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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45754	The ladies dictionary, being a general entertainment of the fair-sex a work never attempted before in English.	N. H.; Dunton, John, 1659-1733.	1694 (1694)	Wing H99; ESTC R6632	671,643	762

idem deno●at a fine thin Skin within the Body dividing the Flesh or any near Member one from the another Also a Skin like a Cap wherein divers Children are born And the Skin in wraping the Brains are call'd Films the inmost which is next the Brain is also called pia meninx or pia mater the other dura meninx or dura mater The Infant has three Teguments or Membranous Films which cover it in the Womb that is the Corion Amnios and Allantois Whereof see more in Vulg. Error pag. 269. Flabel flabellum a Fan. Footing-time Nf. when the Child-bed Woman gets up Forfeiture of Marriage a Writ against one under Age and holding by Knights Service who refused to Marry her whom his Lord preferr'd without his Disparagement Faunrekynes o. little Infants Fricasse Fr. fricassee any Meat fry'd in a Pan. Frances a Womans Name Frank-bank Free-bench the Dower of Copy-hold lands which the wife being espoufed a Virgin hath after her Husband's Decease Friga a Saxon Goddess in the shape of an Hermophradite Frontal frontale a Frontlet or attire of the Forehead Frumenty from frumention i.e. Wheat so called because it is a kind of Pottage made of Milk and Wheat Froise a Pancake with Bacon intermix Furina a Roman Goddess Patroness of Thieves Frussian stuff made of Cotton or the Down of an Egyptian Fruit. Furies furie three imaginary Fiends or Spirits in Hell having Snakes growing on them instead of Hairs Poets feign them to be the Daughters of the River Aenerou and Night and to have the Office of Tormenting Souls of Murtherers and wicked Men their Names were Alecio i.e. uncessantly Tormenting Megara i.e. enraged And Tysiphone i.e. the Avenger of Murder Fufil Lat. fufillis a little Spindle Festoon-ton f. Encarpo g. a Garland of Fruits or Flower-works in Graven or Embossed work Figuretto a kind of stuff Figurrd or flowered Filly foal a mare colt Flora the Goddess of flowers otherwise called Cloris Floramor flower of Love Flaunes o. Custards Foraign-project to provide Maids with Husbands approved on with an Account what that Project was It may justly astonish us to consider how industrious and careful so great and wise a State as that of Athens was to promote the Marriage of the poorest Virgin among them that of Aristogeton's Daughter may serve for an instance who being a poor Girl in an mean Island and living under great poverty was by the order of the Council brought into Athens and there Married at the Publick Expence We do not find the Patriarchs chaffering for Portions Isaac that was so great an Heir as that his Father out of his own House did raise three Hundred and eighteen Men born in his Service was at the charge of sending for a Wife without a Portion and Jacob with fourteen years Service purchased his As the World increased in Mony so it did in this Sin and both united to hinder the Ordinance of God turning the Command of Increasing and Multiplying Men into increase and multiply more of which we may say as it was in another case though much to the same purpose in the beginning it was not so There are some now living in these Kingdoms that remember when Money was the least part considered in Marriage when that Sum would have been thought a Fortune for a Lord that is now dispised by a Merchant yet then there were few dyed without Posterity and as few dyed for want or that which is worse lived like Beasts of Prey on the Labours of others Lycurgus among his Laws to the Spartans enjoyned this for one That they who lived unmarried and childless should be debarr'd from all sports and forced to go naked in the Winter about the Market-place and in the Spartan Laws there were the same punishments for bad Husbands as for them that were none both being thought equally mischievous to the Commonwealth and neither to be suffered Solon made a Law That there should be no Jointures nor Dowers and that Wives should bring their Husbands but Three Gowns with some other small Trisles of small value forbidding Portions which he looked upon as buying of Husbands and so making Merchandize of Marriage as of other Trades contrary to the Law of Nature and first design of the Institution which was for the increase of Children hence was he wont to 〈◊〉 That Men and Women