to a Senator of Venice although she had divers great Matches offered her Yet she Married a poor Gardiner saying She would Wed for Virtue and not for Riches and lived with him a Contemplative Life all her days Aristoclea a very Beautiful Lady being courted at once by Callisthenes and Strato the former being the Richer gained her by the Compulsion of her Parents and the latter endeavouring to take her away by force she by interposing to part them was killed whereupon Strato killed himself and Callisthenes went distracted Arsione Daughter to Ptolomy Lagos one of the Greek Kings that Governed Egypt she was first Marryed to Lâ—simachus Kind of Macedon and then to her Brother Ptolomy Coraunnus who murthered her two Children by Lâ—simachus and deposing her got the Kingdom of Macedon yet held it not long before he lost his Life Of which proceedings else where see more at larg Astrea held to be Daughter of Jupiter and Themis and is stiled the Goddess of Justice who in the Golden Age was sent from Heaven but that Age changing into Violence and Rapin and no regard being given to her she â—led back to Heaven and there holds the Ballances or the Sign Libra in the Zodiack Atalanta Daughter to Schoenus King of Scyros who for her nimbleness in running exceeded most of her Age and being very Beautiful she had many Suitors but resolved none should enjoy her but him that could out-run her upon condition that if she won the Race he should be put to death that undertook it this dashed many out of Countenance and many that she out-run were slain with Darts till Hippomanes praying at the Shrine of Venus for assistance had three Golden Apples given him which in the Race he threw divers ways and whilst she was heedful in gathering them he gained the Goal and had her to wife But afterward for desiling the Temple of Cyble in lying together under the Altar they are 〈◊〉 to be turned into a 〈◊〉 and Lyoness Ate held to be the Goddess of Strife and Envy who made it her business to set People at varience but from her Malice there an appeal to the Lites Daughters of Jupiter who restor'd People to Peace and Concord and prevented many Mischiefs that would otherwise have befallen them Atergatis a Goddess worshipped by the Ascolonities in the shape of a Mare-maid Artificial Beauty I do find that washing and painting is condemn'd in Holy Writ as the practice of loose licentious and lascivious Women who with the deforming of their Souls and polluting their Consciences do use the Art for embellishing their Countenances The New-Testament affirms we cannot make one hair of our head white or black and if we have neither the liberty nor are to assume the power to alter the Complexion of our hairs then muchless the complexion of our cheeks and faces St. Paul and St. Peter prescribed how Women should be clad that is with Modesty shamefac'dness and Sobriety and not with gorgerous Apparel or with braided Hair Gold or Pearls and if these things were forbidden how much more is washing or painting the Face So that this Artificial Beauty may appear to be divinely forbidden as an Enemy to Truth which needeth none but its own native Complexion and is so far from being beholding to Art for any addition to enliven her colour or to put a blush upon it but grant it were neither scandalously sinful nor absolutely unlawful yet the offence it giveth to the true and strict Professors of Piety is a sufficient Argument that it ought not to be practised Although many things may be permitted in themselves yet they become evil and are to be forborn when others are offended at them Neither is this all for the very name of a painted Face is enough to destroy the Reputation of her that useth it and exposeth her to all manner of Reproaches Upon reading of these Reflections upon Artificial Beauty methinks I hear some angry Lady saying I perceive this censorious Man hath been too busie with my Face and hath endeavoured to throw dirt on it because it hath been lately spotted in the fashion a fashion that hath as much innocence to plead for its excuse as custom for its authority Venus the Goddess of Beauty was born with a Motticella or natural Beauty-spot as if Nature had set forth a Pattern for Art to imitate You may see every day some little clouds over the face of the Sun yet he is not asham'd of his Attraction The Moon when she is at Full and shining in her greatest lustre hath in her Face some remarkable spots and herein is plac'd her chiefest glory as being in every thing inconstant but in this When I put on my Mask which is no more nor better than one great Patch you do commend me for it and will you be displeased with me for wearing a few black Patches which if they are cut into Stars do represent unto me whither I would go or if into little Worms whither I must go the one of them testifying in me the sense of my Vnworthiness to increase my Humility and the other the height of my Meditations to advance my Affections It is the unhappiness of the most harmless things to be subject to the greatest Misconstruction and on the same subject from whence others draw their suspicions of Curiosity to accuse our Pride we derive the greatest Arguments of discipline and instruction to defend our Innocence Nevertheless according to the obligation of my Duty to give you in all things Satisfaction I am determined to wear them no more Ausonius's Poem on the great Love that ought to be between a Man and his Wife 't is this which follows Ad Vxorem Live as we have liv'd still to each other new And use those names we did when we first knew Let the same Smiles within our Cheeks be read As were at first Let the day never come to see the change That either Time or Age shall make us strangec But as we first met let us ever be I thy young Man and thou a Girl to me To others though I seem like Nestor old And thou more years hast then â— Cumana told Sib. Times snow we will Cuman not see though it appears 'T is good to know our Age not count our Years Such I must confess Husbands ought to be to their Wives and Wives to their Husbands but they are seldom found in these days B. BArbara She that is strange inhumane or of a strange tongue and unknown Bathsheba 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bathshebang 2 Sam. 11.3 â— the Daughter of an Oath Bathshua 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bathshuang 2 Chron. 3.2 v. 5. the Daughter of crying or a Rich Noble and Liberal Mans Daughter Bauris perhaps pleasant from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ibid. Grae. Beatrice â— blesâ—ed from â—eo to bless Bener or Benedicta Blessed Benigna i. kind courteous bounteous Bertha i. bright or famous Bilhah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gen. 29.29 i. old or
of Epigrams an Elegy upon her Husbands death and other Verses of various kinds and subjects Cleobule or Cleobuline the Daughter of Cleobulus Prince of Lindus she is particularly noted for her faculty in Aenigmatical Sentences or Riddles Corrina a Theban Poetess who wrote Five Books of Epigrams and is said to have been five times Victress over Pindarus Besides her there were two others of the same name namely Corinna the Thessuzin and Corinna the Roman Lady whom Ovid much admired Carnificia a Roman Epigrammatick Poetess Cassandra Fidele a Venetian Lady She write a Volumâ— of Latin Poems of various subjects and kinds Catherine Philips the most applauded Poetess of our Nation her Fame is of a fresh and lively date from the but late publisht Volume of her Poetical Works Churlo Sax. Ceorle a Country Clown a Bumpkin in the North a Carle Chiromanter Chiromantes a Palmester or one that tells fortunes by the lines of the hand Cloris The Goddess of Flowers called also Flora. Chorus Lat. a Company of Singers or Dancers a Quire The singing or musick between every Act in a Tragedy or Comedy In a Comedy there are four Accessory parts viz. 1 The Argument 2 Prologue 3. Chorus 4. Mimick Of all which the Tragedy hath only the Chorus Chrisome a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies properly the white cloth which is set by the Minister of Baptism upon the head of a Child newly Anointed with Chrism after his Baptism Now it is vulgarly taken for the white cloth put about or upon a Child newly Christened in token of his Baptism wherewith the woman used to shrowd the Child if dying within the Month otherwise it is usually brought to Church at the day of Purification Chrisomes in the Bills of Mortality are such Children as die within the Month of their Birth because during that time they use to wear the Chrisom cloth Cabaline fountain of the Muses Calivate caelibatus single life the state of Man or Woman unmarried Herb. H. 8 Care-cloth According to the use of the Church of Sarum when there was a Marriage before Mass the parties kneel'd together and had a fine Linnen cloth called the Care-cloth laid over their heads during the time of Mass till they received the Benediction and then were dissmissed Caresse Fr. a cheering cherishing welcoming making much of Carnaval Fr. Shrovetide also a Licentious or Dissolute Season Castalian-Well a fountain at the foot of Parnassus sacred to the Muses taking the name of Castalia a Virgin who as Poets fain flying from the Leacherous God Apollo fell down headlong and was turned into this fountain Rider Catamite Catamitus a Boy hir'd to be abused contrary to Nature a Ganymede Ceruse Cerussa White-lead often used by Chyrurgeons in Ointments and Plaisters It is with Painters a principal white Colour and hath been and is still much used by Women in painting their Faces whom Martial in his merry vein scoffeth saying Cerussata timet Sabella solem Cest Cestus A Marriage-girdle full of studs wherewith the Husband girded his Wife at the Wedding and which he loosed again the first Night Chaperon Fr. a French-Hood for a Woman also any Hood or Bonnet mentioned in the Stat. 1 R. 2.7 Chaplet Fr. Chapelet a Wreath Garland or attire for the Head made of Gold Pearl or other costly or curious stuff used to be fastned behind in manner of a folded Roul or Garland Cully Fop or one that may easily be wrought upon Concubinage Concubinatus the keeping of a Whore for his own filthy use an unlawful Use of another Woman instead of one's Wife In Law it is an Exception against her that Sues for her Dowry whereby it is alledged that she was not a Wife lawfully married to the Party in whose Lands she seeks to be endowed but his 〈◊〉 Confarreation Confarreatio the solemnizing a Marriage a Ceremony used at the Solemnization of a Marriage in token of most firm Conjunction between Man and Wife with a Cake of Wheat or Batley This Ceremony is still retain'd in part with us by thâ—â— which we call the Bride-cake used at Weddings Continency Continentia a refraining of ill Desires or more strictly a restraining from all things delightful that hinde Perfection Copulation Copulatio â— coupling or joining it was one of the three ways of betrothing Marriage in Israel See Moses and Aaron p. 231. Coquettery Fr. the prattle or twattle of a pert Gossip or Minx Coral or Corral Corallum There are two principal forts hereof the one white the other red but the red is best It grows like a Tree in the bottom of the Sea green when under the Water and bearing a white Berry and when out turns red It is cold and dry in Operation good to be hang'd about Childrens Necks as well to rub their Gums as to preserve them from the Falling sickness Coranto Ital. Corranta a French running Dance also a News-book Corrivals Corrivales they who have Water from or use the same River And Metaphorically a Competitor in Love or they that Love one and the same Woman Culâ—â—riches Man eyes you Coverture Fr. signifies any thing that covers as Apparel a Coverlet c. In Law it is particularly apply'd to the Estate and Condition of a married Woman who by the Laws of the Realm is in potestate viri under Coverture or Covert-Baron and therefore disabled to make any bargain or contract without her Husband's consent or priviry or without his Allowance or Confirmation Brook hoc titulo per totum Courtesan Fr. Courtesane a Lady Gentlewoman or Waiting-woman of the Court also but less properly a professed Strumpet a famous or infamous Whore Courtesie of England Lex Angliae is used with us for a Tenure For if a Man marry an Inheritrix seiz'd of Land in â—ee-simple or in Fee-tail general or as Heir in Tail special and gets a Child of her that comes alive into the World though both it and his Wife die forthwith yet if she were in Possession he shall keep the Land during his Life and is call'd Tenant by the Courtesie of England Crabbat Fr. is properly an Adjective and signifies comely handsom gracious But it is often used Substantively for a new fashioned Gorget which Women wear or a Riding-band which Men wear Curranto ab 〈◊〉 illue currendo Fr. Courante a running Dance a French-dance different from what we call a Country-dance Corkney or Corkneigh apply'd only to one born within the sound of Bow-Bell that is within the City of London which Term came first according to Minshaw out of this Tale A Citizens Son riding with his Father out of London into the Country and being utterly ignorant how Corn grew or Cattle increased asked when he heard a Horse neigh what he did His Father answer'd The Horse doth neigh Riding further the Son heard a Cock crow and said Doth the Cock neigh 〈◊〉 Hence by way of Jeer he was call'd Cookneigh Min. A Cockney according to some is a Child that Sucks long But Erasmus
