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Many in rich dress look inviting, whose beauty, when they undress, flies away with their apparel, and leaves you (as Juno did Ixion) nothing but a cloudy mistress to embrace.
If you like a woman, and would discover if she be in nature what she may seem by art, surprise her in a morning undressed, and it is ten to one but you will find your goddess hath shifted off her divinity, and the angel you so much admired, turned into a Mallion.
Be always jealous of a maid that extols her own virtue; a wife who exclaims against her own husband in his absence, and a widow that eourts your eompany; for when a woman praises her virtue, it is as a shop-keeper does a commodity, desiring to be rid of it; and she that sticks not to lay open the failings of her husband to another, will to the same man lay open herself, whenever he shall require it of her; and when a widow seems fond of your conversation, be sure it is through design, and if you are not careful, she will bury you alive.
Be not tempted to pick up any woman in the street; but if you should, be sure you have one eye before, and another behind; for whosoever lust leads, danger follows.
Covet not the presents of a fond woman, for they are baits left to ensnare you, and while you
