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1 Of husband, doth husbandrie challenge that name, of husbandrie, husband doth likewise the same Where huswife and huswiferie, ioineth with thease, there wealth in abundance is gotten with ease. 2 The name of a husband, what is it to saie? of wife and the houshold the band and the staie: Some husbandlie thriueth that neuer had wife, yet scarce a good husband in goodnes of life. 3 The husband is he that to labour doth fall, the labour of him I doe husbandrie call: If thrift by that labour be any way caught, then is it good husbandrie, else it is naught. 4 So houshold and housholdrie I doe define, for folke and the goodes that in house be of thine House keeping to them, as a refuge is set, which like as it is, so report it doth get. 5 Be house or the furniture neuer so rude, of husband and husbandrie, (thus I conclude:) That huswife and huswiferie, if it be good, must pleasure togither as cosins in blood.