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hand_n	body_n	head_n	member_n	5,319	5	8.1605	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18414	A iustification of a strange action of Nero; in burying with a solemne funerall, one of the cast hayres of his mistresse Poppæa. Also a iust reproofe of a Romane smell-feast, being the fifth satyre of Iuuenall. Translated by George Chapman	Chapman, George, 1559?-1634.; Juvenal. Satura 5. English.	1629 (1629)	STC 4979; ESTC S104934	10,177	34

the scourge of detracting tongues and for the most part to bee condemn'd before they come to triall In regard whereof I will borrow so much of your patience as that I may in a word or two examine the whole ground of this spectacle Not doubting but that I shall make it appeare to all vpright eares that it is an action most worthy your wisedome my gracious Soveraigne and that this silly this base this contemptible hayre on this Herse supported receiues no thought of honour but what it well deserueth Etiam capillus unus habet umbram suam was the saying of your master Seneca and may not your Highnesse goe one step further and say Etiam capillus unus habet urnam suam To enter into the common place of womens hayre I list not though it would afford scope enough for my pen to play in that Theame hath beene already canvast and worne halfe threed-bare by Poets and their fellowes My meaning is not to exceede the compasse of this hayre which we haue here in hand This sacred beame falne from that sunne of beauty Poppaea whose very name is able to giue it honour though otherwise base And albeit hayre were of it selfe the most abiect excrement that were yet should Poppaeas hayre be reputed honourable I am not ignorant that hayre is noted by many as an excrement a fleeting commodity subiect to spring and fall he whose whole head last day was not worth one hayre it shall bee in as good estate the next day as it was euer before And such as last yeare had as faire a crop of haire as euer fruitfull head afforded if there come but a hot summer it shall bee so smooth that a man may slur a Dye on 't An excrement it is I deny not and yet are not all excrements to be vilified as things of no value for Maske Ciuet Amber are they not all excrements yet what more pleasing to the daintiest sense wee haue Nature giues many things with the left hand which Art receiues with the right Sublimate and other drugges are by nature poyson yet Art turnes them to wholsome medicines so hayre though by nature giuen vs as an excrement yet by Art it is made our capitall ornament For whereas the head is accounted the chiefe member of the body hayre is giuen vs as the chiefe ornament of the head I meane of womens heads for men haue other ornaments belonging to their heads as shall hereafter appeare more largely And howsoeuer hayre fals within the name of excrement yet it is euermore the argument of a rancke or rich soyle where it growes and of a barren where it failes for I dare bouldly pronounce in despight of all paltry prouerbs that a mans wit is euer rankest when his hayre is at the fullest I say not his wit is best but ranckest for I am not ignorant that the ranckest flesh is not alwayes the soundest as the ranckest breath is not alwaies the sweetest And thus much more I will adde for the generall commendation of hayre that nature in no part hath exprest such curious and subtill skill as in this as wee terme it excrement for what more excellent point of Art can there be then to indurate and harden a thinne vapor into a dry and solid substance And this whole bush of hayre hath both his being and his nour●shment from those sweet vapors which breathe and steame from the quintessence of the braine through those subtill pores of the head in which they are fashioned and spunne by natures finger into so slender and delicate a thred as if she intended to doe like the painter that came to see Apelles drew that subtill lyne for a masterpeece of his workmanship And besides the highest place giuen to the hayre and singularity of workmanship exprest in it Nature hath endowed it with this speciall priuiledge and left therein so great an impression of her selfe as it is the most certaine marke by which we may ayme at the complexion and condition of euery man as red hayre on a man is a signe of trechery what t is in a woman let the sweet musique of rime inspire vs a soft hayre chicken-hearted a harsh hayre churlish natur'd a flaxen hayre foolish brain'd what a black-hayr'd man is aske the prouerbe if ye beleeue not that aske your wiues if they will not tell you looke in your glasses and ye shall see it written on your foreheads So that nature hauing honoured hayre with so great a priuiledge of her fauour why should wee not thinke it worthy all honour in it selfe without any addition of other circumstance And if Nature hath grac't the whole Garland with this honour may not euery flower challenge his part If any hayre then this hayre the argument of our present mourning more then any But wee must not thinke Princes and Senators that the vndanted heart of our Emperor which neuer was knowne to shrinke at the butchering of his owne mother Agrippina and could without any touch of remorse heare if not behold the murther of his most deare wife Octavia after her diuorce wee must not thinke I say this Adamantine heart of his could resolue into softnesse for the losse of a common or ordinary hayre But this was alas why is it not a hayre of such rare and matchlesse perfection whether yee take it by the colour or by the substance as it is impossible for nature in her whole shop to patterne it So subtill and slender as it can scarce be seene much lesse felt and yet so strong as it is able to binde Hercules hand and foot and make it another of his labors to extricate himselfe In a word it is such a flowre as growes in no garden but Poppaeas borne to the wonder of men the enuie of women the glory of the Gods c. A hayre of such matchlesse perfection that if any where it should be found by chance the most ignorant would esteeme it of infinite value as certaynely some hayres haue beene The purple hayre of Nisus whereon his kingdome and life depended may serue for an instance And how many yong gallants doe I know my selfe euery hayre of whose chin is worth a thousand crowns and others but simple fornicators that haue neuer a hayre on their crownes but is worth a Kings ransome At how much higher rate then shall we value this hayre which if it were not Poppaeas yet being such as it is it deseru'd high estimation but being Poppaeas if it were not such it can bee worth no lesse When therefore a hayre of this excellence is fallen like an Apple from the golden Tree can the losse bee light And can such losse doe lesse then beget a iust and vnfayned griefe not proceeding from humour in our Emperour nor flattery in vs but out of true iudgement in vs all Albeit I must adde this for the qualifying of your griefe most sacred Emperour that this diuine hayre is not vtterly lost It is but sent as