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A66844	The gentlewomans companion; or, A guide to the female sex containing directions of behaviour, in all places, companies, relations, and conditions, from their childhood down to old age: viz. As, children to parents. Scholars to governours. Single to servants. Virgins to suitors. Married to husbands. Huswifes to the house Mistresses to servants. Mothers to children. Widows to the world Prudent to all. With letters and discourses upon all occasions. Whereunto is added, a guide for cook-maids, dairy-maids, chamber-maids, and all others that go to service. The whole being an exact rule for the female sex in general. By Hannah Woolley.	Woolley, Hannah, fl. 1670.; Faithorne, William, 1616-1691, engraver.	1673 (1673)	Wing W3276A; ESTC R204109	139,140	297

and down you will lose your credit It may be a fellow-servant may court you but before you entertain the motion consider how you must live by inconsiderately marrying you may have one joyful meeting and ever after a sorrowful living and have time to repent of your rash matching Instructions for all Nursery-Maids in Noble Families YOu ought to be naturally inclined to love young Children or else you will soon discover your unfitness to manage that charge you must be neat and cleanly about them and careful to keep good hours for them Get their Breakfasts and Suppers in good and convenient time let them not sit too long but walk them often up and down especially those who cannot go well of themselves take heed they get no falls by your carelesness for by such means many the cause at first being unperceivable have afterwards grown irrecoverably lame or crooked wherefore if any such thing should happen conceal it not though you may justly incur a great deal of blame therefore I knew a Gentlewoman absolutely spoil'd by such a concealment her Nurse by negligence let her fall being very young from a Table and by the fall her thigh-bone was dislocated the Nurse fearing the indignation and displeasure of the Childs Parents who were rich and potent conceal'd it a long time under the pretence of some other indisposition endeavouring in the mean time the reducing of the bone to its proper place but by reason of an interposition of a Jelly between the dislocations it could not be done and then when it was too late the Parents were acquainted with the sad condition of their beloved Child and hereupon all means imaginable used for its recovery but all in vain although they had been at some hundreds of pounds charge for the cure She is now as lovely a young Gentlewoman as a ravisht eye can feast upon but it would break the heart of that body the eye belongs unto to see her go her back-side-walking would force a man from her to the Indies and yet her face would attract him to her twice as far But to my purpose be not churlish or dogged to them but merry and pleasant and contrive and invent pretty pastimes agreeable to their age keep their linnen and other things always mended and suffer them not to run too fast to decay Do not shew a partiality in your love to any of them for that dejects the rest Be careful to hear them read if it be imposed upon you and be not too hasty with them have a special care how you behave your self before them neither speaking nor acting misbecomingly lest your bad example prove the subject of their imitation Instructions for all Chamber-maids to Gentlewomen in City and Country FRom you it will be required that you wash and starch very well both Tiffanies Lawns Points and Laces and that you can mend what is amiss in them That you work Needle-work well and all sorts of Plain-work or any other work with the Needle which is used in such Houses That you wash black and white Sarsnets that you dress well and diligently perform what you are commanded by your Mistress be neat in your Habit modest in your Carriage silent when she is angry willing to please quick and neat handed about what you have to do You must know how to make all manner of Spoon-meats to raise Paste to dress Meat well though not often required thereunto both of Fish and Flesh to make Sauces garnish Dishes make all sorts of Pickles to see that every thing be served in well and handsomely to the Table in due time and to wait with a graceful decorum at the Table if need should require Keep your Mistresses Chamber clean and lay up every thing in its due place you ought to be skilful in buying any thing in the Market if you be intrusted therewith these things will be expected from you in those Houses where there is no Head-cook If there be no Butler you must see all things decent and fitting in the Parlour and Dining-room In a word you must divest your Mistress from all the care you can giving to her a just and true account of what moneys you lay out shewing your self thrifty in all your disbursements be careful in overlooking inferior servants that they waste nothing which belongs to your Master and Mistress If you are thus qualified and be of an humble and good disposition your merit will deserve a good Sallary and a great deal of love and respect If you have not these accomplishments endeavour their procuration by sparing some money from superfluous expence and over-gaudy clothes for to see a Maid finely trickt up having a fine show without and not one good qualification within is like a jointed Bartholomew-Baby bought for no other use than to be look'd upon Instructions for Nursery-Maids to Gentlewomen both in London or elsewhere LEt me advise you first to consider the charge you take in hand and not to desire it as too many do because it is an easie kind of life void of labour and pains-taking thinking also that Children are easily pleas'd with any thing