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| | Vives/The Instruction of A Christen Woman. The seconde boke of the instruction of a Christen woman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | There was in olde tyme in Rome a chapell of a certayne goddes, in whiche if any disturbance had bene betwene the husbande and the wyfe at home, they spake certayne wordes what they list, and were agreed agayne. |
 | | And this goddes was named Viriplaca, that is to say, please husbande. |
 | | Whiche name [c3v] sheweth, that the husbande ought nat to study to please the wyfe, but the wyfe to please her husbande. |
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