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 18 up in the garden. They that choose 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 mi- serable. 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 interior creatures 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 reach : the other was out of his race; but the woman is a parallel line drawn equal with him. Meet she must be in three things. 1. In the harmony of her disposition.- Husband and wife should be like the image in a looking-glass, that answers in all proper- ties to the face that stands before it ; or like an echo, that returneth the voice it receiveth. Many marriages are like putting new wine into old bottles. An old man is not a meet- help for a young woman : He that sets a grey head upon green shoulders, hath one foot in the grave and another in the cradle. Yet how many times do you see the spring of youth wedded to the winter of old age ? A young man is not a meet-help for an old woman; raw flesh is but an ill plaister for rotten bones. He that in his non-age marries another in her dotage, his lust hath one wife in possession, but his love another in reversion. 2. In heraldry of her condition. Some of