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 15 should be sparing! As the man's part is, to provide industriously, so the woman's is to pre- serve discreetly; the one must not be careless- ly wanting, the other must not be causelessly wasting: the man must be seeking with dili- gence, the woman must be saving with pru- dence. The cock and hen both scruple toge- ther in the dust-heap, to pick up something for the little chickens. To wind up this on a short bottom. 4. 1. If the woman be a help to the man, then let not the man cast dirt on the woman. Secundus being asked his opinion of a wo- man, said, "Viri naufragium, domus tempestas, quietus 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 the sky; Like motes in the sun : Like snuffs in the can- dle: Like weeds in the garden. But it is not good to play the butcher with that naked sex, that hath no arms but for embraces. A preacher should not be silent for those who are silenced from preaching: Because they are the weaker vessels, shall they.be broken all to pieces ?- Thou that sayest women are evil, it may be thy ex- pression flows from thy experience, but I shall never take that mariner for my pilot, that hath no better knowledge than the spliting 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 disdains all