great women
to calamistrate and curl it up, _vibrantes ad gratiam crines, et tot
orbibus in captivitatem flexos_, to adorn their heads with spangles,
pearls, and made-flowers; and all courtiers to effect a pleasing grace in
this kind. In a word, [4923]"the hairs are Cupid's nets, to catch all
comers, a brushy wood, in which Cupid builds his nest, and under whose
shadow all loves a thousand several ways sport themselves."

A little soft hand, pretty little mouth, small, fine, long fingers,
_Gratiae quae digitis_ --'tis that which Apollo did admire in
Daphne,--_laudat digitosque manusque_; a straight and slender body, a small
foot, and well-proportioned leg, hath an excellent lustre, [4924]_Cui totum
incumbit corpus uti fundamento aedes_. Clearchus vowed to his friend
Amyander in [4925]Aristaenetus, that the most attractive part in his
mistress, to make him love and like her first, was her pretty leg and foot:
a soft and white skin, &c. have their peculiar graces, [4926]_Nebula haud
est mollior ac hujus cutis est, aedipol papillam bellulam_. Though in men
these parts are not so much respected; a grim Saracen sometimes,--_nudus
membra Pyracmon_, a martial hirsute face pleaseth best; a black man is a
pearl in a fair woman's eye, and is as acceptable as [4927]lame Vulcan was
to Venus; for he being a sweaty fuliginous blacksmith, was dearly beloved
of her, when fair Apollo, nimble Mercury were rejected, and the rest of the
sweet-faced gods forsaken. Many women (as Petronius [4928]observes)
_sordibus calent_ (as many men are more moved with kitchen wenches, and a
poor market maid, than all these illustrious court and city dames) will
sooner dote upon a slave, a servant, a dirt dauber, a brontes, a cook, a
player, if they see his naked legs or arms, _thorosaque brachia_,
[4929]&c., like that huntsman Meleager in Philostratus, though he be all in
rags, obscene and dirty, besmeared like a ruddleman, a gipsy, or a
chimney-sweeper, than upon a noble gallant, Nireus, Ephestion, Alcibiades,
or those embroidered courtiers full of silk and gold. [4930]Justine's wife,
a citizen of Rome, fell in love with Pylades a player, and was ready to run
mad for him, had not Galen himself helped her by chance. Faustina the
empress doted on a fencer.

Not one of a thousand falls in love, but there is some peculiar part or
other which pleaseth most, and inflames him above the rest. [4931]A company
of young philosophers on a time fell at variance, wh