breeding Industry and Frugality she teaches not her Daughters to be Gentlewomen â—efore â—hey be women but rather instructs them what they should pay to others than receive from them The work of her Servants that to others might be heavy and Tedious she makes light and eâ—sy by the seasonable enjoyning of it so that her Service is esteemed Preserment and her teaching better than her Wages the Maids following the president of the Mistress live modest at home and by that means beget them such Reputations as gain them good Husbands Thus Reader we have shâ—w'd you to the Life The Character of a kind Virtuous Wife If you are Male get such a one and see How happy in Enjoying her you 'l be If Female Learn to be as good as she Women with Child how to order themselves that they may bring forth Beautiful Children We resolving to furnish you Lovely Ladies with such Prescriptions as most nearly concern the Beautifying of the Body it will be requisite to consider of some special and singular means how to help amongst other things of this kind The tender Embrio whilst it is in Natures Laboratory the Womb that so it may be reduced from the confused Chaos of the lesser World not a mis-shapen nor Monstruous Lump but a sparkling Luminâ—ry and a piece that Nature may take for a pattern when she attempts the composure of a person she intends to be proud of Wherefore among those several things that tend to this exact compleating of the Fâ—â—tus there is nothing more signally concurs than the Immagination of the Breeding Mother this is that busie Archytecture of the Brain which contrives such Machinations and Acts such Miracles that it is almost a Miracle to find any that believe them for let the prenated Women use ordinary wholsom Dyet and temperate Recreation and Exercise and they will bring forth Fair Children There is likewise to be consiâ—ered the regular ordering of the Fancy which is held superintendant to the growing Infant and the Mothers Active Emissary that with all obsequiousness executes her Wishes an the tender Babe whilst emprisoned in the Womb for finding the soft and Plyant Foetus pinion'd in the Membranious Mantle and lying helpless and drowsie in Natures Cradle it freely without opposition makes impression as the Mother directs it so that she by the assistance of an invisible Agent works and adorns the Infant with those Features her Mind most runs upon and she her self effects Authors are not wanting to give us strange relations of the Phantasies Imperious Tyranny over the growing Embrio Helâ—oâ—t tells us that a Woman big with Child standing at the Door two Souldiers fell out â—ew and in the Combat the one cut the others hand off aâ— which being much affrighted she fell presently into Labour and was delivered of a Daughter with one hand having the Hand cut off at the same place as it happened to the Souldier and the Arm fresh bleeding He furnishes uâ— with another Relation of a Merchants Wife at Aâ—twerp who some Weeks before her Delivery hearing there were thirteen Condemned persons to be beheaded was desirous to see them Executed and for that purpose gets to a Friends House in the Market Place but scarce had she seen the first suffer e're she fell in Labour and was delivered of a Lusty Boy with his Head divided from his Shoulders now whether these things thus fell out by the force of Immagination or the two strong and boistrous Midwife dismembred them by a forcible Delivery we determine not but leave you to the Credit of so Judicious an Author Gasseâ—dus tells that a great Bellyed Woman being set upon and stabbed in divers places by sundry Villains she immediately dying the Child was reaped from out of her Belly and just as many blew Spotts found about it as the Mother had received Wounds and in the very same places Many have bin the Monsterous Births held to be so mis-shapen and altered in the Womb by the force of Immagination but as to those in this place we shall be silent Womens Fancies we must allow to be very strange if it can transpose the parts of the Faetus and make it a Monster or turn Eâ—ecutioner in the Womb why if we grant this may it not as well act the Painter and have the disposing of Natures Colours to draw as it pleases ravishing or less enticeing Features Galen tells us That a Woman brought forth a Son not like the Father who was deformed but resembling the Picture of a lovely Person that hung in her Chamber whereon himself had wished her to think earnestly when her Husband Embraced her Some will have it that by often seeing a Black moor or beholding the Picture of one Women having been delivered of Children clouded with Natures sooty Mask and wrap'd in the Sable Mantle of a Swarthy Skin we cannot but be in some measure convinced that the Infant comes into the World apparell'd in those Features that Fancy that commanding Empress of the Mothers Brain dispenses from her own Wardrobe so that if you desire Ladies as we doubt not but you earnestly do to have Children whose Beauty shall eclipse all other Objects and be an attracting Maggot to the Neighbouring Eyes propose to your Phancies such patterns as may excite your own and others admiration whether it be some Person who Monopolizes perfections and is the Royal Exchequer of unparallel'd Beauty or some lively Picture of a most Absolute Proportion of parts temper of Colours and vivacity of Aspect for some such exquisite patterns being made choice of and in the time of Conception or else being with Child intently thought upon or beheld will by little and little Imprint in the Mind a noble Idea of the same perfections which the active Fancy soon apprehends as a proposed Pattern to work thereby a parallel'd Piece and therefore with an obsequious celerity informs the Appetite which immediately Summons the subtile Humours and the most Spirituous parts of the Blood is inferiour Officers and they receive an Impression of this Idea which they carry in Triumph through all the Coastâ— of the Microcosme till they arrive at those Parts whereto they were Designed by the diâ—ection of Phancy who thinks no repository too secure for so fair a Species commands those Agil Emissaries to treasure it up in the Seed which is the most new and durable Edifice in all its Dominions and likely to lâ—st beyond the rest or if she be instructed with this Idea In the time of the Mothers being great she immediately sends those active Agents with it to the Womb that Mint of the Microcosme there to have it stamped by the Plastick Faculty on the growing Fâ—etus that so it may be in a capacity to act iâ—s Princely part on the Theatre of the World where it may attract the Eyes of future Admirers and with a radiant Lustre vye with its Prototype Women or some of them notwithstanding what has been said may perhaps be so scrupulous as
Fr. Apparel cloathing array attire also Armour or Harness Habit habitus the outward attire of the Body whereby one Person is distinguished from another as the Habit of a Gentleman is different from that of a Merchant and the Habit of a Handy-crafts-man from both Hans-en-helder is in Dutch as much as Jack in a Cellar and by Metaphor it is taken for the Child in a Womans Belly Hermione the Daughter of Menelaus Hermitress a Woman-Hermite or Eremite Heroine g. a Noble or Virtuous Woman Herophila the Erithâ—â— Sibyl who being by Tarâ—â—â— denied the price of her three Books of Prophesies burnt two and received the whole price for that which was left Herâ—â—lia the Wife of Romulus worshipped by the Name of Hera the Goddess of youth Herthus a Saxon Goddess like the Latin Tellus Hessone Daughter of Lumedon King of Troy whom Hercules delivered from a great Whale Hibride mongrel of a mixt Generation Helicon a hill of Phacis not far from Parnassus and much of the same bigness consecrated to Apollo and the Muses Hence Helitoniam pertaining to that Hill Hillutim h. praises a Jewish wedding-song Heppece f. I. Cheese made of Mares milk Hipparchus an Athenian Tyrant slain upon his deflowring a Maid Hippe Daughter of Cbiâ—â—â— a great Huntress got with child and turn'd into a mare Hippiades g. Images of women on horse-back Hippoctenides the Muses Hippodamia Daughter to 〈◊〉 King of Elis whom 〈◊〉 won at a race with her father by corrupting his chariot driver Hipoliyta a Queen of the Amazons whom Hercules gave a Theseus to wife Hippolytus their Son torn in pieces by his chariot-horses is he fled being accused of adultery by his wives mother â—â—edra whose solicitations he refused Hippomenes and Atalanta won by his golden apples drown in her way were turn'd to a Lion and Lioness for lying together in Cybele's Temple Hippona the Goddess of horses and horse-coursers Hipâ—â—crataea followed her Husband Mithridates in all his 〈◊〉 and dangers Hermaphrodite Hermaphroâ—â—â— one who is both man and woman Hermitress A woman Hermite or Eremite one who lives in a wilderness Hesperides the daughters of Hesperus brother to Atlas called Aegle Aretbusa and Hesâ—â—â—busa They had Gardens and Orchards that bore Golden fruit kept by a vigilant Draâ—â—â— which Hercules slew and â—â—bbed the Orchard From this story we find often mention of the Gardens and Apples of Hesperides Honorificabilitudinity honourableness Horae l. Hours Goddesses daughters of Jupiter and Themis Hillulim Heb. Praises a Song sung at the Jews marriages by the