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

12 Neither do ye encounter with one who is 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 dorty maidens, and give them the ſcornful catalogue as follows:

13 O 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. ſong in youth is, "I'm o'er young to marry yet, until the wrinkles riſe on your face like the back a ram horn, and have but one tooth, bound in  a rag! Then make a chanter of your thumbs,  drone of your 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 tra is encroaching upon another Now he that wonders at my folly, I will wonder at his wiſdom, and are we even one with another.

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

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