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
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
get twenty for their Daughters and make no Provision for their Sons by which means the Daughters seldom stay till fifteen and the young Men Marry the earlier to get themselves a Stock of Cattel which they are sure of with a Wife We find in several Parts of the World as in Thrace and Assyria that they were so possessed with an Opinion of the advantage of Marriage as occasion'd their making Laws for its Propagation And here that no Maids may be left unmarried either for want of Beauty Mony or Virtue I shall add the Project mention'd by a late Author to provide them with Husbands Which is as follows viz. That a Statute might be made obliging all Men from One and Twenty Years of Age to Marry or in Default to pay One Eighth Part Annually of their Yearly Income if they be Men of real Estates or One Eighth Part of the Interest of their Personal Estates if it amount to One Hundred per Annum of Real or to Four Hundred Personal as it shall be 〈◊〉 by Men appointed for that Affair and the same to be 〈◊〉 by all Single Women who 〈◊〉 their Fortunes in their Hands after that they arrive to in Age of Eighteen and the same to be paid by all 〈◊〉 and Widows who have 〈◊〉 Children the Widowers â—â—â— to pay after Sixty Years of Age nor the Widows after Forty and all these 〈◊〉 to continue as long as they are unmarried And because that Young Men are often 〈◊〉 from Marriage through Default of their Fathers 〈◊〉 the same Mulct shall be laid on the Father's Estate as if â—â— were the Son 's This Mony so rais'd to be disposed in every City and Country as they find see sir for Portions to young Maids who are under Forty Years of Age and Care taken that it be expended every Year so as no Bank to be kept and that no Portion be ever given to any who have been debaunched with such other Rules as may be prescribed These Kingdoms in their most happy days never saw a Law which made that immediate Provision for the meanest Soul in it as this will do for 't will set the Captive free whereas many are now born who have reason to continue the Lamentation they found out at their first Entrance into the World Our greatest Charity for the Poor is at most but to keep them so but this will be cloathing them with Wedding Garments and every Corner of the Land will rejoice with Nuptial Songs and undoubtedly if it be a Virtuous Act to relieve the Poor this must be greater to provide for them for the present and to prevent it in their Posterity I 'm sensible that some may be apt to raise Objections against this Proposal which to save the Trouble both of naming and answering them I think this Reply may serve for all That there can be no particular Injury done in this Matter which can stand in the least Competition with the Consideration of such Publick Good as both Reforming and Peopling of a Kingdom will necessarily amount to See a Book call'd Marriage Promoted Female Modety Occasion and our Nature are like two inordinate Lovers they seldom meet but they do sin together Man is his own Devil and oftentimes doth tempt himself So prone are we to Evil that it is not one of the least Instructions that doth advise us to beware of our selves Now an Excellent Virtue to restrain or check a Man or Woman from running into Vice is Modesty I am perswaded many Women had been bad that are not so if they had not been bridled by a bashful Nature There are divers that have a Heart for Vice that have not a Face accordingly Surely the Graces sojourn with a blushing Virgin It is Recorded that the Daughter of Aristotle being asked which was the best Colour made answer That which Modesty produced in ingenious Spirits To blush at Vice is to let the World know that the Heart within hath an Inclination to Virtue Now to give a check to such immodest Women who proceed from the Acts of Uncleanness to Murder the illegitimate Off spring I shall for the information of these Ignorant Wantons give them a light of the following Act. An Act to prevent the Destroying and Murthering of Bastard Children WHereas many Leud Women that have been delivered of Bastard Children to avoid their Shame and to escape Punishment do secretly Bury or Conceal the Death of their Children and after if their Children be found dead the said Women do alledge that the said Child was born dead wheras it falleth out sometimes altho hardly it is to be proved that the said Child or Children were Murthered by said Women their Leâ—d Mothers or by their Assent or Procurement For the preventing therefore of this great Mischief be it Enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament That any Woman after one Month next ensuing the end of this Session of Parliament be delivered of any Issue of her Body Male or Female which being born alive should by the Laws of this Realm be a Bastard that she indeavour privately either by Drowning or secret Burying thereof or any other way either by her self or the procuring of others so to conceal the Death thereof as that it may not come to light whether it were born alive or not but he concealed in every such Case the said Mother so offending shall suffer Death as in Case of Murther except such Mother can make proof by one Witness at the least that the Child whose Death was by her so intended to be concealed was Born dead Modesty is one the most natural and most useful Tables of the Mind wherein one may presently read what is printed in the whole Volume Certainly a good Heart looks out thro' modest Eyes and gives an Answer to any that asks who is within with modest Words and dwells not at the sign of the Bush or Red-lattice or Painted-post A glorious Soul is above dresses and despiseth such as have no higher or other thoughts then what concern their gorget and their hair This preserves in tune and keeps the scale of Affections even This teaches a denying and preventing behaviour towards Tentations 1. Let the Carriage and Behaviour be modest Rebekah put on the Vail Gen. 24.64 when Abraham's Servant told her That the Man whom they saw coming towards them was his Master's Son to whom she was intended in Marriage Contrarily the Woman with the Attire of an Harlot of whom Sâ—omoâ— speaks Met a young Man and kissed him and with an impudent face she spake unto him Prov. â— 13. 2. Let the Language be modest Even Aristotle in his Politicks would have all Obsceness of words to be banished by the Law because when People take a liberty to speak ill they learn to do ill He would therefore have such as are Young neither to speak or hear any thing that is foul and if any be found faulty to be punished with stripes or some note of
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
at hand and Easie to be obtained Thus the Turk keeps Learning from his Subjects that in ignorance they may bear their Chains with more content And the Church of Rome that her Proselytes may wander in a Mind Devotion and not be able to discover her Errors though many break through these clouds and appear with the brighten 〈◊〉 Men Indeed have been very ingrateful to them in not only declining to give them their due praises but in labouring to Eclipse their same in their Writings they should out shine their own They 〈…〉 to let you see your 〈…〉 Equal force and 〈…〉 that your Wisdom 〈…〉 Inferiour nor your Thoughts confined to narrower 〈…〉 than theirs Therefore as many of your Sex have bravely done so it is your part to imitate them in breaking thorow this tender Cobweb of Ignorance in which Men like subtil Spiders would detain you to gain the advantage to themselves of Triumphing over your better Parts and Abilities we have given you in this Work divers Examples of those that have set Patterns for you to imitate and coppy out which may Excite and Stir up a generous Flame in your Breasts to Learning Arts Sciences c. And since God has made you so Lovely and Charming that no Creature in the Vniverse is comparable to you for the Beauty of your Bodies Let your Souls be also Beautiful which will render you far more Lovely and Amiable in the Eyes of God and Man and either fully Answer or Baffle all that can be objected against you The Bearing Children is no sign of your weakness but rather adds to your Glory by a Revival of Mankind without which the World would soon become a desart And without which all Mankind must have been inevitably miserable how often do we find in Holy Writ that God Communicated his Holy Spirit to Women that Pâ—â—pâ—â—hed and if he had thought them unfit for the Sacred an undertaking by reason of the difference of Soule he would not have â—â—â—â—ed them with such power as the delivering the Wife and Sacred Oracles of Truth we blame Eve because she transgressed in Paradice having no example before her yet do not consider what power it was that tempted her no less than a fallen Arch-Angel wise and subtil and yet Men consider not how easily they are drawn away to commit sin and folly though thousand of Examples are before their Eyes even by far inferiour temptations and tempters And indeed what can we say of Adam he easily took the bait which his Wife did not without parly and a kind of caution she remembred the strict Command given by her Maker concerning the Interdicted Tree and urged it as the proof of her Obedience But we find not that Adam so much as minded it till he had sâ—ansgressed and his Conscience was awaked from its Innocent Security by the Intrusion of Guile And yet this is the greatest Invective Men have agâ—inst the Sex not considering how 〈◊〉 themselves have been however by the means of a Blessed Woman Reparation is made and Men are again put into a possibility of gaining a better Paradise and yet we cannot but blush to see how little they regard it and how they sell and forfeit it for 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 â—â—â—â—tarium pâ—operly spoken of married person but if only one of two persons by whom this sin is committed be married it makes Adultery Adulterium seems to have taken that name as it were ad ulterius thorum i. to another bed which the Adulterers always aims at Adultery and Vuâ—leanness The dangerous Consequences that attend it and the dishonour it puts on the Fair Sex and Revenge it stirs them up to And raging Lusts have occasion'd a World of Miseries to fall upon Men and Women ending generally in Blood and Disgrace therefore to caution either Sex carefully to avoid that spare we have thought fit to say something of it in this Book as not perhaps foreign from the Subject At a certain place in the Territories of John Duke of Bargundy in an ancient Emblem was to be seen a Pillar which two Hands seem'd to labour to overthrow the one had Wings and the other was figured with a Tortois and the word Vâ—â—â—â—que which in plain terms may be interpreted by one way or other There are many Amorists that take the same Course in unlawful Amours some strike down the Pillar of Chastiâ—â— by the impertuous Violence of great Promises and unexpected Presents others with 〈…〉 sloâ—ly to be the 〈◊〉 sure of Accompliâ—â—â—ng 〈…〉 with long 〈…〉 Submissâ—on and 〈…〉 yet when they gain the Fort either by storm or tiresom long siege it brings the Victor and the Vanquish'd most commonly to a sad Repentance there is many times brought in an unexpected Reckoning that drenches all their sweet pleasures in Blood and Confusion And draws the Sables of Death over their promised mountains of delicious Recreation though no one can hope to find Constancy in such Love for Virtue depraved and Chastity once fullied become regardless and the Favours that were difficult to be attain'd before grow cheap and common as a Modern Poet has express'd it O Heav'n were she but mine and mine alone Ah why are not the Hearts of Women known False Women to new Joys unseen can move There are no prints left in the paths of Love All Goods besides by publick Marks are known But what we most desire to keep has none Even the Frosts of Age and decrepped Years has so much Fire alive under the decayed Embers of Life as to heat their Desires This way though Impotences has put Bars and Boundaries to any vigorous Attacks Vnlawful Lust extinguish'd the Wisdom of Solomon Sampson himself was enervated by it Lot forgot and committed folly tho a little before he had seen Heavens flaming Vengance consume so many thousands together with their Cities Vnlawful Lust made Ely's Sons fall in Battel and rent the Priesthood from their House for ever Amnon fell for Ravishing Thamar the two Elders for attempting to violate the Chastity of Susanna and many more For where this violent Distemper breaks out Human Divine Laws Precepts Exhortations fear of God or Men fair or foul means Fame Fortune Shame Disgrace Honour are not Bars sufficient to keep them from breaking in The Scorching Beams under the Equinoctial or Extreamity of Cold under the Artick-Circle where the Seas are glaz'd with the Winter's lasting Tyranny cannot expel or avoid this Heat Fury or Rage of Mortal Men though so Ruinous and Destructive in it self At the Coronation of Edwin who succeeded King Eldred Lust so over-come that Prince in the height of his Jollitry that before several of his Nobles he committed Adultry with a very honourable Lady his near Kinswoman and liked her then so well that he found means to cause her Husband to be Murthered that he might Enjoy her more freely but remain'd not long unpunished for the Mercians and Northumbrians revolted to his younger Brother which so perplexed him that
formerly recoverable in the Spiritual Court but now only in Chancery Abortion an untimely Birth or Miscarriage which happens through divers Causes Inward and Outward Amnion the Membrane with which the Faetus in the Womb is most immediately clad which with the rest of the Scâ—ndine the Chorion and Alantoin is ejected after the Birth it is whiter and thinner than the Chorion It contains not only the Faetus but the nutritious Humour whence the Faetus by the Mouth and Throat sucks its nourishment It is outwardly clothed with the Urinary Membrane and the Chorion which sometimes stick so close to one another that they can scarce be separated Dr. Blanchard Amazons Amazones Warlike Women of Scythia that had but one Teat their name in Greek impowring as much they were very Man-like and cut off their Right Breasts that it might not hinder their shooting for they were excellent Archers they lived by themselves and if at any time they went to their Husbands or neighbouring Men and conceived if it were a Female Child they kept it if a Male they sent it to the Father The Country where they lived is denominated from them and called Amazonia Anchoresâ— a Religious Woman that Lives solitarily in a Cell Vide Anachorite Anne Heb. Hannah gracious or merciful Annulet Annulus a Ring or any thing like a Ring Aretaphila Gr. i.e. amatrix virtutus a lover of or friend to virtue a Woman's Name Abia Hercules Daughter Aegiale the Wife of Diomedes an Adultress Aegina Jupiter's Mistress in the shape of fire Aegle Daughter of Hesperus King of Italy Agatha g. good a Womans Name Aglata one of the Graces Aglais a very great sheeater Megale's Daugther Agnes g. chast a Womans Name Agnodice a Maid Physician Alepone Neptunes Daughter turned into a King-fisher Ambosexons Male and Female Amorets f. Love toys Amulet l. a ball about the neck to keep from Poison or Witchcraft Amymone one of Danaiis's fifty Daughters Mother of Nauplius by Neptune Anetis a Lydian Goddess Anatiferius l. Bringing the age of old Women Anaxarete a hard hearted Virgin turned into a stone Anchoress a Nun. Andrago g. a Manly Woman Andrastâ—s Andate Goddess of Victory among the Britans Andromache g. many fight Hectors wife Andromeda Cepheus's daughter Aretapila g. a she-friend of vertue Arethusa Daughter of Nereus a river of Sicily also an Armenian fountain in which nothing sinks Ariadne Daughter of Minos Asbiaroth Goddess of the Adonians Assedrix a she-assistant a Midwife Astroarch Queen of Plâ—nets the Moon Atalanta the swift Lady won by Hipomanes's three Golden Apples Arthis Daughter to Cranaus King of Athens Ave Marie l. Her Salutation by the Angel Avice Hildevig Sa. Lady â—â— defense Anses African Virgins used to combat in honour of Minerva Autonoe Actaeon's Mother Agetus the Lacedemonian Herodotus lib. 6. thus writes of this Lady the Daughter of Alcydes the Spartan first wife to Agetus and after to the King Ariston She of the most deformed became the excellentest amongst Women Aristorlea Of all the deaths that I have read of this of Aristoclaea methinks exceeds example with which howsoever her body was tormented her soul could not be grieved for never woman died such a loving death Her Lovers contending in the heat of their affection but not regarding her safety whom they did affect she as it were set upon the rack of Love plucked almost to pieces betwixt them both expired Ada Alexander the Great amongst his many other conquests having besieged the great City Halicarnassus by reason of opposition made against him levell'd it with the ground He entred Caria where Ada then reigned Queen who being before opprest by Orontobas imployed by Darius was almost quite beaten out of her Kingdom Having at that time no more of all her large Dominions left her saving Alynda the most defenced City into which she had retired herself for safety She hearing of Alexanders approach gave him a Royal meeting and submitted herself her Subjects and City into his Power withal Adopting him by the Name of Son Agathoclea Ptolme being free from all foreign Invasions he began Domestick troubles at home For being given over to his own Appetite and besotted to his Insatiate Pleasures he first began with Loadice both his Sister and Wife causing her to be slain that he might the more freely enjoy the society and fellowship of his most rare and beautiful Mistress Agathoclea So that the greatness of his Name and the Splendor of his Majesty both set apart he abandoned hinself solely to Whoredoms by Night and to Banquets and all profuseness of Riot by day Aristomache Dionysius the Tyrant banisht Dion out of Sicily taking into his own custody the Exiles Wife Aristomache and her Daughter But after at the great Intercession of one of his Servants Polycrates a man by him much affected he compelled the Lady who still Lamented the absence of her Lord unto a second Marriage with this Polycrates who was by Nation of Syracusa But Dion having gathered fresh Forces and expelling Dionysius from Syracusa unto the Locrenses Arete his Sister meeting him and Congratulating his Famous Victory made Intercession for Aristomache who with great shame had kept herself from the presence of her first Husband not daring to look him in the Face howsoever her second Nuptials were made by Force and Compulsion But the necessity of the cause the wondrous submission and modest Excuse of Aristomache together with the Mediation of Arete so much he prevailed with Dion all confirming her innocence that he received his wife and Daughter into his Family still continuing their former Love and Society Artimesia Queen of Caria so much honoured the remembrance of her Husband Mausolus being dead that after Meditation and deliberate counsel which way she might best decorate his Hearse and withal to express to Perpetuity her unmatchable Love She caused to be erected over him a Tomb so Magnificent that for the Cost and State it was not doubted to be worthily reckoned amongst the Nine Wonders But what do I speak of so rich a Structure when she her self became the living Sepulcher of her dead husband by their Testimonies who have Recorded that she preserved his bones and having beaten them to powder mingled their dust with her Wine in remembrance of him every morning and evening Cicer. Tusc. lib. 3 and Plin. lib. 36. cap. 5. Aretaphila Cyrenea is deservedly numbred amongst the Heroick Ladies she lived in the time of Mithridates and was the Daughter of Aeglatur and the Wife of Phedimus A Woman of excellent Vertue exquisite Beauty singular Wisedom and in the Managing of Common-Wealths business and Civil Affairs ingeniously Expert Aurora or the Morning Hesiodus in Theog terms her the Daughter of Hyperion and the Nymph Thya and Sister to the Sun and Moon Others derive her from Tytan and Terra they call her the way leader to the Sun as Lucifer the Day-Star is stil'd her Henshman or Usher For so saith Orpheus in an Hymn to Aurora
despicable in their Conditions such as are Servants to their own Parents or Kindred or any other of such a â—ordid Relation It is dangerous to admit of any such Persons of inferiour Rank into a Parly with them Virginity is an â—nclosed Garden it should not admit of any such Violation the very Report may cast a blemish on it Some have been inslaved to that passion deservedly which at first they entertained disdainfully Presumption is a daring sin and alwayes brings forth an untimely Birth The way to prevent this is in the behaviour to give not the least Occasion to the Tempter that shall endeavour to ensnare them nor to give way to the weakness of their own Desires How excellent had many Ladies been and how impregnable had been their Chastities if they had not been possessed with such a dangerous Security when they let open their Windows to betray themselves when they leave their Chamber to walk and on purpose to be seen in publick Young Gentlewomen are to have a great Care to keep themselves from all Privacy and Retiredness unless it were with Good Books and Duties of Devotion Diogenes when he found a young man walking alone he demanded of him what he was doing he returned Answer that he was discoursing with himself Take Heed said he that thou Converse not with thine Enemy And not much unlike to this was the Report of a young Girl who was so lost in Love that it was truly said of her she minded her work leaâ—â— when she sat down to it and eyed her Sampler Blower one Mans particular Lass. Baun Lady one of the Four Daughters of Sir Anthony Cook famous for her great Poetick genius Borho a poor Woman of Delphos who pronouncing the Delphick Oracles must needs be inspired with a Poetick Spirit besides which she is said to have composed several Hymns Bastardy comes of the Brit Bastardo i. Nothus and signifies in Law a defect of birth objected to one begotten out of wedlock Bracton lib. 5. c. 19. per totum Beatrice beatrix that makes happy or blessed a womans name Bonne mine f. good aspect Boun and unboun dress and undress Brand-iron Trevet to set a pot on Brawl f. a kind of dance Bridgame â— Bridegroom Briseis Achilles's Mistress Britomartis a Cretan Lady inventress of Hunting Nets Beguines an order of Nuns or Religious Women commonly all well in years so called from St. Bega a Virgin their Foundress commemorated on the 6th of Sept. Beilarrite bellatrix a Warrioress a Woman well skilled in War a Virago Bellena The Goddess of War Ball f. a dancing meeting 〈◊〉 given by a new 〈◊〉 to her old Play-fellows 〈◊〉 a mask or visard 〈◊〉 cloth â— apron 〈◊〉 teams broods of Children Basiate l. to kiss Basse o. a kiss or the lower lip Baucis Philemon's wife Baud o. bold Barn Sax Bearn a child Hence 't is we say in the North of England how do Wife and Barnes i. How do Wife and Children Biggening up-rising of women Bigge a pap or teat â— build o. Bite o. to cheat also to steal Biton and Cleobis rewarded with death for their piety to their Mother Argia in drawing her Chariot to the Temple Bleit Blate Sc. shame fac'd Blower l. a Quean Bobtail a kind of short arrow-head also a Whore Bona roba I. a Whore Banes or Bans from the Fr. Ban. singnifies a Proclaming or publick notice of any thing The word is ordinary among the Feudists and grown from them to other uses as to that which we here in England call a Proclamation whereby any thing is publickly commanded or forbidden But it is used more especially in publishing Matrimonial Contracts in the Church before Marriage to the end if any Man can say any thing against the intention of the Parties either in respect of Kindred or otherwise they may take their Exception in one Cow But Mr. Sumner deâ—es it from the Saxon Abanâ—â—n i. to publish See his Sax. â—ct verbo Abannan Beating Y. with Child breeding Beed ings the first Milk after Birth Belides Danus's fifty Daughters Bellatrice l. a she Warrior Belly-cheat an Apron Berecynthia Cybele the Mother of the Gods Berenice Ptolomy's Daughter Bigamisâ— Bigamus he that hath marry'd two Wives â—â— which sort Lamech was the 〈◊〉 Bigamy Bigamia the marriage of two Wives It is 〈◊〉 in Law for an Impediment to be a Clerk and makes a Prisoner lose the benefit of Clergy For the Canonills hold that he that has been twice marry'd may not be a Clerk and they ground it upon these words of St. Paul 1 Tim. 3.2 Oportet ergo Episâ—pum irreprehensibiiem esse unius uxoris virum And also him that hath matry'd a Widow they by Interpretation take to have been twice married and both these they not only exclude from Holy Orders but deny all Privileges of Clery but this is Law abolished by Anno 1 Edw. 6. cap. 12. And to that may be added the Statute of 18 Eliz. cap. 7. which allows to all Men that can read as Clerks though not within Orders the benefit of Clergy in case of Felony not especially excepted by some other Statute Cowel Dr. Brown Billet Fr. a little Bill Note or Ticket stuck up upon a Post or Door and more commonly a stick of fire-wood well known in London Burlet f. a Coif Burnet â— Woollen also a Hood Burom Burlom D. Boogsarm pliant obedient also blithe merry Blanch Fr. white or fair we use it in England for a Woman's name Blith Sax. joyful glad merry cheerful Bonair Fr. gentle mild courteous Bongrace Fr. A certain Cover which Children use to were on their Foreheads to keep them from Sun-burning so called because it preserves their good grace and beauty Brigid or Bridger Contracted also into Bride an 〈◊〉 name as it seems for that the ancient S. Brigid was of that Nation Cam. Brigidians an Order of Religious Persons instituted by Brigidia a Widow Queen of Sweden in the time of Pope Vrban the fifth about the Year of our Lord 1372. It was as well of Men as Women 〈◊〉 beit they 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Nuns of this Order had a noble Convent at Sion in Middlesex built by K. Henry V. Buggery Fr. Bougrerie is described to be carnalis copula contra naturam hae 〈◊〉 per confusionem Specierum sc. a Man or a Woman with a â—râ—it Beast vel sexuum a Man with a Man or a Woman with a Woman See Lev. 18.22 23. This Offense committed with Mankind or Beast is Felony without Clery it being a Sin against God Nature and the Law And in ancient time such Offenders were to be burnt by the Common Law 25 Hen. 8.6.5 Eliz. 17. Fitz. Nat. Br. 269. My Lord Coke Rep. 12. p. 36. saith that this word comes from the Italian Buggerare to bugger Buxomness or Bughsomness pliableness or bowsomness to wit humbly stooping down in sign of obedience It is now mistaken for lustiness or rampancy C. Cassandra I. Inflaming Men with
