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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16659	The English gentlevvoman, drawne out to the full body expressing, what habilliments doe best attire her, what ornaments doe best adorne her, what complements doe best accomplish her. By Richard Brathvvait Esq.	Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1631 (1631)	STC 3565; ESTC S122488	147,901	276

consorted with her Courtiers but she contemplated those Citizens of heauen nor euer entred the Presence-Chamber but shee thought of the presence of her Maker the King of heauen Such Meditations are receits to cure all inordinate motions Your Liues should be the lines to measure others actions Vertue is gracious in euery subiect but most in that which the Prince or Princesse hath made gracious Anciently the World was diuided into three parts whereof Europa was held the soule properly euery Politike State may be diuided into three Cantons whereof the Court is the Suune You are Obiects to many Eyes be your actions platformes to many liues I can by no meanes approue that wooing and winning Complement though most Courts too generally affect it which makes her sole Obiect purchase of Seruants or Suitors This garbe tastes more of Curtezan than Courtier it begets Corriuals whose fatall Duello's end vsually in blood Our owne State hath sometimes felt the misery of these tragicke euents by suffering the losse of many generous and free-bred Sparkes who had not their Torches beene extinguished in their blood might to this day haue suruiued to their Countries ioy and their owne fame So great is the danger that lyes hid in affable Complements promising aspects affectionate glances as they leaue those who presumed of thâ—ir owne strength holding themselues invulnerable many times labouring of wounds incurable Be you no such Basiliskâ— neuer promise a calme in your face where you threaten a storme in your heart Appeare what you are lest Censure taxe you of inconstancy by saying you are not what you were An open countenance and restrained bosome sort not-well together Sute your discourse to your action both to a modest dispose of your affection Throw abroad no loose Lures wandring eyes strayed lookes these delude the Spectators much but the Actors most A iust reuenge by striuing to take in others they are taken by others How dangerous doe wee hold it to be in a time of infection to take vp any thing be it neuer so precious which wee finde lost in the street One of your loose lookes be it darted with neuer so Complementall a state is farre more infectious and mortally dangerous There is nothing that sounds more cheerefully to the eare or leaues a sweeter accent nothing that conueyes it selfe more speedily to the heart or affords fuller content for the time than conceit of loue It will immaze a perplexed wretch in a thousand extremes whose amazed thoughts stand so deepely ingaged to the Obiect of his affection as hee will sustaine any labour in hope of a trifling fauour Such soueraignty beauty retaines which if discretion temper not begets such an height of conceit in the party beloued as it were hard to say whether the Agent or Patient suffer more To you let mee returne who stand fixed in so high an Orbe as a gracefull Maiesty well becomes you so let modesty grace that Maiesty that demeaning your selues like Complete and gracious Courtiers on earth you may become triumphant and glorious Courtiers in heauen THis garbe Wherein Complement may be omitted as meerely impertinent as it suites not with all Persons so sorts it not to all Places For a Mechanicke to affect Complement would as ill seeme him as for a rough-hewen Satyre to play the Orator It is an excellent point of discretion to fit ones selfe to the quality or condition of that place where he resides That Vrbanity which becomes a Citizen would rellish of too much curiosity in a Country man That Complement which giues proper grace to a Courtier would be get derision or contempt being personated by a Merchant or his Factor In affaires of State is required a gracefull or Complete posture which many times procures more reuerence in the person interessed than if that state were omitted Whereas in ordinary affaires of trafficke it were indiscretion to represent any such state or to vse any expression either by way of discourse or action that were not familiar That person who preferres Complement before profit and will rather speake not to be vnderstood than lose one polite-stollen phrase which hee hath purchased by care onely and vnderstands not may account himselfe one among his bank-rupt brethren before he breake It is pittifull to heare what a remnant of sustian for want of better Complement a Complete-Country-Gossip for so shee holds her selfe will vtter in one houre amongst her Pew-fellowes How shee will play the Schoole-Mistresse in precepts of Discipline and morall Behauiour Nothing so gracefull in another which shee will not freely reproue nothing so hatefull in her selfe which shee will not confidently approue Teach shee will before shee be taught and correct Forme it selfe to bring Forme out of loue with it selfe To which malady none is more naturally subiect than some Ladies cashiered Gentlewoman or one who hath plaid Schoole-Mistresse in the City and for want of competent pay remoues her Campe into the