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A10711	My ladies looking glasse VVherein may be discerned a wise man from a foole, a good woman from a bad: and the true resemblance of vice, masked vnder the vizard of vertue. By Barnabe Rich Gentleman, seruant to the Kings most excellent Maiestie.	Rich, Barnabe, 1540?-1617.	1616 (1616)	STC 20991.7; ESTC S115904	57,436	81

sensualitie did neuer so much abound he is blinde that seeth not this and too malitious that will not acknowledge it The sinnes of this age are become like old festered soores that are not to bee cured but with biting corosiues we can not therefore too bitterly reprehend them We are become like naturall beasts that do bring all things to triall but by the senses but if we could carry them to the inquisition of the soule we should finde it a fearefull iudgement of God for men to be giuen vp so much to their owne lusts to haue no sense nor feeling of their sinne he that hath this hardnesse of heart that he neither feeleth his owne sinne nor will not be told of it by another he is no more of the race of Adam who was ashamed of himselfe but of Pharao who hardened his owne heart and whose heart God did harden If the head doth but a little ake our vrins must knocke at the Phisitions doore and alas how inquisitiue we be about the state of our bodies but let our consciences cry out and exclaime how they list our sickly famished soules are neuer respected we are so farre in loue with our sinnes that wee care not for the losing of our soules Are these the works that faith affordeth is this the life that God requireth we goe to Church indeed and we say to seeke the Lord but we do not seeke him as if we ment to finde him wee seeke him not with humble and penitent heart but with proud and presumptuous spirits decking and pranking vp our selues with those gawdy and vngodly attires as are more liker to poison our praiers then to profit our soules better fitting indeed for a Brothell house then for the house of God We goe to Church rather to show our pompe and our pride then with any zealous intent to serue our God as we should do We goe to the Church as Iudas went to the Supper of the Lord we returne home in a worse case then when we first went thither With what faces can we make show to professe the Gospel when we be so giuen vp to that monstrous pride that we rather desire to follow our owne voluptuous pleasures then to serue God the world doth see it our consciences doth witnesse it neither can we denie it They will make show by their speeches as if they could not indure that God should be dishonoured but looke vpon their actions their pride their vanity their drunkennesse their excesse and they doe shew them plainly what they are and he that should iudge thē by the rules of holy scriptures might boldly pronounce them to be farre from euerlasting life our Sauiour Christ hath confidently avowed The vnrighteous shall not inherit the kingdome of heauen and the Apostle 1. Cor. 6. Be not deceiued neither fornicator neither adulterer nor drunkard nor idolater shall not inherit the kingdome of God Let them flatter themselues therefore how they list they are in a dangerous plight we cannot be too plaine to put them from that vaine hope that thus deludeth them that will euery day pollute themselues with these abhominations yet will trust or hope for saluation they thinke it time soone ynough to repent when their climacterical yeare is past then if they haue but time to say Lord haue mercy vpon vs and for their executors to giue penny dole when they bee dead it wil serue for a quietus est for all their sins forepassed they may perhaps sometime dreame of a dying time and it is but a dreame for being not throughly resolued that this time draweth euery day neerer then other they neuer prepare themselues against the time but are many times taken suddenly in the fulnesse of their filthinesse and in the very prime when they be acting of the abhominations I haue little hope therefore to reforme those by my writing whom the thundring voyce of Gods word pronounced euery day by the Preacher can neither conforme nor any thing at all terrifye I know I shall rather procure hatred for speaking truth then win loue for wishing well but I little feare the Adulterat censure of a senceles multitude the wicked are like an Ocean that cannot rest from raging and a madnesse for him that will run amongst thornes and thinke scorne to be prickt let them then rage raile as they list he that is throughly settled and composed in himselfe moues in so high an Orbe and at so far a distant from the malicious and ill disposed that their vnsauoury belchings can neuer annoy him It sufficeth me that I maske in the true simplicities of a loyall honesty my conscience bearing me witnes I haue spoken those truths that I am in nothing more agrieued then in that they are too true FINIS What one applies to vice another may conuert to vertue Caligula vsed to looke in a glasse The nicitie of yong men in this age Looking glasses flattering Some make defects where none are The nature of this Glasse The loftinesse of sinnes Men are vnwilling to heare their faults No speaking against sinnes Augustus thought it necessary for men to finde fault Pasquils piller why prohibibited Sin growne malipert The fearefull condition of the time Angry fault sinders VVhat they be that are angry A dangerous time The holy workes of Papists The Diuell much bound to the Pope Vice deriding vice A dangerous sickenesse VVorke for the Diuell Pitifull spectacles Religious in show Religion but made a staale VVe must exhort one another The securitie of the time The effects of sinnes The sinnes of all nations brought into England The wantonnesse of sinne in this age Sinne a knowne Strumpet become a Lady The Lady New-fashions a Strumpet a Bawde and a VVitch Sinne setteth a worke all sorts of Tradesmen A godly admonition to Ladies and Gentlewomen VVomen more excellent by nature then men I speake this but to those women that be wise doe feare God More then would serue ●o good women that feared God VVandring Eyes I hope al this will offend no women that are good How women should vse their glasses Monstrous fashions euery day hatched vp The genealogy of sinne Couetousnes the parent of many sinnes The varieties of Iniquities Sinne thinkes scorne to be reprooued Three shrewd witnesses The glory pride The effects of pride A happie age Strange inuented vanities The diuels Ingeny Credible and true though strange to be beleeued VVe marre that fashion that God hath made to follow our owne A most ridiculous folly A precept from God neglected The little difference that is vsed between men and women in their apparell The new found out folly of taking tobacco Experience much better then Master Doctors opinion Tobacco vsed but to drawe dowue drinke The loathsomnesse of Tobacco The Tobacconist and the Drunkard fit companions Tobacco sophisticated A pitious expence The inormities that be drawne in by Tobacco Of couetousnesse Bribery in great estimation Briberie disguised Many sinnes boulstered out by

