get twenty for their Daughters and make no Provision for their Sons by which means the Daughters seldom stay till fifteen and the young Men Marry the earlier to get themselves a Stock of Cattel which they are sure of with a Wife We find in several Parts of the World as in Thrace and Assyria that they were so possessed with an Opinion of the advantage of Marriage as occasion'd their making Laws for its Propagation And here that no Maids may be left unmarried either for want of Beauty Mony or Virtue I shall add the Project mention'd by a late Author to provide them with Husbands Which is as follows viz. That a Statute might be made obliging all Men from One and Twenty Years of Age to Marry or in Default to pay One Eighth Part Annually of their Yearly Income if they be Men of real Estates or One Eighth Part of the Interest of their Personal Estates if it amount to One Hundred per Annum of Real or to Four Hundred Personal as it shall be 〈◊〉 by Men appointed for that Affair and the same to be 〈◊〉 by all Single Women who 〈◊〉 their Fortunes in their Hands after that they arrive to in Age of Eighteen and the same to be paid by all 〈◊〉 and Widows who have 〈◊〉 Children the Widowers â—â—â— to pay after Sixty Years of Age nor the Widows after Forty and all these 〈◊〉 to continue as long as they are unmarried And because that Young Men are often 〈◊〉 from Marriage through Default of their Fathers 〈◊〉 the same Mulct shall be laid on the Father's Estate as if â—â— were the Son 's This Mony so rais'd to be disposed in every City and Country as they find see sir for Portions to young Maids who are under Forty Years of Age and Care taken that it be expended every Year so as no Bank to be kept and that no Portion be ever given to any who have been debaunched with such other Rules as may be prescribed These Kingdoms in their most happy days never saw a Law which made that immediate Provision for the meanest Soul in it as this will do for 't will set the Captive free whereas many are now born who have reason to continue the Lamentation they found out at their first Entrance into the World Our greatest Charity for the Poor is at most but to keep them so but this will be cloathing them with Wedding Garments and every Corner of the Land will rejoice with Nuptial Songs and undoubtedly if it be a Virtuous Act to relieve the Poor this must be greater to provide for them for the present and to prevent it in their Posterity I 'm sensible that some may be apt to raise Objections against this Proposal which to save the Trouble both of naming and answering them I think this Reply may serve for all That there can be no particular Injury done in this Matter which can stand in the least Competition with the Consideration of such Publick Good as both Reforming and Peopling of a Kingdom will necessarily amount to See a Book call'd Marriage Promoted Female Modety Occasion and our Nature are like two inordinate Lovers they seldom meet but they do sin together Man is his own Devil and oftentimes doth tempt himself So prone are we to Evil that it is not one of the least Instructions that doth advise us to beware of our selves Now an Excellent Virtue to restrain or check a Man or Woman from running into Vice is Modesty I am perswaded many Women had been bad that are not so if they had not been bridled by a bashful Nature There are divers that have a Heart for Vice that have not a Face accordingly Surely the Graces sojourn with a blushing Virgin It is Recorded that the Daughter of Aristotle being asked which was the best Colour made answer That which Modesty produced in ingenious Spirits To blush at Vice is to let the World know that the Heart within hath an Inclination to Virtue Now to give a check to such immodest Women who proceed from the Acts of Uncleanness to Murder the illegitimate Off spring I shall for the information of these Ignorant Wantons give them a light of the following Act. An Act to prevent the Destroying and Murthering of Bastard Children WHereas many Leud Women that have been delivered of Bastard Children to avoid their Shame and to escape Punishment do secretly Bury or Conceal the Death of their Children and after if their Children be found dead the said Women do alledge that the said Child was born dead wheras it falleth out sometimes altho hardly it is to be proved that the said Child or Children were Murthered by said Women their Leâ—d Mothers or by their Assent or Procurement For the preventing therefore of this great Mischief be it Enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament That any Woman after one Month next ensuing the end of this Session of Parliament be delivered of any Issue of her Body Male or Female which being born alive should by the Laws of this Realm be a Bastard that she indeavour privately either by Drowning or secret Burying thereof or any other way either by her self or the procuring of others so to conceal the Death thereof as that it may not come to light whether it were born alive or not but he concealed in every such Case the said Mother so offending shall suffer Death as in Case of Murther except such Mother can make proof by one Witness at the least that the Child whose Death was by her so intended to be concealed was Born dead Modesty is one the most natural and most useful Tables of the Mind wherein one may presently read what is printed in the whole Volume Certainly a good Heart looks out thro' modest Eyes and gives an Answer to any that asks who is within with modest Words and dwells not at the sign of the Bush or Red-lattice or Painted-post A glorious Soul is above dresses and despiseth such as have no higher or other thoughts then what concern their gorget and their hair This preserves in tune and keeps the scale of Affections even This teaches a denying and preventing behaviour towards Tentations 1. Let the Carriage and Behaviour be modest Rebekah put on the Vail Gen. 24.64 when Abraham's Servant told her That the Man whom they saw coming towards them was his Master's Son to whom she was intended in Marriage Contrarily the Woman with the Attire of an Harlot of whom Sâ—omoâ— speaks Met a young Man and kissed him and with an impudent face she spake unto him Prov. â— 13. 2. Let the Language be modest Even Aristotle in his Politicks would have all Obsceness of words to be banished by the Law because when People take a liberty to speak ill they learn to do ill He would therefore have such as are Young neither to speak or hear any thing that is foul and if any be found faulty to be punished with stripes or some note of
into dirision scorn and contempt especially when it rises so high in a Woman that like a Spring Tiâ—e of Folly passing the bounds of Modesty and moderation it inundates on the Company for when in self-Contemplation her thoughts are entirely employed she is not at leisure to think how much it is displeasing to others but rather by a fond mistake labours to confine them to the same narrow circumfernce not minding that her self is not half that iâ—portance to the World that she would have them believe she is or that she fancies she is to her self for by being her own Appraiser she in a manner willfully mistakes her value and would willingly have others do so too and such a compass she will fetch in her Discourse to bring in something as she supposes to render her self esteemed that she Angles for commendation from something in her extraordinary and seems uneasie if the Bait she lays be not taken and swallowed by those she threw it out for beiâ—g so over earnest however to attract respect that she generally misses it by her impatiency to gain it and â—pettish at at the loss becaus◠〈◊〉 the same time she concludes in her due never considering that the command of others wills are not in her power to fix them to her humour or to make them concur with what she Fancies is but reasonable and then so unfortunate is she that she hath no appeal from their dislike but to her self which is of no validity to others though the sentence be never so favourable and she pronounce it never so loudly but rather serves as a further occasion of slighting and a Subject only fit for Ridicule and sometimes she is so weak to take Laughter for a gratulation of her good parts and an allowing her to be above the common level of Mortals and if she does but float upon the Bladders of flattery a while she thinks her self the most accomplished of Woman kind when those that flatter her only laugh in their sleeves to find she is so easily takeâ— with the Decoys they senâ— out to bring her into thâ— Net of Self-conceit and whilâ—â— she is ignorant of the daâ—ger more and more intangâ—â— her and if she happens accidentally to throw out witty Expression she coâ—ceives there are such Excessâ—â— Commendations dâ—e ti hâ—â— that tâ—e â—ayment can harâ—ly 〈◊〉 made Vanity â— those affecteâ— with it thiâ—â—â—ules were made only â—â— the Vulgar and this opiniâ—â— many times provokes the vain affected Lady to extend her imaginary prerogative beyond all that is reasonably laid down to set bounds to her Extravagancy If her Fortune be weighty then she swells above measure though like a Bubble only full of Air and that which must needs be taken for her good humour is her only laughing at good Sense and all things that come not up to the height of her Impertinencies and what is fit and commendable to be done by her she holds too mechanick and mean for those of her quality to meddle withal and lays out of largest part of her Fancy in pursuing those fashions that are most suitable to her humour to which not alone her fancy but her Senses are mostly resigned and so exact an Observer she is of them that should her Taylor and Dancing Master give her their words that Virtue was their Mode she would go near to be reconciled to it To â— Woman so composed when affectation is brought in to â—â—prove her Character it is then exalted to the highest â—â—tch setting up her self first 〈◊〉 a fine thing and for that â—â—â—son takes care to distinâ—â—ish her self from others in 〈◊〉 she doth right or wrong that it may be thought she 〈◊〉 made so much more of the â—â—â—â—ified Mould and that no common Clay hangs about her and neither by speaking nor moving to gain if possible the more belief like others of her Sex because it appears too vulgar in her Eyes or at least she conceits it so in the Eyes of those she would have to be the observers of her Actions and therefore since ordinary English is too course for her she must have a language that will better suit her and in the Morning her Looking-glass dictates to her all the motions of the day her motion then is as if she moved by Clock-work and was newly wound up to a precise time she in setting her self out frequently cavills with Nature and fancies defects in Gods framing her for no other reason than that she will find something of her own Invention as she conceipts to mend it though indeed she more frequently mars her Beauty by it yet there is something so natural in her affected easiness that there is little difference to be discerned between her soft languishings and her Frowns for there appears a kind of a Pride in either If she seems to disown any Commendation that is thrown away upon her in jest she does it with such faintness that under such a disguise she seems to be the more thankful for it than if she expressed her self in significant Words if any of the Sex more beautiful than her self takes the liberty of dressing and sprucing up her self beyond the ordinary Rule our mistaken Lady will imitate her witout considering the Inequality of the pattern though she makes her self appear homelyeâ— than before by either forgetting the priviledge of good Looks in another or without sufficient reason presuming upon her own her discourse is as little pleasing as her gestures being for the most part composed of noise and emptiness her Complements are so unequally shuffled together and applyed to different persons that they are so mismatch'd as neither to be considered or valued always you may observe her Eyes to keep motion with her Tongue generally inclining to the compassionate and whatever she otherways pretends she is gentle and obliging to distressed Lovers and especially to Ladies that are kind-Natur'd and merciful to their Admirers she has all the tender parts of Plays by heart and will repeat them so feelingly that it may be believed when she saw them she was not altogether a dis-interested Spectatrix and will many times to let you see or at least would have you think her Empire is absolute over the Male Sex give you broad hints though by â— kind of Innuendo's that divers languish for her and that some are so deeply wouded with the darted glances of her bright Eyes that there is nothing but her smiles and favours can reprieve from Death nothing but her kind hand can stay them from stumbling into their Graves when indeed there is little or nothing in the whole matter only she would be conceited to be admired when she is not we must confess that sometimes extraordinary beauties may dazzle the weak Eyes of the beholders that for a time they too seriously contemplating the outside vaâ—nish composed by Nature and Art cannot discern he Imperfections of the mind but when the brightness lessens and their Eye-sight grows more clear and they
