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A14007	A discourse against painting and tincturing of women Wherein the abominable sinnes of murther and poysoning, pride and ambition, adultery and witchcraft are set foorth & discouered. Whereunto is added The picture of a picture, or, the character of a painted woman.; Treatise against painting and tincturing of men and women	Tuke, Thomas, d. 1657.; Tuke, Thomas, d. 1657. Picture of a picture. aut	1616 (1616)	STC 24316A; ESTC S118556	52,636	80

make price of their honesty and beauty leaue these base arts to the commō strumpets of whom thy are fittest to be vsed that by that filthines they may be known and noted Yet do I not altogether mislike that honest women should wash themselues and seeke to make their faces smooth but that they should vse the barly water or the water of Lupines or the iuyce of Lymons and infinite other things which Dioscorides prescribes as cleanely and delicate to cleare the face and not goe continually with ranke smelles of ointments and plaisters about them Howbeit that you may not thinke that this vnhappie trade and practise of painting is altogether new and of late brought into the world I will recount vnto you a story which Gallen alleageth in that little booke of his which he intituleth An exhortation to good arts Phryne a famous harlot of Athens being present at a great feast or banquet where euery one of the guests might by turnes command what he pleased to the rest there inuited she seeing many women there that were painted with ceruse inioyned that they should execute her command very seuerely which was that they should bring a boule full of warme water and that they should all wash their faces therein which was done without gaine-saying for that was the Law of the feast Whereupon the faces of all the women there present appeared foulely deformed and stained ouer the painting running downe their cheekes to their vtter shame and confusion and the horror of all that stood by to whom they seemed and appeared as horrible monsters onely Phryne appeared much more beautifull and faire then before for albeit her life were not free from blame yet was her beautie and comely grace pure naturall and without artifice but God be thanked saith he our Ladies of Spaine are so faire of themselues that they haue no neede of any thing to cleere their complexions but onely a little Orpin and Soliman or Mercury sublimate Now that you may know that hee flouteth his country-women heare what he saith of this Soliman in his Annotation vpon the 69. chapter The excellencie of this Mercurie sublimate saith he is such that the women who often paint themselues with it though they be very young they presently turne old with withered and wrinkeled faces like an Ape and before age come vpon them they tremble poore wretches as if they were sicke of the staggers reeling and sull of quick-siluer for so are they for the Soliman and quicke-siluer differ onely in this that the Soliman is the more corosiue and byting insomuch that being applied to the face it is true that it eateth out the spots and staines of the face but so that with all it drieth vp and consumeth the flesh that is vnderneath so that of force the poore skin shrinketh as they speake of the famous pantofle of an ancient squire called Petro Capata which being often besmeared ouer to make it blacke and to giue it luster it shrunke and wrinkled and became too short for his foote This harmē and inconuenience although it be great yet it might well be dissembled if others greater then this did not accompany it such as are a stinking breath the blacknesse corruption of the teeth which this Soliman ingendreth For if quick siluer alone applied onely to the soles of the feete once or twise and that in a smal quantitie doth marre and destroy the teeth what can be expected from the Soliman which is without comparison more powerfull and peniuatiue and is applied more often and in greater quantity to the very lips and cheekes So that the infamous in conueniencies which result from this Mercurie Sublimate might be somewhat the more tollerable if they did sticke and stay onely in them who vse it and did not descend to their of spring For this infamy is like to originall sinne and goes from generation to generation when as the child borne of them before it be able to goe doth shed his teeth one after another as being corrupted and rotten not through his fault but by reason of the vitiousnesse and taint of the mother that painted her selfe who if shee loath and abhorre to heare this let her forbeare to do the other Translated out of Spanish by Mist Elizabeth Arnold Errata Page 4. Line 2. Reade Worke of God p. 12. l. 30. put out to labour p. 15. l. 26. for wast r. woade p. 18. l. 8. r. may not lie p. 23. l. 31. r. to vse all p. 28. l. 24. r. bring on p. 32. l. 33. r. And though p. 34. l. 20. f. promise r. praise p. 37. l. 23. f. lie r lit p. 38. l. 8. f. it r. lie p 44. l. 27. f. falsely r. safely p. 45. l. 1. r. and Machiuillian attempts p. 47. l. 19. r. in exile p. 49. l. 1. f fained r. failed p. 49. l. penult r. cannot p. 52. l. antepenult r. Arichbertus p. 53. l. 6. r. Claudius p. 54. l. 33. f. Cold r. Coulen p. 55. l. 18. f. Naxlicus r. Natholicus p. 58. l. 5. f. commend r. mend Reliqua vel corrige vel condona OF PAINTING THE FACE THough these times places in which we now liue are stained with fouler faults then this of which I haue taken vpon me here to intreate yet because it was as I suppose neuer so common as it is now amongst vs and seeing by conuiuence or silence it stil dilates it selfe and now at length findeth some friends which sticke not in corners either to defend it or to extenuate the vilenesse of it I haue therefore singled it out alone from many other vanities against which many haue bent themselues by word and writing purposing to declare vnto the world what I am able to say against it intreating all with iudgement to ponder what I write and if they shall perceiue my reasons sound and good to ioyne together with me in the persecution and banishing of this euill from amongst vs of whom better things are looked for and desired And I humbly beseech Almighty God to direct my heart and hand that I may thinke and write that which shall be pleasing to him and to prosper and blesse it vnto all that shall reade or heare it that it may finde friendly entertainment in their hearts produce fruits answerable to it in their liues and practise Saint Paul inspired with the Spirit of Christ giues a golden precept to which if we will yeeld obedience as wee should we shall willingly abstaine from this artificiall facing Whatsoeuer things saith hee are true Whatsoeuer things are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 venerable Whatsoeuer things are iust Whatsoeuer things are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 chast or pure Whatsoeuer things are louely Whatsoeuer things are of good report if there be any vertue and if there be any praise thinke on these things These things hee would haue vs to delight in and to doe the contrary he would haue vs decline and abandon But a painted face is a

