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
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
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
not fit to disturb thâ—m at their busâ—nâ—â—s lâ—st â—â—eâ— tâ—le Pet and grow angrâ— wiâ—h uâ—â—â—r prâ—ing into their concernâ— Besiâ—eâ— we have largely discourst on the sâ—vâ—râ—l Râ—â—kâ—â—f servâ—nts else where in this Work so that 't will be neâ—â—lâ—ss to add any thing fâ—râ—hâ—r here Scoundrel a sorry base â—â—lâ—o◠〈◊〉 secunde 〈…〉 the thrâ—e â—â—iâ—s wâ—â—râ—in an Infant lies while it is in the womb or when it coâ—â—â— into the worlâ— the sâ—cond or â—fâ—â—rbirth in Women in â—â—asts the Hâ—â—m 〈◊〉 Fr. â—vening muâ—icâ— at the doâ—â— or undâ—r the wiâ—â—â—â—â—f a lovâ—ly or bâ—lâ—vâ—â—â—â—â—â—â—ure 〈◊〉 we call a curâ—◠〈◊〉 a Shâ—â—w 〈◊〉 Sirenes from the â—r 〈…〉 Mermaides Alluring and â—empâ—ing women arâ— called Syrens Sodomy sodomiâ— burgâ—ry so calleâ— from thâ— Câ—ty Sâ—dâ—m in Juâ—â—â— which fâ—r thâ—t deâ—estaâ—le Sin was destroyed with fire from heaven Gen. 19. Sâ—â—dures soldurii wâ—re as 〈◊〉 â—â—ith in Gâ—uilâ—h language such kind of Mâ—n as destined and vowed themselves â—o the amity of any to take part in all their good and haâ—â—â—râ—uneâ— â—ooterâ—in a monsâ—â—r lâ—ke an unshaped Rat wâ—ich some women in Dutchland are said to have broughâ— forâ—h a the product of some preterâ—â—â—ural conception Cl. Poems Sâ—â—orâ—â—â—r Virgin Virgo Soâ—oriâ—ns a young maid whose Brâ—sts beâ—in to be round or 〈◊〉 out for shew â—pâ—â—â—â—er a term or addition in our Law-Diâ—lâ—ct given in evidences and Writâ—â—â—â—â— to a some â—â—le as it were câ—â—â—ing hâ—r 〈◊〉 end this is the oâ—â—ly â—â—â—â—â—ion fâ—r all â—nmarried â—omen from the Viâ—counts Daughter downward Spinâ—â—â—an from sâ—â—tâ—â—â—â— pertâ—ining to tâ—ose that â—eek out or invent new and monstruous actions of lust Spoâ—â—e sponsa a woman spoâ—sed or 〈◊〉 a â—ride or new married woman alâ—o from spâ—nsus a new married mâ—n Spouâ—age sponsalia the contract or betroning befâ—â—â—â—uâ—l mâ—â—riâ—ge Spurioâ—s spurius bâ—rn of a câ—â—mâ—â— woman that knows not his Father abâ—â—â—â—orâ— counâ—â—rfeit Step-mother so called because she steps in stead of a Mother by marrying the sons or daughters Fathers a Mother in Law Stews are those places where women of proâ—â—â—â—â—d incontinency proâ—â—er their bodies to all comers from the Fr. Estuve i.e. a Bath or Hot-house because waâ—â—ons are wont to pâ—epaâ—e or rather to purge themselves for those venerous acts by oâ—â—â—n bâ—thing and Hot-houses And that this is noâ— new Homer shews in the eight Book of his Odâ—sses where he reckons hot Bâ—thes among the esteminat◠〈◊〉 of pleasures Of these 〈◊〉 the Statue An 11. 〈…〉 1. As for the walking â—tensils attending these i◠〈◊〉 â—â—ey are neaâ—ly kept on 〈◊〉 to decoy poor â—â—wary youth and because they are not used upon all occasions they appear the more delectable to the Eâ—e geneâ—ally as soon as you enter the door of these Vicions â—wellings you 'l hear ruffling of Silks in sundry places for this iâ— their Policy by seeming modâ—â—â—â— to set a sharp edg on mens corrupt inclinations they 'll commonly â—ring you â—everal sorâ—s of Wine and salt Meâ—ts to relish the â—allate tho you give no order for the same for this is the Custome of these Houses tho a Chargable oneâ— that without a Peice spending you shall know liâ—â—le of their Practices They 'l 〈◊〉 their desires with a million of protiâ—ute Counâ—enances and Inticements bâ—t young â—â—n I beseech you look upon them rather as Companions â—or â—n Hospital and that they really stand more in need of â— Chirurgious aâ—quaintance than yours Fly from their Emâ—â—aces as you would from the Devil for they have many â—â—ys to delude sometimes to heighten your thoughts they 'l declare to you their â—â—â—th and Education and say that as the one was well Extracted so the other had occasioned much cost and expence that for their part they associate with none but Persons of Quality whose long Patience and Entreatments first procured a Familiarity and in fine freedom in the exercise of Love Aâ—â—airs and so will seemingly put you off upon that score the poor youth thinking that â—â—is not usual for them to admit of any to their Embraces but such whose long acquaintance has gain'd their Affections and are soon ruined These are the baits they lay for unthinking men who remember not what Solomon says that the Dead are there and that ber guest are tho depths of Hell Stole stola any Garment wherewith the Body is covered a Robe of honour Among the antient Romans it waâ— had in great reverence and hâ—ld as a Vâ—â—t or Badg of chastity hence that of Mâ—ntial liâ— 1. Qâ—â—s â—â—â—alia 〈…〉 Stolatum 〈…〉 pâ—dorem Stork Belg. a Bird famous fâ—r natural love toâ—ards his Parents whom he 〈◊〉 being old and iâ—potenâ— aâ— thâ—y â—â—d him being young The Egyptians so esteemed this Bird that there was a great penalty laid upon him that should kill him Sueda the goâ—dâ—sâ— of Eloquence or deâ—eâ—table speech among the Romans Succubus Lat. a Devil that sometimes in the shape of a Women lies with Men. See Incubus Sumptuary Laws are Laws made to refrain excess in apparel or cloathing Sunamite Heb dormines one sleeptug A worthy good woman of â—una that often entertained Eliseus the Prophet by whose Prayers she had a Son when by course of Nature she was pist hopes of any and afterwards had the same son raised from death to life by the same Eliseus 4 Kings Superfetation superfâ—tatio the conceiving an other after the first young is conceived a seâ— nâ— conceiving or the breeding of young upon young Susan Heb. Lilly or Rose Suzan in the Persâ—n Tongue signifies a Needle Swain Sax Swanz a Country Clown a Bumpkin a Freeholder or as the Saxons call'â— him a Bocland man Syllogism Syllogismus a most perfect kind of argument which gathers a necessary conclusion out of two prâ—miâ—â—es as thus 1. Every vice is odious 2. Uncleanness is a vice 3. Ergo Uncleanness is odius The first part of a Syllogism is called the Proposition or Major the second the Assumption or Minor and the third the Conclusion Sympathy sympathia natural consent or combination mutual passion affection or disposition Salacia The goddess of Water Salique Law Lex Salica is a Law whereby the Crown of France cannot be inherited by a woman cannot fall from the Lance to the Distaâ— as their saying is which Law one undertaking to prove out of Holy Writ urged that place of Matthew where 't is said Mark the Lillies which are the Arms of France and see how they neither Labour nor sâ—â—â— This Law they pretend was made by Pharanoâ—d their first King and that the words Siâ— aliqua so often mentioned gave it the name of Salique Law Others say it was named by Charles the Greâ— after his Conquests in German where the incontinency of the Women living about the Riveâ— Sala in the Country now called Misnia gave both occasâ— and name to this Law the words are these De terra â— Salica nulla portio haereditâ— malieri veniat sed advirâ— sexum reta terrâ— hâ—red it asâ— venia Selden Mr. Blunt Stall whimper A Bastard Saraband
the Wife of Atlas was feigned the Daughter of Thetis and Ocianus having one Son of twelve Daughters five of the Daughters wept to death upon the Sons being killed by a Serpent whereupon they were turned into the Stars called Hyades which rise about St. Swithin's Day and generally bring Lowring or Rainy Weather Afrania she was Wife to Lucinus Buccio a woman of Masculine Spirit for though the Senate of Rome had decreed that Women should not speak in the places of Judicature unless questions were asked them she bodily started up before the Pretors and pleaded her own Law Suits Agarilla Daughter to Clisâ—â—nes was so exceeding beautiful that all the Grecian Youths were Enamouted on her and at great cost made Plays and other Entertainments that she being present they might feast their Eyes on her beauteous face Agatha a Sicilian Lady who refusing to turn Pagan and Marry Quintianus the Proconsul was by him cruelly Tormented and afterwards put to death When that day Twelvemonth Mount Aetna broke out in a violent Torrent of fire which streamed in sâ—ames as far as Catana where she was Martyred so that the Pagan Inhabitants looking upon it as a fearful Judgment for shedding innocent blood ran to her Grave and taking the Shroud that covered her opposed it to the Torrent of Fire which thereupon immediately stopped Agathorâ—ca a famous Curtâ—â—â—â— so bewitched Ptolome Philopater King of Egypt with her Charms and Beauty that to make way for Marrying her he made away his Wife Euridice by whom he had Ptolome Epiphanes whom the new advanced Queen would have murthered but the people hâ—ndered it and made her fly the Country 〈◊〉 was Daughter to Cadmus and Hermione Marryed to Echiron of Thebes by whom she had Pentheus who was King of Thebes after his Fathers death but torn to pieces by his Mother and other Women at the feet of Baccus in their drunken sits because he disapproved of such unseemly Revels Agenâ—ria was a name the Ancients gave to their Goddess of Industry and a Temple was erected to her in the Adventine Mount Agno one of the Nimphs by whom Jupiter was brought up she gave name to a Fountain said to have this rare gift that if it in time of drowth the Priest of Jupiter Lyceus stirred it with an Oaken bough a thick mist would arise from it and imediately gathering into Clouds send down plenty of Rain Agnodiâ—e a Virgin of Athens Who above all things desired to study Physick and became so famous therein that the Physicians eâ—vyed her and accused her before the Arâ—â—pagites or Judges as an Ignorant Pretender but she gave such Learned Demonstrations that the cause not only went for her but an order was made That any free Woman of Athens might practice Physick and that the Men Physicians should no more meddle with Women in Child-birth seeing the Women were as capable in all matters Agraules was Daughter to Cecrops sometimes King of Athens who being over curious though forbid it in opening a basket wherein Minerva had hid Ericthenius was stricken with Phrensy to that height of madness that running to a precipice she threw her self headlong from it and was dashed in pieces on the Rocks Agiripina Daughter to Marcus Agrippa she was Marryed to Tyberius the Emperor by whom he had Drafius Agripina â—espania daughter to M. Agrippa by Julia the Daughter of Augustus a Woman Couragious and Chast but because she prosecuted the Murtherers of her Husband Tyberius banished her Agrippina wife of Claudius daughter of Germanicus and Sister to Caligula and Mother to Nero all Caesars so that she had more Emperours in her Family than any before or after her She was slain at the commandment of her Son Nero When he was Emperour as had been foretold by a Soathsayer and her â—elly ripped up to show him the place where he had lain Albuna Anciently held as a Goddess and worshipped at Rome had 〈◊〉 being in a Grove in the Teritories of Tâ—â—â—â—tum Some will have her to be Juno the Daughter of Atâ—â—nâ—s who â—lying her Husbands fury threw her self together with her son Maliceris into the Sea Alceste otherwise Alcestis she was the daugeter to Peleus wife to Admetus King of Thessaly and so loving was she to her husband that being Condemned she offered to lay down her Life as a Ransom for his Alcippehed To be the Daughter of Mars and Aglâ—â—â—os who being pursued by 〈◊〉 Neptunes Son who designed to Ravish her and the crying out for help Maâ—s came to her rescue and killed her Puâ—sâ—â—r There was likewise another 〈◊〉 daughter to 〈◊〉 wife to 〈◊〉 and Mother to Marpissa who being Râ—viâ—lâ—ed by Ida but thhe Raviâ—â—er being pursued threw himself into the River 〈◊〉 where he is faâ—lâ—â— to be 〈◊〉 into a River God Alâ—â—ppe a Woman mentioned by 〈◊〉 to have brought â—orth an 〈…〉 〈◊〉 for 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 and spinning at home whilst other Women were Celebrating her Festival is faâ—led to be turned into a 〈◊〉 and her spinning yarn into Ivy and a Vine 〈◊〉 Eleâ—â—â—ya's daughter by â—â—sidice and Wiâ—e to 〈◊〉 on her 〈◊〉 â—â—got 〈◊〉 by 〈…〉 himself the 〈◊〉 of her Husband which is 〈…〉 famous for his great 〈◊〉 Althea Wife to Collidon upon notice that all her Sons except Meleager were slain in Battle threw a brand into the Fire on which the Fates had write his desteny at the Expiration of which though many miles distant he dyed and upon notice of his death after repenting her rash Act she killed herself Amalasontha Daugther to the Austra-gothick King a Woman of rare Wit and Ingenuity so that after the death of her Father taking the Government upon her she answered all Ambassadours in their own Language But marrying her Kinsman that he might assist her in the Government he put her to death to gain a more absolute power which Justinian the Roman Emperour Revenged by driving him and his people out of Itaâ— Amalthea was Daughter to Mâ—lisius King of Creet and said to Nurse Jupiter with Goats Milk and Honey when his Father Saturn had doomed him to death for which he afterwards gave her plenty of what ever she desired and placed the Goat as the Celestial Sign Capricorn Amestrie Wife to Xerxes King of Persia upon a jealousie that her Husband loved his Sons Wife took an opportunity to beg her of him in a drunken humour at his Feast called Tycta and then most Inhumanely murthered her she likewise caused divers of the Persian Nobility to be buryed alive as Sacrifices to her Idol that she might have long Life and be prosperous in her undertakings Amymone Accounted the Daughter of Danaus she gave her self much to Hunting and in a Forrest letting an Arrow fly at Random she wounded a Satyr who thereby being roused pursued her to Ravish her but upon her Invocation Neptune rescued her and for that kindness got her good will and by him she conceived and brought forth Naupleous a famous Hero Ancelis was Celebrated
appeared in this place to have declared the kings death was my own Act my Conscience constraineth me to Confess the Truth without considering my own safety least the Innocent should wrongfully perish Therefore take it for a certain Truth that I and I alone am she that with these wicked hands did strangle Fergus the last Night being moved thereto by two as sharp Motives as can possibly incite a Womans Impatient Desire and Furious Reverge Fergus by his continual Converse with Concubines hath a long time denyed me the right of a Wife whereupon when by my often reproofs I dispaired to bring him to Reason My Breast swelled with vehement Rage and Fury which drove me on Impetuously to commit so a wicked a Deed. I thought it better to dispatch the Adulterer than being destitute of my Husband and defrauded of all Queen-like Honour to live Subject to the Injuries and Affronts of such Base Women as he kept in my stead Give Liberty therefore to those that are wrong-fully accused of the Kings Death And as for me you need not proceed against me for I that had the boldness to do this Fact will not fear to do Execution upon my self even here in your Presence What Honour is due to the Dead see it performed At the End of this Oration she drew out a Dagger and Stabbing her self to the heart fell down dead amongst them who were amazed at her Constancy in Dying and could not but pity her as an unfortunate Woman Affability Commendable in Women kind Affability is highly Commendable and Sparkles like a bright Jewel in the Coronet of Beauty It may be considered either as a meer humane accomplishment or a divine vertue and in either Notion it is worthy of praise but it is the latter that gives it the highest Excellence and Perfection In the first Notion we may properly take an Estimate of its value by its Cause and Effects As for its Cause it derives it self either from a native Candor and Generosity of Mind or else from an Ingenious and Noble Education or something Reciprocally from both and these are as good Originals as any thing meerly Moral can proceed from and that these are truely it's Sources common experence justifies those of the largest Minds and Noblest Extraction being commonly the most Affable condescending and obliging when on the other hand those of the most Abject-birth and Spirits are the most insulting and Imperious It is indeed a great Error in Persons of honour to conclude they acquire a profound reverence and respect by puting on a Supercilious Gravity looking Coyly and with Disdain as it were on all about them This is certainly so far from that that it gives a just ground to suspect that it is but a Pagentry of Greatness and instead of teaching those they fancy admire them to keep at a distance they rather by their stiffness invite them to a closer inspection curiously to Scrutenize their Originals and find whether or no they are of Mushrom growth or of Ancient standing for there is no such prying Inquisitor as Curiosity when it is moved to by the sense of contempt Affability carries it's just Esteem always along with it endears to all and often in â—pight of many blemishes keeps up a Reputation A kind word or a pleasing look from one of worth and quality is strangly Charming insensibly Stealing away our hearts Plutarâ—n observes of Cleomenes King of Sparta that when the Grecians compared his easiness of Access and Affability with the state and sullen Pride of other Princes they were so in love with his Winning and Courteous Behaviour that they only judged him worthy to be a King and as there is no certainer so there is no Cheaper way of gaining Affection A kind Salutation is as easie as a Reproach or Frown and by Affability those kindnesses may be preserved which will not if once forfeited be recovered at a far greater Price Moreover when humane vicissitudes are rightly weighed it may be a point of Providence for the Greatest Persons may sometimes stand in need of the assistance of the Meanest as the Globe of Fortune may move upon her fickle Axis 'T is Prudence then to be obliging to all and give none occasion to hate us and become our Enemies when we have most need of Succour That Emperor no doubt considered this who said he would entertain the Address of his Subjects as if he were a Subject himself And since in a strict sense even among the Ladies there are degrees she many times who is Superiour to one is Inferiour to another they have a ready way to compare the Civility they pay with what themselves but reasonably Expect Let one of the Fair ones then who meets with a cold and neglectful treatment from any Superiour to her examine her own resentments and then reflect that if she gave the like to her Inferiour it must be as coursly resented there And therefore she ought to resolve never to offer what so much distasts her self to another and by observing it she may convert an Injury into a Benefit making their ill nature her own discipline and civilize her self by the Rudeness of others Affability is now come to be considered by us in its Second Notion wherein we justly allow it to be a Divine Virtue nor have we lesser Authority than St. Paul's to justifie it who incerts it in the number of those Christian Graces that are by him recommended to the Roman Proselytes Rom. 12.16 Condescend to them of low Estate and that it's value may be the more discernable He joyns it with Humility It immediately follows his Precept viz. be not high minded we may therefore conclude that Courtesie and obliging behaviour of this kind in respect of its Source and Original is very much to be preferred before that which only springs from Natural or Prudential Motives And since we find it natural for every production to have some Similitude this is to be observed no less Excellent in respect to its Properties as it 's desent which may be demonstrated in only instancing two of them viz. Sincerity and Constancy Affability then as to the first of these as far as it partakes of Humility in such a degree it must likewise partake of Sincerity that being a Virtue whose proper Elements are Simplicity and Plainness so having no ill design it wants no Umbrage or Coverture it has no occasion for those Subtilties and Simulations those Artifices and Pretences required by those that do 'T is the Precept of the Apostle Phil. 2.3 In Lowliness of mind Let each esteem others better than himself by which we may gather that it is the nature of a lowly Mind to Transfer that Esteem to others which he voluntarily substracts from himself And where such an Esteem is planted in the Heart it verifies every Expression and outward Signification of respect rendring the greatest Condescensions which to an Insolent humour may seem Extravagant and Affected Unseigned and the highest
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
