as her self Now because their Youth perhaps will not admit of it so soon she hurries them on to it by degrees by the excess of Drink Smoke and Venery If you visit her House she pretends to have no Drink but will send for some that she may be sure of your Mony If you touch her Bedding it will infect you for few comes near it but they are troubled with a fit of the Falling-sickness but yet this I shall tell you she 'l teach you Temperance not suffering you to have too much Liquor for your Mony If she stays a Year in a place she is befriended by the Justices Clerk The Instruments in chief of a Bawd's Trade are an Hector or Huff which seems instead of the Gyant to defend her Inchanted Castle from being violated by Knights-Errant The Pimp which brings Grist to the Mill that is Bawdy Customers to the House which he picks up under this pretence Go along with me and I will shew you the fairest Wench in Christendom or raise a Discourse of Bawdry and then swear There is not such a curious fine Sinner in or about the City as there is at such a place c. But the Whore is the main support of the House The first will not swagger unless he be paid the next wont procure unless he may Spunge and have his Folly for nothing and the Whore will not ply unless she have half share of her own getting besides a little Mony by the by The Market-places to which a Bawd resorts to buy Tools for her Trade are Inns where she enquires of the Carriers for Servant-Maids and according as they are Handsom she entertains them and trains them up in the Mysteries of her Occupation and having quallified them for her Profession of a Prostitute the Bawd furnishes them with Butterfly Garments and other gawdy Accoutrements for which she hath three shares or as much as they can agree about Piutarch in the Life of Pericles reports That Aspasia his sole delight made her House a Stews in which the Bodies of the fairest young Women were made commâ—â— for Money In my opinâ—â—â— to be wondred at it is 〈◊〉 these being past their own acâ— al Sins wherein too much â—â—ciety hath bred a Surfeit or 〈◊〉 Infirmity of Age or Disease meer disability or Performancâ— yet even in their last of daâ— and when one Foot is alreaâ—â— in the Grave they without 〈◊〉 thought of Repentance or 〈◊〉 hope of Grace as if they 〈◊〉 not Wickedness enough of theâ—â— own to answer for heap upâ—â— them the Sins of others as 〈◊〉 only inticing and alluring 〈◊〉 gins and young Wives to 〈◊〉 base Venerial Trade and 〈◊〉 infinite Inconveniences both 〈◊〉 Soul and Body dependiâ—â— thereupon but to wear theâ—â— Garments by the Prostitutiâ—â— of others and eat their Breaâ— and drink Sack and Aqua-viâ—â— by their mercenary Sweaâ— and so base an usury and 〈◊〉 comely a travel of their Bodieâ— as is not only odious in thâ— Eyes of Man but abominabâ—â— in the sight of Angels Brute Beasts in Love with an Account of the strangâ— Love of an Athenian To seâ— Men affectioned to Women and Women to Men is a nâ—tural thing and to be believed But here Blindness is come 〈◊〉 that height that that which intend to speak of seems impossible and incredible Hâ—storiographers write it for truth That in the Town of Athenâ— there was a young Man of aâ— honest Family competently Rich and well known who having curiously observed a Statue of Marble excellently wrought and in a publick place in Athens fell so in love with it that he could not keep himself from the place where it stood but be always embracing of it and always when he was not with it he was discontented and blubber'd with Tears This Passion came to such an Extreamity that he addressed himself to the Senate at Athens and offering them a good Sum of Mony beseeching them to do him the favour that he might have it home with him The Senate found that they could not by their Authority suffer it to be taken away nor to sell any publick Statue so that his Request was deny'd which made him marvellous sorrowful even at the Heart Then he went to the Statue and put a Crown of Gold upon it and enrich'd it with Garments and Jewils of great price then ador'd it and seriously beheld it musing always upon it and in his folly persevered many days that at last being forbidden these things by the Senate he kill'd himself with Grief this thing was truly wonderful But if that be true which is written upon Xerxes and affirmed by so many Authors indeed he excell'd in Folly all the Men in the World They say he fell in Love with a Palm-tree a Tree well known though a stranger in England and that he loved it and cherished it as if it had been a Woman Seeing then these things happen to rational Men we may be-believe that which is written of Bruit Beasts which have loved certain Men and Women especially when we find it certified by great and famous Writers as Glaucus that was so loved of a Sheep that it never forsook him Every one holds that the Dolphin is a lover of Men. Elian writes in his Book of Beasts a Case worthy be read He saith that a Dolphin seeing upon the Sea-shoar where Children