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• Husband and wife -- Songs and music -- Early works to 1800

• The dyers destiny: or, The loving wife's help in time of need. Two trades is better far than one, sweet husband, then, said she; then if thou wilt let me alone, I'll be a help to thee. To the tune of, Why are my eyes still flowing, &c. This may be printed, R.P. ([London] : Printed for J. Blare, at the Looking-Glass on London Bridge, [between 1685-1688]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A mery dialogue, declaringe the propertyes of shrowde shrewes, and honest wyues not onelie verie pleasaunte, but also not a lytle profitable: made by ye famous clerke D. Erasmus Roterodamus. Translated into Englyshe. ([Imprynted at London : In Paules churche yearde, at the sygne of the Sunne, by [J. Cawood for] Antony Kytson], Anno. M.CCCCC. lvii. [1557]), by Desiderius Erasmus and John Rastell (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A iuniper lecture With the description of all sorts of women, good, and bad: from the modest to the maddest, from the most civil, to the scold rampant, their praise and dispraise compendiously related. Also the authors advice how to tame a shrew, or vexe her. (London : Printed by I[ohn] O[kes] for William Ley, and are to be sold at his shop in the Pauls Churchyard, neare Pauls Chaine, 1639), by John Taylor (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A question deeply concerning married persons and such as intend to marry propounded and resolved according to the scriptures. (London : Printed for Tho. Underhill ..., 1653), by A. L. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Marry newes from Epsom-Wells (London : printed for G. Kendal, and are to be sold near the Old-Bayley, 1663) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• St. Pauls threefold cord vvherewith are severally combined, the mutuall oeconomicall duties, betwixt husband. wife. parent. childe. master. servant. By Daniel Touteville Pr. to the Charterhouse. (London : Printed by Anne Griffin for Henry Seile, and are to bee sold at his shop at the Tygers-Head in S. Pauls Church-yard, 1635), by D. T. (Daniel Tuvill) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Baron and feme a treatise of the common law concerning husbands and wives. (London : Printed by the assigns of Richard and Edward Atkyns ..., for John Walthoe ..., 1700) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A caution to keepe money: shewing the miserie of the want thereof. I. In a state or kingdome, to supply vvarre. II. In younger brothers pawning their lands, to redeeme them. III. In shopkeepers wanting stock to supply. IIII. In handicraft-trades by negligence. V. In handsome and honest maidens, wanting portions. Declaring their slight neglect and scorne in these hard and dangerous times. (London : Printed for G. Lindsey, and are to be sold by F. Coules, I. Wright, and T. Bates, 1642) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The case of Roger Price, Esq; together with reasons inducing the passing of an Act of Parliament for settling his wife a jointure. ([London : s.n., 1680]), by Roger Price (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A brief sum of certain worm-wood lectures Translated out of all languages into Billings-Gate dialogue. By Martin Parker. (London : printed for J. Wright, W. Thackera[y]; and T. Passenger, 1682), by -1656? M. P. (Martin Parker) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Loves court of conscience written upon two severall occasions, with new lessons for lovers. Wherunto is annexed a kinde husband's advice to his wife. By Humfrey Crowch. (London : Printed [by T. Harper] for Richard Harper, and are to be sold at his shop in Smithfield, at the hospitall gate, 1637), by Humphrey Crouch and George Mason (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Dutch-miller, and new invented wind-miller, or, An exact description of a rare artist newly come into England who undertake[illegible] to grind all sorts of women; whether old, decriped, wrinckled, blear-eyed, long nosed, blind, lame, scold [illegible]alous, angry, poor, or all others whatsoever: he'l ingage they shall come out of his mill, young, active, ple[ea]nt, handsome, wise, modest, loving, kind and rich, without any defect, or deformity, and just suitable to th[ei]r husbands humours, and dispositions, as he hath often experienced in other countries where he hath m[a]de practice of his art. The rich for money, and the poor for nothing. Tune of, Cook La[illegible]rel, &c. Then bring your wives unto my mill, and young for old you shall have still. ([London] : Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, and J. Clarke, [1679]), by J. Dean (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A new ballad, containing a communication between the carefull wife, and the comfortable husb[and] touching the common cares and charges of house-hold ([London : for F. Cowles, c. 1640]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• Looking for Love in the Legal Discourse of Marriage (c2014), by Renata Grossi (multiple formats at ANU E Press)
• Letters from a peeress of England to her eldest son. (Printed for J. Debrett, 1784) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The legal status of homemakers in Virginia (Homemakers Committee, National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year :, 1977), by Richard E. Crouch and United States. National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year. Homemakers Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The legal status of homemakers in Arkansas (Homemakers Committee, National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year :, 1977), by Pamela D. Walker and United States. National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year. Homemakers Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The legal status of homemakers in West Virginia (Homemakers Committee, National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year :, 1977), by Marjorie Martorella (page images at HathiTrust)
