of Mens Hearts by the Participation of one anothers thoughts And we can call Discourse by no 〈◊〉 Title than the vehicle of the 〈◊〉 These were the Ancient Decrees of Truth they thought it a happiness to have their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 enlightned with a weight of Labour to search it but the glory or human Nature to speak us Thoughts are but the Children of the 〈◊〉 as Speech is of Thoughts The Prudence of whose 〈◊〉 of excellent use to 〈◊〉 view it either in the 〈…〉 or 〈…〉 no small Wisdom to be used in the framing and the material of ordinary Discourse every Speech acquaints us with the matter we ask or the mind of the Speaker which is delivered The perfection of the Art of Speech to others consists in a volubility of Application and if a Lady could come to the Excellency of it she may speak to a hundred persons and yet vary her stile to each which Art Alexander the Great seems well to have known whilst he Animated his Soldiers against the Persians in various Dialects The Avaritious with hopes of great Treasures and Spoâ—ls the Ambitious he incensed with aspiring to Honour and the Malicious he provoked with a Remembrance of the former Grugdes and Hatred between the two Nations Thus Speeches that have an Edge or Point enter sooner the Affections than Dull and Slow Expressions nor would it be unuseful to have the knowledge of the several Forms of Speech of sudden Questions of Suspended Answers and great varieties of others in which it may be thought no small Policy consists Together with the apprehensions of the Coloâ—rs of Praise and Vice and Vertue But in the use of these one would have rather the largeness of understanding to turn ours self in with dexterity than to be tyed to the straightness of a few Rules of Remembrance To have Wisdom grounded in the Heaâ—â— and not too much in the Tongue becomes Policy 〈◊〉 on all occasions ought to become the Person that use them as when you speak before a Prince you must 〈◊〉 an Oration worthy of his heâ—â—â—ing if to one of mean Capacity your stile must be suited to his Understanding Seâ—â—â— approves not Speech to be Excellent when words are 〈◊〉 quickened with the Life 〈◊〉 Reasons but are only uttered with the Plausibility of 〈◊〉 Speaker And again Immitation of others however useful yet is servil because it should come from the fluence of happy Câ—gitations not Imitations Bâ— this is rather to be referred 〈◊〉 the Characters of Stile and Oraâ—ory than to a serious Observator of Eloquence makes for the Credit of the matter but to speaking agreeably 〈◊〉 whom you direct your Speech shews more of the Wisdom 〈◊〉 the Person Those who have the Stile of Eloquence â—â—â—ther use the applause of it for pardon of faults than for â—â—â—frage to Vertues Merits Tâ—â—â— to know the parts of Speech is not only the part of a good Grammarian but a Poâ—â—â—â— But where there is not a nâ—â—ral Promptness it may be improved if the speech be 〈◊〉 disordered with Impediments with Reading of Books which will furnish the memory with apt words and the understanding with a true method of digesting and delivering them to the best advantage In Books the relations of Affairs are framed in the mould of the Understanding by way of Expression which makes those things that are writ have a shape and appearance of a more perfection than those that are done Books if well accepted are only freed from the power of Oblivion things that are gained in Discourse may be length of time slip out of our Memories but Books are our Remembrancers and lay them always before our Eyes Communicating to us the Wisdom and Eloquence of the Ancients as well as the Moderns that we may order out Discourse according to the best Rules laid down for Instruction The Ancient Poets from hence promised to themselves an immortality of Name as concluding all other things subject to the Inconstancy of Affairs and Period of Time They have Fabled that in the end of the Third of every Mans Life there is a certain Coin affixed upon which is Engraved the Name of the Deceased Party which as soon as the fatal Sister â—as cut she throws into the River Lethe but over the River flies a great Company of various Birds which catch up the Coin in their Beaks before it sinks and carrying it a little way drop it carelesly but among them they say there are some Swans and if they light on a Coin they carry it to the Temple of Minerva and devote it to perpetuity Books are the Coins on whom Mens names are writ those of an ordinary flight endure but for a time but being carelesly scattered are lost in Oblivion but where they are truly valuable and praise worthy they are carryed on the wings of Fame to Posterity Books are the best Councellours the best Companions and best Heirs of any ones knowledge they be the Monuments wherein are reposed the Sacred Reliques of Wisdom and Vnderstanding from whence such Eloquence may be extracted as may 〈◊〉 a very Graceful Adoraâ—â—â—â— to the Speech and know how to Express your words in Season is the best way to sit you for all Companies and Conversations however let what is spoken at any time be to the purpose and as brief as may be for long Harangues though never â—o Eloquent grow â—â—esom and â—â—dious for the Art of Speaking is to speak a lâ—â—â—le that may signifie a great 〈◊〉 in a few Sentences or Words Crâ—â—ilâ—â—â— of Women in the Creatâ—â—â— With an excellent State 〈…〉 the presence of a 〈…〉 What attractive beauty in the Eye What an admirable disposure in the contexture of every part So as I cannot sufficiently wonder at the stupidity of that meer Scholastical Wooer Who being in the way of preferment received a very free welcome from a Gentleman nearly neighbouring whose aim it was to bring him into acquaintance with a kinswoman of his hoping it would be a competent advancement for her by matching them together All access which promised all good success was admitted him with such opportunity as might have induced another Zenâ—â—â—ates to enter into a pirley of Love But hear how this amorous Schollar acquitted himself as if his Soul by a strange transmigration had passed into that dull Zâ—â—â—â—â—tes or Zenophanes into his in thinking Love to be composed of Earth One Winter evening was the Qâ—â—ntilian with that lovely Dansel left together purposely if there were left any beatings of Love in his pulse to break the matter unto her She poor Wrench long expected from this Predicament of Fancy some pleasing encounter or other but â—â—thing was done by this 〈…〉 there 〈◊〉 on both sides without the 〈◊〉 till such time as 〈…〉 apprearing a little out of her skirts 〈◊〉 received from her affectioâ—â— Schollar after some feaâ—â—â—â— pumping this lovely pieced Rhetorick Surely Mistress you have a goodly fair Foâ—â—â— God be praised How meanly was Beauty bestowed
THE LADIES DICTIONARY Being a General Entertainment For the Fair-Sex A WORK Never attempted before in English Licens'd and Enter'd according to Order LONDON Printed for JOHN DUNTON at the Raven in the Poultrey 1694. Price Bound Six Shillings TO THE Ladies Gentlewomen and Others OF THE Fair-Sex The Author Humbly Dedicates this following Work Ladies THIS Project of Composing a DICTIONARY for the use of the Fair-Sex which may serve as a Secret Oracle to Consult in all difficult Cases being the First Attempt of this kind that has appeared in English 't is hoped 't will meet with a Courteous Reception from all but more Especially from you for whose sakes 't was undertaken and if it receives any Favour at your Hands I shall Attribute its Success in the World to the ILLUSTRIOUS SUBJECT it Treats on viz. The Virtues and Accomplishments of your Sex which are so many and Admirable that no Volume can contain them in their full Extent However my thoughts and good wishes have bid fair in this Essay which is intended for a General Entertainment and will I hope prove to the Satisfaction of the Learned and Ingenious of the Age whose Discretion I need not doubt will keep them from wresting it to any other end than what it was designed for viz. The Benefit and Advantage of the Modest of either Sex not desiring that this Book should fall into the Hands of any wanton Person whose Folly or Malice may turn that into Ridicule that loudly Proclaims the Infinite Wisdom of an Omnipotent Creator neither is any thing inserted in this WORK but what I have sufficient Authority to back it with ready at hand It is now near a Twelve-month since I first entred upon this Project at the desire of a worthy Friend unto whom I owe more than I can