in great Pain and Grief he soon after Dyed A Captain under the Duke of Anjou when he came to Assist the Revolted Netherlanders against the Spaniards coming into a Farmer 's House and not content with the Provisions they aforded him on sreecost he demanded his Daughter for his pleasure the Countryman who loved her dearly intreated him he would be otherwise satisfied offering him any thing else that was in his power but this so inraged him that he ordered his Soldiers to beat 'em all out of doors except the young Woman whom amidst Tears and lamentable Cries he forced to his Lust and after his beastial appetite was satisfi'd with unlawful pleasure he fell to flouting and dispising her This Master'd up a Womans Revenge in its most bloody shape so that being at the Table with him the with one home-thrust of a sharp Knife let out the hot Blood that circled in his Veins whilst he was giving orders to one of his Corporals and not aware of the stroak that brought him sudden death Thas you see Carnal Lust. 'T is a bewiching evil being an 〈◊〉 appetite in whomsoever it reigneth it kâ—lleth all good motions of the mind 〈◊〉 drieth and weakeneth the body shortning life deminishing memory and understanding Cirena a notorious strumpet was sirnamed Dodo Camechana for that she found out and invented twelve several ways of beastly pleasure Proculeius the Emperour of an hundred Samatian Virgins he took Captives defloured ten the first might and all the rest within fifteen days after Hercules in one night defloured fifty Sigismund Malatesta strived to have carnal knowledge of his Son Robert who thruâ—â—ing his dagger into his Fathers â—osom revenged his wickedness Cleopatra had the use of her brother Atâ—â—oâ—eus's company as of her Husband Auteochus staid a whole winter in Chalcidea for one Maid which he there fancied Lust was the cause of the Wars between the Romans and the 〈◊〉 Thalestins Queen of the Amazons came 2â— days journey to lie with Alexander Adultery in Germany is never pardoned 〈…〉 and P pilia were so incoâ—in 〈◊〉 that they commended with most shameful 〈…〉 themselves without respect of time place or company to any though never so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not coâ—â—ented with â—is three 〈…〉 commiâ—ted 〈…〉 siâ—teâ—s 〈…〉 like 〈◊〉 the 〈…〉 by his wiâ—e the 〈…〉 A 〈…〉 the câ—â—se of the 〈…〉 of the City of Rome Sempronia a woman well learned in the Greek and Sappho no less famous defended Luxury and Lust by their Writings Cleopatra invited Anthony to a Banquet in the Province in Bithynia in the wood Sesthem where at one instant of threescore young Virgins fifty and five were made Mothers Cleophis a Queen of India saved her Kingdom and Subjects from destruction by a nights lodging with Alexander by whom she had a Son called Alexander who was afterward King of India she was ever after called Scortum Reginum Jane Queen of Naples was hanged up for her Adultery in the same place where she had hanged her husband Andreas before because he was not as she said able to satisfie her beastly desire Foron King of Egypt had been blind ten years and in the eleventh the Oracle told him that he should recover his sight if he washed his Eyes in the water of a Woman which never had to do with any but her husband whereupon he first made trial of his own wife but that did him no good after of infinite others which did him all as little save only one by whom he recovered his fight and then he put all the rest to death Julia the Daughter of Augustus was so immodest shameless and unchaste that the Emperor was never able to reclaim her And when she was admonished to forsake her bad kind of life and to follow chastity as her Father did she answered That her Father forgot he was Caesar but as for herself she knew well enough that she was Caesars Daughter Caelius Rhodoginus In his II Book of Antiquities telleth of a certain man that the more he was beaten the more he fervently desired women The Widow of the Emperour Sigismund intending to marry again one perswaded her to spend the remainder of her life after the manner of the Turtle Dove who hath but one Mate If you counsel me quoth she to follow the example of Birds why do you not tell me of Pidgeons and Sparrows which after the death of their Mates do ordinarly couple with the next they meet Hiero King of Syracusa banished the Poet Epicharmus for speaking wantonly before his Wife and that very justly for his Wife was a true Mirrour of Chastity Sulpitius Gallius put away his Wife by divorce because she went about unmasked Pompey caused one of his Souldiers eyes to be put out in Spain for thrusting his hand under a Womans Garment that was a Spainard and for the like offence did Sertorius command a footman of his band to be cut in pieces If Caracalla had not seen his Mothers thigh he had not married her Tigellenus died amongst his Concubines The Terentines had taken and spoiled Carbinas a Town in Japyges and were not only for Ravishing the Women themselves but permitted Strangers that came that way to do it even in the Temple where they had Penn'd them up naked Divine Vengeance over-took them so that all who had committed this Villany were struck dead with Lightning from Heaven and their own Friends looking upon it as a just Judgment were so far from pittying them that they offered Sacrifice to Jupiter the Thunderer It would be too tedious to draw the Scene too open and discover the miseries that have befallen such as have been eager in pursuit of these Vices they have occasioned the subversions of Kingdoms and States Tarquine the proud and all his Race were driven out of England for Ravishing Leucretian who finding her Chastity violated though by a King killed her self and if we believe our Chronologers it occasioned the calling in the Danes by the incensed Husband who had been Ravished by the Kings Viceroy in the North and with them came in a Deluge of miseries for almost a hundred years The Adulteries of Fergus King of Scotland was by the occasion of hers likewise for when she had killed him in his bed and was yet unsuspected for the good opinion all people had of her vertue hearing that divers people ignorant of the Murther were tortured in order to a Confession She came into the Judgment Hall where the Lords and others were Assembled and thus Expressedâ— her self As for me said she good People I know not what it is that moveth me nor what Divine Vengeance pursues and vexes me with divers Cogitations but this I am sure of all this day I have had no rest nor quiet either in body or mind And truly when I heard that divers guiltless Persons were cruelly tortured Here in your presence had it not been for their sakes I had soon rid my self out of the way and not have
as that of Revenge and Spite is Brutal and falâ—y called a Pleasure the Act of the most Contemptible Animal is to return a mischief for one received We should conclude from hence that it is an easie Determination rather to Embrace that Compassion and Clemency which we find Exemplefied not only in the wisest and best of Rational Creatures but in the Omniscent and Imortal Being than to embrace that Savage fierceness of the Ignoblest Irrational Creatures and this is certain that no Woman would have a liking to assume the outward form of any of those Creatures whose ferocity is too frequently Imitated Why then should the Mind the Nobler part appear in so monstrous a Transformation for as there are no Monsters so deformed as those that are compounded of Man and Beast so among them all nothing is more unnatural than Female Anger when it boiles up into Rage and Fury for their Blood thus fermented by an unruly Passion may probably enough occasion the Effusion of anothers swelling and overflowing in a Crimson Inundatien Solomon tells us Prov. 17.14 The beginning of strife is as when one letâ—eth our water therefore leave off Contention c. When by Immoderate Passion or Anger a breach is once made upon the Spirits all the consequent Mischiefs will flow in like a rapid Torrent when the Banks are forced or broken down and this happens unprevented and unavoidable where great care is not taken to keep the bounds intire by Preserving and Cherishing that Tenderness and Compassion which God and Nature do equally command and Enforce Consider then and duly weigh these things and you will if you call your Reason to your assistance soon distinguish between the Advantage of the one and the Mischiefs and Miseries inherent to the other Contentment Contentedness in all Stations and conditions carries along with it a wonderful Felicity and renders humane Life easie and comfortable to the Fair Sex especially It is a beam of that happiness darted into their Souls that shall hereafter be more fully possessed but we hold it not sufficient where it is only a senseless stupidity or a carelese neglegence what becomes of our Estate or Affairs nor a seeming in Discourse to dispise and contemn the Riches of this World As mean and unworthy our Care or Regard but it is an humble and willing submitting our selves to Gods Pleasure in all Conditions And this makes us carry our selves Gracefully in Wealth Want Sickness Freedom Fetters or whatsoever it shall please God to allot us It renders Marriage comfortable in what condition soever it happens and is the great Agent and Supporter of Love Though indeed we must allow it is no breach of Contentment If we complain of unjust sufferings offered by Men provided we allow them as just proceedings from God who uses wicked mens injustice to correct those he Loves and returns them a Blessing for their Afflictions when he has tryed their Patience and Humility Nor is it any breach of Contentment by lawful means to seek the removal of our Miseries or the bettering our Fortunes Pious Mediâ—ations greatly advantage Contentmeâ—â— in Adversity And God's Spâ—rit is the beâ—t School-master to teach it us in the School of Sanctiâ—ied Afflictions the best place of Learning true Contentment In Riches it cannot be found for they avail not in the day of Wrath And those that seek Contentment in that are deluded with the shaddow and by fondly setting their hearts on it create more discontents to themselves than perhaps would ever have be fallen them had they declined it and been well pleased with a competency Contentment makes Homely Cloaths and Diet as Gay and Satisfying as the most Glittering Apparel and Sumptuous Banquets of the most Riotous Epicures And this is that can only give a full satisfaction beyond the Limits of craving And in a word Ladys it is Riches Beauty Honour Pleasure and all that you can reasonably name for there is scarce any thing pleasant delightful or to be desired but is Treasur'd up in a Contented Mind And as the Poet says Content is all we aim at with our store And having that with little what needs more Child-bearing Women Christian Wives says a Learned Author in a Child-bearing state that they may Comfortably bring forth the Fruit of their Wombs are highly concern'd for that good work to â—â—ve their fruit unto holiness Then be sure all shall go well with them both here and 〈…〉 belongs to the pure in heart and the â—â—defiled in the course of their lives What knows the 〈◊〉 Wife whether if she should be married to a bad Man by Parents disposal she may 〈◊〉 her Husband We read of several Christian Wives whose Husbands have been brought to real Godliness by theâ—â— Zealous Endeavours as Cemens by Domitia c. For the holy Conversation of a Wife hath sometimes a great force upon the mind of the Husband who is thereby dispos'd to entertain good And if a work of Grace be wroughâ— upon him then he will be more fervent in prayer for his Child-bearing Wife who 〈◊〉 she ought through the whole course of her life to be daâ—â—â— dying to sin and living to rigâ—teousness so in her approaching sorrows she is more especially concerned 'T is the duty of a big-bellied Woman to be in a readiness for her departure that she may not be surpriz'd sith the pangs are perilous thâ— she hath to pass through and the more if she be but of a weak and not of a hail Constitution Mrs. Joceline when she felt herself quick with child as then travailing with 〈◊〉 it self she secretly took order for the buying a new Winding-sheet thus preparing and consecrating herself to him who rested in a new Sepulcher wherein was man never 〈◊〉 laid and privately in her Closet looking Death in the Face wrote her excellent Legacy to her unborn Child None ever repented of making ready to dye And every Christian is ready who can intirely submit to Gods disposal in Life or Death Yea and then a good Woman is likest to have her will in a safe temporal deliverance when she is most sincerely willing that God should have his in dealing with her as seemeth best to himself It behoves you as righteous Hand-maids of the Lord To continue in the constant exercise of Faith Patience Sobriety and Temperance Certainly you who are blessed in being Instruments for the propagation of Mankind when you find you have conceived and grow pregnant are highly concerned to put on and use these Ornaments A great work you are usually busie about in preparing your Child-bed-linnen and I shall not discourage but rather encourage you to make necessary provision for your tender selves and babes And let every ingenuous and grateful Mother whom God hath safely delivered from her Child-bearing pains and peril imprint a grateful remembrance of so signal a Mercy with indeleble Characters in her mind Lord thou hast regarded the low estate of thine Maiden when I was in an
