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…

Lastly, we call the Wife, Housewife, that is, house wife, not a street ¹wife like Tamar, nor a field wife like Dinah, but a house wife, to show that a good wife keeps her house: & therefore Paul biddeth ²Titus to exhort women that they be chaste, & keeping at home: presently after Chaste, he saith, keeping at home, as though Home were Chastity's keeper. And therefore Solomon depainting the Whore, ³setteth her at the door, now sitting upon her stalls, now walking in the streets, now looking out of the windows, like curled Jezebel, as if she held forth the glass ⁴of temptation, for vanity to gaze upon. But Chastity careth to please but one, and therefore she keeps her Closet, as though she were still at prayer. The Angel asked Abraham, where is thy ⟨p. 60⟩wife? Abraham answered, she is ⁵in the Tent. The Angel knew where she was, but yet he asked, that we might see how Women in old time did keep their tents and houses. It is recorded of the Shunamite, that she did ask her ⁶Husband leave to go unto the Prophet, though she went to a Prophet, and went of a good errand, and for his cause as much as her own, yet she thought it not meet to go far abroad without her Husbands leave.

Lastly, wee call the Wife, Huswife, that is, house wife, not a street ¹wife like Thamar, nor a field wife like Dinah, but a house wife, to shew that a good wife keepes her house: & therefore Paule biddeth ²Titus to exhort women that they be chast, & keeping at home: presently after Chast, he saith, keeping at home, as though Home were Chastities keeper. And therefore Salomon depainting the Whore,