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<HEAD>The Vertuous Wife is the glory of her Husband; <HI>OR,</HI> A good woman in her proper Colours.</HEAD>
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<L>Who for Beauty, Mode&s;ty and Grace,</L>
<L>Her comely Carriage, and her vertuous Life,</L>
<L>Was nere a&s;hamed yet, for to &s;hew her face,</L>
<L>And own her name, <HI>(The good and Vertuous Wife.)</HI></L>
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<P>Many Daughters have done vertuou&s;ly, but thou excelle&s;t them all.</P>
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<L>Look on her comely Face, her vertuous dre&s;s,</L>
<L>Tis neat though homely, you mu&s;t needs confe&s;s,</L>
<L>Her very ge&s;ture shews a mind well fraught,</L>
<L>With grace and goodne&s;s, hating all that's naught.</L>
<L>you &s;ee her, Buy her, read her at your lei&s;ure,</L>
<L>Twill tend as much to profit as to plea&s;ure.</L>
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<P>THE VERTUOUS WIFE Is the Glory of her <HI>Husband;</HI> OR, A Good <HI>Woman</HI> in her Proper Colours.</P>
<P>Shewing at large the Rare Endowments, Excel|lent qualities, that are as Ornaments and Jewels, which bedeck the brea&s;t of the truly Vertuous Woman.</P>
<P>Al&s;o ten Characters, or rare Jewels, hanging in the Crown of the vertuous Wife, who is the Glory of her Husband, the honour of her age, the mirrour of her Sex, the be&s;t Earthly Por|tion in the world.</P>
<P>Likewi&s;e many examples, as well Modern as Di|vine, Queens, Princes, and Ladies, eminent for Vertue and Goodne&s;s.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, A few coun&s;els to all young men to be wary in their choice, if ever they would ob|tain, that portion of portions, and Incompa|rable Jewel, the Good Wife.</P>
<Q><BIBL>Prov. 31.30.</BIBL> <P>Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but the woman that fears the Lord, &s;he &s;hall be prai&s;ed.</P></Q>
<P>By <HI>L. P.</HI> A well-wi&s;her to all Good Women.</P>
<P>Printed for <HI>T. Pa&s;&s;enger,</HI> at the three Bibles on the middle of London-Bridge. 1667.</P>
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<HEAD>The Epi&s;tle to the Reader.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>COurteous Reader,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I here pre&s;ent unto thy view, a true de&s;cription and Character of a vertuous Wife, &s;et forth in her proper colours. Perhaps thou may'&s;t wonder, that I would un|dertake to write any thing in the defence of that Sex, which &s;o many have &s;pent their railing di&s;|cour&s;es again&s;t: the more need therefore there is, that &s;omething appear in Print for the ju&s;tify|ing of tho&s;e, whom &s;o many condemne. Dare you &s;ay (becau&s;e &s;o many appear to be bad) that none are good? Examples in all ages and in the wor&s;t of times, do at large declare, Famous Monuments of vertue, wi&s;dom, and all graces are to be &s;een of women. Becau&s;e &s;ome are wantons, Dare you &s;ay all are uncha&s;t? though there be &s;ome counterfeit Gold, &s;o there is &s;ome true Gold; and though men happen on a wicked di&s;&s;olute woman, yet all do not &s;o: &s;ome thrive by throwing the Dice: as there is dro&s;s, &s;o there are &s;ome Jewels: as there is gall, &s;o there is &s;ome Honey. Therefore Condemn not all for one, but be advi&s;ed to be wary in thy cho<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ce, and be not afraid to lye in the gra&s;s, becau&s;e a &s;nake lyeth there. Men are not afraid to go to Sea, b<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">cau&s;e &s;ome men are d<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">owned at Sea: neither are men afraid to go to bed, becau&s;e &s;ome men die in their beds; &s;o be not afraid to marry, becau&s;e &s;ome men have ill fortune by Marriage.</P>