Countrey where shee brings enough of vanity into euery family throughout the Parish Shee will not sticke to instruct her young Pupils in strange points of formality enioyning them not to aske their Parents blessing without a Complement These as they were neuer Mistresses of families so they are generally ignorant in employments of that kinde Those three principall workes or faculties of the Vnderstanding which might enable them to Discourse Distinguish and to Chuse are so estranged from them as their Discourse consists solely in arguments of vanity their Distinction in meere shadowes of formality their Choyce in subiects and Consorts of effeminacy Eight things saith Hippocrates make ones flesh moyst and fat the first to be merry and liue at hearts ease the second to sleep much the third to lie in a soft bed the fourth to fare well the fifth to be wel apparelled and appointed the sixth to ride alwayes on horse-backe the seuenth to haue our wil and the eighth to be employed in Plaies pastimes in such time-beguiling recreations as yeeld contentment and pleasure These are the onely receits in request with those Shee-Censors we now discourse of and of whom it may bee said as was sometimes spoken of one Margites that he neuer plowed nor digged nor did any thing all his life long that might tend vnto goodnesse and by necessary consequence wholly vnprofitable to the world Who howsoeuer they are lesse than Women at their worke yet at their meat so vnconfined is their appetite they are more than men and in their habit so phantasticke is their conceit neither women nor men So as were Diogenes to encounter one of these hee might well expostulate the cause with her as he did vpon like occasion with a youth too curiously and â—ffeminately drest If thou goest to men all this is but in vaine if vnto women it is wiâ—kâ—d But these wee hold altogether vnworthy of your more generous society whose excellent breeding hath sufficienâ—ly accommodated you for City Court and Countrey and so fully inform'd you

honour it were a shame for the Mother for any base lucre to prove a treacherous Keeper pag. 189. The whole progresse of a Gentlewomans conversation should be a continued line of direction to which line he confines his observation pag. 190. HONOVR Observat. 8. PRomotion discovers what men be but true Honour shewes what they should be pag. 191. Honour is painted when it is not with vertue poudred pag. 192. Morall Philosophy nor Christian Theory could ever hold that for deserving greatnesse which had not neare relation to goodnesse ibid. Their memory cannot live long who make Authority a Sanctuary to wrong pag. 193. Vertue defined and by it true Gentility with the honour of an ancient family expressed pag. 194. An accurate connexion with a personall application of the preceeding Subiects to all Gentlewomen pag. ibid. 195. Be women never so eminent they are but painted Trunkes if vertue be not resident pag. 196 Vertue should not onely be resident but president over all their actions ibid. No Cloath takes such deepe tincture as the cloath of Honour ibid. No Pleasure can be constant unlesse it afford inward content pag. 197. There is nothing asperseth a deeper staine upon the Cloath of Honour than too much attention unto Sycophants ibid. Soveraigne receipts against the poyson of flattery with a serious exhortation to the entertainement of humility patience constancy and every generous vertue pag. ibid. 198. 199. Violets though they grow low and neare the earth smell sweetest and Honour appeares the fullest of beauty when she is humblest pag. 198. Honour if truly grounded can looke in the face of terrour and never be amated ibid. She that makes vertue her object cannot but make every Earthly thing her Subject ibid. Honours imprezza and Pasture ibid. Honours compleat armour dresse and portraiture Pag. 200 HER Description with motives to her imitatation ibid. A briefe but usefull application pag. 201. Honourable Personages should be Presidents of goodnesse Pag. ibid. LANDMARKES are usually erected for direction of the Mariner and Magistrates elected for instruction of the inferiour ibid. The world a Maze of Misery a vale of vanity ibid. Man a story of calamity a statue of infelicitie To be a Lady of Honour is more than titular Pag. 202. Three especiall Obiects upon which Honourable personages are to reflect Charitie Pag. ibid. Chastitie Humilitie A most accurate and serious discourse on each particular Obiect Pag. 202. 203. 204 The very last day to an honourable Christian is every dayes memoriall ibid. The actions of Noble Personages like sweet odors diffuse themselves by imitation to their followers pag. 205. Those that are followers of their persons will be followers likewise of their lives ibid. Their private family is a familiar Nursery ibid. Foule enormities must admit of no Priviledges Eminent Persons are to bee their owne Censors ibid. An excellent application by way of Exhortation to all such honourable Censors pag. 205. 