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Woman who has haughty looks, is under the infection of a plague, even pride. She is ignorant of herſelf, and thinks as much as ſhe is her own maker always deſpiſing her fellow creatures, as if ſhe not of the ſeed of Adam.

2. Her eyes being always bent upwards, the ſkies, in my opinion, ſuch women come from world of the moon, and look backwards toward their native country.

3. She who is patron full of pride, is empty virtue. O how wiſe in her own eyes is ſhe! in ſpeech, expert in law without experience.

4 He that joins with ſuch a woman, binds to be a galley ſlave all the days of his life; he fight againſt wind and waves, and tow her to  grave's mouth, if ſhe ſink not; for ſhe cannot be ſo

5. Woe's me! for many women are weighed with folly lifted up with vanity, and deeply  being ſo in love with themſelves, that their  pine away with hatred and ſorrow, becauſe  neighbours are exalted above them.

6. This is a ſore evil which cleaveth to the daughtters of Eve, handed down from mother to daughter from one generation to another.

7. No ſooner have they got judgment to between the right hand and the left, but they carried away to be taught by Madam Vanity, daughter of Lucifer, who brings them into the lege of Contradiction, which stands in the town Contention:

8. Here they are catechifed in all the parts of beings, ſuch as painting of the face, and plaiting hair, and fixing theſe high crowned caps  head-dreſſes, piled on their heads like