Uniform with the Enchiridion; Spare Minutes or Resolved Meditations and Premeditated Resolutions

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1822 edition. Excerpt: ... ENCHIRIDION. Cent. iii. I. If thou take paines in what is good, the paines vanish, the good remains: if thou take pleasure in what is evil, the evill remaines, and the pleasure vanishes: what art thou the worse for paines, or the better for pleasure, when both are past? L Ii. If thy fancy, and judgement have agreed in the choice of. a fit wife, be not too fond, lest she surfeit, nor too peevish, lest she languish: love so, that thou mayst be feared; rule so, that thou mayst be honoured: be not too diffident, lest thou teach her to deceive thee, nor too suspicious, lest thou teach her to abuse thee: if thou see a fault, let thy love hide it; if she continue it, let thy wisdome reprove it: reprove her not openly, lest she grow bold: rebuke her not tauntingly, lest she grow spitefull: proclaim not her beauty, lest she grow proud: boast not her wisdome, lest thou be thought foolish; shew her not thy imperfections, lest she disdaine thee: pry not into her dairy, lest she despise thee. prophane not her eares with loose communication, lest thou defile the sanctuary of, her modesty: an understanding husband makes a discreet wife; and she, a happy husband. III. Wrinckle not thy face with too much laughter, lest thou become ridiculous; neither wanton thy heart with too much mirth, lest thou become vaine: the suburbs of folly is vaine mirth, and profusenesse of laughter is the city of fooles. IV. Let thy tongue take counsell of one eye, rather than of two ears; let the newes thou reportest be rather stale than false, lest thou be branded with the name of lyar. It is an intolerable dishonour to be that which only to be called so, is thought worthy of a stabbe. V. Let thy discourse be such, as thy judgement may maintaine, and thy company may...