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Now then, what unnatural wives are they that steal a•d purloin from their husbands, s•lling away their wares and such like, for to bestow their money in gossiping, in following the fashion, and fine fare, &c? Hereby they 1. break the Commandment: 2. They ill repay their husbands labour and pains, and so reward evil for good. 3. They impoverish their husbands estate, it decays they know not how: when the year ⟨p. 29⟩comes about, the•r gains are gone, and consumed as the dew before the Sun. 4. They show themselves to be arrant thieves, so much more worse than other, because greater trust is put in them than in other, & therefore the deceit is the greater: as, Prou. 28.24. 5. They are ill examples to those that are under them, to do the like, and indeed commonly they use their servants help in this dealing.

Now then, what vnnaturall wiues are they that steale a•d purloyne from their husbands, s•lling away their wares and such like, for to bestow their money in gos•ipping, in following the fashion, and fine fare, &c? Hereby they 1. breake the Commandement: 2. They ill •epay their husbands labour and paines, and so reward euill for good. 3. They impouerish their husbands estate, it decayes they know not how: when the yeere ⟨p. 29⟩comes about, the•r gaines are gone, and consumed as the dew before the Sunne. 4. They shew themselues to be arrant theeues, so much more worse than other, because greater trust is put in them than in other, & therefore the deceit is the greater: as, Prou. 28.24. 5. They are ill examples to those that are vnder them, to doe the like, and indeed commonly they vse their seruants helpe in this dealing.