do for him And when I considered the great need of such a Book as might be a Compleat Directory to the Female-Sex in all Relations Companies Conditions and States of Life even from CHILD HOOD down to Old-Age and from the Lady at the Court to the Cook-maid in the Country I was at length prevailed upon to do it and the rather because I know not of any Book that hath done the like indeed many Learned Writters there be who have wrote excellent well of some Particular Subjects herein Treated of but as there is not one of them hath written upon all of them so there are some things Treated of in this Dictionary that I have not met with in any Language 'T is true MY OWN EXPERIENCE IN LOVE AFFAIRS might have furnisht out Materials for such a Work yet I do not pretend thereby to lessen my Obligations to those Ladies who by their Generous imparting to me their Manuscripts have furnisht me with several hundred Experiments and Secrets in DOMESTICK AFFAIRS BEAUTIFYING PRESERVING CANDYING PHYSICK CHIRURGERY c. Proper for my Work and such as were not taken out of Printed Books or on the Credit of others but such as are Re-commended to me from their own Practice all which shall be inserted in a Second Part if this First meets with Encouragement that so both together may contain all ACCOMPLISHMENTS needful for Ladies and be thereby rendred perfect Nor shall I dissemble the Assistance which I had from the Private Memoirs of Madam a Person well known to all the World for being both Exact and Curious in those Matters of which my DICTIONARY Treats And as this Work contains my own Observations on Love and Marriage c. For many Years as also the Secrets received from Ladies of the best Quality So Lastly That nothing might be wanting to render the Work perfect I have consulted the most valuable Books written for and against the Fair-Sex as also Dr. Blancards Mr. Blounts and other Dictionaries of note from which I extracted what was proper for my Work for as the things Treated on are many and various so were my helps I hope Ladies you will not think it much that as the Famous Limner when he drew the PICTURE OF AN EXACT BEAUTY made use of an Eye from one of a Mouth from another and so Cul'd what was rare in all others that he might present them all in one Entire Piece of Workmanship so I when I was to write of Love Marriage the Behaviour Dress and Humours of the Female Sex have consulted all Books I could meet with on those Subjects to Compleat my own Experiences So that you 'll find here at one view the whole Series and Order of all the most Heroick and Illustrious Women of all times from the first dawning of the World to this present Age of all degrees from the IMPERIAL DIADEM to the SHEPHERDS CROOK of all Regions and Climats from the Spicy East to the Golden West of all Faiths whether Jews Ethnicks or Christians and particularly an Account of those WOMEN MARTYRS that suffer'd in Queen Mary's days And in the West in 85 And of all Eminent Ladies that have dy'd in England for these last fifty years of all Arts and Sciences both the graver and more polite of all Estates VIRGINS WIVES and WIDOWS of all Complexions and Humours the Fair the Foul the Grave the Witty the Reserv'd the Familiar the Chast the Wanton What ever Poets have fancied or credible Histories have Recorded of the first you have the Misteries and Allegories clearly interpreted and explained of the latter the Genuine Relations Impartially delivered Here therefore Ladies as in a perfect Mirror you may behold the lively Ideas of all laudable Qualities whatsoever suitable to them in all Callings and Conditions here you may observe the profoundest of Learning and Divine Contemplation in the Prophesies of the Sybils c. Here are Erected the Trophies of Female Fortitude and Valour in several Instances Here Queens may learn the Arts of Splendor and Magnificence from Nitocris Cleopatra and others Wives here may read how to demean themselves toward their Husbands in all Conjugal Affection Daughters may here be taught Examples of Obedience and Chastity from the Vestal Votaresses Matrons may find here that decent Deportment which becomes their Gravity and Widows that Constancy which besits their Solitude Here is also to be found the true Interpretation and Etymology of Womens Names with so plain derivations of each Name whether Hebrew Chaldee Syriack Greek or Latin c. that any ordinary Capacity may understand them But never does my Hand more compulsively direct my Pen nor my Pen wiâ—h less willingness blot Paper then when I am forced in this Work to lay open the frailties of your Sex before so much commended But this is my Encouragement to proceed because I can produce nothing out of History to the Disgrace of the bad and vicious which adds not to the Honour of the good and vertuous Were none foul what benefit were it to be fair And if none deformed what Grace could it be to be featured There were no honour to be ascribed to Modesty but that we see
of Epigrams an Elegy upon her Husbands death and other Verses of various kinds and subjects Cleobule or Cleobuline the Daughter of Cleobulus Prince of Lindus she is particularly noted for her faculty in Aenigmatical Sentences or Riddles Corrina a Theban Poetess who wrote Five Books of Epigrams and is said to have been five times Victress over Pindarus Besides her there were two others of the same name namely Corinna the Thessuzin and Corinna the Roman Lady whom Ovid much admired Carnificia a Roman Epigrammatick Poetess Cassandra Fidele a Venetian Lady She write a Volumâ— of Latin Poems of various subjects and kinds Catherine Philips the most applauded Poetess of our Nation her Fame is of a fresh and lively date from the but late publisht Volume of her Poetical Works Churlo Sax. Ceorle a Country Clown a Bumpkin in the North a Carle Chiromanter Chiromantes a Palmester or one that tells fortunes by the lines of the hand Cloris The Goddess of Flowers called also Flora. Chorus Lat. a Company of Singers or Dancers a Quire The singing or musick between every Act in a Tragedy or Comedy In a Comedy there are four Accessory parts viz. 1 The Argument 2 Prologue 3. Chorus 4. Mimick Of all which the Tragedy hath only the Chorus Chrisome a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies properly the white cloth which is set by the Minister of Baptism upon the head of a Child newly Anointed with Chrism after his Baptism Now it is vulgarly taken for the white cloth put about or upon a Child newly Christened in token of his Baptism wherewith the woman used to shrowd the Child if dying within the Month otherwise it is usually brought to Church at the day of Purification Chrisomes in the Bills of Mortality are such Children as die within the Month of their Birth because during that time they use to wear the Chrisom cloth Cabaline fountain of the Muses Calivate caelibatus single life the state of Man or Woman unmarried Herb. H. 8 Care-cloth According to the use of the Church of Sarum when there was a Marriage before Mass the parties kneel'd together and had a fine Linnen cloth called the Care-cloth laid over their heads during the time of Mass till they received the Benediction and then were dissmissed Caresse Fr. a cheering cherishing welcoming making much of Carnaval Fr. Shrovetide also a Licentious or Dissolute Season Castalian-Well a fountain at the foot of Parnassus sacred to the Muses taking the name of Castalia a Virgin who as Poets fain flying from the Leacherous God Apollo fell down headlong and was turned into this fountain Rider Catamite Catamitus a Boy hir'd to be abused contrary to Nature a Ganymede Ceruse Cerussa White-lead often used by Chyrurgeons in Ointments and Plaisters It is with Painters a principal white Colour and hath been and is still much used by Women in painting their Faces whom Martial in his merry vein scoffeth saying Cerussata timet Sabella solem Cest Cestus A Marriage-girdle full of studs wherewith the Husband girded his Wife at the Wedding and which he loosed again the first Night Chaperon Fr. a French-Hood for a Woman also any Hood or Bonnet mentioned in the Stat. 1 R. 2.7 Chaplet Fr. Chapelet a Wreath Garland or attire for the Head made of Gold Pearl or other costly or curious stuff used to be fastned behind in manner of a folded Roul or Garland Cully Fop or one that may easily be wrought upon Concubinage Concubinatus the keeping of a Whore for his own filthy use an unlawful Use of another Woman instead of one's Wife In Law it is an Exception against her that Sues for her Dowry