Father of the Maid most friendly welcometh her Suitor so that I think scarce any Noble or Gentleman among them can choose a Virgin for his House The Bramanes marry but once and that not all but only the eldest of the Brethren to continue the Succession who is also Heir of the Father's Substance and keepeth his Wife straitly killing her if he find her adulterous with poyson In the Kingdom of Calicut when the King marrieth a Wife one of the principal Bramanes hath the first Nights Lodging with her for which he hath assigned him by the King four or five hundred Ducats The Gentlemen and Merchants haâ—e a custom to exchange Wives in token of great Friendship Some Women amongst them have six or seven Husbands fathering her Children on which of them she pleaseth The men when they marry get others to bed them if they be Virgins fifteen or twenty days before they themselves will bed them As for the Marriages in Peru the Men had many Wives but one was principal which was Wedded with Solemnity and that in this sort The Bridegroom went to the Bride's House and put O Hoya which was an open Shoe on her Foot this if she were a Maid was of Wool otherwise of Reeds And this done he led her thence with him In the Canaries they used for Hospitality to let their Friends lie with their Wives and received theirs in like Courtesie and therefore as in India the Sisters Son inherited -In Carazâ—an When a Woman is delivered of a Child the Man lyeth in and keepeth his Bed with Visitation of Gossips the space of forty days they worship the ancientest Person in the house ascribing to him all their Good In some part of the Country Knights and Soldiers never marry but lye with such Women or Daughters as like them Aâ—â— place in the Kingdom of Feâ— there was a Temple built 〈◊〉 which at certain times in the Year resorted Men and Women in the Night where after Sacrifices the Candles were put out and each Man lay with the Woman he first touched Those Women were forbidden to lye with any other for a Year after The Children begotten in this Adultery were brought up by the Priests of the Temple Capacities of Women Women are capable of the highest Improvements and thâ— greatest Glory to which man may be advpnced I might call in the Testimonies of the Wisest of the Heathens concerning this among others I remember Plutarch one of the most Learned of the Grecians upon the death of the excellent Leontide Discoursed with his friend of the equal vertue of Man and Woman and doubts not if he might compare Lives with Lives and Actions with Actions to make it appear that as Sapho's verses were equally with Anacreon's so Semiramis was as Magnificent as Sesostris Queen Tanaquilla as Politick as King Servius and Porcia as full of Courage as Brutus Moses from whom we receive the first and original Truths tells us that Woman as well as Man was created after the Image of God God created man in his own Image in the Image of God created be him Male and Female created be them What the Image of God is and what the Difference if there be any is between Image and Similitude I am not disputing this is it only for which I have alleaged Moses that Woman hath the same Prerogative of creation with Man 'T is true that from the beginning the the Woman was subjected as in order of time she was created after Man And being intended to be an helper she shines moâ—â— when she doth most observe that Ordinance of Subjection for then she is the Glory of the Man according to the instance of the Prudent Woman that Solomon speaks of In whom the heart of her Husband doth safely trust and she being modest and industrious Her Husband is known in the Gates when he sitteth among the Elders of the Land But to proceed as Man and Woman were equal in Creation so there is no difference between them in State of Grace Which Truth whether it be held sorth in this place or not I will not contend sor elsewhere we have it delivered without controversie that there is neither Male nor Female â—o prefering the one Sex before the other but all one in Christ Jesus The Soul knows no difference of Sex neither do the Angels and therefore it is that some Learned Men are of Opinion that after the Resurrection in the State of Glory there will be no more any distinction of Male and Female because Christ hath said Matth. 22.30 We shall then be as the Angels of God in Heaven And the Apostle 1 Cor. 15.42 43 44. That the body being sown in the grave in corruption in dishonour in weaâ—â—ess shall be raised in 〈◊〉 in glory in power The commerce of Sexes was of necessity because of Corruption and Change by Mortality But the Body that shall be raised in difference from the Natural Body is called a Spiritual Body The Soul then knowing no subordination because of Sex What Eminency is thereto be named in Men which we have not discerned sometimes to shine even in Women Plutarch hath given us a wonderful account of the wisdom of the Celtick Women who when their Country was fallen through misunderstanding and differences into a Civil War would not rest or give over their Mediation till Arms were laid down and Peace was setled in all their Cities and Families which was so great a Service to their Country and so acceptable that it grew a custom among them to call and admit their Women to Councel And in the League which long after they made with Hannibal this was