perswaded to yield to his proposals and sent some of her faithful Friends to take his Oath which he gave them in the antient Temple touching the Altar and the Images of the Gods the custom of those times Cursing himself if he did not desire the Marriage and to make her Children his Heirs In brief he Married her and set the 〈◊〉 upon her Head to the great rejoycing of the People call'd her Queen and the Royal Partner of his Dominions at which being overjoyed and 〈◊〉 badly blinded by her Love and his Flatteries she went before to Cassand a a well Fortified City where her Treasures and her Children were and sent the young Princes the one of Sixteen and the other Thirteen years to meet their Uncle or New Father is Law whom he met and closely Embraced without the Gâ—tes bringing them along with him but having entered with this Army he immediately caused the Royal Youths to be Slam in their mothers arms where they fled for shelter and made her the more miserable in this because she might nor dye with them having in vain interposed her self between them and the Swords of their Executioners she was likewise her self driven into Exile by her Perjured Brother and Husband yet this Triumph was short and swift footed Vengeance overwhelmed him 〈◊〉 ruin for being overthrown by an Inundation of Gauls than broke into Macedonia he was taken Prisoner and after much Despight used towards him by those Barbarous People they cut off his Head and carried it about at the end of a Speat in decision Perjury brought one Ann Averies a Widow to a sad end for she had no sooner Foreword her self about some moâ—ies that was to have been paid for fix pounds of Flax at a Shop in Woodstreet but she fell down Speechless and casting up Excrements at her Mouth dyed so Visage after death being so gashly that few could behold her without great afrightment and trembling Paticure Admirable in either Sex Patience is a necessary exercise for every one that lives in this World for there is none so free from one cross or other but this Virtue will be wanting to render him the more easy in the course of his life The Female Sex especially ought to be endued with it because they have frequently occasion 〈◊〉 it Every one knows how to Row in a Calm and â—â— indifferent Pilot in a quiet â—â—â—son will â—eer a Ship but the Conduct of the Governâ—â—â—â— is most praise worthy who shows best to conduct his 〈◊〉 aright when the Winds 〈◊〉 enâ—aged and the Seas run high and the Winds have put â—â— Waves into a vehement 〈◊〉 In live manner 〈◊〉 â—â— no extraordinary commenâ—ation to appear mild when 〈◊〉 is no rubs in the way 〈◊〉 this Virtue is when the 〈◊〉 rise high to bridle 〈◊〉 and keep down our reâ—ments in the midst of inâ—ious Provocations so noâ— a Victory deserves those 〈◊〉 that perhaps the 〈◊〉 Conquerer never meâ—d Patience or a power to overcome passion was very strong in Dr. Comper Bishop of Lincoln for having been eight years in gathering Notes to compile a Book which now goes by the Name of his Dictionary his Wife more desirous of his Society than that Affair would allow and also fearing the impairment of his Health by such a redious Study in his absence getting open his Desk the 〈◊〉 them all than which nothing could be more provoking to a learned man yet he received it with that Patience and Moderation that he vexed not himself that any could outwardly perceive it nor shewed any resentment in reproaches or giving her an angry word but patiently set down and began it again so that it took him up the other eight years before it could be finished as resolving whatever pains it cost him not to disappoint Posterity of his worthy 〈◊〉 Phaucy What it is Phancy is that which strangely carries our minds about and fixes our thoughts upon various things but rarely continuing long at a stay It twirls us round and makes us dizzy so that we are as it were in a mist and are at a loss till in its eternal Roving one phancy jostles out another our follies or defects of this nature cannot be better described than by Democritus to Hippocrates Pardon us Reader if it be somewhat tedious because it is much to the Purpose and therein you will be made amends for youe Patience The People of Athens thinking Democritus 〈◊〉 sent for the aforementioned Learned Physician to cure him who found him in his Garden at his study At the approach of Hippocrates he 〈◊〉 heartily as Knowing his business before and after some words passing between them he told him that those who had sent him were mad and not himself For says he they give themselves up to the 〈◊〉 and Fopperies of the Times and would is not make one laugh to see them Empty of all 〈◊〉 actions hunting after Gold and having no end of Ambition taking infinite pains for a little Glory and to be Favour'd of Men Frequently 〈…〉 when they only meet with 〈◊〉 never pleased how it change of Recreation The martyr'd Couples fancy each other for a while and own their 〈…〉 and they grow 〈◊〉 in their affections Great care is taken to get and bring up Children but then like an Hen as soon as they are from under their Wings little regard them as to their manners and behaviours nothing of the Excellency of the mind being taken notice of and so they flourish in outwardthing let every thing else more as Fancy drives How many strange humours are in men when they are poor they seek Riches and when they have obtain'd 〈◊〉 they have not the hearts to enjoy it as they ought but either 〈…〉 it up or 〈…〉 and Luxury ◠〈◊〉 their health or destroy themselves How do their Fancies lead them to Jar and contend Relation with 〈◊〉 c for 〈◊〉 and crave after Riches almost in their Graves when they know 〈◊〉 can carry nothing with them and their Children to whom they should leave it are many times dead before them or 〈◊〉 Riches left them serve 〈◊〉 hasten their miseries 〈◊〉 pussed up with pride they 〈◊〉 into divers Evils They miss account of divers senseless 〈◊〉 on which their Fancies 〈◊〉 Value as Pictures Statutes 〈◊〉 the like when they 〈◊〉 regard to their having Neighbours and Relations 〈◊〉 effect difficult things 〈◊〉 are for roving from place to place not bring quiet i◠〈◊〉 They commend courage and strength in War and yield themselves to be overcome with their Vices c 〈◊〉 now continued be if these 〈◊〉 were not Rise in the World should have no cause of 〈◊〉 It is not that I am so â—turally prone to it as they 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but their Fancies 〈◊〉 Follys Extort from me 〈◊〉 Mirth Hippocrates 〈◊〉 heard him with patience low'd his Reason and 〈◊〉 answer to those that sent him That Democritus was a very wise and Learned Philosopher which made many