time of the Emperor Octavian another Dolphin in the same manner took love to a Child upon the Sea coast near to Pusoll and that every time this Child called Simon they say this Fish will run at that name it came presently to the Sea brink and the Child mounted upon the back of it and the Child was carried into the Sea as little away as he would and brought back again safe He saith also that this Child dying by accident of Sickness and the Dolphin coming divers times to the accustomed place not finding the Child there died also In Argis the Child Olenus was affected by a Goose So likewise Lycidas the Philosopher who whould never depart from him nor be driven out of his Company but was his continual associate in publick and private in the Bath in the Night in the Day without any Intermission Plin. lib. 10. cap. 22. Glauce the Harper was beloved of a Ram a Youth of Sparta by a Daw. Nicander apud Caelium witnesseth That one Selandus Butler to the King of Bithynia was belov'd of a Cock whom they called Centaurus A Cock doted likewise on a young Lad whose name was Amphilochus by Nation an Olenian Why may we not then as well give credit that Semiramis was affected by a Horse and Pasiphae by a Bull When Pliny tells us that in Leucadia a young Damosel was so belov'd of a Peacock that the enamoured Bird never left her in life and accompany'd her in death For seeing the Virgin dead she never would receive Food from any hand but so pin'd away and died also In the City of Sestos a young Eagle taken in a Nest was carefully brought up by a Virgin The Bird being come to full growth would every day take her flight abroad and all such Foul as she could catch bring home and lay them in the Lap of her Mistress And this she used daily as it were to recompence her for her fostering and bringing up At length this Virgin dying and her Body being carried to the Funeral Fire the Eagle still attended which was no sooner expos'd unto the flames but the Bird likewise cast her self with a voluntary flight amidst the new kindled Pile and to her Mistresses Hearse gave her self a most grateful Sacrifice Beauty in General its Alluring to Liking and Love They who do adore or contemn Beauty do ascribe too much or too little to the Image of God it is undoubtedly one of the rarest Gifts which Heaven hath afforded unto Earth According to the Opinion of Plato It is a humane Splendor lovely in its own Nature and which hath the force to ravish the Spirit with the Eyes This worthy Quality is worthy of Respect wheresoever there be Eyes or Reason it hath no Enemies but the Blind and Unsensible all the World yielding Homage to those to whom Nature hath given the preheminence over others Those Ladies who imagine that the Number of their Servants do add something to their Beauty and thereby seem to take much satisfaction in their submissions and services do give a great advantage to their Enemies and shew they may be won at an easie rate whilst there needs more for them to become Masters of their desires than Praises and Respects But the fairest of Women may find an excellent Remedy against Vanity it being at sixteen Years of Age they could represent unto themselves the defects and Inconveniences of old Age. Nevertheless it is worth the Observation that Cato had Beauty in so high an Estimation as that he was heard to say publickly It was no less a Crime to offend Beauty than to rob a Temple Sulpitia amongst the Roman Ladies had such beautiful Eyes that the Men of those Days could not behold her without a will to adore her It is recorded that the Neck and Bosom of Theodeta the Athenian was so pleasing that Socrates himself did fall in Love with them they are Draughts and Charms which are not to be sought by Artificiousness nor possessed by Vanity Nature affords them to some Ladies on purpose to please the Eye and to raise the Mind unto the Love of him who is the Fountain of all Human Perfection Galen doth make mention of Phryne who whenever she appeared she Eclipsed the Lustre of all the Ladies of the Assembly and filled them with Revenge and Shame at the last they invented a Sport amongst themselves which every one was to Command by turn when it came to her turn to be Commandress she told them that she would lay but an easie Charge upon them which was that every one of them should wash their Face and their Hands which when they had done for they were bound unto obedience they might easily discover the the true Beauties from the Counterfeit and there was hardly any one that could be known by their former Countenances their Faces were become quite others than they were This pastime if it were put in practice in our times would no doubt be as ungrateful to many of our Ladies I do the rather make mention of this rare Beauty because that it was for her that those famous Judges called the Areopagites did lose the Name and Reputation of Judges not to be Corrupted because not believing her to be innocent yet when they beheld her they could not judge her to be faulty Hipperides the Orator pleaded in vain against her for as soon as she made her appearrance her presence served â— an Apology and she needed not but only to appear to defend herself The Beautiful ever gain their suit and â— Justice doth but open her Eyes to behold them how poorly soever it is sollicited their cause cannot go ill So that you see Beauty is a pleasing Object in the eye improved by the apprehension of Fancy and conveyed to the heart by the Optick part If the Owner that enjoys it know it It begets in her a dis-esteem and contempt of inferiour features None can serve an Eccâ— but Narcissus What a scornful eye she casts upon common persons or a Plebeiâ—â— presence She could find in her heart to be angry with the wind for dealing so roughly with her Veil or hoising up her skirts and scourge those Aeolian scouts for being 〈◊〉 saucy She wonders that Venus should be for a Goddess recorded and she never remembred This that passionate Amorist well discovered in this Canto Beauteous was She but to coy Glorious in her tyres antoâ—es But too way-ward for the Boy Who in action Spher'd 〈◊〉 joyes Love-tales she could deigâ—â— to hear And relate them Week by Week But to kiss when you come near Lips was turned into the Cheek Beauty that is too precise Though it should attractive be Darting beamelins from her eyes 'T were no Adamant to me Nor did that incensed Gentleman shew less passion upon the like regret from a disdainful Lady whose long practise in Painting and delicate Tooth together had so corrupted her breath as Cocytus could not have a worser
favour A Lady gave me once her cheek to kiss Being no less than I my self did wish For this I 'll say and bind it with an oath Her cheek tastes sweeter far than do's her mouth But there is nothing so much discovereth the vain Pride of these Beauties as a coyness to their Servants in their Wooing and Winning If they affect you that affection must be so shrowded and shaddowed as Lynceus's eyes could not disclose it Walk from them their eyes are on you walk to them their eyes are from you There is no argument be it never so well-relishing nor sorting with their liking that they will give ear to No posture be it never so graceful they will afford an eye to Opposition suiteth best with their condition To a stranger they will shew themselves familiar to you whose intimacy hath got a room in their hearts they will seem a stranger If you appear merry it must be expounded trifting childishness if grave stoick fullenness It were a gift above apprehension in every particular to fit their humour And yet they must be humour'd or they are lost for ever Beauty is coveted by all and where Nature has not cast the Face and Body in one of her finest Moulds what Arts what Costs are used to repair her work and varnish over her defect that they may not be obvious Beauty was so greatly Admired by the Ancients that whereas Gorgon by some called Medusa had such a loveliness imprinted on her Face that she fixed the Admiring Spectators for a time Immovable rendring them as Men Amaz'd and Astonished They hereupon feigned that she converted Men into Stones with the dazling brightness of her Eyes The Barbarous Nations had also such veneration for it that they thought none capable of any extraordinary Action unless nature had Impressed an Excellent shape and Loveliness upon their Persons to dignifie and distinguish them from others Holding that the accidental meeting of a Beautiful Person was an Augury or presage of good fortune whereas the contrary was looked upon as an unlucky Omen And indeed Beauty has found its favourers amongst all sorts of Persons pleading more powerfully than the most refined Oratory No Armour is proof against it's pointed rays the Sword and the Gown bend to it and pay it homage as the Soveraign Commandress of Affection And lays a Thousand snares for even the most stubborn and stoical of Mankind which they cannot at all times escape Beauty so Captivated the heart of that Renowned Warriour Edward the Fourth King of England that after in a Bloody War with the House of Lancaster having obtained the Crown the Lady Elizabeth Gray Widow to Sir John Gray slain in the Quarrel of Henry the Sixth coming to petition him for her Husbands Estate that had been declared Forfeited and Seized to the Kings use He at the first sight of her was so passionately in Love that though the Great Earl of Warwick who had by his Valour been mainly Instrumental in making him King was at that time as his Proxy Wooing for him the Infanta of Savoy he finding she would not yield to be his Mistress made her his Queen though to the hazard of his Kingdom Being driven out by the Inraged Earl who for this Affront took part with Henry the Sixth and remained as an Exile for a considerable time till Fortune favouring him he again by force of Arms assumed the Royal Dignity Beauty in Aspasia the daughter of Hermotimus the Phocian surpassed all the Virgins of her Age in the Elegance of her form being a perfect Pattern of an Excellent Beauty Attracting the Affections of all that gazed upon her so that he who came a Spectator departed a Lover and is by Aelian described in this manner Her Hair Yellow and naturally Curling her Eyes bright Sparkling and full her Ears small and her Nose a Gentle rising in the Midest her Skin smooth and her Countenance of a Rosie Colour For which cause the Phocians whilst she was a Girl gave her the Name of Milto her Lips Were red and her Teeth white as Alablaster her Feet small and her Voice had something in it so smooth and sweet that whilst the spoke it was like the Musick of Syrens she used no Feminine Arts to render her Beauties more Advantageous as being born and brought up by poor Parents she was as Chaste as Lovely so that allured by both Cyrus the Younger King of Persia made her his Wife And after his Decease she was Married to King Artaxerxes the force of Beauty and Chastity having so Transcendant a power as to make her twice a Queen and have the Ascendant over the most Celebrated Monarchs of Asia Beautiful Phryne being accused of Lewdness and having Learned to plead for herself at Athens baring her Breasts and disclosing but part of her Beauty so charmed her Judges that notwithstanding the proof against her they declared her innocent At that time notwithstanding they ordained for the prevention of the like Rapture or Surprize that no woman should ever after Plead her Cause And so admirable was her Beauty Naturally without the Assistance of Art that she took all in her snares that had the least Glimmering of a Conversation with her Beauty was so Dazling Triumphant in Lais that she inflamed all Greece many at the report of her Excellent Features falling in love with her when being pestered with Troops of Adorers whom she refused she at last fell in Love with Hypolochus and went to him at Meglopolis but there her Beauty proved her destruction for the Women envying her rare Perfections in Nature wherein themselves were so much out-done surprized the charming Lady and carryed her to the Temple of Venus where in a fit of jealous rage they Stoned her to death which so grieved the Men that they Branded the place from that time with the Temple of Venus the Murtheress Beautiful Polyxena Daughter of Pryamus King of Troy is Discribed by Dares to be in this manner of stature She was Tall Beautiful in her Features her Neck long and white as Down of Swans her Eyes sparkling her Hair of a Golden Colour and Long her Body exactly Shaped throughout her Fingers small and long her Legs Streight with a declining Calf her Feet neatly compacted And in the whole frame of Nature such a one as for Beauty excelled all the Women of her time besides which in Modesty she was Plain Hearted Bountiful and Affable to all Persons Beautiful Helena of Greece whose story is not unknown to the World since in her Cause so many Thousand Lives were spent and the famous City of Troy after a hard Ten Years Siege reduced to Ashes Is thus Discribed by the aforementioned Dares a Phrygian who was present in the War She saith he was of a Golden Hair full and Sparkling Eyes exceeding Fair of Face her Body well Shaped her Mouth Small and Curiously made her Legs Exactly Framed and a Mold between her Eye-brows her Disposition was Open and
fair and beautiful in their kind and then especially Women who is her Master-piece in Loveliness was never design'd for Deformity and where any such thing happens by defect it is but reasonable Art should repair it as well as it is allowed in matters of lesser Concern and Moment without any reflecting that we are displeased with God's making us since we cannot conceive such Deformity was made on purpose but by cross Accidents obstructing Nature in her Opperation and the rather we conclude it so because we have reason to believe That in the Resurrection all Deformity shall be done away the recollected Dust shall shape a perfect Body for if the Blind and the Lame were not admitted into the earthly Temple how much less will there be any such thing seen in that which is above in glorified Bodies But we are started a little from our Proposition and got too far into Deformities and therefore must return again from whence we digressed Beautifying for honest purposes then not being proved a sin we see no reason to forbid it when God and Nature has allowed it nor can Virtuous Women contentedly want whilst they are capable of them those things that may render them most acceptable to their own and other Eyes being loath to draw the Curtains of obscurity or Uncomliness quite over them till the Night of Death comes when they must hide their Faces in the Dust in hopes to recover that perfect Beauty that admits no decays and needs no repairs of Art And though some more moderate than the former alledge that it is safest in a case dubious or disputed rather to abstain from than use what many deny though allow seeing there is no necessity of using it at all We answer to this point that there are many things which are not absolutely necessary which we would be loath to part withal or be Argued out of under the pretence of superfluity and sinful since God allows us not with Nigardly Restraints but with a Liberality worthy his Divine Benignity all things Richly to enjoy even to delight Conveniency Elegancy and Majesty Therefore Ladies be not discouraged by the reflections cast on you by the younger sort whose Faces are too dark ever to shine in the Sphere of Beauty what Arts soever are used to brighten them nor by those of Elder years over whose declining splendour time has drawn a Cloud that will Skreen it till it sets in the shades of the grave but mind well what is said Tit. 1.15 and give good heed to it viz. To the pure all things are pure but to the defiled and unbelievers nothing is pure but even their Minds and Consciences are defiled Beauty a Charm To Captivate at a distance c. Beauty has several ways to Captivate a Lover besides the plain and common Method though we must confess that Sight of all others makes the 〈◊〉 Advance and hearing like another Leg steps next to make it Advance faâ—â—er and sometimes runs a great way in the Adventure Calisthenes a young Man of Byzance in Thrace very Rich and Comely no sooner heard of the Fair Daughter of Softratus but upon the report of her rare Perfections by common Fame he fell in Love with her resolving e're he saw her to have her for his Wife So the Three Gentlemen in Balthasar Castâ—lio who fell in Love with a young Gentlewoman whom they never had any notice of but by the babblâ—ng of fame Many likewise by hearing a Person commended have fallen in Love and often by Reading a Letter Curiously Indited wherein a Moving Passion is Expressed which is so mainly taking that it has done wonders especially among the Female Sex These things give us some glimmering towards a Belief that there is a Destiny in Marriage and a sympathy in the Souls of those that are to be united by that over-ruling Decree Moving and Agitating their Minds though at such distances but we dare not give our Opinion in the Affirmative since Mony in this Age has such a power that it is if 't were possible stronger than Love it self For if Destiny had decreed who shall be Paired in Wedlock then the Rich and Poor would be shuffled together and Deformity with store of Treasure would not pass Currant in all parts of the Nation whilst Beauty and good Humour without it are little regarded those that have much to spare Covet notwithstanding Rich Wives rarely enquiring into her Education or Conditions and those whose Fortunes are very slender must be compelled to take up with those that have as little as themselves unless now and than by a wonderful chance a Lucky hit falls to some few For as a Modern Poet says It is not the Silver or Gold of it self That makes Men adore it it is for its power 〈…〉 dote upoâ— pelf â—â—â—ause pelf But all court the Lady in hopes of her Dowr The wonders that we in or days do behold Done by th' Irresistable Iâ—â—fluence of Gold Our Love and our Zeal anâ— our all things do mould This Marriages makes 〈◊〉 the Center of Love It draws on the Man and 〈◊〉 tricks up the Woman Birth Virtue and Parts 〈◊〉 Affection can move Whilst this makes Ladies 〈◊〉 to the Brat of a Broom-mâ—â—â— Beauty notwithstanding this digression will come in 〈◊〉 a share with those that understand it and have not totally devoted themselves to Mammon Xerxes when he destroyed 〈◊〉 of the Temples of the Greciaâ— Gods yet spared that of Diana for its Beautifulness Painters Orators and all others labour to excell each others in the beauty of their Art Beauty it was that first Ministred occasion whereby Art and Learning might find out the knowledge of all Curious Inventions Behold and wonder at the Variety of Beauty in Flowers and Plants The Rose is gay in its Virgin blushes and the Lilly is admired for it's Whiteness and it is preferred by the Wisest of Oracles before King Solomon in all his Glory And if these things are so moving â—nd delectable and there is a Beauty according to its kind â—nd proportion Admirable in â—ll Creatures how excellent than must the Fountain be but not to soar too high let us keep within the Compass of what may be seen and observed Beauty in Women its Dower and Force Beauty had some Effects upon Diogenes held to be the Morosests of all the Philosophers for when he saw handsom Women he called them Queens because he had observed Men so Curteous Obliging and Obedient to them bowing and bringing as if they would adore their very Shoe-strings Wine is strong and Kings are strong but a Beautiful Woman fixes her unshaken Empire in the hearts of her Admirers when all things totters Monarchs we confess though they sit still streach a wide Command over Sea and Land but Beauty we generally find has Dominion even over them Gold and Jewels tumbles at the Fair ones feet and the Doner is proud if she will deigne to receive it their Eyes are fixed on her
