New Proverbs on the Pride
of Women,. &c
CHAP. I.
A Woman who has haughty looks, is under the infection of the plague, even pride; ſhe is ignorant of herſelf, and thinks as much as ſhe is her own maker, always deſpiſing her fellow creatures as if ſhe was not of the ſeed of Adam.
2. Her eyes bent always upwards, towards the ſkies, and in my opinion, ſuch women come from the world of the moon, becauſe they look backwards towards their native country.
3. And ſhe who is parton full of pride, is empty of (illegible text)ue ; but 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 himſelf (illegible text)a galley ſlave all the days of his life; he muſt (illegible text) againſt wind and waves. (illegible text) her to the grave's (illegible text);for she cannot be told.
(illegible text)! for many women are weighted down (illegible text), lifted up with vanity, deeply wounded ſo in love with themſelves, their hearts pine. with hatred and ſorrow becauſe their neighbours are exalted above them.
6. This is a fore evil which cleaveth to the daughters of Eve, handed down from mother to daughter from one generation to another.
7. 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.
8. Here they are catechiſed in all the arts of (illegible text)ings; ſuch as painting of the face, and plaiting of the hair and (illegible text) theſe high crowned caps and big head-dre(illegible text) on their heads like a bee-ſeap
