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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

vexation it is the harbenger vnto with such a Leuiathan of the Land as is a furious woman for as a vertuous woman is a hauen of beauty so a wicked woman is a sea of euils and in her tyde more full then that element of monsters worse far to liue with then a smoaky house for that for the most part offends onely the eyes in the head but this all the sences in the body Nay he that hath such a Familiar hath a worse neighbour of his owne then Horsam should haue had if her fabulous Dragon had beene true Yet though in the curse it be subiect to these euils blesse it in the true vse and it is of all humane comforts the greatest for if the mutuall society betweene friend and friend be so great that in affliction it administreth comfort and in ioy it heapeth the measure to the brime by detracting from the sowre and adding to the sweete by a sensible participation of eithers quality how much more then shall it be enlarged by such a friend which is to vs a second selfe or Treasurer of our owne thoughts and therefore more neerely interressed in either the one or the other Besides this in thy Marriage the very name whereof should portend vnto theee Merry-age thou not onely vnitest vnto thy selfe a friend and comfort for society but also a companion for pleasure and in some sort a seruant for profite too for a wife is all these Besides by the excellency and blessing of this institution thou continuest thy name thy likenesse and thy Generation walkes vpon earth and so liuest in thy similitude in despight of death when thou thy selfe art dead and raked vp in dust and otherwise without remembrance vnlesse by some ruinous stone or ragged Epitaph and so in some sort makest thy body immortall like thy soule and not onely by this dost thou adde to the Sons of the earth but to the Saints of heauen Besides by this so excellent so honourably accounted of amongst all men are thy wilde and vnbrideled affections reduced to humanity and ciuility to mercy and clemency and thou thy selfe called backe to looke into thy selfe and to vnderstand the substance and truth of things and therefore he that hath no wife is said to be a man vnbuilt that wanteth one of his ribbes a sleepe as Adam was till his wife was made for marriage awaketh the vnderstanding as out of a dreame and he that hath no wife is said to be a man in the midst of the sea perishing for want of this ship to waft him to shore Is said to be parched in the heate of the Sunne that hath not this Vine to rest him vnder her shadow If sickenesse come it brings thee a Physition if health continue it is partly a preseruer But to go further to equall it with the best commended Virginity where is the man this day liuing whose Virginity may be compared with Abrahams Mariage in whom all the Nations of the earth were blessed S. Austin opposeth it to the Virginity of S. Iohn But the greatest authority we haue in praise of Marriage is the vnion of Christ with his Church compared vnto it The Bond whereof is the holy Ghost the contract the Gospell the Apostles the Registers all married men except S. Iohn and S. Paul And Iesus Christ sealed it with his Bloud the betrothing whereof is heere below in the Church but the wedding it selfe shall be solemnized in heauen It is likewise the originall of all paires of all couples Primum par fundamentum parium saith one father and childe maister and seruant husband and wife all grow out of this first vnion and coniunction all kindred and affinity in the world take their birth from this roote without which men would liue dispearsed like sauage beasts and irrationall creatures without distinction or separation of Tribe or family which are the first parts of a Common-wealth CHAP. III. Worldly choyce what it is or how for the most part men choose their wiues IT is a fashion much in vse in these times to choose wiues as Chapmen sell their wares with Quantum dabitis what is the most you will giue and if their parents or guardians shall reply there vertues are their portions and others haue they none let them be as dutifull as Sara as vertuous as Anna as obedient as the Virgine Mary these to the wise man euery one a rich portion and more pretious then the gold of Ophire shall be nothing valued or make vp where wealth is wanting these may be adiuncts or good additions but money must be the principall of all that marry and that scope is large there are but few that vndergoe it for the right end and vse whereby it comes to passe that many attaine not to the blessednesse therein Some vndergoe this curse in steed of blessing meerely for lust chusing their wiues most vnfitly as Adulteresses and such are said to marry by the eye looking no further then a carnall beauty is distinguished which consists in the outward shape and lyneaments of the body as in gate gesture countenance behauiour c. And for such a one so she be faire and can kisse she hath portion enough for such a Pirate but when this flower withers as it is of no continuance for diseases blast it age deuoures it discontent doth wither it onely vertue is not foyled by these aduersaries what shall continue loue as then to the end there Winter sure shall be full of want full of discontent that thus grashopper-like respected their Summer There are others that marry to ioyne wealth to wealth and those are said to marry by the fingers ends Some others there are that take their wiues from the report or good liking of others and those are said to take their wiues vpon trust and such I hope are not seldome deceiued in their venture There are some that marry for continuance of posterity and those come neerest to the true intent for the end of marriage is proles issue It was the primall blessing Increase and multiply God hath giuen and bequeathed many Precepts and Commandements to mankind yet of all that euer he deliuered neuer was there any better obserued for the letter then this Nay the most part are so ready to accomplish his Will herein that for hast many times they ouerslip the true circumstances thereof doing it Propter intentionem praeter viam for God requires Liberi not Spurij children not bastards and those that thus increase it do it more for the manner then the end more for lust then for loue CHAP. IIII. How to choose a good wife from a bad THis vndertaking is a matter of some difficulty for good wiues are many times so like vnto bad that they are hardly discerned betwixt they could not otherwise deceiue so many as they do for the deuill can transforme himselfe into an Angell of Light the better to draw others into the chaines of darkenesse so these his creatures