sensualitie did neuer so much abound he is blinde that seeth not this and too malitious that will not acknowledge it The sinnes of this age are become like old festered soores that are not to bee cured but with biting corosiues we can not therefore too bitterly reprehend them We are become like naturall beasts that do bring all things to triall but by the senses but if we could carry them to the inquisition of the soule we should finde it a fearefull iudgement of God for men to be giuen vp so much to their owne lusts to haue no sense nor feeling of their sinne he that hath this hardnesse of heart that he neither feeleth his owne sinne nor will not be told of it by another he is no more of the race of Adam who was ashamed of himselfe but of Pharao who hardened his owne heart and whose heart God did harden If the head doth but a little ake our vrins must knocke at the Phisitions doore and alas how inquisitiue we be about the state of our bodies but let our consciences cry out and exclaime how they list our sickly famished soules are neuer respected we are so farre in loue with our sinnes that wee care not for the losing of our soules Are these the works that faith affordeth is this the life that God requireth we goe to Church indeed and we say to seeke the Lord but we do not seeke him as if we ment to finde him wee seeke him not with humble and penitent heart but with proud and presumptuous spirits decking and pranking vp our selues with those gawdy and vngodly attires as are more liker to poison our praiers then to profit our soules better fitting indeed for a Brothell house then for the house of God We goe to Church rather to show our pompe and our pride then with any zealous intent to serue our God as we should do We goe to the Church as Iudas went to the Supper of the Lord we returne home in a worse case then when we first went thither With what faces can we make show to professe the Gospel when we be so giuen vp to that monstrous pride that we rather desire to follow our owne voluptuous pleasures then to serue God the world doth see it our consciences doth witnesse it neither can we denie it They will make show by their speeches as if they could not indure that God should be dishonoured but looke vpon their actions their pride their vanity their drunkennesse their excesse and they doe shew them plainly what they are and he that should iudge theÌ„ by the rules of holy scriptures might boldly pronounce them to be farre from euerlasting life our Sauiour Christ hath confidently avowed The vnrighteous shall not inherit the kingdome of heauen and the Apostle 1. Cor. 6. Be not deceiued neither fornicator neither adulterer nor drunkard nor idolater shall not inherit the kingdome of God Let them flatter themselues therefore how they list they are in a dangerous plight we cannot be too plaine to put them from that vaine hope that thus deludeth them that will euery day pollute themselues with these abhominations yet will trust or hope for saluation they thinke it time soone ynough to repent when their climacterical yeare is past then if they haue but time to say Lord haue mercy vpon vs and for their executors to giue penny dole when they bee dead it wil serue for a quietus est for all their sins forepassed they may perhaps sometime dreame of a dying time and it is but a dreame for being not throughly resolued that this time draweth euery day neerer then other they neuer prepare themselues against the time but are many times taken suddenly in the fulnesse of their filthinesse and in the very prime when they be acting of the abhominations I haue little hope therefore to reforme those by my writing whom the thundring voyce of Gods word pronounced euery day by the Preacher can neither conforme nor any thing at all terrifye I know I shall rather procure hatred for speaking truth then win loue for wishing well but I little feare the Adulterat censure of a senceles multitude the wicked are like an Ocean that cannot rest from raging and a madnesse for him that will run amongst thornes and thinke scorne to be prickt let them then rage raile as they list he that is throughly settled and composed in himselfe moues in so high an Orbe and at so far a distant from the malicious and ill disposed that their vnsauoury belchings can neuer annoy him It sufficeth me that I maske in the true simplicities of a loyall honesty my conscience bearing me witnes I haue spoken those truths that I am in nothing more agrieued then in that they are too true FINIS What one applies to vice another may conuert to vertue Caligula vsed to looke in a glasse The nicitie of yong men in this age Looking glasses flattering Some make defects where none are The nature of this Glasse The loftinesse of sinnes Men are