from Heaven 〈◊〉 born of the Sea brought up in the Waves as another Venus tho' surrounded with all the Graces and attended with all the Troops of little Cupids tho' Venus Girdle be about her and she breath Cinamon and the most odoriferous Balm yet if she be bald she cannot please 〈◊〉 not so much as her own 〈◊〉 As a Field without Grass a Tree without Leaves a Beast without Horns such says Ovid is one without Hair It is without doubt a considerable Ornament and additional Beauty and most Nations have contended in managing their Hair in Pleiting Breading Curling Shading some short and some long But seeing Ladies you are not ignorant of the Fashion in Mode to manage it to the best advantage we shall only give you a touch out of Ovid what is best becoming and so proceed to other Matters Prove every shape but ere it current pass See thou before take Counsel from thy Glass A long and slender Visage best allows To have the Hair parts just above the Brows So Laodamela surnam'd the Fair Us'd when she walk'd abroad to Truss her Hair A round plump Face must have her Tramels ty'd In a fast Knot above her Front to hide The ll'yre supporting it whilst either Ear Bare and in sight with Golden Bobs appear Hair Ladies we may further add to be as a silken Fringe to Beauties Bed or if you please the slender Sleeves that Nature spins for Cupid to weave his Heart-surprizing Nets withal If it decays and falls away the little Amorous God loses a part of his Artillery and ever after acts but weakly for ye So that it highly concerns you who triumph over entangled Captives to tender and preserve it Natures Curious Ornament and that we may not be wanting to instruct you how you may keep it as a fast Friend take these Directions to secure it on your Heads c. Hair how to fasten and keep it from falling off Have in a readiness or procure Myrtle-leaves Myrrh the Bark of a Pine-tree and Maiden-hair of each half a handful bruise them well together and add to these a double quantity of pounded Labdanum put them into a sufficient quantity of White-wine to steep them well then add an Ounce of the Oyl of Radish-seed and being sufficiently steeped strain out the Liquid part and anoint your Head or any place where the Hair is defective going to Bed and have next Morning in readiness a Bath to wash your Head in made of Sorrel Maiden-hair Myrabolans and Emblick these are to be boiled in Water and a little pounded Myrrh added and in a few times using it will fasten your Hair extreamly or for want of these take Willow-leaves Plantane Roch Allum and Hyssop of each a moderate proportionable quantity boyl them in Water and add some Powder of Mâ—rrh and Tutty Hair is secure this way 〈◊〉 Golden Water â—rawn from Honey in a Glass Stâ—ll or take the Roots of Vervine together with the Leaves stamp them well and puâ— them into Oyl of Green Grapes and set them in the Sun ten days then strain out the moist part and anoint your Hair with it as you see occasion or for want of any of the former take Juniper-berries Nigella-Seeds Worâ—â— wood Labdanum and Vervine each a like quantity bind them well bruised in a linnen Cloath and Macerate them five days in Oyl and it will not only by anointing fasteâ—â— the Hair but make it grow comely Hair wanting how to make it grow on a Bald Place c. However Ladies if some disasters have trod too hard on your Heads and kill'd those pleasant Plants that were used to flourish there you may again by the following helps attire with their Native Beauty and repair all former ruins and render it more fair and lovely than Nature before had planted it Indeed the Hair is a very great Ornament and where it is wanting in it's proper Places it throws a kind of an Eclipse over the Face of Beauty to recover it then take Fern Roots burn them to Ashes mingle with them Linseed Oâ—l and bruised Almonds Bâ—â—â— of Wheat and half an Ounce of Mastick Powder spread them well tempered together upon a piece of fine Leather and lay it as a Plaister to the place where the Hair is wanting and in three or four times applying and washing with rose-Rose-water and â—â—tter of Orange-flowers the Hair will appear and grow up very full decently and in order or take the still'd water of Couslips Fumitory and Peâ—â—-royal boil them unto the thickness of an Ointment with Oyl of Roses and a little Deers Swordâ— and when it is cool aâ—otâ— the bare place with the Ointment and in often so doing and washing it with Hyâ—â—â— water the Hair will reâ—â—â— or you may make an Ointment of Housleek Juice 〈◊〉 ounce Bees-wax half an 〈◊〉 the Kernels of Walnuts 〈◊〉 an ounce Citron-peel well 〈◊〉 two drams Oyl Mugâ—â—â—â— two ounces bruise and 〈◊〉 them all together till an Oyl come from them which 〈◊〉 soon thicken into an Ointment with which you may aâ—â—â—â— the place This likewise will give it lighter Colour and 〈◊〉 curious than before To 〈◊〉 Hair from falling off a Case of Sickness or too 〈◊〉 driness of the Brain take 〈◊〉 hair Hore-hound and 〈◊〉 bruise them together 〈◊〉 boil them in White-wine 〈◊〉 out the liquid part and 〈◊〉 the Head with it Morning and Evening pretty warm 〈◊〉 dry it with a warm Cap 〈◊〉 it and it will fasten the 〈◊〉 of the Hair by closing 〈◊〉 Pores from whence they 〈◊〉 the like for want of 〈◊〉 may be done with Camâ—â—â—â— and Fennel Roots 〈◊〉 in Spring-water with a little Powder of Allom dissolved in it and the place washed c. Hair how to take it away and prevent it's growing again Hard Fortune Ladies it is when the Lillies and Roses of your Faces Elysium are over-top'd by the hasty growth of superfluous Excrescensies yet by Art we teach you to secure the glorious Line of your Beauties Pride and eradicate those aspiring Weeds that would over-shadow it's Lustre and this may be done by taking of Auripigmentum an ounce and half quick Lime four ounces Florentine Iris Roots an ounce Sulphur Nitre of each half an ounce these must be laid in a Quart of Lye made of Bean-stalks and being well mixed and temper'd boil them in a glaz'd Pot till putting in a Feather you will find all the Shag come off the Stalk then add half an ounce of Oyl of Mirrh or any Fragrant Oyl and well mixing all anoint the part of the Body from which the Hair is to be taken it not being a place that is sore and you will in a short time find the Effect but have however some Oyl of Roses or Cammoile to succeed it to Cool and Mollifie the Heat c. Hair is taken off in like manner by Orpiment and quick Lime each an ounce and a half Henbane and Fleawort Seeds half an ounce and half two drams of Sublimate Gum
those false appearances that to undiscerning Opticks guild o're and make it seem lovely and charming Lascivious Pictures as well as Songs are to some an Incitement to others detestable and an Antidote against what they represent though according to the Old Proverb Nemo mortalium omnilus horis sapit No man is wise at all times The Temple of Venus in Rome was placed in the suâ—urâ—s that the Lacivious Proceâ—â—ing might be as little puâ—lâ—â—â—â—o the majority of the Peopâ—e â—s possiâ—le to avâ—id all occasioâ—s and objects thâ—t might furtâ—er a Temptation to Laciviousness So in Singing when it is for chaâ—te Delight and modest Recreation may wâ—â—â— Reason gain approbaâ—ion and applause Orpheus turn'd his melodious Voice this way and as it is fabled made inanimate and irrational Creatures admire him his harmony charm'd them into wonder and drew them after him but the Rude Bacchanalian women o'â—â— flâ—w'd with Wine and Lust could not endure it because it suited not their Drâ—nken and Lascivious Humour and threfore in their mad Ragâ— they tore him to pieces and threw hiâ— scatter'd Limâ—s into the River Hebrus at the Foot of Mount Hyblia of which a modern Poet brings in Caliopâ— one of the Nine Muâ—es â—ius complaining Was not my Orpheus death tho long ago Enough for me to bear for you to do Orpheus so much by all the Graces lov'd Whose charming Voice and matchless musick mov'd The savage beaâ—â—â— the stones and sensless trees Yet could not move the harder Destinies I saw his Limbs alass scatter'd abroad On Hebrus streams whilst down the silver flood His learned head was rowl'd and all along Heard the sad murmurs of his dying Tongue Such misfortunes have often happen'd to the Chaste and Vertous whilst â—he immodest and Vicious have not only escaped but gain'd applause Juvenal in his Sâ—â—yrâ— â—ives divers Examples and â—â—â—â—elf for telling the Truth in reproving the Wickedness of the age wherein he liv'd was forâ—d to fly his Countrey But to a closure of this matter singing seasonably and moderately used is a great accompliâ—hment and advantage to either Sex rendering the parties acceptable iâ— all civil company Some hold it is the harmony in heaven thou more rare and refined and we are not without Warrants for it in holy Writ especially in the Revelatiâ—ns c. where Songâ— of Praises are uttered Small Pox its scars or marks how to repair â— obliterate Past enâ—merating are the surprizing Casualâ—ies that appeâ—r as sâ— many enemies to deform â— faâ—r smooth and polished skin each wound they give beiâ—g a grave where Loves dumb Oratory lieâ— immure dor â—uâ—â—eâ— and Châ—rurgeoâ—s usually are the unskilsul Plaisterers that make an iâ—â— raised Cicat rice the swelling monument to depaâ—ted Bâ—aâ—â—y The Feâ—â—râ— fretting Small-pox if it chanâ—◠〈…〉 Foot within that 〈◊〉 of Perfections the 〈◊〉 leaves many times more â—â—â—figuring Impressions than a 〈◊〉 clouted shoos on a 〈◊〉 Floers now to smooth 〈◊〉 Ladies and Polish your 〈◊〉 after such unwelcome 〈◊〉 prize what we recommend to you as rarity 〈◊〉 you will soon find the 〈◊〉 and Dales of uneven Faces meet without a miracle dwelling to such a smoothness 〈◊〉 the God though fabled 〈◊〉 may carelesly sport himâ—â—â—â— without stumbling Small 〈◊〉 deformity is removed by â—â—ing Saffron half an ounce 〈◊〉 two ounces Turpenâ—â—â—â— three ounces Gum Araâ—â—â— one ounce Oâ—â— Olive Oyl â—â—o ounces make the Mastick â—â—d Arabick into gross powder and put them into the Oyl and â—â—â—pentine then distil them in â— Glass Alimbick and there 〈◊〉 come a curious healing Water from them or rather â— precious Unguent with which â—â—oint the Face going to bed 〈◊〉 in the morning wash it off with warm water wherein fine â—ower has been infused and 〈◊〉 is likewise exceeding good when after the consolidation of â— Wound any disfiguring scar remains Safe it is likewise 〈◊〉 advantageous for want of 〈◊〉 former or we give you â—â—ave to chuse which you â—lease to take Litharge of Gold â—â—o ounces Salt and Ceruse half â—n ounce of either Vinegar â—â—â—tain and Rose Water of â—â—ch three ounces half a dram of Camphire mingle and philter it and to let the Face or any part defective be anointed with it and after rub it out with Oyl of Roses or the Essence of Jessemine and in so frequently doing the skin will rise and fill up the hollow pits and places and an Excellent colour will be restored adding more beauty perhaps than before the disaster befel the party using it Spots in any part of the body to remove them Spots are as great blemishes to beauty in either sex as in pretious stones as much debasing the worth or value of either we have seen Faces from whose Features Beauty her self might have drawn Patterns had not Nature studied too much neatness play'd the Curtezan and spoiled that which was Lovely and Charming before by over Patching yet many Ladies never conclude themselves Venus's in beauty unless they have some Artificial Mole tho such clouded Stars more Eclipse than Increase their Native Lusture and especially where Nature is too Liberal her Spots they are always accounted Blemishes rather than Ornaments those then that have the Characters of Beauty defaced with such blots may have for a repair of such defects recourse to our following directions and thereby will find themselves quickly freed and their features so ravishing and transporting that were it the fashion of this Age to dedicate shines to beauty there are few of them but would have their Altars where the most generous heart should glory to sacrifice Spots are of diveâ—s colours and there is some preparation in general in order to facilitate their removal before we come to particulars and this may be effected by bathing them 3 mornings successively with Allum dissolved in oyl of Tartar washed off with Lye and Lupin meal or you may take one part of rose water and two of plantan water two ounces of Sulpher Vive Roch Allum in powder an ounce heat them over a gentle fire till a fifth part is consumed then taking off the vessel stir the Ingredients continually till the whole become cold strain it then through a fine cloth and with it anoint the place And thus being prepared take Sugar Candia two ounces with Frankincense the like quantity and these being dissolve in a pint and a half of Juyce of Limons simper theaâ— gently over a moderate fire and anoint the spots first being washed with barly water and it will remove them Sparkling Eyes are the starry Jewels of a heavenly face which with their Attractive influence and amorous emotions govern the restless fate of every Lover whence once these twinkling twins brighter than those that Grace the skys make break of day through their Incloâ—ing Lids their piercing beams of glory Amuze spectators and make them pay tributary devotion to those Christal Orbs from whence they flow The beauty of the eyes is much Impaired by spots bloodshot Inflamation c. Which Eclypse