Infantes and the Heir Principe of the Latin Infans a Child Innocents-Day or Childermas-day a Feast celebrated on the 28 th of December in memory and honour of those innocent Children Herod slew not long after our Saviours Nativity when he sought for Christ himself thinking to destroy him Interlude interludium a Play or Comedy Iurden or Iordan matella a double Urinal or Chamber-pot K. KAtharine perhaps Pure Chast Undefiled from Katharos Gr. Keturah Gen. 25. sweet Perfume or Incense Kinburga i. e. the Strength or a Defenderess of her Kindred Kinulpha i. e. the Help or Stay of her Kindred Ketura Abraham the Patriarch's Wife he marryed her to Comfort him after the Death of Sarah and though he was very old he had divers Sons by her who growing up encreased so well under the Blessing promised their Father that their Posterity became great and mighty Nations many of which bore their Names Kisomena an Indian Queen who always lead her Armies in Person to Battel and usually by means of her Courage and Conduct returned with Success so that the greatly enlarged her Borders Kiosem an imperious Sultaness of Turkey she was Wife to Achmet the Turkish Emperor and Mother to Sultan Ibrahim who when her Son came to the Throne she by the Party she had made among the great ones not only governed him but the whole Empire he minding his Women in the Seraglio more than the Publick Affairs being the most devoted to the Pleasures of Venus of all the Turkish Emperors but for ravishing the Musti's Daughter he was by the Soldiers whom the Conspirators had gained to their Party the Queen-mother consenting to it because he had a little before for reproving him Confin'd her to the old Seraglio and being Imprisoned he was soon after strangled and his Son Mahomet the fourth a Child succeeded him in the Empire over whom Kiosem governed as Regent of the Empire placing and displacing the great Officers as she pleased putting divers to death that stood in her way but at length the Mother of young Mahomet encouraged thereto by the Janizaries took Heart to oppose her Proceedings making a Party against her so that many Mischiefs happened in the Empire during the Contests the Janizaries or Foot-men being for the young Queen and the Spahi's or Horsemen for the old During these Bickerings many great Heads went off to appease the one side or the other but at last the young Queen's Party became too strong for the old so that taking an Opporunity in the Night Sians Bassa Grand Visier entered Kiosem's Apparment with a Guard and found her hid in a Chest under some Bales of Silk from whence not without much difficulty they dragged her to Prison and got the young Emperor to Sign her Execution and accordingly she was strangled Kirchief from the Fr. Couverchief i.e. to Cover the Head a Linnen-Cloth that old Women wear on their Heads and hence Handkerchief though improperly Kersey Kerserye and Karsaye a kind of Stuff or flight Cloth Gods Kichel a Cake given to God-children at their asking Blessing Kichin a little Child Kitt a Milking-pail like a Churn Kyachin Morts Kynchin Morts are Girls of an Year or two old which the Morts their Mothers carry at their backs in Slates or Sheets if they have no Children of their own they will steal or borrow them from others Kissing Pliny in his Natural History faith that Cato was of Opinion that the use of Kissing first began betwixt Kinsman and Kinswoman howsoever near allied or far off only by that to know whether their Wives Daughters or Neeces had tasted any Wine to this Juneral seems to allude in these Verses Paucae adeo cereris vitas contingere dignoe Quaram non timeat pater oscula As if the Father were jealous of his Daughters Continence if by Kissing her he perceived she had drunk Wine But Kissing and Drinking both are now grown it seems to a greater Custom amongst us than in those dayes with the Romans Nor am I so austere to forbid the use of either both which though the one in Surfets the other in Adulteries may be abused by the Vicious yet contrarily at Customary Meetings and laudable Banquets they by the Nobly disposed and such whose Hearts are fixt upon Honour may be used with much Modesty and Continence Kissing among other Incitements to Love is not the least Charming to Kiss and to be Kissed where there is a pariety or equality of Comliness is as a Burden in a Song a Battery very forcible that makes a Breach in the Fort for Love to enter it Insuses a Kind of a spirit that generates Affection Aretines Lucretia when she designed to overcome and put Chains upon her Admirers took them about the Neck and with her soft Lips tenderly pressed theirs often repeating it with pleasing Murmurs Intermixed with kind Expressions as O my dear how pleasing are you to my Eyes how I doat upon you c. And by this means she made them speedily and willingly Condenscend to what she desired moving thereby the inmost part of their Souls with her Nectoral and Ambrosial Kisses And these says another Change Hearts and mingle Affections in the raptures of their sweet Kisses they producing rather a Connexion of the Mind than the Body The Rose and Gilliflower are not so sweet As sugar'd Kisses when kind Lovers meet Kissing and Embracing are proper to Men and Women and worthy of Commendation when they are decently and modestly observed but when unseasonable and too violent not to be approved because they tend more to Lasciviousness than pure Affection and indeed often end in that for when you come to such Kind of close and often repeated Kissing you have passed the long Entry of other Ceremonies and are come to the Gate of the Pallace of Enjoyment as the Poet somewhat describes though a little Lamely With Becks and Nods he first began To try the Wenches mind And Answer he did find And in the dark he took her by the hand And wrung it hard and sighed grieviously And Kiss'd her too and woo'd her as he might With pity me my sweet or else I dye And with such Words and Kisses as there past He won his Mistress favour at the Last Kindness finds out many allurements to bring Kissing in Winks Nods Jests Smiles Tokens Valentines and the like are Introductions though many seem Coy and protest against Love Kisses yet press them to it and as Experience satisfies us you 'll find but a feeble Resistance She seems much Coy but won she is at length Women in this strife use but half their Strengh Kisses are Coveted by most however some seem averse to them yet many there are that lie open and are most Tractable and Coming Apt Yielding and willing drawing back and then half meeting to strengthen the Temptation and heighen the delight Some have more Art in it than others Insensibly to draw on their Lovers to play and dally and when they spy
faith which by a sacred vote should in reason and religion have admitted no blemish unto death Yet if you shall find a reâ—eâ—â—ting disposition in them do not aggravate your wrongs by too bitter an expression of them The confession of a wrong should beget in you an indulgent â—mile if not a parson Tiara Lat. a round Ornament for the head which Princes Prâ—â—â—â—â— and women of old time wore Hence we still call it a tire for a womans head and a tiring-tiring-woman It is sometimes used for the Popes triple Crown Terrestrial Paradise the place where God framed so â—â—ble a Creature as Woman with remarks upon the Vâ—i â—â— and Affection that is betwixt Man and 〈◊〉 God was pleased to make Woman of Man to shew the Vnion and Affection that ought to be in Matrimony or to admonish Women to acknowledge with Obedience the cause of their Being He made choice of the Rib taken from the left side to advertise us that Woman ought to be the Heart of Man not the Head or that it was taken from Aâ—am in the making of so fair â— Creature that if she committed any fault it might be â—â—puted as well to him because done by a part of himself new framed and moulded into the beautifullest Object of the lower Creation Terrestrial Paradise was the place where God formed so noble 〈◊〉 Creature as Woman but 〈◊〉 for the Man he was Created 〈◊〉 in the Field of Damasâ—us 〈◊〉 some hold it but we all â—â—ree he was not Created in Paradise but brought thiâ—â—her after he was made and 〈◊〉 that means she surpasied â—im in the Nobility of the Place of her Birth God 〈…〉 for the mor expeditious population of the World could have made meâ— only in multitudes bâ—â— divine Wisdom considered more harmony love and joy in this difference of Sex Woman was made as we may not unaptly say upon the second thought and therefore the more refined and excellent and that Love and Peace and Concord should the better be observed he so ordained it that the whole Race that in after days was to spread over the face of the Earth should descend from one Father and one Mother to be the nearer allied Scarce was Adam released from the soft opression of sleep when the beautiful Object met his Eyes the observing admiring and loving her was in him but as one act done in one and the same time she carrying in her Face such singular Endowments that not to appropriate them to himself would have been the Effects of stupidity rather than prudence Beauty has so strange a Virtue and witt hath a sweet and pleasing Tyranny that it Introduceth subjection into the noblest minds and the most couragious breast so that Adam no doubt contemplated this fair Object with wonder and admiration he observed in her a gravity so full of tenderness that compelled him to esteem and highly value her Golden hair waveing by the gentle breath of Winds on her Ivory Shoulders and her sparkling Eyes that had mounting Fires in them with the sight of the Roses and Lillies striving in her lovely Cheeks for Mastery could not but captivate his hearts and make him stoop to Love whilst on the other side her Eyes were no less ravished with the delights that every where surrounded her but most of all with the comely shape and manly form of him from whom she was taken and who 's partner she was created to be and after eager gazing and shooting the beams of their Eyes into each other Souls the Tongue broke forth and flowed in streams of ardent Expressions and love Passions He knew by an instinct of Nature that she must be certainly a part of himself that had such an attracting power to draw him so forcibly to her he called her his joy content and delight summing up all his desires in her and to be brief Women have derived from Heaven so sweet a Tyranny in their Faces that the denying them the subjection of Hearts is thought by some unreasonable however we must allow him either to be defective as to his Manhood or indued qualities superior to the commanding standard of the World that can at all times resist the Charms of Female Beauty Thus becoming more intimately acquainted clad in their native Innocence nakedness was to them no shame because not guilty of shame whilst they stood firm and high in the savour of the Almighty in whose peculiar care they were hand in hand they walked the fairest couple that ever were produced on Earth and no doubt he showed her the interdicted Tree of Knowledge and warned her to beware she tasted and by her disobedience forfeited her happy state told her the penalty perhaps better unknown to her for if it was in her nature then as it certainly is in the nature of many of her Daughters since the prohibition might raise in her an Appetite of coveting for denyal adds a spur to their desires ardent enough in all things but many times insatiable in that which is most denyed Pardon us Ladies for this bold truth though we do not allow it to extend to all and we appeal to you if in many particulars in this case you concur not with us This Fair Creature the we may suppose transported with the prohibition grew more curious and inquisitive into the reason and nature of it which mainly assisted the Devil in fastning his temptation for it is the opinion of the best Divines and with them we agree that Satan has no power to compell the mind to Evil but in bringing about his purposes is ashifted by our weakness and Inclinations to gratify our inordinate desires and affections and that he might the better prevail upon her it appears he watched his opportunity masqueraded in the disguise of a Serpent to take her alone destitute of the Council and Advice of her Husband and so the Temptation easily working when her own Inclinations met it half sway for she it seems like many Women of our times covering to be more wise than heâ— circumstances required meerly fool'd her self into the greatest of Follies and madness that ever was acted in the World losing for the sake of an Apple and the knowledge of Evil for good she knew before though not the fatal difference between them her self and all her Posterity becoming of a fair and lovely Innocent a miserable wretched Criminal which loss nothing but the rich redeeming blood of God shed in compassion to our frailties could in any degrees restore all the Angels Arch-Angels Cherubims and Seraphins combining their power in one were uncapable of paying this single forfeiture none but the Lyon of the Tribe of Judah was none but the Lamb slain from the Foundation of the World which commenced in the Promise given though he dyed not actually then was found worth to take the Book out of the hand of him that sat on the Throne and able to open the Seals thereof to work out the stupen lions mastery of Mans
