of Epigrams an Elegy upon her Husbands death and other Verses of various kinds and subjects Cleobule or Cleobuline the Daughter of Cleobulus Prince of Lindus she is particularly noted for her faculty in Aenigmatical Sentences or Riddles Corrina a Theban Poetess who wrote Five Books of Epigrams and is said to have been five times Victress over Pindarus Besides her there were two others of the same name namely Corinna the Thessuzin and Corinna the Roman Lady whom Ovid much admired Carnificia a Roman Epigrammatick Poetess Cassandra Fidele a Venetian Lady She write a Volumâ— of Latin Poems of various subjects and kinds Catherine Philips the most applauded Poetess of our Nation her Fame is of a fresh and lively date from the but late publisht Volume of her Poetical Works Churlo Sax. Ceorle a Country Clown a Bumpkin in the North a Carle Chiromanter Chiromantes a Palmester or one that tells fortunes by the lines of the hand Cloris The Goddess of Flowers called also Flora. Chorus Lat. a Company of Singers or Dancers a Quire The singing or musick between every Act in a Tragedy or Comedy In a Comedy there are four Accessory parts viz. 1 The Argument 2 Prologue 3. Chorus 4. Mimick Of all which the Tragedy hath only the Chorus Chrisome a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies properly the white cloth which is set by the Minister of Baptism upon the head of a Child newly Anointed with Chrism after his Baptism Now it is vulgarly taken for the white cloth put about or upon a Child newly Christened in token of his Baptism wherewith the woman used to shrowd the Child if dying within the Month otherwise it is usually brought to Church at the day of Purification Chrisomes in the Bills of Mortality are such Children as die within the Month of their Birth because during that time they use to wear the Chrisom cloth Cabaline fountain of the Muses Calivate caelibatus single life the state of Man or Woman unmarried Herb. H. 8 Care-cloth According to the use of the Church of Sarum when there was a Marriage before Mass the parties kneel'd together and had a fine Linnen cloth called the Care-cloth laid over their heads during the time of Mass till they received the Benediction and then were dissmissed Caresse Fr. a cheering cherishing welcoming making much of Carnaval Fr. Shrovetide also a Licentious or Dissolute Season Castalian-Well a fountain at the foot of Parnassus sacred to the Muses taking the name of Castalia a Virgin who as Poets fain flying from the Leacherous God Apollo fell down headlong and was turned into this fountain Rider Catamite Catamitus a Boy hir'd to be abused contrary to Nature a Ganymede Ceruse Cerussa White-lead often used by Chyrurgeons in Ointments and Plaisters It is with Painters a principal white Colour and hath been and is still much used by Women in painting their Faces whom Martial in his merry vein scoffeth saying Cerussata timet Sabella solem Cest Cestus A Marriage-girdle full of studs wherewith the Husband girded his Wife at the Wedding and which he loosed again the first Night Chaperon Fr. a French-Hood for a Woman also any Hood or Bonnet mentioned in the Stat. 1 R. 2.7 Chaplet Fr. Chapelet a Wreath Garland or attire for the Head made of Gold Pearl or other costly or curious stuff used to be fastned behind in manner of a folded Roul or Garland Cully Fop or one that may easily be wrought upon Concubinage Concubinatus the keeping of a Whore for his own filthy use an unlawful Use of another Woman instead of one's Wife In Law it is an Exception against her that Sues for her Dowry whereby it is alledged that she was not a Wife lawfully married to the Party in whose Lands she seeks to be endowed but his 〈◊〉 Confarreation Confarreatio the solemnizing a Marriage a Ceremony used at the Solemnization of a Marriage in token of most firm Conjunction between Man and Wife with a Cake of Wheat or Batley This Ceremony is still retain'd in part with us by thâ—â— which we call the Bride-cake used at Weddings Continency Continentia a refraining of ill Desires or more strictly a restraining from all things delightful that hinde Perfection Copulation Copulatio â— coupling or joining it was one of the three ways of betrothing Marriage in Israel See Moses and Aaron p. 231. Coquettery Fr. the prattle or twattle of a pert Gossip or Minx Coral or Corral Corallum There are two principal forts hereof the one white the other red but the red is best It grows like a Tree in the bottom of the Sea green when under the Water and bearing a white Berry and when out turns red It is cold and dry in Operation good to be hang'd about Childrens Necks as well to rub their Gums as to preserve them from the Falling sickness Coranto Ital. Corranta a French running Dance also a News-book Corrivals Corrivales they who have Water from or use the same River And Metaphorically a Competitor in Love or they that Love one and the same Woman Culâ—â—riches Man eyes you Coverture Fr. signifies any thing that covers as Apparel a Coverlet c. In Law it is particularly apply'd to the Estate and Condition of a married Woman who by the Laws of the Realm is in potestate viri under Coverture or Covert-Baron and therefore disabled to make any bargain or contract without her Husband's consent or priviry or without his Allowance or Confirmation Brook hoc titulo per totum Courtesan Fr. Courtesane a Lady Gentlewoman or Waiting-woman of the Court also but less properly a professed Strumpet a famous or infamous Whore Courtesie of England Lex Angliae is used with us for a Tenure For if a Man marry an Inheritrix seiz'd of Land in â—ee-simple or in Fee-tail general or as Heir in Tail special and gets a Child of her that comes alive into the World though both it and his Wife die forthwith yet if she were in Possession he shall keep the Land during his Life and is call'd Tenant by the Courtesie of England Crabbat Fr. is properly an Adjective and signifies comely handsom gracious But it is often used Substantively for a new fashioned Gorget which Women wear or a Riding-band which Men wear Curranto ab 〈◊〉 illue currendo Fr. Courante a running Dance a French-dance different from what we call a Country-dance Corkney or Corkneigh apply'd only to one born within the sound of Bow-Bell that is within the City of London which Term came first according to Minshaw out of this Tale A Citizens Son riding with his Father out of London into the Country and being utterly ignorant how Corn grew or Cattle increased asked when he heard a Horse neigh what he did His Father answer'd The Horse doth neigh Riding further the Son heard a Cock crow and said Doth the Cock neigh 〈◊〉 Hence by way of Jeer he was call'd Cookneigh Min. A Cockney according to some is a Child that Sucks long But Erasmus
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
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
since they leave no marks or foot steps of that excellent Comliness that was wont to work Astonishment in all beholders but make the former cheerful and lively locks give way toâ— Meager Sallow Complexion Consider we once 〈◊〉 and we shall find that Meats and Drinks have a controulling power over the Features and Proportionable Lineaments of a charming Face and contribute much towards the making or marring a Beauty by Drinking and Eating the humours and more solid parts of the Body which are in successive Emulation are Nourished and kept in continual repair Certainly if we may credit Physicians the moderate use of healthful Diet Coroborates the Innate heat and gives a livly colour to the External Members and vigour to perform those Actions for which nature hath intended them on the contrary an intemperate Life indifferently abandoned to all sorts of Meats not distinguishing time or measure â—tiffles the Internal heat and breeds corrupt Blood from which proceed obstructions of the most Noble Parts and a Vitiated Mass of malignant Humours which causes a discoloured Pale or Tawny Visage and infinite other Inconveniences wherefore we admonish those that would be Beauties Favorites not to study too much Kitchen Philosophy nor busy themselves about too 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their Sumptuous 〈◊〉 nor be too Familiar with 〈◊〉 For if Baâ—chus 〈…〉 with Car buncles and pitch his Standard there Beauty Vermilieâ—â— Herauldry will soon be Expugn'd yet we do not 〈◊〉 this preach up a severe Abitinency for that Lady on 〈◊〉 other hand will much impâ—â— your