questioned about her Religion had Twelve Articles put up against her which she denyed and put her Adversaries upon the proof when strange for one to Imagine they produced her husband and two Sons whom they had perswaded before to abjure their Religion and caused them to give Evidence against her But she bore all with a Christian Patience and being condemned she joyfully embraced the flames Anne Hunter hearing her Son William who lived at Brentwood in Essex was condemned to the flames by Bonner Bishop of London in Queen Maries days She together with his Father came to him and finding there was no hopes of Life for him but by a Renunciation of his Religion they were so far from perswading him to it that they fervently prayed to God he might persevere in it and continue constant to the end in that good way he had begun The Mother adding that she thought herself happy that she had born such a Child as could find in his heart to lose his Life for Christs sake to which thâ—s Son cheerfully answered For the little pain that I shall have which is but for a Moment Christ hath promised me a Crown of Everlasting Joy His Mother almost Transported with this Expression fell on her knees and said I pray God to strengthen thee my Son to the end I think thee as well bestowed as any Child I ever bore Adelicia a Gentlewoman about 23 Years of Age coming from Gascoin to Paris to join herself with a Church there was betrayed to the Magistrates and condemned to be burnt which she bore with admirable Patience but Gods Judgment overtook her Prosecutors for they quarrelling about the price of her blood slew each other A Woman and her Son in the Low Countries being condemned to be burnt alive and their Ashes to be sprinkled in the Air As they were carried back to Prison they said now blessed be God who causeth us to Triumph over our Enemies This is the wished for hour the gladjoin day is come Let us not therefore be forgetful to be thankful for that honour God doth us in thus conforming us to the Image of his Son Let us remember those that have troden this path before us for this is the high-way to the Kingdom of Heaven and being brougt it to to the Stake they sung Praises to God in the flames Aâ— Potten and John Tâ—unchfield in the Reign of Queen Mary being Imprisoned at Iâ—â—â—ich one of them before she was apprehended was by her Friends perswaded to avoid the threatning danger by flight but â—rong in Faith and Chrian 〈◊〉 Couragiously she replyâ—d I know very well that being Persecuted in one place it is lawful for me to fly to another But I am tyed to a Husband and have many young Children and I know not how my Husband being a Carnal Man will resent my departure from him Therefore I am resolved for the Love of Christ and his Truth to stand the worst Extreamity And so being apprehended was Condemned to the Flames and dyedeou ragiously Amaâ—onians were a Warlike Women in part of Scythia who held a Female Government and Warred with divers mighty Princes maintaining their Laws and Customs by Policy and by the Sword Penthisilia one of their Queens came with a Thousand Virago's to Troy and assisted Priamus against the Greeks where she and most of her Women Fighting Valiantly and Acting wonders in Arms were at length slâ—in Athenias though of mean Parentage yet of Excellent Wisdom Learning and Education beyond what could be expected from the degree of her Birth was for these and other good Qualities preferred to be an Empress when divers Great Princesses Rich and Powerful in Friends and had Kingdoms to their Dower were refused Aspasia a Meletian Virgin was so excellent in all Philosophical Contemplations and fluent in fâ—â—toriâ—◠〈◊〉 the Wise and Renowned Socrates that Mirror of Philosophy confesses without blushing that he imitated her in his Facultas Politica Amalasuntha Queen of the Ostrogothes in Italy was not only Learned in the Latin and Greek Tongues but speak exceeding fluently all the Languages that were spoke in the Eastern Empire now possessed by different Nations Amesia a Modest Roman Lady being falsly accused of a great Crime and ready to incur the Pretorial Sentence she with a Manly yet Modest Courage stept up and with an Audible Voice and Becoming Gesture pleaded her own Cause so Eloquently and Effectually that by the publick Suffrages she was acquitted of all Aspersions and her Accuser severely punished Apolonia a Virgin of Alexandria for speaking boldly in the Defence of her Faith had her Teeth pluck'd out in a rude manner by the Tormentors She was doomed to the Flames and willingly snbmitted Rejoicing and Gloriously Triumphing over Death by her Patience and Constancy in suffering Alceste Queen to Admetus King of Greece willingly resigned herself up to death to redeem the health and life of her Husband in Sucking a Poysonous Wound he had received in the War Agrippina the Mother of Dâ—mâ—â—â— Nere was killed by heâ— unnatural Son and ripped up that he might see the Womb wherein he had lain though she had been so careful of his welfare that though whilst he was a private Man she was told her destiny by a Chaldean Astrologer if he came to be Emperour she however preferred his Advancement before her Life saying I care not though I dye so he may attain the Empire Alice Countess of Salisbury being frequently Importuned by King Edward the Third to yield to his Lustful desires and often denyed him he grew impatient of delay and resolved to take by force what he could not get by intreaty when being brought into his Presence in a manner by Constraint and be renewing his Request she fell at his feet with a Flood of Tears gushing from her fair Eyes able to Mollefie the most obdurate heart she thus humbly besought him not to violate her Chastity viz. Whereas her unhappy Destiny had brought her before his Presence as an Innocent Lamb committed to the Sacrifice She most humbly Craved that his Majesty could be pleased to grant her one Request he provided much a Solemn Oath he would Then she humbly besought him to draw his Sword and take away her Life and 〈…〉 Pray for 〈…〉 Breath 〈…〉 Monarch and that it would remain as a stain upon his Honour she renewed her Request that she might be suffered to dye by her own hand rather than to lose her Honour and pulling out a Dagger concealed in her Garments was about to give the Fatal Blow which so astonished the King that taking it from her he laid aside his first Resolutions and as the Mirror of Chastity made her his Queen Eloquence Eloquence of Speech Seâ—â—ger calls it The Garment of Nature and says it covereth the Soldier with Arms for necessity or as a Gown the Senator for Profit and as a more dainty Garment for the Courtier and Citizen for pleasure and profit It consecâ—â—teth the 〈◊〉 Râ—â—â—ons
pleasing Gesture an affected Carriage shall be added it must of necessity be more forcible and charming than it was when those curious Needle-works variety of Colours purest Dyes Jewels Pendants Lawns Lace Tiffanies and fine Linnen Embroideries Calaminstrations Ointments and the like shall be added they will make homliest of the Sex seems as a soft Temptation to charm and infacinate Mankind though some will have native Beauty and indeed with those we agree where it is rare and illustriously Transcedent out-shine artificial Adornments as it is said of Cleopatra Queen of Egypt viz. The Wealth she wore about her seem'd to hide Not to Adorn her Native Beauty's Pride Tho there bright Pearls from the Or'ential shoars 〈◊〉 From all th' Assyrian Lakes and wealthy Stores Of Silver Ganges and Hydaspes shone From Egypts Eastern Isles the Gold like Stone And cheerful Emeraulds gather'd from the Green Arabian Rocks were in full splendor seen Pale Onyx Jasper of a various dye And Diamonds darken'd by her brighter Eye The Saphires blew by her more Azure Veins Hung not to boast but to confess their stains And blushing Rubies feem'd to lose their dye When her more Ruby Lips were moving by It seem'd so well became her what she wore She had not Robb'd at all the Creatures store But had been Nature's self there to have showd What she on Creatures cou'd or bad bestow'd Fashion and Meatness defended by another hand Faces when clouded by Poverty Carelesness or a kind of disregard cannot shine so bright in the Eyes of Lovers as when they are trick'd and trim'd up with all the sprucifying Advantages notwithstanding there is indeed something lovely in Beauty though in never so careless an Dress As an unpolish'd Diamond is a Diamond but the polishing sets a greater Lustre on it Daphnis says Lucan was a poor tatter'd Wench and was little regarded and so might always have continued in a kind of Obseurity had she not been industrious to get her gay Cloaths which allured so many Lovers that by their liberal Offering she soon become Rich and stately and had her Maids to wait on her And these Advantages she had by setting herself out after the best Fashion by her pleasant Carriage Affability and courteously smiling on her Spectators Fashion sets off mainly and if a Garment be never so Rich if out of the Fashion it is not esteem'd but rather despicable and occasions Laughter Men are not only admired by Men for their curious Dresses but even esteem ' d for them by many Women especially if there be added a Fanty Meen Complements and modish Behavior These advantages have instantly won some too credulous to believe lightly every wanton Suitor who thus accomplished makes Addresses of Love and when he presses hard to one she is instantly Inamour'd and doats and will surely Marry when as he means nothing less it being his ordinary Carriage in all such Companies and frequently both Sexes by their out-side shews are Deluders and themselves deluded and among other an upright comely Grace Courtesies gently Salutations a crindging and a mincing Gate a Pace decent and affected are most powerful Enticers and infensibly draw the Affections Fortune or Dower great Incitements to Love Fortune or Wealth is a great Temptation and now-a-days with many a more powerful Loadstone than Beauty though it seldom purchases a virtuous Cordial Love but rather that which is Arry and Heroical for many Men when they hear of a large Portion a rich Heiress could be content to take her without seeing her meerly for the sake of her Portion and are more mad though she be I 'll bred and deform'd for her or pretend to be so than if wanting a Portion she had all those beauteous Ornaments and those good Parts Art and Nature can afoard they care not for a good Name Birth Beauty or Education their Aim is at Mony which makes the Poet thus discant Our Dogs and Horses from the best we breed And careful are that they may thrive and speed But for our Wives if they but wealthy prove Though fair or foul we flater them with Love If she be Rich that covers all faults Gold that Enchantment that bewitches the World makes her appear Fair Fine Perfect and Absolute then they burn in Love's flame they love her dearly like Pig and Pye and will make you believe they were ready to hang themselves if they miss her Nothing in these days is so familiar for even a young Man to Marry and old Wise for a Sum of Gold and although she be an old Croone and have never a Tooth in her Head nor good Conditions nor a good Face a Natural Fool if she be but Rich So Corrupt is the Age that she shall be follow'd and courted and buz'd in the Ears with the Amourous Discourse course of a number of Fly fools so on the other side many a lovely young Maid for Ambitions sake to jolt it in a Coach and go gay will throw her self away upon an old decrepit doating Dizard troubled with Rheums Gout Stone Catarrhs and twenty other Diseases and perhaps but one Eye one Leg a flat fall'n Nose bearing the Marks of the Sins of his Youth Bald-pated and neither Wit nor Honesty in his Brains If he have store of Land or Mony she will have him though at the same Infant she Sacrifices her Peace Content Marrimonial Pleasure and all the chiefest Sweets of Life for a little gawdy Foppery to appear siorrid and gay that the may out-vye others in fine Cloaths and sumptuous Diet. Aristaenetus telling a brisk buxom Lass of a proper sine Man that would maker her a good Husband Hang him reply'd the he has no Mony ' 〈◊〉 to no purpose to Marry without ' Means trouble me with no such Motion Let others do 〈◊〉 they will I 'll be sure to have one shall Maintain me fine and brave Form Beauty or good Parts stands not in the Minds of many in Competition with Mony in any degree Lucius Lycia was a proper young Maid and was Courted by divers comely young Men but the forsook them all for one Passus a base bald-pated knavish Fellow and why because he was Rich and had gotten an Estare by Usury and Extortion and to add so that his Father that had got an Estate as wickedly left him his sole Heir This is not alone among your Dust-worms whose fordid Soul Adore no God but Mammon but so it falls out many times among great ones The proud insulting Bishop of Ely being left Viceroy of England by Richard the First when he went to the Holy Wars having heap'd up a mighty Mass of Mony Married a great many of his Poor Kinswomen to the Nobility their Sons and Nephews who took them though of mean and base Extract for the Dowers the Bishop gave which Policy he used to â—renghten his Party and cover the wrong he had done the People in the King's absence 〈◊〉 King of Britain Married 〈◊〉 the Daughter of 〈◊〉
the Wife of Atlas was feigned the Daughter of Thetis and Ocianus having one Son of twelve Daughters five of the Daughters wept to death upon the Sons being killed by a Serpent whereupon they were turned into the Stars called Hyades which rise about St. Swithin's Day and generally bring Lowring or Rainy Weather Afrania she was Wife to Lucinus Buccio a woman of Masculine Spirit for though the Senate of Rome had decreed that Women should not speak in the places of Judicature unless questions were asked them she bodily started up before the Pretors and pleaded her own Law Suits Agarilla Daughter to Clisâ—â—nes was so exceeding beautiful that all the Grecian Youths were Enamouted on her and at great cost made Plays and other Entertainments that she being present they might feast their Eyes on her beauteous face Agatha a Sicilian Lady who refusing to turn Pagan and Marry Quintianus the Proconsul was by him cruelly Tormented and afterwards put to death When that day Twelvemonth Mount Aetna broke out in a violent Torrent of fire which streamed in sâ—ames as far as Catana where she was Martyred so that the Pagan Inhabitants looking upon it as a fearful Judgment for shedding innocent blood ran to her Grave and taking the Shroud that covered her opposed it to the Torrent of Fire which thereupon immediately stopped Agathorâ—ca a famous Curtâ—â—â—â— so bewitched Ptolome Philopater King of Egypt with her Charms and Beauty that to make way for Marrying her he made away his Wife Euridice by whom he had Ptolome Epiphanes whom the new advanced Queen would have murthered but the people hâ—ndered it and made her fly the Country 〈◊〉 was Daughter to Cadmus and Hermione Marryed to Echiron of Thebes by whom she had Pentheus who was King of Thebes after his Fathers death but torn to pieces by his Mother and other Women at the feet of Baccus in their drunken sits because he disapproved of such unseemly Revels Agenâ—ria was a name the Ancients gave to their Goddess of Industry and a Temple was erected to her in the Adventine Mount Agno one of the Nimphs by whom Jupiter was brought up she gave name to a Fountain said to have this rare gift that if it in time of drowth the Priest of Jupiter Lyceus stirred it with an Oaken bough a thick mist would arise from it and imediately gathering into Clouds send down plenty of Rain Agnodiâ—e a Virgin of Athens Who above all things desired to study Physick and became so famous therein that the Physicians eâ—vyed her and accused her before the Arâ—â—pagites or Judges as an Ignorant Pretender but she gave such Learned Demonstrations that the cause not only went for her but an order was made That any free Woman of Athens might practice Physick and that the Men Physicians should no more meddle with Women in Child-birth seeing the Women were as capable in all matters Agraules was Daughter to Cecrops sometimes King of Athens who being over curious though forbid it in opening a basket wherein Minerva had hid Ericthenius was stricken with Phrensy to that height of madness that running to a precipice she threw her self headlong from it and was dashed in pieces on the Rocks Agiripina Daughter to Marcus Agrippa she was Marryed to Tyberius the Emperor by whom he had Drafius Agripina â—espania daughter to M. Agrippa by Julia the Daughter of Augustus a Woman Couragious and Chast but because she prosecuted the Murtherers of her Husband Tyberius banished her Agrippina wife of Claudius daughter of Germanicus and Sister to Caligula and Mother to Nero all Caesars so that she had more Emperours in her Family than any before or after her She was slain at the commandment of her Son Nero When he was Emperour as had been foretold by a Soathsayer and her â—elly ripped up to show him the place where he had lain Albuna Anciently held as a Goddess and worshipped at Rome had 〈◊〉 being in a Grove in the Teritories of Tâ—â—â—â—tum Some will have her to be Juno the Daughter of Atâ—â—nâ—s who â—lying her Husbands fury threw her self together with her son Maliceris into the Sea Alceste otherwise Alcestis she was the daugeter to Peleus wife to Admetus King of Thessaly and so loving was she to her husband that being Condemned she offered to lay down her Life as a Ransom for his Alcippehed To be the Daughter of Mars and Aglâ—â—â—os who being pursued by 〈◊〉 Neptunes Son who designed to Ravish her and the crying out for help Maâ—s came to her rescue and killed her Puâ—sâ—â—r There was likewise another 〈◊〉 daughter to 〈◊〉 wife to 〈◊〉 and Mother to Marpissa who being Râ—viâ—lâ—ed by Ida but thhe Raviâ—â—er being pursued threw himself into the River 〈◊〉 where he is faâ—lâ—â— to be 〈◊〉 into a River God Alâ—â—ppe a Woman mentioned by 〈◊〉 to have brought â—orth an 〈…〉 〈◊〉 for 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 and spinning at home whilst other Women were Celebrating her Festival is faâ—led to be turned into a 〈◊〉 and her spinning yarn into Ivy and a Vine 〈◊〉 Eleâ—â—â—ya's daughter by â—â—sidice and Wiâ—e to 〈◊〉 on her 〈◊〉 â—â—got 〈◊〉 by 〈…〉 himself the 〈◊〉 of her Husband which is 〈…〉 famous for his great 〈◊〉 Althea Wife to Collidon upon notice that all her Sons except Meleager were slain in Battle threw a brand into the Fire on which the Fates had write his desteny at the Expiration of which though many miles distant he dyed and upon notice of his death after repenting her rash Act she killed herself Amalasontha Daugther to the Austra-gothick King a Woman of rare Wit and Ingenuity so that after the death of her Father taking the Government upon her she answered all Ambassadours in their own Language But marrying her Kinsman that he might assist her in the Government he put her to death to gain a more absolute power which Justinian the Roman Emperour Revenged by driving him and his people out of Itaâ— Amalthea was Daughter to Mâ—lisius King of Creet and said to Nurse Jupiter with Goats Milk and Honey when his Father Saturn had doomed him to death for which he afterwards gave her plenty of what ever she desired and placed the Goat as the Celestial Sign Capricorn Amestrie Wife to Xerxes King of Persia upon a jealousie that her Husband loved his Sons Wife took an opportunity to beg her of him in a drunken humour at his Feast called Tycta and then most Inhumanely murthered her she likewise caused divers of the Persian Nobility to be buryed alive as Sacrifices to her Idol that she might have long Life and be prosperous in her undertakings Amymone Accounted the Daughter of Danaus she gave her self much to Hunting and in a Forrest letting an Arrow fly at Random she wounded a Satyr who thereby being roused pursued her to Ravish her but upon her Invocation Neptune rescued her and for that kindness got her good will and by him she conceived and brought forth Naupleous a famous Hero Ancelis was Celebrated
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
in great Pain and Grief he soon after Dyed A Captain under the Duke of Anjou when he came to Assist the Revolted Netherlanders against the Spaniards coming into a Farmer 's House and not content with the Provisions they aforded him on sreecost he demanded his Daughter for his pleasure the Countryman who loved her dearly intreated him he would be otherwise satisfied offering him any thing else that was in his power but this so inraged him that he ordered his Soldiers to beat 'em all out of doors except the young Woman whom amidst Tears and lamentable Cries he forced to his Lust and after his beastial appetite was satisfi'd with unlawful pleasure he fell to flouting and dispising her This Master'd up a Womans Revenge in its most bloody shape so that being at the Table with him the with one home-thrust of a sharp Knife let out the hot Blood that circled in his Veins whilst he was giving orders to one of his Corporals and not aware of the stroak that brought him sudden death Thas you see Carnal Lust. 'T is a bewiching evil being an 〈◊〉 appetite in whomsoever it reigneth it kâ—lleth all good motions of the mind 〈◊〉 drieth and weakeneth the body shortning life deminishing memory and understanding Cirena a notorious strumpet was sirnamed Dodo Camechana for that she found out and invented twelve several ways of beastly pleasure Proculeius the Emperour of an hundred Samatian Virgins he took Captives defloured ten the first might and all the rest within fifteen days after Hercules in one night defloured fifty Sigismund Malatesta strived to have carnal knowledge of his Son Robert who thruâ—â—ing his dagger into his Fathers â—osom revenged his wickedness Cleopatra had the use of her brother Atâ—â—oâ—eus's company as of her Husband Auteochus staid a whole winter in Chalcidea for one Maid which he there fancied Lust was the cause of the Wars between the Romans and the 〈◊〉 Thalestins Queen of the Amazons came 2â— days journey to lie with Alexander Adultery in Germany is never pardoned 〈…〉 and P pilia were so incoâ—in 〈◊〉 that they commended with most shameful 〈…〉 themselves without respect of time place or company to any though never so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not coâ—â—ented with â—is three 〈…〉 commiâ—ted 〈…〉 siâ—teâ—s 〈…〉 like 〈◊〉 the 〈…〉 by his wiâ—e the 〈…〉 A 〈…〉 the câ—â—se of the 〈…〉 of the City of Rome Sempronia a woman well learned in the Greek and Sappho no less famous defended Luxury and Lust by their Writings Cleopatra invited Anthony to a Banquet in the Province in Bithynia in the wood Sesthem where at one instant of threescore young Virgins fifty and five were made Mothers Cleophis a Queen of India saved her Kingdom and Subjects from destruction by a nights lodging with Alexander by whom she had a Son called Alexander who was afterward King of India she was ever after called Scortum Reginum Jane Queen of Naples was hanged up for her Adultery in the same place where she had hanged her husband Andreas before because he was not as she said able to satisfie her beastly desire Foron King of Egypt had been blind ten years and in the eleventh the Oracle told him that he should recover his sight if he washed his Eyes in the water of a Woman which never had to do with any but her husband whereupon he first made trial of his own wife but that did him no good after of infinite others which did him all as little save only one by whom he recovered his fight and then he put all the rest to death Julia the Daughter of Augustus was so immodest shameless and unchaste that the Emperor was never able to reclaim her And when she was admonished to forsake her bad kind of life and to follow chastity as her Father did she answered That her Father forgot he was Caesar but as for herself she knew well enough that she was Caesars Daughter Caelius Rhodoginus In his II Book of Antiquities telleth of a certain man that the more he was beaten the more he fervently desired women The Widow of the Emperour Sigismund intending to marry again one perswaded her to spend the remainder of her life after the manner of the Turtle Dove who hath but one Mate If you counsel me quoth she to follow the example of Birds why do you not tell me of Pidgeons and Sparrows which after the death of their Mates do ordinarly couple with the next they meet Hiero King of Syracusa banished the Poet Epicharmus for speaking wantonly before his Wife and that very justly for his Wife was a true Mirrour of Chastity Sulpitius Gallius put away his Wife by divorce because she went about unmasked Pompey caused one of his Souldiers eyes to be put out in Spain for thrusting his hand under a Womans Garment that was a Spainard and for the like offence did Sertorius command a footman of his band to be cut in pieces If Caracalla had not seen his Mothers thigh he had not married her Tigellenus died amongst his Concubines The Terentines had taken and spoiled Carbinas a Town in Japyges and were not only for Ravishing the Women themselves but permitted Strangers that came that way to do it even in the Temple where they had Penn'd them up naked Divine Vengeance over-took them so that all who had committed this Villany were struck dead with Lightning from Heaven and their own Friends looking upon it as a just Judgment were so far from pittying them that they offered Sacrifice to Jupiter the Thunderer It would be too tedious to draw the Scene too open and discover the miseries that have befallen such as have been eager in pursuit of these Vices they have occasioned the subversions of Kingdoms and States Tarquine the proud and all his Race were driven out of England for Ravishing Leucretian who finding her Chastity violated though by a King killed her self and if we believe our Chronologers it occasioned the calling in the Danes by the incensed Husband who had been Ravished by the Kings Viceroy in the North and with them came in a Deluge of miseries for almost a hundred years The Adulteries of Fergus King of Scotland was by the occasion of hers likewise for when she had killed him in his bed and was yet unsuspected for the good opinion all people had of her vertue hearing that divers people ignorant of the Murther were tortured in order to a Confession She came into the Judgment Hall where the Lords and others were Assembled and thus Expressedâ— her self As for me said she good People I know not what it is that moveth me nor what Divine Vengeance pursues and vexes me with divers Cogitations but this I am sure of all this day I have had no rest nor quiet either in body or mind And truly when I heard that divers guiltless Persons were cruelly tortured Here in your presence had it not been for their sakes I had soon rid my self out of the way and not have
fading Bethiah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may be rendred the Daughter of the Lord as it were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the House of the Lord as it were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Chron 4.18 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bath a Daughter see 22. and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 beth a House from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 banah he builded and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 jah a name of God from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hajah he was Blanch or Blanchia i. white or fair from blanc Fr. Bona i. She that is good favourable or affable Lat. Bridget from Bride Irish. Batilda Queen of France she is Renowned for her Piety and Learning Descended from an English Saxon Prince In her Youth as she walked by the Sea-shoar she was surpized by Pirates who carryed her to France and sold her to the Mayor the Kings Palace where the King no sooner saw her viz. Clovis the Second but he fell in Love with her Marryed her and had by her Three Sons and Governed the Kingdom very prudently till Clotaire her third Son came of Age She was for her holy manner of Living and the Charitable Deeds she had done Sainted or Cannonized by Pope Nicholas the First Baudise or Boadicia a Queen of the Antient Britains who for the Rape of her Daughters by the Roman Lieutenant fell upon their Army with a great power at unawares and cut of seventy Thousand of them but not being afterward assisted by the rest of the British Princes she was Vanquished by Suctonius and treacherously poisoned by those to whom she fled for Refuge Beatrix Queen of Naples and Sicily Daughter of Raymond Berrenger the fifth Earl of Provence she was a Woman of a Masculine Spirit and stired up great Wars in those Kingdoms which occasioned much Blood-shed Beatrix Daughter to Renaud Earl of Burgundy she was Marryed to Frederick the first Emperour of the Romans she going out of Curiosity to see the City of Milan the People by some Incendiaries were possessed that she had contributed to the Abridgment of their Liberties whereupon they took her from her stately Chariot and set her upon a scurbbed Ass her face to the Tail which they compelled her to hold in her hand instead of a Bridle and so led her through the Principal parts of the City Which Afront the Emperour Resented so highly that he razed the City except the Churches to the Ground sowed it with Salt and put all those who had a hand in this business to death unless such as could with their Teeth take a Figg out of the Fundament of the Ass on which they had set the Empress which many detested and chose rather to suffer death than attempt it Batsheba Wife to Uriah the Hittite her naked beauties so Inchanted King David who espyed her from a Turras as she was washing in a Fountain that he procured her Husband to be slain and took her to Wife of whom he begat Solomon the wife King of Israel Bacchanetes a sort of War-like Woman who attended Bacchus in his War and Conquest of the Indians and afterwards the Priestess of Bacchus were so called who Celebrated his Feasts and Drunken Revels and were clad in Leopards and Panthars skins The Men were attired like Satyrs and Crowned with Ivy or Vines and these Feasts were Celebrated with all manner of Discordant Musick as Horns and Cymbals c. And with very great disorder to shew the folly of Drunkenness Barchia Daughter of Bacchus at the Celebration of whose Feast the Bacchinalians tore Acteon the Son of Melissus in pieces because he refused to join with them in those disorders for which they were banished the City of Corinth Bagoe held to be the Nymph that taught the Tuscan Sages the Art of Divination by the flight of Ligthning and is held by some to be one of the Sibyls others say she was the first Woman that Interpreted the Oracles and flourished in the time of Alexander the Great Barrbancon Marie de Daughter of Michael Lord of Cany in her Castle of Benegon in the Province of Berry by the Lord Lietenant of Burgundy she with her Sword in her hand marched at the head of the Breach that was made and beat the Enemy out again but famine growing so fast upon her she was compelled to surrender yet in consideration of her great Courage and Conduct had her Castle restored to her again Barro a Woman very Learned in Philosophy Bassine Artebabaze a Persion Captains Daughter she was taken in Damascus and presented to Alexander the Great who for her Beauty Marryed her Beaufort Margaret Grand Child to Edward the Third she was Mother to Henry the Seventh she founded many Religious Houses and gave liberaly to Charitable uses among which Christs and St. Johns Colledges in Cambridge are not the least Memorable she was so zealous for the promotion of the Christian Religion on in the Eastern Countrys where it was so much decayed that she would often say if it pleased God to stir up the Christian Princes to War for the Recovery of the Holy Land she would attend upon them as their Laundress Bertos Claudia first a Nun then an Abbess She was a Virgin of Singular Learning and Piety Beledes they were so called as being the fifty Daughters of Danaus who being Marryed to Egyptus fifty Sons all of them at their Fathers command except Hypemnestray killed their Husbands on the Wedding Night and she for her refusal and contributing to his Escape was a long while imprisoned by her Father till her Husband came with an Armed power and Rescued her Bellides or Danaides the same with the former Bellona stiled the Goddess of War Companion and Sister to Mars she had Temples Dedicated to her and Priests who were called Belonary they used to offer part of their blood to her and then give it to those that participaed with them in the Mistery Some will have her to be the same with Pallas the Cappadocians held her in such Esteem that her Priests took place next the Kings she is variously painted in Warlike dresses Biblia or Billa Wife to Duellus a Roman being reproved by him for not telling him of the strong smell of his breath that had been objected to him in a Brawl she innocently told him that never having kissed any Man but himself she concluded all Mens breath had the same favour Biblis Daughter of the Nymph Cyana she fell passionately in Love with her Brother Caunus who refusing to comply with her desires in a Lustful way she attempted to hang herself but being prevented in that by her Nurse she mourned and wept so long till she dyed and is fabled to be turned into a Fountain Billichilde first Marryed to Theodebertus Second King of Austrasia who of a Slave for her beauty advanced her to the dignity of a Queen and by her he had two Sons and and a Daughter but within a while after growing jealous of her he caused her to be put to
