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A65957	The whole duty of a woman: or a guide to the female sex From the age of sixteen to sixty, &c. Being directions, how women of all qualities and conditions, ought to behave themselves in the various circumstances of this life, for their obtaining not only present, but future happiness. I. Directions how to obtain the divine and moral virtues of piety, meekness, modesty, chastity, humility, compassion, temperance and affability, with their advantages, and how to avoyd the opposite vices. II. The duty of virgins, directing them what they ought to do, and what to avoyd, for gaining all the accomplishments required in that state. With the whole art of love, &c. 3. The whole duty of a wife, 4. The whole duty of a widow, &c. Also choice receipts in physick and chirurgery. With the whole art of cookery, preserving, candying, beautifying, &c. Written by a lady.	Lady, fl. 1701.	1696 (1696)	Wing W2054B; ESTC R221014	59,390	159

undeceived but at the price of many Affronts nay perhaps he may Buy his Experience with the loss of his Life drawing on Quarrels by his ill Manners wherein he finally Perishes and this is no Impossible Suppsition many unhappy Mothers have found to their unutterable Affliction which Deplorable Misfortune a Liberal Education might have prevented Secondly to be Frugal in managing what is your Childrens due is very commendable and must by no means be neglected But in doing it you must not Prejudice them the other way nor indeed Incroach upon any thing that is theirs to advance your self in a Second Marriage or to maintain your own State and Grandure for this not only Cancels your pretended Love to your Deceased Husband in violating his Will and the Trust reposed in you but a manifest Defrauding of your own Children which is the highest Injury of all others for it envenoms the Crime and adds Unnaturalness to Deceit Besides 't is a Preposterous sort of guilt Orphans and Widows are in Scripture linked together as Objects of Gods and Good Mens Pity A Widow to injure her Orphans is like that Uncouth Expression Solomon speaks of Prov. 28.3 A Poor Man that Oppresseth the Poor is like a Sweeping Rain that Leaveth no Food Consider then Seriously in thus proceeding that Injustice of any sort is a grievous Sin Secondly When it is Complicated with Treachery also Thirdly That of all Trusts those Intrusted by the Dead have ever been Esteemed and the Violation of them accounted in a manner Sacriligious and if any Widow can find any allay to these by the two remaining circumstances That it is the Trust of a Husband and the Interest of a Child I shall acknowledge her a very Subtle Casuist but I think it is beyond her Skill by Rules Divine or Moral Having only hitherto spoke of what you owe to your Deceased Husband I now proceed to what of peculiar Obligation relates to your self God who has placed you in this World to pursue the Interests of a Better directs all the signal Acts of his Providence to that end and intends they should be so Interpreted That every great change that occurs is designed either to call you from a wrong way or to quicken your pace in the right And you may the more conjecture when God takes away the Mate of your Bosome and reduces you to Solitariness he sounds you a Retreat from she Gayeties and Lighter Jollytries of the World that with your closer Mourning you may put on a more retired Temper of Mind a Stricter and Soberer Behaviour not to be cast off with your Vail but to be the constant Adornment of your Widowhood As this State requires a great Sobriety and Degrees of Piety so likewise it brings with it many Advantages and Advances towards them The Apostle tells us 1 Cor. 7.34 She who is Married Caret● for the things of the World how She may Please her Husband But in this State that care is overpast and Heavenly things by the removal of this Screen stand fairer to view You may now decline Martha's Care of Serving and choose Mary's better part Shake off those Cares that Cloggs the Souls with a Hurry of Incumbrances in Domestick affairs and consider of more Refined things that bring true Happiness with them to Joy and Rejoyce the Mind We find God himself retrenches the Wife's Power of Binding her own Soul Numb 30. Her Vows were Insignificant without her Husbands Confirmation but the Widow might Devote herself to what Degree she Pleased Your Piety in this State has no Restraint from any other