out of mony are the fewest in number so amongst Murtherers the number is farre more greater of those that doth both slay and slaughter by their merciles cruelty then are the other that do most bloudily commit murther with their hands But see here a monster in nature that preaseth now to show himselfe in my Glasse a common Drunkard the very dregges of double Beere and strong Ale amongst men a Beast and amongst Beasts a very Swyne A Drunkard is called the King of good-fellowes but it is but a drunken kind of good-fellowship when amongst all sorts of friends a drunken friend is most to be detested and abhorred A drunken friend is the worst friend that may be for in his drunkennesse he discloseth all that he knoweth the Drunkard dissolueth all his gettings into the pot and drowneth all his vertues in the Ale-Fat he is not fit to be imploied in any good or godly exercise There are three things that are not to be credited a Woman when she weepes a Merchant when he sweares nor a Drunkard when he prayes But it is accounted now to proceed from a generous spirit to be drunken once a day and they haue gotten coniurations and inchantments whereby to draw on drunkennesse A health to the King a health to the Queene a health to my Lord a health to my Ladie And who dares deny to pledge one of these healthes they will scarcely auow him to bee a good subiect that will denie to pledge the Kings health as though the king were honoured by a company of drunken sots that will make themselues beasts vnder the pretence to doe the king honour It is like the honour the idolatrous papists doe giue to the virgin Marie who in a superstitious zeale do attribute that to her for honour that being well examined is her greatest dishonour These Art-Magicke Charmes that do draw on men to powre in more then they are able to beare if it bee not vomited vp againe by the drunkard himself it is yet spewed out of the soule of him that doth behold it with an honest conscience The Prophet Esay in his third chap pronounceth an endlesse woe vnto them that are mighty to draw downe drinke and as their end is damnation so their damnation is without end But see here comes in the adulterer with his harlot in his hand but they must needs goe they say that the Diuell driues and there is no hope to keepe out whoredome where drunkennesse her gentleman vsher hath free and quiet passage to leade the way Whoredome hath many friends in these daies a number of fauorites that giueth her boldnesse whereby shee insinuates her selfe into the world Salomon tels vs That the plague is in the house of the harlot and that shee sits in the doores of her house on a seat in the high places of the cittie Whoredome scornes to be closed vp in any obscure place no shee hath friends to boulster her out and to support her in the highest and most principall places of the city Harlots now adaies do not lurke in by corners as theeues are wonted nor in secret chambers as strumpets haue bin accustomed nor in close clossets as conspiring Papists when they be at their Masse but shee frequents the principall places of the cittie where shee giues entertainment to those that comes vnto her that are not of the basest sort but many times of the best reputed but they do not know saith Salomon that the dead are in her house and that her guests are in the depth of hell And wilt thou yet enter her house that carries death and damnation about her beware of her thou that art wise shee first inticeth and then shee killeth she wooes thee with her eyes for in these daies eyes can both speake and vnderstand and the harlot baits her desires with a number of prostituted countenances whereby to allure and intice As the harlot destroieth his soule that doth frequent her so she is a plague to the flesh more infectious to the body then the common pestilence and carries more diseases about her then is in an hospitall And as the knowne whoremonger is but of a rotten reputation so he is most commonly as full of loathsome diseases or let it be that God sometimes doth suffer whoremongers to liue till they may stroke there gray and hoarie haires yet they neuer escape the filthy diseases of botches byles aches inflâmation of that loathed disease of the french poxe a litle gilded ouer by the name of the gowt or sometimes of the sciatica besides a corporall stroke of heauens heauy hand in this life the whoremōger shal feele the fearefull addition of an eternall woe in the fire of hell The harlot is like a new play that being thrice presented on the stage begins to grow staale And the harlot that is once past thirty fiue yeares is fitter to furnish an Hospitall then to garnish a bed chamber The prouerbe is old A Popes Bull a dead mans skull and an old trull are not all worth a pound of wooll marry there is some comfort yet left to a harlot when shee comes to yeares for an old whore will make a spicke and span new bawde The best commendations I can giue to a harlot is this she brings a man to repentance in the end though not for his sinnes yet to curse the time that euer he knew her Harlots be of two kinds the one induced the rather vnto it by the currish demeanure of an vnkinde husband or sometimes inforced to play the strumpet to relecue her want ô perhaps to vphold her pride these kinde of harlots are very secret in all their carriages wil make choice of such friends as neere as they can as shall conceale all their escapes and maintaine their reputations in the eye of the world A second sort there be that setting aside all feare of God or shame of the world doth surrender thēselues to whoredome through the vitious heate of there own intemperat desires these be those that doth liue of the spoile of all comers they consume them in goods in body and in soule that doth frequent them And these are desirous to make themselues knowne strumpets to the world thereby to get themselues to be hunted after and sought vnto for these are ready for all that will come and that they might be the rather noted in their vocation they doe manifest themselues in there attire in there demeanure in there audacious boldnesse and immodest behauiour They will shew themselues what they be at maskes at meetings at banquets at feasts which they will still frequent but of purpose to seeke acquaintance and to draw in customers The time hath bin when a woman that had bin once infamed should haue bin shunned nay shee should haue bin scorned of euery good woman and shee that had beene honest indeede would neuer haue endured her companie that had beene tainted in her