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<P>But behold this book, and &s;ee the Lively cha|racter of the vertuous wife drawn to the life. A vertuous woman is a good mans portion. Endea|vour after vertue thy &s;elf, and in time thou may&s;t find to thy happy content the Rare Jewel, called a Good wife, which are the hearty wi&s;hes of the Author.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>L. P.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<Q><L>LO here the matchle&s;s pattern of wife,</L>
<L>In vertue clad &s;et forth unto the life;</L>
<L>For good behaviour, mode&s;ty and wit,</L>
<L>And other graces, which her mind befit:</L>
<L>A perfect wife, a vertuous comely Dame,</L>
<L>A Vertuous VVoman is she call'd by Name:</L>
<L>He that enjoys her, hath all worldly good,</L>
<L>A ble&s;&s;ed portion, cloath'd in flesh and blood.</L>
<L>H'hath got him&s;elf a pattern for his life,</L>
<L>More <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">hen a woman, better then a wife.</L>
<L>Beauty affords content but to the eye,</L>
<L>Honour Jllu&s;trates what it cometh nigh.</L>
<L>The&s;e are but complements, 'tis inward worth,</L>
<L>That onely &s;ets a Vertuous woman forth.</L>
<L>Go vertuous Dame and shew thy inward grace,</L>
<L>Thy outward carriage, ge&s;ture, wit, and face:</L>
<L>That he who &s;ees thee, may wish 'twere his fate,</L>
<L>To live and dye with &s;uch a vertuous Mate.</L></Q>
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<HEAD>The Good Portion for good Men: OR, A Vertuous Woman a good mans Portion. Many Daughters have done Vertuou&s;ly, but thou excelle&s;t them all.</HEAD>
<P>_OF Men that have b&eacute;en remark|ably Vertuous, and patterns for piety, and all other graces, Hi&s;tories as well Modern as Divine, have very largely di&s;|cour&s;ed of: and infinite of ex|amples of all Ages and Generations do in a|bundance witne&s;s the &s;ame. Yet &s;hould I recount them all, They can never exc&eacute;ed th<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">
<PB N="8" REF="6"> piety and vertue which I have read of in Women, who have b&eacute;en famous for all ver|tues. I &s;hall therefore in the fir&s;t place en|deavour to lay before you the Character of a vertuous wife, in nine or ten Particulars, and then leave a few coun&s;els and whol&s;om rules, for the practice of young men to attain the Subject, called, <HI>The Vertuous wife.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. The fir&s;t Character of a good Wife, is this; She is one who hath the fear of God before her eyes, though the Daughters of <HI>Zion</HI> be haughty, and go with a &s;tiff neck, and all their actions be&s;peak their Pride, the vertuous Wife will endeavour in all things to k&eacute;ep a con&s;cience void of offence both to|ward God and toward Man: though others can &s;in with a high hand, and commit iniqui|ty with gr&eacute;edine&s;s, &s;he dares not, will not, di&s;obey God, for fear of that wrath and judgement which is denounced again&s;t all tho&s;e who break his Commands, <HI>but &s;he walks not as a fool but as wi&s;e, Redeeming the time, knowing the days are evil:</HI> &s;o in hopes of that recompence of Reward promi&s;ed to the obedient, &s;he per&s;everes to the end in every good work, and will not, though to gain a world, let the fear of man over-&s;way and o|ver-ballance that fear of God which is al|ways &amp; upon every account before her eyes.</P>
<P N="2"><PB N="9" REF="6">2. The &s;econd Character of a Vertuous Wife, is this, &s;he'l endeavor to live in love with, and &s;ubiection to her own husband: &s;he's not ready to render railing for railing, and back-biting for back-biting, but follows the example of vertous <HI>Sarah,</HI> who obeyed <HI>Abraham,</HI> and called him Lord: Though her husband be a daily temptation to her, and a great provocation to &s;tir up wrath in her, yet &s;he is equally ballanced, and will love in the mid&s;t of envy; &s;he by her vertue will conquer all difficulties, and throw down all temptations which might ari&s;e in her &s;pirit to the doing of any evil, or to the commit|ting of any revenge, but is ready to render good for evil, love for hatred, &s;he is far from the &s;pirit of revenge, &s;he is re&s;olved to live in love, as Chri&s;t hath loved her, and given him&s;elf for her, &s;he re&s;olves to accompany her ma&s;ter every where, even at &s;uch a time when his Di&s;ciples left him: as the love of God remains &s;ure, &s;o &s;hall her love and &s;ub|jection remain to the end, in the mid&s;t of all oppo&s;ition; and in this &s;he is the admiration of all, and a rare pattern as well as a good portion for good men.</P>
