amongst the Eastern People and the fairest Females that could be chosen were her Priestesses who by an Indecent custom prostituted their Chastity to such as came to offer at her Shrine which brought her crouds of Adorers Anchire Queen of Sparta upon a discovery that her Son designed to betray her Country to her Enemy Ordered him to be brought to Justice but upon notice of it he fled to the Temple of Minerva which the caused to be so strictly guarded in order to prevent his Escape that he there perished by famine Andromeda Daughter to Cepheus for her Mothers comparing her Beauty to that of the Nerciâ—es was doomed to be devoured by a Sea-Monster but Perseus the Son of Jupiter by Dane seeing her bound naked to a Rock became Enamoured of her killed the Sea-Monster that came to devour her and made her his wife Angerona was by the An-cient Romans worshipped as the Goddess of silence and Consulted in all Abstruse matters her Altar being placed under that of the Goddess of Pleasure Anna Goranena Daughter to Alexix Emperour of Constantinople she wrote the Reign of her Father and other Learned Books and is remembred by divers Authors Anne Mother to the Virgin Mary who was Mother to our Blessed Saviour according to the Flesh. Anne a Prophetess daughter to Phanuel who frequented the Temple in Jerusalem in a devout manner and Sung Praises to God by the Direction of the Holy Spirit when our Saviour was first brought and presented there she dyed in the 84 year of her Age and in the first of our Lords Incarnation Anne Pâ—gmalion the King of Tyres Siner she was also Sister to Queen Dido of Carthage and after her Sisters death who flew her self for the Love of Aeâ—eas she failed to Malea and thence to Italy where Lâ—vinia who had Marryed Aeneas being jealous of her she fled her Fury and in her flight was drowned in the River Numicus and afterwards was held amongst the Romans as a Goddess Her Feast with much Reveling was held in the Ides of March. Anne Daughter and Heires to Duke Francis the Seconâ— of Brittanny she should have been Marryed to Maxmilian of Austria but after the death of her Father Charles the Eight of France neâ—reâ—â— to whose Teâ—râ—tories her Dutchy lay Gained her and annexed that Dukedom to the Kingdom of France Anne the Third daughter of King Charles the Firâ—â— of England was born on the 13. of March 1637 at St. James's Her Piety and Ingenuity was above her Age for being but Four Years old and falling â—ick she fervently called uâ—on God by Prayer and being at last almoâ—t sâ—ent and feeling the Pangs of death upon her after a Sigh or two â—he said I cannot now say my long Prayer meaning the Lord's Prayer but I 'll say my short one viz. Lighten mine Eâ—es O Lord least I sleep the sleep of Death and then quietly gave up the the Ghost Anne Queen of Bohemia and Hungary Daughter to Landislaus was Wife to Ferdinand of Austria upon which after some contests such discontents arose that Sâ—â—â—man the Turkish Emperor being called in War a great part of Hungary and narrowly missed taking Vienna to which he laid a hard Seige which went very bloody on both sides Anteborta held to be a Goddess among the Romans and had Adoration given her for the Success of things and favours past as they did to another Goddess called Postvorta in Expectation of the Success of things to come Antiope a Queen of the Amazons she assisted the Ethiopians in their Invasion of the Athenians but Theseus commanding the Greeks vanquished both Armies There was another of the same name who was married to Lycus a Thebian King who is fabled to be raviâ—â—d by Jupiter and Conceiving of that Rape brought forth Amphion who drew the Stones with the Musick of his Harp after him that rebuilded the demolish'd Walls of the City Antonia The Emperor Cladâ—â—â—'s Daugâ—ter who being accused by Nero the Emperor for intending to raise Sedition in the State and finding no hopes to free her self from the Tyrants Cruelty without marrying him which he earnestly pressed her to do and she deâ—â—â—â—ing the Murder of his two Wives kill'd her self to be freed from his Insults over her rather than she would yield to his Embraces or be at his Mercy Apicata Sejanus's Wife writ upon her being divorced a Memorial to Tiberius Emperor of Rome informing him how Drusius came by his death and the hand that Livia his Wife had in the concurring to it Also the Villanies of Ligdus the Eunuch and Endemes the Physician for which those that the accused were severely punished though the main end of her discovery was to revenge her self upon Livia her fair Rival Araclue a Lydian Virgin Daughter of Idomon who was so expert in all manner of Needle-work and Textury that she boasted her self equal in those Arts to Minerva which caused her to spoil her curious Manufactury which so grieved her that she hang'd her self but the Goddess in compassion brought her again to life yet turn'd her into a Spider a Creature which is usually busy in Spinning out its own Bowels Archâ—damia Cleonigmus a King of Sparta's Daughter hearing that upon the approach of Phyrus to besiege the City the Senate had made a Decree that all the Women should depart it she went boldly with a drawn Sword in her hand to the Senate-house and told them That the Mothers Sisters and Wives of those Warriers that were to fight the Enemy scorn'd to be less Valiant than they and thereupon got the Decree revoked Autem Morâ—s are such who are married having always Children with them one in the Arm and another at the Back and sometimes leading a third in the Hand You are not to ask what Church she was married in or by what Parson so long as a Totterdemallion shall swear he will justifie himself her Husband before any Justice of Peace in England Armenias's strict Virtue and great Love to her Husband Ladies we have in London who are so far from having a light Assent as they scorn to admit a weak Assault which confirms the Judgment of that noble accomplish'd though unfortunate Gentleman In part to blame is she that has been tride He comes too near that comes to be denied Sir T.O. This that noble minded Lady Armenia expressed who being solemnly invited to King Cyrik's Wedding went thither with her Husband At night when those Royal Rites had been solemnized and they returned her Husband asked her how she liked the Bride-groom whether upon perusal of him she thought him to be a fair and beautiful Prince or no Truth says she I know not for all the while I was forth I cast mine Eyes upon none other but upon thy self Those receiving Portels of her Senses were shut against all foreign Intruders She had made a moral League with her Loyal Eyes to fix on no unlawful Beauty left her surprized Eye might ingage her to folly We may imagine that
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
the Counsellour has a passage to this purpose in the Ninth Book of his Pleadings where he tells us That it is Received Truth that a perfect Child as to the Limbs and Lineaments may be born within seven months and live and he quotes Hippocrates for his Authority and divers others who affirm in lawful Matrimony seven months will produce a Child which in time will be lusty and strong Gallen in his Third Book Chap. 6. argues upon the same matter but rather according to mens Opinions than according to what the matter will reasonably bear as supposing there is no certain time limited for the bringing forth of children and Plinny says a Womun went Thirteen months with Child and another that it may be any time between Seven and Thirteen months but as to the seventh month Lemnius tells us That he knew divers married People in Holland that had Twins who liv'd and flourish'd their minds apt and lively not upon their first being marri'd which might there as well as here have bred suspicion but when they had been married many Years and no ground or room for so much as the shadow of it was left of their being spurious because born within that time He goes on and tells us an Example of his own Knowledge There was said he a great disturbance which had liked to have occasioned much bloodshed and some was spilt about it happening upon the account of a Virgin who descending from a Noble Family had her Chastity violated and this violation of her Honour was charged upon a Judge President of a City in Flanders who absolutely denied it and having seen the Child said he could make it a appear to be a child of seven months and that at the same time he could prove himself to be some hundred miles off for a continuance of Time Physicians were hereupon consulted as also Experienced Women by Order of the Judges before whom the Hearing was and they made diligent Enquiry into the Affair and without respect to any thing but their own Consciences they made their Report That the Child had been carried in the Womb but Twenty Seven Weeks and some odd Days but that if it had its full time of Nine months it would have been more firm and strong the body more compact the skin faster and the breast-bone that had a kind of a Ridge like that of the breast-bone of a Fowl would have been more depressed It was a Female Infant and wanted Nails having only a thin film or skin instead of them and this they concluded was for want of heat which more time would have matured We might produce a cloud of Testimonials to remove these Falling out Charges and Suspicions that make Marriage unease and uncomfortable but these we hope may suffice as to these particulars P Palatina a Goddess supposed by the Romans to govern over the Palace Palatula was the Name of the Sacrifice offered to her and her Priests who sacrified were called Palatualis Pallades were Young Virgins dedicated by the Thebeans to Jupiter after this sort of the first born and most beautiful was consecreated to him who had the li\berry the lie with whom she pleased till the time of her Natural Purgation and after that she was to be bestowed on a Husband but from the Time of her Prostitution to the time of her Marriage her Parents and Friends lamented her as one out of the world but at her Wedding they made great Feast and exceeding rejoycing Palladuim a Stame of the Goddess Pallas having a Lance or Javelin in its Hand and Eyes so artifica lly placed in the Head that they seemed to move as if alive The Trojans perswaded them-selves that this Image was made in Heaven and fell down from Jupiter and going to consult the Oracle of Apollo about it they had Answer that the City should remain impregnable Whirst Image remained in the Temple of Pallos but in the Ten Years Wars with Greece Diomedes and Vlysses undermining a Way beneath the ground into the Temple and killing the Guards stole it away soon after which the destruction of the City followed There was likewise a Statue of Pallas at Rome and in divers other places Pallas other ways called Minerva the Godness of Arms and Arts or Wisdomm who is fabled to have sprung from the Brain of Jove and was a great Patroness of the Greeks at the Wars of Troy Phillippa a Noble Italian Lady who for the Love she bore her Husband put on Armour and followed him unknown to the Wars and in The Battle of the Pavy sought between the Imperials and Italian Confederates against Francis the French king fighting Couragiously by his side she saved his Life in the press of the Enemies Parnel contracted for petronella a little stone Penelope so called from cerrain Birds she sed Philadelphia i. brotherly Love Phil or Philip a lover of Horses Phillis à 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. folium a little leaf Phillida dim a Phillis Phoeke Rom. 16.1 i. Moon see the Etym. of Phoebus in mens Names Polyrena she that entertains many strangers Prisca i. ancient or old Priscilla Acts 18.2 dim à Prsca i. ancient or old Prudence i. Wisdom knowledge a Name commonly used Pamphilia an Egyptian Woman of great Learning she flourished in the Reign of the Emperour Nero she was the Daughter to Solerides and marry'd to Socratides a learned man from whom she gained her proficiency in Languages leaving to Posterity 8 books of Miscellanous History besides other Works that were lost end not transmitted to Posterity of which only mention are made by Suidas and several other Credible Authors Paranimphs Maidens that undressed the Bride to her Nuptial Bed and lead the Bridegroom to it or as we call them Bride-maids Parcae called the Goddesses of Destiny by the Names of Clotho Lachesis and Athropos by some said to be the Daughter of Athropos and Themis by others of Necessity the Night and Chaos who had power to spin out and cut the Threads of the Lives of mortals The Youngest spun out the Thread the next in Years the Distaff and the Third cut it off which waan Emblem of the stages of mans life from Youth to Manhood thence to Old Age and consequently Death Parthenope one of the Nymphs or Land Syrenes who endeavoured to destroy Vlysses in his return from Troy by Shipwracking him on the Rocks of the Coast where they resided but was prevented by his causing his men to stop their Ears with Wax and Wool and tying himself to the main Mast she in Anger to miss her Aim which had never failed upon others threw herself into the Sea and there perished and being cast on the Shoar of Italy her Tomb by the order of the Oracle was erected were now the City of Naples is scituate Partula to whom the Romans assigned the care of Pregnant Women near their time called by others Lucina the Goddess of Child-birth Parisatis Sister to Xerxes the Persian King and Wife to
Reality when on the contrary a Courtesy which derives no higher than from meer humane Principles there is no greater stress to be laid upon it nor is it much to be confided in Affability under this notion has as we have said Constancy for it's second Property for it is not only true to others but is so to its self as being founded on the solidst of Virtues not being subject to those giddy uncertainties that are incident to vulgar Civilities for he who out of disesteem of his proper worth has placed himself in an inferiour Station will not conclude it an Arbitrary matter but rather a just debt to pay a respect to those in a Superior Station they had Access to it by his Voluntary receeding For an humble mind will see in others something or other to which it will allow preference so that acting upon a fixed Principle it runs not the hazard of Contradictions but is rendered sweet and affable whilst what is more stiff and unplyable is not regarded unless with contempt and neglect except the party holds conversation with Flatterers and Parasits who sell their breath to make their advantage and prey upon him but then again he is frustrated even of their Encomiums if it so happen that the prosperous Gales encrease into a shipwrecking Storm than those who were prodigal of their civilities whilst nothing else was wantâ—ng to make him swell above â—imself will withdraw even â—hose from him least by their being continued they should â—ncourage him to ask someâ—hing more of him which his â—rgent Necessities in his deâ—ressed Condition more earnâ—stly crave and require Job â—ompares such to Winter Brooks â—unning over when not needâ—d but shrinking away and â—rying up when the heat of â—ummer causes the greatest thirst and their Waters are â—ost coveted for cooling and â—efreshment or if it has been â—is good Luck to happen upon â—ome of a more generous Temper who instead of a servile â—ompliance with his Humour â—nd high Characters of his worth entertains him with â—he true Image of himself it 〈◊〉 frequently held as an unpardonable Crime which forfeits â—ll degrees of Favour and does â—ot only avert but incence and â—nflame the easie stir'd up Passiâ—ns of an unsteady Mind till â— breaks out into a violent Anger for a faithful Monitor is â—s unacceptable as a true Lookâ—ng-glass to a deformed Person which at the best will be set â—side and escapes well if not â—roken and Ladies we must â—cknowledge for this is apâ—licable to either Sex whilst â—reat Persons dispence their â—rowns or Favours by such â—easures they will be sure to â—o it unjustly as well as unâ—onstantly Anyle an Epigrammatick Poetess whose name is to 17 Greek Epigrams Her Verses of Birds are said to be yet extant Aspasia a Noble Milesian Dame said to have been the Mistress that is the Instructress of Pericles the Great Athenian Philosopher and Orator Astyanassa one of the Maids of Honour to that Helena whose Beauty set Troy on fire whom yet surpassing in the Theory of active Love she impudently committed by writing to the publick view and as 't is suppos'd in Verse the Descriptions of more Spintrian Pranks and Gambols then perhaps her Mistress ever practis'd or understood and which seem to have been a Pattern of those lew'd Inventions which the witty ribauld Aretine in after Ages broach'd for the use of the Sons of Priapus nor were their wanting in those Times apt Schollars to such a Mistress who prosecuted and enlarged upon the Subject the had begun Philenis a Strumpet of Leucadia as unchast faith a late Author in her Verses as her Life Athenais the Daughter of Leontius an Athenian Sophist a Woman of that Wisdom and Ingenuity as that she was thought worthy to be chosen for a Wife by the Emperor Theodosius the Second Angela de â—ugarolis an Italian Lady accomplish'd in Grammar Rhetorick and Poetry Anne Askew the Daughter of Sir William Askew of Lincoln-shire she is remember'd among the English Writers as well as in Verse as Prose for a Woman of singular Beauty Virtue and Ingenuity Anne Broadstreet a New-England Poetess She writ Descriptions of the Four Elements the Four Humours the Ages the