Proverbial couplet comparing man’s ability to tame a wild beast and his
ability to tame a woman’s tongue — one couplet
Note: Ringler Jr. (1992)
XRingler Jr., William A.
Bibliography and Index of English Verse in Manuscript
1501-1558.
London: Mansell, 1992; prepared and completed by
Michael
Rudick
and
Susan J.
Ringler
, TM 47.
Subjects: satire; women, satire directed against; tongue, woman’s
Versification: —
two-line —
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1.Source: Cambridge UK, Sidney Sussex College 99, verso & recto of lower margin of Epistle to Hebrews XI
Transcription:All wylde beastes a man maye tame
But a woomanes tongue will never be
lame
All wilde beastes a man maye Make Meeke
But a woomanes aunswer ys
never to seeke
Note: Expanded version of 4 lines; in unfoliated MS; added to lower
margin.