were a playing one among the rest which he liked very well he fell so in love with it that every time that the Dolphin see him he came as near as he could to the edge of the Water to shew himself At the first the Child being afraid did shun it but afterwards by the Dolphin's perseverance one day after another and shewing signs of love to the Child the Child was encouraged and upon the kind usage of the Dolphin the Child was emboldned to swim upon the Water near unto the Fish even to go ride upon the back of it and the Fish would carry him for a good space of time even to the bottom of the Water till the Child made a sign to rise again In this solace and sport they spent many days during which the Dolphin came every day to present himself to the brink of the Sea But at one time the Child being naked swimming in the Sea and getting upon the Dolphin willing to hold fast one of the sharp pricks in the Fin of the Dolphin run into his Belly which wounded him so that the Child died immediately in the Water which the Dolphin perceiving and seeing the Blood and the Child dead upon his back he swam presently to the shoar and as though he would punish himself for this fault swimming in great fury he leaped out of the Water carrying with him as well as he could the dead Child which he so much loved and died upon the shoar with him This very thing is recited by Pliny and others with Examples of Dolphins which have born love to Men. And particularly he saith that in the
it is reckoned among those Works of the Flesh whereof we are assured in Gal. 5.20 21. They which do such Things shall not inherit the Kingdom If they that have been thus Vnclean do come to Marry it is well if the Vnclean Spirit still haunt them not There are Inexpressible Uncleannesses in the Married State which the word of God has Branded in Col. 3.5 Under the Title of In ordinate Affection for which Thing sake the wrath of God comes upon the Children of Disobedience And sometimes the Vncleanness grows into Adultery Yea perhaps a doubled Adultery wherein the Marriage-Covenant is fearfully broken by Sinful Creatures that Shake off the Yoke of God imposed from the Beginning The Iniquity so often Damned in the Word of God but especially in Prov. 6.29 32. Whosoever touches his Neighbours wife shall not be Innocent whose Committeth Adultery with a Woman wanteth understanding be that doeth it destroyeth his own Soul Sometimes also There is an Incest perpetrated in that Vncleanness whereto the Hellish Fires in the Hearts of Men do carry them They will needs Invade that comfortable and Profitable Order which God has Established in Humane Society as now increased for the Propagation of mankind It was the Edict of Heaven in Lev. 18.6 None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him And to show that such and such Degrees were not forbidden unto Israel alone the Lord adds For in all these the Nations are Defiled which I cast out before you Yea which is horrible to be Spoken such a Vile Vncleanness do some among the debased children of Men sink down into that Sodomy and Buggery it self has been among their Crimes The great God has had Occasion to issue out such precepts as those in Lev. 18.22 23 against such unutterable Abominations and Confusions Alas There is in Europe a Land Professing the Christian Religion where such Devillish practices are they say very frequent but flaming Fire from Heaven will shortly destroy that Accursed Land Nay And in this Land of Vbrightness too there have been some that have thus Dealt wickedly And I have one very wonderful Example to tell you of it In the Southern Parts of New England about the Year 1641. A Beast brought forth a Creature that had something of an Humane Shape This Monster had a Blemish in one Eye just like what a loose Lew'd Fellow in the Town was known to have This greater Monster being upon this Account Suspected was Examined upon that suspicion and his Examination Confessed his Guilt of most infamous â—â—stialities for which he underwent a deserved Execution You hear what the Acts of Vncleanness are but I am to tell you That there are Vnclean Thoughts which are Prohibited by the Lord our God even as in Mat. 5.28 A Looking upon a Woman and to Lust after her And there are Vnclean Words which are also Prohibited Even as â—in Eph. 5.4 Fiâ—â—â—iness and foolish Talking In all of these things here is Vncleanness But what shall be said of this Vncleanness In one Word It is a Wickedness T is Rebuked every where the whole Biâ—le over But indeed I need not Appeal unto the Bible to prove the Wickedness of Vncleanness The Natural Reason and Conscience in a Man will 〈◊〉 unto it Even an Aâ—â—â—elâ—k a â—hilistine will pronounce it A Great Sin Until the Souls of Men come to be debauched into the Vilest of Degeneracies They cannot but see a World of Wickedness in this Vncleanness Why the plain 〈◊〉 which all the Unclean do both to themselves and others are enough to make every sensible Person say 〈…〉 I should ever 〈…〉 