Lusture and spoil 〈◊〉 Harmony of well tuned Feâ—tures extreams are always 〈◊〉 be avoided for they are huâ—ful in their Contraries Consider we then again theâ— yet remain to be discours'd of other things that are Medicinal and perhaps Equally with what has been mentionâ—â— Advance Beauty for 〈◊〉 a thing very difficult if 〈◊〉 impossible to live always such an Air as our Tempâ—rament and Constitution â—â—quires and that many â—â—welcom Emergencies neitheâ— suffer us long to be withâ—â—â— care and vexation nor to keâ—â— an exact Diet or take it 〈◊〉 such a Mediocrity or opportune time as is necessary the breeding of the best blooâ— it will be expedient to Anâ—â—cipate the Alteration or Corruption that may happen â—â—mong the humours of the 〈◊〉 dy through excess or any â—ther Misdemeanor in our 〈◊〉 of Life by some means 〈◊〉 ther that hath power to exâ—â— those vicious qualities 〈◊〉 may cause an ill Complexion that so the colour may be preserved clear and lively the Skin smooth and subtil The last means then to effect this will be to Purge in due time with some quick but gentle Medicaments as Manna Cassia Syrup of Violets White-roses or some such Potions If you are desirous to clear the Body after too much indulging your Appetite of the superfluous Humours your may take half a Dram of Pillule Ruffi when you are going to Bed and the relicks of your Intemperance will be gently carry'd away Vinegar of Squils if it be taken in the Morning and you use moderate Exercise after it beautifies the Body with a very fresh and lively Colour the like Effects you may expect from Trochests of Provanceroses which you may take at your pleasure nor is the frequent use of Clysters without Reason commendable for they not only make the Body soluble and purge the Peccant Humours but also divert those Humours and Vapours which Ascending to the Head much cloud the Beauty of the Face Syrup of Agrimony Fumitory or Cichory are excellent in opening Obstructions and correct the Intemperature of the Liver and for this reason are of singular Use for clearing the Complexion Care is likewise to be taken that the Body is not guided too hard to produce Slenderness not much now in fashion or that the Legs or Arms be too hard bound but have free repose and motion least by such Violence the Blood be too much drawn from the Face to succour the Inferiour Parts and such as do so may be observed to be come pale and lose their Complexion who to have a small and slender Body girt themselves too close or to have a hansome Foot and Leg use Stockings and Shoes much too strait And observe yet further that when the Humours which are apt to corrupt are expell'd and the Blood purified in the place of the Vicious You must instantly supply the Body with good Humours by Food of light Digestion Concoction and good Nourishment as Panado's well season'd Broth and the like Get up early and take moderate Exercise that Nature may 〈◊〉 in dispersing those Humours that accumulated during your repose and make an equal Distribution of the Aliment which in the last Nights repose hath been digested It is we are constrain'd to declâ—re for your good an ill Custom in some Ladies that they might meliorate their Complexions to take in their Beds Goats and Asses Milk Broths c. and then sleep upon it Such Nourishment though it is holden to be good and commendable in it sâ—lf yet taken in such 〈◊〉 manner instead of breeding good Blood it soon corrupts and turns into a Malignant both because the Stomach when such Food is received is not as yet discharged of its Excrements Polutions and Superfluities And the appetite is not then excited for that the Animal Spirits which are the causes of it are yet dull and drowsie And further Nature in the Morning being careful of its Oeconomy is employed to force outward these humid Redundancies which were heaped up the night before in the Body but such unseasonable Eating diverts Nature from that Expulsion and constrains her to retire inward to promote Concoction so that being distracted by such contrary Morionâ— she performs neither but leaves the body for a time especially in an ill habit And thus much for that course of Life that those ought to observe who would have their ravishing Features penitrate the flinty breasts against which Cupids Shafts seem to be dul'd and blunted Your Beauty thus secur'd the Wâ—rld inflame 〈◊〉 those that see you not adâ—re by fame And he that dares but look upon your Eyes 〈◊〉 with Love and not reliev'd he dyes Thus much Ladies for these Generals and Particulars which we doubt not but will be grateful to the Fair-Sex and by a due regard had to them redound greatly to their advantage Censure and Reproaches unjustly cast upon the Fair-Sex wiped off c. Censures and Reflections are easily made though frequently groundless and unjustly and the Fair-Sex lie more open to them from the Malice of Men who having over them the advantages of Learning fly to that as a sweet Revenge when their Addresses are refused or they cannot gain their Aims or Ends When they find themselves not able to have the Fort Surrendred by Parly than they raise Batteries of Scandal and leaves their Artillary of Malicious Eloquence against it which we must declare to be very unjust and a sort of a French Policy
as that of Revenge and Spite is Brutal and falâ—y called a Pleasure the Act of the most Contemptible Animal is to return a mischief for one received We should conclude from hence that it is an easie Determination rather to Embrace that Compassion and Clemency which we find Exemplefied not only in the wisest and best of Rational Creatures but in the Omniscent and Imortal Being than to embrace that Savage fierceness of the Ignoblest Irrational Creatures and this is certain that no Woman would have a liking to assume the outward form of any of those Creatures whose ferocity is too frequently Imitated Why then should the Mind the Nobler part appear in so monstrous a Transformation for as there are no Monsters so deformed as those that are compounded of Man and Beast so among them all nothing is more unnatural than Female Anger when it boiles up into Rage and Fury for their Blood thus fermented by an unruly Passion may probably enough occasion the Effusion of anothers swelling and overflowing in a Crimson Inundatien Solomon tells us Prov. 17.14 The beginning of strife is as when one letâ—eth our water therefore leave off Contention c. When by Immoderate Passion or Anger a breach is once made upon the Spirits all the consequent Mischiefs will flow in like a rapid Torrent when the Banks are forced or broken down and this happens unprevented and unavoidable where great care is not taken to keep the bounds intire by Preserving and Cherishing that Tenderness and Compassion which God and Nature do equally command and Enforce Consider then and duly weigh these things and you will if you call your Reason to your assistance soon distinguish between the Advantage of the one and the Mischiefs and Miseries inherent to the other Contentment Contentedness in all Stations and conditions carries along with it a wonderful Felicity and renders humane Life easie and comfortable to the Fair Sex especially It is a beam of that happiness darted into their Souls that shall hereafter be more fully possessed but we hold it not sufficient where it is only a senseless stupidity or a carelese neglegence what becomes of our Estate or Affairs nor a seeming in Discourse to dispise and contemn the Riches of this World As mean and unworthy our Care or Regard but it is an humble and willing submitting our selves to Gods Pleasure in all Conditions And this makes us carry our selves Gracefully in Wealth Want Sickness Freedom Fetters or whatsoever it shall please God to allot us It renders Marriage comfortable in what condition soever it happens and is the great Agent and Supporter of Love Though indeed we must allow it is no breach of Contentment If we complain of unjust sufferings offered by Men provided we allow them as just proceedings from God who uses wicked mens injustice to correct those he Loves and returns them a Blessing for their Afflictions when he has tryed their Patience and Humility Nor is it any breach of Contentment by lawful means to seek the removal of our Miseries or the bettering our Fortunes Pious Mediâ—ations greatly advantage Contentmeâ—â— in Adversity And God's Spâ—rit is the beâ—t School-master to teach it us in the School of Sanctiâ—ied