shut up in a room together who had never seen nor heard of the difference of Sexes before how d' ye think they 'd behave themselves wou'd they Answ. In Answer to this hasty Question which had almost over-run us had we not tript up its heels We say that we don't know what to say We are very unwilling to send the Ladies to Daphnis and Chloe for Information that Book is too waggish in some places and not Spiritual enough for 'em As for the Tempest that don't come up to the Question tho' Miranda and Hypolito are pretty fair for 't who had never seen tho' they had heard of Man and Woman Well then there 's no Remedy but we must fall a guessing but promise to do it as far from the Truth and as Civilly as possible Why what should they do but fall Purring upon one another for Nature wou'd work and then do the self same that we use to do when we were Children make Dirt-pies together be very Inquisitive and very Innocent and share of one anothers Bread and Butter till they know how to employ their time better Quest 6. Whether Fondness after Marriage is more pardonable in a Man or Woman Answ. 'T is Silly enough in both and besides Cruel to set other Peoples Mouths a watering as if you were Cutting a Lemon Further 't is indecent to be always slabbering like a couple of Horses nabbing one another Again it often times shows all things are not well behind the Curtain when there 's such a deal of Love before Folks And last of all there 's danger least their Love should not last long if they squander it away so fast at their first setting up But to compare this Fondness of both Sexes we think it seems worst in a Man because there 't is most unnatural and looks like a Woman with a Beard so very monstrous that all the Street points at him whenever he appears as they may easily do for the World 〈◊〉 not now much inclin'd to thâ—â— Vice and if the City it 〈◊〉 be never Burnt again unleâ—â— for that Fault 't is like to 〈◊〉 just where it does till the 〈◊〉 Conflagration Quest 〈◊〉 Why are Widows more forwâ—â— to Marry than Maids Answ. Because as the Widow we think Blackacre has iâ— the young Fellows take it for granted 't is nothing but Vp and Ride and indeed almost Ravish the Widows into Matrimony if they 〈◊〉 any Appurtenances worth â—gling for This for the Maâ— side then for the Woman 's to carry on the forementioâ— Metaphor Whether oâ— two is the easier to mount â—â— Old Pad-Hack that has beâ—â— beaten upon the Read this Tâ— Year or a Young Skittish Fâ—â— that was never backt befoâ—â— but flouncing about like Buâ—phalus when he stood in 〈◊〉 own Light Quest 〈◊〉 How long after the Death of â— Husband may a Woman Mâ—destly Marry Answ. We think that Pioâ— Widow was a little of the sooâ—est who when most deeply Lamenting at her Husband Funeral and one of the Coâ—pany at the Grave whispeâ— her not to take on so heavily for if she thought fit he was ready to supply his room Answer'd sadly sobbing Thank ye Sir for your Care to Comfort a Poor Disconsolate Widow but indeed I 've just now Promis'd another that came before ye The Ephesian Matron o't'other side was a little of the longest tho' she made up for 't afterwards and was very much in hast when she once set about the Business Nor need we go so far as Ephesâ— for Ladies that have almost worshipt their husbands tombs for seven Years together after their Death and at last expressed the Extravagance of their Love to their Memories by Marrying the Tutor of their Children But might we propose a term of Mourning in this Case our Judgment is that the Widows Love is too warm who tho' like the Indian Wives they don't burn themselves with their Husbands are yet far as good in burying themselves alive to keep 'em Company and o't'other side that hers is too cold who can scarce lie alone 'till her Husband is so There is a mean betwixt 'em and we think a Widow does very well in Mourning for one Twelve-Month after she is so both because 't is decent and because she generally looks Prettier in 't and 't will the sooner get her another Husband Conjugal State fully considered There is nothing in the World which may compare in joy and fulfilling of Pleasure to Marriage For be sure that Fortune as well prosperous as adverse is common to both the Bed common and Children common and that more is there is so great Communality of Body and Union of Spirits that they seem two transformed into one And if the pleasure seem to us great to confer our secret Affairs to our Friends and Neighbours how much is the Delectation greater that we receive to discover our thoughts to her that is joyned to us by such a knot of Charity that we put our trust in her as in our selves making her wholly Treasurer or Faithful keeper of many inward Secrets and Cogitations of our Mind But what may be more greater Witness of fervent Love and undesolvable Amity than to forsake Father Mother Sisters and Brothers and generally all the Consanguinity till they become Enemy of themselves for to follow a Husband that doth Honour and Reverence her and having all other things in disdain she only cleaveth to him if he be Rich she keepeth his Goods if he be Poor she employeth all the Art that Nature hath given her to be a Companion with him in his Poverty If he be in Prosperity his Felicity is redoubled in her she seeing herself partaker of his Benefits If he be in Adversity he beareth but the one half of the Grief and furthermore she Comforteth him Assisteth and serveth him If a Man will remain Solitary in his House his Wife keepeth him Company doth Cherish and Comfort him and causeth him more easily to digest the Incommodiousness of his Solitude If he walketh the Fields she Conducteth him with her Eye so far as she can see him she desireth and honoureth him Being absent she Complaineth and Sigheth and wisheth his Company Being come home he is Welcomed Received Cherished and Countenanced with the best Shews and Tokens of Love that Nature hath shewed in such sort that for to speak the truth it seemeth that a Wife is a Gift from Heaven granted to Man as well for the Contentation of Youth as for the Rest and Solace of Age Nature can give us but one Father and one Mother but Matrimony representeth many in our Children the which do Reverence and Honour us who are more dear than our own proper Bowels Being young and little they play prattle laugh and shew us as many â—pish toyes they prepare us an infinite number of Pleasures and seemeth Recreations and Pastimes that Nature hath given us for to deceive and pass away part of our miserable Life if we be vexed with Age
Father of the Maid most friendly welcometh her Suitor so that I think scarce any Noble or Gentleman among them can choose a Virgin for his House The Bramanes marry but once and that not all but only the eldest of the Brethren to continue the Succession who is also Heir of the Father's Substance and keepeth his Wife straitly killing her if he find her adulterous with poyson In the Kingdom of Calicut when the King marrieth a Wife one of the principal Bramanes hath the first Nights Lodging with her for which he hath assigned him by the King four or five hundred Ducats The Gentlemen and Merchants haâ—e a custom to exchange Wives in token of great Friendship Some Women amongst them have six or seven Husbands fathering her Children on which of them she pleaseth The men when they marry get others to bed them if they be Virgins fifteen or twenty days before they themselves will bed them As for the Marriages in Peru the Men had many Wives but one was principal which was Wedded with Solemnity and that in this sort The Bridegroom went to the Bride's House and put O Hoya which was an open Shoe on her Foot this if she were a Maid was of Wool otherwise of Reeds And this done he led her thence with him In the Canaries they used for Hospitality to let their Friends lie with their Wives and received theirs in like Courtesie and therefore as in India the Sisters Son inherited -In Carazâ—an When a Woman is delivered of a Child the Man lyeth in and keepeth his Bed with Visitation of Gossips the space of forty days they worship the ancientest Person in the house ascribing to him all their Good In some part of the Country Knights and Soldiers never marry but lye with such Women or Daughters as like them Aâ—â— place in the Kingdom of Feâ— there was a Temple built 〈◊〉 which at certain times in the Year resorted Men and Women in the Night where after Sacrifices the Candles were put out and each Man lay with the Woman he first touched Those Women were forbidden to lye with any other for a Year after The Children begotten in this Adultery were brought up by the Priests of the Temple Capacities of Women Women are capable of the highest Improvements and thâ— greatest Glory to which man may be advpnced I might call in the Testimonies of the Wisest of the Heathens concerning this among others I remember Plutarch one of the most Learned of the Grecians upon the death of the excellent Leontide Discoursed with his friend of the equal vertue of Man and Woman and doubts not if he might compare Lives with Lives and Actions with Actions to make it appear that as Sapho's verses were equally with Anacreon's so Semiramis was as Magnificent as Sesostris Queen Tanaquilla as Politick as King Servius and Porcia as full of Courage as Brutus Moses from whom we receive the first and original Truths tells us that Woman as well as Man was created after the Image of God God created man in his own Image in the Image of God created be him Male and Female created be them What the Image of God is and what the Difference if there be any is between Image and Similitude I am not disputing this is it only for which I have alleaged Moses that Woman hath the same Prerogative of creation with Man 'T is true that from the beginning the the Woman was subjected as in order of time she was created after Man And being intended to be an helper she shines moâ—â— when she doth most observe that Ordinance of Subjection for then she is the Glory of the Man according to the instance of the Prudent Woman that Solomon speaks of In whom the heart of her Husband doth safely trust and she being modest and industrious Her Husband is known in the Gates when he sitteth among the Elders of the Land But to proceed as Man and Woman were equal in Creation so there is no difference between them in State of Grace Which Truth whether it be held sorth in this place or not I will not contend sor elsewhere we have it delivered without controversie that there is neither Male nor Female â—o prefering the one Sex before the other but all one in Christ Jesus The Soul knows no difference of Sex neither do the Angels and therefore it is that some Learned Men are of Opinion that after the Resurrection in the State of Glory there will be no more any distinction of Male and Female because Christ hath said Matth. 22.30 We shall then be as the Angels of God in Heaven And the Apostle 1 Cor. 15.42 43 44. That the body being sown in the grave in corruption in dishonour in weaâ—â—ess shall be raised in 〈◊〉 in glory in power The commerce of Sexes was of necessity because of Corruption and Change by Mortality But the Body that shall be raised in difference from the Natural Body is called a Spiritual Body The Soul then knowing no subordination because of Sex What Eminency is thereto be named in Men which we have not discerned sometimes to shine even in Women Plutarch hath given us a wonderful account of the wisdom of the Celtick Women who when their Country was fallen through misunderstanding and differences into a Civil War would not rest or give over their Mediation till Arms were laid down and Peace was setled in all their Cities and Families which was so great a Service to their Country and so acceptable that it grew a custom among them to call and admit their Women to Councel And in the League which long after they made with Hannibal this was one Article which for the strangeness and same of it I will record If the Celtans have any matter of Complaint against the Carthaginians the Carthaginian Commanders in Spain shall judge of it But if the Carthaginians have any thing to object against the Celtans it shall be brought before the Celtan Women Candying and Preserving c. These are Curiosities which are not only Commendable but required in young Ladies and Gentlewomen 〈◊〉 Represent them at large wouâ—â— ask more Art and Time than 〈◊〉 have either the Ability or thâ— Leisure to perform it and besides there are already in Priâ—â— many excellent Books concerning the same Subject as 〈◊〉 Choice Manuel of Secrets 〈◊〉 Physick and Chyrurgery by the Countess of Kent To Accomplished Cook by 〈◊〉 1671 is the best in that kind and the largest for Pastry Read also Mrs. Wooly's Gentlewomans Companion but I shall add no more here having lately received great Curiosities on this Subject never yet in Print which I design to Inâ—erâ— in the Second Part of this Dictionary Carmenta see Nicostrata Cassandra the Daughter of Priamus King of Troy a great Prophetess Charicena a very Learned Grecian Lady she is said to have written a Poem entituled Crumata Claudia Ruffina a Noble Brittish Lady of her Poetick writings there are remembred by Balaeus her Book
of Epigrams an Elegy upon her Husbands death and other Verses of various kinds and subjects Cleobule or Cleobuline the Daughter of Cleobulus Prince of Lindus she is particularly noted for her faculty in Aenigmatical Sentences or Riddles Corrina a Theban Poetess who wrote Five Books of Epigrams and is said to have been five times Victress over Pindarus Besides her there were two others of the same name namely Corinna the Thessuzin and Corinna the Roman Lady whom Ovid much admired Carnificia a Roman Epigrammatick Poetess Cassandra Fidele a Venetian Lady She write a Volumâ— of Latin Poems of various subjects and kinds Catherine Philips the most applauded Poetess of our Nation her Fame is of a fresh and lively date from the but late publisht Volume of her Poetical Works Churlo Sax. Ceorle a Country Clown a Bumpkin in the North a Carle Chiromanter Chiromantes a Palmester or one that tells fortunes by the lines of the hand Cloris The Goddess of Flowers called also Flora. Chorus Lat. a Company of Singers or Dancers a Quire The singing or musick between every Act in a Tragedy or Comedy In a Comedy there are four Accessory parts viz. 1 The Argument 2 Prologue 3. Chorus 4. Mimick Of all which the Tragedy hath only the Chorus Chrisome a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies properly the white cloth which is set by the Minister of Baptism upon the head of a Child newly Anointed with Chrism after his Baptism Now it is vulgarly taken for the white cloth put about or upon a Child newly Christened in token of his Baptism wherewith the woman used to shrowd the Child if dying within the Month otherwise it is usually brought to Church at the day of Purification Chrisomes in the Bills of Mortality are such Children as die within the Month of their Birth because during that time they use to wear the Chrisom cloth Cabaline fountain of the Muses Calivate caelibatus single life the state of Man or Woman unmarried Herb. H. 8 Care-cloth According to the use of the Church of Sarum when there was a Marriage before Mass the parties kneel'd together and had a fine Linnen cloth called the Care-cloth laid over their heads during the time of Mass till they received the Benediction and then were dissmissed Caresse Fr. a cheering cherishing welcoming making much of Carnaval Fr. Shrovetide also a Licentious or Dissolute Season Castalian-Well a fountain at the foot of Parnassus sacred to the Muses taking the name of Castalia a Virgin who as Poets fain flying from the Leacherous God Apollo fell down headlong and was turned into this fountain Rider Catamite Catamitus a Boy hir'd to be abused contrary to Nature a Ganymede Ceruse Cerussa White-lead often used by Chyrurgeons in Ointments and Plaisters It is with Painters a principal white Colour and hath been and is still much used by Women in painting their Faces whom Martial in his merry vein scoffeth saying Cerussata timet Sabella solem Cest Cestus A Marriage-girdle full of studs wherewith the Husband girded his Wife at the Wedding and which he loosed again the first Night Chaperon Fr. a French-Hood for a Woman also any Hood or Bonnet mentioned in the Stat. 1 R. 2.7 Chaplet Fr. Chapelet a Wreath Garland or attire for the Head made of Gold Pearl or other costly or curious stuff used to be fastned behind in manner of a folded Roul or Garland Cully Fop or one that may easily be wrought upon Concubinage Concubinatus the keeping of a Whore for his own filthy use an unlawful Use of another Woman instead of one's Wife In Law it is an Exception against her that Sues for her Dowry whereby it is alledged that she was not a Wife lawfully married to the Party in whose Lands she seeks to be endowed but his 〈◊〉 Confarreation Confarreatio the solemnizing a Marriage a Ceremony used at the Solemnization of a Marriage in token of most firm Conjunction between Man and Wife with a Cake of Wheat or Batley This Ceremony is still retain'd in part with us by thâ—â— which we call the Bride-cake used at Weddings Continency Continentia a refraining of ill Desires or more strictly a restraining from all things delightful that hinde Perfection Copulation Copulatio â— coupling or joining it was one of the three ways of betrothing Marriage in Israel See Moses and Aaron p. 231. Coquettery Fr. the prattle or twattle of a pert Gossip or Minx Coral or Corral Corallum There are two principal forts hereof the one white the other red but the red is best It grows like a Tree in the bottom of the Sea green when under the Water and bearing a white Berry and when out turns red It is cold and dry in Operation good to be hang'd about Childrens Necks as well to rub their Gums as to preserve them from the Falling sickness Coranto Ital. Corranta a French running Dance also a News-book Corrivals Corrivales they who have Water from or use the same River And Metaphorically a Competitor in Love or they that Love one and the same Woman Culâ—â—riches Man eyes you Coverture Fr. signifies any thing that covers as Apparel a Coverlet c. In Law it is particularly apply'd to the Estate and Condition of a married Woman who by the Laws of the Realm is in potestate viri under Coverture or Covert-Baron and therefore disabled to make any bargain or contract without her Husband's consent or priviry or without his Allowance or Confirmation Brook hoc titulo per totum Courtesan Fr. Courtesane a Lady Gentlewoman or Waiting-woman of the Court also but less properly a professed Strumpet a famous or infamous Whore Courtesie of England Lex Angliae is used with us for a Tenure For if a Man marry an Inheritrix seiz'd of Land in â—ee-simple or in Fee-tail general or as Heir in Tail special and gets a Child of her that comes alive into the World though both it and his Wife die forthwith yet if she were in Possession he shall keep the Land during his Life and is call'd Tenant by the Courtesie of England Crabbat Fr. is properly an Adjective and signifies comely handsom gracious But it is often used Substantively for a new fashioned Gorget which Women wear or a Riding-band which Men wear Curranto ab 〈◊〉 illue currendo Fr. Courante a running Dance a French-dance different from what we call a Country-dance Corkney or Corkneigh apply'd only to one born within the sound of Bow-Bell that is within the City of London which Term came first according to Minshaw out of this Tale A Citizens Son riding with his Father out of London into the Country and being utterly ignorant how Corn grew or Cattle increased asked when he heard a Horse neigh what he did His Father answer'd The Horse doth neigh Riding further the Son heard a Cock crow and said Doth the Cock neigh 〈◊〉 Hence by way of Jeer he was call'd Cookneigh Min. A Cockney according to some is a Child that Sucks long But Erasmus
Agony and well nigh spent with repeated pains thou didst stand by me and my babe yea thou didst admirably help us making way for it to pass into this world safely keeping us both alive yea and it may be when our friends veriâ—y thought with sadness that my Child could not have seen the light and I should shortly have shut mine eyes upon it being ready to despair of bringing as forth then didst thou find a way for us both to escape When Mrs. Joceline was made a Mother of a Daughter whom shortly after being baptiz'd and brought to her she blessed and then gave God thanks that herself had lived to see it a Christian Having dedicated it to the Lord in his Ordinance She accounted it an additional mercy to her bringing her forth and so would have it communicated to others support But you 'll say You shall have a rough passage And if as Sabina a Christian Martyr when she travail'd being in Prison you shall cry out as she was heard to do in her Child-bearing throws whereupon some asked her how she would endure the Torments her Persecutors had prepared for her if she shrunk at those To whom she said I now bear the Punishment of my sins but then I shall suffer for my Saviour It may be answered Notwithstanding be of good chear For the Scripture affords many Antidotes against discouragment and to chear up Suspicious and Fearful Women But remember that the special Conjugal Grace of Temperance and Modesty is to be exercised by the Child-bearing Woman in sobriety chastity and gracefulness both with reference to her Affections and Senses The breeding and big-bellied Women is highly concerned to take special care for her own and the child's safety Plato determined That big-bellied Women above all should so govern themselves during that space that they may be neither carried away to many and furious Pleasures nor oppress'd with grief but live a mild quiet and pacate Life Many have miscarried by an inordinate giving way to their Appetites and feeding immoderately upon various Dainties Such soft and delicate Women there are who like the pleasure and are impatient of the pain which ordinarily attend those in a Married state To say nothing of those bad Women who from a lustful cruelty or cruel lustfulness as Augustus speaks do wish that their Issue should perish rather than live and therefore do use ill Arts either to prevent Conception or procure Abortion which must needs be very displeasing to God who in his Law hath breeding-bearing Women much upon his heart to provide for their safety There be some who from pre-apprehensions of their own pains forbear to render their Husbands their due not welâ— weighing the ill Consequenâ—â— of such forbearance Others are ready to conceit 't is a discouragement to them to take pains when very well able about the Nursing and Education of their Children 'T is true they are not of such Nun 〈◊〉 dispositions as some others idolizing a single life for their ease reguarding not to be serviceable to God in their Generation according to their Capacities when called For our Apostle in this Epistle 〈◊〉 young Women to marry 〈◊〉 Children not as too many 〈◊〉 our Age to bear Children when not married guide the 〈◊〉 gâ—ve none occasion to the Adveâ—â—saries to speak reproachfulâ—â— Yet they are so greatly addiâ—â—â—ed to sensual pleasures in 〈◊〉 Married state that they 〈◊〉 not to take pains in going through their appointed 〈◊〉 with their Child-breeding 〈◊〉 Child-bearing but do so over-eagerly pursue their appetiteâ— frolicks and fancies that they too often forget the condition into which God hath brought them and so deprive themselves and their Husbands 〈◊〉 those blessings which if they did behave themselves soberly and Christian-like they might well hope for at Gods hand supposing them to contiâ—â—â— duly careful as they should be to forbear excess in Diet anâ— violent Recreations and 〈◊〉 suppress vehement 〈◊〉 using that moderation in all things which their condition notably calls for It may be granted Men yea Husbands are generally more prone to Incontinency And were I discoursing them I might remember them as well as their Wives of that famous saying of the Roman Orator That in the Predominancy or Kingdom of sensual pleasure Men can have Commerce no with vertue and therefore are concern'd to be watchful and moderate especially considering what the great Philosopher hath said That of all the desires of the body Men are apt to be faulty this way Yet since the Command of God reaches those of each Sex both are under a Religious band in the Marriage State and as one saith the pleasure therein must be mingled with some severity it must be a wise and concionable delight It much concerns the Christian Wife to give check to any suggestion much more to any parley which is in a tendency to violate her Matrimonial Contract or to bring her into any carriage unbecoming that honourable state she is brought into or the undue use of the undesiled bed So that however some of the Paâ—ists in magnifying a single Life would appropriate Chastity unto Virgins whom they themselves do debauch in their Nâ—nneries Yet we find from Scripture and the Ancient Fathers that there is Chastity and continency in a Marraige-state as opposed to that in a single Life In the Exercise of this with the precedent Graces the good Wife having well learned the lesson of self-denial can bear her burden in humble confidence of aids from above in the hour of her Child-bed sorrow and a safe deliverance in the best way Next to Christ the good Wife is above all other dearly and constantly to love her own Husband and that with a pure heart fervently Yea and she should never entertain low thoughts of him in that Relation whom she could once think worthy of embracing for her Husband and whom by the Covenant of God in all Offices of Love she is oblig'd to please Without this bond of Perfectness all will be loose uneasie and unpleasing yea the Laws and Commands of God who by his wise Providence ordered the Match will become tedious and irksom But where this Conjugal Love is consequent upon the foregoing Christian Love there all will become easie This is the very life of Friendship and where it resides in power no diligence will be wanting to facilitate all other conjugal Duties For never-failing Charity especially in this Relation will enable the good Wife to bear all things to believe all things to hope all things to endure all things This holy flame therefore as the Vestal fire should be ever cherish'd that it go not out Indeed Love being as the Soul of Society and of it self Immortal it would argue it were not sincere at first if it should cease Dr. Goad recomending the Mothers Legacy to her Child unborn written by pâ—ous Mrs. Joceline when big with Child preparing for her approaching Child-bed faith What eyes cannot behold her true and unspotted love
to her dearest Husband In her affectionate Letter to him prefix'd to that little Book she declares with thankfulness to God her fears of Child-bed painfulness were cured with the remembrance that things should work together for the best to those that love God which cannot be right in a Wife without this true love to her Husband and a certain assurance that God would give her patience according to her pain And she bare all patiently So did Mrs. Wilkinson a most loving Wife whose patience was remarkable in the midst of very sore pains which frequented her in the breeding and bearing Children Yet then her speech was I fear not pains I fear myself leâ—t through impatiency I should let fall any unbesitting word 'T is a blessed frame said that grave Divine who recorded it when pain seems light and sin heavy So on the other hand for want of this prevalent Conjugal Love in conjunction with Christian Love a Daughter of King Ethelred having found the difficulty of her first birth she did afterwards perpetually abstain from her Husband's bed against the Apostle's Rule protesting from a Principle of unaccountable self-love Thâ—â— it was not fit a Daughter of a Crowned Head should commit her self any more to such perish 'T was far otherwise with a young Woman in Eubaâ—a who being Married to a Man she lov'd dearly became Mother and Grand-Mother to an Hundred Children The Story of Mrs Honywood in our Age is not less famous The Wife hath plighted her Troâ—â— to her Husband according 〈◊〉 the flesh unto whom the Lord hath in the Marriage-Covenant joyn'd her and she is obliged to be constantly faithful in 〈◊〉 Conjugal Duties to him 〈◊〉 whom she hath trusted herself and that by Vertue of the Covenant of her God Neither 〈◊〉 enough to be really faithful but also to seem so or be seen as much as may be so to be Not that any Christian Women should be like some of those in the Great Moguls Country 〈◊〉 to gain the repute of Modest Loving and Faithful Wives will have their own Corps burnt together with their deceased Husbands but she should shew her real fidelity as in an honest and prudent concealment of her Husbands Secrets so in avoiding all just suspicion by any familiar Converse with others of being false to his Bed and Religiously keeping till death the Matrimonial Obligation not deserting her dear Yoke-fellow when reduced to straits For so 't is storied of the King of Pontus his Wife that she disguised herself to follow her banished Husband saying There she reckoned was her Kingdom her Riches and Country wheresoever she could find her Husband The Wife of a certain Count of Castile when the King had detained her Husband in Prison went to visit him whom she perswaded to put on her Cloaths and leave her there in his stead Of which Fact the King hearing did much wonder at the fidelity of the Countess and sent her to her Husband wishing he had such Wives for himself and Sons To this matter in his present to seeming Women hath very well observed 't was his will that in their Travail their should ever be while the world stands that most eminent instance of his power indeed that I may say which made the great Heathen Phisâ—cian after a deep search into the causes of a Womans bringing forth a Child to cry out Oc Sin taile of Nature Hence 〈◊〉 her low Estate the pious Wife who lives by Faith alone Nature when she utters her doleful groans before the Almighty concludes It is the Lord let him do what seemeth him good If it seems good unto him then to call for her Life and the Life of her Babe she can say Lord here am I and the Child which thou gavest me A prudent Wife abideing in Faith Charity Holiness and Sobriety may have such support from the strengthening word of Promise here and elsewhere that Travailing in Birth and Pain to be delivered she may have good hope to be preserved in Child-bearing For tho as the most beloved wife Rachel in her hard labour thought she should die She may have good evidence from the Exercise of her Graces that she shall be eternally saved and that may be written on her Tomb-stone which a learned Doctor wrote on that of Pious Mrs. Wilkinson who with her Child went to Heaven from her Child-bed viz. Here lyes the Mother and Babe both without Sins Her Birth will make her and her Infant Twins Hereupon the Upright Woman tho' frail can resign up herself to God being fully perswaded with the Father of the Faithful that what he hath promised he is also able to perform and not Oliver speaking largely As for those who have Wives they should take special care to discharge the duties of good Husbands towords their Child-bearing Wives with all good fidelity viz. 1. To dwell with them according to knowledg giving honour unto them as the weaker vessels and as being Heirs together of the graces of Life that their prayers be not hindred 2. To endeavour as much as may be to discharge the parts of good Christians and tender Husbands towards their dearest Yoke-fellows in such a prevailing Condition laying much to heart those antecedent concomitants and consequent pains such a state of pregnancy involves them in which these Husbands themselves in such a kind cannot have experience of That as it becomes them for the sake of their good and godly Wives they may as is sometimes said of some Sympathizing ones in a fort breed with them and for them by putting on as the elect of God bowels of mercy kindness humbleness of mind meâ—kness long-suffering c. and fulfil all the Duties of the Relation they are in readily and â—â—mely providing for them not only Necessaries but such Conveniencâ—es as they can for their longing appetites and for the â—eartning of their dear suffering Wives who are apt to be 〈◊〉 down under apprehensions of their approaching sorrows to call in the aid of faithful praying Ministers and pious Friends to make their requests known unto God for them And if God hears their Prayers 3. To be heartily thank-ful to God upon his giving safe deliverance to their gracious wives from the pains and perils of Child-bearing D. DAmaris Acts 17.34 perhaps a little Wife from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Wife Danae i. Laurus the Lawrel or Bay-tree Dalilah Judges 16.4.1 poor impoverish'd Deborah may be render'd a By-word Speech Praise or Praising Denis belonging to Baechus Dido signifies a Man like or stout Woman Phoenician Dinah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Judgement Dorras 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. a She Goat or with Polit. a Roe Buck see Tabitha Acts 9.36 Dorothy the Gift of God or given of God Dousabella i. sweet and fair Maiden Fr. Douse i. sweet Fr. Drusilla 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Act 24 25. G. P. composeth it of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. Ros the Dew Damia a Goddess of the Ancients only worshipped
