It lights, but leads not.
An.
If to more proper rules a minde thou hast,
Take these: and more, Ile not allow thee chast.
On the vast Seas the Beacon doth display
Its light: directing ships their safest way.
The flame doth show the harbour to be neare,
Yet doth not helpe the Mariner to steare:
'Tis they must guide the Sayles, and ply the Oare,
Save light from it, they can expect no more.
If thy face, speake thee not of Cynthias traine,
And thou the Vestals modest dresse disdaine:
Thou onely on the shore, to light them, stand,
But let the Sayler labour how to land.
It much behoveth a virgin to be very circumspect in cases of matrimony, that for the honour of her sex, she neither seeme to offer her selfe, or to doe any thing a∣gainst modesty: lest it happen unto her, as (wee read) it did to Icasin a noble and learned virgin, who when she became so gracious in the eyes of Theophilus Emperour of Constantinople, that he seemed to offer her a golden apple as a pledge of nuptiall faith and contract: She was tax∣ed for her too ready answer and acception thereof, and for griefe of mind confinde her selfe into a Monastery.Cypri.