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Rh grace into their hands, you will set a crown of glory upon their heads.

4. A help to his prosperity, by her faithful preservation, being not a wanderer abroad, but a worker at home. One of the ancients speaks excellently; She must not be a field-wife, like Diana; nor a street-wife, like Tamar; nor a window-wife, like Jezebel.

Phildeas, when he drew a woman, painted her sitting under a snail-shell, that she might imitate that little creature, that goes no further than it can carry its house upon its head.

How many women are there, that are not labouring bees, but idle drones; that take up a room in the hive, but bring no honey to it; that are moths to their husband's estates; spending when they should be sparing! As the man's part is to provide industriously, so the woman's is to preserve discreetly; the one must not be carelessly wanting, the other must not be carelessly wasting; the man must be seeking with diligence; the woman must be saving with prudence. The cock and hen both scrape together in the dust-heap, to pick up something for the little chickens, To wind up this on a short botton.

1. If the woman be a help to the man, then let not the man cast dirt upon the woman.

Secundus being asked his opinion of a woman, said, Virinau fragium, domus tempestus quietis impedimentum, &c. But surely he was a monster and not a man, fitter for a tomb to bury him, than a womb to bear him.

Some have styled them to be like clouds in