affects by Rigor or Extremity youth most commonly will have it's swinge time reclaims it and then Diseretion will bring him home so conform yourself to him as to comfirm your Love to him and undoubtedly this Conjugal Duty mingled with Affability will compleatly Conquer the Moroseness of his Temper If he be old and you have made it your Choce let his Age beget in you the greater Reverence his words should then be to you as so many aged and time improved Precepts to inform you his Actions as so many Directions to guide you his kind rebukes as so many Friendly Admonitions to reclaim you his Bed you ought so to Honour as not to defile it with an unchast thought his Counsel to keep that is of any weight 〈◊〉 moment as not to trust it to the Breast of any other be a Staffe in his Age to support him and a hand upon all occasions to help him his being rich must not exalt or puff up your mind but let your Desires be that you employ that bounty of Heaven for the best advantage to Gods Glory and your own Credit Communicate of your wealth to the feeding and cloathing of Christ's poor needy Members that by so doing you may heap up a durable Treasure in Heaven and be received at the last day to enjoy it Eternally Let not the poor condition of your Husband into which he is fallen by accident or Misfortune lessen your Love or Esteem for him but let his Poverty make you rich in Vertue least repining and growing less in Love and Fidelity upon such a Tryal you meet with the reproof we find in Luter which Pompey gave Cornelis when she lamented his overthrow in the great Battle fought with Caesar in the Pharsalian Fields for the Empire of the World which threw her into Confusion Shame and Blushing viz. Why is thy noble strength of Courage broke Women descended from so great a Stock By the first wound of Fate Thou hast the way To purchase Fame that never can decay Thy Sexes praise springs not from War or State But faithful Love to an unhappy Mate Advance thy thoughts and let thy Piety Contend with Fortune Love 〈◊〉 now cause I Am vanquish'd sure 't is more true Praise for theec To love me thus when all Authority The Sacred Senate and my Kings are gone Begin to love thy Pompey now alone That Grief extream thy Husband now alive Becomes thee not thou shouldst that sorrow give To my last Funerals thou art berest Of nothing by this War thy Husband 's lest Alive and safe his Fortune 's only gone 'T is that thou wailst and that thou lov'st alone Let the old Proverb be crost by you that says When Poverty forces rudely in at the Fore-door Love retreat at the Back one Let your Affections Counterpoize all Afflictions no Adversity should divide you from him before you are Married you are in a manner your own Law-maker but being once entered into a Matrimonial Estate you must be very mindful of the solemn Promise you have made before God and the Assembly in his Holy place none can absolve you from the performance of that Honour Obedience and Love you enjoyn your self towards a Husband therefore whilst you are your own it is good to sit down and seriously consider of so weighty a Matter sift him before as narrowly as you can and if you cannot conveniently do it your self get a faithful Friend to do it for you and whilst in a single State you are free from all Engagements carefully avoid the Acquaintance of Strangers if you think they have a Design to make Love till if possible an Equiry may be made into their Conditions and Circumstance neither affect Variety nor Glory in the multiplicity of your Suitors for there is no greater Argument than that of Mutability and Lightness have a care of Vows unless you are solemnly resolved to keep them constant you cannot be when once you deviate from them nor can you easily if ever recover a Reputation lost by such a Violation Let your care be before you arrive at this honourable State to lay aside all wanton Fancies for it can never promise you good Success because the effect cannot be good where the Object is not â—ending that way wanton Love has a Thousand ways to purchase a few Minutes of penitential Pleasures your Eyes and by them the Senses of your mind are averted your Ears and by them the Intentions of your Heart are perverted your Mouth speaks and by that others are deceived your touch warms and kindless Desires and every small occasion blows up your Love into a Rage These Exhorbitances must to your utmost Endeavours be remedied and therein you must use the method of Art to remove the Cause and the Effects will cease Let us then give you suitable Direction in these Matters and to do it we must first discover the Incendiaries of this Passion next the Effects arising from them and Lastly their Cure or Remedy the Original grounds of this wandring Fancy or wanton Phrensie are concluded in this Distick Sloath words Books Eyes Consorts and Luscious Fare The Lures of Lust and Stains of Honour are For the first Sentensius has it viz. He had rather be exposed to the utmost Extremities Fortune could inflict on him than subject himself to Sloath and Sensuality For it is this only that maketh Men and Women in some degree a kind of Bruits or irrational Creatures As for lewd Books they are Nurseries of Wantonness and therefore to be avoided lest like the Snake in the Fable being too much warmed in your Opinion and use of them they become dangerous Enemies to your good Name and Repose again then your Eyes are those Windows by which many hurtful things enter our first Female Parent greedily fed her Eyes on the bainful Fruit before your Heart desired or coveted it she fixed the desire and motive to Transgression there and that to consummate the Grand offence communicated it to her Appetite and rendered it impatient of delaying a Satisfaction in the Curiosity seeing she desired and desiring coveted and coveting she tasted in a fatal hour for Mankind who had eternally perished by that single Act of Folly had not the rich redeeming Blood of God atoned for the Transgression had not the offended laid aside for a time his dazling Diadem of Stars and disrobed himself of his visible Glory and by dying set the Offenders free again Consorts are the Purloyners and Wasters of time their insignificant Conversations rob you of many precious Opportunities which if well improved might mainly contribute to the Happines of Life here and hereafter chuse them if any such as in whose Conversation you may have assured hope of being bettered in both Estates chuse such as you may worthily admire when you see and hear them when you see them live up to what they prosess and hear their cordial Advice and wholesome Instructions Lastly Luscious Fare inordinately taken is the fuel
father but then you shall lye in the Gate-house as my Grandfather does This coming so unexpectedly from one so young made a strong Impression upon his mind and as if the hand of Heaven had Immediately touch this heart he could have no rest or quiet in his Thoughts till he had restor'd his Father a great part of his Estate back again and with it his filial duty and obedience And indeed we may justly suspect that those who have disobedient children have in one degree or other been so themselves and so Heaven repays them in their kind But this is no sufficient ground or warrant for children to transgress the express commandment of God He threatens them with very severe punishments besides the shortening their days In the Old Law the punishment of death was inflicted upon disobedient stubborn and rebellious children if brought and accused by their Parents before the Magistrates And we find it Prov. 30.17 That the Eye that mocketh his Father and dispiseth to obey his Mother the Ravens of the Valley shall pluck it out and the young Eagles shall eat it up That is many Calamities shall upon them and even the Fowls of the Air shall rise up as a Reproach against them for it is observed especially by the Eagles when the Old ones Bills are grown over so hooked and distorted with Age that they cannot feed themselves the Young ones get the Prey for them and nourish them in requital of the care and tenderness they had in bringing them forth and feeding them when they were helpless And it is reported by some Authors That the Old Ravens being sick and spent with Age the Young ones keep them Company and take all kind care of them mourning in their manner at their Death and burying them in the secretest place they can find And as the behaviour of children in which we include even those that are grown up ought to be respective towards their Parents so likewise ought they to show them all the demonstrations of Love imaginable striving to do them all the good they can shunning every occasion that may administer disquiet You must consider them as the Instruments of bringing you into the World and those by whose tender care you was sustained and supported when weak and helpless And certainly if you could make a true Judgment not being yet a Parent of the Cares and fears required in bringing up children you would judge your love to be but a moderate return in compensation thereof But the saying is certainly true that none can truly measure the great love of Parents to Children before they are made truly sensible of those tender affections in having Children of their own love and affection to Parents Obedient is to be expressed several ways as first in all kindness of behaviour carrying your selves not only with Awe and Reverence but with Kindness and Aflection which will encourage you to do those things they affect and so you will avoid what may grieve and afflict them Secondly This filial love and affection is to be exprest in praying for them and imploring God's blessing on them and their Endeavours for indeed you stand so greatly indebted to your Parents that you can never acquit your selves with any tolerable satisfaction unless you invoke God to your Aid and Assistance in beseeching him to multiply his blessings towards them and indeed in so doing you labour for your own happiness in desiring they should be so because the blessing reflects from them to you If they have been any thing rigid or severe let not that grate upon your memory but rather turn it to the increase of your love towards them in concluding they did it for your future advantage since too great an indulgence ruins more children than severity If they be over severe you must be industrious to let them see you deserve it not and by your patience and humility in suffering without any reasonable cause you will molisie and oversome the most rough and unpolished Tempers Hearken by no means to any that speak Evil of them or would incense you to think hard of them In no wise let so much as the leaâ—t desire of their Death take place in you though they cross you in your purposes in relation to marriage or other things you earnestly wish or desire or though by their decease great riches would accrue to be at your own disposing Nor can any Growth or Years free you from the Duty and Obedience you owe whilst you live Thirdly If you are grown up and have abilities and your Parents are fallen to decay you must to your utmost assist them and not imagine any thing too much for them that have done so much for you If they are weak in Judgment you must assist them with your counsel and advice and protect them against Injuries and Wrongs advising them always upon mature deliberation that you put them upon nothing that is rash or to their disadvantage ever observing that Riches or Poverty Wisdom or Imbecility in a Parent must make no difference in the Obedience and Duty of the Children and if any could be allowed they would approve themselves best to God and Man when it is payed to those who are under the Frown of Fortune or to whom Wisdom is in many degrees a stranger We cannot see how any one can pretend to God's Favour who comply not with his Commands of this Nature He indeed is properly our Father for he made us and daâ—ly supports us with Food Raiment Health and Strength and therefore since he who has the supream Right has commanded was to be obedient to our Earthly Parents in obeying them we obey him and in displeasing them we displease him If the Summ of the Commands consists in loving God in admiring and adoring him as the prime Author of our being and well being and in loving our Neigbour as our selves as we have it from the best and wisest Oracle that ever spoke no doubt they are so dependant one upon the other that they are not to be separated And then where can our Love and Affections better center as to Earthly Concerns than in our Parents Marriage indeed claims a share of our affections but that must not lessen them to those that had the first right to them Occations of falling in Love to be Avoided Change place for the cure of Love fair and foul means to be used to withst and beginings c. Observe to shun as much as in you Lves the occasions of being ensnared and if it so happens be it eiher sex the party lights by chance upon a fair object where there is good behaviour Joyned with an excellent shape and features and you perceive in your eyes a greediness and Languishing to pull to them the Image of beauty and convey it to the heart so that the Influence begins powerfully to move within and you perceive the suitable spirit sparkling in the partys Eyes to add more â—euel to the fire then
Art of Carving which however it may be disesteemed by some and thought beneath their Notice yet we 〈◊〉 them that to be ignorant is it shews a great defect in Table-knowledge for a Carâ—â—â— not being at hand at all times in all places It will look very odd to see Ladies with covered Table beâ—â—â—â— them to which they have brought keen Appetites and yet sit gazing on each other and none of them showing how to begin according to the accepted way 〈◊〉 dividing their Dainties 〈◊〉 to tear them to pieces 〈◊〉 the rustick manner is 〈◊〉 undecent and not only â—â—â—aids them with want of all but in some manner 〈◊〉 such delicates have 〈◊〉 strangers to their Bills 〈◊〉 Fare and may likewise 〈◊〉 a squeamish Stomach 〈◊〉 prove ungrateful where thought to give the highest satisfaction to the Appetite â—â—â—ever if they do think it unworthy office for their 〈◊〉 hands we crave leave 〈◊〉 recommend it to their â—â—â—vants as a necessary Instruction and addition to their â—er acquirements and since 〈◊〉 in season are of most 〈◊〉 and esteem we preâ—â—â—â— likewise a Bill of fare of 〈◊〉 things for the first and second Courses as Custom 〈◊〉 brought into Fashion through the circling of the Year in its respective Months and recommend it to those who love good Eating and are curious in their Guests January first Course 1 Brawn and Mustard 2 Two boyled Capons with white Broth. 3 A Roasted Turkey 4 A shoulder of Muâ—ton hasht 5 Two Geese Boyled 6 Two Geese Roasted 7 Ribbs or Sir-Loyn of Beef 8 Minc'd Pyes 9 A Loyn of Veal 10 A Venison Pasty 11 A Marrow Pye 12 Roasted Capons 13 Lamb. 14 Wood-Cocks Partridges and Larks Second Course 1 A Soust Pigg 2 A Warden Pye 3 Dry'd neats Tongues 4 A Soust Capon 5 Mushrooms and pickled Oysters 6 Sturgeon 7 A Goose or Turkey-Pye February first course 1 A Chine of Roast Pork 2 Veal or Beef Roasted 3 A Lamb Pye and minced Pyes 4 A couple of Wilde Ducks 5 A couple of Rabbits 6 Fry'd Oysters 7 Skirrots Second Course 1 A Lamb roasted whole 2 Pigeons 3 Pippin Tarts 4 A Joul of Sturgeon 5 A cold Turkey March the first Course 1 Neats Tongue and Udder 2 Boyled Chickens 3 A Dish of stew'd Oysters 4 A Dish of young Rabbits 5 A grand Sallad Second Course 1 A Dish of Soles and Smelts 2 Marinated Flownders 3 A Lamb-stone and Sweet-bread Pye 4 A Dish of Asparagus 5 A Warden Pye April first Course 1 Green Geese or Veal and Bacon 2 A Haunch of Venison roasted 3 A Lumber Pye 4 Rabbets and Tarts Second Course 1 Cold Lamb 2 A Neats Tongue Pye 3 Salmon Lobster and Pruens 4 Asparagus May first Course 1 Boil'd Chickens 2 Roast Veal 3 Roasted Capons 4 Rabbets Second Course 1 A hot Artichoak Pye 2 Westphalia-Hams and Tarâ— 3 Sturgeon Salmon and Lobsters 4 Asparagus 5 A Tansie June first Course 1 A Leg of Mutton and Colly-flowers 2 A Steak Pye 3 A shoulder of Mutton 4 A fore-Quarter of Lamb. 5 A Dish of Pease Second Course 1 A Sweet-bread Pye 2 A Capon roasted 3 Goosebery Tarts 4 Straw-berries and Creaâ— or Straw-berries white wine Rose water and Sugar July first Course 1 A Westphalia-Ham and Pigeons 2 A Loyn of Veal 3 A Venison Pasty 4 Roasted Capons Second Course 1 French Beans 2 Codling Tarts 3 An Artichoack Pye 4 Roasted Chickens August first Course 1 Calves-Head and Bacon 2 An Oglio or Grand boil'd meats 3 A Haunch of Venison Roasted 4 A Pig roasted Second Course â— Marinate Smelts â— A Pidgeon Pye â— Roast Chickens Tarts â— Cream and Fruit. September first Course â— Capon and white broth â— Neats Tongues and Udder â— A powdered Goose. â— A Turkey Roasted Second Course â— A Potato Pye â—â—â—â—â—ridges roasted â— A Dish of Larks â— Cream and Fruit. October first Course â— Loin of Veal 〈◊〉 brand Geese roasted â— grand Sallad 〈◊〉 Capons Second Course â—â—â—â—ants Pouts and Pidgeons â— Dish of Quails or Sparâ—â—â— â— Warden-Pye Tarts or â—â—ards November first Course 1 A shoulder of Mutton and Oysters 2 A Loin of Veal 3 Roasted Geese 4 A Venison Pasty Second Course 1 Two herns one Larded 2 A soust Turbut 3 Two Pheasants one larded 4 A Roll of Beef 5 A Soust Mullet and Bass. 6 Jellies and Tarts December first Course 1 Stewed Broth and Mutton and Marrow-Bones 2 Lambs Heads and white-Broth 3 A Chine of Beef 4 Minced Pyes 5 A Roast Turkey stuck with Cloves 6 Two Capons Second Couse â— A Lamb or Kidd whole 2 Two brace of Partridges 3 A Quince Pye 4 Half a dozen of WoodCocks For Fasting Days Bill of Fare c. Oysters if in Season a Pole of Ling green Fish and Eggs Pruens Butter Craw-Fish Boyled Pikes stewed Carps with Oysters Soles fryed Spitchcock'd Eels roasted or fryed Smelts Salmon Lobsters and Sturgeon Buttered Eggs Barly broth Rice Pottage Haddocks Whiting Carp Pyke soust Turbut buttered Crabs Salmons Sturgeon Skirts fry'd Soust Conger And indeed these ar fit to be recommended to Ladies at any time for there is no fear of Imparing their Beauty and health by Fasting if they gratify their Appetite to the purpose with these kind of Viands As for the methods and manner of Cookery we think them no ways convenient to be inserted in this Book as not so suitable to our purpose but the concern of another Classis somewhat inferior to this Ladies very rarely meddling in that affair or if they do we are very well assured it is not very pleasing to their Maids whose proper Province it is The Fire indeed makes them hot and Fretful but where a Lady intrudes on their concerns it redoubles their Heat by Anger which they are too mannerly to express in words yet their forwardness and gesture makes it visible and many a Lady out of curiosity going to give Kitchen directions has done no good but a great deal of harm by causing a good dinner to be spoiled for the Cook-maid supposing her self too Old or too experienced to be taught while she in a discomposed manner has been fretting like Gum'd Taffata the Jack has stood still the Sawces washed to nothing and the over-boiling Pot pist out the Fire so that all being in disorder and confusion the lady has suffered in her Conduct by being over-nicely curious in it Temperature full Dyet climate and Idleness the causes of Love These Causes only incline to that we call Heroiâ—â— call Love or those that seâ—â— with the Eyes of their passion rather than the Eyes of Reason and differs in many material Points little from Lust or hot burning defâ—â—â— of Enjoyment that over powers the Faculties and makes them subservient to its ends the remotest of these Causes some hold to be the Stars Those that haâ—â— Venus and Leo in their Horoscope say they are more prone to this manner Love when Venus and the Moon be mutually in Aspeâ—â— or such as be of Venus Compexion but of these