to become an object to his duâ—â— Fancy who knew not how to value it Though no doubt with that excellent Geometrician he could well enough gather by the proportion of her Foot the entire Feature which would wound him as deadly to the Heart as Achilles wâ—â— wounded in his Heel Itâ—â— the Eye that conveys Love 〈◊〉 the heart curious Models 〈◊〉 to dull Spectators move 〈◊〉 admiration and consequently leave but a weak impression To see a Compaspe portrayed in her Colours her Vâ—â—â— enazured her sweet Smiles shadowed her Love-enthralling Eyes sparkled and all theâ—â— with a native Art and 〈◊〉 Colour displayed would make their Apelles to do what he did Whence we read that Alexander the Worlds Monarch not only affecting but admâ—â—ing the Art of Apelles to parallel his skill with an equal subject commanded him on a time to Paint Campaspe naked who was then held the Beauty of that Age which Apoâ—â—â—â— having done his Pencil purchased him a penâ—ive heâ—â—â— falling in Love with her who was his Piâ—â—â—â— and whâ—â—â— Love he despaired to compass ever Which Alexander having perceived he gave him her The like incomparable Art was shown by Zenxes upon the Beauties of Croton's five Daughters which Pictures took more Hearts than his Grapes had before deceived Birds Elizabeth Carew wrote the Tragedy of Mariam Elizabetha Joanna Weâ—â—ous an English Poetess of some repute in the esteem of Farnaby Etinna a Poetess of Tros who is said to have writ a Poem in the Doric Dialect consisting of 300 Verses She dyed at Nineteen Years of Age. Eurhesia an unknown Poeâ—ess except by a fragment of 32 Latin Verses Eccho or Echo Gr. a resounding or giving again of any noise or voice in a Wood Valley or Hollow place Poets feign that this Eccho was a Nymph so call'd who being rejected by one whom she lev'd pin'd away for sorrow in the Woods where her voice still remains answering the Out cries of all complaints Esseminate essoeminatus Woman-like nice wanton Eleanor a Womans name from Helena i.e. pitiful Elizabeth Hebr. the God of Oath or as some will Peace of God or quiet rest of the Lord. Mantuan playing with it makes it Eliza-bella Min. ridiculously compounds it of the Hebrew word El. i. Deus and the Greek Isa and Beta Elopement a Law Term is when a married Woman leaves her Husband and dwells with the Adulâ—erer by which without voluntary Submission and reconcilement to him she shall lose her Dower Stat. West 2. c. 34. Sponte virum mulâ—er fugiens adultera fa'cta Dote sua careat nisisponse sponte retrâ—â—ta Elysium or Elysian fields Campus Elysius a Paradise into which the Heathens believed the Souls of the Just went after their departure hence This Elyzium is meant by Virgil when he says Devenere locos lotus amaend virâ—â— For 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 on nemorum 〈◊〉 beateâ— Eâ—bellish Fr. 〈◊〉 to beautifie garniâ—h adorn bedeck trim up or set out unto the Eye Embryon embryo a Child in the Mother's Womb before it has perfect shape and by Metaphor any thing before it has Perfection Epithalamy epithalamium a Bridal Song or Poem or a Song at a Wedding in Commendation of the paâ—â—â—â—â— married Such also is that of Stella in Statius and of 〈◊〉 in Catullus c. It is so called from the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e.apud and Thalamus a Bed-Chamber but more properly a Bride-Chamber because this Song was used to be sung at the Door of the Bride-Chamber when the Bride bedded There are two kinds of Epithalamies the one used to be sung at night when the marry'd couple entred Bed the other in the morning to raise them up Min. Erato one of the Nine Muses who as Ovid saith Nomen amoris habet Eve the Wife of Adam from the Heb. Evah i.e. living or giving Life Adam so call'd his Wife because she was the Mother of every living thing Eugenia Gr. Nobleness or Goodness of Birth or Blood Eye-bite to bewitch with the Eyes Erhidne a Scythian Queen who had three Children at a birth by Hercules Edessleda Ehseda govern'd the Kingdom prudently eight Years after the death of her Husband Ethelred King of the Mercâ—ans El 〈◊〉 Cu. a Stepmother Emme a Womans name either as Anne or Eigiva help-giver Endomment de la plus belle 〈◊〉 Widows dower of Lands â—olden in Socâ—age as the fairer or better part Endeaâ—ion a Shepherd in Enge◠〈◊〉 Bright angel Love with the Moon 〈◊〉 stops every night to kiss him being cast into a perpetual 〈◊〉 on the Top of Leâ—â—mus Hill Ephiatres g. the Night-mare Epiraene g. comprehending both Sexes under one gender Erigone Daughter of Lâ—rus who hang'd herself for her Father's death the Constellation Virgo Eriphile for a Bracelet betray'd her Husband Amphiâ—â—as to the Theban Wars to 〈◊〉 Destruction Eros g. Love Cupid Ester f. Estre c. Substance State or Being Esther h. Secret Eurâ—dire being fetch'd from Hell by her Husband Orphen was snatch'd back again because he lookt back on her before she arrived upon Earth Erpâ—â—tant fee tail 〈◊〉 having Lands given to a Mâ—â— and the Heirs of his Body 〈◊〉 F. Fabia a Beam Faith a Name commonly used Felice i. Happy Florence i. Flourishing Florida i. deck'd 〈◊〉 Flowers Flaminea i. Fiery Fortune as if vertuâ—â— â—â—vertendo so called for her Mutability and Inconstancy Francis i. Free Frideswid i. very free or truly free Faâ—rada Third Wife to Charlemaign a Woman of such Ambition and Cruelty that the People not being able to endure it and she at the same time being countenanâ—'d by her Husband they depos'd them both and set up Peppin one of Charlemaign's natural Sons Faussa the Wife of Constantine the Great falling in Love with Crispus her Husband's Son by another Wife and he refusing to comply with her Lustful desires she accus'd him of attempting her Chastity whereupon without sssmination he was put to â—â—eath but the Wickedness turning afterwards to light the Emperor caus'd her to be 〈◊〉 in a hot Bath Feronia a Goddess of the Pagans to whom they attriâ—â—â—e the Care of Wood and is â—o call'd from her Temple â—ear Feronia not far from a Wood Consecrated to her and those that worshipped her are said to walk on burning Coals 〈◊〉 footed without any hurt and in 〈◊〉 Temple they Enfranchised their Cap or Hat in â—â—ken their Condition was alâ—â—red Flora the Goddess of Flowers said to be the Wife of Zepherus or the gentle West-wind which with friendly Gales in Spring time clears the Air and makes Flowers to grow though Lactantius will have her to be a Roman Curtezan who was wâ—nt to set up a May-pole with Garlands of Flowers before her door to allure Young-Men to her House by which Stratagem she got much Riches which she leaving to the Common-wealth when she dy'd was for her Liberality styl'd a Goddess and the Games called Ludos Florales celebrated to her Memory Fluonia an ancient Name given by the Pagans to June Fraud a Goddess whom
the Ancients address'd themselves to when they desired not to be deceived themselves but to deceive others she was figur'd in an unseemly shape her Face being that of a Woman handsom and comely but her Body that of a party coloâ—r'd Serpent with a Scorpions Tail her smooth Face denoting specious Pretences and Flattery to deceive her speckled Body the different Stratagems to bring Frands about and the Tail signified the Sting or bad Consequence that attend such Actions Ferdegunda Queen to Chilperick the first King of France she was at first a Servant to And 〈◊〉 his 〈◊〉 Queen whom he banished to make room for her though she had borne five Children'â—â— She created great mischiefs in France causing all those the opposed her to be made away either publickly or privately and at last her Husband followed those she had sent before him She warred upon her own Son and overthrew him in Battel killing 30000 of his Men won Paris and dying Anno 596 she left Clotair her Son in quiet Possession of the Throne Fritigilde Queen of the Merconians she was converted by one of St. Ambross's Sermons to the Christian Religion and perswaded her Husband to do the like making a League with the Romans that she might come freely to Millain where he was Bishop to see him but when she came to her great Grief she found the City in Mourning for his death Fausta Daughter to Sylla she was contrary to the Cruel Temper of her Father a virtuous mild and compassionate Lady endeavouring to save those Romans of Marins's Faction whom he doom'd to dye and did all the good Offices she could to prevent the Misery Rome was at that time fal'n under Friendship between two Persons or a different Sex cannot be 〈◊〉 Ansia We look upon the groundless suspitions so common in relation to matters of this nature as base as they are wicked and chiefly owing to the Vice and Lewdness of the Age which makes some Persons believe all the World as wicked as themselves The Gentleman who proposes this question seems of a far different Character and one who deserves that Happiness which he mentions for whose satisfaction or theirs who desire it we affirm That such a Friendship is not only innocent be commendable and as advantagious as delightful A 〈◊〉 Union of Souls as has been formerly asserted is the Essence of Friendship Souls have no Sexes nor while those only are concern'd can any thing that 's criminal intrude To a Conversation truly Angelica and has so many charms in 't that the Friendships between man and man deserve not to be compar'd with it The very Souls of the Fair-Sex as well as their Bodies seem to have a softer turn than those of Men while we reckon our selves Possessors of a more solid Judgment and stronger Reason or rather may with more Justice pretend to greater Experience and more advantages to improve our Minds nor can anything on Earth give a greatest or purer Pleasure than communicating such knowledge in a capable Person who if 〈◊〉 another Sex by the Charms of her Conversation inexpressibly sweetens the pleasant Labours and by the advantage of a 〈◊〉 Mind and good Genius 〈◊〉 starts such Notions as the Instructor himself would otherwise never have thought of All the fear is least the Friendship should in time degenerate and the Body come in for a share with the Soul as it did among Boccalins Poetesses and Virtuoso's which if it once does Farewel Friendship and most of the Happiness arising from it Athens Fornication Uncleanness and impudent and shameless Uncleanness in general being one of the Reigning Sins of the Age and for the sake alone of which in a manner a whole Army of other subservient Sins and some of them still more abominable than it self are entertain'd as Oaths Execrations Blasphemies Drunkennesses Envyings Murders and 〈◊〉 of Cruelties and an â—nfinite Rabble of others mitating under this one Head and Generalissimo and for the â—etter securing the Throne of his Imperial Vice Atheism it self is called or a more nonsencal and impious Deism pressed 〈◊〉 the Service and the Being of God himself as much 〈◊〉 A lies in the Power of sensual â—ools destroy'd or he turn'd 〈◊〉 of this