• The legal status of homemakers in Utah (Homemakers Committee, National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year :, 1977), by Kathryn Collard and United States. National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year. Homemakers Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The legal status of homemakers in Indiana (Homemakers Committee, National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year :, 1977), by Linda L. Chezem and United States. National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year. Homemakers Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The legal status of homemakers in Nebraska (Homemakers Committee, National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year :, 1977), by Sarah Jane Cunningham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The legal status of homemakers in Hawaii (Homemakers Committee, National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year :, 1977), by Dorothy N. W. Lamott (page images at HathiTrust)
• The legal status of homemakers in the District of Columbia (United States Government Printing Office, 1977), by Elsa Dik Glass, United States. National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year. Homemakers Committee, and inc Women's Legal Defense Fund (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recherches sur la condition civile et politique des femmes, depuis les Romains jusqu'à nos jours ... (Paris, A. Durand ; [etc., etc.], 1843), by Édouard Laboulaye (page images at HathiTrust)
• The administrator's wife. (The Christoper publishing house, 1941), by George H. Marshall, Clara Weston Marshall, and W. W. Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Married life in the middle years; a study of the middle class urban postparental couple. (Kansas City, Mo., 1959), by Irwin Deutscher (page images at HathiTrust)
• The deportment of a married life: laid down in a series of letters (Printed for Mr. Hodges, and sold by C. Mason, 1798), by Eugenia Stanhope (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great winds (New York : The Macmillan Company, 1933., 1933), by Ernest Poole (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fundamentals in sexual ethics. (A. & C. Black, ltd., 1920), by S. Herbert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Married love : or, Love in marriage (The Critic and guide company, 1918), by Marie Carmichael Stopes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The promise of air (Macmillan and co., limited, 1918), by Algernon Blackwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Casti connubii monita de iuribus et officiis patrisfamilias (Catholic University of America Press, 1943), by Casimir Peter Sirvaitis (page images at HathiTrust)
• A brief outline of the community property system as adopted and developed in the United States, with particular reference to the doctrine of accession as applied to the separate property of the spouses. (Berkeley, 1913), by Ray Wilson Hays (page images at HathiTrust)
• The law of husband and wife. As established in England and the United States. (S. Whitney & company, 1885), by David Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Squirrel inn. (The Century co., 1891), by Frank R. Stockton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Footprints beneath the snow : a novel (Duffield, 1913), by Henry Bordeaux (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zakon małżeństwa : czyli rozbiór obowiązków małżeńskich ze stanowiska zdrowotności jednostkowej i spółecznej : katechizm dla małżonków, oraz dla osób mających wejść w związki małżeńskie. ([publisher not identified], 1911) (page images at HathiTrust)
• De la contribution des époux aux charges du ménage ... (Barlatier, 1912), by Marcel Régis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Droit romain, des donations entre époux. Droit français, de la quotité disponible entre époux ... (Remondet-Aubin, 1893), by Eugène Fabre (page images at HathiTrust)
• Development of the husband-wife relationship (Dept. of Child Development and Family Relationships, Cornell University, 1964), by Harold Feldman, Joseph H. Meyerowitz, and Cornell University. Department of Child Development (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tractatus de bonis constante matrimonio acquisitis trium clarissimorum iurisconsultorum Hispanorum Roderici Suares, Ioannis Lopes, & Didaci à Segura : adiecimus eiusdem D. Segurae Repetitiones tres, (quas versa indicat pagina) eandem materiam luculenter complectentes ... accesserunt ... summaria & index copiosus. (Apud Ioannem Gymnicum sub monocerote, 1590), by Rodrigo Juárez, Johann Gymnich, Diego de Segura, and Juan Lopes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Young widow(er)s, social security, and marriage (Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, 2003), by Michael J. Brien, David A. Weaver, Stacy Dickert-Conlin, and Boston College. Center for Retirement Research (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conflict of laws on the property relations of married persons (New York, 1906), by Arthur K. Kuhn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Mitgift in Rechtsvergleichender Darstellung. (A. Deichert nachf. (G. Böhme), 1909), by Friedrich Karl Neubecker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité de droit civil comparé (F. Pichon, 1904), by Ernest Roguin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rechtsvergleichende Studien zur Lehre von der Schlüsselgewalt in den romanischen Rechten (J. Springer, 1928), by Theodor Kipp (page images at HathiTrust)