I can assure you the contrary for it is a troublesome employment and the charge is of greater weight than such vainly imagine You ought in the first place to be of a gentle and good disposition sober in your Carriage neat in your Apparel not sluggish nor heavy-headed but watchful and careful in the night-season for fear any of the Children should be ill and keep due hours for their up-rising and going to bed Take special care that they eat nothing which may over-charge their Stomacks If you observe their Faces at any time paler than ordinary or complain of pain in their Stomack conclude it is the Worms that troubles them and therefore give them remedies suitable to the distemper do this often whether you see those Symtoms or no the neglect of which hath been the destruction of many hopeful Children Keep them whatever you do sweet and clean and moderately warm teach them some good forms of prayer and to read as they are capable restrain them from drinking too much Wine strong Liquors and eating over-much Fruit. Be loving and chearful with them not humping or beating them as many do contrary to the knowledg and pleasure of their Parents That Mother is very un wife that will give liberty to Servants to strike her Children and that Servant is over-sawcy and ill natur'd who dares do it without her Mistresses privity and consent This is your duty and unless you can and will do this never undertake this charge Instructions for such who desire to be absolute Cook-maids in good and great houses IT is a common thing now-adays for Cook-maids to ask great Wages although they are conscious to themselves of their inability of performing almost any thing which as it is unconscionable so to do so in the end it will prove disgraceful to them I shall therefore tell you

yet she fears her Shepherd should not spy her Whatever you do be not induced to marry one you have either abhorrency or loathing to for it is neither affluence of estate potency of friends nor highness of descent can allay the insufferable grief of a loathed bed Wherefore Gentlewomen to the intent you may shew your selves discreetest in that which requires your discreetion most discuss with your selves the parity of love and the quality of your Lover ever reflecting on those best endowments which render him worthy or unworthy of your greatest estimation A discreet eye will not be taken only with a proportionable body or smooth countenance it is not the rind but the mind that is her Loadstone Justina a Roman Maid no less nobly descended than notably accomplished exclaimed much against her too rigid fate in being married to one more rich than wise And good reason had she being untimely made by his groundless jealousie a sad tragick spectacle of misery For the whiteness of her neck was an object which begot in him a slender argument of suspect which he seconded with rash revenge Let deliberation then be the Scale wherein you may weigh love with an equal poize There are many high consequent-circumstances which a discreet Woman will not only discourse but discuss before she enter into that hazzardous though honourable state of Marriage Disparity in descent fortunes friends do often beget a distraction in the mind Disparity of years breeds dislike obscurity of descent begets contempt and inequality of fortunes discontent If you marry one very young bear with his youth till riper experience bring him to a better understanding Let your usage be more easie than to wean him from what he affects by extremity Youth will have his swing time will reclaim and discretion will bring him home at last So conform your self to him as to confirm your love in him and undoubtedly this conjugal duty mixt with affability will compleatly conquer the moroseness of his temper If he be old let his age beget in you the greater reverence his words shall be as so many aged and time improved precepts to inform you his actions as so many directions to guide you his kind rebukes as so many friendly admonitions to reclaim you his Bed you must so honour as not to let an unchast thought defile it his Counsel so keep as not to trust it in any others breast be a staff in his age to support him and an hand upon all occasions to help him If he be rich this shall not or must not make you proud but let your desire be that you both employ it to the best advantage Communicate to the Needy that your Wealth may make you truly happy That is a miserable Wealth which starves the Owner I have heard of one worth scores of thousands of pounds who bought billets not for fewel but luggage not to burn them and so warm himself but to carry them on a frosty morning up stairs and down and so heat himself by that labouring exercise Wherefore let me perswade you to enjoy your own and so shun baseness reserve a provident care for your own and so avoid profuseness Is your Husband fallen to poverty let his poor condition make you rich there is certainly no want where there wants no content It is a common saying That as Poverty goes in at one door Love goes out at the other and love without harbour falls into a cold and aguish distemper let this never direct your thoughts let your affection counterpoize all afflictions No adversity should divide you from him if your vowed faith hath individually tyed you to him Thus if you expostulate your Christian constant resolves shall make you fortunate If your fancy be on grounded deliberation it will promise you such good success as your Marriage-days shall never fear the bitter encounter of untimely repentance nor the cureless anguish of an afflicted conscience Now as I would have you Gentlewomen to be slow in entertaining so be most constant in retaining Lovers or Favourites are not to be worn like