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cause_n	according_a	create_v	great_a	74	3	2.1091	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36108	A discourse of women, shewing their imperfections alphabetically newly translated out of the French into English.; Alphabet de l'imperfection et malice des femmes. English	Olivier, Jacques.	1662 (1662)	Wing D1611; ESTC R22566	72,101	210

and Portugal Tagus must be despoil'd of their rich gold Sands to content their luxury in Rings and Jewels the Odors of Musk Amber-gris Civet Iris and Abdanon are not spared to perfume those stinking and unsavoury exhalations which come from beneath them and further to reform the wisdom of God O vanity insupportable they content not themselves with Neck-handkerchiefs Corgets with false Perruques white flaxen frizel'd auborn and brown with Bracelets Neck-laces Carknets and a thousand other lesser trinkums but they use also paintings false colours to dissemble the ugliness of their face their neck and their breasts whose dugs without this artifice would rather look like two horn-pipes than pipes of milk where love's foolish passion lays his Nets to catch those Swans of Meander without considering that these things are abnominable before God and forbidden by the Divine Laws as also by prophane Lycurgus by his Laws forbad the superfluity in apparel and the Romans seeing the excess and luxury in them especially by women made a Law that they should never wear any dressings of gold nor any garments of diverse colours or powdered with gold and silver Which Law continued till the effeminateness of Asia became Mistress of that glorious City But may some Finical Dame say men are as guilty in this vanity as women Grant them to be so yet are they more excusable because the most part thereof is in expence upon Arms Horses Cloaths and other equipage commonly upon design to raise their fortune to appear splendid in Courts and Camps well accoutred to the service of their Princes But women with all these looking-glasses at their side their Fans and Muffs c. other trim niceties have no other aime but make use of them for the most part to draw in the slaves of their lewd pleasure with so much excess such change and such curiosity that the poor Taylor knows not of what wood to make his arrow with what new fashion to please them And though the mode now be easier to be found than the stuff yet is there a certain sort of women that if they could would wear the whole world on their backs To which purpose he that writ The means of making the Turks sworn enemies of Christendom in his book hath this passage I saw a Turkish woman who belonged but to a private person wear about her in cloaths to the value of 3000 Duckets If a simple Damosel was so vain what think you of the wives of the Bashaws the Viziers and the Grand Seigniors But to leave the Turkish women we have so bad here in France that we may not well blame them there St. Cyprian saith That women which go thus attired wear the stamp and image of the Devil St. Austin terms such garments the signes and interpretation of an adulterous heart and lascivious and inconstant mind Impudicus habitus signum est adulterini cordis St. Paul writing to his Disciple Timothy would not have women to be adorned with so many pretious stones carkenets curl'd hair and rich habits but to wear onely such as were decent honest and agreeable to their quality walking always in modesty and sobriety Cum verecundia modestia ornantes se Theodoret reports a pretty story in his History of the Fathers which deserves reading His mother being aged twenty three years and troubled with a fore eye went to St. Peter the Hermite in a silk gown and adorned with rich pendants in her ears to obtain a remedy That holy person seeing her in such a habit which she thought suitable to her youth and quality took occasion to speak familiarly to her about it and to reprove her vanity in this manner What would you say Madam if you should see a dull and unskilful Painter take up the Pencil to mend a Picture which had been drawn by the best workman in the world and wherein according to his judgment nothing could be faulted would you not take that man for a rash and ignorant fellow and worthy of punishment and this excellent Painter would not he have cause to complain of this boldness and to cause him to be severely chastised She thereupon replying that he had just cause to do so He then rejoyned Consider in the same manner Madam that God that great heavenly Maker hath created you to his own image and likeness and by the same power he created you has made you perfect and accomplish'd and think you that you have not lustre beauty and perfection enough to please his Divine Majesty without borrowing from the creatures the works of his hands an addition of ornament reforming thereby his infinite power and soveraign wisdom If you have recourse to paintings patching to strange colours to borrow'd hairs and other vanities will not this show that you believe God to be ignorant wanting of power and inconsiderate in not having made you according to your desire May you not be charged with boldness and presumption by that Divine Majesty who made you no other then you are His words strook such a fear into her that having her eye cured by him she came home and disroab'd her self of her gay attire laid aside her pendants and her other fineries in the most flourishing age of her life habiting her self ever afterwards as plainly and modestly as she could I wish our fine Dames would do the like that there were no such she reformers of the wisdom of God in the world remembring that terrible sentence of the Prophet Zephaniah Visitabo super omnes qui induti sunt veste peregrina by which God threatens that in the last day he will make inquisition of those who wear strange garments and other gauderies which make up an artificial beauty To which purpose I wish those plaistered fine Dames which will not amend were as handsomely affronted as those Curtesans were once by the means of Phryne the beautifullest ha lot in her time in a full feast Erasmus saith in the sixth of his Apophthegms that she being one day at Table with a great number of her sisters of the same Trade seeing them all-to-be-painted to put a trick upon those wenches it being a custome and mannerly for guests to do that which others do out of civility and good carriage she wetted her hands in the water and therewith rubbed her forehead the others streight doing the same in imitation of her who was a Sun in beauty without paint or other artifice the fucus was apparent the wrinckles were seen and they look'd like old withered hags which made them the laughter of the whole company who dismiss'd them with as much shame and disgrace as they came full of mirth pride and arrogance To say all in a word if this be blame-worthy in secular women and Courtesans a thousand times more detestable it is in those who in all their ways and actions ought to give testimony of their contempt of the world and the lusts and vain pomp thereof who are obliged to please none but their