Bridegrooms intimate Friends Hippona the Goddess of horses Hyades Atlantides Suculae the seven Stars daughters of Atlas lamenting of Hyas their brother devoured by a Lyon Hyena a Beast like a Wolf with a Mane and long hairs accounted the subtlest of all beasts changing sex often and counterfeiting Mans voice Hylas going to fetch Hercules some water fell into the river or poetically was pulled in by the Nymphs in love with him Hyllus Hercules's son who built a Temple at Athens to Misericordia the Goddess of pity Hymen aeus son of Bacchus and Venus the God or first instituter of marriage also a Nuptial or wedding song Hypermnestra one of Danaus's 59 daughters commanded to kill their Husbands the 50 sons of Aegyptus she onely saved her Husband Lynceus who afterwards killed Danaus Hypâ—â—phile Queen of Lemnos banished thence for saving her Father Thous when all the men of the Island were killed by women Hony-moon applied to those married persons that love well at first and decline in affections afterwards it is Hony now but it will change as the Moon Min. Horse-ballet a Dance or Ball performed by Horses such was that at the Emperors wedding 1666. Hypermeter Lat. a verse having a redundant syllable or one syllable above measure called by some a Feminine Verse Hysterical hysterious troubled with fits of the Mother I. JEan i. Gracious or Merciful see Joan. Iennet der from Jean Ioac or Joanna Gracious Luk. 8.3 the same with John in Mens Names Ioice i. Merry or Pleasant Iael 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jagnel Judg. 4.21 perhaps 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jagnalah a Roe or Goat Isabella or Jezebel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 King 9.30 i. Wo to the dwelling or the Province of dwelling Iulian i. Soft-Hair'd Iudith or Judah i. praising or confessing Ioan Countess of Montford Daughter to Lewis of Flanders and Count of Nevers she wâ—â— married to John the 4th 〈◊〉 of Britain and Count d'â—â—â—ford she Warred after her Husbands Death upon the 〈◊〉 d' Blois and took divers Town from him in Brittain and being besieged in Hennebor◠〈◊〉 sallied at the head of 60 men and burnt the Enemies standard and following this success with greater Numbers not onely raised the siege but recovered all the Dutchy of Britain Ioan d' Arc the Valiant Maid of France who of a Shepherdess became a Leader of Armies and by her Courage Conduct and success raised the drooping spirits of the French men that were at a very low Ebb by reason the English had gained the greatest part of France so that under her Conduct they beat them out of several strong holds but after she had done wonders always fighting on horse back in mans Apparel she was taken as she sallied upon the English and venturing too far in Confidence of her Fortune she was taken carried to Roan and there burnt for a witch though no such thing appeared against her Ioan d' Valois she was daughter to Charles King of France by his first wife Margaret of Sicily she was Married to William Earl of Holland Hainault and Zealand who died before her leaving William the Second his Son and four Daughters after which she 〈◊〉 a Religious Habit in the â—â—bby of Fontenele and by her Prudent Intercession stayed the battle at the point to be given between the Kings of England and France dying each Lamented of the People 〈◊〉 1400. Iocasta Daughter of Creon the Thebean King she Married King Laius and was Mother to 〈◊〉 who by reason of the words of the Oracle that he should Dethrone his Father was in his Infancy cast out to a desperate Fortune and she 〈◊〉 knowing him when grown 〈◊〉 Married him by whom she had Polynices and Eteocles who falling out about the Succession Killed each other in a Comâ—â—ce for whose Deaths and the Discovery of the Error 〈◊〉 committed in Marriage piâ—â—â— away with grief and died Ioan the female Pope of 〈◊〉 Called by them John 〈◊〉 finding her self with Child and ready to be delivered desperately killed her self with her Dagger Ioan Queen of France and 〈◊〉 the sole Daughter of Henry the first King of Navar and left Heiress of her Fathers Kingdom she was Wife to â—biâ—â—â— the fair King of France transcendent for her Piety as well as Beauty very Liberal in Charitable Deeds for she founded divers Charitable Houses and left at her Death great Treasure to be bestowed among the Poor Ioan de Albert Queen of Navar a
to communicate unto them but his design being to make use of it himself he desired according to Custom to have a Licence so to do The Kasi or Judge not able to comprehend the true meaning unfortunately made answer that he had all the Reason in the World since he had been at such Pains to bring it to Perfection to have the Pleasure of enjoying it and so gave him his Permission in writing but neither that nor his own Authority prevailed with the Daughter to yield to his wicked Embraces so that enraged with Lust he took an opportunity to ravish her of this Brutish Act she informed her Mother and the report of it coming to the Knowledge of King Mahomet Begeraus Ear he caused the unnatural Father to be Beheaded though he was a Man of great Substance Incest with the Greek Race of the Ptolomies Kings of Egypt was usual for they Married their Sisters and sometimes their Daughters but most of them came to unfortunate ends of either Sex Incest had such an ascendant over Artaxerxes Mnemon King of Persia that he Married his Daughter Arcssa a Beautiful Virgin but never prospered after it Lucretia the Daughter of Pope Alexander the sixth not only committed Incest with her Father but with her Brother the Duke of Candy who was slain by Caesar Borgie another of that Popes hopeful Offspring for being his Rivâ—l in that Sister he soon after poisoned his Father and was himself slain by the Multitude Many Instances of the like Nature are recounted in History but always attended with some fearful Judgement or sad Calamity to manifest the displeasure of the Almighty Infants crying in the Womb or Wonders in Nature Infants crying in the Wombs of their Mothers have occasioned various discourses among the Learned as to it's Signification but in this they differ however it is a thing very unusual and therefore strange Sorrow indeed is incident to Mankind and we begin it with Weeping before we know what it means but that is very rare 'till we come to breath in the open Air now whether such untimely Cryings may signifie something extraordinary in the Course of Life or that Provident Nature would have them Practise in the dark Cell of Generation what they shall afterwards seldom want so long as they enjoy the Light viz. Sorrow and Affliction we undertake not to determine but such Relations of these little Prisoners that have been so heard to cry in those close Appartments take as we find them in credible Histories In Holland a Woman had a Child cryed and bemoaned it self in her Womb with little inâ—ermission for the space of fifteen days In Leydon a Gentlewoman being in Bed with her Husband on a suddain hearing the Child cry in her Womb was greatly terrified so that in two days after she fell in labour though she expected to go a great while longer In Kathstadt a Town in the Norick Alps a Child was heard to cry in his Mothers Womb fourteen days before it was born And indeed a great deal more of the like Nature is testified by credible Persons of Candid Reputations that the Truth of them is not to be doubted but by those that their own Failings and Romances have stupified and rendred so incredulous that they will scarcely believe what they see and hear themselves the Cause â—f this prot bably may be because â—here is more Air contained in the Membranes of some Wombs than others which drawn in gives the Organs a Sound or Noise c. Iealousie and its evil Effect c. Jealousie if the Bane of Love and the grand distuâ—â—er of either Sâ—x fâ—r where its Poyson once tinctures though in never so small a proportion it insensibly spreads to the impoisoning of the mind and changes a Heaven of Contentment into a Hell of Disorder and Conâ—â—sion it is the Gâ—â—gon's Head that with a look changes Pleasure into Pain and raises Storms of Disquiet in those Breasts where Halcion Joys and Pleasures were brooding the true satisfactions of Life and happy days and all this for the most part is groundless and unreasonable in its original Contraction Bonavenâ—â—ne a very learned and famous Man of his time looking wishfully upon a Beautiful Woman in his Company the Husband being present could nâ—t forbear to demand with sâ—me trouble of Mind which hâ— labour'd to stisie the reason why he so earneâ—ly fixeâ— his â—yes upon her who modestly reâ—â—â—yed that he admired tâ—e Exceâ—â—ency of the Creâ—toâ— by Contemplating the Beauty of the Creature and if Mortals were so amiable â—ow infinitely more lovely should we be at the Reâ—â—rrection This was an Example saith Boschier that was rather to be admired than imitated seeing the Husband was â—atisfied with the reason he gave for Jealousie is rightly compared to the Indian impoisoned Arrows if they race the Skin they endanger Life but drawing Blood inâ—vitably destroys it the first motions that arise from this root of bitterness have their evil Effects but where the Disease is improved it empoysons all our Comâ—orâ—s and throws us Head-long unto the most Tragical Resolutions