out-vies the shambles for a sent Yet if she have cash Oh how amiable is she without doubt she hath no lesse then twenty Suitors never rack she 's good enough Est natura hominum to love those that are fortunate and rich that thrive let them get it as they will by hook or crook all 's one so they have it De moribus ultima fiet qnestio to enquire of her conditions and Education is the last interrogatory But let me assure you these being joyned together the seene is altered on a suddain their love is converted into hate their mirth into melancholy having only fixed their affections upon this object of commodity the desire of which in excesse is meer covetousnesse and on the otherside their hate is furiously bent upon the Woman she becomes an abject and an odious object unto them Now to turn the current of our discourse to the other sex for this desire of lucre is not adherent to men only but that there are some of the female train of the same temper Let the Man be what he will let him be cast in Esops mould with his back like a Lute and his face like Thersites his eyes broad and tawny his lips of the largest size in folio able to furnish a Coblers shop with clouting-leather if he have but a golden hand Midas's touch or loadened with golden pockets immediately they salute him with an easement Ego te hoc fasce levabo and it is reason you should do it replies the Woodcock yielding up the souls of his pockets for the hopes of a smile embrace or a kisse And having emptied them stuffe them up again with frowning looks and serve him like a sheep in June turned forth for a bare neck'd Ewe to seek a ruffe for the piece next below his coxcombe Money hath a significant voice semper ad placitum always pleasing always grateful He that will learn to win by smooth perswasion Must practise much the Topick cal'd Donation Strowing the path by which he means to passe With the sweet flowers of yellow-fac'd Midas So shall he finde all easie to his will Come in at 's pleasure and be welcome still But the truly handsome compleat and meritorious that cannot shew the face of a Jacobus that hath not pocket Angels for his gardians shall live at a distance from gratia dei the grace of her good liking he shall passe by for vas vacuum and be embarked in the ship of Scorn to be conpucted to the haven of heavinesse and thrust upon the shore as an exile of never return again Yet I would rather wish Ladies to let the picture of Love be the emblem of their hearts and not these inferiour pictures which we call money which are so far from satisfying the affection as they are only for the Mold or Worldling whose grosser thoughts never yet aspired to the knowledge of Loves definition Also it shewes a servile nature to cashire a faithfull Lover because he is poor and to prefer another lesse desertfull because he is rich We will now declare what the Poets say is the cause of Love They say that when Jupiter first formed Man and all souls he touched every one with severall pieces of Loadstone and afterwards put all the pieces in a place by themselves likewise the souls of Women after he had touched them he put them in a Magazine by themselves afterwards when he had sent the souls into bodies he brought those of the Women to the place where the Load-stones were which touched the Men and made every one to take one piece if there were any theevish souls they took several pieces and hid them Now when that Man meets with that Woman that hath the piece which touched his soul it is impossible but he must love her the Loadstone which she hath doth attract his soul And from hence doth proceed the several effects of Love for those who are loved of many are those theevish souls who took many pieces of the Loadstone if any do love one who loves not him aagain that was one who took his Loadstone but he not hers And from hence say they comes it to passe that we do often see some persons love others who in our eyes are nothing amiable Also from hence proceed those strange loves which sometimes fals out as that a Gaul brought up amongst many beauties fals in love with a barbarous stanger Fonseca holds and I am of the same minde there is something in a Woman beyond all humane delight a magnetick virtue a charming quality and a powerful motive To illustrate this There is a story recorded in the Lives of the Fathers of a Childe whose Education was in a Desert from his infancy by an old Hermite being come to mans estate he accidentally spied two comely Women wandering in the Woods he enquired of the Hermite having never seen such before in his life what creatures they were the Hermite told him that they were Fairies after some tract of time being in discourse the Hermite demanded of him which was the pleasantest and most delectable sight that ever he saw in his life He readily replyed without any pause or further consideration the two Fairies he espied in the Desert So that indubitably there is in a fair and beautiful Woman a magnetick power and a natural imbred affection which moves our concupiscence And this surely proceeds from the particular institutes of nature and the perfections a Man imagins in another creature of his likeness which he thinks may become another self for with the distinction of sexes which nature hath bestowed on man as well as irrationall creatures she hath put certaine impressions in the brain as in this young man which makes a Man at a certain age and at a certain season to look on himself as defective and as if he were but the half of an whole whereof a person of the other sex ought to be the other half so that the acquisition of this half is represented to us confusedly by nature as the greatest of all imaginable goods and although he see many persons of the other sex he doth not therefore desire many at the same time by reason Nature makes him conceive that he hath need of no more but one half but when he observes some thing in any one that likes him better then any thing he hath marked at the same time in the rest that fixes the soul to feel all the inclination which nature hath given him to seek after that good that she represents to him as the greatest he can possibly possesse on that Woman only and this is it which furnisheth the Romancers and Poets with stuffe To conclude this Chapter It may be that some will expect that I should prescribe some things to cause love as to teach them how to temper and spice an amatorious cup and what time may be elected for the administring of it or how Love may be caused by natural Magick but not knowing into
at ten years of age and was but 15 when she hid the spies as some report Leo saith that in Africk one shall scarce finde a Maid at 14 years of age for when the vehemency of Adolescency which is betwixt the age of 14 and 28 beginneth to tickle them and when they have greatest need of a bridle then they let loose the raines committing themselves to the subjection of this passion There are many forward Virgins of our age are of opinion that this commodity can never be taken up too soon and howsoever they neglect in other things they are sure to catch time by the forelock in this if you aske them this question they will resolve you 14 is the best time of their age if 13 be not better then that and they have for the most part their Mothers example before them to confirme and prove their ability and this withall they hold for a certain ground that be they never so little they are sure thereby to become no lesse yet let me tell these forward Girles the effects that most commonly ensue are dangerous births diminution of statute brevity of life and such like This passion is more tolerable in youth and such as are in their hot bloud and shall I be bold to speak it without offence to the stale Batchelors that Love is not properly nor naturally in season but in that age next unto infancy Nunc grata juveni Venus Venus to young men is a welcome guest But for an amorous complexion to cover glowing fires beneath the embers of a gray-beard to see an old man to dote upon Women what more odious what more absurd yet in some this Idalian fire flameth more in their old age then in their youth Aristotle saith that old men are not out of the reach of Cupid nor bid defiance to Venus till they have passed the age of 70 years And truly a gray-head and a wanton-heart are ill