,transcriber's ,note ,this document uses the 8long s0 character extensively1 albeit at times inconsistently1 so is best viewed with a font containing that symbol4 ,,paradoxes and ,,problemes by ,iohn ,donne with two ,characters and an ,essay of ,,valour ,decoration ,now for the first time reprinted from the editions of #afcc and #afeb with one additional ,probleme ,,soho ,,the ,,nonesuch ,,press #cj ,gerrard ,street #aibc ,this edition is limited to #fde copies1 printed and made in ,england for the ,nonesuch ,press in the #agth century ,fell types by ,frederick ,hall1 printer to the ,university of ,oxford4 ,the type has been distributed4 ,this is number #i ,decoration ,the ,,contents ,,paradoxes #a4 ,a ,defence of ,womens ,incontancy3 ,p4 #a4 #b4 ,that ,women ought to paint3 ,p4 #f4 #c4 ,that by ,dicord things increase3 ,p4 #i4 #d4 ,that good is more common then evill3 ,p4 #ab4 #e4 ,that all things kill themelves3 ,p4 #ae4 #f4 ,that it is poible to find ome vertue in ,some ,women3 ,p4 #ag4 #g4 ,that ,old men are more fantatike then ,young3 ,p4 #ai4 #h4 ,that ,nature is our wort ,guide3 ,p4 #ba4 #i4 ,that only ,cowards dare dye3 ,p4 #bd4 #aj4 ,that a ,wie ,man is knowne by much laughing3 ,p4 #bf4 #aa4 ,that the gifts of the ,body are better then thoe of the ,minde3 ,p4 #cj4 #ab4 ,that ,virginity is a ,vertue3 ,p4 #cd4 ,,problemes #a4 ,why have ,bastards bet ,fortune8 ,p4 #dj4 #b4 ,why ,puritanes make long ,sermons8 ,p4 #db4 #c4 ,why did the ,divel reerve ,jeuites till thee latter dayes3 ,p4 #dc4 #d4 ,why is there more variety of ,green then of other ,colours8 ,p4 #dd4 #e4 ,why doe young ,lay-men o much tudy ,divinity3 ,p4 #de4 #f4 ,why hath the common ,opinion afforded ,women ,soules8 ,p4 #dg4 #g4 ,why are the ,fairet1 ,falet8 ,p4 #di4 #h4 ,why ,venus-tar only doth cat a hadow8 ,p4 #ea4 #i4 ,why is ,venus-tar multinominous1 called both ,heperus and ,veper3 ,p4 #ed4 #aj4 ,why are ,new ,officers leat oppreing8 ,p4 #ef4 #aa4 ,why does the ,poxe o much affect to undermine the ,noe8 ,p4 #eh4 #ab4 ,why die none for ,love now8 ,p4 #fj4 #ac4 ,why do ,women delight much in ,feathers8 ,p4 #fa4 #ad4 ,why doth not ,gold oyl the fingers8 ,p4 #fb4 #ae4 ,why do great men of all dependents1 chue to preerve their little ,pimps8 ,p4 #fc4 #af4 ,why are ,courtiers ooner ,atheits then men of other conditions8 ,p4 #fd4 #ag4 ,why are tatemen mot incredulous8 ,p4 #ff4 #ah4 ,why was ,sir ,walter ,raleigh thought the fittet ,man1 to write the ,hitorie of thee ,times8 ,p4 #fh4 ,,characters #a4 ,the ,character of a ,scot at the first ight3 ,p4 #fi4 #b4 ,the true ,character of a ,dunce3 ,p4 #ga4 ,,an ,,essay ,,of ,,valour3 ,p4 #ge4 ,decoration ,,bibliographical ,,note ,donne's ,paradoxes and ,problemes are clever and entertaining trifles1 which were probably written before #afjj1 during the more wanton period of their author's life4 ,owing to their scurrilous nature they could not be published during his lifetime1 but shortly after his death the greater part of them were licensed to be printed1 the ,imprimatur printed at the end both of the eleven ,paradoxes and of the ten ,problemes being signed by ,sir ,henry ,herbert and dated ,october #be1 #afcb4 ,the volume was published under the title of ,juvenilia in #afcc1 but already on ,november #ad1 #afcb1 an order of inquiry had been delivered at the ,king's command by the ,bishop of ,london1 calling upon ,sir ,henry ,herbert to explain before the ,board of the ,star ,chamber his reasons #8why hee warrented the booke of ,d4 ,duns paradoxes to be printed'4 ,perhaps ,herbert's explanations were regarded as satisfactory1 but1 however this may have been1 the ,king was not successful in suppressing the book4 ,the volume is a thin quarto containing only thirty-two leaves1 and was printed by ,elizabeth ,purslowe for ,henry ,seyle1 to be sold at the sign of the ,tyger's ,head in ,st4 ,paul's ,church-yard4 ,the printer seems to have been somewhat careless in imposing the licences1 for1 although most copies contain the two1 copies occur from which one or both have been omitted4 ,it is not known through what channels the publisher obtained possession of the text1 but it is probable that the publication was quite unauthorized1 and took place even without the knowledge of the younger ,donne1 who1 when he reprinted the ,juvenilia in #afeb1 made no reference to any previous issue4 ,the ,juvenilia were at once in considerable demand1 and seem to have been bought by many of the purchasers of the ,poems1 which were also first published in quarto in #afcc4 ,this is evident from the fact that the two books are so often found together in contemporary bindings1 the lesser volume usually being relegated to the end4 ,the first edition of the ,juvenilia was thus soon exhausted and a second edition was published in the same year4 ,so ineffectual did the ,star ,chamber inquiry prove to have been that in this edition the publisher not only omitted the ,imprimaturs altogether and so abandoned all pretence of having any official sanction for the publication1 but even added to the first ,probleme1 #8,why have ,bastards best ,fortune8'1 which was particularly offensive to the ,court1 twenty-three lines which had not appeared in the first edition4 ,this edition1 as before a quarto and with the same imprint1 but containing only twenty-four leaves1 is considerably rarer than its predecessor4 ,it is unlikely1 however1 that this fact is to be attributed to the ,king's having had any greater success than before in suppressing it4 ,more probably the demand for it was less1 so that part of the edition remained unsold and was subsequently destroyed4 ,in #afeb the younger ,donne1 in the course of his exploitation of his father's writings1 prepared an authorized edition of the ,juvenilia1 which was printed by ,thomas ,newcomb for ,humphrey ,moseley4 ,the number of the ,paradoxes was now increased to twelve and of the ,problemes to seventeen1 the offensive passages in the first ,probleme being allowed to remain4 ,to these were added two #8,characters'1 #8,an ,essay of ,valour'1 #8,a ,sheaf of ,miscellany ,epigrams'1 a reprint of ,ignatius his ,conclave1 and1 finally1 the ,essays in ,divinity4 ,the ,epigrams purport to have been written by the elder ,donne in ,latin and to have been translated into ,english by ,jasper ,mayne1 ,d4,d4 ,they may have been printed by the younger ,donne in good faith1 as it seems to be certain that his father's ,epigrammata mea ,latina once existed2 but the epigrams attributed to him in this volume are1 as ,mr4 ,gosse has shown 7,life and ,letters of ,donne1 i4 #af71 certainly spurious1 and may well have been composed1 as well as translated1 by ,mayne1 who was an unprincipled1 though witty1 divine4 ,the ,essays in ,divinity had been printed in #afea for a different publisher1 but they are very rarely found as a separate volume in a contemporary binding1 for the younger ,donne1 as he made clear in his preface1 sought to temper the secularity of the ,juvenilia by issuing them in company with the ,essays in ,divinity1 and in this way to invest the volume with an altogether fictitious respectability4 ,even in #afeb the ,paradoxes and ,problemes were not printed entire4 ,another ,probleme concerning ,sir ,walter ,raleigh has been preserved in the ,bodleian ,library 7,tanner ,,mss4 #bii1 f4 #cb71 the copier stating that it #8was so bitter that his son1 ,jack ,donne1 ,,ll4,d41 thought fit not to print it with the rest'4 ,yet another has recently been discovered in a manuscript containing ,donne's poems4 ,the ,juvenilia have not been reprinted since #afeb4 ,in the present edition the text follows that of the second edition of #afcc1 amplified from the third edition of #afeb and with the additional ,probleme from the ,bodleian manuscript1 already printed by ,mr4 ,edmund ,gosse in his ,life and ,letters of ,donne1 #ahii1 ii4 #eb4 ,the spurious epigrams have not been included4 ,,geoffrey ,,keynes ,decoration ,,paradoxes #a4 ,a ,defence of ,womens ,incontancy4 ,that ,women are ,incontant1 ,i with any man confee1 but that ,incontancy is a bad quality1 ,i againt any man will maintaine3 ,for every thing as it is one better than another1 o is it fuller of change2 ,the ,heavens themelves continually turne1 the ,starres move1 the ,moone changeth2 ,fire whirleth1 ,ayre flyeth1 ,water ebbs and flowes1 the face of the ,earth altereth her lookes1 time tayes not2 the ,colour that is mot light1 will take mot dyes3 o in ,men1 they that have the mot reaon are the mot alterable in their deignes1 and the darket or mot ignorant1 do eldomet change2 therefore ,women changing more than ,men1 have alo more ,reaon4 ,they cannot be immutable like tockes1 like tones1 like the ,earths dull ,center2 ,gold that lyeth till1 ruteth2 ,water1 corrupteth2 ,aire that moveth not1 poyoneth2 then why hould that which is the perfection of other things1 be imputed to ,women as greatet imperfection8 ,becaue thereby they deceive men4 ,are not your wits pleaed with thoe jets1 which coozen your expectation8 ,you can call it ,pleaure to be beguil'd in troubles1 and in the mot excellent toy in the world1 you call it ,treachery3 ,i would you had your ,mitrees o contant1 that they would never change1 no not o much as their mocks1 then hould you ee what luttih vertue1 ,contancy were4 ,incontancy is a mot commendable and cleanely quality1 and ,women in this quality are farre more abolute than the ,heavens1 than the ,starres1 ,moone1 or any thing beneath it2 for long obervation hath pickt certainety out of their mutability4 ,the ,learned are o well acquainted with the ,starres1 ,signes and ,planets1 that they make them but ,characters1 to reade the meaning of the ,heaven in his owne forehead4 ,every imple ,fellow can bepeake the change of the ,moone