A care-cloth

and lets all things go to wreck and ruin under his hands, only for want of pains and care, that is ever grumbling at his work, and disliking of his diet, and still thinks that his labour is too painful, and his fare too hard; that will prig, steal, and lie, and cares not how he cozens me, so that he can either impudently out-face, or craftily beguile me? In a word, How could I bear slothfulness, sullenness, wastefulness, carelessness, whereof some are in all, and all in most servants? How could I suffer this affliction in the flesh, which those that are married, can hardly escape? And now leaving the persons in the family, let us consider the things thereof, even the whole estate of men, and see what burdens may thence be cast upon the shoulders of the married couple.

and lets all things goe to wreck and ruine vnder his hands, onely for want of paines and care, that is euer grumbling at his work, and disliking of his diet, and still thinks that his labour is too painefull, and his fare too hard; that will prig, steale, and lie, and cares not how hee coozens me, so that he can either impudently out-face, or craftily beguile me? In a word, How could I beare slothfulnes, sullennes, wastefulnes, carelesnes, whereof some are in all, and all in most seruants? How could I suffer this affliction in the flesh, which those that are married, can hardly escape? And now leauing the persons in the family, let vs consider the things thereof, euen the whole estate of men, and see what burdens may thence bee cast vpon the shoulders of the married couple.

Who doth not know, how troublesome a thing it is to want necessaries; and withal, how common of those, which when they lived in single life, abounded in all things, and never knew (nor thought they should know) what it was to need a penny, but have fared abundantly, and been attired comelily, and had still something to spare, for the satisfying of their own desires? Very many after marriage, be put into the close stocks of misery, want, and necessity, not having wherewithal to provide convenient food and raiment for themselves, and for their charge, which unawares, and without fore-sight, is now grown heavy upon them. It is an easy thing to fill one belly, and clothe one back, and keep something in the purse, when but one hand must fetch out of it: but to provide diet and attire for a wife, for many small children, for some servants; to pay for house-rent, and fuel, and candle; to disburse the compelled charges of the weakness of a wife, of children, of servants, and to bring up many with the fruit of one mans labour and industry; this doth oftentimes prove far less easy, then men in imagination can deem it to be. Neither doth this necessity attend alone upon persons of lower rank, that must get their living by their fingers ends, and live upon their hard and toilsome labour; but many a man also, that flourisheth at first, with a good stock of his own, and a good portion of his wives, at last, by means of crosses and losses in divers kinds, doth run through