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another returns; but yet take heed of flying without your wings; you may breed such agues in your bones, that may shake you to your graves. 1. Let me preserve you from a bad choice. 2. Present you with a good one. To preservo you from a bad choico, take that in threo things: 1. Choose not for beauty. 2. Choose not for dowry. 3. Choose not for dignity. He that loves to beauty, buys a picture; he that loves for dowry, makes a purchase; he that leaps for dignity, matches with a multitudo at once. The first of theso is too blind to be directed; the second too base to be accepted; the third too bold to be respected. 1. Chooso not by your eyes. 2. Chooso not by your hands. 3. Choose not by your ears.
1. Choose not by your eyes, looking at the beauty of the person. Not but this is lovely in a woman; but that this is not all for which a woman should be beloved. He that had the choice of many faces stamps this character upon them all, favour is deceitful and beauty is vain. The sun is moro bright in a clear sky, than when tho horizon is clouded; but if a woman's flesh hath more of beauty than her spirit hath of christianity, it is like poison in sweet-meats, most dangerous: “The sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were fair," Gen. vi. 2. One would have thought that they should rather have looked for graco in tho heart, than for beauty in the face: take care of running at the fairest signs; the swan hath black flesh under her white feathers.
2. Choose not by your hands, for tho bounty of the portion. When Cato's daughter was asked why sho did not marry? she thus replied, she could not find the man that loved her person above her portion. Men lovo curious pictures, but they
