Weakness and Oversight of either Sex which makes an Over kind Sufferer that Exclaim against such Kind of Love viz. Be gone he gone thou wheedling Cheat Thou Enemy to all that 's Great That only wer't at first design'd To be in pleasing Torments kind Thou lovely Paris didsâ— destroy In a worse flame than the Greeks Troy Well mayâ—t thou still delight in strife That to a Tempest owd'st thy life Hence all the beauteeus Sex we 〈◊〉 Have learn'd Inconstancy from thee Be banish'd then to some cold Isle Where never yet the Sun did smile And only there Exert thy power Where Ice glaz'd Seâ—s embrace the shoar I 'll burn my Songs I 'll break my Lyre Vnless they nobler thoughts inspire And on the Thebian Swan will fly To view mellodious worlds on high Where Love is pure where Joys can never die There are but two sorts on which Love can fix that is on those that are Vertuous and those that are otherwise On a dishonest woman love is but lust and is the greatest degree of Folly imaginable for as Aeneas Sylvas says in one of his Epistles to his Friend a dishonest woman is a Poler of Youth a Ruin to mankind a lost destruction a devourer of Patrimonies the downfall of honour fodder for the Devil the Gates of Death and the Supplement of Hell a sweet poyson bitter hony a delicate misery and a voluntary mischief And Lucretia one of that Profession ingeniously confesses that Theft Envy Sacriledge Pride Gluttony Anger Murther c. were all born that day a Whore began her profession and further says Her Pride is as great as a rich Churl she is more Envious than the pox as Malitious as Melencholy as Malitious as hell and if from the beginning of the world any has been superlatively wicked it must be a harlot O Antonina continued she how many have I ruined caused to be wounded and slain Thou seest what I am without but Gâ—d knows within I am such a soul Wretch such a puddle and Cinque of sin that Hell affords not a worse Pray tell us now this being the true Character of a Strumper what delight any but Madmen can take in them and yet we see how many doat upon these painted Sepulchres that tho they have a gaudy out-side are fill'd with french and Rottenness within so many Pandora's with boxes full of deadly plagues Yet these by many a keeping madmen for they cannot sure be in their senses and guilty of such a Transcendant Folly nay even those that have Fair Virtuous Wives are many times so poffest with this Phrensie sâ—ghting their chast Embraces for the mercenary smiles of a painted car-case full of Impudence and Diseases They bravely do maintain these Jilts in Tomn Whilst my great Ladies are in haste sent down And forc'd in Country Mansion house to fix That Miss may rattle in her Coach and six We think the true Character we have given her may be an Antidote against Lerchery where there is but a glimpse of Reason to discern the miseries that follow close at the heels of such lawless lusts tho in all we have said we do not forbid a Virtuous Love where it is Mutual stable and Agreeable Propose to your self seriously if your Intentions are honourable whether it be pure Love or Lust that drives you on to this Liking and desire if the Latter you may conclude if you have so much reason Left undisordered that it is very unlikely to be a happy match for burning lust once allay'd turns to Loathing be therefore serious call reason home and consider well what you go about before you go too far before your Affections settle pry as narrowly as may be into the parties Estate conditions c. And trust not too much to your own Judgment but take the advice of others see with the Eyes of a friend least your own should dazle with too much earnestly gazing on the Mountain that you suppose is about to bring forth a world of felicity though at Last it may be delivered only of a Rediculous Mouse Proportion of years must above all be considered for by their disproportion they put love out of tune and in a very little time quite spoil his harmony for Age an youth are as contrary in this affair as fire and water winter and summer though money which is the witchcraft of the world doing such Miracles by it's charrus as is almost incredible to beleive is the cause that fourscore Joyns with twenty threescore and ten with fifteen and even deformity it self if guilded o're his courted and pretended to be liked and admired tho pardon us reader if we have not so large a faith as to believe it but having treated upon the subject of Marriage very copiously else where we may here spare a further enlargement our pretentious being in this Chapter to prescribe such remedies as may cure love-sick Malencholicks rather than to spur them on in the pursuit of what perhaps may make them worse for some though we ought to blame them for so harsh a sentence will have it that Marrying and hanging are desten'd Perjury to be Avoided in Love c. Perjury among some Rhedomontado pretenders to love even of either sex it set lightly by and in Excuse for the breach of their oaths vows and solemn Protestations they would flamn us with an old tale of the Antient Poets that Jupiter having in his may scapes and transformations been guilty himself In Compassion to the frailties of Morral lovers puts all their vows in a bottomless bag never to rise up in Judgment against them but however they may flatter themselves it will not serve their turns an oath tho not taken in manner and form before a Majestrate is not a matter of such light moment as not to be regarded or trifled with it is a solemn and sacred security as one can give to an other and God himself is the witness to it and in some degree is Engaged to see it performed or in his Justice to revenge the afront and dishonour done to his Name as indeed to the terrour of mankind he has very often done in the most Astonishing ways the more lively to express his high displeasure Pitious was the fate of 〈◊〉 and her Children who was betrayed into her Brother 〈◊〉 hands who resolving to seize to himself the Kingdom of Macedonia after the Death of Alexander th' Great to which Arsina's Children had the right as Sons to Lysimachus the deceased King of Macedon he laboured to get Lysymacus and Philip the two young Princes into his hands but finding it could not be done by force he betook him to fraud and wrote many kind and endearing Letters to his Sister proposing by his Messengers a Marriage with her a thing then usual in those Countries and that her Children after his decease should enjoy not only that but his other Dominions and to this he promised to Swear in the Temple By these fair Promises she was
for that the Germans from whom our Ancestors the Saxons usually descended did principally as Tacitus tells us divine and foretell things to come by the Whinnying and Neighing of their Horses Hinitu and Fremitu are his words For the Definition Perkins cap. 1. saith witchraft is an Art serving for the work of Wonders by the Assistance of the Devil so far as God will permit Delrio defines it to be an Art which by the Power of a Contrast entred into with the Devil some wonders are wrought which pass the common Vnderstanding of Men Lib. 1. â— 2. de Mag. Dis. Wittal is a Cuckold that witts all or knows all that is knows himself to be so and is contented with iâ— Witches the Scriptures saith Thou shalt not suffer a Witch to live Bodinus contrary to â—yerius who will scarce believe there be any such accounting all those Judges as condemn them to the Stake or Gallows no better than Executioners and Hangmen he shews divers probable Reasons why they ought not to live The first is Because all Witches renounce God and their Religion now the Law of God â—aith Whosoever shall forsake the God of Heaven and adhere to any other shall be stoned to Death which punishment the Hebrews held to the greatest could be inflicted The second thing is That they plight faith and make covenant with the Devil adore him and sacrifice unto him as Apâ—lâ—ius reâ—tifies of Pampbila Larissana a Witch of Thessaly as likewise a Witch of the Loadunensian Suburbs in the Month of May 1578. Who blushed not to do the like before many witnesses Now the Law saith Who that shall but incline or bow down to Images which the Greeks call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shall be punished with Death The Hebrew word Tistaveâ— and the Chaldaean Fisgud which all our Latin Interpreters translate Adorare imports as much as to incline or Worship Now these witches do not only incline unto him but invoke and call upon him A Third thing is which many have confessed that they have vowed their Children to the Devil now the Law saith God is inflamed with revenge against all such as shall offer their Children unto Moloch which Josephus interprets Priapus and Philo Satannus But all agree that by Moloch is signified the Devil and malignant spirits A Fourth thing is gathered out of their own confession That they have sacrificed Infants not yet baptised to the Devil and have killed them by thrusting great pins into their Heads Sprangerus testifies that he condemned one to the fire who confessed that she by such means had been the death of one and forty Children A Fifth is That adulterate incests are frequent amongst them for which in all ages they have been infamous and of such detestable criâ—es convicted so that it hath almost grown to Proverb No Magician or Witch but was either begot and born of the Father and Daughter or the Mother or Son A Sixth That they are Homicides and the murtherers of those Infants Sprangerus observes from their own confessions and Baptista Porta the Neapolitan in his Book de Magia Next That they kill Children before their Baptism by which circumstances their offence is made more capital and heinous A Seventh That Witches eat the flesh of Infants and commonly drink their Bloods in which they take much delight If Children be wanting they dig humane bodies from their sepulchers or feed upon them that have been executed To which purpose Lucan writes The Felons strangling cord she nothing fears But with her teeth the fatal Knot she tears The hanging bodies from the Cross she takes And shave the Gallowes of which dust she makes c. Apuleius reports that coming to Larissa in Thessaly he was hired for eight pieces of Gold to watch a Dead Body but one night for fear the Witches for which in â—â—at place there is abundance â—hould gnaw and devour the Flesh of the party deceased even to the very Bones which is often found amongst them A Eighth is That they are the death of Cattel for which Augustanus the Magician suffered Death 1569. A Ninth That they have Carnal consociety with the Devill as it hath been proved by a thousand several confessions Now all that have made any Compact or Covenant with the Devil if not all these yet undoubtedly â—re guilty of many or at least some and therefore consequently not worthy to live Women in Mens Apparel There may be a Case put therein in some exigency it may be Lawful for the Women to wear the Agparel of the Man And Aâ—icrius gives â—one 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I know Woman says he that Pulled 〈◊〉 Hair and put on Mans 〈◊〉 and that a flower'd Garment too that she might not be â—rated form her dear Husband 〈◊〉 was forced to flye and 〈◊〉 his Head Winefred if Saxon signifies win or get Peace but â—â—me conceive it to be a Brittish word corrupted from 〈◊〉 srewi Prâ—wi was the Saints â—â—me at first but had the 〈◊〉 Ewen which signifies white in the Feminine Gender from the white Circle that remained in her Neck after she was revived by Benno the Priest and Pastor of the Church as the Story goes by joyning her cut off Head to her dead Body For it is a Tradition among the Brittains that in the very place where her Head was cut off by wicked Cradacus there sprung the Well that has to this day continued under the name of St. WinefredsWell in Flintshire esteemed to be the most plentiful and miraculous Spring in the World Wheadle in the Brittish tongue signifies a story whence probably our late word of fancy and signifies to draw one in by far words or subtile insinuation to act any thing of disadvantage or reproofs to tell a pleasant story and there by work ones own ends Waived belongs to a Woman that being sued in Law contemptuously refuseth to appear as the word Outlawed doth to a Man For Women cannot be outlawed because they are not sworn in Lees to the King not to the Law as men are so that a Man is said Out-Lawed or without the Law to which he was sworn and a Woman waived Wife Advice about choosing a good one Having already inserted the Form of Prayer for the Ladies choice of Husbands drawn up by the Athenians I shall here incert the like Assistance which they gave to young Batchelors for choosing Wives which is as follows When you find your Devotion warm with thoughts of this nature you may change the following Character into a Prayer for One whose Piety and Virtue has measured the Chains of Providence and accordingly makes a due Estimate of all Occurences Whose Soul is too great to be crush under the weight of Adverse Storms and yet at the same time of a lost easie affable Temper who is a Stranger to disguise yet not so free and open as to give grounds for contempt One to whom Nature has been liberal in good Features and Proportions of Body but yet
amongst the Eastern People and the fairest Females that could be chosen were her Priestesses who by an Indecent custom prostituted their Chastity to such as came to offer at her Shrine which brought her crouds of Adorers Anchire Queen of Sparta upon a discovery that her Son designed to betray her Country to her Enemy Ordered him to be brought to Justice but upon notice of it he fled to the Temple of Minerva which the caused to be so strictly guarded in order to prevent his Escape that he there perished by famine Andromeda Daughter to Cepheus for her Mothers comparing her Beauty to that of the Nerciâ—es was doomed to be devoured by a Sea-Monster but Perseus the Son of Jupiter by Dane seeing her bound naked to a Rock became Enamoured of her killed the Sea-Monster that came to devour her and made her his wife Angerona was by the An-cient Romans worshipped as the Goddess of silence and Consulted in all Abstruse matters her Altar being placed under that of the Goddess of Pleasure Anna Goranena Daughter to Alexix Emperour of Constantinople she wrote the Reign of her Father and other Learned Books and is remembred by divers Authors Anne Mother to the Virgin Mary who was Mother to our Blessed Saviour according to the Flesh. Anne a Prophetess daughter to Phanuel who frequented the Temple in Jerusalem in a devout manner and Sung Praises to God by the Direction of the Holy Spirit when our Saviour was first brought and presented there she dyed in the 84 year of her Age and in the first of our Lords Incarnation Anne Pâ—gmalion the King of Tyres Siner she was also Sister to Queen Dido of Carthage and after her Sisters death who flew her self for the Love of Aeâ—eas she failed to Malea and thence to Italy where Lâ—vinia who had Marryed Aeneas being jealous of her she fled her Fury and in her flight was drowned in the River Numicus and afterwards was held amongst the Romans as a Goddess Her Feast with much Reveling was held in the Ides of March. Anne Daughter and Heires to Duke Francis the Seconâ— of Brittanny she should have been Marryed to Maxmilian of Austria but after the death of her Father Charles the Eight of France neâ—reâ—â— to whose Teâ—râ—tories her Dutchy lay Gained her and annexed that Dukedom to the Kingdom of France Anne the Third daughter of King Charles the Firâ—â— of England was born on the 13. of March 1637 at St. James's Her Piety and Ingenuity was above her Age for being but Four Years old and falling â—ick she fervently called uâ—on God by Prayer and being at last almoâ—t sâ—ent and feeling the Pangs of death upon her after a Sigh or two â—he said I cannot now say my long Prayer meaning the Lord's Prayer but I 'll say my short one viz. Lighten mine Eâ—es O Lord least I sleep the sleep of Death and then quietly gave up the the Ghost Anne Queen of Bohemia and Hungary Daughter to Landislaus was Wife to Ferdinand of Austria upon which after some contests such discontents arose that Sâ—â—â—man the Turkish Emperor being called in War a great part of Hungary and narrowly missed taking Vienna to which he laid a hard Seige which went very bloody on both sides Anteborta held to be a Goddess among the Romans and had Adoration given her for the Success of things and favours past as they did to another Goddess called Postvorta in Expectation of the Success of things to come Antiope a Queen of the Amazons she assisted the Ethiopians in their Invasion of the Athenians but Theseus commanding the Greeks vanquished both Armies There was another of the same name who was married to Lycus a Thebian King who is fabled to be raviâ—â—d by Jupiter and Conceiving of that Rape brought forth Amphion who drew the Stones with the Musick of his Harp after him that rebuilded the demolish'd Walls of the City Antonia The Emperor Cladâ—â—â—'s Daugâ—ter who being accused by Nero the Emperor for intending to raise Sedition in the State and finding no hopes to free her self from the Tyrants Cruelty without marrying him which he earnestly pressed her to do and she deâ—â—â—â—ing the Murder of his two Wives kill'd her self to be freed from his Insults over her rather than she would yield to his Embraces or be at his Mercy Apicata Sejanus's Wife writ upon her being divorced a Memorial to Tiberius Emperor of Rome informing him how Drusius came by his death and the hand that Livia his Wife had in the concurring to it Also the Villanies of Ligdus the Eunuch and Endemes the Physician for which those that the accused were severely punished though the main end of her discovery was to revenge her self upon Livia her fair Rival Araclue a Lydian Virgin Daughter of Idomon who was so expert in all manner of Needle-work and Textury that she boasted her self equal in those Arts to Minerva which caused her to spoil her curious Manufactury which so grieved her that she hang'd her self but the Goddess in compassion brought her again to life yet turn'd her into a Spider a Creature which is usually busy in Spinning out its own Bowels Archâ—damia Cleonigmus a King of Sparta's Daughter hearing that upon the approach of Phyrus to besiege the City the Senate had made a Decree that all the Women should depart it she went boldly with a drawn Sword in her hand to the Senate-house and told them That the Mothers Sisters and Wives of those Warriers that were to fight the Enemy scorn'd to be less Valiant than they and thereupon got the Decree revoked Autem Morâ—s are such who are married having always Children with them one in the Arm and another at the Back and sometimes leading a third in the Hand You are not to ask what Church she was married in or by what Parson so long as a Totterdemallion shall swear he will justifie himself her Husband before any Justice of Peace in England Armenias's strict Virtue and great Love to her Husband Ladies we have in London who are so far from having a light Assent as they scorn to admit a weak Assault which confirms the Judgment of that noble accomplish'd though unfortunate Gentleman In part to blame is she that has been tride He comes too near that comes to be denied Sir T.O. This that noble minded Lady Armenia expressed who being solemnly invited to King Cyrik's Wedding went thither with her Husband At night when those Royal Rites had been solemnized and they returned her Husband asked her how she liked the Bride-groom whether upon perusal of him she thought him to be a fair and beautiful Prince or no Truth says she I know not for all the while I was forth I cast mine Eyes upon none other but upon thy self Those receiving Portels of her Senses were shut against all foreign Intruders She had made a moral League with her Loyal Eyes to fix on no unlawful Beauty left her surprized Eye might ingage her to folly We may imagine that
with Mildness and Moderation that so you may make a better Judgment and more easily determine what is fit to be done Anger makes People rush blindly upon things that many times they repent in their ruin The Athenians were extream angry and displeas'd with the Macedonian Government that Philip the Father of Alexander as a Conqueror had set over them so that when they heard that Alexander was dead at Babylon they were imediately for revolting and assuming their former Liberty but Phocian staid their hasty Proceedings which their Anger to the Macedonians who were set over them in Command was about upon a meer Rumour to put in practice which if it had fail'd to have been true would have been their ruin by telling them that they ought advisedly to consider what they did and that their rashness if Alexander was not dead would bring a great Calamity upon them but on the other hand if he were dead their staying for the Assurance of it could no ways prejudice them for if he was dead to day he would be as certainly dead to morrow So if your Servants or Inferiours deserve Punishment staying till to morrow will not make him innocent but it will many times abate an unjust Anger and you see your Error that in your Passion you was blind too 'T is the greatest Victory for one to over-come one's-self So Aristotle finding Alexander the Great was causlesly in his Anger determined to put one of his Princes to death none of the Commanders daring to interceed in his behalf the Philosopher went boldly to the King and told him he would that day that he should be a greater Conqueror than ever he had been to which Alexander admiring to what it should tend seeing he had made so great a progress in Arms that he wept to think there was no more Worlds to Conquer he would be contented so to be why then says the other I will that you Conquer your self by subduing your Anger which is more Glory to a Prince than the Conquering of Armies for there he is assisted by others and but here his own Power and Magnanimity is more evident upon this a Pardon was granted But for all this there is something that requires our Indignation but it must be with great Caution and that is a displeasure against Sin which is more properly called a Holy Zeal than Anger and an Effect of Love to God and our Brother For whose Interest we may like concerned Persons be passionate and if we take care that our Anger makes no Reflection of Scorn or Cruelty upon the Offendor or of Pride and Violence and Transportation on our selves it is not blameable Ability In some Women why Extraordinary Although Man from the Dominion given him in Paradice may stile himself Superior and boast of his wonderful Abilities looking on those in Women much Inferiour Yet let us mind him that he frequently runs into mistakes for though the Strength of body may be different by reason that of the fair Sex is Soft and Plyable made for Pleasure and Charming Attraction more than Rebuâ—â— Actions and suffering hardship Yet we conclude that either Souls proceeding from the Same Fountain of Life can admit of no difference or distinction and where the Organick parts are Entire and Undisturbed why should they not equally operate If we consider Women in these particulars we find her more lively and active than Men by reason of her Soft Contexture Nature has not been wanting to frame this Cabinet of the Soul to the best Advantage manifesting her self herein an excellent work Mistris for a Creature more Regular in every part or fairer and more lovely in proportion she never made Therefore those that Object that the difference is in the Organs of the Body where the Soul Actuates in the several Faculties may here be mistaken unless in case of some visible defect as in Idiots Madmyn or those not of years of Discretion or where distempers Reign and Disorder the frame of Nature nor can the reasons they would fain seem to draw from the Coldness of the Womans Constitution be allowed in this case to hinder them from vigor Activity Acuteness and solid Judgment since Experience shews us the contrary and we frequently find that a Womans Wit upon a sudden Conception or a swift turn is most available and many times draws Men out of danger which they would otherwise sink under by their own Inadvertencies when all their solid reason as they term it would fail to help them at a dead Lift. Any one of Understanding observes that Men are of divers Complexions and Constitutions yet of every kind there have been some famous on sundry Accounts as in Learning Arts and Arms c. And Men doubtless of Flegmatick or Melancholly Complexions cannot easily be allowed to be of hotter Constitutions than Women that are of Cholerick and Sanguine ones if it be measured by strength which heat in General gives more to the Men than to the Women We answer that some Women are stronger than some Men which they have proved in War and by the Atchievement of much Fame and Renown and therefore their Souls freedom in Acting cannot reasonably be said to be so restrained but that they move and operate in their degrees equal at least to those of Men But for a plainer Demonstration we see that Crooked Deformed body which one might imagine should have more obstructions and hinderances than one cast in Natures curious Mould is frequenly joined with a Beautiful Mind that makes even the Bodies Deformities seem Fair and Lovely Aristotle was Crooked and Deformed yet the World has never since been known to produce a Man of so universal Learning and Skill in all Arts and Sciences And to confute the main Obstruction we find that Men of the coldest Constitutions are frequently the Wisest and most Judicious too much heat being an Enemy to the Sagacity of the Understanding And is rather fit to push them rashly on to unadvised attempts and actions why then though Women in General are granted to be of a colder Constitution than Men should that hinder them from being Prudent Learned and Skilled in Arts and Sciences We can find no warrantable Reason to Obstruct it and therefore must be apt to think that Men having gotten the upper hand and Engrossed the Power will right or wrong have Women to be no wiser than they will have them to be and then to be sure they will not allow them to be so wise as themselves what ever Evidence they can bring as plain Proof and Demonstration a Master-piece in Cunning. We must allow it is in the Men to Endeavour as much as in them lyes to keep the Fair-Sex in Ignorance that they may Reign the more securely without Controul and to Effect it possess them if possibly with a belief of their Incapacity that they are not made to reach at Sublime things but ought to be contented and rest satisfied with things that are In view near