a great while beforehand3 but ,i would faine have the learnedt man o skilfull1 as to tell when the implet ,woman meaneth to varie4 ,learning affords no rules to know1 much lee knowledge to rule the minde of a ,woman3 ,for as ,philoophy teacheth us1 that ,light things doe alwayes tend upwards1 and heavy things decline downeward2 ,experience teacheth us otherwie1 that the dipoition of a ,light ,woman1 is to fall downe1 the nature of ,women being contrary to all ,art and ,nature4 ,women are like ,flies1 which feed among us at our ,table1 or ,fleas ucking our very blood1 who leave not our mot retired places free from their familiarity1 yet for all their fellowhip will they never bee tamed nor commanded by us4 ,women are like the ,sunne1 which is violently carryed one way1 yet hath a proper coure contrary3 o though they1 by the matery of ome over-ruling churlih ,husbands1 are forced to his ,byas1 yet have they a motion of their owne1 which their ,husbands never know of4 ,it is the nature of nice and fatidious mindes to know things onely to bee weary of them3 ,women by their lye changeablenee1 and pleaing doublenee1 prevent even the milike of thoe1 for they can never be o well knowne1 but that there is till more unknowne4 ,every ,woman is a ,science2 for hee that plods upon a ,woman all his life long1 hall at length find himelfe hort of the knowledge of her3 they are borne to take downe the pride of wit1 and ambition of wiedome1 making fooles wie in the adventuring to winne them1 wiemen fooles in conceit of loing their labours2 witty men tarke mad1 being confounded with their uncertaineties4 ,philoophers write againt them for pight1 not deert1 that having attained to ome knowledge in all other things1 in them onely they know nothing1 but are meerely ignorant3 ,active and ,experienced men raile againt them1 becaue they love in their livelee and decrepit age1 when all goodnee leaves them4 ,thee envious ,libellers ballad againt them1 becaue having nothing in themelves able to deerve their love1 they maliciouly dicommend all they cannot obtaine1 thinking to make men beleeve they know much1 becaue they are able to dipraie much1 and rage againt ,incontancy1 when they were never admitted into o much favour as to be foraken4 ,in mine ,opinion uch men are happy that ,women are ,incontant1 for o may they chance to bee beloved of ome excellent ,women 7when it comes to their turne7 out of their ,incontancy and mutability1 though not out of their owne deert4 ,and what reaon is there to clog any ,woman with one ,man1 bee hee never o ingular8 ,women had rather1 and it is farre better and more ,iudiciall to enjoy all the vertues in everall ,men1 than but ome of them in one1 for otherwie they loe their tate1 like divers orts of meat minced together in one dih3 and to have all excellencies in one ,man 7if it were poible7 is ,confuion and ,diverity4 ,now who can deny1 but uch as are obtinately bent to undervalue their worth1 are thoe that have not oule enough to comprehend their excellency1 ,women being the mot excellentet ,creatures1 in that ,man is able to ubject all things ele1 and to grow wie in every thing1 but till perits a foole in ,woman8 ,the greatet ,scholler1 if hee once take a ,wife1 is found o unlearned1 that he mut begin his ,horne-booke1 and all is by ,incontancy4 ,to conclude therefore2 this name of ,incontancy1 which hath o much beene poyoned with launders1 ought to bee changed into variety1 for the which the world is o delightfull1 and a ,woman for that the mot delightfull thing in this world4 ,decoration #b4 ,that ,women ought to paint4 ,foulenee is ,lothome3 can that be o which helpes it8 who forbids his ,beloved to gird in her wate8 to mend by hooing her uneven lamenee8 to burnih her teeth8 or to perfume her breath8 yet that the ,face bee more preciely regarded1 it concernes more3 ,for as open confeing inners are alwaies punihed1 but the wary and concealing offenders without witnee doe it alo without punihment2 o the ecret parts needs the lee repect2 but of the ,face1 dicovered to all ,examinations and urvayes1 there is not too nice a ,iealouie4 ,nor doth it onely draw the buie eyes1 but it is ubject to the divinet touch of all1 to kiing1 the trange and myticall union of oules4 ,if hee hould protitute her elfe to a more unworthy ,man than thy elfe1 how earnetly and jutly wouldt thou exclaime8 that for want of this eaier and ready way of repairing1 to betray her body to ruine and deformity 7the tyrannous ,ravihers1 and odaine ,deflourers of all ,women7 what a heynous ,adultery is it8 ,what thou lovet in her face is colour1 and painting gives that1 but thou hatet it1 not becaue it is1 but becaue thou knowet it4 ,foole1 whom ignorance makes happy2 the ,starres1 the ,sunne1 the ,skye whom thou admiret1 alas1 have no colour1 but are faire1 becaue they eeme to bee coloured3 ,if this eeming will not atisfie thee in her1 thou hat good aurance of her colour1 when thou eet her lay it on4 ,if her face bee painted on a ,boord or ,wall1 thou wilt love it1 and the ,boord1 and the ,wall3 ,cant thou loath it then when it peakes1 miles1 and kies1 becaue it is painted8 ,are wee not more delighted with eeing ,birds1 ,fruites1 and ,beats painted then wee are with ,naturalls8 ,and doe wee not with pleaure behold the painted hape of ,monters and ,divels1 whom true1 wee durt not regard8 ,wee repaire the ruines of our houes1 but firt cold tempets warnes us of it1 and bytes us through it2 wee mend the wracke and taines of our ,apparell1 but firt our eyes1 and other bodies are offended2 but by this providence of ,women1 this is prevented4 ,if in kiing or breathing upon her1 the painting fall off1 thou art angry1 wilt thou be o1 if it ticke on8 ,thou didt love her1 if thou beginnet to hate her1 then 'tis becaue hee is not painted4 ,if thou wilt ay now1 thou didt hate her before1 thou didt hate her and love her together1 bee contant in omething1 and love her who hewes her great love to thee1 in taking this paines to eeme lovely to thee4 ,decoration #c4 ,that by ,dicord things increae4 ,nullos ee ,deos1 inane ,clum ,affirmat ,clius1 probatq2 quod e ,factum vidit1 dum negat hc1 beatum4 ,so ,i aevere this the more boldly1 becaue while ,i maintaine it1 and feele the ,contrary repugnancies and advere fightings of the ,elements in my ,body1 my ,body increaeth2 and whilt ,i differ from common opinions by this ,dicord1 the number of my ,paradoxes increaeth4 ,all the rich benefits we can frame to our elves in ,concord1 is but an ,even conervation of things2 in which ,evennee wee can expect no change1 no motion2 therefore no increae or augmentation1 which is a member of motion4 ,and if this unity and peace can give increae to things1 how mightily is dicord and war to that purpoe1 which are indeed the onely ordinary ,parents of peace4 ,dicord is never o barren that it affords no fruit2 for the fall of one etate is at the wort the increaer of another1 becaue it is as impoible to finde a dicommodity without advantage1 as to finde ,corruption without ,generation3 ,but it is the ,nature and ,office of ,concord to preerve onely1 which property when it leaves1 it differs from it elfe1 which is the greatet dicord of all4 ,all ,victories and ,emperies gained by warre1 and all ,iudiciall decidings of doubts in peace1 ,i doe claime children of ,dicord4 ,and who can deny but ,controveries in ,religion are growne greater by dicord1 and not the ,controverie1 but ,religion it elfe3 ,for in a troubled miery ,men are alwaies more ,religious then in a ecure peace4 ,the number of good men1 the onely charitable nourihers of ,concord1 wee ee is thinne1 and daily melts and waines2 but of bad dicording it is infinite1 and growes hourely4 ,wee are acertained of all ,diputable doubts1 onely by arguing and differing in ,opinion1 and if formall diputation 7which is but a painted1 counterfeit1 and diembled dicord7 can worke us this benefit1 what hall not a full and maine dicord accomplih8 ,truely me thinkes ,i owe a devotion1 yea a acrifice to dicord1 for cating that ,ball upon ,ida1 and for all that buinee of ,troy1 whom ruin'd ,i admire more then ,babylon1 ,rome1 or ,quinzay1 removed ,corners1 not onely fulfilled with her fame1 but with ,cities and ,thrones planted by her ,fugitives4 ,latly1 between ,cowardice and depaire1 ,valour is gendred2 and o the ,dicord of ,extreames begets all vertues1 but of the like things there is no iue without a miracle3 ,vxor peima1 peimus maritus ,miror tam mal convenire4 ,hee wonders that betweene two o like1 there could be any dicord1 yet perchance for all this dicord there was nere the lee increae4 ,decoration #d4 ,that good is more common then evill4 ,i have not been o pittifully tired with any vanity1 as with illy ,old ,mens exclaiming againt thee times1 and extolling their owne3 ,alas6 they betray themelves1 for if the times be changed1 their manners have changed them4 ,but their enes are to pleaures1 as ick ,mens tates are to ,liquors2 for indeed no new thing is done in the world1 all things are what1 and as they were1 and ,good is as ever it was1 more plenteous1 and mut of neceity be more common then evill1 becaue it hath this for nature and perfection to bee common4 ,it makes ,love to all ,natures1 all1 all affect it4 ,so that in the ,worlds early ,infancy1 there was a time when nothing was evill1 but if this ,world hall uffer dotage in the extreamet crookednee thereof1 there hall be no time when nothing hal be good4 ,it dares appeare and pread1 and gliter in the ,world1 but evill buries it elfe in night and darknee1 and is chatied and uppreed when good is cherihed and rewarded4 ,and as ,imbroderers1 ,lapidaries1 and other ,artians1 can by all things adorne their workes2 for by adding better things1 the better they