suited it is more ridiculous to see it in Women then men It rageth in all ages yet is it most common and evident among young and lusty persons in the flower of their age high fed and living idly for such as are continually imployed it scarce touches them till they come to be 24 or 25 years of age and then but very lightly according to the speech of Lyndamor to Pallemas that he had arrived to the age of 25 years before he ever felt any effects as Love useth to produce in hearts of his age Not but that he was of his naturall inclination as much devoted servant unto Ladies but being continually exercised in businesse much different from idlenesse he had no pleasure to let Love sow any seeds in his soul for ever since he was able to bear armes moved by a generous instinct which invites noble spirits unto dangerous enterprizes he was perpetually in wars where he did most heroically signalize himself Some have given two reasons why youth is more subject to this illimited passion then any other age The first is That naturall heat or vigour which is most predominant in youth provoking him to attempt the greatest of difficulties rather then suffer the repulse where he affects The second is Want of imployment which begets this distemperature Vacuo pectore regnat amor Love playes hai-day in an idle person Amor otiosae cura est solicitudinis saith Theophrastus it is an affection of an idle minde Also it fosters it self by a writ of Priviledge in the hearts of young men who abounding with much bloud and consequently with great store of Vitall spirits are more fiery and ardent making them full of wanton and youthfull desires I have many times observed a great sympathy and affection young boyes and girles have one to another and indeed there is a pretty pleasing kind of wooing drawn from a conceived but concealed fancy which suits well with these amorous younglings they could wish with their hearts ever to be in the presence of those they love so they might not be seen by them Might they chuse they would converse with them freely consort with them friendly and impart their truest thoughts fully yet would they not have their bashful loves finde discovery They would be seen yet seem obscured Love but not disclose it see whom they love but not be eyed Yea which hath struck me into more admiration I have known divers whose unripe years half assured me that their green youth had never instructed them in the knowledge nor brought them to conceit of such vanities excellently well read in Love Lectures and prompt enough to shew proofes of their reading in publick places The amorous toyes of Venus and Adonis with other Poems of like nature they peruse with such devotion and retain with such delectation as no subject can equally relish their unseasoned palats like those lighter discourses If this passion begin in infancy and so continue it is more affectionate and strong because that custom which is taken in that age doth by degrees become a nature which growing up with years growes solid and unalterable Fronutus saith of Love Juvenis pingitur quod amore plerumque Juvenes capiuntur sic mollis formosus nudus quod simplex apertus hic affectus ridet quod oblectamentum prae ase ferat cum phiretra c. The reason why Love was painted young is because young men are most apt to Love soft fair and fat because such folks are soon captivated naked because all true affection is simple and open he smiles because merry and given to delights hath a Quiver to shew his power and none can escape him old nor young is blinde because he sees not where he shootes nor whom he hits c. Let us now Demonstrate what temperatures and complexions do sympathize together and are most prone and apt to receive the impression of this Passion THe diversitie of complexions breeds a diversity of desires whereby they judge diversly of things present and follow those which do best agree with their constitutions whereby we see that in the election of any thing whatsoever the appetite doth accommodate it self to the temperature of the body for we see Men fit themselves in their customs and carriages to their corporeal temperature ever desiring to converse with their like for Nature would so have it to this only end that every one should be esteemed and be loved and they that are not absolutely faire in every part should not be despised but being received into grace and favour with their Lovers might live honestly in mutuall society and in good esteem with them Every like desireth and loveth his like whereby ever for the publick good there remaineth nothing despised because there is nothing but hath its like And therefore to the eyes of a Moor the black or tawny countenance of his Moorish Damosel pleaseth best and yet such a one would almost turn the stomach of a Sanguine complexioned English man to look upon Now to discover those who are
part saith he admit neither cure nor mitigation The poor inamorato loves to be in melancholy Saturnine places where he may best contemplate the beauty of his Mistresse and not be obstructed by other objects where he may best remember any one action of hers nay the very place where he last saw her for love breedeth melancholy and melancholy requires solitarinesse and solitarinesse setteth the thoughts on worke Do you think he would change his contentment for any thing in the whole Universe he is so jealous and so careful to entertain this very thought that lest he should make any a sharer with him he will retire unto the most solitary and unfrequented places that he can finde he cares not for the society of Men or all the delight that Men can devise and use to court with such care so he may enjoy his own thoughts He may be styled an Astronomer for he fixes the eye of his meditation upon the wandring Venerean Planet If you go into his study you shall finde ten amorous volumes for one pamphlet of Theologie and scarce that too O! how the shelves are stuft with Romances and his pockets with Songs and Sonnets he longs to be graduate in the University of Venus he accounts himself already Master in this art in actu designato and thinks long till he be in actu exercito nothing now in his judgement is wanting to compleate his degree but a Pone manum in manum maritae If you observe a Lover in the presence of his Mistresse you shall see him either struck dumbe or when he speaks it is but stammeringly not knowing how to speak And this is because the sense of a Lover being too earnestly intent and setled in the contemplation of the beauty of his Mistresse he doth as it were altogether forget himself and being lull'd asleep in his beloved object the over vehement intention of the minde taketh away the outward use of the tongue for experience the best Schoole-mistris whilest a Man attentively hearing any delightful musick all his other senses are out of joynt and uselesse the powers being hindered from their due operation by the concourse of the vitall spirits to that power only which so attentively worketh and therefore it is no great wonder if Men stand as mute as Fishes in the presence of their Mistresses when they have most need to speak Or because as an Amorist saith that a Lover fearing that he should not speak so as may please and tickle the ears of his Mistresse chuseth rather to be silent making his tongue more a stock then a Lambes tail then to utter his minde imperfectly and if he dare proceed so far as to open his mouth still fearing that he cannot speak as he should nor so eloquently as he would utters his minde stammeringly and interceptedly Also at that present he is of a flushing colour and looks as though he were drunk because the object from which his love taketh greatest force being present he by reason of the great joy that he feeleth in the presence thereof sendeth forth those lively flames which being plainly descried in the superficiall parts of the face do commonly give such a vermilian tincture that the whole countenance seems to be covered with a flashing kind of ardor and that by reason of the great store of spirits gathered into that place An unfortunate Lover speaks of nothing but his Mistresse and his flames he is alwayes in the fire like the Salamander he has a perpetual Mount Aetna in his breast nay saith he I will touch a Forrest with my finger and it will totally burn and