the Wife of Atlas was feigned the Daughter of Thetis and Ocianus having one Son of twelve Daughters five of the Daughters wept to death upon the Sons being killed by a Serpent whereupon they were turned into the Stars called Hyades which rise about St. Swithin's Day and generally bring Lowring or Rainy Weather Afrania she was Wife to Lucinus Buccio a woman of Masculine Spirit for though the Senate of Rome had decreed that Women should not speak in the places of Judicature unless questions were asked them she bodily started up before the Pretors and pleaded her own Law Suits Agarilla Daughter to Clisâ—â—nes was so exceeding beautiful that all the Grecian Youths were Enamouted on her and at great cost made Plays and other Entertainments that she being present they might feast their Eyes on her beauteous face Agatha a Sicilian Lady who refusing to turn Pagan and Marry Quintianus the Proconsul was by him cruelly Tormented and afterwards put to death When that day Twelvemonth Mount Aetna broke out in a violent Torrent of fire which streamed in sâ—ames as far as Catana where she was Martyred so that the Pagan Inhabitants looking upon it as a fearful Judgment for shedding innocent blood ran to her Grave and taking the Shroud that covered her opposed it to the Torrent of Fire which thereupon immediately stopped Agathorâ—ca a famous Curtâ—â—â—â— so bewitched Ptolome Philopater King of Egypt with her Charms and Beauty that to make way for Marrying her he made away his Wife Euridice by whom he had Ptolome Epiphanes whom the new advanced Queen would have murthered but the people hâ—ndered it and made her fly the Country 〈◊〉 was Daughter to Cadmus and Hermione Marryed to Echiron of Thebes by whom she had Pentheus who was King of Thebes after his Fathers death but torn to pieces by his Mother and other Women at the feet of Baccus in their drunken sits because he disapproved of such unseemly Revels Agenâ—ria was a name the Ancients gave to their Goddess of Industry and a Temple was erected to her in the Adventine Mount Agno one of the Nimphs by whom Jupiter was brought up she gave name to a Fountain said to have this rare gift that if it in time of drowth the Priest of Jupiter Lyceus stirred it with an Oaken bough a thick mist would arise from it and imediately gathering into Clouds send down plenty of Rain Agnodiâ—e a Virgin of Athens Who above all things desired to study Physick and became so famous therein that the Physicians eâ—vyed her and accused her before the Arâ—â—pagites or Judges as an Ignorant Pretender but she gave such Learned Demonstrations that the cause not only went for her but an order was made That any free Woman of Athens might practice Physick and that the Men Physicians should no more meddle with Women in Child-birth seeing the Women were as capable in all matters Agraules was Daughter to Cecrops sometimes King of Athens who being over curious though forbid it in opening a basket wherein Minerva had hid Ericthenius was stricken with Phrensy to that height of madness that running to a precipice she threw her self headlong from it and was dashed in pieces on the Rocks Agiripina Daughter to Marcus Agrippa she was Marryed to Tyberius the Emperor by whom he had Drafius Agripina â—espania daughter to M. Agrippa by Julia the Daughter of Augustus a Woman Couragious and Chast but because she prosecuted the Murtherers of her Husband Tyberius banished her Agrippina wife of Claudius daughter of Germanicus and Sister to Caligula and Mother to Nero all Caesars so that she had more Emperours in her Family than any before or after her She was slain at the commandment of her Son Nero When he was Emperour as had been foretold by a Soathsayer and her â—elly ripped up to show him the place where he had lain Albuna Anciently held as a Goddess and worshipped at Rome had 〈◊〉 being in a Grove in the Teritories of Tâ—â—â—â—tum Some will have her to be Juno the Daughter of Atâ—â—nâ—s who â—lying her Husbands fury threw her self together with her son Maliceris into the Sea Alceste otherwise Alcestis she was the daugeter to Peleus wife to Admetus King of Thessaly and so loving was she to her husband that being Condemned she offered to lay down her Life as a Ransom for his Alcippehed To be the Daughter of Mars and Aglâ—â—â—os who being pursued by 〈◊〉 Neptunes Son who designed to Ravish her and the crying out for help Maâ—s came to her rescue and killed her Puâ—sâ—â—r There was likewise another 〈◊〉 daughter to 〈◊〉 wife to 〈◊〉 and Mother to Marpissa who being Râ—viâ—lâ—ed by Ida but thhe Raviâ—â—er being pursued threw himself into the River 〈◊〉 where he is faâ—lâ—â— to be 〈◊〉 into a River God Alâ—â—ppe a Woman mentioned by 〈◊〉 to have brought â—orth an 〈…〉 〈◊〉 for 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 and spinning at home whilst other Women were Celebrating her Festival is faâ—led to be turned into a 〈◊〉 and her spinning yarn into Ivy and a Vine 〈◊〉 Eleâ—â—â—ya's daughter by â—â—sidice and Wiâ—e to 〈◊〉 on her 〈◊〉 â—â—got 〈◊〉 by 〈…〉 himself the 〈◊〉 of her Husband which is 〈…〉 famous for his great 〈◊〉 Althea Wife to Collidon upon notice that all her Sons except Meleager were slain in Battle threw a brand into the Fire on which the Fates had write his desteny at the Expiration of which though many miles distant he dyed and upon notice of his death after repenting her rash Act she killed herself Amalasontha Daugther to the Austra-gothick King a Woman of rare Wit and Ingenuity so that after the death of her Father taking the Government upon her she answered all Ambassadours in their own Language But marrying her Kinsman that he might assist her in the Government he put her to death to gain a more absolute power which Justinian the Roman Emperour Revenged by driving him and his people out of Itaâ— Amalthea was Daughter to Mâ—lisius King of Creet and said to Nurse Jupiter with Goats Milk and Honey when his Father Saturn had doomed him to death for which he afterwards gave her plenty of what ever she desired and placed the Goat as the Celestial Sign Capricorn Amestrie Wife to Xerxes King of Persia upon a jealousie that her Husband loved his Sons Wife took an opportunity to beg her of him in a drunken humour at his Feast called Tycta and then most Inhumanely murthered her she likewise caused divers of the Persian Nobility to be buryed alive as Sacrifices to her Idol that she might have long Life and be prosperous in her undertakings Amymone Accounted the Daughter of Danaus she gave her self much to Hunting and in a Forrest letting an Arrow fly at Random she wounded a Satyr who thereby being roused pursued her to Ravish her but upon her Invocation Neptune rescued her and for that kindness got her good will and by him she conceived and brought forth Naupleous a famous Hero Ancelis was Celebrated
THE LADIES DICTIONARY Being a General Entertainment For the Fair-Sex A WORK Never attempted before in English Licens'd and Enter'd according to Order LONDON Printed for JOHN DUNTON at the Raven in the Poultrey 1694. Price Bound Six Shillings TO THE Ladies Gentlewomen and Others OF THE Fair-Sex The Author Humbly Dedicates this following Work Ladies THIS Project of Composing a DICTIONARY for the use of the Fair-Sex which may serve as a Secret Oracle to Consult in all difficult Cases being the First Attempt of this kind that has appeared in English 't is hoped 't will meet with a Courteous Reception from all but more Especially from you for whose sakes 't was undertaken and if it receives any Favour at your Hands I shall Attribute its Success in the World to the ILLUSTRIOUS SUBJECT it Treats on viz. The Virtues and Accomplishments of your Sex which are so many and Admirable that no Volume can contain them in their full Extent However my thoughts and good wishes have bid fair in this Essay which is intended for a General Entertainment and will I hope prove to the Satisfaction of the Learned and Ingenious of the Age whose Discretion I need not doubt will keep them from wresting it to any other end than what it was designed for viz. The Benefit and Advantage of the Modest of either Sex not desiring that this Book should fall into the Hands of any wanton Person whose Folly or Malice may turn that into Ridicule that loudly Proclaims the Infinite Wisdom of an Omnipotent Creator neither is any thing inserted in this WORK but what I have sufficient Authority to back it with ready at hand It is now near a Twelve-month since I first entred upon this Project at the desire of a worthy Friend unto whom I owe more than I can do for him And when I considered the great need of such a Book as might be a Compleat Directory to the Female-Sex in all Relations Companies Conditions and States of Life even from CHILD HOOD down to Old-Age and from the Lady at the Court to the Cook-maid in the Country I was at length prevailed upon to do it and the rather because I know not of any Book that hath done the like indeed many Learned Writters there be who have wrote excellent well of some Particular Subjects herein Treated of but as there is not one of them hath written upon all of them so there are some things Treated of in this Dictionary that I have not met with in any Language 'T is true MY OWN EXPERIENCE IN LOVE AFFAIRS might have furnisht out Materials for such a Work yet I do not pretend thereby to lessen my Obligations to those Ladies who by their Generous imparting to me their Manuscripts have furnisht me with several hundred Experiments and Secrets in DOMESTICK AFFAIRS BEAUTIFYING PRESERVING CANDYING PHYSICK CHIRURGERY c. Proper for my Work and such as were not taken out of Printed Books or on the Credit of others but such as are Re-commended to me from their own Practice all which shall be inserted in a Second Part if this First meets with Encouragement that so both together may contain all ACCOMPLISHMENTS needful for Ladies and be thereby rendred perfect Nor shall I dissemble the Assistance which I had from the Private Memoirs of Madam a Person well known to all the World for being both Exact and Curious in those Matters of which my DICTIONARY Treats And as this Work contains my own Observations on Love and Marriage c. For many Years as also the Secrets received from Ladies of the best Quality So Lastly That nothing might be wanting to render the Work perfect I have consulted the most valuable Books written for and against the Fair-Sex as also Dr. Blancards Mr. Blounts and other Dictionaries of note from which I extracted what was proper for my Work for as the things Treated on are many and various so were my helps I hope Ladies you will not think it much that as the Famous Limner when he drew the PICTURE OF AN EXACT BEAUTY made use of an Eye from one of a Mouth from another and so Cul'd what was rare in all others that he might present them all in one Entire Piece of Workmanship so I when I was to write of Love Marriage the Behaviour Dress and Humours of the Female Sex have consulted all Books I could meet with on those Subjects to Compleat my own Experiences So that you 'll find here at one view the whole Series and Order of all the most Heroick and Illustrious Women of all times from the first dawning of the World to this present Age of all degrees from the IMPERIAL DIADEM to the SHEPHERDS CROOK of all Regions and Climats from the Spicy East to the Golden West of all Faiths whether Jews Ethnicks or Christians and particularly an Account of those WOMEN MARTYRS that suffer'd in Queen Mary's days And in the West in 85 And of all Eminent Ladies that have dy'd in England for these last fifty years of all Arts and Sciences both the graver and more polite of all Estates VIRGINS WIVES and WIDOWS of all Complexions and Humours the Fair the Foul the Grave the Witty the Reserv'd the Familiar the Chast the Wanton What ever Poets have fancied or credible Histories have Recorded of the first you have the Misteries and Allegories clearly interpreted and explained of the latter the Genuine Relations Impartially delivered Here therefore Ladies as in a perfect Mirror you may behold the lively Ideas of all laudable Qualities whatsoever suitable to them in all Callings and Conditions here you may observe the profoundest of Learning and Divine Contemplation in the Prophesies of the Sybils c. Here are Erected the Trophies of Female Fortitude and Valour in several Instances Here Queens may learn the Arts of Splendor and Magnificence from Nitocris Cleopatra and others Wives here may read how to demean themselves toward their Husbands in all Conjugal Affection Daughters may here be taught Examples of Obedience and Chastity from the Vestal Votaresses Matrons may find here that decent Deportment which becomes their Gravity and Widows that Constancy which besits their Solitude Here is also to be found the true Interpretation and Etymology of Womens Names with so plain derivations of each Name whether Hebrew Chaldee Syriack Greek or Latin c. that any ordinary Capacity may understand them But never does my Hand more compulsively direct my Pen nor my Pen wiâ—h less willingness blot Paper then when I am forced in this Work to lay open the frailties of your Sex before so much commended But this is my Encouragement to proceed because I can produce nothing out of History to the Disgrace of the bad and vicious which adds not to the Honour of the good and vertuous Were none foul what benefit were it to be fair And if none deformed what Grace could it be to be featured There were no honour to be ascribed to Modesty but that we see
the dishonour of Immodesty depending nor to the temperate but that we daily find the Inconveniences inherent to Riot and Excess Besides were all alike fair what praise were it to be Beautiful Or if all alike chast what admiration could be attributed to so rare a Vertue I could not therefore but conclude it the highest of Injuries that whereas the Actions of Men had met with so ample and so many memorials Your Sexes being not inferior to them should meet with so slender and so few and that to Erect this Monument to their lasting Glory would be a piece of justice great as their misfortune in not having a more Judicious Recorder of their Worths then Ladies Your very Humble Servant N. H. THE LADIES DICTIONARY A. ABigal 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Sam. 25.40 i. e. my Fathers Joy or the rejoicing of my Father Abigal being Wife to churlish Nabal the Carmelite by her Prudence in timely meeting David by the way which her Husband had refused to send him prevented the Destruction of her House and Nabal dying for fear when he heard what ruin had like to have fallen upon him she became David's Wife Abishag 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 King 1.3 i. e. my Father's Ignorance or Errour Acsah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gnaksah Josh. 15.16 perhaps deck'd or trimmed with tinkling Ornaments such as formerly Women wore about their Feet see Isa. 3.16 18. from the root 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 gnekes Fetters hence R. Levi Gersom writes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gnakasim Sunt sicat ornamenta quas gestant mulieris in pedibus suis i. e. that is That those Fetters were like those Ornaments which Women wore on their Feet Adelin i. e. Noble or descended from Princes Agar see Hagar Agatha 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 she that is good or honest Agnes i. e. Pure Holy Chast Uedefiled from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which seems to be so called from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Veneratio i. e. Honour and Worship quod eam possidentes veneratione laude dignos reddat castitas i. e. because Chastity renders them that have it worthy of Honour and Praise so the Latin word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i.e. adorned from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to adorn For as Solon saith pure Chastity is Beauty to our Souls Grace to our Bodies and Peace to our Desires so contrariwise is Chastity be once lost there is nothing left praise-worthy in a Woman as Nicephorus saith Alethia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 veriâ—as i. e. Truth Alexander a helper or succourer of Men. Alice or Alse i. e. Noble abridged from Ade-liz Cer. or a Desendress Fr. Amara i. e. she that is beloved Aimie i. e. beloved from aimiâ— Fr. Anaâ—tace Etym 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Resurrectio a Resurrection Anchorette one that lives solitarily Gr. Angeiletta dim from Angelus i.e. a Messenger from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to declare Anne see Hannah Apphia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Phil. 2. it signifies with them that make Comedies a Mistress Gr. Arbella i. e. God hath avenged Heb. Areta 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. Virtus Virtue Gr. Athaliah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gnatahabu 2 King 8.26 as if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gnet la bovah i. e. time for the Lord. Audrie i. e. noble Advice Ger. Abice i. e. Lady in defence Aureola i. e. little pretty golden Lady dim ab Aram Gold Azubah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gnazubah 1 King 22.24 i. e. forsaken Abdona stiled by the Ancients the Goddess of True-Lovers after her death because in her Life time she had charitably relieved them in their Journeys and furnished them with Guides to shew them the difficult ways Aâ—alis vel Acacalis held to bâ— the Wife of Mercury the 〈◊〉 of the Godâ— and Daughter of Minos the once faâ—ous King of 〈◊〉 no called 〈◊〉 and in the Posssesion of the Turks on which the fair Lady Mercury is held to beget Sydon the supposed Founder of Sydonia now Candia in Creet or Candy Acca Laurentia married Faustalus Shepherd to King Numitor and is famous in Story for Nursing Romulus and Rheemus the first Founders of Rome when they were cast out to be destroyed of wild Beasts on the Mountains she was also called Lupa from whence it is fabled they were nursed by a she Woolf. Acidalia was a Name given to Venus the fabled Goddess of Beauty by the Boetians from a Fountain there dedicated to her wherein it is said she and the Graces were wont to bathe themselves Actia Mother of Augustus Ceasar sleeping in Apollo's Temple dreamed she was Embraced by a Dragon and being with Child at another time dreamed her Bowels were carried into the Air and spread over all the Earth which denoted that Son she was soon after delivered of was to be Emperor of Rome and a mighty Conqueror Acte A Female Bondslave to the Emperour Nero she was so exceeding beautiful that he not gaining upon her otherways desired leave of the Senate to marry her pretending she was nobly descended but that not appearing his Sute was rejected Adrigis Adargiseis amongst the Assyrians was esteemed by them as a Goddess She was feigned by them to be married to Adad in that Language signifying one These two were pictured the first shooting Raies upwards and the latter downwards to signifie the benefit the Earth receives by the Suns influence Adamantaca held to be the Nurse of Jupiter who by her Prudence placed his Cradle in a Tree among thick Boughs where the Bees fed him certain days with Honey and saved him from the Destruction wherewith his Father Saturn threaten'd him Adelais Wife of Lothaire the Second being sollicited by Berrenger the Second who had usurped her Husband's Kingdoms to marry him she utterly refused it no Threats or Promises being able to work upon her so that after a long Imprisonment where she begg'd her Bread she had the good Fortune to Escape and there as a reward of her Constancy in not consenting to the will of that Usurper Otho the great Emperor of Germany married her by whom she had many Children and lived happy the remainder of her days Addona feigned a Goddess and worshipped by the Heathens when they desired easie liberty or access to any great Person because in her Life-time she had been very courteous and humble to all sorts of People Adrastia having for the other name Nemisis feigned by Poets to be the Daughter of Jupiter and Necessity as also to be Goddess of Justice or Revenge The Athenians pictured her with Wings to shew how ready she was to execute and the Egyptians sitting on the Moon and inspecting Human Affairs Aemplia an Italian Woman having been married 12 Years to a Husband by a strange Metamorphosis at the end of that time found her self changed into a Man and turning off her Husband married a Wife Aeorretta a Woman of Laodicea after long cohabiting with a Husband was changed in the like manner as the foregoing Aethra
amongst the Eastern People and the fairest Females that could be chosen were her Priestesses who by an Indecent custom prostituted their Chastity to such as came to offer at her Shrine which brought her crouds of Adorers Anchire Queen of Sparta upon a discovery that her Son designed to betray her Country to her Enemy Ordered him to be brought to Justice but upon notice of it he fled to the Temple of Minerva which the caused to be so strictly guarded in order to prevent his Escape that he there perished by famine Andromeda Daughter to Cepheus for her Mothers comparing her Beauty to that of the Nerciâ—es was doomed to be devoured by a Sea-Monster but Perseus the Son of Jupiter by Dane seeing her bound naked to a Rock became Enamoured of her killed the Sea-Monster that came to devour her and made her his wife Angerona was by the An-cient Romans worshipped as the Goddess of silence and Consulted in all Abstruse matters her Altar being placed under that of the Goddess of Pleasure Anna Goranena Daughter to Alexix Emperour of Constantinople she wrote the Reign of her Father and other Learned Books and is remembred by divers Authors Anne Mother to the Virgin Mary who was Mother to our Blessed Saviour according to the Flesh. Anne a Prophetess daughter to Phanuel who frequented the Temple in Jerusalem in a devout manner and Sung Praises to God by the Direction of the Holy Spirit when our Saviour was first brought and presented there she dyed in the 84 year of her Age and in the first of our Lords Incarnation Anne Pâ—gmalion the King of Tyres Siner she was also Sister to Queen Dido of Carthage and after her Sisters death who flew her self for the Love of Aeâ—eas she failed to Malea and thence to Italy where Lâ—vinia who had Marryed Aeneas being jealous of her she fled her Fury and in her flight was drowned in the River Numicus and afterwards was held amongst the Romans as a Goddess Her Feast with much Reveling was held in the Ides of March. Anne Daughter and Heires to Duke Francis the Seconâ— of Brittanny she should have been Marryed to Maxmilian of Austria but after the death of her Father Charles the Eight of France neâ—reâ—â— to whose Teâ—râ—tories her Dutchy lay Gained her and annexed that Dukedom to the Kingdom of France Anne the Third daughter of King Charles the Firâ—â— of England was born on the 13. of March 1637 at St. James's Her Piety and Ingenuity was above her Age for being but Four Years old and falling â—ick she fervently called uâ—on God by Prayer and being at last almoâ—t sâ—ent and feeling the Pangs of death upon her after a Sigh or two â—he said I cannot now say my long Prayer meaning the Lord's Prayer but I 'll say my short one viz. Lighten mine Eâ—es O Lord least I sleep the sleep of Death and then quietly gave up the the Ghost Anne Queen of Bohemia and Hungary Daughter to Landislaus was Wife to Ferdinand of Austria upon which after some contests such discontents arose that Sâ—â—â—man the Turkish Emperor being called in War a great part of Hungary and narrowly missed taking Vienna to which he laid a hard Seige which went very bloody on both sides Anteborta held to be a Goddess among the Romans and had Adoration given her for the Success of things and favours past as they did to another Goddess called Postvorta in Expectation of the Success of things to come Antiope a Queen of the Amazons she assisted the Ethiopians in their Invasion of the Athenians but Theseus commanding the Greeks vanquished both Armies There was another of the same name who was married to Lycus a Thebian King who is fabled to be raviâ—â—d by Jupiter and Conceiving of that Rape brought forth Amphion who drew the Stones with the Musick of his Harp after him that rebuilded the demolish'd Walls of the City Antonia The Emperor Cladâ—â—â—'s Daugâ—ter who being accused by Nero the Emperor for intending to raise Sedition in the State and finding no hopes to free her self from the Tyrants Cruelty without marrying him which he earnestly pressed her to do and she deâ—â—â—â—ing the Murder of his two Wives kill'd her self to be freed from his Insults over her rather than she would yield to his Embraces or be at his Mercy Apicata Sejanus's Wife writ upon her being divorced a Memorial to Tiberius Emperor of Rome informing him how Drusius came by his death and the hand that Livia his Wife had in the concurring to it Also the Villanies of Ligdus the Eunuch and Endemes the Physician for which those that the accused were severely punished though the main end of her discovery was to revenge her self upon Livia her fair Rival Araclue a Lydian Virgin Daughter of Idomon who was so expert in all manner of Needle-work and Textury that she boasted her self equal in those Arts to Minerva which caused her to spoil her curious Manufactury which so grieved her that she hang'd her self but the Goddess in compassion brought her again to life yet turn'd her into a Spider a Creature which is usually busy in Spinning out its own Bowels Archâ—damia Cleonigmus a King of Sparta's Daughter hearing that upon the approach of Phyrus to besiege the City the Senate had made a Decree that all the Women should depart it she went boldly with a drawn Sword in her hand to the Senate-house and told them That the Mothers Sisters and Wives of those Warriers that were to fight the Enemy scorn'd to be less Valiant than they and thereupon got the Decree revoked Autem Morâ—s are such who are married having always Children with them one in the Arm and another at the Back and sometimes leading a third in the Hand You are not to ask what Church she was married in or by what Parson so long as a Totterdemallion shall swear he will justifie himself her Husband before any Justice of Peace in England Armenias's strict Virtue and great Love to her Husband Ladies we have in London who are so far from having a light Assent as they scorn to admit a weak Assault which confirms the Judgment of that noble accomplish'd though unfortunate Gentleman In part to blame is she that has been tride He comes too near that comes to be denied Sir T.O. This that noble minded Lady Armenia expressed who being solemnly invited to King Cyrik's Wedding went thither with her Husband At night when those Royal Rites had been solemnized and they returned her Husband asked her how she liked the Bride-groom whether upon perusal of him she thought him to be a fair and beautiful Prince or no Truth says she I know not for all the while I was forth I cast mine Eyes upon none other but upon thy self Those receiving Portels of her Senses were shut against all foreign Intruders She had made a moral League with her Loyal Eyes to fix on no unlawful Beauty left her surprized Eye might ingage her to folly We may imagine 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
