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The women of the Renaissance

Note 100 — Chapter V · THE HUSBAND AND THE VARIOUS WAYS OF SLIPPING HIS YOKE

George Herbert Ely translation

Femme bonne qui a mauvais mari A souvent le cœur marry. ... Femme aime tant comme elle peut, Et homme comme il veut. —L. de Lincy.

[A good woman with a bad husband has often a sore heart.... Woman loves as much as she can; man as much as he will.]

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