formerly recoverable in the Spiritual Court but now only in Chancery Abortion an untimely Birth or Miscarriage which happens through divers Causes Inward and Outward Amnion the Membrane with which the Faetus in the Womb is most immediately clad which with the rest of the Scâ—ndine the Chorion and Alantoin is ejected after the Birth it is whiter and thinner than the Chorion It contains not only the Faetus but the nutritious Humour whence the Faetus by the Mouth and Throat sucks its nourishment It is outwardly clothed with the Urinary Membrane and the Chorion which sometimes stick so close to one another that they can scarce be separated Dr. Blanchard Amazons Amazones Warlike Women of Scythia that had but one Teat their name in Greek impowring as much they were very Man-like and cut off their Right Breasts that it might not hinder their shooting for they were excellent Archers they lived by themselves and if at any time they went to their Husbands or neighbouring Men and conceived if it were a Female Child they kept it if a Male they sent it to the Father The Country where they lived is denominated from them and called Amazonia Anchoresâ— a Religious Woman that Lives solitarily in a Cell Vide Anachorite Anne Heb. Hannah gracious or merciful Annulet Annulus a Ring or any thing like a Ring Aretaphila Gr. i.e. amatrix virtutus a lover of or friend to virtue a Woman's Name Abia Hercules Daughter Aegiale the Wife of Diomedes an Adultress Aegina Jupiter's Mistress in the shape of fire Aegle Daughter of Hesperus King of Italy Agatha g. good a Womans Name Aglata one of the Graces Aglais a very great sheeater Megale's Daugther Agnes g. chast a Womans Name Agnodice a Maid Physician Alepone Neptunes Daughter turned into a King-fisher Ambosexons Male and Female Amorets f. Love toys Amulet l. a ball about the neck to keep from Poison or Witchcraft Amymone one of Danaiis's fifty Daughters Mother of Nauplius by Neptune Anetis a Lydian Goddess Anatiferius l. Bringing the age of old Women Anaxarete a hard hearted Virgin turned into a stone Anchoress a Nun. Andrago g. a Manly Woman Andrastâ—s Andate Goddess of Victory among the Britans Andromache g. many fight Hectors wife Andromeda Cepheus's daughter Aretapila g. a she-friend of vertue Arethusa Daughter of Nereus a river of Sicily also an Armenian fountain in which nothing sinks Ariadne Daughter of Minos Asbiaroth Goddess of the Adonians Assedrix a she-assistant a Midwife Astroarch Queen of Plâ—nets the Moon Atalanta the swift Lady won by Hipomanes's three Golden Apples Arthis Daughter to Cranaus King of Athens Ave Marie l. Her Salutation by the Angel Avice Hildevig Sa. Lady â—â— defense Anses African Virgins used to combat in honour of Minerva Autonoe Actaeon's Mother Agetus the Lacedemonian Herodotus lib. 6. thus writes of this Lady the Daughter of Alcydes the Spartan first wife to Agetus and after to the King Ariston She of the most deformed became the excellentest amongst Women Aristorlea Of all the deaths that I have read of this of Aristoclaea methinks exceeds example with which howsoever her body was tormented her soul could not be grieved for never woman died such a loving death Her Lovers contending in the heat of their affection but not regarding her safety whom they did affect she as it were set upon the rack of Love plucked almost to pieces betwixt them both expired Ada Alexander the Great amongst his many other conquests having besieged the great City Halicarnassus by reason of opposition made against him levell'd it with the ground He entred Caria where Ada then reigned Queen who being before opprest by Orontobas imployed by Darius was almost quite beaten out of her Kingdom Having at that time no more of all her large Dominions left her saving Alynda the most defenced City into which she had retired herself for safety She hearing of Alexanders approach gave him a Royal meeting and submitted herself her Subjects and City into his Power withal Adopting him by the Name of Son Agathoclea Ptolme being free from all foreign Invasions he began Domestick troubles at home For being given over to his own Appetite and besotted to his Insatiate Pleasures he first began with Loadice both his Sister and Wife causing her to be slain that he might the more freely enjoy the society and fellowship of his most rare and beautiful Mistress Agathoclea So that the greatness of his Name and the Splendor of his Majesty both set apart he abandoned hinself solely to Whoredoms by Night and to Banquets and all profuseness of Riot by day Aristomache Dionysius the Tyrant banisht Dion out of Sicily taking into his own custody the Exiles Wife Aristomache and her Daughter But after at the great Intercession of one of his Servants Polycrates a man by him much affected he compelled the Lady who still Lamented the absence of her Lord unto a second Marriage with this Polycrates who was by Nation of Syracusa But Dion having gathered fresh Forces and expelling Dionysius from Syracusa unto the Locrenses Arete his Sister meeting him and Congratulating his Famous Victory made Intercession for Aristomache who with great shame had kept herself from the presence of her first Husband not daring to look him in the Face howsoever her second Nuptials were made by Force and Compulsion But the necessity of the cause the wondrous submission and modest Excuse of Aristomache together with the Mediation of Arete so much he prevailed with Dion all confirming her innocence that he received his wife and Daughter into his Family still continuing their former Love and Society Artimesia Queen of Caria so much honoured the remembrance of her Husband Mausolus being dead that after Meditation and deliberate counsel which way she might best decorate his Hearse and withal to express to Perpetuity her unmatchable Love She caused to be erected over him a Tomb so Magnificent that for the Cost and State it was not doubted to be worthily reckoned amongst the Nine Wonders But what do I speak of so rich a Structure when she her self became the living Sepulcher of her dead husband by their Testimonies who have Recorded that she preserved his bones and having beaten them to powder mingled their dust with her Wine in remembrance of him every morning and evening Cicer. Tusc. lib. 3 and Plin. lib. 36. cap. 5. Aretaphila Cyrenea is deservedly numbred amongst the Heroick Ladies she lived in the time of Mithridates and was the Daughter of Aeglatur and the Wife of Phedimus A Woman of excellent Vertue exquisite Beauty singular Wisedom and in the Managing of Common-Wealths business and Civil Affairs ingeniously Expert Aurora or the Morning Hesiodus in Theog terms her the Daughter of Hyperion and the Nymph Thya and Sister to the Sun and Moon Others derive her from Tytan and Terra they call her the way leader to the Sun as Lucifer the Day-Star is stil'd her Henshman or Usher For so saith Orpheus in an Hymn to Aurora
death Birthia a Woman of Scythia mentioned by Pliny who had such infectious Eyes that with long and stedfast looking upon any Living Creature she would kill or much injure it she had in each Eye two Apples and two distinct Sights c. Blanch of Castile Daughter to Alphonsus the Ninth and Elenor of England she was Marryed to Lewis called the Lyon and afterwards King of â—ance she managed the Affairs of the Kingdom after her â—usbands death to Admiration â—otwithstanding Powerful Faâ—tions opposed her she was â—other to St. Lewis of France â—nd brought up him and her â—ther Children under the Tuâ—erage of such Learned and â—ious Men that they became â—n Ornament to their Counâ—ry Blanch Daughter to Otho â—he Fourth Earl of Burgundy â—nd Maud Countess of Artois â—he was likewise Queen of France by her Marriage with Charles the Fourth she was â—alsly accused of Adultery which Conspiracy against her Life evidently appearing the Accusers were flead alive and then being beheaded their Carcasses hanged on Gibbets Bentivoglia Francisca Married to Galeoto Manfredi but upon suspicion that he was secretly Married before to a Virgin of Fayenza she with two others who were pretended Physicians Assassinated him giving him the Mortal wound with her own hand Berenice Daughter of Ptolomeus Philadelphus King of Egypt and Marryed to Antiochus Sotor King of Syria who were both murthered by Laedicea Antiochus first Wife Bernice another Daughter to the aforefaid King of Egypt whose Hair being Dedicated to Venus for Pâ—olomeus Evergetes her Husbands success in War and hung up in the Temple where in a short time it being missed it was fabled by Callimachus and others to be taken up to the Skies by the Goddess and turned into a Star Berenice Daughter to Agrippa the Elder she was Married to Agrippa the Younger King of the Jews and sat with him when St. Paul pleaded before him and Festus the Roman Proconsul Berenice Daughter of Mithridates King of Pontus who when her Father was overcome by Lucullus the Roman Consul in a mortal Battle took poison that she might not fall into the hands of the Enemy alive but that not presently dispatching her she caused one of her Slaves to strangle her Berthe Daughter of Cuthbert King of France and Ingoberge she was Wife to Ethelbert King of Kent a Saxon Prince who then was a Pagan but by her pious and Examplary Life she won him to Embrace Christianity Berthe Daughter to Lotharius the Second King of France and Valrada his Queen she was one of the most Couragious Beautiful and Illustrious Princesses of her Age she had divers Noble Husbands at sundry tiâ—es and did many brave Exploitâ— in War Barthe Daughter of Cheribert she was Wife to Peppico the short afterward King of France and Mother to Charles the Great Bonere Force a Queen of Poland Wife to Sigismund the First by Isabel of Aragon she was a Woman of great Virtue exceeding Loving and Tender of her Husband attending him like a common Nurse in all his Sickness sitting up with him and tending him with little or no rest to herself though he diswaded her to take off herself and commit that charge to others Boâ—romea Biancha a Learned Lady of Padua being perfect in the Sciences and spoke divers Languages the which together with her rare Beauty gained her a singular Esteem among the Learned Brigite since called St. Brigite was a Swedish Princess she flourished in the 14th Age and was Marryed to Prince Vison of Nericia and by him had Eight Children after the Death of her Husband who turned Cestertian Monk with whom before she had been on a Pilgrimage She wrote a Volume of Revelations in Eight Books which has been approved by divers Popes and dying 1373. She was Canonized by Pope Boniface the Second Britomaris a Cretian Nymph held to be daughter to Jupiter and Charmea she much delighted in Hunting but one day heedlesly Traversing a Forrest she fell into a Hunters Net and fearing some wild Beast should come to devour her she implored the help of Diana whereupon the Goddess released her from the Toil in Grateful acknowledgment the Nymph built a Temple and dedicated it to her by the Name of Dyctin Diana Minos King of Creet attempting afterwards to Ravish her she leaped into the Sea and was drowned Brumechilde Daughter of Athanagilde King of the Wisgoths she was Married to Sigebert the first King of Austratia she caused great mischiefs in France which in the end came home to her for being accused by Clotaire the Second for the murther of Ten Kings She was first Racked and then torn in pieces by drawing Horses She was a Woman of vast Ambition and endeavoured to destroy all her Opposers but her death in a great measure prevented it Budos Lodovica wife to Montmorency Constable of Fr. Busa a Lady of Apulia who fed Ten Thousand Hunger-starved Romans as they fled from the Battle of Cannea where the Roman Army was defeated by Hannibal Baâ—helors It was inserted in Plato's Laws that what Man soever liv'd a Batchelor above five and thirty Years of Age was neither capable of Hoâ—our or Office Alexand ab Alex. lib. 4. cap. 8. Licurgus the Lawgiver amongst the Laâ—edemonians as the same Author testifies to shew the necessity of Marriage made a Decree That all such as affected singleness and solitude of life should be held Ignominious They were not admitted to publick Plays but in the Winter were compell'd to pass through the Market-place naked and without Garments The Law of the Spartans set a Fine upon his Head first that married not at all next on him that married not till he was old and lastly on him they set the greatest Mulct that married an evil Wife or from a strange Tribe So laudable and reverent was Marriage amongst the Lacedemonians Procreation of Children and fertility of Issue That whosoever was the Father of Three Children should be free from Watch or Ward by day or Night and whosoever had Four or upward were rewarded with all Immunities and Liberty This Law was confirmed by Q. Metellus Numidicus Censor after approved by Julius Caesar and lastly established by Augustus Memorable are the words of Metellus in a publick Oration to the People If we could possibly be without Wives O Romans saith he we might all of us be free from molestation and trouble but since Nature excites us and necessity compels us to this exigent That we can neither live with them without Inconvenience nor without them at all more expedient it is therefore that we aim at the general and lasting profit than at our own private and momentary pleasure Bawd Pimp c. I put these together because it is pity to part the Devil's Houshold-stuff And indeed she is very much like him her Envy running Parallel with his For all that the Devil endeavours to do is to bring Mankind into the like state and condition and the nature of a Bawd is to make all fair Women as foul
Love Chara I. She that is dear beloved favour'd or pretious Charity I. Charity Love Bounty Chlâ—ris forsan à 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. green Gr. Christian given from our Christian Profession from Xeâ—â— i. the Annointed i. 〈◊〉 Câ—â—rlie that hath a kind of dimness in his sight or thâ— is Gray-ey'd Clare she that is fair bright or clear Lat. Cleobulina dun for Cleoâ—lus I. famous for Counsel Cleopatria qu. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. the Glory 〈◊〉 her Father or Country Constance i. constant fine always one Lat. Calphurnia a Roman Maâ—tron who pleading her own Cause made such an unplâ—sing a Harangue that the Senate made a Decree that â— Woman should be admitted 〈◊〉 plead for the future Camillia Queen of the Volscians she aided Turnus 〈◊〉 gainst Aeneas and after many brave Atchievements was 〈◊〉 by a cowardly hand Camilla Sister to Pope Sixtus the Fifth who of â— Poor Woman was rais'd by him to the degree of a Princess and her Children provided for after an extraordinary manne tho we do not hear that her Advancement made her proud a thing very common in oâ—â— Age. Camma a Lady of Galatia marry'd to Sinatus who being kill'd by Sinorix that he might enjoy Camma she after having bewail'd her Husband's death seemingly consented sented to be his Wife but poisoned him in the Nuptial Cup and at the same time 〈◊〉 rejoicing that she had the happiness in her Fall to be revenged on her Husband's Murtherer Campaspe a very beautiful Woman whose Picture Alexander the Great caused to 〈◊〉 drawn by Apelles but the Painter whilst he was drawing 〈◊〉 fell in Love with her and â—btain'd the King's leave to marry her Candace an Ethiopian Queen of the Isle of Meroe whose Eunuch St. Philip conâ—erted to the Christian Religion and he converted the Queen with a great number of her Subjects She was a Woman of a Heroick Spirit much â—ddicted to the Wars in which â—he lost one of her Eyes Carines Women who in great Funerals were Mourners and made doleful Lamentations over the Dead Carmel our Lady of Mount-Carmel Carmenta a Grecian Lady Mother to Evander who â—ailing from Greece planted himself in Italy by the courtesie of King Faunus and assisted Aeneas in his Wars against Turnus for the gaining the Fair Livinia Carna a Goddess taking Care of the Vital parts of Men to keep them in Health and â—engthen their Days Cassandra a Lady of Venice very famous for her Learning in divers Languages and Sciences leaving many curious Pieces of her works behind her Cassandra Daughter to King Priamus ravished by Apollo who to recompence her gave her the Gift of Prophecy but she afterward not proving so agreeable as he expected he so order'd it that none should believe her Catâ—hina Daughter to Lucippius the Sicyonian King she succeeding her Father marry'd Messapais a Sea Captain who had before gotten her with Child as she was rambling on the Sea-shoar when to hide her Infamy she declar'd That Neptune came out of the Sea and ravish'd her which passed for current with the People Calliope one of the Nine Muses styl'd the Goddess of Rhetorick and Heroick Poetry She was painted Young crown'd with Flowers holding in one hand a Book and in the other a wreath of Laurel Callipatria a Woman of Elis being of great strenght she us'd to disguise herself in Man's Apparel and Wrestle at the Olimpick Games tho Women were strictly forbidden to appear there but being discover'd she was pardoned and to prevent the like for the future it was ordined that those who enter'd the Lists should be stript naked Calithoe Daughter of Sâ—amander marry'd to Troâ— third King of the 〈◊〉 afterward from him named 〈…〉 had by him three Sons 〈◊〉 â—â—nimâ—les and 〈◊〉 Grandfather father to Anchises the Father of Aeneas the Fugitive Trojan who planted himself in Italy after the Destruction of Troy Chalisto Daughter of Lycaon an Arcadian who listing herself among the Nymphs of Diana and vowing Chastity was nevertheless debauched by Jupiter and being found with Child the Goddess turn'd her into a Bear yet she brought forth a Son call'd Arcos But Jupiter taking compassion on them translated them to the Stars where they are called the great and little Bear Callithoe Daughter of Lycus a Tyrant of Lybia she advertis'd Diomedes her Husband of the Ambushes her Father had laid and by that means sav'd his Life But he afterwards ungratefully forsook her upon which she hang'd herself Callithoe Daughter of the River Achelous she was Wife to Alcemon who being Murther'd her Father obtain'd of Jupiter that her young Children should immediately grow up to Mens estate that they might revenge their Father's death which was granted and they accordingly perform'd it by slaying the Conspirators Calphurnia Wife to Julius Cesar a virtuous Lady who dreaming that the Roof of the House was fallen down her Husband stab'd in her Arms and all the Doors opened of their one accord perswaded him not to go to the Senate But 〈◊〉 regarding her he was there stab'd by the Conspiratoâ— Cassiope Wife to Cepâ— an Aethiopian King she 〈◊〉 Mother to Andromede 〈◊〉 for comparing her Beauty 〈◊〉 the Nereides had a Sea-â—â—ster sent by Neptune to â—â—vour her Daughter but she was ty'd naked to a Roâ— Perseus the Sun of Dane â—â— Jupiter came on his wiâ—â— Horse Pegassus through 〈◊〉 Air and in a dreadful Comâ— kill'd the Monster and 〈◊〉 the Lady and is fabled to â—â—tain of Jupiter that the Moâ— and Daughter when they 〈◊〉 might be made Constellatiâ—â— and fixed in the Skies 〈◊〉 the Northern Stars Catharine d'Bedicis 〈◊〉 of France Catharine d'Siena a 〈◊〉 of the third Order of St. Dâ—minick a very Pious and Dâ—vout Lady after her death 〈◊〉 was Canoniz'd by Pope 〈◊〉 Catharine of Alexanâ—â— another Saint tho some 〈◊〉 whether there ever was such Person Catharine of Araâ—â— Daughter to K. Ferdinand 〈◊〉 Fifth she was sent over 〈◊〉 England and first married â—â— Prince Arthur and after 〈◊〉 death to Prince Henry wâ—â— Succeeded Henry the Seveâ—â— She was Mother to Q. 〈◊〉 and being divorc'd the 〈◊〉 after dy'd for Grief Catharine of Austria Dâ—ches of Savoy she was Daughter to Philip the Second â—â— Spain by Elizabeth of France she was Marryed to Emmanuel the first Duke of Savoy and dyed at Turin Anno 1597. Leaving Five Sons and Four Daughters behind her Catherine of Poland she was Queen of Sweden and Daughter of Sigismund the first King of Poland she was Married to John Prince of Swedeland and Duke of Fineland Son to Gustavus the first She was a Lady of great Virtue and Patience bearing her Husbands troubles and continuing with him during his seven years Imprisonment with a wonderful Constancy Catharine of Portugal Dutches of Bragance she was Daughter of Edward the Second King of Portugal and Maryed to John the Second Duke of Bragance after the death of Sebastian she disputed her Right with Philip the Second King of Spain for the
Kingdom of Portugal but though the Spaniard had then the longest Sword it is since fallen to her Posterity The Vertuous Donna Catharina Queen Dowager of England being likewise decended from her Cave vel raba Daughter of Julian Count of Ceuta and Consuegra she was Ravished by Rhoderick King of Spain which so incensed her Father that to Revenge it he called in the Sarazens who in a Barbarous manner over-run all Spain and expulsed Rhoderick his Kingdom Centhris Wife to Cinyre King of Cyprus Mother of Myrrha whom Venus turned into a Myrrhe tree Cenee a Maid That for her Viginity prevailed with Neptune to turn her into a Man that she might never more be ravished which he did and finding her of a Martial Spirit that she might be safe in War he rendred her Invulnerable but fighting with the Centaurs they bruised her to death with the weight of mighty Clubs after which she is fabled to be turned into a Bird. Ceres the Goddess of Corn Daughter of Saturn and Ops who went about the World with blazing Pines to seek her Daughter Proserpina whom Pluto had Ravished and carryed to Hell and at last finding her agreed that the should be six months in the year with Pluto and the other six with her on Earth Cesonie Empress of Caligula and after his death was Murthered by Julius Lupus for weeping over the dead Body of her Husband baring her Neck to the Cruel Wretch and dying with great Constancy and Courage she likewise strangled her Daughter Julia Drusila a Child of Four Years old Charicke Hydaâ—pes a King of Aethiopia's Daughter being very Fair and Beautiful to the rest of the Ethiops so that the Queen feared being mistrusted of Disloyalty but when she beheld an Ebbony Spot Arrisen on the Princess Arm the true Mark of a Legitimate Child of that Family she greatly rejoiced Charlotte Daughter of Lewis the Second Duke of Montpensire she was veiled a Nun when very young and afterward became Abbess of St. Jovare but not liking that kind of Life she privately withdrew into Germany and there turned Protestant and was Marryed to William of Nasau Prince of Orange whom she Loved so intirely that hearing he was desperately wounded by one Jourigni she fell sick with Grief and dyed at Antwerpt Chahatri Colombe a Taylors Wife of Burgundy being in Labour could by no means be Delivered but her Belly continued big till she dyed which was twenty four years after when being opened to find the cause the shape of a perfect Female Infant was found in her Womb petrefied to the hardness of aâ—stone Christiana Queen of Sweden she was Daughter to Gustavus Adolphus the Warlike King of the Swedes and Mary Eleanor of Brandenburgh after she had Reigned as Queen some years she voluntarily resigned the Crown to her Cousin Charies Gustavus and went to Rome where she lived very Splendidly to her death which happened Anno 1688. Chrysame a Thessaliaâ— Priestess who inured Cattlâ— by degrees to eat poisonoâ—â— Herbs till they became their Natural Food And in the War between the Grecians and Barbarians Left them as a Prey to the hungery Enemy who feeding on their Flesh became distracted so that 〈◊〉 easie Victory was gained over them Ciree an Inchantress dwelling in the Isle of Oggia 〈◊〉 to be the Daughter of the Sâ—â— who by her Inchantmenâ— changed Mens shapes and turned them into Beasts 〈◊〉 stayed Vlysses in his return from Troy till Minerva 〈◊〉 Protectress got leave of 〈◊〉 to set him free St. Claire an Order of Religious Women taking theâ—â— Denomination from her they were confirmed by Pope Innocent the Third Claudia a Roman 〈◊〉 Virgin she fastening her 〈◊〉 to the Galley wherein the Sâ—â—tue of Cyble was on the Rivâ— Tyber drew it to Rome when it stopt and no other 〈◊〉 move it ClemenÃé a Pagan Goddess Patroness of Mildness and Mercy she was painted wiâ—â— a Branch of Laurel in one hand and a Lance in the other she had her Temple in Rome Celia a Roman Virgin she was given in Hostage to Porsena when he besieged Rome but made her Escape on Horse-back over the Tyber but being sent back again he freely released her for the Vertue he found in her whereupon the Senate Erected her a Statue on Horse-back in the Market-place Ceobulina she Renounced the Crown of Rhodes to apply herself to Philosophy and a Contemplative Life Cleopatria Second Wife to King Philip of Macedon she was Murthered by Olimpias his first Wife after his being slain by Possanias Cleopatra Daughter of Philip of Macedon she was Marryed to Alexander King of Epirus and put to death by Antigonus at Sardis Cleopatria Daughter of Ptolomy Philometus King of Egypt Admirable for her Wit and Beauty she was Marryed to Alexander Bela King of Syria and left him for Demetrius Nicanor but he being taken Prisoner by the Persians she Marryed Rodogune and soon after put him to death and her Son Selucius ascending the Throne without her leave she â—hot him dead with an Arrow and made Antiochus the Eight King who understanding she â—â—â—ended to poison him at a Banquet she had prepared made her drink the dose of which she dyed Cleopatra Daughter of Ptolomy Physoon King of the Egyptians she was Marryed to her Brother and then to Antiochus King of Syria but she was strangled by Griphine his first Wife which known so ingraged the King that he caused her to be offered as a Sacrifice to appease the Ghost of the Murthered Cleopatra Cleopatra Daughter of Ptolomy Epiphanes Cleopatra The fair Queen of Egypt Daughter to Ptolomy Auletes she was first Marryed to her Brother Ptolomy but he being drowned in the Nilus when he fled from the overthrow given him by Julius Cesar she Captivated the Conquerer with her Beauty he begot on her a Son called Cesaâ—ion slain after Cesars death by the Soldiers of Augustus afterward Mark Anthony doated on her but after the overthrow at Actium she clapped Aspicks to her Breast and dyed to prevent her being carried Captive to Rome Cleophe Queen of the Massagues a People of India â—he opposed the Progress of Alexanders Victories till she brought him to terms which were to draw off his Army and leave her in quiet Possession of her Kingdom for which sue is said to pay him only the Tribute of a Nights Lodging Cleopatra Selene Marryed to Antiochus Gâ—â—phus King of Syria and afterward to Antiochus Cizicenus and thirdly to Antiochus Eusebius but being taken in a Battle by Tyranes he put her to death Clio one of the Nine Muses said to be the Daughter of Jupiter and Memory Clotilde Queen of France Wife to Clovis the First she Converted him to the Christian Religion and perswaded him to be Baptized she had divers Sons among whom after their Fathers Death there arose Civil Dissentions in disputes for the Throne which she being by no means able to Regulate it hastened her death Clotilde Daughter of Clovis and St. Clotilde she was Marryed to
