The English gentlevvoman, drawne out to the full body expressing, what habilliments doe best attire her, what ornaments doe best adorne her, what complements doe best accomplish her. By Richard Brathvvait Esq.

A Compendious Table; where∣in the Principall points contained in this Booke, are with no lesse Brevity than Perspicuity, Propriety, than Facility couched.

APPARELL. Observat. 1.

• OF the necessity of Apparell. Pag. 1.
• Primitive purity exempted vs from these necessities; Originall impuri∣ty subiected vs to these necessities. pag. 4.
• Apparell keepes the body warme two wayes: first by keeping in the naturall heate: 2. By keeping out accidentall cold. pag. 2.
• These benefits are inverted by phantasticke Fa∣shions late introduc'd: where attires are not made to keepe cold out, but to bring cold in. pag. 4.
• Of the Vse of Apparell. pag. 5.
• To make this vse good, Modesty must bee our guide, Vertuous thoughts our guard; so shall Hea∣ven be our goale. ibid.
• A memorable instance of a Religious woman; ex∣pressing what Divine vse shee made in the eying of ••er Apparell. ibid.
• ...

• The habite of the minde may be best discerned by the carriage of the body; the Disposition of the bo∣dy, by the habite. Pag. 6.
• The Constancy of the Heathen, in retayning their ancient Countrey fashion; and immutably obser∣ving the habite of their owne Nation. ibid.
• Habite is to be used as an Ornament of Decen∣cie; without the least border or Edging of Va∣nitie. pag. 8.
• Directions, how to dispose the Senses; and that Reason must keepe Centinell, lest they become Sen∣suall. ibid.
• The preciousnesse of Time; whereof, a Moment is our portion; nor hath the Commandingst Empe∣rour a larger proportion. pag. 9.
• How contemptible a thing is Man, if he erect not his thoughts above man! ibid.
• Of the abuse of Apparell. ibid.
• More time spent how to abuse time, and cor∣rupt licencious youth; then how to addresse employ∣ment to qualifie the distractions of the one, or to rectifie the distempers of the other. pag. 10.
• This illustrated by instances in three severall pla∣••es. Citty, Court, and Countrey: And accom∣modated, with Observations proper to every Sub∣iect. pag. 11.
• The Taske of a vertuous Mirror, and a true Lady of Honour, expressed; and to all Ladies, as a President of goodnesse, zealously recommended. pag. 12.
• The life of a meere Libertine instanced and dis∣played

• with a relation of those desperate Conclusions to which she adheared. ibid.
• How the use of Apparell may be inverted to a∣buse: eyther by Delicacy, or Superfluity. pag. 13.
• Reproofe touching Apparell, originally occasio∣ned from foure respects:

  1. Sumptuousnesse.—	And that confirmed by a memorable example.
  2. Softnesse.
  3. Strangenesse.	And that reproveable in thes•• 3. particulars.
  4. Superfluousnesse.—

  • Variety.
  • Immensity.
  • Vanity.
• All which are intervained with sundry instances of various delight. Pag. 14. & 15.
• A disswasion from Delicacy of Apparell, by re∣flecting on the Embleme of humane frailty, the modell of our mortality. Which continuate Sub••ect is stored with a select variety of divine and humane observations. pag. 16. 17. 18. &c.
• Superfluity of Apparell condemned; the Fashi∣onmongers answered; clozing that Branch, with a devout Admonition from divine BASILE ex∣tracted, and usefully applyed. pag. 19. 20. 21. 22.
• That Apparell most comely, which conferres on the wearer, most native beauty, and most honour on her Countrey. pag. 23.
• Habit is a custome; yet it is our custome to

• change our Habit. ibid.
• Each Countrey retaines a fashion of her owne, save our owne. ibid.
• Ours an extraction or confection of all, which makes us Ieered at by all. ibid.
• Phantasticke fashions are no motives of affection to discreet Lovers. pag. 24.
• Discretion will be more taken with Modesty, than Vanity; and Humility, than Vaine-glory. pag. 25.
• The World is our Stage, our Life an Act; The Tyring-house, where we bestow'd such care, cost and curiosity, must be shut up, when our Night ap∣proacheth, and strips us of these robes of our morta∣lity. Without Vertue, all humane glory is a vading beauty. ibid.

BEHAVIOVR. Observat. 2.

• BEhaviour reflects on three particulars.

