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children keep within doors, when every city appeared like a sanctuary, nothing to be heard in the streets, but the sound of prayer on the right hand, and the melodious sound of psalms on the left. Now is the days of counting, scribing, riding of horses, and the sound of the post-horn come; surely there will be trade now; and none will miss prosperity when every day is fair; I add no more on this head, but every one claim a right to his own set time, &c. Another grievance of the female offenders I cannot omit, which attacks men's fancy, and is the cause of his fall; I man Flighters who has gotten a little of the means of Mammon, more silver than sense, more gold than good nature, haughtiness for humility, value themselves as a treasure incomprehensible, their heads and hearts of Ophir-gold, their hips of silver, and their whole body as set about with precious stones, great and many are the congresses of their courtship, end the solemnizing of their marriage is like the conclusion of a peace after a bloody and tedious war. And what is she after all! yea, her poor penny will never be exhausted, it must be laid out in lunacy and laziness, she must have fine teas and the tuther thing: When pregnancy and the speuing of porich approaches, then she prophecies of her death; as she hatches life, she embraces laziness; then O the bed, the bed, nothing like the bed for a bad wife, her body becomes as par-boil'd, being