lower World and 〈◊〉 to the furthermost 〈◊〉 â—eavens to lead a lazy Life ease and pleasure like those 〈◊〉 Miscreants and all forâ—â—â— because daring Sinners â—ight the more securely commit chiefly this one sin I say â—ot only Uncleanness in general being so very prevalent in this Age and Nation and the chief Motive whatever other Pretences are made of Mens setting up for Atheists and Deists in our Times But Fornication in particular being either slightly thought of or openly defended or excused not only by those that deâ—ie Religion but even by a great many Zealous Pretenders to Christianity decluded by the Subtilty of Satan who in favour of their Lusts instructs them to be Ingenious to their own Destruction by wresting and misapplying several Expressions and matters of Fact in Scripture to induce them to believe simple Fornication either no sin at all or a very small one The Apostles words are Flee Fornication which are directed chiefly against simple Fornication or Fornication in a strict sense because almost all the Gentiles a great many Jews and not a few Carnal Christians deluded by them thought it to be no sin or at worst a very little one Against whose pestiferous Errors the Apostle chiefly opposes this Precept Flee Fornication As being absolutely perswaded that if he once convinc'd Men that the lowest degree of actual Lust viz. Simple Fornication was so far from being no sin that 't was a very great and capital Crime disturbing Human Society and inverting its Orders and Constitutions and moreover cutting Men off from the Body of Christ and excluding them Heaven There would be little need of Preaching against the gross and more hainous degrees of the same unruly Passion as Adultery Incest Sodomy and other nameless Lusts already condemn'd by the very Heathens and almost all the World As to the manner how we are to flee it it must be avoided 1. In Action 2. In Affection 1. In Action we must not only avoid the gross Act it self but all subservient Acts leading to it though from never so far off All Acts of all and every of our Senses and of all Members instrumental to their Operations that may in the least tend to the inciting or pampering this Lust or to the promotion of the Execution of its inordinate Suggestions so that we must keep our Eyes our Ears and our Hands Chaste too as well as those Members that are the immediate instruments of Carnal Commerce Motives against it are there 1. It s great hainousness and criminal Nature proved first by its positive-and peremptory Condemnation in Scripture as in Heb. 13.4 Ephes. 5.5.6 and Rev. 21.8 1 Cor. 5.9 10. and that grounded upon these Reasons And 2dly By all these Reasons viz. Because it is a
most refined part of her Understanding to manage her self in as she ought for she must Study how to live with them with more Care than she is to apply to any other part of her Life especially at first that she may not stumble at her setting out for the Family into which a Young Lady is to be ingrassed will be apt to expect she should conform to their Mode and Method as is exacted from a Stranger in a Forreign Countrey and not bring in a new Model by her own Authority for that will not be admitted without great Contesting for they will stand up against such an Invasion and not give over till they have frustrated the design of it and made void its purposes Therefore if she would live in Peace and good Esteem she must be Cautious to avoid the least appearances of any thing of this Kind but rather by avoiding to give the least offence strive to strengthen her Interest by gaining them to her side and that she may afterward with less difficulty give her Directions she must at first be sure to receive them from her Husbands Friends that they may be the better satisfied in them and by so doing she will soon see a kind of an Emulation amongst them who shall best direct and most commend her so that taking Root by degrees the power in a little time will wholly devolve on her so that she then being settled in her Husbands Affections may Act Independent of his Relations for she must consider if when but a New Comer she begins too brisk at first they will how prudently soever she manages her self be finding faults and magnifie little Failings and sometimes if they have Power and Interest with him incense the Husband to a dislike of her Carriage and so plant the first Seeds of Domestick Jarrs and Discontents and if this happens not yet all prudent Husbands for their own sakes will have their relations respected and considered whereby a higher value is set on the Family for he takes it upon him as his own Concernment not to have his Relations neglected because it makes way for a neglect to break in upon himself And here if a Wife bring any Servants into the Family with her she is in a great degree answerable for their Failings in their respects if she does not reprove and reform them and therefore it may be more advisable for her to gain the Servants she finds in the Family than to tye her self too fast to those she carries with her for that will rather make parties and those Parties raise disturbances which will be of Ill consequence and when any appearances of such things put forth she must labour to prevent their growth if she would secure her own ease for it may be said that the greatest streams are made up of the smallest drops at the head of the springs from whence they are derived So the greatest Circumstances of Life will in some degree directed by these seeming Trifles which having the advantage of being the first Acts of it have a greater Effect than in their own Natures singly they could pretend to But to conclude this Article our Advice is that a Wife as much as Nature will give her leave ought to forget the great Indulgence she has found at home from the gentle Discipline of tender Parents because what she finds abroad at first will be of another Nature tho' upon her being transplanted into another Family the Usage may prove very kind and afford no justifiable reason to complain her Mind must be however composed to entertain and welcome it and not start and fall into disorder at the appearances of different Scenes for being a while used to the alterations it will become more Natural and agreeable and grow more suited to her Temper which being made up with a Husbands Kindness will continue to encrease upon her till she is under sail in the prosperous Ocean of Happiness and Matrimonial Comforts Hypathia Hypathia of Alexandria the Daughter of Theon had made so large a progress in Learning that she exceeded all the Philosophers of that Age and not only succeeded in the School of Plato but also explained the Aphorisms and Precepts of all Philosophers so that an Extraordinary Concourse was made to her by those that were desirous to improve themselves in that Science by which she was famed in the Courts of Princes and there behaved her self with singular Modesty as not doubting to present her self in publick amongst them in the Assemblies of their Learned 〈◊〉 whereby her Temperance and promptness of mind she was received by all 〈◊〉 and by most highly admired but her singular Endowments could not protect her from Envy when a Faction of Envious Persons bandyed against her only for seeing themselves outdone by a Woman insomuch that going home in her Coach they laid an Ambush for her Petreus of the Church of Casaria being their Ring leader and pulling her rudely out of it they carried her to that Church where having stripped her naked they then fell foully upon her tender Flesh and by scratching her with shells occasioned so great an Effusion of Blood that she dye their Malice ceased not here but they proceeded to tear her dead Body in pâ—eces and to hide their guilt bâ—ryed the dismembered parts at Cynaros Thus Learning meets from Envy bad returns And kindles flames with which the Envious burns Till basely he does work his Hellish ends By Leaguing with the black Infernal Fiends Go Learned Maid thy Fame shall ever live Their unjust spight to it a death can't give All times shall rescue it from Envy's hand It shall 〈◊〉 bright and fix on 〈◊〉 brand That shall remain till Earth and Sea disband Husband a good one his Character Having occasion to describe a Good Wife we should be very odd if we should not mark her out a good Husband and such a one Ladies we with every one of you when you will condescend to dabling His Love to his Wife lesseneth not his Rule and his ruling her lesseneth not his Love He is constant to his Wife and confident of her he allows her sufficient Maintenance but measures it by his own Estate nor will he give less nor will she reasonably desire more which allowance if shorter than her deserts and his desires he lengthens it by his Exraordinary Kindness and Courteous Behaviour as well in Sickness as Health He that she may not intrench upon his Prerogative maintains her Propriety in Feminine Affairs and takes her Advice in all things that are reasonable for the Soul of Man is so lofty that it overlooks many low Matters that lye level to a Womans Eye and therefore he considers her Counsel therein may better hit the Nark He allows her as the weaker Vessel and therefore bears with her Infirmities without repining or regret declining all reproaches or hard usage desiring therein to do not what may be lawful but 〈◊〉 remembering that he Enfranchis'd her by Marriage
and that she is priviledg'd from any servile Labour or Punishment He is careful that her Infirmities shall not be publickly known and is always ready to vindicate her Reputation yet he keeps her in the wholsome Ignorance of unnecessary Secrets too heavy for her Sex to bear or may injure her by containing them in raising perâ—urbations of doubts and fears in her Mind and in fine he cherishes her as his own Flesh makes her the Delight of his Eyes rejoyces when she is merry and labours to comfort â—er when she is heavy and sorrowful he thinks nothing his Ability will purchase too dear for her nor any thing he does too much to please her If Death prove unkind and take her from him he mourns her loss immeasurably and if he dyes first he leaves all to her and her Children Husbands Duty towards his Wife Having given a brief Character of a Good Husband it is now requisite seeing all are not such to instruct such as intend to Marry or are already in possession how they ougâ—â— to behave themselves towards their Wives First then consider the State of Marriage is Sacred first ordained by God in Paradise and many times confirmed and expresly commanded so to be esteemed therefore not to be trifled with and looked upon as a thing Indifferent First then you must resolve to Love and Cherish your Wife as your own Flesh or never expect to be really happy in your Marriage Love is like Salt or Sugar which doth season and render acceptable those Occurrents which else would be of no pleasant taste but beget digests mosts indispensable We cannot therefore conclude those Husbands overwise who imagine to have the Subjection of their Wives not by the Exercise of Affection but by the asserting their own Authorities for whatever is compell'd waits for an opportunity to cast off the Yoke and those that reign over the unwilling find it as great to keep them in Obedience as pleasure to be obeyed All Compulsory being a violent motion which upon every Cessation of Vis Moâ—iva returns again to it 's Natural bent when that which is spontaneous has a regular motion within the Mind moves the Body to act and put its dictates in practice so that nothing that is reasonable is refused for Love that is as strong as Death and can not be Quenched by many waters acts then very Powerfully and overlooks many Faults and sailings therefore the wise preserve and cherish Affection whilst the simple go about to destroy it and with it their own peace magnifie each Failing and aggravate each petty Circumstance as if Women could be altogether without some slips or sailings unless they expected them to be made in Heaven and so drop down into their mouth however we leave him that hopes for such a Bargain gaping till he catches such a one without setting him any time for his acquiring such a Felicity and say that Men who are so proud of being Rational should let their Reason sway their Passions and weigh in sound Judgment what is fitting to be done for securing their quiet and rendering them happy in their States and Stations for doubtless they are inexcuseable who upon occasional Discontents affect a Sullenness and labour to give a weight to their Anger by the continuance of it when all the while it only