inconsistent Obligation but may Mount as high as it can Those Hours that were before your Husbands Right seem now to be Devolved on God who Promises To be a Husband to the Widow and a Father to the Fatherless so he is the grand Proprietor of your Time you may now convert the time Spent in former Entertainments of your Husband into Colloquies and Spiritual Entercourses with your Maker So that that Love which was humane may by the changing of its Object acquire a Sublimity being Exalted to that which is Divine and what before was Expended in Gayeties and Necessaries now not requisite may be Improved in Works of Mercy and Charity That so his Corruption you have lost may help you to put on an Incorruption and your Loss of a Temporary Comfort state you in one that is Eternal Whilst your Loyalty Duty and Conjugal Affection becomes the External Work and happniess of Angels the Ardour of Cherubims and the Joy of Saints in Endless Glory And having thus shewed what relates to Education and a prospect of Happiness here and hereafter I now proceed to Treat of such things as may be useful tho' some what in a lower degree and may be advantageous to you in Houshold Affaires CHAP. V. I hysical Waters and Cordial Drinks conducing to a Healthful Constitution from the Choicest and Approved Receipts of the most Eminent Persons of this and former Ages With their Proper Virtus how they ought to be taken and the Distempers they are Good in c. Apoplectick Water TAke four pound of Black-Cherries bruise and take away the Stones add of the roots of Valerian and Fartshorn shaved each three ounces Rosemary Lavender and Sage each a handful Cloves and Mace beaten fine each an ounce Saffron 〈◊〉 drams flowers of the Lilly of the Valley a handful bruise these and mix them well together and distil'd drink a quarter of an ounce fasting in any convenient liquor as warm Ale Thea Coffee Wine c. and it will help the Apoplexie Pa●ie or any destempers proceeding from the Affliction of the Brain Aqua Mirabilis to make Take an ounce of the best Cinamon Nutmeg and Citron peel each six drams Gallingal Cubebs Cloves and Mace each two drams bruise them grosly and infuse them in a gallon of White-wine and a quart of spirit of Wine and so distil them this taken half an ounce et a time fortifies the Heart resists contagious Airs Plague or Pestilence Feaver or any venemous Infections Elixir Salutis Lake four ounces of Senna Elicampain roots and Guaicum two ounces Anniseeds Carraway and Coriander seeds each the like quantity Raisins of the Sun stoned half a pound Liquorice sliced two ounces Rheuburb thinly sliced half an ounce bruise and infuse them in Brandy or a spirit drawn from Fruit Malt and Molosses five or six days then draw off the liquid part and put it up in bottles closely Corked This is excellent in the Chollick or other pains in the Belly for cleansing the Stomach and causing a good digestion helps in all cold diseases and brings away the Gravil in the Kidneys or Bladder Antinepretick Water Take of clarefied Honey half a pound Venice Turpentine two ounces Nepretick wood and Rest-harrow roots of each an ounce and a half Mastick Galingal Cloves Cinamon Cubebs Mace of each half a● ounce wood of Aloes an ounce bruise them grosly and let them infuse in

This is a pleasant purging Syrup not any ways offe●● sive to the Stomach and is therefore usually given to Children on that occasion and this way or by infusion in co● water Syrup of Violets Couslips Clove-gilly-flowers and other simple Syrups of Flowers Herbs Fruits and Roots are made Cordial Syrup of Poppeys Take the heads of white poppeys not throughly blown eight ounces the heads of black ones six ounces Aqua Coelestis two quarts simper them over a gentle fire to the consumption of a third part then add 3 pound of Sugar to the liquor the poppeys being squeezed out some blades of Mace and bits of Cinamon boyled in other water to the quantity of half a pint poured into this then boyl it up to the thickness of a Syrup It is exceeding good against Cattars and Coughs and in Feavers mittigating the heat and pain it helpeth Frenzies and Watchings and procureth Sleep And thus with Coelestis Brandy or Aqua-vitae you may make any Cordial Syrups A Syrup for any Cold Cough or Cattar Take one ounce of Cetrack Coltsfoot the herb so called and Maiden-hair each one ounce boyl them in three quarts of water till it wastes to three pints with one pound of Elecampain roots sliced then