seldom that it keeps such an Evenness in its Blasts as not to cause some sensible Variation in Beauty that Loadstone of desire for it variously Affects the Body both within and without Inwardly as it is drawn into the Lungs those panting Bellows so naturally contrived to keep the furnace of the Heart boiling then its Qualities are Communicated to every Fountain of Life next to the Blood and so Universally to the whole Body Outwardly as it continually beats upon the Superficial Parts it causes Roughness Chaps Blastings and â—undry other Accidents according to the various Constitutions so that great Care ought to be taken to preserve the Body from the Impressions of a corrupt or ill-disposed Air whether too Moist or too Dry too Hot or too Cold for an Air too Foggy and Moist will soon wash off Natures Embellishments and if Ladies live too long among Mists it is the ready way to stain their Dammask Skins the Roses and Lillies of their Cheeks will Fade rather than Flourish If too many Dews drop on them And although it is held that Venus the Queen of Love was born in Neptunes watry Kingdoâ— yet it seems she would not be Nursed and brought up there as knowing the tender Plants of Beauty would never thrive in that Liquid Element Wherefore we are constrained to disallow the practice of some Ladies who to allay the petty Exorbitancies of too flaming a Colour expose in the Evening wherein Dews and Damps fall their Faces and Naked Breasts to Cynthias moistning Rays as if the Moon because pale herself would make them so or by spitting in their Faces scour off the Crimson dye Certainly Beauty never consents That Laundress should whiten her Livery who uses no other Soap than her own Foggy Excrements Such practices however since they occasion rheums Cattarhs and Distillations may by those Defects make the Face White and Pallid but rather diminish than add any thing to Beauty so that we find an Air too dry and parching does Wrinkle and Chap the Skin so that Art must be called in to work it over with a Beautiful Embroidery Can there be in a manner a greater Enemy than a Bleak and Peircing Air to a lovely Complexion it roughs the Skin constipates the Pores hinders the Exhalation of a kindly breathing Sweat vitiating those Exrements that lye between the Skin and the Flesh and by that means renders the Complexion Livid and Dull Contrary to this Extream Heat is prejudicial to a Fair and Tender Skin it tempts the Blood to the External parts and there unkindly Tans it into a Wainscot hew As if Amber-haired Hypersion spying Faces to dawn with a world of dazling Features that might Rob him of his Persian Votaries or withdraw the Heliotrope from its wonted Homage to secure his Brightness crowds those Beauties in the shady Covertures of Night whilst he makes day to all the World beside Lâ—dies be careful then not to expose your Beauties to the â—â—â—rching Heat for fear you â—ewaile your oversights in the â—â—ble veil of a Sooty Skin Therefore you that prize your Beauties and it be in your power to chuse such an Air as may better your Complexions make Choice of a Seat some what raised if it be not too much exposed to the ill conveniences of Foggs and Milts let it be sheltered round with pleasant Woods and Groves which may fence you from the blew impressions of a pinching Borcas and in the Summer secure you so that Sol with his Amourous beams may not kiss away your Beauty Care of this kind is the next thing to be considered in tender regard to Beauty for Moderation in waking or sleeping conduces much to the preservation of 〈◊〉 Comely Face Excessive Sleep makes the Body dull and heavy changes a fresh colour into paleness swarthy and livid and it is easie to know Morpheus's Sluggish Votaries by thoâ—â— sullied impressions his Leadeâ— Heels lean on their fleshy Robeâ— So on the contrary oveâ— watching spends and waste the Spirits dries the moisture 〈◊〉 the Body and if you make iâ— a frequent custom to extend 〈◊〉 unusual periods hardly wâ—â—â— it leave you Ladies Blood enough to crimson your Cheek with a Vermillion Blush 〈◊〉 the loss of your Beauty 〈◊〉 what hath been said of 〈◊〉 may be rationally enough Iâ—terpreted of Repose an Exercise for Repose is but a kinâ— of a Waking Sleep and Exercise too immoderate but 〈◊〉 more active watching if 〈◊〉 too much covet Ease 〈◊〉 soon contract the Rust 〈◊〉 Idleness which will certainâ—â— Iron mould the most curiouâ— Skin and they that Exercise Immoderately quickly 〈◊〉 our Beauties Silken Livery and when once you come Ladies to wear deformity's homspun Garments you are 〈◊〉 broken for Beauties and you whose stock of Features 〈◊〉 hardly procure any to lend you an Amourous Eye as not thinking you Objects 〈◊〉 the casting away a Glance upon Certainly there 〈◊〉 nothing more disorders and disturbs the Microcosin or little World of our bodily Structure than Passions of the Mind and consequently they do greater Violence to the Features than any thing whatsoever Their impetuous Motions raise an Earthquake which ruins the stately Structure of Cupids Palace Grief is the Moth of Beauty it frets out the Characters of Natures fairest Orthography wearing off those Ruddy and Carnation Flourishes which her skilful Pencil drew it makes the Face a discolourable Blank and renders those that over much indulge it so wanish and pale that they seem to be walking Shrouds to carry themselves to their own Gloomy Sepulchers Anger is Beauties burning fevour which fires the Furnace of the Heart with too scorching Flames that bake the Exteriour Feâ—tures into brown Bread Swartniness and it wou'd be very strange should such course Fare ever feast Spectators Eyes Fear another passion of the Mind on the contrary congeals the Blood and Bathes the Body in a chilly Sweat which often Enlivens the Hair to an Active though frightful Erection but does not at all clear the Skin but does Beauty more harm than Circes transforming Potion For the worst that it could do would be to make you handsom Beasts but fear causes a more frightful Metamorphosis by changing you from Beauteous to foul Deformed Women Consider again that Melancholy is a sullen and humoursom Spirit that raises Tempests in every corner of the Body which over cast the Face with thick Clouds of Grief And the Forehead with Wrinkles so that it makes the Lady whom it overcomes to be out of Love with the World and Beauty to be out of Love with her whilst she concludes herself weary of Mens Eyes they find little worth in the Object and are weary of viewing of her They soon perceive that Beauty is transplanting her Maiden-Lillies and Blushing-Roses to some more frequented Elizium intending that Face to lie fallow which Melancholy frowns wrinkle into uneven sorrows and so not only these but all other passions that disturb the Mind are rightly termed the Beauties wasting Consumption
as her self Now because their Youth perhaps will not admit of it so soon she hurries them on to it by degrees by the excess of Drink Smoke and Venery If you visit her House she pretends to have no Drink but will send for some that she may be sure of your Mony If you touch her Bedding it will infect you for few comes near it but they are troubled with a fit of the Falling-sickness but yet this I shall tell you she 'l teach you Temperance not suffering you to have too much Liquor for your Mony If she stays a Year in a place she is befriended by the Justices Clerk The Instruments in chief of a Bawd's Trade are an Hector or Huff which seems instead of the Gyant to defend her Inchanted Castle from being violated by Knights-Errant The Pimp which brings Grist to the Mill that is Bawdy Customers to the House which he picks up under this pretence Go along with me and I will shew you the fairest Wench in Christendom or raise a Discourse of Bawdry and then swear There is not such a curious fine Sinner in or about the City as there is at such a place c. But the Whore is the main support of the House The first will not swagger unless he be paid the next wont procure unless he may Spunge and have his Folly for nothing and the Whore will not ply unless she have half share of her own getting besides a little Mony by the by The Market-places to which a Bawd resorts to buy Tools for her Trade are Inns where she enquires of the Carriers for Servant-Maids and according as they are Handsom she entertains them and trains them up in the Mysteries of her Occupation and having quallified them for her Profession of a Prostitute the Bawd furnishes them with Butterfly Garments and other gawdy Accoutrements for which she hath three shares or as much as they can agree about Piutarch in the Life of Pericles reports That Aspasia his sole delight made her House a Stews in which the Bodies of the fairest young Women were made commâ—â— for Money In my opinâ—â—â— to be wondred at it is 〈◊〉 these being past their own acâ— al Sins wherein too much â—â—ciety hath bred a Surfeit or 〈◊〉 Infirmity of Age or Disease meer disability or Performancâ— yet even in their last of daâ— and when one Foot is alreaâ—â— in the Grave they without 〈◊〉 thought of Repentance or 〈◊〉 hope of Grace as if they 〈◊〉 not Wickedness enough of theâ—â— own to answer for heap upâ—â— them the Sins of others as 〈◊〉 only inticing and alluring 〈◊〉 gins and young Wives to 〈◊〉 base Venerial Trade and 〈◊〉 infinite Inconveniences both 〈◊〉 Soul and Body dependiâ—â— thereupon but to wear theâ—â— Garments by the Prostitutiâ—â— of others and eat their Breaâ— and drink Sack and Aqua-viâ—â— by their mercenary Sweaâ— and so base an usury and 〈◊〉 comely a travel of their Bodieâ— as is not only odious in thâ— Eyes of Man but abominabâ—â— in the sight of Angels Brute Beasts in Love with an Account of the strangâ— Love of an Athenian To seâ— Men affectioned to Women and Women to Men is a nâ—tural thing and to be believed But here Blindness is come 〈◊〉 that height that that which intend to speak of seems impossible and incredible Hâ—storiographers write it for truth That in the Town of Athenâ— there was a young Man of aâ— honest Family competently Rich and well known who having curiously observed a Statue of Marble excellently wrought and in a publick place in Athens fell so in love with it that he could not keep himself from the place where it stood but be always embracing of it and always when he was not with it he was discontented and blubber'd with Tears This Passion came to such an Extreamity that he addressed himself to the Senate at Athens and offering them a good Sum of Mony beseeching them to do him the favour that he might have it home with him The Senate found that they could not by their Authority suffer it to be taken away nor to sell any publick Statue so that his Request was deny'd which made him marvellous sorrowful even at the Heart Then he went to the Statue and put a Crown of Gold upon it and enrich'd it with Garments and Jewils of great price then ador'd it and seriously beheld it musing always upon it and in his folly persevered many days that at last being forbidden these things by the Senate he kill'd himself with Grief this thing was truly wonderful But if that be true which is written upon Xerxes and affirmed by so many Authors indeed he excell'd in Folly all the Men in the World They say he fell in Love with a Palm-tree a Tree well known though a stranger in England and that he loved it and cherished it as if it had been a Woman Seeing then these things happen to rational Men we may be-believe that which is written of Bruit Beasts which have loved certain Men and Women especially when we find it certified by great and famous Writers as Glaucus that was so loved of a Sheep that it never forsook him Every one holds that the Dolphin is a lover of Men. Elian writes in his Book of Beasts a Case worthy be read He saith that a Dolphin seeing upon the Sea-shoar where Children were a playing one among the rest which he liked very well he fell so in love with it that every time that the Dolphin see him he came as near as he could to the edge of the Water to shew himself At the first the Child being afraid did shun it but afterwards by the Dolphin's perseverance one day after another and shewing signs of love to the Child the Child was encouraged and upon the kind usage of the Dolphin the Child was emboldned to swim upon the Water near unto the Fish even to go ride upon the back of it and the Fish would carry him for a good space of time even to the bottom of the Water till the Child made a sign to rise again In this solace and sport they spent many days during which the Dolphin came every day to present himself to the brink of the Sea But at one time the Child being naked swimming in the Sea and getting upon the Dolphin willing to hold fast one of the sharp pricks in the Fin of the Dolphin run into his Belly which wounded him so that the Child died immediately in the Water which the Dolphin perceiving and seeing the Blood and the Child dead upon his back he swam presently to the shoar and as though he would punish himself for this fault swimming in great fury he leaped out of the Water carrying with him as well as he could the dead Child which he so much loved and died upon the shoar with him This very thing is recited by Pliny and others with Examples of Dolphins which have born love to Men. And particularly he saith that in the
