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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08179	A discourse, of marriage and vviuing and of the greatest mystery therein contained: how to choose a good wife from a bad. An argument of the dearest vse, but the deepest cunning that man may erre in: which is, to cut by a thrid betweene the greatest good or euill in the world. Pertinent to both sexes, and conditions, as well those already gone before, as shortly to enter this honest society. By Alex. Niccholes, Batchelour in the art he neuer yet put in practise.	Niccholes, Alexander.	1615 (1615)	STC 18514; ESTC S113190	36,315	64

A Discourse OF MARRIAGE AND WIVING AND OF The greatest Mystery therein CONTAINED How to choose a good Wife from a bad An Argument Of the dearest vse but the deepest cunning that man may erre in which is to cut by a Thrid betweene the greatest Good or euill in the world Pertinent to both Sexes and Conditions as well those already gone before as shortly to enter this honest society Amare sapere vix Dijs conceditur BY ALEX. NICCHOLES Batchelour in the Art he neuer yet put in practise Hee that stands by and doth the game suruey Sees more oftimes then those that at it play LONDON Printed by N.O. for Leonard Becket and are to be sold at his Shop in the Inner-Temple 1615. TO THE VERTVOVS YONG GENTLEMAN AND HIS VVORTHILY REspected friend Mr. Thomas Edgworth vnder Treasurer of Windsor Health and Content in his owne Person and in the happy fruition of his vertuous Wife SIR your felicity the highest top of enioyment in this kind is become the aime that the practicke Art in this schoole of direction leuelleth at you being already instated with enuy and admiration in that blisse which others may thus toyle after in most beseeming circumstances by many degrees to come short of VVhen I enter this course of life as for ought I know I may one day marry be it my highest ambition with all my directions to haue one to be a neere imitator of her so many Religious and Morall vertues for whose happy continuance my best wishes shall be spent that she may long continue yours to make you a father of happy and vndoubted children sonnes for the earth and Saints for heauen multiplying vpon your head all the comforts in that Couenant And for this Treatise which by your direction comes forth to direct others to that modell of happinesse wherein you stand eminent may it haue that successe with all that it hath had approbation with you and as kinde entertainement with the world as those best creatures the subiect thereof in their perfection deserue which are the Seed and Seminary thereof and which by this meanes haue maintained that lasting and yet vn-ended war against those two arch and vnwearied aduersaries of Mankind Time and Death the wasters thereof and consumers of all sublunary things which began their siege against the first man that liued and haue euer since held on without league or imparlance for the space of these 5500 yeares and vpwards and which shall go on and continue the siedge to the end thereof and consummation of all things VVherein if it shall be so happy beyond expectation the paine thereof hath beene well vndertaken and your encouragement fortunately seconded which howsoeuer I leaue it to the aduenture and you to your hearts best wishes By him that intirely is dedicated yours ALEX. NICCHOLES To the Youth and Batchelary of England hote blouds at high Reuels which fore-thought of this action and all other that hereafter intend this aduenture SINCE that the meanest blessing in mans life Is not the Dowry of a vertuous wife No otherwise then is the aduerse crosse To him that beares it the most easy losse Therefore to you whose weary bonds yet keepe Seuering the Armes wherein you long to sleepe That haue before-hand many a tedious howre Wisht that approaching minute in your powre Which when arriu'd most slowly brought to passe Cancels but Parchment to inroule in Brasse What not so short a terme of yeares shall end Vnlesse one shew himselfe the kinder friend Wherein lest your to forward hast should stray Here is beforehand chalked out a way As conscience craueth for so large connexion Should not be entred in without direction Which who so walkes in to the true intent Shall not commit that action to repent The ignorant by this haue sharper eyes More deeper insight to these misteries And were their vnderstanding darke or blinde To passe this Laborinth 't is here refinde Here are the Characters insculpt and read That make a happy or a loathed bed What woman is on whom all these depend Her Vse Creation Excellence and End In making choyce how much to be confin'd To Beauty Riches Parentage or Kinde What are the chiefe disturbers of this state That soonest point a man that sorest fate Here are the Rockes discouered to the eye That he that would not shipwracke may saile by And these the rather being aforehand laid Vnballanst pleasures to each youth and maid That when experience shall their sweetnesse tell In stead of heauen they purchase not a hell And that the ioy their forward youth hath sought Vncrosly match'd mry come more neere their thought To those that forbeare marriage for more liberty of sin But you whose lusts this lymit shall not tye For more inlargement to variety That will not any your owne proper call The better interressed to commerse with all As when your Lord and Lady downe are laid Behind the dore to woe the Chamber-maid Or amongst neighbours where you lead your liues To be the more familliar with ther wiues Or any place where ere you do espye A pretty morsell pleasing to your eye To ceize it more suspectlesse being knowne Then hee that hath at home a wife of 's owne Well take that blessing but withall this curse To walke on weake legges with an empty purse The Contents 1 OF the Institution and Author of Marriage 2 Of the excellency of Marriage with the consequence and vse 3 Worldly choyce what it is or how for the most part men choose theis wiues 4 How to choose a good wife from a bad 5 What yeares are most conuenient for Marriage 6 That conueniency and fitnesse in choyce is more to bee preferred then either Beauty Riches or any other addition of either minde or fortune 7 What is that chiefe moath and canker that especially vndermineth and fretteth the marriage bed 8 Aduice for choyce and whether it be best to marry a Widdow or a Maide 9 Since the end of Marriage is Issue whether it be lawfull for old Couples to marry that are past hope of children 10 The difference betweene Lust and Loue. 11 The best way to continue a woman chaste 12 The patterne of a bad husband and a good wife instanced in two letters 13 An admonition to Hu-bands and Wiues for Vnity and Concord 14 Certaine precepts to be obserued in Wiuing and Marriage as also resolutions to Chastety 15 Discontents in all Ages Sexes States Conditions If by this leuell thou a good wife hit Thanke God that ere this Booke was bought or writ Of Marriage and Wiuing CHAP. I. Of the first Institution and Authour of Marriage IT is not good for man to bee alone saith the alone and absolute Goodnesse of all goodnesse it selfe 〈…〉 mus ergo adiutorem 〈◊〉 Gen. 2.18 Let vs therefore make him a helper meete for him So the creation of the woman was to be a helper to the man not a hinderer a companion for his comfort not a