one Article which for the strangeness and same of it I will record If the Celtans have any matter of Complaint against the Carthaginians the Carthaginian Commanders in Spain shall judge of it But if the Carthaginians have any thing to object against the Celtans it shall be brought before the Celtan Women Candying and Preserving c. These are Curiosities which are not only Commendable but required in young Ladies and Gentlewomen 〈◊〉 Represent them at large wouâ—â— ask more Art and Time than 〈◊〉 have either the Ability or thâ— Leisure to perform it and besides there are already in Priâ—â— many excellent Books concerning the same Subject as 〈◊〉 Choice Manuel of Secrets 〈◊〉 Physick and Chyrurgery by the Countess of Kent To Accomplished Cook by 〈◊〉 1671 is the best in that kind and the largest for Pastry Read also Mrs. Wooly's Gentlewomans Companion but I shall add no more here having lately received great Curiosities on this Subject never yet in Print which I design to Inâ—erâ— in the Second Part of this Dictionary Carmenta see Nicostrata Cassandra the Daughter of Priamus King of Troy a great Prophetess Charicena a very Learned Grecian Lady she is said to have written a Poem entituled Crumata Claudia Ruffina a Noble Brittish Lady of her Poetick writings there are remembred by Balaeus her Book
her as a singular Ornament yet since the time of the Danes it has been in spite to those cruel Invaders who turned up almost all the Women they came near loaded with Obloquies and is held as a sign of a lustful Constitution for it is a Fancy generally received that the Locks can never sparkle with golden Flames without unless there lodges some cherished heat of that kind within but indeed though black is now in Vogue amongst the most celebrated Beauties yet in this as in all other Colours Peoples Minds and Fancy vary some are for the Curious Flaxen others for the Light brown and so what best suits their Humours Hair Grey or otherwise to make it black Hair to render it black take the Bark of an Oak Root the Green Husles of Walnuts three ounces of each the deepest and oldest Red-wine a Pint boil them bruised and well mixed to the Consumption of half a Pint strain out the juice and adde of the Oyl of Myrtle a pound and a half set them six days in the Sun in a Leaden Mortar stiring them well and then anointing the Hair it will turn any Coloured Hair as black as Jet in often doing Hair Red its Vindication from the Censure and Reproach it undergoes proving it as Beautiful and Ornamental as any other Colour Hair is allowed as an Ornament and Beauty and God that gives it as such cannot be thought in his various Distribution of Colours to design any difference or let a Mark of Distinction by it on Creatures of the same kind though some take no rest in the Point of Reflection and this is often done on such trivial Grounds that a due Prepension would cause to abashment in the Face of the Practiser for putting a disesteem upon Persons meerly because of their Native Colour though it is scarce Conâ—â—ctural whence this Opproâ—â—ium should take its rise there being no rational Foundation for such a Superstructure perhaps it oweth it's producement to the mutual Semblance between some Entities in Nature and the Colour of Hair as 〈◊〉 that is barren if so it must be built upon a very Sandy Foundation seeing in that Case Experience shows the contrary those the Humours of whose Bodies produce it being most fruitful Ladies in former Ages that have been described as excellent Beauties have been set off more by the flowing Gold of their Tresses than the Roses and Lilly of their Cheeks it was held by the Ancient Poets as the chiefest Ornament of the Fair Sex and that which gave a Lustre to all the other Accomplishments in Nature and was so admired and coveted that every one strove to imitate it by Art where Nature had not bestowed it on them and the first Eminent Painters viz. Apelles Euchion Melanthus and Nichomachus prized this in their drawing of Fair and Beautiful Women above all others The Stately Sabina Poppoea Wife to Domitius Nero had Amber coloured Hair and it was attributed to her as her chiefest Ornament of Beauty though a Lady otherways extreamly accomplished in what can render the Female Sex Lovely and Charming Cleopatria Queen of Aegypt who charmed Caesar the Worlds great Conqueror and Roman Anthony Emperor of the East had her Beauty illustrated by this Ornament to bind their Love the more securely to her in the Fetters of her Golden Tresses as Noble Lucan testifies in his Pharsalia viz. Laden witht Pearls the Rich Sea spoiled Store On her red Hair and weary Neck she wore Her Snowy Breasts their Whiteness did display Through the Thin Sidonian Tiffany c. And in those times it was held in a high esteem above all others This Colour was in so much repute in Tertullians time and in the days of St. Hierom that even Artificial Red was deemed an Ornament to the Hair Publius Lentulus Vice Consul in his Epistle to the Roman Senate written from Hierusalem among the other Bodily Beauties he deciphereth in our Blessed Saviour assures them that his Hair and Beard were Red and the Learned Spaniard in his Interpretation of Isaiah 63.1 is of the same Mind from these Words viz. Who is be that cometh from the Red Land The Excellencies of the Creation resemble the Red Head as to it's