frets upon the Heart and disâ—â—â—â— themselves goes about to poison the Root of Love and not only hinders its growth but makes it decay and wither if not speedily recovered Husbands therefore when they have any Disputes with their Wives ought to avoid all words that carry reproach or bitterness in them â—or they sink deep into the Mid stir up Anger or Melancholâ—y Discontent to wound Affection and lay Love a bleeding they grate upon the Heart and will hardly be obliterated So that what might easily have been composed as to the matter of the Offence proves almost remedileâ—s by reason of these Sâ—â—caâ—â—ins It is beyond the Rule of Breeding or Manners when any dispute happens to rip up past Reproaches Failings or Misfortunes 't is only the practice of the Billings gate Rhetoricians when Anger and Bâ—andy inflames them Some Men and their Wives in their unbridled Passions have been so much overseen in divulging one anothers secâ—et failings that they have become a By-word and beâ—n ashamed of themselves all their lives after for when once Gossips get a Story by the end It 〈◊〉 like wildâ—â—â— Your Wives Reputation should be as Sacred as yours for seeing you are Embarqued in one bottom the Shipwrack is equally hazardous If you divide your Interests and make Parties there is little hopes but that by such banâ—ying you weaken your selves to let in Ruine and Misery When you â—un into these Extravagancies look upon your Marriage Vows and Promises and see if you can find any such Actions and Procedures warranted there consider that those Promises were made before God in this Holy Place Perhaps you will say you would not take a false Oath if any one would give you the World and that you abhorr and detest Perjury bet know those Promises are as equally binding before God as an Oath before a Magistrate and will in Heaven if not on Earth be as severely punished dividing of Stocks and drawing that way from one another 〈◊〉 many times created by diâ—â—â—ust which ought to be avoided and as one Bed is deâ—â—red for Genual Recreation and Enjoyment so one Common Traasure should reserve Apprehension of Defrauds and Waste on either side unâ—â—â—s it too palpably appear and 〈◊〉 if it be not stopt you 〈◊〉 run down Ruines Hill To keep a Wise poor and neeâ—â—â— that is short of Mony to â—â—chase such things as it is not â—â—ays reasonable to acquaint 〈◊〉 with we promise you may 〈◊〉 her Virtue to a great Tryâ—â— especially if she be young and handsome for knowing he can have it for bestowing 〈◊〉 Favours which you regard 〈◊〉 on others it will run such in her mind and perhaps having overcome those 〈◊〉 and scruples at which her Conscience â—or a while started Anger for being so used and 〈◊〉 of gain more than pleasure may render you by this Diana's means another Aâ—â—â—on No Woman ever gave her plight in Marriage with an intent to be a Slave or â—ordidly abridged of what is convenient but in that promised themselves Pleasure and Conveniency in the Society of a Husband which they believe themselves uncapable to Enjoy without him which if they want from you their own Wit induceth them to seek elsewhere Whence we have seen some that have come to the Bride-house with the greatest Affection promising to themselves as much Felicity in a Husband as their Love and good Opinions had raised their Expectation to wish but afterward having been utterly frustrated of their hopes in the Tryal and Experience finding the Tavern and Company sharing â—o deep in what they looked for they grew at first Melancholly and Discontented but after having cast many things
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
Margaret d' Valois Sister to his Predecessor Mary d' Guise Daughter to Claude the first Duke of Lorrain she was Married to Lewis Duke of Longueville and afterward to James the first King of Scotland Mary Queen of England Daughter to Henry the Eighth Marred to Philip of Spain she was a great Persecutor of the Protestants and caused many of them to perish in the Flames by Tortures Imprisonment c. She died Childless of a burning Fever or as it was then called the Sweating Sickness November 17th 1558. and was succeeded by Elizabeth Second Daughter to Henry the 8th who abolished Popery and restored Protestantism Mary Queen of Scots Daughter to James the fifth promised in Marriage to Edward the Sixth of England but the Scotch Nobility after the Death of Henry the Eighth breaking their word and sending her privately to France she was Married to the Dauphin who soon after dying and she returning to Scotland she Married Henry Stuart Lord Darnley and Duke of Rothsay by whom she had King James the Sixth but he being murthered viz. blown up by a Train of Powder laid under his House great troubles arose which forced her to fly for England where she was unhappily put to Death being beheaded at Fotheringay Castle upon suggested Fears and Jealousies Mathide Daughter to Bonijacius Marquess of Tuscany she succeeding her Father incited thereto by the Pope warred upon Henry the Fourth Emperor and so devoted she was to the Roman See that she bestowed all her Hereditary Lands upon it she was a Woman of great Courage and died at the Age of 76. Anno. 1115. Maud she was Daughter to Henry the First of England who Married her to Henry the Fourth Emperor of Germany but he dying and leaving no Issue by her she returned again to England and afterward Married Geoffery Plantagenet Earl of Anjou by whom she had a Son who after long Wars and contending for the Crown of England succeeded King Stephen by the Stile of Henry the Second Mavia Queen of the Saracens she Conquered or spoiled Palestius and Arabia in the time of the Emperor Valens but being converted to the Christian Religion she made a Peace with him and Assisted him with a powerful Army against the Goths that had broken into Italy and other parts of the Empire Maximilia she was Disciple to Montanus the Herenick and kept him Company in an obscene manner she at lenght joyn'd to her Priâ—cilla who made it their business to seduce and draw others into the Error using their Beauties as a Snare for the men and by their Riches and soft deluding Tongues they inticed the weaker Sex but at last she and Montanus falling out killed each other Meditriva a Pagan Goddess whom the Ancients concluded to take care of Physick and it's Operation in the Bodies of Men and Women and at her Festivals they mixed Old and new Wine which they drank moderately by way of Cordial or Physick Medusa one of the Gorgons with whom Neptune fell in Love till Minerva turned her hair into Snakes and her Head being cut off by Perseus Minerva placed it in her shield and whatever living Creature looked on it was turned into a Stone Magera one of the Furies Daughter of the Night and Acheron she instilled Madness into the minds of People Melania Wife to Pinienus Son to Severus a noble Man of Rome the Destruction of that City being revealed to her two years before Alaric laid it waste she remov'd with her Family to Carthage and was there Instructed by St. Augustin then lived a Monastick Life after she had perswaded many to turn Christians Melenia a Roman Lady Daughter to Mercelinus she burying her Husband when she was very young in sorrow forsook all worldly Pleasures and went a Pilgrimage to Jerusalem carrying one of her Children with her she confronted the Arrians and undeceived many of their Errors when building a Monastery at Jerusalem she dwelt Twenty five years in it and died in that City Melissa she was Daughter to Melissus King of Creet said to Nurse Jupiter and bring him up with Goats Milk Melpomene one of the Nine Muses Mellona a Goddess who had the care over Bees that they should not fly away in their swarming time Merrades Bacchinalians or Women that attended on Baschuses's Drunken-Feasts or Revels who did much mischief in their Wine Mene a Goddess worshipped by the Roman Women for the better ordering their Bodies in their monthly Purgations Meplictis the Goddess of Pools and muddy Lakes Merope one of the Seven Pleiades Daughter to Atlas and Pleione said to be married to Sysiphus Messalina Wife to the Emperor Claudius who not content to keep Gallants in the Court to satisfie her Lust if such a thing could be done but in her Husbands Absence she publickly married C. Silius a handsome Roman Knight for which the Emperor caused her to be beheaded Metra she was Daughter to Ercysichthon a Lord of Thessaly who to save her Fathers Life who was ready to Famish prostituted her self for Food to sustain his Life Minerva styled the Goddess of Arts and Wisdom said to be conceived of the Brain of Jove delivered thence by Vulcan who cleaving his Skull this Goddess sprung out in bright Armour she is often taken for Pallas who in some Cases is styled Minerva Miroselde a poor Weavers Daughter of whom King Charibert was so Enamoured that upon her refusing to comply to be his Concubine he married her and after her Death he married her Sister for which he was Excommunicated by St. Germain Mirrah Daughter to Cyniâ—as King of the Cipriots she fell so desperately in Love with her Father that making him drink Wine she lay with him but the matter being discovered by her being with Child she fled into Arabia and brought forth Adodonis but she dying of that Travel Venus turned her into a Mirrh-Tree and put Adonis to Nurse ro Nimph Herclea when being grown up and proving very Comely Venus fell in Love with him and often enjoyed him in the Idalian Groves but at last contrary to her perswasions undertaking to hunt a wild Boar he was slain by the furious Beast and greatly lamented of the Goddess who turned him into an Enemy Molza Tarquinia a Lady of Modena very Learned and Skilful in the Languages she much haunted the tops of Parnassus and bathed often in the River Helicon to them the invention of Songs and Sciences are attributed they are called viz. Clio Vrania Calliope Vterpt Erato Thalia Melpomene Terphiscare and Polylymnia they are held by some to be the Daughters of Coelum and the Earth Mirriam or Mary Sister to Moses she was smitten with Leprosie because she and Aaron murmured against him and shut him out of the Camp but being a Prophetess all the People stayed till her days of cleansing were fulfilled and she again received into the Congregation Aarons Punishment was remitted upon Moses praying for him Malhatun the fair Wife of Othoman the first Founder of the Turkish
a former Wife in prison but he escaping raised a War against her and wrestled the Power out of her hands She was a woman of great Courage and Wit Plantina Wife of Trajan the Emperour She did much good in the Empire by Prevailing with him to take off the heavy Taxes She procured the Adoption of Adrian who coming to be Emperour built a Palace Temple and Amphitheater to her memory the Ruins of part of which magnificent Structures are yet seen at Rome Poictiers Diana Dutches of Valentinois She got her Fathers Pardon when condem'd to die and was very Famous in the French Court during the Reign of Henry the second disposing of all Offices and Places of Trust to her Favourites But after Henry's Death Q. Katharine de Medici stript her of her Jewels and banish'd her the Court for grief of which the soon after dy'd Polla Argentaria was Wife to Lucan the Poet put to Death by the Tyrant Nero for writing better Verses She was a very Learned Lady and much skilled in Poetry her self After his Death she corrected his Pharsalia and writ many Poems Palyhymnia one of the Muses â—â—id to take care of History and Historians Others affirm she was extreamly in love with Rhetoricians she was painted in white Robe With a Crown of Pearls and a Scrowl in her hand in a posture as if she required attention to what she was about to say Polyxena Daughter to Priamus King of Troy With her Achilles fell in Love and being trained to the marriage was killed by Parris with an inpoysoned Arrow in revenge of which to appease that Hero's Ghost she after the taking of Troy was sacrificed at his Tomb. Pomona held by the Ancieats to be a Goddess that look'd after Orchards and Gardens With her Vertumnus fell in love and by borrowed shipes got his Will of her Pompea third wife to Julius Caesar Daughter to Q. Pompeus but was divorc'd upon suspicion that she dealt false with him yet he believed her innocent though he was told Claudius often had a 〈◊〉 in meetings with her in Womans Apparel Poniarovia Duughter to Julius Ponictovius a Nobleman of Poland she had often as she said Visions and Revelations foretelling the happy state of the Chruch and the destruction of its Enemies Pontia a Noble Roman Lady