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 18     of wheat for a little chaff? or despise a golden wedge because it retains some dross? these roses have some prickles. Now husbands should spread a mantle of charity over their wives infirmities. They be ill birds that defile their own nests. It is a great deal better you should fast, than feast yourselves upon their failings. Some husbands are never well, lon- ger than they are hoiding their fingers in     their wife's sores. Such are like crows, that fasten only upon carrion. Do not put out the candle because of the snuff. If the gold be good, allow it grains. Husband and wives should provoke one another to love; and they should love one another notwith- standing of provocation. Take heed of pois- oning springs from whence the streams of your pleasure flows. 4. By his delighting in her society; a wife takes sanctuary, not only in her husband's     house, but in his heart. The tree of love should grow up in the family, as the tree of life grew up in the garden. They that chuse their love should love their choice. They that marry where they affect not, will affect where they marry not. Two joined together without love, are but tied together to make one another miserable. And so I     pass to the last stage of the text, " a help      meet." A help, there is her fulness; a meet help, there is her fitness. The angels were too much above him; the creatures were too much below him; he could not step up to the former, nor could he stoop down to the latter: the one was out of his