“ Now are the flames of fleshly love quenched, and their charity towards each other, become as cold as clay; their former love is smothered to death in the smoke of their hellish wrath, and pride is fallen into the bottomless pit, the place from whence it came. ”

“ HE who gets a scolding wife, and a mortifying goodmother, had far better been buried alive, for the one will cry him deaf, and the other will waste his money and his meat, fill his belly with wind, and his heart with sorrow, till with hunger and anger he will die a double death every day. ”

“ Then says the husband, What have I done? work hard all the day to myself, and get no wages, my belly is never filled with bread, but, O my heart is almost like to break with sorrow!
10. O had I been still the servant of another man, then had I got, my daily bread and yearly wages, but now I have lost good bread and great pleasure, and O but her beef be a weighty burden unto me.
11. Let never a man wale his wife at the milk-door pick up a painted image in the market; as I have done to my deadly danger. ”

“ The care of such a wife is to clothe her antiquity, if her husband should go naked, she laboureth with her tongue, not with her hands, deseribing the genealogy of her forefathers, the gentleness of her blood, and of her husband’s- descent, who never came to honour and poverty till he came to her. ”

“ O but the lilies outshine the lasses for beauty; the roses rejoice and affront them, while they like howlets hide their face from the beams of the sun, as if their faces were sun, and their hides binds tongues; they abhor the bright beams thereof as a cat. ”

“ Up gets Maggy in the morning against the hour of nine, whether it be day-light or not, but not without the power of a pearser, for she covers herself with her petticoat, and runs to the dung-hill as a soldier to his arms, when alarmed by the drum. ”

“ Go to the birds and be not blindfolded, who build their nest, lay their eggs before they hatch their young, be not so foolish, as to have a child before you have a wife, nor a wife before you have a house to hold her in. ”

“ He that marries a gentle wife without a weigh ty purse of gold, or a good portion, binds himself to be his lady’s page, his own servant, captain Clout’s coachman, and Mr. Poverty’s postilian all the days of his life. ”

“ Many of these women are more dangerous than the mouth of devouring demons; though they appear as angels in the church, they are as (illegible text) in the sheets, and as Beelsebub above the blankets, the man that marries such a woman, he had better be wedded to his staff, and go to bed with the beetle in his bosom. ”

“ Keep not private company with a woman tha{illegible}} is a great finger, nor a girl who is game-like, so the rolling of the eye and the sweetness of the voice encourage men to commit wickedness.
11. Take not a wife that i tear-minded (illegible text) commonly are tail ready, loon angry, soon pleased eafsily pursuaded to do any thing; if a temptation afflict will be easily overcome, even to hornify your head: for such are live-loose’s children.
12. Neither do ye encounter with one who hath a big belly, and a bosom full of paps, for such are seldom wholesome ”

“ No sooner have they got judgement to disern between the right hand and the left, but they are carried away to be taught by Madam Vanity, the daughter of Lucifer, who brings them into the college of Contradiction, which slands in the town of Contention. ”