However Honourable a 〈◊〉 may be otherwise Vncleaness will soon lay his Honour in the Dust there is a Blot in the Sâ—utâ—â—â—on when Uncleanness has deâ—â—â—ed it Paul said of it It is a Vile Affection Again The Unclean most Probably leave the World with the Humiliation or seeing None or however but a Poor Posterity rising after them 'T is a frequent Thing for that Great Blessing of Children to â—e Denyed where the Guilt of much Uncleanness is Lying on the Soul It was Threatned in Hos. 4.10 They shall commit â—â—â—â—edom and shall not increase There was no Conception in the House of Abimâ—â—â—k while Uncleanness was designed therâ— We read of one Committing Adultery and presently said our Lord Jesus upon it I will kill her Children with Death 'T is no Uncommon Chaâ—â—â—â—ement for Uncleanness Write this Person 〈…〉 the Lord. Or if Children are not always Denyed yet there are oâ—â—â—â— Câ—rs'd where much Uncleaness is cleaving to the Family It was Tâ—â—â—â—â—ned in Hos. 2.4 I will not have mercy upon her Children for they are the Children of 〈◊〉 This 〈◊〉 Exhâ—â—sts 〈◊〉 Poisons the Spirits in 〈◊〉 bodies until an Incâ—rable Consumption at Last shall 〈◊〉 us down One of 〈◊〉 Iâ— procure many Grievous Diseases 〈…〉 Cramps 〈◊〉 and â—â—â—rbuâ—ck Taints upon the whole Mass within us Yea there is a Grievous Disease that sometimes Invades Horses and because that Men do now so much Play the â—râ—it that very Grievous Diseases is in a disguise come upon Man also to Chastise their Bruitishnâ—â—â— The Seventh Commandment well follows the Sixth Uncleanness has a Self Murder in it But that which further hastens this misery of Uncleanness is the Just Revenge of Almighty God upon it It was the Adomonation in Ecclâ— 7.17 But not over much Wicked Why shouldest thou Dye before thy Time Well might the Lord then say concerning this very Sin Shall not my Soul Visit for such an Evil as this Why 'T is an High Treason against the Majesty of Heaven it is a Clipping of the Coin that has the Image of the Great God upon it and it is treated as a Capital Offence accordingly What is Man himself but the Picture of God The Roman Emperous made it a Criminal Thing for any Man to Carry his Picture into any Sordid places But how then shall the Glorious God bear it for a Man to Smutty His Picture with all the Superfluities of Naughtiness But suppose a Disposition to Uncleanness may be such a Grain in a Mans Temper that it may be called His own Iniquity what shall we then Why then there is a famous Prescription Ores casta Legas Jejuâ—nes otia vites Si Servare Voles Cor ora CastaDio First Pray much and pray with him Lord Create in me a Clean Heart Then Fast as well as Pray if you Fast the Unclean Kind may go out Nextly Read much the Sanctifying Truths of God It is by Taking heed thereto that The Young Man may cleanse his Way But shun all obscene Books as you woâ—ld the Rags that had the Plague about them Once more Be not Idle be not Sloathful have something at your Calling still to do So you may come to say as one usually too hard for the Devil did The Devil never finds me at leisure for him You know when and how David fell But permit me to
THE LADIES DICTIONARY Being a General Entertainment For the Fair-Sex A WORK Never attempted before in English Licens'd and Enter'd according to Order LONDON Printed for JOHN DUNTON at the Raven in the Poultrey 1694. Price Bound Six Shillings TO THE Ladies Gentlewomen and Others OF THE Fair-Sex The Author Humbly Dedicates this following Work Ladies THIS Project of Composing a DICTIONARY for the use of the Fair-Sex which may serve as a Secret Oracle to Consult in all difficult Cases being the First Attempt of this kind that has appeared in English 't is hoped 't will meet with a Courteous Reception from all but more Especially from you for whose sakes 't was undertaken and if it receives any Favour at your Hands I shall Attribute its Success in the World to the ILLUSTRIOUS SUBJECT it Treats on viz. The Virtues and Accomplishments of your Sex which are so many and Admirable that no Volume can contain them in their full Extent However my thoughts and good wishes have bid fair in this Essay which is intended for a General Entertainment and will I hope prove to the Satisfaction of the Learned and Ingenious of the Age whose Discretion I need not doubt will keep them from wresting it to any other end than what it was designed for viz. The Benefit and Advantage of the Modest of either Sex not desiring that this Book should fall into the Hands of any wanton Person whose Folly or Malice may turn that into Ridicule that loudly Proclaims the Infinite Wisdom of an Omnipotent Creator neither is any thing inserted in this WORK but what I have sufficient Authority to back it with ready at hand It is now near a Twelve-month since I first entred upon this Project at the desire of a worthy Friend unto whom I owe more than I can do for him And when I considered the great need of such a Book as might be a Compleat Directory to the