HKB
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Often appears with: religious persecution and toleration · poverty theology · marriage and betrothal · marital reconciliation · honor, shame, and reputation · cuckold fear · age and beauty bargaining
Usually: speech or oration (1) · reconciliation (1) · detachment (1) · irony (1)
The old wife justifies her poverty and age, threatens a cuckold fear, then claims she is adaptable and asks him to choose how she will be; he instead lets her govern, restoring harmony.
highe God, — and so hope I, — Grant me His grace to live virtuously: Then am I gentle when that I begin To live virtuously, and waive* sin. *forsake “And whereas ye of povert’ me repreve,* *reproach The highe God, on whom that we believe, In wilful povert’ chose to lead his life: And certes, every man, maiden, or wife May understand that Jesus, heaven’s king, Ne would not choose a virtuous liv…