Four Seasons and the Four Monarchies Anna Maria Shurman an Holandish Lady of the most celebrated Fame for Learning of any of her Sex that I have heard of in Europe at this day by her Epistles to many of the most Eminently Learned Men of this Age. Arabella an English Lady in the time of King James a near Kinswoman of his she was a Lady of no less Eminence for Learning and ingenuous Parts then for her Quality and as saith an English Writer who makes a mention of her She had a great facility in Poetry and was elaborately conversant among the Muses She had Correspondence with Andrew Melvin the witty Scotchman in the Tower being Prisoner there at the same time Aurca Behn a Dramatick Writer She writ the Dutch Lover the Amorous Princess the Forc'd Marriage a Tragy-Comedy the Fatal Jealousie a Tragedy c. Affinity Affinitas 〈◊〉 dred or alliance by Marriaâ—â— sometimes likeness of agâ— ment Address or Adress Frâ—â— direction a short courtâ— near and ready way I adâ—â— my self to such a Person iâ— resort unto make towards make my application to hiâ— Age. aetaes that part oâ— Man's Life which is from Birth to this or his last Day Man by our Common-Lâ—â— hath two Ages the Age 21 Years is termed his 〈◊〉 Age and 14 the Age of disâ—â—tion Lit. l. 2. c. 4. In a Wâ—man there are six 1. At â—ven Years of Age she may câ—â—sent to Matrimony 2. At 〈◊〉 she is Dowable 3. At tweâ—â—â— Years she is able finally to câ—â—firm her former consent giâ—â— to Matrimony 4. At foâ—â—teen she is enabled to receâ—â—â— her Land into her hands â— shall be out of Ward if she of this Age at the death of 〈◊〉 Ancestor 5. At sixteen 〈◊〉 she shall be out of Ward thouâ—â— at the death of her Ancestor was within the Age of fourtâ—â— Years 6. At one and Tweâ—â—â— Years she is able to alienate Lands and Tenements â—â—clus a Greek Author diviâ—â— the Life of Man into seven Aâ—â— 1. Infancy contains four Yeâ—â—â— 2. Childhood contains ten Yeâ—â—â— 3. Youthhood or Adolesceâ—â— consists of eight Years thaâ— from fourteen to two and twâ—â—ty 4. Young-manhood coâ—â—â—â—ues nineteen Years that is â—rom two and twenty to forty â—ne 5. Ripe-man-hood hath â—ifteen Years of continuance â—herefore makes his progress to â—6 Years 6. Old-age which â—n adding 12 to 56 makes up â—8 7 Decrepit Age is limiâ—ed from 68 Years to 88. See â—ore divisions of Age if you â—lease in first part Treasury of Times p. 377. and in Vul. Err. p. 216. Alimony Alimonia nouâ—ishment maintenance but in a modern legal Sense it signifies that portion or allowance which a married Woman sues for upon any occasional separation from her Husband wherein she is not charg'd with Elopement or Adultery This was
Kingdom of Portugal but though the Spaniard had then the longest Sword it is since fallen to her Posterity The Vertuous Donna Catharina Queen Dowager of England being likewise decended from her Cave vel raba Daughter of Julian Count of Ceuta and Consuegra she was Ravished by Rhoderick King of Spain which so incensed her Father that to Revenge it he called in the Sarazens who in a Barbarous manner over-run all Spain and expulsed Rhoderick his Kingdom Centhris Wife to Cinyre King of Cyprus Mother of Myrrha whom Venus turned into a Myrrhe tree Cenee a Maid That for her Viginity prevailed with Neptune to turn her into a Man that she might never more be ravished which he did and finding her of a Martial Spirit that she might be safe in War he rendred her Invulnerable but fighting with the Centaurs they bruised her to death with the weight of mighty Clubs after which she is fabled to be turned into a Bird. Ceres the Goddess of Corn Daughter of Saturn and Ops who went about the World with blazing Pines to seek her Daughter Proserpina whom Pluto had Ravished and carryed to Hell and at last finding her agreed that the should be six months in the year with Pluto and the other six with her on Earth Cesonie Empress of Caligula and after his death was Murthered by Julius Lupus for weeping over the dead Body of her Husband baring her Neck to the Cruel Wretch and dying with great Constancy and Courage she likewise strangled her Daughter Julia Drusila a Child of Four Years old Charicke Hydaâ—pes a King of Aethiopia's Daughter being very Fair and Beautiful to the rest of the Ethiops so that the Queen feared being mistrusted of Disloyalty but when she beheld an Ebbony Spot Arrisen on the Princess Arm the true Mark of a Legitimate Child of that Family she greatly rejoiced Charlotte Daughter of Lewis the Second Duke of Montpensire she was veiled a Nun when very young and afterward became Abbess of St. Jovare but not liking that kind of Life she privately withdrew into Germany and there turned Protestant and was Marryed to William of Nasau Prince of Orange whom she Loved so intirely that hearing he was desperately wounded by one Jourigni she fell sick with Grief and dyed at Antwerpt Chahatri Colombe a Taylors Wife of Burgundy being in Labour could by no means be Delivered but her Belly continued big till she dyed which was twenty four years after when being opened to find the cause the shape of a perfect Female Infant was found in her Womb petrefied to the hardness of aâ—stone Christiana Queen of Sweden she was Daughter to Gustavus Adolphus the Warlike King of the Swedes and Mary Eleanor of Brandenburgh after she had Reigned as Queen some years she voluntarily resigned the Crown to her Cousin Charies Gustavus and went to Rome where she lived very Splendidly to her death which happened Anno 1688. Chrysame a Thessaliaâ— Priestess who inured Cattlâ— by degrees to eat poisonoâ—â— Herbs till they became their Natural Food And in the War between the Grecians and Barbarians Left them as a Prey to the hungery Enemy who feeding on their Flesh became distracted so that 〈◊〉 easie Victory was gained over them Ciree an Inchantress dwelling in the Isle of Oggia 〈◊〉 to be the Daughter of the Sâ—â— who by her Inchantmenâ— changed Mens shapes and turned them into Beasts 〈◊〉 stayed Vlysses in his return from Troy till Minerva 〈◊〉 Protectress got leave of 〈◊〉 to set him free St. Claire an Order of Religious Women taking theâ—â— Denomination from her they were confirmed by Pope Innocent the Third Claudia a Roman 〈◊〉 Virgin she fastening her 〈◊〉 to the Galley wherein the Sâ—â—tue of Cyble was on the Rivâ— Tyber drew it to Rome when it stopt and no other 〈◊〉 move it ClemenÃé a Pagan Goddess Patroness of Mildness and Mercy she was painted wiâ—â— a Branch of Laurel in one hand and a Lance in the other she had her Temple in Rome Celia a Roman Virgin she was given in Hostage to Porsena when he besieged Rome but made her Escape on Horse-back over the Tyber but being sent back again he freely released her for the Vertue he found in her whereupon the Senate Erected her a Statue on Horse-back in the Market-place Ceobulina she Renounced the Crown of Rhodes to apply herself to Philosophy and a Contemplative Life Cleopatria Second Wife to King Philip of Macedon she was Murthered by Olimpias his first Wife after his being slain by Possanias Cleopatra Daughter of Philip of Macedon she was Marryed to Alexander King of Epirus and put to death by Antigonus at Sardis Cleopatria Daughter of Ptolomy Philometus King of Egypt Admirable for her Wit and Beauty she was Marryed to Alexander Bela King of Syria and left him for Demetrius Nicanor but he being taken Prisoner by the Persians she Marryed Rodogune and soon after put him to death and her Son Selucius ascending the Throne without her leave she â—hot him dead with an Arrow and made Antiochus the Eight King who understanding she â—â—â—ended to poison him at a Banquet she had prepared made her drink the dose of which she dyed Cleopatra Daughter of Ptolomy Physoon King of the Egyptians she was Marryed to her Brother and then to Antiochus King of Syria but she was strangled by Griphine his first Wife which known so ingraged the King that he caused her to be offered as a Sacrifice to appease the Ghost of the Murthered Cleopatra Cleopatra Daughter of Ptolomy Epiphanes Cleopatra The fair Queen of Egypt Daughter to Ptolomy Auletes she was first Marryed to her Brother Ptolomy but he being drowned in the Nilus when he fled from the overthrow given him by Julius Cesar she Captivated the Conquerer with her Beauty he begot on her a Son called Cesaâ—ion slain after Cesars death by the Soldiers of Augustus afterward Mark Anthony doated on her but after the overthrow at Actium she clapped Aspicks to her Breast and dyed to prevent her being carried Captive to Rome Cleophe Queen of the Massagues a People of India â—he opposed the Progress of Alexanders Victories till she brought him to terms which were to draw off his Army and leave her in quiet Possession of her Kingdom for which sue is said to pay him only the Tribute of a Nights Lodging Cleopatra Selene Marryed to Antiochus Gâ—â—phus King of Syria and afterward to Antiochus Cizicenus and thirdly to Antiochus Eusebius but being taken in a Battle by Tyranes he put her to death Clio one of the Nine Muses said to be the Daughter of Jupiter and Memory Clotilde Queen of France Wife to Clovis the First she Converted him to the Christian Religion and perswaded him to be Baptized she had divers Sons among whom after their Fathers Death there arose Civil Dissentions in disputes for the Throne which she being by no means able to Regulate it hastened her death Clotilde Daughter of Clovis and St. Clotilde she was Marryed to
Ancients to â—e Goddesses and worshipped by them as such having their charge assigned over Rivers and Fountains perhaps being Spirits that haunted those places and as they saw it convenient put on pleasing shapes to gain adoration from those that wandered in a melancholy posture to or by those solitary places Naprae a sort of Wood-Nymphs fancied or fabled like the â—ormer and held by the rural people in the like Veneration upon the same account their name being taken from the Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifying a Wood. Nevâ—u Sirnamed Magdalen was a very Learned and Ingenious Lady of Roches in Poitu famous for her parts and ingenuity leaving divers of her Writings of considerable use behind her and had a daughter no less accomplished in Learning and Ingenuity which was improved the more by her great industry in the Arts and Sciences she had brought up in by her careful mother to the praise and lustrution of her sex Niobe Daughter of Tantalus wept for the death of her children so immeasurably because they were slain for boasting themselves equal in birth to those of the Goddess Latâ—n â—â—iz Appolo and Diana that she is seigned to be turned into a perpetual weeping Marble Pillar and that sympathizing with her grief the natural Marble has ever since wept against Rainy and cloudy weather She was Wife to Amphioâ— King of Thebes who was said by the melody of his Harp to bring together the stones that built the walls of that City and from her came the saying of a mourning Niobe when any of the fair sex is too much overwhelmed with tears and grief for the loss of children or relations Naomi was mother in Law to Ruth the Mâ—abitess who was married to Booz the Father of Obed the Father of 〈◊〉 who was the Father of David from whom according to the flesh Christ took upon him in the fullness of time by a Lineal Descent our humane nature to redeem lost mankind and reconcile us to a state of happiness Nox Night or the Queen of Night was by the Ancients stiled an Heathen Goddess and accounted the daughter of Primitive Chaos and darkness Some likewise held her to be the Daughter of Heaven and Earth married as Poets fable to Erebus the God of the lower Region of Hell by whom she had four children viz. Fate or Destiny Old Age Sleep and Death and she was painted by them holding two infants in her arms one sleeping and the other waking the one fresh coloured â—â—â—e other pale or inclining to blackness denoâ—ing sleep the office of night to be the Image or representative of Death Nitocris Queen of Babylon was mother of Lebinetus whom Cyrus the great King of Persia thrust from his Throne though to prevent that City falling into the Enemies hands caused the great River Euphrates to be turned from its wonted course and brought it through the streets of Babylon an other way that by the rapidness of its course it might frustrate the Enterance of the Persians causing a Bridge likewise to be laid over it and her Tomb to be erected over the principal Gate of the City the which when the Persians saw she was notwithstanding buried in and when some time after Darius hoping by the promise of a Superscription to find great store of treasure therein sound nothing but a sharp reproof engraved on a stone for disturbing through covetousness the Repository of the dead Numbers were of so great account among the Greecians for their usefulness and the harmony and agreement as to mysteries and parts of the Creation sound in them that in their Heatheniâ—h Times they set up an Idol which they called Numeria or the Goddess of Numbers or accounts and payed Adoration to it Nymphs in general were accounted in the time of Paganism of an immortal Race fabled to be the daughters of Oceanus and Thetis and were distinguished into Nereides and Naides for the waters their Dryades and Hamadryades had the care of the Forests assigned them the Napeae of the Meadows and Groves the Oreades of the Mountains some supposing them to be departed Souls haunting places they most delighted in when they lived in the body Nursery-Maids If you intend to fit your self for this imployment you must naturally incline your self to love Young Children otherwise you will soon discover your unfitness to manage that charge you must be very neat and clearly about them and careful to keep good hours for them both to arise and go to bed likewise to get their breakfasts and Suppers at good and convenient time Let them not sit too long but walk them often up and down especially those who cannot go well of themselves you must also be extraordinary careful and vigilant that they get not any falls thorough your neglect for by such falls many the cause at first being unperceivable have grown irrecoverably lame or crooked Therefore if any such thing should happen besure you conceal it not but acquaint your Lord or Lady Master or Mistriss thereof with all convenient speed that so means may be used for their Child's recovery before it be too late You must be extraordinary careful that you be noâ— churlish or dogged to the children but be always merry and pleasant and contrive and invent pretty sports and pastimes as will be most suitable and agreeable to the childrens age keep their Linen and other things always mended and sâ—â—ter them not to run too fast to decay Do not let the children see that you love any one child above the other for that will be a means of dejecting and casting down the other Be careful to hear them read if it be imposed upon you and be not too hasty with them have a special care how you behave your self before them neither speaking nor acting misbecomingly leâ— your 〈◊〉 Example prove the Subject of their imitation Night-Walkers and Divers I joyn them together as being but one and the same thing for she that is a Diver or Pick-pocket is an infallible sâ—oler or Night-walker This Occupation is contrary to all other for she opens her shop-windows when all other Trades are about to shut them The Night approaching she rigs her self in the best manner she can with some apparent outward Ensign of her Protection having weigh'd Anchor and quitted her Port she steers her course for some one principal street as Cheapside or Cornhil with a gentle breese she first sails slowly on the one side and if she meet never a Man of War between Snow-hill and the Poultry she tacks and stands away to the other side but if she be a tolerable right Frigar she is laid aboard before maâ—e fast with the Grapplings and presently rummaged in the Whold sometimes she sheers off and leaves my Man of War on fire You shall know her by her brushing you sâ—riog in your face often hastings in the street by gazing about her or looking after some or other she hath brush'd but the most infallible sign is
