despicable in their Conditions such as are Servants to their own Parents or Kindred or any other of such a â—ordid Relation It is dangerous to admit of any such Persons of inferiour Rank into a Parly with them Virginity is an â—nclosed Garden it should not admit of any such Violation the very Report may cast a blemish on it Some have been inslaved to that passion deservedly which at first they entertained disdainfully Presumption is a daring sin and alwayes brings forth an untimely Birth The way to prevent this is in the behaviour to give not the least Occasion to the Tempter that shall endeavour to ensnare them nor to give way to the weakness of their own Desires How excellent had many Ladies been and how impregnable had been their Chastities if they had not been possessed with such a dangerous Security when they let open their Windows to betray themselves when they leave their Chamber to walk and on purpose to be seen in publick Young Gentlewomen are to have a great Care to keep themselves from all Privacy and Retiredness unless it were with Good Books and Duties of Devotion Diogenes when he found a young man walking alone he demanded of him what he was doing he returned Answer that he was discoursing with himself Take Heed said he that thou Converse not with thine Enemy And not much unlike to this was the Report of a young Girl who was so lost in Love that it was truly said of her she minded her work leaâ—â— when she sat down to it and eyed her Sampler Blower one Mans particular Lass. Baun Lady one of the Four Daughters of Sir Anthony Cook famous for her great Poetick genius Borho a poor Woman of Delphos who pronouncing the Delphick Oracles must needs be inspired with a Poetick Spirit besides which she is said to have composed several Hymns Bastardy comes of the Brit Bastardo i. Nothus and signifies in Law a defect of birth objected to one begotten out of wedlock Bracton lib. 5. c. 19. per totum Beatrice beatrix that makes happy or blessed a womans name Bonne mine f. good aspect Boun and unboun dress and undress Brand-iron Trevet to set a pot on Brawl f. a kind of dance Bridgame â— Bridegroom Briseis Achilles's Mistress Britomartis a Cretan Lady inventress of Hunting Nets Beguines an order of Nuns or Religious Women commonly all well in years so called from St. Bega a Virgin their Foundress commemorated on the 6th of Sept. Beilarrite bellatrix a Warrioress a Woman well skilled in War a Virago Bellena The Goddess of War Ball f. a dancing meeting 〈◊〉 given by a new 〈◊〉 to her old Play-fellows 〈◊〉 a mask or visard 〈◊〉 cloth â— apron 〈◊〉 teams broods of Children Basiate l. to kiss Basse o. a kiss or the lower lip Baucis Philemon's wife Baud o. bold Barn Sax Bearn a child Hence 't is we say in the North of England how do Wife and Barnes i. How do Wife and Children Biggening up-rising of women Bigge a pap or teat â— build o. Bite o. to cheat also to steal Biton and Cleobis rewarded with death for their piety to their Mother Argia in drawing her Chariot to the Temple Bleit Blate Sc. shame fac'd Blower l. a Quean Bobtail a kind of short arrow-head also a Whore Bona roba I. a Whore Banes or Bans from the Fr. Ban. singnifies a Proclaming or publick notice of any thing The word is ordinary among the Feudists and grown from them to other uses as to that which we here in England call a Proclamation whereby any thing is publickly commanded or forbidden But it is used more especially in publishing Matrimonial Contracts in the Church before Marriage to the end if any Man can say any thing against the intention of the Parties either in respect of Kindred or otherwise they may take their Exception in one Cow But Mr. Sumner deâ—es it from the Saxon Abanâ—â—n i. to publish See his Sax. â—ct verbo Abannan Beating Y. with Child breeding Beed ings the first Milk after Birth Belides Danus's fifty Daughters Bellatrice l. a she Warrior Belly-cheat an Apron Berecynthia Cybele the Mother of the Gods Berenice Ptolomy's Daughter Bigamisâ— Bigamus he that hath marry'd two Wives â—â— which sort Lamech was the 〈◊〉 Bigamy Bigamia the marriage of