strain out the liquid part and 〈◊〉 it up with a pound and a half of Sugar to a Syrup and take a dram of it in any covenient warm liquor Night and Morning Honey of Raisins to make Take Raisins of the Sun two pound stone them and infuse them 24 hours in six pound of warm water then boyl it to the consumption of half so strain and press it out then adding two pound of dispumated Hony boyl it to the thickness of Hony And thus you may make Hony of Violets Roses or other Flowers sweet Fruits or Herbs proper to any uses To make Marchpanes Blanch your Almonds swell'd in cold water beat them in a stone Mortar and drop in your beating some Rosewater into them keep them from Oyling and strew now and then a handful of fine sifted Sugar and when by working you have brought it unto a Past rowl it thin and make it into its form Ice it over with Rose-water Sugar and the white of an Egg beaten together put it into a moderate hot Oven and when the Icing begins to rise take it out To make Makroons Take to a pound of Blanched Almonds half a pound of fine Sugar beat them in a Wooden or Stone Mortar with whites of Eggs and a little Rose-water till they come to be as thick as Batter for Fritters ●●en lay wafers on your Tin Plates put on this Batter in little spoonfuls sprinkling it over with a little fine Sugar and Rose-Water and so Bake them in a Gentle Oven about a Quarter of an Hour To make French Bisket Take half a peck of Flower four Eggs and half a pint of Ale Yeast an ounce and a half of Anniseeds make them up into a Past with a little Cream and cold water fashion it like a long Brick● and when it is a day or two old cut it out into thin slices like Toasts being strewed over with beaten Loaf-Sugar set them in a warm Oven or Stove till they are dryed and so put them in boxes for use To make Naples Bisket Take Almonds beaten very fine one pound fine Flower a pound and a half Sugar one pound whites of Eggs half a Dozen make them into Batter with fair water and put the Batter into your Tin Coffins so bake them glazing them with the white of an Egg and Rose-water CHAP. XI Artificial Embellishments Or the Art of Beautifying the Hands Face or any other part of the Body Restoring a good Colour taking away Freckles Spots or any Deformities in the Skin c. Making Perfumes Essences Sweet-bags Sweet-balls Pomatums Washes c. To Beautifie the Hands and Face TAke two handfuls of Rosemary Flowers one handful of the tops of Fumitory and an ounce of Blanched Almonds grosly bruised boyl these in a quart of spring-water and a pint of White-wine till a fifth part be consumed then strain out the rest let it settle twenty-four hours in a Glass then pour it off from the setlings and use it as an excellent Beautifier and great Restorer of a good complexion To make the Skin soft and White Take Neats-foot Oyl one ounce Oyl or the Fat that swims upon the boyling of Sheeps Trotters a like quantity mix these in half a pint of Rose-water over a gentle fire and supple the parts with it very warm chafing or rubbing it in a few times doing it will answer your expectation To take away Morphew Scurff or other Deformities of the Skin Take Comphire two drams two Lemons viz. the juice of them Loaf-Sugar an ounce mix these in half a pint of fair water put it into a Glass and shake it often suffering it to stand eight or ten days in the Sun or some warm place then add a scruple of white sublimated Mercury shake it about and strain it and when you would use it put it softly to your Face with a linnen rag or cloth or upon any other place and it will take off the Deformity and under that there will as it were a new Skin appear very Fresh and Lively To take away Redness or Pimples from the Face Take Camphire a dram Copperas half an ounce Wine Vinegar half a pint add to these the Rhind of Citron thinly pared one ounce boyl them to the consumption of a third part then strain and press out the liquid part and wash the Face with it anointing it afterward with Oyl of Roses and Tuttia mingled together and let it lye on all night and in a little time the Redness or Pimples will decline and the Skin recover its smoothness and natural Complection To take away Freckles Take the Gaul of a young Cock the Wool of a Hares foot burnt to powder by wrapping it up hard in a Brown paper wetted as in Burning Silver Lace that it may not Burn to Ashes but Moulder and so be reducible into Powder add to these an ounce of Rye-Meal beat them together with