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A care-cloth
A care-cloth: or a treatise of the cumbers and troubles of marriage intended to advise them that may, to shun them; that may not, well and patiently to bear them. By William Whately, preacher of the word of God in Banbury, in Oxfordshire.A care-cloth: or a treatise of the cumbers and troubles of marriage intended to aduise them that may, to shun them; that may not, well and patiently to beare them. By William Whately, preacher of the word of God in Banbury, in Oxfordshire.
London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Thomas Man, 1624
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
With what resolution could you parents under-go the burying ⟨p. 54⟩of a good child, or the living of a bad? But let it be granted, that a mans children shall prove at least indifferent and tolerable; there is yet another necessary member of a family, which may make the hear of the family ache exceedingly; these are servants of both sexes, men and maids. Some servants be idle, and slothful, and will do little; some be hollow and deceitful, and will do nothing but when the governors eye is upon them; some be rude and rebellious, and will do what they lust themselves for all their governors speeches; some be false and untrusty, and will purloin their goods if they can; some be careless and forgetful, and procure exceeding loss by their negligence; some be riotous and wasteful, have a sweet tooth, and will have their good cheer of their Masters cost, but without his privity; some be stragglers, licentious, out-liars, that lodge not in their Masters families on nights, but frequent their meetings in the time of sleep, and take their sleep in the time of working; some he surly and saucy, and will deserve reproofs oft enough, but will never receive them with patience. Some are soft and slow, and though they seem to be willing, yet are able to dispatch little; some be simple and indiscreet, and will be doing, but without fore-sight and wisdom, and so do little to the purpose; some be quarrelsome and snarling, and always making brawls with their fellow servants, which needs must end in their masters loss on both ⟨p. 55⟩sides. Now let all that affect marriage, ask themselves, What shift should I make to bear with a slow, drumbling, lazy servant, whose work is not worth his meat, but he goes about his business, even just like as a tired horse, fair and softly? Or how should I break a servant, as nimble of his tongue, as of his hands, that will be my master, and have his own way in all things, or else he will dispatch nothing? that will be as loud as my self, if I begin to reprove, and tell me plainly, that he will not mend for chiding, and I see plainly, that he will not mend without it? How should I live with an unprovident, heedless servant, that will lose more on a day, then his labour is worth in a month?
With what resolution could you parents vnder-goe the burying ⟨p. 54⟩