and is incident to either Sex Justina a fair beautiful Lady of her time that Rome could boast of was marryed to a Man of a large Fortune who finding her so excellent a Creature suspected every one that cast his Eyes upon her and at length began to suspect that she was prodigal of her Favours to others and careless of her Honour upon no other ground than that a Woman so accomplished with all the Perfections of a celebrated Beauty must Charm all Mankind as well as himself to delight in her which made him grow Envious and Furious so that one day discovering her curious White Neck as she was stooping to â—ye â—er Shâ—ce he wickedly drew his Sword without any other Resentment or Provocation and separated at one blow her Head from her Body Jane Queen of Spain and Mother to Charles the Fifth Emperor of Germany as likewise to Ferdinand who succeeded him was so exceeding Jealous of King Philip her Husband that she suffered him to have no rest nor quiet but by her continual persecuting him with Clamours Reproaches and insufferable Abuses supposed causlesly it was thought she shortened his days and withall brought her self to that Weakness of Mind that she could not discern of my Matters that were propounded to her Jonuses one of Selimus's great Bassa's and Favourites stabbed his Wife because she was so Beautiful though Virtuous that he thought it was impossible for him to keep her to himself only Joan Queen of Naples though she was wickedly lewd and debauched her self yet she caused two Husbands to be murthered upon bare suspition they had to do with other Women because they could not satisfie her Lust Yet all these with many more we might Name came themselves to Violenâ— Deaths and untimely Ends being pushed Head long down the Precepice of Ruin by Judgments that suddainly overtook them Jealousie being like a raging Feavour that
the first that view'd her So that she can expect nothing from them but severe Usage not without danger of her Person as being she that has been the Cause though the innocent one of the discovery of their Ignorance Therefore the Error in Fact which was the occasion of the Decree of the Capitols being now intirely removed your Sâ—ppliant having neither Parents nor fixed Habitation and labourâ—ng under Extremity of Want nor having any friend either publick or private that will concern himself to preserve her from the punishment that may be inflicted on her she has Reason to hope from yoâ—â— Majeâ—â—y's justice whose Sovâ—â—â—ign Authority is above neâ—dâ—â—â—â— Forms of proceeding that you will be pleased to grant her such a Decree as may secure her condition For these Reasons Sir considering the occasion to be so singular and remote from being drawn into Example mâ—y it please your Majesty to Cancel Revoke and Disâ—â—â—l the Decree of the Capitols of Tâ—â—louse Bearing Date the 21st of July 1691. as being grounded upon a mistake in Fact of the personal Condition of your Suppliant to the end she may resume her Name her Sex and Habit of a Virgin c. and your Petitioner shall ever pray for the health and prosperity of your Majesty This Petition was signed by M. Lauther Advocate and presented but what Effects it had as to reversing the Sentence we are as yet to learn nor matters it much to our purpose But however it might happen to this woman or whatsoever may be alledged in her behalf ' ris apparent there are those that in some degree participate of either sex though again well allow there may be mistakes made by unexperienced Midwives who have been deceived by the Evil conformation of the parts which in some male births may have chanced to have had a Protrusion not to have been discerned as appear'd by the example of a Child Christened at Paris by the name of Joana as if it had been a Girl when upon a more narrow inspection it proved a boy and on the contrary the over fâ—r exâ—enâ—ion of thâ— Clytoâ—â—s in female birth 's may have occasioned the like mistakes Gallen however allows a transmuâ—ation of sex when he says a man is nothing different from a woman but in having his Genital members without his body and that if nature having formed a man and would convert him into a woman she has no other task to perform but to Invert his members and a woman into a man by doing the contrary but this we cannot allow because it seems to us Impossible to be done unless we understand him of the Embrio in the womb which is yet as soft wax Lyable to take any impression or be moulded and alter'd as nature pleases and then by Extraordinary heat Suddainly coming into the womb and Increasing in the Geniâ—al members a female was dâ—signed and had been so had not that heat helped nature in her formation a change may be puâ— upon it and it maybecome a male yet it will upon such an Alteration retain some certain Gestâ—res unbeseeming the male sex as female Actions a shrill voice and more feeble than ordinâ—ry very fair but Little or no hair on the face when grown up and contrary wise nature having often designed a male in the womb and cold humours flâ—wn in the Genitals have been Inverted yet when brought forth as it grows up it shows more and more of a masculine temper in Gâ—re Voice and Inclination to such things as women rarely accustom themselves to and of this sort we believe many Brave Virgoes so samed in story were Natural Causes conducing to the Advantage of mankind c. Nature has many Agents if we may properly term them so that she employs in her workings and sometimes calls in our care and art to her assistance It falleth out a matter of wonder that Nature being very Ingenious of great Art Judgment and Force and mankind a work of so special regard yet she many times miscarries in the rigth froming the body and disposing the mind which defect is not so much to be atâ—ributed to Nature in her common workings who aims to make every thing perfect as it is in the Parents who apply not themselves to the means of Generation wiâ—h that order and concert which is by Nature established or know the conditions which ought to be observed to the end their children may prove beautiful in body and mind for by the same Reason for which one shall be born very witty having always regaâ—d to the self-order of causes mâ—ny hundred will in a temperatâ— or distempered Region prove of slender capacities Now if by Art we may procure a Remedy of this it may be much available especially to the Fair Sex which we will labour to do within the bounds of modesty and for the better undersâ—â—nding of it we shall place it distincly undâ—â— Four Heads or principal parts The first is to shew the natural Quality and Temperature which man aud ought to posses to the end they may use Generation The second is to consider what diligence the Parents ought to employ when they are desirous of male children Thirdly How they may become wise and discreet And Fourthly how they may be dealt withal after their birth for the preservation of their Wit And as to the first of these it is necessary that a Woman be cold and moist in the contexture of her frame that so she may be temperate and fruitful and that the fruit she produceth may be without any natural defect For all Philosophers and Physicians hold that cold and moisture moved with a little temperizing heat produce the most effectuâ—l Generation as the Earth so ordered produces the best crop of Grain The Womb is the Field of man's Generation and according to the state and condition it isâ—n so it produceth the birth therefore women intending to have fair children without deformity or blemishes should have great regard to be temperate in eating drinking and exercise from their conception to their uprising that the humours may be agreeable and the contribution kept in a moderate temperance and then Leave to nature the rest which having good materials to work on never fails to produce very curious peices set out and exactly compleated beyond the Exception of the greatest Criticks And indeed it is past all Exception that the qualities that render a woman fruitful are mainly cold and moisture that might she be capable of breeding much Phlegmatick blood to be serviceable for the forming and supporting the child in the womb and breeding store of milk for should there be much beat the blood would be made unfit for the Gendering of milk and so the babe would pine a way for want of Norishment for with that Hypocrates and Galen affirm it is nourished and Relieved all the time it remaineth in the mothers womb And now though we Consider women cold and moist in the General made so for the sake of
