Parc.a.Se6l:,z. Love-Melancholy~ Memb.r.Subf. 2 , ~ lhe lhould ~e !llmy : i_f bee laugh,lhee fhould fmi~e; if ~e look fad,lhee filould parnc1pate ofh1s forrow,andbeare a part With h1m, and fo they fhould continue in mucua!lloue one towards another-. _. • Et me d amore t110 JeJucet n11Ua{elltt!m, ~'Propm.~•· Si'Ut egoTythonm,ftvee~o N6HortTI. No agt lhall part my louelrom thee fweet_wi(~; >. Though I live NeHor or Tithonmlife. Andlheagaine •PiumciJ. ,, tohim,as the" ~ride faluted ~he B~id~grome ~fold in Rome, Ybi tuCai. 3 o,Kom.hifl. HI ,ego{emper Cata,bc thou fidl Cattu de be CAtA, . 'Tis_an-happy fiate this indeed, when thetountainc is bldfed (faith Salynon,Prov: 5 .I7:•ndhe rejoyceth with the wife ofkisyoutb, andjhe u to hem a& the lovmg Hmde, aHdpleafimt Roe, andhet deltghts m her contin•- •lly. But this loue ofours is immoderatc,inordinate, and not to beecomprehended in any bounds. It will not containe it felfe within the unign of marriage,or apply to one objed,but is a wandring, extravaganr,a dominecring,a boundldfe, an irrefragable, a deftruetive pallion: fometimes this burning lufi rageth alter marriage, and then itis properly called lea. loNjie; fomctimes bdore,and then it is qlled HeroicaO melancholy,it extends fometimesto corrivals,&c. begets rapes,incefis,murder~ : t.Marc& Ant011im compre{rit Fat~ffinam [ororem, Caraca/la Iuliam Novercam, · Nero c..M•trrm,ca(;gula/orores,Cyt~erM t.Mtrrhamji!tAru,&c. Butiti5 cgnfined within 'no termes, of blouc:l, yeares, fexe , or whatfocver elfc. t]u..nemh.. ~omefurioul1y ragebeforetheycometodifcrerion or age.. t f2...uarti!l11 be••• ""'""' m PttroHim,never rcrnembred·fhe was a rnard : and theWife of Bath in ~r:!:':~'· chaucer ,cracks, .,;,gme fuiJ/e. ..,iuce 31 \lla9 t\Ddue peam olD bdieue; l•f= rnim_ U)u&banDUt !l>itk DOO!t ~BD 31 fiue. ~:~6{.~:~-t Aratlnes Lucretia fold her maiden-head a thoufand times befGre l11ee fiJbinde maio- was ztt- yearesold,plta miOies vendideramvirginitatem,&c. neffr ttcela· ;t~ut7'a:,f;, ho,non deerant qui ut integram a~t~hirent. RahAb that harlot began to bee a ..a mum profelfed queaneat ten yeares ofage, and was but fifteene when fhee hid PN)',eni,u[. thefpies,as"' Ht~gh Brot~ghton proves , to whom Strraritathelefoite1 ~ •. """ "' 'f*"ft.6.inc•p.z.Iofiu,fubfcribes. Gc~erally. women beginpubeflereas t Parnodid4(c they callit,or cat110ire,as lt~liH< PoOt~XCites, l1b.z. cap-3- onomajl. out of ~ra~.l~r -;- Arijlophanes ,sat fourereene yeares old, thel'l they doe offer thcmfclves, ;~,;h;. ;. andfomeplainly rage. t Leo Ajer faith, that in Afi'ickaman !hall fcarce ~~~ elico findea maid at 14 yeares of age,thcy are fo ~orwa~d, and many amongfi ftripfur· con- t:lS after they come l!ltO theteeocs doe not live Without husbands , but ""'"· linger. What pra~kes in this kindcthe middle age haue played, is not to ~;:~~if::er'· be rccouie?, . . - , fl•tim ab an- St mzhi fint centmn lrngu£,ftnt orafk centum, no tongue ~· ~··movere can fufficieQtly declare, every ftory is full of men and womcns unfatia- ~~~f:~:~; ~' ble Iufi, Nero's,Heliogabali,Bonoji,&c. • C1Piiw .ilmphilenum [e~ fl!!in- ' flnunt &-ex· tillS Amphelinam depere~nt,&c .. They neigh after oche~ mens WJUes(as ~~~~.r:,~:- leremy c•p· 5 :8 .complameth )hke fed horfcs , or range like towne Bulls, !L.Jfol.u6.raptoresvtrgrnum &vtdt~arum, as many ofour greatones doe. SAIII c.ruuur. mons wifdome was extinguilhed in this fire of lufi , Sampfons firength e- . nervated,piety in t.ots daughters quite forgot, gravity o~ Priefiho~d1i,n pi I s
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