with wonder and they take her for a kind of a Terrestial Paradise furnished out with delights not common to the World Friends and Relations are forsaken for her and she is exalted upon the Soveraign Throne of Affection Life is a small hazard to protect or vindicate her Honour Says Esdras though it was death for any to touch the Persian Kings without an especial Command yet says he of Darius I saw Apame his Concubine sitting familiar with him on his right hand and she took the Crown from off his head and put it on her own and stroaked him with her left hand yet the King was well pleased Gaping and Gazing on her and when she smilled he smilled and laughed when she laughed and when she was angry he flattered to be reconciled to her When the fair Chariclea fell into the hands of Pyrates with divers others she only escaped being put to the Sword her Excelling Beauty working upon the Villains heart contrary to their bloody custom to save her Life Some Nations chuse their Kings and Queens by their Beauty and Proportion of Body without regard to their Birth As of Old the Indians Persians and Aethiopians have done Barbarians Stand in awe of a Fair Woman c. Barbarous People have many times given Adoration to Beauty And Helena though she was the cause of a Ten Years War attended with so much Ruin and Dissolation with the Armour of her Dazling Beauty stood proof against her injured Husbands Anger and Disarmed his hand that was about to take her head so that he stood as one amaz'd at her Excellent Features and letting his Weapon fall tenderly Embraced her For as the Old saying is The Edge of the Sword is dull'd by Beauties Aspect It is said of Sinalda a Queen that when she was doomed to be trampled to death by wild Horses the Beasts though before untractable were so astonished at her Beauty that they stood still gazing with wonder upon her admirable Form and would not by any force be driven over her Lucian confesses though a Person very judicious that his Mistrisses Presence has for a time so over-powered his Senses that he has been void of Understanding And others indeed have run quite distracted when they have found nothing but disdain after a long attendance They waite the sentence of her Scornful Eyes And whom she favours lives the other dyes No Medium she allows there always waits Life on her smiles her frown commands the fates To cut his Early Thread who must forego Her Beauties for the Mellancholy shades below Body the Beautifying thereof Bodies that are weak and moving Mansions of Mortality are exposed to the Treacherouâ— underminings of so many Sicknesses and Distempers that it 's own frailty seems a Petitioner for some Artificial Enamel which might be a fixation to natures Inconstancy and a help to its variating Infirmities for he that narrowly observes that Fading house of distempered Clay will soon find that it Imulates the Moon in Mutability that though to day it be Varnished o're with a Lively Rosie Blush to Morrow it is white-washed with Megar paleness as if death had took it to hire and made it a whited Sepulchre that though to day it appears smooth and gay So that Venus herself might be tempted to take her Recreation there to Morrow it may be so rough cast and Squall'd that Cupid can scarce walk there without being over Shoes Now to Sublimate Nature beyond the reach of Sickness by a lasting Aetherial Pulcritude and by Cosemetick Antidotes to fortifie it with and Incapacity of being surprized by any Features Fretting Malady would be a business that would not only puzle the whole Elaboratory of Chymists but their Atcheus too although of the Privy Council to Nature and confident to her recluded Privacies But to make Beauty the Lure of Love of a more ordinary Lustre to fix the Complexion of the Body so that it be not too frequent in it's variation or to keep the Fair and Damasked Skin from being too much sullied with deformities Is a task not transcending the Sphere of a Modest Vndertaking and such a one Ladies you will find in this work beyond perhaps what ever has been before exposed to your fair Eyes though not in a Compleat Body but reduced under their Several Alphabets as the nature and necessity of this undertaking requires But let us come a little nearer to the purpose Bodies that are very Lean and Scragged we all must own cannot be very Comely It is a contrary Extream to Corpulency and the Parties Face seems always to carry Lent in it though at Christmas looking so Megarly that when such of either Sex come to their Confessor he perceiving them meer Skelitons dares not for fear of Solecism join them Pennance to Mortifie the Flesh No part about them thrive but their Bones and they look so Jolly and Lusty as if they had eaten up the Flesh and were ready to leap up of the Skin that they may fall upon others Truly Ladies such Leanness is a very Ravenous Guest and will keep you bare to Maintain him If thefore you are Desirous to be rid of his Company observe the Following prescriptions Be sure to take care in the Summer to keep your Chamber Cool and moist with some Fragrant Flowers set or scattered about it when you are about to go to Meals chase your Body as much as you can that the blood may be stirred in the Veins and the Skin sit more loose At your Meals Eat not any thing that is very Salt Sharp Bitter or too Hot but let your Food be sweet of a quick Digestion and Nourishing as New Eggs Veal Mutton Capon c. and for three hours after Meat take your Recreation in that whereby your Body may be moving and stiring twice a Month if the weather be not extream bad make moreover an Electuary to be taken Morning and Evening in this manner viz. Take sweet Almonds Pistach-nuts Sugaâ— and white Poppy-Seed beat them according to Art into the form of an Electuary and take the Quantity of a Walnut for many Mornings and Evenings this will not only make you Fat but give you a good Complexion then for your diet take a young Capon and the Flesh of Four Calves feet with a piece of the Fillet of Veal boil them in a sufficient quantity of fair Water and white Wine then scum the Fat off and put the Broth well pressed from the Meat into a New Earthen Vessel with a pound and a half of Sugar a dozâ—â— of Cloves half an ounce of Cinnamon then boil it gently again and add the whites of 2 Eggs reboil it and pass it through a strainer before it cool mix with it a little Musk and Amber boiled in rose-Rose-water and take of this which will be a kind of a Jelley twice or thrice a day Bodies sometimes fall away in one part and not in another if so to bring your Body to even terms take
an ounce and a half of Oyl of Foxes Oyl of Lillies and Capons Grease and Goose Grease each two ounces Pine Rosin Greek Pitch and Turpentine of each two ounces boile them together in an Earthen Glaz'd-Vessel Adding then an ounce of the Oyl of Elder being taken hot from the fire add some Virgins-Wax to them as much as will stiffen the Mass into a Sear-cloth and when it is almost cold spread it and apply it to the place that Languishes or does not equally Thrive And for that and the rest the Plaister after some continuance being taken off use this Bath in Claret Wine Boil half a handful of Wormwood Roses Stachas of Rosemary Calamint Sage Squinath Cammomile each a handful boil it till the third part of the Wine be consianed and when it is warm Bath the Body or any particular part more immediately requiring it will Nourish Strengthen and Beautifie the Framâ— of the Body Body when too Fat Hoâ— to reduce it to a Beautifâ—â— Form and handsom Proporâ—â—â—on Bodies of an 〈◊〉 weildy Bulk are to many â—â—â— pleasing as the former as beiâ—â— the other Extream no one câ—â— think it a very pleasing Sigâ— to see a Soul Strugling 〈◊〉 a mountanous Load of Flesâ— and the Body stretched to 〈◊〉 Dimensions as renders it 〈◊〉 most out of shape And if the were nothing more than 〈◊〉 Incumbrance it were sufficâ—â—ent to deter any one from 〈◊〉 unweildy a Magnitude 〈◊〉 here in too Legible Character those that can Read 〈◊〉 Sloth and Voluptuousnes occasioned it for when e're 〈◊〉 Carcase swells it self into a buâ— too Voluminous Idleness 〈◊〉 there described in Folio Ladies then be careful to keeâ— your Bodies in an due Proportion and if ever they enlarâ—â— themselves to Extravagant Lâ—â—mits use the Directions to â—â—â—duce them to their formâ— bounds that so you may 〈◊〉 gain both your Credits 〈◊〉 your Beauties Bodies 〈◊〉 such Proportions must 〈◊〉 Early in the Morning be Exercised to Sweating be 〈◊〉 in Diet not Eating Sweâ—â—t things but rather Salt Sharâ— or Bitter especially â—awcâ—â— lye not over Soft at Night Bleed in the Right Arm preâ— largely in the Spring and in 〈◊〉 Left in Autumn purge pretty strongly in those Seasons and once a Week take some Laxatives and in Winter Mornings the Powder thus Composed Bray Anniseeds Fennel Agnus Castus Carroway Rue and Cummin Nutmegs Pepper Mace Ginger Galingale and Smallage dry'd Marjorum Gentian Round-bithwort of each an equal part and by drying beating and sifting bring it into a Powder and take in a Glass of White-wine a Dram of it half an hour before Meals and to the Heart and Liver as you see Cause â—ay cooling Applications as the Juice and Decoction of Plantane Sheepherds-purse Lettice and the like and if any particular part be more Corpulent then the rest take Cerus Fullers-earth and white Lead mix them with the Juice of Henbane and Oil of Mirtle and when the part has been bath'd with Vinegar annoint the place and the Success will be evident Breaâ—â—s hanging down or large how to make them Plump and Round Breasts that hang loose and are of an extraordinary Largeness lose their Charms and have their Beauty buried in the grave of Uncomliness whilst those that are small plump and round like two Ivory Globes or little Worlds of Beauty whereon Love has founded his Empire command an awful homage from his Vassals captivate the wondring gazers Eyes and dart warm Desires into his Soul that make him languish and melt before the soft Temptation therefore to reduce those Breasts that hang flagging out of all comely Shape and Form that they may be plump round and smaller Bind them up close to you with Caps or Bags that will just fit them and so let them continue for some Nights then take Carret-seed Plantan-seeds Anniseeds Fenel-seeds Cummin-seeds of each two Ounces Virgins-Honey an Ounce the Juice of Plantane and Vinegar two Ounces each bruise and mingle them well together then unbinding your Breast spread the Composition Plaister-wise and lay it on your Breasts binding them up close as before after two days and two nights take off the Plaisters and wash your Breasts with White-wine and Rose-water and in so doing for twelve or fourteen days together you will find them reduc'd to a curious Plumpness and Charming Roundness wash them then with Water of Benjamin and it will not only whiten them but make their Azur Veins appear in all their intricate Meanders till the Lover in tracing them looses himself Breasts are likewise to be reduc'd by washing them with Scabeous Water-Verjuice the Waters of Bean-Blossoms Rosemary-flowers and the Juice of Citrons annointing them afterward with Oil of Mastick and Myâ—rhe and binding them up close as before directed So the unseemly spreading Alps you 'll see Round as Parnassus spiry Tops to be Bracelets Perfumed how to make them Bracelets have been highly in Esteem among the Ladies adorn'd with Gold and precious Stones but since those seem to be laid aside we hope Pomander or Perfumed Bracelets may be