are strained higher with both hands that is the knee Rolls of his Stockings that you may sâ—e how Compleat they fit and his Surtout which our Ignorant Ancesters not understanding the French so well as their Poâ—â—erity called an upper Garment is brushed down with his hand though not a speck be on it the Reckoning paid and passing by the Bar he must Kiss his Landlady and seeming very much enamour'd with her Ruby Face tells her in a languishing Tone she is Esâ—lat the Lustre of Beauty or some other fine Matter to that purpose and so parting says a Revoir Madam till I see you again then he being Top heavy is for Couchee going to Bed but not being able to pull off his Cloaths lies all Night in his Brandenburger or Night-gown Anger in Ladies c. discommendable and hurtful and by what means to be avoided and remedied Anger is unseemly and discommendable in all but more especially in Young Ladies who like Doves should be without the Gall that serments and stirs up these kind of Passions to disturb and hurt the Mind and â—pot the Names of those that indulge them with the Epethits of rash pievish revengeful and inconsiderate Anger is a professed Enemy to Reason Council or found Advice it is a storm and loudness in which none of these can be heard nor is it to be surpressed but by something that is as inward as it self and more habitual So that we may conclude that of all Passions this chiefly endeavours to render Reason useless It surpasses Envy for there are many things in the World so miserable and contemptible that they are below that but Anger once let loose quarrels with every thing even a Spot falling upon the Angry Person 's Cloaths though but of Rain by the common Courses of Nature is a sufficient subject for it to insist upon till a Tempest rises in the Mind and Heaven is cavell'd withal for not restraining the Drops of the Clouds till she was under a secure shelter But if it proceeds from a greater Cause it turns to Fury and so is always either terrible or ridiculous it makes a beauteous Face in a little time Monstrously deformed and contemptible rendring the Voice of an unpleasing Sound the Eyes fiery and staring and seperates the the lovely mixture of Roses and Lillies by quite removing one or the other out of the Ladies Cheeks Anger in some causes a Paleness and in others a fiery Red the Mein and Gesture is fierce and threatning yet frequently very Antick the Speech loud and clamourous it is neither Heroick nor Ingenious always or for the most part proceeding from Pusilanimity or softness of Spirit which makes the Fair-Sex frequently more subject to Anger than the other by reason the Passions of their Minds are sooner moved and agitated and this is the reason likewise that old People are more pievish and angry than the younger sort It is a Passion more becoming Bruiâ—s than rational Creatures professing Charity Nobleness and Bounty Meekness and Patience in their Christian Calling It is troublesom not only to those that suffer it but to those that behold it it makes Marriage to be necessary and an unavoidable Trouble Friendships Societies and Familiarities to be intolerable It makes innocent Jesting to be the beginning of Tragedies it turns Friendship into Hatred and makes one lose one's self in the Alteration it makes and turns the desires of Knowledge into an itch of Wrangling it adds Insolence to Power it turns Justice into Cruelty and Judgment into Oppression it changes Discipline into Tediousness and Hatred of liberal Institution it makes those that are Prosperous to be Envied and those that are unfortunate to be unpitied it is a Confluence of all the irregular Passions there is in it Envy and Sorrow Fear Scorn Pride and Prejudice Rashness and Inconsideration a rejoicing in Evil and a desire to inflict Punishment it has Self-Love Impatience and Curiosity and above all it is the most troublesom to those that possess it Be diligent then Ladies to observe that it gain not too great a Power over you least when you think to surpass it you run into another Errour by being passionate and angry with your selves for being angry like Physicians who give a bitter Potion when they intend to eject the bitterness 〈◊〉 Choler for this will but provoke and encrease the Passion therefore rather placidly anâ— quietly set upon the Mortification of it do it by degree and make no thorough resolve at first but resolve not to be Angry for a time and theâ— watch over your Passion anâ— let it not kindle so much as within and the shorter the Time the less Trouble it wiâ—â— be unto you and so you may encroach upon it till aâ— length you subdue and bring iâ— under and then you may say you have truly conquered and triumphed over your self and the better to do it observe what we now lay down aâ— Rules to be regarded in avoiding or remedying this dangerous Evil. 1. Anger arising in your Breasts instantly seal up your Lips and let it not go forth for like Fire when it wants vent it will suppress it self It is good in a Feavor to have a tender smooth Tongue but it is better that it be so in case of Anger for if it be rough and distemper'd There it is an iâ—â— Sign but here it is an ill Cause Angry Passion is a Fire and Angry Words are like Breath to fan them together they are like the Steel and the Flint sending out Fire by mutual Collusion Some will discourse themselves into Passion and if those they discourse withal be kindled too they flame with Rage and Violence 2. Observe that Humility is the most excellent natural Cure for Anger for he or she that daily considers his or her own Infirmities make a Neighbours or Servants Errors their own Case and remember that their is daily need of God's Pardon and the Charity of our Neighbour and so neither will be apt to rage at the Lenities Misfortunes or Indiscretions of another of greater than which they consider they are very frequently and more inexcuseably guilty Let us remember the Examples of those prudent and patient Persons in Scriptures and such Histories as we have read who have overcome and subdued their Anger 's whose firm and constant Souls nothing could trouble or shake And if we be tempted to Anger in the Action of Government and Discipline to our Inferiours let us propound to our selves the Example of God the Father who at the same time and with the same Tranquility decreed Heaven and Hell the Joys of Angels and blessed Souls and the torment of Devils and wicked Spirits and at the Day of Judgment when all the World shall burn under his Feet he shall not be at all enflamed or shaken in his Essential Seat and Center of Tranquility and Joy and if at first the Cause may seem reasonable yet stop your Anger and proceed in all things
formerly recoverable in the Spiritual Court but now only in Chancery Abortion an untimely Birth or Miscarriage which happens through divers Causes Inward and Outward Amnion the Membrane with which the Faetus in the Womb is most immediately clad which with the rest of the Scâ—ndine the Chorion and Alantoin is ejected after the Birth it is whiter and thinner than the Chorion It contains not only the Faetus but the nutritious Humour whence the Faetus by the Mouth and Throat sucks its nourishment It is outwardly clothed with the Urinary Membrane and the Chorion which sometimes stick so close to one another that they can scarce be separated Dr. Blanchard Amazons Amazones Warlike Women of Scythia that had but one Teat their name in Greek impowring as much they were very Man-like and cut off their Right Breasts that it might not hinder their shooting for they were excellent Archers they lived by themselves and if at any time they went to their Husbands or neighbouring Men and conceived if it were a Female Child they kept it if a Male they sent it to the Father The Country where they lived is denominated from them and called Amazonia Anchoresâ— a Religious Woman that Lives solitarily in a Cell Vide Anachorite Anne Heb. Hannah gracious or merciful Annulet Annulus a Ring or any thing like a Ring Aretaphila Gr. i.e. amatrix virtutus a lover of or friend to virtue a Woman's Name Abia Hercules Daughter Aegiale the Wife of Diomedes an Adultress Aegina Jupiter's Mistress in the shape of fire Aegle Daughter of Hesperus King of Italy Agatha g. good a Womans Name Aglata one of the Graces Aglais a very great sheeater Megale's Daugther Agnes g. chast a Womans Name Agnodice a Maid Physician Alepone Neptunes Daughter turned into a King-fisher Ambosexons Male and Female Amorets f. Love toys Amulet l. a ball about the neck to keep from Poison or Witchcraft Amymone one of Danaiis's fifty Daughters Mother of Nauplius by Neptune Anetis a Lydian Goddess Anatiferius l. Bringing the age of old Women Anaxarete a hard hearted Virgin turned into a stone Anchoress a Nun. Andrago g. a Manly Woman Andrastâ—s Andate Goddess of Victory among the Britans Andromache g. many fight Hectors wife Andromeda Cepheus's daughter Aretapila g. a she-friend of vertue Arethusa Daughter of Nereus a river of Sicily also an Armenian fountain in which nothing sinks Ariadne Daughter of Minos Asbiaroth Goddess of the Adonians Assedrix a she-assistant a Midwife Astroarch Queen of Plâ—nets the Moon Atalanta the swift Lady won by Hipomanes's three Golden Apples Arthis Daughter to Cranaus King of Athens Ave Marie l. Her Salutation by the Angel Avice Hildevig Sa. Lady â—â— defense Anses African Virgins used to combat in honour of Minerva Autonoe Actaeon's Mother Agetus the Lacedemonian Herodotus lib. 6. thus writes of this Lady the Daughter of Alcydes the Spartan first wife to Agetus and after to the King Ariston She of the most deformed became the excellentest amongst Women Aristorlea Of all the deaths that I have read of this of Aristoclaea methinks exceeds example with which howsoever her body was tormented her soul could not be grieved for never woman died such a loving death Her Lovers contending in the heat of their affection but not regarding her safety whom they did affect she as it were set upon the rack of Love plucked almost to pieces betwixt them both expired Ada Alexander the Great amongst his many other conquests having besieged the great City Halicarnassus by reason of opposition made against him levell'd it with the ground He entred Caria where Ada then reigned Queen who being before opprest by Orontobas imployed by Darius was almost quite beaten out of her Kingdom Having at that time no more of all her large Dominions left her saving Alynda the most defenced City into which she had retired herself for safety She hearing of Alexanders approach gave him a Royal meeting and submitted herself her Subjects and City into his Power withal Adopting him by the Name of Son Agathoclea Ptolme being free from all foreign Invasions he began Domestick troubles at home For being given over to his own Appetite and besotted to his Insatiate Pleasures he first began with Loadice both his Sister and Wife causing her to be slain that he might the more freely enjoy the society and fellowship of his most rare and beautiful Mistress Agathoclea So that the greatness of his Name and the Splendor of his Majesty both set apart he abandoned hinself solely to Whoredoms by Night and to Banquets and all profuseness of Riot by day Aristomache Dionysius the Tyrant banisht Dion out of Sicily taking into his own custody the Exiles Wife Aristomache and her Daughter But after at the great Intercession of one of his Servants Polycrates a man by him much affected he compelled the Lady who still Lamented the absence of her Lord unto a second Marriage with this Polycrates who was by Nation of Syracusa But Dion having gathered fresh Forces and expelling Dionysius from Syracusa unto the Locrenses Arete his Sister meeting him and Congratulating his Famous Victory made Intercession for Aristomache who with great shame had kept herself from the presence of her first Husband not daring to look him in the Face howsoever her second Nuptials were made by Force and Compulsion But the necessity of the cause the wondrous submission and modest Excuse of Aristomache together with the Mediation of Arete so much he prevailed with Dion all confirming her innocence that he received his wife and Daughter into his Family still continuing their former Love and Society Artimesia Queen of Caria so much honoured the remembrance of her Husband Mausolus being dead that after Meditation and deliberate counsel which way she might best decorate his Hearse and withal to express to Perpetuity her unmatchable Love She caused to be erected over him a Tomb so Magnificent that for the Cost and State it was not doubted to be worthily reckoned amongst the Nine Wonders But what do I speak of so rich a Structure when she her self became the living Sepulcher of her dead husband by their Testimonies who have Recorded that she preserved his bones and having beaten them to powder mingled their dust with her Wine in remembrance of him every morning and evening Cicer. Tusc. lib. 3 and Plin. lib. 36. cap. 5. Aretaphila Cyrenea is deservedly numbred amongst the Heroick Ladies she lived in the time of Mithridates and was the Daughter of Aeglatur and the Wife of Phedimus A Woman of excellent Vertue exquisite Beauty singular Wisedom and in the Managing of Common-Wealths business and Civil Affairs ingeniously Expert Aurora or the Morning Hesiodus in Theog terms her the Daughter of Hyperion and the Nymph Thya and Sister to the Sun and Moon Others derive her from Tytan and Terra they call her the way leader to the Sun as Lucifer the Day-Star is stil'd her Henshman or Usher For so saith Orpheus in an Hymn to Aurora
Throne and before the Four Beasts and the Elders And no man could learn â—hat Song but the Hundred Fourty and Four Thousand which were bought from the Earth These are they which are not defiled with Women â—or they are Virgins These follow the Lamb wheresoever he 〈◊〉 these are bought from Men being the first fruits to GOD and to the Lamb. And in their mouths was found no â—uile For they are without â—ot before the throne of God These are words that would â—nforce any sober Soul to imbrace that single simple and sincere kind of life approved by God Saints and Angels as â—eing free from uncleanness â—nd void of all cankering cares Yet how many now-adays would be ranked among Virgins who indeed are rank Whores How many are Courted who deserve to be Carted Had Job lived in our â—ays he never should have â—eeded To have made a Covenant with his eyes least at any time they should look â—pon a Maid for he should â—carce have found any to look â—pon So far is Chastity exiled â—o much is shame empaired as â—hat Impudency and Woman â—re almost become Relatives Chastity is the brightest Jewel that adorns the Fair Sex nay it is the very Star that Lights and Guides them to all other Vertues without which they can lay claim justly to none of the rest Considering there is no Vice whatsoever to over-come as Carnal Desires or Lusts of the Flesh The Conquest must be allowed the more noble Covetouâ—ness indeed is inherent to some but not so universal as this and as that has its â—eat in the mind alone this seizes upon the Mind and Body and draws every part into Conspiracy Whereas other Vices usually intrude upon us by our unadvisedly loosing the Reins of our desires this is ingenerate and born with us and having rooted it self through long Indulgencies the difficulty is the greater to pluck it up or for those that have been very careful to keep off its Assaults 〈◊〉 how much the more strong therefore the Enemy is the more They deserve Palms and Crowns that Triumph over him which all should do And many have persevered into their immortal Fame of which Historians as lasting Monuments to their merited Praise have furnished out divers Examples of Chaste Women who accounted Life but a trifle in respect of their Humour Chaste Brasilia an Illustrious Virgin of Diraccbium upon the Town 's being stormed was Seized by a rude Soldier who inflamed by Lust attempted to Deflour her her Prayers Tears and offer of Gold were of no force to cool or moderate his hot desires So that finding no other relief by a feigned slight she saved her unspotted Chastity she told him if he would not wrong her in that she would discover to him a Herb in her Fathers Garden the Eating of which would render him Invulnerable This tempered him a little yet with a Mental Reservation after he had got the secret from her to pursue his ends notwithstanding as her being found she first tasted it and then as a proof desired him to push at her bare breasts with his Sword which he did so rudely according to her wish that she exchanged her Life for the safety of her Chastity Chaste Euprasia to save herself from being Ravished by a Barbarous Soldier submitted her Neck to the stroak of his Sword upon the like pretence which being sundred with the blow Her chaste unspotted Soul ascended to the Holy Quire of those Immaculate Virgins that wait upon the Prince of Chastity with Songs and Triumphs and have their Garments Undefiled When Manlius the Roman Consul had overthrown the Gallogrecians a Centurion of his Army took the Beauteous Wife of Prince Orgigon and notwithstanding her Prayers and Tears forcibly Ravished her Yet her Ransom being proposed he carryed her 〈◊〉 him to deliver her up upon the Receipt of it but instead oâ— a Reward met an unexpected death for his Villany for aâ— Ambush being privately 〈◊〉 he was Intrapped and at her Command his head strickeâ— off which she took up and laid at the feet of her Husband relating the manner of the Injury and the just Resentments she had to exert her Revengeâ— Chastity so affected 〈◊〉 Lucia a Beautiful Virgin 〈◊〉 tho' a Lord who had power over the Country where 〈◊〉 lived became Enamoured of her she refused to hearken 〈◊〉 his Solicitations so that groâ—ing more enflamed he 〈◊〉 to fetch her by force 〈◊〉 Messengers told her she must go with them for that 〈◊〉 Eyes had enflamed their Lord that he could not rest nor have any peace except he Enjoyed her at this she sighed anâ— trembled but recollecting her fading Spirits got leave to 〈◊〉 up and Dress herself or so pretending to do She coming 〈◊〉 the Glass thus spake to her Eyes I know the reservedness and simplicity of your Glances nor have I upon that account my Remorse of Conscience but however it comes to pass you appear to me not innocent enough since you have kindled a lustful desire in the heâ—â— of one who seeks to dispossed â—me of my inesteemable Chastity and who for that cause I â—ortally hate quench then with your Blood the Flames you have kindled Whereupon with hands piously Cruel tore â—ut her Eye-balls and sent them covered with Blood to him that sought her saying behold what he loved I have sent unto him but the rest is reserved for a more Glorious Spouse who when those Eyes at the last day shall be restored will take pleasure in my beauty The Courage and Bravery of this Chaste Virgin so sensibly touch the Lord that he betook himself to a retired Life ever after Coâ—umba a Virgin of Perusina 〈◊〉 reported to be of that Chastity and Abstinence that she â—ever tasted any other food than the bare fruits of the Earth from the years of her discretion till the hour of her death Amata was a professed Virgin who in fourty years â—pace never set foot over the threshold of that Cloister wherein she had confined her self in which time she never tasted food save bread and â—oots Sarab lived in the time of Theodosius the Elder she made a Vow never to lodge beneath any roof but inhabitâ—ng the bank of a certain River removed not from that place â—n Threescore years The like â—s read of Sylvia a Virgin the Daughter of Ruffinus a Prefect 〈◊〉 Ruler in Alexandria who betook herself to solitude for the space of Threescore years in which time she never washt any part of her body save her hands nor reposed herself upon any bed save the ground Chaste Timoclea a Thebian Lady being taken by a Thracian Captain when Alexander Sacked that City he Ravished her which so exceedingly grieved her that she resolved upon Revenge and thereupon stifling her discontent in appearance she seemed as if she was in a better humour telling him that if he would protect her from the rude Embraces of others she would show him a Well into which she had let