hew in ,luh and in ,eminency2 o good doth not onely protrate her amiablenee to all1 but refues no end1 no not of her utter contrary evill1 that hee may bee the more common to us4 ,for euill manners are parents of good ,lawes2 and in every evill there is an excellency1 which 7in common peech7 we call good4 ,for the fahions of habits1 for our moving in getures1 for phraes in our peech1 we ay they were good as long as they were ued1 that is1 as long as they were common2 and wee eate1 wee walke1 onely when it is1 or eemes good to doe o4 ,all faire1 all profitable1 all vertuous1 is good1 and thee three things ,i thinke embrace all things1 but their utter contraries2 of which alo faire may be rich and vertuous2 poore may bee vertuous and faire2 vitious may be faire and rich2 o that good hath this good meanes to be common1 that ome ubjects he can poee intirely2 and in ubjects poyoned with evill1 he can humbly toop to accompany the evill4 ,and of indifferent things many things are become perfectly good by being common1 as cutomes by ue are made binding ,lawes4 ,but ,i remember nothing that is therefore ill1 becaue it is common1 but ,women1 of whom alo2 ,they that are mot common1 are the bet of that ,occupation they profee4 ,decoration #e4 ,that all things kill themelves4 ,to affect1 yea to effect their owne death all living things are importuned1 not by ,nature only which perfects them1 but by ,art and ,education1 which perfects her4 ,plants quickened and inhabited by the mot unworthy oule1 which therefore neither will nor worke1 affect an end1 a perfection1 a death2 this they pend their pirits to attaine1 this attained1 they languih and wither4 ,and by how much more they are by mans ,indutry warmed1 cherihed1 and pampered2 o much the more early they climbe to this perfection1 this death4 ,and if amongt ,men not to defend be to kill1 what a hainous elfe-murther is it1 not to defend it elfe4 ,this defence becaue ,beats neglect1 they kill themelves1 becaue they exceed us in number1 trength1 and a lawlee liberty3 yea1 of ,hores and other beats1 they that inherit mot courage by being bred of gallantet parents1 and by ,artificial nuring are bettered1 will runne to their owne deaths1 neither ollicited by purres which they need not1 nor by honour which they apprehend not4 ,if then the valiant kill himelfe1 who can excue the coward8 ,or how hall ,man bee free from this1 ince the firt ,man taught us this1 except we cannot kill our elves1 becaue he kill'd us all4 ,yet let omething hould repaire this ,common ruine1 we daily kill our bodies with urfeits1 and our mindes with anguihes4 ,of our powers1 remembring kils our memory2 ,of ,affections1 ,luting our lut2 ,of vertues1 ,giving kils liberality4 ,and if thee kill themelves1 they do it in their bet upreme perfection3 for after perfection immediately follows excee1 which changeth the natures and the names1 and makes them not the ame things4 ,if then the bet things kill themelves oonet1 7for no affection endures1 and all things labour to this perfection7 all travell to their owne death1 yea the frame of the whole ,world1 if it were poible for ,god to be idle1 yet becaue it began1 mut dye4 ,then in this idlenee imagined in ,god1 what could kill the world but it elfe1 ince out of it1 nothing is8 ,decoration #f4 ,that it is posible to find ome vertue in ome ,women4 ,i am not of that eard ,impudence that ,i dare defend ,women1 or pronounce them good2 yet we ee ,phyitians allow ome vertue in every poyon4 ,alas6 why hould we except ,women8 ince certainely1 they are good for ,phyicke at leat1 o as ome wine is good for a feaver4 ,and though they be the ,occaioners of many innes1 they are alo the ,punihers and ,revengers of the ame innes3 ,for ,i have eldome eene one which conumes his ubtance and body upon them1 ecape dieaes1 or beggery2 and this is their ,iutice4 ,and if uum cuiq2 dare1 bee the fulfilling of all ,civill ,iutice1 they are mot jut2 for they deny that which is theirs to no man4 ,tanquam non liceat nulla puella negat4 ,and who may doubt of great widome in them1 that doth but oberve with how much labour and cunning our ,iuticers and other dipeners of the ,lawes tudy to imbrace them3 and how zealouly our ,preachers dehort men from them1 onely by urging their ubtilties1 and policies1 and wiedome1 which are in them8 ,or who can deny them a good meaure of ,fortitude1 if hee conider how valiant men they have overthrowne1 and being themelves overthrowne1 how much and how patiently they beare8 ,and though they bee mot intemperate1 ,i care not1 for ,i undertooke to furnih them with ome vertue1 not with all4 ,neceity1 which makes even bad things good1 prevailes alo for them1 for wee mut ay of them1 as of ome harpe pinching ,lawes2 ,if men were free from infirmities1 they were needlee4 ,thee or none mut erve for reaons1 and it is my great happinee that ,examples prove not ,rules1 for to confirme this ,opinion1 the ,world yeelds not one ,example4 ,decoration #g4 ,that ,old men are more fantatike then ,young4 ,who reads this ,paradox but thinks mee more fantatike now1 than ,i was yeterday1 when ,i did not think thus3 ,and if one day make this enible change in men1 what will the burthen of many yeeres8 ,to bee fantatike in young men is conceiptfull ditemperature1 and a witty madnee2 but in old men1 whoe enes are withered1 it becomes naturall1 therefore more full and perfect4 ,for as when wee leepe our fancy is mot trong2 o it is in age1 which is a lumber of the deepe leepe of death4 ,they taxe us of ,incontancy1 which in themelves young they allowed2 o that reprooving that which they did approove1 their ,incontancy exceedeth ours1 becaue they have changed once more then wee4 ,yea1 they are more idlely buied in conceited apparell then wee2 for we1 when we are melancholy1 weare blacke2 when luty1 greene2 when foraken1 tawney2 pleaing our owne inward affections1 leaving them to others indifferent2 but they precribe lawes1 and contraine the ,noble1 the ,scholer1 the ,merchant1 and all ,etates to a certaine habit4 ,the old men of our time have changed with patience their owne bodies1 much of their lawes1 much of their languages2 yea their ,religion1 yet they accue us4 ,to be ,amorous is proper and naturall in a young man1 but in an old man most fantatike4 ,and that ridling humour of ,iealouie1 which eekes and would not finde1 which requires and repents his knowledge1 is in them mot common1 yet mot fantatike4 ,yea1 that which falls never in young men1 is in them mot fantatike and naturall1 that is1 ,covetounee2 even at their journeyes end to make great proviion4 ,is any habit of young men o fantatike1 as in the hottet eaons to be double-gowned or hooded like our ,elders8 ,or eemes it o ridiculous to weare long haire1 as to weare none4 ,truely1 as among the ,philoophers1 the ,skeptike1 which doubts all1 was more contentious1 then either the ,dogmatike which affirmes1 or ,academike which denyes all2 o are thee uncertaine ,elders1 which both cals them fantatike which follow others inventions1 and them alo which are led by their owne humorous uggetion1 more fantatike then other4 ,decoration #h4 ,that ,nature is our wort ,guide4 ,shal he be guide to all ,creatures1 which is her elfe one8 ,or if he alo have a guide1 hall any ,creature have a better guide then wee8 ,the affections of lut and anger1 yea even to erre is naturall2 hall we follow thee8 ,can hee be a good guide to us1 which hath corrupted not us onely but her elfe8 ,was not the firt man1 by the deire of knowledge1 corrupted even in the whitet integrity of ,nature8 ,and did not ,nature 7if ,nature did any thing7 infue into him this deire of knowledge1 and o this corruption in him1 into us8 ,if by ,nature wee hall undertand our eence1 our definition1 or reaon1 noblenee1 then this being alike common to all 7the ,idiot and the ,wizard being equally reaonable7 why hould not all men having equally all one nature1 follow one coure8 ,or if we hall undertand our inclinations2 alas6 how unable a guide is that which followes the temperature of our limie bodies8 for we cannot ay that we derive our inclinations1 our mindes1 or oules from our ,parents by any way3 to ay that it is all from all1 is error in reaon1 for then with the firt nothing remaines2 or is a part from all1 is errour in experience1 for then this part equally imparted to many children1 would like ,gavel-kind lands1 in few generations become nothing2 or to ay it by communication1 is errour in ,divinity1 for to communicate the ability of communicating whole eence with any but ,god1 is utter blaphemy4 ,and if thou hit thy ,fathers nature and inclination1 he alo had his ,fathers1 and o climbing up1 all comes of one man1 and have one nature1 all hall imbrace one coure2 but that cannot bee1 therefore our complexions and whole bodies1 wee inherit from ,parents2 our inclinations and minds follow that3 ,for our minde is heavy in our bodies afflictions1 and rejoyceth in our bodies pleaure3 how then hall this nature governe us1 that is governed by the wort part of us8 ,nature though oft chaed away1 it will returne2 'tis true1 but thoe good motions and inpirations which be our guides mut bee wooed1 courted1 and welcomed1 or ele they abandon us4 ,and that old ,axiome1 nihil invita1 c4 mut not be aid thou halt1 but thou wilt doe nothing againt ,nature2 o unwilling he notes us to curbe our naturall appetites4 ,wee call our batards alwayes our naturall iue1 and we define a ,foole by nothing o ordinary1 as by the name of naturall4 ,and that poore knowledge whereby we conceive what raine is1 what wind1 what thunder1 wee call ,metaphyicke1 upernaturall2 uch mall things1 uch no things doe we allow to our pliant ,natures apprehenion4 ,latly1 by following her1 we loe the pleaant1 and lawfull