Compendium all the visible Perfections of the Creation In her native simplicity she glittered with Rays and Charms that dazled all Eyes Nothing so salvage or untam'd that did not pay an Homage to her conquering Beauty She needed no other Ornament than the lustre which flow'd from her untainted Vertue How comes it to pass that she has lost her Diadem and secks in vain to regain the shatter'd remnants of her former Glory by borrowing from every Triffle some counterfeit perfection to set her off You are but the Milleners Machin joyned together by Chambermaids officious hands A meer Chaos of needless Manufactures jumbled into the perfect Figure of a Woman The Lady that had first occasion'd Madam Natures surprize and all this Discourse had not patience to hear any more but looking on her Watch that was attach'd to her Crochet made her Revoir to the Company excusing her abrupt departure by telling them 't was time to go to the Play-house Upon which the young Fry of Top-knots buttonning up their Mouths in a most charmant manner begg'd of her Ladiship to vindicate the common Cause against this Clownish old Beldame that had made such a Coil about their Habiliments for they had got that modish word by the end too The Lady fond of the Character of a good Natur'd Woman took up the Cudgels and turning to Dame Nature spoke to her after this manner Prithee don't trouble thy head old Gentlewoman said she about the present Mode the World is grown more refin'd and polite since your Youthful days Women are not mew'd up in the Nursery as in Queen Elizabeth's time but have Liberty of Conversation we are more Eveille as I may say than formerly wean'd from the Winter tales of the Chimney Corners and learning the Modes abroad and Customs of more civiliz'd Matrons We had been absolutely barbarous had it not been for the Conquest of the Romans And we should be little amended now were it not for the Neighbourhood of the more accomplish'd French I am in love with that genteel Nation may Foy. Truly said Horaclitus laughing you are much in the right on 't I ever said the fondness of our English Women would make us Slaves to France nothing but French will go down with us We Eat Drink and Sleep in plain English but we manage the rest of our Actions in French We Love and Hate A. la-mode de Paris We walk talk dance and Sing A-la-mode de Paris In fine we do all things en Cavalier or A-la-mode de Paris Tomboy a girl or wench that leaps up and down like a boy comes from the Saxon tumbe to dance and tumbod danced hence also the word tumbling still in use Trepon or Trapon from the Ital. Trappare or trappolare i. e. to entrap or in a gin in the modern acceptation signifies to cheat or entrap in this manner a whore admitts a man to be naught with her and in the very instant rings a Bell or gives a watch-word and and in comes a Pander who pretends to be her husband and with vapour and threats forces money or bond from the dâ—lude third person Some take this word to be derived from a Pander that does entrap or a trapping Pander The brand of one convict for any Fellony save Murder and having the benefit of Clergy Tabouret f. a pin-case also a childs low stool Priviledge of the Tabouret f. for some great Ladies to fit in the Queens Presence Tail general limited to a man and his Issue by any Wife Tail special limitted to a man and his wise and the Heirs of their particular Bodies Tant me fait mal departir da ma dame f. So much it grieves me to part with my mistress Tarpeia a maid that betrayed the Capitol to the Sabines for their bracelets who adding their shields too prest her to death Tarqinnius Sextus ravishing Lucretia caused the extirpation of Kingly Government Mr. Cole Tullus l. the Goddess of the Earth Tenebrion l. a night-walker Tethys a Goddess of the Sea Tetch o. a fashions also a stain Thalassion l. a Nuptial song among the old Romans Thalestris an Amazon Queen who went 30 days Journey to meet Alexander Thalia one of the Muses Themis a Goddess of Justice Theodosin the feminine of Theodocis Thetis a Nymph of the Sea Thomytis Queen of Scyâ—hia who threw the head of cyrus into a tub of blood saying Satia te san gaine Cyre Timon a sour Athenian hating all company Tithing a Society of ten families bound for one anothers good behaviour Tithonus ravisht by Aurora into Aethopia and turn'd at last into a Grasshopper Tour frezetle f. curles for womens foreheads Transection â—xion a turning from one sex to another Transeminate to pass from woman to man Transport a rapture of mind Petit-Treason when a Servant Wife or Priest kill their Master Husband or Ordinary Tricliniarch g. the usher of the Dining room Trigamist e. having three wives Trigeminous l. threesold twins Trull I. a vile Harlot also to trundle Ss. Turttle-Dove a small kind of mournful Pidgeon living alway single after the Mates death Tutelina a Goddess protecting Corn. Tutaa a Vestal Virgin who to clear her self carried water in a Sieve Tabes Dorsalis a Consumption in the spinal Marrow most incident to Lechers and fresh Bride-grooms they are without a Fever eat well and melt or consume away If you ask one in this Disease an account of himself he will tell you that there seem so many Pismires to fall from his Head down upon his spinal Marrow when he eases Nature either by Urin or Stool there flows then liquid Seed plentifully nor can he generate but when he sleeps whether it be with his Wife or no he has lascivious Dreams When he goes or runs any way but especially up a steep place he grows weak and short breathed his Head is heavy and his Ears tingle So in progress of time being taken with violent Fevers he dies of a Fever called Lyperia Dr. Blankard Telesilla a Noble Poetess of Argos who upon consulting the Oracle about her health being advis'd to betake her self to the Study of the Muses grew in a short time so excellent that animated by the charming power of her Verse the Argive Women under her conduct were able to repel Cleomenes the Spartan King from the Seige of Argos Theano a triple female name of considerable repute in Poetry The first of this Name was Theano Locrensis or Native of the City Locri and Sirnamed Melita from the exact Melody to which all Her Lyric Airs and Songs were compos'd The second a Cretan Poetess and by some delivered to have been the Wise of Pythagoras The third Theano Thuria or Metapontina said to have been the Wise of Carystius some say Brantinus of Crotona and the Daughter of the Poet Lycophron they are all three mentioned by Suidas Thymele a Musical Poetess remembered by Martial Tongue How to govern it Furnished is not the Eye with more Objects than Invention supplies the
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
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
to this first Question There 's no such want of Man yet thanks to our French and Irish Enemies that you Ladies should be in such great haste to yield at the first Appearance of a Foe What if you are Cowards at Heart as Mrs. Raysin in her Breeches 't is however decent not to hang out the White Flag 'till the Cannon be drawn down besides you 'll get better Conditions if the Enemy does not know how weak you are within Forgive Ladies all this Warlike Gibberish for we had been just reading the Gazer and can't easily get out on 't But to be less figurative in plain Truth and English as we have often told you there 's little Faith in us Men and perhaps less Generosity and but very few of us can bear such a Favour 'T is e'ne too luscius Fare as was said before of Kisses for a Hungery Lover who ten to one will Surfeit upon 't and in a little while will naufeat the Giver Feast and all Not but that could the Ladies be sure of their Lovers Hearts that will whip you about like Jack-a-Lents a Mile in a Minute could ye but know your Man once and had you the good Fortune to light upon a Generous Lover as great a Phenix as the Eel among the Sack of Snakes c. you know the Story in such a Case the less Ceremony the better except the grand one of the Ring and Sack-posset and he must be proportionably the better as he is the happier Lover being surpriz'd into Bliss and the mighty Joy heapt upon him before he 's aware on 't And besides all the World knows as well as Seneca that a Benefit is so much the greater by how much the more unexpectedly and speedily 't is conferr'd All the Fear here Ladies is least Love should put a Cheat upon you infect you with his own Blindness and make you take the Lovers for as errant Angels as they do you and be perhaps both alike mistaken However t'other side we look upon to be much the safer as the World now is and that 't wou'd do best to keep the Hounds at a Bay for some convenient time which will make 'em more eager and when they do fasten more in earnest But for this piece of the Art of Love as is before said we believe Women need little Instruction since tho' you were all as Innocent as Eve in Paradise you 'd have the Wit to Answer your Lovers as she did our great Grand-father Who even before she knew she was Naked cou'd tell Adam unless Mr. Dryden slanders her You long should Court and we should long Deny Quest. 2. If our Lovers Sing to us whether we ought to Praise ' em Answ. There seems no great matter in 't of one side or t'other but o' th' two 't is more Civil to Praise 'em than otherwise since if they Sing Well you ought to do it out of Gratitude if Ill out of Pity if not Justice too since if they know it themselves you are â—till the more Oblig'd to 'em when they have so much Complaisance to expose even their own Imperfections to gratifie your desires O' t'other side if they have a little of the Sir Courtly in 'em and think to stop the Fair Thief that has truss'd up a certain little foolish Heart of theirs and run away with it if they think to stop it with their own howling Hue and Cry and perswade themselves that they sing like Bowman himself when perhaps they Sing and Dance too like the Witches in Mackbeth or Scaramouch a Serenading his Mistress in this Case we think most of all a good Humour'd Lady wou'd comment 'em for 't is the only kindneâ—â— Nature has shown the poor Creatures to give 'em a good Opinion of their own pretty Parts for fear if they knew their true Character as well as others do they shou'd hanâ— themselves out of the way But then for the Way of Praising which the greatest Wâ—â— and those who have done it best tell us is the Nicest thing in the World and this Ladies you know how to do the best of any That way of Praising a Lover which would please him best is letting him take his own Commendatiâ—â— and Reward at once from thâ— pretty Mouth which can 〈◊〉 way more obligingly Praise him or if the poor Icarâ—â— must not rise so high for fear of melting his Wings a soft grasp of a fine Hand a twirl of the Eye a turn of the Head and a thousand other pretty insignificant Nothings which you Women call Favours will be sufficient to make the happy Lover believe you are pleas'd with him and almost set him out of his little Wits for Joy Quest. 3. What is the handsomest way of puting off a Lover Answ. Were it not more for the Ladies sake than the Lovers we 'd not meddle with this Question for we think 't is as desperate a piece of Service as for the Garrison oâ— a Fort to Act its way thro' an Enemy's Army In a word 't is almost an impossible thing for a Lady so to deny a Lover as to please him for as 't is wittily said of a very Ingenious Person in the Case of Rivals We are all Ishmaelites to one another if a Woman 's in the Case so ten to one but a Lady gets an Enemy when she refuses a Lover who is generally so unreasonable an Animal that he does not consider One poor Woman can suffice at once but for one Man whereas if a Fam'd Beauty or Fortune she can never content all Pretenders unless she had as many Bodies as she has Faces when she looks in a Multiplying Glass But tho a Woman of Prudence can't satisfie her Lovers she may herself by doing what becomes her however they resent it Our Advice then for her Behaviour is as to the swarm of Fools that buz about her e'ne to let 'em alone to pretend on since they think too well of themselves to believe she scorns or refuses 'em tho' they were he're so often told so by her own Mouth But if there be any Person of Sense Generosity and true Worth who appears to be really in Love with her when her Heart is before engag'd we think she 'd do very handsomly to let him know as much in as Obliging Terms as possible that he might as soon as he cou'd wean himself from a Fruitless Amour Quest. 4. How shall we most decently give our Consent in Marriage Answ. For the Time what has been said of Widows may be partly apply'd to 't as well as what has been said in Answer to the first Question For the manner there are a Thousand which a witty Woman cannot be to seek in and whatever way 't is done a Passionate Lover will scarce find fault with 't However the less formal 't is we think it the better the more unexpectedly the more frankly 't is done the more Obliging it must needs be Quest. 5. Suppose a Man and Woman were
a thing common to all they Solace the incommodiousness of 〈◊〉 Age closes our Eyes bringâ— us to the Earth from wheâ—â— we came They are our Bones our Flesh and Blood seeing them we see our selves in 〈◊〉 sort that the Father seeing 〈◊〉 Children may be assured 〈◊〉 he seeth his lively Youth â— newed in the Face of theâ— But if we do we consider and weigh in a 〈◊〉 Ballance the great and unâ—â—â—portable doings we shall 〈◊〉 amongst these Roses 〈◊〉 Thorns and among theâ— Sweet Showers of 〈◊〉 that there falleth alwayâ— much Hail it is true the Athenians are a People 〈◊〉 commended for their Prudenâ— and Wisdom seeing that 〈◊〉 Husbands and Wives could 〈◊〉 agree because of an infinit number of Dissentions and Provocations that chanced ordinarily between them were coâ—â—trained to ordain in their Common wealth several Magistraâ—â—â— whom they called Reconcilers of Married ones the Office of whom is to Reduce Reconcile and make Agreement by 〈◊〉 means The Spartans in their Common-Wealth had in like case Established certain Magi strates Named Armasins who had the charge to Correct the Insolency of Women to Reprove their Arrogancy and Audacity towards their Husbands The Romans would not ordain Magistrates perswading with themselves per adventure that Men were not sufficient to bridle the unbridled raging Temerity of Women when that they were out of Order But they had their Refuge to the Gods For they Dedicated a Temple to the Goddess Viripla where in the end they agreed of their Domestical Quarrels But who can say they patiently bear the charges of Marriage the Insolency and Arrogancy of Women the yoke of a kind so unperfect Who may accomplish their carnal appetite is also their unsatiable Pomps â—oth not the Old Greek Proverb say that Women and â—hips are never so well accomplished but that alwayes they â—ant Repairing If thou takest â—er poor she shall be despised â—â—d thy self less esteemed If â—ou takest her rich thou makâ—st thy self a Bond-slave For â—hinking to Marry a Companiâ—n equal to thee thou Marriest â—n unsupportable Mistress If â—ou takest her soul thou 〈◊〉 not love her If thou â—kest her fair it is an Image â— thy gate for to bring thee â—ompany Beauty is a Tower that is Assailed of all the World and therefore it is very hard to keep that every one seeketh to have the Key behold the hazard wherein thou art saith William de la Perreire that thy round-round-head become not forked which were a fearful Metamorphosis if it were visible and apparent This then is the Conclusion Riches causeth a Woman to be Proud Beauty maketh her suspected and Deformity or foulness causeth her to be hated Therefore Diponares having tasted the