below him he keeps hiâ— Residence there that he might with the more Facility direct their beaâ—â— Influences when and whither he pleases you may Ladies by this means make them beautiful Brows that have their Hair growing too thick or irregular Take Ivy Gum Emmets-Eggs or Pincent Colophonie Leeches burnt half an Ounce grind and mingle them with the Blood of a Frog and annoint the superfluous Hair and it will come off or you may take the Juice of Henbane Sanguinis Draconis Gum-Arabick and Frankincense of each three Drams Juice of Nigthshade as much as will suffice to make it into an Ointment and apply it as the former Brows falling too low over the Eyes you must work to remedy that defect a little Mastick together with the Juice of Colworts and going to Bed put the Brow up into its place and in the form of a Plaâ—â—ter apply the Mastick to it all Night and in so doing three or four Nights it will keep in its proper place Brows that shed their Hair may be prevented from so doing by taking the small filings of Lead a little Linseed-Oil and Goose-grease with which being well mixed annoint them or Maiden-hair one Dram black Henbane-seed two drams Unguentum Irinum three Spoonfuls bruise what is to be bruised and with Oil make them into an Unguent and having bathed the Brows with Water wherein Mirtle-Berries have been boil'd annoint them with it Brows that have lost their Hair to recover it take Wasps or Bees burn them to Ashes and mix the Ashes with Honey and laying it to the Hair 't will quickly come again Brows reddish or white are made black by this means Take what quantity you please of Red Filberds calcine them in an earthen Vessel mix it with Goats-grease and annoint the Brow with it and if the Skin be soil'd wash it off with warm Water and in often using the Hair 't will become of a very curious Black Beauty of an Itchy oâ— Scabby Skin repaired Beauty Ladies by these defects is much impaired but we fear whilst we are prescribing Remedies for such loathsom Skin-defiling Maladies you will perhaps think we have forgot you and are Addressing our selves to your Kitchen-maids We must confess these fretting Exulcerations are more frequently incident to such as have not the advantages of Neatness and anticipating Remedies but most certain it is that not only they but the most nice and delicate if any thing the most Irregular or Intemperate cannot at all times be secur'd from them If ever then your ill dispos'd Humours grow so strong as to break their way through the inclosing Skin it will do you no harâ— to have something in readiness that may check their Presumption Be it so then take Fumitory-water an Ounce and a half Succory-water three Ounces Syrup of Fumitory and Succory of each one Ounce mix them together and take two Spoonfuls in a Glass of White-wine for your Mornings draught and by often using you will find it an excellent Remedy or take Rhuburb one Scruple Senna two Drams Anniseeds half a Scruple White-wine half a pint put them into an earthen Bottle stop it close and set it over warm Embers all Night in the Morning strain it out and drink it and to purge your Body afterwards that the Humours may be remov'd which may be done with Pills made of Citron Mirabolaus and Rhuburb of each half a Dram Aloes washed in the Decoction of Senna one Scruple mix them well by bruising and make them up into Pills with Syrup of Fumetory And to wash the place afflicted Take Balm a good quantity bruise it well and set it to macerate one Night in White wine the next day draw off the Water in a Glass-still it is exceeding sweet and will cleanse and purifie the Skin after the defect is taken away then annoint it with Natural Balsom and a Grain of Musk and you will find a rosie Beauty where Deformity had usurped the place Big-belly'd Woman how to govern herself Good Government in these Cases has not only saved Miscarriages and Abortions but prevented endangering the Mother's Life wherefore we have thought it convenient for the Instruction of new marry'd Women to lay down some modest Rules and commend them to their Observance First then We advise Women with Child iâ— they are not strong of Body and very healthful to chusâ— a temperate Air where no grosâ— Fogs or Damps arise from Lakes Marishes or the like and noâ— to venter herself abroad when the Weather is either too Cold or too Hot nor when the South-wind blows too strong for that above all others is held to be injurious to the Birth she carries in her Womb The North-wind in the next place when it is too turbulent and cold is offensive to her Person carsing Catarrhs Coughs and Rheums which opening the Body le ts in too much Air 〈◊〉 the Womb or causes it to dismiss its Burthen untimely and if any evil Vapours be drawn in during pregnancy they produce many disorders and sometimes cold Diseases And Secondly In her Diet 〈◊〉 ought to be careful and cautious chusing such Meats 〈◊〉 create wholsom Nourishment and those are held to do so which are moderately dry she must avoid Excess on the one hand and immoderate Fasting on the other for as the one causes it to swell beyond its natural bounds so the other renders it weakly and sickly and often for want of Nourishment to come before its time All Meats too hot or too cold are to be avoided as Sallets any thing dressed with hot Spices Salt-meats and the like which being eat to any degree sometimes makes the Child come forth without Nails and such other defects as are signs of short Life or a very unhealthy Constitution therefore let her take such as are of good Nourishment and a facil Digestion as Lamb Veal Mutton Larks Partridges and the like and of Fruits such as are sweet and pleasant as Cherries Apricots Rasberries Pears Plumbs c. but by any means avoid those things that occasion windyness in the Body she must regulate as well as she can her Longings that they extend to nothing that 's unwholsom or extravagant Government must in pregnant Women be observed in their Sleeping which we advise to be moderate not soon after Meals and little as may be in the day time Moderate Exercise is likewise requir'd to move the Body and keep it in a good Temper by distributing the Humours and giving the Blood a freer Circulation but all viâ—lent Motion in Walking or otherways must be avoided for it molests and injures the frame of the Womb any great Sounds or Noises especially Ringing of Bells and Shooting off Guns are to be shun'd as much as may be Immoderate Crying or Laughing are very hurtful and the better to help the Birth when it comes near to delivery Let the Childbearing Woman take such things as will keep her Body soluble as Syrup of Violets sweet Wines or the like avoiding
a thing common to all they Solace the incommodiousness of 〈◊〉 Age closes our Eyes bringâ— us to the Earth from wheâ—â— we came They are our Bones our Flesh and Blood seeing them we see our selves in 〈◊〉 sort that the Father seeing 〈◊〉 Children may be assured 〈◊〉 he seeth his lively Youth â— newed in the Face of theâ— But if we do we consider and weigh in a 〈◊〉 Ballance the great and unâ—â—â—portable doings we shall 〈◊〉 amongst these Roses 〈◊〉 Thorns and among theâ— Sweet Showers of 〈◊〉 that there falleth alwayâ— much Hail it is true the Athenians are a People 〈◊〉 commended for their Prudenâ— and Wisdom seeing that 〈◊〉 Husbands and Wives could 〈◊〉 agree because of an infinit number of Dissentions and Provocations that chanced ordinarily between them were coâ—â—trained to ordain in their Common wealth several Magistraâ—â—â— whom they called Reconcilers of Married ones the Office of whom is to Reduce Reconcile and make Agreement by 〈◊〉 means The Spartans in their Common-Wealth had in like case Established certain Magi strates Named Armasins who had the charge to Correct the Insolency of Women to Reprove their Arrogancy and Audacity towards their Husbands The Romans would not ordain Magistrates perswading with themselves per adventure that Men were not sufficient to bridle the unbridled raging Temerity of Women when that they were out of Order But they had their Refuge to the Gods For they Dedicated a Temple to the Goddess Viripla where in the end they agreed of their Domestical Quarrels But who can say they patiently bear the charges of Marriage the Insolency and Arrogancy of Women the yoke of a kind so unperfect Who may accomplish their carnal appetite is also their unsatiable Pomps â—oth not the Old Greek Proverb say that Women and â—hips are never so well accomplished but that alwayes they â—ant Repairing If thou takest â—er poor she shall be despised â—â—d thy self less esteemed If â—ou takest her rich thou makâ—st thy self a Bond-slave For â—hinking to Marry a Companiâ—n equal to thee thou Marriest â—n unsupportable Mistress If â—ou takest her soul thou 〈◊〉 not love her If thou â—kest her fair it is an Image â— thy gate for to bring thee â—ompany Beauty is a Tower that is Assailed of all the World and therefore it is very hard to keep that every one seeketh to have the Key behold the hazard wherein thou art saith William de la Perreire that thy round-head become not forked which were a fearful Metamorphosis if it were visible and apparent This then is the Conclusion Riches causeth a Woman to be Proud Beauty maketh her suspected and Deformity or foulness causeth her to be hated Therefore Diponares having tasted the Martyrdoms of Marriage said That there were but two good days in all the Life of Marriage the one was the Wedding day and the other the day that the Woman dyeth For that on the day of Marriage there is made good Cheer the Bride is fresh and new and all Novelties are Pleasant and of all Pleasures the beginning is most delectable The other day that he commends to be good is the day the Woman dyeth For the Beast being dead dead is the poyson and by the death of the Woman the Husband is out of Bondage and Thraldom Ceremonies before Marriage The Persians were only permitted to contract Matrimony in or before the Summer Equinoctial but not after The Dapsolites once a Year make a solemn Convention of all the Men and Women that are dispos'd to Marriage in one day in which after their great Feast the Women retire themselves and lay them down upon their several Pallets the Lights being all put out the Men according to their number are admitted in the dark where without any premeditate Choice but meer Lot and Chance every Man chuseth her whom he first lights on and Divirginates her and be she fair or foul ever holds her as his Wife Stobre Serm. 42. Amongst the Carmanians no Man is suffer'd to marry before he hath presented the Head of an Enemy to the King About the Lake Meotes there is a People called Laxamatâ—e amongst whom no Virgin contracts Matrimony before she hath subdu'd an Enemy There is a Law amongst the Armenians that Virgins are first prostituted in an old Temple dedicated to the Goddess Anetes whose Picture was of solid Gold which Antonius after sacrilegiously as they held it took away according to the gain of their Compression it was lawful for any Man to chuse a Wife where he pleas'd Amongst the Câ—prians the Virgins before Marriage daily repair to the Sea â—hoar and there company with Strangers till they have got such a competent Sum as maâ— make up their Marriage Doweâ— The Phoenicians do the like iâ— the City of Syca but thâ—â— Prostitution is in the Temple of Venus the Surplusage thâ— ariseth above the Dower returns towards the Repairing oâ— the Church The Carthagiâ—nians observe the like Custom The Lydian Virgins befoâ—â— they were suffer'd to lie wiâ—â— their Husbands made themâ—selves for a certain time comâ—mon to any Man till 〈◊〉 with Saciety they became genâ—tle and quiet to their Beds 〈◊〉 from that time forward vowâ— Chastity but if any one 〈◊〉 found ever after to transgâ—â—â— the bounds of Temperance she was punished with all Riâ—gour and Cruelty Aeâ—â—â—â—ib 4. de Var. Hist. Lycurâ—â— having prescribed a certain Agâ— before which time it was 〈◊〉 lawful for young Men 〈◊〉 Maids to have Carnal company being demanded the reason â—â—â—swer'd Because the issue 〈◊〉 proceeds from those of Raâ— Years and grown Strength 〈◊〉 likewise able and perfect 〈◊〉 the hasty and untimely Geâ—â— ration is still subject to Weâ— ness and Infirmity Plutâ—â— in Lacon Ceremonies used in Mâ—â—â—riage by several Nations In the Roman Marriages whâ— commenc'd with Contracts mutually Sealed and Signâ— with the Signets of divers Wâ—â—â—nesses there present there weâ— sundry Customs observed by them The Man in token of good Will gave to the Woman a Ring which she was to wear upon the next Finger to the little one of the Left-hand because unto that Finger alone a certain Artery proceedeth from the Heart The Sabine Women they continu'd a Custom that the Man should come and take away his Wife by a seeming Violence from the Lap or Bosom of her Mother or her next Kin. She being thus taken away her Husband did part and divide the Hair of her Head with the top of a Spear wherewith some Fencer had been formerly kill'd which Ceremony did betoken that nothing should disjoin them but such a Spear and such like Violence Towards Night the Woman was brought home to her Husband's House with five Torches signifying thereby the need which married Persons have of five Goddesses and Gods Jupiter Juno Venus Suadela and Diana who is called Lucina When the Woman was thus brought to the Door then did she annoint the Polls of the Door with Oyl from which Ceremony the Wife was call'd Vxor quasi Vnxor
