A preparative to marriage The sum whereof was spoken at a contract, and enlarged…A preparatiue to mariage The summe whereof was spoken at a contract, and inlarged…

so when thou marriest, remember Ichorams wife, and be not wedded to her which hath not the Wedding garment: but let unity go first, and let union come after, and hope not to convert her, but fear that she will pervert thee, least thou say after, like him which should come to the Lords banquet, I have married a wife and ¹cannot come.

so when thou marriest, remember Ichorams wife, and be not wedded to her which hath not the Wedding garment: but let vnitie goe first, and let vnion come after, and hope not to conuert her, but feare that she wil peruert thee, least thou saye after, like him which should come to the Lords banquet, I haue married a wife and ¹cannot come.

1. 1Luk. 14. 20.

Yet the chiefest point is behind, ¹that is your duties. The duties of Marriage may be reduced to the duties of Man and Wife one toward another, and their duties toward their children, and their duties toward their servants. For themselves, sayeth one, they must think that they are like two birds, the one is the Cock, and the other ²is the Dam: the Cock flieth abroad ⟨p. 55⟩to bring in, the Dam sitteth upon the nest to keep all at home. So God hath made the man to travail abroad, and the woman to keep home: and so their nature, and their wit, and their strength are fitted accordingly; for the mans pleasure is most abroad, and the woman's within.