true that those who boast of their Ancestors who were the Founders and Raisers of a Noble Family do confess that they have in themselves a less Virtue and a less Honour and consequently are degenerated And what differences soever there are between them and their Neighbours there ought to be no Upbraidings or Contempt and if any thing is to be done it must be with an humble Courteousness For the least betraying of Pride and Haughtiness of Spirit makes them reject even good advice Let all remember what they are before they were begotten and then they will conclude they were nothing what they were in the first Region of their dwellings before they breathed and then they will find they were but Uncleanness what they were so many Years after and then they will find they were only Weakness and Imbecillity what they are in the whole course of their lives and then they will know they are but sinners what in all their Excellencies and then they will find it but lent and that they stand indebted to God for all the Benefits they have Received and Enjoy in the first place and in the next to their Parents and the Creatures that cloath and feed them But they may if the please use the method of the Platonisis who reduce all the Causes and Arguments for Humility which they can take from themselves to these seven heads First The Spirit of a man is light and troublesome Secondly His Body is bruitish and sickly Thirdly He is constant in his Folly and Errour and inconstant in his Manners and good Purposes Fourthly his Labours are Vain Intricate and Endless Fifthly His Fortune is changeable but seldom pleading never perfect Sixthly His Wisdom comes not in any Full Proportion till he has but a few paces to the Grave and it be in a manner past using Seventhly His Death is certain always ready at the door but never far off It is past all doubt that a Fair Young Gentleman who stands recorded in History was very far from Pride who being often in his Life time requested to have his Picture drawn and courted to it by the greatest Masters of the Age who covered it as a perfect Pattern of Masculine Beauty yet utterly refus'd their Solicitations telling them he intended it not to be done till a few days after his Burial and so strictly enjoyn'd it by his last Will dying in the strength and flower of his Age to shew those that are proud of beauty what a change Death makes when opening his Sepalchar in order to it they found half his face consumed by Vermin and his Midrist and Back-bone full of little Serpents supposed to be bred of the Purrelaction so short a time had reduced him to and so he stands Pictured amonst his Armed Ancestors So soon does Death change the fairest beauty into Loathing Riches have the same fare for they cannot secure the Possession to the Grave nor follow him thither to do him any kindness and how soon may we be hurried thither we know not Seneca tells us of one Senecius Cornelius a proud rich man craftly in getting and tenacious in holding a great Estate and one who was as diligent in the care of his Body as in puffing up his mind in the conceit of his accumulated Riches having been one day to visit a sick Friend from whom he expected a large Legacy returning home joyful that the party was so near his end by which his Treasury would be augmented but in the night was taken with a Sqâ—â—nzey and breathed out his last before the Sun gilded the Earth with its beams being snatch'd away from the torrent of his Fortune and the swelling tide of his Wealth This accident was then much noted in Rome because it happened in so great a fortune and in the midst of wealthy designs and presently it made Wise men consider how imprudent a person he is who hears himself up and is 〈◊〉 with Riches and Honour promising himself many years of happiness to come when he is not Lord of to morrow The Tuscan Hierogliphycks which we have from Gabriel Simeon show us this viz. That our life is very short Beauty â—â—uzenage Money false and fugitive Empire odious and hated 〈…〉 that have is not 〈…〉 to them that enjoy it Victory is always uncertain and Peace but a â—â—â—dulent bargain Old Age is miserable Death is the period and is a happy one if 〈◊〉 be not sowred by the 〈◊〉 of our Life and nothing is permanent but the effects of this Wisdom which imployes the present time in the Acts of holy Religion and a peaceable Conscience For these make us live even beyond our Funerals embalm'd in the Spices and Odours of a a good Name blessing us for a blessed Resurrection to the state of Angels and Beautified Spirits where Eternity is the measure the Lamb the Light and God the 〈◊〉 and Inheritance Alexander we find was so puffed up with his Conquest over Persia that entring India he wept when the Sea interpreted that there was no more Worlds to Conquer but he that had threst his Sword through so many Nations with vast slaughter and had so many flattering Titles bestowed upon him that he 〈◊〉 himself a God and exalted Divine Adoration had his Ambition quenched at Bobylon with a little draught of Poyson to let the World see he was but a moral man and Subject to 〈◊〉 and Misfortunes as well as the 〈◊〉 of those People he had triumphed over Seneca tells us of a rich proud Man that gave himself up so much to sensuality that he would often ask his attendants when he was placed in his Chair whether he sate or no that by his Slaves answering him the by standers might know who were his attendants So have we seen a sparkish Gallant dancing along as light as if he thought the Ground unworthy to bear him yet often looking over his Shoulder at his man in a fine new Livery who lugg'd his Laced Cloak after him that the Night-Railsin the Balconies might take more notice of his Equipage The Pope to 〈◊〉 the Pride he may conceive for being Exalred to St. Peters Chair and to let him see he is but a moral man among other Ceremonies at his Corronation his one that carries a 〈◊〉 of Flax before him on a staff and it the appointed place says Behold Holy Father so passes away yhe Glory of this World or worldly things We find Xerxâ—â— wept ehen he saw his Army of Ten Hundred Thousand men upon the shoars of 〈◊〉 ready to invade the Greeks in Purpe in consideration that in less than an Hundred years that multitude of People would be turned to dust and 〈◊〉 bridged over the 〈◊〉 Sea with his mighty 〈◊〉 he proudly scourg'd the Wives with Chains as he 〈◊〉 because their Violence 〈◊〉 broke a part of it but it is observed that in less than two years his own rashness brought most of them to their Graves that mighty 〈◊〉 being consumed by
betwixt themselves vowing lasting Virginity Sisters Love to a Brother Ituphens being to suffer Death by Order 〈◊〉 Darius his Wife cast her 〈◊〉 groveling before the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with such pitiful 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ions and Clamours that they came even to the Ears of Darius and much penetrated him being uttered with such 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and moving Accenâ—◠〈◊〉 ble to mollifie the Flint 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 marble Imprest there sore with her pitious lamentations the Kings sent unto 〈◊〉 That her Tears and 〈◊〉 had so far prevailed with 〈◊〉 that from the condemned Society they had ransomed 〈◊〉 and one only to continue 〈◊〉 memory of their Name Family chuse among 〈◊〉 all whose life she most 〈◊〉 ed and whole safety 〈◊〉 greatest affection desired furhter than this to grant 〈◊〉 his sentence was 〈◊〉 None that heard this small yet unexpected Favour from the King but presently imagined she would either redeem her husband or at least one of her sons two of them being all she had then groaning under the burthen of that heavy sentence But after some small meditation beyond the Expectation of all men she demanded the life of her brother The King somewhat amazed at her choice sent for her and demanded the Reason Why she had preferred â—he life of a brother before the safety of such a Noble husband or such hopeful children To whom hr answer'd Behold O King I am yet but â—words and in my 〈◊〉 of years and I may live to 〈◊〉 another husband and so 〈◊〉 frequently by him more children but my father and mother are hath aged and 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 and should I lose a brother 〈◊〉 for evermore be deprived of that sacred Name Sentiments of the 〈◊〉 concerning women I 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 of the 〈◊〉 Wives who in conâ—â—â— of Death scorn to surâ—â— their Husband's Funeral 〈◊〉 but with chaste Zeal and 〈◊〉 Courage throw â—â—â—selves into the Flames as they were then going to the 〈◊〉 Bed Certainly they 〈◊〉 aright who reckon Day of our Death the Day 〈◊〉 Nativity since we are Born to Possession of mortal Life For this 〈◊〉 I honour the Memory of Ludâ—vicus Cartesius the Padâ—â— Lawyer who in his Last Will and Testament ordered that no sad Funâ—eal Rites should be observ'd for him but that His Corbs should be attended with Musick and Joy to the Grave and as if it were the Day oâ—â—poufals he commanded that Twelve Suits of Gay Apparel should be provided instead of â—â—â—ning for an equal number of Virgins who should usher his Body to the Church It will not I hope be an unpardonable Transiation if I statrt back from the melancholy Horrours of Death to the innocent Comforts of Humane Life and from the Immortal Nuptials of thâ—s Italian pass to the Mortal Emblem the Rites of Matrimony the Happiness of Female Society and our Obligations to Women 'T is an uncourtly Vertue which admits of no Proselytes but Men devoted to Coelibacy and he is a Reproach to his Parents who thuns the Entertainments of Hymen the blissful Amours of the Fair Sex without which he himself had not gain'd so much as the Post of a Cypher in the Numeration of Mankind though he now makes a Figure too much in Natures Arithmetick since he wou'd put a stop to the Rule of Multiplication He is worse than Nâ—â—ma Pompilius who appointed but a set number of Virgins and those were free to Marry after they had guarded the Sacred Fires the Torm of four years Whereas if his morose Example were follow'd all Women should turn Vestals against their wills and be consecrated to a peevish Virginity during their Lives I wonder at the unnatural Phancy of such as could wish we might procreate like Trees as if they were Ashm'd of the Act without which they had never been capable of such an extravagant Thought Certainly he that Created us and has riveted the Love of Women in the very Center of our Natures never gave us those passionate Desires to be our incureable Torment but only as Spurs to our Wit and Vertue that by the Dexâ—erity of the one and he Intergrity of the other we might merit and Gain the Darling Object which should consummate our Earthly Happiness I do not patronize the smoke of those Dunghil-Passions who only court the Possession of an Heiress and fall in Love with her money This is to make a Market 〈◊〉 and prostitute the Noblest Affection of our Souls to the fordid Ends of Avarice Neither do I commend the softer Aims of those who are wedded only to the Charming Lineaments of a Beautiful Face a clear Skin or a well shap'd Body 〈◊〉 only the Vertue Discretion and good Humour of a Woman could ever captivate me I hate the Cynical Flout of those who can afford Women no better Title than Necessary Evils and the lewd Poetical License of Him who made this Anagram Vxor Orcus idem That Ontour whisper'd the Doctrine of Devils who said Were it not for the Company of Women Angels would come down and dwell among us I rather think were it not for such ill natur'd Fellows as he Women themselves would proâ—â—â—â— Angels 'T is an ugratefull Return thus to abuse 〈◊〉 Gentle Sex who are the 〈◊〉 in which all the Race of 〈◊〉 are cast As if they deserv'd no better Treatment at 〈◊〉 Hands than we usually 〈◊〉 to saffron Bags and 〈◊〉 Bottles which are throâ— into a Corner when te 〈◊〉 and Spice are taken 〈◊〉 them The Pagan Poet 〈◊〉 little better than a Murdereâ— who allow'd but two 〈◊〉 Hours to a Woman 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vnam in Thalams alteram Tumulo For my Part I should steem the World but a 〈◊〉 were it not for the Society the Fair Sex and the 〈◊〉 Polished Part of 〈◊〉 wou'd appear but Hermiâ—â— masquerade or a kind of 〈◊〉 lized Satyrs so imperfect unaccomplish'd is our 〈◊〉 without the Reunion of 〈◊〉 lost Rib that Substantial Integral Part of our selves Those who are thus disjoynted from Women seem to inherit Adam's Dreams out of which nothing can awake them but the embraces of their own living Image the Fair Traduct of the first Mepamorphosis in the World the Bone converted into Flesh. They are always in Slumbers and Trances ever separated from themselves in a wild pursuit of an intolerable Loss nor can any thing fix their Valuable Dâ—â—â—res but the powerful magnetism of some Charming Daughter of Eve These are the Centers of all our Desires and Wishes the true Pandoras that alone can satisfie our longing Appetites and fill us with Gifts and Blessings in them we live before we breath and when we have 〈◊〉 the Vital Air 't is but to dy an amorous Death that we may live more pleasantly in them again They are the Guardians of our Infancy the Life and Soul of our Youth the companions of our Riper Years and the Cherishers of our Old Age. From the Cradle to the â—omb we are wrapt in a Circle of obligations to them for
Queen to whom she had been just and faithful and that she must now at her going out of the World give him her Hearty thanks that since he had no more Wordly Honour to Agrandize her he had taken Care to promote her to what was more glorious in Heaven by making her a Martyr to become a Saint in Blessed Realms of Eternal Life After Her Death these Verses were Written of her Phoenix Anna Jaâ—et nato Phaenice dolendum Sâ—â—â—la Phoenices null TullisseDuo Here Ann a Phaenix Lies who bore her like 't is said Never one age two Phaenixes has had After this another Fair Court Star set in Blood though deserving a better Fate The Lady Jans Grey who had Married Gulford Dudly Son to the Duke of Northumberland and was after King Edward the Sixth's Death Pursuant to his will Proclaimed Queen to avoid the return of Popery by the coming of Mary afterward Queen Mary to the Crown but Fate consented not for upon Mary's Proclaimation Northumberlands Army with which he went to oppose her disserting him he was taken Prisoner and soon after beheaded the Young Queen thus disserted trusting to her Innocence and Virtue as her guard and defence found them too weak where a Crown was in competition for she with her Husband was sent to the Tower where She continued a Mirror of Piety constancy and Patience being of the Royal Blood as Grandaughter to Mary second Sister to Henry the eight Tho she was very Young when this affliction fell upon her she was an extraordinary Schollar well skilled in most Languages during her Imprisonment she writ upon the Walls these Verseâ— Non Aliena Putes Homini â—â—â— nbtingere possunâ— Sors Hodierna mihi 〈◊〉 erit ika tibi Think nothing strange chance happens unto all My Lot's to day to Morrow thine may fall And again Dio Javante nill noâ—â—â— Livor malus Et non Juvants nil Juvat Labor grats Post Tinibras spero Lucem If God protect no Malice can offend me Without his help there 's nothing can defend me After Night I hope for Light She was so unconcerned at her Death though not above 16 Years of Age that she not only bore it with singular patience and constancy but seâ—t to comfort the Duke of Suffoâ—k her Father who was in Prison and soon after suffered in those Bloody Mazean times when Popery had got again the upper hand to comfort him by her Letter to Persevere in the Protestant Religion and if be had the hard Fortune to be cut off to Dye worthy of his Honour and like himself but not at call to gâ—â—â—ve for her for she was going to a happy Kingdom to the chaste Embraces of her Lord where she should be out of the reach of Trouble and Malice and sit down with Joy and Peace so that when this Incomparable Lady Dyed no Body could refrain from Tears no not her very Enemies whose Spleen had brought her to so early and untimely an end At the time when the Protestant Religion under the Pious Care of King Edward the Sixth flowerished the Duke her Father had one Mr. Harding for his Chaplain who seemed very Zealous for the reformed Churches but when Queen Mary came in and had set up Popery he Wind-mill'd about for promotion as some did in the last Reign and became a very bitter Enemy with his Pen and Tongue against the protestants which so Grieved this Pious Young Lady that she writ to him when she was in Prison to remember from whence he was fallen and to do his first Works which Letter for the satisfaction of all Pious Young Ladies and others pen'd by one of such tender Years we have thought fit to insert that her great Wisdom and Learning may be evident to the World Oft says she as I call to mind the Fearfull and Dreadful sayiâ—gs of our Saviour Christ that he who putteth his hand to the Plough and looketh back is not meet for the Kingdom of Heaven and on the contrary those comfortable words that he spake to those who forsake all and follow him I cannot but marvel at thee and lament thy case who seemest sometime to be a Lively Member of Christ but now the deformed Iâ—pe of Satan Sometime the Beautiful Temple of God but now the Synagogue of the Prince of the Air sometime the unspotted Spouse of Christ but now the shameless Paramour of Antichrist sometime my faithful Brother but now a stranger and an apostate sometime a slout Christian Souldier but now a cowardly Run-away yea whon I consider these things I cannot but cry out unto thee thou Seed of Satan whom he hath deceived and the World hath beguiled and the desire of Life and promotion subverted wherefore hast thou taken the Law of the Lord in thy Mouth wherefore hast thou preached the Will of God unto others wherefore hast thou Instructed and exhorted others to be strong in Christ when thou thy self doest now shamefully shrink away and thereby so much dishonour God thou preached'st that Men should not steal and yet thou steâ—lest abominably not from Men but from God committing hâ—inous Sacriledge robbing Christ of his Honour chusing rather to live with shame than to Dye Honourably and to Reign Gloriously with Christ who is Life in Death unto his Why dost thou shew thy self most weak when thou standest by most strong The strength of the Fort is unknown before the assaults but thou yeildest up thine before any battery was made against it c. And after many other Excellent Passages she thus concludes Let I pray you the lively râ—membrance of the last day be always before your Eyes remember that Runagates and Fugitives from Christ shall be cast out in that day who setting more by the World than by Heaven more by Life than him that gave it Did shrink and fall from him who forsook not them and also the inestimable Joys prepared for them who fearing no perril nor dreading Death have manfully fought and Victoriously Triumphed over the Powers of darkness through their Invincible Captain Christ Jesus who now stretcheth out his Arms to receive you is ready to fall upon you and Kiss You and last of all to wash you in his most pretious Blood and feed you with the Dainties it has purchased for you which undoubtedly could it stand with his own determinate purpose he would be ready to shed again for you rather than you should be lost Be constant then and fear no Earthy pain Christ has redeem'd thee Heaven is thy gain Women Destroyers of the Danes and the Priviledges they Enjoy by it When they were destroyed is already recited and riding the Land from such Mortal Enemies by the consent of the King and his Nobles which all the Men ascented to the Women were allowed the right hand of their Husbands which custom continues to this day though some will have it that it is only a fulfilling the old Proverb that the weak est goes to the Walls That they should