whereby it is alledged that she was not a Wife lawfully married to the Party in whose Lands she seeks to be endowed but his 〈◊〉 Confarreation Confarreatio the solemnizing a Marriage a Ceremony used at the Solemnization of a Marriage in token of most firm Conjunction between Man and Wife with a Cake of Wheat or Batley This Ceremony is still retain'd in part with us by thâ—â— which we call the Bride-cake used at Weddings Continency Continentia a refraining of ill Desires or more strictly a restraining from all things delightful that hinde Perfection Copulation Copulatio â— coupling or joining it was one of the three ways of betrothing Marriage in Israel See Moses and Aaron p. 231. Coquettery Fr. the prattle or twattle of a pert Gossip or Minx Coral or Corral Corallum There are two principal forts hereof the one white the other red but the red is best It grows like a Tree in the bottom of the Sea green when under the Water and bearing a white Berry and when out turns red It is cold and dry in Operation good to be hang'd about Childrens Necks as well to rub their Gums as to preserve them from the Falling sickness Coranto Ital. Corranta a French running Dance also a News-book Corrivals Corrivales they who have Water from or use the same River And Metaphorically a Competitor in Love or they that Love one and the same Woman Culâ—â—riches Man eyes you Coverture Fr. signifies any thing that covers as Apparel a Coverlet c. In Law it is particularly apply'd to the Estate and Condition of a married Woman who by the Laws of the Realm is in potestate viri under Coverture or Covert-Baron and therefore disabled to make any bargain or contract without her Husband's consent or priviry or without his Allowance or Confirmation Brook hoc titulo per totum Courtesan Fr. Courtesane a Lady Gentlewoman or Waiting-woman of the Court also but less properly a professed Strumpet a famous or infamous Whore Courtesie of England Lex Angliae is used with us for a Tenure For if a Man marry an Inheritrix seiz'd of Land in â—ee-simple or in Fee-tail general or as Heir in Tail special and gets a Child of her that comes alive into the World though both it and his Wife die forthwith yet if she were in Possession he shall keep the Land during his Life and is call'd Tenant by the Courtesie of England Crabbat Fr. is properly an Adjective and signifies comely handsom gracious But it is often used Substantively for a new fashioned Gorget which Women wear or a Riding-band which Men wear Curranto ab 〈◊〉 illue currendo Fr. Courante a running Dance a French-dance different from what we call a Country-dance Corkney or Corkneigh apply'd only to one born within the sound of Bow-Bell that is within the City of London which Term came first according to Minshaw out of this Tale A Citizens Son riding with his Father out of London into the Country and being utterly ignorant how Corn grew or Cattle increased asked when he heard a Horse neigh what he did His Father answer'd The Horse doth neigh Riding further the Son heard a Cock crow and said Doth the Cock neigh 〈◊〉 Hence by way of Jeer he was call'd Cookneigh Min. A Cockney according to some is a Child that Sucks long But Erasmus
those things that more immediately concern our selves but with great care and restraint in those that concern others Remember always that Zeal is something proceeding from Divine Love when true And that it therefore must contradict no Action of Love Love to God includes love to our Neighbour and therefore no pretence of Zeal for God's Glory must make us uncharitable to one another zeal in the insâ—ances of our own Duty and personal Deporâ—ment is more safe than in matters of Counsel and Actions besides our just Duty â—â—nding towards the perfection it mains is beholding to Zeal for helping it to move more swiftly but where Zeal is unwary it creates trouble and sometimes danger as in case it be spent in too forward Vows of Chastity and restraints of natural Innocent Liberties but let Zeal be as devout as it will as seraphical as it will in the direct Address and intercourse with God there is no danger in it do all the parts of your Duty as earnestly as if all the Salvation of Mankind the Confusion of the Devils and all you hope or desire did depend upon every one Action Let Zeal be seated in the will and Choice and regulated with prudence and a sober Understanding not in the Phancies and Affections for they will render it only full of Noise and Empty of profit when the other will take it deep and smooth material and devout that Zeal to be sure is safe and acceptable which directly encreases Charity Let your Zeal if it must be Expressed in Anger be always more severe against your self than against others which will distinguish it from Malice and Prejudice Zenobia Wife to 〈◊〉 miâ—tus the Iberian King her Husband being forced by Tâ—idates King of Armenia to fly his Country she accompanied him though great with Child thorough Woods and Desarts but finding her self unable to endure the Fattigue longer she entreated him to kill her that she might not fall into the Hands of the Enemy and be made a Captive which along while he deferred but seeing her Faint and Languish he run his Sword into her Body and thinking she had been Dead left her but being found by some Shepherds she was carryed to the City of Artaxates and there cured of her Wound and her Quality afterward being known Tiridatesse â—â—â—t for her and treated her very kindly praising her for the Love and Constancy she boâ—e towards her Husband and for her sake caused him to be fought out and restoreâ— to his Kingdom Zoe Daughter to Constantine the Younger she was given in the Marriage to Romanus the third Emperor but not capable of satisfying her Desires she got him privately strangled and Marryed Michael Paplilagon to whom for his Hâ—ndsomness and Proportion of body she took a Main Fancy to as working She see him in his Shop working at the Golâ—-Smiths Trade of which Prosession he was But he being weak in Mind though strong of Body committed the Affairs of the Empire to his Brother John who was more stirring and Active and he working upon his weak Temper at last perswaded him to turn Monk which he had no sooner done but the Lustful Empress to cool her Heat was Cloystered in a Monastery and John Proclaimed Emperour in the East FINIS Rules for the Beautiful The best use to be made of Beauty Beauty not to be beholding to Art Beauty blindeth Justice Beautieâ— description Body Lean how to make â—t Plump and Fat Bodies unequally thriving The Remedy The praise of Histories The forbidding of idle Books makes young People more curious to read them What is necessary in Bâ—haviour Câ—â—seâ— of Company Rules for Good Behaviour A Caution for writing of Letters Not to entertain any familiarity with Serving Men. Not too much to affect to be seen in publick Too much privacy in some cases dangerous The love of a Wife toward her Husband The duty oâ— Children 〈◊〉 their Parents Laws for a Reconcile the Man and the Wife Miseries and Thornes in marriage Beauty maketh a Woman suspected Deformitty hated and Riches Proud Gen. 1.27 Prov. 31.11 23. Gal. 3.28 Care to be taken as to Waking Sleeping Repose Exercise Care taken to prevent Passions perturbations in the Mind Enemys to Beauty Care to be had in Meats and Drinks in relation to Beauty Physical Aâ—â—â—plications 〈◊〉 preserve Beauty Care of the Body's good Digestion Twins the Sâ—mptoms False Conceptions hard to discover Alber. Maâ—â—de mulieâ— fort Revel 14. â—ob 31.1 Chastity it 's Excellence â—n Men and Woman Chasâ—â—◠〈◊〉 c. Chastâ—â—â— Rules 〈◊〉 be obsâ—â—â—ed 〈◊〉 by â—â—â—â—ried Peâ—â—sons 〈◊〉 Matriâ—â—nial Câ—â—stity Gallen Dr. Reynolds in her life relates that she and her Child were buryed together 1 Kings 22. Divorce a Copy as it was among the Jews Dâ—uryâ— among the Jews the manner of it Dunmows Bacon an Encouragement to happy Marriage Her Speech to her Army Eloquence improved by Reading of Books c. Ambr. Ev. 70. The like Mortification appear'd in that Virgin Eugenia during the Confiscate of Eleutherius Suct Faces disfigured with wrinkles how to smooth Faces Eyes other parts Attracting Love Face chap's how to make smooth Faces burnt 〈◊〉 Scalded â— Remedy Fore-head how to beautifie Fate how to Beautifie though dis-figured Fame dangerous to Reputation Jealousie more particularly considered Jealousie an Enemy to a married Life Jealousie sundry ways prescribed to prevent its bad Effects Jealousie its Cause and many things considered therein conducing to it's Remedy