commodities of this life1 for wee hall drinke water and eate rootes1 and thoe not weet and delicate1 as now by ,mans art and indutry they are made3 we hall loe all the neceities of ocieties1 lawes1 arts1 and ciences1 which are all the workemanhip of ,man3 yea we hall lack the lat bet refuge of miery1 death2 becaue no death is naturall3 for if yee will not dare to call all death violent 7though ,i ee not why icknees be not violences7 yet caues of all deaths proceed of the defect of that which nature made perfect1 and would preerve1 and therefore all againt nature4 ,decoration #i4 ,that only ,cowards dare dye4 ,extreames are equally removed from the meane2 o that headlong deperatenee amuch offends true valour1 as backward ,cowardice3 of which ort ,i reckon jutly all un-inforced deaths4 ,when will your valiant man dye of neceity8 o ,cowards uffer what cannot be avoided3 and to runne into death unimportun'd1 is to runne into the firt condemned deperatenee4 ,will he dye when he is rich and happy8 then by living he may doe more good3 and in afflictions and mieries1 death is the choen refuge of ,cowards4 ,fortiter ille facit1 qui mier ee potet4 ,but it is taught and practied among our ,galants1 that rather than our reputations uffer any maime1 or we any miery1 wee hall offer our brets to the ,cannons mouth1 yea to our words points3 ,and this eemes a very brave and a very climbing 7which is a ,cowardly1 earthly1 and indeed a very groveling7 pirit4 ,why doe they chaine thee laves to the ,gallyes1 but that they thrut their deaths1 and would at every looe leape into the ea8 ,why doe they take weapons from condemned men1 but to barre them of that eae which ,cowards affect1 a peedy death4 ,truely this life is a tempet1 and a warfare1 and he which dares dye1 to ecape the anguih of it1 eems to mee1 but o valiant1 as hee which dares hang himelfe1 let hee be pret to the warres4 ,i have eene one in that extremity of melancholy1 which was then become madnee1 to make his owne breath an ,intrument to tay his breath1 and labour to choake himelfe1 but alas6 he was mad4 ,and we knew another that languihed under the oppreion of a poore digrace o much1 that hee tooke more paines to dye1 then would have erved to have nourihed life and pirit enough to have outlived his digrace4 ,what ,foole will call this ,cowardlinee1 ,valour8 or this ,baenee1 ,humility8 ,and latly1 of thee men which dye the ,allegoricall death of entring into ,religion1 how few are found fit for any hew of valiancy8 but onely a oft and upple metall1 made onely for ,cowardly olitarinee4 ,decoration #aj4 ,that a ,wie ,man is knowne by much laughing4 ,ride1 i apis1 puella ride2 ,if thou beet wie1 laugh3 for ince the powers of dicoure1 reaon1 and laughter1 bee equally proper unto ,man onely1 why hall not hee be onely mot wie1 which hath mot ue of laughing1 awell as he which hath mot of reaoning and dicouring8 ,i alwaies did1 and hall undertand that ,adage2 ,per rium multum pois cognocere tultum1 ,that by much laughing thou mait know there is a foole1 not1 that the laughers are fooles1 but that among them there is ome foole1 at whome wiemen laugh3 which moved ,eramus to put this as his firt ,argument in the mouth of his ,folly1 that hee made ,beholders laugh3 for fooles are the mot laughed at1 and laugh the leat themelves of any4 ,and ,nature aw this faculty to bee o neceary in man1 that hee hath beene content that by more caues we hould be importuned to laugh1 then to the exercie of any other power2 for things in themelves utterly contrary1 beget this effect2 for wee laugh both at witty and aburd things3 ,at both which orts ,i have een ,men laugh o long1 and o earnetly1 that at lat they have wept that they could laugh no more4 ,and therfore the ,poet having decribed the quietnee of a wie retired man1 aith in one1 what we have aid before in many lines2 ,quid facit ,canius tuus8 ridet4 ,we have received that even the extremity of laughing1 yea of weeping alo1 hath beene accounted wiedome3 ,and that ,democritus and ,heraclitus1 the lovers of thee ,extremes1 have been called lovers of wiedome4 ,now among our wiemen ,i doubt not1 but many would be found who would laugh at ,heraclitus weeping1 none which weepe at ,democritus laughing4 ,at the hearing of ,comedies or other witty reports1 ,i have noted ome1 which not undertanding jets1 c4 have yet choen this as the bet meanes to eeme wie and undertanding1 to laugh when their ,companions laugh2 and ,i have preumed them ignorant1 whom ,i have eene unmoved4 ,a foole if he come into a ,princes ,court1 and ee a gay man leaning at the wall1 o glitering1 and o painted in many colours that he is hardly dicerned from one of the pictures in the ,arras1 hanging his body like an ,iron-bound-chet1 girt in and thicke ribb'd with broad gold laces1 may 7and commonly doth7 envy him4 ,but alas6 hall a wieman1 which may not onely not envy1 but not pitty this monter1 do nothing8 ,yes1 let him laugh4 ,and if one of thee hot cholerike firebrands1 which nourih themelves by quarrelling1 and kindling others1 pit upon a foole one parke of digrace1 he1 like a thatcht houe quickly burning1 may bee angry2 but the wieman1 as cold as the ,salamander1 may not onely not be angry with him1 but not be orry for him2 therefore let him laugh3 o he hall be knowne a ,man1 becaue he can laugh1 a wie ,man that hee knowes at what to laugh1 and a valiant ,man that he dares laugh3 for he that laughs is jutly reputed more wie1 then at whom it is laughed4 ,and hence ,i thinke proceeds that which in thee later formall times ,i have much noted2 that now when our upertitious civility of manners is become a mutuall tickling flattery of one another1 almot every man affecteth an humour of jeting1 and is content to be deject1 and to deforme himelfe1 yea become foole to no other end that ,i can pie1 but to give his wie ,companion occaion to laugh3 and to hew themelves in promptnee of laughing is o great in wiemen1 that ,i thinke all wiemen1 if any wieman do reade this ,paradox1 will laugh both at it and me4 ,decoration #aa4 ,that the gifts of the ,body are better then thoe of the ,minde4 ,i ay againe1 that the body makes the minde1 not that it created it a minde1 but formes it a good or a bad mind2 and this minde may be confounded with oule without any violence or injutice to ,reaon or ,philoophy3 then the oule it eemes is enabled by our body1 not this by it4 ,my ,body liceneth my oule to ee the ,worlds beauties through mine eyes2 to heare pleaant things through mine eares2 and affords it apt ,organs for the conveiance of all perceivable delight4 ,but alas6 my oule cannot make any part1 that is not of it elfe dipoed1 to ee or heare1 though without doubt he be as able and as willing to ee behind as before4 ,now if my oule would ay1 that hee enables any part to tate thee pleaures1 but is her elfe onely delighted with thoe rich weetnees which her inward eyes and enes apprehend1 hee hould diemble2 for ,i ee her often olaced with beauties1 which hee ees through mine eyes1 and with muicke which through mine eares he heares4 ,this perfection then my body hath1 that it can impart to my minde all his pleaures2 and my minde hath till many1 that he can neither teach my indipoed part her faculties1 nor to the bet epoued parts hew it beauty of ,angels1 of ,muicke1 of ,spheres1 whereof he boats the contemplation4 ,are chatity1 temperance1 and fortitude gifts of the mind8 ,i appeale to ,phyitians whether the caue of thee be not in the body1 health is the gift of the body1 and patience in ickenee the gift of the minde3 then who will ay that patience is as good a happinee1 as health1 when wee mut be extremely mierable to purchae this happinee4 ,and for nourihing of civill ocieties and mutuall love amongt men1 which is our chiefe end while wee are men2 ,i ay1 this beauty1 preence1 and proportion of the body1 hath a more maculine force in begetting this love1 then the vertues of the minde3 for it trikes us uddenly1 and poeeth us immoderately2 when to know thoe vertues requires ome ,iudgement in him which hall dicerne1 a long time and converation betweene them4 ,and even at lat how much of our faith and beleefe hall we be driven to betow1 to aure our elves that thee vertues are not counterfeited3 for it is the ame to be1 and eeme vertuous1 becaue that he that hath no vertue1 can diemble none1 but he which hath a little1 may gild and enamell1 yea and transforme much vice into vertue3 ,for allow a man to be dicreet and flexible to complaints1 which are great vertuous gifts of the minde1 this dicretion will be to him the oule ,elixir of all vertues1 o that touched with this1 even pride hal be made humility2 and ,cowardice1 honourable and wie valour4 ,but in things eene there is not this danger1 for the body which thou lovet and eteemet faire1 is faire2 certainely if it bee not faire in perfection1 yet it is faire in the ame degree that thy ,iudgement is good4 ,and in a faire body1 ,i doe eldome upect a diproportioned minde1 and as eldome hope for a good in a deformed4 ,when ,i ee a goodly houe1 ,i aure my elfe of a worthy poeour1 from a ruinous weather-beaten building ,i turn away1 becaue it eems either tuffed with varlets as a ,prion1 or handled by an unworthy and negligent tenant1 that o uffers the wate thereof4 ,and truely the gifts of ,fortune1 which are riches1 are onely handmaids1 yea ,pandars of the bodies pleaure2 with their ervice we nourih health1 and preerve dainty1 and wee buy delights2 o that vertue which mut be loved for it elfe1 and repects no further end1 is indeed nothing3 ,and riches1 whoe end is the good of the body1 cannot be o perfectly good1 as the end whereto it levels4 ,decoration #ab4 ,that ,virginity is a ,vertue4 ,i call not that ,virginity a vertue1 which