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
idem denoâ—at a fine thin Skin within the Body dividing the Flesh or any near Member one from the another Also a Skin like a Cap wherein divers Children are born And the Skin in wraping the Brains are call'd Films the inmost which is next the Brain is also called pia meninx or pia mater the other dura meninx or dura mater The Infant has three Teguments or Membranous Films which cover it in the Womb that is the Corion Amnios and Allantois Whereof see more in Vulg. Error pag. 269. Flabel flabellum a Fan. Footing-time Nf. when the Child-bed Woman gets up Forfeiture of Marriage a Writ against one under Age and holding by Knights Service who refused to Marry her whom his Lord preferr'd without his Disparagement Faunrekynes o. little Infants Fricasse Fr. fricassee any Meat fry'd in a Pan. Frances a Womans Name Frank-bank Free-bench the Dower of Copy-hold lands which the wife being espoufed a Virgin hath after her Husband's Decease Friga a Saxon Goddess in the shape of an Hermophradite Frontal frontale a Frontlet or attire of the Forehead Frumenty from frumention i.e. Wheat so called because it is a kind of Pottage made of Milk and Wheat Froise a Pancake with Bacon intermix Furina a Roman Goddess Patroness of Thieves Frussian stuff made of Cotton or the Down of an Egyptian Fruit. Furies furie three imaginary Fiends or Spirits in Hell having Snakes growing on them instead of Hairs Poets feign them to be the Daughters of the River Aenerou and Night and to have the Office of Tormenting Souls of Murtherers and wicked Men their Names were Alecio i.e. uncessantly Tormenting Megara i.e. enraged And Tysiphone i.e. the Avenger of Murder Fufil Lat. fufillis a little Spindle Festoon-ton f. Encarpo g. a Garland of Fruits or Flower-works in Graven or Embossed work Figuretto a kind of stuff Figurrd or flowered Filly foal a mare colt Flora the Goddess of flowers otherwise called Cloris Floramor flower of Love Flaunes o. Custards Foraign-project to provide Maids with Husbands approved on with an Account what that Project was It may justly astonish us to consider how industrious and careful so great and wise a State as that of Athens was to promote the Marriage of the poorest Virgin among them that of Aristogeton's Daughter may serve for an instance who being a poor Girl in an mean Island and living under great poverty was by the order of the Council brought into Athens and there Married at the Publick Expence We do not find the Patriarchs chaffering for Portions Isaac that was so great an Heir as that his Father out of his own House did raise three Hundred and eighteen Men born in his Service was at the charge of sending for a Wife without a Portion and Jacob with fourteen years Service purchased his As the World increased in Mony so it did in this Sin and both united to hinder the Ordinance of God turning the Command of Increasing and Multiplying Men into increase and multiply more of which we may say as it was in another case though much to the same purpose in the beginning it was not so There are some now living in these Kingdoms that remember when Money was the least part considered in Marriage when that Sum would have been thought a Fortune for a Lord that is now dispised by a Merchant yet then there were few dyed without Posterity and as few dyed for want or that which is worse lived like Beasts of Prey on the Labours of others Lycurgus among his Laws to the Spartans enjoyned this for one That they who lived unmarried and childless should be debarr'd from all sports and forced to go naked in the Winter about the Market-place and in the Spartan Laws there were the same punishments for bad Husbands as for them that were none both being thought equally mischievous to the Commonwealth and neither to be suffered Solon made a Law That there should be no Jointures nor Dowers and that Wives should bring their Husbands but Three Gowns with some other small Trisles of small value forbidding Portions which he looked upon as buying of Husbands and so making Merchandize of Marriage as of other Trades contrary to the Law of Nature and first design of the Institution which was for the increase of Children hence was he wont to 〈◊〉 That Men and Women should Marry for Issue Pleasure and Love but in no case for Money The Romans were so careful in this matter that they made Laws vouchsaffing divers Immunities and Priviledges to such as had many Children as we may see by 〈◊〉 particular Laan Julia or Papia which obliged all Men to take Wives and none to be excepted And not only they but a worse People the Persians had in former times a Custom to Honour Men once a year with some Gratuity from their King who had a Child that year by his Wife respecting him as a Man that had gained an eâ—teem in the Service of his Country by the Laws of Lycurgus Men that would not marry were to be deem'd infamous and to have no respect paid to them consonant to which is that Passage related by Pluâ—reb of Dorcillidas who coming into Prison where there was a young man who gave him no respect not even stirring from his place and being asked why he shewed him no reâ—erence seeing that he was a Man of Honour made the following Reply Because he was not the Father of a Son who might hereafter do as much for him We come nearer home and find at this day in some parts of Germany a Custom formerly more universal once a year at a general meeting in the City or Town to present Gifts and to give publick applause with loud Acclamations to such as were married and had Children that year thus Ecchoing out their Praises These are they that replenish the World As to Widowhood 't was forbidden by the Romans to have any Allowance in the Common-Wealth in case they were not superannuated The Nostranes in the East have so vast a veneration for Marriage that as soon as the married Couple has a Male-Child the Father loses his name and is called by that of his Eldest Son as supposing the Fathers name Isaac and the Son to be called Joseph he is no more named Isaac but Abba Joseph I have heard of a Custom amongst those worst of Men the Irish which may teach us Charity and that is before their Daughters are thirteen years of age they go about among all their Friends and Acquaintance taking the young Girl with them to shew that she is capable of Marriage This accounted sufficient Intimation to their Friends to understand their Design and therefore they need do no more but are immediately answer'd with what they can spare which is commonly in Cattel for they have little Mony This I have heard is a frequent Practice amongst them at this day and so general that a poor Man who may not be Master of six Cows himself will commonly