death Birthia a Woman of Scythia mentioned by Pliny who had such infectious Eyes that with long and stedfast looking upon any Living Creature she would kill or much injure it she had in each Eye two Apples and two distinct Sights c. Blanch of Castile Daughter to Alphonsus the Ninth and Elenor of England she was Marryed to Lewis called the Lyon and afterwards King of â—ance she managed the Affairs of the Kingdom after her â—usbands death to Admiration â—otwithstanding Powerful Faâ—tions opposed her she was â—other to St. Lewis of France â—nd brought up him and her â—ther Children under the Tuâ—erage of such Learned and â—ious Men that they became â—n Ornament to their Counâ—ry Blanch Daughter to Otho â—he Fourth Earl of Burgundy â—nd Maud Countess of Artois â—he was likewise Queen of France by her Marriage with Charles the Fourth she was â—alsly accused of Adultery which Conspiracy against her Life evidently appearing the Accusers were flead alive and then being beheaded their Carcasses hanged on Gibbets Bentivoglia Francisca Married to Galeoto Manfredi but upon suspicion that he was secretly Married before to a Virgin of Fayenza she with two others who were pretended Physicians Assassinated him giving him the Mortal wound with her own hand Berenice Daughter of Ptolomeus Philadelphus King of Egypt and Marryed to Antiochus Sotor King of Syria who were both murthered by Laedicea Antiochus first Wife Bernice another Daughter to the aforefaid King of Egypt whose Hair being Dedicated to Venus for Pâ—olomeus Evergetes her Husbands success in War and hung up in the Temple where in a short time it being missed it was fabled by Callimachus and others to be taken up to the Skies by the Goddess and turned into a Star Berenice Daughter to Agrippa the Elder she was Married to Agrippa the Younger King of the Jews and sat with him when St. Paul pleaded before him and Festus the Roman Proconsul Berenice Daughter of Mithridates King of Pontus who when her Father was overcome by Lucullus the Roman Consul in a mortal Battle took poison that she might not fall into the hands of the Enemy alive but that not presently dispatching her she caused one of her Slaves to strangle her Berthe Daughter of Cuthbert King of France and Ingoberge she was Wife to Ethelbert King of Kent a Saxon Prince who then was a Pagan but by her pious and Examplary Life she won him to Embrace Christianity Berthe Daughter to Lotharius the Second King of France and Valrada his Queen she was one of the most Couragious Beautiful and Illustrious Princesses of her Age she had divers Noble Husbands at sundry tiâ—es and did many brave Exploitâ— in War Barthe Daughter of Cheribert she was Wife to Peppico the short afterward King of France and Mother to Charles the Great Bonere Force a Queen of Poland Wife to Sigismund the First by Isabel of Aragon she was a Woman of great Virtue exceeding Loving and Tender of her Husband attending him like a common Nurse in all his Sickness sitting up with him and tending him with little or no rest to herself though he diswaded her to take off herself and commit that charge to others Boâ—romea Biancha a Learned Lady of Padua being perfect in the Sciences and spoke divers Languages the which together with her rare Beauty gained her a singular Esteem among the Learned Brigite since called St. Brigite was a Swedish Princess she flourished in the 14th Age and was Marryed to Prince Vison of Nericia and by him had Eight Children after the Death of her Husband who turned Cestertian Monk with whom before she had been on a Pilgrimage She wrote a Volume of Revelations in Eight Books which has been approved by divers Popes and dying 1373. She was Canonized by Pope Boniface the Second Britomaris a Cretian Nymph held to be daughter to Jupiter and Charmea she much delighted in Hunting but one day heedlesly Traversing a Forrest she fell into a Hunters Net and fearing some wild Beast should come to devour her she implored the help of Diana whereupon the Goddess released her from the Toil in Grateful acknowledgment the Nymph built a Temple and dedicated it to her by the Name of Dyctin Diana Minos King of Creet attempting afterwards to Ravish her she leaped into the Sea and was drowned Brumechilde Daughter of Athanagilde King of the Wisgoths she was Married to Sigebert the first King of Austratia she caused great mischiefs in France which in the end came home to her for being accused by Clotaire the Second for the murther of Ten Kings She was first Racked and then torn in pieces by drawing Horses She was a Woman of vast Ambition and endeavoured to destroy all her Opposers but her death in a great measure prevented it Budos Lodovica wife to Montmorency Constable of Fr. Busa a Lady of Apulia who fed Ten Thousand Hunger-starved Romans as they fled from the Battle of Cannea where the Roman Army was defeated by Hannibal Baâ—helors It was inserted in Plato's Laws that what Man soever liv'd a Batchelor above five and thirty Years of Age was neither capable of Hoâ—our or Office Alexand ab Alex. lib. 4. cap. 8. Licurgus the Lawgiver amongst the Laâ—edemonians as the same Author testifies to shew the necessity of Marriage made a Decree That all such as affected singleness and solitude of life should be held Ignominious They were not admitted to publick Plays but in the Winter were compell'd to pass through the Market-place naked and without Garments The Law of the Spartans set a Fine upon his Head first that married not at all next on him that married not till he was old and lastly on him they set the greatest Mulct that married an evil Wife or from a strange Tribe So laudable and reverent was Marriage amongst the Lacedemonians Procreation of Children and fertility of Issue That whosoever was the Father of Three Children should be free from Watch or Ward by day or Night and whosoever had Four or upward were rewarded with all Immunities and Liberty This Law was confirmed by Q. Metellus Numidicus Censor after approved by Julius Caesar and lastly established by Augustus Memorable are the words of Metellus in a publick Oration to the People If we could possibly be without Wives O Romans saith he we might all of us be free from molestation and trouble but since Nature excites us and necessity compels us to this exigent That we can neither live with them without Inconvenience nor without them at all more expedient it is therefore that we aim at the general and lasting profit than at our own private and momentary pleasure Bawd Pimp c. I put these together because it is pity to part the Devil's Houshold-stuff And indeed she is very much like him her Envy running Parallel with his For all that the Devil endeavours to do is to bring Mankind into the like state and condition and the nature of a Bawd is to make all fair Women as foul
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
Daughters of those that entertained them The Women with whom they lay a Nights were acquainted with the Kings design Generally undertook themselves to destroy the Ravisners of their Honour And on November the 13th 1012. being St. Brices day the Danes having highly Feasted and many of them Drunk were taken Napping by the Women who with short Knives they had privately conveyed to bed they destroyed all unless a very few who were fallen upon by the Rable and most of them killed the next day Seven of their Princes being Bury'd at St. Clements in the Strand which caused the Additional name of Danes to be annexed to it Domicellus la. Titles given John of Gaunt's Son and Daughter in their Naturalization Domino a hood worn by Canons also a Womans mourning veil Doudon o. a short fat Woman Dorcas g. a Deer or Roe-buck Doris wife to Nereus and Mother of the Sea-Nymphs Nercides Dorthy g. the gift of God Dote assignanda a writ for the Escheator to assign a Dowry to the Widow of a King's Tenant swearing in Chancery not to Marry without the King's leave These are the King's widows Dote unde nibil habit a writ of Dower for a Widow of the land sold by her Husband whereof he was so seized as the issue of them both might have inherited Doted l. endowed having joynture Dousabel f. Dulcebella l. sweet and fair Doucet Doulcet a Custard Dowager apply'd to Widows of Princes c. Dower Dowry a Wives Portion Dorie o. a she-beggar trull Dramatick-Poetry Comedies and Tragedies Drape No. a farrow-Cow whose milk is dry'd up Draw-latches Robertsmen Night Thieves Disparagements an undervaluing also the marrying of an Heir or Heiress under their degree Diâ—e No. put Tow on a Distaff Dodona a City in Greece near which Jupiter had an Oracle in a wood whose trees were supposed to be vocal and to return the answers of the Oracle Dissarreation l. a Roman ceremony at divorcement Disguise f. Put into another guise or form Deuterogamy g. second Marriage Dey o. dairy-Dairy-woman Diana the Maiden-Goddess of Woods and Hunting twin-Twin-sister to Apollo by Jupiter and Latona the Moon Tiapasm pomander or perfume of dry powders Dictionary l. Lexicon g. storehouse of words orderly digested and explained Dido Queen of Carthage in Africa she kill'd herself because Aeneas would not marry her or Prather because she would not be forced to marry Jarbas King of Getulia Denophoon succeeding his Father Theseus in the Government of Athens forgat Phillis whom he had married in Thrace driven thither by storm whereupon she hanged herself on an Almond-Tree Denis Diana a womans name Derrero half woman half fish an Idol Goddess at Askalon Dessert the last course at a Feast Drusilla Dioclesians wife Dryads g. Oak or Wood-Nymphs Dâ—â—anira Hercules's Wife who slew herself because he burnt himself to avoid the torment caused by the Shirt she gave him to gain his love presented her by the Centaure nessus wounded by Hercules's Arrow for attempting to ravish her when carried by him over the River Eâ—enas Democrita a Roman Matron who kill'd her daughters and herself being forbidden to follow her banishâ— Huâ—bâ—nd Aâ—â—ippâ—s Danae Daughter of Acrisius King of Argos Dandy-prâ—â—s a small Coyn made by Henry 7. also little Folks Dandruâ—f raff headseurs Daphne flying from 〈◊〉 lust was turned into a Laurel or a Bay Tree Darling q. Dearling fondling Deabona the Goddess Fortuna and sometimes the earth called also Ops Fatua and Fauna whipt to death with myrtle by her Husband Faunus for being drunk with wine of myrtle-berries Dea viri-placa a goddess in whose Chappel Man and Wife were reconciled Damophila the Cousin-German Associate and Emulatrix of Sappho and Wife of Damophilus the Philosopher she is said to have writ a Poem of Diana Deborah a great Propheress in Israel of whom such was her Repute at that time that she was Judge or Supream Governess her Divine Hymn upon the Deliverance of the 〈◊〉 shews her to be divinely Inspir'd with a Poetick Spirit Debonnaire Fr. gentle mild courteous affable Debosche Debauthe from the Fr. Dâ—sbaucher to corrupt make lewd or put out of order to vitiate Decorum Lat. comliness honestly good grace 〈…〉 Apollo and Diana the Sun and Moon so call'd from the famous Island 〈…〉 Latona at one birth brought forth Apollo and Diana Depilâ—tory Depilatorius that makes the Hair fall It 〈◊〉 also used substantively for 〈◊〉 Ointment Salve Water c which takes away the 〈◊〉 Deportment Fr. behaviour demeanour carriage Diadem diadema a Kings Crown or Wreath for the Head it properly signifies a wreath'd Head-band with which the ancient Kings were contented as thinking the Crown belonged only to the Gods Cotgr. Diana The Moon Also a Goddess of Hunting much honoured for her Chastity having had many Temples dedicated to her whereof the chief was that at Ephesus called the Temple of Diana which for the Spaciousness Furniture and Workmanship was accounted one of the Worlds Wonders It was 200 Years in Building contrived by Ctesiphon being 425 foot long and 220 broad sustained with 127 Pillars of Marble 70 foot high whereof 27 were most curiously graven and all the rest oâ— Marble polished It was fired seven times and lastly by Hirosiratus that Night in which Alexander was born to get himself a Name Heyâ— Diapasm diapasma a Perfume a Pomander a Medicine of dry Powders that is either cast among Apparel 〈◊〉 make them smell sweet or into a Wound or superduosly into Drink Rid. Diaperd or Diapred Fr. Diapre diversified with flourishes or sundry figures whence â—e call Cloath that is so diversified Diaper Dieu mon droit Fr. God and my Right The Motâ—o of the Kings Arms first 〈◊〉 as some affirm by Henry the Eighth Diffarreation diffarreaâ—io a Sacrifice done between a Man and his Wife at Divorcement As Confarreation was at the Marriage Rider Digamist or Digamite digamus or digama a Man that hath two Wives together â—or a Woman that has two Husbands also one that marrys after his first Wife's death or divorce Dissing procullus a Child born when the Father is old or the last Child that Parents have in some places called a Swill-pough Diâ—chevel Fr. to unloose the Hair to unty to pull the Hair about the Ears Dispensatory a Book that teacheth how to make all Physical Compositions Dissonance dissonantia a discord in Tunes and Voices Ditty from the Ital. detto i. dictum a Rhime expressed in words and sung to a musical Tune Min. Divorce divortium à diversitate mentium the Dissolution of Marriage a Separation of Man and Wife which was as our Saviour witnesseth Matth. 19.8 first permitted by Moses to the Israelites Deut. 24.1 for the hardness of their Hearts that Men might rather put their Wives away whom they grew weary of then use them with too great extreamity to shorten their lives as many did The Woman so divorced was to have of her Husband a writing as St. Hierom and Jesephus witness in lib. de ant
builded she was called Augusta and Imperatrix and relieved the Poor wiâ—h all the Treasure that came to her hand and was a munificent Patroness to the before afflicted Christians Helle was Daughter to Athmus King of Thebes who flying from her Mother-in-law with her Brother Phryxus was drowned in the Narrow Sea that parts Asia from Europe and by that Misfortune gave to it the Name of Hellespont Heliades Sisters accounted the Daughters of the Son and Celymene whose Brother Phaeton was who unwarily aspiring to guide the Chariot of the Sun was destroyed by Jupiters Thunder for firing the Earth and Skies by his misguiding it for whom these Sisters wept till the Gods turned them into Poplar-trees and their tears into Amber Here 's Martia or the Martial Heir it was accounted amongst the Ancient Romans as a Goddess of Heirs and held to be one of Mâ—â—s's Companions she took her Surname of Martial by reason in those times Quarrels frequently arose about Inheritances and Successions and when they were decided either by Arms of contesting in Law they supposed a right decision Hermophrodite An ancient Idol bearing the Resemblance of Venus and Mercury called otherwise Aphrodite as Joyning trading and Eloquence with delights c. Hersilia Wife to Romulus first Founder of Rome a Virtuous Sabian Lady Herta was accounted a Goddess among the Germans worshipped in a thick Grove and her residence when she pleased to appear was a Cart with a Carpet over it her Victims were menial Servants or Slaves who were thrown into a Lake and there perished in hopes of enjoying Pleasure and Plenty in another World her Cart upon general Processions was sometimes drawn with Oxen and sometimes by Lyons Hesione the fair was Daughter to Leomedon King of Troy and by reason of the raging of a Plague the Oracle being consulted it told them that to appease the God of the Sun and the Sea with whom the King had broken his word a Virgin must every day be tyed to a Rock where a Sea Monster should be sent by Neptune to devour her this being done by Lot it fell upon Hesione but Hercules returning from his Hysperian Voyage in a dreadful Combate killed the Monster and freed the Royal Maid Hildigardcan Abbess of the Order of the Benedictines famous for her Learning and Piety but more for her Prophecies of the Errors that should creep into the Romish Church Hannah the Mother of the famous Prophet Samuel who obtained him of God by her servent Prayers after she had been a long while Barren Hiparthia Marry'd Crates only for his Wisdom and Learning being otherways deformed and unfightly and poor 〈◊〉 could all her Friends or 〈◊〉 offers of Rich matches 〈◊〉 her from him She was â—â—r self very Learned and Inâ—â—â—â—ous so that their Souls rather than their Bodies coveted to be near together Hippodamia Daughter to Briseus and fell among other Captives at the taking of Tenedos to the share of Achilies but Agameamon falling in Love with her took her from him which made him refuse to assist the Greeks till the Trojans had near vanquished them and came to set fire to his Ships Hippodame Oenomaus the King of Ellis's Daughter being very Beautiful abundance of Suitors crouded to gain her in Marriage which made him consult the Oracle about the success which gave Answer That whoever married his Daughter should came his Death whereupon he made Decree that whoever could outrun him in a Chariot-Race should have the fair Hiâ—podame in Marriage but being vanquished he should dye Many declined it but some being vanquished were put to death Till Pâ—lâ—ps having bribed the King's Chariotier to leave a Pin out of the Wheel that it might fall off in the Career by which fall the King was wounded to death Hortensia a Roman Lady Daughter to the Orator Horlensius At the time a great Tax was laid upon the Matrons of Rome she notably pleaded their Cause before the Triumvire that a great part of it was remitted Hostilina was by the Pagans accounted a Goddess taking care of their Corn that it should grow to an equal length and be full Eareâ— without Blasting Houres by some Reputed God esses begot by Jupiter 〈◊〉 Themis and were call'd Eunormia Irene and Diâ—ce or Good Laws Peace and Justice Howard Ciâ—â—erine she was Marryed to King Henry the VIII and was Daughter to the Lord Edmond Howard Son to Thomas Duke of Norfolk she was one of the two Queens that he caused to be beheaded upon suspicion of Incontinency though neither against her nor Anna Bullen who felt the same Fate before her any thing deserving Death appeared only the Kings Pleasure must be obeved to make way for more Wives Hyacinthides six Daughters of Erichtheus who succeeded Pandion King of Athens taking their Names from the Village Hyachithius where they all seâ—â— a Sacrifice for their Court v. for the Oracle having declared that the Thracians who were Warring against the Athenians could not be overcome unless one of their Ladies was offered up as a Sacrifice to Dima they all contented so earnestly to have the Honour to dye for their Country and the Love they bore to each other that they would not have one to dye unless â—â—w all participated in the same Death and their Wishes being granted the Athenians gained most notable Victory their Proper Names were Pandora Procris Clithonia and Orithia and are fabled to be placed among the Stars Hyades are a Company of Stars to the number of seven placed in the Neck of Taurus they are tabled to be Nurses to Baâ—chus and by him in return of their Kindness fixed as Constellations and are called the Weeping Stars as having great Influence over Rains and moâ—st Clouds Hypermenstra one of Daraus K. of Argo's fifty Daughters who married the fifty Sons of Egytus whom Daraus ordered them to kâ—ll on their Wedding Night which they all did but this Lady who saved her Husband Lynceus for which her Father Impâ—â—â—tioned her but soon after 〈◊〉 her and restored 〈◊〉 to her Husband Hysiphile ho Queen of the Island of 〈◊〉 was banished by the Cruel Women who had killed all their Husbands Fathers and Brothers for sparing her Father Thaos and being taken upon the Sea by Pirates she was sold to Lycurgus King of Neâ—eâ— who understanding who she was gave his Son Archemrus to be Nursed by her she having a little before brought forth Twins whom Jason had begot on her in his Voyage to Colobis when he fetched thence the Golden Fleece House-keepers to Persons of Honour or Quality Those Persons who would qualifie themselves for this Employment must in their Behaviour carry themselves grave solid and ferious which will inculcate into the beliefs of the Persons whom they are to serve that they will be able to govern a Family well They must endeavour to gain a Competent knowledge in Preserving Conserving and Candying making of Cates and all manner of Spoon-meats Jellies and the like Also in Distilling all
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