Afflictions the best place of Learning true Contentment In Riches it cannot be found for they avail not in the day of Wrath And those that seek Contentment in that are deluded with the shaddow and by fondly setting their hearts on it create more discontents to themselves than perhaps would ever have be fallen them had they declined it and been well pleased with a competency Contentment makes Homely Cloaths and Diet as Gay and Satisfying as the most Glittering Apparel and Sumptuous Banquets of the most Riotous Epicures And this is that can only give a full satisfaction beyond the Limits of craving And in a word Ladys it is Riches Beauty Honour Pleasure and all that you can reasonably name for there is scarce any thing pleasant delightful or to be desired but is Treasur'd up in a Contented Mind And as the Poet says Content is all we aim at with our store And having that with little what needs more Child-bearing Women Christian Wives says a Learned Author in a Child-bearing state that they may Comfortably bring forth the Fruit of their Wombs are highly concern'd for that good work to â—â—ve their fruit unto holiness Then be sure all shall go well with them both here and 〈…〉 belongs to the pure in heart and the â—â—defiled in the course of their lives What knows the 〈◊〉 Wife whether if she should be married to a bad Man by Parents disposal she may 〈◊〉 her Husband We read of several Christian Wives whose Husbands have been brought to real Godliness by theâ—â— Zealous Endeavours as Cemens by Domitia c. For the holy Conversation of a Wife hath sometimes a great force upon the mind of the Husband who is thereby dispos'd to entertain good And if a work of Grace be wroughâ— upon him then he will be more fervent in prayer for his Child-bearing Wife who 〈◊〉 she ought through the whole course of her life to be daâ—â—â— dying to sin and living to rigâ—teousness so in her approaching sorrows she is more especially concerned 'T is the duty of a big-bellied Woman to be in a readiness for her departure that she may not be surpriz'd sith the pangs are perilous thâ— she hath to pass through and the more if she be but of a weak and not of a hail Constitution Mrs. Joceline when she felt herself quick with child as then travailing with 〈◊〉 it self she secretly took order for the buying a new Winding-sheet thus preparing and consecrating herself to him who rested in a new Sepulcher wherein was man never 〈◊〉 laid and privately in her Closet looking Death in the Face wrote her excellent Legacy to her unborn Child None ever repented of making ready to dye And every Christian is ready who can intirely submit to Gods disposal in Life or Death Yea and then a good Woman is likest to have her will in a safe temporal deliverance when she is most sincerely willing that God should have his in dealing with her as seemeth best to himself It behoves you as righteous Hand-maids of the Lord To continue in the constant exercise of Faith Patience Sobriety and Temperance Certainly you who are blessed in being Instruments for the propagation of Mankind when you find you have conceived and grow pregnant are highly concerned to put on and use these Ornaments A great work you are usually busie about in preparing your Child-bed-linnen and I shall not discourage but rather encourage you to make necessary provision for your tender selves and babes And let every ingenuous and grateful Mother whom God hath safely delivered from her Child-bearing pains and peril imprint a grateful remembrance of so signal a Mercy with indeleble Characters in her mind Lord thou hast regarded the low estate of thine Maiden when I was in an
affects by Rigor or Extremity youth most commonly will have it's swinge time reclaims it and then Diseretion will bring him home so conform yourself to him as to comfirm your Love to him and undoubtedly this Conjugal Duty mingled with Affability will compleatly Conquer the Moroseness of his Temper If he be old and you have made it your Choce let his Age beget in you the greater Reverence his words should then be to you as so many aged and time improved Precepts to inform you his Actions as so many Directions to guide you his kind rebukes as so many Friendly Admonitions to reclaim you his Bed you ought so to Honour as not to defile it with an unchast thought his Counsel to keep that is of any weight 〈◊〉 moment as not to trust it to the Breast of any other be a Staffe in his Age to support him and a hand upon all occasions to help him his being rich must not exalt or puff up your mind but let your Desires be that you employ that bounty of Heaven for the best advantage to Gods Glory and your own Credit Communicate of your wealth to the feeding and cloathing of Christ's poor needy Members that by so doing you may heap up a durable Treasure in Heaven and be received at the last day to enjoy it Eternally Let not the poor condition of your Husband into which he is fallen by accident or Misfortune lessen your Love or Esteem for him but let his Poverty make you rich in Vertue least repining and growing less in Love and Fidelity upon such a Tryal you meet with the reproof we find in Luter which Pompey gave Cornelis when she lamented his overthrow in the great Battle fought with Caesar in the Pharsalian Fields for the Empire of the World which threw her into Confusion Shame and Blushing viz. Why is thy noble strength of Courage broke Women descended from so great a Stock By the first wound of Fate Thou hast the way To purchase Fame that never can decay Thy Sexes praise springs not from War or State But faithful Love to an unhappy Mate Advance thy thoughts and let thy Piety Contend with Fortune Love 〈◊〉 now cause I Am vanquish'd sure 't is more true Praise for theec To love me thus when all Authority The Sacred Senate and my Kings are gone Begin to love thy Pompey now alone That Grief extream thy Husband now alive Becomes thee not thou shouldst that sorrow give To my last Funerals thou art berest Of nothing by this War thy Husband 's lest Alive and safe his Fortune 's only gone 'T is that thou wailst and that thou lov'st alone Let the old Proverb be crost by you that says When Poverty forces rudely in at the Fore-door Love retreat at the Back one Let your Affections Counterpoize all Afflictions no Adversity should divide you from him before you are Married you are in a manner your own Law-maker but being once entered into a Matrimonial Estate you must be very mindful of the solemn Promise you have made before God and the Assembly in his Holy place none can absolve you from the performance of that Honour Obedience and Love you enjoyn your self towards a Husband therefore whilst you are your own it is good to sit down and seriously consider of so weighty a Matter sift him before as narrowly as you can and if you cannot conveniently do it your self get a faithful Friend to do it for you and whilst in a single State you are free from all Engagements carefully avoid the Acquaintance of Strangers if you think they have a Design to make Love till if possible an Equiry may be made into their Conditions and Circumstance neither affect Variety nor Glory in the multiplicity of your Suitors for there is no greater Argument than that of Mutability and Lightness have a care of Vows unless you are solemnly resolved to keep them constant you cannot be when once you deviate from them nor can you easily if ever recover a Reputation lost by such a Violation Let your care be before you arrive at this honourable State to lay aside all wanton Fancies for it can never promise you good Success because the effect cannot be good where the Object is not â—ending that way wanton Love has a Thousand ways to purchase a few Minutes of penitential Pleasures your Eyes and by them the Senses of your mind are averted your Ears and by them the Intentions of your Heart are perverted your Mouth speaks and by that others are deceived your touch warms and kindless Desires and every small occasion blows up your Love into a Rage These Exhorbitances must to your utmost Endeavours be remedied and therein you must use the method of Art to remove the Cause and the Effects will cease Let us then give you suitable Direction in these Matters and to do it we must first discover the Incendiaries of this Passion next the Effects arising from them and Lastly their Cure or Remedy the Original grounds of this wandring Fancy or wanton Phrensie are concluded in this Distick Sloath words Books