death Birthia a Woman of Scythia mentioned by Pliny who had such infectious Eyes that with long and stedfast looking upon any Living Creature she would kill or much injure it she had in each Eye two Apples and two distinct Sights c. Blanch of Castile Daughter to Alphonsus the Ninth and Elenor of England she was Marryed to Lewis called the Lyon and afterwards King of â—ance she managed the Affairs of the Kingdom after her â—usbands death to Admiration â—otwithstanding Powerful Faâ—tions opposed her she was â—other to St. Lewis of France â—nd brought up him and her â—ther Children under the Tuâ—erage of such Learned and â—ious Men that they became â—n Ornament to their Counâ—ry Blanch Daughter to Otho â—he Fourth Earl of Burgundy â—nd Maud Countess of Artois â—he was likewise Queen of France by her Marriage with Charles the Fourth she was â—alsly accused of Adultery which Conspiracy against her Life evidently appearing the Accusers were flead alive and then being beheaded their Carcasses hanged on Gibbets Bentivoglia Francisca Married to Galeoto Manfredi but upon suspicion that he was secretly Married before to a Virgin of Fayenza she with two others who were pretended Physicians Assassinated him giving him the Mortal wound with her own hand Berenice Daughter of Ptolomeus Philadelphus King of Egypt and Marryed to Antiochus Sotor King of Syria who were both murthered by Laedicea Antiochus first Wife Bernice another Daughter to the aforefaid King of Egypt whose Hair being Dedicated to Venus for Pâ—olomeus Evergetes her Husbands success in War and hung up in the Temple where in a short time it being missed it was fabled by Callimachus and others to be taken up to the Skies by the Goddess and turned into a Star Berenice Daughter to Agrippa the Elder she was Married to Agrippa the Younger King of the Jews and sat with him when St. Paul pleaded before him and Festus the Roman Proconsul Berenice Daughter of Mithridates King of Pontus who when her Father was overcome by Lucullus the Roman Consul in a mortal Battle took poison that she might not fall into the hands of the Enemy alive but that not presently dispatching her she caused one of her Slaves to strangle her Berthe Daughter of Cuthbert King of France and Ingoberge she was Wife to Ethelbert King of Kent a Saxon Prince who then was a Pagan but by her pious and Examplary Life she won him to Embrace Christianity Berthe Daughter to Lotharius the Second King of France and Valrada his Queen she was one of the most Couragious Beautiful and Illustrious Princesses of her Age she had divers Noble Husbands at sundry tiâ—es and did many brave Exploitâ— in War Barthe Daughter of Cheribert she was Wife to Peppico the short afterward King of France and Mother to Charles the Great Bonere Force a Queen of Poland Wife to Sigismund the First by Isabel of Aragon she was a Woman of great Virtue exceeding Loving and Tender of her Husband attending him like a common Nurse in all his Sickness sitting up with him and tending him with little or no rest to herself though he diswaded her to take off herself and commit that charge to others Boâ—romea Biancha a Learned Lady of Padua being perfect in the Sciences and spoke divers Languages the which together with her rare Beauty gained her a singular Esteem among the Learned Brigite since called St. Brigite was a Swedish Princess she flourished in the 14th Age and was Marryed to Prince Vison of Nericia and by him had Eight Children after the Death of her Husband who turned Cestertian Monk with whom before she had been on a Pilgrimage She wrote a Volume of Revelations in Eight Books which has been approved by divers Popes and dying 1373. She was Canonized by Pope Boniface the Second Britomaris a Cretian Nymph held to be daughter to Jupiter and Charmea she much delighted in Hunting but one day heedlesly Traversing a Forrest she fell into a Hunters Net and fearing some wild Beast should come to devour her she implored the help of Diana whereupon the Goddess released her from the Toil in Grateful acknowledgment the Nymph built a Temple and dedicated it to her by the Name of Dyctin Diana Minos King of Creet attempting afterwards to Ravish her she leaped into the Sea and was drowned Brumechilde Daughter of Athanagilde King of the Wisgoths she was Married to Sigebert the first King of Austratia she caused great mischiefs in France which in the end came home to her for being accused by Clotaire the Second for the murther of Ten Kings She was first Racked and then torn in pieces by drawing Horses She was a Woman of vast Ambition and endeavoured to destroy all her Opposers but her death in a great measure prevented it Budos Lodovica wife to Montmorency Constable of Fr. Busa a Lady of Apulia who fed Ten Thousand Hunger-starved Romans as they fled from the Battle of Cannea where the Roman Army was defeated by Hannibal Baâ—helors It was inserted in Plato's Laws that what Man soever liv'd a Batchelor above five and thirty Years of Age was neither capable of Hoâ—our or Office Alexand ab Alex. lib. 4. cap. 8. Licurgus the Lawgiver amongst the Laâ—edemonians as the same Author testifies to shew the necessity of Marriage made a Decree That all such as affected singleness and solitude of life should be held Ignominious They were not admitted to publick Plays but in the Winter were compell'd to pass through the Market-place naked and without Garments The Law of the Spartans set a Fine upon his Head first that married not at all next on him that married not till he was old and lastly on him they set the greatest Mulct that married an evil Wife or from a strange Tribe So laudable and reverent was Marriage amongst the Lacedemonians Procreation of Children and fertility of Issue That whosoever was the Father of Three Children should be free from Watch or Ward by day or Night and whosoever had Four or upward were rewarded with all Immunities and Liberty This Law was confirmed by Q. Metellus Numidicus Censor after approved by Julius Caesar and lastly established by Augustus Memorable are the words of Metellus in a publick Oration to the People If we could possibly be without Wives O Romans saith he we might all of us be free from molestation and trouble but since Nature excites us and necessity compels us to this exigent That we can neither live with them without Inconvenience nor without them at all more expedient it is therefore that we aim at the general and lasting profit than at our own private and momentary pleasure Bawd Pimp c. I put these together because it is pity to part the Devil's Houshold-stuff And indeed she is very much like him her Envy running Parallel with his For all that the Devil endeavours to do is to bring Mankind into the like state and condition and the nature of a Bawd is to make all fair Women as foul
favour A Lady gave me once her cheek to kiss Being no less than I my self did wish For this I 'll say and bind it with an oath Her cheek tastes sweeter far than do's her mouth But there is nothing so much discovereth the vain Pride of these Beauties as a coyness to their Servants in their Wooing and Winning If they affect you that affection must be so shrowded and shaddowed as Lynceus's eyes could not disclose it Walk from them their eyes are on you walk to them their eyes are from you There is no argument be it never so well-relishing nor sorting with their liking that they will give ear to No posture be it never so graceful they will afford an eye to Opposition suiteth best with their condition To a stranger they will shew themselves familiar to you whose intimacy hath got a room in their hearts they will seem a stranger If you appear merry it must be expounded trifting childishness if grave stoick fullenness It were a gift above apprehension in every particular to fit their humour And yet they must be humour'd or they are lost for ever Beauty is coveted by all and where Nature has not cast the Face and Body in one of her finest Moulds what Arts what Costs are used to repair her work and varnish over her defect that they may not be obvious Beauty was so greatly Admired by the Ancients that whereas Gorgon by some called Medusa had such a loveliness imprinted on her Face that she fixed the Admiring Spectators for a time Immovable rendring them as Men Amaz'd and Astonished They hereupon feigned that she converted Men into Stones with the dazling brightness of her Eyes The Barbarous Nations had also such veneration for it that they thought none capable of any extraordinary Action unless nature had Impressed an Excellent shape and Loveliness upon their Persons to dignifie and distinguish them from others Holding that the accidental meeting of a Beautiful Person was an Augury or presage of good fortune whereas the contrary was looked upon as an unlucky Omen And indeed Beauty has found its favourers amongst all sorts of Persons pleading more powerfully than the most refined Oratory No Armour is proof against it's pointed rays the Sword and the Gown bend to it and pay it homage as the Soveraign Commandress of Affection And lays a Thousand snares for even the most stubborn and stoical of Mankind which they cannot at all times escape Beauty so Captivated the heart of that Renowned Warriour Edward the Fourth King of England that after in a Bloody War with the House of Lancaster having obtained the Crown the Lady Elizabeth Gray Widow to Sir John Gray slain in the Quarrel of Henry the Sixth coming to petition him for her Husbands Estate that had been declared Forfeited and Seized to the Kings use He at the first sight of her was so passionately in Love that though the Great Earl of Warwick who had by his Valour been mainly Instrumental in making him King was at that time as his Proxy Wooing for him the Infanta of Savoy he finding she would not yield to be his Mistress made her his Queen though to the hazard of his Kingdom Being driven out by the Inraged Earl who for this Affront took part with Henry the Sixth and remained as an Exile for a considerable time till Fortune favouring him he again by force of Arms assumed the Royal Dignity Beauty in Aspasia the daughter of Hermotimus the Phocian surpassed all the Virgins of her Age in the Elegance of her form being a perfect Pattern of an Excellent Beauty Attracting the Affections of all that gazed upon her so that he who came a Spectator departed a Lover and is by Aelian described in this manner Her Hair Yellow and naturally Curling her Eyes bright Sparkling and full her Ears small and her Nose a Gentle rising in the Midest her Skin smooth and her Countenance of a Rosie Colour For which cause the Phocians whilst she was a Girl gave her the Name of Milto her Lips Were red and her Teeth white as Alablaster her Feet small and her Voice had something in it so smooth and sweet that whilst the spoke it was like the Musick of Syrens she used no Feminine Arts to render her Beauties more Advantageous as being born and brought up by poor Parents she was as Chaste as Lovely so that allured by both Cyrus the Younger King of Persia made her his Wife And after his Decease she was Married to King Artaxerxes the force of Beauty and Chastity having so Transcendant a power as to make her twice a Queen and have the Ascendant over the most Celebrated Monarchs of Asia Beautiful Phryne being accused of Lewdness and having Learned to plead for herself at Athens baring her Breasts and disclosing but part of her Beauty so charmed her Judges that notwithstanding the proof against her they declared her innocent At that time notwithstanding they ordained for the prevention of the like Rapture or Surprize that no woman should ever after Plead her Cause And so admirable was her Beauty Naturally without the Assistance of Art that she took all in her snares that had the least Glimmering of a Conversation with her Beauty was so Dazling Triumphant in Lais that she inflamed all Greece many at the report of her Excellent Features falling in love with her when being pestered with Troops of Adorers whom she refused she at last fell in Love with Hypolochus and went to him at Meglopolis but there her Beauty proved her destruction for the Women envying her rare Perfections in Nature wherein themselves were so much out-done surprized the charming Lady and carryed her to the Temple of Venus where in a fit of jealous rage they Stoned her to death which so grieved the Men that they Branded the place from that time with the Temple of Venus the Murtheress Beautiful Polyxena Daughter of Pryamus King of Troy is Discribed by Dares to be in this manner of stature She was Tall Beautiful in her Features her Neck long and white as Down of Swans her Eyes sparkling her Hair of a Golden Colour and Long her Body exactly Shaped throughout her Fingers small and long her Legs Streight with a declining Calf her Feet neatly compacted And in the whole frame of Nature such a one as for Beauty excelled all the Women of her time besides which in Modesty she was Plain Hearted Bountiful and Affable to all Persons Beautiful Helena of Greece whose story is not unknown to the World since in her Cause so many Thousand Lives were spent and the famous City of Troy after a hard Ten Years Siege reduced to Ashes Is thus Discribed by the aforementioned Dares a Phrygian who was present in the War She saith he was of a Golden Hair full and Sparkling Eyes exceeding Fair of Face her Body well Shaped her Mouth Small and Curiously made her Legs Exactly Framed and a Mold between her Eye-brows her Disposition was Open and
with wonder and they take her for a kind of a Terrestial Paradise furnished out with delights not common to the World Friends and Relations are forsaken for her and she is exalted upon the Soveraign Throne of Affection Life is a small hazard to protect or vindicate her Honour Says Esdras though it was death for any to touch the Persian Kings without an especial Command yet says he of Darius I saw Apame his Concubine sitting familiar with him on his right hand and she took the Crown from off his head and put it on her own and stroaked him with her left hand yet the King was well pleased Gaping and Gazing on her and when she smilled he smilled and laughed when she laughed and when she was angry he flattered to be reconciled to her When the fair Chariclea fell into the hands of Pyrates with divers others she only escaped being put to the Sword her Excelling Beauty working upon the Villains heart contrary to their bloody custom to save her Life Some Nations chuse their Kings and Queens by their Beauty and Proportion of Body without regard to their Birth As of Old the Indians Persians and Aethiopians have done Barbarians Stand in awe of a Fair Woman c. Barbarous People have many times given Adoration to Beauty And Helena though she was the cause of a Ten Years War attended with so much Ruin and Dissolation with the Armour of her Dazling Beauty stood proof against her injured Husbands Anger and Disarmed his hand that was about to take her head so that he stood as one amaz'd at her Excellent Features and letting his Weapon fall tenderly Embraced her For as the Old saying is The Edge of the Sword is dull'd by Beauties Aspect It is said of Sinalda a Queen that when she was doomed to be trampled to death by wild Horses the Beasts though before untractable were so astonished at her Beauty that they stood still gazing with wonder upon her admirable Form and would not by any force be driven over her Lucian confesses though a Person very judicious that his Mistrisses Presence has for a time so over-powered his Senses that he has been void of Understanding And others indeed have run quite distracted when they have found nothing but disdain after a long attendance They waite the sentence of her Scornful Eyes And whom she favours lives the other dyes No Medium she allows there always waits Life on her smiles her frown commands the fates To cut his Early Thread who must forego Her Beauties for the Mellancholy shades below Body the Beautifying thereof Bodies that are weak and moving Mansions of Mortality are exposed to the Treacherouâ— underminings of so many Sicknesses and Distempers that it 's own frailty seems a Petitioner for some Artificial Enamel which might be a fixation to natures Inconstancy and a help to its variating Infirmities for he that narrowly observes that Fading house of distempered Clay will soon find that it Imulates the Moon in Mutability that though to day it be Varnished o're with a Lively Rosie Blush to Morrow it is white-washed with Megar paleness as if death had took it to hire and made it a whited Sepulchre that though to day it appears smooth and gay So that Venus herself might be tempted to take her Recreation there to Morrow it may be so rough cast and Squall'd that Cupid can scarce walk there without being over Shoes Now to Sublimate Nature beyond the reach of Sickness by a lasting Aetherial Pulcritude and by Cosemetick Antidotes to fortifie it with and Incapacity of being surprized by any Features Fretting Malady would be a business that would not only puzle the whole Elaboratory of Chymists but their Atcheus too although of the Privy Council to Nature and confident to her recluded Privacies But to make Beauty the Lure of Love of a more ordinary Lustre to fix the Complexion of the Body so that it be not too frequent in it's variation or to keep the Fair and Damasked Skin from being too much sullied with deformities Is a task not transcending the Sphere of a Modest Vndertaking and such a one Ladies you will find in this work beyond perhaps what ever has been before exposed to your fair Eyes though not in a Compleat Body but reduced under their Several Alphabets as the nature and necessity of this undertaking requires But let us come a little nearer to the purpose Bodies that are very Lean and Scragged we all must own cannot be very Comely It is a contrary Extream to Corpulency and the Parties Face seems always to carry Lent in it though at Christmas looking so Megarly that when such of either Sex come to their Confessor he perceiving them meer Skelitons dares not for fear of Solecism join them Pennance to Mortifie the Flesh No part about them thrive but their Bones and they look so Jolly and Lusty as if they had eaten up the Flesh and were ready to leap up of the Skin that they may fall upon others Truly Ladies such Leanness is a very Ravenous Guest and will keep you bare to Maintain him If thefore you are Desirous to be rid of his Company observe the Following prescriptions Be sure to take care in the Summer to keep your Chamber Cool and moist with some Fragrant Flowers set or scattered about it when you are about to go to Meals chase your Body as much as you can that the blood may be stirred in the Veins and the Skin sit more loose At your Meals Eat not any thing that is very Salt Sharp Bitter or too Hot but let your Food be sweet of a quick Digestion and Nourishing as New Eggs Veal Mutton Capon c. and for three hours after Meat take your Recreation in that whereby your Body may be moving and stiring twice a Month if the weather be not extream bad make moreover an Electuary to be taken Morning and Evening in this manner viz. Take sweet Almonds Pistach-nuts Sugaâ— and white Poppy-Seed beat them according to Art into the form of an Electuary and take the Quantity of a Walnut for many Mornings and Evenings this will not only make you Fat but give you a good Complexion then for your diet take a young Capon and the Flesh of Four Calves feet with a piece of the Fillet of Veal boil them in a sufficient quantity of fair Water and white Wine then scum the Fat off and put the Broth well pressed from the Meat into a New Earthen Vessel with a pound and a half of Sugar a dozâ—â— of Cloves half an ounce of Cinnamon then boil it gently again and add the whites of 2 Eggs reboil it and pass it through a strainer before it cool mix with it a little Musk and Amber boiled in Rose-water and take of this which will be a kind of a Jelley twice or thrice a day Bodies sometimes fall away in one part and not in another if so to bring your Body to even terms take
Love Chara I. She that is dear beloved favour'd or pretious Charity I. Charity Love Bounty Chlâ—ris forsan à 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. green Gr. Christian given from our Christian Profession from Xeâ—â— i. the Annointed i. 〈◊〉 Câ—â—rlie that hath a kind of dimness in his sight or thâ— is Gray-ey'd Clare she that is fair bright or clear Lat. Cleobulina dun for Cleoâ—lus I. famous for Counsel Cleopatria qu. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. the Glory 〈◊〉 her Father or Country Constance i. constant fine always one Lat. Calphurnia a Roman Maâ—tron who pleading her own Cause made such an unplâ—sing a Harangue that the Senate made a Decree that â— Woman should be admitted 〈◊〉 plead for the future Camillia Queen of the Volscians she aided Turnus 〈◊〉 gainst Aeneas and after many brave Atchievements was 〈◊〉 by a cowardly hand Camilla Sister to Pope Sixtus the Fifth who of â— Poor Woman was rais'd by him to the degree of a Princess and her Children provided for after an extraordinary manne tho we do not hear that her Advancement made her proud a thing very common in oâ—â— Age. Camma a Lady of Galatia marry'd to Sinatus who being kill'd by Sinorix that he might enjoy Camma she after having bewail'd her Husband's death seemingly consented sented to be his Wife but poisoned him in the Nuptial Cup and at the same time 〈◊〉 rejoicing that she had the happiness in her Fall to be revenged on her Husband's Murtherer Campaspe a very beautiful Woman whose Picture Alexander the Great caused to 〈◊〉 drawn by Apelles but the Painter whilst he was drawing 〈◊〉 fell in Love with her and â—btain'd the King's leave to marry her Candace an Ethiopian Queen of the Isle of Meroe whose Eunuch St. Philip conâ—erted to the Christian Religion and he converted the Queen with a great number of her Subjects She was a Woman of a Heroick Spirit much â—ddicted to the Wars in which â—he lost one of her Eyes Carines Women who in great Funerals were Mourners and made doleful Lamentations over the Dead Carmel our Lady of Mount-Carmel Carmenta a Grecian Lady Mother to Evander who â—ailing from Greece planted himself in Italy by the courtesie of King Faunus and assisted Aeneas in his Wars against Turnus for the gaining the Fair Livinia Carna a Goddess taking Care of the Vital parts of Men to keep them in Health and â—engthen their Days Cassandra a Lady of Venice very famous for her Learning in divers Languages and Sciences leaving many curious Pieces of her works behind her Cassandra Daughter to King Priamus ravished by Apollo who to recompence her gave her the Gift of Prophecy but she afterward not proving so agreeable as he expected he so order'd it that none should believe her Catâ—hina Daughter to Lucippius the Sicyonian King she succeeding her Father marry'd Messapais a Sea Captain who had before gotten her with Child as she was rambling on the Sea-shoar when to hide her Infamy she declar'd That Neptune came out of the Sea and ravish'd her which passed for current with the People Calliope one of the Nine Muses styl'd the Goddess of Rhetorick and Heroick Poetry She was painted Young crown'd with Flowers holding in one hand a Book and in the other a wreath of Laurel Callipatria a Woman of Elis being of great strenght she us'd to disguise herself in Man's Apparel and Wrestle at the Olimpick Games tho Women were strictly forbidden to appear there but being discover'd she was pardoned and to prevent the like for the future it was ordined that those who enter'd the Lists should be stript naked Calithoe Daughter of Sâ—amander marry'd to Troâ— third King of the 〈◊〉 afterward from him named 〈…〉 had by him three Sons 〈◊〉 â—â—nimâ—les and 〈◊〉 Grandfather father to Anchises the Father of Aeneas the Fugitive Trojan who planted himself in Italy after the Destruction of Troy Chalisto Daughter of Lycaon an Arcadian who listing herself among the Nymphs of Diana and vowing Chastity was nevertheless debauched by Jupiter and being found with Child the Goddess turn'd her into a Bear yet she brought forth a Son call'd Arcos But Jupiter taking compassion on them translated them to the Stars where they are called the great and little Bear Callithoe Daughter of Lycus a Tyrant of Lybia she advertis'd Diomedes her Husband of the Ambushes her Father had laid and by that means sav'd his Life But he afterwards ungratefully forsook her upon which she hang'd herself Callithoe Daughter of the River Achelous she was Wife to Alcemon who being Murther'd her Father obtain'd of Jupiter that her young Children should immediately grow up to Mens estate that they might revenge their Father's death which was granted and they accordingly perform'd it by slaying the Conspirators Calphurnia Wife to Julius Cesar a virtuous Lady who dreaming that the Roof of the House was fallen down her Husband stab'd in her Arms and all the Doors opened of their one accord perswaded him not to go to the Senate But 〈◊〉 regarding her he was there stab'd by the Conspiratoâ— Cassiope Wife to Cepâ— an Aethiopian King she 〈◊〉 Mother to Andromede 〈◊〉 for comparing her Beauty 〈◊〉 the Nereides had a Sea-â—â—ster sent by Neptune to â—â—vour her Daughter but she was ty'd naked to a Roâ— Perseus the Sun of Dane â—â— Jupiter came on his wiâ—â— Horse Pegassus through 〈◊〉 Air and in a dreadful Comâ— kill'd the Monster and 〈◊〉 the Lady and is fabled to â—â—tain of Jupiter that the Moâ— and Daughter when they 〈◊〉 might be made Constellatiâ—â— and fixed in the Skies 〈◊〉 the Northern Stars Catharine d'Bedicis 〈◊〉 of France Catharine d'Siena a 〈◊〉 of the third Order of St. Dâ—minick a very Pious and Dâ—vout Lady after her death 〈◊〉 was Canoniz'd by Pope 〈◊〉 Catharine of Alexanâ—â— another Saint tho some 〈◊〉 whether there ever was such Person Catharine of Araâ—â— Daughter to K. Ferdinand 〈◊〉 Fifth she was sent over 〈◊〉 England and first married â—â— Prince Arthur and after 〈◊〉 death to Prince Henry wâ—â— Succeeded Henry the Seveâ—â— She was Mother to Q. 〈◊〉 and being divorc'd the 〈◊〉 after dy'd for Grief Catharine of Austria Dâ—ches of Savoy she was Daughter to Philip the Second â—â— Spain by Elizabeth of France she was Marryed to Emmanuel the first Duke of Savoy and dyed at Turin Anno 1597. Leaving Five Sons and Four Daughters behind her Catherine of Poland she was Queen of Sweden and Daughter of Sigismund the first King of Poland she was Married to John Prince of Swedeland and Duke of Fineland Son to Gustavus the first She was a Lady of great Virtue and Patience bearing her Husbands troubles and continuing with him during his seven years Imprisonment with a wonderful Constancy Catharine of Portugal Dutches of Bragance she was Daughter of Edward the Second King of Portugal and Maryed to John the Second Duke of Bragance after the death of Sebastian she disputed her Right with Philip the Second King of Spain for the
Kingdom of Portugal but though the Spaniard had then the longest Sword it is since fallen to her Posterity The Vertuous Donna Catharina Queen Dowager of England being likewise decended from her Cave vel raba Daughter of Julian Count of Ceuta and Consuegra she was Ravished by Rhoderick King of Spain which so incensed her Father that to Revenge it he called in the Sarazens who in a Barbarous manner over-run all Spain and expulsed Rhoderick his Kingdom Centhris Wife to Cinyre King of Cyprus Mother of Myrrha whom Venus turned into a Myrrhe tree Cenee a Maid That for her Viginity prevailed with Neptune to turn her into a Man that she might never more be ravished which he did and finding her of a Martial Spirit that she might be safe in War he rendred her Invulnerable but fighting with the Centaurs they bruised her to death with the weight of mighty Clubs after which she is fabled to be turned into a Bird. Ceres the Goddess of Corn Daughter of Saturn and Ops who went about the World with blazing Pines to seek her Daughter Proserpina whom Pluto had Ravished and carryed to Hell and at last finding her agreed that the should be six months in the year with Pluto and the other six with her on Earth Cesonie Empress of Caligula and after his death was Murthered by Julius Lupus for weeping over the dead Body of her Husband baring her Neck to the Cruel Wretch and dying with great Constancy and Courage she likewise strangled her Daughter Julia Drusila a Child of Four Years old Charicke Hydaâ—pes a King of Aethiopia's Daughter being very Fair and Beautiful to the rest of the Ethiops so that the Queen feared being mistrusted of Disloyalty but when she beheld an Ebbony Spot Arrisen on the Princess Arm the true Mark of a Legitimate Child of that Family she greatly rejoiced Charlotte Daughter of Lewis the Second Duke of Montpensire she was veiled a Nun when very young and afterward became Abbess of St. Jovare but not liking that kind of Life she privately withdrew into Germany and there turned Protestant and was Marryed to William of Nasau Prince of Orange whom she Loved so intirely that hearing he was desperately wounded by one Jourigni she fell sick with Grief and dyed at Antwerpt Chahatri Colombe a Taylors Wife of Burgundy being in Labour could by no means be Delivered but her Belly continued big till she dyed which was twenty four years after when being opened to find the cause the shape of a perfect Female Infant was found in her Womb petrefied to the hardness of aâ—stone Christiana Queen of Sweden she was Daughter to Gustavus Adolphus the Warlike King of the Swedes and Mary Eleanor of Brandenburgh after she had Reigned as Queen some years she voluntarily resigned the Crown to her Cousin Charies Gustavus and went to Rome where she lived very Splendidly to her death which happened Anno 1688. Chrysame a Thessaliaâ— Priestess who inured Cattlâ— by degrees to eat poisonoâ—â— Herbs till they became their Natural Food And in the War between the Grecians and Barbarians Left them as a Prey to the hungery Enemy who feeding on their Flesh became distracted so that 〈◊〉 easie Victory was gained over them Ciree an Inchantress dwelling in the Isle of Oggia 〈◊〉 to be the Daughter of the Sâ—â— who by her Inchantmenâ— changed Mens shapes and turned them into Beasts 〈◊〉 stayed Vlysses in his return from Troy till Minerva 〈◊〉 Protectress got leave of 〈◊〉 to set him free St. Claire an Order of Religious Women taking theâ—â— Denomination from her they were confirmed by Pope Innocent the Third Claudia a Roman 〈◊〉 Virgin she fastening her 〈◊〉 to the Galley wherein the Sâ—â—tue of Cyble was on the Rivâ— Tyber drew it to Rome when it stopt and no other 〈◊〉 move it ClemenÃé a Pagan Goddess Patroness of Mildness and Mercy she was painted wiâ—â— a Branch of Laurel in one hand and a Lance in the other she had her Temple in Rome Celia a Roman Virgin she was given in Hostage to Porsena when he besieged Rome but made her Escape on Horse-back over the Tyber but being sent back again he freely released her for the Vertue he found in her whereupon the Senate Erected her a Statue on Horse-back in the Market-place Ceobulina she Renounced the Crown of Rhodes to apply herself to Philosophy and a Contemplative Life Cleopatria Second Wife to King Philip of Macedon she was Murthered by Olimpias his first Wife after his being slain by Possanias Cleopatra Daughter of Philip of Macedon she was Marryed to Alexander King of Epirus and put to death by Antigonus at Sardis Cleopatria Daughter of Ptolomy Philometus King of Egypt Admirable for her Wit and Beauty she was Marryed to Alexander Bela King of Syria and left him for Demetrius Nicanor but he being taken Prisoner by the Persians she Marryed Rodogune and soon after put him to death and her Son Selucius ascending the Throne without her leave she â—hot him dead with an Arrow and made Antiochus the Eight King who understanding she â—â—â—ended to poison him at a Banquet she had prepared made her drink the dose of which she dyed Cleopatra Daughter of Ptolomy Physoon King of the Egyptians she was Marryed to her Brother and then to Antiochus King of Syria but she was strangled by Griphine his first Wife which known so ingraged the King that he caused her to be offered as a Sacrifice to appease the Ghost of the Murthered Cleopatra Cleopatra Daughter of Ptolomy Epiphanes Cleopatra The fair Queen of Egypt Daughter to Ptolomy Auletes she was first Marryed to her Brother Ptolomy but he being drowned in the Nilus when he fled from the overthrow given him by Julius Cesar she Captivated the Conquerer with her Beauty he begot on her a Son called Cesaâ—ion slain after Cesars death by the Soldiers of Augustus afterward Mark Anthony doated on her but after the overthrow at Actium she clapped Aspicks to her Breast and dyed to prevent her being carried Captive to Rome Cleophe Queen of the Massagues a People of India â—he opposed the Progress of Alexanders Victories till she brought him to terms which were to draw off his Army and leave her in quiet Possession of her Kingdom for which sue is said to pay him only the Tribute of a Nights Lodging Cleopatra Selene Marryed to Antiochus Gâ—â—phus King of Syria and afterward to Antiochus Cizicenus and thirdly to Antiochus Eusebius but being taken in a Battle by Tyranes he put her to death Clio one of the Nine Muses said to be the Daughter of Jupiter and Memory Clotilde Queen of France Wife to Clovis the First she Converted him to the Christian Religion and perswaded him to be Baptized she had divers Sons among whom after their Fathers Death there arose Civil Dissentions in disputes for the Throne which she being by no means able to Regulate it hastened her death Clotilde Daughter of Clovis and St. Clotilde she was Marryed to
