as with the sweetnesse of life to make him swallow down the bitternesse of an eternall disgrace He begrutcheth not to get to his side a probability of victory by the certainty of his own death and flieth from nothing so much as from the mention of flying And though some say he is a mad-man that will purchase Honour so dearly with his bloud as that he cannot live to enjoy what he hath bought our Souldier knows that he shall possesse the reward of his valour with God in heaven and also making the world his executor leave to it the rich inheritance of his memory Yet in some cases he counts it no disgrace to yield where it is impossible to conquer as when swarms of enemies crowd about him so that he shall rather be stifled then wounded to death In such a case if quarter be offered him he may take it with more honour then the other can give it and if he throws up his desperate game he may happily winne the next whereas if he playeth it out to the last he shall certainly lose it and himself But if he be to fall into the hand of a barbarous enemy whose giving him quarter is but repriving him for a more ignominious death he had rather disburse his life at the present then to take day to fall into the hands of such remorslesse creditours He makes none the object of his cruelty which cannot be the object of his fear Lyons they say except forc'd with hunger will not prey on women and children though I would wish none to try the truth hereof the truly valiant will not hurt women or infants nor will they be cruell to old men What conquest is it to strike him up who stands but on one leg and hath the other foot in the grave But arrant cowards such as would conquer victory it self if it should stand in their way as they flie count themselves never evenly match'd except they have threefold oddes on their side and esteem their enemie never disarmed till they be dead Such love to shew a nature steep'd in gall of passion and display the ignoble tyrany of prevailing dastards these being thus valiant against no resistance will make no resistance when they meet with true valour He counts it murther to kill any in cold bloud Indeed in taking Cities by assault especially when Souldiers have suffered long in an hard siege it is pardonable what present passion doth with a sudden thrust but a premeditated back-blow in cold bloud is base Some excuse there is for bloud enraged and no wonder if that scaldeth which boyleth but when men shall call a consultation in their soul and issue thence a deliberate act the more advised the deed is the lesse advised it is when men raise their own passions and are not raised by them specially if fair quarter be first granted an alms which he who gives to day may crave to morrow yea he that hath the hilt in his hand in the morning may have the point at his throat ere night He doth not barbarously abuse the bodies of his dead enemies We find that Hercules was the first the most valiant are ever most mercifull that ever suffered his enemies to carry away their dead bodies after they had been put to the sword Belike before his time they cruelly cut the corps in pieces or cast them to the wild beasts In time of plenty he provides for want hereafter Yet generally Souldiers as if they counted one Treasurer in an army were enough so hate covetousnesse that they cannot affect providence for the future and come home with more marks in their bodies then pence in their pockets He is willing and joyfull to imbrace peace on good conditions The procreation of peace and not the satisfying of mens lusts and liberties is the end of warre Yet how many having warre for their possession desire a perpetuity thereof Wiser men then King Henry the eights fool use to cry in fair weather whose harvest being onely in storms they themselves desire to raise them wherefore fearing peace will starve whom warre hath fatted and to render themselves the more usefull they prolong discord to the utmost and could wish when swords are once drawn that all scabbards might be cut asunder He is as quiet and painfull in peace as couragious in warre If he hath not gotten already enough whereon comfortably to subsist he rebetakes himself to his former calling he had before the warre began the weilding of his sword hath not made him unweildie to do any other work and put his bones out of joynt to take pains Hence comes it to passe that some take by-courses on the high-wayes and death whom they honourably sought for in the field meets them in a worse place But we leave our Souldier seeking by his virtues to ascend from a private place by the degrees of Sergeant Lieutenant Captain Colonell till he comes to be a Generall and then in the next book God willing you shall have his example CHAP. 20. The good Sea-Captain HIs Military part is concurrent with that of the Souldier already described He differs onely in some Sea-properties which we will now set down Conceive him now in a Man of warre with his letters of mart well arm'd victuall'd and appointed and see how he acquits himself The more power he hath the more carefull he is not to abuse it Indeed a Sea-captain is a King in the Iland of a ship supreme Judge above appeal in causes civill and criminall and is seldome brought to an account in Courts of Justice on land for injuries done to his own men at sea He is carefull in observing of the Lords day He hath a watch in his heart though no bells in a steeple to proclaim that day by ringing to prayers S r Francis Drake in three