two Wives It is 〈◊〉 in Law for an Impediment to be a Clerk and makes a Prisoner lose the benefit of Clergy For the Canonills hold that he that has been twice marry'd may not be a Clerk and they ground it upon these words of St. Paul 1 Tim. 3.2 Oportet ergo Episâ—pum irreprehensibiiem esse unius uxoris virum And also him that hath matry'd a Widow they by Interpretation take to have been twice married and both these they not only exclude from Holy Orders but deny all Privileges of Clery but this is Law abolished by Anno 1 Edw. 6. cap. 12. And to that may be added the Statute of 18 Eliz. cap. 7. which allows to all Men that can read as Clerks though not within Orders the benefit of Clergy in case of Felony not especially excepted by some other Statute Cowel Dr. Brown Billet Fr. a little Bill Note or Ticket stuck up upon a Post or Door and more commonly a stick of fire-wood well known in London Burlet f. a Coif Burnet â— Woollen also a Hood Burom Burlom D. Boogsarm pliant obedient also blithe merry Blanch Fr. white or fair we use it in England for a Woman's name Blith Sax. joyful glad merry cheerful Bonair Fr. gentle mild courteous Bongrace Fr. A certain Cover which Children use to were on their Foreheads to keep them from Sun-burning so called because it preserves their good grace and beauty Brigid or Bridger Contracted also into Bride an 〈◊〉 name as it seems for that the ancient S. Brigid was of that Nation Cam. Brigidians an Order of Religious Persons instituted by Brigidia a Widow Queen of Sweden in the time of Pope Vrban the fifth about the Year of our Lord 1372. It was as well of Men as Women 〈◊〉 beit they 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Nuns of this Order had a noble Convent at Sion in Middlesex built by K. Henry V. Buggery Fr. Bougrerie is described to be carnalis copula contra naturam hae 〈◊〉 per confusionem Specierum sc. a Man or a Woman with a â—râ—it Beast vel sexuum a Man with a Man or a Woman with a Woman See Lev. 18.22 23. This Offense committed with Mankind or Beast is Felony without Clery it being a Sin against God Nature and the Law And in ancient time such Offenders were to be burnt by the Common Law 25 Hen. 8.6.5 Eliz. 17. Fitz. Nat. Br. 269. My Lord Coke Rep. 12. p. 36. saith that this word comes from the Italian Buggerare to bugger Buxomness or Bughsomness pliableness or bowsomness to wit humbly stooping down in sign of obedience It is now mistaken for lustiness or rampancy C. Cassandra I. Inflaming Men with
Fr. Apparel cloathing array attire also Armour or Harness Habit habitus the outward attire of the Body whereby one Person is distinguished from another as the Habit of a Gentleman is different from that of a Merchant and the Habit of a Handy-crafts-man from both Hans-en-helder is in Dutch as much as Jack in a Cellar and by Metaphor it is taken for the Child in a Womans Belly Hermione the Daughter of Menelaus Hermitress a Woman-Hermite or Eremite Heroine g. a Noble or Virtuous Woman Herophila the Erithâ—â— Sibyl who being by Tarâ—â—â— denied the price of her three Books of Prophesies burnt two and received the whole price for that which was left Herâ—â—lia the Wife of Romulus worshipped by the Name of Hera the Goddess of youth Herthus a Saxon Goddess like the Latin Tellus Hessone Daughter of Lumedon King of Troy whom Hercules delivered from a great Whale Hibride mongrel of a mixt Generation Helicon a hill of Phacis not far from Parnassus and much of the same bigness consecrated to Apollo and the Muses Hence Helitoniam pertaining to that Hill Hillutim h. praises a Jewish wedding-song Heppece f. I. Cheese made of Mares milk Hipparchus an Athenian Tyrant slain upon his deflowring a Maid Hippe Daughter of Cbiâ—â—â— a great Huntress got with child and turn'd into a mare Hippiades g. Images of women on horse-back Hippoctenides the Muses Hippodamia Daughter to 〈◊〉 King of Elis whom 〈◊〉 won at a race with her father by corrupting his chariot driver Hipoliyta a Queen of the Amazons whom Hercules gave a Theseus to wife Hippolytus their Son torn in pieces by his chariot-horses is he