despicable in their Conditions such as are Servants to their own Parents or Kindred or any other of such a â—ordid Relation It is dangerous to admit of any such Persons of inferiour Rank into a Parly with them Virginity is an â—nclosed Garden it should not admit of any such Violation the very Report may cast a blemish on it Some have been inslaved to that passion deservedly which at first they entertained disdainfully Presumption is a daring sin and alwayes brings forth an untimely Birth The way to prevent this is in the behaviour to give not the least Occasion to the Tempter that shall endeavour to ensnare them nor to give way to the weakness of their own Desires How excellent had many Ladies been and how impregnable had been their Chastities if they had not been possessed with such a dangerous Security when they let open their Windows to betray themselves when they leave their Chamber to walk and on purpose to be seen in publick Young Gentlewomen are to have a great Care to keep themselves from all Privacy and Retiredness unless it were with Good Books and Duties of Devotion Diogenes when he found a young man walking alone he demanded of him what he was doing he returned Answer that he was discoursing with himself Take Heed said he that thou Converse not with thine Enemy And not much unlike to this was the Report of a young Girl who was so lost in Love that it was truly said of her she minded her work leaâ—â— when she sat down to it and eyed her Sampler Blower one Mans particular Lass. Baun Lady one of the Four Daughters of Sir Anthony Cook famous for her great Poetick genius Borho a poor Woman of Delphos who pronouncing the Delphick Oracles must needs be inspired with a Poetick Spirit besides which she is said to have composed several Hymns Bastardy comes of the Brit Bastardo i. Nothus and signifies in Law a defect of birth objected to one begotten out of wedlock Bracton lib. 5. c. 19. per totum Beatrice beatrix that makes happy or blessed a womans name Bonne mine f. good aspect Boun and unboun dress and undress Brand-iron Trevet to set a pot on Brawl f. a kind of dance Bridgame â— Bridegroom Briseis Achilles's Mistress Britomartis a Cretan Lady inventress of Hunting Nets Beguines an order of Nuns or Religious Women commonly all well in years so called from St. Bega a Virgin their Foundress commemorated on the 6th of Sept. Beilarrite bellatrix a Warrioress a Woman well skilled in War a Virago Bellena The Goddess of War Ball f. a dancing meeting 〈◊〉 given by a new 〈◊〉 to her old Play-fellows 〈◊〉 a mask or visard 〈◊〉 cloth â— apron 〈◊〉 teams broods of Children Basiate l. to kiss Basse o. a kiss or the lower lip Baucis Philemon's wife Baud o. bold Barn Sax Bearn a child Hence 't is we say in the North of England how do Wife and Barnes i. How do Wife and Children Biggening up-rising of women Bigge a pap or teat â— build o. Bite o. to cheat also to steal Biton and Cleobis rewarded with death for their piety to their Mother Argia in drawing her Chariot to the Temple Bleit Blate Sc. shame fac'd Blower l. a Quean Bobtail a kind of short arrow-head also a Whore Bona roba I. a Whore Banes or Bans from the Fr. Ban. singnifies a Proclaming or publick notice of any thing The word is ordinary among the Feudists and grown from them to other uses as to that which we here in England call a Proclamation whereby any thing is publickly commanded or forbidden But it is used more especially in publishing Matrimonial Contracts in the Church before Marriage to the end if any Man can say any thing against the intention of the Parties either in respect of Kindred or otherwise they may take their Exception in one Cow But Mr. Sumner deâ—es it from the Saxon Abanâ—â—n i. to publish See his Sax. â—ct verbo Abannan Beating Y. with Child breeding Beed ings the first Milk after Birth Belides Danus's fifty Daughters Bellatrice l. a she Warrior Belly-cheat an Apron Berecynthia Cybele the Mother of the Gods Berenice Ptolomy's Daughter Bigamisâ— Bigamus he that hath marry'd two Wives â—â— which sort Lamech was the 〈◊〉 Bigamy Bigamia the marriage of two Wives It is 〈◊〉 in Law for an Impediment to be a Clerk and makes a Prisoner lose the benefit of Clergy For the Canonills hold that he that has been twice marry'd may not be a Clerk and they ground it upon these words of St. Paul 1 Tim. 3.2 Oportet ergo Episâ—pum irreprehensibiiem esse unius uxoris virum And also him that hath matry'd a Widow they by Interpretation take to have been twice married and both these they not only exclude from Holy Orders but deny all Privileges of Clery but this is Law abolished by Anno 1 Edw. 6. cap. 12. And to that may be added the Statute of 18 Eliz. cap. 7. which allows to all Men that can read as Clerks though not within Orders the benefit of Clergy in case of Felony not especially excepted by some other Statute Cowel Dr. Brown Billet Fr. a little Bill Note or Ticket stuck up upon a Post or Door and more commonly a stick of fire-wood well known in London Burlet f. a Coif Burnet â— Woollen also a Hood Burom Burlom D. Boogsarm pliant obedient also blithe merry Blanch Fr. white or fair we use it in England for a Woman's name Blith Sax. joyful glad merry cheerful Bonair Fr. gentle mild courteous Bongrace Fr. A certain Cover which Children use to were on their Foreheads to keep them from Sun-burning so called because it preserves their good grace and beauty Brigid or Bridger Contracted also into Bride an 〈◊〉 name as it seems for that the ancient S. Brigid was of that Nation Cam. Brigidians an Order of Religious Persons instituted by Brigidia a Widow Queen of Sweden in the time of Pope Vrban the fifth about the Year of our Lord 1372. It was as well of Men as Women 〈◊〉 beit they 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Nuns of this Order had a noble Convent at Sion in Middlesex built by K. Henry V. Buggery Fr. Bougrerie is described to be carnalis copula contra naturam hae 〈◊〉 per confusionem Specierum sc. a Man or a Woman with a â—râ—it Beast vel sexuum a Man with a Man or a Woman with a Woman See Lev. 18.22 23. This Offense committed with Mankind or Beast is Felony without Clery it being a Sin against God Nature and the Law And in ancient time such Offenders were to be burnt by the Common Law 25 Hen. 8.6.5 Eliz. 17. Fitz. Nat. Br. 269. My Lord Coke Rep. 12. p. 36. saith that this word comes from the Italian Buggerare to bugger Buxomness or Bughsomness pliableness or bowsomness to wit humbly stooping down in sign of obedience It is now mistaken for lustiness or rampancy C. Cassandra I. Inflaming Men with
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
a thing common to all they Solace the incommodiousness of 〈◊〉 Age closes our Eyes bringâ— us to the Earth from wheâ—â— we came They are our Bones our Flesh and Blood seeing them we see our selves in 〈◊〉 sort that the Father seeing 〈◊〉 Children may be assured 〈◊〉 he seeth his lively Youth â— newed in the Face of theâ— But if we do we consider and weigh in a 〈◊〉 Ballance the great and unâ—â—â—portable doings we shall 〈◊〉 amongst these Roses 〈◊〉 Thorns and among theâ— Sweet Showers of 〈◊〉 that there falleth alwayâ— much Hail it is true the Athenians are a People 〈◊〉 commended for their Prudenâ— and Wisdom seeing that 〈◊〉 Husbands and Wives could 〈◊〉 agree because of an infinit number of Dissentions and Provocations that chanced ordinarily between them were coâ—â—trained to ordain in their Common wealth several Magistraâ—â—â— whom they called Reconcilers of Married ones the Office of whom is to Reduce Reconcile and make Agreement by 〈◊〉 means The Spartans in their Common-Wealth had in like case Established certain Magi strates Named Armasins who had the charge to Correct the Insolency of Women to Reprove their Arrogancy and Audacity towards their Husbands The Romans would not ordain Magistrates perswading with themselves per adventure that Men were not sufficient to bridle the unbridled raging Temerity of Women when that they were out of Order But they had their Refuge to the Gods For they Dedicated a Temple to the Goddess Viripla where in the end they agreed of their Domestical Quarrels But who can say they patiently bear the charges of Marriage the Insolency and Arrogancy of Women the yoke of a kind so unperfect Who may accomplish their carnal appetite is also their unsatiable Pomps â—oth not the Old Greek Proverb say that Women and â—hips are never so well accomplished but that alwayes they â—ant Repairing If thou takest â—er poor she shall be despised â—â—d thy self less esteemed If â—ou takest her rich thou makâ—st thy self a Bond-slave For â—hinking to Marry a Companiâ—n equal to thee thou Marriest â—n unsupportable Mistress If â—ou takest her soul thou 〈◊〉 not love her If thou â—kest her fair it is an Image â— thy gate for to bring thee â—ompany Beauty is a Tower that is Assailed of all the World and therefore it is very hard to keep that every one seeketh to have the Key behold the hazard wherein thou art saith William de la Perreire that thy round-head become not forked which were a fearful Metamorphosis if it were visible and apparent This then is the Conclusion Riches causeth a Woman to be Proud Beauty maketh her suspected and Deformity or foulness causeth her to be hated Therefore Diponares having tasted the Martyrdoms of Marriage said That there were but two good days in all the Life of Marriage the one was the Wedding day and the other the day that the Woman dyeth For that on the day of Marriage there is made good Cheer the Bride is fresh and new and all Novelties are Pleasant and of all Pleasures the beginning is most delectable The other day that he commends to be good is the day the Woman dyeth For the Beast being dead dead is the poyson and by the death of the Woman the Husband is out of Bondage and Thraldom Ceremonies before Marriage The Persians were only permitted to contract Matrimony in or before the Summer Equinoctial but not after The Dapsolites once a Year make a solemn Convention of all the Men and Women that are dispos'd to Marriage in one day in which after their great Feast the Women retire themselves and lay them down upon their several Pallets the Lights being all put out the Men according to their number are admitted in the dark where without any premeditate Choice but meer Lot and Chance every Man chuseth her whom he first lights on and Divirginates her and be she fair or foul ever holds her as his Wife Stobre Serm. 42. Amongst the Carmanians no Man is suffer'd to marry before he hath presented the Head of an Enemy to the King About the Lake Meotes there is a People called Laxamatâ—e amongst whom no Virgin contracts Matrimony before she hath subdu'd an Enemy There is a Law amongst the Armenians that Virgins are first prostituted in an old Temple dedicated to the Goddess Anetes whose Picture was of solid Gold which Antonius after sacrilegiously as they held it took away according to the gain of their Compression it was lawful for any Man to chuse a Wife where he pleas'd Amongst the Câ—prians the Virgins before Marriage daily repair to the Sea â—hoar and there company with Strangers till they have got such a competent Sum as maâ— make up their Marriage Doweâ— The Phoenicians do the like iâ— the City of Syca but thâ—â— Prostitution is in the Temple of Venus the Surplusage thâ— ariseth above the Dower returns towards the Repairing oâ— the Church The Carthagiâ—nians observe the like Custom The Lydian Virgins befoâ—â— they were suffer'd to lie wiâ—â— their Husbands made themâ—selves for a certain time comâ—mon to any Man till 〈◊〉 with Saciety they became genâ—tle and quiet to their Beds 〈◊〉 from that time forward vowâ— Chastity but if any one 〈◊〉 found ever after to transgâ—â—â— the bounds of Temperance she was punished with all Riâ—gour and Cruelty Aeâ—â—â—â—ib 4. de Var. Hist. Lycurâ—â— having prescribed a certain Agâ— before which time it was 〈◊〉 lawful for young Men 〈◊〉 Maids to have Carnal company being demanded the reason â—â—â—swer'd Because the issue 〈◊〉 proceeds from those of Raâ— Years and grown Strength 〈◊〉 likewise able and perfect 〈◊〉 the hasty and untimely Geâ—â— ration is still subject to Weâ— ness and Infirmity Plutâ—â— in Lacon Ceremonies used in Mâ—â—â—riage by several Nations In the Roman Marriages whâ— commenc'd with Contracts mutually Sealed and Signâ— with the Signets of divers Wâ—â—â—nesses there present there weâ— sundry Customs observed by them The Man in token of good Will gave to the Woman a Ring which she was to wear upon the next Finger to the little one of the Left-hand because unto that Finger alone a certain Artery proceedeth from the Heart The Sabine Women they continu'd a Custom that the Man should come and take away his Wife by a seeming Violence from the Lap or Bosom of her Mother or her next Kin. She being thus taken away her Husband did part and divide the Hair of her Head with the top of a Spear wherewith some Fencer had been formerly kill'd which Ceremony did betoken that nothing should disjoin them but such a Spear and such like Violence Towards Night the Woman was brought home to her Husband's House with five Torches signifying thereby the need which married Persons have of five Goddesses and Gods Jupiter Juno Venus Suadela and Diana who is called Lucina When the Woman was thus brought to the Door then did she annoint the Polls of the Door with Oyl from which Ceremony the Wife was call'd Vxor quasi Vnxor
Father of the Maid most friendly welcometh her Suitor so that I think scarce any Noble or Gentleman among them can choose a Virgin for his House The Bramanes marry but once and that not all but only the eldest of the Brethren to continue the Succession who is also Heir of the Father's Substance and keepeth his Wife straitly killing her if he find her adulterous with poyson In the Kingdom of Calicut when the King marrieth a Wife one of the principal Bramanes hath the first Nights Lodging with her for which he hath assigned him by the King four or five hundred Ducats The Gentlemen and Merchants haâ—e a custom to exchange Wives in token of great Friendship Some Women amongst them have six or seven Husbands fathering her Children on which of them she pleaseth The men when they marry get others to bed them if they be Virgins fifteen or twenty days before they themselves will bed them As for the Marriages in Peru the Men had many Wives but one was principal which was Wedded with Solemnity and that in this sort The Bridegroom went to the Bride's House and put O Hoya which was an open Shoe on her Foot this if she were a Maid was of Wool otherwise of Reeds And this done he led her thence with him In the Canaries they used for Hospitality to let their Friends lie with their Wives and received theirs in like Courtesie and therefore as in India the Sisters Son inherited -In Carazâ—an When a Woman is delivered of a Child the Man lyeth in and keepeth his Bed with Visitation of Gossips the space of forty days they worship the ancientest Person in the house ascribing to him all their Good In some part of the Country Knights and Soldiers never marry but lye with such Women or Daughters as like them Aâ—â— place in the Kingdom of Feâ— there was a Temple built 〈◊〉 which at certain times in the Year resorted Men and Women in the Night where after Sacrifices the Candles were put out and each Man lay with the Woman he first touched Those Women were forbidden to lye with any other for a Year after The Children begotten in this Adultery were brought up by the Priests of the Temple Capacities of Women Women are capable of the highest Improvements and thâ— greatest Glory to which man may be advpnced I might call in the Testimonies of the Wisest of the Heathens concerning this among others I remember Plutarch one of the most Learned of the Grecians upon the death of the excellent Leontide Discoursed with his friend of the equal vertue of Man and Woman and doubts not if he might compare Lives with Lives and Actions with Actions to make it appear that as Sapho's verses were equally with Anacreon's so Semiramis was as Magnificent as Sesostris Queen Tanaquilla as Politick as King Servius and Porcia as full of Courage as Brutus Moses from whom we receive the first and original Truths tells us that Woman as well as Man was created after the Image of God God created man in his own Image in the Image of God created be him Male and Female created be them What the Image of God is and what the Difference if there be any is between Image and Similitude I am not disputing this is it only for which I have alleaged Moses that Woman hath the same Prerogative of creation with Man 'T is true that from the beginning the the Woman was subjected as in order of time she was created after Man And being intended to be an helper she shines moâ—â— when she doth most observe that Ordinance of Subjection for then she is the Glory of the Man according to the instance of the Prudent Woman that Solomon speaks of In whom the heart of her Husband doth safely trust and she being modest and industrious Her Husband is known in the Gates when he sitteth among the Elders of the Land But to proceed as Man and Woman were equal in Creation so there is no difference between them in State of Grace Which Truth whether it be held sorth in this place or not I will not contend sor elsewhere we have it delivered without controversie that there is neither Male nor Female â—o prefering the one Sex before the other but all one in Christ Jesus The Soul knows no difference of Sex neither do the Angels and therefore it is that some Learned Men are of Opinion that after the Resurrection in the State of Glory there will be no more any distinction of Male and Female because Christ hath said Matth. 22.30 We shall then be as the Angels of God in Heaven And the Apostle 1 Cor. 15.42 43 44. That the body being sown in the grave in corruption in dishonour in weaâ—â—ess shall be raised in 〈◊〉 in glory in power The commerce of Sexes was of necessity because of Corruption and Change by Mortality But the Body that shall be raised in difference from the Natural Body is called a Spiritual Body The Soul then knowing no subordination because of Sex What Eminency is thereto be named in Men which we have not discerned sometimes to shine even in Women Plutarch hath given us a wonderful account of the wisdom of the Celtick Women who when their Country was fallen through misunderstanding and differences into a Civil War would not rest or give over their Mediation till Arms were laid down and Peace was setled in all their Cities and Families which was so great a Service to their Country and so acceptable that it grew a custom among them to call and admit their Women to Councel And in the League which long after they made with Hannibal this was one Article which for the strangeness and same of it I will record If the Celtans have any matter of Complaint against the Carthaginians the Carthaginian Commanders in Spain shall judge of it But if the Carthaginians have any thing to object against the Celtans it shall be brought before the Celtan Women Candying and Preserving c. These are Curiosities which are not only Commendable but required in young Ladies and Gentlewomen 〈◊〉 Represent them at large wouâ—â— ask more Art and Time than 〈◊〉 have either the Ability or thâ— Leisure to perform it and besides there are already in Priâ—â— many excellent Books concerning the same Subject as 〈◊〉 Choice Manuel of Secrets 〈◊〉 Physick and Chyrurgery by the Countess of Kent To Accomplished Cook by 〈◊〉 1671 is the best in that kind and the largest for Pastry Read also Mrs. Wooly's Gentlewomans Companion but I shall add no more here having lately received great Curiosities on this Subject never yet in Print which I design to Inâ—erâ— in the Second Part of this Dictionary Carmenta see Nicostrata Cassandra the Daughter of Priamus King of Troy a great Prophetess Charicena a very Learned Grecian Lady she is said to have written a Poem entituled Crumata Claudia Ruffina a Noble Brittish Lady of her Poetick writings there are remembred by Balaeus her Book