chast Virtous Husband she would never have attempted it A Man ought to be a Pattern and Guide to his Wife in Virtue so that if she be otherwise she may be left inexcusable and rendred more blame-worthy But methinks we hear some replying there is a vast difference in this Case between Men and Women If I says one am guilty of this Tickling Sin my Bastards Heir my Estate I can put them off with little but if my Wife be faulty I must be a drudge for other mens Children which is insufferable and why pray Sir Fopiing will you put that upon your Neighbour that you are unwilling to bear your self this is a great way out of the road of doing as you would be done by there is something of Justice in it that a Man that in this manner wrongâ— his Neighbour should be retaliated in the same kind and when he is in the raving 〈◊〉 â—y of his Jealousie deserves a less degree of Pity than others though many times this Jealousie is without a Cause the Woman not taking Example by his extravagancies is Chast and Virtuous and he will not believe her to be so but measures her by himself Jealousie is a great Sign that the party it possesseâ— is dishonest whatever fair pretences may be made and indeed their Jealousie and the restraint they lay upon their Wives makes them many times dishonest for no other end than a sweet revenge on their Jealousie not to let them continue in it without a Cause Aeneas Sylvius says the Italians are much to blame in locking up their Wives for Women generally are of a Disposition to covet most that which is denied most and offend least where they have the greatest Liberty and Freedom to Act and do as they please it is in vain to lock her up if she be dishonestly inclined for she has so many Wiles to accomplish her desire that she will as the old saying is make you if possible a Cuckold thro' the Key-hole And Virtue can only be the secure Guardian of a Womans Honour if that be mistaken you need fear nothing but force and violence can overcome her and that very seldom happens to Women though a little push as some will have it throws them down when there is a kind of an Inclination to fall backward When Mark Anthony left his Chast Wife Octavia to wanton in the adulterous embraces of Cleopatra Queen of Egypt she was far from revenging her injury in giving up her self to another though he had utterly forsaken her Turn a virtuous Woman loose to all the Tarquins and Satyrs their Perswasions Flatteries and Promises shall never shake her virtuous resolves Archidamus Consul of Antioch offered a Young Woman a hundred pieces of Gold and to free her Husband who then lay a Prisoner in a dark Dungeon if she would satisfie his Lust but neither her Husbands Sufferings nor Poverty could induce her to be Unchast Cure of Jealousie one would think should be wrought by considering what has been said yet that there may be nothing wanting on so Urgent and Necessary an Occasion a composed Temper is very rarely subject to Jealousie for there Reason stands Centinel and keeps it out and if Men who are subject to passion would but use Reason would but labour by degrees to Compose themselves and be of a sedate and calm Temperature they would in time be Masters over their Passions and find the Humours that feed them abate and then they need not fear to shake off Jealousie if it should at any time suddainly surprize them Iilt o. to deceive or defeat ones expectation especially in the point of Amours Illia Daughter of Numitor King of the Albanes a Vestal Nun but Mother of Romulus and Remus by Mars Imps Witches little Familiars Incontinency want of Moderation in Affections and Desires Incubus l. the Devil in Man's shape lying with Women as Succubus with Men also the Night-mare or raw Humours from the Stomach troubling the Brain and Animal Spirits that the Body cannot move Indecorum unseemliness unhandsome Carriage Ino Daughter of Cadmus Nurse to Bacchus and Wife to Athamas K. of Thebes who in his madness supposing her to to be a Lioness drove her headlong into the Sea Io Daughter of Inacbus turned into a Cow by Jupiter that she might not be known of Juno who drove her into Egypt where she recovered her former shape and was made a Goddess Iocasta Daughter of Creen King of Thebes after the Death of her Husband Laius she unwittingly married her own Son Oedipus Iointure a Settlement upon the Wife in respect of Marriage Iopas a Musical King of Africa one of Dido's Suitors Iphianassa Iphinoe and Lyssppe Daughters of Pretus King of Argos preferring their Beauty to Juno's were by her struck with madness imagining themselves to be Cows Iphigenia Agamemnon's Daughter which should have been sacrificed to Diana because her Father had slain a Hart of hers but the Goddess pittyed her and sent an Hart to be offered in her stead Iphimedia ravished by Neptune brought forth Ephialtes and Otus who grew every month nine Fingers in length 'till helping the Gyants against the gods they were slain by Apollo Irene the Mother of Constantine the seventh reign'd with him Nine Years he expelled her Reigned alone seven Years again she took him by craft put out his Eyes cast him into Prison where he dyed and reigned alone four Years Iris Iuno's Messenger the Rain-bow also an hexagonal precious stone Irus a beggarly Messenger between Penelope and her Suiters whom Ulysses kill'd with his Fist. Ischuotes g. a slender child 〈◊〉 or Faeminine pronunciation Ills an Egyptian Goddess made of Io. Isota de â—ugarolis a Virgin of Verona famous for Philosophy Philology and Poetry Ifsue an Effect Children Profits of Fines or Lands the matter depending in suit Itylus slain by his own Mother Aeton instead of Amaâ—eus the Son of Amphion Itys slain by his Mother Progue and set before his Father Tereus King of Thrace at a Banquet for deflowring her sister Philomel he perceiving the murder with his naked Sword pursued them but in their flight they were changed Progne into a Swallow Philomel into a Nightingale and Itys to a Pheasant Iulep A preparative of Syrups c. to open the inward parts and prepare for a Purgation from Iulap a kind of Rose-water Iulian-na Cilian a Womans Name Iulian Law among the 〈◊〉 made Adultery death Iumbals certain Sweetâ—â—â—â—ts Iuno twin-Twin-Sister and Wife to Jupiter Iussel a minced Dish of several meats Iuturna the Daughter of Daunus made by Jupiter for the Loss of her Maidenhead the immortal Nymph of the River Numicius Ixion Son of Phlegias thrown to Hell for boasting that he had lain with Juno in whose stead Jupiter had placed a Cloud on which he begat the Centaurs Infanta of Spain every Daughter of that King not being Heir whether first second or third c. the Heir is called Princesa and the rest Infanta's of the Sons are called
in great Pain and Grief he soon after Dyed A Captain under the Duke of Anjou when he came to Assist the Revolted Netherlanders against the Spaniards coming into a Farmer 's House and not content with the Provisions they aforded him on sreecost he demanded his Daughter for his pleasure the Countryman who loved her dearly intreated him he would be otherwise satisfied offering him any thing else that was in his power but this so inraged him that he ordered his Soldiers to beat 'em all out of doors except the young Woman whom amidst Tears and lamentable Cries he forced to his Lust and after his beastial appetite was satisfi'd with unlawful pleasure he fell to flouting and dispising her This Master'd up a Womans Revenge in its most bloody shape so that being at the Table with him the with one home-thrust of a sharp Knife let out the hot Blood that circled in his Veins whilst he was giving orders to one of his Corporals and not aware of the stroak that brought him sudden death Thas you see Carnal Lust. 'T is a bewiching evil being an 〈◊〉 appetite in whomsoever it reigneth it kâ—lleth all good motions of the mind 〈◊〉 drieth and weakeneth the body shortning life deminishing memory and understanding Cirena a notorious strumpet was sirnamed Dodo Camechana for that she found out and invented twelve several ways of beastly pleasure Proculeius the Emperour of an hundred Samatian Virgins he took Captives defloured ten the first might and all the rest within fifteen days after Hercules in one night defloured fifty Sigismund Malatesta strived to have carnal knowledge of his Son Robert who thruâ—â—ing his dagger into his Fathers â—osom revenged his wickedness Cleopatra had the use of her brother Atâ—â—oâ—eus's company as of her Husband Auteochus staid a whole winter in Chalcidea for one Maid which he there fancied Lust was the cause of the Wars between the Romans and the 〈◊〉 Thalestins Queen of the Amazons came 2â— days journey to lie with Alexander Adultery in Germany is never pardoned 〈…〉 and P pilia were so incoâ—in 〈◊〉 that they commended with most shameful 〈…〉 themselves without respect of time place or company to any though never so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not coâ—â—ented with â—is three 〈…〉 commiâ—ted 〈…〉 siâ—teâ—s 〈…〉 like 〈◊〉 the 〈…〉 by his wiâ—e the 〈…〉 A 〈…〉 the câ—â—se of the 〈…〉 of the City of Rome Sempronia a woman well learned in the Greek and Sappho no less famous defended Luxury and Lust by their Writings Cleopatra invited Anthony to a Banquet in the Province in Bithynia in the wood Sesthem where at one instant of threescore young Virgins fifty and five were made Mothers Cleophis a Queen of India saved her Kingdom and Subjects from destruction by a nights lodging with Alexander by whom she had a Son called Alexander who was afterward King of India she was ever after called Scortum Reginum Jane Queen of Naples was hanged up for her Adultery in the same place where she had hanged her husband Andreas before because he was not as she said able to satisfie her beastly desire Foron King of Egypt had been blind ten years and in the eleventh the Oracle told him that he should recover his sight if he washed his Eyes in the water of a Woman which never had to do with any but her husband whereupon he first made trial of his own wife but that did him no good after of infinite others which did him all as little save only one by whom he recovered his fight and then he put all the rest to death Julia the Daughter of Augustus was so immodest shameless and unchaste that the Emperor was never able to reclaim her And when she was admonished to forsake her bad kind of life and to follow chastity as her Father did she answered That her Father forgot he was Caesar but as for herself she knew well enough that she was Caesars Daughter Caelius Rhodoginus In his II Book of Antiquities telleth of a certain man that the more he was beaten the more he fervently desired women The Widow of the Emperour Sigismund intending to marry again one perswaded her to spend the remainder of her life after the manner of the Turtle Dove who hath but one Mate If you counsel me quoth she to follow the example of Birds why do you not tell me of Pidgeons and Sparrows which after the death of their Mates do ordinarly couple with the next they meet Hiero King of Syracusa banished the Poet Epicharmus for speaking wantonly before his Wife and that very justly for his Wife was a true Mirrour of Chastity Sulpitius Gallius put away his Wife by divorce because she went about unmasked Pompey caused one of his Souldiers eyes to be put out in Spain for thrusting his hand under a Womans Garment that was a Spainard and for the like offence did Sertorius command a footman of his band to be cut in pieces If Caracalla had not seen his Mothers thigh he had not married her Tigellenus died amongst his Concubines The Terentines had taken and spoiled Carbinas a Town in Japyges and were not only for Ravishing the Women themselves but permitted Strangers that came that way to do it even in the Temple where they had Penn'd them up naked Divine Vengeance over-took them so that all who had committed this Villany were struck dead with Lightning from Heaven and their own Friends looking upon it as a just Judgment were so far from pittying them that they offered Sacrifice to Jupiter the Thunderer It would be too tedious to draw the Scene too open and discover the miseries that have befallen such as have been eager in pursuit of these Vices they have occasioned the subversions of Kingdoms and States Tarquine the proud and all his Race were driven out of England for Ravishing Leucretian who finding her Chastity violated though by a King killed her self and if we believe our Chronologers it occasioned the calling in the Danes by the incensed Husband who had been Ravished by the Kings Viceroy in the North and with them came in a Deluge of miseries for almost a hundred years The Adulteries of Fergus King of Scotland was by the occasion of hers likewise for when she had killed him in his bed and was yet unsuspected for the good opinion all people had of her vertue hearing that divers people ignorant of the Murther were tortured in order to a Confession She came into the Judgment Hall where the Lords and others were Assembled and thus Expressedâ— her self As for me said she good People I know not what it is that moveth me nor what Divine Vengeance pursues and vexes me with divers Cogitations but this I am sure of all this day I have had no rest nor quiet either in body or mind And truly when I heard that divers guiltless Persons were cruelly tortured Here in your presence had it not been for their sakes I had soon rid my self out of the way and not have
Reality when on the contrary a Courtesy which derives no higher than from meer humane Principles there is no greater stress to be laid upon it nor is it much to be confided in Affability under this notion has as we have said Constancy for it's second Property for it is not only true to others but is so to its self as being founded on the solidst of Virtues not being subject to those giddy uncertainties that are incident to vulgar Civilities for he who out of disesteem of his proper worth has placed himself in an inferiour Station will not conclude it an Arbitrary matter but rather a just debt to pay a respect to those in a Superior Station they had Access to it by his Voluntary receeding For an humble mind will see in others something or other to which it will allow preference so that acting upon a fixed Principle it runs not the hazard of Contradictions but is rendered sweet and affable whilst what is more stiff and unplyable is not regarded unless with contempt and neglect except the party holds conversation with Flatterers and Parasits who sell their breath to make their advantage and prey upon him but then again he is frustrated even of their Encomiums if it so happen that the prosperous Gales encrease into a shipwrecking Storm than those who were prodigal of their civilities whilst nothing else was wantâ—ng to make him swell above â—imself will withdraw even â—hose from him least by their being continued they should â—ncourage him to ask someâ—hing more of him which his â—rgent Necessities in his deâ—ressed Condition more earnâ—stly crave and require Job â—ompares such to Winter Brooks â—unning over when not needâ—d but shrinking away and â—rying up when the heat of â—ummer causes the greatest thirst and their Waters are â—ost coveted for cooling and â—efreshment or if it has been â—is good Luck to happen upon â—ome of a more generous Temper who instead of a servile â—ompliance with his Humour â—nd high Characters of his worth entertains him with â—he true Image of himself it 〈◊〉 frequently held as an unpardonable Crime which forfeits â—ll degrees of Favour and does â—ot only avert but incence and â—nflame the easie stir'd up Passiâ—ns of an unsteady Mind till â— breaks out into a violent Anger for a faithful Monitor is â—s unacceptable as a true Lookâ—ng-glass to a deformed Person which at the best will be set â—side and escapes well if not â—roken and Ladies we must â—cknowledge for this is apâ—licable to either Sex whilst â—reat Persons dispence their â—rowns or Favours by such â—easures they will be sure to â—o it unjustly as well as unâ—onstantly Anyle an Epigrammatick Poetess whose name is to 17 Greek Epigrams Her Verses of Birds are said to be yet extant Aspasia a Noble Milesian Dame said to have been the Mistress that is the Instructress of Pericles the Great Athenian Philosopher and Orator Astyanassa one of the Maids of Honour to that Helena whose Beauty set Troy on fire whom yet surpassing in the Theory of active Love she impudently committed by writing to the publick view and as 't is suppos'd in Verse the Descriptions of more Spintrian Pranks and Gambols then perhaps her Mistress ever practis'd or understood and which seem to have been a Pattern of those lew'd Inventions which the witty ribauld Aretine in after Ages broach'd for the use of the Sons of Priapus nor were their wanting in those Times apt Schollars to such a Mistress who prosecuted and enlarged upon the Subject the had begun Philenis a Strumpet of Leucadia as unchast faith a late Author in her Verses as her Life Athenais the Daughter of Leontius an Athenian Sophist a Woman of that Wisdom and Ingenuity as that she was thought worthy to be chosen for a Wife by the Emperor Theodosius the Second Angela de â—ugarolis an Italian Lady accomplish'd in Grammar Rhetorick and Poetry Anne Askew the Daughter of Sir William Askew of Lincoln-shire she is remember'd among the English Writers as well as in Verse as Prose for a Woman of singular Beauty Virtue and Ingenuity Anne Broadstreet a New-England Poetess She writ Descriptions of the Four Elements the Four Humours the Ages the Four Seasons and the Four Monarchies Anna Maria Shurman an Holandish Lady of the most celebrated Fame for Learning of any of her Sex that I have heard of in Europe at this day by her Epistles to many of the most Eminently Learned Men of this Age. Arabella an English Lady in the time of King James a near Kinswoman of his she was a Lady of no less Eminence for Learning and ingenuous Parts then for her Quality and as saith an English Writer who makes a mention of her She had a great facility in Poetry and was elaborately conversant among the Muses She had Correspondence with Andrew Melvin the witty Scotchman in the Tower being Prisoner there at the same time Aurca Behn a Dramatick Writer She writ the Dutch Lover the Amorous Princess the Forc'd Marriage a Tragy-Comedy the Fatal Jealousie a Tragedy c. Affinity Affinitas 〈◊〉 dred or alliance by Marriaâ—â— sometimes likeness of agâ— ment Address or Adress Frâ—â— direction a short courtâ— near and ready way I adâ—â— my self to such a Person iâ— resort unto make towards make my application to hiâ— Age. aetaes that part oâ— Man's Life which is from Birth to this or his last Day Man by our Common-Lâ—â— hath two Ages the Age 21 Years is termed his 〈◊〉 Age and 14 the Age of disâ—â—tion Lit. l. 2. c. 4. In a Wâ—man there are six 1. At â—ven Years of Age she may câ—â—sent to Matrimony 2. At 〈◊〉 she is Dowable 3. At tweâ—â—â— Years she is able finally to câ—â—firm her former consent giâ—â— to Matrimony 4. At foâ—â—teen she is enabled to receâ—â—â— her Land into her hands â— shall be out of Ward if she of this Age at the death of 〈◊〉 Ancestor 5. At sixteen 〈◊〉 she shall be out of Ward thouâ—â— at the death of her Ancestor was within the Age of fourtâ—â— Years 6. At one and Tweâ—â—â— Years she is able to alienate Lands and Tenements â—â—clus a Greek Author diviâ—â— the Life of Man into seven Aâ—â— 1. Infancy contains four Yeâ—â—â— 2. Childhood contains ten Yeâ—â—â— 3. Youthhood or Adolesceâ—â— consists of eight Years thaâ— from fourteen to two and twâ—â—ty 4. Young-manhood coâ—â—â—â—ues nineteen Years that is â—rom two and twenty to forty â—ne 5. Ripe-man-hood hath â—ifteen Years of continuance â—herefore makes his progress to â—6 Years 6. Old-age which â—n adding 12 to 56 makes up â—8 7 Decrepit Age is limiâ—ed from 68 Years to 88. See â—ore divisions of Age if you â—lease in first part Treasury of Times p. 377. and in Vul. Err. p. 216. Alimony Alimonia nouâ—ishment maintenance but in a modern legal Sense it signifies that portion or allowance which a married Woman sues for upon any occasional separation from her Husband wherein she is not charg'd with Elopement or Adultery This was
Homer in an Hymn to Venus allows her Roseat Fingers a red or ruddy colour and to be drawn in a Golden Chariot Virgil sometimes allows her four Horses sometimes but two and those of a red colour Theocrites describes them white or gray according to the colour of the morning Lycopheon in Alexandra brings her in mounted upon Pegasus Pausanius in Laconie Writes that she was doatingly besotted of the fair young Man Cephalus as likewise of Orion in which Homer agrees with him Apollodorus makes her the Mother of the Winds and the Stars Hesiod is of the same opinion that by prostrating herself to her Brother Astraeus the Son of Hyperion and Thya she brought forth Argestre Zephyrus Boreas and Notus with a Daughter called Jadama Amphitrite Jupiter having expelled Saturn from his Kingdom by the help of his Brothers Neptune and Pluto and having cast Lots for the Tripartite Empire the Heaven fell to Jupiter Hell to Pluto and the Sea with all the Isles adjacent to Neptune who Solicited the Love of Amphitrite but she not willing to condescend to his Amorous purpose he imployed a Dolphin to Negotiate in his behalf who deals so well in the Business that they were not only reconciled but soon after Married For which in the perpetual Memory of so great and good an Office done to him he placed him among the Stars not far from Capricorn as Higinus hath left remembred in his Fables and Aratus in his Astronomicks Others contend that Venilia was the Wife of Neptune But notwithstanding his Love to and Marriage with Amphitrite he had many Children by other Nymphs Goddesses and Wantons Ate. Ate whom some call Laesio is the Goddess of Discord or Contention and by Homer termed the daughter of Jupiter Ate prisca proles quae laserit omnes Mortales Ate the ancient Off-spring that hath hurt and harmed all Mankind He calls her a certain Woman that to all men hath been Obnoxious and Perilous alluding no doubt to the Parent of us all Eve that first transgressed and by some Reliques of Truth with which he was enlightned for he saith Filiae prima Jovis queque omnes perdidit Ate Pernisciosa As much as to say Pernitious Ate the eldest daughter of Jupiter who hath lost us all In another Fable he alludes to the same purpose where he saith Jupiter notwithstanding he was the most wise of all Mortals yet was in the days of old tempted and deceived of his Wife Juno And this Homer hath plainly delivered that the beginning of evil came first from a Woman and by her the wisest of Men was beguiled Hesiod in his Book of Weeks and Days is of the same opinion and writes to the same purpose But in another kind of Fable from the old Tradition For saith he From Pandora a Woman of all Creatures the most fairest and first created by the Gods all mischiefs whatsoever were dispersed through the face of the whole earth Aretaphile was Wife to Nicecocrates called the Tyrant of Cyrene who very passionately Loved her for extraordinary beauty but was so detested by her for his cruelty that she complotted with Leander his Brother to destroy him One Grand Motive Inducing her to it was that he had put her first Husband to death to enjoy her but being discovered e're she could give him the intended Dose of Poison she was Rack'd to Extort a Confession of her Accomplices but stood to firmly in her denyal that she was acquitted yet gave not over her enterprise till she had accomplished it And then Married Leander who proving more cruell than his Brother She caused him to be sewed up in a Sack and thrown into the Sea where he perished By which those of Cyrene gained their lost Liberty and in Grateful acknowment offered her to be their Queen but she refused Soveraignty And chus'd to live a private Life the rest of her days Arethusa Daughter as tho Poets fable of Nereus Coris one of the Nymphs attending one the Goddess Diana who flying the Embraces of Alpheus is said upon her imploring the Goddess to be turned into a Fountain which bears her Name Argyra a Beautiful Nymph whose Charming Features so Ravished Solemnus that not finding means to enjoy her he dyed for Love Whereupon Venus in Compassion to his Sufferings turned him into a Fountain in which whomsoever Bathed were Cured of Love and had the Memory of the fair Female for whom they Languished obliterated Ariadne King Minos of Creets Daughter who was carried away by Theseus after he had overcome the Minataure but he in his flight being warned by Bacchus to leave her in the Isle of Naxos set sail whilst she slept who awaking and missing him run about the Island in a distracted Condition till the fabled God came and Espoused her and afterward translated her to the Starry Region where some of those bright Spangles are at this day called her Crown Ariadne another of the Name Wife to Leno Emperour of Constantinople She caused her Husband to be made drunk and then Emured him in a Tomb After that she placed Anastasius her Paramour in the Throne and got her Husbands brother whose right it was to be Excluded Arie an Iâ—aâ—â—an Lady wife 〈…〉 a Roman Senator who advised her Husband to dye a Heroick death after he was condemned and shewed him the way by first stabbing herself Athalia Ahabs Daughter Mother to Ahaziah who being slain by Jebu upon notice of it she put all the Royal Seed except Joash to death who was saved by Jehojadahs wife and assumed the Government but she was afterward slain in the Court of the Temple 2 King 11. Augea Daughter to Alaeus she was Ravished by Hercules and of that Rape brought forth Telephus which known to the Father of Augea he put her and her Son into a Chest and cast them into the River Caycus but Venus taking compassion on them caused it to float safe till it was taken up by Teuthras the King of the Country who Marryed the Lady for her Beauty and left the Kingdom to her Son after his decease Aurora held to be the Daughter of the Earth and Sun of whom Procris Wife of Cephalus being jealous was slain with an Arrow by her Husband who took her for a wild Beast as she lay in the bushes to discover his Amours This Aurora is fabled to be Marryed to Tytheus a very Ancient Man which makes her rise Early in the Morning by reason she finds no pleasure in his cold Embraces Signifying that Young Ladies Marryed to old Men think the Night tedious and wish for day that they may disencumber themselves of Society so unagreeable to their Constitutions Arrabella d' Cordona a Beautiful Spanish Lady of Toledo skilled in almost all the Arts and Sciences her Musick and Voice Charmed all that heard her into wonder and many of the Grandees laboured to gain her in Marriage but she refused all Society with Men in that way as having Vowed perpetual Virginity Antonia Daughter