Eyes Consorts and Luscious Fare The Lures of Lust and Stains of Honour are For the first Sentensius has it viz. He had rather be exposed to the utmost Extremities Fortune could inflict on him than subject himself to Sloath and Sensuality For it is this only that maketh Men and Women in some degree a kind of Bruits or irrational Creatures As for lewd Books they are Nurseries of Wantonness and therefore to be avoided lest like the Snake in the Fable being too much warmed in your Opinion and use of them they become dangerous Enemies to your good Name and Repose again then your Eyes are those Windows by which many hurtful things enter our first Female Parent greedily fed her Eyes on the bainful Fruit before your Heart desired or coveted it she fixed the desire and motive to Transgression there and that to consummate the Grand offence communicated it to her Appetite and rendered it impatient of delaying a Satisfaction in the Curiosity seeing she desired and desiring coveted and coveting she tasted in a fatal hour for Mankind who had eternally perished by that single Act of Folly had not the rich redeeming Blood of God atoned for the Transgression had not the offended laid aside for a time his dazling Diadem of Stars and disrobed himself of his visible Glory and by dying set the Offenders free again Consorts are the Purloyners and Wasters of time their insignificant Conversations rob you of many precious Opportunities which if well improved might mainly contribute to the Happines of Life here and hereafter chuse them if any such as in whose Conversation you may have assured hope of being bettered in both Estates chuse such as you may worthily admire when you see and hear them when you see them live up to what they prosess and hear their cordial Advice and wholesome Instructions Lastly Luscious Fare inordinately taken is the fuel
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
they lay out to pamper the Gut and the Cloaths they fell to reimburse the Pockeâ— The Male Mumper in the times of the late Usurpation was cloathed in an old torn Cassock begirt with a girdle with a black Cap and a white one peeping out underneath with a formal and studied Countenance he steals up to a Gentleman and whispers him softly in the ear that he is a Poor Sequestred Parson that he hath four small Children with a sick Wife all ready to perish Sometimes he appeared in the habit of some decayed Gentleman and then he pretends what a great sufferer he that been for his Majesty but lately come out of Gaol and not a Penny to help himself Sometimes he appears with an Apron before him and a Cap on his Head and begs in the Nature of a Broken Tradesman who having been a long time sick hath spent all his remaining Stock and so weak he cannot work The Female Mumpers with a torn black Hood and Scarf will go confidently to an House and knock at the Door demanding to speak with the Mistress of the House where after an Apology made for her boldness she acquaints her how urgent her necessity is having an Husband very sick with two small Children ready to give up the Ghost that she was born a Gentlewoman but Marrying against her Friends Consent she was by them thrown off and disowned and so by her Husbands sickness reduced to this miserable Condition Sometimes she appears as if big with Child and so begs Cloaths or Linnen to make Clouts She is very busie in the Palace-yard in Term-time but if she be young tolerably handsome and she find Charity grow cold she will endeavour to repair her pretended misfortune by night-walking There is yet one Gentâ—eler sort of Mumpers than any yet named of which Qualification I never knew but two these had their Horses and agreed between themselves as to their particular tidings Their business was to enquire out among Booksellers small Treatises not long Printed yet â—â—saleable of which they would buy a quantity of a sort for waste Paper or little more and having drawn up or caus'd to be drawn a general Epistle Dedicatory they left space at Top to insert the Name and Dignities of the Person they intended to Dedicate the Book unto carrying Letters and Ink with them which they speedily did Print and tolerably enough for that purpose the Epistle was Printed before so that they need add nothing but the Name and Dignities I have heard them confess they had from the meanest Donor thrice the value of what the Book was sold for at first and most commonly fix-fold Their travelling Time was in the Summer wherein they got so much to keep them drunk all the Winter but they being deceased I believe the Trade died with them Matches unequally made 'T is the principal Study of all Persons to pass their time with most ease and to avert as much as possible the Miseries which sin has subjected us to This occasions a continual Inequietude in Men and makes their Lives so uneasie that nothing can satisfie them but the prospect of those flattering Joys which hope presents to their longing Eyes When a thinking Man seriously reflects on his past Actions he finds nothing but vain â—â—oleries and would sooner chuse any sort of Life than have 'em plaid over once more For this Reason we can never be at rest for we are always contriving and inventing expecting and desiring better things than we possess And for this it is that all men pursue after some sort of Pleasures or other some the delights of the Sense others Wealth and Riches others Books and Knowledge others the Airy Charms of Honour and Fame c. All which depend upon the Natural Temper or Education But the surest way to gain quiet in this World is some honest Imployment suitable to our Quality attended with an unstained Reputation And I do not Question but I may bring in Marriage for a large share since of all other Blessings it seems to be the most durable yet I prefer a single to a Married Life provided it be attended with an unspotted Chastity since it is divested of all the unhappy Cares of this World and resembles the Life of Angels But these are Blessings God only bestows on a few and therefore a single Life is generally so far from being good that 't is a dangerous Trap for our Vertue If the great Blessing of Matrimony does so frequently frustrate mens Expectation 't is because the principal ends of it are peâ—veâ—ted and if it be rashly gone about 't is no wonder if it end foolishly and desperately Since then this is so weighty a State it will be the highest foâ—ly to venture upon it without Consideration But the chief thing that makes Marriages so unhappy is the inequality of them As for Unequal Marriages 't will be very hard to determine any thing that may please all there is usually such a vast disagreement between Parents and Children in this Case that there 's no hopes of ever reconciling them when perhaps both are to be blamed But before I come to particular Matteâ—s I premise this that to compleat a true and happy Marriage are required 〈◊〉 Inâ—linations Hearty Love and True Liking so that they may both be of the same mind and have one and the same interest and to make up this there must be a suitable agreement in Ages Humours Breeding Râ—liâ—iâ—n Families and 〈◊〉 which when they concâ—r we may expect all the Satisfaction this Woâ—ld can afford but when any of these are wanting Marriage but seldom proves comfortable But particularly I shall chiefly insist on theâ—e three sorts 1. Of old Persons Marrying with Young 2. O Marrying without Fâ—ieâ—â—◠〈◊〉 3. Oâ— Marrying without 〈◊〉 own Consent of all which I shall give a brief Idea To â—ye Old Age and Youth together is a thing that may be accounted one of the greatest Extravagancies which neither Nature Justice or the World can justifie them in since nothing is more â—â—natural than to unite brisk and sprightly Youth with dull and senseless old Age And there can be no greater brâ—ach of Justice than to join two such different Natures together as will almost certainly be the Destruction of each other And for the World they can expect nothing from them but Sâ—offs and Laughter such Marriages look like some very extravagant Farce intended only to set all the Spectators into huge â—it of Laughter and that one that observes it well would think they rather design'd to make Sport for others than to procure â—ny manner of satisfaction for themselves But to expose the Folly of this the more obviously suppose one of either Sex who seem to be on the brink of the Grave yet longing for to be coupled with Youth exposed to the Life in all their â—oppâ—â—iâ—s as Garb Addâ—essâ—â— Courtships and Fruits of it afterwards But to be Graver such Marriages are undoubtedly as Unlawful