of Clay 〈◊〉 all the necessary Rooms belonging to it though the outside be not so fairly set 〈◊〉 as others Deformity may Lawfully and Commendably be helped by 〈◊〉 to Correct the Defects Encthonus being a goodly Mâ—â— from the Girdle upward 〈◊〉 as the Poets feign havâ—â—â— downwards the body of a Seâ—pent or rather as we believe crooked Legs or stump Fâ—â—â— set his wits to work to inverâ— Chariot in which Riding 〈◊〉 Deformity of his Legs and Feâ—â— were hid it is said thouâ—â— without much Ground 〈◊〉 Saunders that Queen 〈◊〉 Wife to Henry the Eight 〈◊〉 the Ruff to hide a 〈◊〉 in her Neck However 〈◊〉 matters not much whether 〈◊〉 be in the Right or the Wroâ—â— for such a thing might be 〈◊〉 fully used on that or the 〈◊〉 occasion Let us not in 〈◊〉 wise dare to mock at or 〈◊〉 those that are mishâ—â—â— by Nature those that 〈◊〉 them despise God that 〈◊〉 them For they as well as 〈◊〉 most Beautiful and well Pâ—â—â—portioned are Pictures of Gods own making but set in a plainer Frame not so guilded and Embellished a Deformed Person is no less his Workmanship but not drawn with even Lines and lively Colours The former not for want of Wealth as the latter not for want of Skill but both for the pleasure of the Maker Aristotle is uncharitably cruel when he advises people to expose their Deformed Children to the wide World and not to take any regard of them as if they were not Gods Creatures as well as the other And though Deformities have taken hold of their Bodies frequently the beauties of their Minds make amends for it many times Equaling and some times Excelling in a high degree Those of the most Fair and Beautiful some people handsom by Nature deform themselves by Riot and Luxury Excess or Immoderate Eating and Drinking being Enemies to Beauty in either taking away the pleasing blush by being bloated or growing over fat or convert it into a Bacchinalian hue which is worse because it more visibly exposes the party and the cause by whose Effects those Rubies are planted there as not arising as they would make us believe from having but being bad Livers when the Woman in the first of Kings 3.21 Considered the 〈◊〉 that was laid by her by the fly subtilty of the other Harlot behold when I looked said she It was not too 〈◊〉 which I did bear How justly may God say the same of those that deform themselves by their Irregular Courses of Living and overtook them as things he created not But where a Deformity is made by the malice of Men it is otherwise for many times that stands for God's mark and Seal upon his Children when they suffer Torments and Persecutions for the Honour of his Name as Confessors who were the Body of Truth and though they are Scar'd or Dismembred they look more Beautiful in the Eyes of their Maker and likewise in the Esteem of all Good Men and Women this contemplation of suffering Deformity made the Emperour Constantine the Great did kiss the places where Paphuntius a Godly Christians Eyes had stood before they were bored out by the Tyrant Maximinus because he would not fall down and worship the Heathen Gods wounds in War if honourably received though they occasion deformity are never the less Beautiful to Noble and Generous Spirits however they may seem contemptible in the Eyes of the Vulgar and Sordid part of Mankind Halting through Wounds and Honourable Scars is a Soldiers stately March And he who mocks at the Marks of Valour in a Soldiers face may with Ignominy at one time or other be Scared with the brand of Justice on his own Flesh. Beautiful minds as we have hinted are frequently join'd with such bodies as by Nature are deformed their Souls have been the Chapels of Sanctity whose Bodies have been the Spittles of Deformity Many rare and useful Arts are owing to the Wisdom and Industry of either Sex whose Bodies not being very acceptable has made them improve the vertues of their Minds to get them an Esteem and a Name that would be sure to live beyond the longest continuance of Beauty some Ladies that have been tollerably handsom and have found it much impared by that Irreconcilable Enemy to a good force viz. The small Box have been so frequently passionate and uneasie so displeased and out of humour with themselves that they have grown careless and negligent of their Persons and Affairs weary in a manner of their Lives For that which of it self in a little time would naturally have faded and like a shedding Rose have dropt into and been lost in the Seeds of Old Ages Wrinkles and Deformities not at the 〈…〉 regarding that their true Beauty which they ought most to value and improve was looked up in a Cabinet the 〈◊〉 of the 〈◊〉 could not open which being exposed to the best Advantages would yet set a greater Lustre upon their Faces than all the Roses and Lillies without it could do in their flourishing Prime for an outside Beauty without that which is Internal can be reckoned only a Fair Picture set up in the World for Men only to gaze at And indeed is of little other use profit or delight Our Advice is Ladies that you be not dejected or angry with your selves or your Maker the latter especially is to be avoided when a cloud is drawn over the Lustre only of an outside fading Beauty no more than the Sun seems to be displeased and leave his Road when a Mist to appearance renders him a bold and beamless Globe of Fire to Mortal Eyes his brightness in himself is then ne're the less No Mists Clouds or Vapours being capable of Lessening it or any thing arising of the Damps and Foggs of the Earth to his Exalted Sphere So the brightness of your Souls in the perfection of the many vertues that adorn you shining as Glitering Gems in Crowns of Burnished Gold about the Eclipse of a Disease However for the repair of External defects in Beauty we have 〈◊〉 this Work with diâ—â—â— choice Receipts to restore 〈◊〉 Loveliness in fading Beauty and so we conclude this Hoâ—â—â— with a few Lines writ to Lady who had newly been visited with the small Pox. Sickness Loves Rival envying the place Where Cupid choose to pitch his Tents your face Went to write foul but Venus made it prove Spight of his spight the Alphabet of Love So as they strove Love served him in his trim For as that set on you this set on him And Love that Conquers all things soon made known To him a burning greater than his own What pitty 't is that face where Love has been So oft so proud to play so sweetly in By Sickness hand should be o're turned thus As to be made a Campius Martius Wherein the angry York and Lancaster New Vamp and do retrive their cruel War As if the Red Rose and the White would be Where e're they met still at Antipathy
to become an object to his duâ—â— Fancy who knew not how to value it Though no doubt with that excellent Geometrician he could well enough gather by the proportion of her Foot the entire Feature which would wound him as deadly to the Heart as Achilles wâ—â— wounded in his Heel Itâ—â— the Eye that conveys Love 〈◊〉 the heart curious Models 〈◊〉 to dull Spectators move 〈◊〉 admiration and consequently leave but a weak impression To see a Compaspe portrayed in her Colours her Vâ—â—â— enazured her sweet Smiles shadowed her Love-enthralling Eyes sparkled and all theâ—â— with a native Art and 〈◊〉 Colour displayed would make their Apelles to do what he did Whence we read that Alexander the Worlds Monarch not only affecting but admâ—â—ing the Art of Apelles to parallel his skill with an equal subject commanded him on a time to Paint Campaspe naked who was then held the Beauty of that Age which Apoâ—â—â—â— having done his Pencil purchased him a penâ—ive heâ—â—â— falling in Love with her who was his Piâ—â—â—â— and whâ—â—â— Love he despaired to compass ever Which Alexander having perceived he gave him her The like incomparable Art was shown by Zenxes upon the Beauties of Croton's five Daughters which Pictures took more Hearts than his Grapes had before deceived Birds Elizabeth Carew wrote the Tragedy of Mariam Elizabetha Joanna Weâ—â—ous an English Poetess of some repute in the esteem of Farnaby Etinna a Poetess of Tros who is said to have writ a Poem in the Doric Dialect consisting of 300 Verses She dyed at Nineteen Years of Age. Eurhesia an unknown Poeâ—ess except by a fragment of 32 Latin Verses Eccho or Echo Gr. a resounding or giving again of any noise or voice in a Wood Valley or Hollow place Poets feign that this Eccho was a Nymph so call'd who being rejected by one whom she lev'd pin'd away for sorrow in the Woods where her voice still remains answering the Out cries of all complaints Esseminate essoeminatus Woman-like nice wanton Eleanor a Womans name from Helena i.e. pitiful Elizabeth Hebr. the God of Oath or as some will Peace of God or quiet rest of the Lord. Mantuan playing with it makes it Eliza-bella Min. ridiculously compounds it of the Hebrew word El. i. Deus and the Greek Isa and Beta Elopement a Law Term is when a married Woman leaves her Husband and dwells with the Adulâ—erer by which without voluntary Submission and reconcilement to him she shall lose her Dower Stat. West 2. c. 34. Sponte virum mulâ—er fugiens adultera fa'cta Dote sua careat nisisponse sponte retrâ—â—ta Elysium or Elysian fields Campus Elysius a Paradise into which the Heathens believed the Souls of the Just went after their departure hence This Elyzium is meant by Virgil when he says Devenere locos lotus amaend virâ—â— For 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 on nemorum 〈◊〉 beateâ— Eâ—bellish Fr. 〈◊〉 to beautifie garniâ—h adorn bedeck trim up or set out unto the Eye Embryon embryo a Child in the Mother's Womb before it has perfect shape and by Metaphor any thing before it has Perfection Epithalamy epithalamium a Bridal Song or Poem or a Song at a Wedding in Commendation of the paâ—â—â—â—â— married Such also is that of Stella in Statius and of 〈◊〉 in Catullus c. It is so called from the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e.apud and Thalamus a Bed-Chamber but more properly a Bride-Chamber because this Song was used to be sung at the Door of the Bride-Chamber when the Bride bedded There are two kinds of Epithalamies the one used to be sung at night when the marry'd couple entred Bed the other in the morning to raise them up Min. Erato one of the Nine Muses who as Ovid saith Nomen amoris habet Eve the Wife of Adam from the Heb. Evah i.e. living or giving Life Adam so call'd his Wife because she was the Mother of every living thing Eugenia Gr. Nobleness or Goodness of Birth or Blood Eye-bite to bewitch with the Eyes Erhidne a Scythian Queen who had three Children at a birth by Hercules Edessleda Ehseda govern'd the Kingdom prudently eight Years after the death of her Husband Ethelred King of the Mercâ—ans El 〈◊〉 Cu. a Stepmother Emme a Womans name either as Anne or Eigiva help-giver Endomment de la plus belle 〈◊〉 Widows dower of Lands â—olden in Socâ—age as the fairer or better part Endeaâ—ion a Shepherd in Enge◠〈◊〉 Bright angel Love with the Moon 〈◊〉 stops every night to kiss him being cast into a perpetual 〈◊〉 on the Top of Leâ—â—mus Hill Ephiatres g. the Night-mare Epiraene g. comprehending both Sexes under one gender Erigone Daughter of Lâ—rus who hang'd herself for her Father's death the Constellation Virgo Eriphile for a Bracelet betray'd her Husband Amphiâ—â—as to the Theban Wars to 〈◊〉 Destruction Eros g. Love Cupid Ester f. Estre c. Substance State or Being Esther h. Secret Eurâ—dire being fetch'd from Hell by her Husband Orphen was snatch'd back again because he lookt back on her before she arrived upon Earth Erpâ—â—tant fee tail 〈◊〉 having Lands given to a Mâ—â— and the Heirs of his Body 〈◊〉 F. Fabia a Beam Faith a Name commonly used Felice i. Happy Florence i. Flourishing Florida i. deck'd 〈◊〉 Flowers Flaminea i. Fiery Fortune as if vertuâ—â— â—â—vertendo so called for her Mutability and Inconstancy Francis i. Free Frideswid i. very free or truly free Faâ—rada Third Wife to Charlemaign a Woman of such Ambition and Cruelty that the People not being able to endure it and she at the same time being countenanâ—'d by her Husband they depos'd them both and set up Peppin one of Charlemaign's natural Sons Faussa the Wife of Constantine the Great falling in Love with Crispus her Husband's Son by another Wife and he refusing to comply with her Lustful desires she accus'd him of attempting her Chastity whereupon without sssmination he was put to â—â—eath but the Wickedness turning afterwards to light the Emperor caus'd her to be 〈◊〉 in a hot Bath Feronia a Goddess of the Pagans to whom they attriâ—â—â—e the Care of Wood and is â—o call'd from her Temple â—ear Feronia not far from a Wood Consecrated to her and those that worshipped her are said to walk on burning Coals 〈◊〉 footed without any hurt and in 〈◊〉 Temple they Enfranchised their Cap or Hat in â—â—ken their Condition was alâ—â—red Flora the Goddess of Flowers said to be the Wife of Zepherus or the gentle West-wind which with friendly Gales in Spring time clears the Air and makes Flowers to grow though Lactantius will have her to be a Roman Curtezan who was wâ—nt to set up a May-pole with Garlands of Flowers before her door to allure Young-Men to her House by which Stratagem she got much Riches which she leaving to the Common-wealth when she dy'd was for her Liberality styl'd a Goddess and the Games called Ludos Florales celebrated to her Memory Fluonia an ancient Name given by the Pagans to June Fraud a Goddess whom
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
the Saxon Prince and his mortal Enemy because she had Kent for her Dower Jagelio Duke of 〈◊〉 fell in Love with Hedenga and turned from a Pagan to a Christian for her sake being Baptiz'd by the Name of 〈◊〉 but le ts see what was in the bottom of it why the was Heireis of Poâ—and and he covered to lay the two Countries together Charles the Great was an earnest Suiter to Irene the â—â—â—press but faith 〈◊〉 only to join the Empire of the East to that of the West which he then posses'd but what comes all this to or what is the Event of such Matches that are made up thus meerly for the sake of Mony Why truly they are a sort of mad Contracts at first and afterward as to Love and the honest end of Marriage prove but a meer flash as 〈◊〉 or Straw soon fir'd burn fiercely yet laâ— but a few Minutes so are all those Matches so made where there 's not any respect of Honestly Virtue Parentage Education or Religion c. Faise Fires light the Hymeneal Tapers that flash Sulpher in their Faces instead of comfortable Brightness they are no sooner Light but extinguished in an instant and instead of Love Hate Jars and Discontent enters and act their parts upon the Stage of Jealousie and Distrust on the one part and ruin perhaps of Body and Soul on the other For Joy enters Repentance and sometimes hands after it Desparation Franciseus Barbarus tells us a Story that a certain Person named Philip of Padua fell in Love with a notorious common Strumpet and so raging his 〈◊〉 seem'd that he was ready to run distracted for her which much grieved his Parents but fearing he should 〈◊〉 himself or quite lose his Senses his Father having no more Children and finding no Reason nor Perswasion would avail consented to his Folly and Married they were but not many days had passed ere this extraordinary Passion Wind-mill'd about to the contrary point of the Compass even to an extream Loathing so that he could not so much as endure the sight of her and from one Madness fell into another nor seldom have such kind of Marriage other Events seldom is there better Success upon these kind of Mony Love Intrigues as Manelaus experienc'd by Helen 〈◊〉 with Phaedra Vulcan with Venus Claudius with Massalins Minos with Pasiphe and many more which we might name and indeed we need not go to former Ages for such Examples since our own Nation affoards so many How often are there Braâ—â— and Fightings Hatred Heart-burnings and Jealousies among among Married Couples and sometimes Blood makes the Fatal Divorce Wherefore Ladies you that would be truly happy in Marriage chuse not this way but Marry those that you cordially can Love and such as are agreeable to you though you wallow not in Gold Fortune how to be considered in what it relates to either Sex in Advancement or declining c. Fair Ladies at the first sight you may imagine we are going to tell you many strange and wonderful things or make discovery of those past Actions you would rather have concealed by prying into you Nativites but indeed we purpose not to meddle with past Present or Future Events of that kind we pretend not to be Fortunemâ—â—â—â—s but only to Let you see how fickle she is and how little to be relyed on though many lay too great a stress upon that they call her Favour which is rather Accidential and sometimes Imaginary than certain or real and indeed take her right she is rather a Name than any thing that is substanâ—â—â—lly to the purpose we will not speak of the Actions of either Sex as they are the Children of Divine Providence nor will we Ascribe an Apostheâ—is to Fortune but will only take a survey of the power and Actiâ—â— of Men and Womens Reasons in the Nimble apprehensions and taking hold of occaâ—â—â—â—ns to see how far outward circumstances do conduce to the making of any ones Fortune It was the saying of one that every one might hammer 〈◊〉 his own Fortune however 〈◊〉 most in Number are 〈◊〉 at Fortune making and 〈◊〉 it in the working It is an Art that most Peoples Invention have flowed into and yet 〈◊〉 still capable of Renovation as it were by the incertainty 〈◊〉 Affairs so curiously involved by mutual Relation which is Tacitus his Observation of a too superstitious Constancy in that Emperor into his beaten way in which he had proved Fortunate thinking in that Road he could not miss being Successful though he fell into a slough of misfortune at last when he least suspected the danger So some through an Imbecility of Mind not knowing how to make a departure from tha Gravity of their usual pace think all things will meet them in the common Road but there is something more viz. a Judicious observancy of time required as well as a prudent making of occasions There are some of that temper the Pulse of whose Affections still beat after the motion of Honour who had rather be not good than great and therefore will cast about the mist of Deceit to blind the Eyes of our Apprehensions and by corrupt Counsels Endeavour to rise from the clouds of disgrace to see the Sun of Honour others will bring all the Elogies of their Worth upon Honours Stage where they court the Smiles of Fortune in displaying themselves to the best advantage yet is â—he be not in a good mood to pleasure them but frowns and turns her back to begone 〈◊〉 will cry after her and 〈◊〉 her 〈◊〉 all they can do makes her but like a 〈…〉 the more 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 till 〈…〉 they prove but swollen Bubles which the least wind of Adversity breaks and makes to Evaporate into their own Element Honour is Vertues Reward and is no more than the Reflective beams of that Sun of Vertue and gives only to good will in a larger Extent to Exercise themselves in as in open Field and therefore it must be used to the publick Advantage not in the Enclosures of any ones particular ends Those Ladies that are Befriended with Fortune as they term it must nevertheless be upon their Guards and look narrowly to her for she plays many slippery tricks with her Favourites the Wind is not more variable or unconstant nor the winding Waters of the Tide in their motions more uncertain than she is fabled to be in setting up and pulling down in flattering and deceiving those that most trust and rely on her and above all things so settle your mind in Prosperity that if Adversity comes it may not shake or disorder it and then you however secure your selves let Fortune do what she pleases to prostitute your time too much to the thoughts of worldly Fortunes hinders you of a more Glorious Prospect that is before you Riches are sometimes Vertues Ornament and at other times Vices Punishment the certainty of having 〈◊〉 Friend for your Fortune and a moderate Competency and Honestly for
idem denoâ—at a fine thin Skin within the Body dividing the Flesh or any near Member one from the another Also a Skin like a Cap wherein divers Children are born And the Skin in wraping the Brains are call'd Films the inmost which is next the Brain is also called pia meninx or pia mater the other dura meninx or dura mater The Infant has three Teguments or Membranous Films which cover it in the Womb that is the Corion Amnios and Allantois Whereof see more in Vulg. Error pag. 269. Flabel flabellum a Fan. Footing-time Nf. when the Child-bed Woman gets up Forfeiture of Marriage a Writ against one under Age and holding by Knights Service who refused to Marry her whom his Lord preferr'd without his Disparagement Faunrekynes o. little Infants Fricasse Fr. fricassee any Meat fry'd in a Pan. Frances a Womans Name Frank-bank Free-bench the Dower of Copy-hold lands which the wife being espoufed a Virgin hath after her Husband's Decease Friga a Saxon Goddess in the shape of an Hermophradite Frontal frontale a Frontlet or attire of the Forehead Frumenty from frumention i.e. Wheat so called because it is a kind of Pottage made of Milk and Wheat Froise a Pancake with Bacon intermix Furina a Roman Goddess Patroness of Thieves Frussian stuff made of Cotton or the Down of an Egyptian Fruit. Furies furie three imaginary Fiends or Spirits in Hell having Snakes growing on them instead of Hairs Poets feign them to be the Daughters of the River Aenerou and Night and to have the Office of Tormenting Souls of Murtherers and wicked Men their Names were Alecio i.e. uncessantly Tormenting Megara i.e. enraged And Tysiphone i.e. the Avenger of Murder Fufil Lat. fufillis a little Spindle Festoon-ton f. Encarpo g. a Garland of Fruits or Flower-works in Graven or Embossed work Figuretto a kind of stuff Figurrd or flowered Filly foal a mare colt Flora the Goddess of flowers otherwise called Cloris Floramor flower of Love Flaunes o. Custards Foraign-project to provide Maids with Husbands approved on with an Account what that Project was It may justly astonish us to consider how industrious and careful so great and wise a State as that of Athens was to promote the Marriage of the poorest Virgin among them that of Aristogeton's Daughter may serve for an instance who being a poor Girl in an mean Island and living under great poverty was by the order of the Council brought into Athens and there Married at the Publick Expence We do not find the Patriarchs chaffering for Portions Isaac that was so great an Heir as that his Father out of his own House did raise three Hundred and eighteen Men born in his Service was at the charge of sending for a Wife without a Portion and Jacob with fourteen years Service purchased his As the World increased in Mony so it did in this Sin and both united to hinder the Ordinance of God turning the Command of Increasing and Multiplying Men into increase and multiply more of which we may say as it was in another case though much to the same purpose in the beginning it was not so There are some now living in these Kingdoms that remember when Money was the least part considered in Marriage when that Sum would have been thought a Fortune for a Lord that is now dispised by a Merchant yet then there were few dyed without Posterity and as few dyed for want or that which is worse lived like Beasts of Prey on the Labours of others Lycurgus among his Laws to the Spartans enjoyned this for one That they who lived unmarried and childless should be debarr'd from all sports and forced to go naked in the Winter about the Market-place and in the Spartan Laws there were the same punishments for bad Husbands as for them that were none both being thought equally mischievous to the Commonwealth and neither to be suffered Solon made a Law That there should be no Jointures nor Dowers and that Wives should bring their Husbands but Three Gowns with some other small Trisles of small value forbidding Portions which he looked upon as buying of Husbands and so making Merchandize of Marriage as of other Trades contrary to the Law of Nature and first design of the Institution which was for the increase of Children hence was he wont to 〈◊〉 That Men and Women should Marry for Issue Pleasure and Love but in no case for Money The Romans were so careful in this matter that they made Laws vouchsaffing divers Immunities and Priviledges to such as had many Children as we may see by 〈◊〉 particular Laan Julia or Papia which obliged all Men to take Wives and none to be excepted And not only they but a worse People the Persians had in former times a Custom to Honour Men once a year with some Gratuity from their King who had a Child that year by his Wife respecting him as a Man that had gained an eâ—teem in the Service of his Country by the Laws of Lycurgus Men that would not marry were to be deem'd infamous and to have no respect paid to them consonant to which is that Passage related by Pluâ—reb of Dorcillidas who coming into Prison where there was a young man who gave him no respect not even stirring from his place and being asked why he shewed him no reâ—erence seeing that he was a Man of Honour made the following Reply Because he was not the Father of a Son who might hereafter do as much for him We come nearer home and find at this day in some parts of Germany a Custom formerly more universal once a year at a general meeting in the City or Town to present Gifts and to give publick applause with loud Acclamations to such as were married and had Children that year thus Ecchoing out their Praises These are they that replenish the World As to Widowhood 't was forbidden by the Romans to have any Allowance in the Common-Wealth in case they were not superannuated The Nostranes in the East have so vast a veneration for Marriage that as soon as the married Couple has a Male-Child the Father loses his name and is called by that of his Eldest Son as supposing the Fathers name Isaac and the Son to be called Joseph he is no more named Isaac but Abba Joseph I have heard of a Custom amongst those worst of Men the Irish which may teach us Charity and that is before their Daughters are thirteen years of age they go about among all their Friends and Acquaintance taking the young Girl with them to shew that she is capable of Marriage This accounted sufficient Intimation to their Friends to understand their Design and therefore they need do no more but are immediately answer'd with what they can spare which is commonly in Cattel for they have little Mony This I have heard is a frequent Practice amongst them at this day and so general that a poor Man who may not be Master of six Cows himself will commonly
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
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
