Neither to the best,
nor yet to the worſt; but to the
common ſort of Women.
vſing with my ſelfe, being idle, and having little eaſe to paſſe the time withall; and I being in a great choller againſt ſome Women, I meane more then one: And ſo in the raffe of my fury, taking my Penne in hand to beguile the time withall; indeede I might haue imployed my ſelfe to better vſe, then in ſuch an idle buſineſſe, and it were better to pocket vp a pelting iniury, then to intangle my ſelfe with ſuch Vermine: for this I know, that becauſe Women are Women, therefore many will doe that in an houre, which they many times will repent all their whole life time after; yet for an iniurie which I haue receiued of them, the more I conſider of it, the leſſe I eſteeme of the ſame. Yet perhaps ſome may ſay vnto me, that I haue ſought for Honey and caught the Bee by the taile, or that I haue beene bit or ſtung with ſome of theſe Waſpes, otherwiſe I could neuer haue been expert in bewraying their qualities; for the Mother would neuer haue ſought her Daughter in the Ouen but that ſhe was there her ſelfe. Indeed I might confeſſe, I haue been a traueller theſe thirty and odde yeeres, and many trauellers liue in diſdaine of Women; the reaſon is, for that their affections are ſo poyſoned with the hainous euils of vnconſtant Women, which they happen to be acquainted with in their trauels: for