Amaury King of the Vice-Goths in Spain but he abusing her because she would not change her Religion Childeber her brother made War upon him and rescued her out of his hands but in her way to France she dyed Clotho one of the Fatal Sisters that spun the thread of Mens Lives which when cut by Atropos another of them the Party whose Thread was so cut dyed Clusia the Chast Daughter of King Thuscus who being denyed in Marriage to Valerius Torquâ—tus he Besieged her Father in his Chief City When to prevent the Misery of which she was innocently the Cause the threw herself from the Battlements but her Coats 〈◊〉 the got no harm Constance or Constantia Daughter of the Emperour Constantine Clorus by his Wife theodora she was Married to Licinus who raising Rebellions in the Empire was slain Constance Daughter of Roger King of Sicily Constance Marryed to Robert King of France she was Daughter of William the First Earl of Provence Constance Queen of Aragon Wife to Peter the Third King of Aragon and Daughter of Manfroy Frederick Core Daughter of Cereâ— the word from the Greek signifying Nourishment Corrina a Grecian Lady famous for Poetry and muâ—â— Celebrated by the Poets of heâ— Nation and others as a very Learned Ingenious and Beautiful Woman Cornelia Daughter of Scipio first Married to Marcus Crassus but he being 〈◊〉 in the Parthian Wars 〈◊〉 Marryed Pompey the Great and Accompanyed him in his flight after the Battle of Pharsalia Cornelia a Roman Lady Married to Cornelius Grâ—chus Cornelia Daughter to Ciâ—na and Wife to Julius Cesar she had by him Julia marryed to Pompey before Cornelia Cratefipolis Wife to Alexander King of Siconie The Siconeans after the death of her Husband Rebelled against her and fought to Dethrone her but at the head of a far less Army she Routed them Executing the Chiefs which quieted the rest Cretheis Marryed to Ascestus King of Thessaly a Woman of infatiable Lust. Creusa Daughter of Creon King of Corinth she was Married to Jason upon which Medeâ— his former Wife destroyed â—er and most of her Fathers Family by Inchantments Cumegonde Marryed to the Second yet living with him as a Virgin upon his suspecting her not to have brought her Virginity to his Bed After his death she went into a Convent of Nuns and spent the remainder of her days Cunina a Goddess held by â—he Ancients to have the care of young Children in their tender Age. Cyana a Nymph attending in Proserpina endeavouring â—o rescue her from Pluto was â—â—med into a Fountain that â—ears her Name Cyble stiled the Mother and Grandmother of the Gods and Goddesses she is represented Crowned with Castles and 〈◊〉 Key in her hand Cyna Daughter of Philip King of Macedon Marryed to â—myntas Son to Perdicas the Third and then to Lageus King of the Argives a Lady of a Courageous and Magnanimous â—pirit for under the Command of the Argives won many Victories She killed the Queen of the Illyrians fighting hand to hand and after the death of Alexander the Great her Brother she opposed the aspiring of Perdicas who in vain contrived her death Canidia a Thessalian Woman that dealt in Charms so powerful that it held She could easily destroy People at a great distance stopt the Course of Rivers and make Birds fall in their Flight raise Storms of Rain Hail and Thunder stop a Ship in her Course and many such like Matters by the Power of her Hellish Art Cumea or the Cumean Sibyl a Prophetess that foretold the Roman affairs and many of other things Of which see more at large Converted Whore An honest Gentleman in the heat of Summer having been walking in the Fields comtemplating with himself and returning back not the same way he went out but through another part of the Suburbs to which he was a meer stranger and finding himself athirst he stepped into the first House and called for a Cup of Beer seating himself in the first Room next the Street He had not well wip'd the Sweat from his Face with his Hankerchief but two or three young Wenches came skittishly in and out of the Room who seeing him to be a Man of Fashion they thought to make of him some booty being it seems set on by the Grandam of the House for as 〈◊〉 proved it was a common Brothel house The handsomâ—â— amongst them was put upon him who entreated him not to be seen below where every Porter Carman and common Fellow Came to drink but to take a more convenient and retir'd Room The Gentleman being willing to see some fashions took her gentle prosfer and went with her up Stairs where they two being alone Beer being brought up she began to offer him more than common courtesie which he apprehending ask'd her in plain terms If these were not meer Provocations to incite him to Lust which she as plainly confess'd To whom he reply'd That since it was so he was most willing to accept of her kind proffer only for modesty sake he desired her to shew him into a Darker Room to which she assented and leads him from one place to another but he still told her that none of all these was dark enough insomuch that she began at length somewhat to diâ—taâ—le him because in all that time he had not made unto her any friendly proffer At length she brought him into a close narrow Room with nothing but a Loop-hole for light and told him Sir unless you propose to go into the Cole home this is the darkeâ— place in the House How doth this please you To whom he answer'd Unless thou strumpet thou canst bring me to â— place so palpably tenebrioâ—â— into which the Eyes of Heaven cannot pierce and see me thoâ—â— canst not perswade me to 〈◊〉 Act so detestable before Goâ— and good Men For cannot 〈◊〉 that sees into the Hearts and Reins of all behold us here 〈◊〉 our Wickedness To conclude he read unto her so strict and austere a Lecture concerning her base and debauch'd Life that from an impudent Strumpet he wrought her to be â— repentant Convert Whâ—â— further asking her of her Birtâ— and Country the freely coâ—fess'd unto him That she 〈◊〉 sold such small things as 〈◊〉 had to come up to 〈◊〉 with the Carriers where iâ— was no sooner alighted at 〈◊〉 Inn but she was hired by 〈◊〉 Bawd altogether unacquaintâ—â— with her base course of Life 〈◊〉 by degrees trained her to 〈◊〉 base Prostitution Her appâ—rent Tears and seeming Pâ—â—tence much prevailing 〈◊〉 the Gentleman he protested If it lay in him he would otherwise dispose of her according to her wishes and with 〈◊〉 charging her That if he 〈◊〉 unto her within two or three days with Mony to acquit heâ— of the House that she 〈◊〉 attire herself as modesty as 〈◊〉 could possibly not bringing with her any one rag that belonged to that Abominablâ— House or any borrow'd Gâ—ment in which she had offended but instantly to repair unto him at his
to enter upon an unfair War without any just cause or provocation to go about to put that force upon a Lady which no Man would endure to have put upon himself viz. to compel her to Love and settle her Affections on him whether she can or no or else the Reputation of the Sex must be wounded which is so unreasonable and carries such a contradiction in it self that it ought to be avoided by all that would be thought ingenious for their Credits sake For Malice and Scandal are highly blameable and looked upon as ' Monstruous by the sober part of Men and he can neither be a Wise or Good Man that admits them to take any place in his thoughts we must however acknowledge that the fall of Man broke in pieces the Frame and Evenness of Spirit and raised a disturbance in the Serenity of the Soul since Adam came into complyance with the Serpent the whole race of Mankind hath plentifully vented the poison of Reproach our purpose however is not to create a tedious Discourse by evincing this in its Latitude but to bring in Evidence and inveigh against those Envenomed Arrows of contumely with which Men unfairly shoot at the Reputation of the Female Sex to erect Trophies of a Spightful Ambition upon if possibly the Ruins of their Reputation and in attempting this they draw their Malice to the dregs and pour it upon them with a flood of evil Words as if an universal malady possessed that Sex and all Women were of an evil Complexion The repute of Women has been perplexed with Volumes of Invectives and Similies drawn from the most unconstant and unstable things to liken their humours an unvariableness of Winâ—s Water c. Even Old 〈◊〉 with his hobling â—eet treads upon Female Credit and Reputation in these words Half so bloody there can none Swear and lie as a Woman 〈◊〉 Others make her the Moral of Pandoâ—â—s Box the Emphatical punishment of the over bold Prometheus Aretine Mantuan and Petronius have laboured mightily to fully so Beautiful a Creature yet there is no tongue so impudent as to affirm that Adams Rib abstracteth wholly from crookedness that there is no particular Woman whose Merits hath not raised her above the reach of just Reproof Modesty abounds most in Woman and where the habitation of Modesty is there is the Tabernacle of Vertue If the Man may be properly stiled the Son of the Creation Woman may aptly be termed Ray and Splendour for as he is stiled 1 Cor. 11.7 The Glory of God She is stiled his Glory and how fordidly does he degenerate from the Innate Dictate of self-preservation that puts an Eclipse upon his own brightness Woman is the Mother of all Living and shall not Man rather bless than curse the Fountain from whence such happiness flows to him as a Being in this World an I pâ—ting him in a state of attaining one more Glorious in the other Woman is part of Man and what an intense degree of folly must possess him who hates his own Flesh and bites it with the Teeth of Slander The Aimâ—â— God who judged Aâ—ams Felicity 〈◊〉 â—mplaâ—ed till he had made him another self and therefore in affronting and dispising that Gift he affronts the Wisdom of Heaven and Scorns the Workmanship of Gods hands which is a very high Impiety and though there may be some bad Women yet the darkness of their Vices cannot cloud and benight the bright Vertues of so many as have adorned the Stage of the World with uncommon Lustre and in their Zeal for Religion they have more particularly Exceeded Men. Socrates makes mention of a Fair Christian Lady who observing divers of their profession ready to embrace the Flames under the Persecution of Valentian her Zeal in so good a Cause made her press through the crowd of People that were Spectators and Voluntarily pass through the Fiery Tryal with these blessed Martyrs to the enjoyment of Thrones and Kingdoms of unspeakable Pleasure and Delight which Constancy and Holy Courage so confounded the Tyrant that he thereupon â—ackned the Persecution Eudoâ—â—a Wife to Theodosius the Emperour did so abound in Religion and Honourable Practices that she got her a name more lasting than the stately Structures She founded for the use of Piety and Divotion Eusebius tells us Theodâ—cia the Virgin not Eighteen years of Age too beautiful and Tender a Morsel for devouring Flames with Incredible Constancy and Patience endured Martyrdom under Diocletian And mentions two other Virgins that Expired by the same Fate of whom he tells us that the Earth they had trampled on was not worthy longer to bear them Paula a Noble Religious Lady is spoke off with venerable Esteem by St. Hierom in these words Were my Members says she as many Tongues and all my Joints endued with the Gifts of Elocution the Expressions which I could then utter would be low and fall much beneath the worth of that venerable Lady who has not heard of the Patience of Eleonora who thrust out to a desperate Fortune by her own Friends for her Religions sake endured Commerce with Wolves and Tigers And Men more Savage in their corrupt Natures than those untamed Beasts Xenophon has made Pantheâ— famous in his Writings by the Character he has given her viz. That she was so Excellent a Woman That when her Husband was at home or abroad That she was a Faithful Wife as well in his absence as in his presence It was that as it were changed Sexes with him and infused Courage and Magnanimity into his fainting Spirits Herxes once confessed that Women were his best Soldiers having turned their Distaffs into Swords whilst on the contrary the Men degenerated and took the natural fear and weakness of Women upon the miseries Egyptian Women of old Negotiated abroad and the Men kept house betaking themselves to deminitive Labours Admetus King of Thessally being ready to breath our his last farewel Air in the World was upon consulting the Oracle of Apollo at Delphos told him his Life would be assured to him if any one would voluntarily undertake to dye for him The People loved their Prince but not so well as themselves all his Friends denyed to shoot the Gloomy Gulf of Death for him Even those that were Aged and ready to return to their Primitive Dust would not Anticipate their Fates some few hours to save a King on whom the welfare of the Kingdom depended Till Alceste his Queen whose tender youth and Beauty made all not to expect any such offer from her as a Bud too fresh and tender for deaths cold hand to crop with Joy and Alacrity undertook to die for her Lord and performed it with more than Manly Courage Whose Legends might be written of Women who have caused wonder and admiration in the minds of Men not prepossessed with Malice or Envy to the Fair-Sex enough to make them blush to see themselves so far out done by those they suppose themselves so much Superiour
â— c. 8. to this effect I promise that hereafter I will lay no claim to thee This Writing was cal'd a Bill of Divorce But with Christians this Custom is abrogated saving only in Case of Adultery The ancient Romans also had a Custom of Divorce among whom it was as lawful for the Wife to put away her Husband as for the Husband to dismiss his Wife But among the Israelites this Prerogative was only permitted to the Husband See Repudiate In our Common Law Divorce is accounted that Separation between two de facto married together which is à vinculo Matriâ—â—â—â—â— non soù d mensa 〈◊〉 And thereof the Woman so divorced received all again that the brought with her This is only upon a Nullity of the Marriage through some â—â—â—tial Impediment as Consanguinity or Afâ—â—nity within the degrees forbidden 〈◊〉 impotency or such like Dodona a City of Epirus near which stood a Grove of Oaks only dedicated to Jupiter called Dodonas Grove the Oaks were said to speak and were wont to give oraculous Answers to those that came to consult them Domini or Anno Domini is the Computation of time from the Incarnation of our Saviour Jesus Christ. As the Romans made their Computation from the Building the City of Rome and the Grecians number'd their Years by the Olympiads or Games called Olympick So Christians in remembrance of the happy Incarnation and blessed Birth of our Saviour reckon the time from his Nativity Domino a kind of hood or habit for the Head worn by Canons and hence also a fashion of vail used by some Women that mourn Dower dos signifies in Law That which the Wife brings to her Husband in marriage Marriage otherwise called Maritagâ—um good Dower from dotarium That which she hath of her Husband after the Marriage determined if she out-live him Glanviâ—e 7. ca. 2. Bracton l. 2. ca. 28. Dory a she Rogue a Woman-beggar a lowzy Quean Drol Fr. a good-fellow â—o on Companion merry Grig one that cares not how the World goes Dulcimer or Dulcimel sambuca so called quaâ—â— dulce melos i. sweet melody 〈◊〉 musical Instrument a Sambuke Dentitio the time that Children breed Teeth which is about the Seventh Month or later and usually the upper Teeth come first in some the under and amongst these the Fore teeth first Many times Fevers Convulsions Loosnesses c. attend Children in the time of breeding Teeth Distillatio an Extractiâ—â— of the moist or unctuous partâ— which are rarified into Mist or Smoke as it were by the force of Fire Distillation is performed by a Bladder by a Chymical Instrument called Câ—curbita before described by a Retort by Deliquium by Filtri by Descent c. and that either in Balneo Mariz Sand Vapours Dung the Sun a Reverberatory c. Dispensatorium a Dispensatory a Book useful for Apothecaries wherein all Medicines at least the most usual are contain'd and prescrib'd that they may be prepar'd in the Shops all the Year round E. EAde for Eadith i. happiness Sa. Eleanor i. pittiful gr Ellena ibid. Elizabeth i. The Oath of my God or else it may be Elishbeth i. the peace or rest â—f my God Emmet i. a Giver of help Norm Ephrah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Kin. â— 19. i. fertility or fruitfulness 〈◊〉 rather I will be fruitful Esther 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. hidden from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sathar â—e lay hid Heb. Ethelburg i. a Noble Keeper Gâ— and Sa. Etheldred or Ethelred i. noble advice Ge. Eve 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chavah i. â—iving or giving life so called by her Husband Adam because she was the Mother 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 kol chav i. omnium viventiâ—â—m of all living Gen. 3.20 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chajah he lived Eugenia she that is nobly born see Eugenius in Mens names Euphenie i. she that is well spoken of and hath a good name and report Eutychia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. felicitas i happiness Echiud Queen of the Scythians with whom Hercules lay and got on her three Sons leaving a strong Bow behind him and ordaining that whoever of them when they came to years could bend that Bow should Succeed her in the Kingdom which only Scytha the youngest could do and so obtained it before his two Elder Brothers Erho a Nymph who being desperately in Love with Narcissus and rejected by him pined and sighed herself into Air and so became the shaddow or counterfeir of a Voice Egâ—ria a Nymph beloved by Num a Pampilius for her Wisdom he told the Romans he consuted her in all his great Affairs and Compiled divers Laws and Religious Customs by her Advice and made her to be in great Esteem with the People Some held her to be the Goddess who assisted at Womens Labours and eased their pains in Child-Birth Elizabeth Daughter of Henry the Eight by Queen Anna Bullein Daughter of Sir Thomas Bullein she was Queen oâ— England after the death of Queen Mary And had a long and Glorious Reign Of her see more at large Epicharis a Woman of a mean Birth but of great Courage and Vâ—rtue â—eing Condemned before Nero for having a share in a Conspiracy agâ—inâ—t him and being ordered to extream torture to make her Confess her Accomplices she bore it with such a Spirit and Courage she shamed and daunted her Tortureâ—s 〈◊〉 could any 〈…〉 by the most violâ—â—â—◠〈◊〉 but bring remanded to 〈◊〉 she killed herself to avoâ—d 〈◊〉 Tyran's 〈…〉 Epponiva Wife to Julius Sabinus a miracle of Conjugal Love for her Husband taking Arms with others against Vespatian and being overthrown hid himself in the Ruins of a Tomb where she came to him supplyed him with Food and Necessaries Lived with him and brought him forth divers Children in that dark and Solitary place but at last being discovered they were put to death which she bore with great Courage and Patience telling the Emperour she had rather die than live to see the wicked days of his Reign Erato one of the Nine Musâ—s presiding over Love Songs and Poems she is generally painted like a Virgin in the Bloom of her Youth Frolick and Gay Crowned with Roses and Mirtle holding a Harp in one hand and a Bow in the other with a Winged Cupid placed under her Elbow Armed with his Love-procuring Darts Escher Niece to Mordicai of the Tribe of Benjamin when King 〈◊〉 of Persia had put away Vâ—sâ—i his Queen for disobeying his Royal Mandate she being brought unto him among other Virgins he was to pleased with her Beauty and Conversation that he took her to Wife and she became Instrumental in saving the Jewish Nation then in Captivity from the destruction Human had prepared for theâ—â— and turned it upon himself 〈◊〉 his House Eudoria Married to 〈◊〉 dius the Emperour she 〈◊〉 a great Enemy to St. 〈◊〉 and declared for 〈◊〉 against him and 〈◊〉 him to be banished but he 〈◊〉 soon after re-called but 〈◊〉 some words against 〈◊〉 setting
up of her Statue she 〈◊〉 procured his banishment and sided with Theophilus 〈◊〉 soon after she miscarried 〈◊〉 Eudoria Daughter of Tâ—dosius Junior Wife to 〈◊〉 the Second she 〈◊〉 Genseric into Italy to Reveâ— her Husbands death on 〈◊〉 the Usurper who 〈◊〉 Rome and carried her and 〈◊〉 Daughters away but at 〈◊〉 instance of Martin and 〈◊〉 they were sent baek Eudoria Daughter of Lâ—ontius an Athenian Philosopher who for her Wit and Beauty was married to Theodosius the younger Emperour of Rome having no other portion to 〈◊〉 her off Eve the Mother of all Lâ—ing placed in Paradise and there had continued happy had not the Subtil Angel prevailed against her Eulogia Sister to Michaeâ— Pelcologus the Greek Emperour she had a great Ascendant one her Brother who dearly loved her for the Care and Tenderness she had over him in his Infancy but when he went to join the Greek Churches with the Western and she not able to diswade him from it caused a Rebellion to be raised in the Empire Euridice She was Daughter of Amyntas the third King of the Macedonians Married to Aridaeus natural Son to King Philip contending with Olimâ— King Philips Wife she was overthrown and taken Prisoner when having sent her by the said Queen a Silken String 〈◊〉 Dâ—gger and a Dose of Poison to take her Choice of what manner of death she would dye she nothing daunted took the first and having prayed that Olympas might come to the same distress which accordingly fell out she hanged herself Euttochium Daughter of Paula a Roman Lady she was brought up under St. Jerom and lived 35 Year in a Nunnery at Bethlehem She was so well skilled in most Languages that she was stiled the wonder of her Sex Came Sa. the Mothers brother also Gossip Friend No. Can bring forth young Carn No. to run like Cheese Caves-dropper one that listens under the Windows or house-Eaves Eye how to govern it Eyes are the Casements of the Body and many times by standing too much open let in things hurtful to the Mind a wanton Eye is the truest Evidence of wandering and unsteadfast Thoughts we may see too much if we be not careful in Governing our Eyes and keeping them from going astray and returning with vain Objects to the Phancy and Imagâ—nation which making unhappy Impressions they cannot be easily Obliterated This made the Princely Prophet when his Feet was betrayed by his Eyes into the snare of Lawless Lust pray so earnestly against the danger when he said Lord turn away my Eyes from beholding vanity and hence appears our miseries that those Eyes that should be Limbecks of Contrition the Celterns of sorrow should become the Inlets of Lust and the Portals to open and betray the whole body into Sin and Folly by letting in dangerous Enemies to surpize the Soul and overcome it with Strong Temptations Eyes thâ—u fix on Ambition makes Honour and Greatness their Objects which they convey and Represent as a solid good to the mind which frames the Project to attain to the Equipage and Grandure who make a splendid show of Guilded Cloaths and Titles in the World and then a Toâ—ment and 〈◊〉 ensues if the party â—e fruiâ—rated in aspiring to the height she Aims at Richeâ— sometimes are greedily 〈◊〉 in at the Eyes and then Covetousness winds it self into the Soul and brings along with it a thousand Inconveniences as Care Grief Fear Distrust Pining Discontent and an Unsatisfied Mind even with largest Fortune The Loose and Lacivious Eye makes Beauty its Object and whilst it sends abroad its Amourous Glances to take others it Captivates the Mind of its owner and binds it in the Chains of Slavery Many who have tampered in Jest have been taken in Earnest so have we seen a Cautious Fish nibbling at the Bate in hopes to get it off without hazarding the danger of the Hook till engaging too far he instead of feeding himself has been made the Anglers food Therefore Ladies to prevent the Malady which like a spreading Contagion disperses it self into most Societies you must keep your Eyes within Compass from wandring as much as possible and resolve with your self not to set any value or esteem upon earthly things more than may be taken off if reason requires it when the comeliness of any creature takes up your thoughts too largely then to remove that Object Place the Eyes of your Mind upon the Glorious and Transcendent Beauties and Loveliness of your Creator remember that God alone is the only worthy Object to fix our Minds on that we may have no desire to take it off when earthly things though valuable are of 〈◊〉 duration and lost almost 〈◊〉 soon as possessed and 〈◊〉 times create troubles and misfortunes carrying in themselves no solid or substantial Conteâ—ment Remember what a misery Dinah by giving her Eye to wandring brought upon herself and others Then 〈◊〉 preserve a purity of Heart 〈◊〉 Intention too strong to be invaded or at least overcome you must keep a watchful Guard over every Sense for if the Eye that is the light of the Body be evilly disposed the rest of the Senses 〈◊〉 needs be dim'd and darkened Consult Chastity and Modesty and as far as their Rules allow you may proceed with 〈◊〉 but all beyond is danger which is to be shun'd and avoided though the Eyes of other Creatures have no Objects but the visible Creation and naturally look down on the Earth 〈◊〉 which their irrecoverable 〈◊〉 must return Yet we have that more Glorious to Contemplate which only can make us truly happy for Heaven we ought to prepare for our sight naturally tends thither and the Eye of Faith Penetrates and gives the Upright sense a conversation there before it 〈◊〉 off it's incumbrance of Clay Give no occasion then Ladies for any to tax your Eyes with any thing that is not modest comely and allowable consider in company at home if of the different Sex nor in your walkings abroad to give them their wanderings but let your mind be upon them to keep them in their due bounds â—east becoming a Prey to others you are Enslaved or if you make a Prey of others your Conquest may however prove very troublesome and uneasie to you The Eyes are not the only dangerous things about you The Tongue many times for want of good Government betrays you into divers Misfortunes and Inconveniencies of which we shall briefly Treat Elizabath Queen of England her sufferings Elizabeth Queen of England â—tands to this day the wonder of her Sex as well relating to God's Providence in her many Deliverances in the Reign of Q. Mary her Sister as when â—he came to enjoy the Crown herself for all the open Force â—nd private Plots and Conâ—piracies against her were frustrated whilst she was in the Tower Bishop Gardiner â—ent a Counterfeit Warrant for â—er Execution but upon the Leiutenants going to know the truth at White-Hall it was â—et aside And such power â—ad
the Ancients address'd themselves to when they desired not to be deceived themselves but to deceive others she was figur'd in an unseemly shape her Face being that of a Woman handsom and comely but her Body that of a party coloâ—r'd Serpent with a Scorpions Tail her smooth Face denoting specious Pretences and Flattery to deceive her speckled Body the different Stratagems to bring Frands about and the Tail signified the Sting or bad Consequence that attend such Actions Ferdegunda Queen to Chilperick the first King of France she was at first a Servant to And 〈◊〉 his 〈◊〉 Queen whom he banished to make room for her though she had borne five Children'â—â— She created great mischiefs in France causing all those the opposed her to be made away either publickly or privately and at last her Husband followed those she had sent before him She warred upon her own Son and overthrew him in Battel killing 30000 of his Men won Paris and dying Anno 596 she left Clotair her Son in quiet Possession of the Throne Fritigilde Queen of the Merconians she was converted by one of St. Ambross's Sermons to the Christian Religion and perswaded her Husband to do the like making a League with the Romans that she might come freely to Millain where he was Bishop to see him but when she came to her great Grief she found the City in Mourning for his death Fausta Daughter to Sylla she was contrary to the Cruel Temper of her Father a virtuous mild and compassionate Lady endeavouring to save those Romans of Marins's Faction whom he doom'd to dye and did all the good Offices she could to prevent the Misery Rome was at that time fal'n under Friendship between two Persons or a different Sex cannot be 〈◊〉 Ansia We look upon the groundless suspitions so common in relation to matters of this nature as base as they are wicked and chiefly owing to the Vice and Lewdness of the Age which makes some Persons believe all the World as wicked as themselves The Gentleman who proposes this question seems of a far different Character and one who deserves that Happiness which he mentions for whose satisfaction or theirs who desire it we affirm That such a Friendship is not only innocent be commendable and as advantagious as delightful A 〈◊〉 Union of Souls as has been formerly asserted is the Essence of Friendship Souls have no Sexes nor while those only are concern'd can any thing that 's criminal intrude To a Conversation truly Angelica and has so many charms in 't that the Friendships between man and man deserve not to be compar'd with it The very Souls of the Fair-Sex as well as their Bodies seem to have a softer turn than those of Men while we reckon our selves Possessors of a more solid Judgment and stronger Reason or rather may with more Justice pretend to greater Experience and more advantages to improve our Minds nor can anything on Earth give a greatest or purer Pleasure than communicating such knowledge in a capable Person who if 〈◊〉 another Sex by the Charms of her Conversation inexpressibly sweetens the pleasant Labours and by the advantage of a 〈◊〉 Mind and good Genius 〈◊〉 starts such Notions as the Instructor himself would otherwise never have thought of All the fear is least the Friendship should in time degenerate and the Body come in for a share with the Soul as it did among Boccalins Poetesses and Virtuoso's which if it once does Farewel Friendship and most of the Happiness arising from it Athens Fornication Uncleanness and impudent and shameless Uncleanness in general being one of the Reigning Sins of the Age and for the sake alone of which in a manner a whole Army of other subservient Sins and some of them still more abominable than it self are entertain'd as Oaths Execrations Blasphemies Drunkennesses Envyings Murders and 〈◊〉 of Cruelties and an â—nfinite Rabble of others mitating under this one Head and Generalissimo and for the â—etter securing the Throne of his Imperial Vice Atheism it self is called or a more nonsencal and impious Deism pressed 〈◊〉 the Service and the Being of God himself as much 〈◊〉 A lies in the Power of sensual â—ools destroy'd or he turn'd 〈◊〉 of this lower World and 〈◊〉 to the furthermost 〈◊〉 â—eavens to lead a lazy Life ease and pleasure like those 〈◊〉 Miscreants and all forâ—â—â— because daring Sinners â—ight the more securely commit chiefly this one sin I say â—ot only Uncleanness in general being so very prevalent in this Age and Nation and the chief Motive whatever other Pretences are made of Mens setting up for Atheists and Deists in our Times But Fornication in particular being either slightly thought of or openly defended or excused not only by those that deâ—ie Religion but even by a great many Zealous Pretenders to Christianity decluded by the Subtilty of Satan who in favour of their Lusts instructs them to be Ingenious to their own Destruction by wresting and misapplying several Expressions and matters of Fact in Scripture to induce them to believe simple Fornication either no sin at all or a very small one The Apostles words are Flee Fornication which are directed chiefly against simple Fornication or Fornication in a strict sense because almost all the Gentiles a great many Jews and not a few Carnal Christians deluded by them thought it to be no sin or at worst a very little one Against whose pestiferous Errors the Apostle chiefly opposes this Precept Flee Fornication As being absolutely perswaded that if he once convinc'd Men that the lowest degree of actual Lust viz. Simple Fornication was so far from being no sin that 't was a very great and capital Crime disturbing Human Society and inverting its Orders and Constitutions and moreover cutting Men off from the Body of Christ and excluding them Heaven There would be little need of Preaching against the gross and more hainous degrees of the same unruly Passion as Adultery Incest Sodomy and other nameless Lusts already condemn'd by the very Heathens and almost all the World As to the manner how we are to flee it it must be avoided 1. In Action 2. In Affection 1. In Action we must not only avoid the gross Act it self but all subservient Acts leading to it though from never so far off All Acts of all and every of our Senses and of all Members instrumental to their Operations that may in the least tend to the inciting or pampering this Lust or to the promotion of the Execution of its inordinate Suggestions so that we must keep our Eyes our Ears and our Hands Chaste too as well as those Members that are the immediate instruments of Carnal Commerce Motives against it are there 1. It s great hainousness and criminal Nature proved first by its positive-and peremptory Condemnation in Scripture as in Heb. 13.4 Ephes. 5.5.6 and Rev. 21.8 1 Cor. 5.9 10. and that grounded upon these Reasons And 2dly By all these Reasons viz. Because it is a
