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A11388
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Picturæ loquentes. Or Pictures drawne forth in characters VVith a poeme of a maid. By Wye Saltonstall.
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Saltonstall, Wye, fl. 1630-1640.
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1631
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STC 21645; ESTC S101219
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Friends are onely here but concomitants of felicity being like the Leaves of Trees which sticke to them close in summer but fall off from them in winter when they most neede them To make love the foundation of marriage is contem'd as befitting the Innocency of Arcadian Sheapheards and therefore now they marry portions and take wifes as things to boote This perhaps glewes the eldest sister into some foolish family while the younger perhaps has nothing but naturs talent which while she puts to use spoyles all When men looke for happines here t is a signe they expect none above striving to make heaven descend to earth as though they were loath to take the paines to goe thither To conclude and not flatter the world shee is the fooles paradise the wise mans skorne the rich mans heaven who is miserably happy the poore mans hell who is happily miserable for these two shall hereafter exchange their condition 2. An Old Man IS loath to bid the world goodnight hee knowes the grave is a long sleepe and therefore would sit up as long as he could His soule has long dwelt in a ruinous tenement and yet is so unwilling to leave it that it could be content to sue the body for reparations He lives now but to be a burthen to his friends as age is to him and yet his thoughts are as farre from death as he is nigh it Howsoever time be a continued motion yet the Dyall of his age stands still at 50. that 's his age for ten yeeres afterward and loues such a friend that like a flattering glasse tels him hee seemes far younger His memory is full of the actions of his youth which he often historifies to others in tedious tales and thinks they should please others because himselfe His discourses are full of parenthesis and his wordes fall from him as slowly as water from an Alimbeck drop by drop He loves the chimney corner and his chaire which he brags was his grandfathers from whence he secures the cubboard from the Catts and Dogges or the milke from running over and is onely good to build up the architecture of a seacole fyre by applying each circumstant cynder When his naturall powers are all impotencyes hee marries a young wench for warmth sake and when he dyes makes her an estate durante viduitate onely for widdowhood At talke hee commonly uses some proverbiall verses gathered perhaps from cheese-trenchers or Schola Salerna which he makes as applyable as a mountebancks plasters to all purposes all occasions He cals often to the Servingman for a cup of Sacke and to that end stiles him friend and wonders much that new wine should not bee put in old â—ottels Though the proverbe be once a man and â—wice a child yet he hopes from his second childhood â—o runne backe into his â—eenes and so be twice a man too Lastly he 's a â—andle burnt to the snuffe she ruines onely of a man whose soule 〈◊〉 the salt of his body to keepe it from stincking and can â—carcely performe that â—oo 3. A Woman IS the second part of the little volume of man and differs from him onely in her errataes which can't be mended because shee comes out worst still in the last impression Though mens desires range after variety yet they finde no change since in one woman all are epitomizd for nature is a skilfull painter and seldome erres shee that drew one drew all The cheefect object of their creation is procreation and the continuation of the Species of mankinde for when God first gave her to man he gave her with this blessing Increase and multiply She was then call'd a helper and so shee is still for to many she helpes to vndoe them Shee 's like unto a running Lottery a man may draw forty blanks before hee gets one prize Her apparell is but like a sauce to a good dish to stirre and provoke the appetite to take a taste of her selfe Or like an envious curtayne which our fancy perswades us conceales many rarityes from us but being once withdrawne failes much in the expectation Shee may be ty'rd before satiated and therefore is one of Salomons three things that cry Give give hell woman and the grave For her teares they must be distinguisht for they are not onely the effects of sorrow sometimes of deceit sometimes anger and can bid them flow in a plentifull manner when shee list Shee 's full of mutability and like Aprill weather can laugh and weepe at once Or shee 's like a stratagem of warre which admits of no second errors for to him that marryes a woman once to erre is for ever to be undone If shee have beauty shee growes proud oft at fifteene begins to looke for suters and baites them with laying forth her haire smothing the superficies of her face and frequents publick meetings that she may the better publish her beauty which she knowes is a flower will not long last and therefore desires it may bee soone gathered Shee is naturally curious and inquisitiue to know all things but carelesse to conceale any And hee that commits a secret to her may as well put water into a sive or cullender and may looke to have both kept alike Lastly shee is but a costly vanity the folly of wise men the shell of our generation more deceitefull than horseflesh an instument that may bee easily plaid upon for it ha's but one stoppe and yet that makes musicke too 4. A Widdow IS like a cold Pye thrust downe to the lower end of the Table that has had too many fingers in 't or the last letter of the Greeke Alphabet Omega To a younger brother shee 's a reversion after three livesâ— for after the death of three husbands shee commonly â—elpes to reedifie his ruiâ—ous fortunes againe If hee be rich her chamber â—ntertaynes more suters â—â—an a Lawyars does clients 〈◊〉 Terme time and for â—hat purpose keepes a waiâ—ing Gentlewoman upon â—hom she pretends to beâ—tow the dowry of a good â—ducation but indeed uses â—er as a portall to a great â—oome to give accesse to â—rangers Shee praises â—uch her former husband â—or whom while shee â—ournes in her gowne shee â—aughs in her sleeve to â—hinke how shee shall gull â—er following sutors with this formality of sorrow whiles shee enforces 〈◊〉 customary sigh as a tribute to the memory of her besâ— deceased Hee that marryes her condemnes him selfe perpetually to diggâ— in a colepit and insteed oâ— Rosemary may carry Ruâ— to the Church for the Plague followes him She 's a good Logician and seldome denies the major often the minor because shee knowes ther 's small force or validity in 't Her daughters if she have any out of the guilty consciousnesse oâ— her owne youth are foulded up a nights in her owne chamber for feare of straying and in the day time mewd up in some inner parler to be objects of a strangers salutation who is more tyrd to salute them than a