Amaury King of the Vice-Goths in Spain but he abusing her because she would not change her Religion Childeber her brother made War upon him and rescued her out of his hands but in her way to France she dyed Clotho one of the Fatal Sisters that spun the thread of Mens Lives which when cut by Atropos another of them the Party whose Thread was so cut dyed Clusia the Chast Daughter of King Thuscus who being denyed in Marriage to Valerius Torquâ—tus he Besieged her Father in his Chief City When to prevent the Misery of which she was innocently the Cause the threw herself from the Battlements but her Coats 〈◊〉 the got no harm Constance or Constantia Daughter of the Emperour Constantine Clorus by his Wife theodora she was Married to Licinus who raising Rebellions in the Empire was slain Constance Daughter of Roger King of Sicily Constance Marryed to Robert King of France she was Daughter of William the First Earl of Provence Constance Queen of Aragon Wife to Peter the Third King of Aragon and Daughter of Manfroy Frederick Core Daughter of Cereâ— the word from the Greek signifying Nourishment Corrina a Grecian Lady famous for Poetry and muâ—â— Celebrated by the Poets of heâ— Nation and others as a very Learned Ingenious and Beautiful Woman Cornelia Daughter of Scipio first Married to Marcus Crassus but he being 〈◊〉 in the Parthian Wars 〈◊〉 Marryed Pompey the Great and Accompanyed him in his flight after the Battle of Pharsalia Cornelia a Roman Lady Married to Cornelius Grâ—chus Cornelia Daughter to Ciâ—na and Wife to Julius Cesar she had by him Julia marryed to Pompey before Cornelia Cratefipolis Wife to Alexander King of Siconie The Siconeans after the death of her Husband Rebelled against her and fought to Dethrone her but at the head of a far less Army she Routed them Executing the Chiefs which quieted the rest Cretheis Marryed to Ascestus King of Thessaly a Woman of infatiable Lust. Creusa Daughter of Creon King of Corinth she was Married to Jason upon which Medeâ— his former Wife destroyed â—er and most of her Fathers Family by Inchantments Cumegonde Marryed to the Second yet living with him as a Virgin upon his suspecting her not to have brought her Virginity to his Bed After his death she went into a Convent of Nuns and spent the remainder of her days Cunina a Goddess held by â—he Ancients to have the care of young Children in their tender Age. Cyana a Nymph attending in Proserpina endeavouring â—o rescue her from Pluto was â—â—med into a Fountain that â—ears her Name Cyble stiled the Mother and Grandmother of the Gods and Goddesses she is represented Crowned with Castles and 〈◊〉 Key in her hand Cyna Daughter of Philip King of Macedon Marryed to â—myntas Son to Perdicas the Third and then to Lageus King of the Argives a Lady of a Courageous and Magnanimous â—pirit for under the Command of the Argives won many Victories She killed the Queen of the Illyrians fighting hand to hand and after the death of Alexander the Great her Brother she opposed the aspiring of Perdicas who in vain contrived her death Canidia a Thessalian Woman that dealt in Charms so powerful that it held She could easily destroy People at a great distance stopt the Course of Rivers and make Birds fall in their Flight raise Storms of Rain Hail and Thunder stop a Ship in her Course and many such like Matters by the Power of her Hellish Art Cumea or the Cumean Sibyl a Prophetess that foretold the Roman affairs and many of other things Of which see more at large Converted Whore An honest Gentleman in the heat of Summer having been walking in the Fields comtemplating with himself and returning back not the same way he went out but through another part of the Suburbs to which he was a meer stranger and finding himself athirst he stepped into the first House and called for a Cup of Beer seating himself in the first Room next the Street He had not well wip'd the Sweat from his Face with his Hankerchief but two or three young Wenches came skittishly in and out of the Room who seeing him to be a Man of Fashion they thought to make of him some booty being it seems set on by the Grandam of the House for as 〈◊〉 proved it was a common Brothel house The handsomâ—â— amongst them was put upon him who entreated him not to be seen below where every Porter Carman and common Fellow Came to drink but to take a more convenient and retir'd Room The Gentleman being willing to see some fashions took her gentle prosfer and went with her up Stairs where they two being alone Beer being brought up she began to offer him more than common courtesie which he apprehending ask'd her in plain terms If these were not meer Provocations to incite him to Lust which she as plainly confess'd To whom he reply'd That since it was so he was most willing to accept of her kind proffer only for modesty sake he desired her to shew him into a Darker Room to which she assented and leads him from one place to another but he still told her that none of all these was dark enough insomuch that she began at length somewhat to diâ—taâ—le him because in all that time he had not made unto her any friendly proffer At length she brought him into a close narrow Room with nothing but a Loop-hole for light and told him Sir unless you propose to go into the Cole home this is the darkeâ— place in the House How doth this please you To whom he answer'd Unless thou strumpet thou canst bring me to â— place so palpably tenebrioâ—â— into which the Eyes of Heaven cannot pierce and see me thoâ—â— canst not perswade me to 〈◊〉 Act so detestable before Goâ— and good Men For cannot 〈◊〉 that sees into the Hearts and Reins of all behold us here 〈◊〉 our Wickedness To conclude he read unto her so strict and austere a Lecture concerning her base and debauch'd Life that from an impudent Strumpet he wrought her to be â— repentant Convert Whâ—â— further asking her of her Birtâ— and Country the freely coâ—fess'd unto him That she 〈◊〉 sold such small things as 〈◊〉 had to come up to 〈◊〉 with the Carriers where iâ— was no sooner alighted at 〈◊〉 Inn but she was hired by 〈◊〉 Bawd altogether unacquaintâ—â— with her base course of Life 〈◊〉 by degrees trained her to 〈◊〉 base Prostitution Her appâ—rent Tears and seeming Pâ—â—tence much prevailing 〈◊〉 the Gentleman he protested If it lay in him he would otherwise dispose of her according to her wishes and with 〈◊〉 charging her That if he 〈◊〉 unto her within two or three days with Mony to acquit heâ— of the House that she 〈◊〉 attire herself as modesty as 〈◊〉 could possibly not bringing with her any one rag that belonged to that Abominablâ— House or any borrow'd Gâ—ment in which she had offended but instantly to repair unto him at his
by Women who were sworn not to reveal any thing that passed in nine Days and Nights Revelling with Musick and Dancing c. Damodice she was Sister to Critolaus of Arcadia which Brother having kill'd her Lover in War she so far exasperated him by Revilings that he sent her to seek him in the other World Damo Daughter to Pythagorus the Philosopher he charged her at his death not to publish any of his Writings which notwithstanding her extream Poverty and the great offers made her for the Manuscripts she punctually obey'd Damigella Tribulzi she was Daughter to John Trivulzi a Lady well skill'd in Latin Greek and Philosophy and applauded for her Orations made before the Prelates and Popes c. Dane Daughter of Acerisus King of Argos the Oracle foretelling she should bring forth a Son that should dethrone him he shut her up in a Brazen Tower but Jupiter descending in a Golden Shower begat on her Perseus who afterwards slew his Grand-father unknown Daphne a Prophetess Daughter to Tiresias curiously seen in Verse insomuch that 〈◊〉 took divers of them to Imbellish his Work Daphne a Nymph helâ— to be the Daughter of the Riveâ— Ladon and being pursu'd by Apollo who was Enamour'd of her Praying to the Gods for Succour they turn'd her into a Laurel Tree the word signifying a Laurel Deianica Daughter to Oeneus and Wife to Hercules who upon falling in Love with Jola sent him a poyson'd Shirt dipt in Nessus the Centaur's Blood which made him dye distracted Diana or the Moon taken for the Goddess that prospers Success in Hunters held to be Daughter to Jupiter and Latona She had a stately Temple at Ephesus and divers other Places She is stil'd the Goddess of Chastity Dido Queen of Carthage who being got with Child by Aeneas and he treacherously leaving her she kill'd herself She was Daughter to Methres King of Tyre who flying hâ—â— Brother Pigmaâ—lion's Rage builded Carthage which warred many Years with Rome Digna a Heroick Virago of the Kingdom of Naples who being taken by Attiâ— King of the Huns and attempting to force her to his Lust she threw herself from the Batlements of her House into a River saying If thou hast a mind to Enjoy me follow me And so swimming over made her Escape to the next Garison Discard a Goddess were shipped more for fear than love by the Pagans to avoid Evils which they fancy'd the otherways fomented She was figured in a frightful Posture as with the Head of a Serpent and snaky Hair and is held to be she that threw the Golden Apple among the Goddesses at the Wedding of Thetis to set them at Variance Drusilla Agrippa the Elders Daughter a very beautiful Lady being accounted in her time a second Venus she was contracted to Epiphanes Son to King Antiochus who promis'd on that consideration to turn Jew but not keeping his Word she marry'd Aziazus King of the Emezenians but Felix Governour of Judea inticed her from him and she was present when St. Paul pleaded before him Dryades Nymphs to whom were asigned the Care of the Woods and Forests and such as frequented them Dorcas a Widow curious in the Art of working Imbroidery and other things worthy Admiration She was raised by our Saviour from the dead her other name was Tabitha Debora a Valiant Matron of Judea she encouraged the People to fight against Sisera and harrazed their Country and going in the head of an Army with Barack she utterly defeated him with a great slaughter of his Host and he flying to the Tent of Jael for shelter was there 〈◊〉 Daniades the fifty Daughters of Danus who were at once marry'd to Aegyptus's fifty Sons who were all but one of them Murther'd by their Wives on the Wedding Night by the cruel Command of Danus who had subtilly by this way drawn them into a Snaâ—â— to gratifie the Revenge he had vow'd on Aegyptus's Family Distillation Every young Gentlewoman is to be furnish'd as Mr. Codrington tells with very good Stills for the Distillations of all kind of Waters which Stills must be ether of Tin or sweet Earth and in them she shall Distil all manner of Waters meet for the Health of her Houshold a Sage-water which is Sovereign against all Rheums and Collicks Angelica-water good against Infection Radish-water good for the Stone Vine-water for Itching Water of cloâ—â— for the pain of the Stomach Eye bright-water excellent in weak and dim Eyes Now by the way observe you may easily make your Water look of what colour you please if you will first distil your Water in a Stillatory and 〈◊〉 put it in a great Glass of strength and fill it as full aâ— those Flowers whose Coloâ— you desire then stop it and is it in the Stillatory and let distill and you shall have them perfect Colour 〈◊〉 precious and excellent Water there are thousands wherefore I shall only set down here some of the choicest and most valuable Dr. Stevens his famous Water Take a Gallon of Gascoin-Wine of Ginger Gallingal Cinamon Grains Cloves Mace Nutmegs Anniseeds Carraway-seed Coriander-seed Fennel-seed and Sugar of every one a Dram Then take of Sack and Ale a quart of each of Camomile Sage Mint Red-roses Thyme Pellitory of the Wall Wild-Marjoram Wild-Thyme Lavender Pennyroyal Fennel-roots Parsley-roots and Set-wall roots of each half a handful then beat the Spice small and bruise the Herbs and put them all together into the Wine and so let it stand sixteen Hours stirring it now and then then distill it in a Limbeck with a soft fire the first pint of the Water by it self for it is the belt The principal Use of this Water is against all cold Diseases it comforteth the Stomach cureth the Stone of what nature soever using but two spoonfuls in seven days Aqua Mirabilis Take three pints of White-wine of Aquavitae and Juice of Saladine of each a pint one dram of Cardamer and one dram of Mellilot-flowers Cubebs a dram Gallingale Nutmegs Cloves Mace Ginger of each a dram mingle all these together over Night the next Morning set them a Stilling in a Glass-Limbeck This admirable Water dissolveth the swelling of the Lungs and restoreth them when perished it suffereth not the Blood to putrifie neither need he or she to breathe a Vein that useth this Water often Take thrâ—e spoonfuls of it at a time Morning and Evening twice a Week A most approved Water for the Eyes Take a new laid Egg and roast it hard then cut the Shell in the midst and take out the Yolk and put some white Copporice where the Yolk was then bind the Egg together again and let it lye till it begin to be a Water then take the white forth from both sides of the Egg and put the same into a Glass of fair running Water and so let it stand a while then strain it through a fair Linnen-cloth and therewith wash your Eyes Morning and Evening An admirable Water against the Stone in the
â— c. 8. to this effect I promise that hereafter I will lay no claim to thee This Writing was cal'd a Bill of Divorce But with Christians this Custom is abrogated saving only in Case of Adultery The ancient Romans also had a Custom of Divorce among whom it was as lawful for the Wife to put away her Husband as for the Husband to dismiss his Wife But among the Israelites this Prerogative was only permitted to the Husband See Repudiate In our Common Law Divorce is accounted that Separation between two de facto married together which is à vinculo Matriâ—â—â—â—â— non soù d mensa 〈◊〉 And thereof the Woman so divorced received all again that the brought with her This is only upon a Nullity of the Marriage through some â—â—â—tial Impediment as Consanguinity or Afâ—â—nity within the degrees forbidden 〈◊〉 impotency or such like Dodona a City of Epirus near which stood a Grove of Oaks only dedicated to Jupiter called Dodonas Grove the Oaks were said to speak and were wont to give oraculous Answers to those that came to consult them Domini or Anno Domini is the Computation of time from the Incarnation of our Saviour Jesus Christ. As the Romans made their Computation from the Building the City of Rome and the Grecians number'd their Years by the Olympiads or Games called Olympick So Christians in remembrance of the happy Incarnation and blessed Birth of our Saviour reckon the time from his Nativity Domino a kind of hood or habit for the Head worn by Canons and hence also a fashion of vail used by some Women that mourn Dower dos signifies in Law That which the Wife brings to her Husband in marriage Marriage otherwise called Maritagâ—um good Dower from dotarium That which she hath of her Husband after the Marriage determined if she out-live him Glanviâ—e 7. ca. 2. Bracton l. 2. ca. 28. Dory a she Rogue a Woman-beggar a lowzy Quean Drol Fr. a good-fellow â—o on Companion merry Grig one that cares not how the World goes Dulcimer or Dulcimel sambuca so called quaâ—â— dulce melos i. sweet melody 〈◊〉 musical Instrument a Sambuke Dentitio the time that Children breed Teeth which is about the Seventh Month or later and usually the upper Teeth come first in some the under and amongst these the Fore teeth first Many times Fevers Convulsions Loosnesses c. attend Children in the time of breeding Teeth Distillatio an Extractiâ—â— of the moist or unctuous partâ— which are rarified into Mist or Smoke as it were by the force of Fire Distillation is performed by a Bladder by a Chymical Instrument called Câ—curbita before described by a Retort by Deliquium by Filtri by Descent c. and that either in Balneo Mariz Sand Vapours Dung the Sun a Reverberatory c. Dispensatorium a Dispensatory a Book useful for Apothecaries wherein all Medicines at least the most usual are contain'd and prescrib'd that they may be prepar'd in the Shops all the Year round E. EAde for Eadith i. happiness Sa. Eleanor i. pittiful gr Ellena ibid. Elizabeth i. The Oath of my God or else it may be Elishbeth i. the peace or rest â—f my God Emmet i. a Giver of help Norm Ephrah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Kin. â— 19. i. fertility or fruitfulness 〈◊〉 rather I will be fruitful Esther 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. hidden from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sathar â—e lay hid Heb. Ethelburg i. a Noble Keeper Gâ— and Sa. Etheldred or Ethelred i. noble advice Ge. Eve 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chavah i. â—iving or giving life so called by her Husband Adam because she was the Mother 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 kol chav i. omnium viventiâ—â—m of all living Gen. 3.20 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chajah he lived Eugenia she that is nobly born see Eugenius in Mens names Euphenie i. she that is well spoken of and hath a good name and report Eutychia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. felicitas i happiness Echiud Queen of the Scythians with whom Hercules lay and got on her three Sons leaving a strong Bow behind him and ordaining that whoever of them when they came to years could bend that Bow should Succeed her in the Kingdom which only Scytha the youngest could do and so obtained it before his two Elder Brothers Erho a Nymph who being desperately in Love with Narcissus and rejected by him pined and sighed herself into Air and so became the shaddow or counterfeir of a Voice Egâ—ria a Nymph beloved by Num a Pampilius for her Wisdom he told the Romans he consuted her in all his great Affairs and Compiled divers Laws and Religious Customs by her Advice and made her to be in great Esteem with the People Some held her to be the Goddess who assisted at Womens Labours and eased their pains in Child-Birth Elizabeth Daughter of Henry the Eight by Queen Anna Bullein Daughter of Sir Thomas Bullein she was Queen oâ— England after the death of Queen Mary And had a long and Glorious Reign Of her see more at large Epicharis a Woman of a mean Birth but of great Courage and Vâ—rtue â—eing Condemned before Nero for having a share in a Conspiracy agâ—inâ—t him and being ordered to extream torture to make her Confess her Accomplices she bore it with such a Spirit and Courage she shamed and daunted her Tortureâ—s 〈◊〉 could any 〈…〉 by the most violâ—â—â—◠〈◊〉 but bring remanded to 〈◊〉 she killed herself to avoâ—d 〈◊〉 Tyran's 〈…〉 Epponiva Wife to Julius Sabinus a miracle of Conjugal Love for her Husband taking Arms with others against Vespatian and being overthrown hid himself in the Ruins of a Tomb where she came to him supplyed him with Food and Necessaries Lived with him and brought him forth divers Children in that dark and Solitary place but at last being discovered they were put to death which she bore with great Courage and Patience telling the Emperour she had rather die than live to see the wicked days of his Reign Erato one of the Nine Musâ—s presiding over Love Songs and Poems she is generally painted like a Virgin in the Bloom of her Youth Frolick and Gay Crowned with Roses and Mirtle holding a Harp in one hand and a Bow in the other with a Winged Cupid placed under her Elbow Armed with his Love-procuring Darts Escher Niece to Mordicai of the Tribe of Benjamin when King 〈◊〉 of Persia had put away Vâ—sâ—i his Queen for disobeying his Royal Mandate she being brought unto him among other Virgins he was to pleased with her Beauty and Conversation that he took her to Wife and she became Instrumental in saving the Jewish Nation then in Captivity from the destruction Human had prepared for theâ—â— and turned it upon himself 〈◊〉 his House Eudoria Married to 〈◊〉 dius the Emperour she 〈◊〉 a great Enemy to St. 〈◊〉 and declared for 〈◊〉 against him and 〈◊〉 him to be banished but he 〈◊〉 soon after re-called but 〈◊〉 some words against 〈◊〉 setting
pound and a half the whites and shells of thirty Eggs the young branches of a Fig-tree cut in small shivers incorporate them well and distill them in a Glass Alimbick over a gentle five Then to the Water you draw off add Sugar-Candy Borace and Camphire each an ounce Olibanum two ounces bruise them small and then distill them over again preserving the Water upon this Second Distillation as a rare Secret and improver or Imbellisher of Beauty Again take Lithargy of Gold and Silver each a dram put them into stronge white Wine Vinegar add Camphire and Allum of each half a Scrupleas much of Musk and Ambergreece to scent the Composition boyl them in a small quantity of Vinegar silter and keep it then boyl a little Roch-Allum in spring water and keep it apart from the other but when you use them mingle them together Thus Venus in her brightest form you 'll vie Or all those Female Starâ— that guild the Sky Who for their Beauties there were 〈◊〉 and shine But you out dazled now 〈◊〉 must refine To see their long 〈◊〉 leave 〈…〉 Faustina was cured of dishonest Love And of divers other Remedies against that Passion That the affection and prison of the Mind which is ordinarily called Love is a strong Passion and of great effect in the Soul let us ask of such Men which by Experience have known it and of such whom Examples are notorious namely of very excellent Personages that have suffer'd their Wills to have been transported even so far that some of them have died Jules Capitolin amongst other Examples recites that which happen'd to Faustina Daughter to Amoninus and Wife to the Emperor Marcus Aurelius who fell in Love with a Master of Fence or Gladiator in such sort that for the desire which she had of his Company she was in danger of Death she did so consume away Which being understood by Marcas Aurelius he presently call'd together a great company of Astrologians and Doctors to have counsel and find remedy thereupon At last it was concluded That the Fencer should be kill'd and that they should unknown to her give Faustina his Blood to drink and that after she had drank it the Emperor her Husband should lie with her This Remedy wrought marvellously for it put this Affection so far from her that she never afterwards thought of him And the History saith of this Copulation that the Emperor had then with her was begotten Antoninus Commodus which became so bloody and Cruel that he resembled more the Fencer whose Blood his Mother had drank a the Conception of him than Marcus Aurelius whose Son he was which Commodus was always found amongst the Gladiators as Eutropius Wâ—â—nesses in the Life of the same Commodus The 〈◊〉 and Arabick Physicians place this Disease of Love amongst the grievous Infirmities of the Body of Man and thereupon prescribe divers Remedies Câ—dâ—mus Milesien as Sâ—ydâ—â— â—â—ports in his Collections writes a whole Book treating of 〈◊〉 particular Remedies which Physicians give for this Disease one is That to him that is passionate in Love one 〈◊〉 put into his hands great Affairs importuning his Credit and his Profit that his Spirit being occupied in divers matters it may draw away his Imagination from that which troubles him And they say further that they should 〈◊〉 him to be merry and conversant with other Women Against this heat Pliny saith it is good to take the Dust upon which a Mule hath tumbled and cast it upon the Lover and all to be powder him or else of the Sweat of a chased Mule as Cardanus affirms in his Book of Subtilties The Physicians also teach how to know what Person is loved of him that is sick in Love and it is by the same Rule that Eristratus Physician to King Seleucus knew the love that Antiochus bare to the Queen Stratonicus his Stepmother for he being extream sick and would rather die than discover the cause of his Sickness proceeding from Love which he bare to his Father's Wife She came into the Chamber just then when the Physician was feeling the Patients Pulse which beat so strong when he saw the Queen come into the Chamber that Eristratus knew that he was in Love with her and that was the cause of his Sickness wherefore he found the way to make the King acquainted with it by such a means as would be too tedious to recite Which being experimented by the Father and seeing his Son in danger if he did not prevent it thought it good tho contrary to the Intention of the Son which chose rather Death than to be healed by his Father's Loss to deprive himself of his Queen and give her to his sick Son And so indeed the Age and the Beauty of the Lady and likewise Marriage was more proper for the Son than for the Father And by this means Antiochus lived well and gallantly many Years with his well-beloved Stratoniâ—â—â— The History is very neatly recited by Plutarch in the Life of Demetrius And thus you see why Physicians say that you must feel the Pulse of those that are in Love and repeat to them divers names of Persons and if you name the right the Pulse will beat thick and strong and by that you shall know whom they Love By divers other signs one may know when any is in Love and with whom which I leave to speak of now Friendship Friendship well chosen and placed is a great felicity of Life but we ought in this respect to move very cautiously and be certain we are not mistaken before we unbosom our Thoughts or make too strict a Union We see in Politicks Leagues offensive and defensive do not always hold and being abruptly broken prove more mischievous than any thing before they were contracted because there is a more eager desire of Revenge and ground of Injury started and so when a close knit Friendship slips the knot or is violently broken in sunder by the force of some mischievous Engine set on work to that end Anger and Hatred ensues all the Secrets on either side how unbecoming or prejudicial so ever are let fly abroad to become the Entertainment and Laughter of the World redounding perhaps not only to the Injury of your self but of others whose Secrets have upon Confidence of your Virtue been intrusted with you and by you again upon the like Confidence communicated to the Party you entrusted with your own who upon breaking with you persidiously discloses them Therefore keep to your self a Reservedness and try all manner of ways the strength and constancy of Fidelity before you trust too far for if you lay out your Friendship at first too lavishly like things of other natures it will be so much the sooner wasted suffer it by no means to be of too speedy a growth considering that those Plants which floot up over quickly are not of long duration comparable with those that grow flower and by degrees Choice of this kind ought
builded she was called Augusta and Imperatrix and relieved the Poor wiâ—h all the Treasure that came to her hand and was a munificent Patroness to the before afflicted Christians Helle was Daughter to Athmus King of Thebes who flying from her Mother-in-law with her Brother Phryxus was drowned in the Narrow Sea that parts Asia from Europe and by that Misfortune gave to it the Name of Hellespont Heliades Sisters accounted the Daughters of the Son and Celymene whose Brother Phaeton was who unwarily aspiring to guide the Chariot of the Sun was destroyed by Jupiters Thunder for firing the Earth and Skies by his misguiding it for whom these Sisters wept till the Gods turned them into Poplar-trees and their tears into Amber Here 's Martia or the Martial Heir it was accounted amongst the Ancient Romans as a Goddess of Heirs and held to be one of Mâ—â—s's Companions she took her Surname of Martial by reason in those times Quarrels frequently arose about Inheritances and Successions and when they were decided either by Arms of contesting in Law they supposed a right decision Hermophrodite An ancient Idol bearing the Resemblance of Venus and Mercury called otherwise Aphrodite as Joyning trading and Eloquence with delights c. Hersilia Wife to Romulus first Founder of Rome a Virtuous Sabian Lady Herta was accounted a Goddess among the Germans worshipped in a thick Grove and her residence when she pleased to appear was a Cart with a Carpet over it her Victims were menial Servants or Slaves who were thrown into a Lake and there perished in hopes of enjoying Pleasure and Plenty in another World her Cart upon general Processions was sometimes drawn with Oxen and sometimes by Lyons Hesione the fair was Daughter to Leomedon King of Troy and by reason of the raging of a Plague the Oracle being consulted it told them that to appease the God of the Sun and the Sea with whom the King had broken his word a Virgin must every day be tyed to a Rock where a Sea Monster should be sent by Neptune to devour her this being done by Lot it fell upon Hesione but Hercules returning from his Hysperian Voyage in a dreadful Combate killed the Monster and freed the Royal Maid Hildigardcan Abbess of the Order of the Benedictines famous for her Learning and Piety but more for her Prophecies of the Errors that should creep into the Romish Church Hannah the Mother of the famous Prophet Samuel who obtained him of God by her servent Prayers after she had been a long while Barren Hiparthia Marry'd Crates only for his Wisdom and Learning being otherways deformed and unfightly and poor 〈◊〉 could all her Friends or 〈◊〉 offers of Rich matches 〈◊〉 her from him She was â—â—r self very Learned and Inâ—â—â—â—ous so that their Souls rather than their Bodies coveted to be near together Hippodamia Daughter to Briseus and fell among other Captives at the taking of Tenedos to the share of Achilies but Agameamon falling in Love with her took her from him which made him refuse to assist the Greeks till the Trojans had near vanquished them and came to set fire to his Ships Hippodame Oenomaus the King of Ellis's Daughter being very Beautiful abundance of Suitors crouded to gain her in Marriage which made him consult the Oracle about the success which gave Answer That whoever married his Daughter should came his Death whereupon he made Decree that whoever could outrun him in a Chariot-Race should have the fair Hiâ—podame in Marriage but being vanquished he should dye Many declined it but some being vanquished were put to death Till Pâ—lâ—ps having bribed the King's Chariotier to leave a Pin out of the Wheel that it might fall off in the Career by which fall the King was wounded to death Hortensia a Roman Lady Daughter to the Orator Horlensius At the time a great Tax was laid upon the Matrons of Rome she notably pleaded their Cause before the Triumvire that a great part of it was remitted Hostilina was by the Pagans accounted a Goddess taking care of their Corn that it should grow to an equal length and be full Eareâ— without Blasting Houres by some Reputed God esses begot by Jupiter 〈◊〉 Themis and were call'd Eunormia Irene and Diâ—ce or Good Laws Peace and Justice Howard Ciâ—â—erine she was Marryed to King Henry the VIII and was Daughter to the Lord Edmond Howard Son to Thomas Duke of Norfolk she was one of the two Queens that he caused to be beheaded upon suspicion of Incontinency though neither against her nor Anna Bullen who felt the same Fate before her any thing deserving Death appeared only the Kings Pleasure must be obeved to make way for more Wives Hyacinthides six Daughters of Erichtheus who succeeded Pandion King of Athens taking their Names from the Village Hyachithius where they all seâ—â— a Sacrifice for their Court v. for the Oracle having declared that the Thracians who were Warring against the Athenians could not be overcome unless one of their Ladies was offered up as a Sacrifice to Dima they all contented so earnestly to have the Honour to dye for their Country and the Love they bore to each other that they would not have one to dye unless â—â—w all participated in the same Death and their Wishes being granted the Athenians gained most notable Victory their Proper Names were Pandora Procris Clithonia and Orithia and are fabled to be placed among the Stars Hyades are a Company of Stars to the number of seven placed in the Neck of Taurus they are tabled to be Nurses to Baâ—chus and by him in return of their Kindness fixed as Constellations and are called the Weeping Stars as having great Influence over Rains and moâ—st Clouds Hypermenstra one of Daraus K. of Argo's fifty Daughters who married the fifty Sons of Egytus whom Daraus ordered them to kâ—ll on their Wedding Night which they all did but this Lady who saved her Husband Lynceus for which her Father Impâ—â—â—tioned her but soon after 〈◊〉 her and restored 〈◊〉 to her Husband Hysiphile ho Queen of the Island of 〈◊〉 was banished by the Cruel Women who had killed all their Husbands Fathers and Brothers for sparing her Father Thaos and being taken upon the Sea by Pirates she was sold to Lycurgus King of Neâ—eâ— who understanding who she was gave his Son Archemrus to be Nursed by her she having a little before brought forth Twins whom Jason had begot on her in his Voyage to Colobis when he fetched thence the Golden Fleece House-keepers to Persons of Honour or Quality Those Persons who would qualifie themselves for this Employment must in their Behaviour carry themselves grave solid and ferious which will inculcate into the beliefs of the Persons whom they are to serve that they will be able to govern a Family well They must endeavour to gain a Competent knowledge in Preserving Conserving and Candying making of Cates and all manner of Spoon-meats Jellies and the like Also in Distilling all
