The second tome of homilies of such matters as were promised, and entitled in…The second tome of homilees of such matters as were promised, and intituled in…

Yet I speak not these things that I would wish the husbands to be sharp towards their wives: But I exhort the women that they would patiently bear the sharpness of their husbands. For when either parts do their best to perform their duties the one to the other, then followeth thereon great profit to their neighbours for their examples sake. For when the woman is ready to suffer a sharp ⟨p. 487⟩band, & the man will not extremely entreat his stubborn & troublesome wife, then be all things in quiet, as in a most sure haven. Even thus was it done in old time, that every one did their own duty and office, & was not busy to require the duty of their neighbours. Consider I pray thee that Abraham took to him his brothers son his wife did not blame him therefore. He commanded him to go with him a long journey •he did not gainsay it, but obeyed his precept. Again, after all those great miseries, labours, & pains of that journey, when Abraham was made as lord over all, yet did he give place to Lot of his superiority: which matter Sarah toke so little to grief, that she never once suffered her tong to speak such words as the common manner of women is wont to do in these days, when they see their husbands in such rooms, to be made underlings, and to be put under their youngers, then they upbraid them with cumbrous talk, and call them fools, dastards & cowards for so doing. But Sarah was so far from speaking any such thing, that it came never into her mind and thought so to say, but allowed the wisdom and will of her husband. Yea, besides all this, after the said Lot had thus his will, and left to his uncle the lesser portion of land, he chanceth to fall into extreme peril. Which chance when it came to the knowledge of this said Patriarch, he incontinently put all his men in harness, & prepared him self with all his family & friends, against the host of the Persians. In which case, Sarah did not counsel him to the contrary, nor did say, as then might have ben said: ⟨p. 488⟩My husband, whither goest thou so unadvisedly? Why runnest thou thus on head? Why doest thou offer thy self to so great perils, and art thus ready to jeopard thine own life, and to peril the lives of all thine, for such a man as hath done thee such wrong?

Yet I speake not these thynges that I would wish the husbandes to be sharpe towardes their wyues: But I exhort the women that they woulde patiently beare the sharpnesse of their husbandes. For when eyther partes do their beste to perfourme their dueties the one to the other, then foloweth theron great profite to their neighbours for their examples sake. For whē the woman is redy to suffer a sharp