<P N="3">3. The third Character of a Vertuous Wife, is; &s;he is one who is cloathed with the
<PB N="10" REF="7"> garment of humility, 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 3.3. who&s;e ador|ning, let it not be that outward adorning of platting the hair, or wearing of gold, or putting on apparel, but had rather let it be the hidden man of the heart, even the orna|ments of a m&eacute;ek and quiet &s;pirit, which be|ing in the &s;ight of God of great price, &s;he de|&s;ires to be cloathed with it, &s;he de&s;ires to be found in a humble frame of &s;pirit before the Lord, knowing the contrite and humble &s;pirit the Lord will not de&s;pi&s;e: and this is a goodly ornament in a womans brea&s;t, and is accompanied with great renown: for while &s;ome lofty looks cannot endure the &s;ight of a poor wretch, the woman adorned with humility, will out of the vertuous incli|nation of her &s;pirit, endeavour to be &s;ervice|able in her place and generation, and &s;hew her piety even to poverty: &s;he vi&s;its the poor, and refre&s;hes the bowels of the n&eacute;edy, and her Chri&s;tian prudence is &s;et before her eyes, to make every thing &s;&eacute;em rea&s;onable that is aged by her: humility is a comly ornament in a womans brea&s;t.</P>
<P N="4">4. She is one who hath learned the rare Iewel, and incomparable art of Chri&s;tian contentment: come riches or poverty, liberty or re&s;traint, honour or dishonour, life or death come what will come, she hath learn'd
<PB N="11" REF="7"> in every e&s;tate to be content: hath God &s;ent her a wicked husband, a man of <HI>Belial,</HI> a man of a contentious &s;pirit, and froward di&s;po&s;i|tion, &s;he by the help of God is re&s;olved to live in &s;ubiection to him, and therefore is ready to give a good example, and grows better, and his &s;in is a whet&s;tone to her grace, and a me|dicine for her &s;ecurity: in this &s;he is the glo|ry of her &s;ex, and the mirror of her age, for though others have their dainties, &amp; delights: Content is her be&s;t di&s;h; in the want of all earthly comfort and injoyments, &s;he can &s;it down with content, and &s;ay with the <HI>P&s;almi&s;t, The Lord is my portion, therefore I shall not want:</HI> She knows that di&s;content is a viper in the brea&s;t, that &s;pits venome in the face of God, therefore re&s;olves in her &s;elf to hinder the over-&s;preading of this fretting Lepro&s;ie in her &s;oul, and &s;o continually k&eacute;eps &s;pirit in an humble frame, not in any thing extolling her own worth or defects.</P>
<P N="5">5. A fifth Character of a vertuous wife, is Patience: hath &s;he cro&s;&s;es either inward or outward, &s;he is re&s;olved to let patience have its perfect work. A ha&s;ty froward &s;pirit is contemned by her, &s;he had rather follow the example of <HI>Job,</HI> then <HI>Jobs</HI> wife, though her body be afflicted, her mind di&s;tempered, and &s;he be continually &s;urrounded with &s;orrow,
<PB N="12" REF="8"> yet will &s;he wait upon God patiently all her appointed time, untill her change come. And this grace is an enemy to all ha&s;ty and ra&s;h &s;pirits, with grief of &s;pirit and trouble of heart it is; which when &s;he con&s;iders that daring &s;p&eacute;ech of <HI>Job's</HI> wife to her husband, when she bad him cur&s;e God and dye, for en|during tho&s;e afflictions from the Hand of God, she would not for a world tempt the Lords patience &s;o much, by forgetting her own duty and work of patience in her &s;oul.</P>
<P N="6">6. A Vertuous wife, is a map of &s;obriety and mode&s;ty. Stubbornne&s;s, and ob&s;tinacy, are herbs that grow not in her garden, her pride is only to be cleanly, and her thrift not to be prodigal; she &s;corns the company of tatling Go&s;&s;ips, and is more &s;&eacute;en then heard: in her face and ge&s;ture, and in all actions, you may read nothing but vertue.</P>