Jealousie its Cure and the circumstances attending it Kissing an Incitation to Love also Coyness c. Kindness to Children and their Education c. Keeping House in so doing what is to be considered as to Servants Keeping House the expences considered Loves Original Object Division Definitions Loves pleasure Objects Love its honest Objects Love which Charity commands is composed of Three kinds viz. Honesty Profit and Pleasure Love 〈◊〉 its Original Power and extent Loves Power and Tyrannical sway further described Love inciting to sundry Accomplishmets Love makes men valiant Love causes Gentility Love occasions neatness in Apparel Love makes Men and Women Poets Love a Poem on it Love Enquiries or Questions A story of a wise Woman Love the Founder of Arts and Orders Love the Author of Court and Country Sports and Pastimes Loves force and Mystery Love Melancholly cured by enjoying the desired Object Love Queries Resolved on sundry occasions Love brief Instruction for the Guidance of Ladies Phancies therein Love its uncontroulable Power and Force Love Examples Love of Wives to Husbands Love of Parents to their Children Love and Reverence of Children to Parents Love of Husbands to Wives Liberty desirable more than Life Cure of Love by Exercise Care of Love by Diet. Care of Love by hard Lodging Cure by herbs Physick c. Caution in Case the party be far spent Melancholy it's Symptoms Comparison between a Lover and a Souldier Marriage State further considered c. Marriage Promises and Contracts in what Cases they are binding and what not Advice about Marriage c. Particular and General considerations and what may be considered in Jealous Persons who have some colour for it Perswasion a Remedy for Love Patience in Example Perfumes for Gloves Cloths c. Pride to be 〈◊〉 with more particular arguments against it Pride the Vanity of it considering no mortal state change of things and uncertainty of life Partial censureâ— Reproved and Confuted Songs and gay Cloaths tempting Spots of deformity of any kind on the body removed Spots Inflamation blood-shot and yellowness in the eys Service relating to a Chamber Maid and what she is to take notice of c. Service relating to the Cook Maid or her Office c. Service reâ—â—â—ing to a 〈◊〉 Maid Service relating to the Dary Hâ—â—semaids under Coâ—k maids and Scullâ—â—y maids * Virgin her Blushes the Cause and Comliness Wedlock its â—onourable Estate c. Young Mans choice of a good Wife as to Birth and a good Name Young Mans choice as to her Religion and Beauty Young Mans Choice as to Portion and Friends
in great Pain and Grief he soon after Dyed A Captain under the Duke of Anjou when he came to Assist the Revolted Netherlanders against the Spaniards coming into a Farmer 's House and not content with the Provisions they aforded him on sreecost he demanded his Daughter for his pleasure the Countryman who loved her dearly intreated him he would be otherwise satisfied offering him any thing else that was in his power but this so inraged him that he ordered his Soldiers to beat 'em all out of doors except the young Woman whom amidst Tears and lamentable Cries he forced to his Lust and after his beastial appetite was satisfi'd with unlawful pleasure he fell to flouting and dispising her This Master'd up a Womans Revenge in its most bloody shape so that being at the Table with him the with one home-thrust of a sharp Knife let out the hot Blood that circled in his Veins whilst he was giving orders to one of his Corporals and not aware of the stroak that brought him sudden death Thas you see Carnal Lust. 'T is a bewiching evil being an 〈◊〉 appetite in whomsoever it reigneth it kâ—lleth all good motions of the mind 〈◊〉 drieth and weakeneth the body shortning life deminishing memory and understanding Cirena a notorious strumpet was sirnamed Dodo Camechana for that she found out and invented twelve several ways of beastly pleasure Proculeius the Emperour of an hundred Samatian Virgins he took Captives defloured ten the first might and all the rest within fifteen days after Hercules in one night defloured fifty Sigismund Malatesta strived to have carnal knowledge of his Son Robert who thruâ—â—ing his dagger into his Fathers â—osom revenged his wickedness Cleopatra had the use of her brother Atâ—â—oâ—eus's company as of her Husband Auteochus staid a whole winter in Chalcidea for one Maid which he there fancied Lust was the cause of the Wars between the Romans and the 〈◊〉 Thalestins Queen of the Amazons came 2â— days journey to lie with Alexander Adultery in Germany is never pardoned 〈…〉 and P pilia were so incoâ—in 〈◊〉 that they commended with most shameful 〈…〉 themselves without respect of time place or company to any though never so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not coâ—â—ented with â—is three 〈…〉 commiâ—ted 〈…〉 siâ—teâ—s 〈…〉 like 〈◊〉 the 〈…〉 by his wiâ—e the 〈…〉 A 〈…〉 the câ—â—se of the 〈…〉 of the City of Rome Sempronia a woman well learned in the Greek and Sappho no less famous defended Luxury and Lust by their Writings Cleopatra invited Anthony to a Banquet in the Province in Bithynia in the wood Sesthem where at one instant of threescore young Virgins fifty and five were made Mothers Cleophis a Queen of India saved her Kingdom and Subjects from destruction by a nights lodging with Alexander by whom she had a Son called Alexander who was afterward King of India she was ever after called Scortum Reginum Jane Queen of Naples was hanged up for her Adultery in the same place where she had hanged her husband Andreas before because he was not as she said able to satisfie her beastly desire Foron King of Egypt had been blind ten years and in the eleventh the Oracle told him that he should recover his sight if he washed his Eyes in the water of a Woman which never had to do with any but her husband whereupon he first made trial of his own wife but that did him no good after of infinite others which did him all as little save only one by whom he recovered his fight and then he put all the rest to death Julia the Daughter of Augustus was so immodest shameless and unchaste that the Emperor was never able to reclaim her And when she was admonished to forsake her bad kind of life and to follow chastity as her Father did she answered That her Father forgot he was Caesar but as for herself she knew well enough that she was Caesars Daughter Caelius Rhodoginus In his II Book of Antiquities telleth of a certain man that the more he was beaten the more he fervently desired women The Widow of the Emperour Sigismund intending to marry again one perswaded her to spend the remainder of her life after the manner of the Turtle Dove who hath but one Mate If you counsel me quoth she to follow the example of Birds why do you not tell me of Pidgeons and Sparrows which after the death of their Mates do ordinarly couple with the next they meet Hiero King of Syracusa banished the Poet Epicharmus for speaking wantonly before his Wife and that very justly for his Wife was a true Mirrour of Chastity Sulpitius Gallius put away his Wife by divorce because she went about unmasked Pompey caused one of his Souldiers eyes to be put out in Spain for thrusting his hand under a Womans Garment that was a Spainard and for the like offence did Sertorius command a footman of his band to be cut in pieces If Caracalla had not seen his Mothers thigh he had not married her Tigellenus died amongst his Concubines The Terentines had taken and spoiled Carbinas a Town in Japyges and were not only for Ravishing the Women themselves but permitted Strangers that came that way to do it even in the Temple where they had Penn'd them up naked Divine Vengeance over-took them so that all who had committed this Villany were struck dead with Lightning from Heaven and their own Friends looking upon it as a just Judgment were so far from pittying them that they offered Sacrifice to Jupiter the Thunderer It would be too tedious to draw the Scene too open and discover the miseries that have befallen such as have been eager in pursuit of these Vices they have occasioned the subversions of Kingdoms and States Tarquine the proud and all his Race were driven out of England for Ravishing Leucretian who finding her Chastity violated though by a King killed her self and if we believe our Chronologers it occasioned the calling in the Danes by the incensed Husband who had been Ravished by the Kings Viceroy in the North and with them came in a Deluge of miseries for almost a hundred years The Adulteries of Fergus King of Scotland was by the occasion of hers likewise for when she had killed him in his bed and was yet unsuspected for the good opinion all people had of her vertue hearing that divers people ignorant of the Murther were tortured in order to a Confession She came into the Judgment Hall where the Lords and others were Assembled and thus Expressedâ— her self As for me said she good People I know not what it is that moveth me nor what Divine Vengeance pursues and vexes me with divers Cogitations but this I am sure of all this day I have had no rest nor quiet either in body or mind And truly when I heard that divers guiltless Persons were cruelly tortured Here in your presence had it not been for their sakes I had soon rid my self out of the way and not have
