were named before the Romans, except there bee some Amphibologie in the French words: for, in that toong I reade-it. When Ladies came vnto slooves or hot-houses, they made-it not daintie to admit men into their companie, and to be washed, rubbed, chafed and annointed by the hands of their groomes and pages.Inguina succinctus nigrà tibi servus alut à—Stat, quoties calidis nuda foveris aquis.Epig▪▪ Your man, whose loynes blacke lether guird's, stand's-by,Whilst in warme water you starke-naked lie.They also vsed to sprinkle themselves all ouer with certaine powders, thereby to alay and represse all maner of filth or sweate. The ancient Gaules (saith Sidonius Apollinaris) wore their haire long before, and all the hinder part of their head shauen, a fashion that our wanton youths and effeminate gallants, have lately renued, and in this new-fangled and fond-doting age, brought vp againe, with wearing of long-dangling locks before. The ancient Romans, paid the water-men their fare or due so soone as they came into the boate, whereas we pay-it when they set vs on shore.—dum as exigitur, dum mula ligatur,Hor. l. 1. sat. 5. 13. Tota abit hora.While they call for their fare, tie drawe-mule to,There runn's away, a full houre, if not two.Women were wont to lie on the vtmost side of the bed, and therefore was Caesar called Suet Iul. Ca Sponda Regis Nicomedis: King Nicomedes his beds side: They tooke breath while they were c. 49. drinking and vsed to baptise, or put water in their wines.—quis puer ociusHor. l. 2. d. 1▪ 18. Restinguet ardentis falerni pocula praetereunte limphâ?What boy of mine or thineShall coole our cup of wineWith running water fine?Those cousening and minde-deceiving countenances of lake is were also amongst themO Iane, à tergo quem nulla ciconia pinsitPers. sat. 1. 58.Nec manus auriculas imitata est mobilis albas,Nec linguae quantum sitiet canis Apula tantum.O Ianus, whom behinde no Storks-bill doth deride,Nor nimble hand resembling mak's eares white and wide,Nor so much tongue lil'd out as dogges with thirst ore-drideThe Argian and Romane Ladies, mourned in white, as our dames wont to doe; and if I might be credited, and beare-sway amongst them, they should continue it still. But because there are many bookes, that treate of this argument I will say no more of-it.The fiftieth Chapter.Of Democritus and Heraclitus.IVdgement is an instrument for all subiects, and medleth every where. And therefore in the Essayes I make of it, there is no maner of occasion, I seeke not to employ therein. If it be a subiect I vnderstand not my selfe, therein I make triall of it, sounding afarre off the depth of the ford, and finding the same over deepe for my reach, I keepe my selfe on the shoare. And to acknowledge not to be able to wade through, is a part of it's effect, yea of such whereof he vanteth most. If I light vpon a vaine and idle subiect, I assay to trie, and endevor to see, whether I may find a good ground to worke vpon, and matter to frame a body, and where∣with to builde and vnder-lay-it. Sometimes I addresse my judgement and contrive-it to a noble and out-worne subject, wherein is nothing found subsisting of it selfe, the high way to 0