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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16659	The English gentlevvoman, drawne out to the full body expressing, what habilliments doe best attire her, what ornaments doe best adorne her, what complements doe best accomplish her. By Richard Brathvvait Esq.	Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1631 (1631)	STC 3565; ESTC S122488	147,901	276

the graine of infection can put off her habituate corruption Be it then your principall care to make choyce of such bashfull Maids modest Matrons or reuerend Widdowes as hold it their best Complement to retaine the opinion of being Continent Infamy hath wings as swift as fame Shunne the occasion lest you vndergoe the brand Posthuma because giuen to laughter and something forward to talke with men was suspected of her honesty where being openly accused she was acquitted by Spurius Minutius with this caueat to vse words sutable to her life Ciuility trust me is the best and most refined Complement that may be Courting in publike places and vpon first sight it affects not for it partakes more of impudent than Complete Be it of the City that argument of discourse be ministred it can talke freely of it without mincing or of the Court it can addresse it selfe to that garbe in apt words without minting or of the Countrey in an home-spun phrase it can expresse whatsoeuer in the Countrey deserues most prayse And all this in such a proper and familiar manner as such who are tied to Complement may aspire to it but neuer attaine it Hee that hath once tasted of the fountaine Clitorius will neuer afterward drinke any wine Surely howsoeuer this ciuil and familiar forme of dialect may seeme but as pure running water in comparison of Complement which like Nectar streames out in Conduits of delight to the humorous hearer yet our discreet Complementer preferres the pure fountaine before the troubled riuer It is true that many fashions which euen these later times haue introduc'd deserue free admittance yea there is something yet in our Oaâ—e that may be refined Yet in the acceptance of these you are not to entertaine whatsoeuer these finer times haue brought forth Where variety is affected and the age to inconstancy subiected so as nothing but what is rare and new becomes esteemed Either must our inuentions be present and pregnant our surueyes of forraine places serious and sollicitant or we shall fall into decay of fashion or make old ones new and so by antiquity gull our Nation Truth is though our tongues hands bodies and legges be the same our Elocution action gesture and posture are not the same Should the soule of Troilus according to that erroneous transmâ—gration of Pythagoras passe into the body of one of oâ—r English Courtiers or Hortensius who was an Orator actiâ—e enough into one of our English Lawyers or Antigone who was Complementall enough into one of our English Curtezans they would finde strange Cottages to dwell in What is now held Complete a few yeares will bury in disgrace Nothing then so refined if on earth seated which time will not raze or more curious conceits disesteeme or that vniuersall reduction to nothing dissolue That Complement may seeme pleasing such a fashion generally affecting such a dressing most Complete yet are all these within short space couered with contempt What you obserue then to be most ciuill in others affect it such an habit needs not to be refined which cannot be bettered Fashion is a kinde of frenzy it admires that now which it will laugh at hereafter when brought to better temper Ciuility is neuer out of fashion it euer retaines such a seemely garbe as it conferres a grace on the wearer and enforceth admiration in the beholder Age cannot deface it Contempt disgrace it nor grauity of iudgement which is euer held a serious Censor disapproue it Be thus minded and this Complement in you will be purely refined You haue singular patternes to imitate represent them in your liues imitate them in your loues The Corruption of the age let it seize on ignoble spirits whose education as it neuer equall'd yours so let them strike short of those nobler indowments of yours labour daily to become improued honour her that will make you honoured let vertue be your crowne who holds vanity a crime So may you shew holinesse in your life enioy happinesse at your death and leaue examples of goodnesse vnto others both in life and death COurts eminent places are held fittest Schooles for Complement Wherein Complement may be admitted as mainely consequent There the Cinnamon tree comes to best grouth there her barke giues sweetest scent Choice and select fashions are there in onely request which oft-times like those Ephemerae expire after one dayes continuance whatsoeuer is vulgar is thence exploded whatsoeuer nouell generally applauded Here be weekely Lectures of new Complements which receiue such acceptation and leaue behinde them that impression as what garbe soeuer they see vsed in Court publikely is put in present practise priuately lest discontinuance should blemish so deseruing a quality The Courts glosse may be compared to glasse bright but brittle where Courtiers saith one are like Counters Plutarch which sometime in account goe for a thousand pound and presently before the Count be cast but for a single penny This too eager affection after Complement becomes the consumption of many large hereditaments Whereto it may be probably obiected that euen disâ—â—â—tion inioynes euery one to accommodate himselfe to the fashion or condition of that place wherein he liues To which Obiection