But I passed over upon her fair neck:
By her easie work in treading out the Corn, and not ha∣ving the yoke upon her neck to plow, she became to be ve∣ry delicate, her skin was white and tender, Her fair neck: The Goodness of her Neck,* 1.1 so it is in the Hebrew, or her goodly white Skin, delicate and tender she was. The meaning of it is,* 1.2 by her fair Neck, is the beauty of her pro∣sperity; and so the delicacy of her Neck, through her prosperity, nothing must trouble her, let works that are troublesom and hard let others come to them if they will, But for her part she was tender and delicate and must en∣dure no burdens at all, nor no difficulty at all.
First, Her fair Neck.
Many are proud of their fair Necks and Skins,* 1.3 so proud as they grow extream wanton by reason of it,* 1.4 they must lay open therefore their fair necks that others may see them, see how white they are,* 1.5 what fair Skins they have, and put black Patches likewise to set out their beauty and the whiteness of their fair Skins, and if that will not serve, e∣ven laying over a paint to make it fair if it be not other∣wise so;* 1.6 nothing but Ease, and Delicacy, and pleasure is for them, as if they came into the world for no other end but to live bravely and be look'd upon, as if man-kind and all creatures must work and suffer to provide for these nice and delicate wantons, who yet are of no use at all in the world, certainly, God never gave any great estates in the