waste it But contrarily he that prospers and speeds in his love or gets a pleasing answer from his Mistresse he alwayes shews a merry cheerfull countenance jocond and laughing full of spirit quick eyed eloquent and in his whole carriage full of joy and consolation This passion cannot be concealed for amorous passions do prick and wound the hearts of inamoratoes and therefore provoked by the sharpenesse of such a spur they cannot but manifest their grief for it is some comfort to him that is assailed to vent that which went in at the eye by the mouth by the help of his tongue by sighing by making complaints to senselesse creatures many times to his bed-curtains It requires much subtlety and craft to discover this passion in Women they conceal and smother it so closely that they will seem to be in a great fury and hatred when they most of all love giving peevish answers and refuse seemingly the affections presented unto them but Licet ipsa neget Vultus loquitur quodcunque teget They are like those Physitians and Lawyers that refuse a fee yet put out their hand to take it Or She 'l flie away and yet would fain With all her heart be overtain She will deny yet seem to dant A Lover when she fain would grant She will resist that you at length May seem to vanquish her by strength For thus her honour does ordain She should resist and yet but faign Yea Ladies you shall see some of your own sex so surprized with affection as it bursts out into violent extremes their discourse is semibrev'd with sighs their talk with tears they walke desperately forlorn making Woods and Groves their disconsolate consorts Their eyes are estranged from sleep their weakened appetite from repast their wearied limbs from repose Melancholy is their sole melody they have made a contract with grief till grief bring them to their graves And truely those poor Maids are to be pityed because their own tender hearts brought them to this exigent have either set their affections where they thought verily they might be requited and were not or else where they received like seeming tender of affection but afterwards rejected what they wished to effect they could not So as in time they fall in a poor Maudlins distemper by giving rains to passion till it estrange them from the soveraignty of reason I could say more but modesty will not permit me Yet some there are who are not such kinde souls nor half so passionate more discreet in their choise and in the passages of Love more temperate These will not daigin to cast a loose look upon their beloved but stand so punctually upon their termes as if they stood indifferent for their choise albeit constantly though privately resolved never to admit of any change These scorn to paint out their passions in their colours or utter their thoughts in sighes or shed one dispassionate tear for an incompassionate Lover Their experience hath taught them better notions they will seemingly flie as I have said to make them more eagerly follow and to take them by whom they are most taken They can play with the flame and never singe their wings look Love in their face and preserve their eyes converse where they take delight and colour their affection with a faigned disdain These are they who can walke in the clouds to
Mistresse So that through the eye it seizeth upon the liver which is the first receptacle of Love then the heart then the brain and bloud and then the spirits and so consequently the imagination and reason The Liver to be the seat of Love is grounded upon the saying of Solomon in Prov. 7. That a young man void of understanding goeth after a strange woman till a dart strike through his Liver Cogit amare jecur the which being affected and inflamed setteth all the other principall parts on fire according to Senec. in Hippol Pectus insanum vapor Amorque torret intimas saevus vorat Penitus medullas atque per venas meat Visceribus ignis mersus venis latens Vt agilis altas flamma percurrit trabes Now Love within my raging bosome fumes And with a cruell fire my reins consumes The flame within my bowels hid remains Thence shooteth up and down my melting veins As agile fire over dry Timber spreads Valesius lib. 3. Contr. 13. saith that that Love which is in Men is defined to be an affection of both powers appetite and reason The rationall resides in the brain and the appetite in the Liver and the heart is diversly affected of both and carryed a thousand wayes by consent being variously inclined sometimes merry and jocond and sometimes sad and dejected The sensitive faculty over-ruling reason carryes the soul hoodwink't and hurries the understanding to Dawfair to eat a Wood-cock pie Of Jealousie in Lovers the Defininition the Signes and Symptomes of it IT is described and defined to be a certain suspicion which the Lover hath of the party he chiefly affecteth lest he or she should be enamoured of another Or an eager desire of enjoying some beauty alone and to have it proper to himself only It is a fear or doubt lest any forainer should participate or share with him in his love still apt to suspect the worst in such doubtfull cases This passion of Jealousie is more eminent among Batchelours then Marryed-men If it appear among Batchelours we commonly call them Rivals or Corrivals a similitude having its original from a River Rivales a rivo for as a River divides a common ground betwixt two Men and both participate of it So is a Woman indifferent betwixt two Suitors both likely to enjoy her and thence cometh this emulation which breaks out many times into tempestuous stormes and produceth lamentable effects murders it self with much cruelty many single combates Ariosto calls it a fury a continual Fever full of suspicion fear and sorrow a mirth-marring monster Ecclus. 28. 6. The sorrow and grief of heart of one woman jealous of another is heavier then death But true and pure Love is without jealousie for this affection springs from the love of concupiscency for jealousie is a fear as I have said which a Man hath lest another should enjoy the thing he desireth the reason thereof is because we judge it hurtfull either to our selves or to those whom we love if others should enjoy it And if they have any interest in the party beloved they have a speciall care that no other have the fruition thereof but themselves taking the matter heavily if it fall out otherwise being very much offended and full of indignation against him that should attempt any such thing being very suspicious and carrying within themselves matter of jealousie and tormenting themselves and others without cause for Love with Jealousie and a madman are cozen germans in understanding for questionlesse immoderate love is a madnesse and then had Bedlam need be a great and spacious house for he that never was in that predicament is either blinde or babish When jealousie once seiseth on these silly weak and unresisting souls 't is pitifull to see how cruelly it tormenteth them insultingly it tyrannizeth over them It insinuateth it self under colour of friendship but after it once possesseth them the same causes which served for a ground of goodwill serves for the foundation of mortal hatred Of all the mindes diseases that is it whereto most things serve for sustenance and fewest for remedy This consuming Fever blemisheth and corrupteth all that otherwise is good and goodly in them But as the most firme in Religion may have doubts so the most confident in Love are capable of some suspicion The strongest trees are shaken by the winde though the root be fixed whilst the leaves and branches be tossed Why should we not rest our selves and abandon all suspicious Ideas after having had a tryall of a person and many effects for testimonies of the affection yet all these proofs and tryals keep us not from vexing and tormenting our selves because fear which is not in our power to restrain interprets ill the least appearance and buries it self in false objections where it findes no true ones O weak jealousie did ever thy prying and suspicious sight finde thy Mistresses lip guilty of any smile or any lascivious glance from her eye doest not thou see the blushes of her cheeks are innocent her carriage sober her discourse all chast no toyish gesture no desire to see the publick shewes or haunt the Theater she is no popular Mistresse