woman of a Martial Spirit she was Mother to Henry the fourth called Henry the Great King of France who was Grandfather to the present French King she being a Protestant highly Espoused their Cause for which she is said to be poisoned at Paris with a Pair of perfumed Gloves presented her at her Sons Wedding with Margaret Sister to Charles the Ninth of France and soon after her death the horrid Massacre of the Protestants ensued in which perished about 300000. Ioan of France Daughter to King Lewis the Eleventh was Married to Lewis Duke of Orleance afterwards King of France she was a Princess of Great Virtue she Instituted the Order of the Annuntiation forming it upon the ten Virtues of the Blessed Virgin Viz. Prudence Humility Chastity Verity Devotion Obedience Poverty Patience Compassion and Charity Ioan the first Queen of Jerusalem Naples and Sicily was Daughter to Charles of Sicily Duke of Calabria who after having successively Married four Husbands Andreas James Lewis and Otho was deprived of her Kingdoms and Life by Charles d' Durass her Cousin whom she had adopted her Heir as having no Children of her own Joan the second Queen of Naples a Woman of great Courage and Conduct but had a very troublesome Reign upon William of Austria her Husband retiring into a Monastery upon Discontent occasioned by her being too Prodigal of her Favours to others and dying without Children she bequeathed her Kingdom to Rene Duke of Anjou Ioan Infanta and Regent of the Kingdom of Portugal she was Daughter to Alphonsus the fifth who for her Prudence and Courage left her Regent when he went to War against the Moors yet at last she retired into a Monastery Ioia a Woman of Spain who preached to the People in the Cathedral of Barcelona and is said in the time of the Papacy of Pope Paul the third to Convert divers Jews at Rome and to explain in the presence of the Cardinals the Books of John Don Scotus commonly called the Subtle Doctor Iole Daughter of Eurytus the Oechalian King with her Hercules fell desperately in Love but her Father would not Consent he should have her unless he could gain her by Combate with him which when he had done he still denied to give her to him which so inraged Hercules that he slew him and took her away by force and afterwards gave her to his Son Hillus but Dejaneiza Jealous of Hercules she being his first Wife sent him a Shirt dipt in Poison and Tinctured in Nessus Blood which in Pains and Torment put an end to his Glorious Atchievements with his Life Iphianassa Daughter 〈◊〉 Praetus King of the Argines who with her Sister being in the Temple of Juno and despising the homeliness of it as also the Beauty of the Goddess she throughly nettled at the Contempt so Changed and Disordered their Minds that they fancied themselves to be Heifers and could by no means be perswaded out of that Opinion till Melampus the Physician restored them again to their Right Senses and for his Reward had Iphianassa in Marriage and a part of the Kingdom for her Dowry Iphis she was the Daughter of Lygdus and Theletusa whose Sex her Mother kept secret and from her Infancy brought her up in Masculine Apparel for that her Father had doomed the Infant if a Girl to be made away when under this disguise she came of Years Lygdus concluded a Marriage between her and Janibe a Beautiful Maid which made her Mother almost at her Wits end because that by this means a Discovery would be made but however upon her invoking Venus and offering in her Temple she on the Wedding-day was changed into a Man and did the Office of a Bridegroom to the Satisfaction of her Fair Bride Iphigenia she was Daughter to King Agamemnon by Clyâ—â—â—nestra and is said by Homer to be offered up to Diana for the successful Passage of the Grecian Fleet to Troy but as she lay on the Altar ready to be sacrificed the Goddess wrapt her in a Cloud and bearing her thence made her her Priesteis Irene Empress of Constantinople Mother to Constantine the seventh whose Eyes she put out that she might Reign alone upon which as if Heaven demonstrated a Detestation of the Cruelty the Sun for eighteen days shined so dimly as if it had drawn in its Light as it Thyestes Feast but Nicephorus having wrested the Empire out of her Hands banished her to Metylene where she soon after died of Grief Irene the Fair Grecian Lady that was presented to Mabomet the Great at the Sack of Constantinople on whom he doated so much that he spent whole Days and Nights in her Company and neglected his weighty Affairs but being reproved by his Bassas he in a rage cut off her Head with his Scymeter but repenting it betook him to the Wars to put the cruel Act out of his Mind Iris Messenger to Juno said to be the Daughter of Thaumus and Electra she is painted with a Rain-bow circling her her Name importing the Painted Bow so often seen after Showers in the Clouds Isaura Clementia a Lady of Tholouse in France famous for her Learning and Ingenious Parts she appointed the Floral Games yearly kept there and in the Town-house her Marble Statue stands Crowned with Flowers Ius a Goddess worshipped by the Egyptians her Sacrifice and worship was Infamous and Obscene insomuch that the Priests were forbidden to speak any thing of them and the Romans forbid it in their City Isota of Verona a Lady of great Learning she wrote five hundred sixty four Books which are to be seen in Thaurus Library and held divers Disputes with the most Learned Men yet dyed at the Age of thirty six Years a Virgin Iudith a Holy Widow who by destroying the Tyrant Holyphernes delivered the Jews Iudith Daughter to Velpo Count of Ruensburge she was made Recluse by the People Iudith Daughter to Charles the Bald and Wife to Ethelwolfe and Ethelred Kings of England Iulia Wife to Severus the Roman Emperour and Mother to Geta she after the Death of her Husband Married Bassianus Caracalla her Son in Law who fell in Love with her upon seeing her naked Thigh Iulia Wife to Pompey and Daughter to Julius Caesar she died in Child-bed before she could compose the differences between those great Captains which afterward caused such Distractions in the Roman State by a Piteous war Iulia the Daughter of Augustus Caesar and Scribonia â—he greatly perplexed that Emperour in the heighth of his Fortune by her loofe Carriage and Wanton way of living she was Married to divers Husbands by whom she had several Children but Wedlock not being capable of satisfying her Lustful Desires and shâ— continuing her leud Courses her Father Banished her after that she was Married to Tyberius but disdaining him he coming to be Emperour revenged her Pride and Scorn by confining her so straight that she pined away for Hunger Iulia Daughter to Agrippa and the beforementioned Julia she followed her
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
ought when he sees instead of a Careful Woman only an Empty airy thing that sails about the House and only carelesly sweeps it with her Train moving about to no purpose and looking in all respects as if she came thither only to pay a Visit and rising at Eleven her mornings Business has been to eat her Breakfast about half an hour before Dinner that she may have the greater Liberty to persecute the Company with her Discourse and then her Emptiness calls for a Coach that she may be yet more troublesome to her Acquaintance who out of Complement must accompany her and endure her Prattle that had but too much cloy'd them before Then on the top of the stairs she stops not so much to debate who shall go down foremost as to throw out a few Compliments she has learned by heart expecting Applause in return and so setting out like a Ship from a Harbour laden with Trifles she shows her spreading Sails and Pendants at the Port she sets out for and so returns without the trouble of unlading or traffiquing for the least advantage in understanding and only satisfies her self in boasting her Waiting-woman the Triumphs of the days Impertinency and so having supt wrapt up in flattery and clean Linnen to bed she goes so satisfied with her proceedings that it casts her into a pleasing Dream of her own Felicity Such a one is rarely serious but with her Taylor and her Dressing-box we will allow her Children and Family may sometimes have a random thought but when she takes direct Aim it is at some very Impertinent person who seems more pleasing to her than all the sober and wife of her Acquaintance Kind Ladies pardon us for this bold truth which is only level'd at those who think they have no other Business in the World than feeding high going fine passing Complements and swiming about in Visitations whilst their Families lie neglected and run into Disorder what pleasure can a Husband have whose province is without doors and to whom the Oeconomy of the House would in some degrees be Indecent when he finds the Harmony of his Family broken and has his Ears pestered with Complaints of divers Kinds whilst the mistaken Lady fancies she can make all amends by having a well Chosen and Fashionable Petty-coat and Head-dress but when she sees her Neglects have caused Disorders to run high she will perhaps grow angry with her self and wish she had better bestowed her time more prudently but then being set so far back in the Respect due to her from those that are to Manage affairs under her 't is ten to one if ever she recovers the Repute of a Wise and Discreet Lady though she reforms very much and calls home Seriousness to her Assistance There is an old Saying that when it is too far gone we can no more have Wisdom than Grace whenever we think fit to call for it there are times and periods fixed for both and being too long neglected the punishment is that they are Irrevocable and nothing remains but a useless Grief for the Folly of having thrown them out of our Power Think then Ladies what a mean figure such a person makes when she is so degraded by her own fault whereas in those Duties that can reasonably be expected from you there is nothing that is a Lessening to you unless it be made so by your want of Conduct if you are desirous as all Virtuous Mothers are to Love your Children you may do it without Living in the Nursery and your Care may be never the less for them if it serves not to fill up the Discourse in Company Kindness and tenderness of Mothers to their Children are the least deceitful Evidences of their Virtues and yet the way of Expressing how endearing they are to them ought to be subject to the Rules of good Breeding and although a Lady of great quality ought not to be less kind to her Children than Women of the meanest Rank yet she may well distinguish her self in the manner and avoid the homely Methods which in the Inferiour 〈◊〉 is more Excusable Attract by Moderate Blandishments their Loves early to you that their obedience may be more Firm and Regular when they arrive to any degrees of understanding their Duties Their first Insufficiency makes them entirely lean upon their Parents for the Necessaries of Life and the Habit of it makes them continue the same Expectations for what is unreasonable and as often as you deny them they as frequently think they are Injured and whilst their Reasons are yet in the Cradle and their Desires strong their Anger seeth no farther than the thing they desire and cannot posses and to be displeased for their own good is a sign they are but slow to understand from whence you may conclude your Childrens first thoughts will have no small mixture of mutiny which so naturally happening you must Keep in your Anger unless you would be so Imprudent as to Increase it and by seldom denying their Cravings where you see it necessary you may in a short Time â—atter away their Peevishness and ill Humours especialy if you take the Opportunity to please them in the next thing before they ask or require it and by these means you will strenghen your Authority in making it Soft and Easie to them and thereby their obedience in the future will be Confirmed to you they seeing it is for their Interest to obey Keep a strict Guard upon your Words and Actions when you are among your Children as if you were amongst your Enemies for they are too prone to make wrong Inferences and to take too large a Liberty and encouragement in the misapplying your Words and Actions either to Extend their Freedom or Extenuate their Duty something of awe is required in Kindness as well as in Power and operates more Effectually of the two above all things beware of Indulging one more than another and by that means giving too large a Liberty to its Impertinence lest the rest claiming the same Right and Priviledge and not being gratified there spring up a Division and Disorder amongst them which many times has turned to mortal Hatred and been not only the grief of the Parents but either the Ruin or Disgrace of the Family and be always vigilant that they when growing up fall not into the Company of Naughty Children or those that are more grown that you keep such Servants as in no wise corrupt them by Examples or Discourse in case of Offences let it not be their penance to see you grown sowre upon them lest it Harden them rather than Mollisie their Tempers into meek Relentings and Resolves to be Cautious in offending and although occasion doubtless will be ministered for Severity and Kindness to take their turns yet the larger mixture must rather be Love than Fear it being the proper root from which their obedience should shoot up and continue flourishing and so shall they be Blessings and Comforts
Arguments she found she could not otherwise satisfie their Clamours she caused her Horse that was tied at her Palace gate to be let loose vowing that into whose House soever he first entered the Man of the House should be her Husband at last he went into the House of Primislaus a very Poor Man yet she however kept her Vow and Married him by which means he was saluted the first King of Bohemia Libitina a Roman Goddess of the Ancients in whose Temples things necessary for Funerals were kept which were bought or borrowed of the Priests as the People had occasion to use them Limona Daughter to Hypomanes Archon or Prince of the Athenian Common-wealth she being with Child by a Young Gentleman of Athens her Father so highly resented the dishonour done to his Family that he caused her Gallant to be drawn in pieces by Horses and put her up in a Stable with a Horse allowing neither of them any Food so that the Horse growing inraged by hunger killed her and eat her Liriope the Daughter of Thetis and Oceanus she was Married to Cephesus by whom she had Narcissus the fair Youth who flying the Courtship of the Languishing Virgins at last seeing his Face in a Fountain as he stooped to Drink he fell in Love with his shadow Litae a sort of friendly Goddesses who were wont to do good Offices for Men in procuring them their wishes and desires of things necessary for them Livia Daughter to Drusius second Son of Livia the Empress Livia Drusilla she was Daughter to Livius Drusus Calidianus who killed himself after the loss of the Philippi field she was Wife to Tiberias Claudius Nero by whom she had Tiberius afterwards Emperor of Rome and Augustus having divorced Scribona took her from her Husband when she was great with Child and Married her but having no Children by her he adopted Tiberius to succeed him Lutgarda or Luidgarda a German Lady Wife to Charles the Great she was of a Masculine Spirit and took especial delight in Hunting Wild Beasts in which she was as forward and daring as the stoutest and bravest Hero Locusta a Woman that bent her Mind to Study the Power and Effects of Poisons she serv'd the Tyrant Nero in carrying on his wicked designs in poisoning all that he ordered her and amongst other the Prince Germanicus and least she should be destroyed by the People for her hellish Practices he set a Guard over her to attend her Person whereever she went Losa de Cardona a Spanish Lady who by Acquirement in Learning was skilled in the Latin Greek and Hebrew and so profound in Divinity that the Doctors admitted her a place in the University when she died she conjured her Husband to bestow whatever he could spare to Charitable uses giving all her own Rings and Jewels to that behoof before she died Libentina or Lubentia a Goddess held to be the overfeet of Pleasures Sports and Merriments and a Protectress of Libertinisus Lucilla a Spanish Lady who assisted the Schismaticks against Cecilianus Bishop of Carthage with great Treasure to carry on their Cause for that the Bishop had angred her by a Reproof for Kissing the bones of a Martyr as she was going to the Communion Lucina a Goddess thought to be very helpful at Womens Labours and then was called the Goddess of Child-birth also the Name of a Noble Roman Lady who turning Christian Dedicated her stately Palace to be a Church or Meeting Place for the Assembly of Christians Lucretia a Roman Lady who being ravisht by Tarquin killed her self which occasion'd the Expulsion of King out of Rome Labda the lame Daughter of Amphion despised by the rest of the Bâ—tchidae Lachesis one of the three Destinies Lactary l. a Darie-house Lactucina a Roman Goddess over Corn when the Eaâ—s began to fill Ladies-bedstram an herb in dry pastures with small leaves and yellow flowers Ladies-bomer a plant with abundance of small branches and leaves fit to make Arbours for Ladies Ladies-mantle with a neat indented leaf almost like a Star Ladies-smocks a kind of water-cresses Lady-traces a kind of Sâ—tyrium or Orchis Lair-wire Lerherwire Leger-geldum an ancient Custom of punishing Adultery and Fornication by the Lords of some Mannors Laius Jocasta's Husband after whose death she married his Son Oedipus Lamia a Harlot to whom the Iâ—ebins built a Temple Lamiae l. Fairies or Female Spirits Love What is it Answ. 'T is very much like Light a thing that every Body Knows and yet none can tell what to make of it 'T is not Money Fortune Joynture Raving Stabbing Hanging Romancing Flouncing Swearing Ramping Desiring Fighting Dying though all those have been are and â—ill will be mistaken and miscalled for it What shall we say of it 't is a pretty little soft thing that plays about the Heart and those who have it will know it well enough by this Description 'T is extreamly like a 〈◊〉 and could we find a Painter could draw one you 'd easily mistake it for the other 'T is all â—ver Eyes so far is it from being blind as some old Dotards have describ'd it who certainly were Blind themselves It has a Mouth too and a pair of pretty Hands but yet the Hands speak and you may feel at a distance every Word that comes from the Mouth gently stealing through your very Soul But we dare not make any further Enquiries least we should raise a Spirit too powerful for all our Art to lay again Athens Lactea Febris the Milk Fever that which comes upon Child-bed Women on the First Days Lobers Logick is the Art of discerning true Love from that which is counterfeir and of arguing exactly upon all things that may befal them Love-spots there is one thing only that I cannot think of without indignation nor speak of but with Passion that is of Love-spots and Painting Oh the earnest and holy zeal of the Ancients against this I would rather speak in their words than mine own Tertullian bitterly he calls painted Women Ancillas Diaboli The Devils waiting-women I remember I once made use of and alluded to a Similitude of Cyprians in the presence of some great Women of quality suppose one should come into the Kings Gallery and daub some other colors over a Picture that the King had hung there being the work of an excellent Artist would not the King be much displeased at it You are Gods own workmanship do ye despise his hand that ye presume to alter it and pretend to mend it Painting and Spotting make a discovery of an unchast Mind Yea the Fathers do generally speak in the manner when the case was put to Augustine by his friend Possidonius he determines it to be an Adulterous fallacy And Ambrose goeth so far that he saith it is worse than Adultery and he gives Reasons for it Modest Woman I allow her a lawful difference of apparel according to the difference of her Quality and Estate Letters Directions to Young Ladies in writing them First
what a Letter is It is or ought to be the express Image of the Mind represented in writing to a friend at a distance wherein is declared what He or She would do or have done This excellent use we have of Letters that when distance of place will not admit of Union of Persons or converse Viva voce that deplorable defect is supplied by a Letter or Missive Let me now shew you the parts of a Letter the common ones are Superscription and Subscription The Superscription of Letters is twofold the one external the other internal the outward Superscription is that when the Letter is folded up and containeth the Name Title and Abode of the Person we write unto but above all you must have a care that you give proper Titles such as befit the Quality of the Person The Title of a King is To His most Excellent Majesty To the Queen the same altering the Article To all Sons or Brethren of the King of England To His Royal Highness To a Duke To His Grace To a Dutchess the same To all Earls Marquesses Viscounts and Barons To the right Honourable To Marchionesses and Countesses by Patent To the Right Honourable To all Lords To the Right Honourable To Knights To the right Worshipful To all Justices of the Peace High Sheriffs Councellors at Law Esquires either by birth or place c. To the Worshipful If Kindred write one to another the greater may express the Relation in the beginning of the Letter but she that is of the meaner Quality must be content to specifie it in the Subscription Besides Superscription and Subscription you must set down what year and day you write this Letter in and the place from whence it came yet it is not always convenient to mention the place nor the Relation the Person hath to you to whom you write For the style of your Letters let it not be affected but careless not much differing from our usual way of speaking In Letters of Complement supply the barrenness of your matter with the smoothness of your Rhetorical Exornation Consider seriously what best befits the things you are to write of regarding Person Time and Place It would be absurd for any one to write to a Superiour as to a Familiar we are not to use the like expressions to a Soldier as we do to a Scholar or a Lady Be not too prolix in your writing nor too short do not study for had words but such as are either plain or very significant this perspicuity of writing is to be measur'd according to the capacity of the Person to whom the Letter is directed for some will easily conceive what is difficult and hard for others to comprehend Lastly be curious in the neat folding up your Letter pressing it so that it may take up but little room and let your Seal and 〈◊〉 be very Fair. Lying-in if some Men might have their Will Women were in the worst Condition of all Creatures for Nature has taught the Birds of the Air against they are ready to Lie in to frame their Bed-Chambers with that Art and Curiosity to make their Beds and draw their Curtains about them with so much Neatness and Artifice that their Nurseries seem to be so many petty Palaces and the Winds themselves are forced to rock the Cradles of their Young ones But Women must never be taken care of while they are breeding nor provided for against their Delivery 'T is true indeed when we see a Poor Woman reduced to that miserable shift as to be Deliver'd in Rags we are apt to believe that the Woman misses somewhat of Matrimonies Pleasure but then again we take her for some forlorn Creature abandon'd by all Mankind and forsaken even by Charity it self But we find all Creatures as Nature instructs them making king some Provision or other against their Delivery the Male doing his and the Female her Duty in all respects only Women must shift for themselves for after the Men have once got 'em with Child they have nothing to do but to drink and guttle and Whore or Roar or if they will be such Fools to compassionate the Sufferings of their Wives this must be look'd upon as the disturbance and inconvenience of Matrimony But these upholders of Paradoxes consider not that in the same Chamber where the Wife Lies in the Effect of the Husband's Manhood comes to light and would you have the Parents want a great Candle or two to see what God has sent ' em Man is Born naked all other Creatures come into the World with their Cloaths on and their Cloaths grow as they grow without the help of Taylors and Coat-sellers Do you think it is not greatly for the Reputation of the Man that his Wife has been with Child and that she is deliver'd at length of a lusty Boy Suppose it be a Girl that Girl may bring Boys in time for so the World goes round The Name of Da Da is now as pretty a pleasing Name as Mr. Bridegroom was before Why we have heard of many Fathers of Children that have been Fathers of Nations and the first Wife has had always equal respect with the first Husband Lacedemonians highly beloved by their Wives The very Heathems were in their Cities and Goverment strengthned by the prosperous effects of Marriage Plutarch thus relates the Story in the Life of Pyrrhus that when the City of Sparta was besieged by that Prince with design to assault it the next Morning the Lacedemonians resolved that Night to send away their Wives and Children into Creta but the Women themselves oppos'd the Decree and one among the rest called Archidamia went into the Senate House with a Sword in her hand in the Name of all the rest and told them That they did their Wives great wrong if they thought them so Faint-hearted as to live after Sparta was destroyed upon which the Council determined their Stay and the Wives and Daughters did that Night work at the Trenches sending the Young Men that were to Fight the next Morning to sleep and at break of day when the Enemy began the Assault the Women fetched the Weapons and put them in the Young Mens hands delivering them the Trench ready made and praying them valiantly to keep and defend it telling them how great a Glory it must be to overcome their Enemies Fighting in the sight of their Wives and Countrey and what Eternal Honour it was to dy in the Arms of their Mothers and Wives after that they had fought valiantly like honest Men for their Countrey and these Women did not only encourage the Men in words but during the Fight stood by assisting them and taking out of the Battel such as were wounded by which means they repulsed the Macedonians Here we have an unparallel'd Example of that Force which attends Conjugal Love See a Book called marriage promoted Love fully treated on Love has very ample Limits and though his walks be very spacious yet
they are beset with Thorns If we take Love universally it may be defined to be a desire as being a Word of more ample Signification It is a voluntary affection and desires to enjoy that which is good whilst desire only wisheth Love enjoys the end of the one being the beginning of the other the thing loved is present and the thing desired is absent and indeed all that may be termed Love arises from a desire of what is Beautiful Fair and Lovely and is defin'd to be an Action of the Mind desiring that which is good and exerts a Soveraignty over all other Passions and defines it an appetite in which some good is earnestly desired by us to be present or as some will have it it is a Delectation of the Heart for somewhat that we are desirous to win or rejoice to have coveting by desire that rests is Joy Love varies in its Object though that Object is always good amiable gracious and pleasant and indeed there is a Native tendency of desire to those things that are so for no one Loves before he is in some measure delighted with Comliness and Beauty let the Object be what it will and as the fair Object varies so frequently Love varies for indeed every thing that we do Love we think at that time to be amiable by which means it becomes gracious in our Eyes and commands a value and esteem in our Affections Love has always amiableness for its Object and the scope and end of it is to obtain it for whole sake we so Love and the which our Mind covets to enjoy Beauty shining by Reason of it's splendor that shining Creates Admiration and the more earnestly the Object is sought the fairer it appears If we take Plato's rule to define it he tells us that Beauty is a lively shining or glittering brightness resulting from effused good by Ideas Seeds Reasons Shaddows exciting our Minds to be united by this good and centring in one by setting a just value upon what is good some again give their Opinions the Beauty is the Perfection of the whole Composition caused out of the congruous Symmetry order measure and manner of parts and the comeliness proceeding from such Beauty is styled Grace and from thence all fair and beautiful things are accounted gracious for Grace and Beauty being mysteriously annexed gently and sweetly win upon our Souls so strongly alluring our Affections that our Judgments are confounded and cannot distinguish aright for these two are like the radiant Beams of the Sun which are divers as they proceed from the diverse objects in pleasing and affecting our several Senses for the species of Beauty taken in at our Eyes and Ears is conveyed to and stamp'd upon the Soul and of all these Objects though so innumerably various beautiful Women are the most attractive as to material beings which caused the Ancients to allow Venus the Queen of Beauty three of the Graces to attend her Love is divided by Plato into good and evil or a good and bad Angel because sometimes Love is misused and corrupted till it degenerate to evil ends and Lucian in like manner says that one Love was born in the Sea meaning Venus who is said to spring from thence and therefore is as various and raging in the Breasts of the younger sort as the Sea it self occasioning Fury and unlawful Lust and that the other is that which was let down in a golden Chain from Heaven ravishing our Souls with a Divine Fury and stirs us up to comprehend the innate and incorruptible Beauty to which once we were created which Opinions occasioned these verses If Divine Plato's tenents are found true Two Venus's two kinds of Love there be The one from Heaven in its bright Radiance flew The other sprung out of the boisterous Sea One knits our Souls in perfect Unity The other famous over all the Earth Yoo often soars on Wings of Vanity And gives wild random projects still new Birth Love in her twofold Division is allowed by Origen and others and there is degrees of Love in all Creatures even in the coldest Element Love generates a kindly heat to support it self and some will allow even Vegetives to have some sense and feeling of Love as that the Male and Female Palm-trees will not bear nor flourish asunder and many other the like Relations The Loadstone by a wonderful Sympathy attracts the Iron c. the Vine and the Elm are best pleased with each other and there is a great an Antiphathy between the Vine and the Bay-tree the Olive and Mirtle if they grow near embrace each other in their Roots and Branches we might mention the Sympathy and Antipathy of fundry irrational Creatures but being little to our purpose we omit them Those things as we have already hinted that infascinate and charm the Soul are the proper Objects of Love and where we place our entire Affections there our Heart not only Centers but our Diligence and care is to serve and oblige and are pleased and delighted in so doing but when we fix an immoderate Eye on my Earthly thing and doat on it over much it many times instead of Pleasure turns to Pain and Sorrow works our Discontent and causes Melancholly so that nothing in the end can afford us any Pleasure or Delight to the Purpose as too many have found by sad Experience for setting their Hearts on things of which they have been deprived or disappointed has Crazed their Senses and rendred them Melancholly past Recovery if not Distracted whilst some are mightily taken with fair Houses Pictures and 〈◊〉 Recreations others find â—o delight in them but fix their 〈◊〉 upon other Objects as Gold Silver Jewels c. and other upon fair and beautiful Women and so every one hath his proper Object with which he is best pleased some are for chast Love which is above all the best others are not pleased with it but take a kind of a Pride in lascivious dalliance in the wanton embraces of a Harlot Love of Parents to Children and Children to Parents ought to be entire and unseigned free from mixture but this kind naturally descends but does not so well ascend for Poverty or Affliction many times jostles it out of doors but the Love of Women is the highest and most predominant the affected part herein is held to be the Liver and this sort of Love being most to our purpose we shall treat of it more largely in the next Head Love borrows its flame in this Case from Beauty or Merit wherewith it inflames the Soul and then as the Loadstone draws Iron so do's Beauty attract Love and where Beauty and Vertue unite their forces in one it is very hard to make Resistance the Lustre is so great that it dazles the Eyes of the beholder and through the Windows of his Body daâ—â—s those rays into his Soul that makes him pleased to become a Captive however it is dangerous to let loose the