• De la restitution de la dot et des donations entre époux en droit romain, et des origines du douaire et de la communauté en droit francais ... (A. Rousseau, 1879), by Guillaume Jollivet (page images at HathiTrust)
• La condizione giuridica del marito nella famiglia matriarcale : contributo alla giurisprudenza etnologica. (Tipografia de Eugenio Coco, 1899), by Giuseppe Mazzarella (page images at HathiTrust)
• Community obligations ([no imprint], 1922), by Alvin E. Evans (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des origines de la communauté de biens entre époux (Typographie de Firmin Didot frères, fils et c.e, 1857), by Louis Paulin Passy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Om makars giftorätt i bo ... (W. Schultz, 1868), by K. Olivecrona (page images at HathiTrust)
• Droit romain:- De la manus et des incapacités spéciales aux femmes mariées. Droit français:- De la puissance maritale. (1868), by Emile Denis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Précis historique de l'origine et du développement de la communauté des biens entre époux (A. Durand, 1865), by K. Olivecrona and Jules Henri Kramer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The legal property relations of married parties; a study in comparative legislation. (AMS Press, 1968), by Isidor Loeb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cases on the law of husband and wife (G. Wahr, 1900), by Albert John Farrah and John William Dwyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The legal property relations of married parties; a study in comparative legislation (The Columbia university press., 1900), by Isidor Loeb (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rights and liabilities of husband and wife (Sweet and Maxwell, limited, 1905), by John Fraser Macqueen and W. Wyatt-Paine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des droits successoraux du conjoint survivant. Commentaire théorique et pratique des lois des 20 novembre 1896 et 16 mai 1900. Droit civil - droit fiscal - formules annotées (Revue pratique du Notariat belge, 1907), by Alfred Vanisterbeek (page images at HathiTrust)
• Loi falcidie ; Combinaison de la quotite disponible de droit commun (1877), by P. Bousquet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des libéralités entre époux en droit romain et en droit français. (Bordeaux, 1887), by Georges de Laguarigue de Survilliers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Om makars giftorätt i bo, och om boets förvaltning ... (W. Schultz, 1882), by K. Olivecrona (page images at HathiTrust)
• Los regímenes matrimoniales (estudio de derecho civil chileno y comparado) : Tesis para la licenciatura en Leyes y Ciencias Políticas de la Universidad de Chile. (Imprenta Cervantes, 1908), by Pablo Ramírez Rodríguez and Ciencias Políticas y Teología Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Leyes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die mucianische präsumtion. (Borna-Leipzig, 1903), by Hans Falkenstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das recht des mannes am frauengut bei dem gütersysteme der verwaltungseinheit nach dem sachsenspiegel und den neueren rechten (einschliesslich de bürgerlichen gesetzbuches für das Deutsche Reich) (Frankfurt a. M., 1900), by Hans Fester (page images at HathiTrust)
• The law relating to the property of married persons with an appendix of statutes and notes. (J. Maclehose & Sons, 1891), by David Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des suretés légales attachées aux créances de la femme contre son mari, en droit romain, en droit français et en droit roumain. (Paris, 1885), by Michel Antonescu (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'obbligazione alimentare, nel diritto comparato e internazionale, con particolare riguardo aì rapporti coniugali e di filiazione. (Stabilimento dell'Unione tip., 1908), by Scipione Gemma (page images at HathiTrust)
• Du caractère personnel de certains droits dans les régimes de communauté, le droit d'auteur. (A. Rousseau, 1903), by Léon Bérard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Étude sur les donations entre époux, dans le droit romain, dans l'ancien droit français et dans la législation française actuelle, civile et fiscale. (Saint-Nicolas, Nancy, 1878), by Achille Bernard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des donations entre époux pendant le mariage en droit romain et en droit français. (Paris, 1893), by Maurice Arnette (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des droits du mari sur la correspondence de sa femme; discours. (Toulouse, 1897), by Pierre Jules Marie Joseph Lafont de Sentenac (page images at HathiTrust)
• Droit romain: Des donations entre époux. Droit français: De la quotité disponible entre époux, et spécialement de la combinaison de cette quotité avec la quotité disponible ordinaire. (Paris, 1887), by Fernand Vedie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le droit des gens mariés dans la coutume de la Marche. (Paris, 1900), by Gabriel Fontaine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Étude de droit international privé. Du rôle de la volonté dans la solution des questions de droit international privé que soulève le contrat de mariage. (Paris, 1888), by Fernand Surville (page images at HathiTrust)