reideth only in the ,bodies integrity2 much lee if it be with a purpoe of perpetuall keeping it3 for then it is a mot inhumane vice--,but ,i call that ,virginity a vertue which is willing and deirous to yeeld itelfe upon honet and lawfull termes1 when jut reaon requireth2 and untill then1 is kept with a modet chatity of ,body and ,mind4 ,some perchance will say that ,virginity is in us by ,nature1 and therefore no vertue4 ,true1 as it is in us by ,nature1 it is neither a ,vertue nor ,vice1 and is onely in the body3 7as in ,infants1 ,children1 and such as are incapable of parting from it74 ,but that ,virginity which is in ,man or ,woman of perfect age1 is not in them by ,nature3 ,nature is the greatet enemy to it1 and with mot ubtile allurements eeks the over-throw of it1 continually beating againt it with her ,engines1 and giving uch forcible aaults to it1 that it is a trong and more then ordinary vertue to hold out till marriage4 ,ethick ,philoophy aith1 ,that no ,vertue is corrupted1 or is taken away by that which is good3 ,hereupon ome may ay1 that ,virginity is therefore no vertue1 being taken away by marriage4 ,virginity is no otherwie taken away by marriage1 then is the light of the tarres by a greater light 7the light of the ,sun37 or as a lee ,title is taken away by a greater3 7an ,equire by being created an ,earle7 yet ,virginity is a vertue1 and hath her ,throne in the middle3 ,the extreams are1 in ,excee2 to violate it before marriage2 in defect1 not to marry4 ,in ripe years as oon as reaon perwades1 and opportunity admits1 ,thee extreams are equally removed from the mean3 ,the excee proceeds from ,lut1 the defect from ,peevihnee1 ,pride and ,stupidity4 ,there is an old ,proverb1 ,that1 they that dy maids1 mut lead ,apes in ,hell4 ,an ,ape is a ridiculous and unprofitable ,beat1 whoe fleh is not good for meat1 nor its back for burden1 nor is it commodious to keep an houe3 and perchance for the unprofitablenee of this ,beat did this proverb come up3 ,for surely nothing is more unprofitable in the ,commonwealth of ,nature1 then they that dy old maids1 becaue they refue to be ued to that end for which they were only made4 ,the ,ape bringeth forth her young1 for the mot part by twins2 that which he loves bet1 he killeth by preing it too hard3 so foolih maids oothing themelves with a fale conceit of vertue1 in fond obtinacie1 live and die maids2 and o not only kill in themelves the vertue of ,virginity1 and of a ,vertue make it a ,vice1 but they also accue their parents in condemning marriage4 ,if this application hold not touch1 yet there may be an excellent one gathered from an ,apes tender love to ,conies in keeping them from the ,weael and ,ferret4 ,from this imilitude of an ,ape an old ,maid did the aforeaid proverb firt arie4 ,but alas1 there are ome old ,maids that are ,virgins much againt their wills1 and fain would change their ,virgin-life for a ,married3 uch if they never have had any offer of fit ,hubands1 are in ome ort excuable1 and their willingnee1 their deire to marry1 and their forbearance from all dihonet1 and unlawful copulation1 may be a kind of inclination to vertue1 although not ,vertue it elfe4 ,this ,virtue of ,virginity 7though it be mall and fruitlee7 it is an extraordinary1 and no common ,vertue4 ,all other ,vertues lodge in the ,will 7it is the ,will that makes them vertues47 ,but it is the unwillingnee to keep it1 the deire to forake it1 that makes this a vertue4 ,as in the naturall generation and formation made of the eed in the womb of a woman1 the body is joynted and organized about the #bh day1 and so it begins to be no more an ,embrion1 but capable as a matter prepared to its form to receive the oule1 which faileth not to ininuate and innet it elfe into the body about the fortieth day2 about the third month it hath motion and ene3 ,even o ,virginity is an ,embrion1 an unfahioned lump1 till it attain to a certain time1 which is about twelve years of age in women1 fourteen in men1 and then it beginneth to have the oule of ,love infued into it1 and to become a vertue3 ,there is alo a certain limited time when it ceaeth to be a vertue1 which in men is about fourty1 in women about thirty years of age3 yea1 the loe of o much time makes their ,virginity a ,vice1 were not their endeavour wholly bent1 and their deires altogether fixt upon marriage3 ,in ,harvet time do we not account it a great vice of loath and negligence in a ,huband-man1 to overlip a week or ten dayes after his fruits are fully ripe2 ,may we not much more account it a more heynous vice1 for a ,virgin to let her ,fruit 7in potentia7 conume and rot to nothing1 and to let the vertue of her ,virginity degenerate into ,vice1 7for ,virginity ever kept is ever lot47 ,avarice is the greatet deadly in next ,pride3 it takes more pleaure in hoording ,treaure then in making ue of it1 and will neither let the poeor nor others take benefit by it during the ,miers life2 yet it remains intire1 and when the ,mier dies mut come to om body4 ,virginity ever kept1 is a vice far wore then ,avarice1 it will neither let the poeor nor others take benefit by it1 nor can it be bequeathed to any3 with long keeping it decayes and withers1 and becomes corrupt and nothing worth4 ,thus eeing that ,virginity becomes a vice in defect1 by exceeding a limited time2 ,i counell all female ,virgins to make choyce of ome ,paracelian for their ,phyitian1 to prevent the death of that ,vertue3 ,the ,paracelians 7curing like by like7 ay1 ,that if the lives of living ,creatures could be taken down1 they would make us immortall4 ,by this rule1 female ,virgins by a dicreet marriage hould wallow down into their ,virginity another ,virginity1 and devour uch a life pirit into their womb1 that it might make them as it were1 immortall here on earth1 beides their perfect immortality in heaven3 ,and that ,vertue which otherwie would putrifie and corrupt1 hall then be compleat2 and hall be recorded in ,heaven1 and enrolled here on ,earth2 and the name of ,virgin hall be exchanged for a far more honorable name1 ,a ,wife4 ,decoration ,,problemes #a4 ,why have ,batards bet ,fortune8 ,becaue ,fortune herelfe is a ,whore1 but uch are not mot indulgent to their iue2 the old naturall reaon 7but thoe meetings in tolne love are mot vehement1 and o contribute more pirit then the eaie and lawfull7 might governe me1 but that now ,i ee ,mitrees are become dometike and inordinary1 and they and wives waite but by turnes1 and agree awell as they had lived in the ,arke4 ,the old ,morall reaon 7that ,batards inherit wickednee from their ,parents1 and o are in a better way to preferment by having a tocke before-hand1 then thoe that build all their fortune upon the poore and weake tocke of ,originall inne7 might prevaile with me1 but that ince wee are fallen into uch times1 as now the world might pare the ,divell1 because he could be bad enough without him4 ,i ee men corne to be wicked by example1 or to bee beholding to others for their damnation4 ,it eems reaonable1 that ince ,lawes rob them of ucceion in civill benefits1 they hould have omething ele equivalent4 ,as ,nature 7which is ,lawes patterne7 having denyed ,women ,contancy to one1 hath provided them with cunning to allure many2 and o ,batards de jure hould have better wits and experience4 ,but beides that by experience wee ee many fooles amongt them1 wee hould take from them one of their chiefet helpes to preferment1 and we hould deny them to be fools1 and 7that which is onely left7 that ,women chue worthier men then their husbands1 is fale de facto2 either then it mut bee that the ,church having removed them from all place in the publike ,service of ,god1 they have better meanes then others to be wicked1 and o fortunate3 ,or ele becaue the two greatet powers in this world1 the ,divell and ,princes concurre to their greatnee2 the one giving batardy1 the other legitimation3 ,as nature frames and conerves great bodies of contraries4 ,or the caue is1 becaue they abound mot at ,court1 which is the forge where fortunes are made1 or at leat the hop where they be old4 ,decoration #b4 ,why ,puritanes make long ,sermons8 ,it needs not perpicuounee1 for ,god knowes they are plain enough3 nor doe all of them ue ,sem-briefe-,accents for ome of them have crotchets enough4 ,it may bee they intend not to rie like glorious ,tapers and ,torches1 but like ,thinne-wretched-icke-watching-,candles1 which languih and are in a ,divine ,conumption from the firt minute1 yea in their nuffe1 and tink when others are in their more profitable glory4 ,i have thought ometimes1 that out of concience1 they allow long meaure to coure ware4 ,and ometimes1 that uurping in that place a liberty to peak freely of ,kings1 they would raigne as long as they could4 ,but now ,i thinke they doe it out of a zealous imagination1 that1 ,it is their duty to preach on till their ,auditory wake4 ,decoration #c4 ,why did the ,divel reerve ,jeuites till thee latter dayes4 ,did he know that our ,age would deny the ,devils poeing1 and therfore provided by thee to poee men and kingdomes8 ,or to end the diputation of ,schoolemen1 why the ,divell could not make lice in ,egypt2 and whether thoe things hee preented there1 might be true1 hath he ent us a true and reall plague1 wore than thoe ten8 ,or in otentation of the greatnee of his ,kingdome1 which even diviion cannot hake1 doth he end us thee which diagree with all the ret8 ,or knowing that our times hould dicover the ,indies1 and abolih their ,idolatry1 doth he end thee to give them another for it8 ,or peradventure they have beene in the ,roman ,church thee thouand yeeres1 though we have called them by other names4 ,decoration #d4 ,why is there more variety of ,green then of other ,colours8 ,it is becaue it is