Fr. Apparel cloathing array attire also Armour or Harness Habit habitus the outward attire of the Body whereby one Person is distinguished from another as the Habit of a Gentleman is different from that of a Merchant and the Habit of a Handy-crafts-man from both Hans-en-helder is in Dutch as much as Jack in a Cellar and by Metaphor it is taken for the Child in a Womans Belly Hermione the Daughter of Menelaus Hermitress a Woman-Hermite or Eremite Heroine g. a Noble or Virtuous Woman Herophila the Erithâ—â— Sibyl who being by Tarâ—â—â— denied the price of her three Books of Prophesies burnt two and received the whole price for that which was left Herâ—â—lia the Wife of Romulus worshipped by the Name of Hera the Goddess of youth Herthus a Saxon Goddess like the Latin Tellus Hessone Daughter of Lumedon King of Troy whom Hercules delivered from a great Whale Hibride mongrel of a mixt Generation Helicon a hill of Phacis not far from Parnassus and much of the same bigness consecrated to Apollo and the Muses Hence Helitoniam pertaining to that Hill Hillutim h. praises a Jewish wedding-song Heppece f. I. Cheese made of Mares milk Hipparchus an Athenian Tyrant slain upon his deflowring a Maid Hippe Daughter of Cbiâ—â—â— a great Huntress got with child and turn'd into a mare Hippiades g. Images of women on horse-back Hippoctenides the Muses Hippodamia Daughter to 〈◊〉 King of Elis whom 〈◊〉 won at a race with her father by corrupting his chariot driver Hipoliyta a Queen of the Amazons whom Hercules gave a Theseus to wife Hippolytus their Son torn in pieces by his chariot-horses is he fled being accused of adultery by his wives mother â—â—edra whose solicitations he refused Hippomenes and Atalanta won by his golden apples drown in her way were turn'd to a Lion and Lioness for lying together in Cybele's Temple Hippona the Goddess of horses and horse-coursers Hipâ—â—crataea followed her Husband Mithridates in all his 〈◊〉 and dangers Hermaphrodite Hermaphroâ—â—â— one who is both man and woman Hermitress A woman Hermite or Eremite one who lives in a wilderness Hesperides the daughters of Hesperus brother to Atlas called Aegle Aretbusa and Hesâ—â—â—busa They had Gardens and Orchards that bore Golden fruit kept by a vigilant Draâ—â—â— which Hercules slew and â—â—bbed the Orchard From this story we find often mention of the Gardens and Apples of Hesperides Honorificabilitudinity honourableness Horae l. Hours Goddesses daughters of Jupiter and Themis Hillulim Heb. Praises a Song sung at the Jews marriages by the Bridegrooms intimate Friends Hippona the Goddess of horses Hyades Atlantides Suculae the seven Stars daughters of Atlas lamenting of Hyas their brother devoured by a Lyon Hyena a Beast like a Wolf with a Mane and long hairs accounted the subtlest of all beasts changing sex often and counterfeiting Mans voice Hylas going to fetch Hercules some water fell into the river or poetically was pulled in by the Nymphs in love with him Hyllus Hercules's son who built a Temple at Athens to Misericordia the Goddess of pity Hymen aeus son of Bacchus and Venus the God or first instituter of marriage also a Nuptial or wedding song Hypermnestra one of Danaus's 59 daughters commanded to kill their Husbands the 50 sons of Aegyptus she onely saved her Husband Lynceus who afterwards killed Danaus Hypâ—â—phile Queen of Lemnos banished thence for saving her Father Thous when all the men of the Island were killed by women Hony-moon applied to those married persons that love well at first and decline in affections afterwards it is Hony now but it will change as the Moon Min. Horse-ballet a Dance or Ball performed by Horses such was that at the Emperors wedding 1666. Hypermeter Lat. a verse having a redundant syllable or one syllable above measure called by some a Feminine Verse Hysterical hysterious troubled with fits of the Mother I. JEan i. Gracious or Merciful see Joan. Iennet der from Jean Ioac or Joanna Gracious Luk. 8.3 the same with John in Mens Names Ioice i. Merry or Pleasant Iael 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jagnel Judg. 4.21 perhaps 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jagnalah a Roe or Goat Isabella or Jezebel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 King 9.30 i. Wo to the dwelling or the Province of dwelling Iulian i. Soft-Hair'd Iudith or Judah i. praising or confessing Ioan Countess of Montford Daughter to Lewis of Flanders and Count of Nevers she wâ—â— married to John the 4th 〈◊〉 of Britain and Count d'â—â—â—ford she Warred after her Husbands Death upon the 〈◊〉 d' Blois and took divers Town from him in Brittain and being besieged in Hennebor◠〈◊〉 sallied at the head of 60 men and burnt the Enemies standard and following this success with greater Numbers not onely raised the siege but recovered all the Dutchy of Britain Ioan d' Arc the Valiant Maid of France who of a Shepherdess became a Leader of Armies and by her Courage Conduct and success raised the drooping spirits of the French men that were at a very low Ebb by reason the English had gained the greatest part of France so that under her Conduct they beat them out of several strong holds but after she had done wonders always fighting on horse back in mans Apparel she was taken as she sallied upon the English and venturing too far in Confidence of her Fortune she was taken carried to Roan and there burnt for a witch though no such thing appeared against her Ioan d' Valois she was daughter to Charles King of France by his first wife Margaret of Sicily she was Married to William Earl of Holland Hainault and Zealand who died before her leaving William the Second his Son and four Daughters after which she 〈◊〉 a Religious Habit in the â—â—bby of Fontenele and by her Prudent Intercession stayed the battle at the point to be given between the Kings of England and France dying each Lamented of the People 〈◊〉 1400. Iocasta Daughter of Creon the Thebean King she Married King Laius and was Mother to 〈◊〉 who by reason of the words of the Oracle that he should Dethrone his Father was in his Infancy cast out to a desperate Fortune and she 〈◊〉 knowing him when grown 〈◊〉 Married him by whom she had Polynices and Eteocles who falling out about the Succession Killed each other in a Comâ—â—ce for whose Deaths and the Discovery of the Error 〈◊〉 committed in Marriage piâ—â—â— away with grief and died Ioan the female Pope of 〈◊〉 Called by them John 〈◊〉 finding her self with Child and ready to be delivered desperately killed her self with her Dagger Ioan Queen of France and 〈◊〉 the sole Daughter of Henry the first King of Navar and left Heiress of her Fathers Kingdom she was Wife to â—biâ—â—â— the fair King of France transcendent for her Piety as well as Beauty very Liberal in Charitable Deeds for she founded divers Charitable Houses and left at her Death great Treasure to be bestowed among the Poor Ioan de Albert Queen of Navar a
woman of a Martial Spirit she was Mother to Henry the fourth called Henry the Great King of France who was Grandfather to the present French King she being a Protestant highly Espoused their Cause for which she is said to be poisoned at Paris with a Pair of perfumed Gloves presented her at her Sons Wedding with Margaret Sister to Charles the Ninth of France and soon after her death the horrid Massacre of the Protestants ensued in which perished about 300000. Ioan of France Daughter to King Lewis the Eleventh was Married to Lewis Duke of Orleance afterwards King of France she was a Princess of Great Virtue she Instituted the Order of the Annuntiation forming it upon the ten Virtues of the Blessed Virgin Viz. Prudence Humility Chastity Verity Devotion Obedience Poverty Patience Compassion and Charity Ioan the first Queen of Jerusalem Naples and Sicily was Daughter to Charles of Sicily Duke of Calabria who after having successively Married four Husbands Andreas James Lewis and Otho was deprived of her Kingdoms and Life by Charles d' Durass her Cousin whom she had adopted her Heir as having no Children of her own Joan the second Queen of Naples a Woman of great Courage and Conduct but had a very troublesome Reign upon William of Austria her Husband retiring into a Monastery upon Discontent occasioned by her being too Prodigal of her Favours to others and dying without Children she bequeathed her Kingdom to Rene Duke of Anjou Ioan Infanta and Regent of the Kingdom of Portugal she was Daughter to Alphonsus the fifth who for her Prudence and Courage left her Regent when he went to War against the Moors yet at last she retired into a Monastery Ioia a Woman of Spain who preached to the People in the Cathedral of Barcelona and is said in the time of the Papacy of Pope Paul the third to Convert divers Jews at Rome and to explain in the presence of the Cardinals the Books of John Don Scotus commonly called the Subtle Doctor Iole Daughter of Eurytus the Oechalian King with her Hercules fell desperately in Love but her Father would not Consent he should have her unless he could gain her by Combate with him which when he had done he still denied to give her to him which so inraged Hercules that he slew him and took her away by force and afterwards gave her to his Son Hillus but Dejaneiza Jealous of Hercules she being his first Wife sent him a Shirt dipt in Poison and Tinctured in Nessus Blood which in Pains and Torment put an end to his Glorious Atchievements with his Life Iphianassa Daughter 〈◊〉 Praetus King of the Argines who with her Sister being in the Temple of Juno and despising the homeliness of it as also the Beauty of the Goddess she throughly nettled at the Contempt so Changed and Disordered their Minds that they fancied themselves to be Heifers and could by no means be perswaded out of that Opinion till Melampus the Physician restored them again to their Right Senses and for his Reward had Iphianassa in Marriage and a part of the Kingdom for her Dowry Iphis she was the Daughter of Lygdus and Theletusa whose Sex her Mother kept secret and from her Infancy brought her up in Masculine Apparel for that her Father had doomed the Infant if a Girl to be made away when under this disguise she came of Years Lygdus concluded a Marriage between her and Janibe a Beautiful Maid which made her Mother almost at her Wits end because that by this means a Discovery would be made but however upon her invoking Venus and offering in her Temple she on the Wedding-day was changed into a Man and did the Office of a Bridegroom to the Satisfaction of her Fair Bride Iphigenia she was Daughter to King Agamemnon by Clyâ—â—â—nestra and is said by Homer to be offered up to Diana for the successful Passage of the Grecian Fleet to Troy but as she lay on the Altar ready to be sacrificed the Goddess wrapt her in a Cloud and bearing her thence made her her Priesteis Irene Empress of Constantinople Mother to Constantine the seventh whose Eyes she put out that she might Reign alone upon which as if Heaven demonstrated a Detestation of the Cruelty the Sun for eighteen days shined so dimly as if it had drawn in its Light as it Thyestes Feast but Nicephorus having wrested the Empire out of her Hands banished her to Metylene where she soon after died of Grief Irene the Fair Grecian Lady that was presented to Mabomet the Great at the Sack of Constantinople on whom he doated so much that he spent whole Days and Nights in her Company and neglected his weighty Affairs but being reproved by his Bassas he in a rage cut off her Head with his Scymeter but repenting it betook him to the Wars to put the cruel Act out of his Mind Iris Messenger to Juno said to be the Daughter of Thaumus and Electra she is painted with a Rain-bow circling her her Name importing the Painted Bow so often seen after Showers in the Clouds Isaura Clementia a Lady of Tholouse in France famous for her Learning and Ingenious Parts she appointed the Floral Games yearly kept there and in the Town-house her Marble Statue stands Crowned with Flowers Ius a Goddess worshipped by the Egyptians her Sacrifice and worship was Infamous and Obscene insomuch that the Priests were forbidden to speak any thing of them and the Romans forbid it in their City Isota of Verona a Lady of great Learning she wrote five hundred sixty four Books which are to be seen in Thaurus Library and held divers Disputes with the most Learned Men yet dyed at the Age of thirty six Years a Virgin Iudith a Holy Widow who by destroying the Tyrant Holyphernes delivered the Jews Iudith Daughter to Velpo Count of Ruensburge she was made Recluse by the People Iudith Daughter to Charles the Bald and Wife to Ethelwolfe and Ethelred Kings of England Iulia Wife to Severus the Roman Emperour and Mother to Geta she after the Death of her Husband Married Bassianus Caracalla her Son in Law who fell in Love with her upon seeing her naked Thigh Iulia Wife to Pompey and Daughter to Julius Caesar she died in Child-bed before she could compose the differences between those great Captains which afterward caused such Distractions in the Roman State by a Piteous war Iulia the Daughter of Augustus Caesar and Scribonia â—he greatly perplexed that Emperour in the heighth of his Fortune by her loofe Carriage and Wanton way of living she was Married to divers Husbands by whom she had several Children but Wedlock not being capable of satisfying her Lustful Desires and shâ— continuing her leud Courses her Father Banished her after that she was Married to Tyberius but disdaining him he coming to be Emperour revenged her Pride and Scorn by confining her so straight that she pined away for Hunger Iulia Daughter to Agrippa and the beforementioned Julia she followed her
Infantes and the Heir Principe of the Latin Infans a Child Innocents-Day or Childermas-day a Feast celebrated on the 28 th of December in memory and honour of those innocent Children Herod slew not long after our Saviours Nativity when he sought for Christ himself thinking to destroy him Interlude interludium a Play or Comedy Iurden or Iordan matella a double Urinal or Chamber-pot K. KAtharine perhaps Pure Chast Undefiled from Katharos Gr. Keturah Gen. 25. sweet Perfume or Incense Kinburga i. e. the Strength or a Defenderess of her Kindred Kinulpha i. e. the Help or Stay of her Kindred Ketura Abraham the Patriarch's Wife he marryed her to Comfort him after the Death of Sarah and though he was very old he had divers Sons by her who growing up encreased so well under the Blessing promised their Father that their Posterity became great and mighty Nations many of which bore their Names Kisomena an Indian Queen who always lead her Armies in Person to Battel and usually by means of her Courage and Conduct returned with Success so that the greatly enlarged her Borders Kiosem an imperious Sultaness of Turkey she was Wife to Achmet the Turkish Emperor and Mother to Sultan Ibrahim who when her Son came to the Throne she by the Party she had made among the great ones not only governed him but the whole Empire he minding his Women in the Seraglio more than the Publick Affairs being the most devoted to the Pleasures of Venus of all the Turkish Emperors but for ravishing the Musti's Daughter he was by the Soldiers whom the Conspirators had gained to their Party the Queen-mother consenting to it because he had a little before for reproving him Confin'd her to the old Seraglio and being Imprisoned he was soon after strangled and his Son Mahomet the fourth a Child succeeded him in the Empire over whom Kiosem governed as Regent of the Empire placing and displacing the great Officers as she pleased putting divers to death that stood in her way but at length the Mother of young Mahomet encouraged thereto by the Janizaries took Heart to oppose her Proceedings making a Party against her so that many Mischiefs happened in the Empire during the Contests the Janizaries or Foot-men being for the young Queen and the Spahi's or Horsemen for the old During these Bickerings many great Heads went off to appease the one side or the other but at last the young Queen's Party became too strong for the old so that taking an Opporunity in the Night Sians Bassa Grand Visier entered Kiosem's Apparment with a Guard and found her hid in a Chest under some Bales of Silk from whence not without much difficulty they dragged her to Prison and got the young Emperor to Sign her Execution and accordingly she was strangled Kirchief from the Fr. Couverchief i.e. to Cover the Head a Linnen-Cloth that old Women wear on their Heads and hence Handkerchief though improperly Kersey Kerserye and Karsaye a kind of Stuff or flight Cloth Gods Kichel a Cake given to God-children at their asking Blessing Kichin a little Child Kitt a Milking-pail like a Churn Kyachin Morts Kynchin Morts are Girls of an Year or two old which the Morts their Mothers carry at their backs in Slates or Sheets if they have no Children of their own they will steal or borrow them from others Kissing Pliny in his Natural History faith that Cato was of Opinion that the use of Kissing first began betwixt Kinsman and Kinswoman howsoever near allied or far off only by that to know whether their Wives Daughters or Neeces had tasted any Wine to this Juneral seems to allude in these Verses Paucae adeo cereris vitas contingere dignoe Quaram non timeat pater oscula As if the Father were jealous of his Daughters Continence if by Kissing her he perceived she had drunk Wine But Kissing and Drinking both are now grown it seems to a greater Custom amongst us than in those dayes with the Romans Nor am I so austere to forbid the use of either both which though the one in Surfets the other in Adulteries may be abused by the Vicious yet contrarily at Customary Meetings and laudable Banquets they by the Nobly disposed and such whose Hearts are fixt upon Honour may be used with much Modesty and Continence Kissing among other Incitements to Love is not the least Charming to Kiss and to be Kissed where there is a pariety or equality of Comliness is as a Burden in a Song a Battery very forcible that makes a Breach in the Fort for Love to enter it Insuses a Kind of a spirit that generates Affection Aretines Lucretia when she designed to overcome and put Chains upon her Admirers took them about the Neck and with her soft Lips tenderly pressed theirs often repeating it with pleasing Murmurs Intermixed with kind Expressions as O my dear how pleasing are you to my Eyes how I doat upon you c. And by this means she made them speedily and willingly Condenscend to what she desired moving thereby the inmost part of their Souls with her Nectoral and Ambrosial Kisses And these says another Change Hearts and mingle Affections in the raptures of their sweet Kisses they producing rather a Connexion of the Mind than the Body The Rose and Gilliflower are not so sweet As sugar'd Kisses when kind Lovers meet Kissing and Embracing are proper to Men and Women and worthy of Commendation when they are decently and modestly observed but when unseasonable and too violent not to be approved because they tend more to Lasciviousness than pure Affection and indeed often end in that for when you come to such Kind of close and often repeated Kissing you have passed the long Entry of other Ceremonies and are come to the Gate of the Pallace of Enjoyment as the Poet somewhat describes though a little Lamely With Becks and Nods he first began To try the Wenches mind And Answer he did find And in the dark he took her by the hand And wrung it hard and sighed grieviously And Kiss'd her too and woo'd her as he might With pity me my sweet or else I dye And with such Words and Kisses as there past He won his Mistress favour at the Last Kindness finds out many allurements to bring Kissing in Winks Nods Jests Smiles Tokens Valentines and the like are Introductions though many seem Coy and protest against Love Kisses yet press them to it and as Experience satisfies us you 'll find but a feeble Resistance She seems much Coy but won she is at length Women in this strife use but half their Strengh Kisses are Coveted by most however some seem averse to them yet many there are that lie open and are most Tractable and Coming Apt Yielding and willing drawing back and then half meeting to strengthen the Temptation and heighen the delight Some have more Art in it than others Insensibly to draw on their Lovers to play and dally and when they spy
if not such as shall exceed then and put themselves thereby to unnecessary Charges because they will not seem to be out-done by others whom they conceive less able or less mariting such Furniture this Ladies Logick trips up the heels of Reason and sets it on its head by Carrying the Rule from Things to Persons and Appealing from Right to the 〈◊〉 and Capricio's of those that are in the wrong and in such cases the word necessary 〈…〉 appli'd the best way 〈◊〉 to avoid such Error of this 〈◊〉 is to try things first in your Judgment before you give 〈◊〉 too large a place in your Desire There are again some Ladies who little Consider how their own figure agreeth with such 〈◊〉 things as their Desires reach after and Covet too eagerly others when they have them in their possession will scarcely allow them to be visible or when you are ushered into their dark Ruelle you will find it done with such State and Solemnity that you would Conclude that there was something extraordinary in it till the Lady breaking Silence and beginning to 〈◊〉 out the show you find it meer Pageantry or like a Popper-play with gaudy Scenes Some again set a high Estimate on things rarely to be gotten enough of little Value either in Worth or Beauty Truth if we should say a great part of their own Value dependeth in the Minds of the unthinking would be very often Censured as unmannerly and might derogate from the prerogative great Ladies would 〈◊〉 to themselves of being Creatures distinct from those of their Sex that they Conclude inferiour to them and in other things less difficult of Access But to those we pretend to prescribe their Condition must give the Rules to them and therefore it is not the part of a Wife to aim at more than a bounded Liberality and an acquirement of things convenient A Princely mind will ruin a private Family and if things be not suited they will not deserve Commendation though in themselves they be never so valuable Kuntgunda Cu. Wife to the Emperor Henry II. to clear her self from the Imputation of Unchastity went barefoot and blindfold on red hot Irons Kyth Sa. kindred or alliance whence we say though corruptly Neither kit nor kin Knights Batchelour our simple or plain Knights the lowest but most ancient Order Knights of the Garter or St. George the most Noble Order of England instituted by King Edward III. after many notable Victories Under the Soveraign of the Order the King are five and twenty Companions They always wear their George and Star or rather the Sun Knights of the Post whom you may hire to swear what you please Kidknappers Fellows that pick up People for Transportation commonly call'd Spirits L. LAis i. Lascivious lustful and indeed she was a notable Harlot of Corinth as it is storied Laodice 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. the Justice of the People Laurana dim from Laurus the Laurel or Bay-tree Laurentia i. flourishing like the Laurel or Bay-tree Laureola i. a little Bay-tree Leah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. wearisomness or weary Letice à laetitia i. joyfulness or mirth Lois 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 melior better 2 Tim. 1.5 Lora i. Discipline or Learning Lucie or Lucia so called prima Luces from the Morning-light Lucreece or Lucretia from Lucrum gani a Name fit for a good Husband Lydia Acts 16.14 i. born in Lydia Lactucintia a Goddess of the Heathens to whom they assigned the Care of Vegetables Laeta Daughter to Albinus a Roman and Pagan High-Priest she was Married to Toxatius the Son of Paula she turning Christian by her Husband means Converted her Father to her St. Jerom sent an Epistle instructing her how to educate her Daughter in the Articles of Belief and Grounds of the Christian Faith Lais a Sicilian Lady who prostituted her Beauty for Mony upon Demosthenes addressing himself to her she demanded 10000 Drams of Silver for a Nights Lodging but he told her he was not willing to buy Repentance at that price she was afterward murthered in the Temple of Venus by some Women who were Jealous that their Husbands doated on her Beauty Lamia Mistress to King Demetrius he for the Love he bore her Dedicated a Temple to her called Venus Lamia Lamia another of the Name with whom Jupiter had familiar Conversation and often got with Child but Juno destroyed them in the Birth which so inraged Lamia that she destroyed all the Children that came in her way Lamperia Daughter to Apollo begot by him on Climenâ— who with her other Sisters bewailing the Death of Phaeâ—â—â— their Brother were turned into Poplar Trees Laodicea Mother to Selacius and Wife of Anticchus when her Husband after he had served Alexander the Great in his Wars he built the City of Laodicea in Memory of his Mother Lara one of the Naides said to be the Daughter of the River Almon and that on her Mercury begat two Daughters called Lares Latona she was held to be begot on Phebe by Cocus her Brother on her Jupiter became Inamoured by whom she had Diana and Apollo Lauerna a Goddess worshipped by the Romans she had a Temple built her in Rome near the Gate because she was supposed to defend the City from Thieves and Robbers Lavinia Daughter to Latinus King of the Latins for whom Aeneas and Turnus contended till the latter was slain she had a Son by Aeneas whom she naâ—â—red Silvius Laurea a Lady of Provence she was famous for Learning and her Fancy particularly lead her to Poetry and amongst other works she composed the Poem called the Court of Love Lydia she was Daughter to Thestius Married to Tyndarus King of Oebalia which after was deceived by Jupiter who came to her in the shape of a Swan and at a Birth begat on her Castor Polux and Helena afterwards Wife to King Menelaus who being ravished by Paris occasioned the Destruction of Troy by the Greeks Levana a Goddess of the Romans to whom they recommended the care of their new-born Children Lencothoe Daughter of Orâ—â—amus a Babylonish King she was deceived and destowâ—ed by Apollo in a borrowed shape and upon her being discovered to be with Child her Father caused her to be buried alive after which Apollo caused Frankincense Trees to Spring from her Grave Lucippa she was Daughter to Thestor Prince of Creet held to be a very Learned and Virtuous Lady Lovisa Dutchess of Angoulesme Daughter to Philip Count of Bress and afterward Duke of Savoy she was Wife to Charles Count of Angoulesme she was Mother to Francis the first King of France Libertas or the Goddess of Liberty was honoured by the Romans as a Deity being represented as a Woman cloathed in White with a Hat in one hand a Scepter in the other and a Cat standing by her Libussa Daughter to Crocus the first Prince of Bohemia she coveted a single Life but her Subjects importuned her to Marry and when by
