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 commonly is unchaſte diſpoſed ſoon angry, and as ſoonpleaſed, eaſily perſuaded to do any thing; and when tempted will not ſtand to hornify your head; for ſuch are live houſe's children.

12 Neither do ye encounter with one who is tall, for ſuch long people, when they fall, are too heavy to riſe. But the beſt way under the ſun is to marry and ſo continue. Look back to derty maidens, and give then the ſcornful catalogue as follows:

13 О ye haughty maids, mock my proverbs, and I'll mock your pride. Sigh for a man when it is too late, and ſend for him when he will not come. Your ſong in youth is, "I'm o'er young to marry yet," until the wrinkles riſe on your face like the back of a ram horn, and have but one tooth, bound in with a rag! Then make a chanter of your thumbs, and a droner of four fingers, and play,

Fain would I marry a man juſt now, I've loſt my time and my lover too.

14. And here I ſhall be ſilent for a ſhort time, then shall I vex Vanity once more. Let one ſay I am a rattle skull, another, he is jumbled in his judgment or diſturbed in his ſtudies; ſo I make an end, leſt alſo, they ſay I am become a preacher and every trade is encroaching upon another. Now he that wonders at my folly. I will wonder at his wiſdom, and then are we even one with another.

OME O men and miniſters, and behold madmen and fooliſh women, ruſhing into the bonds of wedlock, as the horſe doth into the battle.

2. No, no, no holding back, but John Slothe and Maggy Idle muſt be married, even becauſe they have no means but meanneſs, no teacher but luſt, no w but wickedneſs; no wealth but wanton folly, and poor pride is all their poſſeſſion, antiquity only excepted.