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 another returns; but yet take heed of flying without your wings; you may breed such agues in your bones, that may shake you to your graves. 1. Let me preserve you from a bad choice. 2. Present you with a good one. To preservopreserve [sic] you from a bad choicochoice [sic], take that in threothree [sic] things: 1. Choose not for beauty. 2. Choose not for dowry. 3. Choose not for dignity. He that loves to beauty, buys a picture; he that loves for dowry, makes a purchase; he that leaps for dignity, matches with a multitudomultitude [sic] at once. The first of thesothese [sic] is too blind to be directed; the second too base to be accepted; the third too bold to be respected. 1. ChoosoChoose [sic] not by your eyes. 2. ChoosoChoose [sic] not by your hands. 3. Choose not by your ears.

1. Choose not by your eyes, looking at the beauty of the person. Not but this is lovely in a woman; but that this is not all for which a woman should be beloved. He that had the choice of many faces stamps this character upon them all, favour is deceitful and beauty is vain. The sun is moromore [sic] bright in a clear sky, than when thothe [sic] horizon is clouded; but if a woman's flesh hath more of beauty than her spirit hath of christianity, it is like poison in sweet-meats, most dangerous: “The sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were fair," Gen. vi. 2. One would have thought that they should rather have looked for gracograce [sic] in thothe [sic] heart, than for beauty in the face: take care of running at the fairest signs; the swan hath black flesh under her white feathers.

2. Choose not by your hands, for thothe [sic] bounty of the portion. When Cato's daughter was asked why shoshe [sic] did not marry? she thus replied, she could not find the man that loved her person above her portion. Men lovolove [sic] curious pictures, but they