of Ale put into it a quarter of a peck of Garden-Scurvy-grass bruised two great handfuls of Sage two ounces of Horse-Radish-root scraped and sliced very thin Red-Dock-root sliced very thin two ounces Anniseeds bruised one ounce and an half Liquorish scraped and sliced thin four ounces Sena two ounces Figs sliced thin half a pound When your Ale hath done working put in all these things and stop it up when it hath been four days then drink every Morning a pint and again at four in the After-noon till you have drunk all the Ale With this I have Cured many who were very bad For a Squinacy or other sore Throat Take the whitest dung of a Dog which he hath dunged abroad in May let it dry in the Sun very well and when you have occasion to use it beat it fine and searce it and give the Party thereof a slight spoonful in a Glass of White-wine and mix some with Hony and spread it and lay to the Throat let the Plaister lie on and take the other three Nights and it will Cure you For a Red-face Every Night wash your Face with this following Take Fumitory-water half a pint a little lump of Allom and a little white Sugar-Candy with the juyce of one Lemmon and as much common Brimstone beaten fine as will lye upon a half Crown heaped Do not wipe your Face when you have washed it but let it dry in Every Morning drink a Glass of old Malago-Sack and eat a little Toast dipped therein It will be very good for you to Purge every Spring if you find much heat in it which you may know by a dry hot hand and inward heat be sure to shift them often till the Coar be drawn out For a Plague-Sore Take Figgs half a pound and of Hony as much beat them together extreamly well then spread some of it upon a Burdock-leaf if you can have one or else upon a linnen Cloth dress it twice a day this will both break and heal it Use it till it be quite well An excellent Medicine prescribed by a Worthy Physician against the Plague and Pestilence Take of strong White-wine Vinegar half a pint of Spring-water one quarter of a Pint mix them together and put thereto one ounce of Venice-Treacle Take of this every Morning two spoonfuls and anoint your Nostrils with a little Methridate for that will not suffer any Infection to pass that way To kill Worms which breed about the Nose Wash it often with Vinegar Allom and Brimstone till you find they are killed and then use Pomatum every Night to smooth the skin For Childrens Scabbed-faces Take Mallow-leaves and the leaves of Red-Dock of each a like quantity shred them small and put as much sallad Oil to them as will just stand even with them then boil them on a soft fire till you find the Herbs begin to be crispy then presently take it off and strain it out and keep it Anoint the Face with it twice in a day and every time before you dress it wash off that you laid on before with Butter and Beer This is very good to Heal and Cleanse For Chest-Worms Take a quarter of a pint of New-Milk and when it boils put in a piece of Allom and stir it about till you see that the Milk be well turned then take out the Allom and take off the Curd very clean and give the Party the Cleer drink to drink in the Morning fasting do so three Mornings together and it will kill all the Worms but then it will be necessary for to purge them with these things following Take a pound of Pruons and stew them leisurely in fair Water and take half an ounce of Sena and tie it up in a piece of Tiffany with half an ounce of Liquorish scraped and sliced thin and a quarter of an ounce of Anniseeds bruised let these stew in the Pipkin with the Pruons till they are enough then every Morning fasting give four or five or more of the Pruons according to the Age of the Party and also two or three spoonfuls of the Liquor do so so long as you see fitting I have given this with very good success A fine Julip for one in an Ague or Feaver Take four ounces of French-Barley and wash it well then boil it in three quarts of Water till half be consumed then strain the Barley from it and put into the Water the juyce of two Lemmons and as much white Sugar-Candy as will well sweeten it then put in two ounces of Sirrup of Violets and nine sheets of Leaf-Gold cut very small give the sick Party of this three or four times in a day four or five spoonfuls at once it is both cordial and very pleasant I Think I have said enough concerning those things which I have already written in this little Book I will now give you some Directions for several sorts of Work which may pleasure you in your Chambers and Closets And if any of you shall desire to be further informed than I can possibly direct in Writing or to confirm themselves in what they have already made Trial of if you please to give your selves the trouble as to come to me I shall give you the best assistance I can in any of those things which I profess to teach and for a competent gratuity I have set down every thing as plain as I can and I know there are many who have done things very well by my Books only but you may imagine that if