Favers now near your bosom or about your wrist and presently out of all request Which to prevent entertain none so near your heart whom you observe to harbour in his breast something that may deserve your hate Carefully avoid the acquaintance of Strangers and neither affect variety nor glory in the multiplicity of your Suitors For there is no greater argument of mutability add leightness Constant you cannot be where you profess if change you do affect Have a care vows deliberately advised and religiously grounded are not to be slighted or dispensed with Before any such things are made sift him if you can find any bran in him task him before you tye your self to take him And when your desires are drawn to this period become so taken with the love of your Choice as to interpret all his actions in the best sense this will make one Soul rule two hearts and one heart dwell in two bodies Before you arrive to this honourable condition all wanton fancy you must lay aside for it will never promise you good success since the effect cannot be good where the object is evil Wanton love hath a thousand devices to purchase a minutes penitential pleasure Her eye looks and by that the sense of her mind is averted her ear hears and by it the intention of the heart is perverted her smell breathes and by it her good thoughts are hindred her mouth speaks and by it others are deceived by touch her heat of desire upon every small occasion is stirred never did Orlando rage more for his Angelica than these Utopian Lovers for their imaginary shadows These exorbitancies we must endeavour to remedy and that therein we may use the method of art we must first remove the cause and the effect will follow Let me then discover the incendiaries of this disorderly passion next the effects arising from them and lastly their cure or remedy The original grounds of this wanton fancy or wandring phrenzie are included in these two lines Sloth Words Books Eyes Consorts and luscious fare The lures of lust and stains of honour are For the first sententious Seneca saith He had rather be exposed to the utmost extremities Fortune can inflict on him than subject himself to Slotb and Sensuality For it is this only which maketh of Men Women of Women Beasts and of Beasts Monsters Secondly Words corrupt the Disposition they set an edg or gloss on depraved liberty making that member offend most when it should be imployed in profiting most Thirdly Books treating of leight Subjects are Nurseries of wantonness remove them timely from you if they ever had entertainment by you lest like the Snake in the Fable they annoy you Fourthly Eyes are those windows by which death enters Eve looked on the fruit before she coveted coveting she tasted and tasting she perished place them then on those objects whose real beauty make take them

the duty of a Wife to her Husband MArriage is an holy and inviolable bond if the choice on both sides be good and well ordered there is nothing in the world that is more beautiful more comfortable It is a sweet society full of trust and loyalty It is a fellowship not of hot distempered love but endeared affection for these two are as different as the inflamed fit of an high Feaver from the natural heat of a sound and healthy body Love in the first acceptation is a distemper and no wonder then that Marriages succeed so ill which have their original from such disordered amorous desires This boiling affection is seldom worth any thing There are these two Essentials in Marriage Superiority and Inferiority Undoubtedly the Husband hath power over the Wife and the Wife ought to be subject to the Husband in all thing Although the Wife be more noble in her extraction and more wealthy in portion yet being once married is inferior to her Husband in condition Man of human-kind was Gods first workmanship Woman was made after Man and of the same substance to be subservient and assisting to him Though the power of an Husband in this Kingdom extends it self farther than it is commonly exercised yet something more moderate than in forreign parts Amongst the Romans the Husband had power to kill the Wife in four cases Adultery suborning of Children counterfeiting false Keys and drunkenness It is customary among the Indians but I do not therefore approve of it as lawful that when the Husband dies the death of the Wife immediately follows This is not only practised by the publick Laws of the Country but often times with such ardent affection that the Wives for they allow Polygamy will contend one amongst the other who shall first sleep with their departed Husband Though this custom I cannot only reject as unreasonable but cruel and horrible so I cannot but applaud those Wives as they are in duty bound who affectionately and patiently content themselves to accompany their Husbands in all conditions in adversity as well as prosperity Many Examples hereof we may find at home as well as abroad though in these late depraved and corrupted times there are not so many as may justly be desired Lentulus being exiled by a Decree of the Roman Senate into Sicily his loving Wife Sulpitia sold all and followed him thither Ipsicrates followed her vanquished Husband and King Mithridates throughout all extremities notwithstanding she was advantagiously perswaded to the contrary Theagena Wife to Agathocles shew'd admirable constancy in her Husbands greatest misery shewing her self most his own when he was relinquisht and forsaken of his own closing her resolution with this noble conclusion She had not only betaken her self to be his companion in prosperity but in all fortunes which should befall him Conform your selves to this mirror and it will reform in you many a dangerous error Thus if you live