get twenty for their Daughters and make no Provision for their Sons by which means the Daughters seldom stay till fifteen and the young Men Marry the earlier to get themselves a Stock of Cattel which they are sure of with a Wife We find in several Parts of the World as in Thrace and Assyria that they were so possessed with an Opinion of the advantage of Marriage as occasion'd their making Laws for its Propagation And here that no Maids may be left unmarried either for want of Beauty Mony or Virtue I shall add the Project mention'd by a late Author to provide them with Husbands Which is as follows viz. That a Statute might be made obliging all Men from One and Twenty Years of Age to Marry or in Default to pay One Eighth Part Annually of their Yearly Income if they be Men of real Estates or One Eighth Part of the Interest of their Personal Estates if it amount to One Hundred per Annum of Real or to Four Hundred Personal as it shall be 〈◊〉 by Men appointed for that Affair and the same to be 〈◊〉 by all Single Women who 〈◊〉 their Fortunes in their Hands after that they arrive to in Age of Eighteen and the same to be paid by all 〈◊〉 and Widows who have 〈◊〉 Children the Widowers â—â—â— to pay after Sixty Years of Age nor the Widows after Forty and all these 〈◊〉 to continue as long as they are unmarried And because that Young Men are often 〈◊〉 from Marriage through Default of their Fathers 〈◊〉 the same Mulct shall be laid on the Father's Estate as if â—â— were the Son 's This Mony so rais'd to be disposed in every City and Country as they find see sir for Portions to young Maids who are under Forty Years of Age and Care taken that it be expended every Year so as no Bank to be kept and that no Portion be ever given to any who have been debaunched with such other Rules as may be prescribed These Kingdoms in their most happy days never saw a Law which made that immediate Provision for the meanest Soul in it as this will do for 't will set the Captive free whereas many are now born who have reason to continue the Lamentation they found out at their first Entrance into the World Our greatest Charity for the Poor is at most but to keep them so but this will be cloathing them with Wedding Garments and every Corner of the Land will rejoice with Nuptial Songs and undoubtedly if it be a Virtuous Act to relieve the Poor this must be greater to provide for them for the present and to prevent it in their Posterity I 'm sensible that some may be apt to raise Objections against this Proposal which to save the Trouble both of naming and answering them I think this Reply may serve for all That there can be no particular Injury done in this Matter which can stand in the least Competition with the Consideration of such Publick Good as both Reforming and Peopling of a Kingdom will necessarily amount to See a Book call'd Marriage Promoted Female Modety Occasion and our Nature are like two inordinate Lovers they seldom meet but they do sin together Man is his own Devil and oftentimes doth tempt himself So prone are we to Evil that it is not one of the least Instructions that doth advise us to beware of our selves Now an Excellent Virtue to restrain or check a Man or Woman from running into Vice is Modesty I am perswaded many Women had been bad that are not so if they had not been bridled by a bashful Nature There are divers that have a Heart for Vice that have not a Face accordingly Surely the Graces sojourn with a blushing Virgin It is Recorded that the Daughter of Aristotle being asked which was the best Colour made answer That which Modesty produced in ingenious Spirits To blush at Vice is to let the World know that the Heart within hath an Inclination to Virtue Now to give a check to such immodest Women who proceed from the Acts of Uncleanness to Murder the illegitimate Off spring I shall for the information of these Ignorant Wantons give them a light of the following Act. An Act to prevent the Destroying and Murthering of Bastard Children WHereas many Leud Women that have been delivered of Bastard Children to avoid their Shame and to escape Punishment do secretly Bury or Conceal the Death of their Children and after if their Children be found dead the said Women do alledge that the said Child was born dead wheras it falleth out sometimes altho hardly it is to be proved that the said Child or Children were Murthered by said Women their Leâ—d Mothers or by their Assent or Procurement For the preventing therefore of this great Mischief be it Enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament That any Woman after one Month next ensuing the end of this Session of Parliament be delivered of any Issue of her Body Male or Female which being born alive should by the Laws of this Realm be a Bastard that she indeavour privately either by Drowning or secret Burying thereof or any other way either by her self or the procuring of others so to conceal the Death thereof as that it may not come to light whether it were born alive or not but he concealed in every such Case the said Mother so offending shall suffer Death as in Case of Murther except such Mother can make proof by one Witness at the least that the Child whose Death was by her so intended to be concealed was Born dead Modesty is one the most natural and most useful Tables of the Mind wherein one may presently read what is printed in the whole Volume Certainly a good Heart looks out thro' modest Eyes and gives an Answer to any that asks who is within with modest Words and dwells not at the sign of the Bush or Red-lattice or Painted-post A glorious Soul is above dresses and despiseth such as have no higher or other thoughts then what concern their gorget and their hair This preserves in tune and keeps the scale of Affections even This teaches a denying and preventing behaviour towards Tentations 1. Let the Carriage and Behaviour be modest Rebekah put on the Vail Gen. 24.64 when Abraham's Servant told her That the Man whom they saw coming towards them was his Master's Son to whom she was intended in Marriage Contrarily the Woman with the Attire of an Harlot of whom Sâ—omoâ— speaks Met a young Man and kissed him and with an impudent face she spake unto him Prov. â— 13. 2. Let the Language be modest Even Aristotle in his Politicks would have all Obsceness of words to be banished by the Law because when People take a liberty to speak ill they learn to do ill He would therefore have such as are Young neither to speak or hear any thing that is foul and if any be found faulty to be punished with stripes or some note of
