woman of a Martial Spirit she was Mother to Henry the fourth called Henry the Great King of France who was Grandfather to the present French King she being a Protestant highly Espoused their Cause for which she is said to be poisoned at Paris with a Pair of perfumed Gloves presented her at her Sons Wedding with Margaret Sister to Charles the Ninth of France and soon after her death the horrid Massacre of the Protestants ensued in which perished about 300000. Ioan of France Daughter to King Lewis the Eleventh was Married to Lewis Duke of Orleance afterwards King of France she was a Princess of Great Virtue she Instituted the Order of the Annuntiation forming it upon the ten Virtues of the Blessed Virgin Viz. Prudence Humility Chastity Verity Devotion Obedience Poverty Patience Compassion and Charity Ioan the first Queen of Jerusalem Naples and Sicily was Daughter to Charles of Sicily Duke of Calabria who after having successively Married four Husbands Andreas James Lewis and Otho was deprived of her Kingdoms and Life by Charles d' Durass her Cousin whom she had adopted her Heir as having no Children of her own Joan the second Queen of Naples a Woman of great Courage and Conduct but had a very troublesome Reign upon William of Austria her Husband retiring into a Monastery upon Discontent occasioned by her being too Prodigal of her Favours to others and dying without Children she bequeathed her Kingdom to Rene Duke of Anjou Ioan Infanta and Regent of the Kingdom of Portugal she was Daughter to Alphonsus the fifth who for her Prudence and Courage left her Regent when he went to War against the Moors yet at last she retired into a Monastery Ioia a Woman of Spain who preached to the People in the Cathedral of Barcelona and is said in the time of the Papacy of Pope Paul the third to Convert divers Jews at Rome and to explain in the presence of the Cardinals the Books of John Don Scotus commonly called the Subtle Doctor Iole Daughter of Eurytus the Oechalian King with her Hercules fell desperately in Love but her Father would not Consent he should have her unless he could gain her by Combate with him which when he had done he still denied to give her to him which so inraged Hercules that he slew him and took her away by force and afterwards gave her to his Son Hillus but Dejaneiza Jealous of Hercules she being his first Wife sent him a Shirt dipt in Poison and Tinctured in Nessus Blood which in Pains and Torment put an end to his Glorious Atchievements with his Life Iphianassa Daughter 〈◊〉 Praetus King of the Argines who with her Sister being in the Temple of Juno and despising the homeliness of it as also the Beauty of the Goddess she throughly nettled at the Contempt so Changed and Disordered their Minds that they fancied themselves to be Heifers and could by no means be perswaded out of that Opinion till Melampus the Physician restored them again to their Right Senses and for his Reward had Iphianassa in Marriage and a part of the Kingdom for her Dowry Iphis she was the Daughter of Lygdus and Theletusa whose Sex her Mother kept secret and from her Infancy brought her up in Masculine Apparel for that her Father had doomed the Infant if a Girl to be made away when under this disguise she came of Years Lygdus concluded a Marriage between her and Janibe a Beautiful Maid which made her Mother almost at her Wits end because that by this means a Discovery would be made but however upon her invoking Venus and offering in her Temple she on the Wedding-day was changed into a Man and did the Office of a Bridegroom to the Satisfaction of her Fair Bride Iphigenia she was Daughter to King Agamemnon by Clyâ—â—â—nestra and is said by Homer to be offered up to Diana for the successful Passage of the Grecian Fleet to Troy but as she lay on the Altar ready to be sacrificed the Goddess wrapt her in a Cloud and bearing her thence made her her Priesteis Irene Empress of Constantinople Mother to Constantine the seventh whose Eyes she put out that she might Reign alone upon which as if Heaven demonstrated a Detestation of the Cruelty the Sun for eighteen days shined so dimly as if it had drawn in its Light as it Thyestes Feast but Nicephorus having wrested the Empire out of her Hands banished her to Metylene where she soon after died of Grief Irene the Fair Grecian Lady that was presented to Mabomet the Great at the Sack of Constantinople on whom he doated so much that he spent whole Days and Nights in her Company and neglected his weighty Affairs but being reproved by his Bassas he in a rage cut off her Head with his Scymeter but repenting it betook him to the Wars to put the cruel Act out of his Mind Iris Messenger to Juno said to be the Daughter of Thaumus and Electra she is painted with a Rain-bow circling her her Name importing the Painted Bow so often seen after Showers in the Clouds Isaura Clementia a Lady of Tholouse in France famous for her Learning and Ingenious Parts she appointed the Floral Games yearly kept there and in the Town-house her Marble Statue stands Crowned with Flowers Ius a Goddess worshipped by the Egyptians her Sacrifice and worship was Infamous and Obscene insomuch that the Priests were forbidden to speak any thing of them and the Romans forbid it in their City Isota of Verona a Lady of great Learning she wrote five hundred sixty four Books which are to be seen in Thaurus Library and held divers Disputes with the most Learned Men yet dyed at the Age of thirty six Years a Virgin Iudith a Holy Widow who by destroying the Tyrant Holyphernes delivered the Jews Iudith Daughter to Velpo Count of Ruensburge she was made Recluse by the People Iudith Daughter to Charles the Bald and Wife to Ethelwolfe and Ethelred Kings of England Iulia Wife to Severus the Roman Emperour and Mother to Geta she after the Death of her Husband Married Bassianus Caracalla her Son in Law who fell in Love with her upon seeing her naked Thigh Iulia Wife to Pompey and Daughter to Julius Caesar she died in Child-bed before she could compose the differences between those great Captains which afterward caused such Distractions in the Roman State by a Piteous war Iulia the Daughter of Augustus Caesar and Scribonia â—he greatly perplexed that Emperour in the heighth of his Fortune by her loofe Carriage and Wanton way of living she was Married to divers Husbands by whom she had several Children but Wedlock not being capable of satisfying her Lustful Desires and shâ— continuing her leud Courses her Father Banished her after that she was Married to Tyberius but disdaining him he coming to be Emperour revenged her Pride and Scorn by confining her so straight that she pined away for Hunger Iulia Daughter to Agrippa and the beforementioned Julia she followed her
