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Show The Choosing of a Wife. When it shall please God to bring thee to man's estate, use great provi-denceand provi-denceand circumspection in choosing thy wife. For from thence will spring ill thy future good or evil. And it ie do action of life like unto a stratagem of war, wherein a man can err but oooe. If tby estate be good, match near borne and at leisure;; if weak., far off and quickly. Inquire diligently of her disposition and how her parents have been inclined In their youth. Let her not be poor, how generous soever. so-ever. For a man can buy nothing In the market with gentility. Nor choose a base and uncomely creature altogether alto-gether for wealth; for it will cause contempt In others and loathing In thee. Neither make choice of a dwarf or a fool; for, by the one thou shalt beget a race of pigmies; the other will be thy continual disgrace, and It will yirke thee to hoar her talk. For thou shalt find it, to thy great grief, that there Is nothing more fulsome than a she-fool. Lord Burleigh. |