at ten years of age and was but 15 when she hid the spies as some report Leo saith that in Africk one shall scarce finde a Maid at 14 years of age for when the vehemency of Adolescency which is betwixt the age of 14 and 28 beginneth to tickle them and when they have greatest need of a bridle then they let loose the raines committing themselves to the subjection of this passion There are many forward Virgins of our age are of opinion that this commodity can never be taken up too soon and howsoever they neglect in other things they are sure to catch time by the forelock in this if you aske them this question they will resolve you 14 is the best time of their age if 13 be not better then that and they have for the most part their Mothers example before them to confirme and prove their ability and this withall they hold for a certain ground that be they never so little they are sure thereby to become no lesse yet let me tell these forward Girles the effects that most commonly ensue are dangerous births diminution of statute brevity of life and such like This passion is more tolerable in youth and such as are in their hot bloud and shall I be bold to speak it without offence to the stale Batchelors that Love is not properly nor naturally in season but in that age next unto infancy Nunc grata juveni Venus Venus to young men is a welcome guest But for an amorous complexion to cover glowing fires beneath the embers of a gray-beard to see an old man to dote upon Women what more odious what more absurd yet in some this Idalian fire flameth more in their old age then in their youth Aristotle saith that old men are not out of the reach of Cupid nor bid defiance to Venus till they have passed the age of 70 years And truly a gray-head and a wanton-heart are ill suited it is more ridiculous to see it in Women then men It rageth in all ages yet is it most common and evident among young and lusty persons in the flower of their age high fed and living idly for such as are continually imployed it scarce touches them till they come to be 24 or 25 years of age and then but very lightly according to the speech of Lyndamor to Pallemas that he had arrived to the age of 25 years before he ever felt any effects as Love useth to produce in hearts of his age Not but that he was of his naturall inclination as much devoted servant unto Ladies but being continually exercised in businesse much different from idlenesse he had no pleasure to let Love sow any seeds in his soul for ever since he was able to bear armes moved by a generous instinct which invites noble spirits unto dangerous enterprizes he was perpetually in wars where he did most heroically signalize himself Some have given two reasons why youth is more subject to this illimited passion then any other age The first is That naturall heat or vigour which is most predominant in youth provoking him to attempt the greatest of difficulties rather then suffer the repulse where he affects The second is Want of imployment which begets this distemperature Vacuo pectore regnat amor Love playes hai-day in an idle person Amor otiosae cura est solicitudinis saith Theophrastus it is an affection of an idle minde Also it fosters it self by a writ of Priviledge in the hearts of young men who abounding with much bloud and consequently with great store of Vitall spirits are more fiery and ardent making them full of wanton and youthfull desires I have many times observed a great sympathy and affection young boyes and girles have one to another and indeed there is a pretty pleasing kind of wooing drawn from a conceived but concealed fancy which suits well with these amorous younglings they could wish with their hearts ever to be in the presence of those they love so they might not be seen by them Might they chuse they would converse with them freely consort with them friendly and impart their truest thoughts fully yet would they not have their bashful loves finde discovery They would be seen yet seem obscured Love but not disclose it see whom they love but not be eyed Yea which hath struck me into more admiration I have known divers whose unripe years half assured me that their green youth had never instructed them in the knowledge nor brought them to conceit of such vanities excellently well read in Love Lectures and prompt enough to shew proofes of their reading in publick places The amorous toyes of Venus and Adonis with other Poems of like nature they peruse with such devotion and retain with such delectation as no subject can equally relish their unseasoned palats like those lighter discourses If this passion begin in infancy and so continue it is more affectionate and strong because that custom which is taken in that age doth by degrees become a nature which growing up with years growes solid and unalterable Fronutus saith of Love Juvenis pingitur quod amore plerumque Juvenes capiuntur sic mollis formosus nudus quod simplex apertus hic affectus ridet quod oblectamentum prae ase ferat cum phiretra c. The reason why Love was painted young is because young men are most apt to Love soft fair and fat because such folks are soon captivated naked because all true affection is simple and open he smiles because merry and given to delights hath a Quiver to shew his power and none can escape him old nor young is blinde because he sees not where he shootes nor whom he hits c. Let us now Demonstrate what temperatures and complexions do sympathize together and are most prone and apt to receive the impression of this Passion THe