of the blessed Virgin divided into seven parts 1. Malines and Laudes 2. The Prime 3d. 6th None or 〈◊〉 hour 6. Vespers or Eversong 7. The Complines Prioress the Governess of a Nunnery Panado Span. Punada or Empanada Fr. Paude a kind of Food made of crumbs of bread and Curran's boiled in water or as some will have it of grated Bread Milk Sugar and grated Cheese Pandora seigned by Hesiodes to be the first Woman and made by Vulcan indued by all the Gods with several Excellent Gifts but afterwards by Jupiter in displeasure sent to her Spouse Epimetheus with a box full of all manner of miseries Hence Pandora's box is taken for misery calamity and the like Pregnant big with Child also full copious ripe Possowa an Indian beast receiving her young ones on occasion into a bag under her belly Paphian paphius belonging to Paphos a City of Cyprus dedicated to Venus and built by Paphus Hence Paphus Archer is taken for Cupid 〈◊〉 fire or shot for the fire or arrows of Love Papian Law Lex 〈◊〉 Poppea a Law made among the ancient Romans against single life that if any forbore from the priviledges of Parents and had no children the People who was the common Father of all should inherit their Goods Tacit. Popelet lote c. a Pappet or young wench Polygamy g. a being marry'd to many at the same time Polyhimnia lymnia one of the Muses Pomander q. Pomamber D. a ball of Perfumes Param peramator a lover he or she a Sweet-heart Paranymph Paranymphus an Orator who a little before the Commencement of Doctors c. makes a publick Speech in commendation of their sufficiency also an Overseer of a Wedding a Bride-dresser or he or she that bears all the sway at the Bridal Paraphonalia is used in our Law but in the Civil it is Paraphernalia which are those Goods a Wife brings her Husband over and besides her Dowry and Marriage mony as Furniture for her own Chamber her own Apparel and Jewels if she be of Quality all which she must have and not the Executors of the Husband c. Shep. Fa. Counc 122. Plesades g. seven Daughters of Atlas turn'd into the seven fears Plow monary next after Twelfth-day when our Northern Plowmen beg Plowmony to drink and in some places if the Plowman after that days work come with his Whip to the Kitchin-harsh and cry Cock in the Pos before the maid says Cock on the Dunghill he gains a Cock for Shrove-Tuesday Point f. the plight one is in also Rich Needle work Paritude Pariture or Parture from pario a breeding or ingendring the time of travail or deliverance of child or young Philomela flying from Terous who had ravish'd her and cut her Tongue out Pimpleiades the Muses Pimpompet f. an antick dance of three kicking each others bum Perwick wig Peruque f. a cap of false hair Phoedra Daughter of Mines and wife of Theseus Phemone the first Priests of Appolo at Delphos and inventress of Heroick Verse Phaetontiades Phaetons sister Phao a Lesbian Youth made beautiful by an Ointment given him of Venus Pentagamist Gr. one that hath had five wives Penlography peplographia the description of the Vail called Peplum which was an Embroidered Vesture or hood to cover the head now used for a Kercher worn especially by women going to be churched Tho. Peregrina a Womans Name Pelias Brother of Aeson King of Thessaly slain by his own daughters Pelopaea the mother of Aeghisibus by her own Father Thyestes Peple lum l. a hood for women at their Churching Pugitar a Rival in Love Petty Treason Fr. Petit Trahison Treason it a lesser or lower kind It a Servant kill his Master a Wife her Husband a Secular or Religious man his Prelate these are Petit Treasons Pin as he is in a merry Pin it was an ancient kind of Dutch artificial Drunkenness the cup commonly of Wood had a Pin about the middle of it and he was accounted the man who could nick the Pio by drinking even to it whereas to go above or beneath was a forfeiture This Device was of old the cause of so much Debauchery in England that one of the Constitutions of a Synod held at Westâ— in the Year 1102. was to this Effect That Priests should 〈◊〉 go to publick Drinkings nec ad Pinnus bibunt nor drink at Pins And King Edgar made a Law that none should drink below the Pin. Pip is a Disease in Poultry being a white thin Scale growing on the top of the tongue which hinders them from eating it proceeds generally from drinking puddle water or eating filthy meat Pledge from the Fr. Pleige a surety or gage To pledg one drinking had its Original thus When the 〈◊〉 bore sway in this Land if a Native did drink they would sometimes stab him with a Dagger or Knife Hereupon people would not drink in company unless some one present would be their pledge or surety that they should receive so hurt whilst they were in their draught Hence that usual phrase I 'le pledge you or be a pledge for you Pattus The bringing forth of a Mature Faetus or Young in natural Births The Faetus having broken the Membrances turns his head forward and inclining it towards the neck of the Womb strives to get forth the usual manner is after nine Months Yet I have known some at Amsterdam born at seven Months who have lived to Fifty or Sixty Dr. Blanked Phillis Gr. a Womans Name and signifies Lovely as Amie in French Philomel philomela a Nightingale Philosophy philosophia the love or desire of Wisdom a deep knowledg in the nature of things there are three different kinds of it 〈◊〉 Rational Philosophy including Grammar Logick and â—hetorick and this dives into the subtility of disputations 〈◊〉 discourse 2. Natural Philosophy searching into the obscurity of Natures Secretes concerning besides Arithmetick 〈◊〉 Geometry and Astronomy 3. Moral Philosophy which consists in the knowledg and practice of civility and good behaviour Philtre philtrum â—morous potion a love occuring drink or medicine Platonick love is a love abstracted from all corporeal gross impressions and sensual appetite and consists in contemplation and Idaea's of the mind not in any carnal Fruition or it is a love of Friendship without any admixture of Sensuality So called from Plato the Divine Philosopher Pickadil à Belg. Pickedillekens i. e. Lacinia Teut. Pickedel the round hem or the several divisions set together about the skirt of a Garment or other thing also a kind of stiff collar made in fashion of a Band. That famous Ordinary near St. James's called Picadilly took denomination from this that one Higgins a Taylor who built it got most of his Estate by Pitadilles which in the last age were much in fashion Pilch pellicea a woollen or sur garment now used for a flanel cloth to wrap about the lower part of young Children Hence d. Surplice q. Surplich Pommade Fr. Pomatum or Pomata an Ointment used by
death Birthia a Woman of Scythia mentioned by Pliny who had such infectious Eyes that with long and stedfast looking upon any Living Creature she would kill or much injure it she had in each Eye two Apples and two distinct Sights c. Blanch of Castile Daughter to Alphonsus the Ninth and Elenor of England she was Marryed to Lewis called the Lyon and afterwards King of â—ance she managed the Affairs of the Kingdom after her â—usbands death to Admiration â—otwithstanding Powerful Faâ—tions opposed her she was â—other to St. Lewis of France â—nd brought up him and her â—ther Children under the Tuâ—erage of such Learned and â—ious Men that they became â—n Ornament to their Counâ—ry Blanch Daughter to Otho â—he Fourth Earl of Burgundy â—nd Maud Countess of Artois â—he was likewise Queen of France by her Marriage with Charles the Fourth she was â—alsly accused of Adultery which Conspiracy against her Life evidently appearing the Accusers were flead alive and then being beheaded their Carcasses hanged on Gibbets Bentivoglia Francisca Married to Galeoto Manfredi but upon suspicion that he was secretly Married before to a Virgin of Fayenza she with two others who were pretended Physicians Assassinated him giving him the Mortal wound with her own hand Berenice Daughter of Ptolomeus Philadelphus King of Egypt and Marryed to Antiochus Sotor King of Syria who were both murthered by Laedicea Antiochus first Wife Bernice another Daughter to the aforefaid King of Egypt whose Hair being Dedicated to Venus for Pâ—olomeus Evergetes her Husbands success in War and hung up in the Temple where in a short time it being missed it was fabled by Callimachus and others to be taken up to the Skies by the Goddess and turned into a