be fair than honest (as Cato said) and have the Commonwealh turned topsie turvie, then her tires marred) ;" and she did naught but brag of her fine robes and jewels, and provoked the Roman Matron to shew her's: Cornelia kept her in talk till her children came from school, and these, said she, are my jewels, and so deluded and put off a proud, vain, phantasticall huswife. How much better were it for our Matrons to do as she did, to go civilly and decently, Honeste mulieris instar quæ utitur auro pro eo quod est, ad ea tantum quibus opus est, to use gold as it is gold, and for that use it serves, and when they need it, then to consume it in riot, begger their husbands, prostitute themselves, inveagle others, and peradventure danin their own souls? How much more would it be for their honour and credit? Thus doing, as Hierom said of Blesilla," Furius did not so triumph over the Gaules, Papyrius of the Samnites, Scipio of Numantia, as she did by her temperance;" pulla semper veste, &c. they should insult and domineer over lust, folly, vain-glory, all such inordinate, furious and unruly passions. But I am over tedious, I confess, and whilst I stand gaping after fine clothes, there is another great allurement, (in the world's eye at least) which had like to have stoln out of sight, and that is mony, veniunt à dote sagitte, mony makes the match; *Movov âpyupov Bhéπuoiv: 'Tis like sauce to their meat, cum carne condimentum, a good dowry with a wife. Many men if they do hear but of a great portion, a rich heir, are more mad then if they had all the beauteous ornaments, and those good parts Art and Nature can afford, they † care not for ho, nesty, bringing up, birth, beauty, person, but for mony. "Canes & equos (ô Cyrne) quærimus Malam vero uxorem, malique patris filiam Modo ei magnam dotem afferat." Our dogs and horses still from the best breed If she be rich, then she is fair, fine, absolute and perfect, then they burn like fire, they love her dearly, like pig and pye, and are ready to hang themselves if they may not have her. No • Lucian. Non sic Furius de Gallis, non Papyrius de Samnitibus, Scipio de Numantia triumphavit, ac ilia se vincendo in hac parte. * Anacreon. solum intuemur aurum. + Asser tecum si vis vivere mecum. Theognis. thing thing so familiar in these dayes, as for a young man to marry an old wife, as they say, for a piece of gold; "asinum auro onustum; and though she be an old crone, and have never a tooth in her head, neither good conditions, nor a good face, a natural fool, but onely rich, she shall have twenty young Gallants to be suiters in an instant. As she said in Suetonius, non me, sed mea ambiunt, 'tis not for her sake, but for her lands or mony; and an excellent match it were (as he added) if she were away. So on the other side, many a young lovely maid will cast away herself upon an old, doting, decrepit dizard, * Bis puer effœto quamvis balbutiat ore, that is rheumatick and gouty, hath some twenty diseases, perhaps but one eye, one leg, never a nose, no hair on his head, wit in his brains, nor honesty, if he have land or mony, she will have him before all other suiters, • Dummodo sit dives barbarus ille placet. If he be rich, he is the man, a fine man, and a proper man, she'l go to Jacaktres or Tidore with him; Galesimus de monte aureo. Sir Giles Goosecap, S. Amorous La-Fool, shall have her. And as Philemasium in + Aristænetus told Emmusus, absq; argento omnia vana, hang him that hath no mony, "'tis to no purpose to talk of marriage without means,' trouble me not with such motions; let others do as they will, "Ile be sure to have one shall maintain me fine and brave," Most are of her minde, De moribus ultima fiet Questio, for his conditions, she shall enquire after them another time, or when all is done, the match made, and every body body gone home. t Lucian's Lycia was a proper young maid, and had many fine Gentlemen to her suiters; Ethecles a Senator's son, Melissus a Merchant, &c. but she forsook them all for one Passius a base, hirsute, bald-pated knave; but why was it? "His father lately died and left him sole heir of his goods and lands." This is not amongst your dust-worms alone, poor snakes that will prostitute their souls for mony, but with this bait you may catch our most potent, puissant, and illustrious Princes. That proud upstart domineering Bishop of Ely, in the time of Richard * Chaloner 1. 