With her Octavius Sagista fell in love but after he had obtained her to be divorced from her Husband chang'd his mind Whereupon she marry'd an other which so incensed him that he kill'd her for which he has Try'd and Executed Popea Sabina Second wife to Nero Emperour of Rome a very beautiful and vertuous Lady who being great with child was kill'd by a Kick he gave her on the belly of which among all his wicked acts he was only known to repent Populonia held to be a Goddess that secur'd Countrys from ravagement and spoil Porcia Cato's Daughter she was wife to Brutus one of the Conspirators against Julius Caesar who to regaiâ— the Roman Liberty assassinated him in the Senate-house and being overthrown by Octavius Augustus in the Philipick Fields she no sooner had notice of his Death but she resolv'd not to survive him so that her Friends to prevent it laying all mischievous things out of her way she choak'd her self by swallowing hot Coals Poreta a Woman of Hanault for writing and maintaning the Doctrine that those who are wholly devoted to the Creator may satisfie all the Needs of Nature without offending God was burnt together with her books Possvorta and Anâ—â—â—ta Two Goddesses held by the Ancients to know what would happen before and after tha last having power to redress Evil past Potaniades held to inspire men and women with Rage and to appease her the ancients sacrificed Pigs upon her Altar Poverty another Goddess she was painted meagar and almost famished yet by others she was called the Goddess of Industry because Poverty induces men to study and labour and is she proper mother of all Arts and Inventions Praxardicia a Goddess sabled to set bounds to mens actions and passions and therefore she was represented by a Head to shew that Reason ought to guide us in our affairs and to her were offered only the heads of the beasts ordained for sacrifice the rest being the Fees of the Priests that attented her Altar Priscilla a Noble Lady of great Vertue before she was corrupted by Montanus and his heresy Priscilla a Roman Lady very charitable she purchased a burying place for the Martyrs the fell by the Heathen Persecution Proba an other Roman Lady and very learned she wrote the life of our blessed Saviour and composed several 〈◊〉 taken from Virgil by 〈◊〉 Prosa the Persian Goddess of Childbirth who gave easy deliverances to woman in labour Proserpina Daughter to Ceres the Goddess of Corn she was stolen away by Pluto God of Hell and Enthrod'd in his sutty Kingdom and fabled to be fetch'd thence by Hercules and delivered to her sorrowful mother Psyche a beautiful Damsel with whom Cupid fell in love but often crossed by his mother Venus till he compelled her to give him a free Enjoyment of his Mistress by often wounding and inflaming her with his Arrows which made her doat on every servile Swain Pudicita a Goddess adored at Rome under the similitude of a woman with a Veil over her Face called the Goddess of modesty or shamedfacedness Pulcheria Daughter of the Emperour Arcadius She was called Augusta and did many notable things for the Good of the Commonweal and by her means the General Council of Chalcedon was held 〈◊〉 441. Pussa held among the Chineses for a Goddess called by some the Chinesian Cyble she was represented in the shape of a woman sitting upon a Cocus Tree with 16 Arms 8 Extended on each side with divers symbolical Instruments in them This Image is exceeding rich being set out with Diamonds and other precious stones Prudentia a Goddess fabl'd among the ancients to give VVisdom and Understanding to her Votaries she was printed with a Glass in one hand and a Serpent in the other and she was pray'd to in doubtful matters that a right understanding might be had in deciding the controversies that arose Patrico's are the Sâ—olers Priests Every Hedg is his Parish and every wandring slogue and VVhore his Parishoner The Service he saith is the marrying of Couples without the Gospel or Book of Common Prayer the solemnity whereof is thus the Parties to marry'd find out a dead horse or any other beast and standing one on the one side and the other on the other the Patrico bids them live together till Death them part and so shaking hands the Wedding is ended Pasts There are man Qualities which although they are not so proper unto Ladies yet they are very commendable in them in which number is this piece of Cookery to have a good hand in the pastry For skill in this affair consult for the present the accomplish Cook Sect. II and Rabisha's Cookery Book 14.
Paradice 〈◊〉 forge Hall conterfeit 〈◊〉 play Tantalus seign 〈◊〉 with a thousand other 〈◊〉 And if they be minded 〈◊〉 Exalt that which they love then what is her Hair 〈◊〉 Golden Locks her Brows 〈◊〉 her Eyes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Looks shining her Mouth 〈◊〉 her Teeth Pearls of Orient her 〈◊〉 Balm Amber and Musk her throat of Snow her Neck of Mole the Apples see things that she hath on her Breast Bails or Apples of Allablaster And generally all the rest of the body is to other 〈…〉 treasures of 〈◊〉 and of a nature 〈…〉 had reserved to please or agree in all perfection to the thing that they love Here you may see how this cruel Melody of Love tormenteth those that are attainted with this mortal poyson and notwithstanding there are so many People Nations and Provinces so charged with these furious Assaults that is there were an Army made of all he lovers that are in the World there is no Emperour nor monarch but would be afraid to see such a number of fools in a company And nevertheless this pestilent Evil by custom hath so prevailed on humane kind that there can no remedy he found although that many medicines Greeks and Arabians have employed all their Wit and Policy for to 〈◊〉 this passion Sameratiâ—s 〈◊〉 and Ovid have written many great Volumes of the remedy of Love by the which they shew the remedies for others but they can find no remedy for themselves for that all three dy'd pursu'd and destroy'd not for the harms that they did at Rome but for the Loves that they 〈◊〉 at 〈◊〉 But this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which I have read 〈◊〉 destroys that things are come to such 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when this foolish 〈◊〉 doth take hold of us it rendreth us british and unsensible as it hath been manifestly and evidently shewed and seen in a young man being of the highest 〈◊〉 in Athens and well known of all the Citizens of the City the which having many times beheld a fair statue of marble very excellently wrought which was in a publick place of Athens he was so stricken with the love of it that he would never be out of the sight of it and always remained by it embracing and kissing it as if it had been a living soul. And when that he was out of her sight he went and lamented so piritully that it would have moved the most 〈◊〉 to pity and in the end this passion got so much power on him and was brought to such extremity that he desired the Senators to sell it him at what pride they would to the end that he might have it to bear about with him the which thing they would not grant for that it was a publick work and that their power and authority extended not so far Wherefore the young man caused to be made a rich Crown of Gold with other sumptuous ornaments and went to the 〈◊〉 let the Crown on her head could 〈◊〉 her with 〈…〉 hold it and call upon it and worship it with such obstination and percinacity that the people were ashamed of his foolish and and ridiculous love so that they forbad him to approach or resort to the Image any more Then the youngling seeing himself to be deprived and kept back from that which was more deer to him than his life being oppressed with grief for sorrow killed himself For the vertue of this passion is so great that after it hath entered and taken full root in the heart of men it walketh uncurable by the most livelyest and sensible parts of the body and being in full possession of us she causeth an infinite number of tears and sighs to be pour'd out so wholly that oftentimes it taketh away our life The which the great Philosopher Apolonas Thianeus confirmed to the King of Babylon who most earnestly pray'd him to shew him the most grievous and cruellest torment that he might invent by all the secrets of Philosophy for to punish or chastise a young Gentleman whom he had found a bed with one of his Damosels which he favoured The greatest torment saith the Philosopher that I can shew thee and iuvent for to punish him is for to save his life thou shalt see by little and little the burning heat of love to get so much on him as it hath already begun that the torment that he shall endure will be so great that he shall not imagine nor find remedy therefore and he shall find himself so stirred and provoked with divers cogitations and thoughts that he shall burn aud consume in this flame as the Butterfly doth in a Candle in such sort that his life shalll be no more life but a very death more crueller than if he passed through the hands of all the Tyrants and Tormenters of the world Here is in sum the cause why I let my pen ruu at large on this passion of Love which is the whole decay of the most part of Youth in our Age For have they never so little set their Foot or Minds on the pleasures of this World they prepare themselves to Love Then Youth Liberty and Riches are greatest provoken in this World and in those wicked Occupations they lead without fruit the best part of their life Parents when Good their Character Good Parents begin their care for their children not at their birth but conception giving them to God to be if not as Hannah did his Chaplains at least his Servants and this care they continue not only for a time till their children are grown up and provided for but as well as they may even to the day of their death They shew them in their own practice what to follow and imitate and in others what to shun and avoid For though the Words of the Wise be as Nails fastened by the Masters of Assemblies yet certainly good Examples are as the Hammar to drive them in and clench them to a lasting continuance in the mind Those Parents that correct their children for Faults themselves are guilty on in their sight or hearing can have hale hopes to reclaim them and indeed deserve correction more than their children Good Parents decline to wellcome and embrace the first Essays of sin in their children as knowing it very dangerous and destructive to them For as Weeds and Trash Eldar buds Nettles Clivors and the like are accounted Herbs in the Spring and much pleasing though afterward rejected so they see that many over fond Parents are pleased with the Early Evils and Licentious Wantonness of their children in their Infant tattle and restrain it not though God is displeased and oftended at it till they begin to see their Error when it is grown up rank even to a loathing and detesting in themselves with what before they were satisfi'd and contended they therefore instruct their children Early in the ways of Piety and by Example and Advice lead them in the way they should go that although they are Young they will not forget it when they are