<Q><L>Birth, Beauty, Wealth, unle&s;s with grace mixt,</L>
<L>Are too poor things for generous hearts to fix,</L>
<L>Sobriety and mode&s;ty, in one,</L>
<L>Are Jewels rare which grace the head alone.</L></Q>
<P N="7">7. She is very careful of her dome&s;tick Charg<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">. Though wantons and carele&s;s hou&s;|wives are gadding abroad and wantonizing among their companions, and cares not
<PB N="13" REF="8"> which end goes formo&s;t at home, yet the ver|tuous woman, out of the generou&s;ne&s;s of her &s;pirit, is re&s;olved to be a pattern to all wo|men, and will be &s;o diligent in her dome&s;tick charge, that no one shall have the lea&s;t cau&s;e to ca&s;t the lea&s;t a&s;per&s;ion upon her: she will be very careful to provide things nece&s;&s;ary for her family, in this she is re&s;olved to pre|&s;erve her Reputation un&s;potted; for what ever private imployment &s;he hath of her own, &s;he is careful fir&s;t about her hou&s;hold charge, to &s;&eacute;e that every thing be done in due order, shewing her &s;elf in all things a pattern for good hou&s;wives, and is likewi&s;e an honour to her Husband.</P>
<P N="8">8. She is of a plea&s;ing and &s;w&eacute;et di&s;po&s;iti|on: she hates the humours and ill qualities of tho&s;e pouting Dames, who think that the be&s;t behaviour which is accompanied with pride and Maje&s;ty. Now the vertuous will know no difference betw&eacute;en the Knight and the Begger, the Lord, and the Pea&s;ant, but will be very courteous to all, that he who runs may read vertue in all her actions.</P>
<P N="9">9. A vertuous Wife is accompanied with Cha&s;tity and Courte&s;ie, which two godly qualities reduce a Woman into a perfect temper: the prai&s;es of Cha&s;tity are inumer|able. <HI>Daphne</HI> re&s;i&s;ting the wooing of <HI>Apollo,</HI>
<PB N="14" REF="9"> was turned into a Lawrel, after which he always wore a Lawrel in his Hat, to te&s;tifie his Love.</P>
<P N="10">10. A Vertuous Wife wears prudence &amp; di&s;cretion in all her actions: beauty makes them but humane, but prudence makes them more like divine; if beauty wins them love, prudence makes them worthy of admiration. When <HI>The&s;eus</HI> was expo&s;ed to the <HI>Mercatour</HI> in the Labyrinth, who furni&s;hed him with means for his delivery, but by the di&s;cretion and prudence of the Prince&s;s whom he &s;er|ved, el&s;e he had never b&eacute;en di&s;intangled from tho&s;e intricate windings. When <HI>La&s;on</HI> was to &s;erve as a prey to the furious Bulls that kept the Fleece, was it not <HI>Medea</HI> that En|chanted them? and made the pa&s;&s;age fr&eacute;e unto the Prince, to carry that away which none dur&s;t enterprize.</P>
<P>In a word, the man that inioyes her, hath a happy portion, and hath great cau&s;e to ble&s;s God for his infinite goodne&s;s, for &s;ending him &s;uch a comfort as a good wife, who for her vertue can parallel, who&s;e greate&s;t learning is Religion, di&s;hone&s;ty ne'r comes nearer then her ears: &s;he hath content of her own, and &s;&eacute;eks not a Husband but finds him, the good of her Husband is the bu&s;ine&s;s of
<PB N="15" REF="9"> her actions, &s;he doth nothing more then love <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">im, &s;he is made up of goodne&s;s.</P>
<Q><L>And as she's good, she likewi&s;e is di&s;creet,</L>
<L>All heavenly graces in her bre&s;t do meet:</L>
<L><HI>A</HI> &s;oul, a body, not a &s;oul alone,</L>
<L>Goodne&s;s, and wit, and beauty all in one.</L>
<L>All pride fa&s;t bound in chains behind her lies,</L>
<L>Foul lu&s;t and envy from her pre&s;ence flies:</L>
<L>And on her bre&s;t in golden Letters write,</L>
<L>Mans be&s;t beloved, and mo&s;t chiefe&s;t delight;</L>
<L>He that in's choice doth meet with &s;uch a wife,</L>
<L>May well rejoyce all the days of his life.</L></Q>
