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 mad fellow after Sermon was ended, tooke his wife vpon his backe, and came to the Preacher, and ſaid, here is my croſſe, I am ready to follow thee whither thou wilt.

Another hauing marryed with a widdow, which ſhewed her ſelfe like a Saint abroade, but a Diuell at home; a friend of her husbands told him, that hee had gotten him a good, ſtill, and quiet wife: yea marry quoth the married man, you ſee my ſhooe is faire and new, but yet you know not where it pincheth me.

Another merry companion hauing marryed with a widdow, and carrying her ouer the Sea into France, there ſodainely aroſe a great ſtorme, in ſo much that they were all in danger of drowning; the Maſter of the ſhip called vnto the Marriners, and bad them take and throw ouerboard all the heauieſt goods in the ſhip; this married man hearing him ſay ſo, he tooke his Widdow, and threw her ouer-board: and being asked the reaſon why he did ſo, hee ſayd, that he neuer felt any thing in all his life that was ſo heauy to him as ſhe had beene.

Another hauing married with a widdow, and within a while after they were marryed, ſhee went out into the garden, and there finding her husbands ſhirt hang cloſe on the hedge by her maides ſmocke, ſhee went preſently and hanged her ſelfe vpon a iealous conceit that ſhe tooke, and a merry fellow asking the cauſe why ſhe hanged her ſelfe, and being told that it was for iealouſie: I would ſayd he, that all trees did heare ſuch fruit.

Thou maiſt thinke that I haue ſpoken enough concerning widdowes; but the further I runne after them, the further I am from them; for they are the ſumme of the ſeauen deadly ſinnes, the Fiends of Sathan, and the gates of