Stand up like barren Hills to fruitful plains For though they 're only carv'd on some rough Tree Yet growing like my Verse my Love shall be Love has many tickling Conceits attending it which are so sweet and pleasant to the Fancies of those it possesses that many would willingly think or talk of no other subject and this stirs up in them a desire of Enjoying what they Love and that puts them upon Enquiry and asking many strange and frivolous Questions of Star-gazers Fortune-tellers Figure-slingers Gypsies and the like in which they throw away their Money and Time some require to see the Pictures of them in a glass who are destined to be their Husbands when married how many Husbands they shall have whether kind or unkind when they shall be married what Children they shall have and how fortunate they shall live and such Fooleries which the Party can no more tell them than they can tell him or could inform themselves before they came to consult him Some of the female Sex forsooth undertake to resolve Love-questions and be stiled wise Woman which brings an odd Fancy into our Heads It happened once upon a time that a Mother would needs carry her Daughter who was Ripe for Love-Enjoyment and Courted by a young Spark to be resolved whether it would be a lucky Match This womans Son about six years old seeing them dressed fine and going abroad was very inquisitive to know whither they were gadding she put him off at first with a Sugar-plumb or two but growing more earnest and crying to go with her Come Peace says she there 's my brave Boy we are only going to the wise Womans and will be here again presently and bring you home a fine thing Yet this satisfied him not but set him in a louder Bawling to this tune O Mother let me go with you O pray good dear Mother let me go with you I never saw a wise woman in all my born days and so she was compell'd by his Importunity to take him with her and satisfie his Curiosity with the sight of one she fancy'd to be so Love has been the occasion of finding out many curious Arts for what will not a Lover study to please his Mistress T is held the first Picture that ever was drawn was taken by Deburiade's Daughter for her Love about to go to the Wars Coming to take Leave of her she to Comfort her-self the better in his Absence drew his Picture on the wall with a Cole which her Father afterwards finished in lively Colours Vulcan is held to maKe the first Curious Necklace that ever was seen for Hermione the Wife of Cadmus of whom he was passionately Enamoured The Stockin Engine of a later date was the Projection of a young Lover who jesting with his fair Mistress happened to pull out her needles as she was knitting which so angered her that she banished him her presence and he was constrained to mourn in his Exile till Love quickned his Invention to bring his engine to perfection and with it made an Attonement and was restored to Favour Love is held to be the first Inventer of all our Tilts and Tournaments Orders of the Golden Fleece Garter c. By which Inventions Emblems Symbols Impresses and the like they laboured to shew and express their Loves to fair Ladies when they came to be Spectators of any private or publick Shews or Entertainments even the Rural sort when they once sip Loves Nectar are all apish and sprightly on a Suddain Menacles and Carydon Swinherds and Shepherds tasting this Love Liqour are inspired in an instant and instead of what has been mentioned they have their Wakes Eves Whitsun-Ales Shepherds Holy-days Round-delays Capering-Dances and then at more leisure times those that can write cut their Mistresses Names on the Rhine of some spreading Beech or Alder-tree with his own under it by some road side that she may be sure to see it as she passes along Those that are less learned cut a true Lovers Knot and set their Mark under it in the figure of a Pair of Pot-hooks The Chusing of Lords Ladies Kings Queens and Valentines they owe to Love that first invented such merry Meetings that he might more liberally and oppotunately bestow his Shafts as the old saying is With Tokens Gold divided and half Rings The Shepherds in their Loves are blest as Kings Nor do they want Poetry to Garnish it though a little home Spun which makes the Rural Girls like it the better because it is the Native Product of their Sweet-hearts brains not stole or borrowed and pretended to be their own a Trick many of our Town Sparks frequently use but run to this purpose Thou Honey-Suckle of the Hawthorn hedge Vouchsafe my heart in Cupids Cup to pledge My hearts dear blood sweet Ciss is thy Carouse Worth all the Ale in Gammer Bubbins house I 'se say more affairs call me away My fathers Horse of Privinder do's stay Be thou the Lady Cresset light to me Sir Trolly Lolly will I prove to thee Written in haste farewell my Vi'let sweet On Sunday pray let 's at an Ale-house meet Love's soveraignty extends every where and let some Stoicks pretend What they will yet in spight of all they can do they cannot resist him at one time or other he will be too hard for them and show them strange Vagaries make them melt into a passion notwithstanding flintiness We see that slints are melted and run down with Material fire and if so consequently the fire of Love being more pure and subtil can't miss to mollifie the Heart on which it fixes Some Emperors and Kings have built Cities that they might be called by their Mistresses Names and stand as lasting Monuments to their Memories Dionisius the Sicilian would bestow no Offices nor places consult of no Affairs of State without the Advice and Consent of Mirrha his Mistress Constellations Temples Statues and Altars have been Dedicated to Beauteous Women by their Admirers for Love indeed is Subject to no Dimension cannot be survey'd by any 〈◊〉 or Art so that the greatest pretender must be of Haedus's opinion if he has not had large experimental Knowledge viz. No Man can says he Discourse of Love-matters so as to Judge aright that has not in his own Person made Tryal or as Aeneas Sylvius says has not been shot through with Loves Arrows Moped Doated been Mad Love sick so that you may find Experience is the best Master when all 's done Ovid Confesses that Experience taught him to discover so many of the intriegues of Love as to instruct others in some things relating to it's misteries Love when all is said that can be alledged is best satisfied with the Fruition of that beautiful Object that occasioned it The last and surest Refuge and Remedy to be put in Practice in the utmost place when no other will take effect is to let the Young couple have their mutual Wishes
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
Empire who falling out about the Grecian Governor of Eskichisar by way of Rival-ship during his Courting her was the first Motive of taking up Arms which has since proved fatal to Christendom he being before only the Master of a few Herdsmen Monfort Bertard she was Wife to Hugh Earl of Anjou afterward Philip the first of France fell in Love with her and Divorced his Wife Birthe to Marry her for which the Pope Excommunicated him but he was absolved by the Council held at Clermont Anno 1104. Montenai Georgette a beautiful Lady of Honour to the Queen of Navarr she Composed a Book of Emblems and Mottoes which she presented to the Queen and gained great Applause for her Learning and Ingenuity Morel Julian a very learned Lady she is said to have spoke fourteen Languages and to be very well skilled in Philosophy when very young but at last turned Nun and lived a very strict religious Life Murria a Goddess whose Statue was set up in Rome covered with Dust and Moss by reason she was held to preside over idle Lazy Persons to shew that of Sloath and Idlenese comes nothing that is good her Temple was at the Foot of Mount Avetine Muses they were Nine reputed to be the Daughters of Jupiter Manners Directions about them It would be unnecessary to advise what is a common document for Children That when you answer Yes or No you must always add Madam or Sir c. It is obvious also that when you answer no in contradiction to some person of quality you must not say bluntly or positively no but by way of Circumlocution You will pardon me Sir You will excuse me Madam if I presume to say so and so It is unmannerly to make comparison with the Person to whom you are speaking to discover the imperfection of another as to say I know such a Man very well I have seen him drunk he is thick Shoulder'd or grey-headed like you Or to tell a Lady such a Person is of no good reputation I know her well she is fat and swarthy like your Ladiship It is unhansome likewise as many do when a thing is spoken obligingly to you to say rudely You are mistaken Sir it is not so You must rather turn the Phrase and say Sir Your favour amaezes me I have done nothing but my Duty A Person pretending to the least competency of discretion would Betray himself very much to hedge in a discourse of his Wife his Children or Relations before strange Company If occasion be offer'd he may speak of them but it must be modestly and not long When a Woman makes mention of her Husband she may use his name with the addition of Monsieuâ— unless his condition be very inferiour But if the Company before whom she speaks be much above his Quality she is to say only my Husband It is not civil when a Person of Quality hesitates or stops in his discourse for you to strike in though with pretence of helping his memory as if he were telling us how Caesar defeated Pompey at the Battle of of of you must not say Pharsalia 't is better to attend till he recollects or asks you himself It is likewise indecent whilst you are speaking to address your self often to one person in these or such like words You understand me Sir am I intelligible I know not whether I explain my self c. this arguing a suspition of his Intellect and is by all means to be avoided It is not becoming coming a person of quality when in the Company of Ladies to handle them roughly to put his hand in their necks or their bosoms to kiss them by surprize to pull off their Hoods to snatch away their Handkerchiefs to rob them of their Ribbands and put them into his Hat to force their Letters or Books from them to look into their Papers c. You must be very familiar to use them at that rate And unless you be so nothing can be more indecent or render you more odious When a Jewel or other Curiosity is shown in Company it is very ill breeding to clap your hands upon it first For thereby many People discover the weakness of their judgments that they have not been used to Curiosities and know not how to value them right And here it is not improper to advertise that you must always pull off your Glove and kâ—ss your hand when you take from or present any thing to a person of Quality or when you return any thing to them But if he desires you to reach such a thing you must do it presently without making him attend and having presented it not forget to kiss your hand 'T is rude likewise when a man is reading or writing a Letter to peep over his shoulder or to open any Papers that you find upon the Table of a person of Quality When a new Person comes into a room and any of the Company rises to meet or salute him though the Person so entring be your Interiour it will be but civil in you to rise up too and salute him If a Messenger comes in to speak with you though it be but a Footman yet coming from a Person to whom you are oblig'd to pay respect you are to rise from your seat and receive his Message standing and uncover'd In Assemblies upon any publick Ceremony you must have respect principally to two sorts of people the outhors of the solemnity and the persons invited The Authors of the Ceremony if the action be serious are always to precede though perhaps their condition be Inferiour For Example at a Wedding the Bride Bridegroom their Relations and the Ecclesiastical Officers may challenge that priviledge and 't is but civil to allow it though they be much beneath you If at a Christning the Midwife the Godfather and Godmother and Child and all that are essential to the Ceremony go before At a Funeral the Children and Relations of the defunct have the same But some will of Complement ask what we are to say to these great Lords and Ladies in our Vâ—â—â—ts whether any thing or nothing If there be design in our Visit then we may inlarge but if our visit be only to show our selves and let his Lordship know we are alive we need do no more The Story told in merriment of a Courtier who making a visit to a Noble Man upon that score only and accosting him thus I am come to wait upon your Lordship only to pay my respects was answered thus bluntly by the Lord Do it then and be gone There are several ways by which we do usually insinuate our Compassion either by Congratulation which is a civil intimation of the joy we conceive at some good fortune that has befallen him Or Condolency which is a signification of our sorrow and regret for his affliction or misfortune Or Thanks for some favour receiv'd Or Protestation of service respect submission obedience fidelity c. Or Complaint in which Case there is
Generation yet the fruitfulness and Advantage or disadvantage is more or Less according to the degrees of cold and moisture for some are so in the firâ— others in the second some again in the third and in each of â—hose they may kindly conceive if the masculine Effects answer them in proportion of hâ—ar since we find not that the Philosophers or Phisiâ—ians have so exactly distinguished these degrees that a woman may Expressly know in what degree she is and so the better dispose and order her self for the bringing forth fair and wirty Children we will confider something to give them a Light into it from the Effects these Qualities do work in women and these are divers therefore we may reasonably divide them under these seven particulars viz. The first by the wit and abilities of the woman The second by her manners and Conditions The third by her big or small voice The fourth by her spareness or Corpulency The fifth by her colour The sixth by her Hair and the seventh by her fairness or swarthyness As to the first we may know that although the wit and Ability of a woman flow chiefly from the brain yet the vessels of Generation are of great force and vigor to alter for if they be found hot and dry cold or moist or of what soever temperature the other parts saith Galen will be of the same Tenour Now if we grant that cold and moist are the Qualities that work an Impairement in the reasonable part and that their contraries viz. Hot and dry give the perfection and Encreasment of understanding we shall find her who sheweth much wit and ability partake of cold and moist but in the first degree and if she be deficient in understanding and of a very shallow brain it is a sign that she is cold and moist in the third degree and this too may be known by sound sleeping and much dreaming of pleasant things though much pleasantness of conceit is ordinarily accompanyed with Little wit but if she pertakes of both these Extreams then she stands in the second degree A voice hoarse big and sharp saith Galen is a token of much heat and dryness and a manly voice denotes a woman but cold and moist in the first degree but if a very fine delicate Effeminate voice then in the third degree and if she have the natural voice of a woman then the partaketh of the second degree as being between the two Extreams Much flesh or corpulency denotes much cold and moisture and to be Lean on the contrary denotes heat and dryness and to be meanly fleshed neither over much nor over little denotes her to be in the second degree between the extreams and their pleasantness and Curtesies sheweth the degrees of these two qualities much moisture makes the flesh supple and soft and the want of it makes it rough and hard the mean is the most commendable the colour also of the faces and body discovereth the extended or remiss degrees of these two qualities When the woman is very white saith Galen it betokeneth much moisture and cold and on the contrary she that is swarthy and brown is in the first degree thereof of which two extreams is framed the second degree of white and well coloured to have much hair denotes the first degree of cold and moist for hair requires much heat and Dryness to Engender it and the black more than any other and she that is in the second degree is not overloaded with hair but it is however decent and very comly and those that are in the third degree their hair many times comes off by reason of the great cold and much moisture Foulness and fairness helps us likewise to make a true Judgment of the degrees of cold and moist in women It is a miracle to see a woman of the first degree very fair by reason the seed whereof she was formed being dry hindered that sweetness of complexion that a better tempered matter would have produced and in the second degree of cold and moist a woman proves very fair and comely but in the third by reason of too much cold and moisture she becomes unwieldly and wants a good colour and complexion and therefore those in the second degree are to be preserred for beauty good condition and fruitfulness before the other two And thus having in some measure given women an Inspection into the state and conditions of their bodies as to their tempers and constitutions contributing to fruitfulness and producing of fair children It comes next to be considered what tempers in men come nearest and most agreeable to them in begeting children that may answer their expectations and be pleasing in their Eyes They must understand then amongst the many Excrementious Humours that reside in the body of man that nature according to the opinion of Galen useth only one to serve her ends mainly in Generation and that is termed whey or wheyish blood and whose Engendering is in the Liver and veins at such time as the four humours Blood Phlegm Cholour and Melancholy do assume the form and substance they ought to have and thus Likewise nature useth to resolve the Norishment and to work that it may pass through the viens and through the straight passages conveying subsistâ—nce to every part of the body This work being finished she again provideth the veins whose office is to draw unto them the over abundant humour and purge it out again for the Exoporating the body and keeping it free from any afflictions by the too much pressing of Excremenâ—ious humours for she advizing that man has certain qualities convenient for Generation provided two veins or vessels that should carry part thereof to the Genitals and seminal vessels together with a small quantity of blood whereby so much might be formed as was requisit for procreation and in that end she placed one vein or vessel in the Reins on the right side which endeth in the right testicle and of the same is the right seed vessel framed and the Like on the Left and according to the greater or Lesser Quantity of heat communicated the male or female births are produced Some Historians tell us but by what warrant we know not that women in the begining of the world and a Long time after had generally two children at a birth viz. A male and a female which might be indeed that there should be an Equality of sexes to answer the Institution of Marriage and people and replenish the world in a Lawful way of chast Love But however it might be then we see it is otherwise now and females through an Infeabling of Nature by Intemperance or non-observance of order and fit Seasons in the undertaking the work of Generation are more frequently born than males and therefore those Ladies that are desirous of an Heir or the like to transmit the name of a family to posterity which by Fame cannot be rescued from oblivion Let them consider for themselves and the
no more Octavia she was Daughter to Octavius and the Emperor Augustus's Sister she was first Married to Marcellus and then Mark Anthony she had divers Children that came to be great Men and was admired by the Romans for her Virtue and Prudence so that her Brother Dedicated a Temple and Porticoes to her in Rome as we find it Recorded by Dion Octavia Daughter to Claudius and Messalina was Wife to Nero the Emperor of Rome who without any apparent Cause Divorced her and having Poisoned her Brother Britanicus he caused her to be put to Death Oenoe a Beautiful Nymph that resorted Mount Ida where when Paris was Shepherd she fell in love with him but he coming afterwards to know that he was Son to King Priam of Troy slighted her for Hellen of Greece yet she continued her Love towards him and bewailed her self in the Mountain for being so Deserted but when Paris was slain by the Greeks and his dead Body sent to her to be buried thinking thereby to comfort her her love was so extream that as soon as she saw it she fell upon it and Died of Grief Orgiva or Orgina Wife of Charles the third King of France and Daughter to King Edward the first before the Conquest of the Normans a very learned and virtuous Lady Orbona a Goddess of the Ancients held to take care of Orphans and Children in Distress she was Worshiped by the Romans that they might not be afflicted in their Widowhood or in the loss of their Children her name is derived from the word Orbus denoting any one that has lost Father or Children c. Her Altar was near to that of the Lares in the City of Rome Ordeal an old Saxon way of trying of Women that were suspected to be unchast yet no proof against them they laid nine hot bars of Iron about a yard asunder and the party suspected being blindfolded was to pass over them the which if she did without touching any of them she was accounted Innocent but if otherways then guilty and Sentenced by the Laws which in those times were Death in case of Adultery Orithia Queen of the Amazons who was Queen after Marpesia and did wonders in â—eats of Arms in all Battles she fought especially against the Greeks who invaded her Territories to her succeeded Penthesila who with her Female Troop signalized her noble Bravery at the Siege of Troy Orithya Daughter Ezichtheus an Athenian King said to â—e Ravished by one of the Gods of the Wind and by him conceive Lethis and Calais Obedient Wives If their Husbands be pleasant they rejoyce in his pleasure If he suffer in any evertuâ—â— which he neither expected nor his actions deserved they bear a part in his Lachrymâ— Husbands to such Wives are made happy in their choice and have good cause never to wish a change Por they may consort with those they affected without fearing of being call'd to an Evening account If their days expence should chance to be too immoderate they need fear no fingers but their own to dive into their Pockets or to make privy search for more than can be found These need not fear to receive discipline for their laist nights error Or to wear their night-Caps after the oâ—â— fashion with both their Ears through them These can play the merry Mates with their Wives and never laugh till their hearts ake If they come home late tho sooner were better they are entertain'd with a chearful Welcome They find no Pouts in their Dish nor amongst all their necessary utensils one Chasing-dish Out of this precious Mine was surely that good Burgomasters Wife cut out who ever met her Husband at the Portel with a gentle word in her Mouth a sweet smile on her lip a merry look on her cherry cheeke a pair of slippers in one hand and in the other a rubber not at cuffs but a Towel to rub him after his Travel whereas the old beldam Tbestylis would have exchang'd that rubber with an halter if she might have had her will rather than be bound to such a Task And to such a one without all doubt was â—o matched who in a pensive plight all full of discontent published to the World from whence he desired a speedy dismission his hard Fortune in this Bridal Brâ—wl Married whereto to distast Bedded where all grief is plae't Clothed how with Womans shame Branded how with loss of Name How wretchlese is that Man that is disgrast With loss of Name shame grief and all distast Imprison'd h ow to womans Will Ingag'd to what is ill Restrain'd by whom by jealous fear Inthral'd to whom suspicions care How hapless is that wretch that must fulfil A false Suspicious jealous womans will Taxed for what for modest mirth Exposed how a Stale on Earth Surpriz'd with what with discontent Profess'd as how times penitent How can that forlorn Soul take joy on Earth Where Discontent and Penance is his Mirth Threatned how as he're was no man Fool'd by whom a foolish woman Slav'd to what to causeless pleen Sprite-affrighted when I dream How should th' Infernal Priâ—â—e more Furies summâ—n Than lodge in such a spleenful Spiteful Woman Cheered most when least at home Planted where â—'th Torrid Zone Chased how with oyle of tongue Hardned how by suffering wrong How wretched in his Fate who is become Contented most when he is least at home Vrged most when she is near Vsher'd how with fruitless fear Shielded when when I do flye Cur'd with what with hope to dye How cureless doth that cure to sense appear Whose Hope is Death whose Life is fruitless fear Old mans notions of Love I would not says the Old Men be to run through the miseries of life again for a great sum for when I come toward Man the Women will have me as sure as a Gun for to catch Woodcocks and if ever I come to set eye upon a Lass that understands Dress and Raillerly I 'm gone if there were no more Lads in Christendom but for my part I am as sick as a Dog of Powdering Curling and Playing the lady Bird I would not for all the World be in the Shoomakers Stocks and Choak my self 〈◊〉 again in a straight Dublet only to have the Ladies say Look what a delicate shape and foot that Gentleman has and I would take as little pleasure to spend six hours of the four and twenty in picking Gray Hairs out of my Head or Beard or turning white into black to slâ—â—d half ravisht in the Contemplation of my own shadow â—o Dress fine and to go to Church only to see handsome Ladies to correct the midnight air with Ardent Sighs and Ejaculations and to keep company with Owls and Bats like a bird of evil Omen to walk the round of a Mistresses Lodgings and play at bo-peep at the corner of every street to Adore her Imperfections or as the Song says for her ugliness and for her want of Coin to make bracelets for her locks