vnwilling to heare their faults No speaking against sinnes Augustus thought it necessary for men to finde fault Pasquils piller why prohibibited Sin growne malipert The fearefull condition of the time Angry fault sinders VVhat they be that are angry A dangerous time The holy workes of Papists The Diuell much bound to the Pope Vice deriding vice A dangerous sickenesse VVorke for the Diuell Pitifull spectacles Religious in show Religion but made a staale VVe must exhort one another The securitie of the time The effects of sinnes The sinnes of all nations brought into England The wantonnesse of sinne in this age Sinne a knowne Strumpet become a Lady The Lady New-fashions a Strumpet a Bawde and a VVitch Sinne setteth a worke all sorts of Tradesmen A godly admonition to Ladies and Gentlewomen VVomen more excellent by nature then men I speake this but to those women that be wise doe feare God More then would serue â—o good women that feared God VVandring Eyes I hope al this will offend no women that are good How women should vse their glasses Monstrous fashions euery day hatched vp The genealogy of sinne Couetousnes the parent of many sinnes The varieties of Iniquities Sinne thinkes scorne to be reprooued Three shrewd witnesses The glory pride The effects of pride A happie age Strange inuented vanities The diuels Ingeny Credible and true though strange to be beleeued VVe marre that fashion that God hath made to follow our owne A most ridiculous folly A precept from God neglected The little difference that is vsed between men and women in their apparell The new found out folly of taking tobacco Experience much better then Master Doctors opinion Tobacco vsed but to drawe dowue drinke The loathsomnesse of Tobacco The Tobacconist and the Drunkard fit companions Tobacco sophisticated A pitious expence The inormities that be drawne in by Tobacco Of couetousnesse Bribery in great estimation Briberie disguised Many sinnes boulstered out by
strength that shee began on the sudden to play the Rebell and with a tumultuous assembly gathered together in the plaines of Shinar shee began to fortifie her selfe against Heauen Amongst those Giants then reigning ouer the face of the earth that greedy Curre Couetousnesse which the Apostle tearmeth to be the roote of all euils was amongst a number of other monstrous sinnes fostered vp by Ambition Couetousnesse was the first parent of Oppression Extortion Bribery Vsury Fraud Deceit Subtilty and that common Strumpet Idolatry was a bastard borne of this broode Idolatry had issue the Lady Lecherie who in processe of time became so conuersant with the Pope and his Cardinals that they procreated amongst them that loathsome sinne of Buggery It would bee a matter of impossibilitie for me to set downe the varieties of those sinnes that are hatched vp in these daies when so many new fashioned iniquities doth swarme both in Cittie Towne and Country that were our bodies but halfe so diseased with sicknesses as our soules be with sins it could not be auoided but that some strange and vnheard-of mortality would ensue The time hath beene men would maske their vices with cloaked dissimulation from the eye of the world but now iniquitie is set forth bare fast without any maske of preteires to hide her ougly visage They sought to couer their sinnes from the open show we haue so litle shame that we neuer seek to shelter them our Ancestors were but bunglers at vice they had not the wit to grace a sinne nor to set it forth to the show they could but call a Spade a spade a Greene Goose a gosling a professed Broker a craftie knaue we are become farre more exquisite we can make an Owle a Hawke a Iacke Naaps a sheepe an old Milne Horse a palfry for a man of honour we can call Impudency Audacitie Rage Courage Wilinesse wit Obstinacy Constancy and Lewde Lust Pure Loue. Our wittes are become more capering then they were in times past our conceits more nimble and ready to finde out new trickes new toies and new inuentions as well of follies as of fashions But what remedie pride thinkes scorne to be reprooued or to be told of her faults she is growne so stubborne and so stately Swearing swaggers out admonition and will not be reprooued Whooredome and Drunkennesse hath so hid themselues in the Maze of vanities that repentance can no where fiinde them out Rage Fury are produced as argumēts of valour where the Lie shall be giuen but vpon the speaking of a word the Stab againe returned but for the giuing of the Lie where not to pleadge a Health is a ground good ynough for a Challenge and the taking of wall made a heinous matter whereby many times murther doth insue But sinners haue three shrewd witnesses to testifie against them the Diuell the Law and their owne Consciences