pound and a half the whites and shells of thirty Eggs the young branches of a Fig-tree cut in small shivers incorporate them well and distill them in a Glass Alimbick over a gentle five Then to the Water you draw off add Sugar-Candy Borace and Camphire each an ounce Olibanum two ounces bruise them small and then distill them over again preserving the Water upon this Second Distillation as a rare Secret and improver or Imbellisher of Beauty Again take Lithargy of Gold and Silver each a dram put them into stronge white Wine Vinegar add Camphire and Allum of each half a Scrupleas much of Musk and Ambergreece to scent the Composition boyl them in a small quantity of Vinegar silter and keep it then boyl a little Roch-Allum in spring water and keep it apart from the other but when you use them mingle them together Thus Venus in her brightest form you 'll vie Or all those Female Starâ— that guild the Sky Who for their Beauties there were 〈◊〉 and shine But you out dazled now 〈◊〉 must refine To see their long 〈◊〉 leave 〈…〉 Faustina was cured of dishonest Love And of divers other Remedies against that Passion That the affection and prison of the Mind which is ordinarily called Love is a strong Passion and of great effect in the Soul let us ask of such Men which by Experience have known it and of such whom Examples are notorious namely of very excellent Personages that have suffer'd their Wills to have been transported even so far that some of them have died Jules Capitolin amongst other Examples recites that which happen'd to Faustina Daughter to Amoninus and Wife to the Emperor Marcus Aurelius who fell in Love with a Master of Fence or Gladiator in such sort that for the desire which she had of his Company she was in danger of Death she did so consume away Which being understood by Marcas Aurelius he presently call'd together a great company of Astrologians and Doctors to have counsel and find remedy thereupon At last it was concluded That the Fencer should be kill'd and that they should unknown to her give Faustina his Blood to drink and that after she had drank it the Emperor her Husband should lie with her This Remedy wrought marvellously for it put this Affection so far from her that she never afterwards thought of him And the History saith of this Copulation that the Emperor had then with her was begotten Antoninus Commodus which became so bloody and Cruel that he resembled more the Fencer whose Blood his Mother had drank a the Conception of him than Marcus Aurelius whose Son he was which Commodus was always found amongst the Gladiators as Eutropius Wâ—â—nesses in the Life of the same Commodus The 〈◊〉 and Arabick Physicians place this Disease of Love amongst the grievous Infirmities of the Body of Man and thereupon prescribe divers Remedies Câ—dâ—mus Milesien as Sâ—ydâ—â— â—â—ports in his Collections writes a whole Book treating of 〈◊〉 particular Remedies which Physicians give for this Disease one is That to him that is passionate in Love one 〈◊〉 put into his hands great Affairs importuning his Credit and his Profit that his Spirit being occupied in divers matters it may draw away his Imagination from that which troubles him And they say further that they should 〈◊〉 him to be merry and conversant with other Women Against this heat Pliny saith it is good to take the Dust upon which a Mule hath tumbled and cast it upon the Lover and all to be powder him or else of the Sweat of a chased Mule as Cardanus affirms in his Book of Subtilties The Physicians also teach how to know what Person is loved of him that is sick in Love and it is by the same Rule that Eristratus Physician to King Seleucus knew the love that Antiochus bare to the Queen Stratonicus his Stepmother for he being extream sick and would rather die than discover the cause of his Sickness proceeding from Love which he bare to his Father's Wife She came into the Chamber just then when the Physician was feeling the Patients Pulse which beat so strong when he saw the Queen come into the Chamber that Eristratus knew that he was in Love with her and that was the cause of his Sickness wherefore he found the way to make the King acquainted with it by such a means as would be too tedious to recite Which being experimented by the Father and seeing his Son in danger if he did not prevent it thought it good tho contrary to the Intention of the Son which chose rather Death than to be healed by his Father's Loss to deprive himself of his Queen and give her to his sick Son And so indeed the Age and the Beauty of the Lady and likewise Marriage was more proper for the Son than for the Father And by this means Antiochus lived well and gallantly many Years with his well-beloved Stratoniâ—â—â— The History is very neatly recited by Plutarch in the Life of Demetrius And thus you see why Physicians say that you must feel the Pulse of those that are in Love and repeat to them divers names of Persons and if you name the right the Pulse will beat thick and strong and by that you shall know whom they Love By divers other signs one may know when any is in Love and with whom which I leave to speak of now Friendship Friendship well chosen and placed is a great felicity of Life but we ought in this respect to move very cautiously and be certain we are not mistaken before we unbosom our Thoughts or make too strict a Union We see in Politicks Leagues offensive and defensive do not always hold and being abruptly broken prove more mischievous than any thing before they were contracted because there is a more eager desire of Revenge and ground of Injury started and so when a close knit Friendship slips the knot or is violently broken in sunder by the force of some mischievous Engine set on work to that end Anger and Hatred ensues all the Secrets on either side how unbecoming or prejudicial so ever are let fly abroad to become the Entertainment and Laughter of the World redounding perhaps not only to the Injury of your self but of others whose Secrets have upon Confidence of your Virtue been intrusted with you and by you again upon the like Confidence communicated to the Party you entrusted with your own who upon breaking with you persidiously discloses them Therefore keep to your self a Reservedness and try all manner of ways the strength and constancy of Fidelity before you trust too far for if you lay out your Friendship at first too lavishly like things of other natures it will be so much the sooner wasted suffer it by no means to be of too speedy a growth considering that those Plants which floot up over quickly are not of long duration comparable with those that grow flower and by degrees Choice of this kind ought
Infamy Therefore I would advise all to do do with their loose and poysonous Pamphlets as those Converts of Ephesus did with their Books of Curious Arts bring them forth and burn them I know one that took upon himself this Revenge a Friend of his coming into his Chamber took down from off a Shelf a Play-Book who reading a little he perceiv'd his Friend was soon infected useth this Remedy You complain'd saith he when you came in of cold I will make you a better fire So burnt the Book before him G. GErtrud i. e. truly amiable Gilian see Julian Gillet dim from Giles i. e. a little Kid. Glauce i. e. Gray-eyed Glycera i. e. Duici sweet Grace commonly used Grishild i. e. Grey Lady Grimtrid i. e. of a Fair Countenance Gorgons appearing so terrible in Fables for their sweaty Hair and stone transforming Looks are held to be the Daughters of Cela and Pâ—â—â—â—sâ— called by the Names of Medusa Euriâ—le and Thenio having their aboad near the Hesperian Gardens turning those that came to approach the Golden Fruit into Stone with their looks till by Minervas Assistance Perseus vanquished them 〈◊〉 which seems to be a Fable alluding to Fortitude which overcomes Difficulties and Danger Graces are those the Grâ—â—iâ—â—stile stile Charities and are held to be the Daughters of Jupiter and Euronyme but some will have them to be got by Jupiter on Venus as being the Guardians and Attendants on Beauty c. being three in number viz. Eupbrosyne signifying Gladness Aglais Beauty and Thalia Youth and Mirth referring to the delighting of Mankind and the faithfulness of Things and many other Matters as relating to Joyful Times and Seasons Pleasure and Mirth are alluded to by them in sundry Manners Grey the Lady June a Lady though very Young of admirable Learning and Virtue she was Daughter of Henry Duke of Suffolk and Grand-Daughter to Mary Daughter to King Henry the seventh and being by King Edward the sixth declared his Successor she took upon her the Crown after Edwards Decease but enjoyed it not long for Queen Mary prevailing she was Deposed and together with the Lord Guilford Dudley her Husband Beheaded in the Tower of London of whose wonderful Virtues and Pieties we speak more largely hereafter Galatea a Sea-nimph who growing Jealous that Glaucus of whom she was inamoured had gained the Beautiful Nimph Sylla to his Embraces when she usually did bathe i his Streams she by Inchantations turned her into a deformed foul Monster compelling her perpetually to bark in the Caves of the Sicilian Rocks beaten with the Sea which is no more than the sounding of the Waters against it Geruena A Noble Italian Lady seeing divers Assassins enter her Husbands Chamber to Assassinate him threw her self between him and his Enemies Receiving the Points of their Swords with the loss of her Life till her Lord recovering his Sword that hung near him not only detended his own Life but revenged her Death by killing divers of them and putting the rest of flight Gabriela a fair and ingenious French Lady flourished in the French Court in such rare Perfections of Beauty that so she far Captivated the Heart of the Warlike King Henry the fourth of France that he had a design to have Married her thô at that time he was Married to Margaret Sister to his Predecessor to prevent which she was Poisoned by an Italian scented Pair of Gloves presented to her by an unknown Hand Genura Queen to the Famous King Arthur King of the Brittains for her Beauty and Courage stands a famous Monument in Histories to 〈◊〉 the Lustre of the fair Sex Gratiana a Lady at 〈◊〉 in Spain being surprized at the Sack of the Town by the Barbarians gave all her Gold and Jewels freely to the Captain who had taken her Prisoner to save her Honour but the Infidel breaking his Promise as over-infiamed with the Charms of her incomparable Beauty going to break his Word and force her she in the first place stabbed him to the Heart with a Dagger she had concealed in her Garment and then to prevent the like attempt of her Chastity from others she killed her self Gonzaga Julia a very Beautiful Italian Lady had her Name so famed that it was heard to Constantinople and found so Charming in the Ears of Soâ—man the Turkish Emperor that it 's thought the Fleet he sent under Barbaressa King of Argiers his Admiral was more to surprize her than spoil the Countrey but upon their Landing fied to save her Chastity half naked to the Mountains Government Female asserted the best I stick not to affirm that Domination and Government is not only lawful and tolerable in Women but Justly Naturally and properly theirs First then though force Crazy Phylosophers drunk and besotted with Aristotelism have endeavoured to devance them from the same species with Men and others madder than they deny them Souls yet when we shall oppose Holy Scripture which makes Man the Consummation of the Creation and them the Consummation of Man if we would cite those high Attributes the 〈◊〉 give unto them or instance those particular Indulgences of Nature which Agrippa reckons unto them or those peculiar advantages of Composition and understanding which 〈◊〉 Lusitanus ascribes to the 〈◊〉 to mention that of Trismegistus who calls them Fountains and Perfections of Goodness And indeed this is a quarrel wherein Nature hath declared her self a most interested party that we need go no farther then the Judgment of our eyes the quickest and surest that Man can make to decide the Controversie For whom can we imagine to be so insensible as not to be presently touched with the delicate Composure and Symmetry of their Bodies The sweetnesses and killing Languors of their Eyes the Meslange and Harmony of their Colours the Happiness and Spirituality of their Countenances the Charms and Allurements of their Maine the Air and Command of their Maine the Air and Command of their Smiles so that it is no wonder if Plato said that Souls were unwilling to depart out of such fair Bodies That this is a Truth needs so little Demonstration that looking but into any Story you shall find even the greatest Conquerors Lusty and Proud in their Triumphs humbled and brought on their Knees by some fair Enchantress This we account admirable in Alexander and Scipio that they could avoid in Caesar and Mark Anthony we pardon it in respect of the greatness of their other Actions 〈◊〉 a Martial-man you will 〈◊〉 is a Savage Bruitish thing thing that knows how to run 〈◊〉 dangers and to despise them 〈◊〉 whose thoâ—ghts are always 〈◊〉 random and abroad seldom with-drawn and upon their Guard and therefore it is no wonder if such Men be easily surprized with such dazling trifles But when a Man tells you that even the Wisest Men have been strange Doters on this Sex and absolutely given up to them it will change the Case I suppose there is no Man thinks Solomon a Fool and it
builded she was called Augusta and Imperatrix and relieved the Poor wiâ—h all the Treasure that came to her hand and was a munificent Patroness to the before afflicted Christians Helle was Daughter to Athmus King of Thebes who flying from her Mother-in-law with her Brother Phryxus was drowned in the Narrow Sea that parts Asia from Europe and by that Misfortune gave to it the Name of Hellespont Heliades Sisters accounted the Daughters of the Son and Celymene whose Brother Phaeton was who unwarily aspiring to guide the Chariot of the Sun was destroyed by Jupiters Thunder for firing the Earth and Skies by his misguiding it for whom these Sisters wept till the Gods turned them into Poplar-trees and their tears into Amber Here 's Martia or the Martial Heir it was accounted amongst the Ancient Romans as a Goddess of Heirs and held to be one of Mâ—â—s's Companions she took her Surname of Martial by reason in those times Quarrels frequently arose about Inheritances and Successions and when they were decided either by Arms of contesting in Law they supposed a right decision Hermophrodite An ancient Idol bearing the Resemblance of Venus and Mercury called otherwise Aphrodite as Joyning trading and Eloquence with delights c. Hersilia Wife to Romulus first Founder of Rome a Virtuous Sabian Lady Herta was accounted a Goddess among the Germans worshipped in a thick Grove and her residence when she pleased to appear was a Cart with a Carpet over it her Victims were menial Servants or Slaves who were thrown into a Lake and there perished in hopes of enjoying Pleasure and Plenty in another World her Cart upon general Processions was sometimes drawn with Oxen and sometimes by Lyons Hesione the fair was Daughter to Leomedon King of Troy and by reason of the raging of a Plague the Oracle being consulted it told them that to appease the God of the Sun and the Sea with whom the King had broken his word a Virgin must every day be tyed to a Rock where a Sea Monster should be sent by Neptune to devour her this being done by Lot it fell upon Hesione but Hercules returning from his Hysperian Voyage in a dreadful Combate killed the Monster and freed the Royal Maid Hildigardcan Abbess of the Order of the Benedictines famous for her Learning and Piety but more for her Prophecies of the Errors that should creep into the Romish Church Hannah the Mother of the famous Prophet Samuel who obtained him of God by her servent Prayers after she had been a long while Barren Hiparthia Marry'd Crates only for his Wisdom and Learning being otherways deformed and unfightly and poor 〈◊〉 could all her Friends or 〈◊〉 offers of Rich matches 〈◊〉 her from him She was â—â—r self very Learned and Inâ—â—â—â—ous so that their Souls rather than their Bodies coveted to be near together Hippodamia Daughter to Briseus and fell among other Captives at the taking of Tenedos to the share of Achilies but Agameamon falling in Love with her took her from him which made him refuse to assist the Greeks till the Trojans had near vanquished them and came to set fire to his Ships Hippodame Oenomaus the King of Ellis's Daughter being very Beautiful abundance of Suitors crouded to gain her in Marriage which made him consult the Oracle about the success which gave Answer That whoever married his Daughter should came his Death whereupon he made Decree that whoever could outrun him in a Chariot-Race should have the fair Hiâ—podame in Marriage but being vanquished he should dye Many declined it but some being vanquished were put to death Till Pâ—lâ—ps having bribed the King's Chariotier to leave a Pin out of the Wheel that it might fall off in the Career by which fall the King was wounded to death Hortensia a Roman Lady Daughter to the Orator Horlensius At the time a great Tax was laid upon the Matrons of Rome she notably pleaded their Cause before the Triumvire that a great part of it was remitted Hostilina was by the Pagans accounted a Goddess taking care of their Corn that it should grow to an equal length and be full Eareâ— without Blasting Houres by some Reputed God esses begot by Jupiter 〈◊〉 Themis and were call'd Eunormia Irene and Diâ—ce or Good Laws Peace and Justice Howard Ciâ—â—erine she was Marryed to King Henry the VIII and was Daughter to the Lord Edmond Howard Son to Thomas Duke of Norfolk she was one of the two Queens that he caused to be beheaded upon suspicion of Incontinency though neither against her nor Anna Bullen who felt the same Fate before her any thing deserving Death appeared only the Kings Pleasure must be obeved to make way for more Wives Hyacinthides six Daughters of Erichtheus who succeeded Pandion King of Athens taking their Names from the Village Hyachithius where they all seâ—â— a Sacrifice for their Court v. for the Oracle having declared that the Thracians who were Warring against the Athenians could not be overcome unless one of their Ladies was offered up as a Sacrifice to Dima they all contented so earnestly to have the Honour to dye for their Country and the Love they bore to each other that they would not have one to dye unless â—â—w all participated in the same Death and their Wishes being granted the Athenians gained most notable Victory their Proper Names were Pandora Procris Clithonia and Orithia and are fabled to be placed among the Stars Hyades are a Company of Stars to the number of seven placed in the Neck of Taurus they are tabled to be Nurses to Baâ—chus and by him in return of their Kindness fixed as Constellations and are called the Weeping Stars as having great Influence over Rains and moâ—st Clouds Hypermenstra one of Daraus K. of Argo's fifty Daughters who married the fifty Sons of Egytus whom Daraus ordered them to kâ—ll on their Wedding Night which they all did but this Lady who saved her Husband Lynceus for which her Father Impâ—â—â—tioned her but soon after 〈◊〉 her and restored 〈◊〉 to her Husband Hysiphile ho Queen of the Island of 〈◊〉 was banished by the Cruel Women who had killed all their Husbands Fathers and Brothers for sparing her Father Thaos and being taken upon the Sea by Pirates she was sold to Lycurgus King of Neâ—eâ— who understanding who she was gave his Son Archemrus to be Nursed by her she having a little before brought forth Twins whom Jason had begot on her in his Voyage to Colobis when he fetched thence the Golden Fleece House-keepers to Persons of Honour or Quality Those Persons who would qualifie themselves for this Employment must in their Behaviour carry themselves grave solid and ferious which will inculcate into the beliefs of the Persons whom they are to serve that they will be able to govern a Family well They must endeavour to gain a Competent knowledge in Preserving Conserving and Candying making of Cates and all manner of Spoon-meats Jellies and the like Also in Distilling all
Fr. Apparel cloathing array attire also Armour or Harness Habit habitus the outward attire of the Body whereby one Person is distinguished from another as the Habit of a Gentleman is different from that of a Merchant and the Habit of a Handy-crafts-man from both Hans-en-helder is in Dutch as much as Jack in a Cellar and by Metaphor it is taken for the Child in a Womans Belly Hermione the Daughter of Menelaus Hermitress a Woman-Hermite or Eremite Heroine g. a Noble or Virtuous Woman Herophila the Erithâ—â— Sibyl who being by Tarâ—â—â— denied the price of her three Books of Prophesies burnt two and received the whole price for that which was left Herâ—â—lia the Wife of Romulus worshipped by the Name of Hera the Goddess of youth Herthus a Saxon Goddess like the Latin Tellus Hessone Daughter of Lumedon King of Troy whom Hercules delivered from a great Whale Hibride mongrel of a mixt Generation Helicon a hill of Phacis not far from Parnassus and much of the same bigness consecrated to Apollo and the Muses Hence Helitoniam pertaining to that Hill Hillutim h. praises a Jewish wedding-song Heppece f. I. Cheese made of Mares milk Hipparchus an Athenian Tyrant slain upon his deflowring a Maid Hippe Daughter of Cbiâ—â—â— a great Huntress got with child and turn'd into a mare Hippiades g. Images of women on horse-back Hippoctenides the Muses Hippodamia Daughter to 〈◊〉 King of Elis whom 〈◊〉 won at a race with her father by corrupting his chariot driver Hipoliyta a Queen of the Amazons whom Hercules gave a Theseus to wife Hippolytus their Son torn in pieces by his chariot-horses is he fled being accused of adultery by his wives mother â—â—edra whose solicitations he refused Hippomenes and Atalanta won by his golden apples drown in her way were turn'd to a Lion and Lioness for lying together in Cybele's Temple Hippona the Goddess of horses and horse-coursers Hipâ—â—crataea followed her Husband Mithridates in all his 〈◊〉 and dangers Hermaphrodite Hermaphroâ—â—â— one who is both man and woman Hermitress A woman Hermite or Eremite one who lives in a wilderness Hesperides the daughters of Hesperus brother to Atlas called Aegle Aretbusa and Hesâ—â—â—busa They had Gardens and Orchards that bore Golden fruit kept by a vigilant Draâ—â—â— which Hercules slew and â—â—bbed the Orchard From this story we find often mention of the Gardens and Apples of Hesperides Honorificabilitudinity honourableness Horae l. Hours Goddesses daughters of Jupiter and Themis Hillulim Heb. Praises a Song sung at the Jews marriages by the Bridegrooms intimate Friends Hippona the Goddess of horses Hyades Atlantides Suculae the seven Stars daughters of Atlas lamenting of Hyas their brother devoured by a Lyon Hyena a Beast like a Wolf with a Mane and long hairs accounted the subtlest of all beasts changing sex often and counterfeiting Mans voice Hylas going to fetch Hercules some water fell into the river or poetically was pulled in by the Nymphs in love with him Hyllus Hercules's son who built a Temple at Athens to Misericordia the Goddess of pity Hymen aeus son of Bacchus and Venus the God or first instituter of marriage also a Nuptial or wedding song Hypermnestra one of Danaus's 59 daughters commanded to kill their Husbands the 50 sons of Aegyptus she onely saved her Husband Lynceus who afterwards killed Danaus Hypâ—â—phile Queen of Lemnos banished thence for saving her Father Thous when all the men of the Island were killed by women Hony-moon applied to those married persons that love well at first and decline in affections afterwards it is Hony now but it will change as the Moon Min. Horse-ballet a Dance or Ball performed by Horses such was that at the Emperors wedding 1666. Hypermeter Lat. a verse having a redundant syllable or one syllable above measure called by some a Feminine Verse Hysterical hysterious troubled with fits of the Mother I. JEan i. Gracious or Merciful see Joan. Iennet der from Jean Ioac or Joanna Gracious Luk. 8.3 the same with John in Mens Names Ioice i. Merry or Pleasant Iael 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jagnel Judg. 4.21 perhaps 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jagnalah a Roe or Goat Isabella or Jezebel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 King 9.30 i. Wo to the dwelling or the Province of dwelling Iulian i. Soft-Hair'd Iudith or Judah i. praising or confessing Ioan Countess of Montford Daughter to Lewis of Flanders and Count of Nevers she wâ—â— married to John the 4th 〈◊〉 of Britain and Count d'â—â—â—ford she Warred after her Husbands Death upon the 〈◊〉 d' Blois and took divers Town from him in Brittain and being besieged in Hennebor◠〈◊〉 sallied at the head of 60 men and burnt the Enemies standard and following this success with greater Numbers not onely raised the siege but recovered all the Dutchy of Britain Ioan d' Arc the Valiant Maid of France who of a Shepherdess became a Leader of Armies and by her Courage Conduct and success raised the drooping spirits of the French men that were at a very low Ebb by reason the English had gained the greatest part of France so that under her Conduct they beat them out of several strong holds but after she had done wonders always fighting on horse back in mans Apparel she was taken as she sallied upon the English and venturing too far in Confidence of her Fortune she was taken carried to Roan and there burnt for a witch though no such thing appeared against her Ioan d' Valois she was daughter to Charles King of France by his first wife Margaret of Sicily she was Married to William Earl of Holland Hainault and Zealand who died before her leaving William the Second his Son and four Daughters after which she 〈◊〉 a Religious Habit in the â—â—bby of Fontenele and by her Prudent Intercession stayed the battle at the point to be given between the Kings of England and France dying each Lamented of the People 〈◊〉 1400. Iocasta Daughter of Creon the Thebean King she Married King Laius and was Mother to 〈◊〉 who by reason of the words of the Oracle that he should Dethrone his Father was in his Infancy cast out to a desperate Fortune and she 〈◊〉 knowing him when grown 〈◊〉 Married him by whom she had Polynices and Eteocles who falling out about the Succession Killed each other in a Comâ—â—ce for whose Deaths and the Discovery of the Error 〈◊〉 committed in Marriage piâ—â—â— away with grief and died Ioan the female Pope of 〈◊〉 Called by them John 〈◊〉 finding her self with Child and ready to be delivered desperately killed her self with her Dagger Ioan Queen of France and 〈◊〉 the sole Daughter of Henry the first King of Navar and left Heiress of her Fathers Kingdom she was Wife to â—biâ—â—â— the fair King of France transcendent for her Piety as well as Beauty very Liberal in Charitable Deeds for she founded divers Charitable Houses and left at her Death great Treasure to be bestowed among the Poor Ioan de Albert Queen of Navar a
woman of a Martial Spirit she was Mother to Henry the fourth called Henry the Great King of France who was Grandfather to the present French King she being a Protestant highly Espoused their Cause for which she is said to be poisoned at Paris with a Pair of perfumed Gloves presented her at her Sons Wedding with Margaret Sister to Charles the Ninth of France and soon after her death the horrid Massacre of the Protestants ensued in which perished about 300000. Ioan of France Daughter to King Lewis the Eleventh was Married to Lewis Duke of Orleance afterwards King of France she was a Princess of Great Virtue she Instituted the Order of the Annuntiation forming it upon the ten Virtues of the Blessed Virgin Viz. Prudence Humility Chastity Verity Devotion Obedience Poverty Patience Compassion and Charity Ioan the first Queen of Jerusalem Naples and Sicily was Daughter to Charles of Sicily Duke of Calabria who after having successively Married four Husbands Andreas James Lewis and Otho was deprived of her Kingdoms and Life by Charles d' Durass her Cousin whom she had adopted her Heir as having no Children of her own Joan the second Queen of Naples a Woman of great Courage and Conduct but had a very troublesome Reign upon William of Austria her Husband retiring into a Monastery upon Discontent occasioned by her being too Prodigal of her Favours to others and dying without Children she bequeathed her Kingdom to Rene Duke of Anjou Ioan Infanta and Regent of the Kingdom of Portugal she was Daughter to Alphonsus the fifth who for her Prudence and Courage left her Regent when he went to War against the Moors yet at last she retired into a Monastery Ioia a Woman of Spain who preached to the People in the Cathedral of Barcelona and is said in the time of the Papacy of Pope Paul the third to Convert divers Jews at Rome and to explain in the presence of the Cardinals the Books of John Don Scotus commonly called the Subtle Doctor Iole Daughter of Eurytus the Oechalian King with her Hercules fell desperately in Love but her Father would not Consent he should have her unless he could gain her by Combate with him which when he had done he still denied to give her to him which so inraged Hercules that he slew him and took her away by force and afterwards gave her to his Son Hillus but Dejaneiza Jealous of Hercules she being his first Wife sent him a Shirt dipt in Poison and Tinctured in Nessus Blood which in Pains and Torment put an end to his Glorious Atchievements with his Life Iphianassa Daughter 〈◊〉 Praetus King of the Argines who with her Sister being in the Temple of Juno and despising the homeliness of it as also the Beauty of the Goddess she throughly nettled at the Contempt so Changed and Disordered their Minds that they fancied themselves to be Heifers and could by no means be perswaded out of that Opinion till Melampus the Physician restored them again to their Right Senses and for his Reward had Iphianassa in Marriage and a part of the Kingdom for her Dowry Iphis she was the Daughter of Lygdus and Theletusa whose Sex her Mother kept secret and from her Infancy brought her up in Masculine Apparel for that her Father had doomed the Infant if a Girl to be made away when under this disguise she came of Years Lygdus concluded a Marriage between her and Janibe a Beautiful Maid which made her Mother almost at her Wits end because that by this means a Discovery would be made but however upon her invoking Venus and offering in her Temple she on the Wedding-day was changed into a Man and did the Office of a Bridegroom to the Satisfaction of her Fair Bride Iphigenia she was Daughter to King Agamemnon by Clyâ—â—â—nestra and is said by Homer to be offered up to Diana for the successful Passage of the Grecian Fleet to Troy but as she lay on the Altar ready to be sacrificed the Goddess wrapt her in a Cloud and bearing her thence made her her Priesteis Irene Empress of Constantinople Mother to Constantine the seventh whose Eyes she put out that she might Reign alone upon which as if Heaven demonstrated a Detestation of the Cruelty the Sun for eighteen days shined so dimly as if it had drawn in its Light as it Thyestes Feast but Nicephorus having wrested the Empire out of her Hands banished her to Metylene where she soon after died of Grief Irene the Fair Grecian Lady that was presented to Mabomet the Great at the Sack of Constantinople on whom he doated so much that he spent whole Days and Nights in her Company and neglected his weighty Affairs but being reproved by his Bassas he in a rage cut off her Head with his Scymeter but repenting it betook him to the Wars to put the cruel Act out of his Mind Iris Messenger to Juno said to be the Daughter of Thaumus and Electra she is painted with a Rain-bow circling her her Name importing the Painted Bow so often seen after Showers in the Clouds Isaura Clementia a Lady of Tholouse in France famous for her Learning and Ingenious Parts she appointed the Floral Games yearly kept there and in the Town-house her Marble Statue stands Crowned with Flowers Ius a Goddess worshipped by the Egyptians her Sacrifice and worship was Infamous and Obscene insomuch that the Priests were forbidden to speak any thing of them and the Romans forbid it in their City Isota of Verona a Lady of great Learning she wrote five hundred sixty four Books which are to be seen in Thaurus Library and held divers Disputes with the most Learned Men yet dyed at the Age of thirty six Years a Virgin Iudith a Holy Widow who by destroying the Tyrant Holyphernes delivered the Jews Iudith Daughter to Velpo Count of Ruensburge she was made Recluse by the People Iudith Daughter to Charles the Bald and Wife to Ethelwolfe and Ethelred Kings of England Iulia Wife to Severus the Roman Emperour and Mother to Geta she after the Death of her Husband Married Bassianus Caracalla her Son in Law who fell in Love with her upon seeing her naked Thigh Iulia Wife to Pompey and Daughter to Julius Caesar she died in Child-bed before she could compose the differences between those great Captains which afterward caused such Distractions in the Roman State by a Piteous war Iulia the Daughter of Augustus Caesar and Scribonia â—he greatly perplexed that Emperour in the heighth of his Fortune by her loofe Carriage and Wanton way of living she was Married to divers Husbands by whom she had several Children but Wedlock not being capable of satisfying her Lustful Desires and shâ— continuing her leud Courses her Father Banished her after that she was Married to Tyberius but disdaining him he coming to be Emperour revenged her Pride and Scorn by confining her so straight that she pined away for Hunger Iulia Daughter to Agrippa and the beforementioned Julia she followed her
