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 within the houſe, and to the ſeruants have a watchfull eye; or if ſhe haue a care when to ſpend, and when to ſpare, and to be content with what God doth ſend, or if ſhe can ſhed no kinde of vnfained teares; but when iuſt cauſe of heartie ſorrow is, and that in wealth and woe, in ſickeneſſe and in health, ſhe will be all alike: ſuch a wife will make thee a happy man in thy choyſe.

Although ſome happen on a diuelliſh and vnhappy woman, yet all men doe not ſo; and ſuch as happen ill, it is a warning to make them wiſe, if they make a ſecond choyſe, not that all other ſhall haue the like fortune: the Sunne ſhineth vpon the good and bad, and many a man happeneth ſooner on a ſhrew then a ſheepe. Some thriue by dicing, but not one in a hundred; therefore dicing is ill husbandry: ſome thriue by marriage, and yet many are vndone by marriage; for marriage is either the making or marring of many a man: and yet I will not ſay, but amongſt Duſt there are Pearles found, and in hard Rockes Diamonds of great value, and ſo amongſt many women there are ſome good, as that gracious and glorious Qaeene of all women kinde, the Virgin Mary, the mother of all bliſſe: what won her honour, but an humble minde, and her paines and lone vnto our Sauiour Chriſt?

Sara is commended for the earneſt loue that ſhee bare to her husband, not onely for calling him Lord, bur for many other qualities. Alſo Suſanna for her chaſtitie, and for creeping on her knees to pleaſe her husband: but there are meaner hiſtories which make mention of many others; as that of Demetryes, how that ſhe was content to runne Lackey by her husbands ſide.

Likewiſe Lucretia, for the loue and loyalty that ſhee bare