A68840:1597
Most fruitful [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martyr Vermil Florentine, professor of divinity,…Most fruitfull [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martir Vermil Florentine, professor of deuinitie,…
Most fruitful [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martyr Vermil Florentine, professor of divinity, in the University of Tygure with a very profitable tract of the matter and places. Herein is also added [and] contained two most ample tables, aswell of the matter, as of the words: with an index of the places in the holy scripture. Set forth & allowed, according to the order appointed in the Queens majesties injunctions.Most fruitfull [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martir Vermil Florentine, professor of deuinitie, in the Vniuersitye of Tygure with a very profitable tract of the matter and places. Herein is also added [and] contained two most ample tables, aswel of the matter, as of the wordes: wyth an index of the places in the holy scripture. Set forth & allowed, accordyng to thorder appointed in the Quenes maiesties iniunctions.
London: printed by John Day, 1564London: printed by Iohn Day, 1564
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The young men come unto Samsons wife, desire her to entreat her husband, and by all means to enquire of him what his proposition signified. They add moreover threatenings, and those horrible, namely that otherwise they would burn her and her fathers house. This is the nature of perverse men, when they can not overcome by strength and industry, they flee to deceits. This may be seen in these young men: rather then they would suffer them selves to be conquered or overcome, they go about fraud and snares. But chiefly they go unto his wife, that (both because she was a woman, which might easily be won, & because she was dear & well beloved of her husband) they might use her labour to wrest and wring out the secrete of her husband. They make her therefore the betrayer, and that which is most grievous, of her own husband. This is often ⟨image 228⟩times the end of plays. The thing for which they contended, was of no great value. For every one of them were in danger only of the loss of one garment and sheet a piece: & yet they say: Hast thou called us, that he should possess us? As though they should lose all that ever they had. These things rightly agree with those which do play to that end, to deprive other men of their goods. They which have lost, may after this manner complain of the winner: Thou hast with this pretence provoked me to play, to rob me, & not to take any pleasure by play. The woman in the mean time (as Ambrose saith) wept, and complained unto her husband,1 that he loved her not, neither esteemed her. Thou hatest me (saith she) for as much as thou wilt not declare unto me thy secretes. But Samson answereth wisely. Yea, but I have not showed it unto my parents, and thinkest thou that I love them not? What cause is there that thou shouldest complain? There are in deed many good and faithful women, but Samson had not yet had any trial of his wife.2 And seeing there are many evil and babbling women, which blab out things of great importance, to their husbands great damage, therefore wise men commit not many things to their wives secrete keeping: for there are many things that are not expedient for them to know. And babbling is a vice in a manner proper unto women. Plutarch telleth of this thing an elegant history of Papirius Pretextatus, which now is sufficient only to show.