therefore the Poets were not much out when they represented the Graces under the figure of Women as also the 〈◊〉 For as there have been many mild and merciful Women so those that have deviated from Compassion and Apostatized to Revenge and have even out-done the Furies themselves and since it is in some measure in their Election which part they will Act. They ought to be very jealous over themselves for the Declinations to any Vice are gradual and sometimes scarce discernable and in all Probability the greatest Monsters of Cruelty would in the beginning have detested the very mention of those Inhumanities which they have afterward acted with Eagerness It highly therefore concerns them to fence themselves against those Beginnings whose Ends may prove fatal and destructive to them She that is over quick in apprehending an Affront will perhaps be but very slow in dismissing her Resentment of it and if it be permitted to continue as an Angry Guest in her Mind it will encrease its forces by attracting many little Circumstances and long past Injuries to blow it up into a Flame and from thence it will burn into a Quarrel and then aspire to Hatred and from that to Malice and so blaze intô Revenge and when that Implacable Passion has fir'd the â—ind Reason and Religion are scorched out and so â—hey many times consume themselves and others Consider we further then how many Mischieâ— have followed for want of Compassion and Tenderness in forgiving Injuries that have brought a World of too late Sorrows and Repentance Leâ— none think this a Scheme of Discourse or Phansie for certain it is there have been too many Tragical Experiments of its Truth how many Men otherways brave and temperaâ— have been mortally engag'd upon the account of Females who yet have unadvisedly thought their Honour concern'd in their Resentments and have satisfied the slender Affronts that have been offer'd them with no less an Expâ—ation perhaps than the Blood of some or other of their own Friends or Relations How have we known the Frantâ—â—â— Impulses of Feminine Revenge upon an imaginary Injury push on in the Vindication of her Wise Reputation he Obliging Gallant into a Danger where his body and perhaps his Soul is at stake when she has suffer'd no Injury buâ— what her Conceit has fram'd and fashion'd into Revenge A madness we must confess it is somewhat beyond what we find the Romances describing of Knight-Errantry where the imaginary Heroes undertake with a fancy'd Courage and Bravery to relieve distressed Damsels and to save their Honour from the Prodigeous Lusts of Tyrants Giants and the like who by Force and Surprise have hurry'd them to their Castles and Caves but that however bears a fairer Colour of Generosity than this However fabulous it is for here it is not Distress requires Assistance and Relief but the Humours of the Prosperous Insolent and Proud thirsting after bloody and insatiate Revenge where Compassion and Forgiveness of Injuries ought to take place Those therefore that have made their Observations on the common occasion of Duels have not â—â—â—â—â—ptly divided them between Wine and Women it being difficult to detemine which is the most intoxicating and bewitching in such Cases The many Modern Examples has too sadly demonstrated the Mischief and therefore as it ought to strike Terrour into those Women who have been in any manner accessary to the death or at least-ways the indangering Life on this account so it ministers a just matter of Caution to all the unconcern'd so to regulate their Passions that they may not come within distance of Implacability For it is Rare if they can so far master their Passions as to give a stop to them when once they are arrived there Compassion and Forgivness of injuries even Charms Rude and Malicious Tongues and fixes a Shame and Remorse upon the Consciences of the injurious and so punishes them the ways they least expected as all Anger should be avoided so many times it is causeless some will be angry with those that Modesty and Mildly reprove them and admonish them to leave such ways and vices as being pursued will prove destructive to them and this good Office has sometimes proved very fatal those commoly who have most Guilt having the less Patience to be told of it though in never so friendly and obliging a manner And if there be no other cause of anger it is the greatest Injustice in the World to be angry making that a Quarrel which in good earners is really an Obligation We have the saying oâ— a Wise Man that he was less beholding to his Friends than his Enemies because they out of too much Lenity spared to tell him of his faults which the other doing though by way of Reproach gave an occasion to Reform his Manners and proceed with more Caution and Uprightness that even so Malicious Accusations were a kindness to him and he study'd to repay them with Favours rather than Injuries But again if we should suppose in the last place that the Aspersion be not only unkind 〈◊〉 likewise false It will not then be safe to let loose the Reins to Anger First In regard to Prudence an Angry Vindication only serving the purpose of the Enemy and is mainly conducing to the spreading of the Calumny when a Prudent Dissembling and Wise Neglect frequently stifles it in its Progress Secondly In respect to Christian Duty for all that have regard to that must acknowledge they are under an Obligation not to Revenge but to Forgive Injuries And if they will pay a real Obedience to this Precept it must consequently be the more easie the sooner they set to it When any one perceives his house on Fire he stands not gazing as delighted with the Circling or Curling of the Flames much less adds Bellows to encrease its Rage but rather applys himself Immediately with all diligence to the Quenching of it and Anger is as little to be trusted for if it be once throughly kindled it will be hardly suppressed till it has totaly overcome the Subject it works on Compassion should stand then as a guard to keep it from entring the Breasts especially of the Fair-Sex and make them not look back upon the injury but forward upon those Mischiefs which a too sharp resentment may betray them to If this Caution was had instead of those Manifying Opticks Wherein they too largely view the wrong they would make use of in the other end of the Prospective to see the dismal Event at a distance and then it would certainly fright them from any nearer approach and and oblige them to keep within those bounds their Christian Duty prescribes them and with much facility acquit them with a more Ingenious and Larger Pleasure than their extreamest Revenge can give them did we rightly understand the Pleasure of forgiving Injuries and obliging the Injurious we should find it so Refin'd and Pure so Heroick and Noble that none but Rational Natures are capable of it When
Daughters of those that entertained them The Women with whom they lay a Nights were acquainted with the Kings design Generally undertook themselves to destroy the Ravisners of their Honour And on November the 13th 1012. being St. Brices day the Danes having highly Feasted and many of them Drunk were taken Napping by the Women who with short Knives they had privately conveyed to bed they destroyed all unless a very few who were fallen upon by the Rable and most of them killed the next day Seven of their Princes being Bury'd at St. Clements in the Strand which caused the Additional name of Danes to be annexed to it Domicellus la. Titles given John of Gaunt's Son and Daughter in their Naturalization Domino a hood worn by Canons also a Womans mourning veil Doudon o. a short fat Woman Dorcas g. a Deer or Roe-buck Doris wife to Nereus and Mother of the Sea-Nymphs Nercides Dorthy g. the gift of God Dote assignanda a writ for the Escheator to assign a Dowry to the Widow of a King's Tenant swearing in Chancery not to Marry without the King's leave These are the King's widows Dote unde nibil habit a writ of Dower for a Widow of the land sold by her Husband whereof he was so seized as the issue of them both might have inherited Doted l. endowed having joynture Dousabel f. Dulcebella l. sweet and fair Doucet Doulcet a Custard Dowager apply'd to Widows of Princes c. Dower Dowry a Wives Portion Dorie o. a she-beggar trull Dramatick-Poetry Comedies and Tragedies Drape No. a farrow-Cow whose milk is dry'd up Draw-latches Robertsmen Night Thieves Disparagements an undervaluing also the marrying of an Heir or Heiress under their degree Diâ—e No. put Tow on a Distaff Dodona a City in Greece near which Jupiter had an Oracle in a wood whose trees were supposed to be vocal and to return the answers of the Oracle Dissarreation l. a Roman ceremony at divorcement Disguise f. Put into another guise or form Deuterogamy g. second Marriage Dey o. Dairy-woman Diana the Maiden-Goddess of Woods and Hunting Twin-sister to Apollo by Jupiter and Latona the Moon Tiapasm pomander or perfume of dry powders Dictionary l. Lexicon g. storehouse of words orderly digested and explained Dido Queen of Carthage in Africa she kill'd herself because Aeneas would not marry her or Prather because she would not be forced to marry Jarbas King of Getulia Denophoon succeeding his Father Theseus in the Government of Athens forgat Phillis whom he had married in Thrace driven thither by storm whereupon she hanged herself on an Almond-Tree Denis Diana a womans name Derrero half woman half fish an Idol Goddess at Askalon Dessert the last course at a Feast Drusilla Dioclesians wife Dryads g. Oak or Wood-Nymphs Dâ—â—anira Hercules's Wife who slew herself because he burnt himself to avoid the torment caused by the Shirt she gave him to gain his love presented her by the Centaure nessus wounded by Hercules's Arrow for attempting to ravish her when carried by him over the River Eâ—enas Democrita a Roman Matron who kill'd her daughters and herself being forbidden to follow her banishâ— Huâ—bâ—nd Aâ—â—ippâ—s Danae Daughter of Acrisius King of Argos Dandy-prâ—â—s a small Coyn made by Henry 7. also little Folks Dandruâ—f raff headseurs Daphne flying from 〈◊〉 lust was turned into a Laurel or a Bay Tree Darling q. Dearling fondling Deabona the Goddess Fortuna and sometimes the earth called also Ops Fatua and Fauna whipt to death with myrtle by her Husband Faunus for being drunk with wine of myrtle-berries Dea viri-placa a goddess in whose Chappel Man and Wife were reconciled Damophila the Cousin-German Associate and Emulatrix of Sappho and Wife of Damophilus the Philosopher she is said to have writ a Poem of Diana Deborah a great Propheress in Israel of whom such was her Repute at that time that she was Judge or Supream Governess her Divine Hymn upon the Deliverance of the 〈◊〉 shews her to be divinely Inspir'd with a Poetick Spirit Debonnaire Fr. gentle mild courteous affable Debosche Debauthe from the Fr. Dâ—sbaucher to corrupt make lewd or put out of order to vitiate Decorum Lat. comliness honestly good grace 〈…〉 Apollo and Diana the Sun and Moon so call'd from the famous Island 〈…〉 Latona at one birth brought forth Apollo and Diana Depilâ—tory Depilatorius that makes the Hair fall It 〈◊〉 also used substantively for 〈◊〉 Ointment Salve Water c which takes away the 〈◊〉 Deportment Fr. behaviour demeanour carriage Diadem diadema a Kings Crown or Wreath for the Head it properly signifies a wreath'd Head-band with which the ancient Kings were contented as thinking the Crown belonged only to the Gods Cotgr. Diana The Moon Also a Goddess of Hunting much honoured for her Chastity having had many Temples dedicated to her whereof the chief was that at Ephesus called the Temple of Diana which for the Spaciousness Furniture and Workmanship was accounted one of the Worlds Wonders It was 200 Years in Building contrived by Ctesiphon being 425 foot long and 220 broad sustained with 127 Pillars of Marble 70 foot high whereof 27 were most curiously graven and all the rest oâ— Marble polished It was fired seven times and lastly by Hirosiratus that Night in which Alexander was born to get himself a Name Heyâ— Diapasm diapasma a Perfume a Pomander a Medicine of dry Powders that is either cast among Apparel 〈◊〉 make them smell sweet or into a Wound or superduosly into Drink Rid. Diaperd or Diapred Fr. Diapre diversified with flourishes or sundry figures whence â—e call Cloath that is so diversified Diaper Dieu mon droit Fr. God and my Right The Motâ—o of the Kings Arms first 〈◊〉 as some affirm by Henry the Eighth Diffarreation diffarreaâ—io a Sacrifice done between a Man and his Wife at Divorcement As Confarreation was at the Marriage Rider Digamist or Digamite digamus or digama a Man that hath two Wives together â—or a Woman that has two Husbands also one that marrys after his first Wife's death or divorce Dissing procullus a Child born when the Father is old or the last Child that Parents have in some places called a Swill-pough Diâ—chevel Fr. to unloose the Hair to unty to pull the Hair about the Ears Dispensatory a Book that teacheth how to make all Physical Compositions Dissonance dissonantia a discord in Tunes and Voices Ditty from the Ital. detto i. dictum a Rhime expressed in words and sung to a musical Tune Min. Divorce divortium à diversitate mentium the Dissolution of Marriage a Separation of Man and Wife which was as our Saviour witnesseth Matth. 19.8 first permitted by Moses to the Israelites Deut. 24.1 for the hardness of their Hearts that Men might rather put their Wives away whom they grew weary of then use them with too great extreamity to shorten their lives as many did The Woman so divorced was to have of her Husband a writing as St. Hierom and Jesephus witness in lib. de ant
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
up of her Statue she 〈◊〉 procured his banishment and sided with Theophilus 〈◊〉 soon after she miscarried 〈◊〉 Eudoria Daughter of Tâ—dosius Junior Wife to 〈◊〉 the Second she 〈◊〉 Genseric into Italy to Reveâ— her Husbands death on 〈◊〉 the Usurper who 〈◊〉 Rome and carried her and 〈◊〉 Daughters away but at 〈◊〉 instance of Martin and 〈◊〉 they were sent baek Eudoria Daughter of Lâ—ontius an Athenian Philosopher who for her Wit and Beauty was married to Theodosius the younger Emperour of Rome having no other portion to 〈◊〉 her off Eve the Mother of all Lâ—ing placed in Paradise and there had continued happy had not the Subtil Angel prevailed against her Eulogia Sister to Michaeâ— Pelcologus the Greek Emperour she had a great Ascendant one her Brother who dearly loved her for the Care and Tenderness she had over him in his Infancy but when he went to join the Greek Churches with the Western and she not able to diswade him from it caused a Rebellion to be raised in the Empire Euridice She was Daughter of Amyntas the third King of the Macedonians Married to Aridaeus natural Son to King Philip contending with Olimâ— King Philips Wife she was overthrown and taken Prisoner when having sent her by the said Queen a Silken String 〈◊〉 Dâ—gger and a Dose of Poison to take her Choice of what manner of death she would dye she nothing daunted took the first and having prayed that Olympas might come to the same distress which accordingly fell out she hanged herself Euttochium Daughter of Paula a Roman Lady she was brought up under St. Jerom and lived 35 Year in a Nunnery at Bethlehem She was so well skilled in most Languages that she was stiled the wonder of her Sex Came Sa. the Mothers brother also Gossip Friend No. Can bring forth young Carn No. to run like Cheese Caves-dropper one that listens under the Windows or house-Eaves Eye how to govern it Eyes are the Casements of the Body and many times by standing too much open let in things hurtful to the Mind a wanton Eye is the truest Evidence of wandering and unsteadfast Thoughts we may see too much if we be not careful in Governing our Eyes and keeping them from going astray and returning with vain Objects to the Phancy and Imagâ—nation which making unhappy Impressions they cannot be easily Obliterated This made the Princely Prophet when his Feet was betrayed by his Eyes into the snare of Lawless Lust pray so earnestly against the danger when he said Lord turn away my Eyes from beholding vanity and hence appears our miseries that those Eyes that should be Limbecks of Contrition the Celterns of sorrow should become the Inlets of Lust and the Portals to open and betray the whole body into Sin and Folly by letting in dangerous Enemies to surpize the Soul and overcome it with Strong Temptations Eyes thâ—u fix on Ambition makes Honour and Greatness their Objects which they convey and Represent as a solid good to the mind which frames the Project to attain to the Equipage and Grandure who make a splendid show of Guilded Cloaths and Titles in the World and then a Toâ—ment and 〈◊〉 ensues if the party â—e fruiâ—rated in aspiring to the height she Aims at Richeâ— sometimes are greedily 〈◊〉 in at the Eyes and then Covetousness winds it self into the Soul and brings along with it a thousand Inconveniences as Care Grief Fear Distrust Pining Discontent and an Unsatisfied Mind even with largest Fortune The Loose and Lacivious Eye makes Beauty its Object and whilst it sends abroad its Amourous Glances to take others it Captivates the Mind of its owner and binds it in the Chains of Slavery Many who have tampered in Jest have been taken in Earnest so have we seen a Cautious Fish nibbling at the Bate in hopes to get it off without hazarding the danger of the Hook till engaging too far he instead of feeding himself has been made the Anglers food Therefore Ladies to prevent the Malady which like a spreading Contagion disperses it self into most Societies you must keep your Eyes within Compass from wandring as much as possible and resolve with your self not to set any value or esteem upon earthly things more than may be taken off if reason requires it when the comeliness of any creature takes up your thoughts too largely then to remove that Object Place the Eyes of your Mind upon the Glorious and Transcendent Beauties and Loveliness of your Creator remember that God alone is the only worthy Object to fix our Minds on that we may have no desire to take it off when earthly things though valuable are of 〈◊〉 duration and lost almost 〈◊〉 soon as possessed and 〈◊〉 times create troubles and misfortunes carrying in themselves no solid or substantial Conteâ—ment Remember what a misery Dinah by giving her Eye to wandring brought upon herself and others Then 〈◊〉 preserve a purity of Heart 〈◊〉 Intention too strong to be invaded or at least overcome you must keep a watchful Guard over every Sense for if the Eye that is the light of the Body be evilly disposed the rest of the Senses 〈◊〉 needs be dim'd and darkened Consult Chastity and Modesty and as far as their Rules allow you may proceed with 〈◊〉 but all beyond is danger which is to be shun'd and avoided though the Eyes of other Creatures have no Objects but the visible Creation and naturally look down on the Earth 〈◊〉 which their irrecoverable 〈◊〉 must return Yet we have that more Glorious to Contemplate which only can make us truly happy for Heaven we ought to prepare for our sight naturally tends thither and the Eye of Faith Penetrates and gives the Upright sense a conversation there before it 〈◊〉 off it's incumbrance of Clay Give no occasion then Ladies for any to tax your Eyes with any thing that is not modest comely and allowable consider in company at home if of the different Sex nor in your walkings abroad to give them their wanderings but let your mind be upon them to keep them in their due bounds â—east becoming a Prey to others you are Enslaved or if you make a Prey of others your Conquest may however prove very troublesome and uneasie to you The Eyes are not the only dangerous things about you The Tongue many times for want of good Government betrays you into divers Misfortunes and Inconveniencies of which we shall briefly Treat Elizabath Queen of England her sufferings Elizabeth Queen of England â—tands to this day the wonder of her Sex as well relating to God's Providence in her many Deliverances in the Reign of Q. Mary her Sister as when â—he came to enjoy the Crown herself for all the open Force â—nd private Plots and Conâ—piracies against her were frustrated whilst she was in the Tower Bishop Gardiner â—ent a Counterfeit Warrant for â—er Execution but upon the Leiutenants going to know the truth at White-Hall it was â—et aside And such power â—ad