Homer in an Hymn to Venus allows her Roseat Fingers a red or ruddy colour and to be drawn in a Golden Chariot Virgil sometimes allows her four Horses sometimes but two and those of a red colour Theocrites describes them white or gray according to the colour of the morning Lycopheon in Alexandra brings her in mounted upon Pegasus Pausanius in Laconie Writes that she was doatingly besotted of the fair young Man Cephalus as likewise of Orion in which Homer agrees with him Apollodorus makes her the Mother of the Winds and the Stars Hesiod is of the same opinion that by prostrating herself to her Brother Astraeus the Son of Hyperion and Thya she brought forth Argestre Zephyrus Boreas and Notus with a Daughter called Jadama Amphitrite Jupiter having expelled Saturn from his Kingdom by the help of his Brothers Neptune and Pluto and having cast Lots for the Tripartite Empire the Heaven fell to Jupiter Hell to Pluto and the Sea with all the Isles adjacent to Neptune who Solicited the Love of Amphitrite but she not willing to condescend to his Amorous purpose he imployed a Dolphin to Negotiate in his behalf who deals so well in the Business that they were not only reconciled but soon after Married For which in the perpetual Memory of so great and good an Office done to him he placed him among the Stars not far from Capricorn as Higinus hath left remembred in his Fables and Aratus in his Astronomicks Others contend that Venilia was the Wife of Neptune But notwithstanding his Love to and Marriage with Amphitrite he had many Children by other Nymphs Goddesses and Wantons Ate. Ate whom some call Laesio is the Goddess of Discord or Contention and by Homer termed the daughter of Jupiter Ate prisca proles quae laserit omnes Mortales Ate the ancient Off-spring that hath hurt and harmed all Mankind He calls her a certain Woman that to all men hath been Obnoxious and Perilous alluding no doubt to the Parent of us all Eve that first transgressed and by some Reliques of Truth with which he was enlightned for he saith Filiae prima Jovis queque omnes perdidit Ate Pernisciosa As much as to say Pernitious Ate the eldest daughter of Jupiter who hath lost us all In another Fable he alludes to the same purpose where he saith Jupiter notwithstanding he was the most wise of all Mortals yet was in the days of old tempted and deceived of his Wife Juno And this Homer hath plainly delivered that the beginning of evil came first from a Woman and by her the wisest of Men was beguiled Hesiod in his Book of Weeks and Days is of the same opinion and writes to the same purpose But in another kind of Fable from the old Tradition For saith he From Pandora a Woman of all Creatures the most fairest and first created by the Gods all mischiefs whatsoever were dispersed through the face of the whole earth Aretaphile was Wife to Nicecocrates called the Tyrant of Cyrene who very passionately Loved her for extraordinary beauty but was so detested by her for his cruelty that she complotted with Leander his Brother to destroy him One Grand Motive Inducing her to it was that he had put her first Husband to death to enjoy her but being discovered e're she could give him the intended Dose of Poison she was Rack'd to Extort a Confession of her Accomplices but stood to firmly in her denyal that she was acquitted yet gave not over her enterprise till she had accomplished it And then Married Leander who proving more cruell than his Brother She caused him to be sewed up in a Sack and thrown into the Sea where he perished By which those of Cyrene gained their lost Liberty and in Grateful acknowment offered her to be their Queen but she refused Soveraignty And chus'd to live a private Life the rest of her days Arethusa Daughter as tho Poets fable of Nereus Coris one of the Nymphs attending one the Goddess Diana who flying the Embraces of Alpheus is said upon her imploring the Goddess to be turned into a Fountain which bears her Name Argyra a Beautiful Nymph whose Charming Features so Ravished Solemnus that not finding means to enjoy her he dyed for Love Whereupon Venus in Compassion to his Sufferings turned him into a Fountain in which whomsoever Bathed were Cured of Love and had the Memory of the fair Female for whom they Languished obliterated Ariadne King Minos of Creets Daughter who was carried away by Theseus after he had overcome the Minataure but he in his flight being warned by Bacchus to leave her in the Isle of Naxos set sail whilst she slept who awaking and missing him run about the Island in a distracted Condition till the fabled God came and Espoused her and afterward translated her to the Starry Region where some of those bright Spangles are at this day called her Crown Ariadne another of the Name Wife to Leno Emperour of Constantinople She caused her Husband to be made drunk and then Emured him in a Tomb After that she placed Anastasius her Paramour in the Throne and got her Husbands brother whose right it was to be Excluded Arie an Iâ—aâ—â—an Lady wife 〈…〉 a Roman Senator who advised her Husband to dye a Heroick death after he was condemned and shewed him the way by first stabbing herself Athalia Ahabs Daughter Mother to Ahaziah who being slain by Jebu upon notice of it she put all the Royal Seed except Joash to death who was saved by Jehojadahs wife and assumed the Government but she was afterward slain in the Court of the Temple 2 King 11. Augea Daughter to Alaeus she was Ravished by Hercules and of that Rape brought forth Telephus which known to the Father of Augea he put her and her Son into a Chest and cast them into the River Caycus but Venus taking compassion on them caused it to float safe till it was taken up by Teuthras the King of the Country who Marryed the Lady for her Beauty and left the Kingdom to her Son after his decease Aurora held to be the Daughter of the Earth and Sun of whom Procris Wife of Cephalus being jealous was slain with an Arrow by her Husband who took her for a wild Beast as she lay in the bushes to discover his Amours This Aurora is fabled to be Marryed to Tytheus a very Ancient Man which makes her rise Early in the Morning by reason she finds no pleasure in his cold Embraces Signifying that Young Ladies Marryed to old Men think the Night tedious and wish for day that they may disencumber themselves of Society so unagreeable to their Constitutions Arrabella d' Cordona a Beautiful Spanish Lady of Toledo skilled in almost all the Arts and Sciences her Musick and Voice Charmed all that heard her into wonder and many of the Grandees laboured to gain her in Marriage but she refused all Society with Men in that way as having Vowed perpetual Virginity Antonia Daughter