Ladies also the Pomada a trick in vaulting Priscilla a â—diminutive of Prisca one of this name was a great follower of Montanus the arch Heretick and one of his divilish Prophetestes circa An. Christi 181. Progeny Progenies Issue Off-spring Prolifical prolificus Fruitful that breeds or brings forth issue apace Prostitute prostituta she that for mony suffers her self to be abused by all the come a common Harloâ— Pychoness pythonissa she that is possessed with such a Spirit a Prophetess Pandoratrix an Ale Wife who also brews her self Pantalone I an old amorous covertous Doâ—ard Pantalones loons a sort of Breeches well known Paradise g. a Garden or place of pleasure Paragon f. a comdeer to campare also a Peerless Dime c. Pâ—lam he seduced Hellena from Greece which occasion'd the Trojan War Parnassides the Muses Parnel a pretty woman lover Parthenian g. belonging to Virginity Parthenope the old Name of Naples also one of the Cyrens Partlet an old kind of Band both for men and women a loose collar a womans Pauss Che. Patelena a Goddess of Com when the cups open'd Paten a Wooden Shooe with an Iron bottom Patin l a great platter Charger or Bason also the 〈◊〉 place used by Priests with the Chalice at Mass. Pavin Pavan f. a kind of dance Pausonias a famous Laecedemonian Captain also a outh who slew Philip of Macedon because he had no redress for being ravished Peeper c. a. Looking glass Promises and Vows in Love to be observed c. Promises in Love-matter when avowed and sworn to gain credit with many though afterwards they repent their Credulity especially if upon such Considerations Virgins trust too soon There is a Fable that Jupiter being much in love with Jano one day singled her out and raised a great Tempest to shelter her self from which she sled into a Cave and he flew after her in the shipe of a Cuckow into which he had transform'd himself and lighted in her lap She much pleased with the Bird put it nearer to a warm place which he no sooner touch'd but he return'd to his proper shape and would forsooth have been nigling of her but she was so prudent as to resist his Embraces till he vow'd and swore to marry her and then she gave her consent And we find he kept this Vow Yet for all that they live'd but very scarvily together though of a Celestial strain However I would not have our Earthly Beauties lay too great a stress upuu such Vows and Promises left when their Virgin Roses are cropt they stand like unregarded bushes It is the common Complement of some men in such cases when they aim at your Honour not to regard what they swear say or do so they can thereby obtain their ends for tho behind thy back they laugh in their sleeves to think what advances they have made and how easy and coming they find you to their purpose but before your face what protections will they 〈◊〉 make of Hanging Drowning 〈◊〉 or Stabing themselves 〈◊〉 they may not Enjoy your Love tho they mean no such 〈◊〉 they as well as your 〈◊〉 can shead false determining Tears and Act over a 〈◊〉 Passion so to the Life 〈◊〉 you would swear it was 〈◊〉 and many are too apt to 〈◊〉 it so and thereby are 〈◊〉 to have bowels of compassion towards this supiâ—â—d suffering and afflicted over when they hear them 〈◊〉 and say well my dearest 〈◊〉 and most pleasing Mistress you see to what Extermity your denial has forc'd 〈◊〉 even to the making my 〈◊〉 irrevocable be any but our hair self and then when 〈◊〉 toe late I doubt not but you will shed a tear to hear you have murder'd me by your denial and that I fall by a violent death for your sake Which story being seconded with a few tears too often goes down with the credulous Virgin and she by her compassion where there was but little need of it is undone yet it is not good Jesting this way those Vows or ought they know as high as they set by them may be register'd in Heaven as we before have hinred and may had down Vengeance upon the Violators of them when least expected when they are huging themselves in a pleasing security and bostling of the spoil they have grin'd thereby Promises and Vows on the other side in Women are likewise very frequently violated and what is worse many of them at the very time they make them intend not to keep them but prostitute them to their Ends and 〈◊〉 They have tears at 〈…〉 naturally look 〈◊〉 But these things most properly belong to cunning liking Women Aretines 〈◊〉 when her Sweetheart came to Town wept in his 〈…〉 that he might imagine those tears were shed for Joy of his return though she had twenty more at the same time and to these Crocadile tears they will add sighs sobs and seem sad and sorrowful look pale and merge neglecting their Dress and go carelesly that you may fancy your neglect makes them take no delight in themselves but that they are pining away and will languish and die for your sake and then the young Amerest thinks peradventure by reason of her Vows Tears sâ—â—iks c. She is solely his and he has her heart and affection when indeed he is forth for from it for such kind of deâ—â—ding Women will have one Sweetheart in bed another in the Gate a third sighing at home a fourth busy'd abroad in obeying her commands and all this the manages so cunningly that every one thinks himself sure of her and knows nothing of the Favours she bestows upon his Rivals They can also upon occasion so weep that one would conclude their very hearts would dissolve within them and slow from them in tears from their Eyes when we perceive them like Rocks dropping Water and yet all this is but in Jest for they can wipe away their tears like Sweat weep with one Eye as the saying is and laugh with the other or like some Children who cry and laugh both at a time and Old Chauter in his home-span Rhythme says For half so boldly there can none Swear and Lie as Woman can But this must not reflect upon all Women for some are Religiously Conscientious to a miracle And another upon their tears has this Regard not Womens Tears I counsel thee They reach their Eyes as wet to weep as see And so says another there is no more pity to be taken of a Womans weeping than there is of a Goose going barefoot and indeed a General of an Army Besieging a City has not so many stratagems to take it as some of the Fair Sex have to take those they design to gull and flatter into a belief of their Faith and Conscience being both Active and Passive doing or suffering any thing that may be instrumental 〈◊〉 bringing about their Plots and Projects Posthume l. a child born after the Fathers death Philyea the Daughter of Oceans Pandor from
good be conveyed to the Heart in Poetry it makes the larger and more lasting Impression for there is nothing that the memory so quickly and kindly embraceth as we see by our stage Actors who tho in other things have many of them their memories so treacherous that they do not remember a Score left at a Tavern over night unless they be minded of it Yet in Poetry you may hear them nâ—â— their Parts through a whole Play without blundering or hesitation To conclude 〈◊〉 then being turned to good purposes it is much available Piossitâ—tâ—s Some of our Young Noviâ—â— our guls Passive are so cheaâ—ed as that they spend the best remainder of their days in courting mercenary whores and make along sure before they can obtain It is 〈◊〉 onely flesh will make one 〈◊〉 these haukes stoope to thâ—lure but she must have â—â—ver too Which my young practitioner not being acqaiâ—â—ed with maketh his request 〈◊〉 vaine When he speaks 〈◊〉 love she looks so strangely 〈◊〉 if she heard a miracle swâ—â—ing she never as yet saw 〈◊〉 man who could gaine the 〈◊〉 corner of her heart He believes all and like a 〈◊〉 be nat â—â—cured man presents 〈◊〉 with rich gifts desiring no gist from her but her self which she with a pittiful look condescends to exclaiming against Fortune for subduing her to man when God knows she hath been as common as the Highway And how my plaine down-â—ight Squire who never before was further than his fathers wind-mill in taking is taken himself with a hook that will not easily let him go and many a loud knave and sea-gull shall upon the reveneues of his purse and he shall be called Patron till all his patrimony be spent Their soul dyeth in youth saith Job and their life among the whore-mangers But if it were good here to spur a question and ask whether a whore hiring or hired is the more detestable in the sight of God The Scripture determines and judgeth that a woman taking mony for prostituring her body to men is infamous our she that giveth money to enjoy her lover is most infamous of all others All are abominable before the Lord and therefore Solomon in his Proverbs saith that The mouth of a strange woman or an harlot is as a deep pit he that is a detestation to the Lord shall fall therein And in another place he saith A whore is as a deep ditch and a narrow pit Noting thereby that if a man be once in with an harlot he shall as hadly get out again as a man that is plunged into a very deep and narrow pit where he can hardly stir himself The same Solomon in the Book of Ecclesiastes yieldeth us the reason hereof namely because she is as nets snares and bands where if a man be once in he is fast enough for getting out I find saith he more better then death the woman whose heart is as nets and snares and her hands as bands he that is good before God shall be delivered from her but the sinner shall be taken by her O that flesh and blood would listen to the advise of the spirit and follow the counsel of the man Desire not saith he her beauty in thine heart neither let her eye-lids catch thee for by a whorish woman a man is brought to a morsel of bread and the adultress hunteth for life which is pretious Again he saith Albeit the lips of an harlot drop as an hony comb and the roof of her mouth be softer then oyl yet her latter end is bitter as wormwood and as sharp as a two-edged sword Prostitute Doxies are neither Wives Maids nor Widdows they will for good Victuals or for a very small piece of Money prostitute their Bodies and then protest they never did any such thing before that it was pure necessity that now compell'd them to do what they have done and the like whereas the Jades will prove common Hacknies upon every slight occasion they are dexterous in picking of pockets which they mind most when they find the mans thoughts most imployed on somewhat else they are destructive Queans and oftentimes secret Murtherers of the Infants which are illegitimately begotten of their bodies Q QUendride a Queen of the Lumbards Famous for her Learning and Noble Exploits in Arms. She caus'd many wholesome Laws among them and civlliz'd that rough Nation by planting Christianity among those who had not before receiv'd it building many Churches and Houses to pious uses Quintillia a Roman Lady highly favour'd by the Emperour Yitus Vespasian for her Vertues modest Behaviour and Good Government of all her Actions especially when Rome Reigned in the height of Luxury and Riot and commanded the other Ladies to take a pattern by her She was courteous to all and very charitable a great favourer of the Christians tho she did not publickly profess it her self but concluded they must morally be a good people because they were humble meek modest courteous charitable and loving to all and did by others as they desired to be done unto hemselves c. Quisaca a Princess of Tarnate in the East Indies who though sought by many great Princes in Marriage refused them all and marry'd Armusa a private Gentleman of Portugal whom she fancy'd for his Courage in an attempt made upon the Isle of Tidâ—â—e She Endowed him with greâ—â— Riches and for his sake turned Christian. Querevolo Lovisade created Dutchess of Portsmouth by King Charles the Second She stood very high in the Favour and Liking of that Prince and is held to have had a great Ascendant and Influence over him Quercina a Noble Lady of Venice Daughter to a Senator who follow'd her Husband into banishment who was banish'd by the procurement of her Father because he marry'd her without his consent she being design'd by him for a Richer Fortune though less agreeable to her and liv'd a poor life with him in Corcyra chusing to be with him she lov'd before the plenty and pleasure of a Palace Quiddanet a Confection between a Syrup and Marmalade Quodlibitaries that follow their own Fancies Quadrigamist quâ—drigamus a man four times marry'd Quarentine from the Fr. Quarantine is a beneâ—â— allowed by the Law of England to the Widow of a landed man deceas'd whereby â—â—e may challenge to continue â—â— his chief Mansion-house by the space of Forty Days after his decease Of this see Brast â— 1. cap. 40. And if the Heir or any other attempt to eject her she may have the Writ de Quarantina habenda Inz. nat br fol. 161. Quater Cousens those that are in the last Degree of Kindred or Fourth Cousens But we commonly â—y such persons are not Quater Cousens when they are not good Friends Queer mort a Pocky baggage Quintain a game or sport still in request at marriages in some parts of this Nation specially in shropshire The manner now corruptly 〈◊〉 a Quintin Buttress or thick Plank of Wood is set fast in the Ground of the