<P>Hi&s;tories make mention of women famous for all vertues, among&s;t which, lets not for|get the merit of memory, our late mo&s;t illu|&s;trious Qu&eacute;en <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> of happy memory, who was a <HI>Saba</HI> for her wi&s;om, a warlike <HI>A|mazon</HI> for her magnanimity, a <HI>Cleopatra</HI> for her bounty, and a <HI>Camelia</HI> for her cha&s;tity: all men have &s;poke too little, no man can &s;peak too much: &s;acred be &s;till her memory to us on earth, as her ble&s;&s;ed &s;oul lives ever ble&s;&s;ed in Heaven.</P>
<P>Here &s;ucc&eacute;eded (though not in ab&s;olute Monarchy) yet a Prince&s;s of un&s;potted fame, incomparable Clemency, and im|matchable
<PB N="16" REF="10"> goodne&s;s, and mo&s;t remarkable vertue) Qu&eacute;en <HI>Anne,</HI> whom all degrees ho|noured, all Nations loved, and no tongue was ever heard to a&s;per&s;e with y^e lea&s;t Calumny, and by whom none had ever the lea&s;t cau&s;e of &s;orrow, unle&s;s in the lamentable lo&s;s of &s;o Grave and Gracious a Prince&s;s. And a|mong&s;t famous Women, lets not forget the late hopeful Lady, the Lady <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> who for all Princely virtues was the mirrour of her Age, and the glory of our Nations! Of Ladies Renowned for Cha&s;tity, and other Vertues, whole Volumes are filled with <HI>Lucretia</HI> being adulterated by <HI>Sextus Tarqui|nus,</HI> after she had &s;ent to her Friends to ac|quaint them with her injuries, becau&s;e &s;he would not live to be a by-word to <HI>Rome,</HI> nor pre&s;erve a defiled body for &s;o noble a Hus|band, with a Knife which &s;he had hid un|der her garment, &s;tab'd her &s;elf before them all. Likewi&s;e of women eminent for con|jugal love unto their Husbands, I have read of one <HI>Pandorus,</HI> who had a beautiful young Wife, to whom he was ardently affected: she on a time earne&s;tly de&s;ired him to forbear all conflicts with y^e enemy, to endanger both him&s;elf and her to ruine; but he by no means would hearken to her entreaties, which cau|&s;ed
<PB N="17" REF="10" MS="y"> to beg of him, before he went to end her fears, and tran&s;pierce her body with his Sword, which he denyed, and went out to the Battel: but at the fir&s;t On&s;et, the whole Army was overthrown, and him&s;elf &s;lain, and his beautiful wife immediately took cap|tive, and carried to the King: who&s;e great beauty much a&s;tonied him: in&s;omuch that after a &s;hort time he de&s;ired her in marriage, which &s;he put off with all po&s;&s;ible delays: in|&s;omuch that he re&s;olved to attain that by compul&s;ion, which he could not by per&s;wa|&s;ion: which coming to her ears, &s;he retired in private by her &s;elf, and wrote the&s;e words and left them upon the Table. <HI>(Let none re|port, that the Wife of Pandorus harboured &s;o little love as to out-live him.)</HI> And then &s;he immediately took a Knife and pierced her &s;elf.</P>
<P>Thus having given you in brief the true Character of a truely vertuous Wife in her Ornaments mo&s;t richly deckt, and for her graces for ever be admired. I &s;hall now give a few Coun&s;els to the hone&s;t young men of this age, to be wary in their choice, to &s;&eacute;e that they be careful to chu&s;e &s;uch as are thus qua|lified: for as there are good and vertuous wo|men,
<PB N="18" REF="11"> &s;o on the contrary there are too many that are a &s;hame to their S<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">x, a di&s;honour to their Parents, and the &s;ole troubles of a Fa|mily: therefore young men, when ever you find a woman cloathed wi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">h all tho&s;e Orna|ments of vertue, ble&s;s God for it, and take her as a rare Iewel, a Princely Portion, lent you to improve to your good, and his glory.</P>