you did learn a little by sight of my doing you would do much better For if my Pen can teach you well how much better would my Tongue and Hands do The one to make answer to any Objection or Question the other to order or to shape any thing So that in my opinion you would not lose by having some personal Acquaintance with me neither would I willingly lose my time and labour in informing you Therefore I beseech you let it be thus Be pleased to afford me some of your Mony And I will repay you with my pains and Skill That I judge to be fair on both sides Imprimis To make Transparent Work BOil all in Earth and let your Pipkin be three quarts full of Isinglass such as you have at the Apothecaries broken â—nto small pieces and a small quantity of Gum-Dragon amongst it then fill it up with fair Water and boil it till you find it be enough which you may well know by dipping your Wyer therein which must be shaped according to the Leaves or Flowers you intend it for Strain it while it is hot Now for the COLOURS First For Red. Take the shavings of Brazil-wood and fill your Pipkin half full with them then fill it up with Water and put in a little Roch-Allom set it over the fire and when it boils strain it out This and Oil-Tartar makes a Purple Do not mix it too hot for that will spoil it For Sea-Green Take one ounce of
Mr. Newman had done me that right as to have let me known when he vvould print it but it was his pleasure to employ another who hath so transformed the Book that it is nothing like what I had written It is now about Eight years or more since I writ that Guide which was sold for twelve pence the Book and it is above twelve Months since the New one came out which sold for half a Crown the Book I thought to have sued him for it but he very cunningly prevented that by taking advantage of me notwithstanding he must give me leave to say the truth That that Edition was none of my Writing I will never disown what I do Write nor am I willing to own what I writ not He did indeed after I had Cavilled with him and shewed him vvherein I vvas abused by his Writer give me a small matter to look it over and told me that I should take out and put in the room of it vvhat I best pleased and agreed with me by the Sheet vvhat to give me which I did accordingly and truly I dealt very Friendly with him for I took away nothing but that which was scandalous ridiculous and impertinent and put in only that vvhich vvas innocent and harmless So willing was I to be peaceable vvith him and I thought he vvould have been Civil to me but vvhen I brought it to him he did not give me the one half of what I bargain'd for I asking him why he dealt so unworthily with me He said it was his humour to give me no more So now he may take notice that it is my Humour to let all People know that I was abused in that his late printed Book He told me he cared not for my Name he would print it without it if he do so I have nothing to do with it I should not speak so much did I not find a prejudice for People of vvorth do wonder why I would Write so and I have vindicated my self to those who told me of it with telling the Truth Now to proceed In that Book which was mine called The Ladies Guide there was as good Instructions to Youth as I can imagine to give and also to all manner of Servants what their duty was each one in their several Employs and there vvas the Mistresses part as well as theirs The Wife to the Husband the Widow to the World and indeed when I writ it I could not tell how to say more He would do himself much right as well as me to print the same Verbatim in the mean time I desire you to observe vvhat I shall say which may do some of you much good for the future There are very many at this present time vvho vvant Services both Gentlewomen and others and some of them very well accomplisht those I find to be the most humble and willing to please Another sort there be which have little in them yet none but great Places vvill serve them vvhich vvhen they have wearied themselves to find and at last miss of what they have propounded to themselves they are ready to run any extravagant Course still to purchase fine Cloaths then to conform to any Civility or Manners or to take the Advice of those who would assist them Some who have apt Wits and that dame Nature hath been favourable to they are Courted to be Players Some other of them to Bawdy-Houses Some are tempted to Steal And thus many Wickednesses are committed against God and Man and themselves brought into a most miserable condition of living or to a shameful end whilst the first I spake of are diligent to get wherewith to feed and cloath themselves by some honest employ or other till such time as it shall please God better to provide for them and keep close to their business not shewing themselves in the Streets but vvhen they have just occasion to go forth Such as these last shall never want my assistance if it lye in my power to help them for it is a great deal of pity but that all Ingenious and Honest