Female-Sex in all Relations Companies Conditions and States of Life even from CHILD HOOD down to Old-Age and from the Lady at the Court to the Cook-maid in the Country I was at length prevailed upon to do it and the rather because I know not of any Book that hath done the like indeed many Learned Writters there be who have wrote excellent well of some Particular Subjects herein Treated of but as there is not one of them hath written upon all of them so there are some things Treated of in this Dictionary that I have not met with in any Language 'T is true MY OWN EXPERIENCE IN LOVE AFFAIRS might have furnisht out Materials for such a Work yet I do not pretend thereby to lessen my Obligations to those Ladies who by their Generous imparting to me their Manuscripts have furnisht me with several hundred Experiments and Secrets in DOMESTICK AFFAIRS BEAUTIFYING PRESERVING CANDYING PHYSICK CHIRURGERY c. Proper for my Work and such as were not taken out of Printed Books or on the Credit of others but such as are Re-commended to me from their own Practice all which shall be inserted in a Second Part if this First meets with Encouragement that so both together may contain all ACCOMPLISHMENTS needful for Ladies and be thereby rendred perfect Nor shall I dissemble the Assistance which I had from the Private Memoirs of Madam a Person well known to all the World for being both Exact and Curious in those Matters of which my DICTIONARY Treats And as this Work contains my own Observations on Love and Marriage c. For many Years as also the Secrets received from Ladies of the best Quality So Lastly That nothing might be wanting to render the Work perfect I have consulted the most valuable Books written for and against the Fair-Sex as also Dr. Blancards Mr. Blounts and other Dictionaries of note from which I extracted what was proper for my Work for as the things Treated on are many and various so were my helps I hope Ladies you will not think it much that as the Famous Limner when he drew the PICTURE OF AN EXACT BEAUTY made use of an Eye from one of a Mouth from another and so Cul'd what was rare in all others that he might present them all in one Entire Piece of Workmanship so I when I was to write of Love Marriage the Behaviour Dress and Humours of the Female Sex have consulted all Books I could meet with on those Subjects to Compleat my own Experiences So that you 'll find here at one view the whole Series and Order of all the most Heroick and Illustrious Women of all times from the first dawning of the World to this present Age of all degrees from the IMPERIAL DIADEM to the SHEPHERDS CROOK of all Regions and Climats from the Spicy East to the Golden West of all Faiths whether Jews Ethnicks or Christians and particularly an Account of those WOMEN MARTYRS that suffer'd in Queen Mary's days And in the West in 85 And of all Eminent Ladies that have dy'd in England for these last fifty years of all Arts and Sciences both the graver and more polite of all Estates VIRGINS WIVES and WIDOWS of all Complexions and Humours the Fair the Foul the Grave the Witty the Reserv'd the Familiar the Chast the Wanton What ever Poets have fancied or credible Histories have Recorded of the first you have the Misteries and Allegories clearly interpreted and explained of the latter the Genuine Relations Impartially delivered Here therefore Ladies as in a perfect Mirror you may behold the lively Ideas of all laudable Qualities whatsoever suitable to them in all Callings and Conditions here you may observe the profoundest of Learning and Divine Contemplation in the Prophesies of the Sybils c. Here are Erected the Trophies of Female Fortitude and Valour in several Instances Here Queens may learn the Arts of Splendor and Magnificence from Nitocris Cleopatra and others Wives here may read how to demean themselves toward their Husbands in all Conjugal Affection Daughters may here be taught Examples of Obedience and Chastity from the Vestal Votaresses Matrons may find here that decent Deportment which becomes their Gravity and Widows that Constancy which besits their Solitude Here is also to be found the true Interpretation and Etymology of Womens Names with so plain derivations of each Name whether Hebrew Chaldee Syriack Greek or Latin c. that any ordinary Capacity may understand them But never does my Hand more compulsively direct my Pen nor my Pen wiâ—h less willingness blot Paper then when I am forced in this Work to lay open the frailties of your Sex before so much commended But this is my Encouragement to proceed because I can produce nothing out of History to the Disgrace of the bad and vicious which adds not to the Honour of the good and vertuous Were none foul what benefit were it to be fair And if none deformed what Grace could it be to be featured There were no honour to be ascribed to Modesty but that we see
