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
of Epigrams an Elegy upon her Husbands death and other Verses of various kinds and subjects Cleobule or Cleobuline the Daughter of Cleobulus Prince of Lindus she is particularly noted for her faculty in Aenigmatical Sentences or Riddles Corrina a Theban Poetess who wrote Five Books of Epigrams and is said to have been five times Victress over Pindarus Besides her there were two others of the same name namely Corinna the Thessuzin and Corinna the Roman Lady whom Ovid much admired Carnificia a Roman Epigrammatick Poetess Cassandra Fidele a Venetian Lady She write a Volumâ— of Latin Poems of various subjects and kinds Catherine Philips the most applauded Poetess of our Nation her Fame is of a fresh and lively date from the but late publisht Volume of her Poetical Works Churlo Sax. Ceorle a Country Clown a Bumpkin in the North a Carle Chiromanter Chiromantes a Palmester or one that tells fortunes by the lines of the hand Cloris The Goddess of Flowers called also Flora. Chorus Lat. a Company of Singers or Dancers a Quire The singing or musick between every Act in a Tragedy or Comedy In a Comedy there are four Accessory parts viz. 1 The Argument 2 Prologue 3. Chorus 4. Mimick Of all which the Tragedy hath only the Chorus Chrisome a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies properly the white cloth which is set by the Minister of Baptism upon the head of a Child newly Anointed with Chrism after his Baptism Now it is vulgarly taken for the white cloth put about or upon a Child newly Christened in token of his Baptism wherewith the woman used to shrowd the Child if dying within the Month otherwise it is usually brought to Church at the day of Purification Chrisomes in the Bills of Mortality are such Children as die within the Month of their Birth because during that time they use to wear the Chrisom cloth Cabaline fountain of the Muses Calivate caelibatus single life the state of Man or Woman unmarried Herb. H. 8 Care-cloth According to the use of the Church of Sarum when there was a Marriage before Mass the parties kneel'd together and had a fine Linnen cloth called the Care-cloth laid over their heads during the time of Mass till they received the Benediction and then were dissmissed Caresse Fr. a cheering cherishing welcoming making much of Carnaval Fr. Shrovetide also a Licentious or Dissolute Season Castalian-Well a fountain at the foot of Parnassus sacred to the Muses taking the name of Castalia a Virgin who as Poets fain flying from the Leacherous God Apollo fell down headlong and was turned into this fountain Rider Catamite Catamitus a Boy hir'd to be abused contrary to Nature a Ganymede Ceruse Cerussa White-lead often used by Chyrurgeons in Ointments and Plaisters It is with Painters a principal white Colour and hath been and is still much used by Women in painting their Faces whom Martial in his merry vein scoffeth saying Cerussata timet Sabella solem Cest Cestus A Marriage-girdle full of studs wherewith the Husband girded his Wife at the Wedding and which he loosed again the first Night Chaperon Fr. a French-Hood for a Woman also any Hood or Bonnet mentioned in the Stat. 1 R. 2.7 Chaplet Fr. Chapelet a Wreath Garland or attire for the Head made of Gold Pearl or other costly or curious stuff used to be fastned behind in manner of a folded Roul or Garland Cully Fop or one that may easily be wrought upon Concubinage Concubinatus the keeping of a Whore for his own filthy use an unlawful Use of another Woman instead of one's Wife In Law it is an Exception against her that Sues for her Dowry whereby it is alledged that she was not a Wife lawfully married to the Party in whose Lands she seeks to be endowed but his 〈◊〉 Confarreation Confarreatio the solemnizing a Marriage a Ceremony used at the Solemnization of a Marriage in token of most firm Conjunction between Man and Wife with a Cake of Wheat or Batley This Ceremony is still retain'd in part with us by thâ—â— which we call the Bride-cake used at Weddings Continency Continentia a refraining of ill Desires or more strictly a restraining from all things delightful that hinde Perfection Copulation Copulatio â— coupling or joining it was one of the three ways of betrothing Marriage in Israel See Moses and Aaron p. 231. Coquettery Fr. the prattle or twattle of a pert Gossip or Minx Coral or Corral Corallum There are two principal forts hereof the one white the other red but the red is best It grows like a Tree in the bottom of the Sea green when under the Water and bearing a white Berry and when out turns red It is cold and dry in Operation good to be hang'd about Childrens Necks as well to rub their Gums as to preserve them from the Falling sickness Coranto Ital. Corranta a French running Dance also a News-book Corrivals Corrivales they who have Water from or use the same River And Metaphorically a Competitor in Love or they that Love one and the same Woman Culâ—â—riches Man eyes you Coverture