the midst of the Rout of Plebeians who join'd with him to second that Reproach And Suetonius witnesseth of the other that he was so over curious of his Head and Beard he would not only be shaven very precisely but his Extravagant Haits even pluck'd But what shall we think of his Successor Augustus who when he felt the assaults of Death invading him call'd for his Looking-Glass and commanded his Hair and Beard to be comb'd his Rivelled Cheeks to be smooth'd up then asking his Friends if he had acted his Part well upon the Stage of the World who told him he had Well saith he Vos omnes Plaudite Sure he went off very trimly But what the modesty of England hath been in former Ages however vain enough is other Fooleries yet sure the Galleries and Dining-Rooms of our Nobility and Gentry of the Kingdom will abundantly testify from the brave Images of their Ancestors whose open Ears never valu'd the Coldness of the Winds but which would glow to have heard the monstrousness of their Childrens Ell-Wigs The Puritans in the Reign of the Royal Martyr to distinguish themselves from their Neighbours took on them an Extraordinary short cut and their Neighbours in opposition to them Espoused a long one because they would not be reputed Round-heads and in nothing outwardly were the two Parties so much differenc'd as in their hair and happy had it been that the Quarrel had Ended in the Barber's Scissars which we all know brake out afterwards into the long Sword and instead of plucking each other by the Ears a little they fell to stabbing one another in the Guts So that the mischiefs which the Barber might have prevented at first had he kept an Even hand on both Parties and sheered them both to an Equal Cut all the wit of man could not prevent from running into Commodus his bloody shaving and cutting off Ears and Noses together with their Hair Now a days not a young Fellow that takes pet against his Noddle for catching the least cough or cold but strait in revenge off goes his Locks And to speak plainly Forty or Three-score pound a year for Periwigs and Ten to a poor Chaplin to say Grace to him that adores Hair is sufficient Demonstration of the Weakness of the Brains they keep warm And let me taste the boldness to manifest a few of the ill consequences of this Idolatry First With the Womans hair we have put on her are not of Cookery and the Kitchin only and become Hen-housewives but of the Chamber and the Dressing Room Tricking up our selves into as delicate starch'd-up a posture as she Some of us have gotten the Boddice â—â— to make us look slender and pretty And the Epicene Sleeves do very well fit both the he and the She. The Sleevestrings are ty'd with the lame Curiosity and the Val de Chambre that cannot knit the Knot Allamode is kick'd away as a Bungler in his Trade and Profession The Ribbon at the Hilt of our Sword is security against his being drawn while we fix it there as Cupid's Knights with no other design but to help to wound the Hearts of the Ladies 2 And who sees not the happy Victory that we have gotten their very hearts in our bosoms is close as their hair on our heads Not their Effeminacy only but Weakness too and have perfectly shav'd away all our Virility and Prowess Our Swords lie dangling on our Thighs with the same Luxury sour Wigs of the same length sport themselves on our breasts Neither were former Ages without their antick Dresses It were enough should I hang out to View one of the Suits that was generally worn heresofore in England where you had a Dublet all jagg'd and prickt the Wastband coming down but a little below the Armholes guarded with Eight long Skirs to this Dublet was claps'd a pair of Breeches close made to the body and whose length must make up the Defect of the shortness of the Dublet The large and ample Codpiss supply'd the want of Pockets which came up with two wings fastn'd to either side with two Points which unknit made way to the Linen Bags ty'd to the inside between the Shirt and Codpiss these bags held every thing they carry'd about them except the Gloves which ever hung very Reverently at the Girdle Where hung a Pouch made fast with a Ring or Lock of Iron weighing at least two or three Pounds whether there was any mony in it or no. The like I could give of the Womens Gowns and shew the madness of the Fardingale and other whimsies But the Gallerys and Parlours of most Old Familys are set out with such disguising postures as better will evidence them to the View of the Reader than I care my Pen should do at this time I shall only add That as to Womens curling crisping twiching variegating into a thousand shapes into Rings Mars Shades Folds Towers Locks c. Tertullian inveighs bitterly against it What ails you saith he that you cannot let your poor hair be quiet but sometimes it must be bound up by and by dislevelled and loose about your Ears one while staring up in Towers and presently patted and notched close Aliae gestunt cum cinnis coercere aliae ut volucris vagi elabantur Some of you are all for curling it up into Rings others for a loosemode Nay says he Assigitis nescio quas enormitates suttlium atque texiitium capillamentorium Not content with that you stick on I cannot well tell what manstious Extravagancies of false Locks and artificial hair and Periwigs Pamphila an Epidaurian the Daughter of Sateridas So great was her Repute that her Statue is said to have been Erected by Cephisodâ—rus Perilla a Roman Lady who living in the time of Augustus was in general Esteem for her Learning and Vertue The 7 th Elegy of the third book of Ovid's Tristia intimates her to have been his Scholar Phemonoc the first Priestless of Apollo as she is delivered to be and utterer of the Delphick Oracles and also the first Inventress of Heroick Verse Praxilla a Sycionian Diâ—hy Amote Pocress of whose Writing there is a Work intitled Meâ—â—um Praxilleum Proba Valeria Falconia the Wife of Adelphus the Roman Proconsul in the Reign of Honorius and Theodosuis Junior She composed a Virgilian Cento upon the History of the Old and New Testament Her Epitaph also upon her Husband's Tomb is particularly remembred Purification of the Virgin Mary Candlemas February 2. Piâ—tage f. Fornication on the Womans part Protetaneous arian 〈◊〉 l. having many Children and little to maintain them vulgar Palm-Tree Of this Tree there is male and female the male bears only blossoms and no Fruit the Female bears both but not unless the Male grow by it Prendet de Baron an Exception disabling a Woman from pursuing an Appeal of Murder against the Killer of her former husband Pridiven King Arthurs Shield with the Picture of the Virgin Mary Primer Or Office
Ladies also the Pomada a trick in vaulting Priscilla a â—diminutive of Prisca one of this name was a great follower of Montanus the arch Heretick and one of his divilish Prophetestes circa An. Christi 181. Progeny Progenies Issue Off-spring Prolifical prolificus Fruitful that breeds or brings forth issue apace Prostitute prostituta she that for mony suffers her self to be abused by all the come a common Harloâ— Pychoness pythonissa she that is possessed with such a Spirit a Prophetess Pandoratrix an Ale Wife who also brews her self Pantalone I an old amorous covertous Doâ—ard Pantalones loons a sort of Breeches well known Paradise g. a Garden or place of pleasure Paragon f. a comdeer to campare also a Peerless Dime c. Pâ—lam he seduced Hellena from Greece which occasion'd the Trojan War Parnassides the Muses Parnel a pretty woman lover Parthenian g. belonging to Virginity Parthenope the old Name of Naples also one of the Cyrens Partlet an old kind of Band both for men and women a loose collar a womans Pauss Che. Patelena a Goddess of Com when the cups open'd Paten a Wooden Shooe with an Iron bottom Patin l a great platter Charger or Bason also the 〈◊〉 place used by Priests with the Chalice at Mass. Pavin Pavan f. a kind of dance Pausonias a famous Laecedemonian Captain also a outh who slew Philip of Macedon because he had no redress for being ravished Peeper c. a. Looking glass Promises and Vows in Love to be observed c. Promises in Love-matter when avowed and sworn to gain credit with many though afterwards they repent their Credulity especially if upon such Considerations Virgins trust too soon There is a Fable that Jupiter being much in love with Jano one day singled her out and raised a great Tempest to shelter her self from which she sled into a Cave and he flew after her in the shipe of a Cuckow into which he had transform'd himself and lighted in her lap She much pleased with the Bird put it nearer to a warm place which he no sooner touch'd but he return'd to his proper shape and would forsooth have been nigling of her but she was so prudent as to resist his Embraces till he vow'd and swore to marry her and then she gave her consent And we find he kept this Vow Yet for all that they live'd but very scarvily together though of a Celestial strain However I would not have our Earthly Beauties lay too great a stress upuu such Vows and Promises left when their Virgin Roses are cropt they stand like unregarded bushes It is the common Complement of some men in such cases when they aim at your Honour not to regard what they swear say or do so they can thereby obtain their ends for tho behind thy back they laugh in their sleeves to think what advances they have made and how easy and coming they find you to their purpose but before your face what protections will they 〈◊〉 make of Hanging Drowning 〈◊〉 or Stabing themselves 〈◊〉 they may not Enjoy your Love tho they mean no such 〈◊〉 they as well as your 〈◊〉 can shead false determining Tears and Act over a 〈◊〉 Passion so to the Life 〈◊〉 you would swear it was 〈◊〉 and many are too apt to 〈◊〉 it so and thereby are 〈◊〉 to have bowels of compassion towards this supiâ—â—d suffering and afflicted over when they hear them 〈◊〉 and say well my dearest 〈◊〉 and most pleasing Mistress you see to what Extermity your denial has forc'd 〈◊〉 even to the making my 〈◊〉 irrevocable be any but our hair self and then when 〈◊〉 toe late I doubt not but you will shed a tear to hear you have murder'd me by your denial and that I fall by a violent death for your sake Which story being seconded with a few tears too often goes down with the credulous Virgin and she by her compassion where there was but little need of it is undone yet it is not good Jesting this way those Vows or ought they know as high as they set by them may be register'd in Heaven as we before have hinred and may had down Vengeance upon the Violators of them when least expected when they are huging themselves in a pleasing security and bostling of the spoil they have grin'd thereby Promises and Vows on the other side in Women are likewise very frequently violated and what is worse many of them at the very time they make them intend not to keep them but prostitute them to their Ends and 〈◊〉 They have tears at 〈…〉 naturally look 〈◊〉 But these things most properly belong to cunning liking Women Aretines 〈◊〉 when her Sweetheart came to Town wept in his 〈…〉 that he might imagine those tears were shed for Joy of his return though she had twenty more at the same time and to these Crocadile tears they will add sighs sobs and seem sad and sorrowful look pale and merge neglecting their Dress and go carelesly that you may fancy your neglect makes them take no delight in themselves but that they are pining away and will languish and die for your sake and then the young Amerest thinks peradventure by reason of her Vows Tears sâ—â—iks c. She is solely his and he has her heart and affection when indeed he is forth for from it for such kind of deâ—â—ding Women will have one Sweetheart in bed another in the Gate a third sighing at home a fourth busy'd abroad in obeying her commands and all this the manages so cunningly that every one thinks himself sure of her and knows nothing of the Favours she bestows upon his Rivals They can also upon occasion so weep that one would conclude their very hearts would dissolve within them and slow from them in tears from their Eyes when we perceive them like Rocks dropping Water and yet all this is but in Jest for they can wipe away their tears like Sweat weep with one Eye as the saying is and laugh with the other or like some Children who cry and laugh both at a time and Old Chauter in his home-span Rhythme says For half so boldly there can none Swear and Lie as Woman can But this must not reflect upon all Women for some are Religiously Conscientious to a miracle And another upon their tears has this Regard not Womens Tears I counsel thee They reach their Eyes as wet to weep as see And so says another there is no more pity to be taken of a Womans weeping than there is of a Goose going barefoot and indeed a General of an Army Besieging a City has not so many stratagems to take it as some of the Fair Sex have to take those they design to gull and flatter into a belief of their Faith and Conscience being both Active and Passive doing or suffering any thing that may be instrumental 〈◊〉 bringing about their Plots and Projects Posthume l. a child born after the Fathers death Philyea the Daughter of Oceans Pandor from
one sense a man may as well be drunk with love as Wine and it is indeed the worst of the two because more lasting when the other perhaps is but a Nights debauch this many times stupifies the senses all the days of Life locks up his Reason in the Dungeon of headstrong willfulness and self-blindedness placing an unruly passion as Goaler to keep it strictly in Chains so that a man or a woman thus divested may justly be term'd an irrational Creature acting in some degress worse than they Mark Anthony had such a love to Cleopatria that none could wean him from it first by giving himself up to sloath and wantoness lost that great Name he had gain'd in War then the love of his Soldiers and lastly the Empire of the East and for dispair and madness kill'd himself and brought Aegypt and other Countrys into an Extream Calamity The fair Inchantress likewise kill'd her self by clapping Vipers to her breasts and so ended their Love Fevers in a doleful kind of Melancholy How many might we name that have lost themselves and their flourishing Fortunes upon this account throwing themselves as it were from Precipices or into Yawning Gulfs when they might have stood firm or mov'd on smoothly and uninterrupted Platina says from hence came Repentances though of a strange kind Dotages Ship wracking of Wits and Fortunes and violent Deaths And some hold the Prognostick is that when this Passion is at the heighth and Extreamly Raging the Party will either run mad or die at this Reason is given viz. because it makes the Blood black thick and hot and if the Inflammation get into the brain it will with continual waking meditations and musing so dry up and the moisture that the brain is inflam'd for want of it or shrink together and then madness ensues and sometimes they lay violent hands upon themselves some pine away and die upon a sudden And as one says For whilst I do conceal my grief Madness steals on me like a Thief Would I were dead for nought But death can rid me of my woes When Eurialus left Lucretian she never laugh'd jested or gave one pleasant look but fell into Love Melancholy and pin'd her self to death So desperate had Love made a young hot brain'd Lover that the Parents of the Virgin he lov'd utterly refusing to let her marry him in a raging fit of passion resolving if he could not that nobody should enjoy her he first Kill'd her and then himself having desir'd of the Magistrates they might be bury'd in one Grave which being granted when he had mortally wounded himself he took a great consolation to his troubled mind Many have been so inflam'd with love that to obtain their desires they have destroy'd their nearest Relations and best Friends for giving them good Counsel Some have betray'd Citys nay whole Countrys in their proses'd Enemies upon this occasion as the Widow of Nereus did Athens for the love of an handsom Venetian Gentleman Pithidice the Governours Daughter of Methinia betrayed her Father and the whole Island to Achilles has the love she bear him Alexander for the love of Tan who demanded it as a tryal of his Affection set the famous City of Persopolis on fire tho Repentance came too late and made him weep over its Ruins Cataline Kill'd his only Son in a Love raging fit Therefore such violences are timely to be avoided All that in us â—â—ere they grow too strong for us and we cannot 〈◊〉 them When gentle winds do blow 〈◊〉 Oars we try But in rough storms are foreâ—â— Lay them by Prognosticks of Jelousie Madness Dispair 〈◊〉 Examples c. Prognosticks of Jelousie are 〈◊〉 and various and we find they Tyranizing distemper 〈◊〉 first with a kind of 〈◊〉 and dulness of the Spirits the it is formed into suspicion â—â— from thence grows up to hatred and from that to Madness Freâ—â—ey Injury dispair and Murther if it to be not removed or prevented in time There is nothing so bloody as the fury of a Jealous man in his enterpriz'd Revenge and if they are hindred in that they many times turn their Fury on themselves and are destroyed by their own hands And Cyprian says it produces a fruitful mischief is the Seminary of offences and Fountain of Murther A thousand Tragecal Examples we might mention antient and modern Hercules was Poison'd by Deianita Amestris the Wife of Xâ—xes finding his Cloak in the House of Masista presently grew Jealous of his Wife got her into her Power and glutted her Eyes with Cruelty by fleeing her alive cut off heâ— Ears Nose Lips Paps and likewise her Tongue out and left her to dye in that miserable condition Deutera the Wife of Thexiebar King of France having had a Fair Daughter by another Husband grew Jealous that she sought to take the Kings Love from her and Transported with this Rage like a Barbarous Inhuman mother caused the beautious innocent maid to be murthered Ferdinandus Chalâ—eria cut off Getherinus a Nobleman's Legg because as he supposed he look'd too familiar upon his Wife which occasioned much blood shed by the Quarrels that ensued upon it amongst their Relations and another who suspected a Fryer that often Visited his House being in the Chamber when his Wife was Delivered and seeing the Child in the Caul he immediately swore the Fryer had Cuccolâ—ed him and that must of necessity be a Child of his begetting and the Learned Reason he gave for it was that it came into the World wraped in a Fryars Caul or Hood Fulgosus a Woman of Narbone though one would hardly think that a Woman would be so unkind to herself took her Husband Napping and in his sleep cut off his Genitors because she supposed he performed Duty somewhere else and neglected it at home resolving since they were in a manner useless to her no body else should be the better for them Pain almost of any kind is doubtless nothing to the Torments of Jealousy it puts the party as it were upon the Rack and Afflicts him in every part At Basil there was a Painters Wife who had bore her Husband nine Children by that she was twenty seven years of Age and then upon a Caprice of which she could give no reasonable account her self she must needs grow Jealous which in a small time increasing utterly destroyed her Quiet and Repose nor would she eat and drink at home for fear as she said her Husband should Poison her Felix Peter tells us of a Physician that went mad through Jealousy Of a Merchant that Kill'd his Wife in the humour and afterward himself O a Doctor in Law that cut 〈…〉 Mans Nose because whilst the fellow was telling a blunt story his Wife smiled at it Prognosticks of this Kind may be taken from the Humours for when they are once stirred and the Imagination disaffected Jealousy soon enters varying it self into divers forms and many absurd Symptoms accompany it and when it gets too large a scope and
Councils and Valorous Exploits have made their Wars prosperous and obliged their proudest Enemies to humble themselves and accept the Conditions of peace Learning though men have laboured to â—eep them in Ignorance hâ—s never been a stranger to their Sex Great has been their Sagacities and Numberless their Worhty Labours Hâ—re Virtue has appear'd in iâ—â— Richest Array and raised Wonder and Admiration in those that have contemplatâ—d it insomuch that it has sham'd the Eâ—vious and made them blush â—or the Scandals and Reproaches they have utter'd and their pious Examples have so regulated the world that a Lycurgus or a Solon could have done no more then let us not so far forget our selves as to dishonour those by our calumnies or detraction who are the honour of mankind but rather value and esteem them as near as we can â—ccording to 〈◊〉 worth and â—â—riâ— and â—e â—â—â—teful in prizing such a Treaâ—â—â—â— as a Modern Poeâ— has 〈◊〉 â—he pains to do viz. Woman the loveliest creature Nature made Shou'd weâ—t not sin have adoration paid Have Shrines and Altars rais'd and Temples too But Praises are the least that are her due So soft so loving charming and so kind That all the creatures to mans use assign'd Compriz'd in one all that in them is rare Cannot by inâ—inite degree with her compare Search for the Vnicorn of Indian breed For the Camelion that on Air does feed For the gay Phoenix in Araâ—ia's field Or fâ—r the Gold and Gems oâ—tâ— India's yield Nay look where all the Snow white Lillys 〈◊〉 In native pureâ—â—ss or where Rivers slow View all the gaudy plumes which on the wind Expand and through the yeilding Air free passage find And all those animals Earth do's contain The numerous Fry that brood the swelling main And still add more let Flora's Glory come Nay 〈◊〉 golden Crop with sweâ—â—â—â—â— ht home Let tâ—â—â—â— what of this kind thâ—â—◠〈◊〉 â—rame In one 〈◊〉 in one their worth Proâ—â— Compar'd with Woman scarce they 'l find a Name Reason it is we should conclude thâ—t God the Infinite and all wise Creator best knowing what would render mans happiness most perfect in an Innocent stâ—te would not have given him any thing that should have been unnecessary or distastful to him for we are not because some urge it was only for the sake of Generation to shorten his hand but must allow he might have Created men and made them like all other Creatures by this powerful word spring up from the dust we confess indeed Generation is a main end of the difference of Sexes as they now are distinguished but there is more in it a sweet harmony in the society a soft and gentle contâ—xtuâ—e of Minds uniting in Love and all the cordial Endearments that can make Life the morâ— dâ—sirable a closet oâ— Truth 〈◊〉 â—â—pose the most secret though and an Amulet for Cares aâ—d fears that may arise Adam â—â—d he been alone probaâ—ly might have yeilded to 〈◊〉 Devils Temptation and 〈◊〉 into what a solitary Misery had he fallen to be alone in Deserts or Wildernesses without hope of Comfort from any and indeed we find now tho the world is populous that man is in some degree termed but half himself without an happy câ—junction with one of the Fair Sex he is a kind of Vagrant and Wanderer a thing without a Center to six him he is as it were a Traveller in the Earâ—h having no certain home that can be pleasant to him his m'nd is roving and he aims at something it covets but he knows not well what innocent Conversâ—tion with Male Friends is pleasant to him but that does not satisfy he wants a Cabinet to deposit secrets in that he cares not to reveal to Father or Mother or the nearest Relation and surely let his sâ—â—rch never so curious he can never find any so trusty as Virtuous Wise there is iâ— such a Marriage so close an Union that what he intrust â—â— her he intrusts himself 〈◊〉 for she knows his misfortunes are her own and she will run any danger and hazard rather than beâ—ray her trust no 〈◊〉 by Inadvertancy her caution being always great in such affairs so that without this material part of himself we conclude a man is wanting in that which should make him happy in the world Lady Russel one of the four Daughters of Sir Anthony Cook Rumia a Goddess that rul'd over sucking Children and Womans Paps Rape raptus is a Felony committed by a man in the violent deflowering a Woman be she old or young Brit. c. 1. This offence is with us Felony in the principal and his aiders Anno 11. H. 4. c. 23. Anno 1. Edw. 4. cap. 1. West 2. cap. 23. Rhetorick g. the Art of speaking eloquently or well and wisely Ravishment Fr. ravishment i. direptio raptus c. signifies in our Law an unlawful taking awaâ— either a woman or an 〈◊〉 Ward sometime it is used also in one signification wiâ—h rape viz. the violent deflowring a Woman Rebecca Hebr fat and full a womans Nâ—me Regamancy mation l. a loving them that love us Relut l. a Widow or any thing that is left Rum Mort a curious Wench Runcina the Goddess of Runcation l. weeding Rosimunda Sa Rose of peace she was forced by Herminges to drink the Poyson which she offered him by whom she had procured the Death of her Husband Alboinus King of the Lombards because he drank a Health to her in a cup made of her Fathers skull Rose The Flower of Venus consecrated by Cupid to Harpocrates the God of Silence Under the Rose among private lovers not to be divulged Repudiate repudio to forsake as one doth his wife to refuse or put away The antient Romans had three kinds of Separation in Marriage The first they called Repudiation which was donâ— by the man against the will of the woman and the first man that thus repudiated his Wife was Spurius Carvilius because she was barren 〈◊〉 The second manner was called Divorce and this was done with the consent of both and to 〈◊〉 of them it was permitted to require it the party suing for it used these words Res tuas tibe babeto vel Res 〈◊〉 tibi agito The third was termed Direption and this was done according to the Princes will 1 part Tr. of times Rationibali parte honorum a writ for the Widow or children claiming the thirds Reasonable aid was a duty claimed by the Lord to marry his Daughter or Knight his eldest Son Remembrance a Preception whereby the Ideas of things before perceived and impressed upon the Mind by Sensation or other Preception are again offered and represented to the Soul by the Mediation of Animal Spirits in the common Sensory either by their former Footsteps and Images Impressed upon the Brain or by some Words or other Signs which awakened and stirred them up Or Reminiscence is an Arbitrary drawing out of things which were before impreâ—de upon the Brain for its own use