Star Berenice Daughter to Agrippa the Elder she was Married to Agrippa the Younger King of the Jews and sat with him when St. Paul pleaded before him and Festus the Roman Proconsul Berenice Daughter of Mithridates King of Pontus who when her Father was overcome by Lucullus the Roman Consul in a mortal Battle took poison that she might not fall into the hands of the Enemy alive but that not presently dispatching her she caused one of her Slaves to strangle her Berthe Daughter of Cuthbert King of France and Ingoberge she was Wife to Ethelbert King of Kent a Saxon Prince who then was a Pagan but by her pious and Examplary Life she won him to Embrace Christianity Berthe Daughter to Lotharius the Second King of France and Valrada his Queen she was one of the most Couragious Beautiful and Illustrious Princesses of her Age she had divers Noble Husbands at sundry tiâ—es and did many brave Exploitâ— in War Barthe Daughter of Cheribert she was Wife to Peppico the short afterward King of France and Mother to Charles the Great Bonere Force a Queen of Poland Wife to Sigismund the First by Isabel of Aragon she was a Woman of great Virtue exceeding Loving and Tender of her Husband attending him like a common Nurse in all his Sickness sitting up with him and tending him with little or no rest to herself though he diswaded her to take off herself and commit that charge to others Boâ—romea Biancha a Learned Lady of Padua being perfect in the Sciences and spoke divers Languages the which together with her rare Beauty gained her a singular Esteem among the Learned Brigite since called St. Brigite was a Swedish Princess she flourished in the 14th Age and was Marryed to Prince Vison of Nericia and by him had Eight Children after the Death of her Husband who turned Cestertian Monk with whom before she had been on a Pilgrimage She wrote a Volume of Revelations in Eight Books which has been approved by divers Popes and dying 1373. She was Canonized by Pope Boniface the Second Britomaris a Cretian Nymph held to be daughter to Jupiter and Charmea she much delighted in Hunting but one day heedlesly Traversing a Forrest she fell into a Hunters Net and fearing some wild Beast should come to devour her she implored the help of Diana whereupon the Goddess released her from the Toil in Grateful acknowledgment the Nymph built a Temple and dedicated it to her by the Name of Dyctin Diana Minos King of Creet attempting afterwards to Ravish her she leaped into the Sea and was drowned Brumechilde Daughter of Athanagilde King of the Wisgoths she was Married to Sigebert the first King of Austratia she caused great mischiefs in France which in the end came home to her for being accused by Clotaire the Second for the murther of Ten Kings She was first Racked and then torn in pieces by drawing Horses She was a Woman of vast Ambition and endeavoured to destroy all her Opposers but her death in a great measure prevented it Budos Lodovica wife to Montmorency Constable of Fr. Busa a Lady of Apulia who fed Ten Thousand Hunger-starved Romans as they fled from the Battle of Cannea where the Roman Army was defeated by Hannibal Baâ—helors It was inserted in Plato's Laws that what Man soever liv'd a Batchelor above five and thirty Years of Age was neither capable of Hoâ—our or Office Alexand ab Alex. lib. 4. cap. 8. Licurgus the Lawgiver amongst the Laâ—edemonians as the same Author testifies to shew the necessity of Marriage made a Decree That all such as affected singleness and solitude of life should be held Ignominious They were not admitted to publick Plays but in the Winter were compell'd to pass through the Market-place naked and without Garments The Law of the Spartans set a Fine upon his Head first that married not at all next on him that married not till he was old and lastly on him they set the greatest Mulct that married an evil Wife or from a strange Tribe So laudable and reverent was Marriage amongst the Lacedemonians Procreation of Children and fertility of Issue That whosoever was the Father of Three Children should be free from Watch or Ward by day or Night and whosoever had Four or upward were rewarded with all Immunities and Liberty This Law was confirmed by Q. Metellus Numidicus Censor after approved by Julius Caesar and lastly established by Augustus Memorable are the words of Metellus in a publick Oration to the People If we could possibly be without Wives O Romans saith he we might all of us be free from molestation and trouble but since Nature excites us and necessity compels us to this exigent That we can neither live with them without Inconvenience nor without them at all more expedient it is therefore that we aim at the general and lasting profit than at our own private and momentary pleasure Bawd Pimp c. I put these together because it is pity to part the Devil's Houshold-stuff And indeed she is very much like him her Envy running Parallel with his For all that the Devil endeavours to do is to bring Mankind into the like state and condition and the nature of a Bawd is to make all fair Women as foul
â— c. 8. to this effect I promise that hereafter I will lay no claim to thee This Writing was cal'd a Bill of Divorce But with Christians this Custom is abrogated saving only in Case of Adultery The ancient Romans also had a Custom of Divorce among whom it was as lawful for the Wife to put away her Husband as for the Husband to dismiss his Wife But among the Israelites this Prerogative was only permitted to the Husband See Repudiate In our Common Law Divorce is accounted that Separation between two de facto married together which is à vinculo Matriâ—â—â—â—â— non soù d mensa 〈◊〉 And thereof the Woman so divorced received all again that the brought with her This is only upon a Nullity of the Marriage through some â—â—â—tial Impediment as Consanguinity or Afâ—â—nity within the degrees forbidden 〈◊〉 impotency or such like Dodona a City of Epirus near which stood a Grove of Oaks only dedicated to Jupiter called Dodonas Grove the Oaks were said to speak and were wont to give oraculous Answers to those that came to consult them Domini or Anno Domini is the Computation of time from the Incarnation of our Saviour Jesus Christ. As the Romans made their Computation from the Building the City of Rome and the Grecians number'd their Years by the Olympiads or Games called Olympick So Christians in remembrance of the happy Incarnation and blessed Birth of our Saviour reckon the time from his Nativity Domino a kind of hood or habit for the Head worn by Canons and hence also a fashion of vail used by some Women that mourn Dower dos signifies in Law That which the Wife brings to her Husband in marriage Marriage otherwise called Maritagâ—um good Dower from dotarium That which she hath of her Husband after the Marriage determined if she out-live him Glanviâ—e 7. ca. 2. Bracton l. 2. ca. 28. Dory a she Rogue a Woman-beggar a lowzy Quean Drol Fr. a good-fellow â—o on Companion merry Grig one that cares not how the World goes Dulcimer or Dulcimel sambuca so called quaâ—â— dulce melos i. sweet melody 〈◊〉 musical Instrument a Sambuke Dentitio the time that Children breed Teeth which is about the Seventh Month or later and usually the upper Teeth come first in some the under and amongst these the Fore teeth first Many times Fevers Convulsions Loosnesses c. attend Children in the time of breeding Teeth Distillatio an Extractiâ—â— of the moist or unctuous partâ— which are rarified into Mist or Smoke as it were by the force of Fire Distillation is performed by a Bladder by a Chymical