Fr. signifies any thing that covers as Apparel a Coverlet c. In Law it is particularly apply'd to the Estate and Condition of a married Woman who by the Laws of the Realm is in potestate viri under Coverture or Covert-Baron and therefore disabled to make any bargain or contract without her Husband's consent or priviry or without his Allowance or Confirmation Brook hoc titulo per totum Courtesan Fr. Courtesane a Lady Gentlewoman or Waiting-woman of the Court also but less properly a professed Strumpet a famous or infamous Whore Courtesie of England Lex Angliae is used with us for a Tenure For if a Man marry an Inheritrix seiz'd of Land in â—ee-simple or in Fee-tail general or as Heir in Tail special and gets a Child of her that comes alive into the World though both it and his Wife die forthwith yet if she were in Possession he shall keep the Land during his Life and is call'd Tenant by the Courtesie of England Crabbat Fr. is properly an Adjective and signifies comely handsom gracious But it is often used Substantively for a new fashioned Gorget which Women wear or a Riding-band which Men wear Curranto ab 〈◊〉 illue currendo Fr. Courante a running Dance a French-dance different from what we call a Country-dance Corkney or Corkneigh apply'd only to one born within the sound of Bow-Bell that is within the City of London which Term came first according to Minshaw out of this Tale A Citizens Son riding with his Father out of London into the Country and being utterly ignorant how Corn grew or Cattle increased asked when he heard a Horse neigh what he did His Father answer'd The Horse doth neigh Riding further the Son heard a Cock crow and said Doth the Cock neigh 〈◊〉 Hence by way of Jeer he was call'd Cookneigh Min. A Cockney according to some is a Child that Sucks long But Erasmus
the midst of the Rout of Plebeians who join'd with him to second that Reproach And Suetonius witnesseth of the other that he was so over curious of his Head and Beard he would not only be shaven very precisely but his Extravagant Haits even pluck'd But what shall we think of his Successor Augustus who when he felt the assaults of Death invading him call'd for his Looking-Glass and commanded his Hair and Beard to be comb'd his Rivelled Cheeks to be smooth'd up then asking his Friends if he had acted his Part well upon the Stage of the World who told him he had Well saith he Vos omnes Plaudite Sure he went off very trimly But what the modesty of England hath been in former Ages however vain enough is other Fooleries yet sure the Galleries and Dining-Rooms of our Nobility and Gentry of the Kingdom will abundantly testify from the brave Images of their Ancestors whose open Ears never valu'd the Coldness of the Winds but which would glow to have heard the monstrousness of their Childrens Ell-Wigs The Puritans in the Reign of the Royal Martyr to distinguish themselves from their Neighbours took on them an Extraordinary short cut and their Neighbours in opposition to them Espoused a long one because they would not be reputed Round-heads and in nothing outwardly were the two Parties so much differenc'd as in their hair and happy had it been that the Quarrel had Ended in the Barber's Scissars which we all know brake out afterwards into the long Sword and instead of plucking each other by the Ears a little they fell to stabbing one another in the Guts So that the mischiefs which the Barber might have prevented at first had he kept an Even hand on both Parties and sheered them both to an Equal Cut all the wit of man could not prevent from running into Commodus his bloody shaving and cutting off Ears and Noses together with their Hair Now a days not a young Fellow that takes pet against his Noddle for catching the least cough or cold but strait in revenge off goes his Locks And to speak plainly Forty or Three-score pound a year for Periwigs and Ten to a poor Chaplin to say Grace to him that adores Hair is sufficient Demonstration of the Weakness of the Brains they keep warm And let me taste the boldness to manifest a few of the ill consequences of this Idolatry First With the Womans hair we have put on her are not of Cookery and the Kitchin only and become Hen-housewives but of the Chamber and the Dressing Room Tricking up our selves into as delicate starch'd-up a posture as she Some of us have gotten the Boddice â—â— to make us look slender and pretty And the Epicene Sleeves do very well fit both the he and the She. The Sleevestrings are ty'd with the lame Curiosity and the Val de Chambre that cannot knit the Knot Allamode is kick'd away as a Bungler in his Trade and Profession The Ribbon at the Hilt of our Sword is security against his being drawn while we fix it there as Cupid's Knights with no other design but to help to wound the Hearts of the Ladies 2 And who sees not the happy Victory that we have gotten their very hearts in our bosoms is close as their hair on our heads Not their Effeminacy only but Weakness too and have perfectly