Institutions, essays, and maxims, political, moral, and divine divided into four centuries / by the Right Honoura[ble] L. Marqu. of H[alifax]
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Institutions, essays, and maxims, political, moral, and divine divided into four centuries / by the Right Honoura[ble] L. Marqu. of H[alifax]
Author
Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
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London :: Printed for, and are to be so[ld by] Josias Shaw ...,
1698.
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Conduct of life.
Maxims.
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"Institutions, essays, and maxims, political, moral, and divine divided into four centuries / by the Right Honoura[ble] L. Marqu. of H[alifax]." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A56827.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 13, 2024.
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MAX. 2.
If thy Fancy and Judgment have agreed in the choice of a Wife, be not too fond, lest she surfeit, nor too peevish, lest she languish: Love so that thou may'st be feared; rule so that thou may'st be honoured; be not too diffident, lest thou teach her to deceive thee; nor too suspicious, lest thou teach her to abuse thee. If thou see a fault, let thy Love hide it; if she continue it, let thy Wisdom reprove it: Reprove her not openly, lest she grow bold; re∣buke her not tauntingly, lest she grow spiteful; proclaim not her Beauty, lest she grow
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proud; boast not her Wisdom, lest thou be thought foolish; shew her not thy Imperfections, lest she disdain thee; pry not into her Dairy, lest she despise thee; prophane not her Ears with loose Communication, lest thou defile the Sanctuary of her Modesty. An under∣standing Husband makes a dis∣creet Wife; and she a happy Husband.
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