Scene 36.
Why do you weep Mistriss?
Because my Father will have me marry.
Many young Maids weep because they cannot get Husbands, but few weep to enjoy one.
I do not cry because I shall have a Husband, but because I shall have a Foot to my Husband.
There are few wise Husbands, and fewer wise Men.
What difference is betwixt a wise Husband, and a wise Man.
Why a wise Husband is to rule and govern his Wife, well, but a wise Man is to rule and govern himself, well, and there is more that can tell how to rule and govern others than themselves, like as there may be good Kings and not good Men, and good Men and not good Kings, or as there may be good Teachers as Preachers, and not good practisers; so this Gentleman you are to marry may be a wise Husband, although not a wise Man.
But he will be both a foolish Husband, and a fool∣ish Man.
If he prove a foolish Husband you have no reason to cry, for then you will have the more Liberty.
The more liberty to be a Fool you mean.
Indeed liberty to women makes them rather foolish than wise: for women know not how to use liberty discreetly, for when they have liberty they run beyond the bounds of discretion.
Faith if I marry this same Gentleman that my Father sayes I shall, I shall run beyond the bounds of Matrimony.
That is to run into your Neighbours Bed.