The fables of Aesop by William Caxton (Jacobs)/Vol. II/Other Aesop's/Fable 16

The fables of Aesop by William Caxton (Jacobs), Other Aesop's Fables (1484)
by Aesop
Fable 16: The Husbond and his two Wyves
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¶ The xvi fable is of the husbond and of his two wyves

NOo thynge is werse to the man than the woman / As it appereth by this fable / of a man of a meane age / whiche tooke two wyues / that is to wete an old / & one yong / whiche were both dwellyng in his hows / & by cause that the old desyred to haue his loue / she plucked the blak herys fro his hede and his berde / by cause he shold the more be lyke her / And the yonge woman at the other syde plucked and drewe oute alle the whyte herys / to the ende / that he shold seme the yonger / more gay and fayrer in her syghte / And thus the good man abode withoute ony here on his hede  And therfore hit is grete folye to the auncyent to wedde them self ageyne / For to them is better to be vnwedded / than to be euer in trouble with an euyl wyf / for the tyme in whiche they shold reste them / they put it to payne and to grete labour.