years sailing about the world lost one whole day which was scarce considerable in so long time 'T is to be feared some Captains at sea lose a day every week one in seven neglecting the Sabbath He is as pious and thankfull when a tempest is past as devout when 't is present not clamorous to receive mercies and tongue-tied to return thanks Many mariners are calm in a storm and storm in a calm blustring with oathes In a tempest it comes to their turn to be religious whose piety is but a fit of the wind and when that 's allayed their devotion is ended Escaping many dangers makes him not presumptuous to run into them Not like those Sea-men who as if their hearts were made of those rocks they have often sayled by are so alwayes in death they never think of it These in their navigations observe that it is farre hotter under the Tropicks in the coming to the Line then under the Line it self in like manner they conceive that the fear phancy in preparing for death is more terrible then death it self which makes them
judgement is clear and quick to discover the mark and his hands as just in Shooting as in dealing aright Some sports being granted to be lawfull more propend to be ill then well used Such I count Stage-playes when made alwayes the Actours work and often the Spectatours recreation Zeuxis the curious picturer painted a boy holding a dish full of grapes in his hand done so lively that the birds being deceived flew to peck the grapes But Zeuxis in an ingenious choller was angry with his own workmanship Had I said he made the boy as lively as the grapes the birds would have been afraid to touch them Thus two things are set forth to us in Stage-playes some grave sentences prudent counsells and punishment of vitious examples and with these desperate oathes lustfull talk and riotous acts are so personated to the life that wantons are tickled with delight and feed their palats upon them It seems the goodnesse is not portrayed out with equall accents of livelinesse as the wicked things are otherwise men would be deterr'd from vitious courses with seeing the wofull successe which follows them But the main is wanton speeches on stages are the devils ordinance to beget badnesse but I question whether the pious speeches spoken there be Gods ordinance to increase goodnesse as wanting both his institution and benediction Choak not thy soul with immoderate pouring in the cordiall of pleasures The Creation lasted but six dayes of the first week Prophane they whose Recreation lasts seven dayes every week Rather abbridge thy self of thy lawfull liberty herein it being a wary rule which S. Gregory gives us Solus in illicitis non cadit qui se aliquando à licitis caute restringit And then Recreations shall both strengthen labour and sweeten rest and we may expect Gods blessing and protection on us in following them as well as in doing our work For he that faith grace for his meat in it prayes also to God to blesse his sauce unto him As for those that will not take lawfull pleasure I am afraid they will take unlawfull pleasure and by lacing themselves too hard grow awry on one side CHAP. 14. Of Tombes TOmbes are the clothes of the dead a Grave is but a plain suit and a rich Monument is one embroyder'd Most moderate men have been carefull for the decent interment of their corps Few of the fond mind of Arbogastus an Irish Saint and Bishop of Spires in Germany who would be buried near the Gallows in imitation of our Saviour whose grave was in mount Calvary near the place of execution 'T is a provident way to make ones Tombe in ones life-time both hereby to prevent the negligence of heirs and to mind him of his mortality Virgil tells us that when bees swarm in the aire and two armies meeting together fight as it were a set battel with great violence cast but a little dust upon them and they will be quiet Hi motus animorum atque haec certamina tanta Pulveris exigui jactu compressa quiescunt These stirrings of their minds and strivings vast If but a little dust on them be cast Are straitwayes stinted and quite overpast Thus the most ambitious motions and thoughts of mans mind are quickly quell'd when dust is thrown on him whereof his fore-prepared Sepulchre is an excellent remembrancer Yet some seem to have built their Tombes therein to bury their thoughts of dying never thinking thereof but embracing the world with greater greedinesse A Gentleman made choice of a fair stone and intending the same for his Grave-stone caused it to be pitched up in a field a pretty distance from his house and used often to shoot at it for his exercise Yea but said a wag that stood by you would be loath Sir to hit the mark And so are many unwilling to die who notwithstanding have erected their Monuments Tombes ought in some sort to be proportioned not to the wealth but deserts of the party interred Yet may we see some rich man of mean worth loaden under a tombe big enough for a Prince to bear There were Officers appointed in the Grecian Games who alwayes by publick authority did pluck down the Statues erected to the Victours if they exceeded the true symmetrie and proportion of their bodies We need such nowadayes to order Monuments to mens merits chiefly to reform such depopulating Tombes as have no good fellowship with them but engrosse all the room leaving neither seats for the living nor graves for the dead It was a wise and thrifty law which Reutha King of Scotland made That Noblemen should have so many pillars or long pointed