pound and a half the whites and shells of thirty Eggs the young branches of a Fig-tree cut in small shivers incorporate them well and distill them in a Glass Alimbick over a gentle five Then to the Water you draw off add Sugar-Candy Borace and Camphire each an ounce Olibanum two ounces bruise them small and then distill them over again preserving the Water upon this Second Distillation as a rare Secret and improver or Imbellisher of Beauty Again take Lithargy of Gold and Silver each a dram put them into stronge white Wine Vinegar add Camphire and Allum of each half a Scrupleas much of Musk and Ambergreece to scent the Composition boyl them in a small quantity of Vinegar silter and keep it then boyl a little Roch-Allum in spring water and keep it apart from the other but when you use them mingle them together Thus Venus in her brightest form you 'll vie Or all those Female Starâ— that guild the Sky Who for their Beauties there were 〈◊〉 and shine But you out dazled now 〈◊〉 must refine To see their long 〈◊〉 leave 〈…〉 Faustina was cured of dishonest Love And of divers other Remedies against that Passion That the affection and prison of the Mind which is ordinarily called Love is a strong Passion and of great effect in the Soul let us ask of such Men which by Experience have known it and of such whom Examples are notorious namely of very excellent Personages that have suffer'd their Wills to have been transported even so far that some of them have died Jules Capitolin amongst other Examples recites that which happen'd to Faustina Daughter to Amoninus and Wife to the Emperor Marcus Aurelius who fell in Love with a Master of Fence or Gladiator in such sort that for the desire which she had of his Company she was in danger of Death she did so consume away Which being understood by Marcas Aurelius he presently call'd together a great company of Astrologians and Doctors to have counsel and find remedy thereupon At last it was concluded That the Fencer should be kill'd and that they should unknown to her give Faustina his Blood to drink and that after she had drank it the Emperor her Husband should lie with her This Remedy wrought marvellously for it put this Affection so far from her that she never afterwards thought of him And the History saith of this Copulation that the Emperor had then with her was begotten Antoninus Commodus which became so bloody and Cruel that he resembled more the Fencer whose Blood his Mother had drank a the Conception of him than Marcus Aurelius whose Son he was which Commodus was always found amongst the Gladiators as Eutropius Wâ—â—nesses in the Life of the same Commodus The 〈◊〉 and Arabick Physicians place this Disease of Love amongst the grievous Infirmities of the Body of Man and thereupon prescribe divers Remedies Câ—dâ—mus Milesien as Sâ—ydâ—â— â—â—ports in his Collections writes a whole Book treating of 〈◊〉 particular Remedies which Physicians give for this Disease one is That to him that is passionate in Love one 〈◊〉 put into his hands great Affairs importuning his Credit and his Profit that his Spirit being occupied in divers matters it may draw away his Imagination from that which troubles him And they say further that they should 〈◊〉 him to be merry and conversant with other Women Against this heat Pliny saith it is good to take the Dust upon which a Mule hath tumbled and cast it upon the Lover and all to be powder him or else of the Sweat of a chased Mule as Cardanus affirms in his Book of Subtilties The Physicians also teach how to know what Person is loved of him that is sick in Love and it is by the same Rule that Eristratus Physician to King Seleucus knew the love that Antiochus bare to the Queen Stratonicus his Stepmother for he being extream sick and would rather die than discover the cause of his Sickness proceeding from Love which he bare to his Father's Wife She came into the Chamber just then when the Physician was feeling the Patients Pulse which beat so strong when he saw the Queen come into the Chamber that Eristratus knew that he was in Love with her and that was the cause of his Sickness wherefore he found the way to make the King acquainted with it by such a means as would be too tedious to recite Which being experimented by the Father and seeing his Son in danger if he did not prevent it thought it good tho contrary to the Intention of the Son which chose rather Death than to be healed by his Father's Loss to deprive himself of his Queen and give her to his sick Son And so indeed the Age and the Beauty of the Lady and likewise Marriage was more proper for the Son than for the Father And by this means Antiochus lived well and gallantly many Years with his well-beloved Stratoniâ—â—â— The History is very neatly recited by Plutarch in the Life of Demetrius And thus you see why Physicians say that you must feel the Pulse of those that are in Love and repeat to them divers names of Persons and if you name the right the Pulse will beat thick and strong and by that you shall know whom they Love By divers other signs one may know when any is in Love and with whom which I leave to speak of now Friendship Friendship well chosen and placed is a great felicity of Life but we ought in this respect to move very cautiously and be certain we are not mistaken before we unbosom our Thoughts or make too strict a Union We see in Politicks Leagues offensive and defensive do not always hold and being abruptly broken prove more mischievous than any thing before they were contracted because there is a more eager desire of Revenge and ground of Injury started and so when a close knit Friendship slips the knot or is violently broken in sunder by the force of some mischievous Engine set on work to that end Anger and Hatred ensues all the Secrets on either side how unbecoming or prejudicial so ever are let fly abroad to become the Entertainment and Laughter of the World redounding perhaps not only to the Injury of your self but of others whose Secrets have upon Confidence of your Virtue been intrusted with you and by you again upon the like Confidence communicated to the Party you entrusted with your own who upon breaking with you persidiously discloses them Therefore keep to your self a Reservedness and try all manner of ways the strength and constancy of Fidelity before you trust too far for if you lay out your Friendship at first too lavishly like things of other natures it will be so much the sooner wasted suffer it by no means to be of too speedy a growth considering that those Plants which floot up over quickly are not of long duration comparable with those that grow flower and by degrees Choice of this kind ought
Mothers steps in her lewd Inclinations though her Punishment had been visible however she was Married to Aemylius Lepidus and had by him two Children but being banished to Apulia she there dyed in much Misery Iuno Sister and Wife to Jupiter and Daughter to Saturn and Rhea held to be the Goddess of Kingdoms and Riches she is Fabled to have had divers Children yet was always very jealous of her Husband and persecuting the Nimphs he was enamoured of though she is generally taken only for the Air. Iustina first Married to Maxentius and then to Valentinian the Elder she was a great Friend to the Arians and an Enemy to the Orthodox Christians she persecuted St. Anbrose because he refused to let that Sect have a Church and free Exercise in the City of Milan but when Maximus came to the Empire she was obliged to that Good Father for her Safety she was Mother to Valentinian the Younger and dyed at Thessalonica Iustitia or the Goddess of Justice worshipped in the figure of a Virgin with severe looks holding Scales in one Hand and a Sword in the other sometimes she was painted Blindfold and sometimes without a Head and had her Temples in divers places Iubentus the Goddess of Youth her Statue was placed by Servius Tullius in the Capitol at Rome and prayed to for the Continuance of Youth Strength and Beauty c. Ianthe the Daughter of Telessa who on her Wedding day was transformed to a Man Illegitimates Marriage increases Arts and Industry but a base Issue forces Nature and coming into the World like Criminals there is rarely that Care taken in their Education is for the Children of a lawful Bed which Ushers into my Memory a passage not many years since of a Person of Quality who had no lawful Issue a 〈◊〉 Son he had whom by Will he had constituted his Heir but a Reverend Divine coming to him asked his Lordship how he had settled his Estate he answered upon the Person before-mentioned The Divine reply'd My Lord I can Administer no Comfort to your Lordship if you die with this Sin at this time since that you have been the Instrument or bringing him into the World you must make some Provision for 〈◊〉 in it but so as in may rather be a Mark of Penitence than Contumacy you must not 〈◊〉 your sin with Garland c. And upon this 〈◊〉 the Lord 〈…〉 and letâ— it to his nexâ— or Bâ—â—ood There were moâ—e Souls in England heretofore then there are at this Day nor will the Coâ—â—â—â— Reason given for it answer the decay of our Numbers neither the Wars which add 〈◊〉 our Forreign Loss but the true Reason it 〈…〉 is to be attâ—â—â—bâ—ted to the neglect of the Material Fund 〈◊〉 Creation a regular Construction of Men and Women for unlawful Embraces are not designed for neâ—ther by those that use them are they admitted to Procreation And that which adds to this General Blast of the Fruit of the Body which the mist of darkness disperses throughout the Nation is that the Antidotes which are frequently of that lasting Operation are us'd against Conception