Martyrdoms of Marriage said That there were but two good days in all the Life of Marriage the one was the Wedding day and the other the day that the Woman dyeth For that on the day of Marriage there is made good Cheer the Bride is fresh and new and all Novelties are Pleasant and of all Pleasures the beginning is most delectable The other day that he commends to be good is the day the Woman dyeth For the Beast being dead dead is the poyson and by the death of the Woman the Husband is out of Bondage and Thraldom Ceremonies before Marriage The Persians were only permitted to contract Matrimony in or before the Summer Equinoctial but not after The Dapsolites once a Year make a solemn Convention of all the Men and Women that are dispos'd to Marriage in one day in which after their great Feast the Women retire themselves and lay them down upon their several Pallets the Lights being all put out the Men according to their number are admitted in the dark where without any premeditate Choice but meer Lot and Chance every Man chuseth her whom he first lights on and Divirginates her and be she fair or foul ever holds her as his Wife Stobre Serm. 42. Amongst the Carmanians no Man is suffer'd to marry before he hath presented the Head of an Enemy to the King About the Lake Meotes there is a People called Laxamatâ—e amongst whom no Virgin contracts Matrimony before she hath subdu'd an Enemy There is a Law amongst the Armenians that Virgins are first prostituted in an old Temple dedicated to the Goddess Anetes whose Picture was of solid Gold which Antonius after sacrilegiously as they held it took away according to the gain of their Compression it was lawful for any Man to chuse a Wife where he pleas'd Amongst the Câ—prians the Virgins before Marriage daily repair to the Sea â—hoar and there company with Strangers till they have got such a competent Sum as maâ— make up their Marriage Doweâ— The Phoenicians do the like iâ— the City of Syca but thâ—â— Prostitution is in the Temple of Venus the Surplusage thâ— ariseth above the Dower returns towards the Repairing oâ— the Church The Carthagiâ—nians observe the like Custom The Lydian Virgins befoâ—â— they were suffer'd to lie wiâ—â— their Husbands made themâ—selves for a certain time comâ—mon to any Man till 〈◊〉 with Saciety they became genâ—tle and quiet to their Beds 〈◊〉 from that time forward vowâ— Chastity but if any one 〈◊〉 found ever after to transgâ—â—â— the bounds of Temperance she was punished with all Riâ—gour and Cruelty Aeâ—â—â—â—ib 4. de Var. Hist. Lycurâ—â— having prescribed a certain Agâ— before which time it was 〈◊〉 lawful for young Men 〈◊〉 Maids to have Carnal company being demanded the reason â—â—â—swer'd Because the issue 〈◊〉 proceeds from those of Raâ— Years and grown Strength 〈◊〉 likewise able and perfect 〈◊〉 the hasty and untimely Geâ—â— ration is still subject to Weâ— ness and Infirmity Plutâ—â— in Lacon Ceremonies used in Mâ—â—â—riage by several Nations In the Roman Marriages whâ— commenc'd with Contracts mutually Sealed and Signâ— with the Signets of divers Wâ—â—â—nesses there present there weâ— sundry Customs observed by them The Man in token of good Will gave to the Woman a Ring which she was to wear upon the next Finger to the little one of the Left-hand because unto that Finger alone a certain Artery proceedeth from the Heart The Sabine Women they continu'd a Custom that the Man should come and take away his Wife by a seeming Violence from the Lap or Bosom of her Mother or her next Kin. She being thus taken away her Husband did part and divide the Hair of her Head with the top of a Spear wherewith some Fencer had been formerly kill'd which Ceremony did betoken that nothing should disjoin them but such a Spear and such like Violence Towards Night the Woman was brought home to her Husband's House with five Torches signifying thereby the need which married Persons have of five Goddesses and Gods Jupiter Juno Venus Suadela and Diana who is called Lucina When the Woman was thus brought to the Door then did she annoint the Polls of the Door with Oyl from which Ceremony the Wife was call'd Vxor quasi Vnxor
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
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
is well known how these white Devils seduc'd him Augustus that was certainly one of the steadiest Men in the World one that in his Touch out-witted the Horry Senate was all his Lite time led by one Livia But to make this yet plainer Age we say begets Wisdom now how general the Affection of old Men is to Women needs no proof especially the Older they grow some of threescore marrying Girls of sixteen and therefore it is a clear Argument of the Truth of this Point and of the Wisdom of those Reverend Seniors that proceed according Now if it be necessary that Governors should be of good Entertainment Affable open of Countenance and such as seem to harbour no crooked or dark design no Men can be so fit for Government as Women are For besides their natural Sweetness and Innocency their talk is commonly directed to such things as it may easily be inferred that their Heads are not troubled about making of Wars enlarging of Empires or founding of Tyrannies How few Men Prophets do Histories affords us in Comparison to Prophetesses and even at this day who such absolute followers of the Priests as the Women are If you wish them Merciful these are the tenderest things on the Earth they have Tears at command and if Tears be the effect of Pity and Compassion and Pity and Compassion be the Mother of Virtue must we not think that Mercy rules most in them and is the soonest expelled from them If you wish Affection to the Country where can you better have it Have Have not the Women many times cut off their Hairs to make Ropes for Engines and Strings for Bowes Thus were this Noble Sex restor'd to that right which Nature hath bestowed on it we should have all Quiet and Serene in Common-wealths Courts would not be taken up with factions and underminings but all would flow into pleasure and liberty Instead of molding of Armies we should be preparing of Masks and instead of despressing of Factions we should have balls and amorous appointments Withal we know how necessary it is in every Statesman to be Master of all the Artifices and fleights that may be to gain upon them he deals with Now if any can be fitter for this than Women I am much deceived For what by their importunities glances trains sleights ambushes and little infidelities it is as impossible to escape them as to go per ignes Suppositos cineri doloso We must therefore conclude that as Women bring forth Children into the World as they mulitiply themselves into these visible and corporeal Souls and after they have brought them forth are most tender and careful to bring them up So it is most fitting having all these preheminences and indulgences of Nature that when they are brought up they should also have the Government of them For a Potter would think it a hard measure if after the Pitcher were made it should fly in his Face Generation and Production of Infants First let us see of what Seed he is ingendred only of corruption and infection What is the place of his Birth but only a foul and filthy dungeon How long is he in the Womb of his Mother before he be like any thing but a vile lump of flesh unsensible in such sort that when the Nature hath retained and taken both Seeds and being heated by the natural heat it createth a little thin skin almost like to that which is next the shell of an Egg that it is like nothing but an Egg laid out of time Then certain days after the Spirits and the Blood mingled together begin to boil in such sort that it causeth to rise three Bladders like to a bubble that flaots and are made in a quick stream which are the places wherein is formed the three most noble parts of this superbious Beast the Liver the Heart and the Brains which is the most excellent part of his work the seat of all the functions the true fountain of feeling the moving of the most mightiest Palace of intelligence and memory the very Ark of Reason If we consider likewise by their order the creation of all other parts and how they be formed and how the Child being in his Mothers Womb beginneth to void Urine by the conduct of the Navel and how the Urine falleth into a little Member or Bladder separated from the Child ordained of Nature to that Office and how he hath no purgings by the Fundament for that he receiveth no sustenance by the mouth and that the little Belly or Stomach doth not yet his Office by the which means nothing is transported into the Bowels And how that the fix first days he is as Milk the nine days following Blood the other twelve days after flesh and the eighteen days that follow the Soul is enclosed I know not therefore so Diamond a Heart which is not moved and ravished with great admiration to contemplate things so pitiful and strange And yet this that we have spoken is very little if we will consider more near ly the things that follow who is it that will not marvel considering in what manner he is nourished and with what guiding without having the use of the mouth until he be born into the World then how much his Nature is tender frail and weak in such sort that the Mother be never so little hurt or smitten or if she smell the smoak of a Candle-snuff it is enough to kill the Fruit in her Womb. But whilst he is in the Womb of his Mother with what Food is he nourished what junkers hath Nature prepared for him If that his Creation have seemed unto us strange no doubt his sustentation will ravish us in more great admiration seeing that he is sustained of Blood and Corruption of his Mother the which is so detestable and unclean that I cannot without great horror rehearse that which the Philosophers and Physicians have written that have written of the secrets of Nature Those therefore that are curious of such things let them read Pliny which hath put in writing in his Natural History that which many others before him have fore-shewed And after that he hath been long sustained with this Venom and that he is formed and becometh in quantity sufficient seeking therefore for more greater nourishment and that he cannot not receive by the Navel so much as is needful by great pain he striveth to seek sustenance which is the occasion that he moveth and breaketh the panicles and sustainments that he hath always had till that time then the Matrice feeling it self pained will keep him no longer in but seeketh means to bring him forth and therefore it openeth and by the said opening the Child feeling the Air followeth it and straineth more and more to draw toward the opening of the Matrice and to enter into the World not without great violent dolors and pain of his tender and delicate Body Gentleman-Usher There is a conceited Treatise composed by an Italian as
Observations made thereon by the Nice and Cenforious They guess at the Disposition of her Heart by the dimension of her Motion concluding a light Carriage most commonly discovers a loose Inclination and that jetting 〈◊〉 the Head bridling up the Chin and walking stately 〈◊〉 a haughtiness and Selfmoceit They will say were a Ladies Body transparent she could not more perspicuously display her levity of Mind than by wanton Gesticulations this then must be avoided to avoid offence and scandal nay we must confess that Decency her self beholding a Lady whose Modesty should be the Ornament of her Beauty demean her self in the streets or elsewhere more like an Actress on the Stage than Virtues 〈◊〉 she endeavours to reclaim her by soberly admonishing her to look back to precedent times or to the wise and grave hurt of the Sex and she will be convinced her Gestures are inseemly consider you are 〈◊〉 Earth and seem not to 〈◊〉 that Earth you tread on from whence you was Originally taken and in whose Dust the most Exalted Beauty must lye down and set in shades of Darkness If a Virtuous Lady seriously considers the Apish Gestures of Light and Loose Women they must needs not only make her detest an Imitation but utterly put her out of conceit with any that shall be so vain to Imitate them A Swimming Gate or an affected Pace as if you were treading out or measuring the ground by the Foot as you pass along and that your Mind kept pace with every step is to be avoided lest it be looked upon as a studied measure to be singular in your walking and consequently draw more Eyes upon you than others A shuffling or rigling motion is likewise discommendable it gives a suspicion that you are crook-leg'd or have received some hurt in your Limbs that has distorted them when it is nothing so but that they are fair straight and beautiful as Pillars of Alablaster or Ivory but move with an Unaffected pace which when you see convenient you may change to slow or swist but beware of taking stradling steps or running a head for those are Indecent in a Lady and more becoming the Rural Girls that tread the Summer Dews and Winter Snows Gracefulness c. Grant we that Beauty External in Women is exceedingly to be admired yet more by the Vulgar than those who see with clearer Eyes into the chief Graces and Ornaments of the Fair Sex As from the well mixed Elements arises bodily Temperament and from the Blood mingling with lively humours in the face Beauty so from a well tempered Spirit ariseth Gracefulness If Virtue could be seen in her proper Lovely and Comely Form it would above all Objects ravish the Beholders We see Gracefulness very highly priz'd when but breaking through a dark Cloud and appearing with a little brightness in a Ladies Conversation Graces are like the links of a Chain fastened to each other all of them making but one Entire Complement when united thô some are larger and more lasting than others more befriending and Beautifying The first of these may reasonably be Humility and a Meek Spirit it carries a Lustre and Adornment with it like Rubies that shine on their Native Rocks in the darkest Nights or Diamonds in their Quarry To be little in her own Eyes is the ready way to her Exaltation in the Eyes and Esteem of God and Man Secondly Stedfastness and firmness of Mind add another Jewel to her