to her dearest Husband In her affectionate Letter to him prefix'd to that little Book she declares with thankfulness to God her fears of Child-bed painfulness were cured with the remembrance that things should work together for the best to those that love God which cannot be right in a Wife without this true love to her Husband and a certain assurance that God would give her patience according to her pain And she bare all patiently So did Mrs. Wilkinson a most loving Wife whose patience was remarkable in the midst of very sore pains which frequented her in the breeding and bearing Children Yet then her speech was I fear not pains I fear myself leâ—t through impatiency I should let fall any unbesitting word 'T is a blessed frame said that grave Divine who recorded it when pain seems light and sin heavy So on the other hand for want of this prevalent Conjugal Love in conjunction with Christian Love a Daughter of King Ethelred having found the difficulty of her first birth she did afterwards perpetually abstain from her Husband's bed against the Apostle's Rule protesting from a Principle of unaccountable self-love Thâ—â— it was not fit a Daughter of a Crowned Head should commit her self any more to such perish 'T was far otherwise with a young Woman in Eubaâ—a who being Married to a Man she lov'd dearly became Mother and Grand-Mother to an Hundred Children The Story of Mrs Honywood in our Age is not less famous The Wife hath plighted her Troâ—â— to her Husband according 〈◊〉 the flesh unto whom the Lord hath in the Marriage-Covenant joyn'd her and she is obliged to be constantly faithful in 〈◊〉 Conjugal Duties to him 〈◊〉 whom she hath trusted herself and that by Vertue of the Covenant of her God Neither 〈◊〉 enough to be really faithful but also to seem so or be seen as much as may be so to be Not that any Christian Women should be like some of those in the Great Moguls Country 〈◊〉 to gain the repute of Modest Loving and Faithful Wives will have their own Corps burnt together with their deceased Husbands but she should shew her real fidelity as in an honest and prudent concealment of her Husbands Secrets so in avoiding all just suspicion by any familiar Converse with others of being false to his Bed and Religiously keeping till death the Matrimonial Obligation not deserting her dear Yoke-fellow when reduced to straits For so 't is storied of the King of Pontus his Wife that she disguised herself to follow her banished Husband saying There she reckoned was her Kingdom her Riches and Country wheresoever she could find her Husband The Wife of a certain Count of Castile when the King had detained her Husband in Prison went to visit him whom she perswaded to put on her Cloaths and leave her there in his stead Of which Fact the King hearing did much wonder at the fidelity of the Countess and sent her to her Husband wishing he had such Wives for himself and Sons To this matter in his present to seeming Women hath very well observed 't was his will that in their Travail their should ever be while the world stands that most eminent instance of his power indeed that I may say which made the great Heathen Phisâ—cian after a deep search into the causes of a Womans bringing forth a Child to cry out Oc Sin taile of Nature Hence 〈◊〉 her low Estate the pious Wife who lives by Faith alone Nature when she utters her doleful groans before the Almighty concludes It is the Lord let him do what seemeth him good If it seems good unto him then to call for her Life and the Life of her Babe she can say Lord here am I and the Child which thou gavest me A prudent Wife abideing in Faith Charity Holiness and Sobriety may have such support from the strengthening word of Promise here and elsewhere that Travailing in Birth and Pain to be delivered she may have good hope to be preserved in Child-bearing For tho as the most beloved wife Rachel in her hard labour thought she should die She may have good evidence from the Exercise of her Graces that she shall be eternally saved and that may be written on her Tomb-stone which a learned Doctor wrote on that of Pious Mrs. Wilkinson who with her Child went to Heaven from her Child-bed viz. Here lyes the Mother and Babe both without Sins Her Birth will make her and her Infant Twins Hereupon the Upright Woman tho' frail can resign up herself to God being fully perswaded with the Father of the Faithful that what he hath promised he is also able to perform and not Oliver speaking largely As for those who have Wives they should take special care to discharge the duties of good Husbands towords their Child-bearing Wives with all good fidelity viz. 1. To dwell with them according to knowledg giving honour unto them as the weaker vessels and as being Heirs together of the graces of Life that their prayers be not hindred 2. To endeavour as much as may be to discharge the parts of good Christians and tender Husbands towards their dearest Yoke-fellows in such a prevailing Condition laying much to heart those antecedent concomitants and consequent pains such a state of pregnancy involves them in which these Husbands themselves in such a kind cannot have experience of That as it becomes them for the sake of their good and godly Wives they may as is sometimes said of some Sympathizing ones in a fort breed with them and for them by putting on as the elect of God bowels of mercy kindness humbleness of mind meâ—kness long-suffering c. and fulfil all the Duties of the Relation they are in readily and â—â—mely providing for them not only Necessaries but such Conveniencâ—es as they can for their longing appetites and for the â—eartning of their dear suffering Wives who are apt to be 〈◊〉 down under apprehensions of their approaching sorrows to call in the aid of faithful praying Ministers and pious Friends to make their requests known unto God for them And if God hears their Prayers 3. To be heartily thank-ful to God upon his giving safe deliverance to their gracious wives from the pains and perils of Child-bearing D. DAmaris Acts 17.34 perhaps a little Wife from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Wife Danae i. Laurus the Lawrel or Bay-tree Dalilah Judges 16.4.1 poor impoverish'd Deborah may be render'd a By-word Speech Praise or Praising Denis belonging to Baechus Dido signifies a Man like or stout Woman Phoenician Dinah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Judgement Dorras 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. a She Goat or with Polit. a Roe Buck see Tabitha Acts 9.36 Dorothy the Gift of God or given of God Dousabella i. sweet and fair Maiden Fr. Douse i. sweet Fr. Drusilla 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Act 24 25. G. P. composeth it of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. Ros the Dew Damia a Goddess of the Ancients only worshipped
questioned about her Religion had Twelve Articles put up against her which she denyed and put her Adversaries upon the proof when strange for one to Imagine they produced her husband and two Sons whom they had perswaded before to abjure their Religion and caused them to give Evidence against her But she bore all with a Christian Patience and being condemned she joyfully embraced the flames Anne Hunter hearing her Son William who lived at Brentwood in Essex was condemned to the flames by Bonner Bishop of London in Queen Maries days She together with his Father came to him and finding there was no hopes of Life for him but by a Renunciation of his Religion they were so far from perswading him to it that they fervently prayed to God he might persevere in it and continue constant to the end in that good way he had begun The Mother adding that she thought herself happy that she had born such a Child as could find in his heart to lose his Life for Christs sake to which thâ—s Son cheerfully answered For the little pain that I shall have which is but for a Moment Christ hath promised me a Crown of Everlasting Joy His Mother almost Transported with this Expression fell on her knees and said I pray God to strengthen thee my Son to the end I think thee as well bestowed as any Child I ever bore Adelicia a Gentlewoman about 23 Years of Age coming from Gascoin to Paris to join herself with a Church there was betrayed to the Magistrates and condemned to be burnt which she bore with admirable Patience but Gods Judgment overtook her Prosecutors for they quarrelling about the price of her blood slew each other A Woman and her Son in the Low Countries being condemned to be burnt alive and their Ashes to be sprinkled in the Air As they were carried back to Prison they said now blessed be God who causeth us to Triumph over our Enemies This is the wished for hour the gladjoin day is come Let us not therefore be forgetful to be thankful for that honour God doth us in thus conforming us to the Image of his Son Let us remember those that have troden this path before us for this is the high-way to the Kingdom of Heaven and being brougt it to to the Stake they sung Praises to God in the flames Aâ— Potten and John Tâ—unchfield in the Reign of Queen Mary being Imprisoned at Iâ—â—â—ich one of them before she was apprehended was by her Friends perswaded to avoid the threatning danger by flight but â—rong in Faith and Chrian 〈◊〉 Couragiously she replyâ—d I know very well that being Persecuted in one place it is lawful for me to fly to another But I am tyed to a Husband and have many young Children and I know not how my Husband being a Carnal Man will resent my departure from him Therefore I am resolved for the Love of Christ and his Truth to stand the worst Extreamity And so being apprehended was Condemned to the Flames and dyedeou ragiously Amaâ—onians were a Warlike Women in part of Scythia who held a Female Government and Warred with divers mighty Princes maintaining their Laws and Customs by Policy and by the Sword Penthisilia one of their Queens came with a Thousand Virago's to Troy and assisted Priamus against the Greeks where she and most of her Women Fighting Valiantly and Acting wonders in Arms were at length slâ—in Athenias though of mean Parentage yet of Excellent Wisdom Learning and Education beyond what could be expected from the degree of her Birth was for these and other good Qualities preferred to be an Empress when divers Great Princesses Rich and Powerful in Friends and had Kingdoms to their Dower were refused Aspasia a Meletian Virgin was so excellent in all Philosophical Contemplations and fluent in fâ—â—toriâ—◠〈◊〉 the Wise and Renowned Socrates that Mirror of Philosophy confesses without blushing that he imitated her in his Facultas Politica Amalasuntha Queen of the Ostrogothes in Italy was not only Learned in the Latin and Greek Tongues but speak exceeding fluently all the Languages that were spoke in the Eastern Empire now possessed by different Nations Amesia a Modest Roman Lady being falsly accused of a great Crime and ready to incur the Pretorial Sentence she with a Manly yet Modest Courage stept up and with an Audible Voice and Becoming Gesture pleaded her own Cause so Eloquently and Effectually that by the publick Suffrages she was acquitted of all Aspersions and her Accuser severely punished Apolonia a Virgin of Alexandria for speaking boldly in the Defence of her Faith had her Teeth pluck'd out in a rude manner by the Tormentors She was doomed to the Flames and willingly snbmitted Rejoicing and Gloriously Triumphing over Death by her Patience and Constancy in suffering Alceste Queen to Admetus King of Greece willingly resigned herself up to death to redeem the health and life of her Husband in Sucking a Poysonous Wound he had received in the War Agrippina the Mother of Dâ—mâ—â—â— Nere was killed by heâ— unnatural Son and ripped up that he might see the Womb wherein he had lain though she had been so careful of his welfare that though whilst he was a private Man she was told her destiny by a Chaldean Astrologer if he came to be Emperour she however preferred his Advancement before her Life saying I care not though I dye so he may attain the Empire Alice Countess of Salisbury being frequently Importuned by King Edward the Third to yield to his Lustful desires and often denyed him he grew impatient of delay and resolved to take by force what he could not get by intreaty when being brought into his Presence in a manner by Constraint and be renewing his Request she fell at his feet with a Flood of Tears gushing from her fair Eyes able to Mollefie the most obdurate heart she thus humbly besought him not to violate her Chastity viz. Whereas her unhappy Destiny had brought her before his Presence as an Innocent Lamb committed to the Sacrifice She most humbly Craved that his Majesty could be pleased to grant her one Request he provided much a Solemn Oath he would Then she humbly besought him to draw his Sword and take away her Life and 〈…〉 Pray for 〈…〉 Breath 〈…〉 Monarch and that it would remain as a stain upon his Honour she renewed her Request that she might be suffered to dye by her own hand rather than to lose her Honour and pulling out a Dagger concealed in her Garments was about to give the Fatal Blow which so astonished the King that taking it from her he laid aside his first Resolutions and as the Mirror of Chastity made her his Queen Eloquence Eloquence of Speech Seâ—â—ger calls it The Garment of Nature and says it covereth the Soldier with Arms for necessity or as a Gown the Senator for Profit and as a more dainty Garment for the Courtier and Citizen for pleasure and profit It consecâ—â—teth the 〈◊〉 Râ—â—â—ons
builded she was called Augusta and Imperatrix and relieved the Poor wiâ—h all the Treasure that came to her hand and was a munificent Patroness to the before afflicted Christians Helle was Daughter to Athmus King of Thebes who flying from her Mother-in-law with her Brother Phryxus was drowned in the Narrow Sea that parts Asia from Europe and by that Misfortune gave to it the Name of Hellespont Heliades Sisters accounted the Daughters of the Son and Celymene whose Brother Phaeton was who unwarily aspiring to guide the Chariot of the Sun was destroyed by Jupiters Thunder for firing the Earth and Skies by his misguiding it for whom these Sisters wept till the Gods turned them into Poplar-trees and their tears into Amber Here 's Martia or the Martial Heir it was accounted amongst the Ancient Romans as a Goddess of Heirs and held to be one of Mâ—â—s's Companions she took her Surname of Martial by reason in those times Quarrels frequently arose about Inheritances and Successions and when they were decided either by Arms of contesting in Law they supposed a right decision Hermophrodite An ancient Idol bearing the Resemblance of Venus and Mercury called otherwise Aphrodite as Joyning trading and Eloquence with delights c. Hersilia Wife to Romulus first Founder of Rome a Virtuous Sabian Lady Herta was accounted a Goddess among the Germans worshipped in a thick Grove and her residence when she pleased to appear was a Cart with a Carpet over it her Victims were menial Servants or Slaves who were thrown into a Lake and there perished in hopes of enjoying Pleasure and Plenty in another World her Cart upon general Processions was sometimes drawn with Oxen and sometimes by Lyons Hesione the fair was Daughter to Leomedon King of Troy and by reason of the raging of a Plague the Oracle being consulted it told them that to appease the God of the Sun and the Sea with whom the King had broken his word a Virgin must every day be tyed to a Rock where a Sea Monster should be sent by Neptune to devour her this being done by Lot it fell upon Hesione but Hercules returning from his Hysperian Voyage in a dreadful Combate killed the Monster and freed the Royal Maid Hildigardcan Abbess of the Order of the Benedictines famous for her Learning and Piety but more for her Prophecies of the Errors that should creep into the Romish Church Hannah the Mother of the famous Prophet Samuel who obtained him of God by her servent Prayers after she had been a long while Barren Hiparthia Marry'd Crates only for his Wisdom and Learning being otherways deformed and unfightly and poor 〈◊〉 could all her Friends or 〈◊〉 offers of Rich matches 〈◊〉 her from him She was â—â—r self very Learned and Inâ—â—â—â—ous so that their Souls rather than their Bodies coveted to be near together Hippodamia Daughter to Briseus and fell among other Captives at the taking of Tenedos to the share of Achilies but Agameamon falling in Love with her took her from him which made him refuse to assist the Greeks till the Trojans had near vanquished them and came to set fire to his Ships Hippodame Oenomaus the King of Ellis's Daughter being very Beautiful abundance of Suitors crouded to gain her in Marriage which made him consult the Oracle about the success which gave Answer That whoever married his Daughter should came his Death whereupon he made Decree that whoever could outrun him in a Chariot-Race should have the fair Hiâ—podame in Marriage but being vanquished he should dye Many declined it but some being vanquished were put to death Till Pâ—lâ—ps having bribed the King's Chariotier to leave a Pin out of the Wheel that it might fall off in the Career by which fall the King was wounded to death Hortensia a Roman Lady Daughter to the Orator Horlensius At the time a great Tax was laid upon the Matrons of Rome she notably pleaded their Cause before the Triumvire that a great part of it was remitted Hostilina was by the Pagans accounted a Goddess taking care of their Corn that it should grow to an equal length and be full Eareâ— without Blasting Houres by some Reputed God esses begot by Jupiter 〈◊〉 Themis and were call'd Eunormia Irene and Diâ—ce or Good Laws Peace and Justice Howard Ciâ—â—erine she was Marryed to King Henry the VIII and was Daughter to the Lord Edmond Howard Son to Thomas Duke of Norfolk she was one of the two Queens that he caused to be beheaded upon suspicion of Incontinency though neither against her nor Anna Bullen who felt the same Fate before her any thing deserving Death appeared only the Kings Pleasure must be obeved to make way for more Wives Hyacinthides six Daughters of Erichtheus who succeeded Pandion King of Athens taking their Names from the Village Hyachithius where they all seâ—â— a Sacrifice for their Court v. for the Oracle having declared that the Thracians who were Warring against the Athenians could not be overcome unless one of their Ladies was offered up as a Sacrifice to Dima they all contented so earnestly to have the Honour to dye for their Country and the Love they bore to each other that they would not have one to dye unless â—â—w all participated in the same Death and their Wishes being granted the Athenians gained most notable Victory their Proper Names were Pandora Procris Clithonia and Orithia and are fabled to be placed among the Stars Hyades are a Company of Stars to the number of seven placed in the Neck of Taurus they are tabled to be Nurses to Baâ—chus and by him in return of their Kindness fixed as Constellations and are called the Weeping Stars as having great Influence over Rains and moâ—st Clouds Hypermenstra one of Daraus K. of Argo's fifty Daughters who married the fifty Sons of Egytus whom Daraus ordered them to kâ—ll on their Wedding Night which they all did but this Lady who saved her Husband Lynceus for which her Father Impâ—â—â—tioned her but soon after 〈◊〉 her and restored 〈◊〉 to her Husband Hysiphile ho Queen of the Island of 〈◊〉 was banished by the Cruel Women who had killed all their Husbands Fathers and Brothers for sparing her Father Thaos and being taken upon the Sea by Pirates she was sold to Lycurgus King of Neâ—eâ— who understanding who she was gave his Son Archemrus to be Nursed by her she having a little before brought forth Twins whom Jason had begot on her in his Voyage to Colobis when he fetched thence the Golden Fleece House-keepers to Persons of Honour or Quality Those Persons who would qualifie themselves for this Employment must in their Behaviour carry themselves grave solid and ferious which will inculcate into the beliefs of the Persons whom they are to serve that they will be able to govern a Family well They must endeavour to gain a Competent knowledge in Preserving Conserving and Candying making of Cates and all manner of Spoon-meats Jellies and the like Also in Distilling all