Lady of sense 〈◊〉 worth wou'd as soon maâ—â— choice of a Singing Master â—â— one who is always tiring 〈◊〉 with hard Names and 〈◊〉 Ditties He must then Sing very rarely or never unless the Lady desires him he must be neither too forward or aâ—â—â—â— and must not be of the â—â—mour of most Songsters who neither know when to begin nor make an end His Performances must be natural and easie and carry something of a free and genteel Air and he must never himself appear too well pleas'd with 'em but Order it so that he may seem to Oblige the Lady not himself by his Melody At least leâ—â—â—â— appear to be accidential 〈◊〉 as if by chance not knowing any hears him and for his 〈◊〉 private Diversion Quest 7. Whether wou'd it be greater Prudence and Honesty for a Person of a narrow Fortune to conceal his unhappy Circumstances 'till after marriage or to make his Mistress acquainted with the fâ—â—â—â— aâ— soon as he has gained her Affection Answ. Supposing the Lady such as she is described and not only Religious and Witty and Well-born but Generous too which 〈◊〉 he may know by narrowly observing her Sentiments in other Cases of this Nature we shou'd â—â—ink is the most prudent and 〈◊〉 handsom way to reveal â—â— to her before Marriage for Woman of Sense will rather 〈◊〉 pleas'd than otherways that 〈◊〉 can make the Fortunes of a Gentleman who wants nothing 〈◊〉 but may resent it very ill 〈◊〉 Cheat should be put upon 〈◊〉 when the once comes to 〈◊〉 it whereas it must â—eeds encrease her Esteem of 〈◊〉 Gentleman especially if 〈◊〉 really loves him for him 〈◊〉 deal so ingeniously with her And this for a Form of Courtship Quest 8. 〈◊〉 tells us of Love that 't is a 〈◊〉 pretty soft thing that plays about the Heart I defire 〈◊〉 to explain this Definition and what do you mean by the Word Thing And how we may know this thing from any 〈◊〉 playing thereabouts Answ. And here thinks the 〈◊〉 Querist have I blown up the Athenian Mercury for ever for this cetainly they can no more answer than I find out the Philosophers Stone However let us try and see who gets first to the Gole And first Love is little because 't is a Boy and pretty because 't is little and soft because 't is young or if you please because it has Wings and consequently the Body on 't must be downy But the sage Querist asks further what do you mean by a Thing O the Philosopher Why by a Thing we mean a Thing and believe that 's all the rest of the World means by it But if we must be more Explicit have at Metaphysicks and accordingly we tell him for once that Res and Ens are synonimous Words and that Ens is Quod habet Essentiam and now we have wonderfully Edisyed the Ladies who may be apt to think there 's some harm in all this Latin tho' there 's indeed no more than there is Nonsense in English But we had like to have forgotten one main part of the Doubt Why does this little pretty soft thing play about the Heart O Sir Because this cunning young Rogue of a god loves like Lesba's Sparrow to lye in Ladies Bosoms and besides whenever he shoots at 'em he as certainly splits their Hearts in two as ever Adam Bell did the Apple upon his Childs head for little Vrchin as he is he 's such a Dad at his Bow and Arrows that ne're a Finsbury Archer of 'em all can pretend to come near him But still how shall we know this thing from another thing that plays about the Heart What other thing is 't that this Querift finds so troublesome in his Doublet If it be a Louse the rest of the Description shows the difference for that 's not soft nor pretty nor perhaps little neither If it be a Flea he has had the Very Effigies of it formerly Numb Quest. 1. And can ne're sure mistake that for love We cou'd make a shift yet to find out another Explanation We call Love little by a familiar and more endearing way of speaking usual in all Languages in things of that Nature Thus the Latins use Corculum which may be Translated little Heart little Rogue or what the Reader pleases We call it pretty because 't is so pleasant and agreeable a Passion soft because its Effects are so and describe it playing about the Heart because that 's the Seat of the Passions After all we pretended not to give an Exact starcht Definition of it but a looser Description only and we are sure a little pretty soft thing comes nearer Love than a great ugly rough thing which neither is Love nor so much as like it any more than a Lover nor are the Ladies ever likely to entertain it for such tho' it shou'd talk of Love this hundred Years Athens Female-Self-Conquests How bravely could that Noble Spartan Lady when she mounted the Sciffold to receive the stroke of Death hecken to her injurious Accuser and with a Mild and Graceful Aspect advertise him of the wrongs he had done her Wishing him to lay his hand on his heart and make his Peace seasonably with the â—ods For my life quoth she as it is of little use to the State so 〈◊〉 prize it in regard I can benefit my Country little 〈◊〉 it Trust me I piâ—ty 〈◊〉 the indangering of your 〈◊〉 ward peace than the loss 〈◊〉 my Life This may be 〈◊〉 deemed by an Elesian freedom yours never to be â—vented but by perpetual 〈◊〉 rowing Indeed I lose 〈◊〉 Friends but these are withoâ— me But you should have 〈◊〉 nearer Friend within yoâ— from whose sweet amity 〈◊〉 amiable familiarity if you should once sever hear 〈◊〉 last breathing words of a â—â—ing Woman you are lost forever So easily did â—he remit that wrong which 〈◊〉 her life With what moderation did that Triumphanâ— Thomyris bear the death of her Son A feminine passion could not extract from her the well tempered eyes one Tear Not from her resolved heart oâ— Sigh She knows how to shadoâ— passion with a Cloud and immask the design of a future revenge with the whitest rail She chuseth rather to perish in herself than to do oughtunworthy of herself She could put on a countenance of Content when she heard how her Son had paid to Nature her debt though in a reflexion to his youth before his time I was his Mother and he is now returned to her who is Mother to us both If I lov'd him too much while he lived with me I will make satisfaction for that errour by bemoaning his loss now when he has left me But find her moderation in this â—bject amongst all others most â—mparallel'd which I the rather here insert because she â—as a raee Phoenix both in our â—ime and câ—â—â—e A Woman Nobly descended Richly endowed which by her Pious Practice and works of Mercy became highly improved She when she
get twenty for their Daughters and make no Provision for their Sons by which means the Daughters seldom stay till fifteen and the young Men Marry the earlier to get themselves a Stock of Cattel which they are sure of with a Wife We find in several Parts of the World as in Thrace and Assyria that they were so possessed with an Opinion of the advantage of Marriage as occasion'd their making Laws for its Propagation And here that no Maids may be left unmarried either for want of Beauty Mony or Virtue I shall add the Project mention'd by a late Author to provide them with Husbands Which is as follows viz. That a Statute might be made obliging all Men from One and Twenty Years of Age to Marry or in Default to pay One Eighth Part Annually of their Yearly Income if they be Men of real Estates or One Eighth Part of the Interest of their Personal Estates if it amount to One Hundred per Annum of Real or to Four Hundred Personal as it shall be 〈◊〉 by Men appointed for that Affair and the same to be 〈◊〉 by all Single Women who 〈◊〉 their Fortunes in their Hands after that they arrive to in Age of Eighteen and the same to be paid by all 〈◊〉 and Widows who have 〈◊〉 Children the Widowers â—â—â— to pay after Sixty Years of Age nor the Widows after Forty and all these 〈◊〉 to continue as long as they are unmarried And because that Young Men are often 〈◊〉 from Marriage through Default of their Fathers 〈◊〉 the same Mulct shall be laid on the Father's Estate as if â—â— were the Son 's This Mony so rais'd to be disposed in every City and Country as they find see sir for Portions to young Maids who are under Forty Years of Age and Care taken that it be expended every Year so as no Bank to be kept and that no Portion be ever given to any who have been debaunched with such other Rules as may be prescribed These Kingdoms in their most happy days never saw a Law which made that immediate Provision for the meanest Soul in it as this will do for 't will set the Captive free whereas many are now born who have reason to continue the Lamentation they found out at their first Entrance into the World Our greatest Charity for the Poor is at most but to keep them so but this will be cloathing them with Wedding Garments and every Corner of the Land will rejoice with Nuptial Songs and undoubtedly if it be a Virtuous Act to relieve the Poor this must be greater to provide for them for the present and to prevent it in their Posterity I 'm sensible that some may be apt to raise Objections against this Proposal which to save the Trouble both of naming and answering them I think this Reply may serve for all That there can be no particular Injury done in this Matter which can stand in the least Competition with the Consideration of such Publick Good as both Reforming and Peopling of a Kingdom will necessarily amount to See a Book call'd Marriage Promoted Female Modety Occasion and our Nature are like two inordinate Lovers they seldom meet but they do sin together Man is his own Devil and oftentimes doth tempt himself So prone are we to Evil that it is not one of the least Instructions that doth advise us to beware of our selves Now an Excellent Virtue to restrain or check a Man or Woman from running into Vice is Modesty I am perswaded many Women had been bad that are not so if they had not been bridled by a bashful Nature There are divers that have a Heart for Vice that have not a Face accordingly Surely the Graces sojourn with a blushing Virgin It is Recorded that the Daughter of Aristotle being asked which was the best Colour made answer That which Modesty produced in ingenious Spirits To blush at Vice is to let the World know that the Heart within hath an Inclination to Virtue Now to give a check to such immodest Women who proceed from the Acts of Uncleanness to Murder the illegitimate Off spring I shall for the information of these Ignorant Wantons give them a light of the following Act. An Act to prevent the Destroying and Murthering of Bastard Children WHereas many Leud Women that have been delivered of Bastard Children to avoid their Shame and to escape Punishment do secretly Bury or Conceal the Death of their Children and after if their Children be found dead the said Women do alledge that the said Child was born dead wheras it falleth out sometimes altho hardly it is to be proved that the said Child or Children were Murthered by said Women their Leâ—d Mothers or by their Assent or Procurement For the preventing therefore of this great Mischief be it Enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament That any Woman after one Month next ensuing the end of this Session of Parliament be delivered of any Issue of her Body Male or Female which being born alive should by the Laws of this Realm be a Bastard that she indeavour privately either by Drowning or secret Burying thereof or any other way either by her self or the procuring of others so to conceal the Death thereof as that it may not come to light whether it were born alive or not but he concealed in every such Case the said Mother so offending shall suffer Death as in Case of Murther except such Mother can make proof by one Witness at the least that the Child whose Death was by her so intended to be concealed was Born dead Modesty is one the most natural and most useful Tables of the Mind wherein one may presently read what is printed in the whole Volume Certainly a good Heart looks out thro' modest Eyes and gives an Answer to any that asks who is within with modest Words and dwells not at the sign of the Bush or Red-lattice or Painted-post A glorious Soul is above dresses and despiseth such as have no higher or other thoughts then what concern their gorget and their hair This preserves in tune and keeps the scale of Affections even This teaches a denying and preventing behaviour towards Tentations 1. Let the Carriage and Behaviour be modest Rebekah put on the Vail Gen. 24.64 when Abraham's Servant told her That the Man whom they saw coming towards them was his Master's Son to whom she was intended in Marriage Contrarily the Woman with the Attire of an Harlot of whom Sâ—omoâ— speaks Met a young Man and kissed him and with an impudent face she spake unto him Prov. â— 13. 2. Let the Language be modest Even Aristotle in his Politicks would have all Obsceness of words to be banished by the Law because when People take a liberty to speak ill they learn to do ill He would therefore have such as are Young neither to speak or hear any thing that is foul and if any be found faulty to be punished with stripes or some note of
to communicate unto them but his design being to make use of it himself he desired according to Custom to have a Licence so to do The Kasi or Judge not able to comprehend the true meaning unfortunately made answer that he had all the Reason in the World since he had been at such Pains to bring it to Perfection to have the Pleasure of enjoying it and so gave him his Permission in writing but neither that nor his own Authority prevailed with the Daughter to yield to his wicked Embraces so that enraged with Lust he took an opportunity to ravish her of this Brutish Act she informed her Mother and the report of it coming to the Knowledge of King Mahomet Begeraus Ear he caused the unnatural Father to be Beheaded though he was a Man of great Substance Incest with the Greek Race of the Ptolomies Kings of Egypt was usual for they Married their Sisters and sometimes their Daughters but most of them came to unfortunate ends of either Sex Incest had such an ascendant over Artaxerxes Mnemon King of Persia that he Married his Daughter Arcssa a Beautiful Virgin but never prospered after it Lucretia the Daughter of Pope Alexander the sixth not only committed Incest with her Father but with her Brother the Duke of Candy who was slain by Caesar Borgie another of that Popes hopeful Offspring for being his Rivâ—l in that Sister he soon after poisoned his Father and was himself slain by the Multitude Many Instances of the like Nature are recounted in History but always attended with some fearful Judgement or sad Calamity to manifest the displeasure of the Almighty Infants crying in the Womb or Wonders in Nature Infants crying in the Wombs of their Mothers have occasioned various discourses among the Learned as to it's Signification but in this they differ however it is a thing very unusual and therefore strange Sorrow indeed is incident to Mankind and we begin it with Weeping before we know what it means but that is very rare 'till we come to breath in the open Air now whether such untimely Cryings may signifie something extraordinary in the Course of Life or that Provident Nature would have them Practise in the dark Cell of Generation what they shall afterwards seldom want so long as they enjoy the Light viz. Sorrow and Affliction we undertake not to determine but such Relations of these little Prisoners that have been so heard to cry in those close Appartments take as we find them in credible Histories In Holland a Woman had a Child cryed and bemoaned it self in her Womb with little inâ—ermission for the space of fifteen days In Leydon a Gentlewoman being in Bed with her Husband on a suddain hearing the Child cry in her Womb was greatly terrified so that in two days after she fell in labour though she expected to go a great while longer In Kathstadt a Town in the Norick Alps a Child was heard to cry in his Mothers Womb fourteen days before it was born And indeed a great deal more of the like Nature is testified by credible Persons of Candid Reputations that the Truth of them is not to be doubted but by those that their own Failings and Romances have stupified and rendred so incredulous that they will scarcely believe what they see and hear themselves the Cause â—f this prot bably may be because â—here is more Air contained in the Membranes of some Wombs than others which drawn in gives the Organs a Sound or Noise c. Iealousie and its evil Effect c. Jealousie if the Bane of Love and the grand distuâ—â—er of either Sâ—x fâ—r where its Poyson once tinctures though in never so small a proportion it insensibly spreads to the impoisoning of the mind and changes a Heaven of Contentment into a Hell of Disorder and Conâ—â—sion it is the Gâ—â—gon's Head that with a look changes Pleasure into Pain and raises Storms of Disquiet in those Breasts where Halcion Joys and Pleasures were brooding the true satisfactions of Life and happy days and all this for the most part is groundless and unreasonable in its original Contraction Bonavenâ—â—ne a very learned and famous Man of his time looking wishfully upon a Beautiful Woman in his Company the Husband being present could nâ—t forbear to demand with sâ—me trouble of Mind which hâ— labour'd to stisie the reason why he so earneâ—ly fixeâ— his â—yes upon her who modestly reâ—â—â—yed that he admired tâ—e Exceâ—â—ency of the Creâ—toâ— by Contemplating the Beauty of the Creature and if Mortals were so amiable â—ow infinitely more lovely should we be at the Reâ—â—rrection This was an Example saith Boschier that was rather to be admired than imitated seeing the Husband was â—atisfied with the reason he gave for Jealousie is rightly compared to the Indian impoisoned Arrows if they race the Skin they endanger Life but drawing Blood inâ—vitably destroys it the first motions that arise from this root of bitterness have their evil Effects but where the Disease is improved it empoysons all our Comâ—orâ—s and throws us Head-long unto the most Tragical Resolutions and is incident to either Sex Justina a fair beautiful Lady of her time that Rome could boast of was marryed to a Man of a large Fortune who finding her so excellent a Creature suspected every one that cast his Eyes upon her and at length began to suspect that she was prodigal of her Favours to others and careless of her Honour upon no other ground than that a Woman so accomplished with all the Perfections of a celebrated Beauty must Charm all Mankind as well as himself to delight in her which made him grow Envious and Furious so that one day discovering her curious White Neck as she was stooping to â—ye â—er Shâ—ce he wickedly drew his Sword without any other Resentment or Provocation and separated at one blow her Head from her Body Jane Queen of Spain and Mother to Charles the Fifth Emperor of Germany as likewise to Ferdinand who succeeded him was so exceeding Jealous of King Philip her Husband that she suffered him to have no rest nor quiet but by her continual persecuting him with Clamours Reproaches and insufferable Abuses supposed causlesly it was thought she shortened his days and withall brought her self to that Weakness of Mind that she could not discern of my Matters that were propounded to her Jonuses one of Selimus's great Bassa's and Favourites stabbed his Wife because she was so Beautiful though Virtuous that he thought it was impossible for him to keep her to himself only Joan Queen of Naples though she was wickedly lewd and debauched her self yet she caused two Husbands to be murthered upon bare suspition they had to do with other Women because they could not satisfie her Lust Yet all these with many more we might Name came themselves to Violenâ— Deaths and untimely Ends being pushed Head long down the Precepice of Ruin by Judgments that suddainly overtook them Jealousie being like a raging Feavour that
chast Virtous Husband she would never have attempted it A Man ought to be a Pattern and Guide to his Wife in Virtue so that if she be otherwise she may be left inexcusable and rendred more blame-worthy But methinks we hear some replying there is a vast difference in this Case between Men and Women If I says one am guilty of this Tickling Sin my Bastards Heir my Estate I can put them off with little but if my Wife be faulty I must be a drudge for other mens Children which is insufferable and why pray Sir Fopiing will you put that upon your Neighbour that you are unwilling to bear your self this is a great way out of the road of doing as you would be done by there is something of Justice in it that a Man that in this manner wrongâ— his Neighbour should be retaliated in the same kind and when he is in the raving 〈◊〉 â—y of his Jealousie deserves a less degree of Pity than others though many times this Jealousie is without a Cause the Woman not taking Example by his extravagancies is Chast and Virtuous and he will not believe her to be so but measures her by himself Jealousie is a great Sign that the party it possesseâ— is dishonest whatever fair pretences may be made and indeed their Jealousie and the restraint they lay upon their Wives makes them many times dishonest for no other end than a sweet revenge on their Jealousie not to let them continue in it without a Cause Aeneas Sylvius says the Italians are much to blame in locking up their Wives for Women generally are of a Disposition to covet most that which is denied most and offend least where they have the greatest Liberty and Freedom to Act and do as they please it is in vain to lock her up if she be dishonestly inclined for she has so many Wiles to accomplish her desire that she will as the old saying is make you if possible a Cuckold thro' the Key-hole And Virtue can only be the secure Guardian of a Womans Honour if that be mistaken you need fear nothing but force and violence can overcome her and that very seldom happens to Women though a little push as some will have it throws them down when there is a kind of an Inclination to fall backward When Mark Anthony left his Chast Wife Octavia to wanton in the adulterous embraces of Cleopatra Queen of Egypt she was far from revenging her injury in giving up her self to another though he had utterly forsaken her Turn a virtuous Woman loose to all the Tarquins and Satyrs their Perswasions Flatteries and Promises shall never shake her virtuous resolves Archidamus Consul of Antioch offered a Young Woman a hundred pieces of Gold and to free her Husband who then lay a Prisoner in a dark Dungeon if she would satisfie his Lust but neither her Husbands Sufferings nor Poverty could induce her to be Unchast Cure of Jealousie one would think should be wrought by considering what has been said yet that there may be nothing wanting on so Urgent and Necessary an Occasion a composed Temper is very rarely subject to Jealousie for there Reason stands Centinel and keeps it out and if Men who are subject to passion would but use Reason would but labour by degrees to Compose themselves and be of a sedate and calm Temperature they would in time be Masters over their Passions and find the Humours that feed them abate and then they need not fear to shake off Jealousie if it should at any time suddainly surprize them Iilt o. to deceive or defeat ones expectation especially in the point of Amours Illia Daughter of Numitor King of the Albanes a Vestal Nun but Mother of Romulus and Remus by Mars Imps Witches little Familiars Incontinency want of Moderation in Affections and Desires Incubus l. the Devil in Man's shape lying with Women as Succubus with Men also the Night-mare or raw Humours from the Stomach troubling the Brain and Animal Spirits that the Body cannot move Indecorum unseemliness unhandsome Carriage Ino Daughter of Cadmus Nurse to Bacchus and Wife to Athamas K. of Thebes who in his madness supposing her to to be a Lioness drove her headlong into the Sea Io Daughter of Inacbus turned into a Cow by Jupiter that she might not be known of Juno who drove her into Egypt where she recovered her former shape and was made a Goddess Iocasta Daughter of Creen King of Thebes after the Death of her Husband Laius she unwittingly married her own Son Oedipus Iointure a Settlement upon the Wife in respect of Marriage Iopas a Musical King of Africa one of Dido's Suitors Iphianassa Iphinoe and Lyssppe Daughters of Pretus King of Argos preferring their Beauty to Juno's were by her struck with madness imagining themselves to be Cows Iphigenia Agamemnon's Daughter which should have been sacrificed to Diana because her Father had slain a Hart of hers but the Goddess pittyed her and sent an Hart to be offered in her stead Iphimedia ravished by Neptune brought forth Ephialtes and Otus who grew every month nine Fingers in length 'till helping the Gyants against the gods they were slain by Apollo Irene the Mother of Constantine the seventh reign'd with him Nine Years he expelled her Reigned alone seven Years again she took him by craft put out his Eyes cast him into Prison where he dyed and reigned alone four Years Iris Iuno's Messenger the Rain-bow also an hexagonal precious stone Irus a beggarly Messenger between Penelope and her Suiters whom Ulysses kill'd with his Fist. Ischuotes g. a slender child 〈◊〉 or Faeminine pronunciation Ills an Egyptian Goddess made of Io. Isota de â—ugarolis a Virgin of Verona famous for Philosophy Philology and Poetry Ifsue an Effect Children Profits of Fines or Lands the matter depending in suit Itylus slain by his own Mother Aeton instead of Amaâ—eus the Son of Amphion Itys slain by his Mother Progue and set before his Father Tereus King of Thrace at a Banquet for deflowring her sister Philomel he perceiving the murder with his naked Sword pursued them but in their flight they were changed Progne into a Swallow Philomel into a Nightingale and Itys to a Pheasant Iulep A preparative of Syrups c. to open the inward parts and prepare for a Purgation from Iulap a kind of Rose-water Iulian-na Cilian a Womans Name Iulian Law among the 〈◊〉 made Adultery death Iumbals certain Sweetâ—â—â—â—ts Iuno Twin-Sister and Wife to Jupiter Iussel a minced Dish of several meats Iuturna the Daughter of Daunus made by Jupiter for the Loss of her Maidenhead the immortal Nymph of the River Numicius Ixion Son of Phlegias thrown to Hell for boasting that he had lain with Juno in whose stead Jupiter had placed a Cloud on which he begat the Centaurs Infanta of Spain every Daughter of that King not being Heir whether first second or third c. the Heir is called Princesa and the rest Infanta's of the Sons are called