no more Octavia she was Daughter to Octavius and the Emperor Augustus's Sister she was first Married to Marcellus and then Mark Anthony she had divers Children that came to be great Men and was admired by the Romans for her Virtue and Prudence so that her Brother Dedicated a Temple and Porticoes to her in Rome as we find it Recorded by Dion Octavia Daughter to Claudius and Messalina was Wife to Nero the Emperor of Rome who without any apparent Cause Divorced her and having Poisoned her Brother Britanicus he caused her to be put to Death Oenoe a Beautiful Nymph that resorted Mount Ida where when Paris was Shepherd she fell in love with him but he coming afterwards to know that he was Son to King Priam of Troy slighted her for Hellen of Greece yet she continued her Love towards him and bewailed her self in the Mountain for being so Deserted but when Paris was slain by the Greeks and his dead Body sent to her to be buried thinking thereby to comfort her her love was so extream that as soon as she saw it she fell upon it and Died of Grief Orgiva or Orgina Wife of Charles the third King of France and Daughter to King Edward the first before the Conquest of the Normans a very learned and virtuous Lady Orbona a Goddess of the Ancients held to take care of Orphans and Children in Distress she was Worshiped by the Romans that they might not be afflicted in their Widowhood or in the loss of their Children her name is derived from the word Orbus denoting any one that has lost Father or Children c. Her Altar was near to that of the Lares in the City of Rome Ordeal an old Saxon way of trying of Women that were suspected to be unchast yet no proof against them they laid nine hot bars of Iron about a yard asunder and the party suspected being blindfolded was to pass over them the which if she did without touching any of them she was accounted Innocent but if otherways then guilty and Sentenced by the Laws which in those times were Death in case of Adultery Orithia Queen of the Amazons who was Queen after Marpesia and did wonders in â—eats of Arms in all Battles she fought especially against the Greeks who invaded her Territories to her succeeded Penthesila who with her Female Troop signalized her noble Bravery at the Siege of Troy Orithya Daughter Ezichtheus an Athenian King said to â—e Ravished by one of the Gods of the Wind and by him conceive Lethis and Calais Obedient Wives If their Husbands be pleasant they rejoyce in his pleasure If he suffer in any evertuâ—â— which he neither expected nor his actions deserved they bear a part in his Lachrymâ— Husbands to such Wives are made happy in their choice and have good cause never to wish a change Por they may consort with those they affected without fearing of being call'd to an Evening account If their days expence should chance to be too immoderate they need fear no fingers but their own to dive into their Pockets or to make privy search for more than can be found These need not fear to receive discipline for their laist nights error Or to wear their night-Caps after the oâ—â— fashion with both their Ears through them These can play the merry Mates with their Wives and never laugh till their hearts ake If they come home late tho sooner were better they are entertain'd with a chearful Welcome They find no Pouts in their Dish nor amongst all their necessary utensils one Chasing-dish Out of this precious Mine was surely that good Burgomasters Wife cut out who ever met her Husband at the Portel with a gentle word in her Mouth a sweet smile on her lip a merry look on her cherry cheeke a pair of slippers in one hand and in the other a rubber not at cuffs but a Towel to rub him after his Travel whereas the old beldam Tbestylis would have exchang'd that rubber with an halter if she might have had her will rather than be bound to such a Task And to such a one without all doubt was â—o matched who in a pensive plight all full of discontent published to the World from whence he desired a speedy dismission his hard Fortune in this Bridal Brâ—wl Married whereto to distast Bedded where all grief is plae't Clothed how with Womans shame Branded how with loss of Name How wretchlese is that Man that is disgrast With loss of Name shame grief and all distast Imprison'd h ow to womans Will Ingag'd to what is ill Restrain'd by whom by jealous fear Inthral'd to whom suspicions care How hapless is that wretch that must fulfil A false Suspicious jealous womans will Taxed for what for modest mirth Exposed how a Stale on Earth Surpriz'd with what with discontent Profess'd as how times penitent How can that forlorn Soul take joy on Earth Where Discontent and Penance is his Mirth Threatned how as he're was no man Fool'd by whom a foolish woman Slav'd to what to causeless pleen Sprite-affrighted when I dream How should th' Infernal Priâ—â—e more Furies summâ—n Than lodge in such a spleenful Spiteful Woman Cheered most when least at home Planted where â—'th Torrid Zone Chased how with oyle of tongue Hardned how by suffering wrong How wretched in his Fate who is become Contented most when he is least at home Vrged most when she is near Vsher'd how with fruitless fear Shielded when when I do flye Cur'd with what with hope to dye How cureless doth that cure to sense appear Whose Hope is Death whose Life is fruitless fear Old mans notions of Love I would not says the Old Men be to run through the miseries of life again for a great sum for when I come toward Man the Women will have me as sure as a Gun for to catch Woodcocks and if ever I come to set eye upon a Lass that understands Dress and Raillerly I 'm gone if there were no more Lads in Christendom but for my part I am as sick as a Dog of Powdering Curling and Playing the lady Bird I would not for all the World be in the Shoomakers Stocks and Choak my self 〈◊〉 again in a straight Dublet only to have the Ladies say Look what a delicate shape and foot that Gentleman has and I would take as little pleasure to spend six hours of the four and twenty in picking Gray Hairs out of my Head or Beard or turning white into black to slâ—â—d half ravisht in the Contemplation of my own shadow â—o Dress fine and to go to Church only to see handsome Ladies to correct the midnight air with Ardent Sighs and Ejaculations and to keep company with Owls and Bats like a bird of evil Omen to walk the round of a Mistresses Lodgings and play at bo-peep at the corner of every street to Adore her Imperfections or as the Song says for her ugliness and for her want of Coin to make bracelets for her locks
good be conveyed to the Heart in Poetry it makes the larger and more lasting Impression for there is nothing that the memory so quickly and kindly embraceth as we see by our stage Actors who tho in other things have many of them their memories so treacherous that they do not remember a Score left at a Tavern over night unless they be minded of it Yet in Poetry you may hear them nâ—â— their Parts through a whole Play without blundering or hesitation To conclude 〈◊〉 then being turned to good purposes it is much available Piossitâ—tâ—s Some of our Young Noviâ—â— our guls Passive are so cheaâ—ed as that they spend the best remainder of their days in courting mercenary whores and make along sure before they can obtain It is 〈◊〉 onely flesh will make one 〈◊〉 these haukes stoope to thâ—lure but she must have â—â—ver too Which my young practitioner not being acqaiâ—â—ed with maketh his request 〈◊〉 vaine When he speaks 〈◊〉 love she looks so strangely 〈◊〉 if she heard a miracle swâ—â—ing she never as yet saw 〈◊〉 man who could gaine the 〈◊〉 corner of her heart He believes all and like a 〈◊〉 be nat â—â—cured man presents 〈◊〉 with rich gifts desiring no gist from her but her self which she with a pittiful look condescends to exclaiming against Fortune for subduing her to man when God knows she hath been as common as the Highway And how my plaine down-â—ight Squire who never before was further than his fathers wind-mill in taking is taken himself with a hook that will not easily let him go and many a loud knave and sea-gull shall upon the reveneues of his purse and he shall be called Patron till all his patrimony be spent Their soul dyeth in youth saith Job and their life among the whore-mangers But if it were good here