minded Persons should be encouraged I do love such vvith my heart and do beseech them still to trust in him vvho is able to remedy all or to give patience in sufferings I will now tell you several Causes vvhich may bring good Children and Children of good Parents many times to be in Distress as also Why the other do commonly run into Wickedness and vvhat may for the future prevent such Miscarriages vvith my loving and Christian Advice to both their Parents and them and somewhat to those under whose Tuition they are or may happen under The Cause why good Children or the Children of worthy Parents are oft-times in a distressed Condition IT hapneth oft-times that a Gentleman having a good Estate but many Children he and the care of a good Mother together doth make a very good shift to bring them all up in appearance to the eye of the World very handsomly their Attire being such as becomes his and her Children their Education such as is fitting for or the best vvhich can be attained in that place they live in this they do till some of the Eldest are Women grown and by that time they are considering how to bestow them in the World finding the Charge to be too great for them If an Elder one Marry although there be one less in the Family yet carries more with her than if she had stayed would have been spent upon her Her Husband perhaps in a short time by playing the Ill-fellow is quite ruin'd and his Wife turn'd home to her Parents again with a Child or two to provide for Where after a vvhile she cannot abide to hear her Husband blamed neither is she willing to burden her Parents so much she endeavours to get into some good Service to be Nurse and leaves her Child or Children vvith them She hath her affliction and doth vvaste her self vvith grief and sorrow The Parents find themselves so burden'd that they must needs send some of the rest out to Service and here they come to London perhaps to some Cozin or some Friend thinking to get some place or other quickly but find it a hard business Their Friends beginning to grumble at their being their Cloaths beginning to wear out and all their Mony spent then do they find themselves in a desperate Condition and do seek some place or other to Lodge in and are content to be imployed in any honest way to get a penny till they can procure a Service being not vvilling to return to their Parents to add to their grief Some men are undone by Surety-ship some with the Ill-chance of a Die some by Fire some by Sea some by long-sickness some by Robbery some by Suits in Law some by War and many other waies there are to bring Men to destruction and then their Wives and Children must needs be exposed to Misery The poor Mother she employs
Right-hand Pluto the God of Riches With Black Curl'd Hair in a Robe of Cloath of Gold Bacchus the God of Wine With Curl'd Brown Hair Cloathed in a Leopards Skin spotted or in a green Mantle Crown'd with a Wreath of Ivy or Vine-Branches his Complexion Tawny Hymen the God of Marriage With long Yellow Hair in a Purple or Saffron coloured Mantle Vulcan the Deified Black-Smith Let him be Cloathed in a Scarlet-Robe Genius In a Purple Mantle fringed with Gold Sleep In a White Mantle cast over a Black Cupid In a Green Robe Minos one of the Judges of Hell His Curuseers to be of Gold his Robe Blew and Silver his Buskins of Gold vvith long Curl'd Brown Hair and Crown'd with a Golden Crown Momus the Carping God With a Dark-coloured Robe the hair of his Beard must be Party-coloured Goddesses Juno the Queen of the Goddesses With black Hair and black Eyes with a Skie-coloured Mantle wrought vvith Gold and Peacocks Eyes Diana the Virgin Goddess With yellow Hair a Grass-green mantle trimmed with Silver Buskins of Silver a Golden Bow and a painted Quiver Pallas the Goddess of Wisdom With a Blow Mantle embroidered with Silver Venus the beautiful Goddess With Gold yellow Hair attired vvith Black a Scarlet Robe and a Dove-colour or Watchet Mantle Ceres the Goddess of Corn. With yellow Hair and a Straw-colouloured Mantle trimmed vvith Silver Tellus the Goddess of the Earth In a Green Mantle Proserpine Queen of Hell In a black Mantle trimmed vvith Gold flames Aurora In a Purple Robe and a blew Mantle fringed with Silver Urania one of the Muses In a Mantle of Azure filled with Lamps Vesta Daughter to Saturn In White Garments filled with Flames Astrea the Goddess of Justice In a Crimson Mantle trimmed with Silver Flora the Goddess of Flowers In a Mantle of Divers Colours And Night In a black Mantle spotted about with Stars of Gold Ceres the Enchantress Her under garment Gold the ground Green the Mantle Purple the three Graces in Silver Robes The Twelve Months of the Year March Is drawn in Tawny with a fierce aspect a Helmet upon his head and leaning on a Spade and a Basket of Garden Seeds in his Left hand and in his Right hand the Sign of Aries And Winged April A Young Man in Green with a Garland of Mirtle and Hawthorn-Bude Winged in one hand Primroses and violets in the other the Sign