the Counsellour has a passage to this purpose in the Ninth Book of his Pleadings where he tells us That it is Received Truth that a perfect Child as to the Limbs and Lineaments may be born within seven months and live and he quotes Hippocrates for his Authority and divers others who affirm in lawful Matrimony seven months will produce a Child which in time will be lusty and strong Gallen in his Third Book Chap. 6. argues upon the same matter but rather according to mens Opinions than according to what the matter will reasonably bear as supposing there is no certain time limited for the bringing forth of children and Plinny says a Womun went Thirteen months with Child and another that it may be any time between Seven and Thirteen months but as to the seventh month Lemnius tells us That he knew divers married People in Holland that had Twins who liv'd and flourish'd their minds apt and lively not upon their first being marri'd which might there as well as here have bred suspicion but when they had been married many Years and no ground or room for so much as the shadow of it was left of their being spurious because born within that time He goes on and tells us an Example of his own Knowledge There was said he a great disturbance which had liked to have occasioned much bloodshed and some was spilt about it happening upon the account of a Virgin who descending from a Noble Family had her Chastity violated and this violation of her Honour was charged upon a Judge President of a City in Flanders who absolutely denied it and having seen the Child said he could make it a appear to be a child of seven months and that at the same time he could prove himself to be some hundred miles off for a continuance of Time Physicians were hereupon consulted as also Experienced Women by Order of the Judges before whom the Hearing was and they made diligent Enquiry into the Affair and without respect to any thing but their own Consciences they made their Report That the Child had been carried in the Womb but Twenty Seven Weeks and some odd Days but that if it had its full time of Nine months it would have been more firm and strong the body more compact the skin faster and the breast-bone that had a kind of a Ridge like that of the breast-bone of a Fowl would have been more depressed It was a Female Infant and wanted Nails having only a thin film or skin instead of them and this they concluded was for want of heat which more time would have matured We might produce a cloud of Testimonials to remove these Falling out Charges and Suspicions that make Marriage unease and uncomfortable but these we hope may suffice as to these particulars P Palatina a Goddess supposed by the Romans to govern over the Palace Palatula was the Name of the Sacrifice offered to her and her Priests who sacrified were called Palatualis Pallades were Young Virgins dedicated by the Thebeans to Jupiter after this sort of the first born and most beautiful was consecreated to him who had the li\berry the lie with whom she pleased till the time of her Natural Purgation and after that she was to be bestowed on a Husband but from the Time of her Prostitution to the time of her Marriage her Parents and Friends lamented her as one out of the world but at her Wedding they made great Feast and exceeding rejoycing Palladuim a Stame of the Goddess Pallas having a Lance or Javelin in its Hand and Eyes so artifica lly placed in the Head that they seemed to move as if alive The Trojans perswaded them-selves that this Image was made in Heaven and fell down from Jupiter and going to consult the Oracle of Apollo about it they had Answer that the City should remain impregnable Whirst Image remained in the Temple of Pallos but in the Ten Years Wars with Greece Diomedes and Vlysses undermining a Way beneath the ground into the Temple and killing the Guards stole it away soon after which the destruction of the City followed There was likewise a Statue of Pallas at Rome and in divers other places Pallas other ways called Minerva the Godness of Arms and Arts or Wisdomm who is fabled to have sprung from the Brain of Jove and was a great Patroness of the Greeks at the Wars of Troy Phillippa a Noble Italian Lady who for the Love she bore her Husband put on Armour and followed him unknown to the Wars and in The Battle of the Pavy sought between the Imperials and Italian Confederates against Francis the French king fighting Couragiously by his side she saved his Life in the press of the Enemies Parnel contracted for petronella a little stone Penelope so called from cerrain Birds she sed Philadelphia i. brotherly Love Phil or Philip a lover of Horses Phillis à 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. folium a little leaf Phillida dim a Phillis Phoeke Rom. 16.1 i. Moon see the Etym. of Phoebus in mens Names Polyrena she that entertains many strangers Prisca i. ancient or old Priscilla Acts 18.2 dim à Prsca i. ancient or old Prudence i. Wisdom knowledge a Name commonly used Pamphilia an Egyptian Woman of great Learning she flourished in the Reign of the Emperour Nero she was the Daughter to Solerides and marry'd to Socratides a learned man from whom she gained her proficiency in Languages leaving to Posterity 8 books of Miscellanous History besides other Works that were lost end not transmitted to Posterity of which only mention are made by Suidas and several other Credible Authors Paranimphs Maidens that undressed the Bride to her Nuptial Bed and lead the Bridegroom to it or as we call them Bride-maids Parcae called the Goddesses of Destiny by the Names of Clotho Lachesis and Athropos by some said to be the Daughter of Athropos and Themis by others of Necessity the Night and Chaos who had power to spin out and cut the Threads of the Lives of mortals The Youngest spun out the Thread the next in Years the Distaff and the Third cut it off which waan Emblem of the stages of mans life from Youth to Manhood thence to Old Age and consequently Death Parthenope one of the Nymphs or Land Syrenes who endeavoured to destroy Vlysses in his return from Troy by Shipwracking him on the Rocks of the Coast where they resided but was prevented by his causing his men to stop their Ears with Wax and Wool and tying himself to the main Mast she in Anger to miss her Aim which had never failed upon others threw herself into the Sea and there perished and being cast on the Shoar of Italy her Tomb by the order of the Oracle was erected were now the City of Naples is scituate Partula to whom the Romans assigned the care of Pregnant Women near their time called by others Lucina the Goddess of Child-birth Parisatis Sister to Xerxes the Persian King and Wife to
takes it for a Child wantonly brought up and calls it in Latin Mammothreptus Cybele the Mother of the Gods c. See the many names and particular Fables of her in Rider Coâ—mptional Coâ—mptâ—â—â—â—lis which is often in Buying or a Buying together Among the Romans 〈…〉 were those old Men in whose Tuition and Authority Men by their last Will and Testament left their Widows oâ— Daughters and without whom they might not pass in Dominium vironum per Coemptionem i. be marry'd according to the Ceremony call'd Coemption whereby the Husband and Wife seem'd to buy one another Coition Carnal Copulation Collateral Collateralis not direct on the one side joining to or coming from the same side Every degree of Kindred is either right Lineal or Collateral The right Lineal is that which comes from the Grand-father to the Father from the Father to the Son and so still right downward Collateral is that which comes side-ways as first between Brothers and Sisters then between their Children c. Also Uncles Aunts and all Cousens are contain'd under this Term Collateral Kindred Comperage Fr. Gossiping the affinity or friendship gotten by Christning Children together Cotgr. Complement Complementum a furnishing filling up or perfecting that which wants It is usually taken for verbal Expressions of Respect of Affection of readiness to serve and the like Or Complement is a Performance of affected Ceremonies in Words Looks and Gestures Caramenia Womens Courses which gathering every Month by the Fermentation of the Blood and being come to a Turgency by the Accessioâ— of a Ferment that is in the Womb discharge themselves at their set time Some ascribe the Courses to the Motions 〈◊〉 the Moon but if this were true then all Women would have them at the same time They begin at Twelve Tâ—â—teen or Fourteen Years of Age and stop about Fifty But 〈◊〉 cannot exactly be determined They are supprest in Breeding Women and Nurses yet 〈◊〉 is not a Rule neither Dr. 〈◊〉 Clitoris a part of a Woman whose Use is Titillation it consists like a Mans Yard 〈◊〉 Nervous Bodies which 〈◊〉 from the lower part of the Bones of the Privities and 〈◊〉 the end is covered with a 〈◊〉 and a Prepuce or Foreskin Its Substance is spungy so that it is capable of Increase and Relaxation but is not perforated as in Men. Dr. Blankard Conserva a Conserve is a Composition of Flowers 〈◊〉 Herbs beat together to every Pound whereof if they be dry are added three Pounds of Sugar if moister two Pounds so that they may be kept severral Years Carnis a Thessalian Virgin Ravished by Neptune Cainsham-smoke a Man's Weeping when beat by his Wife Calisto one of Diana's Nymph's corrupted by Jupiter and turn'd out of her Train Calliope one of the Nine Muses Callirchoe her 30 Suitors having kill'd her Father Phocus King of Baeotia were burnt to death Callot sa a wanton Woman Cambles a Lydian King who devour'd his own Wife Camene l. the Muses Campions a kind of Lychnis or Batchelors-buttons Campus â—celeratus where the incontinent Vestal Nuns were buried alive Canaâ—e Daughter of Aeolus with child by her own Brother Canachus a Fountain near Nâ—uplia where Juno used to bathe to recover her Virginity Candiope being ravish'd by her Brother Theodotion brought forth Hippolagus Caratar a Wife yet contemptible Counsellor to Saladine the Turk Caranet a rich Chain to wear about the Neck Cardiacline the Heart-line or Line of Life on the Hand Carmenta Niâ—coâ—trato an