fled being accused of adultery by his wives mother â—â—edra whose solicitations he refused Hippomenes and Atalanta won by his golden apples drown in her way were turn'd to a Lion and Lioness for lying together in Cybele's Temple Hippona the Goddess of horses and horse-coursers Hipâ—â—crataea followed her Husband Mithridates in all his 〈◊〉 and dangers Hermaphrodite Hermaphroâ—â—â— one who is both man and woman Hermitress A woman Hermite or Eremite one who lives in a wilderness Hesperides the daughters of Hesperus brother to Atlas called Aegle Aretbusa and Hesâ—â—â—busa They had Gardens and Orchards that bore Golden fruit kept by a vigilant Draâ—â—â— which Hercules slew and â—â—bbed the Orchard From this story we find often mention of the Gardens and Apples of Hesperides Honorificabilitudinity honourableness Horae l. Hours Goddesses daughters of Jupiter and Themis Hillulim Heb. Praises a Song sung at the Jews marriages by the Bridegrooms intimate Friends Hippona the Goddess of horses Hyades Atlantides Suculae the seven Stars daughters of Atlas lamenting of Hyas their brother devoured by a Lyon Hyena a Beast like a Wolf with a Mane and long hairs accounted the subtlest of all beasts changing sex often and counterfeiting Mans voice Hylas going to fetch Hercules some water fell into the river or poetically was pulled in by the Nymphs in love with him Hyllus Hercules's son who built a Temple at Athens to Misericordia the Goddess of pity Hymen aeus son of Bacchus and Venus the God or first instituter of marriage also a Nuptial or wedding song Hypermnestra one of Danaus's 59 daughters commanded to kill their Husbands the 50 sons of Aegyptus she onely saved her Husband Lynceus who afterwards killed Danaus Hypâ—â—phile Queen of Lemnos banished thence for saving her Father Thous when all the men of the Island were killed by women Hony-moon applied to those married persons that love well at first and decline in affections afterwards it is Hony now but it will change as the Moon Min. Horse-ballet a Dance or Ball performed by Horses such was that at the Emperors wedding 1666. Hypermeter Lat. a verse having a redundant syllable or one syllable above measure called by some a Feminine Verse Hysterical hysterious troubled with fits of the Mother I. JEan i. Gracious or Merciful see Joan. Iennet der from Jean Ioac or Joanna Gracious Luk. 8.3 the same with John in Mens Names Ioice i. Merry or Pleasant Iael 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jagnel Judg. 4.21 perhaps 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jagnalah a Roe or Goat Isabella or Jezebel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 King 9.30 i. Wo to the dwelling or the Province of dwelling Iulian i. Soft-Hair'd Iudith or Judah i. praising or confessing Ioan Countess of Montford Daughter to Lewis of Flanders and Count of Nevers she wâ—â— married to John the 4th 〈◊〉 of Britain and Count d'â—â—â—ford she Warred after her Husbands Death upon the 〈◊〉 d' Blois and took divers Town from him in Brittain and being besieged in Hennebor◠〈◊〉 sallied at the head of 60 men and burnt the Enemies standard and following this success with greater Numbers not onely raised the siege but recovered all the Dutchy of Britain Ioan d' Arc the Valiant Maid of France who of a Shepherdess became a Leader of Armies and by her Courage Conduct and success raised the drooping spirits of the French men that were at a very low Ebb by reason the English had gained the greatest part of France so that under her Conduct they beat them out of several strong holds but after she had done wonders always fighting on horse back in mans Apparel she was taken as she sallied upon the English and venturing too far in Confidence of her Fortune she was taken carried to Roan and there burnt for a witch though no such thing appeared against her Ioan d' Valois she was daughter to Charles King of France by his first wife Margaret of Sicily she was Married to William Earl of Holland Hainault and Zealand who died before her leaving William the Second his Son and four Daughters after which she 