diversitie of complexions breeds a diversity of desires whereby they judge diversly of things present and follow those which do best agree with their constitutions whereby we see that in the election of any thing whatsoever the appetite doth accommodate it self to the temperature of the body for we see Men fit themselves in their customs and carriages to their corporeal temperature ever desiring to converse with their like for Nature would so have it to this only end that every one should be esteemed and be loved and they that are not absolutely faire in every part should not be despised but being received into grace and favour with their Lovers might live honestly in mutuall society and in good esteem with them Every like desireth and loveth his like whereby ever for the publick good there remaineth nothing despised because there is nothing but hath its like And therefore to the eyes of a Moor the black or tawny countenance of his Moorish Damosel pleaseth best and yet such a one would almost turn the stomach of a Sanguine complexioned English man to look upon Now to discover those who are
Lacedemonians to the attaining of virtue education industry and exercise is the most noble means the truth of which I shall make manifest to you by tryall Then bringing forth the whelps and setting down a porridge-pot and an Hare the one run at the Hare and the other at the pot the Lacedemonians not understanding the mystery he said Both of these be of one Sire and one Dam but you see how Education altereth Nature Let us therefore that seeing our flexible nature is assaulted and provoked to the acting of any thing which is not good endevour to accustome and exercise our selves in virtue which will be as it were unto us another nature let us use the means of good Education and instruction in Wisdom whereby our souls shall be made conquerors over these hot passions and our mindes moderated and stayed in all our actions We will now proceed on to the next and fourth cause which is a certain harmony and consonancy of hearts which meeting accord upon the same tone having a natural correspondency For it is Mans nature to affect all harmony and sure it is where Cupid strikes this silent note for Love is the musick the harmony complexion the genus and very soul of nature more sweet and melodious then the sound of any instrument for there is musick wheresoever there is an harmony And thus far we maintain the musick of the spheres for these well ordered motions and regular paces though they give no sound unto the ear yet to the understanding of the parties affected they strike a love-note most full of harmony I desire leave to insist a little upon this Every body hath its projections and unperceiveable influences as we finde in the power of Amber and the Adamant which attract Iron and Straw by the expiration they scatter in the aire to serve as instruments and hands to their attractions This being common to other natures of Plants Metals and living creatures we must not think but that the body of Man participateth therein by reason of its vivacity and multitude of pores which give a more easie passage to such emissions There then cometh forth a spirituous substance which is according to Marcilius Ficinus vapour of bloud pure subtle hot and clear more strong or weak according to the interiour agitations of spirits which carryeth along with it some friendly convenient and temperate quality which insinuateth it self into the heart and soul doth if it there finde a disposition of conformity abide as a seed cast into the earth and forms there an harmony and this love of correspondency with an admirable promptness and vigor so it happeneth that the spirits being transpired from one body to another and carrying on their wings qualities consonant do infallibly excite and awaken the inclinations The eye is principally interessed herein breathing thence the most thin spirits and darting forth the visual rayes as the arrows of Love which penetrate the heart striking a most dulcisonant harmony and are united one within another then heating the bloud they strike upon the imagination and attract the will which are linked one to another that they are tyed together with an unperceiveable knot and so by this means Love entereth into the heart The fifth Cause is that of the Divines and morall Philosophers That beauty and goodness make us love Which two if they be found both in one Woman she 's rara avis a very rare thing indeed are most availeful advantages Love varies as its objects varie which is alwaies good beautiful amiable gratious and pleasant or at least which seems to be so from Goodness comes Beauty from Beauty Grace and Comeliness which result as so many rayes from their good parts makes us to love and so covet and desire it for were it not pleasing and gratious in our eyes we should not seek it Omne pulchrum amabile and what we love is fair and gratious in our eyes or at least we do so apprehend or esteem it Suum cuique pulchrum Th' perfections of his Mistress are most rare In all mens eyes yet in his own most faire Amiableness is the object of love the scope and end is to obtain it for whose sake we love and with our minds covet to enjoy Likewise Grace and Beauty are so wonderfully annexed do so sweetly and gently win our souls and strongly allure that they confound our judgement and cannot be distinguished And this makes the Poets still put the three Graces in Venus company as attending on her and holding up her train As the needle of a Diall being touched with