Page:Third and second part of the new proverbs on the pride of women, or, The vanity of this world displayed.pdf/3

3 5. Woe’s me! for many women are weighed down with folly, lifted up with vanity, deeply wounded, being so in love with themselves, their hearts pine away with hatred and sorrow, because their neighbours are exalted above them.

6. This is a sore evil which cleaveth to the daughters of Eve, handed down from mother to daughter from one generation to another.

7. No sooner have they got judgment to decern between the right hand and the left, but they are carried away to be taught by Madam Vanity, the daughter of Lucifer, who brings them into the College of Contradiction, which stands in the town of Contention.

8. Here they are catechised in all the arts of buskings, suehsuch [sic] as painting of the faeeface [sic], and plaiting of the hair, and fixing these highcrowned eapscaps [sic], and big head-dresses, piled on their heads, like a bces-eapbees-cap [sic], or a quoil of hay, and even kilted their petticoats to the rump.

9. Come all ye dumb brutes, eatscats [sic] dogs, and other ereaturescreatures [sic], and behold a foolish people, walking on earth, as if they were not of the earth, decking their bodies with brats, and their bellies with beef, and yet you in rough skins, seem as eomelycomely [sic] in your kinds, and more obedient to your Maker and master than they.