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 nothing but bare Walls, it is a fit houſe to breed Beggars into the World; yet there are many that thinke, when they are marryed, that they may liue by loue: but if wealth be wanting, hot loue will ſoone be cold, and your hot deſires will be ſoon quenched with the ſmoake of pouerty. To what end then ſhould we liue in loue, ſeeing it is a life more to be feared then death? for all thy Money waſtes in toyes, and is ſpent in banquetting, and all thy time in ſighes and ſobs, to thinke vpon the trouble and charge which commonly commeth with a Wife: for commonly women are proud without profit, and that is a good Purgation for thy Purſe; and when thy Purſe is light, then will thy heart be heauy.

The pride of a woman is like the dropſie: for as drinke increaſeth the drought of the one, euen ſo Money inlargeth the pride of the other: thy Purſe muſt be alway open to feed her fancy, and ſo thy expences will be great, and yet perhaps thy getting ſmal: thy houſe muſt be ſtored with coſtly ſtuffe, & yet perhaps thy ſeruants ſtarued for lacke of Meat: thou muſt diſcharge the Mercers Book, and pay the Haberdaſhers man, for her Hat muſt continually be of the new faſhion, & her Gowne of finer Wooll then the Sheepe beareth any: ſhe muſt likewiſe haue her Iewell-Box furniſhed, eſpecially if ſhe be beautifull; for then commonly Beauty & Pride goeth together: and a beautifull woman is for the moſt part coſtly, and no good Huſwife; and if ſhe be a good Huſwife, then no Seruant will abide her fierce crueltie: and if ſhee be honeſt and chaſte, then commonly ſhee is iealous.

A Kings Crowne & a faire woman is deſired of many: But he that getteth either of them, liueth in great