all her kisses do speak her Virgin such a bashful heat at several tides ebbes and flowes flowes and ebbes again as it were affraid to meet our wilder flame what is it then that stirs up this hot passion in thee Some will object and say All this is but cunningnesse as who knowes the sleights of Sirens It is these Idiots that have these symptomes of jealousie as fear sorrow suspicion strange actions gestures outrages lockings up oathes tryals with a thousand more devises then any pen is able to enumerate 'T is a vehement passion a furious perturbation a bitter pain a scorching fire a pernicious curiosity it fils the minde with grief half suspicion accidentall brawles compassionate tears throbbings of the heart distracted cogitations inconstant desires and a thousand the like lancing razors that cut and wound the hearts of Men as Gall corrupting the Hony of our life more then ordinarily disquieted and discontented Next time you see a jealous Lover doe but mark him and you shall see without a pair of Spectacles how he misinterprets every thing is either said or done most apt to mistake or misconster he peeps into every corner followes close observes to an hair all the postures and actions of his Mistresse he will sometimes sigh weep and sob for anger swear slander and belie any Man sometimes he will use obsequious and flattering speeches and aske forgivenesse condemning his rashnesse and folly and then immediately again he is as impatient and furious as ever he was therefore I wish Gentlewomen to beware of such infidels who wax and wane an hundred times in an hour as though they were got in the change of the Moon so strange is the inferences of this malicious jealousie that it never makes a good Logician He pries on all sides accurately
Lacedemonians to the attaining of virtue education industry and exercise is the most noble means the truth of which I shall make manifest to you by tryall Then bringing forth the whelps and setting down a porridge-pot and an Hare the one run at the Hare and the other at the pot the Lacedemonians not understanding the mystery he said Both of these be of one Sire and one Dam but you see how Education altereth Nature Let us therefore that seeing our flexible nature is assaulted and provoked to the acting of any thing which is not good endevour to accustome and exercise our selves in virtue which will be as it were unto us another nature let us use the means of good Education and instruction in Wisdom whereby our souls shall be made conquerors over these hot passions and our mindes moderated and stayed in all our actions We will now proceed on to the next and fourth cause which is a certain harmony and consonancy of hearts which meeting accord upon the same tone having a natural correspondency For it is Mans nature to affect all harmony and sure it is where Cupid strikes this silent note for Love is the musick the harmony complexion the genus and very soul of nature more sweet and melodious then the sound of any instrument for there is musick wheresoever there is an harmony And thus far we maintain the musick of the spheres for these well ordered motions and regular paces though they give no sound unto the ear yet to the understanding of the parties affected they strike a love-note most full of harmony I desire leave to insist a little upon this Every body hath its projections and unperceiveable influences as we finde in the power of Amber and the Adamant which attract Iron and Straw by the expiration they scatter in the aire to serve as instruments and hands to their attractions This being common to other natures of Plants Metals and living creatures we must not think but that the body of Man participateth therein by reason of its vivacity and multitude of pores which give a more easie passage to such emissions There then cometh forth a spirituous substance which is according to Marcilius Ficinus vapour of bloud pure subtle hot and clear more strong or weak according to the interiour agitations of spirits which carryeth along with it some friendly convenient and temperate quality which insinuateth it self into the heart and soul doth if it there finde a disposition of conformity abide as a seed cast into the earth and forms there an harmony and this love of correspondency with an admirable promptness and vigor so it happeneth that the spirits being transpired from one body to another and carrying on their wings qualities consonant do infallibly excite and awaken the inclinations The eye is principally interessed herein breathing thence the most thin spirits and darting forth the visual rayes as the arrows of Love which penetrate the heart striking a most dulcisonant harmony and are united one within another then heating the bloud they strike upon the imagination and attract the will which are linked one to another that they are tyed together with an unperceiveable knot and so by this means Love entereth into the heart The fifth Cause is that of the Divines and morall Philosophers That beauty and goodness make us love Which two if they be found both in one Woman she 's rara avis a very rare thing indeed are most availeful advantages Love varies as its objects varie which is alwaies good beautiful amiable gratious and pleasant or at least which seems to be so from Goodness comes Beauty from Beauty Grace and Comeliness which result as so many rayes from their good parts makes us to love and so covet and desire it for were it not pleasing and gratious in our eyes we should not seek it Omne pulchrum amabile and what we love is fair and gratious in our eyes or at least we do so apprehend or esteem it Suum cuique pulchrum Th' perfections of his Mistress are most rare In all mens eyes yet in his own most faire Amiableness is the object of love the scope and end is to obtain it for whose sake we love and with our minds covet to enjoy Likewise Grace and Beauty are so wonderfully annexed do so sweetly and gently win our souls and strongly allure that they confound our judgement and cannot be distinguished And this makes the Poets still put the three Graces in Venus company as attending on her and holding up her train As the needle of a Diall being touched with an Adamant doth alwaies turn towards the Pole-star because the Philosophers hold that to be the element of the Load-stone or Magnet and by a natural sympathy doth attract every part of it self unto it self so a Loâ—ers heart being touched with the beauty and goodness of his Mistress doth turne it and all its thoughts towards her Poetically to explain this conception let us add The needle of a Diall Northward turns If touch'd by Adamant His heart touch'd by his Mistress burns And after her doth pant As this Magnet draweth the heavie Iron and the Harp the swift Dolphin so beauty allureth the chast minde to love In that exquisite Romance of Clytiphon and Lucippe where Clytiphon being captivated with her beauty speaking of himself ingenuously confesseth that he no sooner came in Lucippe's presence but saith he Statim ac eam contemplatus sum occidi oculos à Virgine avertere conatus sum sed illi repugnabant He was wounded at the first sight his heart panted he could not possibily turn his eyes from her This Beauty hath great power to procure love for where it appeareth in the exterior parts in any body it is as it were a witness and testimony of the beauty in the soul For the Creator created all things in such manner that he hath commonly joyned beauty and goodness together in the beginning there was nothing made but it was very good and beautiful in his kind therefore there is an agreement between the body and the soul for bodily beauty is as it were an image of the beauty of the soul and promiseth after a sort some good thing of the inward beauty for internal perfection breedeth the external whereupon the internal is called goodness and the external beauty Many would willingly die for the beauty of others and are so tormented and tossed that they become senseless and phrenetick being captivated with looking upon a beautiful face which hath such a sting that it pierceth even unto the liveliest part of their heart and soul Whereupon it falleth out that poor silly Lovers are so full of passions that they stand altogether amazed making their souls so subject to their desires that she must obey them as if she were some poor Chamber-maid or drudge It is the Witch of Nature as gold is the god of the World for a Woman without beauty hath as few followers as a Man without money hath friends
