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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08592	A wife novv the widdow of Sir Thomas Overburye Being a most exquisite and singular poem of the choice of a wife. Whereunto are added many witty characters, and conceited newes, written by himselfe and other learned gentlemen his friends.; Wife now a widowe	Overbury, Thomas, Sir, 1581-1613.	1614 (1614)	STC 18904; ESTC S120266	28,037	66

the Priest first giues our hands I would haue her thinke but thus In what high and holy bands Heauen like twins hath planted vs That like Aarons rod together Both may bud grow green and wither FINIS THE METHOD FIrst of Mariage and the effect thereof children Then of his contrarie Lust then for his choice First his opinion negatiuely what should not be the first causes in it that is neither Beauty Birth nor Portion Then affirmatiuely what should bee of which kind there are fower Goodnesse Knowledge Discretion and as a second thing Beauty The first onely is absolutely good the other being built vpon the first doe likewise become so Then the application of that woman by loue to himselfe which makes her a wife And lastly the only condition of a wife Fitnesse A Wife EAch Woman is a briefe of Woman-kind And doth in little euen as much containe As in one Day Night all life we find Of either More is but the same againe God fram'd Her so that to Her husband She As Eue should all the world of Women be So fram'd he Both that neither power he gaue Vse of themselues but by exchange to make Whence in their Face the Fayre no pleasure haue But by refl●xe of what thence other take Our Lips in their owne Kisse no pleasure find Toward their proper Face our Eyes are blind So God in Eue did perfit Man begun Till then in vaine much of himselfe he had In Adam God created onely one Eue and the world to come in Eue he made We are two halfes whiles each from other straies Both barren are Ioyn'd both their like can raise At first both Sexes were in Man combin'de Man a Shee-man did in his body breed Adam was Eues Eue mother of Mankinde Eue from Liue-flesh Man did from Dust proceed One thus made two Mariage doth revnite 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 Eue created was a Wife And at the end of all her Sex began Mariage their obiect is their Being then And now Perfection they receiue from Men. Mariage to all whose ioyes two parties be And doubled are by boing parted so Wherein the very act is chastitie Whereby two Soules into one Body goe It makes two one whiles heere they liuing be And after death in their Posteritie God to each Man a priuate woman gaue That in that Center his desires might stint That he a comfort like himselfe might haue And that on her his like he might imprint Double is Womans vse part of their end Doth on this Age part on the next depend We are but part of Time yet cannot die Till we the world a fresh supply haue lent Children are Bodies sole Eternitie Nature is Gods Art is Mans instrument Now all Mans Art but only dead things makes But here in Man in things of life partakes For wandring Lust I know t is infinite It still begins and addes not more to more The guilt is euerlasting the delight This instant doth not feele of that before The taste of it is only in the Sense The operation in the Conscience Woman is not Lusts bounds but Woman-kind One is Loues number who from that doth fall Hath lost his hold and no new rost shall find Vice hath no meane but not to be at all A wife is that Enough Lust cannot find For Lust is still with want or too-much pinde Bate Lust the Sin my share is eu'n with his For Not to Lust and to Enioy is one And More or Lesse past equall Nothing is I still haue one Lust one at once alone And though the woman often changed be Yet Hee 's the same without varietie Mariage our Lust as t were with fuell fire Doth with a medicine of the same allay And not forbid but rectifie desire My selfe I cannot chuse my wife I may And in the choice of Her it much doth lye To mend my selfe in my Posteritie O rather let me Loue then be in Loue So let me chuse as Wife and Friend to find Let me forget hir Sex when I approue Beasts likenesse lyes in shape but ours in minde Our soules no Sexes haue their Loue is cleane No Sex both in the better part are Men. But Phisicke for our lust their Bodies be But matter fit to shew our Loue vpon But onely Shells for our posteritie Their soules were giu'n lest man should be alone For but the Soules interpreters words be Without which Bodies are no Companie That goodly frame we see of Flesh and bloud Their Fashion is not weight it is I say But their Laye-part but well digested food T is but twixt Dust and Dust Life's middle way The worth of it is nothing that is seene But only that it holds a Soule within And all the carnall Beauty of my wife Is but skin-deep but to two Senses knowne Short euen of Pictures shorter liu'd then Life And yet the loue suruiues that's built thereon For our Imagination is too high For Bodies when they meet to satisfie All Shapes all Colours are alike in Night Nor doth our Touch distinguish foule or faire But Mans imagination and his sight And those but the first weeke by Custome