the figure of ,youth wherin nature wuld provide as many green1 as youth hath affections2 and o preent a ,sea-green for profue waters in voyages2 a ,grae-green for udden new men enobled from ,graiers2 and a ,gooe-greene for uch ,polititians as pretend to preerve the ,capitol4 ,or ele ,prophetically foreeeing an age1 wherein they hall all hunt4 ,and for uch as midemeane themelves a ,willow-greene2 ,for ,magitrates mut awell have ,faces born before them to chatize the mall offences1 as ,secures to cut off the great4 ,decoration #e4 ,why doe young ,lay-men o much tudy ,divinity4 ,is it becaue others tending buily ,churches preferment neglect tudy8 ,or had the ,church of ,rome hut up all our wayes1 till the ,lutherans broke downe their uttermot tubborne doores1 and the ,calvinits picked their inwardet and ubtlet lockes8 ,surely the ,devill cannot be uch a ,foole to hope that he hall make this tudy contemptible1 by making it common4 ,nor that as the ,dwellers by the ,river ,origus are aid 7by drawing infinite ditches to prinkle their barren ,country7 to have exhauted and intercepted their maine channell1 and o lot their more profitable coure to the ea2 o we1 by providing every ones elfe1 divinity enough for his own ue1 hould neglect our ,teachers and ,fathers4 ,hee cannot hope for better hereies then hee hath had1 nor was his ,kingdome ever o much advanced by debating ,religion 7though with ome aperions of ,error7 as by a dull and tupid ecurity1 in which many groe things are wallowed4 ,poible out of uch an ambition as we have now1 to peake plainely and fellow-like with ,lords and ,kings1 wee thinke alo to acquaint our elves with ,gods ecrets3 ,or perchance when we tudy it by mingling humane repects1 ,it is not ,divinity4 ,decoration #f4 ,why hath the common ,opinion afforded ,women ,soules8 ,it is agreed that wee have not o much from them as any part of either our mortall oules of ene1 or growth1 and we deny oules to others equal to them in all but in peech for which they are beholding to their bodily intruments3 ,for perchance an ,oxes heart1 or a ,goates1 or a ,foxes1 or a ,serpents would peake jut o1 if it were in the breat1 and could move that tongue and jawes4 ,have they o many advantages and meanes to hurt us 7for1 ever their loving detroyed us7 that we dare not dipleae them1 but give them what they will8 ,and o when ome call them ,angels1 ome ,goddees1 and the ,palpulian ,heretikes made them ,bihops1 wee decend o much with the treame1 to allow them oules8 ,or doe we omewhat 7in this dignifying of them7 flatter ,princes and great ,peronages that are o much governed by them8 ,or do we in that eainee and prodigality1 wherein we daily loe our owne oules to we care not whom1 o labour to perwade our elves1 that ith a woman hath a oule1 a oule is no great matter8 ,or doe wee lend them oules but for ue1 ince they for our akes1 give their oules againe1 and their bodies to boote8 ,or perchance becaue the ,deuill 7who is all oule7 doth mot michiefe1 and for convenience and proportion1 becaue they would come neerer him1 wee allow them ome oules2 and o as the ,romanes naturalized ome ,provinces in revenge1 and made them ,romans1 onely for the burthen of the ,common-wealth2 o we have given women oules onely to make them capable of damnation8 ,decoration #g4 ,why are the ,fairet1 ,falet8 ,i meane not of fale ,alchimy ,beauty1 for then the quetion hould be inverted1 ,why are the ,falet1 ,fairet8 ,it is not onely becaue they are much olicited and ought for1 o is gold1 yet it is not o common2 and this uite to them1 hould teach them their value1 and make them more reerved4 ,nor is it becaue the delicatet blood hath the bet pirits1 for what is that to the fleh8 perchance uch contitutions have the bet wits1 and there is no proportionable ubject1 for ,womens wit1 but deceipt8 doth the minde o follow the temperature of the body1 that becaue thoe complexions are aptet to change1 the mind is therefore o8 ,or as ,bells of the puret metall retaine their tinkling and ound larget2 o the memory of the lat pleaure lats longer in thee1 and dipoeth them to the next4 ,but ure it is not in the complexion1 for thoe that doe but thinke themelves faire1 are preently inclined to this multiplicity of loves1 which being but faire in conceipt are fale in deed3 and o perchance when they are borne to this beauty1 or have made it1 or have dream'd it1 they eaily believe all addrees and applications of every man1 out of a ene of their own worthine to be directed to them1 which others le worthy in their own thoughts apprehend not1 or dicredit4 ,but ,i think the true reaon is1 that being like gold in many properties 7as that all natch at them1 but the wort poe them1 that they care not how deep we dig for them1 and that by the ,law of nature1 ,occupandi conceditur7 they would be like alo in this1 that as ,gold to make it elf of ue admits allay1 o they1 that they may be tractable1 mutable1 and currant1 have to allay ,falhood4 ,decoration #h4 ,why ,venus-tar only doth cat a hadow8 ,is it becaue it is nearer the earth8 ,but they whoe profeion it is to ee that nothing be done in heaven without their conent 7as ,re -- ays in himelf of ,atrologers7 have bid ,mercury to be nearer4 ,is it becaue the works of ,venus want hadowing1 covering and dignifying8 ,but thoe of ,mercury need it more2 ,for ,eloquence1 his occupation1 is all hadow and colours2 let our life be a ea1 and then our reaons and even paions are wide enough to carry us whether we hould go1 but ,eloquence is a torm and tempet that micarries3 and who doubts that ,eloquence which mut perwade people to take a yoke of overaignty 7and then beg and make ,laws to tye them fater1 and then give money to the invention1 repair and trengthen it7 needs more hadows and coloring1 then to perwade any man or woman to that which is natural4 ,and ,venus markets are o natural1 that when we olicite the bet way 7which is by marriage7 our perwaions work not o much to draw a woman to us1 as againt her nature to draw her from all other beides4 ,and o when we go againt nature1 and from ,venus-work 7for marriage is chatitie7 we need hadowes and colours1 but not ele4 ,in ,seneca's time1 it was a coure1 an un-,roman and a contemptible thing even in a ,matron1 not to have had a ,love beide her huband1 which though the ,law required not at their hands1 yet they did it zealouly out of the ,council of ,cutom and fahion1 which was venery of upererrogation3 ,et te pectator pluquam delectat ,adulter1 saith ,martial3 ,and ,horace1 becaue many lights would not hew him enough1 created many ,images of the ame ,object by waincoting his chamber with looking-glaes3 o that ,venus flies not light1 as much as ,mercury1 who creeping into our undertanding1 our darknes would be defeated1 if he were perceived4 ,then either this hadow confeeth that ame dark ,melancholy ,repentance which accompanies2 or that o violent fires1 needs ome hadowy refrehing and intermiion3 ,or ele light ignifying both day and youth1 and hadow both night and age1 he pronounceth by this that he profeeth both all perons and times4 ,decoration #i4 ,why is ,venus-tar multinominous1 called both ,heperus and ,veper4 ,the ,moon hath as many names1 but not as he is a tar1 but as he hath divers governments2 but ,venus is multinominous to give example to her protitute diciples1 who o often1 either to renew or refreh themelves towards lovers1 or to diguie themelves from ,magitrates1 are to take new names4 ,it may be he takes new names after her many functions1 for as he is upream ,monarch of all ,suns at large 7which is lut7 o is he joyned in ,commiion with all ,mythologicks1 with ,juno1 ,diana1 and all others for marriage4 ,it may be becaue of the divers names to her elf1 for her affections have more names than any vice3 cilicet1 ,pollution1 ,fornication1 ,adultery1 ,lay-,incet1 ,church-,incet1 ,rape1 ,sodomy1 ,matupration1 ,maturbation1 and a thouand others4 ,perchance her divers names hewed her appliablenes to divers men1 for ,neptune ditilled and wet her in love1 the ,sun warms and melts her1 ,mercury perwaded and wore her1 ,jupiters authority ecured1 and ,vulcan hammer'd her4 ,as ,heperus he preents you with her bonum utile1 becaue it is wholeomet in the morning3 ,as ,veper with her bonum delectabile1 becaue it is pleaantet in the evening4 ,and becaue indutrious men rie and endure with the ,sun in their civil buinees1 this ,star cats them up a little before1 and remembers them again a little after for her buines2 for certainly1 ,venit ,heperus1 ite capellae3 was poken to ,lovers in the perons of ,goats4 ,decoration #aj4 ,why are ,new ,officers leat oppreing8 ,mut the old ,proverbe1 that ,old dogs bite orest1 be true in all kinde of dogs8 ,me thinkes the freh memory they have of the mony they parted with for the place1 hould haten them for the re-imburing3 ,and perchance they doe but eeme eaier to their uiters2 who 7as all other ,patients7 doe account all change of paine1 eaie4 ,but if it bee o1 it is either becaue the odain ene contentment of the honor of the place1 retards and remits the rage of their profits1 and o having tayed their tomackes1 they can forbeare the econd coure a while3 ,or having overcome the teepest part of the hill1 and clambered above ,competitions and ,oppoitions they dare loyter1 and take breath3 ,perchance being come from places1 where they tated no gaine1 a little eems much to them at firt1 for it is long before a ,christian concience overtakes1 or straies into an ,officers heart4 ,it may be that out of the generall dieae of all men not to love the memory of a predeceor1 they eeke to digrace them by uch eainee1 and make good firt impreions1 that o having drawen much water to their ,mill1 they may afterward grind at eae3 ,for if from the rules