“ Now they must work or want, their belly wages war against them; their back and beds must be cloathed; their children also come upon them thick, thick if not threefold.
9. Then fays the husband, What have I done? I work hard all the day to my self, and get no wages; my belly is never filled with bread, but my heart is almost like to break with sorrow! ”

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

“ She who is patron full of pride, is empty ofvirtue. O how wise in her own eyes is she! eloquent in speech, expert in law without experience.
4 He that joins with such a woman, binds himselfto be a galley slave all the days of his life; he muft fight against wind and waves, and tow her to her grave's mouth, if she sink not; for she cannot be so (illegible text)
5. Woe's me! for many women are weighed down with folly lifted up with vanity, and deeply wounded being so in love with themselves, that their heads pine away with hatred and sorrow, because their neighbours are exalted above them. ”

“ He that marries a widow for her pelf, had beter marry a whore, if she be handsome and wholsome; for the widow will be upbraiding him with the wealth and pleasure she had with her former husband, who is always the best, because he is gone. ”

“ This is the character of two, which may be multiplied into million, two by two that fall into misery by matrimony, and are deadly wounded by the plague of poverty, for want of a virtuous proceeding in themselves.
7 Their great care is, once to be firmly married, and then all their cares are drowned in the sleep of lust, and when they awake, the flame of calf-love: is quite out, then they look up, when their eyes are opened, and feeing them shocked with worldly cares, almost naked, and next to nothing. ”

“ 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 pearler, for the covers herself with her peticoat, 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 wise, nor a wife before you have a house to hold her in. ”

“ Take not a wife that is tear minded for such commonly is unchaste disposed soon angry, and as soonpleased, easily persuaded to do any thing; and when tempted will not stand to hornify your head; for such are live house's children. ”

“ An excellent Receipt to all young men who want Wives, how to wale them by the mouth as Mungo did his Mare. Also a description of the vain Girls who wear the Crazy Jones, which hang over the back of their heads lke a Chimney-sweeper's night-cap, or a bibly Jocks snout. ”