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 3. For he is the honourable laird of Sluggard ſon and ſhe is the Daughter of Slipmy-labour.

4. Behold he goeth with his garters unbound, his boſom bare, and both-his hands holding up his breeches.

5. Up gets Maggy in the morning against the hour of nine, whether it be day-light or not, but not without the power of a pearſer, for ſhe covers herſelf with her petticoat, and runs to the dung-hill as a ſoldier to his arms, when alarmed by the drum.

6. This is the character of two, which may be multiplied into millions, two by two, that fall into miſery by matrimony, and are deadly wounded by the plague of poverty, for want of a virtuous proceeding in themſelves.

7. Their great care is, once to be firmly married, and then all their cares are drowned in the ſleep of luſt, and when they awake, the flame of caif-love is quite out; then they look up, when their eyes are opened, and ſeeing them ſhocked with worldly cares, almoſt naked and next to nothing.

8. Now they muſt work or want, their belly wages war againſt them, their backs and beds cloathed; their children alſo come upon them thick, thick, if not threefold.

9. Then ſays the huſband, What have I done? work hard all the day to myſelf, and get no wages, my belly is never filled with bread, but, O my heart is almoſt like to break with ſorrow!

10. O had I been ſtill the ſervant of another man, then had I got, my daily bread and yearly wages, but now I have loſt good bread and great pleaſure, and O but her beef be a weighty burden unto me.

11. Let never a man wale his wife at the milk-door pick up a painted image in the market; as I have done to my deadly danger.

12. Her fine bulks are turned into miſerable inſtead of paintings on her face a ſlough of dung, which is a ſign of a ſapleſs carcaſe, occaſioned the ſearcity of ſcones, and a ſcantineſs of pottage.

13. O miſerable madheſs, and wicked alter