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But O ye lords of ladies intellectual,Inform us truly, have they not henpecked you all?
— Husbands
But O ye lords of ladies intellectual,Inform us truly, have they not henpecked you all?
And truant husband should return, and say,"My dear, I was the first who came away."
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.
The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband. And in like manner the husband also hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
An obedient wife commands her husband.
God give me a rich husband, though he be an ass.
The lover in the husband may be lost.
God is thy law, thou mine.
The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks,Who guards her, or with her the worst endures.
And to thy husband's willThine shall submit; he over thee shall rule.
With thee goesWhere he abides, think there thy native soil.
Even so husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
The stoic husband was the glorious thing.And lov'd his country.
Well, if our author in the wife offendsAnd sure such kind good creatures may be living.
No worse a husband than the best of men.
I will attend my husband, be his nurse,Diet his sickness, for it is my office.
That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carryHalf my love with him, half my care and duty.
If I should marry him, I should marry twenty husbands.
Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,And for thy maintenance.
Such duty as the subject owes the prince,Even such a woman oweth to her husband.
He who does not support a wife, he who does not support a child, has no cause for celebration.
A plant as sweet as a husband does not grow in the steppe.
