as her self Now because their Youth perhaps will not admit of it so soon she hurries them on to it by degrees by the excess of Drink Smoke and Venery If you visit her House she pretends to have no Drink but will send for some that she may be sure of your Mony If you touch her Bedding it will infect you for few comes near it but they are troubled with a fit of the Falling-sickness but yet this I shall tell you she 'l teach you Temperance not suffering you to have too much Liquor for your Mony If she stays a Year in a place she is befriended by the Justices Clerk The Instruments in chief of a Bawd's Trade are an Hector or Huff which seems instead of the Gyant to defend her Inchanted Castle from being violated by Knights-Errant The Pimp which brings Grist to the Mill that is Bawdy Customers to the House which he picks up under this pretence Go along with me and I will shew you the fairest Wench in Christendom or raise a Discourse of Bawdry and then swear There is not such a curious fine Sinner in or about the City as there is at such a place c. But the Whore is the main support of the House The first will not swagger unless he be paid the next wont procure unless he may Spunge and have his Folly for nothing and the Whore will not ply unless she have half share of her own getting besides a little Mony by the by The Market-places to which a Bawd resorts to buy Tools for her Trade are Inns where she enquires of the Carriers for Servant-Maids and according as they are Handsom she entertains them and trains them up in the Mysteries of her Occupation and having quallified them for her Profession of a Prostitute the Bawd furnishes them with Butterfly Garments and other gawdy Accoutrements for which she hath three shares or as much as they can agree about Piutarch in the Life of Pericles reports That Aspasia his sole delight made her House a Stews in which the Bodies of the fairest young Women were made commâ—â— for Money In my opinâ—â—â— to be wondred at it is 〈◊〉 these being past their own acâ— al Sins wherein too much â—â—ciety hath bred a Surfeit or 〈◊〉 Infirmity of Age or Disease meer disability or Performancâ— yet even in their last of daâ— and when one Foot is alreaâ—â— in the Grave they without 〈◊〉 thought of Repentance or 〈◊〉 hope of Grace as if they 〈◊〉 not Wickedness enough of theâ—â— own to answer for heap upâ—â— them the Sins of others as 〈◊〉 only inticing and alluring 〈◊〉 gins and young Wives to 〈◊〉 base Venerial Trade and 〈◊〉 infinite Inconveniences both 〈◊〉 Soul and Body dependiâ—â— thereupon but to wear theâ—â— Garments by the Prostitutiâ—â— of others and eat their Breaâ— and drink Sack and Aqua-viâ—â— by their mercenary Sweaâ— and so base an usury and 〈◊〉 comely a travel of their Bodieâ— as is not only odious in thâ— Eyes of Man but abominabâ—â— in the sight of Angels Brute Beasts in Love with an Account of the strangâ— Love of an Athenian To seâ— Men affectioned to Women and Women to Men is a nâ—tural thing and to be believed But here Blindness is come 〈◊〉 that height that that which intend to speak of seems impossible and incredible Hâ—storiographers write it for truth That in the Town of Athenâ— there was a young Man of aâ— honest Family competently Rich and well known who having curiously observed a Statue of Marble excellently wrought and in a publick place in Athens fell so in love with it that he could not keep himself from the place where it stood but be always embracing of it and always when he was not with it he was discontented and blubber'd with Tears This Passion came to such an Extreamity that he addressed himself to the Senate at Athens and offering them a good Sum of Mony beseeching them to do him the favour that he might have it home with him The Senate found that they could not by their Authority suffer it to be taken away nor to sell any publick Statue so that his Request was deny'd which made him marvellous sorrowful even at the Heart Then he went to the Statue and put a Crown of Gold upon it and enrich'd it with Garments and Jewils of great price then ador'd it and seriously beheld it musing always upon it and in his folly persevered many days that at last being forbidden these things by the Senate he kill'd himself with Grief this thing was truly wonderful But if that be true which is written upon Xerxes and affirmed by so many Authors indeed he excell'd in Folly all the Men in the World They say he fell in Love with a Palm-tree a Tree well known though a stranger in England and that he loved it and cherished it as if it had been a Woman Seeing then these things happen to rational Men we may be-believe that which is written of Bruit Beasts which have loved certain Men and Women especially when we find it certified by great and famous Writers as Glaucus that was so loved of a Sheep that it never forsook him Every one holds that the Dolphin is a lover of Men. Elian writes in his Book of Beasts a Case worthy be read He saith that a Dolphin