A description of womans age. 187 
96. 
*| The description of a womans age by vi. 
times xiilj yeeres prentiship, with 
a lesson to the same. 
14 WO first seuen yeeres, for a rod they doe whine, 
28 Two next, as a perle in the world they doe shine, 
42 Two next, trim beautie beginneth to swerue, 
56 Two next, for matrones or drudges they serue, 
jo Two next, doth craue a staffe for a stay, 
84. Two next, a beere to fetch them away. 
Then purchase some pelfe, 
by fiftie and thrée: 
or buckle thy selfe, 
a drudge for to bée. 
A Lesson 
97. 
“| The Inholders posie.’ 
[1 | T meales my friend who vitleth here, and sitteth 
with his host, 
Shall both be sure of better chere, and scape with lesser 
cost. 
[2] But he that will attendance haue, a chamber by himselfe, 
Must more regard what pains do craue than passe of 
worldly pelfe. 
1 Not in edition of 1573. 