the Pulp of a Lemon and Wine Vinegar till they may be spread Playster-wise spread this composition on soft Leather and lay it on the Freckley places and in twice or thrice applying you will see a strange Alteration To cause a curious White Shining Complection Take Peach Blossoms two handfuls the Sap that drops from a cut Vine 4 ounce the seed● of Mellions grosly bruised one ounce Gum Tragacanth beaten finely into Powder half an ounce put to these when well beaten or bruised two quarts of Clarified Whey let them infuse twenty-four hours in a warm place then press out the Liquid part as hard as may be by pressing and use it as you see occasion To make the Hands or Face Plump Take of the Marrow of the Bones of Hogs Feet two ounces Oyl of Almonds and Oyl of Roses each half an ounce Flower

night to infuse in a third water then boil it up and to every gallon of Water put a pound of Honey that is into the strained liquor and when it will bear an Egg work it together till the Honey is well dissolved let it seeth 12 hours and boil it up with the whites and stells of half a dozen Eggs beaten together then beat up the whites of two or three Eggs with half a pint of Ale Yeast put up the Liquor into a Cask let it work three days then hang a bag of Spices in it grosly bruised ten days so draw it off and bottle it It is an excellent cooling liquor in Feavours and most hot Diseases as also is the former it Tempers and Allays the Heat of the Blood c. of Rheuburb then boil them with a few Chamomil flowers over a gentle fire and drink off the liquid part very hot repeating it morning and evening For the Chollick Take the oyl of sweet Almonds three ounces Pelletory Water and White-wine each a quarter of a Pint Anniseeds and Chamomll flowers eatch two drams let them simper an hour over a gentle fire then pour out the liquid part and drink it very hot For pains in the Teeth Take Henbane seed and Hysop seed beat them together small dissolve Gum Arabick in a little Water and so drop it on the beaten seeds so that it may make them up into little Pellets if the tooth be hollow put one of these into it and stop it close with Lint if not place it to the root of the Tooth between that and your Cheek For an Ague Take a handful of the tops of the herb Rue bruise them grosly boil them in a quart of White-wine till a third part be consumed and when the Ague sit is coming drink Noise in the Head Take a Clove of Garlick peel it and prick three or four holes in the middle dip it in Honey and put it into your Ear stop it with black Wool and so continue at times for a day or two and the noise will cease For a Fellon Take flower of Malt a handful Sope about the bigness of a Walnut boil them together in Beer till it is as thick as Paste then spread a Plaister and lay it to the part grieved and by often changing it will draw it to a head an break it then lay on a Plaister of Diaculum and it will heal it up Lasks to stay Take Burdock-roots half a handful scrape them and wash them clean the seeth them in fair water till half be consumed and bath your belly and the sol● of your feet with the Decoction very warm For the stinging of any Venemous thing Bruise sweet Almonds and Ash-tree leaves or for want of them the inner bark make a poultis with a little Honey and the juce of Rue and apply it Bloodshot Eyes or Sore Eyes Take Lapis Calaminaris half an ounce white Sugarcandy the like weight White-wine one ounce heat the stone almost red hot in a clear fire beat it very fine then mingle it with the rest and strain the liquid part through a linnen cloth put it into a Glass and use it with a feather as you see occasion Note the stone must be without red spots white and clear or it may prove hurtful For a Burn or Scald Take two ounces of old Cheese an ounce of Olive Oyl an ounce of Honey and half an ounce of Bole Armoniak mix these together till they may be spread like a Poltis and apply it to the place for want of some of these you may use Oyl white Lead and Snew water beaten and tempered together For Blasting or St. Anthony's Fire Take a new laid Egg roast it hard then take the White from the Yolk put it into a Mortar with half its weight of Copperas bruise them together with some Oyl of Roses and apply the Mass to the place afflicted and it will allay the Swelling and take away the Heat it is also good to prevent all Flushing in the Face and cause Redness to disappear Small Pox to Prevent its Scarring the Face c. Take