makes Men talk iâ—lely by â—â—ing the Head light giddy c. and enflaming the Blood it is but reason we should prescrib such things as may contribute to the Cure of a Ma'ady that has done we know not what Mischief in all Ages and those we have an account of are almost innumerable Jealousie is by divers Learned Men put for a main Cause of Melancholly some again only allow it to be a Symptâ—m and they give this Reason for it because melancholly Perâ—ons among these Passions and Perturbations of the Mind lye most exposed to it but if we may give our Opinion it seems to us to have a Prerogative and Latitude above all other ordinary Symptoms and therefore requires to be treated off as a Species apart being of such extraoâ—dinary note so great a Passion that it is held almost to be of as large extent as Love it self for which Reason we will dilate upon it apart as a kind of a Bastard-branch of Melancholly Love Jealousie is the greatest Enemy to Marriage in the World and as Heroical or Love Melancholly Torments before hand this comes with a Scorpions Sting in its Tail to poison all the Joys and expected sweets not only of Marriage but of Life and therefore requires a greater Care and Industry in rectifying it because its Contagion disorders a whole Family when the other afflicts but a single Person so that by our delineating it a Jealous Man or Woman sees His or Her Error as in a Glass and those that are not tinctured may find Reason to avoid it Jealousie is defined to be a certain kind of a Suspicion possessing the jealous party that the party chiefly beloved by him is enamoured of another whom â—he loves as he imagines better than himself and scatters those Favours on him which she ought to reserve for himself alone and this many times extends to the Case of a Mistriss as well as a Wife Scaliger says it is a fear of losing her faâ—our whom he so earnestly Affects and Desires to have proper to himself only But Cardan styles it a Zeal for Love and a 〈◊〉 of an Envy least any one should beguile us Jealousie you see by this is a meer Monopolist a Coveter of all and will not spare the least Morsel to the dearest of Friends It is the married mans Hell where it takes deep Root in his Soul and the same to the Wife if she be infected for as there is no Condition in the World Sweeter Pleasanter or Fuller of Cordial-happiness than Marriage if they live Peaceably and Lovingly together as has already been hinted so if this Fiend get in between farewel to all Quiet and Repose he pulls in after him Grief Sorrow Disasters Mischiefs Mischances Gripings and Discontents A Fury says Aristo it is full of Suspition and Fear the Martyrdom of Mirth and Marriage a Corrosive that Gnaws upon the Heart and indeed there is no Name that can well suit it so bad as it deserves yet we see some that have the esteem of wise so weak as to indulge it to harbour and nurse it in their Bosoms though like the Tytanian Vulturs it feeds on their Livers Jealousie in preventing it could it be Effectually done is more Advantageous to men and Women than easing or removing it when contracted and indeed there are some probabilities of it though many have prescribed a sort of extravagant Methods to be observed Plato would have Wives and Children in common as once it was a Custom among the Ancient Britains and then where there was no absolute Propriety there consequently could be no Root for Jealousie but this Promiscuous way is not held a good way in our days many others are of Plato's opinion but seeing it is condemned as wicked and monstrous by all civiliz'd Nations we pass over their Arguments for it and refer the Vindicators with their weak Reasons to Mahomess Paradice where it is held if you will believe it that Men possess all or the greatest part of their Happiness in the Embracing as many handsom Women as they please It is indeed the Custom of some Countreys to be such Strangers to Jealousie that they prostitute their Wives so such as pay them Visits and conclude they have in no manner welcom'd them unless they can fasten that Favour on them and this amongst others the Babylonians did not only by their Wives but also their Daughters The Kings of Calecut in the East Indies will not meddle with their Wives 'till the Biarmi or High-Priests have made them Cuckolds by which means they superstitiously hold that their Wombs are sanctified by the Sanctity of the Priest Kings have been so far from Jealousie that they have Married Common Women knowing them to be such 〈◊〉 had Thaeis a Harlot and Hiroem King of Syracuse Pitbo â— Keeper of the Public Stews by which we see Jealousie is not so universal as some would have it Policy it is in the Italians as themselves give out to allow publick Stews for thereby they conceit they keep their Wives honest since those Men that are fleshly given having cheap opportunities will not run those hazards and expences that attend on close Intreagues and this they further hold is done to keep out those disorders of Mind that Jealousie would other ways occasion however they allow their Wives their Confessors and if you will believe those that have travelled they 'l tell you there is no Man more lascivious than an Italian-Priest they making it a great part of their business to promote and stir up Lust in themselves and others by Philters c. They take not the way of Origen nor of Combâ—lus the first is spoken of elsewhere and as for the latter being a very beautiful young man that he might take all occasion of Jealousie away from King Selucus when he was to Conduct Stratonice his Queen into Syria he â—elded himself before he set out with her and left his Genitals Sealed up in a Box behind him this great Lady we find had more Honour and Beauty than Chastity for as be suspected she did tempt him by the way to amorous Dâ—lliances and upon his refusal like Josephs Mistriss falsly â—â—cused him so that upon his return he was cast into Prison and a day appointed for his hearing but he cleared himself by producing the Box with his Moveables in it and by the loss of them saved his Life and got applause among the Men but how the Queen and the rest of her Sex resented it we are ignorant Passing over such like Relations we now come to shew that to prevent Jealousie is the best way to make equal Matches that is proportionable in Years for certain it is nothing sooner Creates Jealousie on the one hand and loathing on the other than an old Man to be Married to a Young Woman or a Young Man to an Old Woman yet Mony we see makes these Matches frequently and brings on a World of discontent and vexation which no Mony
what a Letter is It is or ought to be the express Image of the Mind represented in writing to a friend at a distance wherein is declared what He or She would do or have done This excellent use we have of Letters that when distance of place will not admit of Union of Persons or converse Viva voce that deplorable defect is supplied by a Letter or Missive Let me now shew you the parts of a Letter the common ones are Superscription and Subscription The Superscription of Letters is twofold the one external the other internal the outward Superscription is that when the Letter is folded up and containeth the Name Title and Abode of the Person we write unto but above all you must have a care that you give proper Titles such as befit the Quality of the Person The Title of a King is To His most Excellent Majesty To the Queen the same altering the Article To all Sons or Brethren of the King of England To His Royal Highness To a Duke To His Grace To a Dutchess the same To all Earls Marquesses Viscounts and Barons To the right Honourable To Marchionesses and Countesses by Patent To the Right Honourable To all Lords To the Right Honourable To Knights To the right Worshipful To all Justices of the Peace High Sheriffs Councellors at Law Esquires either by birth or place c. To the Worshipful If Kindred write one to another the greater may express the Relation in the beginning of the Letter but she that is of the meaner Quality must be content to specifie it in the Subscription Besides Superscription and Subscription you must set down what year and day you write this Letter in and the place from whence it came yet it is not always convenient to mention the place nor the Relation the Person hath to you to whom you write For the style of your Letters let it not be affected but careless not much differing from our usual way of speaking In Letters of Complement supply the barrenness of your matter with the smoothness of your Rhetorical Exornation Consider seriously what best befits the things you are to write of regarding Person Time and Place It would be absurd for any one to write to a Superiour as to a Familiar we are not to use the like expressions to a Soldier as we do to a Scholar or a Lady Be not too prolix in your writing nor too short do not study for had words but such as are either plain or very significant this perspicuity of writing is to be measur'd according to the capacity of the Person to whom the Letter is directed for some will easily conceive what is difficult and hard for others to comprehend Lastly be curious in the neat folding up your Letter pressing it so that it may take up but little room and let your Seal and 〈◊〉 be very Fair. Lying-in if some Men might have their Will Women were in the worst Condition of all Creatures for Nature has taught the Birds of the Air against they are ready to Lie in to frame their Bed-Chambers with that Art and Curiosity to make their Beds and draw their Curtains about them with so much Neatness and Artifice that their Nurseries seem to be so many petty Palaces and the Winds themselves are forced to rock the Cradles of their Young ones But Women must never be taken care of while they are breeding nor provided for against their Delivery 'T is true indeed when we see a Poor Woman reduced to that miserable shift as to be Deliver'd in Rags we are apt to believe that the Woman misses somewhat of Matrimonies Pleasure but then again we take her for some forlorn Creature abandon'd by all Mankind and forsaken even by Charity it self But we find all Creatures as Nature instructs them making king some Provision or other against their Delivery the Male doing his and the Female her Duty in all respects only Women must shift for themselves for after the Men have once got 'em with Child they have nothing to do but to drink and guttle and Whore or Roar or if they will be such Fools to compassionate the Sufferings of their Wives this must be look'd upon as the disturbance and inconvenience of Matrimony But these upholders of Paradoxes consider not that in the same Chamber where the Wife Lies in the Effect of the Husband's Manhood comes to light and would you have the Parents want a great Candle or two to see what God has sent ' em Man is Born naked all other Creatures come into the World with their Cloaths on and their Cloaths grow as they grow without the help of Taylors and Coat-sellers Do you think it is not greatly for the Reputation of the Man that his Wife has been with Child and that she is deliver'd at length of a lusty Boy Suppose it be a Girl that Girl may bring Boys in time for so the World goes round The Name of Da Da is now as pretty a pleasing Name as Mr. Bridegroom was before Why we have heard of many Fathers of Children that have been Fathers of Nations and the first Wife has had always equal respect with the first Husband Lacedemonians highly beloved by their Wives The very Heathems were in their Cities and Goverment strengthned by the prosperous effects of Marriage Plutarch thus relates the Story in the Life of Pyrrhus that when the City of Sparta was besieged by that Prince with design to assault it the next Morning the Lacedemonians resolved that Night to send away their Wives and Children into Creta but the Women themselves oppos'd the Decree and one among the rest called Archidamia went into the Senate House with a Sword in her hand in the Name of all the rest and told them That they did their Wives great wrong if they thought them so Faint-hearted as to live after Sparta was destroyed upon which the Council determined their Stay and the Wives and Daughters did that Night work at the Trenches sending the Young Men that were to Fight the next Morning to sleep and at break of day when the Enemy began the Assault the Women fetched the Weapons and put them in the Young Mens hands delivering them the Trench ready made and praying them valiantly to keep and defend it telling them how great a Glory it must be to overcome their Enemies Fighting in the sight of their Wives and Countrey and what Eternal Honour it was to dy in the Arms of their Mothers and Wives after that they had fought valiantly like honest Men for their Countrey and these Women did not only encourage the Men in words but during the Fight stood by assisting them and taking out of the Battel such as were wounded by which means they repulsed the Macedonians Here we have an unparallel'd Example of that Force which attends Conjugal Love See a Book called marriage promoted Love fully treated on Love has very ample Limits and though his walks be very spacious yet
Stand up like barren Hills to fruitful plains For though they 're only carv'd on some rough Tree Yet growing like my Verse my Love shall be Love has many tickling Conceits attending it which are so sweet and pleasant to the Fancies of those it possesses that many would willingly think or talk of no other subject and this stirs up in them a desire of Enjoying what they Love and that puts them upon Enquiry and asking many strange and frivolous Questions of Star-gazers Fortune-tellers Figure-slingers Gypsies and the like in which they throw away their Money and Time some require to see the Pictures of them in a glass who are destined to be their Husbands when married how many Husbands they shall have whether kind or unkind when they shall be married what Children they shall have and how fortunate they shall live and such Fooleries which the Party can no more tell them than they can tell him or could inform themselves before they came to consult him Some of the female Sex forsooth undertake to resolve Love-questions and be stiled wise Woman which brings an odd Fancy into our Heads It happened once upon a time that a Mother would needs carry her Daughter who was Ripe for Love-Enjoyment and Courted by a young Spark to be resolved whether it would be a lucky Match This womans Son about six years old seeing them dressed fine and going abroad was very inquisitive to know whither they were gadding she put him off at first with a Sugar-plumb or two but growing more earnest and crying to go with her Come Peace says she there 's my brave Boy we are only going to the wise Womans and will be here again presently and bring you home a fine thing Yet this satisfied him not but set him in a louder Bawling to this tune O Mother let me go with you O pray good dear Mother let me go with you I never saw a wise woman in all my born days and so she was compell'd by his Importunity to take him with her and satisfie his Curiosity with the sight of one she fancy'd to be so Love has been the occasion of finding out many curious Arts for what will not a Lover study to please his Mistress T is held the first Picture that ever was drawn was taken by Deburiade's Daughter for her Love about to go to the Wars Coming to take Leave of her she to Comfort her-self the better in his Absence drew his Picture on the wall with a Cole which her Father afterwards finished in lively Colours Vulcan is held to maKe the first Curious Necklace that ever was seen for Hermione the Wife of Cadmus of whom he was passionately Enamoured The Stockin Engine of a later date was the Projection of a young Lover who jesting with his fair Mistress happened to pull out her needles as she was knitting which so angered her that she banished him her presence and he was constrained to mourn in his Exile till Love quickned his Invention to bring his engine to perfection and with it made an Attonement and was restored to Favour Love is held to be the first Inventer of all our Tilts and Tournaments Orders of the Golden Fleece Garter c. By which Inventions Emblems Symbols Impresses and the like they laboured to shew and express their Loves to fair Ladies when they came to be Spectators of any private or publick Shews or Entertainments even the Rural sort when they once sip Loves Nectar are all apish and sprightly on a Suddain Menacles and Carydon Swinherds and Shepherds tasting this Love Liqour are inspired in an instant and instead of what has been mentioned they have their Wakes Eves Whitsun-Ales Shepherds Holy-days Round-delays Capering-Dances and then at more leisure times those that can write cut their Mistresses Names on the Rhine of some spreading Beech or Alder-tree with his own under it by some road side that she may be sure to see it as she passes along Those that are less learned cut a true Lovers Knot and set their Mark under it in the figure of a Pair of Pot-hooks The Chusing of Lords Ladies Kings Queens and Valentines they owe to Love that first invented such merry Meetings that he might more liberally and oppotunately bestow his Shafts as the old saying is With Tokens Gold divided and half Rings The Shepherds in their Loves are blest as Kings Nor do they want Poetry to Garnish it though a little home Spun which makes the Rural Girls like it the better because it is the Native Product of their Sweet-hearts brains not stole or borrowed and pretended to be their own a Trick many of our Town Sparks frequently use but run to this purpose Thou Honey-Suckle of the Hawthorn hedge Vouchsafe my heart in Cupids Cup to pledge My hearts dear blood sweet Ciss is thy Carouse Worth all the Ale in Gammer Bubbins house I 'se say more affairs call me away My fathers Horse of Privinder do's stay Be thou the Lady Cresset light to me Sir Trolly Lolly will I prove to thee Written in haste farewell my Vi'let sweet On Sunday pray let 's at an Ale-house meet Love's soveraignty extends every where and let some Stoicks pretend What they will yet in spight of all they can do they cannot resist him at one time or other he will be too hard for them and show them strange Vagaries make them melt into a passion notwithstanding flintiness We see that slints are melted and run down with Material fire and if so consequently the fire of Love being more pure and subtil can't miss to mollifie the Heart on which it fixes Some Emperors and Kings have built Cities that they might be called by their Mistresses Names and stand as lasting Monuments to their Memories Dionisius the Sicilian would bestow no Offices nor places consult of no Affairs of State without the Advice and Consent of Mirrha his Mistress Constellations Temples Statues and Altars have been Dedicated to Beauteous Women by their Admirers for Love indeed is Subject to no Dimension cannot be survey'd by any 〈◊〉 or Art so that the greatest pretender must be of Haedus's opinion if he has not had large experimental Knowledge viz. No Man can says he Discourse of Love-matters so as to Judge aright that has not in his own Person made Tryal or as Aeneas Sylvius says has not been shot through with Loves Arrows Moped Doated been Mad Love sick so that you may find Experience is the best Master when all 's done Ovid Confesses that Experience taught him to discover so many of the intriegues of Love as to instruct others in some things relating to it's misteries Love when all is said that can be alledged is best satisfied with the Fruition of that beautiful Object that occasioned it The last and surest Refuge and Remedy to be put in Practice in the utmost place when no other will take effect is to let the Young couple have their mutual Wishes
according to the Poet. Julius alone can quench my hot desires With neither Snow nor Ice but with like Fires When all his done says Avicenna there is no safer or speedier course than joining the Parties together according to their Desires and Wishes as the Custom and Form of Law allows and so we have seen those quickly restored to their former healths that languished till they begain to stumble at the brink of the Grave and wanted but another step to be in it After their desires were satisfied their Discontents ceased and we thought it strange our opinion is therefore that in such Cases Nature is to be obeyed Aretus gives us an instance of a young Man who was so relieved and restored when no other means could prevail but this Happiness is many times hindred by Parents Guardians want of Fortune Nobleness or Gentility The Germans hardly allow any Marriages but in their Degrees of Birth and Fortune then again many times the dislike of one frustrates the wishes and languishing desires of the other The Spaniards decline Widows and care not to Marry with them though Young Handsom and Rich and among the Turks if any live unmarried to twenty five years she is accounted an old Woman and not regarded as to matters of Love some young Women are Proud and Scornful as Callyrrhoe who being dearly beloved by Choresus the more his Love increased the more she had an aversion and hatred towards him she made him Pine and Lang-guish till of a beautiful Youth she reduced him to a Skeleton then on the other hand the fair 〈◊〉 Loved but he rejected her to fly into the embraces of Adulterous Arms which ruined him and all his race it is sometimes found that Lovers languish because they dare not speak or make their Case known the Heart sends up the 〈◊〉 but the Words are stopt and cannot get utterance It is said of Elizabeth Daughter to Edward the Fourth and afterward Wife to Henry the seventh when she first saw that Prince after his Victory at Basworthâ—old she passionately fell in Love with him and though there had been overtures of Marriage proposed before yet he could not forbear uttering this soliloquy O that I were worthy of the comely Prince but my Father being dead I want Friends to motion such a Matter what shall I say I am all alone and dare not open my Mind to any what if I acquaint my Mother with it O bashfulness forbids that Well then what if I should tell some of the Lords the Secrets of my Breast No Audacity is wanting O then that I might confer with him in Person perhaps I could let fall such Words as might discover mine Intention Love in such a Case fires the Breasts of many and yet fear and bashfulness keeps in the Flame that torments them How many modest Maids may this referr to says one I am but a poor Servant what shall I do I am says another Fatherless and want means I am says a third Buxom and Blithe Young and Lusty but alas I can't tell what the matter is I have never a Suitor though I stand in the Market upon Sale no Body cheapens me this is a mournful Song for Young Persons to sing or rather sigh out Love thus we see Dances in a Ring and Cupid hunts it round about one that Doats is perhaps Doated on at the same time and knows it not or at least where he Loves though he is not beloved again yet another whom he despises doats on him but when all is done the only Happy Love is to Love where one is or doubts not but to be beloved again It is the Folly of many Young Ladies to think the longer they stay the more Felicity they shall have in being Admired and Adored and that at last they may pick and chuse and make their Fortunes as they please when alas it is no such matter for time will steal upon them and dim those sparkles in their Eyes that gave such a Diamond Lustre and set such value upon their Beauties the Roses and Lillies in their Cheeks will fade beyond the repair of Art and the natural sprightllness heat and vigour will decay and then their Admirers like Swallow will fly to a brighter and warmer Sun and then good Madam to all your exalted Expectations your Mountain will then bring forth but a Mouse therefore be advised and let not Youth that can never be recalled again slip away for the Poet tells you true She that was er'st a Maid as fresh as May Now 's an old Crone Time swiftly posts away Then take time while you may make Advantage of Youth and Beauty and let not your Lovers pine away whilst you linger and delay their Happiness but kindly meet whilst you are in the flower of years fit for Love-matters Fair Maids go gather Roses in the Prime For as flow'r Fades so goes in your Time Half our Lives are frequently passed over in sleep or what is next to it in pursuing Trifles and yet we scarce perceiv'd how time spins away till we come within two steps of the Grave and then we are apt to start and begin to bethink our selves that we have in a manner dreamed away our Lives and let time slide through our hands without improving it in the Pleasures and Enjoyments of Life Danus of Lacedâ—â—â— being exceeding Rich and having many Beautiful Daughters would not let them lose their Time in Expectation of extraordinary Rich Matches and suitable Conditions but chose out as many handsome Young Men of Virtuous Lives and inviting them to his House distributed his Daughters among them in Marriage and gave them great Portions and was highly commended that he esteemed a virtuous Mand tho' Poor before a Rich Vicious one of which they might have had choice Rhodope a beauteous Aegyptian Lady was very curious in making choice of a Husband and at last a very strange accident procured her the Diadem for as she was bathing her self in a Fountain an Eagle stooped and catched up one of her Shoes and as Psammeticus was in an open place sitting on his Throne in Memphis he drop't it into his Lap the King admiring the Beauty and Comeliness of it caused it to be proclaimed that the Lady that the Shooe belong'd to should repair to Court and when he had beheld her Beauty he made her his Queen But we would not Ladies have you decline Marriage in hopes that such a thing may befall any of you for such a wonder may never happen again be kind therefore and Pity your Languishing Lovers Cure those wounds your fair Eyes have made in their Souls and the Affliction your neglects and slightings have thrown upon the Body Pity those that sigh for your Favours and think they have all Heaven in a gracious Smile do as you would willingly be done by if your Condition was the same since you were born to make men Happy decline not to Answer the one main end of Creation but let
Good that having such Examples before you you may avoid falling into the like Folly and Error and those are such as have no farther design than the Vanity of Conquest striving by all the little Arts they can study to out-do and overcome others in Wit Gaiety and Honour and if they do it not in the opinions of others they will be sure to do it in their own and thereupon grow not a little proud of their Parts Beaviour ought to be exempted from these if you would have it approved for these are the dangerous Experiments and being generally built upon a Sandy Foundation totter and all when they are blown on by the least puff of Sense and Reason Love indeed when generous is to be accounted a Passion but it is not safe for Ladies o play with it no more than with Fire but where it comes clad in Virtue and you resolve to entertain and cherish in a Matrimonial way some are so hardy to suffer themselves for their Diversion to be made Love to in jest when at last the sly Insinuate starts into a Passion on a sudden and in spite of all resistance changes into a troublesome Earnest not be put off or avoided by too late Repentance and for this Reason you must keep all appearances of it at a distance and not vainly fancy You can be too strong for it and beat it out again when in the disguise of a fawning Friendship it has been admitted and treacherously surprized unawares the Fort of your Breast in suffering this you act the part of an Enemy by conspiring against your self and opening an Inlet to your Ruin for the Spark who is at first only admitted as a Tfsropie of your Victory the humble Captive of your fair Eyes finding his drooping Spirits raised a little by the easie Doom you intend him will soon take Courage and Invade you in your strongest hold till he become the Victor and you the vanquish'd The first Resolutions of stopping at good Opinion and Esteem usually by degrees grow feebler and less unable to resist the Charms of Courtship when cunningly and pressingly apply'd For many Ladies whilst a Man is commending their Beauty Dress and Parts fancy by the aid of the Self-flatterer they carry about them that he speaks so much Reason and come so near their own Sense and Opinion that he ought to be listened to and they have much adoe to believe him in the wrong when he is making Love in down right Earnest contrary to his Engagement and Protestations when he was first admitted to the Freedom of Conversation his Musical note though as dangerous as the Sirenes is charming in their Ears and every soft Accent strikes the Strings of their Souls already tuned in Concord and at last they are whistled like Birds into the Net Conquest indeed is so tempting and desirable in some Women who are naturally Ambitious that they are apt to mistake Mens Submissions and not discern that their fair appearances are made up with a lesser Ingredient of Respect than of Art though indeed there is less danger in some Men who say extream fine things and are always buzzing and fluttering about Ladies Apartments than in those that lay their Design covert and close with little Noise but with more Intriegue for the first sort are many times so vain to be as well satisfied in the Pleasure they take to throw away their Complements on you as they would be with your kindnest and most obliging Answers but where this Ostentation fails which indeed is never used by the other sort you ought to look about you their smooth Surface has a depth to overwhelm you if playing too near the Brim the ground unexpectedly slips away and plunges you into it you must then be always watchful and upon your Guard for a profound Respect has more danger in it than Anger or Raillery by its jostling the most exalted understanding out of place for till Second thoughts come in to its Assistance and restore it it insensibly steals upon us and overturns our Defences and takes us Prisoners when we think we are most secure when Anger and Raillery gives us warning and passes over in Noise Love or the Passion of the mind enclining to it is very strange and unaccountable in many Respects it is of such Power in its Operation that it has often taken the Diadems from Kings and Queens and made them stoop to those of obscure Birth and destitute of Fortune working such wonders as is scarce credible to any but those who feel its Power it takes the Sword out of the Conquering hand and makes him a Captive to his Slave and has such Variety of Snares to in tangle the most wary and prudent that few have at one time or other escaped them it is an Author says like the Small-Pox that in Youth or riper years very few escape As for this Passion it sprouts into divers Branches of the Fruit of which all are desirous some indeed pretend to Arm themselves against the Charms of the fair Sex but whilst they are giving Advice to their wounded Friend are frequently wounded themselves Love so intangled Eurialus Count of Augusta that at the first sight falling in Love with a fair Virgin at Sienna named Lucretia she at the same Instant had the like Passion for him and they entirely united their modest Affections but before the Marriage was Consummated the Emperor Sigismund in whose Service he was hastily marched to Rome so that he was forced to leave the Lady behind him which struck such a Melancholly to her Heart and possessed her with an Impaâ—itience of his Absence that she died for Excess of Love of which unhappy Disaster he had no sooner Notice but all his Friends had much ado to perswade him from laying violent hands upon himself and though by their Tears and Intreaties he was compell'd to Live yet a Cloud of Melancholy always surrounded him so that he was never seen to be Merry or Laugh afterwards Love so enchanted the Daughter of Charlemain the Emperor that she fell passionately in Love with her Fathers Secretary and admitted him to give her private Visits in her Chamber though she knew by the Law it was Death if discovered when one Night it so unfortunately hapned that a great Snow Fell and Eginardus fearing that the Prints of his Footsteps from the Princess Stair-Caise-door might betray him she undertook for the preventing it to carry him on her back to his Apartment which Frolick the Emperor being up late espy'd by Moon-light and the next day in Council sent for his Daughter and demanded of his Nobles what should be done to the Man who made a Mule of their Emperor's Daughter to carry him through the Snow upon her Back at a very unseasonable time of Night To which they unanimously answered He deserved Death This made the two Lovers tremble and change Colour finding they were discovered but the Emperor being given to understand the