Tincture the Fire the most agil and aspiring Body the Sun which Heraclitus ascribes to the true Soveraign Majesty has this Colour in the Illustration of its Brightness and Gold which is brought to Perfection by it in the Bowels of the Earth so much coveted and so much admired and of which Scepters and Diadems are made has it's shining and glittering Glory which raises it to so high a value and esteem from it's Parent who blushes not to own it self to be a Body of Fire which in it's Morning and Evening blushes is more amply manifested Hair upon the account of it's Colour to be despised is a Declamation by those that do it against Nature and a Grand Affront upon the Supream Creatour It reflects unworthily upon his Power and calls into Question his Contrivance for it is He that made us and not we our selves nor can their slender performances attain to the making of one Hair of any Colour whatsoever and those that Cavil at this derogate from the Divine Majesty in their base Imputations and go about to espouse his Impiety who said That had he been at the Creation and in Consult with the Divine Being he would have put things in better Order This is for Dust and Ashes to dare to fly in the Face of their Maker through a windiness of Pride and self-conceited Understanding This may reasonably make us ask What Man is that he should dare to controul the Artifice of God when his own Wisdom is so shallow that he is forced into Admiration whilst he Contemplates the Workmanship of Inferiour Beings even the Spiders Web or the Hexagony of a Hony-comb the Labour of the Silk-worm or the curious Building of a Birds-Nest much less is be able to penetrate into the Works produced by an Almighty Mind who draws a Curtain of Cloudy Ignorance over his Understanding when he goes about to pry too narrowly into his Secrets and turns his Wisdom into Foolishness Hair though of this Colour were it granted as it cannot be a Disease of the Body yet it is not to be desired for where any thing that comes by the hand of Heaven is ridiculed there is not a Revenger wanting to make such Scoffers know that he can overtake them let them fly never so fast we find that those who pretended to Comfort Jub in his Affliction when the Tryal of the Almighty was upon him and under that presence took the greater Liberty to revile and reproach him in his Miseries had not escaped had he not been so good natured after all their reproaches as to have prayed for them and so by an Act of Charity and forgiveness prevailed with God to absolve them from the Divine Wrath that would otherwise have broken in upon them to their greater Confusion
men be convinced that you are better natured than they take you to be and you will find a World of Felicities in a Happy Marriage-state wherein you though the Husband is reputed the Head will be to him as a Crown and Ornament above the price of Rubies Mans best Possession is a Loving Wife She tempers anger and do's hinder Strife There is no Joy no Sweetness no Comfort no Pleasure in the World like happy Marriage where there is a Union and Harmony of Sculs as well as Conjunction of Bodies but more of this under the particular Heads of Matrimony has a universal Dominion extended over all Creatures as well irrational as rational according as they are capacitated to receive its power and influence and like the Loadstone draw Affection even at a distance some may demand how it comes to pass that there is a Harmony in the Minds of Parties only by report when distance of place or opportunity never allowed any interview to which according to the Opinion of the Learned we answer Love of this kind is not frequent yet sometimes happens and powerfully operates Recommendation has a great force and Fame obliges us many times to admire great Actions on the bare report of them and paints them so to the Life in the Relation that Fancy forms them to our Imaginations as if we were present and Spectators of them moving our Passions to favour or dislike them according as they are represented so those that by good Report we believe to have some Perfection in Virtue Science or Beauty attract or draw our Affections to admire or love them or on the contrary to despise and have no regard for those that are represented to us as vicious or deformed either in Body or Mind Lovers many times breaking off upon little differences and Cavils sometimes upon Jealousie of Rivals or the like return like a low Ebbing of the Sea with a greater Fluctuation of Passion and the Reason we give is because Love is in this Case to be compared to flame that is encreased the more the stronger Impression the gathering blasts of Wind make upon it with united force by whose feeble defect it before seemed for a time to expire or to the same purport Love augmenteth by some disfavour that one Lover receiveth from another so as they are for some time unassociated and retired but after they desire a Reunion of their Affections it is reinforced with greater Ardour and a Passion more irresistible as fearing again to hazard what they were so near losing through Inadvertency Peevishness or Ill-humour Love again is found to augment where Rivals are in the Case and though but cool before grows hot and is inflamed and the Reason we give you for this is because that Jealousie blows up and kindles that affection which before lay as it