an Adamant doth alwaies turn towards the Pole-star because the Philosophers hold that to be the element of the Load-stone or Magnet and by a natural sympathy doth attract every part of it self unto it self so a Loâ—ers heart being touched with the beauty and goodness of his Mistress doth turne it and all its thoughts towards her Poetically to explain this conception let us add The needle of a Diall Northward turns If touch'd by Adamant His heart touch'd by his Mistress burns And after her doth pant As this Magnet draweth the heavie Iron and the Harp the swift Dolphin so beauty allureth the chast minde to love In that exquisite Romance of Clytiphon and Lucippe where Clytiphon being captivated with her beauty speaking of himself ingenuously confesseth that he no sooner came in Lucippe's presence but saith he Statim ac eam contemplatus sum occidi oculos à Virgine avertere conatus sum sed illi repugnabant He was wounded at the first sight his heart panted he could not possibily turn his eyes from her This Beauty hath great power to procure love for where it appeareth in the exterior parts in any body it is as it were a witness and testimony of the beauty in the soul For the Creator created all things in such manner that he hath commonly joyned beauty and goodness together in the beginning there was nothing made but it was very good and beautiful in his kind therefore there is an agreement between the body and the soul for bodily beauty is as it were an image of the beauty of the soul and promiseth after a sort some good thing of the inward beauty for internal perfection breedeth the external whereupon the internal is called goodness and the external beauty Many would willingly die for the beauty of others and are so tormented and tossed that they become senseless and phrenetick being captivated with looking upon a beautiful face which hath such a sting that it pierceth even unto the liveliest part of their heart and soul Whereupon it falleth out that poor silly Lovers are so full of passions that they stand altogether amazed making their souls so subject to their desires that she must obey them as if she were some poor Chamber-maid or drudge It is the Witch of Nature as gold is the god of the World for a Woman without beauty hath as few followers as a Man without money hath friends
therewith When aged they use in vain to make themselves fair by renting their faces with painting though more cause to rent them with their nails out of penitent indignation Thus painting used to reconcile in time widens the breaches in their faces and their flesh tainted at least with the poison thereof like rotten vessels spring the more leaks the more they are repaired And the truth is I would have such as these to joyn themselves with Souldiers for so both may fight under their colours Sixthly Pleasant and well composed looks glances smiles counter-smiles plausible gestures pleasant carriage and behaviour affable complements a comely gate and pace daliances playes revels maskes dancing time place opportunity conference and importunity are materials of which Loves torch is made also no stronger engins then to hear and read of Love toyes fables and discourses so that many by this means become distracted for these exercises do as well open the pores of the heart as the body And truly such heart-traps are laid by cunning beauties in such pretty ambuscadoes that he must be a crafty Fox that can escape them for there is still some peculiar grace in a Woman as of beauty good discourse wit eloquence or honesty which is the primum mobile or first mover and a most forcible loadstone to attract the favours and good will of Mens eyes eares and affections unto them It is a plain ornament becomes a Virgin or virtuous Woman and they get more credit in a wise mans eye and judgement by their plainness and are more comely and fair then they that are set out with their patches bables puffed up and adorned like Jayes in Peacocks feathers Ladies let the example of Lucretia be set before you who stamped a deeper impression of affection in the heart of the virtuous beholder by addressing herself to houswifery and purple spinning then others could ever do with their rare banquets and riotous spending All are not of Aegisthus minde who was taken with a complement of lightness This argued that a youthful heat had rather surprised his amorous heart then any discreet affection preferred him to his choise This love is fading for where virtue is not directrice in our choise our mindes are ever prone to change we finde not what we expected nor digest well what we formerly affected all is out of square because discretion contrived not the building It is a decent and comely habit best becomes Ladies to be wooed in and contents discreet Suitors most to have them won in Conforme then your generous dispositions to a decency of fashion that you may attract to your selves and beget in others motives of affection whose private virtues render you to the imitation and publick to the admiration of all Seventhly a tender and hot heart lucid spirits vegetous and subtle bloud are causes of amorous fires a small beauty makes a great impression in them Eightly Obsequious love-letters to insinuate themselves into their Mistresses favour are great incitements they are the life of Love The pen can furrow a fond females heart And pierce it more then Cupids faigned dart Letters a kinde of Magick virtue have And like strong Philters humane souls inslave Ninthly Words much corrupt the disposition they