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 Now is the days of counting, fcribing, riding of horſes, and the ſound of the poſt-horn come; ſurely there will be trade now, and none will miſs proſperity, when every day is fair; I add no more on this head, but eery one claim a right to his own ſet time, &c.

Another grievance of the female offenders I cannot mit, which attracts man's fancy and is the cauſe of his fall; I mean Flighters who have got a little of the mears of Mammon, more ſilver than ſenſe, more gold than good nature, haughtineſs for humility, value themſelves as a treaſure incomprehenſible, their heads and heart of Ophir-gold, their hips of ſilver, and their whole body as ſet about with precious ſtones, great and many are the congreſſes of their courtſhip, and the ſolemnizing of their marriage is like the concluſion of a peace after a bloody and tedious war.

And what is ſhe after all, yea her poor penny will never be exhauſted, it muſt be laid out in lunacy and lazineſs, ſhe muſt have teas and the tuther thing : when pregnancy and the ſpueing of porich approaches, then ſhe prophecies of her death; as ſhe hatches life, ſhe embraces lazineſs; then O the bed, the bed, nothing like the bed for a bad wife; her body becomes as par-boil'd being ſo bed-ridden, this rots their children in the brewing, and buries them in the bringing up, yea ſome mothers are ſo beaſtly, as to water the bed and blame the child therefore; yet ſuch lazy wives I've long, and their children ſoon die; their far fetched feigned ſickneſs ſoon render the huſband to the ſubſtance of one ſixpence, he becomes poor and heneck't under ſuch petticoat government.

But when I Janet was a Janet and had the judgement of my own houſe, my huſband was thrice happy, never held him down, he was above me day and night, I ſat late and roſe early, kept a full houſe and ough back, when ſummer came we minded winter's auld, we had peace aye at porich-time, and harmony thro' the day, we ſupp'd our ſowens at ſupper-time with a ſeaſonable heat, and went to bed good bairns, end naething but ſtark love and kindneſs, we wrought or riches, and our age and earthly ſtores increaſed