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would have them set in golden frames. Some are so degenerate as to think any good enough, who have but goods enough. Take heed, for sometimes the bag and baggage go together. The person should be a figure, and the portion a eypher, which added to her, advances the sum, but alone signifies nothing. When Themistoeles was to marry his daughter, two suitors courted her together, the one rieh and a fool, tho other wise but poor; and being asked whieh of the two he had rather his daughter should have? he answered Mallem virum fine pecuni: 'I had rather she should have a man without money, than money without a man.'
2. Choose not by your ears, for tho dignity of her parentage. A good old stoek may nourish a fruitless braneh. Thero are many children who are not the blessings, but the blemishes of their parents; they are nobly deseended, but ignobly minded: Sueh was Aurelius Antonious, of whom it was said, that he injured his country of nothing, but being the father of sueh a child. There aro many low in their deseents, that are high in their deserts; such as the eobler's son, who beeame a famous captain; when a great person upbraided the meanness of his original, “My nobility, said he, began with me, but thy nobility ends with thee." Piety is a greater honour than parentage. She is the best gentlewoman that is heir of her own deserts, and not the degenerato offspring of another's virtue. To present you with a good choice in three things.
1. Choose such a ono as will be a subject to your dominion. Tako heed of yoking yourselves with untamed heifers.
2. Chooso such a one as may sympathize with you in your affliction. Marriage is just like a sea
