"Then comes downe Mistris Nurse as fine as a farthing Fiddle"

[tempestsarekind]

A funny post containing excerpts from Thomas Dekker's The Bachelor's Banquet (1603), complaining about how much trouble being pregnant and giving birth is - for husbands:

http://www.shakespearesengland.co.uk/2013/06/02/then-trudgeth-he-into-the-kitchin/

I think what this tells us is that I need to read more Dekker.