therewith When aged they use in vain to make themselves fair by renting their faces with painting though more cause to rent them with their nails out of penitent indignation Thus painting used to reconcile in time widens the breaches in their faces and their flesh tainted at least with the poison thereof like rotten vessels spring the more leaks the more they are repaired And the truth is I would have such as these to joyn themselves with Souldiers for so both may fight under their colours Sixthly Pleasant and well composed looks glances smiles counter-smiles plausible gestures pleasant carriage and behaviour affable complements a comely gate and pace daliances playes revels maskes dancing time place opportunity conference and importunity are materials of which Loves torch is made also no stronger engins then to hear and read of Love toyes fables and discourses so that many by this means become distracted for these exercises do as well open the pores of the heart as the body And truly such heart-traps are laid by cunning beauties in such pretty ambuscadoes that he must be a crafty Fox that can escape them for there is still some peculiar grace in a Woman as of beauty good discourse wit eloquence or honesty which is the primum mobile or first mover and a most forcible loadstone to attract the favours and good will of Mens eyes eares and affections unto them It is a plain ornament becomes a Virgin or virtuous Woman and they get more credit in a wise mans eye and judgement by their plainness and are more comely and fair then they that are set out with their patches bables puffed up and adorned like Jayes in Peacocks feathers Ladies let the example of Lucretia be set before you who stamped a deeper impression of affection in the heart of the virtuous beholder by addressing herself to houswifery and purple spinning then others could ever do with their rare banquets and riotous spending All are not of Aegisthus minde who was taken with a complement of lightness This argued that a youthful heat had rather surprised his amorous heart then any discreet affection preferred him to his choise This love is fading for where virtue is not directrice in our choise our mindes are ever prone to change we finde not what we expected nor digest well what we formerly affected all is out of square because discretion contrived not the building It is a decent and comely habit best becomes Ladies to be wooed in and contents discreet Suitors most to have them won in Conforme then your generous dispositions to a decency of fashion that you may attract to your selves and beget in others motives of affection whose private virtues render you to the imitation and publick to the admiration of all Seventhly a tender and hot heart lucid spirits vegetous and subtle bloud are causes of amorous fires a small beauty makes a great impression in them Eightly Obsequious love-letters to insinuate themselves into their Mistresses favour are great incitements they are the life of Love The pen can furrow a fond females heart And pierce it more then Cupids faigned dart Letters a kinde of Magick virtue have And like strong Philters humane souls inslave Ninthly Words much corrupt the disposition they set an edge or glosse on depraved liberty making that member the vent and spout of their passion and making the hearts of credulous Women melt with their ear-charming Oratory The tenth Love is caused very often by the ear as Achilles Tacitus saith Ea enim hominum intemperantium libido est ut etiam fama ad amandum impellantur audientes aequè afficiantur ac videntes such is that intemperance and passion of some Men that they are as much inamoured by report as if they see them Oft-times the species of Love are received into the fantasie as well by relation as by sight for we see by the eyes of our understanding No face yet seen but shafts that Love lets flie Kils in the ear as well as in the eie Also The pleader burns his books disdains the Law And fals in love with whom his eyes ne'r saw Lycidas declaring to Cleon his Love towards Astrea said Whether she was really fair or no I know not but so it was that so soon as ever I heard the report of her I loved her Some report saith he that Love proceeds from the eyes of the party loved but this cannot be for her eye never looked upon me nor did mine see her so much as to know her again For an illustrious name is a strange course To attract Love and good report hath force We purpose now to treat of Money causing Love That is the general humour of the world and in this Iron age of ours and in that commodity stears our affections the love of riches being most respected for now a Maid must buy her husband with a great dowry if she will have him making Love mercenary and 't is the fashion altogether in use to chuse Wives as Chapmen sell their wares with Quantum dabitis what is the most you will give Witty was that young Gentlewomans answer to an inconsiderate Suitor who having solicited the Father and bargained with him for the affection of his Daughter for so much and covenants of marriage concluded This undiscreet wooer unseasonably imparts his minde to the Daughter who made strange with it saying she never heard of any such matter yea but replyed he I have bargained with your Father and he hath already consented And you may marry him too quoth she for you must hold me excused Covetousness and filthy lucre mars many a good match or some such by-respect Veniunt a dote sagitâ—ae 't is money that makes the Mare to go 't is money and a good dowry lights Hymens torches They care not for beauty education honesty or birth if they hear that she is a rich heir or hath ready cash they are frantick doting upon such a one more then if she were natures master-piece in beauty If she be never so ugly and stinking 't is money makes her kisse sweetly Has she money that 's the first question O how they love her Is she mula auro onusta nay then run Dog run Bear they 'l venture hanging to compasse their desire Auri sacra fames quid non mortalia cogis Pectora What will not this desire of money compell a Man to attempt Is she as old as Saturn deformed vitious blear-eyed though they be like two powdering tubs either running over or full of standing brine and her browes hang ore her eyes like flie flaps though her nose be like a Hunters horn and so bending up that a Man may hang a hat upon it and her cheeks may serve boys for cherry-pits doth her teeth stand like an old park pale if she have any has she a tongue would make a deaf man blesse his imperfections that frees him from the plague of so much noise and such a breath heavens shield us as
the idoll of their lust You may behold in those that are far entred into this passion floods and ebbs of thoughts fits and countenances of persons possessed and it is in all of them to deifie the creature on whom they are so passionately enamored and would willingly place them among the Stars yea upon the Altars Chaines and wounds are honorable if they come from a beloved hand making their heads cushions for their Mistresses feet shewing that they finde more force in their eyes then in their own hearts They would die a thousand deaths for them so they throw but so much as a handful of flowers or distill but a poor tear on their tombs This Love awakeneth excludeth none all other passions and garboyles them and makes them all Lacques to wait upon it It makes Lovers through immoderate watching giddy brain'd having their spirits troubled and become very fools Fears and joyes hopes and desires mixt with despairs and doubts do make the sport in Love they are the very Dogs by which the Hare is hunted and being flesh'd in the chase neither stop nor give ore passion being in a hot sent till they have killed her It is a natural distemper a kinde of Smal-pox every one hath had it or is to expect it and the sooner the better It is of so great force and authority that it subjugateth unto its will the greatest power of the minde that is Will which ruleth and governeth all the other both interiour and exteriour powers and yet the will is constrained many times for the better