stones set on their sepulchres as they had slain enemies in the warres If this order were also enlarged to those who in peace had excellently deserved of the Church or Commonwealth it might well be revived Overcostly Tombes are onely baits for Sacriledge Thus Sacriledge hath beheaded that peerelesse Prince King Henrie the fift the body of whose Statue on his Tombe in Westminster was covered over with silver plate guilded and his head of massy silver both which now are stollen away Yea hungry palats will feed on courser meat I had rather M r Stow then I should tell you of a Nobleman who sold the monuments of Noblemen in S. Augustines Church in Broadstreet for an hundred pound which cost many thousands and in the place thereof made fair stabling for horses as if Christ who was born in a stable should be brought into it the second time It was not without cause in the Civill Law that a wife might be divorc'd from her husband if she could prove him to be one that had broken the Sepulchres of the dead For it was presum'd he must needs be a tyrannicall husband to his wife who had not so much mercy as to spare the ashes of the departed The shortest plainest truest Epitaphs are best I say the Shortest for when a Passenger sees a Chronicle written on a Tombe he takes it on trust some Great man lies there buried without taking pains to examine who he is M r Cambden in his Remains presents us with examples of Great men that had little Epitaphs And when once I ask'd a witty Gentleman an honoured friend of mine what Epitaph was fittest to be written on M r Cambdens Tombe Let it be said he CAMBDENS REMAINS I say also the Plainest for except the sense lie above ground few will trouble themselves to dig for 't Lastly it must be True Not as as in some Monuments where the red veins in the marble may seem to blush at the falshoods written on it He was a witty man that first taught a stone to speak but he was a wicked man that taught it first to lie To want a Grave is the cruelty of the living not the misery of the dead An English Gentleman not long since did lie on his death-bed in
he knew thriftily to improve being a pregnant proficient in State-discipline CHAP. 7. The good Iudge THe good Advocate whom we formerly described is since by his Princes favour and own deserts advanced to be a Judge which his place he freely obtained with Sr. Augustine Nicolls whom King James used to call the Iudge that would give no money Otherwise they that buy Justice by wholesale to make themselves savers must sell it by retail He is patient and attentive in hearing the pleadings on both sides and hearkens to the witnesses though tedious He may give a waking testimony who hath but a dreaming utterance and many countrey people must be impertinent before they can be pertinent and cannot give evidence about an hen but first they must begin with it in the egge All which our Judge is contented to hearken to He meets not a testimony half-way but stayes till it come at him He that proceeds on half-evidence will not do quarter-justice Our Judge will not go till he is lead If any shall brow-beat a pregnant witnesse on purpose to make his proof miscarry he checketh them and helps the witnesse that labours in his delivery On the other side he nips those Lawyers who under a pretence of kindnesse to lend a witnesse some words give him new matter yea clean contrary to what he intended Having heard with patience he gives sentence with uprightnesse For when he put on his robes he put off his relations to any and like Melchisedech becomes without pedigree His private affections are swallowed up in the common cause as rivers lose their names in the ocean He therefore allows no noted favourites which cannot but cause multiplication of fees and suspicion of by-wayes He silences that Lawyer who seeks to set the neck of a bad cause once broken with a definitive sentence and causeth that contentious suits be spued out as the surfets of Courts He so hates bribes that he is jealous to receive any kindnesse above the ordinary proportion of friendship lest like the Sermons of wandring Preachers they should end in begging And surely Integrity is the proper portion of a Judge Men have a touch-stone whereby to try gold but gold is the touch-stone whereby to trie men It was a shrewd gird which Catulus gave the Romane Judges for acquitting Clodius a great malefactour when he met them going home well attended with Officers You do well quoth he to be well guarded for your safety lest the money be taken away from you you took for bribes Our Judge also detesteth the trick of Mendicant Friers who will touch no money themselves but have a boy with a bag to receive it for them When he sits upon life in judgement he remembreth mercy Then they say a butcher may not be of the Jurie much lesse let him be the Judge Oh let him take heed how he strikes that hath a dead hand It was the charge Queen Marie gave to Judge Morgan chief Justice of the common Pleas that notwithstanding the old errour amongst Judges did not admit any witnesse to speak or any other matter to be heard in favour of the adversary her Majestie being party yet her Highnesse pleasure was that whatsoever could be brought in the favour of the Subject should be admitted and heard If the cause be difficult his diligence is the greater to sift it out For though there be mention Psal. 37.6 of righteousnesse as clear as the noon-day yet God forbid that that innocency which is no clearer then twilight should