text:  Such advice I considered useless in regard to my Waller she being only about fourteen years of age but in other respects a fair and womanly creature to see; for her waist was nearly twice as large as Alice Snowton's and her shoulders also and in weight she would have been greatly an overmatch; and certes putting aside all parental fondness which we know to be such a beautifier of one's own kindred as to make the crow a more lovely animal than the dove (in the eyes of the parent crow ) I will confess that in my estimation and also in that of my excellent wife there was no comparison between the two fair maidens either in respect of fulness of growth or redness of complexion the advantage being in both these respects on the side of the junior