I easily condescend for should a rusticke or boorish Behauiour accompany one who betakes himseâ—fe to the Court he might be sure to finde a Controuler in euery corner to reproue him or some complete gallant or other pittifully to geere and deride him But to dote so on fashion as to admire nothing more then a phantasticke dressing or some anticke Complement which the corruption of an effeminate State hath brought in derogates more from discretion then the strict obseruance of any fashion addes to her repute This place should be the Beacon of the State whose mounting Prospect surueyes these inferiour coasts which pay homage and fealty vnto her The least obliquity there is exemplary elsewhere Piercingst iudgements as well as pregnantst wits should be there resident Not a wandring or indisposed haire but giues occasion of obseruance to such as are neere How requisite then is it for you whose Nobler descents promise yea exact more of you then inferiours to expresse your selues best in these best discerning and deseruing places You are women modesty makes you completest you are Noble women desert accompanying your descent will make you noblest You may and conueniency requires it retaine a Courtly garbe reserue a well seeming State and shew your selues liuely Emblemes of that place wherein you liue You may entertaine discourse to allay the irkesomenesse of a tedious houre bestow your selues in other pleasing recreations which may no lesse refresh the minde than they conferre vigour and viuacity to the body You may be eminent starres and expresse your glory in the resplendent beames of your vertues so you suffer no blacke cloud of infamy to darken your precious names She was a Princely Christian Courtier who neuer approached the Court but shee meditated of the Court of heauen neuer

from humane singularity they came to Pure Wooll because it was lighter than Skinnes After that to rindes of trees to wit Flax. After that to the dung and ordure of Wormes to wit Sâ—â—ke Lastly to Gold and Siluer and precious Stones Which preciousnesse of attire highly displeaseth God For instance whereof which the very Pagans themselues obserued we read that the very first among the Romans whoeuer wore Purple was strucke with a Thunder-bolt and so dyed suddenly for a terror and mirror to all succeeding times that none should attempt to lift himselfe proudly against God in precious attire The second point reprehensible is Softnesse or Delicacy of Apparell Soft Cloathes introduce soft mindes Delicacy in the habit begets an effeminacy in the heart Iohn Baptist who was sanctified in his mothers wombe wore sharpe and rough garments Whence wee are taught that the true seruant of God is not to weare garments for beauty or delight but to couer his nakednesse not for State or Curiosity but necessity and conuenience Christ saith in his Gospell They that are clad in soft rayments are in Kings houses Whence appeareth a maine difference betwixt the seruants of Christ and of this world The seruants of this world seeke delight honour and pleasure in their attire whereas the seruants of Christ so highly value the garment of innocence as they loath to staine it with outward vanities It is their honour to put on Christ Iesus other robes you may rob them of and giue them occasion to ioy in your purchase The third thing reproueable is forraine Fashions When we desire nothing more than to bring in some Outlandish habit different from our owne in which respect so Apishly-anticke is man it becomes more affected than our owne Against such the Lord threatneth Zephan 1. I will visit the Princes and the Kings children and all such as are cloathed with strange Apparell Which strange Apparell is after diuers fashions and inuentions wholly vnknowne to our Ancestors Which may appeare sufficiently to such who within this 30 or 40 or 60 yeares neuer saw such cutting caruing nor indenting as they now see The fourth thing reproueable is Superfluity of Apparell expressed in these three particulars first in those who haue diuers changes and suits of Cloaths who had rather haue their garments eaten by moâ—ths than they should couer the poore members of Christ. The naked cry the needy cry and shreekingly complaine vnto vs how they miserably labour and languish of hunger and cold What auailes it them that wee haue such changes of rayments neatly plaited and folded rather than wee will supply them they must be starued How doe such rich Moath-wormes obserue the Doctrine of Christ when he saith in his Gospell Hee that hath two Coats let him giue one to him that hath none Secondly wee are to consider the Superfluity of such who will haue long garments purposely to seeme greater yet which of these can adde one cubit to his stature This puts me in remembrance of a conceited story which I haue sometimes heard of a diminutiue Gentleman who demanding of his Tayler what yards of Sattin would make him a Suite being answered farre short in number of what he expected with great indignation replied Such an one of the Guard to my knowledge had thrice as much for a Suite and I will second him Which his Tayler with small importunacy condescended to making a Gargantnâ—'s Suite for this Ounce of mans flesh reseruing to himselfe a large portion of shreads purposely to forme a fitter proportion for his Ganimede shape The third Superfluity ariseth from their vanity who take delight in wearing great sleeues mishapen Elephantine bodies traines sweeping the earth with huge poakes to shroud their phantasticke heads as if they had committed some egregious fact which deserued that censure for in