to spur a question and ask whether a whore hiring or hired is the more detestable in the sight of God The Scripture determines and judgeth that a woman taking mony for prostituring her body to men is infamous our she that giveth money to enjoy her lover is most infamous of all others All are abominable before the Lord and therefore Solomon in his Proverbs saith that The mouth of a strange woman or an harlot is as a deep pit he that is a detestation to the Lord shall fall therein And in another place he saith A whore is as a deep ditch and a narrow pit Noting thereby that if a man be once in with an harlot he shall as hadly get out again as a man that is plunged into a very deep and narrow pit where he can hardly stir himself The same Solomon in the Book of Ecclesiastes yieldeth us the reason hereof namely because she is as nets snares and bands where if a man be once in he is fast enough for getting out I find saith he more better then death the woman whose heart is as nets and snares and her hands as bands he that is good before God shall be delivered from her but the sinner shall be taken by her O that flesh and blood would listen to the advise of the spirit and follow the counsel of the man Desire not saith he her beauty in thine heart neither let her eye-lids catch thee for by a whorish woman a man is brought to a morsel of bread and the adultress hunteth for life which is pretious Again he saith Albeit the lips of an harlot drop as an hony comb and the roof of her mouth be softer then oyl yet her latter end is bitter as wormwood and as sharp as a two-edged sword Prostitute Doxies are neither Wives Maids nor Widdows they will for good Victuals or for a very small piece of Money prostitute their Bodies and then protest they never did any such thing before that it was pure necessity that now compell'd them to do what they have done and the like whereas the Jades will prove common Hacknies upon every slight occasion they are dexterous in picking of pockets which they mind most when they find the mans thoughts most imployed on somewhat else they are destructive Queans and oftentimes secret Murtherers of the Infants which are illegitimately begotten of their bodies Q QUendride a Queen of the Lumbards Famous for her Learning and Noble Exploits in Arms. She caus'd many wholesome Laws among them and civlliz'd that rough Nation by planting Christianity among those who had not before receiv'd it building many Churches and Houses to pious uses Quintillia a Roman Lady highly favour'd by the Emperour Yitus Vespasian for her Vertues modest Behaviour and Good Government of all her Actions especially when Rome Reigned in the height of Luxury and Riot and commanded the other Ladies to take a pattern by her She was courteous to all and very charitable a great favourer of the Christians tho she did not publickly profess it her self but concluded they must morally be a good people because they were humble meek modest courteous charitable and loving to all and did by others as they desired to be done unto hemselves c. Quisaca a Princess of Tarnate in the East Indies who though sought by many great Princes in Marriage refused them all and marry'd Armusa a private Gentleman of Portugal whom she fancy'd for his Courage in an attempt made upon the Isle of Tidâ—â—e She Endowed him with greâ—â— Riches and for his sake turned Christian. Querevolo Lovisade created Dutchess of Portsmouth by King Charles the Second She stood very high in the Favour and Liking of that Prince and is held to have had a great Ascendant and Influence over him Quercina a Noble Lady of Venice Daughter to a Senator who follow'd her Husband into banishment who was banish'd by the procurement of her Father because he marry'd her without his consent she being design'd by him for a Richer Fortune though less agreeable to her and liv'd a poor life with him in Corcyra chusing to be with him she lov'd before the plenty and pleasure of a Palace Quiddanet a Confection between a Syrup and Marmalade Quodlibitaries that follow their own Fancies Quadrigamist quâ—drigamus a man four times marry'd Quarentine from the Fr. Quarantine is a beneâ—â— allowed by the Law of England to the Widow of a landed man deceas'd whereby â—â—e may challenge to continue â—â— his chief Mansion-house by the space of Forty Days after his decease Of this see Brast â— 1. cap. 40. And if the Heir or any other attempt to eject her she may have the Writ de Quarantina habenda Inz. nat br fol. 161. Quater Cousens those that are in the last Degree of Kindred or Fourth Cousens But we commonly â—y such persons are not Quater Cousens when they are not good Friends Queer mort a Pocky baggage Quintain a game or sport still in request at marriages in some parts of this Nation specially in shropshire The manner now corruptly 〈◊〉 a Quintin Buttress or thick Plank of Wood is set fast in the Ground of the
Nun building the Abbey of Holy Câ—oss and divers other places which she dedicated to pious uses and dyed anno 587. Ramsey Mary second Wife of Sir Thomas Ramsey Alderman and Sheriff of London anno 1567. and Lord Mayor in 1577. She was Daughter of Sir William Dale Merchant of Bristol She liv'd a very Piousand Vertuous life â—nd dying Nâ—â—emâ—â—r 1595. without 〈◊〉 leâ—t the â—râ—aâ—est 〈…〉 Uâ—es 〈◊〉 fâ—â— ever that have been left 〈…〉 private person before or 〈◊〉 Reginatrudâ— Dutchess of Bavaria She was Daughter of Chidelbert King of France and marry'd to Theâ—dâ—n the Third Duke of Bavaria whom she converted to the Christian Religion and afterwards by the assistance of Rupert Bishop of Worms she prevail'd with the greater part of his Subjects to follow his Example Renea of France She was Dutches of Ferrara Daughter to Lewis the 12th of France and Ann of Britany She was marry'd to Hercules D' Este Duke of Ferrara by the contrivance of Francis the First who succeeded Lewis though she might have had far greater Matches in England and Germany She was a Lady of great Courage Wit and Learning Renown otherways called Fame a Goddess of Poetical Invention held to be the Messenger of Jupiter She was painted in the shape of a Woman with Wings spread abroad and spangled with Eyes her Garments light and succiâ—â—â— with a Trumpet in her mouth as â—â—unâ—ing Râ—â—â—e for refusing to forsake her Religion and marry Gaulâ—â— a Roman Praeâ—â—ct 〈…〉 him tortured and 〈…〉 put to death but was 〈…〉 after her Death 〈…〉 as a Saint â—oches Catherine 〈…〉 of pâ—ictiers so well 〈…〉 in Poetry that she was 〈…〉 The Muse of France She 〈…〉 books in Prose and 〈◊〉 and Educaâ—ed her 〈…〉 to an Extraordinary 〈…〉 Learning and Virtue 〈…〉 the most accompliâ—â—â—◠〈◊〉 in the Country 〈…〉 great Matches were 〈◊〉 red them they could not 〈◊〉 inâ—uced to marry but 〈◊〉 them'elves with 〈◊〉 and contemplative 〈◊〉 â—â—â—ogunda Daughâ—â—◠〈◊〉 â—â—ng Pharaates of Parâ—â—â—â—â— Sâ—â— was Wife to Deineâ—â—â—â—◠〈…〉 of Syria She was 〈…〉 of great Courage 〈…〉 and Virâ—ue â—â—samunon Queen 〈…〉 She was Daughâ—â—◠〈◊〉 and Wife 〈…〉 who was called into 〈…〉 the Imperial 〈◊〉 revenge the astronts 〈◊〉 Emperess Sophiâ—â— had put 〈…〉 but Alâ—ion having 〈…〉 Father to death and 〈…〉 Cup of his Skull which 〈…〉 have forced her to 〈…〉 out of she 〈…〉 his Life and caused 〈…〉 â—â—â—â—hered by 〈…〉 the General of his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Daughter 〈…〉 a Prince of Persia 〈…〉 to Alexander the Great in his â—xpeâ—tiâ—n against Darius She was held to be one of the most beautiful Ladies of Asia â—oâ—â—llan Su'taness and Wife to Solyman the Magnificent Emperour of the 〈◊〉 A Woman of great Beauty but of greater Spirits and Ambition Ruth Daughter in Law to Naâ—mi married to Bâ—aâ— Rumia or Rumilla a Goddess to whom the Romans recommended the care of their Infan-Children Rosamond the Fair Concubine of K. Henry the Sâ—â—â—nâ— of England poyâ—â—râ—â— by Q. Elenor in Woodstock â—oâ—er near Oxford Back the Duke of Exeter's Daughter an Engine to extort Confessions brought into the Tower by him being Câ—nâ—iâ—â—le 16 H. 6. intending to bring in the whole Civil Law Recreations sutable for Ladies and what is to be observed therein Recreations when Innocent and Moderaâ—â—â—â— may be called the Spring of 〈◊〉 that makes it move smooth and regular it is an Antidote against the too rust impressions of business and over sâ—â—â—ious Thoughts upon the Spirits and by Wise and Prudent management may be turned to great advantages in rendering our conditions easy and pleasant