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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66844	The gentlewomans companion; or, A guide to the female sex containing directions of behaviour, in all places, companies, relations, and conditions, from their childhood down to old age: viz. As, children to parents. Scholars to governours. Single to servants. Virgins to suitors. Married to husbands. Huswifes to the house Mistresses to servants. Mothers to children. Widows to the world Prudent to all. With letters and discourses upon all occasions. Whereunto is added, a guide for cook-maids, dairy-maids, chamber-maids, and all others that go to service. The whole being an exact rule for the female sex in general. By Hannah Woolley.	Woolley, Hannah, fl. 1670.; Faithorne, William, 1616-1691, engraver.	1673 (1673)	Wing W3276A; ESTC R204109	139,140	297

the benefits of the tythe of the ensuing Accomplishments These ten years and upwards I have studied how to repair their loss of time by making publick those gifts which God hath bestow'd upon me To be useful in our Generation is partly the intent of our Creation I shall then arrive to the top of the Pyramid of my Contentment if any shall profit by this following Discourse If any question the truth of what I can perform their trial of me I doubt not but will convince their infidelity The things I pretend greatest skill in are all works wrought with a Needle all Transparent works Shell-work Moss-work also cutting of Prints and adorning Rooms or Cabinets or Stands with them All kinds of Beugle-works upon Wyers or otherwise All manner of pretty toyes for Closets Rocks made with Shells or in Sweets Frames for Looking-glasses Pictures or the like Feathers of Crewel for the corner of Beds Preserving all kind of Sweet-meats wet and dry Setting out of Banquets Making Salves Oyntments Waters Cordials healing any wounds not desperately dangerous Knowledg in discerning the Symptomes of most Diseases and giving such remedies as are fit in such cases All manner of Cookery Writing and Arithmetick Washing black or white Sarsnets Making sweet Powders for the Hair or to lay among Linnen All these and several things beside too tedious here to relate I shall be ready to impart to those who are desirous to learn Now to the intent I may increase your wonder I shall relate how I came to the knowledg of what I prosess When I was fourteen years old I began to consider how I might improve my time to the best advantage not knowing at that age any thing but what reason and fancy dictated to me Before I was Fifteen I was intrusted to keep a little School and was the sole Mistress thereof This course of life I continued till the age of Seventeen when my extraordinary parts appear'd more splendid in the eyes of a Noble Lady in this Kingdom than really they deserv'd who praising my works with the appellation of curious pieces of Art was infinitely pleas'd therewith But understanding withall that I understood indifferently the smooth Italian and could sing dance and play on several sorts of Musical Instruments she took me from my School and greedily entertained me in her house as Governess of her only Daughter Unto this honourable Person I am indebted for the basis or ground-work of my Preserving and Cookery by my observation of what she order'd to be done By this Ladies means I came acquainted with the Court with a deportment suitable thereunto The death of this Lady gave me a fit opportunity to be entertain'd by another no way inferiour to the former with whom I lived seven years At first I was Governess to those of her Children whose forward virtue sufficiently declared the goodness of the stock from whence they came Time and my Ladies good opinion of me constituted me afterwards her Woman her Stewardess and her Scribe or Secretary By which means I appear'd as a person of no mean authority in the Family I kept an exact account of what was spent in the house And as I profited in Externals so I treasured up things necessary for my understanding having an happy opportunity so to do nor only by hearing that ingenious and agreeable discourse interfac'd between my Lady and Persons of Honour but also by inditing all her Letters in the framing and well fashioning of which that I might increase my Ladies esteem I took indefatigable pains there were not any who both wittily and wisely had publisht their Epistles to view of the world whom I had not read and on all occasions did consult those which I placed in my greatest esteem were the Letters of Mr. Ford Mr. Howel Mr. Loveday and Monsieur Voiture But that which most of all increast my knowledg was my daily reading to my Lady Poems of all sorts and Plays teaching me as I read where to place my accents how to arise and fall my voice where lay the emphasis of the expression Romances of the best sort she took great delight in and being very well verst in the propriety of the French Tongue there was not any thing published by the Virtuosi of France which carefully and chargably she procur'd not this put me upon the understanding of that Language she was so well experienc'd therein which is as great an Ornament for young Ladies as those learned Tongues of which the Academical studioso boasts a more than common understanding Here as I learned hourly courtly phrases and graces so how to express my self with the attendency of a becoming air And as I gather'd how to manage my tongue gracefully and discreetly so I thought it irrequisite to let my hands to lye idle I exercised them daily in carving at Table And when any sad accident required their help in Physick and Chyrurgery I was ready to be assisting in those two excellent arts in this place I acquired a competent knowledg In short time I be came skilful and stayed enough to order an house and all Offices belonging to it and gained so great an esteem among the Nobility and Gentry of two Counties that I was necessitated to yield to the importunity of one I dearly lov'd that I might free my self from the tedious caresses of a many more In the time I was a Wife I had frequent occasions to make use of all or most of my aforenamed qualities and what I exercised not within my own roof I used among my neighbours friends and acquaintants That which qualified me as a Governess for Children as well as any thing yet I have mention'd was the great knowledg I had in the humours inclinations and dispositions of Children having often had at one time above threescore in number under my tuition Besides as I have been the Mistress of many Servants so I have qualified them with my instructions to be Mistress to others the major part of them living very comfortably in a married condition As I have taken great pains for an honest livelihood so the hand of the Almighty hath exercised me in all manner of Afflictions by death of Parents when very young by loss of Husband Children Friends Estate very much sickness by which I was disenabled from my Employment Having already given you an account of the duty and requisite endowments which ought to be in a Governess and how qualified I was my self in that troublesome conccrn I shall now proceed in giving young Ladies such Rules which long experience and observation hath taught me which may be as their perfect guide in all ages and conditions the practice whereof will assuredly imbalm their names here let their stedfast faith in Jesus Christ only crown them with glory hereafter Good Instructions for a young Gentlewoman from the age of Six to Sixteen I Shall suppose your Parents have not been so remiss in their duties as not to furnish your tender age