9. de Repub. Ang. ⚫ Uxorem ducat Danaen, &c. Ovid. Epist. 14. formam spectant alii per gratias, ego pecuniam, &c. ne mihi negotium facesse. Qui caret argento, frustra utitur argumento. Juvenalis. Tom. 4. merit. díal, multos amatores rejecit, quia pater ejus nuper mortuus, ac dominus ipse factus bonorum omnium. the * the first, Viceroy in his absence, as Nubergensis relates it, to fortifie himself, and maintain his greatness, propinquarum suarum connubiis, plurimos sibi potentes & nobiles devincire curavit, married his poor kinswomen (which came forth of Normandy by droves) to the chiefest nobles of the land, and they were glad to accept of such matches, fair or foul, for themselves, their sons, nephews, &c. Et quis tam præclaram affinitatem sub spe magne promotionis non optaret? Who would not have done as much for mony and preferment ? as mine author adds. Vortiger, King of Britain, married Rowena the daughter of Hengist the Saxon Prince, his mortall enemy; but wherefore ? she had Kent for her dowry. Iagello the great Duke of Lituania, 1386, was mightily enamoured on Hedenga, insomuch that he turned Christian from a Pagan, and was baptized himself by the name of Uladislaus, and all his subjects for her sake: but why was it? she was daughter and heir of Poland, and his desire was to have both Kingdoms incoporated into one. Charls the great was an earnest suiter to Irene the Empress, but, saith x Zonarus, ob regnum, to annex the Empire of the East to that of the West. Yet what is the event of all such matches, that are so made for mony, goods, by deceit, or for burning lust, quos fœda libido conjunxit, what follows? they are almost mad at first, but 'tis a meer flash; as chaff and straw soon fired, burn vehemently for a while, yet out in a moment; so are all such matches made by those allurements of burning lust; where there is no respect of honesty, parentage, vertue, religion, education, and the like, they are extinguished in an instant, and instead of love comes hate; for joy, repentance and desperation itself. Franciscus Barbarus in his first book de re uxoria, c. 5. hath a story of one Philip of Padua that fell in love with a common whore, and was now ready to run mad for her; his father having no more sons let him enjoy her; " but after a few days, the young man began to loath, could not so much as endure the sight of her, and from one madness fell into another." Such event commonly have all these lovers; and he that so marries, or for such respects, let them look for no better success, then Menelaus had with Helen, Vulcan with Venus, Thescus with Phadra, Minos with Pasiphae, and Claudius with Messalina; shame, sorrow, misery, melancholy, discontent. * Lib. 3. cap. 14. quis nobilium eo tempore, sibi aut filio aut nepoti uxorem accipere cupiens, oblatam sibi aliquam propinquarum ejus non acciperet obviis manibus quarum turbam acciverat è Normannia in Angliam ejus rei gratia. Alexander Gaguinus Sarmat. Europ. descript. * Tom. 3. Annal. Libido statim deferbuit, fastidium cæpit, & quod in ea tantopere adamavit aspernatur, & ab ægritudine liberatus in angorem incidit. SUB SUBSECT. IV. Importunity and opportunity of time, place, conference, discourse, singing, dancing, musick, amorous tales, objects, kissing, familiarity, tokens, presents, bribes, promises, protestations, tears, &c. Α' LL these allurements hitherto are afar off, and at a dis tance; I will come nearer to those other degrees of Love, which are conference, kissing, dalliance, discourse, singing, dancing, amorous tales, objects, presents, &c. which as so many Syrens steal away the hearts of men and women. For as Tacitus observes, 1. 