and Adventures of Shepherds so that its Character must be simple its Wit easy the manners innocent the language pure the Expressions plain and the Discourse natural The Models to be proposed to write well in this sort of Poesy are Theocritus and Virgil. Secondly Satyr If says Dryden we take Satyr in the General signification of the word as it is used in all modern Languages for Invective 't is certain that 't is almost as old as Verse and through Hymns which are the Praises of God may be allow'd to have been before it yet the Defamation of others was not long after it The principal end of Satyr is to instruct the people by discrediting Vice It may therefore be of great Advantage in a state when taught to keep within bounds and is not as it often happens like a Sword â—n the hands of a Madman that runs a Tilt at all manner of Persons without any sort of distinction or reason It is more difficult to praise then to find fault yet the same delicacy of wit that is necessary to to keep the one from being fulsome is necessary to keep the other from being bitter Of all the ways that wisest men could find To mend the Age and mortify mankind Satyr well writ hath mâ—â—â— successful prov'd And cures because the remedy is Lov'd Thirdly There is a sort of Satyr among us which we call Lampoons which are dangerous sort of Weapon and for the most part unjust because we have no moral right on the Reputation of other men In these no Venome is wanting or decâ—oy consiâ—â—r'd The weaker Sex is their most ordinary Theme and the best and â—â—irest are sure to â—e most â—â—â—â—â—ely handled Among men â—â—â—se who are Prosperoâ—â—ly Uâ—â—â—â—â— are entituled to a Panegâ—â—ickâ— but afflicted Vertue is insolently stab'd with all manner of Reproaches We should have insisted longer here on the several sorts of Poetry but for want of Room we shall finish what is wanting on this subject in the secoâ—d part of this Dictionary T. TAbitha Acts 91.36 in the Syriac tabitha 1 a â—â— Buck. Tace 1. Hold peace hush be silent from tacâ—o to be siâ—ent and indeed it is a fit Nâ—me to admonish the fair Sex of silence Tamar 2 Sex 13.1.1 â— Palm Tree Thamasin or Thomasiâ— 1. â— Twin from Thomas in Mens Names Tempâ—rance â—1 Moderation â—â—berness or refraining from â—â—â—â—â—â—lity Tâ—â—odâ—cia 1. given of God Thâ—opâ—tia 1. a Friend of â—od Tadica a very Rich Araâ—â—â— Woman with whom â—â—â—â—omet the Impostor lived â—â— a Slave or Menial Servant â—â—en Sirgeus a Monk perswaâ—â— her in hopes of great â—â—ward to Marry Mahomes 〈◊〉 then being 50 years of â—ge when by the countenance â—â— her Wealth he spread aâ—â—oâ—d his pernicious Doâ—â—â—iâ—e Thamer Daughter in Law â—â— Judah the Patriarch who â—â—â—â—ingly deceived him by 〈◊〉 way side as he went to 〈◊〉 sheep-shearing by persoâ—â—â—ng a Harlot or Commonâ—oman because he had â—â—â—held from her his Son â—â—own up to years who â—â—ght to have been given to 〈◊〉 for a Husband Thamer the Daughter of Dâ—vid the King whose Chastity waâ— violaâ—ed by Aâ—non one of the Kings Sons he forcibly gaining his will of her by 〈◊〉 himself sick and procuring her to attend him in his Chamber which afterwards cost him his Life at the command of Absalonâ— at a Sheep-shearing Feast to which â—e had invited him and his â—â—ethren Tanaquiâ— otherwise called cicily who was sometimes Wife to the Elder Tarqâ—in she was a very prudent Woman and an Excellent Inventress of curious work especially in Embroideries of Purple and Gold and in memory of her Art a Royal Cloak of her working was hung up in the Tâ—â—ple of Fortune she also 〈◊〉 Coats and Vests entire and distributed theiâ— among young Soldiers and young Married Men as their Deserts appeared Tabitha otherwise called Dorcas whom our blessed Saviour raised from the Dead was no doubt a Woman of singular dexterity in curious Woâ—â—s with the Needle for there we find those who lament her death seem as much to grieve for the loss of her Art which must probably have dyed with her As for the Artist as appears by shewing 〈◊〉 curious Worâ—s and no douâ—â— commending them very highly as things rare and not to be parallel'd by any of her Sex of that Country or in those times Tarbâ—la the Bishop of Selâ—cia's Sister being much envyed by the Jews for her Zeal and Piety in promoteing the Christian Religion was by them accused for intending to poyson the Queen of Persia in revenge of her Brothers Death and being condemnèd the Magi one of them taken with her excellent Beauty promised to secure her Life if she would yield to his Lust but to preserve her Chastity she chose rather to dye and accordingly suffer'd with great courage and constancy Taygete Daughter of Atlas and Pleion one of the Pleiades on whom Jupiter begat Lacedemon Founder of Lacedemonia once a famous City in Greece Telesilla A famous Argine Lady by whose Counsel and Courage the Argiers beat the Lacedonians and freed their Country She was likewise excellent in Poetry so that she for these and other virtues had a Statue of her proportion set up in the City of Argos Tellus the Earth was by the Antients worshipped as a Goddess and Homer calls her the Mother of the Gods for the advantages she gives and affords to Mankind wherefore they Painted her with great Swelling Breasts and Naked Terphitchorie Accounted one of the Nine Muses to whom they attribute the keeping true tâ—ne and measure in dancing as also the Invention of Set Dances and was by the Ancients painted holding a Harp in her hand and other Musical Instruments lying at her Feet also a Garland or Caplet of flowers on her Head Tethys the Daughter of Caelum Sister to Vecta and Sâ—turn said to be married to Neptune Thetis another Fabled Goddess of the Sea who bore Achilles the famous Greek who did such wonders at the Siege of Troy Teudeguilde Daughter to a Sheperd but of such Excellent shape and beauty that Chariber for her sake refused all the great Ladies of the Court and Married her Theano Wife to Pythagoras a Woman of great Ingenuity and Learning but above all exceeding Chasâ—â—â— and Virtuous teaching Phylosophy after the death 〈◊〉 her Husband Thermis by Eusebius called Carmeâ—ta held to be the Daughter of Heaven and Earth aâ— the first that gave Oracles to the pagans and taught the Image Worship She is otherwise stiled the Goddess of Justice and is fabled thâ—t upon refusing to Marry â—upiter he forced her to 〈◊〉 Will and begot on her Justice Peace and Law Themistoclea a Famous Learned Virgin was Daughter to Mensarchus a Gold-smith of Samos Theodelinda a Queen of the Lumbards about 593. And after the Death of Authaeris heâ— Husband she kept the Crown and transferred it upon a second Husband viz. Agulphis she reduced the Lumbards into good order and made them renounce Aranisme yet sell her self afterward into Error
blush and so he loads her down into the Room of State from whence the Cavel Cade is to set forth and here we close the Scene of Wooing in which all those that are not stupified may perceive their is a World of pleasure and contentment Wedding The Happiness of the Day considered and Exhortations to Wedlock as being an Honourable Estate c. Wedding puts an end to Wooing in one sense but ought to be the beginning of solid and substantial Love the inlet of the Entirest and Immovable Affections the last best temporal Blessing that can be bestowed on Man It is ushered in with joy and harmony of Minds and should continue so till death disolves the sacred union and then live in the remembrance of the surviver We see how the Congratulating coud throng to see the Lovely pair pass to that state of happiness insomuch that pressing to be Spectators they will hardly allow them room enough to enter the Church every one having good wishes and commendations in their mouths some praising them for their virtues and others for the comliness of their Persons and those that are ignorant who they are make a strict enquiry to be informed that they may carry the joyful news along with them and spread it in their Neighbour-hoods to set all the young Maids and Batchelours a madding or at least a wishing and longing c. They having with much a do thrust through the crouding Rable and entered the Church the Pâ—rson attending the Ceremony is performed with all imaginable decency and order the no longer Courtier but Husband salutes his Wife which she accepts without a blush because now such things may be done within the strictess Rules of Modesty and so after some sober admonitions for you must know the Bridegroom is not niggardly to him that has link'd him to so great an happiness to live in Love and Unity out they pass through the waiting Multitude and the Beggars who make not the least figure in that number fail not of their Expectations but taste of their Liberality for which they send their prayers and good wishes after them And perhaps are so generous as to lose some of their Blood on the occasion by going together by the Ears about parting the Mony Not is it to be accounted less than a Mark of Greatness thus to be attended by the Rable For many Great men have esteemed it a happiness to be popular and admired by the multitude For after this large Expence to make a Splendid show should the Rabble in a moross and sullen humour have declined their publick appearing to be Spectators much of the honour and credit of the day would have been lost as well as money thrown away to no purpose which in private Wedding might have been saved however they did not order the Coaches to drive so softly as to gratifie them in a longer prospect than the getting home withal the convenient speed imaginable would allow Being entered the spacious Room appointed for the Entertainment it was pretty to see how the Male Guest saluted and joyed the Bride and how the blushes arising by that means adding a greater Lustre to her Beauty and how in return the Bridegroom did the like kind office to all the young Ladies Well then the business being over and Dinner not upon the Table our Gallant Bridegroom after strutting about a little to take a fuller view of the Company crys Come Gentlemen what think of you of a whet before Dinner you know from the Church to the Tavern or elsewhere to participate the juice of the Grape is all the mode now adays The motion was lik'd well for there were divers thirsty Sparks of his Club Companions who had rather be at a drinking bout than participate of a well furnished Lord Mayors Table and so about it went in Bumpers he taking special care to see it go round because it was his Ladies health however the Women were not pressed to drink more than they pleased but in that left to their discretion however he must take off a Glass to either of the Brides Maids and it is their business to put it about among their own Sex This scarce concluded when the wind Musick gave them notice that Dinner was coming up whereupon every one repairs to a place in order the Bride like an Angel was placed at the upper end she being this day Mistress of Rule and the Bridegroom who knew his duty well enough attended at the lower end So that they looked like the two bright Luminaries in opposition his less brighter Visage being more enlightened by the beams of her Eyes that with often as it were stolen Glances Reflected on it They were no sooner seated but all things were Marshalled in such good order that no General could have drawn up his Army more Regular and Uniform in Batallia there wanted nothing that could be wished or expected and what was more pleasing admirable the Brides handywork appeared in the more curious part of the Pastery in various Images Figures Similitudes of Fruitâ— and Flowers which her Industery and Ingenuity had framed a Graceful Garniture to accomodate the worthy Guests insomuch that they were scrambled for â—nd coveted as earnestly as Pilgrims do Relicks to be kept in Memorial of her and the proceedings of that happy day Then was it pleasing to the Bridegroom to behold every one pay their respects to him and his Bride in addressing the Glasses first to her and then to him if he can but keep himself sober till bâ—d time or else a great deal of his happiness will be wanting We now come to consider that Dinner draws to a conclusion the Glasses have gone round and some begin now their bellies are full to be uneasie till they are releas'd and get to dancing but stay a while young Gallants and Ladies you must consider the Mother of the Bride and therefore she has ordered the Pâ—rson who tyed the Holy knot and is now one of the Invited Guests to read you such a Lecture relating to the state of Wedlock that will do you more kindness and credit if well minded and put in practice than all the Dancing at a hundred Balls and Dancing Schools which he standing up and very gravely addressing himself to the Company delivered in these words That Marriage says he is honnourable and a holy state appointed by God himself I suppose none here are so profane as to deny it is honourable for four respects First in the parts of it Secondly in the nature of it Thirdly in the use of it And Fourthly in the Quality and Sacredness of it Marriage is the Prop of Mutual conâ—ent the Aide of Nature the Perfection of Health Wealth Beauty Learning Honour and Experience Youth Manhood Old Age whereof none is sweet where Marriage 〈◊〉 not the want It serves not only for the necessity of Generation but for the relief of such as aâ—e past it Looking at the Safeguard of the Stock and Comfort