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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48952	The case of Ware and Sherley as it was set forth in matter of fact and argued in several points of law in the consistory of Dublin, in Michaelmas term 1668. By Dudley Loftus, J.U.D.	Loftus, Dudley, 1619-1695.	1669 (1669)	Wing L2820; ESTC R218143	56,859	93

of Morality and all principles of Vertue and Honour under whose Disciplin she was kept in as strict a regularity as if she had been a Carmelite or a Carthusian as is well known to many who hear me insomuch that from her infancy she was so brought up as to esteem chastity the Richest Jewel of the Femal Sex wherefore she hath been so well fixt by Education in the center of a Chast resolution that she could never be drawn by perswasions or any other moral inducements of delight cōmodity or advancement that the World could suggest unto her to Yeild to the bent of any exorbitant Lust or Immodest desire and since the death of her Good Mother she hath alwaies profest that she never thought her will could be carried in its proper Orb but when it was placed in the good likeing of her nearest Relations and discreetest Friends according to whose precepts and Admonitions she endeavoured strictly to conforme her deportment in all things she is not therefore like the young Women of St. Frianos Gate in Florence nor was she when the Defendent unhappily knew her like the practiceing Dames of Paris who find nothing new or strange the first night of their Marriage nor was she any of those pretenders onely to Chastity who have sold their Virginities as often as new made Priests do their first Mass but I may say in a very high degree of well grounded confidence that notwithstanding her late misfortune she is not only an approved example but also a wonder of Chastity The like whereof will not perhaps be left upon the Records of this Age all circumstances concurring to the view of Posterity insomuch that she may be perfectly resembled to the pretty Ermin which had rather expose its selfe to the hazard of Death by the Hunters Violence then seeke the preservation of life in the wayes of defilement So much of her Education in Vertue and modesty which gives her a large claime to the knowledge of a worthy deportment And now I am to slide into the consideration of some of her most remarkable qualifications which I shall briefly set forth in the light of Truth but not in the splendor of Eloquence In the first place she having been instructed that an Estate without Vertue and merit is but a Testimony of good Fortune and no Advancement to felicity she hath not onely endeavoured to keep her self by a Modest retirement out of the bad Customs which over whelm'd this Age but also hath Labour'd the exornation of her self with all qualities belonging to a Gentlewoman So that to speak Negatively of her per remotionem imperfectionis she is not blinded with passion nor puft up with Pride nor precipitated by ambition nor tickled by vaine glory nor melted by pleasures nor inflamed by Lusts nor inraged with revenge nor turmoyl'd by Ambition And again to describe her positively for the comliness of her Statute Figure Port Gate Complexion Countenance Promptness of wat and a fluent Tongue the ready and clear inte peter of her ingenuous conceptions there are few of her Age who go beyond her I am resolved against inlargements of discourse otherwise I might speak diffusively of all these her laudable indowments as also of her affability which is the Mother of affection of her courtly accomplishments consisting in a proportionable agreeableness and compliance with all commendable or tollerable dispositions If any shall object that the above recited qualities are baits which float upon the water without a hook and do rarely catch Husbands to this I reply that she hath in surplusage of these a noble Estate sufficient to recommend her to the prime or at least the second rate of Husbands in the Kingdom and therefore putting all together I leave it to consideration whether a Lady so highly qualified and advanced above the Defendent in all respects could comport in Marriage with a man of so mean an Estate and so contrary dispositions and habits of mind in the mean time I rest confident that if he had been crown'd with the Royal state and imperial command of all the Kingdoms upon Earth in their most Flourishing condition and pacifique possession and if she by Marrying him might have enjoyed that universal Dominion the length of the worlds duration she would never have consented to the Fetters of his imbraces I am now nearer approaching to the thing in hand and am in the first place to reduce into a succinct and Methodicall Narrative the beginning progress conclusion of the whole matter of Fact as well for the information of the Court as to satisfie the curious inquisition of the People so far at least as it is convenient to stamp a figure of so foul a fact in their imagination for as it was wisdom in Galen not to leave behind him too subtile a Theory of Poyson least he should thereby give occasion for the too ready practice thereof So I dare not be too particular in relating the many subtilties and contrivances which the Defendent used in this affair least bad inclinations in others may be too fully instructed to act the like evills If I should afford them too broad an inspection extended to all circumstances the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And my first rise is that the Defendent forgetting the aforementioned disparity between him and my Client grew up to so high a conceit of himself as that he presumed to make adresses to her in the way of Marriage which he seem'd to prosecute with very much instance and solicitation but my Client though she was young and not arbitress of her condition yet knowing how to make a just estimat of her self and finding nothing in him that might fit him for her acceptance she immediatly desired him to discharge his mind of such vain hopes and afterwards he renewing his motion to the same purpose she repel'd him with severity and contempt not out of a feigned unwillingness but a real aversion and never after looked upon him but with a careless disdain loathing and detestation and withall assureing him that it was as easie to blow Flint into flames with a paire of Bellows as to kindle any flames of love in her by the breath of his solicitations for his fairest words were as harsh to her ears as the noyse of Pea-cocks and she took no more delight to see him then sore eyes do to behold the Sun in its Meridional altitude she hated him as a Jew doth Images or a non-Conformist a Surplice she feared him as a Monster and avoyded him as the Plague Accounting his company as pestilential as the infectious exhalations of the Dogs star or the Maligne influence of a Comet And indeed it many times happens that men advanced above desert from a low degree are like those Exhalations which being raised from Dung-hills become Comets of a direfull influence hereupon the Defendent finding that the more he reinforced his attempts the more she stiffned the bent of her resolution against him insomuch