pleasing and content of Love to follow those things which it doth altogether abhor and detest so that having so wonderful an Empire and command over all the powers both inward and outward of the body and of the minde no wonder if Love both will and can do what it will It was Love that betrayed Sampson by Dalila it was Love made Colomon brutish by his Concubines and turn Idolater 't was Love caused Ahab to be rooted out through Jesabel Marc. Anthony slew himself for the love of Cleopatra the destruction of Troy was caused by Helena the Pandora of Hesiodus the pitifull death of Hercules by Deianira and many other miserable events procured through the Love of Women and plentifully declared in Histories How was Loves great-master Ovid inamoured of bright Julia the jewell of his soul and celebrated her excellencies and their love stealths under the mask of Corinna Nay Apollo himself the inventer of Poesie Musick and Physick elated for his victory over the ugly Python found Cupids shaft the most prevalent when he pursued the too much loved but overmuch hating Daphne over the uncouth rocks craggy cliffes and untrod mazes of the Woods Cupid is more then Quarter-master among the Gods Capiumque Jovem coelo traxit he made Jupiter metamorphose himself for Europa into a Bull and put himself to graze that he might lick her hands who fed him with flowers for Danae into a shower of gold for Astrea into an Eagle for Leda into a Swan for Antiope into a Satyr for Egina into a flame for Mnemosyne into a Shepherd for Dois into a Serpent for Calysto into a Wood-nymph or Nun so by this you may see that Love made him esteem his pleasure above his state so as Lucian Juno called him Ludus Amoris Cupids whirligig Sen. in Herc. oet. Tu fulminantem saepe domuisti Jovem Likewise all faigned Romances do continually chant forth the complaints of millions of Lovers and the infidelity of their Mistresses on the other side Women waging war with Men cease not to accuse their inconstancy which were able to tire spirits any thing serious A Lovers heart is Cupids quiver an inextinguishable fire more hot and vehement then any material fire it is the quintessence of fire no water can quench Sen. Hippol Quis meas miserae Deus Aut quis juvare Daedalus flammas queat What God can ease What Daedalus can quench such flames as these Or according to the eloquent poesie of another For Love hath nets there laid to serve his turn And in the water will his wildfire burn O! how many Men do wander in this way how many persons in this age are corrupted too much with the extremity of this passion lulling themselves asleeep in the laps of such as seek to strangle them How many excellent spirits are recorded in History which were in excellent state and in full vigour of the functions of an intellectual life who by approaching over-neer to this sex have entred into affections of fire and flames which like little creeping Serpents have stolne into their hearts I cannot sufficiently admire at the sottishnesse and drowsinesse of many Noble spirits who are so delighted and captivated with the vain dreams of their own fancies that they imploy all the gifts and graces of the minde and incline to some beautiful object What a ridiculous thing is it to see Men fall from their primitive goodnesse as to lose their selves in dotage and that dotage on one creature and that creature a Woman really next to a miracle is my only admiration O traitresse Dalila which seekest by thy inticings to deliver Mans soul to an enemy far worse then the Philistines Such pleasures are like gilded pils which under their external beauty include bitternesse They are also like fresh Rivers that end their course in the Sea losing their sweet relish in an Ocean of saltness Man cannot love and be wise both together the very best of them is betwixt hawke and buzzard if once they be overtaken with this passion It being the first and chief mistresse of all the passions the most furious and severest of all he that suffers himself to be seduced by it he is no more himself his body endureth a thousand labours in the search of his pleasure his minde a thousand hels to satisfie his desire and desire it self increasing growes into fury As it is natural so it is violent and common to all It maketh all the wisdom resolution contemplation and the operation of the soul brutish It is impossible to reckon up the many great dangers and hazzards they undergoe they undertake single combates venture their lives creep in at windowes gutters go down chimnies in ropes and climbe over wals to come to their Sweet-hearts anoint the doores and hinges with oil lest they should make a noise tread softly whisper c. and if they be surprised leap out at windowes and cast themselves down headlong What a passionate speech was that of Callicratides in Lucian Dial. amorum Mihi ô dii coelestes ultra sit vita haec perpetua exadverso amicae sedere suave loquentem audire c. si moriatur vivere non sustinebo idem erit sepulchrum utrisqueThe which we thus paraphase O ye Gods celestial grant me this life for ever to sit opposite to her I love that I may continually be an auditor of her mellifluous speeches to go in and
more Cowards so that only by our pale asking we teach them to deny and by our shamefacednesse we put them in minde to be modest This kinde of bashfulnesse is far from Men of valorous dispositions and especially from Soudiers for such are ever Men without doubt forward and confident losing no time lest they should lose opportunity which is the best factor for a Lover And because they know Women are given to dissemble they will never believe them when they deny They will defend their Mistresses even in a wrong and unjust cause for from the first moment that they fastened their affections upon that object they prize it above their own proper essence and therefore how justly soever an injury or violence may be offered unto it they think no injustice in themselves to defend it or because winking at the wrong offered their Sweet hearts they make themselves unwortby of their grace Plato is of opinion that it was the Love of Venus made Mars couragious and valorous and truly who would not be valorous to fight under such colours Before this cowardly age there was no way known to win a Lady but by tilting and turning and riding to seek adventures through dangerous Forrests in which time these slender small bon'd striplings with little legs were held but of strength enough to marry their widowes And even in our days there can be given no reason of the inundation of Servingmen upon their Mistresses but only that usually they carry their Masters weapons and their valour It is better to be admitted to the title of valiant acts at least that imports the venturing of mortality and all Women delight to hold him fast in their armes who hath escaped thither through many dangers To speak at once Man hath a priviledge in valour In clothes and good face we do but imitate Women So then these whiffling skips these Women in Mens apparel are too neer a Woman to be beloved of her A scar in a Mans face is the same that a mole is in a Womans and a mole in a Womans face is a jewell set in white to make it seem more white so a scar in a Man is a mark of honour and no blemish for 't is a scar and a blemish in a Souldier to be without one A good face availeth nothing if it be on a Coward that is bashful the utmost of it is to be kist which rather increaseth then quencheth the appetite She cares not for a Man that wooes by Letters and through cowardlynesse dares not come into her company no Woman takes advice of any in her loving but of her own eyes and her waiting maids and there is no clothes fits so well in a Womans eye as a suit of steel though not of the fashion and no Man so soon surprizeth a Womans affections as he that is the subject of whisperings and hath alwayes some twenty stories of his own atchievements depending upon him There is one Love-simplician who is so led by the nose into fools Paradise that if he see an handsome maid smile and laugh upon him or shew a pleasant countenance or look obliquis ocellis asquint upon him or use some gratious words or amorous gestures as many are too full of he applies it all to himself as done in his favour thinking that surely she loves him to the Tavern he runs