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10. Come all ye dumb brutes, cats, dogs and other creatures, and behold a fooliſh people walking on the earth as they were not of the earth, decking their bodies with bra(illegible text)s and their bellies with beef and yet you in a rough ſkin, ſeem as comely in your kinds, and more obedient to your maker and maſter than they.
11. Come, come ye lillies of the field, and roſes of the garden, and behold how queens, princeſſes, and c⟨o⟩unteſſes are conterfeited by poor clipſarts of vanity, going to church with the robes of unrighteouſneſs round their rumple, with a diſplayed banner of painted hypocriſy in their right hand, to guard their faces from the ſun: O but the lilles outſhine the laſſes for beauty; owls hide their faces from the beams of the ſun, as if their faces were of (illegible text)n, and their hides hinds tongue: they abhor the bright blink thereof as a cat does mustard
12. Many of theſe women are more dangerous than the mouth of devouring cannons: though they appear as angels in the church, they are as ſerpents in the ſheets and a Belzebub above the blankets woes the man that marries ſuch a woman, he had better be wedded to his ſtaff and go to bed and the beetle in his boſom.
CHAP II.
HE that gets a ſcolding wife, and a mortifying goodmother, had far better be 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'll die a double death every day.
2 He that marries a gentle wife without a weighty 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 po(illegible text)ion all the days of his life.
3. The care of ſuch a woman is to clothe her antiquity, if her huſband ſhould go naked, ſhe laboureth with her tongue not with her hands, deſcribing the genealogy of her forefathers, the gentleneſs of her blood