and effect upon the Bodies of 〈◊〉 as to prove to all their Lives after by which means tho' the Women should afterwards so reform as to enter into Lawful Marriage yet she cannot be profitable to the Common-wealth but on the Contrary is not only useless as to her own individual Person but renders the Man that Marries her so alâ—o See a Book called Marriage promoted Importunity Time Opportuniâ—◠〈…〉 Cause Love Importunity if not too unseasonable or unreasonable câ—rrâ—es with it a kind of a Force or Violence to â—â—orm Affection for whilst other Aâ—â—uments are in a manner a far off standing at a distance this crouds close and brings us to those degree of Love which are Conference Dalâ—â—nce Kissing c. which wonderfully operate in Love and steaâ— away the Heart and Affections of Men and Women Tacitus makes his observations that the Eyes are not altogether a 〈◊〉 Trâ—al of a 〈◊〉 Affection but there is something required that is make available therefore for a further proof take her by the Hand and gently Squeeze her Timers Let a Sigh now and then escape as it were by 〈◊〉 tread gently upon her 〈◊〉 and growing bolder lay your hand upon her Knee and of she takes all this in good 〈◊〉 and seems to be little averse then continues he call her Mistress take her about the Neck and Kiss her c. Importunity must be ushered in by Opportunity of coming together and having Freedom in the place where the Lady of your Affection dwells which by the Intercession of Friends or Letters must first be brought about which being accomplished you may the better play your Cards and Mannage your Game when a too bold or rough Intrusion many times marrs your Undertaking Many an Apprentice and Serving-man by the help of Opportunity and Importunity have Inveigled away their Masters Daugthers and sometimes the Mistress has been Captivated Many a Dowdy by this means has gained a Gallant Lover Chamber-maids have won their Masters Affection and Ladâ—â— have doted upon their Foot-men In Ariosto we find a Beautiful Queen that had as Beautiful a Husband doating upon her deformed Dwarf and always Melancholy when he neglected her Embraces It is unaccountable what advantages happen to some Men and Women hereby many Matches by this way of dealing are made in haste and the paâ—â—y compelled as it were by necessity to Love in that manner which if they had been free and seen the Variety of Beauties that populous places afford they would altogether slight and reject what they had seen before on whom they are fatally driven for want of other Objects and a better Choice and by long Conversation fall to loving and sometimes to doating for many times it is observable that those who at the first fight have no liking to each other but have been rather harsh and disagreeing for want of other Objects and to Engage or Keep their minds steady have by living together long Conference Kissing Toying and the like Allurements Insensibly fallen in Love with each other and therefore where your reason tells you beforehand it is no fit match these kind of familiarities are to be avoided lest you are taken-Infensibly and Love cuts off the retreat you had before proposed for your security Clitiphon by this means doated upon and was almost mad for Leucippe his Uncles Daughter Ismenius the Orator confesseâ— he was strangely Entangled by Ismene Sostenes Daughter waiting at the Table 〈◊〉 the Greek fashion was with beâ—â— Breasts open and her 〈◊〉 half bare which she perceiving summoned all her little Arts to snare him faster she come and drank to him and withal trod softly upon his Toes and was exceeding diligent to wait upon him and when the Company hindered her from speaking she would give him a sign of her Love by wringing his Hand and Blush when she met him at
the midst of the Rout of Plebeians who join'd with him to second that Reproach And Suetonius witnesseth of the other that he was so over curious of his Head and Beard he would not only be shaven very precisely but his Extravagant Haits even pluck'd But what shall we think of his Successor Augustus who when he felt the assaults of Death invading him call'd for his Looking-Glass and commanded his Hair and Beard to be comb'd his Rivelled Cheeks to be smooth'd up then asking his Friends if he had acted his Part well upon the Stage of the World who told him he had Well saith he Vos omnes Plaudite Sure he went off very trimly But what the modesty of England hath been in former Ages however vain enough is other Fooleries yet sure the Galleries and Dining-Rooms of our Nobility and Gentry of the Kingdom will abundantly testify from the brave Images of their Ancestors whose open Ears never valu'd the Coldness of the Winds but which would glow to have heard the monstrousness of their Childrens Ell-Wigs The Puritans in the Reign of the Royal Martyr to distinguish themselves from their Neighbours took on them an Extraordinary short cut and their Neighbours in opposition to them Espoused a long one because they would not be reputed Round-heads and in nothing outwardly were the two Parties so much differenc'd as in their hair and happy had it been that the Quarrel had Ended in the Barber's Scissars which we all know brake out afterwards into the long Sword and instead of plucking each other by the Ears a little they fell to stabbing one another in the Guts So that the mischiefs which the Barber might have prevented at first had he kept an Even hand on both Parties and sheered them both to an Equal Cut all the wit of man could not prevent from running into Commodus his bloody shaving and cutting off Ears and Noses together with their Hair Now a days not a young Fellow that takes pet against his Noddle for catching the least cough or cold but strait in revenge off goes his Locks And to speak plainly Forty or Three-score pound a year for Periwigs and Ten to a poor Chaplin to say Grace to him that adores Hair is sufficient Demonstration of the Weakness of the Brains they keep warm And let me taste the boldness to manifest a few of the ill consequences of this Idolatry First With the Womans hair we have put on her are not of Cookery and the Kitchin only and become Hen-housewives but of the Chamber and the Dressing Room Tricking up our selves into as delicate starch'd-up a posture as she Some of us have gotten the Boddice â—â— to make us look slender and pretty And the Epicene Sleeves do very well fit both the he and the She. The Sleevestrings are ty'd with the lame Curiosity and the Val de Chambre that cannot knit the Knot Allamode is kick'd away as a Bungler in his Trade and Profession The Ribbon at the Hilt of our Sword is security against his being drawn while we fix it there as Cupid's Knights with no other design but to help to wound the Hearts of the Ladies 2 And who sees not the happy Victory that we have gotten their very hearts in our bosoms is close as their hair on our heads Not their Effeminacy only but Weakness too and have perfectly shav'd away all our Virility and Prowess Our Swords lie dangling on our Thighs with the same Luxury sour Wigs of the same length sport themselves on our breasts Neither were former Ages without their antick Dresses It were enough should I hang out to View one of the Suits that was generally worn heresofore in England where you had a Dublet all jagg'd and prickt the Wastband coming down but a little below the Armholes guarded with Eight long Skirs to this Dublet was claps'd a pair of Breeches close made to the body and whose length must make up the Defect of the shortness of the Dublet The large and ample Codpiss supply'd the want of Pockets which came up with two wings fastn'd to either side with two Points which unknit made way to the Linen Bags ty'd to the inside between the Shirt and Codpiss these bags held every thing they carry'd about them except the Gloves which ever hung very Reverently at the Girdle Where hung a Pouch made fast with a Ring or Lock of Iron weighing at least two or three Pounds whether there was any mony in it or no. The like I could give of the Womens Gowns and shew the madness of the Fardingale and other whimsies But the Gallerys and Parlours of most Old Familys are set out with such disguising postures as better will evidence them to the View of the Reader than I care my Pen should do at this time I shall only add That as to Womens curling crisping twiching variegating into a thousand shapes into Rings Mars Shades Folds Towers Locks c. Tertullian inveighs bitterly against it What ails you saith he that you cannot let your poor hair be quiet