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11 up, when their eyes are opened, and seeing them shocked with worldly cares, almost naked, and next to nothing.

8. Now they must work or want, their belly wages war against them, their backs and beds must be cloathed; their children also come upon them, thick, thick, if not three-fold.

9. Then says the husband, What have I done? I work heard all the day to myself, and get no wages, my belly is never filled with bread, but Oh my heart is almost like to break with sorrow!

10. O had I been still the servant of another man, then had I got my daily bread and yearly wages, but now I have lost good bread, and great pleasure, and O but her beef be a weighty burden unto me.

11. Let never a man wale his wife at the kirk door, pick up a painted image in the market, as I have done to my deadly danger.

12. Her fine husks are turned into miserable brats, instead of paintings on her face, a slugh of dung, which is the sign of a sapless carcage, by the scarcity of scones, and  of pottage.

13. O miserable madness, and wicked, occasioned through fond love, and forward.

14. What can be worse in a house, than a horned good-wife, and a humil good man a hanged cat, and burnt dog, having nothing else