Turgida, si plena est; si fusca est, nigra vocetur
(I, 328) In gracili, macies crimen habere potest. (1, 328) Et poterit dici petulans, quae rustica non est : (I, 329) Et poterit dici rustica, si qua proba est. (I, 330)
4. Quin etiam, quacumque caret tua dote puella : (I, 331) Hanc moueat, blandis usque precare sonis. (I, 332) Exige, quod cantet, siqua est sine voce puella
(I, 333) Fac saltet, nescit siqua movere pedem. (I, 334) Barbara sermone est : fac teeum multa loquatur. (I, 335) Non didicit chordas tangere : posce lyram. (I, 336) Durius incedit : face ut ambulet : ....……. (I, 337) Si male dentata est, narra quod rideat illa : (I, 339) Mollibus est oculis : quod fleat illa, refer. (I, 340)
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It is a worlde to see how commonly we are blynded with the collusions of woemen 1, and more entised by their ornaments being artificiall, then their proportion beeing naturall. I loathe almoste to thincke on their oyntments, and Apoticarie drugges, the sleeking of theire faces ?, and all their slibber sawces, which bring quesinesse to the stomacke 3, and disquyet to the minde.
Take from them their periwiggs, their payntings, their Tewells, their rowles, their boulsterings, and thou shalt soone perceiue that a woman is the least parte of hir selfei. When they be once robbed of their robes, then will they appeare so odious, so vgly, so monstrous, y* thou wilt rather thinke them Serpents then Saynts, & so lyke Hags, y' thou wilt feare rather to be enchanted then enamoured. Looke in their closets, and there shalt thou finde an Apoticaries shoppe of sweet confections, a Surgions boxe of sundrye salues 5, a Pedlars packe of new fangles. Besides all this their shadows, their spottes, their lawnes, their leefekyes, their ruffes, their rings, shew them rather Cardinals curtisans, then modest Matrones, and more carnally affected, then moued in conscience. If euery one of these things seuerally be not of force to moue thee, yet all of them ioyntly should mortefe thee 6.
Moreouer to make thee y° more stronger, to striue agaynst these Syrenes, and more subtill to deceiue these tame Serpents, my counsayle is that thou haue more strings to thy bow then one ?, it is safe riding at two ancres 8, a fire deuided in twayne
1. Auferimur cultu : gemmis, auroque teguntur (I, 343) Omnia :
2. Tum quoque, compositis sua cum linit ora venenis : (1, 351)
Non semel hinc stomacho nausea facta meo. (I, 356) PR pars minima est ipsa puella sui. (I, 344) Pyxidas invenies, et rerum mille colores : (I, 353) Sed, quae non prosunt singula, multa juvant, (IT, 24) Hortor et, ut pariter binas habeatis amicas : (II, 45) Non satis una tenet ceratas anchora puppes : (II, 51)
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burneth slower 1, a fountayne running into many riuers, is of lesse force ?, the minde enamoured on two women %, is lesse affected with desire 4, and lesse infected with despaire, one loue expelleth an other 5, and the remembraunce of the latter quencheth the concupiscence of the first 6.
Yet if thou bee so weake being bewitched with their wiles that thou hast neyther will to eschue, nor wit to auoyde their company, if thou be eyther so wicked y' thou wilt not, or so wedded that thou canst not abstaine from their glaunces, yet at the leaste dissemble thy griefe : If thou be as hot as the mount Aetna, faine thy self as colde? as y° hil Caucasus, carry two faces in one hood, couer thy flaming fancie with fained ashes, shew thy selfe sounde 8 when thou art rotten, lette thy hew be merrye, when thy heart is melancholy, beare a pleasaunt countenaunce, with a pyned conscience, a paynted sheathe with a leaden dagger : Thus dissembling thy griefe, thou maist recure thy disease. Loue crepeth in by stealth and by stealth slydeth away 10.
If she breake promise with thee in the nighte 11, or absent hir selfe in the daye, seeme thou carelesse 1? and then will she