〈◊〉 a Religious Habit in the â—â—bby of Fontenele and by her Prudent Intercession stayed the battle at the point to be given between the Kings of England and France dying each Lamented of the People 〈◊〉 1400. Iocasta Daughter of Creon the Thebean King she Married King Laius and was Mother to 〈◊〉 who by reason of the words of the Oracle that he should Dethrone his Father was in his Infancy cast out to a desperate Fortune and she 〈◊〉 knowing him when grown 〈◊〉 Married him by whom she had Polynices and Eteocles who falling out about the Succession Killed each other in a Comâ—â—ce for whose Deaths and the Discovery of the Error 〈◊〉 committed in Marriage piâ—â—â— away with grief and died Ioan the female Pope of 〈◊〉 Called by them John 〈◊〉 finding her self with Child and ready to be delivered desperately killed her self with her Dagger Ioan Queen of France and 〈◊〉 the sole Daughter of Henry the first King of Navar and left Heiress of her Fathers Kingdom she was Wife to â—biâ—â—â— the fair King of France transcendent for her Piety as well as Beauty very Liberal in Charitable Deeds for she founded divers Charitable Houses and left at her Death great Treasure to be bestowed among the Poor Ioan de Albert Queen of Navar a
not fit to disturb thâ—m at their busâ—nâ—â—s lâ—st â—â—eâ— tâ—le Pet and grow angrâ— wiâ—h uâ—â—â—r prâ—ing into their concernâ— Besiâ—eâ— we have largely discourst on the sâ—vâ—râ—l Râ—â—kâ—â—f servâ—nts else where in this Work so that 't will be neâ—â—lâ—ss to add any thing fâ—râ—hâ—r here Scoundrel a sorry base â—â—lâ—o◠〈◊〉 secunde 〈…〉 the thrâ—e â—â—iâ—s wâ—â—râ—in an Infant lies while it is in the womb or when it coâ—â—â— into the worlâ— the sâ—cond or â—fâ—â—rbirth in Women in â—â—asts the Hâ—â—m 〈◊〉 Fr. â—vening muâ—icâ— at the doâ—â— or undâ—r the wiâ—â—â—â—â—f a lovâ—ly or bâ—lâ—vâ—â—â—â—â—â—â—ure 〈◊〉 we call a curâ—◠〈◊〉 a Shâ—â—w 〈◊〉 Sirenes from the â—r 〈…〉 Mermaides Alluring and â—empâ—ing women arâ— called Syrens Sodomy sodomiâ— burgâ—ry so calleâ— from thâ— Câ—ty Sâ—dâ—m in Juâ—â—â— which fâ—r thâ—t deâ—estaâ—le Sin was destroyed with fire from heaven Gen. 19. Sâ—â—dures soldurii wâ—re as 〈◊〉 â—â—ith in Gâ—uilâ—h language such kind of Mâ—n as destined and vowed themselves â—o the amity of any to take part in all their good and haâ—â—â—râ—uneâ— â—ooterâ—in a monsâ—â—r lâ—ke an unshaped Rat wâ—ich some women in Dutchland are said to have broughâ— forâ—h a the product of some preterâ—â—â—ural conception Cl. Poems Sâ—â—orâ—â—â—r Virgin Virgo Soâ—oriâ—ns a young maid whose Brâ—sts beâ—in to be round or 〈◊〉 out for shew â—pâ—â—â—â—er a term or addition in our Law-Diâ—lâ—ct given in evidences and Writâ—â—â—â—â— to a some â—â—le as it were câ—â—â—ing hâ—r 〈◊〉 end this is the oâ—â—ly â—â—â—â—â—ion fâ—r all â—nmarried â—omen from the Viâ—counts Daughter downward Spinâ—â—â—an from sâ—â—tâ—â—â—â— pertâ—ining to tâ—ose that â—eek out or invent new and monstruous actions of lust Spoâ—â—e sponsa a woman spoâ—sed or 〈◊〉 a â—ride or new married woman alâ—o from spâ—nsus a new married mâ—n Spouâ—age sponsalia the contract or betroning befâ—â—â—â—uâ—l mâ—â—riâ—ge Spurioâ—s spurius bâ—rn of a câ—â—mâ—â— woman that knows not his Father abâ—â—â—â—orâ— counâ—â—rfeit Step-mother so called because she steps in stead of a Mother by marrying the sons or daughters Fathers a Mother in Law Stews are those places where women of proâ—â—â—â—â—d incontinency proâ—â—er their bodies to all comers from the Fr. Estuve i.e. a Bath or Hot-house because waâ—â—ons are wont to pâ—epaâ—e or rather to purge themselves for those venerous acts by oâ—â—â—n bâ—thing and Hot-houses And that this is noâ— new Homer shews in the eight Book of his Odâ—sses where he reckons hot Bâ—thes among the esteminat◠〈◊〉 of pleasures Of these 〈◊〉 the Statue An 11. 