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Is lyke a Winde, low, quyet, calme, and still,
That blowes no Dust, nor doth the Bodie chill:
Whom nev'r Impatience doth provoke, and moue,
Bot with her Patience wins the Heart of Loue.
Her VVisdome makes her VVill to bee preferd,
And worthilie to get a great Regard.
Shee feares the LORD, flees Sinne, and loveth Peace:
Shee walkes to Heav'n; her Guyde thereto, is Grace.
Shee helpes and aydes, into Asperitie,
And takes a parte into Prosperitie.
Her Tongue is still vnto Discretion tyed:
Her Face with modest Shamefastnesse is dyed.
Shee is her Husbands Heart, his Loue, his Chose,
And Doane-Bed, where his Spirites doe repose.
Her braue Behaviour, is a Glasse, where-by
Her Children may their owne Miscarr'age see.
She treades vpon the Tortoys, never strayes
From Home, nor ydlie walkes vpon the Wayes.
Her Vertuous Doings, they doe her adorne;
Shee cares not Change, and Fortune shee doth scorne.
A Turtle to her Husband, in her Loue;
And meeke to him, shee lyke a Lambe doth proue.
No, nev'r what hee concludeth, doth controule;
An Angell, and a Sainct into her Soule.
Shee is a Pearle, that is vnprizable;
A Pleasure great that is vnspeakable,
A Comfort too, that is Incomparable,
And in the Worlde, a Wyfe Inimitable.