Sincerity of their Affections said Well Eginardus hadst thou loved my Daughters Honour thou oughtest to have come to her Father who is the proper Disposer of her Liberty you have justly deserved to dye but I give thee two Lives take thy fair Portress in Marriage fear God and love one another As for the Joy they conceived at this unexpected Declaration we leave to Lovers in such a a like Condition to Judge of And now since Holy Writ tells us what Love is I shall give you one more singular Example and so proceed to the rest of the Branches of this excellent Passion that so much enobles the minds of Men and Women In the Seventh Persecution of the Christians when Rivers of precious Blood were shed in all the Roman Empire for the Gospel-truth one Theodora a beautiful and chaste Virgin was taken and the barbarons Judge perceiving she preferred her Chastity before her life Condemned her to the Stews with an Order she should be ravished by as many as pleased upon News of which a great many lewd Fellows came Crowding to wait the appointed time when one 〈◊〉 a young Man who bore her an extraordinary Love for her Piety though he suspected the Attempt would be his Death nevertheless resolved to free her from that Shame and therefore pressing in in Soldiers habit before the rest he prevailed with her to change Cloaths with him and so make her Escape but he staying in her stead was doomed to die The Virgin hearing this resolved to save him if possible by surrendring her self but so cruel was the Tyrant that this stupendious Miracle of Love and Friendship prevailed not for he doom'd them both to Death which they suffered joyfully and ascended to the Quite of eternal Harmony Tho' the fair Sex be counted the weaker yet in this glorious Passion they prove the strongest superseding the Fidelity of of their Nature by the strength of an incredible Affection so that being born up with that they have often performed as worthy things as could â—e expected from the Courage and Constancy of mankind even the most generous of them They have despised Death in all the Variety of his terrible Shapes and forced the strong opposing Bars of Difficulties and Dangers to make way to the Centre of invicible Love and in which they seemed proud to let it appear more strong in the greatest Extremities of their Husbands of which a few Examples will not be amss Love in Aviz the Wife of Cicinna Poectus was exceeding for having knowledge that her Husband was condemned to die yet Liberty given him to chuse was Death he pleased she went to him and exhorted him to contemn the fear of Death and die Couragiously and then giving a kind Farewel she with a Knife hid in her Garments stabbed her self as resolving not to out-live her Husbands fall and then whilst strength of Life remained reaching him the Knife she said The would I have made 〈◊〉 Smarts not but that which thou art about to give thy self is Iâ—tolerable to me and so they both died Embracing each other with all the tender Expressions of a constant Affection At the time the Emperor Conrade the Third besieged the Duke Ouâ—tsus of Bavaria in the City of Wensberg in Germany the Women perceiving the Town at the point of being taken Petitioned the Emperor that they might depart with each of them so much as they could carry on their Backs which being granted and every one expecting they would come forth with their rich Apparel Vessels and of Gold and Silver and the like they on the contrary neglecting them brought every one her Husband on her Back at which so extraordinary Love and Tenderness in these Virtuous women the Emperor was so moved that he could not refrain from Tears and thereupon not only forgave them all though before he had doomed them to Destruction but received the Duke into Favour and highly praised the Women And we find divers others in Story that have equalled if not exceeded these we have mentioned Portia the Daughter of Cato and Wife to Brutus hearing of her Husbands overthrow and Death in the Philippi Field she for the great Love we bare him determined to die and though her Friends apprehensive of her Design kept all manner of mischievous Instruments from her she founds means to Cram burning Coals down her Throat and so expired others have leaped into their Husbands flaming Funeral Piles and so expired Eumines burying the dead that had fail'n in the Battle of Jabbins against Antigonus amongst others there was found the Body of Ceteas the Captain of those Troops that had come out of India This Man had two Wives who accompanied him in the Wars the one of which he had newly married and another which he had married a few years before but both of them bore an intire love to him for whereas the Laws of India require that one Wife shall be burnt with her dead Husband both proffer'd themselves to Death and strove with that Ambition as if it was some glorious Prize they sought after Before such Captains as were appointed their Judges the younger pleaded that the other was with Child and that therefore she could not have benefit of that Law Tht Elder pleaded that whereas she was before the other it was also fit that she should be before her in Honour since it was customary in other things that the Elder should have place The Judges when they understood by Midwives that the elder was with child passed Judgment that the younger should be burnt which done she that had lost the cause departed rending her Diadem and tearing her Hair as if some grievous Calamity had befallen her The other all Joy at her Victory went to the Funeral Fire magnificently dressed up by her Friends led along by her Kindred as if to her Nuptials they all the way singing Hymns in her Praises When he drew near the Fire taking of her Ornaments she delivered them to her Friends and Servants as tokens of Remembrance they were a multitude of Rings with variety of precious Stones Chains and Stars of God c. this done she was by her Brother placed upon the 〈◊〉 Matter by the side of her Husband and after the Army had thrice compassed the Funeral Pile fire was put to it and she without a word of Complaint finished her life in the Flames Again some Wives have lived with their vanâ—â—â—shed or bansshed Husbands 〈◊〉 Woods Rocks Cave c choosing to undergo all manner of Hardship and Misery rather than be seperated from them Julius Sabinus who had caused the Galls to Rebell against Vespatian flying his wrath accompanied with a Servant or two to a Tomb or Burying-place of the dead there dismissed one of them to spread the news abroad that he was slain in the Field or had afterward poisoned himself this coming to the Ears of Epoâ—â—â—â— his wife she wept and would by no means be comforted resolving to die this made
