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 a quoil of hay, and even kilting their petticoats  the rump.

9 Come all ye dumb brutes, cats, dogs, and other, and behold a fooliſh people, walking on , as if they were not of the earth, decking their with brats, and their bellies with beef, and yet  in rough ſkins, ſeem as comely in your kinds, and  obedient to your Maker and maſter than they.

10. Come, come ye lillies of the field, and roſes of garden, and behold how queens, princeſſes, and, are counterfeited by poor clipſarts of , going to church with the robes of  round their rumple; wih a diſplayed banner  painted hypocriſy in  right hand, to guard  faces from the ſun. O but the lillies outſhine laſſes for beauty: the roſes rejoice and affront, while they, like howlets, hide their faces from  beams of the ſun, as if their faces were fiſh, and  hides hind's tongues; they abbor the bright  thereof as a cat does muſtard

11 Many of theſe women are more dangerous, the mouths of devouring cannons; though they  as angels in the church, they are as ſerpents  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  beetle in his buſom.

E who gets a ſcolding wife, and a mortifying goodmother, had 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 ſervant, captain Clout's coachman, and Mr. Poverty's poſtilion, all the days of his life.