Camaena singled out Pamphilus to
dance, at Myson's wedding (some say), for there she saw him first;
Felicianus overtook Caelia by the highway side, offered his service, thence
came further acquaintance, and thence came love. But who can repeat half
their devices? What Aretine experienced, what conceited Lucian, or wanton
Aristenaetus? They will deny and take, stiffly refuse, and yet earnestly
seek the same, repel to make them come with more eagerness, fly from if you
follow, but if averse, as a shadow they will follow you again, _fugientem
sequitur, sequentem fugit_; with a regaining retreat, a gentle reluctancy,
a smiling threat, a pretty pleasant peevishness they will put you off, and
have a thousand such several enticements. For as he saith,

[5134] "Non est forma satis, nec quae vult bella videri,
Debet vulgari more placere suis.
Dicta, sales, lusus, sermones, gratia, risus,
Vincunt naturae candidioris opus."

"'Tis not enough though she be fair of hue,
For her to use this vulgar compliment:
But pretty toys and jests, and saws and smiles,
As far beyond what beauty can attempt."

[5135]For this cause belike Philostratus, in his images, makes diverse
loves, "some young, some of one age, some of another, some winged, some of
one sex, some of another, some with torches, some with golden apples, some
with darts, gins, snares, and other engines in their hands," as Propertius
hath prettily painted them out, _lib. 2. et 29._ and which some interpret,
diverse enticements, or diverse affections of lovers, which if not alone,
yet jointly may batter and overcome the strongest constitutions.

It is reported of Decius, and Valerianus, those two notorious persecutors
of the church, that when they could enforce a young Christian by no means
(as [5136]Hierome records) to sacrifice to their idols, by no torments or
promises, they took another course to tempt him: they put him into a fair
garden, and set a young courtesan to dally with him, [5137]"took him about
the neck and kissed him, and that which is not to be named," _manibusque
attrectare_, &c., and all those enticements which might be used, that whom
torments could not, love might batter and beleaguer. But such was his
constancy, she could not overcome, and when this last engine would take no
place, they left him to his own ways. At [5138]Berkley in Gloucestershire,
there was in times past a nunnery (saith Gualterus