Arcadian Prophetess who first gave the Oracle in Verse Carthismandua a British Queen who casting off her Husband Venusius marry'd and crown'd his Armour-bearer â—ellâ—-catus Cassandra a Prophetess the Daughter of Priam and Hecuba Calliope-pea Cephus's daughter plac'd among the Stars Cecrops an Egyptian King of Athens he first civiliz'd them and instituted marriage Cest l. the Bride's Wedding girdle unty'd the first Night by the Bridgeroom Charitees g. the Graces Thalia Aglia Euphrosyneâ— Childwit power to take a Fine of your Bond-woman gotten with Child without your consent also the reputed Father of a Bastard Crinisus a River of 〈◊〉 which in the form of a Bear ravishing Hogesta begat â—â—castes King of Sicily Cui ante Devortion a Writ empowering a divorc'd Woman to recover her Lâ—nds from him to whom her Husband did before the Divorce alienate them Cui in vira a Writ of entry for a Widow upon her Lands alienated by her Husband Cybele Cib elle Barecynthia Dindymene Ops Rhea Vesta Magna mater or the Mother of the Gods Cynthia Diana Twin-sister to Cynthius Apollo born near Cynthus a Hill in Delos Cosâ—akâ— Turkish Women Girdles Coverture Covertbarn or Barâ—n f. the Condition of an English Wife who can make no bargain without her Husbands Consent Countess f. an Earls Wife Courtisane f. a Court-Lady also a Strumper Crabbat f. comely also a Womans Gorget also a Cravate worn first they say by the Croats in Germany Cornucopia py a Horn with plenty of all things given by Jupiter to his Nurse Amalthea Constupration a Ravishing of a Virgin Concubinage f. Fornication also an Exception against her that sues for Dowry alledging that she is not a Wife but Concubine Concubine half Wife Confarreation l. a Wedding Ceremony like the breaking of our Bride-cake Compeer l. Confort fellow also Goâ—â—ip and in some places all the young Men invited to the same Wedding Comperage f. Gossipping also the affinity or friendship gotten by being Gossips Conception a conceiving with Child also a Thought Fancy or Conceit Colostration a Distemper in Childrens Stomachs by sucking the beectings or first Milk Coludum Coldana Coldingham in Scotland where the Nuns and Prioress Ebba cut off their Lips and Noses to shun the Lust of the Danes Clytemnestra lived in Adultery with Aegisthus and with his help kill'd her Husband Agamemnon Clytia flighted by Apoâ—â— pin'd away to an Heliotrope Clio one of the Nine Muses Inventress of History Cloetia a noble Romon Viâ—â—gin who swam over Tybris froâ— Persenno with whom she waâ— left an Hostage Clotho one of the 〈◊〉 Destinies carrying the 〈◊〉 of Man's Life Chione Daughter to 〈◊〉 with Child by 〈◊〉 and Phoebus brought the at once Antolychus and 〈◊〉 Chlozis Flora the 〈◊〉 Zephyrus Course of Life What 〈◊〉 to preserve or procure 〈◊〉 Course of Life by us 〈◊〉 mentioned is intended as a general Notion Comprehensing all those things that Physicians frequently term 〈◊〉 non Naturales So that it 〈◊〉 taken in whatsoever any 〈◊〉 of a sensible alteration in 〈◊〉 Body as Air Watching Sleeping External Exercise Reposâ—â— Passions or Perturbation of 〈◊〉 Mind and to conclude 〈◊〉 or Drinks Consider first then That Air is the 〈◊〉 Ocean wherein we must Traffique if we intend to make Thriving Husbands Life and Gain the least Addition to the too soon fleeting number of our days It is Swordâ— gentle Aeolus that 〈◊〉 forth prosperous Gales 〈◊〉 the Lobes of our expanded Lungs to land us carefully on the Silver Topt Alps of hoary Hairs but
right side her Belly will be more Accute towards the Navel and when she goes though she regard it not she commonly sets her Right Leg First and eases herself on that â—ide oftenest Contrary are the Symptoms of the Females to these their first motion is held to be on the Left-side and are borne through defect of Heat in the Womb with more pain to the Mother her Thighs swell her Longings are extream and her Complexion sides or often changes and the like Sometimes there are Twins and this is known properly by the Motion of the Infants both ways on either side at once their Soul being agreed on to be received at one and the same time and the Mother's Flanks will rise higher than usual a Channel or parting being to be observed from the Navel to the Groin Conceptions that are false many times delude women and make them believethey are with Child when really there is no such thing there is sometimes in this Case contracted a Mass 〈◊〉 Flesh resembling the Gizard of a large Fowl yet not stimed to a particular bigness buâ— accordingly greater or lesseâ— according to the time of 〈◊〉 Continuance which is usually four Months and then they name it a Moon-Calf some again are deceiv'd by â—word which are two-fold viz. Trâ—â— or False The first of these is a fleshy Body fill'd with many Vessels streak'd with Green white and black Lines and 〈◊〉 not wanting of Membranes 〈◊〉 has divers incompassing it and although it receives no Nourishment as a Child does 〈◊〉 through certain Veins by reâ—son it has no Intervals yet it Lives but no better as wâ— may term it than the Life of a Plant. The other of these admits of a fourfold Distinguishment First it is called a Windy-Mole when it sweâ—â— with a Contraction of Wind. Secondly when there is a 〈◊〉 flux of Water it is called 〈◊〉 Watry-Mole Thirdly a â—merous one when the Humours get together and Fourthly A Membranous one whâ—â— there are many Membranes 〈◊〉 the form of a Bag fill'd with Blood Conceptions are False are as the True known by their Symptoms as Depravity of Appetite swelling of the Breast and Belly but then not as in the other Conception the Breasts soon fall again not affording any Milk the Face is as it were blown up with Wind but the Thighs and Hips wax Lean and fall away the Belly almost of an equal Round proves hard as if Dropsical and her Rest is disturbed and broken Again let us consider That a Male Infant usually begins to move at the beginning of the Third Month or at least for the most part and the Female at the beginning of the Fourth Then if there be any Milk 't is a sign of a true Conception but if not of a false one A true Motion is brisk and lively and although the other has a Motion yet it is dull and heavy and being stroaked down cannot move it self to its place again nor turn to any other side for want of inbred Force than what it is turn'd to Conceptions fully occasion'd by the Windy-Mole are discernedly by the extraordinary streaching or extending the Belly and yet it is soft and spongy especially near the Groin and being 〈◊〉 sounds like a Drum increasing and decreasing so that she has thereby a lesser or greater Proportion of trouble with it That which is call'd the Watery one is to be observ'd by the Belly 's being distended when the Woman lies with it upward the Sides more swelled than the middle or bottom which grows flatter for it has a kind of a Fluctuation That that which is contracted of Humours has much the same Symptoms but dilates not it self so much by reason it is not compos'd of so fluid a Matter but more closely compris'd in its Cells the Water in the Case of the Last being red or of a very deep Colour when in Case of the other it is clear or muddy Pale Conceptions there are of other kinds that are false occasioned by Tumours which some have been so ignorant to take for Moles when indeed they are no more than Rotundies or Swellings of the Belly not well perceiv'd till the Womb is dilated and then there are small Bags of Water at one or the other corner or if they be not there in their stead there are knolâ—s of Kennels like Clusters of Grapes But of these things we have said enough to give Young Women a Light into these Affairs and think it 〈◊〉 to wade aâ—â— further lest we should 〈◊〉 beyond what we 〈◊〉 By this 〈…〉 Works 〈…〉 And 〈…〉 How first is built the Fabrick of Man How he from almost nothingness began Whose Life when gain'd is counted but a span Chastity art thou fled from Christians to Pagans Virginity thou in whom Antiquity did Glory canst thou find no modern Person worthy thy presence The Ancients honoured the very title of Virgin so much that they thought Virgo to be named a virtute That as Vertue is unspotted so Virginity should be uncorrupted They all concurred in applause of this Estate But they differed in degrees of Praise some of them thinking Virgo to be derived à viro because they having passed their tender years desire the Society of Man Others thought virgo to be so nominated a vigore because they flourish most in those years Others deduced virgo à virga Not because they are scourges to Men but they called them so ab aetate viridiori because that as greeness is a token of the Spring so these green tender years are marks of Virginity Some compared a Virgin to a Lilly the Similitude was this they thought the six Leaves of the Lilly did represent the heart and the Five Senses of a Virgin which like the former six should be kept fresh having no favour of evil And that as those leaves are spread abroad 〈◊〉 Maiden-actions should be open not close nor secret but secure As able to endure thâ— most searching Eye Hoâ— many Plants Rivers Springs Temples Cities did they consecrate to the name Virgo and gave them that name They thought the same difference to be between Matrimony and Virginity that a betwixt to Sin and not to 〈◊〉 good and better And therefore Hierome in his Exposities of the Psal. Homines â—menta salvabis domine peâ—homines inquit intelliguâ—â— solae virgines per jumentaâ— liqui omnes Him follows Albertus magnus Continentia inquit habet fructum triplicom Scilicet cenâ—â—â—mum in virginibus sexageâ—mum in viduis tricesuâ—â—â— in conjugatis Continenâ—â— saith he hath a three fold â—â—â—gree or condition In virgin it bringeth forth an bundreâ— in widows threescore and in the wedded thirty Scripture runneth clean and clear on 〈◊〉 side Which the passages following demonstrate 1 Cor. 1 King 2. Wisd. 3. Mat. 13. Esay 56. Syrach 26. But amongst all other places 〈◊〉 one in the Revelation is most of all to be noted And they sung as it were a new song before the