but sometimes it must be bound up by and by dislevelled and loose about your Ears one while staring up in Towers and presently patted and notched close Aliae gestunt cum cinnis coercere aliae ut volucris vagi elabantur Some of you are all for curling it up into Rings others for a loosemode Nay says he Assigitis nescio quas enormitates suttlium atque texiitium capillamentorium Not content with that you stick on I cannot well tell what manstious Extravagancies of false Locks and artificial hair and Periwigs Pamphila an Epidaurian the Daughter of Sateridas So great was her Repute that her Statue is said to have been Erected by Cephisodâ—rus Perilla a Roman Lady who living in the time of Augustus was in general Esteem for her Learning and Vertue The 7 th Elegy of the third book of Ovid's Tristia intimates her to have been his Scholar Phemonoc the first Priestless of Apollo as she is delivered to be and utterer of the Delphick Oracles and also the first Inventress of Heroick Verse Praxilla a Sycionian Diâ—hy Amote Pocress of whose Writing there is a Work intitled Meâ—â—um Praxilleum Proba Valeria Falconia the Wife of Adelphus the Roman Proconsul in the Reign of Honorius and Theodosuis Junior She composed a Virgilian Cento upon the History of the Old and New Testament Her Epitaph also upon her Husband's Tomb is particularly remembred Purification of the Virgin Mary Candlemas February 2. Piâ—tage f. Fornication on the Womans part Protetaneous arian 〈◊〉 l. having many Children and little to maintain them vulgar Palm-Tree Of this Tree there is male and female the male bears only blossoms and no Fruit the Female bears both but not unless the Male grow by it Prendet de Baron an Exception disabling a Woman from pursuing an Appeal of Murder against the Killer of her former husband Pridiven King Arthurs Shield with the Picture of the Virgin Mary Primer Or Office
Father of the Maid most friendly welcometh her Suitor so that I think scarce any Noble or Gentleman among them can choose a Virgin for his House The Bramanes marry but once and that not all but only the eldest of the Brethren to continue the Succession who is also Heir of the Father's Substance and keepeth his Wife straitly killing her if he find her adulterous with poyson In the Kingdom of Calicut when the King marrieth a Wife one of the principal Bramanes hath the first Nights Lodging with her for which he hath assigned him by the King four or five hundred Ducats The Gentlemen and Merchants haâ—e a custom to exchange Wives in token of great Friendship Some Women amongst them have six or seven Husbands fathering her Children on which of them she pleaseth The men when they marry get others to bed them if they be Virgins fifteen or twenty days before they themselves will bed them As for the Marriages in Peru the Men had many Wives but one was principal which was Wedded with Solemnity and that in this sort The Bridegroom went to the Bride's House and put O Hoya which was an open Shoe on her Foot this if she were a Maid was of Wool otherwise of Reeds And this done he led her thence with him In the Canaries they used for Hospitality to let their Friends lie with their Wives and received theirs in like Courtesie and therefore as in India the Sisters Son inherited -In Carazâ—an When a Woman is delivered of a Child the Man lyeth in and keepeth his Bed with Visitation of Gossips the space of forty days they worship the ancientest Person in the house ascribing to him all their Good In some part of the Country Knights and Soldiers never marry but lye with such Women or Daughters as like them Aâ—â— place in the Kingdom of Feâ— there was a Temple built 〈◊〉 which at certain times in the Year resorted Men and Women in the Night where after Sacrifices the Candles were put out and each Man lay with the Woman he first touched Those Women were forbidden to lye with any other for a Year after The Children begotten in this Adultery were brought up by the Priests of the Temple Capacities of Women Women are capable of the highest Improvements and thâ— greatest Glory to which man may be advpnced I might call in the Testimonies of the Wisest of the Heathens concerning this among others I remember Plutarch one of the most Learned of the Grecians upon the death of the excellent Leontide Discoursed with his friend of the equal vertue of Man and Woman and doubts not if he might compare Lives with Lives and Actions with Actions to make it appear that as Sapho's verses were equally with Anacreon's so Semiramis was as Magnificent as Sesostris Queen Tanaquilla as Politick as King Servius and Porcia as full of Courage as Brutus Moses from whom we receive the first and original Truths tells us that Woman as well as Man was created after the Image of God God created man in his own Image in the Image of God created be him Male and Female created be them What the Image of God is and what the Difference if there be any is between Image and Similitude I am not disputing this is it only for which I have alleaged Moses that Woman hath the same Prerogative of creation with Man 'T is true that from the beginning the the Woman was subjected as in order of time she was created after Man And being intended to be an helper she shines moâ—â— when she doth most observe that Ordinance of Subjection for then she is the Glory of the Man according to the instance of the Prudent Woman that Solomon speaks of In whom the heart of her Husband doth safely trust and she being modest and industrious Her Husband is known in the Gates when he sitteth among the Elders of the Land But to proceed as Man and Woman were equal in Creation so there is no difference between them in State of Grace Which Truth whether it be held sorth in this place or not I will not contend sor elsewhere we have it delivered without controversie that there is neither Male nor Female â—o prefering the one Sex before the other but all one in Christ Jesus The Soul knows no difference of Sex neither do the Angels and therefore it is that some Learned Men are of Opinion that after the Resurrection in the State of Glory there will be no more any distinction of Male and Female because Christ hath said Matth. 22.30 We shall then be as the Angels of God in Heaven And the Apostle 1 Cor. 15.42 43 44. That the body being sown in the grave in corruption in dishonour in weaâ—â—ess shall be raised in 〈◊〉 in glory in power The commerce of Sexes was of necessity because of Corruption and Change by Mortality But the Body that shall be raised in difference from the Natural Body is called a Spiritual Body The Soul then knowing no subordination because of Sex What Eminency is thereto be named in Men which we have not discerned sometimes to shine even in Women Plutarch hath given us a wonderful account of the wisdom of the Celtick Women who when their Country was fallen through misunderstanding and differences into a Civil War would not rest or give over their Mediation till Arms were laid down and Peace was setled in all their Cities and Families which was so great a Service to their Country and so acceptable that it grew a custom among them to call and admit their Women to Councel And in the League which long after they made with Hannibal this was one Article which for the strangeness and same of it I will record If the Celtans have any matter of Complaint against the Carthaginians the Carthaginian Commanders in Spain shall judge of it But if the Carthaginians have any thing to object against the Celtans it shall be brought before the Celtan Women Candying and Preserving c. These are Curiosities which are not only Commendable but required in young Ladies and Gentlewomen 〈◊〉 Represent them at large wouâ—â— ask more Art and Time than 〈◊〉 have either the Ability or thâ— Leisure to perform it and besides there are already in Priâ—â— many excellent Books concerning the same Subject as 〈◊〉 Choice Manuel of Secrets 〈◊〉 Physick and Chyrurgery by the Countess of Kent To Accomplished Cook by 〈◊〉 1671 is the best in that kind and the largest for Pastry Read also Mrs. Wooly's Gentlewomans Companion but I shall add no more here having lately received great Curiosities on this Subject never yet in Print which I design to Inâ—erâ— in the Second Part of this Dictionary Carmenta see Nicostrata Cassandra the Daughter of Priamus King of Troy a great Prophetess Charicena a very Learned Grecian Lady she is said to have written a Poem entituled Crumata Claudia Ruffina a Noble Brittish Lady of her Poetick writings there are remembred by Balaeus her Book