to a Senator of Venice although she had divers great Matches offered her Yet she Married a poor Gardiner saying She would Wed for Virtue and not for Riches and lived with him a Contemplative Life all her days Aristoclea a very Beautiful Lady being courted at once by Callisthenes and Strato the former being the Richer gained her by the Compulsion of her Parents and the latter endeavouring to take her away by force she by interposing to part them was killed whereupon Strato killed himself and Callisthenes went distracted Arsione Daughter to Ptolomy Lagos one of the Greek Kings that Governed Egypt she was first Marryed to Lâ—simachus Kind of Macedon and then to her Brother Ptolomy Coraunnus who murthered her two Children by Lâ—simachus and deposing her got the Kingdom of Macedon yet held it not long before he lost his Life Of which proceedings else where see more at larg Astrea held to be Daughter of Jupiter and Themis and is stiled the Goddess of Justice who in the Golden Age was sent from Heaven but that Age changing into Violence and Rapin and no regard being given to her she â—led back to Heaven and there holds the Ballances or the Sign Libra in the Zodiack Atalanta Daughter to Schoenus King of Scyros who for her nimbleness in running exceeded most of her Age and being very Beautiful she had many Suitors but resolved none should enjoy her but him that could out-run her upon condition that if she won the Race he should be put to death that undertook it this dashed many out of Countenance and many that she out-run were slain with Darts till Hippomanes praying at the Shrine of Venus for assistance had three Golden Apples given him which in the Race he threw divers ways and whilst she was heedful in gathering them he gained the Goal and had her to wife But afterward for desiling the Temple of Cyble in lying together under the Altar they are 〈◊〉 to be turned into a 〈◊〉 and Lyoness Ate held to be the Goddess of Strife and Envy who made it her business to set People at varience but from her Malice there an appeal to the Lites Daughters of Jupiter who restor'd People to Peace and Concord and prevented many Mischiefs that would otherwise have befallen them Atergatis a Goddess worshipped by the Ascolonities in the shape of a Mare-maid Artificial Beauty I do find that washing and painting is condemn'd in Holy Writ as the practice of loose licentious and lascivious Women who with the deforming of their Souls and polluting their Consciences do use the Art for embellishing their Countenances The New-Testament affirms we cannot make one hair of our head white or black and if we have neither the liberty nor are to assume the power to alter the Complexion of our hairs then muchless the complexion of our cheeks and faces St. Paul and St. Peter prescribed how Women should be clad that is with Modesty shamefac'dness and Sobriety and not with gorgerous Apparel or with braided Hair Gold or Pearls and if these things were forbidden how much more is washing or painting the Face So that this Artificial Beauty may appear to be divinely forbidden as an Enemy to Truth which needeth none but its own native Complexion and is so far from being beholding to Art for any addition to enliven her colour or to put a blush upon it but grant it were neither scandalously sinful nor absolutely unlawful yet the offence it giveth to the true and strict Professors of Piety is a sufficient Argument that it ought not to be practised Although many things may be permitted in themselves yet they become evil and are to be forborn when others are offended at them Neither is this all for the very name of a painted Face is enough to destroy the Reputation of her that useth it and exposeth her to all manner of Reproaches Upon reading of these Reflections upon Artificial Beauty methinks I hear some angry Lady saying I perceive this censorious Man hath been too busie with my Face and hath endeavoured to throw dirt on it because it hath been lately spotted in the fashion a fashion that hath as much innocence to plead for its excuse as custom for its authority Venus the Goddess of Beauty was born with a Motticella or natural Beauty-spot as if Nature had set forth a Pattern for Art to imitate You may see every day some little clouds over the face of the Sun yet he is not asham'd of his Attraction The Moon when she is at Full and shining in her greatest lustre hath in her Face some remarkable spots and herein is plac'd her chiefest glory as being in every thing inconstant but in this When I put on my Mask which is no more nor better than one great Patch you do commend me for it and will you be displeased with me for wearing a few black Patches which if they are cut into Stars do represent unto me whither I would go or if into little Worms whither I must go the one of them testifying in me the sense of my Vnworthiness to increase my Humility and the other the height of my Meditations to advance my Affections It is the unhappiness of the most harmless things to be subject to the greatest Misconstruction and on the same subject from whence others draw their suspicions of Curiosity to accuse our Pride we derive the greatest Arguments of discipline and instruction to defend our Innocence Nevertheless according to the obligation of my Duty to give you in all things Satisfaction I am determined to wear them no more Ausonius's Poem on the great Love that ought to be between a Man and his Wife 't is this which follows Ad Vxorem Live as we have liv'd still to each other new And use those names we did when we first knew Let the same Smiles within our Cheeks be read As were at first Let the day never come to see the change That either Time or Age shall make us strangec But as we first met let us ever be I thy young Man and thou a Girl to me To others though I seem like Nestor old And thou more years hast then â— Cumana told Sib. Times snow we will Cuman not see though it appears 'T is good to know our Age not count our Years Such I must confess Husbands ought to be to their Wives and Wives to their Husbands but they are seldom found in these days B. BArbara She that is strange inhumane or of a strange tongue and unknown Bathsheba 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bathshebang 2 Sam. 11.3 â— the Daughter of an Oath Bathshua 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bathshuang 2 Chron. 3.2 v. 5. the Daughter of crying or a Rich Noble and Liberal Mans Daughter Bauris perhaps pleasant from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ibid. Grae. Beatrice â— blesâ—ed from â—eo to bless Bener or Benedicta Blessed Benigna i. kind courteous bounteous Bertha i. bright or famous Bilhah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gen. 29.29 i. old or
death Birthia a Woman of Scythia mentioned by Pliny who had such infectious Eyes that with long and stedfast looking upon any Living Creature she would kill or much injure it she had in each Eye two Apples and two distinct Sights c. Blanch of Castile Daughter to Alphonsus the Ninth and Elenor of England she was Marryed to Lewis called the Lyon and afterwards King of â—ance she managed the Affairs of the Kingdom after her â—usbands death to Admiration â—otwithstanding Powerful Faâ—tions opposed her she was â—other to St. Lewis of France â—nd brought up him and her â—ther Children under the Tuâ—erage of such Learned and â—ious Men that they became â—n Ornament to their Counâ—ry Blanch Daughter to Otho â—he Fourth Earl of Burgundy â—nd Maud Countess of Artois â—he was likewise Queen of France by her Marriage with Charles the Fourth she was â—alsly accused of Adultery which Conspiracy against her Life evidently appearing the Accusers were flead alive and then being beheaded their Carcasses hanged on Gibbets Bentivoglia Francisca Married to Galeoto Manfredi but upon suspicion that he was secretly Married before to a Virgin of Fayenza she with two others who were pretended Physicians Assassinated him giving him the Mortal wound with her own hand Berenice Daughter of Ptolomeus Philadelphus King of Egypt and Marryed to Antiochus Sotor King of Syria who were both murthered by Laedicea Antiochus first Wife Bernice another Daughter to the aforefaid King of Egypt whose Hair being Dedicated to Venus for Pâ—olomeus Evergetes her Husbands success in War and hung up in the Temple where in a short time it being missed it was fabled by Callimachus and others to be taken up to the Skies by the Goddess and turned into a Star Berenice Daughter to Agrippa the Elder she was Married to Agrippa the Younger King of the Jews and sat with him when St. Paul pleaded before him and Festus the Roman Proconsul Berenice Daughter of Mithridates King of Pontus who when her Father was overcome by Lucullus the Roman Consul in a mortal Battle took poison that she might not fall into the hands of the Enemy alive but that not presently dispatching her she caused one of her Slaves to strangle her Berthe Daughter of Cuthbert King of France and Ingoberge she was Wife to Ethelbert King of Kent a Saxon Prince who then was a Pagan but by her pious and Examplary Life she won him to Embrace Christianity Berthe Daughter to Lotharius the Second King of France and Valrada his Queen she was one of the most Couragious Beautiful and Illustrious Princesses of her Age she had divers Noble Husbands at sundry tiâ—es and did many brave Exploitâ— in War Barthe Daughter of Cheribert she was Wife to Peppico the short afterward King of France and Mother to Charles the Great Bonere Force a Queen of Poland Wife to Sigismund the First by Isabel of Aragon she was a Woman of great Virtue exceeding Loving and Tender of her Husband attending him like a common Nurse in all his Sickness sitting up with him and tending him with little or no rest to herself though he diswaded her to take off herself and commit that charge to others Boâ—romea Biancha a Learned Lady of Padua being perfect in the Sciences and spoke divers Languages the which together with her rare Beauty gained her a singular Esteem among the Learned Brigite since called St. Brigite was a Swedish Princess she flourished in the 14th Age and was Marryed to Prince Vison of Nericia and by him had Eight Children after the Death of her Husband who turned Cestertian Monk with whom before she had been on a Pilgrimage She wrote a Volume of Revelations in Eight Books which has been approved by divers Popes and dying 1373. She was Canonized by Pope Boniface the Second Britomaris a Cretian Nymph held to be daughter to Jupiter and Charmea she much delighted in Hunting but one day heedlesly Traversing a Forrest she fell into a Hunters Net and fearing some wild Beast should come to devour her she implored the help of Diana whereupon the Goddess released her from the Toil in Grateful acknowledgment the Nymph built a Temple and dedicated it to her by the Name of Dyctin Diana Minos King of Creet attempting afterwards to Ravish her she leaped into the Sea and was drowned Brumechilde Daughter of Athanagilde King of the Wisgoths she was Married to Sigebert the first King of Austratia she caused great mischiefs in France which in the end came home to her for being accused by Clotaire the Second for the murther of Ten Kings She was first Racked and then torn in pieces by drawing Horses She was a Woman of vast Ambition and endeavoured to destroy all her Opposers but her death in a great measure prevented it Budos Lodovica wife to Montmorency Constable of Fr. Busa a Lady of Apulia who fed Ten Thousand Hunger-starved Romans as they fled from the Battle of Cannea where the Roman Army was defeated by Hannibal Baâ—helors It was inserted in Plato's Laws that what Man soever liv'd a Batchelor above five and thirty Years of Age was neither capable of Hoâ—our or Office Alexand ab Alex. lib. 4. cap. 8. Licurgus the Lawgiver amongst the Laâ—edemonians as the same Author testifies to shew the necessity of Marriage made a Decree That all such as affected singleness and solitude of life should be held Ignominious They were not admitted to publick Plays but in the Winter were compell'd to pass through the Market-place naked and without Garments The Law of the Spartans set a Fine upon his Head first that married not at all next on him that married not till he was old and lastly on him they set the greatest Mulct that married an evil Wife or from a strange Tribe So laudable and reverent was Marriage amongst the Lacedemonians Procreation of Children and fertility of Issue That whosoever was the Father of Three Children should be free from Watch or Ward by day or Night and whosoever had Four or upward were rewarded with all Immunities and Liberty This Law was confirmed by Q. Metellus Numidicus Censor after approved by Julius Caesar and lastly established by Augustus Memorable are the words of Metellus in a publick Oration to the People If we could possibly be without Wives O Romans saith he we might all of us be free from molestation and trouble but since Nature excites us and necessity compels us to this exigent That we can neither live with them without Inconvenience nor without them at all more expedient it is therefore that we aim at the general and lasting profit than at our own private and momentary pleasure Bawd Pimp c. I put these together because it is pity to part the Devil's Houshold-stuff And indeed she is very much like him her Envy running Parallel with his For all that the Devil endeavours to do is to bring Mankind into the like state and condition and the nature of a Bawd is to make all fair Women as foul
a thing common to all they Solace the incommodiousness of 〈◊〉 Age closes our Eyes bringâ— us to the Earth from wheâ—â— we came They are our Bones our Flesh and Blood seeing them we see our selves in 〈◊〉 sort that the Father seeing 〈◊〉 Children may be assured 〈◊〉 he seeth his lively Youth â— newed in the Face of theâ— But if we do we consider and weigh in a 〈◊〉 Ballance the great and unâ—â—â—portable doings we shall 〈◊〉 amongst these Roses 〈◊〉 Thorns and among theâ— Sweet Showers of 〈◊〉 that there falleth alwayâ— much Hail it is true the Athenians are a People 〈◊〉 commended for their Prudenâ— and Wisdom seeing that 〈◊〉 Husbands and Wives could 〈◊〉 agree because of an infinit number of Dissentions and Provocations that chanced ordinarily between them were coâ—â—trained to ordain in their Common wealth several Magistraâ—â—â— whom they called Reconcilers of Married ones the Office of whom is to Reduce Reconcile and make Agreement by 〈◊〉 means The Spartans in their Common-Wealth had in like case Established certain Magi strates Named Armasins who had the charge to Correct the Insolency of Women to Reprove their Arrogancy and Audacity towards their Husbands The Romans would not ordain Magistrates perswading with themselves per adventure that Men were not sufficient to bridle the unbridled raging Temerity of Women when that they were out of Order But they had their Refuge to the Gods For they Dedicated a Temple to the Goddess Viripla where in the end they agreed of their Domestical Quarrels But who can say they patiently bear the charges of Marriage the Insolency and Arrogancy of Women the yoke of a kind so unperfect Who may accomplish their carnal appetite is also their unsatiable Pomps â—oth not the Old Greek Proverb say that Women and â—hips are never so well accomplished but that alwayes they â—ant Repairing If thou takest â—er poor she shall be despised â—â—d thy self less esteemed If â—ou takest her rich thou makâ—st thy self a Bond-slave For â—hinking to Marry a Companiâ—n equal to thee thou Marriest â—n unsupportable Mistress If â—ou takest her soul thou 〈◊〉 not love her If thou â—kest her fair it is an Image â— thy gate for to bring thee â—ompany Beauty is a Tower that is Assailed of all the World and therefore it is very hard to keep that every one seeketh to have the Key behold the hazard wherein thou art saith William de la Perreire that thy round-head become not forked which were a fearful Metamorphosis if it were visible and apparent This then is the Conclusion Riches causeth a Woman to be Proud Beauty maketh her suspected and Deformity or foulness causeth her to be hated Therefore Diponares having tasted the Martyrdoms of Marriage said That there were but two good days in all the Life of Marriage the one was the Wedding day and the other the day that the Woman dyeth For that on the day of Marriage there is made good Cheer the Bride is fresh and new and all Novelties are Pleasant and of all Pleasures the beginning is most delectable The other day that he