<P N="1">1. Be careful young men in your choice, becau&s;e on it dep<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">nds one great part of your welfare here on earth: without this, all your joys will be mixed with abundance of &s;orrow. What is a greater cau&s;e of comfort and joy here on earth, then a vertuous wife? &s;he is a comfort of Youth, the &s;taff of Age, a Iewel, a Cr<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">wn, an Ornam<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">nt to her Husband: therefore young men be wary, as ever you would have ioy and comfort in this worth, let it not be enough that beauty adorns her face, but &s;&eacute;e that vertue adorns her actions: for the Proverb may of<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> prove true: <HI>Under a fair face may be hid a fal&s;e heart.</HI> Thou can&s;t not be too cautious in this thy choice: there|fore be as wary as thou can&s;t.</P>
<P N="2">2. The &s;econd coun&s;el I would give young men, is this: As I would have you look into
<PB N="19" REF="11"> her qualities and conditions, &s;o inquire after the Life and Conver&s;ation of her Parents. If the Parents be vertuous, they will endea|vour as near as po&s;&s;ible, to trace up their Children in the way they &s;hould go, that when they are old they may not depart from it: this way, though not always &s;ure, yet it is the &s;ure&s;t way thou can&s;t go. Mark diligently, and inquire after her behaviour, &s;&eacute;e that &s;he be vertuous, wi&s;e, and kind, &s;uch a Wife will make th&eacute;e a happy man, and thy life &s;hall be a comfort, which otherwi&s;e would be a burthen to thee, therefore account of her as the onely trea&s;ure thou enioye&s;t upon the earth, and the rare&s;t Iewel that ever thou did&s;t or &s;hall enioy in this world.</P>
<P N="3">3. Chu&s;e one that is vertuous, becau&s;e &s;he looketh well <HI>to the ways of her hou&s;hold, and eateth not the bread of idlene&s;s:</HI> A vertuous Wife is a credit to her Husband. S&eacute;e the wi&s;e&s;t of men, even <HI>Solomon,</HI> his commen|dation of a vertuous woman: in the la&s;t Chap. of the <HI>Prov.</HI> from Ver&s;e 10 to the end&punc; <HI>Who can find a vertuous woman? For her price is far above Rubies. The heart of her Husband can &s;afely tru&s;t in her, &s;o that she shall have no need of &s;poil. She will do him good and not evil
<PB N="20" REF="12"> all the days of her life: She &s;eeketh Wool and Flax, and worketh diligently with her hands: She's like the Merchants Ship, she bringeth Food from far. She ari&s;eth al&s;o while it is night, and giveth meat to her houshold, and a portion to her Maidens: she con&s;idereth a Field and buy|eth it, with the Fruit of her hands she planteth a Vineyard, she girdeth her loyns with &s;trength, and &s;trengthneth her arms: she conceiveth her merchandize is good, and her candle goeth not out by night: She layeth her hands to the &s;pindle, and her hands hold the di&s;taff: she &s;tretcheth forth her hands to the poor; yea, she &s;tretcheth forth her hands to the needy. She is not afraid of the Snow, for all her houshold are cloathed with Scarlet: She maketh her &s;elf coverings of Tape|&s;try, her cloathing is Silk and Purple. Her Hus|band is known in the gates, when he &s;itteth a|mong the Elders of the Land: she maketh fine Linnen and &s;elleth it, and delivereth Girdles to the Merchant. Strength and honour are her cloathing, and she shall rejoyce in time to come: she openeth her mouth with wi&s;dom, and in her Tongue is the Law of kindne&s;s. She looketh well to the ways of her hou&s;hold, and eateth not the bread of idlene&s;s: her Children ari&s;e up and call her ble&s;&s;ed, her husband al&s;o, and he prai&s;|eth her. Many Daughters have done vertuou&s;ly,
<PB N="21" REF="12"> but thou excelle&s;t them all. Favour is deceitful, and Beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be prai&s;ed. Give her of the Fruit o<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> her hands, and let her own works prai&s;e her in the gates.</HI> Here is <HI>Solomons</HI> Emblem of a vertuous wife at large de&s;cribed. Be Cautious then in your choice, and lay this as a pattern before your eyes, as ever you would live happily here, and ble&s;&s;ed hereaf|ter: Endeavour to find the &s;ubiect in&s;i&s;ted on. <HI>The vertuous Wife.</HI></P>
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