betwixt themselves vowing lasting Virginity Sisters Love to a Brother Ituphens being to suffer Death by Order 〈◊〉 Darius his Wife cast her 〈◊〉 groveling before the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with such pitiful 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ions and Clamours that they came even to the Ears of Darius and much penetrated him being uttered with such 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and moving Accenâ—◠〈◊〉 ble to mollifie the Flint 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 marble Imprest there sore with her pitious lamentations the Kings sent unto 〈◊〉 That her Tears and 〈◊〉 had so far prevailed with 〈◊〉 that from the condemned Society they had ransomed 〈◊〉 and one only to continue 〈◊〉 memory of their Name Family chuse among 〈◊〉 all whose life she most 〈◊〉 ed and whole safety 〈◊〉 greatest affection desired furhter than this to grant 〈◊〉 his sentence was 〈◊〉 None that heard this small yet unexpected Favour from the King but presently imagined she would either redeem her husband or at least one of her sons two of them being all she had then groaning under the burthen of that heavy sentence But after some small meditation beyond the Expectation of all men she demanded the life of her brother The King somewhat amazed at her choice sent for her and demanded the Reason Why she had preferred â—he life of a brother before the safety of such a Noble husband or such hopeful children To whom hr answer'd Behold O King I am yet but â—words and in my 〈◊〉 of years and I may live to 〈◊〉 another husband and so 〈◊〉 frequently by him more children but my father and mother are hath aged and 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 and should I lose a brother 〈◊〉 for evermore be deprived of that sacred Name Sentiments of the 〈◊〉 concerning women I 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 of the 〈◊〉 Wives who in conâ—â—â— of Death scorn to surâ—â— their Husband's Funeral 〈◊〉 but with chaste Zeal and 〈◊〉 Courage throw â—â—â—selves into the Flames as they were then going to the 〈◊〉 Bed Certainly they 〈◊〉 aright who reckon Day of our Death the Day 〈◊〉 Nativity since we are Born to Possession of mortal Life For this 〈◊〉 I honour the Memory of Ludâ—vicus Cartesius the Padâ—â— Lawyer who in his Last Will and Testament ordered that no sad Funâ—eal Rites should be observ'd for him but that His Corbs should be attended with Musick and Joy to the Grave and as if it were the Day oâ—â—poufals he commanded that Twelve Suits of Gay Apparel should be provided instead of â—â—â—ning for an equal number of Virgins who should usher his Body to the Church It will not I hope be an unpardonable Transiation if I statrt back from the melancholy Horrours of Death to the innocent Comforts of Humane Life and from the Immortal Nuptials of thâ—s Italian pass to the Mortal Emblem the Rites of Matrimony the Happiness of Female Society and our Obligations to Women 'T is an uncourtly Vertue which admits of no Proselytes but Men devoted to Coelibacy and he is a Reproach to his Parents who thuns the Entertainments of Hymen the blissful Amours of the Fair Sex without which he himself had not gain'd so much as the Post of a Cypher in the Numeration of Mankind though he now makes a Figure too much in Natures Arithmetick since he wou'd put a stop to the Rule of Multiplication He is worse than Nâ—â—ma Pompilius who appointed but a set number of Virgins and those were free to Marry after they had guarded the Sacred Fires the Torm of four years Whereas if his morose Example were follow'd all Women should turn Vestals against their wills and be consecrated to a peevish Virginity during their Lives I wonder at the unnatural Phancy of such as could wish we might procreate like Trees as if they were Ashm'd of the Act without which they had never been capable of such an extravagant Thought Certainly he that Created us and has riveted the Love of Women in the very Center of our Natures never gave us those passionate Desires to be our incureable Torment but only as Spurs to our Wit and Vertue that by the Dexâ—erity of the one and he Intergrity of the other we might merit and Gain the Darling Object which should consummate our Earthly Happiness I do not patronize the smoke of those Dunghil-Passions who only court the Possession of an Heiress and fall in Love with her money This is to make a Market 〈◊〉 and prostitute the Noblest Affection of our Souls to the fordid Ends of Avarice Neither do I commend the softer Aims of those who are wedded only to the Charming Lineaments of a Beautiful Face a clear Skin or a well shap'd Body 〈◊〉 only the Vertue Discretion and good Humour of a Woman could ever captivate me I hate the Cynical Flout of those who can afford Women no better Title than Necessary Evils and the lewd Poetical License of Him who made this Anagram Vxor Orcus idem That Ontour whisper'd the Doctrine of Devils who said Were it not for the Company of Women Angels would come down and dwell among us I rather think were it not for such ill natur'd Fellows as he Women themselves would proâ—â—â—â— Angels 'T is an ugratefull Return thus to abuse 〈◊〉 Gentle Sex who are the 〈◊〉 in which all the Race of 〈◊〉 are cast As if they deserv'd no better Treatment at 〈◊〉 Hands than we usually 〈◊〉 to saffron Bags and 〈◊〉 Bottles which are throâ— into a Corner when te 〈◊〉 and Spice are taken 〈◊〉 them The Pagan Poet 〈◊〉 little better than a Murdereâ— who allow'd but two 〈◊〉 Hours to a Woman 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vnam in Thalams alteram Tumulo For my Part I should steem the World but a 〈◊〉 were it not for the Society the Fair Sex and the 〈◊〉 Polished Part of 〈◊〉 wou'd appear but Hermiâ—â— masquerade or a kind of 〈◊〉 lized Satyrs so imperfect unaccomplish'd is our 〈◊〉 without the Reunion of 〈◊〉 lost Rib that Substantial Integral Part of our selves Those who are thus disjoynted from Women seem to inherit Adam's Dreams out of which nothing can awake them but the embraces of their own living Image the Fair Traduct of the first Mepamorphosis in the World the Bone converted into Flesh. They are always in Slumbers and Trances ever separated from themselves in a wild pursuit of an intolerable Loss nor can any thing fix their Valuable Dâ—â—â—res but the powerful magnetism of some Charming Daughter of Eve These are the Centers of all our Desires and Wishes the true Pandoras that alone can satisfie our longing Appetites and fill us with Gifts and Blessings in them we live before we breath and when we have 〈◊〉 the Vital Air 't is but to dy an amorous Death that we may live more pleasantly in them again They are the Guardians of our Infancy the Life and Soul of our Youth the companions of our Riper Years and the Cherishers of our Old Age. From the Cradle to the â—omb we are wrapt in a Circle of obligations to them for
〈◊〉 her young or ancient to 〈◊〉 the sick which that they 〈◊〉 perform with as much Reputation as Charity they should have some knowledge in Physick and in the several Operations of Herbs and Spices And in the first place because the Knowledg of the subdry sorts of Spices is very requisite we will begin with them Pepper is a very hot and dry Spice even to the fourth degree Black Pepper is with us most in use it heateth much it cutteth tough and gross Flegm it helpeth Concoction and is good against Cruditys Dry Ginger is very hot and though not so much in use to season either fish or flesh as Pepper it is good to help Digestion and to open Obstructions to discuss wind and to expel it out of the body Green Ginger preserved in 〈◊〉 Indies is not hot and 〈◊〉 good to eat fasting for a waterish or a windy stomach Cloves is a Spice brought from the East Indies they comfort the head hâ—râ— and stomach they help the Eye-sight and Concoction and strenghten Nature Nutmeg is the Fruit of a Tree growing in the East Indies and it is covered with that Spice which we call Mace Nutmeg is accounted hot and dry in the second degree and is good for the same Causes for which the Cloves are commended mace covereth the Nutmeg as already is expressed it doth partake of the same Nature with it it doth strenghten the animal parts and it is good against Fluxes and spitting of blood Cinnamon is the inward Rind or Bark of a Tree growing in the East Indies This Spice in regard of its fragrant smell may justly challenge the first place of Excellency 〈◊〉 helpeth Concoction and expelleth Urine Saffron though growing at home is nothing inferior to any of the former it reviveth the vital spirits it is very good against the Jaundies â—â— is also good to further the monthly Courses and to facilitate birth We shall follow the trace of good Husbandry and from Saffron we shall descend to Honey It is far better boiled than row and is more nourishing and easier of Digestion The best Honey is very sweet pleasant of smell of a clear and yellowish colour Honey is good in divers pectoral Infirmities the Cough shortness of breath the Plurisy c. In the next we shall give you an account of Sugar which being more pleasant to the palate is become in these latter Ages of a far higher Esteem and every where in frequent use as well in sickness as in health Sugar is neither so hot nor so dry as Honey The coursest being the brownest is the most cleansing and approacheth nearest to the nature of Honey Sugar is good for Abstersions in Diseases of the Breasts and Lungs That which we call Sugar-candy being well refined by boiling is for this purpose in the greatest request There is one thing besides of which you are to take an especial notice which is that a great store of our finest sugar and which is most called for is Refined and whitened by the means of the Lee of Lime which how prejudicial it is to our health I leave to every one to judg I should here give you an account of the skill in several Diseases and of what Medicines are most effectual for their recovery in which our accomplished Ladys ought to be well instructed but if I should fall upon all particulars I should make this 〈◊〉 to swell into a Folio I shall only acquaint you that we have under our own Hedges many excellent Aromatical Plants such as Rosemary Lavender Time Savory Sage Mints Pennyroyal Bazil Sweet Certuil Avens Angelica and many others insomuch that some persons do wonder that being supplied at home with such excellent Simples we should seek so eagerly for our landish Spices Single Life There are many no doubt of great Eminence and those of Esteem among all Ranks of Men who make a vertuous Choice of a single Life Neither will I intrude upon those of the sacred Function so as to restrain them within the compass of this Discourse For although I cannot but dissent from the Church of Rome in her indispensable injunctions of Coelibacy to her Clergy which not seldom becomes a Snare to such as would live continently in a matrimonial state so on the other hand I must needs commend the pious Practice of some men in our Church who espouse a single Life to avoid the Incumbrances of the World the more immediately to apply themselves to a better discharging the Duties of their Profession Yet I would have all that are for a single life to consider that marriage will prevent Diseases and improve Health I need not spend time to prove this which our bills of mortality are too great an Instance of They that please to consider them will see how like Pestilence that walks in darkness that Disease which we disguise under the name of Consumption sweeps away Thousands and how our Votaries to Venus are macerated that they walk the streets must needs observe If we compare our English Bodies which in former Ages were inferior to few in Europe with the more Temperate Suede and Germans I mean not as to Bacchus the difference will be too apparent in relation to what advantages a married in preference to a Single Life produces The First like the Sober Traveller keeps a regular pace and so spends the more time in his Journey and preserves his Health the latter Rides Post which brings him sooner to his Journies end and that with aking Bones The Health and Temperature of the Body when under the Conduct of a straying Lover is like to an Estate in the hands of a Prodigal open to the attempts of every Harpy for our extravagance is one day at the Court of Bacchus and the next at that of Venus where he can be no Favourite if he comes with any reserve 2nd and as his Converse meets with none to preserve him so neither when he falls is there any to pity him But 't is otherwise with the married man whose house furnishes him with safer Delights and his Wife and Children are as well a Guard to him as he the instrument of their preservation 'T is easier to prevent than retrieve a mischief ans in transgressing with Women if we believe the wisest of men he tells us that none that go unto her return again that is few do if they have drank deep of those stolen Waters The same author advises the young man to rejoice in the Wise of his Youth Such as do so are armed against the assaults of lewd Debauches The worst of men revere Vertue in those they love though they run retrograde themselves That which recommends a Miss is odious in a Wife and we surely find a man so bad as to distaste his Wife for her Vertue If that Old Fashion of Wives were renewed the modish man of Love would be so singular that he must if but to suit the general Humour have a Wife and then by
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
to enquire that seeing the Phancy is meerly a cognocivity of Faculties and the Women usually fix their thoughts on several and various Objects during the time of Conception and Gravidation how it comes to pass that we find not the Infant subject to more numerous Mutations according to the variety of the Impressions made by sundry Species in the Immagination to which the answer The reply to this will be easie if we well consider that if the matter were more seriously pondered we should not find the Immagination so seldome Active as is generally supposed for it is very probable that the resemblance of every Child whether with the Father Mother or any other person hath some near dependance upon some operation or other of the Mothers Phancy according as her Mind was with more or less intenseness fixed upon such or such an Object Yet again it is not every Act of the Phancy that is able to affect the formative power reciding in the Womb but only that which is strong and attended with the powerful Commotions of the Spirits and Humours in the Body so that there being not many Acts of the Phancy concomitated with the Enegrie of such commotions 'T is no wonder that Infants signally affected with the Mothers Phantasie are so few Womens Phancies in child-bearing further considered Women Indulging these kind of Phantasies only induce such Agitations of the Humours and Spirits as are requisite to affect the Foetus which are followed by violent Passions of a surprizing Fear or an earnest and longing desire for these are the most turbulent and impetuous Passions that the Mind is subject to which exciteing the tenuous Humours and Spirits in all parts of the Body cause both in the Infant and Mother remarkable Alterations of which we have sundry Instances Baptista Porta in his Natural Magick gives us an Account of a Woman who Amarously affecting a Marble Statue by frequent looking on it and frequently keeping it in her Mind brought forth a Son Plump Pale and of a glittering hue in every thing representing the Features of the Statue Fiâ—chus tells us and avers it for a Truth that a Woman brought forth a Daughter that had a well proportioned Body but for a Head only two Scallop-â—hells joyned to the Shoulders which the open'd at pleasure to receive her Sustenance 〈◊〉 lived in that condition Eleven I â—s and that which he says produced this Monster was the Mothers longing for Scallops during her being with Child not being able to procure any to satisfy her impatient Desires Women subject to these unaccountable longings as some call them though we have given you some reason for it afford as many strange Examples Delzio in his magical Disquisitions informs us of a Noble Lady was Nurse to a very Beautiful Prince then Dolphin of France whom she loved so above measure that she caused his Effigies to be drawn and carried it about with her scarce enduring it to be out of her sight whereupon it happened that she became Mother to a Child so like the Young Prince that the generality of the People could not distinguish them but by the difference of their Cloaths And as for the Passions of Fear Lâ—mnius tells us That a man surprizing a great Bellied Woman by suddenly placing before her a Picture of a Boy with a great Head she brought forth thereupon a Child of the same mis-shapen magnitude Many more of the like Nature we might mention but we suppose these Instances are sufficient to demonstrate that the Phancy when attended with an Attractive joy or sudden Fear hath power to alter the Confirmation and Complexion of the yielding Foetus and that there is little else required to have Handsom and Beautiful Children than being cautious in avoiding monstrous Objects and Stories which may distract the Phancy and in their stead the proposing of some Amiable Objects from which the Phantasie affecting it with a passionate tenderness may coppy out an Idea of perfect Beauty to communicate to the plastick Faculty whose chiefeâ—t care is to erect a stately Structure out of the rude Mass that lyes confused within the Womb. And these are the Learned Opinions of several Antient and excellent Physicians as Hypocrates Galâ—â— Laurentius Wierus Codroncâ—us and others whose Credit has been held unquestionable in most Ages Women Virtuous a great Happiness and Blessing to Men. Women that are truly Virtuous there cannot be too much said in their praise therefore whatsoever may have been already nearly touched on this is not improper A Virtuous Woman then is rightly termed the true Solace of a Mans Liâ—e this Sex even from their Infancy are aimiable and to be delighted in they Chear the Hearts of their Parents with their Innocent Smiles and as they grow up in Virtue are more Charming and Sweet in their Complacency Modesty Sobriety and a wining Behaviour add to their Beauties Her Carriage towards all is decent and Comly is her Behaviour In Marriage her Love is beyond Expression and her tenderness such that she values him on whom her Heart is fixed above all the valuable things on Earth unless it be her own Soul The loss of her Life she values not in Comparison of her Honour and Good Name and that her Husband may be kept in good Humour she makes it her business and study to please him using her utmost diligence and Enforcing all her Charms to render her self more pleasing in his Eyes Equally sharing in his Joys and in his Afflictions bears the most Sensible part Her Smiles are not to be bought with Silver nor her Love to be Purchased with Gold but are freely and entirely placed upon him she makes Choice for a Companion of her Happiness in a Marriage State and then they are aâ— fixed as the Center or like the Needle touched with the Load-stone will turn or stand still to no point but their beloved North She Sympatizes with him in all things and is even tender of his Honour nothing she thinks too good for him nor nothing that she reasonable can do too much in health she is very carefull to provide him necessaries that are convenient and commendable and if he falls upon his Bed of Languishing pressed down by some weighâ—y Sickness what greater comfort can he have in such a Condition than to find his Virtuous Wife double diligent and tractable in forwarding his Affairs she is more studious for his Health than her own Interest and puts up her Prayers and Vows to Heaven for his recovery In all her Actions Expressing a careful tenderness and Love and a venerable esteem in all her Words and Expressions Woman has found Nature Prodigal and Lavish in forming her so delicate a Creature that she confessed her Master-Piece and Nâ— plus ultra A Creature so soft and tempting to allay and Moderate with Mildness the rough and Rocky temper of Man that she make him happy therein whether he will or no great cunning did she use in proportioning every part forgetting
it as first jump into their empty Sculls It being presumed that when the distance was so great the Advance must be on her side or the other would not have had presumption enough to attempt it so that she is rather blamed than pittyed too frequently we must confess such matches have been clapt up and proved very unforâ—â—â—â—te VViddows the premises seriously weighed and considered ought if they intend for marriage to be very deliberate and cautious in their choice for when Virgins who are not presumed so capable of Understanding and therefore sooner deceived are acquitted they will be censured if they miscarry therefore it is their main concern well to Ballance their minds and to see that their Passion gain not the Ascendant over their reason Let them likewise consider their Opinions in point of Religion for that many times though it should be the very cement of Peace and Union manâ— times makes a difference and opens wide breaches to disputes and those to jarring and those jarrings let in discontent It is certainly very uncomfortable that those who have so closely combined all their other Interests should in the greatest be disunited when one House and one Bed holds those which one Church cannot And then again another Mischief is the Servants according to their different perswasions bandy into Leagues and Parties so that it terribly shakes if not uttterly destroys the Concord that should create a happiness in the Family We find another particular in which any great disproportion is to be avoided and that is inequality of Years for the Humours of Age and Youth so widely differ that extraordâ—nary skill is required to compose the discord into a harmony when an Old Man Marries a young Woman here is usually Jealousies on the one part and loathings on the other and if there be not a large degree in both or at least in one party of discretion there must unavoidably follow perpetual disagreements which by a suitable choice might be avoided But in this case that does not often happen among those we are now speaking of we confess the Avarice of Parents many times force Virgins upon such Matches but Widdows who for the most part are at their own discretion to chuse rarely make such Elections commonly the inequality falling on the other side they to satisfy their Desires Allure young Men to them with their Riches yet soon see their Folly in doing it and are punished for their dorage It is indeed strange that those who should be preparing to make their Beds in the Dust should think of a Nuptial Couch A Philosopher being demanded what was the fittest time for Marrying gravely replyed The young should not Marry yet and the Old not at all The Wise Man considering the Follies and deplorable condition of such Doaters asks the question viz. Who will pity a Châ—rmer when bitten by a Serpent Eccl. 12.13 How can any one of years if Reason be consulted flatter her self with her feeble Charms to fix the giddy Appetite of Youth but when these things are transacted Reason is not called to the Council Lust and an Infatiable desire joyned with Folly and precipitated rashness and give their Votes to humour a present Appetite no fatal Warnings the Carier to misery yet one would think but thinking here in this case has no time allowed to applâ— it self seriously to deliberatâ— that a multiplicity of unhappy presidents might caution her she that accidentally falls down an undiscovered Precipice gains compassion in her Disaster but she that sees the danger before her looks down and sees the dreadful bottom strewed with mangled Carcasses of many that have fallen thence and yet wilfully casts her self down the blame extinguishes the pitty and she that casts her self away in such a Match betrays not less but more wilfulness How many misfortunes of miserable Women present themselves to her View like the wreâ—ks of tattered Vessels spit upon the â—ock and if notwithstanding all that has been said she will needs stear her Course on purpose to run the same Fate none to envy her the ship wrack she Courts Age we allow ought to be honoured and esteemed when it acts with prudence suitable to the veneration properly due to it for as Solomon says the Hoary Head is a Crown of Glory if it be found in the way of righteousness Widdows in years when they act thus we must confess are in so high a Frenzy that we can hardly believe but it must have some rooting in the Habit and Constitution of the Mind some lightness of Humour other must generate it before it can so giddly turn in their Brains those therefore that will secure themselves from the Effect must substract the cause How preposterous is it think you to see an Old Woman delight in and doating on gaudy Trisles more seemly for her Grand-Children to see her with Spectacles reading Romances or Love-stories to be at Masquerades and Dances when she is only fit to Act Antiquaries these are contradictions of Nature to hear others again wishing themselves young that it is odds but within a while they will perswade themselves they are so and tearing off the Marks where Fifty or Sixty are written and write Fifteen those who thus manage their Widdowhood have more reason to bewale it at last then at first as having experimentally found the mischief of being left to their own Guidance But pardon us Ladies if we have touched too sharply on this matter we are Conscious there are a great many Virtuous Widdows that take sober measures Marrying discreetly or spending their days in Devotion and good works â—elighting to bring up their Children in the Fear of the Lord which is the beginning of Wisdom Women Admirable for Sundays Virtue After Dinners Solicitations of the Emperours and other great Potentates Ambassadours to the Pious Heroick and ever Renowned Queen Elizabeth for the Tolleration or the Popish Religion in her Kingdom she silenced their Importunities with this weightly and reasonable Answer viz. That to let them have Churches by the others she could not with the safety of the Common Wealth and without the wounding of her Honour and Conscience c. for what ever Doctrine is contrary to Godliness is dangerous in a State and opens a door to all Mischief and Wickedness and therefore Popery beâ—â—ing that stamp she resolved not to allow the publick Exercise of it in her Dominious Ann The Beautiful and Virtuous Wife of King Henry the Eight and Mother to Queen Elizabeth was condemned upon the false accusation of some Popish Favourites who secretly Envyed to sâ—e a Lutheran Queen ascend the Throne and therefore resolved to change it into a Scaffold the which when she ascended with Courage and Modesty where there were but few dry Eyes besides her she said that the King was constant in advancing her for a private Gentlewoman had raised her to the Honour of a countess then a Marchioness and lastly to the highest of Earthly Honour even to be his
those things that more immediately concern our selves but with great care and restraint in those that concern others Remember always that Zeal is something proceeding from Divine Love when true And that it therefore must contradict no Action of Love Love to God includes love to our Neighbour and therefore no pretence of Zeal for God's Glory must make us uncharitable to one another zeal in the insâ—ances of our own Duty and personal Deporâ—ment is more safe than in matters of Counsel and Actions besides our just Duty â—â—nding towards the perfection it mains is beholding to Zeal for helping it to move more swiftly but where Zeal is unwary it creates trouble and sometimes danger as in case it be spent in too forward Vows of Chastity and restraints of natural Innocent Liberties but let Zeal be as devout as it will as seraphical as it will in the direct Address and intercourse with God there is no danger in it do all the parts of your Duty as earnestly as if all the Salvation of Mankind the Confusion of the Devils and all you hope or desire did depend upon every one Action Let Zeal be seated in the will and Choice and regulated with prudence and a sober Understanding not in the Phancies and Affections for they will render it only full of Noise and Empty of profit when the other will take it deep and smooth material and devout that Zeal to be sure is safe and acceptable which directly encreases Charity Let your Zeal if it must be Expressed in Anger be always more severe against your self than against others which will distinguish it from Malice and Prejudice Zenobia Wife to 〈◊〉 miâ—tus the Iberian King her Husband being forced by Tâ—idates King of Armenia to fly his Country she accompanied him though great with Child thorough Woods and Desarts but finding her self unable to endure the Fattigue longer she entreated him to kill her that she might not fall into the Hands of the Enemy and be made a Captive which along while he deferred but seeing her Faint and Languish he run his Sword into her Body and thinking she had been Dead left her but being found by some Shepherds she was carryed to the City of Artaxates and there cured of her Wound and her Quality afterward being known Tiridatesse â—â—â—t for her and treated her very kindly praising her for the Love and Constancy she boâ—e towards her Husband and for her sake caused him to be fought out and restoreâ— to his Kingdom Zoe Daughter to Constantine the Younger she was given in the Marriage to Romanus the third Emperor but not capable of satisfying her Desires she got him privately strangled and Marryed Michael Paplilagon to whom for his Hâ—ndsomness and Proportion of body she took a Main Fancy to as working She see him in his Shop working at the Golâ—-Smiths Trade of which Prosession he was But he being weak in Mind though strong of Body committed the Affairs of the Empire to his Brother John who was more stirring and Active and he working upon his weak Temper at last perswaded him to turn Monk which he had no sooner done but the Lustful Empress to cool her Heat was Cloystered in a Monastery and John Proclaimed Emperour in the East FINIS Rules for the Beautiful The best use to be made of Beauty Beauty not to be beholding to Art Beauty blindeth Justice Beautieâ— description Body Lean how to make â—t Plump and Fat Bodies unequally thriving The Remedy The praise of Histories The forbidding of idle Books makes young People more curious to read them What is necessary in Bâ—haviour Câ—â—seâ— of Company Rules for Good Behaviour A Caution for writing of Letters Not to entertain any familiarity with Serving Men. Not too much to affect to be seen in publick Too much privacy in some cases dangerous The love of a Wife toward her Husband The duty oâ— Children 〈◊〉 their Parents Laws for a Reconcile the Man and the Wife Miseries and Thornes in marriage Beauty maketh a Woman suspected Deformitty hated and Riches Proud Gen. 1.27 Prov. 31.11 23. Gal. 3.28 Care to be taken as to Waking Sleeping Repose Exercise Care taken to prevent Passions perturbations in the Mind Enemys to Beauty Care to be had in Meats and Drinks in relation to Beauty Physical Aâ—â—â—plications 〈◊〉 preserve Beauty Care of the Body's good Digestion Twins the Sâ—mptoms False Conceptions hard to discover Alber. Maâ—â—de mulieâ— fort Revel 14. â—ob 31.1 Chastity it 's Excellence â—n Men and Woman Chasâ—â—◠〈◊〉 c. Chastâ—â—â— Rules 〈◊〉 be obsâ—â—â—ed 〈◊〉 by â—â—â—â—ried Peâ—â—sons 〈◊〉 Matriâ—â—nial Câ—â—stity Gallen Dr. Reynolds in her life relates that she and her Child were buryed together 1 Kings 22. Divorce a Copy as it was among the Jews Dâ—uryâ— among the Jews the manner of it Dunmows Bacon an Encouragement to happy Marriage Her Speech to her Army Eloquence improved by Reading of Books c. Ambr. Ev. 70. The like Mortification appear'd in that Virgin Eugenia during the Confiscate of Eleutherius Suct Faces disfigured with wrinkles how to smooth Faces Eyes other parts Attracting Love Face chap's how to make smooth Faces burnt 〈◊〉 Scalded â— Remedy Fore-head how to beautifie Fate how to Beautifie though dis-figured Fame dangerous to Reputation Jealousie more particularly considered Jealousie an Enemy to a married Life Jealousie sundry ways prescribed to prevent its bad Effects Jealousie its Cause and many things considered therein conducing to it's Remedy Jealousie its Cure and the circumstances attending it Kissing an Incitation to Love also Coyness c. Kindness to Children and their Education c. Keeping House in so doing what is to be considered as to Servants Keeping House the expences considered Loves Original Object Division Definitions Loves pleasure Objects Love its honest Objects Love which Charity commands is composed of Three kinds viz. Honesty Profit and Pleasure Love 〈◊〉 its Original Power and extent Loves Power and Tyrannical sway further described Love inciting to sundry Accomplishmets Love makes men valiant Love causes Gentility Love occasions neatness in Apparel Love makes Men and Women Poets Love a Poem on it Love Enquiries or Questions A story of a wise Woman Love the Founder of Arts and Orders Love the Author of Court and Country Sports and Pastimes Loves force and Mystery Love Melancholly cured by enjoying the desired Object Love Queries Resolved on sundry occasions Love brief Instruction for the Guidance of Ladies Phancies therein Love its uncontroulable Power and Force Love Examples Love of Wives to Husbands Love of Parents to their Children Love and Reverence of Children to Parents Love of Husbands to Wives Liberty desirable more than Life Cure of Love by Exercise Care of Love by Diet. Care of Love by hard Lodging Cure by herbs Physick c. Caution in Case the party be far spent Melancholy it's Symptoms Comparison between a Lover and a Souldier Marriage State further considered c. Marriage Promises and Contracts in what Cases they are binding and what not Advice about Marriage c. Particular and General considerations and what may be considered in Jealous Persons who have some colour for it Perswasion a Remedy for Love Patience in Example Perfumes for Gloves Cloths c. Pride to be 〈◊〉 with more particular arguments against it Pride the Vanity of it considering no mortal state change of things and uncertainty of life Partial censureâ— Reproved and Confuted Songs and gay Cloaths tempting Spots of deformity of any kind on the body removed Spots Inflamation blood-shot and yellowness in the eys Service relating to a Chamber Maid and what she is to take notice of c. Service relating to the Cook Maid or her Office c. Service reâ—â—â—ing to a 〈◊〉 Maid Service relating to the Dary Hâ—â—semaids under Coâ—k maids and Scullâ—â—y maids * Virgin her Blushes the Cause and Comliness Wedlock its â—onourable Estate c. Young Mans choice of a good Wife as to Birth and a good Name Young Mans choice as to her Religion and Beauty Young Mans Choice as to Portion and Friends
