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 16      woman, speaks thus, Viri naufragium, domus tempestus, quietus impedimentum, &c. But surely he was a monster, and not a man sitter for a tomb to bury him, than a womb to bear him. Some have styled them to be, like clouds in the sky. Like snuffs in the candle. Like weeds in the garden. It is not good to play the butcher with that naked sex, that hath no arms but for em- braces. A preacher should not be silent for those are silenced from preaching; because they are the weaker vessels, shall they be      broken all to pieces? Thou that sayest wo- men are evil, it may be thy expression flows from thy experince; but I shall never take that mariner for my pilot, that hath no better knowledge than the splitting of his own ship. Wilt thou condemn the frame of all, for the fault of one? as if it were true logic, because some are evil, therefore none are good. He      hath ill eyes that disdain all objects. To blast thy helper, is to blame thy maker. In a word, we took our rise from their bowels, and may take our rest in their bosoms. 2. 'Is the woman to be a help to the man; then let the man be a help to the woman. What makes these debtors to be such ill pay-masters? but because they look at what is owing to them, but not at what is owing by them. If thou wouldst have thy wife's      reverence let her have thy respect. To      force a tear from this relation, is that which neither befits the husband's authority to injoin, nor the wife's duty to perform. A wife must not he sharply driven, but sweetly drawn. Compassion may bend her