Good that having such Examples before you you may avoid falling into the like Folly and Error and those are such as have no farther design than the Vanity of Conquest striving by all the little Arts they can study to out-do and overcome others in Wit Gaiety and Honour and if they do it not in the opinions of others they will be sure to do it in their own and thereupon grow not a little proud of their Parts Beaviour ought to be exempted from these if you would have it approved for these are the dangerous Experiments and being generally built upon a Sandy Foundation totter and all when they are blown on by the least puff of Sense and Reason Love indeed when generous is to be accounted a Passion but it is not safe for Ladies o play with it no more than with Fire but where it comes clad in Virtue and you resolve to entertain and cherish in a Matrimonial way some are so hardy to suffer themselves for their Diversion to be made Love to in jest when at last the sly Insinuate starts into a Passion on a sudden and in spite of all resistance changes into a troublesome Earnest not be put off or avoided by too late Repentance and for this Reason you must keep all appearances of it at a distance and not vainly fancy You can be too strong for it and beat it out again when in the disguise of a fawning Friendship it has been admitted and treacherously surprized unawares the Fort of your Breast in suffering this you act the part of an Enemy by conspiring against your self and opening an Inlet to your Ruin for the Spark who is at first only admitted as a Tfsropie of your Victory the humble Captive of your fair Eyes finding his drooping Spirits raised a little by the easie Doom you intend him will soon take Courage and Invade you in your strongest hold till he become the Victor and you the vanquish'd The first Resolutions of stopping at good Opinion and Esteem usually by degrees grow feebler and less unable to resist the Charms of Courtship when cunningly and pressingly apply'd For many Ladies whilst a Man is commending their Beauty Dress and Parts fancy by the aid of the Self-flatterer they carry about them that he speaks so much Reason and come so near their own Sense and Opinion that he ought to be listened to and they have much adoe to believe him in the wrong when he is making Love in down right Earnest contrary to his Engagement and Protestations when he was first admitted to the Freedom of Conversation his Musical note though as dangerous as the Sirenes is charming in their Ears and every soft Accent strikes the Strings of their Souls already tuned in Concord and at last they are whistled like Birds into the Net Conquest indeed is so tempting and desirable in some Women who are naturally Ambitious that they are apt to mistake Mens Submissions and not discern that their fair appearances are made up with a lesser Ingredient of Respect than of Art though indeed there is less danger in some Men who say extream fine things and are always buzzing and fluttering about Ladies Apartments than in those that lay their Design covert and close with little Noise but with more Intriegue for the first sort are many times so vain to be as well satisfied in the Pleasure they take to throw away their Complements on you as they would be with your kindnest and most obliging Answers but where this Ostentation fails which indeed is never used by the other sort you ought to look about you their smooth Surface has a depth to overwhelm you if playing too near the Brim the ground unexpectedly slips away and plunges you into it you must then be always watchful and upon your Guard for a profound Respect has more danger in it than Anger or Raillery by its jostling the most exalted understanding out of place for till Second thoughts come in to its Assistance and restore it it insensibly steals upon us and overturns our Defences and takes us Prisoners when we think we are most secure when Anger and Raillery gives us warning and passes over in Noise Love or the Passion of the mind enclining to it is very strange and unaccountable in many Respects it is of such Power in its Operation that it has often taken the Diadems from Kings and Queens and made them stoop to those of obscure Birth and destitute of Fortune working such wonders as is scarce credible to any but those who feel its Power it takes the Sword out of the Conquering hand and makes him a Captive to his Slave and has such Variety of Snares to in tangle the most wary and prudent that few have at one time or other escaped them it is an Author says like the Small-Pox that in Youth or riper years very few escape As for this Passion it sprouts into divers Branches of the Fruit of which all are desirous some indeed pretend to Arm themselves against the Charms of the fair Sex but whilst they are giving Advice to their wounded Friend are frequently wounded themselves Love so intangled Eurialus Count of Augusta that at the first sight falling in Love with a fair Virgin at Sienna named Lucretia she at the same Instant had the like Passion for him and they entirely united their modest Affections but before the Marriage was Consummated the Emperor Sigismund in whose Service he was hastily marched to Rome so that he was forced to leave the Lady behind him which struck such a Melancholly to her Heart and possessed her with an Impaâ—itience of his Absence that she died for Excess of Love of which unhappy Disaster he had no sooner Notice but all his Friends had much ado to perswade him from laying violent hands upon himself and though by their Tears and Intreaties he was compell'd to Live yet a Cloud of Melancholy always surrounded him so that he was never seen to be Merry or Laugh afterwards Love so enchanted the Daughter of Charlemain the Emperor that she fell passionately in Love with her Fathers Secretary and admitted him to give her private Visits in her Chamber though she knew by the Law it was Death if discovered when one Night it so unfortunately hapned that a great Snow Fell and Eginardus fearing that the Prints of his Footsteps from the Princess Stair-Caise-door might betray him she undertook for the preventing it to carry him on her back to his Apartment which Frolick the Emperor being up late espy'd by Moon-light and the next day in Council sent for his Daughter and demanded of his Nobles what should be done to the Man who made a Mule of their Emperor's Daughter to carry him through the Snow upon her Back at a very unseasonable time of Night To which they unanimously answered He deserved Death This made the two Lovers tremble and change Colour finding they were discovered but the Emperor being given to understand the
Sincerity of their Affections said Well Eginardus hadst thou loved my Daughters Honour thou oughtest to have come to her Father who is the proper Disposer of her Liberty you have justly deserved to dye but I give thee two Lives take thy fair Portress in Marriage fear God and love one another As for the Joy they conceived at this unexpected Declaration we leave to Lovers in such a a like Condition to Judge of And now since Holy Writ tells us what Love is I shall give you one more singular Example and so proceed to the rest of the Branches of this excellent Passion that so much enobles the minds of Men and Women In the Seventh Persecution of the Christians when Rivers of precious Blood were shed in all the Roman Empire for the Gospel-truth one Theodora a beautiful and chaste Virgin was taken and the barbarons Judge perceiving she preferred her Chastity before her life Condemned her to the Stews with an Order she should be ravished by as many as pleased upon News of which a great many lewd Fellows came Crowding to wait the appointed time when one 〈◊〉 a young Man who bore her an extraordinary Love for her Piety though he suspected the Attempt would be his Death nevertheless resolved to free her from that Shame and therefore pressing in in Soldiers habit before the rest he prevailed with her to change Cloaths with him and so make her Escape but he staying in her stead was doomed to die The Virgin hearing this resolved to save him if possible by surrendring her self but so cruel was the Tyrant that this stupendious Miracle of Love and Friendship prevailed not for he doom'd them both to Death which they suffered joyfully and ascended to the Quite of eternal Harmony Tho' the fair Sex be counted the weaker yet in this glorious Passion they prove the strongest superseding the Fidelity of of their Nature by the strength of an incredible Affection so that being born up with that they have often performed as worthy things as could â—e expected from the Courage and Constancy of mankind even the most generous of them They have despised Death in all the Variety of his terrible Shapes and forced the strong opposing Bars of Difficulties and Dangers to make way to the Centre of invicible Love and in which they seemed proud to let it appear more strong in the greatest Extremities of their Husbands of which a few Examples will not be amss Love in Aviz the Wife of Cicinna Poectus was exceeding for having knowledge that her Husband was condemned to die yet Liberty given him to chuse was Death he pleased she went to him and exhorted him to contemn the fear of Death and die Couragiously and then giving a kind Farewel she with a Knife hid in her Garments stabbed her self as resolving not to out-live her Husbands fall and then whilst strength of Life remained reaching him the Knife she said The would I have made 〈◊〉 Smarts not but that which thou art about to give thy self is Iâ—tolerable to me and so they both died Embracing each other with all the tender Expressions of a constant Affection At the time the Emperor Conrade the Third besieged the Duke Ouâ—tsus of Bavaria in the City of Wensberg in Germany the Women perceiving the Town at the point of being taken Petitioned the Emperor that they might depart with each of them so much as they could carry on their Backs which being granted and every one expecting they would come forth with their rich Apparel Vessels and of Gold and Silver and the like they on the contrary neglecting them brought every one her Husband on her Back at which so extraordinary Love and Tenderness in these Virtuous women the Emperor was so moved that he could not refrain from Tears and thereupon not only forgave them all though before he had doomed them to Destruction but received the Duke into Favour and highly praised the Women And we find divers others in Story that have equalled if not exceeded these we have mentioned Portia the Daughter of Cato and Wife to Brutus hearing of her Husbands overthrow and Death in the Philippi Field she for the great Love we bare him determined to die and though her Friends apprehensive of her Design kept all manner of mischievous Instruments from her she founds means to Cram burning Coals down her Throat and so expired others have leaped into their Husbands flaming Funeral Piles and so expired Eumines burying the dead that had fail'n in the Battle of Jabbins against Antigonus amongst others there was found the Body of Ceteas the Captain of those Troops that had come out of India This Man had two Wives who accompanied him in the Wars the one of which he had newly married and another which he had married a few years before but both of them bore an intire love to him for whereas the Laws of India require that one Wife shall be burnt with her dead Husband both proffer'd themselves to Death and strove with that Ambition as if it was some glorious Prize they sought after Before such Captains as were appointed their Judges the younger pleaded that the other was with Child and that therefore she could not have benefit of that Law Tht Elder pleaded that whereas she was before the other it was also fit that she should be before her in Honour since it was customary in other things that the Elder should have place The Judges when they understood by Midwives that the elder was with child passed Judgment that the younger should be burnt which done she that had lost the cause departed rending her Diadem and tearing her Hair as if some grievous Calamity had befallen her The other all Joy at her Victory went to the Funeral Fire magnificently dressed up by her Friends led along by her Kindred as if to her Nuptials they all the way singing Hymns in her Praises When he drew near the Fire taking of her Ornaments she delivered them to her Friends and Servants as tokens of Remembrance they were a multitude of Rings with variety of precious Stones Chains and Stars of God c. this done she was by her Brother placed upon the 〈◊〉 Matter by the side of her Husband and after the Army had thrice compassed the Funeral Pile fire was put to it and she without a word of Complaint finished her life in the Flames Again some Wives have lived with their vanâ—â—â—shed or bansshed Husbands 〈◊〉 Woods Rocks Cave c choosing to undergo all manner of Hardship and Misery rather than be seperated from them Julius Sabinus who had caused the Galls to Rebell against Vespatian flying his wrath accompanied with a Servant or two to a Tomb or Burying-place of the dead there dismissed one of them to spread the news abroad that he was slain in the Field or had afterward poisoned himself this coming to the Ears of Epoâ—â—â—â— his wife she wept and would by no means be comforted resolving to die this made
the Servant so far pity her that after she had fasted three days he told her of his Lords Safety after he had acquainted him with the Misery she was in it was agreed she should come to him and there consorted with him for the space of Nine years bringing forth Children in that Solitary place no Intreaty of her Husbands prevailing with her to forsake him At last they were discovered and brought before the Emperor where Eponina producing her Children said Behold O Caesar such as I have brought forth and bred up in a Monument that thou mightest have more Suppliants for our Lives but this great Act of Love and Constancy could not move cruel Vespatian for he caused them both to be put to Death she dying joyfully with her Husband Hota was the Wife of Rabi Benxamut a valiant Captain and of great Reputation amongst the Alarbes she had been bravely rescued out of the hands of the Portugals who were carrying her away Prisoner by the exceeding Courage and Vavour of Benxamut her Husband She shewed her thankfulness to him by the ready performance of all the Offices of Love and Duty Some time after Benxamut was slain in a Conflict and Hota perfomed her Husbands Funeral Obsequies with infinite Lamentation laid his Body in a stately â—omb and then for nine days together she would neither eat nor drink whereof she died and was buried as she had ordained in her last Will by the side of her beloved Husband He first deceas'd she for a few days try'd To live without him lik'd it not and dy'd King Edward the First while Prince warr'd in the Holy Land where he rescued the great City of Acon from being surrendred to the Souldan after which one Anzazim a desperate Saracen who had often been employ'd to him from the General being one time upon pretence of some secret Message admitted alone into his Chamber he with an empoyson'd Knife gave him three Wounds in the Body two in the Arm and one near the Arm-pit which were thought to be mortal and had perhaps been so if out of unspeakable Love the Lady Eleanor his Wife had not suck'd out the Poyson of his Wounds with her Mouth and thereby effected a Cure which otherwise had been incurable Thus it is no wonder that love should do wonders seeing it is it self a Wonder Love of Parents to their Chilren is a natural Affection which we bear towards them that proceed from us as being part of our selves and indeed almost all other Creatures have a strong Impression of this kind of Love to their young though in their proper Nature never so fierce and cruel to any thing besides according to the Poet Seeing her self Rob'd of her tender Brood Lies down lamenting in her Seythian Den And Licks the Prints where her lost Whelps had lain But this Affection with Reason has greater Power in the Souls of humane Parents thò indeed it's Impression is deeper in some than in others so that sometimes it extends even to a fault where it is placed on such Children whose stubborn Natures turn such tender Indulgence to evil purposes yet we see when it so happen as it do's too freequently the Parents fondness decreases not Love towards his Sons and Daughters had so settered the Affection of Charles the Great that he could seldom endure them out of his fight and when he went any long Journey he took them with him and being one time demanded why he married not his Daughters and suffered his Sons to travel with a Sigh replyed He was not able to bear their Absence Selucius King of Syria being told that his Son Antiochus Sickness proceeded from that extraordinary Passion he bare to his beautiful Queen Stratonice though the Father loved her entirely yet fearing his witholding her might occasion the loss of his Son he freely resigned her to him Aegtius by a mistake thinking Theseus his Son to be dead threw himself from the Rock where he stood to watch his return and there perished Love in Women on this account has always exceeded that of the Men who to save their Children have rushed through Flames and on the points of Swords regardless of their Lives as the Poet expresses it 〈◊〉 Lyoness when with Milk her Dugs do ake Seeking her lost Whelps hid within some Brake Noâ— the sharp Viper doth more Anger threaten Whom some unwary Heel hath crush'd and beaten Than woman when she sees her off springs wrong She breaks the Bars of the opposing throng Through Swords through Flame she rushes there 's no Ill So grievous but she Acts it with her Will Love to her Infant so inspired the Daughter of Sponderebeus that Mahomet the second having caused his Vizier-Bassa to murther it as being one of the Sons of his Father she never left crying in the Sultans Ears till he had delivered the Bassa bound to her and then she cut him up alive and cast his Heart and Liver to the Dogs Love of Children to their Parents is required by the Law of God and Naure and it is their indispensable Duty to Love honour and obey yet Love it self contains all these for what we love we will consequently labour to please to the utmost since it is to the great Credit and Advantage of Children entailing a Blessing on them here and giving them in a great measure an Assurance of an eternal Blessedness hereafter For wherever we find Piety and Reverence that is due to Parents there is a kind of Earnest given of a prosperous and worthy Person for the Child having this way entituled himself to the Promise of God whatsoever happens to others he shall find Happiness and Comfort in it It is certainly a very great and grievous Sin to be unmindful of those who next to God are the Authors of our Being and have taken care of us when we were not able to help our selves Love in this Case appeared extraordinary in Antipas and Amphinomus who when Mount Aetna sent out Rivers of flaming Sulphur and by the Eruption the Earth trembled under them every one minding to hurry away their Goods and flying in confusion these pious Brothers mindful of their aged Parents more than all earthly Riches took them on their Backs and carried them through Torrents of Fire to places of Safety leaving their Goods to be destroyed saying What more precious Treasure can we secure than those who begot us and this Acts of Piety by divers Antiquities is said to be attended with a Miracle for the burning stream separated and made way for their safe Passage whilst other places were scorched up Love and Duty appeared excellent in the Daughther of a noble Roman Lady who being condemned by the Praetor her Execution was delayed by the Jaylor to starve her in Prison that the People who were offended with the Sentence might not see her publick Execution her Daughter all this while had leave to Visit her but was narrowly searched that she should bring no
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
the Belly of a little Shell fish Margery from the Herb called Marjoram Mary in the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Miriam Exod. 15.33 Mat. 1.18 some make it the Sea of bitterness of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mar bitterness and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jam the Sea Maud i. Noble or Honourable Lady of the Maids Maudlin see Magdalin Medea i. Counsel Mehetabel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gen. 36. ver 39. as if it were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mehtcb-el i. how good is God Melicent i. sweet Honey Fr. Meraud perhaps by Contraction from the precious E meraud stone Milchah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gen. 11.29 as it were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Malchah i. a Queen Modesta i. Modest or Temperate Mickerel a Pandor or Procurer Mabel Mabilia q. amabilis l. lovely or Mabelie f. My fair one a Womans name Macarons Fr. little Frirer-like Buns or thick Lozenges compounded of Sugar Almonds Rose-water and Musk pounded togâ—her and baked wich a gentle fire Also the Italian Macaroni lumps or gobbers of boiled paste served up in butter and strewed over with Spice and grated cheese a common dish in Italy Maturnia a Roman Goddess who over-awed young Brides and kept them from gadding abroad or giving their Bridegrooms the slip on the Wedding-night Marcella an illustrious Lady Daughter of Albion she was brought up under St. Jerome and faithfully instructed by him in the Fundamentals of the Christian Religion and being a Wife only of seven Months she afterward led a Contemplative Life in Widdowhood and never would be perswaded to Marry Marcelina a beautiful but lewd Lady she in the time of Pope Avecetus embraced the Doctrine of the Gnostick Heresie and drew many of the Orthodox to follow it that they might keep in favour with her Marcelin Sister to St. Ambrose she took the Veil of Virginity from Pope Liberius and lived a vertuous Life in a Monastery Margaret Valois Dutchess of Alanson c. She was first Married to the Duke of Alancon and afterward to Albert K. of Navarry and of her descended Henry the IVth of France Margaret Countess of Holland this Lady upbraiding a poor Woman that came to ask an Alms because she had two Twins in her Arms saying such a thing could not be unless she had lain with two several Men the Woman upon this prayed the Counsels might have as many Children as there were days in the Year at one Birth to convince her of her Error which accordingly sell out in 1276. there remaining to this day an Epitaph in the Abby of the Bernardines half a League from the Hague where she and her Children lye buried that expressly mentions it Margaret Dutchess of Parma Florence and Plaisance Governess of the Low-Countries she was a Lady of admirable Wit and Beauty she was Married first to Octavius Farnese Pope Paul the Thirds Nephew and afterward to Alexander Fernose Duke of Florence she had a Masculine Courage and delighted more in manly Actions than in those more proper to her Sex and managed the Government in her Charge with great Prudence Macareus the Son of Aeâ—clus who got his Sister Conace with Child whereupon her Father feâ—t her a Sword with which she killed her self Marcaria Daughter to Hercules who for the Safety of her Countrey devoted her self to Death by being Sacrificed to appease the anger of the Gods for the Preservation of whose Memory the Athenians in generous Gratitude because she had freely offered her Life to prevent their falling into the hands of their Enemies built her a stately Monument which they adorned with Garlands of Flowers to shew she died a Virgin Ma one that was intrusted by Jupiter with the Education of Bacchus Rea the Goddess was likewise called Ma and went under that Name among the Lydians who usually sacrificed to her a Bull at the Altar erected to the Honour of her Magdalen Sister to Lazâ—â—us and Martha to her to whom our Blessed Saviour shewed himself after his Resurrection before he appeared to the Disciples Magdalen Daughter to Francis the first of France and Married to James the fifth of Scotland she was a Lady of admirable Virtue and Beauty but she enjoyed not long her Marriage dying seven Months after she Landed in Scotland Mahaud Countess of Damartin and Balonia she was Married to Philip of France Son to Philip the August and in his Life-time to Alphonsus King of Portugal the Third of that name Mamea Julia Mother to Alexander Severus the Emperor she governed the Empire whilst her Son was Emperor having an entire Ascendant over him she held a Conference with Origen and did divers good Offices to the Christians but her Cruelty and Covetousness at last caused the Death of her self and her Son by an Insurrection of the Souldiery Mandane Daughter to Astiages she dreamed her own water overflowed the Face of the Earth and out of her Bosom came a Vine that overspread it after that she was Married to Cambyses the Persian King and brought forth the great Cyrus who won the Babyloian Kingdom and many other Countries Mariamne the Virtuous and beautiful Queen of Herod the great King of Juda she was of the Royal Blood of the Asmonaean Family and though in her Right he gained the Crown yet at the Instigation of his Sister and other Conspirators against her Life he caused her to be publickly beheaded after which he never enjoyed himself Morosia a beautiful Lady of Phoenitia Martia Wife to Cato Vticensis he after she had born him Children gave her to Hortensius that he might have an Heir to his Family by her but he dying she returned again to Cato and was a second time married to him about the time the Civil War broke out between Pompey and Caesar. Morosia a Roman Lady very beautiful which gained her such an Ascendant over the chief of the Roman Clergy that she made and unmade Popes at her Pleasure Martha Sister to Lazarus and Mary Magdalen said among other Christians to be put into a Boat and turned out to Sea but by Providence the Boat arrived at Marseilles in France where she lived and died a Saint Martina Wife to Heraclius the emperor she poisoned her Husbands Sons by a former Wife to make way for Heracleo who was her Son by Heraclius to the Throne but er'e two years were expired the Senate adjudged her to have her Tongue cut out and her Sons Nose to be cut off least the one by Eloquence and the other by Beauty should move the People to compassionate them and afterwards being banished to Cappadocia they died in Exile Mary the Blessed Virgin Mother of our Saviour according to the flesh Mary of Aragon Wife of Otho the third Emperor being a Woman of insatiable Lust and causing many Mischiefs in the Empire she at last was Sentenced and burnt alive Mary Q. of France Daughter to Francis d' Medicis great Duke of Tuscany Married to Henry the Fourth of France after the Divorce between him and
