Effœminacie

"But as allow not altogether that ſeuere education of the old Spartan[(e)s] in their Children, hazzarding many times the healths of young and tender bodies, by ſome tedious ague; yea, alſo their liues, by the miſchance of a leape or ſtumbling of your horſe: ſo as much doe I deteſt that effœminacie of the moſt that burne out day and night in their beds and by the fire ſide, in trifles, gaming, or courting their yellow Miſtreſſes all the Winter in a Citie; appearing but as Cuckoes in the Spring, one time in the yeare to the Countrey and their tenants, leauing the care of keeping good houſes at Chriſtmas, to the honeſt Yeomen of the Countrey."