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 for a quoil of hay, and even kilting their petticoats 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 maſter than they.

10 Come, come ye lilies of the field, and roſes of he garden, and behold how queens, princeſſes, and Counteſſes, are counterfeited by poor clipfarts of vanity, going to church with the robes of unrighteouſneſs round the rumple; with a diſplayed banner of painted hypocriſy 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 faces from the beams of the ſun as if their faces were fiſh, and their hides hind's tongues; they abhor the bright beams thereof as a cat does muſtard.

11. Many of theſe women are more dangerous than the mouths of devouring cannons; though they appear as angels in the church, they are as ſerpents in the ſheets, and as Beelzebub above the blankets: Woe's 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 be 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 weighty purſe of gold, or as good a portion, binds himſelf to be his lady's page, his own fervant, captain Clout's coachman, and Mr. Poverty's poſtilion, all the days of his life.