as that of Revenge and Spite is Brutal and falâ—y called a Pleasure the Act of the most Contemptible Animal is to return a mischief for one received We should conclude from hence that it is an easie Determination rather to Embrace that Compassion and Clemency which we find Exemplefied not only in the wisest and best of Rational Creatures but in the Omniscent and Imortal Being than to embrace that Savage fierceness of the Ignoblest Irrational Creatures and this is certain that no Woman would have a liking to assume the outward form of any of those Creatures whose ferocity is too frequently Imitated Why then should the Mind the Nobler part appear in so monstrous a Transformation for as there are no Monsters so deformed as those that are compounded of Man and Beast so among them all nothing is more unnatural than Female Anger when it boiles up into Rage and Fury for their Blood thus fermented by an unruly Passion may probably enough occasion the Effusion of anothers swelling and overflowing in a Crimson Inundatien Solomon tells us Prov. 17.14 The beginning of strife is as when one letâ—eth our water therefore leave off Contention c. When by Immoderate Passion or Anger a breach is once made upon the Spirits all the consequent Mischiefs will flow in like a rapid Torrent when the Banks are forced or broken down and this happens unprevented and unavoidable where great care is not taken to keep the bounds intire by Preserving and Cherishing that Tenderness and Compassion which God and Nature do equally command and Enforce Consider then and duly weigh these things and you will if you call your Reason to your assistance soon distinguish between the Advantage of the one and the Mischiefs and Miseries inherent to the other Contentment Contentedness in all Stations and conditions carries along with it a wonderful Felicity and renders humane Life easie and comfortable to the Fair Sex especially It is a beam of that happiness darted into their Souls that shall hereafter be more fully possessed but we hold it not sufficient where it is only a senseless stupidity or a carelese neglegence what becomes of our Estate or Affairs nor a seeming in Discourse to dispise and contemn the Riches of this World As mean and unworthy our Care or Regard but it is an humble and willing submitting our selves to Gods Pleasure in all Conditions And this makes us carry our selves Gracefully in Wealth Want Sickness Freedom Fetters or whatsoever it shall please God to allot us It renders Marriage comfortable in what condition soever it happens and is the great Agent and Supporter of Love Though indeed we must allow it is no breach of Contentment If we complain of unjust sufferings offered by Men provided we allow them as just proceedings from God who uses wicked mens injustice to correct those he Loves and returns them a Blessing for their Afflictions when he has tryed their Patience and Humility Nor is it any breach of Contentment by lawful means to seek the removal of our Miseries or the bettering our Fortunes Pious Mediâ—ations greatly advantage Contentmeâ—â— in Adversity And God's Spâ—rit is the beâ—t School-master to teach it us in the School of Sanctiâ—ied Afflictions the best place of Learning true Contentment In Riches it cannot be found for they avail not in the day of Wrath And those that seek Contentment in that are deluded with the shaddow and by fondly setting their hearts on it create more discontents to themselves than perhaps would ever have be fallen them had they declined it and been well pleased with a competency Contentment makes Homely Cloaths and Diet as Gay and Satisfying as the most Glittering Apparel and Sumptuous Banquets of the most Riotous Epicures And this is that can only give a full satisfaction beyond the Limits of craving And in a word Ladys it is Riches Beauty Honour Pleasure and all that you can reasonably name for there is scarce any thing pleasant delightful or to be desired but is Treasur'd up in a Contented Mind And as the Poet says Content is all we aim at with our store And having that with little what needs more Child-bearing Women Christian Wives says a Learned Author in a Child-bearing state that they may Comfortably bring forth the Fruit of their Wombs are highly concern'd for that good work to â—â—ve their fruit unto holiness Then be sure all shall go well with them both here and 〈…〉 belongs to the pure in heart and the â—â—defiled in the course of their lives What knows the 〈◊〉 Wife whether if she should be married to a bad Man by Parents disposal she may 〈◊〉 her Husband We read of several Christian Wives whose Husbands have been brought to real Godliness by theâ—â— Zealous Endeavours as Cemens by Domitia c. For the holy Conversation of a Wife hath sometimes a great force upon the mind of the Husband who is thereby dispos'd to entertain good And if a work of Grace be wroughâ— upon him then he will be more fervent in prayer for his Child-bearing Wife who 〈◊〉 she ought through the whole course of her life to be daâ—â—â— dying to sin and living to rigâ—teousness so in her approaching sorrows she is more especially concerned 'T is the duty of a big-bellied Woman to be in a readiness for her departure that she may not be surpriz'd sith the pangs are perilous thâ— she hath to pass through and the more if she be but of a weak and not of a hail Constitution Mrs. Joceline when she felt herself quick with child as then travailing with 〈◊〉 it self she secretly took order for the buying a new Winding-sheet thus preparing and consecrating herself to him who rested in a new Sepulcher wherein was man never 〈◊〉 laid and privately in her Closet looking Death in the Face wrote her excellent Legacy to her unborn Child None ever repented of making ready to dye And every Christian is ready who can intirely submit to Gods disposal in Life or Death Yea and then a good Woman is likest to have her will in a safe temporal deliverance when she is most sincerely willing that God should have his in dealing with her as seemeth best to himself It behoves you as righteous Hand-maids of the Lord To continue in the constant exercise of Faith Patience Sobriety and Temperance Certainly you who are blessed in being Instruments for the propagation of Mankind when you find you have conceived and grow pregnant are highly concerned to put on and use these Ornaments A great work you are usually busie about in preparing your Child-bed-linnen and I shall not discourage but rather encourage you to make necessary provision for your tender selves and babes And let every ingenuous and grateful Mother whom God hath safely delivered from her Child-bearing pains and peril imprint a grateful remembrance of so signal a Mercy with indeleble Characters in her mind Lord thou hast regarded the low estate of thine Maiden when I was in an
some will ground this Aversion to Red Hair from the coming in of the Danes who mixing with our Women left a Race behind them of that Colour which by propagating descended to our Times it so we cannot but wonder why those in that Age when the Danish Government expired and in whose Memories the Cruelties of that Nation were fresh and bleeding never made any Distinction in this manner or objected against Colours but approved the one as well as the other nor do we find the Danes at this day peculiar to this but as other Nations participating in Mixtures and we do find it Recorded that the Ancient Brittains were many of them Yellow-Haired and those that were so took a great Pride in it we must confess that we are undoubtedly a Mixture of divers Nations But these Matters are too remote and not worth arguing but only to be looked upon as Fancies and Conjectures we have been since Conquered by the Normans and one Conquest ought to jostle such Chimera's out of their Heads who make such Imputations it is a little ocd that this Age should pretend to take particular Exceptions against that which was never excepted against in any of the foregoing Ages as ever we read of These things considered we must attribute this Aversion to the Fancies only of those who are much taken with them of their own Complexion or to the spight of some Dowdies who perceiving all those that are Yellow-haired to have fair Soft and Clear Skins which is natural to them as also a perpetual Spring unless by the defect of Sickness or Age of Roses and Lillies blooming in their Cheeks have made in their business industriously to impair their esteem and value that they might engross those to themselves that otherwife would have left them sighing in Languishing Expectations to go off when they could Accidentally happen