seeing upon the Sea-shoar where Children were a playing one among the rest which he liked very well he fell so in love with it that every time that the Dolphin see him he came as near as he could to the edge of the Water to shew himself At the first the Child being afraid did shun it but afterwards by the Dolphin's perseverance one day after another and shewing signs of love to the Child the Child was encouraged and upon the kind usage of the Dolphin the Child was emboldned to swim upon the Water near unto the Fish even to go ride upon the back of it and the Fish would carry him for a good space of time even to the bottom of the Water till the Child made a sign to rise again In this solace and sport they spent many days during which the Dolphin came every day to present himself to the brink of the Sea But at one time the Child being naked swimming in the Sea and getting upon the Dolphin willing to hold fast one of the sharp pricks in the Fin of the Dolphin run into his Belly which wounded him so that the Child died immediately in the Water which the Dolphin perceiving and seeing the Blood and the Child dead upon his back he swam presently to the shoar and as though he would punish himself for this fault swimming in great fury he leaped out of the Water carrying with him as well as he could the dead Child which he so much loved and died upon the shoar with him This very thing is recited by Pliny and others with Examples of Dolphins which have born love to Men. And particularly he saith that in the
THE LADIES DICTIONARY Being a General Entertainment For the Fair-Sex A WORK Never attempted before in English Licens'd and Enter'd according to Order LONDON Printed for JOHN DUNTON at the Raven in the Poultrey 1694. Price Bound Six Shillings TO THE Ladies Gentlewomen and Others OF THE Fair-Sex The Author Humbly Dedicates this following Work Ladies THIS Project of Composing a DICTIONARY for the use of the Fair-Sex which may serve as a Secret Oracle to Consult in all difficult Cases being the First Attempt of this kind that has appeared in English 't is hoped 't will meet with a Courteous Reception from all but more Especially from you for whose sakes 't was undertaken and if it receives any Favour at your Hands I shall Attribute its Success in the World to the ILLUSTRIOUS SUBJECT it Treats on viz. The Virtues and Accomplishments of your Sex which are so many and Admirable that no Volume can contain them in their full Extent However my thoughts and good wishes have bid fair in this Essay which is intended for a General Entertainment and will I hope prove to the Satisfaction of the Learned and Ingenious of the Age whose Discretion I need not doubt will keep them from wresting it to any other end than what it was designed for viz. The Benefit and Advantage of the Modest of either Sex not desiring that this Book should fall into the Hands of any wanton Person whose Folly or Malice may turn that into Ridicule that loudly Proclaims the Infinite Wisdom of an Omnipotent Creator neither is any thing inserted in this WORK but what I have sufficient Authority to back it with ready at hand It is now near a Twelve-month since I first entred upon this Project at the desire of a worthy Friend unto whom I owe more than I can do for him And when I considered the great need of such a Book as might be a Compleat Directory to the Female-Sex in all Relations Companies Conditions and States of Life even from CHILD HOOD down to Old-Age and from the Lady at the Court to the Cook-maid in the Country I was at length prevailed upon to do it and the rather because I know not of any Book that hath done the like indeed many Learned Writters there be who have wrote excellent well of some Particular Subjects herein Treated of but as there is not one of them hath written upon all of them so there are some things Treated of in this Dictionary that I have not met with in any Language 'T is true MY OWN EXPERIENCE IN LOVE AFFAIRS might have furnisht out Materials for such a Work yet I do not pretend thereby to lessen my Obligations to those Ladies who by their Generous imparting to me their Manuscripts have furnisht me with several hundred Experiments and Secrets in DOMESTICK AFFAIRS BEAUTIFYING PRESERVING CANDYING PHYSICK CHIRURGERY c. Proper for my Work and such as were not taken out of Printed Books or on the Credit of others but such as are Re-commended to me from their own Practice all which shall be inserted in a Second Part if this First meets with Encouragement that so both together may contain all ACCOMPLISHMENTS needful for Ladies and be thereby rendred perfect Nor shall I dissemble the Assistance which I had from the Private Memoirs of Madam a Person well known to all the World for being both Exact and Curious in those Matters of which my DICTIONARY Treats And as this Work contains my own Observations on Love and Marriage c. For many Years as also the Secrets received from Ladies of the best Quality So Lastly