the Easterne Countreyes it hath beene vsually obserued that such light Women as had distained their honour or laid a publike imputation on their name by consenting to any libidinous act were to haue their heads sow'd vp in a poake to proclaime their shame and publish to the world the quality of their sinne NOw to insist more punctually on that effeminatour both of youth and age Delicacy of Apparell Delicacy of Apparell I would haue our Daughters of Albion reflect vpon themselues those poore shells of corruption what a trimming and tricking they bestow on their brittle houses Petrarchs aduice was that we should not be afraid though our out-houses these structures of our bodies were shaken so our soules the guests of our bodies fared well Whereas contrariwise these whose onely care is to delude the outward appearance with a seeming faire so they may preserue the varnish disualue the foundation O may this folly be a stranger to our Nation To allay which fury at temper which frenzy I hold no receit more soueraigne than to enter into a serious meditation of your frailty As first to consider what you were before your birth secondly what from your birth to your death lastly what after death If you reflect vpon the first you shall finde that you haue beene what before you were not afterwards were what now you are not first made of vile matter see the Embleme of humane nature wrapped in a poore skinne nourished in an obscure place your Coate the second skinne till you came to a sight of the Sunne which you entertained with a shreek implying your originall sinne Thus attired thus adorned came you to vs what makes you then so vnmindfull of that poore case wherein you came among vs Hath beauty popular applause youthfull heate or wealth taken from you the knowledge of your selues Deriue your pedigree and blush at your matchlesse folly that pride should so highly magnifie it selfe in dust or glory most in that which brings with it the most shame Why doe you walke with such haughty necks why doe you extoll your selues so highly in these Tabernacles of earth Attend and consider you were but vilde corrupted seede at the first and now fuller of pollution than at the first Entring the world with a shreeke to expresse your ensuing shame you became afterwards exposed to the miseries of this life and to sinne in the end wormes and wormes meat shall you be in the graue Why then ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ you proud ye dusty shrines yee earthen vessels seeing your conception was impurity birth misery life penalty death extremity Why doe ye embellish and adorne your flesh with such port and grace which within some few dayes wormes will deuoure in the graue Meane time you neglect the incomparable beauty of your soules For with what ornaments doe ye adorne them With what sweet odors or spirituall graces doe ye perfume them With what choyce Flowers of piety and deuotion doe ye trim them What Habits doe ye prepare for them when they must bee presented before him who gaue them How is it that ye so disesteeme the soule preferring the flesh before her For the Mistresse to

Gentlewomen whose generous birth should bee adorned with vâ—rtuous worth and so make you mouing Obiects of imitation both in life and death Are you nobly descended Ennoble that descent with true desert Doe not thinke that the priuilege of greatnesse can bee any subterfuge to guiltinesse Your more ascending honour requires more than a Common lustre In places of publike resort you challenge precedency and it is granted you Shall the highest place haue the least inward grace No let not a word fall from you that may vnbeseeme you Others are silent when you discourse let it be worth their attention lest a presumption of your owne worth draw you into some friuolous excursion There is not an accent which you vtter a sentence you deliuer any motion in your carriage or gesture which others eye not and eying assume not Your Retinue is great your family gracious your actions should be the life of the one and line of direction to the other To see a light Lady descending from a noble Family is a Spectacle of more spreading infamy than any subiect of inferiour quality I cannot approue of this Apish kinde of formality which many of our better sort vse it detracts from their descent to make affectation their Tutresse They were free-borne nothing then that is seruile can become them It is nothing to retaine the fauour or feature of your Ancestors and to estrange you from that which truly dignifi'd your Ancestors Vertues haue more liuing Colours and are seconded with more lasting honours than any outward beauties You deceiue your selues if you thinke that honour receiued her first life from descent no It was demerit that made descent capable of honour A Pedigree argues your Gentility but had not some deseruing action beene you had neuer attained to any noble Pedigree For Gentility is not to be measured by antiquity of time but precedency in worth If brackish or troubled water seldome come from a pure Spring wild and vnsauory fruit from a good tree whence is it that noble Predecessors whose pure blood was neuer corrupted with any odious staine should bring forth such degenerating scienes Surely this generally proceeds from the too much liberty that is granted to our youth whose inclinations though otherwise good and equally disposed are vsually by Custome which becomes a Second nature miserably depraued Society they affect and this infects them repaire to publike places they admit and this corrupts them Those eminent examples which their Noble Progenitors left