on a Chapman at the Closure of Loves-Market and made more Agreeable and Advantageous Purchases some again tell us that the Fashion-mongers and Criticks in Beauty have only set it aside a while for the Gratification of their Humour and that as it has been highly in esteem it will though now in the Ebb with as strong a Fluctuation return again But be it how it will Ladies you to whom Nature has given this Colour ought not to have a less value or esteem for your selves we hope it you were to make your own Markets you would choose Wife and Ingenious Men and such are not so soon caught by a Fair outside of what Complexion soever as by a Beautiful Mind they regard not your Hair but your Virtue keep but up to that and you need not despair of a Happiness transcending what any thing else can afford you she that Marries one that admires her out-side only Marries a Picture-Gazer and a Bartholomew Baby may as well serve him in one respect as a Wife we declare Ladies we highly approve of this Colour and if over much Modesty draw not the Curtain of too great an obscurity no Clouds of Despair in speeding ought to over shadow your Fair Faces but Triumphs of Joy and Success be ever attending on your Smiles to Crown you in the Elizium of Love and give no common Felicity to those that will admire you Hotchpotch Fr. Hochepot Belg. Dutspot i. e. flesh cut into pretty pieces and sodden with Herbs or Roots not unlike that which the Romans called Ferraginem a Gallimaufry Littleton says it litterally signifies a Pudding mixed with divers Ingredients Huke A Dutch attire covering the Head Face and all the Body Humfrey or Dumphrey Gr. for Humfred i.e. house-peace a lovely and happy name if it could turn home-wars betwixt Man and Wife into peace The Italians have made Onuphrius of it in Latin Cam. Hamadryades g. Wood-Nymphs Hamkin a kind of Pudding made upon the Bones of a shoulder of Mutton Hanjar a rich Dagger worn by the Bashaws Wives Hannah h. gracious merciful â—arlot q. Horeles a little Whore â—rlotta l. a proud Whore â—rletta Arlotha Duke Roâ—â—â—â— Concubine Mother to Duke William the Conqueror Harmonia the Wife of Cadâ—â— Daughter of Mars and Venus Harpalice a great Huntress who by force of Arms rescued her Father Lycurgus from the Cetans Hâ—belock a Danish Fondâ—â— and Scullion in the King's 〈◊〉 preferred by degrees 〈◊〉 the Marriage of the King's daughter Hymen properly a Membrane it is taken also for the 〈◊〉 Membrane in a Virgin such arises from the wrinkleâ—â— of the lower part of the 〈◊〉 and in Women with 〈◊〉 when the Womb grows â—â—cker it disappears Dr. Blanâ—â— Hysterica Passio Fits of the 〈◊〉 a Convulsion of the 〈◊〉 of the Par Vagum and â—costal in the Abdomen â—eeding from a pricking Irâ—â—â— ation or Explosion of Spiâ—â—â— This Distemper does not always depend upon the Womb 〈◊〉 is commonly thought we we seen it more than once in 〈◊〉 because the Spleen Panâ— and other adjacent Bowâ—â— often the cause of it Dr. 〈◊〉 Hysterotomototica or Se◠〈◊〉 a cutting the Child out of the Womb which is done thus You make a Semilunar Section under the Navel along the White-Line the Cavity whereof looks towards the said Line then according to the leading of the Fibres the Foetus being extracted after the Section the Wound in the Womb contracts it self so that the Blood scarce flows more plentifully than in a Natural Birth but if the Mother be dead chuse the most convenient place you can Dr. Blanchard Hadegynes â— a Country-dance Haylayks Tu. the Women-slaves Hebe Goddess of Youth Daughter of Juno without a Father Jupiter's Cupbearer till she fell and was removed Hecale an old Woman and Theseus's Landlady who had devoted her self for his safe return from the Wars Hecate Apollo's Sister Luna Diana Proserpina with three heads also a Thracian Witch Hecuba Priams Wife who is feigned after the taking of Troy to be turned into a Bitch Heir-lome loom House-hold-stuff as Tables Presses c. which having belonged to the House for certain Descents do by Custom not Common Law accrew to the Heir Helena Wife to Menelana stoln by Paris occasioned the Trojan Wars Heliades Daughters of the Sun and Sisters to Phäeton who for his Death wept themselves into Poplar-trees Heliconiades the Muses Helle Daughter to Athamas King of Thebes falling from the back of a golden Ram into the Pontick Sea occasion'd the naming of it Hedyle a Samian or as some say Athenian Poetess of whom there are remember'd two Poems her Scylla and the Loves of Glaucus Helena Flavia the Daughter of Coil King of Britain she is said to have been the first finder out of the real Wood of the Cross upon which our Saviour was Crucified Helpis the Daughter as faith Ranulâ—hus of a King of Sicily there are extant of her composing as Giraldus affirms several Hymns upon the Apostles famous also and well known is her Epitaph upon her Husband Histiaea an Alexandrian Poetess Hypatia the Daughter of Theon the famous Geometrician of Alexandria Habiliment
the hands of their Enemies they pulled down their Houses and heaping up the Timber in the Market-place together with all their Riches and Furniture they set them together with the rest of the City Wives and Children on fire leaping into the Flames they expired on one great Funeral Pile and left the Conqueror a bootless Victory Lucan in his Pharsalia gives us a strange Instance of the like nature viz. That a Ship of Caesars of which Vulteus was Commander being stayed by Chains and Ropes fastened to either Shoar lying under water when they saw Pompey's Ships ready to affault them and there was no hopes of flight no nor of noble Death from the hands of their Enemies who had taken them in a Toyl the Captain prevailed with them to preferr Death before an inglorious yielding and accordingly they every man sheathed his Sword in each others Bowels so that not one was left alive Scipio being overthrown by Caesar in Affrica flying by Sea and perceiving some of the Enemies Ships ready to intercept him preferring Liberty before Life fell on his Sword and then leaping over-board Crimsoned it with the Blood of that illustrious Family Cato in Vtica hearing of the defeat of his Confederates killed imself Thus was Liberty prized at the highest rate by the Ancients but they ought to be no Examples to Christians who are to bear with Patience and not to lay violent hands on themselves when such Afflictions overtake them but rather wait Gods leisure who in his good time will relieve them as he did the Children of Israel when they groaned under the heavy Burthens of their Bondage Lady Olympia Glara an Italian Lady no less noted than her Name imports for what she hath writ in Verse Lady Hildegardis an Abbess of the Benedictine Order she wrote several Volumes in prose both in Theology and Medicine she writ also a Book of Latin Poems Lady Jane Grey the Daughter of the Duke of Suffolk far more happy in her Learning for which she is highly commendeâ— than in her being proclaimed Queen of England which Honour brought her to an untimely end Lucia a Româ—n Poetess sirnamed Mima from her Mimic or Comical Writings mentioned by Pliny Lachesis Atropos and Clotho are the three Destinies Lactary lactarium a dairy-house and may be used for a dairy-man milk-man or Cheese-monger Br. Lampoon a Libel in Verse Latinus an ancient King of Italy who married his Daughter Lavinia to Aeneas Latona Daughter of Caeus one of the Titans on whom Jupiner begat the Latonian-lights Apollo and Diana the Sun and Moon Lavender Spiknard a common plant also a Laundress Laurentalia Feasts in honnour of Acca Laurentia wife to Faustulus who nursed Romulus and Remus when exposed by command of Amulius King of the Latins Lascivious lascivus wanton in behaviour dishonest lecherous womanish Lavolta Ital. a Dance so called Laodamia a daughter to Bellerothon she brought forth Sarpedon King of Lycia to Jupiter and was shot with her own arrows by Diana Laodamia Daughter of Acastus desiring to see the Ghost of her Husband Proâ—esilaus slain by Hector died in his arms Larestan a Province bearing the fairest Dates Oranges and Pomgranates in Persia. Lara runda one of the Naides on whom Mercury instead of carrying her to Hell for revealing to June the Love of Jupiter to Juturna begaâ— two twins called Lares Penates the houshold-gods Poet-Laureate is he who as principal Poet in his Country was wont to be crowned with a Garland of Laurel Leander a young man af Abydos who was wont in the night to swim over the Helespont to Hero one of Venus's Nuns at Sestos till at lengh he was drowned Lechnus an Arcadian spring good against abortions Leda being deceived by Jupiter in the form of a Swan she brought forth two Eggs whereof one produced Pollux and Helena the other Castor and Clytemnestra Leman o. q. lead-man or rather L'Annant-te f. a Sweet-heart or Lover He or She but vulgarly the Concubine of a Priest or married Man Leucothoe turned into a Frankincense-tree by Apollo who had gotten her with Child for which she was buried alive by her Father Orchamus King of Babylon Libethrides the Muses Lilith was held by the Jews to be a kind of she-Devil that killed Children Glossae Taâ—â— in Nidda fol. 24. b. Lucretia Marinella an Italian Lady who wrote a Poem of the Dignity and Preheminence of Women Lozenge French a little square Cake of preserved flower herbs c. Lucina Juno and Diana so