The Tua Mariit Wemen and the Wedo

The Tua Mariit Wemen and the Wedo or The Tretis Of The Twa Mariit Wemen and the Wedo ('The conversation of the two married women and the widow') is a narrative poem in Scots by the makar William Dunbar.

[2] The work ends with the narrator asking the reader, or, in English, The narrator is walking alone in the country on a Midsummer night admiring the beauty of nature, In a hedged garden he notices three women, He eavesdrops on their conversation, hoping for amusement.

The second wife speaks next and tells the others that her husband is young but also lacking as a lover due to a lecherous past.

She begins by advising her friends to emulate her behaviour of adopting a gentle persona while remaining secretly ruthless.

She meanwhile had a younger lover, She gave birth to a son, but confides that her husband was impotent by the time of his conception.