his fader / I suppose nay said the Cowherd / fetche thy wyf afore me said merlyn / and she shalle not say nay / anon the wyf was fet which was a fair houswyf / and there she ansuerd
wytte he sente for pr∣ynce boudwyn / & Anglides his wyf / & bad them brynge theyre yonge sone with them that he myght see hym / Alle this he dyd to the entente to slee the child as wel
he took the Quene Gueneuer and sayd playnly that he wolde Wedde hyr / whyche was his vnkyls wyf and his faders wyf / And soo he made redy for the feest / And a day prefyxt that they shold
and in delyng of herytage and they shuld blesse her lasse Iacob begate his first sonne ruben on his wyf lya ¶This yere was a lytil flode in a∣chaia that heet attica· that lond was vnder ogiges the kyng that
sholde wedde her to wyf Petrus libro secundo ¶ This is that woman of Ethyopia for the whiche marye and aaron stroof with moyse in desert / whan moyses wold torne agayn in to Egypt his wyf wolde not as∣sente
of Athene felle to Egeus that had geten his sonne theseus on his firste wyf· And atte laste whan that wyf was deed / he wedded Medea the kynges doughter of Colchos and gate on hir medus· ¶ Atte laste
was putte out of thessalia Iason recounseylled and toke ayene his wyf media with his stepsonne medus and gadred a stronge multitude of yonge men and went in to Colchos and restored or∣pedly his wyues fader that was put oute
kyng of lacedomonia ma¦de greet and greuous playnte to his brother agamenon kynge of mescenes of the rauesshynge of his wyf / and gadred passynge strong men Achylle Patroclus vlyxes Aiax Nestor with other stalworth men seuen and fourty and
counseyll of Socrates whether he shold wedde a wyf or no. whether so thou do of thes tweyn seith he. thou shalt forthynke ful soore / For yf thou wedde no wyf. thou shalt haue this disauauntages· thou shalt be
and thyrtty yere of his ducherye and lefte after hym his wyf that was a noble speker / and fyue sonnes to rule the Iew∣ry· The eldest was called Aristobolus that myght not suffre his moder to regne ouer him
was afterward Philippes wyf that was Aristobolus ame and vncle / Netheles lyuyng this philip herodyas bycame this herodes wyfe that was Philippes brother / ¶ Atte laste ther fylle stryfe bytwene hir mariammes the more herodes wyf and Saloma
swerdes / Thenne Albuinus reg∣ned in ytaly thre yere and six monethes and deyde atte laste by treson of his wyf in this maner ¶This Albuinus dwellyd in pannonia somtyme and ouercome the gespydes· and also theyr kyng and made
the temples of maumetrye and ordeyned that the fastynge of the lente shold be holden in Englond / On his wyf sexburga the doughter of ānna kynge of eest Angles / he gate a doughter Eukengoda that was made a
to his children / the other partye to his wyf / and the thyrdde to brynge hym in erthe and for to doo for his soule / yf he bee withoute wyf or withoute children / his catell shold be
the duchesse of Orleaunce his wyf the Dukes doughter of Melan with her sonnes / and her oldest sones wyf suster to the kyng / whiche had ben to fore quene of Englonde kynge Rychardys wyf / and re∣quyred humbly
a knyght / that hadde two doughters was by his first wyf / And that other / by his second And she that he had by his first wyf / was meruaylly deuoute / ne neuer wold ete / till
so sore that seruaūt / that a splynt sprange out of the staf in to the one eye of his wyf / which was by hym / in suche manere / that by mysauenture her eye was sme∣ton oute /
come / or that he to her coū¦seylle gyue ony consent / For none ought to be enclyned toward his wyf ne so obeysshynge / but that he fyrst consydere yf she saith wel̄ or not / Many wymmen be
the knyght / and he∣rafter ye shalle here of the thyrdOf the third wyf of the knyght capitulo / liijsone after toke the said knyght his thyrdde wyf / and we¦re long tyme to geder / but at the last
by her lord / as dyd the wyf of kynge HerodesOf the quene Vastis Capitulo lxiiij / I Shal telle you another ensample of a quene that was named vastys / She was wyf to the kynge Assuerus It befelle