Sin against the Dictates of right Reason and tending to the Confounding of all Human Societies the destruction of the increase and prevention of the Multiplication of Mankind against Human Charity and Christian Purity 3dly Because it is against a Man's own Body and anothers too 4thly Because against all the Sacred Persons of the Trinity dishonouring God the Father by abusing his Creature God the Son by dismembering him and rending his Members from his Body to give them to a Harlot against the Holy Ghost by defiling our Bodies and the Bodies of others which are his Temples with the â—â—â—thiest of Pollutions and against the whole Trinity by being a kind of Idolatry too that tempts Men to Idolize the fading Glories of Flesh and Blood before the heavenly God and pay greater Worship to a 〈◊〉 White and Red in a 〈◊〉 Cheeks than to the Original Fountain of all Beauty and Perfection the Infinitely Glorious and Beautiful Creator of all Other Motives of a 〈◊〉 Classis are 1. It s shamefulness dictated by Nature 〈◊〉 sense of which the most impudent have much ado 〈◊〉 to smother 2dly The 〈◊〉 and uneasiness of it 〈◊〉 yet its vanity and 〈◊〉 shortness together with its unsatisfying Nature 3dly 〈◊〉 Expensiveness of it every 〈◊〉 And 4thly The Mischievoâ—â—ness of it in all the following Respects in Spiritual Mischief viz. 1. To the 〈◊〉 himself by cutting him off from the Body of Christ and Favour of God and rendring him uncapable unless Satisfaction first be publickly given to Communicate any more with the Faithful either in Civil or Religious Conversation by depriving him of the Spirit of God and of the Protection of Angels wounding his Conscience distracting him in Religious Duties bereaving him of his Judgment Reason and Freedom even to mind but his worldly Affairs depriving him of his Peace and a Quiet and lastly to apply deceitful Plaister to which by disposing him to a feared Conscience and to Atheism it self and the infallibly damning Sir of final Impenitence and so totally turning him out both of the Church Militant and Triumphant and Damning him infallibly to Hell Torments And again In Temporal Mischiefs viz. by ruining Body Reputation Estates Friends and Relations 2. It s Mischievousness to the Woman whom this ugly Sin involves in all the abovesaid Mischiefs and Punishments and in some respects to more 3. To the Child or Children so wickedly Begotten which are often Murdred or 〈◊〉 to Pine or bred up to but very ill and uneasie Conditions 〈…〉 and are always 〈◊〉 disgraced c. 〈◊〉 4thly and lastly To Human Society and Christian Religion in general and this Nation and Protestant Religion in particular by the abominable Murthers Quarrelings Envies Law-Suits Destructions of Families Cursing Swearing Blaspheming and a whole Inundation of numberless other Vices and Debaucheries and Scandals and Ruins and Devastations of Families Cities and Countries with which it is attended To avoid this Sin I advise you 1. To Marry prudently so as this Vice may be best restrain'd 2dly Carefully to resist and suppress the first Motions of Lust. 3dly To avoid Temptation and tempting Places Objects Employments c. 4thly And all other occasions to this Sin as high-feeding c. 5thly And all other Vices that lead to it as Pride Vanity Luxury Debauchery Drunkenness Covetousness c. 6thly To Mortify it by frequent Fastings and a continual Sobriety and Temperance in Meat Drink Clothes Words c. 7thly By Meditating upon the Falls of others their Punishments and deplorable Ends And again upon the Constancy and Happiness of others both single Persons Cities Armies Nations becoming Prosperous Victorious and Happy by the strict observation of Temperance Sobriety and Chastity 8thly By considering the Vanity Frailty and manifold defects of the Object loved and the foolish and transitory Joy this Sin affords and how after all the worst of Men and even Atheists themselves plead for it it is condemn'd by them in their own Children or near Relations 9thly By seriously pondering how the Eye of God and presence of Angels both good and bad see a Man in the Commission of this Sin and how one's own Conscience will condemn one And lastly I recommend to you the Meditation of the four last things viz Death Judgment Heaven and Hell as also a serious Contemplation on the Purity Passion and Love of Christ together with the unweary'd Use of Constant Prayer as the victorious Remedy that must clinch confirm and crown all your other Endeavours Friendship contracted by single Persons may it continue with the same Zeal and Innocence if either Marry Answ. That excellent Person the Reverend Bishop Sanderson has a Case very near â—kin to this if not Nicer which the Persons concern'd will find extreamly well worth their Reading and Consideratiâ—â— In the mean time we Answer It may tho Ten to One if it does since in those Circumstances there will be a great hazard that either the 〈◊〉 will spoil the Zeal or the Zeal the Innocence Not but that there 's a great deal depends on the Characters of the Persons concern'd a Friendship may perhaps be Innocenâ— where 't is not safe but hardly either long in this Case unless between those of great Prâ—dence and Virtue since 't is oftentimes only a Pretence and as such one of the most dangerous things in the World In the mean time as Generosity may be Criminal so Suspition is base and one infallibly ruins Friendship as the other may Virtue and Honour though a prudent Caution may perhaps be a Medium between both The worst on 't seems to be here That seeing Friendship can be only in the heighâ—â— as we have formerly describ'd it between two how shall it remain with equal Zeal and Innocence at least Justice when one is Marry'd Foreither there must be more or less tenderness for the Friend than for the Wife or Husband If more 't is Injustice for People ought not to Marry any but such as are fit to make Friends if less the former Friendship must be diminish'd as if the Marriage be happy it generally perhaps always is If I amn't mistaken the pinch is here and the 〈◊〉 accordingly That if the Friendship between the Persons Marry'd have but the ascendant and if that be continued with the highest degree of Zeal any lower measure of that and Friendship may innocently remain where it was before planted Athens Fair-Face its great Advantages The Sovereignty of Beauty is a Prerogative born with the Sex and the only thing whereof we have at no time been able to divert them The Moroseness of the Philosopher the Speculation of the Recluse the business of the Statesman nor the Fatigues of the Warriour have rendred them insensible of its Charms I dare appeal to any Man that has Eyes and a Heart If Mankind were consulted we should scarce find one Individual of so cold and saturnine a Temper who has not seen some Face that charm'd him It is reported of a
is well known how these white Devils seduc'd him Augustus that was certainly one of the steadiest Men in the World one that in his Touch out-witted the Horry Senate was all his Lite time led by one Livia But to make this yet plainer Age we say begets Wisdom now how general the Affection of old Men is to Women needs no proof especially the Older they grow some of threescore marrying Girls of sixteen and therefore it is a clear Argument of the Truth of this Point and of the Wisdom of those Reverend Seniors that proceed according Now if it be necessary that Governors should be of good Entertainment Affable open of Countenance and such as seem to harbour no crooked or dark design no Men can be so fit for Government as Women are For besides their natural Sweetness and Innocency their talk is commonly directed to such things as it may easily be inferred that their Heads are not troubled about making of Wars enlarging of Empires or founding of Tyrannies How few Men Prophets do Histories affords us in Comparison to Prophetesses and even at this day who such absolute followers of the Priests as the Women are If you wish them Merciful these are the tenderest things on the Earth they have Tears at command and if Tears be the effect of Pity and Compassion and Pity and Compassion be the Mother of Virtue must we not think that Mercy rules most in them and is the soonest expelled from them If you wish Affection to the Country where can you better have it Have Have not the Women many times cut off their Hairs to make Ropes for Engines and Strings for Bowes Thus were this Noble Sex restor'd to that right which Nature hath bestowed on it we should have all Quiet and Serene in Common-wealths Courts would not be taken up with factions and underminings but all would flow into pleasure and liberty Instead of molding of Armies we should be preparing of Masks and instead of despressing of Factions we should have balls and amorous appointments Withal we know how necessary it is in every Statesman to be Master of all the Artifices and fleights that may be to gain upon them he deals with Now if any can be fitter for this than Women I am much deceived For what by their importunities glances trains sleights ambushes and little infidelities it is as impossible to escape them as to go per ignes Suppositos cineri doloso We must therefore conclude that as Women bring forth Children into the World as they mulitiply themselves into these visible and corporeal Souls and after they have brought them forth are most tender and careful to bring them up So it is most fitting having all these preheminences and indulgences of Nature that when they are brought up they should also have the Government of them For a Potter would think it a hard measure if after the Pitcher were made it should fly in his Face Generation and Production of Infants First let us see of what Seed he is ingendred only of corruption and infection What is the place of his Birth but only a foul and filthy dungeon How long is he in the Womb of his Mother before he be like any thing but a vile lump of flesh unsensible in such sort that when the Nature hath retained and taken both Seeds and being heated by the natural heat it createth a little thin skin almost like to that which is next the shell of an Egg that it is like nothing but an Egg laid out of time Then certain days after the Spirits and the Blood mingled together begin to boil in such sort that it causeth to rise three Bladders like to a bubble that flaots and are made in a quick stream which are the places wherein is formed the three most noble parts of this superbious Beast the Liver the Heart and the Brains which is the most excellent part of his work the seat of all the functions the true fountain of feeling the moving of the most mightiest Palace of intelligence and memory the very Ark of Reason If we consider likewise by their order the creation of all other parts and how they be formed and how the Child being in his Mothers Womb beginneth to void Urine by the conduct of the Navel and how the Urine falleth into a little Member or Bladder separated from the Child ordained of Nature to that Office and how he hath no purgings by the Fundament for that he receiveth no sustenance by the mouth and that the little Belly or Stomach doth not yet his Office by the which means nothing is transported into the Bowels And how that the fix first days he is as Milk the nine days following Blood the other twelve days after flesh and the eighteen days that follow the Soul is enclosed I know not therefore so Diamond a Heart which is not moved and ravished with great admiration to contemplate things so pitiful and strange And yet this that we have spoken is very little if we will consider more near ly the things that follow who is it that will not marvel considering in what manner he is nourished and with what guiding without having the use of the mouth until he be born into the World then how much his Nature is tender frail and weak in such sort that the Mother be never so little hurt or smitten or if she smell the smoak of a Candle-snuff it is enough to kill the Fruit in her Womb. But whilst he is in the Womb of his Mother with what Food is he nourished what junkers hath Nature prepared for him If that his Creation have seemed unto us strange no doubt his sustentation will ravish us in more great admiration seeing that he is sustained of Blood and Corruption of his Mother the which is so detestable and unclean that I cannot without great horror rehearse that which the Philosophers and Physicians have written that have written of the secrets of Nature Those therefore that are curious of such things let them read Pliny which hath put in writing in his Natural History that which many others before him have fore-shewed And after that he hath been long sustained with this Venom and that he is formed and becometh in quantity sufficient seeking therefore for more greater nourishment and that he cannot not receive by the Navel so much as is needful by great pain he striveth to seek sustenance which is the occasion that he moveth and breaketh the panicles and sustainments that he hath always had till that time then the Matrice feeling it self pained will keep him no longer in but seeketh means to bring him forth and therefore it openeth and by the said opening the Child feeling the Air followeth it and straineth more and more to draw toward the opening of the Matrice and to enter into the World not without great violent dolors and pain of his tender and delicate Body Gentleman-Usher There is a conceited Treatise composed by an Italian as