  Action.	Pag. 28.
  Affection.
  Passion.

• Vertue is the life of Action, action the life of man. ibid.
• In this Subiect some are employed (but remissely) to the purpose. Others are employed to no purpose. Others sleepe out their mind in security. Others creepe and cringe into an Apish formality. None of these direct the bent of their actions, to the Ob∣iect

• of true Glory. pag. 29.
• A womans honour is of higher esteeme than to be thus disvalued. Light occasions are many times grounds of deepe aspersions. Actions are to bee seasoned with discretion, seconded by direction, strengthened with instruction, least too much rash∣nesse bring the undertaker to destruction. ibid.
• A briefe Commemoration of divers noble women, who as they were honourable by descent, so were they memorable for desert. Paralels to the best men for conversation, though weake in sexe, nature and con∣dition. pag. 30.
• An exhortation to young Gentlewomen, to con∣forme themselves to such imitable patternes: con∣cluding with that excellent instruction addressed by St. HIEROM to that holy Virgin DEMETRIAS; commending nothing so much unto her as industry, the better to inure her in the practise of Pietie. pag. 31.
• Nothing requires more discretion than affection. pag. 32.
• One can never truely love and not be wise: which directly opposeth PLATO'S opinion. ibid.
• Nothing more impatient of delay than Love: Nothing of more different passion: with an exact relation of their distinct operation. pag. 32. 33.
• Love is neither to be too subtilly coloured, nor too simply discovered. If too hot, the violence of it is best rebated by absence; if too coole, it is to bee quickned with more frequent conference, and assi∣duate presence. pag. 34.
• ...

• ... Passion never workes more fearefull effects, then when it streames from Iealousie: verified by a tra∣gicke Example in our owne Ile and time occurring, and to succeeding times surviving. pag. 35. 36.
• Remedies to appease anger, and every passionate distemper. pag. 37.
• The discommodities which arise from Passion; the benefits which redound from attempering it. pag. 38. 39.
• An usefull Exhortation, to this temperate Moderation. Pag. 40.
• How a Gentlewoman is to behave her selfe in Company. pag. 41.
• Modestie and Mildnesse hold sweetest correspon∣dence in all societies. pag. 42.
• Chastity is an inclosed Garden; and by no li∣centious foote to be entred. ibid.
• Other vices are discomfited by fight,* 1.1 Lust onely defeated by flight. pag. 43.
• We may be in security, so long as wee are seque∣stred from society. ibid.
• We are to subiect affection to the soveraigntie of reason. pag. 44.
• How a Gentlewoman is to behave her selfe in Privacie. ibid.
• Patternes of singular devotion recommended to her imitation. pag. 45. 46. 47.
• Meditation being a Key to open the Morning, a locke to close the Evening, should bee a Gentle∣womans bosome companion. pag. 48.
• Gentlewomen, without much reservancie, are not

• to frequent publike places of Society. Pag. 50.
• Instances of such, as being discreetly reserved, accommodated their persons to publike affaires, and became impro••ved by them▪ pag. 51. 52.
• A iudicious recollection of such who intend time, and such who mispend time: clozing with the relati∣on of sundry fearefull Examples, to 〈◊〉〈◊〉 loose livers from the like securenesse. pag. 53. 54.
• That Behaviour most approved, which is cl••ar••st from affectation freed. pag. 55.
• Vertues Habit and Behaviour is free and not affected; native and not traduced. pag. 57.
• An accurate distinction or dijudication betwixt an enforced and unaffected Behaviour. ibid.
• A Gentlewoman is so to behave her selfe, that too much curiosity taxe her not of pride, nor too much Maiesty of State. pag. 58.

COMPLEMENT. Observat. 3.

• COmplement defined. Pag. 59.
• With what constancy the Ancient retained their forme of Complement. Pag. 60.
• Different garbes proper to distinct places▪ Pag. 61.
• A distinction betwixt reall and formall Com∣plement. ibid.
• A deserving commendation of sundry English Ladies, in their unaffected way of Complement. pag. 62.
• ...

• How Complement may bee corrupted. Pag. 63.
• A description of amorous poems, with a iust re∣proofe of their inforced Hyperbolees. Pag. 64. 65.
• The Complement used by some great ones, were but meere Canting among Beggars. pag. 66.
• How Complement may be refined. ibid.
• Civility is the best and most refined Comple∣ment that may be. pag. 69.
• Civility is never ••ut of fashion: ever deserving admiration. pag 69.
• It is Society that gives us, or takes from us our Security. pag. 67.
• Wherein Complement may bee admitted, as mainely consequent. pag. 70.
• The Court is the Beacon of the State; the Seate or Schoole of Complement. pag. 71.
• As Courtiers are Objects to many Eyes; so should their Actions be Platformes to many Lives. Pag. 72.
• Corrivalship in a light Curtezans love, hath de∣prived many a hopefull Gentleman of his dearest life. ibid.
• In Contests of love, it is hard to determine whether the Agent or Patient suffer more. Page, 73.
• Wherein Complement may be omitted, as meere∣ly impertinent. ibid.
• Apish formalists, or Complementall actors dis∣esteeme those three principall faculties of the

• ... Vnderstanding.
  • Discourse.
  • Distinction.
  • Election.
• Singular Directions, how to acommodate them in all these. Pag. 75.
• What Complement gives best accomplish∣ment. page. 76.
• Sensuall Curtezans are their owne Furies. pag. 77. 78.
• A good Christian the compleatest Courtier: Vertue the Ornament, which gives Complement the best accomplishment. page, 79.

DECENCY. Observat. 4.

• DEcency recommended as requisite, in f••ure distinct Subiects.
  • GATE.
  • LOOKE.
  • SPEECH.
  • HABIT.
• It is no hard thing to gather the disposition of our heart, by the dimension of our Gate.* 1.2 Pag. 82.
• Though our Feet bee heere below, our Faith should be above. ibid.
• No path of pleasure should draw us from those ioyes which last for ever. ibid.
• A wanton Eye is the truest Evidence of a wan∣dring* 1.3

• mind: Our Eye becomes the sence of sor∣row, because the sense of sinne.
• An Vncleane Eye the Messenger of an Vn∣cleane heart. pag. 85.
• Distinct Obiect•• proposed to Eyes diversly affe∣cted. pag. 85. 86
• By looking upward, the more we looke, we shall like, the longer we live, we shall love. pag. 87.
• Without Speech* 1.4 can no society subsist. pag. 88.
• Excellent rules for propriety of discourse. ibid.
• A deliberate apprehension begot by serious atten∣tion, is to goe ever before discourse. pag. 89.
• What Subiect suites best for a Gentlewomans dis∣course. ibid.
• A pleasant answer of mellifluous BERNARD, applyed to all forward Shee-church discoursers. pag. 90.
• Silence in a Woman, is a moving Rhetorioke. ibid.
• There is nothing which moves us more to pride it in sinne,* 1.5 than that which was first given us to co∣ver our shame. pag. 91.
• Sumptuousnesse of the Habit deserves not so much reprehension, as Phantasticknesse of the Ha∣bit, in respect of the forme or fashion. pag. 92.
• Decency is a civill Gentlewomans choycest livery, which sets her f••rth before all embroidery. ibid.
• Time is too precious to be made a Pageant or Morrice on. ibid.
• A briefe but most usefull application of those

• foure preceding Subiects. Pag. 94.
• Decency, the attractivest motive of Affection. ibid.
• Nothing convayes more affection to the heart, than Decency in the Obiect we affect. ibid.
• In this age, the best shot to be discharg'd is a Ta∣verne reckoning, the best Alarum carousing, and the most absolute March reeling. ibid.
• No Habit so decent, as what is native and pro∣perly habituate. pag. 95.
• Where Vertue is not directresse i•• our choyce, our inconstant minds are ever prone to change. pag. 96.
• Nothing should give us Content, but what is decent. ibid.
• Decency the smoothest path that leades to per∣fection. pag. 97.
• The onely way to be Compleat, is to be decent. ibid.
• An adumbration of that glory, reserved for those that affect Decency. pag. 98.
• A vertuous Exmplarie life crownes the Soule with eternall rest. ibid.

ESTIMATION. Observat. 5.

• EStimation, a Gentlewomans highest prize. pag. 101.
• The losse of Estimation makes the richest Mer∣chant an irreparable Bankrupt. ibid.
• ...

• ... Fame, the sweetest flower that ever grew neare the border of Time. pag. 102.
• A continuation of sundry eminent personages; puissant in armes, continent in desires; and abso∣lute Commanders of their owne affections. Pag. 103. 104.
• Greece and Rome were no lesse honoured for PENELOPES and LUCRETIA'S Con∣stancie; than for VLISSES wisedome, or COL∣LATINES loyalty. ibid.
• Portion may woe a Wordling; Proportion a youth∣full wanton; but it is vertue that wins the heart of discretion. pag. 105.
• A select improvement of our Albion Ladies. pag. 106.
• How Estimation may be disc••••••ed to bee reall. ibid.
• Instructions of singular use for Mai••es, Wives, and Widdowes; illustrated with proper instances in each kinde. The way to win•••• a•• Husband is not to woe him, but to be woo'd by him. Pag. 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112. &c.
• Mothers the fittingst Nurses of their owne children; seconded by examples in all ages. Pag. 108. 109.
• A Mistresse of a family many times taxed for her Handmaides delicacy: instanced and illustrated copiously. pag. 11••.
• The lives of the dying, consist in the memory of the living. ibid.
• How Estimation may bee discerued to be super∣ficiall.

• pag. 114.
• Many desire to appear•• 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to the eye, what they are least in heart. ibid.
• The first occasion of kissing the lip: with a free reproofe of our late but too 〈◊〉〈◊〉 introduc'd custome of kissing the cheeke; elegantly shad••••ed in a Son∣net. pag. 114. 115.
• Discretion cannot approve of that for good, which selfe-opinion or singularity onely makes good. ibid.
• Those who dedicate themselves to the service of Vertue, preferre the pith before the rinde, sub∣stance before appearance. pag. ibid.
• A Caution to wanton Women. pag. 116.
• Sinnes may be without danger for a time, but never without feare. ibid.
• Superficiall Complement••rs, are hypocriticall Courtiers. ibid.
• Directions how to be gratious Courtiers in the highest Court. pag. 117.
• How Estimation may be impregnably preserved. ibid.
• Of all arrowes, those which are darted by the spirit of zeale, wound the enemy most, and procure the Archer best rest: confirmed by sundry notable examples. pag. 118. 119.
• None can walke safely, that walkes not religious∣ly. ibid.
• A reflection upon the constancy and resolution of Heathens▪ re••••mmended to the imitation of Christi∣an women. pag. 120.
• ...

• Vertue cannot exercise her owne strength, nor expresse her owne worth without an Opposite. pag. 121.
• An instance in a noble Lady. ibid.
• A direction in the cloze. pag. 122.
• How Estimation may be irreparably lost. ibid.
• The* 1.6 Ivie while it is winding, decayes the plant, with which it is wreathing. ibid.
• An instance of a Citie-Virago. pag. 123.
• An use of this instance. pag. 124.
• The absolute end, whereunto Estimation aspires, and wherein it cheerefully rests. Pag. 125.
• This confirmed by sundry examples; and one most remarkeable of our owne. Pag. 125, 126. 127.
• An application to these Ladies of our owne. pag. 127. 128.

FANCY. Observat. 6.

• FAncy, is to be with deliberation grounded. pag. 129.
• The Eye is Fancies harbinger, but the heart is her harbour, ibid.
• Directions for setling and disposing our affecti∣on. pag. 130.
• Loves purity is to be discussed, before it be enter∣tained. pag. 131.
• Not the rinde but the minde is Discretions Ada∣mant. Pag. 132.
• ...

• The misery of jealousie deblazoned and exem∣plified. ibid.
• Singular resolves for a Coniugall State. Pag. 133, 134.
• Fancy is to be with constancy retained. Page, 135.
• Two memorable Mottoes recommmended. ibid.
• The waywardnesse of some women iustly repro∣ved, and how that humour may be rectified. pag. 136.
• The admirable puritie and efficacie of Love. pag. 137.
• Memorable examples of Coniugall Constancy and Continency. ibid.
• An exhortation tending to the imitation of such famous Presidents. ibid.
• Wanton Fancy is a wandring Frenzy. pag. 138.
• Wanton Love, seldome or never promiseth good successe. ibid.
• The incendiaries or foments of this inordinate passion, to ••••xe particulars reduced, all which are in one distich included. pag. 139
• The Odious and inhumane effects in all ages de∣rived from the violence of this Wanton fancie, or Wandring frenzie. Pag. 140. 141.
• Soveraigne receipts to cure this desperate mala∣die. ibid.
• What kind of affection deserves a Gentlewomans election. pag. 142.
• How Fancy may be checked, if too wilde; con∣firmed

• by a Philosophicall demonstration or Physicall experiments ibid.
• A pleasant and pithy expostulation with fancy. ibid.
• A disswasion from too much credulity to the light protests of deceiving fancy: confirmed by a moderne example. Pag. 143.
• A Gentlewoman may with more safety suspect, than too rashly affect. ibid.
• A discreet resolution upon tearmes of affection, seconded with the promise of an assured blessing. pag. 144.
• The secret impression, and passionate expression of an unfortunate Lady in the relation of her misery. pag. 144. 145.
• It is not so hard to give comfortable counsell to the sorrowfull, as to finde a fit season when to give it. ibid.
• ...

  Consideration, a necessarie guide to affection.	ibid.
  Repentance comes too late at Marri∣age••night.

• How Fancy may be cheered if too cold. pag. 146.
• The incomparable honour of a Virgin-conditi∣on. ibid.
• The hate of Incest with brute Beasts. pag. 147.
• The Bird of Love, the Embleme of a Lovers heart. pag. 149.
• Moneyes are inferiour pictures to true Lovers. ibid.
• ...

• The absolute end of a co••i••gall State. pag. 150▪
• An attemperament of both th••se indisposed Fan∣cies before mentioned. ibid.
• The difference betwixt a wise and wilde Love, consists in this: the one ever deliberates before it love; the other loves before it deliberate. Pag. 151.
• Necessarie Cautions for all kind-hearted Gentle∣women. pag. 152.
• The like for all coy or coole-affected Gentle∣women. pag. 153.
• A sweet attemperament of both these humours: with an apt Emblem explained and properly apply∣ed, to such, as are with either of these humours di∣stempered. pag. 154. 155.

GENTILITY. Observat. 7.

• GEntility, is derived from our Ancestors to us, but soone blanched, if not revived by us. pag. 157.
• A perswasion to the imitation of our Ancestors vertues. pag. 158.
• There was nothing mortall about them but their bodies, and those were too fraile Cabonets for such rich eminences to lodge in: whereas, there is no∣thing but frailties about ours, for loose and licenti∣ous love to lie in. ibid.
• Those Odours deserve highest honours, that beautifie us living, and preserve our memory dying. ibid.
• ...

• To see a light Lady descending from a noble Fa∣mily, is a Spectacle of more spreading infamy, than any Subiect of inferiour quality. pag. 159.
• Gentility, is not to be measured by antiquity of time, but precedency in worth. pag. 160.
• The reason why generous descents become so much corrupted; and vertuous Parents by vitious Children so frequently disparaged. ibid. & 161
• Mothers, the naturallest Nurses: confirmed by precept, custome, and example. pag. ibid. *Su∣pra pag. 108. 109.
• An effectuall perswasion to that duty. ibid. & pag. 162.
• Vertue the best Coat. pag. ibid.
• Heraldry proves vertues Coat to bee the best, because deblazoned with least charge. ibid.
• Vertue is no admiring lover of ought that is be∣low her. pag. 162. 163.
• The misery of this age, in sumptuousnesse of attire. pag. ibid
• The honour of Humility. pag. 174.
• A glorious reproovall of modest Matrons. pag. 175.
• Sinnes prevention, is to prevent the Occasion. Pag. 176.
• Gentlewomen are to reflect more on their in∣ward worth, than on their outward weare. Pag. 176.
• It will not redound much to a Gentlewomans honour, to have observed the fashions of the time, but with a discreet Contempt or civill neglect of fa∣shion,

• to have redeemed her time. pag. 177.
• Living actions of true Gentility, happy Pre∣cursors to the State of Glory. ibid.
• There are native seeds of goodnesse, sowne in generous bloods by lineall succession: variously instanced. pag. ibid. & 178. 179.
• Those who are with the choycest vertues endow∣ed, become oft times, most traduced. ibid. & 180.
• There is no one vertue which makes a Gentle∣woman more gracious in the eye of her beholder, than Modesty, the greatest advancer of many an∣cient family ibid.
• ...

  To be high borne and basely minded, is to in∣graft bastard slippes in a Noble stocke.

  ibid.
• High and Heroicke vertues become great Houses: confirmed by the resolution of a noble Lady, in reie∣cting the powerfull solicitancy of a Sensuall Suiter. ibid. and 181.
• Emulation of goodnesse in great Persons is ho∣nourable. ibid.
• How these native seeds of goodnesse may bee ripened by instruction, pag. 182.
• No Tutresses fitter to perfect this excellent worke in Gentlewomen, than those who were the secun∣darie instruments of their beeing: strengthened by example and reason. pag. 183.
• A select Choice and recommendation of sundry bookes of instruction, to the perusall of our English Gentlewoman. ibid.
• A briefe enumeration, serious discussion, and iudicious election, of sundry ancient Fathers, with

• other morall Authors. pag. 184.
• English translations, the lights of Ladies, but Dampes of Schollers. pag. 187.
• Private Nurseries, houshold Academies. ibid.
• The first instruction takes the deepest Im∣pression; with an usefull application to every con∣dition. pag. 188.
• Necessarie directions highly conducing to the good report and repute of Maides and Matrons, ibid.
• The most precious things have ever the most pernitious Keepers. Nothing more precious, than a Virgins honour; it were a shame for the Mother for any base lucre, to prove a treacherous Keeper. pag. 189.
• The whole progresse of a Gentlewomans conver∣sation should be a continued line of direction: to which line he confines his observation. pag. 190.

HONOVR. Observat. 8.

• PRomotion discovers what men be, but true Ho∣nour shewes what they should be. pag. 191.
• Honour is painted, when it is not with vertue poudred. pag. 192.
• Morall Philosophy, nor Christian Theory, could ever hold that for deserving greatnesse, which had not neare relation to goodnesse. ibid.
• Their memory cannot live long, who make Au∣thority a Sanctuary to wrong. pag. 193.
• ...

• ... Vertue defined, and by it true Gentility with the honour of an ancient family expressed, pag. 194.
• An accurate connexion with a personall appli∣cation of the preceeding Subiects, to all Gentlewo∣men. pag. ibid. & 195.
• Be women never so eminent, they are but pain∣ted Trunkes, if vertue be not resident. pag. 196
• Vertue should not onely be resident but president over all their actions. ibid.
• No Cloath takes such deepe tincture, as the cloath of Honour. ibid.
• No Pleasure can be constant, unlesse it afford in∣ward content. pag. 197.
• There is nothing asperseth a deeper staine upon the Cloath of Honour, than too much attention unto Sycophants. ibid.
• Soveraigne receipts against the poyson of flat∣tery; with a serious exhortation to the entertaine∣ment of humility, patience, constancy, and every ge∣nerous vertue. pag. ibid. & 198. 199.

• Violets though they grow low and neare the earth, smell sweetest:

  and Honour appeares the fullest of beauty, when she is humblest. pag. 198.
• Honour, if truly grounded, can looke in the face of terrour, and never be amated. ibid.
• She that makes vertue her object, cannot but make every Earthly thing her Subject. ibid.
• Honours imprezza and Pasture. ibid.
• Honours compleat armour, dresse, and portrai∣ture. Pag. 200
• ...

• HER Description, with motives to her imita∣tation. ibid.
• A briefe but usefull application. pag. 201.
• Honourable Personages should be Presidents of goodnesse. Pag. ibid.
• LANDMARKES are usually erected for dire∣ction of the Mariner, and Magistrates elected for instruction of the inferiour. ibid.
• ...

  The world, a Maze of Misery, a vale of vanity?	ibid.
  Man, a story of calamity, a statue of in∣felicitie.

• To be a Lady of Honour, is more than titu∣lar. Pag. 202.
• Three especiall Obiects, upon which Honourable personages are to reflect.

  Charitie.	Pag. ibid.
  Chastitie.
  Humilitie.

• A most accurate and serious discourse on each particular Obiect. Pag. 202. 203. 204
• The very last day to an honourable Christian, is every dayes memoriall. ibid.
• The actions of Noble Personages, like sweet odors, diffuse themselves by imitation to their followers. pag. 205.
• Those that are followers of their persons, will be followers likewise of their lives. ibid.
• Their private family is a familiar Nursery. ibid.
• Foule enormities must admit of no Priviledges: Eminent Persons are to bee their owne Censors.

• ... ibid.
• An excellent application, by way of Exhortation to all such honourable Censors. pag. 205. 206.
• Vertues are more permanent Monuments, than Statues, stiles, trophees, or oboliskes. ibid.
• Vertue or Vice, whethersoever takes hold first, retaines a deeper impression in honour, than any lower Subiect. ibid.
• In these, whom Nobility of bloud hath advan∣ced, be ever some seeds or semblances of their Pro∣genitors retained. ibid.
• This con••••rmed by Philosophicall reason and ex∣ample; President and Precept. pag. 207
• Great mindes are many times sicke of great mala∣ladies: how this by timely prevention may be seaso∣nably cured. pag. 208.
• The efficient cause, why Vertue or Vice, whe∣thersoever takes hold first, retaines a deeper im∣pression in Honour, than in any lower Subiect; illustrated by instance. ibid.
• First Motions have deepe impressions; first Noti∣ons firme retentions. Pag. 209.
• The greatest profit of Honourable personages, is to become Proficients in the practice of vertue; Their highest delight, to subdue their delights to the obedience of reason, for the love of vertue. ibid.
• The Corruption of time hath introduc'd that de∣formity of fashion, as it asperseth on our formall i∣mitators much imputation. ibid.
• Where Youth is initiated in affectation of State, it partakes in age of too much Pride. ibid.
• ...

• The humour, temper, and danger of our Tame-Beasts, or State-Parasites. pag. 210
• A reservancy of State in Pace, face, & every Posture, recommended by an insinuating Faune, to a Phantasticke Gallant. ibid.
• Sycophancy the ruine of many a Noble family. ibid.
• An election of honest and discreet followers. ibid.
• Gentlewomens lives, as they are lives to them∣selves, so should they be lights unto others. ibid.
• For Popular honour, Vice will but varnish it; it is Vertue that will richly enammell it. Singu∣lar motives to Mortification. ibid. pag. 211.
• That Vertue may receive the first impression, by meanes of an in-bred noble disposition, seconded by helpes of Education. ibid.
• A pleasant Epigram alluding to all humerous Ladies. Marg. pag. 212.
• A Choice recollection and expression of such ver∣tues as sort and suit with the condition of our noblest Ladies: with Cautions to attemper them in all ex∣treames: by an usefull reflection upon all the Senses; and those Commanding passions, which domineere most over the Senses. pag. 212. 213.
• A singular Meditation for recollection of our af∣fections. pag. 214. 215.
• Vice throwes her aspersions on no subiect, so much as on Honour. pag. 215.
• A fruitfull application to all young Gentlewo∣men, for regulating their dispositions, and how to make them true inheritrices of Honour.

• pag. ibid. & 216.
• Vertue reduced to habit, aspires to perfection. pag. ibid.
• There is nothing under the heaven, that can sa∣tisfie a Soule created for heaven. ibid.
• Exquisite directions for Virgins, Wives, and Widdowes. pag. ibid. & 217.
• We are to esteeme no life sweeter, than when eve∣ry day improves us and makes us better. ibid.
• A divine Contemplation, reflecting upon our mutabilitie on Earth, our immortality in Heaven. pag. 218.
• A Revew of our Ladies Court and Citty solace. ibid.
• Recreations run in a Maze, while they lay their Scene of Mirth on Earth. ibid.
• A Twofold consideration full of sweet and select consolation. ibid. & 219.
• How happy many Eminent Personages had beene, had they never beene taken with this Shadow of happinesse. ibid. & 219.
• No passage to the Temple of* 1.7 Honour, but through the Temple of Vertue. ibid.
• If Gentlewomen desire to be great, let it be their height of ambition to aspire to honour in the Court of vertue. ibid.
• What a brave Saliquor State shall Gentle∣women enioy, when vigilancy, becomes Warden of their Cinque Ports. pag. 220.
• Perseverance, the Crowne of goodnesse. ibid.
• A constant resolution, the Diadem of a Christian

• in her dissolution. pag. 221.
• A Character, entituled; A Gentlewoman; wherein such an One is described, whose desert answeres her descent; whose acti∣ons truely enn••ble her selfe: with a briefe touch or revew of all his Observations; Which are showne to be Obiects of her love, improvements of her life.

Notes

• * 1.1

  ☞ Aug. lib. de honestate mulieris.
• * 1.2

  GATE.
• * 1.3

  LOOKE.
• * 1.4

  SPEECH▪
• * 1.5

  HABIT.
• * 1.6

  Ili••es hederae agiles horae con••••ciunt.
• * 1.7

  HONOR virtutis praemium, VIRTVS honoris pretium.