woman of a Martial Spirit she was Mother to Henry the fourth called Henry the Great King of France who was Grandfather to the present French King she being a Protestant highly Espoused their Cause for which she is said to be poisoned at Paris with a Pair of perfumed Gloves presented her at her Sons Wedding with Margaret Sister to Charles the Ninth of France and soon after her death the horrid Massacre of the Protestants ensued in which perished about 300000. Ioan of France Daughter to King Lewis the Eleventh was Married to Lewis Duke of Orleance afterwards King of France she was a Princess of Great Virtue she Instituted the Order of the Annuntiation forming it upon the ten Virtues of the Blessed Virgin Viz. Prudence Humility Chastity Verity Devotion Obedience Poverty Patience Compassion and Charity Ioan the first Queen of Jerusalem Naples and Sicily was Daughter to Charles of Sicily Duke of Calabria who after having successively Married four Husbands Andreas James Lewis and Otho was deprived of her Kingdoms and Life by Charles d' Durass her Cousin whom she had adopted her Heir as having no Children of her own Joan the second Queen of Naples a Woman of great Courage and Conduct but had a very troublesome Reign upon William of Austria her Husband retiring into a Monastery upon Discontent occasioned by her being too Prodigal of her Favours to others and dying without Children she bequeathed her Kingdom to Rene Duke of Anjou Ioan Infanta and Regent of the Kingdom of Portugal she was Daughter to Alphonsus the fifth who for her Prudence and Courage left her Regent when he went to War against the Moors yet at last she retired into a Monastery Ioia a Woman of Spain who preached to the People in the Cathedral of Barcelona and is said in the time of the Papacy of Pope Paul the third to Convert divers Jews at Rome and to explain in the presence of the Cardinals the Books of John Don Scotus commonly called the Subtle Doctor Iole Daughter of Eurytus the Oechalian King with her Hercules fell desperately in Love but her Father would not Consent he should have her unless he could gain her by Combate with him which when he had done he still denied to give her to him which so inraged Hercules that he slew him and took her away by force and afterwards gave her to his Son Hillus but Dejaneiza Jealous of Hercules she being his first Wife sent him a Shirt dipt in Poison and Tinctured in Nessus Blood which in Pains and Torment put an end to his Glorious Atchievements with his Life Iphianassa Daughter 〈◊〉 Praetus King of the Argines who with her Sister being in the Temple of Juno and despising the homeliness of it as also the Beauty of the Goddess she throughly nettled at the Contempt so Changed and Disordered their Minds that they fancied themselves to be Heifers and could by no means be perswaded out of that Opinion till Melampus the Physician restored them again to their Right Senses and for his Reward had Iphianassa in Marriage and a part of the Kingdom for her Dowry Iphis she was the Daughter of Lygdus and Theletusa whose Sex her Mother kept secret and from her Infancy brought her up in Masculine Apparel for that her Father had doomed the Infant if a Girl to be made away when under this disguise she came of Years Lygdus concluded a Marriage between her and Janibe a Beautiful Maid which made her Mother almost at her Wits end because that by this means a Discovery would be made but however upon her invoking Venus and offering in her Temple she on the Wedding-day was changed into a Man and did the Office of a Bridegroom to the Satisfaction of her Fair Bride Iphigenia she was Daughter to King Agamemnon by Clyâ—â—â—nestra and is said by Homer to be offered up to Diana for the successful Passage of the Grecian Fleet to Troy but as she lay on the Altar ready to be sacrificed the Goddess wrapt her in a Cloud and bearing her thence made her her Priesteis Irene Empress of Constantinople Mother to Constantine the seventh whose Eyes she put out that she might Reign alone upon which as if Heaven demonstrated a Detestation of the Cruelty the Sun for eighteen days shined so dimly as if it had drawn in its Light as it Thyestes Feast but Nicephorus having wrested the Empire out of her Hands banished her to Metylene where she soon after died of Grief Irene the Fair Grecian Lady that was presented to Mabomet the Great at the Sack of Constantinople on whom he doated so much that he spent whole Days and Nights in her Company and neglected his weighty Affairs but being reproved by his Bassas he in a rage cut off her Head with his Scymeter but repenting it betook him to the Wars to put the cruel Act out of his Mind Iris Messenger to Juno said to be the Daughter of Thaumus and Electra she is painted with a Rain-bow circling her her Name importing the Painted Bow so often seen after Showers in the Clouds Isaura Clementia a Lady of Tholouse in France famous for her Learning and Ingenious Parts she appointed the Floral Games yearly kept there and in the Town-house her Marble Statue stands Crowned with Flowers Ius a Goddess worshipped by the Egyptians her Sacrifice and worship was Infamous and Obscene insomuch that the Priests were forbidden to speak any thing of them and the Romans forbid it in their City Isota of Verona a Lady of great Learning she wrote five hundred sixty four Books which are to be seen in Thaurus Library and held divers Disputes with the most Learned Men yet dyed at the Age of thirty six Years a Virgin Iudith a Holy Widow who by destroying the Tyrant Holyphernes delivered the Jews Iudith Daughter to Velpo Count of Ruensburge she was made Recluse by the People Iudith Daughter to Charles the Bald and Wife to Ethelwolfe and Ethelred Kings of England Iulia Wife to Severus the Roman Emperour and Mother to Geta she after the Death of her Husband Married Bassianus Caracalla her Son in Law who fell in Love with her upon seeing her naked Thigh Iulia Wife to Pompey and Daughter to Julius Caesar she died in Child-bed before she could compose the differences between those great Captains which afterward caused such Distractions in the Roman State by a Piteous war Iulia the Daughter of Augustus Caesar and Scribonia â—he greatly perplexed that Emperour in the heighth of his Fortune by her loofe Carriage and Wanton way of living she was Married to divers Husbands by whom she had several Children but Wedlock not being capable of satisfying her Lustful Desires and shâ— continuing her leud Courses her Father Banished her after that she was Married to Tyberius but disdaining him he coming to be Emperour revenged her Pride and Scorn by confining her so straight that she pined away for Hunger Iulia Daughter to Agrippa and the beforementioned Julia she followed her
to communicate unto them but his design being to make use of it himself he desired according to Custom to have a Licence so to do The Kasi or Judge not able to comprehend the true meaning unfortunately made answer that he had all the Reason in the World since he had been at such Pains to bring it to Perfection to have the Pleasure of enjoying it and so gave him his Permission in writing but neither that nor his own Authority prevailed with the Daughter to yield to his wicked Embraces so that enraged with Lust he took an opportunity to ravish her of this Brutish Act she informed her Mother and the report of it coming to the Knowledge of King Mahomet Begeraus Ear he caused the unnatural Father to be Beheaded though he was a Man of great Substance Incest with the Greek Race of the Ptolomies Kings of Egypt was usual for they Married their Sisters and sometimes their Daughters but most of them came to unfortunate ends of either Sex Incest had such an ascendant over Artaxerxes Mnemon King of Persia that he Married his Daughter Arcssa a Beautiful Virgin but never prospered after it Lucretia the Daughter of Pope Alexander the sixth not only committed Incest with her Father but with her Brother the Duke of Candy who was slain by Caesar Borgie another of that Popes hopeful Offspring for being his Rivâ—l in that Sister he soon after poisoned his Father and was himself slain by the Multitude Many Instances of the like Nature are recounted in History but always attended with some fearful Judgement or sad Calamity to manifest the displeasure of the Almighty Infants crying in the Womb or Wonders in Nature Infants crying in the Wombs of their Mothers have occasioned various discourses among the Learned as to it's Signification but in this they differ however it is a thing very unusual and therefore strange Sorrow indeed is incident to Mankind and we begin it with Weeping before we know what it means but that is very rare 'till we come to breath in the open Air now whether such untimely Cryings may signifie something extraordinary in the Course of Life or that Provident Nature would have them Practise in the dark Cell of Generation what they shall afterwards seldom want so long as they enjoy the Light viz. Sorrow and Affliction we undertake not to determine but such Relations of these little Prisoners that have been so heard to cry in those close Appartments take as we find them in credible Histories In Holland a Woman had a Child cryed and bemoaned it self in her Womb with little inâ—ermission for the space of fifteen days In Leydon a Gentlewoman being in Bed with her Husband on a suddain hearing the Child cry in her Womb was greatly terrified so that in two days after she fell in labour though she expected to go a great while longer In Kathstadt a Town in the Norick Alps a Child was heard to cry in his Mothers Womb fourteen days before it was born And indeed a great deal more of the like Nature is testified by credible Persons of Candid Reputations that the Truth of them is not to be doubted but by those that their own Failings and Romances have stupified and rendred so incredulous that they will scarcely believe what they see and hear themselves the Cause â—f this prot bably may be because â—here is more Air contained in the Membranes of some Wombs than others which drawn in gives the Organs a Sound or Noise c. Iealousie and its evil Effect c. Jealousie if the Bane of Love and the grand distuâ—â—er of either Sâ—x fâ—r where its Poyson once tinctures though in never so small a proportion it insensibly spreads to the impoisoning of the mind and changes a Heaven of Contentment into a Hell of Disorder and Conâ—â—sion it is the Gâ—â—gon's Head that with a look changes Pleasure into Pain and raises Storms of Disquiet in those Breasts where Halcion Joys and Pleasures were brooding the true satisfactions of Life and happy days and all this for the most part is groundless and unreasonable in its original Contraction Bonavenâ—â—ne a very learned and famous Man of his time looking wishfully upon a Beautiful Woman in his Company the Husband being present could nâ—t forbear to demand with sâ—me trouble of Mind which hâ— labour'd to stisie the reason why he so earneâ—ly fixeâ— his â—yes upon her who modestly reâ—â—â—yed that he admired tâ—e Exceâ—â—ency of the Creâ—toâ— by Contemplating the Beauty of the Creature and if Mortals were so amiable â—ow infinitely more lovely should we be at the Reâ—â—rrection This was an Example saith Boschier that was rather to be admired than imitated seeing the Husband was â—atisfied with the reason he gave for Jealousie is rightly compared to the Indian impoisoned Arrows if they race the Skin they endanger Life but drawing Blood inâ—vitably destroys it the first motions that arise from this root of bitterness have their evil Effects but where the Disease is improved it empoysons all our Comâ—orâ—s and throws us Head-long unto the most Tragical Resolutions and is incident to either Sex Justina a fair beautiful Lady of her time that Rome could boast of was marryed to a Man of a large Fortune who finding her so excellent a Creature suspected every one that cast his Eyes upon her and at length began to suspect that she was prodigal of her Favours to others and careless of her Honour upon no other ground than that a Woman so accomplished with all the Perfections of a celebrated Beauty must Charm all Mankind as well as himself to delight in her which made him grow Envious and Furious so that one day discovering her curious White Neck as she was stooping to â—ye â—er Shâ—ce he wickedly drew his Sword without any other Resentment or Provocation and separated at one blow her Head from her Body Jane Queen of Spain and Mother to Charles the Fifth Emperor of Germany as likewise to Ferdinand who succeeded him was so exceeding Jealous of King Philip her Husband that she suffered him to have no rest nor quiet but by her continual persecuting him with Clamours Reproaches and insufferable Abuses supposed causlesly it was thought she shortened his days and withall brought her self to that Weakness of Mind that she could not discern of my Matters that were propounded to her Jonuses one of Selimus's great Bassa's and Favourites stabbed his Wife because she was so Beautiful though Virtuous that he thought it was impossible for him to keep her to himself only Joan Queen of Naples though she was wickedly lewd and debauched her self yet she caused two Husbands to be murthered upon bare suspition they had to do with other Women because they could not satisfie her Lust Yet all these with many more we might Name came themselves to Violenâ— Deaths and untimely Ends being pushed Head long down the Precepice of Ruin by Judgments that suddainly overtook them Jealousie being like a raging Feavour that
is a sufficient Cordial to Cure or Remove yet Sophocles tho' otherways a wise Man at an extream Age fell in Love with Archippe a brisk Young Girl even when his Heat and Moisture was decay'd so that we might believe that Jealousie could not be among such men but we find it will creep into their Bosoms notwithstanding their utmost endeavours to keep it out and has proved very Tragical but of these sort of Marriages you will find the ill-conveniencies more at large where we treat more particularly of Marriages Some on the other hand in their Matches are over-curiously Nice and Critical which has something strange and unusual in it Francis Siorza Duke of Millan was so Curious that though the Match was far carried on between him and the Duke of Mantua's Daughter he would not receive the Young Lady as his Bride before he had seen her Naked that he might be satisfied whether any blemishes or imperfections in Nature were covered under her Garments and it not only has been but is now a Custom in some Places that to avoid any discontent after Marriage the Parents of either side search the two parties to observe if there be no Impediment to the hindering Generation and after this search they are compelled to Marry if they refuse it In a part of the East Indies they have a Custom that the Bride shall put her hand thro' the hole of a Partition and take in the Bridegrooms hand where her Mother or some near Relation pricks his hand whilst he holds hers all over with a sharp Bodkin and if for all that if he hold her fast so that she squeak again it is a sign of lasting Love and Constancy as they term it but it through the pain it occasions he timerously lets go his hold then the contrary is expected and accordingly it most commonly occasions the breaking off the Match though never so near Consummation It is to be wished for weighty Reasons that Young People could well understand each others humours before they come to tye the lasting Knot Plutarch says one must eat a Bushel of Salt before he makes choice of a Friend that is it must not be done Rashly or Unadvisedly but upon Mature Deliberation so to prevent Jealousie and the Misfortunes that attend on it ought we to do in Cases of Marriage to weigh every thing that we scruple will not answer our Expectations and when the Parties who are to have their Lots are well assured of her or his for it may extend to either Sex Behaviour and Qualities c. they are not if they intend it a Happy Marriage to prefer Riches Birth or Beauty before good Education and good Conditions A merry Fellow says that Conquage styled the God of Cuckolds is to Accompany the Goddess Jealousie they by the appointment of Jupiter being always to follow the fairest So that Beauty is not always accounted the happiest Lot though very much coveted straight and comely Personage have many times crooked and deformed Conditions yet it is something hard if men should marry deformed and ill-shapen Wives on purpose to prevent Jealousie or go on purpose for that Reason to fetch one from the Temple of Cassandra which was once held to be a Sanctuary for homely Maids and yet when he has done all that he may be deceived as the Thracian was who having a deformed Dowdy to his Wife and catching her one Morning in Bed with a Fellow he cryed out O thou miserable wretch what necessity brought thee hither as he had Reason for the Cuckold-maker must needs have a good Stomack to breakfast on so course a Dish he who marries a Wife of a suspected Fame if she play false with him ought to lay his hand upon his Heart and rest contented by Reason his Bargain is no worie than he had Reason to expect it would be but when all 's done if you would not be Plagued with Jealousie marry a Virtuous Wife tho' but tollerably handsom and behave your self toward her as a good Loving Husband ought Jealousie by those it possesses being acknowledged to be a strange disorder and an extravagant Evil they would lessen their own Folly and Madness by laying the fault upon the Coelestial Bodies thro' whose influence say they it is inevitable to some Persons and there are not wanting some who pretend to Astrology who lull them in this opinion to compass their own ends in causing divers to resort to them for no other design than to gull them of their Money when indeed the wisest of them all cannot tell how often their own Venus's are in Conjunction with the Mercurial and Martial Sparks of the Town in the lowest Orb should they reduce the Essence of their Art into a Nut-shell the better to be informed Indeed hot Countreys that are most Subject to Lust give greatest Causes of Jealousie but what can we say when it is known for the most part to be incident to those that have no cause at all to be Jealous we are not ignorant that the greatest Cuckolds are the most Contented Quiet and Peaceable Men the most kind and endearing to their Wives this indeed they urge though lamely in Vindication of the Starry influences which say they predominate over some more than others but leaving these wide or rather wild Notions we now come nearer to the Point and conclude it to be an unreasonable Madness that Men and Women bring upon themselves by giving too much Scope to their Passions and indulging the Temptations that the grand Enemy of Mankind lays to destroy their Peace and the quiet repose of their Minds as well knowing such disorders will hinder them from entertaining good Thoughts Meditations Prayers c. and truly any thing that may further them in the way to their Eternal Happiness and indeed we cannot Conjecture otherwise than that the Devil is the source and Fountain of such bitter Streams and those that are possessed with it if their Reason or Serious Thoughts would give leave to make a true Judgment would agree Some hold that Women are more prone to it than Men by Reason of the weakness of their Sex and by a Modern Poet it is thus further described Pale Jealousie brat of insatiate Love Of Heart-sick Thoughts which Melancholly breed A Hell tormenting fear no Faith can move By discontent with deadly Poison fed With beedless Youth and Error vainly led To rout the Pleasures of a Marriage-bed A Mortal Plague a Virtue-drowning flood A Hellish fire that drinks our vital Blood Strange it is to observe with any Seriouness that an old Man marrying a Young Woman immediately grows Jealous suspecting his Wives Virtue this makes him rave and grow Mad without a Cause he fancies his Antlers shaddow his Brows and hinder the light of the Sun from shining on his Face as it was wont If she chances to cast her Eye on any one more comely than himself he concludes that an Assignation is made by the Language of
chast Virtous Husband she would never have attempted it A Man ought to be a Pattern and Guide to his Wife in Virtue so that if she be otherwise she may be left inexcusable and rendred more blame-worthy But methinks we hear some replying there is a vast difference in this Case between Men and Women If I says one am guilty of this Tickling Sin my Bastards Heir my Estate I can put them off with little but if my Wife be faulty I must be a drudge for other mens Children which is insufferable and why pray Sir Fopiing will you put that upon your Neighbour that you are unwilling to bear your self this is a great way out of the road of doing as you would be done by there is something of Justice in it that a Man that in this manner wrongâ— his Neighbour should be retaliated in the same kind and when he is in the raving 〈◊〉 â—y of his Jealousie deserves a less degree of Pity than others though many times this Jealousie is without a Cause the Woman not taking Example by his extravagancies is Chast and Virtuous and he will not believe her to be so but measures her by himself Jealousie is a great Sign that the party it possesseâ— is dishonest whatever fair pretences may be made and indeed their Jealousie and the restraint they lay upon their Wives makes them many times dishonest for no other end than a sweet revenge on their Jealousie not to let them continue in it without a Cause Aeneas Sylvius says the Italians are much to blame in locking up their Wives for Women generally are of a Disposition to covet most that which is denied most and offend least where they have the greatest Liberty and Freedom to Act and do as they please it is in vain to lock her up if she be dishonestly inclined for she has so many Wiles to accomplish her desire that she will as the old saying is make you if possible a Cuckold thro' the Key-hole And Virtue can only be the secure Guardian of a Womans Honour if that be mistaken you need fear nothing but force and violence can overcome her and that very seldom happens to Women though a little push as some will have it throws them down when there is a kind of an Inclination to fall backward When Mark Anthony left his Chast Wife Octavia to wanton in the adulterous embraces of Cleopatra Queen of Egypt she was far from revenging her injury in giving up her self to another though he had utterly forsaken her Turn a virtuous Woman loose to all the Tarquins and Satyrs their Perswasions Flatteries and Promises shall never shake her virtuous resolves Archidamus Consul of Antioch offered a Young Woman a hundred pieces of Gold and to free her Husband who then lay a Prisoner in a dark Dungeon if she would satisfie his Lust but neither her Husbands Sufferings nor Poverty could induce her to be Unchast Cure of Jealousie one would think should be wrought by considering what has been said yet that there may be nothing wanting on so Urgent and Necessary an Occasion a composed Temper is very rarely subject to Jealousie for there Reason stands Centinel and keeps it out and if Men who are subject to passion would but use Reason would but labour by degrees to Compose themselves and be of a sedate and calm Temperature