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with hunger and anger he will die a double death every day.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. He that weds for money is a miser, and he for beauty a fool; but he that for virtue and the other two is wiser than the weaver who took a wife and would have nothing, because he had
nothing of his own.
5. And the reason was, because his wife might say, I have made the rich with my tocher when thou had nought but thy t—l.
6. He that marries a widow for her pelf, had better marry a whore, if she be handsome and wholesome, for the widow will be upbraiding him with the wealth and pleasure she had