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
but what becomes of those that are there they know not they being never after seen many of the like instances we might give you but not to be tedious we conclude this Head and proceed to the next That Love in some Cases plays the Tyrant many even in this Age have experienced a Young Gentlewoman not long since in Covent-garden being sent out of the Countrey by her friends to prevent her Marriage with a Young Gentleman of a small fortune to whom she was Contracted and entirely Loved receiving a Letter though forged in his Name that he was married took it so hainously that notwithstanding the Care taken of her upon the visible Change and Melancholly it occasioned she strangled her self with one of her Gatters though this Stratagem is sending the Letter was only to wean her Affections from him so that Love in this Case proved as strong as Death Love has had such an ascendant over the Indian Women that where there have been more Wives than one belonging to a Husband and which the Custom of the Countrey allowed when he dyed they have contended which of them should leap into the Funeral Flames to bear him Company as they fancied in the other World and she to whose Lot it fell by Decision has embraced it with Joy and Triumph and counted her Fate most Glorious Love in its Operation works stupendious matters it has built Cities united Provinces and Kingdoms and by a perpetual Generation makes and preserves Mankind propagated Religion but in the height of its Rage it is no more than Madness or Phrensie and turning into Lust turns the Glorious Fabricks it has raised into Confusion Ruins Families and brings a croud of Miseries upon Mankind Sodom Troy and Rome have felt the Effects of its outragious Fury much Blood has been shed upon that account as well in Private as in Publick it has tumbled Kings from their Thrones and laid much Honour in the Dust Wives have destroy'd their Husbands and Husbands turn'd Barbarians towards their Wives it has opened a door for Jealousie and that has let in revenge and all the cruelties that witty horrour could invent yet knowing all these things some will wilfully suffer themselves to be carried away with a violent Passion as with a Rapid Torrent into the deep Gulf of Misery where they inevitably perish this by the way but now we come to something more of Love Heroical incident to Men and Women Chast Nuptial Love of which we may truly say Thrice happy they who give a heart Which bonds of Love so firmly ◠That without Brawls till death them part Is undissovl'd and cannot dy Rubenius Celer was proud to have it Engraved upon his Tomb-stone that he had continued in the bonds of Marriage with his dear wife 〈◊〉 forty three Years and eight Months and never had any Contention with her should our Age boast of such strict Love the Censorious would scarce believe tho' more the pity is that all Conjugal Loves are not of the same then there would be no pleasure in this world Comparable to it some curious Searchers into Nature and observers of the Faculties of the Mind are of the Opinion that in woman there is something beyond humane delight something of a Magnetick Virtue a charming Quality a hidden and powerful Motive that attracts a more than ordinary Love and Favour and dispenses if rightly understood a more than ordinary Pleasure and Delight though the Husband rules her as head 〈◊〉 has the Dominion over his heart and makes him pleasingly yield to her Modest Desires and rate her at a Value equal with himself and when his good natured Passion boils up it overflows in raptural Expressions as if the fair Sex had so much the Ascendant over man that they in a high degree participate something of the Nature of Beautiful Angels always Fresh and Charming it was the wish of the Poet to Love to the end of his Life when he says Dear Wife let 's live in Love and dy together As hitherto we have in all good will 〈◊〉 no day Change or Alter our fair Weather But let 's be young to one another still Love of this Kind shows that Beauty has not the sole Dominion over it for when tha is faded like a blasted Rose ruffled by the Breath there remains something within that apears Beautiful and Lovely standing at Defiance with time whose rugged hand has no power to press it into Deformity or with his Iron Teeth that ruin the Monuments of Kings the Temples of the gods themselves and the magnificent Trophies of Conquerors give it the least Diminution or Impair and this is excellently described as to the Beauty of the mind by a young Gentleman who fell in Love with a Lady for her Wit and Virtue though no ways externally Accomplished viz. 1. Love thus is pure which is design'd To Court the Beauty of the mind No pimping dress no fancy'd Aire No sex can bribe my Judgment there But like the happy spirits above I 'm blest in Raptures of seraphick Love 2. Such chast Amours may justly claims Friendship the Noble manly Name For without Lust I gaze on thee And only wonder 't is a she Only one Minds are Courtier 's grown Such Love endures when Touth and Beauty 's flown 3. Who on thy looks has fix'd his Eye Adores the Case where Jewels lye I 've heard some foolish Lovers say To you they give their hearts away I willingly now part with mine To Learn more sense and be inform'd by thine Long may such Love flourish in the world And then Love will be Love and not dissimulation Love is a sharp spur to prick men on to valorous Exploits even those of a rural Education for their Mistresses sakes have oftentimes ventured upon such daring Exploits as would have made them upon any other account to have trembled Some are of the opinion that if it was possible to have an Army of Lovers and their Mistresses to be spectators of their Courage they would do more than could be reasonably expected by men prove extraordinary valiant prudent in their Conduct and modesty would detain them from doing amiss Emulation incites them to noble Actions and carries them on like a rowling Torrent over the swords of their Enemies to bear down all before them there is none so dastardly Pusillanimous that Love cannot inspire with a Heroical Spirit when Philip of Macedon prosecuted his Conquests in Greece he observed in one Battel he fought that in the Enemies army was a small Band of men fought couragiously and held so close together that they made ten times their Number give back nor could they be broken till oppressed by multitudes and then like chased Lyons killing a multitude of their Enemies they expired upon their dead bodies not one seeking to fly or submitiing to quarter The Battel being over the King demanded what those brave men were that had fought and was answered their Band was called
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
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
one sense a man may as well be drunk with love as Wine and it is indeed the worst of the two because more lasting when the other perhaps is but a Nights debauch this many times stupifies the senses all the days of Life locks up his Reason in the Dungeon of headstrong willfulness and self-blindedness placing an unruly passion as Goaler to keep it strictly in Chains so that a man or a woman thus divested may justly be term'd an irrational Creature acting in some degress worse than they Mark Anthony had such a love to Cleopatria that none could wean him from it first by giving himself up to sloath and wantoness lost that great Name he had gain'd in War then the love of his Soldiers and lastly the Empire of the East and for dispair and madness kill'd himself and brought Aegypt and other Countrys into an Extream Calamity The fair Inchantress likewise kill'd her self by clapping Vipers to her breasts and so ended their Love Fevers in a doleful kind of Melancholy How many might we name that have lost themselves and their flourishing Fortunes upon this account throwing themselves as it were from Precipices or into Yawning Gulfs when they might have stood firm or mov'd on smoothly and uninterrupted Platina says from hence came Repentances though of a strange kind Dotages Ship wracking of Wits and Fortunes and violent Deaths And some hold the Prognostick is that when this Passion is at the heighth and Extreamly Raging the Party will either run mad or die at this Reason is given viz. because it makes the Blood black thick and hot and if the Inflammation get into the brain it will with continual waking meditations and musing so dry up and the moisture that the brain is inflam'd for want of it or shrink together and then madness ensues and sometimes they lay violent hands upon themselves some pine away and die upon a sudden And as one says For whilst I do conceal my grief Madness steals on me like a Thief Would I were dead for nought But death can rid me of my woes When Eurialus left Lucretian she never laugh'd jested or gave one pleasant look but fell into Love Melancholy and pin'd her self to death So desperate had Love made a young hot brain'd Lover that the Parents of the Virgin he lov'd utterly refusing to let her marry him in a raging fit of passion resolving if he could not that nobody should enjoy her he first Kill'd her and then himself having desir'd of the Magistrates they might be bury'd in one Grave which being granted when he had mortally wounded himself he took a great consolation to his troubled mind Many have been so inflam'd with love that to obtain their desires they have destroy'd their nearest Relations and best Friends for giving them good Counsel Some have betray'd Citys nay whole Countrys in their proses'd Enemies upon this occasion as the Widow of Nereus did Athens for the love of an handsom Venetian Gentleman Pithidice the Governours Daughter of Methinia betrayed her Father and the whole Island to Achilles has the love she bear him Alexander for the love of Tan who demanded it as a tryal of his Affection set the famous City of Persopolis on fire tho Repentance came too late and made him weep over its Ruins Cataline Kill'd his only Son in a Love raging fit Therefore such violences are timely to be avoided All that in us â—â—ere they grow too strong for us and we cannot 〈◊〉 them When gentle winds do blow 〈◊〉 Oars we try But in rough storms are foreâ—â— Lay them by Prognosticks of Jelousie Madness Dispair 〈◊〉 Examples c. Prognosticks of Jelousie are 〈◊〉 and various and we find they Tyranizing distemper 〈◊〉 first with a kind of 〈◊〉 and dulness of the Spirits the it is formed into suspicion â—â— from thence grows up to hatred and from that to Madness Freâ—â—ey Injury dispair and Murther if it to be not removed or prevented in time There is nothing so bloody as the fury of a Jealous man in his enterpriz'd Revenge and if they are hindred in that they many times turn their Fury on themselves and are destroyed by their own hands And Cyprian says it produces a fruitful mischief is the Seminary of offences and Fountain of Murther A thousand Tragecal Examples we might mention antient and modern Hercules was Poison'd by Deianita Amestris the Wife of Xâ—xes finding his Cloak in the House of Masista presently grew Jealous of his Wife got her into her Power and glutted her Eyes with Cruelty by fleeing her alive cut off heâ— Ears Nose Lips Paps and likewise her Tongue out and left her to dye in that miserable condition Deutera the Wife of Thexiebar King of France having had a Fair Daughter by another Husband grew Jealous that she sought to take the Kings Love from her and Transported with this Rage like a Barbarous Inhuman mother caused the beautious innocent maid to be murthered Ferdinandus Chalâ—eria cut off Getherinus a Nobleman's Legg because as he supposed he look'd too familiar upon his Wife which occasioned much blood shed by the Quarrels that ensued upon it amongst their Relations and another who suspected a Fryer that often Visited his House being in the Chamber when his Wife was Delivered and seeing the Child in the Caul he immediately swore the Fryer had Cuccolâ—ed him and that must of necessity be a Child of his begetting and the Learned Reason he gave for it was that it came into the World wraped in a Fryars Caul or Hood Fulgosus a Woman of Narbone though one would hardly think that a Woman would be so unkind to herself took her Husband Napping and in his sleep cut off his Genitors because she supposed he performed Duty somewhere else and neglected it at home resolving since they were in a manner useless to her no body else should be the better for them Pain almost of any kind is doubtless nothing to the Torments of Jealousy it puts the party as it were upon the Rack and Afflicts him in every part At Basil there was a Painters Wife who had bore her Husband nine Children by that she was twenty seven years of Age and then upon a Caprice of which she could give no reasonable account her self she must needs grow Jealous which in a small time increasing utterly destroyed her Quiet and Repose nor would she eat and drink at home for fear as she said her Husband should Poison her Felix Peter tells us of a Physician that went mad through Jealousy Of a Merchant that Kill'd his Wife in the humour and afterward himself O a Doctor in Law that cut 〈…〉 Mans Nose because whilst the fellow was telling a blunt story his Wife smiled at it Prognosticks of this Kind may be taken from the Humours for when they are once stirred and the Imagination disaffected Jealousy soon enters varying it self into divers forms and many absurd Symptoms accompany it and when it gets too large a scope and
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
betwixt themselves vowing lasting Virginity Sisters Love to a Brother Ituphens being to suffer Death by Order 〈◊〉 Darius his Wife cast her 〈◊〉 groveling before the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with such pitiful 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ions and Clamours that they came even to the Ears of Darius and much penetrated him being uttered with such 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and moving Accenâ—◠〈◊〉 ble to mollifie the Flint 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 marble Imprest there sore with her pitious lamentations the Kings sent unto 〈◊〉 That her Tears and 〈◊〉 had so far prevailed with 〈◊〉 that from the condemned Society they had ransomed 〈◊〉 and one only to continue 〈◊〉 memory of their Name Family chuse among 〈◊〉 all whose life she most 〈◊〉 ed and whole safety 〈◊〉 greatest affection desired furhter than this to grant 〈◊〉 his sentence was 〈◊〉 None that heard this small yet unexpected Favour from the King but presently imagined she would either redeem her husband or at least one of her sons two of them being all she had then groaning under the burthen of that heavy sentence But after some small meditation beyond the Expectation of all men she demanded the life of her brother The King somewhat amazed at her choice sent for her and demanded the Reason Why she had preferred â—he life of a brother before the safety of such a Noble husband or such hopeful children To whom hr answer'd Behold O King I am yet but â—words and in my 〈◊〉 of years and I may live to 〈◊〉 another husband and so 〈◊〉 frequently by him more children but my father and mother are hath aged and 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 and should I lose a brother 〈◊〉 for evermore be deprived of that sacred Name Sentiments of the 〈◊〉 concerning women I 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 of the 〈◊〉 Wives who in conâ—â—â— of Death scorn to surâ—â— their Husband's Funeral 〈◊〉 but with chaste Zeal and 〈◊〉 Courage throw â—â—â—selves into the Flames as they were then going to the 〈◊〉 Bed Certainly they 〈◊〉 aright who reckon Day of our Death the Day 〈◊〉 Nativity since we are Born to Possession of mortal Life For this 〈◊〉 I honour the Memory of Ludâ—vicus Cartesius the Padâ—â— Lawyer who in his Last Will and Testament ordered that no sad Funâ—eal Rites should be observ'd for him but that His Corbs should be attended with Musick and Joy to the Grave and as if it were the Day oâ—â—poufals he commanded that Twelve Suits of Gay Apparel should be provided instead of â—â—â—ning for an equal number of Virgins who should usher his Body to the Church It will not I hope be an unpardonable Transiation if I statrt back from the melancholy Horrours of Death to the innocent Comforts of Humane Life and from the Immortal Nuptials of thâ—s Italian pass to the Mortal Emblem the Rites of Matrimony the Happiness of Female Society and our Obligations to Women 'T is an uncourtly Vertue which admits of no Proselytes but Men devoted to Coelibacy and he is a Reproach to his Parents who thuns the Entertainments of Hymen the blissful Amours of the Fair Sex without which he himself had not gain'd so much as the Post of a Cypher in the Numeration of Mankind though he now makes a Figure too much in Natures Arithmetick since he wou'd put a stop to the Rule of Multiplication He is worse than Nâ—â—ma Pompilius who appointed but a set number of Virgins and those were free to Marry after they had guarded the Sacred Fires the Torm of four years Whereas if his morose Example were follow'd all Women should turn Vestals against their wills and be consecrated to a peevish Virginity during their Lives I wonder at the unnatural Phancy of such as could wish we might procreate like Trees as if they were Ashm'd of the Act without which they had never been capable of such an extravagant Thought Certainly he that Created us and has riveted the Love of Women in the very Center of our Natures never gave us those passionate Desires to be our incureable Torment but only as Spurs to our Wit and Vertue that by the Dexâ—erity of the one and he Intergrity of the other we might merit and Gain the Darling Object which should consummate our Earthly Happiness I do not patronize the smoke of those Dunghil-Passions who only court the Possession of an Heiress and fall in Love with her money This is to make a Market 〈◊〉 and prostitute the Noblest Affection of our Souls to the fordid Ends of Avarice Neither do I commend the softer Aims of those who are wedded only to the Charming Lineaments of a Beautiful Face a clear Skin or a well shap'd Body 〈◊〉 only the Vertue Discretion and good Humour of a Woman could ever captivate me I hate the Cynical Flout of those who can afford Women no better Title than Necessary Evils and the lewd Poetical License of Him who made this Anagram Vxor Orcus idem That Ontour whisper'd the Doctrine of Devils who said Were it not for the Company of Women Angels would come down and dwell among us I rather think were it not for such ill natur'd Fellows as he Women themselves would proâ—â—â—â— Angels 'T is an ugratefull Return thus to abuse 〈◊〉 Gentle Sex who are the 〈◊〉 in which all the Race of 〈◊〉 are cast As if they deserv'd no better Treatment at 〈◊〉 Hands than we usually 〈◊〉 to saffron Bags and 〈◊〉 Bottles which are throâ— into a Corner when te 〈◊〉 and Spice are taken 〈◊〉 them The Pagan Poet 〈◊〉 little better than a Murdereâ— who allow'd but two 〈◊〉 Hours to a Woman 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vnam in Thalams alteram Tumulo For my Part I should steem the World but a 〈◊〉 were it not for the Society the Fair Sex and the 〈◊〉 Polished Part of 〈◊〉 wou'd appear but Hermiâ—â— masquerade or a kind of 〈◊〉 lized Satyrs so imperfect unaccomplish'd is our 〈◊〉 without the Reunion of 〈◊〉 lost Rib that Substantial Integral Part of our selves Those who are thus disjoynted from Women seem to inherit Adam's Dreams out of which nothing can awake them but the embraces of their own living Image the Fair Traduct of the first Mepamorphosis in the World the Bone converted into Flesh. They are always in Slumbers and Trances ever separated from themselves in a wild pursuit of an intolerable Loss nor can any thing fix their Valuable Dâ—â—â—res but the powerful magnetism of some Charming Daughter of Eve These are the Centers of all our Desires and Wishes the true Pandoras that alone can satisfie our longing Appetites and fill us with Gifts and Blessings in them we live before we breath and when we have 〈◊〉 the Vital Air 't is but to dy an amorous Death that we may live more pleasantly in them again They are the Guardians of our Infancy the Life and Soul of our Youth the companions of our Riper Years and the Cherishers of our Old Age. From the Cradle to the â—omb we are wrapt in a Circle of obligations to them for