used they by their odoriferous Scent conduce much Ladies to the making your Captives numerous though they bind only your Arms yet they take Men your Prisoners To make them then Beat Musk and Ambergreece of each forty Grains with two Ounces of the Buds of Damask-Roses the Whites being clipt off add of Civit twenty Graiâ—â— also a little Labdanum being well mix'd and fine beaten make them up with Gum-tragacanth disolv'd in Rose water and so make them when harden'd into small Beads and string them the Scent is rare and Comfortable or for another sort take Labdanum and Styrax Calemite each a Dram and a half Benjamin one Dram Mace Cloves Lavender-Flowers and Wood of Aloes of each half a Scruple Musk and Ambergreece of each four Grains a little â—â—rpentine and Gum-Tragaâ—anth dissolved in rose-Rose-water as much as will suffice beat and mix them well together in a warm Mortar and make them into a Pomander according to Art Boxes of Perfume Boxes are very necessary on sundry Occasions viz. To hinder Vapours prevent Infections remove Ill Scents or bad Airs To make these Perfum'd Boxes Take right Jessemine Butter half an Ounce Essence of Orange-flower Essence of Cynnamon Oil of Orange peel Oil of Nutmegs Essence of Roses of each half a Scruple Flowers of Benjamin one Scruple Essense of Amber Musk and Civit of each half a Scruple All these you must work well together in a cold Marble-Mortar keeping it as close as may be Then put it into your Boxes of Ivory or Silver with holes for the Scent to come through and it is a great preservative against the Plague Pestilence c. as well as pleasant and delightful to the Brain Brows of the Eyes How to Beautifie and Adorn. Brows of the glittering Eyes are Cupid's Groves of Pleasure where he shelters himself from the violent Heat of the too flaming Opticks or rather 〈◊〉 a controlling Intelligence made super Intendant to the Chrystal Spheres
below him he keeps hiâ— Residence there that he might with the more Facility direct their beaâ—â— Influences when and whither he pleases you may Ladies by this means make them beautiful Brows that have their Hair growing too thick or irregular Take Ivy Gum Emmets-Eggs or Pincent Colophonie Leeches burnt half an Ounce grind and mingle them with the Blood of a Frog and annoint the superfluous Hair and it will come off or you may take the Juice of Henbane Sanguinis Draconis Gum-Arabick and Frankincense of each three Drams Juice of Nigthshade as much as will suffice to make it into an Ointment and apply it as the former Brows falling too low over the Eyes you must work to remedy that defect a little Mastick together with the Juice of Colworts and going to Bed put the Brow up into its place and in the form of a Plaâ—â—ter apply the Mastick to it all Night and in so doing three or four Nights it will keep in its proper place Brows that shed their Hair may be prevented from so doing by taking the small filings of Lead a little Linseed-Oil and Goose-grease with which being well mixed annoint them or Maiden-hair one Dram black Henbane-seed two drams Unguentum Irinum three Spoonfuls bruise what is to be bruised and with Oil make them into an Unguent and having bathed the Brows with Water wherein Mirtle-Berries have been boil'd annoint them with it Brows that have lost their Hair to recover it take Wasps or Bees burn them to Ashes and mix the Ashes with Honey and laying it to the Hair 't will quickly come again Brows reddish or white are made black by this means Take what quantity you please of Red Filberds calcine them in an earthen Vessel mix it with Goats-grease and annoint the Brow with it and if the Skin be soil'd wash it off with warm Water and in often using the Hair 't will become of a very curious Black Beauty of an Itchy oâ— Scabby Skin repaired Beauty Ladies by these defects is much impaired but we fear whilst we are prescribing Remedies for such loathsom Skin-defiling Maladies you will perhaps think we have forgot you and are Addressing our selves to your Kitchen-maids We must confess these fretting Exulcerations are more frequently incident to such as have not the advantages of Neatness and anticipating Remedies but most certain it is that not only they but the most nice and delicate if any thing the most Irregular or Intemperate cannot at all times be secur'd from them If ever then your ill dispos'd Humours grow so strong as to break their way through the inclosing Skin it will do you no harâ— to have something in readiness that may check their Presumption Be it so then take Fumitory-water an Ounce and a half succory-Succory-water three Ounces Syrup of Fumitory and Succory of each one Ounce mix them together and take two Spoonfuls in a Glass of White-wine for your Mornings draught and by often using you will find it an excellent Remedy or take Rhuburb one Scruple Senna two Drams Anniseeds half a Scruple White-wine half a pint put them into an earthen Bottle stop it close and set it over warm Embers all Night in the Morning strain it out and drink it and to purge your Body afterwards that the Humours may be remov'd which may be done with Pills made of Citron Mirabolaus and Rhuburb of each half a Dram Aloes washed in the Decoction of Senna one Scruple mix them well by bruising and make them up into Pills with Syrup of Fumetory And to wash the place afflicted Take Balm a good quantity bruise it well and set it to macerate one Night in White wine the next day draw off the Water in a Glass-still it is exceeding sweet and will cleanse and purifie the Skin after the defect is taken away then annoint it with Natural Balsom and a Grain of Musk and you will find a rosie Beauty where Deformity had usurped the place Big-belly'd Woman how to govern herself Good Government in these Cases has not only saved Miscarriages and Abortions but prevented endangering the Mother's Life wherefore we have thought it convenient for the Instruction of new marry'd Women to lay down some modest Rules and commend them to their Observance First then We advise Women with Child iâ— they are not strong of Body and very healthful to chusâ— a temperate Air where no grosâ— Fogs or Damps arise from Lakes Marishes or the like and noâ— to venter herself abroad when the Weather is either too Cold or too Hot nor when the South-wind blows too strong for that above all others is held to be injurious to the Birth she carries in her Womb The North-wind in the next place when it is too turbulent and cold is offensive to her Person carsing Catarrhs Coughs and Rheums which opening the Body le ts in too much Air 〈◊〉 the Womb or causes it to dismiss its Burthen untimely and if any evil Vapours be drawn in during pregnancy they produce many disorders and sometimes cold Diseases And Secondly In her Diet 〈◊〉 ought to be careful and cautious chusing such Meats 〈◊〉 create wholsom Nourishment and those are held to do so which are moderately dry she must avoid Excess on the one hand and immoderate Fasting on the other for as the one causes it to swell beyond its natural bounds so the other renders it weakly and sickly and often for want of Nourishment to come before its time All Meats too hot or too cold are to be avoided as Sallets any thing dressed with hot Spices Salt-meats and the like which being eat to any degree sometimes makes the Child come forth without Nails and such other defects as are signs of short Life or a very unhealthy Constitution therefore let her take such as are of good Nourishment and a facil Digestion as Lamb Veal Mutton Larks Partridges and the like and of Fruits such as are sweet and pleasant as Cherries Apricots Rasberries Pears Plumbs c. but by any means avoid those things that occasion windyness in the Body she must regulate as well as she can her Longings that they extend to nothing that 's unwholsom or extravagant Government must in pregnant Women be observed in their Sleeping which we advise to be moderate not soon after Meals and little as may be in the day time Moderate Exercise is likewise requir'd to move the Body and keep it in a good Temper by distributing the Humours and giving the Blood a freer Circulation but all viâ—lent Motion in Walking or otherways must be avoided for it molests and injures the frame of the Womb any great Sounds or Noises especially Ringing of Bells and Shooting off Guns are to be shun'd as much as may be Immoderate Crying or Laughing are very hurtful and the better to help the Birth when it comes near to delivery Let the Childbearing Woman take such things as will keep her Body soluble as Syrup of Violets sweet Wines or the like avoiding
all Astringents that contract the Vessels and Passages and going Loose Let her give what scope she can in the Fourth Month when the Motion is great she may Sweath her Belly with a Sweath-band And Annoint it with an Ointment thus made Get of Capons-grease and Goose grease each an Ounce and a half the Gall of a Kid or a Lamb three Ounces then having melted and mixt them well together add the Marrow of a Red Deer or the Suet for want of it an Ounce then work it up in half a pint of rose-Rose-water and in using it will keep the Belly smooth and from hanging down after delivery It during her Pregnancy she finds but little motion let her make a Quilt thus Take the Powder of Red-roses Red-Coral and Gilliflowers each three Ounces Maâ—tick a Dram and of Angelica-seeds two Drams Amber-greece two Grains and one of Musk being beaten well and mixed Then make a Quilt of a Linnen bag put the Ingredients into it and lay it upon the Woman's Navel and it will not only refresh her but greatly strengthens the Infant This we have thought fit to advise which will turn to the Advantage of those that are due observants Books Directions to Ladies about Reading them It is not necessary then to read many Books but to read the best and especially never to be curious of such whereby we cannot Learn any thing without the danger of becoming Vitious And here I needs must encounter with two gâ—eat Errors the one proceeding from Fear and the other from Boldness Some Mothers of Children and others there are who make a great scruple that their Children should read the Books of the Heathens such as Seneca 〈◊〉 and others in English and yet they will give them full leave to read any lying Pamphlet There are some again who make a Conscience to read the Books of the 〈◊〉 though full of good Precepts yet the History of Parisinus or Ornatus and Artesia must be commended and read by them But what Contentment can there be in a counterfeit Pamphlet which is not found in History Are there not Succeses and Events fair enough Can there be a greater Pleasure than to be present at the Birth and Ruin of Monarchies and Empires and in the compass of an Hour to see what hath passed many Ages It is not an honest and a witty Way to shorten time when it seemeth long by fetching it again when it is slipt away and to find Recreation against Cares and Memory against Oblivion What cause is there that young Gentlewomen may not refresh themselves without danger of Debauchment The reading of many wanton things do heat by little and little it insensibly takes away the Repugnancy and the Horrour we have to Evil and we acquaint our selves so thorowly with the Image of Vice as we afterwards fear it not when we do meet with Vice it self When once Shame is lost we are in great danger to lose that which is not preserved but by it But this is not all for after that these Pamphlets and Songs of Wantonness have made young Maidens bold it afterwards doth make them to practice what they read or sing then they labour to find out Subtleties to carry them on to what so much they do desire and do learn not only the Evil which they should not know but even the faireâ—â— way to commit the 〈◊〉 And to speak the truth what likelihood is there for them to be familiar with such alluring Books and Songs and not put their Innocency it self in danger In those vain Pamphlets they read how this Virgin leaves her Country and her Parents to run after that Stranger another is in love in a Moment when she reads that she hath received Letters from such and such a Gallant and how they have appointed private places where to meet together These are but cunning Lessons to learn young Maids to sin more wittily and there is no Man can comprehend with what reason nay with what probability such perillous Books and Sonnets may be justified And not to dissâ—emble it is a great calamity to see now adays that it is even to make us more eager and