another and on the other hand the like has befallen Women Grant we must then in some measure what the same Physian gives as his Opinion That such a Correspondence ought to be between the Marryed Couple and his Reasons are That the hot answer not the cold the moist the dry in measure and quality And then the Cultivature is in vain and there may be Pleasure but no Generation for so marvellous Work as the formation of a man continues he could not be performed without a proportionable Comixture of Seed and to Exemplifie this Assertion on of his other Physicians proceed to tell us that a Woman very Ill-conditioned shrill-voiced Twarthy Complexion and enclining to Leanness suits best for the Work of Generation Gentleman generosus nobilis seems to be a compound of two words the one French gentile i.e. honostus vel honesto loco natus the other Saxon mon as if you would say a man well born The Italian follows the very word calling those Gentil-homini whom we call Gentlemen Galanthis Alemena's Maid turned into a Weesel Galathea a Sea Nymph beloved of Polypheme who killed Acis whom she preferred before him Gallus a Young Man punisht for suffering Sol to discover the Adultery of Mars and Venus Gillet Aegidio the Womans Nature Gilt Jilt a cheat a fly defeating ones intent Glycerium a Courtesan of Thespia Godina Wife to Leosvic Lord of Coventry who to gain them a release from his Impositions rode naked through the City Geloum a Lake is Sicily at two Fountains whereof one makes Women fruitful the other barren Grishild gr Gray Lady Guastaliens a Religious Order of Men and Women began 1537. by a Mantuan Lady Counsels of Guastala Gule Goule or Yule of August St. Peter ad Vincula Lammas-day when they say Quirinus's Daughter by kissing St. Peters Chain was cured of a Disease in her Gummilda she kill'd her self because her Husband Asmond King of Denmark was slain in Battel Gunora a Norman Lady who held the Hamblet of Lanton by the service of a barbed Arrow to the King when he hunted in Cornedon Chase. Graeae three Sisters of the Gorgons they had all but one Eye and one Tooth which they used by turns Gallant Fr. goodly noble vertuous But it is now substantively appli'd to that persoâ— who si Servant or Platoâ—â—â— to a Lady Galatia a Sea Nymph for whose love Polyphemus flew himself Ganymede Ganymedes the Name of a Trojan Boy whom Jupiter so loved say the Poets as he took him up to Heaven and made him his Cupbearer Hence any Boy loved for carnal abuse or hired to be used contrary to Nature to commit the detestable Sin of Sodomy is called a Ganymede or Ingle Gertrude or Gerritude a Womans Name compounded of the old Saxon Gar i.e. All and trude i.e. Truth or Troâ—h Gorgon Gr. a terrible fighting Woman Poets feign there were three such Daughters to King Phorcbus their Names were Medusa 〈◊〉 and Euryale Gossip from the Saxon Gorsib our Christian Ancestors understanding a spiritual affinity to grow between the Parents and such undertook for the Child at Baptism called each other by the Name of Godsib which is as much as to lay as they were Siâ— together that is of Kin thro' God or a Couzin before God And the Child in like manner called such his God-Fathers or God-Mothers c. Verst Graces Charites three Sisters Poetically supposed the Daughters of Jupiter and Venus They were callled Aglsis Thalia and Euphrosyne The Moral was to express the mutual love and chearful Conversation which ought to be among Friends for they were painted naked to signifie friendship ought to be plain without dissimulation smilling and merry to shew Men should do good willingly young and Maiden-like to teach Friendship should consist in honest things and holding hands together in a round ring to shew a Benefit bestowed returns again to the giver Gyazcia in general are the Accidents incident to Women Guabr-merched Br. a fine to the Lords of some Mannors upon the Marriage of their Tenants Daughters also as Lairâ—â—â— Gy o. a guide Gybr o. any writing or pass Gyges a Lydian Shepherd who kill'd the King Canâ—aules his Master and enjoyed his Crown and Wife whom he had shewn him naked by the help of Gyge's Ring taken from a dead Giants finger found in the belly of a brazen Horie in the Earth whose coâ—ler turn'd inward made him invisible H. Hagar 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Arabick signifies to flee perhaps a Name given her from the face of her Mistris Sara 〈◊〉 16.6 or as others â— a Stanger Hinnah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Channah i. 〈◊〉 or merciful Haiâ—is see Avice Helena à 〈…〉 dict So called from her beauty Hephzi-bah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. King 21.10.1 â—â— delight or properly will â—â— in her Esther see Esther Huplice was Daughter to 〈◊〉 King of Thracia and gave her Mind to Warlike Exploits to which the was inciâ—ed by often hunting wild Beasts and when the Guests made an inroad into her Fathers Dominions overthrew his Power and took him Prisoner she with certain Troops purified the Enemy roated them and â—ave him a famous 〈◊〉 Harpics Monsters fabled to have the Bodies of Birds and Faces of beautiful Women and are said to be the Daughters of Neptune and the Earth they greatly disturbed Aeneas at his Banquet and presaged the hardship he should meet withal in his Voyage from Troy to Italy Hebe styled among the Ancients the Goddess of Youth and is said to be the Daughter †Juno She was made Cupâ—earer to Jupiter but slipping â—â— a Fâ—ast her Coats flew over 〈◊〉 ears and discovered her Nakedness in an unseamly part which caused the Thunderer to appoint Ganimedes to officiate her place but afterward she was Marry'd to Hercules when he took his place in the Skies Hecata called the Goddess of the Night 〈◊〉 in Poysons and Inchantments she was painted with three heads one of a Dog one of a Horse and one of a wild 〈◊〉 Some call her Proserpina or the Queen of Hell she is said to Poyson her Father and flying to her Unkle for Refuge he Marry'd her and on her begat Circes and Medeâ— both Inchantresses Helen the Daughter of Jupiter by Ledea Marry'd to Menelaus Brother to King Agamemnon her Rape by Paris Son to King Priamus of Troy occasioned the destruction of that famous City by the Greeks after a ten years Siege and great Effusion of Blood she was accounted one of the most beautiful Women in the World Helen Daughter to Constantine the Great a Virtuous and Heroick Lady Marry'd to Julian the Apostate Helen Queen of Adiabene who first embraced the Jewish then the Christian Religion Helen Daughter of King Coilus a British Prince marryed to the Roman Emperour Constantinus Chlorus and Mother to Constantine the Great she was a great Encourager of the Christian Religion found out the Cross where the Jews had hid it and caused many places of Religious Worship to be
men be convinced that you are better natured than they take you to be and you will find a World of Felicities in a Happy Marriage-state wherein you though the Husband is reputed the Head will be to him as a Crown and Ornament above the price of Rubies Mans best Possession is a Loving Wife She tempers anger and do's hinder Strife There is no Joy no Sweetness no Comfort no Pleasure in the World like happy Marriage where there is a Union and Harmony of Sculs as well as Conjunction of Bodies but more of this under the particular Heads of Matrimony has a universal Dominion extended over all Creatures as well irrational as rational according as they are capacitated to receive its power and influence and like the Loadstone draw Affection even at a distance some may demand how it comes to pass that there is a Harmony in the Minds of Parties only by report when distance of place or opportunity never allowed any interview to which according to the Opinion of the Learned we answer Love of this kind is not frequent yet sometimes happens and powerfully operates Recommendation has a great force and Fame obliges us many times to admire great Actions on the bare report of them and paints them so to the Life in the Relation that Fancy forms them to our Imaginations as if we were present and Spectators of them moving our Passions to favour or dislike them according as they are represented so those that by good Report we believe to have some Perfection in Virtue Science or Beauty attract or draw our Affections to admire or love them or on the contrary to despise and have no regard for those that are represented to us as vicious or deformed either in Body or Mind Lovers many times breaking off upon little differences and Cavils sometimes upon Jealousie of Rivals or the like return like a low Ebbing of the Sea with a greater Fluctuation of Passion and the Reason we give is because Love is in this Case to be compared to flame that is encreased the more the stronger Impression the gathering blasts of Wind make upon it with united force by whose feeble defect it before seemed for a time to expire or to the same purport Love augmenteth by some disfavour that one Lover receiveth from another so as they are for some time unassociated and retired but after they desire a Reunion of their Affections it is reinforced with greater Ardour and a Passion more irresistible as fearing again to hazard what they were so near losing through Inadvertency Peevishness or Ill-humour Love again is found to augment where Rivals are in the Case and though but cool before grows hot and is inflamed and the Reason we give you for this is because that Jealousie blows up and kindles that affection which before lay as it were securely sleeping as it were in its Embers without expecting any Disturbance or Molestation or dreaming of any Prevention which now it is forced to rouse and stand upon its guard to hinder by Interposition Love sometimes is attended with extream bashfulness in either Sex and takes away the power of Free-speaking so that though we are willing we cannot at least without Haesitation or abrupt Stammering utter our Mind when in all other Matters we are Volatile open and free And this is because and amorous Appetite is not necessary in matters of free Conversation as the others are and open Practice thereof is abashed by being frequently subjected to Censure Love that is modest fancies it ought to be very Private and more than all this the Mind being preoccupied in its retirement upon a matter of so great moment cannot so suddenly dilate or communicate it self to the faculties or through timerousness of speaking amiss and so consequently giving offence is not so ready to frame apt-words into Expressions that it fancies sufficiently pleasing Love has strange habits various Effects upon the Bodies of Men and Women sometimes casting a pale Shroud over them at other times a rosy Blush and again sometimes they seem to be in a dead Calm and at other times in a very quick Motion sometimes hot and sometimes cold To this we answer they are pale and wan when the parties are in fear or despair of the Success their Love had hopes of or aimed at because such Passions constrain the Blood to retire to the Interiour parts to give succour to the afflicted Heart by reason whereof the Extremities of the Bodies are left destitute of sufficient heat to maintain a lively Colour but when on the otherhand is an Expectation of what is so earnestly coveted and desired then the Blood flowing into the Exteriour Parts gives a Vermillion Blush and the Heart being disencombered of grosser Matter attracts the more rarified Spirits which enliven and give it quicker Motion of which by its dispensing Operation the whole Fabrick participates in a greater Measure Love in Men and Women has been variously censured and disputes have arisen over which of them it has the chiefest ascendant Virgil and other Poets have accused the fair Sex of extream Levity and Inconstancy nevertheless it seems evident to us that Reason and Experience declare the contrary viz. Reason in as much as they are colder than Men and the Nature of Cold is to include or shut up when heat which abounds more in Men disunites and dissolves and by Experience it is generally perceived that they are more Firm and Constant in Love and Men less faithful and permanent being oftner deceived and disappointed than they deceive or fail in their Love and Affections from this we proceed to a very nice Query yet seeing it falls in our way we must answer it as well as we can and that is Why Women bear a more ardent Affection to those that have first enjoyed them which is many times seen than to any other though upon second Marriage c. Our Opinion in this Case is Because the Female receives her Perfection in Copulation with the Male as a matter by Union with the Form which inclines their Love more strongly to those who were Instrumental in giving them a beginning of Perfection Or because those who have depucillated them hold the fairest and richest Gage of their Love which is their Virginity Love we frequently find is more powerful in Mothers towards their children than in the Fathers and the Reason to be given for it is that they cost them more Dear in carrying them in their Womb and bringing them forth and not only so but that they contributed towards them in a larger degree by so long nourishing them with their Blood in the dark Cell of Nature and produced them in the World with the Peril and Hazard of their Lives when on the contrary the Fathers have only the Pleasure in begetting them and after that little or no other concernment relating to them till they are grown to strength and in a manner able to shift in the World unless the
