he that have wife and child have give hostage to fortune for they be  impediment to great enterprise either of virtue or mischief certain the best  work and of great merit for the public have proceed from the unmarried or  childless man which both in affection and mean have marry and endow the public  yet it be great reason that those that have child shall have great care of  future time unto which they know they must transmit their dear pledge some  there be who though they lead a single life yet their think do end with  themselves and account future time impertinence nay there be some other that  account wife and child but as bill of charge nay more there be some foolish  rich covetous man that take a pride in have no child because they may be think  so much the rich for perhaps they have hear some talk such a one be a great  rich man and another except to it yea but he have a great charge of child as  if it be a abatement to his riches but the most ordinary cause of a single  life be liberty especial in certain self please and humorous mind which be so  sensible of every restraint as they will go near to think their girdle and  garter to be bind and shackle unmarried man be best friend best master best  servant but not always best subject for they be light to run away and almost  all fugitive be of that condition a single life do well with churchman for  charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool it be  indifferent for judge and magistrate for if they be facile and corrupt you  shall have a servant five time worse than a wife for soldier I find the  general common in their hortatives put man in mind of their wife and child and  I think the despise of marriage among the turk make the vulgar soldier more  base certain wife and child be a kind of discipline of humanity and single man  though they may be many time more charitable because their mean be less  exhaust yet on the other side they be more cruel and hardhearted good to make  severe inquisitor because their tenderness be not so oft call upon grave  nature lead by custom and therefore constant be common love husband as be say  of Ulysses elderly to sew to bear before immortality chaste woman be often  proud and froward as presume upon the merit of their chastity it be one of the  best bind both of chastity and obedience in the wife if she think her husband  wise which she will never do if she find he jealous wife be young man mistress  companion for middle age and old man nurse so as a man may have a quarrel to  marry when he will but yet he be repute one of the wise man that make answer  to the question when a man shall marry--A young man not yet a elder man not at  all it be often see that bid husband have very good wife whether it be that it  raise the price of their husband kindness when it come or that the wife take a  pride in their patience but this never fail if the bid husband be of their own  choose against their friend consent for then they will be sure to make good  their own folly