it doth put an edge upon our Curiosity to read a Book that is forbidden It seems the same Spirit who deceived our Great Grand-Mother Eve by seducing her to lose the sweetness of the Fruit of Knowledge inspires no less too many with the same Liberty promising that their Eyes shall be opened to see admitable things and that they are denyed the reading of such wanton Books only out of pure envy This Errour corrupteth a greâ—t number of Ladies Behaviour in Conversation Zeâ—xis being to Paint a perfect Beauty proposed to himself five of the most accomplish'd Ladies in all Greece to take from every one of them those Charms and Representations which he conceived to be most powerful But to frame the Model of a woman whose Behaviour should be such as to please in all Companies he had need of greater assistance all that Nature affords or Morality teacheth is too 〈◊〉 for this End To say then what seemeth to me to be at the first most necessary I could content my self to wish in young Gentlewomen those three Perfections which Socrates desired in his Disciples Discretion Silence and Modesty Behaviour in young Ladies is a comely Grace if well considered and diligently regarded it is that which makes them to be Esteemed in the World and â—iâ—s them to go abroad in it as they would wiâ—h to be Prized and Rated It raises them a Character that will 〈◊〉 their Names to poâ—erâ—ty and better the 〈◊〉 they have 〈◊〉 if their Examples be 〈…〉 Practice and all 〈◊〉 Examples better than 〈…〉 or Precepts 〈◊〉 your behavioâ—r then strongly encline towards a reserved part not excluding a modest freedom being well timed and innocent but avoid all Extravangances that too much Encumber and peiter the Age And indeed though a Generous freedom in itself be innocent and harmless yet the too great Liberty ill Men upon that account have taken to encroach upon the honour of your Sex though but in their own opinions has made such freedom in a manner unjustifiable and involved you into a necessity of reducing it into more strictness and although it cannot so alter the nature of things as to render that Criminal which in it self is indifferent yet if it make it hazardous to your Reputations that ought to be a sufficient cause for a nearer reservedness A close Behaviour is the most seemly to receive Vertue for a constant Guest because it is a Fortress in which it can only be secure from Assaults For proper and seemly Reserves are the outworks and must not at any time be diserted by those that design to keep the main 〈◊〉 in possession for then if you see the danger at a distance you have more time to prepare for the repelling of it She that will suffer things to come to the utmost 〈◊〉
Kidneys Take of the middle rind of the Root of Asiâ— bruised two pound Juniper-Berries bruised three pound Venice-Tâ—â—pentine of the bell two pound and a half put these into twelve pints of spring-Spring-water in a Glass-Vessel well closed and there let them purifie in Horse-doing three Months then distill them in Ashes and there will come forth an Oyl and a Water seperate the one from the other ten of twelve drop being taken of this Oyl every Morning in four or six spoonfuls of the said Water dissolves the Stone and Gravel in the Kidneys most wonderfully An excellent Water for the Worms Take of Worm-seeds bruised eight ounces the shaving of Harts-horn two ounces of Peach-flowers dry'd an ounce of Aloes bruised half an ounce pour on these the Waters of Tansie Rue Peach-flowers and of Wormwood of each a pint and half let them be digested in a Glass-Vessel three days then distill them cohobate this Water three times This Water may be given from half an ounce to three ounces according to the Age and Strength of the Person In the Second Part of the Ladies Dictionary I shall insert the Receipts of several pretious Waters and their Use which I have receiv'd from the Fair-Sex and which were never yet made publick Dells are young bucksom Wenches ripe and prone to Venery but have not yet been debauch'd Dresses for Persons of different Qualities There are Robes of Distinction which are clasped on Subordinate Magistrates both innocent and laudable in themselves and are expressive of the Dignity and Office of such as wear them Thus we read that Severus allowed his Judges Gowns to 〈◊〉 in publick Judgment and others to wear at home in their private Houses Our very Quakers were never so impudent to affront the Scarlet of the Judge or Praetor It is lawful and in some respects necessary that Kings Princes and Magistrates especially in the solemn Exercise of their proper and respective Offices be distinguished by their Robes from private Persons and from each other All civiliz'd Nations have so unanimously concurred in this Distinction that we may receive it as the dictate of Nature the vote of Universal Reason Jehosaphat wore his Royal Robes tho the wearing them once had like to have cost him dearer than the matter and making Solomon's outward Glory was the Admiration of the Queen of Sheba and yet when he shone in all his external Lustre and Splendor was not array'd like the Lily of the Field Mat. 6. which glorify'd only in the Bravery of Nature's own Spinning So short are the finest works of Art of the coursest manufacture and meanest pieces of the God of Nature The Famous Burleigh when at Night coming weary home from the Croud and Business of the Court and pulling off his Gown was usually heard to say to it Lye there Lord Treasurer And indeed when we remember what Cares the Robe of State are lined with we shall have little Reason to suspect those of much Pride that bear them The same dispensation doubtless extends to each Order and Decree of the Royal Household It being not so Honourable for Princes like him of the Air to be attended on by a Black-Guard When the Queen of the South took her tedious Journey to hear the Wisdom of Solomon 't is expresly said The attendance of his Ministers and their Apparel was so glorious that it ravish't away her Spirit passaest Ecstasin saith Junius there was no more spirit in her She fell into a trance to view so glittering a Court where the great King as the Sun the chief Ministers as the Planets of the first magnitude and each inferiour Officer as the minor Stars the very least had his Splendor but all together were as our Saviour expresseth it Solomon in all his Glory Surrounded with all his Nobles and Councellors and Attendants each one in his Sphere contributing to the Glory of so great a Constellation Indeed God arrayed Solomon in the brightest Robes of Royalty with full design to make him the most illussious Prince that he might unrobe him again and make him the most experienc'd Preacher that all Princes to the Worlds end might have the Word of a King to assure them how much vanity attends the Courts of the most Magnificent Potentates and how little satisfaction or SoulAcquiescence himself had found in all the Grandeurs of State But above all how remarkable is the crowding of at least forty Dukes of the Progeny of Esau whom God hated into one short Chapter justling them together three or four into one line seven or eight of them into two Duke Teman Duke Omar Duke Zepho Duke Kenaz c. their whole story lost in the air of an empty Title their Persons and Hopes entred together in the dark vault of eternal Oblivion while yet above a dozen Chapters are proved in the deciphering out the Excellencies of but one younger Son of a Plain man that dwelt in Tents and gives us the exact memories of his whole life and actions to the Grave Gen 37. to 50. However we may judge charitably of those whom rather Reason and Necessity of State than any natural Inclination to the folly does exact from them a more gay and splendid Appearance and Dress Dairies c. I must now speak something of Dayries for the better satisfaction of the Gentlewomen both in City and Country that so the one might the better understand the practice in the Country and the other being delighted with her own experience may give a full consent to the Truth of what we shall deliver In the first place the Kinâ— must be of the best Choice and Breed that can poâ—â—â—bly be procured the larger the Cow is the better she is The Signs of a Cow that gives good Milk are a wreathed Horn a thin Neck and a full Udder But above all things the good Housewife must be sure the Bull be of as good a Breed as the Kine themselves And it is very good counsel that if at any time you buy any Kine to increase your Dairy you must be careful that they do not come from a Soil that is more fruitful than your own but that rather they come into a better Pasture for then they will prosper and thrive with you when otherwise they will pine away and fall into Diseases as Piâ—ing of Blood and other Inconveniences Those Kine are said to give most Milk which have but lately Calved If a Cow gives at once but one Gallon at a time and that constantly she may pass very well for a good Milch Cow The best time for a Cow to Calve in is the latter end of February and in the Months of March and April for then the Grass is either coming on or springeth up in 〈…〉 goodness The best and most approved hours for â—â—lâ—ing are in the Spring and â—ummer betwixt five and six in the Morning and about 〈◊〉 of the Clock in the Evening And remember it is the worst 〈…〉 that can 〈…〉 Cow half
Decency One speckled Bird will not warrant us all to be Jayes and Mag 〈◊〉 A single Cato would abhor those Garments which 〈◊〉 calls 〈…〉 and which Suidas terms Tunicas interlucentes Latice a Garmenti wherein under their pretence of covering the Debauchees of Rome discover'd their Nakedness nor should a thousand precedents encourage one sober Christian to heard with those in this who in many other things give a demonstration that they are under no tyes of Conscience Further all fashions of Apparel however lawful in themselves that spring from or give indications of an evil heart are sinfully used Augustus Cesar was wont to say the Rich and Gay Cloathing was either the sign of Pride or the Nurse of Luxury Perhaps he might be mistaken nor can any such necessary Connexion between Pride and costly Apparel be demonstrated as shall infallibly prove them sinful Nevertheless when at any time they do so spring from an evil Principle they may without Violating the Law of Charity be doomed as evil It was an Argument of their Sobriety of that Great Emperour what the same Author Reports of him that he never wore any Apparel but such as his Wife his Sister or Daughter made for him Nor indeed do we read of any such Trade as that of a Taâ—â—or in all the Scripture which argues the 〈…〉 and plâ—â—â—ness of the 〈…〉 thaâ— they 〈…〉 Art and Skill little Labour and 〈◊〉 to make them up But Luxury hath Roâ—aged every corner of the Earth to fetch home Fewel to feed that insatiable are of Lust which the more iâ— Eats the more it Hungers Alexander Siverus and Aurelianus those Great Emperors are reported never to have worn a Garment of entire 〈◊〉 all their Lives which 〈◊〉 becoâ—◠〈◊〉 ordinary wear of everâ— Nurse of a Village Emperours then were not Cloathed as Servants are now It was above 150 Years after Christ that some Idle Monks brought into Europe these Silk Spinsters And truly it s no great Credit to the Ware that they who first brought in strange Religions and new fashions of Worship should be the Men who first introduced strange Attire and new fashions of Apparel but so it is Whilst we pursue exotick lying vanities we forsake our own domestick Mercies And weigh it seriously Says the same 〈◊〉 Author with a long train of sins wait upon this stately Lady Vainglory Pride never walks the Streets alone nor without a vast Retinue of Lusts to Adorn her Pageantry He that will be profuse in one Instance must be Covetous in another Riotous Spending is accompanied with Penutious Sparing A great fire must have great â—â—re of Fewel to seed it And an open Table requires abundance of Provisions to maintain it Pride must be maintain'd by Oppression Fraud Couznage If the Tradesmans Wife lashes it out in the Streets the Husband must fetch it in one way or other in the Shop They that spend unmercifully must gain unconscionably The Mill will not grind unless some Lust brings Grilt unto it A Gentleman anticipates his Rent in the Country he comes up to Town to Vamp his Lady and fine Daughters with the newest fashion he ransacks the Court and City for the Fashions searches the Shops for materials to furnish out the Pompe he returns home and then his poor