Crown What a pleasing sight is it to see a Woman who can overcome her Passions and Affectations and consult Reason in all her Actions and Undertakings having a sufficient 〈◊〉 of Wit and Abilities to carry on her Designs and Purposes And again is the Centre of all her other Virtues 't is the Jacob's Ladder whereon Blessings descend to her and on which 〈◊〉 ascends to Heaven in steadfast believing and Divine Contemplations of the Adored Mystery No Gold is so precious nor will bear such a Tryal of Faith it bears the Test against all Calamities no storms 〈◊〉 Tempests of Persecution Temporal Miseries or Affliction thô they rage and beat never so fierce upon it can shake 〈◊〉 foundation when fixed on the Rock of Salvation It has always its Eye fixed on the Centre to which it tends and nothing can rèmove it or 〈◊〉 benighting Clouds between in piercing Rays and the Object it is fixed on to interrupt or dim the Glorious Prospect from whence a Lustre is again rejected on the Soul and gives it a dazling brightness Innocency and Truth are likewise exceeding Graceful to the Fair Sex a Compound of two in one the one is a Breastplace of Defence the other a Golden Zone to Circle in all other Graces startling approaching Dangers and Calumnies and putting them to a shameâ— retreat Armed with these Celestial Armories Woman is made strong for the Battle and capable of encountring the Legiâ— of Darkness and storming all the Batteries the World can 〈◊〉 against her for there is an Invisible assisting Hand strengthening her that no power is able to resist who by break things confounds the strength the Mighty and kings the exalted Vain gloriâ— to the Dust. A Woman 〈◊〉 she may not put on Man's Apperel yet she may be clad in the same Armour of Light which will rebate the Eyes of sharpâ—expandâ— Envy and stands Invulnerable against all Assaults 〈◊〉 is another Grace joyned with Piety which makes her 〈◊〉 in God's Cause reasons for his Honour and can by to means hear his tremendous time reproached or blasphemed without being wounded on the Soul with Horror and Detestation whilst a Holy Anâ—expandâ— burns within her as being truly Jealous for the Lord God 〈◊〉 Hosts thô in her own Concerns Meekness and Humility is 〈◊〉 suitable to her Let those then hear who are over angry hot or fiery to turn them to God and to his Cause and it will make them cool and calm In their own for as bleeding on the Arm by Art stops Natural bleeding by Flux so Zeal 〈◊〉 God cools the corrupt Passions in us as the bright blazes of the Sun dim and allay the heat and splendor of Earthly fires This Grace becomes the Fair Sex the rather because it argues truth of Grace for else calmness of her Frame may denote flatness or folly or want of Spirit It must therefore be with most Women doubcless were there nothing to allay it as with the Females of the Creatures Nature hath put a fierceness into them beyond that of the Males thô not furnished them with so great a strength to exert it The She-bear Tygeress and Lyoness are by the Naturalists always accounted the most fierce and cruel but Grace tempers and cools this fierceness in Woman making her humble mild and gentle affable courteous tender charitable and compassionate We must acknowledge Mens Spirits are hardier and cannot without a great humbling if ever be so plyable as those of Womens so that a Woman being in the way of Virtue pursues it
flaming as reflecting light Halebrede a Lout or Lubberly Man or Woman Halicarnassus the chief City of Carta where the famous Tomb of Mausoleus was built by his Queen Artemisia Halifax sa holy hair Horton a Town in York-shire from a Malds head cut off by a Priest and hung upon a Yew-tree there Halonesus an Aegean Isle defended by Women when all the men were slain Huff The Huff heretoâ—ore usually kept his Whore which upon a plotted occasion must acknowledge her self his Wife who having drawn in some Young man to iie with her gives Intelligence thereof to the Hector who watcheth the minute catcheth them in the Act and with threats frightens the Young man into a compliance of recompencing the Injury either by present satisfaction or by a Bond or so forth but this hath been so notoriously and commonly used that this practice is absolute and quite out of fashion Yet still he hath a being though his way of living be somewhat different for now he at first sets up by taking a Purse on the Road which not only puts him in stock but furnisheth him with good Apparel that may qualifie him to keep Genteel Company as occasion shall offer He understands a Dye very well and well he may for for some Years that he was a Foot-boy or so there was not an hour in the day past in which he did not exercise his Hand with the Dice either for naughty half-pence or Coffee-pence when Fortune smil'd or else by himself that he might the better cope with his Livery-Companions Lace-coated Gamesters besides three parts of every Nights dream is spent in Come at seven what chance of the Dye is soonest thrown in topping slurring palming napping with how to fix a Dye for any purpose Practising thus Sleeping and Wakâ—ng he becomes an excellent Proficient in all sorts of Gaming by which he enedeavours to bubble all he meets with but if unkind Fortune by meeting with his match hath robbed him of his Money he knows where to borrow or steal an Horse with which he may rob the Traveller to Re-instock himself In short his Cloyster is a Bawdy-house where all his Devotions are tendered He is a Protector to all distressed Damsels called in our Vulgar Tongue common Wheâ—â—â—s and that he may put a better gloss not on the matter calleth them Cousins and swears he will vindicate their stinking Reputations with the Hazard of his Life and that he may strike terror into the fearful he will draw upon any slight occasion not with an intent to hurt but to wipe off the suspicion of being a Coward for this he knows that the Opinion of Valour is a good protection to him that dares not use it In Company there is no man more Exceptious and Cholerick but seldom lets his anger swell into a Quarrel but hopes by his Huffing to blow over a sound basting Yet if he discovers a Coward be will not rest still he hath found 〈◊〉 some means to quarrel with 〈◊〉 and there must not be â—â—pected a reconcilement till 〈◊〉 Gentleman hath given him 〈◊〉 with a Silver Sword 〈◊〉 Man more constantly 〈…〉 his Brains than this 〈◊〉 Huff for his Life is a 〈◊〉 Invention and each Meal 〈◊〉 stratagem When his Whores will not or cannot supply him 〈◊〉 borrows of any that will 〈◊〉 him money which sometimes is lent him not so much 〈◊〉 a Repayment as that 〈◊〉 will never trouble them 〈◊〉 Husband Whether lawful 〈◊〉 a Young Lady to pray for one 〈◊〉 when shall she obtain him 〈◊〉 He must renounce Huminity and confess himself a 〈◊〉 of an Aggressor upon the â—riviledges of Nature that â—ould not make it as immortal 〈◊〉 as possible which is only â—â—urably effected by Murriâ—â— whereby we survive in 〈◊〉 Children Misery without Friend to bear a part is very 〈◊〉 and Happiness with 〈◊〉 Communication is tedious and as Seneca has observed 〈◊〉 inclines us to make a 〈◊〉 Choice of Misery for Noâ—â— We should be vagrant 〈◊〉 of Animals without Marriage as if Nature were asham'd 〈◊〉 our Converse We should â—â—ribute to the Destruction 〈◊〉 condemn the Wisdom 〈◊〉 first Institutor and cenâ—â—â— the Edâ—cts of such Common-wealths who upon very good grounds have discountenanc'd and punish'd Caelibacy Nay supposing all the Miseries that Marriage haters suggest should fall upon us 't is our own Fault if with Socrates we don't learn more by a Scolding Wife than by all the Precepts of Philosophers Now if it be lawful to Marry 't is lawful for Ladies to pray for good Husbands if they find their Inclination Concerns in the World or other Motives which they are to be Judges of consistent with the Ends of such Society As to the Form of Prayer required they may if they please use the following if they are not better furnished already From a profane Libertine from one affectedly Pious from a profuse Almoneer from an uncharitable Wretch from a wavering Religioso and an injudicious Zeallot Deliver me From one of a startch'd Gravity or of ridiculous â—evity from an ambitious Statesman from a restless Projector from one that loves any thing besides me but what is very just and honourable Deliver me From an extacy'd Poet from a Modera 〈◊〉 i it from a base Coward and a rash Fool from a Pad and a Pauper Deliver me From a Venus Darling from a Bacchus Proselite from a Travelling Half from a Domestick Animal from all Masculine Plagues not yet recounted Deliver me But Give me one whose Love has more of Judgment than Passion who is Master of himself or at least an indesatigable Scholar in such a Study who has an equal Flame a parallel Inclination a Temper and Soul so like mine that as two Tallies we may appeaâ—â— more perfect by Union Give me one of as Genteel an Educations as a little Expense of time will permit with an indifferent Fortune rather independent of the servile Fate of Palaces and yet one whose Retirement is not so much from the Publick as into himself One if possible above Flattery and Affrones and yet as careful in preventing the Injury as able to repair it One the Beauty of whose Mind exceeds that of his Face yet not Deformed so as to be distinguishable from others even unto a ridicule Give me one that has learnt to live much in a little time one that is no great Familiar in Converse with the World nor no little one with himself One if two such Happinesses may be granted at one time to our Sex who with these uncommon Endowments of Mind may naturally have a Sweet Mild easie Disposition or at least One who by his Practice and frequent Habit has made himself so before be is made mine but as the Master-perfection and chiefest Draught Let him be truly Virtuous and Pious that is to say Let me be truly Happy in my choice As to the second Question When this Young Lady may expect a Husband take this Answer viz. We read of a Waggish Boy
with Oyl of Roses and white Bees-wax mingly them over a gentle Fire 〈◊〉 anoint the hands with the Composition pretty warm Theâ— have the same success 〈◊〉 to the Arms that have undergone the like Injury by 〈◊〉 too rudely Imprinting his Northern Kisses on their tender 〈◊〉 Hands Warty are very unseenly with Ladies therefore to remove them make small plaâ—sters of Cantharides and lay on the Warts but let them touch no other parts and 〈◊〉 will make them dye away 〈◊〉 peel off or bathe them 〈◊〉 with the Milk that Issues from the Fig-tree For want of these you may use Oyl of Vitriol lightly touching them with it but beware it come to no other part and beware you lay on no great quantity lest in consuming the Warts the force not being spent it eats deeper and does an Injury to the Boâ—e Warts at their first coming are tender and may then be eaten away with black Sope mixed with burnt Salt Salt Nitre Milk of Spurty Juice of Celandine Juice of wild Cucumbers or Marygold leaves with other various ways But if these remove them as they certainly will if properly applyed we need Enumerate no more Hands how to make them fair and white with small Veins Hands Ladies are not only an Ornament but wonderfully useful and more exposed to 〈◊〉 than any part except the 〈◊〉 therefore that they may beautiful and tempting ought he your care So that their 〈◊〉 whiteness may dazzle Speâ—â—ors Eyes that they may go on 〈◊〉 in the fond Humour of 〈◊〉 you and then we 〈◊〉 secure that Men will be 〈◊〉 close Captives that you 〈◊〉 never fear being disdainâ—â— any Apostate Lover and 〈◊〉 best means to bring your 〈◊〉 to such a Lilly whiteâ—â— we have set down Hands 〈◊〉 whitened several ways viz. 〈◊〉 of sweet and bitter 〈◊〉 that remain after the 〈◊〉 is drawn off four Ounces 〈◊〉 meal two Ounces sine 〈◊〉 Barley ground and 〈◊〉 the like quantity meal of 〈◊〉 an Ounce and a half 〈◊〉 of Florentine Iris one 〈◊〉 red Roses dryed and 〈◊〉 each six drams Salt white Tartar and the whitest 〈◊〉 washed and prepared 〈◊〉 Ivory and fresh Sperma 〈◊〉 of each half an Ounce 〈◊〉 of Rhodinum one Scruple 〈◊〉 Cloves and Lavender of 〈◊〉 half a Scruple mix them well and fine together and 〈◊〉 a little of it rub and wâ—sh Hands and Arms and it â—nake them exceeding white â—mooth and of a Curious 〈◊〉 Having not these Ingreâ—â— you may take the 〈◊〉 viz. Venice Soap 〈◊〉 in the Juice of Lemmons and of white Virgins Hony â—â— Ounces prepared Sublimatum the Roots of Florentine Iris white Sugar-candy of each an Ounce whitest Sperma Caeti Salt of white Tartar Sugar Allum Venetian Borace of each half an Ounce true scented Balsom of Peru two drams Gallia Moschata one dram Oyl of Rhodinum Cloves and Cinamon one scruple mix them well and you will find the wonderful Effects of it even to the softening of their hands who have of Joans been made Madams by marrying their kind good Natur'd Masters Hands swollen or looking red or blew how to cure them Having already made an Encomium upon the Excellence Use and Beauty of Hands it would be looked upon as Tautology or dull Repetition to go over it again therefore when they are impaired of their Beauty by the means abovesaid all we have to do is to tell you Ladies you may reapparel them with their Native whiteness by the following Directions Hands that have suffered Injury by swelling c. must be often bathed in Wine wherein Nettles and Rosemary must be boiled with Time Rue and Penny-royal and the use of this decoction will not only asswage the swelling but keep them from so doing and as soon as they at any time begin to swell or rise into knobs apply a repercussive Plaister made of Barley-meal and the Juice of Lemmons or take Litharge Oyl of Rose and Vinegar work them well together into a Lineament to anoint your hands Having not these materials at hand Take Oyl of Dill and Oyl of sweet Almonds Gum Tragaganth made with Penny-royal Water 3 drams powder'd Starch 8 Drams and make them into an Oyntment or the yolks of five Eggs calcine them and mix them well with Barrows grease and going to Bed anoint the hands with it then draw on a pair of smooth Gloves and keep them on till you rise or take Turpentine mixed with half it's quantity of Salt mix them well over a gentle Fire and stir them together till they are pretty thick and then apply it Plaisterwise And so the cold swellings of the hands will be removed the blackness and blewness will disappear and the lovely smallness and whiteness will return That those that see it will admiring stand To see the Metamorphose of your hand And proud to kiss what they did once despise Are double Captives to your Hands and Eyes Hair of Scurf and Dandriff how to cleanse the Head of it Hair is much impaired in it's Beauty by the Excressencies of Nature Dandriff or Scurf is a mealy Dust that overclouds the Hair of the Head 〈◊〉 c. and proceed from corrected serous Humours which reason of their Acrimony 〈◊〉 rode the Cuticle from the 〈◊〉 jacent Skin and fret into 〈◊〉 pieces like Meal or Bran 〈◊〉 that are subject to them they would be eased of 〈◊〉 unseemly Nausences may 〈◊〉 these Methods Having coâ—â—â—dered well whether the 〈◊〉 hath been a long time 〈◊〉 to these or that they 〈◊〉 lately encroached if the 〈◊〉 mer then the Body above with ill Humours and 〈◊〉 be purged with some conâ—â—ent Medicine after that we the Head or other parts 〈◊〉 with Lye thus made 〈◊〉 Take the Ashes of the 〈◊〉 Beets and Coldworts make Lixivium with them 〈◊〉 boil Lupins and Beans a 〈◊〉 quantity then strain the coction and add a sixth 〈◊〉 Honey When the Head been well washed with 〈◊〉 dry it well and rub it 〈◊〉 with a Coarse warm 〈◊〉 then take this Unguent anoint it viz. bitter 〈◊〉 lightly heated in an Oven Stove and old Walnuts 〈◊〉 six Ounces two drams of Honey of Squills two 〈◊〉 of the dreggs of old Wine 〈◊〉 half an Ounce 〈◊〉 two drams make it into Unguent for your use with Wax Having not these gredients take Oyl Rue 〈◊〉 Ounce Sope an Ounce finely beaten half an Ounce work them together into a Mass and anoint the Head c. after washed with the following Compound decoction viz. 