THE
PAIN AND SORROW
OF
EVIL MARRIAGE.
FROM AN UNIQUE COPY
Printed by Wynkyn de Worde.
LONDON:
REPRINTED FOR THE PERCY SOCIETY,
BY C. RICHARDS, ST. MARTIN’S LANE.
MDCCCXL.
COUNCIL
OF
The Percy Society.
  • J. A. CAHUSAC, Esq. F.S.A.
  • WILLIAM CHAPPELL, Esq. F.S.A.
  • JOHN PAYNE COLLIER, Esq. F.S.A.
  • T. CROFTON CROKER, Esq. F.S.A.
  • REV. ALEXANDER DYCE.
  • RICHARD HALLIWELL, Esq. F.S.A.
  • JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL, Esq. F.R.S. Treasurer
  • WILLIAM JERDAN, Esq. F.S.A.
  • SAMUEL LOVER, Esq.
  • CHARLES MACKAY, Esq.
  • E. F. RIMBAULT, Esq. Secretary.
  • THOMAS WRIGHT, Esq. M.A. F.S.A.
INTRODUCTION.[5]
There are three early humorous tracts in verseupon the subject of marriage, all printed byWynkyn de Worde: only one of them has adate, 1535, but we can have little difficulty inassigning the two others to about the sameperiod. They have the following titles.
1. “A complaynt of them that be to soonemaryed.”
2. “Here begynneth the complaynte of themthat ben to late maryed.”
3. “The payne and sorowe of evyll maryage.”
The last we have printed entire in the followingpages, and of the two others, Dr. Dibdin hasinserted a brief account in his edition of Ames(Typ. Ant. II. 384). We propose to go more atlarge into a description of the contents of theseancient and facetious relics.
We have reason to believe that the two firstare translations; and in default of English expressions,especially in the second piece, the writer[6]has employed, and sometimes anglicised, severalof the French words, which he thought betteradapted to his purpose. To this production,“the Auctour,” as he calls himself, has subjoineda sort of epilogue, which ingeniously includes theprinter’s colophon, as follows:
“Here endeth the complaynt of to late maryed,
For spendynge of tyme or they a borde
The sayd holy sacramente have to longe taryed,
Humane nature tassemble and it to accorde.
Enprynted in Fletestrete by Wynkyn de Worde,
Dwellynge in the famous cyte of London,
His hous in the same at the sygne of the Sonne.”
At the conclusion of the “complaynt of themthat be to soone maryed,” the date of 1535 hasalso been interwoven. Wynkyn de Worde’s willwas proved the 19th January, 1534, which, accordingto our present mode of computing theyear, would be the 19th January, 1535; so thateither this piece came out after his death, or itwas printed just before that event, and in anticipationof the new year, which would not thencommence until the 26th March.
Each of the tracts has a wood-cut on the titlepage,but only that called “The payne andsorowe of evyll maryage,” can b                        
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