uo sanguine creta.
Qua forma, qua aetate, quibusque ante omnia virgo
Moribus, in junctos veniat nova nupta penates."

He that marries a wife out of a suspected inn or alehouse, buys a horse in
Smithfield, and hires a servant in Paul's, as the diverb is, shall likely
have a jade to his horse, a knave for his man, an arrant honest woman to
his wife. _Filia praesumitur, esse matri similis_, saith [6272]Nevisanus?
"Such [6273]a mother, such a daughter;" _mali corvi malum ovum._, cat to
her kind.

[6274] "Scilicet expectas ut tradat mater honestos
Atque alios mores quam quos habet?"

"If the mother be dishonest, in all likelihood the daughter will
_matrizare_, take after her in all good qualities,"

"Creden' Pasiphae non tauripotente futuram
Tauripetam?"------

"If the dam trot, the foal will not amble." My last caution is, that a
woman do not bestow herself upon a fool, or an apparent melancholy person;
jealousy is a symptom of that disease, and fools have no moderation.
Justina, a Roman lady, was much persecuted, and after made away by her
jealous husband, she caused and enjoined this epitaph, as a caveat to
others, to be engraven on her tomb:

[6275] "Discite ab exemplo Justinae, discite patres,
Ne nubat fatuo filia vestra viro," &c.

"Learn parents all, and by Justina's case,
Your children to no dizzards for to place."

After marriage, I can give no better admonitions than to use their wives
well, and which a friend of mine told me that was a married man, I will
tell you as good cheap, saith Nicostratus in [6276]Stobeus, to avoid future
strife, and for quietness' sake, "when you are in bed, take heed of your
wife's flattering speeches over night, and curtain, sermons in the
morning." Let them do their endeavour likewise to maintain them to their
means, which [6277]Patricius ingeminates, and let them have liberty with
discretion, as time and place requires: many women turn queans by
compulsion, as [6278]Nevisanus observes, because their husbands are so
hard, and keep them so short in diet and apparel, _paupertas cogit eas
meretricari_, poverty and hunger, want of means, makes them dishonest, or
bad usage; their churlish behaviour forceth them to fly out, or bad
examples, they do it to cry quittance. In the other extreme some are too
liberal, as the proverb is, _Turdus malum sibi cacat_, they make a rod for
their own tails, as Candaules did to Gyges in