Tenants go to wrack the sweat is squeez'd out of their Brows to maintain his Prodigality so that we may now take up a Lamentation as is the Profane so is the Professor and as is the Harlot so in this particular are many whom we hope to be Chaste If a Wise Man would not willingly be seen abroad in a Fools Coat why should a Modest Virgin walk the Streets in the Garbe of the Debauched and Prostitute or if they will needs do it let them not be angry if others judge them as bad as those whom they are ambitious to imitate I could wish therefore tho' with small hopes to see it take effect that as once there was a Proclamation That all Curtezans should be known by their striped Veyle so we had the same or some like Law revived that there should be a visible mark of Discrimination between two such contrary Parties Faces though naturally Beautiful are many times foiled and disordered by being studded over with Pimples or put in a Scarlet Livery The Inundation of Crimson Blood often drowns the slowry Eletium of a Charming Face disfiguring it with such a Flaming hue as if the Juicy God had trod his Wine-press there or scattered it with Ruby coloured Grapes To abate the fury of such high colours and fright them into pleasing Paleness call to your assistance the following friendly Receipts but to prepare you for them be temperate before their Application in abstaining from Wine or hot Liquors that Enfeavour the Body by Enflaming the Blood and when you find temperance in Meats and Drinks has allayed much of the heat that glowed within you than for removing the defects Take of Rose-water a pint put it into a Glass and steep an ounce of Camphire in it an ounce of Sulpher beaten to powder Myrrh and Frankincense half an ounce each set it in the Sun or some warm place and after ten days end wash your Face with the Water and in often doing it your colour will be restored then if the Pimples sinking away have left a Scurff use some Pomatum to smooth it over and like the Sun from behind the Moons dark Body you will appear out of your Eclipse as bright as before or for want of the former take this Fine Brimstone Powder an once the Juice of Limmons half a pint Juice of Onions two ounces Cutle-bone and Camphire each one a Dram pound what is to be pounded and Incorporate your Powder with your Juices anoint the Face with it going to Bed and wash it off the next Morning with Water wherein Bran has been decocted and by using it a few times you will we hope confess the knowledge of it worth the buying of this work Freckles are found to be the Product of Fuliginous Vapours and like smoke molest those most who have the fairest Skins as if Beauty jealous of being outvied by too clear Complexions did bestow that yellow Livery on others which she rather deserved to wear herself but seeing what is done requires a remedy the best means to remove such disfiguring spots are these Take Figtree Juice or the white Milk that comes out of it Oil of Tartar a Dram Honey two drams mix them well together and anoint the Face with the Unguent they produce when you go to bed washing it off in the Morning with warm Water and a few times using it those Cholerick Spots will be dispersed and disappear or if the forementioned Ingredients are not to be procured Take three ounces of Cummin seed bruise them with two ounces of Salt Brimstone Powder an ounce Rye-Meal half an ounce the juice of Celandine and the Gall of a Cock press out from these an Oyntment
and anoint the freckled part and they will quickly disappear 〈◊〉 that the Amourous Sun has Impressed too 〈…〉 on to the injury of 〈◊〉 and by his brightness dull'd their Lustre in dwelling or doating too much upon them as once he he did upon that of the fair 〈◊〉 may yet be divested of those Clouds and uneclipsed shine as bright as ever by borrowing a renewing advantage from our Art For the obliterating such casual shrouds to Beauty Take Rose-Mary Flowers an ounce the like of Fumitory flowers decoct them in a pint of White wine add Benjamine and Cassia a like quantity each infuse them in the decoction and wash your Face with the Liquid part Morning and Evening or for want of these take the Juice of Limmons mixed with the Juice of Bilm and Rue heated over a Gentle Fire and strained that the grosser part may be excluded set the Glass wherein you put the Liquid in the Sun or in some warm place for ten days to 〈◊〉 then pour it into another Vessel that the dregs may be left behind and the Face or Hands being bathed with it the swarthiness will vanish and the former Complexion appear more fresh and charming than ever For fear these come not to your hand take another to the same purpose viz. White Bryony water two drams an ounce of Rose-water the white of an Egg Oyl of Tartar two drams Verjuice one ounce mix them well and dipping a Linnen in the Liquid supple your face with it and then the Beams of your Beauties will break through the Cloudy Curtains and make a perfect day in Loves Empire for Lovers to see their way to the Elizium Fortunes Envy or Fate often so orders it that the smiling Glories of Beauties spring are too severely nipt with an early Autum when sharp Scythed Time cuts those Flowry Graces down shrouds them in the â—urrows of a wrinckled-Face Now to make your Verdant Features flourish in spite of Envy or Accidental decay and smooth your Faces for a new Plantation of Roses and Lillies Take our following directions Bitter Almonds two ounces Lilly roots dryed and powder'd an ounce Oyl of Roses an ounce Virgins Wax half an ounce make them into an Oyntment over a gentle fire and anoint the Face with it Again take an ounce of oyl of St. Johns-wort of Water Lillies Quinces Jessemine Mastick and Mirtles their Oyls take half an ounce each melt them in an Earthen Vessel and being taken off add two ounces of Rose water and use it as the former For want of these wash the wrinkled places with a decoction made of an equal weight of Bryony roots and Figs or take Incense the scum of Silver each half an ounce white Pepper an ounce powder them apart and then Incorporate them with Mouth Glew and make them up into small balls which you must disolve in Rose water as you use them and make a Linnement for the Face or particular part where the wrinkles intrude upon your Beauty and surrow the late smooth plains of your Faces Faces have various Features and it is observed among the multitude of Men and Women throughout the World there is something in the Face that differs though in many other Creatures it is not in the least so much discernable and in Love various are the fancies of Men and Women as to their making choice or being surprized and overcome by the Lineaments of the Face some hâ—lding the dimplâ—d Cheâ—ks most Lovely others those that are plump some for the Lillies whiteness others for the Rosie blushes some for the dimpled Chin others its Oval form c. It would be endless to describe all the Ideas of Fancy and indeed natural Beauty is a strong Loadstone of it self and above all parts the Eyes are most alluring For as they take in Love in some so in others they send it out again and Lovers are most Infascinated when they directly gaze on each other so that many times they have not power to take off their Eyes but drink and as it were suck in Love between them and a fair Eye will many times take as a sure snare when all other parts of the Body are deformed Leonardus tells us that by this Interview or Gazing the purer Spirits are Infected the one Eye piercing through the other with its rays And many have been those piercing Eyes that their brightness compelled their Spectators to look off by reason of their being near as dazling as the Sun beams for the Rays as some think sent from the Eyes carrying certain Spiritual Vapours with them and so insect the Gazing party in a Moment And Facinus goes about to prove this from a Blare-Eye that the steadfast fixing ones Eyes upon it long will alone occasion soreness and gives this reason that the Vapours of the Corrupt Blood doth get in together with the Rays and so by the Contageon the Spectators Eyes are Infected Some hold that the Basilisk kills by her sight at a distance which if true justifies what is said But our business at this time is Love and not of death and therefore Eyes that destroy in that nature are not for our purpose and that Love is Natural appears in this There is in the Liâ—â—s of the Fathers a story of a Child brought up in the Wilderness from his Infancy by an Aged Hermit and coming to Mans Estate he saw two comely Women wandering in the Woods whereupon he demanded of the Old Man what Creatures they were who not willing to let him return to Worldly pleasure told him they were Faries or a kind of Spirits of another World yet the sight of the mâ—raised such a passion in his Mind that he became restless And being shewed from a high place several Curious Prospects and being asked which was the pleasanteâ—â— he ever saw not minding the Question then put replyed The Faries he had seen in the Wilderness So that without doubt there is some secret Loadstone placed by Nature in a Beautiful Woman a Magnetick Power a Natural Inbred Affâ—iâ—ion which moves us as one Intimates when he says 〈◊〉 I have a Mistress yet to come And still I seek I Love I know not whom This indeed holds very strong in Natural and 〈◊〉 Love but not in every 〈◊〉 or Lustful Passion where the Eyes lye in wait like Soldiers in Ambush and when they spy an Innocent Spectator fix on him and shoot him through and presently bewitch him especially when they Gaze and Gloat as wanton Lovers do on each other and with a pleasant Eye conflict Participate each others Souls and truely the Language of the Eyes if rightly understood is a very moring Oratory even in the Persons of all sorts that are subject to Love for although they may keep their Tongues Barocaded and Locked in Silence yet their Eyes cannot for Inspight of all their Precaution They will express a Languishment or Joy According to the Condition or Affection of the party and will be darting their
with Oyl of Roses and white Bees-wax mingly them over a gentle Fire 〈◊〉 anoint the hands with the Composition pretty warm Theâ— have the same success 〈◊〉 to the Arms that have undergone the like Injury by 〈◊〉 too rudely Imprinting his Northern Kisses on their tender 〈◊〉 Hands Warty are very unseenly with Ladies therefore to remove them make small plaâ—sters of Cantharides and lay on the Warts but let them touch no other parts and 〈◊〉 will make them dye away 〈◊〉 peel off or bathe them 〈◊〉 with the Milk that Issues from the Fig-tree For want of these you may use Oyl of Vitriol lightly touching them with it but beware it come to no other part and beware you lay on no great quantity lest in consuming the Warts the force not being spent it eats deeper and does an Injury to the Boâ—e Warts at their first coming are tender and may then be eaten away with black Sope mixed with burnt Salt Salt Nitre Milk of Spurty Juice of Celandine Juice of wild Cucumbers or Marygold leaves with other various ways But if these remove them as they certainly will if properly applyed we need Enumerate no more Hands how to make them fair and white with small Veins Hands Ladies are not only an Ornament but wonderfully useful and more exposed to 〈◊〉 than any part except the 〈◊〉 therefore that they may beautiful and tempting ought he your care So that their 〈◊〉 whiteness may dazzle Speâ—â—ors Eyes that they may go on 〈◊〉 in the fond Humour of 〈◊〉 you and then we 〈◊〉 secure that Men will be 〈◊〉 close Captives that you 〈◊〉 never fear being disdainâ—â— any Apostate Lover and 〈◊〉 best means to bring your 〈◊〉 to such a Lilly whiteâ—â— we have set down Hands 〈◊〉 whitened several ways viz. 