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The Widdowes Warning.
BE wise, and take no churlish Clowne,
Nor blend with flocks, thy Thistle-down
Chuse not for out-side, shun each lover
But golden Ludgate-like, in cover.
The Ruffin that can sweare and swell,
And covenant with death and hell,
Preferre not: nor the Fox that preyes
In covert, and in broken wayes.
Chuse not for wealth, where other things
But passant are; yet this has wings.
Nor any peece of Bombaste chuse,
That with his Place, and Title sues;
Taking herein the greater care,
Because they now are chapmans ware.
Take not a Husband by report;
Examine first his head, his heart,
His Conscience, pierce him to the Lees;
Marke how each joynt of his agrees,
And jumps with thine; for if they vary,
The Priest that does your bodies marry,
But glewes a Potsheard. In a word,
If thou canst marrow with a Bird
Of thine owne feather, one whose wars
Spirituall be, whose aime is stars;