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CAPUT IX - Of their æconomick or howshold affaires; how they obteyne their wives; the women's works; and wherefore they contend for rnanie wives

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They expresse their loves to such women as they would make choise to live withall, by presenting them with the fruicts of their labours, as by fowle, fish, or wild beasts, which by their huntings, their bowes and arrowes, by weeres, or otherwise, they obteyne, which they bring unto the young women, as also of such somer fruicts and berries which their travells abroad hath made them knowe readely where to gather, and those of the best kind in their season. Yf the young mayden become once to be sororians virgo, and live under parents, the parents must allow of the sutor; and for their good wills, the woer promiseth that the daughter shall not want of such provisions, nor of deare skynns fitly drest for to weare; besides, he promiseth to doe his endeavour to procure her beades, perle, and copper, and for handsell gives her before them something as a kind of arrasponsalitia, token of betroathing or contract of a further amity and acquaintance to be contynued betweene them, as so after as the likeing growes; and as soone as he hath provided her a house (if he have none before) and some platters, morters, and matts, he takes her home; and the weroances after this manner maye have as many as they can obteyne, howbeyt all the rest whome they take after their first choise are (as yt were) mercynary, hired but by covenant and condicion, for a tyme, a yeare or soe, after which they may putt them awaye; but if they keepe them longer then the tyme appointed, they must ever keepe them, how deformed, deseased, or unaccompaniable soever they may prove.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1849

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