Of Pride.
IF Pride seems Handsome, and may be allowed in any, it is in Women, because it gives a Distance to Idle Pretenders, and Corrupters of Chastity. Neither is it so bad in Women to be proud of their Chastity, and Honest Affection, as Alexan∣der in his Victories, or Helen in her Beauty, or Rome of her Spoyls, and Royal Slaves: for Honesty is their greatest Beauty, and they may glory in it as their greatest Honour, and triumph in it as their greatest Victory; and though that Women are na∣turally Fearfull, yet rather than they would infringe the least part of a Chastity, either in Words to Inchant, or Looks to Al∣lure, or Actions to Invite, they would enforce Life, and Tri∣umph in Death, rather than their Virtue should be overcome, either in the Stratagems of Follyes, or Treacherous Bribes, or by force of wicked Appetites. But a Woman should be so well instructed in the Principles of Chastity, as no false Doctrine could perswade her from it, neither Praises, nor Professions, nor Oaths, nor Vows, nor Wealth, Dignity, nor Example, ha∣ving alwaies Temperance, and Sobriety in Friendship.