Food with her into the Prison however her Mother subsisting beyond what could be suspected the Jaylor watched the Daughter and at last found she had supported her with the Milk from her Breasts which known the Consul pardoned the Mother and highly praised the Daughter and in Memory of this An Altar was raised to Piety in the place where the Prison stood Sir Thomas Moor being Lord Chancellor of England at the same time that his Father was a Judge of the Keng's Bench he would always at his going to Westminster go first to the King's Bench and ask his Fathers Blessing before he went to sit in the Chancery There happened in Sicily as it hath often an Eruption of Aetna now called Mount Gibel it murmurs burns belches up Flames and throws out its fiery Entrails making all the World to fly from it It happened then that in this Violent and horrible breach of Flames every one flying and carrying away what they had most precious with them two Sons the one called Anagias the other Amphinomius careless of the Wealth and Goods of their Houses reflected on their Father and Mother both very old who could not save themselves from the fire by flight And where shall we said they find a more precious Treasure then those who begat us The one took up his Father on his Shoulders the other his Mother and so made passage through the Flames It is an admirable thing that God in consideration of this Piety though Pagans did a Miracle for the Monuments of all Antiquity witness that the devouring Flames staid at this Spectacle and the Fire wasting and broiling all about them the way only thro' which these two good Sons passed was tapistried with fresh Vendure and called afterwards by Posterity the Field of the Pious in Memory of this Accident Love in former times when Sacrifices attended the Hymenial Rites as part of the Ceremony that it might not be imbittered the Gall of the Beast was not us'd but cast on the ground to signifie that between the young Couple there should be nothing of that Nature to disturb their Felicity but that instead of discontent Sweetness and Love should fill up the whole space of their Lives and indeed it is the best Harmony in the World where a Man and Woman have the pleasant Muâ—â—â—â— of Contentment and Peace to refresh them in their dwellings whilst they make their study to encrease their Happiness This is as comely a sight as Apples of Gold set in Pictures of Silver or Brethren living together in Unity Love was so powerful with Plautius Nuâ—â—â— that hearing his Wife was dead he killed himself Darius after he had grievously lamented the loss of his Wife Statira as thinking she had perished in the General 〈◊〉 Alexander had given his Army was so over-joyed when he heard she was safe and honourably used by the Conqueror that he prayed that Alexander might be fortunate in all things although he was his Enemy Two large Snakes Male and Female being found in the House of Titus Gracchus the Augurs or Soothsayers told him That if the Male was let go his Wife should die first but if the Female himself should die first Then pray said he let the Female Snake go that Cornelia may live by my Death and so the Historians say it happened for he died in a few years after and leaving her a Widow she refused the King of Egypt in Marriage the better to preserve the Memory of her deceased Husband Ferdinand King of Spain married Elizabeth the Sister of Ferdinand Son of John King of Arragon Great were the Virtues of this admirable Princess whereby she gained so much upon the heart of her Husband a valiant and fortunate Prince that he admitted her to an equal share in the Government of the Kingdom with himself wherein they lived with such mutual agreement as the like hath not been known amongst any of the Kings and Queens of that Countrey There was nothing done in the Affairs of State but what was debated ordained and subscribed by both the Kingdom of Spain was a Name common to them both Ambassadors were sent abroad in both their Names Armies and Soldiers were levied and formed in both their Names and so was the whole Wars and also Civil Affairs that King Ferdinand did not Challange to himself an Authority in any thing or in any respect greater than that whereunto he had admitted this his beloved Wise. Love so bound the Soul of a Neopolitan to his fair and vertuous Wife that she being surprized by some Moorish Pirates who privately landed in a Creek and then put off again with their Prize that whilst they yet Cruiz'd near the Shoar he threw himself into the Sea and swam to their Ship and calling to the Captain told him He was come a voluntary Prisoner because he must needs follow his Wife not scaring the Barbarism of the Enemies of the Christian Faith nor Bondage for the Love of her who was so near and dear to him The Moors were full of admiration at so great a proof of Affection yet carry'd him to Tunis where the Story of his conjugal Affections being rumour'd abroad it came to the Ear of the King of that Countrey who wondring at so strange a thing and moved with Compassion to such a Lover ordered them their Liberty and placed the Man as a Soldier in his Life-guard Love in this a Passiâ—n is so strange It hides all fauits and ne'r is gi'n to change it uneclips'd in it's full Blaze shines bright Pure in it self it wants no borrowed Light Nor sets till Death draws the dark Scene of Night Liberty is so sweet and pleasant that all Creatures naturally cover it and though irrational are uneasie under restraint or Confinenmet The Romans of old had so high an Esteem of it that they priz'd it before all things in the World and thought it worthy of Veneration making it one of their Goddesses erected and dedicated Temples in Honour of it and esteemed Life in Golden Chains of Bondage not worth regarding and their greatest Offenders were punished with Interdiction Religation Deportation and such like accounting it worse than any other Severity as knowing without it the mind becomes a tormentor not only to it self but to the Body by wasting and consuming it with Grief and Anguish and that a Man will refuse no kind of Hardship nor Danger to secure his Liberty but Sacrifice their chiefest Ornaments and even Life it self as precious as it is to the uttermost hazard to preserve it Many Cities rather than fall into the hands of their Enemies and become Captives have been turned by their Citizens into an Acheldama of Blood and spread Ghastly Scenes of Death to amaze and slartle their most cruel Enemies When Hannibal had besieged the City of Saguntum nine Months and Famine warring within their Walls so that they found themselves in a great straight and without hopes of Succour but that they must fall into
Cure or at least easing this Malady Savanorola chief Observations and some more and some less And the first they prescribe is Exercise and Diet and there is an old saying That without Ceres and Baâ—â—bâ—â— Venus grows Cold a lazy Life and high feeding are great Causes of this kind of Love so their Opposites must needs decay and wast it for as the Poet says Take Idleness away and put to flight All Cupids Arts his Torches give no Light Cured by Business or harmless Recreations imploys and takes it off from the thoughts of Love puts to flight those Whimseyâ— that wander about the Heart and Brain like the Atoms in the Original Chaos for when it is imployd the old saying is The Devil has no power over him because his thoughts being wholly taken up with his Business there is no room for a Temptation to enter but the mind being unoccupied lies open to all Aâ—â—auâ—â—s which many times as easily prevail as an Army against a City when the Drawbridges are carelesly left down the Gates open and the Port-Cuillis drawn up or as a Stream getting at first a small passage by degrees throws down the Dam that opposes and overflows all before it If no Business offer Exercise your self in Walking or Running do it vigorously and not leisurely and musing keep your Eyes as much as may be off fair Objects as imagining Crafty Love lays every where a Snare to entangle you and in time as the Course of mighty Rivers with much Labour are turned you will find an Easement and the burning Flames of Love having spent in your Bosom the matter whereon they â—eed may expire or much abate of their vehemency Cured is this kind of Love by extraordinary Temperance Spareness and ordinary Diet Fasting allays the hot Desires and hinders Concupiscence for as Physitians hold that the Bodies of those feed high and live at ease are full of bad Humours and those gross Humours operate on the mind and stir up Lustful thoughts and desires which Abstinence would prevent by wasting and at length removing those Causes so that the Effects would cease St. Ambrose tells us That Temperance and Abstinence are great Friends to Virginity and Enemies to Lasciviousness when abounding Luxury overthrows Chastity and fostereth all manner of Provocations to Lust and this method the wise Philosophers observed as did the Fathers of the Christian Church and Origen because he had no due regard â—o this found the Temptation so strong when he Preached in an Assembly where there were handsome Women that he supposed there was no possible way to remove it but by gelding himself which he put in Practice to his disgrace when Abstinence might have been as Efficacious Consider that to tumble in a Bed of Down is a great Contributer Lascivious thoughts and Imaginations it gives soft â—â—pose and that Drowsiness and Sleep and therein wanton Ideas are represented one Dreams he is Courting his Mistress and she Smiles upon him another that he is Embracing her and finds an imaginary Heaven oâ— Contentment in the Charming Phantom and this makes them burn with a desire to do that waking which they only Fancied sleeping these delusive Dreams by lying hard and somewhat uneasie might be prevented the Pamperedness of the Body being brought under For this very Cause the Indian Brachmans a kind of Priests among them keep themselves Continent and will have no other Lodging but the ground covered with certain rough Skins of Beasts as the Redshank do on harder and Diet themselves very sparingly and in that spare Diet they avoid such Roots herbs and other Food as they know by any Phisical Virtue or natural Operation provoking to Lust as if they had observed the Poets Prohibition Eringo's are not good for to be taken And Lust provoking meats must be forsaken Certain it is that the Athenian women in their Solemn Feasts called Thesmopheries because they were to abstain from the Company of men for nine days they did saith Aelian lay a herb named Hanea in their beds which by a secret virtue queâ—â—â—ed the flames of desire and freed them from the Torments of any violent Passion Some hold that Melons Cucumbers Purflain water Lillies Ammi Lettice and such cold fruits and Herbs are of a Phisical vertue to allay the feavour of a violent Passion Mizaldus prefers Agnus Castus before any other Care what ever rules we have prescribed must notwithstanding be taken that by their Passion â—re much dejected and brought very low and feeble in their bodies they must not go thro' these kind of hardships but as fainting or languishing distempered Persons must have Cordials and Restoratives A Lover that has as it were lost himself through Impotency and Impatience must be called home as a Traveller by Musick feasting and good Wine Sports and Merriments and viewing of pleasant objects but not those that occasioned his Melancholy but curious prospects of Gardens Orchards Rivers Flowry Meads and the like And sometimes Hunt Hawk hear or read merry Tales pleasant Discourse and use moderate Exercise in any manual Occupâ—ation that so new spirits may succeed those that are wasted and decayed and by that means those Anger 's Fears Cares Suspicions c. may be overcome that a too violent passion had created in the former and the paâ—ty be weaned from his ill habit of Body and Mind Melancholy Symptoms are accountedtwofold affecting both in Body and Mind the first of these are plain to the Eye by the Dryness Leanness and Paleness occasions holloness of the Eyes wistful looks c. They pine away and look ill with Restlessness and Sighs there is a dulness in the sight and a cloud of sadness hangs upon the Brow and there is a feasible decay of Appetite and the reason the Learned give for this is that the disorder of the spirits obstruct the Liver from the performance of it's office by means whereof it cannot turn the Aliment into any reasonable good Blood as it ought and for that cause the Members weaken and shrink for want of their due sustenance as trees and plants wither and pine when their roots draw not sufficient Moisture from the Earth to supply them And this Ladies falls in a great measure your share in the bloom of youth because you are put upon longing and languishing many times when Modesty and Bashfulness charms your Tongues from uttering what we verily believe you wish at the same time were known so your selves were not the relators of it and it is very hard indeed that you are tied up to so nice a point that you must not ask for that which you no doubt might have for speaking but must endure because you will be too severely strict to the rules of Modesty there is reasonable allowance in all things that are not dishonest or ofâ—ensive These longing desires bring the Green-sickness often upon young Virgins and Widdows and strangely alters their Complexions as they do the Câ—â—â—xia or evil