but if here vpon the earth a mans owne conscience condemnes him for his sinne how much greater shall be the iudgement of God The glory of pride as she passeth through the streetes in this age doth so farre exceed that the eye of heauen is ashamed to behold it And those blessings which God hath giuen vs in great measure we consume in pride and wantonnesse and like Swine we beslauer the precious pearles of Gods abundant plenty conuerting them by our excessiue pride into dearth and scarcity and this wickednesse ariseth not from Turkes Iesuits Heretykes and Papists but from the professors of true Christianity and euen now in the hottest Sunne-shine of the Gospell we haue neglected Heauen to dote vpon the vaine pleasures of the earth and haue forsaken God but to wrappe our selues in the excrement of wormes a little garded and garnished with the minerall of Gold and Siluer How many that are not able to pay honestly for home-spunne cloth will yet weare silke and will euery day glister in Gold and Siluer the soule goes euery day in her working day clothes whilest the body keepes perpetuall holy-day and iets vp and downe in her seuerall suites How many againe are so eager of superfluities that all their racked rents in the country are not able to discharge the Shop bookes in the City when there be that will spend asmuch as some knights be worth but in a payre of Garters and a payre of Shooestrings It is pride that hath banished Hospitality and good house keeping It is pride that raiseth the rents and rates of all things vniuersally It is pride that breadeth our dearth and scarcities It is pride that impouerisheth City Towne and countrey It is pride that filles all the prisons in England and brings a number to the Gallowes It is pride if it be not preuented in time that will make a hangmans roome in reuersion to be a good sute for a gentleman that hath honestly serued his Prince and Countrey for howsoeuer hee may shift for meate and drinke he shall be sure to want no cloathes It was a happy age when a man might haue wooed his wench with a paire of Kiddes lether Gloues a Siluer Thimble or with a Tawdry Lace but now a veluet gowne a chaine of pearle or a coach with foure horses will scarcely serue the turne shee that her mother would haue beene glad of a good Ambling Maare to haue rode to Market on will not now steppe out of her owne doores to crosse the other side of the streete but shee must haue her coache It was a merry world when seauen or eight yeards of veluet would haue made a gowne for a Lady of honour now eighteene will not suffice for her that is scarce worthy to be a good Ladies laundresse we are growne from a peticoate of stamell to cloath of siluer cloath of gold silke stockings and not so much as our shoes but they must be imbrodered with siluer with gold yea and sometimes with pearles I haue spoken of pride indifferently how it inforceth a like both men and women it is pride that draweth after it such a daily innouation of new fashions that I thinke they haue found out whole Mines of new inuentions or they haue gotten the Philosophers stone to multiply there is such a daily multiplicity both of follies and fashions Vitellius in his daies searched farre and neare for the varieties of Nature but we haue harrowed Hell in these daies for the vanity of new fashions and I thinke wee haue found them out for hee that had as many Eyes as Argus were not able to looke into the one halfe that are now followed and imbraced aswell by men as women The Prophet Esay in his 3. Chapt. maketh mentiō of many strange engins belongeth to women he speaketh there of oyntments for their lippes of caules and round attires for their heads of sweete balles bracelets and bonnets of tabiletes earrings muffelers wimples vailes crisping pinnes glasses lawnes and fine linnen These and many other vanities belonging to women are there numbred
vsed many times to behold himselfe in a glasse to see how sternely and how terribly he could frame and set his countenance They are now as common and conuersant to men as they be to women And our yong gentlemen in this age are as curious to behold themselues in a glasse as Dame-Folly her selfe when she is newly trickt vp in the Attyre-makers Trim. Amongst Looking glasses there be some that be ouer much flattering that will make the beholders to seeme more yong more smoth and better fauoured than they be and these sortes of glasses are best of all esteemed but especially amongst women There is yet an other sort that doth make defects where none are that will shew the round and well formed visage to be long leane and wrinkled and these kinde of Glasses are little set by either of men or women I haue indeuoured the forming of this Glasse that I hope shall