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New Proverbs on the Pride of Women, &c. or a quoil of hay, and even kilting their petticoat to the rump.

9. Come all ye dumb brutes, cats, dogs, and other creatures, and behold a fooliſh people, walking on earth, as if they were not of the earth, decking their bodies with brats, and their bellies with beef and yet you in rough ſkins ſeem as comely in your kinds, and more obedient to your Maker and matter than they.

10. Come, come ye lilies of the field, and roſes of the garden, and behold how queens, princeſſes, and counteſſes, are counterfeited by poor clipſarts of vanity going to church with the ribs of unrighteouſneſs round their rumple; with a diſplayed banner of painted hyprocriſy in their right hand, to guard their faces from the ſun. O but the lilies outſhine the laſſes for beauty; the roſes rejoice and affront them, while they like howlets hide their face from the beams of the ſun, as if their faces were ſun, and their hides binds tongues; they abhor the bright beams thereof as a cat. does muſtard.

11. Many of theſe women are more dangerous than the mouth of devouring demons; though they appear as angels in the church, they are as in the ſheets, and as Beelſebub above the blankets, the man that marries ſuch a woman, he had better be wedded to his ſtaff, and go to bed with the beetle in his boſom.

E who gets a ſcolding wife, and a mortifying goodmother, had far better been buried alive, for the one will cry him deaf, and the other will waſte his money and his meat, fill his belly with wind, and his heart with ſorrow, till with hunger and anger he will die a double death every day.

2. He that marries a gentle wife without a weigh ty purſe of gold, or a good portion, binds himſelf to be his lady’s page, his own ſervant, captain Clout’s coachman, and Mr. Poverty’s poſtilian all the days of his life.