two ounces of Hogs-Lard a quarter of a pint of Rose-water Tuttia ● dram Oyl of Rosemary half an ounce the powder of an hares Liver or Hares blood dryed two drams make these up into a● Oyntment over a gentle fire and whe● the Scabs are drying on the Face anoin● it with it pretty warm and let the● fall off of themselves then anoint yo● Face with Oyl of Roses beaten up wit● a little White-wine and no Scars de●● Pits or Disfigurement will appear To Prevent Hair falling off in the Small-Pox Take the inward Rhind of a Young Oak-tree a good handful beat it small then take half a handful of tops of Balm 〈◊〉 Vervine boil these in a gallon of fair spring water till a third part or more be consumed strain out the liquid part with ha●● pressing and wash your head with 〈◊〉 when the Distemper declines and is going off twice a day pretty warm a●● it will not only fasten the roots of the Ha●● but refresh and revive it Sore Mouth or Throat Take Marshmallow tops boil them in Whitewine and Honey dissolve as much Alom as will make the Liquid part somewhat rough in the mouth then strain out the thinnest and gargle your mouth and throat with it often pretty warm and the Soarness will cease To procure Sleep or Rest Take half a handful of Water-Lillys bruise them in three pints of Malmsey and let them infuse twelve hours add a dram of Opium as much Poppy-seed and Lettice-seed well bruised and then distil them and take going to bed or when rest is required of the distilled water from half a dram to a dram in any convenient Liquor For the Weakness of the Sight Take Eye-bright fine Sugar and sweet Fennel-seed beat these together and drink about two drams of it in a morning Fasting in a glass of Wine or Beer Ague to Cure Boil a good handful of the tops of Rue in a quart of White-Wine till half be consumed and when you feel the cold fit coming strain it and drink it as hot as may walk about the room as fast as you can and being somewhat tired get into a warm Bed in twice or thrice thus doing the Ague will decline and go off To Refresh the Senses and Restore the Memory c. Take Balm Bugloss dry'd Roses and Frankincense beaten into Powder of all about six ounces infuse them in three Pints of White-wine when they are well bruised and when they have infused twenty four hours put them in an Alimbeck and of the distilled water take a spoonful every morning fasting and fast an hour after it For the Scurvey Take the juyce of Scurvygrass Water-cresses and Brooklime each two ounces let them settle and poor of the clearer part Renish-wine a quart the roots of Elecampain Horse-Radish and Flower-de-luce thinly sliced each half an ounce two Nutmegs well bruised put these

them clean from the Stalks and clip off that end that groes in the Husk dry them moderatly in the Sun by spreading them on a clean linen cloth then put two pound or more of Sugar according to the quantity of your flowers to as much Rose-water as will just dissolve it boyl it up into a Syrup and then put in your Flowers after that boyl it up over quicker fire till it Candys so take off stir them with a spoon and bruise the Sugar from them and they will be Candy'd without any clog of Sugar upon them put them up in papered boxes and set them in a warm place and they will keep good and dry all the Year and thus you may order any Flowers or Blosoms Rucket Orange or Lemon-peel Citrons Erigngo-roots or Lettice-stalks to Candy c. Cleanse either of these from superfluity and dry out part of the moisture then boyl them tender in fair water Shifting the water once or twice then wash them in cool water and dry them with a cloth cutting them into what convenient pieces you think fit take twice so much as they weigh in Sugar refine your Sugar and boyl them in one half till they be tender and clear make your Syrup first with half Rose-water and the other half fair-water and when they are clear let a Syrup be made of the other half of your Sugar and boyl them up shake them afterwards till they be cold and so place them on Paper in a warm place till they be dry and keep them as the former Barberrys Grapes or Gooseberrys to Candy First preserve them by boyling them up in a thin Syrup of Sugar and Water after they have been boyled a little tender in water only and having washed off the Syrup in a little warm water strew them over with searsed Sugar and set them in a warm Oven or Stove three or four times not letting them cool till they be dry and they will sparkle