should Marry for Issue Pleasure and Love but in no case for Money The Romans were so careful in this matter that they made Laws vouchsaffing divers Immunities and Priviledges to such as had many Children as we may see by 〈◊〉 particular Laan Julia or Papia which obliged all Men to take Wives and none to be excepted And not only they but a worse People the Persians had in former times a Custom to Honour Men once a year with some Gratuity from their King who had a Child that year by his Wife respecting him as a Man that had gained an e●teem in the Service of his Country by the Laws of Lycurgus Men that would not marry were to be deem'd infamous and to have no respect paid to them consonant to which is that Passage related by Plu●reb of Dorcillidas who coming into Prison where there was a young man who gave him no respect not even stirring from his place and being asked why he shewed him no re●erence seeing that he was a Man of Honour made the following Reply Because he was not the Father of a Son who might hereafter do as much for him We come nearer home and find at this day in some parts of Germany a Custom formerly more universal once a year at a general meeting in the City or Town to present Gifts and to give publick applause with loud Acclamations to such as were married and had Children that year thus Ecchoing out their Praises These are they that replenish the World As to Widowhood 't was forbidden by the Romans to have any Allowance in the Common-Wealth in case they were not superannuated The Nostranes in the East have so vast a veneration for Marriage that as soon as the married Couple has a Male-Child the Father loses his name and is called by that of his Eldest Son as supposing the Fathers name Isaac and the Son to be called Joseph he is no more named Isaac but Abba Joseph I have heard of a Custom amongst those worst of Men the Irish which may teach us Charity and that is before their Daughters are thirteen years of age they go about among all their Friends and Acquaintance taking the young Girl with them to shew that she is capable of Marriage This accounted sufficient Intimation to their Friends to understand their Design and therefore they need do no more but are immediately answer'd with what they can spare which is commonly in Cattel for they have little Mony This I have heard is a frequent Practice amongst them at this day and so general that a poor Man who may not be Master of six Cows himself will commonly

a Goddess also among the Grecians She was accounted the Daughter of Heaven and Earth Painted Young Lively and Gay to manifest her Vigor and the Lustre that attends on victory and with wings by reason of her unconstancy and doubtful success Crowned with Lawrel as an Eternal renown with a Palm branch in her hand signifying unconquerable courage that Tree the more it is oppressed the more it Flourishes Vaistai the Beautiful Wife of King Abasuerus the great of Persia. She was deposed from her Royal dignity and Hester made Queen in her stead because she refused t● come and show the Nobles her Beauty when the King sent for her at his Royal Feast Virginiana the Goddess of Virgins invoked by both Sex for Marriage and held to take care of untying Virgins Girdles on the Wedding Nights Virginia a Roman Lady she built a Temple of the Phebian Pudicity of Chastiry But Lucian discribes her melancholly hanging down her Head ill clad and sore afflicted and abused by Fortune insomuch that she was prohibited to appear before Jupiter least being of his Ofspring she should in so mean a Condition disgrgace him She had two Temples at Rome one built by Marcellus and the other by Caius Marius and there she is represented like a Grave Matron clad in White denoting Innocence sealed on a Square Stone Venturia Mother of Coriolan who when he Waged War against Rome and laid strait Seige to it went with divers other Roman Ladies to his Tent and with her Tears and Persuasions obliged him to raise the Siege when that rich City was at the point of yielding Whereupon the Senate in honour to her Memory built a Temple to Fortune wherein Women sacrificed on the day the Siege was raised Vorine Wife of Victorine who was Associated to the Empire by Posthum●s she was a Lady of extraordinary courage and wit insomuch that 〈◊〉 thought himself not 〈◊〉 in the Empire till she was dispatched Voluptas stiled the Goddess of Pleasure To her the Ro●●s in the heighth of their luxury built a Temple seating her as a Queen upon a Throne with Vertue