• The master builder : a play in three acts (Boston : W.H. Baker, 1893., 1893), by Henrik Ibsen, William Archer, and Edmund Gosse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Married love : or, Love in marriage (Truth Pub. Co., 1921), by Marie Carmichael Stopes and William J. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• English laws for women in the nineteenth century (Printed for private circulation, 1854), by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Sheridan Norton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Separate use in Pennsylvania, considered with respect to the restraint on alienation : An address delivered before the Law academy of Philadelphia (T. & J.W. Johnson & co., 1875), by E. Coppée Mitchell and Pennsylvania. Law Academy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das christliche haus (L. Rauh, 1873), by J. Müllensiefen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The law of property : as arising from the relation of husband and wife (Maxwell & Son, 1849), by Sydney Smith Bell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Irony and pity, a book of tales (J. Lawren, 1926), by Paul Eldridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• De l'action en retranchement établie par les articles 1496 et 1527 du code civil. (Havre, 1914), by Eugène Javaux (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des droits du conjoint survivant. (Paris, 1917), by Alexandre Émile Lazaresco (page images at HathiTrust)
• Commentaries on the law of infancy, including guardianship and custody of infants, and the law of coverture, embracing dower, marriage, and divorce, and the statutory policy of the several states in respect to husband and wife. (W. Gould & Son, 1882), by Ransom H. Tyler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des droits du conjoint survivant sur les biens soumis au droit de retour de l'ascendant donateur. (Paris, 1906), by Marcel Paulmier and Université de Paris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Du droit des gens mariés dans la coutume de Touraine. (Librairie de Jurisprudence, 1917), by Gilbert Varin (page images at HathiTrust)
• De la possession d'état d'époux. (Paris, 1909), by Louis Crémieu (page images at HathiTrust)
• Om aegtefaellers arveret. (H. Tangen, 1887), by Francis Hagerup (page images at HathiTrust)
• A commentary on the law of community property for Arizona, California, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas and Washington (W.H. Courtwright, 1910), by George McKay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Du régime des biens entre époux dans les coutumiers normands et dans la coutume de Normandie (H. Jouve, 1895), by Lemonnier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recherches sur la condition civile et politique des femmes, depuis les romains jusqu'a nos jours ... (A. Durant [etc., etc.], 1843), by Édouard Laboulaye (page images at HathiTrust)
• Never give all (The Bobbs-Merrill company, 1927), by Maude Radford Warren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Penghidoepan laki-istri (Favoriet, 1918), by Peng Liang Gouw (page images at HathiTrust)
• Six Bad Husbands and Six Unhappy Wives, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Gutenberg ebook)
• The True Woman: A Series of Discourses, to Which Is Added Woman vs. Ballot, by Justin D. Fulton (Gutenberg ebook)
• The royal academy of complements. Wherein is set forth, a new packet of letters erected for ladies, gentlewomen, courtiers, gentlemen, scholars, souldiers, citizens, country-men, and all persons of what degree soever of both sexes, viz: Complemental expressions towards men and women; leading to the art of courtship. 1. A tender of service to a King. 2. A tender of service to a Queen. 3. Respects from an honourable Lady to a Queen. 4. A fair young virgin to an old rich miser, whom her guardian did design should wed her. 5. A gentlemans request to his friend, to borrow money. 6. A gentleman to his friend, that sent to borrow money. 7. A virgin to her parents, that would have matched her to one whom she cannot love. 8. A courteous lass to her paramour, who had gotten her with child. 9. A husband to his lascivious wife. 10. A wife to her extravagant husband! 11. Civilities from one lady to another. 12. The forsaken maid, to her treacherous friend. 13. One ladies advice to another near marriage. 14. A gentleman to his lady, upon his urgent occasion to taking a journey. Composed by the most refin'd wits of this age. (London : printed for E. H. and are to be sold by Absalom Chamberlain, over against the Cap and Feather, in White Cross-street, next to Old-street: removed from Swan-alley, in St. John-street, [1687?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The womens advocate, or, Fifteen real comforts of matrimony: being in requital of the late fifteen sham-comforts : with satyrical reflections on whoring, and the debauchery of this age / written by a person of quality of the female sex. (London : Printed for Benjamin Alsop ... and Thomas Malthus ..., 1683), by M. Marsin (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Manifest truth: or An inversion of truth's manifest: Containing, a vindication of a Church of Christ in their proceedings on March the 8. 1657, against Mrs Mary Allein, from the false and injurious aspersions of her husband Mr. Toby Allein. By Lewis Stucley, pastor of a congregation in Exeter. (London : printed by D.M. for M. Keinton at the Fountain in S. Pauls Church-Yard, 1658), by Lewis Stuckley (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The husband's authority unvail'd;: wherein it is moderately discussed whether it be fit or lawfull for a good man, to beat his bad wife. Some mysteries of iniquity are likewise unmasked, and a little unfolded. A subject, to some, perhaps, as unwelcom as uncoth. / From an inner cloyster of the Temple; by Moses à Vauts a faithfull votary, and free denizen of the Common-wealth of Israel. (London : Printed by T.N. for Robert Bostock at the sign of Kings-head in Pauls Church-yard, 1650), by Moses à Vauts (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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