cer or
cancer in his mistress' breast, whom he so dearly loved, from that day
following abhorred the looks of her. Philip the French king, as
Neubrigensis, _lib. 4. cap. 24._ relates it, married the king of Denmark's
daughter, [5720]"and after he had used her as a wife one night, because her
breath stunk, they say, or for some other secret fault, sent her back again
to her father." Peter Mattheus, in the life of Lewis the Eleventh, finds
fault with our English [5721]chronicles, for writing how Margaret the king
of Scots' daughter, and wife to Louis the Eleventh, French king, was _ob
graveolentiam oris_, rejected by her husband. Many such matches are made
for by-respects, or some seemly comeliness, which after honeymoon's past,
turn to bitterness: for burning lust is but a flash, a gunpowder passion;
and hatred oft follows in the highest degree, dislike and contempt.

[5722] ------"Cum se cutis arida laxat,
Fiunt obscuri dentes"------

when they wax old, and ill-favoured, they may commonly no longer abide
them,--_Jam gravis es nobis_, Be gone, they grow stale, fulsome, loathsome,
odious, thou art a beastly filthy quean,--[5723]_faciem Phoebe cacantis
habes_, thou art _Saturni podex_, withered and dry, _insipida et
vetula_,--[5724]_Te quia rugae turpant, et capitis nives_, (I say) be gone,
[5725]_portae patent, proficiscere_.

Yea, but you will infer, your mistress is complete, of a most absolute form
in all men's opinions, no exceptions can be taken at her, nothing may be
added to her person, nothing detracted, she is the mirror of women for her
beauty, comeliness and pleasant grace, inimitable, _merae deliciae, meri
lepores_, she is _Myrothetium Veneris, Gratiarum pixis_, a mere magazine of
natural perfections, she hath all the Veneres and Graces,--_mille faces et
mille figuras_, in each part absolute and complete, [5726]_Laeta genas
laeta os roseum, vaga lumina laeta_: to be admired for her person, a most
incomparable, unmatchable piece, _aurea proles, ad simulachrum alicujus
numinis composita, a Phoenix, vernantis aetatulae Venerilla_, a nymph, a
fairy, [5727]like Venus herself when she was a maid, _nulli secunda_, a
mere quintessence, _flores spirans et amaracum, foeminae prodigium_: put
case she be, how long will she continue? [5728]_Florem decoris singuli
carpunt dies_: "Every day detracts from her person," and this beauty is
_bonum fragile_, a mere flash, a Venice glass, quickly broken,

[5729] "Anceps