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"'The gad-about is a vain thing and a mighty cause for stumblin'. You mind that, an' take better care hencefarrard to set a right example to other maids an' not lead 'em wrong. Theer shan't be no froward liver under this roof, Joan Tregenza, an' you, as be my awn darter's the last I'd count to find wanderin'." She lied as to particulars.
This together made me froward that I was angry with my wife, and would not have Browne to think to dine at my table with me always, being desirous to have my house to myself without a stranger and a mechanique to be privy to all my concernments.
I grieve as much as thou to hear that the queen does not spare even thee in her froward and unwomanly peevishness. But there is a glamour in this, believe me, that must melt away soon or late, and our kingly Edward recover his senses." "Glamour!" said Clarence; "thinkest thou, indeed, that her mother, Jacquetta, has bewitched the king?
It is a stubborn, froward dog; but Hold-fast is his name. Ay, sirs," she said, and sat up very straight, looking into the faces of her court, "Brag is a good dog, but Hold-fast is better. A lad who loves his mother thus makes a man who loveth his native land and it's no bad streak in the blood. Master Skylark, thou shalt have thy wish; to London thou shalt go this very night."
She, too, seems to have cared for him, but would not marry him. 'She was froward, the deceased lady, was Narkiz's comment on this: 'My liberty, she would say, 'is dearer to me than anything. But as for making use of him she made use of him 'in every possible way, and whatever money he had, he dragged to her like an ant.
For such is the will of God, that by well doing ye hold under restraint the ignorance of foolish men: as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for wicked practices; but as being servants of God. Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king. Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle, but even to the froward.
But my husband is not only an unbeliever, but one very froward, peevish, and testy, yea, so froward, &c., that I know not how to speak to him, or behave myself before him. Answer. Indeed there are some wives in great slavery by reason of their ungodly husbands; and as such should be pitied, and prayed for; so they should be so much the more watchful and circumspect in all their ways.
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong. They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in the night. But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty. So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart. Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things. For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips. All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.
Saint-Mars replies to the minister: "I have charged Blainvilliers to show him a cudgel and tell him that with its aid we can make the froward meek." Again Louvois writes: "The clothes of such people must be made to last three or four years."
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