde in the towne of saynt Albone [and] speketh of the wayes of the holy londe towarde Jherusalem, [and] of marueyles of Ynde [and] of other dyuerse cou[n]trees.", Mandeville, John, Sir., page 78.
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Loths wyf a stone of salte for that she loked agay e whan the cyte sanke downe.¶ Of Abraham and his generacyon. ca. xxxi.ANd ye shall vnderstande that Loth was Arons sone Abrahams broder / and Sara Abrahams wyf was

• "Here begynneth the book of the subtyl historyes and fables of Esope whiche were translated out of Frensshe in to Englysshe by wylham Caxton at westmynstre in the yere of oure Lorde M. CCCC. xxxiij.", Aesop., page 250.
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and for to gete somwhat for to lyue honestly / And by cause that he dwellyd to longe / his wyf supposed that he was dede / And therfore she enamoured her self with another man / whiche dyd to

• "[Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive, Lombardica historia] [Wyllyam Caxton].", Jacobus, de Voragine, ca. 1229-1298., page 102.
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my sone ysaac ha¦ue no wyf of the doughters of canaan in whos londe he dwelleth but goo vnto the hows of my fader and of my kynrede & of them thou shalt take a wyf to my so∣ne /

• "[Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive, Lombardica historia] [Wyllyam Caxton].", Jacobus, de Voragine, ca. 1229-1298., page 563.
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to caste hym in to the See / so that he myght haue his wyf / And whanne Eustace sawe that / he lefte his wyf moche sorowfully / and toke his two children / and went wepynge and sayde

• "[Legenda aurea sanctorum, sive, Lombardica historia] [Wyllyam Caxton].", Jacobus, de Voragine, ca. 1229-1298., page 564.
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ne / but wylde beestes / whiche haue bor¦ne awey my sones / To hym was his wyf left / and my wyf is taken fro me and delyuerd to another / O good lord gyue thou reste to my

• "Hic incipit paruus Catho.", Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375., page 3.
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of thy mouth shold crepeBe not Irous kepe thy behestes as thy lyfBe temparat with wyne & be not excessifThy wyf is wordes take in noon auctoriteIn foly slepe nomore than nedith theLibroz lege libros disce / quod legeris mementoIn