"The [ten] properties of a woman. The fyrst is, to be mery of chere; the seconde, to be well paced; the thyrde, to have a brode foreheed; the fourth, to have brode buttockes; the fyfthe, to be harde of warde; the syxte, to be easye to lepe uppon; the [seventh], to be good at a longe journeye; the [eighth], to be well sturrynge under a man; the [ninth], to be alwaye besye with the mouthe; the tenth, ever to be chowynge on the brydell."
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Anthony Fitzherbert, The Book of Husbandry (1523), sec. 79
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