fading Bethiah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may be rendred the Daughter of the Lord as it were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the House of the Lord as it were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Chron 4.18 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bath a Daughter see 22. and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 beth a House from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 banah he builded and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 jah a name of God from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hajah he was Blanch or Blanchia i. white or fair from blanc Fr. Bona i. She that is good favourable or affable Lat. Bridget from Bride Irish. Batilda Queen of France she is Renowned for her Piety and Learning Descended from an English Saxon Prince In her Youth as she walked by the Sea-shoar she was surpized by Pirates who carryed her to France and sold her to the Mayor the Kings Palace where the King no sooner saw her viz. Clovis the Second but he fell in Love with her Marryed her and had by her Three Sons and Governed the Kingdom very prudently till Clotaire her third Son came of Age She was for her holy manner of Living and the Charitable Deeds she had done Sainted or Cannonized by Pope Nicholas the First Baudise or Boadicia a Queen of the Antient Britains who for the Rape of her Daughters by the Roman Lieutenant fell upon their Army with a great power at unawares and cut of seventy Thousand of them but not being afterward assisted by the rest of the British Princes she was Vanquished by Suctonius and treacherously poisoned by those to whom she fled for Refuge Beatrix Queen of Naples and Sicily Daughter of Raymond Berrenger the fifth Earl of Provence she was a Woman of a Masculine Spirit and stired up great Wars in those Kingdoms which occasioned much Blood-shed Beatrix Daughter to Renaud Earl of Burgundy she was Marryed to Frederick the first Emperour of the Romans she going out of Curiosity to see the City of Milan the People by some Incendiaries were possessed that she had contributed to the Abridgment of their Liberties whereupon they took her from her stately Chariot and set her upon a scurbbed Ass her face to the Tail which they compelled her to hold in her hand instead of a Bridle and so led her through the Principal parts of the City Which Afront the Emperour Resented so highly that he razed the City except the Churches to the Ground sowed it with Salt and put all those who had a hand in this business to death unless such as could with their Teeth take a Figg out of the Fundament of the Ass on which they had set the Empress which many detested and chose rather to suffer death than attempt it Batsheba Wife to Uriah the Hittite her naked beauties so Inchanted King David who espyed her from a Turras as she was washing in a Fountain that he procured her Husband to be slain and took her to Wife of whom he begat Solomon the wife King of Israel Bacchanetes a sort of War-like Woman who attended Bacchus in his War and Conquest of the Indians and afterwards the Priestess of Bacchus were so called who Celebrated his Feasts and Drunken Revels and were clad in Leopards and Panthars skins The Men were attired like Satyrs and Crowned with Ivy or Vines and these Feasts were Celebrated with all manner of Discordant Musick as Horns and Cymbals c. And with very great disorder to shew the folly of Drunkenness Barchia Daughter of Bacchus at the Celebration of whose Feast the Bacchinalians tore Acteon the Son of Melissus in pieces because he refused to join with them in those disorders for which they were banished the City of Corinth Bagoe held to be the Nymph that taught the Tuscan Sages the Art of Divination by the flight of Ligthning and is held by some to be one of the Sibyls others say she was the first Woman that Interpreted the Oracles and flourished in the time of Alexander the Great Barrbancon Marie de Daughter of Michael Lord of Cany in her Castle of Benegon in the Province of Berry by the Lord Lietenant of Burgundy she with her Sword in her hand marched at the head of the Breach that was made and beat the Enemy out again but famine growing so fast upon her she was compelled to surrender yet in consideration of her great Courage and Conduct had her Castle restored to her again Barro a Woman very Learned in Philosophy Bassine Artebabaze a Persion Captains Daughter she was taken in Damascus and presented to Alexander the Great who for her Beauty Marryed her Beaufort Margaret Grand Child to Edward the Third she was Mother to Henry the Seventh she founded many Religious Houses and gave liberaly to Charitable uses among which Christs and St. Johns Colledges in Cambridge are not the least Memorable she was so zealous for the promotion of the Christian Religion on in the Eastern Countrys where it was so much decayed that she would often say if it pleased God to stir up the Christian Princes to War for the Recovery of the Holy Land she would attend upon them as their Laundress Bertos Claudia first a Nun then an Abbess She was a Virgin of Singular Learning and Piety Beledes they were so called as being the fifty Daughters of Danaus who being Marryed to Egyptus fifty Sons all of them at their Fathers command except Hypemnestray killed their Husbands on the Wedding Night and she for her refusal and contributing to his Escape was a long while imprisoned by her Father till her Husband came with an Armed power and Rescued her Bellides or Danaides the same with the former Bellona stiled the Goddess of War Companion and Sister to Mars she had Temples Dedicated to her and Priests who were called Belonary they used to offer part of their blood to her and then give it to those that participaed with them in the Mistery Some will have her to be the same with Pallas the Cappadocians held her in such Esteem that her Priests took place next the Kings she is variously painted in Warlike dresses Biblia or Billa Wife to Duellus a Roman being reproved by him for not telling him of the strong smell of his breath that had been objected to him in a Brawl she innocently told him that never having kissed any Man but himself she concluded all Mens breath had the same favour Biblis Daughter of the Nymph Cyana she fell passionately in Love with her Brother Caunus who refusing to comply with her desires in a Lustful way she attempted to hang herself but being prevented in that by her Nurse she mourned and wept so long till she dyed and is fabled to be turned into a Fountain Billichilde first Marryed to Theodebertus Second King of Austrasia who of a Slave for her beauty advanced her to the dignity of a Queen and by her he had two Sons and and a Daughter but within a while after growing jealous of her he caused her to be put to
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
Love Chara I. She that is dear beloved favour'd or pretious Charity I. Charity Love Bounty Chlâ—ris forsan à 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. green Gr. Christian given from our Christian Profession from Xeâ—â— i. the Annointed i. 〈◊〉 Câ—â—rlie that hath a kind of dimness in his sight or thâ— is Gray-ey'd Clare she that is fair bright or clear Lat. Cleobulina dun for Cleoâ—lus I. famous for Counsel Cleopatria qu. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. the Glory 〈◊〉 her Father or Country Constance i. constant fine always one Lat. Calphurnia a Roman Maâ—tron who pleading her own Cause made such an unplâ—sing a Harangue that the Senate made a Decree that â— Woman should be admitted 〈◊〉 plead for the future Camillia Queen of the Volscians she aided Turnus 〈◊〉 gainst Aeneas and after many brave Atchievements was 〈◊〉 by a cowardly hand Camilla Sister to Pope Sixtus the Fifth who of â— Poor Woman was rais'd by him to the degree of a Princess and her Children provided for after an extraordinary manne tho we do not hear that her Advancement made her proud a thing very common in oâ—â— Age. Camma a Lady of Galatia marry'd to Sinatus who being kill'd by Sinorix that he might enjoy Camma she after having bewail'd her Husband's death seemingly consented sented to be his Wife but poisoned him in the Nuptial Cup and at the same time 〈◊〉 rejoicing that she had the happiness in her Fall to be revenged on her Husband's Murtherer Campaspe a very beautiful Woman whose Picture Alexander the Great caused to 〈◊〉 drawn by Apelles but the Painter whilst he was drawing 〈◊〉 fell in Love with her and â—btain'd the King's leave to marry her Candace an Ethiopian Queen of the Isle of Meroe whose Eunuch St. Philip conâ—erted to the Christian Religion and he converted the Queen with a great number of her Subjects She was a Woman of a Heroick Spirit much â—ddicted to the Wars in which â—he lost one of her Eyes Carines Women who in great Funerals were Mourners and made doleful Lamentations over the Dead Carmel our Lady of Mount-Carmel Carmenta a Grecian Lady Mother to Evander who â—ailing from Greece planted himself in Italy by the courtesie of King Faunus and assisted Aeneas in his Wars against Turnus for the gaining the Fair Livinia Carna a Goddess taking Care of the Vital parts of Men to keep them in Health and â—engthen their Days Cassandra a Lady of Venice very famous for her Learning in divers Languages and Sciences leaving many curious Pieces of her works behind her Cassandra Daughter to King Priamus ravished by Apollo who to recompence her gave her the Gift of Prophecy but she afterward not proving so agreeable as he expected he so order'd it that none should believe her Catâ—hina Daughter to Lucippius the Sicyonian King she succeeding her Father marry'd Messapais a Sea Captain who had before gotten her with Child as she was rambling on the Sea-shoar when to hide her Infamy she declar'd That Neptune came out of the Sea and ravish'd her which passed for current with the People Calliope one of the Nine Muses styl'd the Goddess of Rhetorick and Heroick Poetry She was painted Young crown'd with Flowers holding in one hand a Book and in the other a wreath of Laurel Callipatria a Woman of Elis being of great strenght she us'd to disguise herself in Man's Apparel and Wrestle at the Olimpick Games tho Women were strictly forbidden to appear there but being discover'd she was pardoned and to prevent the like for the future it was ordined that those who enter'd the Lists should be stript naked Calithoe Daughter of Sâ—amander marry'd to Troâ— third King of the 〈◊〉 afterward from him named 〈…〉 had by him three Sons 〈◊〉 â—â—nimâ—les and 〈◊〉 Grandfather father to Anchises the Father of Aeneas the Fugitive Trojan who planted himself in Italy after the Destruction of Troy Chalisto Daughter of Lycaon an Arcadian who listing herself among the Nymphs of Diana and vowing Chastity was nevertheless debauched by Jupiter and being found with Child the Goddess turn'd her into a Bear yet she brought forth a Son call'd Arcos But Jupiter taking compassion on them translated them to the Stars where they are called the great and little Bear Callithoe Daughter of Lycus a Tyrant of Lybia she advertis'd Diomedes her Husband of the Ambushes her Father had laid and by that means sav'd his Life But he afterwards ungratefully forsook her upon which she hang'd herself Callithoe Daughter of the River Achelous she was Wife to Alcemon who being Murther'd her Father obtain'd of Jupiter that her young Children should immediately grow up to Mens estate that they might revenge their Father's death which was granted and they accordingly perform'd it by slaying the Conspirators Calphurnia Wife to Julius Cesar a virtuous Lady who dreaming that the Roof of the House was fallen down her Husband stab'd in her Arms and all the Doors opened of their one accord perswaded him not to go to the Senate But 〈◊〉 regarding her he was there stab'd by the Conspiratoâ— Cassiope Wife to Cepâ— an Aethiopian King she 〈◊〉 Mother to Andromede 〈◊〉 for comparing her Beauty 〈◊〉 the Nereides had a Sea-â—â—ster sent by Neptune to â—â—vour her Daughter but she was ty'd naked to a Roâ— Perseus the Sun of Dane â—â— Jupiter came on his wiâ—â— Horse Pegassus through 〈◊〉 Air and in a dreadful Comâ— kill'd the Monster and 〈◊〉 the Lady and is fabled to â—â—tain of Jupiter that the Moâ— and Daughter when they 〈◊〉 might be made Constellatiâ—â— and fixed in the Skies 〈◊〉 the Northern Stars Catharine d'Bedicis 〈◊〉 of France Catharine d'Siena a 〈◊〉 of the third Order of St. Dâ—minick a very Pious and Dâ—vout Lady after her death 〈◊〉 was Canoniz'd by Pope 〈◊〉 Catharine of Alexanâ—â— another Saint tho some 〈◊〉 whether there ever was such Person Catharine of Araâ—â— Daughter to K. Ferdinand 〈◊〉 Fifth she was sent over 〈◊〉 England and first married â—â— Prince Arthur and after 〈◊〉 death to Prince Henry wâ—â— Succeeded Henry the Seveâ—â— She was Mother to Q. 〈◊〉 and being divorc'd the 〈◊〉 after dy'd for Grief Catharine of Austria Dâ—ches of Savoy she was Daughter to Philip the Second â—â— Spain by Elizabeth of France she was Marryed to Emmanuel the first Duke of Savoy and dyed at Turin Anno 1597. Leaving Five Sons and Four Daughters behind her Catherine of Poland she was Queen of Sweden and Daughter of Sigismund the first King of Poland she was Married to John Prince of Swedeland and Duke of Fineland Son to Gustavus the first She was a Lady of great Virtue and Patience bearing her Husbands troubles and continuing with him during his seven years Imprisonment with a wonderful Constancy Catharine of Portugal Dutches of Bragance she was Daughter of Edward the Second King of Portugal and Maryed to John the Second Duke of Bragance after the death of Sebastian she disputed her Right with Philip the Second King of Spain for the
Kingdom of Portugal but though the Spaniard had then the longest Sword it is since fallen to her Posterity The Vertuous Donna Catharina Queen Dowager of England being likewise decended from her Cave vel raba Daughter of Julian Count of Ceuta and Consuegra she was Ravished by Rhoderick King of Spain which so incensed her Father that to Revenge it he called in the Sarazens who in a Barbarous manner over-run all Spain and expulsed Rhoderick his Kingdom Centhris Wife to Cinyre King of Cyprus Mother of Myrrha whom Venus turned into a Myrrhe tree Cenee a Maid That for her Viginity prevailed with Neptune to turn her into a Man that she might never more be ravished which he did and finding her of a Martial Spirit that she might be safe in War he rendred her Invulnerable but fighting with the Centaurs they bruised her to death with the weight of mighty Clubs after which she is fabled to be turned into a Bird. Ceres the Goddess of Corn Daughter of Saturn and Ops who went about the World with blazing Pines to seek her Daughter Proserpina whom Pluto had Ravished and carryed to Hell and at last finding her agreed that the should be six months in the year with Pluto and the other six with her on Earth Cesonie Empress of Caligula and after his death was Murthered by Julius Lupus for weeping over the dead Body of her Husband baring her Neck to the Cruel Wretch and dying with great Constancy and Courage she likewise strangled her Daughter Julia Drusila a Child of Four Years old Charicke Hydaâ—pes a King of Aethiopia's Daughter being very Fair and Beautiful to the rest of the Ethiops so that the Queen feared being mistrusted of Disloyalty but when she beheld an Ebbony Spot Arrisen on the Princess Arm the true Mark of a Legitimate Child of that Family she greatly rejoiced Charlotte Daughter of Lewis the Second Duke of Montpensire she was veiled a Nun when very young and afterward became Abbess of St. Jovare but not liking that kind of Life she privately withdrew into Germany and there turned Protestant and was Marryed to William of Nasau Prince of Orange whom she Loved so intirely that hearing he was desperately wounded by one Jourigni she fell sick with Grief and dyed at Antwerpt Chahatri Colombe a Taylors Wife of Burgundy being in Labour could by no means be Delivered but her Belly continued big till she dyed which was twenty four years after when being opened to find the cause the shape of a perfect Female Infant was found in her Womb petrefied to the hardness of aâ—stone Christiana Queen of Sweden she was Daughter to Gustavus Adolphus the Warlike King of the Swedes and Mary Eleanor of Brandenburgh after she had Reigned as Queen some years she voluntarily resigned the Crown to her Cousin Charies Gustavus and went to Rome where she lived very Splendidly to her death which happened Anno 1688. Chrysame a Thessaliaâ— Priestess who inured Cattlâ— by degrees to eat poisonoâ—â— Herbs till they became their Natural Food And in the War between the Grecians and Barbarians Left them as a Prey to the hungery Enemy who feeding on their Flesh became distracted so that 〈◊〉 easie Victory was gained over them Ciree an Inchantress dwelling in the Isle of Oggia 〈◊〉 to be the Daughter of the Sâ—â— who by her Inchantmenâ— changed Mens shapes and turned them into Beasts 〈◊〉 stayed Vlysses in his return from Troy till Minerva 〈◊〉 Protectress got leave of 〈◊〉 to set him free St. Claire an Order of Religious Women taking theâ—â— Denomination from her they were confirmed by Pope Innocent the Third Claudia a Roman 〈◊〉 Virgin she fastening her 〈◊〉 to the Galley wherein the Sâ—â—tue of Cyble was on the Rivâ— Tyber drew it to Rome when it stopt and no other 〈◊〉 move it ClemenÃé a Pagan Goddess Patroness of Mildness and Mercy she was painted wiâ—â— a Branch of Laurel in one hand and a Lance in the other she had her Temple in Rome Celia a Roman Virgin she was given in Hostage to Porsena when he besieged Rome but made her Escape on Horse-back over the Tyber but being sent back again he freely released her for the Vertue he found in her whereupon the Senate Erected her a Statue on Horse-back in the Market-place Ceobulina she Renounced the Crown of Rhodes to apply herself to Philosophy and a Contemplative Life Cleopatria Second Wife to King Philip of Macedon she was Murthered by Olimpias his first Wife after his being slain by Possanias Cleopatra Daughter of Philip of Macedon she was Marryed to Alexander King of Epirus and put to death by Antigonus at Sardis Cleopatria Daughter of Ptolomy Philometus King of Egypt Admirable for her Wit and Beauty she was Marryed to Alexander Bela King of Syria and left him for Demetrius Nicanor but he being taken Prisoner by the Persians she Marryed Rodogune and soon after put him to death and her Son Selucius ascending the Throne without her leave she â—hot him dead with an Arrow and made Antiochus the Eight King who understanding she â—â—â—ended to poison him at a Banquet she had prepared made her drink the dose of which she dyed Cleopatra Daughter of Ptolomy Physoon King of the Egyptians she was Marryed to her Brother and then to Antiochus King of Syria but she was strangled by Griphine his first Wife which known so ingraged the King that he caused her to be offered as a Sacrifice to appease the Ghost of the Murthered Cleopatra Cleopatra Daughter of Ptolomy Epiphanes Cleopatra The fair Queen of Egypt Daughter to Ptolomy Auletes she was first Marryed to her Brother Ptolomy but he being drowned in the Nilus when he fled from the overthrow given him by Julius Cesar she Captivated the Conquerer with her Beauty he begot on her a Son called Cesaâ—ion slain after Cesars death by the Soldiers of Augustus afterward Mark Anthony doated on her but after the overthrow at Actium she clapped Aspicks to her Breast and dyed to prevent her being carried Captive to Rome Cleophe Queen of the Massagues a People of India â—he opposed the Progress of Alexanders Victories till she brought him to terms which were to draw off his Army and leave her in quiet Possession of her Kingdom for which sue is said to pay him only the Tribute of a Nights Lodging Cleopatra Selene Marryed to Antiochus Gâ—â—phus King of Syria and afterward to Antiochus Cizicenus and thirdly to Antiochus Eusebius but being taken in a Battle by Tyranes he put her to death Clio one of the Nine Muses said to be the Daughter of Jupiter and Memory Clotilde Queen of France Wife to Clovis the First she Converted him to the Christian Religion and perswaded him to be Baptized she had divers Sons among whom after their Fathers Death there arose Civil Dissentions in disputes for the Throne which she being by no means able to Regulate it hastened her death Clotilde Daughter of Clovis and St. Clotilde she was Marryed to
Amaury King of the Vice-Goths in Spain but he abusing her because she would not change her Religion Childeber her brother made War upon him and rescued her out of his hands but in her way to France she dyed Clotho one of the Fatal Sisters that spun the thread of Mens Lives which when cut by Atropos another of them the Party whose Thread was so cut dyed Clusia the Chast Daughter of King Thuscus who being denyed in Marriage to Valerius Torquâ—tus he Besieged her Father in his Chief City When to prevent the Misery of which she was innocently the Cause the threw herself from the Battlements but her Coats 〈◊〉 the got no harm Constance or Constantia Daughter of the Emperour Constantine Clorus by his Wife theodora she was Married to Licinus who raising Rebellions in the Empire was slain Constance Daughter of Roger King of Sicily Constance Marryed to Robert King of France she was Daughter of William the First Earl of Provence Constance Queen of Aragon Wife to Peter the Third King of Aragon and Daughter of Manfroy Frederick Core Daughter of Cereâ— the word from the Greek signifying Nourishment Corrina a Grecian Lady famous for Poetry and muâ—â— Celebrated by the Poets of heâ— Nation and others as a very Learned Ingenious and Beautiful Woman Cornelia Daughter of Scipio first Married to Marcus Crassus but he being 〈◊〉 in the Parthian Wars 〈◊〉 Marryed Pompey the Great and Accompanyed him in his flight after the Battle of Pharsalia Cornelia a Roman Lady Married to Cornelius Grâ—chus Cornelia Daughter to Ciâ—na and Wife to Julius Cesar she had by him Julia marryed to Pompey before Cornelia Cratefipolis Wife to Alexander King of Siconie The Siconeans after the death of her Husband Rebelled against her and fought to Dethrone her but at the head of a far less Army she Routed them Executing the Chiefs which quieted the rest Cretheis Marryed to Ascestus King of Thessaly a Woman of infatiable Lust. Creusa Daughter of Creon King of Corinth she was Married to Jason upon which Medeâ— his former Wife destroyed â—er and most of her Fathers Family by Inchantments Cumegonde Marryed to the Second yet living with him as a Virgin upon his suspecting her not to have brought her Virginity to his Bed After his death she went into a Convent of Nuns and spent the remainder of her days Cunina a Goddess held by â—he Ancients to have the care of young Children in their tender Age. Cyana a Nymph attending in Proserpina endeavouring â—o rescue her from Pluto was â—â—med into a Fountain that â—ears her Name Cyble stiled the Mother and Grandmother of the Gods and Goddesses she is represented Crowned with Castles and 〈◊〉 Key in her hand Cyna Daughter of Philip King of Macedon Marryed to â—myntas Son to Perdicas the Third and then to Lageus King of the Argives a Lady of a Courageous and Magnanimous â—pirit for under the Command of the Argives won many Victories She killed the Queen of the Illyrians fighting hand to hand and after the death of Alexander the Great her Brother she opposed the aspiring of Perdicas who in vain contrived her death Canidia a Thessalian Woman that dealt in Charms so powerful that it held She could easily destroy People at a great distance stopt the Course of Rivers and make Birds fall in their Flight raise Storms of Rain Hail and Thunder stop a Ship in her Course and many such like Matters by the Power of her Hellish Art Cumea or the Cumean Sibyl a Prophetess that foretold the Roman affairs and many of other things Of which see more at large Converted Whore An honest Gentleman in the heat of Summer having been walking in the Fields comtemplating with himself and returning back not the same way he went out but through another part of the Suburbs to which he was a meer stranger and finding himself athirst he stepped into the first House and called for a Cup of Beer seating himself in the first Room next the Street He had not well wip'd the Sweat from his Face with his Hankerchief but two or three young Wenches came skittishly in and out of the Room who seeing him to be a Man of Fashion they thought to make of him some booty being it seems set on by the Grandam of the House for as 〈◊〉 proved it was a common Brothel house The handsomâ—â— amongst them was put upon him who entreated him not to be seen below where every Porter Carman and common Fellow Came to drink but to take a more convenient and retir'd Room The Gentleman being willing to see some fashions took her gentle prosfer and went with her up Stairs where they two being alone Beer being brought up she began to offer him more than common courtesie which he apprehending ask'd her in plain terms If these were not meer Provocations to incite him to Lust which she as plainly confess'd To whom he reply'd That since it was so he was most willing to accept of her kind proffer only for modesty sake he desired her to shew him into a Darker Room to which she assented and leads him from one place to another but he still told her that none of all these was dark enough insomuch that she began at length somewhat to diâ—taâ—le him because in all that time he had not made unto her any friendly proffer At length she brought him into a close narrow Room with nothing but a Loop-hole for light and told him Sir unless you propose to go into the Cole home this is the darkeâ— place in the House How doth this please you To whom he answer'd Unless thou strumpet thou canst bring me to â— place so palpably tenebrioâ—â— into which the Eyes of Heaven cannot pierce and see me thoâ—â— canst not perswade me to 〈◊〉 Act so detestable before Goâ— and good Men For cannot 〈◊〉 that sees into the Hearts and Reins of all behold us here 〈◊〉 our Wickedness To conclude he read unto her so strict and austere a Lecture concerning her base and debauch'd Life that from an impudent Strumpet he wrought her to be â— repentant Convert Whâ—â— further asking her of her Birtâ— and Country the freely coâ—fess'd unto him That she 〈◊〉 sold such small things as 〈◊〉 had to come up to 〈◊〉 with the Carriers where iâ— was no sooner alighted at 〈◊〉 Inn but she was hired by 〈◊〉 Bawd altogether unacquaintâ—â— with her base course of Life 〈◊〉 by degrees trained her to 〈◊〉 base Prostitution Her appâ—rent Tears and seeming Pâ—â—tence much prevailing 〈◊〉 the Gentleman he protested If it lay in him he would otherwise dispose of her according to her wishes and with 〈◊〉 charging her That if he 〈◊〉 unto her within two or three days with Mony to acquit heâ— of the House that she 〈◊〉 attire herself as modesty as 〈◊〉 could possibly not bringing with her any one rag that belonged to that Abominablâ— House or any borrow'd Gâ—ment in which she had offended but instantly to repair unto him at his