Ancients to â—e Goddesses and worshipped by them as such having their charge assigned over Rivers and Fountains perhaps being Spirits that haunted those places and as they saw it convenient put on pleasing shapes to gain adoration from those that wandered in a melancholy posture to or by those solitary places Naprae a sort of Wood-Nymphs fancied or fabled like the â—ormer and held by the rural people in the like Veneration upon the same account their name being taken from the Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifying a Wood. Nevâ—u Sirnamed Magdalen was a very Learned and Ingenious Lady of Roches in Poitu famous for her parts and ingenuity leaving divers of her Writings of considerable use behind her and had a daughter no less accomplished in Learning and Ingenuity which was improved the more by her great industry in the Arts and Sciences she had brought up in by her careful mother to the praise and lustrution of her sex Niobe Daughter of Tantalus wept for the death of her children so immeasurably because they were slain for boasting themselves equal in birth to those of the Goddess Latâ—n â—â—iz Appolo and Diana that she is seigned to be turned into a perpetual weeping Marble Pillar and that sympathizing with her grief the natural Marble has ever since wept against Rainy and cloudy weather She was Wife to Amphioâ— King of Thebes who was said by the melody of his Harp to bring together the stones that built the walls of that City and from her came the saying of a mourning Niobe when any of the fair sex is too much overwhelmed with tears and grief for the loss of children or relations Naomi was mother in Law to Ruth the Mâ—abitess who was married to Booz the Father of Obed the Father of 〈◊〉 who was the Father of David from whom according to the flesh Christ took upon him in the fullness of time by a Lineal Descent our humane nature to redeem lost mankind and reconcile us to a state of happiness Nox Night or the Queen of Night was by the Ancients stiled an Heathen Goddess and accounted the daughter of Primitive Chaos and darkness Some likewise held her to be the Daughter of Heaven and Earth married as Poets fable to Erebus the God of the lower Region of Hell by whom she had four children viz. Fate or Destiny Old Age Sleep and Death and she was painted by them holding two infants in her arms one sleeping and the other waking the one fresh coloured â—â—â—e other pale or inclining to blackness denoâ—ing sleep the office of night to be the Image or representative of Death Nitocris Queen of Babylon was mother of Lebinetus whom Cyrus the great King of Persia thrust from his Throne though to prevent that City falling into the Enemies hands caused the great River Euphrates to be turned from its wonted course and brought it through the streets of Babylon an other way that by the rapidness of its course it might frustrate the Enterance of the Persians causing a Bridge likewise to be laid over it and her Tomb to be erected over the principal Gate of the City the which when the Persians saw she was notwithstanding buried in and when some time after Darius hoping by the promise of a Superscription to find great store of treasure therein sound nothing but a sharp reproof engraved on a stone for disturbing through covetousness the Repository of the dead Numbers were of so great account among the Greecians for their usefulness and the harmony and agreement as to mysteries and parts of the Creation sound in them that in their Heatheniâ—h Times they set up an Idol which they called Numeria or the Goddess of Numbers or accounts and payed Adoration to it Nymphs in general were accounted in the time of Paganism of an immortal Race fabled to be the daughters of Oceanus and Thetis and were distinguished into Nereides and Naides for the waters their Dryades and Hamadryades had the care of the Forests assigned them the Napeae of the Meadows and Groves the Oreades of the Mountains some supposing them to be departed Souls haunting places they most delighted in when they lived in the body Nursery-Maids If you intend to fit your self for this imployment you must naturally incline your self to love Young Children otherwise you will soon discover your unfitness to manage that charge you must be very neat and clearly about them and careful to keep good hours for them both to arise and go to bed likewise to get their breakfasts and Suppers at good and convenient time Let them not sit too long but walk them often up and down especially those who cannot go well of themselves you must also be extraordinary careful and vigilant that they get not any falls thorough your neglect for by such falls many the cause at first being unperceivable have grown irrecoverably lame or crooked Therefore if any such thing should happen besure you conceal it not but acquaint your Lord or Lady Master or Mistriss thereof with all convenient speed that so means may be used for their Child's recovery before it be too late You must be extraordinary careful that you be noâ— churlish or dogged to the children but be always merry and pleasant and contrive and invent pretty sports and pastimes as will be most suitable and agreeable to the childrens age keep their Linen and other things always mended and sâ—â—ter them not to run too fast to decay Do not let the children see that you love any one child above the other for that will be a means of dejecting and casting down the other Be careful to hear them read if it be imposed upon you and be not too hasty with them have a special care how you behave your self before them neither speaking nor acting misbecomingly leâ— your 〈◊〉 Example prove the Subject of their imitation Night-Walkers and Divers I joyn them together as being but one and the same thing for she that is a Diver or Pick-pocket is an infallible sâ—oler or Night-walker This Occupation is contrary to all other for she opens her shop-windows when all other Trades are about to shut them The Night approaching she rigs her self in the best manner she can with some apparent outward Ensign of her Protection having weigh'd Anchor and quitted her Port she steers her course for some one principal street as Cheapside or Cornhil with a gentle breese she first sails slowly on the one side and if she meet never a Man of War between Snow-hill and the Poultry she tacks and stands away to the other side but if she be a tolerable right Frigar she is laid aboard before maâ—e fast with the Grapplings and presently rummaged in the Whold sometimes she sheers off and leaves my Man of War on fire You shall know her by her brushing you sâ—riog in your face often hastings in the street by gazing about her or looking after some or other she hath brush'd but the most infallible sign is
have therewith spoke my Last Which being said she immediately expir'd Here we see an Example of their Continency and a sacred Respect to the Marriage-Vow This and innumerable Instances beside sufficiently demonstrate their Truth and thaâ— they can be just even where they cannot affect Let us therefore take a little pains to examine how they have acquitted themselves in this Particular Certainly there needs no better Argument for Chastity in Women than Love to their Husbands and I dare appeal to the generality of Wives in all Ages for a joynt Consent for putting the Tryal of their Vertue upon this Issue I might carry you into Greece and there shew you the Ashes of Evadne who cast her self into the Flaming rile of her Husband The Web of Penelope was too strongly wrought for Time or Slander to unravel I might produce the Cup wherein Aâ—misia drank the Ashes of her Husband The very sight of Pompey's bloody Garment was enought to sâ—ike Julia dead without enquiring into the Disaster Susâ—itia being strictly kept by her Mother lest she should follow her Husband Lentulus into banishment putting on the Habit of a servant past through the Guards and Watches and came by secret flight to the place where he was proscribed leaving all the pleasures of Rome to participate in the miseries of a Husband Pliny the Younger informs us of an Acquaintance of his in Italy who was perpetually afflicted with a most tormenting sickness his Wife impatient to see him languishing so long in misery took advice of all the skilful Physicians and being assur'd from every one that her Husbands Distemper was incurable and without so much as any possibility of the least Ease or Relief she resolutely advised him to be his own bâ—st Physician and rid himself from his Malady at once by a sudden and voluntary Death But finding him a little surprised and backward â—o â—o violent a method Do not thank said she that the Torments I see thee endure are not as sensible to me as to thy self and that to deliver my self from them I will not make use of the same Remedy I have prescribed to thee I will accompany thee in the Clâ—e as I have done in sharing all thy Pain Fear nothing my Dear but believe that we shall have pleasure in this passage that will free us from misery and we must certainly go happily going together Having thus spoken and rouzed up the Courage of her Husband she resolved that they should cast themselves headlong into the Sea from a precipice that hung over it And that she might maintain to the last that vehement Affection wherewith she had embraced him during his Life she would have him die in her Arms and lest they should break their hold in the Fall she â—ied her self to him with her Girdle In this manner she plung'd down with him having no other fear upon her in this Adventure but of being separated from him in her last gasp Naked Breasts We find by lamentable if I may not say fatal Experience that the world too much allows nakedness in Women and 't is now pass'd into a custom so general that it is become common almost to all Women and Maids of all sorts of conditions and hath spread it self abroad into most parts of the Earth But however let us labour to imitate the zeal of St. Chrysosiâ—me and if we cannot prevent this disorder let us strive with him to make these Women know how great their Fault is in coming to Church in such undecent Habit and if I may presume to say so as it were half naked Do you come into the house of God as to a Ball says that great mâ—n to them Does this pomp this soft and wanton Delicacy this affected nakedness any whit suit with or become the state of Supplicants and Criminals But let me not only pour out my Laments for those who appear vain and light in sacred places but also let me shew my fear for them who do not fly their company or who turn away their Eves from those places where God more immediately bestows his gracious presence to cast them upon those Idols that are so gaâ—â—hly and immodestly dres'd up There is always danger in attentively looking upon a Naked Breast and there is not only a great danger but a kind of Crime in beholding it with attention in the Churches The sight of a fair Neck and pretty swelling Breasts are no less dangerâ—â— for uâ— than 〈◊〉 of a 〈◊〉 and it is then we may say with the Scripture that the Devil makes use of the Windows of our Bodies for Death by sin to enter into our Souls and I believe that the Patriot Job had a mind to teach us this Truth when he declares that he had made a covenant with his Eyes to the end that he might not think on the beauty of a Maid Let us then remember that maxim of the Great St. Gregory that it is a mighty piece of impudence to look upon that which we are not permitted to desire David sinned for being too prodigal and free of his looks and one single Glance sufficed to make him fall into sin That Prince was holy and Bathsheba on whom by accident he cast his Eyes was innocent but she was naked David saw her in that posture and there needed no more to make David loose his Holiness and Bathsheba her Innocence Who is this proud one that will refuse to be instructed by so great an Example and who after this Example will not avoid with care the sight and address of a Woman that openly exposes all those Charms which she thinks are most beautiful and surprising Surely then they cannot be exempt from blame who do shew their Breasts and Shoulders at so extream a rate since they cannot possibly be ignorant that that nakedness must needs be much more powerful than words to excite the Motions of Concupiscence for who does not know that the Eyes are the Guides of Love and that it is through them that it most commonly steals into our souls If the Devil sometimes makes use of the Ear to seduce our Reason he does a most always make use of the Eyes to disarm it and to bewitch our hearts A naked breast and bare shoulders are continually speaking to our hearts in striking and wounding our Eyes and their language as dumb as it is is so much the more dangerous as it is not understood but by the mind and the mind is pleased with the understanding it The Beauty of a Neck which is presented to our Eyes hath nothing but what attracts and allures us and as it does not cease speaking to us in its way and manner nor cease soliciting us and being pleasing to us it at last triumphs over our liberty after it has abused and betrayed our senses Men do very well know how dangerous it is to look upon a naked bosome and your vain and light Women are sensible how advantagious it is to them to shew
Indians none can claim greater Dower with his 〈◊〉 than the price of a 〈◊〉 Oxen neither can he mâ—â— out of his own Tribe â—â— Assyrians brought their 〈◊〉 blest Virgins into the 〈◊〉 place and their prices 〈◊〉 publickly proclaimed by 〈◊〉 Crâ—er whosoever wanted wife and would reach toâ—â— sum propounded might 〈◊〉 be furnished and he 〈◊〉 had not ready mony if 〈◊〉 could put in good secuâ—â— it was held sufficient 〈◊〉 like custome was amongst 〈◊〉 Babylonians in which 〈◊〉 observed this order Tâ— first set out to sale the mâ— ingenious and beautiful 〈◊〉 those at an high rate and when they were put off they brought forth the worser featured even unto the degree of deformity and the Crier proclaims That who will marry any of them He shall have so much or so much to recompence her souless or lamâ—ness Nuptial-ornaments Amongst the Greeks the â—â—ide was crowned with water-Mints or Cresses her head was â—embed with a piece of a Lance or Spear of a Fencer with which some man had been slain In other places of Greece the Brides heads were covered with a Veil to signify her Bashfulness and modest shame It was of Clay-coloured Silk by which colour the Matrons of the most temperate life and modest carriage denoted unto the world their continence and vertue The Law of Lyâ—â—rgus amongst the Spartans was That the Bride should cut her hair and puting her self into mans habit be brought into her chamber by the Bride-maids who had before prepared it In Bâ—eoâ—ia their Virgins were crowned with a wreath made of the herb called Sperage In the Isle Cous the husbands were tempelled to enter the Bride châ—mber attired like women It was an use amongst the Locrenses for the Matrons to pick and gather selected flowers to make garlands for the Brides but such as were bought for â—ony were held vile and â—oâ—temptuous All mariages amongst the Lustranians were celebrated in Rose-coloured garments or else not permitted The Chelidonian women that had prostituted themselves to strangers went with half of their faces open the other half covered else it was not lawful for them to be seen abroad The German Virgins when they prepared to give meeting to their betrothed and so to proceed to the Conjugal ceremony put on a streight or plain garment such a one as they in some places call a Huk and over that a Cloak without spot or stain bearing a garland woven of Vervain At length comes forth the Bride in all parts rare To meet the Bridegroom A Virgins face a Virgins chast attire She wares Now modest blushes kindle fire Within her bashful cheek which by degrees Grows stillmore hot and warms all that she sees The youthful frie dispersed herâ— and there On tip-toe move to see this star appear And rise with such refulgence on each hand The aged Fathers and the Matrons stand And make a reverend Lane for her to pass She makes them think upon the time that was Their prime their youth their Strength now gone wasted And Nuptial sweets which they before have tasted A Nuptial Song All that 's sweet and lost attend All that 's calm sâ—rene and bright That can please or pleasure mend Or secure or cause delight Liâ—â—â—e Câ—â—ds come and move Round the Bridesgrooms greedy Eyes Whilst the stately Queen of love Round the Bride her Cestâ—â— Eyes Golden Hymâ—n bring the Robe Bring thy Torch that still inspires Round the stately aâ—â—rous Globe Vigorous flames and gay desires Sister Graces all appear Sister Graces come away Let the Heavens be bright and clear Let the Earth keep Holy day Iâ—â—â—nd Nature does prepare To salute the Charming Bride And with Odours fills the Air Snatch from all the World beside Virtue Wit and Beauty may For a time refuse to yield But at length they must obey And with Honour quit the Field Their efforts in vain will prove To defend their Free-born State When attack't by mighty Love They must all Cp ilate Marble-hearted Virgins who Rail at Love to show your Wits So did one Eliza too Yet with Pleasure now submits You too envious Sâ—ains who would Follow Cupid if you might Like the Fox that gaping stood Discommend the Grapes for spight Since Experience teacheth best Ask if mutual Love has Charms When the Bride and Bridegroom rest Lock't in one another's Arms. O OLive from the Olive Tree Olimpia 1. Hevenlâ— Omphale 1. Lascivious and Wanton Orabilis 1. Easy to be inâ—reaâ—ed Ogna Sancha a Counâ—els of Castile who Falling in Love with a Moâ—â—ish Prince about the year 99â— being then a Widow and resolving to have him being opposed in it by her Son Sancho Garcia she resolved to remove him by Poyson but when at the Table the Poysoned Wine was offered him he having notice of the Plot against his Life gave 〈◊〉 his Mother who presently drank it up which with 〈◊〉 greater â—â—ame quickly quenâ—â—ed that of her Lust with 〈◊〉 Life and for this reason 〈◊〉 Women of Castile at 〈◊〉 Feasts are always obliged 〈◊〉 Drink before the Men 〈◊〉 now it passes only as a Ceremony Olimpias the Sister of Alexander King of Epirus Wife to Philip of Macedon and Mother to Alexander the Great who Dreamed when the first Conceived of him that Jupiter Ammon turned himself into a Dragon and Embraced her which made that Monarch afterwards fancy him self to be the Son of Jupiter and require to be esteemed as a God for opposing which Vanity Clytus and many other of his faithful Friends were put to Death This Queen likewise after the Death of King Philip put all his other Wives and Concubines to Death as also all the the Nobility that stood in her way to the Throne for which Cassander Besieged her in the Castle of Pindus and having taken her he put her to Death Olimpias a very Devout VVidow who was Deaconness of the Church of Constantinople in the time of St. Chrysostom she was Wife to Nebridius who Dying lest her great Riches which she as freely bestowed upon the Poor and was at length banished with St. Chrysostom by the prevailing of the Hereticks in those parts the Greeks and a great Veneration for her and after her Death Celebrated her memory every â—5th of July Omphale a Lydian Queen who Captivated Herâ—â—â—â— so much with her Beauty and Voice that laying aside his Fierceness he learned to Spin among her Maids Occasio or Occasion was accounted by the Heathens a Goddess and Worshipped by them that she might be Propitious to them in putting into their hands the fittest season and opportunity to accomplish and bring their Affairs to an happy issue and was represented by them naked bald on the head behind but a long foretop streaming with the Wind one of her Feet on a Wheel and sometimes a Globe and the other in the Air having a Sail in the one hand and a Sail in the other to shew that we ought to take all advantages of opportunity lest giving us the slip it returns
no more Octavia she was Daughter to Octavius and the Emperor Augustus's Sister she was first Married to Marcellus and then Mark Anthony she had divers Children that came to be great Men and was admired by the Romans for her Virtue and Prudence so that her Brother Dedicated a Temple and Porticoes to her in Rome as we find it Recorded by Dion Octavia Daughter to Claudius and Messalina was Wife to Nero the Emperor of Rome who without any apparent Cause Divorced her and having Poisoned her Brother Britanicus he caused her to be put to Death Oenoe a Beautiful Nymph that resorted Mount Ida where when Paris was Shepherd she fell in love with him but he coming afterwards to know that he was Son to King Priam of Troy slighted her for Hellen of Greece yet she continued her Love towards him and bewailed her self in the Mountain for being so Deserted but when Paris was slain by the Greeks and his dead Body sent to her to be buried thinking thereby to comfort her her love was so extream that as soon as she saw it she fell upon it and Died of Grief Orgiva or Orgina Wife of Charles the third King of France and Daughter to King Edward the first before the Conquest of the Normans a very learned and virtuous Lady Orbona a Goddess of the Ancients held to take care of Orphans and Children in Distress she was Worshiped by the Romans that they might not be afflicted in their Widowhood or in the loss of their Children her name is derived from the word Orbus denoting any one that has lost Father or Children c. Her Altar was near to that of the Lares in the City of Rome Ordeal an old Saxon way of trying of Women that were suspected to be unchast yet no proof against them they laid nine hot bars of Iron about a yard asunder and the party suspected being blindfolded was to pass over them the which if she did without touching any of them she was accounted Innocent but if otherways then guilty and Sentenced by the Laws which in those times were Death in case of Adultery Orithia Queen of the Amazons who was Queen after Marpesia and did wonders in â—eats of Arms in all Battles she fought especially against the Greeks who invaded her Territories to her succeeded Penthesila who with her Female Troop signalized her noble Bravery at the Siege of Troy Orithya Daughter Ezichtheus an Athenian King said to â—e Ravished by one of the Gods of the Wind and by him conceive Lethis and Calais Obedient Wives If their Husbands be pleasant they rejoyce in his pleasure If he suffer in any evertuâ—â— which he neither expected nor his actions deserved they bear a part in his Lachrymâ— Husbands to such Wives are made happy in their choice and have good cause never to wish a change Por they may consort with those they affected without fearing of being call'd to an Evening account If their days expence should chance to be too immoderate they need fear no fingers but their own to dive into their Pockets or to make privy search for more than can be found These need not fear to receive discipline for their laist nights error Or to wear their night-Caps after the oâ—â— fashion with both their Ears through them These can play the merry Mates with their Wives and never laugh till their hearts ake If they come home late tho sooner were better they are entertain'd with a chearful Welcome They find no Pouts in their Dish nor amongst all their necessary utensils one Chasing-dish Out of this precious Mine was surely that good Burgomasters Wife cut out who ever met her Husband at the Portel with a gentle word in her Mouth a sweet smile on her lip a merry look on her cherry cheeke a pair of slippers in one hand and in the other a rubber not at cuffs but a Towel to rub him after his Travel whereas the old beldam Tbestylis would have exchang'd that rubber with an halter if she might have had her will rather than be bound to such a Task And to such a one without all doubt was â—o matched who in a pensive plight all full of discontent published to the World from whence he desired a speedy dismission his hard Fortune in this Bridal Brâ—wl Married whereto to distast Bedded where all grief is plae't Clothed how with Womans shame Branded how with loss of Name How wretchlese is that Man that is disgrast With loss of Name shame grief and all distast Imprison'd h ow to womans Will Ingag'd to what is ill Restrain'd by whom by jealous fear Inthral'd to whom suspicions care How hapless is that wretch that must fulfil A false Suspicious jealous womans will Taxed for what for modest mirth Exposed how a Stale on Earth Surpriz'd with what with discontent Profess'd as how times penitent How can that forlorn Soul take joy on Earth Where Discontent and Penance is his Mirth Threatned how as he're was no man Fool'd by whom a foolish woman Slav'd to what to causeless pleen Sprite-affrighted when I dream How should th' Infernal Priâ—â—e more Furies summâ—n Than lodge in such a spleenful Spiteful Woman Cheered most when least at home Planted where â—'th Torrid Zone Chased how with oyle of tongue Hardned how by suffering wrong How wretched in his Fate who is become Contented most when he is least at home Vrged most when she is near Vsher'd how with fruitless fear Shielded when when I do flye Cur'd with what with hope to dye How cureless doth that cure to sense appear Whose Hope is Death whose Life is fruitless fear Old mans notions of Love I would not says the Old Men be to run through the miseries of life again for a great sum for when I come toward Man the Women will have me as sure as a Gun for to catch Woodcocks and if ever I come to set eye upon a Lass that understands Dress and Raillerly I 'm gone if there were no more Lads in Christendom but for my part I am as sick as a Dog of Powdering Curling and Playing the lady Bird I would not for all the World be in the Shoomakers Stocks and Choak my self 〈◊〉 again in a straight Dublet only to have the Ladies say Look what a delicate shape and foot that Gentleman has and I would take as little pleasure to spend six hours of the four and twenty in picking Gray Hairs out of my Head or Beard or turning white into black to slâ—â—d half ravisht in the Contemplation of my own shadow â—o Dress fine and to go to Church only to see handsome Ladies to correct the midnight air with Ardent Sighs and Ejaculations and to keep company with Owls and Bats like a bird of evil Omen to walk the round of a Mistresses Lodgings and play at bo-peep at the corner of every street to Adore her Imperfections or as the Song says for her ugliness and for her want of Coin to make bracelets for her locks
father but then you shall lye in the Gate-house as my Grandfather does This coming so unexpectedly from one so young made a strong Impression upon his mind and as if the hand of Heaven had Immediately touch this heart he could have no rest or quiet in his Thoughts till he had restor'd his Father a great part of his Estate back again and with it his filial duty and obedience And indeed we may justly suspect that those who have disobedient children have in one degree or other been so themselves and so Heaven repays them in their kind But this is no sufficient ground or warrant for children to transgress the express commandment of God He threatens them with very severe punishments besides the shortening their days In the Old Law the punishment of death was inflicted upon disobedient stubborn and rebellious children if brought and accused by their Parents before the Magistrates And we find it Prov. 30.17 That the Eye that mocketh his Father and dispiseth to obey his Mother the Ravens of the Valley shall pluck it out and the young Eagles shall eat it up That is many Calamities shall upon them and even the Fowls of the Air shall rise up as a Reproach against them for it is observed especially by the Eagles when the Old ones Bills are grown over so hooked and distorted with Age that they cannot feed themselves the Young ones get the Prey for them and nourish them in requital of the care and tenderness they had in bringing them forth and feeding them when they were helpless And it is reported by some Authors That the Old Ravens being sick and spent with Age the Young ones keep them Company and take all kind care of them mourning in their manner at their Death and burying them in the secretest place they can find And as the behaviour of children in which we include even those that are grown up ought to be respective towards their Parents so likewise ought they to show them all the demonstrations of Love imaginable striving to do them all the good they can shunning every occasion that may administer disquiet You must consider them as the Instruments of bringing you into the World and those by whose tender care you was sustained and supported when weak and helpless And certainly if you could make a true Judgment not being yet a Parent of the Cares and fears required in bringing up children you would judge your love to be but a moderate return in compensation thereof But the saying is certainly true that none can truly measure the great love of Parents to Children before they are made truly sensible of those tender affections in having Children of their own love and affection to Parents Obedient is to be expressed several ways as first in all kindness of behaviour carrying your selves not only with Awe and Reverence but with Kindness and Aflection which will encourage you to do those things they affect and so you will avoid what may grieve and afflict them Secondly This filial love and affection is to be exprest in praying for them and imploring God's blessing on them and their Endeavours for indeed you stand so greatly indebted to your Parents that you can never acquit your selves with any tolerable satisfaction unless you invoke God to your Aid and Assistance in beseeching him to multiply his blessings towards them and indeed in so doing you labour for your own happiness in desiring they should be so because the blessing reflects from them to you If they have been any thing rigid or severe let not that grate upon your memory but rather turn it to the increase of your love towards them in concluding they did it for your future advantage since too great an indulgence ruins more children than severity If they be over severe you must be industrious to let them see you deserve it not and by your patience and humility in suffering without any reasonable cause you will molisie and oversome the most rough and unpolished Tempers Hearken by no means to any that speak Evil of them or would incense you to think hard of them In no wise let so much as the leaâ—t desire of their Death take place in you though they cross you in your purposes in relation to marriage or other things you earnestly wish or desire or though by their decease great riches would accrue to be at your own disposing Nor can any Growth or Years free you from the Duty and Obedience you owe whilst you live Thirdly If you are grown up and have abilities and your Parents are fallen to decay you must to your utmost assist them and not imagine any thing too much for them that have done so much for you If they are weak in Judgment you must assist them with your counsel and advice and protect them against Injuries and Wrongs advising them always upon mature deliberation that you put them upon nothing that is rash or to their disadvantage ever observing that Riches or Poverty Wisdom or Imbecility in a Parent must make no difference in the Obedience and Duty of the Children and if any could be allowed they would approve themselves best to God and Man when it is payed to those who are under the Frown of Fortune or to whom Wisdom is in many degrees a stranger We cannot see how any one can pretend to God's Favour who comply not with his Commands of this Nature He indeed is properly our Father for he made us and daâ—ly supports us with Food Raiment Health and Strength and therefore since he who has the supream Right has commanded was to be obedient to our Earthly Parents in obeying them we obey him and in displeasing them we displease him If the Summ of the Commands consists in loving God in admiring and adoring him as the prime Author of our being and well being and in loving our Neigbour as our selves as we have it from the best and wisest Oracle that ever spoke no doubt they are so dependant one upon the other that they are not to be separated And then where can our Love and Affections better center as to Earthly Concerns than in our Parents Marriage indeed claims a share of our affections but that must not lessen them to those that had the first right to them Occations of falling in Love to be Avoided Change place for the cure of Love fair and foul means to be used to withst and beginings c. Observe to shun as much as in you Lves the occasions of being ensnared and if it so happens be it eiher sex the party lights by chance upon a fair object where there is good behaviour Joyned with an excellent shape and features and you perceive in your eyes a greediness and Languishing to pull to them the Image of beauty and convey it to the heart so that the Influence begins powerfully to move within and you perceive the suitable spirit sparkling in the partys Eyes to add more â—euel to the fire then