〈◊〉 Beets Fenugreek Briony-Roots Bean-meal each a good handful in a Gallon of Spring-water till it be consumed then take it off and when it is cool use it three of four days succesfrely and your Expectation will be satisfied Hair how to order and preserve 〈◊〉 Hair is a very necessary Ornament for Adorning the Hâ—ad being Comely and Beautiful So that Puelus thought the Hair of the Head to be so great and necessary a setting off that saith he the most comely Woman is nothing without it tho' she came
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
thus boiled may be put into a bag and applyed as hot as may be to the place grieved and a plaister of Diaculum laid on afterward We might give you directions as to the Kings evil but few will believe it can be Cured by Applycations therefore we pass it over and leave them to the Men of Art whose business it more properly is to take care of such as are so afflicted If the neck be impaired of its beauty by spots freckles leanness wrinkles or the like what in such cares are herein prescribed for the Face will remove them Nakedness an ornament to women or perswasion by way of Paradox to renew the first fashion in going naked Ladys you will take this we doubt not for an odd kind of a whim and unfit to be rank'd with more serious matters but being brought to us by a young Gentlewoman Just as the fit of Anger with her Taylor was opâ—n her for spoiling her a new Manâ—â—â— by bungling it into a shape that put a deformity upon her delicately proportioned body in making her seem bunch back'd we could not forbear gratifying her Earnest request that it might have a place in this work Though we do not believe it will answer her Expected revenge in spoiling the Taylors trade or that you will follow her directions Look upon it then as a paradox and it will not be unpleasant in the perusal Womens beautys says she and rare perfections are such that ornaments rather cloud and shaddow than add to their native Lusture To be huddled up and as it were burâ—â— in Cloaths is a kind of 〈◊〉 or as if guilt or shame made lovely woman shroâ—d herself up in Covertures of obscurity The Sun seems to mourn and Loose his brightness as to our sight when he is muffled up in Clouds Nakedness was the primitive ornament when Reason was not depraved with long and Traditional Customs nor tinctured by any prevalescent humour whâ—â— is most coâ—sonant to the Law of Nature ought most to be followed Adam and Eve we know were so far from being Cloathed that it was the greatest mark of their Liberty and uprightness and the first brand that stigmatiz'd them after their Fall was their making themselves Aprons of Figleaves which implied a guilty shame upon the forfeiture of their naked and native Innocence however their Garments were so few that they skreened but a small part of their Majestick Comliness from the wondering Eves of the Creatures not indeed did the Ages that presently succeeded grow up into Garb or Fashion but continued with a very litlle variation and possibly what their progenators did only with Fig-Leaves they supply'd with â—idskin or some such thing and those nations who have not alienated their naked simplicity either by Commerce or busy Inventions do as yet reâ—â—â— this open Integrity and decline nor to those unseemly Sophistications of beauty viz. Garments Our Historians tell us that upon the discovery of the Indies the Natives were found Clad in the beautious Robes of Nature and naked Innocence who living meerly among themselves and by their own peculiar Customs it is to be supposed they retained among them that which nature desired to be kept pure and unvaried not to say that all People naturally desire to go naked yet certainly it is a shrewd suspiâ—ion of it that when the Sun returns to this sâ—â—e of our Horizon they know no better way to Congratulate the approach of that glorious Light so near them than by putting on thin or open Garments and cool themselves by frequent Bathings which seems no other than a desire of nakedness and since the Tyrant Custom absolutely prohibits it them they will approach it bu such ways as near as they can and surely it must be either an happiness or excellent duty that that they strive to perform on that occasion but in Women we have seen these desires far more Intense they having made it their delight to uncover the parts of their chiefest Beauty as their Faces Swan white Necks soft rising Breasts Ivory Shoulders and Alaâ—â—after Hands so that they do endeavouâ— in part to break that restraint that hides the rest of their Glory and to set forth their delicate tresses curâ—d and frounced in the most curious Inviting manner and though possibly Jealousy may cause all these to be hid yet 't is a violation of their Wills and the weaâ—hers coldness sometimes may oblige them to it yet this is but providence or possibly the Company may distast it yet that is but compliance for what beautious Woman is there that could not wish all her Garments of Lawn and Transparent that their delicate shapes might charm the Wondering Spectators in Love and longing desires rather than lye hid in rich and gorgeous Apparel for if as Plato saith Souls unwillingly depart out of the fair bodies that must needs be a Curious Mansion which so fine a substance as the Soul is in love with Who then can blame the Owner to delight in it And what a torment is delight if it be shut up in one Breast and not diffused into a lively communication For all kind of blessings are multiply'd by their division and what greater blessing is there than a rare simetry and Contexion of feature which can charm knowledge into admiration and Majesty into Love We give to all the virtues the habits and visages of Women and of all the virtues Truth is the best for Truth is the mother of Justice and Justice they say Comprehends them all yet she is Painted Naked and Naked truth is always in high Esteem among the good and vituous and is it not very fit that all the sex should Imitate so Excellent a pattern and mistriss It may doubtless be objected that this would produce Infinite provocations and Enticements to Lust but I say no for I dare affirm what by Painting and washing and Looseness and Change of Garments what by gaudy Inventions of dressings Gaite and Air Port and Meen there is much more fuel added than if all went with no more mantles than nature thrust them into the world withal their Haire hanging Loosly down or carelessly gathered up into a fillet and almost perhaps a Little apron to hide the pudeuda from being too much gaz'd at and blown upon those men that have been often among the naked Indians confess there is a Less temptation in nakedness than in Artificial adornments and Embelishments for if indeed it be considered aright there is nothing that does so much puff up 〈◊〉 as the circumstances of rich apparel Curious dressings and pleasing scents and perfumes which screw up the apprehention and fix the Imagination upon somewhat that is great so that by this means a number of Great persons are zealously courted to have their appetites satisfied whereas if they were either left naked or rduced to a vulgar garb the temptation would vanish nakedness restores a â—men to themselves for what an Irregular height doth the venetian Chippius mount
them what Toâ—rs of Turkish Tires have they now in fashion so that the face of a short woman seems to stand in the middle her stature is so Augmented by the building of her head so many story high how does the dressing of all nations disguise them that that they must put off their masking habit or like watches be taken to pieces er'e they can be enjoyed and to what other end I pray were they made as to their worldly Felicity The Customs of Countries are different and the Garb is Majestick at one placâ— which is Sordid and 〈◊〉 at an other All People have not the same Conceptions of Beauty White is as hateful to an Aethiopian as Black to us But once uncloath Women and according to their Complexions they are all the same but the Conception about the harmony and measures of a body differs not And what greater Right can I do my Sex than to bring Women to be Judged by one Rule and since every Woman judges herself the Fairest she that would be backward to this Arbitrament would be diffident of her self and consequently a Renegade from her Sex The Three beautiful Goddâ—sses we find â—ript themselves in Mount Ida when they came to Paris to pass his Judgment upon them which was the Fairest And Coâ—inines tells us of a Princess who permitted the Ambassadors whâ— came to demand her in marriage to see her only in a Lawn Smâ—ck that they might give a better Reportâ— of her Beauty telling them she would even put off that too if they were not satisfied For as there is an inextinguishable Jealousie and Emulation among some Women so there is an unmeasurable Pride and Pride arising out of Confidence all will not decline Judgment And what better way than these Rules which the Voices of all conclude on for a Woman may paint a Blue or Yellow Cheek as well as a Red one but the sweet composure and measure of her body her limbs and comly shape cannot alter and how imperfect are they to be seen through Cloaths which may hide and falsify many things which in a Veracious Nakedness may be truly discerned Men have cast two â—reat blemishes upon our Sex First Vncertainty and Change of Judgment and Secondly Vnconstancy in Cloaths and Carriage and how can either be better remove than if the fair ones were reduced into such a posture as they should all necessarily agree in and that they had not liberty to change And I pray what other way is there unless they be brought tobe all Naked But then they may complain Take away their Arts and their Ornaments and they shall want of their Complacency and Provocations to their Husbands But notwithstanding they have liberty enough left them They may dye or pounce or figure their Skins after the manner of the ancient Brittains In a word since the Sun the Moon and all the Glorious Battalia of Heaven appear as Nature made them and everything but men and women are contented with what Nature allotted them why should Woman who is the Master-piece of Nature hide her beauty out of meer Humour and Fancy to enrich Taylors Weavers and Sempstresses who if the Naked Fashion be followed may hang themselves Nature considered in her wonderful Operations in the producing of mankind and other things Nature is powerful in her Operation upon things subject to her Dominion The Philosophers and Sages searching and narrowly prying into her Secrets found continually new wonders to creaâ—e in them admiration and lift up their thoughts in contemplation esteeming her the Queen of the World and the careful indulgent mother of all things in it who never sleeps nor slumbers in her charge but performs every thing under it with great Diligence and Industry â—rnâ—ing things with such exactness and beauty in their respective Kinds that the Royal Prophet when he looked into himself and considered the Compâ—â—ition and admirable Frame of his Body seemed to be astonished at the exactness and harmony he found therein so that it caused him to cry out that he was featfully and wonderfully made and also holy Job contemplating his beginning and from a kind of Nothing he came says Hast thou not meaning the God of Nature poured me out as Milk and curdled me as Cheese Thou hast cloathed me with skin and flesh and hast fenced me with bones and sinews Thou hast granted me Life and Favour and in thy visitation hasâ— preserved my Spirit Behold but the beauty of the Universe and its Order and Harmony and then it plainly appears it is all one great wonder to raise astonishment in our minds and being taken in Parables and Individuals it produces no less admiration There is nothing so small as not worthy our regard nothing but what in one measure or other brings benefit to mankind the least Herb or Insect is proper to some use Nature has so prudently provided and furnished this great Storehouse the Word that Man the possessor of it may not have any Reason or Cause to complain of or for any thing she has not placed in it but above his own Frame is excellent even in it Whilst it is forming and making in the Womb there Nature in the Gloomy Cell of Generation works with wonderful cunniog to raise from a Lump or indigested Mass of Corruption a stately and beautiful Structure adorned with all the Ornaments of Loveliness pleasing not only to it self when it comes forth and grows up but also gracious in the Eyes of the Creatures it is born to rule over Though for all this we see she sometimes though unwillingly works preposterous and mishapen births and sometimes as the Learned tell us she by one accident or other is compell'd to make one body participate of either sex as in the case of those they call Hermophrodites and the Reason they give for this particular is That the Womb contains three Cells one on the right another on the left side and a third in the bottom or middle into which last when the Seminal matter falls an Hermophrodite is held to be begotten in this manner because Nature doth ever tend to that which is most compleat willingly inclining to male Generation or the producing male Infants and therefore when the male is sometimes formed in the principal parts and yet through the evil disposition of the Womb and Object and inequality of the Seed when Nature for want of Heat and same other the like Oâ—structions cannot perfect the male she continues as much however of the male part to it as may be yet the female part joyning likewise the body participates of Two Natures on different Sexes and so the Hermophrodite is produced partaking yet more of the one sex than the other for we remember not that we have read of any that could use both members of Generation so distinctly as to beget and concieve Children most commonly inclining to the latter However we believe there has been some mistakes upon this account and that some have been
