deſires altogether fixt upon marriage: In Harveſt time do we not account it a great vice of ſloath and negligence in a Huſband-man, to overſlip a week or ten dayes after his fruits are fully ripe; May we not much more account it a more heynous vice, for a _Virgin_ to let her Fruit (_in potentia_) conſume and rot to nothing, and to let the _vertue_ of her _Virginity_ degenerate into _Vice_, (for _Virginity_ ever kept is ever loſt.) Avarice is the greateſt deadly ſin next Pride: it takes more pleaſure in hoording Treaſure then in making uſe of it, and will neither let the poſſeſſor nor others take benefit by it during the Miſers life; yet it remains intire, and when the Miſer dies muſt come to ſom body. _Virginity_ ever kept, is a vice far worſe then Avarice, it will neither let the poſſeſſor nor others take benefit by it, nor can it be bequeathed to any: with long keeping it decayes and withers, and becomes corrupt and nothing worth. Thus ſeeing that _Virginity_ becomes a vice in defect, by exceeding a limited time; I counſell all female _Virgins_ to make choyce of ſome _Paracelſian_ for their Phyſitian, to prevent the death of that _Vertue_: The _Paracelſians_ (curing like by like) ſay, That if the lives of living Creatures could be taken down, they would make us immortall. By this rule, female _Virgins_ by a diſcreet marriage ſhould ſwallow down into their _Virginity_ another _Virginity_, and devour ſuch a life & ſpirit into their womb, that it might make them as it were, immortall here on earth, beſides their perfect immortality in heaven: And that _Vertue_ which otherwiſe would putrifie and corrupt, ſhall then be compleat; and ſhall be recorded in Heaven, and enrolled here on Earth; and the name of _Virgin_ ſhall be exchanged for a far more honorable name, _A Wife_. [Decoration] PROBLEMES 1. _Why have Baſtards beſt Fortune?_