at her 〈◊〉 Voluntina was another of ●●●ir Goddesses who took 〈◊〉 of the straw that sup●●ted the Ears of Corn that should be strong to bear it ●wors● bring it to ripening ●rfine marryed to Guy Tor●●● Count of Gu●st●lle an 〈◊〉 Town in the Dukedom 〈◊〉 she is highly seemed for her Courage 〈◊〉 when her Husband 〈◊〉 absent the Venetians being the place she failled and beat them from the 〈◊〉 with great slanghter 〈◊〉 divers of them with ●own hand 〈◊〉 Ursula or the Order 〈◊〉 Vrsulines a Monastry of young Women and Widows following the Rules of St. Augustine Now being spread into divers Congregations the Institution of them was to teach young Girls and train them up in curious Works of divers kinds Under Cook-Maids If you would so fit your self for this Employment as that it may be a means of raising you to higher preferment you must be careful to be diligent and willing to do what you are bid to do and though your Employment be greasy and smooty yet if you be careful you may keep your self from being Nasty Therefore let it be your Care to keep your self Neat and Clean observe every thing in Cookery that is done by your Superior or Head-Cook treasure it up in your Memory and when you meet with a convenient opportunity put that in practice which you have observed this Course will advance you from a Drudge to be a Cook another day Every one must have a beginning and if you be ingenious and bend your mind to it and be willing to learn there is none will be so Churlish or unkind as to be unwilling to teach you but if you be stubborn and careless and not give your mind to learn who do you think will be willing to teach you You must beware of Gossips and Chair-Women for they will 〈◊〉 you take heed of the Solicitations of the Flesh for they will undo you and though you may have mean thoughts of your self and think none will meddle with such as you it is a mistake for sometimes brave Gallants will fall soul upon the Wench in the Scullery Dairy-Maids Those who would endeavour to gain the Esteem and Reputation of good Dairy-Maids must be careful that their Vessals be scalded well and kept very clean that they Milk their Cattle in due time for the Kine by Custom will expect it though you neglect which will tend much to their detriment The hours and times most approved and commonly used for Milking are in the Spring and summer time between five and six in the Morning and six and seven in the Evening And in the Winter between seven and eight in the Morning and four and five in the Evening In the next place you must be careful that you do not waste your Cream by giving it away to liquorish Persons You must keep your certain days for your Churning and be sure to make up your butter neatly and cleanly washing it well from the Butter-Milk and then Salt it well You must be careful to make your Cheeses good and tender by well ordering of them and see that your Hoggs have the Whey and that it be not given away to Gossiping and Idle people who lives meerly upon what they can get from Servants That you provide your Winter Butter and Cheese in Summer as in May And when your Rowings come in be sparing of your Fire and do not Lavish away your Milk Butter or Cheese If you have any Fowls so Fat look to them that it may be for your Credit and not your Shame when they are brought to Table When you Milk the cattle stroke them well ans in the Summer time save those stroking by themselves to put into your Morning Milk Cheese I look upon it ●● be altogether needless so to give you any Direction for the making of Butter or Cheese since there ar● very few especially in t●● Country that can be ignorant thereof I shall only say that the best time 〈◊〉 put up Butter for Winter is in the Month of May for the● the Air is m●●● temperate and the Butter will take Salt best However it may be done at any time betwixt May and S●p●ber Vil●●ing Friends c. He 's an happy Man now that can drive his Pedigree from William the Conqueror tho' some Women whose Husbands are great Antiquaries will go a great deal farther at a Christ'ning and in the heat of Contention when Priority comes to be disputed when derive themselves from the eldest Maid of Honour to Nimrod's Wife But let that alone Most certainly it may so happen that a Man may marry a Wife that has had a great many Relations that live in the Country and a Woman may marry a Man that has as many For it you ask a Citizen where he was born there 's not one in Forty but will cry in Gloucestershire Devonshire Kent Norfolk