are Both made alike which diffred at first view Nor can that diffrence Absence much renew Nor can that Beauty lying in the Face But meerely by imagination be Enioy'd by vs in an inferior place Nor can that Beauty by enioying we Make ours become so our desire growes tame We changed are but it remaines the same Birth lesse then beauty shall my reason blinde Hir birth goes to my Children not to me Rather had I that actiue gentry finde Vertue then passiue from hir Auncestrie Rather in her aliue one vertue see Then all the rest dead in her Pedigree In the Degrees high rather be shee plac't Of Nature then of Art and Pollicie Gentry is but a relique of Time-past And Loue doth only but the present see Things were first made then words She were the same With or without that title or that name As for the oddes of Sexes Portion Nor will I shun it nor my ayme it make Birth Beauty Weal●h are nothing worth alone All these I would for good Additions take Not for Good Parts those two are ill combind Whom any third thing from thēselues hath ioynd Rather then these the obiect of my Loue Let it be Good when these with vertue goe They in themselues indiffrent vertues proue For Good like Fire turnes all things to be so Gods Image in Her Soule ô let me place My Loue vpon not Adams in Her Face Good is a fairer attribute then White T is the Mind's beauty keeps the other sweet That 's not still one nor mortall with the light Nor glasse nor painting can it counterfet Shee s truly faire whose beauty is vnseen Like heau'n faire sight-ward but more faire within By Good I would haue Holy vnderstood So

put thine enemie is desperation while forcing him to set light by his owne life thou makest him master of thine That neglected danger lights soonest and heauiest That they are wisest who in the likelyhood of good prouide for ill That since pitty dwells at the next doore to miserie he liueth most at ease that is neighboured with enuie That the euill fortune of the wars as well as the good is variable Newes from my Lodging THat the best prospect is to looke inward That it is quieter sleeping in a good conscience then a whole skin That a soule in a fat bodie lies soft and is loth to rise That he must rise betimes who would cosen the deuill That Flatterie is increased from a pillow vnder the elbow to a bed vnder the whole bodie That Policie is the vnsleeping night of reason That hee who sleepes in the cradle of securitie sins soundly without starting That guilt is the flea of the conscience That no man is throughly awaked but by affliction That a hang'd chamber in priuate is nothing so convenient as a hang'd Traitor in publique That the religion of Papistry is like a curtaine made to keep out the light That the life of most women is walking in their sleepe and they talke their dreames That chambering is counted a ciuiler qualitie then playing at tables in the Hall though Seruingmen vse both That the best bedfellow for all times in the yeere is a good bed without a fellow That he who tumbles in a calme bed hath his tempest within That hee who will rise must first lye downe and take humilitie in his way That sleep is deaths picture drawne to life or the twilight of life and death That in sleep wee kindly shake death by the hand but when wee are awaked wee will not know him That often sleeping are so many tryalls to die that at last we may doe it perfectly That few dare write the true newes of their chamber and that I haue none secret enough to tempt a strangers curiositie or a seruants discouerie God giue you good morrow B. R. Newes of my morning worke THat to bee good is the way to bee most alone or the best accompanied That the way to heauen is mistaken for the most melancholy walke That most feare the worlds opinion more then Gods displeasure That a Court friend seldom goes further then the first degree of charitie That the deuill is the perfectest Courtier That innocency was first cozen to man now guiltinesse hath the neerest allyance That sleep is deaths leger Embassador That time can neuer bee spent wee passe by it and cannot returne That none can be sure of more time then an instant That sin makes worke for repentance or the deuill That patience hath more power then afflictions That euery ones memorie is diuided into two parts the part loosing all is the sea the keeping part is land That honestie in the Court liues in persecution like Protestants in Spaine That predestination and constancie are alike vncerteine to be iudged of That reason makes loue the Seruingman That vertues fauour is better then a Kings fauorite That being sick begins a sute to God being well possesseth it That health is the coach which caries to heauen sicknes the post-horse That worldly delights to one in extreame sicknes is like a hiecandle to a blind man That absence doth sharpen loue presence strengthens it that the one brings fuell the other blowes till it burnes cleere that loue often breaks friendship that euer increaseth loue That constancie in women and loue in men is alike rare That Arte is truths iugler That falshood playes a larger part in the world then truth That blinde zeale and lame knowledge are alike apt to ill That fortune is humblest where