looks big erects his Mouchatoes stampes stares and cals the Drawer Rogue drinks to his Venus in a Venice-glace and thinks he sees the smile she gave him in it and to moralize her sex throwes it over his head and breaks it This fellow is like to Mullidor in Greenes never too late who said to his Mother that he compared the Church to a looking-glasse for as a Man may see himself in the one so in the other the wenches eyes are a Certificate for upon whom you see all the Girles look he for foot and face carries away the bell Phillida solus habet And I am sure sayes he for these two years I never came into the Church and was no sooner set but the Maids began to winke one upon another to look on me and laugh Oh! war Mother when a Dog wags his tail he loves his Master and when a wanton laughes for my life she is over head and ears in Love Another Gull seeks to win his Mistresses affection with gallant and costly apparell putting all he hath on his back thinking Women are marryed to fine clothes making his Taylor his Baude and hopes to inveagle her love with such a coloured suit surely the same Man hazzards the losse of her favour upon every change of his clothes Another with an affected pace Another with Musick Another with rich gifts and pleasant discourse Another with Letters Vowes and Promises to be gratious in her eyes struts like a Peacock with his train before her But there are many other who every moment declare their fervour their torment and martyrdom they serve they sooth they continually frequent they spie out all occasions they silently practise all the ways they can to come to the end of their designs and often it happeneth that as drops of water incessantly falling do hollow Rocks so ceaselesse Complements soften the most inaccessible rigors Yet some are so sottishly overcome as to waste ten years of service to kisse a Womans hand and suffer for a shameful servitude that which I professe I would not endure one year for an Empire Fond Novices you pule and continually strive to please your Mistresses which is the only way to make her flie you nothing so tiring and tedious such as thus love must needs perpetually be imprisoned never at liberty always present continually talking with her she cannot stir a foot but you must do the like If she chance to be at any time ill or frown and do not smile upon you nor please you then must you forsooth put the finger in the eye and cry cry tears Do you think this is the way no no it is in Love as in all things else the mean is the best measure so as to avoid all frivolous follies and troubles as they are no other when you have made the best of them the only way is but to love indifferently and if you will be silly fools and must needs have Mistresses your best way is never to tie your self to one for to love one only gives her an occasion to think that it is for want of courage that you dare not attempt to love any else and therefore she will scorn such a fainthearted Lover whereas did you Love all you look upon or at least a good many of them she will not think you came to her because you know not whither to go else but she will then prize you the higher and will be obliged to love you especially if you particularize her above any other and once a week is often enough to tender your service to her for oftener is a palpable doting But because
cut the Cable weigh Anchor spread sails set forward go flie look not for any more letters regard not their pictures no longer preserve favours let all your endevours be to preserve your reason I add one advice which I think very essential which is infinitely to fear a relapse after health and to avoid all objects that may re-inkindle the flame For Love oftentimes resembleth a Snake enchanted cast asleep and smothered which upon the first occasion awaketh and becomes more strong and more outragious then ever You must not only fortifie your bodies against it but also your souls But my discourse like Nilus overflowes it shall return within its banks concluding with this that Terrestriall beauty is like a shadow and therefore we are not to fix the eyes of our understanding upon it but to turn them to that soveraign beauty which is permament and free from all change and passion We will now indevour our selves to remove the cause of Money causing Love which is meer Covetousnesse the root of all evill and to satisfie their own voluptuousnesse having their only delights upon earth who desire not the woman but her riches to make his houses the larger to fill his chests fuller being respectlesse of a virtuous Woman and the supreme good wherein all happinesse consisteth And this he saith is to raise a fortune for his I say seldom thriving posterity studying how he may become an eternal affliction to himself His minde is so fixed on money not on the woman as he findes no time to erect it to heaven He employes so much time in getting and gathering of goods as he reserves no time for doing good He runs on still in desire not of his Mistresse labouring of a disease incurable till death cure him He encreaseth his cares with his substance not his love to his Wife and the more he adds to his estate the more he detracts from his content and love towards her But consider you Money-lovers and seek for a remedy while it is to be had lest you repent your delay when 't is too late How secure was the Rich-man as he thought when he invited his wretched soul to take her rest having much goods laid up for many years but this self-security was the occasion of his succeeding misery for that night was his soul to be taken from him O how terrible will the approach of death seem to you being to be divided from the staffe of your confidence from thence to descend without the least hope of comfort to the land of forgetfulnesse for as the Scorpion hath in her the remedy of her own poyson a receipt for her own infection so the evill and covetous carry alwayes with them the punishment of their own wickednesse the which doth never leave so incessant is the torment of a guilty conscience to wound and afflict the minde both sleeping and waking so as to what place he betakes him he cannot so privily retire but fear and horrour will awake him nor flie so fast though he should take the wings of the morning but fury and vengeance will overtake him Consider this I speak to both sexes and let not money and riches be the sole object of your love but look at that which is far more noble that which is more permanent that summum bonum that chief good which will direct you the way to all felicity Before we proceed any further we will hoping such variety will prove the more pleasant turn our discourse a little in particular to the female sex such whose kinde hearts like wrought Wax are apt to receive any amorous impression Therefore to you loving souls do I recommend these necessary cautions which if carefully observed will preserve you from the causes and consequently the effects of Love and may make you wiser then you thought of and to have a tender care of that which before you had never minde of The best preservative and soveraignest receipt is to fortifie the weaknesse of your sex with strength of resolution for the imagination of Love is strong and works admirable effects on a willing subject Give not power to an insulting Lover to triumph over your weakness or which is worse to work on the opportunity of your lightnesse Ram up those portals which betray you to your enemy and prevent his entry by your vigilancy Keep at home and let neither you nor your thoughts stray abroad lest by gadding you incur Dinah's fate Check your madding and to Love inclining fancy and if it use resistance curbe it with restraint forbear to resort to places of publick meeting till you have drawn up and sealed a Covenant with your eyes to see nothing that they may lawfully covet This will yeeld you more liberty then the whole worlds freedome can afford you Be not too liberall in bestowing your favours nor too familiar in publick converse Presume not too much on the strength of a weak fort Make a contract with your eyes not to wander abroad lest they be catch'd in coming home Treat not of love too freely be not too bold to play with the blinde boy he hath a dangerous aime though he hath no eyes the Cat playes with the Mouse but at last bites off