206. Vertues are more permanent Monuments than Statues stiles trophees or oboliskes ibid. Vertue or Vice whethersoever takes hold first retaines a deeper impression in honour than any lower Subiect ibid. In these whom Nobility of bloud hath advanced be ever some seeds or semblances of their Progenitors retained ibid. This conâ—â—rmed by Philosophicall reason and example President and Precept pag. 207 Great mindes are many times sicke of great malaladies how this by timely prevention may be seasonably cured pag. 208. The efficient cause why Vertue or Vice whethersoever takes hold first retaines a deeper impression in Honour than in any lower Subiect illustrated by instance ibid. First Motions have deepe impressions first Notions firme retentions Pag. 209. The greatest profit of Honourable personages is to become Proficients in the practice of vertue Their highest delight to subdue their delights to the obedience of reason for the love of vertue ibid. The Corruption of time hath introduc'd that deformity of fashion as it asperseth on our formall imitators much imputation ibid. Where Youth is initiated in affectation of State it partakes in age of too much Pride ibid. The humour temper and danger of our Tame-Beasts or State-Parasites pag. 210 A reservancy of State in Pace face every Posture recommended by an insinuating Faune to a Phantasticke Gallant ibid. Sycophancy the ruine of many a Noble family ibid. An election of honest and discreet followers ibid. Gentlewomens lives as they are lives to themselves so should they be lights unto others ibid. For Popular honour Vice will but varnish it it is Vertue that will richly enammell it Singular motives to Mortification ibid. pag. 211. That Vertue may receive the first impression by meanes of an in-bred noble disposition seconded by helpes of Education ibid. A pleasant Epigram alluding to all humerous Ladies Marg. pag. 212. A Choice recollection and expression of such vertues as sort and suit with the condition of our noblest Ladies with Cautions to attemper them in all extreames by an usefull reflection upon all the Senses and those Commanding passions which domineere most over the Senses pag. 212. 213. A singular Meditation for recollection of our affections pag. 214. 215. Vice throwes her aspersions on no subiect so much as on Honour pag. 215. A fruitfull application to all young Gentlewomen for regulating their dispositions and how to make them true inheritrices of Honour pag. ibid. 216. Vertue reduced to habit aspires to perfection pag. ibid. There is nothing under the heaven that can satisfie a Soule created for heaven ibid. Exquisite directions for Virgins Wives and Widdowes pag. ibid. 217. We are to esteeme no life sweeter than when every day improves us and makes us better ibid. A divine Contemplation reflecting upon our mutabilitie on Earth our immortality in Heaven pag. 218. A Revew of our Ladies Court and Citty solace ibid. Recreations run in a Maze while they lay their Scene of Mirth on Earth ibid. A Twofold consideration full of sweet and select consolation ibid. 219. How happy many Eminent Personages had beene had they never beene taken with this Shadow of happinesse ibid. 219. No passage to the Temple of * HONOR virtutis praemium VIRTVS honoris pretium Honour but through the Temple of Vertue ibid. If Gentlewomen desire to be great let it be their height of ambition to aspire to honour in the Court of vertue ibid. What a brave Saliquor State shall Gentlewomen enioy when vigilancy becomes Warden of their Cinque Ports pag. 220. Perseverance the Crowne of goodnesse ibid. A constant resolution the Diadem of a Christian in her dissolution pag. 221. A Character entituled A Gentlewoman wherein such an One is described whose desert answeres her descent whose actions truely ennâ—ble her selfe with a briefe touch or revew of all his Observations Which are showne to be Obiects of her love improvements of her life THE ENGLISH Gentlevvoman Argument The Necessity of Apparell Of the Vse and Abuse of Apparell Two meanes by which the Vse may be

an higher straine Cloathes they weare but with that decency as curiosity cannot taxe them meats they partake but with that temperance as delicacy cannot tempt them Others from their Cradle become braue sparkes of valour their very Childhood promiseth vndoubted tokens of succeeding honour These cannot endure braues nor affronts Generous resolution hath stampt such deepe impressions in their heroicke mindes as fame is their ayme which they hunt after with such constancy of spirit as danger can neither amate them nor difficulty auert them from their resolues Others are endued with a natural pregnancy of wit to whom no occasion is sooner offered than some dainty expression must second it Others with more solidity of iudgement though of lesse present conceit And these are such as generally imploy themselues in State-affaires wherein Experience purchased by an vsefull expence of time doth so ripen them as the Publike State takes notice of them and recompenceth their care with honours conferred on them These and many other excellent endowments shall we obserue to bee lineally deriued from Ancestors to their successors which as they retaine a neare resemblance of their persons so they represent their Actions so powerfull is nature in bestowing her distinct Offices on euery creature wherein they generally partake of their disposition as wel as outward feature whence the Poet Stout men and good are sprung from stout and good Horses and steeres retaine their parents blood Yet see the iniquity of time It fareth oft-times with those who are endowed with these vertues to be most traduced where their more noble and eminent parts are to be highliest