Verily, in this state and condition of the woman is also some pleasure to be found, for you may keep your wife now very cheap; she is not now so liquorish and sweet-tooth’d, as when she was with Child; which in deed is very good at all times, but most especially in this pittifull time for there’s now nothing fitter for her to eat then a little good broth, stew’d Prunes, Caudle, Water-gruel, roasted Apples, or new laid Egs.

But now, Father, your Pleasure will immediately be augmented, for it will not be long before you will have some or other Gentlewomen come to give you a visit, who will then also out of their Closets of understanding be very much assistant to you with their advice and counsel for there are very few of them that are not deeply experienced in Sir Thomas Browns Mid-wivery, and if any thing do happen more then ordinary, they never want for remedies.

Now there is Doctor Needhams wife, who by her own experimenting, hath knowledge of several other things:  But upon such an occasion as this, there is nothing better then that the child must be glister’d; and for the lumps you must indevour through a continual chafing to get them out of the young womans breasts.  But Mistris Rattle-pate relates, how miserably, she was troubled with an humour in her breast, when she lay in; but that she had alwaies cured her self of it, by only taking a Sandwich Carrot, and scraping it hollow in the inside, and then put like a hat upon the tipple, this drew out all ill humour, without any pain, or the least fear of danger.

Yes truly, saith Mrs Talk-enough, I do indeed forsooth beleeve that that is very good, but here are very sore nipples, and they begin to be chop’d; and there must be a special care taken for that; therefore it will not be amiss to strengthen the nipples with a little Aqua vitae, and then wash them with some Rosewater that hath kernels of Limons steep’d in it.  There’s nothing like it, or better, I have lain in of thirteen children, but never tried any thing that did me so much good, or gave me half the ease.  Pray, dear Mistris, be sure to make use of that, you will never repent it.

But Mistris Know-all saith, that she hath made use of this also, and found some ease by it; and that she hath tried above an hundred other things, that were approved to be good; yet of all things never found nothing under the Sun that was more noble then Salvator Winter’s Salve, for that cures immediately:  And you can have nothing better.

Yet Mistris Stand to’t, begins to relate wonderfull operations done with oyl of Myrrhe; and of the plaisters that are made by the Gentlewoman in Py-yard.