them become buried with them They comply with the time Vertue they say can hardly subsist where Vice is in highest request What though Plato aduise them to make choyce of the best way of liuing which may be easily effected by assiduate vse and daily custome they haue learned to inuert his rule by affecting that custome most which tends to the practice of vertue least Besides there is another reason which may be probably alleaged why generous descents become so much corrupted and vertuous Parents by vitious Children so frequently seconded Our Nobler women though in other respects truly imitable and for their vertuous Conuersation admirable come short in one peculiar duty which euen Nature exacts of them and which being duely perform'd would doubtlesly no lesse enable and ennoble them who are descended from them than any particular were it neuer so powerfull that could informe them These which are mothers by generation are seldome their Nurcing-mothers by education No maruell then if they degenerate when they partake of the natures of other women Though their owne mothers blood streame through their veines a strangers milke must feed them which makes them participate of their nature as they are fed with their substance Wheresoeuer the Nurses milke is receiued the Nurses manners are likewise retained Whence it was that Chrysippus expresly commanded that the very best and wisest Nurses should be made choice of that what good blood had infused might not by ill milke be infected It was the ioynt aduice both of Plutarch and Phaâ—orine that a mother should bee her childrens Nurse because commonly with the milke of the Nurse they sucke the quality or condition of her life Yea according to ancient Decree women were bound to nurse their owne children and not to haâ—e any other women vnlesse necessity enforc'd them to nurse them Let this then bee rectifi'd yee whose Noble descents haue made you eminent in the eye of the world and whom Gods blessing hath made fruitfull Mothers to bring forth a faire and hopefull increase vnto the world nurse them with your owne milke this will expresse in you a motherly careâ— to them beget in them a greater measure of child-like loue to you Your care the more it is parentall will exact of them a loue more faithfull and filiall Nurse them I say with the milke of your owne brests to feed them with the milke of your owne liues to informe them So shall their actions proue them to bee your Successours when they shall not onely deriue their blood from you but on this Theatre of humane frailty shall publish themselues to be true representers of you For in vaine is your blood to them deriued if your memory by their vertues be not reuiued Giue them then that which may make them yours Goodnesse may bee blamed but her succeeding memory can neuer be blanchâ—d Thus shall you not onely shew your selues worthy of that house from whence you came but after your period on earth bee receiu'd into a more glorious house in time to come IT is not the Nobility of descent but of vertues that makes any one a gracefull and acceptable Seruitour in the Court of heauen Houses are distinguished by Coats and Câ—â—sts but these are dignifi'd by something â—â—se In Heraldry those are euer held to be the best Coats that are deblazonâ—â— with least charge Vertue the best Coat Consequently then must vertue needs be the best Coat Shee requires the least charge in her attire shee is not sumptuous in her fare delicious nor in her retinue the more is the pitty numerous She confines her desires vpon earth within a strait Circumference a very small portion of that mettall will content her She sees none so great in the Court as may deserue her enuy none so rich in the City as may beget in her an earthly desire none so repos'd in the Countrey as to induce her to change her state Shee is infinitely happy in that shee aymes at no other happinesse than where it is to bee found Ambition may display her Pie-colour'd flagge but shee will neuer get vertue to be her follower Her desires are pitcht vpon a farre more transcendent honour than these State-corriuals on earth can ere afford her or by their competition take from her Pleasure may cast out her Lure but vertue is so high a flyer as shee scornes to stoupe to ought vnworthy of her it pleaseth her to contemplate that on earth which she is to enioy in heauen

I do not moue you to be too open-hearted or if so not too liberally to expresse it this were no discouery of fancy but folly So conceale your loue as your louer may not despaire of all hope to obtaine your loue Indifferent Curtsies you may shew without lightnesse and receiue them too in lieu of thankfulnesse I leaue it to your discretion to distinguish times and places for these may either improue or impaire the opportunity of such like Curtsies Doe not immure your beauties as if a iealousie of your owne weaknesse had necessitated this restraint There can be no Conquest where there is no Contest Conuerse with loue conceit with your selues whom you could like This your cooler temper may admit and stâ—â—l retaine that liberty which is fit â—alconers vse many meanes to make their Hawks sharpe they begin with short flights till weathring bring them to endure longer Pigmalions image receiued noâ— life in all parts at once first it took warmth after that vitall motion Is loue coole in you let a kindly warmth heat that coldnesse Is Loue dull in you let a liuely agility quicken that dulnesse Is loue coy in you Let a louely affability supple that coynesse So in short time you may haue a full rellish of loues sweetnesse Now wee come