affaires of his office where deceit sometimes is very gainefull The naturall forme and colour is not laid to a mans charge but only that which is counterfet and ascitious Vtnatura dedit sic omnis recta figura Turpis Romano Belgicus ore color Natures forme and fauour is right and good But Belgick colours becoms no Roman blood that is to say The waste of France and such painting stuffe are disgracefull in an Italian If an old woman painted her self they vsed to say Lecythum habet in malis which is a certaine enigmaticall and biting by-word vsed against old wiues that they cloked their wrinkles with their artificiall dawbings Festus Pompeius saith that common and base whores called Schoenicole vsed daubing of themselues tho with the vilest stuffe Diogenes said to one that had annointed his haires Caue ne capitis suaue ölentia vitae maleolentiam adducat Beware thy sweet head make not thy life stinke so may it well be said to those that buy and borrow their fauour and their colour beware lest this borrowed grace bring yee not into disgrace both with God and his children and that the counterfetting of forme doe not deforme you Surely the Lord did most terribly threaten the proud and wanton Dames of Israel for their pride wantonnesse and vanities And may it not be said of these painted faces as the Lord said of that people The shew of their countenance doe witnesse against them Doubtlesse this kind of fauour finds no fauour no one word of praise in all the word of God In Iesabel who painted her eyes is propounded saith Piscator an ensample of a proud woman Nec bona est eafacies quaeista quaerit adiumenta It is no good face saith Martyr which seekes these helpes Let vs in the meane while consider the impudencie of a wicked woman who being in extreame danger yet shewes no token of repentance Imo vacat fuco yea shee bestowes her time in painting of her face And on the Prophet Ieremie where mention is made of painting the face or eyes Saint Hierome in his Comments saith He speaketh vnder the figure of an adulterous woman In like manner Caluin thus writing on the said place saith that the Prophet hath respect to the furniture of whores Because the people was like an adulterous woman And whores saith he to intise adulterers are wont to paint their faces and by such allurements to entangle and catch men And where as Ezekiel also doth once make mention of this painting Saint Hierome others likewise consenting with him saith vpon the same place Thou hast fulfilled all the habit of an adulterous woman This painting therefore being no better entertained in the word of of God and being as we haue heard before a worke of Satan there is no reason at all why Christian women should be addicted to it I would thinke women should beware of the Serpent who hath an oare in this boat as Clemens sheweth seeing their mother was beguiled with him of old and that they al fare the worse for him still Neither doe I reade that euer any graue and discreet woman vsed these deceits Some write of some barbarous people which delight in painting their skinne Saint Hierome writes that Maximilla Montanus his Prophatisse a woman diuell-driuen did vse to paint And there is also mention in the Ecclesiasticall historie made of one Prisca who practised the same arts Caesar likewise writes that the Britanes vsed to colour their faces with their Woad but this was not out of pride or wantounesse but to strike a terror in their enemies with whom they were to fight But me thinks Christians should not onely bee but seeme so the children of wisedome should not only be such but seeme such they that professe modesty and humilitie or which haue promisde it in their Baptisme should not onely bee modest and humble but appeare to be so by their shewes And to vse the words I find in Peter Martyr As Paul said There is a difference betwixt a married woman and a virgin so may we say there should bee a difference betweene the handmaidens of Christ and the handmaides of the diuell The handmaids of the diuell because they are vnchast doe vse these pictures wherefore the handmaids of Christ should flie from them that they might shew themselues to be vnlike to them In goodsooth if Christian women will so colour and paint themselues I pray you what doth a matrone differ from an harlot I remember Saint Ambrose saith that Inipso motu gestu incessu tenenda verecundia modestie is to bee kept euen in the motion gesture and gate and shall it be banished out of the face Habitus enim mentis in corporis statu cernitur For saith he the condition of the mind is discerned in the state and behauior of the body Without doubt then a deceitfull and effeminate face is the ensigne of a deceitfull and effeminate heart Ne dicalis vos habere animos pudicos si habcatis oculosimpuaicos Say not saint Saint Austin that you haue modest and chast affections if ye haue vnchast and wanton eyes so I say say not that thou hast the heart of a chast and humble woman if thou hast the face and fauour of a proud dame or wanton minion And to vse the words of Tertullian How farre from our disciplines and professions how vnworthy the name of Christian is it to haue a fained face to whom all simplicitie is commended to lie with the countenance who may lie with their tongue to desire that which is not granted who should abstaine from that which is not theirs and to practise the making of shewes and faces whose studie is to be chast and modest These artes make those that vse them too like the diuels who though they bee Angels of darknesse yet to worke some feate they will now and then transforme themselues into Angels of light they are one thing but to deceiue they will seeme another And in truth I wonder how they dare pray to God with such impure faces How shall they looke vp to God with a face which he doth not owne How can they begge pardon when their sinne cleaues vnto their faces and * when they are not able for to blush How can shee weepe for her sinnes saith Saint Hierom when herteares will make furrowes in her face With what confidence doth she list vp her countenances to heauen which her Maker acknowledges not Youth is in vaine pretended and girlish age alleaged for excuse What hope is there that God will heare whilest her hart is set on vanitie and pride on wantonnesse and deceit Dauid saith If I regard iniquitie in mine heart the Lord wil not heare me We know saith one in the Gospell God heareth not sinners but if any man be a worshipper of God and doth his will him he heareth Doubtlesse these curiosities are not things indifferent as some imagine them to bee It is