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
by Women who were sworn not to reveal any thing that passed in nine Days and Nights Revelling with Musick and Dancing c. Damodice she was Sister to Critolaus of Arcadia which Brother having kill'd her Lover in War she so far exasperated him by Revilings that he sent her to seek him in the other World Damo Daughter to Pythagorus the Philosopher he charged her at his death not to publish any of his Writings which notwithstanding her extream Poverty and the great offers made her for the Manuscripts she punctually obey'd Damigella Tribulzi she was Daughter to John Trivulzi a Lady well skill'd in Latin Greek and Philosophy and applauded for her Orations made before the Prelates and Popes c. Dane Daughter of Acerisus King of Argos the Oracle foretelling she should bring forth a Son that should dethrone him he shut her up in a Brazen Tower but Jupiter descending in a Golden Shower begat on her Perseus who afterwards slew his Grand-father unknown Daphne a Prophetess Daughter to Tiresias curiously seen in Verse insomuch that 〈◊〉 took divers of them to Imbellish his Work Daphne a Nymph helâ— to be the Daughter of the Riveâ— Ladon and being pursu'd by Apollo who was Enamour'd of her Praying to the Gods for Succour they turn'd her into a Laurel Tree the word signifying a Laurel Deianica Daughter to Oeneus and Wife to Hercules who upon falling in Love with Jola sent him a poyson'd Shirt dipt in Nessus the Centaur's Blood which made him dye distracted Diana or the Moon taken for the Goddess that prospers Success in Hunters held to be Daughter to Jupiter and Latona She had a stately Temple at Ephesus and divers other Places She is stil'd the Goddess of Chastity Dido Queen of Carthage who being got with Child by Aeneas and he treacherously leaving her she kill'd herself She was Daughter to Methres King of Tyre who flying hâ—â— Brother Pigmaâ—lion's Rage builded Carthage which warred many Years with Rome Digna a Heroick Virago of the Kingdom of Naples who being taken by Attiâ— King of the Huns and attempting to force her to his Lust she threw herself from the Batlements of her House into a River saying If thou hast a mind to Enjoy me follow me And so swimming over made her Escape to the next Garison Discard a Goddess were shipped more for fear than love by the Pagans to avoid Evils which they fancy'd the otherways fomented She was figured in a frightful Posture as with the Head of a Serpent and snaky Hair and is held to be she that threw the Golden Apple among the Goddesses at the Wedding of Thetis to set them at Variance Drusilla Agrippa the Elders Daughter a very beautiful Lady being accounted in her time a second Venus she was contracted to Epiphanes Son to King Antiochus who promis'd on that consideration to turn Jew but not keeping his Word she marry'd Aziazus King of the Emezenians but Felix Governour of Judea inticed her from him and she was present when St. Paul pleaded before him Dryades Nymphs to whom were asigned the Care of the Woods and Forests and such as frequented them Dorcas a Widow curious in the Art of working Imbroidery and other things worthy Admiration She was raised by our Saviour from the dead her other name was Tabitha Debora a Valiant Matron of Judea she encouraged the People to fight against Sisera and harrazed their Country and going in the head of an Army with Barack she utterly defeated him with a great slaughter of his Host and he flying to the Tent of Jael for shelter was there 〈◊〉 Daniades the fifty Daughters of Danus who were at once marry'd to Aegyptus's fifty Sons who were all but one of them Murther'd by their Wives on the Wedding Night by the cruel Command of Danus who had subtilly by this way drawn them into a Snaâ—â— to gratifie the Revenge he had vow'd on Aegyptus's Family Distillation Every young Gentlewoman is to be furnish'd as Mr. Codrington tells with very good Stills for the Distillations of all kind of Waters which Stills must be ether of Tin or sweet Earth and in them she shall Distil all manner of Waters meet for the Health of her Houshold a Sage-water which is Sovereign against all Rheums and Collicks Angelica-water good against Infection Radish-water good for the Stone Vine-water for Itching Water of cloâ—â— for the pain of the Stomach Eye bright-water excellent in weak and dim Eyes Now by the way observe you may easily make your Water look of what colour you please if you will first distil your Water in a Stillatory and 〈◊〉 put it in a great Glass of strength and fill it as full aâ— those Flowers whose Coloâ— you desire then stop it and is it in the Stillatory and let distill and you shall have them perfect Colour 〈◊〉 precious and excellent Water there are thousands wherefore I shall only set down here some of the choicest and most valuable Dr. Stevens his famous Water Take a Gallon of Gascoin-Wine of Ginger Gallingal Cinamon Grains Cloves Mace Nutmegs Anniseeds Carraway-seed Coriander-seed Fennel-seed and Sugar of every one a Dram Then take of Sack and Ale a quart of each of Camomile Sage Mint Red-roses Thyme Pellitory of the Wall Wild-Marjoram Wild-Thyme Lavender Pennyroyal Fennel-roots Parsley-roots and Set-wall roots of each half a handful then beat the Spice small and bruise the Herbs and put them all together into the Wine and so let it stand sixteen Hours stirring it now and then then distill it in a Limbeck with a soft fire the first pint of the Water by it self for it is the belt The principal Use of this Water is against all cold Diseases it comforteth the Stomach cureth the Stone of what nature soever using but two spoonfuls in seven days Aqua Mirabilis Take three pints of White-wine of Aquavitae and Juice of Saladine of each a pint one dram of Cardamer and one dram of Mellilot-flowers Cubebs a dram Gallingale Nutmegs Cloves Mace Ginger of each a dram mingle all these together over Night the next Morning set them a Stilling in a Glass-Limbeck This admirable Water dissolveth the swelling of the Lungs and restoreth them when perished it suffereth not the Blood to putrifie neither need he or she to breathe a Vein that useth this Water often Take thrâ—e spoonfuls of it at a time Morning and Evening twice a Week A most approved Water for the Eyes Take a new laid Egg and roast it hard then cut the Shell in the midst and take out the Yolk and put some white Copporice where the Yolk was then bind the Egg together again and let it lye till it begin to be a Water then take the white forth from both sides of the Egg and put the same into a Glass of fair running Water and so let it stand a while then strain it through a fair Linnen-cloth and therewith wash your Eyes Morning and Evening An admirable Water against the Stone in the
â— c. 8. to this effect I promise that hereafter I will lay no claim to thee This Writing was cal'd a Bill of Divorce But with Christians this Custom is abrogated saving only in Case of Adultery The ancient Romans also had a Custom of Divorce among whom it was as lawful for the Wife to put away her Husband as for the Husband to dismiss his Wife But among the Israelites this Prerogative was only permitted to the Husband See Repudiate In our Common Law Divorce is accounted that Separation between two de facto married together which is à vinculo Matriâ—â—â—â—â— non soù d mensa 〈◊〉 And thereof the Woman so divorced received all again that the brought with her This is only upon a Nullity of the Marriage through some â—â—â—tial Impediment as Consanguinity or Afâ—â—nity within the degrees forbidden 〈◊〉 impotency or such like Dodona a City of Epirus near which stood a Grove of Oaks only dedicated to Jupiter called Dodonas Grove the Oaks were said to speak and were wont to give oraculous Answers to those that came to consult them Domini or Anno Domini is the Computation of time from the Incarnation of our Saviour Jesus Christ. As the Romans made their Computation from the Building the City of Rome and the Grecians number'd their Years by the Olympiads or Games called Olympick So Christians in remembrance of the happy Incarnation and blessed Birth of our Saviour reckon the time from his Nativity Domino a kind of hood or habit for the Head worn by Canons and hence also a fashion of vail used by some Women that mourn Dower dos signifies in Law That which the Wife brings to her Husband in marriage Marriage otherwise called Maritagâ—um good Dower from dotarium That which she hath of her Husband after the Marriage determined if she out-live him Glanviâ—e 7. ca. 2. Bracton l. 2. ca. 28. Dory a she Rogue a Woman-beggar a lowzy Quean Drol Fr. a good-fellow â—o on Companion merry Grig one that cares not how the World goes Dulcimer or Dulcimel sambuca so called quaâ—â— dulce melos i. sweet melody 〈◊〉 musical Instrument a Sambuke Dentitio the time that Children breed Teeth which is about the Seventh Month or later and usually the upper Teeth come first in some the under and amongst these the Fore teeth first Many times Fevers Convulsions Loosnesses c. attend Children in the time of breeding Teeth Distillatio an Extractiâ—â— of the moist or unctuous partâ— which are rarified into Mist or Smoke as it were by the force of Fire Distillation is performed by a Bladder by a Chymical Instrument called Câ—curbita before described by a Retort by Deliquium by Filtri by Descent c. and that either in Balneo Mariz Sand Vapours Dung the Sun a Reverberatory c. Dispensatorium a Dispensatory a Book useful for Apothecaries wherein all Medicines at least the most usual are contain'd and prescrib'd that they may be prepar'd in the Shops all the Year round E. EAde for Eadith i. happiness Sa. Eleanor i. pittiful gr Ellena ibid. Elizabeth i. The Oath of my God or else it may be Elishbeth i. the peace or rest â—f my God Emmet i. a Giver of help Norm Ephrah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Kin. â— 19. i. fertility or fruitfulness 〈◊〉 rather I will be fruitful Esther 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. hidden from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sathar â—e lay hid Heb. Ethelburg i. a Noble Keeper Gâ— and Sa. Etheldred or Ethelred i. noble advice Ge. Eve 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chavah i. â—iving or giving life so called by her Husband Adam because she was the Mother 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 kol chav i. omnium viventiâ—â—m of all living Gen. 3.20 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chajah he lived Eugenia she that is nobly born see Eugenius in Mens names Euphenie i. she that is well spoken of and hath a good name and report Eutychia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. felicitas i happiness Echiud Queen of the Scythians with whom Hercules lay and got on her three Sons leaving a strong Bow behind him and ordaining that whoever of them when they came to years could bend that Bow should Succeed her in the Kingdom which only Scytha the youngest could do and so obtained it before his two Elder Brothers Erho a Nymph who being desperately in Love with Narcissus and rejected by him pined and sighed herself into Air and so became the shaddow or counterfeir of a Voice Egâ—ria a Nymph beloved by Num a Pampilius for her Wisdom he told the Romans he consuted her in all his great Affairs and Compiled divers Laws and Religious Customs by her Advice and made her to be in great Esteem with the People Some held her to be the Goddess who assisted at Womens Labours and eased their pains in Child-Birth Elizabeth Daughter of Henry the Eight by Queen Anna Bullein Daughter of Sir Thomas Bullein she was Queen oâ— England after the death of Queen Mary And had a long and Glorious Reign Of her see more at large Epicharis a Woman of a mean Birth but of great Courage and Vâ—rtue â—eing Condemned before Nero for having a share in a Conspiracy agâ—inâ—t him and being ordered to extream torture to make her Confess her Accomplices she bore it with such a Spirit and Courage she shamed and daunted her Tortureâ—s 〈◊〉 could any 〈…〉 by the most violâ—â—â—◠〈◊〉 but bring remanded to 〈◊〉 she killed herself to avoâ—d 〈◊〉 Tyran's 〈…〉 Epponiva Wife to Julius Sabinus a miracle of Conjugal Love for her Husband taking Arms with others against Vespatian and being overthrown hid himself in the Ruins of a Tomb where she came to him supplyed him with Food and Necessaries Lived with him and brought him forth divers Children in that dark and Solitary place but at last being discovered they were put to death which she bore with great Courage and Patience telling the Emperour she had rather die than live to see the wicked days of his Reign Erato one of the Nine Musâ—s presiding over Love Songs and Poems she is generally painted like a Virgin in the Bloom of her Youth Frolick and Gay Crowned with Roses and Mirtle holding a Harp in one hand and a Bow in the other with a Winged Cupid placed under her Elbow Armed with his Love-procuring Darts Escher Niece to Mordicai of the Tribe of Benjamin when King 〈◊〉 of Persia had put away Vâ—sâ—i his Queen for disobeying his Royal Mandate she being brought unto him among other Virgins he was to pleased with her Beauty and Conversation that he took her to Wife and she became Instrumental in saving the Jewish Nation then in Captivity from the destruction Human had prepared for theâ—â— and turned it upon himself 〈◊〉 his House Eudoria Married to 〈◊〉 dius the Emperour she 〈◊〉 a great Enemy to St. 〈◊〉 and declared for 〈◊〉 against him and 〈◊〉 him to be banished but he 〈◊〉 soon after re-called but 〈◊〉 some words against 〈◊〉 setting
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
another and on the other hand the like has befallen Women Grant we must then in some measure what the same Physian gives as his Opinion That such a Correspondence ought to be between the Marryed Couple and his Reasons are That the hot answer not the cold the moist the dry in measure and quality And then the Cultivature is in vain and there may be Pleasure but no Generation for so marvellous Work as the formation of a man continues he could not be performed without a proportionable Comixture of Seed and to Exemplifie this Assertion on of his other Physicians proceed to tell us that a Woman very Ill-conditioned shrill-voiced Twarthy Complexion and enclining to Leanness suits best for the Work of Generation Gentleman generosus nobilis seems to be a compound of two words the one French gentile i.e. honostus vel honesto loco natus the other Saxon mon as if you would say a man well born The Italian follows the very word calling those Gentil-homini whom we call Gentlemen Galanthis Alemena's Maid turned into a Weesel Galathea a Sea Nymph beloved of Polypheme who killed Acis whom she preferred before him Gallus a Young Man punisht for suffering Sol to discover the Adultery of Mars and Venus Gillet Aegidio the Womans Nature Gilt Jilt a cheat a fly defeating ones intent Glycerium a Courtesan of Thespia Godina Wife to Leosvic Lord of Coventry who to gain them a release from his Impositions rode naked through the City Geloum a Lake is Sicily at two Fountains whereof one makes Women fruitful the other barren Grishild gr Gray Lady Guastaliens a Religious Order of Men and Women began 1537. by a Mantuan Lady Counsels of Guastala Gule Goule or Yule of August St. Peter ad Vincula Lammas-day when they say Quirinus's Daughter by kissing St. Peters Chain was cured of a Disease in her Gummilda she kill'd her self because her Husband Asmond King of Denmark was slain in Battel Gunora a Norman Lady who held the Hamblet of Lanton by the service of a barbed Arrow to the King when he hunted in Cornedon Chase. Graeae three Sisters of the Gorgons they had all but one Eye and one Tooth which they used by turns Gallant Fr. goodly noble vertuous But it is now substantively appli'd to that persoâ— who si Servant or Platoâ—â—â— to a Lady Galatia a Sea Nymph for whose love Polyphemus flew himself Ganymede Ganymedes the Name of a Trojan Boy whom Jupiter so loved say the Poets as he took him up to Heaven and made him his Cupbearer Hence any Boy loved for carnal abuse or hired to be used contrary to Nature to commit the detestable Sin of Sodomy is called a Ganymede or Ingle Gertrude or Gerritude a Womans Name compounded of the old Saxon Gar i.e. All and trude i.e. Truth or Troâ—h Gorgon Gr. a terrible fighting Woman Poets feign there were three such Daughters to King Phorcbus their Names were Medusa 〈◊〉 and Euryale Gossip from the Saxon Gorsib our Christian Ancestors understanding a spiritual affinity to grow between the Parents and such undertook for the Child at Baptism called each other by the Name of Godsib which is as much as to lay as they were Siâ— together that is of Kin thro' God or a Couzin before God And the Child in like manner called such his God-Fathers or God-Mothers c. Verst Graces Charites three Sisters Poetically supposed the Daughters of Jupiter and Venus They were callled Aglsis Thalia and Euphrosyne The Moral was to express the mutual love and chearful Conversation which ought to be among Friends for they were painted naked to signifie friendship ought to be plain without dissimulation smilling and merry to shew Men should do good willingly young and Maiden-like to teach Friendship should consist in honest things and holding hands together in a round ring to shew a Benefit bestowed returns again to the giver Gyazcia in general are the Accidents incident to Women Guabr-merched Br. a fine to the Lords of some Mannors upon the Marriage of their Tenants Daughters also as Lairâ—â—â— Gy o. a guide Gybr o. any writing or pass Gyges a Lydian Shepherd who kill'd the King Canâ—aules his Master and enjoyed his Crown and Wife whom he had shewn him naked by the help of Gyge's Ring taken from a dead Giants finger found in the belly of a brazen Horie in the Earth whose coâ—ler turn'd inward made him invisible H. Hagar 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Arabick signifies to flee perhaps a Name given her from the face of her Mistris Sara 〈◊〉 16.6 or as others â— a Stanger Hinnah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Channah i. 〈◊〉 or merciful Haiâ—is see Avice Helena à 〈…〉 dict So called from her beauty Hephzi-bah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. King 21.10.1 â—â— delight or properly will â—â— in her Esther see Esther Huplice was Daughter to 〈◊〉 King of Thracia and gave her Mind to Warlike Exploits to which the was inciâ—ed by often hunting wild Beasts and when the Guests made an inroad into her Fathers Dominions overthrew his Power and took him Prisoner she with certain Troops purified the Enemy roated them and â—ave him a famous 〈◊〉 Harpics Monsters fabled to have the Bodies of Birds and Faces of beautiful Women and are said to be the Daughters of Neptune and the Earth they greatly disturbed Aeneas at his Banquet and presaged the hardship he should meet withal in his Voyage from Troy to Italy Hebe styled among the Ancients the Goddess of Youth and is said to be the Daughter †Juno She was made Cupâ—earer to Jupiter but slipping â—â— a Fâ—ast her Coats flew over 〈◊〉 ears and discovered her Nakedness in an unseamly part which caused the Thunderer to appoint Ganimedes to officiate her place but afterward she was Marry'd to Hercules when he took his place in the Skies Hecata called the Goddess of the Night 〈◊〉 in Poysons and Inchantments she was painted with three heads one of a Dog one of a Horse and one of a wild 〈◊〉 Some call her Proserpina or the Queen of Hell she is said to Poyson her Father and flying to her Unkle for Refuge he Marry'd her and on her begat Circes and Medeâ— both Inchantresses Helen the Daughter of Jupiter by Ledea Marry'd to Menelaus Brother to King Agamemnon her Rape by Paris Son to King Priamus of Troy occasioned the destruction of that famous City by the Greeks after a ten years Siege and great Effusion of Blood she was accounted one of the most beautiful Women in the World Helen Daughter to Constantine the Great a Virtuous and Heroick Lady Marry'd to Julian the Apostate Helen Queen of Adiabene who first embraced the Jewish then the Christian Religion Helen Daughter of King Coilus a British Prince marryed to the Roman Emperour Constantinus Chlorus and Mother to Constantine the Great she was a great Encourager of the Christian Religion found out the Cross where the Jews had hid it and caused many places of Religious Worship to be
may be the greatest Arguments you use to convince him of his Defect and by Mildness laâ—â—â— to let him see the Unmanâ—â— and Deformity of such â—â— unreasonable Extravagancy â—â— makes Man for a time 〈◊〉 the Fumes are predominant 〈◊〉 over the Senses degeneâ—â— beneath the Creatures 〈◊〉 by the Laws of the Creation were subjected to his Doâ—â— for certain it is could 〈◊〉 Man which indeed is not â—â— be done view himself and consider with Reason his Folâ—â— and ridiculous Actions 〈◊〉 over-pow'red with the sumes of Wine he would detest and labor them these in mild 〈◊〉 without Reflection or 〈◊〉 a modest Patient Wife has the opportunity of presenting to him in such 〈◊〉 Images and Representaâ—â—â— that he may see them 〈◊〉 so great a Degree as to make him if not presently yet in time by meditating 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the many inconveniences such debauches draw upon him be reclaimed and grow more Temperate and that for two Reasons viz. First Because it destroy his health and hinders his Affairs And Secondly Not only so but renders him ridiculous to those 10 whom when he is Serious he is much Superiour in Wisdom and Understanding there is nothing more enarvates the Bodies and Minds of Men and this we suppose is the Reason why Homer Fabled Circie to turn Men into Beasts when perhaps though she is seigned to be the Daughter of the Sun being only a Tavern Woman she had a winning exchanting way to draw in Customers and make them drunk insomuch that being by that means bereaved of their Senses they acted more like Bruits than Rational Creatures and so consequently by the Sober and Judicious were properly termed Swine and if by any means you Work his Converâ—â—sion and reclaim him you 〈◊〉 a stronger Obligation on 〈◊〉 to oblige you in all their Reasonable and Convenience and encline him the more readily to hearken to your Pertwasions and Advice in other Matters when on the other hand bitter and passionate Words make the Disease instead of Curing it much worse for Man that are given up to such faults are not to be reclaimed by Contradictions and Reproaches for they not giving them leave to consult their Reason or what may be best for them Passion gets the upper-hand and a disdaining to be controuled makes them fly out into worse Extravagancies In some Cases Wives gain great Advantages to themselves through the faults of their Husbands which may seem to some a Paradox however we shall explain it and make it apparent first then Husbands without faults if such black Swins there be are always strict and dangerous observers they have penetrating Eyes and see every thing so plain that their Wives least failings or oversights are exposed to their Censure And though we will not doubt but that the Female Virtues will for the most part disappoint the sharpest enquiries yet few Women can be easie when all they do or 〈◊〉 shall be represented in the clear Glass of understanding where notwithstanding all their Caution some faults will appear nothing better softens the Natures of men than the mixture of some failures by them it is that they are best informed they must not strike too hard upon others because they do often deserve blows themselves they pull mens rage by the Sleeve and whispers Gentleness to them in their Censures when they are rightly apply'd The Faults and Passions of Husbands brings them down to the Wives and make them the better Content to live upon equal Terms make them less uneasie in that than faultless men would be for man is generally found very haughty and proud of himself till humbled by common weaknesses and defects which in the corrupt State of humane Life do work more toward 's the reconciling us to one another than all the Precepts of Divines and Philosopher's so that where the Errors of mens Natures make amends for the disadvantages of yours it is properly Ladies your business to make your Advantages of the Benefit but then it must be done discreetly and not by such sinister ways as may afterward create offence and disturbances considering there can be no lasting Happiness where there is not a lasting Peace and Quite Husbands sometimes are Cholerick and Passionate or Ill humoured yet this by an ingenious observant Wife may be so tempered and ordered that they at the 〈◊〉 of the Account may be brought to make amends for if a Husband be angry to day without Sense he will perhaps be tomorrow as kind without Reason so that by having regard to the movements of such a mans temper you may by degrees easily bring over his Passions to your Party the strongest Poisons being many times the best Remedies in some Diseases but then they must be well Corrected Temperiz'd and allai'd by a skilful Artist or else they kill instead of Curing There is a great deal of nice Care to be used in dealing with a Man of a Cholerick Complexion for Choller proceeding from Pride and Haughtiness of Mind makes a Man puff'd up and swell against Contradicting by being too Partial to himself concluding he is lessened if he be opposed In such a Case the Wife must be Prudent and wary taking heed not to throw out such Expressions as may encrease the Storm but rather seem to acquiess and yield to humour him till he grows cool and then by flow Degrees she may rise again upon him so that her Genâ—leness in time will prove a Charm to dispell his Anger Smile operate more powerfully than 〈◊〉 and Gentleness will sooner reclaim than Frowardness and when other Remedies appear too weak a little flattery will not be amiss if it be not carried too far that it may be 〈◊〉 ed especially if ill humour and fullenness take place for there is a mixture of surliness even in a good Sence and the Folly that is so predominant in the World gives frequent Temptations to raise Mens Spleens wherefore that which may be generally called ill humour is not always to be accounted a fault and only becomes one either when it is apply'd wrong or too long continued when it is not so for which Cause be not over-hasty in fixing an ill Name upon that which may not perhaps deserve it For put the Case a Husband should too severely resent any failing or dislike it may be that more blame may belong to the Wives mistake than to his ill humour and if a Husband behave himself with that indifference which a Wife may resent as offensive she is not much in the right to put thâ— worst sense upon it if it can reasonably admit of a better some Wives if their Husbands change their stile and Countenance different from what they were in their first Addresses would call it by the Genteel Name of their humour Bec. and that it would be too 〈◊〉 always to stand stretched on Loâ—es Pinnacle A Man may without blame sometimes in little things be less careful than as others whilst a Wife that is so nicely expecting may