to the attemperament of these wherein we are to extract out of grosser mettals some pure Oare which wee must refine before it can giue any true beauty to this specious palace of loue Draw neare then and attend to what of necessity you must obserue if euer you meane to deserue HER loue whom you are in Ciuility bound to serue In Sicilia there is a fountaine called Fons Solis Poâ—p Mela. out of which at Mid-day when the Sun is nearest floweth cold water at Midnight when the Sunne is farthest off sloweth hot water This should be the liuely Embleme of your state Gentlewomen who now after those cooler vapours of your frozen affection dispersed those lumpish and indisposed humors dispelled and those queasie risings of your seeming coynesse dispossessed haue felt that chaste amorous fire burne in you which will make you of shamefaste Maids modest Matrons When the heat of passion is at Mid-day I meane his full height with those to whom faith hath engag'd you and loue before the hostage of that faith confirm'd you then are you to resemble the quality of that fountaine by flowing with colâ— water of discretion and sweet temper An Explanation of the Embleme to allay that heat lest it weaken those you loue by giuing way to passion which patience cannot chuse but loath Againe when heat is farthest off and prouidence begins to labour of a lethargy when seruants remit their care neglect their charge and the whole family grow out of order through the coldnesse of a remisse Master resemble then that fountaine by flowing with hot water win and weane these whom loue and loyalty haue made yours with warme coniugall teares to compassionate their neglected estate and by timely preuention to auert the fate of improuident husbands Or thus Another proper application of this Embleme if you please may you make your selues gracious Emblemes of that fountaine Doth the Sun shine at Mid-day and in his fullest height on you Do the beams of prosperity reflect brightly on you Flow with cold water allay this your heat and height of prosperity with some cooling thoughts of aduersity lest prosperity make you forget both the Author of it and in the end how to bestow it Againe doth the Sunne shine farthest off you Doth not one small beameling of prosperous successe cheere you Flow with hot water vanquish aduersity with resolution of temper Desist not from labour because fortune seconds not your endeuour To conclude as your wild fancy if you were euer surpriz'd of any is now rectifi'd your coolenesse heatned your coynesse banished so conforme your selues to them whom one heart hath made one with you as no Clowd of aduersity may looke so blacke no beame of prosperity shine so cleare wherein you may not with an equall embrace of both estates beare your share THE ENGLISH Gentlevvoman Argument Gentility is deriued from our Ancestors to vs but soone blanched if not reuiued by vâ— Vertue the best Coat A shamefasteâ—ed the best colour to deblazon that Coat Gentility is not knowne by what we weare but what we are There are natiue seeds of goodnesse sowne in generous bloods by lineall succession How these may be ripened by instruction GENTILITY Gentility GENTILITY consists not so much in a lineall deblazon of Armes Obseruat 7. as personall expression of vertues Gentility is dâ—riued from our Ancestors to vs but soone blanched if not reuiued by vs. Yea there is no Ornament-like vertue to giue true beauty to descent What is it to be descended great to retaine the priuilege of our blood to be ranked highest in an Heralds booke when our liues cannot adde one line to the memorable records of our Ancestors There should be no day without a line if we desire to preserue in vs the honour of our Line Those Odours then deserue highest honours that beautifie vs liuing and preserue our memory dying Should we call to mind all those our Ancestors who for so many preceding ages haue gone before vs and whose memory now sleeps in the dust we should perchance finde in euery one of them some eminent quality or other if a true suruey of their deseruing actions could bee made knowne vnto vs yea we should vnderstand that many of them held it their highest grace to imitate their Predecessors in some excellent vertue the practice whereof they esteemed more prayse-worthy than the bare title of Gentility Now what iust reproofe might we deserue if neither those patternes which our Ancestors had nor the vertuous examples of our Ancestors themselues can perswade vs to be their followers Their blood streames through our veynes why should not their vertues shine in our liues Their mortality we carry about with vs but that which made them immortally happy wee retaine not in vs. Their Gentility wee clayme the priuileges they had by it we retaine Meane time where is that in vs that may truly Gentilize vs and designe vs theirs What a poore thing is it to boast of that our blood is nobler our descent higher Tell me can any one prescribe before Adam And what shall he finde in that first Ancestor of his but red clay The matter whereof he was made it was no better nor can we suppose our morter to bee purer Hee most emphatically described our Genealogy who cryed Earth Earth Earth Earth by Creation Condition Dissolution No lesse fully vnderstood he the quality of his Composition with the root from whence he tooke his beginning who called Earth his Mother Wormes his Brethren and Sisters His Kinsfolkes hee could not much boast of they were such inferiour Creatures no strutters in the street but despicable Creepers Let me now reflect vpon you

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