amongst the Eastern People and the fairest Females that could be chosen were her Priestesses who by an Indecent custom prostituted their Chastity to such as came to offer at her Shrine which brought her crouds of Adorers Anchire Queen of Sparta upon a discovery that her Son designed to betray her Country to her Enemy Ordered him to be brought to Justice but upon notice of it he fled to the Temple of Minerva which the caused to be so strictly guarded in order to prevent his Escape that he there perished by famine Andromeda Daughter to Cepheus for her Mothers comparing her Beauty to that of the Nerciâ—es was doomed to be devoured by a Sea-Monster but Perseus the Son of Jupiter by Dane seeing her bound naked to a Rock became Enamoured of her killed the Sea-Monster that came to devour her and made her his wife Angerona was by the An-cient Romans worshipped as the Goddess of silence and Consulted in all Abstruse matters her Altar being placed under that of the Goddess of Pleasure Anna Goranena Daughter to Alexix Emperour of Constantinople she wrote the Reign of her Father and other Learned Books and is remembred by divers Authors Anne Mother to the Virgin Mary who was Mother to our Blessed Saviour according to the Flesh. Anne a Prophetess daughter to Phanuel who frequented the Temple in Jerusalem in a devout manner and Sung Praises to God by the Direction of the Holy Spirit when our Saviour was first brought and presented there she dyed in the 84 year of her Age and in the first of our Lords Incarnation Anne Pâ—gmalion the King of Tyres Siner she was also Sister to Queen Dido of Carthage and after her Sisters death who flew her self for the Love of Aeâ—eas she failed to Malea and thence to Italy where Lâ—vinia who had Marryed Aeneas being jealous of her she fled her Fury and in her flight was drowned in the River Numicus and afterwards was held amongst the Romans as a Goddess Her Feast with much Reveling was held in the Ides of March. Anne Daughter and Heires to Duke Francis the Seconâ— of Brittanny she should have been Marryed to Maxmilian of Austria but after the death of her Father Charles the Eight of France neâ—reâ—â— to whose Teâ—râ—tories her Dutchy lay Gained her and annexed that Dukedom to the Kingdom of France Anne the Third daughter of King Charles the Firâ—â— of England was born on the 13. of March 1637 at St. James's Her Piety and Ingenuity was above her Age for being but Four Years old and falling â—ick she fervently called uâ—on God by Prayer and being at last almoâ—t sâ—ent and feeling the Pangs of death upon her after a Sigh or two â—he said I cannot now say my long Prayer meaning the Lord's Prayer but I 'll say my short one viz. Lighten mine Eâ—es O Lord least I sleep the sleep of Death and then quietly gave up the the Ghost Anne Queen of Bohemia and Hungary Daughter to Landislaus was Wife to Ferdinand of Austria upon which after some contests such discontents arose that Sâ—â—â—man the Turkish Emperor being called in War a great part of Hungary and narrowly missed taking Vienna to which he laid a hard Seige which went very bloody on both sides Anteborta held to be a Goddess among the Romans and had Adoration given her for the Success of things and favours past as they did to another Goddess called Postvorta in Expectation of the Success of things to come Antiope a Queen of the Amazons she assisted the Ethiopians in their Invasion of the Athenians but Theseus commanding the Greeks vanquished both Armies There was another of the same name who was married to Lycus a Thebian King who is fabled to be raviâ—â—d by Jupiter and Conceiving of that Rape brought forth Amphion who drew the Stones with the Musick of his Harp after him that rebuilded the demolish'd Walls of the City Antonia The Emperor Cladâ—â—â—'s Daugâ—ter who being accused by Nero the Emperor for intending to raise Sedition in the State and finding no hopes to free her self from the Tyrants Cruelty without marrying him which he earnestly pressed her to do and she deâ—â—â—â—ing the Murder of his two Wives kill'd her self to be freed from his Insults over her rather than she would yield to his Embraces or be at his Mercy Apicata Sejanus's Wife writ upon her being divorced a Memorial to Tiberius Emperor of Rome informing him how Drusius came by his death and the hand that Livia his Wife had in the concurring to it Also the Villanies of Ligdus the Eunuch and Endemes the Physician for which those that the accused were severely punished though the main end of her discovery was to revenge her self upon Livia her fair Rival Araclue a Lydian Virgin Daughter of Idomon who was so expert in all manner of Needle-work and Textury that she boasted her self equal in those Arts to Minerva which caused her to spoil her curious Manufactury which so grieved her that she hang'd her self but the Goddess in compassion brought her again to life yet turn'd her into a Spider a Creature which is usually busy in Spinning out its own Bowels Archâ—damia Cleonigmus a King of Sparta's Daughter hearing that upon the approach of Phyrus to besiege the City the Senate had made a Decree that all the Women