set an edge or glosse on depraved liberty making that member the vent and spout of their passion and making the hearts of credulous Women melt with their ear-charming Oratory The tenth Love is caused very often by the ear as Achilles Tacitus saith Ea enim hominum intemperantium libido est ut etiam fama ad amandum impellantur audientes aequè afficiantur ac videntes such is that intemperance and passion of some Men that they are as much inamoured by report as if they see them Oft-times the species of Love are received into the fantasie as well by relation as by sight for we see by the eyes of our understanding No face yet seen but shafts that Love lets flie Kils in the ear as well as in the eie Also The pleader burns his books disdains the Law And fals in love with whom his eyes ne'r saw Lycidas declaring to Cleon his Love towards Astrea said Whether she was really fair or no I know not but so it was that so soon as ever I heard the report of her I loved her Some report saith he that Love proceeds from the eyes of the party loved but this cannot be for her eye never looked upon me nor did mine see her so much as to know her again For an illustrious name is a strange course To attract Love and good report hath force We purpose now to treat of Money causing Love That is the general humour of the world and in this Iron age of ours and in that commodity stears our affections the love of riches being most respected for now a Maid must buy her husband with a great dowry if she will have him making Love mercenary and 't is the fashion altogether in use to chuse Wives as Chapmen sell their wares with Quantum dabitis what is the most you will give Witty was that young Gentlewomans answer to an inconsiderate Suitor who having solicited the Father and bargained with him for the affection of his Daughter for so much and covenants of marriage concluded This undiscreet wooer unseasonably imparts his minde to the Daughter who made strange with it saying she never heard of any such matter yea but replyed he I have bargained with your Father and he hath already consented And you may marry him too quoth she for you must hold me excused Covetousness and filthy lucre mars many a good match or some such by-respect Veniunt a dote sagitâ—ae 't is money that makes the Mare to go 't is money and a good dowry lights Hymens torches They care not for beauty education honesty or birth if they hear that she is a rich heir or hath ready cash they are frantick doting upon such a one more then if she were natures master-piece in beauty If she be never so ugly and stinking 't is money makes her kisse sweetly Has she money that 's the first question O how they love her Is she mula auro onusta nay then run Dog run Bear they 'l venture hanging to compasse their desire Auri sacra fames quid non mortalia cogis Pectora What will not this desire of money compell a Man to attempt Is she as old as Saturn deformed vitious blear-eyed though they be like two powdering tubs either running over or full of standing brine and her browes hang ore her eyes like flie flaps though her nose be like a Hunters horn and so bending up that a Man may hang a hat upon it and her cheeks may serve boys for cherry-pits doth her teeth stand like an old park pale if she have any has she a tongue would make a deaf man blesse his imperfections that frees him from the plague of so much noise and such a breath heavens shield us as
whose hands the Book might come neither do I write it to be an instrument ready tun'd for every wanton eye tongue and hand to play upon I forbear lest more hurt then good come thereby For Pliny reporteth that Lucullus a most brave General and Captain of great execution lost his life by a Love-potion Love hath us'd against frail hearts Unlawful weapons shooting poyson'd darts That there is things that have power and virtue to cause Love is not to be doubted for the Soul of the World according to Corn Agrip. by its vertue doth make all things that are naturally generated and artificially made fruitfull by infusing into them Celestial properties for the working of these effects then those things themselves not only administred by potions or any other such like way but also when they being conveniently wrapped up and bound to or hanged about the neck or any other way applyed although by never so small a contact do impresse their virtue upon us For by those applications or contacts the accidents of the body and minde are changed causing them to whom they are administred to love and render them that carry them to be beloved But if these be not done under a sutable and proper Constellation you may as well go about to pick stravvs as effect any thing by them no more but verbum sat sapienti Also there are certain seasons which I will conceal for modesties sake when Women though never so forward at other times may be won in the which moment they have neither will to deny nor wit to mistrust such a time is recorded in History a young Gentleman found to obtain the love of the Dutchesse of Millaine such a time a poor Yeoman elected and in it purchased the love of the fairest Lady in Mantua Sed vulgo prodere grande nefas If I have displeased any fools in concealing such things as are to be concealed I hope the wise will hold me excused whilst I proceed to declare unto them in the next Chapter the Power and Effects of Love Of the Power and Effects of Love THe Reader shall pay nothing but his pains in following me whilest I shew him the great power and various effects of Love and yet I think