mon compliment in that case, they care not
what they swear, say or do: One while they slight them, care not for them,
rail downright and scoff at them, and then again they will run mad, hang
themselves, stab and kill, if they may not enjoy them. Henceforth,
therefore,--_nulla viro juranti foemina credat_, let not maids believe
them. These tricks and counterfeit passions are more familiar with women,
[5197]_finem hic dolori faciet aut vitae dies, miserere amantis_, quoth
Phaedra to Hippolitus. Joessa, in [5198]Lucian, told Pythias, a young man,
to move him the more, that if he would not have her, she was resolved to
make away herself. "There is a Nemesis, and it cannot choose but grieve and
trouble thee, to hear that I have either strangled or drowned myself for
thy sake." Nothing so common to this sex as oaths, vows, and protestations,
and as I have already said, tears, which they have at command; for they can
so weep, that one would think their very hearts were dissolved within them,
and would come out in tears; their eyes are like rocks, which still drop
water, _diariae lachrymae et sudoris in modum lurgeri promptae_, saith
[5199] Aristaenetus, they wipe away their tears like sweat, weep with one
eye, laugh with the other; or as children [5200]weep and cry, they can both
together.

[5201] "Neve puellarum lachrymis moveare memento,
Ut flerent oculos erudiere suos."

"Care not for women's tears, I counsel thee,
They teach their eyes as much to weep as see."

And as much pity is to be taken of a woman weeping, as of a goose going
barefoot. When Venus lost her son Cupid, she sent a crier about, to bid
every one that met him take heed.

[5202] "Si fleatam aspicias, ne mox fallare, caveto;
Sin arridebit, magis effuge; et oscula si fors
Ferre volet, fugito; sunt oscula noxia, in ipsis
Suntque venena labris" &c.

"Take heed of Cupid's tears, if cautious.
And of his smiles and kisses I thee tell,
If that he offer't, for they be noxious,
And very poison in his lips doth dwell."

[5203]A thousand years, as Castilio conceives, "will scarce serve to reckon
up those allurements and guiles, that men and women use to deceive one
another with."

SUBSECT. V.--_Bawds, Philters, Causes_.

When all other engines fail, that they can proceed no farther of
themselves, their last refuge is to fly to bawds, panders, magical
philters, and receipts; rather