giue a true representation aswell of the perfections as of the defections either of men or women that shall behold themselues in it Yet this Glasse by me thus composed it is not to view any exterior part of the body but first to grope the conscience and then by a diligent obseruation to suruey the interior part of the soule And as I haue not fashioned any smooth resemblance wherby to flatter so I haue not forged any deformities thereby to slander I haue pictured forth diuers representations not ayming particularly at any mans priuate person that hath not a guilty conscience to accuse himselfe yet I haue grasped at abuse and haue stroken at those sinnes that are so supported and befriended that I know will rather become offensiue than pleasing to the world Iniquitie is growne proude and nestles herselfe amongst the Cedars and towers aloft as high as the cloudes The sinnes of this age are become so nice and so queasie that they cannot digest any potion of reprofe men are more vnwilling to haue their sinnes ransackt than to haue these inueterate and mortall wounds searched into And as the often taken potion neuer worketh so the phisicke of Reproofe turnes rather to the hardening of their hearts than to the amendment of their liues Reprofes are but like Goades that do make beastes but to kicke when they be toucht with them The world is become olde and now in this later age we haue so far ouergrowne the Rod that we scorne any correction or to be controuled either by the rule of Gods word or by any other aduertisement and therefore it is but to knocke at a deafe mans doore They are the vicious only that cannot endure to heare sinne reproued and who are they but the impious that would barre the freedome of our tongues these gauld backt Iades are those that are so afraid of rubbing but what will becom of this world when we dare not speake against sinne for offending of those that in truth are but the very Slaues of Sinne That good Emperour Augustus was neuer angry with accusers but thought it necessary that where there were stoore of vices there should likewise be many to finde fault And the Lacedemonians thought it a necessary point of policy that there should be such Reproouers whereby to reproue enormity in those for feare of worldly shame that otherwise neither remorse of conscience nor any feare of their Gods could haue reftrained or kept within compasse And Pasquils pillar was tollerated in Rome to reprehend all sorts of sinnes till they touched the Pope and his clergy but they cannot indure now that their Sodomicall sinnes should be reputed for faults but will rather reioyce in their abhominations making vaunts of their Adulteries of their Fornications of their Blasphemies and their Drunkenesse taking as great pleasure in the boasting of them as they did in the acting He that doth auow Pryde Drunkennesse Adultery Swearing and Blasphemy to be damned sinnes is sooner derided than beloued The Iniquities of this age are not ashamed to shew their faces they walke the streetes more peartly and bold than either Honesty or Innocency Sinne was wont to walke in feare but now men are so farre from being ashamed that as they make no conscience to commit euill so they boast of that euill they haue committed And will againe defend what they haue boasted But as they do glorie in their owne shame so their end is eternall damnation Though our owne consciences will take no notice of our owne iniquities yet our sinnes do crie out and complaine in the Audience Court of Heauen where they prease into the presence Chamber of God And to our confusions they cry out for Iustice And he will not spare for euer but as he is lust so he must strike Our consciences are so deafe and dull in these daies of our lolitie what with the loude noise of Musicke sometimes of Gaming sometimes of Carowzing sometimes of Oathes sometimes of Quarrelling sometimes of Blaspheming that we cannot heare the Preacher cry out That all flesh is grasse We see at this present houre how Sinne is lifted vp and what leagues and conspiracies there are against those that be honest that hath the feare of God before their eies and doth reprehend the follies of the time The Iewes that had thought to haue nailed Christ to the Crosse they proudly cried out If he be the Sonne of God let him saue himselfe And how far hath this voice escaped vs now in these later times Are not those that doth liue in the feare of God reputed to be but the shame of men and the reproch of the people haue they not said Let them trust in the Euerlasting and let him deliuer them and take them out of our hands if he would their good Is not God himselfe had in derision made a by-word doe they not multiply their blasphemies against his holy name haue they