〈◊〉 of sweet and bitter 〈◊〉 that remain after the 〈◊〉 is drawn off four Ounces 〈◊〉 meal two Ounces sine 〈◊〉 Barley ground and 〈◊〉 the like quantity meal of 〈◊〉 an Ounce and a half 〈◊〉 of Florentine Iris one 〈◊〉 red Roses dryed and 〈◊〉 each six drams Salt white Tartar and the whitest 〈◊〉 washed and prepared 〈◊〉 Ivory and fresh Sperma 〈◊〉 of each half an Ounce 〈◊〉 of Rhodinum one Scruple 〈◊〉 Cloves and Lavender of 〈◊〉 half a Scruple mix them well and fine together and 〈◊〉 a little of it rub and wâ—sh Hands and Arms and it â—nake them exceeding white â—mooth and of a Curious 〈◊〉 Having not these Ingreâ—â— you may take the 〈◊〉 viz. Venice Soap 〈◊〉 in the Juice of Lemmons and of white Virgins Hony â—â— Ounces prepared Sublimatum the Roots of Florentine Iris white Sugar-candy of each an Ounce whitest Sperma Caeti Salt of white Tartar Sugar Allum Venetian Borace of each half an Ounce true scented Balsom of Peru two drams Gallia Moschata one dram Oyl of Rhodinum Cloves and Cinamon one scruple mix them well and you will find the wonderful Effects of it even to the softening of their hands who have of Joans been made Madams by marrying their kind good Natur'd Masters Hands swollen or looking red or blew how to cure them Having already made an Encomium upon the Excellence Use and Beauty of Hands it would be looked upon as Tautology or dull Repetition to go over it again therefore when they are impaired of their Beauty by the means abovesaid all we have to do is to tell you Ladies you may reapparel them with their Native whiteness by the following Directions Hands that have suffered Injury by swelling c. must be often bathed in Wine wherein Nettles and Rosemary must be boiled with Time Rue and Penny-royal and the use of this decoction will not only asswage the swelling but keep them from so doing and as soon as they at any time begin to swell or rise into knobs apply a repercussive Plaister made of Barley-meal and the Juice of Lemmons or take Litharge Oyl of Rose and Vinegar work them well together into a Lineament to anoint your hands Having not these materials at hand Take Oyl of Dill and Oyl of sweet Almonds Gum Tragaganth made with Penny-royal Water 3 drams powder'd Starch 8 Drams and make them into an Oyntment or the yolks of five Eggs calcine them and mix them well with Barrows grease and going to Bed anoint the hands with it then draw on a pair of smooth Gloves and keep them on till you rise or take Turpentine mixed with half it's quantity of Salt mix them well over a gentle Fire and stir them together till they are pretty thick and then apply it Plaisterwise And so the cold swellings of the hands will be removed the blackness and blewness will disappear and the lovely smallness and whiteness will return That those that see it will admiring stand To see the Metamorphose of your hand And proud to kiss what they did once despise Are double Captives to your Hands and Eyes Hair of Scurf and Dandriff how to cleanse the Head of it Hair is much impaired in it's Beauty by the Excressencies of Nature Dandriff or Scurf is a mealy Dust that overclouds the Hair of the Head 〈◊〉 c. and proceed from corrected serous Humours which reason of their Acrimony 〈◊〉 rode the Cuticle from the 〈◊〉 jacent Skin and fret into 〈◊〉 pieces like Meal or Bran 〈◊〉 that are subject to them they would be eased of 〈◊〉 unseemly Nausences may 〈◊〉 these Methods Having coâ—â—â—dered well whether the 〈◊〉 hath been a long time 〈◊〉 to these or that they 〈◊〉 lately encroached if the 〈◊〉 mer then the Body above with ill Humours and 〈◊〉 be purged with some conâ—â—ent Medicine after that we the Head or other parts 〈◊〉 with Lye thus made 〈◊〉 Take the Ashes of the 〈◊〉 Beets and Coldworts make Lixivium with them 〈◊〉 boil Lupins and Beans a 〈◊〉 quantity then strain the coction and add a sixth 〈◊〉 Honey When the Head been well washed with 〈◊〉 dry it well and rub it 〈◊〉 with a Coarse warm 〈◊〉 then take this Unguent anoint it viz. bitter 〈◊〉 lightly heated in an Oven Stove and old Walnuts 〈◊〉 six Ounces two drams of Honey of Squills two 〈◊〉 of the dreggs of old Wine 〈◊〉 half an Ounce 〈◊〉 two drams make it into Unguent for your use with Wax Having not these gredients take Oyl Rue 〈◊〉 Ounce Sope an Ounce finely beaten half an Ounce work them together into a Mass and anoint the Head c. after washed with the following Compound decoction viz. 〈◊〉 Beets Fenugreek Briony-Roots Bean-meal each a good handful in a Gallon of spring-Spring-water till it be consumed then take it off and when it is cool use it three of four days succesfrely and your Expectation will be satisfied Hair how to order and preserve 〈◊〉 Hair is a very necessary Ornament for Adorning the Hâ—ad being Comely and Beautiful So that Puelus thought the Hair of the Head to be so great and necessary a setting off that saith he the most comely Woman is nothing without it tho' she came
the other parts which are designed for more Honourable uses If there be any obstruction soreness or any thing that appears unseemly or occasions offence to the smelling in the Nose as being afflicted with some sore or ulcer take Calamus Aromaticus Gelingale Damask roses and Lavender dry them that they may be reduced into a fine Powder sift it well and snuff it into the Nostrils proportionably at sundry times Next take one Scruple of London-Treâ—cle disolve it in White-wine and snuff it several mornings up the Nose you may for want of the former take Cloves Lignum Alloes and Roses each two Drams Spicknard a Dram Musk two Grains pulverise what is capable so to be and put them into a Past and with White-wine make them into little Pills and to use them dissolve one in Rose-water and force it up into your Nostrils but first wash them well with White-wine wherein Rose-Leaves and Lavender have been boiled and it will not only cure the Distemper but render your breath and smelling pleasant Noses that are much charged with Excrements of the Brain to clear them you must if the Rheumetick Distillation be cold annoint the fore-head or Temples with some hoaring Oynment or hot Oyl or if the Rheume be occasioned by heat then cold Oynments c. and use suffumagations of Mirrh Frankincense or the like and by these means the Handle of your Face will be restored to its former beauty and pleasantness unless you have been in any dangerous dark Counterscuffle and for that we give no directions as to cure but refer you to others Niples their Caps and Soreness how to remedy Nothing is so sure as when some intestine heat impairs the Radient Whiteness of the Snow-hills or curdles the Milkey Necture of the Breasts into such a hard and compact thickness that not being able to get forth it lies and generates sharp corroding streams which fret the tender outlets of Cupid's Fountains yet here Ladies you may furnish your selves with recuring Remedies Now take the green leaves of Plantain and Mallows of each four handfuls Earthworms new prepared six Ounces of Roses three Ounces of Melliot and Oyl of Cammomoile one Ounce Early-meal three Ounces boyl these together and with a sufficient quantity of this decoction adding Bedellium two Drams dissolved in Vinegar make a Plaister and apply it to the Breasts and if after this the Paps remain hard apply some repercussive Medicines that the Breast may not draw more blood than they can digest bath or anoint the Breasts and under the Armpits with what we prescribe viz. An Ounce of Bolearmonack and with a sufficient quantity of Oyls of Roses and Myrtle make an Unguent thinning it a little with sharp Vinegar then take dry'd Mint two handfuls one handful of Wormwood boil them to mash then straining add the Meal of Lupins and Beans each half an Ounce make them into a Pulsis with the Oyl of Lillys and apply it to the place grieved If the Blood be curdled in the Breast thus you may dissolve it take of Smallage an handful Oxymel two Ounces Meal of Red Vetches and Lupins of each two Ounces make them into a Cataplasme and when the Paps are subject to clecks and and chaps occasioned by hear use things mollifying and attenuating before the Milk comes to the Breastâ— wherefore it will be good for the Married Ladies before they Lie in to use some mollifying Pulrises or to annoint the Paps with Bees-wax and Oyl worked together with fresh Lard Nails to Remedy the Vices incident to them Nails of the Hands c. are peerly Helmets wherewith prudent Nature hath armed the active Fingers to which if they be nearly burnished they give a commanding Comliness and may at a pressing Exigency be fit materials to head Cupids penitrating Shafts Nails that are Spotted remove the Spots with these Medicaments Incorporate Mâ—rh with a sufficient quantity of Turpentine and lay it on the Spots and they will be removed or bruâ—se Flax-seed and mixing it with Honey and Wax lay it on the Spots Nails bruised and becoming black be reason of the Congealed Blood underneath must have applied to them a Serecloth made of Sheeps Grease Capons Grease Oyl of Cammomile or to dissolve the Blood use Goats Dung mixed with Sulphor or Incorporate Cummin-seed with Diaculum Iâ—â—atum and Oyl of Cammomile in form of an Vnguent Nails being so much bruised that they come off to make them grow speedily again soment them with White-wine wherein Dates have been boiled Nails cleft and roted â—â—icking still on to remove them that new ones may succeed take an ounce of Flax-seed three Drams of Cardamens and as much Hony incorporate them well together and lay them Paister-ways Nails that have the skin growing unseemly over them to make it retire take a drop or two of Milk of Spourge Lawrel a little Salt Barly-meal and Costus Poudered mix them with as much Hony as will make them up into a Plaister and apply it to the Fleshy part observe also to pair your Nails smooth and decently but not with so much overstrictness that you cutting too near your Fingers cause them to be sore and so instead of seemly render them unseemly if they grow muddy or cloudy on the Supâ—rfices you may gently scrape them with a piece of fine Glass and they will flourish and be the more lively Neck How to Beautify c. Nothing more commends the Neck for comly than to be White and Smooth for it is a part that may in Modestnes strictest Rules be exposed to sight and ought to represent a Pillar of Polished Ivory which supports the Globe of Beauty and Wisdom with a suitable Luster and becoming Grace yet sometimes its Beauty is impaired by Kernels King 's Evil hard Tumours and swellings The first of these usually breed in those places where the Emunctuaries of the nobler parts are If â—ernels be in the neck after the body has been moderately purged and the Cephalick Vein opened in the Arm apply mollifying and discussive Fomentations with Spunges dipt in strong Vinegar then apply a plaister of Oxcycroceum adding a little Gum Ammoniac Bedellium Opoponax Sagapenum and pouder of Euphorbium but if it be a swelling or Tumour of the Neck which arises between the Skin and the Aspera Arteria In the first place Purge the Body with Cephalaick pills using a drying and temperate Diet take after this Sal Gem burnt Allum Amber Cutle bone Nut-galls Cinamon Ginger long and black Pepper Pelitory of Spain each half an Ounce made all into a fine powder and then add to them of rose-Rose-Water four Ounces begin to take this in the Wain of the Moon and take every morning a Spoonful and if you be Temperate in eating and drinking the swelling will decrease and leave your neck as smooth and white as before and to hasten it the sooner foment the place with the Decoction of Bryoniae wild Cucumers Melliot Beet Sage and Cammomile or these Herbs