Darius Ocohus she was of a cruel nature causing Satira her son Attaxerxus Wife to be poysoned because she out-vied her in Reavâ—y She put divers others to death in her Son's Reign who conselled him to suppress her Tyranny Pasiphe Daughter to Apollo or the Sun She was Wife to Minos the King 〈◊〉 Creet yet falling passionately in love with a Young Buli 〈◊〉 framed a Cow of Wood covered with the Skin of an Heifer She found means to enjoy her bestial desire She was brought to bed of the Minotaur half Man and half Beast which did great mischief in the Country till Theseus came and destroyed it in the Labyrinth Patalena an Hâ—athenish Goddess taken notice of by St. Augustine in his book de Civitate Dei and her Care was assigned her over Corn just coming out of the Earth in its Sprout or Blade the word being derived from Patera to open or disclose the Earth at its first coming up Pavence was stiled a Goddess in ancient Times much adored by Mothers and Nurses to whose Care and Protection they recommended their Infant Children others say they made a Bugbear of her Name to fright them into quietness when they were froward Paula a Pious Matron remark for her good works and Alms-deeds She made it her business to do good and died in the high Esteem of all good Christians at the age of Fifty six Years and Eight Months Paulina Wife to Seneca the famous Philosopher Nero's Tutor when she heard that the doom'd him to Death and that he had chosen to bleed to Death by cutting his Veins resolved to accompany him in Death in the same manner and ordered her Veins to be opened at the same time her husband 's were that she might at company him to the other world but Nero through a Tyrant delighting in blood out of pity commanded it to be prevented Penelope Wife of Vlysses and Daughter to Icarius was Mother to Telamachus She was wife and beautiful and though in her Husband's absence Twenty Years at the wars of Troy and his dangerous Voyage home many Rich and Powerful Sweethearts courted her she put them by till her husband came home who with the help of his Swinherd and Son slew them Penthesilia Queen of the Amazons who came for the love she bore to Hector Son of Priam with a gallant Army of women to fight for the Trojans agaiust the Greeks and did wonders till she was stain in pressing too far into the fight by the hand of Aechilles Peta a Goddess adored by the Ancients for that they believed she took care of Suits Petitions and Requests made in Law Coures and to Kings or other greatmen Phaetusa accounted one of Heliades aod Sister to Phaeton and as seigned to be turned into a Poplar Tree during the Extraordinary Lamentation she made for the Death of her brother thrown headlong from the Battlements of the Skies by Jupiter's Thunder for burning a great part of the word by misguiding the Chariot of the Sun Phedima Dotanes a Lord of Persia's Daughter she marry'd smerdis the Son of Cyrus King of Persia and after his Death she was Wife to the Magician who usurped the Persian Monarchy by declaring himself to be the same Smerdis that was supposed to be put to Death by Cambyses his brother upon the account of a Dream he had wherein he fancy'd he sat on the Persian Throne and his Head reached the Sky But this Lady being charged by he Father to make a discovery of the Impostor did so by taking an opportunity when he was asleep to feel for his Ears but finding none she then concluded it was the Magician Spandabalus whose Ears Cyrus had cut off for his Crimes of which having given Information the Lords of Persia assembled and forcing his Guards kill'd him together with his brother and chose Darius King Pherenice she was Daughter to Diagoras King of the Rhodians she took great delight in the Olimpick Games and coming thither disguised in man 's apparel often bore away the price in running with the nimblest Youths of Greece and brought up her Son to be so expert in it that he was always Victor Philippa Catenisa of a Laundress came to be Governess of the King of Naples Children She it was who incited Queen Jane of Naples to consent to the death of her Husband Andrew of Hungary by somenâ—â—ing the differences between them and had an hand first strangling him and then hanging him out at a Window in the City of Aversa for which she afterward suffered a cruel death by torments Phyllis she was Daughter to Lycurgus King of the Thracians she fell in love with Demophoon the Son of Theseus in his return from the Trojan Wars and granted him her choicest Favours upon promise when he had setled affairs in his own Country to return and marry her but being detained too long by contrary Winds in his way she thinking he had flighted and forsaken her after much lamenting her folly and misfortune committed greater in hanging her self It is fabled that the Gods in compassion turned her into an Almond Tree but without leaves yet Demophoon no sooner embrac'd it but it shot out leaves and flourished exceedingly Periades held to be the Daughters or Pierus Prince of the Macedonians she being given much to Poetry thought her self more expert in Numbers and singing than the the Muses thereupon sent them a bold Challenge for a Trial of the Skill which they accepting and remaning Victors they are said to turn this Lady into a Magpy and sent her to chatter in the Woods and Hedges c. Plety worthily held by the Pagans for a great Virtue and Good and for that cause they â—iâ—led her a Goddess and pay'd her Adoration and to her care they committed their good Thoughts and Actions also the Education of their Children c. Pyrene a Lady whom Hercules got with child upon promise to return and marry her but he delaying and her Womb increasing she fled from the Father's anger to the Mountains between Spain and France where she was thought to be devoured of Wild Beasts yet lest a lasting Monument behind her those Hills upon the occasion being called by her Name Placidia Galla Daughter to Theodosius the Great Emperour she was also Sister to Honorius and Arcadius who were likewise Emperours and afterwards Mother to Valentinian the Third she was taken Caprive by Alathulsus King of the Huns c. who marry'd her for her Beauty Wit and pleasing Humour So that by her Ascendant over him she diverted him from his Purpose utterly to raze and destroy the City of Rome Placidia Daughter to Valentinian the Third Emperour and Eudoâ—ia his Empress She was carried away by the Vandels but restored soaa after and honourably marry'd the Senator Plectruda Queen to Pippin called the Fat. After her Husband's Death she took upon her the Govenment of the Kingdom in the behalf of her Grand-son a Child and put Charles Martel whom Pippin had by
Old and if they have many children they place their Affections Equally on them making no distinction nor difference however Nature has favour'd and befriended some with beauty more than others If there be any inclining it is to those that are most obedient to them and strive to please God that he may continue to show'r down blessings on the Family They take it to be Partiality and Tyranny to afflict and dispise those children that Natures too rough hands has rumpled into deformity and look upon it as a breaking those whom God hath bow'd before They allow their children maintenance according to their quality and ability to keep tkem from low and sordid company and from such things unworthy of them as Necessitty might prompt them to So that a necessary supply even to children is oonvenient and redounds not only to their credit but advantage for having but a little mony they learn early how to husband it and make wary bargains tho but for trifles which when grown up improves them in thriftiness and politick management of their affairs For we rarely see a young person coming to a plentiful Estate that has been kept severely in penury as to his Purse but he has either many Extravagant Debts to pay which he under hand contracted to supply him as it were by stealth and for which he engag'd five times the value receiv'd or coming out of a Land of Famine for Pleasures when he once finds them plenty and stowing in upon him he pursuits them to such Exces that he ruins both Body and 〈◊〉 Good Parents in chusing Professions ever take singular care to considering the dispositions and aptness of their children whose Capacities and Inclinations are the 〈◊〉 Indentures to bind them to any Calling or fix them in any Employment If notwithstanding all their prudent care and management there 〈◊〉 rest a perverse Nature in some children they however with the Mother of Moses are careful to have a watch over them to see what will become of them where their Rovings will end as considering many that have broken and run out in their Youth have after long Rambargs seen their Folins with the prodigal Son and with him repeated in rears and returned to their Father's house and after reconcilement become 〈◊〉 and chang'd to 〈◊〉 And when they move their children to marriage it is 〈◊〉 Arguments 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 Good and Wellfare than their own Authority It is a stile too Kingly in this case for Parents to will and command but certainly they may will and desire Affection tending to a matrimonial contract which are like the consciences of men rather to be gently led by kind perswasions than driven or drawn by force And if they do at any time marry where they do not love they 〈◊〉 no doubt love where they do not marry Yet those Parents will not give their substance out of their hands to come themselves to be beholding to their children but keep it to reward their Duty and Obedience as they see fit and convenient occasions and will deny them nothing that is reasonable for their advancement On their Death bed they bequeath their blessing to their children not rejoice so much to leave them great Portions but that it may prospet with them because it is honestly obtained If they leave them Young their care is first to recommend them to God's care and protection and next him to conscientious and prudent Guardians or Overseers Pariwigs and other Antick Dresses Since we have found the women so kind to tell us the Hair from their Heads we have encroached on the freeness of their Natures and think they may as well make a prize of all the rest And God knows the Age hath not found them overshy of trading In the time of Seprinus vereâ—us there were three thousand Indicted of Adultery but were all impeach'd that are guilty here the Clerk of the Sessions need not care to change place with the Judge You cannot imagine what fancies it creates in our Nodles by its hear At Grand Cairo they hatch all their Chickens in Ovens on purpose heat to the degree of production but who sees not since our Brains have been fired by these Furzes what Serpents the Cockatrices Eggs have produced The Grand Seignier with all his golden Peâ—oni's gliding mutely along by his side can never ravish himself in the lofry conceipts of his Glory to that degree that an Empty-skuil'd squire does now in the dancing of his Aubrey Tresses about while he looks out here and there to feast his Eyes on the fancied Subjects that admire him No sooner had Israel trimm'd themselves up into Gallantry and long Locks but they shook off their Obedience to Heaven it self We are Lords we will come no more unto thee Jer. 2.31 33. Our Ancestors were 〈◊〉 than we who kept this Fax in their Pockets which helpt to maintain their Tables and would hardly have catch a Crumb had they found but an Hair in their Dish while we are curling and powdring up 〈◊〉 thousand chastly into our mouths all dinner and cannot make a meal in peace for ' em To better purpose would this Hair be employ'd should we be put to the shifts that once the poor Citizens or Bizantium were when under the Extremities of a Three Years Siege by the Romans and almost ready to perish having occasion to patch up a Fleet under the want of Cordage were sain to make 〈◊〉 Womens Hanâ— Which they poor Wretches very cheerfully cut off and gave them to inch out their Tackle and though the whole Navy miscarry'd by a storm yet was not their Zeal the less laudable who did it for the saving of the City or themselves when ours do it for no good at all A good head of hair is so vulgar a blessing that we find it as common to the Beggar as the Prince and he that dares not for his Ears boast the glory of his Blood may yet compare with the best in the fineness of his Locks Then Reader lay down your Artificial Neâ— aud try how Nature will wean one The truth is it the house be well furnished within in every Room as it ought the Brain will find Wit enough to excuse the unhappy want of a Bush without 'T is strange what Plâ—by records of the Romans that they never knew the use of Barber till Four hundred fifty four years after the building of their City when in the time of Scipio Affricanus they were first brought in out of Sicily Before that it seems they hackled off their Locks with their Knives But however Rough and Uncomb'd they were then sure I am they grew Curious and Spruce enough afterwards for Plutarch tells us of the two boundless Hero's that admitted no Superior nor Equal The Great Pompey was so nice and Esseninate in the Formality of his Hair and 〈◊〉 Locks that he was noted 〈◊〉 scratching his 〈◊〉 and once suffered a publick Scott from the impudent Claudius for it in
the Belg. Pander that is he 〈◊〉 takes a 〈◊〉 or Pledge the Souls of such as 〈…〉 of him are pawned into 〈◊〉 hand as to Asimleus his 〈◊〉 berlain a He-Baud Philters their power and force to cause Love Philters are held by many 〈◊〉 be great Provocatives to Love or rather Lust and some have used Amulets Spells 〈◊〉 Images and such unlawful practices to compass their desires It was given out that a Thâ—â—â—lian Girl had bewitch'd 〈◊〉 Philip of Macedon enforced him by Philters to love and dear upon her though when Oâ—â—pia his Queen observed her Beauty she disbelieved it and ascribed his Love to that alone And some none of the least wife will not credit that any such thing can be done to force love but others again affirm it telling how strangely many have been infacinated by those that have been deform'd alledging that it is common for Witches to make such Philters as shall cause Love or Hate at their discretion Hieron tells as that a young man gave a 〈◊〉 one of these Philters that made her though she disdain'd distraction before run mad for love of him and was after a long 〈◊〉 cur'd by Hilarian Plutarch says that 〈◊〉 his death was occasion'd by a Lucullus and that might be for there are Poysons mixed in them to inflame the Blood which nor well corrected prove 〈◊〉 Cleopatria is said to use much means to chain Mark Ariâ—â— to her Embraces Charles the Great is said to dost upon Woman of mean beauty and extract for many Years to the neglect of his Affairs and then this Woman dy'd he 〈◊〉 her Coffin to be hung 〈◊〉 Jewels and carry'd it 〈◊〉 with him where e're he 〈◊〉 till it was reveal'd to a 〈◊〉 three pray'd he might over himself from so great folly that the cause of it was 〈◊〉 the Womans Tongue 〈◊〉 Bishop thereupon search'd and found a small Ring upon 〈◊〉 his passion towards her 〈◊〉 and he fell extreamly in love with the Bishop hardly enduring him out of his sight who thereupon considering the â—ing had some Necromantick Force in it threw it into a Lake and the Emperour neglected him and built an house in the Island that stood in the Lake as also a Temple by it to his great cost and neglecting all his other Palaces was extreamly delighted there till he dy'd Some Writers have suspected the Lady Catharine Cobham to have gain'd Humphrey Duke of Glocester to be her Husband by such Arts and that Roxolana bewirch'd Solomon the Magnificent to love her even to madness by the means of a Philter she received from a Jew And Salmatz affirms it is an ordinary practice in the Kingdom of Fess in Africa Some ascribe it to the Devils Enchantments rather than the Force of Drugs though they are used as a visiblements And others on the contrary will have it that such Effects suppos'd to be done by Charms and Philters proceed from Natural Causes as mens blood Chymically prepar'd which as Ernestus Burgravius says much avails He says it is an Excellent Philter but not fit to be us'd or made publick Mandrake Roots and Apples are held by some to have powerful Effects in this nature also dead mens cloaths certain hairs in a Wolfs Tail the powder of Swallows or Doves hearts sundry sorts of precious stones and that small Bladder which grows up the Colts Forehead e're the Dam bites it off which if she misses to do or it prevented she never loves her Fole They tells us that there are certain Fountains of which if any drink they shall grow mad for Love There is say they an hot Bath in Germany wherein it is fabled that Cupid once dipe his Arrows in which whosever baths shall soon after fall passionately in love against which Project Ovid exclaims viz. He gulis himself that seeks to Witches craft Or with a young Colts Forehead makes a Draught No powder in wife Medea's potions dwells Nor drowned persons mix'd with magical spells The power of Love is not enforced by these For were it so then had Ersonides Even stay'd by Phasius and Ulysses kept Who â—ale from Cirâ—e whilst the Inchâ—tress slept These charmed Drugs move Madness hurt the Brain To gain pure Love pure Love return again And inded plain dealing is the best for we find where Love or rather Lust and Madness is thus forc'd it always proves unhappy in the End and when the Fumes are work'd out turns to Repentance Hatred and Discontent Crowding miseries and misfortunes one upon another till they overwhelm the expected Joy and Felecity or fearrer them in Chaos of Confusion Prognosticks of Love Melancholy Prognosticks or Presage of things have in ancient times been held in greater Esteem than in these our days though they have not lost all the regard due to them and indeed were they more curiously scann'd matters in many affairs might go better than they do But waving all other matters we must only now handle such Prognosticks as are suitable to our Subjects and amongst them those of love Melancholy are worthy our Observation and the sorerunners of such melanchol are unaccountable Disorders in the mind Suspicions Fears Cares Jealousies and such like without any sufficient ground warrant or reason for such Anxieties Now the Question remains What will be the Evces of these miseries Some are of Opinions that it will fix 〈◊〉 a Love-melancholy in the mind that is cannot be removed neither by Physick nor found Advice and that the Physician himself thus possest may despair of his Art and complain with Apollo when that no medicable herbs can cure Love Eurialus being thus taken when his Friends came to perswade him cut his passion he figthing 〈◊〉 Go bid the Mountains cool down into the Plains the rivers run back to their Fountains and the Sun leave its wonted course and make its Diurnal Road from North to South You may as well bid this with as much hoped success as bid me not love First Seas shall want their fish Mountains their shade Woods birds sucet Notes and the Winds murmur fade Before my Love to Sylva is ullay'd Physick may Remedy each sad disease Excepting Love but that it cant appease Pretenders to love are never afflicted with this distemper and therefore after they have broke off or are slighted and frowned upon you may conclude their Love was like a painted fire the resemblance without heat indifferent therefore we intend not in this place to give advice to such as have no need to it but rather to those that want our compassion and are really to be pity'd in those where find it too frequently break out into outragious and prodigious Events Cupid and Bacchus above all others raise the greatest storms in men and women and run us many times even to madness or at least to be besides our selves Therefore to prevent the danger we ought at first to be moderate in both and not sip in more than we can reasonably bear and work off again for in
perswaded to yield to his proposals and sent some of her faithful Friends to take his Oath which he gave them in the antient Temple touching the Altar and the Images of the Gods the custom of those times Cursing himself if he did not desire the Marriage and to make her Children his Heirs In brief he Married her and set the 〈◊〉 upon her Head to the great rejoycing of the People call'd her Queen and the Royal Partner of his Dominions at which being overjoyed and 〈◊〉 badly blinded by her Love and his Flatteries she went before to Cassand a a well Fortified City where her Treasures and her Children were and sent the young Princes the one of Sixteen and the other Thirteen years to meet their Uncle or New Father is Law whom he met and closely Embraced without the Gâ—tes bringing them along with him but having entered with this Army he immediately caused the Royal Youths to be Slam in their mothers arms where they fled for shelter and made her the more miserable in this because she might nor dye with them having in vain interposed her self between them and the Swords of their Executioners she was likewise her self driven into Exile by her Perjured Brother and Husband yet this Triumph was short and swift footed Vengeance overwhelmed him 〈◊〉 ruin for being overthrown by an Inundation of Gauls than broke into Macedonia he was taken Prisoner and after much Despight used towards him by those Barbarous People they cut off his Head and carried it about at the end of a Speat in decision Perjury brought one Ann Averies a Widow to a sad end for she had no sooner Foreword her self about some moâ—ies that was to have been paid for fix pounds of Flax at a Shop in Woodstreet but she fell down Speechless and casting up Excrements at her Mouth dyed so Visage after death being so gashly that few could behold her without great afrightment and trembling Paticure Admirable in either Sex Patience is a necessary exercise for every one that lives in this World for there is none so free from one cross or other but this Virtue will be wanting to render him the more easy in the course of his life The Female Sex especially ought to be endued with it because they have frequently occasion 〈◊〉 it Every one knows how to Row in a Calm and â—â— indifferent Pilot in a quiet â—â—â—son will â—eer a Ship but the Conduct of the Governâ—â—â—â— is most praise worthy who shows best to conduct his 〈◊〉 aright when the Winds 〈◊〉 enâ—aged and the Seas run high and the Winds have put â—â— Waves into a vehement 〈◊〉 In live manner 〈◊〉 â—â— no extraordinary commenâ—ation to appear mild when 〈◊〉 is no rubs in the way 〈◊〉 this Virtue is when the 〈◊〉 rise high to bridle 〈◊〉 and keep down our reâ—ments in the midst of inâ—ious Provocations so noâ— a Victory deserves those 〈◊〉 that perhaps the 〈◊〉 Conquerer never meâ—d Patience or a power to overcome passion was very strong in Dr. Comper Bishop of Lincoln for having been eight years in gathering Notes to compile a Book which now goes by the Name of his Dictionary his Wife more desirous of his Society than that Affair would allow and also fearing the impairment of his Health by such a redious Study in his absence getting open his Desk the 〈◊〉 them all than which nothing could be more provoking to a learned man yet he received it with that Patience and Moderation that he vexed not himself that any could outwardly perceive it nor shewed any resentment in reproaches or giving her an angry word but patiently set down and began it again so that it took him up the other eight years before it could be finished as resolving whatever pains it cost him not to disappoint Posterity of his worthy 〈◊〉 Phaucy What it is Phancy is that which strangely carries our minds about and fixes our thoughts upon various things but rarely continuing long at a stay It twirls us round and makes us dizzy so that we are as it were in a mist and are at a loss till in its eternal Roving one phancy jostles out another our follies or defects of this nature cannot be better described than by Democritus to Hippocrates Pardon us Reader if it be somewhat tedious because it is much to the Purpose and therein you will be made amends for youe Patience The People of Athens thinking Democritus 〈◊〉 sent for the aforementioned Learned Physician to cure him who found him in his Garden at his study At the approach of Hippocrates he 〈◊〉 heartily as Knowing his business before and after some words passing between them he told him that those who had sent him were mad and not himself For says he they give themselves up to the 〈◊〉 and Fopperies of the Times and would is not make one laugh to see them Empty of all 〈◊〉 actions hunting after Gold and having no end of Ambition taking infinite pains for a little Glory and to be Favour'd of Men Frequently 〈…〉 when they only meet with 〈◊〉 never pleased how it change of Recreation The martyr'd Couples fancy each other for a while and own their 〈…〉 and they grow 〈◊〉 in their affections Great care is taken to get and bring up Children but then like an Hen as soon as they are from under their Wings little regard them as to their manners and behaviours nothing of the Excellency of the mind being taken notice of and so they flourish in outwardthing let every thing else more as Fancy drives How many strange humours are in men when they are poor they seek Riches and when they have obtain'd 〈◊〉 they have not the hearts to enjoy it as they ought but either 〈…〉 it up or 〈…〉 and Luxury ◠〈◊〉 their health or destroy themselves How do their Fancies lead them to Jar and contend Relation with 〈◊〉 c for 〈◊〉 and crave after Riches almost in their Graves when they know 〈◊〉 can carry nothing with them and their Children to whom they should leave it are many times dead before them or 〈◊〉 Riches left them serve 〈◊〉 hasten their miseries 〈◊〉 pussed up with pride they 〈◊〉 into divers Evils They miss account of divers senseless 〈◊〉 on which their Fancies 〈◊〉 Value as Pictures Statutes 〈◊〉 the like when they 〈◊〉 regard to their having Neighbours and Relations 〈◊〉 effect difficult things 〈◊〉 are for roving from place to place not bring quiet i◠〈◊〉 They commend courage and strength in War and yield themselves to be overcome with their Vices c 〈◊〉 now continued be if these 〈◊〉 were not Rise in the World should have no cause of 〈◊〉 It is not that I am so â—turally prone to it as they 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but their Fancies 〈◊〉 Follys Extort from me 〈◊〉 Mirth Hippocrates 〈◊〉 heard him with patience low'd his Reason and 〈◊〉 answer to those that sent him That Democritus was a very wise and Learned Philosopher which made many
