“ O ye haughty maids, mock my proverbs and I’ll mock your pride, sigh for a man when it is too late, and send for him when it is too late, and send for him when he will not come, yonr song in youth is, I'm o'er young to marry yet ”

“ Her fine husks are turned into miserable brats, instead of paintings on her face, a slugh of dung, which is the sign of a sapless carcage, occasioned by the scarcity of scones, and scantiness of pottage.
13. O miserable madness, and wicked alteration, occasioned through fond love, and forward kindness.
14. What can be worse in a house, than a horned good-wife, and a humil good man a hanged cat, and burnt dog, having nothing else but dispeace and a poet’s portion, which is perfect poverty. ”

“ No no, no holding back, but John Sloth and Maggy Idle must be married, even because they have no means but meanness, no Teacher but T—l's, no wit but wickedness, no wealth but wanton folly: and poor pride is all their possession, antiquity only excepted. ”

“ But if you chance to admire the chasms of one who is black and lovely, decent and discreet honost and virtuous, tho’ never so poor; cleaver thou unte her by all means, for such a women will hold thee as her head and husband, then shalt thou reign as a king over thine own house, and all thy family shall be subject unto thee. ”

“ He that marries a gentle wise wife without a weighty purse of gold, or as a good portion, binds himself to his lady’s page, his own servant, captain Clout’s coachman, and her Poverty’s postition, all the days of his life. ”

“ The care of such a husband is to clothe her antiquity, if her husband should go naked, she laboureth with her tongue, not with her hands, describiug her 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. ”

“ Many of these women are more dangerous than the mouth of devouring cannons; though they appear at angels in the church, they are as serpents in the sheets, and as Belzebub above the blankets; woes the man that marries such a woman, he had better be wedded to his staff, and go to bed with the bottle in his bosom. ”

“ He that marries a widow, let it be with one who had a husband, who gave her blows on every side of her breakfast, who was hanged for knocking out the brains of his mother, and playing the whore with another woman ”

“ 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 eefore you have a wife, nor a wife before you have a house to hold her in. ”

“ Now is the flames of fleshly love quenched, and their charity towards each other bceome 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. ”

“ Come all ye dumb brutes, eats dogs, and other ereatures, and behold a foolish people, walking on earth, as if they were not of the earth, decking their bodies with brats, and their bellies with beef, and yet you in rough skins, seem as eomely in your kinds, and more obedient to your Maker and master than they. ”

“ If she be poor, proud, and prideful, turn the back of your hand to her, and your face to another, for she is the worst penny-worth ever came into a poor man's pack-sheet, yea, happy she that goes home with the loom halter in his hand without her. ”

“ Keep not private company with a women that is a great singer, nor a girl that is gamelike, for the rooling of the eye and the sweetness of the voice, encourage men to commit wickedness.
11. Take not a wife that is tear minded, for such commonly is tail-ready. soon angry, soon leeased, easily persuaded to do any thing; if a temptation assault her, she will be easily overcome, even to hornisy 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 ”

“ O bnt the lilies outshine the lasses for beauty; the ross rejoice and affront them, while they lice howlets hide their faces from the beams of the sun, as if their faccs were fish, and their hides hinds tongues; they abhor the bright beams thereof as a cat does mustard. ”

“ No sooner have they got judgment to decern 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 stands in the town of Contention. ”