called because they ruled the travel of Women and helped them in that business Lupercal Lat. a place dedicated to the god Pan from Lupa because there a she-Wolf nourished Romulus and Remus So the Sacrifices and Plays dedicated to Pan were called Lupercalia or supercal Sacrifices and the Priest of Pan Luperci who on the day of their Sacrifices fices ran up and down the City naked and stroak'd the hands and bellies of Women great with Child with a Goats-skin thereby to signifie both fruitfulness and easie Deliverance Rider Lotis the Daughter of Neptune who flying Priapus to save her Chastity was turned into a Lote-tree Love-days whereon Arbitrements were made and Controversies among Neighbours determined Love-apple a Spanish root of a Colour near Violet Louting q. saluting honouring Lua Mater the ancient Goddess of Lustrations or purgings Lucrece retia being ravished by Sextus the Son of Tarquinius Superbus caused the Banishment of him and Kingly Government from Rome Lineae Finales certain Wrinkles in the Fore-head whereby many things are vainly foretold Long-Meg's Daughters seventy seven stones erected round about Long-Meg a stone fifteen foot high near Salkela in Cumberland Lothebrook q. Leather-breech a Dane whose Daughters were so skilled in needle-work that the Danes bare a Raven of their working as an invincible Ensign Lues Venerea Morbus Gallicus the French Pox is a malignant and contagious Distemper communicated from one to another by Coition or other impure Contact proceeding from virulent Matter and accompanied with the Falling of the Hair Spots Swellings Ulcers Pains and many other direful Symptoms Lycomedes King of the Island Scyrus among whose Daughters Achilles lived in Womans apparel to keep himself from the Trojan Wars Lycus a King of Baeotia who married Antiope and put her away when gotten with Child by Jupiter in form of a Satyr Lydia a Womans Name from the Countrey Lydia Moeonia a Kingdom of Asia the less Lymphatick Distracted l. by seeing as it were a Nymph in the â—â—â—er Lysidice Daughter of Pelâ—â—s Mâ—â—her of Alemena and Grandmother of Hercules Lilly the Rose of Juno a speciouâ— flower Limning a kind of Painting in water-colours M. MAbella i. my fair Maid-en Macaria 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i.e. beaâ—â— bâ—essed Macrobia long-lif'd Magdalene Luke 8.2 in the Syriack it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Magdeletha i. magnified Marcella dim á Marca Marca Martial or Warlike Margaret from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. a Pearl or precious Stone socalled found as some write in
can behold things as they are then the deformity is perspicuous and that they are by that means set at liberty and so returning to their last Senses detest what they held in admiration finding his immagined Goddess only an Artificial Shrine moved by Springs and Wheels to delude him in a way of blind Devotion such a one is only pleasing like the opening of a course Scene which is recommended by nothing except its being new and not having been exposed before Vanity when affected is indeed a great weakness in â—ither Sex and though we have taken liberty to dress it in a Female Character yet the other Sex are not free from it would it not make the weeping Philosopher forget his Melancholy sadness and dry up his Tears in laughter to see how some of our Airy Sparks who pretend to be Men of Wit and sense in a kind of a gaety of humours they teâ—m it affect to be vain-glorious and take it as a part of good Breeding when indeed it is quite the contrary however let this Picture at present supply the place of any other rules that might be given to prevent any ones covetring to be drawn by it for if well considered the deformity of it is instruction enough to deter us from a desire of Likeness as a drunken Man with all his Antick Tâ—â—â—ks and Beastiality about him is the best preachment to deter us from that Vice which appears so ridiculous in all Eyes but theirs who are Intoxicated with the Fumes and Vapors of the liquor which has for the time divorced them from their Reason and the use of their ordinary faculties so that they seem to be divested of Humanity and by a kind of Circean Charms transformed into Swine Ustulate to Frizle or Curl Utensil utensiâ—e anything necessary for our use and occupation Housholdstuff Uterine uterinus of or pertaining to the Womb. Uterini Fratres Brothers of the same Mother that came both of one Belly Valasea an Amazonian Queen of Bohemia Valor of Marriage was a writ for the Lord to recover the value of a Marriage preferred to the Infant and refused Variegation an adorning with divers colours Vecke â— an Old Woman Ventre inspiciendo for the search of one that says she is with Child and withholds land from the next Heir at Law Ventripotent l. Big Bellied Voiders great broad dishes to carry away the remains from a Meat-Table also a Term in Heraldry Volâ—â—â—a a certain Goddess who is said to be the Overseer of the husks of Corn wherein the grain is inclosed Votary from voto he that makes a vow or binds himself to the preformance of a vow a vowel Servant Vrania one of the Muses to whom the invention of Astrology is attributed called also the Heavenly Muse. Vesania Madness from Love Virgo l. the Zodiac-maid Viripotent a Maid Marriagable Vitta that part of the Coat called Amnion which sticks to the Infants Head when 't is just Born Umbilicus the Navel a Boss in the middle of the Abdomen to which the Navel-string in a Faetus is joyned which is cut off after Delivery Dr. Blanckard Viduity viduitas widow-hood or the State of a Widow also lack of things Voluptas the Goddess Oversers of the cups wherein the Corn is inclosed Voyles f. vails for Nuns Up-fitting-time Y. when the Child-Bed Woman gets up Uxorious l. of or doting upon a Wife Viragin or Virago Lat. a Woman of flour and manly courage a manly or mankind Woman Virginal Virgina'is Maidenly Virgin-like hence the name of that Musical Instrument called Virginals because Maids and Virgins do most commonly Play thereon Virgo Lat. one of the Twelve Signs of the Zodiack so called because as a Virgin is barren and unfruitful whilst she lives without man so whilst the Sun continues in this sign it brings forth nothing but only ripens such Fruit as the proceeding part of the year has brougt forth â—r Bâ—own Uterus the Womb an organical part placed in a Woman's Abdomen which is divided into the Bottom the neck and the Sheath It has two broad Ligaments and two round It is of a nervous and fibrous Substance and is of different Thickness according to the difference of Age and Time of going with Child At the Bottom within there is a Cavity whence the Courses slow wherein likewise Generation and Conception are made Dr. Blanckard Umbreilo Ital. Vmbrella a fashion of round and broad Fans wherewith the Indians and from them our great ones preserve themselves from the heat of the Sun or fire and hence any little shadow Fan or other thing wherewith Women guard their Faces from the Sun Vacuna the Goddess of rest Valentines are either Saints chosen for special Patrons for a year acording to the use of the Romanists or Men or Women chosen for special Loving Friends by an Antient custom upon Saint Valentines Day the Fourteenth of February about which day birds choose their meats Venerous lustful fleshly lascivious Veneral Disease See Morbus Gallicus Venus the Goddess of lust also lust it self venery unchastness lechery also among Alcbymists the mettal copper also one of the seven Planets See Saturn the day of Morning-Star Venus Escuage is used for Knights or nights service to Ladies Uml lical vein vena umbilicalis is that whereby an infant in the Womb receives nourishment and which it being born closes it self and serves as a Ligament to settle the Liver to the Navel Dr. Brown Valeria Miaina an Italian Dramatick Poetess whose Amorosa Speranza I find peculiarly mentioned and commended Victoria see page 404. Uncleanness Reproved There is One peculiar sort of wickedness which the Term of Vncleanness is more strictly put upon 't is the violation of that Chastity which is Enjoyned upon us by the Seventh Commandment in the Holy and Just and Good Laws of our God And why is this Luxury called Vncleanness but because of a Special Filthinâ—ss and Vgliâ—â—ss which this Vice is attended with Indeed such is the Wretchedness of the Corruption in Man that it is hardly safe so much as to mention in his Hearing the several kinds of this Damnable Wickedness It was the Apostolical Counsel in Eph. 5.3 〈◊〉 Vncleanâ—ess let it not be once Named among you However we may with some Scripture Phrases indigitate the Chief of those Diabolical Pranks that are Committed by those whose Life is among the Vnclean Breifly There is then a Cursed Self Pollution which is usually the first Pit of Vncleanness whereinto they fall that are The Abhorred of the Lord. Wretches there are that like Wicked Onan do so Sacrifice their seed unto the Devil and these are meant by those Effeminate concerning whom 't is said in 1 Cor. 6.9 10. Be not Deceived They shall not Inherit the Kingdom of God There is next an Oâ—ious Fornication which is a further Step of that Vncleanness whereunto the Raging Lusts of Men do carry them 'T is that whereto Unwedded Persons of both Sexes do prostitute themselves and and