if not such as shall exceed then and put themselves thereby to unnecessary Charges because they will not seem to be out-done by others whom they conceive less able or less mariting such Furniture this Ladies Logick trips up the heels of Reason and sets it on its head by Carrying the Rule from Things to Persons and Appealing from Right to the 〈◊〉 and Capricio's of those that are in the wrong and in such cases the word necessary 〈…〉 appli'd the best way 〈◊〉 to avoid such Error of this 〈◊〉 is to try things first in your Judgment before you give 〈◊〉 too large a place in your Desire There are again some Ladies who little Consider how their own figure agreeth with such 〈◊〉 things as their Desires reach after and Covet too eagerly others when they have them in their possession will scarcely allow them to be visible or when you are ushered into their dark Ruelle you will find it done with such State and Solemnity that you would Conclude that there was something extraordinary in it till the Lady breaking Silence and beginning to 〈◊〉 out the show you find it meer Pageantry or like a Popper-play with gaudy Scenes Some again set a high Estimate on things rarely to be gotten enough of little Value either in Worth or Beauty Truth if we should say a great part of their own Value dependeth in the Minds of the unthinking would be very often Censured as unmannerly and might derogate from the prerogative great Ladies would 〈◊〉 to themselves of being Creatures distinct from those of their Sex that they Conclude inferiour to them and in other things less difficult of Access But to those we pretend to prescribe their Condition must give the Rules to them and therefore it is not the part of a Wife to aim at more than a bounded Liberality and an acquirement of things convenient A Princely mind will ruin a private Family and if things be not suited they will not deserve Commendation though in themselves they be never so valuable Kuntgunda Cu. Wife to the Emperor Henry II. to clear her self from the Imputation of Unchastity went barefoot and blindfold on red hot Irons Kyth Sa. kindred or alliance whence we say though corruptly Neither kit nor kin Knights Batchelour our simple or plain Knights the lowest but most ancient Order Knights of the Garter or St. George the most Noble Order of England instituted by King Edward III. after many notable Victories Under the Soveraign of the Order the King are five and twenty Companions They always wear their George and Star or rather the Sun Knights of the Post whom you may hire to swear what you please Kidknappers Fellows that pick up People for Transportation commonly call'd Spirits L. LAis i. Lascivious lustful and indeed she was a notable Harlot of Corinth as it is storied Laodice 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. the Justice of the People Laurana dim from Laurus the Laurel or Bay-tree Laurentia i. flourishing like the Laurel or Bay-tree Laureola i. a little Bay-tree Leah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. wearisomness or weary Letice à laetitia i. joyfulness or mirth Lois 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 melior better 2 Tim. 1.5 Lora i. Discipline or Learning Lucie or Lucia so called prima Luces from the Morning-light Lucreece or Lucretia from Lucrum gani a Name fit for a good Husband Lydia Acts 16.14 i. born in Lydia Lactucintia a Goddess of the Heathens to whom they assigned the Care of Vegetables Laeta Daughter to Albinus a Roman and Pagan High-Priest she was Married to Toxatius the Son of Paula she turning Christian by her Husband means Converted her Father to her St. Jerom sent an Epistle instructing her how to educate her Daughter in the Articles of Belief and Grounds of the Christian Faith Lais a Sicilian Lady who prostituted her Beauty for Mony upon Demosthenes addressing himself to her she demanded 10000 Drams of Silver for a Nights Lodging but he told her he was not willing to buy Repentance at that price she was afterward murthered in the Temple of Venus by some Women who were Jealous that their Husbands doated on her Beauty Lamia Mistress to King Demetrius he for the Love he bore her Dedicated a Temple to her called Venus Lamia Lamia another of the Name with whom Jupiter had familiar Conversation and often got with Child but Juno destroyed them in the Birth which so inraged Lamia that she destroyed all the Children that came in her way Lamperia Daughter to Apollo begot by him on Climenâ— who with her other Sisters bewailing the Death of Phaeâ—â—â— their Brother were turned into Poplar Trees Laodicea Mother to Selacius and Wife of Anticchus when her Husband after he had served Alexander the Great in his Wars he built the City of Laodicea in Memory of his Mother Lara one of the Naides said to be the Daughter of the River Almon and that on her Mercury begat two Daughters called Lares Latona she was held to be begot on Phebe by Cocus her Brother on her Jupiter became Inamoured by whom she had Diana and Apollo Lauerna a Goddess worshipped by the Romans she had a Temple built her in Rome near the Gate because she was supposed to defend the City from Thieves and Robbers Lavinia Daughter to Latinus King of the Latins for whom Aeneas and Turnus contended till the latter was slain she had a Son by Aeneas whom she naâ—â—red Silvius Laurea a Lady of Provence she was famous for Learning and her Fancy particularly lead her to Poetry and amongst other works she composed the Poem called the Court of Love Lydia she was Daughter to Thestius Married to Tyndarus King of Oebalia which after was deceived by Jupiter who came to her in the shape of a Swan and at a Birth begat on her Castor Polux and Helena afterwards Wife to King Menelaus who being ravished by Paris occasioned the Destruction of Troy by the Greeks Levana a Goddess of the Romans to whom they recommended the care of their new-born Children Lencothoe Daughter of Orâ—â—amus a Babylonish King she was deceived and destowâ—ed by Apollo in a borrowed shape and upon her being discovered to be with Child her Father caused her to be buried alive after which Apollo caused Frankincense Trees to Spring from her Grave Lucippa she was Daughter to Thestor Prince of Creet held to be a very Learned and Virtuous Lady Lovisa Dutchess of Angoulesme Daughter to Philip Count of Bress and afterward Duke of Savoy she was Wife to Charles Count of Angoulesme she was Mother to Francis the first King of France Libertas or the Goddess of Liberty was honoured by the Romans as a Deity being represented as a Woman cloathed in White with a Hat in one hand a Scepter in the other and a Cat standing by her Libussa Daughter to Crocus the first Prince of Bohemia she coveted a single Life but her Subjects importuned her to Marry and when by
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
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
Margaret d' Valois Sister to his Predecessor Mary d' Guise Daughter to Claude the first Duke of Lorrain she was Married to Lewis Duke of Longueville and afterward to James the first King of Scotland Mary Queen of England Daughter to Henry the Eighth Marred to Philip of Spain she was a great Persecutor of the Protestants and caused many of them to perish in the Flames by Tortures Imprisonment c. She died Childless of a burning Fever or as it was then called the Sweating Sickness November 17th 1558. and was succeeded by Elizabeth Second Daughter to Henry the 8th who abolished Popery and restored Protestantism Mary Queen of Scots Daughter to James the fifth promised in Marriage to Edward the Sixth of England but the Scotch Nobility after the Death of Henry the Eighth breaking their word and sending her privately to France she was Married to the Dauphin who soon after dying and she returning to Scotland she Married Henry Stuart Lord Darnley and Duke of Rothsay by whom she had King James the Sixth but he being murthered viz. blown up by a Train of Powder laid under his House great troubles arose which forced her to fly for England where she was unhappily put to Death being beheaded at Fotheringay Castle upon suggested Fears and Jealousies Mathide Daughter to Bonijacius Marquess of Tuscany she succeeding her Father incited thereto by the Pope warred upon Henry the Fourth Emperor and so devoted she was to the Roman See that she bestowed all her Hereditary Lands upon it she was a Woman of great Courage and died at the Age of 76. Anno. 1115. Maud she was Daughter to Henry the First of England who Married her to Henry the Fourth Emperor of Germany but he dying and leaving no Issue by her she returned again to England and afterward Married Geoffery Plantagenet Earl of Anjou by whom she had a Son who after long Wars and contending for the Crown of England succeeded King Stephen by the Stile of Henry the Second Mavia Queen of the Saracens she Conquered or spoiled Palestius and Arabia in the time of the Emperor Valens but being converted to the Christian Religion she made a Peace with him and Assisted him with a powerful Army against the Goths that had broken into Italy and other parts of the Empire Maximilia she was Disciple to Montanus the Herenick and kept him Company in an obscene manner she at lenght joyn'd to her Priâ—cilla who made it their business to seduce and draw others into the Error using their Beauties as a Snare for the men and by their Riches and soft deluding Tongues they inticed the weaker Sex but at last she and Montanus falling out killed each other Meditriva a Pagan Goddess whom the Ancients concluded to take care of Physick and it's Operation in the Bodies of Men and Women and at her Festivals they mixed Old and new Wine which they drank moderately by way of Cordial or Physick Medusa one of the Gorgons with whom Neptune fell in Love till Minerva turned her hair into Snakes and her Head being cut off by Perseus Minerva placed it in her shield and whatever living Creature looked on it was turned into a Stone Magera one of the Furies Daughter of the Night and Acheron she instilled Madness into the minds of People Melania Wife to Pinienus Son to Severus a noble Man of Rome the Destruction of that City being revealed to her two years before Alaric laid it waste she remov'd with her Family to Carthage and was there Instructed by St. Augustin then lived a Monastick Life after she had perswaded many to turn Christians Melenia a Roman Lady Daughter to Mercelinus she burying her Husband when she was very young in sorrow forsook all worldly Pleasures and went a Pilgrimage to Jerusalem carrying one of her Children with her she confronted the Arrians and undeceived many of their Errors when building a Monastery at Jerusalem she dwelt Twenty five years in it and died in that City Melissa she was Daughter to Melissus King of Creet said to Nurse Jupiter and bring him up with Goats Milk Melpomene one of the Nine Muses Mellona a Goddess who had the care over Bees that they should not fly away in their swarming time Merrades Bacchinalians or Women that attended on Baschuses's Drunken-Feasts or Revels who did much mischief in their Wine Mene a Goddess worshipped by the Roman Women for the better ordering their Bodies in their monthly Purgations Meplictis the Goddess of Pools and muddy Lakes Merope one of the Seven Pleiades Daughter to Atlas and Pleione said to be married to Sysiphus Messalina Wife to the Emperor Claudius who not content to keep Gallants in the Court to satisfie her Lust if such a thing could be done but in her Husbands Absence she publickly married C. Silius a handsome Roman Knight for which the Emperor caused her to be beheaded Metra she was Daughter to Ercysichthon a Lord of Thessaly who to save her Fathers Life who was ready to Famish prostituted her self for Food to sustain his Life Minerva styled the Goddess of Arts and Wisdom said to be conceived of the Brain of Jove delivered thence by Vulcan who cleaving his Skull this Goddess sprung out in bright Armour she is often taken for Pallas who in some Cases is styled Minerva Miroselde a poor Weavers Daughter of whom King Charibert was so Enamoured that upon her refusing to comply to be his Concubine he married her and after her Death he married her Sister for which he was Excommunicated by St. Germain Mirrah Daughter to Cyniâ—as King of the Cipriots she fell so desperately in Love with her Father that making him drink Wine she lay with him but the matter being discovered by her being with Child she fled into Arabia and brought forth Adodonis but she dying of that Travel Venus turned her into a Mirrh-Tree and put Adonis to Nurse ro Nimph Herclea when being grown up and proving very Comely Venus fell in Love with him and often enjoyed him in the Idalian Groves but at last contrary to her perswasions undertaking to hunt a wild Boar he was slain by the furious Beast and greatly lamented of the Goddess who turned him into an Enemy Molza Tarquinia a Lady of Modena very Learned and Skilful in the Languages she much haunted the tops of Parnassus and bathed often in the River Helicon to them the invention of Songs and Sciences are attributed they are called viz. Clio Vrania Calliope Vterpt Erato Thalia Melpomene Terphiscare and Polylymnia they are held by some to be the Daughters of Coelum and the Earth Mirriam or Mary Sister to Moses she was smitten with Leprosie because she and Aaron murmured against him and shut him out of the Camp but being a Prophetess all the People stayed till her days of cleansing were fulfilled and she again received into the Congregation Aarons Punishment was remitted upon Moses praying for him Malhatun the fair Wife of Othoman the first Founder of the Turkish
it Men say and say again to the Women how much they are smitten at the sight of their Necks and Shapes The Women know the pernicious Effects which the beauty of their Shapes and Necks produce in the minds of men when by their naked Breasts they do not only expose themselves to the loss of their Reputation but they do greatly run the hazard of losing their Innocence too Their Chastity is even struck and wounded by every glance of a loose and wanton Eye and their modesty is shockt by the vain Approbations which are given them the Idea of their Breasts does not less enter into their imagination than into that of the men who consider it attentively and commend it and as they most commonly do joyn the Idea of all the Body to that of their Breasts being persuaded that they shew the beauty of the one to make that of the other be better judged of There is no Age nor Quality which exempâ—s a Man from being tempted by the sight of a naked neck or breast and the Inclination that Nature inspires into us for our Neighbours proves oftentimes a disposition to the dishonest Love which the Devil suggests to us After this what can there be alledged for the Justification of those Maids and Women who affect going with naked Necks Will they say that they ought to be suffered to uncover their Necks c. since 't is lawful that they should go with their Faces bare It may be answered them it is only through condescension that the Church allows them to go without a Veil over their heads and that this relaxing of the modesty of the First Christians cannot serve for a reason to give them greater liberty and to conform themselves wholly to the Vanities of the Age. In my Opinion nothing discovers lightness so much as to make strange Eyes familiar with the knowledge of your Breast No serious Judgment can conceipt less than lightly of such exposed beauty which that Epigrammatist glanced at happily when seeing one of these amorous Girles who had no meaning to lead Apes in hell but would rather impawn her honour than enter any Vestall Order attyred in a light wanton Habit and breast displayed and this in Lent time when graver attire and a more confined bosome might have better becom'd her he wrote these Lines Nunc emere hand fas est est Quadragesima carnes Quin mulier mammas contegu ergo tuas With breasts laid out why should I Shambles tempt It's held unlawful to buy flesh in Lent Dainty Nipples said that excellent Moralist to a wanton Gallants why doe ye so labour to tempt and take deluded eyes must not poor wormelins one day tugg you Must those enazured Orbes for ever retaine their beauty Must Nature in such ample measure shew her bounty and you recompence her love with lying snaires to purchase fancy These instances I the rather insist on because there is nothing that impeacheth civil same more than these outward phantastick fooleries Where the eye gives way to opinion and a conceipt is conveyed to the Heart by the outward sense For as by the Countenance piety is impaired so by the Eyes is chastity impeached Where this is and hath been ever held for an undoubted Maxim Immodest eyes are Messengers of an unguarded heart The principal means then to preserve reputation is to avoyd all occasion of suspicion And forasmuch as we may suffer in our same through trifles as well as motives of higher importance we are to be cautious in the least lest we be censured in these though we send not in the greatest Nuns their Institutions Nuns The end of Constituting them was a design of continued Chastity under certain Vows that once being entered into were not to be Violated but to continue Virgins that so the Cares and Troubles of the World which too frequently happen in a Married Life might not hinder them from Dressing and Adorning their Souls with Robes of Righteousness to be fit Spouses for the Glorious Bridegroom at his coming into the Marriage-Chamber of Eternal Rest but tho it was intended to a good end in like manner other Pious Institutions was corrupted in time Pope Pius the first among the Christians allowed Nunneries Decreeing that none till they were of Understanding should be admitted and that then it should be done Voluntarily not by wheedling or compulsion and they to be twelve years old at least and their Consecration to be on Epiphany Easter-Eve or the Feast of the Apostles except when any that had made that Vow of Chastity fell sick without hope of Recovery and that none should meddle with a Cup or put Incence into the Cenior was the Decree of Secherus in the year 175. St. Paul Intimates it to be a good Institution when he says Let no Widdow be chosen before she be threescore years of Age and Jepthas Daughter is not allowed by the best Writers to be Sacrificed for that would have been an Abomination to the Lord as strictly forbid by the Mosaick Law but that she was made a recluce and kept a single Life which occasioned the Daughters of Israel to go up to visit and comfort her in her solitary state Nunnery a Colledg of Nuns that were Christians were usually Consecrated by the Bishop or Priest who covered them with a Veil the Abot or Abtress upon pain of Excommunication not being to meddle in it the Virgin to be Consecrated was presented to the Bishop in her Nuns Attire standing at the Altar with Tapors burning and Musick when at the puting on the Veil these words were expressed viz. Bohold Daughter and forget thy Fathers House that the King may take pleasure in thy Beauty to which all the People present saying Amen the Veil was cast over her and the Religious Women that were to Enjoy her Society Kissed and Embraced her after which the Bishop blessed her and Praying for her she departed to her place there to be Instructed by her Seniors in good Works and for this purpose many Nunnerys were erecteâ— in all parts of Christendom and at first there was something extraordinary of Devotion in it but at length it has degenerated and corrupted as many things whose Original Institutions were very commendable have done for no Cloyster or Stone-wall can keep out 〈◊〉 thoughts where the mind is impure for Love and Lust will find a way to be satisfied even in these retirements of which many give large instances but we not so much as dreaming that the Ladies of our Nation will be over hasty to part with their sweet Liberty for such unprofitable Confinements it matters not whether we enlarge upon this Subject or briefly touch upon it for the sake of variety Nose Remâ—dies for such Vices as are Incident to it Noses are the ornaments of Faces beauty is a nice and cleanly Dame who loves to have the Nose tho but the sink of the brain to convey from it what is noxious kept neat and handsome as well as
Indians none can claim greater Dower with his 〈◊〉 than the price of a 〈◊〉 Oxen neither can he mâ—â— out of his own Tribe â—â— Assyrians brought their 〈◊〉 blest Virgins into the 〈◊〉 place and their prices 〈◊〉 publickly proclaimed by 〈◊〉 Crâ—er whosoever wanted wife and would reach toâ—â— sum propounded might 〈◊〉 be furnished and he 〈◊〉 had not ready mony if 〈◊〉 could put in good secuâ—â— it was held sufficient 〈◊〉 like custome was amongst 〈◊〉 Babylonians in which 〈◊〉 observed this order Tâ— first set out to sale the mâ— ingenious and beautiful 〈◊〉 those at an high rate and when they were put off they brought forth the worser featured even unto the degree of deformity and the Crier proclaims That who will marry any of them He shall have so much or so much to recompence her souless or lamâ—ness Nuptial-ornaments Amongst the Greeks the â—â—ide was crowned with water-Mints or Cresses her head was â—embed with a piece of a Lance or Spear of a Fencer with which some man had been slain In other places of Greece the Brides heads were covered with a Veil to signify her Bashfulness and modest shame It was of Clay-coloured Silk by which colour the Matrons of the most temperate life and modest carriage denoted unto the world their continence and vertue The Law of Lyâ—â—rgus amongst the Spartans was That the Bride should cut her hair and puting her self into mans habit be brought into her chamber by the Bride-maids who had before prepared it In Bâ—eoâ—ia their Virgins were crowned with a wreath made of the herb called Sperage In the Isle Cous the husbands were tempelled to enter the Bride châ—mber attired like women It was an use amongst the Locrenses for the Matrons to pick and gather selected flowers to make garlands for the Brides but such as were bought for â—ony were held vile and â—oâ—temptuous All mariages amongst the Lustranians were celebrated in Rose-coloured garments or else not permitted The Chelidonian women that had prostituted themselves to strangers went with half of their faces open the other half covered else it was not lawful for them to be seen abroad The German Virgins when they prepared to give meeting to their betrothed and so to proceed to the Conjugal ceremony put on a streight or plain garment such a one as they in some places call a Huk and over that a Cloak without spot or stain bearing a garland woven of Vervain At length comes forth the Bride in all parts rare To meet the Bridegroom A Virgins face a Virgins chast attire She wares Now modest blushes kindle fire Within her bashful cheek which by degrees Grows stillmore hot and warms all that she sees The youthful frie dispersed herâ— and there On tip-toe move to see this star appear And rise with such refulgence on each hand The aged Fathers and the Matrons stand And make a reverend Lane for her to pass She makes them think upon the time that was Their prime their youth their Strength now gone wasted And Nuptial sweets which they before have tasted A Nuptial Song All that 's sweet and lost attend All that 's calm sâ—rene and bright That can please or pleasure mend Or secure or cause delight Liâ—â—â—e Câ—â—ds come and move Round the Bridesgrooms greedy Eyes Whilst the stately Queen of love Round the Bride her Cestâ—â— Eyes Golden Hymâ—n bring the Robe Bring thy Torch that still inspires Round the stately aâ—â—rous Globe Vigorous flames and gay desires Sister Graces all appear Sister Graces come away Let the Heavens be bright and clear Let the Earth keep Holy day Iâ—â—â—nd Nature does prepare To salute the Charming Bride And with Odours fills the Air Snatch from all the World beside Virtue Wit and Beauty may For a time refuse to yield But at length they must obey And with Honour quit the Field Their efforts in vain will prove To defend their Free-born State When attack't by mighty Love They must all Cp ilate Marble-hearted Virgins who Rail at Love to show your Wits So did one Eliza too Yet with Pleasure now submits You too envious Sâ—ains who would Follow Cupid if you might Like the Fox that gaping stood Discommend the Grapes for spight Since Experience teacheth best Ask if mutual Love has Charms When the Bride and Bridegroom rest Lock't in one another's Arms. O OLive from the Olive Tree Olimpia 1. Hevenlâ— Omphale 1. Lascivious and Wanton Orabilis 1. Easy to be inâ—reaâ—ed Ogna Sancha a Counâ—els of Castile who Falling in Love with a Moâ—â—ish Prince about the year 99â— being then a Widow and resolving to have him being opposed in it by her Son Sancho Garcia she resolved to remove him by Poyson but when at the Table the Poysoned Wine was offered him he having notice of the Plot against his Life gave 〈◊〉 his Mother who presently drank it up which with 〈◊〉 greater â—â—ame quickly quenâ—â—ed that of her Lust with 〈◊〉 Life and for this reason 〈◊〉 Women of Castile at 〈◊〉 Feasts are always obliged 〈◊〉 Drink before the Men 〈◊〉 now it passes only as a Ceremony Olimpias the Sister of Alexander King of Epirus Wife to Philip of Macedon and Mother to Alexander the Great who Dreamed when the first Conceived of him that Jupiter Ammon turned himself into a Dragon and Embraced her which made that Monarch afterwards fancy him self to be the Son of Jupiter and require to be esteemed as a God for opposing which Vanity Clytus and many other of his faithful Friends were put to Death This Queen likewise after the Death of King Philip put all his other Wives and Concubines to Death as also all the the Nobility that stood in her way to the Throne for which Cassander Besieged her in the Castle of Pindus and having taken her he put her to Death Olimpias a very Devout VVidow who was Deaconness of the Church of Constantinople in the time of St. Chrysostom she was Wife to Nebridius who Dying lest her great Riches which she as freely bestowed upon the Poor and was at length banished with St. Chrysostom by the prevailing of the Hereticks in those parts the Greeks and a great Veneration for her and after her Death Celebrated her memory every â—5th of July Omphale a Lydian Queen who Captivated Herâ—â—â—â— so much with her Beauty and Voice that laying aside his Fierceness he learned to Spin among her Maids Occasio or Occasion was accounted by the Heathens a Goddess and Worshipped by them that she might be Propitious to them in putting into their hands the fittest season and opportunity to accomplish and bring their Affairs to an happy issue and was represented by them naked bald on the head behind but a long foretop streaming with the Wind one of her Feet on a Wheel and sometimes a Globe and the other in the Air having a Sail in the one hand and a Sail in the other to shew that we ought to take all advantages of opportunity lest giving us the slip it returns
