This is the reason that makes the Mistriss many times turn one after t’other out of dores; and is afreard that a new one should come in again.  And is also ashamed that the Neighbors should see every foot a new Maid upon her flore; who by an evil nature, are ready to beleeve the worst of their fellow neighbours, what is told them by a tale-carrying, long-tongued Slut of a Maid; though they many times observe how wickedly they are plagued with their own.

O super-excellent Pleasure of Marriage! where shall we make a conclusion, if we should set all things down according to their worth and value!  Certainly every one would, to that purpose, want a Clark in their own Family.

THE TENTH PLEASURE.

An empty Purse, makes a sorrowfull Pate.  The Husband grows jealous.  And the Wife also.  The Husband is weary of his wife, and seeks to be divorced.

As continual prosperity giveth a great satisfaction to married people; and congealeth their hearts more and more with a fervent Love; so, on the contrary, we many times see, that when they are oppressed with bad Trading, Bankrupts, chargeable housekeeping and Children, it occasions and raises a coolness in the affections; insomuch that it disquiets their rest, and they consume the whole night many times with flying fancies and cogitations, how such an Assignment, or that Bill of Exchange, or the last half years rent shal be paid, &c. because the emptness of their Purse, and the slow paiment of their Debtors too much impedes them.  And their yearly rents are so small and uncertain, that there runs away many times more in reparations and taxations annually then the rents amounts to.  This occasions disquiet.  From this it proceeds, that many times when they rise, their wits run a wool-gathering, and they are more inclined to look crabbedly, grumble and mumble, then to shew each other any signs of love and friendship:  for an empty purse, makes a sorrowfull pate.  This gives no smal defeat to the Pleasures of Marriage.  Now they begin to observe that there is no state or condition in the World so compleat, but it hath some kind of imperficiency.

[Illustration:  197 Published by the Navarre Society, London.]

This kind of necessity may, by a man, in a Tavern, with good company, be rinsed with a glass of Wine, but never thereby be supplied:  And the woman may with singing and dandling of her children, or controuling and commanding of her servants, a little forget it, yet nevertheless when John the cashier comes with the Bill of Exchange, and William the Bookkeeper with the Assignment, they ought both to be paid, or else credit and respect ly at the stake.  This requires a great deal of prudence, to take care for the one, and preserve the other.