kind partners of their kind enjoyments That their diet intended to prepare them for such a purpose be hot and dry and to take such things as may make for a kindly digestion and to be considerably in moderate Exercise that so the body may be kept in a good Temperature if healtd and then the heat being predominant Nature will be capable of bringing about her Ends and Purposes Much Wine is a great Enemy to Nature in this matter because by its heat and inflaming it chills and disorders the orderly moving and natural heat of the body which is that alone which works to farther the Ends of Generation Excess likewise impairs the health and Plato commends the Carthaginians for prohibiting it to married people by a Law for a limited time when they were to prepare for conjugal duty However moderately taken it refreshes and helps Nature Nature and Art considered in Wisdom and Vnderstanding Now as to the Observations made by divers upon children that they may be brought forth so as to be of wise and understanding capacities are as various as their Opinions Some pretending to Astrology hold that it is because the Infant is born under the influence of such Stars as have power to give Wisdom which follows not for we may upon Enquiry find divers born perhaps in one and the same minute and yet growing up they exceedingly many times differ in their Understandings as likewise in their Fortunes Manners and Conditions which they likewise annex to the former cause Hoppocrates Plato and Galen hold That an Infant receives the conditions of his Soul at the time of its forming and not of his birth for then continue they the Stars do superficially alter the child giving him heat coldness moisture and drought but not his substance wherein the life is contained as do the Elements of Earth Air Fire and Water who not only yield to the body composed what is consistent with their Qualities but the substance that may maintain and preserve them during all the course of Life by which menas that which most importeth in the producing the Infant is to procure the Elements whereoâ— it is compounded may partake the Qualities which are requisite for the Wiâ— and Largeness of Understanding for these â—ccording to the weight and measure by which they enter into the composition must alwaies so endure in the mixture and not the Alterations of the Heavens or Heavenly bodies Galen further given his opinion as to what the elements are in what manner they enter to produce and perfect the â—ormation of a body in the womb he tells us that they are no other than what compound all other natural things That the Earthly and watery parts are from the substance of the meat and drink the mother takes in to support Nature when concocted in the stomach and ordered by Natures kind preparation into a proper and suitable matter and that the Air and Fire are likewise mingled by her order and enter into the body by the Pulse Pores and Respiration and of these Elements mingled and digested by our natural heat are made what is fiâ— and necessary for the Infants Generation and therefore to meats drinks and airs the Parents ought to have regard the siner and most delicate the better because the thinnest and most â—arified blood is by that means produced and that is chiefly instrumental in producing the composition for the brain wherein we hold the chief seat of Understanding to be placed being temperate and compounded of a substance subâ—il and curious The Learned are of opinion that the Wit will participate of its fiâ—eness and become like unto it That is such a brain will produce an apt and sprightly Wit because there it has all manner of freedom to operate wâ—hout Obstruction no foggy fumes damp clouds or gross Vapours being there to stifle or oppreis it but a pure thin and rarâ—â—ied air still moving and â—â—lling the vacancy And further iâ— is allowed by them that a reasonable soul though Immortal and Incorrupâ—â—â—l◠〈◊〉 corresponds â—ith the diâ—posâ—â—on of the Brain which not being such as is requisite the soul cannot influence iâ— as it is desirous to do as being a defective Organ that hinders the excellency of its proper operation and tendency to a perfect harmony iâ— some measure suitable to the divine mind who gave it as a guide to the natural body till reâ—â—ring leaves it to be laid up in the Repository of the Grave waiting a second Union in the Resurrection When children are brought forth and Nature has done her part in furnishing them and furnished them with such materials as may capaciraâ—e them for large understanding there is something more required not only to train them up in what is most material from their Infancy but to confirm it to them by Rules and Precepts that they retain and improve it â—or the matter whereof mankind is compounded proveth so alterable that we find it has frequent variations in one sense or other and is so subject to corruption that in the state of mans life he â—asseth under many degrees that dâ—ffer one from the other Temperance and Society are the great continuers of the Understanding when Riot or Luxury very much impair it sending those gâ—oâ—s Fumes to the brain that dull and discompose it Nature we find by Experience is â—â—â—sfied with a little and grosâ—â—eeding is an Enemy to her It may indeed make the body sâ—ell and mountainous with flesh and uncomâ—liness but then by ill digestion those noxious humours superabound that afflict and disorder the whole Frâ—me with distempers and diseases that turn even Life and that Tranquility we might otherwise enjoy and poâ—â—â—ss into uneasiness and â—estlâ—ss perturbations Anxieâ—ies and cares cannot easily be debarr'd because they flow from accidents and casualties but by moderation the other nay be avoided yet a firmness of mind which a good temperature of body creates may mainly contribute to a sedate calmness in all Emergencies Health is the richest Jewel in Nature yet rarely â—rized or esteemed but when we are wanting of it we know not how rightly to value or esteem it till we are made sensible by a miserable Experience how precious it is Let us coâ—sider then seriously wâ—â—â—st we are possessed of it what great advantages it affords us and if our considerations are duly weighed we cannot but conclude we ought to study all manner of ways to preserve it and secure it to our selves as the greatest temporal blessing when it brings with it and continues to us so many advantages A crasie sickly body cannot be the Receptacle at least the container of a solid and sound Judgment many impertinencies and peevish sollies will be breaking in which ought to be shunn'd and avoided Why should we not then consider what best â—uiâ—s our conditions and earnestly to be câ—utious in preventing our mishaps Parents then that regard their Posterity ought so to bring them up that their Early Nurttiture may be a pattern to
the Belg. Pander that is he 〈◊〉 takes a 〈◊〉 or Pledge the Souls of such as 〈…〉 of him are pawned into 〈◊〉 hand as to Asimleus his 〈◊〉 berlain a He-Baud Philters their power and force to cause Love Philters are held by many 〈◊〉 be great Provocatives to Love or rather Lust and some have used Amulets Spells 〈◊〉 Images and such unlawful practices to compass their desires It was given out that a Thâ—â—â—lian Girl had bewitch'd 〈◊〉 Philip of Macedon enforced him by Philters to love and dear upon her though when Oâ—â—pia his Queen observed her Beauty she disbelieved it and ascribed his Love to that alone And some none of the least wife will not credit that any such thing can be done to force love but others again affirm it telling how strangely many have been infacinated by those that have been deform'd alledging that it is common for Witches to make such Philters as shall cause Love or Hate at their discretion Hieron tells as that a young man gave a 〈◊〉 one of these Philters that made her though she disdain'd distraction before run mad for love of him and was after a long 〈◊〉 cur'd by Hilarian Plutarch says that 〈◊〉 his death was occasion'd by a Lucullus and that might be for there are Poysons mixed in them to inflame the Blood which nor well corrected prove 〈◊〉 Cleopatria is said to use much means to chain Mark Ariâ—â— to her Embraces Charles the Great is said to dost upon Woman of mean beauty and extract for many Years to the neglect of his Affairs and then this Woman dy'd he 〈◊〉 her Coffin to be hung 〈◊〉 Jewels and carry'd it 〈◊〉 with him where e're he 〈◊〉 till it was reveal'd to a 〈◊〉 three pray'd he might over himself from so great folly that the cause of it was 〈◊〉 the Womans Tongue 〈◊〉 Bishop thereupon search'd and found a small Ring upon 〈◊〉 his passion towards her 〈◊〉 and he fell extreamly in love with the Bishop hardly enduring him out of his sight who thereupon considering the â—ing had some Necromantick Force in it threw it into a Lake and the Emperour neglected him and built an house in the Island that stood in the Lake as also a Temple by it to his great cost and neglecting all his other Palaces was extreamly delighted there till he dy'd Some Writers have suspected the Lady Catharine Cobham to have gain'd Humphrey Duke of Glocester to be her Husband by such Arts and that Roxolana bewirch'd Solomon the Magnificent to love her even to madness by the means of a Philter she received from a Jew And Salmatz affirms it is an ordinary practice in the Kingdom of Fess in Africa Some ascribe it to the Devils Enchantments rather than the Force of Drugs though they are used as a visiblements And others on the contrary will have it that such Effects suppos'd to be done by Charms and Philters proceed from Natural Causes as mens blood Chymically prepar'd which as Ernestus Burgravius says much avails He says it is an Excellent Philter but not fit to be us'd or made publick Mandrake Roots and Apples are held by some to have powerful Effects in this nature also dead mens cloaths certain hairs in a Wolfs Tail the powder of Swallows or Doves hearts sundry sorts of precious stones and that small Bladder which grows up the Colts Forehead e're the Dam bites it off which if she misses to do or it prevented she never loves her Fole They tells us that there are certain Fountains of which if any drink they shall grow mad for Love There is say they an hot Bath in Germany wherein it is fabled that Cupid once dipe his Arrows in which whosever baths shall soon after fall passionately in love against which Project Ovid exclaims viz. He gulis himself that seeks to Witches craft Or with a young Colts Forehead makes a Draught No powder in wife Medea's potions dwells Nor drowned persons mix'd with magical spells The power of Love is not enforced by these For were it so then had Ersonides Even stay'd by Phasius and Ulysses kept Who â—ale from Cirâ—e whilst the Inchâ—tress slept These charmed Drugs move Madness hurt the Brain To gain pure Love pure Love return again And inded plain dealing is the best for we find where Love or rather Lust and Madness is thus forc'd it always proves unhappy in the End and when the Fumes are work'd out turns to Repentance Hatred and Discontent Crowding miseries and misfortunes one upon another till they overwhelm the expected Joy and Felecity or fearrer them in Chaos of Confusion Prognosticks of Love Melancholy Prognosticks or Presage of things have in ancient times been held in greater Esteem than in these our days though they have not lost all the regard due to them and indeed were they more curiously scann'd matters in many affairs might go better than they do But waving all other matters we must only now handle such Prognosticks as are suitable to our Subjects and amongst them those of love Melancholy are worthy our Observation and the sorerunners of such melanchol are unaccountable Disorders in the mind Suspicions Fears Cares Jealousies and such like without any sufficient ground warrant or reason for such Anxieties Now the Question remains What will be the Evces of these miseries Some are of Opinions that it will fix 〈◊〉 a Love-melancholy in the mind that is cannot be removed neither by Physick nor found Advice and that the Physician himself thus possest may despair of his Art and complain with Apollo when that no medicable herbs can cure Love Eurialus being thus taken when his Friends came to perswade him cut his passion he figthing 〈◊〉 Go bid the Mountains cool down into the Plains the rivers run back to their Fountains and the Sun leave its wonted course and make its Diurnal Road from North to South You may as well bid this with as much hoped success as bid me not love First Seas shall want their fish Mountains their shade Woods birds sucet Notes and the Winds murmur fade Before my Love to Sylva is ullay'd Physick may Remedy each sad disease Excepting Love but that it cant appease Pretenders to love are never afflicted with this distemper and therefore after they have broke off or are slighted and frowned upon you may conclude their Love was like a painted fire the resemblance without heat indifferent therefore we intend not in this place to give advice to such as have no need to it but rather to those that want our compassion and are really to be pity'd in those where find it too frequently break out into outragious and prodigious Events Cupid and Bacchus above all others raise the greatest storms in men and women and run us many times even to madness or at least to be besides our selves Therefore to prevent the danger we ought at first to be moderate in both and not sip in more than we can reasonably bear and work off again for in
