RIB, WHY THE FIRST WOMAN FORMED FROM

Allow me to request a place for the following curious and quaint exposition of the propriety of the selection of *the rib* as the material out of which our first mother Eve was formed; and the ingenious illustration which it is made to afford of the relation between wife and husband. "Thirdly, God so ordered the matter betwixt them, that this adhæsion and agglutination of one to the other should be perpetuall. For by taking a bone from the man (who was *nimium osseus*, exceeded and was somewhat monstrous, by one bone too much) to strengthen the woman, and by putting flesh in steede thereof to…