Instrument called Câ—curbita before described by a Retort by Deliquium by Filtri by Descent c. and that either in Balneo Mariz Sand Vapours Dung the Sun a Reverberatory c. Dispensatorium a Dispensatory a Book useful for Apothecaries wherein all Medicines at least the most usual are contain'd and prescrib'd that they may be prepar'd in the Shops all the Year round E. EAde for Eadith i. happiness Sa. Eleanor i. pittiful gr Ellena ibid. Elizabeth i. The Oath of my God or else it may be Elishbeth i. the peace or rest â—f my God Emmet i. a Giver of help Norm Ephrah 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Kin. â— 19. i. fertility or fruitfulness 〈◊〉 rather I will be fruitful Esther 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. hidden from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sathar â—e lay hid Heb. Ethelburg i. a Noble Keeper Gâ— and Sa. Etheldred or Ethelred i. noble advice Ge. Eve 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chavah i. â—iving or giving life so called by her Husband Adam because she was the Mother 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 kol chav i. omnium viventiâ—â—m of all living Gen. 3.20 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chajah he lived Eugenia she that is nobly born see Eugenius in Mens names Euphenie i. she that is well spoken of and hath a good name and report Eutychia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. felicitas i happiness Echiud Queen of the Scythians with whom Hercules lay and got on her three Sons leaving a strong Bow behind him and ordaining that whoever of them when they came to years could bend that Bow should Succeed her in the Kingdom which only Scytha the youngest could do and so obtained it before his two Elder Brothers Erho a Nymph who being desperately in Love with Narcissus and rejected by him pined and sighed herself into Air and so became the shaddow or counterfeir of a Voice Egâ—ria a Nymph beloved by Num a Pampilius for her Wisdom he told the Romans he consuted her in all his great Affairs and Compiled divers Laws and Religious Customs by her Advice and made her to be in great Esteem with the People Some held her to be the Goddess who assisted at Womens Labours and eased their pains in Child-Birth Elizabeth Daughter of Henry the Eight by Queen Anna Bullein Daughter of Sir Thomas Bullein she was Queen oâ— England after the death of Queen Mary And had a long and Glorious Reign Of her see more at large Epicharis a Woman of a mean Birth but of great Courage and Vâ—rtue â—eing Condemned before Nero for having a share in a Conspiracy agâ—inâ—t him and being ordered to extream torture to make her Confess her Accomplices she bore it with such a Spirit and Courage she shamed and daunted her Tortureâ—s 〈◊〉 could any 〈…〉 by the most violâ—â—â—◠〈◊〉 but bring remanded to 〈◊〉 she killed herself to avoâ—d 〈◊〉 Tyran's 〈…〉 Epponiva Wife to Julius Sabinus a miracle of Conjugal Love for her Husband taking Arms with others against Vespatian and being overthrown hid himself in the Ruins of a Tomb where she came to him supplyed him with Food and Necessaries Lived with him and brought him forth divers Children in that dark and Solitary place but at last being discovered they were put to death which she bore with great Courage and Patience telling the Emperour she had rather die than live to see the wicked days of his Reign Erato one of the Nine Musâ—s presiding over Love Songs and Poems she is generally painted like a Virgin in the Bloom of her Youth Frolick and Gay Crowned with Roses and Mirtle holding a Harp in one hand and a Bow in the other with a Winged Cupid placed under her Elbow Armed with his Love-procuring Darts Escher Niece to Mordicai of the Tribe of Benjamin when King 〈◊〉 of Persia had put away Vâ—sâ—i his Queen for disobeying his Royal Mandate she being brought unto him among other Virgins he was to pleased with her Beauty and Conversation that he took her to Wife and she became Instrumental in saving the Jewish Nation then in Captivity from the destruction Human had prepared for theâ—â— and turned it upon himself 〈◊〉 his House Eudoria Married to 〈◊〉 dius the Emperour she 〈◊〉 a great Enemy to St. 〈◊〉 and declared for 〈◊〉 against him and 〈◊〉 him to be banished but he 〈◊〉 soon after re-called but 〈◊〉 some words against 〈◊〉 setting
idem denoâ—at a fine thin Skin within the Body dividing the Flesh or any near Member one from the another Also a Skin like a Cap wherein divers Children are born And the Skin in wraping the Brains are call'd Films the inmost which is next the Brain is also called pia meninx or pia mater the other dura meninx or dura mater The Infant has three Teguments or Membranous Films which cover it in the Womb that is the Corion Amnios and Allantois Whereof see more in Vulg. Error pag. 269. Flabel flabellum a Fan. Footing-time Nf. when the Child-bed Woman gets up Forfeiture of Marriage a Writ against one under Age and holding by Knights Service who refused to Marry her whom his Lord preferr'd without his Disparagement Faunrekynes o. little Infants Fricasse Fr. fricassee any Meat fry'd in a Pan. Frances a Womans Name Frank-bank Free-bench the Dower of Copy-hold lands which the wife being espoufed a Virgin hath after her Husband's Decease Friga a Saxon Goddess in the shape of an Hermophradite Frontal frontale a Frontlet or attire of the Forehead Frumenty from frumention i.e. Wheat so called because it is a kind of Pottage made of Milk and Wheat Froise a Pancake with Bacon intermix Furina a Roman Goddess Patroness of Thieves Frussian stuff made of Cotton or the Down of an Egyptian Fruit. Furies furie three imaginary Fiends or Spirits in Hell having Snakes growing on them instead of Hairs Poets feign them to be the Daughters of the River Aenerou and Night and to have the Office of Tormenting Souls of Murtherers and wicked Men their Names were Alecio i.e. uncessantly Tormenting Megara i.e. enraged And Tysiphone i.e. the Avenger of Murder Fufil Lat. fufillis a little Spindle Festoon-ton f. Encarpo g. a Garland of Fruits or Flower-works in Graven or Embossed work Figuretto a kind of stuff Figurrd or flowered Filly foal a mare colt Flora the Goddess of flowers otherwise called Cloris Floramor flower of Love Flaunes o. Custards Foraign-project to provide Maids with Husbands approved on with an Account what that Project was It may justly astonish us to consider how industrious and careful so great and wise a State as that of Athens was to promote the Marriage of the poorest Virgin among them that of Aristogeton's Daughter may serve for an instance who being a poor Girl in an mean Island and living under great poverty was by the order of the Council brought into Athens and there Married at the Publick Expence We do not find the Patriarchs chaffering for Portions Isaac that was so great an Heir as that his Father out of his own House did raise three Hundred and eighteen Men born in his Service was at the charge of sending for a Wife without a Portion and Jacob with fourteen years Service purchased his As the World increased in Mony so it did in this Sin and both united to hinder the Ordinance of God turning the Command of Increasing and Multiplying Men into increase and multiply more of which we may say as it was in another case though much to the same purpose in the beginning it was not so There are some now living in these Kingdoms that remember when Money was the least part considered in Marriage when that Sum would have been thought a Fortune for a Lord that is now dispised by a Merchant yet