but when immoderately used and carried to excess and extravagancy it is worse than Labour or Toil. All Pleasures that but border on Scandal must be shunn'd and avoided and even those that are the most Innocent must not exceed the Rules of Moderation Which consists first in not giving offence scandal damage or prejudice to your Associates or others Secondly It must besuch as is not injurious or prejadicial to your Health Reputation or Business you must by no means make your Pleasure your Bussiness but by the enjoyment thereof be more than chearful in your return to it as more enabled by your Diversions to perform it The most innocent Recreations by excess are many times abused and the Body and Mind rather enfeebled and disordered than strengthened and composed by them their Vigour is weak and sostened the Compexson is besot ed and the principal Virtues sometimes banish'd Recreation must be taken as it was first provided and then it will be taken without a Sâ—ng The Heathen Sages prohibited either Sex to â—â—acken the Reins too much to it least it should insensibly carry them away in a career they would not be able to stop till they bulg'd upon the ruggedRock of Misfortune Wâ— that are Christians have more reason therefore to be cautious least too great a swing of Worldy Pleasure and Delights throws us into Irre 〈◊〉 and incumbers us 〈…〉 we never intended to be concern'd withal those Recreations above all others 〈◊〉 most commendable that refresh the Mind and never leave any private 〈…〉 behind them on the Câ—â—â—â—ence to upbraid â—he Sens◠〈◊〉 the immoderate or unlawful using them she that plaâ—â—â—â—â— into a puddle do's but enâ—'â—â— her self to the trouble of â—â— aâ—terwashing few people are so indiseret and regardless of their Health as for the lusciousness of the Tast to â—â—â—d on those things that will â—â—pair it and render them 〈◊〉 stempered God would never have allowed such Recreations nor furnished us either with the desire of them or the faculties to enjoy them with any design we should abuse them or that they should prove hurtful to us yet there are so many incoveniences adhearing to the use of â—â—â—sure by exceeding the measure mistaking the m 〈◊〉 misplacing the time thâ—â—â—al though Recreations be laâ—â—â—ul in themselves yet if they be circumstanced amiss they are not expidient Recreations and Pleasures are undon â—idly lawful if we abuse 〈◊〉 not by irregularity all the s'veral 〈…〉 in Food 〈◊〉 other varieties of the 〈◊〉 nature were intended please the 〈…〉 to satisfy the Appeaâ—â—â— of the beautiful and pleasant Fruits the Garden of God contained there was but one only among so vast a number excepted from which it may reasonably be concluded we may enjoy those delights we have a well grounded inclination to and that are no ways prohibited if so we do it as not to do it amiss Recreations most proper and suitable to Ladies may be râ—â—â—'d under four principal he â— as Limning Dancing Musick Reading these Imploy both the Mind and Activity of the Body Lim â—ing is a very curious Art wherein a Lady especially in small Figures either in Oyl or Water-Painting may improve her Fancy to Admiration and leave rare monuments of her Ingenuity to Posterity Dancing Recreates the Body and moderately used much câ—ntribuâ—â—â— to Health by tâ—â—rring and dispersing the gathering and afflicting Humours besides it gives a decent comliness to
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
betwixt themselves vowing lasting Virginity Sisters Love to a Brother Ituphens being to suffer Death by Order 〈◊〉 Darius his Wife cast her 〈◊〉 groveling before the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with such pitiful 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ions and Clamours that they came even to the Ears of Darius and much penetrated him being uttered with such 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and moving Accenâ—◠〈◊〉 ble to mollifie the Flint 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 marble Imprest there sore with her pitious lamentations the Kings sent unto 〈◊〉 That her Tears and 〈◊〉 had so far prevailed with 〈◊〉 that from the condemned Society they had ransomed 〈◊〉 and one only to continue 〈◊〉 memory of their Name Family chuse among 〈◊〉 all whose life she most 〈◊〉 ed and whole safety 〈◊〉 greatest affection desired furhter than this to grant 〈◊〉 his sentence was 〈◊〉 None that heard this small yet unexpected Favour from the King but presently imagined she would either redeem her husband or at least one of her sons two of them being all she had then groaning under the burthen of that heavy sentence But after some small meditation beyond the Expectation of all men she demanded the life of her brother The King somewhat amazed at her choice sent for her and demanded the Reason Why she had preferred â—he life of a brother before the safety of such a Noble husband or such hopeful children To whom hr answer'd Behold O King I am yet but â—words and in my 〈◊〉 of years and I may live to 〈◊〉 another husband and so 〈◊〉 frequently by him more children but my father and mother are hath aged and 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 and should I lose a brother 〈◊〉 for evermore be deprived of that sacred Name Sentiments of the 〈◊〉 concerning women I 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 of the 〈◊〉 Wives who in conâ—â—â— of Death scorn to surâ—â— their Husband's Funeral 〈◊〉 but with chaste Zeal and 〈◊〉 Courage throw â—â—â—selves into the Flames as they were then going to the 〈◊〉 Bed Certainly they 〈◊〉 aright who reckon Day of our Death the Day 〈◊〉 Nativity since we are Born to Possession of mortal Life For this 〈◊〉 I honour the Memory of Ludâ—vicus Cartesius the Padâ—â— Lawyer who in his Last Will and Testament ordered that no sad Funâ—eal Rites should be observ'd for him but that His Corbs should be attended with Musick and Joy to the Grave and as if it were the Day oâ—â—poufals he commanded that Twelve Suits of Gay Apparel should be provided instead of â—â—â—ning for an equal number of Virgins who should usher his Body to the Church It will not I hope be an unpardonable Transiation if I statrt back from the melancholy Horrours of Death to the innocent Comforts of Humane Life and from the Immortal Nuptials of thâ—s Italian pass to the Mortal Emblem the Rites of Matrimony the Happiness of Female Society and our Obligations to Women 'T is an uncourtly Vertue which admits of no Proselytes but Men devoted to Coelibacy and he is a Reproach to his Parents who thuns the Entertainments of Hymen the blissful Amours of the Fair Sex without which he himself had not gain'd so much as the Post of a Cypher in the Numeration of Mankind though he now makes a Figure too much in Natures Arithmetick since he wou'd put a stop to the Rule of Multiplication He is worse than Nâ—â—ma Pompilius who appointed but a set number of Virgins and those were free to Marry after they had guarded the Sacred Fires the Torm of four years Whereas if his morose Example were follow'd all Women should turn Vestals against their wills and be consecrated to a peevish Virginity during their Lives I wonder at the unnatural Phancy of such as could wish we might procreate like Trees as if they were Ashm'd of the Act without which they had never been capable of such an extravagant Thought Certainly he that Created us and has riveted the Love of Women in the very Center of our Natures never gave us those passionate Desires to be our incureable Torment but only as Spurs to our Wit and Vertue that by the Dexâ—erity of the one and he Intergrity of the other we might merit and Gain the Darling Object which should consummate our Earthly Happiness I do not patronize the smoke of those Dunghil-Passions who only court the Possession of an Heiress and fall in Love with her money This is to make a Market 〈◊〉 and prostitute the Noblest Affection of our Souls to the fordid Ends of Avarice Neither do I commend the softer Aims of those who are wedded only to the Charming Lineaments of a Beautiful Face a clear Skin or a well shap'd Body 〈◊〉 only the Vertue Discretion and good Humour of a Woman could ever captivate me I hate the Cynical Flout of those who can afford Women no better Title than Necessary Evils and the lewd Poetical License of Him who made this Anagram Vxor Orcus idem That Ontour whisper'd the Doctrine of Devils who said Were it not for the Company of Women Angels would come