Taurus May. With a sweet and lovely Countenance clad in a Robe of White and Green embroidered with several Flowers upon his Head a garland of all manner of Roses on the one hand a Nightingale in the other a Lute His Sign must he Gemini June In a Mantle of dark Grass-green upon his Head a garland of Bents Kings-Cups and Maiden-hair in his Left hand an Angle with a box of Cantharides in his Right the Sign Cancer and upon his arms a Basket of seasonable Fruits July In a Jacket of light Yellow eating Cherries with his Face and Bosom Sun-burnt on his Head a Wreath of Centaury and wild Tyme a Seith on his shoulder and a Bottle at his girdle carrying the Sign Leo. August A Young Man of fierce and Cholerick aspect in a Flame-coloured Garment upon his Head a garland of Wheat and Rye upon his Arm a Basket of all manner of ripe Fruits at his Belt a Sickle His Sign Virgo September A merry and chearful Countenance in a Purple Robe upon his Head a Wreath of red and white Grapes in his Left hand a handful of Oats withal carrying a Horn of Plenty full of all manner of ripe-Fruits in his Right hand the Sign Libra October In a Garment of Yellow and Carnation upon his head a garland of Oak-leaves with Akorns in his Right hand the Sign Scorpio in his Left hand a Basket of Medlars Services and Chesnuts and any other Fruits then in Season November In a Garment of Changable Green and Black upon his Head a garland of Olives with the Fruit in his Left hand Bunches of Parsnips and Turnips in his Right His Sign Sagittarius December A horrid and fearful aspect clad in Irish-Rags or course Freez girt unto him upon his Head three or four Night-Caps and over them a Turkish Turbant his Nose red his Mouth and Beard clog'd with Isicles at his back a bundle of Holly Ivy or Misletoe holding in sur'd Mittens the Sign of Capricornus January Clad all in White as the Earth looks with the Snow blowing his Nails in his Left Arm a Billet the Sign Aquarius standing by his side February Cloathed in a dark Skie-colour carrying in his Right hand the Sign Pisces LADIES I hope your pleas'd and 〈◊〉 shall I If what I 've Writ you may be gainers by If not it is your fault it is not mine Your benefit in this I do design Much labour and much time it hath me cost Therefore I beg let none of it be lost The Mony you shall pay for this my Book You 'l not repent of when in it you look No more at present to you I shall say But wish you all the happiness I may H. W. FINIS
A SUPPLEMENT TO THE QVEEN-LIKE CLOSET OR A LITTLE OF EVERY THING PRESENTED To all Ingenious Ladies and Gentlewomen By HANNA WOOLLEY LONDON Printed by T. R. for Richard Lownds and are to be Sold at the Sign of the White Lion in Duck-Lane 1674. To all Ingenious Ladies and Gentlewomen LADIES The last I sent unto your view The Queen-like Closet I presented you And in it such rare Secrets I may say In no Book you will find though read you may The twelve years past since first in print I came More for my Countries good than to get fame My study was to impart to others free What God and Nature hath informed me I must not hide that Talent God me gave Content I am others a share should have To practice what I teach if pains they 'l take Amends for all my Care they will me make Servant to Ingenuity I 'le be Such Ladies shall command all Arts from me Nothing from them I 'le hide that 's in my heart To wait on them I think it is my part And to confirm to them what I have writ Fearing no Censures mongst them that have Wit If any one that Honour will â—â—e give To see me in the place where 〈◊〉 do live I will them satisfie in every thing That they desire and vindication bring Vnto my self who have been much abus'd By a late printeâ— Book my Name there us'd I was far distant when they printed it Therefore that book to even I think not sit To boast to brag tell stories in my praise That 's not the way â— know my â—ame to raise Nor shall I borrow thy 〈◊〉 or Wit Innocence will hide what faultâ— I do commit My true intent is for to serve you all To Works to Write to Come when you do call Nor would I seem as dead while I do live No commendation to me would that give Nor like the idle Drone my time to pass But as the Bee suck Hony from Flower and Grass The Quintescence of what I have I send Accept it really as I intend For to accomplish those who want the skill Their Tables to adorn and Closets fill To those of riper Judgment I submit To commend or to consure what I 've writ Thus Ladies I take leave desiring still Your pleasures and your fancies to fulfil H. W. TO THE READER YOU find in my former Books Instructions for Cookery Preserving Rare Waters both Cordial and pleasant Cakes Jellies several excellent Remedies for those in Consumptions and for the Stone I shall now give you some Directions for washing Black and White Sarsnets or Coloured Silks washing of Points Laces or the like starching of Tiffanies making clean Plate cleaning of Gold and Silver Lace washing Silk Stockings adorning of Closets with several pretty Fancies