then there were few dyed without Posterity and as few dyed for want or that which is worse lived like Beasts of Prey on the Labours of others Lycurgus among his Laws to the Spartans enjoyned this for one That they who lived unmarried and childless should be debarr'd from all sports and forced to go naked in the Winter about the Market-place and in the Spartan Laws there were the same punishments for bad Husbands as for them that were none both being thought equally mischievous to the Commonwealth and neither to be suffered Solon made a Law That there should be no Jointures nor Dowers and that Wives should bring their Husbands but Three Gowns with some other small Trisles of small value forbidding Portions which he looked upon as buying of Husbands and so making Merchandize of Marriage as of other Trades contrary to the Law of Nature and first design of the Institution which was for the increase of Children hence was he wont to 〈◊〉 That Men and Women should Marry for Issue Pleasure and Love but in no case for Money The Romans were so careful in this matter that they made Laws vouchsaffing divers Immunities and Priviledges to such as had many Children as we may see by 〈◊〉 particular Laan Julia or Papia which obliged all Men to take Wives and none to be excepted And not only they but a worse People the Persians had in former times a Custom to Honour Men once a year with some Gratuity from their King who had a Child that year by his Wife respecting him as a Man that had gained an eâ—teem in the Service of his Country by the Laws of Lycurgus Men that would not marry were to be deem'd infamous and to have no respect paid to them consonant to which is that Passage related by Pluâ—reb of Dorcillidas who coming into Prison where there was a young man who gave him no respect not even stirring from his place and being asked why he shewed him no reâ—erence seeing that he was a Man of Honour made the following Reply Because he was not the Father of a Son who might hereafter do as much for him We come nearer home and find at this day in some parts of Germany a Custom formerly more universal once a year at a general meeting in the City or Town to present Gifts and to give publick applause with loud Acclamations to such as were married and had Children that year thus Ecchoing out their Praises These are they that replenish the World As to Widowhood 't was forbidden by the Romans to have any Allowance in the Common-Wealth in case they were not superannuated The Nostranes in the East have so vast a veneration for Marriage that as soon as the married Couple has a Male-Child the Father loses his name and is called by that of his Eldest Son as supposing the Fathers name Isaac and the Son to be called Joseph he is no more named Isaac but Abba Joseph I have heard of a Custom amongst those worst of Men the Irish which may teach us Charity and that is before their Daughters are thirteen years of age they go about among all their Friends and Acquaintance taking the young Girl with them to shew that she is capable of Marriage This accounted sufficient Intimation to their Friends to understand their Design and therefore they need do no more but are immediately answer'd with what they can spare which is commonly in Cattel for they have little Mony This I have heard is a frequent Practice amongst them at this day and so general that a poor Man who may not be Master of six Cows himself will commonly
get twenty for their Daughters and make no Provision for their Sons by which means the Daughters seldom stay till fifteen and the young Men Marry the earlier to get themselves a Stock of Cattel which they are sure of with a Wife We find in several Parts of the World as in Thrace and Assyria that they were so possessed with an Opinion of the advantage of Marriage as occasion'd their making Laws for its Propagation And here that no Maids may be left unmarried either for want of Beauty Mony or Virtue I shall add the Project mention'd by a late Author to provide them with Husbands Which is as follows viz. That a Statute might be made obliging all Men from One and Twenty Years of Age to Marry or in Default to pay One Eighth Part Annually of their Yearly Income if they be Men of real Estates or One Eighth Part of the Interest of their Personal Estates if it amount to One Hundred per Annum of Real or to Four Hundred Personal as it shall be 〈◊〉 by Men appointed for that Affair and the same to be 〈◊〉 by all Single Women who 〈◊〉 their Fortunes in their Hands after that they arrive to in Age of Eighteen and the same to be paid by all 〈◊〉 and Widows who have 〈◊〉 Children the Widowers â—â—â— to pay after Sixty Years of Age nor the Widows after Forty and all these 〈◊〉 to continue as long as they are unmarried And because that Young Men are often 〈◊〉 from Marriage through Default of their Fathers 〈◊〉 the same Mulct shall be laid on the Father's Estate as if â—â— were the Son 's This Mony so rais'd to be disposed in every City and Country as they find see sir for Portions to young Maids who are under Forty Years of Age and Care taken that it be expended every Year so as no Bank to be kept and that no Portion be ever given to any who have been debaunched with such other Rules as may be prescribed These Kingdoms in their most happy days never saw a Law which made that immediate Provision for the meanest Soul in it as this will do for 't will set the Captive free whereas many are now born who have reason to continue the Lamentation they found out at their first Entrance into the World Our greatest Charity for the Poor is at most but to keep them so but this will be cloathing them with Wedding Garments and every Corner of the Land will rejoice with Nuptial Songs and undoubtedly if it be a Virtuous Act to relieve the Poor this must be greater to provide for them for the present and to prevent it in their Posterity I 'm sensible that some may be apt to raise Objections against this Proposal which to save the Trouble both of naming and answering them I think this Reply may serve for all That there can be no particular Injury done in this Matter which can stand in the least Competition with the Consideration of such Publick Good as both Reforming and Peopling of a Kingdom will necessarily amount to See a Book call'd Marriage Promoted Female Modety Occasion and our Nature are like two inordinate Lovers they seldom meet but they do sin together Man is his own Devil and oftentimes doth tempt himself So prone are we to Evil that it is not one of the least Instructions that doth advise us to beware of our selves Now an Excellent Virtue to restrain or check a Man or Woman from running into Vice is Modesty I am perswaded many Women had been bad that are not so if they had not been bridled by a bashful Nature There are divers that have a Heart for Vice that have not a Face accordingly Surely the Graces sojourn with a blushing Virgin It is Recorded that the Daughter of Aristotle being asked which was the best Colour made answer That which Modesty produced in ingenious Spirits To blush at Vice is to let the World know that the Heart within hath an Inclination to Virtue Now to give a check to such immodest Women who proceed from the Acts of Uncleanness to Murder the illegitimate Off spring I shall for the information of these Ignorant Wantons give them a light of the following Act. An Act to prevent the Destroying and Murthering of Bastard Children WHereas many Leud Women that have been delivered of Bastard Children to avoid their Shame and to escape Punishment do secretly Bury or Conceal