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 would have them set in golden frames. Some are so degenerate as to think any good enough, who have but goods enough. Take heed, for sometimes the bag and baggage go together. The person should be a figure, and the portion a eyphercypher [sic], which added to her, advances the sum, but alone signifies nothing. When ThemistoelesThemistocles [sic] was to marry his daughter, two suitors courted her together, the one riehrich [sic] and a fool, tho other wise but poor; and being asked whiehwhich [sic] of the two he had rather his daughter should have? he answered Mallem virum fine pecuni: 'I had rather she should have a man without money, than money without a man.'

2. Choose not by your ears, for thothe [sic] dignity of her parentage. A good old stoekstock [sic] may nourish a fruitless branehbranch [sic]. TheroThere [sic] are many children who are not the blessings, but the blemishes of their parents; they are nobly deseendeddescended [sic], but ignobly minded: SuehSueh [sic] was Aurelius Antonious, of whom it was said, that he injured his country of nothing, but being the father of suehsuch [sic] a child. There aroare [sic] many low in their deseentsdescents [sic], that are high in their deserts; such as the eobler'scobler's [sic] son, who beeamebecame [sic] a famous captain; when a great person upbraided the meanness of his original, “My nobility, said he, began with me, but thy nobility ends with thee." Piety is a greater honour than parentage. She is the best gentlewoman that is heir of her own deserts, and not the degeneratodegenerate [sic] offspring of another's virtue. To present you with a good choice in three things.

1. Choose such a onoone [sic] as will be a subject to your dominion. TakoTake [sic] heed of yoking yourselves with untamed heifers.

2. ChoosoChoose [sic] such a one as may sympathize with you in your affliction. Marriage is just like a sea