shav'd away all our Virility and Prowess Our Swords lie dangling on our Thighs with the same Luxury sour Wigs of the same length sport themselves on our breasts Neither were former Ages without their antick Dresses It were enough should I hang out to View one of the Suits that was generally worn heresofore in England where you had a Dublet all jagg'd and prickt the Wastband coming down but a little below the Armholes guarded with Eight long Skirs to this Dublet was claps'd a pair of Breeches close made to the body and whose length must make up the Defect of the shortness of the Dublet The large and ample Codpiss supply'd the want of Pockets which came up with two wings fastn'd to either side with two Points which unknit made way to the Linen Bags ty'd to the inside between the Shirt and Codpiss these bags held every thing they carry'd about them except the Gloves which ever hung very Reverently at the Girdle Where hung a Pouch made fast with a Ring or Lock of Iron weighing at least two or three Pounds whether there was any mony in it or no. The like I could give of the Womens Gowns and shew the madness of the Fardingale and other whimsies But the Gallerys and Parlours of most Old Familys are set out with such disguising postures as better will evidence them to the View of the Reader than I care my Pen should do at this time I shall only add That as to Womens curling crisping twiching variegating into a thousand shapes into Rings Mars Shades Folds Towers Locks c. Tertullian inveighs bitterly against it What ails you saith he that you cannot let your poor hair be quiet but sometimes it must be bound up by and by dislevelled and loose about your Ears one while staring up in Towers and presently patted and notched close Aliae gestunt cum cinnis coercere aliae ut volucris vagi elabantur Some of you are all for curling it up into Rings others for a loosemode Nay says he Assigitis nescio quas enormitates suttlium atque texiitium capillamentorium Not content with that you stick on I cannot well tell what manstious Extravagancies of false Locks and artificial hair and Periwigs Pamphila an Epidaurian the Daughter of Sateridas So great was her Repute that her Statue is said to have been Erected by Cephisodâ—rus Perilla a Roman Lady who living in the time of Augustus was in general Esteem for her Learning and Vertue The 7 th Elegy of the third book of Ovid's Tristia intimates her to have been his Scholar Phemonoc the first Priestless of Apollo as she is delivered to be and utterer of the Delphick Oracles and also the first Inventress of Heroick Verse Praxilla a Sycionian Diâ—hy Amote Pocress of whose Writing there is a Work intitled Meâ—â—um Praxilleum Proba Valeria Falconia the Wife of Adelphus the Roman Proconsul in the Reign of Honorius and Theodosuis Junior She composed a Virgilian Cento upon the History of the Old and New Testament Her Epitaph also upon her Husband's Tomb is particularly remembred Purification of the Virgin Mary Candlemas February 2. Piâ—tage f. Fornication on the Womans part Protetaneous arian 〈◊〉 l. having many Children and little to maintain them vulgar Palm-Tree Of this Tree there is male and female the male bears only blossoms and no Fruit the Female bears both but not unless the Male grow by it Prendet de Baron an Exception disabling a Woman from pursuing an Appeal of Murder against the Killer of her former husband Pridiven King Arthurs Shield with the Picture of the Virgin Mary Primer Or Office
have a third of all their goods and Chattels upon the Husbands decease and take the upper end at the Table upon all Publick Feasts and some others which the Women being very politicy in matters of their Prerogative have strictly maintained to this day and in many things go beyond their character so that no Women in the World have the like Priviledges and tender Indulgences which made a Spaniard say if there were a Bridge made over the Narrow Seas all the Women would run into England and the Horses for the hard useage they meet with gladly run out of it Women Buried alive When the Plague raged at Collen 1357. One Richmeâ— Adolick a Noble Lady Died in appearance and as the Fashion was then had her Rings and Jewels buried with her of which the covetous Sexton having notice came with a Companion of his to dig her up and that being done they opened the Coffin and going about to pull off her Rings she rose up in her shroud at which the Sacrilegious Villains being concious of guilt and oppressed with fear fled and for haste left the Lanthorn and the Church door open so that the Lady loosing her self took up the Lauthorn and went home her Husband hearing her Voice was as much terrified as the others had been but by degrees lessening his fears he received her with Joy when he perceived she was a living coarse and not a Ghost or Spectre and she confested to him that she had all that while been as one in a sleep till two men came rudely and waked her but when she was made sensible that she had been