the Servant so far pity her that after she had fasted three days he told her of his Lords Safety after he had acquainted him with the Misery she was in it was agreed she should come to him and there consorted with him for the space of Nine years bringing forth Children in that Solitary place no Intreaty of her Husbands prevailing with her to forsake him At last they were discovered and brought before the Emperor where Eponina producing her Children said Behold O Caesar such as I have brought forth and bred up in a Monument that thou mightest have more Suppliants for our Lives but this great Act of Love and Constancy could not move cruel Vespatian for he caused them both to be put to Death she dying joyfully with her Husband Hota was the Wife of Rabi Benxamut a valiant Captain and of great Reputation amongst the Alarbes she had been bravely rescued out of the hands of the Portugals who were carrying her away Prisoner by the exceeding Courage and Vavour of Benxamut her Husband She shewed her thankfulness to him by the ready performance of all the Offices of Love and Duty Some time after Benxamut was slain in a Conflict and Hota perfomed her Husbands Funeral Obsequies with infinite Lamentation laid his Body in a stately â—omb and then for nine days together she would neither eat nor drink whereof she died and was buried as she had ordained in her last Will by the side of her beloved Husband He first deceas'd she for a few days try'd To live without him lik'd it not and dy'd King Edward the First while Prince warr'd in the Holy Land where he rescued the great City of Acon from being surrendred to the Souldan after which one Anzazim a desperate Saracen who had often been employ'd to him from the General being one time upon pretence of some secret Message admitted alone into his Chamber he with an empoyson'd Knife gave him three Wounds in the Body two in the Arm and one near the Arm-pit which were thought to be mortal and had perhaps been so if out of unspeakable Love the Lady Eleanor his Wife had not suck'd out the Poyson of his Wounds with her Mouth and thereby effected a Cure which otherwise had been incurable Thus it is no wonder that love should do wonders seeing it is it self a Wonder Love of Parents to their Chilren is a natural Affection which we bear towards them that proceed from us as being part of our selves and indeed almost all other Creatures have a strong Impression of this kind of Love to their young though in their proper Nature never so fierce and cruel to any thing besides according to the Poet Seeing her self Rob'd of her tender Brood Lies down lamenting in her Seythian Den And Licks the Prints where her lost Whelps had lain But this Affection with Reason has greater Power in the Souls of humane Parents thò indeed it's Impression is deeper in some than in others so that sometimes it extends even to a fault where it is placed on such Children whose stubborn Natures turn such tender Indulgence to evil purposes yet we see when it so happen as it do's too freequently the Parents fondness decreases not Love towards his Sons and Daughters had so settered the Affection of Charles the Great that he could seldom endure them out of his fight and when he went any long Journey he took them with him and being one time demanded why he married not his Daughters and suffered his Sons to travel with a Sigh replyed He was not able to bear their Absence Selucius King of Syria being told that his Son Antiochus Sickness proceeded from that extraordinary Passion he bare to his beautiful Queen Stratonice though the Father loved her entirely yet fearing his witholding her might occasion the loss of his Son he freely resigned her to him Aegtius by a mistake thinking Theseus his Son to be dead threw himself from the Rock where he stood to watch his return and there perished Love in Women on this account has always exceeded that of the Men who to save their Children have rushed through Flames and on the points of Swords regardless of their Lives as the Poet expresses it 〈◊〉 Lyoness when with Milk her Dugs do ake Seeking her lost Whelps hid within some Brake Noâ— the sharp Viper doth more Anger threaten Whom some unwary Heel hath crush'd and beaten Than woman when she sees her off springs wrong She breaks the Bars of the opposing throng Through Swords through Flame she rushes there 's no Ill So grievous but she Acts it with her Will Love to her Infant so inspired the Daughter of Sponderebeus that Mahomet the second having caused his Vizier-Bassa to murther it as being one of the Sons of his Father she never left crying in the Sultans Ears till he had delivered the Bassa bound to her and then she cut him up alive and cast his Heart and Liver to the Dogs Love of Children to their Parents is required by the Law of God and Naure and it is their indispensable Duty to Love honour and obey yet Love it self contains all these for what we love we will consequently labour to please to the utmost since it is to the great Credit and Advantage of Children entailing a Blessing on them here and giving them in a great measure an Assurance of an eternal Blessedness hereafter For wherever we find Piety and Reverence that is due to Parents there is a kind of Earnest given of a prosperous and worthy Person for the Child having this way entituled himself to the Promise of God whatsoever happens to others he shall find Happiness and Comfort in it It is certainly a very great and grievous Sin to be unmindful of those who next to God are the Authors of our Being and have taken care of us when we were not able to help our selves Love in this Case appeared extraordinary in Antipas and Amphinomus who when Mount Aetna sent out Rivers of flaming Sulphur and by the Eruption the Earth trembled under them every one minding to hurry away their Goods and flying in confusion these pious Brothers mindful of their aged Parents more than all earthly Riches took them on their Backs and carried them through Torrents of Fire to places of Safety leaving their Goods to be destroyed saying What more precious Treasure can we secure than those who begot us and this Acts of Piety by divers Antiquities is said to be attended with a Miracle for the burning stream separated and made way for their safe Passage whilst other places were scorched up Love and Duty appeared excellent in the Daughther of a noble Roman Lady who being condemned by the Praetor her Execution was delayed by the Jaylor to starve her in Prison that the People who were offended with the Sentence might not see her publick Execution her Daughter all this while had leave to Visit her but was narrowly searched that she should bring no
Food with her into the Prison however her Mother subsisting beyond what could be suspected the Jaylor watched the Daughter and at last found she had supported her with the Milk from her Breasts which known the Consul pardoned the Mother and highly praised the Daughter and in Memory of this An Altar was raised to Piety in the place where the Prison stood Sir Thomas Moor being Lord Chancellor of England at the same time that his Father was a Judge of the Keng's Bench he would always at his going to Westminster go first to the King's Bench and ask his Fathers Blessing before he went to sit in the Chancery There happened in Sicily as it hath often an Eruption of Aetna now called Mount Gibel it murmurs burns belches up Flames and throws out its fiery Entrails making all the World to fly from it It happened then that in this Violent and horrible breach of Flames every one flying and carrying away what they had most precious with them two Sons the one called Anagias the other Amphinomius careless of the Wealth and Goods of their Houses reflected on their Father and Mother both very old who could not save themselves from the fire by flight And where shall we said they find a more precious Treasure then those who begat us The one took up his Father on his Shoulders the other his Mother and so made passage through the Flames It is an admirable thing that God in consideration of this Piety though Pagans did a Miracle for the Monuments of all Antiquity witness that the devouring Flames staid at this Spectacle and the Fire wasting and broiling all about them the way only thro' which these two good Sons passed was tapistried with fresh Vendure and called afterwards by Posterity the Field of the Pious in Memory of this Accident Love in former times when Sacrifices attended the Hymenial Rites as part of the Ceremony that it might not be imbittered the Gall of the Beast was not us'd but cast on the ground to signifie that between the young Couple there should be nothing of that Nature to disturb their Felicity but that instead of discontent Sweetness and Love should fill up the whole space of their Lives and indeed it is the best Harmony in the World where a Man and Woman have the pleasant Muâ—â—â—â— of Contentment and Peace to refresh them in their dwellings whilst they make their study to encrease their Happiness This is as comely a sight as Apples of Gold set in Pictures of Silver or Brethren living together in Unity Love was so powerful with Plautius Nuâ—â—â— that hearing his Wife was dead he killed himself Darius after he had grievously lamented the loss of his Wife Statira as thinking she had perished in the General 〈◊〉 Alexander had given his Army was so over-joyed when he heard she was safe and honourably used by the Conqueror that he prayed that Alexander might be fortunate in all things although he was his Enemy Two large Snakes Male and Female being found in the House of Titus Gracchus the Augurs or Soothsayers told him That if the Male was let go his Wife should die first but if the Female himself should die first Then pray said he let the Female Snake go that Cornelia may live by my Death and so the Historians say it happened for he died in a few years after and leaving her a Widow she refused the King of Egypt in Marriage the better to preserve the Memory of her deceased Husband Ferdinand King of Spain married Elizabeth the Sister of Ferdinand Son of John King of Arragon Great were the Virtues of this admirable Princess whereby she gained so much upon the heart of her Husband a valiant and fortunate Prince that he admitted her to an equal share in the Government of the Kingdom with himself wherein they lived with such mutual agreement as the like hath not been known amongst any of the Kings and Queens of that Countrey There was nothing done in the Affairs of State but what was debated ordained and subscribed by both the Kingdom of Spain was a Name common to them both Ambassadors were sent abroad in both their Names Armies and Soldiers were levied and formed in both their Names and so was the whole Wars and also Civil Affairs that King Ferdinand did not Challange to himself an Authority in any thing or in any respect greater than that whereunto he had admitted this his beloved Wise. Love so bound the Soul of a Neopolitan to his fair and vertuous Wife that she being surprized by some Moorish Pirates who privately landed in a Creek and then put off again with their Prize that whilst they yet Cruiz'd near the Shoar he threw himself into the Sea and swam to their Ship and calling to the Captain told him He was come a voluntary Prisoner because he must needs follow his Wife not scaring the Barbarism of the Enemies of the Christian Faith nor Bondage for the Love of her who was so near and dear to him The Moors were full of admiration at so great a proof of Affection yet carry'd him to Tunis where the Story of his conjugal Affections being rumour'd abroad it came to the Ear of the King of that Countrey who wondring at so strange a thing and moved with Compassion to such a Lover ordered them their Liberty and placed the Man as a Soldier in his Life-guard Love in this a Passiâ—n is so strange It hides all fauits and ne'r is gi'n to change it uneclips'd in it's full Blaze shines bright Pure in it self it wants no borrowed Light Nor sets till Death draws the dark Scene of Night Liberty is so sweet and pleasant that all Creatures naturally cover it and though irrational are uneasie under restraint or Confinenmet The Romans of old had so high an Esteem of it that they priz'd it before all things in the World and thought it worthy of Veneration making it one of their Goddesses erected and dedicated Temples in Honour of it and esteemed Life in Golden Chains of Bondage not worth regarding and their greatest Offenders were punished with Interdiction Religation Deportation and such like accounting it worse than any other Severity as knowing without it the mind becomes a tormentor not only to it self but to the Body by wasting and consuming it with Grief and Anguish and that a Man will refuse no kind of Hardship nor Danger to secure his Liberty but Sacrifice their chiefest Ornaments and even Life it self as precious as it is to the uttermost hazard to preserve it Many Cities rather than fall into the hands of their Enemies and become Captives have been turned by their Citizens into an Acheldama of Blood and spread Ghastly Scenes of Death to amaze and slartle their most cruel Enemies When Hannibal had besieged the City of Saguntum nine Months and Famine warring within their Walls so that they found themselves in a great straight and without hopes of Succour but that they must fall into
the Belly of a little Shell fish Margery from the Herb called Marjoram Mary in the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Miriam Exod. 15.33 Mat. 1.18 some make it the Sea of bitterness of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mar bitterness and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jam the Sea Maud i. Noble or Honourable Lady of the Maids Maudlin see Magdalin Medea i. Counsel Mehetabel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gen. 36. ver 39. as if it were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mehtcb-el i. how good is God Melicent i. sweet Honey Fr. Meraud perhaps by Contraction from the precious E meraud stone Milchah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gen. 11.29 as it were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Malchah i. a Queen Modesta i. Modest or Temperate Mickerel a Pandor or Procurer Mabel Mabilia q. amabilis l. lovely or Mabelie f. My fair one a Womans name Macarons Fr. little Frirer-like Buns or thick Lozenges compounded of Sugar Almonds Rose-water and Musk pounded togâ—her and baked wich a gentle fire Also the Italian Macaroni lumps or gobbers of boiled paste served up in butter and strewed over with Spice and grated cheese a common dish in Italy Maturnia a Roman Goddess who over-awed young Brides and kept them from gadding abroad or giving their Bridegrooms the slip on the Wedding-night Marcella an illustrious Lady Daughter of Albion she was brought up under St. Jerome and faithfully instructed by him in the Fundamentals of the Christian Religion and being a Wife only of seven Months she afterward led a Contemplative Life in Widdowhood and never would be perswaded to Marry Marcelina a beautiful but lewd Lady she in the time of Pope Avecetus embraced the Doctrine of the Gnostick Heresie and drew many of the Orthodox to follow it that they might keep in favour with her Marcelin Sister to St. Ambrose she took the Veil of Virginity from Pope Liberius and lived a vertuous Life in a Monastery Margaret Valois Dutchess of Alanson c. She was first Married to the Duke of Alancon and afterward to Albert K. of Navarry and of her descended Henry the IVth of France Margaret Countess of Holland this Lady upbraiding a poor Woman that came to ask an Alms because she had two Twins in her Arms saying such a thing could not be unless she had lain with two several Men the Woman upon this prayed the Counsels might have as many Children as there were days in the Year at one Birth to convince her of her Error which accordingly sell out in 1276. there remaining to this day an Epitaph in the Abby of the Bernardines half a League from the Hague where she and her Children lye buried that expressly mentions it Margaret Dutchess of Parma Florence and Plaisance Governess of the Low-Countries she was a Lady of admirable Wit and Beauty she was Married first to Octavius Farnese Pope Paul the Thirds Nephew and afterward to Alexander Fernose Duke of Florence she had a Masculine Courage and delighted more in manly Actions than in those more proper to her Sex and managed the Government in her Charge with great Prudence Macareus the Son of Aeâ—clus who got his Sister Conace with Child whereupon her Father feâ—t her a Sword with which she killed her self Marcaria Daughter to Hercules who for the Safety of her Countrey devoted her self to Death by being Sacrificed to appease the anger of the Gods for the Preservation of whose Memory the Athenians in generous Gratitude because she had freely offered her Life to prevent their falling into the hands of their Enemies built her a stately Monument which they adorned with Garlands of Flowers to shew she died a Virgin Ma one that was intrusted by Jupiter with the Education of Bacchus Rea the Goddess was likewise called Ma and went under that Name among the Lydians who usually sacrificed to her a Bull at the Altar erected to the Honour of her Magdalen Sister to Lazâ—â—us and Martha to her to whom our Blessed Saviour shewed himself after his Resurrection before he appeared to the Disciples Magdalen Daughter to Francis the first of France and Married to James the fifth of Scotland she was a Lady of admirable Virtue and Beauty but she enjoyed not long her Marriage dying seven Months after she Landed in Scotland Mahaud Countess of Damartin and Balonia she was Married to Philip of France Son to Philip the August and in his Life-time to Alphonsus King of Portugal the Third of that name Mamea Julia Mother to Alexander Severus the Emperor she governed the Empire whilst her Son was Emperor having an entire Ascendant over him she held a Conference with Origen and did divers good Offices to the Christians but her Cruelty and Covetousness at last caused the Death of her self and her Son by an Insurrection of the Souldiery Mandane Daughter to Astiages she dreamed her own water overflowed the Face of the Earth and out of her Bosom came a Vine that overspread it after that she was Married to Cambyses the Persian King and brought forth the great Cyrus who won the Babyloian Kingdom and many other Countries Mariamne the Virtuous and beautiful Queen of Herod the great King of Juda she was of the Royal Blood of the Asmonaean Family and though in her Right he gained the Crown yet at the Instigation of his Sister and other Conspirators against her Life he caused her to be publickly beheaded after which he never enjoyed himself Morosia a beautiful Lady of Phoenitia Martia Wife to Cato Vticensis he after she had born him Children gave her to Hortensius that he might have an Heir to his Family by her but he dying she returned again to Cato and was a second time married to him about the time the Civil War broke out between Pompey and Caesar. Morosia a Roman Lady very beautiful which gained her such an Ascendant over the chief of the Roman Clergy that she made and unmade Popes at her Pleasure Martha Sister to Lazarus and Mary Magdalen said among other Christians to be put into a Boat and turned out to Sea but by Providence the Boat arrived at Marseilles in France where she lived and died a Saint Martina Wife to Heraclius the emperor she poisoned her Husbands Sons by a former Wife to make way for Heracleo who was her Son by Heraclius to the Throne but er'e two years were expired the Senate adjudged her to have her Tongue cut out and her Sons Nose to be cut off least the one by Eloquence and the other by Beauty should move the People to compassionate them and afterwards being banished to Cappadocia they died in Exile Mary the Blessed Virgin Mother of our Saviour according to the flesh Mary of Aragon Wife of Otho the third Emperor being a Woman of insatiable Lust and causing many Mischiefs in the Empire she at last was Sentenced and burnt alive Mary Q. of France Daughter to Francis d' Medicis great Duke of Tuscany Married to Henry the Fourth of France after the Divorce between him and
Margaret d' Valois Sister to his Predecessor Mary d' Guise Daughter to Claude the first Duke of Lorrain she was Married to Lewis Duke of Longueville and afterward to James the first King of Scotland Mary Queen of England Daughter to Henry the Eighth Marred to Philip of Spain she was a great Persecutor of the Protestants and caused many of them to perish in the Flames by Tortures Imprisonment c. She died Childless of a burning Fever or as it was then called the Sweating Sickness November 17th 1558. and was succeeded by Elizabeth Second Daughter to Henry the 8th who abolished Popery and restored Protestantism Mary Queen of Scots Daughter to James the fifth promised in Marriage to Edward the Sixth of England but the Scotch Nobility after the Death of Henry the Eighth breaking their word and sending her privately to France she was Married to the Dauphin who soon after dying and she returning to Scotland she Married Henry Stuart Lord Darnley and Duke of Rothsay by whom she had King James the Sixth but he being murthered viz. blown up by a Train of Powder laid under his House great troubles arose which forced her to fly for England where she was unhappily put to Death being beheaded at Fotheringay Castle upon suggested Fears and Jealousies Mathide Daughter to Bonijacius Marquess of Tuscany she succeeding her Father incited thereto by the Pope warred upon Henry the Fourth Emperor and so devoted she was to the Roman See that she bestowed all her Hereditary Lands upon it she was a Woman of great Courage and died at the Age of 76. Anno. 1115. Maud she was Daughter to Henry the First of England who Married her to Henry the Fourth Emperor of Germany but he dying and leaving no Issue by her she returned again to England and afterward Married Geoffery Plantagenet Earl of Anjou by whom she had a Son who after long Wars and contending for the Crown of England succeeded King Stephen by the Stile of Henry the Second Mavia Queen of the Saracens she Conquered or spoiled Palestius and Arabia in the time of the Emperor Valens but being converted to the Christian Religion she made a Peace with him and Assisted him with a powerful Army against the Goths that had broken into Italy and other parts of the Empire Maximilia she was Disciple to Montanus the Herenick and kept him Company in an obscene manner she at lenght joyn'd to her Priâ—cilla who made it their business to seduce and draw others into the Error using their Beauties as a Snare for the men and by their Riches and soft deluding Tongues they inticed the weaker Sex but at last she and Montanus falling out killed each other Meditriva a Pagan Goddess whom the Ancients concluded to take care of Physick and it's Operation in the Bodies of Men and Women and at her Festivals they mixed Old and new Wine which they drank moderately by way of Cordial or Physick Medusa one of the Gorgons with whom Neptune fell in Love till Minerva turned her hair into Snakes and her Head being cut off by Perseus Minerva placed it in her shield and whatever living Creature looked on it was turned into a Stone Magera one of the Furies Daughter of the Night and Acheron she instilled Madness into the minds of People Melania Wife to Pinienus Son to Severus a noble Man of Rome the Destruction of that City being revealed to her two years before Alaric laid it waste she remov'd with her Family to Carthage and was there Instructed by St. Augustin then lived a Monastick Life after she had perswaded many to turn Christians Melenia a Roman Lady Daughter to Mercelinus she burying her Husband when she was very young in sorrow forsook all worldly Pleasures and went a Pilgrimage to Jerusalem carrying one of her Children with her she confronted the Arrians and undeceived many of their Errors when building a Monastery at Jerusalem she dwelt Twenty five years in it and died in that City Melissa she was Daughter to Melissus King of Creet said to Nurse Jupiter and bring him up with Goats Milk Melpomene one of the Nine Muses Mellona a Goddess who had the care over Bees that they should not fly away in their swarming time Merrades Bacchinalians or Women that attended on Baschuses's Drunken-Feasts or Revels who did much mischief in their Wine Mene a Goddess worshipped by the Roman Women for the better ordering their Bodies in their monthly Purgations Meplictis the Goddess of Pools and muddy Lakes Merope one of the Seven Pleiades Daughter to Atlas and Pleione said to be married to Sysiphus Messalina Wife to the Emperor Claudius who not content to keep Gallants in the Court to satisfie her Lust if such a thing could be done but in her Husbands Absence she publickly married C. Silius a handsome Roman Knight for which the Emperor caused her to be beheaded Metra she was Daughter to Ercysichthon a Lord of Thessaly who to save her Fathers Life who was ready to Famish prostituted her self for Food to sustain his Life Minerva styled the Goddess of Arts and Wisdom said to be conceived of the Brain of Jove delivered thence by Vulcan who cleaving his Skull this Goddess sprung out in bright Armour she is often taken for Pallas who in some Cases is styled Minerva Miroselde a poor Weavers Daughter of whom King Charibert was so Enamoured that upon her refusing to comply to be his Concubine he married her and after her Death he married her Sister for which he was Excommunicated by St. Germain Mirrah Daughter to Cyniâ—as King of the Cipriots she fell so desperately in Love with her Father that making him drink Wine she lay with him but the matter being discovered by her being with Child she fled into Arabia and brought forth Adodonis but she dying of that Travel Venus turned her into a Mirrh-Tree and put Adonis to Nurse ro Nimph Herclea when being grown up and proving very Comely Venus fell in Love with him and often enjoyed him in the Idalian Groves but at last contrary to her perswasions undertaking to hunt a wild Boar he was slain by the furious Beast and greatly lamented of the Goddess who turned him into an Enemy Molza Tarquinia a Lady of Modena very Learned and Skilful in the Languages she much haunted the tops of Parnassus and bathed often in the River Helicon to them the invention of Songs and Sciences are attributed they are called viz. Clio Vrania Calliope Vterpt Erato Thalia Melpomene Terphiscare and Polylymnia they are held by some to be the Daughters of Coelum and the Earth Mirriam or Mary Sister to Moses she was smitten with Leprosie because she and Aaron murmured against him and shut him out of the Camp but being a Prophetess all the People stayed till her days of cleansing were fulfilled and she again received into the Congregation Aarons Punishment was remitted upon Moses praying for him Malhatun the fair Wife of Othoman the first Founder of the Turkish
no need of Precepts It is natural language of the heart and we may let her alone to express her self If she be sincere she will suggest nothing but what shall please and perswade too for that is an infallible effect of verity And indeed whatever is studied and elaborate does rather lessen and question our affection than evince it So that those Persons are infinitely mistaken who make all their Complements with lostly and hyperbolical Exaggerations contrary to their own thoughts and as destructive to their designs as they do who make Caesar and Alexander and Scipio truckle to the first Person they intend to commend for his Bravery Who prefer the Beauty of a Lady before the lustre either of the Stars or the Sun and put the poor Snow and Lillies out of Countenance by a Romantick repetion of the whiteness of her Hand If it be a Lady of Quality you cannot address your self to salute her with respect unless she vouchsafes to advance and tender her Cheek and in that Case too you are only to pretend to salute her by putting your Head to her Hoods If there be other Ladies in the Room and they of equal condition and independant upon the Lady you saluted you may salute them too But if they be inferiour and depending in any wise you are oblig'd to forbear Wâ—â—â— we are to observe at the Table If a Person of quality detains you at Dinner 't is not civil to wash with him but by his express Command Whilst Grace is saying 't is decent to stand up when it is said you are to attend till you be plac'd When you are at the Table you must sit upright and not loll upon your Elbows You must not by any awkward gesture show any signs that you are hungry nor fix your Eyes upon the meat as if you would devour all Whoever Carves you must be cautious of offering your Plate first you must rather stay till it comes to your turn and excuse your self if you observe any body pass'd by of more quality than your self If you be press'd to receive it you are to tender it to those persons your self only you are not to press it upon the person that offers it to you if it be either the Master or Mistress especialy No man is to be press'd to drink for excess of Wine does no body good others are disorder'd with a little others are oblig'd to sobriety by their Characters and Functions as the Clergy Magistrates c. and to see either of those over-taken would be a very ill spectacle It is not civil to call for any thing you like especially if it be a dainty nor is it better when you are offered your choice of things that are good to lay hands upon the best you must rather answer whic◠〈◊〉 please 'T is not manners as soon as you are set at the Table bawl out I eat none of this I 〈◊〉 none of that I care for no Rabiâ— I love nothing that tasts of Pepper Nutmeg Onyons c How hungry soever you be it is indecent to eat hastily or ravenously as if you would choak your self if you happen to burn your Mouth you must endure it if possible If not you must convey what you have in your Mouth privately upon your Plate and give it away to the Footman For though Civility obliges you to be neat there is no necessity you should burn out your Guts If your Fingers Knife or Fork be greasy you must never wipe them upon the Cloth or Bread but always upon your Napkin And to keep your Fingers clean it is the best way to eat with a Fork To blow your Nose publickly at the Table without holding your Hat or Napkin before your Face to wipe off the Sweat from your Face with your Handkerchief to claw your Head c. to belch hawk and tear any thing up from the bottom of your Stomach are things so intolerably sordid they are suffilcient to make a Man vomit to behold them you must forbear theem therefore as much as you can or at least conceal them You must never drink any persons health to himself unless it be begun by a third person and in that Case if it be to the Wife or other Relation of a person of quality you must do it by her Titles not thus My Lord a good health to your Lady your Brother c. But My Lord a good health to my Lord Mareschal to Monsieur le Marquis c. If a Person of Quality drinks a health to you especially if it be your own you must be uncover'd and bend a little forwards with your Body over the Table till he has done but you must not call to pledge him unless he requires it himself But this pulling off the Hat is not to be used but to Persons of extraordinary Quality If a Prince or Princess does you the Honour to dine with you you must not sit down with him at the Table but wait behind his Chair and be ready your self to give him drink or Plates as he has occasion What we are to observe at a Ball. If you be at a Ball you must know exactly if not how to dance at least the rules observ'd in dancing especially in the place where you are for in all places the rules are not the same and by no means be defective in any of them If you be taken out and can dance you cannot refuse it without being thought singular and mâ—rose If at length to show their authority or give themselves diversion they will force you to dance you must not refuse them for it is better to expose your self to a little involuntary confusion to render your self Complaisant than to be suspected of declining them in contempt Having done your dance you must carry that Lady back to her place and take out another observing when you are taken out again to challenge the Lady that you took out first if it be the Custom of the place If the King or Queen dances all the Company is to stand and be uncover'd unless those whose function exempts them The Civility to be observ'd by a Superiour to an Inferiour Order would have conducted us to say something in this place of Civility due from a Superior to an Inferiour but because it would be to prescribe Laws to those who should give them we shall wave it Yet I shall presume to advertise That if they be not so wise as to consider that the poorest and most Inferiour Creatures are Men as well as they And as having this priviledge above them that to sanctifie Poverty Christ made choice of that condition before theirs yet for their own proper interest they are obliged to be good in Example to their Servants and civil to others who are not of their dependance And indeed what a monstrous thing it is to see a Nobleman without Civility Every body shuns him every body despises him so that he had as good be out of the World