be condemned And seeing ones oath commands anothers life he searcheth whether malice did not command that oath yet when all is done the Judge may be deceived by false evidence But blame not the hand of the diall if it points at a false houre when the fault 's in the wheels of the clock which direct it and are out of frame The sentence of condemnation he pronounceth with all gravity 'T is best when steep'd in the Judges tears He avoideth all jesting on men in misery easily may he put them out of countenance whom he hath power to put out of life Such as are unworthy to live and yet unfitted to die he provides shall be instructed By Gods mercy and good teaching the reprive of their bodies may get the pardon of their souls and one dayes longer life for them here may procure a blessed eternity for them hereafter as may appear by this memorable Example It happened about the yeare one thousand five hundred and fiftie six in the town of Weissenstein in Germany that a Jew for theft he had cōmitted was in this cruell manner to be executed He was hang'd by the feet with his head downwards betwixt two dogs which constantly snatch'd and bit at him The strangenesse of the torment moved Jacobus Andreas a grave moderate and learned Divine as any in that age to go to behold it Coming thither he found the poore wretch as he hung repeating Verses out of the Hebrew Psalmes wherein he cryed out to God for mercy Andreas hereupon took occasion to counsell him to trust in Jesus Christ the true Saviour of mankind The Jew embracing the Christian Faith requested but this one thing that he might be taken down and be baptized though presently after he were hanged again but by the neck as Christian malefactours suffered which was accordingly granted him He is exact to do justice in civill Suits betwixt Sovereigne and Subject This will most ingratiate him with his Prince at last Kings neither are can nor should be Lawyers themselves by reason of higher State-employments but herein they see with the eyes of their Judges and at last will break those false spectacles which in point of Law shall be found to have deceived them He counts the Rules of State and the Laws of the Realm mutually support each other Those who made the Laws to be not onely disparate but even opposite terms to maximes of Government were true friends neither to Laws nor Government Indeed Salus Reip. is Charta maxima extremity makes the next the best remedy Yet though hot waters be good to be given to one in a swound they will burn his heart out who drinks them constantly when in health Extraordinary courses are not ordinarily to be used when not enforced by absolute necessity And thus we leave our good Judge to receive a just reward of his integrity from the Judge of Judges at the great Assize of the world CHAP. 8. The life of Sr. JOHN MARKHAM IOhn Markham was born at Markham in Nottinghamshire descended of an ancient and worthy familie He employed his youth in the studying of the Municipall Law of this realm wherein he attained to such eminencie that King Edward the fourth Knighted him and made him Lord chief Justice of the Kings Bench in the place of S r John Fortescue that learned and upright Judge who fled away with King Henrie the sixth
Yet Fortescue was not miss'd because Markham succeeded him and that losse which otherwise could not be repair'd now could not be perceiv'd For though these two Judges did severally lean to the sides of Lancaster and York yet both sate upright in matters of Judicature We will instance and insist on one memorable act of our Judge which though single in it self was plurall in the concernings thereof And let the Reader know that I have not been carelesse to search though unhappy not to find the originall Record perchance abolished on purpose and silenced for telling tales to the disgrace of great ones We must now be contented to write this Story out of the English Chronicles and let him die of drougth without pity who will not quench his thirst at the river because he cannot come at the fountain King Edward the fourth having married into the family of the Woodvills Gentlemen of more antiquity then wealth and of higher spirits then fortunes thought it fit for his own honour to bestow honour upon them But he could not so easily provide them of wealth as titles For honour he could derive from himself like light from a candle without any diminishing of his own lustre whereas wealth flowing from him as water from a fountain made the spring the shallower Wherefore he resolved to cut down some prime subjects and to engraff the Queens kinred into their estates which otherwise like suckers must feed on the stock of his own Exchequer There was at this time one S r Thomas Cook late Lord Maior of London and Knight of the Bath one who had well lick'd his fingers under Queen Margaret whose Wardroper he was and customer of Hampton a man of a great estate It was agreed that he should be accused of high Treason and a Commission of Oyer and Terminer granted forth to the Lord Maior the Duke of Clarence the Earl of Warwick the Lord Rivers Sr. John Markham Sr. John Fogg c. to try him in Guild Hall And the King by private instructions to the Judge appear'd so farre that Cook though he was not must be found guilty and if the Law were too short the Judge must stretch it to the purpose The fault laid to his charge was for lending moneys to Queen Margaret wife to King Henrie the sixth the proof was the confession of one Hawkins who