down and dwell among us I rather think were it not for such ill natur'd Fellows as he Women themselves would proâ—â—â—â— Angels 'T is an ugratefull Return thus to abuse 〈◊〉 Gentle Sex who are the 〈◊〉 in which all the Race of 〈◊〉 are cast As if they deserv'd no better Treatment at 〈◊〉 Hands than we usually 〈◊〉 to saffron Bags and 〈◊〉 Bottles which are throâ— into a Corner when te 〈◊〉 and Spice are taken 〈◊〉 them The Pagan Poet 〈◊〉 little better than a Murdereâ— who allow'd but two 〈◊〉 Hours to a Woman 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vnam in Thalams alteram Tumulo For my Part I should steem the World but a 〈◊〉 were it not for the Society the Fair Sex and the 〈◊〉 Polished Part of 〈◊〉 wou'd appear but Hermiâ—â— masquerade or a kind of 〈◊〉 lized Satyrs so imperfect unaccomplish'd is our 〈◊〉 without the Reunion of 〈◊〉 lost Rib that Substantial Integral Part of our selves Those who are thus disjoynted from Women seem to inherit Adam's Dreams out of which nothing can awake them but the embraces of their own living Image the Fair Traduct of the first Mepamorphosis in the World the Bone converted into Flesh. They are always in Slumbers and Trances ever separated from themselves in a wild pursuit of an intolerable Loss nor can any thing fix their Valuable Dâ—â—â—res but the powerful magnetism of some Charming Daughter of Eve These are the Centers of all our Desires and Wishes the true Pandoras that alone can satisfie our longing Appetites and fill us with Gifts and Blessings in them we live before we breath and when we have 〈◊〉 the Vital Air 't is but to dy an amorous Death that we may live more pleasantly in them again They are the Guardians of our Infancy the Life and Soul of our Youth the companions of our Riper Years and the Cherishers of our Old Age. From the Cradle to the â—omb we are wrapt in a Circle of obligations to them for
add one Advice more and that is Call for a chasing-Dish of Burning Coals A Chast Person solicited unto Folly requested the Young Man to do one thing for her first That was To hold his Hand a quarter of an Hour in a Chasing Dish of Burning Coals for her sake He refused this as a very unreasonable Thing but she then Replyed And how then can you ask me for your sake to throw my self Body and Soul in the Fire of Hell to Lay and Burn and Broil in that Fire throughout Eternal Ages Is not that more unreasonable Argue at such a rate as that perhaps one Fire will fetch out another Even an Heathen of Old Chaffering about an Vnclean Bargain could say No I wont Buy Sorrow at so dear a Rate O Think what a Phrensy 't is to cast a Soul into Eternal Fire or to Dream of The Pleasures of Sin which also are But for a Season And Last of all Be at last prevailed withal to take the Warnings of such as have Dyed in Youth because their Life has been among the Unclean He that bâ—ing often Reproved hardeneth his Neck shall suddenly be destroyed and that without Remedy The Primitive Christians I find sometimes using these words we count it a sort of Murther to disturb Conception and what shall we count it then to Kill Infants already Born into the World The young Persons that have sometimes Died in and for their Uncleanness among us have you not heard their solemn Admonitions when their Trouble their Darkness and the Dimness of their Anguish has been upon them When those forlorn Outcasts have just stood upon the Edges of an awful Eternity how vehemently have they called upon all Survivers to Beware of coming to the place of Torment after them Oh! how they have Roared unto our young ones Whatever you do Sirâ— do not Lead such Vnclean Proâ—anâ— Prayerless Lives as we have done Well take these Affectionate Warnings And among the rest Give Ear unto the Dying Speeches of the young Woman lately Executed in New England for Uncleanness as they were delivered to Mr. Cotton Mather signed by Her own Hand Her Speech is as follows which I shall insert Verbatim having never been Printed before in London Her Speech I Am a Miserable Sinner and I have Justly provoked the Holy God to leave me unto that Folly of my own Heart for which I am now condemned to Dye I cannot but see much of the Anger of God against me in the circumstances of my Woful Death he hath fulfilled upon me that Word of His Evil pursueth Sinners I therefore desire Humbly to Confess my many Sins before God and the World But most particularly my Blood-Guiltiness Before the Birth of my Twin-Infants I too much Parlyed with the Temptations of the Devil to Smother my Wickedness by Murthering of them At length when they were Born I was not unsensible that at least one of them was alive but such a Wretch was I as to use a Murderous Carriage towards them in the place where I lay on purpose to Dispatch them out of the World I acknowledge that I have been more Hard Hearted than the Sea-Monsters And yet for the Pardon of these my Sins I would Fly to the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ which is the only Fountain set open for Sin and uncleanness I know not now better to Glorify God for giving me such an opportunity as I have 〈◊〉 to make sure of his Mercy then by advising and entrâ—â—ting the Rising â—eneration here to take Warnâ—ng by my Example and I will therefore tell the Sins that have brought me to my shameful End I do warn all People and especially Young People against the Sin of Uncleanness in particular 't is that Sin that hath been my Râ—â—ne well it had been for me if I had answered all temptations to that Sin as Joseph did How shall I do this Wickedness and Sin against God But I see Bad Company is that which leads to that and all â—â— ther Sins and I therefore 〈◊〉 all that Love their Souls to be familiar with none but such as fear God I believe the chief thing that hath brought me into my present Condition is my Disobedience to my Parents I despised all their Godly Counsels and Reproofs and I was always of an Haughty and Stubborn Spirit So that now I am become a dreadful Instanâ—â— of the Curse of God belonging to Disobedient Children I must Bâ—â—ayl this also and although I was Baptised yet when I grew up I forgot the Bonds that were laid upon me to be the Lords Had I given my self to God as soon as I was capable to consider that I had been in Baptism set apart for him How happy had I been It was my Delay to Repent of my former Sins that Provoked God to leave me unto the crimes for which I am now to Dye Had I Seriously Repented of my Uncleanness the First Time I 〈◊〉 into it I do Suppose I had not been left unto what followed Let all take it from me they little think what they do when they put off turning from fâ—â— to God and Resist the Strivings of the Holy Spirit I fear 't is for this that I have been given up to such hardness of Heart not only 〈…〉 long Imprisonment but also since my Just Condemnation I now know not what will become of my distressed Perishing Soul but I would 〈◊〉 commit it unto the Mercy of God in Jesus Christ Amen Every Clause of this Writing says the Reverend Author from whence I Collected these hinâ—s about Vncleanness has more than once or twice been Distincly Owned by this Dying Soul before various Witnesses Indeed I Fear I Fear says he this is not all she should have acknowledged However as far as they go may the Lord now sanctify these Warnings to all the young ones for whom they are intended Unmarried Passionate Wishes for it by an unhappy Pair Take this Ring the Married Yoke Take your pligâ—ted Faith again I take mine and bagg the stroak That divides me from my Pain Hail that uncontrolling Hour That dear Minute when I found No Confines to my Native Power But what a Virgins Honourbound Chorus both together Let 's both be pleas'd I readily agree To recommence the Joys of Liberty Walburg or Worburg 1. gratious Winifred 1. Win or get Peace Wisard or Wizard perhaps from the Sax. Wiâ—ega i.e. a Prophet or Foreteller of things to come a Cunning Man the Hebrews describe him thus He put in his Mouth the Bone of a Beast named by them Jadua and burned Incense and did other things till he fell down with shame and spake with his Mouth things that are to come We commonly take him for a kind of Wizzard or one that can tell where things are that were lost c. Witch is derived from the Dutch Witchelen or Wiithelen which properly signifies whinâ—â—ing and neighing like a Horse Also to foretell or Prophecy and Wiicheler signifies a Sooth-â—ayer
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