it Men say and say again to the Women how much they are smitten at the sight of their Necks and Shapes The Women know the pernicious Effects which the beauty of their Shapes and Necks produce in the minds of men when by their naked Breasts they do not only expose themselves to the loss of their Reputation but they do greatly run the hazard of losing their Innocence too Their Chastity is even struck and wounded by every glance of a loose and wanton Eye and their modesty is shockt by the vain Approbations which are given them the Idea of their Breasts does not less enter into their imagination than into that of the men who consider it attentively and commend it and as they most commonly do joyn the Idea of all the Body to that of their Breasts being persuaded that they shew the beauty of the one to make that of the other be better judged of There is no Age nor Quality which exempâ—s a Man from being tempted by the sight of a naked neck or breast and the Inclination that Nature inspires into us for our Neighbours proves oftentimes a disposition to the dishonest Love which the Devil suggests to us After this what can there be alledged for the Justification of those Maids and Women who affect going with naked Necks Will they say that they ought to be suffered to uncover their Necks c. since 't is lawful that they should go with their Faces bare It may be answered them it is only through condescension that the Church allows them to go without a Veil over their heads and that this relaxing of the modesty of the First Christians cannot serve for a reason to give them greater liberty and to conform themselves wholly to the Vanities of the Age. In my Opinion nothing discovers lightness so much as to make strange Eyes familiar with the knowledge of your Breast No serious Judgment can conceipt less than lightly of such exposed beauty which that Epigrammatist glanced at happily when seeing one of these amorous Girles who had no meaning to lead Apes in hell but would rather impawn her honour than enter any Vestall Order attyred in a light wanton Habit and breast displayed and this in Lent time when graver attire and a more confined bosome might have better becom'd her he wrote these Lines Nunc emere hand fas est est Quadragesima carnes Quin mulier mammas contegu ergo tuas With breasts laid out why should I Shambles tempt It's held unlawful to buy flesh in Lent Dainty Nipples said that excellent Moralist to a wanton Gallants why doe ye so labour to tempt and take deluded eyes must not poor wormelins one day tugg you Must those enazured Orbes for ever retaine their beauty Must Nature in such ample measure shew her bounty and you recompence her love with lying snaires to purchase fancy These instances I the rather insist on because there is nothing that impeacheth civil same more than these outward phantastick fooleries Where the eye gives way to opinion and a conceipt is conveyed to the Heart by the outward sense For as by the Countenance piety is impaired so by the Eyes is chastity impeached Where this is and hath been ever held for an undoubted Maxim Immodest eyes are Messengers of an unguarded heart The principal means then to preserve reputation is to avoyd all occasion of suspicion And forasmuch as we may suffer in our same through trifles as well as motives of higher importance we are to be cautious in the least lest we be censured in these though we send not in the greatest Nuns their Institutions Nuns The end of Constituting them was a design of continued Chastity under certain Vows that once being entered into were not to be Violated but to continue Virgins that so the Cares and Troubles of the World which too frequently happen in a Married Life might not hinder them from Dressing and Adorning their Souls with Robes of Righteousness to be fit Spouses for the Glorious Bridegroom at his coming into the Marriage-Chamber of Eternal Rest but tho it was intended to a good end in like manner other Pious Institutions was corrupted in time Pope Pius the first among the Christians allowed Nunneries Decreeing that none till they were of Understanding should be admitted and that then it should be done Voluntarily not by wheedling or compulsion and they to be twelve years old at least and their Consecration to be on Epiphany Easter-Eve or the Feast of the Apostles except when any that had made that Vow of Chastity fell sick without hope of Recovery and that none should meddle with a Cup or put Incence into the Cenior was the Decree of Secherus in the year 175. St. Paul Intimates it to be a good Institution when he says Let no Widdow be chosen before she be threescore years of Age and Jepthas Daughter is not allowed by the best Writers to be Sacrificed for that would have been an Abomination to the Lord as strictly forbid by the Mosaick Law but that she was made a recluce and kept a single Life which occasioned the Daughters of Israel to go up to visit and comfort her in her solitary state Nunnery a Colledg of Nuns that were Christians were usually Consecrated by the Bishop or Priest who covered them with a Veil the Abot or Abtress upon pain of Excommunication not being to meddle in it the Virgin to be Consecrated was presented to the Bishop in her Nuns Attire standing at the Altar with Tapors burning and Musick when at the puting on the Veil these words were expressed viz. Bohold Daughter and forget thy Fathers House that the King may take pleasure in thy Beauty to which all the People present saying Amen the Veil was cast over her and the Religious Women that were to Enjoy her Society Kissed and Embraced her after which the Bishop blessed her and Praying for her she departed to her place there to be Instructed by her Seniors in good Works and for this purpose many Nunnerys were erecteâ— in all parts of Christendom and at first there was something extraordinary of Devotion in it but at length it has degenerated and corrupted as many things whose Original Institutions were very commendable have done for no Cloyster or Stone-wall can keep out 〈◊〉 thoughts where the mind is impure for Love and Lust will find a way to be satisfied even in these retirements of which many give large instances but we not so much as dreaming that the Ladies of our Nation will be over hasty to part with their sweet Liberty for such unprofitable Confinements it matters not whether we enlarge upon this Subject or briefly touch upon it for the sake of variety Nose Remâ—dies for such Vices as are Incident to it Noses are the ornaments of Faces beauty is a nice and cleanly Dame who loves to have the Nose tho but the sink of the brain to convey from it what is noxious kept neat and handsome as well as
Darius Ocohus she was of a cruel nature causing Satira her son Attaxerxus Wife to be poysoned because she out-vied her in Reavâ—y She put divers others to death in her Son's Reign who conselled him to suppress her Tyranny Pasiphe Daughter to Apollo or the Sun She was Wife to Minos the King 〈◊〉 Creet yet falling passionately in love with a Young Buli 〈◊〉 framed a Cow of Wood covered with the Skin of an Heifer She found means to enjoy her bestial desire She was brought to bed of the Minotaur half Man and half Beast which did great mischief in the Country till Theseus came and destroyed it in the Labyrinth Patalena an Hâ—athenish Goddess taken notice of by St. Augustine in his book de Civitate Dei and her Care was assigned her over Corn just coming out of the Earth in its Sprout or Blade the word being derived from Patera to open or disclose the Earth at its first coming up Pavence was stiled a Goddess in ancient Times much adored by Mothers and Nurses to whose Care and Protection they recommended their Infant Children others say they made a Bugbear of her Name to fright them into quietness when they were froward Paula a Pious Matron remark for her good works and Alms-deeds She made it her business to do good and died in the high Esteem of all good Christians at the age of Fifty six Years and Eight Months Paulina Wife to Seneca the famous Philosopher Nero's Tutor when she heard that the doom'd him to Death and that he had chosen to bleed to Death by cutting his Veins resolved to accompany him in Death in the same manner and ordered her Veins to be opened at the same time her husband 's were that she might at company him to the other world but Nero through a Tyrant delighting in blood out of pity commanded it to be prevented Penelope Wife of Vlysses and Daughter to Icarius was Mother to Telamachus She was wife and beautiful and though in her Husband's absence Twenty Years at the wars of Troy and his dangerous Voyage home many Rich and Powerful Sweethearts courted her she put them by till her husband came home who with the help of his Swinherd and Son slew them Penthesilia Queen of the Amazons who came for the love she bore to Hector Son of Priam with a gallant Army of women to fight for the Trojans agaiust the Greeks and did wonders till she was stain in pressing too far into the fight by the hand of Aechilles Peta a Goddess adored by the Ancients for that they believed she took care of Suits Petitions and Requests made in Law Coures and to Kings or other greatmen Phaetusa accounted one of Heliades aod Sister to Phaeton and as seigned to be turned into a Poplar Tree during the Extraordinary Lamentation she made for the Death of her brother thrown headlong from the Battlements of the Skies by Jupiter's Thunder for burning a great part of the word by misguiding the Chariot of the Sun Phedima Dotanes a Lord of Persia's Daughter she marry'd smerdis the Son of Cyrus King of Persia and after his Death she was Wife to the Magician who usurped the Persian Monarchy by declaring himself to be the same Smerdis that was supposed to be put to Death by Cambyses his brother upon the account of a Dream he had wherein he fancy'd he sat on the Persian Throne and his Head reached the Sky But this Lady being charged by he Father to make a discovery of the Impostor did so by taking an opportunity when he was asleep to feel for his Ears but finding none she then concluded it was the Magician Spandabalus whose Ears Cyrus had cut off for his Crimes of which having given Information the Lords of Persia assembled and forcing his Guards kill'd him together with his brother and chose Darius King Pherenice she was Daughter to Diagoras King of the Rhodians she took great delight in the Olimpick Games and coming thither disguised in man 's apparel often bore away the price in running with the nimblest Youths of Greece and brought up her Son to be so expert in it that he was always Victor Philippa Catenisa of a Laundress came to be Governess of the King of Naples Children She it was who incited Queen Jane of Naples to consent to the death of her Husband Andrew of Hungary by somenâ—â—ing the differences between them and had an hand first strangling him and then hanging him out at a Window in the City of Aversa for which she afterward suffered a cruel death by torments Phyllis she was Daughter to Lycurgus King of the Thracians she fell in love with Demophoon the Son of Theseus in his return from the Trojan Wars and granted him her choicest Favours upon promise when he had setled affairs in his own Country to return and marry her but being detained too long by contrary Winds in his way she thinking he had flighted and forsaken her after much lamenting her folly and misfortune committed greater in hanging her self It is fabled that the Gods in compassion turned her into an Almond Tree but without leaves yet Demophoon no sooner embrac'd it but it shot out leaves and flourished exceedingly Periades held to be the Daughters or Pierus Prince of the Macedonians she being given much to Poetry thought her self more expert in Numbers and singing than the the Muses thereupon sent them a bold Challenge for a Trial of the Skill which they accepting and remaning Victors they are said to turn this Lady into a Magpy and sent her to chatter in the Woods and Hedges c. Plety worthily held by the Pagans for a great Virtue and Good and for that cause they â—iâ—led her a Goddess and pay'd her Adoration and to her care they committed their good Thoughts and Actions also the Education of their Children c. Pyrene a Lady whom Hercules got with child upon promise to return and marry her but he delaying and her Womb increasing she fled from the Father's anger to the Mountains between Spain and France where she was thought to be devoured of Wild Beasts yet lest a lasting Monument behind her those Hills upon the occasion being called by her Name Placidia Galla Daughter to Theodosius the Great Emperour she was also Sister to Honorius and Arcadius who were likewise Emperours and afterwards Mother to Valentinian the Third she was taken Caprive by Alathulsus King of the Huns c. who marry'd her for her Beauty Wit and pleasing Humour So that by her Ascendant over him she diverted him from his Purpose utterly to raze and destroy the City of Rome Placidia Daughter to Valentinian the Third Emperour and Eudoâ—ia his Empress She was carried away by the Vandels but restored soaa after and honourably marry'd the Senator Plectruda Queen to Pippin called the Fat. After her Husband's Death she took upon her the Govenment of the Kingdom in the behalf of her Grand-son a Child and put Charles Martel whom Pippin had by
that all Innocent and render things where a propper Impression of this kind is to be made are most apt to receive it and that which imprints the first Idea in the Heart of a Virgin is most lasting in her memory we are apt when Children of any moderate growth to retain transactions or such things in our mindâ— as we have done or seen when things of greater moment being grown up to ripâ—r years â—â—p our remembrance by reason of the mulâ—â—â—icity of business an I incuâ—brance of affairs which rowling like the fluctation of Waves one upon another the forerunners are covered and seem to be lost by the over flowings of those that crowd upon them The First Love where the affections are setled upon ant beâ—utiful or taking object makes a deep impression so that if Virgins would labour to obliterate it they cannot without doing violence to themselves And perhaps it is too deep rooâ—ed in the mind and fancy to be pluck'd up by such ways Some have been prepossessed that they have lain dreaming of a first Lover even in a second 's armâ— and their minds have been sed with his Idea whilst an other has been embracing them and therefore Hesiod advises those that would have an entire and undivided Love to marry a Virgin rather than a Widow Queen of Sheba c. Queens have we find taken long Journeys to gâ—â— knowledg and spared no Pains or Labour to gratify their Curiosities Sheba's Queen we find came to Jerusalem with many rare presents and was wonderfully satisfied in enlarging her Heart with understanding but as Camerarius tells us out of Cedrenus when she found thaâ— Solomon without much difficulty had Expounded her â—iddles and Philosophical questions she was resolve to try his Wisdom in distinguishing yet further and having prepared one day certain youâ—g Boys and Girls she appaâ—â—lled them all alike and set them before the King their Faces being so parallel that they discovered not the difference but the King knowing what her design was in it caused Water to be brought and ordered them to Wash Their Hands and Faces distinctly whilst he look'd on by which device he easily discern'd the Males from the Females for the boys rubed their Faces hard and lustily and the Girles more nice only stroaked them a little at which subtil discovery of the Kings the Queen gave him great applause Quality c. Quality if rightly taken carries with it something extraordinary towards the adornment of the Fair Sex It is not â—â— Estate that renders a person one of Quality tho now adays theVulgar lok no further than to their Wealth not doubting that if she be rich she must be a Gentlewoman and one Quality by course but in the serious weighing and considering the circumstances it is found otherways â—â—ilded Trapings make not a Mâ—le an Horse But to deal â—â—â—didly and reflect on none we shall delineate that which may truly bear the Test in the Character of a Court Lady Question not her â—irth for that is lively paintâ—â— in her Virtues that it was â—igh and noble she sets not â—er Face so often by her glass â—â—â— she composeth her Soul by Gods word which has all the Excellent qualities of a true â—â—â—â— 1. It is clear in all 〈◊〉 necessary to Salvation â—â—â— those that will not be ignorantly or rather wilfully 〈◊〉 2. It is not like those 〈◊〉 Glasses by which some â—â—dies Dress themselves â—â—ich flatter them into a beâ—â— more Beauty and Comâ—â—â— than they are Mistresses â—â—â— 3. It is very spacious â—â—d presents to view the l cast external or internal Maculatiâ— 4. It is durable tho in 〈◊〉 sense it is broken too 〈◊〉 when God's Laws are â—â—olated yet it will like the â—â—one cut from the Mountain â—â—â—hout hands fall on its â—eakers at last and grind 〈◊〉 into powder and not 〈◊〉 title of it shall fall to the â—â—ound 5. It hath power â—â—â— smooth the wrinkles sin has â—â—de in the Soul to cleanse â—â—e spots and mend the saults discovers but to come â—â—â—er she walks humbly beâ—â—e God in all Religious â—â—ties the better to claim â—â— assistance in time of temptation that her Faith fail not she knows the best without Gods assistance would be often soiled by the various delusions and temptations of the grand enemy of mankind she is always careful and most tender of her Reputation Travellers tell us that in Mexico in the West Indies there is a Tree which shrinks in its Leaves at the approach of a man as it by Nature it were shamefac d and if he touch tho neverso lightly they immediately wither and dye A Ladies Credit is of equal bashful niceness Lacivous Eyes may injure it and a small touch may wound and destroy it which makes her avoid all privacy with suspicious company she declines Pride and Stateliness and is modest curteous and obliging to all that are Virtuous and of good Report liberal to the poor aâ—d has her Ears always open to hear and redress the Grievances of the Distressed she is no respector of Persons where the Cause is unjust nor is she more careful of any thing than of God's Glory she holds her self bound by the Tenure whereby she holds the Possession of Grace in this Life and Reversion of Glory hereafter to assert and vindicate the Honour of the King of Heaven whose Champion she professeth her self to be she is pittiful to all Learned and Wise above the usual Stature of her Sex and improves those excellent acquirements more to the publick benefit than to her own advantage in Discourse her words are rather very fit than fine not any ways affected or studdied yet very Choice tho not chosen Quality sits triumphing in her looks and compasses each Feature tho mild and winning to command awe and distance she affects not the vanity of foolish Fashions but keeps up the antient Grandure and plain and modest Garments and if they be Rich they are not Gaudy and is highly contended with the beauty God and Nature has bestowed on her If very beautiful she is not in the least the more proud but it induces her to be the more thankful for her maker for the favour he has bestowed on her If unhandsom she labours to make here Soul shine more Beautiful and better her body in the virtues of her mind instead of washes and beautifying Waters and Pomanders c. her Closet is stored with Physicks and Cordials prepared by her own Skill and Industry to send to her poor Neighbours when they are sick and in pain she detesteth all Adulterated Complexions in her Marriage she principally has a respect to Virtue and Religion and is careful in her Marching not to bestow her self and unworthily to an ignoble Person or one unequal years however she is not covetous of large Fortunes in Marriage regarding the Virtue of the Person more than his Estate Quiet and Moderate she is in all her affâ—â—â—â— she makes no noise nor bustâ—â— in the World
Dr. Blancart Romance Span. a feigned Hulory or Narration either in Verse or Prose in the Vulgar Language Retromingents from retro and mingo is used by Dr. Brown for such Animals as Urine or piss backward such are all female Quadrupedes Revels form the Fr. Râ—veiller i. to awake from sleep are sports of Dancing Making Comedies and such like still used in the Inns of Courâ— and Houses of some great Pesonages and are so called because they are performed by night there is also an officer called Toe Master of the Revels who has the ordering and command of these pastimes Roundelay a Shepheards dance sometimes used for a Son Rhomb rhombus a Spinning wheel Reel or whirl Rivals rivales they that haunt or dwell by have interâ—st or fetch water from the same River or Brook but it is most commonly use â—â—taphorically for those that love and wooe the same woman Corivals Runciâ—a the Goddess of Weeding S. Sabina I. Religious or Câ—ast from that 〈◊〉 â—ings Sarchia I. Holy Pure Saraâ— my Lady or Dame Sâ—â—â—â— I. â— Lady or Princess because of the Promise Schoâ—â—â—ica from 〈◊〉 I. oâ—ium Leiâ—urâ— Sebaste I. Majestical or Honourable Shelâ—mith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lâ—v. 24.11 i. peaceaâ—â—â— Sybil or Sibule suase 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. the Counsel of God Sisley see Cicely Sophia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. Wisdom Sophronia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. modesty Susan 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Shoâ—â—â— Heb. a Rose or Lilly Sabinia Tranquiliâ—â— she was Married to the Emperor Gordanus the third a Lady of great Magnanimity and Virtue Salmacis a Nymph who falling in Love with Hermophroditus Son of Mercury begot him on Venus grew so Impatient that leaping into a Fountain where he was bathing she endeavoured to oblige him to deslower her but not being able to gain him in that piece of Service she prayed the Gods whilâ— she twined 〈◊〉 him that they might become one body which was granted her and so 〈◊〉 became the first that bore 〈…〉 of either Sex 〈…〉 〈◊〉 Sister of 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 King of the 〈◊〉 she 〈◊〉 up Herod to put the 〈…〉 Maâ—â—â—nne to 〈◊〉 by open be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or pretence she 〈…〉 him and 〈…〉 the Death of Alexander and Ari 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Queens two Sons by 〈◊〉 as also of two of her own Husbands Joseph and Costborus and afterward dyed miserably her self Salome Mother of Sâ— Iâ—â—â—â— and Sâ— John the Apostle 〈◊〉 Virtous and Pious woman who mainly propagated the Gospel by her exemplary Life Salus a Roman Goddess she had her Temple on the Mount Quirinal which was much beaurified and adorned by Augustus Sappho stil'd for her curious Verse the tenth Muse but her wanton way of Writing hindered much of the Merit of them Or her see more Sarah the Wife of Abraham the Patriach and Daughter of Haram and obedient Virtuous and beautiful Woman she was the Mother of Isaac She dyed Anno Mundi 2175 aged 137 years and was buried in a Cave near Hebron Sachaca a Babylonish Goddess held by the manner of her Worship to be the same with Ops or Terra of the Romans her Ceremonies were continued five Days in a year successively in which time the servants ruled and the Masters obeyed Scylla Daughter of Nisus the Magerensine King she betrayed him and the City to Minos King of Crect with whom she fell in Love at the Siege by cutting off and delivering him her Fathers Lock of Purple Hair Segetia by some called Segestia a Roman Prayed to by them to take care of their Corn. Seia another Goddess worshipped by them to whom they instrusted the care of the seed new sowen she had a statue to her and was Invoked Fertelize the Earth in time of scarcity Semele Daughter to Cadmus the Thebian King with whom Jupiter had secret Meetings yet Jumâ— distrusting the matter came to her in the shape of an old Beldam and incited her to perswade him to lye with her in the same Glory which he accosted the Goddesses in the skiâ—s Jupiter tho loath granted her at the next meeting but proved too hot for her she being burnt to Ashes by his Lightning yet being with Child with Bacchus he took the Embrio out of her womb and opening his Thigh sewed it up there till the full time of his Birth was come Semizamis Queen of Assyria Of her see more Serana Empress to Diâ—clesian and Daughter of Theodosius the grâ—aâ— she moderated much of the Persecution against the Christians and â—â—d the Church many singular favours in those bloody times Sforce Katharine Married to Jeronimo 〈◊〉 Prince of Flori when Franciâ—cus Vrsus headed the Rebels Kill'd her Husband and 〈◊〉 her and her Children in Prison she perswaded them to let her speak to the Governour of the Castle that still held out for her to Surrender leaving her Children as a Pledg but being got into the strong place she sent to command the Rebels to lay down their Arms and return to â— their Obedience which so dâ—â—red them that they forâ—â—ok their Leader and by Anxiliaty Aids recovered the whole Countrey over which she ruled many years prudently and justly Sibylla Wife to Guy of Luzignan and sister to Saldâ—â—â— the Fourth King of Jernâ—â—â—â— She after the Death of her Brother and her Son whom his Uncle appointed to succeed him caus'd her Husband Guy to be Crown'd setâ—â—g the Crown upon his head with her own hands saying 〈◊〉 he being her true Husband he could not make choice of any â—â—â—r to be King But this soon 〈◊〉 caus'd great disturbances â—nd much weakened the Kingdom Sibylls They were â—oelve and accounted Proâ—â—â—sles foreâ—ellinâ— many â—â—derful things Of these â— more in this Work Sigbritta a mean â—oman a Native of II land â—s so passionately beloved by â—â—itierne King of Deâ—muâ— â—igh he was at the same time â—â—â—y'd thaâ— he gave her an â—â—mited power and all 〈◊〉 and Great Offices were â—posed of by her so that â—ding her Ascendan over that â—y Prince who had raised â— from a Beggar so near a â—â—â—e she grew so proud and â—ogant that the Qâ—een and â—bles could no longer endure but deposing the King and â—cing his Uncle in his stead she fled to Holland and there in a little time became as poor and miserable as ever Sigea Lovise Daughter to Diego Sigea a very learned Lady â—he understood Arabick Greek Latin Hebrew and the Syrick she was skill'd in Philosophy and the liberal Sciences tho she dy'd very young and was lamented of divers learned men Sirens or Sirenes Sea Monster that by their melodious No â—â— draw men to leave their shipâ— and by leaping into the Sea bâ—ing drown'd they devour them Sisigambis Wife to Dâ—â—â—â— King of Persia who being taken prâ—â—oner by Alexander the Great at the Battle of Arbella was courteously entertain'd by him and altho she was exceeding beautiful he preserv'd her Chastity and she dying for the Grief of â—o great a loss he gave her honourable burial Sâ—â—gambis Mother
sound-Advice and that Temperance and sobriety are wont to be the proper parent of sound Judgments And Indeed all other virtues are obscured by the want of this as both the body and the mind are wonderfully Improved by it which is the reason why so many great persons have made Choice of it for their Achâ—tes or best Friend Semiramis Tomb. Semiramis the great Assyrian Queen caused a plate of Brass to be fixed on her Tomb which was of a very stately Architecture and to be Inscribed on it that whatsoever King should come into that Land and want treasure should open her Tomb and should there be supply'd with plenty divers refused it as having a veneration for her But coming Darius to the possession of those Countries he found himself straightned by the vast Exhausting of his treasure in the wars caused it to be opened and found only a stone in to with this Inscription If thou hadst not been a wicked man and transported with an Insaâ—iable thirst after treasure thou wouldst not thus have violated the sepulchre of the dead This reproach confounded him with shame and thereupon going away he ordered the Tomb to be closed again Sevil is an ancient town in Spaiâ—e rear to vâ—â—â—ch stood an old chapple little â—requented and in it a cloister that was walled up and for along time there was a proverb that if any one should open that place they should see the figures of those that should soon after conquer the Country This Rumour had been spread about a long time e're any body either minded or durst attempt iâ— but at last by order of authority it was opened and in it they found the Images of Moors carved in stone rough and unpolished and Indeed this proved true for the Moors a while after overrun almost all Spain and held a great part till Ferdinand and Isabel King and Queen of Castile and Aragon drove them out of Granada Singing c. Singing is a very powerful Enâ—icâ—ment in Love The Tone of some Voices is so taking and the Accent so sweet that they ravish the Senses What can the poor souls do that hear the charming Voices of these Syrens but plunge over Head and Ears in the Ocean of desire ever to be ravish'd with their Melody and if the Tone c. be so powerful as to be able to captivate a young man it must have a greater advantage when Art and Eloquence are joyn'd to it Jovius highly commends the Italian Women for the sweetness of their singing above other Nations and among them the Florentine Ladies Some prefer the Roman and Venetian Courtâ—zins to these alledging they have such sweet Voices and Elegancy of speech that they â—are capable of insnaring a man and make him forget himself whilst their harmony infacinates his senseâ— Oâ—id in his recommending singing as a great advantage to the Fair Sex says The Syren are Sea Monsters whose sweâ—t Notes Draw to their Tunes the wandering ships and boats And if their Ears with wax they do not stop They 'r charm'd to leap off from the hatches top Singing's a fair Endowment a sweet thing A praiseful gift then women learn to sing Hard favour'd Girls by songs have won sâ—ch graces That their sweet tongues have mended much their faces Singing was always held to add â—â—â—â—ure to she â—â—râ—y and raise up Ad 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Petronius affirms that a Lady of his time sang so sweetly that she charmed the Air and outdid the Syrens what can be more winningly graceful than a Lady tuning her sweet voice to her Virginals Lute or Viol and on the other side a mans voice well tuned is no â— eâ—s pleasing and taking with the Ladies upon this very account having raised themselves to great â—ortunes by Marriage Parthenis was so taken at the first interview with the singing of a young Gentlewoman that being Impatient of delay running to her sister she thus complains Sister Harpedona O what shâ—ll I do I â—â— undone hark hâ—w sweetly be sâ—â—â—â— I 'll speaâ— a bold word he is tâ—â— pâ—operest man that ever I â—aâ—â— my Life O how sweetly he sinâ—s I dye for his sâ—â—â— O that bâ— would Loâ—e me Aâ—aiâ— Luciâ—â— speaking of a womâ—ns singiâ—â— says he thou wouâ—dest â—â—â—gâ—t thy father and mother and forsake all thy relatioâ—s and friends to follow her â—â— is hâ—ld that Paris was Eâ—â—moured of Helen as mâ—ch for her sweet voice as for her beauty he likewise commeâ—â— Daphne upon the like score How sweet a fâ—ce â—ath Daphne but her vâ—ice Excells that sâ—eetness 〈◊〉 has gain'd my Châ—ice Singing though it is higâ—â—â— esteemed and has a meâ—â—â— praise due to it yet Ladys â—â— inâ—â—eat you to consider thaâ— is not that that renders a man Accomplished nor can yeild you all the happiness that is requisit to give you a Lasting tranquility seeing in this Agâ— it is Managed to Sinister ends every gay â—op makes it his business to be as good a proficient in it as he can not out oâ— any regard to its peculiar ends buâ— that he may have the greater Advantage to ensâ—â—re your sex as knowing iâ— not by Experience yet by Information it is very tâ—king with thâ—m we could name a â—idler though no proficient in Musical Airs gained a forâ—une of two thousâ—nd pounds by procuring and humming over soâ—e Love ditties that declared his passion which himself was not otherways capâ—â—le of delivering in common sense Some that have had nothing in them but a sew Plâ—yers Ends and Complements have gone a great way in this manner though they were â—â—pable of no more harmony thâ—n Old Bâ—llâ—d Tunes afâ—ordâ—d them only set out with a Fashionaâ—le Gâ—râ— or Esteminatâ— Dress gaining thereby the report of fiâ—e sweet Gentlemen Your Sex Ladies let us telâ— you beggâ—ng pardon if we give Offence is casy to be won upon your Favourable Constructions and Good Naâ—â—re and cannot without much difficulty penitrâ—te the aâ—struse Intâ—ntions of thâ—â—e that â—akâ— it their buâ—â—ness to decoy you Love songs smutty'd o're are powerful Incitements to what we will not name Powerful as we have hâ—nted are the Temptations of this Kind and when â—nce they get the Ascendant over us are not eâ—sily suâ—â—ued and brought under We â—ee or have heard that the â—iâ—allest Grain of Poyson taken inwardly immediatâ—ly dilates the Venom into every part of the body and puts the whole Frame into disorder It was Aristotle's Opinion That young men â—nd women should not see Comoâ—dies leâ—t the Expressionâ— useâ— in them might corrupt their Vertueâ— and overâ—hrowing the Fences of modesty lâ—t in those wild desires that would ruin their Chastity But however we do not allow of hâ—s â—evâ—â—ty in such a prohibition For as Bees suck Honey as well out of unsâ—voury as sweet herbs and flowers so a discreet and stedfast mind may retain what is good and reject what tends to a diâ—ection Nothing more prevails with some to shun Vice than to see it in its proper deformity unarray'd of
