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<HEAD>Advice to Batchelors,</HEAD>
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<P>OR, A Caution to be careful in their Choice. As al&s;o, the de&s;erved prai&s;e of a Careful Indu&s;trious Wife.</P>
<LG>
<L><HI>If thou wilt change a &s;ingle Life,</HI></L>
<L><HI>to live free from annoy,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Chu&s;e then a kind and careful Wife,</HI></L>
<L><HI>&s;he'll Crown thy days with Joy.</HI></L>
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<OPENER>To the Tune of, <HI>A Touth of the Times.</HI> Or, <HI>The Country Farmer.</HI></OPENER>
<P>This may be Printed. <HI>R. P.</HI></P>
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<LG>
<L>BOth <HI>Robert</HI> and <HI>Richard,</HI> nay, <HI>William</HI> and <HI>Ned,</HI></L>
<L>If any of you have a fancy to wed,</L>
<L>Come hither and take this good Coun&s;el I give,</L>
<L>So may you be happy as long as you live;</L>
<L>For both good and bad among&s;t Women there be,</L>
<L>And therefore I pray you be ruled by me,</L>
<L>Chu&s;e one that is mode&s;t, di&s;creet in her ways.</L>
</LG>
<P><HI>And then the whole world cannot &s;peak her due prai&s;e.</HI></P>
<LG>
<L>Such wives they will always their Husbands obey,</L>
<L>And never he given to wander or &s;tray</L>
<L>Among lazy Go&s;&s;ips her money to &s;pend,</L>
<L>She knows that it will her kind Husband offend,</L>
<L>And therefore her &s;tudy and care will be &s;till,</L>
<L>To love him and always &s;ubmit to his will;</L>
<L>For &s;he that is mode&s;t, di&s;creet in her ways,</L>
</LG>
<P><HI>The world is not able to &s;peak her due prai&s;e.</HI></P>
<LG>
<L>Some Men-chu&s;e a Wife by the weight of her pur&s;e,</L>
<L>Which may be her money does prove but a Cur&s;e.</L>
<L>Proud Wives they will flouri&s;h at &s;uch a loo&s;e care,</L>
<L>Till they have clearly con&s;um'd an E&s;tate.</L>
<L>But as for the woman that &s;trives to take care,</L>
<L>If &s;he has but decent apparel to wear,</L>
<L>She &s;eeks for no more, but her Husband obeys,</L>
</LG>
<P><HI>And then, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<LG>
<L>Some Women are &s;ubject to thunder and brawl,</L>
<L>And others with Wantons will wa&s;te and &s;pend all.</L>
<L>And which is the wor&s;t of the&s;e two I don't know,</L>
<L>The wife that is wanton, or &s;he that's a Shrow,</L>
<L>The one makes him clearly a weary of life,</L>
<L>The other is &s;till for contention and &s;trife.</L>
<L>But &s;he that is mode&s;t, di&s;creet in her ways.</L>
</LG>
<P><HI>The world is not able to &s;peak her d<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e prai&s;e.</HI></P>
<LG>
<L>A good Wife that marries a man that is poor,</L>
<L>She'l make it her care to repleni&s;h his &s;tore,</L>
<L>And like to the painful indu&s;trous Bee,</L>
<L>She'll do her endeavour to labour with thee:</L>
<L>If thou art in Anger &s;he will not revile,</L>
<L>But in&s;tead of frowns will afford thee a &s;mile;</L>
<L>And thus being mode&s;t, di&s;creet in her ways,</L>
</LG>
<P><HI>The world, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<LG>
<L>Ne'r &s;trive for to marry a finikin La&s;s,</L>
<L>We &s;ee they are often as brittle as Gla&s;s,</L>
<L>They'l crack their Credit, con&s;uming thy &s;tore,</L>
<L>While &s;he that is careful will labour for more:</L>
<L>In troubles or cro&s;&s;es, or what e'ce may fall,</L>
<L>A good wife will &s;tand the brunt of it all,</L>
<L>And do her endeavour her Husband to rai&s;e,</L>
</LG>
<P><HI>The world, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<LG>
<L>A good wife will always be taking of care,</L>
<L>And yet will not murmur, repine, or di&s;pair,</L>
<L>But &s;till is contented with what &s;he enjoys,</L>
<L>And is not for railing, and making a noi&s;e:</L>
<L>Such women that never knows how for to &s;cold,</L>
<L>Adore them more dearer then Jewels or Gold,</L>
<L>For &s;he is mo&s;t vertuous, di&s;creet in her ways,</L>
</LG>
<P><HI>The world, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<LG>
<L>For that is the Woman that &s;till will contrive,</L>
<L>To help her kind Husband in order to thrive,</L>
<L>And &s;ecks for to plea&s;e him, and never offend,</L>
<L>G &s;uch a good wife we may truly commend:</L>
<L>Nay, what though her portion, alas! be but &s;mall,</L>
<L>Her vertues will make thee amends for it all,</L>
<L>A wife that is wi&s;e and di&s;creet in her ways,</L>
</LG>
<P><HI>The world, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<LG>
<L>If it be thy fortune to find &s;uch a wife,</L>
<L>Adore her and love her as dear as thy life,</L>
<L>Ne'r grieve her, but labour always to provide</L>
<L>Both Food and Apparel, and all things be&s;ide,</L>
<L>So may you be ever united in Love,</L>
<L>And ble&s;t in this life by the powers above,</L>
<L>The wife that is verruous, di&s;creet in her ways,</L>
</LG>
<P><HI>The world is not able to &s;peak her due prai&s;e.</HI></P>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<P><HI>Printed for</HI> P. Brookshy <HI>at the</HI> Golden Ball <HI>in</HI> Pye-Tomer.</P>
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