the Death of their Children and after if their Children be found dead the said Women do alledge that the said Child was born dead wheras it falleth out sometimes altho hardly it is to be proved that the said Child or Children were Murthered by said Women their Leâ—d Mothers or by their Assent or Procurement For the preventing therefore of this great Mischief be it Enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament That any Woman after one Month next ensuing the end of this Session of Parliament be delivered of any Issue of her Body Male or Female which being born alive should by the Laws of this Realm be a Bastard that she indeavour privately either by Drowning or secret Burying thereof or any other way either by her self or the procuring of others so to conceal the Death thereof as that it may not come to light whether it were born alive or not but he concealed in every such Case the said Mother so offending shall suffer Death as in Case of Murther except such Mother can make proof by one Witness at the least that the Child whose Death was by her so intended to be concealed was Born dead Modesty is one the most natural and most useful Tables of the Mind wherein one may presently read what is printed in the whole Volume Certainly a good Heart looks out thro' modest Eyes and gives an Answer to any that asks who is within with modest Words and dwells not at the sign of the Bush or Red-lattice or Painted-post A glorious Soul is above dresses and despiseth such as have no higher or other thoughts then what concern their gorget and their hair This preserves in tune and keeps the scale of Affections even This teaches a denying and preventing behaviour towards Tentations 1. Let the Carriage and Behaviour be modest Rebekah put on the Vail Gen. 24.64 when Abraham's Servant told her That the Man whom they saw coming towards them was his Master's Son to whom she was intended in Marriage Contrarily the Woman with the Attire of an Harlot of whom Sâ—omoâ— speaks Met a young Man and kissed him and with an impudent face she spake unto him Prov. â— 13. 2. Let the Language be modest Even Aristotle in his Politicks would have all Obsceness of words to be banished by the Law because when People take a liberty to speak ill they learn to do ill He would therefore have such as are Young neither to speak or hear any thing that is foul and if any be found faulty to be punished with stripes or some note of
every turn she would Kiss the Cup and Drink to him and smile and drink on that side he drank on till he Acknowledges 〈◊〉 sipt and sipt so long till in the end he was drunk with Love Aristaenetus tells us he meeting a Fair Maid though a stranger looked back at her and she looked back at him and smiled which first kindled that â—â—ming Love that undid him If you make a Choice be sure let it be by Day-light that you may see what you do tho' the Enjoyment may be perhaps to the more agreeable Canopy of the Night for Women and Gloworms shine brightest by glimering Tapers as your Course Wares are put upon people to Cozen them by the help of false Sky-lights A Florentine Gentleman having made a Choice by Candle light deceived by her being raidiantly set out with Jewish Rings Lawns Scarves â—â—lace Gold Spangles and Gauâ—â— Devices took his Mistress 〈◊〉 an Angel and was so Impatient of delay that he would 〈◊〉 be married presently but her Gaudy Trapings laid aside in the morning when he viewed her undressed she appeared a perfect Hagg Lean Yellow Rivel'd c. and such a one as pall'd all the pleasures and delights he had promised himself in that Marriage so that he could not endure to look upon her In Italy such Matches are usually made most of their wooings being in the Churches and those Windows generally cast false Lights to make things seem fairer than they are Interchanging but few words and are much addicted especially if they be not very Fair and Lovely to have their Faces for the most part Clouded with Vails or Masks In the Old Lacedemonians time the Bride was to be brought into the Church or Chamber with her Hair girt about her and the Bridegroom untied the Knot and was not at all to see her by day light till such time she had Conceived but thanks to our prudent Ancestors who have made no such Law that we should be compell'd to have a Pig in a Poke we are a Free-born People and have free Liberty in our Choice may talk with Freedom and Familiarity and use any Modest Expressions or Recreations that may tend to the Accomplishing our desires Here Ladies one Complements you and holds you up by the Arm to prevent stumbling Wrings your Fingers drinks to you and tenderly Embraces you another Kisses you whilst the Fidler plays and perhaps sings a Third singles you out to dance another accosts you with dumb signs as not daring to trust his Tongue with relating his Passion whilst you walk up and down in state and by the ruffling your Silks and Tinsels make men turn their Eyes upon you In these you have Advantages above other Nations and encrease your Trophies by new and unforbidden Conquests at pleasure We only put you in mind that you ought to be merciful to those you overcome In this we find that Women who are made such soft Temptations ought not to be Cruel where their Charms have made a Conquest over the hearts of Men nor be boastingly proud of their Triumphs when being Compassionate in dispensing their Favour gains them not only Applause but even the very Essence of Love it self and furnishes you with such ravishing pleasures as are unaccountable but in the Enjoying Marriage when sutable to either Party brings many Blessings with it Cornelia a Virtuous Roman Lady being Challenged by a Light Housewife to number Jewels with her produced a great many beautiful and well educated Children saying they were her Jewels which she Esteemed of a greater Value than all the Jewels India or Arabia could afford and indeed they are the Blessing of God the sweet Recompences and Pledges of Chast Conjugal Love Inconstancy and it 's bad effects Inconstancy is very uncommendable in either Sex because it shews not only a wavering but a Treacherous Disposition a Sandy or Wavy Foundation on which no Trust or Confidence can have a Foundation In the Country of the Trogloditae Geographers report that there is a Water or Lake the Taste whereof is bitter and Salt thrice a day and again returns as often to be sweet so that for its continuing at no stay it is termed the Mad-water even such may we reasonably term those Men and Women that give themselves up to be turned about with every Wind and Fancy being no less unequal and inconstant in their Manners than those Waters are in their Taste sometimes Courteous and sometimes Rough now Prodigal and then Sordid seldom being many hours in one stay one while being extreamly kind and in a while vehemently hating where they Passionately Loved or seemed so to do before blowing like the Traveller in the Satyrs Cave hot and cold with the same breath in Consideration of which Circling an ingenious Person thus Descants upon his inconstant Fair one 1. Unconstant that Word strikes me more Than the bright Lightning of your Eyes That made my yielding Heart your prize â—ou'd ever do before 2. Ab like a cruel Murthress you Fly from your Lover slain Some other booty to pursue And proudly kill again 3. But why shou'd I for this despair Or at Inconstancy repine Since only change can make you mine Now you anothers are 4. What though the Heavens beauteous frame Daily delights to move It still returns again the same All Harmony and Love 5. T is Pity