[Sidenote: Hexameter verses, to help the memory.] Pvrse, dagger, cloke, nyght-cap, kerchef, shoyng-horne, boget, and shoes. Spere, male, hode, halter, sadelclothe, spores, hatte, with thy horse-combe. Bowe, arrowes, sworde, bukler, horne, leisshe, gloues, stringe, and thy bracer. Penne, paper, inke, parchmente, reedwaxe, pommes, bokes, thou remember. 4 Penknyfe, combe, thimble, nedle, threde, poynte, leste that thy gurthe breake. Bodkyn, knyfe, lyngel, gyue thy horse meate, se he be showed well. Make mery, synge and thou can; take hede to thy gere, that thou lose none. [Sidenote: [Fol. 59_b_.]] 143. ¶ A prologue for the wyues occupation. Nowe thou husbande, that haste doone thy dylygence and labour, that longeth to an husbande, to get thy lyuynge, thy wyues, thy chyldrens, and thy seruauntes: [Sidenote: Seldom thrives the husband without his wife’s leave.] yet are there other thynges, that muste nedes be done, 4 or elles thou shalte not thryue. For there is an olde common sayenge, that seldom doth the housbande thryue, withoute the leue of his wyfe. By this sayenge it shoulde seme, that there be other occupations and labours, that 8 be moste conuenient for the wyues to do. And howe be [Sidenote: I will tell the wives part of their duties.] it that I haue not experyence of al theyr occupations and warkes, as I haue of husbandry, yet a lyttell wyl I speke what they ought to do, though I tel them nat howe they 12 shulde doo and exercyse theyr labours and occupations. 144. ¶ A lesson for the wyfe.