should depart it she went boldly with a drawn Sword in her hand to the Senate-house and told them That the Mothers Sisters and Wives of those Warriers that were to fight the Enemy scorn'd to be less Valiant than they and thereupon got the Decree revoked Autem Morâ—s are such who are married having always Children with them one in the Arm and another at the Back and sometimes leading a third in the Hand You are not to ask what Church she was married in or by what Parson so long as a Totterdemallion shall swear he will justifie himself her Husband before any Justice of Peace in England Armenias's strict Virtue and great Love to her Husband Ladies we have in London who are so far from having a light Assent as they scorn to admit a weak Assault which confirms the Judgment of that noble accomplish'd though unfortunate Gentleman In part to blame is she that has been tride He comes too near that comes to be denied Sir T.O. This that noble minded Lady Armenia expressed who being solemnly invited to King Cyrik's Wedding went thither with her Husband At night when those Royal Rites had been solemnized and they returned her Husband asked her how she liked the Bride-groom whether upon perusal of him she thought him to be a fair and beautiful Prince or no Truth says she I know not for all the while I was forth I cast mine Eyes upon none other but upon thy self Those receiving Portels of her Senses were shut against all foreign Intruders She had made a moral League with her Loyal Eyes to fix on no unlawful Beauty left her surprized Eye might ingage her to folly We may imagine that
Throne of a Potent Kingdom who loved her intirely was impatient of her absence but she Excused herself with all Modesty and Gravity That she had weaned herself from the World and its Vanities and entreated she might be obliged to return no more to it A Kingdom was but a small Bribe and seemed nothing to her in Comparison to those Joys the had in view Elphlerda Sister to Edward a Saxon King before the Conquest and Wife to Etheldredus Duke of Mercia was so renowned for her Courage and Bravery of Mind that few Nations ever affâ—rded a more Famous Virago She her Husband dying overthrew the Welch in several Battels who made Incursions into her Territories and in bloody Figâ—ts â—ut the Danes to the rout She buiâ—t divers Ruined Cities and 〈◊〉 her bleeding Country to a smiling Condition with whose Fame and Praises our Histories abound And King Henry the Fifth whilst Prince of Wales admiring her Courage and Conduct made certain Latin Verses in Commendation of her We might under this head of Examples mention many more no leâ—s Famed for Piety and Vertâ—e than Valour and Renown but seeing we are to scatter them as Diamonds and Pearls to Illustrate the whole Work these they may here 〈◊〉 to the Credit and Honour of the Fair Sex Eleanor Queen of England her Vertuous and wonderful Example of Love to her Husband Edward Son 〈◊〉 Henry the Third King of England resolving to pass into the Holy-Land with divers other Princes for the Recovery of it and the City of Jerusalem which the Infidels had taken away from the Christians and violently oppressed them Eleanor Daughter of Ferdinand the Third K. of Castile his chaâ—e and vertuous Wife would by no means be perswaded to stay behind but resolved in that long and dangerous Voyage to accompany him No entrâ—ties nor the hazards laid before her could prevail with her to be without her Husbands Company saying Shâ— knew she must die and if so dyed in the Land of Promise she was as near if not nearer in Heaven as in any other place And accordingly she accompanyed him undergoing cheerfully the hardships that attended the tedious Voyage This Prince in Palestine did wonders by his Valour and Conduct Making his very Name a terror to the Infidels so that they being every where worded the Turkish Governour of Damascus sent a Villain seemingly to treat with him but indeed to dispatch him for as he was delivering his Letters he stabb'd him three times in the Arm with a poison'd Dagger whereupon the prince fell'd him With his Fist and the Guards coming in cut him in pieces Excessive was the the pain yet he bore it with a manly fortitude and the nature of the poison such that his Chirurgeons concluded them Morral unless any one would hazard their Life by continual sucking out the poison the which when all his Favourites declined His vertuous Wife undertook cheerfully so that God blessing her willingness the Prince recovered and she remained uninjured by the poyson For which he entirely loved her all her Lifetime and when he was King Erected Monuments to her Memory in divers parts of England which remained many of them till the time the Crosses c. were demolished in the late Civil War Eulâ—lia a Noble Virgin of Portugal contemning all Earthly Glories as transitory things in which was no solid or substantial good laid aside her Treasure and Splendid Attire for the Adorning her Body and only took care to dress her Soul That it might