thus if you love honour cannot chuse but accompany you living much comfort attend you loving and a virtuous memory embalm you dying The more particular duties of a Wife to an Husband are first to have a greater esteem for him than for any other person and withal to have a setled apprehension that he is wife and prudent That Woman that will entertain mean and low thoughts of her Husband will be easily induced to love another whom she ought not to affect On this good esteem depends a great part of the Wives obedience who will be apt to run into extravagancies when she is once possessed of the weakness of her Husbands understanding She is to give honour respect and reverence to her Husband so have the wisest ever done and those which do it not betray their indiscretion with reverence she is to express her obedience in all lawful things and apply and accommodate her self as much as in her lies to his humour and disposition You must be mindful of what you promised your Husband in Marriage and the best demonstration thereof will be in your carriage honour and obey and love no mans company better than his Be quiet pleasant and peaceable with him and be not angry when he is so but endeavour to pacifie him with sweet and winning expressions and if casually you should provoke him to a passion be not long ere you shew some regret which may argue how much you are displeased with your self for so doing nay bear his anger patiently though without a cause Be careful to keep your house in good order and let all things with decency be in readiness when he comes to his repast let him not wait for his meals lest by so staying his affairs be diorder'd or impeded And let what ever you provide be so neatly and cleanly drest that his fare though ordinary may engage his appetite and disingage his fancy from Taverns which many are compell'd to make ufe of by reason of the continual and daily dissatisfactions they find at home Shew respect and kindness to what Friends he brings home with him but more especially to his Relations for by this means he will find your love to him by your respect to them and they will be obliged to love you for your own as well as his sake Suffer not any to buz in your ears detracting stories of him and abhor it in your Servants for it is your duty to hide his faults and infirmities and not detect them your self or suffer them to be discovered Take them for your greatest enemies who perswade you against your Husband for without question they have some dangerous design in it Those whom God hath joined together let no man put asunder Cursed then is that instrument which occasions their seperation Breed up your Children in as much or more obedience to him than your self and keep them in so much awe that they shew no rudeness before him or make any noise to his disturbance Make them shew him all awful regard and keep them sweet clean and decent that he may delight himself in them Let him see your love to him in your care for them educating and bringing them up in the knowledg of Religion with their Learning Be careful to manage what money he doth trust you with to his and your own credit abuse not the freedom you have of his purse by being too lavish and pinch not the Guts of your Family at home that you may pamper yours abroad or throw away that money in buying trifles which shall evidence your vanity as well as luxury To govern an House is an excellent and profitable employment there is nothing more beautiful than an Houshold well and peaceably governed it is a profession that is not difficult for she that is not capable of any thing else may be capable of this The principal precepts that belong to the frugal ordering and disposing Houshold-affairs may be compremis'd under these heads First to buy and sell all things at the best times and seasons Secondly to

our griefs for your absence which increase as our desires do increase or our daily discourses of you We understood not our happiness till your departure from us being now made sensible of the good we enjoyed by being deprived thereof Our Governess is as active and watchful as ever down with the Sun and up with the Lark and then doth her Messenger summon us to desert our beds if she perceives any unwilling she subtilly tempers the unpleasantness of her early importunity she perswades them thereunto by alledging what benefit thereby will accrew to their healths nor is her accustomed care to be discommended since therein she aims not only at the benefit of our Bodies but the eternal welfare of our Souls in the performance of our duties to God and our Parents She continues her former jealousie not suffering a Letter to come into the house without her knowledg thereof and herein her prudence is highly to be commended for by her strict examination of these Paper-messengers she shuts the doors against a great many which might be the Bawds that might betray the Obedience of some and the Chastity of others Neither are there any Answers returned to any Letters but what she is privy to by which means there is nothing we write we need be ashamed of were it legibly written on our Foreheads as well as Papers I question not but you have heard your old Bed-fellow Mrs. F. G. hath lately entertained a new one being married to a Gentleman as deserving in excellency of parts as nobility of birth I long to hear of the like in you whose good fortunes shall always be attended with the greatest acclamations of joy which can proceed from Your most affectionate Friend M. G. The Answer Indearedly Beloved YOU honour me much with the testimony of your affection and do glad my heart by giving me to understand that your Governess continueth her vigilancy and accustomed care if she reap the praise thereof