they would in time be Masters over their Passions and find the Humours that feed them abate and then they need not fear to shake off Jealousie if it should at any time suddainly surprize them Iilt o. to deceive or defeat ones expectation especially in the point of Amours Illia Daughter of Numitor King of the Albanes a Vestal Nun but Mother of Romulus and Remus by Mars Imps Witches little Familiars Incontinency want of Moderation in Affections and Desires Incubus l. the Devil in Man's shape lying with Women as Succubus with Men also the Night-mare or raw Humours from the Stomach troubling the Brain and Animal Spirits that the Body cannot move Indecorum unseemliness unhandsome Carriage Ino Daughter of Cadmus Nurse to Bacchus and Wife to Athamas K. of Thebes who in his madness supposing her to to be a Lioness drove her headlong into the Sea Io Daughter of Inacbus turned into a Cow by Jupiter that she might not be known of Juno who drove her into Egypt where she recovered her former shape and was made a Goddess Iocasta Daughter of Creen King of Thebes after the Death of her Husband Laius she unwittingly married her own Son Oedipus Iointure a Settlement upon the Wife in respect of Marriage Iopas a Musical King of Africa one of Dido's Suitors Iphianassa Iphinoe and Lyssppe Daughters of Pretus King of Argos preferring their Beauty to Juno's were by her struck with madness imagining themselves to be Cows Iphigenia Agamemnon's Daughter which should have been sacrificed to Diana because her Father had slain a Hart of hers but the Goddess pittyed her and sent an Hart to be offered in her stead Iphimedia ravished by Neptune brought forth Ephialtes and Otus who grew every month nine Fingers in length 'till helping the Gyants against the gods they were slain by Apollo Irene the Mother of Constantine the seventh reign'd with him Nine Years he expelled her Reigned alone seven Years again she took him by craft put out his Eyes cast him into Prison where he dyed and reigned alone four Years Iris Iuno's Messenger the Rain-bow also an hexagonal precious stone Irus a beggarly Messenger between Penelope and her Suiters whom Ulysses kill'd with his Fist. Ischuotes g. a slender child 〈◊〉 or Faeminine pronunciation Ills an Egyptian Goddess made of Io. Isota de â—ugarolis a Virgin of Verona famous for Philosophy Philology and Poetry Ifsue an Effect Children Profits of Fines or Lands the matter depending in suit Itylus slain by his own Mother Aeton instead of Amaâ—eus the Son of Amphion Itys slain by his Mother Progue and set before his Father Tereus King of Thrace at a Banquet for deflowring her sister Philomel he perceiving the murder with his naked Sword pursued them but in their flight they were changed Progne into a Swallow Philomel into a Nightingale and Itys to a Pheasant Iulep A preparative of Syrups c. to open the inward parts and prepare for a Purgation from Iulap a kind of Rose-water Iulian-na Cilian a Womans Name Iulian Law among the 〈◊〉 made Adultery death Iumbals certain Sweetâ—â—â—â—ts Iuno Twin-Sister and Wife to Jupiter Iussel a minced Dish of several meats Iuturna the Daughter of Daunus made by Jupiter for the Loss of her Maidenhead the immortal Nymph of the River Numicius Ixion Son of Phlegias thrown to Hell for boasting that he had lain with Juno in whose stead Jupiter had placed a Cloud on which he begat the Centaurs Infanta of Spain every Daughter of that King not being Heir whether first second or third c. the Heir is called Princesa and the rest Infanta's of the Sons are called
Arguments she found she could not otherwise satisfie their Clamours she caused her Horse that was tied at her Palace gate to be let loose vowing that into whose House soever he first entered the Man of the House should be her Husband at last he went into the House of Primislaus a very Poor Man yet she however kept her Vow and Married him by which means he was saluted the first King of Bohemia Libitina a Roman Goddess of the Ancients in whose Temples things necessary for Funerals were kept which were bought or borrowed of the Priests as the People had occasion to use them Limona Daughter to Hypomanes Archon or Prince of the Athenian Common-wealth she being with Child by a Young Gentleman of Athens her Father so highly resented the dishonour done to his Family that he caused her Gallant to be drawn in pieces by Horses and put her up in a Stable with a Horse allowing neither of them any Food so that the Horse growing inraged by hunger killed her and eat her Liriope the Daughter of Thetis and Oceanus she was Married to Cephesus by whom she had Narcissus the fair Youth who flying the Courtship of the Languishing Virgins at last seeing his Face in a Fountain as he stooped to Drink he fell in Love with his shadow Litae a sort of friendly Goddesses who were wont to do good Offices for Men in procuring them their wishes and desires of things necessary for them Livia Daughter to Drusius second Son of Livia the Empress Livia Drusilla she was Daughter to Livius Drusus Calidianus who killed himself after the loss of the Philippi field she was Wife to Tiberias Claudius Nero by whom she had Tiberius afterwards Emperor of Rome and Augustus having divorced Scribona took her from her Husband when she was great with Child and Married her but having no Children by her he adopted Tiberius to succeed him Lutgarda or Luidgarda a German Lady Wife to Charles the Great she was of a Masculine Spirit and took especial delight in Hunting Wild Beasts in which she was as forward and daring as the stoutest and bravest Hero Locusta a Woman that bent her Mind to Study the Power and Effects of Poisons she serv'd the Tyrant Nero in carrying on his wicked designs in poisoning all that he ordered her and amongst other the Prince Germanicus and least she should be destroyed by the People for her hellish Practices he set a Guard over her to attend her Person whereever she went Losa de Cardona a Spanish Lady who by Acquirement in Learning was skilled in the Latin Greek and Hebrew and so profound in Divinity that the Doctors admitted her a place in the University when she died she conjured her Husband to bestow whatever he could spare to Charitable uses giving all her own Rings and Jewels to that behoof before she died Libentina or Lubentia a Goddess held to be the overfeet of Pleasures Sports and Merriments and a Protectress of Libertinisus Lucilla a Spanish Lady who assisted the Schismaticks against Cecilianus Bishop of Carthage with great Treasure to carry on their Cause for that the Bishop had angred her by a Reproof for Kissing the bones of a Martyr as she was going to the Communion Lucina a Goddess thought to be very helpful at Womens Labours and then was called the Goddess of Child-birth also the Name of a Noble Roman Lady who turning Christian Dedicated her stately Palace to be a Church or Meeting Place for the Assembly of Christians Lucretia a Roman Lady who being ravisht by Tarquin killed her self which occasion'd the Expulsion of King out of Rome Labda the lame Daughter of Amphion despised by the rest of the Bâ—tchidae Lachesis one of the three Destinies Lactary l. a Darie-house Lactucina a Roman Goddess over Corn when the Eaâ—s began to fill Ladies-bedstram an herb in dry pastures with small leaves and yellow flowers Ladies-bomer a plant with abundance of small branches and leaves fit to make Arbours for Ladies Ladies-mantle with a neat indented leaf almost like a Star Ladies-smocks a kind of water-cresses Lady-traces a kind of Sâ—tyrium or Orchis Lair-wire Lerherwire Leger-geldum an ancient Custom of punishing Adultery and Fornication by the Lords of some Mannors Laius Jocasta's Husband after whose death she married his Son Oedipus Lamia a Harlot to whom the Iâ—ebins built a Temple Lamiae l. Fairies or Female Spirits Love What is it Answ. 'T is very much like Light a thing that every Body Knows and yet none can tell what to make of it 'T is not Money Fortune Joynture Raving Stabbing Hanging Romancing Flouncing Swearing Ramping Desiring Fighting Dying though all those have been are and â—ill will be mistaken and miscalled for it What shall we say of it 't is a pretty little soft thing that plays about the Heart and those who have it will know it well enough by this Description 'T is extreamly like a 〈◊〉 and could we find a Painter could draw one you 'd easily mistake it for the other 'T is all â—ver Eyes so far is it from being blind as some old Dotards have describ'd it who certainly were Blind themselves It has a Mouth too and a pair of pretty Hands but yet the Hands speak and you may feel at a distance every Word that comes from the Mouth gently stealing through your very Soul But we dare not make any further Enquiries least we should raise a Spirit too powerful for all our Art to lay again Athens Lactea Febris the Milk Fever that which comes upon Child-bed Women on the First Days Lobers Logick is the Art of discerning true Love from that which is counterfeir and of arguing exactly upon all things that may befal them Love-spots there is one thing only that I cannot think of without indignation nor speak of but with Passion that is of Love-spots and Painting Oh the earnest and holy zeal of the Ancients against this I would rather speak in their words than mine own Tertullian bitterly he calls painted Women Ancillas Diaboli The Devils waiting-women I remember I once made use of and alluded to a Similitude of Cyprians in the presence of some great Women of quality suppose one should come into the Kings Gallery and daub some other colors over a Picture that the King had hung there being the work of an excellent Artist would not the King be much displeased at it You are Gods own workmanship do ye despise his hand that ye presume to alter it and pretend to mend it Painting and Spotting make a discovery of an unchast Mind Yea the Fathers do generally speak in the manner when the case was put to Augustine by his friend Possidonius he determines it to be an Adulterous fallacy And Ambrose goeth so far that he saith it is worse than Adultery and he gives Reasons for it Modest Woman I allow her a lawful difference of apparel according to the difference of her Quality and Estate Letters Directions to Young Ladies in writing them First
Cure or at least easing this Malady Savanorola chief Observations and some more and some less And the first they prescribe is Exercise and Diet and there is an old saying That without Ceres and Baâ—â—bâ—â— Venus grows Cold a lazy Life and high feeding are great Causes of this kind of Love so their Opposites must needs decay and wast it for as the Poet says Take Idleness away and put to flight All Cupids Arts his Torches give no Light Cured by Business or harmless Recreations imploys and takes it off from the thoughts of Love puts to flight those Whimseyâ— that wander about the Heart and Brain like the Atoms in the Original Chaos for when it is imployd the old saying is The Devil has no power over him because his thoughts being wholly taken up with his Business there is no room for a Temptation to enter but the mind being unoccupied lies open to all Aâ—â—auâ—â—s which many times as easily prevail as an Army against a City when the Drawbridges are carelesly left down the Gates open and the Port-Cuillis drawn up or as a Stream getting at first a small passage by degrees throws down the Dam that opposes and overflows all before it If no Business offer Exercise your self in Walking or Running do it vigorously and not leisurely and musing keep your Eyes as much as may be off fair Objects as imagining Crafty Love lays every where a Snare to entangle you and in time as the Course of mighty Rivers with much Labour are turned you will find an Easement and the burning Flames of Love having spent in your Bosom the matter whereon they â—eed may expire or much abate of their vehemency Cured is this kind of Love by extraordinary Temperance Spareness and ordinary Diet Fasting allays the hot Desires and hinders Concupiscence for as Physitians hold that the Bodies of those feed high and live at ease are full of bad Humours and those gross Humours operate on the mind and stir up Lustful thoughts and desires which Abstinence would prevent by wasting and at length removing those Causes so that the Effects would cease St. Ambrose tells us That Temperance and Abstinence are great Friends to Virginity and Enemies to Lasciviousness when abounding Luxury overthrows Chastity and fostereth all manner of Provocations to Lust and this method the wise Philosophers observed as did the Fathers of the Christian Church and Origen because he had no due regard â—o this found the Temptation so strong when he Preached in an Assembly where there were handsome Women that he supposed there was no possible way to remove it but by gelding himself which he put in Practice to his disgrace when Abstinence might have been as Efficacious Consider that to tumble in a Bed of Down is a great Contributer Lascivious thoughts and Imaginations it gives soft â—â—pose and that Drowsiness and Sleep and therein wanton Ideas are represented one Dreams he is Courting his Mistress and she Smiles upon him another that he is Embracing her and finds an imaginary Heaven oâ— Contentment in the Charming Phantom and this makes them burn with a desire to do that waking which they only Fancied sleeping these delusive Dreams by lying hard and somewhat uneasie might be prevented the Pamperedness of the Body being brought under For this very Cause the Indian Brachmans a kind of Priests among them keep themselves Continent and will have no other Lodging but the ground covered with certain rough Skins of Beasts as the Redshank do on harder and Diet themselves very sparingly and in that spare Diet they avoid such Roots herbs and other Food as they know by any Phisical Virtue or natural Operation provoking to Lust as if they had observed the Poets Prohibition Eringo's are not good for to be taken And Lust provoking meats must be forsaken Certain it is that the Athenian women in their Solemn Feasts called Thesmopheries because they were to abstain from the Company of men for nine days they did saith Aelian lay a herb named Hanea in their beds which by a secret virtue queâ—â—â—ed the flames of desire and freed them from the Torments of any violent Passion Some hold that Melons Cucumbers Purflain water Lillies Ammi Lettice and such cold fruits and Herbs are of a Phisical vertue to allay the feavour of a violent Passion Mizaldus prefers Agnus Castus before any other Care what ever rules we have prescribed must notwithstanding be taken that by their Passion â—re much dejected and brought very low and feeble in their bodies they must not go thro' these kind of hardships but as fainting or languishing distempered Persons must have Cordials and Restoratives A Lover that has as it were lost himself through Impotency and Impatience must be called home as a Traveller by Musick feasting and good Wine Sports and Merriments and viewing of pleasant objects but not those that occasioned his Melancholy but curious prospects of Gardens Orchards Rivers Flowry Meads and the like And sometimes Hunt Hawk hear or read merry Tales pleasant Discourse and use moderate Exercise in any manual Occupâ—ation that so new spirits may succeed those that are wasted and decayed and by that means those Anger 's Fears Cares Suspicions c. may be overcome that a too violent passion had created in the former and the paâ—ty be weaned from his ill habit of Body and Mind Melancholy Symptoms are accountedtwofold affecting both in Body and Mind the first of these are plain to the Eye by the Dryness Leanness and Paleness occasions holloness of the Eyes wistful looks c. They pine away and look ill with Restlessness and Sighs there is a dulness in the sight and a cloud of sadness hangs upon the Brow and there is a feasible decay of Appetite and the reason the Learned give for this is that the disorder of the spirits obstruct the Liver from the performance of it's office by means whereof it cannot turn the Aliment into any reasonable good Blood as it ought and for that cause the Members weaken and shrink for want of their due sustenance as trees and plants wither and pine when their roots draw not sufficient Moisture from the Earth to supply them And this Ladies falls in a great measure your share in the bloom of youth because you are put upon longing and languishing many times when Modesty and Bashfulness charms your Tongues from uttering what we verily believe you wish at the same time were known so your selves were not the relators of it and it is very hard indeed that you are tied up to so nice a point that you must not ask for that which you no doubt might have for speaking but must endure because you will be too severely strict to the rules of Modesty there is reasonable allowance in all things that are not dishonest or ofâ—ensive These longing desires bring the Green-sickness often upon young Virgins and Widdows and strangely alters their Complexions as they do the Câ—â—â—xia or evil
them what Toâ—rs of Turkish Tires have they now in fashion so that the face of a short woman seems to stand in the middle her stature is so Augmented by the building of her head so many story high how does the dressing of all nations disguise them that that they must put off their masking habit or like watches be taken to pieces er'e they can be enjoyed and to what other end I pray were they made as to their worldly Felicity The Customs of Countries are different and the Garb is Majestick at one placâ— which is Sordid and 〈◊〉 at an other All People have not the same Conceptions of Beauty White is as hateful to an Aethiopian as Black to us But once uncloath Women and according to their Complexions they are all the same but the Conception about the harmony and measures of a body differs not And what greater Right can I do my Sex than to bring Women to be Judged by one Rule and since every Woman judges herself the Fairest she that would be backward to this Arbitrament would be diffident of her self and consequently a Renegade from her Sex The Three beautiful Goddâ—sses we find â—ript themselves in Mount Ida when they came to Paris to pass his Judgment upon them which was the Fairest And Coâ—inines tells us of a Princess who permitted the Ambassadors whâ— came to demand her in marriage to see her only in a Lawn Smâ—ck that they might give a better Reportâ— of her Beauty telling them she would even put off that too if they were not satisfied For as there is an inextinguishable Jealousie and Emulation among some Women so there is an unmeasurable Pride and Pride arising out of Confidence all will not decline Judgment And what better way than these Rules which the Voices of all conclude on for a Woman may paint a Blue or Yellow Cheek as well as a Red one but the sweet composure and measure of her body her limbs and comly shape cannot alter and how imperfect are they to be seen through Cloaths which may hide and falsify many things which in a Veracious Nakedness may be truly discerned Men have cast two â—reat blemishes upon our Sex First Vncertainty and Change of Judgment and Secondly Vnconstancy in Cloaths and Carriage and how can either be better remove than if the fair ones were reduced into such a posture as they should all necessarily agree in and that they had not liberty to change And I pray what other way is there unless they be brought tobe all Naked But then they may complain Take away their Arts and their Ornaments and they shall want of their Complacency and Provocations to their Husbands But notwithstanding they have liberty enough left them They may dye or pounce or figure their Skins after the manner of the ancient Brittains In a word since the Sun the Moon and all the Glorious Battalia of Heaven appear as Nature made them and everything but men and women are contented with what Nature allotted them why should Woman who is the Master-piece of Nature hide her beauty out of meer Humour and Fancy to enrich Taylors Weavers and Sempstresses who if the Naked Fashion be followed may hang themselves Nature considered in her wonderful Operations in the producing of mankind and other things Nature is powerful in her Operation upon things subject to her Dominion The Philosophers and Sages searching and narrowly prying into her Secrets found continually new wonders to creaâ—e in them admiration and lift up their thoughts in contemplation esteeming her the Queen of the World and the careful indulgent mother of all things in it who never sleeps nor slumbers in her charge but performs every thing under it with great Diligence and Industry â—rnâ—ing things with such exactness and beauty in their respective Kinds that the Royal Prophet when he looked into himself and considered the Compâ—â—ition and admirable Frame of his Body seemed to be astonished at the exactness and harmony he found therein so that it caused him to cry out that he was featfully and wonderfully made and also holy Job contemplating his beginning and from a kind of Nothing he came says Hast thou not meaning the God of Nature poured me out as Milk and curdled me as Cheese Thou hast cloathed me with skin and flesh and hast fenced me with bones and sinews Thou hast granted me Life and Favour and in thy visitation hasâ— preserved my Spirit Behold but the beauty of the Universe and its Order and Harmony and then it plainly appears it is all one great wonder to raise astonishment in our minds and being taken in Parables and Individuals it produces no less admiration There is nothing so small as not worthy our regard nothing but what in one measure or other brings benefit to mankind the least Herb or Insect is proper to some use Nature has so prudently provided and furnished this great Storehouse the Word that Man the possessor of it may not have any Reason or Cause to complain of or for any thing she has not placed in it but above his own Frame is excellent even in it Whilst it is forming and making in the Womb there Nature in the Gloomy Cell of Generation works with wonderful cunniog to raise from a Lump or indigested Mass of Corruption a stately and beautiful Structure adorned with all the Ornaments of Loveliness pleasing not only to it self when it comes forth and grows up but also gracious in the Eyes of the Creatures it is born to rule over Though for all this we see she sometimes though unwillingly works preposterous and mishapen births and sometimes as the Learned tell us she by one accident or other is compell'd to make one body participate of either sex as in the case of those they call Hermophrodites and the Reason they give for this particular is That the Womb contains three Cells one on the right another on the left side and a third in the bottom or middle into which last when the Seminal matter falls an Hermophrodite is held to be begotten in this manner because Nature doth ever tend to that which is most compleat willingly inclining to male Generation or the producing male Infants and therefore when the male is sometimes formed in the principal parts and yet through the evil disposition of the Womb and Object and inequality of the Seed when Nature for want of Heat and same other the like Oâ—structions cannot perfect the male she continues as much however of the male part to it as may be yet the female part joyning likewise the body participates of Two Natures on different Sexes and so the Hermophrodite is produced partaking yet more of the one sex than the other for we remember not that we have read of any that could use both members of Generation so distinctly as to beget and concieve Children most commonly inclining to the latter However we believe there has been some mistakes upon this account and that some have been