commends to be good is the day the Woman dyeth For the Beast being dead dead is the poyson and by the death of the Woman the Husband is out of Bondage and Thraldom Ceremonies before Marriage The Persians were only permitted to contract Matrimony in or before the Summer Equinoctial but not after The Dapsolites once a Year make a solemn Convention of all the Men and Women that are dispos'd to Marriage in one day in which after their great Feast the Women retire themselves and lay them down upon their several Pallets the Lights being all put out the Men according to their number are admitted in the dark where without any premeditate Choice but meer Lot and Chance every Man chuseth her whom he first lights on and Divirginates her and be she fair or foul ever holds her as his Wife Stobre Serm. 42. Amongst the Carmanians no Man is suffer'd to marry before he hath presented the Head of an Enemy to the King About the Lake Meotes there is a People called Laxamatâ—e amongst whom no Virgin contracts Matrimony before she hath subdu'd an Enemy There is a Law amongst the Armenians that Virgins are first prostituted in an old Temple dedicated to the Goddess Anetes whose Picture was of solid Gold which Antonius after sacrilegiously as they held it took away according to the gain of their Compression it was lawful for any Man to chuse a Wife where he pleas'd Amongst the Câ—prians the Virgins before Marriage daily repair to the Sea â—hoar and there company with Strangers till they have got such a competent Sum as maâ— make up their Marriage Doweâ— The Phoenicians do the like iâ— the City of Syca but thâ—â— Prostitution is in the Temple of Venus the Surplusage thâ— ariseth above the Dower returns towards the Repairing oâ— the Church The Carthagiâ—nians observe the like Custom The Lydian Virgins befoâ—â— they were suffer'd to lie wiâ—â— their Husbands made themâ—selves for a certain time comâ—mon to any Man till 〈◊〉 with Saciety they became genâ—tle and quiet to their Beds 〈◊〉 from that time forward vowâ— Chastity but if any one 〈◊〉 found ever after to transgâ—â—â— the bounds of Temperance she was punished with all Riâ—gour and Cruelty Aeâ—â—â—â—ib 4. de Var. Hist. Lycurâ—â— having prescribed a certain Agâ— before which time it was 〈◊〉 lawful for young Men 〈◊〉 Maids to have Carnal company being demanded the reason â—â—â—swer'd Because the issue 〈◊〉 proceeds from those of Raâ— Years and grown Strength 〈◊〉 likewise able and perfect 〈◊〉 the hasty and untimely Geâ—â— ration is still subject to Weâ— ness and Infirmity Plutâ—â— in Lacon Ceremonies used in Mâ—â—â—riage by several Nations In the Roman Marriages whâ— commenc'd with Contracts mutually Sealed and Signâ— with the Signets of divers Wâ—â—â—nesses there present there weâ— sundry Customs observed by them The Man in token of good Will gave to the Woman a Ring which she was to wear upon the next Finger to the little one of the Left-hand because unto that Finger alone a certain Artery proceedeth from the Heart The Sabine Women they continu'd a Custom that the Man should come and take away his Wife by a seeming Violence from the Lap or Bosom of her Mother or her next Kin. She being thus taken away her Husband did part and divide the Hair of her Head with the top of a Spear wherewith some Fencer had been formerly kill'd which Ceremony did betoken that nothing should disjoin them but such a Spear and such like Violence Towards Night the Woman was brought home to her Husband's House with five Torches signifying thereby the need which married Persons have of five Goddesses and Gods Jupiter Juno Venus Suadela and Diana who is called Lucina When the Woman was thus brought to the Door then did she annoint the Polls of the Door with Oyl from which Ceremony the Wife was call'd Vxor quasi Vnxor
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
A 〈◊〉 that was as clear as day 〈◊〉 bright Should bud with Stars like an Enamell'd Night Your Sickness meant to turn Astrologer Your Face the Heaven and every spot a Star Or else would write on Almanacks and raise By those red Letters nought but Holy Days They blush no more but let the fair ones know They are but Characters wriâ— on your brow Or Etch'd by skilful hands that they may see That Beauties subject to Mortality How frail 't is how vain 's to adore it How weak they are that Love and Marry for it Divorce the manner of it among the Jews Divorce among the Jews was in this Form The Day Month and Year of the Creation of the World being first named according to the Computation we use here in this City The Son of Rabi D. but now I Dwelling near such a River in such or such a Place have desired of mine own Free-will without any Coaction And have Divorced Dismissed and cast out thee I say Thee My Wife C. of the Country G. of B. Daughter of Rabi N. Dweling in such or such a Country or Dwelling now in such or such a Place Scituate near such or such a River which hast been my Wife Heretofore But now I do Divorce thee Dismiss thee and cast thee out that thou mayst be Free and have the Riâ—e of thy self to depart to Marry to any Man whom thou wilt and let no Man be refused by thee for me from this Day forward for ever Thus bâ—th a Lawful for any Man and this shall be to thee from me a Bill of Separation a Bill of Divorce a Bill of Dismission according to the Law of Moses N. The Son of N. Witness N. The Son of N. Witness Domry The Copy of a Bill among the Jews was in this Form viz. Upon the sixth Day of the Week being the Fourth of Month 〈◊〉 in the Year of the Creation of the World 5234. According to the Computâ—â—ion we use here at Massilna a City which is Scituate near the Sea-shore The Bridegroom Rabi Moses the Son of Rabi Jehuda said unto the Bride-Wife Dinah Daughter of Rabi Joseph the Son of Rabi Jacob a Citizen of Madrid be unto me a Wife according to the Law of Moses and Israel and I according to the Law of God will Worship Honour and Maintain and Govern thee according to the manner of the Husbands among the Jews who do Worship Honour Maintain and Govern their Wives faithfully I do also bestow upon thee the Dowry of thy Virginity two hundred Denairs in Silver which belong unâ—o thee by the Law and moreover thy Food thy Apparel and sufficient Necessaries as likewise the Knowledge of thee according to the Custom of all the Earth Thus Dian the Virgin rested and became a Wife to Rabi Moses the Son of Jehuda the Bridegroom Such Virtues as to Women praises win Are sober shews without Chast Thoughts within True Faith and due Obedience to their Mate And of their Children honest Care to take Dunmow a Town in Essex has a very strange Custom anciently settled in it which is upon these Conditions viz. by a Monastry held there it was ordain'd That if any Man would come and Kneel on Two Stones yet to be seen at the Church Door before the Convent and solemnly take an Oath he might peremptorily demand a Flitch of Bacon as his Right which would be freely given him Wherefore since this is a common saying in Essex and because we know not but the Custom is yet good we shall set down the Form of the Oath that Marry'd Men and Women knowing it may be the better capable of Judging whether they can safely dispence with it or not You shall Swear by the Custom of our Confession That you never made any Nuptial Transgression Since you were Marry'd Man and Wife By Houshould-Brawls or any Strife Or otherwise at Bed or at Board Offended each other in Deed or Word Or since the Parish-Clark said Amen Wish'd your selves unmarried agen Or in a Twelve-Month and a Day Repenting Thoughts did never stray But continu'd True and in Desire As when you Joyn'd Hands in Holy Quire If to these Conditions without all fear Of your own accord if you 'll freely swear A Gammon of Bacon you shall Receive And carry it hence with Love and good Leave For this is our Custom at Dunmow well known Tho the Sport be ours the Bacon's your own And by an old Book they keep to show there it stands upon Record that one Richard Wrighte of Badsworth in Norfolk in the 23 of Henry the Sixth when John Canon was Prior Stephen Samuel of little Easton in Essex on the Seventh of Edward the Fourth and Thomas Lee of Coxhal in the asorenamed County in the Second of Henry the Eight The said Oath at the Respective times mentioned and had their Bacon with great applause of their being Extraordinary Husbands that they could keep their Wives in good Humour so long And indeed this Custom was first brought up to show the young Nuns that a Married Life consisted not of such Extraordinary felicity as was supposed by young unmarried People since it was apparant by the few that came for Bacon and those that came perhaps swallowed the Oath for Lucre of the Profit that there were discontents and divisions in it and thereby confirmed 'em to live contented in a Single Life sequestered from the World and indeed many such Whimseys they had in those dark times of Ignorance to work upon the younâ—er sort and draw them into a snare but being once â—oosedâ— in a Monastry not all their Tears and Repentance without a good sum of Money could bring them out again for to that end most of the cunning Contrivers of those Orders laid their Nets as well foreseeing most people would be desirous of a Novel or Change in their Course of Life to live on Plenty and be at Ease Danes 〈◊〉 by Women Denmark and Norway over-swarming of those Ravenous People they made great Spoil and used Intollerable Cruelties not only here but in Scotland being then Pagans or Heathens so that Churches Abbeys Monasteries were Burnt and Plundred the Nuns Ravished and all manner of Miseries heaped upon the bleeding Nation that a Barbarous Enemy could inflict They shot King Edmund to death at St. Edmonbsbury his death putting the Town in awe and continued their Mischiefs till King Ethelred taking pity of his Subjects and finding he could not root out their Enemies by force used policy he had at this time bought his Peace of them for Ten thousand Pounds a Year Notwithstanding which they Compell'd him to pay Fourty thousand Pound a Year And Billited their Soldiers in Alâ—-Houses to be a Spy upon their Landlord where he lived a lasie Life and was called in honour Lord Dane which is since corruptly turned Jut Lurden for an idle dronish Fellow nor were they so contended but they took the priviledge to lie with the Wives and
up of her Statue she 〈◊〉 procured his banishment and sided with Theophilus 〈◊〉 soon after she miscarried 〈◊〉 Eudoria Daughter of Tâ—dosius Junior Wife to 〈◊〉 the Second she 〈◊〉 Genseric into Italy to Reveâ— her Husbands death on 〈◊〉 the Usurper who 〈◊〉 Rome and carried her and 〈◊〉 Daughters away but at 〈◊〉 instance of Martin and 〈◊〉 they were sent baek Eudoria Daughter of Lâ—ontius an Athenian Philosopher who for her Wit and Beauty was married to Theodosius the younger Emperour of Rome having no other portion to 〈◊〉 her off Eve the Mother of all Lâ—ing placed in Paradise and there had continued happy had not the Subtil Angel prevailed against her Eulogia Sister to Michaeâ— Pelcologus the Greek Emperour she had a great Ascendant one her Brother who dearly loved her for the Care and Tenderness she had over him in his Infancy but when he went to join the Greek Churches with the Western and she not able to diswade him from it caused a Rebellion to be raised in the Empire Euridice She was Daughter of Amyntas the third King of the Macedonians Married to Aridaeus natural Son to King Philip contending with Olimâ— King Philips Wife she was overthrown and taken Prisoner when having sent her by the said Queen a Silken String 〈◊〉 Dâ—gger and a Dose of Poison to take her Choice of what manner of death she would dye she nothing daunted took the first and having prayed that Olympas might come to the same distress which accordingly fell out she hanged herself Euttochium Daughter of Paula a Roman Lady she was brought up under St. Jerom and lived 35 Year in a Nunnery at Bethlehem She was so well skilled in most Languages that she was stiled the wonder of her Sex Came Sa. the Mothers brother also Gossip Friend No. Can bring forth young Carn No. to run like Cheese Caves-dropper one that listens under the Windows or house-Eaves Eye how to govern it Eyes are the Casements of the Body and many times by standing too much open let in things hurtful to the Mind a wanton Eye is the truest Evidence of wandering and unsteadfast Thoughts we may see too much if we be not careful in Governing our Eyes and keeping them from going astray and returning with vain Objects to the Phancy and Imagâ—nation which making unhappy Impressions they cannot be easily Obliterated This made the Princely Prophet when his Feet was betrayed by his Eyes into the snare of Lawless Lust pray so earnestly against the danger when he said Lord turn away my Eyes from beholding vanity and hence appears our miseries that those Eyes that should be Limbecks of Contrition the Celterns of sorrow should become the Inlets of Lust and the Portals to open and betray the whole body into Sin and Folly by letting in dangerous Enemies to surpize the Soul and overcome it with Strong Temptations Eyes thâ—u fix on Ambition makes Honour and Greatness their Objects which they convey and Represent as a solid good to the mind which frames the Project to attain to the Equipage and Grandure who make a splendid show of Guilded Cloaths and Titles in the World and then a Toâ—ment and 〈◊〉 ensues if the party â—e fruiâ—rated in aspiring to the height she Aims at Richeâ— sometimes are greedily 〈◊〉 in at the Eyes and then Covetousness winds it self into the Soul and brings along with it a thousand Inconveniences as Care Grief Fear Distrust Pining Discontent and an Unsatisfied Mind even with largest Fortune The Loose and Lacivious Eye makes Beauty its Object and whilst it sends abroad its Amourous Glances to take others it Captivates the Mind of its owner and binds it in the Chains of Slavery Many who have tampered in Jest have been taken in Earnest so have we seen a Cautious Fish nibbling at the Bate in hopes to get it off without hazarding the danger of the Hook till engaging too far he instead of feeding himself has been made the Anglers food Therefore Ladies to prevent the Malady which like a spreading Contagion disperses it self into most Societies you must keep your Eyes within Compass from wandring as much as possible and resolve with your self not to set any value or esteem upon earthly things more than may be taken off if reason requires it when the comeliness of any creature takes up your thoughts too largely then to remove that Object Place the Eyes of your Mind upon the Glorious and Transcendent Beauties and Loveliness of your Creator remember that God alone is the only worthy Object to fix our Minds on that we may have no desire to take it off when earthly things though valuable are of 〈◊〉 duration and lost almost 〈◊〉 soon as possessed and 〈◊〉 times create troubles and misfortunes carrying in themselves no solid or substantial Conteâ—ment Remember what a misery Dinah by giving her Eye to wandring brought upon herself and others Then 〈◊〉 preserve a purity of Heart 〈◊〉 Intention too strong to be invaded or at least overcome you must keep a watchful Guard over every Sense for if the Eye that is the light of the Body be evilly disposed the rest of the Senses 〈◊〉 needs be dim'd and darkened Consult Chastity and Modesty and as far as their Rules allow you may proceed with 〈◊〉 but all beyond is danger which is to be shun'd and avoided though the Eyes of other Creatures have no Objects but the visible Creation and naturally look down on the Earth 〈◊〉 which their irrecoverable 〈◊〉 must return Yet we have that more Glorious to Contemplate which only can make us truly happy for Heaven we ought to prepare for our sight naturally tends thither and the Eye of Faith Penetrates and gives the Upright sense a conversation there before it 〈◊〉 off it's incumbrance of Clay Give no occasion then Ladies for any to tax your Eyes with any thing that is not modest comely and allowable consider in company at home if of the different Sex nor in your walkings abroad to give them their wanderings but let your mind be upon them to keep them in their due bounds â—east becoming a Prey to others you are Enslaved or if you make a Prey of others your Conquest may however prove very troublesome and uneasie to you The Eyes are not the only dangerous things about you The Tongue many times for want of good Government betrays you into divers Misfortunes and Inconveniencies of which we shall briefly Treat Elizabath Queen of England her sufferings Elizabeth Queen of England â—tands to this day the wonder of her Sex as well relating to God's Providence in her many Deliverances in the Reign of Q. Mary her Sister as when â—he came to enjoy the Crown herself for all the open Force â—nd private Plots and Conâ—piracies against her were frustrated whilst she was in the Tower Bishop Gardiner â—ent a Counterfeit Warrant for â—er Execution but upon the Leiutenants going to know the truth at White-Hall it was â—et aside And such power â—ad
