2. This Reverence is made up of (r)Love. Which though it be most pressed upon the Husband, yet is also the Duty of the Wife. Tit. 2.4. ⟨p. 379⟩Teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children. Thus Sarah, Rebecca, and Rachel left Parents, Friends, and Country out of their entire love to their husbands. Thus those excellent women being besieged together with their husbands in the Castle of Winsberg, having liberty for themselves to go out and carry what they could with them, took up each their husband, and so delivered them. But above all comparisons is the Instance that L. Vives gives us of a generous(s) young woman, by name Clara Cerventa, well known to him, that was married to one Valdaura, that proved to be full of diseases and loathsome sores, whom yet she attended with that care, cost, and love, dressing his sores, which no body else would touch, selling all her attire and jewels to maintain him, and after ten long years of languishment, when he was dead, and her friends came rather to congratulate than condole her loss, she with great trouble told them, that she could be willing to purchase her dear Valdaura again with the loss of her five Children. It is not fond doting love, but such love as this, which begets reverence in the heart of the wife to her own husband. And indeed there is no better means to increase the husband's love than the(t) wife's reverence, and that alone will make this sweet and easy.
2. This Reverence is made up of (r)Love. Which though it be most prest upon the Husband, yet is also the Duty of the Wife. Tit. 2.4. ⟨p. 379⟩Teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children. Thus Sarah, Rebecca, and Rachel left Parents, Friends, and Country out of their intire love to their husbands. Thus those excellent women being besieg'd together with their husbands in the Castle of Winsberg, having liberty for themselves to go out and carry what they could with them, took up each their husband, and so delivered them. But above all comparisons is the Instance that L. Vives gives us of a generous(s) young woman, by name Clara Cerventa, well known to him, that was married to one Valdaura, that proved to be full of diseases and lothsom sores, whom yet she attended with that care, cost, and love, dressing his sores, which no body else would touch, selling all her attire and jewels to maintain him, and after ten long years of languishment, when he was dead, and her friends came rather to congratulate than condole her loss, she with great trouble told them, that she could be willing to purchase her dear Valdaura again with the loss of her five Children. It is not fond doting love, but such love as this, vvhich begets reverence in the heart of the wife to her own husband. And indeed there is no better means to increase the husband's love than the(t) wife's reverence, and that alone will make this sweet and easie.
- (r)Timet virum suum & adultera, verùm non ideò quod illum amet, sed quod sibi ipsi conscia est admissi delicti: timet verum uxor virum suum fidelis & honesta, non ex mala conscientia sed ex conjugali d•lectione Musc. in loc.
- (s)Si deformis est maritus, amandus animus, cui nupsisti. L. Vives, who gives a large narration hereof. p. 706. de Chr. foem.
- (t)[Greek or Hebrew] Chrysost. in Col. hom. 10.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Chrysost. in Col. hom. 10.