Veneries and Pleasures attending her and is by him preferred before a Myriad of the rarest Beauties nay before all the Goddesses he has read of or are told in Fables when a man or woman is so taken it shows the Symptoms of Love in an extraordinary manner and denotes a kind of witchcraft in Love A Gordian knot that is altogether difficult if not impossible to untie and requires the Sword of Alexander to cut it in sunder That is a man must do violence to himself in breaking such a slavish Chain take himself away as it were whether he will or no from the Temptation and be weaned by absence 'till with the Eyes of his Reason he is capable of discerning his Mistake and Folly and then there is hopes of a cure for his Frenzy but till then his Recovery is despaired of Melancholly Lovers of all sorts are thus entangled like unthinking Indians they barter Gold and Diamonds for Beads and painted Glass If I did says Lucreâ—ia but let my Glove fall I had one of my Suiters nay two or three ready to take it up and as a Favour kiss it then with a low Congy deliver it into my hand and if I walked another was ready to sustain me a third provided Pears Plumbs Apricocks Cherries and the rarest of Fruits to accommodate and proud was he from whose hand I accepted them nor is the other Sex less dotingly overseen for come to me says a fair Lady in Aristâ—â—etus Come quickly Sweet-heart for all other men are meer Clowns Block-heads and Satyrs in my Eyes to thy lovely self thy Gestures Looks and Actions are incomparable beyond all others Venus never so admired her Adonis 〈◊〉 pleased with Hipolytus Ariaâ—ne with Theseus or Hero with Leandeâ— as she was taken and Enamoured with her Mopsus tho' Characters of deformity were Engraven on him by the hand of nature and vice had slamp'd Imperfection on his mind O Call me Sister Call me Servant chuse Or rather thy dear Love 〈◊〉 thine to use What shall we say when all these things are seriously weighed and Considered but that the best name we can give these sorts of Love is a noble madness though some will have it that amongst the many absurd and irksom Symptoms Phantastick Fits Passions and Inconveniencies incident to persons thus infascinated there are some Beams of pure Light penetrating the Fogs and Mists and shining bright some graceful Qualities in these Lovers which this Affection causeth at certain times for as it sometimes makes wise Men Fools so again by dear bought Experience it opens the eyes of Fools and renders them Wise it makes the Sordid become Generous Cowards Couragious the Covetous Liberal and Magnificent the Clown Civil the Cruel Gentle the Prophane Religious Slovens Neat the Lazy Active observant and the like Marriage it's Joys and real Comforts c. Marriage or Matrimony derives it's Honour and Antiquity from Paradice where God himself joyned the first and most Lovely pair that ever entered into that Comfortable State and has enjoyned it as a great Happiness to Man to distinguish him the more nobly from irrational Creatures though it is not nor has been so exactly observed as the happy Conveniences of it require In the first Ages of the world People were rude and boisterous having corrupted their ways and in a great manner thrown off this â—oly State living promiscuously Therefore some of great Antiquity will have it that Câ—crops King of Athens some hundreds of years after the Flood reformed Mens manners in Europe by perswasions and wholsome Laws shewing them the Inconveniences of brutal Lust and the Praise and Advantages accruing by living Chaste and Virtuous Lives It is indeed the happy sweet of Life where the Married Couple met upon such Terms as the State was first designed for To be a help and comfort to each other to be tender kind of goal Natur'd the Man striving to do all for the Womans good and she Labouring as much as in her liâ—s to requite his Care and Industry never to give cause of Anger or Disturbance but to stifle or bridle those Passiâ—ns that would make it uneasie and disturb it's Quiet There is not only your own Proneness â—o hinder the true Felicity that arises from his State but there are Satans Instruments malicious People who take a Pleasure in mischief and labour to disturb and hinder so sweet a Harmony as a Constant and unshaken Love makes in the Souls of those who take care to keep it pure For although in several parts of the World Marriage is highly prized yet they have such Fantastick ways in the Celebration and Continuance that they make it appear ridiculous The Persians Partbians and most of the Eastern Nations having by the Customs of their Countries liberty to marry as many Wives as they can maintain and live in common among them and in some Countries the Bramins or Heathen Priests always have the Brides Maiden-head or the Profit of it by assigning her over to any one that will give Money for the first Nights Enjoyment It was a Law in Scotland that the Landlords should have that advantage over their Tenants Wives and it held a long time till Malcolm the Third abolished it among the Romans Marâ—rage was kept Inviolable and as a most Honourable Estate till such time as they got the knack of Divorcing which now none use more often Amongst the Indians of the East it was a Custom many Years that all the Brothers should have but one Wife in common and therefore when he that went unto her set his staffe at the Door which any of the other seeing retired till it was removed The Assyrians and Babilonians were either very Proud that they would not sue to the Female Sex for their Favours or else Awkard or Lazy in the Art of Courtship for we find they generally especially those of the more inferior Rank bought their Wives some of their Parents privately others in the publick Market and indeed Ladies we must own that obtaining them at such a rate they held an absolute Tyranny over and abridged them of those Liberties and Priviledges which by Prerogative in Nature and Merit is justly due to your Sex but through the happy influence of your more Auspicious Stars you live in a Climate more temperate and not subject to such misfortunes but sit Commanding on the Throne of your Beauties compelling the stubbornest of Mankind to pay you Homage Marriage was formerly attended with other Ceremonies than at present even in England for upon the Wedding-day there was carried before the Bride who was led by two young Persons as a Bason of Gold or Silver whilst on her Head she wore a Garland of Corn-Eats signifying Riches and Plenty and Wheat was scattered upon her by other Attendants in token of Fruitfulness and upon the Bridal Night before she entered the Streets a Censer with Fire and Incense was put in one hand and Water in the other as Emblems of Piety Virtue
