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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36896	The art of living incognito being a thousand letters on as many uncommon subjects / written by John Dunton during his retreat from the world, and sent to that honourable lady to whom he address'd his conversation in Ireland ; with her answer to each letter.	Dunton, John, 1659-1733.	1700 (1700)	Wing D2620; ESTC R16692	162,473	158

Years ago But tho' there 's nothing New in Play● yet one wou'd think there were Something-New in ●a ys Dresses they dress in such a Towering manner but if you Examine their Wardrobe you 'l find what they call New-Fashions are but Old Fashions revived for Fashion brought in Silks and Velvets at one Time and Fashion brought in Russets and Grays at another Fashion brought in d●ep Ruffes and Shallow-Ruffs Thick Ruffs and Thin Ruffs Double-Ruffs and no Ruffs Fashion brought in the Tunick and Vest the Broad kneed Breeches the Narrow brim'd Hat the Shoulder knot the Top knot c. But these are so far from being N●w that they are Fashions that have been several times out and in and in and out and so will succeed each other perhaps to the End of Time This we see verified in the Vardingale for Fashion brought in the Vardingale and carried out the Vardingale and hath again reviv'd the Vardingale from Death and placed it behind like a Rudder or Stern to the body in some so big that the Vessel is scarce able to bear it So much as the wearing of Top-knots which is thought to be a New-Fashion was practic'd of old this Monumental Pride or High-Building of Head-Gear is not of a New Invention as Men take it to be but of an old Edition for Iuvenal in his Sixth Satyr makes mention of them Tot premit ordinibus c. Such Rows of Curls press'd on each other lie She builds her Head so many stories high That look on her before and you wou'd swear Hectors Tall-Wife Andromache she were Behind a Pigmey so that not her Waste But Head seems in the middle to be plac'd And as Top-knots are an Old Fashion so is Womens wearing the Breeches as much as 't is wonder'd at a custom as old as the fall of Man 't is no new thing to see Women Fight and Rave and to forget Obedience to their tender Husbands not but there was a Time in England when Men wore the Breeches and debarr'd Women of that gadding Liberty which they now take but Eve got the Start of Adam in sinning and ever since for a Woman to wear the Breeches is no new thing If you won't believe it on my words read Mr. Turners History of Providence and there you 'll find in Chap. 51. That the first Man Adam the Righteous Lot the Faithful Abraham the Meek Moses the strong Sampson the Wise Solomon the Zealous Peter the Philosopher Socrates the Orator Cicero were all either over-reached or over-power'd with Women So that 't is no New-thing for Women to wear the Breechees And tho one wou'd think it a New Thing 't is none to find some of the Fair Sex First at making of Love or as you express a In your Remarks on my Con versation in Ire land p. 514. it taking upon 'em the part that once belong'd to Men. Neither are She-Wi●s any New Thing I know one can Resolve the Nicest Points in Divinity you must pardon me if I mean your Ladyship another that understands and teaches Algebra and is a Young Midwife into the Bargain a Third that understands Latin and a Fourth called Philomela who has taken the Name b See the Preface to my Wi●e's Funeral Sermon of the Nightingale and her Notes are as sweet as the Voice of that is Musical And for the Dear D ne that 's dead and gone she was an Angel dre● in Flesh and Blood yet she stoop'd so low as to honour me with a constant Friendship and I may say her Witty Letters were the only thing that kept me alive in Ireland But She Wits Flourish't in former Ages as well as now So that I visit the Ladies to as little purpose as I do the Men for there 's nothing new in Petticoats and I think Madam 't is as clear as the Sun There 's nothing New under it And since I believ'd this I 've laid aside my Grand Ramble for to what purpose shou'd I Travel when the whole World has nothing to shew me can be calld New And you have heard this was Solomon's opinion who was one of the Wisest of meer Men and well hath he said There is nothing New under the Sun because as Dr. Winter observes Things Subject to Mutation are every Minute growing old Until at last they be no more The State of Glory and Blest Eternity is above the Brightness of the Sun But the Starry Heavens come far short of it They wax old as doth a Psal. 102. 26. 2 Pet. 3. 10. a Garment and they shall pass away There is indeed a Day of Renovation coming When he who of old made out of nothing all New things in the World shall out of a ruin'd old World worse than nothing make b Rev. 21. 5. all things New But this will be a work above the Sun And till then There is nothing New Yet we see nothing pleases the deluded World but the Name and thought of Novelties The Devil and his Vile Instruments cry up their deluding Trash for New as Women do their Oysters when as they stink of Age. Custom is a Great Matter new-New-England new-New-York and New-Market which has been built this Hundred Year is like to be so call'd to the Worlds end Cunning Salesmen give a sudden Turn to an old Coat and then sell it for a New Garment and thus we are trick'd out of our Money Thus old forsaken Errors are become new cryed up Lights and the Quakers thee and thou and way of Cheating by selling Goods at a word is no more then we find in the Gnostici and Carpocratists and the Enthusiasts of former Ages Impostors are no New thing Theudas the Sorcerer made himself a Second Moses neither is it any New thing for these false Prophets to lead Silly-Women Captive Montanas who call'd himself the Holy Ghost had two such the Angels Priscilla and Maximilla and so dearly did they Love that he and Madam Maximilla both hang'd themselves Or if we look amongst the Iacobites we shall still despair of any thing New for 't is no new-thing for Men to pack Iuries to serve a Turn to deliver up Charters to fell their Country to Murmur after a Great Deliverance or to refuse taking the Oaths till a good Deanery Greases the Passage All this is no New-thing Diverse Hundred of Years since The Christian Governour of the Castle of a Turk Histo. Abydus was himself and Castle betrayed into the hands of the Turks by his own Daughter and an Hundred and Forty Years before that Aleppo the strongest City of the Christians in those parts was betrayed to the Turk by the Governour To swear and forswear and to play at fast and loose with a Crown as a late Author observes is no New-thing Neither is it any new thing for Men to Cheat Slander Duel Whore and to pick a Pocket under the Gallows is a Custom as old as Tyburn Neither is it a New thing to see a