most contemned That no porter but resolution keeps feare out of minds That the face of goodnes without a body is the worst wickednesse That weomens fortunes aspire but by others powers That a man with a female wit is the worst Hermaphrodite That a man not worthy being a frend wrongs himself by being an acquaintance That the worst part of ignorance is making good and ill seem alike That all this is newes onely to fooles M r●● B. Newes from the lower end of the Table IT is said among the folkes heere that if a man dye in his infancie he hath onely broke his fast in this world If in his youth hee hath left vs at dinner That it is bed-time with a man at therescore and ten and he that liues to a hundred yeeres hath walked a mile after supper That the humble-minded man makes the lowest curtsie That grace before meat is our election before we were grace after our saluation when we are gone The soule that halts between two opinions falls between two stooles That a foole at the vpper end of the table is the bread before the salt He that hates to be reproued sits in his owne light Hunger is the cheapest sawce and nature the cheapest guest The sensible man and the silent woman are the best discoursers Repentance without amendment is but the shifting of a foule trencher He that tells a lye to saue his credit wipes his mouth with his sleeue to spare his napkin The tongue of aiester is the fiddle that the bearts of the companie dance to The tongue of a foole carues a peece of his heart to euery man sits next him A silent man is a couered messe The contented man onely is his owne caruer Hee that hath many friends eats too much salt with his meat That wit without discretion cuts other men meat and his own fingers That the soule of a cholericke man sits euer by the fire side That patience is the larde to the leane meat of aduersitie The Epicure puts his money into his belly and the miser his belly into his purse That the best companie makes the vpper end of the table and not the saltseller The supersluitie of a mans possessions is the broken meat that should remaine to the poore That the enuious keeps his knife in his hand and swallowes his meat whole A rich foole among the wise is a gilt empty bowle among the thirstie Ignorance is an insensible hunger The water of life is the best wine He that robs mee of my invention bids himselfe welcome to another mans table and I will bid him welcome when he is gone The vaine-glorious man pisseth more then hee drinkes That no man can drinke a health out of the cup of blessing To surfet vpon wit is more dangerous then to want it He that 's ouercome of any passion is dry drunke T is easier to fill the belly of faith then the eye of reason The rich glutton is better fed then taught That faith is the elbow for a heauy soule to leane on Hee that sins that he may repent surfets that he may take physicke He that riseth without thanksgiuing goes away and payes not for his ordinarie He that begins to repent when he is old neuer washed his hands till night That this life is but one day of three meales or one meale of three courses childhood youth and old age That to sup well is to liue well and that 's the way to sleep well That no man goes to bed till hee dyes nor wakes till he is dead And therfore Good night to you heere good morrow hereafter J. C. Nowes from the Bed THat the bed is the best rendevou of mankind and the most necessarie ornament of a chamber That Souldiers are good antiquaries in keeping the old fashion for the first bed was the bare ground That a mans pillow is his best counseller That Adam lay in state when the heauen was his canopie That the naked truth is Eue and Eue lay without sheetes That they were either very innocent very ignorant or very impudent they were not ashamed the heauens should see them lye without a couerlet That it is likely Eue studied Astronomie which makes the posteritie of her sex euer since to lye on their backs That the circumference of the bed is nothing so wide as the convex of the heauens yet it containes a whole world That the fiue sences are the greatest sleepers That a slothfull man is but a reasonable Dormouse That the soule euer wakes to watch the body That a Iealous man sleeps dog-sleep That sleep makes no difference between a wise-man and a foole That for all times sleep is the best bedfellow That the deuill and mischiefe euer wake That loue is a dreame That the preposterous hopes of ambitious men are like pleasing dreames farthest off when awake That the bed payes Venus more custome then all the world beside That if dreames and wishes had been all true there had not been since Popery one maide to make a Nun of That the secure man sleeps soundly and is hardly to be wak't That the charitable man dreames of building Churches but starts to thinke the vngodly Courtier will pull them down again That great sleepers were neuer dangerous in a state That there is a naturall reason why popish Priests chuse the bed to confesse their women vpon for they hold it necessarie that humiliation should follow shrift That if the bed should speake all it knowes it would put many to the blush That it is fit the bed should know more then paper R. S. FINIS