facies absoluta, et quae vitio caret_, seldom shall you
find an absolute face without fault, as I have often observed; not in the
face alone is this defect or disproportion to be found; but in all the
other parts, of body and mind; she is fair, indeed, but foolish; pretty,
comely, and decent, of a majestical presence, but peradventure, imperious,
dishonest, _acerba, iniqua_, self-willed: she is rich, but deformed; hath a
sweet face, but bad carriage, no bringing up, a rude and wanton flirt; a
neat body she hath, but it is a nasty quean otherwise, a very slut, of a
bad kind. As flowers in a garden have colour some, but no smell, others
have a fragrant smell, but are unseemly to the eye; one is unsavoury to the
taste as rue, as bitter as wormwood, and yet a most medicinal cordial
flower, most acceptable to the stomach; so are men and women; one is well
qualified, but of ill proportion, poor and base: a good eye she hath, but a
bad hand and foot, _foeda pedes et foeda manus_, a fine leg, bad teeth, a
vast body, &c. Examine all parts of body and mind, I advise thee to inquire
of all. See her angry, merry, laugh, weep, hot, cold, sick, sullen,
dressed, undressed, in all attires, sites, gestures, passions, eat her
meals, &c., and in some of these you will surely dislike. Yea, not her only
let him observe, but her parents how they carry themselves: for what
deformities, defects, encumbrances of body or mind be in them at such an
age, they will likely be subject to, be molested in like manner, they will
_patrizare_ or _matrizare._ And withal let him take notice of her
companions, _in convictu_ (as Quiverra prescribes), _et quibuscum
conversetur_, whom she converseth with. _Noscitur ex comite, qui non
cognoscitur ex se._ [5746]According to Thucydides, she is commonly the
best, _de quo minimus foras habetur sermo_, that is least talked of abroad.
For if she be a noted reveller, a gadder, a singer, a pranker or dancer,
than take heed of her. For what saith Theocritus?

[5747] "At vos festivae ne ne saltate puellae,
En malus hireus adest in vos saltare paratus."

Young men will do it when they come to it. Fauns and satyrs will certainly
play reaks, when they come in such wanton Baccho's or Elenora's presence.
Now when they shall perceive any such obliquity, indecency, disproportion,
deformity, bad conditions, &c., let them still ruminate on that, and as
[5748]Haedus adviseth out of Ovid, _earum mendas notent_, note their
fa