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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57532	Remains of Sir Walter Raleigh ...; Selections. 1657	Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.; Vaughan, Robert.	1657 (1657)	Wing R180; Wing R176_PARTIAL; ESTC R20762	121,357	368

If she study to please thee and be sweet unto thee in conversation without thy instruction for Love needs no teaching nor precept On the other side be not sower or stern to thy wife for cruelty engendereth no other thing than hatred Let her have equall part of thy Estate whilest thou livest it thou find her sparing and honest but what thou givest after thy death remember that thou givest it to a stranger and most times to an enemy for he that shall marry thy wife will despise thee thy memory and thine and shall possesse the quiet of thy labours the fruit which thou hast planted enjoy thy love and spend with joy and ease what thou hast spared and gotten with care and travel Yet always remember that thou leave not thy wife to be a shame unto thee after thou art dead but that she may live according to thy estate especially if thou hast few Children and them provided for But howsoever it be or whatsoever thou find leave thy wife no more than of necessity thou must but onely during her widowhood for if she love again let her not enjoy her second love in the same bed wherein she loved thee nor fl●e to future pleasures with those feathers which death hath pulled from thy wings but leave thy estate to thy house and children in which thou livest upon earth whilest it lasteth To conclude Wives were ordained to continue the generation of men not to transferre them and diminish them either in continuance or ability and therfore thy house and estate which liueth in thy son and not in thy wife is to be preferred Let thy time of marriage be in thy young and strong years for believe it ever the young wife betrayeth the old husband and she that had thee not in thy flower will despise thee in thy fall and thou shalt be unto her but a captivity and sorrow Thy best time will be towards thirty for as the younger times are unfit either to chuse or to govern a wife and family so if thou stay long thou shalt hardly see the education of thy Children which being left to strangers are in effect lost and better were it to be unborn than ill bred for thereby thy posterity shall either perish or remain a shame to thy name and family Furthermore if it be late ere thou take a wife thou shalt spend the prime and summer of thy life with Harlots destroy thy health impoverish thy estate and endanger thy life and be sure of this that how many Mistresses soever thou hast so many enemies thou shalt purchase to thy self for there never was any such affection which ended not in hatred or disdain Remember the saying of Solomon There is a way which seemeth right to a man but the issues thereof are the wages of death for howsoever a lewd woman please thee for a time thou wilt hate her in the end and she will study to destroy thee If thou canst not abstain from them in thy vain and unbridled times yet remember that thou sowest on the lands dost mingle the vital bloud with corruption and purchasest diseases repentance and hatred onely Bestow therefore thy youth so that thou mayest have comfort to remember it when it hath forsaken thee and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof whilest thou art young thou wile think it will never have an end but behold the longest day hath his evening and that thou shalt enjoy it but once that it never turns again use it therefore as the Spring time which soon departeth and wherein thou oughtest to plant and sow all provisions for a long and happy life CHAP. III. Wisest men have been abused by flatterers TAke care thou be not made a fool by flatterers for even the wisest men are abused by these Know therefore that flatterers are the worst kind of Traitours for they will strengthen thy imperfections encourage thee in all evil correct thee in nothing but so shadow and paint all thy vices and follies as thou shalt never by their will discern evil from good or vice from virtue And because all men are apt to flatter themselves to entertain the additions of other mens praises is most perillous Do not therefore praise thy self except thou wile be counted a vain glorious fool neither take delight in the praises of other men except thou deserve it and receive it from such as are worthy and honest and will withall warn thee of thy faults for flatterers have never any virtue they are ever base creeping cowardly persons A flatterer is said to be a beast that biteth smiling it is said by Isaiah in this manner My people they that praise thee seduce thee and disorder th● paths of thy feet and David desired God to cut out the tongue of a flatterer But it is hard to know them from friends so are they obsequious and full of protestations for as a wolf resembles a dog so doth a flatterer a friend A flatterer is compared to an Ape who because she cannot defend the house like a dog labour as an ox or bear burdens as a horse doth therefore yee play tricks and prouoke laughter Thou mayest be sure that he that will in private tell thee thy faults is thy friend for he adventures thy mislike and doth hazard thy hatred for there are few men that can endure it every man for the most part delighting in self-praise which is one of the most uniuersall follies which bewitcheth mankind CHAP. IV. Private quarrels to be avoided BE carefull to avoid publick disputations at Feast or at Tables among cholerick or quarrelsom persons and eschew evermore to be acquainted or familiar with Ruffians for thou shalt be in as much danger in contending with a brawler in a private quarrel as in a battel wherein thou mayest get honour to thy self and safety to thy Prince and Countrey but if thou be once engaged carry thy self bravely that they may fear thee after To shun therefore private fight be well advised in thy words and behaviour for honour and shame is in the talk and the tongue of a man causeth him to fall Iest not openly at those that are simple but remember how much thou art bound to God who hath made thee wiser Defame not any woman publickly though thou know her to be evil for those that are faulty cannot endure to be taxed but will seek to be avenged of thee and those that are not guilty cannot endure unjust reproch And as there is nothing more shamefull and dishonest than to do wrong so truth it self cutteth his throat that carrieth her publikly in every place Remember the divine saying He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life Do therefore right to all men where it may profit them and thou shalt thereby get much love and forbear to speak evil things of men though it be tru● if thou be not constrained and thereby thou shalt avoid malice and revenge Do not accuse any man of any crime if