Extravagant Panatasticks be more moderate in Athens Powders for the Hair Linen and Sweet Bags Powders of this Kind are made several ways and are of Great Efficacy for Ladyes After you have made use of many things if nevertheless you meet with any that defies your Charms and is obstinate do you not despair for we will teach you how you shall tickle his Nose with a Powder and cartously fetch him about with is which will give you so rich a Scent that the Roses and Violets in your Cheeks shall not make you hath so sweet Powder of a curious Scent is made of Florentine Iris 〈◊〉 timely powder'd one pound Benjamin four ounces Cloves the like quantity Starax two ounces powder them all very line use them and well mix them together This you may 〈◊〉 to sent your Hair Powder we had adding about 3 ounces of it to a pound of Starch or Rice Grounds well find and 〈◊〉 Again take Iris Roots fix ounces Red Rose leaves powdered four ounces Cyprus half a â—iachm Marjorum Storax and Cloves of each an ounce Yellow Saunders and Benjamine of each half an ounce Violets 3 drachms Musk a dicham powder these isior Sweet Bags or to lay among Linen very grosly him if let the hair very fine Powder to give the Hands or any part of the body an Excellent odour make in this manner Take the pressings of sweet and bitter Almonds after the oyle is drawn off of either sort four Ounces the flower of French Barly and Luptu of each two Ounces the Roots of Ins an Ounce white Roses dryed Benjamine fix drachms Salt of white Tartar white Chalk powdered sperma 〈◊〉 of each half an Ounce Oyle of 〈◊〉 one Scrupie of cloves and I avender each half of Scrapie mix and make them into a pouder well dryed and if you would have your hands seemed and of a curious white or any other part of the body rub on this pouder and it will effect your desire you may with Rose water make it into a Past let your face and it will beautify it Perfumes to 〈◊〉 Sweet Candles c. Perfumes Ladies of this kind are very greatful to the finelling and more advantageons where Lights are made of them as Sweet Candles c you are indeed very much beholden to ordinary Candles for when the gloomy Night would befriend your Chambermaids and make them seem as handsome as your selves that which discovers the mistake and makes you be preferr'd before them is the Friendly Light those Candles lend They shew the difference between a 〈◊〉 and the Foils that 〈◊〉 attend her but if those common ones are so serviceable to you these will certainly be more for if you can but once procure these Ignes fatui to lead men about you need never fear but to have servants enough dancing after you Perfumes are made sundry ways but the best are these Take Labdanum two drachms styrax Calamint a drachm and an half Benjamine White Amber Red Roses Wood of Aloes Cinamon Cyprius and Cloves of each two Scruples Amber and Musk each five Grains made with Gum Tragacanth into small Cakes the Gum being first dissolved in Spirit of Roses one of which Cakes being cast on the coals scents the Chamber with a very pleasing odoriferous Vapour Again Take dry'd Charcoal made of Willow one ounce Mirrh Wood Storax Aloes Calamint of each one ounce and an half Labdanum an ounce Amber and Musk each seven Grains dissolve half an ounce of Gum Tragacanth in Rose water with a little Spirit of Wine and make them up into Rolls like small Candles which being set a burning will give a pleasing perfume Again Take Benzoin Storax and Calamint each half an ounce Wood of Aloes two drams Zibet not adulterated one drachm Galia Muscata one Scruple Oyl of Roses and of Cloves of each half a Scruple mix them well with Damusk Rose Water and make them into little Bails and they are an Excellent Perfume Perfumes of these sorts add Ladyes the Roses Sweetness to the Lillyes loveliness of your snowy hands Scent then your Gloves with these Perfumes and those that take you by the hand shall find all pleasures grasp'd in an handful wherein all Ravishing Objects are that can convey those charming Delights to the admiring Fancy that pleases the sight and feasts the Feeling with its downy softness and the Smelling with perfume Perfume then of this Kind to make it Take an ounce of the whitest Gum Tragacanth dissolve it in Water then take Musk Amber and dry'd Majoram of each one Scruple boil them gently all together and in the boiling add half a Scruple of Zibet put these into a covered Vessel till they are cold and when you have order'd your Gloves sit for its being laid on chase it into them being cold and smoothing them as well as may be lay them in a convenient place to dry or wash the Gloves you first intend to perfume in White wine then dry them in the shade after that wash them again in a pint of Rose Water scented with Oyl of Jessimine Cloves Nutmegs and Labdanum of each half a Scruple then take Musk Zibet and Ambergreece of each five Grains beat them together in a Mortar with a little oyl of Spike and mucilage of Gum Tragacanth dissolved in Rose Water and chase in this composition the Gloves being well safh'd before a gentlefire By these measures you may make any perfumes most grateful to your scent for the same way they are all ordered of what fort soever that is usually subject to be perfum'd and therefore to go on any further in this matter would be but a Repetition of what has been already said so Ladies we have you Experience shews what has been laid down which we doubt not will answer your Expectations in any persuming of this Kind Pride As for Pride she hath so many feathers added to her wings that she covereth all the earth with her shadow Our men are grown to esseminate and our women so man-like that if it might be I think they would exchange genders What modest eye can with patience behold the immodest gestures and attires of our women No sooner with them is infancy put on but impudency is put on they have turned Nature into Art so that a man can hardly discern a woman from her image Their bodies they pinch in as if they were angry with Nature for casting them in so gross a mould but as for their looser parts them they let loose to prey upon whatsoever their last darting eyes shall seize upon Their breasts they lay to the open view like two fair Apples of which whosoever tasteth shall be sure of the knowledge of evil of good I dare not warrant him Some Gentlewomen have more to do to attend their Beautyes than the Vestal Virgins to maintain their sacred Fires In the morning they study their Glass in the Afternoon they are taken up and down with Visits where you may see they are not wronged
and cloud their splendor but may be remedied by using means Spots being observed to cover the sight or pupil of the eyes purge first the body wash your Eyes with â—â—dive water and oyl of Roses then prepare tutty ginger and Sugar Candy of each a dram Allum burnt a dram â—â—sk half a scruple make these into a pouder and going to bed let a little of it be blown into your Eye with a Duck or â—â—vens quill and then shut it close as Long as you feel the effects of the pouder perhaps an hour and it will in two or three times using fret off the film or skin that like a dark cloud skreens the rays of sight you may wash the remainder of the pouder that dissolves not with Eye bright water Spots many times are attended with Inflamations bloodshot or discolouring the eyes caused by Rheums or noxious vapours to cure these refrain from drinking much and keep â— moderate dyet eat such thing as are cooling purging â—â— â—â—â—odletting to Evacuate the â—â—â—â—ing humour is not Amiss â—â— the Inflamation be extraordinary some draw blisters in the neck but then the occaâ—â—â— must be urgent however apply such things as may alter and digest the humours if hot â—â— is said Endine Nightshade â—â—â—ain and Rose waters drunk with a little sugar are Exâ—â—â— cooling as also to 〈◊〉 the Eyes with but for the â—â—â—â—uxion of a cold Rheum 〈◊〉 Lawrel Leaves in white â—ine make a pultice of them 〈◊〉 apply it to the Eyes or â—â—â— may make one of Celenâ—â—â— and whitwine it eases â—â—â— pain and takes away the â—â—â—â—amation Sweeten the breath â—weet flavours in this case 〈◊〉 extremely requisâ—â— for when a Ladies breath is taintâ—â— though the admiring Lover â—â—y contemplate her beauty â—â—â—h wonder and take her to â—â— an Angel yet when he â—â—â—ws near to sip the Necture â—â— expects to find in little â—rs upon her rosy Lips and 〈◊〉 instead of breathing â—â—â—er meets a scent unsavory â—e's baffled out of this exâ—â—â— bliss and forced to a â—â—â—â—eat then Ladies you that â—â—â—e this defect thrown into â—â—â—e ballance to weigh against 〈◊〉 excellent features make 〈◊〉 Application to the folâ—â—wing directions and you â—â—â—ll in a very little space â—â—â—lm the Air with so rare scent that all the Arabian â—â—â—tick flumes or Flora's sweets shall not Enrich it with a more delicious fragrancy Sweet Saunders half an ounce Nutmegs Cloves Cinamon of each an ounce Wood of Aloes an ounce and a half Musk half a dram make these by gently drying them into a pouder after that make it up into small balls with rose water Gum Tragant and a little Sugar and hold one of these in your mouth and no offensive scent can Iâ—lue thence Sweetness of breath to be recovered by taking away the cause of the offence is to be done by taking of Cloves two drams Cinamon half an ounce Mace Nutmegs and Citron Pill of each one dram Florentiâ—e Iris the lester Galingal of either half a dram wood of Alloes and yellow Saunders each a scruple Musk and Amber-greece each half a scruple these must be carefully beaten into pouder and the pouder infused in a quart of the strongest Malmsey ten or twelve days then the Liquid part strained out and bottled up close of which take each morning fasting a spoonful or two and it will cause the breath to become sweeter Cherish the Lungs and strengthen the heart and stomack and add a Lively blush where the roses are faded on your cheeks Servants Female some Instructions to them for the better management of their affairs c. Since we have directed and recommended many things of great importance to the Ladies and Gentlewomen whose Fortunes or rather a kind Providence has raised them above any thing of servitude or dependance of that nature it might seem unkind in us if in such a Work as this we should so far forget as not to remember whose that are so serviceable to them and to whose prudent management care and diligence they must own themselves Extreamly beholden in many Respects for part of that Value and Esteem that the World sets upon them Some of high Fortunes have fallen low by accidents Casualties and misfortunes of sundry Natures and from a state of commanding have been reduced to a station of being commanded The mutability and unconstancy of things below give little assurance to any of a lasting continuance The Wheel of Fortune is perpetually in motion and those that are uppermost to day may be deprest beneath to morrow It was the answer of that Good Great and Wise Emperour Augustus Caesar to a Prince who demanded of him Why he so much lowered the Imperial Dignity of his Family in suffering his Daughters to learn and imploy themselves in curious manual Arts and Occupations as working in Looms or Frames curious historical Representations in Gold and Silken Works That he knew not how Fortune might change and then if they were subjected to her Frowns they might nevertheless live honestly 〈◊〉 their Industry and not be buâ—thensome to friends which 〈◊〉 adversity are rarely real or â—â— long continuance Therefore to such as fortune by the pâ—â—â—fuseness of parents or Ill maâ—riages have been necessâ—â—â— to submit to what once 〈◊〉 remotest from their thoughâ—â— we first Address our selveâ— Since then it is their Lâ—â—â— be under command they muâ—â— as much as in them Lys foâ—â—â— their former condition 〈◊〉 only fix their minds 〈◊〉 what they are reduc'd 〈◊〉 former things being 〈◊〉 away they must Look forward and not Imbitter their remeâ—brance with what has been 〈◊〉 cannot be recalled they 〈◊〉 take up with a contented 〈◊〉 which the sacred Scripâ—â—â— calls a continual Feast and indeed it is if it were right understood If at last thâ—â— have the happiness to be iâ—â—â—â—duced into Honourable Fâ—â—â—lies they will there be resâ—â—â—cted and regarded with thâ—â— own proclaiming what is 〈◊〉 to them Modesty ever â—â—ates Esteem when Ostenâ—â—â— is dispised They must be all seasonable times ready do more than they know 〈◊〉 be required of them and that they will ingratiate theâ— selves into an higher Fâ—â—â— and Respect They must meek and humble in their â—â—â—â—riage and behaviour and 〈◊〉 the opportunity of advâ—â—â—ment They must stifle keep under aspiring Thoughts and never talk loudly of their Birth and Parentage nor think they are in a servile condition whilst they are at a plentiful Table and have all things that are necessary and convenient and in a more secure and perhaps happier Estate bating some reluctances of the mind than that from whence they are fallen nor lie they now under so many Temptations the eyes of the World are not so much upon them and their Virtues are more secured against assaults tho such may be under a Command it will be gentle and easy and at the 〈◊〉 time they are in a condition to Command others that are placed under them for 〈◊〉 we are speaking of such 〈◊〉 are waiting Women or â—â—â—se