of good ,hore-manhip1 they thought it wholeome to jet out in a moderate pace1 they hould alo take up towards their journeys end1 not mend their pace continually1 and gallop to their ,innes-doore1 the grave2 except perchance their concience at that time o touch them1 that they thinke it an injury and damage both to him that mut ell1 and to him that mut buy the ,office after their death1 and a kind of dilapidation if they by continuing honet hould dicredit the place1 and bring it to a lower-rent1 or under-value4 ,decoration #aa4 ,why does the ,poxe o much affect to undermine the ,noe8 ,paracelus perchance aith true1 ,that every ,dieae hath his exaltation in ome part certaine4 ,but why this in the ,noe8 ,is there o much mercy in this dieae1 that it provides that one hould not mell his own tinck8 ,or hath it but the common fortune1 that being begot and bred in obcuret and ecretet places1 becaue therefore his erpentine crawling and ininuation hould not be upected1 nor een1 he comes oonet into great place1 and is more able to detroy the worthiet member1 then a dieae better born8 ,perchance as mice defeat ,elephants by knawing their ,probocis1 which is their ,noe1 this wretched ,indian ,vermine practieth to doe the ame upon us4 ,or as the ancient furious ,cutome and ,connivency of ome ,lawes1 that one might cut off their ,noe whome he deprehended in ,adulterie1 was but a ,tipe of this2 ,and that now more charitable lawes having taken away all ,revenge from particular hands1 this common ,magitrate and ,executioner is come to do the ame office inviibly8 ,or by withdrawing this conpicuous part1 the ,noe1 it warnes us from all adventuring upon that ,coat2 for it is as good a mark to take in a flag as to hang one out4 ,poibly heate1 which is more potent and active then cold1 thought her elfe injured1 and the ,harmony of the world out of tune1 when cold was able to hew the high-way to ,noses in ,muscovia1 except he found the meanes to doe the ame in other ,countries4 ,or becaue by the conent of all1 there is an ,analogy1 ,proportion1 and affection between the ,noe and that part where this dieae is firt contracted1 and therefore ,heliogabalus choe not his ,minions in the ,bath but by the ,noe3 ,and ,albertus had a knavih meaning when he preferd great ,noes2 ,and the licentious ,poet was ,nao ,poeta4 ,i think this reaon is nearet truth1 ,that the ,noe is mot compaionate with this part3 ,except this be nearer1 that it is reaonable that this ,dieae in particular hould affect the mot eminent and perpicuous part1 which in general doth affect to take hold of the mot eminent and conpicuous men4 ,decoration #ab4 ,why die none for ,love now8 ,becaue women are become eayer4 ,or becaue thee later times have provided mankind of more new means for the detroying of themelves and one another1 ,pox1 ,gunpowder1 ,young marriages1 and ,controveries in ,religion4 ,or is there in true ,hitory no ,precedent or ,example of it8 ,or perchance ome die o1 but are not therefore worthy the remembring or peaking of8 ,decoration #ac4 ,why do ,women delight much in ,feathers8 ,they think that ,feathers imitate wings1 and o hew their retlenes and intability4 ,as they are in matter1 o they would be in name1 like ,embroiderers1 ,painters1 and uch ,artificers of curious vanities1 which the vulgar call ,pluminaries4 ,or ele they have feathers for the ame reaon1 which moves them to love the unworthiet men1 which is1 that they may be thereby excuable in their incontancy and often changing4 ,decoration #ad4 ,why doth not ,gold oyl the fingers8 ,doth it direct all the venom to the heart8 ,or is it becaue bribing hould not be dicovered8 ,or becaue that hould pay purely1 for which pure things are given1 as ,love1 ,honor1 ,justice and ,heaven8 ,or doth it eldom come into innocent hands but into uch as for former foulnes you cannot dicern this8 ,decoration #ae4 ,why do great men of all dependants1 chue to preerve their little ,pimps8 ,it is not becaue they are got nearet their ecrets1 for they whom they bring come nearer4 ,nor commonly becaue they and their bawds have lain in one belly1 for then they hould love their brothers awel4 ,nor becaue they are witnees of their weaknes1 for they are weak ones4 ,either it is becaue they have a double hold and obligation upon their maters for providing them urgery and remedy after1 awel as pleaure before1 and bringing them always uch tuff1 as they hal always need their ervice8 ,or becaue they may be received and entertained every where1 and ,lords fling off none but they uch as they may detroy by it4 ,or perchance we deceive our elves1 and every ,lord having many1 and1 of neceity1 ome riing1 we mark only thee4 ,decoration #af4 ,why are ,courtiers ooner ,atheits then men of other conditions8 ,is it becaue as ,phyitians contemplating ,nature1 and finding many abtrue things ubject to the earch of ,reaon1 thinks therefore that all is o2 so they 7eeing mens detinies1 mad at ,court1 neck out and in joynt there1 ,war1 ,peace1 ,life and ,death derived from thence7 climb no higher8 ,or doth a familiarity with greatnes1 and daily converation and acquaintance with it breed a contempt of all greatnes8 ,or becaue that they ee that opinion or need of one another1 and fear makes the degrees of ervants1 ,lords and ,kings1 do they think that ,god likewie for uch ,reaon hath been mans ,creator8 ,perchance it is becaue they ee ,vice proper bet there1 and1 burthened with inne1 doe they not1 for their eae1 endeavour to put off the feare and ,knowledge of ,god1 as facinorous men deny ,magitracy8 ,or are the mot ,atheits in that place1 becaue it is the foole that aid in his heart1 ,there is no ,god4 ,decoration #ag4 ,why are tatemen mot incredulous8 ,are they all wie enough to follow their excellent pattern ,tiberius1 who brought the enate to be diligent and indutrious to believe him1 were it never so oppoite or diametricall1 that it detroyed their very ends to be believed1 as ,ainius ,gallus had almot deceived this man by believing him1 and the ,major and ,aldermen of ,london in ,richard the ,third8 ,or are buinees 7about which thee men are converant7 o conjecturall1 o ubject to unupected interventions that they are therefore forc'd to peak oraculouly1 whiperingly1 generally1 and therefore ecapingly1 in the language of ,almanack-makers for weather8 ,or are thoe 7as they call them7 ,arcana imperii1 as by whom the ,prince provokes his lut1 and by whom he vents it1 of what ,cloath his ocks are1 and uch1 o deep1 and o irreveald1 as any error in them is inexcuable8 ,if thee were the reaons1 they would not only erve for tate-buines4 ,but why will they not tell true1 what a ,clock it is1 and what weather1 but abtain from truth of it1 if it conduce not to their ends1 as ,witches will not name ,jeus1 though it be in a cure8 eithere they know little out of their own ,elements1 or a ,cutom in one matter begets an habite in all4 ,or the lower ort imitate ,lords1 they their ,princes1 thee their ,prince4 ,or ele they believe one another1 and o never hear truth4 ,or they abtain from the little ,channel of truth1 leat1 at lat1 they hould finde the fountain it elf1 ,god4 ,decoration #ah4 ,why was ,sir ,walter ,raleigh thought the fittet ,man1 to write the ,hitorie of thee ,times8 ,was it becaue that being told at his ,arraignement1 that a ,witnes accuing himelf had the trength of two2 he may eem by ,writing the ills of his own ,time to be believed8 ,or is it1 becaue he might reenjoy thoe ,times by the ,meditation of them8 ,or becaue if he hould undertake higher ,times1 he doth not think1 that he can come nearer to the ,beginning of the ,world8 ,or becaue like a ,bird in a ,cage1 he takes his ,tunes from every paenger1 that lat whitled8 ,or becaue he thinks not that the bet ,echo which repeats mot of the ,sentence1 but that which repeats ,les more plainly8 ,decoration ,,characters #a4 ,the ,character of a ,scot at the first ight4 ,at his firt appearing in the ,charterhoue1 an ,olive coloured ,veluet uit owned him1 which ince became mous-colour1 ,a pair of unkour'd tockings-gules1 ,one indifferent hooe1 his band of ,edenburgh1 and cuffs of ,london1 both trangers to his hirt1 a white feather in a hat that had bin od1 one onely cloak for the rain1 which yet he made erve him for all weathers3 ,a ,barren-half-acre of ,face1 amidt whereof an eminent ,noe advanced himelf1 like the new ,mount at ,wanted1 overlooking his ,beard1 and all the wilde ,country thereabouts2 ,he was tended enough1 but not well2 for they were certain dumb creeping ,followers1 yet they made way for their ,mater1 the ,laird4 ,at the firt preentment his ,breeches were his ,sumpter1 and his ,packets1 ,trunks1 ,cloak-bags1 ,portmanteau's and all2 ,he then grew a ,knight-wright1 and there is extant of his ware at #ajjl4 #aejl4 and #bjjl4 price4 ,immediately after this1 he hifteth his uit1 o did his ,whore1 and to a ,bear-baiting they went1 whither ,i followed them not1 but ,tom4 ,thorney did4 ,decoration #b4 ,the true ,character of a ,dunce4 ,he hath a ,soule drownd in a lump of ,fleh1 or in a piece of ,earth that ,prometheus put not half his proportion of ,fire into1 a thing that hath neither edge of deire1 nor feeling of affection in it1 ,the mot dangerous creature for confirming an ,atheit1 who would traight wear1 his oul were nothing but the bare temperature of his body3 ,he leeps as he goes1 and his thoughts eldom reach an inch further than his eyes2 ,the mot part of the faculties of his oul lye ,fallow1 or are like the retive ,jades that no pur can drive forwards towards the puruite of any worthy deign2 one of the mot unprofitable of all ,gods creatures1 being as he is1 a thing put clean beides his right ue1 made fitt for the cart the flail1 and by michance ,entangled amongt books