very curiously and keep long Rock Candy very Clear Take Spices or Flowers or any dry Suckets or Fruits after they are preserved and dryed lay them upon a Wier Grate over an Earthen pan take refined Sugar and as much Water as will dissolve it viz. near half a pint to every pound then beat into it the white of an Egg when it is hot and set it on the fire again and when it boyls up drop a little cold Water into it set it off the fire again and scum it so boyl it to a candy height till it will draw like a hair between your fingers then pour it very hot into an Earthen pan among your Fruits set it in a warm place and cover it close with a Blancket the next day pour out all the Syrup that will run from it and set your pot in a warm place again to let them dry prick up your Wires take off all the fruit and lay them in Papers and when they are thorow dry they will be a curious Rock-candy then box them up and keep them for use and by these rules you may candy any other things that are proper so to be ordered Cherries to Preserve Gather your Cherries when Ripe in a fair day that the moisture may be off them cut off the tops of the stolks and lay them in a pan upon a thin bed of Sugar put a pound of beaten Loaf Sugar to every pound of Cherries and as you boyl them up sprinkle some Sugar on them and scum them when they are ready to seeth over let it be a over quick fire and they will not break if you do not too many of them together two pound is sufficient at a time then put them into a broad dish a cooling till the next day and if there come any water from them seeth them a little more and so put them up in the Syrup of Sugar for your use and in this manner you may preserve all sort of Plumbs Apricocks Peaches or Nectrals To Preserve Quinces Wipe them clean cut them in four quarters and take out the coar place the quarters regularly in an Earthen pot and put as much Conduit-water or Spring-water as will cover them then set them one a gentle fire and let them seeth till they be soft but not break so lay them in a dish and when they are cold take off the skin let the water boyl after to the Consumption of a third part then put a pint of it to a pound of fine beaten Sugar and when the Sugar is dissolved then seeth it till it boyl up into a Syurup scum it and put in the Quinces and let them seeth softly a considerable time and you perceive them red then turn them that they may be all of one colour and so keep them in the Syrup close Stoped for your use and in this manner you may preserve Pippins and all other winter Fruits Marmalade of Quinces Take three Gallons of Spring or Running-water pa●e sixteen pound of Quinces quarter them and cut out the Coars put to these eight pound of fine Sugar and ●et them all boyl softly till half the wa●er be consumed and if you would have ●our Marmalade white cover them very close during the boyling and being of a good colour break them with your spoon ●●d boyl them up to the thickness of a Mar●alade then if you please to have it scented you may dissolve into it a little Musk Ambergreese or Rose-water and when 〈◊〉 begins to cleave to the spoon take it from the Fire fill it into boxes or pots smooth it and cover it over with a little fine Sugar and thus you may make Marmalade of Pippins Apricocks Plumbs c. Marmalade of Oranges Lemon or Citrons c. Take the Peels of either clean scraped within and thinly pared without boyl them tender shifting in three waters to take away the bitterness till they have lost a great part of their taste then mash them in a Mortar with a wooden pestle boyl up Syrup with half a point of water to a pound of Sugar and when it is of a good thickness put in the Orange pulp c. and boyl it up scumming off the Froth to the thickness of Marmalade and scent it with Rose-water or Orange water and put it up in Boxes or lay it on a Plate and dry it into Past Past of Oranges and Lemons c. Boyl the Peel tender as the former putting into the first water a handful of Bay-salt and shift them often till the biting tast is gone beat them to Mash and strain the Pulp through a Cushion of Canvas and mingle something more then the weight in Sugar then boyl it up till you can spread it in cakes and Fashioning it as you please pritty thin dry it in places and keep it in a warm place Past of Plumbs Take tender Plumbs as many as you please put them in an Earthen pot and put that pot into a pot of boyling Water but let no water come to the Plumbs and