good queen bess
Hi, Tudorland fans,
Are you going to watch the final episode of Elizabeth I on Channel 4 tonight?
Also, I've finished reading Every Man Out of His Humour which has left me in a muddle. One of the few passages I can make sense of is Macilente's idea of marital love:
'You are too amorous, too obsequious,
And make her too assured she may command you.
When women doubt most of their husbands' loves,
They are most loving. Husbands must take heed
They give no gluts of kindness to their wives,
But use them like their horses; whom they feed
Not with a mangerful of meat together,
But half a peck at once; and keep them so
Still with an appetite to that they give them.
He that desires to have a loving wife,
Must bridle all the shew of that desire:
Be kind, not amorous; nor bewraying kindness,
As if love wrought it, but considerate duty.
Offer no love rites, but let wives still seek them,
For when they come unsought, they seldom like them.'