〈…〉 1. As for the walking â—tensils attending these i◠〈◊〉 â—â—ey are neaâ—ly kept on 〈◊〉 to decoy poor â—â—wary youth and because they are not used upon all occasions they appear the more delectable to the Eâ—e geneâ—ally as soon as you enter the door of these Vicions â—wellings you 'l hear ruffling of Silks in sundry places for this iâ— their Policy by seeming modâ—â—â—â— to set a sharp edg on mens corrupt inclinations they 'll commonly â—ring you â—everal sorâ—s of Wine and salt Meâ—ts to relish the â—allate tho you give no order for the same for this is the Custome of these Houses tho a Chargable oneâ— that without a Peice spending you shall know liâ—â—le of their Practices They 'l 〈◊〉 their desires with a million of protiâ—ute Counâ—enances and Inticements bâ—t young â—â—n I beseech you look upon them rather as Companions â—or â—n Hospital and that they really stand more in need of â— Chirurgious aâ—quaintance than yours Fly from their Emâ—â—aces as you would from the Devil for they have many â—â—ys to delude sometimes to heighten your thoughts they 'l declare to you their â—â—â—th and Education and say that as the one was well Extracted so the other had occasioned much cost and expence that for their part they associate with none but Persons of Quality whose long Patience and Entreatments first procured a Familiarity and in fine freedom in the exercise of Love Aâ—â—airs and so will seemingly put you off upon that score the poor youth thinking that â—â—is not usual for them to admit of any to their Embraces but such whose long acquaintance has gain'd their Affections and are soon ruined These are the baits they lay for unthinking men who remember not what Solomon says that the Dead are there and that ber guest are tho depths of Hell Stole stola any Garment wherewith the Body is covered a Robe of honour Among the antient Romans it waâ— had in great reverence and hâ—ld as a Vâ—â—t or Badg of chastity hence that of Mâ—ntial liâ— 1. Qâ—â—s â—â—â—alia 〈…〉 Stolatum 〈…〉 pâ—dorem Stork Belg. a Bird famous fâ—r natural love toâ—ards his Parents whom he 〈◊〉 being old and iâ—potenâ— aâ— thâ—y â—â—d him being young The Egyptians so esteemed this Bird that there was a great penalty laid upon him that should kill him Sueda the goâ—dâ—sâ— of Eloquence or deâ—eâ—table speech among the Romans Succubus Lat. a Devil that sometimes in the shape of a Women lies with Men. See Incubus Sumptuary Laws are Laws made to refrain excess in apparel or cloathing Sunamite Heb dormines one sleeptug A worthy good woman of â—una that often entertained Eliseus the Prophet by whose Prayers she had a Son when by course of Nature she was pist hopes of any and afterwards had the same son raised from death to life by the same Eliseus 4 Kings Superfetation superfâ—tatio the conceiving an other after the first young is conceived a seâ— nâ— conceiving or the breeding of young upon young Susan Heb. Lilly or Rose Suzan in the Persâ—n Tongue signifies a Needle Swain Sax Swanz a Country Clown a Bumpkin a Freeholder or as the Saxons call'â— him a Bocland man Syllogism Syllogismus a most perfect kind of argument which gathers a necessary conclusion out of two prâ—miâ—â—es as thus 1. Every vice is odious 2. Uncleanness is a vice 3. Ergo Uncleanness is odius The first part of a Syllogism is called the Proposition or Major the second the Assumption or Minor and the third the Conclusion Sympathy sympathia natural consent or combination mutual passion affection or disposition Salacia The goddess of Water Salique Law Lex Salica is a Law whereby the Crown of France cannot be inherited by a woman cannot fall from the Lance to the Distaâ— as their saying is which Law one undertaking to prove out of Holy Writ urged that place of Matthew where 't is said Mark the Lillies which are the Arms of France and see how they neither Labour nor sâ—â—â— This Law they pretend was made by Pharanoâ—d their first King and that the words Siâ— aliqua so often mentioned gave it the name of Salique Law Others say it was named by Charles the Greâ— after his Conquests in German where the incontinency of the Women living about the Riveâ— Sala in the Country now called Misnia gave both occasâ— and name to this Law the words are these De terra â— Salica nulla portio haereditâ— malieri veniat sed advirâ— sexum reta terrâ— hâ—red it asâ— venia Selden Mr. Blunt Stall whimper A Bastard Saraband