being rack'd in the Tower had confessed so much The Counsell for the King hanging as much weight on the smallest wier as it would hold aggravated each particular by their Rhetoricall flashes blew the fault up to a great height S r Thomas Cook pleaded for himself that Hawkins indeed upon a season came to him and requested him to lend one thousand marks upon good security But he desired first to know for whom the money should be and understanding it was for Queen Margaret denyed to lend any money though at last the said Hawkins descended so low as to require but one hundred pounds and departed without any peny lent him Judge Markham in a grave speech did recapitulate select and collate the materiall points on either side shewing that the proof reached not the charge of high Treason and misprision of Treason was the highest it could amount to and intimated to the Jurie to be tender in matter of life and discharge good consciences The Jurie being wise men whose apprehensions could make up an whole sentence of every nod of the Judge saw it behoved them to draw up Treason into as narrow a compasse as might be lest it became their own case for they lived in a troublesome world wherein the cards were so shuffled that two Kings were turn'd up trump at once which amazed men how to play their games Whereupon they acquitted the prisoner of high Treason and found him guilty as the Judge directed Yet it cost S r Thomas Cook before he could get his libertie eight hundred pounds to the Queen and eight thousand pounds to the King A summe in that age more sounding like the ransome of a Prince then the fine of a Subject Besides the Lord Rivers the Queens Father had during his Imprisonment despoyled his houses one in the city another in the countrey of plate and furniture for which he never received a penie recompence Yet God righted him of the wrongs men did him by blessing the remnant of his estate to him and his posterity which still flourish at Giddy Hall in Essex As for S r John Markham the Kings displeasure fell so heavy on him that he was outed of his place and S r Thomas Billing put in his room though the one lost that Office with more honour then the other got it and gloried in this that though the King could make him no Judge he could not make him no upright Judge He lived privately the rest of his dayes having besides the estate got by his practice fair lands by Margaret his wife daughter and coheir to S r Simon Leak of Cotham in Nottinghamshire whose Mother Joan was daughter and heir of S r John Talbot of Swannington in Leicestershire CHAP. 9. The good Bishop HE is an Overseer of a Flock of Shepherds as a Minister is of a Flock of Gods sheep Divine providence and his Princes bounty advanced him to the Place whereof he was no whit ambitious Onely he counts it good manners to sit there where God hath placed him though it be higher then he conceives himself to deserve and hopes that he who call'd him to the Office hath or will in some measure fit him for it His life is so spotlesse that Malice is angry with him because she cannot be angry with him because she can find no just cause to accuse him And as Diogenes confuted him who denyed there was any motion by saying nothing but walking before his eyes so our Bishop takes no notice of the false accusations of people disaffected against his order but walks on circumspectly in his calling really refelling their cavils by his conversation A Bishops bare presence at a marriage in his own diocesse is by the Law interpreted for a licence and what actions soever he graceth with his company he is conceived to priviledge them to be lawfull which makes him to be more wary in his behaviour With his honour his holinesse and humility doth increase His great Place makes not his piety the lesse farre be it from him that the glittering of the candlestick should dimme the shining of his candle The meanest Minister of Gods word may have free accesse unto him whosoever brings a good cause brings his own welcome with him The pious poore may enter in at his wide gates when not so much as his wicket shall be open to wealthy unworthinesse He is diligent and faithfull in preaching the Gospel either by his pen Evangelizo manu scriptione saith a strict Divine or by his vocall Sermons if age and other indispensable occasions hinder him not teaching the Clergie to
by the swiftnesse of his motion would set all the world on fire so Mercy must ever be set near Justice for the cooling and tempering thereof In his mercy our King desires to resemble the God of heaven who measureth his judgements by the ordinary cubit but his kindnesses by the cubit of the Sanctuary twice as big yea all the world had been a hell without Gods mercy He is rich in having a plentifull exchequer of his peoples hearts Allow me said Archimedes to stand in the aire and I will move the earth But our King having a firm footing in his Subjects affections what may he do yea what may he not do making the coward valiant the miser liberall for love the key of hearts will open the closest coffers Mean time how poore is that Prince amidst all his wealth whose Subjects are onely kept by a slavish fear the jaylour of the soul. An iron arm fastned with scrues may be stronger but never so usefull because not so naturall as an arm of flesh joined with muscles sinews Loving Subjects are most serviceable as being more kindly united to their Sovereigne then those which are onely knock'd on with fear and forcing Besides where