the profit will be yours and yet she will be a gainer too for this will be the means to increase the number of her Scholars Mrs. F. G's marriage is no news to me wishing her all happiness in her choice and that her fortune may be answerable to her incomparable virtues but for your good wishes to me in the like nature though I am thankful to you for them yet I should not be displeased if you did forbear to utter them for if good Husbands are Miacles why should I afflict my self with the vain expectation of them since Miracles are ceased I can best content my self with my present condition having thereby a greater liberty to express my self to be Your passionate and most obliged Friend and Servant S. L. To a Kinswoman discoursing about Fashions Beloved Cousin I Thank you for your Papers and the trouble of that spruce inventory you sent me which I desired more out of curiosity than any intention of conformity thereunto for indeed the vanity was sufficient to satiate an ordinary appetite and besides mine is no way greedy of such idle kickshaws I find fault with most of these Modes not for their levity only but brevity also especially such as are far-fetcht for a fortnights wearing and leaves not a good Huswife a relique worth the keeping I have learned in a great manner That the fashion of the world passeth away and therefore I cannot think it but a piece of great imprudence to spend so much industry upon a frail and perishing object yet I am not against such natural or native decencies which may difference persons and bring not an unprofitable expence upon their finery no more than I discommend a sumptuous Feast when I censure one that is ridiculous for I know not what secret power of blandishment there is in an handsome ornament even to court beauty it self and therefore it must be more advantagious to those whose small imperfections it conceals But of all incongruities deformity and the fashion I take to be the ugliest you know how indifferently I am concern'd in these cases and therefore will easily pardon this humour of Your most humble Servant A Letter from one Lady to another condemning Artificial-beauty Madam YOU are so absolute in the endowments of your mind and perfections of body that I cannot but honour you having formerly experienced your love to me particularly and the greatness of your Wit to all I hope you will excuse this rudeness if I desire your opinion concerning borrowed beauty from art and whether it may be lawfully used by such as profess Religion and a good Conscience I must confess my own judgment is much unsetled nevertheless I have been informed by many learned and godly men that it is a great sin and undoubtedly inconsistent with a Christian and a good Conscience I do find that washing and painting is condemned in holy Writ as the practice of loose licentious and lascivious Women who with the deforming of their Souls and polluting their Consciences do use the Art for embellishing their Countenances The New Testament affirms we cannot make one hair of our head white or black and if we have neither the liberty nor are to assume the power to alter the complexion of our hairs then much less the complexion of our Cheeks and Faces It argueth besides ingratitude to the Almighty when we are not content with what He hath made and the highest presumption in thinking or daring to mend it St. Paul and St. Peter prescribed how Women should be clad that is with modesty shamefastness and sobriety and not with gorgeous apparel or with braided Hair Gold or Pearls and if these things were forbidden how much more is washing or painting the Face which is suitable some think to none but leight spirits such who are not yet redeemed from the vanity of their conversation So that this Artificial beauty may appear to be divinely forbidden as an enemy to Truth which needeth none but its own native complexion and is so far from being beholding to Art for any addition to enliven her colour or to put a blush upon it that she converteth even Deformities and Decays into Advantages and Perfections Besides that this adding of colour and complexion proceeds from Pride is without controversie and should it not reflect on wantonness yet it doth on arrogance to borrow and then challenge that beauty to be ours which is not but by an adventitious wealth Moreover this self-conceit is an enemy to humility and grace and would by degrees over-top all virtue And now grant it were neither scandalously sinful nor absolutely unlawful yet the offence it giveth to the true and strict Professors of Piety is a sufficient argument that it ought not to be practised Although many things may be permitted in themselves yet they become evil and are to be forborn when others are offended at them Neither is this all for the very name of a painted face is enough to destroy the reputation of her that useth it and exposeth

