PREFACE. 



Second Letter, /. 19. 



I v%'ifh as heartily as yoa 

 do that all fuch Clergy-mens 

 Wives as have filk Cloaihs 

 be-daubed with Lace, and 

 their heads hanged about 

 with painted Ribands, were 

 cnjoyned Penance for their 

 pride : And their Hufbands 

 punifht for being fo tame, or 

 fo lovingly-fimple, as 10 fuffsr 

 them ; for, by fuch Cloaths, 

 theyproclaim theirown Ambi- 

 tion, and their Hufbands foliy. 



And I fay the like, con- 

 cerning iht'ir fir h'ing for Pre- 

 cedency. 



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And, I confefs alfo, what 

 you fay of a Clergy-mans 

 bidding tofafi on the Eves of 

 Holy-days, in Lent, and the 

 Ember fVeeks : And I wilh 

 thofe biddings were forborn, 

 or better pradifed by them- 

 felves. 



Life of George Herbert. 

 Mr. George Herbert hav- 

 ing changed his fword and 

 fiik clothes into a canonical 

 coat, thus warned M", Her- 

 bert againft this egregious folly 

 of ft riving for precedency — 

 " You are now a miniiler's 

 wife, and mull now fo far for- 

 get your father's houfe, as not 

 to claim a precedence of any 

 of your parifliioners," ^r. 



Life of George Herbert. 



One cure for the wicked- 

 nefs of the times would be, 

 for the clergy themfelves 

 to keep the Ember-weeks 

 ilriaiy, \^c. 



P. 20. 