things excellent to keep the Hands white and Face and Eyes clear how to make Transparent Work and the Colours thereto belonging also Puff Work Some more Receipts for Preserving and Cookery Some Remedies for such Ailments as are incident to all People as Corns Sore Eyes Cut Fingers Bruises Bleeding at Nose all these you may help by my Directions with a small matter of Cost whereas else you may be at a great Charge and long Trouble and perhaps endanger your Eyes or Limbs I shall give you none but such things as I have had many years Experience of with good success I praise God As you dare conside in me I pray make use of them I hope you will not fear since what I have already imparted hath been found true and hath benefited many Some are of that mind that they value nothing but what is Far fetcht Dear bought or Hard to be had and will rather prize those things which are kept Secret though if known are but simple And such are apt to slight what is made known to them not regarding the reality of the Friend who doth impart it to them meerly out of their Good-will and to save their Purses Such is the vanity of this wicked World that whatsoever one doth out of a sincere and Christian-like mind yet it is slighted I may compare it to those words in the Gospel which says Cast not Pearl before Swine And if Gallen and Hippocrates and Paracelsus were alive or any of the Wisest Philosophers and should declare in Writing all their Skill and lay those Writings down to the view of every Eye not one in ten would believe it For my part I am of that mind never to condemn any Man till I prove it false nor publickly to commend any thing till I find it good You may believe me if you please and as you find the Truth so trust me I have been Physician and Chirurgion in my own House to many and also to many of my Neighbours eight or ten Miles round I think it not amiss to recite some of those Cures I have done the Places where I have done them and upon whom but cannot particularly tell you with what where the Cure is difficult because there is in those cases a good Judgment required and I use those things in those Cases which are not Common Receipts which may as wel Kill as Cure but such things as I find proper to take away the Cause of the Distemper Experience with much Reading must give that understanding I dare not therefore adventure to teach but only those things wherein People cannot easily Erre and by which they may receive good For the rest of what I have spoken and for many other things which I cannot in few words relate if any Person will come to me I will satisfie them to their content and be Their Friend and Servant H. Woolley The TABLE OR CONTENTS of this BOOK A FOR any Ague whatever page 18 B A Most excellent Balsom for wounds p. 20 For pain in the Bones 23 For biting of a Mad-dog 29 To stench bleeding 35 For the Bloody Flux 36 Black-salve so Corns 37 An excellent Balsom 40 For a Bruise 45 For a Burn 46 Botch or Boyl 56 To Dye black 67 To boil Beef or Mutton to eat savourly 87 Beef-Pye 91 To dress old Beans or French Beans 96 Beef stewed 97 Bisket 105 C FOr a Cancer in the Breast or for sore Eyes p. 21 For a Cow that stales bloud 24 To make Oil of Charity 29 A Cordial Electuary 36 Water for a Canker 38 Consumption 46 〈◊〉 in the â—egâ— 51 〈…〉 55 Colours for Puff-work 66 More Colours p. 67 To fry Clary 83 To boil a Cock with broth 88 A Calves head Pye 97 Chilblanes on the hands 52 To Candy white Sugar 110 Catarrhs and Consumption 112 Catholick Plaister 111 Cordial Electualy 121 Cordial waâ—er 122 To Candy Fruit 126 To dâ—ess up a Chimney 127. 129 D TO Cure a Deafness p. 27 A Diet-drink 31 Drink for a Cough and o-ther Distempers 41 Deafness 49 A Drink to comfort you 121 E EMorroids or Piles p. 59 F TO wash the Face p. 9 For the Falling sickness 18 For any spots
will hold them on and lay them upon slicked-Papers to dry in the Sun and turn them often and if you see any fault mend it with more Gum-water and Sugar This is an extraordinary pretty way and looks very delicately and as they lie in the Sun they will sparkle like Diamonds it is soon done and with as little Cost as that which taketh up more time To make a pretty Toy to hang up in the Kitchin to catch Flies or rather to keep them from spoiling the Pewter or troubling People Take a square Trencher and bore a hole at each Corner then take four Cucumbers of an equal bigness and not too long and let them every one have stalks by which you must tie them with pack-thred to the four holes of the Trencher and let your Trencher be painted over and when it is dry wash it over with Gum-water and strew it thick with French-frost then take some Barley and stick your Cucumbers thick with the Corns with the growing ends outward then wash them over with Gum-water and Frost them and so let them dry as they hang and on the top of the Trencher set some pretty kinds of Toys as Babies Dogs Birds or any thing you fancy better and tie knots of fine Ribbon at every Corner which may hide the Stalks of the