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 as are ſuitors vnto them: ſome they keepe in hand with promiſes, and ſome they feede with flattery, and ſome they delay with dalliance, and ſome they pleaſe with kiſſes: they lay out the foldes of their haire, to entangle men into their loue; betwixt their breaſts is the valley of deſtruction, and in their beds is hell, ſorrow, and repentance. Eagles eat not men till they are dead, but Women deuoure them aliue: for a Woman will pick thy pocket, and empty thy purſe, laugh in thy face, and cut thy throat: they are vngratefull; periured, full of fraud, flouting, and deceit, vnconſtant, waſpiſh, toyiſh, light, ſullen, proud, diſcourteous, and cruel, and yet they were by God created, and by Nature formed, and therefore by pollicy and wiſdome to be auoyded; for good things abuſed, are to be refuſed, or elſe for a Moneths pleaſure, ſhe may hap to make thee goe ſtarke naked: ſhe will giue thee roſt-meat, but ſhe will beat thee with the Spit: if thou haſt Crownes in thy purſe, ſhe will be thy hearts gold, vntill ſhe leaue thee not a whit of white money: they are like Summer birds, for they will abide no ſtorme, but flocke about thee in the pride of thy glory, and fly from thee in the ſtormes of affliction: for they ayme more at thy wealth then at thy perſon, and eſteeme more thy money, then any mans vertuous qualities: for they eſteeme of a man without money, as a Horſe doth of a faire Stable without meat: they are like Eagles, which will alwayes flye where the carrion is.

She will play the horſe-leach to ſuck away thy wealth, but in the winter of thy miſery ſhee will fly away from thee: Not vnlike the Swallow, which in the summer harboureth her ſelfe vnder the eues of an houſe, and againſt Winter