* a. A MYRROUR FOR | Magiftrates. | Wherein maye be seen by | example of other, with howe gre- | vous plages vices are punished: and | howe frayle and unstable worldly | prosperity is founde, even of | thole whom Fortune fee | meth most highly | to favour. | Felix quem faciunt aliena pericula cautum. | Anno. 1563. | Imprinted at London in Fleteftretenere to Saynet Dunftans Churche by Thomas Marfhe.

(4°. b. l. Cc. 4b. Ded.) Ded. William Baldwin.

b. A MYRROUR | for Magiftrates. | Wherein may be seene by exam- | ples paffed in this realme, with | howe greveous plagues, vyces | are punished in great princes and magiftrates, and how frayle | and unftable worldly profperity | is founde, where Fortune feemeth mofte highly to favour. | Newly corrected and augmented. | Anno 1571. | Fœlix quem faciunt aliena pericula cautum. | Imprinted at London by Thomas Marfhe dwellynge | in Fleettreete, neare unto S. Duftanes Churche.

(4°. b.l. x. 4b. Ded.) Ded. W. B.

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The Wife.

Each woman is a brief of womankind,
and doth in little even as much contain ;
as, in one day and night, all life we find;
of either more is but the fame again :
God fram'd her fo, that, to her husband, fhe,
as Eve, fhould all the world of women be.

So fram'd he both, that neither power he gave ufe of themselves, but by exchange, to make: whence in their face the fair no pleasure have,

but by reflex of what thence other take; our lips in their own kiss no pleasure find, toward their proper face our eyes are blind.

So God in Eve did perfect man begun ;

'till then, in vain much of himself he had:

in Adam God created only one;

Eve, and the world to come, in Eve he made : We are two halves: while each from other strays, both barren are; join'd, both their like can raise.

At first, both fexes were in man combin'd, man a fhe man did in his body breed: Adam was Eve's, Eve mother of mankind; Eve from live-flesh, man did from duft proceed : One, thus made two, marriage doth re-unite, and makes them both but one hermaphrodite.

Man did but the well-being of his life

from woman take, her being she from man; and therefore Eve created was a wife,

and at the end of all her sex began; marriage their object is: Their being then, and now perfection, they receive from men.

Marriage, to all whose joys two parties be; and doubl'd are, by being parted fo; wherein the very act is chastity,

whereby two fouls into one body go:

which makes two one, while here they living be; and after death, in their pofterity.

God to each man a private woman gave, that in that center his desires might ftint; that he a comfort like himself might have,

and that on her his like he might imprint: double is woman's use; part of their end doth on this age, part on the next depend.

We fill but part of time; yet cannot die,

'till we the world a fresh supply have lent ; Children are bodies' fole eternity: