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24 The jewel decks if wore it is;

The child soon dies, abortive is;

The end o' the song, doth sweetest sound

The hand doth make the party bound,

So she that marries e'er death takes her

Answers that for which Nature makes her

"Women," said he," are all extremes either twotoo [sic] willing, or too wilful; too [sic]two forward, or too froward; too corteous, or too coy; too friendly, or too fiendly. This made Arminius, a ruler in Carthage, refuse to mary: saying 'If I marry a wise wife, she will be wilful; if wealthy, then wanton, if poor, then peevish: if beautiful, then proud; if deformed. then loathsome; and the least of these is able to kill a thousand men.'"