understood how passionately and disconsolately â—her Noble Husband took the death of his Daughter whom â—e infinitely loved for her promising Infancy gave apparent arguments of Succeeding Maturity made it one of her constant'st tasks to allay his Passion and by playing the part of a Faithful and Discreet Conâ—ort expostulates with the grounds of his immoderate sorrow in this manner How is it Sir that your Wisdom should thus forget it self Is it any newer thing to dye than to be born Are we here placed to survive Fate Or here planted to plead a pripriviledge against Death Is our Daughter gone to any other place than where all our Predecessors have gone to Yea but you will say She dy'd in her blooming Youth before the infirmities of a Decrepit Age came upon her The more was she bound to her Maker The fewer her Years the lesser her Cares the fewer her Tears Take upon you then something more of Man and partake less of Woman These comforts which I make bold to apply to you might be more seemingly derived to me by you 'To grieve for that which is Remediless argues weakness and not to prevent what admits a probability of Cure implies carelesness Let us neither be too Esseminately weak in the one nor too securely remiss in the other So may we cure the one with Patience and redeem the other by a timely Diligence For the next Object reflecting upon their Fame Nicetas says plainly No punishment so grievous as shame And Nazianzen yet more expresly Better were a Man dye right-out than still live in reproach and shame 〈◊〉 being ready to dispatch himself used these as his last words No grief doth so cut the heart of a Generous and Magnanimous Spirit as Shame and Reproach For a Man to live or dye is natural But for a man to live in shame and contempt and to be made a lâ—ughing stock of his Enemies is such a matter as no well bred and noble-minded Man that hath any Courage or Stomach in him can ever digest it And yet bravely-spirited Leonida 〈◊〉 those Assailants of her Fame withâ— less dis-respect then her 〈◊〉 sought to blemish it I am more confident of my Fame said she than to suspect how any light tongue should impeach it Nor was that vertuous Clareana less resolute who directing her speech to her Accusers told them her fame was so far distanced beyond the reach of their impeaching as it ingeniously pittied the weakness of their detraction This confirmed the resolution of that Noble Patron who occasionally used these words in a grave and great Assembly No Womans fame could priviledge it self from a dangerous taint if it were in hazard to suffer or lose it self by a poysonous tongue For the last but least which is Fortune Many Heroick Spirits have we had of this Sex who so far disesteemed this outward rind for no other title would they daign to bestow on it as one of them freely professed What matter is it whether I be rich or poor so my mind be pure And these instances are not so rare but we may find another of the same sex to second so vertuous and accomplished a filter The poorest thing on earth is to suffer ones enlivened thoughts to be fixt on earth And we have a third to make up a Consort She is of a weak command who submits her thoughts to the command of fortune And â—his a Quatermon of brave resolved Spirits expressed in 〈◊〉 livering the nobleness of 〈◊〉 thoughts in these proper â—â—presses which with their â—â—monds they left writ in â—â—panes of their own 〈◊〉 Windows The device of 〈◊〉 first was this It is not in the 〈◊〉 fate To weaken a 〈◊〉 state And the second scorns to 〈◊〉 short of her resolution Fortune may sundry Eâ—gines find But none to raze a 〈◊〉 mind The third in contempt of Fortune inlargeth this subject Should Fortune me â—â—stress My Mind would be â— less The fourth to shew her affection true Touch attests be Constancy in this Fate may remove Life but not love Thus have we shown their Sprightly Tempers in their â—tempt of all oppositions 〈◊〉 might assail or assault them Life they sleighted being competition with honour 〈◊〉 though it was too high a 〈◊〉 to lose yet being not 〈◊〉 to themselves of any stain they neglected with a graceful 〈◊〉 the irregular liberty of a loose tongue And for Fortâ— they stood so indifferent as they held Content their Crown and that Crown the absolutest imbellishment of an infranchis'd 〈◊〉 Female Generosity There was sometime a Person who weary of the World desir'd to ease himself from all the secular Cares and betake himself to a Religious Privacy so as within short time he was received into the Covent Now it hapned one day that this Religious Man walking alone in the Garden seem'd as One much discontented which the Abbot observing came unto him demanding the reason of his Heaviness willing him to impart unto him the occasion of his Grief as became an inferiour Member of the Society to do unto his Superiour Nothing Reverend Father answer'd he concerning my own particular 〈◊〉 doth it repent me to have enter'd into this Religious Order For I find more comfort in one hour within these Walls than ever I could in all those Possessions I injoy'd in the World But I must tell you Father that I have one only Son which I left behind me and very dear was he unto me 〈◊〉 I am much perplext in mind about him for I know 〈◊〉 how the World may deal with him Tender are his Years which adds to the measure and number of my Cares Nor am I so confident of their Trust to whom I recommended him as to free me from that pious Jealousie which I harbour in my Breast touching him Advise me then dear Sir what course were best to take that my Care may be setled and his Safety provided on whom with equal Hopes and Fears the troubled Thoughts of a Father are many times fixed Is this your cause of Pleaviness said the Abbot To rid you from these Cares and increase your hope in his succeeding Years send him to me and see what effect will come of it According to the Abbot's Direction he causeth his Son who indeed was a Daughter which he dissembled for some reasons to be sent for Who after some time of Probation was admiâ—ted to the Society Now it chanced that the Daughter of an Eminent Person not far distant from that Abbey was got with Child and for some private respects to her self best known desirous to conceal the true Father laid the Child upon this supposed Brother who was indeed a Sister This modest Creature was so far from defending her own Innocency as she took unto it as if she had been the true Father which be got it The Rumour hereof so highly incensed the Abbot holding it to be a great Scandal to his Society to have any one under his Charge conscious of such
but what becomes of those that are there they know not they being never after seen many of the like instances we might give you but not to be tedious we conclude this Head and proceed to the next That Love in some Cases plays the Tyrant many even in this Age have experienced a Young Gentlewoman not long since in Covent-garden being sent out of the Countrey by her friends to prevent her Marriage with a Young Gentleman of a small fortune to whom she was Contracted and entirely Loved receiving a Letter though forged in his Name that he was married took it so hainously that notwithstanding the Care taken of her upon the visible Change and Melancholly it occasioned she strangled her self with one of her Gatters though this Stratagem is sending the Letter was only to wean her Affections from him so that Love in this Case proved as strong as Death Love has had such an ascendant over the Indian Women that where there have been more Wives than one belonging to a Husband and which the Custom of the Countrey allowed when he dyed they have contended which of them should leap into the Funeral Flames to bear him Company as they fancied in the other World and she to whose Lot it fell by Decision has embraced it with Joy and Triumph and counted her Fate most Glorious Love in its Operation works stupendious matters it has built Cities united Provinces and Kingdoms and by a perpetual Generation makes and preserves Mankind propagated Religion but in the height of its Rage it is no more than Madness or Phrensie and turning into Lust turns the Glorious Fabricks it has raised into Confusion Ruins Families and brings a croud of Miseries upon Mankind Sodom Troy and Rome have felt the Effects of its outragious Fury much Blood has been shed upon that account as well in Private as in Publick it has tumbled Kings from their Thrones and laid much Honour in the Dust Wives have destroy'd their Husbands and Husbands turn'd Barbarians towards their Wives it has opened a door for Jealousie and that has let in revenge and all the cruelties that witty horrour could invent yet knowing all these things some will wilfully suffer themselves to be carried away with a violent Passion as with a Rapid Torrent into the deep Gulf of Misery where they inevitably perish this by the way but now we come to something more of Love Heroical incident to Men and Women Chast Nuptial Love of which we may truly say Thrice happy they who give a heart Which bonds of Love so firmly ◠That without Brawls till death them part Is undissovl'd and cannot dy Rubenius Celer was proud to have it Engraved upon his Tomb-stone that he had continued in the bonds of Marriage with his dear wife 〈◊〉 forty three Years and eight Months and never had any Contention with her should our Age boast of such strict Love the Censorious would scarce believe tho' more the pity is that all Conjugal Loves are not of the same then there would be no pleasure in this world Comparable to it some curious Searchers into Nature and observers of the Faculties of the Mind are of the Opinion that in woman there is something beyond humane delight something of a Magnetick Virtue a charming Quality a hidden and powerful Motive that attracts a more than ordinary Love and Favour and dispenses if rightly understood a more than ordinary Pleasure and Delight though the Husband rules her as head 〈◊〉 has the Dominion over his heart and makes him pleasingly yield to her Modest Desires and rate her at a Value equal with himself and when his good natured Passion boils up it overflows in raptural Expressions as if the fair Sex had so much the Ascendant over man that they in a high degree participate something of the Nature of Beautiful Angels always Fresh and Charming it was the wish of the Poet to Love to the end of his Life when he says Dear Wife let 's live in Love and dy together As hitherto we have in all good will 〈◊〉 no day Change or Alter our fair Weather But let 's be young to one another still Love of this Kind shows that Beauty has not the sole Dominion over it for when tha is faded like a blasted Rose ruffled by the Breath there remains something within that apears Beautiful and Lovely standing at Defiance with time whose rugged hand has no power to press it into Deformity or with his Iron Teeth that ruin the Monuments of Kings the Temples of the gods themselves and the magnificent Trophies of Conquerors give it the least Diminution or Impair and this is excellently described as to the Beauty of the mind by a young Gentleman who fell in Love with a Lady for her Wit and Virtue though no ways externally Accomplished viz. 1. Love thus is pure which is design'd To Court the Beauty of the mind No pimping dress no fancy'd Aire No sex can bribe my Judgment there But like the happy spirits above I 'm blest in Raptures of seraphick Love 2. Such chast Amours may justly claims Friendship the Noble manly Name For without Lust I gaze on thee And only wonder 't is a she Only one Minds are Courtier 's grown Such Love endures when Touth and Beauty 's flown 3. Who on thy looks has fix'd his Eye Adores the Case where Jewels lye I 've heard some foolish Lovers say To you they give their hearts away I willingly now part with mine To Learn more sense and be inform'd by thine Long may such Love flourish in the world And then Love will be Love and not dissimulation Love is a sharp spur to prick men on to valorous Exploits even those of a rural Education for their Mistresses sakes have oftentimes ventured upon such daring Exploits as would have made them upon any other account to have trembled Some are of the opinion that if it was possible to have an Army of Lovers and their Mistresses to be spectators of their Courage they would do more than could be reasonably expected by men prove extraordinary valiant prudent in their Conduct and modesty would detain them from doing amiss Emulation incites them to noble Actions and carries them on like a rowling Torrent over the swords of their Enemies to bear down all before them there is none so dastardly Pusillanimous that Love cannot inspire with a Heroical Spirit when Philip of Macedon prosecuted his Conquests in Greece he observed in one Battel he fought that in the Enemies army was a small Band of men fought couragiously and held so close together that they made ten times their Number give back nor could they be broken till oppressed by multitudes and then like chased Lyons killing a multitude of their Enemies they expired upon their dead bodies not one seeking to fly or submitiing to quarter The Battel being over the King demanded what those brave men were that had fought and was answered their Band was called
Food with her into the Prison however her Mother subsisting beyond what could be suspected the Jaylor watched the Daughter and at last found she had supported her with the Milk from her Breasts which known the Consul pardoned the Mother and highly praised the Daughter and in Memory of this An Altar was raised to Piety in the place where the Prison stood Sir Thomas Moor being Lord Chancellor of England at the same time that his Father was a Judge of the Keng's Bench he would always at his going to Westminster go first to the King's Bench and ask his Fathers Blessing before he went to sit in the Chancery There happened in Sicily as it hath often an Eruption of Aetna now called Mount Gibel it murmurs burns belches up Flames and throws out its fiery Entrails making all the World to fly from it It happened then that in this Violent and horrible breach of Flames every one flying and carrying away what they had most precious with them two Sons the one called Anagias the other Amphinomius careless of the Wealth and Goods of their Houses reflected on their Father and Mother both very old who could not save themselves from the fire by flight And where shall we said they find a more precious Treasure then those who begat us The one took up his Father on his Shoulders the other his Mother and so made passage through the Flames It is an admirable thing that God in consideration of this Piety though Pagans did a Miracle for the Monuments of all Antiquity witness that the devouring Flames staid at this Spectacle and the Fire wasting and broiling all about them the way only thro' which these two good Sons passed was tapistried with fresh Vendure and called afterwards by Posterity the Field of the Pious in Memory of this Accident Love in former times when Sacrifices attended the Hymenial Rites as part of the Ceremony that it might not be imbittered the Gall of the Beast was not us'd but cast on the ground to signifie that between the young Couple there should be nothing of that Nature to disturb their Felicity but that instead of discontent Sweetness and Love should fill up the whole space of their Lives and indeed it is the best Harmony in the World where a Man and Woman have the pleasant Muâ—â—â—â— of Contentment and Peace to refresh them in their dwellings whilst they make their study to encrease their Happiness This is as comely a sight as Apples of Gold set in Pictures of Silver or Brethren living together in Unity Love was so powerful with Plautius Nuâ—â—â— that hearing his Wife was dead he killed himself Darius after he had grievously lamented the loss of his Wife Statira as thinking she had perished in the General 〈◊〉 Alexander had given his Army was so over-joyed when he heard she was safe and honourably used by the Conqueror that he prayed that Alexander might be fortunate in all things although he was his Enemy Two large Snakes Male and Female being found in the House of Titus Gracchus the Augurs or Soothsayers told him That if the Male was let go his Wife should die first but if the Female himself should die first Then pray said he let the Female Snake go that Cornelia may live by my Death and so the Historians say it happened for he died in a few years after and leaving her a Widow she refused the King of Egypt in Marriage the better to preserve the Memory of her deceased Husband Ferdinand King of Spain married Elizabeth the Sister of Ferdinand Son of John King of Arragon Great were the Virtues of this admirable Princess whereby she gained so much upon the heart of her Husband a valiant and fortunate Prince that he admitted her to an equal share in the Government of the Kingdom with himself wherein they lived with such mutual agreement as the like hath not been known amongst any of the Kings and Queens of that Countrey There was nothing done in the Affairs of State but what was debated ordained and subscribed by both the Kingdom of Spain was a Name common to them both Ambassadors were sent abroad in both their Names Armies and Soldiers were levied and formed in both their Names and so was the whole Wars and also Civil Affairs that King Ferdinand did not Challange to himself an Authority in any thing or in any respect greater than that whereunto he had admitted this his beloved Wise. Love so bound the Soul of a Neopolitan to his fair and vertuous Wife that she being surprized by some Moorish Pirates who privately landed in a Creek and then put off again with their Prize that whilst they yet Cruiz'd near the Shoar he threw himself into the Sea and swam to their Ship and calling to the Captain told him He was come a voluntary Prisoner because he must needs follow his Wife not scaring the Barbarism of the Enemies of the Christian Faith nor Bondage for the Love of her who was so near and dear to him The Moors were full of admiration at so great a proof of Affection yet carry'd him to Tunis where the Story of his conjugal Affections being rumour'd abroad it came to the Ear of the King of that Countrey who wondring at so strange a thing and moved with Compassion to such a Lover ordered them their Liberty and placed the Man as a Soldier in his Life-guard Love in this a Passiâ—n is so strange It hides all fauits and ne'r is gi'n to change it uneclips'd in it's full Blaze shines bright Pure in it self it wants no borrowed Light Nor sets till Death draws the dark Scene of Night Liberty is so sweet and pleasant that all Creatures naturally cover it and though irrational are uneasie under restraint or Confinenmet The Romans of old had so high an Esteem of it that they priz'd it before all things in the World and thought it worthy of Veneration making it one of their Goddesses erected and dedicated Temples in Honour of it and esteemed Life in Golden Chains of Bondage not worth regarding and their greatest Offenders were punished with Interdiction Religation Deportation and such like accounting it worse than any other Severity as knowing without it the mind becomes a tormentor not only to it self but to the Body by wasting and consuming it with Grief and Anguish and that a Man will refuse no kind of Hardship nor Danger to secure his Liberty but Sacrifice their chiefest Ornaments and even Life it self as precious as it is to the uttermost hazard to preserve it Many Cities rather than fall into the hands of their Enemies and become Captives have been turned by their Citizens into an Acheldama of Blood and spread Ghastly Scenes of Death to amaze and slartle their most cruel Enemies When Hannibal had besieged the City of Saguntum nine Months and Famine warring within their Walls so that they found themselves in a great straight and without hopes of Succour but that they must fall into