too methinks that she By Duty sure design'd To cherish all Mankind Should be confin'd to me 6. For shou'd the Suns all Smiling Light To his loved Rhodes display All other parts must Mourn in Night And ne're enjoy the day Incest incestus did signifie all kind of Pollution committed by undoing or untying the girdle called Cestus or 〈◊〉 but now in a more strict acceptation it signifies only that kind of Naughtiness which is committed between two of near kin Godwin Incest the Evil that attends it Incestuous Love and Marriages are to be avoided among Christians though in the first Ages of the World they were in some measure winked at for the speedier way of peopling of the Earth The Words of St. Augustine are that the Commixture of Brothers and Sisters the more Ancient it is in respect of Compulsion of Necessity the more damnable it is now afterwards become through the Prohibition of Religion Amongst those with whom Religion hath but little to do whole Nations are delighted and polluted with all sorts of Incestuous Copulations the Persians and Parthians allow Incest in their Royal Families which warrants others by Example to commit it though this evil has been severely punished as for Example Incestuous desire so possessed a Moor in Persia named Hajam Mojam that coveting to enjoy his own Daughter though her Mother was alive he went to an Ecclesiastical Judge informing him in general Terms that in his Youth having taken Pleasure to plant a Garden and Dress and Order it with great Care it now brought forth such excellent Fruits that his Negihbours greedily coveted it importuning him every day
the Greeks small Forces in that 〈◊〉 and himself compell'd to thy ruins of his fortune in a little Skiff so uncertain are the product of the continuance of a prosperous Fortune Saladine the great Aegyptian Sultan was mindful of this when he ordered his Shirt to be carried before him upon a Spear and Proclamation to be made that that was 〈◊〉 he should carry notwithstanding his acquired Riches Power and Glory to the Grave with him The Emperors of Constantinople were 〈◊〉 on their Coronation days to have a Mason bring them several sorts of Stones and demand of which they would have their Tombs made that being minded they were but mortal men it might give an 〈◊〉 and an abatement to their 〈◊〉 thoughts by access to Empire The antient Romans allowed those they granted Triumphs to be justly reproached by whomsoever would on the day of their Triumph that they should 〈◊〉 conceit themselves more 〈◊〉 men through the applauses that were generally given for their good Services accounting those that could beat the highest Prosperity and accumulated Honours with a modesty as if they regarded them not and remain fixed and unmoved in all Stations and conditions such a one may be said to be a living Person that hath a life which distinguishes him from irrational Creatures and gives him a Capacity next to Angels he or she so qualified can look upon Death and see his Face with the same Countenance and endure all the labours of Life with a Soul wordily supporting the Body and equally dispise Riches when in Possession or at a distance and is not at all sadder if they lye in a neighbours Cosser than if shining in his own House he that is neither moved with good fortune coming to him nor going from him that can look upon anothe mans Lands evenly and pleasingly as if they were his own and yet look upon his own and use them just as if they were another mans that neither spends his Goods Prodigally like a Fool nor yet keeps them a naritiously like a wretch that weighs not benefits by weight and number but by the mind and circumstances of the Benefactor that never thinks Charity expensive if a worthy Person be the receiver he that does not think for Opinions sake but every thing for Conscience being as curious of his Thoughts as of his Actings in Markets and Theaters and is much in awe of himself as of a whole Assembly he that knows God looks on and contrives his secret Affairs as in the presence of God and his Holy Angels that Eaâ—s and Drinks because it is needful noâ— that it may serve a Lust or loâ—d the Stomach he that is not Proud to any but bountiful and chearful to his Friends and Charitable and apt to forgive his enemies that loves his Country and oâ—â— his Prince and desires and endeavours nothing more than that he may do Honour to God such a one may reasonably and justly reckon his life to be the life of a man since he banishes the monster Pride and embraces Humility he may compute his Months not by the course of the Sun but by the Zodiack of his Virtues because these are such things that none but the Wise and Virtuous are capable of bringing themselves to do These are therefore the Actions of Life because they are the seeds of Immortality Hear on the contrary what Athenaeus says of Ninus the great and Proud Assyrian Monarch whose Life and Death he sums up in these words Ninus the Assyrian says he had an Ocean of Gold and other Riches more than the Sand of the Caspian Sea he never saw the Stars and perhaps he never desired it he never stirred up the Holy Fire among the Magi nor touched his God with the sacred Rod according to the Law he never offered Sacrifice Worshipped the Deity nor Administred Justice nor spake to his People nor numbered them he was Proud and not valiaâ— to Eat and Drink and having tasted Wine in his Golden Bowls he threw the rest on the Floor This man is Dead behold his sepulcher and now hear what Ninus says viz. Sometimes I was Ninus and drew the breath of a living man but now I am dusâ—â— I have nothing but what I did Eat and what I served to my self in Lust that was and is aâ— my Portion The Wealth for which I was esteemed blessed my Enemies meeting together shall bear away I am gooe to Hell and when I wenâ— thither I neither carried Gold nor Silver nor Horses nor Chariots and I who wore a Crown and upon whose breath depended the Faâ—e of so many thousand Lives am but a little lump of Clav. That however it may be put upon This O Assyrian is most certainly the state of a proud sensual Person and of those wretched Worldlings that make their bellies and their Gold their Gods But to render the Proud and Ambitious a larger prospect of the Ills and bad Effects that Pride Ambition and want of Virtue produces in the World In all the parts of Earth from farthest West And the Atlantic Isles unto the East And famous Gauges few there be that know â—hat's truly good from what is good in show Without mistake For what is 't we desire Or sear discreetly to what do we aspire Thoroughly blest but ever as we speed Repentance seals the very act and Deed. Though thou small peices of the golden Mine Half lodg'd about thee travelling in the shine Of a pale Moon if but a Reed does shake â—â—v'd by the Wind the shadow makes thee quake Wealth bath its Cares and Want bath this Relief â—â— neither fears the Soldier nor the Thief The Macedon one world could not contain â—â— bear him of the scanty Globe complain An sweat for Room as if Seryphus Isle Or Gyara had held him in Exile But Babylon this madness can allay And Aegypt give him but his length in clay The highest thoughts and actions under heaven Death only with the lowest dust lays Even Yet that you may have something to commend With thanks unto the heavens for what they send Pray for a wise and knowing soul a sad Discreet true Valour that will scorn to add A needless horror to thy death that Knows 'T is but a debt which man to Nature owes That starts not at misfortunes but can sway And make all passions his strict Rules obey Who covets nothing wrongs none and prefers An honest want before rich injurers All this you have within your selves and may Be made your own if you will take the way What â—â—â—ts the worlds wild loose applauses what Fraul fading honours lost as soon as got What length of Years Wealth or a fair Rich Wise Vertue alone can make an happy Life Yet â—span of a Vertuous Wiseâ— possest May from that momet date his being blest To a wise man all things go rigbâ—â— but we Fortune adore make her our Deity Painting or colouring a Lady Face to repair by Art the Defests of Nature defended in opposition
