The first is the joy of the marriage-day and night, The second to be at the wife's sepulture: And this by experience he shall prove true, That of his bridal great evils do ensue. And (as I suppose) it will prove in his life, When he shall wish that to him it may chance, Which unto Eupolis and also his wife, The night they were wedded, fell for a vengeance; Who with the heavy ruin of the bed were slain, As the Poet Ovid in these two verses make plain: _Sit tibi conjugii nox prima novissimi vitae, Eupolis hoc periit et nova nupta modo_. Ovidius, writing against one Ibis his enemy, That the first night of his marriage did wish The last of his life might be certainly, For so (quoth he) did Eupolis and his wife perish. Yet to my son I pray God to send, Because thereunto me nature doth bind, Though he hath offended, a better end Than Eupolis and his wife did find. And now I shall long ever anon, Till some of those quarters come riding hither, Unto the which my son is gone, To know how they do live together. But I am fasting, and it is almost noon, And more than time that I had dined: Wherefore from hence I will go soon; I think by this time my meat is burned. [_Here the Rich Man goeth out, and in cometh the Young Man his son with the Young Woman, being both married_. THE HUSBAND. O my sweet wife, my pretty coney! THE WIFE. O my husband, as pleasant as honey. HUSBAND. O Lord, what pleasures and great commodity Are heaped together in matrimony! WIFE. How vehement, how strong a thing love is! How many smirks and dulsome[345] kisses! HUSBAND. What smiling, what laughing! What sport, pastime, and playing! WIFE. What tickling, what toying! What dallying, what joying! HUSBAND. The man with the wife is wholly delighted, And with many causes to laughter enforced. WIFE. When they two drink, they drink together; They never eat but one with another. HUSBAND. Sometimes to their garden forth they walk, And into the fields sometimes they go, With merry tricks and gestures they talk, As they do move their feet to and fro. WIFE. Sometimes they ride into the country, Passing the time with mirth and sport; And when with their friends they have been merry, Home to their own house they do resort. HUSBAND. Sometimes abroad they go to see plays, And other trim sights for to behold: When often they meet in the highways Much of their acquaintance they knew of old. WIFE. Sometimes to the church they do repair, To hear the sermon that shall be made, Though it to remember they shall have small care; For why they be now but few of that trade. HUSBAND. Sometimes at home at cards they play, Sometimes at this game, sometimes at that; They need not with sadness to pass the day, Nor yet to sit still, or stand in one plat. WIFE. And as for us wives, occasions do move Sometimes with our gossips to make good cheer, Or else we did not, as did us behove, For certain days and weeks in the year.