not said Let vs do it boldly God doth not see it the Almightie is asleepe he cannot heare it at the least they do not let to thinke God doth not regard it and some will not let to say there is no God to regard it from whence else proceedeth this swearing this pride this blasphemy this drunkennesse this adultery but that they thinke the seat of God is voide or that he is become regardles But he that hath made the eare shall he not heare he that hath framed the eye shall he not see and he that iudgeth the nations shall he not conuince Let them know that the Euerlasting neither sleepeth nor slumbereth but they shall finde in the winding vp that he will cause his Iudgements to returne in Iustice The Diuels do tremble to thinke of the day of Iudgement these doe but deride it when they be put in minde of it the custome of sinne hath so benummed our sences that we feele it not but after the infection of sinne followes the infliction of punishment Securitie hath no resting place but Hell It hath
beene told me that I haue already incurred the displeasure of a great number for some lines by me formerly published inueighing against pride against drunkennesse against adulterie but especially for writing against popery But those that doth taxe and torture me with their tongues they are not any persons of any great account they are but drunkards adulterers and other vicious liuers the most of them indeed poore ignorant papists whom I do rather pittie than any waies despite but as the Philosopher that suspected the vprightnesse of his owne carriage when he heard himselfe to be commended by a man that was noted to be of a loose and a lewd conuersation so vnderstanding what they be that doth thus detect and depraue me I doe hold my selfe to be better graced by their discommendations than if they would set open their throates to publish forth my praises For amongst all the slaues of imperfections the Lyar and the Slanderer doth least of all offend me because I know that a thousand I mputations iniuriously published by a thousand detracting slanderers are not halfe so grieuous to a man of wisedome and iudgement as one matter of truth avowed by him that is of honest life and reputation But is not this a fearefull time when iniquitie doth so reigne and rage that the wretches of the world would still wallow in their wickednesse without impeachment or contradiction but especially the Papists that are themselues so busie and so repugnant to the lawes both of God and the ' Prince first the Pope with his Bulles with his Indulgences with his Pardons with his Dispensations with his Absolutions with his Priests with his Iesuites with his Ministers of all sorts and of all professions that are still conspiring that are still practising with poisons with pistoles with stabbing knifes with Gunpowder traines that are still repugning that are still peruerting that are still seducing and drawing the hearts of the people from that dutie and obedience they doe owe to their soueraignes nay that doth draw so many poore soules to destruction for although all sorts of sinnes did neuer so much abound as they doe at this houre yet of my conscience the Pope himselfe doth send more Christian soules to the Diuell and Hell is more beholding to the Popes Holinesse alone then to all the rest of those ougly Monsters that are called by the name of the seauen deadly sinnes But what sinner so intemperate but will himselfe confesse in generall that all sorts of sinnes were neuer more inordinate and that wickednesse and abhomination were neuer more apparant and I might say againe neuer les punished The Adulterer will cry phough at the lothsome sinne of Drunkennesse the Blasphemer will sweare the vsurer is a most damned creature the Extortioner will laugh at pride and make himselfe merry with the Folly of new fashions Thus euery vicious liuer can one deride an other but they cannot indure to heare themselues detected and they will laugh at the very same imperfections in an other that they cannot see in themselues neither will they beleeue any other that should informe them of them But I tell thee thou man or woman whatsoeuer thou be that disdainest to heare thy wickednesse reproued thou art fallen into temptation and thou art in danger of a iudgement he that is fallen into that Lethargie of sinne that he neither feeleth himselfe nor will indure to be told of it is in a dangerous plight he is past recouery There is no sickenesse so dangerous as that which is least felt and as he that feeleth not his sicknesse neuer seeketh the Phisitian so he that feeleth not his sinne neuer careth for repentance and he that hath no remorse to repent can neuer be forgiuen for how should Christ forgiue him his sinnes that will neuer