buried she started and then praised God that those Men's Evil purpose has been the means of her safety and being there upon taken great care off she recoverd her health and lived to have three Sons afterward as appears by her Monument Erected in memory of so strange a deliverance and stands now in the Enterance of the Apostles Church in Cologne In the same City one John Duns called Scotius falling into an Appoplexy was buried alive but had not the good Fortune as the other to be timely relieved for before he could be taken up he had beat his Brains out against the Grave Stone Wanting of the like sad misfortunes is not in our Age for to the knowledge of many hundreds about London in the Year 1661. One Lawrence Cawthorn a Butcher in St. Nicholas Shambles who having provided all things for his Marriage it is doubtful whether too much strong Waters or Opium given him by his Landlady who aimed at what monys he had got and knew she should not be the better for it if he Married cast him into a profound Sleep so sleeping all that night and all the next day she got some of her confederates to give out he was dead so buried him but the next day being Sunday as the People passed to Church they heard a strange groaning in the ground but for a time could not tell what to make of it growing louder though a kind of a hollow found they informed the Churchwardens of it who only Houtted at it as a delusion of the Senses but the next day being better informed and all circumstances considered this new Grave was opened and the Body found warm though dead with the stifling vapours and violent beatings against the sides of the Coffin upon news of which the Barbarous Old Woman fled and we do not hear she ever was found again Wooâ—ing is like the Porch through which you must enter to the more softy structure of Matrimony the fair one to whom the Young Lover intends his address of Coâ—rtship being pitched upon he spruces himself up as fine as may be makes an enquiry at some distance of her birth education and good parts but more particularly what her portion is or is likely to be being somewhat satisfied in these particulars his next care is to gain admittance which he does by being introduced by some Friend in credit with the Parents If she be a Virgin and under their Jurisdiction or by the Irresistible Charm of Presents to her waiting Maid or Confident at first â—unfess he be a pert noisie Fop and then he commonly mars the whole Project at the first dash unless she be as senseless as he he says little but pays it off with thinking and is hugely pleased in contemplating her Beauty and Gentiel Carriage nor stays too long least he should be counted troublesome but with a profound respect conjuing almost to her Knees he takes the liberty to impress her fair Hand with his warm Lipps which is as much as he dare presume or pretend to at this time and so takes his leave Then his business is immediately to run from Tavern to Tavern to find out a Friend to whom he may impart the weighty Joy that struggles and labours to get vent one being found down goes his Hat and Gloves upon the Table and presently he lets him know what he has been about by drinking of the Ladies health which being past he tells him what pregnant hopes he has of being the happiest Man alive in a Wife and then giving the Table a hard Thump with the Palm of his Hand he cries I proteâ—t she is the prettyest smirking Black-Eyed Rogut the most Witty and Beautiful that ever I saw in all my Life O that I had her but in her Night Cloaths Pâ—â— says the other willing to humour him and drive on the Amour never fear it Boy were I in your condition I 'de make no more of it to have her than to drink off this Glass and so here 's to her again Come says the Spark fill it up to the brim I 'le pledge it with all my Heart and Soul and return you a hundred thousand thanks for the good encouragement you have given me and so taking off one Glass after another drinks on till in a pleasing Extasie he fancies he has her in his Arms. He is altogether uneasie till he makes a second Visit and thinks Time runs too flow till he can find a convenient opportunity to do it and puts himself for that purpose into the finest Garb that a Consult of the nearest Taylors about Town can contrive concluding that or nothing will win her and upon his first entrance he will be sure to renew his Civility to her Maid that Combs her Hair and dresses her as being sure she has her Ear most and the fitâ—est opportunities to oblige him in telling her Mistress fine Love Stories to encline her to favour him And although she may be no Adorer of Images drawn in full proportion yet he presents her with part Imprinted on Gold which begets such a Character of him in her Mind that she will not fail to discribe him as the most accomplished of Men by running over every part of him to his commendation as having in him something beyond the neatness of other Men recommending him to the young Lady as the only person deserving her