2. " It is no sufficient trial of a maid's affection by her eys alone, but you must say something that shall be more available, and use such other forcible engines; therefore take her by the hand, wring her fingers hard, and sigh withall; if she accept this in good part, and seem not to be much averse, then call her Mistress, take her about the neck and kiss her, &c." But this cannot be done except they first get opportunity of living, or coming together, ingress, egress, and regress; letters and commendations may do much, outward gestures and actions: but when they come to live near one another, in the same street, village, or together in an house, Jove is kindled on a sudden. Many a Serving-man by reason of this opportunity and importunity inveagles his Master's daughter, many a Gallant loves a Dowdy, many a gentleman runs upon his wife's maids; many Ladies dote upon their men, as the Queen in Ariosto did upon the Dwarf, many matches are so made in haste, and they are compelled as it were by + necessity so to dove, which had they been free, come in company of others, seen that variety which many places afford, or compared them to a third, would never have looked one upon another. Or had not that opportunity of discourse and familiarity been offered, they would have loathed and contemned those whom, for want of better choice and other objects, they are fatally driven on, and by reason of their hot bloud, idle life, full diet, &c. are forced to dote upon them that come next. And many times those which at the first sight cannot fancy or affect each other, but are harsh and ready to disagree, offended with each other's • De puellæ voluntate periculum facere solis oculis non est satis, sed efficacius aliquid agere oportet, ibiq; etiam machinam alteram adhibere: itaq; manus tange, digitos constringe, atq; inter stringendum suspira; s hæc agentem æquo se animo feret, neq; facta hujusmodi aspernabitur, tum vero dominum ap. pella, ejusq; collum suaviare. + Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings. VOL. II. S carriage, carriage, like Benedict and Betteris in the Comedy, and in whom they finde many faults, by this living together in a house, conference, kissing, colling, and such like allurements, begin at last to dote insensibly one upon another. a It was the greatest motive that Potiphar's wife had to dote upon Joseph, and Clitiphon upon Leucippe his Uncle's daughter, because the plague being at Bizance, it was his fortune for a time to sojourn with her, to sit next her at the table, as he tells the tale himself in Tatius lib. 2. (which, though it be but a fiction, is grounded upon good observation, and doth well express the passions of lovers,) he had opportunity to take her by the hand, and after a while to kiss, and handle her paps, &c. which made him almost mad. Ismenius the Orator makes the like confession in Eustathius lib. 1. when he came first to Sosthene's house, and sat at table with Cratistes his friend," Ismene, Sosthene's daughter, waiting on them "with her breasts open, arms half bare," + Nuda pedem, discincta sinum, spoliata lacertos, after the Greeck fashion in those times,- nudos media plus parte lacertos, as Daphne was when she fled from Phoebus (which moved him much), was ever ready to give attendance on him, to fill him drink, her eyes were never off him, rogabundi oculi, those speaking eyes, courting eyes, enchanting eyes; but she was still smiling on him, and when they were risen, that she had got a little opportunity, "she came and drank to him, and withall trod upon his toes, and would come and go, and when she could not speak for the company, she would wring his hand," and blush when she met him and by this means first she overcame him (bibens amorem hauriebam simul) she would kiss the cup and drink to him, and smile, "and drink where he drank on that side of the cup," by which mutual compressions, kissings, wringing of hands, treading of feet, &c. Ipsam mihi videbar sorbillare virginem, I sipt and sipt so long, till at length I was drunk in love upon a sudden. Philocharinus, in Aristanetus, met a fair maid by chance, a meer stranger to him, he looked back at her, she looked back at him again, and smiled withall. Ille dies lethi primus, primusq; malorum * Shakespeare. Tatius lib. 1. In mammarum attractu, non aspernapda inest jucunditas, & attrectatus, &c. + Mantuan. Ovid. 1. Met. • Manus ad cubitum nuda, coram astans, fortius intuita, tenuem de pectore spiritum ducens, digitum meum pressit, & bibens pedem pressit; mutuæ compressiones corporum, labioruín commixtiones, pedum connexiones, &c. Et bibit eodem Loco, &c. § Epist. 4. Respexi, respexit & illa subridens, &c. || Vir. Æn. 4: It |