no more Octavia she was Daughter to Octavius and the Emperor Augustus's Sister she was first Married to Marcellus and then Mark Anthony she had divers Children that came to be great Men and was admired by the Romans for her Virtue and Prudence so that her Brother Dedicated a Temple and Porticoes to her in Rome as we find it Recorded by Dion Octavia Daughter to Claudius and Messalina was Wife to Nero the Emperor of Rome who without any apparent Cause Divorced her and having Poisoned her Brother Britanicus he caused her to be put to Death Oenoe a Beautiful Nymph that resorted Mount Ida where when Paris was Shepherd she fell in love with him but he coming afterwards to know that he was Son to King Priam of Troy slighted her for Hellen of Greece yet she continued her Love towards him and bewailed her self in the Mountain for being so Deserted but when Paris was slain by the Greeks and his dead Body sent to her to be buried thinking thereby to comfort her her love was so extream that as soon as she saw it she fell upon it and Died of Grief Orgiva or Orgina Wife of Charles the third King of France and Daughter to King Edward the first before the Conquest of the Normans a very learned and virtuous Lady Orbona a Goddess of the Ancients held to take care of Orphans and Children in Distress she was Worshiped by the Romans that they might not be afflicted in their Widowhood or in the loss of their Children her name is derived from the word Orbus denoting any one that has lost Father or Children c. Her Altar was near to that of the Lares in the City of Rome Ordeal an old Saxon way of trying of Women that were suspected to be unchast yet no proof against them they laid nine hot bars of Iron about a yard asunder and the party suspected being blindfolded was to pass over them the which if she did without touching any of them she was accounted Innocent but if otherways then guilty and Sentenced by the Laws which in those times were Death in case of Adultery Orithia Queen of the Amazons who was Queen after Marpesia and did wonders in â—eats of Arms in all Battles she fought especially against the Greeks who invaded her Territories to her succeeded Penthesila who with her Female Troop signalized her noble Bravery at the Siege of Troy Orithya Daughter Ezichtheus an Athenian King said to â—e Ravished by one of the Gods of the Wind and by him conceive Lethis and Calais Obedient Wives If their Husbands be pleasant they rejoyce in his pleasure If he suffer in any evertuâ—â— which he neither expected nor his actions deserved they bear a part in his Lachrymâ— Husbands to such Wives are made happy in their choice and have good cause never to wish a change Por they may consort with those they affected without fearing of being call'd to an Evening account If their days expence should chance to be too immoderate they need fear no fingers but their own to dive into their Pockets or to make privy search for more than can be found These need not fear to receive discipline for their laist nights error Or to wear their night-Caps after the oâ—â— fashion with both their Ears through them These can play the merry Mates with their Wives and never laugh till their hearts ake If they come home late tho sooner were better they are entertain'd with a chearful Welcome They find no Pouts in their Dish nor amongst all their necessary utensils one Chasing-dish Out of this precious Mine was surely that good Burgomasters Wife cut out who ever met her Husband at the Portel with a gentle word in her Mouth a sweet smile on her lip a merry look on her cherry cheeke a pair of slippers in one hand and in the other a rubber not at cuffs but a Towel to rub him after his Travel whereas the old beldam Tbestylis would have exchang'd that rubber with an halter if she might have had her will rather than be bound to such a Task And to such a one without all doubt was â—o matched who in a pensive plight all full of discontent published to the World from whence he desired a speedy dismission his hard Fortune in this Bridal Brâ—wl Married whereto to distast Bedded where all grief is plae't Clothed how with Womans shame Branded how with loss of Name How wretchlese is that Man that is disgrast With loss of Name shame grief and all distast Imprison'd h ow to womans Will Ingag'd to what is ill Restrain'd by whom by jealous fear Inthral'd to whom suspicions care How hapless is that wretch that must fulfil A false Suspicious jealous womans will Taxed for what for modest mirth Exposed how a Stale on Earth Surpriz'd with what with discontent Profess'd as how times penitent How can that forlorn Soul take joy on Earth Where Discontent and Penance is his Mirth Threatned how as he're was no man Fool'd by whom a foolish woman Slav'd to what to causeless pleen Sprite-affrighted when I dream How should th' Infernal Priâ—â—e more Furies summâ—n Than lodge in such a spleenful Spiteful Woman Cheered most when least at home Planted where â—'th Torrid Zone Chased how with oyle of tongue Hardned how by suffering wrong How wretched in his Fate who is become Contented most when he is least at home Vrged most when she is near Vsher'd how with fruitless fear Shielded when when I do flye Cur'd with what with hope to dye How cureless doth that cure to sense appear Whose Hope is Death whose Life is fruitless fear Old mans notions of Love I would not says the Old Men be to run through the miseries of life again for a great sum for when I come toward Man the Women will have me as sure as a Gun for to catch Woodcocks and if ever I come to set eye upon a Lass that understands Dress and Raillerly I 'm gone if there were no more Lads in Christendom but for my part I am as sick as a Dog of Powdering Curling and Playing the lady Bird I would not for all the World be in the Shoomakers Stocks and Choak my self 〈◊〉 again in a straight Dublet only to have the Ladies say Look what a delicate shape and foot that Gentleman has and I would take as little pleasure to spend six hours of the four and twenty in picking Gray Hairs out of my Head or Beard or turning white into black to slâ—â—d half ravisht in the Contemplation of my own shadow â—o Dress fine and to go to Church only to see handsome Ladies to correct the midnight air with Ardent Sighs and Ejaculations and to keep company with Owls and Bats like a bird of evil Omen to walk the round of a Mistresses Lodgings and play at bo-peep at the corner of every street to Adore her Imperfections or as the Song says for her ugliness and for her want of Coin to make bracelets for her locks
obedience then is to extend it self to all things that are good or Indifferent there being no clause of Exception but where the Commands in themselves are unlawful and in so wide a field of Action there will accure so many particular occasions of submission that they had need of a great Reverence for their parents Judgment and a distrust of their own Children that will be too forward in going alone before their times often get dangerous falls and when those who are not very far removed from Children in years shall Lay by the wiser conduct of others they often too sadly miscarry by their own rashness and Imbicility It will be easy for those to have Ill company Intrude upon them who are destitute of a guard to keep them out and being entered will not fail by Little complyances and flatteries to Insinuate into their favours who have not the sagacity to discern to what perfideous purposes those blaudishments are cuningly directed and when they begin to nibble at the bait to be delighted with the courtship it is a great odds if they escape the hook Obedience being laid aside many young innocent Creatures have undiscernably run into the snare having at first perhaps only liked the witt and rallery then the Language and address afterward the affability freedom and good humour till at last they have come to like the person and not only to like him but to fall desperately in Love with him past recovery which had never happened had there been baâ—â— and boundards set by vigilent parents to hinder the too free Access It behoves therefore young Ladies not to Lay too great a stress on their own conduct and to Look on it as a restraint or an uneasyness to have a dependance on those who are properly their shelter and protection for in counsel as the wise man says there is safety but where it is disregarded danger It is agreeable to Virgins Modesty even in cases of Marriage to make it rather an Act of obedience than choice And they that conclude their friends too slow in the matter and press eagerly forward to out run them give cause for suspicion that they are spurred on by some what too warm desires Obedience we must allow to have a Large circumference yet it does not give parents a power to compel their daughters to Marry where they can neither Love nor like for a negative voice in the case is certainly as much their right as their parents however 't is Reasonable the virgins should well examine the grounds of her Aversion and if they prove only fancyful and frivilous she may endeavour to correct them by sober consideration but if after all she cannot do it she ought not to proceed to Marry against her Inclination The Parents Indeed have a Lawful Authority to hinder her from Matching where they are convinced it will be unfortunate to her though her self approve it because they have a right to her and consequently to her preservation But in the other case what greater Injury can parents do their children than to prompt them on to commit a sacrilegious Hypocricy so solemnly to vow they Love when at the Instant they actually abhor the parties they wed and where it is begun with such perjury 't is no wonder that it continues at the same rate That other parts of the vow be also violated and she observe the negative part no more than the positive and as Little forsake others as she do's heartily cleave to her husband then however obedience is to be observed and this to be avoided Obedience to Parents in general and particular Obedience is so highly prized by God that in the Jewish Times he accounted it better than their sacrifice He has strictly injoyned it towards himself our Parents and such as are set over us for without being obedient to his Commands none can serve him in purity of spirit and if we say we obey and serve God and are disobedient to our Parents and those he has set over us we contradict our selves and cannot reasonably gain credit with men And this obedience or duty extending to children of either sex may be branched out into these particulars c. Reverence Love Obedience and all these are considered as a due debt even to the worst of Parents so far as stands with what is lawful and reasonable to be done and no way repugnant to the Will or Word of God And though their Infirmities and Failings may be such as may give others just occasion to despise them the children must be no means suffer so much as a thought of meaness and contempt of them to harbour in their minds nor in any manner of behaviour towards them let it appear they have any slighting or neglect of them but rather if they cannot redress them they must labour to cover their Infirmities and conceal them as much as is possible from the Eyes of the VVorld always having in remembrance the Curse that sell upon the younger son of Noah for deriding his Father though he saw him in a very ridiculous and unseemly posture and how the other Two were blessed for covering his Nakedness with a Garment We wish we could not say it is too frequent in our days for children to have too low and mean a thought of their Parents and rather carp at their Vice than imitate their Ventures dwelling upon their Imperfections and as Michael did by David when he danced before the Ark many times misconstrue their Actions and despise them But such as do so must like that Lady have the Curse upon them to be childless or if they have children to expect a retaliation of disobedience We meet with a pleasant story of an Age. Country Gentleman who to advance his son in Marriage to a Considerable Fortune made all his Lands over to him reserving to himself nothing but the priviledg of Living with him and dieting at his curtesy but having thus weakly given the staff out of his hand the young Lady being brought home grew in a while squemish at his coughing and spiring and found or rather took many causeless occasions to cavel with him filling her husband ears with complaints of the trouble his father gave the house and servants who listening to her removed him to an apartment over the gateway in the fore Court and caus'd his diet to be brought to him at usual times with which the good old man to avoid any difference that might arise upon the matter was extreamly contented and here he Lived like a Hermit in a wilderness some years till the Lady had a son that began to tattle and talk prettily with whom the father playing one day and pleased with his childish Innocent discourse told him that if he would be a good boy he would buy him a Cockhorse a Sword and a hat and feather and one day he should be master of that Great house pointing at his own to which the child Innocently reply'd That will be brave
Darius Ocohus she was of a cruel nature causing Satira her son Attaxerxus Wife to be poysoned because she out-vied her in Reavâ—y She put divers others to death in her Son's Reign who conselled him to suppress her Tyranny Pasiphe Daughter to Apollo or the Sun She was Wife to Minos the King 〈◊〉 Creet yet falling passionately in love with a Young Buli 〈◊〉 framed a Cow of Wood covered with the Skin of an Heifer She found means to enjoy her bestial desire She was brought to bed of the Minotaur half Man and half Beast which did great mischief in the Country till Theseus came and destroyed it in the Labyrinth Patalena an Hâ—athenish Goddess taken notice of by St. Augustine in his book de Civitate Dei and her Care was assigned her over Corn just coming out of the Earth in its Sprout or Blade the word being derived from Patera to open or disclose the Earth at its first coming up Pavence was stiled a Goddess in ancient Times much adored by Mothers and Nurses to whose Care and Protection they recommended their Infant Children others say they made a Bugbear of her Name to fright them into quietness when they were froward Paula a Pious Matron remark for her good works and Alms-deeds She made it her business to do good and died in the high Esteem of all good Christians at the age of Fifty six Years and Eight Months Paulina Wife to Seneca the famous Philosopher Nero's Tutor when she heard that the doom'd him to Death and that he had chosen to bleed to Death by cutting his Veins resolved to accompany him in Death in the same manner and ordered her Veins to be opened at the same time her husband 's were that she might at company him to the other world but Nero through a Tyrant delighting in blood out of pity commanded it to be prevented Penelope Wife of Vlysses and Daughter to Icarius was Mother to Telamachus She was wife and beautiful and though in her Husband's absence Twenty Years at the wars of Troy and his dangerous Voyage home many Rich and Powerful Sweethearts courted her she put them by till her husband came home who with the help of his Swinherd and Son slew them Penthesilia Queen of the Amazons who came for the love she bore to Hector Son of Priam with a gallant Army of women to fight for the Trojans agaiust the Greeks and did wonders till she was stain in pressing too far into the fight by the hand of Aechilles Peta a Goddess adored by the Ancients for that they believed she took care of Suits Petitions and Requests made in Law Coures and to Kings or other greatmen Phaetusa accounted one of Heliades aod Sister to Phaeton and as seigned to be turned into a Poplar Tree during the Extraordinary Lamentation she made for the Death of her brother thrown headlong from the Battlements of the Skies by Jupiter's Thunder for burning a great part of the word by misguiding the Chariot of the Sun Phedima Dotanes a Lord of Persia's Daughter she marry'd smerdis the Son of Cyrus King of Persia and after his Death she was Wife to the Magician who usurped the Persian Monarchy by declaring himself to be the same Smerdis that was supposed to be put to Death by Cambyses his brother upon the account of a Dream he had wherein he fancy'd he sat on the Persian Throne and his Head reached the Sky But this Lady being charged by he Father to make a discovery of the Impostor did so by taking an opportunity when he was asleep to feel for his Ears but finding none she then concluded it was the Magician Spandabalus whose Ears Cyrus had cut off for his Crimes of which having given Information the Lords of Persia assembled and forcing his Guards kill'd him together with his brother and chose Darius King Pherenice she was Daughter to Diagoras King of the Rhodians she took great delight in the Olimpick Games and coming thither disguised in man 's apparel often bore away the price in running with the nimblest Youths of Greece and brought up her Son to be so expert in it that he was always Victor Philippa Catenisa of a Laundress came to be Governess of the King of Naples Children She it was who incited Queen Jane of Naples to consent to the death of her Husband Andrew of Hungary by somenâ—â—ing the differences between them and had an hand first strangling him and then hanging him out at a Window in the City of Aversa for which she afterward suffered a cruel death by torments Phyllis she was Daughter to Lycurgus King of the Thracians she fell in love with Demophoon the Son of Theseus in his return from the Trojan Wars and granted him her choicest Favours upon promise when he had setled affairs in his own Country to return and marry her but being detained too long by contrary Winds in his way she thinking he had flighted and forsaken her after much lamenting her folly and misfortune committed greater in hanging her self It is fabled that the Gods in compassion turned her into an Almond Tree but without leaves yet Demophoon no sooner embrac'd it but it shot out leaves and flourished exceedingly Periades held to be the Daughters or Pierus Prince of the Macedonians she being given much to Poetry thought her self more expert in Numbers and singing than the the Muses thereupon sent them a bold Challenge for a Trial of the Skill which they accepting and remaning Victors they are said to turn this Lady into a Magpy and sent her to chatter in the Woods and Hedges c. Plety worthily held by the Pagans for a great Virtue and Good and for that cause they â—iâ—led her a Goddess and pay'd her Adoration and to her care they committed their good Thoughts and Actions also the Education of their Children c. Pyrene a Lady whom Hercules got with child upon promise to return and marry her but he delaying and her Womb increasing she fled from the Father's anger to the Mountains between Spain and France where she was thought to be devoured of Wild Beasts yet lest a lasting Monument behind her those Hills upon the occasion being called by her Name Placidia Galla Daughter to Theodosius the Great Emperour she was also Sister to Honorius and Arcadius who were likewise Emperours and afterwards Mother to Valentinian the Third she was taken Caprive by Alathulsus King of the Huns c. who marry'd her for her Beauty Wit and pleasing Humour So that by her Ascendant over him she diverted him from his Purpose utterly to raze and destroy the City of Rome Placidia Daughter to Valentinian the Third Emperour and Eudoâ—ia his Empress She was carried away by the Vandels but restored soaa after and honourably marry'd the Senator Plectruda Queen to Pippin called the Fat. After her Husband's Death she took upon her the Govenment of the Kingdom in the behalf of her Grand-son a Child and put Charles Martel whom Pippin had by