were securely sleeping as it were in its Embers without expecting any Disturbance or Molestation or dreaming of any Prevention which now it is forced to rouse and stand upon its guard to hinder by Interposition Love sometimes is attended with extream bashfulness in either Sex and takes away the power of Free-speaking so that though we are willing we cannot at least without Haesitation or abrupt Stammering utter our Mind when in all other Matters we are Volatile open and free And this is because and amorous Appetite is not necessary in matters of free Conversation as the others are and open Practice thereof is abashed by being frequently subjected to Censure Love that is modest fancies it ought to be very Private and more than all this the Mind being preoccupied in its retirement upon a matter of so great moment cannot so suddenly dilate or communicate it self to the faculties or through timerousness of speaking amiss and so consequently giving offence is not so ready to frame apt-words into Expressions that it fancies sufficiently pleasing Love has strange habits various Effects upon the Bodies of Men and Women sometimes casting a pale Shroud over them at other times a rosy Blush and again sometimes they seem to be in a dead Calm and at other times in a very quick Motion sometimes hot and sometimes cold To this we answer they are pale and wan when the parties are in fear or despair of the Success their Love had hopes of or aimed at because such Passions constrain the Blood to retire to the Interiour parts to give succour to the afflicted Heart by reason whereof the Extremities of the Bodies are left destitute of sufficient heat to maintain a lively Colour but when on the otherhand is an Expectation of what is so earnestly coveted and desired then the Blood flowing into the Exteriour Parts gives a Vermillion Blush and the Heart being disencombered of grosser Matter attracts the more rarified Spirits which enliven and give it quicker Motion of which by its dispensing Operation the whole Fabrick participates in a greater Measure Love in Men and Women has been variously censured and disputes have arisen over which of them it has the chiefest ascendant Virgil and other Poets have accused the fair Sex of extream Levity and Inconstancy nevertheless it seems evident to us that Reason and Experience declare the contrary viz. Reason in as much as they are colder than Men and the Nature of Cold is to include or shut up when heat which abounds more in Men disunites and dissolves and by Experience it is generally perceived that they are more Firm and Constant in Love and Men less faithful and permanent being oftner deceived and disappointed than they deceive or fail in their Love and Affections from this we proceed to a very nice Query yet seeing it falls in our way we must answer it as well as we can and that is Why Women bear a more ardent Affection to those that have first enjoyed them which is many times seen than to any other though upon second Marriage c. Our Opinion in this Case is Because the Female receives her Perfection in Copulation with the Male as a matter by Union with the Form which inclines their Love more strongly to those who were Instrumental in giving them a beginning of Perfection Or because those who have depucillated them hold the fairest and richest Gage of their Love which is their Virginity Love we frequently find is more powerful in Mothers towards their children than in the Fathers and the Reason to be given for it is that they cost them more Dear in carrying them in their Womb and bringing them forth and not only so but that they contributed towards them in a larger degree by so long nourishing them with their Blood in the dark Cell of Nature and produced them in the World with the Peril and Hazard of their Lives when on the contrary the Fathers have only the Pleasure in begetting them and after that little or no other concernment relating to them till they are grown to strength and in a manner able to shift in the World unless the
Markham's Way to get Wealth Book 2. And in my second part of this Dictionary I shall entertain you with great Curiosities on this Subject that I have receiv'd in Manuscript from Ladies of the best Quality Painting the face and Black Patches Though the Face of the Creation hath its variations of Prospects and Beauty by the alternate intermixtures of Land and Waters of Woods and Fields Meadows and Pastures God here mounting an Hill and there sinking a Vale and yonder levelling a pleasant Plain Designedly to render the whole more delectable ravishing and acceptable to the eyes of men could they see his Wonders in the Land of the Living that he might reap the more free and generous Tributes of Thansgiving and Cheerful Celebration of his Goodness in the Works of Wonder Yet hath he no where given us more admirable expressions of his Infinite Power and Wisdom than in the little Fabrick of mans Body wherein he hath contrive to Sum up all the Perfections of the Grearer that lye here and there scattered about Nor is it possible for the heart of man with all its considerative Powers to adore enough the Transcendencies of his Divine hand in the Perfections that he bears about him But amongst them all omiting the curious contexture of the whole Frame raising it up into a stately structure to survey onely the