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
and Truck a Pearl Necklace for a Shoo-string At this rate for my part I would not be to live over again so wretched a life being come now to write fall man If I have an Estate how many cares snits and wrangles go along with it if I have none what murmuring and regret at my misfortunes by this time the sins of my youth are goâ—â—â— into my bones I grow soâ—â— and melancholy nothing pleases me I mutter at old Age and the Youth which 〈◊〉 can never recover in my vâ—â—â—â— I endeavour to fetch out of the Barbers Shops from â—â—ruques Razors and Patches to conceal or at least disguise all the marks and lucidenses of Nature in her decay nay when I shall have never an Eye to see with nor a Tooth in my Head Gouty Legs Windmills in my Crown my Nose running like a Tap and Gravel in my Reins by the bushel then must make Oath that all this is nothing but meer accident gotten by lying in the Field or the like and outface the truth in the very Teeth of so many undeniable Witnesses There is no Plague comparable to this hypocracy of the members to have an old Fop shake his heels when he is ready to fall to pieces and cry these Legs could make a shift yet to run with the best legs in the Company and then with a lusty thump on 's breast fetch ye up on Hem and cry Sound at Heart boy And a thousand other fooleries of the like nature but all this is nothing to the misery of an Old fellow in love especially if he be put to Gallant it against a company of young Gamâ—sters O the inward shame and â—â—â—tion to see himself scarce 〈◊〉 much as neglected How often must I be put to the 〈◊〉 too when every old Fool shall be calling me 〈◊〉 acquiantance and telling me of Sir 't is many a fair my since you and I knew 〈◊〉 another first I think was in the four and 30th the Queen that we were Schoolfellows how the world 's alter'd since And then will every old Maid be calling me Grandsir Again Is it not nauseous to see a Lady of eighty smug and spruce up as if she was in the flower of eighteen to trick and trim as if they were new come in when they are just going out of the World to harness out as if for a Wedding when they should be preparing for a Winding-sheet When the Coffin is making and the Grave a digging Worms ready for them but they ready for neither And hence I infer saith a learned Author That for Aged persons by any habit or dresses to represent themselves as young and youthful is sinfull Their Glass tells them they are Old but they believe it not time has snowed gray Hairs on their Heads and they acknowledge it not would they have others believe they are what they would seem Then they would have 'em believe a lye A lye may be told by visible as well as audible signs or are they ashamed of their hoary head Oyles Essences sweet waters Oyles in the Art of beautifying are of use as are the others mentioned for such as the Efficacy of them that they 'l rather Cherish than Extinguish the flames of Love they 'l put you Ladies in so sweet a pickle as will make the dainties that shall sharpen the Appetite of those that have no Stomack to Loves banquet and to be sincere with the Pope and all his Conclave ye with their holy waters and holy Oyles shall never do so many wonders as you may do with these materials Omit not to use what is directed but take Oyles of Musk one Dram of Cloves six grains of Lillys of the valley a Little Virgins wax Icorporate them and you will have an Oderiferous unguent with which the Nostrils being annointed it comforts the brain and revives the Spirits gives a fresh and rosey Colour to the face and hinders vapours Or take Cloves Nutmeg Cinamon and Lavender of each two drams Oyle of Cloves Angelica Spike and Lavender of each half a Scruple Musk and Amber of each three grains wax four drams make them into an oyly balsam and you will have a very pleasing scent Exceeding delightful and healthful curing pains in the head removing fits and vapours c. Oyl of the Most noble scent and Excelent for beautifying the face and hands is obtained thus Take of Benzoin the best twelve ounces ponder it very fine then take Liquid Styrax as much as will suffice to make into a past being well mixed put it into a glass Alimbeck with a glass head set in ashes or sand and to the nose of the Alimbeck Cement a Receiver with well tempered Clay and the whites of Eggs so close that the vapours may have no vent then kindle a fire under it leasurely and make it stronger by degrees at first there will come a yellow water of a small quantity and of no great value but after it will Arise a vapour as white as snow sticking to the Alimbeck the which perceived keep the fire at an Equality but when it rises no more make the fire stronger but not too violent and then you will perceive an oyle Ascend Exceeding sweet and according to the colour of your oyls you must observe to change your receivers your Last oyl will be the best but to make it yet a rarer perfume take an ounce and half of the white snow oyl of sweet Almonds newly drawn four ounces melt both over a gentle fire stirring it continually till the snowy part be dissolved and to give it a redish colour put in a small piece of the root of Alcanet and so you may have a perfume of no Excellent scent If you would yet have this oyle of a Richer Odour dissolve in it a scruple of Amber-Greece and you will find at the bottom of your Alimbeck a kind of a black oyl which will be of a very strong smell but being mixed with Liquid storax 〈◊〉 will make excellent scentâ—â— Pomanders if you keep it by it self the best way is to keep it open that air by degrees may draw away the over strongness of the scent Obedience of Virgins c. to Parents in matters of Marriages c. Obedience in young virgins is very comely and brings along with it a blesing that is Entailed on them and their posterity nor is it more their duty than their Interest to pay obedience where the Laws of God and nature require it youth is often headdy and would frequently Miscarry in the pursuit of many things were not care taken by their parents or some that oversee them to prevent the miserties they would unadvisedly plunge themselves into And therefore God who permits not the fowls of the Air to destitute their young till they attain to the perfection of their kind has put children under the Indulgence and protection of their parents till by the maturing their judgments they are qualified to be their own Conductors This