be an acceptable Spouse fit for the embraces of the Glorious Bridegroom the made Sobriety Mâ—desty Chastity Works of 〈◊〉 and Charity her daily Familiars she took her Love off from Worldly things and placed it on those above And lived the life of a Saint a rare Example to those that are young and beautiful as she was to Patern out if necessity requires it and the Immortal Soul be at stake for the trifling vanitieâ— of this World See thus continued in Piety herself to instruct others 〈◊〉 hor Perâ—ecution arose and the 〈◊〉 viz. the 〈◊〉 mentioned in St. Johns 〈…〉 her the 〈…〉 to fly into the 〈…〉 the Flood that the Dra◠〈◊〉 out of his 〈…〉 resolved with 〈…〉 true Christian Courage 〈◊〉 those that were commanded by the Emperours Edict to Sacrifice to the Idols or the Representations of the seigned Heathen 〈◊〉 To be 〈…〉 And though her Parents who loved her 〈◊〉 laboured to avert the Danger that Threatned by perswading her to do it more privately Her Zeal drove her to do it in the Presence of the Enemies of the Christian Faith saying that those who out of Fear or Favour refused to profess the name of Christ openly were not worthy of his Love and the Glories he had prepared for those that Love and Fear him They however by Tears and Intreaties prevailed with her to remove out of the Populous City to their Country House but so great was the fervour of her Zeal that hearing many through fear daily Apostatized she Escaped the vigilence of those that were to observe her and went to their Houses to confirm and Strengthen such as were not fallen and to recover such as were Which being taken notice of by some Envious Persons she was delivered to the Praefect one superstitiously Devoted to the Heathen Idolatry and Thristing after the Blood of the Christians who Reproached her and Reviled her as a Sower of Sedition and a Stirrer up of the People to Trouble and Molest the Peace and Quiet of the Empire and as a Desptser and Conâ—aâ—ner of their Gods To all which she answered with much modesty and Mildness but when what ever she could alledge availed her nothing she told them That her Life was all they could Exact and she was willing to dye for thâ—â— Faith she Professed Then he began to perswade her to Renounce it as being Inflamed with her Beauty promising to take her in Marriage if she would comply but she with detestation refused his proser in those terms which so enraged him laying aside all bowels of Commiseration to so youthful and tender a Lady he called for the Executioners and ordered them to make ready the Rack upon which void of all shame they stretched her naked and disjointed those Limbs the sight of which would have charmed Barbarians into wonder yet she took it cheerfully and sung Praises That she was counted worthy 〈◊〉 suffer for his Name who had Redeemed her with his Precious Blood Upon which she was cast to the wild Beasts kept in those times one purpose to make the Tyrrantâ— pastime in the slaughtering and devouring Christians having before she had been taken of the Rack been tortured with another Engin of Cruelty called the Iron Grate which broke her Arms and Legs and had her Ivory Breasts 〈◊〉 with hot Irons Yet in all 〈◊〉 through his strength who supported her weakness she became more than Conqueror Crampies of Female Courage Constancy and maâ—â—â—ther singular Vertues Agnâ—s Gabril being
of the blessed Virgin divided into seven parts 1. Malines and Laudes 2. The Prime 3d. 6th None or 〈◊〉 hour 6. Vespers or Eversong 7. The Complines Prioress the Governess of a Nunnery Panado Span. Punada or Empanada Fr. Paude a kind of Food made of crumbs of bread and Curran's boiled in water or as some will have it of grated Bread Milk Sugar and grated Cheese Pandora seigned by Hesiodes to be the first Woman and made by Vulcan indued by all the Gods with several Excellent Gifts but afterwards by Jupiter in displeasure sent to her Spouse Epimetheus with a box full of all manner of miseries Hence Pandora's box is taken for misery calamity and the like Pregnant big with Child also full copious ripe Possowa an Indian beast receiving her young ones on occasion into a bag under her belly Paphian paphius belonging to Paphos a City of Cyprus dedicated to Venus and built by Paphus Hence Paphus Archer is taken for Cupid 〈◊〉 fire or shot for the fire or arrows of Love Papian Law Lex 〈◊〉 Poppea a Law made among the ancient Romans against single life that if any forbore from the priviledges of Parents and had no children the People who was the common Father of all should inherit their Goods Tacit. Popelet lote c. a Pappet or young wench Polygamy g. a being marry'd to many at the same time Polyhimnia lymnia one of the Muses Pomander q. Pomamber D. a ball of Perfumes Param peramator a lover he or she a Sweet-heart Paranymph Paranymphus an Orator who a little before the Commencement of Doctors c. makes a publick Speech in commendation of their sufficiency also an Overseer of a Wedding a Bride-dresser or he or she that bears all the sway at the