I may as well go about to number the leaves of trees and sands of the Sea the grasse piles upon the Land and the stars in the firmament as enumerate the different effects and disorders that Love produceth in mortals What poyson may be dissolved which Love mingleth not What weapons can be forged and filed to transfix the sides of innocent creatures which Love hammereth and polisheth not in his shop or what precipices are there which Love prepareth not All the mischiefs and crimes which have in former ages been perpetrated Love hath acted and dayly invented them Plato cals it Magnus Daemon or the great Devill for its vehemency and soveraingty over all other passions For saith one I had rather contend with Tygers Wolves Dragons Lions Buls Bears and Gyants then with Love he is so powerfull Regnat in superos jus habet ille Deus saith Ovid he enforceth all to become tributary to him he domineers over all and can make mad and sober whom he list and strikes with sickness and cures whom he list he is of such power and majesty that no creature can withstand him he is to be seen in creatures void of reason for the Pelican gores her brest to feed her young ones and the Storke is not unkinde to feed her old one in her age We are informed by common experience how violently brute Beasts are carryed away with this passion Lions Buls Dogs and Cocks are so furious in this kinde that they will kill one another but especially Harts are so fierce that they may be heard fight at a great distance Pliny saith Fishes pine away for love and wax lean For saith he a Dolphin so loved a Boy that when he dyed the Fish came on Land and so perished This Love is the most fatall plague amongst all the passions it hath the shiffering and heat of Fevers the ach and striking of the Meagrim the rage of Teeth the stupefaction of the Vertigo the furies of Frenzie the black vapors of the Hypochondry the stupidities of the Lethargie the fits of the Mother and Spleen the faintness of the Ptisick the tremblings and palpitations of the heart It is wils darling the triall of patience passions torture the pleasure of melancholy the sport of madnesse the delight of varieties and the deviser of vanities After all this it is made a God called Cupid to whom Poems Elogies Hymnes Songs and Victimes are offered Empire over the heart is given to it There are many millions of Men in the World who would be most fortunate and flourishing if they knew how to avoid the mischievous power of this passion What a sweet poyson is the beauty and comelinesse of one sex to another which entereth in by the eye and maketh a strange havock I wonder not at all why the Scriptures compare it to a Panther a savage and cruell Beast which with teeth teareth those she hath amazed with the mirour-like spots of her skin and drawn to her by the sweet exhalation of her body Love hath walked on Scepters parched the Lawrels of Victors thrown trouble into States Schismes into Churches corruption among Judges and furies into Arms It assaulteth in company in solitude at windowes at Prison gates at Theaters and in Cabinets at sports in a feast at a Comedy and many times at Church like the simple old woman belull'd with a sleepy zeal had a minde to go to Church purposely to take a nap so many of our dainty ones desire nothing more then to go to the Temple to present to the deluded eye a new dresse and captivating Love-tainted hearts and who can assure us against it When it once gets the master-head of reason and passion prevails there is nothing left but wandering of the soul a Fever a perpetual Frenzie a neglect of operations of affaires of functions sadnesse languor and impatience they think businesse is done when 't is but thought on Amor ordinem nescit Love knows nor keeps no order O the inexpressible variousnesse of this Love in some it is sharp and violent in others dull and impetuous in others toyish and wanton in others turbulent and cloudy in others brutish and unnatural in others mute and shamefaced in others perplexed and captious in others light and transitory in others fast and retentive in others fantastick and inconstant in others weak and foppish in others stupid and astonished in others distempered and in some furious and desperate Magna suo ardent furore pectora It inflameth the bloud it weakens the body it wanneth the colour it holloweth the eyes it totally subverts the minde it hath somewhat of being possessed something of Idolatry for those that are thus Love-stricken make lust the idoll of their souls and the person loved
them Jonadab discovered by the languishing countenance of Amnon Davids son that he was in love with some great Princesse or personage The hair of his eye-browes stand upright and grow hard he rubs his eyes very much as though he were sleepy he rols his eyes much His eyes are all white either to weare the livery of his Mistresse complexion or to keep Cupid from hitting the black Hair growing thick behind the ears and besides the temples is a signe of a vehement inclination to love Valescus de Tarenta the most famous Physitian of his age observes the chopping of lips in Women to be a sign of their inclination to this malady for that it denotes the intemperate heat of the matrix They cannot endure to look any in the face because they think that through their eyes they see their hearts His armes are carelesly used as if their best use were nothing but imbracements He is untrust unbuttoned ungartered not out of carelesnesse but care his farthest end being but going to bed Her favours