pain and loss The Jews have a pretty Observation upon the Hebrew Name of Woman the first and last Letters whereof make up the Name of Jah God which if they be taken from the middle Letters leave all in Confusion for they signifie Fire so if God encloses not Marriage before and after and be not in the midst of of it by the Band of religious fear and dread of breaking out it is nothing save a fiery Contentious and an implacable Condition But this Consent of both in the Lord is the most firm and blessed of all what a pleasant Glass it is for a Husband and a Wife to see each others Faces in yea even their Hearts and to be acquainted with each others Graces or Wants to be assured of each others Love and loyal Affection Then to look how they stand affected to the Band of their Union we mean Fellowship in Religion Faith Hope now let us Examine this Truth but only in one Prime and chief Act of Religion and that is Faith in the All-Sufficiency of Providence and that will teach us the rest what is the Marriage Estate some only a Stage of worldly Care to act her part single Persons never come effectually to understand what Care means but married People let them be never so wealthy and loving have peculiar Cares and Consideration of this in some Countries they were used to hang a Cloth in the Bride Chamber on the Wedding-day called a Care-Cloth that it might allay the Excess of Joy in the married People by minding them they must expect some Bitterness to be mingled with their Sweet and indeed it may always be Fancied to hang in every Bride-Chamber unless Faith take it down and fastens their Care upon his Providence that careth for them cutting off all superfluous Care of things in worldly Matters now this Grace belongs joyntly to both of them to prevent great Evils that else may follow in being over careful for the things of this Life and by a too eager pursuit of them perhaps by unlawful ways to heap up Riches they squander away that precicious time allowed them to barter for eternal Happiness till a Cloud of Age comes on and at it's Heels the Night of Death in which none can work out their Salvation and then the main end for which they were made is utterly lost and it had been better they never had been made But when the Burthen of their care by Faith and a firm Relyance on God is thrown upon him he will sustain them and make their Cares easie and seasonable to them Let the Lord be their Portion Rock and defence and what can distract them they will draw sweetly together in the Matrimonial Yoke committing to God the Care of their Bodies as well as their Souls remembring the wonderful Effects of his Providence how it feeds the young Ravens Cloaths the Lillies and satisfies the Lyons hungry Whepls when they cry for lack of Food and these Considerations are more strengthned in a joynt Consent to all Graces as Hope of Salvation a fit Preparation for Death Mercy and Compassion Love Fear Meekness and the rest all which in their kind under Faith serve to furnish the married Condition with Content and Welfare what can so assuredly bring in Blessings to the Bodies Souls Families Posterity and Attemp of each other as Joyntness of Religion when both are agreed and one builds up as faâ—t as the other when no sooner the one Enterprizes any lawful thing but the other joyns in a commending it to God for a Blessing and when they espy any Infirmity in each other it is reserved for matter of Humiliation till the next time no sooner they meet with a Mercy but they lay hold on it as an occasion of rendering Praise and Thanksgiving for it To the God of all Mercies and Comforts keeping the Altar ever burning with the fuel of Sacrifice what a sweet Derivation is this to both of Pardon and Blessing what a Warrant is it to them that either shall share in all Good when as they do equally need it so each seek it of God and when they voluntarily make him Privy though indeed nothing is hid from the Eyes of his Observation yet is most pleased when Man is willing he should see his inmost thoughts to their Doubts Fears Wants and Necessiâ—ies what can so well assure them of a happy Condition when Censuring Condemning and Quarrelling with each other is altogether laid aside or if any such matter should by a strong Temptation prevail over them suddenly it is turned into a mutual melting in Gods Bosom by the Griefs and Complaints they make against it when in Christ their Advocate they sanctifie all to themselves and are in a happy State when they walk close with God and cast their Care on him Marriage without a Pre-ingagement or Contract looks so odd that it appears more liker the Coupling of Irrational than Rational Creatures and it must be by a Miracle if a Marriage hurried and clapt up of a Sudden almost without the Consent of either Party but as it were acted in a Comedy only in Jest to please or amuse the Spectators ever proves happy or successful tho' Loves flames are violent in their full Blaze yet they must have time to kindle and by degrees rise to that heighth of Ardour for his Infant firâ—s scarce warm the Bosom and for want of diligent Tendance many times dy almost as soon as born wherefore our advice is there ought to be a settled Love before the Joining of hands or Cupid who loves to make Sport and Pastime with poor Mortals when he has as it were by surprize thrust their beads into the Noose will retire laughing and leave them tugging and strugling with dislikes and discontents when you are too fast to get loose Move then with Caution and deliberation first to consider the Fitness and Equality of the Person in Years Lineaments and Fortune and by degrees settle your Affection which if you can cordially do then be not over Scrupulous or Timerous as many have been and thereby lost great advantages to enter into a solemn Contract which is a binding and uniting your hearts in the sight of Heaven and since this word Contract has startled some and stumbled others and has been construed divers ways sometimes to advantage and sometimes to prejudice and indeed has made a great Noise in the world in Relation to Marriage where those who have no regard to solemn Protestations or are Light and Unconstant have had to do with it to gratifie their own Desires and Lusts and decoy and deceive and betray such as have credited their Oaths and Vows but to come nearer to ou purpose we mean to Explain and Expose it honestly and as in it self it bears that it may not stand up as a Scarecrow in the way of Matrimony where there are real and cordial Intentions sending towards it and in such Cases as it may be lawful not hindred
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
raised them as lasting Monuments as men can pretend to In honour to whose worthy memories we shall adorn this Work with the Names of some modern Ladies that have been famous this way mostly of our own Nation Pembroâ—k may boast to have had Mar the Incomparable Sister of the famous sir Philip Sidher to it's Coanâ—â—â— whose Name and Memory shall ever have in his 〈◊〉 which was 〈…〉 Virtuous Inclinations to Poetry and other Ingenuities There is extant of her Writings the Tr. of Antonius and Albions Triumph some others are named but supposed to be lost or in private hands The Lady Mary Wroth the Virtuous wife of Sir Robert Wroth was an Emulatress of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia by her Vrania a Poetical History much of the same Nature being a very curious piece tho not meeting with the like general reception Ann Askew the Daughter of Sir William Askew of Lincolnshire is remembered among the Ingenious Ladies for divers things she wrote in Verse and Prose she is described to have been of a singular Beauty Virtue and Ingenuity but above all to be Admired for her Constancy and Courage in 〈◊〉 asserting the Protestant Religion against almost a whole Nation of Popery and Dâ—iâ—g for that Faith suffering as a glorious Martyr in the flames under the bloody Maryan Reign The Lady Bacon one of the four Daughters of Sir Anthony Cook The other Burleige the Ladies three were the Lady Russel and Killegrew of whose Genius in Poetry whatever hath been extant there is the Testimony of the famoâ—s Sir John Hâ—rrington on their Part who in his Alegacy upon the thirty seventh Book of his 〈◊〉 Orlando Fâ—riâ—◠〈◊〉 gives them all a very large Character for Learning and particularly for Poetry The Lady Elizabeth Carrew wrought the Tragedy of Mariam a very curious Piece Elizabethâ— Jioanna Westonia is by the Learned Farnby esteemed as a very Wife Ingenious Lady insomuch that for her Poetry and other Accomplishments he blushes not to rank her with Sir Thomas Moor Drury Alabaster and other English Writers of Latin Poetry The Lady Jane Gray Daughter to the Duke of Suffolk whom we have already mentioned took much delight in Divine Poetry almost as soon as she understood Letters Margaret Dutchess of New-castle a very Charitable and obliging Lady to the World very copiously imparted to publick view her Elaborate Works in three large Volumes one of Orations another of Philosophical Dramatick and other kind of Notions and Discourses and the third of Poetry not forgeting to make her own and her Lord's Fame live when Monuments shall crumble into Dust. And amongst those of lower rank tho no less excellent in this Art we find Mrs. Katharine Philips to whose worth in Poetry the Nation has deservedly given a large applause her Works are of a fresh date and worthy the peâ—â—sal of young Ladies to which for their more ample satisfaction we refer them Anae Brâ—â—dstreet a New-England Poetress who writ so curiously that she was called the tenth Muâ—e sprung up in America she amongst other things excellently described the four Elements the four Humours the four Ages the four Seasons and the four Monarchies Astera Behen a Dramatick Poetress whose well known Plays have been every taking she was a retained Poetress to one of the Theatresses and writ besides many curious Poems but what exceeded the rest was that famous one upon the Death of King Charles II. which notwithstanding divers were written by the best Poets of the age carried the Bays from them all in the Opinions of the Judicious so that we may see would Ladies bend their Talents this way they might be capable of equaling if not exceeding the men and one main advantage they would gain by it by being armed for the Encountering their Satyrâ— Pasquils Lampoons c. and by matching them not only in Vindicating their Sex but in exposing the â—olly and malice of their adversaries they would keep them in such awe that the number of false aspersions and câ—lumnies would be lessened and dwindling away by degrees they would at length be disencumbered of all unjust reproaches so that they would see a wonderful change and reformation in their manners by reducing the stubborn Sex to their former Placableness and setling them in a temper that may make them highly esteem what they once durst seem to dispise and trample on for what can it be imputed less when out of a fantastick or malitious Humour they libel Virtue and to make themselves a little pastime among Fools and Bussoons or to satisfy a spleen for being refused in their aspiring to what their Merits could no ways reasonably pretend they dip their Pâ—â—s in Gall and Wormwood and sprinkle it in a bitter manner to blot â—nd fully Modesty Chastity Sobriety Piety and all that can render a Woman lovely and admirable the which aspersion tho never so false is greedily suckle in with the common air by the ignorant and unthinking Vulgar and passes current because they hear not what the party can say in vindication of her self to undeceive them by detecting the bussoonery or malice of the Inditer which if ingeniously done would not only nonpluâ— but shame the scandaliser so that the arrows he shot to wound the Reputation of another would be forceably driven back upon himself and make him â—â—n able what it is to feel his own Weapons Points which would have only tickled his Fancy with a sit of laughter had they not missâ—â— their aim some there are that have been met wiâ—hal and overmatch'd by such replies to their reflections that they have not only desisted to make any further attempts of that kind upon the Fair Sex but been so far shamed of their bâ—jaded Muse ever after that they dust not trust so much as a diâ—ick to pâ—ep abroad in the World unless in such an Owl-light of obscurity that only a Privado or Confident who handed it about could charge the Author with it Poetry at leasure hours is a very curious Recreation if it be on worthy Subjects nay it Elevates and Illuminates the Mind to an high degree of Befining it and spreads a comfortable heat through every part it is an enemy to sadness and melancholly and reaches at more than it can express it represents the Idea of things done many ages past so lively that the Readers immagine they see them present it has a power over tears and laughter and can compel them as occasion requires it exhilerates and brightens the Soul with number and harmony and is the very Soul of Eloquence it has an insinuating faculty to please the most sower and mâ—rose temper tho for Colour and show they may seem to be outwardly displeased at it therefore Ladies if it be used as you ought you cannot have a better Companion except Divinity in your Retirements As Pictures represent the Images of things to the Mind by the Eye Poetry must do it much livelier by the Ear and if such things as are