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
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
nothing that was admirable or might Create Wonder and Admiration in the beholders This last best blessing was far above the worth of all the Creatures that were made before it How can Man then who pretends to have but a Glimmering of understanding but haste to Embrace so great a Blessing in which his Earthly felicity consists if he rightly knows what it is to be happy it gives those that can discern and be truly sensible of it in a lower degree a taste and earnest of that Love and Harmony That must consumaâ—e our Endless Felicity of which God himself is the Author and Center O How happy it is to leave Mercenary Smiles and Embraces which carrys distinction in them for those that are chaste and Cordial the one is Boisterous and Bandies us about like a troubled Sea with Fears and doubts and jealousies whilst the other is Smooth and Calm as the Waves where the Halcion Broods the one is Proud and Imperious the other Humble and submissive seeks by Mildness to allay the Storms Approach her Angry Husband with Modesty and a winning Grace that she may temper his Heat and disarm him of his Rage which being opposed might break out into Violence and Mischief So Venus moves when to the Thunderer In Smiles and Tears she would some Suit Prefer When with her Cesto's Girt And drawn by Doves she cuts the yeilding Skies And Kindles Gentle Fires where e're She Flies These things considered we cannot but be of the opinion but that a Virtuous Wife is the greatest happiness a Man can possess Riches and Honour bring Cares and Incumberances but she brings Love Peace and Joy soft delights and Ravishing Pleasure and where such a pâ—ir meet whose Loves are pure and Chaste we may Contemplate tâ—eir happiness and say 1. Thus like the two first Lovers they Yet free â—rom Guilt and all offâ—nce On Odorous Beds of Flowers Lay In their First State of Innocence 2 Their Lips still joyn'd like billing Doves With ardent Breathiâ—gs of desire They secretly inâ—lame their Loves And set each others Heart on Fire And this may suffice in this place to shew Man the way to his happiness if he will be well advised and conceive it aright Widdow good her character Give us leave to point out a good Widdow that he who cannot obtain his likeing and desire in a Virgin may not be discourage â—rom ventering on one who has been tryed and is experienced in the grand Mysteries of Love by which she is the more capable of Love she is therefore a Woman whose Head has been cut off and yet she is alive and hath a second part of Virginity to act over Her grief though moderate for the death of her Husband is yet not withstanding real it is not a violent storm that is soon over but a still Rain that continuâ—s long and soaks their Hearts with grief that is not easily removed she continues her usual time in her Widdows Estate with a serious and modest reservedness not by any Action or Gesture showing as if she was willing to change though for a great advantage not only living sober and single but Chaste and honest making Virtuâ— her study and works of Piety and Charity her Recreation keeping her self in all thingâ— blameless and her Reputation unspoâ—ted and though she goes abroad sometimes about her business yet she makes it not her business to go abroâ—d though 't is no Crime so to do In civil Affairs she is often forced to Act a double part both of the Man and Woman The remembrance of her Husband is imprinted in the lively Pictures he has lest behind him for when she looks on her Children she sees his Idea there and places her fondness in giving them good Education and bringing them up in the ways of Virtue Her Husbands Friends are ever her Welcomest Guests whom she entertains with the honourable mention of their Friends and her Husbands memory If she câ—n speak but little good in his Praise she speaks but little of him yet that to the best advantage handsomly holding â—p her Discourse so that his Virtues are shown outwards and his Vices wrapped up In silence She is a Champion for his Credit if any speak against him and always puts her special Confidence in God's Providence as the best and surest â—usbanâ— to the Widdow and Father to the Fatherless and therefore she seeks to keep his Love firm to her by Prayer and a Religious Life if she Marry again she will not do it so hastily or rashly but she will take care to provide for the Children she has already before she signs the Contract that they may not be wronged when it may not be in her power to right them Get but such a Widdow and you need not fear to live comfortably and happily with her always having regard to the Equality of Years for where Age and Youth meet in the Marriage sheets it must be an admirable Virtue that will at all times exclude Discontents and though they break not out yet they will smoother and gloe within to the great hindrance of your peace and quiet Widdowhood though it supersedes those Duties which were terminated meerly in the person of the Husband however it endears those that may and ought to be paid to his Funeral Dust Love is as strong as Death and reaches beyond the fatal stroak he gives to make a separation where Lives were so nearly linked in one for she will have Love and cherish his Memory though his person be snatched from her and laid up in a gloomy Grave till the Morning of the Resurrection yet his Idea remains with her a Modest Funeral any one bestows for decency towards the Dead is comely and Charitable but she after having bathed him with her Tears embalms him in her Mind and gives him there a Monument lasting as her Life If she have Children by him she keeps them as the dear Pledges of their Conjugal Love tenderly and careful bringing them up in the ways of Virtue and Piety and they serve as so many Lively Pictures of her deceased Husband before her Eyes and are the dawning Comforts of her Life in the solitude and darkness of her sorrow her care is so to Educate them that they may worthily be esteemed the Off-spring of such a Father We now suppose the Funeral Solemnity over and the extraordinary torrent of Tears begin to be decreased into a calmer stream wherefore we think it will not be an extraordinary boldness but such a one as may be pardoned by a Virtous Widdow if we intrude a little into her Retirement and consider somwhat that may be advantagious to the state of Widdowhood A Widdow then may more than conjecture when God takes away the dear companion of her happiness and reduces her to a Solitude he does it to sound a Retreat from the lighter gaities and Jollitries of the World The Jews were very early wont to put their Women in mind of the brittle and
Queen to whom she had been just and faithful and that she must now at her going out of the World give him her Hearty thanks that since he had no more Wordly Honour to Agrandize her he had taken Care to promote her to what was more glorious in Heaven by making her a Martyr to become a Saint in Blessed Realms of Eternal Life After Her Death these Verses were Written of her Phoenix Anna Jaâ—et nato Phaenice dolendum Sâ—â—â—la Phoenices null TullisseDuo Here Ann a Phaenix Lies who bore her like 't is said Never one age two Phaenixes has had After this another Fair Court Star set in Blood though deserving a better Fate The Lady Jans Grey who had Married Gulford Dudly Son to the Duke of Northumberland and was after King Edward the Sixth's Death Pursuant to his will Proclaimed Queen to avoid the return of Popery by the coming of Mary afterward Queen Mary to the Crown but Fate consented not for upon Mary's Proclaimation Northumberlands Army with which he went to oppose her disserting him he was taken Prisoner and soon after beheaded the Young Queen thus disserted trusting to her Innocence and Virtue as her guard and defence found them too weak where a Crown was in competition for she with her Husband was sent to the Tower where She continued a Mirror of Piety constancy and Patience being of the Royal Blood as Grandaughter to Mary second Sister to Henry the eight Tho she was very Young when this affliction fell upon her she was an extraordinary Schollar well skilled in most Languages during her Imprisonment she writ upon the Walls these Verseâ— Non Aliena Putes Homini â—â—â— nbtingere possunâ— Sors Hodierna mihi 〈◊〉 erit ika tibi Think nothing strange chance happens unto all My Lot's to day to Morrow thine may fall And again Dio Javante nill noâ—â—â— Livor malus Et non Juvants nil Juvat Labor grats Post Tinibras spero Lucem If God protect no Malice can offend me Without his help there 's nothing can defend me After Night I hope for Light She was so unconcerned at her Death though not above 16 Years of Age that she not only bore it with singular patience and constancy but seâ—t to comfort the Duke of Suffoâ—k her Father who was in Prison and soon after suffered in those Bloody Mazean times when Popery had got again the upper hand to comfort him by her Letter to Persevere in the Protestant Religion and if be had the hard Fortune to be cut off to Dye worthy of his Honour and like himself but not at call to gâ—â—â—ve for her for she was going to a happy Kingdom to the chaste Embraces of her Lord where she should be out of the reach of Trouble and Malice and sit down with Joy and Peace so that when this Incomparable Lady Dyed no Body could refrain from Tears no not her very Enemies whose Spleen had brought her to so early and untimely an end At the time when the Protestant Religion under the Pious Care of King Edward the Sixth flowerished the Duke her Father had one Mr. Harding for his Chaplain who seemed very Zealous for the reformed Churches but when Queen Mary came in and had set up Popery he Wind-mill'd about for promotion as some did in the last Reign and became a very bitter Enemy with his Pen and Tongue against the protestants which so Grieved this Pious Young Lady that she writ to him when she was in Prison to remember from whence he was fallen and to do his first Works which Letter for the satisfaction of all Pious Young Ladies and others pen'd by one of such tender Years we have thought fit to insert that her great Wisdom and Learning may be evident to the World Oft says she as I call to mind the Fearfull and Dreadful sayiâ—gs of our Saviour Christ that he who putteth his hand to the Plough and looketh back is not meet for the Kingdom of Heaven and on the contrary those comfortable words that he spake to those who forsake all and follow him I cannot but marvel at thee and lament thy case who seemest sometime to be a Lively Member of Christ but now the deformed Iâ—pe of Satan Sometime the Beautiful Temple of God but now the Synagogue of the Prince of the Air sometime the unspotted Spouse of Christ but now the shameless Paramour of Antichrist sometime my faithful Brother but now a stranger and an apostate sometime a slout Christian Souldier but now a cowardly Run-away yea whon I consider these things I cannot but cry out unto thee thou Seed of Satan whom he hath deceived and the World hath beguiled and the desire of Life and promotion subverted wherefore hast thou taken the Law of the Lord in thy Mouth wherefore hast thou preached the Will of God unto others wherefore hast thou Instructed and exhorted others to be strong in Christ when thou thy self doest now shamefully shrink away and thereby so much dishonour God thou preached'st that Men should not steal and yet thou steâ—lest abominably not from Men but from God committing hâ—inous Sacriledge robbing Christ of his Honour chusing rather to live with shame than to Dye Honourably and to Reign Gloriously with Christ who is Life in Death unto his Why dost thou shew thy self most weak when thou standest by most strong The strength of the Fort is unknown before the assaults but thou yeildest up thine before any battery was made against it c. And after many other Excellent Passages she thus concludes Let I pray you the lively râ—membrance of the last day be always before your Eyes remember that Runagates and Fugitives from Christ shall be cast out in that day who setting more by the World than by Heaven more by Life than him that gave it Did shrink and fall from him who forsook not them and also the inestimable Joys prepared for them who fearing no perril nor dreading Death have manfully fought and Victoriously Triumphed over the Powers of darkness through their Invincible Captain Christ Jesus who now stretcheth out his Arms to receive you is ready to fall upon you and Kiss You and last of all to wash you in his most pretious Blood and feed you with the Dainties it has purchased for you which undoubtedly could it stand with his own determinate purpose he would be ready to shed again for you rather than you should be lost Be constant then and fear no Earthy pain Christ has redeem'd thee Heaven is thy gain Women Destroyers of the Danes and the Priviledges they Enjoy by it When they were destroyed is already recited and riding the Land from such Mortal Enemies by the consent of the King and his Nobles which all the Men ascented to the Women were allowed the right hand of their Husbands which custom continues to this day though some will have it that it is only a fulfilling the old Proverb that the weak est goes to the Walls That they should
the Enamour'd Steel Aspires Thus they reâ—pect And do affect And thus by wiâ—ged Beams and mutual Fire Spirits and Stars conspire And this is LOVE By this you may see the well known Proverb is verified That all is not Gold that glisters A Lady if she be not vey cautious may be deceived and cheated with the fairest Pretences Vows and all the Languishing Expression with some are only as so many Traps and Snares laid to entangle them and when she is fastened and more secured by strugling to get free then by a too late Repentance she sees that all she took for real Affection was only false and feigned But too late Repentance seldom avails Therefore it is convenient to be very wary and cautious whilst she is free Young Mans Choice made how to gain their Mistresses Youth it adorned with comeliness and good parts naturally taking with the Fair Sex but they stand so nicely upon their prerogative of being courted and sought to with obliging carriage and humble Submission that though they could willingly condescend to meet you half way yet will not bate an Ace of their starchedness and therefore you must take all opportunities that are convenient to discover your Affection to her for as there is no person so unlovely but thinks her self worthy to be beloved So is there a natural inclination in Love to beget Love and unless in some particular Exceptions seldom altogether fails If not so much kindness be procured yet at least so much commiseration as gives an appitite to condescension especially where Love is recommended with such becoming importunity as will admit of no denyal when Rhetorick is not strained by unfit or Extravagant Expressions but such words flow from your Lipâ— as seem only to be dictated by Affection wherein the heart has the greatest and the wit no other share than to give them a moving pronunciation wherein such constancy must be observed as may give the sublimest Evidence of your passionate and languishing desires for Women being very 〈◊〉 that this is that wherein their strength lyeth and that they have no likelihood of ever having such advantage as when the Life and Death of you depend upon their smiles or frowns or take pleasure in letting you see they are not so easie to be won and will try many ways to fret and disturb you that they may prove what humour you are of and how you can bear such usage Therefore finding your Mistress thus bent it behoves you to summon all your Patience that nothing unruly uneasie or extravagant may appear to give her disgust and lessen her opinion of you though she keep you long in doubts and fears and makes as many windings and doublings as a Hair to try whether you will loose the Scent and give over the Pursuit but in this you have new hopes for when she comes to such often shifting be assured that Love has almost run her down and she cannot hold out much longer Some indeed have a Pride to be Wooed and after long Service and attendance the poor Lover almost heart-broke and out of hope sneaks which gives her cause to Triumph as thinking she can never better revenge the injuries done to her Sex by Men than in such disgraces for she will not have this treasured up in the dark but glories that the World is a Witness of the defeaâ—â— she gives when in the midst of all your gallantry and cost bestowed you are routed Horse and Foot by a Fair Enemy that gives you no other reason why she is so cruelly severe but becuse she will be so though in the end perhaps she is foiled herself by some unexpected Arrows sent from cupids Quiver to let her know she is subject to his Empire You must therefore in such cases deal with those sort as Stalkers do with bold Partridges give them time till they may be brought about again For those that are of this humour have a certain inconstancy attending them that will weather-cock them about though they stand to the colâ— North to day the point may alter to the warm South tomorrow you must not in your Love be too close handed nor too extravagant but present as you see opportunity what you think most takeing and agreeable with her humour perhaps she will reâ—use it if it be of any considerable value because she will not have as yet such a ponderous Obligation laid on her yet it will make an impression in her mind and induce her to believe your Love is Cordial when she sees you not only sacrifice words that cost you nothing but those things that are dear and precious to you If she takes then the Obligation is Incumbent on her part to make you some suitable return and if she puts you to your choice we may easily tell without consulting the Stars that you will ask her Love and that being gained her self follows and then you have your Presents into the bargin how rich and valuable soever they were and pray where then is the loss in all this These Presents during your Courtship will be frequently obvious to her and become the opportunest Orators in your behalf and for this cause your costly treats must be of little use that are almost forgotten as soon as the taste is off the pallate though some of them spend more than would purchase considerable Presents that are lasting Obligations Privacy in Courtship if it may be obtained always wins the happiest moments of your advantage for the Fair one though she may seem impatient of such a retirement and urge her same may suffer by it Yet she will even when she pretends to be disturbed listen with a kind of a pleased attention there can be but a few found who are not proud of Adulation You must however consider after all this not to behave your selves unmanly or unseemly If Cupid comes not timely to your aid and compells by his uncontrol'd prerogative the stubborn fair one to yield to the accomplishment of your desires but make as fair a retreat as stands best with your Reputation avoiding in any degree to cast Reflections on her whom you have loved for that will not only betray your weakness but an imputation of Malice will be assigned by the Censorious who will apply the Fable of the Fox and the Grapes properly to your circumstance It is more noble to let the World see that you had integrity in your intentions and were rather unfortunate than base that your Love was pure though at last killed by disdain and that you patiently bare her scorns and frowns with a fortitude becoming a generous Lover though you diserved them not which will redound to your pâ—â—â— and perhaps another as amiable as she taking pitty upon your wrongs and sufferings may be induced thereby to be more kind Yet laying aside the supposal of your being rejected and your obtaining what you desire yet seem not extravagantly overjoyed for that betrays a weakness and unsteadfastness of