Tongue with Subjects And as without Speech no Society can subsist so by it we express what we are and how we are enclin'd Let discretion frame your Discourse and speak not over-hasty for in thrusting out your words too fast you cannot frame them all aright but some will be disjoynted and disordered it's more highly commendable to speak a little to the purpose than a great deal that will not seem so Some have tired their Audience in telling an hours Story that might have been concisely cut off by way of Abridgment in two moments It is in no wise seemly to interrupt others or break off the thread of Discourse with interposing Questions But if you have any thing to offer it is good manners to stay till they have done unless they be impertinently tedious and tiresome nor must you be over eager in craving attention to what you would or are about to say for that earnestness will shew you affected with your own Discourse for then if you trip or blunder instead of the applause they will imagine you expect you may perhaps be silenced with Laughter in the midst of your Oration If you cannot discourse well or want a good utterance either be silent or know what company you speak in pretend not to things you are ignorant of least being put upon tryal you must rudely refuse it or what is worst shamefully acknowledge truth was a stranger to you when you made that boast and how mean low and ridiculous must that look in the eyes of the sober and judicious We have known some indeed that have been so catch'd endeavour to put it off or salve their Reputations with Equivocations Inuendo's Jests Banters and Pretensions of doubt doubtful meaning and constructions of the matter but we could never find that these stop the flaws and cracks their indiscretion made in their Credits but they rather found people incredulous to their real Truths than they would run the hazard of being put upon by an Aesop's Fable V. VEnus qu ad omnes veniens i. t. coming to all a fit name for a Harlot Lat. Verosa i. e. true from verus Ursula Lat. a little she Bear a womans name heretofore of great reputation in honour of Vrsula the Brittish Vergin Saint martyred under Attila King of the Romans Vestals Vestales Virginâ—s certain Virgins among the ancient Romans consecrated to the Goddess Vesta and therefore so named they were always chosen between six and seven years of age and continued thirty years in their Office whereof the first ten years they bestowed in learning the Ceremonies of their Order the second in execution thereof and the last ten in teaching others after it was lawful for them to marry Their chief duty was to keep fire continually burning in a round Temple at Rome in honour of Vesta and if it chanced to go out they were to renew it again with no usual fire but such as they could get by art from the Sun-beams Nec tu aliud Vestam quam puram intellige flammaÌ„ Ovid. They are greatly honour'd in the City and had divers priviledges for they were carried in Chariots and the chief Magistrates would do reverence to them they had Officers going before them as the Consuls had and if they met any one who was led to be put to death they had authority to deliver him taking an Oath that they came not that way of purpose they might also make a Will and dispose of their Goods as they pleased but if any of them were found to live unchaste she was openly carried with sad silence to the Gate called Colliâ—a where being put into a deep pit she was presently buried alive These Vestals were first instituted by Numa Pompilius or as some write by Romulus Dr. Brown Vestment vestiminium a Garment Vesture Apparel Cloathing Attire Ualasca a Bohemian Princess who conspir'd with other Women to drive the Men out of the Country and form an Amazonian Government which she affected and the War between them and the Men lasted many Years but she being at last taken prisoner by a Statagem the Men again assumed their former Power Uaâ—drade Gontire the Arch-Bishop of Coloigns Slster her Beauty gain'd her the Love of Lothier King of Lorrain who turned away Thiethbert and marryed her she was Mother to Huges the Bastard who called the Normans into France Venille a Nymph and Wife to Tranus also the Sister to Amnata Queen to Latinus some have Fabled her to be Neptunes Wise and to have been called Salacâ— Venus held by the Ancients to be the Goddess of Love and Beauty and to be Daughter of Jupiter and Diâ—â— others say the sprung â—rom the froth of the Sea occasioned by Jove's throwing his Genitalls into it She is held to be married to Vulcan who moulded Thunder-Bolts for Jupiter and that Mars was her Paramour whom Vulcan with a curious net of wyre laid cunningly about the bed took naked in her Embraces and then called in the Gods and Goddess's to be the Spectators of the entangled Lovers She was likewise passionately in Love with Adonius who was afterward killed by a Wild Boar as he was hunting and on her Anchises is said to beget Aeneas Cupid is also stiled her Son some reckon another Venns or Queen of Love Vrania or Celestis Venus painted by Apelles For the space of ten years employed all his wit and policy to paint an Image of Venus the which was endued with so excellent Beauty that the young men that stood beholding of it became Amorous as though it had been some live Image and therefore by publick Edict he was charged to keep it secret for fear to allure the youth corruption Who is it that doth not marvel of that which Pausanias a Greek Historiographer writeth to have been formed and made in Heraclia a Province of Peloponensia by a certain Artificer the which composed a brazen Horse having the Tail cut and deformed and all the other parts of the Body perfect to the which notwithstanding the other Horses sought to joyn and couple with such ardent desire and affection that they broke oftentimes their Hoofs with their often riding and horsing of him and for all that they were beaten and driven away yet would they not from thence but they would rage as it they had found a proud Mare But what secret thing what charm or what hiden Vertue was there which could constrain and force the brutish Beasts to obey and love a trunk of Mettal void of Feeling or Understanding Vertue was stiled by the Ancients a Goddess and had her Temple at Rome joined to that which was dedicated to Honour and so contrive in building that one could come into the latter but by the way of the first to demonstrtrate that Vertue is the right way to Honour She was vâ—riously pictured sometimes in a beautiful Female Grâ—â— to shew her mildness sometimes in Armour to shew her courage and constancy Victory had her Temple among the Romons as
a Goddess also among the Grecians She was accounted the Daughter of Heaven and Earth Painted Young Lively and Gay to manifest her Vigor and the Lustre that attends on victory and with wings by reason of her unconstancy and doubtful success Crowned with Lawrel as an Eternal renown with a Palm branch in her hand signifying unconquerable courage that Tree the more it is oppressed the more it Flourishes Vaistai the Beautiful Wife of King Abasuerus the great of Persia. She was deposed from her Royal dignity and Hester made Queen in her stead because she refused tâ— come and show the Nobles her Beauty when the King sent for her at his Royal Feast Virginiana the Goddess of Virgins invoked by both Sex for Marriage and held to take care of untying Virgins Girdles on the Wedding Nights Virginia a Roman Lady she built a Temple of the Phebian Pudicity of Chastiry But Lucian discribes her melancholly hanging down her Head ill clad and sore afflicted and abused by Fortune insomuch that she was prohibited to appear before Jupiter least being of his Ofspring she should in so mean a Condition disgrgace him She had two Temples at Rome one built by Marcellus and the other by Caius Marius and there she is represented like a Grave Matron clad in White denoting Innocence sealed on a Square Stone Venturia Mother of Coriolan who when he Waged War against Rome and laid strait Seige to it went with divers other Roman Ladies to his Tent and with her Tears and Persuasions obliged him to raise the Siege when that rich City was at the point of yielding Whereupon the Senate in honour to her Memory built a Temple to Fortune wherein Women sacrificed on the day the Siege was raised Vorine Wife of Victorine who was Associated to the Empire by Posthumâ—s she was a Lady of extraordinary courage and wit insomuch that 〈◊〉 thought himself not 〈◊〉 in the Empire till she was dispatched Voluptas stiled the Goddess of Pleasure To her the Roâ—â—s in the heighth of their luxury built a Temple seating her as a Queen upon a Throne with Vertue at her 〈◊〉 Voluntina was another of â—â—â—ir Goddesses who took 〈◊〉 of the straw that supâ—â—ted the Ears of Corn that should be strong to bear it â—worsâ— bring it to ripening â—rfine marryed to Guy Torâ—â—â— Count of Guâ—stâ—lle an 〈◊〉 Town in the Dukedom 〈◊〉 she is highly seemed for her Courage 〈◊〉 when her Husband 〈◊〉 absent the Venetians being the place she failled and beat them from the 〈◊〉 with great slanghter 〈◊〉 divers of them with â—own hand 〈◊〉 Ursula or the Order 〈◊〉 Vrsulines a Monastry of young Women and Widows following the Rules of St. Augustine Now being spread into divers Congregations the Institution of them was to teach young Girls and train them up in curious Works of divers kinds Under Cook-Maids If you would so fit your self for this Employment as that it may be a means of raising you to higher preferment you must be careful to be diligent and willing to do what you are bid to do and though your Employment be greasy and smooty yet if you be careful you may keep your self from being Nasty Therefore let it be your Care to keep your self Neat and Clean observe every thing in Cookery that is done by your Superior or Head-Cook treasure it up in your Memory and when you meet with a convenient opportunity put that in practice which you have observed this Course will advance you from a Drudge to be a Cook another day Every one must have a beginning and if you be ingenious and bend your mind to it and be willing to learn there is none will be so Churlish or unkind as to be unwilling to teach you but if you be stubborn and careless and not give your mind to learn who do you think will be willing to teach you You must beware of Gossips and Chair-Women for they will 〈◊〉 you take heed of the Solicitations of the Flesh for they will undo you and though you may have mean thoughts of your self and think none will meddle with such as you it is a mistake for sometimes brave Gallants will fall soul upon the Wench in the Scullery Dairy-Maids Those who would endeavour to gain the Esteem and Reputation of good Dairy-Maids must be careful that their Vessals be scalded well and kept very clean that they Milk their Cattle in due time for the Kine by Custom will expect it though you neglect which will tend much to their detriment The hours and times most approved and commonly used for Milking are in the Spring and summer time between five and six in the Morning and six and seven in the Evening And in the Winter between seven and eight in the Morning and four and five in the Evening In the next place you must be careful that you do not waste your Cream by giving it away to liquorish Persons You must keep your certain days for your Churning and be sure to make up your butter neatly and cleanly washing it well from the Butter-Milk and then Salt it well You must be careful to make your Cheeses good and tender by well ordering of them and see that your Hoggs have the Whey and that it be not given away to Gossiping and Idle people who lives meerly upon what they can get from Servants That you provide your Winter Butter and Cheese in Summer as in May And when your Rowings come in be sparing of your Fire and do not Lavish away your Milk Butter or Cheese If you have any Fowls so Fat look to them that it may be for your Credit and not your Shame when they are brought to Table When you Milk the cattle stroke them well ans in the Summer time save those stroking by themselves to put into your Morning Milk Cheese I look upon it â—â— be altogether needless so to give you any Direction for the making of Butter or Cheese since there arâ— very few especially in tâ—â— Country that can be ignorant thereof I shall only say that the best time 〈◊〉 put up Butter for Winter is in the Month of May for theâ— the Air is mâ—â—â— temperate and the Butter will take Salt best However it may be done at any time betwixt May and Sâ—pâ—ber Vilâ—â—ing Friends c. He 's an happy Man now that can drive his Pedigree from William the Conqueror tho' some Women whose Husbands are great Antiquaries will go a great deal farther at a Christ'ning and in the heat of Contention when Priority comes to be disputed when derive themselves from the eldest Maid of Honour to Nimrod's Wife But let that alone Most certainly it may so happen that a Man may marry a Wife that has had a great many Relations that live in the Country and a Woman may marry a Man that has as many For it you ask a Citizen where he was born there 's not one in Forty but will cry in Gloucestershire Devonshire Kent Norfolk
it as first jump into their empty Sculls It being presumed that when the distance was so great the Advance must be on her side or the other would not have had presumption enough to attempt it so that she is rather blamed than pittyed too frequently we must confess such matches have been clapt up and proved very unforâ—â—â—â—te VViddows the premises seriously weighed and considered ought if they intend for marriage to be very deliberate and cautious in their choice for when Virgins who are not presumed so capable of Understanding and therefore sooner deceived are acquitted they will be censured if they miscarry therefore it is their main concern well to Ballance their minds and to see that their Passion gain not the Ascendant over their reason Let them likewise consider their Opinions in point of Religion for that many times though it should be the very cement of Peace and Union manâ— times makes a difference and opens wide breaches to disputes and those to jarring and those jarrings let in discontent It is certainly very uncomfortable that those who have so closely combined all their other Interests should in the greatest be disunited when one House and one Bed holds those which one Church cannot And then again another Mischief is the Servants according to their different perswasions bandy into Leagues and Parties so that it terribly shakes if not uttterly destroys the Concord that should create a happiness in the Family We find another particular in which any great disproportion is to be avoided and that is inequality of Years for the Humours of Age and Youth so widely differ that extraordâ—nary skill is required to compose the discord into a harmony when an Old Man Marries a young Woman here is usually Jealousies on the one part and loathings on the other and if there be not a large degree in both or at least in one party of discretion there must unavoidably follow perpetual disagreements which by a suitable choice might be avoided But in this case that does not often happen among those we are now speaking of we confess the Avarice of Parents many times force Virgins upon such Matches but Widdows who for the most part are at their own discretion to chuse rarely make such Elections commonly the inequality falling on the other side they to satisfy their Desires Allure young Men to them with their Riches yet soon see their Folly in doing it and are punished for their dorage It is indeed strange that those who should be preparing to make their Beds in the Dust should think of a Nuptial Couch A Philosopher being demanded what was the fittest time for Marrying gravely replyed The young should not Marry yet and the Old not at all The Wise Man considering the Follies and deplorable condition of such Doaters asks the question viz. Who will pity a Châ—rmer when bitten by a Serpent Eccl. 12.13 How can any one of years if Reason be consulted flatter her self with her feeble Charms to fix the giddy Appetite of Youth but when these things are transacted Reason is not called to the Council Lust and an Infatiable desire joyned with Folly and precipitated rashness and give their Votes to humour a present Appetite no fatal Warnings the Carier to misery yet one would think but thinking here in this case has no time allowed to applâ— it self seriously to deliberatâ— that a multiplicity of unhappy presidents might caution her she that accidentally falls down an undiscovered Precipice gains compassion in her Disaster but she that sees the danger before her looks down and sees the dreadful bottom strewed with mangled Carcasses of many that have fallen thence and yet wilfully casts her self down the blame extinguishes the pitty and she that casts her self away in such a Match betrays not less but more wilfulness How many misfortunes of miserable Women present themselves to her View like the wreâ—ks of tattered Vessels spit upon the â—ock and if notwithstanding all that has been said she will needs stear her Course on purpose to run the same Fate none to envy her the ship wrack she Courts Age we allow ought to be honoured and esteemed when it acts with prudence suitable to the veneration properly due to it for as Solomon says the Hoary Head is a Crown of Glory if it be found in the way of righteousness Widdows in years when they act thus we must confess are in so high a Frenzy that we can hardly believe but it must have some rooting in the Habit and Constitution of the Mind some lightness of Humour other must generate it before it can so giddly turn in their Brains those therefore that will secure themselves from the Effect must substract the cause How preposterous is it think you to see an Old Woman delight in and doating on gaudy Trisles more seemly for her Grand-Children to see her with Spectacles reading Romances or Love-stories to be at Masquerades and Dances when she is only fit to Act Antiquaries these are contradictions of Nature to hear others again wishing themselves young that it is odds but within a while they will perswade themselves they are so and tearing off the Marks where Fifty or Sixty are written and write Fifteen those who thus manage their Widdowhood have more reason to bewale it at last then at first as having experimentally found the mischief of being left to their own Guidance But pardon us Ladies if we have touched too sharply on this matter we are Conscious there are a great many Virtuous Widdows that take sober measures Marrying discreetly or spending their days in Devotion and good works â—elighting to bring up their Children in the Fear of the Lord which is the beginning of Wisdom Women Admirable for Sundays Virtue After Dinners Solicitations of the Emperours and other great Potentates Ambassadours to the Pious Heroick and ever Renowned Queen Elizabeth for the Tolleration or the Popish Religion in her Kingdom she silenced their Importunities with this weightly and reasonable Answer viz. That to let them have Churches by the others she could not with the safety of the Common Wealth and without the wounding of her Honour and Conscience c. for what ever Doctrine is contrary to Godliness is dangerous in a State and opens a door to all Mischief and Wickedness and therefore Popery beâ—â—ing that stamp she resolved not to allow the publick Exercise of it in her Dominious Ann The Beautiful and Virtuous Wife of King Henry the Eight and Mother to Queen Elizabeth was condemned upon the false accusation of some Popish Favourites who secretly Envyed to sâ—e a Lutheran Queen ascend the Throne and therefore resolved to change it into a Scaffold the which when she ascended with Courage and Modesty where there were but few dry Eyes besides her she said that the King was constant in advancing her for a private Gentlewoman had raised her to the Honour of a countess then a Marchioness and lastly to the highest of Earthly Honour even to be his
Queen to whom she had been just and faithful and that she must now at her going out of the World give him her Hearty thanks that since he had no more Wordly Honour to Agrandize her he had taken Care to promote her to what was more glorious in Heaven by making her a Martyr to become a Saint in Blessed Realms of Eternal Life After Her Death these Verses were Written of her Phoenix Anna Jaâ—et nato Phaenice dolendum Sâ—â—â—la Phoenices null TullisseDuo Here Ann a Phaenix Lies who bore her like 't is said Never one age two Phaenixes has had After this another Fair Court Star set in Blood though deserving a better Fate The Lady Jans Grey who had Married Gulford Dudly Son to the Duke of Northumberland and was after King Edward the Sixth's Death Pursuant to his will Proclaimed Queen to avoid the return of Popery by the coming of Mary afterward Queen Mary to the Crown but Fate consented not for upon Mary's Proclaimation Northumberlands Army with which he went to oppose her disserting him he was taken Prisoner and soon after beheaded the Young Queen thus disserted trusting to her Innocence and Virtue as her guard and defence found them too weak where a Crown was in competition for she with her Husband was sent to the Tower where She continued a Mirror of Piety constancy and Patience being of the Royal Blood as Grandaughter to Mary second Sister to Henry the eight Tho she was very Young when this affliction fell upon her she was an extraordinary Schollar well skilled in most Languages during her Imprisonment she writ upon the Walls these Verseâ— Non Aliena Putes Homini â—â—â— nbtingere possunâ— Sors Hodierna mihi 〈◊〉 erit ika tibi Think nothing strange chance happens unto all My Lot's to day to Morrow thine may fall And again Dio Javante nill noâ—â—â— Livor malus Et non Juvants nil Juvat Labor grats Post Tinibras spero Lucem If God protect no Malice can offend me Without his help there 's nothing can defend me After Night I hope for Light She was so unconcerned at her Death though not above 16 Years of Age that she not only bore it with singular patience and constancy but seâ—t to comfort the Duke of Suffoâ—k her Father who was in Prison and soon after suffered in those Bloody Mazean times when Popery had got again the upper hand to comfort him by her Letter to Persevere in the Protestant Religion and if be had the hard Fortune to be cut off to Dye worthy of his Honour and like himself but not at call to gâ—â—â—ve for her for she was going to a happy Kingdom to the chaste Embraces of her Lord where she should be out of the reach of Trouble and Malice and sit down with Joy and Peace so that when this Incomparable Lady Dyed no Body could refrain from Tears no not her very Enemies whose Spleen had brought her to so early and untimely an end At the time when the Protestant Religion under the Pious Care of King Edward the Sixth flowerished the Duke her Father had one Mr. Harding for his Chaplain who seemed very Zealous for the reformed Churches but when Queen Mary came in and had set up Popery he Wind-mill'd about for promotion as some did in the last Reign and became a very bitter Enemy with his Pen and Tongue against the protestants which so Grieved this Pious Young Lady that she writ to him when she was in Prison to remember from whence he was fallen and to do his first Works which Letter for the satisfaction of all Pious Young Ladies and others pen'd by one of such tender Years we have thought fit to insert that her great Wisdom and Learning may be evident to the World Oft says she as I call to mind the Fearfull and Dreadful sayiâ—gs of our Saviour Christ that he who putteth his hand to the Plough and looketh back is not meet for the Kingdom of Heaven and on the contrary those comfortable words that he spake to those who forsake all and follow him I cannot but marvel at thee and lament thy case who seemest sometime to be a Lively Member of Christ but now the deformed Iâ—pe of Satan Sometime the Beautiful Temple of God but now the Synagogue of the Prince of the Air sometime the unspotted Spouse of Christ but now the shameless Paramour of Antichrist sometime my faithful Brother but now a stranger and an apostate sometime a slout Christian Souldier but now a cowardly Run-away yea whon I consider these things I cannot but cry out unto thee thou Seed of Satan whom he hath deceived and the World hath beguiled and the desire of Life and promotion subverted wherefore hast thou taken the Law of the Lord in thy Mouth wherefore hast thou preached the Will of God unto others wherefore hast thou Instructed and exhorted others to be strong in Christ when thou thy self doest now shamefully shrink away and thereby so much dishonour God thou preached'st that Men should not steal and yet thou steâ—lest abominably not from Men but from God committing hâ—inous Sacriledge robbing Christ of his Honour chusing rather to live with shame than to Dye Honourably and to Reign Gloriously with Christ who is Life in Death unto his Why dost thou shew thy self most weak when thou standest by most strong The strength of the Fort is unknown before the assaults but thou yeildest up thine before any battery was made against it c. And after many other Excellent Passages she thus concludes Let I pray you the lively râ—membrance of the last day be always before your Eyes remember that Runagates and Fugitives from Christ shall be cast out in that day who setting more by the World than by Heaven more by Life than him that gave it Did shrink and fall from him who forsook not them and also the inestimable Joys prepared for them who fearing no perril nor dreading Death have manfully fought and Victoriously Triumphed over the Powers of darkness through their Invincible Captain Christ Jesus who now stretcheth out his Arms to receive you is ready to fall upon you and Kiss You and last of all to wash you in his most pretious Blood and feed you with the Dainties it has purchased for you which undoubtedly could it stand with his own determinate purpose he would be ready to shed again for you rather than you should be lost Be constant then and fear no Earthy pain Christ has redeem'd thee Heaven is thy gain Women Destroyers of the Danes and the Priviledges they Enjoy by it When they were destroyed is already recited and riding the Land from such Mortal Enemies by the consent of the King and his Nobles which all the Men ascented to the Women were allowed the right hand of their Husbands which custom continues to this day though some will have it that it is only a fulfilling the old Proverb that the weak est goes to the Walls That they should
the Saxon Prince and his mortal Enemy because she had Kent for her Dower Jagelio Duke of 〈◊〉 fell in Love with Hedenga and turned from a Pagan to a Christian for her sake being Baptiz'd by the Name of 〈◊〉 but le ts see what was in the bottom of it why the was Heireis of Poâ—and and he covered to lay the two Countries together Charles the Great was an earnest Suiter to Irene the â—â—â—press but faith 〈◊〉 only to join the Empire of the East to that of the West which he then posses'd but what comes all this to or what is the Event of such Matches that are made up thus meerly for the sake of Mony Why truly they are a sort of mad Contracts at first and afterward as to Love and the honest end of Marriage prove but a meer flash as 〈◊〉 or Straw soon fir'd burn fiercely yet laâ— but a few Minutes so are all those Matches so made where there 's not any respect of Honestly Virtue Parentage Education or Religion c. Faise Fires light the Hymeneal Tapers that flash Sulpher in their Faces instead of comfortable Brightness they are no sooner Light but extinguished in an instant and instead of Love Hate Jars and Discontent enters and act their parts upon the Stage of Jealousie and Distrust on the one part and ruin perhaps of Body and Soul on the other For Joy enters Repentance and sometimes hands after it Desparation Franciseus Barbarus tells us a Story that a certain Person named Philip of Padua fell in Love with a notorious common Strumpet and so raging his 〈◊〉 seem'd that he was ready to run distracted for her which much grieved his Parents but fearing he should 〈◊〉 himself or quite lose his Senses his Father having no more Children and finding no Reason nor Perswasion would avail consented to his Folly and Married they were but not many days had passed ere this extraordinary Passion Wind-mill'd about to the contrary point of the Compass even to an extream Loathing so that he could not so much as endure the sight of her and from one Madness fell into another nor seldom have such kind of Marriage other Events seldom is there better Success upon these kind of Mony Love Intrigues as Manelaus experienc'd by Helen 〈◊〉 with Phaedra Vulcan with Venus Claudius with Massalins Minos with Pasiphe and many more which we might name and indeed we need not go to former Ages for such Examples since our own Nation affoards so many How often are there Braâ—â— and Fightings Hatred Heart-burnings and Jealousies among among Married Couples and sometimes Blood makes the Fatal Divorce Wherefore Ladies you that would be truly happy in Marriage chuse not this way but Marry those that you cordially can Love and such as are agreeable to you though you wallow not in Gold Fortune how to be considered in what it relates to either Sex in Advancement or declining c. Fair Ladies at the first sight you may imagine we are going to tell you many strange and wonderful things or make discovery of those past Actions you would rather have concealed by prying into you Nativites but indeed we purpose not to meddle with past Present or Future Events of that kind we pretend not to be Fortunemâ—â—â—â—s but only to Let you see how fickle she is and how little to be relyed on though many lay too great a stress upon that they call her Favour which is rather Accidential and sometimes Imaginary than certain or real and indeed take her right she is rather a Name than any thing that is substanâ—â—â—lly to the purpose we will not speak of the Actions of either Sex as they are the Children of Divine Providence nor will we Ascribe an Apostheâ—is to Fortune but will only take a survey of the power and Actiâ—â— of Men and Womens Reasons in the Nimble apprehensions and taking hold of occaâ—â—â—â—ns to see how far outward circumstances do conduce to the making of any ones Fortune It was the saying of one that every one might hammer 〈◊〉 his own Fortune however 〈◊〉 most in Number are 〈◊〉 at Fortune making and 〈◊〉 it in the working It is an Art that most Peoples Invention have flowed into and yet 〈◊〉 still capable of Renovation as it were by the incertainty 〈◊〉 Affairs so curiously involved by mutual Relation which is Tacitus his Observation of a too superstitious Constancy in that Emperor into his beaten way in which he had proved Fortunate thinking in that Road he could not miss being Successful though he fell into a slough of misfortune at last when he least suspected the danger So some through an Imbecility of Mind not knowing how to make a departure from tha Gravity of their usual pace think all things will meet them in the common Road but there is something more viz. a Judicious observancy of time required as well as a prudent making of occasions There are some of that temper the Pulse of whose Affections still beat after the motion of Honour who had rather be not good than great and therefore will cast about the mist of Deceit to blind the Eyes of our Apprehensions and by corrupt Counsels Endeavour to rise from the clouds of disgrace to see the Sun of Honour others will bring all the Elogies of their Worth upon Honours Stage where they court the Smiles of Fortune in displaying themselves to the best advantage yet is â—he be not in a good mood to pleasure them but frowns and turns her back to begone 〈◊〉 will cry after her and 〈◊〉 her 〈◊〉 all they can do makes her but like a 〈…〉 the more 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 till 〈…〉 they prove but swollen Bubles which the least wind of Adversity breaks and makes to Evaporate into their own Element Honour is Vertues Reward and is no more than the Reflective beams of that Sun of Vertue and gives only to good will in a larger Extent to Exercise themselves in as in open Field and therefore it must be used to the publick Advantage not in the Enclosures of any ones particular ends Those Ladies that are Befriended with Fortune as they term it must nevertheless be upon their Guards and look narrowly to her for she plays many slippery tricks with her Favourites the Wind is not more variable or unconstant nor the winding Waters of the Tide in their motions more uncertain than she is fabled to be in setting up and pulling down in flattering and deceiving those that most trust and rely on her and above all things so settle your mind in Prosperity that if Adversity comes it may not shake or disorder it and then you however secure your selves let Fortune do what she pleases to prostitute your time too much to the thoughts of worldly Fortunes hinders you of a more Glorious Prospect that is before you Riches are sometimes Vertues Ornament and at other times Vices Punishment the certainty of having 〈◊〉 Friend for your Fortune and a moderate Competency and Honestly for