Nun building the Abbey of Holy Câ—oss and divers other places which she dedicated to pious uses and dyed anno 587. Ramsey Mary second Wife of Sir Thomas Ramsey Alderman and Sheriff of London anno 1567. and Lord Mayor in 1577. She was Daughter of Sir William Dale Merchant of Bristol She liv'd a very Piousand Vertuous life â—nd dying Nâ—â—emâ—â—r 1595. without 〈◊〉 leâ—t the â—râ—aâ—est 〈…〉 Uâ—es 〈◊〉 fâ—â— ever that have been left 〈…〉 private person before or 〈◊〉 Reginatrudâ— Dutchess of Bavaria She was Daughter of Chidelbert King of France and marry'd to Theâ—dâ—n the Third Duke of Bavaria whom she converted to the Christian Religion and afterwards by the assistance of Rupert Bishop of Worms she prevail'd with the greater part of his Subjects to follow his Example Renea of France She was Dutches of Ferrara Daughter to Lewis the 12th of France and Ann of Britany She was marry'd to Hercules D' Este Duke of Ferrara by the contrivance of Francis the First who succeeded Lewis though she might have had far greater Matches in England and Germany She was a Lady of great Courage Wit and Learning Renown otherways called Fame a Goddess of Poetical Invention held to be the Messenger of Jupiter She was painted in the shape of a Woman with Wings spread abroad and spangled with Eyes her Garments light and succiâ—â—â— with a Trumpet in her mouth as â—â—unâ—ing Râ—â—â—e for refusing to forsake her Religion and marry Gaulâ—â— a Roman Praeâ—â—ct 〈…〉 him tortured and 〈…〉 put to death but was 〈…〉 after her Death 〈…〉 as a Saint â—oches Catherine 〈…〉 of pâ—ictiers so well 〈…〉 in Poetry that she was 〈…〉 The Muse of France She 〈…〉 books in Prose and 〈◊〉 and Educaâ—ed her 〈…〉 to an Extraordinary 〈…〉 Learning and Virtue 〈…〉 the most accompliâ—â—â—◠〈◊〉 in the Country 〈…〉 great Matches were 〈◊〉 red them they could not 〈◊〉 inâ—uced to marry but 〈◊〉 them'elves with 〈◊〉 and contemplative 〈◊〉 â—â—â—ogunda Daughâ—â—◠〈◊〉 â—â—ng Pharaates of Parâ—â—â—â—â— Sâ—â— was Wife to Deineâ—â—â—â—◠〈…〉 of Syria She was 〈…〉 of great Courage 〈…〉 and Virâ—ue â—â—samunon Queen 〈…〉 She was Daughâ—â—◠〈◊〉 and Wife 〈…〉 who was called into 〈…〉 the Imperial 〈◊〉 revenge the astronts 〈◊〉 Emperess Sophiâ—â— had put 〈…〉 but Alâ—ion having 〈…〉 Father to death and 〈…〉 Cup of his Skull which 〈…〉 have forced her to 〈…〉 out of she 〈…〉 his Life and caused 〈…〉 â—â—â—â—hered by 〈…〉 the General of his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Daughter 〈…〉 a Prince of Persia 〈…〉 to Alexander the Great in his â—xpeâ—tiâ—n against Darius She was held to be one of the most beautiful Ladies of Asia â—oâ—â—llan Su'taness and Wife to Solyman the Magnificent Emperour of the 〈◊〉 A Woman of great Beauty but of greater Spirits and Ambition Ruth Daughter in Law to Naâ—mi married to Bâ—aâ— Rumia or Rumilla a Goddess to whom the Romans recommended the care of their Infan-Children Rosamond the Fair Concubine of K. Henry the Sâ—â—â—nâ— of England poyâ—â—râ—â— by Q. Elenor in Woodstock â—oâ—er near Oxford Back the Duke of Exeter's Daughter an Engine to extort Confessions brought into the Tower by him being Câ—nâ—iâ—â—le 16 H. 6. intending to bring in the whole Civil Law Recreations sutable for Ladies and what is to be observed therein Recreations when Innocent and Moderaâ—â—â—â— may be called the Spring of 〈◊〉 that makes it move smooth and regular it is an Antidote against the too rust impressions of business and over sâ—â—â—ious Thoughts upon the Spirits and by Wise and Prudent management may be turned to great advantages in rendering our conditions easy and pleasant but when immoderately used and carried to excess and extravagancy it is worse than Labour or Toil. All Pleasures that but border on Scandal must be shunn'd and avoided and even those that are the most Innocent must not exceed the Rules of Moderation Which consists first in not giving offence scandal damage or prejudice to your Associates or others Secondly It must besuch as is not injurious or prejadicial to your Health Reputation or Business you must by no means make your Pleasure your Bussiness but by the enjoyment thereof be more than chearful in your return to it as more enabled by your Diversions to perform it The most innocent Recreations by excess are many times abused and the Body and Mind rather enfeebled and disordered than strengthened and composed by them their Vigour is weak and sostened the Compexson is besot ed and the principal Virtues sometimes banish'd Recreation must be taken as it was first provided and then it will be taken without a Sâ—ng The Heathen Sages prohibited either Sex to â—â—acken the Reins too much to it least it should insensibly carry them away in a career they would not be able to stop till they bulg'd upon the ruggedRock of Misfortune Wâ— that are Christians have more reason therefore to be cautious least too great a swing of Worldy Pleasure and Delights throws us into Irre 〈◊〉 and incumbers us 〈…〉 we never intended to be concern'd withal those Recreations above all others 〈◊〉 most commendable that refresh the Mind and never leave any private 〈…〉 behind them on the Câ—â—â—â—ence to upbraid â—he Sens◠〈◊〉 the immoderate or unlawful using them she that plaâ—â—â—â—â— into a puddle do's but enâ—'â—â— her self to the trouble of â—â— aâ—terwashing few people are so indiseret and regardless of their Health as for the lusciousness of the Tast to â—â—â—d on those things that will â—â—pair it and render them 〈◊〉 stempered God would never have allowed such Recreations nor furnished us either with the desire of them or the faculties to enjoy them with any design we should abuse them or that they should prove hurtful to us yet there are so many incoveniences adhearing to the use of â—â—â—sure by exceeding the measure mistaking the m 〈◊〉 misplacing the time thâ—â—â—al though Recreations be laâ—â—â—ul in themselves yet if they be circumstanced amiss they are not expidient Recreations and Pleasures are undon â—idly lawful if we abuse 〈◊〉 not by irregularity all the s'veral 〈…〉 in Food 〈◊〉 other varieties of the 〈◊〉 nature were intended please the 〈…〉 to satisfy the Appeaâ—â—â— of the beautiful and pleasant Fruits the Garden of God contained there was but one only among so vast a number excepted from which it may reasonably be concluded we may enjoy those delights we have a well grounded inclination to and that are no ways prohibited if so we do it as not to do it amiss Recreations most proper and suitable to Ladies may be râ—â—â—'d under four principal he â— as Limning Dancing Musick Reading these Imploy both the Mind and Activity of the Body Lim â—ing is a very curious Art wherein a Lady especially in small Figures either in Oyl or Water-Painting may improve her Fancy to Admiration and leave rare monuments of her Ingenuity to Posterity Dancing Recreates the Body and moderately used much câ—ntribuâ—â—â— to Health by tâ—â—rring and dispersing the gathering and afflicting Humours besides it gives a decent comliness to