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New Proverbs on the Pride of Women; The care of ſuch a wife is to clothe her antiquity, if her huſband ſhould go naked, ſhe laboureth with her tongue, not with her hands, deſeribing the genealogy of her forefathers, the gentleneſs of her blood, and of her huſband’s- deſcent, who never came to honour and poverty till he came to her.

4. He that weds for money is a miſer, and, he for beauty a fool; but he that for virtue and the other two is wiſer than the weaver who took a wife and would have nothing, becauſe he had nothing of his own.

5. And the reaſen was, becauſe his wife might ſay, l have made thee rich with my tocher, when thou had nought but thy t — l.

96 [sic]. He that marries a widow for her pelf, had better marry a whore, if ſhe be handſome and wholeſome, for the widow will be upbraiding him with the wealth and pleaſure ſhe had with her former huſband, who was always, the beſt, becauſe he was gone.

7. Whereas the whore will be aſhamed to ſpeak of her former pleaſures, becauſe they were ſtolen, and unlawful; but rather ſhe will rejoice, thee, when ſhe enjoys the ſame fear, ſcandal, ſhame, or reproach, 8. He that marries a widow, let it be with one who had a huſband, that gave her blows or every ſole breakfaſt, who was hanged for knocking ut the brains of his mother, and playing the whore with another woman; that she may have to ſay ſhe had got the beſt huſband to her laſt, and if thou be not in, thou art a poor wretch, I'll warrant you.

C H A P. III.

T is moſt natural for every ſex to have a deſire towards its fellows, and without the company of each other they have no happineſs.

2. Is it not reaſonable for thee, O man! who in reſolved to join thyſelf to a wife; that thou join thy houſe together, firſt by a mathematical order; the couples and the cumfoiling thereof, cover i above and pleniſh