her head the Flie playes with the Candle till at last her light wings are sindged Sport not with him that will hurt you play not with him that would play on you your sports will turn to a bad jeast when you are wounded in earnest If this wanton frenzie hath never surpriz'd you prevent the means and it will never invade you be not such foes to your selves as to purchase your own disquiet If Love issue out in too violent a stream it is to be cooled by a temperate expostulation with fancy or else fix your eyes upon some more attractive object divert the course of that madding passion as Physitians do to their patients who having a violent efflux of bloud in one place cut a vein in another to turn the course of it another way Expostulate with fancy as Brathwaite adviseth in his English Gent. thus How is it with me me thinks it fares with me otherwise then it hath done formerly A strange distemper I finde in my minde and might seem to resemble Love if I knew the nature of it Love can Virgin modesty return that accent and not blush yes why not If the object I affect he worth loving If the party affected have more virtues then money and not more money then virtues And if not what then Is not the Lover ever blinde in affection towards his beloved He who may seem a Thersites to another may be a Paris in mine eye Yea but a little advice would do well Art thou perswaded that this Non-parallel thou thus affectest hath dedicated his service only to thee that his affection is really towards thee that his protests though delivered by his mouth are ingraven in his heart yea his protests have confirmed him mine That hour is tedious
their intimatest friends making their eyes strangers to their hearts and conclude nothing more foolish then love if discovered and nothing more wise if artificially shadowed Some Artists will undertake to judge who are in Love by Chiromancy by the lines of the hand For say they If a little crosse be upon the line of life in the hand neer the angle it portends maladies of Love Also if the table line joyn it self with the middle naturall line so as both do make an angle this doth demonstrate one to be variously troubled with Love rendring the parties life very displeasing It seems to some how true it is I know not to be possible for a man to know whether one be in Love or no by their natural and animal dreams if the party will but relate them at his awaking for the fancy in sleep is most taken up with those things that the minde hath been busied with in the day according to that in the Poet Judicibus lites aurigae somnia currus Vanaque nocturnis meta cavatur Equis Gaudet amans furto c. The Lawyer pleads in 's sleep the careful swains Manage their pransing coursers o're the plains Lovers dream of their stoln delights c. And indeed dreams do sometimes so far ingage them as they cannot dissemble nor deny them They say that those Lovers who are very melancholy through the extremity of this passion are accustomed to horrible and fearful dreams by reason of the melancholy vapors that ascend up into the brain And because this affection of all others doth most disturbe and afflict the spirits and from that disturbance and purturbation these monstrous and horrible dreams do arise so that many times by reason of their little sleep they bewray a strange kinde of horror and astonishment in their countenances Also to dream of travelling through Woods sticking in Bushes and Bryers doth signifie much trouble and crosses in love To dream of Angling and Fishing signifies a difficulty and the party despaires of obtaining the party beloved But to dream of Banquets and Feasts doth signifie the hopes of the party loving and that his proceeding in love shall be prosperous To dream of winds stormes and showers of rain doth signifie Love passion To dream of riding on a tired Horse or drawing water out of a Well or climbing upon a steep hill is a sign of a vebement Love passion To dream of seeing ones Mistresse in a glasse is an infallible token of Love and that there shall be reciprocall affection between the parties To dream of being a Husbandman or Plowman to sow plant or dig is a signe of being in Love But Sanguine-complexioned Lovers use to dream of pleasant and delectable things as fair Gardens Orchards flowers green meadowes bedeck't with the pride of Flora pleasant Rivers dreaming that they sit culling and playing with their Sweet-hearts upon their pleasant bancks often thinking they see many little Cupids flying in the aire and all delightful dreams they say proceed from an amorous and love pierc't soul As to dream of singing or playing on any instrument doth signifie that Love hath seiz'd upon the party For if dreams and wishes had been all true there had not been since Popery one Maide to make a Nun of But whether dreams are onely the working of the fancy and imagination upon such things as have been seen and thought upon or presages of things future it is not our present purpose to determine We will now see what we can discover in a Love-sick minde by the sublime science of Astrology maugre all its Antagonists First diligently inquire whether the party hath had any crosses or troubles which might cause a dejection of the soul in him and whether they do not suspect the party to be in Love these being considered then you may safely go on to judgement Saturn generally signifies melancholy and by consequence alienation of the minde madnesse c. and therefore always when you finde him to be significator of the malady or in the ascendant or in the sixth house the sick is afflicted with care and grief and be sure the Love-sick minde suffers for it Also if Venus be author of the disease and she Lady of the ascendant sixth or twelfth houses the distemper comes from Love or something else of this nature is the cause If the ☉ or ☽ or Lord of the ascendant or two of them at the least be afflicted the disease is in the spirits together with an indisposition of the minde the reason whereof is because the Lord of the ascendant and dispositor of the ☽ are properly the significators of the animall faculties which do cause infirmities in Man or which may chance unto him a deprivation of sense madnesse or frenzie through Love melancholy Venus significatrix and afflicted argues a great desire to Women wherewith both body and minde are disturbed Wheresoever you finde Mercury afflicted and significator shewes doting fancies If the Planet who rules the sign wherein the Lord of the ascendant is and he who is dispositor of the ☽ be infortunate and in their fall detriment or otherwayes very much afflicted the disease reignes and rageth in the minde At what Age we begin to be in Love What Complexions do best sympathize What Complexions are most subject to this Malady and at what time more then another IT is most certain that there is nothing more impatient of delay then Love nor no wound more incureable whilest we live There is no exemption no age no condition are more ignorant of it then of their bread all have a taste of this potion though it have several degrees of operation and at several seasons Look all about you who so young that loves not Or who so old a comely feature moves not But the most received opinion is that Men and Women are subject to this passion as soon as they are entered into those years in which they come to their puberty which appeareth in Men chiefly by their voice which at that time growes great and harsh it may be known also in Women by observing their breasts which about this time begin to swell and grow bigger and that for the most part about the age of 12 and 14 so likewise it is the justice of nature that those creatures that soonest meet their period do as suddenly arrive at their perfection and maturity as we may observe in Women who as they are ripe sooner then Men so they commonly fail before them Some there are that would deprive men of this power or Love to have any power over them so long as they are under the age of twenty years for Homer saith Love pricks not till such time as the chin begins to bud which is altogether repugnant to truth and dayly examples for we see many to rage furiously before they come to years of discretion especially Women Quartilia in Petronius never remembered that she was a Maide Rahab the Harlot began to be a profest Quean