Meat in due Seafon very requifite,

Merchandife is of great Gain,

Laws of Man must not contradict God's,

Loving Couples admit no Rivals,
Lemuel's Lady's Character above all,

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Moderation in Drinking, &c. allowable,
Modern Luxuries outdo the Heathen Gods,
Mercy difplay'd, a meek hearted Virtue,
Meekness exemplify'd,

Murder feldom fcapes unpunished in this Life,
Magiftrates apt to follow their King's Example,
Mediocrity the Standard of all Virtues,

Marriage is of divine Ordinance,

Marriage-Haters, fatyrically ridicul'd,

Mysteries of Faith above humane Understanding,

Merchandising in a Wife characteriz'd,
Manufactures inrich Families and Kingdoms,

Mistress's Eye makes a House flourish,

Manufactures of old practis'd by great Perfons,

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Mafquerades are of dangerous Confequence,

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Matrimony, a most honourable Calling,

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Many Hands make light Work in Trade,

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Miftreffes of Families to be very circumspect,

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Majefty of a Royal Confort, extoll'd,

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Mortgages are a Canker in an Eftate,

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Moft Ladies fall fhort of the Queen's Character,

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Monopolies not comparable to Alms-Giving,

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Melancthon calls this Lesson,The Ladies Looking-Glafs, 361

Modern Marriages, almost parallel to Solomon's,

Nature must be helped by Art,

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New-invented Liquors, prejudicial to Health,

National Peace endanger'd by drunken Riots,
Nature is content with a little,

No Value can be fet upon a virtuous Lady,

Novelty caufes great Errours of Judgment,
Navigation, an excellent Way of trafficking,

Needle-Works, &c. good Employments for Ladies,

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Nothing fo uncertain as Court Favour,

Neutrality in Religion, condemn'd by the Gospel,
No Medium between Refiftance and Non-Refiftance,
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Oppreffours, Infomers, &c. to be difcourag'd,
Oliver once ruin'd this Nation,

Offenders the mere honourable, the greater,
Objections against Marriage, folv'd and lampoon'd,
Outlandish Rarities not fo good as our own,
Oeconomy is an excellent Art,

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Oftentation deftroys the very End of Charity,

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Oratory is very persuasive,

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Outfide-Ornaments, difcover not the Heart,

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Proverbs are the best Leffons of Life,

Pious Books, better than Balads, Plays, &c.
Parents should find out the best Mafters, Tutors, &c.
People are apt to imitate their Superiours,
Precept ought to be confirm'd by Practice,

Preferment, to be got by Sobriety,

Perithing People most to be allowed ftrong Liquors,
Princes may be too liberal to worthless Perfons,
Poverty is an afflicting Story,

Prodigals meet with no Credit or Compassion,
Prifons pay no Debts, but by Death,

Pardoning, often more Prudence than punishing,
Peace is preferved by publick Fuffice,

· Poffeffion does not always give Right,

Perjury is the most complicated Crime,
Pauper-Canfes never ought to be flighted,
Providence takes Care of the Poor,

Philofophers-Stone, no fuch zulgar Fest,

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Piety, Confcience, &c. not to be forbid any Court,

Power of Love goes farther than Mortality,

Pawn-bicking, &c. abominable Sins,

Poor Houfe-Keepers, not common Beggars, to be pity'd,

Prifoners for Life, the greatest Oljeds of Relief,
Philofophers did not fiudy outward Habits,

Products of one's own Ingenuity tle best,

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Peace, not Pomp, the Way to Happiness,
Prating most disagreeable in Difcourfe,
Power and Right do not always go together,
Pains to be taken for Food and Raiment,
Promifes move Youth to Virtue,

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Praise due to Children that do well,

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Progeny of virtuous Parents, happy,
Panegyrick of a virtuous Wife,

Phyfiognomy, &c. all foolish Guess-Works

Philofophick Souls can never be difturb'd,
Plurality of Friends ridiculous,

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Queen Ann's conjugal Affection remarkable,

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Qualities of the Mind, not known by external Form,

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Rapes, Incest, and Mock-Marriages, fatal,

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Rare Examples of Temperance,

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Relieving the diftreßed, a great Duty,

Rigour better than Remifnefs to reform fome Vices,

Riches are often changing Masters,

Royal Prefence in Courts would do well sometimes,
Regal Authority accountable to God only,

Redeeming of Slaves, &c. glorious in a Prince,

Refpect of Perfons not just,

Remorie of Confcience is the greatest Torment,

Rhetorick cannot reach the Worth of Virtue,
Religious Fear, the Foundation of all Virtues,

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Ring-leaders to be punish'd for little Offenders,
Royal Pfalmift gives the best Idea of this Marriage,

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Seraglio's not to be fuffer'd in a Chriftian Country,
Sobriety is requifite in all Profeffions,

Starvlings, the greatest Objects of Compaffion,

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South-Sea Charity not commendable,

Sickness requires the greatest Comforts,

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Sorrow to be banish'd by good Wine,

Self-Murder never to be juftified,

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Scripture not difaffected to a lawful Government,

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Scarcity of good Women remarkable,

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Spendthrifts become monumental Beggars,

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Single-State of Life full of Dangers,

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Slothfulness is the Slavery of the Soul,

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Silk-Worm, an Embleme of the Refurrection,

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Sufferers for Confcience-Sake deferve most Relief,

Storms never difturb the virtuous,

Spiritual and fecular Sovereigns, different Perfons,

Self-Intereft perverts all Friendship,

Summary of all Virtues in Chap. 2. ver. 15. to Timothy, 362

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Temperance is the noblef Qualification,

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Trade failing, a Nation mourns,

Trufting in God never fails of Relief,

Thirft fweetens any Water to the Tafte,

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True Religion compared to our Saviour's Coat,

Travelling fometimes attended with ill Confequences,
Tithonus, an Embleme of Labour and Long Life,
Three Deftinies, the beft Leffon for Spinfters,

Table-Talk should not be impertinent,

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Toleration should not be taken, Ell for Inch,

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Vain Dreffing, to be carefully avoided,

Vices of the Tea-Table, recounted,

Vice is catching by great Examples,

Virtue is an immortal Bleffing,

Vice deferves the blackest Characters,

Uxorioufnels, a great Fault,

Variety is a natural Defire,

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Vain Curiofities condemn'd,

Univerfal Commerce is very advifeable,
Virtuous Lovers light up Hero's Lamp again,

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Union betwixt Man and Wife, wonderful,
Ulury and Extortion deteftable,

Women should not be deny'd any Learning,

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Woman of Industry, a real Cornucopia,

Widow's Mite, the greatest Charity,

Want of Education intails a Curfe of Vices,
Whoring ruins Families and Eftates,

Whoredom punish'd, both divinely and humanely,
Worthieft Perfons ought to take Place,
Wine drank moderately,of Sovereign Virtue,
Will cannot be compell'd in Point of Oaths,

Wealth, the grand perverter of Justice,
Wedlock, the Seminary of all other Societies,
Work Houses neceffary for idle Sluggards,

Woolen Manufactories might be more encourag'd,

Works in Silk, &c. ufed by Ladies of Old,

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Youth to be feafon'd with Virtue, like new Veffels,

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