He that marries a wife out of a suspected inn or alehouse, buys a horse in Smithfield, and hires a servant in Paul’s, as the diverb is, shall likely have a jade to his horse, a knave for his man, an arrant honest woman to his wife. Filia praesumitur, esse matri similis, saith [6272]Nevisanus?  “Such [6273]a mother, such a daughter;” mali corvi malum ovum., cat to her kind.

[6274] “Scilicet expectas ut tradat mater honestos
        Atque alios mores quam quos habet?”

“If the mother be dishonest, in all likelihood the daughter will matrizare, take after her in all good qualities,”

“Creden’ Pasiphae non tauripotente futuram
Tauripetam?”------

“If the dam trot, the foal will not amble.”  My last caution is, that a woman do not bestow herself upon a fool, or an apparent melancholy person; jealousy is a symptom of that disease, and fools have no moderation.  Justina, a Roman lady, was much persecuted, and after made away by her jealous husband, she caused and enjoined this epitaph, as a caveat to others, to be engraven on her tomb: 

[6275] “Discite ab exemplo Justinae, discite patres,
        Ne nubat fatuo filia vestra viro,” &c.

       “Learn parents all, and by Justina’s case,
        Your children to no dizzards for to place.”

After marriage, I can give no better admonitions than to use their wives well, and which a friend of mine told me that was a married man, I will tell you as good cheap, saith Nicostratus in [6276]Stobeus, to avoid future strife, and for quietness’ sake, “when you are in bed, take heed of your wife’s flattering speeches over night, and curtain, sermons in the morning.”  Let them do their endeavour likewise to maintain them to their means, which [6277]Patricius ingeminates, and let them have liberty with discretion, as time and place requires:  many women turn queans by compulsion, as [6278]Nevisanus observes, because their husbands are so hard, and keep them so short in diet and apparel, paupertas cogit eas meretricari, poverty and hunger, want of means, makes them dishonest, or bad usage; their churlish behaviour forceth them to fly out, or bad examples, they do it to cry quittance.  In the other extreme some are too liberal, as the proverb is, Turdus malum sibi cacat, they make a rod for their own tails, as Candaules did to Gyges in [6279]Herodotus, commend his wife’s beauty himself, and besides would needs have him see her naked.  Whilst they give their wives too much liberty to gad abroad, and bountiful allowance, they are accessory to their own miseries; animae uxorum pessime olent, as Plautus jibes, they have deformed souls, and by their painting and colours procure odium mariti, their husband’s hate, especially,—­[6280] cum misere viscantur labra mariti.  Besides, their wives (as [6281]Basil notes) Impudenter se exponunt masculorum aspectibus, jactantes tunicas, et coram tripudiantes, impudently thrust themselves into other men’s companies, and by their indecent wanton carriage provoke and tempt the spectators.  Virtuous women should keep house; and ’twas well performed and ordered by the Greeks,