of the blessed Virgin divided into seven parts 1. Malines and Laudes 2. The Prime 3d. 6th None or 〈◊〉 hour 6. Vespers or Eversong 7. The Complines Prioress the Governess of a Nunnery Panado Span. Punada or Empanada Fr. Paude a kind of Food made of crumbs of bread and Curran's boiled in water or as some will have it of grated Bread Milk Sugar and grated Cheese Pandora seigned by Hesiodes to be the first Woman and made by Vulcan indued by all the Gods with several Excellent Gifts but afterwards by Jupiter in displeasure sent to her Spouse Epimetheus with a box full of all manner of miseries Hence Pandora's box is taken for misery calamity and the like Pregnant big with Child also full copious ripe Possowa an Indian beast receiving her young ones on occasion into a bag under her belly Paphian paphius belonging to Paphos a City of Cyprus dedicated to Venus and built by Paphus Hence Paphus Archer is taken for Cupid 〈◊〉 fire or shot for the fire or arrows of Love Papian Law Lex 〈◊〉 Poppea a Law made among the ancient Romans against single life that if any forbore from the priviledges of Parents and had no children the People who was the common Father of all should inherit their Goods Tacit. Popelet lote c. a Pappet or young wench Polygamy g. a being marry'd to many at the same time Polyhimnia lymnia one of the Muses Pomander q. Pomamber D. a ball of Perfumes Param peramator a lover he or she a Sweet-heart Paranymph Paranymphus an Orator who a little before the Commencement of Doctors c. makes a publick Speech in commendation of their sufficiency also an Overseer of a Wedding a Bride-dresser or he or she that bears all the sway at the Bridal Paraphonalia is used in our Law but in the Civil it is Paraphernalia which are those Goods a Wife brings her Husband over and besides her Dowry and Marriage mony as Furniture for her own Chamber her own Apparel and Jewels if she be of Quality all which she must have and not the Executors of the Husband c. Shep. Fa. Counc 122. Plesades g. seven Daughters of Atlas turn'd into the seven fears Plow monary next after Twelfth-day when our Northern Plowmen beg Plowmony to drink and in some places if the Plowman after that days work come with his Whip to the Kitchin-harsh and cry Cock in the Pos before the maid says Cock on the Dunghill he gains a Cock for Shrove-Tuesday Point f. the plight one is in also Rich Needle work Paritude Pariture or Parture from pario a breeding or ingendring the time of travail or deliverance of child or young Philomela flying from Terous who had ravish'd her and cut her Tongue out Pimpleiades the Muses Pimpompet f. an antick dance of three kicking each others bum Perwick wig Peruque f. a cap of false hair Phoedra Daughter of Mines and wife of Theseus Phemone the first Priests of Appolo at Delphos and inventress of Heroick Verse Phaetontiades Phaetons sister Phao a Lesbian Youth made beautiful by an Ointment given him of Venus Pentagamist Gr. one that hath had five wives Penlography peplographia the description of the Vail called Peplum which was an Embroidered Vesture or hood to cover the head now used for a Kercher worn especially by women going to be churched Tho. Peregrina a Womans Name Pelias Brother of Aeson King of Thessaly slain by his own daughters Pelopaea the mother of Aeghisibus by her own Father Thyestes Peple lum l. a hood for women at their Churching Pugitar a Rival in Love Petty Treason Fr. Petit Trahison Treason it a lesser or lower kind It a Servant kill his Master a Wife her Husband a Secular or Religious man his Prelate these are Petit Treasons Pin as he is in a merry Pin it was an ancient kind of Dutch artificial Drunkenness the cup commonly of Wood had a Pin about the middle of it and he was accounted the man who could nick the Pio by drinking even to it whereas to go above or beneath was a forfeiture This Device was of old the cause of so much Debauchery in England that one of the Constitutions of a Synod held at Westâ— in the Year 1102. was to this Effect That Priests should 〈◊〉 go to publick Drinkings nec ad Pinnus bibunt nor drink at Pins And King Edgar made a Law that none should drink below the Pin. Pip is a Disease in Poultry being a white thin Scale growing on the top of the tongue which hinders them from eating it proceeds generally from drinking puddle water or eating filthy meat Pledge from the Fr. Pleige a surety or gage To pledg one drinking had its Original thus When the 〈◊〉 bore sway in this Land if a Native did drink they would sometimes stab him with a Dagger or Knife Hereupon people would not drink in company unless some one present would be their pledge or surety that they should receive so hurt whilst they were in their draught Hence that usual phrase I 'le pledge you or be a pledge for you Pattus The bringing forth of a Mature Faetus or Young in natural Births The Faetus having broken the Membrances turns his head forward and inclining it towards the neck of the Womb strives to get forth the usual manner is after nine Months Yet I have known some at Amsterdam born at seven Months who have lived to Fifty or Sixty Dr. Blanked Phillis Gr. a Womans Name and signifies Lovely as Amie in French Philomel philomela a Nightingale Philosophy philosophia the love or desire of Wisdom a deep knowledg in the nature of things there are three different kinds of it 〈◊〉 Rational Philosophy including Grammar Logick and â—hetorick and this dives into the subtility of disputations 〈◊〉 discourse 2. Natural Philosophy searching into the obscurity of Natures Secretes concerning besides Arithmetick 〈◊〉 Geometry and Astronomy 3. Moral Philosophy which consists in the knowledg and practice of civility and good behaviour Philtre philtrum â—morous potion a love occuring drink or medicine Platonick love is a love abstracted from all corporeal gross impressions and sensual appetite and consists in contemplation and Idaea's of the mind not in any carnal Fruition or it is a love of Friendship without any admixture of Sensuality So called from Plato the Divine Philosopher Pickadil à Belg. Pickedillekens i. e. Lacinia Teut. Pickedel the round hem or the several divisions set together about the skirt of a Garment or other thing also a kind of stiff collar made in fashion of a Band. That famous Ordinary near St. James's called Picadilly took denomination from this that one Higgins a Taylor who built it got most of his Estate by Pitadilles which in the last age were much in fashion Pilch pellicea a woollen or sur garment now used for a flanel cloth to wrap about the lower part of young Children Hence d. Surplice q. Surplich Pommade Fr. Pomatum or Pomata an Ointment used by