That nothing might be wanting to render the Work perfect I have consulted the most valuable Books written for and against the Fair-Sex as also Dr. Blancards Mr. Blounts and other Dictionaries of note from which I extracted what was proper for my Work for as the things Treated on are many and various so were my helps I hope Ladies you will not think it much that as the Famous Limner when he drew the PICTURE OF AN EXACT BEAUTY made use of an Eye from one of a Mouth from another and so Cul'd what was rare in all others that he might present them all in one Entire Piece of Workmanship so I when I was to write of Love Marriage the Behaviour Dress and Humours of the Female Sex have consulted all Books I could meet with on those Subjects to Compleat my own Experiences So that you 'll find here at one view the whole Series and Order of all the most Heroick and Illustrious Women of all times from the first dawning of the World to this present Age of all degrees from the IMPERIAL DIADEM to the SHEPHERDS CROOK of all Regions and Climats from the Spicy East to the Golden West of all Faiths whether Jews Ethnicks or Christians and particularly an Account of those WOMEN MARTYRS that suffer'd in Queen Mary's days And in the West in 85 And of all Eminent Ladies that have dy'd in England for these last fifty years of all Arts and Sciences both the graver and more polite of all Estates VIRGINS WIVES and WIDOWS of all Complexions and Humours the Fair the Foul the Grave the Witty the Reserv'd the Familiar the Chast the Wanton What ever Poets have fancied or credible Histories have Recorded of the first you have the Misteries and Allegories clearly interpreted and explained of the latter the Genuine Relations Impartially delivered Here therefore Ladies as in a perfect Mirror you may behold the lively Ideas of all laudable Qualities whatsoever suitable to them in all Callings and Conditions here you may observe the profoundest of Learning and Divine Contemplation in the Prophesies of the Sybils c. Here are Erected the Trophies of Female Fortitude and Valour in several Instances Here Queens may learn the Arts of Splendor and Magnificence from Nitocris Cleopatra and others Wives here may read how to demean themselves toward their Husbands in all Conjugal Affection Daughters may here be taught Examples of Obedience and Chastity from the Vestal Votaresses Matrons may find here that decent Deportment which becomes their Gravity and Widows that Constancy which besits their Solitude Here is also to be found the true Interpretation and Etymology of Womens Names with so plain derivations of each Name whether Hebrew Chaldee Syriack Greek or Latin c. that any ordinary Capacity may understand them But never does my Hand more compulsively direct my Pen nor my Pen wiâ—h less willingness blot Paper then when I am forced in this Work to lay open the frailties of your Sex before so much commended But this is my Encouragement to proceed because I can produce nothing out of History to the Disgrace of the bad and vicious which adds not to the Honour of the good and vertuous Were none foul what benefit were it to be fair And if none deformed what Grace could it be to be featured There were no honour to be ascribed to Modesty but that we see
the Servant so far pity her that after she had fasted three days he told her of his Lords Safety after he had acquainted him with the Misery she was in it was agreed she should come to him and there consorted with him for the space of Nine years bringing forth Children in that Solitary place no Intreaty of her Husbands prevailing with her to forsake him At last they were discovered and brought before the Emperor where Eponina producing her Children said Behold O Caesar such as I have brought forth and bred up in a Monument that thou mightest have more Suppliants for our Lives but this great Act of Love and Constancy could not move cruel Vespatian for he caused them both to be put to Death she dying joyfully with her Husband Hota was the Wife of Rabi Benxamut a valiant Captain and of great Reputation amongst the Alarbes she had been bravely rescued out of the hands of the Portugals who were carrying her away Prisoner by the exceeding Courage and Vavour of Benxamut her Husband She shewed her thankfulness to him by the ready performance of all the Offices of Love and Duty Some time after Benxamut was slain in a Conflict and Hota perfomed her Husbands Funeral Obsequies with infinite Lamentation laid his Body in a stately â—omb and then for nine days together she would neither eat nor drink whereof she died and was buried as she had ordained in her last Will by the side of her beloved Husband He first deceas'd she for a few days try'd To live without him lik'd it not and dy'd King Edward the First while Prince warr'd in the Holy Land where he rescued the great City of Acon from being surrendred to the Souldan after which one Anzazim a desperate Saracen who had often been employ'd