N. The Answer of a dutiful Daughter Madam IT is as well Religion as Duty in me To render you all observances which I shall make my delight as well as employment My greatest blessing is the continuance of your love which obligeth me to encrease my thankfulness as well as my obedience I perceive some censorious tongue hath been too busie with my face and hath endeavoured to throw dirt on it because it hath been lately spotted in the fashion a fashion that hath as much innocence to plead for its excuse as custom for its authority Venus the Goddess of beauty was born with a Motticella or natural beauty-spot as if Nature had set forth a pattern for Art to imitate You may see every day some little clouds over the face of the Sun yet he is not ashamed of his attraction nay some of late with an Optick-glass have discovered some maculae or spots in the very face of the Sun yet they are not attributed as his deformities The Moon when she is at Full and shining in her greatest lustre hath in her face some remarkable spots and herein is placed her chiefest glory as being in every thing inconstant but in this When I put on my Mask which is no more nor better than one great patch you do commend me for it and will you be displeased with me for wearing a few black patches which if they are cut into Stars do represent unto me whether I would go or if into little worms whether I must go the one of them testifying in me the sense of my unworthiness to increase my humility and the other the height of my meditations to advance my affections It is the unhappiness of the most harmless things to be subject to the greatest misconstruction and on the same subject from whence others draw their suspitions of curiosity to accuse our pride we derive the greatest arguments of discipline and instruction to defend our innocence neither is the ignorance of antiquity in relation to them any argument of weight to condemn their novelty for the Black-bags on the head are not much older than the Black-spots on the face and much less may be said for them only they have had the good luck in the City not to meet with contradiction although in the Country they are much cavil'd at unless worn by Gentlewomen of eminent note and quality Nevertheless according to the obligation of my duty to give you in all things satisfaction I am determined to wear them no more not that I find any such vanity in them but that by the fruits of my obedience you may perceive what an absolute power your commands have over her who is Madam Your most humble and most obedient Daughter S. N. Love protested with its Repulse Madam IT hath pleased Heaven you should have the sole command of my affections with which I am joyfully content and stand disposed to obey you in every thing when you shall be pleased to count me worthy of your service Enjoying you I must account my self the happiest man in the world but being deprived of you I shall not only live but die miserably either then reward him who adores you or chastise him who idolizeth you Yet must I confess all my good to proceed from you and that all the evil I can endure must come from your disdain however hoping that you will commiserate my languishing condition I shall greedily subscribe my self Intirely Yours c. The Answer SIR IF it hath pleas'd Heaven you should love me you cannot blame me though you suffer by it should I except the tenders of affection from all such amorous pretenders I might be married to a whole Troop and make my self a legal Prostitute My inclinations lean not your way wherefore give me leave to tell you That you would do better to bestow your affections on some Lady who hath more need of a Servant than I have And if you think your affection ought not to go unrewarded receive the perswasion which I give you never to trouble me more lest you run a worse hazzard by persevering in your intentions Be advised by her who is Your faithful Monitor and humble Servant c. I shall swell this Volume into too great a bulk should I give you patterns of Letters for all occasions let what I have here set down suffice referring you for your better information and instruction to the incomparable Letters of Monsieur Voiture translated into English Mr. Howel and Mr. Lovedays ingenious Letters with a many more every Booksellers-shop affording great plenty And now to conclude pray accept of these ingenious Dialogues which will tend as well to your further instruction as recreation Pleasaut Discourses and witty Dialogues between Males and Females as well gentiliz'd by Birth as accomplisht by generous Education The Resolute Lover A Pastoral Dialogue Amyntas STay dearest stay Amarillis Shepherd why do you thus follow me Amynt I needs must follow Sweetest for you have my heart Amar. Who I prithee tell me where it is and how I shall restore it Amynt It hangs upon your eyes but being there scorched with disdain and dazled with their luster it flys for ease unto your rosie lips but being repulsed thence with harsh denials it hovers still about you hoping to rest it self within your breast but all its endeavours have been fruitless for your hard heart would not give it entertainment Amar. Well if my heart be so hard as you would make it I rejoice in my safety it being then strong enough to be a fence to my honour Amynt You make a fence in vain to guard the Sheep where no Wolf ever came Amar. O but my fears Amyntas How shall I cherish the man that would undo my Chastity Amynt Then cherish me who never attempted any thing to cast a spot on that white innocence to which I am a most religious Votary Amar. And canst thou love and yet be chaste in thy desires Amynt Yes fairest I could be content to love and have our souls united though we are not conjoined in our persons Amar. Let me contain thee then within mine arms the force of greatest winds that shake nay root up the aged Oak shall not divide us Amynt My joys do overflow my happiness is too great to survive the enjoyment O let me vent my grateful heart or else it bursts Here here 's a spreading Poplar under whose cooler shade thou shalt seal thy promise Amaryllis Amar. 'T is done not to be repented of and now methinks I here could stay my dear Amyntas till death moved his cold dart and beckned us to follow him to the lower shades and by his angry power make these my warm embraces cold Amynt May we never never part That thy delight I may prolong Dear Amarillis hear this Song I. Come my sweet whilst every strain Calls our Souls into the ear Where thy greedy listnings fain would run into the sound they hear Lest in desire To fill the Quire