in employments of that kinde. Those three
principall workes or faculties of the Vnderstanding,
which might enable them to Discourse, Distinguish,
and to Chuse, are so estranged from them, as their
Discourse consists solely in arguments of vanity, their
Distinction in meere shadowes of formality, their
Choyce in subiects and Consorts of effeminacy. Eight
things, saith Hippocrates, make ones flesh moyst and
fat; the first, to be merry and liue at hearts ease; the
second, to sleep much; the third, to lie in a soft bed; the
fourth, to fare well; the fifth, to be wel apparelled and
appointed; the sixth, to ride alwayes on horse-backe;
the seuenth, to haue our wil; and the eighth, to be em∣ployed
in Plaies & pastimes, & in such time-beguiling
recreations, as yeeld contentment and pleasure. These
are the onely receits in request with those Shee-Cen∣sors
we now discourse of; and of whom it may bee
said, as was sometimes spoken of one Margites, that
he neuer plowed, nor digged, nor did any thing all
his life long that might tend vnto goodnesse; and
by necessary consequence wholly vnprofitable to the
world. Who, howsoeuer they are lesse than Wo∣men
at their worke, yet at their meat (so vnconfined is
their appetite) they are more than men, and in their
habit (so phantasticke is their conceit) neither wo∣men
nor men. So as, were Diogenes to encounter
one of these, hee might well expostulate the cause
with her, as he did vpon like occasion with a youth
too curiously and ••ffeminately drest: If thou goest to
men, all this is but in vaine, if vnto women, it is wi••k••d.
But these wee hold altogether vnworthy of your
more generous society; whose excellent breeding hath
sufficien••ly accommodated you for City, Court, and
Countrey; and so fully inform'd you how to d••∣meane
your selues in all affaires; as I make little
doubt, but you know, wherein it may bee admitted,