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4 10. Come. come, ye lilies of the field and roses of the garden, and behold how queens, princesses, and countesses, are counterfeited by poor clipfarts of vanity, going to church with the ribs of unrighteousness round their rumple; with a displayed banner of painted hypocrisy in their right hand to guard their faces from the sun. O bntbut [sic] the lilies outshine the lasses for beauty; the ross rejoice and affront them, while they lice howlets hide their faces from the beams of the sun, as if their faccsfaces [sic] were fish, and their hides hinds tongues; they abhor the bright beams thereof as a cat does mustard.

11. Many of these women are more dangerous than the mouth of devouring cannons; though they appear at angels in the church, they are as serpents in the sheets, and as Belzebub above the blankets; woes the man that marries such a woman, he had better wedded to his staff, and go to bed with the bottle in his bosom.

CHAP. II.

E who gets a scolding wife, and a mortifying goodmother, had far better be buried alive, for the one will cry him deaf, and the other will waste his money and his meat, fill his belly with wind, and his heart with sorrow,