acknowledge them but if the sins of this age doth not make worke for repentance they will make a great deale of businesse for the Diuell Forbeare then thou captious Slaue of sinne to complaine against those that doe complaine against thee when we cannot turne our eyes on neither side but we shall see some rouing with boldnesse some rauing with madnesse some reeling with drunkennesse some rioting in wantonnesse some cursing with bitternes They haue made a sacrifice of their soules to the Diuell they neither feare nor reuerence God but esteeme all godlinesse as a mockery they do but play with religion and do but deride at Diuinity it selfe all will censure none will amend yet many will cry out the daies are euill when they themselues do helpe to make them worse and worse If we haue a little verball deuotion be sure it is mixt with actuall abhomination But they will say it only belongeth to the preacher to reprooue sinnes but not fit for euery particular person to meddle with We cannot weare a garment in the new fashion saies one we cannot drinke a pot with a good fellow saies another we cannot fortifie our words with the credit of an oath saies a third but euery Foole will be shooting of his bolt euery Criticke companion will be girding at vs busiyng himselfe with that which becomes him not to meddle with It is truth there are many will goe to Church they will not misse a Sermon they haue their Bookes carried after them they are very attentiue they turne ouer leaues they consent to the preacher they say his doctrine is good they pretend great loue to the truth they make many signes and showes of zeale but being once returned to their owne homes what reformation or amendment of life do they not liue still as if Heauen and Hell were but the Fictions of Fooles and that the threatnings denounced by the preacher against sin were but dreames and old wiues tales The prophesies pronouncing the punishment of sin they are esteemed but as Cassandrias Ryddles they are not regarded And what is it but the vnbeleefe of that doctrine that the Prophets the Apostles and that Christ himselfe haue deliuered that thus armeth the wicked with boldnesse to sinne The word of God is not regarded and if sometimes they doe take the Maske of religion it is but when pietie becomes their aduantage vertue may now and then be set forth to the show but it is but as a Staale to draw into the Net of villany The preachers of the word which are the Fishers of Soules they fish but now introubled waters they may fish perhaps and catch a Frog or peraduenture light vpon a Cuttell that will vent forth yncke but if their Nets doe sometimes inclose yet they are seldome seene to hold a Fish that is great mightie he that seeth this can not sigh is not a witnesse but an agent and he that can see this without compassion is like a Nero that can sit and sing whilst he sees Rome a burning The Apostle willeth vs to exhort one an other and not for once and so away but
out of mony are the fewest in number so amongst Murtherers the number is farre more greater of those that doth both slay and slaughter by their merciles cruelty then are the other that do most bloudily commit murther with their hands But see here a monster in nature that preaseth now to show himselfe in my Glasse a common Drunkard the very dregges of double Beere and strong Ale amongst men a Beast and amongst Beasts a very Swyne A Drunkard is called the King of good-fellowes but it is but a drunken kind of good-fellowship when amongst all sorts of friends a drunken friend is most to be detested and abhorred A drunken friend is the worst friend that may be for in his drunkennesse he discloseth all that he knoweth the Drunkard dissolueth all his gettings into the pot and drowneth all his vertues in the Ale-Fat he is not fit to be imploied in any good or godly exercise There are three things that are not to be credited a Woman when she weepes a Merchant when he sweares nor a Drunkard when he prayes But it is accounted now to proceed from a generous spirit to be drunken once a day and they haue gotten coniurations and inchantments whereby to draw on drunkennesse A health to the King a health to the Queene a health to my Lord a health to my Ladie And who dares deny to pledge one of these healthes they will scarcely auow him to bee a good subiect that will denie to pledge the Kings health as though the king were honoured by a company of drunken sots that will make themselues beasts vnder the pretence to doe the king honour It is like the honour the idolatrous papists doe giue to the virgin Marie who in a superstitious zeale do attribute that to her for honour that being well examined is her greatest dishonour These Art-Magicke Charmes that do draw on men to powre in