husbande

She further laments that she can hardly believe "that the goute myght with holde a good husbande hauyng some loue to his wyfe" and begs Egerton to teach her what "a good husbande ought to teche his wyfe," that is, the full definition of love (intellectually speaking, one hopes).

From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558 2008

Duwes later attributed to one of her ladies the admonition that Mary should learn French herself rather than have to rely on a fair maiden to translate "To your husbande and lorde were he either kyng or emperour."

From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558 2008

And that no woman kept herself true to her husbande.

The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie 2004

For the father eateth his son, and the son his father, the husbande his owne wife, and the wife her husband: and that after this maner.

The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

So gladde is she to haue the victorie, in the contencion of wiuely chastitie, and honeste behauiour toward her husbande.

The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie 2004

The sayde Igor begate of Olha daughter vnto a citizen of Plesco (who, after her husbande was slaine by his enemies, taking her iourney to Constantinople, was there baptized by the name of Helena) a sonne called Stoslaus, who fought many battels with the neighbour countreys.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

And when the husbande dieth his wife is burned with him, if shee be aliue: if shee will not, her head is shauen, and then is neuer any account made of her after.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

To conclude, he was the worthyest gentleman, the best master, the best frende, the best husbande, the best father, and the best

Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various

[Sidenote: The state of the husbande manne, moste necessarie.] the belie ill fedde, our backes worse clad.

A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde Richard Rainolde

But Panthea commaunded her Eunuches to go out of the place, till she had satisfied her selfe with teares, and lamentations for her husbande: for she prepared to kil her selfe, requiring her nursse to tarie by her, and commaunded her, that when she was dead, she should shroude her and her husbande in one garment.

The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter