CHAP. VI.
¶ Of Conceptions: and signes distinguishing the sex in great bellied wo∣men before they are deliuered.
IF ten dayes after a woman hath had the company of a man shee feele an extraordinary ache in the head, and perceiue giddinesse in the brain as if all things went round; finde a dazling and mistinesse in the eies, abhorring and loathing meat, and withall a turning and wambling [unspec B] in the stomacke; it is a signe that she is conceiued, and beginneth to breed: if she goe with a boy better coloured will she be all the time, and deliuered with more ease, and by the 40 day she shall feele a kinde of motion and stirring in her wombe. But contrarie it falleth out in the breeding of a girle, she goeth more heauily with it, and findeth the burthen heauier, her legs and thighes about the share will swell a little. And ninetie dayes it will be before she ab∣solutely perceiueth any mouing of the infant. But be it male or female shee breeds, they put her to much paine and grieuance when their haire beginneth to bud forth, and euer at the full of the Moone: and euen the very infants after they are borne are most amisse and farthest out of frame about that time. And verily great care must be had of a woman with child all the time she goeth therewith, both in her gate, and in euery thing else that can be named: for if women feed vpon ouer-salt and poudered meat they wil bring forth a child without nailes: and if they hold not their wind in their labor, longer it will be ere they be deliuered, and with more dif∣ficultie. [unspec C] Much yawning in the time of trauell is a deadly signe; like as to sneese presently vp∣on conception threatneth abortion or a slip.