Cucumbers they do look strangely and prettily and the sight of them is pleasing to Children to quiet them To lay on Leaf-Gold or Silver to any thing you would Gild. Take Gum-water made with Arabick and let it be pretty stiff then lay it on with your Pencil where you would Gild then take a little Cushion made for the purpose of very smooth Leather and upon that cut your Gold with a sharp Knife as you will and to take it up draw the edge of your Knife finely upon your Tongue that it may be only wet with which do-but touch the very edge of your Gold and it will come up and you may lay it as you list but before you lay it on let your Gum be almost dry or else it will drown your Gold and when you have laid it press it down hard with the skut of a Hare and when it is dry burnish it over with a Dogs-tooth This is the right way to lay on either Gold or Silver You may gild any Wood or Stone or Sweet-meats as what you make in Sugar Plate or such like To dress up a Chimney very fine for the Summer time as I have done many and they have been liked very well First take a pack-thred and fasten it even to the inner part of the Chimney so high as that you can see no higher as you walk up and down the House you must drive in several Nails to hold this packthred for that is to hold up all your work then get good store of old green Moss from Trees and melt an equal proportion of Bees-wax and Rosin together and while it is hot dip the wrong ends of the Moss in it and presently clap it upon your pack-thred and press it down hard with your hand you must make hast else it will cool before you can fasten it and then it will fall down do so all round where the pack-thred goes and the next row you must joyn to that so that it may seem all in one thus do till you have finished it down to the bottom then take some other kind of Moss of a whitish-colour and stiff and of several sorts or kinds and place that upon the other here and there carelesly and in some places put a good deal and some a little then any kind of fine Snail-shells in which the Snails are dead and little Toad-stools which are very old and look like Velvet or any other thing that is old and pretty place it here and there as your fancy serves and fasten all with Wax and Rosin Then for the Hearth of your Chimney you may lay some Orpan-Sprigs in order all over and it will grow as it lies and according to the Season get what flowers you can and stick in as if they grew and a few sprigs of Sweet-Bryer the Flowers you must renew every Week but the Moss will last all the Summer till it will be time to make a fire and the Orpan vvill last near two Months A Chimney thus done doth grace a Room exceedingly Another way for Chimneys very fine but will not last half so long Take a fine thin Wainscot-board about three quarters of a yard long and proportionably broad for what you do intend it let it be cut in what form best pleases you I have seen some cut like a Rose and Crown some a Flower de Luce some other flowers when it is cut out let it be all over thick with pieces of Wier sharped at one end and drove in about an inch in length each of them then lay it upon a Table and take some Clay wetted a little and lay all over it till you have quite filled up the Wiers with the Clay for it is they must hold it on Then round about the edges every where stick it thick with little small sprigs of green Tamerick or Cypress or for want of either of these take Ewe-sprigs and be sure to stick them so that not any part of the edges may be discovered then according to the form of the Board you must choose your Flowers and Herbs If it be for a Rose then your Flowers must be all Red yet of divers kinds if there be a Crown that must be all of Yellow flowers if a Flower de Luce then Blew or Purple and Yellow and so to every other let your Flowers be all picked ready and every sort laid by themselves then run the Stalks of them into the Clay near to the Flower and so do till you have finished all and put the Greens also in their proper place as in the leaves and bearbs of the Flowers when you have quite done set it into the Chimney and let the bottom of it rest within a great Flower-pot such as they make for Chimneys It must be lifted by three or four People at once very carefully or else you will spoil all for it will be so weighty and the Board so thin that it is easily broke in the moving When you have set it as it should be then cover your Chimneys-Hearth with Green things and then with fine Flowers and be sure to cover your Pot also that there may be no discovery it will be fresh two Months if you sprinkle it with Water I have here directed you to many things which will no doubt be pleasant and profitable to you Give me leave now to treat a little concerning the Behaviour of the Female Sex and to give Counsel to those who need it because I find there is some need of it In my Book called The Ladies Guide I did speak very much to them but most to the Younger sort My intention was to have inlarged that Book if