Milk 〈…〉 of the Milk it is the only way 〈◊〉 make the Cow dry 〈◊〉 Profits arising from Milk 〈◊〉 chiefly three Cream 〈◊〉 and Cheese The Cream is 〈◊〉 Heart and Strength of the 〈◊〉 which must be skimmed 〈◊〉 cleanly for this Cleanliness such an Ornament to a 〈◊〉 Houswife that if she wants 〈◊〉 part thereof she loseth 〈◊〉 that and all other good 〈◊〉 whatsoever How to 〈◊〉 your ordinary Clouted Cream Take a quantity of Milk 〈◊〉 the Cow and put it into broad Earthen-pan and set over a slow fire letting it 〈◊〉 there from morning till 〈◊〉 suffering it not to boil by 〈◊〉 means then take it off 〈◊〉 fire and set it in some place all night to cool in the moâ—â—â—ing dish off your Cream for 〈◊〉 will be very thick 〈◊〉 make fresh Cheese of Cream Take a pottle of new Milk it comes from the Cow 〈◊〉 half a pound of blanched â—â—â—monds beaten very small 〈◊〉 make a thick Almond 〈◊〉 with a pint of Cream strained and a little before you go 〈◊〉 Dinner make it blood 〈◊〉 season it with a little 〈◊〉 rose-Rose-water and fearsed 〈◊〉 and put to it a little Runâ—â— and when it is Scummed 〈◊〉 it up and whey it and put 〈◊〉 into a Mould and press it in 〈◊〉 your hand and when it is 〈◊〉 wheyed put it into a 〈◊〉 with Cream Cream Codlins After you have 〈◊〉 your Codlins and peel'd off the skins and scrap'd the pulps from the cores with a little Sugar and Rose-water strain them and lay the pulp of your Codlins in a Dish with as much 〈◊〉 Cream as you please about them To make a Junket Take Eâ—s or Goats-Milk if you have neither of these then take Cows-Milk and put it over the fire to warm then put in a little Runner to it then pour it out into a Dish and let it cool then strew on Cinâ—amon and Sugar then take some Cream and lay upon it scraping Sugar thereon serve it up Here note by the way that you cannot keep Cream above three days in Summer and six days in Winter without prejudice The best time to Pot up Bâ—tter is in the Month of May for then the Air is most temperate and the Butter will take Salt best The third Profit which ariseth from the Dairy is Cheese of which there are two kinds Morning-Milk-Cheese Nettle Cheese But the Morning-Milk Cheese is for the most part the fattest and the best Cheese that is ordinarily made in the Kingdom Dairy-Maids See p. 434. Dalliance Whether this Kissing and Lap-dalliance be through the default of the Husband or the Wife it is a great Offence in either It pleaseth not me though spoken by an Emperor Give me leave by the Lust of others to exercise mine own though a witty yet a wicked Speech Wise is not only a name of Pleasure but of Honour though our Men cannot discern this but rather answer with Aristipâ—â—â— who being told that 〈◊〉 lov'd him not No more faith he doth Wine nor Fish and yet I cannot be without them A true Beast respecting more the sensual Pleasure and Appetite of the Body than the Harmony and Union of the Mind A Man ought not â—o to embrace his Wife without a flattering kind of Severity For this publick Billing sheweth the way to unexperienc'd Youth to commit Riot in private And Caâ—o accused 〈◊〉 before the Senate for that 〈◊〉 had kissed his Wife before his Neighbour's Daughter A short yet Wise Speech and of a hidden Use. Neither by this often and open Smacking is shame only diminished but by little and little chaâ—tâ—â—y abolished The very Elephant cry out against them 〈◊〉 as Pliny writeth make not the least Love one to another except they be covered with Boughs Diversion What kin is most suitable to and 〈◊〉 in Ladies 〈…〉 seasonable 〈◊〉 modeâ—rately used is proper and alâ—lowable to either Sex but 〈◊〉 must be so chosen and mâ—â— thodised that it may be 〈◊〉 and directed to your good and not any ways to harm you for whilst you are in youthful Years to be too eager in the pursuit of Pleasure will Entail it upon you when you go onward towards Eternity and should move by Gravity and have only serious thoughts about you and indeed all Diversions are not to be carry'd too far in the progress of our Lives for their main end is only to refresh and ease the Mind over burthen'd and oppress'd with too weighty Cares or Business and then the Idle and Supine have no occasion for them and yet they are not coveted and pursued by many so much as they even pursue them to that Excess that those Diversions that are pleasant to others become at length toilsom and uneasie to them because by an over-doing Eagerness they sweat and drudge at them more than some do at Harvest-work they have indeed few or no Cares at least they will not admit them and therefore cannot be sensible of the sweet Refreshment the unbending of their Thoughts brings who have been stretched upon the Rack of Multiplicity of Affairs which has disorder'd the Mind by hurrying and confusing it and to 〈◊〉 it is not more natural then it is necessary But to make a Holiday or one contiâ—â—ed Scene or Recreation is not only Ridiculous but as we have hinted rather destroyeth than promoteth Pleasure the Mind to be always in 〈◊〉 posture is more tir'd and uneasie than the Body to be â—â—â—serious breaks it and too diverting loosens it therefore properly affects Variety which gives a relish to Diversions and for that Reason the more prudent Ladies change as often as is modestly convenient whilst others go so long to see Plays that having at a large Expence of Time and Mony gotten a great many Fragments by Heart They phansie themselves the Actors and being bound Prentice to the House they are in danger of Correction if they desert the Drudgery Diversions that are well tim'd and chosen are not to be blam'd yet even Innocent Recreations when carry'd to Excess may grow Criminal in the Eyes of the Censorious World and occasion Scandal and Reproach Some Ladies for their Wit and Humour are so often bespoke to Merry Meeting that one would almost conclude they made a Trade on it as Midwives do by their Practice for where Ladies are insensibly drawn in and engag'd in a Circle of Idleness wherein they turn round all the Year They haâ—â— their Intelligencers abroad to bring news where they may meet with Company to trifle away their time which for want of Business would seem otherways tedious to them such we refer to their Devotions than in which no time is so well spent because we â—ay â—ut the few Moments of a short Life here to purchase a blessed â—territy hereafter which will ever steal away from us but â—ontinue us in an Everlasting â—ourishing Spring of Youth â—word â—holy Pleasures No Solâ—â—â—â— is more obedient to the â—ound of the Trumpet when 〈◊〉 Commands him to Horse â—han some Ladies
pound and a half the whites and shells of thirty Eggs the young branches of a Fig-tree cut in small shivers incorporate them well and distill them in a Glass Alimbick over a gentle five Then to the Water you draw off add Sugar-Candy Borace and Camphire each an ounce Olibanum two ounces bruise them small and then distill them over again preserving the Water upon this Second Distillation as a rare Secret and improver or Imbellisher of Beauty Again take Lithargy of Gold and Silver each a dram put them into stronge white Wine Vinegar add Camphire and Allum of each half a Scrupleas much of Musk and Ambergreece to scent the Composition boyl them in a small quantity of Vinegar silter and keep it then boyl a little Roch-Allum in spring water and keep it apart from the other but when you use them mingle them together Thus Venus in her brightest form you 'll vie Or all those Female Starâ— that guild the Sky Who for their Beauties there were 〈◊〉 and shine But you out dazled now 〈◊〉 must refine To see their long 〈◊〉 leave 〈…〉 Faustina was cured of dishonest Love And of divers other Remedies against that Passion That the affection and prison of the Mind which is ordinarily called Love is a strong Passion and of great effect in the Soul let us ask of such Men which by Experience have known it and of such whom Examples are notorious namely of very excellent Personages that have suffer'd their Wills to have been transported even so far that some of them have died Jules Capitolin amongst other Examples recites that which happen'd to Faustina Daughter to Amoninus and Wife to the Emperor Marcus Aurelius who fell in Love with a Master of Fence or Gladiator in such sort that for the desire which she had of his Company she was in danger of Death she did so consume away Which being understood by Marcas Aurelius he presently call'd together a great company of Astrologians and Doctors to have counsel and find remedy thereupon At last it was concluded That the Fencer should be kill'd and that they should unknown to her give Faustina his Blood to drink and that after she had drank it the Emperor her Husband should lie with her This Remedy wrought marvellously for it put this Affection so far from her that she never afterwards thought of him And the History saith of this Copulation that the Emperor had then with her was begotten Antoninus Commodus which became so bloody and Cruel that he resembled more the Fencer whose Blood his Mother had drank a the Conception of him than Marcus Aurelius whose Son he was which Commodus was always found amongst the Gladiators as Eutropius Wâ—â—nesses in the Life of the same Commodus The 〈◊〉 and Arabick Physicians place this Disease of Love amongst the grievous Infirmities of the Body of Man and thereupon prescribe divers Remedies Câ—dâ—mus Milesien as Sâ—ydâ—â— â—â—ports in his Collections writes a whole Book treating of 〈◊〉 particular Remedies which Physicians give for this Disease one is That to him that is passionate in Love one 〈◊〉 put into his hands great Affairs importuning his Credit and his Profit that his Spirit being occupied in divers matters it may draw away his Imagination from that which troubles him And they say further that they should 〈◊〉 him to be merry and conversant with other Women Against this heat Pliny saith it is good to take the Dust upon which a Mule hath tumbled and cast it upon the Lover and all to be powder him or else of the Sweat of a chased Mule as Cardanus affirms in his Book of Subtilties The Physicians also teach how to know what Person is loved of him that is sick in Love and it is by the same Rule that Eristratus Physician to King Seleucus knew the love that Antiochus bare to the Queen Stratonicus his Stepmother for he being extream sick and would rather die than discover the cause of his Sickness proceeding from Love which he bare to his Father's Wife She came into the Chamber just then when the Physician was feeling the Patients Pulse which beat so strong when he saw the Queen come into the Chamber that Eristratus knew that he was in Love with her and that was the cause of his Sickness wherefore he found the way to make the King acquainted with it by such a means as would be too tedious to recite Which being experimented by the Father and seeing his Son in danger if he did not prevent it thought it good tho contrary to the Intention of the Son which chose rather Death than to be healed by his Father's Loss to deprive himself of his Queen and give her to his sick Son And so indeed the Age and the Beauty of the Lady and likewise Marriage was more proper for the Son than for the Father And by this means Antiochus lived well and gallantly many Years with his well-beloved Stratoniâ—â—â— The History is very neatly recited by Plutarch in the Life of Demetrius And thus you see why Physicians say that you must feel the Pulse of those that are in Love and repeat to them divers names of Persons and if you name the right the Pulse will beat thick and strong and by that you shall know whom they Love By divers other signs one may know when any is in Love and with whom which I leave to speak of now Friendship Friendship well chosen and placed is a great felicity of Life but we ought in this respect to move very cautiously and be certain we are not mistaken before we unbosom our Thoughts or make too strict a Union We see in Politicks Leagues offensive and defensive do not always hold and being abruptly broken prove more mischievous than any thing before they were contracted because there is a more eager desire of Revenge and ground of Injury started and so when a close knit Friendship slips the knot or is violently broken in sunder by the force of some mischievous Engine set on work to that end Anger and Hatred ensues all the Secrets on either side how unbecoming or prejudicial so ever are let fly abroad to become the Entertainment and Laughter of the World redounding perhaps not only to the Injury of your self but of others whose Secrets have upon Confidence of your Virtue been intrusted with you and by you again upon the like Confidence communicated to the Party you entrusted with your own who upon breaking with you persidiously discloses them Therefore keep to your self a Reservedness and try all manner of ways the strength and constancy of Fidelity before you trust too far for if you lay out your Friendship at first too lavishly like things of other natures it will be so much the sooner wasted suffer it by no means to be of too speedy a growth considering that those Plants which floot up over quickly are not of long duration comparable with those that grow flower and by degrees Choice of this kind ought