and Adventures of Shepherds so that its Character must be simple its Wit easy the manners innocent the language pure the Expressions plain and the Discourse natural The Models to be proposed to write well in this sort of Poesy are Theocritus and Virgil. Secondly Satyr If says Dryden we take Satyr in the General signification of the word as it is used in all modern Languages for Invective 't is certain that 't is almost as old as Verse and through Hymns which are the Praises of God may be allow'd to have been before it yet the Defamation of others was not long after it The principal end of Satyr is to instruct the people by discrediting Vice It may therefore be of great Advantage in a state when taught to keep within bounds and is not as it often happens like a Sword â—n the hands of a Madman that runs a Tilt at all manner of Persons without any sort of distinction or reason It is more difficult to praise then to find fault yet the same delicacy of wit that is necessary to to keep the one from being fulsome is necessary to keep the other from being bitter Of all the ways that wisest men could find To mend the Age and mortify mankind Satyr well writ hath mâ—â—â— successful prov'd And cures because the remedy is Lov'd Thirdly There is a sort of Satyr among us which we call Lampoons which are dangerous sort of Weapon and for the most part unjust because we have no moral right on the Reputation of other men In these no Venome is wanting or decâ—oy consiâ—â—r'd The weaker Sex is their most ordinary Theme and the best and â—â—irest are sure to â—e most â—â—â—â—â—ely handled Among men â—â—â—se who are Prosperoâ—â—ly Uâ—â—â—â—â— are entituled to a Panegâ—â—ickâ— but afflicted Vertue is insolently stab'd with all manner of Reproaches We should have insisted longer here on the several sorts of Poetry but for want of Room we shall finish what is wanting on this subject in the secoâ—d part of this Dictionary T. TAbitha Acts 91.36 in the Syriac tabitha 1 a â—â— Buck. Tace 1. Hold peace hush be silent from tacâ—o to be siâ—ent and indeed it is a fit Nâ—me to admonish the fair Sex of silence Tamar 2 Sex 13.1.1 â— Palm Tree Thamasin or Thomasiâ— 1. â— Twin from Thomas in Mens Names Tempâ—rance â—1 Moderation â—â—berness or refraining from â—â—â—â—â—â—lity Tâ—â—odâ—cia 1. given of God Thâ—opâ—tia 1. a Friend of â—od Tadica a very Rich Araâ—â—â— Woman with whom â—â—â—â—omet the Impostor lived â—â— a Slave or Menial Servant â—â—en Sirgeus a Monk perswaâ—â— her in hopes of great â—â—ward to Marry Mahomes 〈◊〉 then being 50 years of â—ge when by the countenance â—â— her Wealth he spread aâ—â—oâ—d his pernicious Doâ—â—â—iâ—e Thamer Daughter in Law â—â— Judah the Patriarch who â—â—â—â—ingly deceived him by 〈◊〉 way side as he went to 〈◊〉 sheep-shearing by persoâ—â—â—ng a Harlot or Commonâ—oman because he had â—â—â—held from her his Son â—â—own up to years who â—â—ght to have been given to 〈◊〉 for a Husband Thamer the Daughter of Dâ—vid the King whose Chastity waâ— violaâ—ed by Aâ—non one of the Kings Sons he forcibly gaining his will of her by 〈◊〉 himself sick and procuring her to attend him in his Chamber which afterwards cost him his Life at the command of Absalonâ— at a Sheep-shearing Feast to which â—e had invited him and his â—â—ethren Tanaquiâ— otherwise called cicily who was sometimes Wife to the Elder Tarqâ—in she was a very prudent Woman and an Excellent Inventress of curious work especially in Embroideries of Purple and Gold and in memory of her Art a Royal Cloak of her working was hung up in the Tâ—â—ple of Fortune she also 〈◊〉 Coats and Vests entire and distributed theiâ— among young Soldiers and young Married Men as their Deserts appeared Tabitha otherwise called Dorcas whom our blessed Saviour raised from the Dead was no doubt a Woman of singular dexterity in curious Woâ—â—s with the Needle for there we find those who lament her death seem as much to grieve for the loss of her Art which must probably have dyed with her As for the Artist as appears by shewing 〈◊〉 curious Worâ—s and no douâ—â— commending them very highly as things rare and not to be parallel'd by any of her Sex of that Country or in those times Tarbâ—la the Bishop of Selâ—cia's Sister being much envyed by the Jews for her Zeal and Piety in promoteing the Christian Religion was by them accused for intending to poyson the Queen of Persia in revenge of her Brothers Death and being condemnèd the Magi one of them taken with her excellent Beauty promised to secure her Life if she would yield to his Lust but to preserve her Chastity she chose rather to dye and accordingly suffer'd with great courage and constancy Taygete Daughter of Atlas and Pleion one of the Pleiades on whom Jupiter begat Lacedemon Founder of Lacedemonia once a famous City in Greece Telesilla A famous Argine Lady by whose Counsel and Courage the Argiers beat the Lacedonians and freed their Country She was likewise excellent in Poetry so that she for these and other virtues had a Statue of her proportion set up in the City of Argos Tellus the Earth was by the Antients worshipped as a Goddess and Homer calls her the Mother of the Gods for the advantages she gives and affords to Mankind wherefore they Painted her with great Swelling Breasts and Naked Terphitchorie Accounted one of the Nine Muses to whom they attribute the keeping true tâ—ne and measure in dancing as also the Invention of Set Dances and was by the Ancients painted holding a Harp in her hand and other Musical Instruments lying at her Feet also a Garland or Caplet of flowers on her Head Tethys the Daughter of Caelum Sister to Vecta and Sâ—turn said to be married to Neptune Thetis another Fabled Goddess of the Sea who bore Achilles the famous Greek who did such wonders at the Siege of Troy Teudeguilde Daughter to a Sheperd but of such Excellent shape and beauty that Chariber for her sake refused all the great Ladies of the Court and Married her Theano Wife to Pythagoras a Woman of great Ingenuity and Learning but above all exceeding Chasâ—â—â— and Virtuous teaching Phylosophy after the death 〈◊〉 her Husband Thermis by Eusebius called Carmeâ—ta held to be the Daughter of Heaven and Earth aâ— the first that gave Oracles to the pagans and taught the Image Worship She is otherwise stiled the Goddess of Justice and is fabled thâ—t upon refusing to Marry â—upiter he forced her to 〈◊〉 Will and begot on her Justice Peace and Law Themistoclea a Famous Learned Virgin was Daughter to Mensarchus a Gold-smith of Samos Theodelinda a Queen of the Lumbards about 593. And after the Death of Authaeris heâ— Husband she kept the Crown and transferred it upon a second Husband viz. Agulphis she reduced the Lumbards into good order and made them renounce Aranisme yet sell her self afterward into Error