and papers1 a man cannot tel poible what he is now good for1 ave to move up and down and fill room1 or to erve as ,animatum ,intrumentum for others to work withal in bae ,imployments1 or to be a foyl for better witts1 or to erve 7as ,they ay monters do7 to et out the variety of nature1 and ,ornament of the ,univere1 ,he is meer nothing of himelf1 neither eates1 nor drinkes1 nor goes1 nor pits but by imitation1 for al which1 he hath et forms fahions1 which he never varies1 but ticks to1 with the like plodding contancy that a milhors follows his trace1 both the mues and the graces are his hard ,mitries though he daily ,invocate them1 though he acrifize ,hecatombs1 they til look a quint1 you hall note him oft 7beide his dull eye and louting head1 and a certain clammie benum'd pace7 by a fair diplai'd beard1 a ,nightcap and a gown1 whoe very wrincles proclaim him the true genius of formality1 but of al others1 his dicours and compoitions bet peak him1 both of them are much of one tuf fahion1 he peaks jut what his books or lat company aid unto him without varying one whit very eldom undertands himelf1 you may know by his dicoure where he was lat1 for what he read or heard yeterday he now dichargeth his memory or notebook of1 not his undertanding1 for it never came there2 what he hath he flings abroad at al adventurs without accomodating it to time1 place1 perons or occaions1 he commonly loeth himelf in his tale1 and flutters up and down windles without recovery1 and whatoever next preents it elf1 his heavie conceit eizeth upon and goeth along with1 however ,heterogeneal to his matter in hand1 his jets are either old flead proverbs1 or lean-tarv'd-hackny-,apophthegm's1 or poor verball quips outworn by ,servingmen1 ,tapters and ,milkmaids1 even laid aide by ,balladers1 ,he aents to all men that bring any hadow of reaon1 and you may make him when he peaks mot ,dogmatically1 even with one breath1 to averr pure contradictions1 ,his ,compoitions differ only terminorum poitione from ,dreams1 ,nothing but rude heaps of ,immaterial-inchoherent droie-rubbih-tuffe1 promicuouly thrut up together1 enough to ,infue dullnes and ,barrennes of ,conceit into him that is o ,prodigall of his eares as to give the hearing1 enough to make a mans memory ,ake with uffering uch dirtie tuffe cat into it1 as unwellcome to any true conceit1 as ,sluttih ,morells or ,wallowih ,potions to a ,nice-,stomack which whiles he empties himelfe of1 it ticks in his ,teeth nor can he be ,delivered without ,sweate and ,sighes1 and ,humms1 and ,coughs enough to hake his ,grandams teeth out of her head2 ,heel pitt1 and cratch1 and yawn1 and tamp1 and turn like ick men from one elbow to another1 and ,deerve as much pitty during this torture as men in ,fits of ,tertian ,feavors or elfe lahing ,penitentiaries2 in a word1 ,rip him quite aunder1 and examin every hred of him1 you hall finde him to be jut nothing1 but the ubject of ,nothing1 the object of contempt1 yet uch as he is you mut take him1 for there is no hope he hould ever become better4 ,decoration #ba4 ,an ,eay of ,valour4 ,i am of opinion that nothing is o potent either to procure or merit ,love1 as ,valour1 and ,i am glad ,i am o1 for thereby ,i hall do my elf much eae1 becaue ,valour never needs much wit to maintain it3 ,to peak of it in it elf1 ,it is a quality which he that hath1 hall have leat need of1 so the bet ,league between ,princes is a mutual fear of each other1 it teacheth a man to value his reputation as his life1 and chiefly to hold the ,lye unufferable1 though being alone1 he holds finds no hurt it doth him1 ,it leaves it elf to others cenures1 for he that brags of his own valour1 diwades others from believing it1 ,it feareth a word no more than an ,ague1 ,it always makes good the ,owner1 for though he be generally held a fool1 he hall eldom hear o much by word of mouth1 and that enlargeth him more than any pectacles1 for it maketh a little fellow be called a tall man1 it yeilds the wall to none but a woman1 whoe weaknes is her prerogative1 or a man econded with a woman as an uher1 which always goes before his betters1 ,it makes a man become the witnes of his own words1 and tand to whatever he hath aid1 and thinketh it a reproach to commit his reviling unto the ,law1 it furniheth youth with action1 and age with dicoure1 and both by futures1 for a man mut ever boat himelf in the preent tene1 and to come nearer home1 nothing drawes a woman like to it2 for ,valour towards men1 is an ,emblem of an ability towards women1 a good quality ignifies a better4 ,nothing is more behooffull for that ,sex2 for from it they receive protection1 and we free from the danger of it3 ,nothing makes a horter cut for obtaining1 for a man of ,arms is always void of ,ceremony1 which is the wall that tands between ,pyramus and ,thibe1 that is1 ,man and ,woman1 for there is no pride in women but that which rebounds from our own baenee 7as ,cowards grow valiant upon thoe that are more ,cowards7 o that only by our pale aking we teach them to deny1 and by our hamefac'dnes1 we put them in minde to be modet1 whereas indeed it is cunning ,rhetorick to perwade the hearers that they are that already which he would have them to be2 ,this kinde of bahfulnes is far from men of ,valour1 and epecially from ouldiers1 for uch are ever men 7without doubt7 forward and confident1 loing no time leat they hould loe opportunity1 which is the bet ,factor for a ,lover1 and becaue they know women are given to diemble1 they will never believe them when they deny1 ,whilome before this age of wit1 and wearing black1 were broke in upon us1 there was no way known to win a ,lady but by ,tylting1 ,turnying1 and riding through ,forrets1 in which time thee lender triplings with little legs were held but of trength enough to marry their widows1 and even in our days there can be given no reaon of the ,inundation of ,servingmen upon their ,mitrees1 but 7only7 that uually they carry their ,maters ,weapons1 and his ,valour3 ,to be accounted handome1 jut1 learned1 or well favoured1 all this carries no danger with it1 but it is to be admitted to the ,title of ,valiant ,acts1 at leat the adventuring of his mortality1 and al women take delight to hold him safe in their arms who hath 'capt thither through many dangers3 ,to peak at once1 ,man hath a priviledge in ,valour2 ,in clothes and good faces we but imitate women1 and many of that ,sex will not think much 7as far as an anwer goes7 to diemble wit too4 ,so then thee neat youths1 thee women in mens apparel are too near a woman to be beloved of her1 ,they be both of a ,trade1 but be grim of apect1 and uch a one as ,glas dares take1 and he will deire him for neatnes and varietie2 ,a kar in a mans face is the ame that a mole in a womans2 a ,jewel et in white to make it eem more white1 for the kar in a man is a mark of honour and no blemih1 for 'tis a kar and a blemih too in a ,souldier too to be with out one3 ,now as for al things ele which are to procure ,love1 as a good face1 wit1 good clothes1 or a good body1 each of them ,i confes may work omewhat for want of a better1 ,that is1 if ,valour be not their ,rivall2 ,a good face avails nothing if it be in a coward that is bahfull1 the utmot of it is to be ki'd1 which rather encreaeth then quencheth appetite2 ,he that ends her gifts ends her word alo1 that he is a man of mall gifts otherwie1 for wooing by igns and tokens implies the ,author dumb2 and if ,ovid who writ the ,law of ,love1 were alive 7as he is extant7 would allow it as good a diverity1 that gifts hould be ent as gratuities1 not as bribes2 ,wit getteth rather promie then ,love1 ,wit is not to be een1 and no woman takes advice of any in her loving1 but of her own eyes1 and her waiting womans2 ,nay which is wore1 wit is not to be felt1 and o no good fellow2 ,wit apply'd to a woman makes her diolve 7or dicloe7 her impering1 and dicover her teeth with laughter1 and this is urely a purge for love2 for the beginning of love is a kind of foolih melancholy1 as for the man that makes his ,taylor his ,bawd1 and hopes to inveagle his ,love with uch a coloured uit1 urely the ame deeply hazards the los of her favour upon every change of his clothes2 ,so likewie for the other1 that ,courts her ilently with a good body1 let me certifie him that his clothes depend upon the comelynee of the body1 and o both upon opinion2 he that hath been educed by ,apparel1 let me give her to wit1 that men always put off their clothes before they go to bed2 and let her that hath been enamour'd of her ervants body1 undertand1 that if he aw him in a kin of cloth1 that is1 in a uit made to the pattern of his body1 he would ee lender caue to love him ever after2 there are no clothes it o well in a woman's eye1 as a uit of ,steel1 though not of the fahion1 and no man o oon urprieth a womans affections as he that is the ubject of all whiperings1 and hath always twenty tories of his own deeds depending upon him2 ,mitake me not1 ,i undertand not by valour one that never fights but when he is back'd by drink or anger1 or hi'd on with beholders1 nor one that is deperate1 nor one that takes away a ,servingmans weapons when perchance it cot him his quarters wages1 nor yet one that wears a ,privy coat of defence and therein is confident1 for then uch as made ,bucklers1 would be accounted the ,catalines of this ,commonwealth--,i intend one of an even ,reolution grounded upon reaon1 which is always even1 having his power retrained by the ,law of not doing wrong4 ,but now ,i remember ,i am for ,valour and therefore ,i mut be a man of few words4 ,transcriber's ,note ,inconsistent period spelling retained as printed4 ,the original printing used occasionally1 but inconsistently1 in place of 3 this usage has not been retained4