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
of the blessed Virgin divided into seven parts 1. Malines and Laudes 2. The Prime 3d. 6th None or 〈◊〉 hour 6. Vespers or Eversong 7. The Complines Prioress the Governess of a Nunnery Panado Span. Punada or Empanada Fr. Paude a kind of Food made of crumbs of bread and Curran's boiled in water or as some will have it of grated Bread Milk Sugar and grated Cheese Pandora seigned by Hesiodes to be the first Woman and made by Vulcan indued by all the Gods with several Excellent Gifts but afterwards by Jupiter in displeasure sent to her Spouse Epimetheus with a box full of all manner of miseries Hence Pandora's box is taken for misery calamity and the like Pregnant big with Child also full copious ripe Possowa an Indian beast receiving her young ones on occasion into a bag under her belly Paphian paphius belonging to Paphos a City of Cyprus dedicated to Venus and built by Paphus Hence Paphus Archer is taken for Cupid 〈◊〉 fire or shot for the fire or arrows of Love Papian Law Lex 〈◊〉 Poppea a Law made among the ancient Romans against single life that if any forbore from the priviledges of Parents and had no children the People who was the common Father of all should inherit their Goods Tacit. Popelet lote c. a Pappet or young wench Polygamy g. a being marry'd to many at the same time Polyhimnia lymnia one of the Muses Pomander q. Pomamber D. a ball of Perfumes Param peramator a lover he or she a Sweet-heart Paranymph Paranymphus an Orator who a little before the Commencement of Doctors c. makes a publick Speech in commendation of their sufficiency also an Overseer of a Wedding a Bride-dresser or he or she that bears all the sway at the Bridal Paraphonalia is used in our Law but in the Civil it is Paraphernalia which are those Goods a Wife brings her Husband over and besides her Dowry and Marriage mony as Furniture for her own Chamber her own Apparel and Jewels if she be of Quality all which she must have and not the Executors of the Husband c. Shep. Fa. Counc 122. Plesades g. seven Daughters of Atlas turn'd into the seven fears Plow monary next after Twelfth-day when our Northern Plowmen beg Plowmony to drink and in some places if the Plowman after that days work come with his Whip to the Kitchin-harsh and cry Cock in the Pos before the maid says Cock on the Dunghill he gains a Cock for Shrove-Tuesday Point f. the plight one is in also Rich Needle work Paritude Pariture or Parture from pario a breeding or ingendring the time of travail or deliverance of child or young Philomela flying from Terous who had ravish'd her and cut her Tongue out Pimpleiades the Muses Pimpompet f. an antick dance of three kicking each others bum Perwick wig Peruque f. a cap of false hair Phoedra Daughter of Mines and wife of Theseus Phemone the first Priests of Appolo at Delphos and inventress of Heroick Verse Phaetontiades Phaetons sister Phao a Lesbian Youth made beautiful by an Ointment given him of Venus Pentagamist Gr. one that hath had five wives Penlography peplographia the description of the Vail called Peplum which was an Embroidered Vesture or hood to cover the head now used for a Kercher worn especially by women going to be churched Tho. Peregrina a Womans Name Pelias Brother of Aeson King of Thessaly slain by his own daughters Pelopaea the mother of Aeghisibus by her own Father Thyestes Peple lum l. a hood for women at their Churching Pugitar a Rival in Love Petty Treason Fr. Petit Trahison Treason it a lesser or lower kind It a Servant kill his Master a Wife her Husband a Secular or Religious man his Prelate these are Petit Treasons Pin as he is in a merry Pin it was an ancient kind of Dutch artificial Drunkenness the cup commonly of Wood had a Pin about the middle of it and he was accounted the man who could nick the Pio by drinking even to it whereas to go above or beneath was a forfeiture This Device was of old the cause of so much Debauchery in England that one of the Constitutions of a Synod held at Westâ— in the Year 1102. was to this Effect That Priests should 〈◊〉 go to publick Drinkings nec ad Pinnus bibunt nor drink at Pins And King Edgar made a Law that none should drink below the Pin. Pip is a Disease in Poultry being a white thin Scale growing on the top of the tongue which hinders them from eating it proceeds generally from drinking puddle water or eating filthy meat Pledge from the Fr. Pleige a surety or gage To pledg one drinking had its Original thus When the 〈◊〉 bore sway in this Land if a Native did drink they would sometimes stab him with a Dagger or Knife Hereupon people would not drink in company unless some one present would be their pledge or surety that they should receive so hurt whilst they were in their draught Hence that usual phrase I 'le pledge you or be a pledge for you Pattus The bringing forth of a Mature Faetus or Young in natural Births The Faetus having broken the Membrances turns his head forward and inclining it towards the neck of the Womb strives to get forth the usual manner is after nine Months Yet I have known some at Amsterdam born at seven Months who have lived to Fifty or Sixty Dr. Blanked Phillis Gr. a Womans Name and signifies Lovely as Amie in French Philomel philomela a Nightingale Philosophy philosophia the love or desire of Wisdom a deep knowledg in the nature of things there are three different kinds of it 〈◊〉 Rational Philosophy including Grammar Logick and â—hetorick and this dives into the subtility of disputations 〈◊〉 discourse 2. Natural Philosophy searching into the obscurity of Natures Secretes concerning besides Arithmetick 〈◊〉 Geometry and Astronomy 3. Moral Philosophy which consists in the knowledg and practice of civility and good behaviour Philtre philtrum â—morous potion a love occuring drink or medicine Platonick love is a love abstracted from all corporeal gross impressions and sensual appetite and consists in contemplation and Idaea's of the mind not in any carnal Fruition or it is a love of Friendship without any admixture of Sensuality So called from Plato the Divine Philosopher Pickadil à Belg. Pickedillekens i. e. Lacinia Teut. Pickedel the round hem or the several divisions set together about the skirt of a Garment or other thing also a kind of stiff collar made in fashion of a Band. That famous Ordinary near St. James's called Picadilly took denomination from this that one Higgins a Taylor who built it got most of his Estate by Pitadilles which in the last age were much in fashion Pilch pellicea a woollen or sur garment now used for a flanel cloth to wrap about the lower part of young Children Hence d. Surplice q. Surplich Pommade Fr. Pomatum or Pomata an Ointment used by
Bigor as to find fault that the Hills and dales of crooked and haeven bodies are made to meet without a Miracle by some Iron frame or bolstering who fears to set streight or hide unhandsome warpings of crooked Legs what is there as to any defect in Nature whereof ingenious Art as a diligent handmaid waiting on its Mistress do's not study some supply or other so far as to Graft a silver Plate into Fractured Sculls to furnish cropt Faces with Artificial Noses to fill up broken ranks and routed Files of Teeth with Ivory Adjurants or Lieutenants Pray tell us then if against all or any of these and the like reparative Inventions by which Art and Ingenuity study to help and repair the defects of deformity which God in Nature or Providence pleased to Inflict on Human bodies any Pen or what is worse malitious Tongue is sharpened unless in Spleen to the pasty more than the defect supplied by Art no Pulpit batteries no Writ of Rebellion against Nature or Charge of Forgery and False Coinage is brought against any in the High Court of Conscience No poor Creatures who modestly Embraceth modestly useth and with chearfulness serveth God by means of some such help which either taketh away its Reproach or easeth its pain is seated with the dreadful scruples or so tertify'd with the Threatnings of Sin Hell and Damnation as to cast away that innocent succour which God in Nature and Art hath given him Rather we are so civilly pious in many cases to approve their Ingenuity only if the Face which is the Metropolis of humane Majesty and as it were the seat of beauty and comâ—â—â—ness if it has sustained any Injuries as it is exposed most to them of Time or Accident if it stands in need of any thing that our Charity and Ingenuity in Art can afford it though the thing be never so cheap easie and harmless either to â—nliven the Pallid Deadness of it and to redeem it from Mâ—tâ—rain or to pair and match the unequal Cheeks to each other or to cover any Pimples and Heats or to remove any Obstructions or miâ—tigate and Quench Excessive Flushings thereby to set oft the Village to such a Decency and Equality as may innocently please our selves and others without any thought of displeasing God who looks not to the outward appearance but to the heart What Censures and Whispers nay what Outcrys and Clamours what Lightnings and Thunders what Anathema's Excommunications and Condemnations fill the Thoughts and Pens the Tongues and Pulpits of many angry yet it may be well meaning Christians both Preachers and others who are commonly quick sighted and offended with the least Ghost they phancy of adding to a Ladys Complexion than with many Camels of their own Customary Opinions and Practices Good men tho in other things are guilty not only of Fineness and Neatness but even of some Falsity and Pretension They are so good natur'd as to allow their Crooked Wives and Daughters whatever Ingenious Concealments and Reparations of Art and their Purses can afford them Yet as to the Point of Face mending they utterly condemn them There are a fort of home 〈◊〉 persons who never went far beyond their own Dwellings who can with less Equal Eyes behold any Woman though of never so great quality if they see or suspect her to be adorn'd any whit beyond the vulgar mode or deck'd with Feathers more Gay and Gawdy than those birds use which are of their own Country breed In which cases of Feminine dressing and adorning no casuits is sufficient to enumerate or resolve the many intricate Niceties and Endless Scruples of Conscience which some mens and womens more Plebean Zelotry makes as about Ladies Cheeks and Faces if they appear any thing more Rosy and Lively than they were want So about the length and fashion of their Cloaths and Hair one while they were so perplexed about the curling of a Ladies Locks that they can as hardly disentangle themselves as a Bee when too far engag'd in 〈◊〉 another while they are most scrupulous Mathematicians to measure her Arms Wrists Neck and Train how far they may sately venture to let their Garments draw after them to lick up the dust or their naked Skins be seen Here however some of them can bare the sight of the Fairest Faces without so much as winking yet they pretend that no strength of humane Virtue can Endure the least assaults or peâ—ping naked necks below the Ears Not that any modest mind pleads for prostituting of naked Necks or Breasts where modesty or the civiller Customs of the Country 〈◊〉 it But some peoples Rigous and Fierceness is such that if they spy any thing in the Dress Cloaths or Garb of Women beyond what they approve or have been us'd to presently the Taylors the Tirewomen the Dressers the Sempstress the Chambermaids and all the wretched Crew of Obsequious attendants are condemn'd as Antichristian and only fit to attend on the Whore of Babylon Nor do the Ladies though otherwise Young and Innocent and as virtuous as beautiful escape these Rigid Censurers though what they wear is required by Decency Civility and Custom They would make weak people believe that every touch of Colouring added to the Cheeks is asemblance of Hell fire and their curled hair dangling never so little an Emblem of the Never dying Worm Medusa's head is not pictur'd more terrible with all her Soaky Trestes than they would represent every Ladys though never so modest and virtuous whose Hair Complexion or Tiring is not natively her own But these things ought not to discourage modest Ladys from using such Arts and Adornments as may keep up repair or add lusture to their beauty Those to whom Nature has been liberally prodigal stand not so much in need of them but where she has been sparing and scanty there is all the Reason in the world but they should advantage themselves of such helps as are necessary The Earth is most pleasant and delightful when painted with flowers of various Colours many of them having in themselves a Tincture or Paint which they communicate to us as if they wooed us to use it The Eastern Skies never look so gay as when the Sun paints them with morning blushes and Iris decks the Clouds with her Bow of Various Colours when she sprinkles the Ground with fertile showers The Fruit on the laden Boughs blush with Crimson and Vermillion fair pictures that are only paintings are esteem'd and admir'd And since there can be no harm but good in beautifying the Face we see no reason but it may and ought to be used to Good Ends and Purposes Though Nature is the Elder Art is the Younger Sister and may very well assist her where she is wanting or deficient Patches defended in opposition to what is said against it in this book by another hand Painting now not much use being almost justled out by Washes is not the only thing that is censured and objected against
Nun building the Abbey of Holy Câ—oss and divers other places which she dedicated to pious uses and dyed anno 587. Ramsey Mary second Wife of Sir Thomas Ramsey Alderman and Sheriff of London anno 1567. and Lord Mayor in 1577. She was Daughter of Sir William Dale Merchant of Bristol She liv'd a very Piousand Vertuous life â—nd dying Nâ—â—emâ—â—r 1595. without 〈◊〉 leâ—t the â—râ—aâ—est 〈…〉 Uâ—es 〈◊〉 fâ—â— ever that have been left 〈…〉 private person before or 〈◊〉 Reginatrudâ— Dutchess of Bavaria She was Daughter of Chidelbert King of France and marry'd to Theâ—dâ—n the Third Duke of Bavaria whom she converted to the Christian Religion and afterwards by the assistance of Rupert Bishop of Worms she prevail'd with the greater part of his Subjects to follow his Example Renea of France She was Dutches of Ferrara Daughter to Lewis the 12th of France and Ann of Britany She was marry'd to Hercules D' Este Duke of Ferrara by the contrivance of Francis the First who succeeded Lewis though she might have had far greater Matches in England and Germany She was a Lady of great Courage Wit and Learning Renown otherways called Fame a Goddess of Poetical Invention held to be the Messenger of Jupiter She was painted in the shape of a Woman with Wings spread abroad and spangled with Eyes her Garments light and succiâ—â—â— with a Trumpet in her mouth as â—â—unâ—ing Râ—â—â—e for refusing to forsake her Religion and marry Gaulâ—â— a Roman Praeâ—â—ct 〈…〉 him tortured and 〈…〉 put to death but was 〈…〉 after her Death 〈…〉 as a Saint â—oches Catherine 〈…〉 of pâ—ictiers so well 〈…〉 in Poetry that she was 〈…〉 The Muse of France She 〈…〉 books in Prose and 〈◊〉 and Educaâ—ed her 〈…〉 to an Extraordinary 〈…〉 Learning and Virtue 〈…〉 the most accompliâ—â—â—◠〈◊〉 in the Country 〈…〉 great Matches were 〈◊〉 red them they could not 〈◊〉 inâ—uced to marry but 〈◊〉 them'elves with 〈◊〉 and contemplative 〈◊〉 â—â—â—ogunda Daughâ—â—◠〈◊〉 â—â—ng Pharaates of Parâ—â—â—â—â— Sâ—â— was Wife to Deineâ—â—â—â—◠〈…〉 of Syria She was 〈…〉 of great Courage 〈…〉 and Virâ—ue â—â—samunon Queen 〈…〉 She was Daughâ—â—◠〈◊〉 and Wife 〈…〉 who was called into 〈…〉 the Imperial 〈◊〉 revenge the astronts 〈◊〉 Emperess Sophiâ—â— had put 〈…〉 but Alâ—ion having 〈…〉 Father to death and 〈…〉 Cup of his Skull which 〈…〉 have forced her to 〈…〉 out of she 〈…〉 his Life and caused 〈…〉 â—â—â—â—hered by 〈…〉 the General of his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Daughter 〈…〉 a Prince of Persia 〈…〉 to Alexander the Great in his â—xpeâ—tiâ—n against Darius She was held to be one of the most beautiful Ladies of Asia â—oâ—â—llan Su'taness and Wife to Solyman the Magnificent Emperour of the 〈◊〉 A Woman of great Beauty but of greater Spirits and Ambition Ruth Daughter in Law to Naâ—mi married to Bâ—aâ— Rumia or Rumilla a Goddess to whom the Romans recommended the care of their Infan-Children Rosamond the Fair Concubine of K. Henry the Sâ—â—â—nâ— of England poyâ—â—râ—â— by Q. Elenor in Woodstock â—oâ—er near Oxford Back the Duke of Exeter's Daughter an Engine to extort Confessions brought into the Tower by him being Câ—nâ—iâ—â—le 16 H. 6. intending to bring in the whole Civil Law Recreations sutable for Ladies and what is to be observed therein Recreations when Innocent and Moderaâ—â—â—â— may be called the Spring of 〈◊〉 that makes it move smooth and regular it is an Antidote against the too rust impressions of business and over sâ—â—â—ious Thoughts upon the Spirits and by Wise and Prudent management may be turned to great advantages in rendering our conditions easy and pleasant but when immoderately used and carried to excess and extravagancy it is worse than Labour or Toil. All Pleasures that but border on Scandal must be shunn'd and avoided and even those that are the most Innocent must not exceed the Rules of Moderation Which consists first in not giving offence scandal damage or prejudice to your Associates or others Secondly It must besuch as is not injurious or prejadicial to your Health Reputation or Business you must by no means make your Pleasure your Bussiness but by the enjoyment thereof be more than chearful in your return to it as more enabled by your Diversions to perform it The most innocent Recreations by excess are many times abused and the Body and Mind rather enfeebled and disordered than strengthened and composed by them their Vigour is weak and sostened the Compexson is besot ed and the principal Virtues sometimes banish'd Recreation must be taken as it was first provided and then it will be taken without a Sâ—ng The Heathen Sages prohibited either Sex to â—â—acken the Reins too much to it least it should insensibly carry them away in a career they would not be able to stop till they bulg'd upon the ruggedRock of Misfortune Wâ— that are Christians have more reason therefore to be cautious least too great a swing of Worldy Pleasure and Delights throws us into Irre 〈◊〉 and incumbers us 〈…〉 we never intended to be concern'd withal those Recreations above all others 〈◊〉 most commendable that refresh the Mind and never leave any private 〈…〉 behind them on the Câ—â—â—â—ence to upbraid â—he Sens◠〈◊〉 the immoderate or unlawful using them she that plaâ—â—â—â—â— into a puddle do's but enâ—'â—â— her self to the trouble of â—â— aâ—terwashing few people are so indiseret and regardless of their Health as for the lusciousness of the Tast to â—â—â—d on those things that will â—â—pair it and render them 〈◊〉 stempered God would never have allowed such Recreations nor furnished us either with the desire of them or the faculties to enjoy them with any design we should abuse them or that they should prove hurtful to us yet there are so many incoveniences adhearing to the use of â—â—â—sure by exceeding the measure mistaking the m 〈◊〉 misplacing the time thâ—â—â—al though Recreations be laâ—â—â—ul in themselves yet if they be circumstanced amiss they are not expidient Recreations and Pleasures are undon â—idly lawful if we abuse 〈◊〉 not by irregularity all the s'veral 〈…〉 in Food 〈◊〉 other varieties of the 〈◊〉 nature were intended please the 〈…〉 to satisfy the Appeaâ—â—â— of the beautiful and pleasant Fruits the Garden of God contained there was but one only among so vast a number excepted from which it may reasonably be concluded we may enjoy those delights we have a well grounded inclination to and that are no ways prohibited if so we do it as not to do it amiss Recreations most proper and suitable to Ladies may be râ—â—â—'d under four principal he â— as Limning Dancing Musick Reading these Imploy both the Mind and Activity of the Body Lim â—ing is a very curious Art wherein a Lady especially in small Figures either in Oyl or Water-Painting may improve her Fancy to Admiration and leave rare monuments of her Ingenuity to Posterity Dancing Recreates the Body and moderately used much câ—ntribuâ—â—â— to Health by tâ—â—rring and dispersing the gathering and afflicting Humours besides it gives a decent comliness to
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
