Lo how that Jacob, as these clerkës read, By good counsel of his mother Rebecc’ Boundë the kiddë’s skin about his neck; For which his father’s benison 2782 he wan. Lo Judith, as the story tellë can, By good counsel she Goddë’s people kept, And slew him, Holofernes, while he slept. Lo Abigail, by good counsél, how she Saved her husband Nabal, when that he Should have been slain. And lo, Esther also By counsel good deliver’d out of woe The people of God, and made him, Mardoché, Of Assuere enhanced 2783 for to be. There is nothing in gree superlative 2784 (As saith Senec) above a humble wife. Suffer thy wifë’s tongue, as Cato bit; 2785 She shall command, and thou shalt suffer it, And yet she will obey of courtesy.