Glories of the Face and the admirable Graces that God has lodged in each Feature of it and then to remember how many Millions of them have passed through his hands already flourished out with a perfect diversity of Appearance every one discernably varying from all the rest in different Feature and Meene and yet every one excellently agreeing with all in the same Identity of Aspect All this variegated Work miraculously performed within the compass of a Span to let us see what a God can do when as the wife Potter he turneth his Wheel and molds Nature into Infinite Ideas and Formes And though now and then grimness and crabedness find residence in some Faces Providence foreseeing the necessity of Martial Countenances as well as Spirits Which History tells us the Romans ever did usually wear or put on That the flash of their eyes as Lightning might accompany the Thunder of their Arms and both together strike despair and death into their Enemies hearts And one of their Emperours was of so very frightful a Visage that Speed a Countrey man of our own tells us it was as bad as High 〈◊〉 to stand staring on his face which was ever an 〈◊〉 to the terrour of his Face yet are these Rough and impelished pieces but rare and perhaps necessary too to set off the Beauties of all the rest Now if God has stuck this loveliness on the Male Cheek what has he done on Female What Glories What Transcendences of them What adorable Perfections of Art hath he shown in the drawing those Lineaments which are the stupifaction of Angels and Men Beauty when attended on by Vertue Create Women very Angels on Earth when corrupted by Vice degenerates them into Devils of Hell Which hath not triumphed in the Infinite Sâ—â—oils of mean and vulgar Affections onely that is their every days Tyrrany and Sport unspirited almost the whole Creation But such as have dragged after them very Crowns and Scepters into absolute vassalage and Chains The proudest Jewels of the Diadem have humbly vaild to stick themselves in the more Imperial Bosom of a Woman the Sparkles of her eye have out dazled all their shine But for all that I think those that paint their Faces ought to be severely reproved This wicked Trade and practice of painting has been much censured by the Fathers 〈◊〉 first Parentage and Rise others besides St. Cyprian have derived from the very Devils in hell Apostate-Angels The very Devils saith he first taught the use of Colouring the Eye-brows and clapping on a false and lying Blush on the Cheeks so also to charge the very natural Colour of the Hair and to adulterate the true and Naked Complexion of the whole Head and Face with those cursed Impostures and again God hath said Come let us make man after our own Image And does any one dare to alter or correct what he hath made They do but lay violent hands upon God while they strive to mend or reform what he hath so well finished already Do they not know that the Natural is Gods but the Artificial is the Devils Dost not thou tremble saith he in another place to Consider That at the Resurrection thy Maker will not acknowledge thee as his own Creature Caust thou be so Impudent to look on God with those Eyes which are so different from those himself made St. Jerome seconds him Quod facit in Faciz Christianae Purpurissum Cerussa c. What makes the White or Red Varnish and Paint in the Face of a Christian Whereof one sets a false dye and lying Tincture on her Cheeks and Lyps the other an Hypocritical Fairness on her Neck and Breasts and all this onely to inflame young and wanton Affections to blow up the Sparks of Lust and to shew what an whorish and impudent Heart dwells within those daubed Walls How can such an one weep for her Sins when the very tears would wash away the Colours and discover the Cheat The very falling down of them would make long Furrows on her Face The Painting the Face is the deforming of Gods Image and Workmanship and is most damnable faith another But let those that are ugly and deformed rather endeavour to fix a Grace on their Persons by the lovely exercises of vertue then think to 〈◊〉 themselves by the stinking Collusions of Paint saith another If we are Commanded to endeavour not our own onely but Neighbours Salvation with what conscience can men use Painting and false Dye which are ask many Swords Piosons and Flames to burn up the Beholders Saint Peter Martyr The French have a good Lituny De trois choses Dieu nous garde Imagine one of our Forefathers were alive again and should see one of those his Gay Daughters walk in Cheap-side before him what do you think he would think it were Here is nothing to be seen but a Vardingale a yellow Ruff and a Perriwigg with perhaps some Feathers waving in the top three things for which he could not tell how to find a Name Sure he could not but stand amazed to think what new Creatures the times had yielded since he lived and then if he should run before her to see if by the forelight he might guess what it were when his eyes should meet with a 〈◊〉 Frizzle a printed Hide shadowed with a Fan not more painted Breasts displayed and loose loose 〈◊〉 wontoaly over her shoulders betwixt a painted Cloth and Skin how would he more bless himself to think what mixture in Nature could be guilty of such a Monster Is this the Flesh and Blood thinks he is this the hair Is this the shape of a Woman