the Belg. Pander that is he 〈◊〉 takes a 〈◊〉 or Pledge the Souls of such as 〈…〉 of him are pawned into 〈◊〉 hand as to Asimleus his 〈◊〉 berlain a He-Baud Philters their power and force to cause Love Philters are held by many 〈◊〉 be great Provocatives to Love or rather Lust and some have used Amulets Spells 〈◊〉 Images and such unlawful practices to compass their desires It was given out that a Thâ—â—â—lian Girl had bewitch'd 〈◊〉 Philip of Macedon enforced him by Philters to love and dear upon her though when Oâ—â—pia his Queen observed her Beauty she disbelieved it and ascribed his Love to that alone And some none of the least wife will not credit that any such thing can be done to force love but others again affirm it telling how strangely many have been infacinated by those that have been deform'd alledging that it is common for Witches to make such Philters as shall cause Love or Hate at their discretion Hieron tells as that a young man gave a 〈◊〉 one of these Philters that made her though she disdain'd distraction before run mad for love of him and was after a long 〈◊〉 cur'd by Hilarian Plutarch says that 〈◊〉 his death was occasion'd by a Lucullus and that might be for there are Poysons mixed in them to inflame the Blood which nor well corrected prove 〈◊〉 Cleopatria is said to use much means to chain Mark Ariâ—â— to her Embraces Charles the Great is said to dost upon Woman of mean beauty and extract for many Years to the neglect of his Affairs and then this Woman dy'd he 〈◊〉 her Coffin to be hung 〈◊〉 Jewels and carry'd it 〈◊〉 with him where e're he 〈◊〉 till it was reveal'd to a 〈◊〉 three pray'd he might over himself from so great folly that the cause of it was 〈◊〉 the Womans Tongue 〈◊〉 Bishop thereupon search'd and found a small Ring upon 〈◊〉 his passion towards her 〈◊〉 and he fell extreamly in love with the Bishop hardly enduring him out of his sight who thereupon considering the â—ing had some Necromantick Force in it threw it into a Lake and the Emperour neglected him and built an house in the Island that stood in the Lake as also a Temple by it to his great cost and neglecting all his other Palaces was extreamly delighted there till he dy'd Some Writers have suspected the Lady Catharine Cobham to have gain'd Humphrey Duke of Glocester to be her Husband by such Arts and that Roxolana bewirch'd Solomon the Magnificent to love her even to madness by the means of a Philter she received from a Jew And Salmatz affirms it is an ordinary practice in the Kingdom of Fess in Africa Some ascribe it to the Devils Enchantments rather than the Force of Drugs though they are used as a visiblements And others on the contrary will have it that such Effects suppos'd to be done by Charms and Philters proceed from Natural Causes as mens blood Chymically prepar'd which as Ernestus Burgravius says much avails He says it is an Excellent Philter but not fit to be us'd or made publick Mandrake Roots and Apples are held by some to have powerful Effects in this nature also dead mens cloaths certain hairs in a Wolfs Tail the powder of Swallows or Doves hearts sundry sorts of precious stones and that small Bladder which grows up the Colts Forehead e're the Dam bites it off which if she misses to do or it prevented she never loves her Fole They tells us that there are certain Fountains of which if any drink they shall grow mad for Love There is say they an hot Bath in Germany wherein it is fabled that Cupid once dipe his Arrows in which whosever baths shall soon after fall passionately in love against which Project Ovid exclaims viz. He gulis himself that seeks to Witches craft Or with a young Colts Forehead makes a Draught No powder in wife Medea's potions dwells Nor drowned persons mix'd with magical spells The power of Love is not enforced by these For were it so then had Ersonides Even stay'd by Phasius and Ulysses kept Who â—ale from Cirâ—e whilst the Inchâ—tress slept These charmed Drugs move Madness hurt the Brain To gain pure Love pure Love return again And inded plain dealing is the best for we find where Love or rather Lust and Madness is thus forc'd it always proves unhappy in the End and when the Fumes are work'd out turns to Repentance Hatred and Discontent Crowding miseries and misfortunes one upon another till they overwhelm the expected Joy and Felecity or fearrer them in Chaos of Confusion Prognosticks of Love Melancholy Prognosticks or Presage of things have in ancient times been held in greater Esteem than in these our days though they have not lost all the regard due to them and indeed were they more curiously scann'd matters in many affairs might go better than they do But waving all other matters we must only now handle such Prognosticks as are suitable to our Subjects and amongst them those of love Melancholy are worthy our Observation and the sorerunners of such melanchol are unaccountable Disorders in the mind Suspicions Fears Cares Jealousies and such like without any sufficient ground warrant or reason for such Anxieties Now the Question remains What will be the Evces of these miseries Some are of Opinions that it will fix 〈◊〉 a Love-melancholy in the mind that is cannot be removed neither by Physick nor found Advice and that the Physician himself thus possest may despair of his Art and complain with Apollo when that no medicable herbs can cure Love Eurialus being thus taken when his Friends came to perswade him cut his passion he figthing 〈◊〉 Go bid the Mountains cool down into the Plains the rivers run back to their Fountains and the Sun leave its wonted course and make its Diurnal Road from North to South You may as well bid this with as much hoped success as bid me not love First Seas shall want their fish Mountains their shade Woods birds sucet Notes and the Winds murmur fade Before my Love to Sylva is ullay'd Physick may Remedy each sad disease Excepting Love but that it cant appease Pretenders to love are never afflicted with this distemper and therefore after they have broke off or are slighted and frowned upon you may conclude their Love was like a painted fire the resemblance without heat indifferent therefore we intend not in this place to give advice to such as have no need to it but rather to those that want our compassion and are really to be pity'd in those where find it too frequently break out into outragious and prodigious Events Cupid and Bacchus above all others raise the greatest storms in men and women and run us many times even to madness or at least to be besides our selves Therefore to prevent the danger we ought at first to be moderate in both and not sip in more than we can reasonably bear and work off again for in
High Way where the Bâ—ide and Bridegroom are to pass and Poles are provided with which the Young men run a Tilt on Horseback and he that breaks most Poles and shews most aâ—â—vity wins the Garland But 〈◊〉 in his Survey of London p. 76. says That in Ann. 1253. the Youthful Citizens for an Exercise of their activity set â—orth a Game to run at the â—â—sin and whosoever did best should have a Peacock for â— prise c. Queries of Sundry Kinds relating to the Fair Sex Questions are easily ask'd but not so soon resolv'd especially to purpose and satisfaction Many rather employ their inventions in raising and starting of Questions than their judgments in determining them The one however makes Learning fruitful of Disputes the other of Works Asking of Questions proceeds commonly from some pre notion of that which the party demands which occasion'd that Opinion of Plato to think that all Knowledge was but only Remembrance It is a great parâ— of Learning not to teach only what to assert or affirm but prudently to ask Those that are very forward in asking do often use the same liberty in telling like Vessels that want bottoms they receive most because vent most In cunning mâ—n they are dangerous for Questions in them are like beggars Gifts a Gift with an Hook in it only to draw some thing back again by way of answer to find out your abilities Sudden Questions do often procure the truest Relation of matters which on consideration they do begin to colour They must in weighty matters especially be very warily raised for as delight in humane Learning is inferiour to that which is divine so Faults committed in Divine Knowledge are more dangerous than those in humane But laying this aside we now come to the matter intended which is to answer divers Questions of sundry natures Queries have been put why the External parts of the bodys of those that are in Love are more subject to have their sudden changes of cold and heat than others To which we answer That the passions of the mind in such are more stirring and agirated than in such as are not at all or at least less concerned and when any Grief or Discontent is conceived the natural heat passes away with the blood into the Internal parts of the body which gives the cold a greater opportunity to possess the Vacancies it lest in iâ—s Retreat So that the outward parts become cold and for the same Cause paleness takes place and a cloud of sadness hangs upon the countenance But on the contrary when hopes of success inspir'd by smiles and a prospect of attaining our desires restore joy and alacrity then a Spring Tide of blood flows again into every part brings along with it the retreated heat and both of them produce colour and warmth and for this cause Love is frequently painted sometimes pale and wan sad and dejected and other times sprightly Gay and blushing And Poets seign Love to be a Firebrand and the Reason they give for it is because that the minds of Lovers are sometimes in suspence sometimes incumbered with hopes and fears the one making them soar towards the Object of their desire and being too ardently scorched with a violent passion in approaching too near the flame the wax of their Icarian Wings melted by some Repulse send them fluttering down again and startles them with â—read and amazement when they see from whence they are fallen Loves Qâ—iâ—er signifies a Loven heart fill'd with arrows which are the Glances of the Fair Ones Eyes whom he admire which like wounding Weapons or Instruments of death stick there till her condescending Goodness vouchsafes â—â— draw them thence and the assurance of Love stays the bleeding and heals the wound We might largely comment on these matters but the Question proposed being resolved we proceed to others Query Whâ— women are sâ—â— and fairer than men It is because they are of a colder and moister Constitution which gives whiteness â—â— softness when a greater degree of heat in men render their bodies firmer moâ—â— brawny and of larger 〈◊〉 implying strength and thoâ—â— Excrements which cause hâ— on the Faces Breasts c. men are in women evacuaâ—â— in their Menses the whiâ— ceasing by age we may â— serve many Old Women hâ— hair upon their Chins â—â— some have Beards of a lâ— Growth Heat is likewise â— occasion of it But above â— woman was design'd to be the delight of the Eyes of man and therefore was more curiously furnished with all the â—â— allurements of beauty set â—ot with a pomp of winning Graces and attracting charms Query Why are not women bald iâ— at least so soon or often as men It is because of the great quantity of moisture by reason of their coldness the cold binding the pores and moisture giving nutriment to the hair Qâ—ery Why are women desirous to go neat and exceed men in the care of their attire To this we answer That woman being one of the delicatest peices of the Creation and modesty compelling her to hide a great part of her beauties she nevertheless desiring that every thing should answer what is visible calls in Art to her assistance and Knowing she was made to be beloved and highly prized by men she will not omit any thing that may give them cause to turn their affections from the Center whereto it ought to tend Besides the esteems it as a comely Decency to have nothing about her but what may demonstrate her careful in the management and conduct of all her Undertakings whilst man who is taken up with the hurry of worldly affairs is less thinking or less at leisure in matters to him of so little moment Many other Reasons might be urg'd but these as to our part may sâ—ffice whilst we leave the rest to the imagination of the Reader Query Why is womans wit upon a sudden a sâ—act or turn pregnant and exceeding mens but in weightier matters upon mature deliberation not so solid or substantial The Reason we give is because being incumbered with less Cares the Womans Understanding is free less puzzl'd and disorder'd and consequently more ratified at that time and capable of recollecting its powers to form suddain conceptions which by length of Time delate and losing succinctness become less solid if not multiplied into confused notions that cannot again be recollected to solidity because the passions of the mind by one contingency or other throw in those obstructions that foil the Reason and render it uncapable of making a second Judgment so true or suitable as the former to the purpose if suddainly laid hold on nor is it allowed that Woman is endowed with such discerning Faculties as man when he enters into the deep retirement of serious Cogitations There are divers Philosophical Reasons given for it but by reason they vary we omit them Quere why do women Love men best who had their first affestions We answer as to the first part of this Quere
â—o Dâ—â—iâ—s a woman of great Courâ—ge who bore all her afflictions with patience and dispised the Frowns of Fortune Sophia Emperess to Jusâ—trnian the second she held a great sway in the Empire and after her husband's death advanced Tiberius to the Throne in hopes of marrying him but finding her self defeated she in Favour of Justinian the Nephew of Justine conspir'd againâ—â— him Sophoâ—isba of Cremona a Lady very Famous for her skill in painting Sophronia a Roman Lady who being ravished by the Tyrant Maxentius begg'd leave of her husband that she might kill her self which accordingly she did and is called the Christian Lucretia Spaco Wife to Mithridates Herdsman to Astyages King of the Medes she was Nurse to Cyrus the Great King of Persia and Hedia Statira the beautiful Daughter of Darius Codmanus she was taken Prisoner at the battle of Issus by Alexander the Great and at his return from the Conquest of a great part of India he marry'd her though when she was offered as a Pledge of Peace by her Father he refused it and at the Wedding give away 9000 Golden Cups to so many persons that attended the Feast After his Death she was murthered by Roxana his first Wife being then great with child by Alexander Stesiclea a Lady of Athens Exceeding beautiful beloved by Themistocles and Aristides which Rivalship caused a great Division between them upon which much mischief ensued in the state Stratonice Concubine to Mithridates King of Pontus a Lady of great Courage and Beauty yet contributed to his misfortunes by siding with the Romans upon a disgust she took for her husbands checking her Ambition but afterwards she greatly lamented the Ruine of her house Sulpicia a Roman Lady living in the Reign of Domitian she composed divers books one in Verse of her own Amours and boasted she was the first that incited the Noble Women of Rome to aspire to the Wit and Learning of the Grecian Ladies Sulpitia daughter to Paterculus a chaste and virtuous Lady which made her only among all others be thought sit to dedicate the Statue of Venus at its setting up in Rome Sylvia daughter of Numitor an Albanian King otherways called Rhea she was Mother to Romulus and Rhemus Founders of Rome and held to conceive them by others Sylvia Botrix she founded the Order of the Conception and retired with Twelve Virgins to an house given her by Q. Isabella of Castile and led a chaste Life all her days Syrinx an Arcadian Nymph beloved by Pan the God of Rusticks but flying from him to the River Ladâ—â— she pray'd to be turned into Reed that she might escapâ— his Lust which being 〈◊〉 he made a Pipe of it to makâ— the Shepherds merry Susannah a chaste Hebrew Lady who was wrongfully accused of Incourine â—y by the Elder and proved Inâ—â—cent by Daniel to the shame and confusion of her Accuiers Sable Fr. Black colour in Blazon It is also a Rich Fur a beast so called â—â—e and near as big as a Poleâ—â— of colour between black â—d crown and breeds in 〈◊〉 but most in Tartana Strowling Morts Strowling Morts are such as â—â—tend to be Widows travelling about from Country to Country making Laces upon lives as Beggar Tape or the 〈◊〉 They are subtle Queans 〈◊〉 hearted light finger'd impocritical and dissembling and very dangerous to meet if any Ruffer or Rogue be in their company Shop Lift. She is most commonly well clad and 〈◊〉 that wants more of Grace â—woedâ— Wit she has several large â—â—â—kets about her but that which stands her principally instead is her Gown or Petâ—â—â— so tuckt up before that will contain any thing withâ—â— falling out Thus prepaâ—â— she will boldly go into a 〈◊〉 shop and there preâ—â— to lay out a great deal of 〈◊〉 whereas her whole 〈◊〉 is to convey into her lap 〈◊〉 Piece of Silk or Satin which will lie in a little comâ—â— And that she may the better facilitate her purpose she will be very troublosome to 〈◊〉 Shop-keeper by causing him to shew her much variety of Commodity to the intent that what she hath stolen may not be easily mist And having sped in one Shop she will attempt other Shops of a different Profession She hath variety of Customers for these stolen Commodities As Taylors Piece-Brokers c. Where she makes up her Merchadise She Orators that have pleaded their own Causes or others Strange and admirable is the Efficacy and Force of Eloquence Amesia a modest Roman Lady who being of a great Crime accused and ready to incur the sentence of the Praecor she in a great confluence slept up among the people and without any Advocate pleaded her own Cause so effectually and strongly that by the publick Suffrage she was freed and acquitted from all Aspersions whatsoever which she did with such a manly yet modest constancy that from that time forward she was called Androgine Equal to her was Hortensia the Daughter of Q. Hortensius She when the Roman Matrons had a grievous Fine put upon them by the Tribunes and when all the Tribunes Lawyers and Orators were afraid to take upon them the Patronage of their Cause this discreet Lady in Person pleaded before the Triumvirate in the behalf oâ— the Women which she did boldly and happily For as one hereditary to her Fathers Eloquence she prevailed so far that the greâ—â—st part of the mulctimpoled 〈◊〉 them was instantly remined Differing from their modesties was tha◠〈◊〉 Aâ—â—â—â— the Wife of Lycinius Eruâ—â—â— a Woman plompt and apâ— for all contention and discord and in all Troubles and Controversies still pleaded her own Cases before the 〈◊〉 Nor that she wanted the help of an Advocate but rather to express her own impudence whose common railing and 〈◊〉 before th◠〈◊〉 grew to that scandal that it almost streâ—cht to the injury of the whole Sex insomuch that if any women were 〈◊〉 taxed with boldness or irregularity she in the way of a Proverb was branded with the Name of Affrania My 〈◊〉 leaves her with this Character That it is much better to 〈◊〉 when such a 〈…〉 than 〈◊〉 to be 〈◊〉 when or of whom she was 〈◊〉 Val. Max. lib. 8. cap. 3. 〈◊〉 Orators I come to Sophists and from Declamer to Disputants It is reported of Câ—cilia the chast Roman Virgin being married against her Will to a Noble Gentleman calted Valerianus when they were left together in the Bride-Chamber she with her strong Reasons and prompt Arguments discoursed and disputed with him in the Patronage and Defence of her Virginity proving unto him from the Scriptures how justly vowed Chastity is more acceptable in the Eyes of the Great maker than marriage insomuch that notwithstanding his 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 meeâ—ing with a Tempting Provoking Beauty the Convenience of Opportunity Time and Place with the lawfulness of the Act Establishâ— by the Ceremonies of the Church yet he at her intercâ—ssion not only 〈◊〉 from that time to offer her any Force or Violence but ever after
