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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 was not of the ſeed of Adam.

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

3. She who is partón full of pride, is empty virtue. O how wife in her own eyes is ſhe! eloquent 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 the ſink not; for ſhe cannot be

5 Woe's me! for many women are weighed with folly, lifted up with vanity, and deeply wounded 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 of Eve, handed down from mother to  from one generation to another

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

8. Here they are catechiſed in all the arts of buings, ſuch as painting of the face, and plaiting of hair, and fixing theſe high crowned caps and head dreſſes, piled on their heads like a beeſe