true that those who boast of their Ancestors who were the Founders and Raisers of a Noble Family do confess that they have in themselves a less Virtue and a less Honour and consequently are degenerated And what differences soever there are between them and their Neighbours there ought to be no Upbraidings or Contempt and if any thing is to be done it must be with an humble Courteousness For the least betraying of Pride and Haughtiness of Spirit makes them reject even good advice Let all remember what they are before they were begotten and then they will conclude they were nothing what they were in the first Region of their dwellings before they breathed and then they will find they were but Uncleanness what they were so many Years after and then they will find they were only Weakness and Imbecillity what they are in the whole course of their lives and then they will know they are but sinners what in all their Excellencies and then they will find it but lent and that they stand indebted to God for all the Benefits they have Received and Enjoy in the first place and in the next to their Parents and the Creatures that cloath and feed them But they may if the please use the method of the Platonisis who reduce all the Causes and Arguments for Humility which they can take from themselves to these seven heads First The Spirit of a man is light and troublesome Secondly His Body is bruitish and sickly Thirdly He is constant in his Folly and Errour and inconstant in his Manners and good Purposes Fourthly his Labours are Vain Intricate and Endless Fifthly His Fortune is changeable but seldom pleading never perfect Sixthly His Wisdom comes not in any Full Proportion till he has but a few paces to the Grave and it be in a manner past using Seventhly His Death is certain always ready at the door but never far off It is past all doubt that a Fair Young Gentleman who stands recorded in History was very far from Pride who being often in his Life time requested to have his Picture drawn and courted to it by the greatest Masters of the Age who covered it as a perfect Pattern of Masculine Beauty yet utterly refus'd their Solicitations telling them he intended it not to be done till a few days after his Burial and so strictly enjoyn'd it by his last Will dying in the strength and flower of his Age to shew those that are proud of beauty what a change Death makes when opening his Sepalchar in order to it they found half his face consumed by Vermin and his Midrist and Back-bone full of little Serpents supposed to be bred of the Purrelaction so short a time had reduced him to and so he stands Pictured amonst his Armed Ancestors So soon does Death change the fairest beauty into Loathing Riches have the same fare for they cannot secure the Possession to the Grave nor follow him thither to do him any kindness and how soon may we be hurried thither we know not Seneca tells us of one Senecius Cornelius a proud rich man craftly in getting and tenacious in holding a great Estate and one who was as diligent in the care of his Body as in puffing up his mind in the conceit of his accumulated Riches having been one day to visit a sick Friend from whom he expected a large Legacy returning home joyful that the party was so near his end by which his Treasury would be augmented but in the night was taken with a Sqâ—â—nzey and breathed out his last before the Sun gilded the Earth with its beams being snatch'd away from the torrent of his Fortune and the swelling tide of his Wealth This accident was then much noted in Rome because it happened in so great a fortune and in the midst of wealthy designs and presently it made Wise men consider how imprudent a person he is who hears himself up and is 〈◊〉 with Riches and Honour promising himself many years of happiness to come when he is not Lord of to morrow The Tuscan Hierogliphycks which we have from Gabriel Simeon show us this viz. That our life is very short Beauty â—â—uzenage Money false and fugitive Empire odious and hated 〈…〉 that have is not 〈…〉 to them that enjoy it Victory is always uncertain and Peace but a â—â—â—dulent bargain Old Age is miserable Death is the period and is a happy one if 〈◊〉 be not sowred by the 〈◊〉 of our Life and nothing is permanent but the effects of this Wisdom which imployes the present time in the Acts of holy Religion and a peaceable Conscience For these make us live even beyond our Funerals embalm'd in the Spices and Odours of a a good Name blessing us for a blessed Resurrection to the state of Angels and Beautified Spirits where Eternity is the measure the Lamb the Light and God the 〈◊〉 and Inheritance Alexander we find was so puffed up with his Conquest over Persia that entring India he wept when the Sea interpreted that there was no more Worlds to Conquer but he that had threst his Sword through so many Nations with vast slaughter and had so many flattering Titles bestowed upon him that he 〈◊〉 himself a God and exalted Divine Adoration had his Ambition quenched at Bobylon with a little draught of Poyson to let the World see he was but a moral man and Subject to 〈◊〉 and Misfortunes as well as the 〈◊〉 of those People he had triumphed over Seneca tells us of a rich proud Man that gave himself up so much to sensuality that he would often ask his attendants when he was placed in his Chair whether he sate or no that by his Slaves answering him the by standers might know who were his attendants So have we seen a sparkish Gallant dancing along as light as if he thought the Ground unworthy to bear him yet often looking over his Shoulder at his man in a fine new Livery who lugg'd his Laced Cloak after him that the Night-Railsin the Balconies might take more notice of his Equipage The Pope to 〈◊〉 the Pride he may conceive for being Exalred to St. Peters Chair and to let him see he is but a moral man among other Ceremonies at his Corronation his one that carries a 〈◊〉 of Flax before him on a staff and it the appointed place says Behold Holy Father so passes away yhe Glory of this World or worldly things We find Xerxâ—â— wept ehen he saw his Army of Ten Hundred Thousand men upon the shoars of 〈◊〉 ready to invade the Greeks in Purpe in consideration that in less than an Hundred years that multitude of People would be turned to dust and 〈◊〉 bridged over the 〈◊〉 Sea with his mighty 〈◊〉 he proudly scourg'd the Wives with Chains as he 〈◊〉 because their Violence 〈◊〉 broke a part of it but it is observed that in less than two years his own rashness brought most of them to their Graves that mighty 〈◊〉 being consumed by
Nun building the Abbey of Holy Câ—oss and divers other places which she dedicated to pious uses and dyed anno 587. Ramsey Mary second Wife of Sir Thomas Ramsey Alderman and Sheriff of London anno 1567. and Lord Mayor in 1577. She was Daughter of Sir William Dale Merchant of Bristol She liv'd a very Piousand Vertuous life â—nd dying Nâ—â—emâ—â—r 1595. without 〈◊〉 leâ—t the â—râ—aâ—est 〈…〉 Uâ—es 〈◊〉 fâ—â— ever that have been left 〈…〉 private person before or 〈◊〉 Reginatrudâ— Dutchess of Bavaria She was Daughter of Chidelbert King of France and marry'd to Theâ—dâ—n the Third Duke of Bavaria whom she converted to the Christian Religion and afterwards by the assistance of Rupert Bishop of Worms she prevail'd with the greater part of his Subjects to follow his Example Renea of France She was Dutches of Ferrara Daughter to Lewis the 12th of France and Ann of Britany She was marry'd to Hercules D' Este Duke of Ferrara by the contrivance of Francis the First who succeeded Lewis though she might have had far greater Matches in England and Germany She was a Lady of great Courage Wit and Learning Renown otherways called Fame a Goddess of Poetical Invention held to be the Messenger of Jupiter She was painted in the shape of a Woman with Wings spread abroad and spangled with Eyes her Garments light and succiâ—â—â— with a Trumpet in her mouth as â—â—unâ—ing Râ—â—â—e for refusing to forsake her Religion and marry Gaulâ—â— a Roman Praeâ—â—ct 〈…〉 him tortured and 〈…〉 put to death but was 〈…〉 after her Death 〈…〉 as a Saint â—oches Catherine 〈…〉 of pâ—ictiers so well 〈…〉 in Poetry that she was 〈…〉 The Muse of France She 〈…〉 books in Prose and 〈◊〉 and Educaâ—ed her 〈…〉 to an Extraordinary 〈…〉 Learning and Virtue 〈…〉 the most accompliâ—â—â—◠〈◊〉 in the Country 〈…〉 great Matches were 〈◊〉 red them they could not 〈◊〉 inâ—uced to marry but 〈◊〉 them'elves with 〈◊〉 and contemplative 〈◊〉 â—â—â—ogunda Daughâ—â—◠〈◊〉 â—â—ng Pharaates of Parâ—â—â—â—â— Sâ—â— was Wife to Deineâ—â—â—â—◠〈…〉 of Syria She was 〈…〉 of great Courage 〈…〉 and Virâ—ue â—â—samunon Queen 〈…〉 She was Daughâ—â—◠〈◊〉 and Wife 〈…〉 who was called into 〈…〉 the Imperial 〈◊〉 revenge the astronts 〈◊〉 Emperess Sophiâ—â— had put 〈…〉 but Alâ—ion having 〈…〉 Father to death and 〈…〉 Cup of his Skull which 〈…〉 have forced her to 〈…〉 out of she 〈…〉 his Life and caused 〈…〉 â—â—â—â—hered by 〈…〉 the General of his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Daughter 〈…〉 a Prince of Persia 〈…〉 to Alexander the Great in his â—xpeâ—tiâ—n against Darius She was held to be one of the most beautiful Ladies of Asia â—oâ—â—llan Su'taness and Wife to Solyman the Magnificent Emperour of the 〈◊〉 A Woman of great Beauty but of greater Spirits and Ambition Ruth Daughter in Law to Naâ—mi married to Bâ—aâ— Rumia or Rumilla a Goddess to whom the Romans recommended the care of their Infan-Children Rosamond the Fair Concubine of K. Henry the Sâ—â—â—nâ— of England poyâ—â—râ—â— by Q. Elenor in Woodstock â—oâ—er near Oxford Back the Duke of Exeter's Daughter an Engine to extort Confessions brought into the Tower by him being Câ—nâ—iâ—â—le 16 H. 6. intending to bring in the whole Civil Law Recreations sutable for Ladies and what is to be observed therein Recreations when Innocent and Moderaâ—â—â—â— may be called the Spring of 〈◊〉 that makes it move smooth and regular it is an Antidote against the too rust impressions of business and over sâ—â—â—ious Thoughts upon the Spirits and by Wise and Prudent management may be turned to great advantages in rendering our conditions easy and pleasant but when immoderately used and carried to excess and extravagancy it is worse than Labour or Toil. All Pleasures that but border on Scandal must be shunn'd and avoided and even those that are the most Innocent must not exceed the Rules of Moderation Which consists first in not giving offence scandal damage or prejudice to your Associates or others Secondly It must besuch as is not injurious or prejadicial to your Health Reputation or Business you must by no means make your Pleasure your Bussiness but by the enjoyment thereof be more than chearful in your return to it as more enabled by your Diversions to perform it The most innocent Recreations by excess are many times abused and the Body and Mind rather enfeebled and disordered than strengthened and composed by them their Vigour is weak and sostened the Compexson is besot ed and the principal Virtues sometimes banish'd Recreation must be taken as it was first provided and then it will be taken without a Sâ—ng The Heathen Sages prohibited either Sex to â—â—acken the Reins too much to it least it should insensibly carry them away in a career they would not be able to stop till they bulg'd upon the ruggedRock of Misfortune Wâ— that are Christians have more reason therefore to be cautious least too great a swing of Worldy Pleasure and Delights throws us into Irre 〈◊〉 and incumbers us 〈…〉 we never intended to be concern'd withal those Recreations above all others 〈◊〉 most commendable that refresh the Mind and never leave any private 〈…〉 behind them on the Câ—â—â—â—ence to upbraid â—he Sens◠〈◊〉 the immoderate or unlawful using them she that plaâ—â—â—â—â— into a puddle do's but enâ—'â—â— her self to the trouble of â—â— aâ—terwashing few people are so indiseret and regardless of their Health as for the lusciousness of the Tast to â—â—â—d on those things that will â—â—pair it and render them 〈◊〉 stempered God would never have allowed such Recreations nor furnished us either with the desire of them or the faculties to enjoy them with any design we should abuse them or that they should prove hurtful to us yet there are so many incoveniences adhearing to the use of â—â—â—sure by exceeding the measure mistaking the m 〈◊〉 misplacing the time thâ—â—â—al though Recreations be laâ—â—â—ul in themselves yet if they be circumstanced amiss they are not expidient Recreations and Pleasures are undon â—idly lawful if we abuse 〈◊〉 not by irregularity all the s'veral 〈…〉 in Food 〈◊〉 other varieties of the 〈◊〉 nature were intended please the 〈…〉 to satisfy the Appeaâ—â—â— of the beautiful and pleasant Fruits the Garden of God contained there was but one only among so vast a number excepted from which it may reasonably be concluded we may enjoy those delights we have a well grounded inclination to and that are no ways prohibited if so we do it as not to do it amiss Recreations most proper and suitable to Ladies may be râ—â—â—'d under four principal he â— as Limning Dancing Musick Reading these Imploy both the Mind and Activity of the Body Lim â—ing is a very curious Art wherein a Lady especially in small Figures either in Oyl or Water-Painting may improve her Fancy to Admiration and leave rare monuments of her Ingenuity to Posterity Dancing Recreates the Body and moderately used much câ—ntribuâ—â—â— to Health by tâ—â—rring and dispersing the gathering and afflicting Humours besides it gives a decent comliness to
â—o Dâ—â—iâ—s a woman of great Courâ—ge who bore all her afflictions with patience and dispised the Frowns of Fortune Sophia Emperess to Jusâ—trnian the second she held a great sway in the Empire and after her husband's death advanced Tiberius to the Throne in hopes of marrying him but finding her self defeated she in Favour of Justinian the Nephew of Justine conspir'd againâ—â— him Sophoâ—isba of Cremona a Lady very Famous for her skill in painting Sophronia a Roman Lady who being ravished by the Tyrant Maxentius begg'd leave of her husband that she might kill her self which accordingly she did and is called the Christian Lucretia Spaco Wife to Mithridates Herdsman to Astyages King of the Medes she was Nurse to Cyrus the Great King of Persia and Hedia Statira the beautiful Daughter of Darius Codmanus she was taken Prisoner at the battle of Issus by Alexander the Great and at his return from the Conquest of a great part of India he marry'd her though when she was offered as a Pledge of Peace by her Father he refused it and at the Wedding give away 9000 Golden Cups to so many persons that attended the Feast After his Death she was murthered by Roxana his first Wife being then great with child by Alexander Stesiclea a Lady of Athens Exceeding beautiful beloved by Themistocles and Aristides which Rivalship caused a great Division between them upon which much mischief ensued in the state Stratonice Concubine to Mithridates King of Pontus a Lady of great Courage and Beauty yet contributed to his misfortunes by siding with the Romans upon a disgust she took for her husbands checking her Ambition but afterwards she greatly lamented the Ruine of her house Sulpicia a Roman Lady living in the Reign of Domitian she composed divers books one in Verse of her own Amours and boasted she was the first that incited the Noble Women of Rome to aspire to the Wit and Learning of the Grecian Ladies Sulpitia daughter to Paterculus a chaste and virtuous Lady which made her only among all others be thought sit to dedicate the Statue of Venus at its setting up in Rome Sylvia daughter of Numitor an Albanian King otherways called Rhea she was Mother to Romulus and Rhemus Founders of Rome and held to conceive them by others Sylvia Botrix she founded the Order of the Conception and retired with Twelve Virgins to an house given her by Q. Isabella of Castile and led a chaste Life all her days Syrinx an Arcadian Nymph beloved by Pan the God of Rusticks but flying from him to the River Ladâ—â— she pray'd to be turned into Reed that she might escapâ— his Lust which being 〈◊〉 he made a Pipe of it to makâ— the Shepherds merry Susannah a chaste Hebrew Lady who was wrongfully accused of Incourine â—y by the Elder and proved Inâ—â—cent by Daniel to the shame and confusion of her Accuiers Sable Fr. Black colour in Blazon It is also a Rich Fur a beast so called â—â—e and near as big as a Poleâ—â— of colour between black â—d crown and breeds in 〈◊〉 but most in Tartana Strowling Morts Strowling Morts are such as â—â—tend to be Widows travelling about from Country to Country making Laces upon lives as Beggar Tape or the 〈◊〉 They are subtle Queans 〈◊〉 hearted light finger'd impocritical and dissembling and very dangerous to meet if any Ruffer or Rogue be in their company Shop Lift. She is most commonly well clad and 〈◊〉 that wants more of Grace â—woedâ— Wit she has several large â—â—â—kets about her but that which stands her principally instead is her Gown or Petâ—â—â— so tuckt up before that will contain any thing withâ—â— falling out Thus prepaâ—â— she will boldly go into a 〈◊〉 shop and there preâ—â— to lay out a great deal of 〈◊〉 whereas her whole 〈◊〉 is to convey into her lap 〈◊〉 Piece of Silk or Satin which will lie in a little comâ—â— And that she may the better facilitate her purpose she will be very troublosome to 〈◊〉 Shop-keeper by causing him to shew her much variety of Commodity to the intent that what she hath stolen may not be easily mist And having sped in one Shop she will attempt other Shops of a different Profession She hath variety of Customers for these stolen Commodities As Taylors Piece-Brokers c. Where she makes up her Merchadise She Orators that have pleaded their own Causes or others Strange and admirable is the Efficacy and Force of Eloquence Amesia a modest Roman Lady who being of a great Crime accused and ready to incur the sentence of the Praecor she in a great confluence slept up among the people and without any Advocate pleaded her own Cause so effectually and strongly that by the publick Suffrage she was freed and acquitted from all Aspersions whatsoever which she did with such a manly yet modest constancy that from that time forward she was called Androgine Equal to her was Hortensia the Daughter of Q. Hortensius She when the Roman Matrons had a grievous Fine put upon them by the Tribunes and when all the Tribunes Lawyers and Orators were afraid to take upon them the Patronage of their Cause this discreet Lady in Person pleaded before the Triumvirate in the behalf oâ— the Women which she did boldly and happily For as one hereditary to her Fathers Eloquence she prevailed so far that the greâ—â—st part of the mulctimpoled 〈◊〉 them was instantly remined Differing from their modesties was tha◠〈◊〉 Aâ—â—â—â— the Wife of Lycinius Eruâ—â—â— a Woman plompt and apâ— for all contention and discord and in all Troubles and Controversies still pleaded her own Cases before the 〈◊〉 Nor that she wanted the help of an Advocate but rather to express her own impudence whose common railing and 〈◊〉 before th◠〈◊〉 grew to that scandal that it almost streâ—cht to the injury of the whole Sex insomuch that if any women were 〈◊〉 taxed with boldness or irregularity she in the way of a Proverb was branded with the Name of Affrania My 〈◊〉 leaves her with this Character That it is much better to 〈◊〉 when such a 〈…〉 than 〈◊〉 to be 〈◊〉 when or of whom she was 〈◊〉 Val. Max. lib. 8. cap. 3. 〈◊〉 Orators I come to Sophists and from Declamer to Disputants It is reported of Câ—cilia the chast Roman Virgin being married against her Will to a Noble Gentleman calted Valerianus when they were left together in the Bride-Chamber she with her strong Reasons and prompt Arguments discoursed and disputed with him in the Patronage and Defence of her Virginity proving unto him from the Scriptures how justly vowed Chastity is more acceptable in the Eyes of the Great maker than marriage insomuch that notwithstanding his 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 meeâ—ing with a Tempting Provoking Beauty the Convenience of Opportunity Time and Place with the lawfulness of the Act Establishâ— by the Ceremonies of the Church yet he at her intercâ—ssion not only 〈◊〉 from that time to offer her any Force or Violence but ever after
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
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.
till Gregory the Great convinced of them and her Husband dying she reigned joyntly with her Son till Anouldus deposed them Theodora Wife to the Emperor Justinian she curbed the growing pride of the Bishops of Rome and raised up Competitors to contend with them Theodora a Roman Lady who gaining by the favour of the Marquess of Tuscany the Government of the Castle â—â—olst Angelo became so powerful in Rome about the year 908 that she governed all making Popes at her pleasure of whom one was Pope John who had been her Gallant Theodora Augusta Daughter to Constantine the Younger she was when young put into a Monastery but afterwards advanced to a Throne â—eigning six years and Eight Months with great Modesty Justice and Integrity Theophania Wife to Romanus Emperor of constantinople who after her Husbands death poisoned Stephen her Eldest Son and Married Phocas and advanced him to the Empire but he undertaking to curb her unruliness she caused him to be Murthered and advanced one John Ziâ—isces who banished her and restored her younger Sons to their right Theressa a Lady born in Spain who professed her self a Carmelite and Established divers Monasteries for Nuns and Monks in Old-castle and other places Tutulian a Goddess invoked by the Antients for the safety and preservation of the Harvest from whom comes the word Tutular Thermuth the Daughter of Pharaoh King of Egipt who saved Moses when he was exposed in an Ark of Bull-rushes by the River and brought him up as her Son in her Fathers Court. Therys held to be Married to the Ocean Mother to Doris and Nereus and of this Marriage came the Nymphs of the Rivers Woods and Sea of which Thetis the youngest was the most beautiful insomuch that Jupiter purposed to Marry her but remembering the Oracle had pronounced that of her should be begotten a Son that should be more renowned than his Father he married her to Pelus who begat on her Achilles at this Wedding it was the golden Apple was thrown among them with the Inscription be it gives â—â— the fairest and Paris the Son of Priam King of Troy being made Judge gave it to Veâ—â—â— for which Juno and 〈◊〉 spight and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his Ruâ—â— Victori◠〈…〉 was 〈…〉 Valour and 〈◊〉 in governing â—â—â—rs Thiâ—be a Lady of Babylon in Love with Pyramus and he as much with her but being crossed by their Parents they agreed to steal out one Night and meet at Ninuâ—'s Tomb there further to consult their Loves but the â—â—â—â—ing thither first and espying a Lyon coming down from the Mountains to drink at 〈◊〉 Fountain fled and in 〈◊〉 dropt her Vail which the Lyon finding in his way 〈◊〉 with his bloody Jaws 〈◊〉 so departed Then Pyrâ—mus coming and finding it in that condition as also the print of the Lyons Feet by the light of the Moon concluded her devoured and after many Lamentations fell on his Sword which she no sooner coming and perceiving but with the yet reeking Sword she killed her self Timarate an Old Woman who amongst others was made use of Jupiter to pronounce his Oracles in the Dodonean Grove where People â—ancyed the Trees spoke and gave answer to such questions as were demanded Tullia Daughter of Serviâ—â—s Tullius the sixth King of the Romans she was Married to Tâ—rquâ—â— and pâ—â— him upon â—illing her Father that the Kingdom might rest in him and being about to meet her Husband caused her Father to be tumbled from his Horse and drove her Chariot over him Tullia Daughter of Cicero the Roman Orator a very Wise Learned and vituous Lady Tolon Beau characterised It is not a pleasant and very diverting Spectacle to see â—â—â—llow as soon as he is out of his Bed in a Morning run to the Looking Glass and pay 〈◊〉 Devotions to the worâ—â—â—â—â—◠〈◊〉 of himself To 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 with his own â—â—â—low and 〈◊〉 his Court 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hundred and twenty 〈◊〉 to his pretty Pigâ—â—â— Is it not a 〈◊〉 Exercise to 〈◊〉 licking his Lips into 〈◊〉 painting his Cheeks into Cherries patching his â—â—â—-ginâ—s Carbuncles and â—uboes to see another striving to out-do Apâ—lles in counterfeiting the lovely Eyebrow A third to be two long Hâ—â—â— in careening his Hair or Pâ—ruke A fourth as tedioâ—s in adjusting his Crevat-string It is not very comical to 〈◊〉 the â—op strutting up 〈◊〉 down his Chamber surveying himself from Head to Foâ—â— â—â—st turning one Shoulder then t'other now lâ—oking foâ—â—right in the Glass then turning his Posteriors tiffâ—ing â—â—â— the Curls in his Wig 〈◊〉 and untving his Câ—evat 〈◊〉 ing himself into as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ares as he in the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and yet after 〈◊〉 his 〈◊〉 sâ—culation nor being 〈◊〉 till he has consulte◠〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vale◠〈◊〉 no 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 you with all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dialogue that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but after 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Parrotted over 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chedreux 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Picards 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and a deâ—◠〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rabble Pedieâ—â—◠〈◊〉 and after Monsier 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 compleatly 〈◊〉 his 〈◊〉 oâ— chevalis 〈◊〉 â—park 〈◊〉 forth of his Chamber 〈◊〉 a Peacock beseeching 〈◊〉 Winds to favour his deâ—â—â—te Friz and not but a lack or a Curl out of Joynt Then'tis very edifying to â—ind how the Coxcomb an 〈◊〉 for Admirers The goodâ—â—mr'd Animal fancies eveâ—â— Body's in Love with him 〈◊〉 casts an Eye on his Acâ—â—plish'd Phis'nomy and 〈◊〉 as he walks along the 〈◊〉 I should have said 〈◊〉 along for he scorns to 〈◊〉 the vulgar Mechanick Pace 〈◊〉 be no less taken with 〈◊〉 Scene when our Spark â—â—be is moving along like an 〈◊〉 of Wax or Piece of 〈◊〉 Clockwork deeply occupied in the Contemplation of this Woâ—derfâ—l 〈◊〉 is 〈…〉 for a 〈…〉 what â—uckâ—◠〈…〉 and scraping 〈◊〉 is bâ—â—ween can You 〈…〉 they were 〈…〉 one anoâ—â—â—â—span go their 〈◊〉 as to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 oâ—â—â—◠〈…〉 over one Shoulder and then over to ther â—â—abbering each others Cheeks like a 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that take turns to lies one another where it 〈◊〉 you ' â—wear they were 〈…〉 and were 〈…〉 It needs 〈◊〉 be a sweet Exercise for a couple of Puppies to brush one anothers Chaps with their bristled Beards Especially when perfum'd with the odoriserous scent of Tobacco Pursue him to to the Coffee House where he generally takes his Mornings Draught and you 'd find him either the Cypher or the Single Ten of the Company Either he fits like Jack Adams and brings forth nothing but a few dull Stories the Tackers together of other Mens Words or if he ventures to let his empty Noddle taâ—â— wind all his Discourse is of Dresses Pimps and Whores or the like insignificant Stuff embroidered now then with Oaths and God-d mes which renders him the Scorn of all Civil Company Men of Sense Lampoon him to his Face and he takes it for a Panâ—gyrick And the very Coffee Boâ—s having once found out the Gallants soft place burlesque upon the Noble Squire while the Silly Creature takes all this for Respect Trace him from thence to