High Way where the Bâ—ide and Bridegroom are to pass and Poles are provided with which the Young men run a Tilt on Horseback and he that breaks most Poles and shews most aâ—â—vity wins the Garland But 〈◊〉 in his Survey of London p. 76. says That in Ann. 1253. the Youthful Citizens for an Exercise of their activity set â—orth a Game to run at the â—â—sin and whosoever did best should have a Peacock for â— prise c. Queries of Sundry Kinds relating to the Fair Sex Questions are easily ask'd but not so soon resolv'd especially to purpose and satisfaction Many rather employ their inventions in raising and starting of Questions than their judgments in determining them The one however makes Learning fruitful of Disputes the other of Works Asking of Questions proceeds commonly from some pre notion of that which the party demands which occasion'd that Opinion of Plato to think that all Knowledge was but only Remembrance It is a great parâ— of Learning not to teach only what to assert or affirm but prudently to ask Those that are very forward in asking do often use the same liberty in telling like Vessels that want bottoms they receive most because vent most In cunning mâ—n they are dangerous for Questions in them are like beggars Gifts a Gift with an Hook in it only to draw some thing back again by way of answer to find out your abilities Sudden Questions do often procure the truest Relation of matters which on consideration they do begin to colour They must in weighty matters especially be very warily raised for as delight in humane Learning is inferiour to that which is divine so Faults committed in Divine Knowledge are more dangerous than those in humane But laying this aside we now come to the matter intended which is to answer divers Questions of sundry natures Queries have been put why the External parts of the bodys of those that are in Love are more subject to have their sudden changes of cold and heat than others To which we answer That the passions of the mind in such are more stirring and agirated than in such as are not at all or at least less concerned and when any Grief or Discontent is conceived the natural heat passes away with the blood into the Internal parts of the body which gives the cold a greater opportunity to possess the Vacancies it lest in iâ—s Retreat So that the outward parts become cold and for the same Cause paleness takes place and a cloud of sadness hangs upon the countenance But on the contrary when hopes of success inspir'd by smiles and a prospect of attaining our desires restore joy and alacrity then a Spring Tide of blood flows again into every part brings along with it the retreated heat and both of them produce colour and warmth and for this cause Love is frequently painted sometimes pale and wan sad and dejected and other times sprightly Gay and blushing And Poets seign Love to be a Firebrand and the Reason they give for it is because that the minds of Lovers are sometimes in suspence sometimes incumbered with hopes and fears the one making them soar towards the Object of their desire and being too ardently scorched with a violent passion in approaching too near the flame the wax of their Icarian Wings melted by some Repulse send them fluttering down again and startles them with â—read and amazement when they see from whence they are fallen Loves Qâ—iâ—er signifies a Loven heart fill'd with arrows which are the Glances of the Fair Ones Eyes whom he admire which like wounding Weapons or Instruments of death stick there till her condescending Goodness vouchsafes â—â— draw them thence and the assurance of Love stays the bleeding and heals the wound We might largely comment on these matters but the Question proposed being resolved we proceed to others Query Whâ— women are sâ—â— and fairer than men It is because they are of a colder and moister Constitution which gives whiteness â—â— softness when a greater degree of heat in men render their bodies firmer moâ—â— brawny and of larger 〈◊〉 implying strength and thoâ—â— Excrements which cause hâ— on the Faces Breasts c. men are in women evacuaâ—â— in their Menses the whiâ— ceasing by age we may â— serve many Old Women hâ— hair upon their Chins â—â— some have Beards of a lâ— Growth Heat is likewise â— occasion of it But above â— woman was design'd to be the delight of the Eyes of man and therefore was more curiously furnished with all the â—â— allurements of beauty set â—ot with a pomp of winning Graces and attracting charms Query Why are not women bald iâ— at least so soon or often as men It is because of the great quantity of moisture by reason of their coldness the cold binding the pores and moisture giving nutriment to the hair Qâ—ery Why are women desirous to go neat and exceed men in the care of their attire To this we answer That woman being one of the delicatest peices of the Creation and modesty compelling her to hide a great part of her beauties she nevertheless desiring that every thing should answer what is visible calls in Art to her assistance and Knowing she was made to be beloved and highly prized by men she will not omit any thing that may give them cause to turn their affections from the Center whereto it ought to tend Besides the esteems it as a comely Decency to have nothing about her but what may demonstrate her careful in the management and conduct of all her Undertakings whilst man who is taken up with the hurry of worldly affairs is less thinking or less at leisure in matters to him of so little moment Many other Reasons might be urg'd but these as to our part may sâ—ffice whilst we leave the rest to the imagination of the Reader Query Why is womans wit upon a sudden a sâ—act or turn pregnant and exceeding mens but in weightier matters upon mature deliberation not so solid or substantial The Reason we give is because being incumbered with less Cares the Womans Understanding is free less puzzl'd and disorder'd and consequently more ratified at that time and capable of recollecting its powers to form suddain conceptions which by length of Time delate and losing succinctness become less solid if not multiplied into confused notions that cannot again be recollected to solidity because the passions of the mind by one contingency or other throw in those obstructions that foil the Reason and render it uncapable of making a second Judgment so true or suitable as the former to the purpose if suddainly laid hold on nor is it allowed that Woman is endowed with such discerning Faculties as man when he enters into the deep retirement of serious Cogitations There are divers Philosophical Reasons given for it but by reason they vary we omit them Quere why do women Love men best who had their first affestions We answer as to the first part of this Quere
tho she goes successful through her undertakings tho far from being â—â— a morose Temper she â— many times pleasantly affected she is not transported wiâ—â— Court Delights but when â—â— sees them they appear â— common things to her â— if she makes any Commeâ—â— upon them it is to turn 〈◊〉 Morally to her Advantage drawing like the painful Bee a Mass of Hony out of Floâ—ers of various Scents â— Kinds and sometimes out â— Weeds she Allegorizes â— Earthly Vanities into Heaven Truths when in her reaâ—â— Thoughts she remembers â—â—soon the Scene in the Play 〈◊〉 altered almost before â—â—ment it self could take 〈◊〉 of it she seriously weâ—â— how mutable all things are the World God ringing Changes on all accidents making them tunable to Glory And by contemplaâ—â— the wonderful harmony of Creation she Guesses Glorious a Place Heaven is reads constant Lectures to self of her own Mortality that the sight of death to will neither be so terrible strong because she has â—oâ—â— beheld it in her serious â—â—â—tations and when she is â—â— upon to take up her Loâ—â— the Grave she willingly herself down to take her sweet Repose out of the reach of the Noise and incumberances of the world â—ill awaken'd in the morning of the Resurrection she shall arise and possess the Crowns and Kingdoms prepared for the Juâ—t Quality you see therefore consists not so much in Riches or Honour as in Virtue and a Good Name which is the Foundation of True Greatness and Worth lastingly to build on and raise Tâ—ophies of Honour for themselves to all Posterity Qualifications and cautions â—word he had in regard by Ladies â— Quesâ—â—â—â—leâ—s there is a Reservedness that makes Beauty more Triumphant but wâ—â—â— it once comes to a Parlâ—â— Mâ—â—leâ—ly is in danger to â—e lâ—â—t and then shame and misfortunes slow in like the Waves that by their often bâ—â—â—ng against iâ— have forced a bâ—nk whose mâ—ndatioâ— might have been prevented in time but now it is too â—e Mistaken she must consequently be that â—â—ppoâ—es â—eauty to be the leâ—s priz'd because it is not always seen or â—oo familiarly Expos'd to the Eyes of men when indeed it 〈◊〉 incident to mens Natures to Esteem those things most they â—ope to gain yet are at present â—ome distance from them when â—hat they find crowded on â—hem at a Cheap and Easy â—â—te is little miâ—â—ed if not â—â—â—temned So long as a Lady â—â—verns her self by the Exact Rules of Prudence and modesty her Lustre appears like the Merâ—dian Sâ—n in its â—â—clouded brightness which though less aâ—prâ—achâ—â—le and more dazling to the Eye is accounted nevertheless more glorious but when she dâ—â—lines from them she is like the Sâ—n sâ—â—een'd with a Morning â—loâ—d which though gaz'd on with less hurt to the Optiâ—ks is not half so clear to the sight And besides thâ—se collateral advâ—ntâ—â—es it is evident that Moâ—esâ—y and Chastity 〈◊〉 these are twin sisters not to be separated and indeed are in degree properly the same give an â—mmediate direct improvement to beauty Besure above all things to bâ—waâ—e of those who finding you coâ—â—ientious and stâ—ring at the thoughts of Vice go about to corrupt your Judgment and would either perswade â—ou that to part with your Chastity is no sin or that afâ—er this Life the Soul returns to a nothingness or vanishes into â—oâ—tr air thâ—â— so you may rush on secur'd against the dangeâ— of a future state But let us by the way assure such that at laâ—t they will find their hot blood and impure flames nâ—t capable to contest with unquenchable fire when too sadly they see themselves deceiv'd for though he that can perswade a woman out of â—â—r Soul may soon command hâ—r Body yet he cannot reâ—cue neither hers nor his own â—â—om an angry God How eaâ—â—ly by such Gradatious of Mischief may we judge the deplorable Estate of those that have abandon'd their Virtue Whenever the cutward Pomp and Gaudy Splendor of vâ—â—iâ—ted women seems like that of Croesus to boast their happiness let them look through that Fallacy and answer with Solon tha◠〈◊〉 know themselves happy till their end We wish we could not say Ladies 't is too much the inâ—â—â—â—ty of a great part of the Fair Sex to love Gaity and a splendid appearance which lays them more open to be tempted and assaulted Insomuch that we cannot pronounce those who are not arriv'd at a sober Estimate of things secure from the danger they threaten It will therefore be convenient for them to regulate their Opinions and reduce all such things to their Just Value and then they will appear so trifling that they will never be able to stand in competition with the more weighty Interests of Vertue and Honour which in themselves have such a dazling Lustre that they out shine the rest as the Sun does all the lesser fires Modesty than is the Guard that should secure Virgins from the dangers within and without and the better to strengthen it all Temptations are to be avoided even the company of some Women is very dangerous A Woman that is conscious of her own Scandal thinks her self reproach'd by the Vertue another which makes her many times maliciously strive to level the inequality not by reforming her self so that she concludes too hard a Task but by corrupting the other So that those who to this purpose screw themselves into acquaintance will be oâ—â—r officiousty kind and by all arts of condescention and obliging Endeavour to 〈◊〉 a Woman of Reputation into her Company and Intimacy and if she can once intangle her into the Cobweb of Friendship then she Spider-like infuses her Venom and poysons her Vertue But of such take special heed R RAchel Gen. 29.9 a Sheep or Lamb properly the Female Rachel Daughter to Laban the Syrian Win her Jacob the Patriarch fell in love and served an hard and tedious Apprentiship to gain her of her Father She was mother to Joseph and Benjamine dying in Travel of the latter She was very bâ—autiful as appears by the commendation the Scripture gives of her Radegund favourable counsel or advice Rebecca Ribkah Gen. 24.15 fat full fed Rhode Acts 12.13 a Rose Rosaâ—â—â— the Rosâ— of Peace or as it 〈◊〉 Rosamundi the Rose or Flower of the World Lâ—◠〈◊〉 Rosa a Rose from 〈◊〉 Recreatio because tâ—â— smell of it doth strengthen and refresh the spirits of a man Rose Rosa commonly used Ruth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ruth 1. v. 4. perhaps watered or filled Rebecca Sister to Laban She was married to Isaac Abraham's Son by Sarah and was mother to Jacob by whose advice and management he got the blessing from 〈◊〉 Elder Brother Eâ—â—â— Rahab the Harlot of Jerico who Entertained the Spâ—â— for which she and her Family were saved in the destruction of that City Radgâ—nda Queen of France She was Dâ—â—ghâ—â—r to Bertaiâ— K. Thâ—â—iâ—â—iâ— a Lady of Extraordianry Beauty but more illustrious for her Vertâ—e She laid aside her Râ—yalty and became a