them what Toâ—rs of Turkish Tires have they now in fashion so that the face of a short woman seems to stand in the middle her stature is so Augmented by the building of her head so many story high how does the dressing of all nations disguise them that that they must put off their masking habit or like watches be taken to pieces er'e they can be enjoyed and to what other end I pray were they made as to their worldly Felicity The Customs of Countries are different and the Garb is Majestick at one placâ— which is Sordid and 〈◊〉 at an other All People have not the same Conceptions of Beauty White is as hateful to an Aethiopian as Black to us But once uncloath Women and according to their Complexions they are all the same but the Conception about the harmony and measures of a body differs not And what greater Right can I do my Sex than to bring Women to be Judged by one Rule and since every Woman judges herself the Fairest she that would be backward to this Arbitrament would be diffident of her self and consequently a Renegade from her Sex The Three beautiful Goddâ—sses we find â—ript themselves in Mount Ida when they came to Paris to pass his Judgment upon them which was the Fairest And Coâ—inines tells us of a Princess who permitted the Ambassadors whâ— came to demand her in marriage to see her only in a Lawn Smâ—ck that they might give a better Reportâ— of her Beauty telling them she would even put off that too if they were not satisfied For as there is an inextinguishable Jealousie and Emulation among some Women so there is an unmeasurable Pride and Pride arising out of Confidence all will not decline Judgment And what better way than these Rules which the Voices of all conclude on for a Woman may paint a Blue or Yellow Cheek as well as a Red one but the sweet composure and measure of her body her limbs and comly shape cannot alter and how imperfect are they to be seen through Cloaths which may hide and falsify many things which in a Veracious Nakedness may be truly discerned Men have cast two â—reat blemishes upon our Sex First Vncertainty and Change of Judgment and Secondly Vnconstancy in Cloaths and Carriage and how can either be better remove than if the fair ones were reduced into such a posture as they should all necessarily agree in and that they had not liberty to change And I pray what other way is there unless they be brought tobe all Naked But then they may complain Take away their Arts and their Ornaments and they shall want of their Complacency and Provocations to their Husbands But notwithstanding they have liberty enough left them They may dye or pounce or figure their Skins after the manner of the ancient Brittains In a word since the Sun the Moon and all the Glorious Battalia of Heaven appear as Nature made them and everything but men and women are contented with what Nature allotted them why should Woman who is the Master-piece of Nature hide her beauty out of meer Humour and Fancy to enrich Taylors Weavers and Sempstresses who if the Naked Fashion be followed may hang themselves Nature considered in her wonderful Operations in the producing of mankind and other things Nature is powerful in her Operation upon things subject to her Dominion The Philosophers and Sages searching and narrowly prying into her Secrets found continually new wonders to creaâ—e in them admiration and lift up their thoughts in contemplation esteeming her the Queen of the World and the careful indulgent mother of all things in it who never sleeps nor slumbers in her charge but performs every thing under it with great Diligence and Industry â—rnâ—ing things with such exactness and beauty in their respective Kinds that the Royal Prophet when he looked into himself and considered the Compâ—â—ition and admirable Frame of his Body seemed to be astonished at the exactness and harmony he found therein so that it caused him to cry out that he was featfully and wonderfully made and also holy Job contemplating his beginning and from a kind of Nothing he came says Hast thou not meaning the God of Nature poured me out as Milk and curdled me as Cheese Thou hast cloathed me with skin and flesh and hast fenced me with bones and sinews Thou hast granted me Life and Favour and in thy visitation hasâ— preserved my Spirit Behold but the beauty of the Universe and its Order and Harmony and then it plainly appears it is all one great wonder to raise astonishment in our minds and being taken in Parables and Individuals it produces no less admiration There is nothing so small as not worthy our regard nothing but what in one measure or other brings benefit to mankind the least Herb or Insect is proper to some use Nature has so prudently provided and furnished this great Storehouse the Word that Man the possessor of it may not have any Reason or Cause to complain of or for any thing she has not placed in it but above his own Frame is excellent even in it Whilst it is forming and making in the Womb there Nature in the Gloomy Cell of Generation works with wonderful cunniog to raise from a Lump or indigested Mass of Corruption a stately and beautiful Structure adorned with all the Ornaments of Loveliness pleasing not only to it self when it comes forth and grows up but also gracious in the Eyes of the Creatures it is born to rule over Though for all this we see she sometimes though unwillingly works preposterous and mishapen births and sometimes as the Learned tell us she by one accident or other is compell'd to make one body participate of either sex as in the case of those they call Hermophrodites and the Reason they give for this particular is That the Womb contains three Cells one on the right another on the left side and a third in the bottom or middle into which last when the Seminal matter falls an Hermophrodite is held to be begotten in this manner because Nature doth ever tend to that which is most compleat willingly inclining to male Generation or the producing male Infants and therefore when the male is sometimes formed in the principal parts and yet through the evil disposition of the Womb and Object and inequality of the Seed when Nature for want of Heat and same other the like Oâ—structions cannot perfect the male she continues as much however of the male part to it as may be yet the female part joyning likewise the body participates of Two Natures on different Sexes and so the Hermophrodite is produced partaking yet more of the one sex than the other for we remember not that we have read of any that could use both members of Generation so distinctly as to beget and concieve Children most commonly inclining to the latter However we believe there has been some mistakes upon this account and that some have been
reputed Hermophrodites that have not been reasonably been to considered as such through some defects that might happen and do frequently happen to Women that have much heat in them We have heard of divers who have been taken to such kind of Creatures by being troubled with a Puzlement or coming forth of the Generation member which have by the care of skillful Physicians and Surgeons been restored to their proper office and use and of one of the like Nature we shall give an account as it is taken out of the Academy of Paris being the Copy of a Petition delivered to the Present French King to restore a Woman who had been judged an Hemophrodite by the mistake of unskillful Physicians who viewed her to her Christian Name and proper Gatb of the female sex which she was forbidden to own or wear they supposing her to be a Man and sâ— caused her to alter her Name and Habit upon pain of being whipt as by her Petition will more fully appear in these words Sir Margaret Malaure most humbly shews That by an unparalled misfortune having Lived hitherto without knowing her parents She finds her self under a necessity of making her sex known Your Petitioner was scarcely come into the World before she lost both her Father and Mother but having been baptized by the Curate of Pourdiac in Guyenne he was so charitable as to take care of her Education but whether through the negligence of the Nurâ—e or though the weakness of her constituion she found her self inconvenienced with a certain imperfection called by the Physicians Prolapsus Ureri Your Petitioner never remembers that she was otherwise She became accustomed to this Infirmity and no body taking care to cure her of it when Yonng she thought all Women had been in the same condition In 1685. being then One and Twenty Years of Age she fell sick at Tholouse in the House of a Lady whom she served upon which she was carried to the publick Hospital where her Infirmity being perceived by chance the Physician who doubtless had never seen the like was so far mistaken that he took â—oâ—r Petitioner for an Hâ—rmophrodite and such an one as seemed to partake more of the Boy than the Girl He made a great noise of this discovery and the Vicars general were consulted who ordered your Petitioner to put on mans Apparel This disguise being no way convenient for her she went to Bourdeaux where resuming Womans Habit she served a Lady till the year 1691. at which time a private person recollecting her for the same person that the Vicar's General had ordered to go in mans cloaths caused her Lady to turn her away and constrained her to return to Tholouse where being put in Prison for being discovered in Woman's habit Sentence was passed against her the 21 st of July 1691. by the Twelve Magistrates of the City call'd Capitols that she should call her self by the Name of Arnold Malaute and should go clad as a man with strict Injunction prohibiting her to take upon her the name or habits of a woman upon pain of being whipt and being served with this Order she gave obedience to it not well knowing wâ— at she was her self Being thâ—s become destitute of any way is get a livelihood in regard she understood no sort of work that was fit for a man to undertake she wandered up and down from place to place only subâ—â—â—ing upon the Charity of well-â—â—â—sed people yet behaving her self with modesty and discretion as appears by sundry Certificates of the Magistrates of several places 〈◊〉 Petitioner was extreamly 〈◊〉 be pitied uncertain her self of her condition and being taken â—â— others for one of those Châ—â—â— called Hermophrodites ' Tâ—â— great doubt whether there â—â— such things in reality but this Question is rather to be examined in Philosophers Writings 〈◊〉 here to be handled the Opiâ—â—â— most follow is That though Nature proceed not so far 〈◊〉 Metamorphoses that she never defaces the Character she has given to distinguished both Sexes that she never confounds 〈◊〉 Marks or Seals conieâ—â—â—â— that there are no true Hermâ—phrodites wherein both Sex are perfect It must be granted however that sâ—metimes some certain persâ—ns are 〈◊〉 formed and shâ—ped tâ—at they who have not bâ—en able to diâ—tinguish the real sex have been in sâ—me measure to be Excâ—sed 〈◊〉 there is nothing to support this conjecteâ—re in yoâ—r 〈◊〉 â—â—ly if there be any tâ—ing in this Accident â—t has befallâ—â—â—â—â— which resâ—mbles a progâ—â—â— I dare be bâ—ld 〈…〉 it is 〈◊〉 mistake of the 〈◊〉 and Surgâ—oâ—s that view'd it full and who by their â—â—â—mination of it have made nâ—t no other 〈◊〉 but that of their oâ—n ignorance your â—etitiâ—â—ner hâ—s had always the shape viâ—â—â— Inclinations and Mâ—ltadies of the â—â—â—â—le seâ— only she was in truth a Little disfiâ—ured bâ— the puzlement that happâ—ned in her person which made her be tâ—ken for a man But in the month of October Last coming to Paris to consult the Learned and Experienced she was no â—â—â—ner view'd by the Siâ—â—r Hâ—lâ—â—â—ius Doctor of Physick bâ—t he pâ—â—â—ently Aâ—knowledged her for what she was and the Sieâ—ur Sâ—viard Swoâ—en Surgeon of the Hospital to whose care the said Doâ—â—or Committed her has so well restored and settled all things in their proper place that the Enigma which was occasioned only by the displacing of the parts now disapearing there nothing more remains to your petitioner in doubt but that she is a perfect Virgin accâ—â—ding to the Authentick Certificates which she has to shew Therefore seting aside such refleâ—ctions as naturally fâ—l our thoughts upon an Accident so Extraordinary all that is to be â—one is civily to restore your Petitioner that Sex which Nature has â—â—â—â—â—owed upon her the Name that was given her in baptism the Haâ— it which the Lâ—ws Câ—vil and Canonical oblige 〈◊〉 to wear which are the three things in the Wâ—orld that we have the leâ—â—t reason should he â—ravishâ— from us yet 〈…〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 â—â—ken from youâ—â—eâ—â—â—â—â— by their Decree It 〈◊〉 tâ—ue thâ—â— the 〈◊〉 of â—â—olouâ—â— may by an â—â—â—â—al made to them reverse the Judgment of the Capitols but your Petitioners poverty will not permâ—t her to take so long a Journy without exâ—â—â—â—â— her self to new diâ—â—races Her modesty is an unsurmoâ—ntable Obstacle in regard that by a particular priviledge belonging to the Jurâ—sdiction of thâ— Capitols their Decrees having â—ower to seize and distrain notwithstanding the Appeal Your Pâ—titioner dares not appear at Tholouse in Womâ—â—â— Hâ—bit without rendering her self liable to an Infamous Punishment which she no ways deserves Nor can she any more appear in mans apparel without inâ—ringing the Laws of Deâ—â—â—cy without transgressing the Ordâ—rs of good Government and incurring the Câ—nâ—ures of the Church Her modesty also would suffer much more by another Review and an Exâ—mination which thâ—y wouâ—d certainly subject your Pâ—tiâ—â—ner to wherein she would be the less spared by the Physicians of Tholouse as being
Darius Ocohus she was of a cruel nature causing Satira her son Attaxerxus Wife to be poysoned because she out-vied her in Reavâ—y She put divers others to death in her Son's Reign who conselled him to suppress her Tyranny Pasiphe Daughter to Apollo or the Sun She was Wife to Minos the King 〈◊〉 Creet yet falling passionately in love with a Young Buli 〈◊〉 framed a Cow of Wood covered with the Skin of an Heifer She found means to enjoy her bestial desire She was brought to bed of the Minotaur half Man and half Beast which did great mischief in the Country till Theseus came and destroyed it in the Labyrinth Patalena an Hâ—athenish Goddess taken notice of by St. Augustine in his book de Civitate Dei and her Care was assigned her over Corn just coming out of the Earth in its Sprout or Blade the word being derived from Patera to open or disclose the Earth at its first coming up Pavence was stiled a Goddess in ancient Times much adored by Mothers and Nurses to whose Care and Protection they recommended their Infant Children others say they made a Bugbear of her Name to fright them into quietness when they were froward Paula a Pious Matron remark for her good works and Alms-deeds She made it her business to do good and died in the high Esteem of all good Christians at the age of Fifty six Years and Eight Months Paulina Wife to Seneca the famous Philosopher Nero's Tutor when she heard that the doom'd him to Death and that he had chosen to bleed to Death by cutting his Veins resolved to accompany him in Death in the same manner and ordered her Veins to be opened at the same time her husband 's were that she might at company him to the other world but Nero through a Tyrant delighting in blood out of pity commanded it to be prevented Penelope Wife of Vlysses and Daughter to Icarius was Mother to Telamachus She was wife and beautiful and though in her Husband's absence Twenty Years at the wars of Troy and his dangerous Voyage home many Rich and Powerful Sweethearts courted her she put them by till her husband came home who with the help of his Swinherd and Son slew them Penthesilia Queen of the Amazons who came for the love she bore to Hector Son of Priam with a gallant Army of women to fight for the Trojans agaiust the Greeks and did wonders till she was stain in pressing too far into the fight by the hand of Aechilles Peta a Goddess adored by the Ancients for that they believed she took care of Suits Petitions and Requests made in Law Coures and to Kings or other greatmen Phaetusa accounted one of Heliades aod Sister to Phaeton and as seigned to be turned into a Poplar Tree during the Extraordinary Lamentation she made for the Death of her brother thrown headlong from the Battlements of the Skies by Jupiter's Thunder for burning a great part of the word by misguiding the Chariot of the Sun Phedima Dotanes a Lord of Persia's Daughter she marry'd smerdis the Son of Cyrus King of Persia and after his Death she was Wife to the Magician who usurped the Persian Monarchy by declaring himself to be the same Smerdis that was supposed to be put to Death by Cambyses his brother upon the account of a Dream he had wherein he fancy'd he sat on the Persian Throne and his Head reached the Sky But this Lady being charged by he Father to make a discovery of the Impostor did so by taking an opportunity when he was asleep to feel for his Ears but finding none she then concluded it was the Magician Spandabalus whose Ears Cyrus had cut off for his Crimes of which having given Information the Lords of Persia assembled and forcing his Guards kill'd him together with his brother and chose Darius King Pherenice she was Daughter to Diagoras King of the Rhodians she took great delight in the Olimpick Games and coming thither disguised in man 's apparel often bore away the price in running with the nimblest Youths of Greece and brought up her Son to be so expert in it that he was always Victor Philippa Catenisa of a Laundress came to be Governess of the King of Naples Children She it was who incited Queen Jane of Naples to consent to the death of her Husband Andrew of Hungary by somenâ—â—ing the differences between them and had an hand first strangling him and then hanging him out at a Window in the City of Aversa for which she afterward suffered a cruel death by torments Phyllis she was Daughter to Lycurgus King of the Thracians she fell in love with Demophoon the Son of Theseus in his return from the Trojan Wars and granted him her choicest Favours upon promise when he had setled affairs in his own Country to return and marry her but being detained too long by contrary Winds in his way she thinking he had flighted and forsaken her after much lamenting her folly and misfortune committed greater in hanging her self It is fabled that the Gods in compassion turned her into an Almond Tree but without leaves yet Demophoon no sooner embrac'd it but it shot out leaves and flourished exceedingly Periades held to be the Daughters or Pierus Prince of the Macedonians she being given much to Poetry thought her self more expert in Numbers and singing than the the Muses thereupon sent them a bold Challenge for a Trial of the Skill which they accepting and remaning Victors they are said to turn this Lady into a Magpy and sent her to chatter in the Woods and Hedges c. Plety worthily held by the Pagans for a great Virtue and Good and for that cause they â—iâ—led her a Goddess and pay'd her Adoration and to her care they committed their good Thoughts and Actions also the Education of their Children c. Pyrene a Lady whom Hercules got with child upon promise to return and marry her but he delaying and her Womb increasing she fled from the Father's anger to the Mountains between Spain and France where she was thought to be devoured of Wild Beasts yet lest a lasting Monument behind her those Hills upon the occasion being called by her Name Placidia Galla Daughter to Theodosius the Great Emperour she was also Sister to Honorius and Arcadius who were likewise Emperours and afterwards Mother to Valentinian the Third she was taken Caprive by Alathulsus King of the Huns c. who marry'd her for her Beauty Wit and pleasing Humour So that by her Ascendant over him she diverted him from his Purpose utterly to raze and destroy the City of Rome Placidia Daughter to Valentinian the Third Emperour and Eudoâ—ia his Empress She was carried away by the Vandels but restored soaa after and honourably marry'd the Senator Plectruda Queen to Pippin called the Fat. After her Husband's Death she took upon her the Govenment of the Kingdom in the behalf of her Grand-son a Child and put Charles Martel whom Pippin had by
a former Wife in prison but he escaping raised a War against her and wrestled the Power out of her hands She was a woman of great Courage and Wit Plantina Wife of Trajan the Emperour She did much good in the Empire by Prevailing with him to take off the heavy Taxes She procured the Adoption of Adrian who coming to be Emperour built a Palace Temple and Amphitheater to her memory the Ruins of part of which magnificent Structures are yet seen at Rome Poictiers Diana Dutches of Valentinois She got her Fathers Pardon when condem'd to die and was very Famous in the French Court during the Reign of Henry the second disposing of all Offices and Places of Trust to her Favourites But after Henry's Death Q. Katharine de Medici stript her of her Jewels and banish'd her the Court for grief of which the soon after dy'd Polla Argentaria was Wife to Lucan the Poet put to Death by the Tyrant Nero for writing better Verses She was a very Learned Lady and much skilled in Poetry her self After his Death she corrected his Pharsalia and writ many Poems Palyhymnia one of the Muses â—â—id to take care of History and Historians Others affirm she was extreamly in love with Rhetoricians she was painted in white Robe With a Crown of Pearls and a Scrowl in her hand in a posture as if she required attention to what she was about to say Polyxena Daughter to Priamus King of Troy With her Achilles fell in Love and being trained to the marriage was killed by Parris with an inpoysoned Arrow in revenge of which to appease that Hero's Ghost she after the taking of Troy was sacrificed at his Tomb. Pomona held by the Ancieats to be a Goddess that look'd after Orchards and Gardens With her Vertumnus fell in love and by borrowed shipes got his Will of her Pompea third wife to Julius Caesar Daughter to Q. Pompeus but was divorc'd upon suspicion that she dealt false with him yet he believed her innocent though he was told Claudius often had a 〈◊〉 in meetings with her in Womans Apparel Poniarovia Duughter to Julius Ponictovius a Nobleman of Poland she had often as she said Visions and Revelations foretelling the happy state of the Chruch and the destruction of its Enemies Pontia a Noble Roman Lady With her Octavius Sagista fell in love but after he had obtained her to be divorced from her Husband chang'd his mind Whereupon she marry'd an other which so incensed him that he kill'd her for which he has Try'd and Executed Popea Sabina Second wife to Nero Emperour of Rome a very beautiful and vertuous Lady who being great with child was kill'd by a Kick he gave her on the belly of which among all his wicked acts he was only known to repent Populonia held to be a Goddess that secur'd Countrys from ravagement and spoil Porcia Cato's Daughter she was wife to Brutus one of the Conspirators against Julius Caesar who to regaiâ— the Roman Liberty assassinated him in the Senate-house and being overthrown by Octavius Augustus in the Philipick Fields she no sooner had notice of his Death but she resolv'd not to survive him so that her Friends to prevent it laying all mischievous things out of her way she choak'd her self by swallowing hot Coals Poreta a Woman of Hanault for writing and maintaning the Doctrine that those who are wholly devoted to the Creator may satisfie all the Needs of Nature without offending God was burnt together with her books Possvorta and Anâ—â—â—ta Two Goddesses held by the Ancients to know what would happen before and after tha last having power to redress Evil past Potaniades held to inspire men and women with Rage and to appease her the ancients sacrificed Pigs upon her Altar Poverty another Goddess she was painted meagar and almost famished yet by others she was called the Goddess of Industry because Poverty induces men to study and labour and is she proper mother of all Arts and Inventions Praxardicia a Goddess sabled to set bounds to mens actions and passions and therefore she was represented by a Head to shew that Reason ought to guide us in our affairs and to her were offered only the heads of the beasts ordained for sacrifice the rest being the Fees of the Priests that attented her Altar Priscilla a Noble Lady of great Vertue before she was corrupted by Montanus and his heresy Priscilla a Roman Lady very charitable she purchased a burying place for the Martyrs the fell by the Heathen Persecution Proba an other Roman Lady and very learned she wrote the life of our blessed Saviour and composed several 〈◊〉 taken from Virgil by 〈◊〉 Prosa the Persian Goddess of Childbirth who gave easy deliverances to woman in labour Proserpina Daughter to Ceres the Goddess of Corn she was stolen away by Pluto God of Hell and Enthrod'd in his sutty Kingdom and fabled to be fetch'd thence by Hercules and delivered to her sorrowful mother Psyche a beautiful Damsel with whom Cupid fell in love but often crossed by his mother Venus till he compelled her to give him a free Enjoyment of his Mistress by often wounding and inflaming her with his Arrows which made her doat on every servile Swain Pudicita a Goddess adored at Rome under the similitude of a woman with a Veil over her Face called the Goddess of modesty or shamedfacedness Pulcheria Daughter of the Emperour Arcadius She was called Augusta and did many notable things for the Good of the Commonweal and by her means the General Council of Chalcedon was held 〈◊〉 441. Pussa held among the Chineses for a Goddess called by some the Chinesian Cyble she was represented in the shape of a woman sitting upon a Cocus Tree with 16 Arms 8 Extended on each side with divers symbolical Instruments in them This Image is exceeding rich being set out with Diamonds and other precious stones Prudentia a Goddess fabl'd among the ancients to give VVisdom and Understanding to her Votaries she was printed with a Glass in one hand and a Serpent in the other and she was pray'd to in doubtful matters that a right understanding might be had in deciding the controversies that arose Patrico's are the Sâ—olers Priests Every Hedg is his Parish and every wandring slogue and VVhore his Parishoner The Service he saith is the marrying of Couples without the Gospel or Book of Common Prayer the solemnity whereof is thus the Parties to marry'd find out a dead horse or any other beast and standing one on the one side and the other on the other the Patrico bids them live together till Death them part and so shaking hands the Wedding is ended Pasts There are man Qualities which although they are not so proper unto Ladies yet they are very commendable in them in which number is this piece of Cookery to have a good hand in the pastry For skill in this affair consult for the present the accomplish Cook Sect. II and Rabisha's Cookery Book 14.