to him from the General being one time upon pretence of some secret Message admitted alone into his Chamber he with an empoyson'd Knife gave him three Wounds in the Body two in the Arm and one near the Arm-pit which were thought to be mortal and had perhaps been so if out of unspeakable Love the Lady Eleanor his Wife had not suck'd out the Poyson of his Wounds with her Mouth and thereby effected a Cure which otherwise had been incurable Thus it is no wonder that love should do wonders seeing it is it self a Wonder Love of Parents to their Chilren is a natural Affection which we bear towards them that proceed from us as being part of our selves and indeed almost all other Creatures have a strong Impression of this kind of Love to their young though in their proper Nature never so fierce and cruel to any thing besides according to the Poet Seeing her self Rob'd of her tender Brood Lies down lamenting in her Seythian Den And Licks the Prints where her lost Whelps had lain But this Affection with Reason has greater Power in the Souls of humane Parents thò indeed it's Impression is deeper in some than in others so that sometimes it extends even to a fault where it is placed on such Children whose stubborn Natures turn such tender Indulgence to evil purposes yet we see when it so happen as it do's too freequently the Parents fondness decreases not Love towards his Sons and Daughters had so settered the Affection of Charles the Great that he could seldom endure them out of his fight and when he went any long Journey he took them with him and being one time demanded why he married not his Daughters and suffered his Sons to travel with a Sigh replyed He was not able to bear their Absence Selucius King of Syria being told that his Son Antiochus Sickness proceeded from that extraordinary Passion he bare to his beautiful Queen Stratonice though the Father loved her entirely yet fearing his witholding her might occasion the loss of his Son he freely resigned her to him Aegtius by a mistake thinking Theseus his Son to be dead threw himself from the Rock where he stood to watch his return and there perished Love in Women on this account has always exceeded that of the Men who to save their Children have rushed through Flames and on the points of Swords regardless of their Lives as the Poet expresses it 〈◊〉 Lyoness when with Milk her Dugs do ake Seeking her lost Whelps hid within some Brake Noâ— the sharp Viper doth more Anger threaten Whom some unwary Heel hath crush'd and beaten Than woman when she sees her off springs wrong She breaks the Bars of the opposing throng Through Swords through Flame she rushes there 's no Ill So grievous but she Acts it with her Will Love to her Infant so inspired the Daughter of Sponderebeus that Mahomet the second having caused his Vizier-Bassa to murther it as being one of the Sons of his Father she never left crying in the Sultans Ears till he had delivered the Bassa bound to her and then she cut him up alive and cast his Heart and Liver to the Dogs Love of Children to their Parents is required by the Law of God and Naure and it is their indispensable Duty to Love honour and obey yet Love it self contains all these for what we love we will consequently labour to please to the utmost since it is to the great Credit and Advantage of Children entailing a Blessing on them here and giving them in a great measure an Assurance of an eternal Blessedness hereafter For wherever we find Piety and Reverence that is due to Parents there is a kind of Earnest given of a prosperous and worthy Person for the Child having this way entituled himself to the Promise of God whatsoever happens to others he shall find Happiness and Comfort in it It is certainly a very great and grievous Sin to be unmindful of those who next to God are the Authors of our Being and have taken care of us when we were not able to help our selves Love in this Case appeared extraordinary in Antipas and Amphinomus who when Mount Aetna sent out Rivers of flaming Sulphur and by the Eruption the Earth trembled under them every one minding to hurry away their Goods and flying in confusion these pious Brothers mindful of their aged Parents more than all earthly Riches took them on their Backs and carried them through Torrents of Fire to places of Safety leaving their Goods to be destroyed saying What more precious Treasure can we secure than those who begot us and this Acts of Piety by divers Antiquities is said to be attended with a Miracle for the burning stream separated and made way for their safe Passage whilst other places were scorched up Love and Duty appeared excellent in the Daughther of a noble Roman Lady who being condemned by the Praetor her Execution was delayed by the Jaylor to starve her in Prison that the People who were offended with the Sentence might not see her publick Execution her Daughter all this while had leave to Visit her but was narrowly searched that she should bring no