the dishonour of Immodesty depending nor to the temperate but that we daily find the Inconveniences inherent to Riot and Excess Besides were all alike fair what praise were it to be Beautiful Or if all alike chast what admiration could be attributed to so rare a Vertue I could not therefore but conclude it the highest of Injuries that whereas the Actions of Men had met with so ample and so many memorials Your Sexes being not inferior to them should meet with so slender and so few and that to Erect this Monument to their lasting Glory would be a piece of justice great as their misfortune in not having a more Judicious Recorder of their Worths then Ladies Your very Humble Servant N. H. THE LADIES DICTIONARY A. ABigal 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Sam. 25.40 i. e. my Fathers Joy or the rejoicing of my Father Abigal being Wife to churlish Nabal the Carmelite by her Prudence in timely meeting David by the way which her Husband had refused to send him prevented the Destruction of her House and Nabal dying for fear when he heard what ruin had like to have fallen upon him she became David's Wife Abishag 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 King 1.3 i. e. my Father's Ignorance or Errour Acsah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gnaksah Josh. 15.16 perhaps deck'd or trimmed with tinkling Ornaments such as formerly Women wore about their Feet see Isa. 3.16 18. from the root 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 gnekes Fetters hence R. Levi Gersom writes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gnakasim Sunt sicat ornamenta quas gestant mulieris in pedibus suis i. e. that is That those Fetters were like those Ornaments which Women wore on their Feet Adelin i. e. Noble or descended from Princes Agar see Hagar Agatha 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 she that is good or honest Agnes i. e. Pure Holy Chast Uedefiled from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which seems to be so called from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Veneratio i. e. Honour and Worship quod eam possidentes veneratione laude dignos reddat castitas i. e. because Chastity renders them that have it worthy of Honour and Praise so the Latin word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i.e. adorned from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to adorn For as Solon saith pure Chastity is Beauty to our Souls Grace to our Bodies and Peace to our Desires so contrariwise is Chastity be once lost there is nothing left praise-worthy in a Woman as Nicephorus saith Alethia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 veriâ—as i. e. Truth Alexander a helper or succourer of Men. Alice or Alse i. e. Noble abridged from Ade-liz Cer. or a Desendress Fr. Amara i. e. she that is beloved Aimie i. e. beloved from aimiâ— Fr. Anaâ—tace Etym 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Resurrectio a Resurrection Anchorette one that lives solitarily Gr. Angeiletta dim from Angelus i.e. a Messenger from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to declare Anne see Hannah Apphia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Phil. 2. it signifies with them that make Comedies a Mistress Gr. Arbella i. e. God hath avenged Heb. Areta 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Virtus Virtue Gr. Athaliah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gnatahabu 2 King 8.26 as if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gnet la bovah i. e. time for the Lord. Audrie i. e. noble Advice Ger. Abice i. e. Lady in defence Aureola i. e. little pretty golden Lady dim ab Aram Gold Azubah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gnazubah 1 King 22.24 i. e. forsaken Abdona stiled by the Ancients the Goddess of True-Lovers after her death because in her Life time she had charitably relieved them in their Journeys and furnished them with Guides to shew them the difficult ways Aâ—alis vel Acacalis held to bâ— the Wife of Mercury the 〈◊〉 of the Godâ— and Daughter of Minos the once faâ—ous King of 〈◊〉 no called 〈◊〉 and in the Posssesion of the Turks on which the fair Lady Mercury is held to beget Sydon the supposed Founder of Sydonia now Candia in Creet or Candy Acca Laurentia married Faustalus Shepherd to King Numitor and is famous in Story for Nursing Romulus and Rheemus the first Founders of Rome when they were cast out to be destroyed of wild Beasts on the Mountains she was also called Lupa from whence it is fabled they were nursed by a she Woolf. Acidalia was a Name given to Venus the fabled Goddess of Beauty by the Boetians from a Fountain there dedicated to her wherein it is said she and the Graces were wont to bathe themselves Actia Mother of Augustus Ceasar sleeping in Apollo's Temple dreamed she was Embraced by a Dragon and being with Child at another time dreamed her Bowels were carried into the Air and spread over all the Earth which denoted that Son she was soon after delivered of was to be Emperor of Rome and a mighty Conqueror Acte A Female Bondslave to the Emperour Nero she was so exceeding beautiful that he not gaining upon her otherways desired leave of the Senate to marry her pretending she was nobly descended but that not appearing his Sute was rejected Adrigis Adargiseis amongst the Assyrians was esteemed by them as a Goddess She was feigned by them to be married to Adad in that Language signifying one These two were pictured the first shooting Raies upwards and the latter downwards to signifie the benefit the Earth receives by the Suns influence Adamantaca held to be the Nurse of Jupiter who by her Prudence placed his Cradle in a Tree among thick Boughs where the Bees fed him certain days with Honey and saved him from the Destruction wherewith his Father Saturn threaten'd him Adelais Wife of Lothaire the Second being sollicited by Berrenger the Second who had usurped her Husband's Kingdoms to marry him she utterly refused it no Threats or Promises being able to work upon her so that after a long Imprisonment where she begg'd her Bread she had the good Fortune to Escape and there as a reward of her Constancy in not consenting to the will of that Usurper Otho the great Emperor of Germany married her by whom she had many Children and lived happy the remainder of her days Addona feigned a Goddess and worshipped by the Heathens when they desired easie liberty or access to any great Person because in her Life-time she had been very courteous and humble to all sorts of People Adrastia having for the other name Nemisis feigned by Poets to be the Daughter of Jupiter and Necessity as also to be Goddess of Justice or Revenge The Athenians pictured her with Wings to shew how ready she was to execute and the Egyptians sitting on the Moon and inspecting Human Affairs Aemplia an Italian Woman having been married 12 Years to a Husband by a strange Metamorphosis at the end of that time found her self changed into a Man and turning off her Husband married a Wife Aeorretta a Woman of Laodicea after long cohabiting with a Husband was changed in the like manner as the foregoing Aethra
understood how passionately and disconsolately â—her Noble Husband took the death of his Daughter whom â—e infinitely loved for her promising Infancy gave apparent arguments of Succeeding Maturity made it one of her constant'st tasks to allay his Passion and by playing the part of a Faithful and Discreet Conâ—ort expostulates with the grounds of his immoderate sorrow in this manner How is it Sir that your Wisdom should thus forget it self Is it any newer thing to dye than to be born Are we here placed to survive Fate Or here planted to plead a pripriviledge against Death Is our Daughter gone to any other place than where all our Predecessors have gone to Yea but you will say She dy'd in her blooming Youth before the infirmities of a Decrepit Age came upon her The more was she bound to her Maker The fewer her Years the lesser her Cares the fewer her Tears Take upon you then something more of Man and partake less of Woman These comforts which I make bold to apply to you might be more seemingly derived to me by you 'To grieve for that which is Remediless argues weakness and not to prevent what admits a probability of Cure implies carelesness Let us neither be too Esseminately weak in the one nor too securely remiss in the other So may we cure the one with Patience and redeem the other by a timely Diligence For the next Object reflecting upon their Fame Nicetas says plainly No punishment so grievous as shame And Nazianzen yet more expresly Better were a Man dye right-out than still live in reproach and shame 〈◊〉 being ready to dispatch himself used these as his last words No grief doth so cut the heart of a Generous and Magnanimous Spirit as Shame and Reproach For a Man to live or dye is natural But for a man to live in shame and contempt and to be made a lâ—ughing stock of his Enemies is such a matter as no well bred and noble-minded Man that hath any Courage or Stomach in him can ever digest it And yet bravely-spirited Leonida 〈◊〉 those Assailants of her Fame withâ— less dis-respect then her 〈◊〉 sought to blemish it I am more confident of my Fame said she than to suspect how any light tongue should impeach it Nor was that vertuous Clareana less resolute who directing her speech to her Accusers told them her fame was so far distanced beyond the reach of their impeaching as it ingeniously pittied the weakness of their detraction This confirmed the resolution of that Noble Patron who occasionally used these words in a grave and great Assembly No Womans fame could priviledge it self from a dangerous taint if it were in hazard to suffer or lose it self by a poysonous tongue For the last but least which is Fortune Many Heroick Spirits have we had of this Sex who so far disesteemed this outward rind for no other title would they daign to bestow on it as one of them freely professed What matter is it whether I be rich or poor so my mind be pure And these instances are not so rare but we may find another of the same sex to second so vertuous and accomplished a filter The poorest thing on earth is to suffer ones enlivened thoughts to be fixt on earth And we have a third to make up a Consort She is of a weak command who submits her thoughts to the command of fortune And â—his a Quatermon of brave resolved Spirits expressed in 〈◊〉 livering the nobleness of 〈◊〉 thoughts in these proper â—â—presses which with their â—â—monds they left writ in â—â—panes of their own 〈◊〉 Windows The device of 〈◊〉 first was this It is not in the 〈◊〉 fate To weaken a 〈◊〉 state And the second scorns to 〈◊〉 short of her resolution Fortune may sundry Eâ—gines find But none to raze a 〈◊〉 mind The third in contempt of Fortune inlargeth this subject Should Fortune me â—â—stress My Mind would be â— less The fourth to shew her affection true Touch attests be Constancy in this Fate may remove Life but not love Thus have we shown their Sprightly Tempers in their â—tempt of all oppositions 〈◊〉 might assail or assault them Life they sleighted being competition with honour 〈◊〉 though it was too high a 〈◊〉 to lose yet being not 〈◊〉 to themselves of any stain they neglected with a graceful 〈◊〉 the irregular liberty of a loose tongue And for Fortâ— they stood so indifferent as they held Content their Crown and that Crown the absolutest imbellishment of an infranchis'd 〈◊〉 Female Generosity There was sometime a Person who weary of the World desir'd to ease himself from all the secular Cares and betake himself to a Religious Privacy so as within short time he was received into the Covent Now it hapned one day that this Religious Man walking alone in the Garden seem'd as One much discontented which the Abbot observing came unto him demanding the reason of his Heaviness willing him to impart unto him the occasion of his Grief as became an inferiour Member of the Society to do unto his Superiour Nothing Reverend Father answer'd he concerning my own particular 〈◊〉 doth it repent me to have enter'd into this Religious Order For I find more comfort in one hour within these Walls than ever I could in all those Possessions I injoy'd in the World But I must tell you Father that I have one only Son which I left behind me and very dear was he unto me 〈◊〉 I am much perplext in mind about him for I know 〈◊〉 how the World may deal with him Tender are his Years which adds to the measure and number of my Cares Nor am I so confident of their Trust to whom I recommended him as to free me from that pious Jealousie which I harbour in my Breast touching him Advise me then dear Sir what course were best to take that my Care may be setled and his Safety provided on whom with equal Hopes and Fears the troubled Thoughts of a Father are many times fixed Is this your cause of Pleaviness said the Abbot To rid you from these Cares and increase your hope in his succeeding Years send him to me and see what effect will come of it According to the Abbot's Direction he causeth his Son who indeed was a Daughter which he dissembled for some reasons to be sent for Who after some time of Probation was admiâ—ted to the Society Now it chanced that the Daughter of an Eminent Person not far distant from that Abbey was got with Child and for some private respects to her self best known desirous to conceal the true Father laid the Child upon this supposed Brother who was indeed a Sister This modest Creature was so far from defending her own Innocency as she took unto it as if she had been the true Father which be got it The Rumour hereof so highly incensed the Abbot holding it to be a great Scandal to his Society to have any one under his Charge conscious of such
the Counsellour has a passage to this purpose in the Ninth Book of his Pleadings where he tells us That it is Received Truth that a perfect Child as to the Limbs and Lineaments may be born within seven months and live and he quotes Hippocrates for his Authority and divers others who affirm in lawful Matrimony seven months will produce a Child which in time will be lusty and strong Gallen in his Third Book Chap. 6. argues upon the same matter but rather according to mens Opinions than according to what the matter will reasonably bear as supposing there is no certain time limited for the bringing forth of children and Plinny says a Womun went Thirteen months with Child and another that it may be any time between Seven and Thirteen months but as to the seventh month Lemnius tells us That he knew divers married People in Holland that had Twins who liv'd and flourish'd their minds apt and lively not upon their first being marri'd which might there as well as here have bred suspicion but when they had been married many Years and no ground or room for so much as the shadow of it was left of their being spurious because born within that time He goes on and tells us an Example of his own Knowledge There was said he a great disturbance which had liked to have occasioned much bloodshed and some was spilt about it happening upon the account of a Virgin who descending from a Noble Family had her Chastity violated and this violation of her Honour was charged upon a Judge President of a City in Flanders who absolutely denied it and having seen the Child said he could make it a appear to be a child of seven months and that at the same time he could prove himself to be some hundred miles off for a continuance of Time Physicians were hereupon consulted as also Experienced Women by Order of the Judges before whom the Hearing was and they made diligent Enquiry into the Affair and without respect to any thing but their own Consciences they made their Report That the Child had been carried in the Womb but Twenty Seven Weeks and some odd Days but that if it had its full time of Nine months it would have been more firm and strong the body more compact the skin faster and the breast-bone that had a kind of a Ridge like that of the breast-bone of a Fowl would have been more depressed It was a Female Infant and wanted Nails having only a thin film or skin instead of them and this they concluded was for want of heat which more time would have matured We might produce a cloud of Testimonials to remove these Falling out Charges and Suspicions that make Marriage unease and uncomfortable but these we hope may suffice as to these particulars P Palatina a Goddess supposed by the Romans to govern over the Palace Palatula was the Name of the Sacrifice offered to her and her Priests who sacrified were called Palatualis Pallades were Young Virgins dedicated by the Thebeans to Jupiter after this sort of the first born and most beautiful was consecreated to him who had the li\berry the lie with whom she pleased till the time of her Natural Purgation and after that she was to be bestowed on a Husband but from the Time of her Prostitution to the time of her Marriage her Parents and Friends lamented her as one out of the world but at her Wedding they made great Feast and exceeding rejoycing Palladuim a Stame of the Goddess Pallas having a Lance or Javelin in its Hand and Eyes so artifica lly placed in the Head that they seemed to move as if alive The Trojans perswaded them-selves that this Image was made in Heaven and fell down from Jupiter and going to consult the Oracle of Apollo about it they had Answer that the City should remain impregnable Whirst Image remained in the Temple of Pallos but in the Ten Years Wars with Greece Diomedes and Vlysses undermining a Way beneath the ground into the Temple and killing the Guards stole it away soon after which the destruction of the City followed There was likewise a Statue of Pallas at Rome and in divers other places Pallas other ways called Minerva the Godness of Arms and Arts or Wisdomm who is fabled to have sprung from the Brain of Jove and was a great Patroness of the Greeks at the Wars of Troy Phillippa a Noble Italian Lady who for the Love she bore her Husband put on Armour and followed him unknown to the Wars and in The Battle of the Pavy sought between the Imperials and Italian Confederates against Francis the French king fighting Couragiously by his side she saved his Life in the press of the Enemies Parnel contracted for petronella a little stone Penelope so called from cerrain Birds she sed Philadelphia i. brotherly Love Phil or Philip a lover of Horses Phillis à 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. folium a little leaf Phillida dim a Phillis Phoeke Rom. 16.1 i. Moon see the Etym. of Phoebus in mens Names Polyrena she that entertains many strangers Prisca i. ancient or old Priscilla Acts 18.2 dim à Prsca i. ancient or old Prudence i. Wisdom knowledge a Name commonly used Pamphilia an Egyptian Woman of great Learning she flourished in the Reign of the Emperour Nero she was the Daughter to Solerides and marry'd to Socratides a learned man from whom she gained her proficiency in Languages leaving to Posterity 8 books of Miscellanous History besides other Works that were lost end not transmitted to Posterity of which only mention are made by Suidas and several other Credible Authors Paranimphs Maidens that undressed the Bride to her Nuptial Bed and lead the Bridegroom to it or as we call them Bride-maids Parcae called the Goddesses of Destiny by the Names of Clotho Lachesis and Athropos by some said to be the Daughter of Athropos and Themis by others of Necessity the Night and Chaos who had power to spin out and cut the Threads of the Lives of mortals The Youngest spun out the Thread the next in Years the Distaff and the Third cut it off which waan Emblem of the stages of mans life from Youth to Manhood thence to Old Age and consequently Death Parthenope one of the Nymphs or Land Syrenes who endeavoured to destroy Vlysses in his return from Troy by Shipwracking him on the Rocks of the Coast where they resided but was prevented by his causing his men to stop their Ears with Wax and Wool and tying himself to the main Mast she in Anger to miss her Aim which had never failed upon others threw herself into the Sea and there perished and being cast on the Shoar of Italy her Tomb by the order of the Oracle was erected were now the City of Naples is scituate Partula to whom the Romans assigned the care of Pregnant Women near their time called by others Lucina the Goddess of Child-birth Parisatis Sister to Xerxes the Persian King and Wife to