Merâ—â—â— Vol. 3. Numb 3. in the man 〈◊〉 following viz. The first â—â—ght I travers'd the Pall mall and read the Face of every unmask'd Lady I met and if mask'd I started some question that still gave me an â—â—dication of their Temper endeavouring to light upon as refin'd yet modest piece of Wickedness at I could At last having made as I thought the best of the market away we walk'd to drink upon the Bargain So after several Glasses and some little insignificant prittle prattle I fix'd my Eyes upon her and said Madam methinks I read some Lines and Characters of Goodness in your Face which are not yet absolutely defac'd Your Education I 'm confident has not been unhappy Pray be Free and tell me are you yet Proof agaisnt the Lashes of your Conference Sir said she your 〈◊〉 I know not but I dare not believe it to be ill you having made such an inquâ—â—itive Prologue No indeed replied I my request proceeds purely from a Generous Pity at your misfortunes which are 〈◊〉 ciently slavish Alas Sir said she and sigh'd 't is a slavish Riddle to chuse what I hate I have repeated these Actions but never without regret and self-abhorrency for such a Folly This I had peculiar to my self that I never was mercenary thinking it a greater baseness to sell my Heaven than give it I was first betray'd by keeping company with a Lady that was not over modest but not thinking to engage myself till one of her Gaâ—lants weaken'd my Resolves and at last I know not what but I was ruin'd for all my Resolves are now too weak to resist never being able to hold out a quarter of a year together but secure my Honour for this once by secrecy and not watching me to my Lodgings and I hope the Novelty of this enterprise may have New Effects upon me and keep me from doing such actions as must be repented of or I am undone The next attack was a 〈◊〉 Madam with a melancholy air in her Face which put me upon acting as follows 〈◊〉 having drank a Glass or two she began to draw a little too near me whereupon I rose up and with as severe a Look as I could affect I said Madam keep off You think I 'm 〈◊〉 and blood and I doubt not but â—hat I imitate it near enough to deceive your Eyes assure yourself I am not what I appear Reclaim your Whoredom or you are lost You have but a little Time left make good use of it If you are otherwise solv'd view these Features and expect me to be a Witness against you at the Day of Judgment Here she wax'd pale and swooned away and as soon as she came to her self again I left her and enquiring the next Day about her I heard she took me for a Spirit and was resolv'd to follow the advice of her strange monitor The third was a Saâ—â—â— bird well skilled in Confidence and the depth of Pockets but so simple and foolish in all her answers that I think nothing can reclaim her but afflictions The next Enterprise was an Old Friend a Companion of mine whom I overtook caressing a Lady near the May Pole in the Strand but being not certain I kept behind them till they came to S lane where seeing them turn down I made an halt and they came up again presently into the Strand so resolving to be satisfy'd I made up to them and by asking What is 't a Clock discovered the Truth of the matter The Lady finding my acquaintance with my Friend scowr'd off and he seeing himself discover'd begg'd my silence and promis'd a Reformation which I hope he has kept to ever since having given me such satisfaction as argues his 〈◊〉 rity in this affair The fifth Engagement occasion'd thâ— Confession That she had an easie tender Education but her brother grew Extravagant and instead of saying hers and her siders Portions he spent all and she having no way left to get her bread and not being able to work took up this Course which said she at first was very afflicting and uneasie to my Conscience but has worn off by degrees tho after all I could wish I had begg'd rather than liv'd thus dissatisfy'd for I have lost my Credit am ashm'd of my Friends afraid of my Enemies and which is yet worse see no probability of living under better circumstances all my Life and must die without hopes of mending it in the other World The sixth and last Enterprise was so like the story of Paphnutius's converting of an Harlot that I shall tell that only perhaps not yet known to every body He put on the habit of Soldier and went to an infamous house and choosing his Woman he desired to go with her into a private Room where none might see him she brought him into a Chamber which he objects against as not private enough she brings him into the most private Room in the House he looks about every way asks if they were secure there And if none saw ' em She answer'd None but God 〈◊〉 the Devil And believest thou saith he that there is a God She answered 〈◊〉 And believest thou that he is every where present and seeth all things She 〈◊〉 she did believe it and shall we saith he sin so shamefully under the Eye of the most Just Judge that seeth all things Hereupon she had nothing to say for her self but fenched a deep Sigh being asham'd of her â—icked Lâ—â—e lived afterwards on Bread and Water 〈…〉 to take the Name of God â—nto her mouth but frequently repeated these words â—â— u who hast made me have mâ—â—â— on me and so she continued three years and dyed To this conviction our present Instance agrees and we are not without hopes of like effects in the rest Ladies if the Time and moneys spent in these six Nights Rambles may reclaim or hinder the Debauchery of one single Person I shall think it all worth my labour of inserting here Sicilian Matron That Sicilian matron closed her content with an incomparable contempt of the world who publickly protested That she could Eye nothing in this Theatre of Earth that might seem worthy to entertain so divine a Guest as her soul. And as of a finite to an infinite there was no proportion so it was impossible that the Circumference of Earth should confine that infinite beauty of the soul to her dimensions That modern mirror of True Nobility express her self a brave Soveraigness over her affections who held it the greatest derogation to Feminine honour to discover the least distemper in subjects of anger When I take serious survey said she of â—â—ine own infirmity and re-colleâ—â— daily what cause I give my mâ—â—â—r to be angry with me I am half ashamed to express my passion of anger to any â—â—n be 〈◊〉 me who made me and 〈◊〉 I â—râ—ear â—â—em who 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in their creation with me Spicery c. It is a very commendâ— quality in Gentlewomen
keepers or Companions 〈◊〉 what the Ladies they serve are pleased to term them and therefore to their Subordinates they must be courteous and gentle mildly reproving their â—â—iling and miscarriages and â—â—â—cting them with softness 〈◊〉 good Temper to amend what is amiss by which means they will gain an entire Empire over their good wills and affections and readily oblige them to do all the good Offices they 〈◊〉 capable of performing by 〈◊〉 of gratitude and acknowledgment and render them 〈◊〉 their servants than theirs â—â—y are reputed to serve and 〈◊〉 consider themselves in as â—â—ppy an Estate as ever But â—â—â—ing from these we come to those of a lower degree who have not so much understanding of what is required in their stations For she that has been a Mistriss of Servants if any thing discreet must needs know how to order and govern her self when she comes to be so but she that never was must be more to seek Such as enter upon this Undertaking must be very neat and handy Especially in Families of Quality She must above all others be sure to have the art of dressing well that she may be assisting to the Waiting Woman if Necessity requires her attendance also the fine Linen especially should pass through her hands and she must be Curious in Laundry Affairs especially in ordering them and seeing there be nothing done amiss or incommodious The beds must be kept neat and all things about them done in time and order that nothing be found indecent if any one should surprisingly enter the Chambers or Dormitory Night Linen must be carefully prepared and laid in order and every thing necessary asigned to its proper place that there may be no disorder upon any sudden inquiry she must be modest in her deportment and ready with her attendance on all occasions not replying again if any reproof be given or if she do's it must be with mildness and pacifick Language to appease anger and being justly reproved she must take care to prevent it another time by amending the failing in her greater diligence she must not be Loquacitous and above all avoid complainings of her fellow Servants unless some extraordinary Cause require but rather admonish them to be more diligent in their several stations she must be no tale bearer for that will stir up envy against her and undermine her foundation Backbiters especially are dispised and held in contempt by those that seem to give ear to their reports as well knowing those that are given to such kind of slander will not spare their best and nearest friends she must not be Ignorant of needdle work and other curious matters that at Leisure times will give her a double advantage viz. Gain her a repute of being Industrious and Ingenious and prove a pleasing recreation to her nor must her skill be less in raising paist seasoning making sauces spoon meats Pickling Garnishing preserving candying distilling for though they are not all properly her business yet her helping hand may be required many timeâ— in assisting and then her appearing Ignorant will much lessen her value and Esteem amongst those she would have reputed inferior to her Market affairs must be no stranger to her and if at any time they are committed to her charge she must be skillful in chusing and frugal as much as in her lies in laying out the mony she is intrusted withal and so will her Reputation arise perhaps to the gaining her as happy Fortune for men conclude that she who has been industrious for others will doubtless be the same for her self and her Family Servants that are entertain'd in this station though by some it is accounted an inferior Office have nevertheless a great charge and care upon them especially in houses of Note or Resort for that which is delicate and pleasing to the Pallate and nourishing to the body pâ—â—â— mostly through her hands She must be well skill'd not only in buying and dressing all manner of Flesh Fish and Fowl with other matters for the compleat furnishing out a Table but also in Knowing the Times when they are choiâ—â— and rare and best in season for to bring any thing out of order seems to some curious persons to be an affront orâ—â—â— least it reflects upon the Ignorance of the Family for Knowing no better or Giving their Caterer no better Dâ—â—â—ctions All manner of baâ—â— meats and all kind of Sawces are under her care and 〈◊〉 must be understanding 〈◊〉 Knowing what Sawces are mâ—â—â— proper for things and seasons Guâ—ishing is her Province â—â—d all manner of Pickles she â—â—â—t have in a readiness propâ—â—ly of her own providing â—â—d she must see the Dishes â—â—e not served up the wrong Eâ—d foremoâ—t or irregularly placed on the Table and what 〈◊〉 returned if it be expected again at supper she must sâ—e carefully set up and â—râ—â—red 〈◊〉 the best advantage not â—â—â—ishing and sqâ—anâ—â—râ—ng away what may be â—râ—gâ—ly sâ—ved â—â—â—ping every thing nâ—aâ— â—â—ean and in order in hâ—r â—â—fice for clâ—anlâ—nâ—ss is her â—â—iefâ—st commâ—ndation she â—â—â—s the hours of mâ—â—lâ—â—xactly 〈◊〉 and haâ—h â—â—â—ry â—hiâ—g in a readyness uâ—less â—râ—â—r 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to sâ—â—ve up â—â—â—â—â—r or â—or a longer delâ—â— in her apâ—â—â—l she may go nâ—â—t and Gâ—â—â—eâ—l but nâ—t â—â—â—dy and â—â—â—â—ving for that is as 〈◊〉 uâ— as if she haâ—g â—â—r dâ—iâ—ing pâ—n â—pon hâ—r back aâ—d wâ—re â—â—r â—â—â—â—le upon hâ—r hâ—â—d fâ—r a â—â—mmodâ— and so bâ— hâ—r â—â—â—l â—â—dering â—â—â—â—rs â—â—â—â—â—rs sâ—e 〈◊〉 come oâ—e dâ—â— to cook 〈◊〉 â—er own Kiâ—câ—â—n and enâ—oy her recompâ—nce of her Labouâ—s Service in this kind is but little more than washing well 〈◊〉 taking care the Linen 〈◊〉 well drâ—ed Ironed and 〈◊〉 up carefully from Mildews â—â—oâ—-molds or the liâ—e she 〈◊〉 however be knowing in â—â—â—â—ing aâ—d stâ—rching Lace Sarsnets Tiffâ—nies and making Perfumes and such sweets as give Cloaths a good scenâ— mending things where they are amiss and having all things ready at hand to deliver up to those that are to take the next charge of them Since there are Ladies in the Countrey as well as Court we must make a â—â—â—p to look â— little into â—â—râ— where we expect to 〈◊〉 the Churms Pans Traâ—s â—owls and other matters all in â—â—od order by the Huâ—isâ—â— care of the neâ—t â—aâ—yâ—â—aâ—d Clâ—anlinâ—ss being her chieâ— Province fâ—r all the â—â—â—â—ness â—e câ—n find she hâ—s 〈◊〉 iâ— only to churâ— and wâ—ll â—rder her Buttâ—r â—uâ— Runner into the Milk and prâ—sâ— the Curâ—s into Cheese and whâ—n the Young Ladies and their Spâ—râ—s come â—o visit hâ—r out Mansion to have a Bowl of Curds and Cream at their service or things in order to the mâ—â—ing a Sulliâ—uâ— for which they drop hâ—r half a Crown and go their ways and with them we march off too and take our Leave of her As for the Hâ—uâ—e maids under Câ—â—k maids and Scullâ—â—y maids we Know little Business they have to do but sâ—â—â—p Houâ—es and scowr Dishes and therefore it is
Affection If the Lady seem something Coy for decency sake it is no more than what he was reasonably to expect left he should come too soon or too bluntly to the main Question and put her to a Nonplus before she is prepared for an Answer however he has the happiness to find her Complaisant and modestly Civil no Clouds of Scorn or Disdain over-cast her Beauteous Face and threaten him in the Love Voyage he has undertaken and this Encourages him to proceed with Alacrity he now has an encouragement to stay longer than before without being thought tedious or troublesome and when he goes away he takes his leave with a greater satisfaction and not altogether without some assurance of being happy in the progress of his Affairs for in his absence he has a Solicitrix to manage his cause who fails not to be her Ladies Remembrancer and rather than fail will present her with a Bill she has taken up in the Street given out as he terms himself by some famous Astrologer and press her to consult the Stars in this weighty Affair where to be sure this Pretender to Art and Familiar of the Destinies will be always on the Lovers side because he knows it best pleases the Querant to be confirmed in what she most wishes and desires To do this with the lesser observance of any of the Family she sacrifices her Prayer time to wait upon the Devils Secretary and returns with satisfaction full of the Idea of her Amorist and at this next interview she begins to settle her Affections Then Letters pass between them blessed with the secret impression of Amours recommendatory Kisses which are read over and over the better to be understood and laid at night under the Pillow to produce pleasing Dreams of the Joys that are to be found in marriage he especially then flatters himself with his being encircled with a thousand inexpressible pleasures We must now consider that it is not long e're News is brought him by his industrious Pentioner that his Mistress is to be at a Ball with an Account of the exact time and place This makes his heart to cut Capers for Joy that he has a convenient oppotunity put into his hands To shew her he 's a man of breeding and that his Friends brought him up at a Boarding-School he fails not to give his attendance set out in the best fashion and form and is sure to get there before her because she shall see how dutiful he is in his Attendance and she no sooner enters but he rises from his Seat and makes his low Obeisance to her that it may be observed she has a servant there obsequious to her commands and though he sits again his feet and hands keep time with her in the Dance she undertakes and when she comes to place her self by him which he intreats as the greatest of favours pretending to whisper her under her Hoods he steals a kiss At which she blushes but it is not observed by the company And seeing her offer to take out her Handcarchief he officiously prevents her by wiping off the pearls of Sweat that hang on her Ivory Forehead with his own dipt in Essence of Oranges or Jessamine squeezing her small soft hand and telling her a thousand pretty Love Stories which makes her simper and smile as well pleased with his discourse and then taking his turn to shew his fine shape and activity the neatness of his Limbs and roundness of his Calves c. He starts up and falls a Dancing like any thing and if she applauds it he is so over-joy'd that the ground can scarce hold him he capers as if he were treading on Clouds Then suppose when he is tired a Gentleman in an obliging way takes his Mistress out he takes her motion to be the most charming sight in the World admirers her swiming Carriage and the decent holding of her Petricoat ravishes him and when almost wearyed she retires and comes again to take her place by him exâ—asies of Joy seize on him and he softly whispers in her ear I protest and vow Madam you dance like any Angel At which she smiles and wipes her face but puttiug up her Handkerchief carelesly he watches his time to steal it from her and then concludes himself as rich as Crâ—ssius besides it works miracles and makes him a Poet in spight of nature or Art for he will besure to send her a Copy of Verses upon the manner of doing it though he never writ any before in his life so that she thinks her self doubly recompensed for the loss of it We now are come to the breaking up of the company and the taking oâ— leave When in going down stairs he humbly petitions her that he may yet have another favour added to the many she has already blest him withall and that is to wait upon her to a Collation he has before-hand ordered for her at a Tavern She seems unwilling to grant it pretending it is unnecessary and besides she is never to go to such places but moreover to be â—ate abroad but her Waiting-maid seconding him his civil profâ—er between willing and unwilling is accepted with I vow and protest Betty you are a strange Wench to urge me to this you very well know how angry my mother will be it I keep not my time with her There may be something in that Madam replyed shâ— but for once and not use it cannot be much taken amiss and this wheedle Infallibly conjutes a Crown Piece into hand out of our Young Masters Pocket and away they rattle in a Coach though it be but a bow shot off for you must know she must not be permitted to dirty her shoes in crossing the way or venture the hazard of stumbling and stepping over a Kenuel and whilst the Wheels are Rowling them thither he poures his Amrous discourse into her Ears and reading a Lecture in commendation of her Beauty talks of nothing but Roses Lillies Sun-beams Rain-bows Corral Snow Arabian Spices and perfumes Amber and the like from whence he draws smiles and inferences which makes her blush but the darkness hides it and then he concludes with a Kiss and being by this time arrived at the Baccâ—inolian Pallace of entertainment the Rhennish and Sugar inspires the renewal of his discourse and the Table to show Love Love is no nigard is spread with ten times more than there is need off so that when the repast is over Betty passing a complement in favour of Frugality fills her Handkerchief with what best pleases her Tooth as a reserve and the rest being only looked upon as fragments is left to the drawers disposal and so he goes down to the Bar and discharges the Reckoning to keep them ignorant least they should repine at the Expenses â—and then my Landlady comes up with her Bottle and makes a present of it to the Young Lady with a welcome to her house which is taken as so great a favour that it
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