lift him up as the Sun doth moisture when she disfavours unable to hold that happinesse it fals down in tears If you aske him a question he answers not or not to the purpose and no wonder for he is not at home his thoughts being gone a wool-gathering with his Mistresse Stragling thoughts are his content they make him dream waking Speak to him he hears with his eyes eares follow his minde and that 's not at leasure Ovid saith that palenesse is a constant colour with Lovers Pallidus omnis amans color hic est aptus amanti One trembles at the sight of his Mistresse tremor cordis palpitations of the heart another sweats blowes short his heart is at his mouth leapes he burns freezes and sometimes through violent agitation of the spirits bleeds at nose He denies nature her due in sleep and payes her with watchfulnesse he lies upon a bed of thornes he has no order or equality at all in his gestures motions or actions he thinks of businesse but never does any he is all contemplation and no action nothing pleases him long but that which pleaseth his own fancy They are the consuming evils and evill consumptions that consume him alive He perpetually sighes to the hazzard of his buttons and complaines without any evident cause Poor soul he is inflam'd with fits of Love So violently hot as they do move His pulse to beat a Madmans temper he Does sigh does langish and half dead is he And ever in such violencies swell As aske him what he ailes he cannot tell As the old Woman catechized her Son Mullidor Thy cheeks are lean and now thou looks like Leuton pale and wan I saw thy stomach to night thou art not thine own Man thou hadst of late God save thee a lovely plump pair of cheeks and now thou looks like a shotten Herring Tell me Mullidor and fear not to tell me for thou tellest it to thy Mother what ailest thou is it a grief of body or of minde that keeps thee on the Holy-dayes from frisking at the foot-ball thou art not as thou wert wont and therefore say what thou ailest and thou shalt see old Women have good counsell At these speeches of his Mother Mullidor fetched a great sigh and with that being after supper he brake winde which his Mother hearing Oh Son quoth she it is the Colick that troubles thee to bed man to bed and we will have a warme Pot lid The Colick Mother no 't is a disease that all the cunning Women in the Countrey cannot cure and strangely it holds me for sometimes it holds me in my head and sometimes in mine eyes my heart my heart oh there Mother it plays the Devill in a Morter sometimes it is like a frost cold sometimes like a fire hot when I should sleep then it makes me wake when I should eat then it troubles my stomach when I am alone it makes me cry right-out I can wet one of my new Lockeram napkins with weeping It came to me by a great chance for as I looked on a fair flower a thing I know not what crept in at mine eyes and ran round about all my veins and at last got into my heart and there ever since hath remained and there Mother so wrings me that Mullidor must die and with that he fell on weeping His Mother seeing him shed tears fell to her hempen apron and wip't her bleared eyes and at last demanded of him if it were not Love At that question he hung down his head and sighed Ah my Son quoth she now I see 't is Love for he is such a sneaking fellow that if he but leap in at the eye-lid he dives down into the heart and there rests as cold as a stone and yet touch him and he will screek Erasistratus discovered the love of Antiochus to his Step-mother for so soon as ever she entered the Chamber his colour changed his speech stopped his looks were pleasant his face burned and he was all in a sweat his pulse beat very disorderly and lastly his heart failed him with other such like symptomes which are wont to appear in melancholy lovers Galen saith that by these forementioned signes joyned together he discovered the miserable doting of the wife of Justus upon Pylades because saith he at the naming of Pylades her colour changed from white to red and from red to white alternis vicibus her pulse beat unequally and with divers motions It is undeniable but that a passionate Lover may be known by the pulse by reason of the stirrings of the spirits for which cause saith Avicen if one would know the name of such a ones Mistresse he must feel his pulse and at the same instant name the party whom he suspects to be the cause of his malady and take some occasion or other to commend her beauty sweetnesse of behaviour attire or qualities of the minde for at the same time Pulsus diversicabitur in varietate magna fiet similis intersecto you shall perceive saith he a strange alteration in the motion of the pulse and it will be very unequall swift and often interrupted Mr. Burton in his Anatomy of Melancholy saith the best conjectures are taken from such symptomes as appear when the parties are both present all their speeches amorous glances actions and gestures will bewray them they cannot contain themselves but they will be still kissing joyning hands treading on one anothers toes embracing pinching diving into their bosoms c. Though it be so that they cannot come neer and have the opportunity to dally yet if they be in presence their eyes will bewray them Ubi amor ibi oculus where I look I like and where I like I love They will be still gazing staring winking nodding stealing faces smiling and glancing at her with much eagernesse and greedinesse as if their eyes should never be satisfied with seeing her It is affirmed by some that those