Pleasant dialogues and dramma's, selected out of Lucian, Erasmus, Textor, Ovid, &c. With sundry emblems extracted from the most elegant Iacobus Catsius. As also certaine elegies, epitaphs, and epithalamions or nuptiall songs; anagrams and acrosticks; with divers speeches (upon severall occasions) spoken to their most excellent Majesties, King Charles, and Queene Mary. With other fancies translated from Beza, Bucanan, and sundry Italian poets. By Thomas Heywood

There can bee given no strong security, For Maiden heads in their nativity.

Phi.

Maides, if you looke to rost your Chestnuts well, Observe first with a knife to wound the shell: If with unbroken skin it touch the fire, 'Twill break in pieces, and with noise retire. Who to chaste love shall make her brest obdure, From Venus, oh what panges shall she procure? She burnes, nor can her youth take least content, That's cloistred, and at home in prison pent. The bridle once tooke off, she growes untame,

And then, with greater fury burnes her flame. Some I have seene at lawfull love repine, And after, madly to base lust incline.

Dangerous is the custody of a virginity, and most difficultly is she to be restraind, to whom 'the yoke of virginity is imposed. Egn.

That which Tacitus spake of the plebe or multitude, may not unfitly be construed upon young virgins, vid. They are altogether impatient of meere servitude, or absolute liberty.