Merâ—â—â— Vol. 3. Numb 3. in the man 〈◊〉 following viz. The first â—â—ght I travers'd the Pall mall and read the Face of every unmask'd Lady I met and if mask'd I started some question that still gave me an â—â—dication of their Temper endeavouring to light upon as refin'd yet modest piece of Wickedness at I could At last having made as I thought the best of the market away we walk'd to drink upon the Bargain So after several Glasses and some little insignificant prittle prattle I fix'd my Eyes upon her and said Madam methinks I read some Lines and Characters of Goodness in your Face which are not yet absolutely defac'd Your Education I 'm confident has not been unhappy Pray be Free and tell me are you yet Proof agaisnt the Lashes of your Conference Sir said she your 〈◊〉 I know not but I dare not believe it to be ill you having made such an inquâ—â—itive Prologue No indeed replied I my request proceeds purely from a Generous Pity at your misfortunes which are 〈◊〉 ciently slavish Alas Sir said she and sigh'd 't is a slavish Riddle to chuse what I hate I have repeated these Actions but never without regret and self-abhorrency for such a Folly This I had peculiar to my self that I never was mercenary thinking it a greater baseness to sell my Heaven than give it I was first betray'd by keeping company with a Lady that was not over modest but not thinking to engage myself till one of her Gaâ—lants weaken'd my Resolves and at last I know not what but I was ruin'd for all my Resolves are now too weak to resist never being able to hold out a quarter of a year together but secure my Honour for this once by secrecy and not watching me to my Lodgings and I hope the Novelty of this enterprise may have New Effects upon me and keep me from doing such actions as must be repented of or I am undone The next attack was a 〈◊〉 Madam with a melancholy air in her Face which put me upon acting as follows 〈◊〉 having drank a Glass or two she began to draw a little too near me whereupon I rose up and with as severe a Look as I could affect I said Madam keep off You think I 'm 〈◊〉 and blood and I doubt not but â—hat I imitate it near enough to deceive your Eyes assure yourself I am not what I appear Reclaim your Whoredom or you are lost You have but a little Time left make good use of it If you are otherwise solv'd view these Features and expect me to be a Witness against you at the Day of Judgment Here she wax'd pale and swooned away and as soon as she came to her self again I left her and enquiring the next Day about her I heard she took me for a Spirit and was resolv'd to follow the advice of her strange monitor The third was a Saâ—â—â— bird well skilled in Confidence and the depth of Pockets but so simple and foolish in all her answers that I think nothing can reclaim her but afflictions The next Enterprise was an Old Friend a Companion of mine whom I overtook caressing a Lady near the May Pole in the Strand but being not certain I kept behind them till they came to S lane where seeing them turn down I made an halt and they came up again presently into the Strand so resolving to be satisfy'd I made up to them and by asking What is 't a Clock discovered the Truth of the matter The Lady finding my acquaintance with my Friend scowr'd off and he seeing himself discover'd begg'd my silence and promis'd a Reformation which I hope he has kept to ever since having given me such satisfaction as argues his 〈◊〉 rity in this affair The fifth Engagement occasion'd thâ— Confession That she had an easie tender Education but her brother grew Extravagant and instead of saying hers and her siders Portions he spent all and she having no way left to get her bread and not being able to work took up this Course which said she at first was very afflicting and uneasie to my Conscience but has worn off by degrees tho after all I could wish I had begg'd rather than liv'd thus dissatisfy'd for I have lost my Credit am ashm'd of my Friends afraid of my Enemies and which is yet worse see no probability of living under better circumstances all my Life and must die without hopes of mending it in the other World The sixth and last Enterprise was so like the story of Paphnutius's converting of an Harlot that I shall tell that only perhaps not yet known to every body He put on the habit of Soldier and went to an infamous house and choosing his Woman he desired to go with her into a private Room where none might see him she brought him into a Chamber which he objects against as not private enough she brings him into the most private Room in the House he looks about every way asks if they were secure there And if none saw ' em She answer'd None but God 〈◊〉 the Devil And believest thou saith he that there is a God She answered 〈◊〉 And believest thou that he is every where present and seeth all things She 〈◊〉 she did believe it and shall we saith he sin so shamefully under the Eye of the most Just Judge that seeth all things Hereupon she had nothing to say for her self but fenched a deep Sigh being asham'd of her â—icked Lâ—â—e lived afterwards on Bread and Water 〈…〉 to take the Name of God â—nto her mouth but frequently repeated these words â—â— u who hast made me have mâ—â—â— on me and so she continued three years and dyed To this conviction our present Instance agrees and we are not without hopes of like effects in the rest Ladies if the Time and moneys spent in these six Nights Rambles may reclaim or hinder the Debauchery of one single Person I shall think it all worth my labour of inserting here Sicilian Matron That Sicilian matron closed her content with an incomparable contempt of the world who publickly protested That she could Eye nothing in this Theatre of Earth that might seem worthy to entertain so divine a Guest as her soul. And as of a finite to an infinite there was no proportion so it was impossible that the Circumference of Earth should confine that infinite beauty of the soul to her dimensions That modern mirror of True Nobility express her self a brave Soveraigness over her affections who held it the greatest derogation to Feminine honour to discover the least distemper in subjects of anger When I take serious survey said she of â—â—ine own infirmity and re-colleâ—â— daily what cause I give my mâ—â—â—r to be angry with me I am half ashamed to express my passion of anger to any â—â—n be 〈◊〉 me who made me and 〈◊〉 I â—râ—ear â—â—em who 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in their creation with me Spicery c. It is a very commendâ— quality in Gentlewomen
blush and so he loads her down into the Room of State from whence the Cavel Cade is to set forth and here we close the Scene of Wooing in which all those that are not stupified may perceive their is a World of pleasure and contentment Wedding The Happiness of the Day considered and Exhortations to Wedlock as being an Honourable Estate c. Wedding puts an end to Wooing in one sense but ought to be the beginning of solid and substantial Love the inlet of the Entirest and Immovable Affections the last best temporal Blessing that can be bestowed on Man It is ushered in with joy and harmony of Minds and should continue so till death disolves the sacred union and then live in the remembrance of the surviver We see how the Congratulating coud throng to see the Lovely pair pass to that state of happiness insomuch that pressing to be Spectators they will hardly allow them room enough to enter the Church every one having good wishes and commendations in their mouths some praising them for their virtues and others for the comliness of their Persons and those that are ignorant who they are make a strict enquiry to be informed that they may carry the joyful news along with them and spread it in their Neighbour-hoods to set all the young Maids and Batchelours a madding or at least a wishing and longing c. They having with much a do thrust through the crouding Rable and entered the Church the Pâ—rson attending the Ceremony is performed with all imaginable decency and order the no longer Courtier but Husband salutes his Wife which she accepts without a blush because now such things may be done within the strictess Rules of Modesty and so after some sober admonitions for you must know the Bridegroom is not niggardly to him that has link'd him to so great an happiness to live in Love and Unity out they pass through the waiting Multitude and the Beggars who make not the least figure in that number fail not of their Expectations but taste of their Liberality for which they send their prayers and good wishes after them And perhaps are so generous as to lose some of their Blood on the occasion by going together by the Ears about parting the Mony Not is it to be accounted less than a Mark of Greatness thus to be attended by the Rable For many Great men have esteemed it a happiness to be popular and admired by the multitude For after this large Expence to make a Splendid show should the Rabble in a moross and sullen humour have declined their publick appearing to be Spectators much of the honour and credit of the day would have been lost as well as money thrown away to no purpose which in private Wedding might have been saved however they did not order the Coaches to drive so softly as to gratifie them in a longer prospect than the getting home withal the convenient speed imaginable would allow Being entered the spacious Room appointed for the Entertainment it was pretty to see how the Male Guest saluted and joyed the Bride and how the blushes arising by that means adding a greater Lustre to her Beauty and how in return the Bridegroom did the like kind office to all the young Ladies Well then the business being over and Dinner not upon the Table our Gallant Bridegroom after strutting about a little to take a fuller view of the Company crys Come Gentlemen what think of you of a whet before Dinner you know from the Church to the Tavern or elsewhere to participate the juice of the Grape is all the mode now adays The motion was lik'd well for there were divers thirsty Sparks of his Club Companions who had rather be at a drinking bout than participate of a well furnished Lord Mayors Table and so about it went in Bumpers he taking special care to see it go round because it was his Ladies health however the Women were not pressed to drink more than they pleased but in that left to their discretion however he must take off a Glass to either of the Brides Maids and it is their business to put it about among their own Sex This scarce concluded when the wind Musick gave them notice that Dinner was coming up whereupon every one repairs to a place in order the Bride like an Angel was placed at the upper end she being this day Mistress of Rule and the Bridegroom who knew his duty well enough attended at the lower end So that they looked like the two bright Luminaries in opposition his less brighter Visage being more enlightened by the beams of her Eyes that with often as it were stolen Glances Reflected on it They were no sooner seated but all things were Marshalled in such good order that no General could have drawn up his Army more Regular and Uniform in Batallia there wanted nothing that could be wished or expected and what was more pleasing admirable the Brides handywork appeared in the more curious part of the Pastery in various Images Figures Similitudes of Fruitâ— and Flowers which her Industery and Ingenuity had framed a Graceful Garniture to accomodate the worthy Guests insomuch that they were scrambled for â—nd coveted as earnestly as Pilgrims do Relicks to be kept in Memorial of her and the proceedings of that happy day Then was it pleasing to the Bridegroom to behold every one pay their respects to him and his Bride in addressing the Glasses first to her and then to him if he can but keep himself sober till bâ—d time or else a great deal of his happiness will be wanting We now come to consider that Dinner draws to a conclusion the Glasses have gone round and some begin now their bellies are full to be uneasie till they are releas'd and get to dancing but stay a while young Gallants and Ladies you must consider the Mother of the Bride and therefore she has ordered the Pâ—rson who tyed the Holy knot and is now one of the Invited Guests to read you such a Lecture relating to the state of Wedlock that will do you more kindness and credit if well minded and put in practice than all the Dancing at a hundred Balls and Dancing Schools which he standing up and very gravely addressing himself to the Company delivered in these words That Marriage says he is honnourable and a holy state appointed by God himself I suppose none here are so profane as to deny it is honourable for four respects First in the parts of it Secondly in the nature of it Thirdly in the use of it And Fourthly in the Quality and Sacredness of it Marriage is the Prop of Mutual conâ—ent the Aide of Nature the Perfection of Health Wealth Beauty Learning Honour and Experience Youth Manhood Old Age whereof none is sweet where Marriage 〈◊〉 not the want It serves not only for the necessity of Generation but for the relief of such as aâ—e past it Looking at the Safeguard of the Stock and Comfort