a former Wife in prison but he escaping raised a War against her and wrestled the Power out of her hands She was a woman of great Courage and Wit Plantina Wife of Trajan the Emperour She did much good in the Empire by Prevailing with him to take off the heavy Taxes She procured the Adoption of Adrian who coming to be Emperour built a Palace Temple and Amphitheater to her memory the Ruins of part of which magnificent Structures are yet seen at Rome Poictiers Diana Dutches of Valentinois She got her Fathers Pardon when condem'd to die and was very Famous in the French Court during the Reign of Henry the second disposing of all Offices and Places of Trust to her Favourites But after Henry's Death Q. Katharine de Medici stript her of her Jewels and banish'd her the Court for grief of which the soon after dy'd Polla Argentaria was Wife to Lucan the Poet put to Death by the Tyrant Nero for writing better Verses She was a very Learned Lady and much skilled in Poetry her self After his Death she corrected his Pharsalia and writ many Poems Palyhymnia one of the Muses â—â—id to take care of History and Historians Others affirm she was extreamly in love with Rhetoricians she was painted in white Robe With a Crown of Pearls and a Scrowl in her hand in a posture as if she required attention to what she was about to say Polyxena Daughter to Priamus King of Troy With her Achilles fell in Love and being trained to the marriage was killed by Parris with an inpoysoned Arrow in revenge of which to appease that Hero's Ghost she after the taking of Troy was sacrificed at his Tomb. Pomona held by the Ancieats to be a Goddess that look'd after Orchards and Gardens With her Vertumnus fell in love and by borrowed shipes got his Will of her Pompea third wife to Julius Caesar Daughter to Q. Pompeus but was divorc'd upon suspicion that she dealt false with him yet he believed her innocent though he was told Claudius often had a 〈◊〉 in meetings with her in Womans Apparel Poniarovia Duughter to Julius Ponictovius a Nobleman of Poland she had often as she said Visions and Revelations foretelling the happy state of the Chruch and the destruction of its Enemies Pontia a Noble Roman Lady With her Octavius Sagista fell in love but after he had obtained her to be divorced from her Husband chang'd his mind Whereupon she marry'd an other which so incensed him that he kill'd her for which he has Try'd and Executed Popea Sabina Second wife to Nero Emperour of Rome a very beautiful and vertuous Lady who being great with child was kill'd by a Kick he gave her on the belly of which among all his wicked acts he was only known to repent Populonia held to be a Goddess that secur'd Countrys from ravagement and spoil Porcia Cato's Daughter she was wife to Brutus one of the Conspirators against Julius Caesar who to regaiâ— the Roman Liberty assassinated him in the Senate-house and being overthrown by Octavius Augustus in the Philipick Fields she no sooner had notice of his Death but she resolv'd not to survive him so that her Friends to prevent it laying all mischievous things out of her way she choak'd her self by swallowing hot Coals Poreta a Woman of Hanault for writing and maintaning the Doctrine that those who are wholly devoted to the Creator may satisfie all the Needs of Nature without offending God was burnt together with her books Possvorta and Anâ—â—â—ta Two Goddesses held by the Ancients to know what would happen before and after tha last having power to redress Evil past Potaniades held to inspire men and women with Rage and to appease her the ancients sacrificed Pigs upon her Altar Poverty another Goddess she was painted meagar and almost famished yet by others she was called the Goddess of Industry because Poverty induces men to study and labour and is she proper mother of all Arts and Inventions Praxardicia a Goddess sabled to set bounds to mens actions and passions and therefore she was represented by a Head to shew that Reason ought to guide us in our affairs and to her were offered only the heads of the beasts ordained for sacrifice the rest being the Fees of the Priests that attented her Altar Priscilla a Noble Lady of great Vertue before she was corrupted by Montanus and his heresy Priscilla a Roman Lady very charitable she purchased a burying place for the Martyrs the fell by the Heathen Persecution Proba an other Roman Lady and very learned she wrote the life of our blessed Saviour and composed several 〈◊〉 taken from Virgil by 〈◊〉 Prosa the Persian Goddess of Childbirth who gave easy deliverances to woman in labour Proserpina Daughter to Ceres the Goddess of Corn she was stolen away by Pluto God of Hell and Enthrod'd in his sutty Kingdom and fabled to be fetch'd thence by Hercules and delivered to her sorrowful mother Psyche a beautiful Damsel with whom Cupid fell in love but often crossed by his mother Venus till he compelled her to give him a free Enjoyment of his Mistress by often wounding and inflaming her with his Arrows which made her doat on every servile Swain Pudicita a Goddess adored at Rome under the similitude of a woman with a Veil over her Face called the Goddess of modesty or shamedfacedness Pulcheria Daughter of the Emperour Arcadius She was called Augusta and did many notable things for the Good of the Commonweal and by her means the General Council of Chalcedon was held 〈◊〉 441. Pussa held among the Chineses for a Goddess called by some the Chinesian Cyble she was represented in the shape of a woman sitting upon a Cocus Tree with 16 Arms 8 Extended on each side with divers symbolical Instruments in them This Image is exceeding rich being set out with Diamonds and other precious stones Prudentia a Goddess fabl'd among the ancients to give VVisdom and Understanding to her Votaries she was printed with a Glass in one hand and a Serpent in the other and she was pray'd to in doubtful matters that a right understanding might be had in deciding the controversies that arose Patrico's are the Sâ—olers Priests Every Hedg is his Parish and every wandring slogue and VVhore his Parishoner The Service he saith is the marrying of Couples without the Gospel or Book of Common Prayer the solemnity whereof is thus the Parties to marry'd find out a dead horse or any other beast and standing one on the one side and the other on the other the Patrico bids them live together till Death them part and so shaking hands the Wedding is ended Pasts There are man Qualities which although they are not so proper unto Ladies yet they are very commendable in them in which number is this piece of Cookery to have a good hand in the pastry For skill in this affair consult for the present the accomplish Cook Sect. II and Rabisha's Cookery Book 14.
Markham's Way to get Wealth Book 2. And in my second part of this Dictionary I shall entertain you with great Curiosities on this Subject that I have receiv'd in Manuscript from Ladies of the best Quality Painting the face and Black Patches Though the Face of the Creation hath its variations of Prospects and Beauty by the alternate intermixtures of Land and Waters of Woods and Fields Meadows and Pastures God here mounting an Hill and there sinking a Vale and yonder levelling a pleasant Plain Designedly to render the whole more delectable ravishing and acceptable to the eyes of men could they see his Wonders in the Land of the Living that he might reap the more free and generous Tributes of Thansgiving and Cheerful Celebration of his Goodness in the Works of Wonder Yet hath he no where given us more admirable expressions of his Infinite Power and Wisdom than in the little Fabrick of mans Body wherein he hath contrive to Sum up all the Perfections of the Grearer that lye here and there scattered about Nor is it possible for the heart of man with all its considerative Powers to adore enough the Transcendencies of his Divine hand in the Perfections that he bears about him But amongst them all omiting the curious contexture of the whole Frame raising it up into a stately structure to survey onely the Glories of the Face and the admirable Graces that God has lodged in each Feature of it and then to remember how many Millions of them have passed through his hands already flourished out with a perfect diversity of Appearance every one discernably varying from all the rest in different Feature and Meene and yet every one excellently agreeing with all in the same Identity of Aspect All this variegated Work miraculously performed within the compass of a Span to let us see what a God can do when as the wife Potter he turneth his Wheel and molds Nature into Infinite Ideas and Formes And though now and then grimness and crabedness find residence in some Faces Providence foreseeing the necessity of Martial Countenances as well as Spirits Which History tells us the Romans ever did usually wear or put on That the flash of their eyes as Lightning might accompany the Thunder of their Arms and both together strike despair and death into their Enemies hearts And one of their Emperours was of so very frightful a Visage that Speed a Countrey man of our own tells us it was as bad as High 〈◊〉 to stand staring on his face which was ever an 〈◊〉 to the terrour of his Face yet are these Rough and impelished pieces but rare and perhaps necessary too to set off the Beauties of all the rest Now if God has stuck this loveliness on the Male Cheek what has he done on Female What Glories What Transcendences of them What adorable Perfections of Art hath he shown in the drawing those Lineaments which are the stupifaction of Angels and Men Beauty when attended on by Vertue Create Women very Angels on Earth when corrupted by Vice degenerates them into Devils of Hell Which hath not triumphed in the Infinite Sâ—â—oils of mean and vulgar Affections onely that is their every days Tyrrany and Sport unspirited almost the whole Creation But such as have dragged after them very Crowns and Scepters into absolute vassalage and Chains The proudest Jewels of the Diadem have humbly vaild to stick themselves in the more Imperial Bosom of a Woman the Sparkles of her eye have out dazled all their shine But for all that I think those that paint their Faces ought to be severely reproved This wicked Trade and practice of painting has been much censured by the Fathers 〈◊〉 first Parentage and Rise others besides St. Cyprian have derived from the very Devils in hell Apostate-Angels The very Devils saith he first taught the use of Colouring the Eye-brows and clapping on a false and lying Blush on the Cheeks so also to charge the very natural Colour of the Hair and to adulterate the true and Naked Complexion of the whole Head and Face with those cursed Impostures and again God hath said Come let us make man after our own Image And does any one dare to alter or correct what he hath made They do but lay violent hands upon God while they strive to mend or reform what he hath so well finished already Do they not know that the Natural is Gods but the Artificial is the Devils Dost not thou tremble saith he in another place to Consider That at the Resurrection thy Maker will not acknowledge thee as his own Creature Caust thou be so Impudent to look on God with those Eyes which are so different from those himself made St. Jerome seconds him Quod facit in Faciz Christianae Purpurissum Cerussa c. What makes the White or Red Varnish and Paint in the Face of a Christian Whereof one sets a false dye and lying Tincture on her Cheeks and Lyps the other an Hypocritical Fairness on her Neck and Breasts and all this onely to inflame young and wanton Affections to blow up the Sparks of Lust and to shew what an whorish and impudent Heart dwells within those daubed Walls How can such an one weep for her Sins when the very tears would wash away the Colours and discover the Cheat The very falling down of them would make long Furrows on her Face The Painting the Face is the deforming of Gods Image and Workmanship and is most damnable faith another But let those that are ugly and deformed rather endeavour to fix a Grace on their Persons by the lovely exercises of vertue then think to 〈◊〉 themselves by the stinking Collusions of Paint saith another If we are Commanded to endeavour not our own onely but Neighbours Salvation with what conscience can men use Painting and false Dye which are ask many Swords Piosons and Flames to burn up the Beholders Saint Peter Martyr The French have a good Lituny De trois choses Dieu nous garde Imagine one of our Forefathers were alive again and should see one of those his Gay Daughters walk in Cheap-side before him what do you think he would think it were Here is nothing to be seen but a Vardingale a yellow Ruff and a Perriwigg with perhaps some Feathers waving in the top three things for which he could not tell how to find a Name Sure he could not but stand amazed to think what new Creatures the times had yielded since he lived and then if he should run before her to see if by the forelight he might guess what it were when his eyes should meet with a 〈◊〉 Frizzle a printed Hide shadowed with a Fan not more painted Breasts displayed and loose loose 〈◊〉 wontoaly over her shoulders betwixt a painted Cloth and Skin how would he more bless himself to think what mixture in Nature could be guilty of such a Monster Is this the Flesh and Blood thinks he is this the hair Is this the shape of a Woman
