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 did ſticke ſo faſt, that when he would haue plucked it off, it tore the fleſh with it.

If thou wouldeſt auoyd theſe euils, thou muſt with Vlyſſes binde thy ſelfe to the Maſt of the Ship, as he did, or elſe it would haue coſt him his life; for otherwiſe the Syrenian women would haue inticed him into the Sea, if he had not ſo done.

It is ſtrange to ſee the mad feates of women: for they will be now merry, then againe ſad; now laugh, then weepe; now ſick, then preſently whole: all things which like not them, are naught; and if it be neuer ſo bad, if it like them, it is excellent. Againe, it is death for women to be denyed the thing which they demaund, and yet they will deſpiſe things giuen vnasked.

When a woman wanteth any thing, ſhee will flatter and ſpeake faire; not much vnlike the flattering Butcher, who gently claweth the Oxe, when hee intendeth to knocke him on the head: but the thing being once obtayned, and their deſires gayned, then they will begin to looke bigge, and anſwere ſo ſtately, and ſpeake ſo ſcornefully, chat one would imagine they would neuer ſeeke helpe, nor craue comfort at thy hand any more. But a woman is fitly compared to a Shippe, which being neuer ſo well rigged, yet one thing or other is to be amended: euen ſo, giue a woman all that ſhee can demand to day, yet ſhee will be out of reparations to morrow, and want one thing or other.

Women are called night-Crowes, for that commonly in the night they will make requeſt for ſuch toyes as commeth in their heads in the day. Women know their time to worke their craft; for in the night they will worke