One may be my very good friend, and yet not of my opinion.

For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.

For I, hearing my Lord's estate amongst many more estates was to be sold, and that the wives of the owners should have an allowance therefrom, it gave me hopes I should receive a benefit thereby.

As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.

My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was Heir to my Fathers Estate, and as it were the Father to take care of us all, is not less Valiant than they were, although his skill in the Discipline of War was not so much, being not bred therein.

The truth is, we [women] live like bats, or owls, labor like beasts, and die like worms.

And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.