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Folly to repent the choice of a Wife, Mar∣riage being once past. [ 1527]
WHen Caesar was to passe Rubicon against Pompey,* 1.1 he left the Land with this Resolution That a Man could be undone but once: As it is in the go¦vernment of a Common-weale, or in the ordering of an Army, Non licet in bello bis peccare, a Commander can erre but once (which is a miserable happinesse) overthrow and ruine following so close, he cannot have leisure to be twice faul∣ty: So often-times it falls out in the choice of a Wife,* 1.2 Men have not leave to change often; once blest or curst, must be for ever so; for better or worse during life, What is tyed by the tongue cannot be untied by the hands. It will be good therefore for Men to look before they leap, to be very wary in the point of Wi∣ving, For if they marry they know not whom, they may (for ought any Man knows) mend their choice they know not when.