consequence must at last in outward comformity be demeanable to the Laws of God and man and men our Coffee-Houses and Plâ—ys would not abound with Champions for all licentiousness it is such as have no property of their own who cry up that which may destroy it in other men There seems to be a spiritual as well as a natural blessing in marriage for though the Nature of man is to depraved that in all is choice of Things in this World he makes Vertue the least Ingredient so that in Honours Riches Power Friends and all the rest of the World's Inventory Vertue makes not always a Figure yet is the choice of a Wife 't is the prime motive Is she fair rich witty and not vertuous Neither the wife nor the rich man will make her his Choice And as marriage abates the irregular lives of men so it produces a sober and well disposed Posterity How often do we see mothers vie with their Neighbours in the Infant Divinity of their children in which they have not only the Praise of men but the Encouragement of a Sacred Promise viz. Teach thy Child when he is young and he will not forget it when he is old The Testimony of that great King which he gives of his mother's Instruction is very remarkable which runs thus The words of King Lemuel the Prophecy that his mother taught him What my Sin and what the son of my Womb and what the son of my Vows See a book call'd Marriage promoted Silence The true Vertue of Silence cannot be too much commended It is such a Quality that I want words to express its worth I cannot well tell which I should most commend to Gentlewomen either Speech or Silence since the one of them doth too much and the other too little Speech enricheth and corrupteth but silence is poor but honest I am not so much against Discourse as vain Pratling which consumes time and profiteth no Body Speech indeed is one of the blessings of Nature but to ride still on the top of it is too vehement The first word in the school of Cleanthes that great Philosopher was silence and the first word of command amongst souldiers in the Field now adays is silence A talkative man or Woman is like an unbraced Drum which beats a wise Man out of his wits Many States have used to punish the laying open of Secrets with the loss of their Tounges which was a very just Law and a sure one for no example prevails with a born Taâ—ler but the forfeit of his Tatling Organ I wonder that the Turks do not generally deprive their slaves of their Tounges as of their stones methinks they should be as jealous of their secrets as they are of their Lusts. Certainly all people that are subject to this flux of words are very dangerous I never knew Tatling a safeguard but only by the Geese that preserved the Capitol I shall conclude this head with that of a famous Writer There is a Time when nothing there is a Time when something but there is no Time when all things are to be revealed Secret Lovers Let us here instâ—nce what Râ—â—â— modesty hath been shown by Women in the secret Expression of their affection How loth to be seen to love and how Faithful to those they did love How shamed fac'd in their professing and how stedfast in their Expression I prefer love before life said that Noble Aureâ—â— to one of her maiden sisters yet had I rather lose my life than discover my love The like said that sweet Sulpitia I could find in my heart to dye for my Love so my Love knew not I dy' e for his Love The like said that virtous Valeria I could with to dye So my Clerentius knew not for whom I wish'd to dye That brave Burgundian Lady express'd the like modesty I will pass by him said she and never Eye him my Heart shall only speak to him for my Tounge it shall rather lose it self than unloosen it self to him A rare Expression of Affection shewed that young maid who seeing her Lover deprived of all means to enjoy her by the averness of his Father and understanding how he had resolved through discontent to take his Fortune beyond the Seas with a Religious Vow never to solicit any Womans Love for the space of five Years She though till that time she had ever born him respects with such discreet Secrecy and Reservedness as no Eve could ever discover her affection intended under a disguised habit to accompany him in his journey Cutting therefore her hair and taking upon her a Pages habit she came aboard in the same Ship wherein he was received and so continued during all that Sea Voyage by the help of that disguise and discolouring of her hair to her Lover altogether unknown And being now arrived at the Port at which they aimed this disguised Page beseech him that he would be pleased to accept of his service pretending that since his arrival he had heard of the Death of his dearest Friends and such as his livelihood relied on so as he had no means to support him nor in his present distress to supply him unless some charitable dispos'd Gentleman like himself would be pleased to take compassion of him and entertain him This exil'd Lover commiserating his Case took her into his service little imagining that his Page was his mistress But no doubt bore his late entertained servant more respect for the resemblance he concieved betwixt his Page and mistress Thus lived they together for a long time during which space she never discovered her self holding it to be to no purpose seeing he had taken a solemn vow as was formerly said that he would solicit no Womans love for such a time so as rather than he should violate his vow which by all likelyhood he would have done had he known who was his Page she chused to remain with him unknown expressing all arguments of diligence and careful observance that any master could possibly expect from his servant Hope â—â—ich lightâ—eth every burden and makes the most painful service a delightful solace sweetened the hours of her expectance ever thinking how one day those five years would be expired when she might more freely discover her love and he enjoy what he so much desired But Fate who observes no order betwixt youth and age nor reserves one compassionate tear for divided Loves prevented their hopes and abridge their joys by her premature death For being taken with a Quartan Fever she languished even unto death Yet before her end she desired one thing of her master in recompence of all her faithful service which was that he would be pleased to close up the eyes of his Page and receive from him one dying kiss and lastly to wear for his sake one poor Ring as a lasting memorial of his loyal love All which his sorrowful master truly performed but perceiving by the Posy of the Ring that his deceased Page
with a fairer Mind Witty without Abuses Modest without Weakness Jealous of nothing but the decrease of her Kindness to you Generous yet not profuse One whose Prudence can secure you from an Inspection into her Family Accounts and divert the Curse of trifting into Poverty A good Housewife that can appear as great in the World with one hundred Pounds a Year as her Neighbours with two One who believes her Person should be a figure and her Portion a Cypher which added to her advances the Sum but alone signifies nothing rather the Heir of her own Deserts than barely the Off-spring of Virtuous Parents One that without the Tryal of her Virtue can out of a Principle of Generosity be just to your Bed Whose Virtue Wit and Modesty can rather be imitated than equalled by her Neighbours In short One whose Carriage exceeds this Character and attains to that of the Apostle 1 Pet. chap. 3. to that of the Wisest of Men Prov. 31. from Ver. 10. to the end Athens Wantons Of Wantons there be two sorts Meretrices and Scorta that is Whores and common Women such as either for Lust or Gain prostitute themselves to many or all The second are Concubina or Pellices Concubines to Kings and Princes or such as we call the private Mistresses to great Men. The last are as our Accidence teacheth like Edwardus and Guliâ—lmus proper Names to this Man or that The first like Homo common to all Men both degrees sinners but not in the like kind I have read a third sort but know not what Consonant or agreeing Name to confer upon them Waiting Gentlewomen If you desire to be a Waiting-Gentlewoman to a person of Honour or Quality you must 1. Learn to dress well 2. Preserve well 3. Write well a legible hand good Language and good English 4. Have some skill in Arithmetick 5. Carve well Having learned these you must remember to be courteous and modest in your behaviour to all persons according to their Degree humble and submissive to your Lord and Lady and Master or Mistress neat in your Habit loving to Servants sober in your countenance and discourse not using any wanton gestures which may give Gentlemen any occasion to suspect you of levity and so court you to debauchery and by that means lose a Reputation irrecoverable In the first place I would not have you look upon your condition as to what it hath been but what it is learn whatever you can and slight no opportunity which may advance your knowledge to the height of your birth Wherefore I advise all Parents be their Estates never so good and their Revenues large to endeavour the gentiel Education of their Daughters encouraging them to learn whatever opportunity offers worthy a good estimation For Riches hath Wings and will quickly fly away or Death comes and removes the Parents Wassaile Sax. Vas-hale i.e. Salve sis salvus ave the Wassaile-bowl on new-New-years Eve had according to Verâ—â—gan its origin thus Lady Rowena or Ronix Daughter to Hengistus having invited King Vortager to a Supper at his new built Castle called Thong-Castle caused her after Supper to come forth of her Chamber into the Kings presence with a Cup of Gold filled with Wine in her hand and making in very seemly manner a low reverence to the King said with a pleasing grace in our ancient Saxon Languaged Waes heal blaLord Cyning which is according to our present Speech Be of health Lord King for as was is our Verb of the preâ—â—â—rimperfect tense signifying have been so Waes being the same Verb in Imperative Mood and now pronounced was is as much to say as grow be or become and Washeal by coruption of pronounciation afterwards became Wassaile The King not understanding what she said demanded it of his Chamberlain who was his Interpreter and when he knew what it was he asked him how he might answer her in her own Language where being informed he said unto her Drine heal i.e. Drink health c. Versi p. 101. Some say 't is Wassaile quaâ— Wash your throat with â—le Others more probably wax bail i.e. creseat salus Wed Sax a gage or pawn a word still retained in the Country sport called Pray my Lord a course in you Park Wedding nuptiae comes from the Germ. Wed i.e. pignus a pledge and wedde in in Scotland and in some parts of England signifies so much at this day whittle we a doubled Blanket worn over Womens shoulders Widdows-benob Ss. a share of their Husbands Estate which they enjoy beside their joynture Wildfred Sa. much peace St. Wilfrads-Needle a hole in a Vault under Rippan Church through which chaste Women might pass others not Wimple a plaited Linâ—en about the Necks of Nuns also a flag or streamer Winifrâ—d nes a British Virgin Saint revived by Bruno the Priest after 〈◊〉 had cut off her Head in a place where sprang up Winifrids well in Flint-shire Wittal-ol Sa. one that knows himself a Cuckold Willbâ—rga another English Saint who had power of Birds and could command them as she pleased she is said to restore a dead Goose to Life that had been stollen and killed anâ— I do many other Wonders in her Life time and after her death Wibes their Marriage state Instructions Wives may immagine it strange that we should presume to give them Instructions who think themselves wise enough to instruct whole Families but having already brought the Virgin to the doors of Matrimony 't is fit we should not only conduct her into that state but see how she behaves her self and put her in a little if she should be out in acting her part in so curious a Scene for here as we may say she is launched into a wide Sea where she floats like a Marchants Ship fraught with all manner of rare advantages to render her happy if she affect prudence and Modesty for the Virgin Modesty must not in some sort be laid aside in the Marriage state but rather strengthened and improved by a more solid Conduct and Management to render it more Awfull and gracefull A Wife has a duty incumbent on her that has several Aspects First as it relates to the Person of the Husband Secondly to his Reputation And Thirdly to his Fortune Love is a Debt due to his person which we find to be the prime Article in a Marriage Vow and is indeed the most essentially requisite without which all happiness is banished from a Matrimonial State 'T is Love only that cements Hearts and where that Union is wanting it is but a shadow a meer appearance but no real or substantial Joy a Carcass of Marriage without a Soul therefore as it is very necessary to bring some degrees of this to this state so 't is no less available to maintain and improve it in it this is it which facilitates all other Duties of Marriage Makes it an easie and pleasing Yoak to be born The Wives therefore should study to preserve this Flame that like
unstableness of earthly Joys and pleasures and that we must be moderate therein by breaking a Glass that the Bride and Bridegroom drank in on the Wedding-day at the Table before their Eyes the Wiâ—dows complying with Civil custom to inure her self in darkness for a while inculcates to her that she should put on a more retiâ—ed temper of Mind a stricter and sevearer Behaviour than before not to cast it off with her Vail but to let it be the constant Dress of her VViddowhood for as that state requires great sobreity and Piety so it affords divers advantageâ— towards it more than the Marryed are allowed For that she as St. Paul says who is Marryed careâ—h for the things of the World how she â—â—y please her Husband But God now has called away that care from her in a VViddow-state and given her a large opportunity to dress and adorn her Soul in Robes of Righteousness as fit to meet and be embraced by the glorious Spouse who will sollace her with Anti-pasts of Eternal Love those Hours that before were her Husbands right seem now to devolve on God the grand Proprietor of our time That Discourse and free Conversation wherewith she entertained him she now converts into Coloquies and Spiritual Intercourses with her Maker â—nd that Love except the retaining of his Memory which before was only humain may now be the changing of its Object acquire a sublimmity and exalted to Divine so that from a Loyal Duty and Conjugal Affection it becomes the Eternal work and happiness of Angels the Ardor of a Cherubin thus may she in higher Sense than Sampson's Riddle aimed at fetch Honey out of a Carcass his Corruption may help to put her on Incorruption and her Loss of a Temporary Comfort may state her in one that is Eternal which will be a blessed Exchange and this will bring a Blessing upon her Children and her Substance Widdows ought according to the proportions of their Abilities to Exercise themselves in Works of Charity There was in the Primitive times an Order of Religious Widdows mention'd by St. Paul 1 Tim. 5 Whose whole Ministry was devoted to Charity God highly approves of Alms-giving if done sincerely without grudging or expectation of Wordly applause and takes it as done to himself and therefore none need doubt but he will repay it with a large over-pluss at a day when a Catalogue of their Alms shall be laid before him as a Testimony of their well doing and procure them the Eulogy of well done thou good and faithful Servant Timothy tells us that a Widdow who liveth in this pleasure is not dead whilst she liveth 1 Tim. 5.6 But on the contrary shall live when she dies when she resigns her breath she shall improve her Being unto one more glorious The Prayers of the Poor like benigne Gales shall gently bear up her Soul to the Regious of Bliss and she who has cherished the Afflicted Members shall there be indissolubly united to their glorious head Widdows indeed are allowed Marriage and many of them after they have wept a while and shed a few Tears to the Memory of the deceased throw off their Veils dry their Eyes and look out for new Embraces which is very indecent and unbecoming the Gravity of a Widdow since Marriage is so great an Adventure that once for many Reasons seems enough for the whole Life for whether she has been either adverse or Prosperous in the first it does almost discourage the second attempt It was the saying of a Young Widdow Lady when her Friends advised her to a second Marriage that she had two reasons to object against it viz. That having had a Husband ravished from her by the hand of Death whom she loved above all Earthly things and he as entirely cherished her If it should fall out she should be matched to one of a cross and a stubborn nature it would break hier tender Heart and if one as kind and obliging as the former she should always be in fear of losing him which would create her a doubt grief but we do not find many Rich and Beautiful young Widdows in our Age of her Mind All Civiliz'd Nations however have by custom set a time between the Death of one Husband and the Marriage of another Numa made a Law that no Widdow should Marry under ten Months and if she transgressed she was to sacrifice as for a Crime done so that Octavia could not be Marryed to Mark Anthony till three degrees of State had passed to supercede that Law Widdows in their Choice ought to consider how they make it left by unadvisedness it reflect upon their Reputations and their former Prudence and Conduct of Affairs be brought in Question When the Year therefore that modesty Allows with us though some have made but a Spider VVeb of that custom is expired then she may chear up her Melancholy and put on her former brightness of Beauty that has so long been hid under a cloudy Veil but avoid all wanton Amorous Glances and Toying and if Age has stollen upon her to any Degree it will not be in the least commendable to go in gaudy flanting Apparel but rather grave and modest Attire Marriage in all degrees is so close a Link that to have it easy the proportion of Parties must be considered and first in respect of Fortune and Quality It is always to be wished that there should be no considerable disproportion those that come together upon the Level are of all the least subject to such Upbraidings as frequently attend a great descent of either party 't is therefore no prudent motive by which many VViddows are swayed who having good Estates of their own Marry barely for a large Title of Honour without considering their happiness in it which brings them in a short time into the contempt of their Husbands of which we have had many Examples And on the other hand for a VVoman to marry very meanly and far below her self is the worst of the two for such kind of Matches are generally made in a transport of Passion but when that abates and is no longer leaving her to sober Reflections How many disorders does it create in her Mind VVhat anger does it create in her against her self and Accusations of her rashness and Folly when too late to be remedyed and this creates contention and strise VVe find that a state of Subjection is a little sweeten'd by the dignity and worth of the Ruler for as it is more honourable so it is likewise more easy to be born The basest Spirits of all others in command being most Imperious and it will not certainly a little grate a VVoman of honour when she reflects how she has made one of a Servile mind Master who perhaps before would have thought it a favour to have been entertain'd as her Menial Servant and what adds more to discontent Such Matches frequently reflect on the modesty of the VVoman censorious People making such constructions on