Subjects are envassaled with fear Prince and People mutually watch their own advantages which being once offered them 't is wonderfull if they do not and wofull if they do make use thereof He willingly orders his actions by the Laws of his realm Indeed some maintain that Princes are too high to come under the roof of any Laws except they voluntarily of their goodnesse be pleased to bow themselves thereunto and that it is Corban a gift and courtesy in them to submit themselves to their Laws But whatsoever the Theories of absolute Monarchy be our King loves to be legall in all his practices and thinks that his power is more safely lock'd up for him in his Law then kept in his own will because God alone makes things lawfull by willing them whilest the most calmest Princes have sometimes gusts of Passion which meeting with an unlimited Authority in them may prove dangerous to them and theirs Yea our King is so suspicious of an unbounded power in himself that though the widenesse of his strides could make all the hedge stiles yet he will not go over but where he may He also hearkneth to the advise of good Counsellers remembring the speech of Antoninus the Emperour Aequius est ut ego tot taliumque amicorum consilium sequar quam tot talesque amici meam unius voluntatem And yet withall our King is carefull to maintain his just Prerogative that as it be not outstretched so it may not be overshortned Such a gratious Sovereigne God hath vouchsafed to this Land How pious is he towards his God! attentive in hearing the Word preaching Religion with his silence as the Minister doth with his speech How loving to his Spouse tender to his Children faithfull to his servants whilest they are faithfull to their own innocence otherwise leaving them to Justice under marks of his displeasure How doth he with David walk in the midst of his house without partiality to any How just is he in punishing wilfull murder so that it is as easie to restore the murthered to life as to keep the murtherer from death How mercifull is he to such who not out of leigier malice but sudden passion may chance to shed bloud to whom his pardon hath allowed leisure to drop out their own souls in tears by constant repentance all the dayes of their lives How many wholsome Laws hath he enacted for the good of his Subjects How great is his humilitie in so great height which maketh his own praises painfull for himself to heare though pleasant for others to report His Royall virtues are too great to be told and too great to be conceal'd All cannot some must break forth from the full hearts of such as be his thankfull Subjects But I must either stay or fall My sight fails me dazell'd with the lustre of Majestie all I can do is pray Give the King thy judgements O Lord and thy righteousnesse to the Kings Sonne smite through the loins of those that rise up against his Majestie but upon him and his let the Crown flourish Oh cause his Subjects to meet his Princely care for their good with a proportionable cheerfulnesse and alacrity in his service that so thereby the happinesse of Church and State may be continued Grant this O Lord for Christ Jesus his sake our onely Mediatour and Advocate Amen THE PROFANE STATE BY THOMAS FULLER B. D. and Prebendarie of Sarum ISAIAH 32.5 The vile person shall be no more called liberall nor the churl said to be bountifull EZEK 44.23 And they shall teach my people the difference betwixt the Holy and the Profane CAMBRIDGE ¶ Printed by ROGER DANIEL for Iohn Williams and are to be sold at the signe of the Crown in S. Pauls Churchyard 1642. The Profane State THE FIFTH BOOK CHAP. 1. The Harlot IS one that her self is both merchant and merchandise which she selleth for profit and hath pleasure given her into the bargain and yet remains a great loser To describe her is very difficult it being hard to draw those to the life who never sit still she is so various in her humours and mutable 't is almost impossible to character her in a fixed posture yea indeed some cunning Harlots are not discernable from honest women Solomon saith she wipeth her mouth and who can distinguish betwixt that which was never foul and that which is cleanly wiped Her love is a blank wherein she writeth the next man that tendreth his affection Impudently the Harlot lied Prov. 7.15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee diligently to seek thy face and I have found thee else understand her that she came forth to meet him not qua talis but qua primus because he came first for any other youngster in his place would have serv'd her turn yet see how she makes his chance her courtesie she affecting him as much above others as the common road loves the next passenger best As she sees so her self is seen by her own eyes Sometimes she stares on men with full fixed eyes otherwhiles she squints forth glances and contracts the beams in her burning glasses to make them the hotter to inflame her objects sometimes she dejects her eyes in a seeming civility and many mistake in her a cunning for a modest look But as those bullets which graze on the ground do most mischief to an army so she hurts most with those glances which are shot from a down-cast eye She writes characters of wantonnesse with her feet as she walks And what Potiphars wife said with her tongue she saith unto the passengers with her gesture and gate Come lie with me and nothing angrieth her so much as when modest men affect a deafnesse and will not heare or a dulnesse and will not