who can pass away his daies without a Wife is the most happiest.  Verily a Wife is a heavy burthen; but especially a married one; for a Maid that is marriageable, will do all that ever she can to hide her infirmities, till she be tied in Wedlock to either one or other miserable wretch.  She overpowers her very nature and affections; changes her behaviour, & covers all her evil and wicked intentions.  She dissembleth her hypocrisie, and hides her cunning subtleties.  She puts away all her bad actions, and masks all her deeds.  She mollifies both her speech and face; and to say all in one word, she puts on the face of an Angel, till she hath found one or other whom she thinks fit to deceive with her base tricks and actions.  But having caught him under the Slavery of this false apparition; she then turns the t’other side of the Meddal; and draws back the curtain of her Vizards, to shew the naked truth, which she so long had palliated, and her modesty only forbad her to reveal:  By degrees then vomiting up the venom that she so long had harboured under her sweet hypocrisie.  And then is repenting, or the greatest understanding of no worth to you:  Perhaps you may tell me, that you have a Mistriss, who is fair, rich, young, wise, airy, and hath the very majestical countenance of a Queen upon her forehead; and that these are all reasons which oblige you to love her.  But I pray, consider with your self, that a fair Woman is oftentimes tempted; a young, perillous; a rich, proud and haughty; a wise, hypocritical; an airy, full of folly; and if she be eloquent, she is subject to speak evilly:  if she be jocund and light hearted, she’l leave you to go to her companions, and thinks that the care of her mind, is with you in your solitariness; and by reason she can flatter you so well, it never grieves you.  If she be open-hearted, her freedom of spirit will appear hypocritical to you:  her airiness you will judge to be tricks that will be very troublesom to you.  If she love playing, she’l ruine you.  If she be liquorish and sweet-tooth’d, she leads your children the ready road to an Hospital.  If she be a bad Housekeeper, she lets all things run to destruction, that hath cost you so much care and trouble to get together.  If she be a finical one, that will go rich in her apparel, she’l fill the Shopkeepers Counters with your mony.  And in this manner her lavishness, shall destroy all your estate.  To be short, let her be as she will, she shall never bring you much profit.  In good troth, I esteem very little those sort of things, which you imagine to have a great delight in.  ’Tis true, if you take a Wife, which is ugly, poor, innocent, without either air or spirit; that’s a continual burthen to you all your life time.  The old are commonly despised; the ugly abhor’d; the poor slighted; and the innocent laught at.  They are called beasts that have no ingenuity:  and women without airiness, have generally but small sence of love.  In these last some body might say to you,