To keep demands as much skill as to win.
The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
One flesh they are; and one flesh, so I'd guess, Has but one heart, come grief or happiness.
With emptie hands men may no haukes lure.
In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
And when a beest is deed, he hath no peyne; But man after his deeth moot wepe and pleyne.