honoured Which as it was a maine error in former ages so descends it to these present times When Rome was in her glory this eclipsed her light by detracting from their demerits most whose free-bred vertues deserued of their Countrey best Sundry Families shee had famous for their vertues which by a depraued and mis-interpreting Censure became branded with vndeserued aspersious If the Piso's were frugall they were held parcimonious if the Metelli deuout they were superstitious if the Appij strict they were rigorous if the Manâ—â—j affable they were ambitious the Laelij if wise they were dangerous the Publicolae popular by being courteous But with good and and well-disposed persoâ—s vertue is neuer out of fauour though it bee neuer so much impeached by a traduâ—ing censure Thus you haue heard Gentlewomen what vertâ—es haue linealâ—y and by blood descended from Parents to their Children what especiall inward graces vsually attend some especiall families which no lesse memorize them than those natiue honours which are conferred on them Now to select such as sort best with your sexe and condition in my opinion there is none that ennobles you higher or makes you more gracious in the eye of the beholder than Modesty which was the greatest aduancer of many Roman families This is that vertue which expresseth you to be women this is that which makes you honoured amongst women Chaines and Carkenâ—ts Iewels and Habiliments may bee valued but this Ornament is of that high estimate as it is not to be prized Now there is nothing that will cause this to appeare more pretious vnto you next to the testimony of a good Conscience within you with an ardent desire of promoting his glory who made you than a reflexion to your Family which bred you whose honour to preserue as it is your especiall duty so no obiect of profit or pleasure no attractiue Lure of deceiuâ—ng honour should remoue this opinion from you To bee high borne and basely minded is to ingraffe bastard slippes in a noble stocke High and heroicke vertues become great house for as they were first made great by being good so should they by â—â—rceasing from being good lose their title of being great If by abusing the liberty of time you detract from your Ancestors fame you lye a blemish on his shrine which though it touch not him yet it taints you who represent him This no doubt was that Noble Lady right mindfull of when on a time being sollicited by a powerfull Suitor who wooed her first in person and after in a wanton Rhetoricall Letter she as one tender of her honour and perceiuing that the scope of his suit tended to her dishonour answered his fruitlesse sollicitancy in this sort with great modesty Should I condescend to your Suit I should not only derogate from the honour of my present state dis-value that which I hold most deare make my selfe a subiect of contempt to euery eare but asperse that infamy on my family which would beare record of my inconstancy O what would the next age report of me that I should so farre degenerate from those that bred me No pouerty may enter in at my gate but dishonour shall neuer lodge in mine heart Reserue these promises of honour for such as prize them aboue their â—â—nour That generous blood which distreames through my veynes shall sooner be dried than it shall be for any hope of aduancement ingloriously stained Such singular resolues many of our Albion Ladies questionlesse euen at this day retaine who rather than they would incurre the least dishonour or occasion suspition by their too free entertaine of light Suitors would confine themselues to their Chambers and debarre themselues of publike recourse Seeing then that there are natiue Seeds of goodnesse sonne in generous bloods by lineall succession which euen in their first infancy giue faire promises of their inward beauty expresse your selues Daughters worthy such vertuous Mothers Emulation of goodnesse in great persons is honourable Their Pictures you hang vp that their memories may liue with you Enioy their vertues too and their memories shall liue fresher in you All memorials being materials be they neuer so durable are subiect to frailty only these precious monuments of your vertues suruiue time and breath eternity You spring from a noble Seminary let those seeds of goodnesse which are sowne in your youth come to that ripenesse in your age that as in piety you imitated others so you may become Presidents vnto others as you were here seasoned with grace a good report may follow you to your graue All which by instruction onely may be effected as in our next branch shall be more pregnantly proued HE cannot chuse but liue well who conformes himselfe to that hee heares How these natiue seeds of goodnesse may be ripened by instruction Good instructors are such faithfull Monitors as they will aduise what is most fitting not what is best pleasing And these are to be entertained with such endeered respect as their speeches bee they neuer so tart should not incense vs nor their reproofes be they neuer so free distaste vs. Though Clitus open rebukes cost him his life his free and friendly reproofe exprest his loue so as Alexander could neuer sufficiently bemone his losse Those Natiue seeds of goodnesse whereof wee formerly treated be they in our infancy neuer so plentifully diffused yet

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