Dr. Blancart Romance Span. a feigned Hulory or Narration either in Verse or Prose in the Vulgar Language Retromingents from retro and mingo is used by Dr. Brown for such Animals as Urine or piss backward such are all female Quadrupedes Revels form the Fr. Râ—veiller i. to awake from sleep are sports of Dancing Making Comedies and such like still used in the Inns of Courâ— and Houses of some great Pesonages and are so called because they are performed by night there is also an officer called Toe Master of the Revels who has the ordering and command of these pastimes Roundelay a Shepheards dance sometimes used for a Son Rhomb rhombus a Spinning wheel Reel or whirl Rivals rivales they that haunt or dwell by have interâ—st or fetch water from the same River or Brook but it is most commonly use â—â—taphorically for those that love and wooe the same woman Corivals Runciâ—a the Goddess of Weeding S. Sabina I. Religious or Câ—ast from that 〈◊〉 â—ings Sarchia I. Holy Pure Saraâ— my Lady or Dame Sâ—â—â—â— I. â— Lady or Princess because of the Promise Schoâ—â—â—ica from 〈◊〉 I. oâ—ium Leiâ—urâ— Sebaste I. Majestical or Honourable Shelâ—mith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lâ—v. 24.11 i. peaceaâ—â—â— Sybil or Sibule suase 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. the Counsel of God Sisley see Cicely Sophia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. Wisdom Sophronia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. modesty Susan 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Shoâ—â—â— Heb. a Rose or Lilly Sabinia Tranquiliâ—â— she was Married to the Emperor Gordanus the third a Lady of great Magnanimity and Virtue Salmacis a Nymph who falling in Love with Hermophroditus Son of Mercury begot him on Venus grew so Impatient that leaping into a Fountain where he was bathing she endeavoured to oblige him to deslower her but not being able to gain him in that piece of Service she prayed the Gods whilâ— she twined 〈◊〉 him that they might become one body which was granted her and so 〈◊〉 became the first that bore 〈…〉 of either Sex 〈…〉 〈◊〉 Sister of 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 King of the 〈◊〉 she 〈◊〉 up Herod to put the 〈…〉 Maâ—â—â—nne to 〈◊〉 by open be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or pretence she 〈…〉 him and 〈…〉 the Death of Alexander and Ari 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Queens two Sons by 〈◊〉 as also of two of her own Husbands Joseph and Costborus and afterward dyed miserably her self Salome Mother of Sâ— Iâ—â—â—â— and Sâ— John the Apostle 〈◊〉 Virtous and Pious woman who mainly propagated the Gospel by her exemplary Life Salus a Roman Goddess she had her Temple on the Mount Quirinal which was much beaurified and adorned by Augustus Sappho stil'd for her curious Verse the tenth Muse but her wanton way of Writing hindered much of the Merit of them Or her see more Sarah the Wife of Abraham the Patriach and Daughter of Haram and obedient Virtuous and beautiful Woman she was the Mother of Isaac She dyed Anno Mundi 2175 aged 137 years and was buried in a Cave near Hebron Sachaca a Babylonish Goddess held by the manner of her Worship to be the same with Ops or Terra of the Romans her Ceremonies were continued five Days in a year successively in which time the servants ruled and the Masters obeyed Scylla Daughter of Nisus the Magerensine King she betrayed him and the City to Minos King of Crect with whom she fell in Love at the Siege by cutting off and delivering him her Fathers Lock of Purple Hair Segetia by some called Segestia a Roman Prayed to by them to take care of their Corn. Seia another Goddess worshipped by them to whom they instrusted the care of the seed new sowen she had a statue to her and was Invoked Fertelize the Earth in time of scarcity Semele Daughter to Cadmus the Thebian King with whom Jupiter had secret Meetings yet Jumâ— distrusting the matter came to her in the shape of an old Beldam and incited her to perswade him to lye with her in the same Glory which he accosted the Goddesses in the skiâ—s Jupiter tho loath granted her at the next meeting but proved too hot for her she being burnt to Ashes by his Lightning yet being with Child with Bacchus he took the Embrio out of her womb and opening his Thigh sewed it up there till the full time of his Birth was come Semizamis Queen of Assyria Of her see more Serana Empress to Diâ—clesian and Daughter of Theodosius the grâ—aâ— she moderated much of the Persecution against the Christians and â—â—d the Church many singular favours in those bloody times Sforce Katharine Married to Jeronimo 〈◊〉 Prince of Flori when Franciâ—cus Vrsus headed the Rebels Kill'd her Husband and 〈◊〉 her and her Children in Prison she perswaded them to let her speak to the Governour of the Castle that still held out for her to Surrender leaving her Children as a Pledg but being got into the strong place she sent to command the Rebels to lay down their Arms and return to â— their Obedience which so dâ—â—red them that they forâ—â—ok their Leader and by Anxiliaty Aids recovered the whole Countrey over which she ruled many years prudently and justly Sibylla Wife to Guy of Luzignan and sister to Saldâ—â—â— the Fourth King of Jernâ—â—â—â— She after the Death of her Brother and her Son whom his Uncle appointed to succeed him caus'd her Husband Guy to be Crown'd setâ—â—g the Crown upon his head with her own hands saying 〈◊〉 he being her true Husband he could not make choice of any â—â—â—r to be King But this soon 〈◊〉 caus'd great disturbances â—nd much weakened the Kingdom Sibylls They were â—oelve and accounted Proâ—â—â—sles foreâ—ellinâ— many â—â—derful things Of these â— more in this Work Sigbritta a mean â—oman a Native of II land â—s so passionately beloved by â—â—itierne King of Deâ—muâ— â—igh he was at the same time â—â—â—y'd thaâ— he gave her an â—â—mited power and all 〈◊〉 and Great Offices were â—posed of by her so that â—ding her Ascendan over that â—y Prince who had raised â— from a Beggar so near a â—â—â—e she grew so proud and â—ogant that the Qâ—een and â—bles could no longer endure but deposing the King and â—cing his Uncle in his stead she fled to Holland and there in a little time became as poor and miserable as ever Sigea Lovise Daughter to Diego Sigea a very learned Lady â—he understood Arabick Greek Latin Hebrew and the Syrick she was skill'd in Philosophy and the liberal Sciences tho she dy'd very young and was lamented of divers learned men Sirens or Sirenes Sea Monster that by their melodious No â—â— draw men to leave their shipâ— and by leaping into the Sea bâ—ing drown'd they devour them Sisigambis Wife to Dâ—â—â—â— King of Persia who being taken prâ—â—oner by Alexander the Great at the Battle of Arbella was courteously entertain'd by him and altho she was exceeding beautiful he preserv'd her Chastity and she dying for the Grief of â—o great a loss he gave her honourable burial Sâ—â—gambis Mother
consequence must at last in outward comformity be demeanable to the Laws of God and man and men our Coffee-Houses and Plâ—ys would not abound with Champions for all licentiousness it is such as have no property of their own who cry up that which may destroy it in other men There seems to be a spiritual as well as a natural blessing in marriage for though the Nature of man is to depraved that in all is choice of Things in this World he makes Vertue the least Ingredient so that in Honours Riches Power Friends and all the rest of the World's Inventory Vertue makes not always a Figure yet is the choice of a Wife 't is the prime motive Is she fair rich witty and not vertuous Neither the wife nor the rich man will make her his Choice And as marriage abates the irregular lives of men so it produces a sober and well disposed Posterity How often do we see mothers vie with their Neighbours in the Infant Divinity of their children in which they have not only the Praise of men but the Encouragement of a Sacred Promise viz. Teach thy Child when he is young and he will not forget it when he is old The Testimony of that great King which he gives of his mother's Instruction is very remarkable which runs thus The words of King Lemuel the Prophecy that his mother taught him What my Sin and what the son of my Womb and what the son of my Vows See a book call'd Marriage promoted Silence The true Vertue of Silence cannot be too much commended It is such a Quality that I want words to express its worth I cannot well tell which I should most commend to Gentlewomen either Speech or Silence since the one of them doth too much and the other too little Speech enricheth and corrupteth but silence is poor but honest I am not so much against Discourse as vain Pratling which consumes time and profiteth no Body Speech indeed is one of the blessings of Nature but to ride still on the top of it is too vehement The first word in the school of Cleanthes that great Philosopher was silence and the first word of command amongst souldiers in the Field now adays is silence A talkative man or Woman is like an unbraced Drum which beats a wise Man out of his wits Many States have used to punish the laying open of Secrets with the loss of their Tounges which was a very just Law and a sure one for no example prevails with a born Taâ—ler but the forfeit of his Tatling Organ I wonder that the Turks do not generally deprive their slaves of their Tounges as of their stones methinks they should be as jealous of their secrets as they are of their Lusts. Certainly all people that are subject to this flux of words are very dangerous I never knew Tatling a safeguard but only by the Geese that preserved the Capitol I shall conclude this head with that of a famous Writer There is a Time when nothing there is a Time when something but there is no Time when all things are to be revealed Secret Lovers Let us here instâ—nce what Râ—â—â— modesty hath been shown by Women in the secret Expression of their affection How loth to be seen to love and how Faithful to those they did love How shamed fac'd in their professing and how stedfast in their Expression I prefer love before life said that Noble Aureâ—â— to one of her maiden sisters yet had I rather lose my life than discover my love The like said that sweet Sulpitia I could find in my heart to dye for my Love so my Love knew not I dy' e for his Love The like said that virtous Valeria I could with to dye So my Clerentius knew not for whom I wish'd to dye That brave Burgundian Lady express'd the like modesty I will pass by him said she and never Eye him my Heart shall only speak to him for my Tounge it shall rather lose it self than unloosen it self to him A rare Expression of Affection shewed that young maid who seeing her Lover deprived of all means to enjoy her by the averness of his Father and understanding how he had resolved through discontent to take his Fortune beyond the Seas with a Religious Vow never to solicit any Womans Love for the space of five Years She though till that time she had ever born him respects with such discreet Secrecy and Reservedness as no Eve could ever discover her affection intended under a disguised habit to accompany him in his journey Cutting therefore her hair and taking upon her a Pages habit she came aboard in the same Ship wherein he was received and so continued during all that Sea Voyage by the help of that disguise and discolouring of her hair to her Lover altogether unknown And being now arrived at the Port at which they aimed this disguised Page beseech him that he would be pleased to accept of his service pretending that since his arrival he had heard of the Death of his dearest Friends and such as his livelihood relied on so as he had no means to support him nor in his present distress to supply him unless some charitable dispos'd Gentleman like himself would be pleased to take compassion of him and entertain him This exil'd Lover commiserating his Case took her into his service little imagining that his Page was his mistress But no doubt bore his late entertained servant more respect for the resemblance he concieved betwixt his Page and mistress Thus lived they together for a long time during which space she never discovered her self holding it to be to no purpose seeing he had taken a solemn vow as was formerly said that he would solicit no Womans love for such a time so as rather than he should violate his vow which by all likelyhood he would have done had he known who was his Page she chused to remain with him unknown expressing all arguments of diligence and careful observance that any master could possibly expect from his servant Hope â—â—ich lightâ—eth every burden and makes the most painful service a delightful solace sweetened the hours of her expectance ever thinking how one day those five years would be expired when she might more freely discover her love and he enjoy what he so much desired But Fate who observes no order betwixt youth and age nor reserves one compassionate tear for divided Loves prevented their hopes and abridge their joys by her premature death For being taken with a Quartan Fever she languished even unto death Yet before her end she desired one thing of her master in recompence of all her faithful service which was that he would be pleased to close up the eyes of his Page and receive from him one dying kiss and lastly to wear for his sake one poor Ring as a lasting memorial of his loyal love All which his sorrowful master truly performed but perceiving by the Posy of the Ring that his deceased Page
not fit to disturb thâ—m at their busâ—nâ—â—s lâ—st â—â—eâ— tâ—le Pet and grow angrâ— wiâ—h uâ—â—â—r prâ—ing into their concernâ— Besiâ—eâ— we have largely discourst on the sâ—vâ—râ—l Râ—â—kâ—â—f servâ—nts else where in this Work so that 't will be neâ—â—lâ—ss to add any thing fâ—râ—hâ—r here Scoundrel a sorry base â—â—lâ—o◠〈◊〉 secunde 〈…〉 the thrâ—e â—â—iâ—s wâ—â—râ—in an Infant lies while it is in the womb or when it coâ—â—â— into the worlâ— the sâ—cond or â—fâ—â—rbirth in Women in â—â—asts the Hâ—â—m 〈◊〉 Fr. â—vening muâ—icâ— at the doâ—â— or undâ—r the wiâ—â—â—â—â—f a lovâ—ly or bâ—lâ—vâ—â—â—â—â—â—â—ure 〈◊〉 we call a curâ—◠〈◊〉 a Shâ—â—w 〈◊〉 Sirenes from the â—r 〈…〉 Mermaides Alluring and â—empâ—ing women arâ— called Syrens Sodomy sodomiâ— burgâ—ry so calleâ— from thâ— Câ—ty Sâ—dâ—m in Juâ—â—â— which fâ—r thâ—t deâ—estaâ—le Sin was destroyed with fire from heaven Gen. 19. Sâ—â—dures soldurii wâ—re as 〈◊〉 â—â—ith in Gâ—uilâ—h language such kind of Mâ—n as destined and vowed themselves â—o the amity of any to take part in all their good and haâ—â—â—râ—uneâ— â—ooterâ—in a monsâ—â—r lâ—ke an unshaped Rat wâ—ich some women in Dutchland are said to have broughâ— forâ—h a the product of some preterâ—â—â—ural conception Cl. Poems Sâ—â—orâ—â—â—r Virgin Virgo Soâ—oriâ—ns a young maid whose Brâ—sts beâ—in to be round or 〈◊〉 out for shew â—pâ—â—â—â—er a term or addition in our Law-Diâ—lâ—ct given in evidences and Writâ—â—â—â—â— to a some â—â—le as it were câ—â—â—ing hâ—r 〈◊〉 end this is the oâ—â—ly â—â—â—â—â—ion fâ—r all â—nmarried â—omen from the Viâ—counts Daughter downward Spinâ—â—â—an from sâ—â—tâ—â—â—â— pertâ—ining to tâ—ose that â—eek out or invent new and monstruous actions of lust Spoâ—â—e sponsa a woman spoâ—sed or 〈◊〉 a â—ride or new married woman alâ—o from spâ—nsus a new married mâ—n Spouâ—age sponsalia the contract or betroning befâ—â—â—â—uâ—l mâ—â—riâ—ge Spurioâ—s spurius bâ—rn of a câ—â—mâ—â— woman that knows not his Father abâ—â—â—â—orâ— counâ—â—rfeit Step-mother so called because she steps in stead of a Mother by marrying the sons or daughters Fathers a Mother in Law Stews are those places where women of proâ—â—â—â—â—d incontinency proâ—â—er their bodies to all comers from the Fr. Estuve i.e. a Bath or Hot-house because waâ—â—ons are wont to pâ—epaâ—e or rather to purge themselves for those venerous acts by oâ—â—â—n bâ—thing and Hot-houses And that this is noâ— new Homer shews in the eight Book of his Odâ—sses where he reckons hot Bâ—thes among the esteminat◠〈◊〉 of pleasures Of these 〈◊〉 the Statue An 11. 〈…〉 1. As for the walking â—tensils attending these i◠〈◊〉 â—â—ey are neaâ—ly kept on 〈◊〉 to decoy poor â—â—wary youth and because they are not used upon all occasions they appear the more delectable to the Eâ—e geneâ—ally as soon as you enter the door of these Vicions â—wellings you 'l hear ruffling of Silks in sundry places for this iâ— their Policy by seeming modâ—â—â—â— to set a sharp edg on mens corrupt inclinations they 'll commonly â—ring you â—everal sorâ—s of Wine and salt Meâ—ts to relish the â—allate tho you give no order for the same for this is the Custome of these Houses tho a Chargable oneâ— that without a Peice spending you shall know liâ—â—le of their Practices They 'l 〈◊〉 their desires with a million of protiâ—ute Counâ—enances and Inticements bâ—t young â—â—n I beseech you look upon them rather as Companions â—or â—n Hospital and that they really stand more in need of â— Chirurgious aâ—quaintance than yours Fly from their Emâ—â—aces as you would from the Devil for they have many â—â—ys to delude sometimes to heighten your thoughts they 'l declare to you their â—â—â—th and Education and say that as the one was well Extracted so the other had occasioned much cost and expence that for their part they associate with none but Persons of Quality whose long Patience and Entreatments first procured a Familiarity and in fine freedom in the exercise of Love Aâ—â—airs and so will seemingly put you off upon that score the poor youth thinking that â—â—is not usual for them to admit of any to their Embraces but such whose long acquaintance has gain'd their Affections and are soon ruined These are the baits they lay for unthinking men who remember not what Solomon says that the Dead are there and that ber guest are tho depths of Hell Stole stola any Garment wherewith the Body is covered a Robe of honour Among the antient Romans it waâ— had in great reverence and hâ—ld as a Vâ—â—t or Badg of chastity hence that of Mâ—ntial liâ— 1. Qâ—â—s â—â—â—alia 〈…〉 Stolatum 〈…〉 pâ—dorem Stork Belg. a Bird famous fâ—r natural love toâ—ards his Parents whom he 〈◊〉 being old and iâ—potenâ— aâ— thâ—y â—â—d him being young The Egyptians so esteemed this Bird that there was a great penalty laid upon him that should kill him Sueda the goâ—dâ—sâ— of Eloquence or deâ—eâ—table speech among the Romans Succubus Lat. a Devil that sometimes in the shape of a Women lies with Men. See Incubus Sumptuary Laws are Laws made to refrain excess in apparel or cloathing Sunamite Heb dormines one sleeptug A worthy good woman of â—una that often entertained Eliseus the Prophet by whose Prayers she had a Son when by course of Nature she was pist hopes of any and afterwards had the same son raised from death to life by the same Eliseus 4 Kings Superfetation superfâ—tatio the conceiving an other after the first young is conceived a seâ— nâ— conceiving or the breeding of young upon young Susan Heb. Lilly or Rose Suzan in the Persâ—n Tongue signifies a Needle Swain Sax Swanz a Country Clown a Bumpkin a Freeholder or as the Saxons call'â— him a Bocland man Syllogism Syllogismus a most perfect kind of argument which gathers a necessary conclusion out of two prâ—miâ—â—es as thus 1. Every vice is odious 2. Uncleanness is a vice 3. Ergo Uncleanness is odius The first part of a Syllogism is called the Proposition or Major the second the Assumption or Minor and the third the Conclusion Sympathy sympathia natural consent or combination mutual passion affection or disposition Salacia The goddess of Water Salique Law Lex Salica is a Law whereby the Crown of France cannot be inherited by a woman cannot fall from the Lance to the Distaâ— as their saying is which Law one undertaking to prove out of Holy Writ urged that place of Matthew where 't is said Mark the Lillies which are the Arms of France and see how they neither Labour nor sâ—â—â— This Law they pretend was made by Pharanoâ—d their first King and that the words Siâ— aliqua so often mentioned gave it the name of Salique Law Others say it was named by Charles the Greâ— after his Conquests in German where the incontinency of the Women living about the Riveâ— Sala in the Country now called Misnia gave both occasâ— and name to this Law the words are these De terra â— Salica nulla portio haereditâ— malieri veniat sed advirâ— sexum reta terrâ— hâ—red it asâ— venia Selden Mr. Blunt Stall whimper A Bastard Saraband
and Adventures of Shepherds so that its Character must be simple its Wit easy the manners innocent the language pure the Expressions plain and the Discourse natural The Models to be proposed to write well in this sort of Poesy are Theocritus and Virgil. Secondly Satyr If says Dryden we take Satyr in the General signification of the word as it is used in all modern Languages for Invective 't is certain that 't is almost as old as Verse and through Hymns which are the Praises of God may be allow'd to have been before it yet the Defamation of others was not long after it The principal end of Satyr is to instruct the people by discrediting Vice It may therefore be of great Advantage in a state when taught to keep within bounds and is not as it often happens like a Sword â—n the hands of a Madman that runs a Tilt at all manner of Persons without any sort of distinction or reason It is more difficult to praise then to find fault yet the same delicacy of wit that is necessary to to keep the one from being fulsome is necessary to keep the other from being bitter Of all the ways that wisest men could find To mend the Age and mortify mankind Satyr well writ hath mâ—â—â— successful prov'd And cures because the remedy is Lov'd Thirdly There is a sort of Satyr among us which we call Lampoons which are dangerous sort of Weapon and for the most part unjust because we have no moral right on the Reputation of other men In these no Venome is wanting or decâ—oy consiâ—â—r'd The weaker Sex is their most ordinary Theme and the best and â—â—irest are sure to â—e most â—â—â—â—â—ely handled Among men â—â—â—se who are Prosperoâ—â—ly Uâ—â—â—â—â— are entituled to a Panegâ—â—ickâ— but afflicted Vertue is insolently stab'd with all manner of Reproaches We should have insisted longer here on the several sorts of Poetry but for want of Room we shall finish what is wanting on this subject in the secoâ—d part of this Dictionary T. TAbitha Acts 91.36 in the Syriac tabitha 1 a â—â— Buck. Tace 1. Hold peace hush be silent from tacâ—o to be siâ—ent and indeed it is a fit Nâ—me to admonish the fair Sex of silence Tamar 2 Sex 13.1.1 â— Palm Tree Thamasin or Thomasiâ— 1. â— Twin from Thomas in Mens Names Tempâ—rance â—1 Moderation â—â—berness or refraining from â—â—â—â—â—â—lity Tâ—â—odâ—cia 1. given of God Thâ—opâ—tia 1. a Friend of â—od Tadica a very Rich Araâ—â—â— Woman with whom â—â—â—â—omet the Impostor lived â—â— a Slave or Menial Servant â—â—en Sirgeus a Monk perswaâ—â— her in hopes of great â—â—ward to Marry Mahomes 〈◊〉 then being 50 years of â—ge when by the countenance â—â— her Wealth he spread aâ—â—oâ—d his pernicious Doâ—â—â—iâ—e Thamer Daughter in Law â—â— Judah the Patriarch who â—â—â—â—ingly deceived him by 〈◊〉 way side as he went to 〈◊〉 sheep-shearing by persoâ—â—â—ng a Harlot or Commonâ—oman because he had â—â—â—held from her his Son â—â—own up to years who â—â—ght to have been given to 〈◊〉 for a Husband Thamer the Daughter of Dâ—vid the King whose Chastity waâ— violaâ—ed by Aâ—non one of the Kings Sons he forcibly gaining his will of her by 〈◊〉 himself sick and procuring her to attend him in his Chamber which afterwards cost him his Life at the command of Absalonâ— at a Sheep-shearing Feast to which â—e had invited him and his â—â—ethren Tanaquiâ— otherwise called cicily who was sometimes Wife to the Elder Tarqâ—in she was a very prudent Woman and an Excellent Inventress of curious work especially in Embroideries of Purple and Gold and in memory of her Art a Royal Cloak of her working was hung up in the Tâ—â—ple of Fortune she also 〈◊〉 Coats and Vests entire and distributed theiâ— among young Soldiers and young Married Men as their Deserts appeared Tabitha otherwise called Dorcas whom our blessed Saviour raised from the Dead was no doubt a Woman of singular dexterity in curious Woâ—â—s with the Needle for there we find those who lament her death seem as much to grieve for the loss of her Art which must probably have dyed with her As for the Artist as appears by shewing 〈◊〉 curious Worâ—s and no douâ—â— commending them very highly as things rare and not to be parallel'd by any of her Sex of that Country or in those times Tarbâ—la the Bishop of Selâ—cia's Sister being much envyed by the Jews for her Zeal and Piety in promoteing the Christian Religion was by them accused for intending to poyson the Queen of Persia in revenge of her Brothers Death and being condemnèd the Magi one of them taken with her excellent Beauty promised to secure her Life if she would yield to his Lust but to preserve her Chastity she chose rather to dye and accordingly suffer'd with great courage and constancy Taygete Daughter of Atlas and Pleion one of the Pleiades on whom Jupiter begat Lacedemon Founder of Lacedemonia once a famous City in Greece Telesilla A famous Argine Lady by whose Counsel and Courage the Argiers beat the Lacedonians and freed their Country She was likewise excellent in Poetry so that she for these and other virtues had a Statue of her proportion set up in the City of Argos Tellus the Earth was by the Antients worshipped as a Goddess and Homer calls her the Mother of the Gods for the advantages she gives and affords to Mankind wherefore they Painted her with great Swelling Breasts and Naked Terphitchorie Accounted one of the Nine Muses to whom they attribute the keeping true tâ—ne and measure in dancing as also the Invention of Set Dances and was by the Ancients painted holding a Harp in her hand and other Musical Instruments lying at her Feet also a Garland or Caplet of flowers on her Head Tethys the Daughter of Caelum Sister to Vecta and Sâ—turn said to be married to Neptune Thetis another Fabled Goddess of the Sea who bore Achilles the famous Greek who did such wonders at the Siege of Troy Teudeguilde Daughter to a Sheperd but of such Excellent shape and beauty that Chariber for her sake refused all the great Ladies of the Court and Married her Theano Wife to Pythagoras a Woman of great Ingenuity and Learning but above all exceeding Chasâ—â—â— and Virtuous teaching Phylosophy after the death 〈◊〉 her Husband Thermis by Eusebius called Carmeâ—ta held to be the Daughter of Heaven and Earth aâ— the first that gave Oracles to the pagans and taught the Image Worship She is otherwise stiled the Goddess of Justice and is fabled thâ—t upon refusing to Marry â—upiter he forced her to 〈◊〉 Will and begot on her Justice Peace and Law Themistoclea a Famous Learned Virgin was Daughter to Mensarchus a Gold-smith of Samos Theodelinda a Queen of the Lumbards about 593. And after the Death of Authaeris heâ— Husband she kept the Crown and transferred it upon a second Husband viz. Agulphis she reduced the Lumbards into good order and made them renounce Aranisme yet sell her self afterward into Error
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