Bridal Paraphonalia is used in our Law but in the Civil it is Paraphernalia which are those Goods a Wife brings her Husband over and besides her Dowry and Marriage mony as Furniture for her own Chamber her own Apparel and Jewels if she be of Quality all which she must have and not the Executors of the Husband c. Shep. Fa. Counc 122. Plesades g. seven Daughters of Atlas turn'd into the seven fears Plow monary next after Twelfth-day when our Northern Plowmen beg Plowmony to drink and in some places if the Plowman after that days work come with his Whip to the Kitchin-harsh and cry Cock in the Pos before the maid says Cock on the Dunghill he gains a Cock for Shrove-Tuesday Point f. the plight one is in also Rich Needle work Paritude Pariture or Parture from pario a breeding or ingendring the time of travail or deliverance of child or young Philomela flying from Terous who had ravish'd her and cut her Tongue out Pimpleiades the Muses Pimpompet f. an antick dance of three kicking each others bum Perwick wig Peruque f. a cap of false hair Phoedra Daughter of Mines and wife of Theseus Phemone the first Priests of Appolo at Delphos and inventress of Heroick Verse Phaetontiades Phaetons sister Phao a Lesbian Youth made beautiful by an Ointment given him of Venus Pentagamist Gr. one that hath had five wives Penlography peplographia the description of the Vail called Peplum which was an Embroidered Vesture or hood to cover the head now used for a Kercher worn especially by women going to be churched Tho. Peregrina a Womans Name Pelias Brother of Aeson King of Thessaly slain by his own daughters Pelopaea the mother of Aeghisibus by her own Father Thyestes Peple lum l. a hood for women at their Churching Pugitar a Rival in Love Petty Treason Fr. Petit Trahison Treason it a lesser or lower kind It a Servant kill his Master a Wife her Husband a Secular or Religious man his Prelate these are Petit Treasons Pin as he is in a merry Pin it was an ancient kind of Dutch artificial Drunkenness the cup commonly of Wood had a Pin about the middle of it and he was accounted the man who could nick the Pio by drinking even to it whereas to go above or beneath was a forfeiture This Device was of old the cause of so much Debauchery in England that one of the Constitutions of a Synod held at Westâ— in the Year 1102. was to this Effect That Priests should 〈◊〉 go to publick Drinkings nec ad Pinnus bibunt nor drink at Pins And King Edgar made a Law that none should drink below the Pin. Pip is a Disease in Poultry being a white thin Scale growing on the top of the tongue which hinders them from eating it proceeds generally from drinking puddle water or eating filthy meat Pledge from the Fr. Pleige a surety or gage To pledg one drinking had its Original thus When the 〈◊〉 bore sway in this Land if a Native did drink they would sometimes stab him with a Dagger or Knife Hereupon people would not drink in company unless some one present would be their pledge or surety that they should receive so hurt whilst they were in their draught Hence that usual phrase I 'le pledge you or be a pledge for you Pattus The bringing forth of a Mature Faetus or Young in natural Births The Faetus having broken the Membrances turns his head forward and inclining it towards the neck of the Womb strives to get forth the usual manner is after nine Months Yet I have known some at Amsterdam born at seven Months who have lived to Fifty or Sixty Dr. Blanked Phillis Gr. a Womans Name and signifies Lovely as Amie in French Philomel philomela a Nightingale Philosophy philosophia the love or desire of Wisdom a deep knowledg in the nature of things there are three different kinds of it 〈◊〉 Rational Philosophy including Grammar Logick and â—hetorick and this dives into the subtility of disputations 〈◊〉 discourse 2. Natural Philosophy searching into the obscurity of Natures Secretes concerning besides Arithmetick 〈◊〉 Geometry and Astronomy 3. Moral Philosophy which consists in the knowledg and practice of civility and good behaviour Philtre philtrum â—morous potion a love occuring drink or medicine Platonick love is a love abstracted from all corporeal gross impressions and sensual appetite and consists in contemplation and Idaea's of the mind not in any carnal Fruition or it is a love of Friendship without any admixture of Sensuality So called from Plato the Divine Philosopher Pickadil à Belg. Pickedillekens i. e. Lacinia Teut. Pickedel the round hem or the several divisions set together about the skirt of a Garment or other thing also a kind of stiff collar made in fashion of a Band. That famous Ordinary near St. James's called Picadilly took denomination from this that one Higgins a Taylor who built it got most of his Estate by Pitadilles which in the last age were much in fashion Pilch pellicea a woollen or sur garment now used for a flanel cloth to wrap about the lower part of young Children Hence d. Surplice q. Surplich Pommade Fr. Pomatum or Pomata an Ointment used by