The living librarie, or meditations and observations historical, natural, moral, political, and poetical / Written in Latin by P. Camerarius. And done into English by John Molle.
- Philipp Camerarius
- Date:
- 1621
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The living librarie, or meditations and observations historical, natural, moral, political, and poetical / Written in Latin by P. Camerarius. And done into English by John Molle. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![| | Vpon the 58. | Díal. | | | | | Lib. 16. | Crufius in the hift.entic. Tur- | cogrécia. : Edens Medios! re Ea. T [9] times of a better beautie than [be that maketh ber felfe to be fo wuch looked after, being once dead, are at the end of foure and twentie houres affaulted with ftinke and miferable cor- ruption,and lie gnawne with wormes. Therefore bethinke with thy felfe a little what a beautie thon loueft (poore foule as thon art)and at the appearing whereof thow loofeft. all thy couptenance. The fame Doctor faith in another place, What is a faire woman? 4 whited Tombe , except fhee be chaft , faber , and fhamefaft. Beautie without fuch ver- tues ds an open gulfe, a drinke poifoning all thofe that caft their eyes upon it. Saint Gre- gorte hath inhis Moralls giuen a moft fure remedie againft thefe wanton af- fections ; When a man ceuetetb faith hee) the flefh that appeareth, let bim confider what the fame is after death, then it is knowne what one loueth. For there is nothing that fo much maftereth the defire of the flefh, as to thinke, what that is which one loueth, after it is once dead. ‘This the Grecians would bring to remembrance , by the ceremonie they obferue in the obfequies of theirdead. They make a com- memoration thereof three feuerall daies after the deceafe ,to wit, the third, theninth,and the fortieth. Becaufe the third day,the déad bodie is fo mane: that a man cannot know it anie more by the face : the ninth, the whole bodie is diffolued,fauing the heart: the fortieth day, the heart is perifhed, as all the reft is. Crufius addeth another ‘interpretation, which applicth this ceremonie to the Refurrection,A pparition,and Afcenfion of lesvs Curist. To returneagaine to the remedie againft wanton and leaud affections. Suidas reporteth, that a wife Ladie of Alexandria called Hypalia fhewed her felfe dif- to rid her felfe handfomely of the importunitie of a certaine yong man which | follicited her to naughtineffe, fhe fhewed him fome clouts fowled with her menftruous difeafe,faying vnto him, See beere ( young man) what it is thou loueft : verily nought elfe. but filth and onglineffe. Saint Ifdor hath a memorable ftorie to this purpofe,and it isthus. A certaine man inthe flower of hisage being much giuen to women,feeing vpona day a very faire maid,was taken with her loue, and left nothing vnaffayed to haue the enioying of her. At the firftthe flatly gaue him the repulfe ; for fhe was a chaft damofell and had promifed CuristT Iesvs to keepe her bodie and her foule pure and yndefiled for him. Hea- ring by chance,that this wooer was readie to fall mad by reafon of this paffion which tormented him fore, fhe deuifed a way whereby to preferue her cha- ftitie, and alfo to quench the fire of this miferable wretch. Firft, fhe made her fairelocks of haire to be cut off and fhauen away, fhe rubbed her face all ouer with a kind of durt made of afhes wet with water : and afterwards fent ftroke being freed from the rage that preffed him)felt the fire of his defire fla- ked, and ( which is more )alwaies after he fhewed himfelfe very honeft and temperat. The Venetian wanton, defcribed by zeagder the Monke and other Italians, fhould haue learned and meditated vpon this ftorie. Dominicus Siluius Duke t Venice had married a gentlewoman of Conftantinople,awoman hugely proud, and fo daintie,as fhe would not vouchfafe to wath her hands, or any other partof her bodie in cleere water ;nor yet touch her meat with her fingars : but the fed her felfe ordinarily with a golden forke. In her chamber fhe had: fo many fweet perfumes made, and fo much fweet water f; pent, that the fmoke thereof made füch perfons as were not accuftomed with fach things,to ouer- come](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30334913_0052.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