Or hath Nature repented of her work since my days and begun a new Frame How had these wantons repind at their Creation and perhaps blasphem'd their Creator had he made them as they have marr'd themselves They had no doubt get a room on the Chronicles amongst the prodigious and Monitrous births had they been born with Moons Stars Crosses Lozenges upon their Cheeks especially had they brought into the world with them a Coach and Horses What does the open shop and sign at the door signify but that there 's somthing venial Nor shall I tax the practice of ambition to shew the sineness clearness and beauty of the Skin tho if it were so I would ask who are concern'd I pray to know what 〈◊〉 what colour it is of but either your Lawful Husbands or unlawful paramours In the mean time 't is too plain That Arrogance and Impudence have usurpt the place and produced the effect of Primitive simplicity and woman are now almost naked but not at all are ashamed Fashion brought in Painting and Antick dresses Fashion brought in Silks and Velvets at one time and Grayes at another and the Tunick and Vest at another Fashion brought in deep Ruffs and shallow Ruffs Thick Ruffs and Thin Ruffs Double Ruffs and no Ruffs Fashion brought in the Vardingale and carried out the Vardingale and hath again revived the Vardingale from the Death and placed it behind like a Rudder or Stern to the body In some so big that Vessel is scarce able to bear it When God shall come to Judge the quick and the dead he will not know those who have so defaced that Fashion which he hath Erected True grace says learned Authour is the most excellent Receipt for beautifying the face Wisdom makes the face to shine There is something tho hard to say what it is in an unaffected gravity an unforced modesty in an ingenious affable deportment free and Natural without starch and pedantry that recommends and endears more to the Acception of the judicious then all the curious mixtures of artificial fading colours Perhaps the evill of thy supposed Defect and shortness is more in fancy then in reality Thou art well enough very well if thou couldst think to When we consider our Moral blemishes we deceiveour selves that we are good because not so bad as the worst but when we reflect on our natural defects we are apt to repine because we are not as good as the best And whilst we pore only on what we want we loose the contentment and our God the glory of what we have And it should be considered that as some designing to make it burn the clearer snuff the candle too long and so near till they quite extinguish it And as others are always carining the vessel of the body with physick washing and tallowing with external applications till they sink it so are many tampering continually to mend the feature and complexion which God made very well because it pleased him to make them no other till they utterly spoil them Palasius o. Ladies of honour Pales the Goddess of Shepherds Pattacus so famous for his Valour and as much renowned for his Wisdom and Justice seasted upon time certain of his Friends who were Stangers His wife coming in the midst of the Dinner being angry of something else overthrew the Table and tumbled down all the Provision inder foot Now when his Guests and Friends were wrongfully dismayed and abashed hereat Pattacus made no more adoâ—â— the matter but turning to them There is not one of us all saith he but he hath his Cross and one thing or other wherewith to exercise his Patience and for my own part this is the only thing that checketh my Felicity for were it not for this Shrewing Wife I were not the happiest man in the World so that of me these Verses may be verified This Man who while he walks the Street Or publick Place is happy thought No sooner sets in House his feet But woe is him and not for ought His Wife him rules and that 's a spight She scolds she fights from moâ— to Night Perfect Beauty To make a perfect Beauty is required a Smooth Complexion white and red and each colour be truly placed and lose themselves imperceptibly the one in the other which some Ladies would express by the new French Phrase demeslee Full Eyes well made of a dark or black colour graceful and casting of lustre A Nose well made neither too big nor too small A little Mouth the upper-Lip resembling a Heart in shape and the under some what larger but both of a vermilion colour as well in Winter as Snnamer and on each side two small dimples easily to be discern'd in their moving upwards which look like a kind of constant smile White Teeth very clean well ranged in order of an equal bigness neither short nor long but very close 〈◊〉 A sorked Chin not too long and hanging double A full round or oval Visage The Temples high rais'd As for the colour of the Hair opinions are various One the fair hair another brown admires A third a colour between both desires But herein all concentre and do rest The colour o' th' lov'd object is the best Therefore 't is indifferent to one which of the three they be provided the Hair be very long and thick loose cleanly kept and a very little frizz'd or curl'd in rings but above all that it be not red nor come near in the rincture For it were disadvantageous to them 〈◊〉 have all the other species 〈◊〉 Beauty if they are of that colour I have a natural antiâ—athy against it insomuch that I oftentimes betake my self to my heels when I spy 〈◊〉 not but they are usually accompanied with a pure 〈◊〉 for which I have a great â—clination but the aversion 〈◊〉 have for the one makes 〈◊〉 abandon the other But to return to the Ladies to whom beauty de jure belongs I am acquainted with some who by their damned Art destroy the most beautiful works of Nature I am sometimes so incensed against them that I have a great mind to put an affront upon them and I have a kind of itching desire to go and rub their cheeks with the liâ—â—le end of my finger to give them to understand the arrifices wherewith they endeavour to abuse them For I phaney no 〈◊〉 but what is natural which I have framâ—ed and am an enemy to those kind of disgifâ—es that in vaitn strive to inâ—â—â—â— the naturals But as the Lover cannot take the same liberty that my absolute Empire over all that is beautiful furnisheth me with to reform all abuses that are committed that which he may do is to take the Lady he waits upon and suspects to be guilty of such sacrifice when she riseth out of her bed 'T is then thaâ— the paint box hath not as yet plaid its part unless by near foresight she made use of it the last night In this case he
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
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
put a Moral to this but rather leave it to your own candid constructions who are best Judges and Interpreters of such matters Top Knots It was a serene Sun shine Morning that Dame Nature came forth from her Retirements to take a Survey of her Works and recreate her self with the Prospect of her own beautiful Image scatter'd through the Universe She beheld the Sun that glorious Fountain of Light casting abroad his Splendors with an unvaâ—led Countenance but the more modest Moon shrouded above half her Face under a Mask unwilling to be exposed to the laseivious Eye of every Endymion she saw the rest of the Planets and Stars bashfully twinkling their innocent Glances at each other and on all the World she travers'd the Elements and observed every thing kept the Order which she had first appointed it But she fix'd a more particular Eye on Man the Master-piece of all her Works the Masterless Epitome of the whole Creation and calling to mind his primitive Perfections with the Tragical Story of his Fall she fetched a deep Sigh which made the Earth to tremble Whilst she was pensively bosied in this Contemplation I perceiv'd her Brows suddenly knit and she gave a start which put all the Elements in a Disorder Looking about me to see what was the Occasion of this violent Passion I beheld a LADY passing by her dress'd Ca-pa-pe-astir the present mode Upon which I heard the Venerable Matron break forth into these Expressions Bless me said she what uncouth Object is this invades my Eyes a thing so forreign to all he known Species of Beings Or am I superâ—nuated and some new Power usurp'd my Place to sorge the World again and hammer out such Forms as ne're before were rank'd in the great List of all my Works Stay thou bold Phantasm tell me what thou art With that the Lady turn'd about and made her this Answer Lady You are merrily disposed Madam and discover the Brillant of Language in your Expressions I am pleased with your Raillery but pray 〈◊〉 News from Paris In what Array did the Dauphiness appear last Ball I am told my Commode is a Tire too low as they adjust it at the French Court. Nature Am I 〈◊〉 or has the Multitude of Years impair'd my Sight and judgment The Voice is Womans but for the prating Figure I want a Name I see a moving Pyramid of Gavities a walking Toy-shop a speaking Gallimuasry of Ribbons Laces Silk and Jewels as if some upstart mimick Nature had been at work on purpose to upbraid my Skill and tell me that in framing Woman I left out the Essentials Whilst Dame Nature was thus expostulating the Case with her felf I heard a sudden Noise rais'd behind me at which looking that way I saw Heraclitus Ridens standing in a Corner ready to break his Twarling string he was so big with Laughter 't is a fine time of day said he with Women when Nature her self will not own 'em as if she were ashamed of her Productions Do but mind yonder Lady she has spent five Hours this Morning in rigging and Câ—reening her self for publick â—â—pearance and I dare be bold to say you may as soon reskoâ— up the Numerous Tackle of a Ship as give the â—â—â— Nomenclature of all the gawdy whim-whams she wears about her You would not wonder at me for changing my Note had you seen as I did what pains this little She-Lucifer took to day to mend the supposed Botchery of Nature in her Face how she hunted after imaginary Faults in her Cheeks to find occasion for Black-Patches how she plac'd and displac'd 'em an 〈◊〉 times over pursuing the least Spot and Freckle in her Skin to a thousand Dilammaes with wash Paint and Patch till tired with the tedious Discipline of her Toilet she fails forth of her Chamber like a new-launch'd Vessel with Pendants and Streamers â—â—ying and all her Female Tackle in order from the Top and Top Gallant to the Hâ—mble Keel Do but regard her Rigging above Deck and you 'd swear she carries Row-Streple upon her Head or the Famous Tower of Severus in Rome on which was built seven Ranks of Pillars one above another Such a lofty Gradition of Top-knots if it proceeds will be friend the Carpenters and Bricklayers for our Gentry and Tradesmen in time will he forced to pull down their low pitch'd Houses and take the height of the Stories in the next Scructure from the elevated Pageant of Trinkets on their Wives and Daughters Heads lest these fine Trappings should be Kidnap'd from their empty Noddles by an unmanerly Brush of the sawcy Ceilings 'T would make a Dog split his Halter to hear the learned Cant between the Mistress and Maid when about the important affair of adjusting her Ladiships Array in a morning you 'd swear they were conjuring they sputter out such a confus'd Jargon of hard words such a Hotch-potch of Mongrel Gibberish Bring me my Palisade there quoth Madam You 'd think she were going to encamp Will it not be convenient to attack your Flandan first says the Maid More Anger yet still Military Terms Let me see says Madam where 's my Câ—rnet Pray â—arine this Favourite So so good words now there 's some hopes of Peace till the blustering Frilal and Burgoign are called for and then the old Catterwawling begins again There is a Clack of Settees Passes Monte la haute Crotches and other Trinkums would make a Man suspect they are raising the Devil at last comes the Siâ—-les front and then Madam is compleatly harnass'd for the Play or the â—â—sterious Ruelle Here Hâ—rocltius made a Digression at the sight of a Troop of Females that were walking by These said he belong to the inferiour Class of Top-knots they are but one Story high yet Do but follow follow 'em and you 'l discover by the Working of their Heads and Tongues that another is a brooding I took his Counsel and keeping at some distance observ'd their Motion I wonder says one of them why the Men should make such a noise about the innocent Arts we use to win their Affections They pretend to love us and yet would confine us to a Dress that would make 'em hate us Whatsoever is not so gay and polite in the World is dispised and trampled on We have reason to hold up our Heads to deck our selves with all the Ornaments that may create Respect in that wild Race Why should not an English commode be as allowable as the Persian Tiara or the Roman Septizonium were of old Away with this servile Restraint Let us appear like Amazons defie the men and all their grave Preachments or lighter Pasqulis I am resolved to be in the mode tho' it should put me to the charge of maintaining a Negro to support the Monumental Vmbretta on my Head With that Dame Nature steps up to her and thus address'd When I first mouldded Woman and sublimated her from the grosser Ore I drew into that fair
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