more then they are able to beare if it bee not vomited vp againe by the drunkard himself it is yet spewed out of the soule of him that doth behold it with an honest conscience The Prophet Esay in his third chap pronounceth an endlesse woe vnto them that are mighty to draw downe drinke and as their end is damnation so their damnation is without end But see here comes in the adulterer with his harlot in his hand but they must needs goe they say that the Diuell driues and there is no hope to keepe out whoredome where drunkennesse her gentleman vsher hath free and quiet passage to leade the way Whoredome hath many friends in these daies a number of fauorites that giueth her boldnesse whereby shee insinuates her selfe into the world Salomon tels vs That the plague is in the house of the harlot and that shee sits in the doores of her house on a seat in the high places of the cittie Whoredome scornes to be closed vp in any obscure place no shee hath friends to boulster her out and to support her in the highest and most principall places of the city Harlots now adaies do not lurke in by corners as theeues are wonted nor in secret chambers as strumpets haue bin accustomed nor in close clossets as conspiring Papists when they be at their Masse but shee frequents the principall places of the cittie where shee giues entertainment to those that comes vnto her that are not of the basest sort but many times of the best reputed but they do not know saith Salomon that the dead are in her house and that her guests are in the depth of hell And wilt thou yet enter her house that carries death and damnation about her beware of her thou that art wise shee first inticeth and then shee killeth she wooes thee with her eyes for in these daies eyes can both speake and vnderstand and the harlot baits her desires with a number of prostituted countenances whereby to allure and intice As the harlot destroieth his soule that doth frequent her so she is a plague to the flesh more infectious to the body then the common pestilence and carries more diseases about her then is in an hospitall And as the knowne whoremonger is but of a rotten reputation so he is most commonly as full of loathsome diseases or let it be that God sometimes doth suffer whoremongers to liue till they may stroke there gray and hoarie haires yet they neuer escape the filthy diseases of botches byles aches inflâmation of that loathed disease of the french poxe a litle gilded ouer by the name of the gowt or sometimes of the sciatica besides a corporall stroke of heauens heauy hand in this life the whoremōger shal feele the fearefull addition of an eternall woe in the fire of hell The harlot is like a new play that being thrice presented on the stage begins to grow staale And the harlot that is once past thirty fiue yeares is fitter to furnish an Hospitall then to garnish a bed chamber The prouerbe is old A Popes Bull a dead mans skull and an old trull are not all worth a pound of wooll marry there is some comfort yet left to a harlot when shee comes to yeares for an old whore will make a spicke and span new bawde The best commendations I can giue to a harlot is this she brings a man to repentance in the end though not for his sinnes yet to curse the time that euer he knew her Harlots be of two kinds the one induced the rather vnto it by the currish demeanure of an vnkinde husband or sometimes inforced to play the strumpet to relecue her want ô perhaps to vphold her pride these kinde of harlots are very secret in all their carriages wil make choice of such friends as neere as they can as shall conceale all their escapes and maintaine their reputations in the eye of the world A second sort there be that setting aside all feare of God or shame of the world doth surrender thēselues to whoredome through the vitious heate of there own intemperat desires these be those that doth liue of the spoile of all comers they consume them in goods in body and in soule that doth frequent them And these are desirous to make themselues knowne strumpets to the world thereby to get themselues to be hunted after and sought vnto for these are ready for all that will come and that they might be the rather noted in their vocation they doe manifest themselues in there attire in there demeanure in there audacious boldnesse and immodest behauiour They will shew themselues what they be at maskes at meetings at banquets at feasts which they will still frequent but of purpose to seeke acquaintance and to draw in customers The time hath bin when a woman that had bin once infamed should haue bin shunned nay shee should haue bin scorned of euery good woman and shee that had beene honest indeede would neuer haue endured her companie that had beene tainted in her